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profit today which compares favorably with the
wage offered the average salaried employee, and
the old delusion that brains were not required for
their pursuit, has long ago been dissipated* Even
admitting that, in isolated instances, financial op
portunities are greater in the great congested dis-
Judge Albion W. Tour gee—
A Correction.
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Entered mt tke yoatofllce Atlanta, Ga.,ns eecend-claaa mail matter
March 13, 1901
Sunny South la tha oldest wooMy paper of Literatures
Romance, fad and Nldtlon In the South & It la now res
/tored to the original ehape and wilt he pubtlahed aa for•
merly every week *0 founded In tM74 It grew until :S9 9.
when, aw at monthly, ita form waa changed aa an eaperts
ment dp It now returna to Ita original formation aa a
weekly with renewed vigor and the Intention of octtpes
*ng Ite moat promlalng period In the paat.
The editor •'•gladly -publishes the fol
lowing correction from Colonel W. ;P-
Price, of T)ahlonega, well known
throughout the south as a pioneer in
- . . — . . , , - educational circles. Our error, which
tricts than in the rural precincts, what, to pa a i a j. fj rs t glance appears egregious, oc-
phrase the scriptural quotation, “shall it profit a curred through using a sketch already
man to gain the whole world, and lose,” his own ^itfen and annulled from a nominally
i health or serenity of mind? The city man is show-
I mg his appreciation of the value of the life out-of-
1 doors by moving out in the suburbs, and cutting
i down his exacting office hours. Much better, how
ever, for the man who has not yet changed his
personal freedom for the uncertain chances and
the often unhealthful hygienic conditions of the
city, to think thrice before making what may turn
cut to be a sadly uneven barter.
Happiness is, after all, the dominant motive of
human existence, and we believe there is less ques
tion of one's finding it in the country than in the
city.
Stay in the Country, and**
Kjeep Sane
'Beards as Traps for Bead*
ly Germs
HE concensus of expert opinion is
r gradually working round to the
general admission that life in the
city is opposed to the best mental
health and development of the indi
vidual. Indeed, reports issued from
eminent authorities of late have all
ended bv sounding a solemn warn
ing to the people who would aban
don the farm for the allurements of
of metropolitan existence, and de
ploring the trend cityward which
reached its maximum some years
ago. Such specialists base their
statements on the notable increase
of mental diseases in cities, the preponderating
crimes resulting therefrom being murder and sui
cide. This would seem to be the surest answer
to those who declare that the cry of the strenuous
life is exaggerated, and that people in cities arc
living about as sanely, considering the changed con
dition of things, as two or three decades ago. Phy
sicians call attention to the fact that even if ur
banites escape the more serious forms of mental
maladies, they are not able to evade almost equally
disastrous ones involving the nervous system,
such as nervous prostration, wrecked digestion,
anemia, paralsys and locomotor ataxia. A pecu
liar and significant phase is that these disorders
are by no means confined to the wealthier classes.
They seem to be slowly invading the lesser wage-
earners, who are victims of the fast pace set by
ambitious and sometimes conscienceless employers.
Dr. Moyer, of Chicago, an expert alienist, in a
recent discussion of these problems, asks the fol
lowing leading questions of the man who lives in a
city:
■Written and supplied from a nominally
reliable source. “The Busy World,” in
which department the sketch was print
ed, is always the last to go to the print
er. The haste, in this instance, explains
the failure to properly edit the matter.
The Sunny South always welcomes
such corrections.
LATE Issue of The Sunny
South contained a short
sketch of the above named,
gentleman. In which it
was stated that he was
a southerner. This is
quite an error, and does
injustice to the south. He
was neither born, reared
nor educated In the south.
He was born in the
western reserve of Ohio,
educated in Ohio schools,
but at the beginning of
the civil war he was in college at Roch
ester, N. Y.. which he left to enter the
war as a soldier, having his first exper
ience of the war in the Bull Run battle
of July 21, 1861 when' he was wounded.
