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6»0 SUNNY SOUTH
Constitution Building Atlanta Ga
The Public is Populated
by Liars
E ARE led to the use of the
foregoing caption through the
following letter, mailed some
thing less than a week ago, in
Portland, Oregon:
Editor Sunny South—In your very
sarcastic editorial entitled '‘Some
Thoughts Concerning a Prevalent
Malady ” you deal with the varior-
sorts oi liars, except the newspaper
men. one of which you are. Why
don't you roast yourself instead of
taking advantage of those you de
pend upon by abusing them? Can
vou answer this?
P. S. 1 believe all reporters are
not able to tell the truth at all.
It is not our intention to
find fault with the shortage of
grammatical expression be
trayed by our irritated corre
spondent. \\ e have been an
noyed ourselves; sometimes
morbid and morose, and even
bilious, therefore we are pre
pared to take no offense at
the bludgeon-like note from a
far-away state. Rather we propose to reason with
him and by proper persuasion through a panorama
of truths prepare him for a change of mind. In
the editorial lie refers to there was no sarcasm,
no ironv, no vindictiveness, no bitterness. It was
simply comment concerning a general con
dition of mind to which our attention
hfid been casually called. In fact, our
/Correspondent will find, by careful pe
rusal, that we modestly included ourselves in the
list of the afflicted—but not as a newspaper man.
As a newspaper man we are as truthful as our
readers will permit us to be.
Therefore we are moved to say. in all serious
ness, that the public is thickly populated by liars;
in short, the liars are in the vast majority, and if
any misinformation or incorrect statements find
their way into a newspaper, the public is, nine
times out of ten. the guilty party. It is the news
paper man's business to get the truthful news. If
lie writes a lie. he jeopardizes his position. But
he does write lies, and the basis of those lies are
secured as truth from the public- We were once
unfortunate enough to be a member of that abused,
over-worked fraternity, the reportorial staff.. Long
since has ceased the rankling in our bosom over
the injustice of interviews honestly obtained and
correctly reported, repudiated because the cpioted
views failed to elicit public approval. Realizing
that the general public was composed of liars, we
have put aside the vitriolic sentiments that stirred
our young soul when we wrote an article on the
word of a substantial citizen and found him the
next day swearing it was news to him.
No fewer than three solicitors general have
stated to us that a newspaper reporter made the
best and most accurate witness in court trials.
It is because the reporter is trained to observe
detail, to keep tab on time and circumstance. Two
men seeing an accident or a killing seldom relate
the same story, and the larger the number of wit
nesses the greater the scope of cross-examination.
Prejudice and partisanship frequently blind to the
truth.
In a postscript our Portland subscriber has sin
gled out the reporter, not only as the reckless han
dler of truth, but a^s a man passionately fond of
misrepresentation and incapable of recording cor
rectly the events of the day. Again we demur.
If there are wilful perversions of facts (and we
confess that sometimes there are) in 90 per cent
of the instances the result is produced by orders
to the reporters from those in authority; and those
in authority, in practically every case, act from
pressure brought to bear by some of the influen
tial liars who people the great public.
Is Woman Braver Than
Man? We Say Yes
CORRESPONDENT w h o,
we are pleased to note, be-
belongs to the sterner sex,
asks: “Is woman braver than
man ?”
That is not an open ques
tion. Of course she is.
There is no qualification
in the conclusion. By braver
is Comprehended courage of
whatever kind, moral or
physical.
The maternal function in
itself establishes the superior
bravery of woman. It re
quires more courage to
be a woman than a man,
and her training in the
stoic school of femininism makes her habitually
more courageous than the self-vaunted “lord of
creation.”
Doctors, priests, trained nurses and those most
accustomed to deathbed scenes, will tell you that
a woman “dies easier” than a man. Being more
courageous in life, naturally she relinquishes it
with less protest and quaking.
It is not necessary to cite such martial ex
amples as Joan of Arc and the Maid of Saragoza.
