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THE SUNNY SOUTH
JULY 30. 1904
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the more interests you have in life and the more
universal your sympathies with mankind.
First satisfy yourself that you are concentrating
or specializing on the one particular life-work
which you have chosen for yourself. It will not
do to bring the scattering or smattering element
into this phase of your life. But when it comes to
your recreations—that is a different matter. Cul
tivate as many “hobbies” as your brain-power will
accommodate and it will astonish you to find how
many people whom you now find entirely uninter
esting. assume a new interest for you. Incidental
ly, you will also discover that many acquaintances
who now never pass the speaking stage, will be
come associates and, lifting you out of yourself
give you new zest for life while they profit by the
variety which you inject into their own routine.
Just reflect over these sentiments when you are
in the morbid grasp of monotony, or when you
are giving up yourself entirely to the making oti families
Antiquaries and
Their Prey
HE aristocracy, and titled
persona ot Great Britain
are in a “parlous state”
indeed. For years Sir
Bernard Burke edited his
“Peerage and Baronet
age,” which became known
as the Englishman’s Bible;
and Dod & Debrett pub
lished other volumes of
the same sort. Therein
were given at great length
the pedigrees of noble
families, all of them de
riving from ancestors who fought with
William of Normandy, or from royal
personages. If you believed the publish
ed pedigrees, it appeared certain that
the British peers were indeed of old
[ Along the Highway
^ By FRANK L. STANTON
SOWING AND REAPING.
I.
Sowing time and reaping—■
Hard the toiling seems;
But there’ll be time for sleeping
When Twilight brings the dreams.
II.
Long the way, and dreary—
Yet the hope was bright.
Did the heart grow weary?
Take t your rest—Goodnight!
moment.
The Sunny South thm oldest weekly paper of Literature, ja place for yourself or the effervescent joys of the
Romance, fad and Fidlion in thm South It Is now re*
JXored to thm original shape and will be published as for*
rnerty every week ^ Founded In IStd It grew until tS99,
when, as a monthly. Its form was changed as an expert'
meat X? It now returns to Its original formation as a
weekly with renewed vigor and the intention of ecllps*
ing its most promising period in the past.
Increasing Our Mental
Contact-Points
The Sunny South's Month
ly Fiction Editions
AFFECTIVE with August, The Sunny
South will inaugurate a feature which
the management is sure will appeal
ONOTONY ’ is a negative force
which we believe plays havoc with
the happiness and content of more
people than any other single mod
ern factor. It breeds more enui,
more distaste for life and work than
all the strychnine tonics, rest and |
out-door cures can alleviate or re-j
move. The reason for this condi
tion is very simple. It follows the!
But some twenty years ago. more or
see her coming, we all feel that we re
too old to learn.
Poverty, as the saying goes, makes
strange bed fellows; but, when we
come to think of it, we can get along
with very little sleep.
In spite of all the growling the old
world goes on doing its level best for
us—ever rolling us nearer the uncom
fortable brightness of the hereafter.
HIS GOSPEL—OLD AND NEW.
I.
John—he jest kep’ a-sayin in ever
time an’ place;
‘This world that we’re a-lrvin’ m—it
ain’t no friend to grace
LITERARY FARMERS.
So many literary men are going info
tue farming business now—leaving lit
erature for lettuce, and critics for
corn! They must nave decided with
less, two students got after these glori- i Candide, that "the best thing one can matter what his fortune wuz—
ous descents. Joseph Foster published a do is to cultivate one’s garden.” * even when he'd win the race:
“Peerage and Baronetage’ and “G. E. .- Thia world that wc ’ re a-livin’ in—it.
CV’ Ot is an open secret that these in- A LITTLE FABLE. ain ’t no friend to grace!”
ltidls stood for George E. Co-oka>aie, ^ Poet who accidentally discovered JT.
“CompieT f X pe™e 0 ’' inThVr-i,* that he had an Iflea in a Poem - went ,But, when he’d made his mind up. an'
Which they Show- tQ Market with it. where he succeeded | Mo ]l y said the'word,
false. So clear was their^proofThatThe in SelH " K tbe , Idea f ° r ' 1 .f*?’ r °“ nd In music sweeter than the notes of
books were bought up at once and prac- sum ‘ Peo P Ie J8mped at the ,dea ’ but ! any singin'-bird,
tically suppressed. They are now out of ran from the Poem ’ He changed his tune completely, an
print, and not likely to be republished.
