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THE SUNNY SOUTH.
f the
He-
of her heme town, where she is dearly be
loved. She is indeed a young lady of rare
attainments and Quite literary. Besides
numerous short stories, her book. the
Hand of Fate.” is a decided success.
She loves her brother devotedly, and her
beautiful picture ado-ned a paste
New York World in the "Sisters
roes.” _ , ,
There are other heroes. Scli.ej. ue.te>.
Sampson. Hobson. Brumby. Philip. Cook.
Evans. Bagiey. Wheeler, Miles._ Shatter.
Anderson, Green. Roosevelt. Wood and
others, but Lieutenant Blue stands out in
' bold relief as one of the south's greatest
i heroes. In the contest for heroines we
! m ust not fail to make honorable mention
of Miss Clara Barton. Mies Annie Wheel
er and Jliss Helen Gould.
W. H. KERLEN.
SWEET MINISTRIES.
You Fpoke to me once, it was only a
word.
Yet my rad heart, listening, heard,
And was helped for long.
You smiled on me once—ah. who can tell
How much a smile can make it well,
And cheer on life's way?
Y’ou' clasped my hand once, and your
sweet sympathy
Made life brighter and better for me,
And heaven seemed not far off.
A word and a smile, the clasp 1 of a
hand.
The look that says I understand.
Small, sweet ministries, but who dares
say
They’ll not be counted in that great day
As jewels and diadems.
DOLORES.
i CJfrtV I
Ts there any time in one’s history more
interesting than that supreme moment
when a fresh photo is about to be taken?
There our image is, to remain for years,
indelibly impressed upon cardboard for
the delectation of our friends and the
probable amusement of the stranger who
is within our gates.
Xearly every young girl who is con
templating this grave step spends a few
sleepless nights in trying to decide what
expression will most become her. If she
is thin, given over to novel reading and
about 17. she usually concludes that it
■will be quite “fetching” to look as if some
secret hut deathless sorrow were sapping
her young; life—the canker-and-the-rose
expression. On the other hand, she may
be plump and possessed of pretty teeth,
in which event she wants to smile and
show them. The result in both instances
is about equally disastrous. The first will
look like an aged spinster in the last
stages of consumption, while the latter
will suggest a death-head grin.
If she should happen to be a boy (I
should say lie) just out from college on a
vacation, he will show a preference for
the “grand, gloomy and peculiar,” and if
he has on brass buttons he will do his
level best to look ferocious. Nature,
however, has cast his features in a gen-
tle mold, and in spite of efforts to look
like a brigand he appears quite tame and
domesticated.
One of the most interesting photos in
the family group is that of the guileless
infant, whose eyes and mouth describe
the letter O. Everybody who calls gazes
at this imbecile youngster with a grin,
and pronounces him the image of his
father.
Usually the little visit to the photogra
pher is not one of unmixed pleasure. Af
ter the momentous question of whether
we will pose in classical, medieval or
modern garb has been decided we proceed
to adorn ourselves, to prepare for the or
deal. Our hair the day before was ar
ranged at a very becoming angle, but
now it refuses to stay in place, and a
number of hair pins steal forth and trickle
down the back. Finally, after struggling
with it until we are out of breath and
quite red in the face, we give it up and
apply ourselves to the rest of our cos
tume. This likewise proves refractory,
but at last we are pinned together and
appear upon the scene in no very amiable
frame of mind.
The photographer ogles us for awhile
from behind his camera and then says:
“Look pleasant; try to look pleasant.”
This is enough to make anybody indig
nant and we reply warmly:
“What do you mean? Don’t we look
pleasant?”
Then he coughs a little and corrects
himself:
“I mean look natural.’*
It takes nerve for a .man to stand up
to your face and tell you you don’t look
natural.
At last he emerires from behind his
glass long enough to explain:
“I want to get you to smile, miss. Just
fix your eyes on that white spot on the
wall and smile.”
We make an effort to perform this haz
ardous feat and the picture is taken. The
next week, however, our small brother
finds the photo in the family album and
on the margin beneath writes: “What is
it?”
One of the prettiest photos I have seen
in a long while is of a California girl. It
is a bust picture, and the white neck and
shoulders, instead of emerging from a
cloud of frills and laces, rises from a
border of magnificent chrysanthemums.
Ir is a fad in New York with the up-to-
date girl to have her picture taken in a
mummy case. The sarcophagus is placed
upright and only the bright, young face
can be seen peering through the aperture.