It is in most women to become what these French
and Spanish heroines were. It is in few men to
rise to the sublimely heroic.
Brutus was less of a patriotic hero than Char
lotte Corday.
Hell hath no fury like a woman turned Ama
zon. It is said the Boer women who could not be
prevented from fighting beside their fathers,
brothers, husbands and swethearts were “insane
ly fearless.” . , , . ...
The monopoly of conventional heroism by the
male gender is only a part of masculine conceit.
With the same opportunities, women would give
the world a superfluity of a higher grade of he
roes. .
But woman does not have to remove lierselt
from the “sphere” in which man insists that she
remain to prove her superior courage. The com
monplace duties of domesticity daily demonstrate
the fortitude that is her inherent attribute. It
takes more of the “courage of living” to raise a
family of children than it does to raise corn and
potatoes ; and many farmers wives are raising
both at the same time. V ery often lordly man is
only nominally the master mind and master hand.
The oriental idea of woman is the immemo
rial wrong of the ages. There are signs, in Amer
ica, at any rate, that this bigotry of sex is passing
and the subjection of woman by man becoming
less and less the rule. This growing American
tendency cannot be said to be an evidence of
Anglo-Saxon enlightenment. The Englishman is
a good deal of a "Turk in his belief in the domi
nance of masculinity. But if the American is less
oriental, he is somewhat patronizing. It is at least
more honest to depreciate than to patronize.
The Latin race, which plumes itself on its ro
mantic gallantry toward the fair sex, reflects its
true estimate of women in its ungallant proverbs.
The French say: “A man who has a wife has a
plague.” The Spaniards: “There is only one bad
woman, but every husband believes he possesses
her.” The Italians: “If a man loses his wife and
a farthing, he has only lost a farthing.”
The American woman is bravest in that she has
begun the world-wide emancipation of her sex. In
this she is in nowise unsexing herself. The strong-
minded woman, in the unwomanly sense, is not
the result of progressive evolution. She is only a
freak.
Common Sense is Superior
to Culture
N EMINENT educator com
plains tha* the power of high
er education to safeguard a
college graduate from “the
ragged edge” of life is fast
waning- He attributes the
superfluousness of the edu
cated man or woman to a glut
in the genteel labor market,
and declares in so many
words that there is an over
plus of culture.
In Atlanta recently a cler
gyman read before a body of
clergymen a paper on the de
cline of the authority of the
church.
Perhaps the trouble in the
first case is that cultivation
cannot altogether be substi
tuted for brains; in the sec
ond, that it is an unsatisfac
tory snusiiuite iur religion.
There is no overplus of culture at the present
time. There is a prodigal redundancy of an inde
finable something that passes for culture spread in
cheap veneer from Gotham to Pokeberry Corners.
If the colleges are sponsor for it and the clergy
feel called upon to supply it with ethical food, the
one need not censure the world beyond the classic
portals for taking it at its intrinsic value, nor the
other lament the loss of power.
Misapplied and ill-assimilated education is a
prolific source of prigs and pedants. A little learn
ing is doubly dangerous when it mantles itself in
the toga of culture. As the quality is misunder
stood, it is one of man’s silliest fetishes. Ignor
ance is a refreshing accomplishment in contrast.
It is remarkable to what extent some persons
can be cultivated without possessing the funda
ment of mind. And yet, when we consider what
a monkey and parrot can be taught, it may not be
so remarkable.
There is culture and culture. Conventional
culture, which takes itself so seriously, is funny
enough to make life a continuous comic opera
to a looker-on in Vanity Fair, who has a dash of
playful irony in his blood and is conceited enough
to imagine some kind of a gulf separates him from
“the herd.” The really intellectual cynics and
satirists are awful egotists.
