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filched from old sour-faced duty after the sun is
high in the heavens. It is sheer bliss to lie a-bed
and hear the more energetic folk preparing break
fast, jawing with the milkman, swapping more or
less truthful gossip with our neghbor’s wife whose
head is done up in a dirty towel and reflecting, be
tween naps, what a fine thing it is to be able .to
control our own fierce desire to rise from the
couch and do the same things.
This with grown-fdlk. But with a boy, a grow
ing boy, seeking to put vigor into the frame that
t* to do the world’s work some day, answering un
consciously the call of nature in giving the old
lady plenty of opportunity to turn out a good
man—the thing is infinitely emphasized. Maybe
he IS a trifle lazy. Perhaps he HAS gone to bed
early enough to get a sufficiency of sleep. Remem
ber your own case! Was there ever a time when
you were ready to leave that delicious harbor of
dreams with a glad spirit, and vault gleefully
r , ... „ .. "T * down the stairs to draw water, split wood, run
The Sunnp Smith la thm oldest weekly paper of Literature, ’ r ’
Romance, ran and rtm on In the Souther it Is nem re- over to Mrs. Stick-in-the-Mud s for milk—or any
jtored to the original shape amt win be punished as fort other old thing that needed to be done? We
merly every week JT rounded In 1374 It from until IS 99,
when, am a monthly, it a form warn changed a* an expert•
meat & It now returns to Its original formation as a
Weekly with renewed vigor and the intention of ecllpst
Ing Its most promising period In the past.
guess not.
Then be a little more lenient with your own
youngster when you are tempted to spur his lazy
morning movements with a threat, or by making
" “ j a grab at a convenient switch in the corner. Don’t
Biffing the Sluggish Boy j import the phonograph to hasten his rising. Think
'' ° ° lover a few of your own delinquencies. They will
'afford you plenty of excuse for being charitable to
ID ,t ever occur to you that from the ^ of ^ s i ccessor to short tr " users , a stub
tune lie reached the pantaloon age and an invinciWe appet i te for co | icky Kree „
until he arrived at the clean-neck , rr J &
apples.
M M stage of adolescence, the boy is the
™ ^ target for torture on part of hi
ever-watchful parents from the
pcep-o’-day until the sandman
sounds taps? They shadow him
vigilantly at the table. If he hap
pens to eat a little more than is
thought compatible with health, lie
is roundly abused as a glutton. If
he is caught in the pantry between
meals, or if there is a suspicious red
streak on his face, the law is laid
down to him in no uncertain terms
as a breaker of the eighth commandment. If he i
associates too freely with Bill Smith, the devilish i
son of the blacksmith across the way, he is given I
a dissertation on the evils of consorting with low j
company. If he comes to the table in summer time |
without th.e precaution of cleaning his feet, he is j
Mr Rockefeller's Economy
T is not often our pleasure or will to
defend the possessors of wealth
from the charges brought against
them. Our theory is that the rich
man and woman are, as a rule,
amply able to take care of them
selves, whether that process in
volves defending a suit for breach-
of-promise, a plea for alimony or
the rare and slanderous accusation
of being engaged in some occupa
tion of benefit to other people. But
the people of Paris—some of them,
at least—have spitfully criticized
John D. Rockefeller for what they
Along the
Sf FRANK L. STANTON
Leaves from an Old, •
Scrap Book
i By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
This Was in the West.
(From The Pittsburg Gazette.)
A New Tork man was talking about
Ople Read, the brilliant author and
Journalist.
“Read, you know," he said, “founded
The Arkansaw Traveler. He edited that
excellent paper for ’ ten years or more,
He made a great success of It.
“They say that In the spring of 1885
a reporter of The Traveler died. He was
a fine young chap. A visitor to the
office the day after the funeral found
the editor and Ills staff talking about
their loss diseonsoltely.
“ ‘It has been a sad loss, friends,’ the
visitor said. ‘A sad loss, indeed.’ He
sighed and looked about the room. ‘And
I am pleased to see,' he went on, ’that
you commemorate the melancholy event
by hanging up crape.’
“Ople Read frowned.
“ 'Crape?’ he said. 'Where do you see
any crape.'
“ ‘Over there.* said the visitor, point
ing.
“ ‘Crape be durned,’ said Read. ‘That
isn't crape. It’s the office towel.’ ”
Let’s Live for Joy Today.
I-
So much of grief we borrow
Along the lonely way—
Tomorrow for the sorrow!
Let's live for joy today!
sent in disgrace to the back porch—sometimes term parsimony. We do not think the charge just
when there is company to witness his discomfiture.
