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i editorial paw THE SUNNY SOUTH DECEMBER 8, 1906. T\7\7V w 'supplied us with one of the truest definitions. “To IN jJ IJ v/ V-/ JI JI & know the consequences,” lie said, “to feel the fear, 1 Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Busine/s Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA, GEORGIA J& to suffer the anguish, and still to do the deed. THAT is bravery.” Bravery in silence. Endurance, when the whole world misunderstands. Endurance, amid { | surroundings that gall and exasperate and madden. I Living on, quietly, cheerfully, when the salt of life j seems to have forever lost its savor—THAT is [bravery. Bravery, \\ here there is no one to applaud or to encourage. Bravery, when to the right and to Entered nt tbe postoffler Ajlnnta* Ga..n_s ncrond-rlns* lunil matter ! * ^ >e ,ctt " e are surrounded with people who deeili | us foolish, who sec in us nothing save oddities. ! Bravery, for the sake of other people. Bravery, March 13, l»Ot J& The Sunny South is the oldest weekly paper of Literature, i , , ., , , • - ,, Romance.FaAandFiftionintheSouth^ tt is now re. i whcn we know that to show the white feather may i Aored to the original shape and will be published, as for. | iu'i llg paill Or disgrace to SOIUC Other person. merty every week & Founded in >874 it grew until 1899, j Bravery, as long as one. single individual is helped when, as a monthly, its form was changed as an expert* !i ' u , , meat Mf It now returns to its original formation as a | ■' 'O . ^ , weekly with renewed vigor and the Intention of ecllps• i t. iiai'les Reade prefaces Oile Of Ills gTCatCS Ing its most promising period in the past. j novel enfence: "Each day, somewhere in the world, men and O great deeds, speak great >le sorrows.” He calls these m cal is met with strange and trying re-(people “silent martyrs. . i,i t i ,i ,| ■ gotten all your valuables together, and 1 he Cloister and the Hearth, with ihis /before leaving have prepared a little A Devout Disciple. (From Life.) The burglar, who had entered the house at midnight, an hour before, and during the interim had been quietly gathering together in a neat bag everything of value that was in sight, now* stood at the foot of the bed con templating with benevolent aspect the sleeping form of the. lady whose hus band was enjoying himself it town. It must be done,” be muttered, rals- ng his hand and shaking her gently. She rose with a strut and a cry, as she beheld the muzzle of his revolver. “Madam,” lip said, quietly, “X re gret greatly to disturb your slumber, but the facts are these: I have just What Is Bravery? i women ot no note OMETIME.S the editor 01 a periodi- words an(! suffer , quests. A: chance sentence in an ed itorial. reflecting, perhaps, his own mood in those unguarded moments which come to the most careful of us all, may have appealed with a di rect personal sympathy to an un known reader a thousand miles re moved. Two days ago we received a letter, marked large across its face with the warning word, “personal.” A portion of the letter we give to our readers, since it touches a subject likely at some j achievement than that of the time to he of interest to every man and woman who j crowned with the world's laurt secs in life something more than the tinsel and the | world’s praise, drinkinj gewgaws that appear on the surface. “1 wish you [and women who. after would tell me,” runs the letter, “what is your defi nition of bravery? 1 have been, for years, buried in a prairie town with no advantages, no pleasures worthy the name, no companionships except those of people with whom I am not congenial—nothing save a long, monotonous stretch of life, unenlightened except for the diversion of solitary rides into the chapparal, a few hooks that stray into this desolate spot, and the weekly visits of your periodical, am here for my health. If T left this altitude and went into a lower one, death by tuberculosis would be my early fate. I am staying here—just endur ing—because I have a mother hack yonder on the other side of the ‘divide.’ For myself. 