Culture of the pharisaical cult is the egotism
of shallowness ’and its refuge from life’s barren
ideality. One of its worst faults is its tendency
to destroy originality, independence of thought
and natural sentiment. God Almighty made the
human mind as various as the human face, and
He meant the creatures made in His image to be
something more than a herd of sheep or a flock
of peafowls. What plumfes itself as the cultured
element of a community is its most artificial ele
ment, invariably vain-glorious, snobbish or toady-
ish, perverted, soul-dwarfed and full of peace-de
stroying desires.
The deepest culture is not of the schools. Fac
ulty and curriculum cultivate more often than in
struct. Knowledge comes from the cyclop-grop-
ings of soul and mind for light, and the groper is
alone in the cave of self. The opening cannot he
made from the outside.
Machine-made, apish culture lifts its eye
brows when some great spirit springs full-grown
from the loins of the people and exemplifies what
the other simulates. It has to learn that no spiked
wall of caste surrounds the tree of knowledge, and
that the tableland of truth is reached by no royal
road. In the economy of nature, giants are formed
of clay, and homely virtues are the open sesame
to high and seasoned thought.
No amount of culture will compensate for the
lack of common sense. When the latter is lacking,
scratch the veneer and you will find a fool or a
pretender, • —•_
CHORT Stories, Strayed
^ ^ or Stolen
T HE First Colorado cavalry, after the
war. became famous as the only or
ganization that failed to receive pay for
Its services from Uncle Sam.
The soldiers waited long and patiently,
however, and finally they were rewarded
with compensation.
There was no government mcnej In
Colorado at the time the regiment was
raised. Neither were there telegraphs or
railroads, and as cash was needed to
equip the regiment and put it on a war
footing. Governor Gilpin was obliged to
issue orders on the treasurer of the
United States, w-hich virtually amounted
to paper money. These orders were
taken by merchants and supply dealers
who equipped the troops. After a while
the men were paid off in these orders.
A sensation was created some time
later, however, when It became known
that the governor had issued the orders
with out government authorization. Uncle
Sam repudiated them, and the troops and
the business men of Colorado found
themselves in possession of thousands of
dollars’ worth of these orders, which were
not worth the paper they were written
on.
Goverror Gilpin’s intentions were right,
but there was no doubt but that he had
exceeded his authority. The soldiers and
other holders presented their claims to
congress, but after a long contest they
were declared to be illegal, and were dis
allowed. Then they were filed with the
courtyof claims for adjustment, and after
the war was over they were allowed in
full. Governor Gilpin became a national
character as a result of this case, while
the First Colorado cavalry was known
from one end of the nation to the other
as the regiment that had to fight fer its
country and fight for its pay.
Xoo much of a good thing
A WELL KNOWN member of congress
m from a state close to District of Col
umbia recently had an experience which
he does not care to repeat, says The Bal
timore Sun. He is being treated with elec
tricity for stomach trouble, and twice a
week he swallows a steel button with a
thin wire attached and connected with an
electric battery. The opposite pole ot
the battery is then placed on the outside
ot the stomach and the circuit thus
foimed. Several days ago the congress
man was taking his treatment and the
doctor was nervous. After making the
connection with the battery he pulled
cut the plug about four notches too far.
A muffled shriek of surprise burst from
the representative and he made a wild
plunge forward. Following him came the
battery and the doctor. The member
could not release himself from the bat
tery, and in some way the doctor had
made connection with it and could not
let go. So around the room they went,
with the battery banging against the
furniture and maintaining a steady and
infernal buzzing. After a few minutes
of this exercise the physician pianaged
to make his patient understand that he
must keep still long enough for the doc
tor to force in the plug with his foot.
This was done and the agony was over.
Technically dead. He live*
J cratic member of the house and re-
OSEPH CROKER SIBLEY, demo-
publican member-elect from Pennsylva
nia, has a queer constituent, says the
Washington Pose. This constituent,
though he claims to be technically dead,
yet liveth. He is a claimant, and therein
lies the pith of the remarkable situation.
When soldiers were first drafted in the
civil war he fell a victim, and, being a
fjcacie-loving citizen., he purchased for
$500 a substitute, who participated in the
t-eetionnl hostilities. Jgjter there was an
other draft, and again the peace-loving
citizen fell a victim, whereupon he pur
chased another substitute at a cost of
$350.