If he imitates his ingenious lather and fakes up a
tale to cover some trifling shortcoming, his mouth
is scoured with turpentine soap. If his father or
mother indulge in a bit of temper and fling some
remark at him that provokes a retort, he is accused
or justified. The oil king, after evading process-
servers industriously for several months, wrestling
with indigestion for several years, and thinking
unprintable thoughts about Miss Tarbell and Tom
Lawson for fully that length of time, got suddenly
cured of his lameness in the region of the stomach
of impudence and the temperature of the bosom of j and decided to take a trip to France to celebrate
his trousers rises with a rapidity that puts j the event. He went modestly, as would any other
the blush to the mercury in a pot of boiling wa
ter. “Oh, but all these are little faults which, neg
lected, may grow into bigger ones and eventually
bad habits,” says some conscientious parent. "We
are only doing a just part by the child when we
look after his welfare in little as well as large
things.”
Quite true.
But cannot that same father and mother look
back on their own juvenile days and see where
this system of constant espionage was a useless
and profitless imposition on part of THEIR pa
rents? And can they not remember, without a
great effort, the keen delight which these trifling
lapses from the straight and narrow path brought
to them, and with what disgust they regarded the
incessant shepherding on part of parents too
prone to forget their own youthful shortcomings?
There lies the meat in the cocoanut. Our atti
tude tmvarrl the impulsive mischief of children is
frequently of that harsh nature that does not
soften any of its asperities by recalling our own
emotions in those days when we lived always in
the land of make-believe, and had none of the re
sponsibility for the butcher’s or the grocer’s hills
on our shoulders.
And now they have invented a new torment
for the indolent youth. Some crafty gentleman has
attached a small phonograph to an alarm clock,
and when the rising hour comes in the morning,
this happens:
Instead of the tinkling bell ringing out the time
ly warning, the thunderous tones of pa in a rage
sound out on the dozy morning air, summoning
Jimmy to cut short his forty winks in a hurry and
get busy with the kindling wood if he does not
want to feci the sting in the tail of father’s shaving
strop.
Now, as we all know by experience and obser
vation, the sweetest sleep of all is that which is
man of good taste. The fact that he could have,
if he chose, dined off vessels of gold on the steamer,
or chartered a man of war to guard the vessel dur
ing the voyage, makes it all the more admirable
that he did not do so. He kept his cabin most of the
time, and aside from smiling benevolently at a few
children on the deck and gazing meditatively at
the fishes a few moments daily, he comported him
self no more extravagantly than the veriest Cook
tourist traveling on borrowed money and studying
a book of etiquette regarding steamer conduct.
When he arrived in Paris—the city of pleasure
—he did not vary his gait in the slightest. The
excitable*eaters of frogs had assumed that the ad
vent of the modern Croesus would mean the scat
tering of gold coins along his route, the tearing
through the boulevards in an expensive high-pow
ered automobile, and possibly a change of clothes
every half hour.
But the old man fooled them. He lived in as
modest and obscure a fashion as would a retired
bourgeois merchant, giving himself only to those
simple pleasures suitable to people of rather elderly
years, and rankly disappointing the sensation-seek
ers who had imagined he would turn the metropo
lis topsy-turvy with his magnificence.
For all of which we commend him. We believe
firmly that the very rich man or woman is under
ohlgations to distribute their wealth gradually,
An Echo Alarm Clock.
(From The Cincinnati Commercial-
Tribune.)
President Murphy, of the Chicago Na
tional League Club, told at a baseball
dinner a remarkable echo story, accord
ing to an exchange.
“There was a man,” he began, “who
had a country house in the Catskills.
He was showing a visitor over his
grounds one day, and, coming to a hilly
place, he said:
“ ’There's a remarkable echo here. If
you stand under that rock and shout
the echo answers four distinct times,
with an Interval- of several minutes be
tween each answer.' But the visitor
was not at all Impressed. He said, with
a loud laugh: “You ought to hear the
echo at my place in Sunapee. Before
getting Into bed at nTglit I stick my
head out of the winnow and shout,
"Time to get up, William!’’ and the
echo wakes me at 7 o’clock sharp the
next morning.’ ”
Explicit.
(From Life.)
“Tell me,’’ requests the young person,
entering the study of the gray-bearded
philosopher, “what is the difference be
tween friendship and 1-,
The graybearded philosopher studies
the table thoughtfully for a moment or
two. then replies:
“Friendship, my son, is a mutual un
derstanding; love is a mutual misun
derstanding."
