Newspaper Page Text
EDITORIAL PAGE
\IHE SUNNY SOUTH
Gfie SUNNY 50UTH
Published Weekly by
Sunny South Publifhing Co
Buslne/s Office
THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING
ATLANTA. GEORGIA
Subscription Terms:
To those who subscribe
to B/»e funny South only
Six Months, 25c ^ One Year, 50c
LES5 THAN A PENNY A WEEK
IWtlsS at the fntafflce Atlanta. Oa..aa MCMd-fl*ai mall natttt
March 13, 1901
j9
Thm Sunny Snath l* thm oldost mookly paper of literature,
Romance, raft and Flfllon la the South ^ It li near ram
Jtored to the original shape and mill be pubttshediks fort
marly every meek & Founded In IS7S It grem until tS99•
mhen, as a monthly. Its form mas changed as an experts
ment ^ St nom returns to Its original formalism as a
meekly mlth renamed vigor and the intention of ecllps»
lag Its most promising'period In the past. t *. '
Mr Shaw’s “Droll Ideas
About Children
BRITISHERS have never yet learned
liow to take George Bernard
Shaw, the brilliant and erratic au-
JLaM thor and playright. His cynicism,
his satire his philipics and his
sermons are r„t once mocking and
serious, flat-footed and contradic
tor)'. He is one of the most illusive
spinners of dazzling epigrams and
paradoxes. You never know where
to find him. Just when you begin
to enthuse over what appears to be
a full comprehension of the stand
lie has taken on some specific sub
ject, you turn around to communi
cate your admiration to your neighbor, when, lo!
there is Mr. Shaw, grinning and capering on the
other side of the proposition, and ridiculing you for
your downright opacity of vision. But while he
is somewhat puzzling and wholly unreliable, he is
never dull. When he nods, it is only a part of the
scheme, and when he becomes absurd or impossible,
even to the extent of disparaging Shakespeare, he
does it with such an «igaging flippancy that you
-annot withhold your frank applause, although I
such tactics may not appeal to you as specially ar- j
tistie. His latest whimsy is an interview in which
lie expresses some curiously mixed views concern
ing those bewildering creatures—our modern chil
dren. Just what Mr. Shaw’s experience along this
line may be and whether he speaks from an aca
demic or a concrete standpoint, we are not informed:
We only know that in the interview under discus
sion he is unusually pungent, his unique personality
sticking out of every one of the abrupt, decisive
sentences.
For the sake of their oddity, his real or affected
opinions, a.^ printed in The Chicago Chronicle, are
worth reproducing to the following rather lengthy
'
7g£ liild is defined as a little darling, for limited pe
riods; It. is in reality a savage, cruel, noisy, dirty, intol
erably inquisitive and indiscreet to the point of telling
the truth on all occasions, regardless of the feelings
of others.
Persons who live with children do) so because they
cannot afford to do otherwise, except certain people, who
may be called child-fanciers, the very plain people, who
•hould never have charge of children.
The boarding school is the child’s only security from
the demoralizing influen-e of home, and there Is nothing
more demoralizing on the earth than the middle-class
home.
Moral instruction is all nonsense, while attempts at
formation of character are futile and should be given up.
A friend once told me that all he wanted in children
was absolute truthfulness and absolute obedience. No
Dne possesses such attributes. The Deity alone pos-
lesses the one, while one could only demand the other
irorn a perfect motor car.
The burden of minding children should be shared
ay all, Including bachelors, maiden women and nervous
persons, instead of throwing it on servants and school
masters.
Children should be taught a little reading, writing
and arithfetic; other subjects should include how to
jump off tram cars, the use of a railway time table, elec
tioneering and the universal language.
At a superficial glance, a large percentage of chil
dren certainly seem to be guilty of a few of the
indictments Mr. Shaw brings against them so mer
cilessly. We have, personally, known children of
such angelic appearance as to arouse our doubts
on their corporal existence, and later, by their as-
loundinglv exasperating tricks, to again arouse our
doubts—but this time as touching a possibly satanic
inspiration. We have encountered children, too,
who were savage, cruel, noisy, inquisitive and dirtv,
not to mention the cheerful indiscretion of the
youngster who betrays the family secrets to the em
barrassed guest or who regales the waiting visitor
with the real sentiments of “pa” or “ma” concern
ing his or her personalty.
