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k> Ji ■ <k W W ^ ii I Ufye SUNNY .SOUTH Publish9d Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Buslnmfs Office THE CONSTITUTION. BUILDING ATLANTA. GEORGIA Subfcription Terms: To those who tubtcribs to Vf»m Sunny Sooth only Six Months, 25c ^ One Year; 50c LESS THAN A PENNY A WEEK KaUred at the po.tofflr. Atlanta. Oa.<aa •tcud-elaaa ■all BaltM March 13, IWOl jm The Sunny South la the eldeat weakly paper mf Literature, Romance, /art aml Fiction In thm South e St la note rm• Jtormd to thm original ahapm and wlU bm published am for* marly every traMe Founded In IS74 It grew until SS99, when, aa a monthly, Ita form waa changed ae an expert’ tnent & It now returna to Ita original formation am m weekly with renewed vigor and the intention ef ectips’ ing Ita meat premialng ported In the pact. Fresh Air and Longevity BOSTON contemporary takes the pe- culiar attitude that the residents of MsM* the country districts are more igno- A rant of the value of fresh air than those living in the city, and calls upon urban visitors and summer boarders to "enlighten” their hosts on the efficacy of fresh air as a pre ventive of tuberculosis and other diseases. We are inclined to dis pute this charge. Both country and city have had our rather careful at tention, and we are prepared to state that the population of each have about an equal regard for the well- ventilated room and workshop. As a rule it is the denizen of tlie city who is the principal offender in this direction. Speaking from a general stand point, he is given to late retiring. He does not want the industrious sun slanting across his eyes at an early hour in the morning, so he closes in the shutters or pulls down his shade, thus shut ting off the free circulation of air. He is then given to wo lering why he feels drowsy and lan guid the following day and finds the breakfast cup of coffee indispensable to getting up the proper amount of “steam” to tackle the day’s task. The country cousin, within our observation, is not as remiss in this particular. Oftener than not he has a special reason for wishing to rise at an earlv hour, and he likewise, as a class, has a deep-rooted objection to a stuffy sleeping-room. It must not be forgotten, moreover, that the man outside the city has infinitely the advantage of the man inside the city, in that the very nature of 'his occupation forces him to spend a greater portion of his wak ing hours in the open, where he miust, nolens •volens, absorb more or less untainted atmosphere. Town or city or country, there can be no dis puting the hygienic influence of air uncontami- nated by smoke or the germs or th£ filth of man kind and his mechanical products. The medical profession wrestled for many years with that scourge of the centuries, consumption. Medicines were tried: changes of climate were tried; every thing and anything that seemed to offer a remote chance of relief or cure were given an exhaustive investigation. Finally, specialists came to the con clusion that the only cure for this dreaded malady lay in that substance which we value so lightly as to call “as free as air.” They experienced and found out that if an infected patient spent the ma jority of his waking and sleeping hours in freely circulated atmosphere, confined himself or herself to a nourishing and an easily digestible diet and observed the proper hygienic laws, that the hea;!- ing art had done its uttermost n>ward staving the ravages of the destroyer. The principle applying to the cure of tubercu losis, applies somewhat differently to the health and the activity of the entire mind and body. Oc casionally, we are cited instances wherein indi viduals who spent the better part of fhieir time within doors live to abnormal ages. But in the overwhelming preponderance of cases, length of years goes to the man and the woman- who live mainly in the open air, letting the tonic made in the laboratories of the Almighty have unrestricted access to their -lungs, .and through these organs to the bipod and the vital activities of the body. It is a sad commentary on the shallowness of the human viewpoint that it should, so often, over look a means for health so near at hand and so in significant in price. The ether of the firmament is the common property of the beggar and the mil lionaire—yet neither one appreciates it at its true worth. If it were put in bottles and retailed at an enormous cost; if there were a patent on its man ufacture; if one had to cross the Atlantic to take it as the baths at Naudheim—it would have many more devotees. But just because we can step to the