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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER, 12, 1886.
ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD.
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Knquireii-Hun.
‘‘The simultaneous dismissal of thirty-
•fix employes” in the San Francisco mint
in one day is a shock which the repub
lican press of that city affects to lie un
able to account for. But there is no dif
ficulty about it. It is the rumbling echo
of the still greater shock of November 4,
1881, which rattled down the republican
crockery from the shelf and forced it to
break up white house keeping.
Atvoriiiso to a Middleton special the
Connecticut sea serpent* gave rii early
morning performance a day or two since
in the Connecticut river, oil' Cromwell.
According to the testimony of those wlto
saw it, his snakelets was over one hun
dred feet in length, and when first seen
twenty feet of its enormous body were
out of water. It struck in its journey a
bout, containing three men, capsizing the
boat and throwing the men into the
water. The serpent then sank gracefully
beneath the surfuce. Further details are
lacking. It is not known whether or
not any of the occupants were injured or
drowned.
Tllti.AUTUMN THAIIK.
From reports which may lie consid
ered strictly reliable, the week which lias
just passed lias been the busiest that has
been known in New York city for six
years in several large brunches of trade.
How much of tlie increased activity is
«lue to the demand occasioned by the
forced economies of a comparatively long
period remains to bo seen. Tito strikes
have doubtless had some influence by
suspending or stopping supplies in cer
tain manufactures.
Tlie brisker movement in business is
snore noticeable in tlie dry goods, cloth
ing and furniture trades. This sustains
tlie theory that people are “stocking up”
an what they use in their household. The
dry goods trade is much improved in
comparison with a year ago. Mer-
nihimtH from the west and south tire re
ported ns buying very freely, and it is
note worthy that tlie most marked im
provement is in tlie sale of better goods.
This is true also of the crockery, boot
and shoe and ready-made clothing trades.
In this there U an indication of a more
permanent restoration of commercial
health. The most extensive buyers of
fine goods appear to come from the south
and the southwest, where the crops have
been good and valuable. It is doubted
whether the closeTof the season will find
the we.-t as well supplied as the
•south in line goods. The clothing
merchants estimate that this con
tinued increase of their trade,as compared
with tlie same season of 1885, is 33;> per
c 'tit. in tlie south;!?") per cent, in tlie west,
and 20 per cent, in the east, Tlie reports
of a decided bettering in business come
from those who deal in dry goods, ready
made clothing, leather, crockery and
glassware, hardware, furniture, silks,
millinery, lints and caps, groceries, bread-
•stutfs ami provisions, watches, pianos and
rubber goods. In almost every instance
the south is reported as increasing its
purchases in the greatest amount. Col
lections are said to be good, and mer
chants expect that much more money
will find its way to New York than lias
been received for a number of years be
fore.
New York is the great trade centre of
tlie American continent, and it is in-
<1, ,<i encouraging to note that the out
look is so hopeful. These hopeful signs
of tlie times are as visible in Columbus
ns they are in New York. There was
never a time when our manufacturing in
stitutions laid more orders ahead. One
of the leading cotton manufacturers said
to us yesterday that he had no goods in
his warehouse, and had orders that it
would take hint months to fill. Tlie
merchants are busy, and tradeisopen-
ing up equally as well if not better than
was anticipated. There are no signs
of such a “boom” ns the country
had in 1880, although in some
branches of business exchanges equal
in volume those of that famous year.
There seems, however, to be a much
more health fill activity, and there is a
sounder basis for transactions. There is
an indisposition manifested by both tlie
southern and western merchants to spec
ulate, and there is very little buying on
margin. If the season holds out as well
as it begins, there will lie no reason to
complain of the trade-feature of 1886-7.
That it will, is indicated not only by the
facta to which wo have referred, liiit by
the iron and steel manufactures which
are getting into a very satisfactory condi
tion.
“IS LIFE WORTH 1,1 VINO!”
