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THE SUNNY SOUTH
FEBRUARY 18, 1905.
Fi
&/>e SUNNY SOUTH
Published Weekly by
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Buslne/s Office
THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING
ATLANTA. GEORGIA
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Leaves, from an Old
Scrap Book
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
HE following’ poem Is In
the old war scrap-book
and is an answer to Fath
er Ryan’s “Conquered
Banner.” It was written x
hy Sir Henry Houghton,
an English baronet:
LESS THAN A PENNY A WEES
Entered at the j>o»(o9re .AtlnnfM, Gn.itte «eccod«c!a«a mail matter
iUarcIi 13,1901
Tho Sunny South is tho oldest weekly paper of Literature»
Romance, Fad and Fldlon In the South It Is now re.
Jtored to the original shape and wilt be published as for.
merty every week ^ Founded In IS74 It grew until .'600,
when, as a monthly, Its form was changed ns an export*
ment 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.
this machine demonstrated that under favorable
conditions a self-sustaining machine could be made
to navigate the atmosphere, but Maxim has, un
fortunately, evinced an inclination to rest on his
oars, so that from his shop no recent developments
have been reported. Broadly speaking, the efforts
of the other scientists named have been practically
along the same lines. It is agreed that planes must
be utilized to secure suspension in the air; that
screws driven at an enormous velocity must be
operated to obtain the benefit from these /lanes;
that the screws, in turn, must derive their power
from some engine of such marvelous lightness as'
not to interfere with the delicate balancing of the j
boat in the atmosphere. This is an epitome of the j
obstacles presented io the world’s aeronautic en
gineers.
After all. an eminently successful airship might Keep it, sisters, mourning bn
so completely revolutionize the world that we ™ “ S^tin.
would be tempied to pray for its obliteration from
the sphere of human possibilities.
r
Along' the Hig'hway
By FRANK L. STANTON
1
J
Busy Worl
A
Gallant nation failed by
numbers.
Say not tl»at your hopes
are fled;
Keep that glorious flag
that slumbers,
One day to avenge your dead.
Keep it. widowed, soilless mothers,
brothers;
SWEET DREAMS OF SPRING.
I.
Weary Is the winter, hut we’re dream-
-in’ of the spring,
An’ ever we are list’nin’ for a mockin’-
bird to sing!
The bees will find the blossoms—the
bells of Joy will ring.
An’ we’ll reach the lovely meadows
o’ the mornin’l
n.
The Anniversary of the
Typewriter
Think not that it’s work is done.
Keep it till your children take it
Once again to hail and make it
All your sons have bled and fought for,
All their noble hearts have sought tor,
Bled and fought for ail alone.
Weary is the winter—a dreary scene'
of sighs;
But the light is OAr yonder—0, the
light is in the skies!
j Sunshine—bright sunshine for the rain
around the eyes,
An’ we’ll reach the lovely meadows
o’ the mornin’!
MISTER WINTER.
I.
Go ’long. Mister Winter—
Time fer you ter go!
You drowned out de violet
En laid de lily low!
Eu kep’ de honey bees at home,
A-stcrmin’ at em so:
II.
You got de steeples drippin’—
He rivers on de rise;
You washed de faces of de stars,
Eu made ’em blink 'dey eyes;
En I des can’t read my titles clear
Ter mansions in de skies!
Vrih
III.
Aerial Transit Still a Dream
|UT in California a day or two ago
O they held a race between an air
ship and an automobile and the
former won. The successful rival
of the “benzine-buggy” is reported
to have arrived at the post at
least a minute and a half in ad
vance of the conveyance forced to
depend on the prosaic earth for a
track. However, as neither con
trivance made more then ten miles
HAT mechanism which plays such a
vital role in the administration of
twentieth century business—the
typewriter—is of comparatively re
cent origin, since it is. approxima
tely, but thirty years old. Evolution,
too. has been busy with the ma
chine. In its original form it was
clumsy, slow, delicate and easily
deranged. For the first few months
of its existence, it was even re
garded as merely a mechanical toy
and the business world did not at
once realize its potentialities. With*
ittle judicious advertising - , how-
All alone! aye, shame the story.
Millions here deplore the stain.
Shame, alas! for England's glory
Freedom called and called in vain.
