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EDITORIAL PAGE 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 ATLANTA. GEORGIA Subscription Terms: To those who subscribe to Si6e Sunny South only Six Months, 25c ^ One Year, 50c LESS THAN A PENNY A WEEK Entered at the postofllre Arlnntn, Or..an second-class mail matter March 13, JLJMU 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.