But the p.-l. c.’s troubles were not end
ed. The drafting officers came along
still later, and his ill-luck again pursued
him. It cost him $350 more of his good
money to get a third substitute. Mean
while th« first substitute had been killed
in the wars, on which fact the present
claimant bases his argument that, as far
as the subsequent drafts were concerned,
he was technically a dead man. He now
wants the government to pay him hack
$700. He thinks he needs the money.
This hermit gets fortune
A LETTER was received recently by
* *Mrs. Rebecca Ehaer from her son,
Oscar Bhaer, In which he tells
a wonderful story of riches. He
is eighteen years of age. Three
vaers ago he went to the state of
Washington and got work on a raliroad
at Tunnell City. He writes his mother
that he and Julius Gill were fishing, and
that while he was trying to land a trout
he tumbled down a fifteen-foot embank
ment into the creek, carrying a ledge of
quartz with him. This exposed nuggets
of gold. They established their claim, he
says, and are now sinking a shaft. Old
miners have assured him 1 f^L writes that
make him a rich man. and he w whlch
It is his belief that the PW«W« mil .
he is a half owner is worth several n
lions.
A new rellrflo**
W lions of a religious sect Known a..
HITESTONS is f is J ur 5f h d L Members
the "Holy Salvationists relig-
assert they represent the on > f
ion. and that they ar ® d ‘ t r h e ^ 1 ^Teach
Gcd, who has commanded them P‘
the gospel in every home. ? y
With the Bible in their hands tney
are constantly engaged in their
work. They spread the gospel. as tn-Y
term it. from house to house. In the hem.
along public highways, and no one
empt from their ministrations.
One minister declares he has a ret na
tion from God, commanding a11 5“
aitides of finery or attractive c l° th
jewelry and furniture to be burned, and
many of the band have accepted ih-
command and have burned articles
clothing and furniture.
He saw too well
A HENRY ZIMMERMAN was arrested
in New Yoi'k for being intoxicated.
When interruilted by the policeman '
was endeavoring to climb up the side o
an office building in order, as he ex
plained, to pluck some wild flowers which
he could observe blooming around tne
cornice underneath the roof.
When Zimmerman was arraigned in the
Jefferson Market police court Magistrate
Pool asked: “Why is it that you Brook
lyn people always come over here to
drunk? What excuse have you?
"I live in Brooklyn, judge,” said the
man, “and I think that is enough to drive
any man to drink.” "I think so, too,
replied the magistrate. “You are dis
charged.”
Vaccin ated this burglar
ILLIAM CARL walked into a quar
antined apartment house in New
York last week and filled his pocket with
rings and gems. There had been small
pox in the house and two board of health
doctors were in charge of the building.
They found the burglar at work and be
fore turning him over to the authorities
they vaccinated him. When three detec
tives arrived at the house the board of
health doctors would not let them out
of the building until they submitted to
vaccination. The prisoner and detectives
appeared together in police court with
swollen arms.
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S^OSfCERNI^lG Some People
■ <a You Rnow
&
UUHEX Marshall Lewis became im-
pressed with Miss Millie Barrett, the
charming daughter of Lawrence Barrett,
the affair was regarded as a huge joke
by Lewis’s bosom friend. Stuart Robson,
who delighted to talk to Lewis about it.
"Why don’t you go In and marry her.
Marshall?” he used to advise him in that
squeaky voice of his. “I'll tell you what
t’ll do. If you will marry- ’Millie’ Barrett,
the day you are made man and wife I'll
give you $5,000.”
This thing went on for some time, until,
to everybody’s astonishment and Robson’s
chagrin, Miss Barrett accepted Lewis.
Lewis's manner of breaking the news of
his engagement to his daughter to Law-
rtnee Barrett was characteristic.