He afterwards finished his career as a
soldier in the 105 Ohio regiment. He set-
F the report that comes wafted down
on an errant breeze from Pittsburg is
to be trusted, another bit of sump- i
tuarv legislation 'has been added to j tied at Greensboro, N. C., as a carpet-
our statute books, and another in- ! bagger within three months after the
, , „ , surrender of the southern troops. Here
vasion recorded on the sacred | be ed jt od f 0r a time a republican news-
rights of the individual,” as the paper. His principal work, however, con-
hustings orator would put it. Tor lasted in establishing union leagues for
65 , , , 1 - . i colored people. These secret political
it seems that the solons Ot the en- bodies of former slaves, under instruct-
terprisillg metropolis of smokeland ions from carpet baggers and self-ap-
have decreed that henceforth the pointed political emissaries^ became jm
beards of the inhabitants are to be
fumigated for the extermination of
pestiferous germs that may nestle
in their wiry recesses. If the tale
is not exaggerated and the edict is positively put
into effect, we may expect many ludicrous and dra
matic scenes to develop when the officers of the
Along' the Highway |
By FRANK L. STANTON
J
THE GIFT OF LOVE.
I.
Give me not wealth, nor place my
soul in state
My fellow-man above;
Give me not fame—the glory of the
great:
I ask the gift of Love.
The
lowly cabin
II.
Love that in
lives—
That is of Life the Lord;
That, being wounded, tenderly for
gives,—
Its sole—its sweet reward!
III.
The Love that kneels to do the gen
tlest deeds,
Scarce seen of human sight;
The Love that walks in ruined ways,
and leads
A brother to the light.
IV.
That Love which blossoms—even in
human tears,—
Shrinks not for wrath or rod;
For it shall walk with angels una
wares,
And see the smile of God!
intolerable to southern people, and espe'
cially insulting towards southern wom
en, that it became necessary to organize
the ku-kluk Klaus to protect the white
people in the country districts. There
never would have been a ku-kluk in
tlie south if the carpet baggers hail not
first organized the late slaves into secret
political societies.
Judge Tourgec was true to his lineage
Are you burning the candle at both ends?
.Are you breathing foul air and neglecting the sun
light?
Are yffli putting all your thoughts upon business and
Inoney-making? .
Are you disturbing nature by irregularity of habits?
Are you spending in reckless dissipation or ceaseless
dollar-hunting the hours that should be used for sleep
ing?
Are you starving your body in order that you may
stuff your purse?
Are you wearing out your brain with worry?
Are you giving more heed to the exhausting demands
of the golden calf than the exhilarating joys of nature?
Are you forcing yourself to carry on your shoulders
more than your strength can stand?
Are you compelling your wives and children 'to stay
in pent-up rooms, to stagnate and fade?
Are you pinching and grinding your Employees, injur
ing them physically and weakening them with anemia?
If so, you are helping to fill the insane asylums and
augment the ranks of degenerates. You are doing your
part to destroy the human race.
law attempt to do their duty. If there is anything and education. Born ill the western re-
THE EDITOR’S ADVICE.
“So, you’re back here with that
poem again?” said the editor.
“Yes,” replied the trembling poet,
“I write for bread.”
“Well,” said the editor, “suppose
you change your tactics, and give us
a poem with some ‘meat’ in it!”
wakes up the settlement howling for
more.
^ Busy World
Nothing more tangible than rumors.
* b een received from the naval thea-
in the Far East. These have
been plentiful enough, but ail are
characterised hy the fatal How ot tacit
have
ter of war
of verification.
Rojestvensky and Nego-
THE HALLELUIA SINGER.
batoff commanding the two Russi, a
squadrons, have not yet formed a junc-
I.
Don’t care for fortune,
For time or for tide—
Just a halleluia singer
On the halleluia side!
Japan has declared the island of Fo
under martial law, a proceeding
I which lends color to the belief that t
i decisive engagement will be fought oft
dt „ hich will be utilized as a
II.
Never sigh a minute
In a chariot to ride—
Happier when I'm walkin’
the halleluia side!
that island,
base by Togo
III.
Never in the shadow
Of a sorrow I’ll abide-»-
Joy is always singin’
On the halleluia side!
HIS SERMON ON TROUBLE.
A old darkey preached a whole ser
mon when he said:
“I never hunts for Trouble. My
whole time is took up in keepin’ out
his way—keepin’ de doors locked, at
de right time, so aat he can’t come
in and make himself at home whar I
live at!”
