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THE SUNNY SOUTH
MARCH //, 1903.
&/>e SUNNY SOUTH
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THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING
ATLANTA- GEORGIA
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LESS THAN A PENNY A WEEK
Watered at the poitoOre Atlanta, Ga.«i aecoaU*rlaaa mall matter
March 13, 1901
Tho Sunny South It tho oldmtt wookty papor of Lltoraturo,
Romanco, Fa A and FiAlon in tho South <0 It it notv r»»
Jtorod to tho original thapo and will bo publithod at form
tnorty every wook 0 Foundmd In 1*74 U grow until t*09,
whan, at a monthly, its form wat changad at an ottporl•
mont & It now roturnt to itt original formation at a
wookly with ronowod vigor and tho Intontlon of oellpf
eng itt mott promising porlod In tho past.
Pied Piper of the Seasons
quiet chastening of the hot blood which the pas
sion of summer has infused into our veins.
Thus it is with human nature, looking for
ward avidly to each new season and emotion, only
to weary of them and clamor for the old as time
and disillusionment bring satiety. Spring, sum
mer, autumn, winter—it is all the same. Tl\e pro
cess repeats itself indefnitely, varying only jin kind
or intensity. And yet as. standing on tiptoe, we
may catch the first, faint, undeniable blush of
spring - , we carol with gay hearts and young
voices, gladly following the seductive lead of the
feminine Pied Piper, though the chase may be
futile and the uninspired return home prosaic and
wearisome.
T is now apropos to parody the
words of Bryant and instead of
“the melancholy days are come,
the saddest of the year," declaim,
“the effervescent days are come,
the gladdest of the year,” for when
the buds on tree and bush begin to
swell gently and the languorous
sun shifts down lazily on the sen
tient earth, and the very atmos
phere seems to thrill with that
drowsy ecstacy of creation and
new growth, we are well aware
that the long siege of winter is be
ing ruthlessly lifted and that with
in a short time its only reminder will be coal and
plumbing bills. Few there will be to regret the
leave-taking of the one and the advent of the
■ other. And yet, we were suffciently glad to wel
come winter when its first chill breath made the
belated autumn roses shiver and provoked a
hasty raid on the old chest wherein reposed the
warm woolens of the previous season. Tired and
depleted by the long and debilitating summer,
sated with out of door pleasures and cherishing
dear reminiscences of the snug fireside and the
cheery reading lamp, we did not shed many tears
over the crimson and gold throes through which
the summer passed before it consented to take its
place in time's catacombs.
But even as we were surfeited with summer,
so we are satiated with winter. The sitting room,
however cosy and eloquent with sweet associa
tions, seems cramped. The favorite author and
the fragrant pipe is as much a comfort as ever,
but we look out on the umvalled vastness of na
ture, we remember with a thrill the echoing and
mysterious voices of the summer, the trout stream
gurgles insolently, and there is a prescient haze
which foretells just the proper degree of lazy
warmth for the incubation of the tantalizing day
dream.
Something in our nature, that nature so won
derfully interwoven with the dross of animalism
and the sublimity of the spirit, responds glecfullv
to this mingled call of the flesh and the mind, for
each have a part in the summons which peals forth
right jovially from those miraculous trumpets of
spring which, though noiseless, ring out with a
clamor as sweet and resistless as that wierd music
with which the old Pied Piper led the little chil
dren of the ancient city off in the wild goose chase
for imaginary happiness.
And. after all. there is something of the fem
inine I’ied Piper about spring. She comes in with
a witching, roguish smile, arms opened seductive
ly and mouth heavy with the dew and hypnotic
fragrance of roses. I ler fair, flying hair blinds
our eyes, her soft, warm breath beats over our
winter-weary faces and. in the gladness and in
toxication of our hearts, we sing right joyously
to celebrate the season of close communion with
the balmy, lawless old mother of us all. So in
finite is her faculty for lulling our griefs and giv
ing a sharp poignancy' to our joy, that we ever
welcome her. even though we tire of her embraces
later on, when she has grown gross and heavy and
too languorous and the coquetry of her young
days has yielded to the florid and too insistent
exuberance of the full fledged summer. In the
end she outstays her welcome and we greet glad
ly tlie sobering chill of coming winter, with its
The World’s Biggest Coffee
Drinkers
HAT is your contribution to the
pocket money of the coffee trust ?
