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THE SUNNY SOUTH
JUNE 17,
A
r ]understand two individuals where we previously
SUNNY lSC3l_7TH i touched but one, it is a sure sign that the time has
w'w* ' * .inot been wasted in its perusal.
Published Weekly by I \y e t j 0 no t intend, by* these statements, to im-
T3ssL.1; CUl-sre /V* ' plv that all reading should be with the aim of study
JUflfiy *30Utrl 1*110lljfling CO : OI T self-improvement. Often light fiction is an
Busine/s Office
THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING
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The Sunny South Is the oldest weekly paper of Literature,
Homance, Fatt and Fidlion in the South JF It is now re*
Jlored to the original shape and will be published as for*
merly every week JV Founded in 1874 it grew until ;899,
when, as a monthly, its form was changed as an expert*
meat & It now returns to its original formation as a
weekly with renewed vigor and the intention of eclips*
tng its most promising period in the past.
Startling Growth of the
Library Vogue
-lmprov
I agreeable and salutary change from the humdrum
I of daily existence, a sort of tabasco which makes
! the dull flavor of life more bearable, a kind of sane
jtuary in which we take refuge from the petty
! pains and small nuisances of the day-by-day rou-
j tine. It would be difficult to estimate how many
men and women have been benefited by reading
I of this recreative variety'. Often it is possible l)
ilose one's self thus, when worry or responsibility
{will permit of no other form of continuous mental
i concentration.
| But in the main it holds good that unless we
i wish to develop solely along material lines, we must
1 select books for our own reading almost as care-
! fully as we do the text-books for our children. Edu
cation is not completed within the limits of the
i claSS-rOOm bv anv means. I 1h^ man who nurses | Dort the president, and to do everything
that delusion is ljkely to find himself surmising
sooner or later, whv his interests in life are so cir-
i cumscribed and his leisure so monotonous.
We cannot support too many libraries. They
| stand for ideas and ideas for progress. Progress,
too, of the permanent and substantial description.
Leaves from an Old
Scrap Book
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
HE Wilmington Journa.
published the following red
hot roast of Edward Ever
ett when he declined to
run for congress:
"Edward Everett having
been requested to accept
the republican nomination
in the third congressional
district of Massachusetts,
has replied:
“ 'Summer street. October
9. 1862.—My Dear Mr.
Whiting: I fear you will
think T have too long delayed an answer
to your most obliging communication.
After giving to the subject the most
anxious and respectful consideration, I
have come to the conclusion that I can
best serve the country and its holy cause
by not going into congress. I shall con
tinue, to the "best of my ability, to sup-
liERE lias been nothing more won-j
r l derfpl or significant in this com: j
try for the last three decades, than, j
the growth of the library movement j
—speaking of the library in the pub-|
lie sense. Within that period th ■ |
national wealth lias developed ini
studendous ratio; the Lnited States;
has added hundreds of thousands of j
square miles to the territory under!
I its surveillance; we have attained)
■ exalted importance in tlie eyes of tlv.-J
y [ civilized world; and in every channel
WRKMMtktB of trade, industry, commerce and
scientific invention we have record-)
ed a progress which is the amazement of other peo
ples. In view of this remarkable evolution, it is
gratifying to reflect that the subjective'taste f >r|
literature has practically kept pace with the more
substantial national growth. In 1875, f° r instance,
there were only 2.000 libraries in the country, with
a total of 11.500.000 volumes; in 1903 there were 7.-
000 libraries, with more than 54.000,000 volumes, an
annual income of over $8,000,000 and endowments
approaching $21,000,000. These figures merely take
into account the institutions actually recognized as
libraries. Were it possible to enumerate the in
numerable auxiliary branches really engaged in the
same field. 1 lie statistics would be more surprising
than the ones given. It is even certain that thous
ands of smaller public collections, situated in vil
lages and hamlets and which really deserve to be
classified as libraries, are not included in ibis list:
if they were it would swell to enormous propor
tions.
