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AUGUST 23, 1902
'THE SUNNY SOUTH
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FIFTH TAGE
Kansas Is Maintaining Agricultural College .Which Is a Model For Sister States
By OSCAR LONG.
Written 'or CKe .Sn nny SonfS
S an evidence of the great
growth of the west and
the increasing growth of
her schools and colleges,
the Kansas State Agrlcul
tural college is perhaps
the most talked of and less
read of than any school of
Its kind in the United
States. Yet it ranks first
in Its order In America.
No other college of its
character can compete
with it in magnitude or
course of educational worn which it
teaches.
The college is located at Manhattan,
Kans., In the northeastern part of the
state, and has all the modern appliances
that money can procure to apply to the
study of science. The faculty i s composed
of the most scholarly and best instructors
in the west, and the students come for
thousands of miles to take advantage of
the regular and “special" courses of tho
school. Every state in the union is an
annual contributor to the number of
students; from the cold regions of the
northern states to the land of the sweet,
sunny south, students come to learn of
the best methods to apoiy to the two
uifferent climates.
The college grounds and buildings, oc
cupying an elevation at the western limits
of Manhattan, and facing toward the
city, are beautiful in location. The
grounds Include a flat in the midst of a
filie farm, with orchard, vineyards and
Library and Agricultural Science Hail.
garden attached, the whole being sur
rounded by a durable stone wall.
The main building is 152 .by 250 feet in
extreme dimensions. It Is arranged In
three distinct structures. with large
connecting corridors. The cost of this
building was $79,000, and the value of
apparatus and equpment in this build
ing is $12,800. Besides the main building
there are a number of other costly and
finely equipped buildings, including In
the list mechanics hall, valuation $59,000;
gymnasium, costing $10,000; the horticul
tural hall was recently completed at a
cost of $18,741.
The armory is a building 40 by 95 and
cost the state $51,000. The library hall is
the largest In any ot the western states,
and cost alone without the equipments
$67,750. The library has 25,750 bound
volumes and over 1.8,000 unbound volumes.
The college has been designated as a
Physical Science Hall.
depository for congressional documents,
and over 3,000 such books are now on
file at the college. They embrace many
valuable works on scientific research and
many valuable reference books.
Tlie college has an income of $792,287 an
nually, and this has proven sufficient to
carry on the great work of agricultural
education. The "Morrill bill" and the
"Hatch ♦111" were potent factors ini
stimulating tbe further progress of the
industrial college. The college Is under
state control and has a board of regents,
who manage and control the finance and
business of the school. Hon. F. D. Co
burn, who is a recognized authority on
scientific crop questions throughout the
United States, being vice president of
this board of regents. The college also
has a national Income. The original land
grant lty congress was signed by Presi
dent Lincoln July 2, 1862. This grant
gave to the school over 90,000 acres of
land lying In Kansas.
Main building.
The experimental research by the
school is of a high character and wide
range, and many of the United States de
partment of agriculture reports are ed
ited by graduates of this school.
The stock judging is a feature which
attracts wide attention and visitors are
always present when those attractions
arc announced. The judging, testing and
scoring is always interesting, and th-3
number of fine animals are always of the
] purest bred in the state and adjoinin'?
i states.
! The college is justly proud of the dis-
! Unction of being the greatest agricultural
college in the world. All lines of work
are taught at the school, and the stu-
! dents enjov the work and take hold of it
| with a vim.
I From a scientific standpoint thus school
! ranks with the science department of
the United Sta.tes agricultural depart-
| ment. Its work is thorough and. com-
! plete.
An English View of Southern Slave
Customs
By DR. R. J. MASSEY.
nr E6e Sunny South
UR1NG the year 1855 Hon.
Amelia M. Murray, who
had been for many years
maid of honor to Queen
Victoria, wrote a book en
titled "Rotters from
United States, Cuba and
Canada.” The principal
object of this bonk was to
give her opinion concern
ing "the condition and
probable future of that
race (Africans), for whom
a deep interest is felt by
the British public.” .
In her preface she says: "Should any
thing herein excite bitter feelings or
cause individual pain the error must not
be thought intentional."
