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NUAT HAS THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
DONE FOR THE STATE I
After giving a history of the donation of
fortv thousand acres of land to ibo University
bv iho State of Georgia, out of which grows
thr annual payment of eight thousand dollars
from tho State Treasury, Chancellor Tucker,
in his admirable address delivered beforo the
Legislature, proceeds to inquire what the Uni
versity lias done for the State. From this
portion of his address we make the following
citnicis, which, we feel sure, will be read with
interest:
Let us now see what the University has done
tor tho State, it may bo assumed on general
principles that it has done what any other in
stitution of learning has done for the State or
community in which it is located. It has dif
fused abroad to a certain extent the benefits
and blessings of education. Exactly what all
these benefits and blessings are, and exactly
lmw valuable they are it is impossible to say.
They are so far-reaching and so penetrating:
they so twist t beta selves around every fibre of
society; they so diffuse their influence through
I,earl. mind, soul and body, public and private,
that nothing short of omniscience could say
that they aro worth just so much, and neither
more nor less. There is, indeed, a certain pe
cuniary value in education, just as there is in
any article of merchandise, but even this, it is
impossible precisely to - estimate; how much
less can we estimate those moral, mental and
social benefits of which money is not tho
measure! But this we can do; we can see
that there is a huge difference between civil
ization and barbarism; and we can see that if
a civilized people were to lose tbeir education
they would relapse into barbarism, or some
thing like it; and that if a barbarous people
were educated, they would become civilized.
W.-can see that whore learning is cultivated,
and it is learuiug of high order of which I
speak, the people have most of the elements
of happiness, prosperity, power and greatness:
and we see these elements nowhere else. It
is easy to see the difference between England
or Germany, and the Ottoman Empire; and
easy to see almost as great a difference, taking
the mass of the people into the account, be
tween England dr Germany, and Russia, whose
teeming millions are almost half Savage. It is
Udiiceahle, too, ibat these millions of the Rus
sian Empire are controlled and governed and
mastered by the educated few. The glory of
the Empire is the work of an oligarchy. The
poirer is monopolized by cnltivated mind; the
millions are but serfs. Legally free, they are
menially bound. Iguorance is slavery.
What would Germany be without its Insti
tutions of learning ? They have been there,
many of them, for centnries doing their quiet,
hut suro and potent work. Extract from Ger
man mind, and character and progress, all that
learning has done for that people, and leave
nothing but tbe ignorant boor of ton centuries
»ro, or tbe savage of twenty centnries, and
what would be their position beforo the world
this day T
When Ciesar fought them, though they were
as brave a race as tbe suu ever shone upon,
they fell before the power of civilized Rome
When they, in turn, fought the French three
years ago, that valiant Gallic race, tbe peer of
any on earth In military prowess—succumbed
before tbe power of a people, among whom
education is universal and learning common.
Thus history repeated itself. It was not the
Roman sword that conquered tho Alleroan
ni, it was Roman culture. Again, it was not
'ho Gorman armies that conquered France, It
was the German universities. They were the
oiwsa cautarum. Salt has ever been; so it
will over be. Cultivated mind involves gen-
*i*l excellence and general superiority. It
holds tbe sceptre of power; power over mind;
power over matter, over tbe elements, over tbe
face, over the world.
What would Great Britain be without the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and
London, and Edinburgh, and Dublin f A
thousand years ago the foundations of the Uni
versny of Oxford were laid by Alfred the Great.
1'or ten centuries its influence has ran tbroagh
all English literature, and art, and science,
and society. We feel it here this day. Every
°u* of us has been indirectly its pupil. Hern
in Georgia, four thousand miles from tbe spot
•here that corner-stone was laid, and a thou
*and years after the band that laid It, has gone
to dust, we find that we are not what we would
have been, but for that act of far seeing ragac-
'ty- Then, King Alfred laid the foundation of
England's future greatness. Thero he built
an altar consecrate to learning; and be kindled
°n it a fire, whose light has shot down through
succeeding centnries. The Intelligence that
warns on me from the ,e>os that look on mo
10 day, is bat the refleeted or rather the trans
mitted light of that ancient centre of learning,
jn that act, perhaps tbe greatest in King At-
f*d's glorious reign, bo said, “ Let there be
wL” a “d there was light, and there it light.
The University of Georgia has done, and is
doing for ua, exaotly what other institutions
oflike character have done and are doing for
wbers. Like causes produce like effects.—
1 he time has never been and can never be,
"hen an institution of learning can fail to be
* source of refinement, improvement, elovatlon
and power. So long as mind is superior to
matter, just so long will its enltare lead to tho
increase of all substantial good.
True, the University of Georgia is not the
P*er of the long established and thoroughly
universities of Europe, nor is it poe-
» . i l ? M ,n *®y short time It should be; nor
>« to it desirable. If Inferior ts them in many
aspect*, or even in all, it is nevertheless bet-
*, udapted to oar wants. It is tbe outgrowth
w our own necessities, and its expansion will
ootne with the demand for it. If I had the
power tbiaday, to plnck up tho University of
*oorRia by the roots and transfer it to the
Capital, and to reeeivo in return for
•jtue University of Berlin, 1 would not make
{?« exchange. Our own University is better,
g”' **» « I* better for us. Somo centuries
we shall be prepared for such instil u-
** thoae of the old world, and by that
*® shall havo them. Our true policy is
.,?™ ,ID hate then- - venerable seminaries which
t f rntgrnwth of rpot i :''l<'a. bur rn*hcr to
develop our own; and not to expect from oars
iwbat is produced by them, but to be satisfied
with such results as are possible in the present
state of American society.
