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1 ■» X-»_ V. V. ;* '1 LtsJU ill i,a/, / i t c . J3he SUNNY SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Bust riffs Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA, GEORGIA & Subscription Terms: To those who subscribe to 'Uhc Sunny South only Six Months, 25c One Year, 50c LESS THAN A PENNY A WEEK Entered at the powCofflec Atlanta* fia.»w second-cln^s mail matter March 13, HlOl The Sunny South is the oldest weekly paper of Literature, Romance, Fact and Fidlion in the South It is now re• /lored to the original shape and will be published as for• nterly every week & Founded in 1874 it grew until 1809, when, as a monthly, its form was changed as an experl* nxent ^ It now returns to its original formation as a weekly with renewed vigor and the intention of eclips* ing Its most promising period in the past. What Is Success? [ could have been conceived than the salvation of | the human race? What death more obscure and j less in keeping with our ideas of success than cru- jcifixion, with rude soldiery reviling round about? { Wc see. almost daily, some person whose whole I life is a sacrifice—perhaps a noble woman's to an j invalid husband or an afflicted child, or a child to a sickly and feeble parent. In these lives is felt ! 1 he pinch of poverty, the absence of gaiety and so- I cial pleasures. There is nothing but a dreary round j of labor and self-denial. Nothing, apparently, suc- ! cessful about such lives, compared with the glitter- j ing success of one of our multimillionaires! Yet, alter all. which is the real success? Which | person has lived so as to make the world better for i his being in it and a part of it, which should be the 'object of every man and woman horn? Which | think you, is “The Success.” t'he self-denying widow, or the captain of industry whom the grand Along the Highway By FRANK L. STANTON The Cards of Life. Life's but a game of cards we all must play. With Pate the dealer; in a puzzling way The deck is stacked upon us, and the hand We sometimes hold we cannot under stand. For one a full house always, and for one A busted straight or flush, so luck will run; 1 -v queen for an unworthy knave's abuse, j ' hilltin, lenmie tell > on And for a king a woman, who's the deuce;! You 11 never reach de crown, Diamonds for some, but better one true] Onless, w'en once you gits dar. You hoi' yo’ risin’ groun’! uul lun i w* mHJUINi'. Chillun, lenirne tell £ou, Yon better hoi’ yo’ groun’, De worl’ ’ll slio’ laugh at you Ef you come a-tumblin’ down! Hoi’ yo’ risin’ groun’. All de worl’ aroun’,— Do worl’ ’ll slio’ laugh at you Ef you come a-tumblin’ down! t-1 i.Ar.u aFTcR MEETING. “W’enever you gits twixt de devil en de deep sea,” said Brother Wil liams, “de bes’ thing you kin do is ter climb a tree.” “But—s'pose dey ain’t no tree dar?” “Why, in dat case, you better crawl | in a hole in de groun’." “But—s’pose dey ain’t no hole dar?” “Dat’s des de trouble wid you fool j people!” Brother Williams exclaimed. “You wants ter run de worl’ by yo’ lone self, en trust uuthin’ ter Provi dence! ” A.RDLY a day passes that we do not j hear some one spoken of as a “Sue- j cessful Man.” Few expressions are j more familiar, and yet what term heart; For others clubs; and spades when all de- ; juries investigate, and upon whom the C\es of all j Through life we plunge or pike; we prac- ! men look askance? | tice cuiIe; ! Indeed, to a person whose sight is not blinded i BiufI ri .” iaybe; try to wIn each other ’ s by the glitter of gold, whose heart is not made sor- j until Death calls us. whereupon we leave grieve, outward goes ' tom, only a miserable and tawdry failure, not worth j The soul upon tnat journey no one knows, i turning' over one’s finefer to secure. j Urant When at last we stand at heaven's ! p *11* k • • . « • Still, we go on measuring success, in tne main, ! Where Peter from Missouri lies In wait, 1 sharp enough to tilt the wagon over, j merely by dollars, when the true gauge of success j That we can show him; grant up there is something infinitely higher and better and nobler , Can t tkat (1 ^ c I than all the dollars that ever were coined in all the J fre mints of all the world. u ) 11 iL i i v u i i i iiiviviv, cj-w* outii L/caui vans no, n uncupuii did bv worship of the golden calf, it is apparent ! The tabIe . with a few behind to , . ,, t- 1 , , c ,, _ • . .t, « . i Then gather in our chips, while that much ot what we call success is, at the hot- , eo Hoi’ dat risin’ groun’ All de worl’ aroun’! De worl’ ’ll slio’ laugh at you Ef you come a-tumblin’ down! PROVEF.33 OF THE HIGHWAY. Keep up the lire of life, but watch the woodpile! When the Long Lane turns you may congratulate yourself if it doesn’t turn WHEN TIME IS UP. When time is up for laughter, And life becomes a sigh, Don’t you think it’s time then To tell the world Goodby? Yet, the last road seems mighty Ions And heaven mighty high! The author who doesn’t have a struggle to "get there” may well sus pect his own talents. Literary rep utation has, apparently, been made “in o day;” but authors wake to find Don’t worry too much over what I themselves famous but seldom. The d Saint, with a consience seems trouble. As the old colored Patient toiler, with the talent, will preacher said: “It looked lak’ it wuz there’ at last, j “Master. I know not whether I made awful fer de whale ter swailer Jonah, l'o he true to the right, brave and fearless, speak- ; But ^''j p]ayerl would be more difficult for the av- |ing the truth dealing with others as we would be j could , , , , ait v.-har would Jonah been ef de my hand the best I whale ha(ln ' t swallere d him?” ‘THE COME TO erage person to define than word success ? In the first place, financial cess, which is usually meant \v the word is employed in our conver sation, is itself a relative term. What would constitute success of that—character in one of our own small towns would be very, very in significant among the immensely wealthy captains of industry and finance in our commercial centers of which New York is the chief. It is quite likely that a J. Pierpont Morgan, a John W. Gates, or a Vanderbilt would spend more in a year than the entire fortune <of many a man who is, in his own community, considered a very successful man. Indeed, it is quite likely that John D. Rockefeller's income annually amounts to more than the sum total of the entire fortune of any resident of Georgia. Even financial success, then, is a relative matter, a tiling to lie gauged solely by the community standards, which are quite different in New York from those in the smaller cities and in the country. Yet. in a general sense, aside from these local community standards both the multimillionaire New Yorker and the man in the small town whose t j iat ! dealt with, doing nothing mean or shameful, liv- ; And ° n the square.” then, even with our GIRLS HAVE DANCE.” I. is well that some folks were! ’Round the cabin-fires we meet— Joy will have a chance! singin’ sweet— come to dance! and span and fashionable. And the sooner this les son is taken home by mankind, the sooner will the world become a happier, better, sweeter place to five. But, alas! that day seems yet far off. the rainy day. -Puck. Here he come—de rainy day,— Say, “I’ll rain de worl’ away!” But,, de goodness gracious knows Didn’t even drown a rose! SubsOceanic Railroad 0W comes the announcement, through press dispatches, that a Georgian— j tified. William H. Black, a lawyer, who re sides in New York, but who for merly lived in Atlanta—has a plan to connect the Eastern and Western Hemispheres by a railroad. Mr. Black’s plan is to tunnel Ber ing straits, connecting the tip of Alaska with the tip of Siberia, which accomplished, it will be an easy mat ter to start a train at New York or Atlanta and run the same into Vi enna, Paris or any of the cities of continental Europe. It is a daz- A Man Is Known by the Company He Keeps. {From Life.) Bank Teller—I have no doubt you are Billyuns, the ice magnate, but you must be identified. 'Can’t you bring in some friend to— Billyuns—i have no friends. , Leigh Hunt’s “Jenny Kissed Me:” Bank Teller—It's all right, you’re iden- JENNY’S .KISS. Every little while some one starts Ain’t the winter hard to beat' Pleasures that entrance; Keep that fiddle singin’ sweet— The girls have come to dance! Otir Modern Women Compare Favorably With Their Grandmothers -a— T is the fashion to decry the r modern woman. Nothing, says her decrier, the modern woman does or wears or say 3 is like the woman who u„ ed ln £ . sood old days.” Personal- ly, however. I am no£ aa ardent admirer of those less. Pr ° yCd UP - l£oSt t £ B Eg: * both nm.j. _ man it is now and with with now for words and actions were flavored “7 n ror * u 1 om C nt S be e tole t ramd W ' OU!d n °‘ theTanda^T^^- 0 ^ -ts moves, the modern woman 'nm^th ^relt and r g^elter real ' y thaLa ^ fue that 11 is certain prudishness days * only the natuml and ^ K action from a coarser age neCeSSary r- thIn e her°Si„gS n jra^tmo t h UtSPOkea ev «. r .