Before giving extracts from those let
ters I will quote the last sentence of the
last letter: "It is my belief you may as
well attempt to improve ihe morals and
add to the happiness of idiots by turn
ing them out of asylums as to imagine
you can benefit ‘the darkies' by aboli
tionism.” This was written in Boston,
October 16. 1SSS.
This did excite "bitter feelings" and
"cause individual pain" to such an ex
tent that Queen Victoria dismissed her
from her royal household, the stigma of
which disgrace was attached to Miss
Murray’s name as long as she lived.
In order that the reader may intelli
gently understand we beg to state that
“maid of honor to the queen" is one of
the highest positions enjoyed at the dis
position of the royal family. A maid of
honor has to be of good birth, a daugh
ter or granddaughter of a peer, and is
the immediate attendant on the royal
person and performs the duty of accom
panying the queen on all occasions. By
courtesy she bn joys the title of "honor
able." and is by virtue of her office
rhe confidant of tho queen. Miss Murray
had enjoyed this honorable distinction
for at least ten years when she was most
summarily dismissed from the queen’s
court on account of the sentiments pro
mulgated in the book above mentioned,
extraerc from which I proceed to give.
From Savannah she writes:
"Instead of being surprised that these
slave proprietors fool themselves insult
ed and aggrieved by the manner in which
English philanthropists have vilified and
Hbused them. I am only astonished at
the patience and gentleness with which
they have endured our calumnies. They
are just and kind bt.vurd ns in spite of
pur faults, and for the sake of good In
tention they forgive. It is said the ‘in-
jurer never forgives.’ Ret us beware
how we realize that adage. Among a
large class in the north T found a jealous
ijnd unkind spirit toward the old coun-
■irv. The reverse of this may be said
of the south. T have observed a noble,
generous and gentlemanly spirit in this
part of the union. I feel assured that if
the southern proprietors, as a class, had
found reason to believe that the institu
tion of slavery was prejudicial either to
the Christian or temporal Interests of
the blacks, they have chivalry enough
In their composition to have cast aside
mere motives of private interest; but
they know and we do not—that was the
difference. They have a right to accuse
us of ignorance and conceit, and they
are more forbearing than we had any
claim to expect. I will not try again to
recur to this subject, but it meets me so
at every turn here, it is diflieult to re
frain.”
From Hopeton, Ga., Miss Murray
writes:
“I find that the term ‘slave’ is rgrely
ever used in the south. The blacks are
called ‘our servants,’ or, more commonly,
‘our people.’ Wo must remember that
when slaves are to be disposed of people
of this country do not consider they are
literally buying men. but services, and
what we hear of are the abuses not the
laws of the system. Should a master Ill-
treat a slave the law protects the latter,
and I am inclined to believe cases of such
treatment are rare. If a slave violates
the law a judge sends to his master and
says. 'This is your servant. If you do not
punish him I must.' Of course, the cul
prit much prefers to be corrected by his
own master, by whom all extenuating
circumstances are understood and allow
ed for, and he is usually left in his
hands.
"As I have said before, the blacks are
children of larger growth. They are
tricky, idle and dirty. An excellent Eng
lish housekeeper, who has the manage
ment of this house, tells me that it is im
possible for them to get on with the
natives that would influence whites. She
is very averse to reporting any of the
darkies as requiring correction (alias a
whipping), but without iffe power of do
ing so they would be utterly unmanagea
ble. As it is. one white servant would
do the work of three blacks. ’Tom,’
perhaps, has no other vocation than to
light fires. 1 have been amused to watch
the slow’, roundabout way In which he |
performs the operation, never having nil j
he wants. This morning he brought no ;
light, so, before preparing to ligliT the j
fire, he takes my wax candle, lights it. j
and lets it stand burning uselessly. Then |
after lighting the fire, he keeps tile candle I
burning for a half hour in broad daylight j
while he goes through various evolutions
about the cinders and dust, till he has
settled it all to his satisfaction, and It
it is of no use to suggest any quicker
mode of proceeding. I must repeat over
and over again, our Ideas of negro char*
acter and its capabilities are little ground
ed upon truth.
