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i v w i U/ye SUNNY *SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Buslnefs Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATL^TA. GEORGIA Subscription Terms: To thoio who lubacrib* to tfjbe Sunny South only Six Months, 25c V* One Year, 50c LESS THAN A. PENNY A. WE.E.II K«t»r*d it the veateOee Atlanta, Ga.,as HCiid-eliH Ball mllM March 13, 1901 Imperceptibly, almost, and occasionally against our wills, they color our lives and our actions—some times for better, sometimes for worse. But, after all, how we do love them!—these idols. They press a ghostly hand on our shoulders as we strive forward with the day’s work. They . [ sit silently Ify our side as the lamp lightens the i midnight hour. We smite hip and thigh in that Along' the Highway By FRJtWK L. STJtNTOM into a world otherwise too sad, with its merciless and exacting realities? The Sunny Smuth la the aldaat mtMy ycyir mf Lltereture, Jlomanea, FaA and PI A! an In the South 4P It la nom re* Jlarod to thm original shape and mill bm publlahed aa fort marly a wary momh jp Paundmd In 1(74 It gram until 1S99, urban, aa a monthly, Ita form aworn changed aa an expert* mant w It nom roturna to Ita original formation aa m meekly mlth renamed vigor end the Indention of ecllpm teg Ita moat promlalng period In the poet. Idols Not Confined to the Heathen look, and lo!—there is the Presence, in undim in- j gushers Tailed heir"work” 5 exUn | God’s sky flames crimson o’er land ished brightness. ! A few days later, at the town meeting; I ar, d sea, And whether of pure gold or with feet of clay, i so,ne citi2ens tried to leani the reason - j And th ® 1 ' e ’ s no , white rose in the or whether just a nurage conjured by our own. j ject> one of them said . . Mr . chairman. ! imagination—do they not give life a more vital : I make a motion that the fire extinguish-j tt- meaning? Do they not bring the light of fairyland i ers be-examined ten days before every; It was ever so long—so long ago, into O „rorU otl 1P r„,; c , t™ Ld it. m J^\uoo f,re ” In a valley dim-unblest; — for the sake of the woman we both The Auto Abroad. j loved so— (Fro*n 11 Mondo Umoristico.) j A flower she wore on her breast— “Hey, there! It is forbidden to walk A witness mute in the flowerless sod, on the railway tracks.” j There’s the gleam of a grave twixt "Do not be afraid, my good man. We my soul and God! have come here to escape the automo biles.” I III. — And far away, through the lovely His Dimensions. (From Puck.) “What is the Hon. Thomas R'ott so angry i-Vout?” “Why, The Weekly Palladium and Farmers’ Vindicator published a one- column cut of him and referred to it as a ‘life-size portrait.” The New Southern Woman E CONDEMN the heathen for their ! idols. We refer, with pitying laugh- ! ter, to the unenlightened creatures j who bow down to “wood and i shone.” Has it never occured to thinking men and women that we are worse offenders in this direction A September Sentiment. There is a mystery that broods Above each new September; A spell upon the hazy woods. You remember, long ago, How different from other days Seemed every autumn season. Yet differing no whit in ways You could-reason? But it's so. It isn’t that the leaves are turned— They’re just as green as ever; The sun burns just as erst he burned. When we never thought of fall. And is it something in the air, Or something quite subjective? I sense it, though I am, I swear, No detective—not at all! only jvrit that fit Nicely with 'em? Maybe so! —-Cleveland Leader. Language. (From Exchange.) Language is a growth, answering to the demand of the times. Elizabethans, so far as we know, neither Sundayed nor Well, No. (From The Chicago Journal.) Of the more than 2.000 coal tar dyes now in use, all but six are poisonous Is it surprising that the candymaker makes a mistake now and then, and uses one of the 1,994? years, A heart that loved him must beat, And listen and look, through a rain of tears For the unreturning feet. And the dust that I dread, from all dust apart. Is enshrined in the love of a woman’s heart! N MANY different ways, the states which compose that section com monly known as the south, present some of the most remarkable con ditions and phases of life in the his tory of the civilized world. The south of forty years ago and the south of today are sufficiently re mote from each other, so far as these conditions