But, has tbe University of Georgia done all
that was possible ? Certainly it has not done
us much aa it would have done with larger
means. In 1801, tbe only College edifice was
a frame building of only one room, and the
Faculty consisted of tbe President and one
tutor; and in 1804, tbe first commencement
was held nnder a tree. For many years the
means were very small, and even now they are
very small, compared with those of many oth
er institutions, even in onr own country. Bnt,
without having the means of proof for so vague
a proposition, I havo no hesitation in express
ing my belief, that tbe Uoiverslty of Georgia
bas done, and is doing, all that could reason
ably be ei pected of it. 1 do not believe that
another institution can be found, of the samo
age, and under the same circumstances, that
has accomplished more of all that a College
ought to accomplish.
It may be interesting to look at results some-1
what in detail. We have tent out into tbe
world abont thirteen hundred graduates, overy
one of them vastly more a man than be would
have been but for our instructions; and every
one of these educated men bas been himself
an educator.
Each one, however hnmble, has bad fils in
fluence, and tbo.influence of an educated man
is greater and better than the influence of that
samo man would have been without education.
Take away from Georgia tho influence of these
thirteen hundred educated men, and tho State
would not be wbat it is by. many degrees.
Of these thirteen hundred, more than one
hundred have been preachers oftbA “glorious
Gospel of tbe blessed God.” About one to
every twelvo or thirteen of the whole number
bas been before tbe people every week, edu
cating the masses mentally, morally, religious
ly. Twentv-six of onr graduates have been
members of the Congress of the United States;
and many a time bas tbe National Capitol
trembled from corner stone to dome, under
thunders of cloqnenco which were but tho de
tonation of electric energy generated in the
minds of our youth at the University of Geor
gia. One in every fifty of our whole number,
bas represented us in tbe National Connells.
Nino of onr graduates have been Judges of the
Supreme Court, in this and in other States
Thus one in overy ono hundred and thirty has
attained to the highest possible judicial hon
ors io the State. Thirty of them have been
Judges in the Superior Coart, or one in every
forty-three. Forty-one of them have been
presidents or professors in Colleges, or one in
every thirty one. About two buudred of them
■(estimated) have been members of tbe Legis
lature of Georgia, or ono to overy 6ix or soven.
Four have been Governors, or one to every!
three hundred and twenty five, and two have]
been Bishops, or ono to overy six hundred and
fifty. In short, we have furnished to tho Stato,
for the last sixty or seventy years, a large pro
portion of all its leading men. I have men
tioned only the few who have attained to pub
lic distinction. These.all put togethcr.amouot,
■number, to about four hundred. But be-]
sides these, there are nearly nine hundred oth
ere, many of whom, if they have not boon sol
distinguished, may have been quite as useful.
Hundreds of them bavo been teachers, and
although they may have lived and died in
comparative obscurity, yct. in tht> patient toil
and drudgory of tho school-room, they may
have done more to bless the world than others!
whose names are written high on the seroll of]
fame. Many of them have been enlightened
cultivators of the soil, and if their names have
not becomo prominent, it is becauso the nature
of thoir business is private, and not public. I
doubt not, that many of thou whom names
are unknown, are tbe peers of thou who are
brat known; and whether they are or not, they
have been useful men, and, as a class, have
been among the best of our citizens.
Of professors of tho healing art wo can boast
not a few, some of whom havo achieved a rep
utation that will reach posterity. The first!
man in the world who discovered* the use of]
anaesthetics in surgory, was one of our alumni,
Dr. Crawford W. Long, of Athens. |
I have spoken only of tbe graduatesTbatl
lit most be remembered that there have been
many others, I cannot say how many, for the
early records aro lost, but I shall perhaps not
exaggerate If I say more than three thou
sand, who received fair education with us.
but who failed to graduate. These, too, we
claim as our sons; hundreds of these have
held prominent positions in ehnroh and in
state. I hazard but little in saying that al
most every ono has made his mark on tho
commnnity io which he lived ; and I know II
hazard nothing in saying, that everyone of
them left us with more power than he had
when ho came. Thus, in seventy years, we
have furnished tho Stato with an army or per
haps five thousand educated men. t Wbat
would tbe Stato. what could the State, havo
done without them? Suppose that daring
these seven decades there had been no such
institututiou in tbe State, either at Athens or
elsewhere, what wonld havo been our condi
tion » Wo should have beon behind every
other State in the Union, and all that makes
neoplo worthy of respect. We should havo
been behind every people on the civilized
globe, of equal population, territory and wealth.
Wo should havo been sneered at, scoffed at,
jeered at. a hissing and a by-word to all man
kind. What is it that has kept ns from this
disgrace t Wbat is it that makes us what we
aro ! So far as we aro good, and so far as wo
have or enjoy anything that is good, wo owe
it largely to mental cultivation. Whence did
this cultivation come ? Chiefly from our in
stitutions of learning. And whence did these
institutions come? Largely from the Univer
sity of Georgia—in a sense, the mother of tf^etn
all. And whence did the University of Geor
gia come f From thirty five thousand acres of
wild land! Was there ever such a stupendous
income from so small an outlay t Five thou
sand educated men, tho produce of thirty-five
thousand ncrcs of wild land, not worth threo
cents an acre! What a glorions harvest!
