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t EDITORIAL PAGE THE SUNNY SOUTH OCTOBER 6, 1906. U/ye SUNNY SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Busine/s Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA^ GEORGIA Subfcription Terms: To those who subscribe to SShe Sunny South only Six Months, 25c t? One Year; 50c LESS THAN A PENNY A WEES Bswrcd at the peateSre Atlanta* (■•.<•* aecoad-claaa mall mattes March 13, > 901 The Sunns Sauth Is the oldest meekly payer of Literature, Romance, Fan and Fifllon In the South ^ It Is nom ret flared to the original shape and mill be published as for* marly eearu meek Founded In 187A It gram until 1899, mnen, as a monthly, its form mas changed as an experts ment & It nom returns to Its original formation as m meekly mlth renamed vigor and the Intention of eclips* trig Its most promising period In the past. The Man Who Doubts All His Friends NCREDULITY is a good thing in a way—a smattering of it,but not too much. Those of us who have been in the world long enough to have forgotten the taste of liquid nour ishment find that this same quality is extremely helpful in averting disappointment and unhappiness. If we swallowed—at a gulp— everything told us in a day's jour ney, we would speedily find our- though the humor is there, too, for the mind sharp enough to see it. It is not wise, as has been said, for any of us to approach each other with a trust and a belief too infantile for words. Very few men born of women and women born of each other, but have a spark of the devil in them—more latent in some than in others. That is precisely where Provi dence was sufficiently kind to endow us with rea soning faculties, with memory which enables us to j draw deductions from the lessons of experience, and with imagination to probe motives and see a little way—a very little way—into the future. It is expected that we shall exercise all these safe guards in protecting ourselves against deception of any variety—though in some cases, all ordinary safeguards fail and the man of the finest poise and proved wisdom becomes an extremely common place fool. Yet. after all is said, it is better to err on the side of leniency in judgments—with our friends at least, the “benefit of the doubt” is a rather be nign principle. It makes for charity and mutual happiness. Setter an occasional bruise from over- confidence, than a scarless shield bought at the price of holding the entire world at arm's length. Along the Highway By FRANK L STANTON The Lie as an Institution IIOVGH a scriptural instance is given way back in the figurative dawn of creation, the lie is an insti tution which has to do most exten sively with higher, more cultured civilization. There is good reason to believe that our antediluvian an cestors were pretty decent, straightforward sort of folk accord ing to their lights. They were un acquainted with the luxury of the enameled bath tub with hot and cold water attachment; the gentle men were unfamiliar with the glo ries of the silk hat and the Prince were uninformed anent the selves at the mercy of every hypo- j crite or petty flatterer who saw fit AIbert; the ladies to train his blandishments in our P ,cture ,iat and tllc straight line corset—altogether they were an elemental, unpretentious sort. So crude were they that they had little or no dealings with that elver device—the lie; and now you real ize to what an extent their ignorance ran. For that very fault we are inclined to love and venerate direction. We would earn, more- j over, the hearty contempt of the very people to ! whose wiles we fall victims—for it is typical of the j person who is given to harmless or grave dccep- | tions to have a scorn rather than a pitv for his | prey. Very many of us, however, sacrifice morcj thcnl - hmvcvc ‘ r - In a certain respect they might by an excess of skepticism than by a superabund- j f' cn tw pitied, for, poor creatines, tliev had noth- anee of credulitv. Some people are, helplessly | about. lvver_\ thing was so patient, so and by nature, suspicious to the verv core. If aj cd)V *p us ’ even ^ ie a bscnce of hair on a gentle- friend announced to one of this variety that the I nian s ^ cad > and the lack of symmetry to a lady s sun was shining, the recipient of this simple infor- \shape, that the hereditary liar had a terrific scuffle mation would be inclined to look for some deep. j^° *' nd adequate material. Neighbors went abroad subtle motive behind the remark. All of us know j in . guileless nudity of mind and body, a state of individuals with whom it is never safe to venture i things