They started a veritable crusade against AT REST WITH LOVE.
to all classes of our readers. Once existing genealogies. The society of Wherever Love shall deem it best,
each month an edition will be issued i Antiquaries did not take the matter up. Take thou thy rest!
devoted almost entirely to short but many of its members did: and the Vear not to trust—His kindly hand
devoted almost entirely to short rpf5Ultg arp terriblp . Almost. none of the Sha „ ]Pad thee to a holy lanf] ,
Stories, along the general lines Of pedigrees Of the higher nobility remains'A nd thou shalt. know and understand
R/m the happiness and content of morel the one published last week. Eor intact -
J W JL. people than any other single mod-j some time the editor has had this a year ago the earl of Denbigh was
innovation in mind and the issue of here us llf, ad of the Honourable Artille.y
last week was nut out to a laro-e'ex--i Company of Ij ° ndon - family claims
last week was put out, to a large ex descent from the Hapsburgs, and there
tent, With the intention of sounding is a fine pedigree for them in Burke's
tile sentiment of subscribers. Al- Peerage. But one of the antiquaries de-
_ _ r t i «• I molished that completelv, proving that
ready so many favorable, unsolic- the heralds. two beared years or so
ited comments have been received ago, invented a Hapsburg who never ex
sufferer wherever he or she goes. It j that there is no longer doubt that such a depart- i isted > had him come to England and
is with him morning, noon and: nre will prove immensely popular. It is not the in-j s^iie™ ward 8 wake^iaS- F on'"ufe
night, whether in the clatter of the j tention to disturb any of the regularly established
city, the booming surf of the sea-1 departments of the magazine. The editorial page,
shore or the thin, bracing air of the Mary E.Bryan’s woman’s page, the literary page and
mountains—because its origin is within himself
and its cure can come only from the same source,
at his own volition. Searching down deeply for
the discontent and irk of the average man and
woman, it seems most plausible that we will
find its chief provocation in the narrow, restricted
lives which the bulk of people live. They weary
of themselves and the world and life loses its sa
vor because they, unconsciously, will it so. Drunk ** r- *—*■ —mi t-- i Nothing is - sarred f,orn these pestifer-
with ambition for prominence or riches, they
give their whole mental and physical energy to
mastering the intracacies of the route which they
as the years wont on,—
World ain’t no friend to grace.- he
says, “but a powerful friend to
John!”
That Love knows best.
LIGHT IN DARKNESS.
Sing me your song of the shadows,
Your song of the dreary Night,
But still in the gloom
Is a breath of bloom.
And Love is there, in the light!
E7>e Busy World
a"
overshadowed by the assa ^
Russian minister . . c t Petersburg
PMv . ;t \ ‘. dnv,; 5 Z
“ ’enthusiastic ZZ
the at von piehve rose i n ifl 3
bystander . ^ pf)nd to thP cheers, a man
carri8g ® waV P to the vehicle and threw
edged hi. ‘ • Instantly it exploded,
a bomb un JT ' nd destruction i:i all di-
r ^tTon n Vr mister was Instantly ki„
rP ' 1 !, being fearfully mang.ed.
6 Several snectators shared his fate and
® .hor-es wounded and maddened.
She* down the street, dragging tne twa .
front wheel.; r f refuse, m
S eal the S names of his coplotters, although
'the police ore so confldent that th .
were others In the conspiracy that wn --
-„, p arrests are being made. Von Pic ,
was reputed to be the power behind rb,
czar and was bitterly hated througn
the empire for his systematic and
oppression of the people, hits net*. n-
h P g on top of tidings of the conquest
Xluchwang by the Japs aa
proaching accouchement of the t.
have operated to fearfully p-
Nicholas. .
The other crisis growing out
seizure and detention of Germ;
Kn-lish vessels by Russian men <>
I believed to he safely passed.
time there was considerable damp
'friction between the three nations .
but Russia has agreed to mak
complete reparation that the ten , ■ lS
materially relveed.
Wll-
■ Jr.
strength of Charles Kingsley's most un-
hlstoric “liistorical novel,” “Hereward
the Wake.” claims descent from the
mythical “Last of the English,” but the
same antiquary has destroyed his story.
