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THE SUNNY SOUTH
DECEMBER 15, 1906.
-ratical system which, saddling the burden of prc-1
serving the integrity of family life upon the wo-!
man, lets the man often responsible for its DOW N-j
I ALL go smiling, and wrecking and singing on j
his way while his victim sits in lifelong garments j
of penitential sackcloth and ashes?
W hen are we going to cease rewarding weakness
THE constitution building j"
She SUNNY SOUTH
Published Weekly by
Sunny South Publifhing Co
Busine/s Office
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
J.ntrrr.l ai the ye* loftier Mlnnta, Gn..a» nrt'«nfl>plaa<i mail nuttier
.March 13. 1901
The Sunny South is the oldest weekly paper of Literature,
Romance, FaCl and Fiction in the South It is now re•
flared, to the original shape and will be published as form
mcrly every week & Founded in IS74 It grew until IS99,
when, as a monthly, its form was changed as an escperl*
meni It now returns to its original formation as a
weekly with renewed vigor and tha intention of ecllpsm
ing Its most promising period in the past.
The Fable of the Two Fleas.
(From Fife.)
Tno fleas were slums on a dog who
was wandering about the streets, when
one of them said. “Brother, what a dr-
Bhidcd, 'half-common street cur who wan
ders front alley to alley. We see nothing
but the most dismal sights. We hear no
Grace Brown and Chester
Gillette
—whiic the actual criminal is pampered and ex
cused and defended and given infinite chances to
purge his soul of guilt, or to soil it with new guilt?
^ es, vos! W e know all the old familiar arguments
i ' , ,, , • ... ... ° . . elevating ronversatum or delightful small
w Hit 11 extenuate the glaring injustice. W e are told talk, surely then* ought to be some-
Ihat there is retribution—often silent and unseen
by the mob. but nevertheless safe in the torture it
inflicts on the transgressor. W e are told that the
woman is sometimes the temptress—and sometimes
•••be IS. lint rarely, son. rarely! And when she li
the g'diltj party, the world seldom hears of her
complaint. It ii- always the craven spirit <>f the Lo
thario that cries out. “ The woman she gave me
j *tnd 1 did cat!"
I low absolutely banal, how pitifully childish, h<>w
I wantonly cruel appear these arguments when we
in the little town of Herkimer. X. contrast the two pictures—the woman with a black
Y.. thev have just found a voting ! hh Z ]n ovcr lu ' r l'‘>* perhaps self-destruction
hov. Chester Gillette guiltv of tbe| thc on, - v refu SV |,,r a ,nu " ! an<1 * >ul quivering un
crime of murdering his sweetheart. “ cr \ hv k,,, ? ul of «™tempt tr.un her own sex and
Grace Brown. Ink-ss Gillette’s \ thc lcrr , s ot t,,c worst of the others; the
man. whose conscience soon recovers from its suf
fering. entering the best society, holding thc bands,
smiling into the eyes, kissing - the lips of pure wom
en—finally calling one of them his wife!
That is the gist of the matter. Prate and evade as
volt will—how are von going to answer it?
lawyers, by one >f the innumer
able quibbles which ever aid the
murderer in cheating death, suc
ceeds in getting a new trial for
this young abnormality. bis
l hristmas will be spent with the
ghastly image of thc electric chair
ever before bis mental gaze. In
the end, he is to take his seat in
it- deep recc-scs. have his eyes blindfolded, elec
trodes applied to bead and feet, and bis body made
the storage vault lor a good many hundred volts of
<his mysterious force. ( )nc dispatch says he has
confessed. Another following closelv on its heels
denies the confession and says his attorneys, them
selves aghast at the revelation of coolness and cal
lousness which he has exhibited, are framing up a
new defense in which “emotional insanity' plays!
thc sardonic role. !iis old mother sits quietly by)
side. True to a mother's love—the purest, the best,
the most lasting, the most disinterested of anv that
grace tin’s sometimes graceless old human family—
she is his lirmest friend at a time w hen all ot hers
turn from him in loathing and disgust.
11 is crime?
Well, the narrative is very commonplace.
It is just the world-old one <>f the woman who
•oved a smooth, siiky-tongued degenerate clothed
with tlie airs which charm and blind and lure—
’ util he had molded her love into an agency for
ministering to his lust. And she? Waking up—at
ast—to thc realization that in thc fullness of faith
"illi which she held this man, she had sacrificed
tin most precious possession with which the \i-
niighty endow woman, leaving her a creature upon
•'bom men. if they KXF.W. would spit with a
laughing conlempt casting her out as something -
too vile to contaminate the air breathed bv their
mothers and wives and sisters.
