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EDITORIAL PAGE THE SUNNY SOUTH i E/>e SUNNY .SOUTH j 7%e Value of Silence**Com* Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Suslnefs Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ■ATLANTA, GEORGIA Subscription Terms: To those who subscribe to CAe Sunny South only Six Months, 25c 'i* O/ie Year, 50c LESS THAN A PENNY A WEEK Entered at the postofflre Atlanta, On.,an second-class mall matter march 13, 1<H)1 h* Sunny South is tho oldest weekly paper of Literature, Romance, Fafl and Flfllon in the South G It Is now re* Jtored to the original shape and will be published as for• merly every week XT Founded in IS74 It grew until !S99, when, as a monthly, its form was changed as an experts meat & it now returns to its original formation as a weekly with renewed vigor and the Intention of eclipss ing its most promising period in the past. Why Washington Should He Popular Today N the days of George Washington patriotism was at a premium in this country. It is true that our borders were not so widely remote; our now gigantic industries were in their infancy, and a pitiful, puling infancy it was; we did not point proudly to our illimitable domain, and to our powerful horde of multi millionaires—but our ancestors were a patriotic people, and it is probable that tney were a purer peo ple, with higher and nobler ideals. With the passage of the years, and the coming of enormous, almost miraculous wealth, we have become more cen tralized in our lives and aims, and there is less of the glorious love of country and the simple faith in themselves, God and mankind which marked the characters of the men who so sturdily built the foundations for our present prosperity j and world-power. Washington was first and last, above all, essen tially, a patriot. In the light of more complete knowledge, we have learned that he was not a brilliant man. He was a cultured, kindly Chris tian gentleman—that is all, personally speaking. The leading trend of his character and tempera ment was absolute, self-immolating devotion to d’nrjg. as be. saw it. By blood, training and per sonal! favor it is reasonable to suppose that his sympathies would have been largely^ toward the Britis/h in the critical days which culminated in the battle of Hunker Hill. But his far-seeing dis cernment foresaw the establishment and growth of a/ great, independent nation, which should be theiasvlum for the oppressed of all countries; V , wlach ^should, in after years, turn its attention to the development and exploiting of the invaluable resources with which it was so bountifully gifted, and which should oppose to the old-world civili zation a new and virile force and customs stronger and more dominating than any agency yet loos ened on the world of affairs. Realizing these things and conscious of an overpowering mission, whatever there was of self- ishnesss in the scale he threw to the winds. Chosen as the commander of the army of the swaddling nation, his best energies Avere turned toward the accomplishment of the task which had been set for him—the crushing of an im mensely superior force of militia, far and away surpassing his otvn troops in point of discipline and equipment. The trials, the disappointments, the heart-breaking reverses which he encountered in this task are well-known history. His stead fastness of purpose, his conscientiousness and his refusal to be daunted by obstacles are luminous examples to those of us participating in the neAv civilization of today. His success in an administrative capacity as president of the United States is also valuable as an index. 1 hat form of government A\as al most altogether new and untried, and many were the knotty problems with which he was brought face to face daily. These first years of the young republic were \ r ital and strenuous, and to the safe guidance and wise conser\'atism of Washington the splendid governmental foundation then laid is largely due- His name and fame are secure be yond the adverse or favorable comment of any fad of the historical novel, and his countrymen owe him a debt of gratitude, the dimensions of which arc yearly being more keenly appreciated. In these days, when sordidness and ambition are growing dangerously obtrusive, a study of the career of this wise, simple, quiet, strong man is the more advisable. We should not forget that we arc still a coherent, interdependent nation, the humbler citizen cooperating with his more fortu nate fellow in an endeavor to attain to the best in our national ideals and national completeness. This, with the wish that \\’e may never grow too impiously arrogant to see the hand of God in all the fortune which Providence has shown our way, is the true patriotism. George Washington Avas an earnest exponent of this particular species, and we need more of it this hundred-odd years after his death. mercial and Otherwise HE gift of intelligent, worth-the- while conversation is an extremely valuable and—we regret to state comparatively a rare one. Many people are talkers, but few conver sationalists. 