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M % V EDITORIAL PAGE THE SUNNY SOUTH JULY 30. 1904 Sfce SUNNY SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Buslne/s Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA, GEORGIA Subfcription Terms: To those who subscribe to "She Sunny South only Six Months, 25c ^ One Year, 50c LESS THAN A PENNY A WEEK Entered at the postofllce Atlanta. Go.taa aeraad-rlasa mill matter March 13, IttOi 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