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* d *21 Ji SUNNY SU‘Ji£i J.Li' Uhe SUNNY SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Buslne/s Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA, GEORGIA Subscription Terms: ! satiety and to be returned to the original condition of half-content, and half-aspiration. Still, it is pitiful! Old Omar felt the desperate uselessness of yielding to dreams, and the force of that morbid moment which comes to us all, when he said: ‘‘All, love, could thou and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits—and then Remould it nearer to the heart’s desire.’’ To those who subscribe to Sunny South only Six Months, 25c ^ One Year, 50c LESS THAN A PENNY A WEEK Batared at the mlofflct Atlanta,Ga.»aa i march 13, 1*01 The Sunny Smuth is thm oldest weekly paper of Literature, Romance, Pa ft and. Plftion In the South ^ St Is nous re• Jiored to the original shape and will be published as for■ merty every week ST Rounded In IS74 it grew until 1999, when, as a monthly, its form was changed as an experts ment & St now returns to Its original formation as a weekly with renewed vigor and the Intention of ecttpss ing its most promising period in the past. “The heart’s desire!” It is the pathetic, childish cry we send up to the dumb heavens, when that whiclf it seems we need for our very soul’s salva tion, does not come with the readiness we would have it exhibit. It is the “heart’s desire,” in am bition, in lust for power, in desire for station, in aecend-etaaanail aiattat | thirst for fame, in love for man or woman. It is a “heart’s desire” that we frame into a DEMAND, and send forth, with passionate emphasis, into the ears of heaven—the heaven we fancy is sometimes deaf with indifference. And—in the end—we take the half loaf. We find out that— Bells Pos- Never Heard. Hear the telephonic bells— Nickel-plated bells. What a nervous agitation in their petu- lancy dwells; How our tempers they excite. Through the day or in the night, Along' the Highway By FRANK L. STANTON J IN THE LIGHT. I. We dwell too long in the lonesome night: Come out in the light—the light! There is ever a star in the storm shines bright: Come out in the light—the light! As we hear the operator’* shouts and There is still some hope for the The Bauble^And the Moon m ERVANTES, we think it was. set out to prove that if the world gave us exactly what we wanted life would — — speedily become unendurable by rea son of its monotony. His formula, plausible enough on its face, runs somewhat after this wise: “If I did as I pleased, I should have my will; j having my will, I should be con- ! tented: when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; when there is no more to be desired, there is an END of it.” Follow his arguments, one after the other, accept them with- ' out reserve and you must reach his conclusion: that it is not desirable for Providence, or whatever force rules the universe, to give over into the hands of each man and woman the exact j making of their destinies. The thing is inconceiv able at the merest glance. If you are not con vinced, take your own case. Run through the list of the darling wishes in your mind and on your heart. Some of them you must have confided to “Man, like the child, accepts the proffered boon, And claspss—the BAUBLE! Where he asked—the MOON!” Straining After Individu ality EOPLE often overstep themselves in going after strange idols. Num bered conspicuously among this host are those who follow individuality for individuality’s sake. To be num bered apart from their brethren in thought, word and deed; to appear unusual or outre when opportunity offers, or to puzzle and dazzle peo ple by unexpected actions or phrases seems to constitute a large portion of their ambition. Just whether these people gain or lose in the long run is a serious question. If they yells! •’Hello,” he says, “hell-o,” And we wish he’d .thither go, 'For no tomcat caterwauling to such help less wrath impels; And everybody knows By the bawling And the calling How the conversation flows. As his thoughts into the instrument re peatedly he tells— As 'liis thought with maledictions he continually tells— Tells, tells, tells. And again he rings the bills. But the fellow at the other end is disin- cTined to go. eft once more he instills Some hviph-ened syl-la-ble«, Elite ft jackdaw in a panic. And with vigor Quite Satanic. It is wrong to. tear your hair. And worse, they say, to swear By this or that or here or there or any other where; But that was said Before were made Those palpitating, fast-vi'brating telephon ic bells— Bells, bells, bells, bells, An/1 the yells, yells, yells Of .the speakers and the