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editorial PAGE -THE SUNNY SOUTTA MARCH 29, 1902 &/>e SUNNY SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Businefs Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA. GEORGIA Subscription Terms: To those who subscribe to C7>e Sunny South only Six Months, 25c >1* One Year, 50c LESS THAN A PENNY A WEEK EBIered at the postoflloe Atlanta* Ga.«an second-class mail matter March 13, l»0i The Sunny South Is the'oldest weekly paper of Literature, Romance, Fadt and Fldtlon In the South ■£? It Is nous ret Jlored to the original shape and will be published as fort merly every week d, Founded In IS74 It grew until ;d99, when, as a monthly, Its form was changed as an estperlt ment It now returns to its original formation as a weekly with renewed vigor and the intention of ecllpst ing Its most promising period In the past. f “Christ is Risen”—A Joy- ous Easter Message ASTER is the Queen of Festivals, i It is the commemoration of a sir wn preme_historic fact; the revelation ^ ^ of a supreme religious truth; the in spiration of a supreme spiritual con solation ; the force of a supreme moral motive. Of Christ’s resurrec tion the apostles, the early disci ples, were witnesses. His death upon the cross had filled them with anguish and despair. But when the news on that first bright Easter morning spread from lip to up, "The Lord hath risen indeed, and appeared unto Peter,” then was their sorrow turned into a rapture of joy. 1 he tumultuous notes of that great Easter chorale have rolled through all after ages their unspeak able gladness. That Resurrection, that triumph over Death, has changed all the destinies and brightened all the life of mankind throughout the world during the nineteen centuries which! since have passed. Why? Because the supreme historic fact was also a religious truth. It meant for us, and for all mankind, that Christ was to be, not a mere evanished memory, but a perpetual Presence. His work for man was not only a short human life, but He ever liveth to make intercession for us. He may be nearer to us. He -may be more truly with us than if. like St. John, we could lean our heads upon His breast. That is the first message of Eas ter: “It is Christ that died—yea, rather, that is risen again.” Christ is risen! Christ is risen! Hr hath loft His rocky prison, And the white-robed angels glimmer 'mid the cerements of His grave; * He hath smitten with His thunder every gate of brass asunder, He hath burst the iron fetters—irresistible to save. And this supreme historic fact that Christ is risen, and this supreme religious truth that we have not a dead but a living Christ as an ever present Help in trouble, is, thirdly, a supreme re ligious consolation. Which of us has not mourn ed for the loved and lost? Which of us has not stood weeping by the grave of father, or mother, or brother, or wife, or dear dead child? Well, the message of Easter day is to us a message of in finite blessed hope. The message is, Your beloved dea 1 are not dead; they are ru5t lost, but gone be fore. What Christ’s Resurrection reveals to us is that life may he the real death and death the true life. So that we may take comfort as we think of our dead friends, and say with the poet: Pence, peace! they are not dead; they <lo -4iot sleep; They have awakened from the dream of life. ’Tis we who, lost in stormy visions keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife. They have outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy, and Calumny, and Hate, and Pain. And that Unrest which men miscall Delight, Con touch them r.ot, nor torture them again; From 1he contagion of the world's slow stain . i;. . are secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain* * First, then, we recall a supreme historic fact— Christ is risen. Secondly, we realize a supreme re ligious truth—'we have a living Intercessor. Third ly, we feel a supreme religious consolation—our dead shall live. Mourn not as men that have no hope* The fourth message is a supreme moral motive: We snail live for evermore. Though we feel the dark ness falling on our eyes, and the touch of death’s icy finger, yet death shall be to us the birththrob of immortality. This is a message of unbounded hope. We picture death as coming to save. We think of death as ending: let us rather thank of fife as beginning, and that more abundantly. We think of losing all we possess; let us rather think of meetings that end no more; and as the voice of death whispers to us, “You are departing from earth,” let us hear the voice of Christ saying: “You are but coming home to Me; and, lol'I fling open 'to you the gates of everlasting life.” DEAN FARRAR. As to First Impressions and Hasty Conclusions HERE is not another occasion in the T ycar which should appeal with such keenness to the average practical, hard-headed, materialistic business man as this same season of Easter. Coming as it invariably does at a time in the year when climatic con ditions bear out its symbols and mes sage with such faithful accuracy and when, if there is any glimmer of hopefulness and charity in man, it must come to the surface, it should furnish the opportunity for a great, busy, work-a-day world to pause a moment from its self-seeking pur suits to consider subjects of a more altruistic na ture . It is along this