This Husband Too Good
To Be True
OMETHING extraordiary is always
coming, out of Chicago. I he bi^
city by the IAke is never happy un
less it is producing an abnormality
of some description, and if it oc
along iines of extreme virtue, so
much the better. It is all advertis
ing. and advertising counts in this
day of the blaring trumpet and con
venient house-top. The latest freak
is the model husband claimed to
have been discovered by the compul
sory education officer of one of the) hair of the man's head and his jaw, and
. •' 11 At- a 1,, i jerking his mouth violently open, looked
Chicago school districts. Mr. Ma-J^ for b a moment and then exclaimed,
Reliable
Along; the Highway
By FRANK L. STANTON
j
LOVE, AND TEARS, AND LAUGH
TER.
I.
In the bright, the golden years,
Love met Laughter, linked with
tears:
To the Tears: “Come ye hereafter:
I shall journey on with Laughter.”
Journeying onward for a day,
Laughter left him on the way.
II.
In a shadoWly vale of fears
Love was left alone with Tears.
But his heart knew sweeter rest
For the red thorns at his breast.
And to Love this word was given:
“Every teardrop mirrors heaven!”
HEARD IN GRUB STREET.
“You want to carve your name on
high?”
“I don’t know. My creditors climb
like squirrels!”
in my power lo promote the vigorous
prosecution of the war. But T feel con-
rident that what little influence I might
otherwise have would be impaired by my , p ROVERBS OF THE nirwWAY
becoming a candidate, especially at a ! “«°VERB5 OF THE HIGHWAY,
moment when we are threatened with a ) Death loves a shining mark. May
new struggle of parties, from which I j be that’s the reason few of us ever
am determined to stand aloof. j rise and shine with any brightness, to
"I remain, my dear Mr. Whiting, with j speak of. .
great regard sincerely yours, * j It’s hard for some men to get
“'EDWARD EVERETT.’ {through life on dignity alone. An ele-
•Thus saith the great 'Adulator' of phant is dignified enough, but power-
Washington—"the warm friend of the i ful slow!
south.' who once thought to speechify him- j Good thing, perhaps, we are never
self into southern support for the presi- contented. Contentment would be the
dency. He will now support Lincoln, em ] of progress,
proclamation and all, and will do every- T ^
thing in his power to promote the vigor- | When Joy goes serenading. Sorrow
ous prosecution of the war. Immaculate s . ams *1*® shutters and blows out the
man! White-robed saint! Hollow hearted
hypocrite f” Happiness doesn't come with a
—- | flourish of trumpets. That’s why so
LOOKED AT HIS TEETH. ! many of us pass him by, unnoticed,
I’nder the caption of a "Brutal Act," jin the middle of the road.
Tlie Floridian published the following: —~
... ... JUST WAVE YOUR HAND TO ME.
A citizen of Chester county recently i„ . . ., ... „
, , . . _ | What need to sit with Sorrow grrav
presented himself at the office of the pro- 1 Tlru r , „
vost marshal, West Chester, claiming
that he was unfit for military service on
account of defective teeth.
'"Die official to whom this representation
was made, at once seized hold of the
When Life sings blithe and free?
I When I go down the shadow-way,
| Just wave your hand to me!
loney earns $9 a week
witnesses testify that of this Sum he spends 5 cents
per week for beer, and that every penny of the re
mainder goes to his wife and family of six chil
dren. Such pulchritude is almost unbelievable.
Wc have an exalted opinion of the qualities of out
masculine readers, but we believe that few enough
of them attain such sublime heights of self-im
molation. Imagine the average husband retaining
for bis personal use only one hundred and eightieth
of his income and turning the rest over to his wil
ling wife! such a man would deserve to be canon
ized while yet alive, and his name blazoned from
one end of the continent to the other. The ordinary
wife thinks she is accomplishing wonders when
she can lure half of a husband’s salary; and. accord
ing to tradition, a fair percentage of them are forced
to the surreptitious alternative of abstracting the
Let not a sorrow be
When darkness covers me;
A brief Goodbye.
And not one sigh: —
Just wave your hand to me!
and “Leaves have their time to fall”
is still popular with obituary writers
—but the rest of hpr work? A vol
ume of her verse in a well-patroirized
library has not been taken down in
years; even women pass it over—
though our grandmothers sighed and
wept with Felicia Hemans. She did
not escape the fate of genius. This,
from the introduction to the edition
of her poems printed in 1830: "At 19
she was married to Captain Hemans,
of the Fourth regiment. They lived
together unhappily for several years,
when Captain Hemans left England
for Italy and never returned.”