"We have cast aside the evidence of peo
ple who. with clear, unbiased judgment,
have watched the African from hls cra
dle to his grave, and tak-
TaKing Ev> en the opinion and advice
idenoe of of well-intentioned but
Ingxperl* hot-headed zealots until
•need we have damaged the
Zealots. cause of civilization,
checked the progress of
Individuals of the black race, and at thv
same time, done mischief to ourselves and
to the fine islands and colonies which are
now agai ntending toward barbarism.
"The darkies of Baltimore and Virginia
are a shade higher in the scale of im
provement than those of Georgia, from
being more in approximation with whites
in a mass; but you can never change the
Ethiopian character or wash white his
skin. ‘The pig will never grow into a
lion.’ Under good direction it Is a light
hearted, merry, unreflecting race, excit
able and impulsive, but has a sense of jus
tice and can he attached and he made
an honest, useful and highly respected
servant hv judicious management and
early training. A well-taught negrn
coachman drives admirably. They are
apt at pny mechanical employment. Some
of them are very orderly, hut put them
out of the track to which they have been
accustomed and they rapidly lose them
selves.
"A lady here has taken great pains with
a negro boy born in her family. I was
amused to see him standing behind her
chair, with a tray under his arm, like a
little black statue. Tie never forgets
to come at a particular hour for her or
ders; hut teaching him to read Is no small
undertaking. He goes on tbe box of tlie
carriage and well performs any accus
tomed duty; but if you ask bim to take
a knife and dig up a plant, he looks ut
terly bewildered. ”
From Darien, August 14. she again
writes:
"Fortunately a four-oared canoe-like
boat of Mr. Hamilton CVnipers had come
down from hls plantation, on the Al-
tamnaha, on some business. Dr. Turner
Insured our being taken up with him.
We met Mr. Couper also by Occident, and
after a very pleasant row of five miles
he brought us to his English-like house
(as respects the interior) and interesting
home, mv first resident introduction to
plantation life. A happy, attached negro
population surrounds this abode. 1 never
saw servants In nny old English family
more comfortable or more devoted. Tt
is quite a relief to see anything so pa
triarchal after the apparently uneomfori-
nble relation of master and servant In the
northern states. I should much prefer
being a slave here to a grumbling help
there; but every one to their tastes. \^e
left the river about a quarter of a mile
from the house and came up a narrow
ranal between the riee plantations almost
to tbe door. We passed two or three
large fiat boat laden with riee, and Mr.
Couper took me to see the threshing ma
chine which was at work ir a barn, the
women putting in the rice just as we do
our grain. They were more comfortably
dressed than our peasantry and looked
happier; otherwise (except the complex
ion) the scene was much of tho same
kind as that as a threshing barn in Eng
land.
“It Is vain to intend keeping silent
upon the one thought that must be up
permost In a mind accustomed from
childhood to erroneous views upon the
slavery question, and I may as well write
on. I now see the great error we have
committed In assuming that tho African
race is equal in capacity with the Euro
pean, and that under similar circum
stances it is capable of equal moral and
intellectual culture.”
From page 219 we again extract;
“The history of Egypt, of Rome, of
the English. French and Spanish colo
nies, and the experiences of Americans,
prove the reverse. No separate African
civilization has sprung up from centuries
of contact. Santo Domingo has relapsed
into barbarism except In the case of some
of the towns. The other emancipated
colonies, not excepting Jamaica, are
retrograding fast in the face of a white
population, notwithstanding government
influence. In the United States, in spite of
more than a hundred years of white as
sociation, though they have been made
rather superior to their brethren in
Africa in intellect and moral character,
they remain, and ever will remain. In
ferior to the whites. I believe, and must
not hesitate to confess my belief, the ne
gro race Is Incapable of self-government:
and I suspect its present condition In
the United States is practically the best
that the character of the negro admits
of. It is for their happiness and Interest
to remain in tutelage—at any rate, for
two or three generations.
"Is there any part of Africa, the West
Indies or South America where three
millions of negroes are to be found as
comfortable. Intelligent and reltgious_or
as happy as In the southern states"
practical mode of improving a
barbarous Is to place it in proportion one
to two in the midst of civilized people.
The system of slavery has been blamed
for the Ignorance and vices of the Afri
cans. Are they less Ignorant or more
virtuous whore slavery does not exist?