and phases are concerned, to be situated in differ ent continents separated by count less miles of rolling waters. Very few of the olden traits remain, and we rejoice to say that those which do are among the best which the southern country boasted before the development of the civil war. Im. numberless than these simple folk to whom we j matters our opinions have been changed; many of extend a need of civilized sympa-1 us are earning our bread in occupations which thy? Have we .not idols each one I were almost unknown in ante-bellum days; new of us? And do we not worship them ! leaders have come to the front, criterions and more genuinelv with a greater i standpoints have been revolutionized in startling- abandon than that shown by the j fashion, and if we could place types of the southern j ^ “ l °° n ' Chinaman when lie sinks upon his: man and woman of today side by side with those | The y. d "know, n somehow, it wasn’t June- knee before his joss? It is not always apparent j representing this section before the historic strug-j win* has taught ’em? i don’t know. that the Chinaman takes his idol serious.lv. It is ! gle, they would seem as inhabitants, almost, of dif- i what? This is rot and < . . , . . , „ . . .- v . ,, To trv a novel rhythm, quite certain that the ido'1-worshippers ot our en- ierent spneres. J Interior rhymes, and ends lightened nations take their especial fetish with a ; One *c 1 the most marked indications of this vast great degree of seriousness. We are not, however, j movement is that furnished by the southern wo ts candid as the mumbling celestial. He, at least, j man. On her the passage of the last four epoch- shows his sentiments to the whole world. The j making decades has wrought changes, improve- majority of us, with occidental refinement of con- ! ments and developments little short of miraculous, cealment, take care that the balance of the world J We are all familiar with, the manner in which the knows nothing of these images. We mav mingle south of the late sixties, stripped of nearly all ma- i week-ended in anybody’s midst, with our fellows with a face that smiles or a face [ tcria'l possessions, her commerce and agriculture No that tells nothing of joy or woe or casual interest, paralyzed, her institutions and iron-bound customs They may judge us from our actions, our conver- j uprooted by the tornado of civil war, turned piti- sation, those thousand aind one little habits, trivial fully to the new order of things to work out her tricks of the countenance or the body—and think j salvation as best she might with the crude material they know the man or the woman. In a few cases, j at hand. We remember that beautiful type of tlie surmise is correct—they do know the man and southern womanhood so prevalent before the de- ,p he Dl0 t Letters the woman. In the vast number of instances, the | struction of the great semii-fcudal system. Along j (From Judge.) man and the woman carry in the recesses of the with a sturdy race of chevaliers they were forced j The postmaster at Benson's Bend mind and the heart some darling dream, some to face poverty and the struggling for bread in its I chuckled happily. phantom hope, some filmy ideal, some actual idol. . most acute stage, when peace was signed at Appc j By HELEX HAB00UBT. Around the image is draped all the ardor and the mattox. .And they were even less iitted than the Leastwise, this air ther place where folks 1 passion of which that particular individual is j men for this rough, catch-as-can battle with the ! drop their letters.” capable. So precious it is, we wouild not expose j world. j Hi* Little Joke, it to our nearest friends. j We see many of their representatives in the j (F , oin The Philadelphia Public Ledger.) It is OURS—ours alone—and sometimes we are southern world of affairs today. They have brave- i jockiey—it's funny that so many farm- ready to falsify and smile and fei^n at g-lee and as- , Iv met and overcome adverse conditions and writ- ers are swlndled b >" bunco men - sume an equivocal position, anything, everything, . ten success and competence ior themselves and isn . t calculated to make a man shrewd, to keep it from the unsympathetic light of dav. ; dependent ones in clear, bold letters. What they j Joakiey—But to be a successful farmer i And we go about and look each other, frankly, j have suffered in this task, what physical fatigue on “ ,KiS