And vet, she was but a child, mind you. She did
not. tall through viciousness, or natural immorality,
or that lurious gust of licentiousness which has
The Scope of a Magazine
111? birth of a new magazine in the
south—a magazine of national scope
and pretensions—is of sufficient im
portance to justify a demand on part
0 of the reading public for the fullest
knowledge regarding its intent and
its ability to fulfill that intent. Thc
readers of The Sunny South, attach
ed by years of affection and patron
age to the periodical in its present
shape, have evinced a natural curi
osity. almost misgiving, concerning
the project to transmute it into a
monthly print with an interna
tional missi >n. yet retaining the puritv. the
sanity and the virile spirit of the south since the
civil war. On two separate occasions we have en
tered somewhat into details regarding these ques
tion. I o the best ot our ability we have shown
where the transformation would he to the infinite
benefit of the old friends of the magazine, and that
in it - nationalized form it w ould appeal to them as
it never had when its influence was restricted by
the hounds of Dixie.
Today the masterhand of the mew magazine.
‘T’ncle Remus's Magazine." assumes this task—and
says the final word on a subject that has become
of imminent interest in the current world of letters.
Mr. Harris, in his announcement on the first page
of this issue, outlines just what his publication w ill
mean to the new south, the nation, and the world.
. He does it with a surety of touch, a precise defini-
r 1 ' ‘’ 11 history some < >1 its greatest and most horrify- torn of his own ideas a charm of style and a convinc
mg types ot femininity. She was, essentially, as j ing sincerity that breathe the man and that arc
pine as any of tiillette s sisters—it he had them-*-or I prophetic of thc success of the publication that
a- the °tln - r girls for whom he deserted this hapless j bears his name.
; icy to his passions, and who received him with j If the readers of The Sutim South will carcfullv
as cordial a welcome as though he came hacked by J read the scope of the new magazine as given bv
“ c^t'Bhcaic o! cleanliness signed by Deity itself. } him. they will remain no longer in doubt as regards
I oubtlcss tlic_\ never suspected the perfidy he j the delightful prospect before him.
had wreaked on the child whose body lay sprawling! 11c does not leave one department untouched,
on he bottom ot the lake. j From first to last the quiet genius that has illtt-
^tow^wouM 1 lie\ have met lus advances had they minuted the literature of a nation brings its penctra-
11 --V 11 . j 1 -ion and its comprehension to hear on the prospcc-
l at is the point ot this editorial. juts of a magazine that means the birth of a new era
. ' lC!1 -He we going to ontorcc the same standard! in things southern as tho\ pertain to the written
-•t morality for men and for women? When are we I word.
going to cease banishing the woman for a single! Ilis "scope" is worthy the careful studv of cvcrv
m ’ inn,J ' 1 as . blameless folly as that i subscriber anil friend of the periodical in its present
• ,ni V ’"'"V ' iU '} Ie . cei ' e "bit caresses and ac- shape. It is wort In a conspicuous place in their
- u A 0,miu u 11 b bis hands yet fresh from her j scrap hooks—as showing what a NATIONAL
|magazine S1I( )l LI) 1»T. and as showing what
.iti we going to cease that ages-old, hypo- 'T’ncle Remus’s Magazine" WILL 111 - ?.
thing better i... store for ns tliiin this."
"Voit arc said (lie second flea,
"l ook, my b.,•tiier, here is a carriage
approaching. It Is evidently sonic high
born lady bent on a charitable enterprise,
tn her lap sits such a beautiful little
terrier. Let us, therefore, make an ef
fort to better ourselves."
“Splendid." said iho first flea. “We will
li\e amid flto most luxurious surround
ings. Wo will feed <iri the fat of the
land. We will sleep at night in a clean
bed."
And so in a few l>oId but successful
jumps, as the carriage stopped, they both
landed simultaneously on the hack of the
terrier, in a short time they were driven
to their new home.
So delighted were they with their new
life that the two fleas could scarcely con-|
tain themselves for joy.
Their manifestations, however, were so
unusual that the terrier frantically
scratched himself, which attracted the at
tention of his mistress, who immediately
sent for a physician, who at once gave
rhe dog such a radical treatment that
the two tie as were slowly drowned in a
horrible fluid that came like a flood and
sunprised them before they were able to
get away.
‘•Alas; brother, -- said the lirst ilea, as
he gave a dying gasp, "why could we not
have been satisfied with our humble
lot ?”
Moral -Sonic folks never know when to
let well enough alone.
What Do We Plant?
What do we plant when we plant the tree?
We plant tire ship, which will cross the sea.
We plant the mast to carry the sails.
We plant the planks to withstand the gales—
The keel, the keelson, and beam and knee;
We plant the ship when we plant the tree.
