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1 SIXTH <PAGE THE SUNNY SOUTH. SEPTEMBER /, 1906. With Correspondents. Joseph Mannings says: “I find In my lather's library of old books a volunv* entitled ‘Memorable 'Providences Relat ing to Witchcraft and Possession by Dev ils.’ It is full of accounts of most extra- ! ordinary phenomena, concerning witches | hospitals where Rose street. New Pork city. The vol ume entitled "Poems and Stories in Verse," I brought out myself, and it is the only one of my books that I own, as I unfortunately sold the others os I wrote them. They have sold well—gone into many editions and brought money to the publishers. M. B. Boatright asks: "Is there any such thing as personal magnetism—or one mind controlling another at a dis tance. as is claimed by Professor Mc Intyre in his circulars?" There is such a thing as human magnetism—of course. Its old name was mesmerism—from Mesmer—the German who taught it in the last century. It was known to the ancients, particularly the Egyptians, Hin doos and Persians— and practiced by j their “magicians." There are now large ■ • it is used Instead of With the Household All Communications to This Department Should Be Addressed to MBS. MART E. BRYAN, Clarkstou, Ga., Inquiries and Letters Requiring Answers by Mail Must Be Accompanied by Postage. Chat With Householders. regretted. Our dear member will have (days when Rome ruled the world a coun- and persons whose minds had been seized j ether or chloroform In surgical opera upon and ruled by devils. It was written 1 .lions. As to whether one mind can by Rev. Cotton Mather—a minister—and I influence another at a distance this is published in 1706. Please tell me some- 1 universally claimed by psychologists, but thing about Cotton Mather. Was he in deed, a minister, and did happen as lie relates? tu,i.uu .uamt-i , ■ ■* _ - , , , ^ was perhaps the most remarkable man ! ly. intellectual woman that her father who ever lived in this country He was I was compelled io sell one o'f ills negro born In 1663 in Boston. Mass., of dis- j girls to some one in a. distant state be- I- Was he in l I have never seen it demonstrated. <i such f bines though I remember when I was a child Cotton Mather hearing it told of my teacher-a queen- tlnguished parentage on both sides. When he was but a lad he spoke Ha tin fluently and was familiar with Greek and Hebrew. He began to teach when he was 18, and at 21 he was ordained a minister und served his pastorate faith fully for forty-one years, visiting the sick, helping the poor, denouncing in temperance and establishing charitable methods. He was wonderfully stijet even for those ipritan days—aud was known In one year to devote sixty days to fast ing and twenty nights to ull-niglit prayer. lie had the largest library on the continent at that time. He wrote 383 books, many of them full of sound precepts; he was the best of husbands j and lie organized more Ilian twenty so cieties for public charity. This was the good side of tills remark able man's character. He had a darker Bide; In ills fanaticism lie was cruel in the extreme. I.Ike David of old, who do cause Ills daughter had the girl so completely under her mesmeric control that, no matter where she was, she would do the sometimes queer and ab surd things Wilt eh her absent mistress bad (often unwittingly) willed her to do, just .as in Hawthorne's "Houe of Sev en Gables." the carpenter. who had mesmerized high-born Alice Pycheon. would (in order to humiliate her) will her to dance, laugh, sing or pray at in congruous times—he being at his work among the people of bis class, and she in her stately home or at church or some social gathering. 1 confess I am , no believer in the absent treatment doctrine, and have but little faith in one's will controlling another at a dis tance. What does Italy Hcmperly think? George B. Joyner nsk-: “What Is the number of men in the standing army of the United States? What caused the plored that his blood-stained hands were duel between Burr and Hamilton? The not worthy to lay the cornerstone of! total enlisted strength of the i T nited God's temple—the stain of blood— inno- ( states army in active service, staff and cent iblood—was upon Cotton Mother. He I line, was, two years ago. 59,866. This is remembered today as the relentless ! joes not include the provisional force persecutor of tTrr> 'STUhalied witches of! an( j tHe hospital corps. By an act of Salem—th e moving spirit through whose congress In 1901, the strength of the sermons and passIijfTThte denouncings standing army must not exceed 100,000. nineteen persons—some of them feeble old 3 lirr killed Hamilton in a duel brought women and very young girls—were in one year (1691) burnt as witches in the town of Salem. Mass. This strange delusion about witchcraft had come over from the mother country, England, where, in Lancashire, Essex and Suffolk counties, hundreds of wom en. girls and even children had been put to death hrough Its being believed that they wo. • in league with the. devil. Cot ton Mr.: i. : seemed lost to all justice or pity whil ' this delusion was upon him. Is it n‘>- ; plausible to suppose that he, who toeli red so strongly in obsession—or demon-control—was himself for the time possessed by a devil, else lie could not have done such violence to his nature, which was kind and merciful. After it was all over he was very remorseful for what he had done and he wrote a book acknowledging that he had "gone too far.” There is something- singular ahd unexplainable about the witchcraft phe nomena of that day. Strange things cer tainly liwppened and could not be ac counted f i-. There are side doors In hu man nature to which philosophy has not found the key. Miss Sallie J. Neel asks to be told In correspondents’ column about the books 3 have published—where she may find them. She can .get all tlie novels I have had published, with one exception, from George Munro, of Vandewater street. New