Undoubtedily, also, the atmosphere of some
homes is absolutely prejudicial to the proper
undoubtedly, when the wearied or despondent fath
er or mother indulges the covert wish that the
i esponsibility and ceaseless guaidianship could be
either relaxed or wholly evaded, for fatherhood and
motherhood do not always confer infinite for
bearance and endurance on humanity, and there is
a latent strain of pessimism in us all.
But, taking all these factors into consideration,
is it not true that the same situation applies to
adults? Do we not find savage, cruel, inquisitive,
unclean, blatant and indiscreet individuals well
past not only the age of discretion, but the fourth
and fifth decade as well? There can be but one
answer to such a question. The only difference
consists in the veneer with which the adult covers
his deficiencies more or less successfully. Rouse
the animal with a sharp stick or catch him una
wares and he will show his claws involuntarily.
Is it not true, also, that for every objectionable,
repulsive child, there is another of lovable quali
ties? And may we not go even further and assert
that evieri those children who at times exasperate or
appall- us by their outlandish qualities often compen
sate foF'their transgressions when we find them in
more Kkable moods, or when we, their censors, have
'ridden ourselves of our own little obliquities of
vision? After all, the issue resolves itself into tak
ing things-as they come, good, bad or indifferent,
and adding to this spirit of philosophy a determi
nation to shape the characters of these embryo
men and. women as best we may, according to our
own conscientious lights.
Well,'well, here we are getting serious, when it
is altogether probable that Mr. Shaw is smirking
openly at us from behind his half-shut hand, or in
dustriously seeking for some new method of arous
ing our torpid interest!
The Recrudescence of the
'Bayonet
Leaves from an Old
Scrap Book
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
HERE was some red hot
"patriotism’’ in the south.
the following clipping
from the old war scrap
book will show:
“We have before us ft
letter from a lady of a
southern state to a gentle
man who had transmitted
to her a message from her
brother, that had turned
traitor and ingrate to his
mother state, and is now a
• Lincoln soldier in 'Si con
federate prison. The following extract
will show the scorn which wells up from
every virtuous heart in the contemplation
of such infamy. Few, however, are able
to give such vivid utterance:
*’’••• As to holding any communi
cation whatever with one who has proved
himself, though brother in blood, alien In
heart and sentiment, is very distant from
my intentions.
“‘‘As he has obtained his consent to
turn traitor to the state that gave him
birth, and to arm himself against all I
hold dear on earth, to enslave me and
my little children, it is not hard for me
to get my consent to leave him without
help of mine. Tell him for me that he
has, in his short and troublesome life,
given me many a heart-blow, many a
shock, but this is the severest of them
all; that it shall be tiie study of my life
to forget his very existence, so that his
memory may not be a foul blot on all
that is pure and bright to me now. If I
extend hint any aid, it is only as we are
commanded to do good to them that hate
us and despitely use us and persecute us;
not for any tie of blood or kindred that
exists between us. for tt seems monstrous
to believe that we were born of the same
mother. For that dear mother’s sake, I
inclose him the slight pecuniary assist
ance which he has lowered himself so
far as to ask from one against whom he
is lighting. When he shall throw off
his allegiance <to a despot’s rule, and
wash his hands and heart clean of the
blood stains resting upon them, and
which are crying to heaven for ven
geance on his guilty soul, then I will
consent to bury the bitter past, and
acknowledge him as my brother, that
"was lost, but is found; dead, but alive
again!" But communicate with him as a
yankee soldier, the baso hireling of a
base master, never, never, never! If you
wish, you can read - this to him; but. upon
no account, allow him to place his hand
upon what I have written. • • • ’ ”
“A FEARFUL EPIDEMIC.”