line that we would plead for a reform in that great proneness of human nature, to arrive at hasty conclusions in judging men and a great many affairs. The idea is the more ap propriate, since the trick seems to be one peculiar- lv American. While, to be sure, there are impet uous thinkers and irrelevant judges of humanity in other countries as well, we are so prosperous, as a people, and so impatient of any man or movement which does not appeal to us directly at first glance, that such admonition should strike the people of this nation with particular force. Many a man of true principle and righteous conduct, many a worthy enterprise, has been discouraged or effectually thwarted through the fact that those to whom appication was made for support or countenance were not favorably impressed at first glance, and failed to give the due meed of praise and recognition. There seems to be another rather pernicious habit into which we have fallen, and that is per mitting other men to do our thinking for us. We overhear a conversation in which the latest celeh- ritv or candidate for public honors is the topic; we talk with our friends about the latest issues of 'the day, or ask their advice or opinion of some one whom we have encountered in our daily round and to whom our encouragement or our frowns may mean much. Occasionally it is the skillful reporter, who colors his report so artfully as to •make' it appear impersonal, who sways our judg ments and determines our attitude with regard to matters in the public eye. We may accept a friend, even a casual acquaintance, to be a special ist along an}- given line, and thus absorb his opin ions, his prejudices, oftener than we think even his motives, and make him our mentor in affairs which should receive our own earnest thought, and the exercise of individual judgment. It is not very difficult to find the cause for this readiness on our part, to employ second-hand opinions* Our daily occupations engage us so completely, we are so absorbed in the execution of the plans which we have set out for ourselves, or those in which we would interest others, that when it comes to matters not concerning our own immediate welfare, we are willing to do others .an injustice rather than spare the time to view leach case as it comes before us on its merits. But the man who does aot pursue this course very naturally will say: “What am I to do, then? I have judged by first impressions all my life. I haven’t time to give to every matter which may demand part of my day, and all I can do is to give my personal business my attention and best Jhought, and depend on those who are familiar with other matters for information and guidance in making my decisions.” That is the very catastrophe which- we wish to avert. The man who desires to have anv pretensions to fairness and breadth of mind must, do his own thinking when it involves an expres sion of opinion, or his personal course regarding his fellows. Of course, he must look to those who may be especially posted on outside? matters for assistance and advice. But he is never forced to accept conclusions when they are not his own. As to the plea of lack of time, once the habit of looking at any proposition squarely and giving it honest and due consideration, is cultivated, we discover with practice that we finally come to pursue this impartial and proper course uncon sciously and without appreciable loss of time from other more pressing occupations. Another advantage of this method is that it gives us a materially broader horizon for mental effort: adjusts our viewpoint to something like proper proportions, and enables us to be more charitable and just to those with whom we are (constantly thrown into contact. E-aster Morning' By Dr Joseph Parker *n r ltt~n for C/><? Sunny *"ulh E ASTER always enmes in the spring time, and I hold that the spring Is It self a theological argument pregnant with many undeniable and most gracious truths. If 'the arum lily, the rose, tho sunflower, can at any time of the year come out of the cold, black earth. I never could see any reason why the dead should not come out of their graves more beau tiful and perfect than any flower of the summer. But the spring flowers come with a peculiar surprise. By the time the sum mer 1s half through we get accustomed to beautiful forms, dazzling colors and various fragrances. It would seem that In the summer time the'miracle? of spring hid become, as it were, commonplaces. But It is different In the vernal days. Win ter Has just had its dreary way. Not one speck of beauty is to be seen in the gar den. Not a bird has ventured to ‘lift up its voice in the face of the cold wind. Starr ing In the garden at such at mie, if any voice said. "Son of man, can these bare branches be clothed with green beauty, or can they blush with the hue of life?" we should Instantly return a negative re ply. Yet in a few weeks how transformed the"scene! At every point of every branch life is urging Its way out. The vernal sap is rising up the great trunks of the sturdiest trees, and it is evident that very soon, and quite mysteriously, the fchole spectacle will be one of living beauty, al most of living Joy. At Easter we should feel our very hearts budding and blossoming with new loves, new hopes and new determinations to realize tho Joyful ness of the Christian