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DAILY ENQUIRER * SUN; COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1886. 'CcbuulmsCiLjuin'r^im. '’^ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. •..Daily, Weekly and Sunday. The KRBUIRER-SUN is issued every day, ex wept Monday. The Weekly is issued on Monday. The Da£y (Including Sunday) is delivered by v ranter* In the city or mailed, postage free, to sub ■V'^ieribees (hr <5e. per month, $2.00 for three -.-.aontha, $4.00 (hr six months, or $7.00 a year. The-ttenday is delivered by carrier boys In the ax .mailed to subscribers, postage fVee, at f .flOts year. The 1 Weekly is issued on Monday, and is mailed subscribers, postage free, at $1.10 a year. Transient advertisements will be taken for the .. DhUy at $1 per square of 10 linos or less for the Stmt insertion, and 50 ceuis for each subsequent >■ insertion, and for the Weekly at $1 for each in- - vertian. All oommunications intended to promote the , private ends or interests of corporations, societies *• nr individuals will be charged as advertisements. • Special contracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary ■ur-rates. None but solid metal cuts used. All communications should be addressed to the 3tW<JOTJtBSt-8uK. TO KVEKY MAN. On another page we publish a eard from the executive hoard of the Y. M. C. A. The movement and the appeal in that card mark a moral crisis in Colum bus. Tlie signatures arc enough to re commend the appeal to the serious con sideration of every citizen. Not every -Christian, but every citizen. We liko the.thought and the phraseology of the eard. The writers give a reason for the iaith that is in them, and place the move- ,'intent they advocate beyond the reach of arguments against expediency or quib- ■ hies against experiments. In attempt- St ing to fully organize and equip our ’"Woupg Men's Christian Association -vwe rare not trying to inaugurate something new, but we are seeking to keep pace with other cities in snatching ..human brands from a quenchless burn- ■ ing. ’ The question of putting our Y. M. C. A. in working order is not a question of mere enterprise, Or pride, or expediency. It is one around which eternal issues hang; and it is a question of “blood and > death and hell.” In spite of the paper booms in which • our sister cities, are indulging; in spite of ' their fabulous real estate sales and their gourd-like growth, it ret pi ires no gift of aeoond sight to foresee that Columbus is a great city in embryo. This is not a ■; prophecy.; it is an edict. Nature 1ms taken the eartli for a map and lias writ ten it, there. From her fiat there is no appeal. The smiling hills that enwheel • Columbus, and the river whose low and ceaseless lullaby Bings the city ' to sleep every night, like a tired infant, are God’s indestructible ^pledges oT the gold and the greatness, that will come to us, if we deserve them, by and by. Hut if railroads enter the cityiike spokes do a hub, if every valley is alive.with the medley of hammers, and -every' foil]-lop is trilling witli the music •*»f looms, our prosperity will be first a "jceproach, and afterwards a snare, if we fail to build on the ltock of whom every son of Adam can say, “It is higher than 1.” Babylon was the most opulent and populous• city that ever peeped .out (through tiic. tog of the ages. We have to ■•ead books of romance rather than history to find its counterpart. The glitter if its wealth, and the din of power .charmed the savans and awed the barba rians who came from every clime to see '.it. But Babylon forgot God, and to-day . the lone Arab who tethers his dromedary to a crumbling column of Corinthian marble in the streets all black with dust wosiudOi(isolation, lias to dispute for the shelter of ’ttit oneo gaudy palaces, with tlie reptiles that squirm along the mosaic .' Boers. A thousand cities have walked the plank of destiny since Babylon. But the history of the thousand and one. epitomized is this: "They were and are not—sin slew them. When the ediei went forth, “The soul that sinnetli it shall die,” it meant men and .amnicipalities and nations alike. It