PROVERBS OF THE HIGHWAY.
Many men who are dissatisfied with!
the world never stop to think that !
Providence hasn't time to make it !
over for them.
I wish I wuz de thunder
For des about a day;
I bet I’d let you know my min’,
En what I had ter say!
I wish I wuz a harricane—
P blow you fur away!
Elttle of vital interest is reported fror,
the Far East. Sporadic clashes betweeT
the Russian and Japanese lines in Man
churia are reported, but the weather i,
much too critical to permit an extender
or decisive combat. It is also reporteiHE*-
that Grippenburg and Kuropatkin are in
volved in a squabble, as a result ol
which either one of them may be re
called in the interest of harmony at*
the front.
The internal situation in Russia h
claimed to be fast improving. At War
saw. Lodz, St. Petersburg, Moscow and
other points strikers are returning
work. In St. Petersburg particularly it|
is believed that the last possibility
disorder is dissipated in the action of-j
tlie workmen of tiie Putiloff Iron Works,
whereby they agree to return to worL^i^
irregular and unconfirmed discussion
peace is still prevalent. It cannot, how
ever, be traced to any definite source,
arid the chancellories of Europe will not
assume either responsibility for thee.”
origin of the rumors or for an expression 0 ac
on their rationality. jessii
in half an hour, the test was not;
very conclusive. W hat is very fast! ever> an d practical demonstration, busineess men
time for an airship, a mode of io- i earne( ] w hat a vast economizer of time, labor and
comotion untried and arbitrary, is! money it was, not to mention the greater legibility
crawling for an automobile. It will be remember- an j neatness with which it endowed commercial
v and dura-
Furl th.at banner sadly, slowly,
Furi it gently ifor ’tis holy.
Till that day, yes, furl it sadly.
Then once more unfold it gladly—
Conquered banner! keep it still.
Don’t prophesy trouble. It has a
way of meeting all of us half-way
down the road.
ed that the recent races at Ormond-Daytor.a re- correspondence. Rapidly the simplicity
suited in the reeling off of miles in time nearly hility of the device were increased. The price was
approaching half a minute. W e would like to have: lowered accordingly and. the infection spreading
seen one of these machines opposed to the Califor- ( quickly, few years elapsed before there was a very
nia airship. Had the latter scored a victory under I general sprinkling of typewriters throughout the
these circumstances, it might well have plumed it-1 country. Each machine made many converts and
self on a notable achievement and the stock of j the manner in which shorthand was wedded to it
aerial navigation would have appreciated a good j as an indispensable adjunct, showed big commer-
many points. As it is, however, we must be solaced | cial houses the chief value of the contrivance
simply by the novelty of the contest and hope for which they had at first scouted as impractical,
more convincing results when next the new | The shallow notion that it would be as difficult
method of transportation comes in conflict with to master as the piano, vanished with experience.
the one on which the children of Adam have been From an inconsiderable beginning its use has
depending for a good many centuries. It will be j,spread enormously, until today no well-regulated
remembered that the contest given by the St. business of any pretensions would think of dispens-
i-ouis world’s fair officials, which was expected to ing with it and even the smaller concerns employ
develop something approaching a solution for this machines of less expensive make.
roblem of the centuries, was disappointing in not
A STORY OF WIRZ.
I find the following in the old war j
scrap-book as a special telegram from I
Washington to a southern newspaper:
“Washington, November 10.—Mr.
Schadje says he was called upon by sev- :
eral pergpns last night, as was also
Father Boyle, w ho communicated infor- ■
mation purporting to come from a mem- i
ber of the cabinet, to the effect that '
iif Wirz would acknowledge that Jeff j
Davis was connected with the atrocities j
at Audersonville, his sentence should be
The assertion is safe that the typewriter has commuted. Although Mr. schade did not
TOMB OF WILKES BOOTH.
The New York Times, of May I, 1865
published the following i:i regard to the
tomb of J. WiTkes Booth, who assassi
nated President Lincoln:
“We hope the report is true that the
governtlient has disposed of the body of
the assassin Booth in such a way that
its resting place will never be known.