There is something a bit grewsome about
it. but the idea is brand new and so every
body is trying it.
MOTHER HUBBARD.
r I had an itching rash under my chin, which
kept spreading until it was all over my body.
I could not sleep but was compelled to lie
awake and scratch all the time. My father
and two brothers were afflicted with the same
thing, at the same time. We all suffered
terribly for a year and a half, trying in the
meantime all the remedies we could find, but
received no benefit. I bought three cakes of
CuTicntA Soap and three boxes of Cctictba
(ointment) and they cured the /cur of us com
pletely. RICH’D ANDERSON, Geneva, Utah.
SrEBT'T CVR* TREATMENT FOR TORTfRlKO. DlSTJO-
rtixo Ilmocs, wrrii Lossor Hair.—Warm baths »ith
CmcvRA Sgentle anninticra with CrncrBA (oiat>
mild doaea of Ccticvra Rzsolvxzj.
The Beautiful Health Resort on
the Southern Railway in
North Carolina.
Southern Pines an important station on
the Seaboard Air Line, sixty-eight miles
south of Raleigh, is a newly built-up
town of 700 people. Situated in about
the center of and at the highest point
in the North Carolina turpentine belt,
with perfect drainage, delightful, mild
climate and an atmosphere perfumed
with the delicious and healing odors oi
the long leaf pine, it is destined in the
near future to take high rank among
southern health and pleasure resorts.
Possessing all the advantages of resorts
farther south, it is free from many of
the disadvantages there encountered. Its
accessibility to those desiring to escape
the rigors of the northern winters, the
conveniences offered in the way of rail
way travel, no fatiguing changes, no irk
some delays, atmosphere which admits of
outdoor exercise during the entire winter
season; with an elegant new hotel, afford
ing superior accommodations, and with
several smaller hotels and sanitariums,
all offering comfortable and attractive
homes—these are advantages which the
tourist and health-seeker will appreciate.
The average winter temperature is 44 de
grees. The climate is as dry as that of
France and the cultivation of the vine.
cotton, silk. etc., furnishes the practical
truth of that fact, The absence of large
bodies of water, which cause by their
cooling effect the condensation of the va
por in the atmosphere and produce fog,
is most desirable. It precludes the possi
bility of miasma, which is always present
in low lands bordering on streams, as is
noticeable in many parts of Florida and
‘Georgia. Is it to be wondered at that this
region has been pronounced by the best
medical authorities as being one of the
greatest natural sanitariums?
The Piney Woods Inn, an elegant and
spacious structure, is now in its second
season. The inn is located upon Shaw’s
ridge, a sandy ridge, with an elevation
of 600 feet above sea level, which has a
gradual slope towards the village a mile
and a half distant. In the construction
‘of this hotel, which will accommodate 250
guests, the greatest possible care has
been exercised that everything should
conserve to the comfort and convenience
of guests. The house has all modem con
veniences. The sanitary conditions are
most favorable in every respect. There
is no possibility of the water supply be
ing polluted. ev6n to the slightest degree.
In all the sanitary arrangements the
greatest possible care has been exercised
under the immediate supervision of sani
tary experts, that absolute perfection be
attained. The table will at all times be
most bountifully provided for and all the
delicacies of the season will be supplied.
An orchestra during the entire season, a
stage and entertainment hall, a billiard
parlor, musicales, readings, dramatic en
tertainments, saddle horses, carriages.
etc., will provide ample amusement for
guests.
In addition to the Inn, the Prospect
house, Ozone hotel. Central house. South
ern Pines house, Sanitarium home. Grove
Cottage and several excellent private
boarding houses furnish ample and excel
lent accommodations at very reasonable
rates. ^
DAUGHTERS OF CONFEDERACY
The National Chapter Will Meet in
Hot Springs, Ark., Nov. 9
in Annual Session.
By invitation from Hot Springs Chapter
of the Daughters of the Confederacy the
National Chapter at its last meet in Bal
timore, selected the Hot Springs of Ar
kansas as the next place of meeting on
Wednesday, the 9th day of November
prox.
The committee of arrangements is glad
to -state that through the kindness of
Captain H. C. Townsend, general passen
ger and ticket agent of the Missouri Pa
cific system of railroads, it has been ar
ranged to have the rates of travel one
fare for the round trip over said roads,
with an assurance from Captain Town
send that he will endeavor to have the
same reduction made on all roads connect
ing with his lines. The hotels have agreed
to charge from two dollars and a half
down to one dollar and a half per day,
and boarding houses at even a less price.