window or the front door and inhale, without let or hindrance, long breaths of this bringer of years and vigor, few f us trouble, to do it. We breathe—it is true. We do so, however, inciden tally, involuntarily. Rarely do we throw out the chest, draw in such supplies of air as penetrate every flabby crevice of the lungs, and send the blood tingling to the furthest extremities of the body. If we did—if we realized, to the greatest ex tent—the full value of this elixir so free and so pervasive, it is a safe assertion that the figures on national longevity would advance 50 per cent and that half the diseases with which the human fam ily is afflicted would find it convenient to make their escape by the nearest possible route. The Man With a Chronic Grouch HEOLOGIANS ^galore are frequent ly wont to enter into finely-spun debate regarding the existence of an “unpardonable sin.” If ever an agree ment is reached on its presence in the calendar of earthly offenses, we sincerely trust there is one type of man that will be at once placed into intimate and uncomfortable relation with it. He is the customer who is never happy unless engaged in pricking the bubble for some hap less innocent of his acquaintance. He may indulge in this gruesome pastime because by nature he is biiious and ideals of any description goad him as does the scarlet rag the bull. This is as far, however, as our chari ty can go in extenuation of his performances. For be is responsible for a great deal of the unhappi ness which secretly haunts our minds, and for the placing of an unceremonious period after many of the strange notions which,, in spite of our twen tieth century enlightenment, we are foolish enough to cherish. No reflection is meant on the gentleman who sees his friend unconsciously engaged in an un worthy cause, or being unduly influenced by ma lign or disastrous agencies. Intervention at such a time is a privilege and a duty, which should be tactfully performed. But there is the callous- natured brute, for instance, who points out to the hilarious youngster the form of grandpa or papa under the picturesque robe and flowing beard of Santa Claus. He hal> his counterpart in the citi zen that performs the same service for the mature man—only that the hoax which he is exposing may be much more seriously important 1han that of the beautiful old German custoifi. He is the practical villian who would rob life of its sparkle and romance, and tearing aside the veil from some of our finely conceived fancies, show us just how grim and ghostly existence really is. Such a man is an ideal idol-breaker. With his mallet of fact and his crowbar of logic he makes the round of his friends, and even casual acquaint ances, and does not consider his task complete unless he has left crumbling clay and thin air in his wake. He is equally reckless with the ideals of the young and the old. the middle-aged, the man, the woman, the child. What valid excuse he has for his own existence is a mystery. The good he accomplishes is nil, and the harm infinite. Unimaginative and intolerant of pleasing fancies, he deserves to be classed with some baneful drug, the only office of which is to depress the circula tion or dull the consciousness. If you wish to render service to yourself and mankind, ferociously snub this individual at every opportunity. Sawdust. It seemed a monstrously impossible thing for us two to starve, yet starve we must, and that right presently, un less relief should come. We were even now on our last boot-leg. Of the sup plies we had laid in, nothing remained but a tin of nutmegs. "Of course We ain’t eat nutmegs',’’ j muttered, half delirious. Suddenly Paoli leaped to his feet. “Bring me those nutmegs!” he cried, in a tense voice. I brought him the tin. He glanced at the names on the label and a wild shout of exultation burst from his lips. “They are! They are Connecticut goods! The bucksaw! Quick!’’ he shrieked, and trembled like a leaf with excitement. I began to see. In feverish haste I orought the bucksaw. It was soon over. In less than ten minutes we sat each with his dish of breakfast food before him, and ate, and laughed, and wept, hysterically.—Puck. If Shakespeare Had Written for Broad way— Hamlet, to his pother: “Mother, for love c.f grace. Forget it! Cut it out!” Hamlet, to Horatio: "Horatio, I am dead, not yet, but soon!” hamlet, to Ophelia: "Beat it to a nunnery! Sklddoo!” —Puck. Can This Be TrueP Hon. is not necessarily a title of re spect. Sometimes the newspapers use it merely to conceal thoughts whose utterance would probably result in em barrassing suits for libel.