to be sharp as a raiser in the face, condemning idols, laughing often at the and mental agony they have had to endure, what “Does Woman, HelpP” name of idol, spending a superficial sympathy for ; ingenuity they have developed, and what amazing (From Puck.) that man or that woman who indulges in the poor, j dogged pluck, in opposition to misfortune, they sir-m answer to this silly season co- foolish pastime of day-dreaming. have displayed, is just coming to be known. The It is ambition with some people. And ambition \ southern woman has crowded into the office, the lias a thousand faces, each one luring and beckon- j store, the shop, the mill and everywhere she has irg and challenging like the rainbow behind which left an impress of abiding will-power and elever- the fool believes lies the pot of gold. It may be 1 ness, combined with a rare fortitude, pride—of position, of birth, of fortune—and never \ The coming of the “new woman” is not xinmixed an idol of pride but drove out from its sanctuary with evil, but there is one invaluable trait which all other occupants. It may be lust for power— i she has taught her more natural sisters, and that and the idol of power is more greedv of blood, i is—independence. There are comparatively few Ionely - as her mothGr was out calling, more ruthless of its victims, more reckless of women m the south of today who win con- scruples. more cunning and scheming and grasping ! sent to rest quiet as a burden to overworked rela- than all of the weird brotherhood. It may be the tives, or overtax the generosity of those on whom idol of love, for man or woman—and we guard it j she may have some claim. And the southern, wo- No Telling What’s Ahead. “There goes one o’ them writers that they call geniuses,” said the lit tle boy. “Well, let him go, my son,” said the father, “and the sooner he goes, the better! And yet—” he said, as though speaking to himself—“Heaven only knows what we may all come to be fore we leave this vale of tears!” The Superstitious One. I. When the gray owl screams from the chimney top An’ I hear the night winds sigh, I shiver an’ quake till the sihingles shake, Fer I’m feared somebody’s goin’ to die! An’ I say: “Good Lord, Ef it’s goin’ to be, I hope that somebocly Ain’t poor me!” II. An’ the ghosts of my sins come steal- in’ in An’ they’re standin’ most too nigh! good eatin’ to offer you;—nothin’ bet- An’ the air gits chill—an’ I’m thinkin’ 1 ter’n bacon an’ greens. Will you ask Jes’ Me an’ Mary I. Settin’ by the fire there— Jes’ me an’ Mary, Tried to speak the word to her. But—Love is so contrary! II. “Fire’s talkin’ mighty sweet—• Winter nights are dreary!” “Yes; a fire’s bard to beat!” (That was all from Mary!) III. Words—they couldn’t find a way— (Wuzn’t they contrary?) Only thing that I could say Wuz “Goodnight” to Mary! IV. Yet, I knowed my love fer her— She would never slight it; Didn’t she call after me: “John, go home, an’ write it!” Bob Burdette has said that there are only seven original jokes in the world, and that he is the author of five of ’em. But Mark Twain says he is certain there are eight—for he found one himself at the grave of Adam, and he is going to spring it on a magazine editor some day when the editor isn’t looking for trouble. "Curious World.” I. “It’s a curious world—” That's the tale we tell. But—with all of our troubles It’s treatin’ us well. II. Tempest an’ sunshine, Blue skies an’ gray, It’s rollin’ along In a beautiful way. An’ though some may deny it, An’ growlers may scoff, If it rolled high as heaven We wouldn’t get off! One magazine editor says he has 8,000 shhort stories on hand. And au thors keep on a-writing for the mag azine vaults! A Sermon in a Blessing. “Brother Jones.” said the Mean Man to the preacher, “I haiq’t got no still: “Somebody’s goin’ to die!” An’ I pray: “I’m sinful. As you knowed I’d be: Ef you must take somebody. Don’t take me!” 1 a blessin’?” The minister complied: “Lord, we thank Thee for what we are about to receive: We expected nothing but greens—but here is bacon also. Make us truly thankful!” After the Fall of Charleston; How the Cauldron Boiled Over Written for The SUNNY SOUTH. have seen In nundrum which is agitating (lie readers of one of your contemporaries I replv: certainly she does. Take my own case. For years I had secretly love d the girl to whom I am now happily engaged. I am naturally nervous, and for a long time had not the courage to propose. At length one day I found myself alone with Ethel in her mother’s drawing room, li the course of conversation she re marked that she was feeling rather licur. My fear on this point being thus removed, r resoive d to risk my fortune. The difficulty was how to begin. Ethel v.