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SIXTH ‘PAGE
7HE SUNNY SOUTH.
APRIL 15, 1905.
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Talks on Timely Topics
THE WONDERFUL GOVERNMENT
OF THE INCAS.
N many respects tlie sys
tems of government exist
ing in Mexico and in Pern
at the time of the Span
ish invasion, and which
had existed for centuries—
deserve to he called mod- j
els. Particularly is this I
true of the peaceful and I
patriarchal government in j
Peru, “which offers," says |
a Spanish chronicler, “the
most pleasing picture in
all history of a well regu
lated, prosperous state and a people con
tented, happy and devoted to their gov
ernment."
The government of the Incas is deserv
ing of study at this day, as to its civil
policy, its military regulations and man
ner of ruling and conciliating its many j
conquered provinces.
“Like a wolf on the fold”
MARY PETTUS THOMAS.
Gifted Mary Pottos Thomas, of Bayler
college. Texas, in writing, to me about
a vacation trip which she had Taken,
says. "Wherever I went I found readers
of The Sunny South and friends of the
Household department. One busy house
wife. told me how, in the midst of mul
titudinous cares, she is cheered by the
chats of your interesting children. * I
don't see how any one can live without
The Sunny South.” is the conclusion she
has readied. Please tell “Lady Jane
Grav" that 1 recited her “Not Worth It
to the director of our school of expres
sion. “Oh, how delightfully clever!
ommenl. I shall give it as an
next recital."
was his
encore at m>
THE SATURDAY MENDING BASKET
I wonder If any of you dislike the
homely task of mending stockings as
wadi as X hlaive always done. I haae
just finished that weekly task, and while
working the words of the following poem
kept running through my head.
“How manv muddy shoes all m a row?
Nobody knows tout mother.
How many stockings t'o darn, do jou
know?
Nobody knows tout motner,
Ilow many little 'tom aprons to mend.
How main- hours of toil must she spend.
WHvat is the time, her day’s
end ?
Nobody knows but mother.
work will
With the Household
All Communications to This Department Should Be Addressed to MRS. MARY E. BRYAN. Clarkston, 6a. Inquiries and
Letters Requiring Answers by Mail Must Ba Accompanied by Postage.
Chat With Householders
CCORDING to promise. I
give you a little timely
talk today about the won
derful government of the
Incas, which the Invading
Spaniards destroyed after
the discovery of our new
world, by Columbus. Those
Spaniards found here a flee
ter governed, happier and
more useful people than
they lhad left behind them.
It Is a. pity we know so lit
tle about these people. In
ETAOIN
our schools we are carefully taught I lie
history of ancient Rome—mostly a record j tiora. Noticing would please
of bloody wars of conquest—tout we learn j than to avail myself of it.
little concerning the people whose coun- PITf HIN' tue TRAP
try we usurped and among whom there I TT
, _ _. v , | Honey, hear dat wlupper-will!
have known men whose devotion to wom
en was beautiful, pure and true. Mr.
Orton has been taking some of our gifted,
eccentric Doctor or Physician’s medi
cine, and it lias gotten his digestion all
wrong. If he will leave the brilliant,
artificial city and go out into the coun
try and help some honest farmer work in
the green fields for a twelve month, at
tend the country church and visit the
country girls in their homes where hon
est love and kindness preside 1 think his
vision will be clearer and his moral jaun
dice will disappear.
Little .mother, can you not spend a
week with me this summer? We would
walk in the shady woods, fish, go to
camp meeting and visit Trueheart, ray
childhood’s dearest friend.
MlA.DE LI ENT.
Marietta.
(Thanks for this most tempting invita-
une better
vf. E. B. i
were brave men, noble rulers and moral |
Spring done opened show.
(heroes—surpass4nig. the “noblest Roman j E phum. put dat banjer up
of them all." I have met several coi-: An’ go an' git yer iioe.
lege graduates who did not know that in | Now’s de time ter plant de things
years ago, I left my childhood home to
come over here.with many others, to seek
my fortune. 1 fnave been fortunate, in
deed, in binding the best of husbands,
and a pleasant home. He is an editor—
both for an English and a Swedish news
paper. 1 help him oy doing liis 'book
keeping and gathering news. The rest of
my time I read, trying to ^educate myself
Mi the English language, as best I may.
without Ihelp. Life has many Interests
for me, but oh, I get so home sick.
Sometimes there passes before me a pane
lama of the scenes and the faces so dear
to memory, and 1 .grow sick with long
ing for the dear home beyond the seas.
1 would be glad if some or you dear good,
sympathetic people of The Sunny South
Household would write me some time. 1
would appreciate the kindness and au-
i swer promptly.
PRADLI WADL1TZ.
Minnesota.
We cordially open our Household door j
and our (hearts to admit this child of the
Land of the Midnight Sun. She is truly
wonderful to have so soon acquired cor
rect and fluent expression in a language
of which she knew so little before she
touched our shores. M. E. B.
was divided into four great sections,
ruled by governors, each section being
in constant and intimate connection with
the central capital—Ourzo—by means of
the magnificent system of roads, which
radiate from the capital. These roads
—solid masonry in part—and the great
aqueducts, tunnels and irrigating canals
were tlic wonder of the Spanish and of
those who see their remains at this day.
