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EDITORIAL PAGE THE SUNNY SOUTH E6c SUNNY SOUTH Published Weekly by Sunny South Publifhing Co Buslnejs Office THE CONSTITUTION BUILDING ATLANTA. GEORGIA 4? ! still farther the flattering circulation with which it | begins publication. The magazine, it is true, ex- | pects to do its own talking—and that in a voice I by no means uncertain. Bu£ those in sympathy | with its purposes—and we believe that includes j everyone of the readers of The Sunny South—can ! do much to hasten its growth by calling the atten- ' tion of those now unfamiliar with this publication ! to the new form it is about to assume, and what the ! change means to the south and the country. ! “Uncle Remus’s/’ as well as the management of ; The Sunny South, looks to the friend's of the pres- Earered ar tbr poarnfllrr Atlanta, Ga.*aa wondTlRas mmfl matter ' eilt publication. HOW aild after its suspension, 3S >1 a rek t !1_ 1QA1 ! < r ' . the “old guard" that is to have a place of honor in. the ranks of those patrons who figure in the career of the south’s new magazine. j They made The Sunny South. It lived and j thrived in the past by reason of their loyalty and i zeal. | They can he instrumental in the same role for j “Unde Remus’s."’ It is worthy their support. It represents the same traditions and policies—seen mow through national glasses. We believe they wiil find it a pleasure to do their part. March 13, 1»01 * Yh a Sunny South is the oldest weekly paper of Literature, j Romance, Fadl and FMtlon In the South & It is nous re• \ Stored to the original shape and will be published as for» i merty every week & Founded in 1674 It grew until 1699« when, as a monthly. Its form was changed as an expert* meat & It now returns to Its original formation as a weekly with renewed vigor and the intention nf ecllpsm ing Its most promising period In the past. Uncle Remus's Magazine The Little Mother of Slumbers HE tired youngster, whether the tiny spotted baby leopard in the jungle, or the little child in the ThoughU Carnlvoroua. (From The Baltimore Sun.) The lambs that gambpl on the green are no doubt fine to see; How Innocent and uncaacertied must be their life of glee’. But lead me to the roasted lamb, when spring’s sweet glories glint. That sits upon the platter dressed In sauce they make of mint! Spring. In the spring a young nijin's fancy lightly turns to "Line 'er out! Kill the umpire! he's a robber! Gee, but wasn’t that a clout!’’ Now the grandmas are a-dying, soon the bleacherite's will roar, Extras pink and extras verdant now inform ns of the score. All the fans are fiercely fanning, tell ing how to win the game. Lo. the season is in progress and sweet spring "has really came." ( Along tHe Highway T By FR&J1K L. STJfNTBA MAY 4, 1907. Leaves from an Old Scrap Book THE LAST MESSAGE. 1. How lavish of a lifetime— How late we dine and sup, Till comes the midnight message: "Time's up! Time's up!" 11. But—heap the plate with honey. And brim with wine the cup. Till the solemn darkness echoes; "Time's up! Time's up!” IT WENT THROUGH. "Nothing fh his latest poem, i there?” “Well, I found six stamps in it! and wiped his moustache. " ’They certainly is.' the other answered. ‘A feller can’t ask fer work nowaday tho,.t bein' offered it.’ He Was n Walter. Senator Culiom was pooh-poohing midst nf roaring civilization creeps alarmist talk about a war With ** * in. savs The Atasbington Star. X A few days, comparatively speak ing. The Sunny South, in its present form, will cease to exist. It is to enter its broader, national scope in “equal partnership/’ with “Uncle j Remus's Magazine.” Long months j ; of preparation, of work which often j turned night into day, lias at last j ended in putting the finishing sgken touch to tihe most modern magazine I Wm plant in the country', and the most ! 1 5f extensive in the south. From press _ room to composing room, the last: gentlv to its mother as night beck- talk is so absurd," h® said. detail has been completed. The ’ 1 ~2 1 ons. It is instinct, with the one as *■ he* -who spread it must have south and the country have been levied upon for the other, brighten the one or the : Altogether it is like the rase of the talent to make the first issue such a notable one as gSLWML other, too. and they take sanctuary I schoolboy and his hour work will establish, for ad time, the Uncle Remus in the same abiding place. W him- standard. We wonder if the readers of The Sunny (gKf pering, or wincing, it South realize the amount of mental and physical -amr. Thev lake their sorrows and and nervous energy, the time and the money re-; j-jR their jovs to the one sure refuge, quired to attain this result. It is to he