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which attends anything resembling psychological
demonstration. People have been-hoaxed and de
ceived so mercilessly, that they have cultivated a
disgust for ^ny proposition bearing the brand of
“spiritualism.”
We predict that gradually this revulsion will pass
away, and that as people become more genuinely'
interested in the wonderful phenomena which is.
present with the humblest of us, cool, unclouded
study and investigation will receive such a health
ful impulse as it has never enjoyed in previous his-,
tory.
THE SUNNY St")
APRIL 18.1903
ELECTRICA fljGINEERING As a Career for Young Men
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G/>e Week in a
^ World
By HAL STEED.
Written :dt Sar
ate: F. Cutts, chief engineer of the General Electric Company, ana J
VGeorgia Railway ana Electric Co.
Bare) off »t tke VMt.Ce. Atluu, tffwd-clw wail .alter
March 13, INI
TheJmmny South Is the oldest .«My paper of Literature,
Romance, See and PlAlsn in the South M It Is new re*
Stored to the original shape and mill be published as form
merlp every week ^ rounded In IS74 It grew until 1*99,
when, as a monthly. Its form mas changed as an expert*
meet # it now returns to Its original formation as a
meekly with renewed vigor and the Intention of ecllps*
ing Its most promising period In the past.
We Eat in Haste and Die
at Leisure
“Fake” Element Hampers
Psychological Investigation
IN the spheres of science and medicine
there is noticeable a remark
able accession of interest in the j
questions revolving about the men- j
tal and psychological sides of hu
man nature. Since we have lived
and thought and worked with this
complicated mind for so many thou
sand years, it seems only natural that
we should attempt to increase our
meager stock of knowledge regarding
its secret processes—more than this,
that we should ambitiously probe into
its first principles, and further still,
search for its origin and its lifnitita-
tions, although these last two propositions
are greatly anticipating the accepted prog
ress and status of our knowledge. It is undeniable,
however, that metaphysicians have traced out in
many instances the relations between mind and
matter, and for several hundred years the fact that
one has a powerful, if illusory, influence over the
other has been an unchallenged fact. People be
longing to what we broadly term the “masses,” go
along day in and day out, with little concern for the
discussions and investigations which are proceeding
so actively around them, until some striking para
graph in a pseudo-scientific article attracts their
imagination, and, experimenting with their own sen
sations and emotions, they discover that there is
a mental life distinct from the physical—crudely
expressed, that it is the mind which plans and en
joys and executes through the medium of its pliant
servant, the body.
It is when the individuals who have made the
study of these delicate relations a conscientious life*
ropose to extend their picket lines and make
stfli '^plorati dis-
cumulawho js*,of thejy man yitb'afen's*^? 1 ''.Jfc f
gence rtfl&preSJjid at times by unde~e»a«£re evidences
of telepathy, or “thought transference”—coincidence
will not satisfactorily explain all of the marvelous
instances which are attested. This same average
man, the type of the majority of people, realizes that
when his body is ill, his mind is incapable of hard,
clear work, and that conversely* if he is worried and
distraught by life’s petty trials, that his body is not
so buoyant, so active as in moments when the men
tal faculties are serene and free from internal con
flict.
But when the psychologist attempts to crystallize
his discoveries into some sort of a system; to ex
plain some of the mysterious phenomena of mind
and matter, and to hint that he is on the road to
ward finding out how both mind and matter may
be benefited by the following of certain simple
rules—he us met with a howl of ridicule, of incre
dulity, often of censure, that he should investigate
such obviously disguised mysteries. He is affronted
witH the charge of “fraud,” and his work is dis
credited as that of a dreamy transcendentalism
7 he only course by which he can hope to make con-
> erts and further his explorations is to explain care
fully that he has no desire or intention of taking
fees from anyone, and that his methods are open to
the scrutiny of all honest men.
It is this attitude of skepticism and suppression
which is militating most severely against an earn
est, systematic inquiry into those strange facts that
underlie nature, and knowledge of which should
make life simpler and clearer. And the reasons for
this open enmity are the widely vaunted “quack"
systems of psychology and mental training. “Se
ances’" and spiritual visitations superintended by
mercenary and ignorant “mediums” are a further
source of much of the unbelief and deprecation
OME interesting statistics relative to
the diet of the collegian as well as the
ordinary business man have been
compiled by The New York Evening
Post. Instancing Harvard university
alone, it seems that there are fifteen
sufferers from insomnia, one hundred
sufferers from headaches and three
hundred and seventy-two sufferers
from-indigestion within the university
precincts. Just think of this quota of
chronically handicapped men, out of
the ranks of an institution not remark
able for the proportion of its clientele!