tending to breed a race of super-veracious upon any other than very general conversation, i beings. and with whom the discussion of actions and their ; ^ ' dl t^ lc gradual advent of civilization. how- reasons is entirely out of the question. With minds 1 cver > canic a revolution. Like Lambs roast pig, we like ferrets and suspicions like restless goads, tliev ! c ' an imagine how the glorious usefulness of the lie will let their imaginations roam like morbid wild ! burst on the benighted human race, spreading from beasts, making mountain ranges out of molehills, ! mao to man, and tribe to tribe, and continent to and an army of dragons out of a corporal’s guard j continent, until finally we all became conscious or of ants. . " ' File man deserving of all commiseration, in this direction, is the one wdio exercises his skepti cism on his friends. lie might at least reserve it unconscious diplomats, according to our several psychological bents, our coy diffidence or our pugnacious assertiveness. The lie is certainly abroad in the land today. for the outside world, following the philosophy of' a,ld it ^ as the sanction of some of our brainiest the misanthrope who regards the bulk of mankind and niost substantial citizens. How else are you type. A Plea for the Dictionary. 0 Roosevelt, spare that book, Touch not a single bough. In youth It succored me And I'll protect it now. 1 sat upon its pile At table when i ate; So came within my reach The dainties of each plate. I sat upon it grown. Where letters' feast was spread; So came within my grasp Strong Shakespeare's meat and bread. So prithee cut it not. Nor its dimensions carve. For were its bulk reduced We all of us would starve. —New York Sun. Da Faith of Aunta Rasa. You know my Aunta Rosa? No? I weesha dat you could; She wa’t you call "da leevin’ saint," Baycause she ees so good. She got so greata, stronga faith. She don’ta nevva care For doin' onytheeng at all, But justa pray an’ pray an' pray. An' Work so hard at dat. You tlieenk she would be gattin’ theen Eenstead for gat so fat. O! my, she gat so vera fat. Da doctor he ecs scare', An’ com’ won day to her an' say: ‘'You mak’ too moocha prayer; E'es better do som’ udder work An' tak' som’ exercise." My Aunta Rosi sliak' her head An' justa leeft her eyes. An' say: "I gotta faith so strong Dat I weel Jus’ baygeen For pray dat I may loose da fat. An 'soon I weel he theen." So, den, she justa sect an' pray, So greata faith she 'feel, An' nevva stop for anytheeng— Excep’ for taka meal. AnJ sonic time, too, she seet an' malt' Da noise so loud an’ deep. Eet sounda vera mooch as eef She prayin’ een her sleep. So Aunta Rosa pray an’ pray. But steel she gat more fat. So fat she no can walk at all— Now, w'at you theenka dat? Mus’ be som' troubla een da sky; Mils' be ees som'theeng wrong! Baycause eef Aunta Rosa got Da faith so great an' strong, An" pray so hard flat eet ees all She gatta time to do, 1 like som body tal me why Her prayer ees no com' true! —T. A. Daly, in The Catholic Standard and Times. Maxims of a Reporter. (From Puck.) Hitch your hotel stories to a star; you you may get passes. It's an ill wind that doesn’t blow the bricks from somebody's chimney. Remember that where there is smoke there is "a conflagration that well nigh proved disastrous, etc.” A weather prophet is without honor in a newspaper office. It's a wise politician that knows his own Interview after the cub reporter gets through with it. A fake in time saves a good deal of trouble. A fool and his opinions are soon In as his inevitable enemy. When he brings his carp- | to account for the recent collapse of many angs and his peerimgs and his warped microscope the bubble enterprises, touted to be gorgeous into the circle of his intimates—be is dealing out vehicles for the accumulation of mammoth injustice to them, and working infinite suffering fortunes. for himself. The pity of it is that the suffering is. ^ hat force is it that causes half the criminals like worry, absolutely futile.