The Richmond Enquirer gives the fo’
lowing ilustration of the damaging effects
of a fearful epidemic which prevails
throughout the confederacy, and whch is
depriving our army of many able-bodied
patriots. The "ailment” is called "over
forty-five:’’
"Three young men, handsomely dressed,
sat by the W'est fountain, in Capitol
square, yesterday morning, smoking and
chatting pleasantly and leisurely. While
thus engaged in whiling away time, a
respectable looking citizen whose head
was rather grayish, and expression some
what stern and cynical, took a seat on
the same bench and managed to glide
into the conversation, turning its course,
j meanwhile, to the army. At length he
asked. ‘How Is it, gentlemen, that you
in the full tide of health, with apparently
plenty of time and money, well brought
up. and all that—how Is It that you can
Along the Highway
By FRANK l~ STANTON.
AT SEA.
O fair ship lost at sea.
Where the gray gulls are winging!
Your white sails seem to signal me.
The harbor bells are ringing
“Come home, come home
Across the foam,
Come home—come home!”
But still to windward and to lee
The storm its shadow flinging.
Would drown the sails that signal me
Where harbor bells are ringing
"Come home, come home
Across the foam,
Come home—come home!”
IN HARBOR.
I.
MARCH 25, I90S.
ISfte Busy Wo:
It ia reported that the Russian rear
is now seventy miles north of Tie
the retreat being still in full effect
vitch, who has supplanted Kuroj
claims that he has been able to shai
Japs off his flanks and that the
peril is from the front. Belated repc
casualties from the battle of Mukdc!
Home at last-at last!
But nevermore, O lonely shore,
With sea receding—clinging.
Shall my ship’s sails wing rocks and And captain
gales home ’
Where harbor bells are ringing,
“Come home, come home
Across the foam,
Come home—come home.”
, • *110 harbor—the white
The ships m ?. ,,
sails are furled, the. dlcate that the latter was one
Weary the voyage from tfor , e st in the history of warfare,
world; hilloWV foam; 800,000 men being engaged in it,
Weary the tossing- o an d the sailors Josses G f possibly I50,000.
But the captain 1SK» > It j3 rumored that the different sec-
sing “Horne ^ the Kuss iaii fleet will soon unj 0
Rojestvenssky and give battle to
i The explosion of a bomb In the mid
! a police platoon at Warsaw has .n A
. (ht.' harbor— at »" ch ° r ■— * *“*
The ship’s in the ! ltal
she lies,
Under the stars
safe from the * eas
"“k^Silora are singi-S of
Of the shadowiest*
where the solemn
Home at last, gt .
From the wave and the blast,
Home at, last—at las ■
III.
CAN’T KEEP A GOOD LAND DOWN.
Spite o’ the politics ragin’
Ever in country an’ town.
Country is movin’;
This truth ever provin’—
“Can't keep a good land down!”
Prophets foreshadowin’ trouble—
Sky in a terrible frown;
But still high endeavor.
An’ one song forever—
“Can't keep a good land down!”
“Forward!” the watchword that s ring
in’—
“Forward!” ’till the victory crown;
Still that one story
The rough road to glory— >t
‘Can’t keep a good land down!’
OMETIMES, crab -wise, we progress
backward. For instance who, ten
years ago, would have thought that
the old-fashioned spear bayonet
would have returned to an extensive
vogue? Yet that is exactly what
the changing fortunes of time, or
rather war, has brought to pass. The
long-range kopje fighting of the
Boer war and the intense destruc
tion of the machine guns, which
marked the prosecution of the
Chino-Japanese war, cajoled the ex
perts into the belief that the day of
hand to hand combat had forever
vanished, and that, in the future, battles and wars
would be arbitrated at a distance varying from
one-half to three miles. But the Far Eastern conflict
has radically upset these conclusions. In the
trenches in front of Port Arthur and out on the
bleak Manchurian .plain, bayonets have been in de
mand as never before in the history of gory war
fare. In fact, they may he said to have decided
many of the lesser skirmishes of the Russo-Japanese
war and to have played a not inconsiderable part
in the epochal battles of Liao-Yang and Mukden.
As a result, the United States army has altered the ! here idly and sto- others fight and be
regulation promulgated a few months ago decree-1 butchered Sickened to (death for
•jig that only a short, stubby rod bayonet should
be used on the end of the new Springfield rifles for
army use, and in place of them have been substi
tuted the good, old-fashioned sharp-pointed spear
bayonets, which make a wound when they strike,
and which can be made very effective at close quar
ters. This change grew out of the fact that many
of the prelimenary skirmishes of the current war! the elbow, the length of 5 inches, has
have been conducted at night when, under cover' be, ' n removed. When i stand upon my
r j , ,, . , , , . right foot, also, I am balancing on my
of darkness, the opposing soldiers would come into
personal contact, and, unable to use their rifles,
been forced to resort to the bayonet as an offensive
weapon.