The country was farther divided and
subdivided, with regard to population,
each ruler or magistrate being appointed
and supervised by the Inca, who, in his
palace In the capital, kept in close touch
with his people through frequent reports
from the governors and from the com
mittee of inspectors which went the
rounds of the districts to inquire into
the condition of the. people and the con
duct of the officers. In every town or
community there were tribunals to try
eases, five days being flic limit allowed a
case and no appeal from tlic decision.
But crime was extremely rare. There
was no incentive to crime. There was
no poverty, no differences in financial
conditions to excite bitterness or cupid
ity; there was scarcely any individual
lesponsibility. There was no money. The
rich mines—richest the world has known
—were -worked by the state, only that the
gold and silver might lie used in adorn
ing- the temples anti public buildings, in
manufacturing ornaments and works of
art, and even in malting household uten
sils.
But no money was needed. The lands
•were divided equally, per capita, among
the people, a share having been reserved
for the. church and the state. The peo
ple worked, first, their own lands, then
the lands of the decrepit and the disabled,
finally the lands of the stale, each com- '
munity setting about their state labor in j
a body, with great glee and ceremony, j
The grain was housed in the. great stone j
granaries, scattered over the land. That !
reserved for the state went to the sup- j
port of the inca. his army and his civil '
officials, with a reserve l'or war and other j
public exigencies.
Marriage was compulsory between all 1
healthy young men and women, at an I
age not less than twenty-four and twin- |
iv. respectively. When the crops had
been harvested occurred the marriage ju- I
bilee. This was a great occasion, bring- ]
big together all llie people in the com- j
munity. They assembled on the public j
square in gala attire. The couples who j
had made choice of each other came be- 1
fore a magistrate, who joined their '
hands and called down upon them tile
blessing of the great Sun Spirit. A i
house was then provided for each couple I
at the expense of the district, a lot of
I
And J began to think of how a mother’s
is interwoven in tlte threads of
lain or patch she puts upon the
gs an<l garments of Jier loved.
As .sin' mends iter husband s
heart, j
every <
stockin
ones.
socks, sin
represents
her and I
days of
thinks that each worn place
that many steps taken for
>r children; she thinks of the
instant walking and constant
st tl
work, with rarely a vacation to re
tired body, or a trip to rest the
mind; sin* thinks of liotv he stri\es
through all the -days and years of un
selfish labor, to shield her from the hard
ships of the world, lo educate and fit
,their children for their vocation In nte,
and to lay by something lo leave them,
if lie should be called away first.
cur western world we toad ruined temples
and even pyramids similar to and oldor
than those in Egypt, which they made
expensive journeys to see.
So, I hope you win not think it a dry
subject which I have abosen to taik
about today. I .have been at considerable
pain., to condense the information front
some (translated) Spanish chronicles, and
also from tlte voluminous* but deeply in
teresting “Conquest of Peru,’’ by Pres
cott.
While we are speaking of South Amei-I
ioa. 1 must tell you that we have mini- i
bers of Sunny South readers in our twin 1
tired i sister continent, and today’s mail brought
a sketch front one—whom we heartily
welcome as a new member of Uhe House
hold. She was born under the Stars and
Stripes, but is now resident in or near
Porto Rico, on a large fruit farm, I j
hat I imagine (front the letter head of the pa- ,
What grows in de grottn’,
Kase las’ night I seed de moon
An hit was full an’ roun'.
You Sim, go ’long an’ git ol’ Moll
An" liiteh her ter de plow.
All winter yott’se been loafin' roun’,
But yer got ter hustle now.
1'se got ter plant Ash ’tutors.
Some oats I’se got ter sow;
My baccer seeds is cornin’ tip;
My lan’ is all ter plow.
| So git ol’ Moll an’ fetch her ’long,
! I'se gwine on wid de hoe.
! Now's de time ter pitch de crap,
j We inns' got tor git tip an' go.
\ Lov. sakes jes hear at ilem fish frogs
Down yander in ile ereek.
Now’s the time for fishin', too.
I'll pitch dat crap ncx’ week.
JOB.
to the dear old south together.
not talk any more; try to sleep „
sit by you and hold your hand .. 1 •.] jttle by little their h _
She smiled upon him like a ,?, h ! ld V t ^a I courage departed. Then camehu i
obediently closed her eyes. »'° 1U n i n J cold and sleepless nights,
later she went to her fateful tria >’.P?'? I £ot go back to the country snA
and composed. The physicians wondere 1. , ^ no t. At length an< »
“These southern girls are brave, said t t )ie cheap lodging hous ,
doctor. “Like their fathers.’ ’answered way to
the old surgeon, wh*> had seen the fighting: ^ observed that the “1
of the men under Lee. ( ^ ! to bv thisSuperintendent are not A
Lawrence Dunibar hung about the '• |. lrds or II1P n who wdl worfc
pita!, a prey to keenest suspense. At , s ° kjnl „ of the same kind of inen
last he tnet the surgeon In the condor | wrested the forest from the savage-
"How is she?” he asked, him strong perils of an unknown
voice trembling- ! men who have shown their aDHity
The surgeon shook his head. “She lias ! SU oh difficulties as mere natt
not rallied." ho said. “There Is no hope. ; , A to fi, Prn- ,fiut who ar0 P° we
Yes, you can see her. It can do no L race G f man-made conditions
harm. She may have a moment of eon-1 ^ . s ,■ n 1 <I. hard fact that all^the
sciottsness 'before the end.” .