FROM AN AUTHOR’S JOURNAL.
I shall not go abroad this season.
My chief ambition now is to pay
house rent at home.
My publisher let me hold his auto
mobile twice last week. (There s
literary recognition for you!)
Joseph Jefferson, dean of the American
stage, died at West Palm Beach, FI: .
tt- Kopn desneratelv
.re.
for some weeks, and, although at tin
his condition improved, there watf n<-
any certainty of his recovery. Jefferson
was horn in Philadelphia in 1829. Fot
Joseph Jefferson
LOG CABIN PHILOSOPHY.
Joy enough floatin' around to keep
us all dancin’; but, then—so many of
us are opposed to the dance!
We never fail to count our troubles,
but we seldom say “Goou morning!”
to our joys.
about which the average man is particularly sensi-;f rve <* 0hio ’ il wouId ,,avc been strange ! th ® world-the question with you is,
.. . . I indeed if he had not been an abolitionist
tlYC it is lllS beard, if he IS fortunate enough to j from (he moment of his birth. Having’
own one. Out in Kansas and the other Pop-ridden fought to free fhc negroes, lie dia an in
> , <- i i-. . his power to raise the negro to the
states some years ago, a man s fidelity to principle
The above is a farly accurate roster of the ills
to which the city resident has to submit, or which
he himself cultivates, with seeming cheerfulness.
And yet the man out in God's open fields and for- j
ests, envies him his lot and often bends every ener
gy that he may desert the farm and immerse him
self in conditions that make for frail health for him
self and feeble bodies for his progeny. There is
apparently little valid excuse for such inconsistency.
The surroundings of country life were never
more inviting or profitable than today. Rural free
delivery and steam and electric rapid transit have
brought the world very close to the farmer’s door,
m almost as close touch as that enjoyed bv the
highest political and social pinnacle in
and mental strength was supposed to he indicated the south. He was made a circuit court
by the length’ and luxuriance of his heard, and jjudge in 1868, while the state of North
some of the specimens sent by admiring constitu- I negroes and carpet baffSers . His legal
encies to congress were truly remarkable. \\ ith decisions were, in the main, considered
the Mormons or Latter-day Saints, the distinction fai r by the people, which saved him,
, , ,, • -1.1 _ r perhaps, from the vengeance of the ku-
Stlll holds good, and there IS said to he no WH) OI klux. On the return of white supremacy
estimating the reverence showered on an apostle. he, with m;rtiy others of ius way of
who has a thick and sielken growth pendent from thinking, returned to their homes in the
. , . north. Judge Tour.gee establishing a law
his chin.
While the exacting task of keeping up with the
Ti’ysterieal rush of the day has caused the impeding
heard to decline in favor to an extent, it is still
popular in many communities, and one of the
.nvariable distinctions it confers on its wearers is
that of austere dignity. Did you ever see a man
with an impressive heard who was not clothed first, was “Hot Plow Shares,” describing
with freezing ponderosity of manner, in spite of; the methods ana means used by nboii-
tile irreverent jibes of the small hoy, AVllO Will in- Kansas, just before the war "with men
sist on tracing a similarity between its wearer and rifles in thou- hanis.” This plan al
and the pugnacious billy-goat?
Doubtless, Pittsburg contains a regulation quota
of the bearded gentry, and when we speak of
beards let us be understood as referring to the
long, waist-wrapping variety, the good, old-fash
ioned effects of the patriarchs, not the nobby, he- j the carpet baggers who nested with them
curled abominations of the modern man of fashion.! for three or *°u r yea If- ,
..., . . .. . . Many of Judge Tourgee s works of
When, then, we consider the possibilities arising j n ction —like “With Gage and swallow."
from tire disinfecting of all the beards in that arising will compare quite favorably with most
city of three hundred thousand, we stop appalled! i
office in New York city. He was in
many republican conventions. He wrote
many books of romance and fiction. The
volume which likely attracted most at
tention in the south was “A Fool's Er
rand,” devoted exclusively to a defense
of the union leagues and descriptions of
outrages by the ku-klux. His next most
noted political work, though written
most depleted modern cities and towns
of thgir worst-.glasses of men—with old
John Brown at, th^ head of them. Kan
sas will no more recover from the blight
ing Influence of this first influx of des
peradoes than the negroes of the south
No matter how long it took to make
e world—the question w
“How’ll I get through it?”