What do we plant when we plant the tree?
We plant the houses for you and me.
We plant the rafters, the shingles, the floors,
We plant the studding, the lath, the doors,
The beams aind siding, all parts that be;
We plant the house when we plant the tree.
What do we plant when we plant the tree
A thousand things that we daily see;
We plant the spire that out-towers the crag.
We plant the staff for our country's flag.
We plant the shade, from the hot sun free;
We plant all these when we plant the tree.
—HENRY ABBAY.
i Leaves from an Old
Scrap Book
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
u
What an Improvement Association
Means to a Village ^
IN TWO PARTS-PART II.
By HELEN HABCOUET.
Written for The SUNNY SOUTH.
Man’s Handicap,
i Fn>m Exchange.)
Woman lias tears and unreason, often!
beauty. <>u her side, and if man lias!
nevertheless got the whip hand, it shows'
he i.s a smart fellow.
Reasoning-.
i From The Rochester Herald. >•
“Such reasoning.” said General F. D.
Grant, in a military argument, "reminds
me of the reasoning of old Corporal .Sand
hurst. Corporal Sandhurst was one day
drilling a hatch of raw recruits. ‘Why
is it,’ he said to a bright-looking chap,
‘that the blade of your saber is curved
instead of straight?’
“ ‘The blade is curved. - the recruit an
swered, “in order to give more force to
the blow. -
" 'Nonsense, said thc corporal. ‘The
blade is curved so as to lit tlie scabbard.
If it was straight, how would you get it
in the curved scabbard, you idiot.' ”
Foibles of Literaly Men.
t From Puck. )
Mark Twain does all his writing in bed.
and has named his country (place “The
Pajamas.” The Harpers announce for
early publication: “Pain and Counter
pane; or Christian Science Viewed from
a Four-Poster. - ' “Between the Sheets,”
"Pillow Shams and Other Shams," Mat
tress Meditations'' and "Bedroom Reve
ries.”
Following dark Twain’s example,
Charles Batted Foomis and Jerome K.
Jerome have j tined the pajama school of
humor, and have gone to bed for an in
definite sojoun.
Rudyard Kipling does not sleep in his
eyeglasses, as he fears lie would not
feel them when he goes out.
When in the throes of composition,
Brander Matthews has a habit of biting
his side whiskers.
Hamilton Wright Mabie always washes
hi s hands - before taking up The Ladies'
Home Journal.
F. Hopkinson Smith's favorite recrea
tion is weeding his mustache.
Literary men ars frightfully interest
ing.
r~rs
stray
other
piece of paper or fruit peel, or
unsightly intruder on cleanly
streets, was one of common occurrence.
Tin re were few hearts so stony, few
backs so stiff, that they refused to re.
spontl to such plaintive or merry appeals
as these, for instance;
trash.
Barrel!
"Oli! I’m a jolly barrel.
When people notice me.
So give me all your surplus
And trip along with glee.
—Jacos
"1 m here to Slop old Boreas
Front outing up his capers.
By blowing all about the street
Old peanut bags and papers.
—Empty Barrel.”
“Stranger, pause, and pity me.
Observe my wide, extended mouth.
Feed me with trash and orange pee!
Ill I dess the day you .-tar ted south.
—Hungry Barrel.
IIE most satisfactory way
to show what can be dona
in any given circumstances,
i.s to show what lias been
done under thc same con
ditions. 'fo this end tIre*
actual working details of
a village improvement as
sociation i an best b<* illus
trated by a review of tha
ways and works of a cer
tain association of the
kind well-known to the
writer. It was the pioneer
m this line in the state of Florida, and
the now beautiful little town of Green
i ove Spring, on the St John's river, some j
30 miles above Jacksonville, was the ■
scene of its location. The association,
which is still in existence, was founded
twenty-three years ago by the women of
thc village, who were driven to :ise up
in arms against the untidy and unkempt
condition of their ijp rwise lovely vil
lage, whose many natural beauties win
of (limes hidden or destroyed by man - ■
carelessness.
The founders of the Green Cove Village
Improvement Association secured a oliar-
.er from the legislature, which at on 'o
gave it a solid standing as an incorpor
ated body, capable of making legal con- *
tracts, and doing whatever business “I am chief of tin
might arise in the course of its opera- parlment. T have no legs, arms ( >\v s
tions. Its members paid $1 a year, and or ears, but am all mouth and stomach.
voluntary .To keep alive. 1 must consume orange
peels, ■papers and trash. Don’t throw
my food away into the streets, people
ear a day was set apart as donation : hut give me all you have.
—Prosaic, Barrel.
VERY EFFECTIVE.
luotations will sorvt* as an ^x*
you r
fui'l oranc
‘’Why thliow
peel
1 o litter up our cleanly street.
