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W,t MI.aTT, li«*|tf. E. 14. PfLCHBR, S*retar> and treasurer. The Very Latest Styles are Here. Our Stock is the Largest, the Newest and the Most Artistic Ever Seen in the Bouth. fresh arrivals daily from the largest manufacturers of furniture in the world OUR PRICES ARE LOWER BECAUSE WE PAY CASH FOR EVERYTHING WE BUY. Parlor, Chamber and Dining Room Suits. „ nd Übnlry Furniture. Single .nd MlseMUnsoi* Furniture. Bed.. Dreswr* Cheffonisrs. Ch.vsl Dr«.lng Cottumn.and 1 ,bl.. Sideboards, Extension and Broakfa.t Tables. Side Tables China Cabinets. Book Caw.. Chairs. L.brary and Center Tables. Ud- * k *J Ld Stand, and Tablos. Hanging Mirrors. Music and Parlor Csbinsts. Art Stand*. Parlor Tables, together with many other useful and h.mdio r i ,rr .of Furniture of Royal Designs Old Colonial. Sheraton. Chippendale. Elizabethan. Louis XV. Louis XVI. Empire end others, rue Style no mors a Furniture with no stylo* _^ -=WOODS USED=- R (i Mahonany Bird’* Eye Maple. White Mahogany or Prima Vera, Black Walnut Curly Birch. Quarter Sawed o*ltVermilion raa^imd ORNAMENTATION Fine Hand Carving. Dainty Marquetryin Metals. Mother of Pearl. White Holly. Tulip. Satin and Rosewood. Onyx, Cut Class. Bras. Cold Trimmings—by which we shall demonstrate that the Cheapest as well as the Choicest stock is that of Augusta House Furnishing Co. 836 Broad Street. WHAT IS NEW IN BOOKS Publications Coming From the Presses. Points About ibt New Literature Just out. Sixty lit 81*. Chip* fro*# IJ'erary Workshops. ((filed by Witt M. Clem ena (New York, New AndtlrtMi Hook Company. Prie* 75 cents. I Perhaps 'be non Juat criticism that could be passed on thla attractively gotten up little volume of collected eu-blnipi and paatel# in prose la th* abaurb one we have alt aroited at. If you tike thla kind of thin*, then thla I* the kind of fhtng you will like" The brief aketcbes are modern in the ex ircme aenae of the word and they afe morbid In the extrdmesL Many of the so-called chips have been collected from very important literary work shops indeed. aDd many of them are written na though on a thumbnail. In very carefully selected and oftentimes exquisite English, but they all tell of broken hearts, of death under some shuddcrlngly horrible circumstance, or of life lived hopelessly. Occasionally, very occasionally, there ia a pleasing little romance In outline, and still rarer is a word study In which the subject matter ia lighted by one tiny ray of hope. Then, towards the end, we find theae satisfactory little bits. l-aith Renewed. How good it is, when the mist has hung very heavy all the day, and the dismal drops have splashed down from roof and tree, to see once more the blue hilltop against the grey sky and to have all the fog roll away like a dark shadow of sorrow. It is as when, in a foul little shop, something of cheese and old leather, the men sit with their pipes around the stove and tell low tales acid laugh. Then sud denly the door opens and there enters a tall gray-eyed girl, and all the men rise and stand abashed, and the place grows light and clean. The Lullaby. The mystic crooning of the heavy sea, Ecrne In the Eouthwind through the brooding night, Seems like a .cradle song of God to me; The old, old song, unchanged though years of years, Bidding me slumber on, nor dream of fears, , , Till dtiwn shall rise, and night s thin phantoms flee, And He once more shall say, “Let there be light.” „ —C. F. Lester. I tv. 4. _ , l, John Bluw do lie °Boston (Nrw York l> Ap- I Bfftgrw of thcHogu«e’>t« sad of I ! ** ,1 \i l * France called t The 811 urge of God,** have always * floo to (he rule. The action of the jProteotawta retaliate upon the Catho lica for their persecutions, and the peo ple of the church are slain by the Ca in tsards who come down from thelv ' mountain fastnesses to plHsge *»d d«* stroy and thru disappear again. The heroine of the story Is the adopts* daughter of Haville the Intcudant, and the hero the English nephew of a great French prlneeaa. Given the time* snd ■ (he circumstances and the picturesque background of mountains and of grand cathedrals, the story could not fail to lie other than readable, as handled by the author of "In the Ihiy of Adversi ty," It claims the reader's Interested ; attention from the first page to th» last. Her Memory, by Maarten Maarteus. (New Ycrk, D. Appleton A Co. Price L 1.50.) To onnounco that a book by the great Dutch novelist Is fresh from the ! press Is