The Arlington hotel' has kindly offered
the use of its palatial parlors and danc
ing hall, and all rooms necessary for the
meeting of the various committees, and
will therefore be considered as headquar
ters for the delegates, who on arrival will
be furnished all necessary information as
to such quarters as they may desire. The
sessions of the convention will be limited
to morning hours unless its business
should demand the afternoons. The even
ings will be devoted to receptions and so
cial entertainments.
No labor or expense will be spared by
the local chapter to make the occasion
enjoyable and eventful, and aims that it
may not suffer in comparison with any
past or future meeting of the National
Chapter, and it is earnestly hoped and ex
pected to have a larger delegation than
has ever before attended a meeting.
We have a lovely, picturesque lKtle city,
and many natural attractions of great in
terest, and in the name of all Arkansas
we beg you to get ready to come and bring
your friends, assuring you that our people
will do all they can to make you happy.
Very respectfully.
MRS. J. M. KELLER.
Pres. Hot Springs Chapter and Chairman
of Committee.
MRS. TOINETTE B. SMITH, Corres
ponding Secretary.
A TRUE SOUTHERN HERO.
Lieutenant Victor Blue, of South
Carolina. Covers Himself
With Glorious Honors.
Dear Empress: Please give me space in
your valuable journal that I may tell of
a southern hero—Lieutenant Victor Blue,
of the United States navy and the “hero of
Santiago.”
Lieutenant Blue is a graduate of the
United States naval academy. Annapolis.
Md., and he made a record of the “bravest
of the brave in the Hispano-Am^rican
war. He was the first to plant the Ameri-
ioan flag on Cuban soil, and went through
the enemy’s lines and traveled seventy
miles around Santiago and was the first to
definitely locate Cervera's fleet in Santi
ago bay. which information he gave to
Admiral Schley. He also Captured a sword
from a Spanish officer in a hand to hand
contest. This prize he sent to his sister.
Miss Kate Lillian Blue.
For his many acts of valor and heroic
service he has been promoted by the
United States government and is now
commander of the gunboat Alvarado, and
did splendid service in the last battle of
the war at Manzanillo.
The south as well as the whole nation
honors Lieutenant Blue for his heroism.
Ihe Blue family is one of the most
prominent families in the old Palmetto
State. ^Lieutenant Blue has three sisters.
Mrs. tVheeier and Misses Kate Lillian and
Henrietta.
Mies Kate Lillian is no less popular and
patriotic than her handsome brother. She
Is "Kitsie” of The Sunny South House
hold department, and her many beautiful
letters have endeared her to The Sunny
South readers. 'Beautiful, gifted, refined,
cultured, she is a bright, particular star, a
beautiful jewel in the social realm
A BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION.
A clear complexion is something that
every woman seeks., and is desirable.
Many women make the mistake of cover
ing up a dull, muddy or blotched com
plexion with cosmetics, ointments and
creams. The true complexion beautifler
must begin its work in the blood and
drive out of the blood those vile secre
tions which give a sallow, muddy and
pimply appearance to the skin. Botanic
Blood Balm (B. B. B.) is the best com
plexion beautifier in the world. It gives
that clear, wholesome, healthy aspect to
the face free from pimples and blotches,
and with it brightness of eye and spark
ling vivacity of manner, which are the
sign manual of perfect health.
MISS NANCY LEITER.
Miss Nancy Leitsr, chosen by Governor Tanner, of Illinois, to christen the new
battleship named for that state, is one of Chicago’s fairest daughters. There were two
rusty nails in the Leiter horseshoe, both on the feminine side. Mrs. George Curzon, nee
Mary Leiter, whose husband was recently elevated to the peerage, is now LadyCurzon.
OUK LETTE
Live Topics Skillfully Handled by Householders.
WOULD MEET HOUSEHOLDERS.’
Three Plans to Get Addresses.
They Ought to Work, Com
ing From a Detective.
Dear Empress and Household: While
the October wind6 are wailing around
the corners of Bachelor Ranch and the
October rain is beating monotonoii6ly
against the window panes and trickling
drearily down the walls I will let you have
a line or two from yours truly.
