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THE SUNNY SOUTH
MARCHES, 19Qj
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Th* Sunny South Is the oldest weekly paper of Literature,
Homanco, Fadt and Fiction In the South & It is now roe
Jterod to tho original shops and will bo published as fore
tnerly sooty weeks* Founded in 1674 it grew until S899,
when, us a monthly* its form was changed as an expert*
ment s* It now returns to its original formation as a
weekly with renewed vigor and the intention of ectips•
mg Its most promising period In the past•
efl with liberty and commercial equality—will be
present at the St Louis exposition. Roads lead
from every portion of the south to this metropolis
of the west; the south was never in better .position
to show to all nations what it has to offpr id the
present and what it promises for the future. Will
the southern states utilize this opportunity to
beckon thither the cream of the investing and home
making classes of civilization ? The exhibition is to
take place in a veritable stronghold of southern sen
timent and southern genius. If such an oppor
tunity knocked at the door of a wide-awake business
man, he would not be lohg in deciding which way
his road lay.
The same logic should apply In the forwarding of
a section’s welfare. Here lies a chance to help on
ward the development of talents, showered by na
ture and Omnipitence. Will each southern state
bear its share in this individual and universal duty?
The South’s Opportunity at
St Louis
EGIN at historic Mason and Dixon's
boundary at the south end of Penn
sylvania and trace a scrambling, ir
regular line down past Maryland and
Virginia and along the borders of the
distinctively southern states until you
have circled mammoth Texas and find
your pencil stopped by the Rio.Grande
river. You have within that queer
line an oddly shaped domain with a
vast frontage on the Atlantic ocean,
jutting in almost every hundred miles
to form navigable, land-locked har
bors ; to the south you meet the
sweeping arch of the Gulf of Mexico
with its deep water ports facing each other in al
most regular succession, and powerfu-ocean cur
rents creeping out of nearly every Jlarbur to carry
well-laden vessels to the sea’s gates, where the in
dustrious and pliant trade winds wait to scurry them
forward on their course to all the commercial hav
ens of the old and new world. Now take down the
well-thumbed geography which your child is trying
to master in the common schools, and turn tliw
pages to the physical map of the southern states.
Make a thorough, conscientious examination of the
resources of this section and you will discover that
the possibilities are abundant, not alone for the
maintenance of the population of this big, widely
varying district; but that it is in a position, with the
proper degree of enterprise and energy, to sell sur
rounding states and distant countries half of the
necessaries and luxuries of life.
There is another feature which you should give
your attention, if you wish convincing light on this
subject. If you are not sufficiently well-read in the
history, both political and industrial, of this nation,
secure any reliable compilation which treats of
modern as well as ante-bellum events, and compare
the status of the south forty years ago with that
of the south today. You will encounter material
for wondering and novel reflection. The south of
ante-bellum days and strictly post-bellum days was
an immense, one-sided, callow industrial giant. Al
most universally, the wealthy classes were restrict
ed to the aristocracy, rich in land and slaves. Cot
ton was the staple product, about the only support,
and other resources, present in inestimable store,
were completely ignored or given but a fraction of
the effort their promise- merited. Then came the
four years’ visitation of death and famine and devas
tation—a cataclysm you will say, but it was also an
awakening.
The Neb) Era
The south of 1903 bears irrefutable evidence to
this'fact. Its states are dotted with mammoth fac
tories, whose looms and spindles are devouring the
cotton grown in their immediate vicinity and reach
ing out into other territory, sending the finished
product to the north, and what is left, at a hand-
borne profit, to clothe the teeming populations of
the Orient. The tremendous timber and naval
stores industries are just blossoming into full ma
turity; the iron and coal mines which honeycomb
the middle section are putting forth but a fraction of
their stores; the southern farmer has barely crossed
the threshold of the house of wealth which lies <5pen
for diversified crops; he is discovering that he need
not import his com from the west, that his well-fed
and tended cattle will sell at advanced prices al
most at his very door; that he cannot breed a suf
ficient number of mules to satisfy the markets of
America and Europe; that all the peaches and
pecans and smaller fruits he can cultivate will
nourish his bank account. *
Georgia is sending granite and marble to Rhode
Island and Minnesota; Louisiana, South Carolina
and Texas are pouring, varied stores into adjacent
territory and beyond their own sky lines; and but
a minimum of our resources, in any one of these
instances, has been broached.