The sinners don’t do all the growl
ing. Sometimes the saints get off in
a corner and help ’em out consider
able.
Many a man is contented with a
little; but, give him riches, and he
I have succeeded in selling a son-
net for a can of lard, and six iove; Ilc -
songs for a sugar-cured ham. After
a while I’ll be able to swap an ode |
for a barrel of flour!
many years he remained a comparatively
obscure actor, until in 1867 he created a-
roles of “Rip Van Winkle” in the play f
that name, and “Rob Acres” in
Rivals.” His Rip brought him for . e
and lasting fame, and endeared him
hearts of the Aemrican theater-going p_ -
nd
hear the bells and birds.
I.
Waste not time in sighing-—
Saying solemn words;
Hark! the sky’s replying:
“Hear the bells and birds!”
II.
Hear the jubilation
Of hills that hide the herds:
“Joy be your salvation—
Hear the bells and birds!”
(KLAHOMA is
teen years old
the event was ■ -
brated in every r
town and hiam o
throughout t
twenty-six count <-s
which now mak* .1
the territory. In all
places homage was
paid to the memo y
of Colonel David L.
Payne, “Old 1
heart,” whose per
sistence in leading colonies of settlers
into this territory finally forced or-
Col David L Payn«
gress to recognize Oklahoma pul--
All the publishers say this will be j domain and open it to settlement He
a great year for literature, and the lovingly known throughout the territory
short story is on top!
j as “Father of Oklahoma.”
When the British Invaded
will recover from the bad Influences of I should be recalled in these days of peace
ful possession. We would tell of the
, r , ,, , ... . . . , , i works, especially “A Fool's Errand
In fancy, we hear the shrill cries of the bearded ; have been more than met and, answered
citizens as they flee wildly before the onset of the ! by Rev. t. c. Dixon in his extensively
• , • * | • f. • • , — r. d I a a a-va s\ * ® ’Ph A T JiflBfl I*d fl* ^ DOt S _
torturers charged with the fumigating process, and
finally their wails of despair and anguish when it
is borne in on them that escape is impossible. We
are most anxious, also, to learn if the process to be
employed will rob beards of their natural color and
consistency. It would not he comforting to con
template the reduction of all the breeze-stoppers j
of one city to a dead level of no color tone, and no I
artistic flexibility. j
It seems to us, moreover, that when it comes down i
to the actual operation, the^citv fathers are going
to encounter a tough nut. What method will they
use? Will they force a squirming citizen of nor
mally staid aspect to bend over a steaming fumi-
gator, until all the germs are boiled out of his
heard? Or will they compel him to amputate his
hirsute jungle in order that it may conveniently be
submitted to the odoriferous fumes of the germi
cide ? Beards may be the hiding place of many
deadly bacteria, hut we wish to enter our feeble
rend volume, “The Leopard's;. Spqt
which covers the identical section and
people described in “A Fool'S Errand,”
My object in writing this Is not with
the desire of doing Judge Toufgee' any
personal injustice, but simply to show
to your readers that he was not a. south
erner in any shape, form or feeling. He
left North Carolina and is not. if living
even an adopted son of the south.
W. P. PRICE.
Dahlonega. Ga.
city man. The telephone and the newspaper are protest against this abridgement of the aesthetic
other modern adjuncts which distinctly make life | liberties of mankind. The good accomplished will
in th/* /»nnntMr *1. a 1 1* * _ t *1 r • • « •< . . . ... . r
in the country worth the living, while free and cir
culating libraries go far toward putting him on
a literary plane with the man in the city.
Moreover, diversified and truck farming return a
be all out of proportion to the indignity proffered,
and tfie city fathers of Mr. Carnegie’s town may
soon have a problem on their hands more formida
ble than the famed white elephant of tradition.
Fortune Waits Farmers in Intelligent Sheep Raising
MERICA is becoming year
ly more ot a sheep raising
and mutton eating country.