If you are like the average Ameri
can, you fatten its revenues con
siderably, since the consumption
per capita in this country last year
is estimated at nearly fourteen
pounds. Fourteen pounds to each
man, woman and child in the Uni
ted States. Think of it! Suppose
you circulate a petition among the
coffee drinkers of the United
States offering to cut your con
sumption down one pound during
the coming year, and apply the re
sultant saving to the heathen, the amelioration of
the condition of the poor in your own neighbor
hood, or any other one of a dozen charitable pro
jects. Can you doubt that you would alleviate
much suffering or spread the gospel quite effect
ually in the barbaric wilds of Asia or among the
Japanese, who are fighting so valiantly out there
on the Manchurian plain? Well, you won’t do
it? Wc feared not. Then the heathen and the
poor must depend on the perfunctory machinery
through which they have been reached in the past.
It is appalling, however, to consider that we
Americans consume nearly half the world’s out
put of coffee, but there are indisputable figures to
prove the assertion.
The total quantity marketed last year was
2,280.000.000 pounds, of which 1,053,000,000 were
consumed in the United States. No wonder that
our nervous afflictions are multiplying in a geo
metrical ratio. Added to the intensity with which
we go at all the problems of today, this constant
goading of the nerves is sufficient to account for
the prevalene of nervous collapse, indigestion and
other maladies traceable to coffee in excess. Still,
it is a thankless task inveighing against the pet
habit of nearlv a hundred million people. Un
doubtedly, some are not injured bv it and a still
larger percentage of drinkers would enter the
ranks of the immunes, could they obtain their own
consent to use coffee in moderation. But unques
tionably. there are many constitutions to which
coffee is almost poison.
Discussing this phase of the matter and the
generally recognized harmful nature of the bever
age, The Chicago Tribune makes the following
1 rather striking remarks :
Medical authorities are pretty well agreed
1hat the constant use of coffee tends to cause indi
gestion and nervousness. It is a fact, neverthe
less, that while the per capita consumption of cof
fee has been rapidly increasing in this country,
the proportion of people who suffer front nervous
ness and indigestion has been diminishing. If
Dickens should visit our shores now to get. mate
rial for another “Martin Chuzzlewit ” he would
find that the number of candidates for dyspeptic
and cadaverous parts in his cast of characters had
markedly decreased.
The i improvement in the national physique is
due, however, not to the increased consumption of
coffee, but to the increased consumption of fresh
air and the increased use of dumb bells, boxing
gloves, golf links, etc. Americans are getting rid
of their bad stomachs and allaying their nerves
in spite or their coffee, not because of it. But. at
all events, coffee is less deleterious than alcohol
1
The Sunny South does not consider the use
I or abuse of coffee in as serious a light as that
! adopted by The Tribune. At the same time, there
! is no doubt that it is responsible for much of the
■ obscure suffering endured by sedentary workers,
who are at a loss to find a cause for the very evi-
j dent fact that they are “out of gear.” We agree
i with 'Fhe Tribune heartily, however, in its eom-
I nxendation of the saner hygienic viewpoint which
| has come into our lives. It is our belief, too, that
! this hopeful symptom is destined to eventually
■ solve many of the health problems with which an
j abnormally nervous race of people are being daily
! confronted.
Leaves from an Old
Scrap Book
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
HE "confederate Indians'’
seemed at one time to play
a prominent part in the
conflict, as the following
clipping in the old
scrap book will show:
"Our Indian allies should
he specially remembered
and cherished by our peo- j
pie and by congress. They |
have been exposed to great ;
pressure and trial, but are j
loyally and sincerely at- I
tached to our cause, which, j
indeed, is their own. The following ex- I
tract from the report of S. S. Scott. Esq., j
our commissiiner of Indian affairs, should j
fasten them to our affections with hooks i
of steel, while it will put to shame such j
pale-faces as have fainted under loss j
trials:
" ‘In conclusion, permit me to say, that
in view of all the circumstances which 1
have surrounded the Indians, during the ]
war, especially the Choctaws. Chickasaws, j
v nerokees. Creeks and Seminoles, the .it- |
tachment manifestedT?y them for the con- \
federate government has been remarkable, j
and ought to be a source of the sincerest |
gratification and pride to all our people, j
When, on the one hand, it is recollected j
that nothing scarcely but reverses have I
heretofore attended meir efforts for tho
defense of their country; that a large
portion of it has been overrun, and their
property carried off. or destroyed; that
their troops (not, however, be it saM,
without earnest attempts on the part of
the government to rectify these things),
have teen indifferently armed and cloth
ed. and irregularly paid; while on the
other hand, the emissaries of the northern
government, to induce them to abandon
our cause, have been lavish of magnificent
promises to them, of gold and silver,
without stint; provisions and clothing for
fhe indigent, and tho protection of their
rights in person and property forever—I
repeat, when all these facts are recollect
ed. the continued fidelity and loyalty of
these Indians may well produce in the
minds of our people sentiments of sur
prise and admiration. And not only have
they maintained their loyalty in the pres
ence of these trying circumstances, but
their confidence, as a general thing, in
the justice and integrity of tills govern
ment in its good will and friendship for
them, and in the final triumph of the
great principles for which it is contend
ing, lias ever remained firm and un
shaken.’ ”
GENERAL PILLOW AND THE
PRESIDENT.