-as arranging some 'flowers, and. vests by their owners, so that lie and his army might “reap where they had not sown.” Meantime ills lordship proceeded to dis- P r “~ I poso of his troops so as to Cover the vious article, Lord Corn- i frontiers of South Carolina and Georgia, wallis, when left iri mill- and maintain the tary command of the i Rawdon was put South Carolina province j frontier forces by Sir Henry Clinton, was \ principal post. _ ordered to invade North ! ca l''tal of the Kershaw district, was lo- I Mnperors for Germany and Austria. The Carolina. This was not i < ate< * * n a Grille, salubrious country, j great Frederick Barbarossa was a son of their in ternal quiet. Lore put in comm and of i ue >, witli Camden as his This little town, the Gilded Revolt• ing Folly Has Set Race of Mad Monarchs to Rule Bavaria WILLIAM E. CURTIS, in Chicsgo Record-Herald. OMANCB writers haws to!4 the world that a mysteri ous curse hangs over ths Wittelbach dynasty, Which has ruled Bavaria to r seven centuries, but it is very largely the result of dissipation—wine, women and extravagant Indulg ence. I have seen it called “a gigantic sorrow.” "the awesome breath of the Al mighty,” and by other large and stately term*, but this perpetual tragedy of a nation would not have occurred if the Ludwigs and Ottos had left wine and women alone; if they had gone to bed at 10 o’clock at night and got up to breakfast at 8 o’clock in the morning and worked all day like honest men, instead of Imi tating the emperors of Rome in the grati fication of their depraved tastes and sen suous appetites. And they should have done this, being aware that there had been signs of insanity among their an cestors as long ago as Frederick Chris tian, who retgnpd in the earlier part of tlie eighteenth century. Otto, tlie present king, is so crazy that he is not trusted alone, and the news papers occasionally publish a report that the parliament intends to depose him and appoint a successor, but, although his mind is entirely gone, and he does not know right from wrong, or light from darkness. Otto will be allowed to reign over Bavaria as iong as he lives, through Prince Liupold, his uncle, the regent, who is 86 years old, ibut in perfect health and as vigorous physically and mentally as a. man of 50. He does not meddle with politics, and has been an admirable ex ecutive. If anything happens to the king he will be elected to succeed him. If the king should outlive his uncle, the regent. Prince Ludwig Charles, will ascend the tin-one. He is the oldest son of Liupold, and ids wife, tlie Archduchess Maria The resa. believed by many to be entitled to tlie throne of England, because her grandfather had a better title than Queen Victoria. There seems to be no in tention among any of the political parties to agitate tlie question of the retirement of Otto or tlie succession. Everybody is satisfied with the status quo. The authentic history of Bavaria runs back to 500 B. C.. but really begins with Charlemagne, whose grandson,. Arnulf. governed the kingdom and elevated Liu pold, count of Scheyern, ancestor of the present dynasty, to the rank of mar grave. This was in 907 A. D.. and the Wittelbachers have been in power ever since. The kings have mostly been called Ludwig— LUDWIG THE BOLD. LUDWIG THE PTOUS. LUDWIG THE ROMAN. LUDWIG THE GERMAN. LUDWIG THE MILD, LUDWIG THE .SEVERE, LUDWIG OF THE BIG BEARD. LUDWIG THE HUNCHBACK, LUDWIG THE HASTY, LUDWIG THE RICH, and so on, and beside them there have been a lot of Ottos with similar pseudo nyms to describe their individual char acteristics, and others, like Carl the Fat. and Ixiuis tlie Lazy. The Wittelbachers are a great family, and have produced j many kings. They have furnished several likely to be an easy task. on tlie banks of the W ateree river, on | d uke of Bavaria, and Charles A - road leading to North Carolina. Cam- i i Jer f who was crowned emperor of Ger- 1 11 C r >0 1 ° le den town was therefore selected as a j many and claimed the throne of Austria, people and of the country : good military depot,- and a proper basis presented many diftleuS- j