And if these acres had produced but one man
and that man had been Alexander H. Steph
ens or John B. Gordon, that ono would have
been worth tho whole tract, and immensely
more, even at its present price, and with all
its yearly incrcaso from tho beginning until
now.
It is said that many yonng men have been
ruined at tho University. It is not said how
many havo been ruined at home, and who.
perhaps might have been saved if they
had been but under the fostering care of the
University of the State. But it may be well
to look among these ruins, and take account
of the damage that bas been done at this no-
table place. There i3 where Stophens was
ruined; and Gordon, too. was mined at this
nlaco There is where William C. Dawron
was ruined, and there is where Eugenius A.
Nisbet was ruined, and there is where Iverson
L. Harris was ruined, and there is where Hugh
A Haralson was rained, and there is whero
Judge John J. Floyd was ruioed, and his
classmate. Judgo Junius Hillyer, was ruined
at the same time and place. There is where
Bishop George F. Pierce was rainod, with bis
distinguished classmates, Dr. Nathaniel Ma
con Crawford. Dr. Shaler G.HiHyer. and Bish
op Thomas F. Scott, and Dr. John F. Wad
dell Chancellor or the University of Mississip-
ni ’ These flvo classmates. Pierce. Crawford,
Hillver. Scott and Waddell, were all slain at
one fell swoop or tbe arch destroyer. They
were all ruined at the University in the class
of 1829 Ebonezer Starnea met his fate at
the same place, and so did Henry L. Benning
both Judges of the Supremo Court. Howell
Cobb and Herschol V. Johnson, both Gover
nors of Georgia, were classmates, aud both
foil together, and at the same time and place
fell Judge Augustin Reese. Francis 8. Bartow
and Jnnitu A. Wingfield were classmates and
mot tbe same doom. Judge James Jackson
and Jodge David A. Yason, and Dqvid W.
Lewis, for fourteen years a member of this
body, and Governor John Gill Shorter, of Al
abama, were classmates and met a common
catastrophe. Professor Shelton P. Sanford,
William Hope Hall, Isaiah Taeker Irwin,
once the Speaker of this Hooge, and Professor
John LeConte, of national reputation, and
Rev. Dr. Benjamin M. Palmer, of New Or
leans, were classmates, and the splendid gal
axy all went down together. Alas! for tbe
class of 1838!
His Honor of the Supreme Court, Judge
Robert P. Trippe, and His Honor Judge Al
exander Speer, were io the same class and
met together the rain which is so common at
the University. This was tbe class of 1839.
Professor Joseph LeConte and Thomas R. R.
Cobb, fell together. Dr. Felton and General | And a vision fell solemn and sweet,
Garlington were in the next class. Jabez L. Bringing gleams of* morning-lit land;
M. Curry, Judge E. H. Pottle, and Judge Lin- I saw tbe whit '
LEONA.
Competent literary critics have pronounced
the following' poem unsurpassed by any other
production of its class in our language. It is
perfect in rhyme, beautiful ia figure and ex
pression, and we know onr readers will thank
os for its production.—Ed. Const.
Leona, the honr draws nigh.
The hour we’re waited so long,
For the angel to open a door through the sky,
That my spirit may break from Us prison
and try
Its voice in an infinite rang.
Just now, as the slumbers of
Came o’er me with peace-girteg breath,
Tbe certain half lifted, revealed to my sight
Those windows whioh.look on the kingdom
— a,—of light.
That borders the river of death'.
too Stephens, were >n the next; and Peter W.
Alexander, Henry H. Jones, and last, but not
least—I say last, bat no*, least—Benjamin H.
Hill, were in tbe next! Just look over the
list—and tbe list might be indefinitely enlarg
ed, for I have named only a few as specimens
of tbe many—and see wbat we have done !
To say nothing of others, some twenty mem
bers of this body, with Speaker O. A. Bacon
at their head, might be added to tbe catalogue
of the slain. Bat, pleasantly aside, all the
men whom I have named are men of natural
parts, and would, doubtless, have been men
of mark, even without collegiate education ;
bat not one of them would have been himself
os now known to the world, withoat the direc
tion given to bis mind and tbe power develop
ed at tbe University of Georgia It is a fair
rale, to judge of the tree by its fruits, and by
this rale we are willing to stand or fail.
Of conrso the thousands of students who
have been in attendance at our balls have
not all been saints. Many of them doubtless
were vicious before they came, and so contin
ued. Some may have become vicious while
they were with us; bnt shall that be attribut
ed to the influence of the place, or the institu
tion. Attribute it rather to the depravity of
human nature. Take all who have ever Ween
with us, good and bad, and we shall be only
too happy to compare them, as a class, with
any other students, or with any equal number
of those who have never been students.