I find the following good story about
General Pillow and President Davis:
“Genera! pillow recently made a speech
to the planters of Alabama, to induce
them to permit their slaves to enter tin
government service as teamsters To show |
that lie was not asking them to make
sacrifices that he himself would not make,
lie told of his own losses—400 negroes,
four gin houses worth $10,000 each, 100,-
000 pounds of bacon, 2,000 hogs, 500 head
of cattle, his houses and plantations de
stroyed. and desolated, and 2.100 bales
of ectton burned by his own govern
ment.
"He stated that General Sherman had
written him a letter, couched in very po
lite language, offering to return his ne
groes to him, and to Indemnify him for
all his losses, if he would abandon the
confederate service. Ills answer was:
“ 'General, whilst 1 thank you for your
courteous letter, let me say to you, tho
property your government lias taken
from me was ir>y own. Your government
has the power to rqb me of it. but it is
too pooor to buy me.’ Concerning Presi
dent Davis, he said: -The president is the
j very man for the position he holds: If
j he cannot conduct us through this revolu-
1 tion uo man could; he is a man of deli
cate form, but of large brain and pa
triotic heart, and eminently qualified in
every respect f° r Die chief executive of
th" confederacy.' Although he thought
the president had not done him justice,
yet he preferred him for president to any
other man. We were not now fighting for
President Davis nor any other man, but
for om rights as freedmen, and as for
himself he would, if lie had it to do over,
vote for Jefferson Davis for president, if
lie knew that lie would place him in a
dungeon during tiiis whole war.
"Sucli remarks evince a noble and un
selfish patriotism, that sets the country
Along the Highway
By FRANK L- STANTON
J
“HOMEWARD BOUND.’’
war The stars are stormed from heaven—
seas white with the blinding
foam,
But the ship sails sure to ihe harbor,
and the sailors sing of Home.
Of Home at last,
O’er Ihe stormy tide—
And the bells ring sweet
From the other side!
LET OSLER TAKE NOTICE!
Send a present for yer granny. John,
her birthday’s come agen;
Tomorrow, if the Lord spares life, one
hundread years and ten.
An’ srill she sings a merry song, an
shakes her snowy eurls,
she’s fixin’—so they tell us, ler
a picnic with the gills.
| Send a present for yer granny; for : n
reason an’ in rhyme,
the ssveet old
An’
To windward and to leeward
wrecks are drifting by, .
But we had faith in the darkness-
Ghe Busy World
Kuropatkin may havei surrendered , fj
Oyama by the time The Sunny So Utfc
leaves the press. The desperate fighti^,
about Mukden for the last ten days |F
culminated in a Russian defeat and j t
is rumored that by forced marches
exhausted but victorious Japanese 1,^
enveloped the retreating Russians
of Tie pass, 40 miles north of A1 ukd^.
Should such prove the case and Kj>..
patkin find it impossible to break tiir.,
the Jap rinig, surrender will be Ids
alternative. It is believed in some
ters that this event will be foiced v.
a week.
The fighting of the last few d.>. - ^
precipitated a loss on each side -
And Home at last
O'er the stormy tide,
tVe’ll reach the rest
On the other side.
We’re goin’ to give
the soul a halleluia time! t inn Yam- v...
1 We’re goin’ to show the folks around j exceeding those at Liao \ax*s. Ait-
' how bright this life appear*, j mateiy 400.000 troops under eacn „■
the world has music for 'em! oral have been facing each other sn,
when they're turned a hundred j play of artillery has resulted in
years' and unprecedented slaughter.
To
Sail o’er the seas of sorrow, where the
billows rage and roll!
the beautiful, wished-for haven,
sails sure, O Ship of the Soul!
’Till “Homo at last!”
O’er the stormy tide
The sweet bells ring
On the other side!