for the projected campaign, ties. The original set-! Lord Cornwallis, like Sir Henry din ners of North Carolina j ton . appears to have been fully satisfied j Holland in 1365, and Gustavus X, king were from many countries, many of them I lba t South Carolina and Georgia were j D f Sweden in 1660, both belonged to the family, anti in later years it has produced also came from the same stock. Otto III. king of Hungary in 1312. was the son of one of tlie Ludwigs. William I, king of who had suffered in their old homes from political or religious persecution. The very fact that they had preferred to desert their early associations, and to lace tlie hardships of a new and strange land, rather than yield their convictions or submit to oppression, was significant of tlie mettle of which they were made. They were men with a stern apprecia tion of their just rights, and an vili sts completely subdued in reality, as th were In appearanse. Impatient to de rive active aids from this new conquest, he now returned to Charleston, where he occupied himself in regulating tlie commercial and civil affairs of the province, in organizing tlie militia of tlie lower districts, anil in forwarding pro visions and munitions of war to Lord Rawdon at Camden. His measures al lowed no neutrality, and for some little Otto, king of Greece, and Amalia, his queen. Queen Elizabeth of Prussia, Queen Amelia of Saxony, the queen of Naples, the last two empresses of Austria, Char lotte and Elizabeth, and many others who wore crowns. Napoleon made Bavaria an Indepen dent kingdom in 1806. and crowned the elector. Max Joseph, as king, adding Nuremburg. Wurzburg. Salzburg, Bey- quenchable spirit of freedom and inde- j lime it seemed as though they would be reuth, the Palatinate left of the Rhine pendency. In the very heart of the prov- successful in restoring loyalty to . j way of commencement. I said something j ince dwelt a sturdy Presbyterian stock, i B ^ tish erown. and shield it and grovel before it as betore none J man has made another startling discovery, and j about “Those white hands of yours.” j f he Scotch-irish, as they were called, of its strange tribes. that is that the entire aim and ending of her life J merely remarked. “Why not say j W ]j 0 had- either in person, or in that of Sometimes we get too near our idols. Like the‘and every motive is not to get suitably and com- since’ then "i “ve oft^'eu^dJSy ^ scouLdT'iSd. and XencTto spectator at the play it is best—since we WILL | fortably married. She has learned that there is | giatefui for this timely help, without J America. These people ’ possessed the HAVE idols—to view them from a safe distance, such a thing as self-support, and she does not •Jf we bring them nearer to us with powerful glasses, despair long when fortune’s caprice may leave her ve may make unwelcome discoveries. They may with others’ happiness dependent on her own ex rot seem as alluring as we found them at farther ertions. We believe it unfortunate, more, pathetic, range. The rouge, the grease-paint, tlie wrinkles, that women should ever be called on to face those the folly, may be apparent and obliterate the i stern problems of bread-winning and mere ex- image we had made out of doting fancy. That istence. There are few men who would not prefer which seemed intoxicating and worth the while, that they should look ion the struggles and bitter- vhen our worship did not take us too closely to ness of life only through masculine eyes. But we which I might easily have occupied the [impulsiveness of the Irish, and tlie (log- lull hoars time with no better result. | ged resolution of the Scotch. the object, may attain a .nature that sends the idol headlong from the pedestal, leaving the last state ©f the devotee worse than the first. They drive us too—these idols. They account are confronted with radically altered conditions and the fierce demands of a new civilization, and that our women have helped us to meet and pass the crisis so magnificently, is a matter for sincere for many of the actions which mystify our friends, rejoicing. Leaves from an Old (Scrap BooK By A GEORGIA COLONEL. I TTNd lo the eld -war aeraphnok the ‘ following inreresting official account i of the bombardment of Fort Sura- I thrown with such precision and rapidity j command to some port in the United that it soon became impossible for the ' States, one of his officers, accompanied enemy to employ their guns en barbette, | by Captain Hartateino and three of my of which several were dismounted. The ! aids, was permitted to visit the officers “Headquarters Provisional A. C- S-, Charleston, April 16. 