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4 ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 38 YEARS OLD. Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The KNUUIllRIi-SUN U i.suail every day, ex •ept Monday. The Weekly In insuod on Monday. The Doily (Including Sunday) is delivered by •arrlers in the city or mailed, postage free, to sub aorlbero for ISr. per month, $2.00 for three ■iontha, $4.00 for six months, or $i,00 a year. The Sunday is delivered by carrier boys In the •tty or mailed to subscribers, postage free, at 9l.M a year. The Weekly is Issued on Monday, and is mailed subscribers, postage free, at $1.10 a yeur. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Daily at (1 per square of 10 lines or less for the ■rat insertion, and SO cents for each subsequent insertion, and for the Weekly at (1 for each in sertion. All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of corporations, societies •r individuals will be charged as advertisements. Special contracts made for advertising by the pear. Obituaries will be charged for at customary rates. None but solid metal cuts used. All communications should be addressed to the ■nqurann-SuH. The Bulgarian crisis is now able to go alone. The market is unsteady when stocks take a drop. There are plays that set one’s teeth on cd c; but “7,o 7,o” don’t. The Iowa weather prophet may be a Foster Brother of Wiggins. It is a bad policy that runs out just when the owner wants to use it to bor- row|insurance money on. Bad weather can keep people away from an evening prayer meeting; but it rarely gets the best of a circus. Bi.aink announces that he is going out of polities. That means that he will run again for president and go out that way. The Bartholdi goddess of liberty, witii ice on her head in the morning, after being out all night, is not a pleasing spectacle. Brut Haute, the story writer, has the dead wood on the newspaper syndicates thut have commenced the publication of “The Great Dcadwood Mystery.” The majority of Florida wants a new constitution. Some better weather is also needed there. Northern visitors in vited to the orange groves are not en tranced witii the ice. A country editor lias suggested that the lottery company break up the su -'erati- tion about (lie number thirteen by let ting that number win a capital prize. He lias bought his ticket. Thkrr is on exhibition at Faranta’s theatre a mystery called “Thu Vnubliing Lady." This, however, is not the van ishing lady of society who rustics lip stairs and sends down word that she is not at home when you call. The “Grout Russian Museum Com pany,” at Nashville, announces “Jo-Jo, the dog-faced Russian boy ; Prof. Wni, Adams, the great mesmerist; Ali Pasha, the transparent Turk, and other first- class attractions.” It. must he a very thin ehow, especially the transparent Turk. Tiik holders of the boxes in the Metro politan Opera House in New York this season represent $71)0,500,001). They could better understand and appreciate the shows given by Ned Hurrigan and Tony Pastor. Wealth goes to the opera because it is fashionable; but culture and retim'd natures are needed to enjoy it. Jol unm.ism Inis many disadvantages in the west. The editor of the Aurora (111.) Blade says pathetically : “People about the town were more or less interested in our house, bccauso the idea of an edi tor nutting up a ranch was so novel. Wo have answered the inquiry,‘How is that house of y urs gt tting along ?’ more than 100U times in the last twelve months. And die question,‘Have you moved yet?’ has been tired at us move than 500 times during the last fortnight. We have an swered these questions without once showing u grain of irritation, but tfie other day Ike Phillips said Bomethieg that made us mud. ‘Are you moved yet?’ asked Phillips. ‘Began this morn ing. We carried a saltcellar and a chair and coaxed the dog over,’ we ejaculated in delight. ‘Is that so?’ said Ike in a tone of congratulation. ‘1 am glad to hear that you are so near through with the job.’ ” DEATH OK WALES IVYNTOX. Mr. Wales Wynton, of the Birmingham Chronicle, died yesterday of congestion of the stomach. lie was formerly Macon correspondent of the Atlanta Constitu tion, and was a young man of great en ergy and considerable talent. He hud many friends in Georgia who will regret to hear of his death. He left Macon un der a cloud, having been charged with complicity in the scandals published concerning that city in the Cincinnati Enquirer. But ho denied the charges, and they were never proven. He had many generous traits of character, and for their sake it is well to mantle his faults with that oblivion which is alike the right and the heritage of all the dead. DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY ’MORNING, NOVEMBER 21. 