II.
Too soon the life-tides leave us—
SkleB draped with clouds of giray;
Tomorrow, then, to grieve us.
Let’s live for joy today!
III.
The shadow—let’s forsake It!
If the heart breaks on the way,
Why,—let tomorrow break It!
Let’s live for joy today!
Old-Fashioned Philosophy.
Poverty is generally healthy. Hav
ing no fear of thieves, it sleeps with
doors and windows wide open, and
so, gets plenty of fresh air.
Mighty few wise men came out of
the East of old, and those who are
of the West are all in the dime mu
seum, and can’t break away.
It’s possible to be so happy In this
world you’ll live long enough to wear
out the patience of the undertaker.
The rich have their troubles. Even
when they give to charity they have
to rise up and explain where and
tow they got the money.
A Song of Worry.
Trouble is cornin', as sure as you’re
born,
Bound to be here in a hurry;
I’m waitin’ to hear him a-blowin’ his
horn.
So, I think I'll whirl in an’ just wor
ry!
Worry In shadow.
And worry in light,
Till down falls the curtain
And Life says, “Goodnight!’
Though there’s no cloud in the blue
o’ the sky,
Feelin’ Just all in a flurry!
Trouble is cornin’ for sure, by and
by—
So, let us all whirl in and worry!
c
BNBRAL POLK Issued the follg i
lng grand and deserved tribute •
the brave old Texas Rangers: *
“Headquarters, Army of the Mississip •
Harrodsburg, October 7, 1862.—Gen<-, *
Greers No. 12: The general command] a
takes pleasure In .bringing to the non
of the army under his command of y
gallant and ‘brilliant charge led by C‘i
ne' John A. Wharton, commanding t
cavalry of the right wing, against
large force of the enemy, near Bar da to-i
Ky., on the 4th instant. Being pos
4 miles out on the Louisville pike, w lj
SCUjlUl
Worry in shadow,
And worry in light,
Till fhe trouble is over
And Life says, “Goodnight!”
Time To Leave.
I.
When Misery is teachin’ school
Let him find you cunnin’;
When he says, “Stand up in class!’
You just go a-runnin’!
II.
Don’t you tarry by the way—
No time then for funnin’!
Show him that, just any day,
You can beat him runnin’!
Poverty is said to be a spur to Ge
nius; and even the editors in the
magazine offices have hickory elube
wherewith to help it out.
The Financial Side of It.
An Arkansas author who has been
writing in an optimistic strain, says:
“The optimistic spirit is all right,
but you’d best. be careful how and
when you put It in practice. We got
so ‘happy recently, we shouted Halle-
luia on the highway, and we had to
pay $10 and cost for It!”
Be Thankful.
L
Trouble comes to low an’ high—
That’s the way it’s given;
But when it blows you to the sky,
Thank the Lord for heaven!
II.
When the tempest storms you down—
Floods life’s fields of clover.
Make for Hallelula Town—
Sing: “’Twill soon be over!”
III.
Keep your soul a-singin’ still.
Though tihe way be dreary.
Till beyond Life’s sunset hill
Rest smiles for the weary!
Living
A Waste of Time.
(From Punch.)
We are glad to hear from The Bir
mingham Post that a New Jersey gen
tleman has, after lengthy experiments,
“succeeded in producing a brood of elev
en chickens each having one leg longer
than the other. The advantage claimed
for them over other chickens Is that
they are, by reason of their deformity,
compelled to walk in circles, and cannot,
therefore, wander far afield.’’
We think the New Jersey gentleman
has wasted his time rather. He could
have got the same results, at far less
Inconvenience to himself, by producing
a brood of chickens each having one leg
shorter than the other.
One of
By HELEN HARCOURT.
Written for The SUNNY SOUTH.
Honey Jars,
Nature’s Marvels
s he believed, Colonel Wheeler oct
and guarded the town of Bardstown <
‘ho approached. Colonel W barton receive
sudden intelligence that the enemy ,
force were within half a mile to the ea*
ward of the pike, between him an
Bardstown. Immediately ordering n
tottery (two 6-poundersj, to follow afti
as soon as possible, lie put himself i d
the head of the Texas Rangers and rot:
at half spec* to the point of danger. r
"In thirty minutes he passed the ♦' 1
miies, and there found the First an - A s *
Fourth Kentucky, Third Ohio and Thh ** k r
Indiana regiments of cavalry, four tirm R
his own numbers, drawn up in the roa
and behind houses to receive him. I
tsi
their rear, but not within supporting dii 'T 1
tdd
Jr
tar.ee, was a battery of artillery and
heavy force of infantry. The enemy P’
cavalry was partly drawn up in columr
o:' eight—prepared lor a charge, and th .
rest as a reserve. The enemy were a "
lowed to approach within 40 yards, whe .
