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SIXTH < PAG£
THE SUNNY SOUTH.
OCTOBER 6, 1906.
Talks on Timely Topics.
£ PROPOSED CURE FOR DRUNK
ENNESS.
LEXANPER STEPHENS
often declared his belief
that the ibost way to bring
about temperance was to
promote drinking of light
native wines. He instanced
the absence of drunken
ness in France and Italy,
where every man. woman
and child drank wine. This
cure for the evil of in
toxication is now put for
ward as something new in
•‘Every <T»ay Housekeep-
wrlter who has traveled a
abroad and has resided in
Paris. He says: “France Is a nation of
drinkers—men. women and children—but
drunkenness is rare in this country. I
traveled all through the provinces and
Stayed for weeks in Paris,
traversed the city from end t
during all the time 1 saw
drunken man; that was
ing" by a
great deal
seeing: fi
: as oom-
where I
i end, and
but one
on the wharf of
the marine city of Boulogne. In Paris T
■aw not a single instance of drunkenness.
I have traveled in a leisurely way
through Italy twice without
drunken person, though wine i
moil a drink there as soda water is with
us. I do not recall seeing an intoxicated
person in Germany during two extensive
trips across that empire, nor in Belgium
and Holland did I observe any intoxica
tion."
How lamentably different it is in Amer
ica! Seeking for a cause for this great
difference, the writer quoted above con
cludes that it lies in the use by foreign
nations of only light wine.: and ale,and that
the remedy for intemperance in this
country is to charge very high rates for
licenses to sell whisky, rum and other
strong drinks, to limit the places where
these are sold to a very few, and to
have these places under I borough inspec
tion. License any reputable person to!
sell light wines, beer and ale, and require; tllere liavc been
working people grew more intense, ana
ht; wrote his powerful novel, “The Mys
teries of Paris,” followed by another
work not less popular and strong—“The
Wandering Jew.” These books were im
mensely popular. They were trans
lated into all languages, and helped to
forward the great socialist movement.
Sue afterwards wrote "The Mysteries
of the People,” “The Devil Doctor.” and
other novels, but none of these achieved
thb popularity of the "Mysteries of
Paris,” and “The Wandering Jew.” Alt
er the revolution of 1848, oue returned
lrom exile, and was eiecleu a member
of the assembly. He uieu at Savoy m
August, loos. lie is at toe heau of
melodramatic fiction of tile nineteen in
century.
As to your question concerning the ne
gro. it' is difficult to form any estimate
about the race, since they are being so
rapidly mongrelized, and mixed witli
other races. The pure black race will
probably become extinct in time. ) ne
negro domain extends from flic African
mainland to the Fiji Archipelago, tne
Philippines, Australasia, Malay, the West
India islands, and North and South
America, in addition to the pure black,
we have the mulatto tof white and
negro parents), ihe mestizit Jnuian aiu*
negro), the zambo (negro and native
Mexican), and a number of other halt-
easte breeds. The quadroon is the is
sue of mulatto and white parents. The
octoroon lias but one-eighth of negro
blood, and is the on spring of white and
quadroon parents. The .virican negroes
are the degenerated descendants of far
superior, prehistoric races, whose noble
archicturai remains have lately been dis
covered in tlie heart of the Dark Con
tinent.” Egypt, in the northern part
of Africa, was the cradle of learning
and art. The native Egyptians are now
miserable, ignorant barbariuns, who
never heard of the kingly Pharaohs, or
of Cleopatra and her magnificent court.
They burn the mummied kings and demi
gods as fuel, and build their wretched
huts in the shadow of the ancient
temples and pyramids. 'I lie scheme of
human affairs is a see-saw. It is up;
then down. Nations rise to the highest
pinnacle of civilization, then sink to
tlie dentils of savagery. We Anglo-
Saxons are on the up grade now, and it
is hard to imagine tiiat we shall ever
retrograde—but history repeats itself .
With the Household
All Communications to This Department Should Be Addressed to MBS. MARY E. BRYAN, Clarkston, Qa., Inquiries and
Letters Requiring Answers by Mail Must Be Accompanied by Postage.
Chat With Householders.
UR friends, the advertise is
popped in last week to let
us know that the business
season had opened. Their
visit called for more
space, and to give it. the
genius of the printing
room lopped off the con
cluding paragraphs of my
i imely Talk. In which T
told you that I was there
at that big centennial pa
rade and heard the thrill
ing rebuke given by
“Marching Through Georgia ”
brer, hurled at the gallant
and his troops appeared.
I heard the approving cheers from
showing that right and
toward each other will assert
“Dixie” to
which had
Gord- n as
AI
20.000 throat
just foclin
itself among men
A ns
pm
Can any of our readers tell Mr. c. R
! Aiken, of Lone Oak, Texas, who is til
1 author of a poem called “The Skull,"
! ginning thus:
ie-
skull, how striking, yet
mortality: No human
“Behold this
how still;
Sad emblem of
skill
Discerns the thoughts that here in life
did dwell.”
poem on ;
a number
skull, and
'f versuied
seated at a table in a saloon that
secluded from public view. The writer
gives as a reason for this, that if a man
our mortality, but I do not recall hav-
ever before read the lines quoted.
goes into a saloon where every one pass- |
see him, he will quickly gulp
ilasses of strong
glass of 1 caui Lawrence nuqoar was Dorn l
nerhans Dayton, Ohio, on Juna 27. 1872, and die.