In regard to the students now in attendance
at the University, I take pleasure in saying
that since my connection with the institution,
if there has been a solitary case of intoxica
tion. or a solitary case of open vice of any kind,
it lias not come to my knowledge. There
have been some ebullitions of youthful feel
ing and yonthful folly; bnt daring tbe present
collegiate year not a solitary student has been
expelled or suspended, and not a solitary one
has been arraigned before the faculty for mis
conduct. I have had occasion to administer
reproof, bnt in no instance have I thought
proper to pnt a student on trial before my col
eagues. Withio the last few years the disci
pline of the University has changed character
entirely, and bas been greatly improved. I
hope it may be still farther improved ; bat I
shall endeavor to accomplish this end, not by
violent and heroic measures, but by a govern
ment whieh shall mingle kindness with firm
ness and justice; by convincing the students
that while I am tbeir sympathizing friend, re
garding myself «n loco parentis. I shall yet face
such emergencies of office as may arise, how
ever painful to myself or to others, with calm,
inflexible determination. I am persoaded
that any body of yonng men can be controlled,
as a class, by any fairly judicious nnd manly
administration, which treats them with re
spect doe to gentlemen, and which combines
gentleness and patience with nerve. To this
ideal It shall be my aim to conform. Great
progress bas been made of late years ia the
art of college government, and while, ae on-
der all other governments, disorders will oc
cur, yet an executive officer of moderate abili
ty, who keeps abreast of the times, must
achieve a degree of success which, a genera
tion ago, wonld have been thought to be im
possible.
We have with us two hundred and eighty
noble yonng men. The number of new eta-
dents at the opening of the term was larger,
I think, than ever beforo io the history of the
institution. Tbe number, of former students
who returned was not so large as frequently
before. Such has been tbe tendency for rav-
al years, and it is likely to oontinne; the rea
ran of which, I think, is simply this: that in
these days of poverty, many are anxious to
remain long enough to graduate, they stay
with ns a year and do not return.
If the students now with os are fairly rep
resented by those who have preceded them,
and I aw in general no reason why they should
not be. then, being guided by tbe proportion
of distinguished men already referred to, we
may suppose that we have with us now at the
University of Georgia nineteen young preach
ers, four incipient congressmen, one or two
youthful lodges of the supreme court, five ju
voline judges of the superior court, five embryo
college presidents, or professors, thirty-five
legislators, possibly one bishop, and probably
one or two Governors, and one hundred and
fifty leading citizens. Profoundly impressed
with the obligations of offieo ami, when I re
member that so precious a charge is commit
ted to my care, and that I am responsible to
my country and to my God, for the •• wisdom,
jnstiee and moderation” of my official conduct.
Bnt my joy'is this, that groat responsibility
is offset by glorions opportunity. The rewards
of success in such a work as this are enough
to satisfy the highest demands of tbe human
heart.
saw the white shore whieh the pale waters
beat.
And I heard the low tail as they broke at
their feet '
Who walked on the beantiful strand.
And I wondered why spirits could cling
To their clay with a straggle and sigh.
When. life's purple Autumn is better than
Spring,
And tbe soul flies away like a sparrow to
sing
In a climate where leaves tever die.
Leona, come close to my bed.
And lay your dear bead on my brow;
The same touch that thrilled me in days that
are fled.
And raised the lost roses of youth from the
dead.
Can brighten the brief moments now.
We have lived from the cold world apart,
And vour trust was too generous and true
For their bate to o’erthrow; when the slan
derer's dart.
Was rankling deep in my desolate heart,
was dearer than ever to yon.
thank the Great Father for this,
That onr love is not lavished in vain i
Each germ in tbe fatnre will blossom to bliss.
And tbe forms that we love and the lips
that we kiss.
Never shrink at the shadow of pain.
By the light of this faith am I taught
That my labor is only began;
In the strength of this hope hare I straggled
and fonght
With the legions of wrong, till my armor
has caught
Tbe gleam of Eternity’s snn.
Leona, look forth and behold.
From headland, from hillside, and deep,
Tbe day-king enrrenders his banners of gold:
Tbe twilight advances tbroagh woodland
and wold.
And the dews are beginning to weep.
Tbe moon's silver hair lies nnenried
Down the broad-breasted mountains away;
The ennset'e red glory again shall be fnrled
On the walls of the West, o’er the plains of
tbe world.
shall rise In a limitless day.
O ! come not in tears to my tomb,
Nor plant with frail flowers the sod;
There is rest among roses too sweet for its
gloom.
And life where the lilies eternally bloom
Id the balm-breathing gardens of God.
Wayside Gatherings.
to t
Yet deeply those memories burn
Which bind me to you and to earth,
And I sometimes have thought that my being
would yearn
In the bowers of Us beautiful home, to re
turn
And visit the home of its birth.
’Twould even be pleasant to stay.
And walk by yonr side to the last;
But ths land-breeze of heaven is beginning to
play—
Life-shadows are meeting Eternity's day,
And its tumult is bushed in the past.
Leona, good bye; ehonld the grief
That is gathering now, ever be
Too dark for yonr faith, yon will long for re
lief.
And remember, the jonrney, though lone
some, is brief.
Over lowland and river to me.
G. Clark.
..Between two evils choose neither.
..The end of everything—the letter g.
..Canyon spell consent in three lettersf
y-e-s.
..Even the laziest boy can sometimes catch
a whipping.
How mneb does a fool weigh generally
A simple ton.
..The only suits that last longer than yon
want are law suits.
As twice eleven are twenty-two, how can
twice ten be twenty, too t
..The Kansas grasshoppers speak very
highly of the spring's cabbages.