1 o be able to express one’s thoughts clearly and tersely to have a command of ready and effective illustrations, and to pos sess strong powers of persuasion are qualities of measureless assist ance in strenuous, every-day life. But silence also has a. certain, defi nite value, although it is pretty tol erably apparent that it is not very popular with the great majority of people. We are, all of us, although many of the more stre-nu ous are apt to deny it, given occasionally to an indulgence in moods. When, if we care to hold any conversation at all, we desire it to be clean cut. expressE^e along a certain line. Just as often the tired mind craves silence—the kind that brings with it reflection and introspection. . Stevenson, in his “Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde,” gives an admirable illustration of this longing for quiet which is planted in every mature human mind when he speaks of Lawyer Utterson, a man “in whose rich silence" his friends loved to re fresh their jaded minds, after the frivolous and Avordy had taken their departure. Such a nature many of us have in our mind’s eye at the present —those who haA r e not should be envious of the others. One quick in sympathy and congeniality, but who believes that both may come without words; a man avIio is willing to tarry with us in our body-stagnant moments, Avhen the thoughts are turning inward, and the mental life is perhaps the SAveetest or the saddest—in the mellowness of a mood brought about by the genial glow of the winter flame and the Aveariness of the body and faculties from prolonged actiA r ity. Then there is the man who does not possess the tact to keep his tongue still at critical mo ments—Avho may mar a trade, precipitate a ca tastrophe or break up the entente of an agreeable gathering by his et^erlasting, irrepressible garrul ity. This individual, Ave feel relieved to state, fre quently Avorks as much detriment to himself as to other people, but a portion of his species is obsti nate, and never learns from experience. Both young and old men suffer from this weakness, al though age is supposed to be especially afflicted. It is certain that the business and professional man, Avhile he admires a bright, entertaining, forceful and opportune talker, places little reli ance in a man whose chatter is continual, and Avho regards silence as nothing but oppressive- We do not Avish to be understood as preaching a gospel of silence, but its judicious use is helpful to yourself, agreeable to others, and A-aluable in it.; ultimate results. Women in Public Life and the Pinching Shoe OMEN in nearly e\'crv phase of public life constitute such a com paratively new problem that wise men generally ha\ r e withheld com ment until such time as the fruits of the many experiments now on foot would be more plainly mani fest. At the same time it is permis sible to discuss different develop ments bearing on the problem as they rise, that those concerned and the general public may view the rapidly growing difficulties which the question presents from a neu tral standpoint. Apropos of these observations, are some occurrence.-* in Illinois re cently, growing out of the formation of the dele gation from that state to the national congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution. There are two candidates for the state regency— Mrs. Wiles and Mrs. Deere. Mrs. Wiles has made the broad statement that money is being used in the campaign against her. “Although I am not spending any money,” she said, “still 1 know of at least three delegates whose votfes I could secure Avith money." To this innuendo, Mrs. Deere replies: “Certainly my ad herents are not paying the expenses of any dele gate, and this discussion is both A’nlgar and dis tressing. Frankly, I am annoyed and sorry that the controAersy has arisen.” So there you are, with free choice to select between two very direct Aversions of a very complicated affair. It has all along been the contention of oppo nents of the woman in public life and of Avoman suffrage, that in time antagonism betAveen candi dates Avhere \ r ote casting Avas involved Avould de generate into open charges of corruption and dis honest}', even where these faults did not exist. Many strong pictures have been drawn of onr mothers and wives and sisters mixed up in ques tionable transactions of this nature, and vve haA r e