may require fifty years fora man, or fifty cen turies for a nation to feel its force, but this saying bus never failed. We might as well point our telescopes into the dark mouth of some earthly cavern, when we are searching for new worlds on high, as to expect the sun of a permanent pros perity to shed the arrowy beams of his light upon that community whose great throbbing heart is at enmity with God. There was a time when intelligent men disputed as to whether Christianity is a practical necessity in life or not. But that time is forgotten now. God help the young man who starts across the blis tered Sahara of life depending on his strength and his own resources to take him through. It were better for him that he had never been born. A hoy just be ginning life for himself is an object of sublime interest. Tlie future has just be gun to unroll the scroll of her awful se crets before his flashing eyes, and he himself is pregnant with the possibilities of dominion or doom. But if he sails .without God on the seas before him, . shimmer they ever so brightly, he is lost. A Christless voyage is a compassless voy- Mge, and they who sail it never make a -_j?ort. A wreck of any kind is a dreadful tiling. It is a sad sight to sec a great ship go down in mid ocean, and to watch the immemorial waves sweep the spot where she sank, with no sound Imt a gurgling requiem over tlie grave where ambition and beauty and love and pride lie wrapt in a common and watery shroud. It is a sad sight to see u rushingtrain derailed and wrecked into splinters, while the groans of tlie dying rend the circumam bient air. But the niournfuloat and mightiest and ghastliest wreck that ever occurred or ever will occur between tlie creation and the judgment is tlie wreck of a young man’s soul. It is incumbent on the citizens—not the Christians merely—of every com munity to see to it that the ruin of the rising generation may not be laid at their door. Will the business men of Colum bus shoulder this incumbency? We be lieve they will. A thoroughly equipped Young Men’s Christian Association, or ganized under the “new plan,” in which all denominations and even outsiders can unite, will pay as a business invest ment. Tiie material for such an organi zation is abundant in Columbus, and it requires nothing but union and intelli gent direction to make it active and ef fective. Let some of our leading spirits combine to place the Y. M. C. A. on its feet in a first-class working condition. To have helped in such an enterprise will be a better monument for a man to leave behind him than to have built the pyramid of Cheops or to have led tlie charge at Thermopylae. HOW MYSTERY FARES AWAY. There is an unwillingness in the minds of many persons to admit the presence of mystery. They relegate it all to the realm of darkness and ignorance, and connect it indissolubly with superstition. When science was comparatively un known, discoveries rare and knowledge only appeared in faintest glimpses, it wn not strange that everything was wondei - ful in the deep shadows that enveloped it, and that the people dwelt contentedly in an atmosphere of mystery. But now that so much of the darkness is chased away by the sunlight of tm* 1 , it is supposed that mystery like wise should disappear and every thing assume to the human mi., clear and distinct shapes. Is this so'. Does the increase of enlightenment di- pel mystery? It certainly does, so fare, the mystery is caused by darkness an ignorance. To the child the printed png from which his fatherreads is an insert!' able mystery, but when lie has himsel learned the art, the mystery vanishe Tho fog that obscures every feature o the landscape clears away, and all hi comes clear and well defined. Skilll’u fingers in any trade are mysterious i; their deftness to the novice, and the won ders of electricity would take away the breath of one who saw them for the fir- [ time. All such mysteries melt away as en lightenment replaces ignorance, or n- prnetice gives skill. Those, howevc. who suppose that thus all mystery is t> cease make a great mistake. On tho eon trary, the further we can see, and tin