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\ EDITORIAL PAGE THE SUNNY SOUTH JANUARY 26, 1907. 15he SUNNY SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Busine/s Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA, GEORGIA i by his father and mother, a deliberate turning him I! I adrift into the maelstrom of life’s crudities, that ; he may learn vitue from its antithesis There is,! undoubtedly, such a thing as too much license, and j ! too few questions from the watchful father when' hate hours and the teil-tale ^ace indicate that the) j heady young colt is. “finding out" at too rapid aj |rate. j ! No man or woman of mature years may, how- lever, deny that they can let the son on whom their hopes are centered come into reasonable contact r Along' the Highway By FRANK L. STANTON Leaves from an O| Scrap Book .// By A GEORGIA COLONEL. N WINTER SUNSHINE. I. Ain’t (le sunshine foolin’! Workin’ of his will; Yander go a sparver. Eli straw is in his bill. En do moekin’-bird so restless Ter sing, lie can’t keep still! Didn’t Tell Him to Stop. Ur. II. L. Hoffman was talking to some j friends last night, says The Denver Post, j whfen someone mentioned having a tooth pulled. Thai reminded Dr. liolfinan of a I with the world, the lesh. and the devil, keeping a story. I Entered nt the poxofllre Atlanta, Oa^YecondTliKis mail matter i constant reill Oil his actions, advising~liere, inform-J “In a town back in Vermont one time,' j ^ ing there and that the chances-of his escaping un- j 1,e s:,i( k “a big, husky lumberman entered | !scathed from the disillusioning period'of life will | ** f f o£ a , kn ™ 7* f h °T • . 0 1 j the doctor a bad tooth. The dentist de- | )C inhmteh enhanced. cided tliat the tooth should be pulled. It must not be forgotten tlltlt \\C lcsiin to \V3,lrC| *• *^11 right,* said the lumberman. *JBut ! twice in our lives. First when, as toddlers, we) listen, now; if I tel] you to stop, you stop j grasp the soft hand of a mother and let it guide j pulling or rn beat you up.’ our wavering footsteps over the floor—each por-i ’ The dentist agreed and the lumberman j tion of which seems a part of some unexplored j ° ot in the chair - The denlist took Uold ! ^ ~ ^ world. Second, when passing the thoughtless, ig- - of the tooth and besan puliins - We JVLUSl ourn OUT \JUin < norant days of childhood, we face the teeming [array of realities as they glide into the place once Fingers '' filled by childhood's dreams. Then we find that ; kept pulling and the tooth came out. ^ ' we must learn to walk all over again. Happy those ; Then the lumberman jumped from the . DOTING mother of New York city [who arc guided by persons with sufficient common j chair mad. texts FOR the times. St blessed with an extremely impres- sense to show them how to stride boldlv and health-1 " ‘M by didn’t you .-top when i told you i *hat “one more river io cross' ft sionahle young son who is, in turn.lily, who will not deceive them into believing that! 10 ; '- “ IS™ <ak ° ' h ° A blessed or cursed—as von like it— i there are no nitfalls. but who will show them how! . .. ou nt 11 ! me lo stop ’ sa d 4 * I No Man’s Land. The Sunny South is the oldest weekly paper of Literature, Romance, Fad and Fiftlon in the South It is now re» flared to the original shape and wilt be published as for» Utterly every week Founded in M74 it grew until IS99. hifien, as a monthly, its form was changed as an expert• ment It now returns to Its original formation as a weekly with renewed vigor and the Intention of ecllpsm ing Its most promising period in the past. Almost j immediately the lumberman yelled ’Hold j on!’ The dentist continued to pull. ’Iioid on!’ yelled the lumberman. The dentist blessed or cursed—as you like it— ithere are no pitfalls, but who will show them how [Uen with a large inheritance, has taken i best to circumnavigate those pitfalls. .. .j tlil , what appeals to her as an eminently! So when you are tempted, like that New York commendable course in sending him j mother, to immure your boy in dense ignorance, around the world on a three-year to send him straightway out of harm s way—re- voyage. to escape the temptations j member that you may be whetting his appetite of a life in New York. Apparently j for mischief when he does encounter it. and that—! o0ol<;d off - ’ she is of the opinion that thirty-j much as you may yearn to do so—you cannot! Proft Punished six months of strange sights and burn your fingers for sonic otic else. | Wi]]jam u 15erry Ftato treasurer II. Ain’t de sunshine foalin’! — You never seen sich light! De shiny river savin’: “Ain’t flis yer weather bright!’ It ain’t .so fur ter heaven— For de whole of it’s in sight! III. Ain't de sunshine foolin'! T)e fire savin’, gram: “You made me up fer winter. En now de springtime come!' Dai’s vi'lets in de gyarden, En de chillun gittin’ some! that leads to more interesting story cc h, found in the od war scraDoon than tlie following account^ ct; lu Pm Y You K PARTY C«LLt>. I capitulation of Lee’s army: \ % / Here is an old negro preacher’s idea “From the Carolinan we make a s m . n ,ar.v of the sa<*, intelligence below. Pj of it in rhyme: “We’en Satan come ter see you, Hummin’ of a tune. Ho sholy will expect you Ter return his visit soon!” Massachusetts lias a poet whose name is Silence, but. won’t he be mad with the critics if they treat him to what his name calls for! VISIONS OF LIGHT. Sorrow, and weeping eyes— 'Eafth in a storm of sighs; Yet., in the darkest night. Visions of Light—of Light! If the true genius dies young, what are we to call these grayheaded lit erary fellows? ON THE ROAD. On the thorny road and rough— In the tempest’s scorning, May be we’ll have light, enough To lead us to the morning! too: 1 yelled “Hold o twice.’ “ ‘Oh,’ said the dentist, innocently, thought you meant to keep hold of it.’ “The lumberman believed him ami j Yesterday was that dreaded "tomor- i row” whose trouble we met and con un I !dueled. When we fall disole ourselves- by the with i wayside we I lit' reflection • LEFT LONESOME. Asked what -he was mad about, i old growler replied^ j “Man alive! I’ve done gone an ; lost my cratches an’ my rheumatism!’ itliat it’s all the fault of a world that j really doesn’t know we are in it! sounds will sweep the young man s mind clean of we; ' ness, will scourge iron) out his blood the germ of love for pleasure, and make of him a staid anchorite who can face the wiles of metropolitan existence with a calm and an iron front. Well, wc disagree with the es teemed lady. Youth calls lustily for its own and it is not often that it will be denied. You may preach and prate, until doom cracks, about the j wages of sin and dissipation: about the wisdom of j sitting steadily in the boat when the Lorelei calls luringly irom the flowered clififs: about the futility j of chasing the butterfly of pleasure, and the great! desirability of settling down at an early age and j leading an existence as free from events as the j Sahara is of dancing girls. You may send a sus- i cptible young man out into the Sahara itself, and maroon him there near a monastery. You mav j feed him on bread and water, and mortify his appe- i f11c lor cakes and ale. You may teach him the world outside is but a fleetin verilv, the only We must all feel the hurt of the fir iccount. oL' People Who Bore Us OU OUr Own j Pennsylvania, was talking in Harrisburg | about graft, says an exchange. | “Grafters seem to thrive at first,” he j saul, “but retribution overtakes them in j the end. Jt is like the two newsboys and : the bad half dollar. SN’T it fatally easy to drift into the I ,‘ n Two n f vs ' jays 1 . I)a<3 a counterfeit half . , . . , | . j dollar, and after discussing for some time liablt Of living 111 a rut. -Most Ol ; die best way to got rid Of it they decided 11S arc guiltv, too, much as WC ; to try to pass it off on a theater, squirm under'the indictment. And) '' So they took their places a oold the. strangest part of it is that wc should resent the charge. There LEFT. seems to he some popular aversion to being thought of as inhabiting a rut, and the man or the woman accused of such a crime is quick to prove to you to their own satisfac- “The second boy. grinning with joy. then handed forth a dollar for his own ti -k< I. lie got the bad half dollar and a good