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jl'HE SOUTHERN WORLD, DECEMBER 15,1883.
mm DOLLARS IK CASH PRISES,
STORY WRITERS FEEA8E
READ.
First Prize #30 for Best Story,
Second Prize «2o for Second
Best, Tlilrd Prize $10 for
Tlilrd Best, Fourth Prize
#5 for Fourth Best.
The above prizes are offered by the
proprietor of the Southern World to
story writers under the following condi
tions :
Write very plainly and only on one
side of the paper. Pay your postage.
Let your story have some warmth of
feeling, either a laugh or a tear, or both.
Snap, power of condensation, tact and
well sustained interest throughout, are
what we want in a contributor.
1. The story may be of any length the
writer desires, not to exceed 72 columns
of our paper.
2. All contributions must be English,
strictly original, pure in tone and free
from everything that may give of
fense to any religious creed, denomina
tion, party, trade or profession, and also
free from any advertising schemes. The
subjects are to be selected by the writers
The awards will be made by the follow
ing well-known gentlemen: Paul H.
Hayne, C. W. Hubner and Rev. W. J
Scott.
3. All contributions should be sent as
early as convenient for the writers. The
premiums will be awarded February 1st,
1884. All MSS. belong to us. Nothing
returned.
4. Names must be sent in on a sepa
rate slip and not appear on the MSS
All the MSS. will be sent to the com
mittee numbered, and every effort will
be made to keep the name of authors
from being known to the members of
the committee. Address
Literary Editor Southern World,
Atlanta, Georgia.
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THE WORI.D'8 EXPOSITION.
A Plan Adopted for Main Build-
Ing-Nr. Torfferaou, of Meridian,
MIrb., the Succeaaful Architect.
First premium to R. M. Torgerson, of
Meridian, Miss.
Second premium to William A. Freret,
of New Orleans.
Third premium to William Fitzner, of
New Orleans.
Mr. Torgerson’s plan for the main
building w’as adopted. The building
wi 1 be 1,500 feet long by 900 feet wide,
and affords 1,398,300 square feet of floor
space, 1,048,752 feet of exhibiting space,
in addition to which there is provided a
music in the centre, with a capacity to
seat between 10,000 to 12,000 people.
This music hall is also constructed so
that the balance of the building may be
removed, and by inclosing the sides the
music hall will be converted into a per
manent building after the Exposition is
over.
Main offices, with telegraph and news
paper offices, waiting-rooms, restaurants,
hospitals, police department, fire de
partment and life-saving apparatus are
provided for.
The boilers are placed on the Carroll
ton side, and a railroad track will pasB
through the machinery hall. A tank and
reservoir for cascades, to be lighted by
electric light, is also arranged for.
The building will have three main en
trances, and ornamented fronts facing
the river, St Charles avenue and the
city. It is the largest exposition build
ing ever designed, except the building
for the London Exposition of 1862. In
addition to the main building a Horti
cultural Hall will be erected, which will
become the property of the city of New
Orleans.—N. 0. Times' Democrat.
Our Great Eeveler.
The Board of Management of the
World’s Exposition met yesterday at 74
Baronne street, to receive the report of
the committee on plans, which has been
engaged for the past week in a careful
and critical examination of all of the
plans offered, ten in number.
There were present at the meeting
Messrs. Richardson, Baldwin, Buck,
Hernsheim, Breaux, Denis, Hudson,
Kenner and Moore, with Mayor Behan
and Mr. J. H. Oglesby, of the advisory
committee, and Director General Burke.
Chairman Kenner reported that the
committee appointed to examine the va
rious plans offered to the board for the
construction of a main Exposition build
ing, and report the one best suited, in
their opinion, to carry out the wishes
and purposes of the board in the matter,
beg leave to report that, in arriving at
their conclusion, they have been gov
erned exclusively by the desire to select
that plan which offered the greatest
space of floor room for the most reason
able amount of money, and so arranged
as to afford the greatest convenience to
the exhibitors, as well as to the visiting
public, all being done with due regard
to the beauty of the design. We have
treated all of the plans, ten in number,
by these essential and fundamental con
siderations, viz: sufficiency of space,
cos', convenience and beauty of design,
deeming that the plan which approached
the nearest to the essential prerequisites
would be the best suited to the wishes
and purposes of the board.