- Generally without a brought before a bar to be acquitted or their sen- base. its indulgence, at any rate, is not calculated fences to become farces? AY hat makes half the to alter the aspect of things for the better. little ephemeral politicians so glibly bobbing on When the habit becomes chronic, it is worse the current of public life? \\ bat is it that enables than many actual diseases. He is ready, like the such a host of young men and old to get into hope- nervous horse, to shv at the slightest object. He less debt. - ' What is it that honeycombs fatally so twists an incident or an accident, into an inten- many business enterprises? What brings into ex- tional slight. Never accepting, in good faith and istence at least 75 per cent of the demi-monde—the spirit, anv of those suave nothings with which we nrest hopelessly and cruelly outlawed class of hu- try to make life more endurable, he constitutes a- inanity? constant discord among those with whom be is These are the big lies which form an important thrown. Scoffing at compliments addressed to | part in the world's fabric. There arc many more, himself, he shuts himself off for all real avenues 1 too, which are quasi-respectable. The white lies of improvement bv depriving bis friends of the [of conventionality are notable. Flic lie which a right to help him with criticism when that whole-j woman ti lls to disguise her age we condone. The tome tonic is really necessary. lie she acts to conceal a sicklv nallor or n torm full The misfortune of this man's existence is com- of angles we are likewise apt to palliate. Then plicated when there are individuals sufficiently there is the class which uses the “pipe-dream” for patient and provided with enough understanding j commercial reasons—to secure a certain standing, to really care for him. For them—to whom he ' Some few indulge in limitless hyperbole regard- should be the most considerate and tolerant—L-e ing their prospects, their achievements, their ac- carries perpetually a two-edged sword. His complishments, with reasons we ‘cannot probe— doubts—expressed sometimes with a candid sav-| for tliev are sure of a detection laden with odium agery, more often with a concealed sneer which is the more offensive because unanswerable—make him unhappy and their victims uneasy and fre quently miserable. Tt is an unending tragedy— and ridicule. Try to imagine modern society, in its work and play aspects, minus the adjunct of the lie. You will discover disastrous metamorphosis. Leaves from an Old »Scrap Book By A GEORGIA COLONEL. O N November 12. 1864, The Rich- mond Examiner contained the fol lowing about General Lew Wal lace, who afterwards became famous as the author of Ben- Hurt “To speak candidly and unaffectedly, we do not think the people of the con- | of seeing some Interlude of this sort, federate states would much relish life j wliich Is not In the hill; but for our tinder yankee government. If we part, we do confess that our people do should consent to reunite with that peo- j no t iik e To have Miss Katy Parting- pie now, we would find ourselves in a I ton seized before the footlights and borne The moment the obnoxious words are uttered by the poor painted and wigged player, soiling his eyes and thinking no harm—‘Corporal of the Guard; arrest that man'—and he Is handcuffed on the spot, disarmed of his tin sword, and carried off to the guardhouse. Many persons, we believe, go to the theater. In hopes foreign country, and surrounded by for eign usages, which could hardly become pleasant to us until after long use. “What, for instance, should we think away by rude soldiers to the calaboose, as she sings some song which Is sup posed ‘to reflect on the confederate gov ernment. would make us feel too Aus- of a communication from the adjutant trian. too Russian, for our present general of General Hardee, now com- | tastes and habits. But It Is not only manding at Charleston, to the proprietor j words, sung or spoken, in a public place, of The Mercury, ordering him to discon- i which subject the Baltimore people to tinue the publication of that Journal, j such attentions from the major genera! and Informing him that if he did not do | and his forces. If any girls wears a so, he (General Hardee) would let loose j ribbon whose color likes hint not—or If a mob upon his office? This is pre- I an y child is adorned with a rosette cisely what General Wallace, command- which does not please his critical eye, lng in Baltimore, has done to a news- , the offending girl or baby (together-with paper of that city, called The Post. the nurse of the latter) Is at once had ''This sort of procedure excites no stir- up before the provost marshal. The New prise now In that northern country, , York Daily News mentions another late wlUeb in fact Is the most surprising part incident; how that a certain man was tn It At Holliday Street theater. the Other night, the actors were performing, as The New York News describes it, ‘an old and well known play,’ when in the midst of a scene several of the ac tors were arrested and dragged oft the stage to prison by soldiers, on the charge of using ‘disloyal language,' which It seems occurred In the play. The play is a comedy In which a Canadian goes to see his British relatives. He in- ‘sentenced by a military commission to a year's imprisonment at the Dry Tor- tugas for having expressed the opinion that Mr. Lincoln would not be president two months longer, and moreover, that ‘one southerner was equal to ten yankees.’ or words to that effect. “And we further find that a bookseller's plays, ’wear such colors, and express such opinions in' newspapers—were it even the opinion that Lincoln will not he presi dent after two months—as would in Bal timore form a orime worthy of the Dry Tortugas—Just as play3 are acted at Vlouce which iwould root be suffered at Venice; or as a lady may In St. Peters burg wear a shawl which. If she dare to wear in Warsaw, would he torn from her shoulders by tlie police, who would also lodge her in the dungeons of the fortress to await judgment for her crime. But observe that tills distinction is entirely at the discretion of the military authori ties. At Warsaw and Baltimore they are a little more stringent, a little relaxed at St. Petersburg and New York. But .the very same regime Is applicable at any time at all parts of the dominions either of Abraham oi; Alexander, as military ->r political necessity may demand. “We are aware that it Is now a point of pride with yankees that they live tu.r.der a ‘strong government,’ a 'govern ment both able and willing to do sterner and more rigorous acts than any decrepit monarch in the old world could venture upon; they mean to whip creation In dungeons also, and In tortures; but 'or us Virginians this Is really being >oo Muscovite altogether. When we want to live under a government of this sort we will go to Warsaw at once. We will en trust our liberties to a hereditary Ro manoff or Hap^burg Lorraine; we will ■bring up our children, as subjects of one of the despotic monarchs, and In the fear and admonition of Austrian -police- but God save us from the "iLana of the Take care of the cigarettes and the stories will take care of themselves. Hope. (From Puck.) "Pandora, my girl, what have you in your suit case?” asked Cerberus, trying to make goo-goo eyes with all of his heads at one and the sagne time. Pandora haughtily caused her press agent to hand him a newspaper clipping. "As I suggested,” quoth the warder of the dread portal. “You’ll have to check your luggage at the office. The rule is imperative.” He pointed, as he spoke, to the placard over his desk: “Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.” “Don't blame me, blame Dante!” he added, hastily, when Pandora bit her pretty lip and seemed about to cry. For Those Who Are Getting Next. Oh, life is worth the living. And everything is right; There isn't any trouble, And the world is bright. Nobody seems to suffer, And nobody's gay. The lofty and the lowly— When It Comes Your Way. The strenuous rush for money Or gain of any kind— The giit'ring, grinding triumph Of matter over mind— Don't count as grave offenses or morals gone astray Among the slaves of progress— W hen It Comes Your Way. The birds are always singing, The flowers are fresh and fair. In June as in December, And summer's everywhere. There is no thought of sorrow, Nor any darker day To follow after sunshine— When It Comes Your Way. (W’. J. Lampton, in Judge.) the first dance of the fall. I. We danced that day, I tell you!—the first dance of the Fall 3 — We shook the shingles from the shed, the pictures front the wall! The dancers all were willin’—they went it, toe-an’-heel, In the ol’ time Georgia “breakdown,” an’ the ol’ “Verginny Reel!” II. We danced that day, I tell you! From settin’-room to hall, The floor creaked to the music of “Halleluia all!” The young folks cut their capers—an’ folks with temples gray. They seemed to leave Life’s winter, an’ frolic back to May! III. ’Twas new an’ ol’ time dancin’: They let the music roll, Till the fiddle, with its singin’, made us think it had a soul! Brought back the old, sweet mead ows that youth an’ love time knew, Where your sweetheart pulled the violets an’ pinned ’em on fer you. IV. I teil you. ’twas a good time! We danced the night away Till the glad stars said “Good morn- in’!” as they heard the steps of day; An’ when Life’s last dance is ended— when the fiddler fails to call— I’ll go shufflin' with the mem'ry of that first dance of the Fall! A FEW PHILOSOPHERS. He was so poor that, he was always hungry enough to thank God for an appetite. When he found himself low down in the valley his consolation was that climbing the mountain is hard work, anyhow! When he eoldn’t reap