The writer proceeds to quote a speci
men bill of fare of the majority of the students (and
it may be supposed that the bulk of the semi-invalids
come from this class) as follows: “Two ‘hot dogs,’
one-half apple pie with whipped cream, two chick
en sandwiches, one cup chocolate, one vanilla eclair,-
one glass orangeade, one hard boiled egg.” Insult
even an aible-bodied man’s digestive apparatus with
this fearful mixture every day and you should not
be surprised if, within a few months, he landp in
the cohorts of the wretched victims of dyspepsia in
some ode of its numerous, intolerable forms.
This paper then asks if this reckless inconsequen
tially of diet is confined to the student, and cites
the long file of men who patronize some nostrum
everyday after luncheon to coerce their organs into
performing tasks against which these sensible mem
bers quite naturally rebel. The average business
and professional man drives himself relentlessly at
the day’s work up to the lunch hour. Reluctantly
dropping the task of the moment, he darts out to
the nearest quick-lunch stand, absorbs a slice of
pie, a sandwich, a hastily cooked piece of beef, and
washes down the whole with strong black coffee.
Then without giving his oppressed, complicated sys
tem time to become accustomed to its burden, or
drawing a few whiffs of life-giving air inf& his
starved lungs, he dashes back to his desk, and com
pels the stream of blood, which should be busily at
^^ishnjeny^^^^gf^
a£SS
This is bad eno^eph, but it is not thqfclimaic.
Bear in mind that he has depleteajthe 7orce with
whfch he arose in the morning vert materially by
the day’s labor; but he consumes {usually a heavy
supper or dinner, helps it along with more coffee or
other powerful stimulant, and either patronizes the
play or goes to spend the evening at the club or some
friend’s home. How long he can keep up this, ab
normal method of living depends altogether-on the
strength of his constitution, but it is seldom long
tre he experiences the effects of the abuse which he
has put on himself—and then indignantly asks why,
or seeks tardy relief at the hands of the doctor or
patent medicine quack.
As a general rule a large number of our twen
tieth century diseases enter the system through the
stomach; that is to say, they make their
radical inroads possible by first breaking
down the strong wall of good digestion, and
then, having secured a low, uncertain vital
ity, they have made the sufferer suscep
tible to almost any malady which chances in his
pathway. We do not wish to alarm our readers,
but we do wish to emphasize the fact that men and
women with over-taxed, worn-out digestive organs
rarely accomplish tasks which they set themselves.
Indeed, our authority is at some pains to prove
that these self-made dyspeptics accomplish little
in or outside of college, and even if they do, find
themselves unable to enjoy the fruits of their work.
We are not guilty of gygienic cant when we say
that nature exacts her dues with the inexorability
of Shylock, and the man who thinks he is stealing
a march on her finds himself the deluded party.
Interests. But in proportion^ to LTlry^
N
.uses that't ; tc
e ng.n,
Electrical eng.
modern professions,
date back hundreds o,
ginning:, but no pract
electricity was
ginning of the nineteei
then the'experimbnlla
until Edisonff time
widespread value accoi
the last fifteen “or
fesslc-n. -seems to ihi
read:
atti
ing fw han'
Bv
ake MIV
wuz bofe Ed
ucation of
ife around
.own that
countless
ier sot Ml>s are sup-
she sotlty. It is
han' tilllroads will
er mea steam en-
■“‘le d-rad to the
_de Kt to. .
of the few
id medicine
jj to their be-
Lplication of
fjmtil the be-
entury. Even
Isrude; and not
anything of
[Ihed. But for
rears, the pro-
whtdiiever detail i
greatness of its results f(V J 11 * , lt
had been apparently Sleepii/ U ’ e . ht
seemingly, the oeuntry wa.[ ,
telegraph and telephone 4 netwo k
smallest cities had their p 3 ’
railway systems. After mva .
teflous and wonderful poar 1 W
to other usee; and the
V technological
tments for
cal engl-
schools Instituted special
training young men for
peering.
