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    YOL. XVI.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1874.
NO. 274
T1IE LOOK OF FATE
in iuh myniwi mum oi iuy:
And the bright thread* Hath their radiant glow
In the face of a maiden ooy,
Who sweetly smile* at the splendor bright,
And the weaver's subtle strain;
As the golden threads flash in and out,
Flash in and out again.
And the maiden joins In tha wearer’s song,
Her soul is wrapped in the splendor rare,
And her heart grows proud and rain,
As the golden threads flash In and out,
Flash In and out again.
Ah! a shadow falls on the weaver’s brow,
And his song grows sad and low;
For the wondrous thread «t>ems changing now—
It has lust 1 s radi int glow;
And the web grows dark, and darker still,
With the blighting sorrow stain;
As baok and forth the shuttle flies,
Still baok and lorth again.
Breaks forth a sign ol pain ;
ks baok and forth the shuttle flics,
Still back ana forth again.
And the weaver, Fate, sits stern aud grim
Beside his shadowed lo m. *
To break the mystlo thread so dark
His subtle skill Is vain,
As baok and forth the shuttle flies,
Still baok and forth again.
THE OLD VIOLIN.
Frederick Graham had betrajed a de
cided talent for music at an early age.
His father was a stock-broker, and in a
dark aud dreary office in the darkest part
of the city of London had scraped up
sufficient money to purchase a house at
Brlxton, and to establish for himself s
respectable name as church-warden. He
was punctual in his payments, and rigid
in exacting the same punctuality from
others; he loved business, and looked
upon skill in stock-jobbing aa the sum
mit of human wisdom. Mr. Graham be
ing thus constituted, it is not to be won
dered at that Frederick, from his cradle,
should have been destined to follow in
the successful footsteps of bis father.
With these gentlemen, sons are merely
pieoes of machinery to be put in action at
a certain age—invested capital for which
they calculated upon a good percentage
in after years. But Frederick had be
trayed a decided talent for musio; the
fact is curious, almost unaccountable; but
even to the dim perception of the elder
Graham,' it was too evident to be doubted.
In vain would he read to him the oity ar
ticle from the Times, as they sat at break
fast. Frederick’s soul was not in the
money market; and whilst his father was
loudly extolling the power of gold, his
hearer was silently contemplating the
power of art. Day after duy would he
ait absorbed iu the poetical creations
which the great composers have left for
the enjoyment aud refinement of man
kind. lu the interpretation of their
works ho felt a kindred spirit rise within
him, aud he resolved to devote his fchole
life to tbe art of which they bad proved
such noble ornaments.
Our youthful enthusiast had read of
Germany, and formed to himself a pleas
ing picture of the manner iu which genius
is there recognized. Of the state of the
profession in England he knew nothing.
He felt, that to be happy, he must live in
the atmosphere of music; that ho must
think with, and speak with, those who
love and appreciate the art.
Frederick’s father was not remarkable
for thinking of anything but business,
nevertheless one eveniug, having com
fortably seated himself in an arm-chair,
he began to ruminate on his son's fatal
taste for musio. He could not understand
it. Frederick had been dutiful in every
thing but this, apd why he should obsti
nately insist upon liking music better
than stook-jobbing was totally beyond
tha father's comprehension. Of one
thing, however, he was certain, either his
son should take to business, or he would
turn bis back upon him at once, and for
aver.
Frederick dated bis love for musio to a
very simple oiroumstance. In bis bed
room hung an old Cremona violin, which,
from a child, he had looked upon with
interest. A mere passion for a pretty
toy had now grown into a reverential love
for an intellectual companion. He had
taught himself to play, and by degrees
had so inasterod many of the difficulties
of the instrument, that he could perform,
with pleasure to himself, many of tbe
finest compositions of the eminent mas
ters.
Having studied the pianoforte when
young, he now applied himself to exam
ining the scores of our noblest oroheatral
works, and impelled by a muiioal organi
sation whioh could not be controlled, he
very shortly removed himself as effectu-
Ally from the matter-of-fsot life whioh his
father had designed for him, as if he had
inhabited another world.
Mr. Graham, Frederick’s father, after
a short attack foil a victim to a virulent
fever, and died, leaving oar young musi-
cisn with but fifty pouods iu his pocket,
yet his altered circumstances did not dis
hearten or discourage him, and he de
termined to pursue his favorite study.
Five years from this time he was seated
alone in an attio, no longer tbe yonng
and enthusiastic musician we have bith-
arto seen him, for ho had undergone se
vere privu^pns. He leaned bis head upon
Bis band and appeared buried in medita
tion. The old violin huDg before him,
M it had done from his earliest child*
Bood, and in looking towards it, from
time to time, he almost felt a return of
that buoyant and hopeful spirit with
which it had inspired him of old. But
the gleuin was transient, and he quickly
relapsed into his former state of despon
dency. Let us endeavor to divine his
thoughts.
A few years ago be had entered the pro
fession full of hope and enthusiasm. Be
ing a good violiuist, he imagined hie
services would be valuable aa »n oroheatra
player; and being also a pianist of no
mean ability, he had little doubt of estab
lishing himself as a teacher until be oould
develop his talents as a composer, and
appeal to the ordeal of public opinion.
The painful reality was now before
him. It was true that he had been
•ngaged in several orchestras daring tbe
season; but this was the “dead time of
tbe year," and orchestra playing bore no
value iu the market. Cheap concerts were
then unknown ; music was kept for the
aristooracy, and to play to au audience
who had been admitted at a shilling eaoh
was considered degrading in the extreme.
The idea was flattering to the rich, and
musicians were to be found who loyally
supported it and loyally starved upon
it. He had three or font pupils,
bat they had all quitted town, or-die-
penaed with his services for some other
raaon. He had written many composi
tions, bat the supply, he was told exceed
Ad the demand.
