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thrilling' scenes being enacted in the high seas
by the subjects of the unfortunate czar, we wili
find ringing in our ears the gruesome...jingle of
Long John as he lifted his big voice to inspire his
dare-devil tools—
Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest,
Yo ho! and a bottle of rum.
Drink and the Devil haH done for the rest,
Yo ho! and a bottle of rum.
The Sunny South to the etdeot weekly paper of Literature,
Romance, Fad antt Fldtlon In the South JP It l* now re*
/tored. to the original ohape and will be published am for■
tnerly every week ^ Wounded In 1874 It grew until 1899,
when, as a monthly. It* form war changed ao an expert*
ment & It now return* to It* original formation ao a
weekly with renewed vigor and the Intention of ecllpo*
*ng Itt moot promising period In the past.
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Fifteen Men on the Head
Mans Chest’’
F you ever read “Treasure Island,”
by Robert Louis Stevenson, the
above line will have 3 reminiscent
significance for you. It is from
one of the verses that helped to
make fascinating his matchless
tale of pirates and treasure; and.
if you are as yet unacquainted
with it, you had best find a mutu
al acquaintance at once and reme
dy the defect. It is a novel prac
tically without a woman—a rare
spectacle in these days of fervid
love-making—but none the less
interesting to the man with
enough of the primeval in him to love a fight and
Eating to Prolong Life
enough of the artist to appreciate crystal clear
stvle and grasping narrative. Throughout
it'breathes the tang of the sea, the whistle of the
winds the surge of the waves, the unemasculated
talk of old tars, and lots of “battle, murder and
sudden death.” Withal, it is a far cry from tue
pernicious pennv-dreadful, now being so justly
banned by many reputable book dealing con
cerns. Although a critic called the story a “sub
limated dime-novel,” it is extremely sublimated,
and there is little fear of immoral contagion with
in its borders. Stevenson takes care of that when
he deals out summary retribution to all his vil
lains, though it must be confessed that he could
not resist the temptation of letting “Long John
Silver,” the arch-conspirator, escape with noth
ing more tangible than the hounds of conscience
obi his heels. Still, the story is one that both the
boy and the grown man can read with infinite
pleasure, and we have even known some women
not immune from the spell which begins with the
opening chapter and lifts only when you have
reached “finis.”
What leads us into glowing recollections of this
‘ novel, is the uniting of the crew of the two Rus
sian vessels, he “Kiniaz Potemkine” and the
“Georgi Pobodonotsetz” in the bay of Odessa re
cently. The crew of the latter warship struck it?
colors to the authorities under mortal fear of
death, but the crew of the “Potemkine” were, as
the small boy would ecstatically sav, “sure
’nough pirates." Defying all ' invitations and
demands of surrender, they hoisted the “jolly
roger" on the foremast and sailed out of the har
bor, to all intents and purposes as clearly pirates
as any of the “gentlemen of fortune” in the days
of Lafitte ©r TeachT Rut disaster is ahead of
them. Like* all pirates of .historv ap'd .tradition,
they are already yielding to the spirit of*dissen
sion-and dissipation". It seems that in the lockers
of the boat-they found $10,000 and in the pantries
plenty of vodka.
Crazed by the latter, it- is reported that they
-have begun to fight among themselves for the
former. Already several arc reported killed and
• wounded and the authorities look for still fur--
•ther casualties ks the men realize their hopeless
predicament more keenly. To complicate the sit
uation, a flotilla of topedo boats has been sent
out with orders to overhaul and sink the outlaw
ed vessel. Whether they will prove equal to this
assignment, or not. there is likely to be an e.\-
'tremely interesting chapter when the two par
ties meet. Russians have never shown ability or
great order pitted against an open enemy—their
qualities when opposed to each other, must be a
still more uncertain' matter for conjecture.
