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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER, 12, 1886. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The ENQUIRER-SUN in Issued over.) liny, c* •ept Monday. The Weekly is ianncd on Monday. The Daily (inoludir s Sunday) in delivered by carriers in the city or mailed, postage free, to snh- BCriherh fbr 75c. per tuonlh, S.IHI for three raonthR, $4.00 Ibr six months, or $7.00 a year. The Hundny Is delivered by carrier boys in the city or mailed to subscribers, postage free, at Bl.00 a year. The Weekly is issued on Monday, and in mailed to subscribers, postage free, at 81.10 a year. Transienf advertisements will he taken for the Daily at $1 per square of 10 lines or Ichh for the first Insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequent Insertion, and for the Weekly at fl for each in sertion. j All communications intended to promote the .private ends or interests of corporations, societies or individuals will be charged as advertisements. Special contracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will bo charged for at customary sates. None but solid metal cuts used. All communications should be addressed to the Knquireii-Hun. ‘‘The simultaneous dismissal of thirty- •fix employes” in the San Francisco mint in one day is a shock which the repub lican press of that city affects to lie un able to account for. But there is no dif ficulty about it. It is the rumbling echo of the still greater shock of November 4, 1881, which rattled down the republican crockery from the shelf and forced it to break up white house keeping. Atvoriiiso to a Middleton special the Connecticut sea serpent* gave rii early morning performance a day or two since in the Connecticut river, oil' Cromwell. According to the testimony of those wlto saw it, his snakelets was over one hun dred feet in length, and when first seen twenty feet of its enormous body were out of water. It struck in its journey a bout, containing three men, capsizing the boat and throwing the men into the water. The serpent then sank gracefully beneath the surfuce. Further details are lacking. It is not known whether or not any of the occupants were injured or drowned. Tllti.AUTUMN THAIIK. From reports which may lie consid ered strictly reliable, the week which lias just passed lias been the busiest that has been known in New York city for six years in several large brunches of trade. How much of tlie increased activity is «lue to the demand occasioned by the forced economies of a comparatively long period remains to bo seen. Tito strikes have doubtless had some influence by suspending or stopping supplies in cer tain manufactures. Tlie brisker movement in business is snore noticeable in tlie dry goods, cloth ing and furniture trades. This sustains tlie theory that people are “stocking up” an what they use in their household. The dry goods trade is much improved in comparison with a year ago. Mer- nihimtH from the west and south tire re ported ns buying very freely, and it is note worthy that tlie most marked im provement is in tlie sale of better goods. This is true also of the crockery, boot and shoe and ready-made clothing trades. In this there U an indication of a more permanent restoration of commercial health. The most extensive buyers of fine goods appear to come from the south and the southwest, where the crops have been good and valuable. It is doubted whether the closeTof the season will find the we.-t as well supplied as the •south in line goods. The clothing merchants estimate that this con tinued increase of their trade,as compared with tlie same season of 1885, is 33;> per c 'tit. in tlie south;!?") per cent, in tlie west, and 20 per cent, in the east, Tlie reports of a decided bettering in business come from those who deal in dry goods, ready made clothing, leather, crockery and glassware, hardware, furniture, silks, millinery, lints and caps, groceries, bread- •stutfs ami provisions, watches, pianos and rubber goods. In almost every instance the south is reported as increasing its purchases in the greatest amount. Col lections are said to be good, and mer chants expect that much more money will find its way to New York than lias been received for a number of years be fore. New York is the great trade centre of tlie American continent, and it is in- <1, ,<i encouraging to note that the out look is so hopeful. These hopeful signs of tlie times are as visible in Columbus ns they are in New York. There was never a time when our manufacturing in stitutions laid more orders ahead. One of the leading cotton manufacturers said to us yesterday that he had no goods in his warehouse, and had orders that it would take hint months to fill. Tlie merchants are busy, and tradeisopen- ing up equally as well if not better than was anticipated. There are no signs of such a “boom” ns the country had in 1880, although in some branches of business exchanges equal in volume those of that famous year. There