■«»• SmLTSS Rudyard Kipling sells his auto graph, but he gives the money to charity, and charity is richer by a the old favorites of verse on the ? hi ! Hl '. g „ every time he signs “Yours | fJ^aU- One may lead to newspaper rounds. This time it is and independent someilmes almost to L f tylt; yet to my mind she Is far oJe able to th» ,h. . rar Prefer- went into such ready'Ty^r.™” *£ simpered « «« simply because she was so hed"ed m l f n l |j lr t dcd .. that hf ' r opportunities for lis^n- ing to silly speeches were very few and do-m" Se X e et Ce ’ IikG " St ° Ien kiSSes '” girls allowed more freedom <ne present-uay ,-i r i „ , . tunity for wel-hine the * * he,, a • g s the Pros and cons of her admirers merits, for giris are allow ed great freedom, even too much freedom pernaps. nowadays; but here again I thmk the fault is on the side of wisdom for too great free,lorn is better Vn now truly,” for one of his admirers. j an d hoyiinness^f'^manne- A Plain Cock Also. fF’rom The Philadelphia Ledger.) “The people I lived wid bet “Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in. Time—you thief!—you love to get ! Sweets into your list—put that in! 1 «»e other almost always 1 slyness and deceit. a There is but little j Richard Watson Gilder,' editor of ! the Century Magazine, was once a 13 out little need of a Gretna ! printer. Come to think of it. Ben I ’ reen in these free days. Giris, freer to * \ Franklin had some experience in that j ' 1 J whom they like, have neither do- business himself! •Jhc people I lived wid before, ma’am,” | i." „ , said the new coo«. ”wuz very plain.”! Say 1 “ w f a 7', say 1 “ Sad ’ “Well.” asked her new employer, “are, ^ >tiy that health and wet Ploy... ^ . w-e not plain here?” "Yis, ma’am, but in missed me; a different way. Th’ others wuz plain in, ^u.'' I’m growing old—but add: their way o’ livin’, not in their looks,! Jenny kissed ine!” ma’am.” ealtli have THE TROUBLE WITH US. When Happiness shall seek you— Take off his hat to stay, We holler loud to all the crowd,, And scare him clear away! In Aitruria. (From The Chicago Tribune.) "Don't you want to borrow my lawn J mower?” asked Mr. Goodman, address- I ing the man that had just moved into the | house next door. "Why, yes, thank you,” i answered the new neighbor, with alacrity, j “Well, you’re an improvement on the [ man who lived there before you, any- a* much value ns the nnnnrtnnities at band ml- ! The Bering straits are not of great width, and ! h ” w - saId yr. Goodman, lifting the ma- >1 da muen laiu as me opportunities at llanu au- ' => . , . • , I chine over the backyard fence. “I alwavs niitted. They have started out to accomplish a | th ere are many engineers who be Je\ e that, with j tiaa to mow his i awn myself.” definite end and have accomplished that end. Tnj f ' lc wonderful resources of modern mechanics, it that sense, they have achieved success, for the es- j Mould be possible to bore a tunnel from one con- ; ” • tinent to the other at that point. In reality, they I ? Ih ® c c5an<1 n™ Dealer.) fortune amounts only to a few thousands, are both ifbng conception and we are pleased to note that “successes,” in that they have accumulated property 'comes from a former Georgian. Luther Burbank, Wizard of the Garden By HELEN HARCOURT. Written for The SUNNY SOUTH. asking for employment in the j caring sufficiently about their children' ■g:omuls, 'to these Mr. Burbank replies! This silly accusation is scarcely worthy that he always employs his neighbors j refuting. - when possible, and has no room fp- j There always has been and alwavs will strangers unless they be skilled scientific • — ... - * 1 gardeners. sire nor need to elope. The modern wom an undoubtedly has her faults; so had the much-lauded ladies of olden times; they were surely as ready to talk scandal with their maids who came to them with their early morning chocosate, fuli of the gos sip they had picked up for their rnis- tress by the way; they were as ready to gam ole and were not only coarser in speech, but were less cleanly in their habits, and with ail their still-room es sences for facial beauty would hava stared aghast at the well-groomed mod- I ern girl, fresh from her delightful morn- i imr tub of clear cold watev. i Model n women are also accused—chief- | ly - 1 tiiink, by unloved spinsters, or by i men w r ho do not real!? know us—of not scnce of success lies in the accomplishment of such , ““ *'—‘*-y» [ "wonder why it is so easy for a fe’iow *i definite and predetermined ol)ject. ! ^ortli ^Vnierica and ^\sia were once connected j to get on^ag , 6«i nt a summer resort?” On the other hand, we often hear of successful I bodies of land, but a bit of the neck joining the two j ^^.look into one of those summer ho- pbysidans, successful politicians, and successes in iwas submerged in shallow water, and the one son- . ir , fe , ;e8 / - if fn ono of t j, 0 ^••arts about or 11,6 entrance other professional or artistic lines who have ac- i tinent became two. | ready to accept almost anybody.” 