And the world’s appetite for, the melodramatic:
and ‘the unique is in the meantime being well
pampered. As we have said before, every man of
any consequence and vitality can always be in
terested by a tale in which the deeds of pirates
figure. We are only boys grown up, after all. So
the admirers of Stevenson and KipTing, or thos?
who have never made the acquaintance of either,
will watch the developments from the Black Sea
with a most intense interest. Of course, there
may be f no correspondent on hand to describe the
scenes with the magic touch of the frail invalid of
Samoa.
All the same, as we read of the bloody and
OME very queer doctrines have
come out of the University of Chi
cago. The big institution situat
ed in the former midway of the
World’s Fair has seemed to be an
incubator for theories and dogmas
which tend to shock the man of
sober thought, and lend gaiety to
the- perennial gloom of the nation.
There was Triggs, with his freak
ish ideas about Shakespeare.
Longfellow, the Bible and our
gospel hymns; the atmosphere
soon became too torrid for even
his fervent exploits and he made
his escape to other fields. Then Loeb, a hard
working laboratory demonstrator, startled the
country by announcing that he had succeeded in
fertilizing the eggs of sea-urchins artificially; in-
ferentiallv, an assertion that sooner or later lie
would be afilc to create life without the interven
tion of sex. Other instances of a -similarly bizarre
nature have been chronicled from time to time,
and the public has gradually" become keyed up to
expect the latest w r ord in the. matter of scientific
or doctrinal experiments from the big school
which has been so generously favored bv John D.
Rockefeller. This is not, of course, intended to
belittle the university. We rather question if the
enterprise of its faculty has not been a decided
advantage so far as development and exploita
tion are concerned. And now comes Professor
Albert P. Matthews, from the same source, with
a most interesting declaration. In a recent issue
of “The World Today,” he expresses novel ideas
on the subject—“What Is Death.” The entire ar
ticle is distinctly worth the reading, but we have
space to deal only with his conclusions. These
are. substantially, that in time science will abol
ish death by such a perfect system of dietetics
that the human body will be rebuilt as fast as it
is worn away by the present demands of exist
ence Carried to its logical finale, the professor
sees no reason why we should go outside of this
world for evelasting life—making allowance of
course, for such accidents or acts of Providence
as the most cunning planning cannot anticipate
The majority of people will consider these the
ories as hopelessly chirmerical. The idea that sci
ence can stay the hand of Death and confer prac
tical immortality on flesh and blood, is one so
broad as to stagger the most credulous. Still,
science has done some marvelous things; a few
years ago we would have called them miraculous.
Yet it seems to us that a more reasonable view
is one which takes a middle ground. It is impos
sible to accept Professor Matthews’ deductions
seriatim, but there is much truth in them. It has
always been a fad of ours that the majority of
people eat too heartily.
The digestive and assimilative organs are just
like any of the others which are nearly connected
with the functions of life. They may be over
worked or abused in such fashion as to perma-
nently affect their usefulness, and nothing is
more productive of this sort of mischief than
heavy or indiscriminate eating. Every body is so
constituted *that it requires a certain quantity of
food fdr its maintenance. Anything over and
above that proportion simply places useless bur
dens on the digestive apparatus, weakening its
power against a future day. Irregular and hasty
meals are another fertile source of indigestion;
and it should be remembered that the physicians
are beginning to classify that disorder as one of
the most dangerous and insidious menaces to
health.
Enormous and morbid habits of eating are by
no means confined to the wealthier classes, al
though we are aware that is the prevalent impres
sion. Day laborers, people in the professions and
those generally engaged in sedentary employment
are notorious offenders in this direction. How
much vitality they squander is incalculable Un
doubtedly, for the passing pleasure of food, a
large percentage of them barter a good many
years of their lives, or impair their own possibili
ties for pleasure and usefulness. The fact that
they do so, as a rule, unconsciously, is the sad
dest part of the thing.