—Exchange. The Better Wish. “I only •wish,” growled the pessimistic man. “that I had all the money that Is spent for fireworks In this country every year.” “That would be a comfortable sum,” remarked the optimistic one, “but while one i.s wishing he should wish for plenty. I would rather wish for the money that is n-ot spent for fireworks.— Comic Paper. LISTENING. Golden stars across the heavens With their small feet softly creep, Fearing lest they should awaken Mother Earth, who lies asleep. Listening stand the silent forests Every leaf a little ear, And, as in a dream, the mountain Shadow arms outstretches near. But who called? I heard an eciho; Through my listening heart it -fell. Could it be her voice—or was it Nothing but' the nightingale? —Heine. Busy Worl« M. Mouromtseff. WO noted men n apparently are j ted against ea other in Russ One represents t continuation autocratic rule a the crushing popular aspiratlc for constitutioi liberty. The oth who was presidt of the duma tl has Just be summarily disbar Southern Fox Farming; ^ The Profit it Offers ^ IN TWO PARTS—PART I. By HELEN HAROOURT. Written for The SUNNY SOUTH. Leaves from an Old (Scrap B00K By A GEORGIA COLONEL. I FIND in the old war scrap-book the following interesting account of Gen eral Kirby Smith’s battles In Ken tucky. as it was published in The Knox ville Register in September. I8B2: “The following highly Interesting let- 000, while ours win not reach more than ifront 300 tx> 500 killed and wounded. Their loss In killed and wounded officers is very heavy. The troops were from Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, and com manded by General Bull Nelson—Colonel Cassius M. Clay commanded a brigade. Genera! Smith cCTnmanded our troops, iNa.ha.nt, after a thirty-two minutes’ fight. We steamed up to within 50 yards at one •time, but \ye fought at 200 yards. We opened with our 8-Inch gun. Two of tlieir 15-inch balls came crashing through the iport side, disabling the marine gun’s crew and No. 3 division crew. Another shot knocked the pilot house all to , seriously wounding both Austin and Her nandez, the pilots. Being thus disabled, the ship ran aground, our guns could not be brought to bear upon any object and humanity and instinct prompted Very worthy source, and is j and by hard fighting and the blessing'of #<r , a ^ utmos * credit; j Ood, we. destroyed their fine army. It jrenerni Smith hnd staff mounted their | was a grand sight to see our ill-clad, and .arses a o clock Saturday morning, sometimes barefooted troops, with no ifood t0 f the ,front . 8 ml,es . :nnd but little water, marching with a ___ „ Tusf Wnn. ?^ CeS last night. , steady front on their splendidly equipped | surrender, as in less than fifteen minutes / th °, plnce the ® nem y ! foe. It wa s one of the grandest battles attacked us, opening with artillery, and j I ever saw. a '” U a t , an h< ? ur ,he Gantry opened; in j "i t filled our hearts with pride to see . s . n an hour we drove them from j cur men move onward and never give Jhe r ® rCat 8laUKhter on »way. Glory he to God on high for the their side, we taking many prisoners, j splendid result ficcrs^vT' 1 ™ h T T ' eS, r‘ a,Iy ln ° f ' ‘‘General Smith and staff escaped un- fleers. Me moved on about 2 miles U-.urt “ beyond Rogersville, at which place the first fight occurred, and .found them again ; SURRENDER OF THE ATLANTA 0 ”’ When W * ma ' f ' e the attack ‘ I The following, found in the old scra.p- , r * * lm f, 11 dro ' e tbem Uom book. Is an Interesting account of the | them and us comfortable. Tomorrow we tr th ^L,7 1 a h .. 8tm f ren, , er loss lK)tl1 surrender of the confederate ironclad i are to be sent north, and it may be some a Z wl,h steamer Atlanta: i time before you see or hear from me rma. ier loss on out side. This second “At Inst we have definite accounts of again. Yours truly, W. B. M.’ .J^ C,ITT . e<1 , ab0ut 2 or 3 o'clock, a.nd the late naval fight ln Warsaw sound, “The following from an officer on board our troops, having marched some 8 miles, . and the surrender of the confederates ® n d having no water except a little taken states’ Ironclad Atlanta. We are permit- fnmi the stagnant pools along the road, ted to copy the following letter from a and seeing the enemy again preparing member of the crew to a friend In this city. It shows that the Atlanta surren- Charivari. (From London Punch.) According to Th e Express large quan Uties of tinned food are being destroyed or given to poultry.” This, iwe sup pose, is how bad eggs are made. The leading London hotels are now full of American millionaires and mul timillionaires, and the former complain •bitterly that the