York, who bought tint plates and copyright from the Appleton Bros., pub lishers. and issued the hooks in cheap form. There are eleven of them, in cluding a book of poems for recitation. The novel she particularly asks about she can obtain from Street & Smith on by Hamilton's having bitterly op posed’ his election as governor of New York. Burr was defeated, mainly from tills cause, and a bitter correspondence ensued, ending in Burr challenging Ham ilton to light a duel at Weehawkcn. N. J. In this duel Hamilton was mortally wounded. ®* ®* OU have sent us more than three times as much mat ter as will fill your de partment.” This is the message re ceived from the potentate of The Sunny printing room, and it is disappoint ing, as there will be things left over that you will want to see in print. However, this is oftc: the case. So many more ex cellent letters come than I can possibly publish promptly. I must give some variety, and I must publish the letters bearing on the different ques tions that are being talked about, or these will lose their zest. Sketches and literary articles must be in to give va riety, as there are readers who are not interested in the discussions. Other readers find them absorbingly Interesting. Sybil Selkirk, of California, author of that much talked about book, "The Stigma," writes that the socialist ques tion is being handled in the Household more clearly and forcibly than in any magazine articles on that subject which she has read. Two or three of our good members are exercised about the articles on evolution, thinking they are Inimical to the Bible. One dear woman says; "John Mason, you wield a gifted pen—too gifted to lend itself to the old boy.” John will smile i over tills. There is no one among us who believes more devoutly and rever ently in God and in the teachings of Christ than Mr. Mason. He believes, too, in the Bible account of the creation, ana he does not think it conflicts witli evolu tion. In tills, lie is right along with a number of the educated ministers of to day. The question has been, and is still actively before all the churches whether what Is called the "Higher Interpreta tion" of the Bible shall not be taught the sincere sympathy of the Household. He well knows where *o find comfort in This sad bereavement. Effie. will you favor me again with your address, and receive in return a (beautiful post card from an admirer, showing the tree wider which poet Lanier stood when he was inspired to write his .beautiful poem, "The Marshes of Glynn,” which stretched (before him in all their .graceful, (bending sheeny 'beauty. M. E. B. try location was considered the mode, und no doubt the advertising signs were as alluring as in this enlightened day. Whether It wa f with the "swaying thumbs," the multitudes in the tiers of and we get enthusiastic about Georgia girls—and Georgia peaches. And both are "peaches.” Ref. re closing, I wish to tell the House holders that I had the pleasure of visit ing our Meb this trip—and to say I am delighted and fascinated does not ex press it. She is beloved by all who know her. While in Clarkston I met never a soul hut what had some good word to say for the pure heart and soul of her. She is a queen—worthy to rule on any throne. She is fcusy most of the time, I think, with her orchards and flowers and her books. Not many of the Householders know that our little mother Is the author of ten very popular novels, and which she sold in her younger days. Recently she has had a very flattering us fuel, or the metals and minerals that go to enrich the world and supply its needs. By a more equal division of work and of the means of living socialism pur poses to elevate the condition of these toilers, who now enjoy few of the great blessings that fall to the lot of those more fortunately placed. It would do away with the evil of having so many millions in the hands of a few men, of grasping natures, who pile up their gold— and, in order to win praise and paoi.fy the sense of wrong in the less fortunate, give libraries and endow colleges, trying b ythis "sop to OTerus" to keep the way clear for heaping up more money. Socialism extends its privileges to wo men in every way, making her man's sue nas uau a i.eo . : , in politics and in the courts of law offer from a northern publisher to edit a ^ giving her the same social independl stay with The Sunny-for she has made ,,at j. _ under its protection, and provides that it what it Is. The paper is richly blessed in having such a grand and noble woman at its helm. God bless her and her loved ones. I also had the pleasure of meeting and the coliseum, or the lifted hand at a I conversing with A GOOD WORD FOR THE JAY- NURSING A “WHITE ELEPHANT.” DOar .Mother M. E. B. and the House hold: Florida birds do sing in summer; that is, some of them do. and it is the sweetest music they make, notwithstand ing the impression on the public mind that they are silent. It is the mockingbird I refer to, not the jays, for they are silent Just now. Just opposite the workroom door of our studio is a large tree, known as a tur key oak, with spreading limbs .hanging to 1 ho ground, and surrounded toy rosea, shrubbery and grass, just as nearly us nature put them as possible. Free concerts are given every after noon, in nice weather, and I must add tliat tile star s of Hie season Is a young mockingbird of tills year's torood. 