doubted. [ gj 5 There is no halm so healing, no The promoters of “Uncle Remus's” have lavished antidote for the woes that enter the their brain and their financial resources on the j infant a.s well as the adult world, more-effectual, magazine, with the one end in view: to give the j The little, wearv limbs relax, the tear-stained face south a periodical worthy in every respect to repre- i grows placid, sleep comes—and the child is in an- sent its great, teeming interests to the nation. They | other world. In the morning, it awakens, the realize that the section between the Potomac and j memory of ih e past dav’s miseries hardly a mem- the Rio Grande—rich in literary and intellectual ory. vigorous and eager*once more 10 join the band as well as material assets—needed a representative ! ,>f prattlers on the outside among the great monthly periodicals of the nation. \ They realized, with an equal force, that while FROVERBS OF THE HIGHWAY. to IIojI&i 1 . Senator Hal®, in a St. Patrick's Daf I adur®ss at Ellsworth, said of the n.-i- ! M is no doubt a groat privilege to ttonai prosperity: | growl, and it saves many a man a big "Two tramps wore conversing over I doctor’s bill, a pail of hot ale. " ‘These be terribel times,’ said the first, as All sorts of surprises in this world. he”sat"down' the”smoking pan |a>’d the greatest surprise will be—the time wCten we can look back and say: "Pulled through!” When we strike prosperity we sometimes sing so loud that the lion of trouble has no difficulty locat ing us. ! Blame everything that doesn't Ipleaee'you ou bhe world; no matter i Ih w you saddle your burdens on it. | they'll all go flying when the world turns round. THE FAR. FAIR COUNTTRY. I. Fortune sorter fools us— Seldom treats us right; The country where the dreams come true Is always out o’ sight! III. Always just beyond us The valleys of delight; Snail wp meet them in the morning, Or miss them in the nignt? u By A GEORGIA COLONEL. N'DER the editorial headline. The End of the Farce," The Macon Telegraph and Confederate pnb- j lished the following on February 8. I36S •'Tinkle, tinkle, down coines the cur tain—the lights are out and the aiidiem e. consisting of two nations can £" ab».r their business. Mr. Lincoln's ran- is over. And a very poor farce it was without point or. wit. II will, we trust, never be repeated. If the large and re spectable audience are disappointed, it :• their own fault. For four years tim; have listened to Mr. Lincoln's ‘jokes and should have known that (he Ire play could have been no’hing hut a FROM AN AUTHORS JOURNAL. To think of having to sell a love set g for a can of pork and beaus! There is one thing I’ve found out about this literary business, and that is—pie beats praise!- Poets can't live on incense, for they ere all born lonesome and hungry. When you have nothing but a few yards of climate for breakfast, it's mighty hard to join ifie chorus of "There’s life in the old land yet!” this hoy. ‘your home work is neat : is all the j enough, hut you always make errors j in your additions.’ " I gel father to help me. sir.’ said | Howling Oilt the boy. timidly. " ‘Do you? Why. that’s strange. T cant see how your father can get along in life. He can ! add at all. His additions arc Invariably much too large. Wnat. Is his business, anyway?" " 'He’s a waiter, sir,’ said the boy." A miniature resurrection, wrought bv the erea* mother-calm and that little mother of i«? all—■ this magazine must of necessity represent southern i sleen. tradition, old and new. that it must not be sec-j For we children of a larger growth find her just tional. in the cramped sense of that word. Sections, i-that—a sweet little mother, whose fairy hands dry as such, have ceased to exist in the America of to-j the tca--s from the face, quiet the throbbing pain in day The magazine, however excellent, that made j the mind, and start us. next dav. with new hope a sole appeal along this line, must seal its own and inspiration for the old problems or the new. doom. So their ever\ effort has been to make “Uncle ' Remus’s" nothing more nor less than The Sunny- South—nationalized. ft will contain all the features that gave The j Sunny South such a grip on the hearts of its read ers. Ii will broaden these features—infinitely. i How gladly we all creep to her when the dav’s noise is hushed! How anxiouslv we wait for her coming, as the hours drag on slowly and it seems | that she lias—this night—forgotten us. >r she does not always come at our first sum- ; nanus. ! hen it is. with the thoughts like a wbiri- j ing kaleidoscope—self-reproach, and forebodings It will add other features, looking to the more | alternating with plans and hopes-that we reach