1 am indif ferent. But 1 know that if 1 sacrificed my last hope of life, if I 'left this voluntary exile, if 1 met death! as I am certain to do in another latitude—it would j kill. Often I ask myself—is it bravery, or is it foolishness that I continue this thing, for her sake? What do you think about it?” Pilate it was who inquired, “\\ hat is Truth?” He was not the first man to put the question. It has been in the minds and on the lips of millions of people since man first wielded the power of con- And the world is full of {hem, just such as that lonely man out on the still, monotonous west ern prairie. He has plenty of company in the teem ing centers of civilization. Every dav we jostle men I and women on the streets who. with calm, smilirjg, faces, are shouldering burdens just as heavy as his. If all of them COULD just reach out and grasp hands, and feel the thrill of companionship and understanding svmpathy! But they as well as he (for he KNEW his question was superfluous when he asked it) can take comfort in the fact that theirs is a greater man who stands flushed with the in 11 io adulation of men |, do not—KNOW. spread on the dining table—a cold cut, a small bottle and so forth. But you must understand, madam, that in this age of Rockefeller the ethics of my profession have greatly advanced. May I ask you. therefore, if you will kimlly rise, accompany ine to the dining room and say grace?" ZSfye New Sunny South > *®****^\ OME apprehension .has arisen in the r* ■ minds of a few of the readers of The B Sunny South. Letters received here and by the managers of other depart ments express sorrow over the pend ing change, fearing that the identity of the old magazine will be complete ly swallowed tip in that of the new. The management, in a previous edi torial, tried to make its purposes and the scope of the "Uncle Remus Mag azine” perfectly clear. That it did not do so is to he regretted. The “Uncle Remus Magazine” will be just The Sunny South, broadened and nationalized. It will he The Sunny South infinitely bettered—brought to the last degree of excellence and attractiveness. The list of contributors, published a few weeks ago., con tains names of the writers who have helped scionsness. And we cannot answer it—in words.'to make the magazine in its present shape a very M e know it when we see it. Each man and woman I popular one. They will continue to liv en the pages of us needs no help in that direction. Our con-j of the forthcoming publication, with the difference sciences discriminate as if by magic. Something j that they will now appear before a larger audience. Divine—though we may at times deny it—endows ns with this strange ability. But—for the life of us—we cannot put it into language. And bravery? It is almost a twin question, lection for it—and Men used to consider it the acme of bravery to laity and regard of every class—will find that his dash into the cannon's mouth. They arc coming j or her particular department has been preserved in now to see that it may he mere physical reckless-j its most attractive form. lessness. Men used to think that failure to resent j Over and above this condition, is the promise an insult, to deal blow for blow, was cowardice. I that men and women of international note will now I lie man who dashed into a burning building and ' join The Sunny South galaxy. They will show to rescued lives, or who plunged into the raging surf!the readers of the periodical the broader side of Light. (From The Houston Post.) “Were your summer expenses very heavy?” “Not very: our poker club disbands during the summer.” Bookkeeping. Modern business methods favor double entry bookkeeping. In the business col lege when, the instructor asks what this sort of bookkeeping is the pupil will reply, winking and smiling: “Double- entry bookkeeping is tbe keeping of two sots of books, one of which may be produced in court if required.”—Argo- ! mint. Helpful. Mrs. llelphunter—A young, strong girl; like you from South Carolina ought to ; lie able to do something around a house ! even if you cannot bake, wash, iron or dust furniture. Can't you do any thing? “Um-um, Missy, ya'as, all kin cook yo’ a gorjus possum dinnali. Ta-a-as, in- deedy.”—Puck. Always in Style. They were going through the furniture factory. Mrs. Jones was amazed at the great proportion of chairs, and she in quired the reason. "Well, ma’am,” responded the ingenious attendant, “you see, it’s the dull season, and most of our furniture is out of style, but settin’ never really goes out of fashion.”—Boston Record. A Bad CN'ight. Uncle Reuben was taking his first ocean voyage down to Florida. “Did you sleep well, uncle?” they ask- <-c him after the first night out. “Not pertickler.” lie replied. “Them bustles ye liev t’ tie under yer arms k’nda keep a feller frum restin’."—iLife, The Silver Lining - . “Your nephew, that’s studyin’ io be a doctor—?” oil. now. lie ain't by 'any means as useless as you’d naturally think,” phil osophically said honest farmer Ilorn- leak. "When he comes home on a n- cation I make him not only kill tbe chickens, as occasion arises, but dress Am. into the by rain; and what little knowledge he iha»y»*read v got of surgery 1 enables him to 'do a more artistic job I lave Striven to will the lov- ( t:ian any oif the- rest of us can do, in spite of all the practice we have had in an unscientific way. A college educa tion, Enoch, has its bright side, even if it docs cost considerable.”