In heartbroken tones Barrett exclaimed,
when told: “'Why. me* boy. me boy', you
don’t know what you are doing; you are
robbing me of me only daughter.”
“Not at all.” replied Lewis, slapping
him on the back. “I’m giving to you an
other eon.” m ,
And then he escape-, before Barrett re
covered his breath.
The marriage came off in due course of
time, and we all. with the exception of
Robson, attended. He sent his daughter
Alicia in his place, and before going gave
her his check for $5,000. drawn to Mar
shall Lewis’s ordrt-. Robson’s instruc
tions were emphatic, however, that on no
condition was she to separate from it un
til Lewis and Miss Barrett were irrevoc
ably’ pronounced man and wife. When
Alicia returned home Robson called her to
him and asked if she had given Lewis
the cheek.
"Yes. father,” she replied.
“What did he do and say?” Inquired
Robson, impatiently’.
“Why, father, he was so overcome by it
that he cried for a minute after I had
gave it to him.”
"Gad.” squeaked Robson, “was that
all? Why. I cried for an hour when I
•wrote it.”
Sir Robert Ball’s calculations
S IR ROBERT BALL, in an interesting
article in the March Pall Mall Maga
zine, sets our doubts at rest regarding the
impossibility of such planetary signaling
as was descanted upon by the American
press. There is nothing like astronomy
for throwing cold water on the perfervid
assertions of irresponsible speculators in
the matter of space. Sir Robert tells us
that at its nearest distance to us Mars
is 35,000,000 miles away, and in order to
discern the smallest possible points on
Mars with the best telescope at our dis
posal today that object would require to
be 150 times as long and 150 times as broad
at St. Paul’s cathedral.
With regard to the electrical wave sig
naling idea. Sir Robert Ball avers that
the apparatus at present in use would re
quire to be intensified in power “a thou
sandfold, and then a thousandfold again,
and finally' multiplied by another sixteen
before an appreciable signal could be
transmitted to Mars.” This sixteen-mil
lionfold increase of intensity demanded
on the part of wireless telegraphic pow
ers would appear to put out of court al
together ail ideas of interplanetary com
munication of the kind in question. Sir
Robert, however, teaches us another lit
tle lesson, much needed all around, re
specting the impossibility of our concep
tions being able adequately' to deal with
big numbers. He reminds us that there
are not 16,000.000 inches comprised in the
distance between Lancaster and London.
Again, the age of a man 16.000.000 minutes
old amounts to over thirty years, while
j 16,000,000 wheat grains would weigh a ton.
Famous traveler dead
^ AESAR CELSO MORENO, lor years
a familiar character on the streets
and at the capitol, died in Washington re
cently from a stroke of paralysis. Mor
eno had a picturesque and adventurous
career. He had visited nearly every civ
ilized portion of the globe, and claimed
several rulers as his friends. For the
last few years he had led rather a pre
carious existence in this city.
He was a native of Italy, saw service
in the Crimean war and while in Sumatra
Was instrumental in a movement for in
citing the natives to revolt against Hol
land. Later he was sent to Tonquin by
the French government in some official
capacity and thence drifted to China
where he organized the first steamship
company under the Chinese flag. Short
ly after the civil war he landed at San
Francisco, and was successful in secur
ing the enactment of the Moreno laws
for the protection of coast fisheries.
In 1S72 he organized a trans-Pacifie ca
ble company, in which Leland Stanford
was interested, and finally a charter was
obtained from congress for constructing
a cable estimated to cost $10,000,000. He
again went to the Orient, and subsequent
ly' came to the Sandwich islands, where
he gained the confidence of King Kala-
kaua and became prime minister. Mor
eno carried things with a high hand, and
after five days of power was forced to
give up the position. Later he was com
missioned as minister to the United
States and every court in Europe.
Riley’s patient wait
Mb FRIEND came to me once eomplete-
ly heartbroken. saying that his
manuscripts were constantly returned,
and that he was the most miserable
wretch alive. I asked him how long he
had been trying. ‘Three years,’ he said.