The best thing that iiis relatives can
wish for him is that his name and mem
ory may perish forever; and every con
sideration of good taste and the public
interest demands that no encouragement
should be given to that morbid public
appetite which glorifies great criminals
and craves constant memorials of their
crimes. The grave of the assassin of the
president, if known, would be visited by
thousands from curiosity, and would be
come a celebrated r»;ort of sightseers,
whose detestation of the deed would be
overborne or modified by that strange
| Heaven is no higher than the heart
Is. But we’re always looking for it
above the clouds of life.
Many Texas poets have struck it
rich in the oil fields. You’ve got to
keep the wheels of Literature greased
to keep ’em going!
THE BRIGHTER SIDE.
I.
Weary Is the toilin’.
But the world is green an’ wide.
An’ evermore we’re goin
To the skinin.’ brighter side!
II.
An’ we’ll reach the rosy gardens
Where the flowers of Love abide;
We’re goin’—ever goin’
To the shinin’ brighter side!
Mr. Martin Baddies modestly tells
us that he has seven hundred sonnets
to his credii—but he doesn't mention
that he has that many people to read
them.
We are glad to note that some of
the magazine editors are still offering
prizes for poetry. As a matter of fact,
they have been publishing very little
of that same.
III.
An’ the world will move in music,
An’ we’il stem the storm an’ tide.
An’ sing Life's halleluia
On the shinin’ brighter side!
Many an author who toils all his
life for recognition is lucky if, at its
v*c* UVliiU Ui UIOUUICL UV LULL l . : _
wonder which always surrounds acts of j Close, ne can g ( -t BTl e 1 • ^
— - '“Good morning! to him.
desperate hardihood. We trust the
cret of Booth’s sepulchre will never
revealed.”
THE ROSE WON.
I.
A kiss she did deny him,
Of ail her worshipers,
So that he taught a rose to dream
Of those red lips of hers.
OVERNOR HOCH, s terB
county editor with *^ 0 ^
high ideals, elect' cited
;o the governorshiplber
last November, began 'Iasi
the big fight now onity n
between the state ofaday
Kansas and they a
Standard Oil Compa- e - c
ny. He started it injreat
his message by ask-', sp
ing the legislature to t no
establish a slate re-pers
finery. This he fol- eye
lowed with a speech » is
demanding that the Standard company - acr
be “throttled.” Then came charges in a b
the newspapers of attempted bribery of -pA
legislators. On Friday last the Standard be
company announced it will accept no nr
oil from the Kansas fields. This, insi*
of “bringing the state to time,” sc*
Grv~*ncr kf-e/2
to have had the effect of uniting tu
ple on the project for a refinery
owned by the state.
duct
Ed
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1 >per
II.
And the rose, it leaned and kissed
her.
And from her finger tips
Falling in crimson at his feet,
Was lifted to his lips!
THE JOY OF IT.
Day or night, look to the light, j
And hear the bells a-ringin’; I
There’s joy enough in this old world]
to set the seas a-singin’l
DOING HER BEST.
One of the happy brethren sings of
the world as follows:
‘‘This the story of the world
Any time to tell;
In spite of all her troubles,
She’s doin’ mighty well!”
South Is Specially Adapted
OBERT SAND El
SON McCORMICl
George von Lengeri
Meyer, Henry Whi
and Henry Line W:
.son, who will figi
in. ambassadoti
transfers soon to
made, have been
some time v
known in the dip
m-atic world. Mr. M
Cormiek. who w
take the Paris rr.
sion, has been a
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^ To Profitable Grape Culture
IN TWO PARTS—PART I.
By HELEN HAF.COU RT.
WriUrn fc- TTf>e Saany foath
Captain Wirz, in reply to a question, said.