Immediately to Insure for that | book a brilliant success. "The Greater i Glory," "God's Fool," and .loobl Av j mingle," have not so long ago receiv ed an enthusiastic welcome, and now jennies the most finished novel the great author h«s yet given us. a veritable spirit's breath, sweet and pure and lovely, "Het Memory.” The life oT the man in whom the memory of the heavenly sweet woman j lives is a constant straggle between I the ideal, which Is represented by his j inclinations, and the practical which jhe recognizes means for him duly. In ! the end, he affirms; "The only happl ! ness left on earth 1b common sense— j to. take life as it comes, and do one’s I befit." There Is not a dull page in this nar i rative of a man’s dual existence and the purely lived life of his misunder stood daughter, and It is marked by a 1 force as powerful as rare, a force that ■is exerted always for the best; for, 1 while there is much In it that Is sad beyond tears, there is none of that hopelessness which has so marred many of the recent novels otherwise ! superior. The plot Is not elaborate, and ione is glad that there are no complfea jtions of action to break the flow of the j thought. The thought continually ore lutes thought in the reader, and he finds [himself going back again to read over some beautiful passage, to combat a theory of the writer, or to approve of U. as the case may be, but always to be keenly alive to tbe fact that here Is something worth reading worth XHB -A.T7QTJBT.A SX7NI3 A.'Y' IIKKVL T>TD remembering, worth constantly thlok- I lug shoot. The Its*he* of humor arc constant 1 -mile behind (he tears, which makes ibe human nature portrayed seem very 'rial The • barartera are all unique j without being nnnstnrsl. and It is i ,}uite worth one's mind to meet all of them, even down to the French valet twin- dws not dare lo stay In England for fear the language will give him I, oncer of the throat. For ibe rest, 10 comment upon Maer- Uen Maarten's flswlesa style and ex j qutslte diction would be merely to | feebly echo the numerously Nig I r ralsee of the great critics, whose word j la law in the world of letters. The volume la very attractively ! tround in yellow, gold and silver, and {has as a frontispiece a fine picture of the Author. I»ve in Epigram, compil'd by Freder ick W. Morton. (Chicago. A. C. MeClorg A Co, Price 11.08.) From Huddha la Add srn. from Chanuer to Ibsen, from Shakespeare to Tolatol. all tbe great masters of the art of writing have been called upon for tbelr contributions lo tbe collec tion of hundred* of wise or otherwise sayings concerning love. The dainty volume in its beautiful red and gold dress is packed tight with such choice bits as: First love Is an Instinct—at once a gift and a sacrifice. Every other is a philosophy—* bargain. —A. 8. Hardy. The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; It Is constructed 01 virtue, beauty and af fection. Such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven that lights tbe sacrifice. —Jane Porter. Love la indeed heaven upon earth; since heaven above would not be hea ven without it. —William Penn. To love to know Is human, lo know bow to love Is divine. —Joseph Roux. Love Is never lost. If not reciprocat ed It will flow back and soften and pu rify the heart. —Washington Irvine. All love should be simply stepping stones to tbe love of God. —Plato. Love makes time pass, and time makes love pass. Proverbs. The faults are beauties In a lover s eyes. —Theocritus. Love places a genius and a fool on a level. ' -J. B. L. de Greased. l,ove is like the moon -when it docs not increase, 11 decreases. ~Louis Pfcilippe *l* Sftgur. The sparkling epigrams are divided Into sections, each one ts which Is !•- trod need by a short brilliant essay on the main theme, beginning with the I VrtfcgMFh»rtNsT fcf Kdw.rtl Rusco Itegrwdsuow. at laws, by Max Norda ILuv* a Thing ~f Exchange. b> Ralph W| Mg Emerson "la vr in OM Bn stash from “lane fc Old finalh-»," •by Henry fuyler Bdnper; lawns Rvo- IfWton Inin B.empathy, by Olive Kchrel {nee; Putin.la<ion of Pure ld>ve. Tofatot . Falling In Low Robert larulac B'«*i n mn. Love as Ilmen Haw It; Wbnf * 'Woman Would Uhf. Eva Whltthnne , Trvwccsnt: What Home fan Do. Sam uel Stpile*; Cupid Vermin the Anthro- KKdogUts. Grant Allen; lawe Through Carlyle's Glasses: Airs of Married 11arte. Charles laimb; Love for One's Neighbor, Fredertek Nleiwche: Made !for Bach Other, Oliver Weldnll Holmen; 1 1awe. Sleep and Death. Walter