been repeatedly asked if Ave would relish such a spectacle. Frankly—and Ave believe Ave speak for a large section of our readers—avc cannot say that Ave Avould. In eA'erv man of the right caliber there is an inborn dislike to seeing Avomen engage in any occupation which will rob them of their pure Avomanliness. There is much dirtv Avork in this world which cannot be shelved, but we would rather see it done by men. We do not think we are putting it too strongly when we say that their mothers, wives and sisters are the only links that bind many men to heaven, or at best a purer life, and any development which weakens this link will not be very welcome. We are not attacking the Daughters of the Rev- olution, or a higher degree of mental development for women- We only desire to draw attention to a peculiar and unpleasant phase of AA’omcn in pub lic life. «Songs In Many Keys Oblivion A plaining wind sweeps through the hoar arcade, Awaking light echoes of their voices once again Who long agb paced here, still, gray- 1 gabbed men. Conning their missals in the ilex shade, Home of the bat and bird, each dust strewn cell Stands roofless ’neath the unconcerned stars That erstwhile paled to spt the scourse’s scars. And charnel secrets unmasked faces tell. No flower nor fountain decks the clois ter garth, Nothing but hardy Ivy weathers the Mill Where once k-ose censers, zephyr-swung, did spill Incense too subtly sweet for altar hearth. The silver moon's rim shows above the sea. AA'hose waves unceasing miseries moan. That then, O then, sighed but one name alone. Confederate of tyrant Memory. Their clustered crosses lean low in the grass. They lie unthrllled by aves of the t rees. The last page turned on pangs and aor.ancPt!, Through vesper aisles their hours to ages pass, ' The pulse that justified the accusing sea The eye that learned too swiftly from the rose. Of these, sunk shaft nor plaining wind disclose Aught, nor cowled Night's straight lips of secrecy. —LULU AVHEDON MITCHELL. Evanston, Ills. yf To Mother Darling mother, thou hast left us. And we long for thee in vain; But we know that thou art freed from All thy earthly care and pain. Freed from suffering, thy spirit. And in peaceful rest, thy soul: Dearest mother, thou hast entered In the blessed, heavenly ^oal. And to be resigned we are trying. For we know God deemed it best. And thy face, so calm and peaceful. Told us thou hast found sweet rest. And we could not call thee back here To this world of pain and woe, AA'hcn the perfect joy of heaven Thou forevermore shalt know. But our lonely hearts are aching For the face and smile we miss. And we long for the dear mother AVhom we never more shall kiss. Home's sweet sunshine seems to vanish, s thv face no more we see, And without thy loving presence. It no more as home can be. And thy place, forever va'eant, Will bring memories of the past, -And our hearts will e’er be aching For the times that could not last. We, perhaps, have caused thee sorrow, That wo did not wish to do. But we know thou hast forgiven. Dearest mother, kind and true. And thy spirit, ever loving. Hovers still -around us here; Everything and place remind us Of a precious mother, dear. And it may not be long, mother, E’er we’ll meet in realms above, And be’, sweetly reunited. In eternal, boundless love. Our Conscience Fund Ainslee’s Magazine: In the year 1811 an tnonymous citizen of New York sent a Jollar to the treasury department at Washington with an avowal that he had defrauded the government and wanted to make restoration. A dollar meant some thing to Uncle Sam in those necessitous days when the country verged on war with Great Britain, and it was a patriotic aa well as a penitent act. The contribu tor was the founder of the conscience fund, and probably he died in the odor of sanctity. During the preceding thirty-five years of the life of the republic no one had de spoiled the government, or the private conscience was callous. This New York man, indeed, seems to have been the one blemish on a golden era of national vir tues, for fifty years were to elapse be fore there was an addition to the fund. In 1861, just after Sumter was fired on. the sum of $6,000 in bonds was received by the treasury department, with a letter \ explaining that a sorely tried conscence could no longer endure its burden of guilt. The plain inference was that the sender, realizing the United States p^ould need a mint of money to carry on the war, judged it not to be a time to defer repentance. Think of the bounty jump ers who profit by his ct*i tion! It was really useful to the country in another way. The conscience fund, which hau languished for want of a shining ex ample. now became active. It has been quotedly pretty