’Mr. Schade, you know I have always
told you that I do hot know anything
about Jeff Davis. He had no connection
With me as to what was done at Andcr-
sonville, and if I knew ho had I would
not become a traits against him or any
one else to save tuf life.’ ”
preser
find, invention are active, some daring mind is cn-(expedited business marvelously, it precipitated
raided on a phase of the problem after its own pe-|the same plea which has accompanied every great
euliar bent, and it would be a reversal of the laws j labor-saving invention—the claim that it would
of the universe and precedent if this symposium of: drive thousand of copyists out of business. It has
mental prowess was denied the triumph which it | done so, undoubtedly, for the machine can do the
0 diligently and intelligently Seeks. “ It may be i work of five or six ordinary amanuenses. At the
oroadly stated that the main feature of the mys- ] same time, the toilers of the world have been dealt
tery which inventors are now working on is the j no hardship. Somehow, they have adjusted them-
discovery of mechanical devices which will so bar- selves to changed conditions, succeeding to a great-! case of a citizen of Indiana, to whom
monize with the known laws of nature, as to permit| er or less extent according to their individual! nephew had f , orw f r , ded l' v “ V1
<■>: the construction of a machine which will enable; ability, little affected by the new invention,
man to travel through space—to steer his contriv-j It will be remembered that the same process
ance at will, to regulate its speed, to defy the force i occurred with the steam engine, threshing and
of the wind—in short, to dominate the atmosphere reaping- machines, the linotype, the telephone and
as he now does the ocean. It is generally conceded j even the bicycle. The conservative element, or
* hat this machine must be independent of the as-j rather the superficial thinkers, have ever been ready
si.st.ance of what is known as the balloon—or any • to read epoch-making inventions out of existence
apparatus relying for its lifting capacity on gas | on the indictment that they would supplant many
of any nature lighter than air. To put it more con- j wage-earners.
ciscly, the machine must carry its own sustaining! Even jthe machinery of the judiciary—invari-
power, its ability to elevate itself, depress, deflect 1 ably the last to yield to innovations—is now great-
rind entirely direct its own course. ! ly facilitated by the use of the typewriter. The
It may be objected that the wonderful machine I script legal brief is obsolete, except in the case of
of Santos-Dumont depended on a balloon to accom-j cither a very small village or the obscure justices
plish its elevation from the earth. This is true,! of the larger cities. Legal documents made with
but the statement of Edison to Dumont, that a | “record” ribbons, are even claimed to outlast the
machine which did not sustain and direct itself] old style, although not sufficient time has elapsed
could not hope to solve the difficult problem, crys- j to permit a fair test. The typewriter has, par ex-
l allizes scientific opinion on this disputed point. ] cellence, softened the lot of women. There are
Therefore, the only agent of aerial navigation j thousands of female operators in the world today
remaining for consideration is the flying machine, I making a living- at pay which, especially in this
country, compares favorably with that accorded
men in clerical positions.
It is still true, doubtless, that the most
renuneraiive positions, or those of experts, arc held
bv men. since the feminine organization is not
adapted to the nerve-wracking work involved. This
does not detract from the fact that the typewriter
was one of the foremost factors in the so-called
“emancipation” of women.
HE grape vine, vita vlna-
fera, seems to have been
one, of the earliest culti
vated fruits. As far bac!<
as the days of Noah come
tidings of tiie grape, for
we are told in Genesis that
this great old patriarch
plnjntpd ’ hit}i a vineyard,
and this was one of ‘the
first things he did when
the waters subsided from
the face of the earth.
Also, the making of wine
the
DIDN’T WANT SUCH PRESENTS.
The New York Observer relate the
whom his
ases
and some books, taken from the house of I from grapes is mentioned among the j frtimt were not known until the early
’ earliest records. But, as is the case j part of the eighteenth century. At that
with many another valued plant that j time grtapee, with other friuts, were train
ed against walls, and heat was applied j
which was **II-tfie Inferior
France,” whicth country was even in
those early da.ys taking the lead in wine
making.
By the time the fourteenth century had
arrived, every castle and monastery in
, r j England and Scotland had its own vine
yard, and it's own home-made wine. For
to those days grapes were not so much
eaten as drank, l'et the climate of Great
Britain was not well adapted to the full
and perfect development of the grape.
Whatever *miqy have 'been the quality of
the early English grapes used in the
making of wine, we know that tih-e-y could
not have been thoroughly ripened in the
natural climate of that damip. foggy
country. Artificial means of ripening
R J AJcCoh
bassador to Russia since 1902.
ly he had been minister and ambas
to Vienna. He is 56 years old.
Meyer, wh-o will he transferred :
Rome to St. Petersburg, has been a
bassador to Italy since 1900. He is --7
years old, and is connected with ti -
business corporations in the east. IT" h
© j been a Boston councilman and aid r
‘ j a member of the Massachusetts 1 - ■
‘ ture and speaker of the house. He .
j graduate of Harvard university. 11 -
that of ! White, who will be made ambassail >r
Italy, practically has been secretary
legation at London since I8S6, and r
peatedly has acted as charge d’affair
He was born in Baltimore in 1850, : t
received his first diplomatic appoinfmer:
in 1883, being made secretary at Vienr.. .