LOG CABBIN PHILOSOPHY. j
If you ain’t bright enough to set the
river on fire, you may at least be;
able to blaze a pathway through
the woods. j
If we had wings lo fly with, many
of us would say that flyin’ comes too
! high! i
'
The only trouble is—when
| plays the fiddle, so many good
i pie go dancing mad.
DIDN’T WANT THE EARTH. j A „ ~
“Lawd,” prayed the old colored A “LITERARY •
brother, “I don’t ax for no mo’ dan 1 M hen publishers den> >°”
I kin tote away—onless it is fer a' When your highest e or
good, safe place ter hide what’s lefrj Throw your hero o\oi »oai
till I kin go back, an take it all
Joy
peo-
horne, on de installment plan!”
UDGE JOB.'
It E A G A X.
surviving mcm-.<
tho confcderat-
not, is dead v
home near Pn
tine after an
of two da\
pneumonia hi
age of 86. Ho
born in Vm
and camei to
when a. youtn
An
AN EASY ONE.
“Why did they make such a ‘to-do’
over Henry James, when he arrived ;
from England?” asks a reader. Well,!
in the first, place, he hasn’t bored hist
readers to death with a hundred and j
one interminable novels; and, sec- j
ond. he left America when young, and \
has lived in England!
THEY CAME AFTER HIM.
Being informed that the poet Color-;
idge drank a pint, of laudanum a day, !
one of the rural brethren exclaimed: j
“The Jerusalem. Warn’t there no i
corn licker moonshine distilleries in
his neighborhood?”
When the critic bends his bowstring
And your citadel assails.
Throw your hero overboard
An’ go to splittin’ rails!
You’ll save your stamps—a million!
Just leave the crowded mails—
Pitch your hero overboard
An’ go to splittin’ rails!
LIGHT.
Shine out for us. Light—
The Light that is true,
And lead us to daisies
That, drip with heaven's dew!
The Short Story is now the thing
that catches all the dollars on the
wing!
Marsh Ponies of Worth Carolina,
One of World’s Most Unique Breeds
By HELEN HARCOURT.
Written for C/>«? Sonny South
X all the length and breadth
of these United States
there is probably no more
interesting or curious sec
tion than that which em
braces the long stretch of
sand banks that form the
eastern boundary of Xorth
Carolina. These sand
banks act as a vast break
water to the mainland, ly
ing on a parallel line with
I dreaded Cape Hatteras is named. They
! knew nothing; about horses, and had no
i use for them. Neither did the waiting
.
colonists need them at tills juncture of
their mishaps. Therefore, the little Bar- !
liary ponies were left behind on the pre.s- \
ent Shakelford banks, to take care of
themselves as best they might.
And this the ponies proceeded to do
with right good will, and their best
proved to be very well indeed. They
toiled not. neither did they spin, but they
flourished exceedingly, having nothing to
do but to eat. drink and be merry, at
play. They lived well on the marsh
grass, the leaves of shrubs, palmettos,
vines and on holly berries. In the low
fhe coast, at a distance of j pi aco s fresh water was found, and they
from one to five miles sea- j SOO n learned, when the visible supply,
ward. It is these banks that form the | from any cause tailed, to bore a hole
series of "sounds.” which will sooner or . j n t.h.e low spots, using their hoofs and
later be converted by the work ol' man noses for the purpose, and thus they al-
into an inland water highway, that will j ways obtained plenty of water,
rot) fatal Gape Hatteras ot its terrors j The free life of. these little ponies de-
for mariners. That part of these sand j veloped a remarkable intelligence, of
banks that lie further to the southward ; which the above mention is but one in-
of the cape, is called Shakelford banks. S f;,n C e. They sometimes, like other folk
being named for its chief owner. This j tired of staying at home all the time
bank begins at Okracoke inlet, and con- | Their long, low lying island home )»■-
tinues down to Bogue inlet, ending at j came monotonous, and they
Shakelford Point, opposite to the city ot . change. X'ot all uf them.
| Judgo Rraswn
| served tills state as captain of
I ti ers, Indian fighter, surveyor, j ■■
j of tho peace, county attorney, d.
1 judge, member of the legislature, nc r
i of the United States congress befoi
■ war, member of the secession convi
and member of the confederate stai.c
I congress in 1861, until appointed
President Davis as postmaster g* : ■
. of the confederate states’ tgovemn
He was token prisoner with Pre.-e.
Davis and after months of confinou *.
returned to his home on his farm -
Fort Houston, in Anderson county, T
as. After the war he was stent to «.
gress and after many years of serv: r
there he served the state as senn
which position he resignsd to become
chairman of the railroad commission of
Texas.