The*Opportunity
This brings us to the essential point. If this
miraculous metamorphosis has been accomplished
in the short interval since the civil war; if the south
'Stas, with but languid effort, drawn the wondering
eyes of the world in her direction in the brief space
of thirty-eight years—what may be accomplished
by a concerted, strenuous, indomitable crusade,
which shall have as its object an honest, energetic
advertisement of the advantages and inducements
which the commercial and industrial south hold out
in lavish display to capital and immigration? Look
at England, France, Germany, Switzerland and Aus
tria ; either of them, placed within this line we de-„
scribed at the outset, would rattle like a pea in a
walnut shell. None of the quintet have a shadow
of the natural gifts the south boasts. All wealthy,
swarming empires in themselves, they do not be
gin to approach the possibilities which lie dormant
in this country which God has so richly smiled upon.
0 Arid there is no reason, despite difference in age,
why the south should not exceed within the next
hundred years the wealth and material development
of any of these nations. The climate, the resources,
the water-power, the forests, the land—the people.
And all that is needed, the pushing, intelligent fin
ger of proselyting genius.
The influences which control the world's finances;
representatives of thousands upon thousands of sub
stantial, intelligent people looking for homes dower*
Woolly Fiction, the Circus,
and Big Grown Men
EARLY every grown man harbors a
slumbering strain of lawlessness. Not
exactly lawlessness either. That is
too vague and misleading* an asser*
tion. BtiF the outre, the daring, the
highly colored tints of life somehow
strike a sympathetic chord in his mind
and tie' never wholly outgrows that
bovish longing to be a pirate, a high-
way robber, or a midnight marauder, I-customers buy n. in other words, he is
Street pistol duels or any act of unus
ual personal prowess enlists his se
cret admiration, although apparently
he may be.cojd, impassive, impervious
to the spur of sudden emotion. Many
with a genuine liking for the better
men, too,
class of fiction, the kind which revolves about fine
character delineation or keen studies of human na
ture, and whose chiseled judgment rejects as slushy
and unnatural the donnertind blitzen narratives of
the penny dreadful, yet seem to find a certain sort of
strange relaxation in these same gory tales, when
the thoughts are weary with the details of the day’s
grind or the more delicately drawn work of the
writer of culture. Just precisely why this should
be the case, is a psychological problem which might
well test the reason of a trained thinker, and we
will not endeavor to play that role, confining the
trend of this article to a partial exhibition of the
interesting symptoms which evolve from the con
ditions named.
That there is ample truth in the assertions pre
sented is established by the evidence of news stands,
the book stores, the train news butchers, any com
mon trader coming into direct contact with the read
ing public. Ask any one of these people and they
will tell you that the soberest, most undemonstra
tive business man as well as the acute mental
worker make it difficult for them to keep a represen
tative supply of the “Dick Merriwell,” “Diamond
Dick” and “Kit Carson” brand of literature. The
way in which they satisfy their craving for the
strenuous tale of blood is amusing. Strolling non
chalantly up to the news stand, the average man
will carefully select a cigar, "a rtewspaper or a cur
rent periodical, in the ’meantime fingering over the
stock of 5-cent novels and keeping an anxious eye
open for the appearance of any friend or acquant-
ance whose opinion might be shocked by the spec
tacle of a grown man purchasing a bucket o’ blood
novel. Having finally satisfied himself that the coast
Js clear, he chooses something from his favorite au
thor, one he knows vyll abount in hair-raising sit-;
uations, plenty of bloody action and heroic rescues
which would be impossible outside the covers Of
such a production, and concealing the pamphlet be.
neath the respectable-looking roll of reading matter,
hastily pays the clerk and retreats to the privacy of
his own room. Here he glances over the newspaper
and magazine with but languid interest—then leaps
avariciously at the “dreadful” and frequently sits up
half the night following breathlessly the adventures
of some spectacular, blood-soaked hero, or coy, fair
haired heroine.