. ^ last spring. lie was dark brown ii
mg "mi en or. He graduated from the Daytoi
asks: "Please tell me if
ing can see him, he will MUicKiy gu*P j anU author-had ^a”high'“hcHo.T"odica-
down a glass or two glasses ol strong, Uon? Was he of pure African blood?
liquor and 'become intoxicated; but if he | How old was lie when he died? \> nat
were seated in a comfortable chair at a ; books did lie write?”
table, where he could sip his glass of | ^ Until Lawrence Duqbar was born
wine or beer, and take his case,
glancing over the paper or chattiu e --“ coor. He graduated from the Dayton
a companion, lie would spend perhaps j High school in 1891. In 1898 he married
ten minutes or more over his glass, and Alice Ruth Moore, in New York, where
not care for more. He savs: ‘'! have j was writing for newspapers. His
seen entire families in Germany and ! 1 ‘ r ? t va !'. ln ."\ P oen «- published ** 1893.
. ... a «. . , , called Oak and Ivy. Afterwards
Austria sit around a table in a beer | he published "Majors and Minors.”
garden with one glass each before them, j "Lyric,# of Lonely Life." "Folks in
and drink no more. The glass drank in Dixie, "The Uncalled,” "Lyrics of the
this way did not harm them as much as j Hearthside,’ “Cabin and l v iedd, The
*■- " Gideon,” “Candle Lightin'
and several other volumes of
verse, together with several novels.
Home comfortless drug store counter. | among them "The Sport of the Gods,"
These suggestions are worth looking j and "Fanatics.” He lived in Washing-
into and given a trial. We have such ton City, but went west when his healtli
*- a T"""..“..I
r":-.
<es,gn , s diamond shaped. the
anout an inch long, the letters, S. «
■eire in black piiaiupI
eiiriinej. the prize for
ver baqge Is 25 cents, for
gold. 30 cents, and
a n lj
sil-
one in rolled
■ I-., ,,,, for a solid gold
dge $1.50. The badg,
ton’s letter came one telling of a young
wife, whose husband’s love failed—utter
ly, when she became a faded invalid-
after the birth of her child. After treat
ing her with brutality, he took her, as
she thought, to pay a short visit to her
mother; but, as she was thinking of
going back to her home, a note came,
saying she need never return, as he no
longer cared for her. So there are sad
desertions on the part of husbands, also.
And yet there are many loyal devoted
married pairs, whom only death can part.
Tlie dislo.vhl ones—like army deserters—
are tlie exceptions. Remember that, dear
Mr. Orton.
One of our Household boys. Anagram,
is to be congratulated. He has
been nominated in the primary
(equivalent to election) to the
office of auditor. He is young, tnl-
entc,} and ambitions. We wish him suc
cess. Our Will Gunter writes that he is
better, and we may hope soon to hear
from him. He has been one of the as
piring brave-hearted ones, whom ill health
has handicaped. Slip Is well enough
again to be writing sweet letters to some
of our girls. Let him look out for Elam.
John Sims, I am sorry 1 missed those
roses and the visit, because of the un
timely rains.
"Stigma," Emily Selkirk’s strong “pin-
number of little negroes came to the
palings, saying: "Please ma’am, gi’ me
er cake.”
Not wishing to be stingy, she thought
she might spare one or two cakes, but
said': “Take these, but don’t tell I
gave them to you.”
In a short time here came a regular
team, and attaching themselves to the
palings, all began to beg at once:
"Miss, you gi’ Jim and Nancy cakes,
gi’ us some, too.” and there was such
a cute expresion on their dusky faces
that Saliy had to grant their request.
Then an old woman came along and
said: “You oughtn't to be doing dis
business. You folks is big people. What
you selling cakes for?” and the old wom
an looked so hungry that Sally had to
give her a cake.
Ry this time hrr stock was very much
reduced, and not a, sale had she made,
when into the yard hounded half a _jlozen
or more school children who had come
by to play In the big old shady yard
with her little brother.
“What you doin', sis? What, got
cakes? Give us some. W» are most
starved.”
How could she refuse her petted “lit
tle bud." when she had indulged the
little negroes. She gave each child a
cake and there wore very few left.
Just then tlie hotel porter came to the
i fence and said:
“Miss, T heard yon had fresh eakes
I SEND IT FREE
TO SUFFERING WOMEN
i Wonderful Medical Discovery
that Cures Womea of Female
Diseases and Piles, Sent FREE.
Women no longer need submit to embarrassing
examinations and big doctor bills. To show good
faith and to prove to you that I can euro you I will
send free a package of my remedy to every sufferer.