1861.—Sir: I have in command of the squadron, to make provision for that object. Because of an unavoidable delay tlie formal trans fer of tlie fort to our possession did not take place until 4 o'clock in the after noon of the 14th instant. At that hour, the place having been evacuated by the United States garrison, our troops occu i engagement was continued without any circumstance of special note, until night fall, before which time the fire from i Sumter had evidently slackened. Oper- the honor to submit the following sum- , atjons on our sj(le wer „ BUStH i n od mary statement of the circumstances [ throughout the night, provoking, how- of the surrender of Fort Sumter: j ever, only a feeble response. " ‘°“ the reftutel of Major Anderson | •• -on the morning of the 13th the ac- j pjed , t> and confederate flag was to engage In compliance with my de- , tion was prosecuted with renewed ; hoisted on the rampart .s of Sumter, with mand to designate the time when he ( vigor, and about 30 minutes past 7 a fronl the various batteries, would evacuate Fort Sumter, and to | o’clock It was discovered our shells .. - The Isabel bavins- been agree meantime not to use his guns j had set Are to the barracks in the fort, j piaced at the 8erv . jce of Major Anderson “I * 2 . m1natea fff* 1 . 3 I As soon as volumes of smoke were seen ha and hia command were transferred o clock on the morning of the 12th in- arising from the fort, indicating an ex- to Ule ve3sels of the harbor. The ur- slaoQ I gave him formal notice ihat tensive conflagration, and, apprehending gc of imrn edi a t e engagements pre- withia one hour my batteries would . some terrible calamity to the garrison, , vents me from givlng at preaent a more ape* on him. In oouseq«,.ice of aon.e j immediately dispatched an offer of as- ! circumstantial narrauvo «t the incid nts ciregaasaences of ae.ay, mo bombard- sistance to Major Anderson, which, | connected with the capture of Fort .sent ' not b-rgun ,»recls«y at the ap- however, with grateful acknowledge-! Sun]ter . W hen tlie reports trom the pointed moment, and at 30 minutea past ments. he declined. Meantime, being various commanders of all the batter- 4 o'clock the signal gun was fired, and informed, about 2 o’clock, that a white: ieg are rece i ved , i will hasten to for- withln 20 minutes all our batteries were nag was displayed from Sumter. I dls- W ard you a more detailed account, in full play. There was no response patched two of my aids to Major An- .. <In conclusion> r am happ ^ , tate from Fort Sumter until about 7 o’clock, ; derson with terms of evacuation. In j that the troops, both officers and sol- when the first shot from the enemy was recognition of the gallantry exhibited discharged against our batteries on by the garrison, I cheerfully agreeu Cummings' point. that, on surrendering the fort, the com- “ 'By 8 o'clock the action became gen- j mandlng officer might salute his flag, grab and throughout the day was main- j “ 'By 8 o’clock the terms of evacuation lained with spirit on both" sides. Our ; were definitely accepted. Major Ander son having expressed a desire to com municate with the United States ves- r -essions made on the walls of Sumter, sols lying off the harbor, with a view roin our mortar batteries shells were to arrange for the transportation of the guns were served with spirit and ener gy. The effect wan visible in the Im- ressions made on the walls of Sumter, from our mortar batteries shells were diers, of the regulars, volunteers and militia and navy, by their energy, zeal, perseverance, labor and endurance be fore the attack, and by their courage and gallantry during its continuance, exhibited all the characteristics of the best soldiers; and to my staff, regular and volunteer, 1 am much indebted for Continued on Third Peg* Yours, etc., Frederick Tortoise. A Forlorn Minstrel. Dearest, I’m out where the blossoms are quaking, And crickets are chirping their lay in the pass. The silvery leaves of the poplars are shaking, A bullfrog is croaking in yonder lush grass. Come to my arms, for my arms are so empty, » And bide with me here in the sheen of the moon; Bring me a sandwich—and drop me a twenty— My stomach’s