It ins pleased Providence to make them
barbarian, and as barbarians they must
be governed, whatever may be the prin
ciples of their masters. One of the mis
takes we make Is to attribute to the
black the ideas and .refined feeling of a
white, and when we Imagine hls suffer
ings under circumstances of comparative
degradation, but happily what would be
Intolerable to the refined and cultivated
The
semi
is easily borne by the obtuse and igno
rant. ‘God tempers the wind to the
shorn lamb.’ The evil must always exist
under any system of almost Irresponsible
power is certain; and there are, of course,
painful exceptions to the generally kind,
paTernal and Just rule of the southern
planters; but these are the exceptions.
The duty of slave states and slave own
ers is, by laws and practice, to limit ar
bitrary power. The condition of the race
al present admits of no higher govern
ment, and the duty of all real philan
thropists is to aid and support the mas
ters in their efforts to ameliorate painful
circumstances by kind, liberal and tem
perate suggestions of such eorreetion as
the system will admit of.
"As the abolitionist is powerless, he
should feel that ‘moral suasion' is hls
only means of operating. If he means
well by the slave lie will
Retarding not create angry feel-
thr ings In the master by in-
Abolitio->- flammntory aptf'ils to
ist and His his people. I have heard
Apretil*. individuals lauded for
giving freedom to their
slaves. My observations lead me to be
lieve that people have only east off an
onerous and painful responsibility. One
of the most intelligent and Independent
'dark men T ever heard of, born free in
Canada, said: ‘I know enough to know
that my race Is either happier or better
for what is called freedom. T would my
self rather have been horn a slave*’ He
was asked why he did not go to Riheria.
‘No.‘ he said, ‘republics are quite nnflf
for—T will have nothing to do with
them.’ ”
From St. Simons island, on the planta
tion of Hon. j. Hamilton Couper, the
present site of the town of St. Simon,
Miss Murray writes:
“I forget to mention that there are
from three to four hundred negroes on
this estate. Mr. and Mrs. Conner have
no white servants; their family consists
of six sons and two daughters. T should
not like to inhabit a lonely part of ire-
land or even Scotland surrounded only
by three hundred Celts. I believe there Is
not a soldier or police nearer than Savan
nah. a distance of 125 miles. Surely, this
speaks volumes for the contentment of
the slave population. When T think of
the misery and barbarism of the peasan
try of Kintail and other parts of Scot
land (putting aside that of Ireland), and
look at the people here. It is hardly possi
ble not to blush at the recollection of
all we have heard applied to slave hold
ers of the south. Why. the very pig sties
of the negroes are better than some
Celtic hovels T have seen. These poor
people are averse to being freed, and
especially to being sent to Africa. Tt cer
tainly seems a cruelty to force them to
accept that which they consider a boon.
I believe this is a dilemma by no moans
rare.”
The Georgia reader is interested in these
extracts, from the fact that Miss Murray
learned almost all she knew about slavery
while she vislte.1 Georgia coast planta
tions. and found that slavery as it ex
isted in Georgia was so very different
from what other European writers had
been saying, that the great and grand and
good Queen Victoria was not prepared
to receive the force of the truth of such,
and felt that one of her hest. beloved
and most trusted confidential members of
the royal family was either very gravely
mistaken in her impressions of the in
ternal workings of African slavery, as
then practiced on Georgia plantations, or
that she had committed Ihe more serious
offense of misrepresenting fae.ts. Her
majesty chose to adopt the latter horn
of the dilemma, and summarily dismissed
Miss Murray from her royal household.
The memory of Miss Murray should
be embalmed in the heart of every true
southerner—especially every Georgian—
for being the first and for years the only
English writer who had the moral
bravery to publish to the world a true
au 1. and as it has proved to be, a noble
defense of African slavery on Georgia
plantations fifty years ago, for which
she suffered official immolation and pub
lic disgrace.
HIT A SOLDIER.
The Experience of One of Our Men,
The soldier boys who fought during the
rebellion went home as a rule in pretty
bad shape, caused hy exposure and Im
proper food and the use of quantities of
cofTep, which left Its mark in the wreck
of many a stomach. Mernli Hutchinson,
of Reading. Mass., tells hls experience.
“I am an old soldier who served all
through the war of the rebellion and my
coffee drinking commenced when I enlist
ed. I drank It three times a. day and at the
close of The war returned home almost
a wreck.
