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THE SUNNY SOUTH. ATLANTA. GEORGIA‘OCTOBER 7 1893
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Lho» xe * fer Q h 'hoQt de prooinses maue
r'^fdem congrnanien wus all In
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L uu tiDzm Dnn ^‘ t on ae riatform de-
fcy ^^^^n dev’s elected, dat flat-
an' y dey legislates de man-
PgTjffiSb ban’s.
#.iipr wen dev knocks
□."b'e^nfr^whut bah de true silber
*K* e ^'“Ldder will be cold, wen dey
gtfdSS,. iack du8 ’ fum er
fcn'f wing.
I ^ aJ n wen dev cotches yo er-
l^cnniB C'iea^ we ribber;
l wp .wake den yo all RWlne t-r
bedfellow’s got all de kib-
i nrparhed. Jin* &11 tirocfl
Hh^ds nropriety ob avoidin’ infla-
ES' wile I’ee bin painted. I’M neb-
Teoill'ned, wen dis cbucb paid me in
jeri.
i_rmirwineter squeal, an’ spoke for re-
t “o'argy bit an ober de nation; tie
Boos’be told in big letters ob gold,
Outers encourage de inflation.
,it fittin scace, erronnd ole Lph s place,
cm soon wbl hatter suspen’; whnt oem
ninn irwine ter do, an’ yo aunt Napsey
“wen dar's no mo’ silber ter Bpen?
am serious, an’ dar'S snmptln sue-
Knous dat mity few on us kin now un-
Krsuin'; but dis much am clear, ter all
Iwiianuin' here, dar's sumptin mlty rot
ner storkin tru de lan’.
A TEST OF BRAINS.
|«wd wld to ’tention an’ ter pervent en.
C^liension, dis meetin’ will now cum
Ear dose; he - if youse got enny pewter,
Ej>plowed ter shoot her, ter de Deekins
|»iut stan s at de doors.
—Hec. A. McEachin.
Istin, Texas.
bis l.izzie 0. Thomas has returned
Itlinta. Her correspondents will
f Before address her here, care Sunn y
An index of Depression.
the many ways in 'which the business
leuion that culminated in August can
featured, one of the most interesting
iccnrate is the record of railway earn.
It takes something serious to inter-
Inoticeably with the ereat currents of
Jic, No mere local disturbance will he
Icted in the business of a great railway
pm. And when it comes to such a
irul cessation of industry as followed
bancial cyclone of last month, there
In surer way to estimate its conge-
ices than by a comparison of railway
Jpts. There is, in this case, one ele-
It which prevents these figures from
WDgthe fall force of the blow. For
Jtravel created by the World’s Fair
lieason was necessarily considerable,
^whentimes were darkest; and if this
! be separated from ordinary earn-
|it would still farther emphasize the
spancy between this year and last,
aving that out of the account, how
I, it is found that the gross earnings
Tugust of forty-two of the principal
Jims in the United States were S(>,420,-
less than for the same month a year
1 In no case, indeed, was there a no
te increase, except on the Illinois Cen
lwhich handles the bulk of loral tran-
P tbe exposition in Chicago. Some of
Bosses are enormous. The Northern
|uc leads the list, with a shrinkage for
*iuonth of 027; the next heaviest
f is the corresponding big system of
kmthwest, tl e Missouri Pacific & Iron
K*, whose decline is §8:‘>7,220; and
[third principal sufferer is the Atchison
pm, whose falling off was S7t>5,885. Of
£ntire forty-two roads listed, only two
w e loss of business daring August of
I than §40 000.
hi this decrease shows from one side,
Jig decline of bank clearings did from
In a extent of the cloud that fell
■ ‘be business of the country. Mer-
T t , not ba bought or sold, the
| , m °bGy was reflected in the sud-
i^Tbage of transactions whioh can-
I nf 1111 ' on w ithout currency, and
rht» vr d8 * 08t their accustomed
” 8 have seen few statistics that
Lt, ' m Fl e88ive in their relation to the
Ich l U i ^ usine88 in August as these;
C®f}*«h no speculative elements,
lor. f °* st °cks and bonds or trans-
Gxchanges, but with the ac-
Imi v Re ot commodities in the daily
I business of the whole people.
| X * w Through Sleeping Oar lane
p ROM CHICAGO TO SEATTLE
I^ the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
r&nd t,reat Northern Railways,
L en es tablished and first-class
Ri k Cars hereafter run daily
Unm a ^°> at 10:3 ° > arriving
L*a le ii 3o P. M., fourth day.