THE HALLELUIA SOUL.
I.
Sing the song of sunshine—
Let the music roll!
Nothin.’ like the singin’
Of a halleluia soul!
II.
.Toy will slip his tether—
Sorrow own control
To the glad, upliftin’ music
Of the halleluia soul
SURE THING.
“He looks like a genius..”
“In what way?”
“So hungry, long-haired and wild!”
JOAQUIN MILLER’S IDEA.
“I never saved all my printed
poems,” writes Joaquin Miller. “But
what does it matter? If they're good,
they’ll liye; if not, they'll die the
death. The world will find ’em—if it
wants ’em.”
And now, Rudyard Kipling joins the
ranks and says “Genii# is hard work.”
In other words, a man may be "a
genius of a rail-splitter,” or “a saw
mill genius.” and so forth.
WHEN TROUBLE COMES.
When Trouble comes to see you,
Just holler out, “Old boy,
I’m sorry that I’m not at. home—
I’m lookin’ out for Joy’!’
It is reassuring, also, to note that this vastIwherewithal" for the grocery and meat bills out cf
reading public is giving its attention to something| t i ie pockets of a sleeping spouse,
outside of light fiction, or literature of the purely I W'c ' consider that the matrons of the United
ephemeral type. A concensus of opinion from the' States should do no less than band together and
leading librarians of the country shows that a largeierect a memorial to Mr. Maloney, expressive of thei;*
percentage of patrons are devoted to the more sc- [appreciation. The only obstacle we see in the way
rious form of reading. This does not necessarily j j s the possible intervention of incredulous husbands,
mean that abstruse works of science or philosophy J or those who would take such a step as a reflection
are in favor. One does not need to go to such i on -their personal liberality. For the most penu-
sources for profitable reading or that sort which d'S rious man living never views himself save in thc-
velops while it entertains. Shakespeare, for in - j light of a spendthrift, when he is giving about onc-
stance, offers a splendid invitation to the man or [third what he really should to his clamoring ar.d
"'Oman who reads for entertainment, and who j stinted familv. It is simply the nature of the ani-
would at the same time reap some permanent profit m al.
from the time thus employed. Numerous other 1 Seriously, however, the husbands of the coun
poets present the same class of opportunities. I her. Itrv might take a lesson from Mr. Maloney's munifi-
there are books in which travel, geography, scieiw |cence. W ives have a hard enough road, heaven
and even philosophy are garbed so attractively that|knows, if all the tales of woe poured into our
one must perforce absorb certain knowledge, eve > j drowsv ears are to he credited. If the majority of
though tlic search is for amusement, pure and [the leige lords will do about one-half as well as the
simple.
1 he test of profitable reading is that it stimu
lates our mental activitv. I lie book or journal or
story that makes us think alo
doing 11s good. If it inculcates in us a craving for
s.orne form of art it adds beauty and interest to out
lives: if it inoculates us with a desire for higher
development, it is likely to add to our sub
jective no less than our financial resources:
if it enables us to judge men and wonir
more keenly and at the same time more kindly, it
is accomplishing a distinct service; if it widens our
viewpoint and multiplies our sympathies so that wc
‘Oh, you'll do.’
"Spectators say the sight was a re- |
pulsive one, and that a jockey would ( I shall not need the love of you,
have examined a horse’s mouth with j Your smiles r shall not see;
more decency.” ] Give Life your smiles and kisses true,
•— And wave your hand to me!
A “TYRANNICAL ORDER.” j
All the southern war papers had mucti ( Let not, a sorrow be
to say about General B. F. Butler s rule j When darkness covers me; *
SENSITIVE GENIUS.
I An author who was scored by a
j savage critic, committed suicide. A
l good motto for authors is the old one
Dr. Johnson governed his life by—"A
I man is judged by what is written in
| books—not. what is written about
them.”
5'he Busy World
Prospects for peace between Russia and
Japan have appreciated perceptibly dur
ing the last few days. Each power has
signified to President Roosevelt that his
services as an opener of negotiations are
acceptable. There is no direct evidence
that either power has yet named repre
sentatives, and no placei of meeting has
been selected, ft is expected, however,
that these preliminaries will be concluded
at an early dato, and It is believed in
many circles that either Washington or
Manchuria will be chosen as the scene
of negotiations.