a rose in the gardens of Life he thought of the thorns beneath the rose-leaves, and went his way rejoicing. When Trouble knocked at his door he took down his banjo, struck up a jig-tune, and told Trouble to walk in and take the first place in the danci: “If you have any pitv for your read ers,” wrote a caustic critic to tin au thor, “you’ll quit writing for bread, and telephone for it!” ‘MORNIN’ TO YOU ALL,” I. Couldn’t tell when sorrow came— Wouldn’t be its thrall; He was cheerful, just the same:— “Mornin’ to you, all!” II. Let the tempest dim the way— Let the firebrands fall, Still had'-heart enough to say: “Mornin’ to you, all!” III. And I think, when he gets there, Where the angels call, That same word o’ hist-they’ll hear: “Mornin’ to you, all!” " AN AUTHOR’S JOURNAL. An editor let me hold his automo bile yesterday while he was at lunch. Now, doesn't that look like literary recognition? I haven’t written a poem since I had my hair cut, and a savage oritic says my barber is a friend to literature. One editor says that the poets must come down from the stars and live in the world a while; but it’s my experi ence that the rough world ntake3 ’em see stars, anyhow. The popular novelists are in th 3 real estate business now, and have purchased farms, where they are try ing to benefit humanity by learning to plow. THE CALL OF LIFE. I. Life still is calling Happy on the way; Wintry shadows falling, But still the dreams of May! II. You may miss the lilies When the dim skies weep; Love’s divine, dear will is They shall wake from sleep. III. Heart for every morrow All the way along: Fades, the ghost of sorrow, In the living light of song! HOMELY COUNSEL. Life's a dream amazin’, Sad or merry days; Keep the fire blazin’, But keep out of the blaze! Joaquint Miller will soon be 80, an! he has just started out to beat the popular novelists at their own game! 'i Old Geneva, Where World 3 s Tradb tions of Learning Are Thickly Clustered WILLIAM E. CURTIS in Chicago Record-Herald. After the Fall of Charleston; The Massacre at Waxhaws By HELEN HARCOURT. Written for The SUNNY SOUTH. FTER the fall of Charleston on May 12, 1780, as nar rated in onr Issues of July enough to allow his weary men and horses time to eat a frugal breakfast, eagerly resumed his forced march. The horses drawing his one cannon were ab solutely unable to take another step and so the cannon was left behind. The ex hausted troopers and their horses were 7 and 14, this current year! dropping in the rear and falt- ’1 ing from fatigue. Still Tarleton, the »n Jlenrj Clinton, thej bloodhound, pressed on. anxious to over- British commander, lost no! take Buford before he could find the time in pursuing to the ut-! f° rf, c he was seeking, most advantage thus gain- 1 Fearful that he might yet fail in this ed. 'He considered the fall object, Tarleton, when almost within of Charleston as decisive; sight of the rear guard of the Ameri- of the fate of South Caro-; cans, sent forward one of his officers, lina, and made his plans oni Captain Kinlock. mounted on a fleet this supposition. He was horse, and bearing a flag of truce and a VER since the earliest times Geneva ha* teen a. seat of learning. The rec ords of the city show that there was a famous school for ecclesiastics here as early as the twelfth cen tury, and a public school which still exists was established in 1429 by the munificence of Sir Francis Versonnex. At one time Geneva was the greatest educational center in thf world. The deed of endowment by whi- 1> Sir Francis established his school is quaint document, and is still preserved in the archives. After expressing his de sire to devote a generous portion of his wealth to pious purposes and for the benefit of the people, he proceeds :o hazard the reckless opinion that educa tion lias great advantages. He had ob served this frequently during his event ful me, and declares that “it drives out Ignorance, disposes men to wisdom, im proves tiieir manners, endows them with virtue, and by this means favors and facilitates the good administration of! politic affairs.” He then makes the en dowment with a stipulation that all tha pupils shall kneel before the altar of the chapel every morning and say an Ave Marla and a Pater Noster for tha repose of his soul. In curious contrast with the trite ob servation of Sir Francis concerning tha benefits of education, the city council of Geneva, In accordance with the tyran ny of the times, immediately declared the school a monopoly and decided that there should be no competition in the same lines of learning. An order was passed closing