She did have a moment of conscious-
ness. Sh*» opened her beautiful durk eyes,
and smiled when she saw her lover bend
ing over her.
"Don't grieve for me, Larry." site said
faintly. “We shall met again._ Take _
me back with you to dear old Virginia, j “ ^’mbttlon and determination can,..
It seems so far for me to go all alo,ie - \ m i„.|| i, u t they cannot do all. Hi
Kiss me now. goodby.”
And with this goodby kiss on Iter lips,
tlie spirit passed from the mortal frame
of beautiful, gifted Margery Kent.
THE PRINCESS.
| pie cannot concentrate themselwwi*
! place and all win out in the great ®
| of life. All cannot be captains of W
I fry. Some people fall to take Into
count the fart that for °' voy ^ „
industry there must be a thousand I
serving in the ranks.
APRIL’S BEST GIFT.
: with a rush of shower-like footsteps
! And a. thrill of laughter sweet,
j Adown the season’s stairway,
I Came April’s twinkling feet.
Smiling, she bows before you.
Then scatters her rich meed,
i in radial** profusion—
1 Bud, blossom, fruit and seed.
! About you raining roses,
i Rich in perfume and color,
! So rare that one supposes
No lovelier thing car. follow.
REST.
A little child at close of summer day.
Laid its tired head upon its mother s
breast,
And witli a look of sweetest trust and
love,
Said, “T'm so tired, oh, mother, let
me rest!”
So, Lord, may I at end of life’s hard
play.
But lay my weary head upon thy
breast;
And hear Thy dear voice whisper in m>
ear,
“Lie still, my child, and sweetly thou
shall rest.”
ANEMONE.
in
But she will undeceive you
(The butterflies well know)
Around you apple blossoms
Fall like pink-tinted snow.
-ANN IF K.
per she writes on). T hope she will give
us some pen pictures of her surround
ings.
Our Kttnny South is surely cosmopoii-
tliunkfulness that God has given m-r tan. It finds its way everywhere. What
such a. tender, thoughtful husba.nd, and write, dear Household friends—is
a. prayer of appeal that he may be spared I read not only in every state in the
her through life’s journey, that she | ("ni-on, but in Canada, Mexico, Cuba, tile
Philippines, England ana Ireland. Think
ftc-r death his loved ones should lie
surrounded with comforts provided by .
his loving care and thoughtfulness.
As these thoughts surge through a. good ;
-wife's heart, she sends up a prayer of
BACK WOODS SOCIALS AND UP- THE STORY OF MARGERY KENT.
TO-DATE FUNCTIONS.
Since society is or;tl of tin' topics now
being talked about pro and con in our
circle, I wish to say that I think the.
backwoods socials, at which some 'if our
members poked fun last year are quite
much, lint they
should toe cultivated by every youngl
yet it will be fount that men succW
business without it perhaps, more^
than with it. There is hardly a
employee connected with any great
ness iii a large city who cannot telLj
will, of business methods he has
to be favored by the concern, which
be decidedly dampening to the ardtr
man who would succeed by honesty
And as he rises higher and hlghe
is likely to find that nothing is consi
wrong if its practice will be of
to the finances of the company,
it will not result in the perpetrator
placed in the penitentiary. He will
that some of the highest salaries ar« |
to men whose duty it Is.to devise
for violating the spirit of the law
out laying themselves liable to 1 the
altv for violating the letter of It.
But young men will come to the
and that is well. Tt cannot but be
corruption is less rampant than it
1,c if these young men remained in
home villages. It seems imperative,
thousands shall lie sacrificed to the
et s of evil in order that the stroll
and best, may be brought, to the stir
There is nothing that will test
strength of a strong man as does HI
New York. One doesnt’ have to look|
i temptation. Tt comes and seeks him
j Vice is presented to him in its most
; tractive form—so attractive that it
l.v doesn't look like vice at all.
1 Let him come who will. Let hit
j whose veins bounds the rich, red
come and take up tlie fight. Let
j one who feels a power witiiin him s
I g’ing for the mastery come and te
There are prizes, great, prizes,
able to win them. There
may have Ills counsel, help and. love to
cheer her all along the way.