quarter in cnange. ' night in ihe long lino before the gallery door of a popular theater, and the first one held the bad coin in his hand. it 'was their idea that in the hurry and con fusion the ticket seller would not take tune to examine the money handed to him. “And they were right. Winn the first boy reached the box office the man ac- , cepted the half dollar without question, faction, at least that the charge is j and in return handed out a ticket and not well founded. One of our great-j a fl»arter change, est offenses in this direction is our' that [choice of a certain circle of friends, and our cleav- show, and that, [ing fast to them, calmly ignoring others who may chance for happiness lies in giving openly or by indirection offer their friendship. I he A story for Men his goods to the poor and going about with face !defense is made, of course, that we naturally grav-, Mrs Frederic sehoff. at a meeting ur a and disposition as sour as an ancient lemon. j itate toward those with whom we are most congen- j mothers’ club in Philadelphia, talked of But let that lad escape from his exile while there Jial, and that life is so short it would he folly to in- 11,0 training of children, says rim wash- a- yet a tincture of the magic of youth in his veins, i hours or days in cultivating* people with whom 1 brow hi minto a crowded city, where the tides of j we have little or nothing in common. So we select pleasure runs so close to the foul tides of vice as to cur friends, and damn hastily those who try he almost indistinguishable. Send him out to con-| enter into that circle as—bores. That is. most of; tK -Men ”'she wrat on J ''Cn° 1 no l ''t'akr ; ,n - front men and women of the world with his child-[us pursue this course, there always being the saving part in correcting or training children, ish, bookish conception of life. Exceptions. ' though when the children turn out wen 1 en chances to one you will quickly realize just j Aren't we too impulsive in branding people :i> j;, - v ' lli 1 K1ke lll, ‘ what an i8-karat dolt von have been in your treat-• bores, when they happen to miss appealing to our i ' She ' s , n iied. * ‘ ment of him. j ’iking or our judgment ? ' “Tin y remit-* 'm,. in tin*.’: .-aid .Mr-. His judgment undeveloped bv contact with the Do we make honest efforts to discover their good Schoft? “of a certain landlord. no called actual and not the imaginary conditions of hie, his qualities, to find out what they like or dislike. , -- -j 0 ne.-. l m going tn raise your rmi. every illusion fed bv lack of experience and the to learn whether or not thev reallv have anything] “ what for?’ Jo»c s askotl. anxiousl.N. common with ourselves? ' r !;['.? taxes gone up?’ . No. not at all, the landlord misw ’but I see you’ve painted Uie house to put in a. new range and bathtub. WHEN SORROW i . Sorrow cornin’ 'long the way— Never gave a warnin'; Didn’t have no rime to stay When Joy said “Good mornin’!” II. Joy came in and raised the tune— Sent the music high, sir; Sorrow, ’neatli a waning moon. Sighed, and said, “Goodhy. sir!" LITERARY DOLLARS. J. Don’t you go grievin'. An’ don't he in doubt: Dollars in literature— Hammer 'em out! Story, or sonnet— Put all your strength on it! Dollars in literature— Hammer ’em out! Pathway's not sunny— Gloom round about. But time still is money. So hammer it out! But just when the clover You reach, an’ roll over. Time’s up. and your epitaph: “All hammered out!" ington Star. “Just as smallpox and yellow ft quit., rare diseases,” she said. ‘ pi | bad children be rare when proper atten III. Ail’ evermore, when sorrow comes, With all his solemn sighin', I’ve Inn to say: “Joys on the way,” To make him go a-flyin’! MISLEADING NOTICE. ' You're loo early with that bill.” "Why, your sign reads: All bills paid on the 10th.’” "\es: but that refers to the tenth ;lacking now is a first-class earthquake] speet, declined to receive it. o r recri month, and ihe year is young yet!" jlo give it a shaking up!” declined to retain it, and accompanied J I Its return with substantially the follow ing remark: ’General Lee, keep .a. sword. You have won it by your gal lantry. You have not been whipped but overpowered, and I cannot receive as i a token of surrender from so brave a. i man.’ The reply of General Lee. we dr. REAL PHILOSOPHER. After the town had been struck by a cyclone an editor philosophised in this fashion: “We’ve been blowing up this town so long we need a rest. All that is to the even*^ Sunday of capitulate, and from Jf evacuation of Riclimo,; red Petersburg our army suffered fry, retreat and disasters, and was son., pressed by overwhelming odds, but sti fought bravely until completely sm rounded. “Sunday, April 10—A blight, clear beautiful day. but it openel gloomily Our army had reached Appomattox (’oun (j jot sc, on the road to Lynchburg. ' Thomas’, with his army, had arrived ini- fore us and effected a junction wiui Grant's cavalry, infantry and artillery completely surrounded our litile com mand. We had from five to eight thou sand prisoners, and only eight thousand effective men, witli muskets all told. The supply of ammunition was nearly exhausted. In this emergency General Lee determined to cut his way through. Orders were given for a grand charge, and our troops massed accordingly. “General Grimes’ division led the charge, followed successively by two others. The engagement commenced shortly after sunrise, and was continued until our men had broken through th*- feueral lines, driven them nearly a milo and a half and captured several pieces of artillery, and some hundreds of pris oners. The old spirit of tight was unsub dued. Meanwhile a heavy force of cavalry threatened our flanks. For so e General Lee issued orders to the troops to cease firing and withdraw. I “Subsequently an officer said to ba | General Custar, of the yankoe cavahy, entered Our lines with a flag of tutv. Whether his appearance was in re*per. I to a request from General Lee, or he wn . j I lie be.arer of a formal demand for the i surrender, initiated by General Ci mt, we were not informed. At this tijno ,nr army was in line of battle <>n or near the Appomattox road, the skirmishers were thrown out, while 250 yards in front of these, on an eminence, was a large body of federal cavalry. The < ; d’oeil is described as magnificent. "«oon after the return of Gen. i:.. ! Custar to lfis lines. General Grant i eompanied by his staff, rode to th i quarters of General Lee, which were un- ; der an apple tree, near the road. Tbo ' interview is described as exceedingly j press!ve. After the ‘salutatory fo ! • j ities. which doubtless were brief and | business-like—General Lee tendered his j sword to Grant in token of surrender. That officer, however, with a courtesy for which we must accord him due re- Gulf States Offer pjch Future For Bamboo Cultivation**Its Profits d of curious op- 11 E general and varied use- 11 is to he feared that we do not. And there is reason to believe that in failim ed. i mi oour.'C. ought to make it bring “At man.’ “was tendency to accept things at their surface value; knowing evil only through reputation, and not from peering into its averted, deformed face—fie is likelv to come back to you a cynical, wasted, unbelieving, half-ruined man blaming you—somewhat justiv, too—for your share in liD downfall. That is if he cares enough aboul ii to attach blame to am one. Which all means that the hoy who is coddled and taught to believe in the non-existence of evil, and whose parents foolishly erect a fence about him during his most impressionable years, is prettv apt to turn out badly, as against the bov who is given a sagacious amount of experience with the world, who is told a few plain truths when he grows old enough* to know them, and who learns the creed of self-help and protection Irom brushing* against rough corners, rather than from listening to an over-foolish mother <>r father discourse on the the- our lives. It is just orelic beauties of virtue. Ibilitv. when we are tempted to execute a rigfi.L- j pray for him. as his own wife had just |especially in We would not be misunderstood as recommend- about-face from a certain man or woman who, at dl ’’ d - The mini ® ier in his r - th, lf - J d deliberate neglect ol the adolescent young man j first glance, may not appeal to