Winn here I stand the livelong day
t'iiii mouth wide open at your feet
Vacuo Receptieum.”
“Oh, how sorry T feel for a man
Who litters clean streets with trash.
And throws away paper and orange peel
Which form my favorite hash.
—Epicurean Barrel.”
from these regular dues and
contributions of cash, labor and mat
rials, its income was derived. Once
cay." and this was always u red-letter i
day for the association. Additions to its 1
source of income were made by occasion- [
al festivals, bazars, concerts and picnics. |
These
at which ice cream. lemonade, cake and Iunique trash gatherers,
sandwiches were sold for tlie good cause. ' * ley " etc a novelty, and proved to be
As voluntary labor could not always he ! wonderfully effective helpers in keeping
Theodore Shakespeare.
(Prom Puck.)
"Better faithful than famous," on
bust of Roosevelt, was changed, at the
president’s suggestion, to "Don’t flinch,
don’t foul; iiit the line hard.” One an-
tieipates wliat Theodore would do to
Shakespeare:
“Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in.
Hit iIn* line hard, and gain the in \- ten
y.uds.
Give every man thy car. and if lie chew
obtained as often as needed, the asso
ciation employed men to do its work,
faying them SI a day. just like otlie*
folks.
ALL GOT BUSY.
Every week one of the members wen
on duty as overseer and director of cl * •
men working on ;lio streets. By tlu-
I-fan the duty pressed heavily on non
while all m r
NDER the headline, “A Darin*
Adventure, - ’ I find the following
remarkably interesting war story .
I’he clipping an the sci-ap-book i3 as fol
lows;
"J lie Mobile Register of the 24th ultima*
publishes the following interesting letter
from the father of Lamar Fontaine, •*--
tlior of ‘All Quiet Along the Potomac To
night. - Though written somo time since,
if has been withheld from publication un
til now, lest its publicity should proven,
the success of enterprises similarly to the
one so graphically described.
“Lamar is continually in f ho s addle, and
employed in very hazardous enterprisi -.
His last teat of arms was the most dar
ing lio has yet performed.
- Ho left my house May 24, under or
ders front General Johnston, • to bear n
verbal dispatch to General Pemberton, In
Vick-buig, and to carry a supply of per
cussion caips to our troops in tiiat be
sieged city. i parted with him, hard!
hoping ever to see him again alive; fo
I knew that Vicksburg was closely it
1 vested on all sides. The enemy’s lini s
| of l ire uuvallation extend from Snyder
i Bluff, on the Yazoo, to AVarrenton, oil
I tiio Mississippi, and the rivers and their
■ opposite shores are tilled and lined w Mi
their forces.
"Ih: was well mounted, but burdened
with 40 pounds of percussion caps, b-
sides liIs blanket and crutches. He has
no use of his broken leg. and rsnn- .
walk a step without a crutch; and In
mounting the. horse lie has to lift it nv.
the saddle witj, his right hand. But ho
accomplishes this operation with mu.
dexterity and without assistance,
loaned him a very tine saber with
wooden scabbard to prevent rattling, and
a very reiiablo revolver, which has nev- ■
missed tire when loaded by me.
"Tile family were called together f* ‘
prayer, and we prayed fervently that th
God of our fathers would shield him
from all danger, and enable him to fulti
Iiis mission to Vicksburg successful! .
and givi him a safe return to us all.
I then exhorted him to remember that
if it was the will of God for him to 1I\*
and serve his country, all the yankei j
owned by Lincoln could not kill him.
hut if it was the divine will that he
should die. he would lie in as much dan
ger at home as in Vicksburg, and death
would certainly find hint, no matter
where he might be. I charged him >
use bis best endeavors to kill every one
of the jaekalls who should attempt to
stop his course, or come within the rt ■ .
of his sword or pistol.
“He crossed Big Black river that night,
and the next day got between tlieir lines
and tile division of their army which was
at Meohanicsburg. He hid his horse ;■
a ravine, and ensconsed himself in a
fallen tree overlooking the road during
tiiat day. From his hiding plaee he wl
nessed the retreat of the yankees. wl ■>
| passed him in considerable haste and
confusion. After tlieir columns had goiio
by. and the night had made it safe for
him to move, lie continued his route in
the direction of Snyder's Bluff. As he
entered the telegraphic road from Yazoo
t’it.v to Vicksburg, In; was halted b) a
picket, but dashed by him. A volley was
tired at him by the yankees. He es
caped unhurt, but a rniunie bull wound 0
his horse mortally. The s; irin d animal,
however, carried hint safely to the bank,
of tlie Yazoo river, where, he died, a d
left him afoot. He lost one of his
street-cleaning da- | crutches in making Li- escape. This v.
jerked from him by the limb of a tree,
and he had no time to pick it up.