Colonel Wharton ordered a charge. Tfcj
nj 1
fearless Rangers responded nobly to tfcjf**
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Hits and Misses.
(From Puck.)
Dan Cupid Is a marksman_bold,
His arrows tipped with kisses.
And though the rogue is growing Old,
Dan Cupid Is a marksman bold;
For when ho hits the mark, behold!
'T Is then he makes the (Mrs.
Dan Cupid Is a marksman bold.
His arrows tipped with kisses.
Complex.
(Exchange.)
Strawbar—I should think you would
be devoted to Miss Casper—she la such
a pretty girl.
Singerly—That’s the trouble—she's alto
gether too pretty to be loved by one
man.
Unflattering Unanimity.
"Well-uh. muh bruddren and Truth sis-
tahs, I’s sho’ly glad of dis opportunity
to vociferate what great things salva-
evenly and intelligently for the benefit of other
people, but we do not think that they are under j tion' him'done” did
obligations to distribute their wealth gradually,; raid Brother Quackenboss, rising ip. Ms
the conventional conception of enormous riches. ! pla f, e . m , m ‘^ st of the e * peri ® n ,5®
^ , , 1 . r . | meeting. "Yo’ all reorganizes dat befo’
Rockefeller has D r "'ll accused of a good manyj I seed de urror of muh ways and turned
questionable transacts is in his day. We are at onto de straight and narror way i was
least glad that he did not imitate some of the more i ( ; e , “ ost mizzabie of critters, uh-waiier-
flashy brand of Americans, who, when abroad, give j sa ss-poie of sin! un-yes. muh friends!
find these words, “Go to
the ant thou sluggard, and
be wise.” But there arc
plenty of people who are
not sluggards, who may
well go to the ants for ex
amples of thrift, industry
and Intelligent forethought,
examples tliait would seem
to belong to mankind
rather than to a lowly in
sect. The ant has always
jeen a favorite study
naturalists and much
written concerning Its
the average foreigner the impression that this na
tion is a mongrel between a kindergarten and an
asylum for the mildly insane.
DOMESTICATED WOLF.
(From The Anaconda Standard.)
A full-blooded timber wolf runs the
streets of Anaconda every day, following
the horse and juigigy of Fred Gan.gner,
<*r else trotting at the heeds of his mas
ter like a huge dog and answering to
his call or whistle just as faithfully.
"Jack” is tflie name that he goes by,
end almost everyone in the city knows
him. He is a restless creature and sel
dom xtiill, though never ranging 1 for
from the buggy or his master. Strange
dogs that take liberties or try to form
biz acquaintance usually regTet it for
Jack has strong white fangs and a vl-
elous snap that teaches (hem quickly <to
keep their distance, and he has been
known to whip a iwdiole pack of unwise
city dogs that think they are dealing
■with some pariah. Yet with all his
weapons of self-defense, when not at
tacked jack is as gentle as any lady’s
lapdog, and Is particularly fond of Mas-
lay In wait for her with loaded guns
and gave up the idea, of traps, she was
just as wise, and howled back her defi
ance from the hills and left the lost
ipups to the mercies of the foe. While
these designs against the wild mother
wer e belne executed all the little ones
save Jack died of exposuere and hunger,
and the men gave up the Idea of her
capture and took the survivor to the
ranch, and soon brought him to Ana-
SOME WAR PRICES.
(From The New York Sun.)