Incidentally, this latest devolpment in the horri
ble science of war, calls attention to the futility of
the hope that the casualties of the modern strife
would be so appalling that nations would, perforce,
he compelled to abandon such modes of settling
differences and turn to the more pacific method of
arbitration. In their ferocity, their implacability of
plan and design and merciless greed, men are the
same today as they were in the days of Hannibal
cr Napoleon. As in those times, there finally ar
rives a crisis when reason, unbalanced by ambition
or fury, .is amenable to only one argument—that
of brute force and death. In such a contingency,
there is only one resort—that of arms.
Thus it is likely that in the future, soldiers will
he carefully instructed in the expert use of the bay
onet and it is even probable that the lance-proper
and the sword will return into more universal
use. Indeed, the recent battles in the Far East, as
substantially agreed on by the various news agen
cies, remind one greatly of the ancient Homeric bat
ties of history in which vast, sometimes unnumbered
bodies of men, locked themselves in deadly con
flict, sometimes extending over a a range of days
and weeks, until one or the other became too ex
hausted to prolong hostilities.
This brings us, finally, to the query; will the
your sake?’ ’Well!' responded one. ‘the
army would suit me well enough but for
one thing; if you will pull off that nealty
fitting shoe and roll up my drawers, you
will find a leg made of leather straps
and iron ribs. The "original" I left at
Sharpsburg.’ ‘As for me.’ replied the
second, ‘if you will take the trouble to
feel 'this left arm, you will discover that
the bone, between the shoulder blade and
toes, the heel being gone. Result of bul
lets in the second battle of Manassas.’
The third youth scarcely knew what to
say, but looked daggers at the cynical
old codger, and finally broke out: ‘The
same sort of talk forced me In. I was
a shaking skeleton when T joined, and on
the first march I broke down, got put in
one of the meanest hospitals in the
country, and came out paralyzed in one
side.’ (Here lie lifted up a shriveled and
lifeless arm.) ‘And may I ask, sir,' he
added, ‘what keeps you out. You seem
to be in excellent vigor.’ ‘Me? Why—
ahem—I am over forty-five years.’ ”
WHERE STARS SHINE BRIGHTEST
Sorrow is not forever—
Not flowerless is the sod;
The bright stars still are shining
On the clear hills of God.
The ship's in .the harbor from oceans
black nights, H an ,i
shore-bells rang sweetly,
The
And
fairly' they twinkled far o’er the ? *
white foam- . _ P
the beautiful windows of
The lights in
home.
Home at last. .
From the wave and the blast,
Home at last—at last.
1LLIAM V Vi,’
who has been eh;
to the United m
senate from M i
ri, thus break;t „■
notable dea :.c
lias been one of
leading cit
i lie state for lo
years. lie was i>
in Wisconsin six
five years ago. s«
ed in the cjv'i v
reaching the r.
Wm Warner major, and
ume settled In Kansas City.
he has practiced law ever since. lie
successively held the offices of cry
circuit attorney and m
City, member of congi
nd is now serving :
United States distrio
received .. i
for the United .v
IV.
Oh
ship, safe in harbor for all th-3 j for governor
long years, _ • command
torney,
Kansas
two terms,
ond term as
ney. Once before he
republican votes
and was the candidate
In 1892.
chief of the Grar.
14
Are you freighted with love—are you Jn 1888 and 1889.
freighted with tears.
Do you bring to my soul from
storm and the foam
The lips that sing love and the hea
that makes home?
Home at last.
After wave and the blast
Home at last—at last •
How Old Southern
Were Illuminated
Homes
CONCLUDED.
THANKSGIVING IN THE ARMY.
An order of General Lee, suspending all
duties in the army of Northern Virginia,
save those of necessity, on the day ap
pointed by the president for thanksgiv- ] to spring up out of the ground, and
lng and piayei, is as follows: : move over the road, or in the air were
“In obedience to the proclamation of i terribly feared, and were called corpse-
the president of the confederate states, | candles. They surely meant death, and
By HELEN HARCOURT.