This, then, is the mission of science—the prop
er education of the modern man and woman in
the matter of diet. We do not believe it possible
for the most ingeniously balanced system to sup
ply the products of waste and decay indefinitely
—that is Professor Matthews’ hypothesis. But
we do believe that one can be devised which,
minimizing the tax on the digestive organs, will
ideally nourish and sustain the body. Under
such a regimen—and it need not be a monoto
nous or distasteful one—the present span of life
can be prolonged to something approaching the
old biblical limitations. There will, however,
need to be other radical hygienic reforms. Oth
erwise, our efforts will be simply in the nature oi
saving at the spiggot and wasting at the bung.
Fallible Typos Make Writers Swear and Angels Weep
MONG the masterpieces
of blundering typography-
must be reckoned two per
petrated in 'a southern
newspaper. An editor,
wishing to congratulate
General Pillow after his
return from Mexico as a
battle-scarred veteran, was
made by the types to char
acterize him as ‘‘a battle-
scared veteran.” The in
dignant general, rushing
into the edltonial sanctum,
demanded an explanation, which was
given, and a correction promised in -the
next day’s paper. Judge of the editor's
feelings .on the morrow when, as if “to
heap horrors upon horror’s head,” he
found the general styled in the revised
paragraph “that bottle-scarred veteran!”
It has often surprised those who have
*been victims of -typographical errors that
amid the Infinite combinations of types
there are hardly any lucky blunders in
the author’s favor, turning cacophony
into euphony, tungidity into sublimity
and nonsense into sense. ;it is true that
once In a century a thought .is actually
improved by a typographical blunder.
on the question.” In The London Chris
tian World in 1883 a writer, referring
to an address at Christ church by Rev.
Theodore Hookes, represented him as
saying that some of the clergy had gone
It is told, -for example, of Maisherbe i back “to the black lie (tie) of their boy
that when in his famous epistle to Du | hood.”
Perrier, whose daughter’s name was Ro- i n one of the editions of Davidson’s
sef.p, he had written “Et Rosette a vecu ! popular English grammar the principal
ce que vivent; les roses (And Rosette i parts of the verb “to elude" were given
has lived as the roses live), the printer, | as follows: “Present infinitive, to ehide-
who found the manuscript difficult to j past finite. I child; past Infinitive, to
read, put “Roselle” instead of “Rosette.” have children." In The London Courier
Leaves from an Old
Scrap Book
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
HERE was a battle fought
in 1865 at Ocean pond in
Florida, and John Hay, the
lately deceased secretary of
state, was “implicated.” In
the old war scrapbook I find
the following clipping about
the battle:
“The New York Herald, in
commenting on the late
Florida disaster, says that
the whole movement grew
out of the political jug
glery for the next presi
dency. and the whole thing was a trick to
secure the electoral vote of Florida. The
frald says that ‘a thousand lives were
08 attempt to get three electoral
vo Co. and offers a reward of ‘one hun-
ruV* dodars for an authentic version of
L '-tk b ° R ' 1olt0 upon the expedition.’
e World says ‘the disaster Is mainly
< ue o the cowardice of the colored
oops, and that the expedition was in
< arge of ‘Mr. John Hay. a fresh and
air jouth of some twenty or more sum-
8 ‘. "flourished in the executive
ansion at Washington as a private sec
retary of the president, and who the other
<aj was ma de major general, and sent
south on a political expedition, of whicn
this
young: man was the leader, and his
Along' tHe Highway
By FRANK l~ STANTON
J
master, Mr. Lincoln, the inspiration.’ ”
children kept quiet.
The following appeared In many pa
pers during the war:
The little children of New Orleans.
w ho have inherited southern feelings and
southern antfpathies, have been accus
tomed to sing the ‘Bonnie Blue Flag’ and
to cheer for Jefferson Davis, when Yan
kee troops are passing. To suppress sum
demonstrations. Banks has issued a for
mal military order, annoucing that he
wifi hold the parents of such children for
spoh offences responsible to the highest
military penalties.”
A CALL TO ARMS.
the following was one of the most
- nest and important appeals General
Lee ever made:
Headquarters Army Northern Virginia.