THE WOES OF GENIUS.
An interviewer speaks of a distin- i
guished author “writing in his shirt
sleeves.” That is sad. When it gets Oh. Love is there, in the light,
so an author can’t afford blank paper!With a soul like a. lily-white,
for writing purposes, it. is high time And Darkness falls
for him to abondon the business. From the starry walls
For Ixive is there, in the light!
PROVERBS OF THE HIGHWAY.
When Prosperity knocks at the door Sing me your song of the shadows
we often mistake him for the Sheriff— : But shadows are last, in flight;
come to foreclose the mortgage.
There is a good deal of Charity in
this world. Some of us have even
been known to forgive’ the Sun his
dark spots.
In the heart o’ the dark
Is a deathless spark—
Oh, Love Is there, in the light!
There’s no doubt that Sorrow
Love is there, in the light,
To sing of a morning bright;
Darkness falls
From the high star-walls—
one or more serials will appear in each one of these
fiction editions. The rest of the space however I Not content with• individual assaults on
will bo given over to crisp, well-illustrated short J S,rSil»lT CS5 STS
fiction, the best winch southern, national and in- quarterly known as “The Ancestor,” _ ,
ternational talent affords. In this connection the wllich chases the pedigrees very much as teaches many lessons; but, when we ^ove is there, in the light.
. i j , • . , . ’ a cat chases a mouse—it might he more
management has under advisement a short story ; appropriate to say, much as a big monkey
contest of a decidedly unique nature. More may chases a smalltr one In the branches of
not be said at this time, as the plans are immature. 1 their ancestral tree.
.. . . . 1 i Vnthimr la ca crod
But it is a settled fact that the contest will be con- OUs truth _ telIers . They made fun of
ducted in the furtherance of that aim which The Wliliam Waldorf Astor’s pedigree that
Sunny South originally set for itself—the en- ' derived from a count of Astorga; they
couragement and development of southern wr j t .| aac,,ae ^ duke of Norfolk, who is head
1 , - , , , ^ , . , 'T.., ... , , ......... I °f the Heralds college, and therefore.
nave chosen tor themselves; they find no time for ers. While this is one of the principal planks i ought not to commit heraldic crimes, of I
leisurely pleasures or milder avocations which i in our platform, we believe at the same time in, using arms that do not belong to him;
bring with them the ginger of variety and in-i giving our readers the best fiction that can be ob- L tKey criticise royalty and say that the
creased sympathy with the myriad phases of exist-: tamed irom writers in this and other countries—j the game” in her creations of peers, and j
ence. If their blind pursuit of success does not; a policy which has been consistently followed for <Jid those things that she ought not to
bring them, slap! against the putty wall of mo- | nearly three years and which has received the un-• ba 'j G . done in dGt s erm ^ i ‘” & abeyances and
notony, their indolence does the job much more stinted approbation of our discriminating readers, j dPke ^'Northumberland"^ nT more
effectually. Craving relaxation after the day’s toil,; There can be no dispute, as was set forth in this ( a Percy than he is a Peterkin, and smile
they select those pastimes which are the shallow- column last week, but that the short story has j maliciously when they remark that the
est and which demand less mental expenditure for‘come to stay and that it has grown immensely in ; a jui^n ^lord^PaunceLrteis^os” ’
their comprehension and enjoyment. The result! favor with all classes of magazine readers. We in Mr. william Smith, a Nottingham
is inevitable. As long as the vitality is bubbling | have documentary evixlenc^ to the effect that the
up and everxfresh, this makeshift killing of time j stories published in the\ last issue found eager
will be found all-sufficient. But as the mind and I readers, not only with the younger and more sen-
faculties expand with maturing years and the timental element of our circulation, but with the
nerves cease to respond to the sharp demands of more settled readers as well. Romance and real-
a surface life, this perversion of opportunity and ism, in the fiction form, interest people in the ma-
material is paid for with a deadly lack of enthu- ture and declining years of life as well as those I ancestors, in every wav they have
siasm over anything and everything which does in its initial stages. It is the only anodyne with ‘ p,ayed ^ ,th t1ie nobnity and sentry
not have to do directly with the making of a liv-! which we are familiar which can make men and
ing. Everything “bores,” nothing excites or in-, women and boys and girls forget their sorrows and ^ These heartless persons are stm at
terests. their disappointments, without a disagreeable aft- work, one such iconoclast, however, has
In brief, we have applied the “strenuous” theory, ermatb. bleeu J[ u £ pr j PSS ^j.' na ™ e t!i! lR^rh’
so vigorously and unremittingly to our pursuit of While one issue of The Sunny South each month g^tiema^iTvesUgaTod the baronetage of
Can ary=Breeding,
Pleasure and Profit
For
1ST FOUR PARTS—PART II.