“With the assistance of one crutch he
carried his baggage and groped along
Yazoo until he providentially discoveu ii
a. small log canoe, tied by a rope. wit;, u
his reach. He pressed this into h‘s ser
vice, and paddled down the river until
lie met three yankee gunboats coming
lip to Yazoo City. He avoided them by
running under some willows overhang
ing the water and lying concealed until
thev passed. Soon afterwards he flouted
When
Socialism in Literature
*
• Mi
fifty-six years have |
passed since the sfaal
British piinli whs sfartpij
by the lirst edition of
Charles Kingslei’s “Alto’ - .
Locke." The main idea of
tiie book, its central loe- i
trine, had been auli-ipate.l
by other thiukeis, but it ;
had been reserved for
Kingsley fo translate it.
into a form of popular lit- •
eraturo. The great public (
does not easily grasp a wide j
generalization before it has been illus- |
••cited by some narrative of .personal ox- ;
perience, and therefore, a Kingsley, a j
Bellamy, an Upton Sinclair, has always i
been ioun-I :t more effective exponent of ’
political ideas and theories than |
learned political economist—a !
I al and Hie Middle Classes - socialism
is lo mo a very great tiling, indeed. Ih:
form and substance of my ideal life, an 1
11 Bn religion 1 possess." Bui lie makes
a distinction between socialism and t'. -1
socialist uiovcmnil. “As m> own sense
i f socialism lias enlarged and intensified.'
tie confesses. "I hair become more and | „ew system of conduct to replace the
mure impressed by the Imperfect social- | old proprietory family. He no more re
gards the. institution of marriage as a
permanent tiling than he regards a state
of competitive industrialism as a por-
i manenl thing." Mr. Wells proceeds, un
doubtedly, upon a very seam induction.
and revered institutions of the now ex
isting eivilization are to be done a way
with—the parental relation, the marital,
ilic family itself, must go. “The so-
ciaHst," he declares. “ docs not propose
to destroy something that conceivably
i would otherwise last forever when he
i proposes a new set of institutions and a
i livi
him the knee and swat him in flic
A Rebuke.
(From Life.>
The Butler—The house is
madam. Here are all the hand
Mrs. I’acckill—You should have
them on a tray. Williams.
flit
thc streets free from rubbish of all kinds I by Snyder's Bluff, which was illuminate.i
Nearly every passerby man woman Q 'I and aUve with yankees and negroes, par-
,.v, j I,, ...... .... : ticipating in tlie amusement oi a grand
-h.ld. who saw a bit of paper, peel or ba ,i ot - mi xed races. lie lay flat in his
an.\ other objectionable object lying in tic. 1 canoe, which was nothing but a liol!ow
street, would pause to pick it up and ! log. and could liardli bo distinguished
drop it in tiie nearest barrel. “Pi king ! from :l piece o: drift wood- and glided
■ o the scraps" became one of the ivgr- • safely through tiie gunboats, transports
lar pastimes of tlie auxiliary nr "st ir • and barges of thc anialgamationists. lie
interested and watchful, j branch, - ' as ii was called, and the i liil- reached the back water of Mississippi In
details of the work to bo done were idren vied with each other as to who • tore day. and in the darkness missed
>uld
on lire,
(ivnailes.
brought
A Reasonable Request.
(From The London Telegraph.:
A small girl recently entered a gro-
ers .-lion in tie suburbs of Whiteoba‘Pcl
and said lo the shopman in a shrill, pip-
ism of almost , ve: v social movement tiiat
is going on. by its necessarily partial
•and limited projc.tion from tlie clotted
C.uils- ami liahituations of tilings as tlie,-
He finds that (he individual socialist
is intent upon his own personal relation
to tilt; movement, and tiiat his imagina
tion fails to apprehend thc wider issues
with which it is concerned. "Take, for
example, thc socialism iliai is popular in
New York and Chicago and Germany
new
:ho mo
Marx or a Lasalle. There is. however. 1 and that finds its exponents here tin Eng-
a kind of essay q. voted to themes of i land) typically in the inferior tanks oi
1liat soil, which is hardly less attractive . tlie social democratic federation—the
to the genoia] leader than tin: uio.-t art- , Marxite teaching, it still awaits perine-
fuliy constructed romance. If it docs ating by true socialist conceptions. It is
not tell a thrilling story, it paints a ioi
<■? moving pictures—unaccompanied by
i'aborate statistical tables and dreary
pages of more or loss philosophical n i-
sming— depicting the transformation of
the hard and sordid old workaway word
inlo a glorious new world, a world of
realized ideals, gracious culture, delight
ful leisure, and universal liberty. That
kind of essay Is a map of flic road to
A ready with all the steep places, and
miry places, and rocky places left out.