The question of terms appears now to
delay progress. It is tr.e current belief
that Japan will demand custody of the
railway between Harbin and the coast,
the dismantlement of the fortifications op
Vladivostok, the cession of the island of
Sakhalin, the protectorate over Korea,
control of the Liao-Tung peninsula and
Port Arthur and a tentative cash in
demnity of S1.000.000.000. It is by no.
means certain that Russia wiil make
these large concessions. There is also a
disposition on part of some diplomats to
credit the czar wicn playing a shrewd
game, in an effort, to draw Japan out so
that her terms, being shown exorbitant,
can be utilized 'as a plea to the nation to
continue the war.
Matters will likely reach a. crisis within
a very few days. In the meantime it ap
pears that the status in Manchuria has
| not been affected, vague reports coming
! in of clashes between Oyama and Line-
| viteb.
Al'L MORTON, of
Chicago, who. as
chairman of the
board of directors of
the Equitable, will he
at the head of the
big insurance com
pany. is just retiring
as secretary of the
navy. He was second
vice president of the
Atchison. Topeka and
Santa. Fe Railway
Company when Pres-
dent Roosevelt ap-
cabinet. He had been
since 1896. He began
railroad work in 1872 as a clerk in the
office of the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy railroad at Burlington, Iowa. He
is a son of the late J. Sterling Morton,
of Nebraska, who was secretary of agri
culture. and a brother of Joy Morton, of
Chicago. He was born at Detroit, Mich,
in 1857.
Paul Morton
pointed him to the
with the Santa Fe
in New Orleans. I find the following i'n
the old scrupliook:
"The following order has been issued
by tlie yankee authorities in New Or
leans:
"Headquaters of New Orleans. New j
Orleans, July 3, 1863.
"General Order No. 18.
“Hereafter no public assemblages, ex- ;
cept for public worship, under a regular |
commissioned priest, will be allowed in j
this city for any purpose or under any
pretense whatever, by white or black, j
without written consent of the com- j
mander of the defenses of New Orleans;
and no more than three persons will be 1
allowed to assemble or congregate to- 1
get her. upon th£^trcets of the city. Wher
ever more than that number are found I
together by tlie patrol they shall lie or- j
dered to disperse, and failing to uo so, ;
the offenders shall be plaeed under ar- ,
rest.
“All bar room, coffee houses, stores
and shops of every description, will be
closed at 9 o'clock p. m.
“All club rooms and gambling houses
are hereby closed until further notice.
“No citizens or other persons, except
the police and officers in the United
States service or soldiers on duty or
with passes, are to be allowed in the
streets after 9 o'clock p. m.
“By command of Brigadier General
Emory.
Only “Goodbye,”
And not. one sigh: —
Just wave your hand to me!
THE LESSON.
| Joy was born of Light—
! Sorrow, of the night;
Heed you well this lesson:
THE TEST OF TIME. Both are swift in flight.
Who reads Mrs. Hemans now? Life's hut a step from heaven—
“Casabianca” is in the school books, JEarth never leaves God's sight!
How the Strange Battle
of Ft Moultrie Was Won
IN TWO PARTS—PART II.
By HELEN HARCOURT.
Written for tShe Sunny South
“W. D. SM1TY,
'Lieutenant Colonel A. A. A. G.
HIDE the
general, safely watching
the’ comba-t from a dis
tant point, looked moment
ly to see the crude walls
of Fort Moultrie crumble
before the British guns,
hut saw. instead, the walls
intact, and the patriot flag
had been thrown astHe. and lodged
high up near the top of a tree.
“Hi, boys: see my coat, see my coa
commanding j trie<1 its owner with a Iau ^ h hat *' a
echoed on every side, as though it had
bet n at a game of battledore and
tiecoek.
After a while, seeing that his brave
boys were wei] employed and happy
in their ha tering of the enemy. Colonel
M 'Ultrie brought his pipe into action,
ard. leaning at ease against the iogs,
smoked away with evident enjoyment.
ILLIAM, prince of
Sweden, who is men-
ioned as the prob
able choice of King
Oscar IT of Sweden,
in case that sovereign
-houid accept the of
fer of t'ne Norwegian
people and select a
-cion of the house of
Eernadotte for the.
nrone of Norway, is
rite grandson of the
Swedish monarch ar.d
Prince William the second son of
Frown Prince Gustavus. He is the favor
ite choice of the Norwegians His elder
brother. Prince Gustavus Adolphus, will
no doubt succeed to the Swedish throne,
since the present heir apparent, his
father, is now a man of mature years.