banker. 150 years ago. They show how
the heralds in Queeai Elizabeth’s time,
and even earlier, altered records and
■forged deeds, invented ancestors and
changed the names of real persons, so
that the then new nobility, created after
the wars of the Roses had wiped out the
English peerage, might have acceptanle
every wa v
i
of Great Britain.
Great Brialn and Ireland with very re-
recreation that like the drug fiend, larger and' will be devoted almost exclusively to short fiction,
larger doses are required to produce the desired: the other issues will not be lacking in this respect. nta rkable results. ^ The
stimulation and self-oblivion. After a time, even The appetite for short stories is too constant and j muchas^t conf.Wa hereditary titie Jpon
the keenest of the more superficial pleasures cease insistent to be satisfied with a “helping” onlv once a person while vet not making him a
to appeal to the sated faculties and the unescapable in four weeks, so the established poliev of printing Tt was begun by James i in i6ii. j to attempt the
torpor, which we call monotony, settles down like two or more tales in each weeks issue will be con-! ftrred on personR who would pay £i.ooo cate nttie cane
a grimy pall. Hie symptoms and the course of the | tinued. The management has, in addition, other
disease are too common to require further defini- interesting plans on foot for the fall and winter
tion. editions of The Sunny South. Until these are more
Xow, if on the other hand, we had cultivated a definite, however, no announcement will be made
healthy love for reading, amateur photography,, beyond the statement that the publication for the
pyrography, art its its many forms, sensible ath- next twelve months will be. as far as unflagging ef-
letics, gardening, social and political economy, or-; forts and money can make it, the brightest and
ganized charity, languages, and so on indefinitely, most attractive in its history.
we would have opened up other avenues of cou- The management is always grateful f«*r sug-
tact with people and things which would have gestions from readers as to new features and the
a piece for It. Mr. Dennis took the sub
ject up about I8S8. and by the end of
1890 bad the manuscript of a book ready
—“The Baronetage; a History, a Criti
cism and a Vindication." Of it he writes
thus;
T had searched every cranny and crev
ice during three years. T had accumu
lated a mass of historical facts about
the dignity which had never before seen
the light. I had dug in some very dlrtv
ditches, pursuing my titled prey, and I
had collected lists of such as were 1m-
given no room for the entrance of satietv or mo- adoption of present ones which they think will i povprlshed ’ ,ost - "bogus.” and in other
Ttio Ucf ;.l ! : o.- i Ti -..k ! respects a disgrace to. the dignity they
T named those who had died In
prison or work house, those who sub
sisted on begging letters, and one tn
particular who was nothing less than
a pirate.
The book, however, was stopped on the
advice of the then Garter King of Arms
| Sir Albert Woods, as being too seanda-
j lously true, and only one copy of it Is
l In existence today. Mr. Dennis con-
j eludes his letter with these words:
i Some years ago, when Dr. Rlcliard
; Garnett was still at Ills post, I promised
1 him that it should find a final resting
place in the British museum. The offer
was cordially accepted,. but Dr. GarnqTt
added that he would probably have to
keep it under lock and key for twenty
years. From this you may judge what
sort of a thing is the Britisli baronetage.
Verily, with this book still in existence,
and with the "Ancestor” and its anti
quaries busy searching out the weak
notony. The list of pleasant, congenial avocations,' improve the magazine. It is issued to please sub-! borp
call them “fads” if you will, is sufficiently versa- scribers and any plan which will further this end
tile to suit the most profound or the most superfi- and which is within reasonable bounds will receive
cial individual. The more you know about each, careful attention and investigation.
Modern Courtship Not as Zestful
As Old-Time Method #
By HELEN a flURT.