seems, however, to be a much more health fill activity, and there is a sounder basis for transactions. There is an indisposition manifested by both tlie southern and western merchants to spec ulate, and there is very little buying on margin. If the season holds out as well as it begins, there will lie no reason to complain of the trade-feature of 1886-7. That it will, is indicated not only by the facta to which wo have referred, liiit by the iron and steel manufactures which are getting into a very satisfactory condi tion. “IS LIFE WORTH 1,1 VINO!” A Frenchman lias written a book en titled “Is Life Worth Living?” This man may not ho cither a utopian or a itossi- mist. And the startling hook, in spite of its title, may not embody the winning ar guments of one who lias failed in life. It may not, and ii need not, contain a single sentence that could be by perversion con strued into an apology for suicide. How ever much it may shock progressive opti mists to hear it, it may as well bo ad mitted, not for argument but for con- Heifcnce’s sake, that this book is treating a live issue. There are many men and women who are in no great trouble either of mind, body or estate, who ask them selves every day, almost without giving form to tlie question mentally, “ Is life worth living?” And tiiere is a large class whoso census would surprise us if it could betaken, who positively be lieve that tlie worst calamity that ever befalls a man is to bo born, and that tlie only real good luck lie ever encounters is to die. A king in tlie Orient who laid a pros perous reign of forty years kept a diary. At the end of the forty years he discov ered that lie had spent fourteen happy days. When this fact was made public it was tlie subject of much wonder and comment. Yet tiiere is little doubt that thousands of his subjects, Ibettor situated for enjoyment than the king even, had enjoyed less happiness in tlie same period. Col.Gardner of the British army during the last century was deemed the happiest man in tlie realm, lie possessed every grace of person and mind. Ho had facilities for pleasure such as few men have enjoyed since the days when—as tradition tells us—Solomon paved the streets of Jerusalem with silver. And yet he was often heard to wish that lie hud been created a dog instead of a man. These instances illustrate tlie patent trillli that the outside appearances of happiness cannot lie relied on. Tlie same two instances may be used to illustrate also that even when all the required • conditions of happiness are present, tlie individual surrounded by those conditions may lie acutely miserable. The conclusion is forced, then, that human happiness is an effect which docs not always follow its logical cause. All tite requirements, conditions and opportunities for happiness may lie present, and yetfor a reason unknown or for no reason at all, tlie man finds him self unable to employ them. Tims it follows like a syllogism that when the opportunities for happiness tire unfavor able, the absence of it is absolutely cer tain, and When they are favorable the chances of being happy are superfinely slim, in too many instances, alas! the proportion being ns fourteen days to forty years. Tlie pursuit of happiness is the busi ness of life, no matter what form it takes. If one mail is given wholly to frivolity and another wholly to the engrossing cares of business, it is because each con ceives that in his particular course tlie greatest happiness lies. If one man is moral and another dissolute, it is because cacli seeks happiness,-whether present or future, in his line of conduct. But lump ing every class, industrious and idle, moral and dissipated, abluent and poor, into one common whole, the fact remains that existence is u grinding load .to the great majority, and like tlie irrepressible ghost, the question returns, “Is life worth living?” We sec many whose surroundings mutely tell us that they have nothing to | live for. Their past lias been "as a rag- I ing wave of the sea foaming out its own shame,” and their future bids fair to be "as a wandering star to whom is re served the blackness of darkness for ever." Those who cannot look back ward with pride, can scarcely look for- ! ward with hope. They have made ship- j wreck of life. Adversity is upon their habitation like a cold and settled rain, it may lie sorrow, it may be crime; it may lie both. But whatever it is, this world that burst upon them in early life as a blue-domed, flower-floored Eden, has blackened into a plague spot, a wilder ness and a sepulchre. To such as these life is not worth living. They live on from a sense of duty, or from tlie ani mal's instinctive dread of death. Blit there is another and larger class who are asking themselves the question, if life is worth living; and it is this class iu whom weariness of life constitutes an unsolved enigma. With them there is no apparent cause. They are people who have seen no trouble above the average, and with them the world is going well. They have