all private and parish schools of the same grade and forbidding private tutors and all others to give instruction in any of the branches that were taught at the new institution. The council could not compel students to attend it, but could prevent them from attending any other. Several pedagogues who could not obtain chairs in its faculty or other pro fessional engagements undertook to give private instruction, hut the city fathers stopped that “side stepping” very sharp ly by locking them up in the stocks in the public square adorned with placards informing whomever it might concern that they were “enemies of public edu cation. ” John Calvin founded the university in 1558 The original building of “Calvin's college,” as it is called, still stands and is now used, as it always has been, for a grammar school, or gymnasium, as they call them over here. Calvin intended that the University of Geneva should be a fountain of Protestant thought and propaganda. He intended to make it the greatest institution in Europe, but had great difficulty in raising funds. Most of its students were poor and could not pay fees enough to support the faculties, so the city council adopted various and some rather arbitrary means to raise the wind. All the fines collected from law-breakers were turned into its treasury: merchants and market men who gave short measure or who were caught adulterating their goods, or mafie misrepresentations to their customers, were compelled to j>ay sums of money, more or less according to the enormity of their offense, to the support of the faculty. Also all persons who were guilty of extortion, and money loaners who charged usurious rates of interest. A bookseller who demanded what was considered an excessive price for the copy of the Psalms of David was compelled to pay eight crowns; and at one time Calvin arbitrarily suppressed a public banquet in the interest of tem perance and sobriety and confiscated the fully alive to the deep de- letter. Kinlock's orders were to over- pression his conquest had caused in the; take Buford, and to use all possible! e------- --- --------- -- --- - . . lipurts anri hoiips of thu mfridts nnci , j 4 i , • , ■ subscription funds which hu-ci been r«ifscc* neaxis ana nope& oi ine patriots, ana means to detain him to discuss the terms H also to the value of the first moments of , thp letter. The communication read succeeding his victory. Appreciating the as follows- further depression that would be created “ Sir: Resistance being* vain to jre- by showing an irresistible force m sev- vent the .effusion of blood, I make of- eral parts of the country at the samel fers whi( , h cannot hp r6pea ’ ted You are time, he sent out three large detach- . , , merits from his army. Sir Henry har-i al ™° S ! encompassed- by a corps of bored not a doubt that these expeditions! n anr ro< ’ £rllt t-oops on bores- back. Half of that numibor arc infantry wit ft cannon. Earl Cornwallis Is like- j influence the remainder of the south as wise withln reach, witih nine British regi-| scat tered and the faculty were persecuted well. And so it did, hut not quite in the : rnen, ‘- T furth That tlii har-j •xpeditions! would complete the downfall of the patriots' cause all over the province and! | for that purpose for the benefit of his favored institution. And yet the Lord prospered, it and it grew in Influence and fame and pros perity. and became, as Calvin hoped, the very fountainhead of the doctrines he taught. During the story time previous to the French revolution the institution had a great deal of trouble. The students were manner that Sir Henry calculated on. lie had %>ut “scotched the snake.” not killed. , _ _ j scattered anu me iavuity wnc . I warn you of the temerity of j fGr their liberal opinions; so much so that her inimical proceedings.” I Thomas Jefferson, then the American letter was a tissue of false-! taire and other congenial friends. , , i envoy to France, who went down to it. and these lawless expedition but! "ood is evident. Me have seen that the; Geneva as often as possible to see Vol- warnied it to life again. force with wlildh Tarleton started con- One of these detachments, under Lieu- slsted of two hundred and seventy men. tenant Colonel Brown, was ordered to! Fully fifty of these had been left be- i rector" 1 dean, ‘faculty and fellows, hbrar- move up the Savannah river to Augusta] kind in the headlong march. The one] ies. laboratories, archives and apparatus- cannon of the command had also 'been to Charlottesville, Va. Although he was „ . . , , . miles behind. Tarleton con- considered a