The committee reported the following
awards:
Speaking ot alcoholic conviviality, I
met a man of national distinction—one
whose name, if I gave it, would compel
the reader to employ all his faith in my
veracity if he desired to believe me—in
upper Broadway, at 4 o’clock a. m.
staggeringly drunk. His dress was dis
ordered and his step so uncertain that I
thought he would fall; but when I caught
him by the arm to steady him, he drew
himself away with so much energetic
dignity as to nearly throw him into the
gutter, pulled his hat down over his face,
with a desire to avoid recognition that
proved his retention of a little presence
of mind, and made his way into a bath
ing establishment in Twenty-third street
What ho wanted was a Turkish bath, to
sober and refresh him into daylight re
spectability of aspect. This practice has
become so common that several of the
bath-houses in fashionable parts of the
city are kept open all night. Half an
hour of roasting, followed by a shower
of cold water and a hard rubbing, turns
the dazed and rumpled roysterer of a
night into presentability for the day.
“ Whisky,” said a considerable of a
politician the other night, as he held up
a glass of it in the Fifth Avenue Hotel
barroom, “ is the typical American bev
erage. It is a kind of leveler that is
characteristic of our glorious country
Take a view of this bar and tell me if I
am not right. At one end is a United
States Senotor, with whisky in his tum
bler, and here back of us stands a hack
driver, whose glass has been filled from
the same bottle. Is there any where else
than a bar or anything else than whisky
that puts all men more on a level ?”
I am afraid that he told the truth. In
that same barroom was the son of a
millionaire, a young fellow whose brain
was naturally good enough to enable
him, if he had so chosen, to take full
advantage of his circumstances of wealth,
but whisky had brought him down to
equality, so far as worth was concerned,
with the gambler with whom he was
dealing. Yes, whisky is the great
American leveler.—New York Corres
pondent New Orleans Times.
Sun and Moon.
BY MBS. NORA J. HUSSEY.
From the counsels of the Eternal there
proceeded the creating voice: “Two
lights shall shine in the firmament, as
kings of the earth, and rulers of the
rolling Time!” The voice spoke; it was
done. Up rose the Sun, the first Light.
As a bridegroom goes forth from his
chamber, as a hero rejoices in his victo
ry, so stood he there clothed with the
Godhead’s brilliancy. A crown of all
colors encircled his head, the earth ex
ulted, the plants emitted their fragrance,
the flowers adorned themselves.
Envious stood the other Light, and
saw she could not outshine the glorious
one.
“What!” said she, murmuring to
herself, “ shall there be tw r o sovereigns
upon one throne ? Why was I doomed
to be the second and not the first Light?”
And immediately her beautiful radiance,
overcome by her deep grief, vanished,
and became the vast army of the stars.
Pale as one who is dead, she stood,
disgraced before all the heavenly host,
and cried: “Have mercy, Father of
Spirits, have mercy!”
And the Spirit of God stood before the
darkened One and spoke to her the holy
words of Fate: “Because thou hast en
vied the Sun his brightness, unhappy
One, therefore shalt thou in future shine
only by his light; and when the Earth
marcheth before thee thou shalt stand
half or entirely obscured, as now. Still,
child of error, mourn not. The All-mer
ciful hath pardoned thee; and hath
transformed thee for thy good. 1 Go,’
saith He, ‘ speak words of comfort to
the penitent. Let her be the Queen of
Lights. The tears of her penitence
shall become a balm, refreshing the lan
guishing, and giving new life to those
whom the Sun hath overpowered.”
Reassured with hope, Luna turned
around, and behold, there encircled her
that brightness in which she yet shines
She entered upon that quiet course which
she still pursues,—the Queen of the
night, the conductress of the stars.
Lamenting her error, sympathizing
with every tear, she seeks whom she
may refresh, she seeks whom she may
console.—From the German of Herder.
The New People.
I know that you Americans have had
sympathy with France ever since the
hand of LaFayette grasped in the hour
of danger the hand of Washington. But
there is yet to come a new people, from
the vast continents of Australia and New
Zealand, from Japan and China, who
shall inaugurate a new era. These shall
bring about the glorious prophesy of the
Apostle. Earth’s scattered and divided
races shall be drawn together by a divine
cord of union, acknowledging the one
divine Redeemer whose precious blood
was shed to redeem them all, and bound
to one another as the children of the one
universal Father.—Pere Hyacintlie’s Per
oration.
The Electrican says that incandescent
lamps were used forty years ago to illu
minate mines. Carbon in a vacuum was
used in the lamps, but the vacuum was
not so high as that at present used, be
cause the apparatus was not so perfect.
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Calisthenics maybe very genteel, and
romping very ungenteel; but one is the
shadow the other the substance, of
healthful exercise.
A change of air is less valuable than
a change of scene. The air is changed
every time the wind is changed.
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Blessed be the man who invented sleep
but thrice blessed the man who will in
vent a cure for thinking.
Mould and decaying vegetables in a
cellar weave shrouds for the upper cham
bers.