1886. NKCKKf KOliROW* They suffer most who suffer alone. Kadi heart knows and hides iN own bit terness. There arc people who bruit I heir troubles about, who hawk them as v.sies in exchange for sympathy. But l hesc arc not the people who need sym pathy most; these art. not the ones who mourn as those without hope. The real ■mlforers are those of us who wrestle all the night long with our griefs like Jacob did with the grappling angel,and who hide them away behind a smile when day light comes, as a dove folds its wings to conceal the arrow that has pierced Up vitals. The finest acting in the world is never seen on the stage. The real trage dians and dramatists go in and out of the r. arts of trade and the meeting places of society. They are men and women who talk and laugli and live like other people, while deep down in their bosom a tragedy goes on with no audience but the eye of God —a tragedy in which the fanged worms of an irremediable grief are gnawing and swallowing the core of a human heart. Some times when we hear ripples of tinkling laughter, how little we suspect that instead of bubbling up, it is pumped up from the hollow depths of a soul that has shaken hands with happiness, and bid hope an everlasting farewell. Home- times when we are tickled with the sound of the merriest songs, how little we dream that the heart of the singer is breaking. If every heart that breaks could be heard as a noise, the din of the explosions would make the world an uninhabitable pandemonium; and if all the hot tears that fall unseen upon pillows in the si lent watches of the night, could be turned into one river’s channel they would desolate the land with a flood. After all, it is strange that man ever laughs. Every step lie takes is toward hia own grave. Man is a creature that comes to us labeled “from the indefinite past to the indefinite future." Time, the tomb-builder, is his only friend, since he unlocks the only gate through which man may flee from his hounding troubles. Life opens like a morning in May, but its close is a brown and murky autumn, filled with biting winds and barren trees, and across the gloom of its shaded scenery, all silently they pass before us, faces we shall see no more. Life is a battle at beHt. In marching through it we have to face tempests oftener tlvan we find flowers. Those who die young are wrongly reckoned unfortunate. They only reach home ahead of the rest of us, and get in sooner out of the storm. Secret sorrows increase with the years. “The world lias less of brightness, And the earth a ghastlier whiteness Evory year." And the mythical old man was more of a philosopher than a poet when he said: “I lmvo seen yon wintry sun Twice forty times return; And every time but added proof That man was made to mourn.” The shadowy night, which comes so regularly to swathe our baby planet in blackness, is only n girdle of atmospheric crape which nature ties about a congre gated world of mourners, Nobody but an inspired writer could ever have said, "Much heart knoweth its own bitterness.” That one little sen tence stands in the place of the ten thousand volumes it would require to de scribe the degrees and kinds of bitterness of which tlie human heart is suscepti ble. It may be the bitterness of a re pentance that came too late; it may be the bitterness that finally, crystalizes over the soft but rayless sad ness of an unrequited love; it may be the bitterness thut hangs about the haunting memory of a near oneand adearone,whom we crushed with coldness, and learned too late that 'we never prise the music till the sweet voiced bird bus flown." But whatever the specific cause may be, the bitterness is there, only to go out with the candle of life. God help the people who have a secret sorrow. Ttie world can’t do it. But even the bearers of bitterness in the heart, even the victims of a secret sorrow, may have one dream of sweet ness that will come to pass by and by. Some day under the sound of a song that no man can sing, and in the pres ence of a multitude that no man can number, and in front of a throne that stands in the midst of a sea of glass, the angels will unbuckle every burden from the chafed and bending shoulders of those who have accepted the invita tion, “Come unto Me,” and who have found the Tromiser of “I will give you rest.” Then the repentance that came too late will he turned into the “repent ance that necdetli not to be repented of;” the bitterness that hangs about the memory of those we wronged and crush ed will be blotted out by their presence and forgiveness; and those upon whom our love was wasted here may lofe us there with a love that is undefiled by flesh. Secret sorrows may gnaw, but they cannot annihilate. And they will be cast out like unclean spirits when we stand in the presence of Him whose shad ow is brighter than focalized suns, and of whom the prophet said, “lie shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." PURCHASING AND PAYING. It would be well if society dispensed her frowns and her censures with some what more of judgment and discrimina tion tlvan she is wont to do. In the mat ter of