William is little more than one year
younger than Gustavus Adolphus, and it
is believed that the two brothers would
... : nile the sister countries in the most
a “ 1 friendly spirit. Prince William, who also
hears tlie title of the duke of Soeder-
hut- I man ' was born Jllnp l7 - 1 884. and is now.
I therefore, just finishing his twenty-first
year. The picture presented herewith is
taken from a photograph at the age of
mother was Princess Victoria of
.... . 1 with his officers around him, many
s: H floating proudly from , . . . . , , •
them following his example, and tin
the ramparts, the rnen he-
tou, as
! joying
calmly as
a quiet
1 hough
smoke
they were co
ni : he shady
ir - -' s j perches of their homes,
d fair- , Thrv
svlf-obliteratingf Chicag'o benedict, things will be
evened up in most gratifying fashion. Our personal
experience of this sort of thing is rather limited,
healthy lines,, is j since we can only make our living in a monoga
mous country. But we have had unrivalled oppoi-
tunities for observation, and our friends are ver
loquacious. Hence we do not hesitate to offer our
views for what they arc worth.
Here's to Mr. Maloney, anvllOW. Mav he live ' m °vement. have entitled them t° fhe hi:
t , , • . jest commendation. To the firmness :
long and prosper, although how lie is going to wax j od
hind the guns of tlie fort
laughed at the uproar. As
soon as the fight had fair- j They were standing in the midst of
i ly begun, they found that zeal and | the roar in smoke, and grimed with pow.
I native intelligence stood them so weii, in I der, yet these raw soldiers did not “turn
POLK’S CONGRATULATIONS. ? ]aco of experience that they could han-{a hair.’’ not one of them. Once in a
Under date of Domopolis, February 26. j ^ hpavy guns as well ns tI| . y did
1864. General Leonidas F. Polk issued the
•following congratulatory order to his
troops:
“The lieutenant general commanding
offers his congratulations to tlie army on
tile successful termination of the cam
paign just closed.
“The cheerfulness with which the troops
have borne yie fatigues and inconven
iences of the march, and the ready ac
quiescence in the orders dtre.cting their
hign-
nd
omluet of the men. and tile skill
fat OU blit one glass of beer per week, we fail lo | and judgment of their officers in checking
perceive—and our imagination is tolerably lively at the enemy’s march, the commanding gen-
times.
their familiar rifles. So tlwy went
delightedly to work to make them teli
on the enemy. Their coats were flung
to one side, their hats went with them,
and with their shirt sleeves rolled up
to the elbow, and handkerchiefs bound
about their brows, those amateur artil
lerists worked away with the big guns,
loading and firing w-ith lie coohlvo #iid
calmness of old veterans.
The fire ,of those • nine ships, all hurl-
•ng their iron balls against the pile >f
tegs, was something terrific. The fort
trembled like a frightened creature un- j
Never Too Late To Reform and Succeed
By GUY R. EDSON.
EVER too late to mend” has j jj,.
been worked, along with! Here j,,
other trite commonplaces,
until, generally speaking,
it no longer possesses any
direct" sense or meaning.
But if the quotation be
siightly altered to some
thing like “Never too late )
to tvin success,” it is bean- j
tifudly appropriate to the I
story of Brown. IBs
name isn’t Brown, but it
might have been if it
hadn't been something altogether differ
ent, and, as he needs a name, and Brown
is delightfully simple and vague, Brown
it shall be.
L T P to four years ago Brown was a hor
rible example of a misspent life. He hud
betaken himself to the ways of the burn.
He worked occasionally, just enough to
#nah]e him to have some excuse for lay
ing off whenever he felt like it. But
he did werk he »r»s always paid
for it, and money in the hands of Brown
speilel? ruin. He should have worked
teguliiny, for he was an expert pressman,
and his services were much in demand
at a good rate of salary. But until he
was forty years old Brown had vague
ideas o" his 9uty toward himself and Ills
1'loyment where this experience would
be niosi likely to ba of service to him.
d work in a printing s i ip.
learned tlie pressman's trade
complete, and other things. L'p to the
time when he reached twenty-four years
Brown was a fairly steady worker. Drink
had always ha'd some attraction for him,
t.iid his career suffered some from the be
ginning because cf this, but he- was 110L
a “booze fighter” until he was about
twenty-tour.