into the night, helplessly as the in- crv for the little mother. Mi. an<l when she HOES answer. When the from out the dark- mto our nun; when the con] palm presses our when she softly whispers us of the folly "f all this worry and tumult : when, with our heads on her breast and her fingers gentlv pressing down nur eyelids, we enter dreamily into the strange borders nf ilie land where she is queen. ! hen it is that we know just what she means to us. And when, after a few hours of oblivion WOLF. I. there in the desolate night, May tine storm strike thee and bound thee from sight! Trouble the dreams of the wretched no more. Wolf at the door! II. Here is the skeleton, owns; Joy, no one the 1khi€«! But wreck not Grief's rest on Sleep's shadowy shore, Wolf at the door! POET COULDN'T SEE IT 'You write a great dea labout the , you don’t seem to have a no practical r the world, as j dea 0 f n [f you’d only let me plow you fer about threp years, what a power you’d he in literature!" effectual exploitation of southern talent to thejout our hand world. ‘ | fant Tt will give to its readers, north and south alike, the articles, the illustrations, the stories, all from a quiet, peaceful eves look down f national viewpoint, that are demanded by the read- ness i ing public nf America. Tt will not be dominated brow by provincialism, and yet. as Joel Chandler Harris has said in his foreword, it will embrace that dis criminate provincialism which is the chief charm of true literature. A'ext week we will further discuss the new mag azine and i he Sunny South. The purpose of the present editorial is to impress on our readers the Tin* Difference. Attorney General Hadley, of Mis souri. condemned, in an address at Topeka before the Slate Bar Assocla- tion, certain trust methods. "1 am sure." lie said, "that we al! want to see laws enacted that will give a square heal to everybody—the same deal to the poor and friendless widow as to the great corporation. T am sure we all want to see wiped out that accusation of unfairness, of fa voritism towards the money power, that is made against courts and the i soil. said the farmer to the poet, hut workings of courts. "We want, al! o\ little as possible of that thing which is exemplified in the anecdote of the Syracuse widow. "This lady lost every cent she pos sessed through the speculations of some dishonest bank officials, in dis cussing tlie matter with her. a minis ter said, soothingly: “ 'The thieves will he punished may be. Theylre committed for trial.' Yes.' said the widow, 'they're com mitted for' trial, it is true; and my child and ,i are, condemned to hard labor for life.''” First llnwimnril Step. A photographer was urging Charles 1 Frohman, the theatrical manager, to ; sit for his photograph for the Easter j number of a popular weekly; hut this, f as usual. Mr. Frohman refused to do. The photographer, a fluent persua- j sive chap, advanced reason after rea- j son why the other should break hisi rule and sit. "Those reasons sound well." Mr. i Frohman said, "hut behind them I ; seem to see an ulterior and selfish mo- j THE RIDERS IN THE RACE, II. Sorrow for tomorrow. But now, a branch of grace; The world Is there, wild-chcering The riders in the race! The prize is- what? They know not, Yet speed for time and place; They may not win one flower— The riders in the race! III. And all the bells are ringing. And Fortune doth embrace Too late the weary travelers— The riders in the race! THE OLD MAN’S END OF IT. "Them boys turned out. different, ftorn what t'he old man expected. One nf ’em is a poet, another is riter. still another is a professor of ! difficult! Take it. and welcome, and growl o’er languages, an’ the last one is a mock- j in’bird-ketcher." farce. He has been performing. It Is tru° i n the ‘Great American Tragedy.’ hut his part has always been that of the clown. King Lear, that saddest of all j plays, has a fool, and Air. Lincoln teas been cast for that part in the -Great American Tragedy.' now being enacted His farce had Bss plot about it Ilian we looker! for. but the denoum®nt is as we expected. The three traveling gen ffemen have been sent hack having journeyed all the way from Richmond to Fortress Monroe, to he informed that if they will unconditionally surrender, war will no lonecr he made against them. \Ve have watched this farce closely. o SO if we could find out • the inke. and we think we have discovered it Un- coin. with a serious air. invites com mis sior.ers to negotiate for peace. Three of the most distinguished gentlemen in the confederacy arc appointed and set out. on their laudable undertaking Their lug gage is marked. "Washington. At Fort ress Monroe they- are met by Seward, stage