Savage I lainder. and larva a la Mode, Oulda. Personal Hkclrlie* of Recent Authors. by Hattie Tyng Griawold. (Chicago. A C. McClurg A Co. Price $1.50. For several Bessons now the firm of A C. McClurg A Co. hn* ably aus : rained Its high reputation of giving to 'the reading world the most attractive and withal popular volumes to be found |lt, the vast collection* of holiday publl | cptlops. Thla year, even If the linn [ were not so widely known II would ! soon become *o for Its publication ol (■‘Personal Sketch™ of Great Authors." which hna already been enthusiasM i cully received by Ibe crltlrs, and which I promises to be among the leaders in i ihe holiday sales. When the samo author published her ■‘Home Life of Great Authors" alio ! tilled o long-felt wnnt. by giving some of those Intimate und personal detail* |of the lives of a group of masters In literature which tend towards making a writer's works nu»re Interesting be cause they help to give an Insight Into his personality. The success of the former book encouraged the author lo continue her work by writing of Other great authors of recent times, hoping to make the works of the author* treated more vital and human, by re vealing. as she expresses it, "the men and women behind tbe musks. She has brought to her task a great deal of talent as a writer, much pa tient skill in the mailer of research, and much of that rare insight which can come only from perfect sympathy. Many of the side-lights she turns on the lives of the great authors are as novel as Interesting and valuable, and rvery page is incomparably rich with a charm all its own. The authors dealt with are Alfred Tennyson, Ernest Renan, Charles l)ui <vin, Matthew Arnold, George Du Muu ' rid Elizahf lb Harnett Browning, John j Rnskfn, Thomas Henry Huxley, Hnr -1 ,-| e t Reci her Stowe. Robert 1-otiis Ste 'v uson, William Dean Howells, Louisa May limit l.yelf Tula*<4. Rudyard Kip.leg ChrtNin* R«a«H. Henry fka vlC Bhe*ban, |4t»y#rd Taylor *•»'• •>•* Matthew Karri* . All of tba Us»k Under • skill .a brought to be*r *" making »he »«!• tme's exterior nttrartive and each o. authors la a treaaure in Ua*lf. spar', from lla graceful aettlng and the thoughtful words arcompanylng It. iSiccras Against Odds, by William O Stoddard. (New York. 11. Appleton IhWuUKtf of "Crowded out o' Cro teld." "The Red Pstrlm" and other ! well known Juvenile books has road' "Ourceaa Again** Odds” a s'ory which cannot fall to api<al to every limy so fortunate as to rex* U- ™ l hem lives on the eoest of 1/ ng Island, and has many exciting adventures an land and sH., adventure. In which* burled treasure plays no small part, hut which are not at all Improbable Tbe story la thoroughly wholesome. Is attractively bound and elaborately and tastefully llluatrated. THE FRUIT DEALERS. They Will Reap a Rich Harvest From the Soldiers. "I noticed nn admirable article In tile Sunday Herald a week ago on the vr.lue of the troops !o Augusta," suit! an army officer, lo the Herald office, last night, "but I lug to differ from you on one Item. Yoy enumerated a number of line* that would be espe cially benefltte.l by sales to soldiers and you omitted the fruit men. I be lieve that, in proportion to the busi ness done under normnl conditions, the fruit men Increase I heir sales mor* from the trade of st Idlers than any other line of business. "I do not know why It is, but it is so. that a soldier has o weakness for fruit They will go a mile out. of their way to reach a fruit store. Walt and sec if I nm net correct in this " CULVF RTS IN PLACE BRIDGES. The Recommendation Which the Com missioner of Public Works Makes. The Commissioner of Public Works, I understand, has recommended, or will recommend, to the city that there be no more bridge building In Augusta. His idea is that, in the line of mak ing permanent improvements perma nent, culver!