Then—and lie was married and had two
children—he began '.o look across thr
bar when it was doing business with al
together too~great a frequency. He went
on sprees r.Tiat lasted for days. He came
to his work more than half intoxicated
on several different oeeasiens. Generally
he showed that he was not a man to
be trusted in any position of importance.
So his employers, who had seriously con
sidered making him foreman of their
press room, suddenly let him know that
lie must'reform or suffer discharge. Ap
parently he couldn't reform, for a tevv
weeks later found him walking t'ne
streets looking for work.
The sight of Ids family suffering actual
want because of his faults apparently
sobered Brown to some extern. He stop
ped drinking, secured employment in an
other shop, and swore that his days of
foolishness were over. Brown wasn't
what could he called a hard drinker. He
nor the shock of their impact. But the
spongy, elastic palme; toes, instead of
eral is indebted for securing the public I splintering, closed quietly over the iron
stores and depriving the enemy of the halls ns they buried themselves in tim-
use of the railroads and other facilities her and sand. And still the brave de
fer foraging and subsistence. The con- 1 fenders sent hack an answering storm
1 centration of our cavalry on his column ' of iron hail. Hour after hour, the ox-
! of cavalry from west Tennessee formed ! change of compliments went on. amidst
| the turning point of the campaign. That i blaze, flame, smoke and thunder. The
workmen. They rm d dependability rath- concentration broks down his only means'fort remained intaor, while the ships
er than brilliancy in tlie conduct of their j of subsisting his infantry. His column 1 shook at each discharge as if smitten
business so Brown did not go far up the j was defeated and routed, and his whole j wtth the palsy. Their planks were rip-
road of success ns he grew older. : force compelled to make a hasty retreat. | ped'up. splinters hurled in all directions.
Instead he went back, for his hablls Never did a grand campaign. Inaugurated destructive as bullets themselves.
him each vear. His I with such pretension, terminate more in-1 rin, t tf 10 decks strewn with mangled
loriously. With a force three times t'na,t i forms of tbe dead and wounded
upon fioSTJSttlg at work any mornihg. He | which was opposed to its advance, they
have been defeated and forced to leave
the field with a loss of men, small arms
and artillery. Both of their columns are
retreating before the squadrons of our
pursuing cavalry.
"The lieutenant general commanding of
fers his grateful thanks to the whoie
grew stronger
employers could never
family. Then, when people were calling
jifni a wreck, he suddenly braced up and
“made a man of himself." He is now
foreman oIfif printing shop, and he works
regularly. His career proves tlie truth
of the never too late theory conclusively.
DBINK GIVES FIRST DOWNWARD
SHOVE.
Brown came to Chicago from a neigh
boring state, whih- sii'l in his teens. Hoi sny progress there, for his habits con-
had a good common School and higu | tinually prevented hint front being re-
Echool education. I11 the small town j garded as tCvaluable employe. His work
where he originated he had worked as | was in every way satisfactory, when he
printers' detfil on the weekly paper, so i worked, bufilfe was dreadfully irregular,
when he came to the city .he sought em- 1 Employers have llttli use for irregular
was not a victim to the d'ink habit. He
didir*t drink because he needed the drink,
but the conviviality of his companions
was irresistible to him. He was weak, so
he got urunk~ frequently.
IRREGULARITY KEEPS BROWN
DOWN.
He held the second position for some
thing like two years. He never made
averaged, possibly, "live days’ regular
Vi-ork a week. At the end of two years
lie was let out, and lie was told the wny
and the wherefore in no uncertain terms.
“You'd be a good man, Brown, if you'd
brace up," the boss told him, as he was
discharging bint, “but you’re not worth
a cent the way yr.u're going now.”
Brown became “worthless after his sec
ond discharge. He concluded that the
easiest way to get rid of his troubles
was to .firowh Item, and he decided upon
whisky as the liquid to do the drown
ing.
But troubles are many lived when rfne
tries to submerge them, and Brown found
that they a’lwaiys came back the morning
after. There was a while year then that
he worke3 but little. So soon as he
feund employment he was discharged, so
what was the use of looking for work.