spring. What is it that fiakes Easter morning gloriotis with a glory all its own? 7? is the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, it is an abandoned grave. Tt is the angel ministry which says to all hu man sorrow, the winter is x>vor and gone, the time of the singing m the birds is come. Let us enter into sympathy with fhis gospel of redemption, and i%each the gracious doctrines of Christ with an ac cent of hope rising into an accent of tri umph. In Russia, when men meet on Easter morning they say, "Christ is risen!” On this morning we eolebrate the coming again of our Lord Jesus Christ from the dead. This may he regarded as His sec ond coming. The resurrection is not limited to Jesus Christ. It begins in Him; He is the first fruits from the dead, sig nifying that the great harvest has yet to be reaped. Because Jesus rose again, all who believe in Christ shall rise with Him. I am not called to accept this as an argument, but to rest my faith upon the basis pf the historical fact of Jesus Christ’s resurrection. I could ask: How? Why? When? and many other questions instantly occur to the imagination; but the New Testament cuts all such ques tions short by fastening attention on the. one fact that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, arose from the grave, and in His person abolished death. If I believe in the resurrection of tlye Lord Jesus Christ, I necessarily believe in my own resur rection. If I were to start an argument from the possibility of myself rising again. I should perplex myself by the creation of a thousand difficulties; but the argument does not begin here at all; but in divine omnipotence. Arisen Sa vior is the pledge of a risen and Immor- it does not begin In human weakness, tal church. If I be risen with Christ I have to prove my resurrection by setting my affection on things above, and not on things on the earth. There is a resur rection in this sense which has taken place already. The apostle directed at tention to some who contended that the resurrection was an accomplished fact. In the sense in which he combatted the ar gument we do not believe in any such resurrection; but there is another sense in which the resurrection is accomplished the moment the soul casts itself in living faith and absolute love upon Jesus Christ. Because He rose the soul rises that be lieves in Him. Faith is. in a sense, an act of resurrection. The resurrection gives us the Snbbath day. When men think little of the resurrection they will think nothing of the Sabbath. It is in vain to contend for the sacredness of the Sabbath if we have let go the historic fact upon which its institution was based. My life should be a continual ris ing. a continual ascension to the throne of God, in earnest, loving prayer that I tnay be like the King of Glory. Blessed be God that I have not to rise in a direc tion which no other human creature has ever taken; I, have to keep my eyes steadfastly on the way in which the Lord Himself went up into heaven; and because He found an tntrance there after the pains of death and' the momentary ex tinction of the grave, I may h°Pe that through His almtghtlness I may see light beyond the valley of death. Resur rection is great as a doctrine, but it is greater still as a fact. If I could but live Christ's life, after having suffered with Christ on His cross, I should enter into the meaning of the apostle’s desire when he longs that his fellow-believers might know the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings and the power of Christ’s resurrection. Easter Oastoms in This Foreign Countries By Edward Young Clarke, Jr Written for Che Sunny South HEN ail nature Is throb bing with the conscious ness of a new life apd there is the jubilant song of awakening in the air; at this most fitting season comes the time for the ob servance- of the resurrec tion of Christ by the Greek, Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Episcopal churches. The celebration corresponds to the old Jewish .Passover which commemorated the “passing by” of the families of obedience by the Lord’s an gel of destruction wlien he was abroad in the land dealing death to the lirst born children of the Households. For the past twenty-five years the ob servance of the season has, been general in America. The spirit of it has crept into almost all the denominations and on Easter Sunday a kind of jubilation is felt throughout the' whole laud, while from thousands of pulpits and firesides there goes up the refrain "Christ is risen today.” It is interesting to hunt out the origin of the customs that attach themselves to particular celebrations of any kind. So accustomed are we to the sight of "Eas ter eggs" at this season that Easter without them would seem very unnatural. The giving and receiving of “Easter eggs” is g. Persian custom, hav ing first been carried on in that country. There the egg was supposed to represent life, and friends in giving the egg would say, "Here I give you a new life." This association which hovered around the Persian custom led to the adoption of the egg as a symbol of the resurrection of Christ by the Christian churches. The red coloring, combined witli the various ot>r tints, was to represent the shed blood which was for the healing of all nationalities. A peculiar old Hindoo tra dition concerning the egg was