‘My dear man,’ I answered, laughing, ‘go
on; keep on trying till you have spent
as many’ years as I did.’ ‘As many as
you didf he exclaimed. ‘Yes, as long as
I did.’ ‘What? You, James Whitcomb
Riley, struggled for year a?” ‘Yes sir,
through years, through sleepless nights,
through almost hopeless days. For twenty
years I tried to get into one magazine.
Back came my manuscripts eternally. I
kept on. In the twentieth year that mag
azine accepted one of my articles.’
”1 was not a believer in the theory that
one man does a thing much easier than
any- other man. Continuous, unflagging
effort, persistence and determination win
win. Let not the man be discouraged who
lias these.”
Like father like son
R. STAGG. the famous coach of the
A * Chicago University football team has
an eighteen-months old son who, when he
frets old enough to write, will put “Jr..’’
after his name and who promises to he
as distinguished among athletes as his
father is. The baby gymnast made his
first public appearance a ctav or two ago
before his father’s class ot track candi
dates. He did his turn on the horizon
tal bars, the horizontal ladder and the
running track, handling himself with an
easy grace that was deligntful. He did
the chinning act on the horizontal bar.
Dulling himself up several lncnes at a
word from his father, and also traveled
on the horizontal ladder hand over hand
with but little assistance. Another form
of amusement he likes is pulling the chest
weights. After the exhibition he ran a
foot race with his father on the §ymna=i-
jjm track.
f\UAIN.T Bits From
^ Animal Life
R OLLA CISNF.Y’S lost watch has boon
found, but Mr. Ci.'rey is yet minus
his coat, says The Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Cisney is a farmer, v ho lives a short dis
tance from this town. A couple of weeks
ago Cisney was working in a field on his
farm, in which he had a steer that was
being fattened ready for killing. Cisney’s
work was hard, and the weather was
warm, and these two causes led to his
pulling off his coat and hanging it on the
fence. In a pocket of the coat was Cis
ney’s gold watch.
During the morning Cisney had occasion
to go to his house, and when he returned
to the field he went for his watch to see
the time. Coat and watch were missing
from the fence where he had placed them.
“I swan,” said Cisney to the meek-eyed
steer, his only auditor, ‘“pears as if some
tramp had come along* and just swiped
that coat and watch.”
Cisney went up to the house to tell his
wife of the loss.. “Wife,” he said, “I hung
my coat on the fence, and I guess some
tramp has stolen it.”
“It’s a good thing he did, too,” said
Mrs. Cisney. “It’s just about fit for a
tramp's wear.”
“But my gold w’atch was in it,” said
Cisney’.
“Why didn’t you say’ so?” exclaimed
Mrs. Cisney, indignantly. “Making all
that fuss about an old coat, when a $100
watch is stolen! It’s a good thing your
head isn't loose, or you’d have that stolen,
too.”
No clew to coat or watch was obtained
’by Mr. Cisney, and he resigned himself to
his loss. Last Wednesday several of the
neighboring farmers came to help him
kill and cut up his steer. When the stom
ach of the animal had been cut open
something glittering was seen. Mrs. Cis
ney, who was watching operations, gave
a little scream, and, pouncing on the
glittering object, pulled out to view Cis
ney’s watch and chain, apparently none
the worse for its novel abiding place. Mr.
Cisney is'now wearing it again, and its
time-keeping powers appear as good'as
ever.
“I guess that steer ate my coat all
right,” said Mr. Cisney, “but he must
have found it a pretty tough morsel. A
few days before I had been killing and
salting hogs, and the coat probably’ got
considerable salt on it. The steer evi
dently’ licked the coat, found the taste of
the salt good, and finished by swallowing
the whole garment. That’s the only’ way
I can account for my watch being in its
stomach.”
Innovation in watchdogs
Y S there any’ law against keeping a
* wildcat in my back yard?” was the
rather unusual query made by Adam J.
Trageser at police headquarters in Wash
ington. recently.