more w» know, the more wonderful doc everything appear. In climbing i. mountain, for instance, every time we pause to rest and turn to view the scene arnind us from a higher stand-point tli■ landscape is wider and richer, tin variety of hill and dale, of forest nun meadow, of river and lake i more wonderful. Whereas, once n) was mysterious, because unknown, now it grows in mystery as its beauty and sublimity are revealed. The uneducated man looks upon the sky, lit up by thousands of brilliant stars, and feels its mystery. But to the astronomer, who knows something of th^ course o! the circling planets, something of the nature and motions of the heavenly bodies, something of the laws which gov ern and direct them, their mystery is vastly increased. U nanswered questions, unsolved problems rush continually into his mind, filling it with fresh wonder with each new discovery, and it has been truly said, “ An undevout astronomer is mad.” When one looks at. a drop of water casually how common-place and familiar it seems; hut study it, discover its ele ments, its properties, its capabilities; view it under a microscope, see it harden into ice, whiten into snow, dissipate into vapor; if thus intelligently considered, it is replete with mystery. Does the mystery of the insect world fade away before the researches of the naturalist? or does the earth become less wonderful to the geologist.? Is not the mystery of sound felt most acutely by the musician, and the mystery of light and shade, color and form by the painter? Does not character grow more mys terious to us as we penetrate into its depths ? We fancy we understand a chance acquaintance, hut when wo come to know him us a friend, we find more to marvel at, more to reverence, more that we cannot explain. And love— that wonderful bond which unites heart to heart and soul to soul—is it not more mysterious to tlie lover and the loved, who have sounded some of its depths, than to the cold plan who scoffs while he wonders ? Is this a sad or discouraging picture? Does it throw a damper upon our upward strivings to know that as we advance, clearing away the mysteries that have bewildered our ignorance, frtfeh myste ries will ever open to our view ? It will not be so if we remember that we are ] finite beings, peering into tin# infinite possibilities which surround us on every hand. Wherever there is depth or height or,expanse, there is mystery; and true education, true development, will deepen our sense of it, and make us rejoice that it is continually unfolding itself and beckoning us upward. 1.IMT OF f.ETTEMN. ; Lint of unclaimed letters remaining in the Co 1 lumbtiH, Ga., poBt office for the week ending Nov. 23. If not called for within thirty days will be i sent to tlie Dead Letter Office: ! Adams. W W Bismarck is quite willing, and, indeed, quite anxious, to assist Russia to the ex tent of preventing war ; but he does not in the least propose to assist her in get ting her out of her financial straits. It was his influence which upset her pri - jeeted loan in Berlin. Tlie wily chan cellor wejl knows that finance is Russia’s weakest point, and that tlie chronic emptiness of lier purse is the greatest re straint upon her ambition. If Rhe hud as much money as men there Would he danger of the speedy realization of Napo leon’s fear that all Europe might become Cossack. It has been thought for some time th:.t there were more polities to the square inch in Connecticut than anywhere else on tlie continent. Dakota, however, bus certain localities which carry off t! e palm in the line of condensed politics. In Logan county, in that territory, ut the last election, twenty-six voles wire east. There were thirty-one candidati s in the field. ( Tiie heirs of the late Baron Rothschild, at Frankfort-on-the-Main, will erect a public museum, in which will be exhib ited the Rothschild art collection, the richest in the world. Italy is trying to borrow 3,500,000 lires. Wiggins might be sent over as a good basis for the loan. A number of Pennsylvanians will go into tlie grocery business as soon as the tariff on sugar is removed. COFFEE AND TEA. For the