that the Supreme being came into existence from an egg. That when the egg split to al low the appearance of this being the top shell formed the heavens and the bot tom the earth, and that of the remains in the egg after the creation of tho Supreme being man was formed. To i Persians the egg still represents birth I out of death. Of late years the rabbit has been al- | most as much in evidence at Easter as j the egg. There is an old Buddhist ie- j gend which says that-Buddha once took i the form of a hare in order to be able t to satisfy the hunger of a suffering fel- j low creature and that because of this ; most noble and unselfish act he was im- j mediately translated to the moon, where he ever abides. According to another legend when the great Indra, disguised as a hungry traveler, was sitting by his lire praying for food a hare happened to pass by, and hearing his prayer and having nothing else to give h m, dashed itself into the fire to be roasted for his benefit. The kindness so affected him that he translated the bare to a place in the moon. There is a strange myth about the hare strongly imbedded in the hearts of the negro race about the efficacious power of the "left hind foot of a grave yard rabbit killed in the dark of the moon.” It is supposed that during the "dark" of the moon the translated hare comes back to earth and dwells ?n the left liiiyl feet of earth's rabbits—thus the power of the left hind foot at this time. Japanese and Hindoo artists have always painted the moon with the outlines of a hare in a sitting posture in it. If one will notice the moon some night it will not be difficult to imagine the outlines of a hare in it. • • • A most singular custom exists at Eas ter time in Durham, where on the Mon day after Easter the men are privileged to take off the shoes of any women they may chance to meet. On the fol lowing day the women are privileged To retaliate if they so choose. An equally silly custom prevails In Lancashire, where the men on Monday following Easter have the right to “lift" the wom en—making seats of th.eir hands and car rying them several paces. To this the. women may not object, therefore, on the Monday after Easter the streets are honored by very few women. In Rome Easter Sunday is specially and elaborately celebrated. The day is ushered in with the noise of cannon, the blowing of horns and the noise of shout ing people. Various ceremonfes fill the day. the chief of which being the carry ing of the pope in his chair on the shoul ders of the people. Although Russia is a comparatively re cent convert to Christianity, having nad Christianity only a little over a thou sand years; and despite the fact that the people are most superstitious, still the whole of the nation observes the Easter festival. There is quite a good deal of mingling of revelry and superstition with the religious ceremonies, but the observ ance is very general. During the time of fasting the people, are busily engaged in laying up good things to be blessed by the priests and enjoyed during the time of festival. They go to church on Easter morn with their arms filled and as soon as the chanting of the choir announces "Christ is risen" there is a great rush of the people to the altar for the priests to bless the things they have brought and to take their tithe. The celebrations do not end with Easter Sunday, but continue all through the week. Business is sus pended and the people who for seven weeks have been deprived of nutritious food devote the week to the enjoyment of the wildest revelries. They drink and gorge themselves to such an extent^ that the whole nation is "on the sick list” for weeks afterwards. In Jerusalem the most religious, beau tiful-yes, the crowning Easter festivi ties of the world take place. The sweet sentiment very largely prevails through out the east that prayers offered at the foot of Calvary’s mount at this particu lar season have wonderful efficacy. Therefore, as the Easter season draws nigh large caravans can be seen wending their way toward the gates of Jerusalem. From the wilds of Abbyssinia; from the mountain recesses of Greece; from Russia and even Siberia, thousands turn their faces toward Jerusalem—the new Jerusa lem of today—where stands on the site of Solomon’s temple the famous Mosque of Omar. During Easter week the narrow, dirty streets of the city are crowded to their utmost capacity. In the motley crowd are representatives from almost every tribe and nation on the face of the globe. To all the point of greatest interest is the church at the foot of Calvary—the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. In one corner of this building rests the stone on which it is said rested the body of Christ while being prepared for inter ment. Through the door and around this stone the crowd surges; eagerly kiss ing the stone and muttering incoherent prayers. All during the week preceding Easter Sunday the people are filled with excitement and a never-ceasing stream pours In and out of the church—kissing the various articles of reverence and of fering up fervent prayers. The services in the church begin with palm Sunday—the Sunday before Easter. At this time the patriarchs gather thou sands of palm leaves and after blessing them distribute them to the people who rush out of the church holding them aloft and shouting