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W? WW- [Tlifs is the Indies’column. They tire invited to ex prv‘-< theirt »:.lions heroin—to use It as their own. The editress will ans. i r question.. or accent sug gestions with pl< a-ii,..; "Mother is l>ead.” Sorrows brood upon blaekene 1 wing, Death has come with his cruel sting: Hearts arc Heeding, pl.s', iir... nd ‘rush While rooms arc darkened anil v. i i-s ' . shed. And mother sleei s. and a world of c e Has passed from the bro r of marine 11. lie; And the sweet, white lips are-closed for aye, H edless, at last, to the children's ery. A moth erics brood, with aching hearts, A new, fresh grief as each day departs; Nothing remains save a deep, black pall, And mocking echoes through room and hall,— Echoes of earth on a coffin lid, Thoughts of a face forever hid, Shafts of pain that pierce andrend. Bobbing farewells to our only friend. Echoes of mother’s words and song. Echoes that come in a hurrying throng,— Os kindness, and love, and patient ways, • Os watchful care through nightsand days. Memory of hands with toil acquaint, Os burdens borne with no complaint; Ec hoes of prayers, and h » es, and fears, A perfect trust through many years; Echoeapf all that wc did or said To w'lifih* the hair in that mother's bead; Memory of acts, in a childish mood, That showed to her ingratitude. Vainly we call, and cry. and weep, • Wc cannot awaken front that sleep The mother who loved us and gate as birth, Her dear foim rests ’neath a swell of earth. But night has fallen, the day is done, And sorrow reigns on his dread, blaek throne. "Mother is dead !’’ is our wailing cry, And hollow echoes go hurrying by. Oh I who can tell of a mother’s love? Who er n measure, save God above ? And none can tell of a mother's loss, But those who bear that heavy cross. —Gay Davidson, in Good Housekeeping. o Possibly, the two most highly esteemed earthly blessings are money and health. These form the foundation of the positive theory of happiness. But there is a marked difference between them; money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed; health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. Tire contrast is stranger when we reflect that the poorest man would not give his health for money, but the richest would gladly give all his money for health. For what en joyment is there in life without that greatest of all earthly boons —health. Money may add to our comfort and give us the advantages (and they are great) of the best medical aid. but alas! often enough that fails to give relief, and money is as-nothing when compared to strong, vigorous health. What is to be so envied as health. How often we hear the question asked: "Is good cooking a lost art?” An exchange lays on this subject, “is the food of today as good as that of fifty years ago?” The para phernalia of housekeeping has increased ten-fold, but we cannot say that the im provement has been in ratio to this increase. Our larders are better supplied, our cooking facilities much greater, our cooking utensils much better, but says the New York Tribune: •‘We should turn back to some of the simpler ways of our ancestors in cooking. The de mands of modern society have driven the ladies of tlte household from the kitchen, and the preparation of food is left too often in the hands of untutored servants.” We do notalto gether agree with the Tribune. The food of today does not appear to many of ns as it did years ago in our childliood, but it is not be cause the ladies of the household do not give it their supervision. There are many reasons why; (we speak of cooking now in our south ern states.) During the war there were so many methods of economy resorted to that it became second nature to try and make good things with as, few ingredients as possible, therefore there were many economical recipes handed from one to another and the house keeper that could make the cheapest cake, or the best bread with the least lard in it was proud of her achievements. As time passed on and we became more prosperous and there was no necessity for such rigid economy it was a confirmed habit and the old fashioned cook ing was a tiling of the past. Now where one is not able to use good and plenty of rich in gredients it is right to use such recipes, but where people live in the country (and those who live in town and can milk, butter and eggs) and raise their own meat, and have lard in advance, there is no uso to ask if the art of good cooking is lost. Think of a farmer’s wife who ought to raise her own chickens sending a receipe for “good cake made with one egg.” It maybe good provided you cannot get any more eggs, but under no other circumstances could cake with one egg be called good. Wlu-n we tliink of old fash ioned pound cake where a pound meant a pound, that was good cake. Now one seldom aces real pound cake; probably on extra occa sions, Christmas, etc., but otherwise it is cup cake of different sorts and usually made light with the miserable baking powders which have been introduced and are so much in use. The consequence is the cake if not used at once is so dry m a lew days that it is not worth eating. Ami so with our breads. Instead of the good old fashioned beat biscuits where a hundred ami forty beats were required to malcb them all right, we have a biscuit made in twenty minutes, with water and baking powder; some people do not even use milk ; then even good old buckwheat is sold in pack ages a« self-rising, and when the cakes come on the table they arc light, but it is hard to discover whether you arc eating buckwheat or any other wheat. Take also our k rd; country people can have pure lard, for they prepare it themselves, but buy the compressed article offered its in the city, and there is as much water as lard, and what lard there is, is mix< d with other ingredient :. Many other reasons could be men’iomd any food dots not taste quite as good ns fennel iy. The many adultera tions answer the quo lion partly; cheap and economical cooking goa groat way towards the difference, and listly our tiu-to changes. If one lives to ask the question “is the food of to day as good as that of fifty years ago?** they must remember that fifty years makes as great • change in the taste as in all other things. o - -• A Woman’** Letter. A merchant’s wife recently gave him the following '•••’•t-with ins;. k; •>. s tin ;t should not be opened until he got to his place of Lu. iness: “I am forced to tell you bomethlng tlmt 1 know will trouble you, but it is my dirty to do so. lam de termined you shall know it, let the result be what it may. I have kt < vn for a w k that this trial was comii g out k« pt it to nr-self until today, when it baa reached a crisis, and I can not keep it any long< r. You mu.