manager, and Lincoln, tlie clown, who inform th r m with a serio-comic a r, that Y they will suhmu to all their de mands. they will no longer wage war against them—they will no longer murder southrons generally, hut in detail - thee will no longer destrov our property hut keep li for their own use This is the Intended joke, we are convinced. Imag ine the hlank look of our commission ers. It was hardly necessary, say they, for us to have come front Richmond to learn that 'Very true, gentlemen.' r° plies Seward, while Lincoln tips Him t ® wink ’very true -hut your people, as well as ours, required a little relaxation, and this was prepared for their amusement The look of astonishment of our cnmml* (sinners is the pnin* at which the laugh I is expected to come in. A sorry jest j enough, hut. as good as under the ,r- cumslances could have been expected ! "We lak-- It for granted that those Story ; who thought "negotiation' would end o it are satisfied. Their plan b.T been tried and the result announced in our telegrams of yesterday. Thn--® Who now cry ‘negotiation.’ must, it a.p- “An’ whflt is th° Olfl man's bus- 1 peats to us. he in favor Of unooiiditi mess?" al submission. "The old man s business is—sttp- j aid announce, portin' the whole blamed crowd!” i thev will hear FINALLY. The world would do well If you only would let her ; That's all that’s to tel! Till it’s changed for a better! V* The Mysterious Art Of Propagating by Cutting xV, By HELEN HARCOTYRT. Written for The SUNNY 8CST H ■n|n for that. -Lincoln and is the only negotiation of. Throw down ■ 1 arms and disperse, ye rebels! wa = 1 te cry of the British officer at Lexington: anri Lincoln and Reward reiterate : - words. Are the people of the south go ing to obey? No m are -hurt their faiheus did in the first revolution. He Vo ! wants to ‘negotiate' now. wants to s o jniit. There is no dodging the question. Submit or fight. Negotiation and state convention no longer afford a retreat from the point at issue. "This much tlie peace commission has done for ns. It comp-Is every man to show his hand. Honest men by scot wanted negotiation tried. They were as much opposed to submission, njid so e\ pressed themselves, as President Pav - np c n arefully replanted, but with the ' jjj m self. hut they desired to give nrem tion a fair trial. OR it 1 is a mysteiv i; all plants are that frofn the very beginning. It is also an art to which bare roots Yattling disconsolately in the air. an.d the leaves and buds re- j t | un . t Hoi r fav posing in unwonted darkness in the bosom of "mother earth.’ They will at on plan has failed, ;td like true men and noblp paiT'ots.^^1 hi a: once address themselves to the great What resulted' In due time the work of winning independence. leaved branches, working with all their onlv ray It can be by a firm, uni- light in their new subterranean abode, ted and determined resistance to the »n- sent rootlets where before they some are born, and morel been used to send out leaves and are not. There are those who have tlie “knack" of making every plant they I twigs. These little rootlets at once started out on a foraging expedition and collected food with all possible dl« j patch, conveying it to the embryo buds ,.,c L„-t. ,t , , , , five lurking It is like the harrowing , , i • ' 1 ' ImtlS t!lp new horn dav, and wnctl our Story that the lawyer came home and pan they have had in the making: of “l nde Re- sorrows seem lighter than the Wht before--we Mold his wife. •* *Sa*d <*a.«e in rourt today, # fin. “ ‘What was it?* lady asked. Kindi v little mother: mother to the man in the! “ of "hopiiftin*. Beautiful .re , „i ,, , . , ! fined woman educated and wealth' main \ tars, palate, or in tlie hovel ot the peasant; mother to'caught stealing things in shops like the man whose hands are stained with human I* thief, blood, or the consecrated « I “ ‘ Th ** ' vas * rf,a,1 - v mov *“ 1 lighter than the ni<>-ht before—-we told his "' ifp - muss. It was a study of the present form of the j look back with a loving tenderness toward the little : " ' SaVi '' ase paper and a consideration of its possibilities, that mother of slumbers. led to the greater magazine Tt was 1 ho conviction that if. for st this periodical in its now unpretentious make-up could enlist the loyal and enthusiastic support <>f a large southern reading public, there was ample on his crucitix room in the south for one that would carry its j magic scope into ^ match hreader field. So that the faithful subscribers of The Sump South ma\ ho Ho touch grow thriftily, and | that iho latent sap had already formed thorp are more who have j on the astonished roots. The buds tast- tiie knack of making i 0 f the good cheer thus