Ii Is a speciment of constructive states
manship in the shade, wholly untioubled !
by any doubt as to the character of the j
materials with which it proposes to deal, j
And sometimes, perhaps, it serves as a i
sort of tally talc which weary and ill j
• • quited men and women fike to think
is not altogether Impossible.
Mr. L. G. Wells, who loves so much
to imagine ;uirt to paint the vast changes
which tlie future is to bring for the r«
lief and enlightenment of a suffering and
Ignorant humanity, says in his arti- le in
Ti e Fortnightly for November, “Social-
a version of tiie adapted essentially to
tlie imagination of the working wage-
eaiiicr, arid limited by .his limitations, it
is the vision of x»oor souls perennially re
minded each Monday morning of Ike
shadow
•daily
to
a. very partial observation, when he con
cludes that the family i.s already weaken
ing and breaking up, and that “cynicism,
a dismal swamo of hare intrigues, cruel
restrictions and habitual insincerities, is
the nmnifest destiny of the present re
gime unless we n^kc some revolutionary
turn." Tiie trutlr is tiiat of all home
institutions the most essential to human
happiness is the family, and lie who does
not know this Is an ignorant and miser
able man.—N. O. Picayune.
VARIED ENGLISHMAN.
11* roiii The P;il! Mall Gazette.)
The system of inquiring inti your na
tionality when you are embarki
j “Please, sir. I wants arf a poind of
j butter and a penn'orth of cheese, and
j inuwer ses site will send a shilling in
[ when farcer comes home."
"All right,” replied the man.
! “Bat.” continued tiie child, “muvver
i wants the change. Vos slit* - as go; lo put
j a penny in tlie gas meter. - ’
Willie.
Willie to :he circus went.
He thought it was immense:
His little heart went pilter-puf.
For the excitement was in tents,
i From The Harvard Lampoon.)
•‘Describe as nearly us you can," said
the judge, “the assault the prisoner male
on you. "It wov just a common ordi
nary brick, sor,” replied the defendant. -
Milwaukee Sentinel.
Dear. 1 will have to get. a new dress
•!ways decided upon by the executive
< ominlttee. an,] iis instructions given to
lie overseer on duty. The influence of
tiie work o these public-spirited women
soon became very evident in the little
‘i v.il. even apart from the aetual wont
done by them. People who bad refused
to join lio* association began to l - **el
ashamed of the sharp eontrast between
their own untidy yards and fences and
tii- cleanly streets, and went to work to
Clean up and make repaiis. Yea;* by
f ar ilie task of keeping the streets free
from unsightly objects beeanic less illfli-
. alt. because nearly everyone was help
ing. and trash was not allowed to accu
mulate. The “waste places were made to
blossom as the rose.”
As tin* months roiled on. the one-time
opponents of the association were won
over, ami became enthusiastic In the
cause, and few householders were left
wiio felt tin- firmer indifference as to the
a] pearance of their home s rrounding.-.
The highways and byways, big streets
and little streets, were kept clear of all
| rubbish and litter. One man was kepi
j constantly at work, hired by the month,
an,] stopping only on rainy days, using
lioe, rake and wheelbarrow. Not a single
stray piece of paper, o it on a bonder, no.*
nil orange or banana peel, nor a till can
or barrel hoop, or any of those untidy,
po-account relatives, escaped his invita
tion to move on out of tlie streets. Soma-
times. especially in the rainy season, the
working force had to be doubled or
’rebled, and further augmented by i
horse and cart. And by and by. as tlie
interest grew, an,] the association pros
pered. a moving machine .was bought,
and used on Hie least frequented, and
therefore weed-grown streets, and on the
vacant lots. This machine proved a
great saving of labor, doing tlie work
of several men, and doing it better, too
•tiro most tid-bits for the hun the outlet of the Yazoo and got into O.d
gry barrels. Big folks and Jittie loik.G river. After searching in vain for a
were alike enlisted in the cause of neat- P ass illt " l!u -“‘ssissippi. day dawned
ness. For it is a fact that village ini-; ana * ie discovered his mistake, lie was
proveinent associations educate their f forced to conceal his b-.at and iiimseli.
members to an appreciation of tidiness ! aml Iie ,,v f”" another day. He. had been
out doors as well as in doors. Their! 1 ™ ,,ishts wilhou . t , " ,od and besan 10
example and spirit are progressive. Tiie 1 s " a, ' r ’ 1 anSS ‘ >l nmls '
children of the auxiliary will never for- !