At international conferences also ha h. -.
represented the United States. Mr. Wil
son is a native of Indiana, having be i
b,rn at Crawfordsville in 1857. For the
lust eight years he has been minister ta
Chile, but now is slated for the B'-lgian
mission. iHe ijas graduated from Wabash
college in i879, and was a citizen
Spokane. Wash.
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Colonel Bird, of Baton Rouge, during tiie
war. The vases were beautiful, but it. . - . , i, 0 r .ri»
I has been known for centuries, the ong-
became more and more painful to the inal - birt h P laee of the graipe is involved m
Indianan to look at them. Said he: an obscurity so deep that it will never
"I nevep wanted them; my wife never be cleared,
wanted them; I felt like a thief every j Even the earliest historians
pure and simple. Four investigators have contrib
uted much toward the forwarding- of this particu
lar phase since 1890—Hiram S. Maxim, of Eng
land; Otto Lilienthal, of Prussia; Samuel P. Lang-
icy, of the United States, and Lawrence Hargrave,
of Australia. Maxim’s madhine was of the aero
plane variety, propelled by two screws, operated
by a steam engine, specially designed to secure ab
normal lightness. Experiments conducted with
Salt, Plebian Mineral, Plays Vital Role
& 'P In Human Economy ^ ^
N a Tummial healthy indi- j ncocTTe into the veins at the Joint otf the
Vidual onc-thirteentfi of | elbow.
the weight is blood and TAKES PLACE OF AN ANTISEPTIC.
I -10 of the blood is salt.
In oEier words, in a perftc-
uy healthy woman weighing
,! 30 .pounds one-one-hun-
d red-a n d-t hi rfee-nth part,
or one -pound, of her
weight is salt. This fact
alone will show why the
modern school of medicine
has differentiated from
*' quackery and superstition
in employing salt as o preventive and a
remedy. If the required amount of salt
is not existent in the blood its absence
will be felt in ‘O'ae human system just
as much as If the lungs are lacking in
oxygen.
Familiarity breeds contempt -and salt is
so -cheap in America that tts qualities
■ire often held in the contempt bred by
every day usage. In some portions of
*ln eases of hemorrhage or excessive ;
loss of blood salt is injected to sustain |
the vitality. If the hemorrhage is from j
the lungs salt is fed directly to the pa- ,
tient and will often arrest the hemor- I
rhage. In operations where antiseptics j
ere not at band salt and sterilized water \
serve The purpose. Many physicians pro- j
fer this to antiseptics.
Dentists use salt and water to stop the
flow of blood following extraction of
teeth, thus (preserving the strength of the
patient. They also recommend it for
burdening the gums in eases of reces
sion.
ly disatpipears. It is almost a certain pre
ventive of a cold, in hot weather If the
foot tire and burn from the heat of the
pavements bathe them in -a solution of
warm water with rock or sea salt. It
reduces tiie swelling and invigorates the
feet.
For bunion a or corns there is no better
remedy than a half lemon, nicked around
the outer edge so that it will readily
expand to cover the desire,! surface,
I packed solid with salt and bound se-
| curely over the affected part for three
: nights.
Brine prod'ieeil from salt and sliced
: raw potatoes will quickly cure any case
i of chilblains. Apply night and morning
j with a soft bit of linen or sponge. Cases
of excessive foot perspiration may be
time I looked at them!"
He set to work to find out the owner,
and through tiie aid of tiie Masonic so
ciety. succeeded.
“Last week the vases and books were
packed and are now on their way to
Baton Rouge.”
The writer in The Observer contin
ues:
“How many houses in this fair land
otf ours have this ‘wedge oif gold’ in
them? How many are furnished out
right from the plunder of tiie war? Some.
I know. If ther« is one one who can
sleep easy under such a load, he deserves
pity.”
did not
know whence it came. They knew that
the grape was, and that it woud be, sore
ly missed should it be swept from the
if ace otf the earth, but that is all they
did know. The heathen writers credited
their gods with -this great gift to man.