latter treat them as so much dirt. The agitation in favor of more com fortable prisons continues. There is no doubt that the fact that they are not all that can be desired keeps many persons from using them. "Why,” asks The Medical Times, “should we tell patients what we are giving them? Depend upon' it, by so doing we lose ou r dignity as a profes sion.” This i® certainly what has hap pened to the beef trust. Still Learning-. (From The Cleveland Plain Dealer.) “Does your eon graduate this month?” “Oh. no. Hp has another year on the track team.” The Bright. Pupil. (From The Chicago New*.) Tie.acher—Why did the ancients bee Iirve th e earth to be (flat? Bright Boy—’Cause they didn’t have no school globes to prove it iwtaa round. The New Aladdin. (From The Pacific Monthly.) A school teacher on the lower east side in New York a few years ago re 1 ' the story of Aladdin's Lamp to h r charges. The next day she rrqw s?ed j the m to write the story for her. r V:n-J mi e Flynn, however, had been the previous day, and had not heard the story. But with the craftiness of the gamin, he did not intend to display his ignorance, and accordingly wrote the following composition: “Alad'iin iwuz a kid what hung out down to Baxter st. he sold wuxtrus and shooted craps, his ole man wuznt no good and his nta she licked him awful, so Aladun he didnt mosey round home much, he could fite to, and one day he picked a scran iwid a dago cause the dago win all his money sheetin' craps. he nocked the tar outer ?Tie dago but a nothc r one comes runt-in up and hands him a package rite on the left surch lite. bout a our frum then he had a peach of a mouse there and when his ole man sees him he says whats the matter and Aladun says I fell and hit the curb, you lie says the ole man. you bin fitin- and sum'body put out your lamp, cummere till I make it two. and thats the story of Aladun and his lamp.” the rotten thing would have had not a human being aboard. “ ‘We all deeply sympathize with our noble and gallant captain, who is suffer ing and overcome with mental anguish. Every man stood nobly at his post from the first to last. “ 'Our loss is one killed, eight severely and ten slightly wounded. They are re ceiving the best care from our captors, who are doing all they ca.n to render to receive tis, we halted our men and gave them several hours' rest. Every thing being ready, a short march brought •us within sight of Richmond, where the enemy made a third stand, when we moved on ana attacked them the third time. After hard fighting we routed has also been handed to us, with the lib erty of making it public: “ ‘United States Ship Vermont, Port Royal, S. C., June 18, 1863.—Dtar : I am a prisoner of war on 'board this The Wolf Story. (From The Rochester Post-Express.) A red-faced man was holding the at tention of a little group with some won derful recitals. “The most exciting chase I over had,” he said, “happened a few years ago in Russia. One night, when sleighing about ten miles from ray destination, I dis covered to my Intense horror, that I was being followed by a pack of wolves, d fired blindly Into the pack, killing one of the- brutes and to my delight saw the others stop to devour It. After do- l*g this, however, they still came on. I kept on repeating the dose, with the same result, and each occasion gave me an opportunity to whip up my horses. Finally there was only one wolf left, yet on it came, with its fierce eyes glaring ln anticipation of a good, hot supper.” Here the man who had l/-en sitting in the corner burst forth in a fit of laughter. “Why, man,’’ said he, “by your way of reckoning, tk»u last wolf must have had the rest of the pack inside him!” “Ah!” said the red-faced man without a tremor, “now I remember, it did wab ble a bit.*' T is an industry new, and yet not new, this of fox farming. Here and there in this great country of ours a few enterprising, wide awake men have es tablished themselves in this odd line of business, and have proved that there is money in it, big money, too. But the ven ture is so nerw that there is as yet no literature on the subject, as there is on raising cattle. horses, sheep, goats, poultry, and other live stock, or old es tablished industries. Thus far most of the experienced ranchers have been lo cated north of the Mason and Dixon line, but it has only happened so. The fox does not, It is true, like extremely hot weather, but Is quite at home ln our southern country, although drawing the lino at the tropics. As a matter of fact, fox farms in the south will prove to have their advantages over those of colder climates ln this, as in other live stock