Written for Cha Sunny South
IME for the story of the
tallow candles and of
other queer lights, is it?”
said Grandma, as loving
hands pushed her easy
chair close to the cheery
fire on the big hearth.
“Well, I promised the
story, and I am old-fash-
lonod enough to keep a
promise when I make it, so
here it is:
"We were talking the
other evening about the
tinder boxes, flint and steel, and the
queer lamps and matches that we used
to have in my early days. Of course, we
had candles, too. They were made,
after a fashion, ages before our tin
lamps were dreamed of. In the early
Christian days, candles were used as
cymbols in worship, and are still so used
in the Roman Catholic churches on manv
important occasions. In some of the
Episcopal churches, too. candles, lighted,
are put on the altar, and especially dur
ing tiie communion service, as symboli
cal of Jesus, the Light of the World.
There used to he, and are still, many su
perstitions and omens connected with
candles.
“These can nearly all be traced back
to the very, very old times, when the
sun and fire were worshiped hy the Sax
ons. In Great Britain, to this very day.
there are lots of people who believe
that it is a sure omen of death when
the tallow of a candle seems to rise, up
against the wick. They call it the
‘ winding sheet.” But the tallow does
not rise at all. It is only that a draft
of wind has bent the flame over to one
side, and made the tallow burn away
quicker on one part than on the other.
“When there is a bright spark on the
candle, the person who is directly op
posite to it is going to receive a letter.
When the flame waves about without any
cause that can be seen, it is a sign of
windy weather coming. If the wick
is slow to light, the meaning is that wet
weather is coming. Lights that seem
very uncivil,
was to be
growth and mental and moral nourishment of a j warfare of the future be conducted along such fear-
child. He may be pampered into a nuisance or a j fully destructive lines, that battles will be fought
ninny, he may be overridden and stunted by harsh only under cover of darkness? If such proves to be
and unnatural parents or hopelessly ruined in dis
position by overhearing the fierce quarrel of war-
ling husbands and wives. And there are times,
the case, present procedures will he radically re
versed, whether on the side of humanity is open to
grave question.
Is Divorce Getting a Strangle-Hold on Society?
HE action of President
Roosevelt In asking. con
gress to authorize th*
census bureau to Investi
gate the subject of divorce
In the United States has
awakened public interest
in the evil which threatens
the social structure.
Sensational as were the
figures published In 1889
by Carroll D. Wright in
his report to congress, cov
ering tiie years 1867 to
1886—which figures are the latest ob
tainable—the statistics from states and
municipalities compiled by the National
league for the Protection of the Family
dwarf them almost to insignificance and
!n el! thalr unpleasantness the
appalling Inroads which divorce has
made into society.
Whether unhappy marriages are on
the increase or whether it is that there
is less shrinking from the publicity at
tending divorce, the figures do not re
veal. But it Is obvious that the fiction
‘Whey lived happy ever after,’*
which used naturally to follow mention
of the marriage of the hero and heroine,
will, to some extent, have to be discarded
It Is apparent that marriage is not in
all cases “what It used to be.” Clergy
men. sociologists, authors, philosophers—
all seem to agree that as at present un
derstood It is the trite finish of romance.
Cupidity seems to have usurped the
office once exercised by Cupid. With the
higher education woman resigned her
divlnltyship. With the higher civiliza
tion she adopted equality as her watch
word. She no longer lias reality expur
gated from life for her benefit. The
white man's burden Is also hers.
Those who still venture into matrimony
do so with the consciousness that the
divorce court Is just behind the church.
The prediction of Henry James that the
great war of the future would be the
strife between the women and the men
would appear to be in a fair way of
realization.
No greater object lesson could be had
(n corroboration of these views than that
which a study of the divorce statistics
affords.
In 1881 the total number of divorces <
granted in the United States came to
20,762. In 1901 the cities of 30.000 popu
lation and over alone contributed that
number.
In the labor report bulletin issued in
September. 1902. the divorce statistics
of cities of 30,000 population or over
are given for 1901. It appears from
these that in that year 18,653 divorces
were granted. Thirteen cities failed to
report their quota, so that the real total
is easily greater than that given bv
2,000.