Enquirer-Sun. It is pleasing to follow a word os it twists itself through languages. In Arabic it is kahmab, French caffe, German kaffee, Turkish gahveh, English coffee, and yet the pronunciation is almost the same in all of these languages. There must be a need for a stimulant of some;kind, other- wri •« tn-tip beverages as coffee, tea and COCOA wou ’ not be so universally used. Goa. v an tea actually stimulate and do not paralyze, nor do they dethone reason. Drugs that act in a paralytic way rob us of our senses even in not immoderate quanti ties. Alcohol stands at the head of this paralytic group, then follows chloroform, ether, opium, hashisch, and a long line. Leaving out the aroma, coffee and tea are identical. Old Dr. Johnson used to sit by a quart pot of tea at night and do his writing. It was thus equipped that he so lucidly unravelled for his dictionary the meaning of the word network; a reticula tion and decussation at equal distances. He said that tea was a cheering and thought-inspiring beverage. “This drink comforteth the brain and heart and help- oth digestion.”—Bacon. It is easier to grasp facts when they are grouped by some one characteristic com mon to them all. So it is with plants. Hundreds of plantB full into one family, ^heir medicinal action being identical. We can divide all mankind into a dozen .’lasses. There are four plants found in different quarters of the globe which are all used as a stimulating beverage—coffee in Africa, tea in Asia, guarana in South America, chocolate in North America. The reason these plants are used is to pro duce an effect, just ns is the case with alcohol and tobacco. The efficient property contained in the four plants is the same; it is a substance called theine. This acts on the nerves and heart, producing increased heart action and an elevation in temperature. Quinine is diametrically antagonistic to coffee and its congenors. Theine, the active princi pal of coffee, tea, guarana and cocoa is found in each of these plants in about equal proportion. Tea differs from the rest in that it contains tannin, an astrin gent, that in no way effects the nervous system. Coffee and tea represent in the strictest sense of the word a most power ful tonic, for they stimulate nutrition, the nervous system, and', the circula tion. The Turks make a decoction of green coffee and drink it without cream or sugar. The Chinese drink tea in a similar manner. These substances, coffee and tea, are not in themselves nutritious, but are waste-restrainers; they retard elim ination and change of tissue, and thus they are in a sense food-producers. They are, too, labor saving. Cream and sugar add nutrition to coffee and tea, and in no way do they deteriorate them. It is largely due to coffee, which has become an article of daily consumption with farm ers, soldiers and working people gener ally, that we see these classes of people able to endure great toil, long marches in the heat of the summer and all manner of deprivation. In the east coffee is never drank in infusion as with us, but in decoction, and there it is held that the decoction, while preserving the tonic and alimentary effect, is entirely devoid of the exciting proprerties which character ize the infusion. Like all substances that affect the human organism, coffee and tea must be known in moderation to all men. Tlie Stove Moultlers’ Strike. Pittsburg, November 27.—The stove moulders at the Dellaveus foundry struck this morning against the reduction order ed several weeks ago. AH the men are out and the foundry is closed. The men say the strike will not affect other foun dries, as DeHavens was the only one who cut in wages. About 150 men are idle. Weekly Hank Statement. New’York, November 27.—Following is the statement of the New York associated banks for the week, and which shows the following changes: Reserve decrease f1,062,250 Loans increase .. 