Then she takes up the little socks and
stockings of the children, and each worn
i place represents so much running, after
| pleasure, so much effervescence of pure
j childish joy, and as site pictures their
Innocent pleasures and games, she is
glad of every little or big hole that
stands for that much joy that has come
into their little lives, for sin- knows so
well that now " tis .the heart of all that
is sweet” without tlie shade of care,
but that some day the canker worm of
I ' sorrow and care must come to -each
tender heart, so she j s glad of their
joy. ithough it means added stitches for
1 her tired fingers, and she sends up a
I swift prayer to God to spare her darl-
j in go, and help her to bring them up so
| that they will he a comfort to her and a
I Klesy.ing to the world.
Then, alas, her ntind goes wandering
j to the little graves out in the church
yard, holding so close the iitle feet that
i will never more run and play to wear
' those holes that' must toe mended by a
I tired mother’s lingers, and she finds loit-
i ter tears of longing dropping on her
I work, for no matter how many she may
: have left, she would give anything to
have those little lost ones hack again,
! though it might mean more work, more
i stitches, more care, but her mother heart
' big enough, and her mother love deep
nough to encompass with her love and
are ail the. little ones God so kindlv
of that! And our Household band is
widely scattered. Tlte same mail that
brought a message front South America
brought other messages from California,
Arizona, New Mexico and Indian Terri
tory. If we could have a reunion, tt.
would beat that of the veterans.
Demos tlhenes asks; “Plea.se explain
what Uie poet. Lovell, means in this poem
In the Twilight.’ Was he a believer in
the preexistenee of the soul?" 1 think
lie was. Nearly all the poets were, you
know. Wadsworth expresses his beiiet
in his “Ode to Immortality,” and in the
often quoted verse:
"Our life is but a dream and a forget
ting—
The soul tliiat rises with us—our life's
staa-
Has had else where its setting
And conies from far."
entrusts 1:0 her, and her heart
in longing for iho.se gone out
sight, but like an almost
strain of music some long
lines of poetry come to her,
finds herself repeating the
words Of Adelaide Proctor:
cries out
front her
forgot ten
forgotten
and she
beautiful
"nii wha.1
Thine
Are bundl'd
would’sf
Thy (reinsures
skies.
And death thv friend
to thee.”
i-ere life, if life were all?
thy
it tiler
land assigned them, sufficient for their
maintenance, and an additional portion j
given with each child. Thus the pos- ’
sessions of a householder were increased
or diminished according to tlie number i
he had in his family. No excuse was af
forded for race suicide. j
A similar arrangement prevailed in re- j
spect to the different manufactures. The J
cotton of the lower lands, the wool of ; .. ... .. ,
the immense flocks Of llamas and sheep j thoughts reach some other'Iirod^mo/hert-
I hat covered tlie hills and were cared for heart and reconcile her to tit
by the government, was gathered and j homely task, and inspire her tr
sheared and distributed among the people,
t he government’s share being put into
the great stone magazines, of which
And these lines from the heart
other woman readies hers, and
her comfort and strength to ;
away all I he neatly mended
to also fold away all gloom
and tears.
This mother of niy imagination has I
given nte much comfort, anil the mend-
ing of stockings lias ceased to be the j inclose
Armanda, of Texas, says: "I have had
poor educational advantages, hut I am
reading and studying, though my school
days are over." This is tlie right spirit..
Armanda. One learns and grows all
through a life time. With books and
the pages of nature and human nature
open to us, we can learn wiilhout the aid
of a schoolmaster. Kossuth, the great
Hungarian patriot, while in prison and
furnished with only a dictionary, the
Bible and Shakespeare, mastered the
English language and acquired that rich,
fluent vocabulary which made bis Ameri
can lectures so delightful.
Elizabetfu Snyder asks if any House
hold mem tier can give her the words of a
song called “Minnehaha—Laughing Wa
ter." Is it not the same that is ia Long
fellows “Hiawatha?”
I ant afraid that Torn Lockhart's pic
lure did not reach us in time to
place in today’s Household, and will need
to wait until next week. One of his
she folds j humorous stories appears today. I have
•""kings. gj ven j n a splendid assortment of sketches
thoughts I ;uul letters, but I well know that a good
many will be crowded out.
I do wish all our newer members would
their real name and addresses
improving as and a good deal mon
nocent than some of the functions of the
smart set.
I remember, that one of the House-
[ holders—Aliel.was it not?—told us that (he
j backwoods folk were improving, for ln-
! stead of the old-fashioned plays, “Sn.ry
j Jane.” “Charley,” etc., they now play
flinch, pit, trix and othe
I games.
| Well. T do not think that this change is
j any evidence of improvement in the
I backwoods social. 1 am sure the games
I mentioned are imore harmful than the
I old time plays. They are more detrimen
tal to good temper and they tend to give
young men and inclination for card play
ing which is apt to lead to gambling.
The parlor games soon grow too tame
for boys and they seek more excitement
in cards that Involve betting and the
loss ajid winning of money. I heard a
minister blame the girls for having estab
lished these* parlor games which had
given his son a, taste for card playing
and gambling. I know but little about
the diversions at the up-to-date func
tions, but I have my own opinion of some
ladies I know who play for prizes and
sip a so called "feutt punch” which seems
to make the head giddy and the tongue
over loose. There is less harm in the
backwoods socials.