..A piano affords a young lady a good
chance to show her fingering and her Unger-
ring.
..What is the difference between a belle
and a burglar ? The belle carries false locks,
and the burglar false keys.
• I am bound to have my rights,' as the man
said to the shoemaker who had sold him a
pair of boots, both lefts.
..When Agassiz wa3 pressed to deliver a
lecture for pay. ho replied: * I cannot afford
to waste my time for money.'
' Lnv is sed tu be blind, but I know lots of
phellows ia luv who can see twice as much in
their gals as I kan.—Josh Billings.
..A gentleman observing the sign of “ Cas
well” upon a business establishment, remark
ed that it would be ' as tcell without the C.’—
Mail
..'Is tbia Adam’s House?' asked a stran
ger of a Bostonian. ‘ Yes,’ was tbe reply,
HATTIE HYDE.
I am Hattie Hyde, an old maid, at least not
a yonng one. and I intend to remain so.
But I came very near getting married last
spring, and I will tell yon how it happened.
I am thirty-five, and not absolutely ugly—
at least, when I look io the glass, I we reflected
there a good fresh complexion, sparkling ha
zel eyes, and an abundance of brown hair.
I might have married two or three times,
only I wasn’t really in love.
But when Clarence Raymond came down
to spend the vacation with his aant— Mrs
Richford—I mast confess to a little womanly
flatter around tbe heart, for he was tali and
handsome, and, in short, just the hero of ro
mance that I bad always dreamed about.
• Hattie,’ said Mrs. Richford—we were quite
confidential friends, and called one another
Hattie and Paraelia, and borrowed each other’s
books, and all sorts of things; • Hattie, I think
Clarence rather fancies you.'
* Do youf sa!d I. feeling the tell-tale biash
es coming into my face, and my heart bogao
to thump beneath the pretty lace tuckers
Vaienoiennes and pink ribbon that I bad taken
to wearing every day.
' I am certain of it,’ said Mrs. Richford; and
how nice it will be to have you for a cousin,
‘Yes.’
It was very nice to be engaged.
He gave me a lovely cameo ring, choicer
aud more antique than any diamond conld
have been. >
It had been his mother's ring, he said, and
he repeated the most delicious poetry and vow
ed that it expressed the very sentiments of bis
heart.
And we bad wanderings in tbe cool, fern
scented woods, and I began to wonder wheth
er I should be married in white satiu or
dove-colored traveling-drew, and pink ribbons
in my hat.
One evening, just after Clarence had re
turned to his QDavoidahle engagement in the
city, old Uncle Elnathan came to visit me.
Uncle Elnathan was one of those persons
whom we are apt to ask, ' Why were they ov
er created f
He wa3 a venerable old gentleman, with
long silver hair, that foil over the collar of his
bottle-green coat, and cloth gaiters that
resistahly reminded one of a black pussy cat
and he took snuff and talked through his nose
' Harriet,’ said Uncle Elnathan, • Is this
true!’
* Is what true, ancle 1'
Harriet! Harriet! I thought yon had better
sense.’
It’s only five years, uncle,’ said I, pouting,
and I suppose I have a right to get engaged
without sending to yon for a permit.'
‘ Harriet, this is not a subject to be flippant
about,’ said Uncle Elnathan, * You may de
pend upon it, that this young man is a mere
fortune hnnter. Yon have property, Harriet,
and he has fonnd it out.’
‘ Uncle!’ I cried, starting up, ‘ I will not
listen tamely to snob aspersions upon the char
acter of one who—’
' Well, my dear, yon needn’t get excited,’
said the intolerable old gentleman, tapping
Z- . f.hia hand upon the lid of his silver snuff-box.
* Yon are not a child, Harriet, nor yet a sen
timental school girl. Let’s talk the matter
calmly over.’
‘ I decline to discuss it, sir,' was my digni
fied reply. ' My mind is made np and no
amount of meddliDg interference can indace me
alter it.’
* But aren't yon just a little pert towards
yonr old Uncle, Hattief’
So my Uncle went away, silver hair, snuff
box, pussy gaiters, and all, and I sat down to
make a memorandum of tbe things I should
require for my wedding outfit. For I bad re
solved to make an eapeoial journey to London
that business
Ah, tbe delight of revelling over connters
full of choice, filmy laces, billows of bridal
silk, oceans of tulle! it brought the color to
my cheek only to think of it.
And besides, was it not necessary that Clar-
enco’s wife should have all that custom re
quired f
I didn't care for myself so much, but I was
determined not to disgrace Clarence.
So one radiant September day, when the
sky was as blue as blue ribbon, and the very
leaves hung motionless in the yellow atmos
phere, like ships at anchor on a sea of gold, I
took the early train from C , with a purse
full of money, buttoned in an nnder pocket of
my polonaise.
I bad read all sorts of horrid stories abont
piok pockets, and didn't mean to part with my
bank notes except for valae received.
I felt a little fluttered at first, and scarcely
ventured to look around me, for it seemed that
everybody must know that I was going to Lon
don to bny my wedding outfit.
If I attempt to tell you anything abont the
adventures of that day I know I Shall not
succeed.