’That depends upon where your back
yard is.” replied the functionary behind
the desk with magisterial wisdom. “If it's
in the deestrict, yes; but if it's not in the
deestrict they ain't no law that I knows
of. But what do you want to keep a wild
oat in your yard for?”
Then Mr. Trageser unfolded a tale of
woe that caused even the unemotional
police official, used as he was to harrow
ing tales, to take several gulps. He owns
a produce store—does Mr. Trageser—and
It has been robbed four times within the
last three months. In addition, every few
nights some of the chickens in his vard
behind the store would disappear.
He lav in wait several nights in succes
sion for the thieves with a shotgun, but
nobodv came. The night he relinquished
his vigil, however, the raiding of the hen- [
nery continued. The policeman on the
beat advised Mr. Trageser to get a dog
and he was smitten with the idea. A few
days after the advent of the dog the same
policeman told 11m the neighbors com
plained of the animal’s parking, and that
it must be disposed of. A few nights
later the store was again broken into and
robbed.
Lion frightened Himself
A GLANCE at himself in a mirror re
cently frightened Big Ben. the Phil
adelphia zoo’s largest lion, so badly that
the keepers in charge feared he would do
violence to himself. He was in an angry
mood all day and paced restlessly up
and down his cage, stopping at the
bars and raving at every chance passer
by.
The antics of a small boy particularly
excited his ire and he raged and stormed
as only’ a big lion can. The lad enjoyed the
performance and waited until Ben had
finished his tirade, and then drew a hand
mirror from under his coat and held it
directly in front of Ben.
The lion looked over and then jumped
for the intruder that dared face him in
such a fashion, but brought up against
the bars with force enough to throw him
to the floor. Surprised at the appearance
of the invader, he tilled the house with
his roars. The keepers ran to the cage
and endeavored to quiet him. but he con
tinued the uproar until exhausted
In the meantime the adventurous youth
had disappeared and was discovered in
front of the wolves’ cage trying to excite
them in the same way. He was led from
the garden and warned to keep away
About a year ago a serious disturbance
at the zoo was due to the flashing of a
mirror In front of the lions’ den. At that
time the lions, with the exception of one
or two of the wildest, were kept in one
cage. A visitor held a mirror In front of
them one afternoon and the beasts were
thrown into panic. They rought and
dashed at the bars w'ith such violence
that it was feared several would die as
a result of their frantic struggles It re
quired the combined efforts of all the
keepers for several hours before
could be quieted.
THE SUNNY SOUTH
Contents
FIRST PAGE
A Buckeye Hollow lnh« r :
fence by Bret H art *
THe New Orleans Yacht Club
EDITORIAL PAGE
THe PtaHlic is Populated b>
Liars
Is Woman Braver than Man?
Common Sense is Superior
to Culture
Selected Reading Matter
THIRD PAGE
TRISTRAM of BLENT
ANTHONY HOPE
Miss Keturah’s D emoniac
Possession
FOURTH PAGE
’Week in a Busy World
Gen Clay Defies tHe Law
FIFTH PAGE
Experience in tHe Charley,
ton Earthquake
Georgia’s First Sugar Plant
Parson BurrougH’s Married
Many Couples
The Capture of a Colonel
THe Host Atlantis
Hy JosepH M Brown
SIXTH PAGE
Her Way ^ A Love Story
by Percy F Booty
Health Suggestions
SEUENTH PAGE
Of Interest to ’Womankind
Four Famous American Wo.
men
THe Household
EIGHTH PAGE
Literature
Religion
NINTH page
Mexico’s War with tHe Ya.
quis Hy Jose De Olivares
New Zealand’s Wonderful
FreaKs Hy Frank Carpenter
How Women Pay for Cour.
tesies
LAST PAGE
A Buckeye Hollow Inheri,
tance Continued
THe New Orleans Yacht Club
Continued
Items of Interesting Infor
mation
Sunshine
From Mrs Rebecca Lowe
Atlanta. Ga.. April S. 1901.—Editor s .