steadily ever since. At the present time It amounts to $300,000. Then no more shall pain or sorrow Come to grieve an aching heart, And in joyous le.Ans we’ll linger, Nevermore we thVn Shall part. And our blessed drigjns of heaven, AA’iil our souls tlten find fulfilled, AA'hcn, at last, life's cares and sorrows Shall forevermore be stilled. —MARTHA SHEPARD LIPPINCOl'T. Moorestown. N. J. * * Jtlot/e AVhere the whispering water's flowing, And the brown bees hum, She will wander, never knowing, AVhy the May reeds sweet are blowing, Blowing though one does not come. If the drowsy bee-lium haunts her, She'll hide her grief away; Nor heed Life's song that taunts her, Nor see the rose that flaunts her Charm upon the summer day. If the hammer dryads laughter Break iimoii the night, She will grow- daft and dafter. As Memory troops after. Memory in strange delif$hfc She will think of hours that blessed her Through dear June days dead; Of hands that once caressed her— Of lips that fondly pressed her— She will think—uncomforted. * —LOLLIE BELLE WYLIE. * Inconsistency ’Tis strange, the way our congress has ([ doubt not 'tis well meant); It s ayes mean yes, its noes, whereas. Always denote dissent. It is not always thus v with Prue, To whom 1 tell my wotf, Her nose is never eyes, tho’ true, Her eyes are often noes. —R. EMMETT CLOUI*. Tuscumbia, Ala. # Delilah Still the spell. O fair enchantress, Of vour blandishments I feel. Though I know that your Philistines Stealthily uuon me steal. All i-our arts I will interpret. And I know how false your vow. ’Twine your arms around me, traitress. Press your Ups to eyes and brow. While you bend and rain your kisses I can think you what you seem; On your knees my head reclining, I will idly drowse and dream. Ah. the fragrance of your tresses, How It fills the sensuous air, As the dark and rippling curtain Softly drapes your bosom fair. Drooping eyelids, sable lashes, How they veil your shadowy eyes! I am drunk with your caresses, And all thought of treach'ry dies. —LOUISE THREETE HODGES Atlanta, Ga. or Halifax leads all Atlantic ports in the shipment of apples to Europe this season. The figures show that the . Furness, Al lan and Donaldson lines of steamers have carried since the gathering of the fruit crop a total of 187,555 barrels of apples. In addition many shipments were sent via St. John, Montreal and Boston, so that the total shipments from Noa Scotia this year will exceed 200,000 barrels. ' Le Figaro reports the death of a violin ist named Lapoire, who. before the sec ond empire, held a post at the Louvre and there acted as a musician in what the Parisian journalist calls the “corps de balai.” Inspired by his strains, the men employed to polish the newly-waxed floors by skating over them on brushes performed their gyrations in double-quick time, and the country was by so much a gainer. Napoleon III having put a stop to the practice, Pere Lapoire never touched the violin again, though he lived to be nearly a centenarian. The instru ment, however,*lay by his side on his deathbed till be passed away. George Washington, the Man, the Warrier, the Statesman By Edward Younge Clarke, Jr MERICANS love to honor greatness, therefore so long as Americans remain Amer icans at heart, every recur ring 22d of February will witness outbursts of eulo gistic sentiments from pens and lips, to fall in showers upon the memory of the nation's greatest hero. It does us all good once in each year at least, quietly and thoughtfully, to go back and glance over his life, running over the ground made sacred by his memory. He was horn in Westmoreland county. Virginia, on February 22. 1732. Spent al most all of his younger days in reading, study, and “playing soldier,” for his military spirit early showed itself by his forming all his companions into “com panies” and being their general. In his fourteenth and fifteenth year he picked up a general knowledge of surveying, and when If, went as assistant with a party who were surveying the land of Lord Fairfax, which lay beyond the Blue Ridge. This was his first real work, and he is, said to have received much praise from all with whom lie came in contact because of his quickness and persever ance. After three years of this work he re turned and was appointed district attor ney general of Virginia, being then only 1!) years old—the youngest person ever oc cupying said position. In 1753, when 22, Governor Dinvviddie sent aim on an expe dition to ascertain the strength of the French army stationed on the Ohio river, and to deliver a letter to the French com mander and get an answer. This w;is an edingly dangerous mission, requiring general ability, tact and personal bravery. After much hardship and exposure he succeeded