The Egyptians claimed that their god,
Osiris, was the first to point out its
value to mankind, and to teach its
to tiie other side. It is not till the mid
dle of tiie same century that the im
provement of raising grapes under glass
was reached, -and tl.ien this was the ex
ception >and not the rule.
In France. Spain and Italy the vine
finds a climate more 'congenial, and in
those countries vineyards early became
a noted part of their agricultural pro
ductions. Neither artificial heat nor
glass being needed, the industry spread
and flourished accordingly. The earliest
when chosen
douche. The nostrils and throat should
be thoroughly flushed daily and many a
patient for this advice pays his physi
cian his regular fee. Cold water should
never be used for this purpose-
Inflammation of -the eyes quickly s-uc-
L'rlca salt is worth its weight in gold, j combs to a treatment of salt water (ono-
-aves ruuve been bought there for a hand- i quarter of a teaspoonful to a glass of
For catarrh there is no better remedy j entirely removed by frequent baths of
than a 'teaspoonful of salt dissolved in j sa ] t anc j cold water, using a tablespoon-
a pint of tepid water, used with a nasal ( f U j 0 f salt to a pint of water.
of vinegar
Salt water with a dash
used as a gargle every two or three
hours will cure a sore throat if taken
in lime.
GOOD FOR THE STOMACH.
A cup of cold water, not leer!, water
with a tcaspoonful of salt taken upon
rising in the morning will act as an ex
in tn-dia the salt tux is a hot iwuiter) used with the eye cup, which ; cellent physic and is far less trying on
can be bought at any drug store for 25
cents This treatment adds strength
to tiie eyeballs, making them bright and
clear.
Women who readily take cold front ex
posure in wei w-ea’tlder without Rubbers
•should cry this remedy. Remove the
slices and stockings at once and without
drying the feet nib the soles vigorously
Till of salt
- ■. rge source of government revenue.
The American takes it for granted, along
with air and water.
Physicians can accomplish wonderful
livings with the aid of salt. In cases of
shock or heart failure .a solution oi one-
tenth of I per cent is used successfully
as a dombatia-nt. The salt is dissolved
In sterilized <wtater and Injected with a
| the system than any drug. If continued
j every morning, gradually reducing in
] strength, it will cure chronic constlpa-
! tion. Ocean travelers find this remedy
| efficacious in preventing and curing sea-
I sickness.
An acute attack of Indigestion may be
removed almost immediately by eating
bypoderaUc needle as large as a knitting I with dry salt until tiie moisture entire- j CONTINUED. ON PAGE EIGHT.
ADDRESS OF GENERAL LEE.
The following was the address of Gen
eral Lee when he expected a battle -.vith
General Meade:
“Headquarters Army Northern Virginia
November 26, I8S3.—General Orders No!
102. The enemy i? again advancing
upon our capital, and tiie country ome
more looks to this army for its protec
tion. Under the blessings of God your
valor has repelled every previous at
tempt. and invoking the continuance of
His favor, we cheerfully commit to Him
the issue of the coming co'nilict.
“A cruel enemy seeks to reduce our
fathers and our mothers, our wives and
cur children, to abject slavery; to strip
them of their property and drive them
from their homes. Upon you these help
less ones rely to avert these terrible ca
lamities, and secure for them the bless
ings of liberty and safety. Y'our past
history gives them the assurance that
their trust will not be in vain. Let every
man remember that all he holds dear de
pends upon the faithful discharge of his
duty, and resolve to fight, and, if need
be, to die. In defense of a cause so.sa
cred and worthy the name won by this
army on so many bloody fields.
(Signed) “R. E. LEE, General.