And the most peculiar part about the whole
transaction is that he goes down to work the next
morning with a mind vastly freshened, garnished
clean from cobwebs, and a buoyant, elastic view
point the wonder and envy of his innocent asso
ciates. His feverish yearning for this yellow va
riety of fiction is almost invariably spasmodic, and
wfien he has gained a surfeit (a process occupying
but a few successive evenings) he turns from the
perusal Of such mush with^disgust, wondering how
he could ever have been beguiled by such utterly
preposterous, melodramatic people and plots. And
he remains in this normal condition until there is
a recurrence of the malady, when he once again re
turns to his first love with whetted appetite and
sharpened appreciation.
The average male adult, too, can be very similarly
analyzed anent the circus. The hackkneyed news
paper and comic weekly stories about the fond
father pleading his small son as an excuse to gape at
the sawdust rings has a grain of very real truth as
background. To be sure, the man grown mature does
not look on the marvelous feats of the spangled
ladies and gaudy acrobats with the same fresh spirit
of credulity and ecstatic amazement as when he was
clinging^ stupefied with astonishment, to his own
father’s coattails. All the same, the blazing specta
cles which he witnesses offer such a radical diver
gence frbm his humbrum, matter-of-fact life, as to
richly repay him for all the laughter leveled at hint
by cynical frends. ‘
This la$t paragraph explains the whole business,
from a crude standpoint. Dealing with the actuali
ties of life, stern; pulseless figures; battling with
men of brusque manners and crude courtesy; carv
ing out, piece by piece, a living which oftimes the
world grudges every inch; carrying in one, over
worked head, thousands of details—this is a partial
excuse for the man who chuckles over the nickel
novel, or who applauds enthusastically at the circus.
Then there is the never-slain battle lust of which
etiery man’s blood has a tincture; the barbarous de
sire to read about incidents of real fighting where
physical weapons are Used, and the pant of the blow
is echoed by the sigh of the vetim—the savage emo
tions, the legacy of far-removed ancestors, buried
far beneath the veneer of smirching civilization.
tTonsider tfiese obscure causes when you feel in
clined to sneer at the man who patronizes the wares
of the wild and woolly penny-a-liners. —. _
GENERAL MANUFACTURING As a Career for Young Men
Tka Sana* south la nuMishina a sari as of artlslM on tho Indocamsnts and obstacles which various professions and trades prasont to
™young memintervtewsi.oiii compaMntaathorities wUi bo given wl.h each article,and the principal occupations recognized,will be treated.
The authorities quoted In tuts week’s article are: Edward O, Miles, C. R. Wlnshlp. John M. Smith. Ira A. Smith,
Harry Schiesinger. and Stg. Pappenlwtmer.
Sy HAL 8TEED.
■£*: ert .or SMe Ssnar .‘Ftms'H
HE scope of the manufac
turer la different from that
of the merchant, and the
requirements of one would
not fit “the other. One I#
a producer, the other a
handler; and the man who
could make his own goods
probably could not SeU
those made for him by
some one else, and vice
vena.
If anything, more origin
ality la required by the
manufacturer than by tho dealer. The
latter has only to dispose of things which
are Balable. and for which—or he would
not keep them—there is already a demand.
On the other hand, the manufacturer has
not only .to make his merchandise and
offer it for sale, but also to create a
market for It. If he fails in this, he fails
utterly; but if the merchant finds a cer
tain line unprofitable, he discontinues It,
and his loss is only on one particular
thing. Also the price- of his goods Is
fixed for him; he doesn’t hive to figure
on the cost of material and producUon.
Nor Is it necessary for him to know the
composition of his goods. He only knows
that a certain thing is good because his
only an agent.