The summer hae been a succession of
duties, trials, pleasures and misfortunes
to me. just when I had settled down in
tending to spend my summer in peace and
quiet at the Ranch a letter came from my
chief telling me of some important work
he wished me to do. So I bade adieu to
the dear old Ranch and wended my way
southward. I passed through Vicksburg,
and if I had known Acacia’s street and
number I would have taken the liberty to
call on her. I went to Mobile, but for the
same resason I didn’t see Dorothy Drew.
I went from Mobile by water to Tampa,
Fla., and from thence to Miami, then to
Jacksonville, and have just gotten home
again. Isn’t it a pity I didn’t know the
address of all the dear and beautiful mem
bers of our band who live in Florida. I
would certainly have called on them.
That is, all except *S. S. S. She hates me.
I am sure I don’t know why, but she
does.
Honor Bright, there is such a paper as
you describe, and there are several copies
of it here at the Ranch, and if you’ll send
me your address I’ll mail one of them to
you. Have you* ever read Mrs. Ward’s
novel “Marcella?” In that book mention
is made of and several paragraphs quoted
from the paper you inquire about. It is
also mentioned in two of Edna Lyall’s
novels. “Donovan” and “A Modern Eng
lishman” and in “A Hardy Norseman.” It
is referred to in one of Hardy’s novels.
Also two of Bret Harte’s most celebrated
stories.
-Sybil, my dear, you treated my letter
with silent contempt. You ought not to
have acted that way.
Kitsie, how I wish I could see you. I
had a fleeting glimpse of your hero broth
er during my summer trip through the
south, but I couldn't speak to him. be
cause the train, like time and tide, “waits
for no man.” I e aw Hobson, too, but un
fortunately couldn’t shake his hand. He
spoke in Atlanta while I was in the city,
ar.d I wanted to hear him. but my duties
wouldn’t admit of my going. If I had
known Empress’ addres-s I would have
tried to find her. but I heard since she
was in a northern city at that time. I
didn’t stay in Atlanta but six hours, and
was very busy all the time. I went to
Birmingham on my rounds but didn’t call
on our fair members who live there, be
cause I didn’t know their street and num
ber*. Girls, aren’t you sorry you missed
seeing me?
If any members of the Household care
to read a length*' description of my short
visits to Mobile, Miami, Melbourne and
Jacksonville I will write it up for our
Household page, and toll what I saw of
camp life and of the ways and manners of
our soldier boys. Or if any of you wish
an account of the trip for your scrap
books just write me and I’ll take pleas
ure in writing it up for you. YVhen I re
turned from my trip I found a long letter
from Japan awaiting my eager perusual.
I’ll send it for publication in the House
hold if any care to read it.
I wili leave here soon for a trip through
the west. Hope to see Dolores while I’m
out there, also Reallura. I must close for
this time. Y’ours to command.
DETECTIVE.
NOTES ON THE REUNION.
A Little Late in the Season for Clo
ver Blossom, But She’s
Welcome.
Dear Mother Hubbard: It has been some
■time since any of the dear cousins have
heard from me, and I know they must be
grieving over it; at least I try to flatter
myself Into thinking this, but I can assure
you it is a hard task.
How many of you have read The Alka
hest? It is being read by all of us with
great interest, and I am sc glad to see
a good monthly published in the south. I
cannot see jvhj’ we should not have good
magazines as well as the north. I dearly
love to see the progress we are mak
ing, and everything done in the south
should possess an interest for all of us,
thus proving that we are true sons and
daughters of the Confederacy.
How many are going to compete for the
prize poem and essay on the reunion? It
will certainly improve us a great deal,
and besides we should all be subscribers
for the Alkahest.
I hope all of the cousins were at the
reunion, for they could not fail to en
joy themselves. Atlanta was packed and
the city wa& one mass of Confederate
flags. It was enough to make the old vets
throw their hats up in the air and
“Hurrah for Dixie!” The day of the pa
rade the streets and windows were pack
ed like sardines in a box. as it was to
be a grand military display, but, alas
for human hopes-! the rain poured down
unmercifully. Nevertheless, the “hand
played on,” and the men marched
regardless of consequences, and I fear
many an old soldier went home sick.
I presume my letter is getting rather
lengthy, and as my last attempt was con
signed to the waste basket, I deem it wise
PERFECT FOOD— as Wholesome as it is Delicious.”
WALTER BAKER & CO.’S
BREAKFAST
to bring my remarks to a sudden close.
This is a bad time for clover; it rains
too much. I know you realize that “Clover
Blossom” is out of season, and it is time
to make hay. Goodby.