RODGERS & ADAMS,
Wholesale Dealers In
mum FUR SHIM,
Provisions, Tobacco, Bagging, Ties, Etc,
120 Third and 72 Poplar Streets,
Macon, Georgia.
We sell goods in our line cheap. Send us your
orders ana we guarantee satisfaction.
IMP* Consignments of Country Produce solic-
ItetL Mention this paper.
Galvanized iron pails for drinking wa
ter should not be used. The zinc coat
ing is readily acted upon by water, form
ing a poisonous oxide of zinc.
What Ought to be Done In Hard
Times.
In “hard times” people of small
means ought to economize and make
their incomes, from earnings or other
sources, go as far as possible; and ought
to provide also, against emergencies that
are likely to arise. One way of making
the dollars and dimes most efficient is to
pay cash for all supplies and by so doing
secure the lowest prices. “Getting
trusted ” for things is a most expensive
and thriftless habit. The man who buys
on tick ” pays high prices, in the very
nature of the case, while he who pays
cash, on the spot, is regarded as a valu
able customer, to whom it is wise and
profitable to give the lowest rates.
But there is a class of people who do
not need to economize in “ hard timeB,”
and these are those who have well as
sured incomes, unaffected by commercial
pressure or distress, or who have an
abundance of money in the aggregate
and can spend freely,without imperilling
their future prospects. These persons
can do much to relieve local distress in
hard times” by making improvements
on their houses or grounds, or buying
commodities of which they can make
good use.—Springfield {Ohio) Republic
—
The Agricultural Society of Sumter
county, Ga., have elected *J. H. Black
President, S. S. Bird and W. A. Wilson
Vice-Presidents, and M. B. Council Sec
retary. The following have been elected
Delegates to the State Agricultural Con
vention: W. J. Barlow, J. R. Gatewood,
W. T. Toole, W. A. Wilson, J. L. Wil
kinson, J. A. Wilson, S. 8. Bird.
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Dirt, debauchery, disease and death
are successive links in the same chain.
TO AGENTS
And Wide-awake People Generally!
Every man, woman and child can
make an independent fortune by
handling our 5-cent music.
If you offer a person a dollar article for five
cents, ordinarily lie or she will Jump at it. When
you are enabled to offer over 500 DIFFERENT
ARTICLES (heretoforecosting certainly not less
than 30c. each) at this price, why the chances
are ten to one of your making a customer.
We do not claim our Music as a Novelty in any
way excepting in Price. WE DO CLAIM that if
you keep a store, be your business dry goods,
hats, groceries, drugs, stationery, cigars, or what
not, and put up a sign and show a few samples
of OFR FIVE CENT MUSIC, you will
be able to sell hundreds and thousands of copies,
and make a PROFIT OF OVER ONE HUNDRED
PER CENT.
One of our canvassers, some months since
struck a cigar store and asked the proprietor-ff
he’d care to sell music. The man laughed at the
Idea. Our representative was not to he daunted.
On his own responsibility he left 100 different
pieces on the nhow-case, saying, "Put up tills
o-cent sign and I’ll leave these here; if you don t
sell them I’ll call for them again, and you need
not pay me unless tlio music is sold." The pro
prietor good humoredly assented. TTulf a dozen
men came and went without looking at the goods.
One loitered around, noticed the sign, looked
at the Music and was DUMB FOUNDED. He at
once bought six pieces. Another saw the sign,
could hardly belleve-his senses, and bought ten
pieces, and thus In a little while the entire stock
was gone. The cigar dealer went into the music
business, and now tills cigar dealer sells our
5-cent music and his cigars, and it is extremely
E robable he will at some time only smoke cigars.
ut sell music. Similar cases might be repeated
did space permit, sufllceitto say: If you want
to make money, no matter what your business
whether you have any or not! go into selling °’ lr
5-cent music and grow rich. " Nothing in the
world sells so quick as what seems cheap,’’ and
although you make over one hundred percent
profit, you will be able to build up a respectable
custom by getting ahead of your competitors
and selling our music on the strength of its
being so cheap.
Agents wanted in every- town, village and ham
let.
Send six cents for sample copy and catalogue,
or fl.OO for twenty different pieces, or 43.50 for
100 copies, assorted.
I.anyrtry Waltz, by Operti. The m<}>-
beautiful waltz lately published, with an ele
gant likeness of this bcautv. Sent postpaid for
six cents, with catalogue of 5-cent music.
Weare also Hole Proprietors of thcSIEVF.B
TONE PIANOS and ORGANS,which
are the finest instruments manufactured, an”
which we are selling at wholesale prices to m-
troduce. IVrite for prices and catalogues
Address JAS. H. THOMAS.
CatsklU, N. Y., U. 8. A
Mention this paper.