1 W-Lr h a marvels was promised. f een j us t inside the w-icket gate. "Noth cumulated no vast amount of monev In fact there! Should Mr. Black and those who believe in him j , , . u; .. Weil, here is another of in f. , ' Ca w ' hen uunuiduu nu VdM amount uj niuucv. ±11 idi l, muic , . ^ . .* , - . ^ .• t Pctish Worship. .. . — . „ , said door was reached, behold another are many cases of brilliant lawyers and politicians be able to put their gigantic seneme into execution j o r ,om The Philadelphia Ledger) , I ,n ' a ' u ‘ ths talk shal ,0 sign. “All visitors arc limited to five politicians whose talents entitle them to rank as The whole commerce of the world would be revolu- ; A Pittsburg minister, who is fond of » | 4 1 „ the mo f wonderful minutes each, unless by special ap st^esmen- 1 whoare 1 fremientlvenibarrisset^ necu- lionized. It would be a difficult matter, indeed, ! conversation with one of the iln^J '^ ao " ° f f thase that li-ntmcnt •; But even th-se broad hints svatesmen \\ Ilf) aiC irtqucnilj emijarrabbea pecu. I , - 11’^ j ladies of Ins congregation, who was in the d well in that garden spot wore ineffectual. It never seemed to niarily. Daniel Webster was a notable example attempt to forecast tne ettect on rne world s habit of adorning herself with a quantity at Santa Rosa, California, Luther Bur- occur to these curious visitors that of this class. He was ever in debt, ever being trade by the combined influences of the isthmian j of jewelry, reproved her for making a. hank himself. For it is fitting, surely, ! the y were trespassing on the private prssed by creditors. Honore de Balzac, the great '<nnal and the intercontinental railroad. -. . in good part, md several days afterwards I rench author, was in his own lifetime immensely < feet would be something stupendous, however, and called upon him. when the door was popular, yet he, too. was alwavs embarrassed by would be felt by all mankind. Asia, of course, i opened she found the hail ailed with to- ^ aaliful lack of funds, though his receipts from his writ- would be most revolutionized by being brought U, F- weeks ago we had a lit tle talk about that won derful wizard, Luther Bur- bank bo a few so-called fashionable and equal ly unfashionable mothers who have been So great was the pressure of the hosts j unnatural enough to shirk their obvious > an d about some of of visitors at the beautiful little home j duties, but they have only been and only bis marvellous achieve- that several years ago it became neces- are the rarest exceptions. Not one of ments in the plant king- Isary to pose warning signs here and j whom has access to the inner nursery dom. At that time further there as safeguards. For Instance, at j life of modern woman can doubt the pas- "arcs about '-AUer of ‘hi- tl,fi en£l 'aiice ti^the. grounds a sign was | sionute and tender adoration she feels for marvels was promised. Well, here Is another of them, and this talk shall he about the most wonderful That ef- ? od L_” f , T\ r , J, W T S ' She . t . ooIt h . ia advip « that we should be acquainted with the roaster before making the tour of his irdens. Those acres an 2 bacco smoke, ami Rev. Mr. Blank walk ing up and down, composing his sermon. "Oh, oh, Mr. Bianlt!" exclaimed the lady, "I see that others have their gods as well as I.” “Yes, madam,” lie replied burning mine.” their grounds of a private gentleman. And so the stream of visitors constantly in creased until drastic measures had to , be taken to check it. The entrance gate ue inhabitants are of vital m- !now-a-days bears a sign terest to all the world, but ot special in- ‘ , • , . .... . . .. i visitors except by special arrant terest to the Antes of the far south, be- i T i,. , . ... - . .. . ihe fortunate person who succe cause of tne likeness of their climate t> . .. . , that of California, where those new "but I’m plants have their bein I born and flourish, j To lock at Luther Burbank, no A Good 'Kbme. ! would take him for (From The Philadelphia Bulletin.) I P far orbidding all gement. uccetsds in ! penetrating beyond tliis barrier has to where