Written for 15he Sunny youth
HERE are canaries and ca
naries, especially when it
comes to making a selec
tion for breeding purposes,
and raising them for profiL,
or even just for one's own
pleasure, to keep or to
present to a friend. There
are marks which should be
known to the would-be
purchaser, marks that dis
tinguish the aristocrat
from the plebian, for there
nre as distinct classes
among birds as among people.
In selecting a canary, try to get one
with thick, smooth feathers, lying close
to the body. A long .slender bird is to
be preferred to a short, chunky one. See
that the feet are smooth, and of n rosy,
transparent hue, with the veins of the
rails of a bright red. This should .ii
ways he the ease If the bird Is healthy,
and under a year old. Take the smali
cage in which the bird is kept In the
store. Into your hand, and the bird, in
hopping to and fro. will Itself tell you
the truth as to its strength and vitality,
or the opposite.
Right here let me say that no one ought
raising of birds, whether
hardy squabs, or the dell-
rios, unless they have a
decided love for birds as such. Where
this love Is. there will be also a goodly
stock of patience in looking after uc-
| tails, and thought for the welfare of the
i helpless crcati res, without which 'there
! can be no success. If one takes up a
business In a perfunctory sort of way,
! in a “I must, but don’t want to” spirit,
i failure is sure to follow. And this op-
I plies especially to the care of live stock,
whether animals or birds, for by our own
| acts we have made them helpless to
| take care of themselves, and have made
their very lives dependent upon our own
tare of them. But when a man or
woman has a natural love for the little
dumb things that are dependent on them,
raising canaries or other birds Is just
the business that they can undertake
with a surety of reward for care ex-
HE pendulum of fashion al
ways swings to the ex
treme limit, and there is
no doubt that fashions In
courtship have changed as
much as those In hats,
skirts, or footwear. It Is
probable that If the e.ourse
of true lore in the old
days was never smooth,
at least the difficulties of
the old time lovers gave
zest to the pursuit. There
are many, especially men,
who think that the course of love, true
and otherwise, at the beginning of the
twentieth century Is altogether too
smooth, too easy.
There was an estimable woman wno
died not long ago who was fond of tell
ing of her own adventures when the
man whom she afterward married was
wooing her. She lived In the country,
rot only 5 miles from a lemon, but 25
m”es from a railroad and everything
cise worth while. She was not permitted
to correspond with her admirer, of
course, as that would have been too
dreadful, and so one day. In delighted
surprise, she saw him riding up the long
avenue that led to her father's residence.
His horse was evidently weary, and he
was covered with dust, and tired, too.
but when he saw her at the window ho
took his ha.t off h* curly locks and swept
his saddle bow with it.
When the girl went down to see him
she found her mother and father in the
drawing room talking to him, and she
sat in an embarrassed silence wlflle her
elders questioned him about Ills ride from
another county, 40 miles away, and about
his mother and father. Finally he was
asked to remain to dinner, and accepted,
but all that Evening the girl never Had
a moment to say a word alone to the
young man.
When he arose to go and his horse
was brought around for him to mount
the father of his lady love shook him Wy
the hand, not cordially but at least with
a degree less stiffness than he had shown
during the visit.
“When you are riding by again, Mr.
Mortimer,” he said, "stop in and see ns.
Bless my aoui, Rebecca, you will catch a
cold out here; run into the house at
once.”
Shades of Pegasus! "Wh.en you are
riding by again,” and this to a man
wtio had ridden 40 miles Just for a
glimpse of a maid’s face, and must ride
10 miles more to gain shelter nt a way-
side inn.
When the girl was alone with her fam
ily she reproached them for not having
invited the youth to spend the nlgnr.
“He was so tired,” she pleaded. But
her “stern parent” shook his nead. “I
wasn’t going to have him think I was
anxious to lose my daughter, the young
i whipper-snapper,” replied the lord of tne
manor.
ZEST OF FORMER WOOINGS.
The young woman afterward mar
ried the man, hut it is a matter of fami
ly history that he was forced to write
his proposal on a piece of paper and pass
it to her under cover of a picture he was
showing to her, because her father sat
In the room with them always, and at
every remark that either made he would
exclaim, ”G/>d bless my soul! what a
foolish speech. Rebecca.”