in getting the desired informa tion, delivering his letter to the French commander, receiving an answer and re turning with it safely to Governor Din- widdie. On May 10, 1775, he was appointed aide do camp to General Brnddoek and was with him when he met his terrible defeat from an ambuscade while on his way to attack Fort Dequesne. On August 14, 1755, he was placed in charge of 2,000 men. and. shortly afterwards Fort Dequesne .was destroyed. On January (>, 1759, he married Mrs. Martha Curtis. In March he took his seat in thfe house of burgesses sitting Mount Vernon, Home of Washington at Williamsburg, Va., of which body he was a member for several years. On June 15, 1779, he was elected commander in chief of the colonial army, which at tho time consisted only of about 14,000 men. On December 23. 1783, he resigned his place as commander in chief, having wit nessed the final triumph of his country, m 17S7 he was elected president of the federal convention, which met in Phila delphia on May 2 of that year. He was chosen by the people first president of this country and took oath of office April r.O, 1789; reelected for a second term, de clining at the close of it to serve any longer. In 1796 he wrote his farewell ad dress to the people he loved so well and whom he had served so faithfully, retir ing to his Mount Vernon home, where he remained until his death, on December 14. 1799. He loved Mount Vernon, and those who visited it do not wonder. It sits on an eminence surrounded by beautiful trees and sloping valleys. At the foot runs the Potomac, which from the front ve randa can be seen for miles as it winds its watery way through the land. An old-time ante-bellum negro stands at his grave and tells interesting tales of the long ago. You are privileged to go through the house, seeing his room, his chair, his bed, his desk, his furniture and all tho things intimately connected with the grand old man. As you walk into the back yard chickens flock around you, eat ing from your hands (which you are told are direct descendants from Washington's chickens). Your tour of inspection ended you go hack to your boat, and as the whistle blows and. you draw out into the center of the river the home rises above you majestic in its simplicity and sacred ness. Y r ou draw your first long breath since leaving the boat, feeling precisely as though you had enjoyed a brief inter view with the noblest patriot this nation has produced. Although the shadows of a century lie between us and him, the lights that burn in his honor in the hearts of a graceful and loving people are as brilliant today as ever before. However much may be said against our age, it cannot be said that we love or honor Washington less. * He is so greatly, honored because he is the representative American in match less generalship, in untiring wistiom. in peerless statesmanship and in his master ful sacrifices for his country. Like aii true Americans his talents were so great ly diversified that he could spring from one condition in life to another with the greatest ease, carrying the banner of vic tory into whatever sphere he was called to labor. Long before the memorable words were tittered he had become in deed and in truth “first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Busy World ROFESSOR FRED- ERICK • D E- LITZSCH, who was recently called by Emperor William to lecture at the im perial palace on the Bible and Its Assy rian origin, is one of the foremost liv ing Assyriologtsts. Before his distin guished audience j Professor Delitzsch Prof Vetifxsch showed that many narrations found in the Bible, and that many laws and customs of the Jews, had been adopted from those in vogue n Babylon at the time of the captivity. He said that even the Jewish idea of the deity had been modeled after the idea held by the Babylonians, which was that the deity represented a sort of goal which every one should strive to reach. It was very difficult, he said, to har monize the story of the creation as told in the Bible with our knowledge today of natural science, but when we compare the story in the Bible with its source, Babylonian mythology, all becomes very plain. The Babylonians had the theory of a struggle between good and bad, be tween light and darkness. To Babylon can be traced the idea of a heaven and a hell; of angels, of the fall of man, and of the flood; hut in writing the Old Testament story the Jewish priests elimi nated, so far as possible, all Babylonian traits and attempted to give all occur rences related a local coloring. So, for instance, different causes were assigned for the flood; the Babylonians said it was caused by a cyclone, but in Canaan a different reason had to be given, because cyclones