Tha misery of bis situation was now ap
parent to him, but reflection came too
He plainly perceived that hia talents
m — ot mtu ms unless there existed
tot oould uot bobawd, ■Mni!r M
oould get but few pupils. He wes a vio
linist, but orchestral players were only
engaged in “the seanon, and no band
oonld be organised out of “the season, ”
because it would ruin musio to let it be
heard under ten shillings and sixpence.
Thus he found that the people upon
whom he bad fondly relied for sup-
>ort bad, in fact, very little to do with
be matter, an1 os he had no interest with
any music published, he had as litlle hope
of success in the creative as in the execu
tive part of the ert. He had nobody to
blame, having freely ohosen his profes
sion; the error was his own, and he must
suffer for it.
Frederick Graham was startled from his
reverie by a loud tap at the door. Scarce
ly had he time to recover from his sur
prise, when the door suddenly opened
and his landlady stood before him. She
was evidently bold and determined, for
she put her hands on her hips and stood
in the doorway, as if resolved to defend
the entrance with her life.
“Mr. Graham," said she, “you’ll excuse
tho liberty I’m a-takin’, but if my calcula
tion is right, two quarters is up oome next
Friday.”
Frederick sighed, bat made no answer.
“And if I must say what I means," con
tinued his landlady, “I’ll thank yon to
pay me."
“Leave mo to myself this week,” said
Frederick, “and yon shall positively re
ceive payment on Monday. Don't oppress
by unnecessary violence, I entreat
you.”
“Oppress!” almost screamed the land
lady, “oppress, when I ask for my right
ful earnings! Gome, air, sinoe yon put
me up, I wouldu’t say you're any better
than you should be, arter all. I know tuy
duty, sir, as a hard working Christian
woman; and if I have brought up six
children, and always paid my way, which
I’m sure nobody oan say I ever owed them
a halfpenny, I suppose at this time of dsy,
I’m to be preached at by such as you.”
“The truth must be told,” said Fred
erick, “I have not the money. If you will
uot wait, therefore, at leaat relieve me
from the necessity of further humiliation,
and tell me so frankly.”
“Well," said she, seeing that nothing
was to be got out of him, and arranging
her cap, whioh had been deranged by
e*tl,
sundry shakes of the head during her last
speech, “well, Mr. Graham, Io sure I
I don't want to be hard with you; I never
was with any lodger afore you, and I’ve
mostly been praised for my temper, bo if
yon oan’t pay, why I suppose I meet wait
a little.”
Now had the worthy landlady quitted
the room at this moment—had she been
attraoted down stairs by a noise in the
kitchen, or had any one knocked at the
door to inquire the terms of the ground-
floor—all would have been well: but as
ill luck would have it, she accidentally
cast her eyes toward tbe spot where hung
the old violin. No sooner had she done
so than a change came over her counten
ance, and she advanced toward Frederick
with a firm and determined step.
“Mr. Graham,” said she, “I have my
ideas on what’s good and proper, but I
won't be put upon, so don't think it. You
see that old fiddle. I don't know much
about them things myself, but they say
you can often sell an old fiddle for a great
deal of money. Now I stand before you
as a lone widow woman and says pay me
my lawful rent for the lodging, and I’ll
forgive you for tollin' me just now that
you had nothin’ to pay me with.”
Frederick felt as if he had received an
electric shock. To part with his violin—
the earliest friend of hia obildhood, and
the only reminiscence which oould ever
awaken within him one spark of his form
er ambition, was an idea whioh had never
even entered bis mind. He started to his
feet, and his landlady was about to ap
proach the instrument, he detached it
from the wall, and held it firmly in bis
his hand.
“Very well,” said his enraged landlady,
“very well, Mr. Graham. You won't sell
it then?"
“Not if I were compelled to quit your
house this moment, said Frederick,
firmly.
“Then I just tell you, onoe for all, air,"
said she, “that if you don’t pay me every
farthing yon owe me by next Friday, off
f oes the fiddle, or off goes you. And now
've told you a bit of my mind, I wish
you a very good morning, Mr. Graham."
No sooner had his landlady closed the
door than Frederick Graham felt a new
mac. Roused to active exertion by tbe
mere thought of being compelled to part
forever with hia oldest and dearest friend,
he resolved to brood over bis prospects no
longer. At various music publishers
compositions of his in manusoript had
been left for perusal, but he had never
been able to muster sufficient resolution
to ascertain whether they had been ac
cepted or rejected. He now determined
to know his fate at once, and depositing
his violin in a place of security, he left
tbe house, resolved to call at every place
where compositions had been left.
It was one of those lovely autumnal
days when the spirits almost insensibly
partake of the freshness and cheerfulness
of the surrounding scenery. Frederick,
for the five long years, had not experi
enced so much elasticity of feeliug as now
animated his footsteps; and as he passed
along the orowded thoroughfare, he felt
that every person looked in a friendly
manner toward him, and be oould not
help thinking that the tie which naturally
existed between I he musician and tbe
people was too strong to be much longer
disregarded. The true poet, thought he,
writes for the sympathies of the hninau
mind, and any artificial obstruction to tbe
universal appreciation of his words must
be but temporary.
Frederick Graham entered the first
publisher’s with a faltering step, and was
introduced to the principal. He was ex
tremely sorry to say he feared the specu
lation would not do—tho sale of music
was very limited—the name unknown—
he was much obliged for tbe offer—and
he wished him a good morning.
When be left the bonse he became
somewhat dejeoted, but he thought of
tbe old violin, and felt he would encoun
ter any difficulties than part with it. He
oalled npon a second ana third firm, but
without any better success. All were ex
tremely sorry, and shook him very ten
derly by the hand at parting. On any
other occasion he would have been com
pletely crestfallen by these repeated dis
appointments, but the thought of parting
with bis dear old favorite, the violin, ani
mated him to fresh exertion, and he en
tered a fourth house as cheerfully as if he
had just entered on his mission.