hearers at those hells. —Belfast (.Ireland) Gazette, weary years— A rose to bloom where a thorn ap pears, And solace sweet in a rain of tears; Come out in the light—<the light* II. Let banners wave in the crimson fight: Come out in the light—the light, To the Peace that broods with its wings of white: Come out in the light—the light! Come out where Joy in the glad world dwells And Sorrow’s sighing his sad fare wells To the. music sweet of the morning bells: Come out in the light—the light! PROVERBS OF THE HIGHWAY. When Joy jingles his bells Trouble osses his old raggedy hat, high in air and nearly dances himself to death. You’ll 1 get all the glory you’re en titled to in this world. Maybe the glory in the next one will be too warm a proposition for you. FROM AN AUTHOR’S JOURNAL. I think that poetry certainly pays— sonaiebocjjy, for I sent an editor a dozen stamps with as many poems, and he kept the stamps to get his mail off. The poets of old lived In garrets, but now the elevators go sky-high, and the wise author takes the ground floor, where he can hit the grit easy when he sees a bailiff coming. Very few authors can afford a pri vate secretary now. The trouble with a secretary is—he demands a salary, and that’s what an author can’t get for himself. The great genius gets a monument when he is no more, but he’d rather have the price of it while he lives— in nine cases out of ten. j When the Six Shooter J | Was Judge (SLJury * • • ! i on the Pacific Slope ! • • • ■•■0—0»-0-0-m0*-0 — 0 HU halcyon days of the ALL WE’RE WANTING. I. We’re wanting just enough o’ light To tell the way we’re going. And just a flower or two in sight When blizzard winds are blowing. II. We’re wanting just enough o’ grace To satisfy the soul. To do our work—to fill our place, And let the old world roll! THE TROUBLES OF GENIUS. ‘‘There goes an author who has made enough money to start a bank Even if we don’t win in the life account, but it’s been the ruination j race we’ll have the consolation of knowing that we didn’t lose mudh. Getting Around a Difficulty. (From September Lipplncott s.) An instructor in a certain boys’ school j It s high time for the dreamers to is noted, anion,;, his pupils for his diffl-jwake up and shake the light out of cult examination questions. One of the i their dreams, youthful students after struggling over | a particularly strenuous list of questions; We really haven t time to growl at in geography, came upon the following i Time for flying so fast. The fiddles query, which completely stumped him: I are going, the dancers are ready and of him.” “How so?” “The poor nights for fear the bank '11 fail, he'll have to start over again!” fellow can't sleep o’ j c i, UI claimjumper and the shot gun miner were anteced ent to the squatters' wars of San Francisco. In old Pioehe, when the Kay- mon & Ely and the Mead ow valley mines were in litigation over a rich ledge, men handy with the gun were paid $20 an hour to go underground and hold the drifts, and then hati many a bloody battle —. the dark. In the rush to the Comstock, also, much confusion arose in the location of claims and the shotgun prospector found opportunity to get in his work. Two of the tough citizens of Virginia even had the effrontery to jump a lot that had been presented to Father Ma- nogue as a site for his church. The Comstockers loved the robust priest, and when he told a few of them that jumpers were on the church lot they went with him to adjust matters promptly and vigorously. PLUCKY PRIEST SAVES LOT. The jumpers were defiant, and trucu lent, and one of them spoke insultingly to the priest when he requested them to move off the lot, whereupon Tom Ri ley became hostile and roared: "Stand aside, father, and let me get at the Irish Wank dash.” "Tut! Tut!, Tom,” said Father Ma- nogue reprovingly, “leave out the ’Irish,’ my son.” And then the father peeled off his coat and offered to settle the matter personally with the insolent junipers. The lot was saved to the and :h. only the present moment, perhaps their aspirations arc fulfilled. But if, as pointed by standards alike of progress and conservatism, we look for perma nent results, the story is am entirely different one. To be sure, individuality is an excellent thing people for whom you feel a great affection; the j j n way'. Coupled with energy and Persistence, vast majority, perhaps, have never crept beyond ** * s ^ le ,U S1? C ^ pioneer that has ever pus ed oi- the barriers the most foolish and mouthy of us j ward beyond the border lines of civilization and exploited and settled new territory. lndivulu- keep between these rain,-how-clad children of hope and an unsvmpathetic and sneering world. But— for