as flat as a busted bal loon. Dearly beloved, I’ve sat here an hour, Picking away on this raspy guitar, I have warbled sad love songs tlie best in my power. But I doubt if you listened or care what they are. I wish you would sneak to the kitchen and get me A mother-made doughnut or wedge of mince pie. I'm hungry as thunder, so long have I sat me Here in the dew where the skeeter-bugs ment— fly- Loved one, get busy and peep o'er thy casement, Look from thy lattice door here where I sit. Cause me not, dearest, to suffer debase- Hurry—I'm bordering close to a fit. To thee have I wandered, a minstrel to tickle It was this spirit, this hatred of tyranny, which gave rise to the confed eracy called the “regulation,” which was formed to resist tlie abuses of power. The first blood shed in this country in resistence of the arbitrary taxation by the British, was at Almance, N. C-, in a battle between the tyranni cal Governor Tryon and the regulators. Nor should it ever be forgotten that at Charlotte, Mecklenburg county, in tlie very heart of North Carolina, was pro claimed the independence of the prov ince from the British crown, on the 20th of May. 1775, more than a year be fore the final Declaration of Independ ence of all the colonies. The North Ciarolinans organized a local govern ment, and at once began preparation* lor military defense. ARDENT PATRIOTS. So much for the sturdy cnaracter of the people "of North Carolina, a charac ter they have retained to the present day. They were ardent patriots, • rear ing neither man nor devil.” as to tneir country itself, its physical characterists matched well with that of its peopie, and rendered it no less formidable to an invader. In the northwest portion were mountain fastness, often almost, n not quite, impassible. Then, scattered all over the province (there were no states in those days) were vast forests, ster ile tracts, long and wide rivers, des titute ot bridges—rivers fordable in dry weather, but liable to be so swollen by sudden storms and freshets, as to be come deep and turbulent and impass able- These same rivers, be it said, rushing impetuously down from tlie mountains, and winding sluggishly the I and a portion of the Tyrol to his terri tory. This caused the heroic uprising in But It is a true saying that "appear- | the Tyrol led by Andreas Hofler, aJi inn- a nces are deceitful.” Never was it truer ! keeper; Speckbacher, a hunter of eham- tlian at this very time when Sir Henry j ois and Father Haspinger, a priest—one Clinton and his lieutenant, Lord Corn- j of the most gallant struggles for liberty waliis, were patting each other’s backs ! in the pages of history, but it failed, over “tlie subjection of South Carolina.” ‘ Naipoleon came to Munich and married In the seemingly quiet political cauldron i his -stepson, Eugene Beauhamais, son of seethed a mass of concealed discontent 1 Josephine, to tlie daughter of the king, and hatred which every day was grow- I and ma,Je the >’ oun e man viceroy of ing hotter and hotter, nearer and neare to the boiling point, and only awaited a proper occasion to overflow in a scald ing torrent upon tlie invaders. The peo ple of lower South Carolina, although far from being entirely united, were, as a rule, patriots, and had entered into the war with enthusiasm. The Italy. He is buried in a noble tomb in tlie church of St. Michael at Munich. Max Joseph was a good king and dear ly loved ills people. They loved him, too, and called him “Father Max.” He gave them a constitution, free speech, free press and other liberties; he intro duce many beneficent reforms. He founded schools, universities, technical weie led by a liighspirited and intelli- j institutions of tlie highest standards and gent gentry, who deeply resented oppres sion, and sought national independence as a real and permanent good. AT THE BREAKING POINT. Several causes had combined to su? pend the active expresion of this sent' ment. Many of the most prominent leaders were prisoners. Tlie br:llian‘ victories of the British arms had caused many others to despair of ultimate suc cess. Still others were convinced of the worse than useless of present ro- tlie Academy of Arts, which is one of the most celebrated schools of painting and sculpture in the world and now has 1,500 students. He built the great op«- ra house and laid out tho parks. Curi ously enough the most beautiful of them all, known as the