The very difficulties of manufacturing,
however, make it an interesting pursuit,
and also widens Its field. Its market Is
not restricted to one territory, like the
merchant’s. It offers employees a greater
variety of work, more responsible work,
and hence more promotion. As It requires
of them special training and knowledge,
Its ranks are less crowded than those
of other lines with young men of omy
general qualifications.
For the benefit of Sunny South readers.
Interviews have been obtained from some
half dozen leading manufacturers of At
lanta, representing as many lines of man
ufacturing. They speak from Its various
standpoints, and they show particularly
what the young man maj expect of It,
and what it demands of him. The manu
facturers Interviewed are: Mr. Edward
O. Miles, of the Georgia Soap Company;
Mr. C. R. Wlnshlp. of the Wlnshlp Ma
chine Company; Mr. John M. Smith, of
the John Smith Company; Mr. Ira A.
Smith, of the Southern Cotton CHI Com
pany; Mr. Harry Schiesinger, the candy
and cracker manufacturer; and Mr. Sig
Pappenheimer, of the National -Furni
ture Company.
Mr. Miles thinks that one can become a
manufacturer without capital In the be
ginning, if he is economical, and can
show that he understands his business.
He also believes In the technological
schools. He says:
MR. MILES’ VIEWS.
"Comparing manufacturing with mer
chandising, I should say that the former
has the advantage, because of Its unre
stricted territory. The average merchant
sells only- to customers In and Imme
diately around his city, while the manu
facturer has the whole country as his
field. Freight rates give the shipper In
Atlanta as much chance as the shipper
In New York, more, in fact, to certain
points, particularly In the south and
southwest.
"So much for the manufacturer As to
tne requirements of his employees, they
are also different from those of the clerk
In the retail house, for the former not
only sell their goods in large quantities,
but also to merchants who are probably
giving their first order. The dealer muSt
t-:en be shown in what respect your goods
are better than those of other factories,
and to do this the salesman should have
some knowledge of their manufacture.
He should have also the faculty of inter
esting himself in his customer, so that
liis first order will be supplemented by
more.
“The main need of manufacturers is
trained* and; iskiKed *voun“ men.- pi Hi
this the technological schools are filling.
Do I believe in technical education? I
think it is the greatest thing in the coun
try. It not only helps the salesmen, as
I said before, but It is of vast practical
benefit to those who work in -the factory.
They have, to start with, a large grasp
of their subject. With the practical ex
perience necessary to apply this, their
rise to responsible positions is rapid. I
kilow a man barely 21 years old, a grad
uate of a technological school, who a
short time ago started with a street
railway company in a minor capacity.
His education was of such value in his
work that now he Is worth $1,600 a year
to his employers. I believe in every kind
of education as for that matter, but I
should take the technical part ten to
one, for it is possible for every man to
educate himself In a general way.
YOUNG MEN AS PROPRIETORS.
“I don’t see why any young man should
not hope to become a manufacturer him
self. It is not necessary that he should
always be an employee, provided he Is
such long enough to have learned his
business, and to have saved up some
money. Then let him start In a small
way. He needn’t fear the trusts, for they
can’t afford to cut down prices on their
goods simply to get him out of the way.
And let him remember, also, that the
banks will help any man If they see that
he works hard, «nd, above all, understands
his business and makes it -pay. Capital
is not always a£ necessary as people
Imagine; In fact, too much of It at the
bf^tnnl:!!; has ruined a great many busi
ness men.’*
Mr. Wlnshlp shows the chances of em
ployees. He says:
MR. WINSHIP’S VIEWS.
"There are various grades of employ
ment In a machine shop. There are ma
chinists, heads of departments, and gen
eral superintendents, and also traveling
salesmen. We find It hard to fill posi
tions above the grade of machinist, be
cause beyond that department the aver
age workman is handicapped by his lack
of technical education. He can do the
work assigned him if he is given the
necessary Instructions and measurements,
but he canft -figure these things for
himself.