they are ^ °f ( a <= ard siting forth in detail his ; object in wishing to see Air. Burbank. I At the base of this card are the words: . j “All visitors are limited to five min- ild take hint tor a wizard, but ap- . . ,, r . utes unless by special appointment. Mr. ranees are deceptive. He is a w.zarl, ; RllvlMnI ,, u -.. L „ Personally he ings were very large. He was a genius at novel into close touch and intimate communication with writing, but a poor financial manager. However, ! western ideas and western institutions. And no no one would question the statement that both prophet would have the temerity to predict what the Webster and de Balzac were successful men in world will be like when Asia is thoroughly awaken- i no re than ordinary degree. i cd. Indeed, as Voltaire said shortly before the Again, we hear of successful prize fighters and hrench revolution, when he was rapidly approach- successful gamblers, and of successful men in other ing his own death: “Young men are fortunate; thejj captain Seaiby, of the white star liner und one of the r}£llt sort lines of shadv endeavor. They are successes in that J will see fine things.” That remark of Voltaire’s frette. was explaining to a Cincinnatian ls of ™ the t r smal t 1 , bu ‘ Id ’ w ‘ th ' p:, u f nt > -. , . * , , ! ,.. n „i j i-„ nr ,» tewlav that ll,s company had considerable diffi- refined leatures. the face of a i oet oi they accomplish what they set out to do. successes . " oil Cl oe apt ^ , j culty in finding names for their new philosopher, and a look that dots not none-the-less, though each step toward the accom- J In. this connection might be mentioned the pro- , ships. ‘ gainsay the truth, unfortunately, ef be- » ma y be debatable ground, to winch visit- “Tliey all have to end in ‘le,’ you know,” Prm fa r from lobust in health. His hair ors may or may not be admitted, the the captain explained. is just beginning to turn gray, an4 his greater experiment farm of fifteen’acres The Cincinnatian, who was pale and face is smooth, though not long ago he a world-wide reputation as an aeronaut. Dr. seedy, said, as he looked dismally at the wore a heavy, curled mustache. He is Thomas is now in Augusta, and he will, weather r T. ! “ 1£ OCGa f. : ., _ ,, quick in his movements, and a rare con- permitting’, make a trip from that eit) r to his old ‘seasic. home in Atlanta, riding in an airship far above ' j Burbank’s work is of sucli a nature that Le cannot well r e interrupted ' ADMISSION TO FARMS. While 1.„ ... .e U.C. . ... - . Bosa ])lishment of that object places them further and further away from a position to merit the admira tion of their fellows. This divergence in the meaning of the word suc cess, as it is commonly used, should lead us to in quire what kind of success is worth having. ’In the beginning, it is apparent, one must have a noble posed airship flight of Dr. Julian Thomas, the noted former Georgian, who has gained such be. fitt ie ones an.i were i to trouble to do so I could quote name after name of women whose children are their consid eration and whose motherhood is their greatest joy; women who. in spite of busy lives and many ties, "ever for a moment neglect the welfare of their little ones. The modern mother is much inclined to spoil her children; to this I agree, for there is scarcely enough discipline used in the modern nursery, but even tha mothers who are most stern are very ten der. and those unnatural and unfeminine women who do not love their offspring are, thank God, as scarce now as in any other period of our history. There hava always been rare and loathsome excep tions. but we are not dealing with -xcep- tions—we are defending a foolishly ma ligned class. As to the many accusations of the lack of purity and modesty of modern times; in former days women did. openly what our worst women now strive to hide, and who knows but vice which is no longer flaunted openly may not some day happily altogether cease? Modern women, as I have already al lowed. are doubtless full of faults; so are men, and so have all men and women beer, from ail known time. Hcman nature va ries but little, and although nowadays there is less chivalry of a picturesque the earth. This will be one of the most unique ven- bject, for if his object he ignoble, no matter how ' tures ever made in flight through the air, and it How the Auto Went Up at Lodore. (From 'Hie New York Tribune.) You have heard how the water Came down at Lodore. (If you haven’t you oughter; It’s told as old lore.) But perhaps you may never Have heard