SIFIODORG RODS
VELT and Chari
\Y. Fairbanks lia\
been inaugurated, r
-pc lively, presid*
and vice president
the United Stun
The ceremonic-
tendant upon th
auguration were
most brilliant ir.
history of the cm:
try. Troops, ln.-a
regular and volm
eer, from all ■ -
Rnnsevot '
Culinary Banner Claimed for Crafty Masculine
fFrom Pearson’s Weekly.
| rious little details which are necessary [ cooking considers it a waste of time to
! to make up a really perfect dish. j spend much of the day in her kitchen
| Take, for example, an Indian curry, aiianging for the family s meals.
,. , , Other things, far more attractive in
I containing so many little trifling ingre- j themselves, claim her attention, and she
dients. all of which are equally lmpor- appears to forgot that upon her care in
above self, and we take pleasure in re-
I cording them and commending them to
j the notice of whatever selfish churl may
| be looking to his own gain and honors.
| rathtr than to his country’s weal.”
A WAR-TIME PRAYER,
i This was a wartime prayer the people
| were asked to use:
I “Lord, be merciful to us. sinners, and
save us. for Thy mercies sake. Thou art
the great God who hath made and ruleth
all things. Oh. deliver us, for Tliy sake.
Thou art a strong tower of defense to all
who flee unto Thee, Oh, save us from the
violence cf tho enemy. Oli. I-ord of
Hosts, fight for us. that we may glorify
Thee. Oh. suffer us not to sink under
the weight of our sins, or the violence of
the enemy. Oh, Lord, arise, help us and
deliver us, for Thy name's sake.
"Ob. God we have heard with our ears,
and our fathers have declared unto us tin*
noble works which Thou didst in Thine
days, and in tiie old time before them.
Oil. Lord, arise, help us and deliver us
for Thine honor; graciously Hear us. oh
Christ; with pity behold the sorrows of
our hearts; mercifully forgive the sins of
Thy people.”
A WAR-TIME JOKE.
They joked a little even in the midst of
war. as the following will show:
‘‘Some three weeks ago The Rome. Ga .
Courii r started the following ‘Shocking
preparing and cooking the"fooddepends' I Outrage,’ which has been copied into
Beaufort.
Shakelford bank is about 40 miles long,
and like the other sand hanks along the
coasts of the Carolina and Georgia
coasts, lies so low that severe storms
-sometimes sweep the wild waves over
i tions of the nation were present. R.
Riders, Indians, Flipinos, Cubans, F
I Ricans all blended in picturesque mo:
| lending a cosmopolitan coloring to
| exercises, and time and again dm-a
j ing the enthusiastic commendation
i the president. The president’s inaug-
'address was an appeal on broad, patri"'
[ lines for conservatism and unity and i
; mutual endeavor aimed at the symmet
leal development of the industries of the
• Unired States.
ICE PR ESI DEN
FAIRBANKS VeP.
»c- red a fel^eitoul
dress in the
chamber and tool!
‘ uath of office
luhgjnn o i r c ul
•-.tiifie^:. The til ring
.‘ttond'irfc the inaug-,,
■a! lcremunn'.? "on.
tiie subsequent hail
hr k>- all Washington
records. The greatest
enthusiasm was man-
C r/‘ F r~ i-r*n n ke ifested. and white the/
bP; crowd was good natured, the friends
them from side to side, leaving-
only on the scattered sand dunes. Few
of our readers can have forgotten the j
terrible Galveston-like disaster that be- ,
fell these famous “sea islands” a few !