Shirley's sketch of “The Negro Today
and Yesterday” is certainly true. The
old time negro Is passing away and his
successor is inferior to him in efery
respect, notwithstanding his educational
opportunities. We have one of these old
darkeys living near us. “Aunt Dicey."
and some little time ago she was sick. T
learned this from our colored girl, who
into the kitchen quite late one
The physician moved away from Mar
gery’s cot, a grave, compassionate look
on his face. She was left, alone, lying
on her narrow hospital bed, to think over
his words which betrayed to her how
serious was her case. Her thoughts ( work out, and it is not for any
went, too, over the past months of her | seek to plan a course of operation for
life. She recalled the high hopes with
which she had come to New York to enter
upon a literary career. She had talent
and energy; she had pre-deterinined to
work hard and patiently—and she carried
out. her purpose only too well. By per-
i i severing effort she obtained a footing in
' 1 ' tlie crowded field of journalism, in which
she hud resolved to win success and
make a home l’or her widowed mother
left behind in old Vinsinia.
At last success seemed to be coming
her wav. tout overwork and anxiety had ; energy.
DISSECTING A MIRAGE.
[ (To Those Who Would Seek Success
a City.)
Ambitious young men ami women in
tlie country' and in provincial towns are
aid. to look with longing eyes upon the
metropolis where great fortunes come
and go In the twinkling of an eye, fancy
ing that there is the place for them to
display their abilities and achieve suc
cess.
it is true that front time immemorial
youths have come to the city from coun
try places and made for themselves fame
and fortune. It is said that seventy-live
per cent of the successful business men
of New York are country bred and born, lists,
and without this Influx of country blood those
Into the metropolitan business world the j %v:is a t jme when the world paid so
whole business fabric, within three goner- j a p r j OP f or brains as it does at pre
ations, fall in pieces. j There never was an age when met
All this we own. and he would be rash ; affairs scrutinized so closely to dised
indeed who would lay a restraining hand i; perchance, the making of trusted lil
on a young man or a young woman and j ,, n; ‘ n ts might lie discernible therein.!
endeavor to nold them in the grooves j^ Tll the ambitious youth ttnd-is#
they have occupied, against their will. I ( the outset that the odds are
Each individual has his own problems to j.; m j a>t pj IT1 know that honesy and|
an to ; .T l;5 ;try. and sobriety, will not necessa
, aid hint in the race. Let him feel
another. ]l( , ma ,. p,, considered "tame” by t
But it is none the less true, that our j w p Q s p ouN1 p ( . p ifJ ’ friends if he will
of a hundred young men who come to J j illIuIpe with them in what he mat
the city from the country, one. perhaps, I jj eve to p 0 wrong if be is possessed
will succeed: that is: be w!Il win for [ tonsummat e tact he may he able to I
himself something of the wealth or honor ; t ..j ’ p js f r jends and his self-resnect. Ah
he may have dreamed of before he cante ho * ‘ st not „ iv e others the imprest
And he Is the one who gets written of ,, , u .^insiders t pem beneath him
by those wfio furnish inspiration for : ;. a thf . ir mora ls do not meet with I
ung men. He is the one whose picture ] n 1 The world mav need to
will be founi in the hook of great. Amer
icans. a living monument to pluck and j
a 1 proval.
reformed, but the man who sets out
undermined toer health. A slow fev<
set in. She resisted bravely, but at last
site was forced to give up and enter the
New York hospital. There, after a week
had passed, tlie attendant physician de
clared that in his opinion the cause of
her pain and fever lay in some internal
malady, and advised that a well-known
surgeon toe summoned.
The surgeon came that afternoon, in
company with the physician. He was a
distinguished looking man. with white
hair and a benign expression in his blue
eyes that won Margery’s confidence. He
looked with pitying interest at the strick
en girl, so young and so beautiful, despite
her emaculation, so alone, and far from
home and friends.
The examination was soon over. The
two doctors stood beside the bed; neither
of them spo.r The specialist looked trou
bled. He avoided meeting Margery's
wistful eyes. Notwithstanding his long
experience, he found it hard to tell one
so young that death was almost certain.
At length he turned to the physician
and said:
Your diagnosis, sir. is correct. There
a page
morning and excused herself by saying !
ars. or thou
in the far-off
will give them nil
must be an operation within two days
has already been too long a de
"T went to de prayin' lust night. Aunt j 1 . c , 1 ,*
Dicey’s sick and dare's a 'ooman what ) :,; lv
goes roun’ prayin' for peoples. She bi ting
her Gods wid Iter an’ site axes dem to
help you."
"Tier Gods?"
“Yes 'urn. Doy's name Mary and John
an" Paul, an’ some more dat 1 disremem-
bers.”
Evidently the "prayin’ ’ooman" had
same idea of the Roman Catholic faith
and prayed to tlie saints. I suspected
that Aunt Dicey's visitors had been so
zealous for her spiritual good that they
neglected her bodily welfare, so 1 went
| to see lit r that afternoon and carried her
s pic- j some milk and a plate of fresh golden
find a 1 butter. The poor soul was so glad and
grateful.