the sake of argument—admit that tomorrow the hand of a conjuror liberated these visions from \ our mind and gave them definite shape and sub stance. Suppose that ALL those things which you have known in some of the dreams that take hold of ns in our waking hours, suddenly became real: that we had our wish, in its slightest little detail; ] nient for its exhibition. Moreover, it did not know that from living in a universe of sordid, disap- ! itself by the fanciful name applied to it todays ts pointing andt grim realities, we executed a right about face and found ourselves in the fairyland which florid fancy paints—in our more optimistic moments. Now, wait! Is it not reasonable to suppose that since YOU have these incongruous, incoherent wishes and de sires. clashing with all the laws of the universe, that EVERY OTHER PERSON of y'our acquaint ance has the same hopeless maze of insane, impos sible dreams—waiting, just waiting, to he materia lized Well, then— Imagine, if you can, all these different things set adrift on civilization at one and the same mo ment. Imagine that every man. woman and child whom you know, had every wish granted, every foolish or far-fetched vision fulfilled—what sort of world would he the result? Just a drunken, confused mass of conflicting whims, running counter to every rule of law and order, upsetting justice, making a mock of nature, and finally dissolving in a tragic orgy of nightmare confusion. * That would be the logical, the inevitable conse- sequence if we each of us obtained everything that we desire of the world and of humanity. We would sicken of it. as soon as it came into our possession. !We would clamor to he relieved of this burden of “Name twelve animals of the polar regions.” The youngster scratched his head, , , . - .. . r ,. . thought hard - lor many minutes, and are looking for the gratification ot finaIlyi under tlie spe ii of a sudden in spiration, wrote: “Six seals and six po’.ar bears.” The professor was so pleased witli his pupil’s cleverness that he marked his ipaper 100 per cent. Told by His Looks. (From Tlte Epwortli Herald.) Some things "go without saying,” as we say. They are self-evident, and need no explanation. They tell their own story, as it were. That is, sometimes they do, and sometimes they do not. Here is a case of the latter sort cited by a New York paper. A pair of bushy whiskers shoved them selves into the money order window and the voice behind the whiskers said: “Gif me a money orter.” The clerk shoved him out a blank ap plication. When it came back, tilled out, the clerk said: “Here, this isn't right. It’s for Dresden, Germany, and you've got it on a do mestic blank You want a foreign blank.” “Veil!” saic lie voice behind the whis kers, “vy didn't you gif me a foreign blank?" “Why didn't you ask for one?” "Mein gootness,” said the voice be hind the whiskers, “do I look like I ranted a domestic .blank” The Retort Humorous. “You don’t seem to understand,” blus tered the man who was trying to make! his point with a university professor. “I tell you, sir. I ought to know. I’m an| ality in science, in art, in exploration, in letters, even in religion, has consipred to make this won derful twentieth century development what it is. But this species has always been stamped with the brand of spontaneity. Inborn and coursing along a man's veins with every pulsation of his heart, it has been a force which required no encourage possessor simply felt within himself the workings < f a mighty agency, perhaps inherited, perhaps a combination of his own special talent or abilities. Tt is not with individuality itself, warm, actve and creatve, that we quarrel. It is with the pal pably spurious species which goes by that name. It is the man who prides himself on being “orig inal” to whom we would point the error of his way’. Did it ever occur to you that in striving to catch every opportunity for a display of this qual ity you are binding yourself within a very narrow limit? Your sphere of activity' and development necessarily reaches its boundary in the qualities of the people with whom you associate. If you have any ability’- at reading character, and the as pirant in this quarter is generally due credit for it, y ou can pretty accurately gauge the mentality and grasp of your friends. Assure yourself, then, that will exert yourself in just sufficient measure to appear unusual to them. What you might really accomplish is a waste which your blindness seldom permits you to see. Again, this brand of originality frequently cre- J ates jealous enemies, ever ready’ to pick a flaw or dig a pitfall. But genuine individuality has noth ing of this sort to fear, and if it possess, in