Women conld perhaps understand how I
felt in that fairy land of those great circles of
fashion that exist only in London—glittering
halls where the poor sewing girl or tbe labor
er’s wife are treated with as muoh consider
ation and respect as the millionaire’s lady or
the yonng damsel who can’t get on a glove for
the diamond ring on her finger.
I bought tbe wedding dress, white rep silk
and a veil of tnlle, suspended from a garland
of orange blossoms, and I selected a bine silk,
and. a peach colored silk, and a maroon silk,
and dear me! what is the nse of cataloging
them ail ?
Other girls have been brides elect before me,
and they all know just how it all was.
And as for those who haven’t just let them
wait until their tarn comes.
And then as the snn began to deoline on its
western way, I felt excessively and nnroman-
ticaily hungry.
Is there a nice ladies’ dining-room near
heret’ I asked.
One of the shopmen went with me to tbe
door to point ont a glittering establishment,
with its windows frill of hot house fruits, and
morsels of paces and delicately tinted cakes,
Dear me 1 London is tbe piace to feel one’s
insignificance.
I do not think that I, Hattie Hyde, ever felt
so small in the whole course of my life as I did
walking over the floor of M. Rechamier's Pari
sian restaurant, with a waiter running on be
fore to point ont a marble table sparkling with
cut-glasa'andeilver, and another following on
behind carrying my travelling-bag and para
sol ; while an elegant Frenchman, curled and
perfumed, stood in the middle of the door
bowing as if be were nnder eternal obligations
to me for as much as coming into his estab
lishment.
I sat down, feeling mnch as If I were an im
postor, venturing meekly to look around
little after tbe waiter bad eimered away.
Then, for tbe first time, I noticed a superb
ly-dressed young lady one or two tables be
yond, in a lovely hat with a long, lilac willow
plnme, and hair like a shower of gold.
‘ Ob, how pretty she is,' thought I.
* How proud her lover most be of her.'
I leaned tbe least bit forward, to see the
yonng man in question.
Good heaven!
It was Clarence.
And as I eat staring, completely concealed
from bis view by the golden hair and the lilac
willow plume, I could hear his light peculiar
laugh.
* You wouldn’t have me yourself Kate,’ said
he; ’you only havo yourself to blame for it.’
* That’s no reason you should throw your
self away,’ pouted tho lady.
‘She’s a desperate old maid,’ said Clarence,
* as old as tbe hills aud twice as antiquated.
But she’s got tbe money. A man in my posi
tion has got to look ont for your money, you
know, Kate. Would you like to see her pho
tograph 1’
And then tbe two heads were close together
for an instant, and the young lady's rippling
laugh mingled with Clarence’s mellow tones.
‘ The idea of carrying such a thing next to
your heart 1’ she said.
It does seem rather outrageous, don’t it t'
said he. ‘ But when we are married all that
sort of thing will be over. I'll see that she
finds her level.’
Yes, when ! thought I, now thoroughly dis
enchanted. * , i :
Aud I got up and hurriod out of the restau
rant, stumbling over a tray, a dish of oysters
and a cup of coffee.
* I—I’ve changed my mind,’ said I, flinging
a sovereign toward him. 1 Never mind those
oysters.’
I took tho next train to C , and wroto a
scathing note to Clarauce the same evening.
Do you want to know what was in it?
‘ Our engagement is at an end. H. H.'
' F. S.—The next time you examine ladies'
photographs in a crowded restaurant, it might
be well to examine yonr neighbors.’
Clarence bad some sense alter all.
He never came near me with useless apol
ogies.
I gave the wedding dress to little Dorothy
Miller, who was to be marrried in October,
and coaldn't afford a trousseau.
I suppose I shall wear oat the blue and the
peach color aud tbe maroon in time.
Oh, I forgot to state that Mrs. Richford was
very angry.
It seems that Clarence had promised to pay
her a hundred pounds that he bad borrowed
of her when he got bold oftuy money.
And I am thankfnl from tbe bottom of my
heart that I still remain Hattie Hyde.
—
The New Kotor.
THAT INVENTION WHICH IS TO REVOLUTION
IZE THE WORLD.
Recently a Chicago Tribune contained a
Washington dispatch that a caveat for a novel
invention—a new motive power—had been
filed in the Patent Office. The invention
claims, says the dispatch, that this motor will
supercede coal and wood for all purposes ex
cept warmth and cooking, and that it will
revolutionize the present system of motive
power.
Tbe inventor’s name is Keely. He first dis
covered the principle be bas developed in his
motor while attempting to make a power sav
ing water wheel; and a few years ago applied
the power, which is produced from water with
out fire or chemicals, to machinery—to run
ning stationary engines. He first experiment
ed upon a little engine that would stand upon
the palm pf a man's hand. When the power
was let on, tho engine moved. The weight
of tbe inventor who stood upon a board laid
from the rang of a chair to tbe engine In a
way to test its power, conld not stop it. It
moved tbe board and its burden np and let it
down with great ease. To test tbe power that
bad been obtained, Mr. Keely then made a
cylinder of drawn copper, encased this in
wrought iron, and placed around both steel
bands close together—a powerful cylinder.