This is due primarily to the
iniative of the department
of agriculture, which for
tlie last ten years has been
urging the firmer to raise
sheep Instead of exporting
because tlie price of mutton is going up
by leaps, not only in the stores where
the consumer has to buy it, for everyone
realizes this, but in Chicago, where lambs
have recently touched the unprecedented
figure of $8 per 100 pounds and are now
selling at about $7.50.
The sheep expert of the department of
agriculture, George F. Thompson, edi-
his ^ , . - | tor of the bureau of animal industry,
, ’ .‘ n ' and which | gives an interesting exposition of what
the department has been doing in the
sheep line and what it hopes to accom
plish.
During the early days in America sheep
were bred primarily for the wool, and
during recent years we have been Im
porting annually, in addition, from $25,-
000,000 to $30,000,000 worth of wool. Rut
the wool industry In this country has
come to the point where It frequently does
not pay to ruble the sheep for the fleece
alone.
has helped him in every
way to this qnd.
One result is that there
were reported on the first
of this year over 45.000.000 sheep on the
farms and ranches of the United States,
valued at $127,331,855, as against less
than 38,000,000 in 1899. The receipts at
the Chicago stock yards are gaining
every year since 1894. when the yards
took over 1,000,000 more mutton sheep
than the previous year.
Th« department is anxious to impress
on £>e farmer the value of sheep as one
of ala farm products, and it points out
thw, while the sale of $1,000 worth of
corn takes from the soil S300 worth of
fertility; that is to say, the farmer would
have to spend that much In fertilizers
to recoup the land, the same amount of
corn converted into good mutton and sold
•t a higher price than the corn would
fetch takes In the end from the land
not over *50 worth of fertility, and if
the flock was kept for wool alone i£
Would not reduce the value of the land
more than $3 or $4.
MUTTON IS HIGH NOW.
There is particular interest . attaching
to the sheep raising problem just now
There has, therefore, been an increasing
mbi
effort to get a good combination breed
that would live in large flocks on the
range, furnish a good fleece and at the
same time be a good mutton sheep. This
has been a work of great difficulty and
is by no means yet accomplished. The
iowa experiment station has had Dr. J.
W. Kennedy working on the breeding
problem for several years, experiment
ing with merinos for wool, and South-
downs and Shropshires for mutton, with
a number of other breeds. But up to
date the experiments have tiot b<£ui pro
ductive of any new fixed breeds wnlch
would have the desired characteristics
and transmit them unchanged to its
progeny.
The result is that the farmers of the
east are still confining themselves to the
English breeds of downs and shires,
which are grea.t meat producers, while
the western ranches depend largely on the
old Mexican sheep, which is a descendant
of the fine merinos imported by the Span*
lards, but which has been affected by
environment till it has developed charac
teristics of its own and is in a great
many respects an ideal sheep for the
range. The fleece of the Mexican is
made finer and improved by the intro
duction of pure merino rams on the
range, and when the strain of merino
begins to show too much, making a weak
er and more delicate «rfieep, with very
fine silky wool, the breed is strengthened
by the 'ntroduction of some coarser wool
sheep like the Oxfords. So the balance
Is maintained. '
This work has now been going oh for
many years and the breeding .is * likely
to continue along. the same lines till the
Ideal wool mutton breed is found. This
may occupy a long time, but there has
been so much done in recent years in the
hybridizing of plants and animals' that
it would seem anything might be expect
ed to develop In the cross-bred line at
any time.
The department has helped the sheep
industry all it could and has furnished
the farmers with a great many valuable
works on the subject of sheep raising,
feeding and treating for diseases of or.e
sort or another till the department has
come to be looked upon by the sheep
men as a source of much good and great
information.
The department has convinced the
(CONTINUED ON LAST PAGE.)
JUST FOR DOGS.
(From Success.)
“There are pet dogs in New York. ’
I insisted, “worth $5,000. There are St.
Bernards worth $7,000. There are wom
en in New York who spend $ 1.000 a year
on clothes for their poodles.”
“On clothes for their poodles?”
“Cer.tainly; on house coats, walking
coats, duffers, sweaters, coats lined
with ermine at $200 each, automobile
coats vfith hoods and goggles, and each
coat fitted with a pocket for the poodle's
handkerchief of fine linen or lace.”
