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THE SUNNY SOUTH
JANUARY 2/, 1905
T%t* T «r ^ „ ! they are made to do extraordinaryly foolish or un-
XP/JQ \jQUl H accountable things. It is probable, though, that
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their eccentricities are only the more notable be
cause they are lifted above the multitude. If you
will investigate the people at your very elbow,
those admittedly commonplace, you will discover
oddities just as pronounced and inexplicable. Ex
cept that in these cases, we are apt to dub the
man a crank instead of a genius. With the few
genuinely authenticated instances, however, of in
corrigible oddity in superlatively brilliant people,
we can forgive the strange pranks they play for
the pleasure and profit they give us in return.
It is undeniable that many “great wits are sure
to madness near allied,” but the “madness” of
Q ne Year 50c ' sorne of our “great wits” so often has a motive of
! ostentation that in universal disgust we are apt
LESS THAN A PENNY A WEEEI ! to exclaim :
Entered at the posiofllre Atlnntn, fta.,ni aerond-rlase mall matter
march 13, 1»«1
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“Of fools the world has such a store.
That he who would not see an ass,
Must stay at home and bolt his door
And break his lookingglass.”
The Sunny South is the oldest weekly paper of Literature,
Romance, Fart and Fidtlon in the South ^ It le now re* j
Stored to the original shape and will be published as for• ;
merty every week & Founded in 1874 It grew until <£99, j
when, as a monthly, its form was changed as an expert• '
ment & It now returns to its original formation as a J
weekly with renewed vigor and the intention of .clip., fgfl JtltitUCieS €111(1 LOW-
ing Its most promising period in the past.
Genius, and the Convene
tional Viewpoint
ANEGYRICS on genius are super
fluous. It is a theme which has been
exhausted by nearly all of the rhet
orical jugglers of recent years. But
with all of the light which has
been shed on the subject, we are
as far from a definite understand
ing of the exact origin and nature
of genius as we are of the myste-
teries of life itself. A dozen and
one definitions have been coined,
and while some of them are apt
lessness
CONTEMPORARY, The Pittsburg
Dispatch, given to finding unique
viewpoints, puts the following in
teresting querry: What is there
in the mountain air that provokes
violence and lawlessness? It then
proceeds to cite numerous large
and small illustrations, calling at
tention to the fued outbreaks in
West Virginia, and the mountain
ous districts of Kentucky and Ten
nessee. It is certainly true that as
one leaves the hill-country and
descends into valley the atmos
phere seems to clear gradually of
in a few isolated cases, none have belligerency and the inhabitants to give them-
been found to succinctly describe
the general condition. All we know
Leaves from an Old
Scrap Book
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
ENERAL HENRY W. AL
LEN, when governor of
Louisiana, in his inaugu-
al address delivered at
Shreveport, gave a fearful
portrait of General A. F.
Butler’s mind and charac
ter, and a seething review
of his career of robbery
in Louisiana. Alluding to
the personal appearance
of Butler, he said:-
"There is in the Vatican
at Rome an extraordinary
(painting by one of the old masters,
is called the "Devil Reproving Sin.” The
gTeat artist has by prophetic pencil, por
trayed the exact features of Benjamin F.
Butler. As statues will no doubt be
erected to him in ail the federal cities,
I suggest that the Holy Father, Pius
the Ninth, be earnestly solicited to send
this picture to the city of New Orleans,
for the present and all future ages to
behold with horror and disgust.”
A “SUBSTITUTE" REFUSED.
One of the best war jokes in the old,
scrapbook was the following taken from, to keep the literary business COlll:
| The Hatrford (Conn.) Times: ‘one must take a recess and split rails
j ‘‘The draft gives rise to some novel in-1 on the side.
| cidenls, of which we give an example: I Many an author who is famous now,
A man, who shall be nameless, was i shivers when he hears the waters of
drafted. His wife was sorely distressed j Oblivion splash,
j at the bare idea of parting, and was
Along' the Hig'Hway
By FRANK L. STANTON
J
I ASK NOT THE WAY.
I.
I ask not the way
In the dark or the day,
If Love at my calling .hall heed me:
Though thorns may be mine,
Still the bright stars will shine,
And Love to the lillies shall lead me;
II.
The sorrows—the sighs,
And the rain o’ the eyes
It j Shall dim the fair future, oh, never!
The black storms will cease,
And my heart shall find peace
With Love and the lilies forever!