1 hold the secret of a discovery whi-h rarely fails to cure women of
piles or female weakness. Falling of the womb, painful menstrual
periods, leucorrhea, granulation, ulceration, etc., are very readily
cured by iny treatment, I now offer this priceless secret to the women
of America, believing that it will effect a cure, no matter how long
you have suffered or how many doctors have failed. I do not ask
any sufferer to take my unsupported word for this, although it is as
true as gospel. If you will send me your name and address, I will
send you a package of this discovery absolutely free, which will show
you that you can be cured. Do not suffer another day but just sit
down and write me for it now.
n. MILLER, - Box 2056 KOKOIRO, IND.
in the work!. In such a position T would
not say goodhy. I would appeal to all
the tenderness in his nature—if he had
any—anq ask 1dm to help me to rear
his children to a state of usefulness and
happiness. If this did not avail. I would
then eall in the aid of the strong arm of
the law, and 1 would make him support
his children. Oh. yes, T can be firm When
I fee] that the occasion demands it.
Mr. Pritchard, the foreman of the
printing room, has kindly promised to
show me over tlho big place where tlie
"Sunny” is printed at night, and When T
go see. maybe i'll tell the Houshold all
about it.
eiliier a
makers,
Roehest
badge c
design."
if tlie
: stick pin or br
Charles K. Grom
r. X. Y. By pa yin
n lie made larger
Tlie desigi
h. fr
ordered
Turner
"Farmer
the
Co., | to liea
more the j yielded
pose novel.” c*
iisliers, Herbert
of Boston, Mass,
your address on
J. Holleway, of Edison. Oa
more about that
Can you furnish
some for
you
good results. I fear
had crop year. The
. ... early summer
j ,fu "ere a little larger, it I pave all been broken.
ii i e perlect. "It will,” savs <;. W I Many are Liisappointed at missing Julia
about ten days for i—->- . I
had of the pub- j ,n sell
& Compant, J g )lp barely had enough, but slip lot him
Piease send ( havp them an(i engaged cakes for sev-
ard to Mr. Clifford j pra | days to come.
who wants i “How did you hear about the cakes?”
farm which | she asked
r with tiie same j you have found this a bad
very neat, and j golden promises of the
"tali
I w
fair,
of ti,
ish
Tt will lie
• rain, I onvv
after it is ordered
we could all attend the Florida
fine exhibit. In spite
. . . - Mr. Pleas (Grandpa),
his trip across the
pxhib:t.-\ He sends me a
that beautiful flesh-eater
plant. It is gorgeousl
red. which n
purpose of
t lie badge to Tait's welcome book reviews, owing to an
honey, it would be
country collecting
specimen of
-the pitcher
spotted with dark
! say is for the
attracting insects seeking
11 n ra 1
[ a-icidcnt. these have not appeared re
cently, but will be resumed. Our gifteu
Julia has been engaged by Mr. Pearson
to review books for bis magazine. The
Literary Banner, also by Mr. Wiggle,
for his forth-coming monthly. “The
Mocking Bird.” This week we have for
our picture gallery Geraldine’s sweet face
and an excellent portrait of our gallant
knight. I have received a fine picture of
Buck Bullock for next week. Also T have
"1 tasted the one you gave my little
hoy. and it was so fresh and sweet 1
thought we couldn't do better than to
patronize you.”
So “Sail v Bunn” had started in her
business, and she had advertised wed
when, in kindness, she had given a cake
to a little colored boy.
MATTIE HOWARD.
Lovingly,
ITA LY
HEMPERLY.
MISS SOPHIE WRIGHT, OF NEW
ORLEANS.
Out of the one hundred thousand White
men and boys of N
,• Orleans one thou
sand are depending for their education j ^
upon one woman. Tiiir. woman. Miss So
phie Wright, is not one of the
rich philanthropists.
nit is
fair in
a glass of our ice-cold soda poured down j 01
the throat of a heated man or woman at
quantities of light native wines, and
could have more if demanded, and at
cheaper rates. Human beings seem to
crave stimulating drinks, and if these
are given them of light quality and per
fectly pure in a respectable place, with
comfortable homelike surroundings, it
may be that the craving could be satis
fied without intoxication. To require that
such places should be carefully and con
stantly inspected would be doing a great
deal toward bringing out the desired re-
aults. M. E. B.
WITH CORRESPONDENTS.
A "South Carolina Reader" asks:
"Please give me a sketcli of the life of
Eugene Sue, in the Household. Do ills
other works come up to the standard of
tiie ’Wandering Jew?’ Also, please tell
me if It is true, as I have seen it stated,
that the negro race is dying out in
Africa and elsewhere, and will, in course
of time, become extinct.”
Eugene Sue's true naTne was Joseph
Marie Sue. lie was born at Paris, oil
December 10, 1804. His father was a
prominent surgeon, possessed of ample
means—a physician at tlie court of
Napoleon Bonaparte. The Empress Jo
sephine was the boy's godmother,
though as soon as lie could think for
himself he repudiated kings, and was
tilled with sympathy for the people. So
acknowledged were his socialistic views
that he was banished from France after
Napoleon had made himself emperor.
Previous to this, he followed liis father's
profession. He was a surgeon in the
army in Spain during the campaign of
1823, when lie was but little over 18,
and was in tlie battle of Navarino. He
then began to write sea stories—full of
advent’.re—"Kernock, the pirate.” "The
Salamander,” and others. He also
wrote "John Cavalier” before he was
30 years old. His sympathy with tli
failed. He died of
lie was 34 years old.
consumption when
Mr. Picas' beautiful nnrl va-
riod collection of Florida views. lie is a
peerless artist with the camera.