-l not*censure me too harshly, for you must reap the mult- a well as myself. Ido hope it won't crush you.” Here he turned over the next page, his hair slow ly rising. “The Hour is out; plen-'- s' nd me s .me this rftemoon. I thought that by th b m hod yri would not forget it.” The hus band u ' - hi’“ d forthwith tor a barrel of the best flour in li*« in k to U sent to hfa home iusianter. l et the Child tun Flay. flfrs Ell’.s L Mum ma. in (.<.«>«! Hou* -I c ping. Children with active minds should not be tent to school a eirly aa th«-u of nb. m nt. 1 growth. Let them r-'inpan i pay until *h y have attained the r <.! vizoi <*r ten y» • lean- tngakturif nee I bo. 1• ey v. ill be none the worse »o--H und, when the i • gin, will progress more rui i ly than t) wh begin three or four gettr* t-es--e rm!- an t • who •• dl. p-rhaj lake ex.iptl«»ns tn ti - Hit tola fact of early be. run in d I .-tn I c I life, tl - broken flown ©“rson- s.m.-i.i of the avcrag< Ac • •:.• -nn cun Justly be attributed. He U.y first; ht ■ t* - -1 attain menu follow aa they nub rally will. It is not to be •opposed that during th □ p*.nud the fold is to be THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 13,1887. altogether free from training of some kind. A sys tem of home discipline should go on during this time that will prove invaluable to the child in alter life. When tired of olay, devote a portion of' each day to reading, always selecting something that w ill ■ notaonly interest, but instruct at the 8 tine time. ! leifl?h them to be truthful, to respect their elders, to i be manly, womanly and self-reliant, andyour.ro ]<vin, tluir ~ay ,‘br a< we >sful, happy future. I knowledge of this sort gained will ni ire than ! counterbalance that which they would have at- I tained at school', and good hea’th, that which is of ! I«’r’mount importam e. will not be undermined by <■>’iilinement in close school rooms. I.vt children have an abundance of fresh air through the day and at night let them go to sleep in rooms that have I ten thoroughly purified by sun and fresh air. Overgrown Hoys, Mary Sweet Totter, in Good Housekeeping. Phen there can scarcely 1 c a more refined meth d ot » ruelty than that of ridiculing the awkward 111 'vementsofa boy whose lurperiiuity vs flesh or stature prevent his moving gracefully among his more natural formed brothers and sisters, and yet lathers and mothers as well as thoughtless friends or playmates are often guilty of thus wounding the feelings of the overgrown boy who is so unfortunate as to have been bom among them. Even the at tyur.ment to a noble and perfectly symmetrical s‘a t.re (which years always bring to such an one, d his health does not fail under the extra imposi tion of labor which his mistaken friends require of him», cannot atone for the cruel hurts he thus receives. Hheoe a sensitive chi.d, they rankle in his very soul, and do untold harm then. Some parents are in such haste for their children to become men and women, that they force them on, hasten t heir development in every po?Bible way, and if nature favors them by bestowing a more than ordinary growth of bone and flesh upon any of their children they are rejoiced to have the excuse to innv.se duties and exact behavior according to the numb< r of pounds avoirdupois, when’in reality that is no standard to go by. Too many children are th is defrauded of their chilhood, and who is pre pared to answer to such a chart e, by and by, when it shall be brought against him. Q From the Galveston News. Ear 1 oxing is criminal}’ w.cked or senseless. Medical records already investigated by Dr. Sexton for science showes fifty-one c.iscs in which the ear has been in,‘ured by blows of the open hand or fist. One patient had inflammation of the ear, with sus picion of internal injury, and running of the car for twelve years following the blow upon that organ. Thish patient subsequently died of braiu disease. In another case the ear became inflamed and the hearing very much impaired. In another case the patient was slapped by his father, upon the left ear, and immediate pain and deafness ensued, with a bloody discharge, from which he was three months in recovering. The presumption is that Dr. Sexton has learned of only a few of the children injured in this cruel and thoughtless manner. Flowers for Winter. By William Falconer. Now is the time to get them ready, We plant them out in summer to get them strong, sturdy and well rooted, also to keep them clean and save lai or in watering them. But we must now get all the tender buds lifted and potted, so as to give them r chance to get well rooted bes >re winter sets in. These will include geraniums, heliotrope, abutilons, bouvardias, mahernia and the like. S.iils and Pots.—First get your soil ready. Let it be loamy, turfy soil cl opped (not sifted) tine, and some old manure rotted to almost earthy fineness. If this seems rather stiff add some sharp sand. Then jiots. Have them washed clean, then with some bits of broken pots, chopped brickbats, pounded rotten bt me, sifted cinders, or other open material, drain the i>ots and stiew a little cl-ally manure, halfrottcd ha es, chopped moisor tl e rough part of the loamy fibre over the drainage to keep out the earth from choking it. Lifting and Potting.-—A digging-fork is often better than a spade in lifting. Lift very carcfiilly, break away the loose earth till the ball is small enough to settle comfortably into the pot you have prepared for it, but preserve all the sorts intact if possible. Use moderately small pots. Plants root better in small than they do in large pots add it is far better to have to shift a plant from a small into a larger pot than from a large in .O a smaller one. I\ t firmlo and leave a deep space to be filled up with water, or, if need be later, mulching. C ’ndition of the Plai ts- Don't bother with weak or lanky plants, and avoid those in rank growth; but take the stockiest you can find. You should. have helped to make them stocky by cutting them back some weeks ago. Treatment After Potting. —Set them near together in some faintly shaded place for some days till they will have partly recovered from the check, sprinkle them overhead two or three times a day, and under no cir< umstances let them get dry at the root. But don't let them stay crowded together, nor in the shade a day longer than is necessary to keep them from wilting. A bed of coal ashes is a capital place to set the pots on, but if such is inconvenient, just set them on the ground or plunged two or three inches into it. It is not well to plunge pots to their brim at this time of year. Plants we not yet lift are carnations, Scotch pinks, Marguerites, chrysanthemums, pansies, violets and roses. These may be left as long as we do not fear frost. Sow seeds of Miles’ hybrid spiral nrignonette, red, white or purple candytuft, Collinsia wrna (of this year’s, 1887, crops only, no other will grow,) Lobb's tropaolum, Drummond phlox, meteor marigolds and petunias. Sow in pots or Loxes fur window use. In frames sow pansies, mignonette, forget-me nots and candytuft. Or, if you have these plants al ready growing, plant them out into frames and good soil. And if you sowed seed of polyanthuses last spring, set out the plants, also other hardy primroses and double daisies into a cold frame. Callas.