Now it so happened that the gentleman
who owned this fourth establishment was
one of those who was desirous to help
forward a young composer, and at tbe
same time benefit himself iu tbe event of
any pubUo acknowledgment of the au
tbor’s genius; be, therefore, usually ex
ercised a little discrimination in tbe pe
rusal of the works committed to him.
“Mr. Graham,” said he, “1 am exceed
ingly happy to see you. The songs you
left with ma the other day I like very
Frederick's heart beat rapidly.
“But," continued he, <4 you are, of
course, aware that you are a stranger to
the publio, and that if I purchase your
maoMcript I cannot Afford to give you
Frederick tried to appear indiffereut,
and stammered out something about his
particular wish to publish with him.
“Well," said he, “now I’ll tell you what
1'il do, Mr. Graham. I will give you
twelve guineas* for the six ; we will pub
lish them in a volume, and see whether
your name will not oommand better
termB the next time we have dealings to
gether."
Frederick oonld have seized him by tho
hand—almost have bogged him in bin
amis—in the rapture of the moment; but,
iu commercial speculations, transports
are dangerous, and he contrived, there
fore, merely to signify his ready acqui
escence. The publisher gave him a check;
and Frederick bounded, rather than
walked, from the shop, so light was his
heart. Io a quarter of an hour he hud
got tho check cashed, and as he put the
amount of his lodging-money into the
hands of his landlady, she blessed him a
thousand times, and said that she “always
considered him to be a true gentleman."
And the old violin, which had nerved
him to aotion—whioh had restored to him
a portion of that euergy with which he
had at first embraoed musio as a means of
living—was kept, as it had ever been,
near him. But he shortly changed his
attic for a drawing-room, aud then hiB
drawing-room for a house, and many
mnsio publishers began to find, in the
course of time, that bad they purchased
the compositions of Frederick Graham
when they were first offered to them, it
might really have been a very good speo
ulntiou.
As there are many Frederick .Grahams
at this moment residing in back attics, lot
us hope that the development of their
talents may not dopend upon such trifling
accidents as have beeu here related. Had
tbe old violin never existed, or had his
spirits failed him five minutes earlier, our
tale might have ended very differently,
perhaps too tragically.
♦Sixty dollars.
Chinese Domestic Life*
They have a large screen before the
door-way, whiflh gives privacy snfflciently
for their need. The window saBhea are
closed either by a sort of jalousie or thin
matting. They do not surround their do
mesticities with the same mystery and
secret precautions with whioh we envelop
these proceedings in Europe. Human
nature, they argue, has to sleep, snd hero
is the mat upon whioh it stretches itself.
Why conceal it ? It also wants to eat,
and it satisfies its appetite no matter how
many eyes are gazing. Tell a Ohineese
cook yon are hungry, and he will immedi
ately fetoh his fire, his cooking utensils,
his provisions, and cook under your very
note. He has no idea of concealing his
operations in some far-away back region,
yolept kitchen. He squats down any
where, makes a fire on or in anything;
a basin, dish, pan, or pot—there is no
limit to his invention. He will cook in
the middle of tbe street, or in the centre
of his guests in a restaurant. Upon one
occasion, when on board a junk, I ob
served a man cooking bis own and his
neighbor’s food for days together in a
tub, and an earthenware saucer containing
the charcoal. Wonderful creatures they
are, those despised Chinese, with a deft
ness of finger and ingenuity and patience
unsurpassed by any nation under tho
sup!—Temple Bar. #
Rattan.
This peculiar product comes from the
East Indies, principally from Singapore,
Pedang Penang, Samarang and St. Si
mon s Bay. The United States consumes
three-qu&rterR of the total products, the
imports amounting now to something
more than 0,000,000 pounds. The Cala
mus llotany belongs to that peouliar
species of palm which secretes in its cu
ticle a very considerable amount of Hilica,
while its inside is made up of tough and
fibrous filaments. The outside, with the
smooth and natural varnish, when stripped
off by particular machinery, is used for
seating chairs. The inside of the rattan
is employed iu a variety of ways. It is
shaped by machinery either round or fiat,
snd so worked up into innumerable ar
ticles. Baskets, brooms, mats, matting,
are all made from the inside of the rattan,
and an immense quantity of it is worked
around demijohns. Split rattan in modo
np into some half dozen sizes, and is
then sold by the thousand feet. Tho
finest quality of rattan is used by whip
makers. This largo and constantly in
creasing business may be estimated by
tho fact that one factory in New England
alone employs 1,000 operatives, and that
the total number of people working ju
rattan (the Rchoolroasters excluded) jis
fully 1,800. Tbe copital used in tbe man
ufacture of rattan is about $2,000,000.
Politeness.
One cannot bo polite and well-mannered
without kind feelings and a good heart.
AU the rules for etiquette, all the hand
books and “Guides to Society" in the
world aro worthless, if you have nothing
within your soul which teaches you to do
unto others as you would have them do
unto you. Yon may learn to bow and to
shake hands according to tho boat rubs of
deportment; you may make calls at ex
actly the right time, and understand tho
oornera of your visiting cards thoroughly;
but if you have spite in your heart, and
envy in your soul, yoa will never bo truly
well-mannered.
If you desire to boast, to he conspicu
ous to monopolize attention, to hurt the
feelings of innocent people, and to sow
dimension between friends, you cannot
make u lady or goutlemuu of yourself by
any number of airs and graces. But if
you aro kind and good, and wish people
well, and prefer to say pleasant thiugs
when you can, you will be polite without
trying to bo, aud only silly people will
criticise any form of hearty welcome, any
effort to make them comfortable that may
occur to you.
Twenty Impolite Things.
1. Loud and boisterous laughing.
2. Beading when others are talking.
3. Reading aloud in company without
being asked.
4. Talking when others are reading.
5. Spitting about the house, smoking
or chewing.
<1. Gutting finger nails in company.
7. Leaving church before worship is
closed.
Whispering or laughing in the house
of God.
y. Correcting older persons than your
self, especially parents.