To the Editor of The Sun—Sir: I was
marooned at Wilmington. N. C., once,
and spent much time In the quaint old
public library. In an old file of the
Wilmington Journal I found a bill for
goods, dated in October, 1863, which were
sold by the agent of a man who was a
well-known Wall street bear not many
years ago. Here It is:
condia, a.nd h P become the property «T [ 40 o dozen Coates’ spool cotton at
his present master. He was adopted by SI2.50 S5.000.00
the children, who fed him many times a | rolls sole leather. 3.204 lbs.,
day with milk from a nursing bottle till ‘ at * 9 -25 29,637.30
h e arrived at an age .when he was able j 5 ,® oIe leather - 575 % lbs - R ,,
to lap the milk for himself and at last | 4 eases foolscap paper 200 "reams
‘take kindly to a stronger diet. j at $72 " 14,400.00
He wears a. collar now. and every j I case yellow envelopes, 100,000,
i year a tag from the city is placed on I at ®40 4,000.00
' it. just as is done for the canines that j ® a ^ a $g S 5Q le ** P ens . 1.500 gross,
are lucky enough to have good masters. ] 4 0 & doztn apades" at $180 " " " M^ooloo
Jack is a. faithful fellow, and recently ’
exhibited a wonderful homing Instinct Later, the pnices asked by successful
that has endeared film more strongly I b,ockatle runners became so outrageous
that has endeared him more strongly
d ^f r ’. the youn S sons than ever to the family of Mr. Gangner. that the confederate government at-
of Mr. Gangner. The boys have taught
kirn to fetch and carry and to draw
them In their ureigon or on their sleds,
having fitted him with a harness that is
similar to that used o-n the dugs in
Alaska.
As a wattfhman the wolf Is a perfect
guardian of the home, and on camping
trips he stays at the caanp, and trouble
•nsues for the intruder that ventures too
near the prescribed limits.
Jack was
He was given to Joseph Desjardin, who ! tempted to regulate prices. The secretary
lives near the Emory mine, about fifteen j °* tbe int crior was. a resident of W <1-
mlles up in the hills east of Deer j mlnston. and he did his utmost to en-
Lodge. Mr. Desjardin took him in the forct ’ the following schedule-
express car to Deer Lodge, and from
there led him behind t'he wagon to his
new home. Jack was gone from Ana
conda just four days. At the end of
that time he scratched at the door of j Candles, pound
ids %ld lioipe. where he v.-as joyfully wel- | Coffee (Rio)
Salt, bush
Axes, each -
Bacon, pound
Apples (dried) pound
Beef (fresh), pound ..
35.00
12.00
3.00
5.00
I trembles yit at de awful pomposity
of muh heenyusness, for twell de light
broke In on mu!i soul I was one o’ de
most low-down, disintegrated, contami
nated sinners dat ever cucunrbered de
yearth, and—’’
“Amen! Aa-a-men! Hallelooyer! Dat’s
so. Brudder! Dat's de troof!” arose a
chorus of confirmation.
“Well, yo-all don’t need to be so
fetch-taked anonymous about it!” snarl
ed the speaker. “I don’t rickolleck dat
I was so eadfounded muoh wus dan
some o’ de rest o’ yo’! It’s all right to
welcome de lost sheep back to de fold,
‘but yo’ needn’t rub It In on him!"—
Comic Paper.
Waiting His Turn.
A lady In a small Alabama town had
occasion to call at the cabin of her
washerwoman. Aunt Betsy, says Suc
cess Magazine. While waiting for the
article she sought to be found, she ob
served a woolly head which appeared
from under the edge of the bed, and
asked:
“Is that one of your children, Aunt
Betsy?”
“Deed an’ ’tis, honey,” was the reply.
“Mbhat is its name?”
“Dat chile ain't got no name yet, Miss
Rosa,” Aunt Betsy said.
“Why, It must be 5 or 6 years old;
surely it ought to have a name at that
age,” the lady said.
Aunt Betsy noddea.
“Dat done worried me a whole lot,
honey, hit sho’ has,” she said. •’But
! whut Ah gwine do? My ole man, he
'done used up all de good names on de
with most
‘has been
queer ways and the almost human gov
ernment of its communities and armies,
but In spite of all the years of study,
all the careful researches into the life
history of the various tribes of the ant
family, there was one whole race, and
a very curious one. too, that has only
recently been unearthed, literally un
earthed, In one of our southwestern
states, and probably will now be found
to exist also In other sections of the
aouth.
Ants, like bees and children, and some
grown up children, too. adore “sweet
ies.” Both of these insects collect and
store away a supply for future use.
The bee obtains honey from flowers and
builds store houses of wax in which to
keep It. But the shrewd ant, so recently
interviewed, does not go to the trouble
of building any store house in which to
preserve the honey it collects, but draws
it from living receptacles. The ordina
ry ant milkes the aphids found on plants
and also carries them away to its under
ground farms and there holds them cap
tive, using them as cows that yield the
honey they so love. But. as we shall
see, this newly-discovered community
keeps living honey jars on tap all the
while.
These latter receptacles are ants, real,
veritable ants and until a comparatively
few years were supposed to be natives
only of certain sections of our neigh
bor, Mexico. But one day there came
to the ears of our scientists the report
that these same queer ants were to be
found in our own territory in Colorado
and New Mexico. Hither then, to the lat
ter states, liled a certain naturalist, ea-
very friable, and could be easily worked
by the tiny miners.