offered them, them die yet more quick- ! arK ) swelling with life and vigor, step ped forth into tlie world and formed a dense mass of foliage amidst the so lately rough brown roots. A RUSSIAN INSTANCE. But it is not with every tree'that Duhatnol's curious experiment would have been so successful. That is why priest whose fingers rest ; said Madam sort of thing?" Alas, sir." she answered, weep ing. "i began bv picking my husband' gently he yields to her sweet Mad as she. miracle-worker, brings us hack to a newer and a more vigorous life, is there not as-j pockets at night after he was in bed m ' -as the first step, and i.tew I ncle Remus s with an air of: surance that the sterner Mother—Heath partha prop letor.^.i.p. •' he\ can. h\ speaking a she is the svmbol. will work greater tran^forma- good word for it to their friends, help it to build tiorU - , . | asleep. That t which j after it my fa Life Today and Its Paradoxes ^ and yet the one class I ~ may be apparently as eful anil as skilled as the other, and ! treat tlie plants just the same. There j is where one of tlie mysteries lies. But - the deepest mystery of aJ! is in the . i growth ot Ihe plant itself. We see tt, but we cannot explain it. no more than . . ,. .. ... . , ... he nose the willow, know ing that its we can explain tlie life of other things, j - Budding and grafting and propagai- | ing by i uttings. layering and sowing how did you begin this : seeds are just so many different ways j of reaching tlie same end with a great- lesser degree of certainty and speed-—that end being the preservation j side of a certain avenue. Before they arrived lie changed his mind, and not knowing what to do with the trees, tie. being in a whimsical mood, di rected his gardener to plant them along the avenue, hut upside down. The gardener naturally thought his steins will readily throw out from cuttings. Another strange illus tration of this transforming power was furnished by a land owner in Rus sia, and without premeditation. He or dered some linden trees with the in- etnv. We know not what course thvi^r wiio desired negotiation merely as a cloak for submission will take—nor do wc much care. We believe iheir mini bers are insignificant, and know their hearts to be none of tlie bravest The cowardly waiting will be drowned In th- indignant roar of he people. a' com pletely as the puling cry of a baby by the thunder of artillery. "The business of tile country is war; and we believe the people and the gov ernment will address themselves ‘ft with greater zeal than ever. There 1 notiiing left to distract their attention The same shout which thrilled tlie peo ple is the days of spvcntv-six will acn 1 be echoed over the mountains and pin" of tlie south, and crossing the Pntoma' roots st ., rt | P dm tyrant at Washington with. t!ic clamor of five millions of men, for Liberty or Death." ■a sy. tt Hie Hi-rniitnit Table. HE changes that civilize- ( oughly knows itself. The present g- tion has wrought in the oration of Englishmen c H n make r port physical conditions of homa.n iifo are manifest In a general way tlie depart ure of their England from tlie England of Alfred the Great. tile on every hand They are,' England of Henry VTTI. and the Eng- I our academie conspicuously evident in ] the architecture. the mechanism, the equipage, i the dress of the modern j world. Enterprise and ; practical science have j given a new aspect alike ! to the country and the! town Rut while all this j external transformation is by no means to be regarded as tlie result-of mere ly superficial causes, it is far less im- j portant than the changes that havf taken place in the invisible environ- j ment of the human mind. In thought, in opinion, in taste, in social adapta bility. there is a vast difference between the man of classical antiquity, the man of the middle ages, and the man j under the influence of all that is best j and most significant in the life of to- j day. land of Charles I; but there is a dif- fere.nce of opinion between the best informed- men of that generation as to whether English civilization lias, upon tiie whole, ad van c ei 1 or retro graded within the last fifty years. What a man believes about certain things depends to a great extent usually upon parental precept and the apparent in terests of the class to which lie be longs. Our inherited and cultivated prejudices blur our vision and polar ize our sympathies. But apart from political and social bias, apart from the sophistry of individual interest, one must confess himself bewildered and confused when he undertakes to sum the distinctive traits and tenden- f educational establishments: but our common schools arc severely crit- j icised on various practical grounds, j and it is occasional!v- asserted on high J authority that the results attained by ; and colleges fall far ! ant. and put through the mangle. Tlie postal officials are most careless with mail. Second—All bills sent into unlimited quarantine Third—Refrain from eating an con. fish, kidneys, etc., over which an inquest has not been held, or eggs that have not liecn sat upon by a coroners OHIO’S ‘‘BLACKSHALE.” Thp Rirhmoml Examiner rhrorucl?