Durward's trip east took him no Tar- !
(hot than to Athens. Ala., where he i
had a delightful visit to Fineta. who '
found him uniquely interesting and
handsome, while he thinks she is one'
ot tiie south’s queenly women. I have not
heard from him since he met Mizpah,
"ho did tlie honors at Nashville for him.
or our Julia Tait. of Memphis, and
rarndla Avery, of fit. Louis, whom he
intended visting. Mizpah says: "He is I
finet looking than his picture, well !
versed in books, and his talk and manners j
tell o fgood 'blood and gentle breeding” I
M. M. D„ of Arcadia. La., write I
aguin. I told you why your very bright I
letter was not published. It’s Irony •
would not have been understood by a '
number of our readers. It is a singula”
fact that many bright, educated peo lie
cannot 'appreciate irony. Lucretia, I have
vain for your address. It is
worth going to the ! an excellent programme, stories by Mat-
tie Howard, Faye.
Grady Travis and
Moonshiner. Jennie
number of others.
M. E. B.
TO MARGARET A. RICHARD.
I.
"The sun iwlll sthine again some day,”
This sweet voiced singer said,
“God works His own mysterious way.”
While darkly o'er the head
Of this dear child.
The storm cloud< wild,
Their threatening pinions spread.
H.
looked
more than
The snn will shine again for you,
Where pain cannot annoy.
The sun of life and health and love.
The sun of hope and joy
Will shine with bright
And purest light.
As gold ‘without alloy.
ETHELP.ERTA.
Sampsell, Go.
I if ore she can devote an hour io tlie
needy, she must give another hour's work
to defray her own daily expenses. She
gained her own education unaided—often
studying but a day ahead of lier pupils.
Many other women, less frail and crip
pled than Miss Wright, are “shut-ins."
Her hair is prematurely whitened by suf
ferings; her body is encased in steel har
ness arid she can walk only on crutches.
Despite this physical handicap, she
teaches every morning in a private scliwo!
to earn her own livelihood. Every ai tor-
noon her time is given to charities. Every
night she faces the multitude of boys and
men, from nine years of age ’to fifty,
who throng her school house to be In
structed by her and her assistants. Miss
Wright has had to call upon volunteers
to help her care for her pupils.
The pupils are enrolled upon hut two
conditions—that they are employed dur
ing the day school hours, and that they
are too poor 'to pay. So In the night
school arc men. whose determined pur-
deadened
DEFEAT MAY BE GAIN—MY
PLATONIC FRIEND.
I have heen in the valley of the
shadow and the way out was difficult
and painfully slow. But oh, how much
those days in the valley taught me.
When T expected most any time to bo
culled to render an account of niv
“stewnrtship,” mi - life seemed very in
complete and selfish. Perhaps, though,
most every one’s life is incomplete at
my age. Now. however, that another
chance is given me I hope at least to he
of son-.e use to humanity.
I wonder why the things we covet most
are generally denied us. Oftentimes this
is for the best. Recently I heard one
of our southern orators lecture. Ho has
reputation of being rather cynical,
world's I and as lie llatl Just suffered a political
poor that | defeat, I naturally expected some bit
just as reprehensible as to strain them.
Darwin was not an atheist. The sum of
his sinning was that lie did not believe
that God's natural laws are as defective
as some do who claim to be the only
real bona-fide worshipers of a supreme
being. This was the extent of his
“materialism.”
Unadilla, you can always find some one
to quote against anything, it matters
not how true it may be. Opinions are
not argument.
Errata.—Of the many errors, typo
graphical and grammatical (the latter
due to my haste and carelessness—yes.
and to my ignorance) that have appeared
in my letters, f wish to correct two. In
one of my letters T said that our Teutonic
ancestors were once savages, clad in skins
of wild boasts, and were decorated with
the “wond plant." not "war paint” as it
was typed. Tn my reply to Senex. th“
word “asseveration" should he substi
tuted for "asservation."
JOHN MASON.
A simple vegetable remedy that cure
nil female diseases and piles. T will sen
free to every sufferer. Write Mrs. Cor
B. Miller. Box 2056. Kokomo. Ind.
terne;
his talk. But not so Tt
was a message of love and tenderness
to mankind, and I thought that after all
he had gained by his defeat.
To those interested in iplatonie friend
ship i will say that I am testing the
theory. Since last winter T've had a
very kind friend of the platonic order. I
will let you know the termination.
The other day I received a lecture on
mingling with those beneath me socially.
They wound up by saying, “you have
less idea of class distinction than any
body I ever knew.” The cause of all
this was innocent enough. We were at
a mountain resort ana we drove a great
deal to see different views, ete. Tt so
happened that we had th» same driver.
I became interested In this driver. He
was very handsome: when in repose his
face was exceedingly sad, hut when
talking his expression would brighten up
wonderfully. At first. I would talk to j
NOT A VEGETARIAN—THE PARK
PIGNEY.
Dear M"h—T saw in your chat your
surmise that possibly T may be a Budd
hist or a t heoscinliist. judging by my
sympathy for animals, hut I am not a
'em vert to those old eastern faiths, which
have been tr-nspl 1 nted here. [ come of
old Calvanistic stock, and shun all fads.