free thinker, and caused ^uger was to march up the southwest! eluded his deceptive demand with an e reat scandal by his association with bank of the Saute river to the district of Ninety Six. so called in those early' had been days because it was just 96 miles from] Charleston, addin enough to reject upon you.” on the borders of Georgia. The second, ( under command of Lieutenant Colonel! left mam , an! great scandal by his — r j “ ’ r ^ > |IR sanle terms of .surrender thatj atheists, Jefferson was quite as much at Continentals at; home with the doctors of Calvin's school, “If them, you are rash the blood be FINAL DISMISSAL. Captain Kinlock overtook Buford, and according to orders, led the latter to The Intrepid Hntsman. lS. E. Kiser in Life.) 'Inere was a little man who had a little gun. And his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead; He went to a brook and saw a little duck, And skillfully he shot it through Hie head, head, head. He found it where It fay. then he threw the bird away. And waited where me waving reeds were thick, thick, thick; Thus lie skulked and thus he shot, leav ing mangled birds to rot. For they ceased to interest him when they fell, fell, fell. His high purpose was to kill and his prowess and his skill Caused the manly breast beneath his vest to swell, swell, swell. the principal town of the Cherok tion. This district was a fertile and salu brious region, between the Savannah and the Saluda rivers. Clinton's tiiird expedition, commanded by Lord Cornwallis, was ordered to cross the Santee river, march up its] suppose that Tarleton was far In the northwest hank and strike at a corps of| roar. Buford was marching along tihe •continental troops under Colonel Buford, | bank ol’ the Wax haw rtve.r, on the bor- which was retreating to North Carolina] der of North Carolina. Waving the with artillery and wagons laden with ant-] white flag. Kinlock galloped up to the munition, arms and clothing. Both troops- American commander, and delivered the and supplies had been intended for the- letter summoning him Ho surrender Bu- relief of Charleston. But the hoped-for ford read it with a smile .and instead succor had come too late and Buford of heeding the ca.ptaln's suggestion that was making^a retrograde movement. His j h © halt and discuss the terms offered, -continued -his march ,fhus defeatin'!? and there was a strong taint of the doc trine of predestination in his religion. force consisted of 390 troops of the line from Virginia and two field pieces. Bu ford had been joined by Colonel William Washington, with the few of his caval ry who had survived the sanguinany surprise by Tarleton during the siege of Charleston, as related in previous pa-| pers. Tarleton’s hope of detaining his enemy The university is very prosperous now; more so than it has even been, and during the recent semester 1,369 students were enrolled. Of these only 302 were natives of Switzerland. The remainder, number ing 1,067, were foreigners. The Russians are In a very large majority, numbering 700 or more, and more than half of them are Jews. There are sixty Turks and a number of -Bulgarians, Servians, Roumanians, Greeks and other repre sentatives of the Balkan states. The usefulness and the catalogue of the university have been growing very rapidly of late years, but no more so store has been summarily shut rip. and himself dragged befofe the provost mar- ! ^ ree «’ an< 3 the best government the world shal, “for selling a pamphlet called Suh- , eVRr Raw - troduced himself by telling old Sir ' genation, being an answer Vo Miscegena- j FIGHT AT SYCAMORE CHURCH. Charles that he comes from America. ! tion.’ What is most remarkable abou*. ! Sussex County, September IS, 1864.—I 'Then.' Bays Sir Charles, ‘>ou must be , a n that is. that New York or Boston j take the first leisure moment since the h Yankee Doodle.’ 'No,' answers the! citizens may, as yet. with impunftty. sell j • - - — ether, ‘thank God, I am net a yankee!' J and read- su-ch bolts, aot and witness sudk j > Continued on Fourth Page* When the man got home at night, he ex claimed with proud delight. As he polished up his gun, gun, gun: Man is great, and this Is shown In the! After a forced march of a day and a fact that he alone night, during which he had covered Can shoot living things to pieces Just, nearly one hundred miles, Tarleton ar- for fun, fun, fun. | arrived at dawn at Rugeley’s Mills. Here he learned that Colonel Buford was about On 'the contrary. It was Buford who de tained flic messenger in desultory talk, E'bfle apparently considerin summons. But at length