addition, i the invaluable gifts of persistency and determi- I nation, the result may be confidently reckoned J upon. we should all keep time to the hal- ieluia music. THE LESSON OF IT. I. Listen to the lesson I’m teachin’ you today: If you can’t ride the hurricane, Keep out of its way! II. When it comes a-howlin’ Taint no use to pray; When you hear the thunder growlin’ Keep out of its way! PLAIN L FE MAXIMS. I. In de life-time battle Don’t you think ter fail; ’Twixt de whale en Jonah, I ruther he de whale! II. When ol’ Trouble cornin’, Put up bolt en bar; Holler from de housetop “You ain’t a-livin’ dar!” III. Climb up ter de hilltop From de fiel’ en town. But always leave de lan’marks Ter guide you, rollin’ down! Danger and Death in These >4* Common Field Plants S* By HELEN HARC0URT. Written for The SUNNY SOUTH. OAIE of them we know, these tares among the . wheat., ibut many of them we know not until their true character is revealed by disaster. Many are the descriptions that have been written of the helpful class of plants, but comparative ly little has been written concerning the harmful ones, in comparison with rheir importance. We have not affected. The second spot, left on for four hours, showed decided irritation of the skin. The last two spots, where the poison had been left to work its will for seven hours, exhibited a genuine case of ivy poisoning, blistered, red and itching, es the experimenter forcibly exclaimed, “Like the old scratch.” And that was literally true, for tthe plucky devotee of science came “up to the scratch” in ear nest. These four spots were within an inch of each other, but each remained entirely distinct, thus proving that the poison is not spread b.v the blood, but is purely an affection of the skin itself. There is a remedy for this widespread poison that should be more generally known than it is. A few applications of ’Are j ou? That s not singular, was the vvit-j j la |jj ta t j n t ) ie south, yet few of them | the low grade alcohol named above, add c * eak Dick Pr< ntiss, earned an evil rep"- : rejoinder, utteied so quietly that the a) . e generally recognized as such, nor powdered sugar of lead (lead acetate),! t a ti° n even among the bad men of early alumni of this institution myself you? ty blustering man never knew hat had hap-j even when known, are they pened. j against as they should be? On another occasion tlie same profes-, jj ot a f ew mysterious deaths of people sor. having ordered from a music pun-| and animals might be traced directly to “Valse Im- : many poison plants in the an alcoholic solution of sugar of lead will; United Slates, and many of these are' Sive speedy anJ permanent relief. To James G. Fair saved a part of the Bo nanza ground from clainijumpers by a different method. “Long" Brown, dean of tlie gambling fraternity, had a long run of had luck and needed money in his business. He made a deal with “Waller Defeat” Prentiss, and they hired two miners and begun sinking a snaft on ground belonging to one of tlie Bo nanza companies. They worked ostentatiously and by the time the shaft had been sunk a few feet their operations attracted the attention of Uncle Jimmy Fair, who strolled over to the scene of the new strike and found “Long” Brown and Prentiss, Well heeled with guns, bossing the two mines. FAIR PURCHASERS CLAIM. “Well, my son," said Air. Fair in his most suave manner manner, "and what might you be doing here?” “We’ve located this claim and are do ing our assessment work," replied Long- Brown cheerfully. "And have ye any capital, my son?” inquix-ed Air. Fair with friendly solici tude. “Yes, we’ve got a little, enough to make the riffle, I reckon." “And how about the title, now? Is your title quite straight, d'ye think?” Mr. Brown admitted that there might be a cloud upon the title, but he added: “We’re not going to fool away any of our capital in hiring lawyers; we need it all in running the mine. You see, unde Jimmy, we don't go much on litigation, and tne and my partner Prentiss allow that we can attend to any little matter of that sort." “..o doubt," assorted Air. Fair. "An i r.ow. what might your claim be worth ->n a fair and reasonable estimate, d’ye sup pose?” Air. Brown supposed that it might be worth about $2,000, and lie went over r.i Colonel Fair’s office and got a check Cor Chat amount. BAD MAN DICK PRENTISS. Long Brown's partner in that mining guarded Leaves from an Old »Scrap BooK until no more wiil dissolve easily. Rub.i Comstock days. In the early '70s a di ttos milky fluid well into the skin severalj Pute arose over the ownership of the times in the course of a few days. The Waller Defeat shaft of the WoodvilD intolerable itching will