2,711,500 Specie decrease 1,155,700 Legal tenders increase 308,700 Deposits increase 861,000 Circulation decrease 28,700 The banks now hold $8,867,850 in excess of the 25 per cent. rule. Johnston, J Johnson, A L Jones, I Jones, Mrs J Kilars, H Kimball. Miss G Lewis, Miss L Leslie, F Lewis, M (col) Lockhart, J H Lyels, Mrs J B McCubbins, Miss M McKay, J McKinney, M McKee, T McLenden, F McNealy, Miss W (2) Mahoney, J J Mathews, M A (col) Mathews, F Miller, Miss S L Mitchell, Mrs W Mitchell. W R Moore, J H Morris. I Mott, Mrs E « Murphy, T Munroe F A (2) Obrient, Miss M Oueal, Mrs W J Perry, C M D Perry, MisB A Perry, Miss S Phillips, J H Pinkston, V Pool, P (col) Pollard, Miss B Pressley, Mrs M 8 Pawison, W W Itiucliff, Mrs M Relford, Miss T Reed, RM Reed, Mrs M Rud, N icol) Renfrero, J A Rtcliaids A -Richardson Rile, Miss E Richardson, Miss L H Rice, Z A Rooth, R J Roper, A Russell, H Smith, Miss M Speller, C Siewart, Miss M Street, S Terry, Miss I A Thomas, Miss N Thomas, Miss M Thomas, J Ticknor, W N Wadkins, Miss E Ware, J E White, Mrs M Williams, T (col) Williams, W Williams, Mrs J Williams, Mrs J Wilkerson, Miss A Williams, F J Wiggins, Mrs M J Wilson, Miss J Wilson, T W Wldeman, T H When calling for these letters, please say they are advertised, giving date. THOR. .7. WATT. P V Allen, LW Allen. Miss M | Andrews, Miss M Bell, P O It Blackwell, T L Blackstan, A Bryant, Mrs M i Brooks, MissF Brooks, R D Brown, Miss E 1 Buchanan, E W Buckner, w Buchanan, Miss 8 Bussey, J H ' Castleberry, Miss L i Carens, 8 II | Copling, Miss L Carter. Miss I 1 Cooper, Miss M i Col but, Mrs E j Crawford, Miss E ' De a von port , J I Downer, Miss M l Donsoti, C (col) i Davis, Mrs H j Davis, II ' Deloach, Mias E Billiard, R Billiard, Miss M | Deckon, W ! Dinson, C • Dunn, l P ; Elvatder, M 1 Echolds, C (col) , Epps, M A ! El s. R W D i Engrail, Miss A ! Failing. W N Farley, J j Ferrara, P Finney, R ; Floyd, B E ! Floyd, W ! Foul berg, G , Fry, Miss L ! Gary, T E Gilbert, Miss G Gilbert. H Good, Miss D Cranberry, MissJ Grover, R Gray, \V H Grace, M as C Given, .J S Hamrick, L L Hammock, Miss F Hurper, A H Hen lerson, L Hill, C Hull*, Mrs I Hudson, H (col) Huff, Miss E L Huff, E Hudson, A Hurt, 8 L Jackson, L Jackson, H Jackson, Mrs S Jackson, A (3) Jackson, J T Jacobson, G Jameson, Mrs S V Jennings, Miss A (col) TOWN LOTS For Sale ut Waverly Hall, Georgia. We will offer for sale on December 16th, 1886, at the above mentioned place, immediately on the line of the Georgia Midland and Gulf railroad (a new road that is being built from Columbus to Athens, Ga., connecting with the Central, East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, Richmond and Danville railroads). Lots suitable for building residences, stores, etc. Waverly Halils situated in the (l ‘garden spot” of Georgia, farming lands yielding above an average. The best school and church advantages already established. Society is as good &s any city in Georgia or elsewhere. People are alive to anything progressive, and willing to lend a helping hand to any who may locate in pur midst.. It is one of the best trade point* in Harris county, being thickly populated already, and only needs the new railroad now being built to make it the nicest town in the state. Health fhlness of the place is unexcelled. Water the best. Between 2600 and 6000 bales of cotton will be shipped from this point coming season. This alone will be worth tho consideration of thoughtful business men who wish to do a good business without having any heavy expense. To those who wish to give their children the very best educational advantages, our people especial ly ask them to come and locate among ns. All parents are well aware of the advantage of edu cating their children in the country than in the cities In a moral point of view. Lots will be Sold Without reserve or limit to the highest bid der. Any fhrther information or inquiries will be cheerfhlly answered by applying to sepldwed.se.td Mince Meat, Apple Butter and Pure Jellies at d tf * R. Justice, Agt. SOULE REDD. J. C. HAILE Soule Redd & Co., Brokers. Real Estate and Fire Insurance Agents 103ft Brotiil .St. Telephone 35. WE BEG TO OFFER: A new very desirable City Residence, five rooms, cold and hot water, all necessary ou1- houscs. 