10. Leaving a stranger without a seat.
11. G«zing rudely at slrangors.
12. A went of respect and reverence
for seniors.
13. Receiving a present without an ex
pression of gratitude.
14. Making yourself hero of your .own
story.
13. Laughing at tbe mistakes of othors.
13. Joking others in company.
17. Commencing talking before others
have finished speaking.
18. Answering questions that have been
put to others.
19. Commencing to eat as soon aa yon
get to the table.
20. Not listening to what one is saying
in oompany.
—The body grows aocording to what it
feeds on; so does tbe mind.
It has been notioed in several cases
that when one-quarter of a grain of mor
phine would uot produce sleep, if ten
graius quinine were administered a short
inie previous to administering the mor
phine, the morphine would almost inva
riably act efficiently.
—A gentleman who has recently visited
the Miuing Academy of Frieburg, says :
“Students of every nationality are fouud
hero, and there is no doubt that if a man
liken to work he can learn a great deal, as
some of the most celebrated professors in
Germany aro teachers. The only requi
site for a student eutering the Academy
is that he should kuow a little Gerniuu.
This rule is not very strictly observed, aud
any one of ordinary intelligence ought to
pick up the requisite amount in a mouth,
or six weeks at the outside. There are
different courses open to the option of tho
student, suoh as an essaying course,
ohemical course, surveying aud mining
course."
—The habit of breathing through the
month instead of the nose, tends to
wenken the whole respiratory apparatus,
diminish the capacity of the lungs, and
when commenced iu early infanoy, to dis
tort the jaws and deform the teeth. Many
of the tribes of Americau Indians—as ex-
S tained by the eminent artist, tha late
[r. Colton—are peculiar never to allow a
child to sleep for a moment with its
month open, and uusyuimetrical teeth aro
unknown among them. Whenever a ohild
is inclined to open its mouth dnriug
sleep its watchful mother or nurse pressi h
its lips together, holds them closed, and
perseveres iu tho corrective process until
the abnormal habit is overcome aud
breathing the natural way established.
The eggs of turtles are considered a
great luxury by bears. Dr. Frank Fox, a
well-kuowu huuter of New Smyrna, says
ho onoe saw a bear take his stand behind
a turtle on the nest. Bruin caught the
eggs in alternate paws as they fell, and
devoured them with a smack of the chops
that oould be heard at tho distance of 100
yards. Bears have been known to watch
turtles for hours, aud then tour them to
pioces because they showed no disposi
tion to lay. The eggs are deposited at a
depth of from 15 to 18 inches. They ere
not oval but round, aud noarlv the size of
a hen’s egg. The shell is flexible, and
white assnow. It is an elastic as rubber.
Dent an egg with your thumb, and tbe in
dentation will last for hours. Egg hun
ters always oerry a bag, in whioh they
drop the eggs. A bag of eggs oan he thrown
across a horse, tbe horse ridden at a full
gallop, and not an egg broken.
At a recent meeting of the Hociete de
Medicine of Paris, M. Lunier cited tho
a young woman, a maniac, who
had several times tried to commit suicide.
On tho first occasion she took a decoction
of two or three packets of tobacco, which
ahe had boiled for half au hour. Another
time she swallowed two quartors of a
hundred of pins, and buried a quarter
of a hundred in hor scalp. Fiualiy she
procured two hectogrammes (nearly a
half a pound) of guupowder, set fire to it
and placed horself over it. Howover,
none of these attempts rosulted in any
thing but. making her ill. She passed a
great number of pins per annum, and it
was only at tho ond of two or three
months those in the scalp were discov
ered, and thirty nf them removed. At
tbe end of thren month* she was com
pletely cured. This fact tends to coufirm
the relative immunity from suffering
whioh is peculiar to the iusuue.
—The physicians oppose tho suppres
sion of vivisoction by law. Tho Medical
liecord ot this city says : “There dooH
not seem to be any doubt that during the
next State Legislature tho President of
tho Society for tho Prevention of Cruelty
to Auimals will leave nothing undone to
accomplish his purpose of preventing
vivisection in future. Absurd as it may
seem, there is a possibility that he may iu
tho end succeed, unless some definite
stand is taken against him by the profes
sion ah a body. The Medical Society of
thio county has taken the proper initia
tive iu the mutter, and its example should
be followed by every similar organization
throughout tho State. L“t suitable reso
lutions be passed protesting against any
legal interference with our rights as ex
perimentalists and investigators. If that
bo done and such protests bo communi
cated to tho parent society, tbo profession
can speak to our Legislators in a manner
not to be misunderstood."
—Prof. Pritchard, of Oxford, and a
clergyman, recently read a paper before &
Church Association in England, in which
lie suggests that it would be a good thing
“if iu tho study of every manse through
out England thero wore found a well-used
microscope, nud on the luwn a tolerable
telescope; and, best of all, if those who
possess influence in our national universi
ties could see tholr way to tho enforce
ment of a small modicum of tho practical
knowledge of common things on the
minds of those who are to go forth and
do battle with the ignorance and failings
of our population, and to spread light
throughout the land. A little knowledge
of tho ancient elements, fire, air, earth,
and water, would save many a yonng
clergymuu from the vanity of ridiculous
extremes, and from tho surprise of tho
more wisely and widely educated of his
Hock." “Depend upon it, whatevor may
be our suspicions or our fears, the pursuit
of tho knowledge of the works of nature
will increnso, and increase with an accele
rated velocity; and if our clergy decline
to keep pace with it, nnd to direot it into
wholesome channels, they and their flocks
will be overtukcu; though from opposito
directions, by the inevitable Nemesis of
disproportion."
—A recent traveler says : Laplanders
are by no means so ignorant as they are
supposed to be, only it is genersily al
lowed that their capacity is limited. At
Koutokeino, thero is a school, supported
by government, aud conducted by a Lapp,
who also fills the offices of parish clerk
aud interpreter to the parsou. Bmoking
and drinking brandy, however, appear to
have more attractions than learning. Be
fore drinking they take the precaution of
warming, or ut least taking the chill off
their corn brandy, aud at one sitting they
will out an extraordinary quantity of food.