For years I had dyspepsia of the worst
kind and^ could not drink anything but
warm water or warm milk, nor eat
enough to hardly keep a man alive. After
suffering this way for years, and half
living, I was told by a friend of your
Postum Coffee.
At first I refused to even try It, for I
thought It meant more suffering for me,
but at last I consented and it did taste
mighty gqod. for I was a dear lover of
coffee.
I waited for the distress In my stomach
that always had come with common cof
fee. but It never came. I drank It at first
very earefijly and then got reckless and
wanted it every meal and for over five
years now have been drinking nothing
else. | have no dyspepsia now, no trouble
about eating anything. My weight, when
I began using Postum Cereal Food Cof
fee, was 125 pounds. I am now 62 years
old and weigh about 160 pounds and am
solid as a rock and able to do a day’s
work with any of the boys. Now I do
not claim that Postum Cereal is a medi
cine, but in my own case it is both vlt-
uals and drink. I think that when Pos
tum Coffee is properly made it is far
ahead of coffee.”
Virginia Makes Advances in Horse
Breeding
By S. B. WOODFIN.
Written for Cie« Sunny South
INCE the days when the
country gentleman of Eng
lish birth settled upon
the shores of Virginia and
patterning his home after
the ancestral homes of
England, the Old Dominion
has been the home of the
hunter and jumper. Horses
bred here have ranked high
on the turf, and for cross
country riding to hounds
they have had no equal.
Virginia saddlers have
ranked on equality with those from the
Blue Grass State, and the distinguished
author of "Riders of Many Rands" has
paid high tribute to Virginia’s horses
and incidentally to Virginia horsemen.
Though this was the condition from the
first, the ravages of war and the Inroads
of the locomotive caused somewhat of a
decadence in the breeding of fine horses
in the old state. But that the old blood
was not extinct has recently been
abundantly evidenced, and today Vir
ginia horses carry off the palm In con
tests with the best blood of all states
and all countries. This is true not only
of the hunters and jumpers, but of hack-
nevs, roadsters and heavy harness
horses.
A great impetus has been given to the
breeding of fine horses within very re
cent years by the annual horse shows
throughout the state, at which thousands
of dollars are given away in premiums,
and where the exhibits of fine horse flesh
and fine horsemanship are the equal of
any in the world These shows have
frowns both in size and in numbers, and
this year the circuit has been larger that!
ever before. Beginning with the Upper-
ville show, which, hy the way. Is the
oldest in the country', the association
having been begun back in the fifties,
there have been fine exhibits nt T>eos-
burg. Manassas. Grange. Charlottesville.
Winchester. Front Royal. Harrisonburg
and Berryvllle. The circuit is not closed,
and there are yet to be seen the TVa.r-
renton. Richmond and Rynchbttrg shows.
The Richmond association, despite the
unfortunate destruction by fire of their
building hare set ’ to work, and a new
and better one Is now being erected. The
entrv list is a long one. and some of the
host horses o? the country’ will he seen
here in the fall under the flare of electric
lights and the still more dazzling light
of Reauty’s eyes.
And. after the Vjrginta circuit of shows
has closed, many of the horses that have
borne off the ribbons will go to the New
York show, where, doubtless, as in years
past, they will uphold the reputation of
Virginia as the breeding place of fine
horses.
Among the horses that have carried off
honors in the northern shows are Amaret,
the handsome bay gelding of Charles
Hurkamp; Hornpipe, the
Vtvefinla large roan belonging to
Horsey Cap-his wife, and Buck, a
tore North- Virginia bred horse, the
ern Show property of Mrs. Deitrlok,
Prises. of Baltimore. Buck was
bred- by Harry Beattie,
and he lias shown him at many of the big
shows. At the Atlantic City show a year
ago Burk, as well as Amaret, had the
honor of heating the world's champion
jumper, Heatherbloom, In a high-jumping
contest. The jump was 5 feet 9 Inches,
though all the winners have gone over
higher timber. Heatherbloom. who is rid
den by bis owner. Dashing Dick Donnel
ly. has an official record of having cleared
the bars at the wonderful height of 7
feet 2 inches. He has a record that is
unofficial, hut well vouched for, of hav
ing jumped even considerably higher.