honesty, for instance, she wakes up suddenly to hear of some serious breach of trust, or uulooked for defalcation, and is as indignant and condemnatory as the occasion demands; but for the many lesser delinquencies that have gone be fore, and led up to the greater, society has only an indulgent smile. In the mat ter of debt, especially, there is quite too loose a rein given, and too low a standard held up. Because it is sometimes neces sary to contract debts, the limits of that necessity are continually overstepped, and society takas no note of the offense. Both men and women frequently pur chase what they have no present means nor reasonable prospect of paying for, some trusting to future good fortune to enable them to discharge the obligation, and some (possibly not many) with no intention or expectation of paying at all. Of course, the latter, judged by their mo tives, are far more censurable than the former, and society would not openly Uphold them were their true character open to its gaze. But the former, who comprise a very large class, are seldom censured by any one, and arc received into every circle without a shadow of dis approval. Yet if we examine their prin ciple of action we shall find that it un dermines the foundation alike of social welfare and of honorable char acter. Whoever trusts these delin quents, be be tradesman, physician, land lord or laborer, is liable not only to great annoyance, but often to be render ed unable to pay his own just debts as they come due; and thus a whole train of similar defaults follow, involving much suffering, much injustice, much injury to business, and much temptation to still grosser forms of delinquency. In order to provide for these probable losses it is found necessary to charge higher prices for goods and for services, thus inflicting a tax upon every customer to pay for the dishonesty ofsoine. Both in this, and in more indirect ways, honest people are forced to pay the debts of the delinquent; and, though they may not be conscious of it, they are actually poorer for every act of bad faith and for every unpaid debt in the community. As to the effect upon character of this habit of purchasing without paying, it is wholly disastrous. The very first neces sities of character are uprightness and integrity. Whatever tends to weaken these debases and corrupts character. He who intends, if possible, to cheat another out of his just dues has, of course, forfeited all claim to respect, and accepts the situation, but the many more who hope to pay their debts, without seeing any present prospect of doing so, and yet continue to incur them, are strangely oblivious to the fact that they, too, are on the downward road that leads t the destruction of botli character and reputation. It is the primary lesson of dishonesty—the beginning of a system of self-training in every kind of faithless ness. Neither can they confine this in jury to their own moral character; their influence goes far and wide to spread the evil, and no one can estimate how much of the fraud, knavery and guilty practices of the world owe their origin to this first fatal step. The liberty and independence of the individual, which is tlie pride of our country, arc in evitably crashed by this practice. No one can hold up his head with a joyous sense of freedom while lie has debts that he cannot pay, aud liabilities that he cannot meet. If the “borrower is ser vant to the lender,” much more is the d 'htor servant to the creditor. There is no slavery more abject, no bonds more calling than those which debt gradually winds around its unconscious victim. If such are the results of tlie habit of purchasing without paying, is it not time that social opinion condemned it? If society placed under ban people who were tints culpable, if it stamped such conduct with disapproval and disgrace, it. would do much toward raising tlie in tegrity of tlie nation to a higher standard ami preventing those grosser forma of fraud that are so greatly lamented among us. Let it be considered alike dishonest and disgraceful to enjoy a single luxury at the expense of justice, to contract un necessary debt without tlie moans of dis charging it. Let our friendly cordiality extend to the man who chooses to eat plain food, to wear a coarse garb, and to live in an humble homo that are truly his own, because honestly paid for, rather than to liini who lives softly and deli cately and is surrounded by beauty and art, while be postpones his payments, eludes bis debts aud lives a servile de pendent on the charity or indulgence or patience of his creditors. FOR SALE. A substantial Six-Room Residence, centrally located; qunrter-acie lot; convenient to business, churches, schools and street railroad. Owner removing from tlie city, and will sell cheap for cash, or on time. Temperance Hall. The Wilkersou Residence. The Harrison place, Beallwood. Store No. 1*13 Broad Street. Quarter-Acre Lot north Second Avenue, FOB