This food is chiefly dried reindeer flonh,
and a kind of bread mado of chaff’, which
is best compared to crambling mortar in
appearance and taste. During si journey
the mountaineers carry all their property
with them. Their silvor coin is alono ex
cepted. Distrust even of bis wife snd
children, the principal feature iu the Lap
lander's character, prevents bis risking his
idol’s safety in his migrations. It is,
therefore, generally buried in some unsus
pected spot. Their immoderate love for
silver coin is notorious. Heldom does a
piece that has fallen into their hands
•gain find its way into circulation. In the
selection of • wife the charms of beauty
have little power in comparison with tho
size of tbe herd or the number of silvor
coins she brings as • portion.
PBENHIXSS.
A gentleman found himself change-
leas while ridiug iu a horse car. A lady
politely relieved him of the embarrass
ment by loaning him a quarter, but re
marked, “I must have intercut." The
next duy he culled aud hauded her a new
stamp and a couple of bottles of porfume,
saying, “tho two cents are for interest."
Those of our roadora who havo
slopped at n hotel in waiting will appre
ciate what Dou Piatt, writing from a se
cluded retreat says: “Wo have here a
piuuoforte forty-horse power. An acci
dent delayed tho passenger train two
hours hole, and eighteen women took
turns at the piano. We iuttnd to serve
this piano with uu ounce of uitro-glyce-
riue."
— “I ntu nil old fellow," says Cowper,
one of his letters to Hurd, “but I had
once my dancing days, as you have now ;
yet I could never find that I could learn
half so much of u woiuun’s character by
dancing with hor, t.s by oouversing with
hor ut home, whore I could observe her
behavior unobserved, at the table, at the
fireside, aud in all the trying ciroumstun-
oes of life. Wo aro all good when we are
pleased; but she is u good woman who
wnnts no fiddle to Hwccton her."
—A curious Frenchman has lately boon
making a calculation, which is, that a
man talks on an nverago three hours a day
at the rate of about twenty-nine octavo
pngos an hour. This would make eighty-
Bevm pages a day, about <500 a week,
which would amount to fifty.two good-
lized volumes every year. And then,
multiplying this, by tbo number of year*
iu a muu’s life, what a library he would
have if it should all bo priutud! But it
is something to be grateful for that words
are uot caught up and printed that way.
—According to Prof. Johu Fisko tho
slow alteration of physique which is going
on in this country is only an exaggeration
of that which modern civilization is tend
ing to bring about everywhere. It is
cuused by the premature uud excessive
strain upon the mental powers requisite
to meet the omergoncics of our complex
life. The progress of events has thrown
tho work of sustaining life so largely upon
the hrniu that wo uro bogiuning to saori-
flee tho physical to tbo intellectual. Wo
are growing spiritual in appearauoe at the
expense of robustness. ’’
—Some very observing poraon has re-
fluotsd that the devotion ot womau is al
ways something bountiful. Ou the last
rainy day tlio dovecote uinn might have
boon seen dragging his portable aviary
through orowded streets to a pluee of
shelter, and his wife trudging behiud, in
mud ankle-deep, anxious to bear bur share
iu advauciug his fortunes. This was
touching. But theu there goes Mrs. Mo-
Shoddy, whose devotion is equally pro
nounced, though of a different nature. It
is dovotiou to shopping, ami no elomental
rage will prevent that worthy woman, any
more than the first named, from putting
thnt Paris hat aud most of the jewelry
her husband hus succeeded iu Ncouriug
for hor, and trudging uhout iu tho rain to
bear her share in securing his fortune in
silks aud laces w hich will be a real credit
to him.
Live Witln Tour Menus.
We don’t like stinginess, we don’t like
economy, when it cornea down to rngs
and starvation. Wo havo no sympathy
with the notion now prevalent that the
poor man should hitch himsolf to a
post and stand still, whilo the
world moves forward. It. is no muu’s
duty to deny himsolf overy amusement,
every recreation, every comfort, that ho
may get rich. It is no man's duty to make,
uu iceberg of himself, to shut his eyes and
to the sufferings of his follows, and
to deny hiuiHolf the enjoyment that
suits from generous actions, that ho may
honrd wealth for his heirs to quarrel
about. But thore is au economy whioh is
overy man's duty, and which is especially
commendable in the man who struggles
with poverty—an economy which is con
sistent with happiness, and which must
lie practiced if the poor man would secure
independence.
It is almost every man's privilege, and
it becomes his duty, to live within his
meaus; not to, but within them. Wealth
does not iniiko tho rnuti, we admit, and
should never bo token into account in our
judgment of men ; but competence should
always bo secured, wlion it can tie, by the
practice of economy and self denial only
lo a tolerable extent. It should be secured,
uot so much for others to look npon, or
to raise ns in tuo es'imation of others, ns
to secure the consciousness of indepen
dence ; and the constant satisfaction
which is derived from its acquirement aud
possession.
—Bayard Taylor Hays it is not generally
understood (hut womau iu ancient Egypt
was honored and r< spooled equally as
tnuu. Thero was among the Egyptians a
lofty Appreciation of tho m.rriage tie.
The wile’s name was often placed boforo
that of tho hu-baml, and the sons often
hour the names of the mother'-, instead of
those of the fathom. Women oft* u sat
upon the throne and adijinis'ered all the
affairs of tho government. The assertion
wo so often hoar in these days that womau
lias ulvrayn occupied u position of subjec
tion to man is glaringly false. In ancient
Egypt ho possessed no important right
which was not equally shared with hor.
And i-he says, just us we might expect,
that it is impossible to look upon the
statues of that period, and not feel what
a high degree of culture was fairly chim
ed by tho race. The very household fur
niture is such as one might buy this day.