It took two men four days with ham
mer and chisel to uncover Che nest and
make measurements, sketches and plaster
easts. For, you see, It was no careless,
haphazard undertaking, this visit to the
heme of the strange ants. Their unin
vited guest was a thoroughbred scientist
and he had traveled many hundreds of
miles on purpose to learn all about their
■ways and tiheir home. Whether they ap
predated his interest and his call mat
tered not ait all to him. It was enough
that he himself was satisfied. So he
and his assistant hammered and chiseled
until the Inner secrets of that curious
home were laid bare,
T:ho interior of tihe n.nt city sloped to
ward the base of the hill. That was to
S'ccure good drainage In case of heavy
rains or floods. Ants can think and plan,
you see, and exercise forethought as well
as man. The nest took up a space of 8
feet in length, 3 In height and I 1-2 in
width. That meant that these tiny
ir.irers, witli no tools but their jaws and
ftet. had actually honeycombed the rock
with gallery after gallery, and chamber
after chamber, each one carefully con
structed, and making a harmonious whole.
They had not on-ly cut all t‘hls rook and
earth away, but had carried the debris
through the Intervening galleries, up the
steep tubular stairway, and dumped it
cut by the gate. It was surely a marvel
ous piece of work for those little miners
to undertake and carry through success
fully. And they had neither pick nor
shovel nor crowbar with which to work.
How much oould proud man have accom
plished under similar circumstances?
GUARDING HONEY TREASURES.
But When this wondrous subterranean
home was laid open to the light of day,
lor the first time in its history, it was
Sfen that 'the greatest marvel was yet
to he discovered. The vaulted roof was
found to be densely covered with amber
colored spheres. What they were? How
were they fastened on the root'? They
were ranged close together, row upon
row, and the astonished scientist won
dered of what those queer yellow bags
were composed and what they contained.
A closer examination solved the mystery.
From the end of each amber sphere pro
truded the yellow body and slender legs
of an ant. They were clinging to the
roof which 'had been left rough and un
even tby the miners, while a.ll the rest
of the chambers, as well as the galleries,
cider, and in a few minutes the who!
force of the enemy was driven in cor f e
fusion from the field, with a loss on thj
pan of the enemy of fifty killed and fort’
I j itoners, among the latter a major. t|
this gallant action, not only were ih j
dangerous consequences of surprise <A
viatea, but a severe chastisement was lr
dieted on the enemy, and new iustt
,'sdded to the confederate arms. In corr
pilinen'ting Colonel Wharton and th
brave men undier him lor this daring fea
of aims, the general commanding cannc
but mark the contrast with that whic
ntM>]ied so discreditably at New Have
a sihort time before. Colonel Wiharto
and the Texas Rangers nave wiped ou
that stain. Their gallantry is worthy o
the applause and emulation of their con:
raties of all arms in the army.
“By command of Genera! Folk.
“GtXJRGE G. GARNER, A. A. G.
The affair -which resulted so discredit
rtbly at New Haven, to which the genera
alludes in general order No.‘12, was tin
surpise and capture of the Third regi
ment, Georgia cavalry.
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n-a
ger to verify the truth of tihe state- _
ment, and to study the strange Insect had been made smooth and even. And
corned by the children. He had come' Flour, barrel 45.00 ' dawgs, an’ now dat chile des hatter
•tench, in theTHo'l'ocirv 0 ’Toni \ across the country neariy ntty j Horses^or mules
• ’ e miles, and, though wet and dirty, foot-j
two years ago, when he was but a day I 0 * la ’, TI r - ard ‘ » oun<1
old. His mother had come down from j sore and . la ™ e ’ to<s ? a M e 6very d . em< ?": I.Leather (sole), pound
«h* hills in search of a lender calf dur
ing the night and gave birth to her fit
ter in the corral. She succeeded in oar-
rylng away several of her young and
hid them, but daylight came beifore she
carried off all of the family, and four
■were found by the cattJemen when they
went out to feed the rows.
Stratton of Joy on being again in bis x-ails (out), keg
did quartern, and it will be a long time i Onions, bush
beifore he is banished again.
Potatoes (sweet) .. .
| Pork (fresh), pound
1 Colton cloth, yard ..
| Shoes (army)
uap (rosin), pound
1,000.00
1,000.00
2.75
6.00
100.00
3.00
4.00
wait twell one ob de dem die so he
can git his name.”
The Doctor Knew.