That was the old way, when men
really courted girls and exerted them-
chase. Ever y man likes a good chase,
but few enjoy one. so great is the com
placency of the girl of the age.
It doesn’t behoove any one to abuse
the girl of the age, for she is the best
girl we have at this time, but the old
fashioned folk could find it In their hearts
to wish she wouldn't use the telephone
quite so much. If the man on whom her
young affections are, she thinks, firmly
set, does not appear on the night when j points in their genealogical armor, the
and their timid chirpings were met witll
gentle words and whistlings that delight
ed them. After the first week I began
to rest my hand on their cage. They
showed some nervousness for a few
days, but soon got used to the hand out
side, and then a finger was thrust inside,
resting on one of the perches. That
lesson in taming was a dreadful trial to
the timid little scholars at first, and yet
In two days they were fearlessly peck
ing at it, perching on it, and pretending
to eat it lip, scolding the while.
Canaries are passionately fond of
hemp seed, but it should never be put
in their seed cup for them to help them
selves. Tt Is too heating and fattening,
and if given too freely, is the cause of
sickness and often of death, and always
of impaired singing powers, or loss of
voice entirely. Two or three hemp seeds
a day is quite as much as they ought to
ahve. Because of this, and of the love
of the little birds for hemp seeds, it is
a good plan to make use of them as a
potent weapon In the taming process.
That was what T did. Before my birds
became used to the finger being thrust
into their cage, a nice, plump hemp seed
was stuck on its tip. Then there was a
period of patient waiting while the lit
tle creatures consulted together, and
hopped excitedly back and forth, coming
a little nearer each time to the coveted
seed. It was very comical to watch their
quiet, Stealthy approach towards the
powerful magnet, and their panic-stricken
retreats. But at ,ast Don made one
, frantic, desperate dash, and the seed
I was borne triumphantly away by a little
! bird as much astonished by his own brav
ery and happy escape, as delighted with
| its reward, which, I ant sorry to say, he
was not chivalrous enough to share with
i his wife. Another seed fell to her share.
: though, for she took courage from his
example, and snatched the next seed her
self.
After this there was no further trouble
in taming my pets. The cage door was
| often hooked back, and they hopped hack
and forth over the table and flew about
the room. Then presently they came to
1 pay me a visit at mv desk, and were re
warded by a hemp seed on the palm of
1 niy hand, where they sat to eat It. al
though they were free to take it else
where. As the birds became more and
fearless.
more fearless, the hemp seed was held
pended. For such there are many com- bP ^ WGGn n *V lips, and then on my tongue,
pensations for the patience and work that Sn ‘ on . mv s h°ulders and help-
are required. For instance, it is a won- ' a emseUes without the least fear. Tit-
look on S ’ SOmP timPS thpir tiny haad * went
i dlv mg so fag into my month as to near-
J L- strangle me with their soft little
feathers. At such times a sudden cough
derfnl and touching thing to
while tlie atom of life called
bird goes systematically to work to make
her preparations for going to housekeep- | would 'send them roiI &h
ing. and later, to watch her care and i Catapult hut he ^ ' f fr ° m a
sr.anage.ment of her large family of small j once nothin- l ,th to ba ° k ? t
children. How does she know all about fact.’ thev seemed rather to ^ "
It? Who has taught her just what ' °
she expects him, she calls him up b-* tel
ephone the next day. Some times she
calls him at his place of business, and
sometimes at his house; it makes little
difference to her, and, once secured, she
begins sweetly: "What has become of
you? I was afraid you were ill. I
haven’t seen you for so long, and so I
thought I would call up and see if all
was right with you.”
Ihe man reassures her. He is per
fectly well, he says, but he has been
dreadfully busy—he doesn’t specify about
what.
Occasionally, If he is derelict and she
doesn’t know what is the matter, she
makes pp a small chaffing dish party,
and Invites him to be present. When he
arrives she inquires tenderly after his
health, and where he has been spending
the time.
If she does not like to make these in
quiries herself, she lets one of her girl
friends into the secret, and gets her to
do the catechising.
Many firms have been obliged to ask
Its young men to request their girl
friends not to telephone them during of
fice hours, for It keeps the telephones go
busy that other important business can-
1 not be transacted through them.