—Ex. “One, Two, Three!” It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy that was half-past three; And the way that they played together Was beautiful to sec. She couldn’t go running and jumping, And the boy no more could he; For he was a thin little fellow .With a thin little twisted knee. They sat in the yellow sunlight, Out under the maple tree. And the game that they played I'll tell you, Just as it was told to me. It was hide-and-go-seek they were playing— Though you’d never have known it to be— With an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy with a twisted knee. The boy would bend his face down On his one little sound right knee. And he’d guess where she was hiding, In guesses One, Two, Three! “You arc in the china closet!” He would cry and laugh with glee— It wasn't the china closet; But lie still had Two and Three. “You are in papa’s big bedroom, In the chest with the queer old key!” And she said: “You are warm and warmer: But you're not quite right,” said she. “It can’t be the little cupboard Where mama’s things used to he— So it must be the elothespress, gran’ma!” And he found her with his Three. Then she covered her face with her fingers. That were wrinkled and white and wee. And she guessed where the boy was hiding, \\ ith a (Due and a Two and a Three. And they never had stirred from their places. Right under the maple tree— This old, old, old. old lady. And the boy with the lame little knee— This dear, dear, dear old lady, And the hoy who was halt-past three. —Runner. Where before they played simply io the south, tliev will now play to the nation. Everv reader of ihe weekiv who feels an af- What an Improvement Association ^ Means to a Village ^ IN TWO PARTS—PART I. By HELEN HARCOURT, Written for The SUNNY SOUTH. AVE you ever thought about it? It is worth the thinking. It is worth the doing, too. The most the world and of humanity. Instead of feeling a sense of sorrow at this change, the readers <>f The Sunny South should: ex perience a real pleasure in a turnabout which takes and dragged forth the limp bodies of the storm's victims, was deified, almost, as the arcliitype of the hero. We never paused to consider that under the stimulus of great excitement, with applauding on- lookers, such feats were comparatively simple. That the oldest literary magazine of the south into the vith many men, the element of fear had been left ranks of magazines of national character — on an out of t'lieir composition, and that their braverv was equal footing with them, outvying them in many no nioie praiseworthy than the headstrong impel-j particulars. I’osity of the charging bull. j Tliev will find, at an early date, that they have It was Napoleon—and he spilled more blood,! lost no old friends, but that they have, on the con- oeriiaps, than any man in modern history - -—who trarv, gained many new ones. ' is an opportunity that every country ; village should embrace. But—and here is where the Improvement Associations come in—every village that hopes to benefit by an infiux of summer resi dents, must have attractions to draw them to it. Natural attractions that j n:ne miles south of Memiphi have been improved and made the most icceive the bearers of a liag of tru-•’ lovely villages and towns j of by property owners. There are very I “The Northern papers will no don in the United States have r<? " ' Nl&ges, especially m' T the south, j cJver. or i^nleavor to iiide their n'.-n. where natural beauty does not exist Leaves from an Old Scrap Book By A GEORGIA COLONEL. I FIND in tbe old war scrapbook thi following account of General For rest’s dash into Memphis, which ap peared in The Mobile Register: “Pamola County, Miss., August 24.—I must try and pen you a few lines to place you in possession of the informa tion I have collected in relation to For rest’s late dash into Memphis. “Nothing could'have been gotten up and carried out with more expedition and se crecy, for General Forrest left Smith’s front on Thursday evening, crossed the j Tallahatchie at Panola on Friday night, ! and on Sunday morning completely sur- i prised the whole federal camp and garri- ! son at Memphis by pouncing upon them i entirely unawares. i True, he traveled pretty rapidly, but if ! Jie had not exorcised good judgment ana j great caution the enemy must have ; heard of his approach, or Smith must have learned that he had gone off some- ! where in his rear. “As before remarked, however, it was a ! complete