*, stone or brick, should Du <<(interneted. This sort of bridging atiemus or waterways would tic more expensive, hut would he a fixture, demanding no repairs, painting or the attention which iron bridges require. Wooden bridges, of course, are out of ihe question. THE CIRCUS COMES ON Grand Show That Will be Mere Tomorrow. The Finest Cirrus That Ever Toured This Seitinn. Cirrus enterprise has undoubtedly | reached Ihe Built In the combined Adam Forepaogh and Sells Brother*' Shows, which am to charm and divert the vntailea of "aawduaf und span gle." tic rabouts tomorrow. The Idg lent of the 4-Paw-Selts combine has from year to year grown larger and lurger. and has heretofore taxed even the vlaual capacity of cross-eyed peo pie: but now that s length of #25 feet and a width of 275 feet has been at tained one ran hardly perceive any possibility of further extension. Fif teen thousand tieople can be comforta bly seated at a single performance In this great amphitheatre. The aetual expenses, rain or shine, reach the un precedented figure of $7,200. The Management. Tbe Fore pa ugh show, one of the largest on earth, was In 1896 eom bined with the entire Sells Brothers' plant, almost its equal In size, and the combination is stated to he most decidedly the greatest unification of circus features ever seen In one en closure. Tbe foremost showmen In the world are its Joint owners and manager*, vix: James A. Bailey, now dazzling the Britishers with the Bar nuni-Balley show; that famous man*-, gerial trio, the Sells Brothers, and W. W. Cole, who has just returned to American management arter a ten year.’ career In circus exploitation in Pails, Berlin and Vienna., The ad vance business of the 4-Paw-Sell* combine Is conducted under the direc tion of Peter Sells, while the Imme diate management of the show Is In the hand, of Lewis Sells. The general offices and headquarters of the show are at Madison Square Garden, New York. The Menagerie. Tbe menageries of this aggregation are said to he the most phenomenal collections of the kind ever assembled. Among the performing animals are two distinct groups of trained cl ■- chants, taught iu different schools and entirely unlike. Eight of the largest of the Forepaugh contingent dance u quadrille, which Is said to ho the most remarkable exhibition ot animal training on record. Woodward s sea iious and seals the only troupe ot the kind In the world- will rejoice the youngsters especially. Another rare j I treat fur tbs 1 h,idle# will Ist 1-4 I unique performance of the t* jy tie* I’kaat. “Cqhw." an Indian Z#stx. and ia aroup of lltmgaiian ponies In on* I grand frolic other Attractions. f The equestrian, gymnastk and hlp ' pod route act* are numerous and novel. 1 Most of them' are especially engaged !in Europe Among tH'se most not*- I Itle are the Livingston, lie Mora and | Devree troupe*. Ryan. Sterell* and IWi Itxell. known lo tbsropc •# ••»* Shooting Stars." laisefl and Garoalla, and the four lllckelta, Austria's pre mier gymnasts Th# superlative cques | irlan feature I* the rimultaneoua ap j pearance Jn three rings of the threw {champion lady riders of the world— [ Maude UvtngiWm. May Davenport I and Katella Hobson, who hall from England. America and Australia in the order named Another pre-emi nent feature la the Octavlan troupe of sixteen Homan soldiers and athlete* in a thrilling exhibition of the sports, combats and evolutions of tbe Caesar* lan era. Mme. Yucca, th* strongest woman In the world, is also one of tha most startling acts of *he plural ring circus. Th# hippodrome races are stated to be the most exciting of their kind up to date, and will furnishf many surprising sensations. ••Splash” Tuatln. Paul "Splash" Tustln. the cham pion high and trick diver of both hemispheres, lias created a tremen dous sensation this season by his dar ing aud soul-stirring performance of diving from the apex of the hippo drome t'-nt Into a small tank of water —(blrty-six inches deep. Prof. Tuatln covers a distance of seventy-two feet, and executes a complete somersault, in this perilous and quparalalled per formance. Other novel and amazing features occur so frequently in the three hours' program that a mere mention of them will occupy mor# space than is at our command. Th*- Inaugural event of "4-Paw-Sellg Day” will he the great street, proces sional display of the combined show* that, will leave the exhibition grounds at 9:30 a. m. tomorrow and traverse the principal thoroughfares of tha city. The Forepaugh-Sells Federation is the only important exhibition that will be seen In Georgia this season. Its only possible rival, the Barnum- Balley show, remains In England an other year, and Buffalo Bill’s route does not Include uny territory vlalted by Forepaugh and Sells. (Jludyn— I had tickets for Ihe matinee yesterday and invited Laura Willings |ey (o accompany me to the opera, hut slie begged to be excused. Fanny— Whatever In the world ever made her do that'.’ f should have been delighted at such a chance. Gladys She Hiihl she wasn’t going to he classed os one of the girls who never have invitations to go In the evening.