1 have ■been a close observer of birds for many years and of mockingbirds in particular, since we make them pets around our doors, and I regret to say that while the mockingbird is remarkable, yes, wonder ful, as a mimic, I do not consider it the line singer that it has a worldwide repu tation for being. The adult bird has a harsh, noisy song ttiat to me is hardly a song—just noise. I could name fifty- birds with sweeter song. \\ hat I started to say is that the young birds, just learning to fly good, are far be-1er musicians than at any other age. Their song is a low, sweet, musical war ble, entirely unlike that of the old birds, an.l as they usually seclude themselves while singing, they are easily mistaken for some other bird. The old birds are molting during July and August, and are pretty (?) looking things. About all they do Is to quarrel and look at themselves as if mourning the loss of their beautiful from the pulpit. Nearly all the ministers! n-,',t„ . .. , .., „ believe in the slow growth or evolution 1 ...” h!le tK,k,ns about birds, did any of of the earth through countless ages—as MRS. LESLIE AT HOME. Have you 'been to see Mrs. Leslie? J.f you have not, go by all moans. Do you ask why? I will describe her cosy abode and you will think as I do that she is a wonderful woman.” She rents one room In a big decayed old mansion—a dreary relic of ante bellum splendor, situated in a retired corner of 'he town. It is the L-room j germ fronting the southeast. She has had an artistic portico added at her own expense. Here you find (beautiful vines and pot plants in luxuriant, profusion. She in vites you into her room. It strikes you as "the prettiest little parlor you ever did espy.” A fine carpet is on the floor. The windows are richly and gracefully draipted. An upright piano is open, wan new music on the rack. An easel with unfinished oil painting shows one of her many ways of occupying her well spent time. The furniture is simple, but beau tiful shown in geology, which Is taught In all colleges and high schools, but when it conies to the evolution of animals, and of man particularly, belief is not so i 1" easy. I confess I am not at all ready to accept Darwin's theory of the origin of species and the evolution of man. The evolutionists all agree with Moses tnat man was made of dust, only they believe that God followed 111* own great law of growth in the making, and that the bit of protoplasm in which He had put a of life grew into a man, as the acorn grows into an oak. i’rofessor Spence, who is profoundly religious, says: "The giant oak grew from a tiny acorn, yet we say God made the oak. He didn't hid It spring full grown into ex istence. He had it to follow His own first law of life—growth. The individual man —developed when unborn from a tiny germ into a babe, and then Into a man, but we say God made the man. So, though generic man reached his high estate only through ages of evolution through the lower animals, yet it is equally true that God made generic man —and made him out of dust—Just as TO READERS OF THE LADIES' HOME JOURNAL: Did you read the article published by Thc Indies' Home Journal in May, 1904 * Attacking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip- * tion? Have you seen tin' statement more recently made by Mr. Bok, the Editor of that ' not r any truth. The facts are these; Four days after the article in May, 1904, appeared, Dr. Pierce’s companv •ued The Ladies’ Home Journal pub lishers for libel. The trial was had fn April last. Dr. Pierce proved that the In design—a wall (book case and writ-i and made him out ot dust Just as desk, I handsome cabinet mantel. J* 0 ? 8 theTnd !^ ?*?? some good etchings and pictures and for- ” ' J, * ® d ” tel " Y i i,„* ^| nil! an.l l ol tne men or nls clay—ana now, eign curios, , wi,b luxuriant ^^ palms and j man , whose mlrnl has been evoluting ferns complete fhe fur g through the centuries, needs and finds STk-TXJuSlw’SSr day's work. The morning passes, and you rise to leave. "Wait,” she says, "and let's have hidden In the sublime interpretation simpler story of Moses.’ , , ,, , . . , , One of our correspondents asks where luncheon. 1° u liad noticed no doors s ] le , nay g C t the Looks written toy House- bevause the walls were so artistically holders. Nearly all of these have been papered that nothing so common could he brought out by The Neal Publishing seen. However, she mysteriously applies Company, Fifth avenue. New York du ller lingers to a (lower on the wall paper] Margaret Richard, of Newberry S C on one side of the fire place and a door has copies of her books to sell’- so i opcr.s. You are so surprised you rise think has Miss TcUus, of Athens’ Ala to follow her. Hi is a large closet, ln; au thor of "Mcda's Heritage" and’ Mrs’ you ever hear a blue jay sing? Well, I had never known thing but noisy, quarrelsome 'I came to Florida. But never had a concert hall to let before _ didn’t know all die stage singers. iake the young mockingbirds, their music is a low, sweet twittering warble, entire ly unexpected of a Jaybird. But two of the "Ibirrls” our dear Mater was lamenting as silent have a cause other than molting. The "missus" and myself are busy nursing a white elephant in the form of a fair exhibit, represent ing the products of this, a very largo, county, in addition to our other ever in creasing work. Things are literally coming our way, though, and if we keep our health we will have an exhibit worth seeing. If we are successful at the gulf coast -fair our aim is 'o attend the state fair at Tampa. I wish I could talk to each one of the Household Individually and especially to the* dear shut-ins. How much pleasure It would give us to hand each of you a bouquet of our pretty flowers. But as we can't do that we will do the next .best thing: send I; to Mother Meb and she can show It to you, or If It cannot he reproduced, tell you about it In her chat. modern action, 'twns the same old tale, a little excitement for change so it would behoove us to stand aside and say to the sli'i ping world with the Irish auctionecr- “Led er go.” DON CAW JR. IN TAMPA—THE BIG CIGAR FAC TORIES, ETC A party from our section In Alabama made a short, but interesting, trip to Florida with t'he city of .Tampa as our goal. Passing through a portion of south Georgia, we saw nothing distinctive but several large turpentine farms and dis tilleries, but as soon as we entered 1 Flor ida, the unique feature of long gray moss hanging In graceful .festoons from the limbs of i:he trees, cauglit my