tell before How the auto went up In the Niwn of Lodore. but fully he mav achieve it, so will his success be like- j Dr. 1 homas accomplishes the project, it will fasten wise ignoble. But there are many great successes |the eyes of the whole world upon himself and upon which seem, at the close of the person’s life, to I Georgia. have been miserable failures. Notable among these j Just what wonders of science and invention he was that holiest of lives this earth ever witnessed— I in the bright tomorrow no one can say, but there that of the Man of Galilee. What more dismal end- jare signs enough mow visible to make it certain ing to an evangelistic career than death on the j that many of our present day’s institutions and ^deuc^of^a pacT Cross? And yet, through the shadows of that ap- | modes of life are soon to he radically changed. p V ff: n g and snuffing, parent failure^ the light burst and shone upon the j Meanwhile we wait prepared to receive any marvel And sporting and snorting, world, growing brighter and shining farther with j and use it, if we find it serves our ends and makes every generation, until Christianity became the our lives more comfortable and better worth the greatest force in the world. What loftier object j living. Leaves from an Old 5crap BooK A^d booming and fuming. And rattling and battling By A GEORGIA COLONEL. I READ in the old scrapbook the fal lowing copy of a dispatch from Gen eral Lee telling of General Hamp ton's brilliant exploit in the rear of Gen era.! Grant's army: Headquarters A. X. V.. September <7. 1864. Hon. J. A. Seldom Secretary of War: At daylight yesterday the enemy's skir- Davis has been preserved in the oh’ war scrap-book: Whereas, it is provided by an act o’ congress entitled “An act to further pro vide for the public defence." appro\ed o' tiie 16th day of April, 1862, by anothei act of congress, approved on ■the 2?ii of September, 1362, entitled “An act to amend au act Entitled an act to provide further for the public defence, approved 16th April, 1852" that the president be authorized to call out and place in the mish line, west of the Jerusalem plank | military service of the Confederate states, for three years, unless war shall have read, was driven back upon his intrench- ments along their whole extent. Ninety pr'soners were taken by ns in the opera tion. At the same hour General Hampton at tacked the enemy’s position north of the Norfolk railroad, near Sycamore church, part thereof as in his judgment may be ami captured about three hundred prls- i necessary to the public defence, oners, some arms and wagons, a large number of horses and twenty-five hun- And shaking and quaking. And chinking and stinking. And chugging and gluggling, And grinding and binding, And howling and yowling. And roaring and snorting. And guggling and struggling. And rocking and shocking been sooner ended, all white men who are residents of the Confederate states, be r tween the ages of eighteen and forty- live, at the time the call may be made, and who are not at sucli time legally all persons subject to this call, and not 1 ^ I1( j maiming and laming; now in the military service, do. upon 1 hwing enrolled, fo’-^bwith repair to the conscript camps established in the re spective states of which they may be residents, under pain of bei"g held and punished as deserters in the event of iheir failure to obey this call, as pro vided by said laws. And I do further order and direct. ,T >at the enrolling oncers of the several states proceed at once to enroll all persons em braced within the terms of this nrocla- mation, and not heretofore enrolled. And T do further or^er. that It shall be lawful for anv person embraced with in this call to volunteer for services be fore icrrollment, and that persons so volunteering be allowed to select the arm of sendee and the company wdiieh they tn join, provided jnoh eomoany he deficient, in the full number of men at- IS A BACHELOR. Mr. Burbank liu.