surprise, and last night, when j Smith received the intelligence that For- I rest was in Memphis, and commenced ! falling back to Abbeville in haste, For rest had then finished 'his job, and was j resting in Panola. i “Forrest entered Memphis from t no south, completely running over the sub urban encampments, early on Sunday morning. His brother. Captain Bill For rest, galloped up to the Gayoso, atid all accounts agree that Mr. Washburne had a pretty tight race, but saved His hide and shirt, for lio wa.s snugly ensconced In bed when tiie gallant confederates [ rodo up, though he didn’t stay there j long afterwards, nor was lie very par- | ticular, I learn, about t-lie costume in which he made his exit, for his day clothing were in the room when Captain Forrest called to pay his respects, and that was all he could find of General Washbume. lit is said General Hurlbut was in Memphis also, and remembering the peculiar compliments and refined ex pressions lie had used towards General Forrest, the latter,, no doubt, felt anx ious to form bis acquaintance. He ac cordingly detailed a special escort and sent round to Ilurlbut’s lodgings, but unfortunately ‘tlie -bird bad flown,’ and a flag of truce officer subsequently ad- mit'tted that tlie great big general only escaped lay tiie accidental acceptance, on tbe previous evening, of an invitation to spend the night with a friend. “Forrest remained in Memphis and fought tiie enemy about six hours, but they outnumbered him so very far that he was forced to retire, which lie did in good order and without confusion, bring ing off all His wounded and 239 prison ers and some 500 horses. The lowest estimate of the loss of the federals that I have heard is 150. besides the prison ers. General Forrest’s loss is about-ten killed and twenty or thirty wounded. “Orders wt-r egiven. I understand, that (private property should not be ink - fared with and hence there was ru burning or plundering. The Memphis papers admit that it was a complete surprise, and the very first that was known of the proximity of a foe was a tremendous yell which Forrest’s men sent up as they fell upon the encanv.i- rcents. rode over them and dashed in: > the city. “When Forrest retired he did so slowiv at d in good order, as I have before r< - narked, and at Monconnah creek, -about halted to been made so by tiie vol untary cooperation of their people. These vil lages are not only beauti ful. but they are neat, thrifty and prosperous. Such villages are more numerous in tiie north A Frost for Them. Mac-Booth Rantington—Yes, old man yesterday 1 underwent the operaHun. Actor Barnes Do tiie doctors consider i than in the south, more's tiie pity. It it a success? ! is time that we changed all this. The MacBooth Rantington (smiling faintly) j trouble with us is, that nature lias done —Rather more of an artistic success than 1 so much for our beloved Southland, that a financial one, I surmise.—Puck. ! we rest content to let her do it all. And . ‘ . j yet, there is much more that we could “ ; and should do to make our homes more beeii S V erv°upset^" domestJC affairs have homelike, our villages more attractive to viI.,'-, 0 ' , ,, • , , . I residents and strangers. Mrs. mmols— Been changing help? , ... “No; husbands.”—Exchange. j Such attractiveness, to tne non-resident ‘ i homeseeker. means more to the pros- Tliese always need a few of streets, sidewalks, shade trees, foun peat ion by claiming that Forrest w-i Tnprovements [ repulsed and driven away. But the -’at less than one-tenth of that of ti emy, although they had. inilc spendei the ‘Home Guards, about four i Is the Reading of Fiction Justifiable and Beneficial? -Much has been said mo and COn on t Ills J linrpllilA ,lp^i o-n . emi lint tlih vunr.cf - fpatnrh nf ! lip hook : Much lias been said pro and con on tills important subject; and probably it will never be a settled issue so long as human minds differ as widely as they do in gen eral make-up and as long as tiie fiction literature of the land -is so full of bad as well as good novels. In a sense there is great (benefit to be derived from tiie reading of good fiction: and at times a bad novel will teach a lesson io ihe reader which no amount of "moralizing” could possibly accomplish. Those -persons who come out boldly and pul tiie. ban of condemnation absolutely upon what is commonly called “bad novels” are acting surely in an un- thoughted way; proper discrimination, of course, must be used, but it sometimes takes tbe portrayal of a deadly sin in all its ugliness to cause a 1’il-ful per former of such sins to take warning and desist. Recently tliero appeared in a religious paper the following timely and well writ ten article on novel reading: “Is it right to read novels? Yes and no: We recall now a college gradate lying on his back in His room and gulping down one after another of Sir Walter Scotrs works; and an anxious mother looking upon lier son’s employment, and with sad face turning away home she had -been taught to regara novel leading as essentially sinful, and would have indorsed the condemnation con sidered to -be sufficient. ’-It is a lie any way.’ It was forgotten that there is a sense in which the stories of the nursery, the fables of books, and even tiie para bles of our Uord are fictitious. One not wanting in reverence to the Holy Scrip- mre thus defines the parable: ’A narra tive moving within the sphere of physi cal or human life, not professing to de scribe an event which actuaiy took place, it expressly imagined for tiie purpose! representing in pictorial figure a truth nging to the sphere of religion, anil ■fore referring to the relation of man nkind to God.’ (Goebel.) To object, o fiction on the ground of its flo ss is unreasonable; the dress imaginary, but the teaching nd that truth of the mg-est question as to right. and e case must frequently turn horrible in details, sensational in design j son. But tiie worst feature of tiie book wliich would be ignored, like highly | that posing to be a true histories spiced diet, they destroy the appetite for I 11GVeI> lhe writer makes the alleged irreg good and nourishing food. There are! others positively polluting, salacious by expression, oftener by implication, which J should be avoided as one would a drug marked with skull and (bones. There are novels -which teach a-false etliic especial ly of marriage, wliich should be discarded for that reason. There are works of fic tion which have as their motive exploita tion of some heresy in religion, which should be-put under the ban, save as readj republic. Ihe for confutation. There are novels de-| reading is tl\i ularity of Hamilton’s foirtli, an opinion so sfenderly supported as not to have been considered worthy of note by historian or biographer, according to Henry Cabott Bodge, lhe very foundation stone of the book as a work of art, and to change the figure, it runs like a thread through the whole life story of a most remarkable man, one of the founders of this great only corrective for such history of the times cidedly infidel in spirit, wliich, of course, I ' lim ‘l ready lor reference, read before are unwholesome and especially hurtful j hand, if not soon afterwards. Especially to the young. These exceptions, while they include a vast number of works oi fiction, still leave enough of excellent publications t» satisfy tiie largest appe tite for romances. There are the older classics: The Waverly novels, Dickens multitudinous volumes, Thackeray, Mul lock, Bronte. Cooper, Hawthorne, new to each generation in turn, and, among mod ihould religious romances be read with Bible at hand, and previously require religious knowledge accesible. One ot these unpardonable fictions occurs in a book once very popular, “The Prince of the House of David.” John is pictured as following our Bord into the Wilderness •with food and pressing him to eat! Then the question of right and wrong eras, Ian Maclaren, Barre, Page. Collins, bad an intimate relation to quantity. In- Jolinson and a host of writers, male and [ temperance in this, as in all other inno- ■femule, whose performances are marked I cent pleasures and pastimes, is hurtful | by good literary finish and purity oi | -treatment. Of course, even Scott ana In her Puritan I 1,ickens ’ not 1,1 s " e " k »S llts - must be read with some allowance for coloring predilections and prejudices, Sootl is not just to the Covenanter, in our judgment, and Dickens’ religious characters are uniformly hypocritical. A fad of tiie day is the writing and reading of novels representing some historical pe- j feet rlud and its characters. -Skillfully and correctly written, they are wholesome and valuable and lielpfiil, for by tiie aid of the author's imagination, history becomes a living panorama to the reader; so fat- from dulling taste for sound reading, they have been found to stimulate appe tite for plain history. But such books should be read with caution, lest romance and wrong, and a iiabit of reading only sucii may -become immensely injurious, in disposing to more useful reading, -inter- ferring with duties, and leaving the read er in an artificial atmosphere, unfitting liim or lier for practical life. Tiie coTit-ge graduate, mentioned in the outset, w offending by a literary gluttony widen left no time for digestion, of style or el- But there might have been thi-s