Tbe power was tamed on. and the cylinder
was torn to pieces in an instant. Then a
three-horse power engine was built, and finally
a fifteen-horse. These engines have been run
in Philadelphia every day for a year without
tbe use of coal or wood, without the use of fire,
and without the use of chemicals, at a cost of
not one cent. Tbe fifteen-horse power engine
bas been run twenty-three consecutive hours
with power manufactured iu less than five
minutes. These facts we learned troma gen-
tiemau interested in tbe invention, who has
seen the eugines'&lmost every day, and who
could not possibly have any object in telling
falsehoods in reference to this wonderful dis
covery.
Tbe dispatch to which wo have alluded
says that the scientific exports who have ex
amined it state that tbe invention is entirely
practicable, and will he patented." If it is
practical (and that it is we have not the shad
ow of a doubt,) wbat a revolution the inven
tion will work iu the world! It will super
sede the use of steam, and will solve the prob
lem of cheap transportation. Locomotives
can ran from Cairo to Chicago without stop
ping for either coal or water. The smoke
stacks of steamboats will disappear, their boil
ers be taken oat, and tbe great expense of
fuel saved to them. Tbe great danger of fire
and explosion will be removed from rivers, and
tbeir snrfaoes will fairly swarm with all kinds
of water crafts propelled by tbe Keely motor,
for it can he used as well on a barge as on a
greater bail.
Tbe power is obtained from water. By a
mechanical contrivance Mr. Keely changes
water from an nnelastio fluid into an elastic
fluid which can be called by no better name
than cold steam. In other words, Mr. Keely
obtains from water without using fire or chem
icais the power now obtained from water by
fire, and called steam. It is indeed a wonder
ful invention, and, as we bave raid before, is
destined to work a great revolution in tbe
world, a greater revolution than that made
either by tbe cotton gin, the steam engine, or
tbe telegraph. And, in tbe language of Col
Sellers, “ there's millions in it.”—Cairo Bulle
tin.
are deteriorating, that onr skilled workmen
are foreigners, while onr corner loafers are na
tive boro; that in oaf senate chamber we
have no Clay, nor Webster, nor Cass, nor Cal
houn, nor Benton, hut in their stead a class of
men who are wondronsly dwarfed by tbe con
trast they present with snch intellectual gi
ants. - ■ -■ : v
We suggest no remedy—we know of none—
but with the fact existing that Jackson and
Clay and Cass and Fillmore, and Lincoln and
Johnson, were children of poverty, brought
np to labor almost from their earliest child
hood, suffering all the privations of tho poor
est, it becomes us as a people so to regulate
Mjo physical occupations of the young that we
may be able to raise a class of men who are
fit to rale the state and perpetuate its liberties.
is high time that wo should get rid of some
of our theories, and bo more practical; that
we ra mould society that labor will bo regard-
honorable, practically, not theoretically,
and they who give tone to society shall honor
the laborer and discountenance the drone;
that a man’s best passport will be his moral
worth and bis willingness to labor, and that
he who will not labor shall hot eat.—Gazette
it Bulletin.
- - Said an ambitions Philadelphia wife to her
slow-going husband, the other day: • Why
can’t yon distinguish yourself in some way ?
Better be a great defaulter than nothing.'
L4KA* COBB. I A. S. SRWIR. | HOWELL COBB,SB.
P10BB, ERWIN & COBB,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
A THE US, QEORQIA.
Olfico in ths Deopieo Buildicg. DseSl
A A. EDGE,
. BOOT, 8Q0E AND HARNESS MAKER,
Watkirsvillb, Ga.
B P. WOFFORD, Attorney at law,
. HOMER, GA.
Will ozeouto promptly all business entrusted to bis
care. Collecting claims a specialty. aplZltf
3ANKRUPTCY.—Samuel P. Thurmond,
-J Attorncy-at-Law. Athens, Ga.
Office on Broad ttroct,over the store oj Barry A Son,
Will give special attentionto osses in Bankruptcy’. Al-
. to the coUeetion of all elalme entrusted to hiseara.
ThRS. BRAWNER & YOUNG,
1J CARNBSVILLE,
Having associated in the praetiee of Medicine and
Snrgery, tender tbeir professional services to their
friends and the public generally. JSf Office nearly
opposite the eonrt house. aplSl—tf
EHMORY SPEER,
Oj LAWYER, ATHENS, GA.
As Solicitor General of Western Circuit, will attend
tbe Courts of Clarke, Walton, Gwinnett, Hall, Banks,
faokson, Habersham, Franklin, Rnbnn and White,
md give attention to oolleoting and other olaimt in
those eonntioa. March 19,187S.
IOBH 1. ESTES. WABISOS BILL.
T'STES & BELL^Attorneys at Law,
CJ GAINESVILLE, GA.
^ja-WILL praetiee in the counties composing the
Western Cirenit, and Dawson and Forsyth eonntiee
of the Bine Ridge Cirenit. They will also praetiee in
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and in tbe United States
Court at Atlanta. may 14
T IVERY, Feed and Sale Stable,
JLj ATHENS, GA.
M W. RIDEN,
. ATTORNEY AT LAW,
February 19,-1873.
Of
* it’s Adam’s House until you get to to the j 1 All this fol-de-rol about your being engag-
roof, then it’s eaves,’ ' ed to a man ten years youuger than yourself.
An Evil of the Period.