—ls your plants did not bk om well last w inter, shake them out of their pots now and pot the ‘ bulbs” singly, putting a big “bulb” into a five inch pot, not larger, in rich, turfy loam. No matter if its leaves shall not be as numerous or large as in a big pot, you will get more flowers. Pelargoniums.—l get my first plants from fall struck cuttings; pot these in noiv, and when rooted pot them off singly and afterwards as they need it till six-inch pots are reached and which are large enough for any. Pinch and keep close to the glass in frame, window or greenhouse. Calceolarias and Cinerarias.—Mino now arc in three-inch pits in a cold frame, raised close up to the glass, which is whitewashed to shade the plants from sun hine, ventilate 1 freely at all times, and in the bottom of the frames are strewed tobacco stems. Never let the plants get dry. C’orresponilence. Mrs. M. A. Grey, Huntersville, N. C.—Tn reply to S. C. 8., Hapeville, Ga., the North Carolina Presby terian is published every Wednesday at Wilming ton, N. U.; John McLaurin, editor. Emma Crittenden, Shellman, Ga.—Will some of the members of the Woman’s Kingdom please send me a watch-pocket pattern? or will some one make the pocket and furnish the material. 1 will liberally pay for the time and material. Mrs. Dorcas Wentz, McAdensville, N. C.—Will you allow me space in your columns to inquire for my husband? He left home nearly two years ago and went to Georgia; his name is liobert Wentz; is about forty years old, black eyes, light Lair, dark skin and Hunt teeth decayed. Any information will Lc thankfully received by his wife and children. R. W.—l have Leon a reader of The Constitution for several years an 1 like it very much. Can any kind reader of Woman’s Kingdom inform me of the reliability of the Crescent Art Company, Boston, Mu>s.? I saw their ad. in The Constitution. A long and prosperous life to Woman’s Kingdom. Note—There is no reliability to I e placed on any of the ads. of those art companies, and southern people bad best let them alone. “Anon.”—ln answer to inquiry of Mrs. Mattie i Lawrence. Milanu, I would say that there is one A. I K. Barmoie teaching a small school in Columbia coun y. Ark.; 1 supixue a eummuniCition addressed I to “Village, ’ Columbia, county, via. Muguslia, Ark., w..uld reach him. lit claims to be originally from i Mississippi, but mure recently from Texas. M. A. Botd, Scott’s Cross Roads, Iredel county, N. C As I have received much valuable informa tion from the ‘ oininnsu W man's Kingdom, I wish to enter your circle. A short article In those columns June 9th on “What a woman ought to know ' art^y sentiments exactly. Did any of the sister j ever see the beautiful cinnamon vine? its thick foliage and rich green color fa very attractive; | leaves heart shape; and its tiny white flowers fill I the air with a delicious cinnamon odor. To any one washing it and that will send me a self ad dressed envelope aud twelve cents in postage stamps 1 will send ore dozen bulbs of the cinnamon vine. I will send some bulbs to Aunt Susie if she wishes. Sue. e s to the Kingdom. Nciv—-Will be very gto ge: them. Mary F. re ts, Oj elika, Ala.—My r take«TKE Co.\--Ti7’ T; ex and we look anxl usly f r it every week, and I very naturally turn to Woman’s King dom. where I have gained an much information, a’d still wishing for more, I have a lir.le j•l d« g D n iy Beits) which belonged to my husband, and ior that reason 1 try to lake special care of him: bo has mange very badly, and if tb.e sisters or p.ny one ei s ‘‘can give me a remedy ter it I will be greatly obliged. 1 hope to hear from some one very soon. Mr». Clara B. Conk, Marshall, Texes.—l have been a reader of you: paper only three short weeks. I have two dear sisters in the good old Georgia state aud they have contribut'd very largely to my pleasure by giving me a subscrii ti >n to The Consti tution. What could 1 appreciate more? Every week it is a solid comfort. I hardly know whether the children's Aunt Susie belongs to the grown folks or not; however I presume she docs. Would it consume too much spice to print our quarries and your answer just beneath? Dyjhat mea*.s every one could get benefit in full of information given. “Mrs. E. c.,” Buffalo Gap, Texas.—T have been thinking for a long time that I w mid write to the Woman’s Kingdom. As you will see, I live away out on the so called frontier, but it is far from it. We have good society, j :e iching every Sunday, and Sunday scJuki’s also. My father moved from Get r gia when I was ten years of age, though 1 dearly re member our dear old home and friends. I would love to correspond with some of the sisters near Dawson, Ga., for wc lived only three miles frqm there. My husband is a cow boy, aud consequently is away from home a great deal. All of the peoplt back there think that Texas cowboys are very rouifh and desperate, but they are just as good as can he (I think.) Wc have b< c i taking The Con» stiTi tion since last September and do not think I could do without it, and it g ts better nil the time. We have had a very dry year; there will be nothing raised in this section except millet and sorghum. Mrs. L. Howd, Muskegon, Mich.—My husband has been taking your paper since la-t December and we are well pleased with it; 1 think the Woman’s King dom is worth the price of the paper. 1 have three little ones and I get many useful hints from the Woman's Kingdom. I would like to ask some of the sisters to furnish receipt for deal lug white kid gloves. I would like to exchange pineapple and fan trimming for Mikado and double roseleaf. I'lease except included pxiem, “Papa's Letter.” Mrs. M. L. Dakin, Martin, Miss.