rtial exculpation: lie hud read such works in college terms, and was then resting before taking up tile serious busi ness life. The same excuse was not ■pleadable by a student known Oy him, who 1:iy on his back reading fiction and neglecting his class studies. And to con clude a work is not to be -condemned and eschewed by the Christian -because pro be taken for history and false views be; ftssedly fiction, if it is true in its repre- infused in place of true. There s always | carnation of times and persons in its a temptation in romance to exaggerate j teachings; and while some works of fic tile abnormal and slight the normal dull, and the writer too often takes tne liberty of coloring the story with his own political preferences. We found noth il lustrated in a recent so-called historical novel, teaching loose views of the mar- siderations. and principally rlage bond, and of its oatli of fidelity by nd quantity.” j a genius. It deals with Washington anil •els which should not he | his contemporaries. One cannot read it oung or old, because ofi without the conviction that the writer is /.ipahod In style or stilt-j an intense admirer of a purely national v cannot be read with- government, with states reduced to nomi- ’s own taste and ele- nal factors; nothing too good can be said There are others j of Hamilton, nothing too- bad of Jeflfer- “TIow quire?” is one cents ai tion may well be studied for cultivation of style, enrichment of language, culti vation of imagination and realization of history as living reality, most works oZ fiction should lie relegated to the hum bler office of innocent entertainment and should be but sparingly allowed tiie young. How many parents reading this article make themselves acquainted witn tiie books their children read? They would not allow association with living, vicious characters, yet too many permit associations with villains in pages of un- inch” she]ls~ in the ~eye principled romances. sir?*’—Desert News. Thoughtful Wife. "How do you intend to have the study decorated, Mrs. Goldrocks?” “My husband always likes to sit in a deep brown study.”—Milwaukee Sentinei. His Only Qualification. (From The Philadelphia Press.) He yearned to sit in congress. And so we rushed him through. So. there lie sits and, really, it’s The only thing he’ll do. —Philadelphia Press. Just Quips. Schoolmaster—Now, Sloggs, you clearly understand tiie reason why I’m going to cane you, don’t you? Sloggs (son of the middleweight champion)—Yes, sir. it's because you’re a heavyweight and I'm only a bantam.—Punch. Visitor—Good morning, madam; I came to tune your piano. Mrs. Hammer— Piano? I did not send for you. Visitor- No. ma’am; but the neighbors suggested that I had better call.—Philadelphia Bul letin. “Which candidate are you going to vole for?" “I ain't goin’ to tell,” an swered Farmer Corntossel. “A year ar so after election I have generally been so ashamed of the way I, voted that I've made' up my mind hereafter to keep it a secret.”—Washington Star. “We always keep tiie shades of our flat drawn during the day.” “That’s foolish. You should raise them in the morning, and allow them to remain that war.” “Oil. but when the sunshine comes in it makes the fiat seem so crowded.”—Cleveland Press. “Believe me, Madeleine, when T am away from you I am thinking every min ute of your blue eyes and of your lovely fair liair t’le same thing to another girl before me!" “Madeleine, don’t be cruel, I swtear solemnly that you are wrong. The girl before you was dark.”—(Hire. prosperous. perity of a village than appears at first careless glance. X T o one of us all can stand alone as an individual. Nei ther can a village stand alone as a com- 1 7 s “ cl1 ati «dciutions ate usually support inunity. It is a fact that cannot be de-. C ; , by , states foes an d dues. This is nil nied that the future prosperity of a vil- : ! _ *? lf - a11 the. members are lage depends in a great measure upon its attractiveness as a summer home for those who prefer and are able to turn their backs at will on the hot and crowded cities. It lias not been a great many years since a short vacation was deemed sufficient for tiie busiest of business men. i f r , . They remained in the towns, and their ' . IS “ et ter, therefore, as a rale, families remained with them. But the I •['. ' SU!