SPASM OP REFORM; THEN WANT.
Then came another spasm of reform
His wife pleaded with him to brace up,
and Brown, for he was not a bad fel
low at heart, only weak, promised to
make a new start. He did not swear off
drinking, but he swore to begin working
regularly as other men and to do his best
to win some kind oT a success. He easily
found enough work, but he just as easily
lost it. Habits which have been years
in forming are fiot to be discarded in a
moment, and Brown was still careless.
He went fftthi one job to another, never
staying in one place long enough lo
prove that he was of any real'worth.
He' made several brilliant starts to-
Britisli bomb vessel was working with
might and main. A continuous stream
of bombs traversed the air, falling inside
Of the fort. But. was it a providence,
or meredlv chance? The spot where
they fell was a soft morass that swal
lowed up the bombs on the instant. s>
they had no chance to explode. The
necessary impact was missing. At
army, and trusts that this opening riddled through and through, the
campaign of the new year may be an bomb vessel ceased firing, and withdrew
earnest of the successes which await us 1 t , a p ] ace n f safety.
in the future." | AFTER THE BIG SHIPS.
Turning his attack, after a time, from
•he smaller vessels, as unworthy of at
tention. the gallant Moultrie, trained his
guns upon the larger ships. “Look to
the commodore, look to the fifty-gun
ships," was the order passed along to
the enthusiastic men behind the guns.
And they did “look to the fifty-gun ships"
in deadly earnest. The Commodore
came first. Her decks were swept with
silch a galling fire that at one time
■there was scarcely %n officer left on the
A FEMALE LIEUTENANT.
The following interesting item appeared
in Tlie Richmond Examiner in 1863:
“ ‘Lieutenant Buford.' the female lieut
enant from the south, arrested in this
city, and sent to Castle Thunder, has
been released by General IV in dor. The
charge of being a Yankee spy was never
alleged against her. and she Is indignant
that such a thing was ever insinuated.
She persists in sporting her military cos
tume, and it was this that got her into
trouble with the Richmond authorities.
Her real name is Mrs. S. T. Williams,
and her husband is a first lieutenant in
company E. Thirteenth Connecticut regi
ment, under Banks, in Louisiana. Her
father is Major J. B. Roche, of Missis
sippi, but she was born in the West In
dies. Her people were wealthy, and her
annual Income before the war was S20.000
most of which she spent in getting medi
cines for the confederate government.
while, when tie saw occasion, their colo
nel took iiis pipe from his lips, and
shouted an order or a cheer, the latter
when some especially effective shot had
been made.
As th ehours rolled on, and the “slaugh-
j ter pen" remained uninjured. General Lee
concluded to pay it a visit, and crossed
over in a boat, being but oif the line of
fire. Ho was a trained soldier, accus
tomed to the courage of disciplined Euro
pean troops, and yet the scene that met
his view as he approached the fort, filled
him. as lie afterwards acknowledged, with
astonishment and admiration. Colonel
Moultrie with his officers around him.
stood quietly smoking his pipe. while
heavy explosions in every direction kept
up such a continual roar, that a shout ai
close quarters could scarcely lie heard.
And there at tlie ramparts, were Moul
trie's raw gunners firing with the deadly
aim of practiced artillerymen, their eyes
sparkling with eagerness as they sougtit
to trace the course of each shot in its
impact with tlie enemy s ships, uttering a
joyous shout cacti time they “got it hot.
Scarcely could General Le P credit the
statement that none of those men had
ever fired a cannon before, and that this
was the first time under fire for many!
of them. Nor. though lie saw the proof
before his eyes, could Lee credit tlie
truth that an English fleet, carrying near-1
ly three hundred guns, ws
at bay and badly battered, by a lc
Mr. Meyer
! wealthy citizen
' was appointed
1900 and a short time
EORGE VON LEX-
GERKE MEYER,
'"nited States ambas
sador to Russia, who
conducted the corre-
mondence between
President Roosvrit
and the czar, with
the object of effect-
ng arrangements by
which Russia and
Japan may be
brought within reach
of peace negotiations,
is a distinguished and
f Massachusetts. He
tmbassador to Italy in
ago was trans
ferred to tlie Russian capital. Ambassa
dor Meyer is 47 years old. and was grad
uated from Harvard universty in 1879.