We find, among oilier things, boards for
checkers, paint-boxen, knives, needles,
pomatum-boxes, straw-baskets, a child’s
Dell for playing uiado of clastic palm
fibres, dried fruits, line cakes of bread,
such as wo use to-day, uud many of the
surgical instruments are quite identical.
In other words, tho more woman the more
civilization.
THE “AWFUL** YOUNG LADT.
BT AW.
In glancing over the column*
Ofa (tapir the other day,
I read of the "awAil” young lady
Who’* la each an “awflil" way;
Bln) lives with her “awful" father,
In an “awful" ttrand .ton* hmoe,
And in aometiincn “awfully" frightened
Uy ■ruing an “awful" mouse.
The tuauhrr ‘s “awful” homely,
And, thuruforo, an “awful” fool.
Mary Smith in an “awful” nice g'rl,
Ai d ahe in her “awful" gixfll Irlund :
They took an “awful" nice walk ooo day,
llut it earn * to au “awful” end
For they mot an “awful” rroe* dog,
They were “awful" afraid hu would bit* V
Aud they ran houiu “awful" fa*t,
And eo forth, ad infinitum.
The wrltor was troubled In •pirit,
i kind avd fatherly friend,
That If they don’t stop *ayln^"awful,’’
They will cotnu to an -‘awful" end.
Lawyers.
JOSEPH F. POU,
Attorney at Law,
and Judge of County Court*
Practice# in all other Court*.
OBoe over itore of W. II. Hobart* A Co., Broad 8t.
JaStf
SAMUEL B. HATCHER,
Attorney at Law*
Ofloe over Wtttlch A K Inset's
Cotton Factories,
COLUMBUS MANUFACTURING CO.,
Manufacturer* of
•hectlage, Shirtings, and flowing and
Knitting Thrond*
Cord* Wool and Grinds Wheat and Corn-
Office in rear of Wittich A Klnael's, Randolph at.
J»W K. H, CHILTON, President*
J. M. M elf BILL,
Attorney and Counsellor at Low.
Practice* In rottrU of Georgia and Alabama.
Office 12* Broad fit., (over C. A. Rudd A Co.'s)
Ppccial attention given to collections. Jail
Postal Ingram.
Ki
INGRAM A CRAWFORD!,
Attorneys ut Low,
Will prnctloe in the State aud Federal Oonrt* of
Georgia.
Freer, lllgea A Co.’* atore, nortliweat
■VKCOGKK MANUFACTURING CO.
Manufacturers of
S11KKTINGB, aaiAXlMQI,
TARN, HOPE, Ac.
COLVMBV8, GA.
• A Treasurer. oct31 ly.
JaH
—At a recent prayer mealing of colored
people ut Erie, the decency und good or
der of tho mooting bong disturbed by a
negro named Brown, whoso prayers in
publio were only incoherent ravings, tho
pastor inquired; “What fool nigcur's
dftt proyiii down dar no a’ tho do’ ?" A
dozen people replied with one voico ; “It
Brudder Brown, Bah.” “Den," re
plied tho pastor, “llruddor Brown, sub
side. and let some one pray dut’s better
'quaintod wid do Lord."
—A pensive young man in Wisconsin,
while singlug “Comelovr, come," beneath
h'.M Dulciuua’s window *ho other night,
hud love, musio, wind and everything else
knocked out of him bv a something in a
long white garment that fell out of a
chamber window. It proved to be nobody
but his girl, who, in her anxiety to know
who whs serenading her, leaned too far
over tho window-sill; hence tho result.
He savs when ho sings “Como love,
come,” again, ho will keep away from un
der the window, os his system can't stand
many such shocks.
—With regard to manner, bo oareful to
speak in a soft, tender, kind, and loving
way. Even whou you havo occasion to
rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest
kindness. The offeot will ho incalculably
bettor.
—Owing to a lack of patronage, the
owner of a hearse in Vermont has altered
that melancholy vehicle into a milk cart.
He is dead, but he pays just as well
as he egpr did,” was the reply s newspaper
publisher received to a dunning letter.
—A printer in setting up “We are but
parts of a stupendous whole,” by mistake
of a letter made it read, “We are but
partR of a stupendous whale.”
—An innkeeper observed a postillion
with only one sour, and inquired the
reason. “Why, what would be the nso of
another?” said the postillion, “if one side
of the horse goes, the other oannot stand
still.”
—V petrified negro was lately found in
a garret over a law offloe in a pillage in
Mississippi. It was supposed he under
took the study of tho law, and became eb-
Korhed in Blaokstone.
Chignons are really of service to the
wearers in Virginia. It waa only tbe other
dsy that an eagle pounoed down upou a
young lady there, and fixed hia talons in
her head. All the noble bird got was
hair.
—What relation ia bread to a sawing-
machine ? The mother. Why the mother!
Because bread is a naoeasity, and a saw-
ing-tuaohina is an invention, aud naoaaai-
ty is the mother of invention.
—Tho editor of an Illinois paper thinks
fishing, as a general role, doesn't pay.
“We stood it all day in tbe river last
week,” be nays, “but caught nothing—un
til wo got home."
A contemporary writes of an individ
ual who was too poor to have his boots
blaoked, and “traated ha waa too muoh of
a gentleman to black tham himself so
they wont dirty.
“You’d bettar look out for your boss's
feet above here, mister,” said a ragged
boy to a traveler. “Why,” said the trav
eler, nervously pulling up. “Goa there's
a fork in tho road there/' was the oandid
reply.
—“My ohild,” laid a iteiu parent to »
lively little girl, “tbet w»y too hav* got
into • swallowing yonr food *o hafttily ia
a very bad habit, of wbioh yon timet be
broken." “Would it not b* batter to mend
nte than to break me, pep* ?" uk*d the
ehild.
—“Do yon think, my dear,” mid n do
ting mother to her buibend, “thnt oar
Adolpbn* hu * gleet talent for laying
thing* wbioh nobody *U* my*?" “Yea,
and *leo for uying thing! whioh nobody
elu onght to aaj,” wu the unfeeling re-
eponsa.
