The Opelousas courier., 1902-02-08
The Sunny South.

We publish elsewhere to-day the an
nouncement Of the Sunny South, the
great weekly literary periodical OF the
Southern States. Published in Atlanta,
Georgia, in the heart of the great South,
it bears upon it the impress of its birth
place and environment. For moro than
twenty-five years the Sunny South has
been Il recognized factor in the field OF
Southern literature. 1t was established
! more than q quarter OF q century ago as
a Southern story paper and was publish
ed for u long time as a weekly ana then
as Il monthly.
About one year ago the paper passed
under new management,and III less than
q year it has jumped from a circulation
1 of 12, 900 TO nearly $4,000. The first thing
tho new management did was to make it
a weekly publication and to reduce the
| price to fifty cents per year-less than
| one cent an issue-and then infuse into
I it's columns all the enterprise and liter
airy ability that money could commaSTS
\ or determination secure. In less than d
| year this remarkable Southern literary
| paper has become national in character
! and it now has about as many subscrlb-
l ers north OF Mason aud DixOn's line rs
1 it has in the South. It's columns abound
| in the best current literature of charac
] t~eristic Southern flavor, and no literary
1 periodical published anywhere IN the
4 country has succeeded in bringing to-
4 gether as many Southern writers of note
/ as has been done by the Sunny South.
! A striking feature OF the Sunny
| South's development is it. introduction
! during the past year OF many new story
l writers who will be heard from in the
I wider field of the worlds literature. In
A ,lp,not n,aryS Con Stof I'm naM i1tnraEv
| talent has been developed to such al ex-
! tent as to put the whole country to talk
! ing about the Sunny South. A few
months ago the Sunny South offered
| very handsome prizes for IA series of the
| best short stories by Southern writer's,
I and more than five hundred responses
| were received. Some Of the stories then
| published i'll the Sunny South have been
| reproduced the world over. Others are
! now being published by it from week to
| week.
The fact that the price of this SPLEEN
! did weekly literary periodical Is only
| fifty teift5 Il year las had a wonderful
| effect in giving it an extensive field for
! the development OF its plans and pur-
| poses. Perhaps no literary periodical
| ever established has made such rapid
| strides HIS the Sunny South in less than
a year.
Mrs. Mary E. Bryan, whose name has
I long been associated with the Sunny
| South, has been engaged to take full
charge of its Woman's Department.
| Her services will appeal especially to
as the striking charm of her w per-
sonality pervades every column Of her
most interesting department.
| The HlstIp1tIyA cha raRfpFiGf1PS of ttR
| Southern authors have always been Il
great charm TO their readers. The lib
eral use of matter by the leading maya
zines of the United States shows that
! high regard prevalent for Southernslit-
erary talent. The quaint stories of Joel
| Chandler Harris IN FOLKLORE of the
| Southern plantations, and the stories
by him and by Thomas Nelson Page,
Will N. Harden, Harry Stillwell Ed
wards and Others of those interesting
| phases of human character SO plentiful
in the South, are read with consuming
interest and are seized upon by pub
fishers with great avidity.
As will also be observed from the an
nOnncement published elsewhere. the
Atlanta Weekly Constitution is offered
in connection with the Sunny South at
one dollar and twenty-five cents q year
| kplsSOJ lDI tBO bWD pdpOkb. ii6 lSAlsti IA
ably low clubbing offer is made to those
who order both papers at the sans
| time. The two papers are entirely diff
| ferent in purpose, one being a news
/ paper and tho other a literary periodi-
| cal; each supplements the other, and the
two, when taken together, furnish an
invaluable combination to every fire.
| side. There is only one thing left TO
| make this combination perfect, and
| that is your home county paper, No
| fireslde can afford to be without that.
The Atlanta Constitution is too famil-
| lar to newspaper readers to make any
| comment concerning it necessary. 1t is
| we'll and widely known and has the
largest circulation of any weekly ews
| paper published on tue western hemis-
| phere, going weekly into more than
| 10000 homes. 1t is the great home
newspaper of a majority OF Southern
| readers and covers the world in it's
comprehensive and we'll edited news
| columns. It 10 to the world OF news
| what the Sunny South is to Southern
| literaturs-the one is without a superior
as a great news-gatlerer and the other
is q conspicuous leader in the field of
| fiction, and descriptive writing
| of general interest. The two papers
make an ideal combination for every
country home. Sample copies of either
or both will be furnished free upon ap-
| plication addressed to either at Atlanta,
| Georgia.
One dollar and twenty-five cents for
warded to either of the two papers will
secure both for one year: We take
pleasure in inviting the attention of our
readers to this very attractive combina-
ton.
collie or cholera morbus when your
physician is away from home and the
| drug stores are closed? After one such