“It’s wha.t F.-e been er cravin' all dis
time,” she said. “Gimme some er de
milk right now." W'hen it was given her
she grasped the cup. her wasted hands
shaking with eagerness, and bending her
gray head to the brim drank the milk
hungrily. “It’s so nice." she said wh
she stopped to get breath.
and the pen name on the same sheet of
paper—separate from their Household
little letter. Unless the pen name is attached
i to the address, the latter is of little ser-
there were several in each district.
The women were all carefully instruct
ed in spinning and weaving, and care
was taken by the supervisors that the
materials given out should be manufac
tured into cloth: that no one should lie
without necessary apparel. Occupation
was found for all, from the child to tlic
aged matrons. None but the sick and
decrepit (who were generously provided
for by the. state) were allowed to eat
the bread of idleness. Industry was
stimulated by rewards and commenda
tions; idleness punished by rebuke and
severer measures.
Concerning the wise labor regulations
and the educational and military methods
Of this remarkable people, whose gov
ernment of three centuries ago embodies
| Take tip bravely the loom nr lire
With its woof threads of duty.
And interlace with loving skill
' warp of cheer and heautv
; CLARA COP EPPERSON.
1 Algood. Tenn.
MISUNDERSTOOD.
j As the parched desert thirsts for showers
J •hirsts mv heart through lonely hours
h or kindly looks and loving words,
h hy come to me like croaking birds
j Malicious thoughts when I have sent
But those of good and kind intent?
Wily give they evil for my good?
•thy am T tints misunderstood?
Yet T will trust the time may "onto
When sweet reward for me may bloom:
When in return for love I've given
M.v heart shall pot he crushed and liven.
So 1 will hope, in brighter mood
That some day I'll he understood
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I vice. Among those for whom I have let-
! ters .arc Dixie Flyer, Solitary, Solitary;
Woodland Wanderer, Sincerity, Don't
Worry, GotSrdliead, Syntax, Jini Dumps,
Amateur Lawyer.
A letter sent to Mary Marshall’s ad
dress has failed to reach her. Our on
the wing members, such as Carol El
more, Gourdhead, Dixie Flyer and Drum
mer should keep us posted as to where
they may be reached.
Webb Foot has been ill a long time. He
has our sympathy—and also congratula
tions that he is better. He has written
i some songs and asks where these may
be set to music.
I have received a number of highly
appreciated tlower gifts through the mail
from members of the Household, for
which I intend to make acknowledgment
soon by letter. The white lilacs sent
were beautifully fresh, the flower seed
were captured and planted by Evelyn
Holman, and what, dear little Post Mis
tress, were those lovely pink flowers you
sent? They were new to me.
I receive so many letters from young
and elderly women desiring employment.
1 am not permitted to pufillsh their ap
plications. The best I can do is to give
a lew audresses of those who want nclp
hi tlieir homes. Some of there are: Mrs.
Sinclair, oi Cliipley, Fla., nice home,
small taniily, good wages; Mrs. R. E.
Dunbar, ot Dunbar, Ui., wants middle
aged household help; wages. Will give
otners next week M. E. B.
Fell me the truth, it Is bettor than
suspense," said Margery faintly, but her
tones were firm.
The surgeon hesitated. His voice was
unsteady when he at last said:
“1 will not conceal from you that in
your weak condition this very necessary
operation is a grave m;tt»er. But keep
up a brave heart, dear Miss Kent. We
will earnestly hope for the .'best. Would
you like to send a message to some rela
tive or friend? You have parents, per
haps."
"Only a mother—in Virginia; but site
is not strong. Still—oh—if she could he
with me!"
“Send for her. The operation will not
take place until Thursday, ten days from
now. We must prepare your system as
well as possible. The nurse will send your
message.”
After they were gone the nurse brought
a pencil and paper. “Shall I write the
message for you?" she asked. "Is it to
tir monther?"
i ™
In the yard T noticed a little plot of j Margery made a gesture of dissent,
ground freshly dug up and planted. ! “The shock might kill her; she Is so
•'Da.t's mam's flower patch." said Aunt j feeble. She could hardly stand the quick
Dicey’s daughter. Betty. “Mam sure likes journey. No. I will not send any mess-
flowers. She planted dem sunflowers and | age; thank you. There is no one else—
pinks "fore she got sick. Dis here’s er unless—”
headache hush, nn’ dat's garlic, an' dem She checked herself quickly. She had
little plants yonder 's what mam almost spoken a name that was often in
thought was phlox, but Txir' dey ain' her thoughts—the name of one to whom
nothin’ hut let.tis." j she would go at the risk of her life. If h
Aunt Dicey has 1 ' ” ■ ‘
But you never hear what h
the ninety and nine. No reporter
searches them out to get the story of
their lives unless some dire misfortune
overtake® them and they are elevated fo r
a moment from the bog or failure and
used for the purpose of making startling
headlines in the penny dreadful, if we
may so refer to tlie yellow journal. N’o.
it is not the province of tiie man who
deals out inspiration at so mucl
to take him into account.