years ago, in which the angry waves j
swept hundred of lowly dwellings and ■
their inmates to a watery death, and left i
other hundreds of people homeless and I
penniless. The ponies on Shakelford |
banks, warned of the coming disaster b.v
some wondrous instinct in which they
were superior to man. fled to tiie highest |
sand dunes, and thus escaped the power j
longed for
1 any one
time, understand, but an individual or
two, now and then. it was in this way
that one of their wonderful instincts is ! ot Die president, out of extreme precau-
evidenced. It teaches tiiem how to get i Don. advised him not to attend church
over to the mainland or to one of the I on Sunday, the size of tiie crowd and it”
neighboring islands without getting out im wieldly nature giving rise to decided
personal risks. The president has sen
tiie senate (he usual nominatinr -
abinet officers, which follow linen
refuge of their
OOK1XG is undoubtedly a
fine art. and an. accom
plished chef is as much
of an artist in his particu
oilmen ,vr n sentntor i Jshed. The loss of one would mean the the digestion of husband and children, I most the newspaper of the confedei-
u „ ! spoiling of the others, and tiie complete ;uid that upon their digestion hangs much I acy. and for aught we know, ha- passed
mere is a. much differ- j ruln of lhe fl avor of tiie curry. ^ their health and happiness. I the -lines’:
enoe between good muk- | A man knows this and will have them j n je ranc . e this is not so. There the! “‘Shocking Outrage.—Just as we go to
ing and bad us between | all. None is too unimportant for ills mother of a fairly well to do family does: press we are informed that the Indian
a symphony performed by j consideration. A woman, on tiie other not consider it a trouble to arrange all i named Join: E. Kaik. so long known in
a great master oil a first- i hand, will manage witli what slit- has got the meals herseu, and is in consequence [ Unis county, was. on Saturday evening
rate instrument and a so- i bandy. This Is nice and obliging of her, 'the^same Class' 1 '" Klish sis ' ! last, forcibly seized and fastened before a
called melody played by' no doubt, but it eventually spoils her when women have learned that no tri- i bot fire prepared for the purpose, and
some out-of-tune barrel or- | cooking and the dish is not a success. ■ He is too small for their consideration in i was left there without clothing until lie
One of the chief faults in a woman’s the matter of cooking, then we may find ■ was literally baked and burnt brown. Th
gan.
There is absolutely
wiio makes the better
woman, if man did not excel, why should | —and that is one of the chief reasons
all the chief hotels arid restaurants of
! cooking is her want of accuracy over the : them at the head of tiie kitchens of the j perpetrators of tiie deed are known, out
no question as to j slna i ler Items—the exact amount of tta- chef clubs and hotels but until then j have not b ,. en arrested. Their leader is
• cook—a man or a j yoring. Die right condiments to each disli I ^?,**® e ^ aa ca^ rHgn e S tiprerae! place lsaiil to be a well-known desperate eharac-
both British and continental cities place
a. mail at the head of their culinary de
partments?
Women hold equally good positions in
most vocations as men now. but a fe
male chef, a woman “boss." as the Eng- j ,rl de in his work of preparing a tempt-
lisli say, does not reign in any large big repast.
kitchen A Ki'eat many people think that any one
In the ordinary domestic duties it is| can cook who happens to possess a shil
ling cookery book and a few pots and
pans. What a fallacy! A great chef
whv her cooking paies before that of a I
man and makes his dishes preferable on 1 STYLE IN MEN’S NECKWEAR,
alt occasions to hers. ! (From Men’s Wear.)
Even in tiie case of amateurs a man is | Tiie genteel dresser Is now partial to a
more successful than a woman for these | scarf of moderate width, and in eolor.-
reasons, and also because lie takes more i not to be found at present in the cheap-
hard to find a man equaling, much less
excelling, a woman—it is tier sphere in
life, but cooking rises far above a mere
domestic duty; it is a fine art. The rea
son that In cooking tiie palm has al
ways been awarded to a "mere man” is
not far to seek.
FASTIDIOUS ARE BOTH SEXES.
is born like any other great artist. Of
course, lie must learn his art. as they
do tlielrs, but lie has a natural gift for
his work, even before lie starts it.
To the chef w-ork is a "joy forever.”
and he invents new dishes with as much
, , , , . pride and care as a modiste or a millinei
It is not because man is more epicurean . crea tes some new gown or hat, and he
than woman, for this, though maintained carefuUy sU ,dies the trifling details of
by women, is not a tact. Woman is quite , eac }j separate flavor before he sends liis
as fastidious over her food as the ordi- j new masterpiece of culinary art before
nary manand bestows as much thought j p a trons
over her meals as he does. j Q | VE LITTLE TIME TO KITCHEN,
Women rarely care to take much trou-
It is simply that man is more thorough
Jn his work,_ ond thoroughness is at tho
root of all good cooking, as of everything
•toe.
A man to more particular over the va-
ble over cooking, especially when they
are not acting as professional cooks. The
housewife in England who does her own taste.
i
er soit of scarlings. This season his
tai or lias cut Ills coats witli less deptli
at neck of nlrng than formerly and witli
broader lapels, and a scarf of medium
proportions is just sufficient to set off
tills very important dress center. Of
course, ti’is all applies to the four-in-
hand.
Tiie puff Is still the most fashionable
neckwear for day dress, and though it
has been more generally worn to business
this season than formerly, tiie folded and
seamed four-in-hand continues the best
favored scarf.