> P°‘ c the improvement association time came when people grew wiser. ! U pure „ y voluntary subscriptions of i money, l'abor, or material, two are just as . s clear. He started to Memphis, and tains, neat fences and door yards. A j he went there. He wanted some horse.', uttle attention to these points will work I md he got them; and with them 239 a wonderful change in aesthetic condi- j prisoners. He didn’t burn houses, b. - tions. . j ea use he never intended to do so. and fi . ' s ' n s i Ic!l work as this that a live! got back safelv. with a loss, all told tillage Improvement Association will j c£ pro\ e a power in the community and j ci. confer lasting benefits upon the 'entire | of locality. The membership of such an association should embrace every ener getic man and woman in the vicinity besides an auxiliary composed of the chil dren. This auxiliary should be officered by wide-awake young people, and fully- enlisted in the work, and be taught how to assist the “grown-ups.” Tf rightlv encouraged, the children are always en thusiastic in tiie good cause. Above ail they are being trained in the way tliev should go in the future. Such and have ready money to spare. But ((■ !S 'fif'd °n sw-h as are obliged to count o.ery dime. There are many in -ordinary tillages who would be to join ™uch n-i association, and then give their time years !, and work to (h <‘ cause, but are deterred quite i membersllip because they cannot > men j iU* re e \ en a smaI1 fixed sum at fixed But the people grew/ wiser. | Longer rests from business and house hold c-ares were seen to be desirable, and later, actual necessities. Not oniy 4-est, but change. Families left their lieated city homes and flocked to tiie watering places. But there, tiie small, hot apartments, constant and costly change of dress, and tiresome social re quirements, were soon found by quiet, sensible folks, to be more trying than tiie equally hot. but more spacious rooms at home, where one was at least free to dress and lounge at ease. COUNTRY LIFE. And so first one and then another tried life in tiie country, the real, honest country, and found it most comfortable, most simple, and altogether desirable. Thus the summer country home became first Hie hobby and then the necessity of the majority of town dwellers who were prosperous enough to avail them selves of its advantages. But it was only tlie rich who could afford a complete isolated establishment. Tiie merely well- to-do having once realized that life in tiie country was tiie most comfortable and healthful life in the summer, set to work to find out how to bring it within “Bali! I am sure you said their moderate means flic solution ot tiie ’.I’Otblcm was found in the country village. Not a make-believe, fashionable village, such as spring up all around a city, not a suburban village, where wealth and so ciety most do congregate, but real home, bona fide village in tiie real country Here a man and his family can be as much in the country as if they owned They had (been married just a a cag tle and a thousand acres of land, month. ‘Do you know what (lay this ' Here they can have all the delights and is?" she asked sweetly at the break- j privacies of a true country life, and at Mrs. Pat—They do be sayin’ that at the weddin’ tiie wine flowed like water. Pat—Glory be! Who the devil had wa- thered it?—Harper’s Weekly. had 'been married just a Tiie latter od as money and w’lt •no given more freely by all who are not die to give money. ORGANIZATION. IIow to set such an association -o nlling? it i s simple enough, when one knows how. The best ive,v is for the cue or two who are always in tiie van - n such movements to find some one who has exeprience. o-_- has studied up !ne subject, to give a talk or lecture T.et the announcement of tfie lecture lie made in all the churches, and in the tillage pa/per, if it has one. Then lot ! be . leaders V. 1. A. to every ipossi- fiibty, taking heeq especiall-v to ifie most influential, but neglecting none. Some one of local distinction should call the meeting to order, and introduce ti-e lecturer. But a meeting should lie called, whoth- ' r a regular lecturer can be secured or not. Before the meeting, however, eight or ten of the men and- women most "in terested should meet togetner as a tem- .cciary committee, and map out ns near ly as possible, the order of -proceedings. Then everybody will know “where they are (at. \\ itliout this precaution, tiie In st meeting, on wliich so niucii de- ! five to Forrest's one. i “Tiie prisoners brought out of Memphis i cursed Smith most awfully. Among 1 other expressions used by them was this: ! ‘D—n him, he went off with over 20.000 J men. and said he had Forrest's men ! scattered in every direction and intc-a ;- cd to capture tiie whole of them -md I t n est to boot, and now, d—n him, here’s Forrest come right by him to Memphis and captured and killed five o- six hundred federal troops.’ Men have rarely ever poured out more wrath np- '•I an-, object than these prisoners emi tted upon tiie head, body and soul of the aforesaid General A. J. Smtih. ••Tiie retreat of the yankees Ironi ox ford was a very hasty one, and General Chalmers -pushed them so closely that in- captured three fine wagons and sornu prisoners before they could ali get across the river. The vandals did not abandon the country, however, without leaving tokens of their wrath and disappointment; in the shape of smoking ruins and lonely walls and chimneys at Oxford and Abbe ville. The last heard of them they w-v-i still going back, and the great Smith lias perhaps come to tiie conclusion by this time that his grand expedition, I : k-i tiie one he made in February, and lika that which he made up Red river in March and April, was another failure, to say tiie least of it.” THEY DID NOT DESERT. The Chattanooga Rebel gave the fol lowing fiat contradiction to the various prejudicial rumors about heavy deser tions in Bragg’s army on its retreat from Tullahonia. It says: “The amount of desertion and* strag gling wa.s small beyond precedent. Polk's corps was absolutely, stronger by 400 men on its arrival in Chattanooga, than it was when it left Shelbyvilie, and in stead of a loss of 3,000 reported by one writer as having been sustained by the army, it was not 500 men short when ic reached this plane. Such recklessness of statement by unauthorized writers should bo well considered before they be republished. The army had been under orders for three days to march at an hour s notice, and had prepared for it by having three days’ cooked ra ils in ’their haversacks, and when tiie * me to fall back to Tullahonia, and colors irder pends, will be sure to drag. The • .,n- they did so with bands playin nr Lee should draft a simple eonstitu- j fi-ing. ' No retreat was ever ticn, based, if 'possible, upon that of some other well established and smoo!!i- iy working V. I. A.; a sub-committee should bo named to nominate the officers and also .prepare the constitution and hx-taws for submission to tiie meeting. When tiie lecturer is through with his or her remarks, some person, .previous' ? appointed, should move the •unducted witii more deliberation and less loss." fast table. “Yes.” lie answered ner vously: “this is 'the day I have to -pay tiie second installment on that weddin ring!”—Yonkers Statesman. much postage will this re- isked the young author. “It of my manuscripts.” “Two ounce." answered the post- office clerk. “That’s first class mat ter.” “Oh. thank you!”—Judge. Captain—Do you see that captain on tiie bridge five miles away? Tar—Ay, ay. sir. “’Bet him have one of those 12- “Which eye. an expense that can be regualtei with comfort, according to the income. A horse and cow and chickens can be kept or not. The same is true of servants. The whole scale of living is less than in the towns and the comfort greater. Those who have tried the country vil lage for their summer homes, men of limited means, assert that their expenses are less than in tiie same length of time in their city homes and themselves and their families happier {ind healthier. This tendency towards country village life in the summer time, is one that is constantly growing and spreading all over the land. And in this movement ONE OF MORGANS RAIDS. 1 lie following account of one of Mor gan s raids was published in The Rich mond Dispaitcli: “That famous cavalry chief. General . — ,. r . immediate i Morgan, has gone through Kentucay and organization of a village improvement as- | gotten into Indiana, much to the terror sedation, on the lines suggested by the i of its inhabitants. He crossed into ecturer, and also that chair should ap- j Indiana on the 7th, with cavalry in- point a committee of three to report i ! fantry, and artillerv. to the number of - constitution. Of course, as we have 3,000 men, and captured Corydon, a seen, this latter committee will be ready town about 25 miles from Bouisviile, Ivy, I to report at once, and thus strike the ; It was formerly the capital of Indiana, j 'T° n while it is hot. The constitution is | Governor Morton, of Indiana, immediate- I sure to be adopted. Then the election j ly issued a proclamation, calling for : o' officers is in order, president, vice 50,000 men, and declared martial law in president, secretary and treasurer, as the border counties. At Indianapolis provided for in the constitution. These.' '25 miles from Corydon, a Michigan reg- I oiiiccrs, with three other members, will! imemt had arrived with a battery of ar- constitute the executive committee. Just I tillers’, and on the night of tiie 9th, here, it cannot be too stronglj' empha- ®l®ven regiments, aggregating 4,700 men. Continued on Fourth Page. Continued on Page Four.