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EDITORIAL PAGE 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- A year of Uncle Renms’s' ,i ‘’" 01 the p ,vscnt industrial «mi <om- 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 social and domestic life. The most sacred CHRISTMAS ISSUE. (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 CHRISTMAS ISSUE OF THE SUNNY SOUTH NEXT WEEK. CHRISTMAS FIC TION. CHRISTMAS EDITO RIALS. CHRISTMAS PIC TURES. CHRISTMAS POEMS FROM FIRST TO .LAST PAGE. NEXT WEEK, THE 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 CHRISTMAS ISSUE OF THE SUNNY SOUTH NEXT WEEK. CHRISTMAS FIC TION, CHRISTMAS EDITO RIALS, CHRISTMAS PIC TURES, CHRISTMAS POEMS FROM FIRST TO LAST PAGE. NEXT WEEK, THE CHRISTMAS ISSUE. 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 Continued on Last Page. | 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 Continued on Last Page.