E undoubtedly the best route to
P he North Pacific Coast.
dine tables, maps and other in-
l> ‘ 0D apply to the nearest ticket
rrL 0 / address D. C. BRADY.
R Passenger Agent, C.. M. &
“•Ky D< * our th Avenue, Louis-
^ ry u aiiw ay should have its sur-
Jia w ~ e -f a nec essity as much as
•erinrlni 18 P re8iden t» or even its
tb la* nde 5 t * The Professions of
«essitv me dicine are now a
* condi, t , he P ro P er management
1 gJJ? 1 of a rail ^ay. The rail-
las If®®? came > perhaps, last, but
krtanl! t0 8tay ’ and no railway of
^dfc er Can now dis P ense with
on
For The Sunnt South.
T was in the far South—
away down on one of our
crystal lakes of Florida—
where the stars gleam
with a soft and tender
radiance, where the moon
shines with that peculiar
and subdued effulgence
for which the Southern
moon is famous; where
the soughing of the dark
pine trees sounds like
the wail of a lost spirit;
and the tender call of the whippoor
will in the distance but intensifies the
beauty of the lovely scene. Here,
where the gleaming of the moon on
the crystal waves of Lake Julia caused
her throbbing breast to glow as with
ten thousand diamonds, and mirrored
in her placid depths countless stars
smiled a welcome to them, came An
drew Livingston and Birdie Carroll.
They came to spend an evening on the
lake.
“Which boat shall we take?” said
she.
“It makes no difference,” he return
ed, “for surely no one will care if we
use his boat.”
And he assisted her into the near
est one. Then giving the frail craft a
vigorous push, which sent it far out
on the broad bosom of the lake, he
stood erect beside his fair companion.
They seated themselves to row and
looked about for oars, but they looked
in vain. The owner had removed
them.
“Well,” said our hero, “here is a sit
uation, truly.”
The young lady smiled.
“What will you do in this emergen
cy?” she asked. He had often said
that he was master of emergencies.
“I—I don’t know,” he said, thinking
that water in December, ev
Florida, was not pleasant.
There was a slight breeze, and it
was blowing away from land; so that
they were slowly but surely drifting
out on the lake, which, at this point
was two or three miles wide.
“If something is not done to check
our progress, we will drift far out
the laae,” she said
“Oh,” he said lightly, “don’t puzzle
your little head with such complex
problems. We will get home without
much difficulty when the time comes
Now let us enjoy ourselves I”
He had a good voice and as though
to chase the look of anxiety from th<
face of his companion he sang:
“Oh, why should rough care, cloud fea
tures so fair?
Do banish care; be free, love.
My heart is bright; I’m happy to
night,
For I’m alone with thee, love.’’
Before the echoes had died away
and while the singer was clearing his
throat for another stanza Miss Carroll
said:
“B ush, Mr. Livingston, isn’t that the
sound of oars? Some one is coming to
whom we can call for assistance.”
They listened long; but, to the
young man’s infinite relief, only the
soughing of the pines, and the plaint
ive cry of the whip-poor-wills could
be heard.
He bad long loved the girl. He had
loved her ever since he had known
her, ten years ago, when she was a
child of eleven and he a lad of four
teen. Even then he had given her the
best of his oranges; had seen that she
had the most comfortable seat in the
school room; had whipped the school
bully for teasing her, and had played
the part of knight-errant generally,
for the gentle, yet at times, dictatorial
fair one.
Yet those old school days were over
and they started to college in differ,
ent States, he in South Carolina and
she in Tennessee. Both had gradu
ated at the same time, and had spent
five months visiting relatives in dif
ferent States. Botn came home at the
same time. Neither had seen the
other for four years. Each was de
lighted to meet the otner, and they
spent nearly all their time in each
other’s company.
Andrew’s father was a wealthy law
yer and real estate broker in the thriv
ing town of Waldo. Shortly before
our story opens he had called his son
to his office to say:
Well, my son, you are now twenty-
four years old; time you were think
ing of settling down for life. I notice
that you are paying maPfe^d attention
to Miss Carroll. If you mean busi
ness, my boy, I can only say that I
shall be only too happy to make you a
wedding present of Half interest in
the largest real estate business in
Waldo.”
But what puzzled the young man
most was to know whether the fair
one loved him. To be sure she ac
cepted his attentions, but she accepted
them as, in other days, she had ac
cepted his oranges as her due. She
had not appeared grateful for his con
fections then. She had never given
the slightest sign that they pleased
her; nor did she now show that his
too evident love for her was returned.