V ■' 26. 1863.—General Orders No. 80. Ail
o icers and soldiers now absent from this
^ h ° are ,lahIe to do dllt y and not
<• ached on special service, are ordered
return immediately. The commanding
general calls upon all soldiers to rejoin
their respective regiments at once To
rernmn at homo in this the hour of our
untry s need. Is unworthy the manhood
of a southern sqjdier. While you proud-
' boast thnt y°u belong to the Army or
or hern Virginia, let it not be said that
fn° U wa? S ! rted y ° Ur comrad es in a contest
take The VerVthl ' nff y ° U h ° ,d dpar *
to tL , command ing general appeals
to the people „f the states, to send forth
v man able to bear arms to aid toe
brave soldiers, who have so often beaten
£aok our foes, to strike a decisive blow
an r , t 1 h u c safety and sanctity of our homes,
and the independence of our country ±>v
command of *
,, “GENERAL R. E. LEE.
R H .CHILTON. A. A. and I G.“
“HOME, SWEET HOME. *'
and r i?' l0 7. inSr Story has often been told.
, R ye U as 11 flr «t appeared in prim:
following extract from a letter
from Fredericksburg, by an officer m
“THE HILLS FOR US.”
I. "
The valley sings a sweeter song—
Low and tremulous;
But still that wild cry from the
throng:
“The hills—the hills for us!”
II.
The stars are only dust and tears,
Their song some discord mars;
But still that cry, throughout the
years:
“The stars! The stars! The stars!”
III.
And so it is, from day to day,
While light the world adorns,
We walk the bleak—the thorny way.
And weep the wounding thorns!
OLD TIME PHILOSOPHY.
If you can’t shout halleluia on the
highway, just clap your hands when
the other fellow does.
We’re all too busy to count our
blessings; but we spend years in reg
istering our troubles.
Sometimes, for spine folks, the
world rolls so close to heaven that
you can almost hear the angels ap
plauding when Joy pick the banjo.
We have a good deal to say about
the River of Tears; and yet, every
ripple of it twinkles with the sun
light of Joy. i
The stars are the golden stations
on the road to heaven; yet few of us
are in such a hurry to get there that
we’d take a comet for an excursion
train.
FAe Busy World
The peace negotiations and the situa-
, tion in Manchqria have given away in
[ interest to the dramatic mutiny of Kus-
I sian vessels in the bay of Odessa- It is
———— — j reported that the Kniaz Potemkine has
to history. Napoleon’s valet lives j returned to Odessa and menaces the
with him for all time; his barber is city. All preliminaries for the P® aca
immortal; and the world would have
known nothing of a certain booksell
er if the great Doctor Johnson hadn’t
knocked him down! But the world
doesn’t know the genius when he
makes his appearance. Of Napoleon’s j
early correspondence with him De I
Bourienne says: “So little did I an-1
ticipate the high destiny that awaited
him, I did not think enough of his
early letters to preserve one of
them! ”
“MISTER HAPPINESS.”
I.
Hi! Mister Happiness—
Cornin’ wid a song.
You sho’ is mighty welcome:
I been waitin’ fer you long!
II.
“THAT’S THE TROUBLE!”
I.
A cot there, in the blossoms, and joy
in measure double:
But—the other feller’s livin’ in a
mansion—that’s the trouble!
And we sigh, and we pray,
While the birds, they sing away,
And find the frosts of winter ’mid the
roses o’ the May!
II.
A song there in the blossoms, with a
flute of reed or vine.
But—the other feller’s playin’ on an
organ golden-fine!
So we sing, and so we say:
Ever sighing life away,
When a handful of sweet flowers
beats the world’s wealth any day!
s army, relates a pleasant in-|
General Lee
ed d m7 n , C n mp life ’ wfdch no doubt help
1 materially to relieve Its monotony;
must tejj >04 of an agreeable epi
sode n our camp life, which occurred a
the fed :S S , ,nCe ‘ . “ is ae *nowIedged that
tne federals. with all their faults have
some capital bands in their ranks. Re
cently one of these organizations came
bur? a a / iVerS,de ° PP ° sUe ^edericKe-
burg. and favored our boys (who had
gathered in large numbers to listen, with
i stv? I °f P ° PUlar Pieces - the bt-iot
ea? ,-a PP , aUSe fr ° m the aa dience on
up C “D xfe ” a 6 * band then strucg
P Dixie, and executed it in a creditable
sent"? n C ° ncIusl °n. our soldiers
ring T? a 8h ° Ut 38 madC the
Doodle- n WaS f ° UOWed by “Yankee
tbe federat^T h"?