“I never heard of such a thing.”
“It is absolutely true. Furthermore,
these women buy for their pet dogs boots
of different colored leather to match the
coats, house boots, street boots, etc., that
lace up nearly to the knee and cost from
$5 tf\ $8 a pair. They buy half a dozen
pairs at a time. And they buy collars,
set with rubies, pearls, or diamonds, at
several hundred dollars each. A man
who makes a specialty of such collars told
me of a woman who imported from Paris
n complete outfit for her poodle costing
$2,000. And one lady had a house built
for her dog the exact model of a Queen
Anne cottage, with rooms papered and
carpeted and the windows hung with lace
curtains Every morning a woman calls
(a sort of dog governess) to bathe and
comb and curi and take him out for his
walk. He east and drinks from silver
dishes, ana If he gets a stomach ache, a
specialist is promptly summoned.”
“What, a dog specialist?”
“Precisely. New York has its fashion
able dog doctors, wfro get $10 a visit and
sleep with a telephone at their bedside
for night calls, TTke regular practitioners.
One lady whom I know summoned a
specialist from New York to Newport and
kept him there for a week at $100 a day,
becaose .her poodle was ailing.”
struggles of the brave men of the south,
not alone against their Indian foes, but
later against scarcely less savage men
of their own race, such as Tarleton, the
cruel, of revolutionary infamy. Not a
continuous series do we purpose, but sin
gle articles now and then, each com
plete in itself—articles that, woven to
gether, will tell much of the sturdy men
of the past, whose bravery helped to
make our country what it is today, the
home of the proudest nation of freemen
on the surface of the globe.
During the earlier days of the revolu
tion the British generals gave little heed
to the southern states, as such. The seat
of the war was in the north, their own
armies wore massed around New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with rem
nants scattered here and there in still
more northern states and cities. The
southern group of patriotic states were
cheerfully sending their contingents of
men and money to join the army of the
beloved Virginia leader, the immortal
Washington, but except in his own state
and that of Maryland, they had not been
molested by British troops. It was not
until toward the end of the year 1778
that the British cabinet deemed it neces
sary to teach the south a lesson, and to
punish the families of the brave south
erners who had made their presence felt
in the armies of the continentals. There
was even a stronger motive for the
invasion than this of revenge. It was
'believed that “ the richness of the south,
and its mild climate, would render its
conquest an unspeakable loss to tlife
Americans, and its possession would tend
to secure to the crown the southern part
of the country that stretches beyond it.”
Such was the report of one of the ablest
British generals, and on this the gov
ernment acted in ordering the invasion
of the south. The “it” referred to in this
quotation was Couth Carolina and Geor
gia,
TASK SEEMED EASY.
Therefore, in November, 1778, a picked
lot of troops under tlie command of Col
onel Campbell, embarked on the squad-
class, there was another, not small, and
very Influential. This class embraced the
gentry, many of whom had relatives in
England, and had themselves been edu
cated there, and at tills very time had
children in the English schools and col
leges.
and Captured Georgia Soil
By HELEN HARCOURT.
Written for EZ>e Sunny South
T is our purpose to give
our readers a series of pa
pers dealing with potential
Then and events of the
earlier days of the land
wo love, not only before
it became a part of ai
igreat nation, when the
English ruled the colonies,
but still further back, in
the perilous times of their
formation. Many are the
little known incidents of
those stirring days that
RS. ANNIE BE-
SANT, w is said
to be fomenting re
ligious war in India
by asserting that the
■religion revealed to
,Mme. Ulavatsky s£
the -oldest in the
would, ijas beer,
prominent in labor,
(socialist and free-
thought movements.