at once cease, and! mine, and Prentiss was hired by one of lishing bouse a copy of a "Valse Im-; tl ] le [ r a g ency , jf once suspicion were! the mar vh of tffie enemy be checked. But! the contesting parties to hold the prop- promptu by a certain French compos- arouse d. Probably tlie most familiar of| in using this remedy, do not forget that! erty by shotgun title. Under some color er. received an Impromptu Waltz bj. ; t-i iese noxious inhabitants of our woods the lead solution is very poisonous if! of legal authority, Prentiss and several another man. The publishers, when; and Helds is the .poison ivy, which is also' taken internally. Moral: guard it wellj companions, acting as deputy sheriff-, called to account for their mistake, re-j known as he poison oak, poison vines,) from children. Dogs and cats are too 1 ; took possession of the hoisting works, and plied rather insolently that they >had beenj three-leaved ivy. These are tne signifi-j sensible to touch anything that contains! would not permit anybody to approach in the music publishing business a long. cau t names by which we know the plant) alcohol, however disguised. j the buildings to get lom* court, depu- poison ivy and! tized half a dozm men as constables and m me music pueiisiimg uusmess a lone,: cant names by which we know the plant j alcohol, however disguised. the buildings, time, and had yet to discover the dif-j j n the south, and in the greater part of) It is not too much to say that the law- The other side managed ference between a "Valse . Impromptu j phe north, but in some sections of the,' makers of every community should com-! sort of order from another and an “Impromptu Waltz." Would Dr.I ] att er it has other local names peculiar! pel the destruction of poison ivy and' tized half a doz« n men as co Smith kindly state to them that differ-1 those sections only. ence ? other acknowledged poison plants, wher- sent the men to take possession of tto "Gentlemen, ’ wrote tiie genial -profes-; s | iru .p, but sometimes it grows erect. It Tee poison ivy is a climbing or trailing! ever -they may be found near a town orl works a ' midnight. The constables at - By A GEORGIA COLONEL. I I the Southern railroad for several mnes; j all shops where government work was FIND in the old scrapbook tlie fol- j being carried on. All the stores in the lowing interesting story of the I {; ity were pillaged, their contents either ankee occupation of Jackson, Miss. The story appeared in The Brandon, Aliss., Republican in April. 1863: "In order to ascertain the amount of damage done by tlie yankees during the'r forty-eight hours’ occupation of the city of Jackson, we went over and took a careful survey of the place yesterday morning, and give below the result of our observations. We could not get a com plete list of the property burned, and otherwise destroyed, owing to great con fusion in the city. The following build ings were burned: "Green’s cotton factory, together with all the machinery, 300 bales of cotton, cud all the buildings connected with tlie factory; Phillips' factory, and all me small buildings connected ' therewith; J. A. Stevens' foundry shed, containing a larg carried off nr thrown into the street and i burned. Tlie Mississippiun office was brok- j en open, the type thrown in the streets and the presses and furniture broken up. j Tlie postoffice was rifled of its cou- \ tents. ’ Tlie governor's mansion was j broken open and pianos and furniture de- j stroyed “The Episcopal church was entered and -the whole interior effaced. Nearly all tlie private residences were entered and trunks broken open, fine dresses torn to pieces, and all jewelry, silverware and provisions taken. Dr. Knapp’s office was broken open, his dental instrument car ried off and his .furniture destroyed. Cap tain L. JuTHans book store and bindery was destroyed. J. W. Gi*ay Sc Co.'s drug store was partially destroyed. Jo Mor- Bailey’s cotton ! gridge was an extensive sufferer by the juantity of tar, i depredations of the vandals. lime, cement, etc.; Catholic church and | “E. Vorden’s loss in sugar, molasses, parsonage; Airs. Bakewell’s house, and I etc., is estimated at $200,000. D. W Bu- contents; Confederate house, together with furniture, etc.; railroad depot, and all the buildings immediately west and juth of tlie same; state penitentiary sick lost heavily in his tobacco commis sion store. Allen Ac Ligon lost all their books, paper, money and merchandize. •Dr. S. C. Facial- lost liis horses and witii all tiie machinery; flouring mill, I mules. J. W. Rawlins lost liis carriage and carriage horses. Almost every horse mule, cow and hog in tlie city was taken. Watches and oreasbpins