The north Is ahead of^ (
electrical development, d
water-power and its gre:
wealth and natural advantages, the south
is now advancing more rapidly. The elec
trical field naturally broadens with the
building of factories and the quqickemng
of the commercial spirit, and as the south
Is Just 1 now entering upon a unwonted
era of Business development, the field of
electrical engineering is broadening also.
The prtfession in its newness, and its
entire difference from the cut-and-drled
callings already overcrowded, would seem
to offer a glowing future to those men
Whose tastes lie in its direction. With
the idea of giving those Sunny South
readers who are interested, some inside in
formation, as it were, about the profes
sion of electrical engineering, two prom
inent engineers of Atlanta have been in
terviewed—Mr. F. Cutts and Mr. J. N.
Bley.
Mr. ElOy is chief engineer of the Geor
gia Railway and Electric Company, and
is himself an illustration of a young man
who has begun at the bottom and worked
his way up. lie says:
MR. ELEY/S VIEWS.
“Tears ago it was customary in all lines
Of business and in professions also for one
man to follow every branch. The physi
cian, for instance, was a general prac
titioner, and he treated diseases of the
throat and eyes and was a dentist in
connection with-his other cases. Then
it was necessary for him to know a little
of everything, but now he considers him
self lucky if he is master of only one
specialty. .
“The same is true in the profession of
electrical engineering. A hundred or so
years ago the engineer was a general
utility man, but now, with the modern
development of business and up-to-date
methods following, it, engineering is split
up into various departments-light.
power, the telephone, the telegraph, the
street railway and the manufacture of
electrical appliances—each calls for a dif
ferent kind of knowledge. Of course, a
general idea of the principles of elec
tricity is necessary, just as a few years
of general practice is essential to the
medical specialist.
“A man who expects to go into busi-
GUICI .
driving one s self to wade through a vol
ume of Dickens. And it is hardly neces
sary for me to mention what are old
■business adages, the qualities of h °nesty
and industry. Let a man be honest with
every one. and above all, honest with
himself. , , „ku
“Then, too, he must have natural ah
ity. and I don't see how he can expect
to succeed without it. This ability should
be mechanical—I would say nine-tenths
mechanical and one-tenth electrical. u ®
iness sense is also important, or
necessary that a man should have an eye
io the value of a contract and know
how to plan it so tha,t there will he
money in it for him.
“These are natural qualifications; as to
education, the more of a certain kind o
it he has, the better. In the first place,
he should have a thorough English edu
cation and he should know mathematics
as he knows his alphabet. For electrical
engineering is an exact science. Its pro
lems are worked out by mathematics
and they never vary. If you sent an o -
der to a factory for a machine and speci
fied exactly what you wanted, the ma
chine would be delivered to you with
scarcely the variation of a degree in anj
kind of its parts. The engineers work
but the scheme with mathematics before
-they ever begin its construction.
TECHNICAL EDUCATION.
“After the general education comes the
technical training, and I should advise
a man, If he had only one chance in a
thousand, to take a course in some tech
nological school. There he learns physics
chemistry, mechanical Engineering and,
mechanical drawing. The draughting
course is particularly important, for it ,
is not only necessary to make a design j
and sketch all of ks details, but it is
also necessary to understand a mechan
ical drawing. It is a sort of language in
itself. . .
“It is not absolutely essential that a
man graduate at a technological school.
If he is bright and industrlous_he - niay
ID LI AM FRED
ERICK CODT (Buf
falo Bill^ who was
injured 'by a fall
from .his horse in the
Wild West show ««
Manchester. Eng
land, is approaching
bis sixtieth year, but
ap to the present
time has shown no
loss of his remark
able agility In the
saddle or . his ac
curacy of atm with
native of (owa. His
cedy
the rifle. He Is ,.
father was killed in the-border war of
Kansas, and young William began ™
career as a pony express rider in 1860. He
earned his sobriquet; by killing 4^80 buf
faloes In eighteen months.'
JETRO MASCAGNI
who.-on bis / return
to Europe, is full of
priase for America
and Americans gen
erally. but full of
condemnation jf or
certain individuals
who happened to
live in the.. United
States, has invented
the term • ‘!muslcal
Monroe - doctrine** to
describe legal
Pietro Mascagni troubles durfpg his
late visit to the land of the free^'Ma.seagni
produced his opera, “Iris,' - ip 18Sh*t the
Cortanzl theater, at which Ora® the two
first acts were warmly applauded, but the
third was pronounced as Inferior quality.
His great work, “Cavalleria.” was pro
duced while he was living at Cerignola.