—l hope dear editress you will admit me in your charming circle, cspe-lilly as I conic seeking information concern ing some dear friends of my childhood. Can any one tell me the whereabouts of Messrs. John and Neil Granger, John Doubty, John Cant r cll, Jim Briggs, George Avery and Buck I’ry; they belonged to the same lightning rod company that my father, Thomas R. Guise, did; he is now dead, and I would like to hear sometl ing from his Old comrades; none of them have I seen since I was n child. I have lived in Olumbus, LaGrange, Griffin, Newnan and Hogansville, Ga., mid Ridge Springs, S. C. Many are the kind frjendsl would like to ask about, but fear of making my letter too long. I have two very pietty knit quilt patterns that I would like to qx change for geraniums or other patbr.is. I renew my subscription; can I get in the September box? Success to Woman’s Kingdom. “Polly,” Trussville, Ala.—l can furnish Mrs. V. W., Helena, La., Plymouth rock eggs at one dollar for a setting of thirteen. We have one hen which laid two eggs a day every other d iy live times this spring, also laying the days between. A few drops of carbolic acid in drinking water will cure cholera in chickens; snlr hur in food will destroy lice, and j oles washed with mixture of sulphur and kerosene will destroy house lice. Will on? of the ladies kind ly write m ? the receipt for washing with kerosene? Can any one give me a good receipt for watermelon sweet pickle? Where can I procure pepperment and calamus-? I write below a rccciiff for a splendid blackberry jam cake, which, if the Lullos will try once, I know they will make the second cake: Three cups unsifted flour, two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup jam, two teaspoonfuls soda, one teaspoonful croves, two teaspoonsful cinnamon aud one toaspoonftil of nutmeg. •*A Friend,” Seale. Ala.—ls you will allow me the privjjpgc I will ftsk a few questions in regard to tho • culture of geraniums, ala i tube rose, so that I can have it to bio >m the first year a f tcr planting; will it do to plant them in the fall, or is it best to plan’ thcmHn the spring? I would be thankful to some of yur many renders if tl ey would, be kind enough to give roc some dots in making wax flowers, and what color of paint, and what is best to get? I would like so much to know how to make skeleton leaves; 1 have heard that they were v<ry beautiful. J would be thankful if any one could tell me where I can find tile poem, “Virginius and the Maniac?’’ Mrs. S. A. Wylie, Purlie, Franklin county, Texas. No visitor is mure welcome in our quiet Texas home than your valuable paper. Wc have been taking The Constitution but a short time and are highly pleased with it. I must say that I feel a great interest in Georgia, for I have Fome near relatives in that state and am also a native of Georgia. 1 have an uncle and family living some where in Georgia; when last heard from was living at or near Covington, from whom we have not heard in years; his name is Wesley Cook! is an Episcopal Methodist preacher. Anyone that may chance to see this who can give me any information concern ing him or any of his family will comer alasting favor. Let me hear from him either through Woman’s Kingd- mor by private correspondence. I will give the sisters a sure cure for chicken cholera, one that I can say is usure cure. It is sulphuric acid, given in their water m l in lood; put in enough to m ike the water taste sour, also their food, once or twice a week. Mrs. W. A. Byers, Greenville, 8. C.—Here I and have been for the past five or ten minutes, with a momentous problem looming up before my very eyes; viz., how shall I begin this, my first letter to Woman’s Kingdom? Now I can't say I have been a silent (*0 admirer, etc., for yon are as well aware of the fact as I myself am; that variety is the spice of life; neither is it ncc< s-ary to enumerate the many merits of Woman’s Kingdom; nothing new in that. This Kingdom, so wisely shaped and governed by the same Aunt Susie who tortues the p>or little nieces and nephews throughout the land regarding her real name. We too (the older children) have a slight degree of enriostty—just a little, you know, enherited from dear old Mother Eve. What’s in a name, anyway? We know you are the embodiment of love and unselfishness. You have established a Kingdom of which wc all may be proud. You arc the head, and just so smoothly and gracefully us wc glide along under your management, so should we likewise in our sub-kingdoms endeavor to have our little ones look up with that ever admiring glance which assures us we are indeed and in truth the pilot that shields and protects them from the storms of this rough old life. God, in his infinite wisdom, intrusted us with the care of these precious jewels, and in appreciation of Ufa divine will we should plant the foundation of our life’s structure upon right and duty, and though our edifice be as the lowly cottage in comparison with the princely mansion of those around whose brows are twined laurel aud the buy; roe thinks, all unawares, wo shall find our bow of success and happiness arch over our own lowly threshold, reflecting the wann rays of praise from true and Uving hearts every where around us. The bad, Solid South. •*Z shall visit Ute South and take my ’uioulh udh ibraker at Wiatliny. Hurricanes, riots and floorls in galore, Tjuthquakes and fevers and drouth; Awful her past, but her fut ire in store Has fierce Joey B. and his mouth. Quake, solid South! Thunderbolts, panics, collisions and fires, And famines aud death hath the South; But un evil now O'mies. with a gall that ne’er tires, It’s terrible, J«mj a d his mouth. Squirm, holid South! Murderers, rapist", ti e ague end Itch. All Christendom's plagues hath the South; She 11 wish she hiul dlc'l like a dog in a ditch, When Joey arrives with his mouth. Fry, solid South! Cleveland, O.» August 30,1887. To Ladies Only. A woman who suffered eight years from fe male trouble and was cured will be glad to let the suffering ladies of Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama know tho remedy, which is simple, harmless and inexpensive. Any lady can treat herself. All letters cheerfully answered, by address ing Mrs. J. M. T. f box 37, Monroe, Walton county, Ga. Cut this out, as it may not appear again. FOH THE YOUNG FOLKS. Fun f fn . Children—The Constitution J rainin,»* School for Boys and Girls. IH-ap Nephews and Nhcces: I do not ' X ?’ 