Played ‘ Home Sweet Home ” 6
rf-r r
OP from both armies a :? h do a ub S f° h Ut
been heard on ear,? 1
THE FRIENDS OF GENIUS.
It’s good to be friends with a man
of genius—even his enemies go down
Settin’ up wid Trouble,
Prayin’ fer de day,
I mighty glad you cornin’
Down de hallelulia way!
III.
I see de light a-twinklin’—
De sky a-gittin’ blue;
My friends is gwine ter meet you,
En give you welcome, too!
YOUR CONTRIBUTION.
What if the world doesn’t take you j
seriously? You’ll be giving your j f?mi iies Q f Russia
mite to it, even if you only afford 1
it a hearty laugh. But it’s cold con
solation to reflect that, half the time,
the world doesn’t know what it’s
laughing at!
JOY ON THE ROAD.
Fare you well, my sorrow.
You’re such a heavy load!
Joy has got. a fiddle.
An’ he’s cornin’ down the road!
Don’t you hear him whistle?
Now you'll have a chance!
Worl’ a spinnin’ roun’ you
In a halleluia dance!
conference are settled and the envojs
clothed with full power, will meet in
Washington the first week in August.
Reports from Manchuria indicate th*
imminence of another clash between ths
belligerents, although President Roose
velt is said to be working to avoid it.
ARON ROMAN BO-
MANOVITCH RO
SEN, the new Rus
sian ambassador to
ilie United States,
was until the out
break of the preserui
war the representa
tive of the czar at
the court of tfcgr
mikado, and had
advised his govern
ment of the prepara
tions being made bv
Japan, but no atten-
his counsels. Pre-
Baron Komura.
tion was paid to
viously he had served as charge d af
faires at the Japanese capital, and was
consul geenral at New York from 1882
to 1894. Baron Rosen speaks several
languages and is an accomplished schol
ar and musician. He is a state coun
sellor, a chamberlain of the imperial
court, and a knight of three orders St.
Vladimir, St. Ann and St. Stanislaus.
M. Muravieff, who was born in 1850,
is descended from one of the oldest
Since 1488. when
the Muravieffs came into the landed
estates in the province of Novgorod,
which they still hold, they have figured
0:t nearly every page of Russian his
tory. N. V. Muravieff was years ago
a secretary of state at St. Petersburg,
and in f894 was appointed president
of the criminal section of the senate,
which is the highest court in Russia.
He became minister of justice in 1895,
and since then has reformed the judi
cial systems of Siberia and other sec
tions of the empire. With his brother
The late Count Muravieff. minister of
f<. reign affairs, he was largely Instru
mental in the building of the Trans-Si-
I berian railroad and the development of
Many of the olden poets longed for j the resources of Siberia. He is now
wings of a dove, to flee away, and I Russian ambassador to Italy.
several living poets are interested in j
air-ship building. And still others !
are rich enough to ride away from j
humanity in an automobile.
THE LIGHT ON THE WAY.
Thankful, in this earthly day,
For the light along the way;
And, when heaven sends the night, |
For the sleep that dreams of light! i
Thrilling Events That Led Up
To the Momentous 4th of July
Although the anniversary of the birth of American independence will
have passed by the time The Sunny South reaches its subscribers, the fol
lowing article contains such interesting information, that the editor deems
its somewhat belated publication advisable.
By HELEN HARCOURT.
Written for Che Sunny South
T was not horn in a day,
the glorious “Fourth,” so
dear to the American
heart. There were events,
many of them, that led up
to “the horning.” and they
were more than a hundred
years in accumulating,
nearer, indeed, to one
hundred and fifty, than
the one hundred mark.