“For this reason I should advise young
men who think of going Into our line
first. If possible, to gain a technical
training—the kind given at the technologi
cal schools. I don’t mean that this course
will fit them for a position In the begin
ning, for practical experience is always
necessary. But, with his trained sense,
the educated man picks up the-shop rou
tine rapidly, and having accomplished this
he Is fitted to take the positions where
his knowledge of higher (mathematics
and mechanics is valuable. ’This Is just
the difference between skilled and un
skilled labor. Such men rise from po
sitions which pay from $2 to $3 a day
to that of superintendent, arid the latter
Is paid so much a year.
“Not only does this special training
apply to men In the shop, but also to
traveling salesmen, who, must have some
knowledge of machinery to sell it. If a
customer wants a complete gin house
equipment, the salesman must be able
to tell him just what is required and
to show him also why certain gins and
appliances are better and safer than
others. He must -be able to figure the
expense on the output, and often he Is
required to have it set up and placed In
■the proper position.
‘•These positions offer splendid Induce
ments to young men, provided they have
in addition to mechanical knowledge the
ability to se-1 machinery. Salaries are
based on the amount of sales, some men
earning from $1,000 to $1,200 a year, and
others as high as $3,000.
“I think salaries are as large now as
they ever were, probably larger for spe
cial ability I also believe that the out
look for manufacturers in all lines Is
brighter now than ever. Competition is
keener, but the volume of business is
CONTINUED ON FOURTH PAGE.
Che Week in • Busy
World *
jvE of the moot pe
culiar, dramatic and
repulsive e rim Inal
eases In this country
of recent years cen
ters about the effort,
mow In progress In
■Buffalo, N. T., t»
Identify the murderer
k»f Edwin I. Burdick.
Jt will be remembor-
isd- that he was mys
teriously killed In his
Mrs. B. L. Burdick- Imroe some weeks
ago. Suspicion attached to Arthur Pen
nell, corespondent In a suit brought for
divorce against Burdick's wife. A few
days later an immense senwtlon was
created by the deaths of Mr. and Mrs.
Pennell, through their automobile plung
ing over a precipice.
The state is using every effort to fasten
gulK for the murder on the dead Pennell,
and Mrs. Burdick's coerced testimony on
the stand, anent her relations with Pen
nell, and the latter's threat* against her
husband, together wlfh the fact that she
is the only living principal In a tragic-
life story, combines to make a national
cause celebre
ERT REV. FRED-
jERlCK WILLIAM
FARRAR, dean of
Canterbury, is dead.
Dean Farrar was In
t 1 s seventy-second
year. He was best
known as the a-utbor
of his celebrated
“life of ' Christ.”
This biography ha*
enjoyed a wider pop
ularity -than any
other life of the
Savior ever written.
Its author was for years -the foremost
clergyman in the English church. The
dean's daily Mfe was active and varied.
He was chaplain of the 'house of com
mons and preached once each Sunday in
Westminster Abbey to a crowded house,
triMch included many Americans. Indeed,
they set apart an “American pew,” to
which visitors from across the sea were
taken
Keen Jfarrar
Oddest, Most Destructive »Southern Insect—
By HELEN HARCOUftT.
Wrh.en .or
NE of the oddest Insects In
world, not In appearance,
but In habRs, is the seven
teen or thirteen-year lo
cust, so called, for after
all. It js not a locust at
all. Conipare one of these
betweejri visitors with an
other of Us race -that you
know to be a locust, and
you will-see at once that
they cannot belong to the
same family. There le not
the slightest resemblance
between them.' The tnie locust Is long
and slender, with hind legs like a grass
hopper. The so-called' “seventeen-year
locust” Is-short, stoiit, and h'ds no such
long legs for leaping. •
■ As ■ a matter of fact “ the many-year
lecust is a cicada, and it, like- its cousins,
the- three and thirteen-year “locusts"
are peculiar to America, They no doubt
received the name of “locus*3” on general
principles,' just as a destructive wind is
often called a tornado or cyclone, when
it may lack the true characteristics of
reither. In Africa, in Europe, and in
South America, the arrtiy of true locusts
is regarded with deadly fear, and witn
good reason. Advancing through the
country In countless millions* the locusts
leave behind them a scene of desolation
that could he no more complete had a
fierce fire swept over forest and field and
garden. Not a green leaf is left in their
track.