loudly. Services occur all during the week of various kinds. On Thursday a grand mass takes places and the ceremony of washing the feet occurs. The scene of Christ’s washing the feet of the disciples is carried out exactly according to the Bible narrative. All other days have their special services of one kind or another, but the crowning services and ceremonies of the whole week occur on Easter Sunday. in spite- of the largo crowd and its mixed character a remarkable amount of reverence and good feeling prevails and it is seldom that anything occurs to mar the enjoyment of the season. At one time not many years ago a ifof occurred i and before the soldiers coyid get the crowd under control three hundred or more were killed. May the time soon come when the ob servance of the season will he as beauti ful as tlie thought which brings it forth. Busy World * EATH has at last corns to Cecil Rhodes, the great South African capi talist and. politician, after four" weeks’ suffering from an gina pectoris. Ho was 47 years old at the time of his death. Cecil Rhodes was known as the commercial devel oper and "diamond Cecil Rhodes king” of South Afri ca. His holdings in the mines of the menu bearing district aggregated mi and his wealth was constantly incrca A large section of the country. Khod was named after him, and it Is said he did more than any other one. man to ward making that country what it i day. Charges that he instigated the J son raid and encouraged the British-! war, made him unpopular with the Jr - but it is alleged that had he live would have disproven all these c and taken a leading part in the p tion of the country. HARLE8 F CIS ADAMS, indorses the [ sition to utiliz services of ex dents of the V States as s- at l.'irge for lit.- the present he the great A- family that i John, John Q and Charles F cis to the com Charles Jtdams Mr. Adams born in Boston in 1835. and was gt ated at Harvard in 1856. He is a 1 of renown, whose chief work ha connected with railroads and the r agement . He has always refund for any office depending on popul. hut has taken a strong interest in of the broader sort. Mr. Adams h written much on the abstract prin government, and his history of D : a classic. t\ Ln* w'o', 3 1 V jZ? By John Strange Winter Written for &/>e Sunny South IlK Book says, “Man is to trouble as the upward,” and if i early date man had mao’* this discovery, what, we cannot help wondering, could then have been the portion of woman? There is a vast diffe.rence between the ideal and the real lives of women. The ideal woman is a feted, petti d, sheltered and shielded • creature, ever t asking In the sunshine of generous man’s care and protecting love. One of the worst husbands I ever knew married in his declining years a beautiful.woman in Vhe prime of life, some thirty years younger than ‘himself. "It will he the pleasure of my later days to insure your life being all sunshine,” was his promise before %iar- riage. Eleven years of misery followed, and the end to the wife was a penniless widowhood just at the time when she needed to take life somewhat easily. This is, of course, an extreme ease. The portion of women is not as a rule that of special unhappiness. I mean of women in general; but the real life, as distin guished from the ideal c-ne, is a life made up mostly of small things, small cares, small rubs, small disappointments, small troubles, and inferior pains. There is very iit.tle glory in the life of a woman. Some few step outside the hounds erf domes ticity, and fight for tiie place that is theirs by right of nature, but they are not then equal in the strife to their great master, man! No the very fact that a woman is a women seems- to make it a foregone conclusion ihat she shall have iess consideration, simply because she is a woman and therefore, in seeking to win a fair share of the glory of life, she is treading on man’s self-endowed preroga tive. Even when she attains to the top most summit of ’fame, she must carry with her that burden which has, by all accounts, been hors since the expulsion from Paradise, for no amount of glory can ever set woman free from her por tion—the burden of continual, unceasing worry; It is true that men have their anx ieties,’ but the women have all the wor ries. Look at tho palms of an average husband and wife. How different they are. llis is deeply scored by half a dozen leading lines—his lines of life, heart and head are deeply marked. So perhaps are these of health, brilliancy, and fate. But as a rule that is all. Then glance at the palm of the wife. You will in ail prob ability find it criss-crossed in every direc tion, a network of horrid little lines in dicating worry In every shape and form. I have even seen this in the hand of a husband who was despondent, pessimistic and gloomy, while his wife was brilliantly buoyant and cheery. Now why should this be? Why should all or very nearly all, the worry of mar ried life fall to the portion of the wom an? I remember once when I was a child, hearing one of my aunts expatiating on a certain household where the wife had served the breakfast bacon with entire impartiality instead of picking out the best bits for her lord arid master. “She’3 a poor c-eature,” said my aunt, “with no notion hew to make a man happy and ■comfortable. Surely if there was a bit of bacon not quite so nice as