On the contrary she appeared indiffer
ent to his many insinuations of his
great love for her.
He had asked her to spend an even
ing on the lake for the sole purpose of
declaring his love for her. Now the
time had arrived, and he resolved to
speak.
“Birdie,” he said, “I have known
you ten years and I’ve loved you just
that long. Will you be my wife?”
This was not the proposal he had
intended to make; bnt, when the time
arrived, it was the only sensible thing
he could think of to say, and so he
said it.
Miss Carroll looked at him laugh
ingly.
“You have been to college four
years,” she said, “your brain must
have either progressed or degener
ated. If it had degenerated I would
not marry you under any circum
stances. If it has progressed I would
like to see a practical demonstration
of such progress. Now I propose to
test this in this manner. You must
get me home. If you do this within
an hour and a half, without getting
out of the boat, I will marry you. If
not, I will not.”
Thus she spoke, lightly but firmly,
and her companion knew that she
meant exactly what she said.
“The shore is far away,” said he,
“give me two hours and I will attempt
to win you.”
4 Crowd the work of two hours into
one and a half, and win me if you have
the brains,” sue said. “The shore is
not more than two hundred yards
away, and we should be at home by
ten o’clock. It is now half after
eight.
“If anything could induce me to
land you, it would be yourself, but I
do not see how it is to be done.” he
said.
He was silent for a long time.
Thinking, studying, planning, yet he
could devise no plan by which to land
the boat and win the lady. There was
a rudder about ten mcUes wide at
tached to the boat, a Du he tried to pro
pel the light craft by means ot it.
When turned to one side, some inches
were gained, which were lost when
rudder was turned the other; so that,
when he had spent half an hour in a
vain endeavor to substitute a rudder
for an oar he had gained nothing.
Then he gave up in despair. His
eyes wandered about until they rested
upon the woman he loved. At first a
hopelesss look was in them; then they
brightened, and he sprang to his feet
exclaiming:
“Eureka 1 Eureka!”
Stepping quickly to the long
est seat in~ the boat, he care
fully exam ined the manner in
which it was fastened to the sides.
Then straightening himself he said
with a smile: “Mark the time and
name the day; for you are mine.”
“It is ten minutes after nine,” she
said, you have fifty minutes.
A series of well directed kicks gave
him the use of a three-foot board with
which he laboriously paddled to snore.
As he assisted her from the boat, he
placed one arm around her waist, and,
with the other, he drew her head down
upon his shoulder. As he kissed her
he said;
“Labor conquers all.”
Dixie Heights, Fla. A. L. Price
How Egypt an Obelisks Were Trans
ported.
CREED OF THE VEGETARIANS
Reasons For Their Belief in a Bill
of Fare Without Meat of
Any Kind.
could get the latest news, and the tele-
! graph expenses of the combination would
still be reduced to a much lower figure
than the large 8ep«rat«* journals now pay
for this service.—Journal, Flushing, N.
HER PET PORCUPINE.
A stone lately discovered in the ex
cavations conducted at Deir el-Bahari
solves a problem that has long puzzled
archaeologists.
It shows how the Egyptians trans
ported and raised the obelisks with
which they adorned the gateways of
their temples and palaces.
The block represents an obelisk be
ing transported uu a vessel. We see
the top of the obelisk, pyramidal in
form, and a small portion of£the shaft,
on which is engraved part of a hiero
glyphic character.
The obelisk rests on a sledge which
has been hauled on to the vessel, and
on which it would probably be dragg
ed from the river to the place where it
was to stand. The vessel itself is
very lofty, and is strengthened by
double cross-beams. The beams ac
the bows are not parallel, but are se
obliquely. In addition, the vessel is
bound round with stoat ropes. Oq
the deck are three men, whose heads
and snoulders only are visible. Be
tween them are apparently a number
of very thick ropes, and in front up
right timbers. The ropes may have
supported the mast or they may have
served to haul the sledge on to tne
boat; and as the chief strain would
fall on the bows, the vessel wonld
have needed special strengthening in
that part. Alongside the vessel, and
connected with it by a hawser, is a
small boat, in which several men are
rowing to propel the vessel. It is pos
sible that two or more boats were em
ployed in such an operation. Judg-
ing by the comparitive size of the
rowers, the vessel carrying the obe
lisk must have stood some ten feet out
of the water—a considerable height
for a Nile craft.—Biblia, Meriden,
Conn.