us c>\ ei-pow tringlv . an( j grieving brother, upon whom the IN TWO PARTS—PART I. r are | • will j By HELEN HARCOUBT. | ly siiicious, is posses tieal properties. Written for The SUNNY SOUTH. The grains of the bamboo are used for food, and the Chinese have a. super- , stition that when Ihe rice crop is short. iuln-ss ol the bamboo fam- j the bene rtcent bamboo produces seeds ily is practically unknown j more abundantly. This simply means in this country. In this j that, in such cases, the seeds or the r<\sj>e</: the orientals ore j bamboo are more carefully gathered, and more wide awake than we j more extensively used as food The lend'*!, and made their way to the »’ Americans. They know [ Hindoos eat the seeds mixed with honey, I Genel ‘ dIs Carey ’ of U,is state - and K ~ the bamboo for what it is. j '■•'gardjjng them as a great delicacy. | one of the most valuable j The - V aro mi *ed in equal parts, and put plants in this country, i into a k °H° w joint, which is coated True, the caivebrak-es of thf south are a species of j ’ bo so, we often sacrifice much pleasure and profit •vhich we might invite into our lives, did we ex ercise a little more patience in our dealings with people. The world meets us largely as we meet the world. Ii we go out and face people ehallcngingly. with a half-sneer, or an implied indifference, we are toi- erablv apt to he paid hack in the same coin. If we erect barriers between ourselves and possible bioad- i be had made no accusation nine- influences bv our own selfishness or narrow-i the other, uess^ol spirit, we have onlv ourselves to blame. “ ‘ Why : ‘ wcnt . on , w * lh a 1 - , , 1 ‘you remind me, friend, ol old Harry l)o - A great many ol the people whom we tancy ; ? ., v of lSassafras .. would bore us, might easilv, with the proper cul- “Then he explained that Harry Dor- lit alion. become regular oases in the deserts of •-**• at :1 f e ° r 72 - •• ^ .. . . . wife. A Sunday or two after the wed- WCil to 1 dill lllbi-1 this po>- a widower asked the minister to The Shoe Pinched Him. i banquet the late Senator Cot- said a newspaper correspondent, mce berated passionately by a western drover, who thought himself a *- oused of corruption, when, as a matter of fact. Ii» had not been accused at all. nalor Gorman got up and explained lilt-. not know. But Grant and himself ata, said to have been deeply affected by the solemnity of the occasion and to have ■shed tears. The scene occurred between 10 and 1 ! o'clock a. m. “When the sad event became known to (lie army, officers and men gave way to their emotions, and some among the. vet erans wept like children. A considerable number swore that they never would sur render, : Generals Carey, of tills state, ser, of Virginia, with a few followers, j their way out and escaped. But the t 'k of the army, the men who. for four years. , . , i have done battle so nobly for the cause, .. J wi n ^ c. aj. uud roasted over a ; together with leaders like Longstre fire. The ubiquitous bamboo lias for: Gordon, Kershaw and others, w!: , • i, im],no but the wood is al- ' a ”?*. S pa ^‘ >een em I |,0 .ved in Japan in j n'inies ire forever distinguished, were ' , ' ], ? t bo bum- i ?, Ulte a dlfferent wav - :,lul ,or purpose ! obliged to accept the proffered terms, oinst useless, and the bain tueoppoerte of beneficent. It has been, j “These wore-capltulatlon with ail the simp > ■ * 1 ‘' ] arK perhaps atiil is, used as a means honors of war, officers to retain their side • *mb, un i ve n>be o \c i | oi wreaking' a most <*nu*I vengeance on : arms unci personal property, and tlie me-: . political offenders or private enemies, their baggage. Kaeh one was thereupon For, strange to say. the giant bamboo : paroled, and allowed t . go Ijs way. •ontafns a poison of a terribly destruc- “During Sunday and Monday a large nature. This poison causes a slow i number of federal soldiers and officers j and painful death, and, unhappily, can i visited our camps and locked curiously on ; be administered in a manner that de- i our commands, but there was nothing like j ties detection. ! The poison is found in Uie bamboo reed close to the joints or knots, and .... , takes the form of sharp black fibrous and I,rings to miml Uie tamous nmsei.y throa(K wh ic.h can be readily removed story of Jack and the Bean Stalk. | wjth a kni . fe or pie ,.,. of ffIasq MixiH i with water or food, these threads are taken without being ‘noticed, and they settle at once in the throat or other , with soft st i bamboo. The piumblike stem of tfic real bamboo,- sometimes a litindred feet 'higli. iias many i of t he characteristics of a giant grass, j tiy ; And this is. in fact, the family to which lit belongs, that of the grasses. Its stem i is composed of joints, is hollow and grows ! i to its full height from a creeping under- j ! ground stem, in a few days. The rapid- i in- of its growth is actually .startling, I Jack and the Bean Stalk.” \ From one to three feet a day is its com- , nion record, and often a stem 20 tect , iTigh may -have been not moi-- than ten i or fifteen days above ground. The bamboo is widely distributed over , the milder proportions of tlie globe, and hina, Japan. India and the ' East Indian archipelago. There are : many species, but -tlie -bamboo arundi- : naeea is Th© most prominent, not only in its varied uses, but in its size. It is j generally known as the giant bamboo, j ! and takes a treelike form, growing to a j height of from 40 -to SO or i 00 feet, wit-h j fY Mr. Max of Scotland Yard A Series of Thrilling Detective Stories Begins NEXT WEEK in The Sunny South 1 heavy hand of sore affliction has so lately i fallen.' | “At these words old Harry Dorsay. red j and snorting with rage, rose from beside ; bis girl wife. j a hollow stem .that shines as if it wer j “‘it may lie a sore affliction.' lie growl- varnished. This stem is renmrkably - ed audibly, as he left tlie church, ‘but slender for its height, not exceeding- 5 , I'll fie hanged if any man’s going to pray [inches in diameter, in some that are 50 | ‘‘or me in public that way .’ " j f cc . ,.is 1 i, but in others reaching to 15 j ^” _ —- _ . . , ! to 18 inches. The entire length is sub- Here’s One -From Lew Dockstader. , aivtllctl intll ioint s called knots or in-ter- In bis dressing room at tlie New York I ll0l j es> intervals between litem in the Theater. Saturday- night. Lew Dockstader j j ar g er stems -being often several fee:, j swore to tlie trutn of tin's tale of the I q-| lf . se joints are formed by the crossing I load: | of the vascular bundles of fibers. From | j "Tlie failure of two freight trains to j oacli alternate joint, from base to top, i | pass on a single track last month result- .spring small Ibranehes covered with liar- i , ed in a stnashup which made my min- j row p 0 j iue d leaves, which give the plant | j a. delicate, feathered appearance as it j j waves in tlie breeze. As we have seen. J j the rapidity of its growth is marvellous, , in fact, the giant bamboo is the most j I rapid growing plant in the world, and, j | like ail the bamboo family, it is very I ! tenacious of life. Tt usually attains its j itfruit bears when fifteen years old. and | strels lose a night, and remain tied up for hours at a little water tank town in In diana. “To beguile the tedium of a delay, they attended a matinee of a two-a-day pop ular-price repertoire company at the Academy of Music, across from tlie de pot. exultation, no shouting for joy, and no word uttered that could add to tiie morti fication already sustained. On the con trary, every symptom of respect was manifested, and the southern army was praised for the brave and noble manner in which it had defended our cause. “The force of tlie Yankee army is esti mated i't 200.000 men. Our own at tin time of surrender embraced not more than eight thousand effective infantry and two thousand cavalry, but *it is said that th,- total number of paroled was atiout twen ty-three thousand men of all arms and conditions. "All the federal? spoke of General Lee in terms of unbounded praise. The re mark was frequently made, ’he would re ceive as many cheers in going down our line? as General Grant himself.' "It is understood that Generals Lee and Longstreet and others are now on parole in the city of Richmond." GALLANT AFFAIR IN TEXAS The