—“And eo they go,” said ■ member of
* New York literary olub ; “our greet men
ere fut deputing. Firat Utanton, tben
Chase, tben Howard, snd now Sumner—
sud I don't feel very well myself.”
—Hosroely * wuk psaeea without the
reoord of some wonderful ourgionl opera
tion. Holly Brown wu reoenUy token In
baud, had s broken knee snd dislocated
rib taken out, snd nsw onu pnt In, snd
eke is now good u ever. It may not in
jur* the etory muoh to add that Belly is n
esnsl boat.
—“I cannot imagine,” said an alder,
man, “why my whiskers should turn gray
ho muoh sooner than the hair on my
hoed." “Beoause,” observed s wag, “you
have worked much harder with yonr jaws
than with your braiua."
—“I wouldn't bs a cook for tha whole
world!” esolaimed a fuhionabla young
lady to her betrothed lover. “Of course
not," ho replied. “If you were the oook
for the whole world, yon would never get
through yonr work; bat you’ll be able to
manage it nioely for oar little family.”
A cue of extreme hardship lately
overtook on Indianapolis man. Ha had
nobieved iu the abort life of thirty years
five divorcoa, aud the sixth wu pending,
when sickness put him on hia daatb-bad.
To hear that man’s prayers for lift to lin
ger till the sixth decree oonld be entered
wu truly heart-rending. Six divorces
had been the limit of Ills ambition—tbe
aim of bis life; but the fell destroyer re-
leuted not; the Booster died married,
and wu compelled to knock at tha pearly
getoa with only five divorcee for bis pass
port. ■
An Induktsious Husbsnd.—“Arrah,
Jimmy, wbv did 1 marry yaf jnat tall me
that! for its myaalf that a bad to main
tain ye, over ainee tbe bleued day that
Father O'Flanagan unt me home to ye're
bonse.” “Hwate jewel,” replied Jimmy,
not relishing tha charge, “end it's myself
that hopes f may live to no the day when
ya'ra a widow, weeping over the cold aod
that eovsta me—then I’ll nee bow yon'U
like to get along without me, honey!”
—A writer in the Medical Journal, In
apeaking of tbe adulteration of the vari
ous artiolaa of food, apenka of a repatable
deaeon who kept a grocery store, and who
discoursed daily with hi* apprentiot,
somewhat after the following funion:
“John have yoa eanded the sugar >”
"Yu, air."
“llav* you watered tha mm and the
moluMB ?"
“Yva, air.”
“Then come up toprayert."
A Dbuckhbt's Mistaxs.—A story ia cir-
colating whioh tells how a young lady
wont to a chemist and told him to make
np one dose of cutor oil, and to mix it
with something to take tbe tuts away.
The man told har to wait. In a few mo
menta he asked her if eha would like to
taka a glue of soda water. Hbe acoepted
the invitation, and drank the beverage.
Presently ahe uked tbe roller of pilla wby
he didn't give her the cutor oil. The
man smiled a triompbant smile, and said,
“Madam, yon have token it. I mixed a
fearfel dam with that soda.” Hbe Inroad
pale; ahe unk into a chair; abe guped,
“Orest Heaven•' I wanted it for my
mother."
—A sympathy with tbe palna aod plau-
ure. of other, is* the foundation of oar
once over Freer, Illsea
corner flrootl and St. Olair Sts.
A. A. HOSIER,
Attorney sad €ssss*llsr at Law,
Practice* In State and Federal Court* Id Georgia
Mask II. IIlandforii. Louis F. Garrard.
RLANDFORD A GARRARD,
Attoraeyn and Counsellors at Law.
Office Mo. 67 Brood Rtreet, over Wlttlcli k Kin-
■el'fl Jewelry Store.
Will practice In tbe Btate aud Federal Court*.
*ep4
Ja*. M. Russkm.. Char. J. 8wipt.
RI7MRLL 4k EWiFT,
Attorney* and Counsellor* at Law. Will practice
In the Court* of Georgia (Chattahoochee Circuit)
and Alabama. Offlco over C. A. Redd A Oo.'* atoro,
Broad street, Columbus, Qa. Jal
I*. T. DOWNING,
Attorney and Nolleltor.
U. 8. Oom’r and Register In Bankruptcy. Offloe
nov20| over Drook*' Drug Store, Co'umbUM, Ua.
BRANNON,
Aitov nay n ni Law.
Onion ovss J. flam* A Oo.’* Ivons, Broad Bv.
novlfij Ws*t Bids.
R* J. MORE!,
Attorney and Cannaallor at Law,
Georgia Home Insurance Company building, ■»
:t7 ly) ond *tory.
Builders end Architect*.
J. G. CHALNER!,
Hanna Carpantor and Rnlldar.
, Jobbing dou* Rt abort notice.
Plana and specifications furnished for all style*
of bnlldlng*
Broad Street, nest to 0. W. Drown'*,
let Crtlnmbw*. fla
Boots end those.
WELLS A CtfBTIfl,
No* 78 Broad Bt., Sign of the Big Boot,
UBAUtM IN
Boot* and Shoos, Leather and Finding*
Olvn prompt and oarofal attention to orderi
>y mall; pay tho highest market price lot
lidos.
N. 11.—Plasterers’ Hair always on hand
Boot end Shoemakers
- WM| MEYER,
Boot and Shoemaker.
Dealer In Leather and Findiug*. Next to C. A
ledd A Co.’*. Prompt and strict attention glvon
oord.r*.|q|l
Tailors.
G. A. KQDHNE,
Merchant Tailor aad Cutter.
A full stock of Freucb and English Broadcloth*
HENRY BELLMAN.
Catting, Cleaning end Repairing
Done lu (he beet style.
•l»r*24|Corner Crawford end Front fit*.
Dress-Making.