A Frenchman lias written a book en
titled “Is Life Worth Living?” This man
may not ho cither a utopian or a itossi-
mist. And the startling hook, in spite of
its title, may not embody the winning ar
guments of one who lias failed in life. It
may not, and ii need not, contain a single
sentence that could be by perversion con
strued into an apology for suicide. How
ever much it may shock progressive opti
mists to hear it, it may as well bo ad
mitted, not for argument but for con-
Heifcnce’s sake, that this book is treating a
live issue. There are many men and
women who are in no great trouble either
of mind, body or estate, who ask them
selves every day, almost without giving
form to tlie question mentally,
“ Is life worth living?” And tiiere is a
large class whoso census would surprise
us if it could betaken, who positively be
lieve that tlie worst calamity that ever
befalls a man is to bo born, and that tlie
only real good luck lie ever encounters is
to die.
A king in tlie Orient who laid a pros
perous reign of forty years kept a diary.
At the end of the forty years he discov
ered that lie had spent fourteen happy
days. When this fact was made public
it was tlie subject of much wonder and
comment. Yet tiiere is little doubt that
thousands of his subjects, Ibettor situated
for enjoyment than the king even, had
enjoyed less happiness in tlie same
period.
Col.Gardner of the British army during
the last century was deemed the happiest
man in tlie realm, lie possessed every
grace of person and mind. Ho had
facilities for pleasure such as few men
have enjoyed since the days when—as
tradition tells us—Solomon paved the
streets of Jerusalem with silver. And
yet he was often heard to wish that lie
hud been created a dog instead of a man.
These instances illustrate tlie patent
trillli that the outside appearances of
happiness cannot lie relied on. Tlie same
two instances may be used to illustrate
also that even when all the
required • conditions of happiness
are present, tlie individual surrounded
by those conditions may lie acutely
miserable. The conclusion is forced,
then, that human happiness is an effect
which docs not always follow its logical
cause. All tite requirements, conditions
and opportunities for happiness may lie
present, and yetfor a reason unknown or
for no reason at all, tlie man finds him
self unable to employ them. Tims it
follows like a syllogism that when the
opportunities for happiness tire unfavor
able, the absence of it is absolutely cer
tain, and When they are favorable the
chances of being happy are superfinely
slim, in too many instances, alas! the
proportion being ns fourteen days to
forty years.
Tlie pursuit of happiness is the busi
ness of life, no matter what form it takes.
If one mail is given wholly to frivolity
and another wholly to the engrossing
cares of business, it is because each con
ceives that in his particular course tlie
greatest happiness lies. If one man is
moral and another dissolute, it is because
cacli seeks happiness,-whether present or
future, in his line of conduct. But lump
ing every class, industrious and idle,
moral and dissipated, abluent and poor,
into one common whole, the fact remains
that existence is u grinding load .to the
great majority, and like tlie irrepressible
ghost, the question returns, “Is life worth
living?”
We sec many whose surroundings
mutely tell us that they have nothing to |
live for. Their past lias been "as a rag- I
ing wave of the sea foaming out its own
shame,” and their future bids fair to be
"as a wandering star to whom is re
served the blackness of darkness for
ever." Those who cannot look back
ward with pride, can scarcely look for- !
ward with hope. They have made ship- j
wreck of life. Adversity is upon their
habitation like a cold and settled rain, it
may lie sorrow, it may be crime; it may
lie both. But whatever it is, this world
that burst upon them in early life as a
blue-domed, flower-floored Eden, has
blackened into a plague spot, a wilder
ness and a sepulchre. To such as these
life is not worth living. They live on
from a sense of duty, or from tlie ani
mal's instinctive dread of death.
Blit there is another and larger class
who are asking themselves the question,
if life is worth living; and it is this class
iu whom weariness of life constitutes an
unsolved enigma. With them there is
no apparent cause. They are people who
have seen no trouble above the average,
and with them the world is going well.
They have their share of earth’s goods
and their appurtenant blessings, and it
seems that they ought to be happy.
From this class, however, tlie ranks of
suicide are largely recruited. With them
the alloted years of life seem too long,
and they tire of the journey before it is
ended. They have lived until every ;
pleasure palls upon the taste. Ambition?
is dead and love has lost its delight. Like
tlie children of Israel in tlie sun-
bleaelied desert, “in tlie morning they
say would God it were evening, and in |
tlie evening they say would God it were
morning.” Tlie very passage of time
troubles them. Life lias left for them no
new and fresh and sweet sensations.