There never were better looking girls
. than those that now Inhabit the earth,
i and there never were sweeter girls, but
[ they are far too tame, and Invite their
fate too cheerfully to make good Sport,
I and there Is many a wicked old bachelor
who says that there would be fewer
English peers and barecota use not lu
an enviable position. Once in a while
some peer pops up who, like Sydney
Smith, admits that he seals his letters
with his thumb because he has if) -arms,
but most of the British nobility like to
have a long line of ancestors behind
do, and when to do it? There can be
tut one answer. He who has said that
not even a sparrow <an fall without His
knowledge.
AFFECTION EASILY WON.
Tt is a great pleasure, too, to watch the
gradual taming and growth of confidence
in the little timid birds that have been
rescued from the cramped cages of the
bird stores. It is so easy to win the heart
of a bird if you set about it rightly,
and even the love of a bird is not to be
despised. It will soon come to under
pull
to my
° ttuL'RMuis uenina 1 . , .. . ., , . . ,
them, and must view the activities of the stand that u bas a in you, and
antiquaries with anything but joy, thougn - - -
equally they must be interested to dis-
L 0 ,n e Uv' t her t e n thes . e diggers in the past
will next strike their picks and shovels.
T. J.
ICE IN INDIA.
Dr. Wells, a London physician, in 1818,
in his published essay on dew, was the
1°, draw atte 'irion to the curious
artificial produc^on of Ice in India. Shal-
'°" P L?.,. are . dl, S. which are partially
filled with perfectly dry straw. On the , .....
straw broad, flat pans containing water touched their cage
selves to do so. Things are so easy t bachelors if courting wasn't made
now that there is not much sport in the easy.
are exposed to the clear sky. The water
being a powerful radiant, sends off its
h€*at abundantly into space.
The heat thus lost cannot be replaced
' i 2* earth . 'for this source Is ex
cluded by the straw. Before sunrise a
cake of Ice is formed in each vessel. To
produce this ice in quantities clear nights
are advantageous, and particular^ those
on which practically no dew falls."should
the straw get wet It becomes more mat
ted and compact and consequently a
better conductor of heat, for the vapor
then acts as a screen oyer the pans,
checks the cold and retardji freezing.
this without any need of starving it into
an abject surrender. " ’Tis better far
to rule by love than fear.” even when
only a helpless, humble little bird is
in question.
Some years ago I had nearly a dozen
canary birds, all' raised in a large cage
that stood on a table by the window in
my own special "den.” The “par and
mqr” of the family were bought at a
bird store, and timid enough were thev
at first, t>uttering in terror if anyone
They had been
cramped for months, ’ probably, in the
small wooden cages In which they had
coma from Germany, and on the ship
and In the store were surrounded by, to
them, terrible noises of all sorts. It was
enough to set their sensitive little nerves
on edge, and it did, almost beyond re
covery.
Before very long, however, the little
creatures came to feel that they had
nothing more to fear. They soon recoz
nlzed me as their very good friend
Their cage was kept close t Q my desk!
consider their
- idde n scatteration as part of the fun
It soon Wame the chief delight of my
pets to hop over me. from head to foot
to dance over my des k and mv manu
script. to sit on my shoulder and
out my hairpins and to cling
pencil as I wrote. So
birds become that they at last looked
upon my friends as their own. A i, w
one that is. and this was a case ol-
* <io iiqL like you. Dr. Fell
The reason why I cannot tell.
But this I know, and know full well
I do not like you, Dr. Fell.” ’
CAT AND BIRD.
a thG Dr ' FeU in this case was
earrfnes an/T'"' '° ng ’ PP,ldant
ttw, S ’ U the morr >ent she entered
the room, both canaries drooped th P t r
wings, opened their mouths, and scoring
vigorously, flew striiehi -.t v, • scouting
where they aTght^^amefed 0 W’
swinging earrings with «,! their dttle
might, not the rings only but the ears
abov P them, it was a rs
and a » ‘he mU W so a be V 4 r u y se CU o?rts m Sbt -
tery. The object of their enmitv h a
never offended them Tn any wav k
was 'their verv r , Wa >. but
their unprovokfd 8 a ttack r s end n" SPUe 0t
limb. Jf their powers had be r and
their will, it wou ,, . * h d bGen ec mal to
her. and. asTt Sas S he g h ° n d e ^
to guard he- eyes “from th^ sompti mes
little beaks. * f m those naughty
One of the
about the room one dav when
covered Ir.at our Pet cat w . WC dis '
e^cious 0 ’ bi^. ^Sre th "
wa s;
the
forces over th- a
icals in th-
The new rub
prominent at
in Maryland.
tun, j O’Brien some time 111
cordunt forces in the convention
tended bitterly, and there wet
that no agreement would be r< a
Those interested in harmony, h
finally succeeded in suffic iently i .
the situation to produce the abjv
suits.