And all this while they
were gathering force and
strength, both as to op
pression and resistance. Almost from
JUTARO KOMURA
formerly was Japan
ese minister to tbs
United States, being
succeeded by Mini.--
ter Takahira in I 900,
and himself being
sent to St. Peter-'
burg. He was
graduated from tie-
Harvard law school •
| 1875. and spon:
several years in this
country fitting him
self for an official
career. As secretary of legation :
Pekin, just before the breaking Out of
the war between China and Japan,
civil governor of the captured province
of Antung. following the war, and i ■>
minister to Korea, he established a rec
ord which made him a potent factor in
| the politics of the Flowery Kingdom.
! Previous to being sent no Washington,
i he was vice minister of foreign a
| f;,irs. Kogora Takahira, Japanese rm
which the various charters granted the lister'to the United States, is considered
respective colonies, were being carried | one of Japan's most distinguished ano
out. These commissioners came with a J experienced diplomats. He entered upon
fleet of warships, the latter destined for his duties at Washington in 1900 bu
I previously had been an attache of the
; legation and consul general at New
York. He also ias served his country
as minister to Italy, ambassador to Vien-
the conquest of the New Netherlands
This conquest seems to have been in tSi
nature of a "walk-over.” One afte
another, the Dutch fortresses surrender- J and Th() n;lRl ,e. and before assum
ed. until the work of the English fleet, j ; rK b i s present position he was vice
affairs air Tokio.
of the titled class.
begun in August, ended in October, with i minister of foreign
the whole of the coast country, hitherto I Mr. Takahira Is not
held by the Dutch, in the possession of ; hut has risen from the ranks. He en-
the English, whose coast line thus ex
tended from Maine to Florida. New
Amsterdam was renamed New York, and
the Dutch Fort Orange became the Eng
lish Albany. The commissioners divided
New Netherlands into the. provinces of
the very beginning of the colonies, and) New York and New Jersey. The former
I tered the imperial diplomatic
1876.
service in
me and cm. around
%
f the fiantic cheers that went <•
the the rr
neighboring enemies were as
terion
much affected.
T , A . negro insurrection.
j he following cliDnin*^ i „ *
•ns rszz £
.c.o„ntT-° W * M
I" lelegrap
’We lea
Maisherbe in reading the proof was struck
toy the change, and rewrote his verse as
follows: “Et Rose, elle a vecu ce que
vivent les roses l’espece d’un matin"
(And Rose, she has lived as the roses
live, the space of a morning). But cases
like these are exceedingly rare.
CHANDELIER SHEDS LIGHT.
Some years ago The London Time* is.
speaking of a discussion before the coun
cil of minister*, when Lord Brougnam
was chancellor, reported that “the chan
delier had thrown an extraordinary light
n-.any years ago his majesty, George IV,
was said to have “ a fit of the goat at
Brighton.”
Another Journal advertised a sermon
by a celebrated divine on "The Immoral,
ity of the Soul” and also “The Lies of
the Poets”—a work, no doubt, ot many
volumes. The London Globe once gave
an extract from the registrar general’s
return In which it was said that the in
by telegraph Th?*? ??* bPf>n rf ' cci ? d
grapn. The Mobile Tribune says-
rived vesterdav r ° m who ar-
ir'SW'-'rs
ftuage. The negro replied insolently, and
he commander killed him. This exceed
ind a thT ° f rPSt of thp regimXn.
' ? V rUShed on ,hp whites and
slaughtered several of them. Thev also
charged a battery, took possession of ?
Z ne \t\°r thP Wh,tPS ' ^ courier
was immediately dispatched to Vicks-
>urg for reinforcements. Two brigades
were sent, on a double quick to the scene
of actiom They charged and retook U,e
battery from the negroes, and turning
the guns on them, mangled, by grape and
canister, to kill and wound between four
and five hundred. We also learn that
nearly all of the negro soldiers have been
sent up the Mississippi, to what point our
informant did not know. Three of them
belonging to the brother in law of our in
formant, came back to their owner's plan
tation after this affair, begging to be par
doned and promising to be faithful. They
had escaped from the massacre. Our in
formant heard the reports of the guns ana
the screams of the massacred negroes. ’
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(From The Atchison Globe.)