> et it will do you no harm to know )
that in the great city more men come I
to their own in the potter’s field than in j
the Blue Book. There is no blare of |
trumpets and fluttering of banners when |
a man is carried on his last earthly jour-
eey at the expense of the city. Il might
he well for you to consider that, more i
than likely, thousands of young men as \
able as yourself have buried their dis- ;
appointments forever in tlie bosom of
East river.
You may see, coming out of tlte low
saloons, many men and even women who
came to New York tilled with the high
est aspirations, tlie noblest impulses,
but who. lacking one or more of the es
sentials that go to make up the sum to
tal of ^success, where competition is
keener than in any other spot in tiie
world, have lost their hold on all that
is best in life and gone down, down
down.
lo some people it seems criminal to
throw a shadow across tiie pathway of
a young man or a young woman. Let
them go on hoping for the bright sun
shine. ’ they say. "Soon enougli will
eonte the shadows and the darkness."
But a man will be better able to cope
t\ itii adversity if lie sees before him the
possibility that he may have to meet it
You would
this long felt want will have his lehr
I for his pains and be fortunate indeed :
omes or u , is appreciated by the generations :V
il come after him. If others suspect
e.f harboring a feeling of superiority
hopes for the future are as good as gen-
lie must, in fact, so far as possible
all tilings to all men. and fortunate -.is
lot if he can do this and ever and for
ever to himself be true.
F. L. ORTON.
POST WHEELER.*
He of the ways and wiles of men
Has knowledge, vast and sure;
In his terse epigrams we read
Shakespeare in miniature,
MARGARET A. RICHARi
* Author of "Reflections o fa Bachel
NIGHT IN A CITY.
Front my window as 1 watched the >= ui
ows lengthening; over the landscap-
thought; “It is the most delicious hour'
(he dav. the hour dividing light fror
darkness.” Still there was a touch
sadness at the passing of the bright, g"H-
! en day. Listen! O sweet sound float'
: through the air. Slow, measured toilins
of the vesper bells ringing In the •’
' athedrnl. calling to prayer—so the r■«:'
; darkens.
It is beautiful to look out at night ■
a city and watch the many lights - t
filiating from the windows of the
i buildings. I thought of the people i
\ up on the roof garden listening to sn 1
strains of music, and many throng
; tlie streets hurrying to their homes. S
hearts full of joy and laughter, w
i others bowed down with grief, and r ,v '
I haps some poor storm-tossed sou!, t
no home to go to. The children,
pause to look into the (bright, wind'
and ofttimes some poor little waif w
h'ring why they cannot obtain the b'
scarcely think of sendin_
man forth into the mountains in search ; tiful in life like other little ones. I
ot gold, knowing that in the branches of j the many carriages going to and '
any tree might lurk the panther, that and the hoofs of the horses tramp. '
every cavern was the home of tlie moun- j oyer the pavement stones. Lights o' '
tain lion, and that the very grasses he- ! ‘"’••y, how beautiful! Above the '
neath his feet hid poisonous serpents, ■ shine with a sweet benediction of ‘p
without warning him of tiie conditions j perfect peace." telling t.he wondrous st >
he would be obliged to face; yet many 1 °f God’s love. T fall asleep while
men who pose as tlie guides and instruct- whisper
rs of youth see lit to start them forth
oil the pathway of life without prepara
tion for the dangers that will come as
surely as the snows of winter follow the
heat of summer.
He who has observed tlie
and women corning to tlie
"God s in His heaven—
All s right with the world.”
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touch of refinement
like ail the better class of the old time
negroes. She tells some picturesque
reminiscences which I think might in
terest the Household. She told me she
was sold when quite young to a spcula-
tor in South Carolina, who told her he
was going to take her to Alabama, where
ginger cakes grew on bushes.
PATIENCE MORDAUNT.
should want her. But she had no clai
on Lawrence Dalton. What would her
death matter to him? Yet how she longed
to see him—just once—before death’s I honesty in the sterner manner
dark curtain fell! fathers. But when tiiev
Margery slept little that night. The j city and see, apparently
death seemed ringing in her ever on the scaffold, Wro'n
of death seemed
The fever and the opiate they ! the throne," they be
her made htr slightly delirious. 4 before long they pass
muttered incoherent words, of vice into its embrace
Once she started up and looked at the
bells
ears,
save
She often
And dream of one sweet summer
when a mocking bird was singing
old apple tree in the orchard an ox
but have been impressed with the change V 1Cl ° d> i' Asa , in tl,ft bpn rings 6 o
that is wrought in a vast majority or 1 7- ’ . 11 and °V*' n m Y window. r
them in the course of five va-ars’ time of r V1 " w of th ,V " U ^ this
Most young people from tlie country ! m-mv f^ n *f ee ’f hl ’ gh building
have Ideas in regard to morality which j «,(?/ 1C c . hurci . 1 spires. Tin-
have been patiently Instilled into them ! ft V, gleaming in the window:
by their mothers. They have been taught i fiV^'V^i,^
j?’f u to1 - clouds, and the birds are
forever on i sweetest matins of love—
:: ign
., ad
grid
Of :
singin .
to
waver, and
from a loathing
FROM A CHILD OF THE LAND OF
THE MIDNIGHT SUN.