A young laborer went to the regis
trar’s toffice to record bis father’s
2.25 |death. The registrar asked the date of
1.30; the death.
who’s Sugar (brown), pound
' Tobacco (plug)
bank, jiuck (10 ounces), yard .. ..
HIS SINECURE.
The Farmer—.My son Reuben,
in N'oo York, toils me there's
They set tro.pe and left Jack and i down there thet keeps open day an’ j Whisky, gallon
brothers in the place where they had night
bean found, if the hopes that the
mother would return and fail into the
•nare from her love for th- young. 1 Hear thet ’ Jason? An ’ sometimes yew
Madam Wolfe, however, was too wise, j Srowl becuz yew have tew work only
•nd though on the second night they | frutn 6 a. m. tew 10 9. m.—Exchange.
The Storekoepe- (turning to his clerk)—
15.00
l.OC
3.00
3.00
1.50
10.00
7.50
350.00
Wheat, bushel
Wagon
The wages to be paid for labor were
fixed toy this order at $45 a month, with
board. THIRTY-NINTH MISSOURI.
New York, May 29-
“Well, father ain’t dead yet,” was
the reply, “but he will be dead before
morning, and it’ll save me another trip
down here if you’ll put It down.”
“Oh, that won’t do at all,” said the
registrar; “your father may be well be
fore morning.”
“Ah, no, he won’t,” said the young
laborer. “Our doctor says he won’t,
and he knows what bo’s given father.”
—Exchange.
and Its life habits, on the spot. H
found that the report w as true. The
ants were there in propria persona, the
true “honey ants or. as the scientists
have named them, Myrmeeocytus hor-
tus deorum,” a ponderous name that
would seem to be enough to crush the
poor little Insects beneath Its weight.
WISE LITTLE MINERS.
The outer sign of its presence below
tlie ground was a low mound of pebbles
and earth, the latter chiefly coarse sand.
This mound was not a premeditated ele
vation, -but rather a sort of by-product,
as it were, the natural .sequence of the
uumpings from the excatation of the
galleries and chambers of the ant city
below, to which one gate, at the foot
of the mound, gave entrance. It was
from this gate that the rock, earth,
pebbles and sand had been dumped out,
the little miners wisely dropping their
leads at the nearest outside point, care
being taken that it should not be near
herein was another evidence of the intel
ligence of the little insects.
How did they know that if the roof
of ‘their chamibers -were not left in its
natural rough state, the precious honey-
bearers could not hang themselves up
there In safety, but must remain on the
floor, in constant danger o>f” being rup
tured by some careless passer-by among
their kindred.
That the living honey jars were not in-
sersible to the sudden burst of sunshine
let in upon their dark retreat was evi
denced toy a faint swaying movement that
tl rilled through the mass. But in spite
of all the light. In spite of all the noise
and dust of falling, crumbling walls, in
spite of the scurry and confusion among
the terrified comrades, who sought safety
in flight, not one of these guardians of
the honey treasure lost its hold, not one
dropped to the floor. The precious store
of honey, the very life of the community,
had been committed to their charge, and
A QUARTERMASTER'S STORY.
The Augusta Register contained Ha fol
lowing:
"We ha/ve just had a call from an old
friend from Virginia who, by the way,
is a quartermaster. And among the many
good things ho told us is the following
harj hit at the quartermasters, which our
friend aissures us occurred on the train
between Richmond and t-his city.
"At a point on the road, it is not neces
sary to say where, a colporteur came
abroad with his arms full of religious
reading for distribution among the sol
diers. Among the passengers on board
was a young soldier who had much of ti e
s-pirit of Momus twinkling In the corners
of his eyes. As soon as the colporteur
made his appearance at the door of the
car t'he soldier rushed to him, took Ins
hand and gave him a cordial greeting.
‘How are you. my friend, how are you.”
said he; ‘I am so glad to see you en
gaged in this good work. It is just -what
the soldiers need. You, su“h as yo;
are, have done an Incalculable amour,:
of good by the distribution of religious lit
erature such as you bear In your arms
I am a member of the Nineteenth Mis
sissippi regiment. They were a good se:
of fellows when they came out. But
alas! t/he temptations of the camp have
been too much for them and now they
are full of all wickedness and Immoral
ity, and are sadly in need of reformation.
I would like to have some of those tracts
to distribute amongst them. And if you
are willing, I will help you now by dis
tributing for you In this car, while you
go into the others.’
“The colporteur, pleased with, the man
ner of the young man, immediately gavs
him a goodly portion of his burden, and
passed out to his labors in another car.