** thp following which were sai*1 m he wp]1 authenticate: 'X’amp Chase ha? taken rank with the Black Tlole nf Calciitla. The num . her of victims who have oierf there ‘rn r j'brutal cruelty ha? exceed oil those >moth j ered in the Black Hnl^ five time? «>ver. . . . „ . . The reputation of the prison, which wag lowed root?, becoming another plant j master had taken leave of In? sense?. ^ a j reaf ^ v like unto its parent. Thus the hud 1 hut to hear was to ohey. and so the depends upon another for its living:, j trees were planted a? ordered. When In. j The cutting, however, has its own way i m a few months the sprawling roots houlb he promptly | to jn life, and if it elects to re- ! of plants. In each case a part of the parent ! plant with one or more buds attached to it is separated from it. In bud- Ftule Kirst- Hon t read th<* morning j ding: or grafting this detached portion paper or open letters until they have is slipped under the hark of another been baked, saturated with a disinfect- ‘plant, and ultimately thrive? on bor short or a just expectation. it charged further that the hurrying, j J ,n T- driving competition induced by mod- i Fourth -Keep your ern business methods Is unfavorable ' ’hrougliont thy meal, to tiie maintenance of a cairn and happy home life. That old- center of domestic peace and fireside culture, mouth closed "Did you make anything on tiie recent market slump?" "Made a curse/! fool | main in idleness it will surely starve l>a- | 10 death, as would the majority of its human brothers under the same cir cumstances. Vegetation is a wonderful thing view it how we may. Seeds, roots, stems, leaves, fruit, circulation, ail these are marvels of siiPitl power and harmony. But the purpose of this present paper concerns onlv- the factil- i ty possessed by some of the citizens the permanent home, is fast hernn/ 1 of mvs °!f hy selling out at bottom prices (of tlie vegetable world of sending forth and then going short and Bears. Wall Street Bulls ing an effete Institution. r i his certainly is a discouraging view of the existing condition of societv. ! "WtH you," asked the prosecuting at- and one would fain hope that it exag- j torney. "kindly explain to the jury why gerates certain ugly facts and unto ward tendencies, not yet beyond the reach of remedv. THE NAVEL ORANGE. Cies Of his own time. If he seeks --te l you think this defendant insane? ' "Well." replied the expert witness, "he 'built a House nor long ago and really thought it wasn't going to cost any more than the architect and contractor told him it would."Chicago Record-Herald. he guidance of expert opinion probably not find himself helped. He will lie overwhelmed with a inul- grea tly "'ill ! have no seeds, for this particular kind I ‘“ Bu V s aid Mrs. Nagget V larger, jucier and of a finer I are sinf,pr e and honest. We suffer for uin others, says The Chicago 1 °j jr convections-*-". "Yes.” interrupted It might he supposed that where the tltudp „ f c „ nfli „ t , n g judgments. He modern world is least progressive, that, in the habits and vices of its worst classes, it most resembles the ancient; but it has been ent ages have had th"ir characteristic vices. It may be that the hooligan end hoodlum, and tlie average degen- eretes of the slums, have fallen to quite as low a level as Ihe worst of the old Roman rabble; but after all would like to settle, tiie question for hltnseif. but lie feels that lie lacks the is usiiall flavor tli News. They may not know how this ! orange happens to be seedless. | The seedless orange is also called | tiie "navel” orange—not "naval." as sonic persons bpl t ho reason hsrved that differ-' ! criterion, some sufficient test, .that it usually has a little protuher- He recognizes some at least of the good a nee on the blossom end. the end Nagget. “I've noticed it in your case "Ah!" "When you are convinced that Voii can get your’.No. 7 foot into a No. 5 shoe." —Philadelphia Tress. j points of the present era. It is a time i of general and apparently Increasing ! material prosperity. The rich are grow ing richer, hut there never was tinm j when working people got better wages opposite to the stein it has a navel. How the species orig inated is not definitely known, hut “We don't like tlie milk w P get in | Cannes.’