never hapnen there. Professor Delitzsch said that even the Jewish Sab bath was of Babylonian origin. In con clusion he said that much of the recent explorations in Babylon was due to the assistance by the emperor. OUNT LEO TOL STOI lias suffered a relapse and is dy ing. Alarming ad vices regarding the condition of the Russian reformer, who is in the Cri mea, were received in London on Feb ruary 10 by Count Tolstoi's agent in E n gland. Count Tolstoi is suffering Count Tolstoi from heart failure and inflammation of the lungs. Later bulletins report the count's condition as improved greatly. He is still in great disfavor with the Russian government, officials of which have been angered by his radical utterances. The family have received anxious telegrams of inquiry and sympathy from all over the world. ♦ v HE four statesmen who negotiated the treaty for the of fensive and defen sive alliance be tween Great Britain and Japan are Lord Lansdowne, the Marquis Ito, Sir Claude MacDonald and Baron Tadasu Hayashi. Lord Lans downe is the secre tary of state for Lord Lansdowne foreign affairs in the present unionist ministry and was head of the war office in t"he last min istry. He is believed to be the com placent representative of the prime min ister, Lord Salisbury, who. until his re cent fresh accession to power, himself filled the office of foreign secretary, which is considered the most important position in the British cabinet. Marquis Ito is the foremost statesman of Jnpan. It is said that his late visit to the west was made for the purpose of adding the finishing touches to the treaty. The other Japanese diplomat involved in the negotiations was Baron Tadasu Hayashi, the envoy extraordinary from the em peror of Japan to the court of St. James. Sir Claude Maxwell MacDonald, who took part in the earlier transactions leading up to the treaty. Is the British minister to Tokio and formerly occupied the mis sion to China. | ILLARD ADEL- BERT SMITH, who is appointed to the head of the depart ment of transpor tation exhibits of the Louisiana Pur chase Exposition Company, has lived in Chicago since 1871 and is the proprie tor, publisher and editor of The Rail- J way Review. He ' W A Smith was the chief of the transportation department of the Chi cago world’s fair, and hence brings ex perience to the task he undertakes at St. Louis. Mr. Smith wag born at Ra cine Wis., in 1849. He was educated in the public schools, the Rockford. Ills., high school, Shurtleff college and the law school of Washington university at St. Louis. lie was admitted to the bar of Missouri in 1870. In 1S71 he began the publication of The St. Louis Railway Register. Later he purehsaed The Chi cago Railway Review. ♦ It is announced, apparently on good authority, that Miss Ellen M. Stone, the American missionary captured by Turk ish brigands, has fin.'4R been released on payment of $72,500 in ransom. A strange story has arisen out of the ne gotiations to the ef fect that Mme. Tsilka, companion of Miss Stone, con nived at the kid naping. The com panion of Miss Ston< was Mme. Ellen M Stone Tsilka, a Bulgarian woman, wife of Mr. Tsilka. a Macedonian teacher of Samnkoy. Miss Stone, while traveling with Mme. Tsilka and a party of about fifteen friends, was captured by brigands in the district of Salonika. Sep tember 3. Since that time vigorous efforts have been made by the United States govern ment and by missionaries to obtain the release of the captives. The brigands demanded a ransom of 25.000 (Turkish) pounds, but only $72,500 was collected for the ransom and this sum was paid over to the brigands February 6 by M. Gar- giulo, chief of the American legation,’ at Constantinople, and AY. AY. Peet. treas urer of the American mission at Con stantinople, who met the brigands on the road to the Podrome monastery. Mme. Tsilka was educated at the Northfield seminary. At the time of receiving her American training and education she was Miss Stephemaora, a Bulgarian. ♦ I heresa A'aughn, the former comic op era star, who broke down two years ago and was taken to the Worcester, Mass, insane asylum, is said to he incurably insane and to be dying. Until recently the actress believed herself suffering only from nervous prostration, hut has now learned her real condition, and the knowledge has made her violent. Her insanity is attributed to melancholia, su perinduced by the death of her husband four years ago, when she threatened to commit suicide. -e- LPHONSO XIII, the king of Spain, is now the only un married monarch in Europe. He will be 16 years of age on May 17, when he reaches his legal majority, and will be crowned. While the king's youth would ordinarily serve to ward off attacks of those Atphonso XIII matrimonial