“The world has less of brightness.
And the earth a ghastlier whiteness,
Every year.”
They are unwilling to die, but they wish
they had never been born, thus regis
tering their protest against the assertion
that life is worth living.
Tho two classes mentioned compre-
I hend a very largo quota of tlie human
race. It is only tlie unbalanced and tlie
“extremists" among them who resort to
suicide. The great throng plods on like
pilgrims without a Mecca, disgusted with
living and afraid to tlie. They have per
ennial ennui. They have a weariness
which rest will not refresh. This intan
gible affliction is that which common
parlance lias crystalized into tlie term
“ills of life.” From them, ala"! who is
free? Ill prescribing tor these ills of lilt-
doctors have differed, und no man was
wise enough to decide. What is
the “ minimum bonutn?” The voices of
all the generations, as they keep step in
tlieir march down tho mouth of tlie
tomb, have asked thits question, and the
only answer tfifty gel is a mocking echo.
Over this- question sages have bfeqome
fools and oyacles dumb. Over its abysmal
and unstarlit chasms philosophy itself
has folded her licet wings in bafiied si
lence. in every ago the epicure and tlie
stoic have grown weary of life together,
and their voices have chorused tlie cry,
“ is tlieVc no balm in Gilead, is there no
physician tiiere?” This is the ques
tion of a nerve-racked race
to-day. It is paramount in the
valleys of the new world; it is para
mount among tho rock-dwellers, where
the Himalayas kiss tlie skies. And it is
but another form of the question, “Is life
worth living?”
Now, last of all, tlie question comes
upon us, is tiiere a remedy for the “ills
oflife?” Is there a balm in Gilead? if
life wortli living? It is worth living on
one lone condition. It is worth living if
its every pulse-beat is in harmony with
laws that are higher than nature’s laws.
It is worth living if it is patterned after
the life of Him at whose feet inexorable
Nature kneels like a courtier. A life like
this never grows weary. There is no
friction, for day by day the joints
are oiled by an unseen hand,
in a life like this growing old is not
decaying, it is ripening for a better life;
and tlie head that grows 'whiter with
the years is but an almond tree that is
blossoming for the garden of tlie Lord.
It is a life like this that turns tlie sorrow
of the living into subdued sweetness,
and makes the cemeteries of tho dead
magnetic to surviving friends, by arch
ing every grave with a rain-bow of hope.
As a broken machine can be best re
paired by tlie mechanic who made it, so
tlie broken and worn-out spirit must
seek resuscitation from its Creator.
Life is worth living if all who are
bruised and wounded can find the Phy
sician of whom Itaiah said: “He was
wounded for our transgressions; He was
bruised for our iniquity; tlie chastise
ment of our peace was upon Hint, and
with his stripes we are healed.”
THE PLEASURES OF CONTENTMENT.
When one has learned to be content
with his lot, or condition in life, lie hncj
learned an important lesson. Tlie surg
ing masses of humanity, like the restless
waves of the sea, are ever in motion,’and
contentment indeed appears to be an un
attainable good. As perfection is the
capstone in the arch of Christian graces,
so contentment is the chief element in
human happiness. Many persons, the
world over, are miserable because they
choose to make themselves so. They
won’t accept the situation. The world
does not run as they think it ought to
run. They believe they could make a
great many improvements if they had a.
say so in the matter, and some are
even impious enough to find fault, with
the Creator because things are not ar
ranged differently. And thus, from the
cradle t6 tlie grave, life is a series of
| vexations and disappointments, of rebel
lions and defeats, and the end a failure,
j St. Paul with all his vast research and
j scholarship, aided by his deep inspira
tional insight into the heart and nature
of iiian, esteemed himself as happy in
having learned the invaluable lesson of
contentment. People with a contented
disposition are not necessarily supposed
to be divested of the usual wants and
aspirations of humanity. They still
have aims and find effort nec
essary, but they are satisfied to
move in the orbit of destiny. They
recognize the wisdom and goodness of i
Providence in choosing their places among
men, and they endeavor to perform their
alloted role with thankfulness and cheer
fulness. Cheerfulness is the bright sun
that gilds tlie present and future. It is
the friend and companion of content
ment, and when the two go hand in
hand life becomes what it ought to be—
a pleasure. Ambition is tlie greatest
foe to human happiness. It ousted Satan
from the ranks of the archangels anil it
will expel the angel of peace from the
human heart. Tiiere are many persons
whose natures are always in revolt.