“The soldier then commenced the work
'of distributing. To the first passenger
he came to -he said, ’Here is a tract on *
“The Way of --.‘Vatlon.” That, my
dear friend, I am sure you need, for we
have all need of salvation. Take the
tract and read it, and I am sure it will
do you good.’
“Passing to the next one, he said, ‘Here
is a tract on “Repentance.” You, inv
friend, look like a serious man. You look
as If you needed the Instruction fchai is
(contained in these pages. They are
written for Just such as you. Take
the book anj read it carefully, and may
you profit by its Instruction.’
“Thus he passed on to several othe-
■passengers. At last he held up one tract
■a.ml said ‘here is one entitled “The Dyinr
Thief.” w-hat shall I do with it?’ Th n
looking over the passengers he called
out ‘Is there any quartermaster aboard’.’’
No one answered, of course. ‘Well.' sail
he, ‘I will put It in my pocket and give
it to the conductor whep he comes
through. Perhalps he needs It.’ and went
on soberly with his good work, to the
Intense edification of the passengers."
enough to the entrance to roll back Into I steadily they held fast to their .post of
the sloping tunnel.
The mounds 'thus Incidentally formed
are shaped like an inverted round bak
ing pan. They are about four inches
high, and thirty-two Inches in circum
ference at the base. There is only the
one central gate. This Is a sort of tubu
lar opening, funnel-shaped, and less than
an inch in diameter. It descends
through the mound perpendicularly, and
as it reaches the galleries below Is de
flected at a -sharp angle. The galleries
are branched and ramify in every direc
tion, all leading Co chambers. The lat
ter are Irregular In shape, and have
vaulted roofs. They are usually five or
six inches long by three or four wide,
while the vaulted roof rises to rather
more than an inch in the center.
One of these honey-ant nests was thor
oughly Investigated, no doubt, to the in
tense terror anid disgust of its unlucky
owners, who were literally dug out of
house and home. But then It was done
in t'he Interests of science, and that Is
a cloak that covers a multitude of sins.
This particular nest was tunneled In red
sandstone, which is of a soft nature
duty. They left It to the honey col
lectors, the three classes of majors, mi-
rers and minims, or dwarfs, to run away
on the approach of danger. To be sure
that feax would have been beyond the
power of these owners of the aldennanic
abdomens, tout they could at least have
dropped from their ceiling perch, or In
some way have shown perturbation. But
beyond the momentary swaying referred
to. the living honey jars gave no sign
The nest having been explored, meas
ured and sketched, a searching lnvestlga
tlon into the life history of the little in
sects who had built it was next In or
der. First of all came the question
where did these ants get their honey?
As a rule, ants, common every-day ants,
procure their sweets from the aphids,’
those queer little honey manufacturers
that these other queer little Insects have
appropriated as their cows. But a care
ful search of the nearby shrubbery re
vealed the ourious fact that there were
no aphids there, not even on their fa
vorite camping ground, the wild rose
Continued on Fourth Pago.
AN ORDER FROM JOHNSTON
Headquarters Army of Tennessee. Cass-
ville. Ga., May 19. 1864—tleneral Orders—
Soldiers of the Army of Tennessee: You
have displayed the highest qualities of
the soldier—firmness In combat, patience
•under toils. By your courage and still
you have repulsed every assault of the
enemy. By marches, by day and by
night, you have defeated every attempt
upon your communications, which are
now secure.
You will now march upon the foe to
meet bis advancing columns. Truly con.
tiding in the conduct of the officers, and
the courage of the soldiers. I lead you to
battle. We may confidently trust that
the Almighty Father will still reward the
•patriot’s tolls, and bless the confederate
banners.
Cheered by the success of our brothers
In Virginia and beyond the Mississippi,
our efforts will equal theirs. Strength
ened by His support those efforts will be
crowned with, like success.
JOSEPH E. JOHNSTON, General.
Official: Hinlock Falconer, Major A.
A. G.. 290.
CAPTAIN DIXON AND HIS CREW.
Said The Mobile Register in 1864:
“■It will be recollected that since the
destruction of the Housatonic, nothing
has been heard of Captain Dixon and his
crew, by whom the gallant act was ac
complished. The following letter on the
subject la addressed to Major General
Maury:
“ “Office Submarine Defense, Charles
ton, April 29, 1864. General— • • • •
The United States sloop of war Houea-
tcnic was attacked and destroyed by
Lieutenant Dixon and crew on the night
of the 17th of February. Since that
Continued on Fourth Pago.