, cultivation and varied uses. The Afric- accounts of the manner of cultivating the
ians and Romans ascribed the gift of the ] grape are given by the Roman authors,
vine to the ancient god Bacchus, in all i ^ irgil and Columella. The vine was
the many representations of this merry | brought into the south otf France at the
god, he is connected with the leaves j same time that it was introduced into
and fruit of the vine. His crown was : Italy. It was the Phocaons, who, about
always formed otf its leaves. j six hundreds years before Christ, brought
It is a curious fact that early as is the j the .grape into the Marseille country,
mention of the cultivation of the -grape, 1 whence 'it spread rapidly into all the
just as early is the record of its ferment- i other countries around the Mediterra-
ed juice as a beverage. Men seem to j nean . in Italy, in fact, its cultivation
have discovered the chief use to which j became almost “too nfach of a good
the grape is put in those modern daj s, t b i n g-,’> and so much land was taken up
as soon as they discovered the fruit it-1 jn t , ae S e*;ti ni g 0 , ut of vineyards that the
self. Nor was tins only among tiie 1 ' -
heathen nations, for wine was among S
RANCIS KOSSUTH,
who has just beec
consulted by the Aus
trian emperor, and
may be made premil
of Hungary, is a so::
of the celebrated rev
olutionist, Louis Kos
suth. The younger
Kossuth for years
das been the influen
tial leader of the in
dependent Hungarian
party. Formerly he
was a civil engineer.
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France.
but abandoned that profession
politics, and has been a thorn in the flesh
of the government. For a time in 1849
the elder Kossuth was governor of Hun
gary, which had declared its independence,
but he was compelled to lice, and liyed in
exile many years.
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THE IDEAL FARM LIFE.
(Mrs. John A Logan *
Farm life too near a city is a failure.
To be successful the farmer must be
more remote from the temptations and
interruptions of » largo metropolis,
where he can he patient, and contented
to wait for nature’s slow processes. He
must he far enough away for his children
to be free from contaminating influences,
w’here the can read and study aud think
out difficult problems, where they are
in touch with nature and have an en
vironment that ennobles and does not
demoralize.
It is from such farms that, the brainy
men of the nation have come, where
boundless acres broadened their idea?-
and exalted their natures, where what
they read gave them knowledge and food
for thought, where their wants were
simple and their companions few*, and
they had no bedaixling temptations to
rure them from honorable aims in life.
On such farm s there are health and
opportunity for ^reaier mental develop
ment, laying the foundation of.splendhi
characters, brilliant and useful careers,
and for the accumui.Viion of wealth. Op
portunities that no city can give, tg, say
nothing of the detrimental influences that
cannot be avoided in great centers of
population.
the first oblations offered to the divinity,
says the Bible, “Molehizodok, king of
Salem, brought forth bread and -wine,
and he was the priest of the most high
God."
ASIAN ORIGIN.
Humboldt, the famous botanist, tells
us that the vine we now cultivate does
not belong to Europe as its birthplace.
It came from Asia, thence passed on
into Greece, and from Greece into Sicily.
The ancient Plioceans carried It into
the south of France. The Romans plant
ed it on the banks of the Rhine. The spe
cies of grapes that are found wild in
North America are very different from
tiie vi-tus vinifera of Asia and Europe.
So abundant and luxurious were these
wild vines in that portion of America
first discovered by the northmen, that
'the name of the land of the vine Wine-
land. was given to it.
Tiie culture of the grape is believed
to have been introduced into England
by the Romans, but not until the last
years of their occupation of the island.
This latter belief, because Tacitus states
that the grape vjne was not known in
England at the time that Agrieola was
in command of he Roman forces. Later
on. when the Anglo-Saxons invaded
Great Britain, the country had been
under the dominion of Rome for four
hundred years, and during that time,
especially during the latter part of the
period, all kinds of agriculture hud been
introduced, and the grape, with other
fruits, was well established. The earlier
Saxon charters or deeds mention vine
yards as distinct from gardens or or
chards. and, says one of tiie earliest his
torians, ‘‘This was before the combatting
invaders had time or ability to make
them, if they had no-t found them m
the island.”
“In the ‘‘Oottoinian manuscripts” of the
Rritirfi museum, there are some rude
pictures in an old Saxon almanac, of
men cultivating and pruning grape vines.
King Edgar, I11 an old g-raart, gives to
tiie recipient not only the vineyard of
Wecot. hut the vine dressers also, as a
part of the same. In tihe Domesday
Book, vineyards are several times men
tioned. In the first half Of the twelfth
century the cultivation of the grape in
England had readied such proportions
In the vale of Gloucester tihat a sweet
and palatable wine iwaa made there,
emperor, Domitian, fearing that there
wouild be a consequent scarcity of corn.
Issued a restrictive edict in the year 81
after Christ. This edict was continued
in force for many years, bqt from an
other reason than thia.t which first prompL
ej it. This reason wias the fear that the
abundance of wine would tempt an in
vasion of the barbarians from the north
'Countries.