1 v!: I >D.all have to do with Aunt Surie. A *‘ n yt ti’oe ago she cut a good deal out of one of my e ters. ;; j arn lu sa y jnmeh, for fear that utile mnux y that ule up some of your letters may STCt ly>!d ( t She says 1 must not write such l°og lotto:s to her children. She is nearly always rijht. and 1 rathe: think my letters are too long, so I will try and make them shorter—if I can. Me leave New Orleans on tho Louisville and Nashville railroad so that we may enjoy the beauti iui ride along the coast by daylight. The road runs light on the levee from the foot of Canal street, so that we have a beautiful view of tho river on “’ir ight with the steamers and other vessels on our •eil; wo pass tire United States mint, a numl orof beautiful parks and the foot of the Esplanade, which is the “toney” street of the Creole population. Perhaps most of you know it, but the Creoles are descendants of the French who settled here. 1 forgot to tell you of one of the most beautiful things in New Orleans,and that is the marble hall in the custom house. The room is very high, perhaps forty feet high aud about sixty feet square, and its t oor is ot marble and in the center a large star: the ioof is supported by I think, twelve white columns in the Corinthean style of architecture. There is no room in the United States, noteven in Washington that compares with it in beauty. But now wo will : :o on our journey. We turn to the left, leaving the j levee and go into a broad street called tho Elysian Fields, but I never could think why it was so called, unless some one did so as a joke, for it faapoor look ing street and uno of the worst parts of the city. 1 o travel for about forty miles on the marsh and juis.s many rivers and lakes. The first that we pass is “Clief Menteur,” which means “Boss, or Big Liar,” so named I suppose becauso when it rises it does so suddenly and floods the marsh. On our left a few miles from this is Lake enthrone, a largo and beautiful lake. On qur right we get glimpses of bright water, whi< h they call the Gulf, but it is Laks Born, which is an inlet from tho gulf. We pass several wide rivers, which arc called the “Rigolets” or “Wriglets;” these are all very deep and drain the water from l ake Fonchartrain, that I wrote of in my last lett r. We pass a place called “English Lookout,” so called I learn, because the English fleet, which was bringing tl eir army under General I‘ackingbamin the war of 1812, was trying to got through the Rigolets into Lake Ponchartrain and then attack Now Orleans back of the city. Men wore stationed here to watch the fleet, and in that way the place got the name of “English Lookout.” Most of you will remember that General Jackson de footed him there after peace bad been declared, but t.:cy did not know it. Then we pass Pearl river, which separates Louisiana ir.nn Mississippi; it is a deep, broad stream, but at Jackson, Miss., is rather a poor looking river. Now we get in the woods, and all along the coast are summer residences of people who live in New Orleans. The first is Warclona, then Ulmanville, end then quite a largo town called Bay St. Louis. Every now and then you sec the gulf, or more properly Mississippi sound. Bay St. Louis looks pretty from the train in summer, and in the after noon grown people and children are riding Rud romping on the beautiful road that fronts the buy, arid tor six or eight miles you can, if you go that far. see beautiful cottages. The sheet of water culled Bay St. Louis is more than a mile wide where you cross it and is a very beautiful sheet of water, but very shallow. You will see long gang ways of plank leading far in the bay to the little white hath houses; even there the water would not be over the head of a boy six years old, so that hundreds of little heads can be seen bobbing up in the water any afternoon. This bay was so beautiful that when the French first settled in this country they intended to build a city here irstead of at New Orleans, but found the water too shallow for their shijs. Away out iu the sound you can see islands looking green and beautiful in the sparkling water, and in the night you can see the lamps from the lighthouses shining like big stars. We next pass Pass Christian or “The Pass,” as it is called. Perhaps tho finest hotel on the coast is here and there area great many visitors. Wo pass Biloxi, Mississippi City, Ocean * I. Bear voir and many other small places. At ait von* Mr. Davis lives, our tydoved pres dent of the southern confederacy. Very many jieople visit him, some because they honor him, others from curiosity, others to have him say something that they can print in the newspapeis. At tiie south, of course we think him a great and wise man, but nt the north they think differently, and of course wo would n< t agree on that, so it is best to say n'othing about it. Near Ocean Pond is a very largo Methodist camp ground where they have meetings during tho sum mer; but it seems to me 1 would prefer it in winter, for there are thousands of mosquitoes in summer. We pass Mobile, formerly a very rich place doing a large business, but not so prosperous now. We cross the Mol lie river and then the Tenzin river on a bridge more than two thousand feet long. I wish 1 had the nephews (I know the nieces would not go) tc help me fish in these deep bayous we can see in the swamp; we could catch more than we could carry and perhaps knock tiie teeth out of a big alli gator’s mouth if he came too close to our bout. Now we get to Floridlun or Pensacola Junction, and ns we are on our way to some curious places in Florida, we take another railroad and will sec something of Florida next time. “Uncle Will.” o C’crrespoiKleuce. Willie Yarbrough, Camden, Ark.—l live in a nice town with two railroads running through it. Camden is situated on the banks of old Ouachita river. I take The Constitution and think it is the best paper in the south. Would like to correspond with some of the cousins. Willie Simpson, Monroe. Ga. I am a reader of your valuable paper and am a silent admirer of the children’s column. Our town is beautifully situated among the hills of old North Carolina. 1 would like to get up fc club here. Please don't put this in the waste basket. Find inclosed a nickle for your Bible; please put my name in. Note—Your nickle received; many thanks. J. L. Dodge, Nicholls, Ga.—lam a constant reader of the children’s column, though iny name has never before appeared in the column. I live five mites from Nici Oils, Ga., where 1 receive my mail once a week. lam going to school at present, but our school will close the fifth of September. I am a subscriber to The Constitution and I don’t think 1 could do without it. Jes e W. Bobinett, Springville, Ala.—Dear Aunt Susie, please admit another cousin in your Chann ing band of cousins. I am a country boy eleven years of age. My japa is a farmer. I take The Constitution and we all like it very well. 1 have three brothers and three sisters. Wc have no sclkkj! this summer. In answer to Leon Boscman’s question, the word “lily” is used in the. Bible ten times. Much love to Aunt Susie and the cousins. Sophie Cupchart, Avoca, N. C.