But, like the people of tiie Orient. I
worship divinity in all created things, be
lieving that it goes far back, beyond even
the animals whom I greatly love. The
wise new western philosophy—which Is
science—meets the wise old cistern phi
losophy half way these latter days. But
I stand by tlie precepts of St. Paul in re
gard to pushing things to extremes. What
modern author is it who says, “Never
push anything to a logical conclusion.”
As for “passing meat with a shudder”—
j don't you believe it *T remember some
j time ago. in accordance again with °t.
: Paul's injunction to ‘try all things—lunch-
| ing at a physical culture restaurant in
; Twenty-third street, on vegetable diet, I
I cal a whole course of curious imitation
I dishes; and they and the thought of them.
so preyed upon internal anatomy and
I mental mechanism that T was lamentably
I iii for two days. Now. that doesn't sound
| like being a food vegetarian, does it?
A HOME BROKEN UP.
A blow has been struck me— a numbing.
month since a friend of' ^tsiHerilngr blow. It is hut a glaneina
Sorry Sappho sends a poem, which she
asks me to criticize In the liouseho-a
"with perfect frankness,” adding, "1
don't care how harsh you are. I want
to learn, and nobody will know who
'Sorry Sappho’ is. I sent these verses
to a paper, which has never before re
fused a poem of mine, and I have sent j Alma D.
several there. They gave no reason,
save that it was not up to the stand
ard.' 1 would like to know what is the
matter with it.”
The poem is called “The First Frost,"
and (lie opening verse violates a law of
rhetoric.
the Household—a sweet, kindly woman—
w'sncd to know where she might write
to you and tell you of a position she
thought would suit you. Her address
is Hattie L. Grantham. Estill, Miss I
would be glad If all who write wishing
for positions or information would giv~
in their letter ' *
offices.
blow, and another took the full Impact,
yet the effect upon me seems to have
been little short of that he appears to
have suffered. But he Is trying to as-
si me an unconcern, which he does not
feel.
They seemed so happy together, and
he was devoted to her. He made a good
pose to learn is not deadened by the j him just to see the change and gradually j th e mUe^A f lea n ' pVgm y ° w h o'\s hou.^I
weariness of a daj s work. En = a 0 ed in i wr , came to know each other quite well. ; with the h><” anos He has heen a sub
the practical things of life, many ofj He was mtle more than a boy. and he I .hetofa danyffiferertinthe pape^s.bu’
was always so courteous to us that I'[after I had championed the little block
didn't see any harm in talking to him. I rascal in accordance with what seemed
of life, many of
them do not wait for supper—do not hes
itate to walk 5 or 6 miles—to attend this;
•hool, where they attain to that pro
ficiency necessary to the success of their, Some of tlie
dailv life work. Go to any of the large j unpardonable
"October with her winds as broom
Swept the brown forest like a room.
In which to throne tiie ’White Queen
Frost.
Then back the gray cloud curtains tost.
And lit tlie star lamps overhead.
While sank the sun in crimson bed.”
The old-time rhetorics, as well as the
new standard ones, enjoin writers not to
use comparisons that belittle the object
compared. Rule 4th in Emerson's and
Lockner's rhetoric says: “Similes and
metaphors should never be drawn from
things that are commonplace and trival;
such comparisons degrade style.” Rule
6lh declares that "metaphors should
never be carried into trivial details.”
Your comparison of the wild melan
choly, west winds of autumn (immor
talized by Shelley )into a broom that is
sweeping a room; and tlie gray clouds
into curtains—is trivial and belittling.
The following example of this Infringe
ment of a rule lor the use of met
aphors occurs in a much admired poem:
the
and
"Night drew her mantle round the earth
And pinned it with a star.”
HARD
days
come to over-worked
women, because of their
weakened female organs,
which cannot stand the
vital drain that over-work
causes. Pain, backache,
headache, sideache, etc.,
can be cured with
Tlie "mantle” might pass, but the
star-pinning simile is a trivial detail,
j Eminent writers ’have been guilty ot
' this fault. Edgar Poe, who was a keen
ly discerning literary artist, helped to
break up tlie tendency to degrading fig
ures of speech in tlie poets of his day.
He severely criticized the inadequateness
of the simile in Longfellow's well known
poem, beginning
‘‘The Day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night
As a feather is wafted downwards
From an eagle in its lliglit.’’
I more inq
i contribu
| T would be very glad to hear from him
| again. Miss Hattie Safford, of Natehi-
j forties, La., who seems to be a cheerful
bright woman, though crippled with
rheumatism, would very much like to
have a refined woman companion and
housekeeper to live with her—in her lit
tle home, of which I think she is
only occupant. She will give board
$10 a month to such a companion.
T fear some of our gulf coast friends—
among them dear Mrs. Stratner. on her
fairy island—have suffered from the re
cent terrific hurricane that swept the
Florida west coast There we re har
rowing instances of loss and sufferin’”
On some of the Florida rivers, aiso|
there has been distress, because of t lie
phenomenal rains. June Rose writes:
( aloosa river lias been on a spree, con
sequently all our crops arc gone—disas-
for man and for poor boast. Many
groves badly damaged.”
great pity that such a shatter-
herished wife's eiope-
that cosy
trou
oran
It is
ing blow
ment should have fallen
little home which F. L. Orton was ac
customed to visit, and where he imbibed
ideas of domestic peace that helped to
counteract his cynicism as to love and
marriage. Now. this bad break o:i the
part of the good man’s wife will help. I
fear, to increase his skepticism, hut he
must copy the optimistic spirit of his.
wife-forsaken friend, who still brlieves
there are good women and true wives.