FROM AN AUTHOR’S JOURNAL.
I celebrated New Year’s day by kill
ing three of my heroes. One of the
critics told me they deserved it.
I wrote three love songs for one tur
key last Christmas. The incense of
the gods is great, but it isn’t tilling.
I have come to the conclusion that,
“FOREVER AND A DAY.”
I.
The New Year, the New Year,
With wavy locks of gold—
But still a hand that lingers
In the tresses of the Old!
The old friends who loved us—
The blossoms o’ the May,
Will be our sweetest blessings
“Forever and a day!”
H.
The New Year, the New Year,
The summits we must gam—
But still the Old Year woos us.—
Sweet memories remain!
The old joys that brighteued
The sky when clouds loomed gray,
Will be like fadeless flowers
“Forever and a day-”
Sfce Busy World
A body composed of approximately
3,000 Cossacks has raided southward in
Manchuria toward Niuchwang, menacing
the Japanese line of communications
and clashing at places with the enemy.
In two or three skirmisnes the Jap
anese were victorious, driving the Cos
sacks northward and inflicting an esti
mated loss of fort- killed and injured,
while they themselves sustained nom
inal losses. Outside of this slight fight
ing, nothing of moment is reported from
the front. Oyama’s army will soon be
reinforced by the Port Arthur veterans
of Nogi. It is rumored that Kuropatkln
will make an endeavor to smash the
Japanese front prior to the .arrival of
these reinforcements, but no definite
news has been received by the great
distributing agencies.
j Andrew Carnegie, whose name it is
‘alleged Mrs. Cassie Chadwick forged ex-
j tensively to papers on the Citizens’ na-
There is a -Teat demand for plots i tiona l ban * of Oberlin, Ohio, which led
, 1 ‘ r ®, 1 “ , . „ <ovel to t,iie suspension of that institution
for not els. .a S ‘ ‘ “ tl has announced his Intention of making
with a plot in it as^ ' good ail the losses encountered by those
market for some time^ ; j lc sees to designate as “worthy de-
! positors.” It is understood that he ha3
j already deposited a check covering the
j amount of these losses, as well as a
j check for S3,000 to reimburse the build
ing fund of the local Young Mertry
SOMETHING AT LAST.
“The editor says there was some
thing in your last poem.” -
“Yes; I inclosed ten stamps!”
vainly endeavoring to invent some ex
cuse for getting him exempted, when a
knock was heard at her door. On open
ing the door, she found a rather rough
looking chap, who accosted her thus:
“ ‘Madam, I hear your husband has
been drafted.’
“ ‘Yes, sir, - she replied, ‘he ha.s; but
goodness knows how 1 am spare him.’
“ ‘Well, ma’m. I’ve come to offer my
services as a substitute for him.’ S
‘A what?’ asks the now excited lady.
'I wish to take his place,” answered
the man.
‘You—you take the place of my hus
band, you vagabond! I’ll teach you to
insult a poor, lone woman in distress,
you mean, dirty wretch!’ cried the pros
pective widow, accompanying her remark
with a discharge of dirty water at tho
,'ho
for
a certainty is
selves more uniformly to peaceful pursuits. The j head of ,he astonished substitute, w
, , r F -. ; fled hastily down the stairs just in t“
Dispatch also presents Colorado as a proof of its to escape the pan, which followed
THE DECLINED.
I.
Poor little poem!
Here you are again.
After many a journey
Over mount and main!
II
But, think you now of resting?
Poor thing of dream and doubt!
In shine or snow, you’ve got to go
As long as stamps hold out!
A LIFE TEXT.
sav. when the trouble
Would come to destroy;
“Farewell to Sorrow—
Good morning to Joy!”
Don’t get discouraged because the j Christian Association, on deposit in
Hill of Fame looks steep. Your ability : defunct ,
to climb is all that’s necessary.
PROVERBS OF THE HIGHWAY.
When Sorrow knocks, that’s your |
signal that it's time to take a holiday
witn Joy.
The stars make the tilltops allur- ■
ing: but when we reach tne summit
the world can’t see us for the clouds.
It’s possible to make such a heaven
of earth that the real heaven won’t
! seem strange to us.
j When Joy goes to whistling, you
! can dance a world of troubles down.
I When Love finds thorns along the,
way he takes ’em and hides ’em from
us in his heart.
ho builc
? Merp/
it in
5*1
mncil w-.