Expert Swordsmen and Imitators
Are Strange Southern Insects
By Helen Harcourt
^ teamed a northern
our southland,
that dreadful
Ture walking up your
Won’t it bits? Is
arm.
"it *111
,_ pt poisonous?”
rather uncanny
was the reply.
1 it bite? Yes. but
Or me, because we
sects. Poisonous?
d&.P?w man Is dat dey wuz so tm *
,er dadd tasv-'iJJfcAgiJ'.i ^ J
A odpth are used
® s ' -’ghe matitis re-
ly: iS&rer nd,
.he and his
members of the
lovers of warm "ireathj
where they can. not
^ Garden Gossip of Flowers and Birds
By MRS. LUNDY HARRIS.
UVir.cn or She Sonny .ScvnfS
PAIR of robins may spend
their annual honeymoon in
a wind break without dis
covering the garden on the
other side, but a bluejay
will come 10 miles at the
first intimation of spring
to investigate a straw-
berry bed or to show his
interest in a blooming
■Hfi cherry tree—not that he is
a rogue, but he has an ab-
normal sense of ownership
when it comes to orchards
and gardens and a Pierpont Morgan's
vigilance in looking after them. And
thla is the season of his greatest activity.
He is constantly making blue-winged
Journeys from these little green note
books of nature wedged in behind subur
ban residences to those remote gardens
spread out extravagantly on the sunny
side of every farm house in New Eng
land. He is in a perfect fury of feathers
ard enterprise, scattering a camp of vag
abond sparrows here, and challenging
some rustic from the forest there, like-
the little helmeted spirit of some an
cient knight engaged in the commercial
warfare of this prosaic world.
But the gardens themselves are not
what they once were. For there was a
time when every path had a romantic
burden of pinks and sweet alyssum.
Damask roses dispersed rich perfume
like haughty old queens in purple velvet;
and there was a gallant court of gay
flowers to offset the peasant life of tur
nips and potatoes—whole regiments of
prince’s feather gentlemen and charming
poppy ladies in silken blooms nodding to
one another in the Nirvana sunshine.
Now all is changed. The wren that hid
her nest in the crevice of the wall “be
hind the primrose leaf' has refugeed to
the woodland along with other poetic
neighbors who resented the blue Jay’s
vulgar monopolies. More vegetables, and
fewer flowers, is the modern gardener's
motto—till even the old sage bushes
(spared to season winter sausage) put
forth their poor fringe of lilac bells to
the bees tentatively, lest a flamboyant
display of color should invite the deadly
spade.
The truth is that these modern gardens
suggest only unpoetic dirt and a. scientific
progress in the business of growing veg
etables. Bright young la4y peas and
proud-topped potatoes stand up in long
scholarly rows, outstripping thff primary
classes In lettuce and spinach. And at
a legal distance-from each other the cu
cumber and squash sit like dunces upon
round stools of earth. Their disgrace on
acoount of an unlawful intimacy in the
past is an open secret. For. -while there
is little floral, sentiment in garden life
nowadays, some vulgar gossip is current.
The cantaloupe, tor Instance, that so far
forgot herself as to grow a little cucum
ber melon the year the cucumber vine
lived next row is an old story now. But
the tale of the middle-aged squash that
flounced up one spring next the gourd
vine and afterwards displayed a pimply
young gourd of her own—that is a scan
dal whispered yet from beet to cabbage,
gklso, there was some comment quite a
while back when an old man collard made
his appearance among the Flat Dutch
cabage fraus in a Connecticut garden.
It was suspected that he Intended to
start a sort of vegetable harem but this
was a ludicrous mistake, as the collard
proved to be nothing better than a betsy
bug promoter, to the disgust of every de
cent plant in the garden.
However, there are still highly respect
ed rows of society in these gardens. If
ever there has been any “talk” about
the lady peas in particular, not even the
scanda 1-mongering carrots have heard it.
They are capable of a sweet pea evolu
tion, indeed, but never of amalgamation.
Nobody ever saw a “mulatto”* lady pea,
even in the south, where there Is said to
be so little discretion about the color
line in starting more advanced grades of
existence.
And we even hear occasionally of a
little four-leaf clover romance in some se
cluded mountain garden. Quite" lately
the report of a pretty flirtation between
the thvme and pink-bonneted clover in a
deserted hillside garden has reached us.