Set tlu4r training, and their future .cues
| eqq.l. [woon.b
i >n!y
Til
l sutler tn*: -fangs oi miiigei.
"At night lie paddled back into th
| Yazoo, ami descended it. to the Alissi.-
, , , , o,ppi. passing forty or fifty of the yank.--
I.n.l towns will lie tile h.-H.-r for tti.-i-- „ o„H one man hailed bin
II.
•in
, , ... The perfect neatness of tiie streets of
! Hus fall, and they say checks will be
. 1*1, • . iionamj v\ iu*n you are embarkiii^ on ..
alow and irksomeness o hie, peipei- , . * n , J J *
ly recalled each Saturday pay time |^mlT far e tvoh- Z !< . a
a watery gleam or all tiiat life might L . " .. 1 ” ie a-sl 1110,1
„ , T , , " 'I have crossed five times. On beiii"
ae. One of the numberless relationships
On bcin b
—'ked whether 1 was a British subject
ot It to. the relationship ot capital or the , hflvc „ ivon tllr renewing answer*-
employer to tiie employed, is made lo I (n i ..y es ..
overshadow ail oilier relations."
Mr. Wells then proceeds lo consider
the inierest which even the comfortable
classes may have in Hie triumph of a
more impersonal scheme of world reform
—'"that progressive development and real-
| izution of a. great system of ideas which
I i.s socialism." He does not believe, in-
j deed, -tiiat socialism is as yet nearly
| enough thought out and elaborated lor
very much of it to be realized of set
intention now. For him the portent is
still vague, lint the -end i.s none the less
inevitable. What lie would like to con
vey is tlie conviction tiiat i lie great
change into which tiie world isV° grow
involves vastly more than a reorganiza-
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Magazine and The Sunny
South from now till March—
all for $1.00.
mcrcial systems of tlie -business world,
than any consummation of political jus
tice. ille would have It understood tiiat
the ultimate triumph of socialism will
fundamentally affect all the relations ot
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(b) ‘'No."
<c) "I am a Presbyterian.”
(d) “I am a Welsh Jew."
ie) "I am a Nonconformist Beaver. ’
Nothing seems to make any difference
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much in demand for costumes. - ’ "Tvc
never known a time since I married vou
when they weren't. -- —Baltimore Ameri
can.
“Remember, the eyes of tlie public arc
rpon you. -- "Y'es," answered Senator
Sorghum, "that's what worries me. A
man is so closely watched in these times
that lie can’t get away with anything." —
Washington Star.
“Oh. niggardly beaten.” complained Hie
ancient patriot,' “that thou hast given
rue but one life to lose for my country:’’
But tlie latter-day patriot is more en
lightened. He lias read political econo
my. “Oh. niggardly heaven,” he com
plains, “that thou hast given me but
2 feet to stand- pat with"'—Life.
“Your citizens don't object to big -.in'o-
niobiles passing through this settlement,
do they?” asked the nervous chauffeur.
“Wal. 1 should say not.” chuckled the
nig mayor. “It is great sport.” “Ah,
I am glad that -you think so.” “Vos,
we would rather shoot an automohll:
any day than we would n common li'ar.’’
—Cliicago Daily News.
Rollingslono Nomoss—When pen; Ie lias
hydrophobia do very thought o' wa’sr
makes 'em sick. Thirsty Thingumboo—
F- dat so? I bet I've had it all n;e
life an' didn't know what was de mat'd-
-wMd me.—Philadelphia Record.
little Green Cove Springs was noticed at
once by every stranger who looked upon
them. A unique feature of tlie work of
tlie assolc-ation attracted general atten
tion and admiration. This was the plac
ing of gaily-painted barrels here and
theie along tlie streets and at the- cor
ners. Each barrel stood on a little plat
form, had a name of its own, and a
painted appeal to the passersby, most
of them in verse. Some of them begged
for food for their round, comfortable-
looking bodies, and tlieir appeals were
roucliing in their pathos. Other barrels
were as jolly as jolly could he. But
all of them were effective. The appeals
went to the right spot, so that the sight
of a pedestrian stooping to capture a
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An uniusing instance of tiie effect on
strangers of tin* perfect neatness of this
Idle town of Given <’>vi* Springs m.
to the writer's knowledge. .\ friend wap
detained at th** station, waiting for a
train. Becoming thirsty, she ai an
orange.
“And then, - ' said she. "I did not know
what to do with tlie peel. TIuTe was no
hungry barrel near to lie fed, and I ha i
no time to go an,] hunt ap one. I could
r.<*t throw it on tlie sidewalk <*. in (in
street, or they were as clean as tiie
floor of the platform. I eou - nl not carry
:t in niy hand, r could not put iL in my
pocket. | desperately thought of eating
it! At last ! had a brilliant idea. 1
knelt down on the station steps, ar-.i
pushed the peel through a c-raek. so time
It dropped down out of sigh!. An j thcr.