Industries. The oldest and most successful fox farms of today are located on the nu merous Islands of southeastern Alaska, whose climate Is milder than that of New York, In the southern part of Maine and along the Gulf of St. Law rence. These and others, today. To morrow and for many other tomorrows will come the turn of the south. Its fox farms will be numerous, and they will have come to stay, and to multiply. For all who have tried it intelligently have found foxes a more profitable crop than potatoes, or hay or vegetables, or any thing else that can be grown. The bright eyed, bushy tailed little animal raises a fur that Is in greater demand, and brings a higher price than other crops. A poor, hard working farmer up in Maine, who was also something of a hunter, growing weary or the struggle of making a living out of a worn out farm, decided to try fox farming. It was only an experiment, and he en tered on it with fear and trembling, amidst dire predictions from his neigh bors of disaster. But today he has a highly profitable business, and his poor, worn out farm Is known far and near I as the best paying piece of land ln Maine. ALWAYS PROFITABLE. Wherever fox farming has been estab ltshed and conducted on a basis of com monsense care and thrift it has proven profitable. Fox pelts are valuable prop erty. Those of the black and silver- gray foxes bring the highest, even fabu lous prices, the finest specimens selling for from eight hundred to one thousand dollars. As a matter of fact, the black and silver grey foxes are identical, the latter being black with a sprinkling of gray hairs, which produce the handsome silver luster so much admired. The reason of the extremely high prices ob tained for the black fox pelts is their scarcity, as well as their beauty. For right here is a rock on which the fox farmer founders so far as this one little black fellow Is concerned. It Is almost Impossible to raise the black fox in cap tivity, and it is scarce in the wild state for the same reason, which is that the old males are cannibals, and never lose a chance to eat the young as fast as they are born. They will gi ve battle to the parents rather than forego their favorite feast. The man who succeeds in outwitting old Mr. Black Fox, or in breeding out this bad trait, will have a big fortune in hand. And some day some one will succeed in doing this very tihing, we may and makes them his ed, represents the people who des popular government. Sergei Andreivi Mouromtseff has long been conspicuc in tho struggle against autocracy. He a member of a noble family ( and w educated in the IfnTverslty of Moser receiving his degree from the law depa ment. Subsequently he became a prof, sor ln the famous school, but his vie became so radical that he was compel to leave the Institution. He then pr ticed law for a time, and later becai an editor, but the paper was suppress by the police. Mouromtseff has It been a member of the Moscow zemst- His wife, before her marriage, was c of the most popular singers in the I perial theater in the old capital. C? Nicholas has long been known as a ^ dilating rider, who lacked the courage his convictions. ,.ith one ear open the appeals of the people, the other b been listening to the cajoieries of t bureaucrats, who despise constitutor government. He is the eighth ruler the house of Romanof-Holsteln, w born May 18. 1868, and ascended t throne November I, 1894. His reij, politically, has probably been the an and thetr wants friends. AN ALASKAN LESSON. All alonjr t'he southeastern coast of Alaska are scattered hundreds of small islands. On as many of these are es tablished fifty or more ifox farms. More than half of them are not yet paying [ dTsastTnus in the history of the err*.re a profit, because to reach that point re- ] * ** quires thne, which they have not had. Some of these farms began with only two pairs of foxes, and of course where the beginning Is so small, the owner must expend patience i.n lieu of the cash he does not possess. The profitable in crease will come by and by, If deserved. Some of the larger island fox farms arc- owned by companies which have started with several hundred pairs of animals. Their profits will come quickly, of course. Until quite recently these Alaskan islands •have been looked upon as worthless, but now that they have been found suitable for ifox farming, they will soon produce a harvest which will add largely to the wealth and beauty of the world. Those Alaskan islands should serve as an object lesson to us of the south At lantic coast. Scattered all along that coast are many islands even better suited to fox farming