People flirt with trouble too much.
Every big fire develops a lot of natural
born fire chiefs.
the establishment of the English ‘'Prov
inces,” the friction between the mother
country and her colonies began. The
former appeared to regard her far-away-
subjects as children, obliged to obey the
arbitrary orders of a stern parent, and
to work for him without adequate com
pensation. Children who were to be
spanked and stood in the corner, did they
dare to reply or to rebel.
As far back as 1646. the general court
of Massachusetts, always, as will be
seen, in a state of incipient rebellion
against the injustice of England, repu
diated the paramount authority of the
English parliament. in 1649, Massachu
setts declined the offer of a now char
ter from the famous ‘‘Long parliament
of Cromwell. One year later the same
Long parliament empowered the coun
cil of state to “reduce the rebellious col
onies to obedience.”
In 1660, Matthews, governor of Vir
ginia, died, and the assembly took ad
vantage of the vacancy, to declare that
tiiie supreme power rested in itself. Act
ing on this principle, it elec-ter Sir Wil
liam Berkely governor, and he accepted
the office, renouncing the old-time power
of that officer, to dissolve the assem
bly. In the year 1660, the English gov
ernment passed a law. entitled the “nav
igation act.” Merchandise was to be
imported into the colonies only in Eng
lish vessels. Only natives or natural
ized subjects could become merchants
or factors in any English colony. Other
laws also were passed in restriction of
colonial trade and manufactures, and
the odious corn-laws were reenacted. The
king, Charles II, next proceeded to erect
the council of trade, and the council of
plantations, and these two bodies were
soon merged into one as a further means
of oppressing and “bleeding” the colo-
nleS A FUTILE APPEAL.
When Charles 11 was proclaimed king,
in the colonies, ttoe general court of Mas
sachusetts instructed its agent in Eng
land to intercede for it chartered liber
ties, and to resist appeals to England in
its law matters. Instead of the relief
prayed for, however, the acts of oppres
sion and exaction became more severe,
not only In the New England colonies, but
in all of them. Virginia, which, many
years before had been granted the right
of free commerce,
was governed despotically, as it had been
toy the Dutch, and the right of the peo
ple to a share in their own government
was denied.
Then the general court of Massachu
setts again came to the front, and re
solved to resist the king’s orders, and
to nullify the acts of the royal com
missioners. It sent an address to the
king, protesting against the “menace of
tyranny,” claimed the right of the colo
nies of government within themselves,
and threatened to “seek new dwellings
rather than submit to so much injus
tice.”
A few months later, in 1665, the royal
commissioners, deeming Boston as al
most on the verge of violence toward
themselves, held a court to try the claims
of Massachusetts, But the general court
refused to allow them to proceed, and
the baffled and frightened commission- j « nd
ers shook the dust of the plucky colony j
from their feet, and departed forthwith
for New Hampshire and Maine, to inter
fere with those less truculent colonies.
In 1673 'the king granted Virginia,
with its thousands of people, to be tin-
private property for thirty-one years, of
Lord Thomas Culpepper and Lord Ar- I
lington. The result was a series or :
oppressive exactions that distracted that )
fair country with domestic contests, and!