Amaret won the blue ribbon at the show
here lost fall, clearing 6 feet 1 Inch per
fectly'. Charley Hurkamp, who schooled
the great, jumper, rode him. Both Amaret
and Buck take a delight in their per
formances. and become almost crazed
with excitement when they see the tall
hurdle which they are to top. And when
the plaudits of the crowd follow their
pretty performance they evince as much
delight as any person could.
The horse shows have greatly bene
fited the horse-breeding Industry in Vir
ginia, for not only are finer horses raised,
hut more attention is given to their
schooling, and, consequently, much better
prices are brought. Sales are numerous
after every one of the shows, and many'
persons who wish to secure good horses
frequent the shows simply for this pur
pose.
Many fine youngsters have been seen
this year for the first time, and there is
every indication that each year will see
a finer class of horses In the contests.
One that will bear watching is Rightfoot,
n 3-year-old black hackney gelding be
longing to the McComb brothers, of
Orange county, who has not failed to take
a ribbon in any class in which he has
been shown.
A MonKey-World, WitH Generals' Society
Belles and Many Diversions
CONTINUED FROM THIRD PAGE.
and I am speaking only for the tribes
which T made a special study on this
last trip.
‘‘I have Irarned several new words and
have found that the monkeys convey
more ideas than T had formerly supposed.
The definiteness of the leaders’ commands
surprised me. T suspect that my friends
have specific names for some things.
Thev mav not have a word for ‘banana’
or ’apple.’ hut they pretty certainly have
a word for ‘fruit.’ I Have seen a band
eatin- palm nuts, all except one fellow,
who had wondered away and found some
SKStSSSTi
^"Yes’vou n&v have asked the question
about 'monkey religion satirically, but
aiMiui «■ * than you ha\e
there Is more h f „ r J oll rea lly
«ke» can credit them with
M ‘IP" S ome of the elements of
religion. They certainly
Defined hove some sense of
A Ticht and wronp. 1
Religi . npver gaw a bIg nl o:ikey
take anything away from o »«le one
that was of the same species. If a little
monkey and a big monkey each hold in
their hands a desirable looking nut, and
a third monkey comes along with an eye
on one of those nuts. I have observed
repeatedly that he will try to get It away
from the big one rather than from the
Uttle one. Furthermore, they show a
sign of superstition. They are afraid of
thflr own shadows. The monkey who
will growl most ferociously at the ap
proach of a member of another tribe
will tremble and creep away as much
terrified at a glimpse of his own shadow
as if he had seen a spook
“I have also discovered tnat the mon*
keys played a game that looks for all the
world like a game every child has played
and I have seen it played a number of
times. Often a dozen or fifteen take part
In it up In a tree—one In one fork and
another holding another place. Sudden
ly they squeal and all change places.
They do it over and over again, mani
festly with great glee. I never saw the
game result In a fight.”
I asked Mr. Garner ft he ever had con
sidered the possibility of the monkey’s
being made useful to man.
"Yes," he said, "and I once made a list
of the things he might do. The great
difficulty of making him of any real use
Is hls insubordination—hl6 dislike of re
straint. He can’t be trained to do any
thing without watching. He is more in
telligent than other animals, and tt Is no
trick at all to make him understand
what you want him to do, and he’ll do It
just as long as be supposes that it la In
ihe way of play, but ”tlv» moment he un
derstands it’s a. duty he wants to dnn
it. You will notice in any performance
by trained monkeys that there always
are several men standing round th’
stage. Every one of them has a whip,
and the monkeys know It or they couldn’t
he kept in their places through the act.
"In some of the native villages ’n
Africa they have apes to do certain wo*-k
—fiat it is the sang-. story with these. T
remember a chimpanzee that used to
fetch water and firewood. He did it well
enough, but some one had to go with him
every tim". Tf be went alone to the
spring he’d bring back only, say. an
eighth of a hueket of water, or if thev
sent him for wood he’d come hack with
a few little twigs about as thick as a
pencil. When the children went with
him. however, and “bossed” him he was
all right.