■■a. M. A. MMUIOIWOITH,
Drilf;ll!to|, Cuttlny and fitting. Term* cheep,
novli *
donee and shop In llrownevllle.
Tin and Coppersmiths.
WM. FEE,
Warker la Tin, Shoot Iron, Capper.
Orders from abroad promptly attended to.
Confectioner*.
I. G. ATKUFPKR,
Oawdy Manufacturer
AND DSAJtM IN
All klndc of Confectionery end Fruits,
•tick Gandy 18 canto.
- Full weight guarauteed iu eech box.
|a‘J4
Hotels.
PLANTER,' HOTEL,
Maut to Colombo. Rank Bulldlnc.
Porter* at all the train*.
jalfi HKB. W. F. 8NIDKH, Propr’ss.
Livery end Sale Stables.
ROBERT TUOXPMOI,
Livery, Halo and Exchange t»tables.
OOLITNONPS, NOETH Of KaNDOLFU 8VS.,
ectao Columbus, Ua.
A. UAMMEL,
LI vary aad Halt XtablM,
OoLatuoert Bt., Cotouaua, Ua.
^Particular attontlon glvon to toadlng aud Bali
IloraM aud Uulo. boarded In itebU'. by lilt
month nr day. ftrt2U
Fresh Meats.
J. W. PATRICK,
•tolls No. 8 end 18, Market House.
Fresh Meats of evory kind and bust i|iiallty.
jell alw.ye on bund.
J. T. COOK,
Freeh Msnto of All Kltide,
sept Stalls N»s. lfi aud 17.
Cun and Locksmiths.
PHILIP EIPI.ER,
Uuu and lauckswitb, Crawford streut, uuxt t<
Johnson's corner, Oolumbus. tia. jati
WILLIAM BCHOBER,
Gun and Locksmith and dealer iu Gunning Ma
terials. Rest of Strapper’s Ooufuctionery.
JeW
Grocers.
DAN*L R. RISK,
Dealer In Family Groceries, on flryae street, be-
tw.cn Oglotburpe A Jackson streets.
IF No charge for drayag*. m 1
Plano Tuning, No.
E. W. BLAU,
Repairer and Tuner of Pianos*,* Organa and
Accordeons. 8ign Painting nloo dono.
Order, may be be left at J. W. i* eAM g Norman’s
Watchmakers.
C. BCHOSIUUKG,
Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler,
8accessor to L. Outowaky,
... 105 Broad street!
J* 11 Columbus, Qa.
C. H. LEQUIN,
Watchmaker,
134 Broad street, Columbus, Go.
Watches aud Clocks repaired in tho best man-
per anil warranted.j„u
Doctors.
»*. J. A. IBQVIIA.T,
Oflloo removed to tho Drug Store of E* O.
Hood A Brother.
Sleeping apartment at loriuef residence, on
the oornor ot Randolph and Molntosh streets,
opposito the residence of Air. Wm. Beach.
Office corner Broad and Randolph streets, Banns*
building.
Resldenoe on Forsyth, three doors below Bt. Olair*
Dentists.
W. F. TIGNKR,
Dentist,
Opposite Strapper’s building, Randolph St.
« •tonlton «toon to tbo insertion of Artl-
flc J»*T»eth, as well as to Operative Dentistry,
febatt daw
columc. dental ioow,
„ W. T. Porn- Prop'r,
Qeorgla Home Building, Uvlumbw (iaoffla.
Painter*.
WM. SHOW, JR., * OO.,
House and Sign Painters,
Old Oglethorpe corner, (just north of postoBos)
Columbus, Oeorgla.
. Hnow, 8r.
faprfi
Barber Shops.
LOUIS WELLS’ SHAYIMC IALOOJT,
(tiu.cu.or to U. lleau,)
Under Ororgla Bum. Inaurauco Building-
Prompt and pulfte barber* in attendanu.
Ja»
Ja*
ALEX * .AH,
Baaaaaa, Br. Cl*i* tivaaav.
EC. TERRY, Barber.
Crawford tit., undar Rankin Uoum, folnmbua, He.
Tobacco, Cl«ara, Be.
MAIER DORM.
If you want to enjoy a good smoke, go ts hlg
Jlgar Manufactory,
Between Georgia Home and Muscogee Hon*.
Ja*
O. LOPEZ,
Dtolflr In and !nnnfkelarsr *r Ft!
Clgarfl,
J*fi Near Broad Street Depot.
RESTAURANTS.
THE AHBOIt.
M r. oeoroe w. lips has 001
pletoly renovated and Gttod up tba we
known “ARBOR" .tend na a Saloon and B<
taurant. Ho la now prepared lo fuiulrb Ma*
Uholoe Liquors and clgara, and ourtomerv m
ba aa.urod svarytiUng will bo tbe boat t
Reich’s Restaurant
No. 112 Broad St. (
\ Just boon opined, and is n
»Icy before Its guests and p
•W BILL OF FAR*
TO
snts In the largest cities oi the Union.
‘ Prompt attention end reasonable re tec.
i at all hoars.
oca DC
SAN3 80UCI
Bar, Restaurant! Ten PinAllej.
B est of wines, liquors agio am.
OYSTERS, FISH, GAME, and OhMto
(Is served at ell hours, at reasonable prince,
md private room* when donired.
THE TEN PIN ALLEY Is the best 0VW
instructed In Oolambus. Mr. JAS.CFORAlt
us charas.
oct24 tf A. J. ROLAND, Proprietor.
druccists. ,
Eagle Drug Store,
Wo. 08 Broad SRfe
M. t).HOOD,
Kerosene Oil a sp<
October 7th, 1874.
WRelwl* HMdWfeHt.
Blue Drug Store.
KEAN.
j Manat
I AMD RETAIL.
-J PUT ipaelal attention t
aADE, and oifbra great la
dry Marohanu. Ha he.pt
AND RELIABLE UBUUI
-—laudh* him at Ui Broad Strait.
Erem this data oaak la required fbr aU ,