CLOVER BLOSSOM.
PEACE AND GOOD V/ILL.
The Editors Never “Overlook a Bet”
and Take Everything That
Comes.
Dear Household Friends—This “chile”
just wants to come in long enough to say
she is not Detective, as some of you seem
to think. As I do not care to wear the
honors that justly belong to another, I
take this time and opportunity to say
that I have never followed the calling
and never expect to. Some of you have
been calling for Sibyl to come back.
Friends, I am sorry to tell you that
Sibyl is no more. She died about July
14th. Perhaps it might interest some of
you to know that she wrote her own ep
itaph before she passed ^way. It reads
like this:
“A child of nature was she from her
birth,
A simple trust was hers while here cn
earth.”
What did she die of? Well,
for the want of a better name, we will
just call it ‘heart failure. ”
I have noticed that when life gets too
hard for one, they "give up the ghost,”
so to speak, then the medical men say
they died of heart failure. 1 was fairly
well acquainted with Sibyl, and hers was
a bright, sunny nature, full of fun and
loving to tease, but aside from that she
was not at all bad. She loved her friends
dearly and had a beautiful faith in the
^ood underlying all. Such faith is not
so very common in this age of the world,
hence I call it beautiful. Changing the
subject, what’s the matter with you peo
ple lately. ’Pon my soul, if I were an
empress. I’d give you a good spanking
and make you play pretty and quit your
fussing and fuming. Why, I’m actually
afraid every single (?) man will leave the
kingdom if you girls don’t quit your
quarreling. “B” routed “Old Boy” com
pletely. And Merle Monte
My goodness! everybody nearly gives
him a cut, even that dear girl Ma
Estelle, fairlv roasted him
PELVIC CATARRH.
Catarrh the Female Organs the
Bane of Womankind.
Catarrh of the female pelvic organs
may cause displacements, congestion or
ulceration of the womb. Symptoms or
displacement are pains in the back, con
stipation, drag
ging. h e a v y
sensation in the
abdomen, piles,
painful, scanty
urination. Con
gestion of the
womb and ova
ries produces
great irritabili
ty. sleepless
ness. frequent
headache, ner
vousness,
throbbing,
bloating, flash
es of heat, shivery, prickly sensations,
faintness and numbness. The symptoms
of ulceration are continuous leucorrhoea,
irregular and painful menstruation, irri
tation of the spine, pain in the head and
a continued tired-out feeling. For all
the trobules peculiar to women, such as
irregularities, change of life. etc.. Pe-ru-
na cannot be equaled. In all tlmse cases
catarrh of the pelvic organs is the excit
ing cause. Pe-ru-na cures by removing
I the cause. Pe-ru-ua cures catarrh wher
ever located. Consequently it will cure
this class of disorders. Mrs. Margaret ha
Dnuben. 1214 North Superior street, Ra
cine City, Wis., writes: “I feel so well
and good and happy now that pen cannot
I describe it. Pe-ru-na is everything to me.
| 1 feel healthy and well, but if 1 should be
sick I shall know what to take. I have
taken several bottles of Pe-ru-na for fe-
j male complaint. I am in the change of
life, and it does me good.”
Send for Dr. Hartman’s free book for
I women only. Address Dr. Hartman,
I Columbus, O.
Ask your druggist for a free Pe-ru-na
Almanac.
Please let's quit finding fault and cutting
at one another, and please let’s love one
another like good little children belong
ing to the same family onght. Beg par
don. did not intend to say all this, but
only wanted to correct an error and
stand up for a friend.
Now. with sincere love and best wishes
for each one of you and a kiss for our
Empress and the editors
Oh! just listen to me, will you—send
ing a kiss to the editors. I meant to
say a smile and a wave of the hand to
ye editors and a kiss for the Empress
from Y’ours lovingly,
DOLORES.
a reader of the dear old Sunny South
ever since J knew how to read at all. I
don't see how I could possibly exist with
out it? .Of late years the Household has
recently, j been my favorite page, so you see, dear
THE POWER OF SYMPATHY.
Write Her Eiiccnra-gi^e; Letters and
Thereby Tender the Cup of
Water in His Name.
Ike Carolyn. Mack Stanford and others:
I was pleased at your kind inquiries
about my humble self. ’Tis sweet to be
remembered. The reason I have not
written as of old I have been too ill—have
been in bed most of the time since April.