So also it is With the seventeen-year
cicada, and hence, by popular analogy,
their usual designation as '"locusts.”
While there are several species of cicadas
all of them of mere or less Interest, we
will confine our attention to those which
are most widely known, the seventeen
and tjlfrteen-year locusts, as we shall
continue to call them. The thirteen-year
Insect is more common In the south than
that Of the longer period, owing, no doubt,
to the warmer soil. In most parts of the
country there is but one brood, so that
the injury they do, which is especially
marked on young fruit trees, is expected
but once In seventeen or thirteen years.
There are, however, soirie localities
where two or more distinct broods are
known to be hidden away, and there, of
course, the visitations are much more
fTequent, since each brood hatches out In
different years. That man Is wise who
is careful not to set out an orchard of
13 Year Locust
young fruit trees ope'or two years before
a locust raid is due in his section.
INJURY TO YOUNG TREES.
The attack of the .mother insect by
hacking into the terminal twigs In mak
ing a nest for her eggs, will injure the
young trees very severely. The only way
to save them is by tying thin muslin,
such as cheese cloth, over the lops of the
f rees, and this must be done thoroughly.
The duration of the danger from the
cicadas or locusts, lasts about three
weeks, and travels northward, beginning
ir. the lower southern states about the
first or second week In May, and reach
ing‘West Virglilia, Pennsylvania and Ohio
from two to. three weeks later.
The thirteen-year cicada or locust Is
large, but rather short in proportion to
Its -width. It is in all things the exact
counterpart of. its brother, the seventeen-
year raider, therefore in describing the
c-ne we .describe the other. Its wings,
which ate set slantwise, like a( peaked
roof, Sometimes measure 6 inches from
tip to tip, and In addition to two large
and very prominent eyes, also set slant
ing at the edge of the head. It boas.s ol
three) others. There are secondary eye
lets or ocelli, and are placOT between the
large eyes, in the center of the forehead.
These little eyes are often so brilliant In
hue aS to gleam like a diamond. So you
see it Would be rather a hard matter to
catoh the locust napping. Its food being
entirely vegetarian, it, like all its kin
dred, is peculiarly equipped for living
iby suction, draining the sap, the life
blood of the plants, on which they settle.
All cicadas are musical, but the males
are the only singers, the females being
always silent. Hence the couplet written
ages ago by an ungallant Greek poet,
who perhaps spoke from sad experience,
"Happy the cicadas’ lives.
Since they all have voiceless wives."
The male thirteen-year locusts are pro
vided with an odd. resonant, drumlike in
strument, a cavity with a membrane
drawn tightly over it. Its vibration is
controlled by muscles, which cause it to
emit the shrill chirping noise so familiar
to us all, since this is not peculiar alone
to the seventeen-year locust. Some of
the race, indeed, are capable of emitting
a noise so much like a distant steam,
whistle, as to be easily mistaken for
such.
The writer recalls a personal experience
of this kind, that occurred in the city of
Panama some years ago. While sitting
cn the balcony of a house from which,
across the end of tho street, could be
had a glimpse of the beautifu-3 bay of
Panama, wo were watching for the.com
ing of a certain steam launch which had
been down among the islands. Its ap
proach, visible to us as It crossed the
vista of the street, was always signalled
by a set series of whistles. On the oc
casion referred to. We heard the whistles,
albeit not given in their usual order.
The launch was seemingly close at hand,
yet the occasional whistling continued,
though tho launch did not come in sight.
At length the conclusion was reached that
its macinery must have broken down,
and the whistling was meant to summon
help. Accordingly, a servant was dis
patched to investigate the matter.