match makers who are ever on the alert to make royal alliances, there is no gain saying that a suitable alliance would do much to bolster up Spain’s weak king dom, so in a very few years there will be some interesting news given out as to who will share Alphonso's throne. Throughout the king’s minority, his mother, as queen regent, has adminis tered the affairs of the kingdom. By her thoroughness and patriotic ^nethods she has made a reputation for keen di plomacy. while she has not lost the charm of attractive womanhood. Prominent People Odd Events Sir Archibald Milman. late clerk of the house of commons, will shortly publish some reminiscences of his thirty-one years’ work in parliament. Lieutenant von Eichel Streiber, of the Third Uhlans. German army, recently wagered that he could drink a quart bot tle of brandy In ten minutes. He did so and was buried with full military honors. M. Deleasse, French minister of foreign affairs, has appointed Miss Jeanne de A'illeneuve, of New York, secretary of the French consulate there. Miss De Villen- euve, who belongs to an old French fam ily, is the first woman to be thus honored. The government of the Malay peninsula is planting gutta-percha trees on a large scale, and it will npt be necessary to cut them down, as gutta-percha can now ha extracted from the leaves and twigs with out injury to the trees. ♦- General Russell A. Al^er, in a reoent speech on the reforesting of barren lands, urged that Germany's system of main taining the black forest should be carries] put in the pine barrens of the United States, and especially in Michigan. ♦ Arthur Maxson Smith. president of Oahu college. Honolulu. Hawaii, who was sent there from Chicago by President Harper, has tendered his resignation to take effect in June. Oahu college was the earliest in the islands, having been established June S. 1841. Samuel Eberly Gross, the millionaire real estate man and author, of Chicago who accused Edmond Rostand of plagia rizing the idens that he. used in "Cyrano de Bergerac” from the play, “The Mer chant Prince of Cornevllle,” will shortly have the latter play presented in Chicago. .,^ >r \‘ , * ax ^ of the University of Cal ifornia. recently returned from Pern, where he explored many ancient ruins nf cities and palaces never before seen by' the eyes of a white man. He hopes shorr- Iy . to SO still further into the dim p ant wth the hope of uncovering the sources of the first American civilization. Mrs. Susan Holloway, a resident of Cin cinnati, has three brothers and two sis ters. nnd all of them have six fingers on each hand. Mrs. Holloway has just given birth to a baby girl who has a similar redundancy. Mrs. Holloway’s mother and grandmother were also decorated in the same way, as is her brother's infant son. EmiL though AYaldteufel, the waltz writer, an old man nf 80. still composes a remarkable amount of dance music. He is said to have a piano in every room of his magnificent house in Paris‘and com poses first at one and then at another, just as the fancy takes him. Over eight hundred waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and other dances have been written and pub lished by M. Waldteufel. R\ or since Airs. Ronino shot James Sev- mour in the Kenmore hotel. Washington, the house has been losing caste, until now it is entirely empty, with “To Rent” signs all over its front. All sorts of ghosts are said to prowl about the place and hardly a AA’ashington family would go there to live rent free. The building was erected by George AA'ashington and others as an investment shortly after the city was laid out. AA alter Damrosch and Maurice Grau are arguing as to the best way of man aging grand opera companies. The for mer urges that the theaters are too big. to which Mr. Grau retorts with smaller houses it would be impossible to nay salaries and expenses. To this Dam rosch replies: “Reduce the capacity of the theater and out salaries proportion ately.” He has no fear of singers re fusing to accept the smaller compensa tion. R. W. Seaton, the eteran editor of The Cambridge (Tils.) Prairie Chief, retir ed AA'ednesday, after sixty-four years in the newspaper harness. Mr. Seaton was born at Howden, Yorkshire. England. January 13. 1825. He came to America when a boy, and at the age of 13 was ap prenticed to a publishing firm at Utica N. Y. The late Lord Dufferin. when governor- general of Canada, was one of the earli est promoters of Free Niagara, and gave all the weight of his great influence to that project. His original suggestions ap plied to the Canadian side, but the state of New York did her share of the good work before Canada was ready to act. Streets Islands, opposite Victoria park, were renamed in honor of Lord Dufferin v