"T suppose the monkey might he made
a steady worker. In time, but one mon
key’s life wouldn't h° long enough to do
it in. Tt would have to be instilled
through generation after generation of
monkeys, just as it has been through
generations of horses, and wculd require
an immense amount of patler.ee and far
sightedness.
"But if such an experiment were tried
earnestly. I don’s see any reason why It
should not be successful. Yon always
hrepd a hardier stock when breeding to
ward an end and one better adapted f o
the object you have in view. Both tWe
monkey’s diet and habits might be molTf-
fied in time. The monkey, too. thrives
outside his native country. A few were
colonized in Mauritius, which formerly
possessed no monkeys at all. and there
are thousands there now—the island be
ing from two to three thousand miles
away from where the monkeys came
from.
"I can conceive of the use of monkeys
as domestic servants, though I would
question the utility of trying to employ
them In this way. I have thought sev
eral times that they mteht be most use
ful as fruit pickers. In fruit growing
countries It Is sometimes extremely diffi
cult to get men for this purpose.”
Mr. Garner has two of the monkeys of
whom he has made the closest study at
the London "Zoo” now. and he and the
writer paid a visit to them
Two of a few days ago. at which
Gomor*s time the accompanying
Intelll- pictures were taken. The
' gon« bigger of the two mon-
Pate keys is Tom. He Ts a
white-nosed chap, hailing
from 't'he west coast of Africa, manks to
capture hy a native. The blacks made a
regular business of catching young mon
keys. Sometimes they rob a nest: some
times they catch the young monkeys nurs
ing and take them after shooting their
mother. They will sell them for a "head”
of tobacco, a flask of rum or a string ot
beads. An allowance of tobacco that
would be worth hardly a cent In America
will buy a young monkey or two or three
parrots in the African Jungle.
Between thorn Mr. Garner and hls
friend. C. F. Bernard, have identified nine
words of Tom’s language. They express
hunger, affection, satisfaction, warning,
pain and other emotions common to both
monkey and human nature, and one nr
two of them Mr. Garner purred to Tom
when he came up to hls cage.
There was no doubt about Tom's being
glad to see his American friend. TTe
seemed a bit puzzled, however, and made
a determined clutch at the silk hat
which, in deference to the British cus
tom. the traveler was wearing. “TTe does
not like the hat.” said Mr. Garner; "you
see. he's used to seeing me In my jungle
helmet.” so he took off the "stove-pipe”
and Tom beamed with relief. Then the
monkev stood up inside his cage and
pointed out on his body the places where
he would like to be scratched, and dur
ing the operation threw his head bark
with a. look of perfect bliss on his face
that would have made an owl grin. Then
he told his human friend that he was
hungry, and proved It by disposing of the
slice of apple that the American gave
him prior to having his picture taken.
Tom’s little neighbor, who appears in
the outer picture, doesn’t seem to have
any name. He is a Capuchin monkey, not
from Africa, but front Brazil. Of the
Capuchin's dialect the American has
"garnered" eleven words. He says the
Capuchins are the most intelligent of
monkeys and the most devoted, once you
gain their regard.
The supreme court of Minnesota de
cides that the use of intoxicating liquor
by a juror while engaged in the trial of
an action is highly reprehensible, and
when hls indulgence is to such an extent
as to impair his faculties and render
him incapable of comprehending or ap
preciating the proceedings in court, or
unfit him for an intelligent, fair and'im
partial consideration of the case, when
not participated in. assented to. or
waived hy the parties, constitutes such
misconduct as vitiates and invalidates
the verdict, unless it appear that no
prejudice resulted therefrom.
In this season of thunder storms there
is recalled the oid idea that the neigh
borhood of trees is charged with elec
tricity. An old Swiss proverb advises
people to avoid the oak tree, to fly from
the fir and to seek the beech tree, which
is safe. A iittle time ago a special In
quiry was made in Canton Lucerne to
find if there were any truth in the
proverb. Statistics showed that out of
eighty trees struck by lightning in a
forest district fifty-six wore oaks, twen
ty-four firs and larches, but though there
were seventeen beeches, not a single one
suffered. It would be interesting to know
what peculiar quality gives the beech this
Immunity.
The famous mud baths of St. Amand.
in France, have just received what ; s
claimed to be the most complete analysis
ever made of them. The result is as fol
lows: Carbonaje of lime, 0.13); carbonate
of magnesia. 0.059; carbonate of iron.