their share of earth’s goods and their appurtenant blessings, and it seems that they ought to be happy. From this class, however, tlie ranks of suicide are largely recruited. With them the alloted years of life seem too long, and they tire of the journey before it is ended. They have lived until every ; pleasure palls upon the taste. Ambition? is dead and love has lost its delight. Like tlie children of Israel in tlie sun- bleaelied desert, “in tlie morning they say would God it were evening, and in | tlie evening they say would God it were morning.” Tlie very passage of time troubles them. Life lias left for them no new and fresh and sweet sensations. “The world has less of brightness. And the earth a ghastlier whiteness, Every year.” They are unwilling to die, but they wish they had never been born, thus regis tering their protest against the assertion that life is worth living. Tho two classes mentioned compre- I hend a very largo quota of tlie human race. It is only tlie unbalanced and tlie “extremists" among them who resort to suicide. The great throng plods on like pilgrims without a Mecca, disgusted with living and afraid to tlie. They have per ennial ennui. They have a weariness which rest will not refresh. This intan gible affliction is that which common parlance lias crystalized into tlie term “ills of life.” From them, ala"! who is free? Ill prescribing tor these ills of lilt- doctors have differed, und no man was wise enough to decide. What is the “ minimum bonutn?” The voices of all the generations, as they keep step in tlieir march down tho mouth of tlie tomb, have asked thits question, and the only answer tfifty gel is a mocking echo. Over this- question sages have bfeqome fools and oyacles dumb. Over its abysmal and unstarlit chasms philosophy itself has folded her licet wings in bafiied si lence. in every ago the epicure and tlie stoic have grown weary of life together, and their voices have chorused tlie cry, “ is tlieVc no balm in Gilead, is there no physician tiiere?” This is the ques tion of a nerve-racked race to-day. It is paramount in the valleys of the new world; it is para mount among tho rock-dwellers, where the Himalayas kiss tlie skies. And it is but another form of the question, “Is life worth living?” Now, last of all, tlie question comes upon us, is tiiere a remedy for the “ills oflife?” Is there a balm in Gilead? if life wortli living? It is worth living on one lone condition. It is worth living if its every pulse-beat is in harmony with laws that are higher than nature’s laws. It is worth living if it is patterned after the life of Him at whose feet inexorable Nature kneels like a courtier. A life like this never grows weary. There is no friction, for day by day the joints are oiled by an unseen hand, in a life like this growing old is not decaying, it is ripening for a better life; and tlie head that grows 'whiter with the years is but an almond tree that is blossoming for the garden of tlie Lord. It is a life like this that turns tlie sorrow of the living into subdued sweetness, and makes the cemeteries of tho dead magnetic to surviving friends, by arch ing every grave with a rain-bow of hope. As a broken machine can be best re paired by tlie mechanic who made it, so tlie broken and worn-out spirit must seek resuscitation from its Creator. Life is worth living if all who are bruised and wounded can find the Phy sician of whom Itaiah said: “He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquity; tlie chastise ment of our peace was upon Hint, and with his stripes we are healed.” THE PLEASURES OF CONTENTMENT. When one has learned to be content with his lot, or condition in life, lie hncj learned an important lesson. Tlie surg ing masses of humanity, like the restless waves of the sea, are ever in motion,’and contentment indeed appears to be an un attainable good. As perfection is the capstone in the arch of Christian graces, so contentment is the chief element in human happiness. Many persons, the world over, are miserable because they choose to make themselves so. They won’t accept the situation. The world does not run as they think it ought to run. They believe they could make a great many improvements if they had a. say so in the matter, and some are even impious enough to find fault, with the Creator because things are not ar ranged differently. And thus, from the cradle t6 tlie grave, life is a series of | vexations and disappointments, of rebel lions and defeats, and the end a failure, j St. Paul with all his vast research and j scholarship, aided by his deep inspira tional insight into the heart and nature of iiian, esteemed himself as happy in having learned the invaluable lesson of contentment. People with a contented disposition are not necessarily supposed to be divested of the usual wants and aspirations of humanity. They still have aims and find effort nec essary, but they are satisfied to move in the orbit of destiny. They recognize the wisdom and goodness of i Providence in choosing