But nothing came of It excepj the verses
written by the traveler who smelled the
thyme and saw the clover aa he chanced
to pass that way.
regioi .4
-all of them
of Jjrihopter f, are
id never wander
id it oil the year-
round: So the;? are never seen in the
northern states, and seldom cross the bor
der of Florida or southern Georgia.
The mantis lias a long, narrow, com
pressed body, qver which his wings fold
like a closed !(an, and the wing covers
are long, narrow "and thin, ills second
and third pair of legs are long and
slender, and tliese he uges 6nly in travel
ing about, wliich, by the way, he does
in a very slow, dignified manner.
His first, or front, pair of legs, or hems,
as they may well b.e called, are Usually
held up anil Joined together, exactly
in the attitude of prayer. This- is why
the mantis came Jo he known as the
“praying insect.” It is an amusing fact
that if the people of Spain, southern
France and. Italy, who gave him this
name, had tried to be intensely ironical
they could! not have succeeded bet
ter.
The head of the mantis completes his
uncommon outfit of body and legs. It is
large, triangular in shape, and furnished
with three (small stematlc eyee, that stare
one out oC countenance In .the most sol
emn and severe manner imaginable. As
If this were not enough, this triangular
head is set at the end of a long neck,
so that it turns from side to side, or
over Its owner’s shoulder in a way that
seems uncanny.
Altogether the mantis is so strange a
looking creature that it is no wonder that
the ignorant and superstitious made him
the subject of wild legends in the days
gone by. Yet not entirely gone by either,
for many of the peasantry of southern
Europe still regard the mantis with gen
uine superstition and believe his forelegs
are actually uplifted in prayer.
Certainly, they are'uplifted for some
purpose, and if once the mantig. should
address his own peculiar kind of “pray-
ers” to those good friends .of his th®y
Jd be aptf*—
Vc cd&jjintel s capti.iT,. with bis
own relatives, capture of The insects on
which he lives.
' Thdse’ roraegs- are powerful, alert, knd
so arranged that their several parts are
capable of working and closing, the one
on the other, so that they cut exactly
like a pair of scissors. Such weapons
were hardly made for the purpose of
peaceful prayer, such as they have been
credited with. But that they were made
for preying, “with an E,” is true.
HIS PIOUS REPUTATION.
But. all the same, the mantis bore an
excellent reputation for piety in those far
away days of the olden times. Did not
the people see him praying, sitting still
or moving solemnly along, arms up
raised heavenward, and waving to and
fro, or humbly clasped together? Surely
it Was plain enough they saw this with
their own eyes, and what better proof
could one have?
If a peasant got lost in the forest, all
he had to do was to hunt for a mantis,
and. respectfully ask him the way. Then
the. obliging insect would at once stretch
out. one of hts long arms and point out
thd proper direction, and the peasant
would go on hts way rejoicing. If he did
not always come out where he expected,
he .was quite satisfied that this was his.
and not that of the pious
own fault,
mantis. .
Nor did the superstitious belief in the
good praying insect stop here, ^e are
told that once upon a time St. Francis
Za-vier met a mantis and commanded It
to chant a prayer, as well 33 act °" e l
The pious insect, of course, obeyed the
saint, and chanted a canticle in the LaUn
tongue. This story has been handed down
among the French peasantry for genera
tions, and still finds it believers.
People rarely do things without a mo
tive, neither do Insects. The praying
mantis has a motive, and a sij 0 "®
in holding aloft his forelegs. Tt ' s tt ’ a ‘
they may be ever in readiness
such unlucky insects as come
T. REV. GEORGE
MONTGOMERY, co
adjutor archbishop
of San Francisco,
Cal., has been ap
pointed archbishop
of Manila.,.- Arch
bishop Montgomery
is about 60 years old
and one' ot- the lead
ing American' Pa
lates. Two years-ago
while Archbishop
Kali* was in Rome
he had charge of The
M onfgotnxry — —— —
St. Louis diocese. He Is a son of United
States Judge Zachary Montgomery, who
was on the federal bench in Montana.
Judge Montgomery was a devout Catholic
and held some very radical views on the
school question, which brought him into
disfavor with President Grant. His son
inherited from him the decision-of char
acter and the views which- he held on
many questions touching the relaetiqna be
tween the church and the state.