The new color schemes of the latest
scurfings are rich in the extreme. Brown
is combined with a greater number of the
fashionable colors than lias ever been
attempted when brown was the vogue
in neckwear. A dash of brilliant red.
purple or green in the figures illuminates
tiie brown grounds. The colors are not
of the vivid character, but rather sub
dued. which makes them more acceptable
to the great majority of men of neat
I ter in the upper part of this county, by
! name of A. P. Tito. He is a man of no-
I torious covetousness, but theft or plunder
I does not seem to have been the object
for his inhuman act. as nothing was
missing from the premises except a litLe
corn meal. We will have full particulais
In our next issue.’
"The Atlanta Confederacy, howevei.
brings the ‘shocking outrage” up ail
standing’ in this wise:
-- "The Baked Indian.—Some weeks ago
The Rome Courier announced a cruel
tragedy in that vicinity, which excited
much sympathy and indignation, but lias
failed to keep tiie people posted on the
further developments of the case. The
consequence, in this community, is that
many are in anxious suspense about this
matter, and our exchange copy of The
Courier is impatiently inquired for so
frequently that we must call on the editor
to give a satisfactory quietus to the af
fair, or send -down a few hundred copies
of each issue of The Courier for gratui
tous distribution, to enable the people to
see for themselves whatever may be said
on the subject.
“ ‘As well as we remember, the case
was one In which Mr. Johnnycake was
baked brown to gratify Mr. Appetite.’ ”
of the sea. it is on Shakelford bunk
and there only, that these ponies are j
luund. Here and there, on this sandy
island, are sand hills >>>' dunes that rise j
sometimes to a height of 40 leet. These
dunes are covered with stunted trees,
some of the hickories noi more than 3
feet high being loaded witli nuts. On
tiie dunes are also vines, many of them
bearing line grapes, also shrubbe
marsh grass. Tin
subtropical
in its character, and much
of it is overgrown, sucli a-- the prickly
pear, Spanish bayonet and palmetto, fan
and scrub.
A ROMANTIC HISTORY.
And here it is. on Shakelford batiks,
that tiie wild ponies are found. There
are about one thousand of them in all.
These littie horses have as romantic a
history as that of many a fair lady of
olden times. Their ancestry dates back
beyond that of man himself. For be it
known that horses, pigmies they were,
and not like the modern horses (some
time sion we will have a littie talk about
their queerities), existed before proud
mar. walked the earth. Tiie history of
these particular ponies is more modern,
it is true, but even this goes b'ack for
more than three centuries.
When the knightly but unfortunate Sir
Waiter Raleigh brought over hi
band of colonists to the new world, they
are said to have landed on tiie low lying
island now known as Shakelford banks.
They saw in these islands all the advan
tages of defense of a moat surrounded
castle, only here the moat was deeper,
broader, more impassable titan any moat
ever built by human hands. And, there
fore, not having any Special fancy for
being scalped by Indian foes, tilt- colon
ists elected to stay awhile tit least on
the safe haven they had attained. Later
on they decided to build their fort on
the neighboring island of Roanoke as
being u more desirable location, and so
departed from the present Shakelford
banks.
Sir VValter and his roloii\ hud brought
with them a number of valuable little
horses of tile famous Barbary breed, and
these they found very useful in the cul
tivation of the soil. But things did not
go well with the colonists, and they were
forced to send to ■ England for relief
Meantime. Sir Walter had made friends
of the Indians, so that there was no lon
ger any need to fear them. The relief |
ships were a long time ip coming and '
the colony fell into still deeper stt-,its ‘
Then it was that sir Walter accepted the
-nvitations of the Indians, and went with
them to the mainland, with the remnants
of his fated colony. These Indians wer e
the Haterasks. and it is fo r them that the
I wi men depth, or into danger of being
: .swept out to sea. The ponies never go { ^ 11
j over to the Bogue banks, though it is j for
I only 2 miles across the inlet, nor do they * 1
\ eV< ‘ r *oek to cross the Oeraeoke inlet.
That strange instinct of theirs warns
j them that the water is too deep, and tin
i would find no rest for their feet on
I the way.
| lhe Shakelford ponies are fearless
j swimmers, yet they do not seem to enjov
j the exei else, and always pick thoir wav
j across water highways so as to have
tiie least swimming possible. They will
wade long distances when going out visit
ing. yet never get beyond their depth.