—Dear Aunt Susie, my sister Kate fa writing to you, eo I thought I would write too; she is older than I um; I am eight and want to know some of the little cousins. Please give my love to Mr. Grady (is he Uncle Will?) and tell him he camo to my grandpa’s fishing when I \\as a tiny little gill, and we have not forgotten ho helped us buy our church organ. I am taking music lessons and cun play three pieces un the piano and hope I cun play on the organ when I get older, Mattie Anderson, Mineral Springs, Ga.—l am a little girl going U) school; I like my teacher; his name is George Owen. As no ono has sent you a letter from this corner, I will set d one with sister. My papa is a farmer and takes The ConsirruTioN. My mama has her hands full to get us all off to school; there Is eight of us going to school; all can read but one, and when The Constitution comes every one wants to sec It first. James E. Padgett.—Dear Aunt Susie, I want to write an interct ling little letter. This is my fourth attempt to write to The Constitution and I have never seen but ono of them In print. McGregor burned down the 28th of May, IWMI, and my father sustained a lots of 84,500; everything he owned ex cept his little homestead, which he mortgaged alter the fire to get money to start up again, was destroyed. I will u>k vnna of the cousins to correspond with me. I hope this letter will reach you. “Mattle,” Fayetteville, Ala,—As the day is so cool and pleasant I will make my first visit to the cousins. 1 know some of the cousins very well. Bob Boy, you need not stare at me in such a dis agreeable manner, it fa very irnjxiHto, especially when it fa a n iw caller, so you don’t think I know you! Well, we will see; you are in your twenties, hare blue eyes and light hair, weigh afaiut 115 pounds; I would tell your name, but 1 know you are very timid, so will La>e pity on you and not tell this time. Wild Rose, I can sympathize with you; I have had company all summer, but they have all left me “alone in my glory.” Paul Jones, did tho baby kin you; I hope he saved the pieces, fori would like to hear from you. Carter. lam not very much interested in your case; hope the cow did not servo you as one did me. Let us hear from you soon. Aunt Susie, I send five cents; hope you will put my name in your Bible. I would like to corres pond with some of tho cousins, r.ot younger than seventeen, if they do not think it too much trouble. Can get my name and address from Aunt Susie. Fannie Mcßryr.nl, Floyd county, Ga.—This is the first time I Lave written to you, but I read yours and the cousins’ letters every week. lam ten years old and live in the country. In this week’s Consti tution mama read that beautiiYilpoem, “If I Should Die Tonight;” and as there is some doubt as toils author, 1 write to tell you wo think it is Henry Ward Beecher. My aunt, who knows aud loves you, (you see we know who you are) is now on a visit to us and she keeps that pretty poem in her Bible. Charles B. Hull,Clinton, Conn.—Will you permit a boy from the “nutmeg state” to enter the band of cousins? We have been taking The Constitution nearly'a year and like it very much; father says Talmage’s sermons are alone worth tho price of the paper. 1 enjoy the cousins’ letters as well as any thing, and would like to correspond with some of the cousins beta een fourteen and eighteen. I think as do some of the coudns, that I’ll not tell my age, but leave that to the imagination. Hattie C. Jones, Daytom, Ala.—l am a little girl nine years old; my papa is state physician for the convicts and we live at Pratt's mines, six miles from Birmingham. lam now visiting my brother who lives near Diytom, Mat ergo county; he has a dear little baby girl ten months old. My sister takes The Constitution and I < njoy reading the cousins’ letteiis very much. Aunt Susie, 1 send you a nickle so that my name can go iu your Bible. L Notp - Many thanks for the nickle. Kate Capehart, Scotch Hall, N. C.—l want to Join the little band of cousins. 1 am a little girl most ten years old and live on a big sheet of water called the Albemarle sound. J have read some of tho little ’ cousins’letters, one was from W. 1». Shaw; please toll him T know as well as ho does the more you cut a ditch the longer it gets. Can any ono of the little cousis tell me what this is? As round as a biscuit, Busy as a bee, The prettiest little thing you ever did see. Fannie Williams,Silver Creek, Lawrence county. Miss.—Her. • owes another stranger knocking for admittance, and hope J will not be deprived ot the pleasure of entering. Papa has been taking The Constitution for several years and its coining is hailed with delight. 1 always turn to Woman’s Kingdom first t.n I read all it contains, and find many valuable receipts, which are put in my scrap book. 1 would like very much to exchange samples of crochet with some of the sisters, and would also like to have some correspondents. 1 will not write any more this time, but will write again if successful this time. Long live the kind editress and The (Constitution. Bessie Wood and Annie Lane, Franklin, Ga.—As we have never written to you we feel as if wo can not stay out of tho young folks’ happy bund any longer, so we ask for admittance. We would tike very much to correspond with some of the con.-ins. We live in tho pleasant little village of Franklin and spend most of our time together. Wo have been going to camp meeting and having a splendid time; we also had a Sunday school celcbiaiion and all the county joined and had their exerciser; one of she sweetest little girls recited a piece; she recited so well that every one was charmed; we had two addresees, both of which were splendid. Sue Simmons, Bushnell, Fla.—As I see so many letteis from the young folks in The Constitution, bragging in their states and healthy homes, I feel ashamed that I have not told you something of our beautiful land of flowers. 1 live near Bushnell, a new town, which bids fair to be one of the best places in the south; I mean by the best, that the people are.so generous, free-hearted hospitality abounds. 1 think Florida Is the best state in the union. Master Phillips think lie has the best, but I think that’s because he has never been to Florida, but Master Phillips, wo won’t get angry with you for biagging on your home, that is right; we know w ,;s n puiOiits, cheerful hearts and Cfiristianpebpio. Anna E. Dodson, Wootton’s Mills, Ga.—Here conies another Georgia girl wishing to join your happy band of nieces and nep) e.vs, for 1 have the greatest desire imaginable to become one. I see so many nice letters from the cousins that I desire to be in their midst. 1 need not tell you that I delight in reading your letteis; I wish you would write oftener. 