Meantime the writer chanced to move
to the further end of the long balcony,
and here the mysterious whistle sounded
louder than before and so near as to be
finally located In the presence of an im
mense locust, not less than 7 inches in
length, which, clinging to a telegraph,
pole on a level with the balcony, was in
dustriously drumming away, quite indif
ferent to the sensation it had caused. It
was the resonator in its body that made
the sound so loud, and the imitation ■ of,
the distant whistle so complete. Qf course
the object of this drumming, whistling,
singing, call it which you will, is to .call
the females. In the breeding season it is
that the males appear and for a short
time only. They pair, sing and die at
once, for it Is a singular fact that the
male cicadas or locusts, do not and can
not eat in the adult state. They eat m
the larval state, but the moment they
emerge as perfect Insects the need of
food 13 gone forever. But, as we shall
see, their "better halves” fully make up
for the male deficiency in this line. They
eat voraciously so long as a green thing
remains to be eaten, then they lay, each
one of them, from four to five hundred
eggs in the buds or twigs of trees, and
then, their life work done, they too drop
down and die.
The male cicada ifiay always be known
by the large, horny plate that covers the
drumming apparatus, which, as we nave
noted, is missing in the female. But she
has her-compensations in plenty. In the
first nlace she has a large ‘beak or mouth,
so long that it has three Joints, and when
not in use. is tucked away under the
body. In the second place she is fitted
out with a peculiar horn-like apparatus
as delicate as it is curious. This oviposi
tor serves the double purpose of sawing
out an egg basket in the branch of a
tree, and of depositing the eggs neatly
therein. No human hands could construct
CONTBfuSo^SrEOuSTTrPASEr
^ Southern Poets Authors s?
James Barrow Hop^. &
& jP
(This Is the eighteenth in a series of
articles on southern literary celebrities be
ing published by The Sunny South. One
will appear each week until the series is
exhausted J
By EDWARD YOUNG CLARKE, JR.
Wrr - or Tofte Svr~%».y Sc—.fTi
ONG years ago. when this
country was in its early
stages of development, a
wise old . Pennsylvania
preacher said to some,
friendst
“I wish that I could live
to see the day a hundred
years hence, when some
poet-of ability shall-deliver
an address entirely in poet
ry, 'its theme being the
achievements of America
and the glory of our lib
erty. The effect of such an address would
be thrilling and magical." ’
Before fee hundred y*ars had elapsed
a man of poetic genius was invited by
congress to deliver an anniversary ad
dress on the day of the hundredth anni
versary of the surrender of Lord Corn
wallis at Yorktown. Accordingly on Oc
tober 19, 181. -on. James Barron Hope,
the man selected for the occasion, deliv
ered the address, which was entirely in
verse, and its theme was the past achieve
ment of America.
Mr. Hope was horn near Norfolk, Va.,
in 1827, and was educated for the law.
He began practice at Hampton about
i860. In 1867 he wrote the poem for the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the celebration -of the settlement of
Jamestown and in 1858 an erde for the ded
ication of the Washington monument at
Richmond.. He also wrote poems for the
Southern Literary Messenger published at
Richmond. In 1861 he entered the con
federate service and fought through the
war as captain. Afterwards he settled
in Norfolk and began the practice of his
profession. There are some who consider
that his best production was written just
before his death, a memorial ode on the
laying of the corner stone of the Lee
monument in Richmond in 1887.
The production of the greatest strength,
however, is his metrical address on the
anniversary of the surrender of Cornwal
lis. It rings with the fire of true patriot
ism; it clanks with the sounding of arms;
it points to srehievements of undoubted
greatness; it calls for nobler effort in
the future; it has poetic finish, pathos
and humor; and as a historic record it ,'s
remarkable.
To reproduce the whole effort would be
itr practice Hie, but a short except from
Its opening will serve to show the value
of the poem. Tne style is rough, but
hot unmusical.
“Full-burnished through the long revolv
ing year,
The plowshare of a century today
Runs peaceful furroughs where a crqp
of s.nears
Once stood in war’s array.
“And we like those who on the Trojgn
plain
See hoary secrets wrenqhed from up
turned sods;
Who in their fancy hear resound again
The battle cry of Gods!
"We now, this splendid scene before us
spread.
Where freedom’s full hexameter began—
Restore our Epic, which toe nation's read
As far its thunders ran.