attention. There were many ponds, snowed over with pure White water lilies. The truck farms .were pleasant to see—so flourishing ■were the sweet potatoes, water rnplons, cantaloupes and tomatoes. There were also fine crops of tobacco and o'f rice. We saw several .beautiful francre groves, the fruit now green anil aboui: the size of a large egg. We passed several phos phate mines, which were being worked. At last we arrived at Tampa, our place of destination, and hurried, out to secure rooms and get. a (bath and a little rest. Tampa is a pretty town of about 12.000 population, situated about three miles from Port Tampa, whore the large ves sels land. Many of the inhabitants are* Spanish, and some of the largest cigar factories in the United States are here, and have mostly Spanish men ami women at work In them. In one of the largest which wo visited there is a public reader, •who sits on a raised platform In the middle of the house, and who reads all tlie forenoon in a loud voice in Spanish for the benefit of the employees. The easure of meeting and ' , views. Th mother of toe prized , — . hand—Italy Hemperly. wiI1 be members of our band 'She. too. is a jewel. She seems to me such a quaint and beautiful little creat ure. I believe she Is supremely happy with her bird friends and her own soul communion. I m net going to tell you of another Householder whom I met in a certain business establishment in Atlanta. I w-onder if Mother Bryan can tell? Sh" had better not tell, however, for T w-.int to tell all about it some other day—some glad, grand dav when the dark shadows have all turned to sunshine. I pray that each of Tim Sunny readers may understand me—and love me—even as I do them—and my soul shall be nappy. To nil. sroodby. KNIGHT OF THE WTRE. — r (Benjamin Massev Lee.) Well ton, Ariz. SOME WONDERS OF THE ROCKIES wnn S mir ar o T rPnflw mv 01d ncqnaintanee V TTlP Snnnv South, an., , n 1ov the letters nnd observe Mane of (be Hmiso- 1 old very much. Rurnth- T snout son,- weeks in the Rockies ,-f Nefhnrt. once , . Io. rishing-mining town, but now in nit ration and Targelv deserted. I lontfPr} for "the r^n of a readv writer ' while there, to erivn some idea of the grand scenery. Mountain on moun tain standing out and hacked bv others mounting high above, eowre.l in ma-iv Plaees with nine and fir from base to summit, where "Yhe shadows failing on their hreast Were neither troubled nor at rest Tn bright unnertnfntv they lie. 'Ike future Jovs in fancy’s eye '* Or risin.g hare and broken sour rock 1' summits spring and rent Formed turret, dome and battlement.” wages paid to cigar makers alone every. Tt . 'Saturday night amounts to SI25.000. A| n ,' ny unspeakable to me In the boat ride across Tampa bay and up the i vi_ ' = r,T? rnfn£r , ^'Mch the sun casting Manatee river proved verv Interesting I h " frir e an! peeping down to (those of us that had never been On the " recesses and smiling over a boat before. On the return trip we f,,n in —r nT."? 3 ' An ‘ 1 my 1ov wn<: stopped In Jacksonville and at Wnveross "LI 1 ! ,ook " r> hills from >se of ns that had never been on tho secrets ? t before. On the return trip we full in “T „ ei i d In Jacksonville and at Way cross, | Inok f . 'lie lnttep a live and flourishing city. T will come again if wel- the'm as anv- *, e11 "" the bay le birds until albout thc b.qrloh farm in Jnokson- then. I have ' e ‘ EXCURSIONIST. Ga..—Khe little eiti THE MYSTERIOUS SALTON SEA, DESERT MIRAGES, EL PASO. Dear Hearts of the Household: With the kind indulgence of all, 1 null, as re quested, tell briefly about mv trip across the continent—both ways. I will pass over commonplace details and speak only ot such tilings as may be new and inter esting to you. One of tiiese is the very wonderful. Salton sea. Until a very few months ago tills sea was only a great barren waste of sand, cactus, grease- wood, among which roamed at will thou sands of wiry coyotes, wild cat§7 rattle snakes, etc. One day a small pool of water was noticed in the lowest part of the valley. That pool of water has grown steadily day by day until now it Is a veritable seething and hoillng sea of salt water. Some think this sea is caused by the Colorado river breaking, through a great gorge and pouring its | waters in the Salton basin, while other men, perhaps more scientific, declare it to be the water from some great under ground body—and cite in substantiation ments. tea is made. From a drawer be-, matic reader, poet and writer for the low the shelves she takes table cloth'and Household, is winning fresh laurels by dishes. Folded neatly on the tloor to hi s versatile good gifts as he flies across one side is her crumib cloth. This she tile continent At the Kansas Chautauqua takes into her ,.arlor and spreads on the he made a success of Shakespearean roles _ floor. Her round table in the center of but altered these with lighter matter attack made by The Ladies' Home Jour- j the room . she divests of its covering and There is room on the stage just now nal was false. He pr- ved that Dr. I books, and spreads on It a dainty white a clever woman dramatic reader. It is I Ibodv charge us with Fierce's Favorite Prescription does not, ,,non cl'flln On a shelf in the close.: are j said that the twin sisters of Governor I box! I had intended adding my weight to the! 0 . : thelr claims that ali country and evolution argument, but I fear I could . must of Arizona was once the bed not add much to what h.v> already been I o1 , . tlle ocoai1 * "'ho can tell? said. ' l p to the present writing, the Southern If I am allowed to come again I mat Paclflc railroad, one of the richest'cor- tell you ot' some of 'the things that j | porations in tile union, has spent nearly have learned in a lifetime study of na-i a mlllion <lollars in an attempt to protect It re and her ways ‘ | its roadbed from the ravages from this The promised taik on the pitcher plants I evei '- inc reasing mysterious body o*f or sarrasenlos will require more invest!