the rest, she might have taken It herself and said nothing about it.” But why? It.is true that the man In WORRY question was t’he bread winner—that is to say. he went to his office every day, and saw a certain num- Does the ber of clients wanting ‘Woman legal advice, dictated a Work f« »w letters and signed Harder his name a few times. Than Her and perhaps witnessed a Lord ? few signatures us well. But it was an easy way of making a living, or so it seemed to me. This par ticular wife was a rather sickly woman, mother of five nr six young children, mistress of a couple of cheap country servants. I remember thinking, though 1 dared not then say it, that if anybody ought specially to 'have, the best hit of breakfast bacon, it was surely not the husband but the wife. I suppose it Is women’s own fault that the worries of 'life all fall to their share. It is the women who do all the uncon sidered work, who are the unpaid drudges •of the. household, it is the women who keep up appearances, and everlastingly keep on trying to solve the problem of making a shilling do the work of half a crown, it is the women on whom any extras of management or.work invariably .fall. We hear a good deal of husbands marching about in airy costume, hushing fractious babies to sleep, but will any husband come forward and truthfully say that they did it except in the case of the first-born? “Yes,” said a friend of mine not long ago, “it is rather, a bore being left without a nurse, but we shall do very well till we can replace her. You see we divide our labor. I get bad nights and George ’takes it out’ in the morning.” T am bound to say that George blushed. But in justice to the men I must con fess that some worrien like worry, or if they do not actually like worry, they do like to “boss the show” all the time. To me it is on ineffable, bore to pour out the tea, though I would rather do it than see it badly done, while at carv ing I have always strenuously drawn' the line. But all my sisters are not like that. They love manipulating the, teapot, they love the command of the carving knife. I once stayed’ a few days with a rich woman of my acquaintance, one who had largely helped to huilil the fortunes of the house. He.r extraordinary dominance in household matters was such that even w ith a man and a maid waiting at table, she stood up 'in her place, and after chopping up the leg of mutton with a vigor that was absolutely appalling to a person accustomed to do things in the usual way, she filled each plate from tho various vegetable dishes (making one spoon serve for all) while the man and the maid looked helplessly on, trying in vain to rescue a plate from 'her too capa ble hands. That woman was contlnually breaking down from worry and nervous exhaustion consequent on her doing many things she might better have left to others. She might just as well, and for the. comfort of her friends a very great deal better, have let the valet-de-chambre carve the leg of mutton at a sld.e table while the femme-de.-chambro served the plates and the vegetables. But would she? Not a bit of it! She liked worry ing after household details. She loved to "boss the show.” * Of course, some women, like some men, take tlicir worries more seriously than others. Some of them love them, love the burden and would feel lost without It. I once knew a dear woman who never liked her men-folk to see her idling, so when the curtains were drawn of a win ter evening, the hearth swept and the lamps lighted, she would get out a great work basket of white stuff or perhaps filled with stockings to darn, and would lay out all the implements of work on the table before ber. Then she would JZ7 take a new book or magazine and dip into it, but if any of her men came in she ■would bundle it away, drop it on the floor or push it under the tablecloth, and would ply her busy needle with a sweet smile of utter domesticity. The curious part of this innocent deception was tlyit her men-folk were entirely ignorant of how she spent her time, and would no more have dreamt of dictating to her on that subject than they would have dreamt of hitting her. She was a dear woman and good to her very heart’s core, but she worried herself into her grave long before her allotted span and loft a blank behind which was never filled while any of her men-folk lived. ! I often wonder, can nothing be done to stop the worries of women? I often ask myself whether it is more the fault of the women or the men that these should fall most upon the weaker sex? Will the freer and more open-air lives led by our girls today keep them from worrying over do mestic details tomorrow? Will the fact that girls nowadays are all encouraged to have a metier, no matter what their class or means, keep them from letting little things that should not even be al lowed existence prey upon their minds and ruin their nerves? Or, is it tha na ture of women to worry over small things, is it inseparable from wifely con sideration that they should dread a cross word from a husband, that they should be nervous when, it is necessary to de mand a portion of these worldly goods with which they have been endowed, that they should fldget over Tommy’s damp socks, fret over Gertrude’s spoiled frock, fume over Mary Ann’s slip-shod dusting.’ and rage over the laundress’ defalcations? Can anyone answer the question whether the worries of women are inherent to feminine nature, or whether thev are a more or less artificial product, the out come of the general law which has made man the wage winner and woman the wage saver? Captain S. H. Barton. C. S. A., who ;s said to have fired the last hostile shot in the rebellion on the plains of Brazos. San tiago, Tex., May 13, 1865. is now living quietly in Del Rio in that state. It Is said that among his neighbors is one Ney, a comrade on that occasion, who claims to be a descendant of Napoleon’s marshal of the same name, who fired the last shot In Napoleon’s retreat from Russia. Captain Barton says that a young man who fell by his side w*as undoubtedly the last man killed In the rebellion. -♦* Miss Mary Pangborn, daughter of Ma jor ami Mrs. Josepn G. Pangborn. of Balti more, had many unique and some rather thrilling experiences as her father’s com panion on a tour he has just completed of Afghanistan, Turkestan. Persia and other Asiatic countries for the purpose of get ting speciments for the Field Columbian museum. One of her adventures was to handle the throttle of the engine while the train was rushing across the desert of Persia. Miss Pangborn’s friends are confident her experiences on the trip would make an entertaining tale of ad venture under the title "From Moscow to Samarkand, in Central Afghanistan and Return.” Major and Mrs. Pangborn and their daughter, traveled in three private cars especially tendered by the czar of Russia. The party were entertained by the Rus sian officials at every point at which they touched. At Bukhara, in the absence of the ameer of Turkestan. Miss Pangborn as sumed his office for a temporary period by seating herself on his royal throne and having tea served. G R. D O N A T t SBARRETTI, has been del* with pleanary era by the pep to settle the cb-rl il question in a Philippines wit American g" rn- ment. is at pr t the Roman Cat bishop Hai and is consii i o-no of the i n Mgr Sbarrettl learned men • church. He is a thorough mastt f statecraft, having studied the Am constitution and other forms of g ment under the ablest teachers in ::.;s ci t.ntry and Europe. Mgr. Sbarreti born in Spaleto, near Rome, in 1-xr... tis first charge was the church h the ancient Pantheon at Rome. I 1 favorite with the pope on account of icj great erudition. IEUTEXANT C X- ERAL MILES eiapes he eann> tain his commit l with due respe< > his position if ?•■■■- rotary Root's Try.* reorganization as contained, p bill introdu the senate, is - ed. This w is I to the senate mittee on m affairs by t| General Miles tenant gener a statement read to the comm him in response to an invitation to c his opinion of the personal changes w contemplates a staff of officers to the army. He quoted Wellington, : ieon, Washington. Grant and othi support of his position that an should have a or.e-man head. The if adopted, would reduce General 11 to such command as the war d chose to select, and he charged the pose of the bill is to give the i ties an opportunity to promote favor. It is alleged that this .delivtran bring the climax In the ill-relati tweefi the president and Miles, and • • ,nt- ually lead to the latter's retirement. ♦ HE postal ft trial in I! Cuba, have t i 1 and Charles F. Neely, the a. chief conspirat i sentenced to years in pris a fine of $56,7' i Ie was the first arrested. an investigation - err, bezzlement to the disoov f Charles Neely Director Rat: and Auditor Reeves’ connection wi crime. Neely, who at home was k . n us a wildcat promoter, committ Cuban frauds in order to secure for his schemes. According to th timony at the trial. Rathibone, Xeel Reeves planned to secure for there s the offices of civil governor, trea • > r and auditor. and make thems s wealthy by systematically robbing island treasury. W. H Reeves was • t- tenced to ten years' imprisonmem i to pay a fine of 35.516, while Estc ' : Rathbone was given th*» same t* m f imprisonment and a fine of *35,324. The heavy sentences created g rurprl*. All three cases will be appealed to the Cuban supreme court. ► EN. SCHAT.K* BURGER, Boer offi cer and orator, who is visiting Presid : 't Steyn under Sag 7 truce and "safe eon- duct" through the British lines with ,1 t ! ;w to proposals for peac ?, occupies a position among the Boers harci'v” less important than that of Preside it. Gen SchalteiBurger Kruger himself. At the last election before the war he was a candidate for the presidency of the aransvaal republic against Mr. Kruger, and is now a member of the executivs council of the provisional government, wnth a tremendous popularity among his People. General Schalk-Burger’s pr ip^' military command is the Portuguese frott- tier, but his duties during the present war have been largely connected with the civil administration and as adviser to the generals in the field. He is a veter in of ,t.he memorable war of 1881. when ho served as field cornet until the peace that guaranteed the integrity of the Transvaal republic in 1883 He is a fighter from fighting stock, his grandfather having been one of the great Voortrekkers, on whose head the British put a price of £300. General Schalk-Burger is a self- educated man with a great gift of ora tory and high standing among those who hnow him for his personal integrity and high character. He was bora at Lytle®” burg in 1852.