HE REV. WILLIAM
HENRY MniJBURN,
the blind chaplain
of the Unitdd Staten
senate, who “has just
died at Santa : Bar
bara, was flbr many
years a conspicuous
figure" in the; 'official
life of WaijhJpgtnn,
where he. hafi been a
congressional 1- chap-
. hij( at vadoius limes
Since 1M6. Me was
ing stfealthilyj about:* the mantis -
ways alert, and many are the unwary
insects that fall before the swift ^Iutch
of those waving claws.
So' much for one part of the mantis'
pious character. There is a second rea
son for his “looking aloft” with his legs,
and this is worse than the first. Talk
about the fights of game cocks, of cats
or dogs! These may well go into a
comer and hide their heads abashed be
fore the pious mantis. He is an lrreslst-
ablei reminder of the famous Irishmaf*
who had his coat tails made long enough
to drag, and then went about hoping
that some one would step on them, that
he might have an excuse for a fight.
The mantis Is a terrible fighter. The
Chinese, ever awake to anything odd,
keep the mantidae in basket cages, and.
like game cocks, pit them against each
other for wagers. AH that is necessary
is for two of the same sex or species to
meet, for a royal pitched battle to ensue.
They lose no time in idle courtesies.
The fight is On from the moment of
meeting, and the insects show as daunt
less a courage as could any soldier. Their
attitudes greatly resemble those of hus
sars fighting with sabers, and their long
arms, strong and sharp edged, make
passes at each other like trained swords-
Blnce
and at Illinois college, aiid entered
ministry of the Methodist church
very yofcpg man. Dr. Milbum’a slgl
gan to fail when he was a child.;"
became totally blind in his early
For a long time he had been ..in -poor
health, and he retired from his position in
the senate some months ago.
-3|
O V. FRANKLIN
Murphy, off New
Jersey, who; with a
stroke Of Ms pen,
has canceled, the
charters of derelict,
bankrupt ah(i “fake"
corporations. num-
iberhigi 927 in all,
with a total.capital
ization of $229,000,000,
is the immensely
weal thy varnish
manufacturer o f
Newark, who took
CONTINUED GN FOURTH PAGE.
Goo. Murphy .
up politics with such brilliant succera in
1892. In that year he was made chair
man of the republican state committee,
and his f uture success was apparent, from
the start. Governor Murphy is one of the
■bul warks of republicanism in tiffs - state,
and has always been a popular (man. He
was formerly president of the .General
National Society, Sons of the American
Southern Poets Authors
John Reuben Thompson
(This is the twenty-first in a series of
articles on southern literary celebrities
being published by The Sunny South. One
will appear each week until the aeries is
exhausted.)
By EDWARD YOUNG CLARKE,.JR.
Wrtucn ,or £3he Sunny South
—1— HE southern poets who be
came famous through one
or two productions, pub
lished first In The South
ern Literary Messenger, of
Richmond, Va., are quite
numerous, but none-stands
higher than the one con
cerning whom this sketch
is written. His literary
efforts attracted little un
usual notice until he pro
duced a poem called “Mu
sic In Camp,” and imme
diately upon its appearance in The Mes
senger it was Copied far and wide and
praised by literary critics and lovers of
good poetic diction of all sections of the
country.
This poem is a war poem written when
tha first blush of the conflict is over
and the destruction that lies before them
is preying on ail hearts. The glamor of
waf and jis excitement Is passed; and yet
th-j fighting is not o^er—there is still more
of the draidful work to be done, in de
scribing th-: feelings of the soldiers at this
time and picturing the camp scenes this
poem is oih of remarkable and deserved
ly ranks with the first of the laud.
Thompsot was an ail round literary
man, being equally at home in the chair
c»f the editor and the author; while his
executive ability won -for him positions
trust and made his Ufewoi-k very
fine influence upon the literary effort of
his time.
In 1859 his delicate health induced him
to resign his position as editor and move
to southern and warmer climes. He lo
cated in Augusta, Ga., and became editor
of The Southern Field and Fireside. In
1855 he took a trip to Europe for his
health, and returning with it partially re
stored he assumed the editorship of.The
Evening Post, of New York city. In 1872
he went to California in a vain effort to
regain his lost health, but died there in
1873. His remains were brought t.o the
Hollywood cemetery at Richmond.
The south owes much to him. both
because of his productions and because
of the marked influence for good which
his work exerted upon the whole circle
of southern literary endeavor. We re
produce the poem which is considered by
the majority as his ablest production:
Then all was still, and then the band.
With movement light and tricksy.