* said tlje millionaire who was j Tn other words] j spending Hie winter abroad. "Then j 1 why not have some shipped from | Cowes?" Inquired the near-humorist. ) t rind haps , „ , or enjoyed more luxuries. The spirit merely as a s tney are bad with a difference. It ts j of commercialism is very widely prey- jin the skin. /*• prouiiec twin oranges per- but one of the twins survived only in a certain sense true that bu reau nature is always the same. The alent. and in all our great cities there is a. coterie of millionaires, and a class human race has today no vice md no described as "the Idle rich;’ virtue of which it was absolutely in- | Iiving simplv for p ,easure and the van- capable a thousand or two thousand years ago. Its mental faculties have always been the same. It has acquired no new faculties with the lapse of time: but the direction of its mental development has changed from age to age. The intellectual ideals of the cul tivated classes of the Renaissance were aesthettcal rather than ethical. It was an age of great painters, great sculp tors. great architects, but a second Dante had already become impossi ble J V ■ "] n ‘ probably an accident. Nature with a Imarse laugh. -Louisville Fourier- i Journal. He—T am surprised von should be in j of kernel imbedded} such constant attendance at tlie Ladies’ j Sewing Circle if Hie conversation '.= as j distinct species ! scandalous as you say. She—Why. I j wouldn't dare to he absent one meet- j Do you think 1 would give them | chance to talk about me?—Brooklyn j It is strange that should spring from such an accident ! !>ut nature does stranger things than I ing that This orange with the little pro- i , _ ,, . , , j tune ranee was noticed, rf course T if<a | ity of display. On the other hand, j examination showed that the seeds I i never before in the history of the had not been developed, ft was quite 1 1 world was so much money collected • evident that the formation of the pro- i and spent for the relief of the needy, ! tuberanee, or “navel.” as it soon came- Trouble \liead for Percy. "Miriam." said-' her mother, according be called, had prevented the forma- 1 *° ,hp Tribune. “Percy Flaxham e.,M oenuji ox cnar- i Vriment^xh^^f by u ® ing U P «"* nu- ' * «" excellent young man. with deslra- ities. organized to . feed the hungry. ! required. Culti^ors /t C °'"^T. 8 ’ " n ‘ 1 ’ W ° n ' he and never before were so many men and women working in behalf of char clothe the poorly clad, and to educate the idea the ignorant. Rut there is a great tontion in the production of*tjie”'seed deal of scepticism in the land, and ,psa fruit Np AGE KNOWS ITSELF It is/safe to say that no age thor* there is a general churches are poorly d i . ,. . , _ i na t country Tr?t ^ of money is .r'v' by state a „ d pwrtm . nt impdl . )Pl1 itliUolpaL. go>:- - and by i several years at, ’ ... .—o — i no objection to your rc- 1 lr I ceiving him on a familiar footing, but you must not allow him to presume hat kou have arc-ented a him. "T won't, mamma id the proud If complaint that the V , is believed that th« navel orange "P™ the fact tl attended. A vast in .?' aziI and It was from present from hi L ha _ , .UU ,n, n_ t J :,t our agricultural de- trees i yeutig beauty. = om» nf thf 1 wealthy indii 1 i *or the sup- j trees 1 year? **-0 and budded them on j '*'• I'll give him the ciard niv q,pper the at Rivertide, CaL I next time be blows he from their stems, roots whereby ] perpetuate their individual life and to perpetuate their species. That in many j instances the production of roots or | leaves by a branch or root depends I wholly on Its position with regard to | earth and air. is a fact well known to all observant persons. A WONDERFUL PROVISION OF NATURE. j It needs but to go into the forest I to see the great branches of the trees creeping along the surface of the earth, j i..eir upper parts sending forth leaved j stems into the air. their lower half embedded in the soil and sending j downward strong, vigorous roots that ’ help to nourish and anchor the tree. But if these roots are loosened and the j creeping branch raised above the ground, tlie old-time roots will soon be covered with leaves and twigs. Reverse the process—instead of lifting the branch, bury it deeper, and pre sently the otd-tinie leaf bearing stems will be found sending out tiny root lets just as much to the manner born as if they had lived underground all their lives. Thus we see one of those wondrous ! provisions of nature which teach her | children how to accommodate them- • selves to circumstances and make the 1 best of things they cannot alter It is | a lesson well worth the studying of j those in a higher