were forcibly taken from gentlemen on Bhe street. Ne groes, .front 300 to 500, were taken from the city and adjacent country, and as an inducement for them to go they were State ' promised commissions in the yankee army. near Phillips’ factory; all tlie houses on Slate street, from tiiiaws’ store to Graves' corner, including Green’s bank ing house; Anrtu-ozier’s grocery, Allen Ac Jvegon’s store, and Graves' large brick building, with a number of small inter vening houses; all the houses on tiie south side ot Pearl street from street to the Mississippi Baptist office, including tlie confederate quartermas ter's office; a number of slieds or ware houses, near tlie old depot of tlie South ern railioad, containing an immense quantity of cotton, sugar, molasses, etc., and a number of old cars, belonging to both railroads; all the houses in front of tlie city hall, and Alarket house, except Airs. Sanders' boarding house and one cr two small shops; Leniley’s hat fac tory, Robinson's warehouse, General Freeman’s dwelling house; all tlie build ings belonging to the fair grounds; rope .factory and saltipetre works; tiie rail- .-Njad and cltj bridges across Pearl river, •ltd all the bridges and trestle work on I negro and 3 horses, etc. and about 100 of .them were armed be tore they left the city. "Intelligent gentleman estimate the iblal loss of properly in the city at five mil lions of dollars. “It is asserted and believed that in the ry came over to Rankin and tore up the railroad about four miles, and a few rails at oilier places to within two miles of Branoon. They i-anaac-aed ene private dwellings for arms and ammunition, tak ing away a tew negroes, horses and mlues. .among the chief sufferers in the laid were All’s. S. M. Hamilton, 4 ne groes; Austin Neely, 13 negroes; G. W. Rains, 2 negroes; General P. Henry, I It is asserted and believed that in the- retreat between Jackson and Clinton, I many houses were burned and nearly all; tlie horses, mules and catle driven away.! "We could' learn no particulars of the I fight at Raymond, except tiliat our loss! was about 200 and that of tiie enemy; from four to five -hundred. It is reported- that we whipped tlie enemy very badly at Edwards’ Depot on Friday, and that we captured his immense wagon train. We have no doubt of tlie triith of tlie report." IN THE YANKEE BASTTLES. One of the most interesting stories I find in the old war scrapbook is tlie following letter which was written by the Nassau correspondent of the Charles ton Courier; l.ife inside of the bastile is not very agreeable. The prisoners destined for in carceration are first taken by the mar shal to Fort Hamilton, where they are turned over to the colonel commanding, familiarly known as ‘the tyrant Burke.’ As soon as the Fort Lafayette boat is j announced they are sent off without fur-1 tlier parley, under a guard of five men! with fixed bayonets, and after a row of three hundred yards reach the bastile landing. '1 hey are taken charge of by another squad and conducted to the pres ence of the officer in command. Lieuten ant C. O. Wood, who owes his present po sition of keeper of tlie bastile to the care he took as a railroad _ conductor, of Abram, when the frightened old sinner fled from Harrisburg to Washington in the historic Scotch cap and cloak. "The prisoners answer to the call of. their names and Wood, gives a receipt for them to tlie Fort Hamilton convoy. The victims are then required to give all the money, watches, etc., in their posses sion. They are subsequently searched in j sor, in answer. "I have not, like your- eslves been in tlie music publishing busi ness, and am, therefore, not fully quall- tied to Inform you, but since, in your ex tremity, you have appealed to me, 1 would venture to suggest that tiie differ ence between a ’Valse Impromptu’ and an ■'Impromptu Waltz’ may be similar to the difference between a blind Venetian and a Venetian blind. "Your very truly, ’ and so forth.— Youth's Companion. Divorce Statistics. (From The Chicago Evening f’ost.j You have done a good day’s work,” says the chief as the census enumerator comes in with an armload of blanks and other things. "With a few more such men as you we could get the di vorce statistics u(ompiled inside of a month.” “Maybe so,” replied tlie enumerator, wearily, "but you'd have to have about ten thousand more, if that's what you mean by a lew." "Hows’ that?” "All these documents are on one case.” "One?” “Yes. They represent information 1 got from Aliss Amazaha Flipfiash, the well- known soubrette, as to her matrimonial venturas. And here,” lie produced a large -bundle of photographs, “here are fifty 'pictures of her in costume that she gave me, thinking we were to illustrate* our report.” Just Quips. (From The Philadelphia Public Ledger.) "After all, what is the difference be tween ’shopgirl’ and ‘saleslady? I don’t know, but the differences between salesladies are sometimes fierce.” "My dear madam,” remarked the weary wayfarer, "1 have had nothing to eat for twenty-four hours.” “Poor man,” sighed ) ■the, dear madam, ’’have you no appe- ! tite? Let me give you one of my tonic I tablets.”