than those of Alaska. hese could be utilized in like manner. T7SSELL SAGE dead, in his n:r :leth year, at . summer home Long Island. .1 Sage, who is puted to hatfe 1 an estate varjV from seventy- one hundred n lions, was the nr tor of Ameri- \anciers, and w known as havl Russell Sage. the largest cu. mand of ready money of any of the W street operators. He was famous for t eccentricities, his apparent parsimor and his devotion to work, whi amounted almost to a mania. The i mor hss gotten abroad that the read of his will will create a stupendous But It is not every one who can own j P-’ise to^the nation, as many f i an island, and so it is well that the way has been found to make a fox-proof closest friends hint mysteriously ■ Uaf will leave enormous legacies to char ifenee on the mainland. And now let us look Into the details of fox farming and .fox housekeeping. The experience of one of the first fox farmers is worth noting by way of show ing what can be done by a poor man with patience, perseverence and ordina ry Intelligence. Tie had no money and no experience, but he borrowed the one, and bought the other on time, paying a pretty high price for it, too, but, as he said later on, "It paid.” He bought forty female and twenty-five male foxes, but owing to the long and severe voyage nec essary to convey them to ills island, and also to change of climate, he lost all but half a dozen the first year. Nothing daunted, he borrowed more money and bought forty pairs of fine animals. He had bought some experience by this time, and these prospered. Then he built a smoke house for curing fish for the food of his ifox family, this 'being their favorite stand-by as a steady diet. This fox farmer had a boat, but it was only a little dory, ail that he could af ford, with nets and fishing tackle. This was five years ago. Today this plucky man owns a five ton schooner, and a gasoline launch, large and seaworthy. He has lately sold to one company, twen ty-five thousand dollars worth of live j ble institutions ENERAL Hr! NARDO It EYE who Is alleged be the leader in r e v o 1 u t.i ..na ! , movement now- progress in .Me ,1*0, is at pi General Reyes. governor of t state of Nuevo a- a general of div> ion in the arm Up to two yea ago lie was mini ter of “’war, b fell into disfavor with President Diaz, :n was relegated to his present positi Reyes is very popular with the ai and is a man of iron courage aim tl termination. Since his removal from t cabinet, for the reason, as alleged, th hip son published in his newspaper article attacking the Diaz administrate' Reyes has chafed over conditions «\i: ing in the country, and may take ; present opportunity to try coaeiusio with Dias In an effort to wrest from hi the reins of power. It is conceded th he brought the army up to its prese __ state of efficiency, and it is known of foxes to stock its new ranch, and has j men that he entertains desires t" • rul been made superintendent of the latter, I °/ tbe re PubUc. He is in the , .me which is near his own farm. He has also i life and ruggedly healthy, constant small orders for from ten P forty pairs of foxes, at one hundred and twenty-five dollars a pair. Besides these live sales, pelts are being sold ail the while, taken from marred Or Infe rior animals. Yet all these sales make no apparent difference in the number of foxes on his little Island, so one can see how his small initial stock has mul tiplied. And the entire expenses of thi once poor man’s farm, from its beginning 'to the present time, have amounted to only twenty thousand dollars, includ ing the cost of the schooner and gasoline launch. The sales have amounted to more than double this sum, to say noth ing of the stock on hand. As noted above, th e blaack fox, while the most valuable, can scarcely be con sidered as really domesticated like the other more common breeds. Perhaps by and by, some wizard working among an imals as the Wizard Burbank works among plants, will evolve a way to reduce the wild black fox to civilization. That It can be done, there is no doubt, because more difficult things are .being done ev ery day. In fact, as we shall see pres ently, the work has already begun In the ».« , , - , “■ J evolution of the black fox from the animal o 'V 5 ? 