He has been a member of the Boston
common council and of the Boston board
of aldermen, and also has served in the
state iegisla tiire. having been speaker of
the house three times. He is a director in
various corporations.
EV. RANC'IS LA.V-
UEY PATTON, who
ays one can do just
is much tgood wtt'li
a in ted money as
with any other kind.
:} ut who particularly
'bjects to the “cold-
flooded, right-living
rascal who grinds
-lie faces of the poor
nider the cloak of
:!io law,” is famous
as an educator and
Dr F. L. Patton theologian. He has
been president of Princeton Theological
seminary since 1892, and previously tor
being kept j fourteen years, had been at the head of
Among other pas-
Princeton university.
The flag vtas down, the fort had surren
dered. Liberty-loving hearts sank In des
pair, and hundreds turned away from tit
sight of the flagless fort, with pale face>
and tears in their eyes. But what is
this? a great shout went up from those
quarterdeck. The second fifty-gun ship, j who had remained to face the worst. Tlv
the Experimqpt. had no reason, however, j guns still roared their fatal defiance
to complain of any partiality, for she | flames still flashed^ from the fort, an-'
received her full share of attention. Her
decks were slippery with blood, and one
hundred of her men were killed or
wounded.
But the ships were giving as well as
fnr;t. with thirty cannons, and four ltiin-j to rates that Dr. Patton has held was
dred men. Lee looked on at the stirring | that of the Jefferson Park Presbyterian
scene for a while, and then returned in aj church, in Chicago, and he also held a
state of increasing wonder, to his safer! professorship in the McCormick -lneolog-
stattnn at Haddrell's Point. j * eaiJnary ' He waK born in Bermuda
And now occurred an incident that was 1833 all<1 1S a graduate of t*rte Unlvor-
to immortalize the name of one of that f u >; of Toronto and of Princeton Theo-
band of heroes. Amidst the hottest of logical seminary. In 1865 he was or-
the battle, a cannon bail cut the t'lagl daine<1 to the ministry. He has written
staff in two. and the flag fell outside j several volumes, most of them being of a
the walls, on the beach below.. The fact. re * 1 f ious character, and has- served as
but not the cause, was at once noted j™
hv the waiting thousands in Charleston I L> J
taking. A tempest of balls rained
against the fort, bu: by this time its
brave garrison had become used to the
music* of cannon, and, begrimed with
smoke and powder, leturned the fire
1 private ambulance with medicines, ban
dages and servant, and apply herself to
ward a hardworking career, and once or I j be relief of the wounded, though she
twice he lost nis position only after hav- | bas been known to lend a helping hand
I with the musket at several battles in
which she participated.”
Her perehant was to follow the army m with the dime steadiness and precision
they would have shown in firing at a
practice target, and with a great deal
mote enthusiasm ihan they would have
felt in the latter case. A Britjrh can
non ball touched the top of the works,
carried with it one of the coats that J
if
the smoke still rolled up in clouds. Stir
the combat is not over after all. The**.
had been no surrender. A suspicion of ^hc
truth began to cheer the despondent.
JASPER’S HEROISM.
And soon, in confirmation of their
hopes, the flag was seen floating in the
breeze again. And then such a mighty
cheer went up to the skies as was heard
far and near above the roar of the g i'oh
What had happened at the fort was this;.
The moment tlie flag fell, one of its de
fenders. Sergeant Jasper, leaped from the
ramparts down to the beach. He was at
CONTINUED ON LAST PAGE.
HEOPH1LE del-
C A SSE, who has r<*•
signed from > the
French cabinet as
minister of foreign
<1 (fairs, is considered
to be one' of the
ihlest foreign minis
ters in Europe, He
• irst assumed control
-r foreign affairs in
1898 under Premier
Krisson, and since
that time, in the
Delcasse ministries of Dupuy,
Waldeck-Rousseau, Combes and Roavler,
he has successively held the,portfolio.’
Previously M. Delcasse had been under
secretary for the colonies, and also colon
ial secretary. He was £orn in Painters
in 1852. was educated at Paris, and be
gan his career as a journalist aiid was
first elected to tbe chamber of deputies
in 1889. He always has been a consistent
advocate of colonial expansion.