Sergius IL.tie
JDRGIUS
■ resident
tussian council^
uinisters, is i-e^.
guided as the most
influential of all the
■ •zar's ministers at
: he present time.
Crider his adminis
tration Russia made
• is greatest progress
in internal develop
ment. He has al
ways opposed the
“war party” in the
that eenius is unusual ability, j hierh altitude-criminal theory. It will be remem
sometimes even attaining a brilliance which we
arc tempted to believe must have its genesis in
some superhuman source. Its other marked char
acteristic. too, is that it is confined to no one field;
for there are geniuses in the law, medicine, busi
ness, statecraft and crime, as well as in Lite sphere
broadly termed art. Heredity and environment
alike fail to account for its vagaries, for excep
tional minds are often observed in children of
commonplace or stupid parents, and the blossom
is as likely to flower in a poor house as in a
palace—much more so according to history. It is
just one of the queer, unfathomable phenomena
of life, which comes as a banc or blessing, accord
ing to its possessor, or the use to which he puts it.
Jt is one of the afflictions of genius, however,
that it must be exposed to the ludicrous imita
tions and travesties which venal and shallow trick
sters employ to gain a transient prestige or easy
competence. In all the larger cities of the world,
there may be seen congregated a large horde of
bered that for the two past years that state has
been the theater of lawlessness, closely bordering
on anarchy, and that even at present conditions
threaten to become unstable without notice. The
Bulgarian hill-bandits are mentioned as further
proving the theory, while the hill operations of
Raisuli, the Moorish “gentleman bandit,” are re
garded as finally substantiating it. It is noted,
furthermore, that the bulk of England’s smaller
wars have been waged against the hill tribes of
India.
From a casual inspection, this peculiarity would
seem to rest on two primal causes of very general
application: (i) the isolation of such people from
civilization and the retention of the fighting in
stinct, untamed by association with more pacific
influences; (2) the subtle physiological and pshy- _
chological agencies which, to a greater or less S:
the
water. The last heard of him he was)
flying- into a recruiting office on Asylum
street, where he thought of enlisting as
a private rather than venture again to:
offer his services as a ‘substitute,’ which 1
he now believes to he a more trying and ‘
delicate relation than that of Artemus i
Ward’s ’episodes.’ ”
The Crafty Boll Weevil,
Its Work and Its Doom ^
IN TWO PARTS—PART I.
A “BUTTER INCIDENT.”
The following is one of the many sto
ries told on General B. F. Butler, and
which appeared in The Jackson Missip-
sippian;
“All the world knows old Dr. Warren
Stone. He is celebrated for his great
surgical skill, as well as for his great
ness of heart, independence of character
and devotion to the south. This truly
great man was selected by General But
ler as a ‘shining mark,’ upon which to
cast his venom. He was accordingly ar
rested and brought into the presence of
the tyrant. The doctor walked up to
Butler without waiting to be asked, and
aid in an abrupt, curt manner: ‘Here
extent, pervade high altitudes, making of the race | J ^ S T*
of mountaineers a hardy, aggressive folk, quick to j doctor from head to foot, and said con-
resent real or imagined insults, informed with; temptuousIy: 1 had you arrested be-
, , , . ,, . , , , 11 , ,1 , ■ , ... cause you are a great rebel, and the in-
this class—fake geniuses, tney might be called, the keen, pugnacious impulses which are the ais
cin 1 lion c * tun muc hirirr eVioro ctorictli'C i~\ T flD/IDlD llA r 1tTO r T1 1
tinguishing .characteristics of people living near
the soil in elevated latitudes.
It is, perhaps, putting it in too exaggerated
form to assert that those living in high altitudes
are essentially lawless. A more precise defini
tion would represent them as impatient of a
restraint, the virtue of which does not appeal to
Almost invariably they are roaring social lions,
conspicuous guests of honor at dinner parties. If
they affect to despise flattery and homage, it is
because that will render them doubly interesting
to that great section of the pubiic which mistakes
deafening noise or foolish oddity for preternatural
talent. So we see the paticuar specimen who ac
quires long hair; the man given to dinners in
which all the appointments are made with a view
to impressing the guest with the eccentric temper
ament of the host; there is the churlish pretender,
too, who resorts to remorse mannerisms or surly
speech to dazzle and convert the unwary, and
there are a few so feverishly anxious for fast-
flving distinction that they drift deliberately into
the nauseous mode of life under belief that they
are gaining the admiration of the untaught.