Poor man! One can feel how much re
pressed grief_ and mortification was con
centrated in ihe remark: “Old man. my
wife lias left me.” One is reminded of
what the poet (who knew through bitter
experience i said of Don Juan's lather
after the desertion of his wife:
was yesterday—or, ages ago.
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To compare tlie descending of vast,
mysterious night to the dropping of a
single feather from a bird's wing shows
poverty of i' agination, thought Poe. A
recent example of bad taste in the use of
simile occurs in “The Kentucky Car
dinal.” by Janies l>ane Allen, who has
written many beautiful things. In this!
instance he is not happy in liis figure of j
speech. He personifies the vivifying
spring with her showers and fresh
breezes as a charwoman “doing spring I
liouseeleaning, with the rain clouds for '
her water buckets, and tlie winds for
her brooms. What an .amount of
drenching and sweeping she can do in a
day! How she dashes pailful after pail
ful into every corner, until the eartli is
as clean as a newly-scoured floor!
Then, grasping her long brooms by the
handles, she goes out into tiie woods and
brats tlie icicles out of the trees as a
housewife brushes down cobwebs.”
Note how befitting is this personifica
tion of Nature as a woman in the throes
of housecleaning, with skirts tied up
and armed with scrubbing mop, buckets
and broom. It is almost as bad as Hudi-
bras’ comparison of the gorgeous- sun
set to a lobster that turns from red
to purple as it dies. Sueti metaphors
appeal to readers of crude literary taste,
because they deal with familiar things.
They regard such writing as imagina
tive. whereas it is merely fanciful in
a commonplace way.
The other verses of your poem, “Sorry
Sappho.” show poetic talent in a con
siderable degree. There are some errors
In the measure. You started out with
I ten syllables to a line, but in tue sec-
I ond verse you increase this to twelve
! syllables, and in the third you leap to
1 fourteen syllables. Did you ever try to
write in prose? I believe you could
write a good sketch or short story.
M. E. a
“Wlinte’er might his worthlessness or
worth
Poor 'fellow, he had many tilings to
wound him.
loot's own—since it can do no good on
earth.
It was a trying moment, that which
found him,
■Standing alone beside his desolate hearth
With all his household gods scattered
around him.”
In the same mail that brought Mr. Or-
FOLLOW
THE
FLAG.
mestic felicity. I have congratulated
him on his good fortune, and lie. believ
ing himself to he rarely favored, lias
accepted my congratulations as his just
due. He lias playfully rallied me for not
following his example. He has jovially
gloated over my loneliness, and referred
to himself as one who would not ex
change places with John D. Rockefeller.
But that was yesterday, or—was it
weeks ago!
She had been gone fOT the summer, and
as the autumn drew near his anxiety
for her return increased. All his loneli
ness would lie more than intoned for in
the joy of rhe returning. And I had
missed tlie pleasant evenings at their
flat. f. in my bachelorhood, found the
atmosphere so congenial there that I had
many times declared thai if T was sure
of drawing so well In (he lottery of love
I should turn myself over to the tender
mercies of Cuniii, and let him lead me
where, lie would.
Yes. that
'#■ -lia ps.
Now the very thought has vanished
like the golden eolors on the clouds wh°n
the declining sun has settled into the
west. Yet no dream of disaster clouded
the skies of that Sunday afternoon as I
turned my face in tlie direction of their
hr me. It wits a glorious autumn dav.
after tiie continuous, monotonous heat
of ear#’.- and middle September, and T *vqt
thoroughly In sympathy with the world
that seemed to be so joyous.
His greeting wa.o hearty as ever—per-
hape more so—but his second sentence
was: “Olq man. my wife lias left me.”
T was stunned; for * moment could not
believe it. then in his face T read the
eopfirm”tion. And in the moments that
followed. I learned that dirring all the
years of their married fife she bad been
in correspondence—sometimes worse than
correspondence—t itli another. Now she
Had gone to him. She had returned only
1" announce that she was going away. nn,i
his sun came out from behind the cloud
only to fall like a meteor Into abysmal
blackness.
Twice now has the same red hot iron
soared bis soul, yet be !s an optimist:
he still insists that there are more good
women than evil women, and more good
women tlvan good men in the world.
Twice has his confidence in woman proved
too great, yet his belief In the sex as as
body is still unshaken. But I am a
cynic, and although I know there are
grand women, noble women, true women.
I inquire: "Why shoulq T seek to pluck
the tempting frr.it when underneath the
skin, which looks so perfect to the eye,
tlu noxious worm may nest?”
F. L. ORTON.
centers of employment to ascertain the |
influence of Miss Wright's school, and |
you will he told that it is the best tiling,
lr. the efty of New Orleans. j
“Go to Miss Wright.” has become thej
watchword of ail those seeking dism-j
terested aid. either for one person or for
the entire community. A record of her
achievements for public benefit, is ac-
Possessing no means,
rolled thousands of dollars,
for the poor and igno-
h el pi ess and Incurable. Worn
he never spares herself.