In olden times it was not thought degrading
to work with the bands. The child of tbe
man of wealth was compelled to do a moder
ate amount of physical labor, in consequence
of which, when he arrived at manhood's
tate, he was a man physically as well as in
tellectu&lly; for tbe idea of a well developed
brain la a feeble and effeminate corporal or
ganization is a kind of paradox—a sound mind
requires a sound body. In early days boys
were taught trades; now they aspire to pro
fessions, simply because they are regarded as
nonreputable, and poor brain work is a better
passport to good society than skilled mechan
ical labor.
We are peculiarly a people of theories.
Theoretically we honor the sons of toil; we
speak in glorifying tones of the sunburnt brow
and the bard hand of the laborer; we becomo
eloquent when we tell of the mountains being
redneed, the valleys elevated, the torrents
spanned, the forest levelled and tbe wilder
ness made musical with tho anthems of labor.
But practically we igDore the laborer’s right
to recoguitiou—and wo receive into our social
circle tbe doctor without patients, tbe lawyer
without clients, and tbe dead-beat with noth
ing to recommend him except his utter aver
sion to everything like honest labor. We ven
ture tbe assertion that in al! communities, with
rare exceptions, if a man should require the
services of twenty professional men ho could
get thorn in twenty minutes; if he need that
many skilled mechanics he would be at some
trouble to find thorn.
The average young man to-day detests labor,
ho believes in fast horses aud gold watches,
but is not willing to put forth any effort to at
tain them. He is waiting for something to
“ turn up” instead of turning np something,
and the man of to-day is as much like the man
of forty years ago as a pigmy is to a giant. It
is no pleasant thing to witness the decay of rYFFICEover lurry'-. «i
v-J to criminal practice.
GA.
EDWARD R. HARDEN,
1 (L»t» Judge U. 8. Courts Nebraska and Utah,
and now Jndge of Brooks County Court)
Attorney at Law,
july23 ly Quitman, Brooks County, Ga.
TT'LOYD k GILMAN,
Jj ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Will practioe in tbo counties of Walton and Jackson,
OHXJ.FLOrn, J. B. S1LUAK.
Covington, Ga. tnar4 Jefferson, Ga.
J F. O’KELLEY’S
. PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,
Over Williams’ Shoe store, Broad street, Athens,
Georgia. «ep8.
T H. HUGGINS,
‘J • hole,ate and Rilat’. Dealer in
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, do.
Feblt Broad Street, A then,, Ga.
TOHN H. CHRISTY,
J Plain and Pane; BOOK AND JOB PRINTBB,
Broad St., Atheni, Ga.
Offioe corner Broad and Wall street,, over the,tore
fames D. Pittard. tf
R. LYLE,
Attoeeet at Law,
WATKINSriLLK, GA.
TOHN M. MATTHEWS.
ti Attoeeet at Law,
Daniel,viilo,Ga.
Prompt Attention will be given to any bn,lne„ on-
rusted to hi, eare. Marohl4.
TAMES L. LONG, M. D.
eJ sum
SURGEON, ACCOUCHEUR k PHYSICIAN,
(Office at Ur. Tkomao Skcats’ Store,)
Good Hope District, Walton county, Ga.
Offers his professional service, to tbe oitlxen, of tbe
.orrounding country. ang37
K ELIAS, Attorney at Law,
. FRANKLIN, N. <
Praetiee, in ail the Court, of Western North Caro
lina, and iu tbo Federal Courts. Claims collected ia
ell part* of tho State. apld—ly
OAN2T A BRAVES, Proprietors.
^FS-Will be found at tbeir old stand, rear Frank
lin House building, Thomas street. Keep always
on band good Turn-onts and careful drivers.
Stock wall eared for when entrusted to our eare.
Stock on band for sale at all times. dec25—tt
U. S. Claim Agent and Notary Pnblie,
Gainesville, Ga.
BO" Office on Wilson street, below King k Bro’s.
•f efcra " r
VBBPLBS. E. F. DOWELL.
"DEEPLES k HOWELL,
JL ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
20and 22, Kimball House, Atlanta. Ga.'
P RACTICE in the State end Federal Courts, and
attend regularly all tbeConrts in Atlanta, includ
ing the Supreme Court of the State, and will argue
eases upon brief, for absent parties, on reasonable
terms.
They also praetiee in the Courtsof tbe counties con
tiguous orneeessibleto Atlantaby Railroad, sepll
R B. ADAIR, D.D.S.
• Gainesville, Ga.
Office, southeast corner Public Square.
R S. ADAMS,
• Surgeon, Ac
trcDEDB AND PHYSICIAN.
Office st residence. Mountain District, Walton coun
ty, Georgia—offers hi, professional services to the
citisene of the surrounding country. au(;28—ly
S C. DOBBS,
• Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, 4c.
■ No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
Feb9
Of course, like all women’s letters, the best men, iu all tho attributes of mauhood, but tho
tt of it was ia the postscript: ' fact stares us in the face that we, as a people
SPOOL SILK!
G ET THE BEST and CHEAPEST! Git thatmsn.
ufaetured by the Singer Manufacturing Company,
which is specially adapted for use on all kinds of Sew
ing Machines. . . .
For snle, wholesale and retail, by the SINGER
MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
j„lyl_lj * G. H. H OPE, Agent, Athena, Ga.
P. G. THOMPSON,
A TTORNEY AT LA W,
ATHENS, OA.
store. Special attention f
_ rnin&l practice. For reference, apply t
Gov. Thomas H. Watts and Hon. David Clopton, Mont
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