1 here are all these types and many more, not so
easily defined. It must he understood, in passing,
that these maneuvering fakirs always make some
pretense at the pursuit of a certain profession, de
pending on the creation of what is called a
“unique” temperament to attract followers and
deflect dollars. Their muchly boasted love of
their work or “art,” as the case may be, is gen
erally pretty cleverly assumed, and it only requires
the pin s prick of the sophisticated to remove the
varnish and find the counterfeit beneath. For a
brief time they do, undoubtedly, dazzle the man
who is too busy or too indolent to invesfgate the j true, and it offers a strong future compensation
fraud, but the vogue is short-lived, and they j for present ills—individuals of this impulsive,
high-strong temperament, as a rule constitute the
most zealous, intelligent and worthy citizenship,
once they have become amalgamated with the
By HELEN HARCCURT.
Written for IT/)c Sunny South
HERE is no insect in the
United States, or, indeed,
in all the world, that is
attracting so much atten
tion at the present time os
that small beetle known
as the cotton boll weevil.
It measures less than a.
quarter of an inch, but the
damage it can do to the
cotton industry may be
computed by the hun
dreds of miles. This lit-
Ue insect is found in the
cotton fields ali through the season, from
the first growth to the final gathering
of the cotton boll, and all the while it
is busy puncturing and laying its eggs
Its
one of the most difficult insects to de
stroy in the whole world. But Ameri
cans are not wont to cry out- , ‘Feceavi’’’ I
or to sit down before an enemy with fold
ed hands. War has been declared on tne
boll weevil, and it will yet be wholly ex
terminated. There will be no cessation
in the attack until victory is won for the
cotton grower, for all the powerful wea-
great rebel; you can send me to Fort I tion - If not injured until late in the sea- j pons of the United States government are
Jackson, and be damned.’ When about; son they either dry o r decay. unsheathed against this “poor little in
to be sent on board the boat that was to! The Mexican cotton boll weevil, as its j sect -
fiuer.ee of such a man,os you are is dan- in the squares and forms and bolls,
perous io the' community. I shall send larvs/, measuring a little over three-
you to Fort Jackson to get you out of eighths of an inch when full grown, lives
my way.’ The old doctor looked steadily j within the bijd and bolls, and feeds or,
into the repulsive -crooked eyes of his 1 their interior substance. The parts thus
wicked enemy, as he indignantly replied: | attacked usually drop off, but most of
‘Great rebel, hey? You’ll send me to! the injured bolls remain on the plant.
Fort Jackson, hey? I glory jn being a! bl,t in a dwarfed and damaged condi-
now imperative. The cotton grower Who
desires success, must step out of the old
ruts, and get into the new grooves, if
he would raise the great staple to profit.
The boll weevil lives in all stages ex
cept the imago, in the boll itself, and is
well protected from any poisonous ap
plications. In the imago stage the weevil
takes food only normally, by inserting
its long beak into the substance of the
plant. It is entirely free from the at
tacks of parasite and disease, and is be
sides wonderfully prolific. T?.e progeny of
a single pair in one season may reach
134,000.000. The hoi! weevil also adapts
Itself to climatic to such an extent that
the egg stage alone in November may
occupy as much time as all the immature j it Is understood, by the transfer recent
stages put together, in July or August I of the division of postoffice inspectors
In short, the dreaded cotton boll weevil, j from the bureau of the fourth assistant
because of these several peculiarities., is ! postmaster general to the direct controi .
postmaster general himself.
czar's council and it is believed that he
will be the chief figure in the peace ne
gotiations between Russia and japan
when the war is ended. M. Witte is also
high in the confidence of the Russian
capitalists and landowners.
OSEPH L. BRIS-
-ow, fourth assist-
int postmaster gei-
oral, whose work it
ferreting out the.
frauds in the post. ;
department brought
him so prominently
before the public a
vear and a half ag .
resigned his offi,
recently.
He was immed:
ately appointed
Jos L. liristow special agent of L.
Panama canal commission to investigate
present trade conditions and freight ratt-j
between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
and across the isthmus of Pamana fur
the purpose of determining the best poli
cy to be pursued in the management of
the Panama railroad company.