But I hope cool weather will give me
strength and I can recuperate, when I
hope to give you something better than
I have ever written. I have several MSS.
on hand now, if I had strength to revise
them.
Colonel No. 2. you are a fortunate fel
low if you find fortunes more easily now
than girls.
Y’ou speak of friendship between man
and womah: a disinterested male friend
is delightful if he is the'right kind.
And now about Colonel No. 1, the one
I dubbed brother because I had such a
sisterly feeling for him. Brother Colo
nel, could you not send one of those in
teresting letters and let me know about
your affair? That is too old to mention?
Oh. well, I should like to hear anyway.
Will Colon. I enjoyed your letter and
was glad to see your name. Faith. Hope
and Charity are a blessed trio, and next
is Patience. To be patient under suffer
ing or ill usage is. I think, to be truly
brave And the sweetest thing on earth,
I think is sympathy, which is but another
form of love. The stoutest heart is
crushed without this heaven-given balm
for sorrow and trouble. There is no
despair so dark but it sheds a radiance
through; no matter how far the wanderer
may have gone astray, if he is made to
feel that he has the sympathy of his fel
low men. h£ can be reclaimed. We all
need sympathy. Even our Savior felt
the need of it, for when he cried, “My
God! mv God. why hast thou forsaken
me?” “He was treading the winepress
alone.”
I was looking over some Sonnies of
'96 and found so many bright letters.
Dear friends, why don’t you write again?
There is no telling how many a weary
brother your words might inspire to bet
ter things. Hope, sweet sister, your let
ters have been indeed an inspiration to
me. Please don’t forget to write again.
I almost envy you the letter from Miss
Lizzie. When you write, tell her she has
forgotten one of her girls, as she used
to call me.
Who writes the editorial page—Colonel
Seals or Mr. Holliday? It is splendid.
When Mr. Fairman was editor, he was
quite friendly, and I hav^ a treasured
little packet of letters full of good advice.
June Bug, have you forgotten an act
of kindness to a householder? I shall
write you a personal letter when I get
stronger. Meanwhile, can’t you write to
me? I assure you it would be appreci
ated. I would appreciate a letter from
any of my friends. The hours seem very
long sometimes. Lovingly,
MARY E. TEMPLETON.
Laurens, S. C.
Empress, I really feel like I am an old
acquaintance: Please treat me as one
and don’t let me feel like an utter strang
er. Y’ou will have my life-long gratitude
—you already have my love.
I think Mary E. T. and Firefly have
quite deserted our (you see I am already
claiming a place) page. Please come
back and brighten tis up. and as for
Earnest Willie, his soul-stirring letters
are decidedly pleasures of the past. I
once had the happy privilege of listening
to one of his lectures and of shaking
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Established 1780. DORCHESTER, MASS.
FOUND HSR IDEAL.
This Mayflower Was Not Born to
Blush Unseen Even Though
Firefly Does Not Glow.
Dear Empress and Household: If I am
allowed to enter the charmed circle I will
exclaim, as all the others do. that “I have
long wanted to become a member.” but
extreme timidity has so far kept me from
pleading an entrance. Now as my ideal
(one who claims to be fancy free) has
made his appearance in the character or
N. Wilbert Prince. I leave my timidity in
the background and advance boldly,
reaching a hand not only towards the
latch-string of the Household, but also
| to the latch-siring of my “Ideal's”
heart. (Mind now. “Ideal,” you must not
complain. Y’ou brought it all on your
self. Y’ou invited all the girls to do so,
j and I am not going to let such a nice
chance as that slip.) Methinks I can
hear some staid member exclaim: “That
is not a nice way for a timid girl to be-
I have.” Well. I am sorry, but it cannot
| be helped now. I will have to comfort
! myself with the reflection that we are
living in an advanced age. However, the
1 impropriety of the action does not affect
j me so much as the fear that some one
has gotten ahead of me. pulled the latch-
] string and been admitted into the sacred I
j precincts of his hitherto unoccupied j
j heart. If such is the case it would be I
“just my luck.” I will live in hopes that !
things will be different. I think Florida !
Girl No. 2 might be contented with the j
I Colonel. By the way. what has become
j of Florida Girl No. 1? I used to enjoy j
reading her letters so much. I have been
HENRY D. CAPERS,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
(Piedmont Insurance Building.)
Charlotte, N. C.
Practices in the Supreme Court of the
United States, ar.d the State and Feder
al courts. jy 2-tf
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• Atlanta, Ga<
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