RS. FLO REN K
MAYBRICK, wu
for nearly fitq.
years, has been
mured iti an •; _
lish prison, to:. -
rd of poisoning
husband, has
liberated on
of-leave. Slit i
in Rouen, Fi
but will p
soon sail for
• country. Ht;
Mrs Al ay brick >ceupied rig.
two of which were consumed ill t:
ming up hv the late justice it; ,
who inveighed strongly against
cused woman, notwithstanding th
doctors had testified that M
, death was not due to arsenical
ling. Sir Charles Russell, later .
justice of England. Who cl' :
Mrs. Maybrick, commenting on .J
Stephen’s charge, said: "He pass,
ly invited the jury to find a X
guilty, .taking two days to sum up-;
I first day as a judge, and on the .-
he raged like a violent counsel f
prosecution against her.” The jury,
ter an absense of only thirty-six mi
I returned a verdict of guilty, whi h
prised every one. The judge was
and hooted. To the myriad popular
official requests from this country
revision of the case, the British *
! office has always turned a deaf r
.though the convicting evidence wn r -
iy
F. X R T kit::::
HAGGARD, w:.
eentlv had u : •
markable dr< m
vision regarriiu-
death of a fa
dog, which i s set
Lhe psycholog.
ports by the • r-,
Is one of the 1 !-
Ing writers of
tion, especi “
relates tq . b e -
tur-s in Africa ’e
was born at Bi
ham, England, June 22, 1856.
educated privately. As a young ni
served in South Africa in official car
ties, being at otic time master
high court of the Transvaal, and aE
lieutenant and adjutant of the 1
| Horse. liis first book was puhli- 1 tn
1882. and since that time a n'
entertaining volumes have emanate ] i
his pen. Mr. Haggard is now a j 'a
of the peace.
Tlie great strike of the butchers fn
the Chicago packing houses ha-
' out afresh, the peace negotiations a
few days since having proven Ineffoc
It is estimated that 50.000 men are re
fected by the strike, which has
complicated by the sympathetic stvil- '?
I of all the allied branches. The
pal Issue between the packers and the
operatives is the immediate rcemp ce
ment of all strikers, over which m it
side can agree either through ar are.
tion or direct conference. Both s' o’
believe the pr-sent contest will b- I r '
traeted and the result final. Already
meat throughout the country has shown
a tendency to appreciate in p'ice an i
an ultimate “famine" is feared The
packers are making desperate efforts to
break the strike by importing non-'cr on
workers, while the striking employees
are maintaining a solid front. Sever !
bloody clashes are already reoori d an i
prospects of a settlement am ■ ar re "
mote.
ht Rider Haggard
CONTlNU BDONFOCR
PAGE.
THE THERMOMETE!
(From The Philadelphia Le<
Tlie thermometer plays an i
part in our daily fife, though it i.
if it contributes to our happine
tremely hot or cold weather,
whq discovers that the .mecury
the 100 mark on a summer da
trifle more uncomfortable. The
thermometer is untruthful and
astray. I’ntil recently there wa
cial -standard by which to test
bllity of these familiar instrum
the national bureau of sum
branch of the department of 1
commerce, now undertakes, fi t
fee, to guarantee the accur,. v "1
mometers which deserve the na
one can send a thermometer t
reau, and the fee for testing rat
5 to 25 cents for each degree
Derature at which it is brought <1
operation. A description of the ;
£ ep ‘ at Washington says that a
heee tl0n , al , s ‘ anda rd thermomc
slTiL carefu, 'Y compared with
C0mnn'rt fOrelSn tFslin S bureaus,
comparisons Will be frequentlv
cial discovPrpd tlie
error * 8seho,d thermometers ar<
discovered'"'to * nd ™
way ” l ° be flve Pomts oi