From the same report It appears that
817 divorces were granted In New York
city during the year (1901), or 113 more
than were granted In the entire state in
1879.
8TARTLING RECORD OF CITIES.
As will be seen by the accompanying
table every fourth marriage contracted in
San Francisco. Kansas City, Los An
geles and Seattle resulted in divorce. New
York appears almost moral in compari
son, but this is only because the ma
jority of married New Yorkers go out
of their city and state in order to have
CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE.
setting apart Friday, the 27th day of
March, as a day of fasting and prayer
for the nation, all duties will be sus
pended on that day in the Army of
Northern Virginia, except such as are
necessary for its safety and subsistence.
Religious services, appropriate to the oc
casion, will be performed by the chap
lains in their respective regiments.
"Soldiers! No portion of our people
have greater cause to be thankful to Al
mighty God than yourselves. He has
preserved your lives amidst countless
dangers; He has been with you in all
your trials; He has given you fortitude
under hardships, and courage In the
shock of batle; He has cheered you by
the example and by the deeds of your
martyred comrades; He has enabled you
to defend your country successfully
against the assaults of a powerful op
pressor. Devoutly thankful for signal
mercies, let us bow before the Lord of
Hosts and Join our hearts with millions
in our land in. prayer ‘that he will con
tinue His merciful protection over our
cause; that He will scatter our enemies
and set at naught their evil designs, and
that He will graciously restore to our
beloved country the blessings of peace
and security.’
“R. E. LEE, General.”
KILLED WITH ROCKS.
From The Charleston Courier comca
the following story in 1863:
"We referred yesterday to the fact
that a North Carolina regiment, having
exhausted their ammunition in one of
tne late baittles, took to pelting the
yankees with stones, and actually held
them at bay until a Louisiana regiment
came to their relief. The Richmond
Examiner corroborates the statement
and gives the result of the fight as fol
lows:
“ ‘Two gentlemen who, since the bat
tle of the 20th ultimo, have been en
gaged in burying the dead on the plains
of Manassas, arrived at Gordonsville
yesterday. They Teport that near a rocky
cut In the railroad which runs through
the battle field they counted seventy yan
kees who had been killed with pieces of
rock. The rocks, clotted with blood, lay
near, and in many cases upon the inan
imate forms of the yankee soldiers. This
account corroborates the story which we
had previously heard of a regiment of
our men. during the battle of the 30th
alter having exhausted their ammunition’
pi^M e rf r^k.-’ Ve£attrlea WUU * tonea
their course showed the route that the
corpse would be carried for burial. If
the light was bright, that meant that a
young person was to die; if weak and
waving, an old person was to be the
one to go. Of course, those much fear
ed lights were nothing but the harmless
‘will-o’-the-wisps' that rise from the
exhalations of damp places. Some dav
I will tell you about those strange wild
lights. When an infant soul was about
to come into the world, a lighted candle
was set near by, and when a soul was
departing. It was the same way. The
lighted candles were supposed to have
the power of frightening the devil and
all other evil spiirts, so that they kept
a long distance between themselves and
any person or place that showed a candle
alight.
MAKING THE “DIPS.”
"So, of course, candles were no new
thing to us of the olden times; less so
indeed .than to you of the new- regime
We called them tallow dips, and made
them at home. A big kettle, with plenty
of tallow, as beef suet was called, In It
was hung on the crane in the fireplace*
and the tallow melted down. Then we
took a piece of wick-yarn, long enough
when doubled, to measure 10 Inches'
(which, hy the way
indeed), for when no tallow
had, and that was most all the time, we
made our candles out of this same bay-
berry wax.
“But, for all our wax additions To the
tallow dips, they were so soft that a
draught wasted them terribly fffst, an -
made them splutter and smoke in an ex
asperating way. In the summer time. too.
the candles had a ridiculous way of play
ing somersault, hy standing on their
heads. They had not backbone enough to
make them stand up against warm weath
er. You may believe that when it took
so much time and trouble to make our
dips, we were very saving of them. Dur
ing the wartimes we did as the French
peasants do to this day. They get a entail
piece of white marble with a spike on the
middle of it. The marble wag made to fit
into the candlestick, and the spiae was
made for the candle. When the candle
got too short to burn in the usual way. it
was stuck on the spike, and then every
blt of it could be utilized. We did thi-
way in the scarce wartimes, and never
wasted so much as half an inch of our
dips.