One of the causes which have led
people to reject the doctrine of vege
tarianism is the idea that it is inspired
by pietism, religious convictions and
monastic mortification, writes Dr.
Neville in the Review of Reviews.
But this is a- grave error, for the
rational vegetarianism of today is en
tirely scientific and dictated by the
sole desire to follow a system conform
ing to the laws of nature.
It has science on its side, and only
the force of habit Is opposed to it. The
muscles become soft, their size dimin
ishes, humanity degenerates, and it is
kept in working order only by seda
tives and tonics.
The numerous maladies of the
stomach and the intestines, from sim
pie catarrh to the most serious disea
ses of the organs, are often due to our
appetite for meat and other stimul
ants. Vegetarianism, we are told by
Dr. Bonnejoy, does not consist solely
in vegetable food,but is based on three
dietetic axioms: First, the general
rebuilding power lies in cereals, seeds,
vegetables, tubers, fruits, eggs, milk
and their derivatives; second, the
food, the air, and in general every
thing thatis introduced into the body,
should show absolute purity, fresh
ness, and entire absence of falsifica
tions, mixture and adulterations,
even in the smallest quantities; third,
it is necessary, as far as may be pos
sible, for each one to manufacture his
foods and drinks at home, in order to
reach the desired results. These are
the principal dogmas of the vegetar
ians. Man is not intended to eat
meat. His jaw is made to grind grain
and fruits. His hands ate made to
gather them. The Darwinian theory
does not permit us tor an instant to
doubt the frugiverous nature of man.
His intestinal canal is also a proof. In
the lion this is three times as long as
his body; in man, seven or eight times
as long.
The human body is a machine which
to be kept in good working order,
should be nourished according to
scientific rules, and not at the desire
of our fancies. Four classes of sub
stances are necessary for the mainte
nance of life—the albuminoids, the
carbonhydrates, the fats, the minerals.
Now, meat contaius but three of these,
while the vegetables contain all four.
Vegetable food is also necessarv for
our intellectual life; for, as Moles
chott has said, without phosphorus
there is no thought. The phosphorus
contained in vegetable food is almost
double the amount contained in ani
mal food. But these are not all the
advantages of vegetarianism. Those
who believe that meat gives the rose
color to the cheeks aud lips must be
shown their error.
Wny the Lover Jumped Up From the
Big Rocking Chair and Fled.
For, as Prof. Mussa has shown, the
amount of iron oxide contained in the
vegetables is much greater than that
found in meat. However, vegetarian
ism is not too presumptuous with re
gard to its wonderful powers. Its doc
trines demand at the same time the
constant and intelligent practice of all
sorts of hygienic rules. It calls to its
aid pure air, light, heat or cold, water
exercise and commencing with alco
hol, the condemnation of all stimu
lants. In these conditions it is diffi
cult to say which would prove more
beneficial, the renunciation of me&tor
the application of a well understood
hygiene. It is, however, indisputable
that vegetarianism, at its best, com
prises in its accessories many things
which make it worthy of general sym
pathy.
A Newspaper Trust.
“The American public are fend of bonds
once remarked Jay Gould. There is no
reason to doubt, therefore, that the bonds
and stock of the proposed New England
combination will be taken readily. The
Journalist is authority for the statement
that the newspapers of New England are
forming a great combination or trust to
increase earnings and reduce operating
expenses. The daily papers of the six
New England States are entering into the
organ] z ttion, Tue Journalist writer sajs.
It is only one more extention of the prin
ciple of combination or co-opsration
which has wroaght such a revolution in
the industries of the day.
Ten million dollars is the sum that it is
believed the capitalists will require to pur-
cha«e the newspapers they want. The
plan proposed is to issue six per cent
bonds to the amount of $5,000,000, then to
issue stock—preferred and common—pre
ferred stock bringing seven per cent divi
dends and common stock returnnig divi
dends of whatever amounts are left over
after payment of the preferred dividends
The newspapers will retaiu their present
political and social leanings, bat will be
under one central financial management.
Under this plan newspapers will not cost
any more to the public, but will earn more
for their owners.
With united management, for instance,
it is said the Boston Globe and Herald
won Id save 830,000 a year in the one item
of newspaper trains.
An important advantage would be that
the combination would lease its own tele
graph lines and employ its own operators
to transmit news dispatches to the jour
nals it controlled. Thus the small papers
Anne Borson is one of the prettiest girls
on this side of the Adirondacks, and, add
ed to that, is of a most pleasing disposi
tion. Moreover, she is an interesting
talker and able to entertain any one. As
a natural consequence there is notayonng
man within twenty miles of here that does
not wish he could get her to accompany
him to the picnics and socials hereabouts.