She joined the tie
osopliists In 1889
Je-
Relviflg on these auspicious conditions, i Mrs Annie Besant_ antl btuanie
the British, both at home and in Ameri- ! vot ? d <“ac.ple of , Mme ' Blavataky. Hy
ca, believed that their troops liad oi
to appear in the souuiern states to con
quer them, finding at least five men to
joint their standards, to every one in
husband, from whom she was legally sep-
I arated in IS67, was Rev. Frank Besa
1 As an author and lecturer Mrs. Besar.t
j is widely known. She founded the ( n-
tral Hindu college at Benares, in which
opposition. The squadron under Coramo- L- ty she nQw lives> and where she walks
dore Parker arrived in the Savannah river
the streets, counting her beads and sur.
toward the end of December. A small raundeti by devotees. Her opponCP. ■' de
nounce her as an impostor.
body of American regulars, some 600
in number, and a few militia, under the
command of General Robert Howe, were
at this time encamped near the city of
Savannah. These men were tlie remnant
of an army that had invaded Florida, but
had been forced to abandon the expedi
tion because of a severe and fatal sick
ness that had broken out among them.
Colonel Campbell landed about 3 miles
below the town. The whole country at
this point, bordering the river, is a deep
morass cut up by creeks, and can only
be traversed by causeways. Over one
of these, about 600 yards in length, with
a deep ditch on either side, the British-
advanced, attacking and putting to flight
a party of raw militia who had been 1 smal l stature and gentle way
mistakenly posted to guard the cause- j v ® r >' J fond of outdoor sports, esp
way. A more experienced officer than
General Howe, would have stationed sea
soned troops, with a cannon, at so .im
Nancy Jarnrylrr
s “Little Nancy
ANCY CARNF.'Un
H EVER, niece
Andrew Ca
who is now th
of her former gr- m,
James Hover, tt>
youngest daughter of
the late Thom : M.
Carnegie, -broth r of
the millionaire iron
master. Nancy n-is
a grat favorite in
society. and was
familiarly known
” because of her
ally
of dross-country riding, and gem roily
rides astride. She is said to be t
vorite niece of Andrew Carnegie. H-
oner
portant a point. There had been but 1 whom Mlss Kancy married, is a wid
with two children.
scant time for defensive preparations, but j
Howe sought to do tlie best possible with
his little army, by posting it on the main
road, with the river on its left and the i
morass in front.
In spite of the reverse at the cause- i
way, all might yet have gone well, and ;
the story of Savannah and Georgia, for j
some time -to come, -have taken a very j
different turn, had there not been a [
traitor in the American camp. It was |
a negro, not an American, who thus j
betrayed his country. This traito* led I
the British commander to a path through ;
the morass by which lus troops could!
R. HORACE N
LEN, tlie Ar.;-
minister to Ko:
the foremost per
ality ip that conn
today. Born in D-
aware in 1858,
was graduated fr
Ohio Wesleyan
versity. He bee
a Presbyterian
sionary and fr •
China ventured i
Korea, then the n:
pass unobserved to the rear of the de- j Dr Horae N Jflten remaining “her:-
voted band of patriots. Tlie British light nation.” Thus he was the first Prot
infantry were sent by this path to turn
the flanks of the waiting Americans,
while Colonel Campbell with the main
body advanced along the road.
Attacked suddenly, front and rear, the
latter a totally unexpected contingency,
the unfortunate patriots were complete
ly routed. Nearly one hundred of their
small number were kiled on the spot,
cr swallowed up in the morass in an
attempt to escape. Thirty-eight officers
and over four hundred privates were
taken prisoners. The remainder of the
city's defenders retired up the Savannah
river, and entered South Carolina. Sa
vannah, the beautiful, fell at once into
the hands of the victors, with all its
cannon, military stores and provisions.
ron of Commodore Parker, and sailed for j And all this at a cost to the British
GeortrV. Savannah was selected as the i of only seven men killed and nineteen
George
first point of attack, the plan being to
wounded. The loss of the city as a base,
make this city a base for operations! of the cannon, stores and provisions,
MADE SOMETHING OF NOTHING.
During Uovernot Rollins' administra
tion a representative of the legislature
of New Hampshire from one of the rural
districts in the northern section of the
state was presented to the governor for
the tlrs* time. Being somewhat uni-
tamiliar. according to The Boston Herald,
Ivith "state house etiquette,’.’ he ad
dressed his excellency as “mosi. high.”
The governor informed the gentleman
from the rural district that there was
but one "Most High”—"He Who made
everything from nothing.”