As tin- shoals turn and twist about so
do these wise ponies, avoiding getting
into tiie deep, channels with the same
skill witli which an expert human pilot
avoids getting out of them.
in very stormy weather, however, the
entire drove sometimes makes Its—.wav.
wading- and swimming, to tiie mainland,
a distance of from i to 5 miles. Tint
and | though they thus go a-visitfng. these
tation is nearl> | sturdy little ponies always go back home.
Strange to say they are found only on
the Shakelford banks, although oppor
tunities for taking up their residence on
tiie neighboring islands, are. as wc have
seen, always in their power.
STALWART FRAMES
LL ih» tremend'
efforts of the Riis- ■
police have so -a
failed to establish :
identity of the ass-a
sm of the Grand
Duke Sergius, win
was biown to piece
b> a bomb at Mu--
•<>w on February I?
"he young man. wte
was arrested immedi-
••’•eiy after the deed
was committed, said:
Tfte j?11fjs,viit "I don't care what
becomes of me: 1 completed my job.”
lie acknowledged that lie was a. mem her
of the committee of combat, known a."
Die Terrorists, and that he had drawn
; l,v lot the privilege of serving Russia by
"removing" the grand duke. In an affect
in;; interview with the grand duke’s
j widow a few days after the assassination
lie disavowed any personal feeling against
! !lis ' ietim. sympathized with the widow
j in her affliction and persisted only in
The “banker’’ ponies weigh about 80C! statement that lie had done the deed
lounds. and range from 13 to 14 hands j the service of Russia. His name
pounds
iu height, or, in terms plainer to tiie
uninitiated, from four and a quarter to
four and a half feet high. The free,
wild life they have led for centuries
makes the race strong and sturdy, m-
that it is but seldom that the little ponies
need other shelter than that of the stuui-
ed woods of the banks, it is only on
very rare occasions, iike that of the
j terrific storm referred to above, that
J they seek shelter on the mainland. Tin y
j "live long and happy.” as a rule, twenty-
| two years being the average, but forty
first i years is not at all uncommon about them.
'1’beir color is usually of a faded brown j
but some few of the ponies are black.
U hen they are taken over to the main- I
land as captives, and
tered, and fed on corn, oats and hay, j most precarious healt
they speedily improve in color and gen
eral appearance.
Tt is not to be supposed
nies, although ranging free, are without | special reference
owners.
His
unknown.
in
name an..
Kin# Jtlrnn.eo
groomed and shel- | misfortune. The
iXG ALFONSO of
■Spain, whose betro
thal to the Archdueh-
•'ss Gahrielle of Aus
tria is unofficially an
nounced, is now 19
years old, and his
ministers, it is said,
have been niueh eo -
cemed to get him
comfortably married
before he has had
::mo to form an ,f-
taehment that migi.:
result in a state f
ding king, w ho was
until recently,
to -pe quite strong and mu I.
up for lost time
now said
i disposed to make
hut these po- j t!l ” way af enjoyment, not always
Mice to the
i no banks are tho property of * kig’h office
w.
dignity of !i
His latest fad is ,
varmus persons, holding titles from the I «>*. his escapes from accident
dun
Carolina. These owners ; 'urnished much newspaper gossip
ough loss! Die P:j«t '
state of North
build pens of driftwood and rough log.-,
and poles, and once in a while the ponies
and their colts are driven into these pens,
all that are at tiie time ranging on Die
property In question, being collected In
the pen belonging to it. Such as an
not already branded, and are thus prowd
to be “lying around loose,” in other
words, heredics, are then branded by tin-
owner of the pen. A colt following a
mare that is branded, is held to belong
to the man who owns the dam. But
loose colts, that is, oolts that are weaned
and have deserted their dams are con-!
sidered tiie property of the man who i
owns tiie pen into which they have been t
driven. This is the unwritten law of tho
bunks, but it is as tiie law of the Medes
and Persians,
The colts are not very attractive in
appearance, so far as their coat is con-
CONTINUED ON LAST PAGE.
US. STANFORD w ■
started for Japan -
escape what she 1 -
lieved was a pom ,
plot which near
caused her death
home, died at Hon -
lulu after declaring
she had been poise
••d by drinking bicar
bonate of soda taken
trom a bottle which
bud not been opened
„ . . she left San
est mv„,rv rancise °- The grea: -
S ‘ mystery surrounds Die death The
IscHbe a'moH * T™-* ^1 to
around a member of'the 1 ^’' ta ' k c * nters
aee Of a. f the Phonal entour
age of Mrs. Stanford, who, it i s hinted
may have been actuated by animus ot a
personal nature. * us *