their places among men, and they endeavor to perform their alloted role with thankfulness and cheer fulness. Cheerfulness is the bright sun that gilds tlie present and future. It is the friend and companion of content ment, and when the two go hand in hand life becomes what it ought to be— a pleasure. Ambition is tlie greatest foe to human happiness. It ousted Satan from the ranks of the archangels anil it will expel the angel of peace from the human heart. Tiiere are many persons whose natures are always in revolt. They want higher positions, more money, bigger names and more high sounding reputations. They have but one talent, and they would like to have five, though they have not the gifts to use them. Having tlie wings of the goose they would soar as tlie eagle, or being in the valley they would prefer to rise to the top of tlie mountain. Tlie first great lesson people ought to learn is to find out the place to which nature and Providence lias assign ed them, and next to accept tlie situation and perform its functions gladly. When tlie toad essayed to swell to the propor tions of tlie ox tlie result was a direful collapse, and when men try to assume qualities and proportions above their gifts, their brains and tlieir energies, the result will be chagrin and failure. Re member that godliness with contentment is great gain. POPULAR ■ERKINE. The KxtjfiRER-SuN has made an ar rangement with one of the brightest and most, progressive physicians in the state to contribute regular a series of articles on different medical topics. These arti cles will appear regularly in our Sunday edition. Tlie first of these appeared last Sunday, entitled “Grape Cure,” and lias attracted favorable notice both here and elsewhere. The simple, clear and thorough style these articles are written in commend them to our readers. Re garding nothing is there >-o little cor rectly known as tlie ailments of tlie body and their treatment. We specially com mend the second in this series in to-day’s is-me, “ Wound Healing,” as fresh in thought ami instructive and quite enter taining. __________ tVoiiiiil lien II list. For the Enquirer-Run. 'I lie ideal way for any smooth, clean cut on any part of the body to heal, Is without the formation of even a drop of matter. Tills heal ing process ought not to occupy longer than eight days. This ideal is often seen; in fact, it should bo attained in every case except where the parts arc lacerated. Matter—that is, pus—is not necessary, as is popularly believed. Matter is simply the white blood cellsthat have migrated through the walls of the blood vessels, and in no way do they aid tho heullng process. Wounds heal, we do not euro them. The great object is to keep away all outside disturbances from a wound. The air contains living germs, micro scopical organisms that love to colonizo and live in wounds. Those are the disturbing elements that we must hold aloof front wounds, for they produce the pus, create fever, and retard healing. The various medicines that keep away and destroy these germs are all grouped under the head of germicides, parasiticides, antiseptics, or popu larly disinfectants. The most powerfhl anti septic is a drug that was used by our grand mothers for destroying bedbugs—corrosive sub limate. Scientists have only recently found this out. It is well enough to remember the teach ings of grandmothers in more ways than one. Carbolic acid and iodoform are the next most usefiil annihilates of germ liffe. Say we have before us a cut of the hand two inches long, with one or more arteries spout ing. What is to be done? Wash the wound out with one part of carbolic acid to twenty parts of water, tie every artery with fine cat-gut, unite the wound closely and sew together its edges with cat-gut, and lay on a dressing of gauze impregnated with either iodo form or corrosive sublimate. The only objection to iodoform is that its ordor does not agree with the standard established by the attar of roses. I believe, however, that iodoform is the best medi cine yet known to put on any kind of a wound, smooth, contused or lacerated. It removes all odor, kills germs, allays pain to a certain degree and protects the wound. Turpentine is a slight antiseptic, for better than witchhazel or any ex tract. No drug actually assists healing in a fresh cut, the best simply ward off the deleterious principles swarming in the air. Salves are not advisable in fresh wounds as they act as foreign bodies, irritating the exposed nerves. Here are the leading principles of wound healing; Clean hands, clean instruments for operating, stop all bleeding, unite the edges evenly, use antiseptic gauze of corrosive subli mate or iodoform. Cat-gut is preferable to silk for tying up arteries, as it is dissolved by the moisture in the body and irritates less. “They be the best chirurgeons which being learned incline to the ways of experience,, or be ing empirics incline to the methods of learning.” SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE. Thui'siday. September 16th. •Eh, IH«I I Hear Von!