English park, and the prettiest place in Munich, was the work of an American—Count Rumford, who was one of Washington's aids in the rev olution. His name was Benjamin Thompson, am} lie came from Rumford, Conn. After tiie independence of the colonies ristence. and were quietly ‘ lying on i was established he wandered over to Ba- their oars.” Others again, and these J by far (lie greater number, fatigued and harassed by ardous mi'Uiu duties, were glad to retire from active service, and to await the end as spectators only. When Sir Henry Clinton and Lord Cornwallis undertook to force these men to again take up the burden of war, they simply restored them to the ranks of their countrymen, and added just so many determined recruits to tlie bands of patriots. And so the cauldron seethed and bubbled, and got ready to overflow at the first propitious moment. And laht moment was surely coming. By slow but steady degrees the dread of British power gave place to anger “Rumford varia in the hope of seeing some more flighting, entered the army of the king, was promoted to be a general, after ward a councilor of state and the minis, ter of finance and minister of public works. When the king gave him a title Thompson chose the name of his birth place and was (dubbed Count Rumford. There is a statue erected in his honor, which shows him to have been a fine figure, in one of the most conspicuous places in M.unieh. It is a memorial from a grateful people. For he was not only a general, a financier and an en gineer of public works, but he invented the stove that is now universally used in Bavaria, and was originator of the °ouip” chamber might ^reacli. through the plains, constituted the real I and imp tience of British exactions and ! by half th as we ! oppression. It was tlie same old story j The shall often see in the reminiscent papers! that had been told in the colonies for! “He was distinguish which is eaten daily he kingdom. These strings that they soft to thy j military strength of tile country, as we! oppression. It was tlie same old story j The inscription on his monument says: for his zeal But I know*from thy snoring I’m left in still to tome as we follow, in a ieisure- a pickle— ; l y way, the march of the patriots and Oh, Imogene, dearest, thou’rt surely a ! events of the south, during tne glorious peach! ! days of tlie revolution that gave us our —Milwaukee Sentinel. | freedom, and the world its greatest na- _ j tion. Taught by Experience. ; Something of these tilings Lord Corn- j ton. was on the march through North j whirlwind." as one of the histories says, (From The American Spectator.) ! wallis knew, something, but by no j Carolina with 2,000 troops of the line I appeared at the opera house to fulfill an Nellie’s brother Tommy was asked in ; means ali. He was to learn far more! from Maryland and Delaware, including engagement and hypnotized the king He tlie kindergarten, by the teacher, if he j'Lye and bye. Enough, however, lie! one regiment of artillery, and that the could make a Maltese cross. - did know at this time, combined with j militia of North Carolina and Virginia centuries, the story of injus.ice and i tlie promotion of the public good.’ tyranny- The cauldron began to over- j A few years later another American, of flow here and there, and to scald Brit- I different character, came upon the scene, ish and tory fingers. These sporadic , with different consequences. An Irish- overflows were encouraged by the news i American dancing girl, known as Lola that Baron DeKalb, sent by Washing- I Montez, “like a flame encircled by a “Do it easy, an' in a minute,” was his j tlie summer heat, to induce him to pause reply. 'How do you make a Maltese cross? Tell the other cfhildreii.” 'All you got t» do 1* to step on Ita I awhile, before carrying out his orders to Invade so redoubtable a country. He had another motive for delay, too, one that he did not hesitate to avow. This was to await the gathering of the har- were joining iiis command, close upon the heels of tills cheering news came the report that General Cates, who had so lately won laurels os the conqueror Continued on Fourth P' -e. was by far the most interesting, as he was the most eccentric, ardent and domi nating of all the modern rulers of Bava ria. He was devoted to literature, poetry ard art; he wrote songs and sonnets; he was an artist, and a cosmopolitan Who Continued on Foarth Fag*.