scale of creation, a | lesson much needed. i The famous French botanist. Duha- ! me!, was not content with the proofs | to be found In the forests of the enm- | pleie identity between the root and I the branch, but instituted a complex I series of experiments to stilV further were covered with a dense mass of thrif ty foliage The gardptier decided, in | fear and trembling. that his master j dealt in witchcraft Rut the master ! looked on in silent wonder at tHis j miracle that outraged nature had j wrought on behalf of her abused plant I children. I Deliamel continued his experiment. I still using the pliant willow a.s his base, j He determined to produce roots on a | growing tree with leaves both above andi below them. Beginning as near the I chest-v over j demonstrate this truth of ture. Selecting a large, thi tree, he had it carefully branches below, he cut all twigs away for a distance of about two feet. Then he inclosed the space on the stem thus stripped in a cask mounted on legs of the proper height and filling it with earth, kept the latter moist, treating It exactly like an ordinary cutting. In a few months the upper part of ;he tree began to grow with increased vigor and an examination revealed the fact that the cask was filled with a mass of thrifty roots thrown out by the denuded stem. Then the latter was severed just even with the bottom of tiie cask and the new*- tree thus rooted placed in the ground by the side of the parent tree. FULL OF SIGNIFICANCE. This curious experiment of Duhamel's is full of significance to tlx® horticul turist. It is easy to lake advantage of this singular property of sending out adventitious roots, as they are called. Peach treps will frequently take root from cuttings thrust down deeply in moist, shady ground, and it is a good plan thus to deal with all the yearly pruned off branches. It costs notiiing, and out of fifty cuttings at least twenty may be expected to become thrifty trees with the certainty of their bearing fruit like unto that of their parents, which would not he the case with seedlings. Now, since peaches will root from cut tings severed entirely from the tree, i; would seem that Duhamel points ihe way toward making success tlie rule, rot only with the peach, but with other trees that will root with more or less freedom from cuttings. Select a brancii. large or small, and unenviable, is increasing in Hie last few months. Tlie prisoners taken a’ Arkansas Post, who hove been con fined there for four months, and who have just returned, have suffered ever more than their predecessors in mis®r They were captured in tlie early par of tiie winter. They were when taken, w-ell clad, and provided with every on fort for tlie whole eo’d season. R; was the destitution to which they were reduced while prisoners of war. tha' over a thousand died, and nearly as man more were maimed or diseased for li e in consequence of the hardships to which they were subjected. “When captured, thev were unmerrl- ground as possible, white leaving several fuI1> p i, mde red of everything they had. w Continued on Seventh Page. except the garments w'hic.h happened to be upon their persons. They were crowded into small boats so closely that less than two square .feel of the floor was allowed each man: and thev- w'er® intermingled intentionally with cases oT smallpox, sent up from the yankee army to their hospitals above. Several hun dred cases of this disease thus occurred among the prisoners, resulting in al most as many deaths. "On arriving at Memphis, a arc number of the prisoners found friend- in cjtj ZPt | S of the tnw'n. who generously supplied f 11®in wdtli mnsey. blankets and other necessaries of comfort. These were brutally torn from them to a man. and they were compelled in this d®sti:u- tion to make the journey, at the cnldes; season oif the year, up'the river to Cin cinnati. During this journey, and up to the time of their departure from the prison, they were suc‘*e*^*iveiy robbed of every article of the least value about their persons, and finally of every parti cle of clothing not necessary to conceal nakedness. If, for instance they had on a shirt and an undershirt, they were forced to divest themselves of the for mer. and to wear the other the whole remaining period of their captivity, with out a change. Every overcoat, every blanket, every surplus piece of clothing of any description, were taken away from them by their keepers on the boat-, or in the prison. The horrors <»f ®old which they suffered, thus naked, during a se vere winter in a frosty ciimai®. cannot be described in language. All '££ re . more or less frost bitten: many of trim off the twigs at the point where j, to ihfl their u- ■* IfG'-