Mr. Bristow’s decision to accept the
special commissionership was hastened,
them. P'or instance, the code of the north Georgia j convey him to the fort, Dr. Stone was; name indicates, originated in Mexico, and; j n Mexico, its original home, this fate-
mountaineer is riefid as reuards his spoken word, i informed tbat lf be would pay a fine ofj for man r years has flourished in the, ful inscct j s known as the picudo. When
l • CJ 1-4. * c ■ a ( *1 l 5500 h0 c ° uld avoid S° in £C down; but the ^on around Monclova, in the state of . t { t Brownsville, Tex..
or his fidelity to a friend; SO far as these great ! old patriot scornfully retorted: -TeU j Coa-huUa. Finally, from 1856 to 1862.! ‘.‘ ^aicotton growers called it tho
fundamental virtues extend, he is law-abiding, j General Butler that it seems to be a, 11 became the master Of all that sectioni ‘ , ’ . go doins? they
But it is when he reaches the man-made statute of d °' ! ^ W1 .| h . hU "’ bat 11 13 , a ' abandoned’ their'^fiLd^in'^'dcs^afr 0 'and' added another to the many instances of
which decrees that he cannot dispose of his corn ■ not give him 5 cents!’ No man in°the. the snow y staple became a thing of the j confusion caused by different names in
crop in a manner most pleasing and profitable to , ^! iff' a ^ "hei'ic^y'T^i if t^rin^'hr coUque^s were
lnmseli, that he comes to the conclusion he IS came known to ’his friends^ that he could 1 moras ’ antl thence, in 1893, crossed the I rather serious, for when the first of these
being oppressed, and that he has the right to ; be relieved on paying a fine, they sent | r ‘ ver at Brownsville, and thus made its [ insects was sent to the agricultural de-
the amount to Butler, and the noble old ; entr y into
years it has
evade such an enactment, as he would evade the
encroachments of an officious neighbor.
Generally, unlettered and shut off from the
world, he has imbibed his viewpoint from the tra
ditions of previous generations, and much time
will elapse ere he will he brought to the conven
tional conception of the law, now prevailing among
more highly civilized people.
man was released.
A RIDE WITH MORGAN.
The following item appeared during the
war in The Raleigh Advocate:
“We had the honor of riding on the
cars from High Point to Greensboro on
the 24lh instant with General John H.
Morgan. He was dressed in citizen’s
Texas. Within the last few ■ partment, as having appeared among the
is spread northward into oth- I col ton fields, it was called a “sharp
notably at San Diego, Alice j shooter ,” and as such, did not at once
; cause the alarm that it would otherwise
! have done, followed by a close investi
gation that might have checked the rav-
clothes, with a military hat on, a man of i places, and apparently with success.
! er countie:
| and Beeville. The weevil is still on the 1
; march, and threatens, if left unchecked,
: to spread throughout the cotton growing
; regions of Texas, and then t,o pass on, of he weeV il in the very beginning,
j into other states. In fact, it has al- [ 6
; ready been found at several points in
] Louisiana, but prompt measures have
been taken to extirpate the pest in these
This we think will supply the most plausible j fine appearance, weighs about 180. With
explanation of the restlessness and combativeness i no superfluous flesh, a quiet, modest.
. . , amiable looking gentleman of about thir-
oi tne inhabitants ot elevated climes, the world
over, varying, of course, with the uperopping of
local conditions. This much in addition is also
quickly descend to oblivion by one of the numer
ous routes which ironic life keeps open for the
dallier.
It is commonly believed, too, that even the un
doubted geniuses of history were remarkably odd
men in personality, outside of their own particular
calling. Instances are frequently cited in which
peoples of the valleys and absorbed a different,
more rational viewpoint—for viewpoint, after all,
is often sufficient to account for at least 50 per! hope ye’ll live^ to pay the Yankees back
cent of what we so glibly denounce as lawlessness. I His only reply was: ‘i hope rn live,
i sir.’ ”
ty-five years of age. He related to the
crowds at High Point and Greensboro,
some of the facts of his wonderful escape. ! f a ^ e IrT triith ” it is
Two officers accompanied him, said to be | jj* a ’ , other ’ inse( 4
captains in his late command. He
stopped at Greensboro to take passage to
Danville, Va., where his family have been
stopping for some time. His quiet, docile
appearance, we admit, did not indicate the
dashing Morgan, ’but his eye showed that
he was self-possessed and fearless. An
Irishman, we took it to be, said to the
eneral at High Point: ‘Well, general, I
The planters in the more northern sec
tions of Texas have for many years ap
plied this name of “sharpshooter" to
another species of insect, much less harm-
, ful. When, therefore, they heard of a
MOST SERIOUS PRESENT MEN- ^ “sharpshooter” among the Brownsville
ACE. | co tton fields, t’hey supposed it to be only
The cotton boll weevil La the most se- ano ther variety of the insect they had
rious menace that the cotton planters of| so , ong . been familiar with, one that was
the south have ever been called upon to| ann0 ying, but not a serious foe. For
Henry IV Phipps
rehabilitated. Mr.