“But. after a long while, there came
some improvements in the way of making
the candles. We had molds of polished
pewter or tin. that came singly or in sets
of two to eight. WRen the tallow was
melted, the loop of a double wick w-as
put over a stick on the top of the mold
It was let down through a little hole in
the lower end of it. Then a knot was tied
so that the wick could not pull through
again, and the wick was tightened so
that It kept straight right , in the middle
of the mold, which was larger at the
upper part than at the bottom, so that
the candle could be easily slipped out.
Sometimes ft stuck fast though, and then
the mold was dipped in hot water for a
moment. That always brought out
the candle. It made easier work, as well
as prettier candles, for the mold could
be filled up all at once. The old, tedious
method of dipping again and again was
done away with, and you may be sure
that we all rejoiced over the change.
"And now about the lanterns. We did
not know anything of bullseye lanterns,
searchlights and bicycle lamps in those
early days. But we had lanterns, such as
they were. You young folks would laugh
at them now, but they were the best we
had then, and we were glad to get them,
too. Do you know that It was the famous
Saxon king, Alfred the Great, who was
really the originator of the lantus-n if
he did not actually invent it, he started
the ball to rolling in the right direction.
Every one, even the king, hud to put up
with candles in those remote times. May
be they were dips like ours, maybe not.
But not even the king had so much as a
peg lamp. The flame of his candles blew
about to such an extent, and worried him
so much, that he ordered some big cattle
horns to be scraped as thin as possible,
and the candles to be put Inside so as to
be protected from the wind. And just
think, children, that was the far-away be
ginning of the beautiful lanterns that are
in use now. And I wonder how many
people know that it was the great King
Alfred who Invented them!
PRIMITIVE LANTERNS.
“But our lanterns weren’t beautiful. It
is no manner of use for me to pretend
that they were. We made them ourselves,
that is, the men folks cHd, mostly. They
cut pieces of tin to the right size, and
punched holes and slits In them. After
that they were soldered together, with a
bottom and top, and a handle t6 hold
them by.
“Sometimes a peg lamp was put Inside,
hut more times a candle. Either tvay
CM. UNEVn’i
a'I.o succeeds k
catkin as co :
•r of the I
xrmy In Mac.
.s one of tl.e
jew officers f
itusslan ai
iiue risen :.
anks to an
.ant comm
was born
and on
school enter-
Con Linevltch army aa a j
He served all through the war
Caucasus and in the last Turk;
when he was very badly wounded
foot with the result that he ha
lame ever since. lie was made
nel and a chevalier of St. Georg-
soon afterwards was sent to ti
East, where he has remained, b'
sponsible in 1895 for raising ti
battalions of Siberian sharpshOotei
were tiie nucleus of the Siberian
corps. It was under his leadersh
Manchuria was occupied by the Ru
and In 1900 he took part in the r<
the legations at Pekin. At the
nlng of this year lie acted as con.
er in chief until the arrival of G
Kuropatkin. His admirers claim f.
that had lie not been superseded th.
aneso would never have gained the.
tories.
O N. W A T.
-1 UME LONG
lew British
ary for Ireland
oral go veF—
ooard. He is -
apable yeo
• fflcer and ha
or many yea
crested In the
opment of that
which is now :
perial yeo;
Hon W H Long Mr. Long is
ant colonel of the Royal Wiltsh.
manry, known as the Prince of
■Own Royal regiment. He has t
member of parliament for many j
!!“n in| \. the I ?° P over a stick - We us- j the Ught that came through those holes
uatly prepared a number of these wicks was J ust a ‘wooden light.’ It was bet
and hung them on a frame. Iter than none, and that was the best
They were dipped in the melted tallow 1 that cou, d be said for it. The lanterns
one after the other, and by the time the
last one was dipped the first would be
ready for Its second dipping. The tallow
was kept just hot enough to remain melt
ed. but not real piping hot, for that, you
see, would have melted the hardened tal
low on the candles, and so they would
never have got any bigger, no matter
now many times they were dipped. We
managed to get the dips quite round, only
of course, they were a little bit thicker at
one end than the other, because the tal-
low dripped a little before hardening.