ZRzZEZrsTT. Rooms over Singer Machine Office. Six-Room Dwelling, Rose Hill. Col. Holt’s Store and Dwelling, near Swift’s Mill. L. H. CHAPPELL, Broktr, Rial Ltalc and Insurance Agent, dtr 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. Sec’y. mb28aelj Must Be Sold. Tlie Allen Bios’ Stock Is SI Large, AND MUST BE CONVERTED INTO CASH AT ONCE! We intend making such prices that buyers will see at once the advantage of making their purchases of us while this bargain sale continues. Remember we have added sev eral thousand dollars’ worth of new goods to this stock, and all to be included in this bargain sale. Dress Goods, Velvets, Dress Goods. Velvets, Dress Goods, Velvets. Dress Goods, Velvets. Dress Goods, Velvets. Dress Goods, Velvets. Dress Goods. Velvets. Domestics, Domestics, Domestics, Domestics, 1888 Corsets at Prices Flannels, Table Linens, Flannels, Table Linens. Flannels, Table Linens, Flannels, Table Linens. Flannels, Table Linens. Flannels, Table Linens. Flannels. Table Linens. Domestics, Domestics. Domestics, Domestics. no other houses can sell. Wraps! Wraps ! Wraps! Wraps! Wraps! We have the largest stock of these goods in the city, from the common up to the finest, and assure you if you will examine our stock and prices you will readily see we are offering them at 33d per cent less than can be bought elsewhere. The balance of our stock of Millinery, Feathers, Plumes and Ornaments will be closed out at any price. JAMES A. LEWIS, 1012 BROAD STREET, Two doors above Rankin House, - Columbus, Ga. N. B.—To any one wishing to engage in the Dry Goods business I will sell them the entire stock, fixtures, &c., on favorable terms; also rent them the Store, which is the best fitted for the business of anv in the citv. se&wtf At KIRVEN’S FRESH ARRIVALS. The Luca Bustle, the latest and best. Ladies’ and Children’s Jersey Jackets. Call for our Chil dren's Norfolk Jerseys. The best all-wool Five Dollar Newmarket in the city. The. best. Five Dollar all - wool Blankets in Columbus. Choice stock Hamburg Edgings and Insertions, white, red and blue. They are scarce and hard to get. New stock of Knit Underwear. New stock of Jewelry. New stock of Ladies' Trunks. Call for our Ladies’ French Ribbed Hose, unbleached, at 25c; they are well worth 40c. New stock Embroidered Flannels. New stock Plaid Nainsooks for Aprons at 10c and 121c. Our Dress Goods in wool, also silk fabrics, is being con stantly replenished and added to. ■ Our five-buiton Kid Gloves at 50 cents are not trash, but fresh goods. A small lot Children s Wraps left over from our last win ter stock will be sold at a sacrifice J. A. KIRVEN & CO. Rankin House Stable, In Rear of Rankin House, on First Avenue. Sale, Feed and Livery Stables, New Turnouts; Showy, Gentle Horses, Qareful Drivers. WAGON AND CARRIAGE REPAIR SHOP. I am still running my Shop on Wynn’s Hill, and will continue to do all kinds of Carriage and Wagon Work on short notice. WILLIAM M. AM.OS. nov21tf Lucky Chances Come to those who are prepared. This fen (to many so disastrous) has been more than favora ble to Urge dealers with ready cash, who sell at ruling prices. Those who corry stock from year to yeur, waiting for the better time that never comes, fail to Mnderstand why they are dis tanced by competitors who seli each season’s stock the season bought. To no department do these remarks apply with more force than to BLANKETS! Our resident New York buyer was fortunate in securing a manufacturer’s slock, of which ha sent us a part, and we offer for the week: 100 Pairs 10 4 While Blankets at $1.00. 100 Pairs 10-4 White Blankets at $3.00. 75 Pairs 10-4 White Blankets (strictly all wool) $3.75. 75 Pairs 11-4 White Blankets at $4.50. 75 Pairs 10-4 White Blankets at $4.75. 50 Pairs 11-4 White Blankets at $5.00. 60 Pairs 10-4 White Blankets at $6.00. 25 Pairs 12-4 White Blankets at $9.50. 50 Pairs 10-4 Red Blankets at $4.75, strictly all. wool. BED COMFORTS, 25 Bales of Bed Comforts, ranging in price from 65c to $3 50. SPECIAL: We have just opened three cases of Unbleached Canton Flannel, which we offer at 7c per yard. Come and see tor yourself whether it does not beat any 10c Flannel to be found in the city. Sternberg&LoGwenherz LEADERS OF Low Prices. A SOUND INVESTMENT, RAILROAD 1st Mortgage Extension 1 Pt Ct Bonds, due 1908 Total Issue Only $5,000 Per Mile. Interest Payable in JANUARY AND JULT IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Or at the Company’s Office, Americas, Ga. Having been appointed finantial agent for the sale of the above bonds, I am now offering a limited amount of them at par and accrued in terest, and commend them to any one desiring a safe and urofitable investment. Full information will be furnished on applica- Sfoci' and Bond Broker, Co lumbus, Gar so wed fri tt N.WJVYER ft SON ADVERTISING AGENTS nfSSo PHILADELPHIA Cor. Chestnut and Eighth Sts. Receive Advertisements for this Paper. 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