—Philadelphia Record. “Harold,” she exclaimed after she had rested- for a moment against his manly breast, ”1 believe you have'heart trou- an ante-room by a sergeant, and when it I ble.” “Calm yourself, darding,” he re sults tlie whim or malignity of that of-1 plied; “I’ve agreed tv help Professor fiejal oftentimes stripped to the skin. Lightrtnger with his sleight-of-hand per- Afler this unpleasant ceremony the pris oners are conducted sometimes ‘to sep arate rooms, but generally to No. 6.’ where some thirty-five arc confined. It is a battery casement, on the lower tier, westside, mounting five thirty-two pound ers. The impression made upon the new comer when entering the prison is not very pleasant. The faces of the prison- Oontinned on Fourth Pam*. formance tonight. That’s a rabbit.”— Chicago Record-Herald. ”1 wonder, now,” mused the dog, “what tool thing it is that my master wants im to do witli that hoop he is holding out before me. Maybe he wants me to jump through it. I’ll do it, and see. . . . That was it, all right. How little it takes to make a man happy!”—Chicago TribuiMk lias variable three-foliate leaves,’ aerial rootlets and greenish flowers, which bloom in Alay and June. The blossoms are followed by smooth, waxy white ber ries, which often remain on tiie vine until late in the winter. The leaves differ from those of tlie familiar and beloved Virginia creeper in having only iliree leaflets, where tlie latter lias live. The poison ivy is a good deal of a cosmopolitan, thriving everywhere, in the open mead ows, in tlie midst of underbrush, in the forests, in ravines, on mountains and in cultivated fields. It is no respecter of places. All it wants is enough soil to sprout the seeds dropped by tne birds that feed on its berries in tlie winter. SOME ARE IMMUNE. Sometimes, through ignorance of tlie true character of the plant, it is actuall;- planted around residences for its orna mental appearance. But not always does the person who makes tills unlucky blun der suffer for it, although some others are sure to do so. For some persons are totally immune from ftie action of its .poison from infancy to old age. Others are always affected by it, while st. ill others may be immune until middle life, but after that time, oddly enough, are astonished to find themselves 'falling vic tims to its poison, like common folks. Still others, not naturally immune, be come so after once or twice suffering, and again some are affected only lightly, while others arc actually nig.de ill by their suffering. There is another odd thing, too, about this poison ivy, and this is that it lias no apparent external e'ffect on animals. The human skin alone seems susceptible to its action. The horse, mule and goat eat its leaves with im punity, and so doubtless do wild rumi nating animals. The noxious element of the poison ivy is a nonvolatile oil that exists in all parts of the plant. Even its wood, when thoroughly dried, retains tiie poison. Like other oils, it cannot be dissolved in wa ter, and therefore cannot be washed off the skin wilii water. But it can be easily removed with alcoiioi, a weak grade, 50 or 75 per cent, being preferaole .to a stronger grade. The oil, extracted from tlie plant, pro duces exactly tiie same effect as the lat ter itself. In experiments made with the oil, it was applied to four places on the wrist, and these inoculated spots were carefully guarded from spreading to each other. In an hour one of the spots was well washed off by several applications of alcohol. Three .hours later a second spot was washed in the same way. Three village, or on private grounds. They can i t em P te<3 to 'force ar. eptranoe to the sh:.<” , f . . ... ,. s , , house, and were fir. d upon without waro- be destroyed with little danger, if the from the inside Six of them were work is done properly, and it is a work; killed, and it was believed on the Com- done for the public interest. As we have! stock that Prentiss fired all the deadly seen, some people are immune. These 1 sh ots. should be employd to rout the common! CARRY ON UNDERGROUND WAR. 