following piece of Texas war news was published in The Chattanooga Rebel in tiie fall of 1864: “From the Texas Ranehero of the 7th we learn that some six or seven days pre viously there was quite an exciting time at Arkansas Pass and vicinity. It seems that the schooner Independence, bound tinople in tlie reign of tlie Emperor Jus- i from -—-— to the Brazos, got in too clo-c tinian. In no other way could they l proximity to the blockading barb An- have been successfully carried, so 111all i derson, and to save herself put in over in simple justice to the bamboo must it the bar. tlie blo-kuile.r following, nnd fir- be given the honor of the introduction ; 1118 briskly, but doing no damage. the of the silkworm an.I its products into i Independence was run ashore near the I light house and abandoned, when our ! brave boys took possession of her. The ! bark then commenced shelling our troops. passages. Here they at once begin th-ir secret career of death, producing cough, and inflammation, which always ends in producing tuberculosis and other diseases Of the throat and lungs. Proofs of this fact have been obtained by scientists in j careful experiments on dogs and other inferior animals. COOKING UTENSILS. Plie large joints of the giant bamboo are made into buckets, which often measure 15 to 18 inches in diameter, while tlie smaller joints are converted into very serviceable bottles. Tlie Dy- iks of Borneo use them as cooking j utensils. in the southern sections of I Asia there is a certain species of very ! slender growth, from which writing pens ! or reeds are made. A joint forms a j holder for papers or tens. It was in ' one of these joints that silkworm eggs : were conveyed from China to Constan tly silkworm and its products into Europe and Asia. The giant bamboo is indigenous to China, and grows in great profusion ^TOT a man or woman living but takes an absorbing interest in a well constructed detective story. The series to begin next week in The Sunny South brims with mystery, contains many startling cli maxes, and keeps the curiosity on the alert from start to finish. Each story is a separate narrative, joined by the thread of one personality; that of a masterful, picturesque hunter of crime, skilled in a profession which has ever held fascination for the reader of all ages. I! “A hand-painted -poster in front of the [ jt hears fruit when fiTeen years old, and j over nearly all the immense area of place announced ‘The Grave KursLj or. | then dies. I more temperate portions oi the em- HOW PROPAGATED. Tin* bamboo is ! most The Author Is the Well Known CHARLES OLIVER. tlie Ghost’s Piteous Tale of Horror.’ Tin- i ' HOW PROPAGATED. ! *'' ro ’ ^ et Chinese are not content | minstrels, who seldom get to see a show. | T|)( ba , ulHK> is cultivated with the ut- ‘° rel ,; on tki s lavish profusion of na were all anxious to know what it could , ... . tUiincs, nnd inn- ! ture - ,lut <’ l, lt''ato tiie big weed with tlie be like. To our amazement we found j 11108 (,,le *’• 1 . c j utmost care, devoting thousands of acres ourselves witnessing a much-mutilated ncse in large plantations. It is propa- to t |,j S onc product. And well they mu.*, version of ’Hamlet.' butchered by a cast sated by shoots or suckers laid in pits j for in its varied usefulness to this ec- Ciit to five. i 13 indicts to 2 feet dioep, late in tlie an- I centric people, the bamboo rivals tbo r-o- “Tlie manager, an unlettered, but eour- tunin before the ground can freeze. An J ooanut palm in its value to the people o. teous and cordial person, came in to ex- ; odd expedient is used in order -to obtain j the tropics. I lie (. hinese have published change professional greetings, after the I the very finest specimens of bamboo. A J elaborate books of instruction, dealing first act, and I ventured to inquire why j vigorous root is transplanted, leaving lie bad altered the title. I only 4 or 5 inches above the lowest joint. “ ‘Well, you see, it's tills way,’ he whis- | Then the cavity is tilled in with a mix- pered confidentially, ’we can't afford to j ture of horse manure and sui-phut. Inc pay royalties, and, since all this row The Series “Mr. Max of Scotland Yard” Begins Next Week In | The SUNNY SOUTH about play pirates, 1 don't mean to take no chances on infringement of copy right.’ ”—New York Mail. Marriage. Of troubles connubial, jars and divorce. This, we believe, is the fruitful source; A man falls in love with a dimple or curl; Then foolishly marries the entire girl. —Boston Transcript. boots will be more or less vigorous ac- ; cording to the strength of the root, but ! they are all destroyed at an early period, ! for -three successive years. The uhoots j in ,he fourth year are allowed to mature | and will -be like the parent bamboo. ! The uses to which all parts of the bamboo arc applied by tlie orientals are ! almost innumerable. The soft, new i shoots are cut off. and served at the It Was a Bill. i Oliver HorforJ, who is oqualI.\ famous j as a )*oet, illustrator, and brilliant wit, I was entertaining four magazine editors ] at luncheon when the boll rang, and a i maid entered with the mail. I “Alt." said an editor, "an epistle!" / j "No." said Mr. Jleri'ord. tearing open the envelope, “not an epistle: a collect." i m —Argonaut. j v* having lost S25.000 worth of cotton by not making the capture. "On tlie Sunday following this affair another r*|rt with cotton was chased ashore, a“f tlie Yankees, after landing tlie cotton, kept it under their guiF. wait- jiiig- an opportunity to send it north. Cap tain Hobby, of Colonel Hobby’s regiment, with a small force at night, concealed themselves behind the sand hills, waited for tiie yanks to come ashore to - lairn their booty. On Sunday three launches containing thirty or forty men pulled ashore. The first boat's crew reeonnoi- tered. and climbing tlie sand hills, discov ered our men a,fter them at full run. They attempted to escape but were made prisoners. “Out boys commenced firing on the other boats. One boat was completely riddled, and escaped with two men at tlie oars. The other fared equally bad. The lieutenant commanding the boats was killed: several bodies drifted ashore. They were exposed to our fire an hour, and returned it while the bark shelled. Captain Hobby behaved very gallantly, luxury. Marco Polo, tlie famous old- j and being in tlie lead, tiled the first gun. time traveler, relates that in his time I Our coast is a dangerous place for van* the Chinese bad canes thirty feet itigo i kcos to land. The yan-koi which the" ■ - iirely with the growing of the giant bam. boo. detailing rules for its culture, point ing out the proper soils, the best kind of water, and the most appropriate seasons for planting and transplanting thb treas. I itred reed. Of immense and varied usefulness 1 wherever grown, by no. nation is the bamboo so universally in evidence as among the Chinese, although their neig.i- bors, the Japanese, < onto in as a close second. Both peoples make use of it for almost every article of convenience and ! table like asparagus, and arc also pick led. IL' covered with earth. in the' ( j |0 Chinese bad canc-s thirty feet liign i kcos to land. Tlie yankoe loss in killed, s um- way iha.t this popular vegetable j ^hioh they split in their whole long,,, ! wounded and prisoners was twenty-five-’ is treated, these shoots " ill *' ,V 'P | into very thin pic es, and then lixfctet, • in good, tender condition for a whole ; 1 1, ( . m tog. t her into vet., strong rapes.' WHEELER’S CAVALRY, year. They aro also salted and eaten \ Those ropes were often six hundred |\ e, i The following item appeared in ’D'o with . ;iidI CiUitl.vd 1 i*viit. hml pro- j joua;. and wpit principally u.-url in Iinul- , Aihcnin <’«*nti n y■ in 186*1: served ip sugar. As the plant grows j ng their vessels along the river* ,,,.i l "It will he st n from the following dis older, a peculiar fluid is so ere tod in the | canals j hollow joints, in which a concrete «,b- J bamb0 o rS^tanirT..."'^'platfo™' <lw mU -' 1 ope fall to the stance, greatly valued in tlie east for its , feet high, and let tile medicinal properties, is gradually de- j loped. This substance, which is pare- i Continued 0:1 Fourth Page. Iked of demoralization of Wheelers cavalry is without foundation, and that Continued on Fourth Pago.