** Supported by their excellent Company, in the new Musical Comedy, "My Aunt Bridget!" By Scott Marble, Esq., author of “Over the Gar den Wall.” Constructed for laughing purposes only. THE GREATEST HIT OF ALL. ‘LET US BE CALM” General Admission 75 cents. Reserved seats at Chaffin's without extra charge. sepl2 4t L’Conte Pear Tlit Pride of lieontia! Tito Wonder of the Age! I T is the most profitable fruit that grows, yield ing from 600 to 1000 bushels to the acre. Now is the time to order trees lor fall planting. Order from the THOMASVILLE NURSERY. Win. Wol.DNDON. Proprietor Thouiamville Xurwery. Sweeping Reductions IN THE PRICES OF GOODS it BOUGHTON & CO'S, AYE WANT to entirely close out our stock oi Spring and Summer Goods, and we realize that we have but about four weeks to do it in. We had much rather sacrifice now than cam- cur goods over, consequently we offer our stock of Flowers, light colored Hats aud Bonnets and Summer Materials of all kinds for the remainder of the season at prices way below their actual value. We will sell what we have left of Trimmed Goods at 50 cents on the dollar or less. No rea sonable offer refused. Next season we do not want to be obliged to show any of this season’s goods. Now is surely the time to buy your Summer Hat. BOUGHTON & CO H ESTABLISHED 1866. C.CUNBY JORDAN Fire Insurance Agent Pioneer Building, Front Street. Telephone No. 104. REPRESENTING AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE CO., of Philadelphia Honestly paid every loss since 1810. NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE CO., of New York. Every policy issued under New York Safety Fund law. SUN FIRE OFFICE, of London. Established 1710. Always successful. Policies issued on all classes of insurable proporty. Representative Companies. Courteous Treatment. Fair Adjustments. Prompt Payments. sep!2 sc tu&th tf A share of your business solicited. JOHN DISBROW & CO., Sale, Feed and Livery Stables. New and Nobby Turnouts, Safe and Showy Horses, Careful and Experienced Drivers. FUNERALS personally conducted and properly attended to. The finest Hearses in the city. AFTER SEPTEMBER 1st, Horses boarded and carefully cared for at $16 per month. Ample accommodations for LIVE STOCK. Headquarters for dealers. E -TO- Stimulate Business! We are Offering Some Excellent Bargains. WE MEITTIOIT .A. FEW: Union Lawns at 3£c ; Choice Muslins at 7c; Figured Linen Lawns at cost. Egyptian Lace, worth 12£c, now 8c. Egyptian Lace, worth 20c, now 12ic. Unlaundried Shirts at 65c; Worth $1.00. Being overstocked in Table Linen, Towels and Napkins, we will sell at prices that will pay you to buy and lay aside until you shall need them. J. A. KIRVEN & CO. mum -_A_T Entrance through Hill Law’s Store. & Hill & Law’s FOR THE PAST WEEK we have beed getting in our Fall Stock. Our buyer, Mr. Law, has been in New York for some time, aud has made many beautiful selections in Dress Goods. We have given special attention to this department of our business, and we think we can show one of the most varied and best lines of Dress Gaods ever shown in this market. Hosiery! Hosiery! Hosiery! This department of our stock is now complete, aud we v ill show on our Bargain Counter Mon day morning, as a starter, 500 pairs of Misses' Full Regular Hose, worth all the way from 50c to $i 50 per pair, to be closed out at 30c per pair. We will also put on our Bargain Counter 500 pairs of the same goods in smaller sizes, to be closed out at 15c. 1 hese are great bargains, and we hope our friends will come early and secure them. CORSETS I CORSETS! OOIRSIETSI We carry an elegant line of these goods and can suit every one, both in quality and price. Our Juniata Corset for 30c is a beauty. Our Improved Corset at 50c is worth 75c Warner's Health, Her Majesty, Delta, and many other celebrated brands will be offered at very low prices. T3TJSTLES I BUSTLES I ZBTTSTITES ! Come and see our Bon Ton Bustle at 30c. Come and see our Caniport Bustles at 30c. Come and see our Princess of Wales Bustle at 75c. JERSEYS! JERSEYS! JERSEYS! JERSEYS! A beautiftil line of these goods have just been received, and parties desiring to purchase anything iu this line will save money by inspesting our stock. DOMESTICS. 1000 Yards 4-1 Bleaching to be closed out at 5c. 1000 Yards [of 4-4 Bleaching, worth; 10c, to be closed out at 8c; and as a leader we will offer 1000 yards 4-4 Sea Island, of a nice quality, at 6c. Bargains to be had in every department. Come and see us and save your money. HILL &c Xj-A.'W". R egular MEETING to-morrow (Monday) evening at 8 o’clock. Transient brethren in good standing are cordially invited to attend, J. F. WISE, N. G. F. W. LOUDENBER, Bec'y. mhMsely HomeSchool ATHENS. GEORGIA. Madame S. Sosnowbki, 1 Miss C. Sosnowbki, j Associate Principals. T HE Scholastic year re-opens on Wednesday, September 23d, 1886. Best educational ad vantages offered to young ladies. For similar of information apply to the above. jytdtespU