'foe. Alost of the task would be purely From that time on he was known as mechanical. The surest and most sTmplej “Waller Defeat” Prentiss, and looked mode of extermination is to pull the vinej upon as a. cold-blooded murderer, an I up by the roots. Even immune*, in do-! tlie Comstock boycotted him socially. H> became morose and surly, and eventually dropped down to tiie level of a barroom outcast and “check guerrillo.” being de nied the distinction and respect accorded by the Comstock to the "bad man” who gained the title in fair fight. Prentiss was one of a gang of shotgun miners hired’ by Ned Boyle to carry on a war underground in the Alta against the justice crowd in a dispute over an ore body ion the line between the two mines The working miners objected to the pres ence of the fighting gangs in the drifts I and the Miners’ and Mechanics' unions i took the matter in hand, marched en masse to tlm Alta works and told tho superintendent to hoist his shotgun men forthwith. found that the “remedy is worse than Boyle demurred, whereupon the mtnei.s the disease.” The vines should never be summarily look possession of the works, left on tlie ground, nor tiie wood used. j r ut their own men in charge of the en- „» ^ _ omni it toe down the fighters out of th * ing this, would be wise to wear gloves and wristlets, since tlie contact with the plant would be close and continued, and there are such things as overdoses and going "once too often to the well.’’ DESTROYING THE PLANT. There is another mode of destroying the plants, however, and this should be em ployed if an immune cannot be found to root them up/ A half teaspoonful of concentrated sulphuric acid applied to the base of the stem every two or three weeks will kill poison ivy, root and branch. But care must be taken in handling the acid not to let it touch one’s skin, for it is highly corrosive. In this case, if applied to the skin, it would be for fuel. Every scrap of the plant ought to ibe burned in an open field, and care should be taken by every one near not to Inhale tthe smoke, or to handle tiie brush more than is necessary. Thost who arc working with the plants eftndo be too careful not to transier any of the oil from their clothes or hands to other people. This transferance is easy, and rile uanger too apt to be overlooked. Alany mysterious cases ot skin poisoning could nave been traced to this cause. Special suits should oe worn by thost who are engaged in destroying this nox ious piant, and their hauus should- be washed several times a uay with the al coholic solution mentioned. The clothes, when finally put off, must oe thorough ly washed lu not water and s. rung soap suds. it should be Known and needed that towels used by persons who have •ot-en handling the poison ivy are a prouno source oi conveying 1‘lie poison to others, if also used by them. Then there is the poison sumac. It, like the ivy, has many aliases. In Ala bama it is best known as the poison dogwood and poison elder. From Vir ginia to Georgia, one has a varied as sortment of names to choose from, ac cording to locality, such as poison tree, poison wood, poison swamp sumac, and thunderwood. It is a tall shrub, al most like a small tree, with long, pin nate leaves, having from seven to thir- liours la’ter still the two remaining spots j teen leaflets, but no marginal teeth Or were also removed by the same process. I ——— —— The first spot, washed in one hour, was l Continued on Fourth Page. glnes and sent shaft to order tin mine. MET DESERVED FATE. It uvas known that “Waller Defeat Prentiss was one of the gang, and it ha 1 been decided that if he were caught with a gun in his hand he was to he snuff. 1 out on the spot. Prentiss got an inklin . of what was coming to him. and he es caped from the works disguised as a me chanic with a kit of tools instead of a gun in liis hand. In 1890 Prentiss had a dispute with a rancher about a debt of $3. and went to the man’s cabin in Six-Mile canyon to collect the debt with a gun. He Invited the farmer to come out and be killed, but the farmer poked a shotgun through a window, pulled both triggers, and the coron. r’s jury allowed that the hand o_ Providence was clearly diseemable in the jointing of the gun that called “Waller Defeat” Prentiss to his last account. “GALOOT FROM ARKANSAS.” Of a different type was the “Bad Man of Cosumnes,” whose character was the subject of a story told one night by Dr. George C'hrismorc in the Bohemian Olub. "It was back in the '60’s when I first saw my desperado.” said the doc tor. “He came into Cosumnes one day Without any particular swagger to pro claim that lie was a bad man. but tlie camp sized him up at once as either a very tougili customer or a four-flus'ii desperado. “He was tall, angular and wiry, and he was not handsome. He wore iSlack broad- Continued on Fourth Page.