The first vineyards on the Rhine and
Moselle were planted -by Emperor Protous
231 years after Christ. Emperor Au
gustus preferred the Rhine wines to all
others, and this, of course, made them
fashionable in hi s days. Under the Me-
royingian sovereigns, the ouikure of the
grape was widely extended into both
France and Germany. The Huns, who
settled along Hie Rhine after the inva
sion of Attila Into Gaul, 451 years after
Christ, -brought with therm the perfected
arts of cultivating the grape, and of mak-
| ing a superior wine. Hunnisih wines were
for many years regarded as of special re
pute. The monks otf Europe, in the mid
dle ages, were the first to plant, vine
yards and to make wines.
SPANISH INTRODUCTION.
It is to the Spaniards that we c.‘
Nortl. America owe the introduction of
the finer winemaking grapes of Europe.
They also carried them to the Azores,
Mareira. and the Canary Islands. The
Dutch took the vine to the Cape of Good
Hope in 1650. The wines of Madeira
and of Constantin, at the Cape of Good
Hope, have long been celebrated. It is
only of comparatively late years, how
ever, that much attention has been paid
to the wine industry, in other parts of
the Cape of Good Hope, other than Con
stants, or in X'orth America. In the
few famous vineries of Great Britain,
where the vines are raised under glass,
they are carefully trained on walls or
trellises, so that there shall be no super
fluous shoots of foliage.
The grapes being always produced on
th^ shoots of tha current year, the
pruning is managed with a view to the
abundance of these shoots. As soon as
the grapes have been gathered from these
vines, the shoots that bore them are cut
off to make room for new ones. The
bunches of grapes are also carefully
thinned out at an early stage, so that
Frinca Gustaf
RINCE GUSTAF.
who last Wednesday
issumed the regency
of Sweden and Nor
way, owing to tho
llness of his father.
King Oscar, is tho
first born of the four
sons of the latter
monarch. June 16.
1858. is the date of
his birth, and in 1831
lie married Victoria,
daughter of the
grand duke of Baden.
From January, i899, to January, 1901.
he was in control of the government
When Gustaf formally ascends the throne
upon the death of nis father, he will be
the fifth sovereign of the house of Ponte
Corvo, being a great-grandson of Marshal
Bernadotte, Prince de Ponte Corvo, found
er of the dynasty, who reigned from 1818
to J844 under tiie title of Carl XIV. Jo
han, Prince Gustaf also hears the title of
duke of Wermland. He has three sons.
The king of Sweden and Norway must
be a member of the Lutheran church. He
nominates to all the higher offices and
possesses tiie right to preside, if he de
sires in the supreme court of justice.
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CONTINUED ON .THIRD PAGE.
WAS FRIEND* CF FATHER GOFON
(From a Cincinnati Dispatch.)
George Rogovoy, who was first ’cellist
in the imperial orchestra at ’t. Peters
burg, and who fled from Russia io escape
being sent to Manchuria with the Rus
sian army, has taken up his abode In
Cincinnati. He has been accepted as a
member of the Cincinnati Symphony or
chestra by Conductor Frank Van der
Stucken. Rogovoy said: “Father Gopon
and 1 have long been friends. The fact
that we had tiie same views on liberty
cemented us closely. He preached in the
great Kasanski Sabor church, and is be
loved by the common people, to whom
he has devoted his life. lie is perhaps a
trifle over thirty years old. has blacK
hair and black eyes. He wears the long
churcli gown and and on his breast a
large -purple cross, perhaps a foot long.
He is about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches tali.
“Father Gopon was married, and about
four years ago his wife died. He has two
sisters, one of whom is a beautiful sing
er, and I have often played in accompanj -
ing her. The other sister is a teacher
in a gymnasium or high school. Father
Gopon has written considerable along lib
eral li&cs of thought. I have often heard
him preach, and remember especially the
clarion voice with which he rang out
words of liberty and justice on Easter
day.
“Russian priests are named after the
saints, and there Is no Russian saint of
the name of Gopon. His real name is
Aga.fonof. and this has been shortened to
Gopon. which is a corruption of the three
syllables Gafon. His father was a cul
tured man, a teacher in the college of
Tanihof.' 1