< ut-.n married | his mother, who is new over ninety years I old. keeps house for him, and gives lor- I ing thought to his comfort. He cak j scarcely hope to keep her very inucil ! longer, more's the pity, ami then, when ' she is gone, he will have only tiie com pany of his beloved plants to cheer his lonely life. His cottage home is small, but the very essence or neatness and \ daintiness, inside and out. The building is almost hidden in a bower of wild roses and creeping vines, while all around it are beautiful trees and shrubs and palms. Nine acres of rare vegetable life surround the lovely little home that nes tles in their center. The walk from the gate to the house ls shaded by large at Sebastopol, 6 miles distant, is not open to visitors at all—that is to or- i klnd . there is plenty of chivalry about , ’ , which also is a true sign that the mod- visitors. Only those who have . „ , . ern women is as worthy of homage aa valid reason are allowed to en- I ever. | “Frailty,” says Shakespeare—and he j was not speaking of the much-abused | modern woman but of all women—“Frail- , ty, thy name woman!” But are we more a very valid reason are allowed to en ter its bounds. And those favored few must be able to show a card reading thus: "Ticket of admission to Sebasto pol experiment farm. Void unless signed . y the Proprietor. Date Signa ture Prices for the admission of visitors during the busy months of April, May, June, July, August and Septeni- Kaeh person, one hour, $10; each terson, one-half hour, $5; each person, •luarter of an hour, S2.50. Admission '(ill be allowed at one-half tho above I'tSces during the other six months, i When there are two or more in the sa» e party, twenty-five per cent dis- ■coitnt from the above prices. ! "Note: Everybody would be graciously j welcomed to the farm, but the burden .of -ntertaining the multitudes has oe- walnut trees, mot the common walnuts that you and I are familiar with, but aon ‘ s<> sreat that the experiment work frail or full of faults than our forbears or, in fact, than tiie women of whom he spoke? T have no doubt in the olden days there were quite as many wise shakings of ancient heads over the modern girl of that period and as many sad prophecies as to the maidens’ future as there are now, but nowadays tiie papers repeat what pessimists think, and if "Miss Brown” or "Miss fiinitih” writes to her own pet paper a bitter and vituperative attack on her own sex every papeT re peats what she has said and Miss Brown's own particular jaundiced view is reiterat ed until people begin to think that sho must be right. There is no influence more potent than Once a week Mr. Burbank drives over ! to the Sebastopol farm, where he ern- exempted from military service, or such lo—pd toy Isw for its organization. Given under mv band a"d tbe seal of and ends in exhaustion. And this is not , always because of his arduous work U ! e „ 1,ope keep ‘ nff down lhe ml,mit ‘r among his plants. It is more frequently jY l . ' an mere y curious applicants . . .. , .. . J for admission, because ot the visits and annoyances thrust upen him by thoughtless people who regard him as a sort of curiosity, . .. . , , and rumbling and turn! and his marvellous creations as a show. ! ^,^ n ^° m ® lghteen ta tWrinty skl ‘ led and rumbling and turn ^ ayepage number of callcrs at Santa if a,dners ' _ i hl3 da H “inspection Rcsa in one year is six thousand, often !„ a ‘’ F ls always one of as gieat interest and all of them are ° gr , eat raUKU, T The master mind to ; as to take note ctl all the work done And braying and swaying and slaying, j "the Wizard.” Of course that is impos- i the* Ln^fnr'ih " eek > and to lay out 1 ev,i„ Vr ... * „„ ! tlle l“ans far the next week. Constant care ls imperative to make sure that no And fizzing and whizzing and hissing. And skipping and ripping and zipping. And bubnling and doubling and troubling. And grumbling blinv. .»iid banting and whanging and clanging And clattering and battering and shatter-' more than that, ing, ' | people wlto want to see and speak _ "the Wizard.” Of course that is Imp And honking and skunking and punking,! s'ble. Mr. Burbank is not an exhibit. Pellm and yelling and smelling. I the i to per ha,, chant' olation for the Artist. Tbe Youtn s Companion.) Lord Leighton, president of academy, once had a chance oinething about himself that ie iiad not suspected. His ne to him at a picture gallery. tbf Confederate Ftates of America, at the where h.s painting, "Helen of Troy,” was cbv ftf Richmond.^this bn exhiibtion. He joined a group of la dies who were standing before Jt just 1 And, whereas, in my judgment, the I necessities of the public defence require ' ^twee'n r thragi a S e esaM be shouM ar now| “'(«*£■“**> DAVIS. j *» tim<! t0 hear oru> of the namber sa > r: ! be called out to do his duiy in the de-i By the President: “Its a horrid picture-simply horrid!’ ! fence of his country and in driving back J - B. BENJAMIN. 