more than doubtful j
ever threatened an!
agricultural industry with such wide-j
spread injury. Up to the time of the.
unepected appearance of this pest in j
Texas these existed no obstacle in thei
way of the cotton industry expanding
steadily from year to year, keeping step
with the ever-increasing demand. Tiie
New British Cult Would Foster Brutish Instinct s*
OR a long time I have seen , empire and as much more of the world j otry which threatens us alike—in our
it coming. Peace soe.ie- j as it can reach, from the yawning, siz- j foreign policy, in our criminal law and
ties, Audubon clubs, ani- | z,in S abyss of tender-heartedness, for “it
mai rescue leagues, pris-
is full time in this age of decadent hu-
manitarianism that some trumpet-ton-
on associations, red acre ■ slU;d protest were raised against the
farms and S. P. C. A.’s j prevalent sentimentality, and that there
j should be an attempt to organize and
couidn t be allowed I conso i idate the forces-at present scat-
have tilings all their own
prison system, in our science, in our
sports, in our fashions, in our diet—ir«
everything. Our opponents are fond of
using tiie term ’brutal’ in an opprobrious
sense; we take up the word like a gaunt
let!”
YEAR’S SUPPLY OF AMMUNITION.
The following was a part of the annual
report of the federal secretary of war in
1863:
“The expenditure for arms and muni
tions of war for sea coast and frontier
fortifications, and for the forces in the'
field, during the fiscal year, amounted
to $42,313,630.
“The cannon, small arms, accoutre
ments and equipments for men and
this reason planters outside of the dis
trict affected did not take the precau
tions against its advance that they would
have done most earnestly, if they had
known the true nature of this new ene
my. Many hold the opinion that the
acorn w eevil found in oak timber sections
! is identical with the boll weevil. This is
south produces now an average of ten | a mistake, for they are an entirely distinct
and a half million bales of cotton per species. The boll weevil will not feed on
annum, and there was nothing in the acorns, nor will the acorn weevil feed, on
way of increasing that ten millions to| the cotton plant. The boll weevil flies
twenty millions or even morejvery little at night, and has no love for
bales. But as it is. most of the author-(lights. On the contrary, tho acorn weev.
ities on cotton growing express the fear jj a t times flies freely at night, and at
that this little insect, small, but potent,
will prevent the desired increase. Cer
tain it is that the industry is now en
veloped in a doubt that did not exist be
fore the advent c*f the weevil.
In many localities the fear was ex
pressed that the cotton fields would have
to be abandoned, just as they had been
in those sections of Mexico above ajuded i ^ pa ^ a ^® r * ors ’ the boll weevil escape
to. But the vigorous warfare that has'””" 0 ' * ’
way. Sooner or later the
tered and isolated—that make for man
liness and patriotism.”
opposition would be heard Now, 1 confess that I roared long and
from, and at last the ; ] OU( j when I first caught sight of The
• volume I No. I, of The j Brutalitarian. Then fhe soar gave
Brutalitarian—“A Journal for the sane room to the inward chuckle that greets
and strong.” I an ingenious bit of cleverness; the new
’ , . , . . . ‘journal, I said, must surely be some
“We have let brutality die out too J , ’ . . „ . ..
novel brochure got up by the Humanitar-
much,” said George W’arrington Steev-
By way of launching its highly praise- j horses and ammunition obtained during
worthy camjiaign this “journal for the I the last fiscal year, by purchase and man-
sane and strong” speaks its mind “rath- i ufacture, were as follows:
ian League to satirize their opponents.
But no! The thing is no joke; it is no
trick. A vast and characteristically Brit
ish solemnity weighs soggily upon its
every paragaph. It is dead in earnest
It aesails the humanitarians with venom
ous ire. FdP lo! they are •’undermin-
something of a magnificent j j ng the vigor of the national STiaracter."
