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THE SUNNY SOUTH JULY 8, 1908. EDITORIAL PAGE U/ie SUNNY *SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Pubtifhing Co Busine/s Office :THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANT A. GEORGIA Subscription Terms: To those who tubteribe to 6%« Sunny South only Six Months, 25c ^ One Year, 50c LEM THAN A PENNY A WEEK Catered at the pestefllee Atlanta* Ga*«aa aeeend-rlaee nail natter March is, lMil 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. ,€ 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 TOUGH. (From The Detroit Free Press’! acl-Fhf goodness suites Rrl U Bridget, to the , — , . . suites, what kind of greens are theW Bridget-The spinage was fe d cow by mistake, ma’am. so i c ooked up one o‘ then, parlor palms. The guests won’t know the difference Shiest* artTficituf* Tho8e wer.