83700. Three elegant Wynnton Residences. Can be had at u bargain. A valuable lot, suitable for building two stores, with one well paying house on it, in the heart of the city. Many other valuable pieces of properly for sale, Real Estate Sacrifice J^EW DWELLING ON ROSE HILL. $1250. JOHN BLACKMAR, Real Estate Agent, Columbus. Ga. se wed&fri tf • GRAND CONCERT THURSDAY NIGHT, LIBRARY ROOMS, Will be aiven by Madame Grant and Professor H. McCormack nnd pupils, assisted by the Phil harmonic Society. A heavy programme is being rehearsed and a rare musical entertainment may be expected. nov28 td AdnilHNlon 50 OntH. R EGULAR MEETING to-morrow (Monday) evening at 8 o’clock. Transient brethren m good standing are cordially invited to attend. J. F. WISE, N. G. F. W. LOUDENBER, Sec'y. mhkgsely Merit is the Trade Mark of Success, The man that buys at headquarters, for money down, and who sells with a fair, honest profit for cash only, holds competition with an unshaken grip that never loosens; in a word, it is “diamond cut diamond,” the genuinine gem pul verizing the imitation. It is the giant of genius towering above and dwarfing the pigmies and servile imitators who lack the nerve, the brains and the almighty dollar. Gray's Great Remnant Sale This Week will show the trading public that we can sell you goods at one-half of any one's cost. Our Mr. Christopher Gray, of New York, has cut the prices on all goods to one-half. Also, for this week only (as they will be gone then), thrown out all fine goods on the different Remnant Counters. This sale will be superintended by the Old Man himself. So fail not, before he leaves for New York, to come and see what great bargains he is offering. Table Linens,Table Linens, ON OUR REMNANT BARGAIN COUNTER. Wide, All Linen Heavy Damask, reduced from 60c to 30c. Wider still, All Linen Heavy Damask, reduced from 75c to 45 cents. Still wider, All Linen Heavy Damask, reduced from 90c to 50 cents. And still wider, All Linen Heavy Damask, reduced from $1.00 to 60 cents. Remnants of Barnesly’s finest grades, worth $2 00 a yard, reduced to 85 cents. poo Yards in Remnants Of 36-inch very heavy, warranted, all wool Shaker Flannels, worth $1.25 a yard, for 331c; lengths from 3 to 7 yards. Fail not to see these goods. Remnants of Grey Twilled Flannels at 15c a yard, worth 35c a yard; lengths from 3 to 4 yards. Gents' Pants Goods—we can surprise you. Any sample in town worth $1.25 a yard matched by us at 50 cents, all wool. We have big bargains in Remnants of Dress Goods in black and colored, some dress lengths. Remember we will sell for this week all Remnants just to advertise our store. We do not expect cost for any kind of Wraps, Cloaks, Shawls or Blankets. We have too many on hand, and the season is passing away; we will not miss cost on them. Our 25-cent Black Cashmere is worth 55 cents—nothing less; see it; 40 inches wide. Dress Goods! Dress Goods! We just want half price on any of them. For fine Silks, Plushes, Velvets, in stripes, brocade and plain, you will see the finest goods south at half price. New Jerseys, Corsets, and Ladies’ and Gents’ Hosiery and Gloves just received. 200 Rolls of new 25c French Creatons, choice at 10c yard Fine grades of English 6-4 Waterproofs cheaper than you ever dreampt of. 500 Pieces of Filburne’s finest Plaid Nainsooks—cost the importer 21 cents; new goods. Lo ! our price this week on our Remnant Counter only 10 cents—just think of it. 250 Dozen of Ladies’ Under Vests, worth 50c, for 25c. 575 “ “ Gents’ “ “ “ 45c, “ 20c. Five cases of 36-inch Mammie Cloths, worth 12ic, we will close out at 7c. Now is your chance. We havelby recent purchases from parties retiring from business added largely to our stock of genuine bargains, and feel sure that we. can please the great est lovers of economy in quality and price. Our stock for the wholesale trade is unusually large. Parties purchasing for cash will get rock-bottom prices. Don’t take our tvord for it, but come in and let us prove our assertions, for by our polite attention, fair dealings, good goods and way down prices we are confident we will please you and retain your trade. ON-TOP-LIVE-HOUSE, C. P. GRAY & CO. The Quick Sellers. LARGEST BUSINESS CONNECTIONS SOUTH, COLUMBUS, AUGUSTA, SAVANNAH, NEW YORK,