11 ° f this nilu 6'' h, y , red. which is more amenable to kindness animal, when dressed, becomes a very at- ’ tractive blue. dered simply because she was unfit for|-vessel. We were captured yesterday such a fight, having been so seriously! morning by the United States steamer damaged by their shot that a contlnu- Wehawken. All the officers are safe. We anco of the struggle would have resulted | lost one killed (Barrett) and seven or In her utter destruction, with all on board. | eight wounded. Of the officers wounded Indeed, she was unable to fire another' there Is Wragg (master), slightly; Aus- them, and drove them through the place gun. and the surrender was a clear work tin (pilot), dangerously; Hernandez (pilot) a little^ before sundewn, in utter confu- of necessity. It is stated that ’every man j slightly; Thurston (marine officer),' lion. In this last fight we did not lose of the crew stood nobly to his post.’ This nmny men, but we captured from 1.200 is just as we expected, and shows how te> 1,500 prisoners, besides their killed cautious we should be in inferring trea- and wounded. After we had whipped son against brave southern men. We them in front and started them running, hope The News and Its correspondents ■Colonel , with his confina-nd, who had will learn a lesson from this experience, been sent aroninj on the Lexington road and otase to indulge in unjust and horri- to catch them, keeping his command in .ble suspicions ailxmt their countrymen for ambush until the retreating army came tip, attacked them and succeeded In cap turing and killing nearly the whole army, taking all their guns and .some len pieces of artillery, with all their wagons, stores, etc. It is estimated that their killed, wounded and missing will reach some 10,- j the future. ‘‘The following is the letter: ** ‘Port Royal, June I"3, 1863.—Dear Friend: Contrary to our expectations, our vessel was necessarily and unavoid ably surrendered to Captain Rogers, com manding the monitors Wehawken and slightly.’ “A letter from Master Wragg says he is slightly wounded over the left eye and in the ankle. Doing well.” LEE'S LAST LETTER TO JACKSON The letter written by General Lee to General Jackson, before the death of the latter, was as follows:. Chancellorsville. May 4, 1863.—Genera i: I have just received your note inform ing me that you were founded. I cannot Continued on Loot Pag*. Our Pillar Box. (From Punch.) Simple Headache Cure.—Take a pound of black pepper, and to this add a lit tle Hour, a raw egg and a pinch of salt. •Make into a paste, put Into a bath towel, and tie it tightly .round the neck. Leave it there till the headache goes of its own accord. Etiquette of Cards.—When leaving cards, di) not tlxrust them under the door or throw them casually down the area, but ring the bell and hand them to the servant. The cards, of course, should contain no advertising matter. Hygienic Boots.—Y’ou nave been mis informed; brown boots with separate divisions for eaclxtoe are not being worn ln London this season. He Had to Button Them. (From The Cleveland Plain-Dealer.) They took him,to the sanitarium moan ing feebly “Thirty-nine, thirty-nine,” he whispered. “What does he mean by that?” the at tendant Inquired. IPs the number of buttons on the When fox farming was first etafted. four things were considered essential to suc cess. “First, foxes that will breed, and whose skins are valuable; second, plenty of food; third, a suitable climate; fourth, an island.” The first three items still temain in force, but the fourth .has been proven to be unnecessary. Where an island can be utilized for the purpose, the expense of fencing Is saved, as the water is a sufficient barrier against escape, unless, indeed, it is water that is liable to freeze solid' and ma/ke and becomes partially tame The man who can command a good supply of the black .fox pelts will also command a fortune. The pelt of the common red fox is worth comparative ly little to the fox farmer, as It brings hardly enough to pay the expense of raising It. But in the blue fox the hap py medium is found. The male of this breed protects instead of destroys its young family, and Is easily tamed up to a certain point. Its pelt varies in price, according to quality, .from a few dollars to eighty or a hundred. It is the color to the n>ainland. But the fox farmTln I ^ 7^* thB Maine difterence. The blue fox varies in col and other Interior places have been made secure without the aid of a water fence. As we have said, the business Is a very profitable one when fairly started, and properly conducted. The amateur fox farmer, knowing this. Is apt to Indulge ir roseate dreams and wpnderful cal culations on paper. He figures that fifty pairs of foxes will each produce at least four young ones every year. In six years, at this rate, he calculates that he will have not less than seventy-two thousand nine 'hundred foxes. At the moderate price of S30 a pelt, 'he will then be worth t2,187.000. Think of the stupendousness ef »he thing! Hia hair almost stands* on end at the very thought of such a sum. A.nd all this great total from an Invest ment of only about SI5,000 in the six years. These figures, startling as they are, are correct—in theory. But theory and practice don’t always go together. The fox farmer will do well if, with a start of fifty pairs, 'he has, at the en<j of six years, seven thousand foxes. The vast difference here between theory and prac tice, is not altogether In the foxes or in the location. It lies with the owner or manager. Some men fail entirely. Some n ake Just a bare living. Others make a fortune, and a big one, too. Just as ' some people succeed and others fail in raising poultry and live stack. The man ERNARD SIIAT w hose works ha received the appr bation of the bis op of Lomi r ai whom I’rofessi Zueblin, of Chic g‘\ also has t.ik occasion recent to commend, is r. ted as a literate and play weigh He was born _ Dublin in IS5 Bernard Shaw. went to London the age of 20 and began writing for o soure socialist publications. Successive he was musical editor of The Star ar dramatic writer for The Saturday R ' iew. meanwhile composing pi ~. stt of which have achieved popularity, whi others have been forbidden represer'.- tion on the stage. Mr. Shaw is a strut socialist, an opponent of vaccination ar a consistent vegetarian. His most n< ttd dtamatic productions are “Arms ar the Man," “Candida,” “The Devil's l it Mrs * barren’s Profession : ar Man and Superman.’ He also has writ ten four novels, the principal of ;viilc is called "Cashel Byron’s Profession." M Shaw delights in swimming and excrcis.: freely on a bicycle TWO-YEAR OLD GLOBE TROTTED (From the New York Herald.) A smart red jockey cap and a swagzi scarlet top coat, with labels, are all til prevented the smallest traveler fro- fc^ing loot in the shuffle when he etr •barker Thursday on the steamship C. drie for an unescorted trip across th Atlantic. His entire experience of th! world has been crammed Into two year or from a genuine navy blue to true] an<J months; but If he Is still Maltese blue-gray. The darker the pelt. unsteady In his English he "is nc the higher the price. The original foxes of this popular breed came from the Pri- bolof or Seal Islands. WITHOUT THE ISLAND. Turning now from the island fox farms, where nature has provided an impene trable water fence, (except when frozen), let us see how it Is with this industry when the cunning animals must be con fined without the welcome aid thus af forded. We have made mention of a certain farmer up in Maine who solved this question, and proved that an island is not a necessity of fox farming. This man had hunted foxes for years, and was familiar with their nature. He knew that to be profitable they must bs healthy, and that to be healthy they must be happy and contented. This lat ter they would never be if they real ized that they were, not free to go where they listed. For foxes love their liberty as well as two-footed Americans. And so this man built a fence 16 feet 'high, of specially woven wire, to keep so on his sturdy Untie legs, ami tfc prophecy is that he will be the pet of tl ship before Miss Liberty is well out : sight. The top coat will have a label flrml attached to one of the buttons, annoum ing that 'tihe wrnrer is "Charles Clinto Gladwin, Jr., of New York, bound fc London. England, to be forwarded to Mr. E. Barr, 49 Priory road, Chadwick, hot don, England.” On its reverse side w-' be the legend: “Son of Charles Clinto Gladwin, N. Y. A. C., national and metro polltan snowshoe champion. Unite States and Canada.” The little 2-year-old was left motb: less when a babe of a few months. II father reared him with all the ca-re an gentleness a man can give to such task, but when his sister, Mrs. Barr, of fered to receive the little fellow in h» home till he was old enough to be sen back of Ms wife’s new frock.” the Inm- who makes the success is the man who ily doctor explained. Hove* animals, and studies their wjqrs foxes in amd other animals out. Rut the! to Rugby. Gladwin gladly accepted foxes could look out and see Into the far distance, and thus did not know them selves to be prisoners. Some few of them did, however, see fit to go to burrowing, and this took them out on the other side of the fence. Further escapes were quiek- OonttUMd on Last Page. A pair of round blue eyes, a shock fair hair, and very manly attitude, wit! legs stretched wide apart, distinguish Mr Gladwin, Jr. He tas already tried hi* powers on the pair of skis his father 13 boriocely made for him before he ha' learned to toddle. The boy will be tn® *t Queenstown by friends.