1 live in the country and have a splendid time; 1 don’t think 1 would like to live iu a city. I have some cousins in South Carolina, would like to hear from them. I would like to corn ■ |>on<l with Miss Lady Marwell, of M hiteville, N. C.; I would like to receive a letter written by one so small us sie is; also any of tiie others. Love to Aunt Susie and the cousins. Edgar A. Forbos, Beloit, Kan.—Pcftil .Hen dricks, Ga., wrote to me some time ago anil I have lost her letter; wilt si c please write again and send n o her address? Well, cousins, it is raining here; how is it with you? Here of Jute we have bad plenty of rain, though wc had a drought here about a month ago a id crops were in a serious condition, 'ih : weather Ims began to get cool here thou ,h it fa earlier than usual for cold weather. I have had lots of fun this summer swimming and boating. The Solomon liver tuas through Beloit, and it is a pretty large river larger than the Chailahoocheu river of Georgia, (an some of the cousins send me the southern war songs entitled “l/.rcna” and “Stonewall Jackson's Way?” I will exchange other**for them. Will some < f the cousins write to me? I think Uncle Will is 11. W. Grady. Love to Aunt Susie and Uncle Wil). Aunt Su?J-, 1 send you ad line your Bible. Note—Many thanks tor the dhuc received. T. A. Robinson, Toone, Tenn.—Oh! how glad and happy are Hie cousins to think they am at liberty to write again. Now cousins, let us do our very best toward making the department more u etui and interesting; if we don’t do this our letters will take the road leading to the waste basket. I don’t reckon the cousins know lam an Arkansaw hoisier. Oh! I ought not to of said that, as 1 want a correspon dent. If any young lady between twelve and four teen will correspond with me let it be known by saying so in a letter to The Cicstitution, and 1 v. ill write the lir. t letter. M ell, for the hoosJer purl, I was not a native of Arkansaw, I only lived there tl.i® years. Papa moved away on i.ceouut of sick ness. I believe 1 was the only one who did not want to come away, and J teekon I had better give a reason, it was because there was so many pretty girls lived ih'ne. 'Lome is very dull, asthereare but few girls here; there are enough boys. Fora rarity among bujs I take music lessons and like k very much. Adieu to the cousins and Aunt rfusle. Edna Adams, Kewanee, Miss.—Sinco the Young Folks’column has become so vciy interesting, 1 have taken un interest in It, and desire to become one of the many cousins. We live three miles from Kewanee. Tiie farmers have very go»xi crops, and expect to reap un übundunt harvest of corn. A protracted meeting has fa.-cn in progress at Salem church, which is two miles from here; six per ons joine«l; three by letter ami three by exp riencejthey were baptized yesterday evening. Will some of Hie girls pie isc write to jne, us I would like toexchango crochet pare ns nitb li.em. I will have to bid you gIXMI bye. Mollie Turner, Powder Springs, Ga.—lt has been several months since I last wrote to the dear old Constitution. Ido enjoy reading the cousins’ and Aunt Susie’s letters so much; I afauappreciate Undo Will’s letters very much; his letters arc interest ing. I have received a great many letters from tho dear cous in* since iny lust letter to the Young hoiks’ column, but there were so many I could not answer them nil. Carter Black, I sympathize with you veiy much; hope you came out nil right; write and let us know. Aunt Susie, 1 send you u memory square for your quilt. Note—Thanks! your square is very pretty. Grade Myatt, Marion Ala.—Today we are free U) write us often ns we choose, as it is the first day of September, and I dure say I urn not the only cousin writing today. Aunt 8 isle, I feel like I know you, your tfat< r lives here and I know her well; one of your nieces is my Sunday school teacher, and I love i er very much. • You were here on a visit once and mother Fays you returned her call; now cousins don’t you wish you could say Aunt Susie bad been in jour h u * ? 1 know the cousins arc not interc-ted in the nnrnler of brothers and sisters 1 pone • r whether I» m tho fortunate owner Os a kitten, hi< ken or fwet little baby sister, but 1 tell yon II X Lad a little pony you should know It, for my brothers think I urn going crazy un the subject of huue-back riding, but I hovo lan not that bad. (’an some one tell me where the paper “Good Hou.- d.ee pi ng” fa published? [ wou’d be much obliged for the information. Some of the ( tusins object to te ling their ages, so 1 will not t» 11 mine, but I don’t obc t to tl at. Cousins, mo wc not proudofourdea- Aunt Susie? Note—“ Good House <ceping” fa published nt Springfield, Mass. M illie Hunter Cook and Annie E. Cook, Alpine, Ala ianirt.— 1 hope after your vacation you fe< 1 a> i.r.u h ret;eshod as a school girl and ready to bo troubled with your Lir.-e family of nieces and nephens at,ain. My grandmother fa with us now; we consider it quite a treat to see her: she saw names in The Uonsthution Inst week that re minded her of her voung days; Colonel Hugh Haralson >moug them ; he is the father of Mrs. Gftden and was at her wedding in Ik’d. How I long for school to begin. We enjoy your letters so much, Aunt Susie, that you must write often; they arc so interesting. I sent my name and also my Httlo sister’s, as I have only one in your Bible, so 1 und it to you. Noto—Your names shall go in my Bible, t auks. Samftiithy Jane.—l have finished school, and in years am a young lady, but I believe girls are nevor called such until they’ve reached tho dignity of having abeau; and as I am without one of iheob- Jeets so designated think that with impunity, 1, ns one of the cousins, may address you; permit me to do so, if for nothing more than a compensation for iny humiliating confession; for sometime I’ve read the letter in your columns and in Muy noticed a de cided improvement, for which thanks are due you. Many of the cousins had left off and changed that “I grasp my pe i in hand and seat myself to drop you ft few tines” style. Not by this do 1 mean that this expression was continually used, bat tho stylo of all was similar. Dear cousins, what we all need is more originality, and the opportunity to cultivate it is afforded in in this colum. Over the forehead of “Mr. Opportunity” grows a forelock: the remchnhr of his head is bald; as he p»us?oi seize him by this lock, and he is powerless, but if his back is turned on you, your detaining grasp slides off'ns dors water from the back of a duck. Another gross nnstako made is asking for the photo of Aunt Susie and a lock of her hair, for which please pardon us. Poor Aunt Susie! if you in your kind heartedness were to comply with the many requests for your picture, un less you possess tho wealth of a Rothschild, think you’d not have enough “ready change'’ left to pur chase a wig or a braid; for if you've cut a lock from your dear head each time you were asked to do so, I t< ar you will soon have need of the one or tl.o oilier. If we cousins desire Aunt Susie s picture (who of us do not?) let us piy for them, if shp is willing to sit for us. Ex* u.