the American j commander dismissed the British cap- PURSUING THE AMERICANS. j tain with the following -brief reply: Colonel Buford was marching with allj “Sir, I reject your proposal, and shall possible haste and had the advantage of j defend myself to the last extremity, a good start, but he was hampered by I Tarleton. meantime, without waiting bis wagon train. Aware of this fact,] for the return of his flag, which alone Cornwallis detached from Ills command should have terminated the ttmee he 170 dragons, 100 mounted Wifantry and himself had declared by its despatch one three-pounrler, with Tarleton in com- had been pressing quietly forward and mand. The latter, with his- usual untir-j preparing his men for an attack oil the ing energy, pushed forward in pursuit of | unsuspecting Americans. This movement the retiring Americans, regardless of the, in iUelft under the cfroums tn nc es. was a hot and sultry weather, which was ex-1 . . . hausting to man and beast. Many of his] ^ ‘he courtesies of war. as the horses gave out under the combined • , . l e " s n orc & urotil the return of strain of the heat and rapid march. But] ^messenger with an adverse answer little did this trifle trouble Tarleton. He I to _, the sl,tnm ° ns ' was marching through a country where! . ni0rnen * that Kinlock returned to horses abounded, and these he took pos-i ' ns conlIaan det\ 'bearing Buford's reply, session of as suited his needs, without] aai 'le ,on unmasked his forces, and regard to the rights of their peaceful I burled his cavalry in a furious charge owners. That he wanted them was] on as t°utided Americans, who, as we enough. Such of his men as could not! have sa:d.. had been led to believe him keep up with this rapid march he left] many miles behind them. Consequenfly behind to fare among their enemies as) Buford was utterly unprepared for so best they might. That was Tarleton’s prompt an appearance of his fierce ene- way, even with his own men. No con- my. As the British came rushing down sideration, no obligations of humanity were ever allowed to stand in the way until he could fall upon him at leisue. j than those of other European universi- “New York managers are sending up a wall for chorus gfrls.” "What for?” “I don’t know. Perhaps to help save the Lumper crop of wild oats.”—Pittsburg Post. upon him. Buford hastily drew up his men in order of battle on the rght of the of the attainment of any object he had] road. His artillery and wagons were In view. • far in u-he advance, under escort of a part of his infantry. To. these he sent immediate orders to continue their march with all dispatch, while he held back the British. The American force was naturally con fused at the unexpected attack, an! U twenty miles in advance, and marching with all possible rapidity to effect a; j, ad an unscrupulous and merciless fee to junction with another body of American j ^ : troops, Tarleton, pausing scarcely l-^ngl Continued on Fourth Page. ties. There seems to be a boom for higher education all over the continent. Tarleton’s i The number of students In the twenty- one universities of Germany has increased from 29.117 In 1895 to 42,390 In 1906. The University of Berlin is now, next to the University of Paris, the largest in stitution of learning in the world, having 8.081 students during the last year. Tho University of Paris has nearly twice as many—more than 15,000. Bonn has 2,903 and Heidelberg 1,443. But Geneva is not exclusively an educa tional town; its mercantile business and manufacturing are both extensive, profit able and Increasing rapidly. For several centuries It has been the center of the fur trade, dividing that Interest with London and Lelpsic. It is impossible to determine had it happens, but the larg est fur dealers In Europe are established in Geneva, and manufacturers from ai over the world come here twice a year • to attend auctions of rare furs and skins. Geneva fur dealers have buyers traveling constantly through Siberia, Manchuria, Mongolia, Persia, through the jungles of darkest Africa, among the peaks of the Andes and the Orinoco, picking up pelts which are shipped here to be redressed, and then are sold at auction semi-annual ly. Most of the European furs go to Leipsic, where they are auctioned off in a similar manner. London controls the seal fur trade. Geneva claims the most skilful experts in fur dressing, tanning and dyeing. They are so skilful that they can turn the hide of a cat into royal ermine, and a muskrat pelt into sable without the slightest difficulty. Of course everybody knows that Continued on Fourth Pag*