stung it to the verge of rebellion. The j
people sent agents to England, praying j
the king to cancel the charter under:
which the. two noblemen were oppressing
them beyond endurance. In reply, their
chief oppressor. Lord Cu'lpepper, was
appointed governor for life, and the gov
ernment was changed for tire worst, to a
proprietary one-
In 1676, the troubles in Virginia cul
minated in what was called the “Grand
Rebellion." when the people rose in
arms, under the leadership of Nathaniel
Bacon. The assembly passed ameliora-
ing legislation, and it is an odd coin
cidence that this act was passed on the
Fourth of July. 1666. exactly one hun
dred years before tRe immortal Deelara-
OHN HAT. secre
tary of state, is
dead. The end came
at his summer home
in New Hampshire,
and was the imme
diate result of pul
monary embolism, or
a congestion of the
circulation of blood
in the lungs. Secre
tary Hay has been
called the premier
diplomatist of our
John Hay day. While this
opinion is not unanimous, there is no
doubt that he possessed an unusual de
gree of ability. He is held 'to deserve
the main credit for the integrity of
China, and the clearing away of the
diplomatic difficulties in the way of FTVe
Panama canal. The funeral was held
al his oliT homo, Cleveland, Ohioo. and
was attended by President Roosevelt
-veral members of the cabinet. -
OLONEL JOHN F.
S i’EVENS, former
second vice president
"f the Rock Island
railroad system, and
only recently ap
pointed to take
charge of the con
struction of railroads
in the Philippines,
has been appointed
chief engineer of the
Panama canal. Colo
nel Stevens suc-
John F. Stevens coeds John F. Wal
lace, resigned. Mr. Stevens is naturally
prominent as an engineer of great ca
pacity, and it is believed he will dis
charge the difficult duties of the Pan
position in a highly satisfactory
am a
manner.
was now interfered
It is all right to select the lesser of I with, and its growing trade with Hol-
two evils if you know which one it is. ! land ihampered by the navigation act. The
hshitinte nf Tt „ lu i m up once in tne night ana tne iatner _s
habitants og ^Loudon were suffering at awake for ten minutes that he should
The way some people have of being
good is worse than tlieir way of being
bad.
When people say to you when you are
in trouble, “What can I do for you?”
be equally considerate and say, “Noth-
Ing.”
People are hard to please. If a man
gets mad easily he is called “touchy.”
and if it takes a good deal to make him
mad he is called “wooden.”
It is a shame when the baby wakes
up once in the night and the father Is
(Continued on Last Page.)
I lose “hi* whole night’s rest.” Isn’t it,
' now l
population of Virginia, at this time, was
about thirty thousand.
A year later, the general court of Mas
sachusetts, always alert, as we haTe
seen, to defend its people, published a
declaration of rights, claiming self-gov
ernment, denying the right of persons
convicted in Its court, to appeal to Eng
land, and denouncing the navigation act
as an Infringemet of their charter. In
concluding its declaration the general
court cast a “sop to Cerebus" "by pro
claiming Charles II king.
In 1664 The king sent out royal commis
sioners to investigate the manner in
JOHN WESLEY’S WIFE
John Wesley married a widow Mrs
Vizelle. who grew tired of hi s restles?-
laborious life and complained. He paid
no attention, and from eomnlain* 'u_
tion of Independence finally ended Eng- we nt on to jealousy, thence to furl h!
land's oppression of her colonies. The ! re buked her sternly: “Do not anv Lil!
latter was, as we have said, a long time j rontend for mastery, for power monev
or praise. Be content to he a private
insignificant person. Of what important e
Is your character to mankind? if yoil
were hurled just now o r had never lived
what loss w*ould it be to the cause of
God?” She left him. taking with her *
“a-borning.” Looking backward. It is
a marvel that the people were so long
in bringing it to life. But It was a case
of necessity.
The colonies were forced to bear, un
til they were strong enough to resist
with some hope of success. Evetfi in this
“Grand Rebellion” they had a fore
taste of what happens to the little boy
who raises his hand against a. growp
man. As should have been foreseen,
the undisciplined and half-armed patri
ots were soon scattered by the trained
troops of their tyrants, and many o'
the leaders were hung. The system of
oppression went on as before with the
exception of some additional severity.
A perpetual revenue was exacted from
the assembly, no printing presses were
allowed, and to crown the tale of wrong.
(Continued oil Last Page.)
large number of his private papers a.
he dismissed the subject by writing'in his
journal: “I did not forsake her I did
i shall not call her
not dismiss
back.* 1
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