-' water ' ^" lce i,ave Umy been forced to gation perhaps than I can spare time fori ll,ovo Uu ') r traeks-and still the water before the fair rises at the rate ot six or seven Inches Some time ago a shut-in if 1 remember! dail - v - Q uite a wonder to see this power, rightly, was wanting a phonograph. Wo! f u V raiI rcad hurrying and scurrying about have one. a second-hand Columbia graph- j 1 bctore this sdent fie in an attempt to oplione. that is in good condition all ex cept the head or sound box and winding key. We will gladly donate the machine if some one else will furnish the new head, a key anil the records. The hea 1 costs $5 and key 2b cents. Have we ah given up the election? I was to hand in a report of the votes cast for and against. | Well, here it Is: For an election, 0000-0-0* roles against. 5, counting our own which we T'i * . 7 . , tier managed to slip in while the other voters mou «»taln8 you may stand waist deep r for| were gone to dinner. Now. don't anv! sn ?*\ wh f lle lllr bcl °''-' « the beauti It is body charge us with stuffing the ballot °'° m 7. U *‘r.'.L . ‘ C 7‘ 1 ml never did contain either alcohol or ,icr (beautiful hand painted china dishes, j Bob Taylor, Mrs. Jobe and Mrs. John Any of the injurious drugs which The ! These she arranges on the table. You; son » will again lecture together this com- Lttdies' Home Journal falsely stated it j sit down and enjoy a refreshing repast. kl S season, did contain. This was so conclusively of tea with accompaniments brought in response to a telephone message Dear Mater, we are not guilty, as charged. Our hammock has not been out .this summer and we don't like v f ... „ guavas. Besides they would not grow Miss Eula McKinnon writes that a com- here In west Florida But I'll tell von The afternoon is spent in reading nnd,T etent teacher of English branches is' we have a green carpet all over o,n* large shown that the attorneys for The Ladies' Home Journal were forced to admit it. * ^ uuiiu| _ __ « w*. liav The Jury rendered a verdict against The visiting places of note and In taking deli- very much needed for the ensuing term ! vnrd that 'TnU "*rif r Ladies Home Journal In favor of Dr. | cades, papers and books to some neigh- * a 110,1 borne town—Muscogee; salary, S40. , would rather burv mv face in th. p.tin.Hut nm 1 Do yon know where Muscoaroe is. frionric** • i_ n. . . c _* - Pierces company for $16,000. This was ; Ibors, who have refined tastes, hut a complete vindication of Doctor Pierce and his “Favorite Prescription.” It judicially established that the published statement was wholly false, and without any Justification. Dr. Pierce, however, believed that his company is justly entitled to a verdict for a much larger sum. Through his at torneys he has, therefore, applied to the court for a new trial of the case. For this reason, and for tills reason alone, lias The Ladies' Home Journal not yet paid "a single penny to Dr. R. V. Pierce's concern." Dr. Pierce has simply chosen not to collect the judgment until the mo tion for a new trial lias been decided. In the light of these facts does not this boastful statement that it "has not paid' single penny to Dr. R. V. Pierce's con cern" look like a cheap and common bluff, a half truth Intended to mislead you? During the trial of the libel suit against the ahovo mentioned publishers, Dr. Lee 1J. Smith, Vice President of the World's Dispensary Medical Association, stated under oath that the ingredients of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription were are' t> ° know where Muscogee is, friends'' 1 than lie in ® , s is I think it is In Georgia. My co'rre^ndl | Th love From the "miesus™ ‘ are did not give the state. So many from the missus ■poor. Returning a delicious supper served from the closet; tea-things i - — „ (washed in the sink. The dainty hostess n ®S*© c t this all-important item. Two of does not soli the lace in her pretty t“ e many letters I received asking for sleeves. Hot water is poured over the tke ad dress of "Old Woman,” gave the dishes and using a dish cloth wrapped town * not the state. By the way. about a fork the dishes are soon washed. dea * r d woman," you will need to tell The water Is drawn off, then hot water our family where they can get that Easy is turned on and off and the dishes are 7°° kln& st fJY e and lts P rice * I’d like to 'dried by the steam. i know myself* “X always take my bath before retir-| „ .. “ „ . lug," she savs. l. be George Jabery Music! A bath - ' Where in the world [Company, of Cincinnati, I 15 West Seventh i _ - — - • •-- -> She removes her ange rug from before ? treet ‘ ofrers to Publish songs with music I th , e 'T 10 , faCf ; of «• and a wil » the flre nlace raises T tra.n doo7 There for * 25 for a 8ma » edition. A song's ?' ,th a wis P a r altogether too willow 17 T P '.J * a .j£ ap jL°? r :..„_ er £ ! success i s a very problematical matter for . a sound mind and a scant onstl- GRANDPA. SUBURBAN EDENS. “Oh! for the comforts and salubrity of a suburban villa.” sigh the newly weds. The prospectus sotting forth' the de lights of suburban villas and country lots Is a very live issue, particularly in the good old summer time. What' a pros- P ect d °es said prospectus unfold. It | Company, of Cincinnati, 0 715 West Seventh i frr ? ets 5’™' ' vvit ! 1 confidence, with lots of I ,*, a— .1. 