Says Cecil Chesterton: “The | “Obscure and contemptible though they
ens. “At the bottom of all distinguished
races,” says Nietzsche, “the beast oi
iirey is not to be mistaken.” Alfred Lyt
telton cheerfully declares that “ail men
who are patriotic and sportsmen must
feel that there is about war, once com
menced,
fame "
loldier who kills a Zulu in fair fight is
fulfilling the golden rule to the letter."
Rev. Raymond Blathwayt asks: “May
wo not now and again put aside the
are in themselves," they have “weak
ened the discipline of the English prison
system” and abolished “that most useful
form of punishment, the tread wheel,”
rather maudlin and canting idea that | while even the “cat” is in “grave dan-
punishment is only, reformative?” and
adds: “I would urge the rcuabilitation
of a cruel and degrading penalty, just
Viecause its cruelty appeals to what Is
justifiably cruel in our nature, and also
because it degrades still uruier an al
ready degraded scoundrel.”
Hence the Brutalitarian. Published in
England, it seeks to save tho British
ger.”
Sad—is it not?—that the “sane and
strong” should have made the fatal
error” of “trying to pose as the true
humanitarians in opposition to our ad
versaries, » game in which the fanatics
of the Humanitarian League—prepared
as they are to go any length—have to do
is to make a bold stand against the big-
er more fully on one or two of the typ
ical subjects with which we shall nave
to deal.” The first these subjects is
flogging, which the Brutalitarian calls
“one of the most essential planks” in its
platform. “If wo are fools enough to
allow the use of the lash to ale out,
goodby to all the sterling traits in an
Englishman's character! It is through
j flogging that the Englishman has devel-
! oped that toughness of fiber and splendid
! moral stamina which is the wonder of
i an envious world, and shall all this be
cast aside, as if it were nothing, because
a few sickly, neurotic humanitarians are
averse to the infliction of physical pain?
“But if we are to preserve and perpet
uate this wholesome discipline, it can
only be by consistency. If we run away
from our principles and admit, for ex
ample, that females should not be flog
ged, how can we hope permanently to
retain that most efficacious of punish
ments in the case of the male sex?”
The second exhibit of the Brutalitari-
an’s honorable intention runs thus: “Just
as we shall refuse to favor women by
supporting the present unjust system of
unisexual punishments, so we shali re-
CONTINUED ON LAST PAGE.
“1.577 field, siege and sea coast can
non, with carriages, caissons and other
implements.
been instituted by the agricultural de
partment, and will be carried on to the
■death, against the destructive weevil,
has given the threatened localities a
more hopeful outlook. In spite of all ef
forts, however, it Is the opinion of those
most’ competent to judge, that unless
“1,082,841 muskets and rifles for foot | some unforseen contingencies occur in
soldiers. ] this warfare against the cotton boll
“282.389 carbines and pistols for mount- j weevil, the latter will soon so dominate
ed troops. the output that there must be a decrease
“ 1,295,000 cannon balls and shells. I in the crop, and a corresponding increase
“48,719,862 pounds of lead and lead j in tbe br lce -
bullets. The chief difficulties in the way of
“1,435,845 cartridges for artillery. j checking and destroying the wee\il lie not
“2 5 »9.022,216 cartridges for small arms, ‘only in its habits and manner oi work,
“317.276,-100 percussion caps. i but in the peculiar methods that obtain
“3,925,369 friction primers. i the production of cotton in the greater
“5,764.768 pounds of gunpowder. “ . . the gouth . until recently the
“919,676 sets of accoutrements for men.
“94,679 sets of accoutrements for cav
alry horses.
“2,281 sets of artillery (harness, each set
for two horses.”
low price of cotton, and the consequent
spfall margin of profit, acted directly in
favor of the unchecked spread of the
pest. The grower could not afford to use
any direct or efficacious means of war
fare. T’hey had no weapons to use but
their own weary fingers, and to seek to
reduce the numbers of their foes in this
way was like trying to pick a million
all times is attracted by lights or fires.
The cotton boll weevil is never, as some
people assert, caught by lamps. The
sharpshooter” is not even a weevil at
all. It is a loaf hopper, and feeds by
puncturing, and not by biting.
It is well for the growers to note these
inder the impression that it is the sharp
shooter against which special warfare has
not been deemed necessary. The sharp
shooter merely punctures the boll with its !
beak, while the boll weevil does far worse,
depositing one or more eggs in the inte
rior. to become desitructive larva.