I drew a big sigh, and felt triumphant.”
it is impossible 10 measure the wide
spread Influence for good of a live village
improvement association. This Fiorina
fioneer. for ox ample, was lamed far and
wide, and its doings constantly c ame to
the surface in tiie most unexpectee.i
paces. Here is an incident that illus
trates this fact in a most striking and
amusing manner, or.e of the members of
the Green Cove association was traveling
in Europe, and one day she chanced to
see in a German paper a sarcastic,
would-be smart editorial upon the nu
merous societies, especially in America,
IV r Iho "prevention of one thing or ip.
oilier.” such as cruelty to -liildi-en or
to animals.
“And now. iusr. of all. -- concluded the
editorial, "w: hear of a society for Hi
re vent ion of Hash upon the streets.’ in
the little town of Green Cove Springs.
J'la.. America, this society actually puts
painted barrels on tlie streets, ,witli the
rt quest that people will pick up uny
papers, or oilier trash, and drop it in
tiie barrels. Now. we propose one more
society, ;) society for the prevention ot
any more of prevention societies."
The brilliant writer of tills carensin
had cause very shortly to ho "taker;
i.back" by tlie immediate • fleet of thin
editorial. li chanced lo meet tlie eye.;
of tli<* Kaiser William, lie caught at tu
idea at once, and ordet** ( | boxes and bar
rels to be made and distributed through
out Berlin, with the .painted request tli.ii
passersby should throw trash of all sorts
into them rather than into the streets.
This was a triumph that not even tiie
most enthusiastic member of the asso-
e-ation could have dreamed of as a re
sult of their labors t - <>r the cause of neat
ness. Not one of them all had dreamed
that their example would be noted and
f* Mowed by tin* powerful emperor of
Germany. But so it is ever. \\ e none
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| transports. only oiu-
from the stern of a steamboat, ami
asked him where he was going. He re
plied :liat lie was going to his fishing
lines. In the bend above Vicksburg lie
floated by the mortar fleet, lying fiat in
j his canoe. The mortars were in full
I blast bombarding tlie city. The next
{ morning lit* tied a white handkerchief - o
[ liis paddle, raised himself up in the midst
; of our picket boats at Vicksburg, and
! gave a loud iiuzzali for .!• if* rson Davis
j and (the southern -confederacy. amid
tin* vivas of our sailors, who gate him
a joyful reception, and assisted him :o
• General Pemberton's quarters,
j "After resting a day’ and night in t! •*
! city, he started out with a dispatch from
( General Pemberton to General Johnston.
1 He embarked on iiis sann- canoe, and
soon reached ‘lie enemy's fleet below
Hit- city. He- avoided tlieir picket boats
on both shores, ami floated near tlieir
gunboats. He passed so near one of
I these that through an open port hole lie
! could see men playing * aids, and hear
j them converse. At Diamond Plaee he
lauded and bade adieu to his faithful
•<iug out." After hobbling through the
bottom to the hilis. lie reached tlie res
ilience of a man who had been robbed
by the savages of all his mules a; 1
horses except an old worthless gelding
and a hull - broken colt. He gave him
the choice of them, and lie mounted tiie
colt, but found tiiat lie traveled bad
ly. Providentially lie came upon a very
line horse in the bottom, tied by a blind
bridle, without a saddle. As a basket
and an old bag were lying near him. lie
inferred that a n*gro had left him then
and that a. yankee- camp was not lar
distune, lie exchanged bridles, saddle-?
the horse and mounted him. alter turn
ing loose tlie colt.
“After riding so as to avoid the sup
posed position of tiie yankees. he en
countered one of the thieves, who was
returning to ,it from a successful plun
dering excursion. He was loaded with
chickens and a bucket of honey. He
commenced catechizing Lamar in true
yankee style, who concluded it lk-st to
sitisty his curiosity by sending him
where lie could know all tha; the devil
could teach him. With a pistol bullet
through his forehead, lie left him with
his honey and poultry. lying in the *u -**
to excite the conjectures of his fellow
t Itieves
"He approached with much caution the
next settlement. There lie hired a guide
lo>* $50 to pilot him to Hankerson's ferry,
on Big Black river, which he wished to
reach near that point without following
any road. The fellow lie hired proved to
lie a traitor. When lie got near the
ferry Lamar sent him ahead to ascer
tain whether any yankees were in the
vicinity. The conversation and manners
of tlie man had excited his suspicions,
and as soon a.< he left him lie concealed
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