0.025; sulphnte of lime, 0.616; sulphate of
magnesia. 0.431; chlorides of potassium,
sodium, calcium. 0.038; chloride of mag
nesium. 0.050; silica and alumina, 9.010;
organic and waste matters. 0.021. Besides
those at St. Amand and a few in this
country, mud baths are very rare, others
well known, however, being at Marien-
bad, Karlsbad and Toeplitz. in Germany;
Saka, in Sweden: Viterbe, in Italy; Dax
and Neirs, in France.
Another valuable collection has found
its way to America, says The London
Athenaeum, in a recent issue. The cabi
net of Oriental coins which Yakoub Artin
Pasha has been collecting for many years
at Cairo is unique in Its ample represen
tation of the Arabic issues of all' the dy
nasties that ruled Egypt, from the early
Omayyad caliphs to the Ottoman Turks, j
and includes over 900 gold coins of all i
periods. Had the British museum been i
able to acquire it the national collection J
would have stood above that of the Blbli- I
otheque at Paris in the completeness of:
the Egyptian series. The museum, how
ever, and Artin Pasha’s cabtnet will now j
enrich the Museum of Science and Art j
of that enterprising foster mother of
DOXOLOGY'
By EMMA PERKINS.
Written for *3‘he iunoy South
r l■■ urii "" was not a very pretty
girl. How could she be,
with a turned up nose and
a mouth that drooped at
the corners? However,
people who tried t‘o b:
kind said she had intelli
gent eyes.
After all, was there any
necessity of her being
beautiful? Her life was to
be spent in a studio, her
heart was all wrapped up
in art and women are only
beautiful for men? Her father had just
moved to one of Alabama’s booming
towns, where men were so plentiful,
wearing)y plentiful, and art was only a
dream. Could she be blamed after view
ing the situation if she decided to take
the stock in trade and make the best of
it? She seated herself at the window
to watch the passersby men—young, old/
widowers, bachelors—boys, all hastily
making their way toward their boarding
houses for the noon meal. Owen Mere
dith discovered that men could live with
out poetry, music and art, but could not
live without dining. These men had
come to A from every part of the globe.
but on this one subject they were united
—man must eat. “In union there is
strength." (Alas, there is very little
strength in boarding house fare.)
Could she be blamed because just at
that moment a man fresh from the biuo
grass region passed and she felt her eyes
had rested on her other half?
Even in booming towns they have mu
sical societies and this girl was urged to
attend. She went. The man from the
blue grass region was there. Truly noth
ing strange in this.
Amateur theatricals are indulgences
of new towns. The girl and the man
from the bluegrass region were asked
to act the comic parts—nothing strange
in this,—but—well—so It all began, he
called,—he called again. Her pictures
pleased, interested him. They talked of
her life, its ambition, her desire to travel,
to study, to see the world of truly great
aitists. (This was winter.) When the
early spring days came they hastened
to the woods to sketch and came home
with loitering footsteps as the moon "Was
rising over the mountain. Could she do
censured because her heart beat fast?
'Twas spring, and moonlight, and Ins
voice was oh, so tender. So passed many
days, and moons for many nights peeped
through the vines, and smiled upon them.
But times of wooing cease, and men
must work. His business in Kentucky
called him. The last eve of his stay he
pressed her Uttle slender hand and said.
’Tis hard but I will be with you in
October, and summer days will soon
pass by.”
Summer days passed by, October came
and went, and February' was waxing old
when he returned. It was a Sabbath
day. misty and murky, but even a gi:l
with a turnedup nose tries to look well
when a man from Kentucky has return
ed and she will see him at church. Oh,
happy hour! A friend comes by to ac
company her.
“Have you heard the news? The Ken
tucky fellow has returned and let me
tell vou something funny—
“He is engaged to a i/Ouisville girl."
A silence follows. They enter the
church. The organ is pealing forth. Sho
lifts her head and with the congregation
sings—
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The Paris Messenger tells this story of
an episode of the Franco-Prussian war,
which Inspired one of the pictures exhib
ited this year in the Paris salon, and
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French brigadier general, Giraud. The
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