And this beautiful. self-saerffWng life
should Inspire each of us io he less care
ful of self, more thoughtful of others, and
eager to make our lives more neoe?>saiy
to the manv less fortunafelv situated.
FINETA.
Athens, Ala.
ture.
Mississippi.
party thought it was an
offense, hence that lec-
MURIEL.
to me Tlie Times' ran view of the case,
that worthy 'Paper turned around on me
editorially and publicly called me “a senti
mentalist!" It didn't seem to me ouite
fair, and T was moved to private remon
strance. which no doubt was of small
concern to The Times. May its shadow
never grow less!
The enclosed verses will shew you that
iwhat small cudgel I have. f still wield
efense of what seems to me the under
plants and animals than any of his pred
ecessors. He was an investigator and a
thinker before lie was a writer, and lie .
was a geologist—the peer of any—before '
THE DISINHERITED.
Swiftlv mv star arose—
Swifter it sunk:
Now all the world is gloom.
All of fife blank.
Now waxes faint my heart;
Now all the fruit
Fcpptol-1 in springtime Fate
Treads underfoot.
Dumb are tlie lips that spoke
My praise of yore-
Flowers thnt bloomed once for me
Blossom no more.
Dreams (hat made once my
Hopeful and glad.
Vtonlsh. and leave me now
Songless and sad.
fife
How can T five. O GoU
How ran T hear
After defeat like this
Life’s toil ang care?
How can T live. O God’
How can T know
After such grief as this.
Sunshine or snow?
Brought we little Ota Penga.
Dwarfed, benighted, without guile.
Scarcely more than are or monkey,
Yet a man the while!
THOSE MISSING LINKS.
Darwin did not simply write a book,
i nor two books: lie did an immense
amount of the most careful work in the .
realm of nature. He iearr.ed more of j
dog.
OTA BENGA.
From bis native land of darkness.
To the country of the free,
lie became an evolutionist. He knew I ^ !1 H ie interest of science
wherein the geological evidences are And of broad humamtv,
strong in support of evolution, and in j
what respect they are deficient. And he j
also knew that the geological record j
(particularly in regard to fossils) is not, |
and that it can never be, complete.
Of many species only one or two fossils |
have ever been found; and. as species!
even today are found only within a small
area, to find 9ne fossil of each of tlie
numerous species that have lived and
left fossils behind would require .a dig
ging up of the earth to the depth of a
few miles in every part of the globe.
Then we would have no meins of know
ing that even one-lentli of all the species
(especially of land animals) have left
even one fossil behind to record its ex
istence.
Of the many thousands of species whose
fossil remains have been found, doubtless,
many have become extinct and have left
no progeny. Of a far greater number
supposed to be extinct we cannot be so
sure, for in a natural classification many
fossil species certainly stand between
living genera. As Buckland long ago re
marked. extinct species can all be classed
either in still existing groups, nr between
them. Darwin puts it tills way:
So. to tutor and enlighten—
Fit him for a nobler sphere—
Show him ways of truth and knowledge
Teach the freedom we have here
In this land of foremost progress—
In this Wisdom’s ripes* agi—
We have placed him, in high honor.
In a monkey cage!
As companions we provide him.
Apes, "gorillas, chimpanzees.
He's content! Wherefore decry them
When he seems at ease?
So he chatters and lie jabbers
Tn his jargon, asking naught
But fop "Money—money—money!”
Just as we have taught!
M. E. BUHL'ER.
A TRAINED NURSE’S OUTING.
We professional nurses have very fit-
tie time for social interests during this
season, bu' while my patient is sleepin-’
I wifi try and tell you
summer's outln
ometliing of my
Of course, if the doe-
Drink unto thirst men give;
When men starve, bread:
I starve for fame—O Lord!
Die—all unfed.
ARTHUR GOODENOUGH.
A LITTLE TALK.
One day not long ago I made up my
mind to see our Mother Meb at Tlie Con
stitution building, and when my mind
is made u'p It just won't unmake. So,
after a little persistant annoyance to
some other people, I found myself with
this dear little mother on the fifth floor
of the big building. You have all read
what others had to say of this brilliant
woman, and I shall only echo what they
have said and then tell you about her
eyes—such splendid eyes—eyes that can
caress or command and hold you with
their charm and mystic spell.
These eyes were lifted to mine from
the proofs of the Household page. None
of you can realize how much patience
ana time it requires to get all the House
hold matter carefully prepared and
placed. And surely no letter of Ill-natured
complaint would ever come to mar the
’’Suppose B and C to he two species, and j [’op'Yi'ad not prescribed a vacation I would
a third. A, to be found in an older and j never have taken one during the busy
underlying bed; even if A were strictlv j sunlme i' months, but doctors are very ex-
intermediate between R and C. it would j acting and we nurses have only to obey,
simply he ranked as a third and distinct j Kirstf T went to the seashore, but was
species, while A might he tlie actual | so jred T would let the waves wash me
progenitor of B and C. and yet would j under every time T went in surf bathing,
not necessarily be strictly intermediate j h, t t ; enjoyed it, except when there were
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SALLY LUNN S BUSINESS VEN- i faithfully the dear little mother tries to
TURE. give satisfaction, to each and all.