*e my short criticism cousins please. 1 will come again and give yuu tho benefit of my experience ns a country school nmrrn, ns 1 was mi employed furtive months, if you wish me to do so. Hoping Tur. Atlanta CoNsTi-rmoN may continue to thrive and furnish us reeling mat ter, even when “our fret have turned gray and our he; d • are stumbling up the hill of life” and assur ing you all that “1 weep with you in your joys, and laugh with you in your sorrows,” I dost', soilciting ocorrcFpondvtrt’. My address is with Aunt su-ie, •Walter Lev, Cassandra, Ga.—Dear Aiint: After a long six months has passed since 1 wrote, I will again make an eifort to join your happy band <«f cousins. 1 want to interest iny little cousins If I can, by U Hing them something about the'country which I live in. I h\e in what is called Mc- Lamon's Cave, named after an Indian chief, sur* jounded by two large mountains; Loo).out on (ho w< st and Pigeon on the cast, which makes the cayc. Our little village, Cnssai d a, is about the renter of the cuvo, where the roads cross, one road running east and west from Lafayette (our county site) across both mountains to a little town in Dado county called Rising Fawn, which fa on the Chatta noogn and Alabama railroad, alaiut ten Julies from Cassandra, where 1 live; the other railroad running north and south is the Chattanooga and Valley railroad, running pnia lei with the niountuhu. Tho cave is twenty-live miles tn length and from four to ten miles in width. '1 hero Is a little river running north about th*: center ,f I lie cave ( ailed Chi'ka rnaugft, (an Indian name) made up by Hie beautiful springs which run out from under the Lookout mid Pigeon mountains. I would like to have my little cousins and Aunt Susie come to see me; I would de light in carrying you out on tiie high points on the mountains, where I could show yon the beautiful scenery of the mountains. You could look over into tiie valley and see the fields of corn, cotton and clover and the sparkling waters running over the rocks and beneath the top:- of the trees hundreds o< feet below. I would like to tell you of all the beauti ful scenery, etc., but must obey orders and make our letters short; so I will close by saying, I vvani to meet you all at the exposition; get acquainted with Aunt Susie and shake hands with the pro.idcnt. J. L. Archer, Savannah, Ga.—l rend your very interesting letters and was very much picas d with it, especially glad to see your suggestions about the children’s letters, and I am going to try to write a letter that will inteicst some. We have just got our new railroad finished that goes clean to the ocean, it is a fine sight for one not used to it to see far out foi miles on Hie great w a, seeing nothing but vatcr and here and there a trim vessel gliding smoothly on the water; but take your eyes from far away ami Fee at jour feet hundreds of jieople with light bath ing suits on splashing about in the waur swinging on to the ropes. A breaker comes licfoTc yoli know it. it bursts, some rises on it, some dives tifider it, while it goes over Home completely Fiibn.erging them; we lose sight of them for a moment bcldml the wall of water; In a second they rise brighter than ever. When Iw; sup among the hllfa’l use to think it a great treat to get in a mill pond, but that is miglity tame after you have been knock'll off of your feet by n breaker and drank whatyotl 7tippo*<C(l was the greater 1 art of tiie Atlantic. A uprd to tho boys; lets make the reading of ou r letteri.portli pie readbig and we will then see what the gitis will do. “Nit i,” C:u.son v Creek, N. C. - After a long silence, I once inure knock al the door of the merry eotjiijns for admit.ance. Ah! thank you Aunt Susie, for letting me in. i’ll try and repay your kindness by making my letter short and to the jMilnt. First, let me bid yon welcome to our columns on< e more no have in.-s- >1 yon very much, cv nin this short time, but what has been our loss, 1 tiust hasbetn your gam. J wonder if you had as much wet w(’Otht*f in (no giftio wc have; if so, ! pity you sincerely, for it was terrible up here and did a cat dual damage. The rain came down in loin uts enusins the rivers to overflow the low Ihh'l , and carry oft’bridgeci. fcay and oalsand to almost turn the corn. It ba be n raining this morning, but now it Lasclenred oft’, and our ey's arc gladdened by the sight of a few paP'i.es of bright blue sky. “Gem,” I’ve sunt iny add re directed it simply to “Gem,” Hemphill, Ga.,h(qo you'll get It. Aunt Susie, here is a sipture for your quilt; hop* It will pilcnse you. Cousins, all, accept Auntie : advice and make your letters us bright ami interesting as possible. Note Many thanks for the square; it is very neatly made. —— • - -•—. —~ A Cheerful Room. From Puck. “It ain’t everybody I’<l put to sleep in this room,” said old Mrs. Jinks to ft fastidious and ux tremely nervous young minister who was spending his first night in B. at her house. “This here room is full of sacred associations to mo/’she went on. “My first husband died in that bed with hfa head on them ver. pillurs, and poor Mr. Jink died beltin’ right In that very chair there in the co n*r Hometiiues when J come into the room in the dark I think I ie him settin’ there still. “My own father died layin’rigbloii that loungo under the window. I’oor pa! He was a spiritualist, an*l he alius said he’d ft:'pear in this room a ndn after he died, and sometiuu I m foolish enough to look for him. If you should oc anything ot him tonight you’d better not tell me; for it'd he a sjgn to me that there wa* something in spiritual fam, and I’d hate to think that. “My s<>n by my first fell dead of heart dis ease light where you stand. He was a doctor, and there’s two whole skeletons iu that (l)Het Uat be longed to him; and half a dozen skulls in that lower drawer. “Weil, goxi night, and pleasant dreams.” If You Have Nn appetite. lii.Hae.tlou. Flatulenee, Nlek lleuuaehe, ••all ruu Uowu,” iaa* 1»K Heal*. w,, l H“'l T utt’s Pills tbe remedy y«*« need. They tone up the weak atomael. and l.nlltl up the fIi«KKi"K encraleM. Buffererii From ■uuilul or übyaleal ov. raook will rind rellcr rrom them. Nleely HUigareoated. SOLD EVEItVWUEKE. 9