Dear Friends—Have you a Norwegian
among you? If not, here is one asking
admittance. I live iii the far northern
state of Minnesota, but my native home j a message. Where does he live?’
is beyond the seas—in the vet colder' Margery murmured the name of her old
land of the midnight sun.” Onlv three'".™ 110 town, as she sank back on the
pillow.
The following day, as Lawrence stood
at the gate of his country home a negro
hoy brought him a telegram. Breaking
open the yellow envelope, he read: "Mar
gery Kent, dangerously ill at New York
hospital, wishes to see you."
Tie dropped the paper. His thoughts
were in a tumult. Margery dangerously
nurse: "Send for him; send for Law-1 effect on ” ‘ 1 n ° moie noticeable
renee Dalton. I must see him.” she cried. ! comes to
The nurse did not realize that her pa- ! loosenina-
tient was speaking deliriously. She said: B
“There, now, lie calm. I will send him
FROM A HOME IN THE WOODS.
To my fieauuiui but seciuuea no me (ii_
the center of a forest of nofile oak, hica-
ory and chestnut trees) file Sunny South
comes witn its panorama of varied out-
S(Ue life and thougnt. I read the House-
noid with intense interest. I seem per- I
sonally to know and love some of the I
writers. Deepiy interesting are the let- j
ters of Lorhacita, Manana, Geraldine, l
Faye. Alizpah, little buds, Julia Ta4t, Tes- I
sa Roddey and dear Mary Lignon Miller, [
who says just the things I want to say. !
On the brother side we have our Arizona I
Knight, Young Farmer, Wanderer, Cous- I
in Reddy, Slip, Tom Lockhart, Piney- !
woods Tom. Wanderer Jonas, Miller !
Hand and Arthur Goodenough, with his i
fine ideal poems, and 'brilliant but cynical j
F. L. Orton, who has wisely or unwisely ;
torn away the mask and shown us the |
natural man. Dear brecher. would It not ]
have been kinder to let us be deceived?
yet, I for one, cannot believe that all I
i.-nen are hypocrites or stony-hearted. I I
the country bred youth who
tlie city than the gradual
of his morals, and it is not
long before he can himself practice vices
the very thought of which a few years
before would have horrified him.
It would do no harm for the young man
who contemplates coming to New York
to remember that there are now, in this
city, three-quarters of a million people
either in actual want or on its yery
verge. He might recall tiiat there is an
army of a hundred thousand unemployed
men on the streets of this great city.
And if would not be in acordance with
tin- facts to say that they could
“The world is very beautiful-
Oh, my God, I thank Thee that I a
Atlanta. G*.
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The musical drip, dripping
Ot the gently falling rain
is heard in the budding forest
The"‘\ th ,° hUI and rdain.
The clouds in their chariots flying
•‘; h ;\' V< ' rs of bairn
To bring bl<
lit:
April 8 WOODL An'd“WANDERER.
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It was the
! ill—Margery, who had seemed to him the! n. i.ist
embodiment of life and beautv! \nd she! . superintendent of the Bowen mis-
had sent for him; she must care for him s, “ n says:
then! In the midst of liis (grief the “Young mon from tlie villages and
thought gave him a thrllj of joy. farms in an directions have been drawn to
he was on hig way to New ’ f 10 city - They came here with all the
energy and determination that belongs to
, , , - the ten days. Mar-: ,, yoan S American, and tiiev made a
geiv had jeen asleep. When she waked !‘J ospeoato fl " ,u But when they reached
she saw beside her the man who had Now 1 or h they found there were twertv
been present in her dreams. She thought • n >
she was dreaming still. Shr
hand and touched him
“It is you,” she exclaimed
’Oh. Larry. Tam so glad!”
He bent down and kissed her. “Dart
ing Margery, T love you.” he whispered.
light came into her eyes,
me” she murmured. “How
You never told me so
Tw
Thi
A h
DEATH IN LIFE.
' cold hands folded on a breast;
• nf form laid to rest;
a prayer: Jjod, is it best?”—
is not death.
'il'i'l toward things
put out her!
joyfully, j
it loved groMt
A life 1 wm’ 1 n0t the faltl1 of old;
f 7 ith worthiness all told—
l count death.
Margaret a. richarB-
This
I Aii ineffable
j “You Uwe
j »trange that is
before. Larry.”
Because J believed you did not want I
“ , \ >0 " seemed absorbed j n vour i
work and your ambition. You gave no
sign that you cared for me ” e j
“I hid my love f or you. They told me
you would never care for anv' one—‘h-n
you had given all your heart to that
beau.iful false woman you knew before 1
met you. I tried not 'to care for vou l
thnl e T he e e - thrcw myself into work
that I might fop^pt v'jyi Rut t ,
not. And now that I know von L " Ui
for me 1 am happy—whether° I m-e'Tr
die. I am content.” c or
*£ TwS",K T ""
until y.„ .„ ...n, th< „
Mine. Roblnnalre’s
WALNUT
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