‘'Well, Governor,” replied the country
legislator, “I’ll give you credit for mak
ing a. justice of the peace out of a- man
up in my town that Is about as near to
nothing as ever walked on two legs. ’
against the rest of the state. At the
same time General Provost, who com
manded the English troops in Florida,
was ordered to advance, and attack Geor
gia on the flank, while Colonel Campbell
was attacking in front—along the sea
board. The British generals believed
that the subjugation of the whole coun
try would be an easy matter. It was at
such a great distance from the master
mind, Washington, as to be beyond his
control or means of succor. Its popula
tion was scanty and scattered, and made
up, riot so much of native Americans,
as of emigrants or the immediate descend
ants of emigrant^. All nationalities were
represented. Among them. Huguenots
and other Frenchmen, exiles, religious and
political, Germans from the Palatinate.
Irish Protestants who held grants from
the crown. Scotch-Irish, Scotch Highland
ers, banished after the battle of Cullo-
den, jqid Dutch colonists who had de
serted New York after it had passed into
the possession of the English, and had
settled, in Georgia, on bounty lands from
the crown. The British government
counted -confidently on the bulk of this
large foreign element being friendly to
the king. In addition to this foreign
was severe enough, but these losses
were by no means the greatest part of
the disaster.
LEAPED BEFORE LOOKING.
The moral consequence of the fall of
Savannah were widespread and inimical
to the cause of freedom, and the British
government had counted on this result.
1 here were many tories, as those whose
sympathies were with the crown were
called—scattered throughout the country.
Many others, too, who were “sittin„ on
the fence,” waiting In inglorious neutbal-
lty, until they felt sure which side was
going to be uppermost in the struggle for
liberty or subjection. These men were
encouraged by the British successes at
ant missionary in that country. ? •-
United States minister, General Fo-
made him physician to the legation. D
ing an insurrection, when all aliens !'• d
from Seoul, he stayed, and attended so
of the injured members of the roy
family, battling with the necromancir.g
court physicians so that he might save
the wounded. His medical skill led the
emperor to establish a royal hospiui ,
with Dr. Allen in charge. The emperor
himself fell sick, was cured by Dr. Alien
and the doctor tvas made court physicia”
a place of groat influence, which he holds
today. In 1890 he was made secretary
of the United States legation at S«oui
In'1893 he was made charge de’affaires
FABLE OF THE HEN.
rp? nC D UPOn a time (very recently). sa vs
The Boston Post, a lien went upon‘a
strike and refused to lay. Other hens
renewed her example, and the scarcity
of hen fruit which resulted caused eg<-s
to retail for something like 50 cents per
dozen In other words, strictly fresh
eggs aid by scab hens were worth about
stnr^ aCh in .' the sheIh Even cold
«ge eggs which were deadly explo-
had to be handled with care
fifougrht -30 cents.
StTate4 Pe0 * P K e v5 0t t0gether and ron ' on -
U” 1 ®* WUh the * b ens, but it-did no good.
tv, iT u ” n committee waited
to l , , he "! and trIed to persuade them
go back to work. The* arbitration
fiointrd out that only the rich
>efused a ?° r it*° ^ egg f’ bUt the
Savannah. The tories became active in j tion S u( tUrn t£> work - T he arbitra
ting nf , uu committee
the persecution of former friends and.
neighbors who had declared for their I
country, while the sitters on the fence
jumped down on the British side. Later
on, these men regretted that they had not
looked a little farther before they leap-
ed. but that time was not yet. Neither
of these parties dreamed of a possible re-
verse in the fortunes of war. They
"- kcd a numbers to the British stand-
"„ r f;. with never “ doubt but that the
southern part of Georgia, at least,
CONTINUED ON SEVENTH PAGE.
if tv,n„ then told the hens that
brin h ® :y ra pers,st f d in the strike they would
p.,.** r ^ ce suicide on themselves.
as fouowsf ^ ° M hCn ar ° Se and spoK *
t .,' I “ the s »r>ng when us hens wish to
“ ‘ he ( pe °P le Kive us porcelain door
knobs sv SU ° n ' If the P° rce iain door-
. . are as S°od as eggs to sit on. they
t^ e . <as sood to ea t as eggs. Ted
answer th!' * 11011 committ ee could not
tears ,s apI '® un,en t, and departed m
Moral—Deceit will come home to roost