Made stream and forest, hill and strand
Reverberate with "Dixie.”
The conscious stream with burnished glow
Went proudly o’er its pebbles.
But thrilled throughout its deepest flow
With yelling of the rebels.
Again a pause, and then again
The trumpets pealed sonorous,
And “Yankee Doodle" was the strain
To which the shore gave chorus.
The laughing ripple shoreward flew.
To kiss the shining pebbles;
Loud sjirleked the swarming boys in blue
Defiance to the rebels.
MUSIC IN CAMP.
Two armies covered hill and plain,
Where Rappahannock's waters
(Ran deeply crimsoned with the stain
Of battle’s recent slaughters.
The summer clouds lay pitched like tents
In meads of heavenly azure;
And each dread gun of elements
Slept In its hid embrasure.
The breeze so softly blew it made
No forest leaf to quiver.
And tbs smoke of the random cannonade
Rolled slowly from the river.
And noiw, where circling hills looked down
With cannon grimly planted.
O’er listless camp and silent town
The golden sunset slanted.
And yet once more the bugles sang
Above the stormy riot;
No shoot upon the evening rang—
There reigned a holy qujpt.
The sad, slow stream its noiseless flood
Poured o’er the glistening pebbles;
All silent now the yankees stood.
And silent stood the rebels.
No unresponsive soul had heard
That plaintive note’s appealing.
So deeply “Home. Sweet Home” had stir
red
The hidden founts of feeling.
Or blue, or gray, the soldier sees
As by the wand of fairy.
The cottage 'neath the live oak trees,
The cabiq by the prairie.
born at Richmond in the year
ding. to the best authorities,
ducated at the University of
He studied law, but practiced
in 1847 became editor of The
Iterary Messenger. This posi-
eff with satisfaction and suc-
s«t twelve yean, exerting a
When on the fervid air there came
A strain—now rich, now tender;
The music seemed . itself aflame
With day’s departing splendor.
A federal band, which, eve and morn.
Played measures brave and nimble,
Had just struck up, with flute and horn
And lively clash J>f cymbal.
Down flocked the soldiers to the banks,
Tifl, margined by its pebbles.
One wooded shore was blqe with “yanks,"
And on® waa gray with “rebels."
Or cold, or warm, his native skies
Bend in their beauty o’er him;
Seen through the tear-mist ip his eyes,
His loved one stands before him.
As fades the iris after rain
In April's tearful weather.
The vision vanished, as the strain
And daylight died together.
But memory, waked by music's art.
Expressed in simplest numbers.
Subdued the sternest yankee’s heart.
Made light the rebel’s slumbers.
ARCONI, the inven
tor of wireless tele*,
raphy, who Is -se
verely put o.ut be
cause the British
government refuses
him facilities • for
sending letters to
his transoceanic sta
tion at Paldu, has
lately had the satis
faction of seeing the
displacement of a
commercial i cable for
the wireless system.
This occurred a few days ago. when the
cable between Sandy Hook and Fort
Wadsworth was abandoned add .the wire
less apparatus installed in its stead. Mar
coni is now in his twenty-eighth .year, and
unusually successful for an imventor of
that age.
Marconi
What promises to be an epoch-making
decision in American jurisprudence and
industrial conditions is that promulgated
recenaly by the Uuited States court of
appeals at St. Paul, interpreting ths
Sherman anti-trust law. The test cass
was on the merging of the Great North
ern and Northern Pacific rallways^ the
state of Minnesota and the government
jointly holding that the amalgamation of
these two systems, projected by Pierpont
Morgan and James J. Hill, was "in re
straint of competition,” therefore viola
tive of state and federal law. This con-
teneion was sustained, and now the ques
tion arises whether the same restriction
will not be placed on all corporations in
the nature of monopolies. The case will
be appealed to the United States supreme
court.
And fair the forn? of muisc shines.
That bright celestial creature.
Who still, 'mid war’s embattled lines.
Gave this one touch of nature.
The Thrashing Thirst.
Little Johnny sat up in his cot in th«
middle of the night.
“Father, I’m so thirsty.”
“Lie still and go to sleep. You are not
thirsty—not you.”
Johnny (after a pause)—"But I must
have a glass of water. I’m so thirsty.”
"If" you don’t go to sleep this minute
I’ll go artd fetch the stick.”
To which the young hero replied:
“All right, father. If you are getting
up to thrash me, you might bring ■(§ g •
glass of water with you.”