Not a few have tried to go with her as
steady company, to use the woodsy ex
pression, but not till Lem Lawson came
along and asked her to go and see the fire
works at Metcalf Stream settlement a year
ago last Fourth of July wonld she have it
known that she was “goin’ with” any one
regularly. Thereafter she accepted Lem’s
invitations right, along, says a corre
spondent in the New York Sun.
Now Lem is a tall, laak thin man of
twenty-three years, and he has a small,
fuzzy mustache that jnat shows a color of
red on his upper lip. Then his hands and
feet are much larger than most yonng
men’s, end they seem in the way or out of
place. The toe of one boot has an awk
ward habit of catching the heel of the oth
er one, while his hands swing in a long
sweep with every striae.
Why the pretty Anne should have se
lected homely L8m instead of, say, the lit
tle pale-faced son of the storekeeper at
Black Like or some other “likely chap,”
is something the woods people could not
understand.
On Sunday night Lem as usual went to
the BoTSon house and Anne met him at
the door, dressed in a bright, tight-fitting
gingham dress that made her form seem
as light as her wavy brown hair. Her
cheeks were tinged with shades of brown
and red to be found nowhere in such per
fection as the Adriondaoks, and her bine
eyes—bnt no matter. Perhaps Lem was
not proud when he walked by Anne’s side
down the road to the schoolfconse which
serves as a church here, bnt those who
saw him say that he never walked so
straight and manly before.
After the sermon Lem and Anne walked
slowly down the road toward the Borson
place, and that was the last people saw of
him until next morning, when Lake Wil-
murt met him. with a pack on bis back
as heavy as his face was long. What hap
pened’ between those hours only bis
sweetheart has told.
Anne says that she and Lem walked up
the road, past the house, and theD, after
her family were in bed, they came back
and sat on the porch talking until she was
a bit chilly. Then she and Lem went into
the parlor. It was pretty dark there, for
the light from the little lamp left on the
dining room table for Anne came through
the naif-closed door. Beside the front
window was a big, old-fashioned rocking
chair. Going to this, Anne gave it a little
hitcb and asxed Lem, who stood by the
door • wirling his nat in his flog era, to
have a seat. These big, old-fashioned
rocking chairs are found in every Adiron
dack uonse, and for some reason pretty
girls like Anne have a habit of asking
tbeir lovers to sit in them after returning
from church at night.
Lem went to the chair, dropped his hat
on the floor, and with his hand on one
of the arms he let himself drop into the
seat.
My! The way he jnmped up again and
howled as he clasped his hands behind
him fairly took Anne’s breath, bnt
Lem had enough left to say as he turned
around:
Yon, what’s that—by jimps, it’s that
darned porcupine.”
So it was- The tame porcupine Salter
had wandered into the parlor and found a
bad on the cushion of the big rocking
chair.
Anne says:
“I c mid n’t have helped laughing it I’d
a died.” Bnt when she langhed Lem gave
a small muscular giggle and then intoned
sideways toward tho door, saying he
reckoned he’d have ter go home.” Then,
as he opened the door, he bolted and ran
down the driveway and vaulted the fence.
That was the last Anne saw of Lem.
The next morning at about 4 o’clock Lnke
Wilmurt met Lem with a pack basket on
his back and a rifle and fish rod tied to
gether, and his dog at his heels.
Hamilton’s Thirteen Trees.
After Alexander Hamilton had re
tired from public life and resumed
the practice of law, he lived near
New York city in a country house,
which he called the Grange. It was
his residence at the time of his duel
with Aaron Burr, in Weekawken, in
1804, and it is still standing on what
is now Convent Avenue, between One-
Hundred-and-Forty-second and One-
Hundred-and-Forty-third Screets.
Near the house he planted thirteen
trees, to symbolize the original States
of the Union, and it is an odd fact
that they have kept pace with the
growth of the States which they re
present.
In the centre of the gronp there
stands the tree which typifies New
York State. It has grown to be the
largest of the thirteen. Close to it is
the nex’ largest, which represents the
State of Pennsylvania, while the smal
lest tree is symbolical of Rhode Island.
South Carolina was the first state to
secede from the Union, and after she
had taken that action, the tree by
which she is represented took an
abrapt turn, and grew to bj very
crooked.
But after th8 civil was over it turn
ed again just as suddenly, and grew
up straignt. It is now hardy and
flourishing.—Golden Days.