'Tm sorry but its mine ’ Lord I the invaders now within the limits of the Secretary of State Leighton exclaimed involuntarily j Confederacy. i I You don’t mean to say you ve bought therefore, I, JEFFTBSON HOW TO RECRUIT THE ARMY. ! th "No-■ "f' ? pa?nted l 'n ”* tlm arris® humbly DAVIS, president of the Confederate rnder the above v- c;i ,j Jf „ e= , ... , .j H , ‘lied P almea u » " am “> nowe^°ve^ie 1 rf r |n a ’ml 0 ’nc y nf 4 ,r t e l ^id f !»ii ^ f °l*°wiug iii the Richmond Sentinel: | The critical lady was momentarily out and pface in the milnam s^vice of Wilmington. September .4th, 1864. abashed; then'she &id easily: PROCLAMATION BY DAVTS ^ Confederate slates, .between the ages' Som< ’ rHmors havin g reached this place ! “Oh, indeed, you mustn't mind wat I DAVIS*. ot eighteen and forty-five years, not le- that Tne following copy u: ui. «i :-tn g gaily exempted from military service;' proclamation by President Jefferson and X do hereby order and direct that dred cattle. General Gregg attacked General Hamp- ten on his return in tiie afternoon, at Pelchess' mill, on the Jerusalem plank 2oad. but was repulsed and driven back. Everything was brought off safely. Our entire loss d-ovs not exceed fifty men. Ft. E. LEE. E'en if he were willing to be set up mistlliies are made . and looked at as a show piece, there i OCCUr llt . re would be no rime or strength left for ... . ,, - . . - - . , , . „ I w here actual results are being reached, the .work that has made him famous. But Mr Burbank never sees those wh, TpX^ 'ZTJT*"* ” **** come out of mere curb sity, if he can help it. There are far too many as it Is. whom he feels that he must see, men of kindred pursuits or men and women eminent in ottoe. I’rtfs of work. GETS MANY LETTERS. In addition to muse . ta.i. .. n visitors. extra session .... j say.” "ill 1 “Oh, indeed, you mustn't mind what 1 Continued on Third Pago. began earnestly. She’s only said what \ everybody else is saying.” patience that have glue before. At S bastopol there are always hun dreds oil thousands of fruit trees that need tl.iir master’s inspection. There is work \ to tie done on new berries, grapes, dhiamental shrubs of all kinds, , and on l.iwers. Tests that are on too there are still more who call on Luther | large a skle for the borne grounds at Burbank by mail. Every year there arc | Santa Ro-i Besides these, there arc some forty thousand letters to be an swered, besides many that are not Besides these, there are important Experiments qn fast growing , , , . , trees tto ft attended to and watched, worthy to be answered at all. At one land lists t>(be made of all Fine in two months, fifteen thousand ; plants that'; hav. letters were received. These letters.con- j from all pais * tain inquiries on all sorts of subjects nearly or remotely connected with his work, and often suggesting a personal interview. To such letters a -printed card is sent in reply, declining the proposed infliction. Applications by the thousand ind gentle and wholly modest and unas suming? Do they possess tiie purity of heart and tiie grace of mind the absence of which they so constantly deplore in the “modern woman?” They, too, are modern—are they perfect? Have they not a well-spring within them of overflowing brightness that by patient seif-purifica tion they could turn into the ever-sweet and heart-improving milk of human kind liness and love? It is not by abusing tho modern woman that she will ever be improved. It is by each woman not only preaching the doc- If such mishaps do j trines of love and forbearance and purity the proving grounds j and womanly modesty and grace but by practicing these virtues herself and by ceasing to revile and becoming a living example of the true type of a perfect femininity. That there are bad women not only in society but in the upper and lower mi idle classes, too. even a.s there were in olden times, and as, alas! there ever will be, no one can possibly deny, but it is not by a virulent abuse of bad that we shall ever eradicate evil. The modern woman, according to certain ill-conditioned modern writers’ minds, is a gambler, a rake, unfaithful and im modest and a mere drug-absorbing crea ture. who is ready to sell herself to the highest bidder. If it were not sad It would be laughable to say so. How many of us know such hopeless women? It is impossible to ignore the evils that abound in life, but at least we need not deny the ^rood as well or condemn a whole community because o£ a degenerate few. sorts of been recommended the world, as being worthy of ti^ developing touch of the wizard's tinge^, or of combination with some other kiniied plants. M’hese are only a few of the many things that Mr. Continue! on Fifth Page.