The tallow was usually made firmer by
some ba yberry wax with it. We
called the tree bay berry, but it has other
names, and plenty of them. too. It * a
small tree or shrub, and i 3 called £
different parts of the south by different
names—candleberry, candleberry Myrtle
wax tree, wax myrtle, tallow tree anj
bayberry. There’s a plenty of this lit
tree of the many names, scattered all
over the south, and a good thing it was
too. m those dark day. of th* c !vU w^.
that were made for use on ships were
some better, for they had a piece of thin
H?« n a PUt m ’ ° n two sides of thft m. When
the horn was very thin and clear, it was
like darkened glass. Was
"The watchmen in the cities In those hv
gone days went about the streets from
sunset to sunrise, carrying a l
af .he style , have T.or,hS? ’Sf™
spike or spear. Tills last was fn.
defense. I suppose, or to overawe wiew ,'
Prowlers. These watchmen were at
old men, who were past hard work The S
used to call out the hours in rhtm e l V
,h< ”" ,n " 1 *«>>«» .e reiS
"These old fellows also samr m*,
about the wenher , na
catramjjao. on PAO#
HE emperor
pan. to whos
us is ajccreMi
most retro
vi -tories achii
ills forces ovi -
Russians, has
to the front
of the famous .
if the worl
llie man who
ly selected tht
cers that flgu:
. the triumpns on
Emperor of Jap a n and sea, and »
a measure supervised the work
war board at Toklo, his discernin'
efficiency have been awarded un-’
praise. The emperor’s name is 1
suhito, and his emperial title is
but the appellation by which he is
in relation to external affairs in “K
a word of Chinese origin. Only f-
ers, it Is said, make use of the
title, mikado. The emperor was b
Kyoto. November 3, 1852. and sue
his father, Kotneo Tenno. Februar
1857. i in* Japanese assert tint:
empire was founded by the first ti
Jimmu Tenno, in 600 B. C.. and t;
dynasty still reigns. The present
is said to be the one hundred and tw.
second in unbroken descent, and
venerated by' the common folk as a
of the gods. Many current sayings
to perpetuate this reverence .n-h
"The emperor has neither father
mother,’ or “In heaven there is one
on earth there is one emperor.’
emperors wife is Princess Haruko
she is childless, and the heir tc
throne. Prince Vhshihito is the
second wife. The Japanese law for
ty admits the choice 'of interior v.
but, strange to say, prohibits polyg-i
A SCHOOL FOR SPIDERS
.Z TOm The Philadelphia Bulhrin.)
This is my spiders’ school." said t-•«
young woman, and with a little «=t; -k :• *
brushed a few Vebs from the wall. ”N“t
much to look at. is it? Only a doze"
rows of wine bottles, a great manv -i
ciers and a great many webs. I mak*'.
nevertheless, a little monev out of - 1
school
“Spiders’ webs are in demand amjr?
surgeons and among the maker* . ;
tain astronomical instruments, t: ■ - '
geons using them to stop hernot-rhas*’ 9
with. ah d the Instrument makers us:..S
them on certain very delicate nstru-
ments-instruments wherein, strange -<>
a human hair would not take their
place, because a hair is neither tin*
enough nor durable enoggh to serve 'ha
required purpose.
“Besides selling the webs, I also sell tbs
spiders. A corrupt class of wine ‘lo 3 *'
th'l_ bu i’ the spiders. These men
amon *. bottles of new w.n-. 1
r.nlv sPiders to weave on eo'.tles
else-a l nH e u r <,OWn weba voxen anywnere
tse and it is amazing how qulektv tiie^<*
r e 1 a*.i Chc i' 0 ed pu P Us °t mine will cov -r
c-K^ a -t e .° f p ^ rt or claret with cobw-ds
Breakage. the wlne an appearance ft
veifr-f ,n D ^ ers ln a wee * will a-U
wine u t e asp * ct ot a doaen bottles
Valuable ?h Ce y ,° u wln readily see how
a * ly MUle creature, are w
win* mwahant* oX * «aru^a tun*’