"Here visions throng on people and on
bard.
Ranks all a-glitter in battalions massed
And closed around as like a plumed
guard.
They lead us down the past.
"I see great Shapes in vague confusion
march
Like giant shadows, moving vast and
slow.
Beneath some torch-lit temple's mighty
arch
Where long processions go.
“I see these shapes before me all unfold.
But ne'er can fix them on the lofty wall.
Nor tell them, save as she of Endor told
What she beheld to Sauk”
flaw, - —
IPRIANO CASTRO,
Whose debt disputes
With European gov
ernments bro ught
about a condition of
war and made him
.he most talked of
man in the world for
several months, has
Resigned the presi
dency of Venezuela.
There has been a de
mand on him for
sudh action from
. Clpriano Castro part of the business
element in Venezuela, and strong in
fluence was brought to bear. His actions
during the dispute with the powers and
his scandalous conduct in Caracas caused
the circulation of stories that he was in
sane.
jCastro is 43 years old, and -was bom at
Capae’hioViejo, Venezuela, near the Co
lombian frontier. He was elected to con
gress in 1888. He became a Soldier and
fought Crespo in 1891. Crespo’s victory
drove Oastro into exile in Colombia,
where he remained until 1899, when, start
ing from Cucuta, Colombia, with sixty
followers, be first took his native town,
and -then town after town to the capital,
where he arrived with 7,000 men. President
Andrade fled before this force, and In Oc
tober, 1899, Castro declared (himself dic
tator. He was elected constitutional presi-
dien-t In, February of last year for the term
ending in 1908. Later reports indicate that,
owing to pressure from the people, he will
resume the presidency.
LFONSO XIII. of
Spain, who, it is ru
mored, is to become
Ithe betrothed of the
Princess Louise
Francoise, daughter
of the Countess of
Paris, will be 17 years
old on May 17, and on
that day will see the
first anniversary of
his coronation. The
young .king has lived
very quietly since ‘his
Jfloir Jtifonso accession to power,
and if toe has -had a love romance kt is
not generally known to his subjects or
the world at large. The Princess Louise
Francoise is one of th« sisters of Prlnco
Louis. She la just Zl years old.
(HE commission ap
pointed by the preri-
S ent to arbitrate the
iffarences between
the anthracite miners
land the operators, of
which Carrol D.
■Wright, U n ited
States labor commis
sioner, is a prominent
member, has return-
,«d a report. Follow
ing is its stibstance:
General wage in-
Carroll O. Wright crease of about IP
per cent.
Some decrease in miners’ time.
Provision for arbitration of disputes.
Sliding scale of wages with rates under
this award as a minimum.
Finding against discrimination by either
party in matter of unonism. \
Failure to decide question of recognition
of union.
Recommendation against employment of
coal and Iron police.
Decision against miners’ demand for
payment by weight.
Findings -to be in force until March 31,
1906.
Estimate that strike post both sides
$99,100,000.
Recommendation against compulsory
arbitration, but in favor of government
of inouirv to prevent strikes.
RS. FLORE.VC*
SIAYBRICK, whose
remarkable trial and
; convicticm for the
(murder of her hus
band, James May-
jbrick, has been the
(talk of two conti
nents for nearly
fourteen years, will
be released at the
beginning of next
year.
Home Secretary
Mrs. May brick Akers-Douglas has
made -this announcement, and this time
there is no- doubt of the fact that Mrs.
Maybrick’s friends ‘have won the cause
they have so long arid so persistently
pleaded.
The home office has authorized Mrs.
Maybrick’s lawyers in Washington to use
the fact of her pardon in order to secure
a postponement of the lawsuits in con
nection with the prisoner's interests in
certain lands in West Virginia, Virginia
and Kentucky. .
It is said that the decision to release
Mrs. Maybrick is altogether due to the
work of persons in England and that
diplomacy has had no hand in the case.
The bacilli which grow on the roots of
clover plants and have the power of ab
stracting nitrogen from the air account
for the increased fertility of fields after
crop of clover has been grown on them.