Her name was Sara Smith, hut she was While blinking of the sweetness and
called Sally Limn as a compliment to charm of our wonderful Aleb, I recall
her ability for making nice cake, indue!-1 another face—the face of Evelyn Hol
ing the kind called Sally Lunn. | man. Evelyn is a member of thl
The time had come when it was neces. | Little Mather's household at Clarkston.
sary for Sally to do something to help and at the risk of giving the Knight a
support lierself. Her people had verv “grouch," I am going to tell the House-
little means, though they lived in a big hold about her. She is a girl with a
‘ iface like a. blossom, and she has the
lovelies’ bronze hair—that shade that
holds the wonderful tints you sometimes
find in the autumn leaves after you thinv
they are all dead. There now. Sir
between them in all respects.”
But there are certain fossil species
showing tlie transitional stage so plainly
between widely severed families, orders
and dasses as to leave no room for
doubt. For instance, the pireiasatiru
sort of half aligator. half lion (a skeleton
of which is Ip the British museum),
shows not only in general outline, hut in
many ways, to be transitional between
existing reptilian and mammalian orders.
It Is found in the Permian formations, an
older system than that in which the old
est known mammal is found.
Older than the true bird Is the archaeo
pteryx. a bird in all respects, even to
the feathers, save that it had teeth of a
reptilian order: a slender llzardlike tail
of more than twenty vertebrae, and that
the digits of its wing bones terminated
in sharp daws—showing that the wing of
the bird is but a modification of the'
fore leg of the reptile.
Belonging to a later period, the Cre
taceous. there has heen found in Kansas
that which is In every respect a bird,
save that it had reptilian teeth.
Man did not arrive by the way of the
bird. The bird forms a side line to the
mammal, for .both were evolved from
the reptilia.
Even as widely sundered divisions as
the animal and vegetable kingdoms are ,
too many accommodating men in. They
are so much interested i,n teaching you to
float and swim. A crowd of us went in
tiie surf one night. We all had two men
each to keep us from accidents, hut those
hoys did not behave very well, and when
they mentioned the exciting experiences
j tlie next day I expressed surprise tiiat
! they imagined I had been in with them.
■ They do not yet know who that tall girl
I was that the waves so often knocked
| down. Naughty, oh?
[ From there J went to Asheville, and
| thinking T needed a course of spiritual
i and mental enlightenment I attended the
I meeting of young people's mission study
: convention, there in session. My usual
i attendance at church lias averaged about
three times a year recently, and having
so much Bible study and being in such
I a religious element rather stunned me.
I One of t.he ministers spoke to me of be-
j ing such a reserved, serious person.
told him I was afraid to be natural, but
was just waiting to get far enough away
to react from tlie strain. He laughed
heartily and said T’n let the pendulum
swing back too far the other way. but
I ni glad I was there. I 'then went to
Glenn Springs and had a most delight
ful stay. I was one of the many who
enjoyed the bowling, boxlball, baseball
and target shooting, and you may ask
Round Trip HOME-SEEKERS EXCUR
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Drop postal card for particulars-
F. W. GREEN. D. P. A..
.Wabash R- R-. Louisville. Kr.
old rambling house, much dilapidated.
The yard was large and shady with
some fine old trees. There was one cor
net- along which ran a side street, where
a good many working people passed on
their way to business. Sallv cleared
tliis corner of weeds, and under the
shade of a big oak fho placed a table
and a chair. She had cooked a quantity
of crisp tea cakes and ginger snaps
and, spreading a dainty white cloth upon
the table, she arranged on It a vase of
flowers and her cakes in pretty fanev
baskets. Then she seated herself and
waited for customers. She had pro
vided paper bags and having no weigh
ing scales, she proposed to sell her
cakes by numbers.
Not long bad she been seated when a
Knight. The secret is out, and we must
have Evelyn's picture In the Houses
hold.
Lomacita, you are a dear little psychol
ogist. When we all realize that we carry
others upward with us. when we un
ifold iproperly. and that this is a part of
our unfoldment, we will all strive to
keep the upward path.
No. dear Householder, it certainly would
not be easy for a wife with little chil
dren to kiss her husband goodby. If she
Is dependent upon him for support. To
me this seems one of the saddest things
connected by several existing species so any one present if I’m not good at the
strictly intermediate that scientists do bat and a fine shot. Why, T was proud
not agree ns to which kingdom they ; of myself, only missed one ball and rung
properly helond. | the hell as often as those expert shots.
Tt is lust as true that no fossil of sev- i But there! As our old mammy would say,
oral other late arrived mammals has j “Self praise is half scand'lous. chile."
ever heen found imbeded in hard rock, as : Since returning T have been nursing ty
it is true of man.
“Men adopt a theory and then strain
the facts to support it." With a little
change in the wording. th' s applies also
to the other side. To dodge facts is
phoid fever oases constantly. This is my
fifth ease. Don’t you know I need a
change?
MATTIE HAWTHORNE MoCROREY.
Columbia, S. C.
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