THE LARVA.
The full grown boll weevil varies in
size from 3-4 to 3-8 of an inch in length
Their four stout legs carry them along
quite rapidly, but their wings are less
active, and their flight slow and heavy.
The size of the weevil depends on the
food supply o,f the larva. Lack of proper
nuti iment will stunt Lts growth, just as
it will that of a child. When the mother
weevil lays her eggs in a very small
square, the Iittlfe white larva feeds on the
interior until nothing but an empty shell
is left, and then it changes into a weevil
of not more than half the usual size.
This Is another peculiarity of the cotton
boll weevil—that of adapting itself to its
surroundings and food supply.
Mr. Bristow
regarded the issuance of the order of
transfer of the division as «j. retJetDou
tfpon him. That the order as to the in-*
spectors’ division was not issued with
the idea of humiliating Mr. Bristow i >
evidenced by the president's action in ap
pointing him to his new position.
For his services to tho Panama canal
commission Mr. Bristow wiil draw his
actual expenses and $15 a day. He may
also employ a stenographer for $5 a day
and actual expenses. The Panama canal
commission is directed to supply the
funds
KW YORKERS are
:aking much inter-
■st in the announce
ment that Henry
VV. Phipps, the for
mer Pittsburg steel
manufacturer, will
give 81,000,000 to
ouild mode! tene
ment houses in this
•ily. By such a
system as is pro
jected, it is believed
the tenement dis
trict might soon be
Phipps has made a
thorough study of the congested tene
ment conditions. He proposes to make
his terms so reasonable as to place them
in reach of all the needy New Yorkers.
ONGRESS MAN
Vespasian Warner,
who was nominat-d
or pension commis-
ioner, is beloved of
ivil war veterans
throughout the en
ure country. Start
ing in life as a
newsboy, he
hut a mere youth
when the war broke
out, but at once ha
went to the front
Vespasian IZ’arner and served 5 years
part of tne time as a private. After hos
tilities closed he entered Harvard and
was graduated from the law department
of tha-t university in 1858. Returning to
his home at Clinton, III., he began the
practice of lav/, and speedily won promi
nence in public affairs. His congressional
experience began with the fifty-foourth
congress, and he has been nominated by
acclamation for every term since that
time. He was horn at Mount Pleasant,
now Farmer City. 111., April 25, 1842.
T is announced that
Bertha Krupp, tiie
‘9-year-old owm r
>f of Krupp gmi
works, is betrothed
to Dr. Heck, of
Rheodt, Rhenish,
’russia. Fraulein
Crupp, who is th*
vealthiest gir] ir.
:er own right in the
■■•orld, owns practi-
ally all of the 840 -
000,000 capital
Rcnhn iC upp stock of the Krupp
works, besides other wealth, amounting
to S35.COO.OOO more, which her father
left her. and has an annual income from
the Krupp works alone of $2,400,000. She
has already given great sums to charity
and is planning other philanthrophic work
for the benefit of her workmen and the
poor. She was expected soon to make
her formal debut in Berlin society under
the special protection of the kaiser, who
was a close friend of her father. She
, was said recently to have expressed ideas
the color of the insect depends on its ! in regard to matrimony which her rela-
aeC .', A youn S onc is grayish white, but; fives regarded as “Impossibly romantic. ’
grows older it changes to chocolate ; One of the declarations made was that
RODE ON A SCALPER’S TICKET.
(Zanesville Correpondence Cincinnati
Enquirer.'
A stranger who refused to give his , -
n^me called today at the Baltimore and needles out of a ha.* stack. Another ole- j brown, the wing's are at first of a clear j her husband, whoever he be, would have
ment in favor of the weevil, and against | wine color, and then become darker and ‘ to come and live in the factory town of
the grower, is the usually conservative ! slightly hairy. Some adults are black, i Essen, as she would never consent to
attitude of the latter, which is opposed rather than chocolate color, while others leave the town where, she said, her life
to change in planting practices. As are a light brown. The hairy or pubes- \ work lay in bettering the condition of
their fathers did, so do the small plant- I tbe Krupp workingmen and their fann
ers of today. But these changes are CONTINUED ON LAST PA GSR* llies.
Ohio ticket office and handed Agent J. H.
Lee $5.05. which he said was in payment
for a scalper's ticket on which he had
ridden from Cincinnati to this city fifteen
years ago. His conscience had troubled
him.