11 • _ ■ . . , rPfl Yin t IlO fltO foor, A f It n n II in the floor, is a sink. She turns in , . » . A few songs “catch on" and manv fa li I tu,ion * ot course the prospectus dilates water and enjojs a delightful bach. dead. fWinniiit,, . : on the air and on vonr good fortune if wholly extracted from the following na- ' clothes and bed necessaries. there is your bed. BuT where are the ure _,hat Is a sure consideration. They pillows and covering? On the "her side must havo an equal number of syllables of it lie fire place she applies her fingers | ln th em with the accent all right or they to a key, heretofore unseen, and another I cannot be sung. ' door opens. There she keeps her own j tive roots: Golden Seal, Blue Cohosh, Lady’s Slipper, Black Cohosh and Uni corn by means of pure glycerine of proper strength. He was asked how he knew, as a physician and experienced medical man, that the "Favorite Prescrip tion” vfas a cure for t humiTseases peculiar to women, such as Temale weakness," weakening pelvic catarrhal drains, pro lapsus, retroversion, irregular and pain ful periods, anil oth^r diseases of the womanly organs, and he sfnted that he knew such was the fact becauses of his professional experience and the many I thousands of women whose ills, to Ills | personal knowledge had been cured by j this "Prescription." W. M. D., of Arcadia, La., your article She supports herself and entertains a j s quite clever, but its sarcasm Is not rgeat deal of company. How does she do sufficiently plain to be apparent to many it? When she has engagements to All: readers. You have no idea how few peo’- nnd Is very busy, she lias hours and, ple see through the Ironv In a piece of hangs her sign on her street specifying, sarcasm s]ip of the Household wrote when she will toe at home to her friends on ironical defense of Reddv in the Con or when she can fill engagements. | troversy about the comparative superior the sickly corner, which, by the way, ^as sadly wasted since the opening cere mony, but of this there is blissful ig norance. Yes, now is the time to buy before there Is a run on tho bank, and lay up for a new lawsuit to be thrown on the hands of the court at the next session. Men have believed In signs in all ages, likewise fools have paid them tribute, but the greatest dolt is the individual caught, by a rural sign. Grouching before a mud puddle with arms extended, a wooden While she 1s busy her door Is locked; | i ty of man and women. The ironv seemed 1 ba, 'T icad< ; Proclaims this legend: her friends understand and are not of- j ,, 0 me to be exceedingly plain, but a nura- Cvo1 breezes blow hore ln s feuded. ,! lber of Intelligent readers failed to per- Jw ymt w,sh 7\ to 1lCr? oelve It and reproached Slip for toeing on \\ ell T have never^etHmf myself^ the wrong side. Write again, W. M D. AN ANSWER TO REDDY’S QUERRY. I wish ,ro suggest an answer to Cousin This experience of Dr. Smith was cor- > Reddy’s query in thc current number of rohorated by the standard Medical Au thorities, of the several schools of prac tice. endorsing the various ingredients In the strongest termo Dr. Smith bei asked to name some of these autherlt as to the curprive value of fhe abov roots read from the standard works such The Medl terta wood. Chicago; "New Remedies." by Professor Edwin M. Hale, M. D., of Ghicago; Text Book of Therapeutics, by Dr. Hobart A Sunny South ns to the possibility of the socialistic theories ever being realized, j ®nd Saint. Mr. Pleas speaks up cheerily Cvol breezes blow here in summer." Alas! how idle it would be to expect any but a philosopher to suggest that these breezes were bottled, sealed and kept on Ice till December I. It is well that “music hath charms,” o.inviro.- li land Is fittingly ushered in at the open- I irtpr °T e ' .* 1>>uislana ! ing of a subdivision, but for net pro- *_a ^ n f. come intoi c eeds and a rai^id clean up, free cars* and , ' . ' a Rodiley is frequently asked j a little spread, will blaze a new trail about, also Harry Dean, Exile. Senexjand skin a fat i*oueh keep out qf the way. The little city of j Salton, Cal., has long since been inun dated. Here were located the large j Salton salt works. Salton was 250 feet below sea level. So, what of the works | of man when in the hands of the great I unknown? “All is vanity, saith the j preacher.” Ohl the unspeakable sublimities of the Sierras! On the top of some of these in beautiful g the ballot | powers ure budding and blossoming j eternally: And the sunlight is filtering 1 through the greai red wood forests, while j tne birds smg all the day. on, me—^Cali fornia the Golden? Yes. What I have j written is true. Come and see for your self. After a few hours spent with friends— and the dearest little girl und her violin, 1 once more turned my eyes to the sunny south. And thank God for her hills, her true-hearted people and her showers; 1 have always claimed that the three best things in the world are pretty girls, music and love—and in all of these the South abounds. The journey across the country is easy and restful nowadays, as compared to what our fore fathers had to undergo before they could behold the blue waters of the proud Paeilie. In no place along thc line Is K more interesting than in Arizona. You know that Arizona—even more than Egypt— la the "luiil af sunshine." Of more than ordinary interest to trav elers are the mirages one is almost sure to see while crossing the Arizona desert. They are wonderfully fascinating and realistic—so much so that one finds it difficult to believe they are something as evanescent and unsubstantial as a dream. Almost all of them are different, but the most common Is that of a vast lake dotted with green Islands, from whence rise in majestic splendor ro mantic-looking castles. Sometimes they are in view for several hours, and again for only a few minutes. Strangers traveling In Arizona often wonder at the beautiful lakes of the desert—and never know the difference unless Inquiries are made. Then, when across the arid wastes of New Mexico, we coma into the high city of El Paso. It is a very thrifty and thriving city of more than 20,000 in habitants, ami is a great resort for summer tourists on account of the ex ceedingly dry climate. Also because cf tlie fact that it is within a stone’s throw ef the quaint old Mexico. Just across thc river is the Mexican town of Jaurez. Tlie change Is hcwildering. From the wide-awake American town of electric lights, telephones and automobiles, you i arc in thc very midst of old Mexico. It whence comcth mv hOn,” etc , fnw ; n reached bv a branch of no Ormt Northern nil road. Jt n ™!! n r ,S 'v from h-efnnin* (nt Great Falls) to Its end. Neihart. .and winds through a narrow valley, which at Neihart Is not more than one hun- „ f d yards wide. Often it is so narrow one could touch the walls from the car windows. These walls were smooth and compact .as skilled masrmrv, and toavere 1 ove r a hundred feet .above thc railroad h‘d. A stream from the heart of the mountains, cold and clear as a crvst.al washer) down the valley f or . perhaps' 45 miles, the home of the trout, and the nectar of the Inhabitants of the wild. The flowers of the mountain nre more Tvniitlful than any T f>ver saw. Oh! thnt T could give you some Idea, of this bean tv and vanity. But enough. One of your eontributors gave a verv interesting- article on platonic affection In a rfeent paper. An exrerlencc in verse that you may not find unfit fo r vour de partment. T enclose with this. T w.a.s once a wee-hit contributor to The Runny South (from Virginia), hut from disease my hand has lost Its cunning .if ever I possessed it. T would like to preserve my mountain experience tf you find it worthy of a place, hut T shall not. he disappointed should the waste basket prove its place Very truly yours, MRS. M. STRINGFELLOW. Havre, Mont. WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT IT IN THIS WOODS. Dear Householders: I have wished so long to be a real live "broken-in” House holder. Sometimes 1 get mad and say that I'll writp S. T. P., or some one. just what I think of them, and then comes along Tooka, Annie Valentine, or Dr. IT. Botts. Poor Botts! Never mind, doc tor. you'll know* whom to marry next time. Leastwise that's what Sally says. S. I. p. got me wrought up some over t.he “backwoods” question, but then since I've scon her fine picture I'll forgive licr, tout T want to know* where are her "speck " under its protection, and provides that they be cared for as to their mental and* physical well-being. Some of ita proposed methods tend to extremes, but t is without doubt the party of progress extreme angles time. New York may yet get in a strong socialist as gov ernor who will crush out the child labor evil ln that “empire state." where so many hundred of pale maehinelike little children toil ten, twelve and even four teen hours in those horrible so-ended sweat shops, their labor going to swell the immense fortunes of rich proprietors. About kissing; I don't approve of it one bit. It could not be expected thnt any man would trust a girl who allowed him to kiss her. He would naturally think she might extend tlie same priv ilege to another man. For my part I'll reserve my kisses for my king—after he has "set his seal" upon me. I dm't think he'll love me less for having had to wait. Camilla, of St. Louis, where art tho;’’ T have made two postal calls at your door without any response. Perhaps you are away from the din and whir: of the city in some m* untain resort. If you arc. then drink In a good breath of its ozc ... and its beauty for me. Last week the spirit of fun took posses, sion of me. I was out in the country, where I came up with two northern rdrls —visitors, this being their first sight of Dixie. The cotton fields ns yet showed no sign of the distinguishing flee-y sta; to ga ve the blossoms, which they said re sembled okra blooms of their gardens, so I let them believe the big cotton holds were okra, and the tobacco fields were hoots. Presently 1 found one of tl - pulling up the plant to look for fhe beet When the>- go home they will teil that southern country folks raise okra a: ! beets galore. A letter from Durward save he is o t in the golden southwest, on his way to my fair native Creole City. He s ' 1 have waited until after dog days, a ml not have paid his visit in the late sum mer, when the sun is most ardent ar. ] Yellow Jack and the mosquito are ar ,* be In evidence. M1ZPAT1. GIVE ME STRENGTH. Father, amid all life’s C'JnfUots, Though the strife seems hard and long I will struggle bravely, gladly. If Thou'lt help me to be strong. I ask noc that wealth, position. Honor or renown Thou'lt give; Rich indeea la mv condition If Tnou’lt give me strength to live. When life's troubled scene Is closing On Thy mercy I’ll rely: Let Thy tender arms about me, Father, give me strength to die. LITTLE TEACHER. GIRLS-DON’T. I have never wrl-tten to the Household before, but I always enjoy each number to the fullest extent. Mr. Talt, you a" 1 your "worser half" are "kindred soub. ' even though you are not partial to "meowing quadrupeds.” Pierre La Beau, we all enjoy your spicy letters. Tessa Roddey, I always look for something from you. The lady who gave her expe rience of platonic friendship expressed mv views to a great extent. I think a gen erous amount of common sense should ' e used. The lady In question loved h r husband anti this love proved a safe guard for her, but in some Instances this essential is lacking. Always ther-* p: ouM. toe a harrier of reserve and no familiari ties allowed. Even then it Is safer to confine platonic friendship to the unmar ried, for Madam Grundy cares no*, for the ioot-to, "Evil to him who evil thinks Lomacita wrote charmingly about kiss ing, nevertheless, I say, girls, don't. Do not allow your fiance, your first cousin or any other member of the masculine gender to kiss you, unless It be your father or brother. "There's many a slip—-” you kne ••; the safest way is best. You will never regret it. and in his heart your sweetheart will respect and love you better for so doing. If admitted will come again. SYBIL. Mississippi. The Texas Wonder. Cures all Kidney. Bladder and Rheumatic . troubles; sold by all druggists, or two Of course, I kmw all along j months' treatment toy mall for SI.CO. Dr had thing—beside which thc they came west to .