South: I cannot refrain from sendi 1 -
a line this morning to say how m . n I
enjoyed that Easter editorial in Th. -
ny South. It is decidedly the best :
I have seen in any Atlanta paper .i"
ly. The man who wrote it is all right
I would like to meet him and give h ;
good handshake. Yours truly,
REBECCA D. LOW
Note?—Mrs. R. D. Lowe is one of •
foremost of the club women of Ame:
in fact, she is the president of the
National Federation of Women's Club;.
*
That Faster editorial
Raleigh. N. C.. April 9. !9>n.— Ev.
Sunny South; Let me congratulate yea
on your Easter editorial: it was simpy
superb, surpassing anything I have r-
ln many days. It is pregnant with d ■ p
thought and philosophy. I have read
your caper for several years and air. de
lighted with the enterprise of the new
management. Your editorial page a
strong and clear and I alw'ays read it be
fore seeking the other treasures in y
truly great paper. Yours truly,
W. J. SIMPSON.
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Equal to any magazine
Mobile. Ala.. April 9. 1901.—Editor P ny
South: I have been a subscriber t > Tie
Sunny South since it was first pub!! -J
and have w'atched its career with an In
terest that could only be felt by one who
has at heart the literary developme J
the south. You don’t know how deli- :-d
I feel that the dear old Sunny South '.as
.reached such a position in the lit
world. I feel now that the south really s
a representative equalt o any magazi in
any other section, and I feel sure that
having grasped the situation you v. 1 re
main master of ! t in a manner worth, the
cause. Yours truly,
(MISS) ANNIE WATS
N.
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Mad dog stop* milk supply
MAD DOG has temporarily shut off
the supply of milk to the “four hun
dred” of Trenton, says The New York
Journal.
Several of the aristocratic families who
live in West State street have for a long
time kept cows. The dog attacked a fine
Jersey cow belonging to Howell Stull yes
terday. and then bit two thoroughbred Al-
derneys belonging to Isaac F. Richey.
In the adjoining pasture a mild-faced
Jersey heifer belonging to Colonel S. Mer
edith Dickinson, was napping in the sun
when the dog came over the fence with a
yelp. The cow awoke up and made for a
small pond.
Nothing daunted, the dog lushed to.,the
attack, and twice was sent skyward from
the tip of the cow’s horns. The horns
struck a vital point and the dog fell dead.
“Your Faster editorial’’
Jackson. Miss.. April 8, 1901.—!: ;or
Sunny South: You are giving the : N.e
of the south what they have needt .'or
many years—a literary paper, v, :A!
their patronage and representati. of
their section. It can no longer bf sad
that we must go to the north for of
literature: you are successfully demon
strating that our writers are equal ti all
others. I am particularly pleased with
your editorial page, and your East. : edi
torial presented, in a forcible manner, a
beautiful sentiment. It is unnecessary for
me to add that I am delighted with The
Sunns' South. Your s truly,
(MRS.) LOUISE FIELDS.
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•A gratified wish
Montague. Tex.. April 6. 1901,-Lditor
Sunny South: What a literary treat U°P’ e
are missing who are not so fortunate as to
haveyour paper for a weekly visfttv’ H- >:v
much we appreciate you and how glad
are to see vou assuming the expression of
your original self—only, only—well. " 6
want to echo the sentiment of Ike N.
Heartsill and say: “Give us the House
hold.’ something to remind us of the
sweet long ago.
We are proud, indeed, of the worthy
representative of our southland in litera
ture. which is so successfully meeting the
demand for variety in reading. A combi
nation of fiction, philosophy, sentiment,
science and art. We note with interest
the Sunshine column and wish to be
placed on the list of contributors. Yours
truly. LIZZIE McPHERSOX
Note—The writer of the foregoing has
doubtless failed to observe that we are
endeavoring to place at the disposal of
our women readers a household depart
ment which, with their aid. will be un-
eaualed by a similar department in am
other magazine. \