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EDITORIAL PAGE &/>e SUNNY SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Buslnefs Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA, GEORGIA Sub/criptlon Terms: To tKose who subscribe to fflis Sunny South only Six Months, 25c ^ One Year, 50c ***** THAN A PENNY A WEEK 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 J" Tb eSunnySouth Is paMtsf niii) ^JrJ« c SrtSuca n Mt22iMatt« r prt£A3?2£ , S*2*«» wkwSxwSJb® lSTtrutoik 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.”