-est their beliefs. It l say you. Magnolia and Fannie McDonald, hammock In the same length of time. The is quite natural that the desire for reform! who have heard the mockingbird here! trees are gratis, and the inspired pro- H S-r » p«»f. in Untv. of Penn’a: Laurence' sllould spring ilp where reform Is most end also moter says with assumed frankness: lmt*w>' Prof in University of needed. I "They are good barkers, therefore draw NTwYbVkT‘Praf. Joh.'. King. Author of! Another of your correspondents, Mr. j Down where -the graceful palm tree ing cards. *\V'oman ard Her Diseases;" Professor] Howell, betrays needless alarm 1^ under I towers. Subdivisions have their historical side. W - | socialism the idle will enjoy life at the And ,ihe bright orange through the leafy! stretching away back into those days | expense of the industrious, while, a*ja j ^ gloom | when Rome kept tally for th.e world. John M. Scudder, M. D., Author of , -treatise on "The Diseases of Women; , , , , . .. ,, ... > - ... _ ' — - £• Author of matter of fact, under socialism the idle j Glows like a star. turesonely clad, especially in thc matter of hats, knowing nor earing nothing of you. There are wonderful tymes of feminine beauty, qunlnt-faced little chil dren and men and women sitting solemn ly astride donkeys. Thc old cathedral, said to have luen built in part by the Indian Neophytes, three hundred nnd sixty years ago. Is one of the show places as well as a continual place of •prayer. The bull ring is next in popu larity. and real bull figlits arc pulled off quite often. To cross Texas Is almost like crossing Horatio C. Wood. luiaiiu g. • • vuu, i i Therapeutics;" Roberts Bartholow, A. will starve. M., M. D., Professor of Materia Medica, ] Jefferson Medical College of Phila. All these recognized and standard au- j thorltles praise, in the strongest possible terms, each and every ingredient which i enters into tlie "Favorite Prescription” j of Dr. Pierce for the cure of woman's j peculiar weaknesses and ailments. *** j In order to learn just what the theories; they object to are. the opponents of so- ' cialism would do well to read some such intelligent exposition of the subject as “The Fahlan Essays on Socialism” (Hum boldt Publishing Company). JACQUES EDMOND. New York. Nero, so ‘tis told, was born * at Antium | the Atlant'c—over a thousand miles 1 Heights about five minutes fast going, across the sUto. Aud Texas Is the ban- I have given space to our shut-ins this, with a two-minute trolley schedule (11 i per state of the United States. The best ■week, but there arc others—setni-!nva*lds the ancient ads were synonymous with [ laws, the best school svstem—and It is —whom I wish should know that they are the present) from the Eternal City, it was I famous 'for its One public buildings. No remembered ancVloved, though I thought! here he established familiar intercourse I matter how small or insiq-nificeut t'*c they might object to being called shut- with mosquitos and gnats, which empha- county seat ln Texas, the town w!l! be Ins. I learn through Mizpah that our'sized his character to such an extent that able to boast of a beautiful public build- Bachelor Parson’s father Is dead. He he bled the populace the remainder of his Ing of some kind. But when we draw was a good man, and his death Is deeply' days- Bo It Is likely that during the 1 near to old Georgia, our heart warms, that she was a woman, and “tcached" a backwood's school. M c hackwoof) folks arc not taking any stock in sooiilism. Wc are mightv well pleased with our lot—nothing to bother about. When wc want a little money wc work and got It. and don’t have any worry that thc poor unfortunate capital ist. has. Ho don't sloop night for fear bo'll lose what he's got or for cudgeling his brain to think how he is going io get more; whereas we lay down and sleep tho sloop of the just, and don t give a d—dime about either. Tho only time wc think different is when wo would like to see a millionaire drop into the ditch beside us and shovel dirt at $1 per day. When we see the city people ride by in their fine "turnouts”—we do not envy them, because we know that if their debts were paid they would he in the "poor house." or maybe if Justice was done they would he In the chaingang, and finally wind up where it doesn't snow. Now. this evolution talk is to us what E. W. Hall. 2930 Olive st., St. Louis, Mo. ON AN ARIZONA RANCH. Tho dear Sunny. ' especially the Household. has helped mo to spend many hours pleasantly that would otherwise have been very lonely. My home is in the mountains of Arizona. We have no neighbors and our nearest ipostoffice Is fourteen miles distant Our family consists of my father, mother, two brothers and myself. My brothers are -cow men and are away from home the greater part of the time. I am often lonely and long for some congenial com panion. The early part of my life was spent on a ranch, but the past few years I have lived in town, and the ranch life seems doubly lonesome now. If Mother Meb will permit, I will send you a photo of my home, one also of my self. Mother Meb, if you will tell me where I can obtain some of the hooks written by our household members ! would send for them ,as I spend a great rpart of my spare time reading I greatly _ , . it, , .. ifpan i >l rii \ eLidie unit* j- 1 ***• Tooka s Cherokee' was to the "new- £ Joy Jul } a Coman Tai g s book reviews, comer - “beyant us Leastwise that's , Lo J ve and good wishes from what Sally says. John Mason. Piney- woods Tom and others pull down worlds, and build them up again, but it's all “mush" to us. About all I know of Darwin Is what John Ruskin has to say. "Because its every man's duty to know what he Is, and not to think of the embryo he was, nor the skeleton that he should be. Because, too, Dnrtvin has a mortal fascination for ail vainly curi ous nnd idly speculative persons, and has collected ln the train of him every im pudent imbecility ln Europe, like a rflm comet wagging its useless tall of phosphorescent nothing across the stead fast stars " BAB'TA. Clifton, Arizona. 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