They want higher positions,
more money, bigger names and
more high sounding reputations.
They have but one talent, and they
would like to have five, though they
have not the gifts to use them. Having
tlie wings of the goose they would soar
as tlie eagle, or being in the valley they
would prefer to rise to the top of tlie
mountain. Tlie first great lesson people
ought to learn is to find out the place to
which nature and Providence lias assign
ed them, and next to accept tlie situation
and perform its functions gladly. When
tlie toad essayed to swell to the propor
tions of tlie ox tlie result was a direful
collapse, and when men try to assume
qualities and proportions above their
gifts, their brains and tlieir energies, the
result will be chagrin and failure. Re
member that godliness with contentment
is great gain.
POPULAR ■ERKINE.
The KxtjfiRER-SuN has made an ar
rangement with one of the brightest and
most, progressive physicians in the state
to contribute regular a series of articles
on different medical topics. These arti
cles will appear regularly in our Sunday
edition. Tlie first of these appeared last
Sunday, entitled “Grape Cure,” and lias
attracted favorable notice both here and
elsewhere. The simple, clear and
thorough style these articles are written
in commend them to our readers. Re
garding nothing is there >-o little cor
rectly known as tlie ailments of tlie body
and their treatment. We specially com
mend the second in this series in to-day’s
is-me, “ Wound Healing,” as fresh in
thought ami instructive and quite enter
taining. __________
tVoiiiiil lien II list.
For the Enquirer-Run.
'I lie ideal way for any smooth, clean cut on
any part of the body to heal, Is without the
formation of even a drop of matter. Tills heal
ing process ought not to occupy longer than
eight days. This ideal is often seen; in fact, it
should bo attained in every case except where
the parts arc lacerated. Matter—that is, pus—is
not necessary, as is popularly believed. Matter
is simply the white blood cellsthat have migrated
through the walls of the blood vessels, and in no
way do they aid tho heullng process. Wounds
heal, we do not euro them. The great object is
to keep away all outside disturbances from a
wound. The air contains living germs, micro
scopical organisms that love to colonizo
and live in wounds. Those are the
disturbing elements that we must
hold aloof front wounds, for they produce the
pus, create fever, and retard healing. The
various medicines that keep away and destroy
these germs are all grouped under the head of
germicides, parasiticides, antiseptics, or popu
larly disinfectants. The most powerfhl anti
septic is a drug that was used by our grand
mothers for destroying bedbugs—corrosive sub
limate. Scientists have only recently found this
out. It is well enough to remember the teach
ings of grandmothers in more ways than one.
Carbolic acid and iodoform are the next most
usefiil annihilates of germ liffe. Say we have
before us a cut of the hand two inches long, with
one or more arteries spout ing. What is to be done?
Wash the wound out with one part of carbolic
acid to twenty parts of water, tie every artery
with fine cat-gut, unite the wound closely and
sew together its edges with cat-gut, and lay on a
dressing of gauze impregnated with either iodo
form or corrosive sublimate. The only objection
to iodoform is that its ordor does not agree with
the standard established by the attar of roses. I
believe, however, that iodoform is the best medi
cine yet known to put on any kind of a wound,
smooth, contused or lacerated. It removes all
odor, kills germs, allays pain to a certain degree
and protects the wound. Turpentine is a slight
antiseptic, for better than witchhazel or any ex
tract. No drug actually assists healing in a
fresh cut, the best simply ward
off the deleterious principles swarming in the
air. Salves are not advisable in fresh wounds as
they act as foreign bodies, irritating the exposed
nerves. Here are the leading principles of wound
healing; Clean hands, clean instruments for
operating, stop all bleeding, unite the edges
evenly, use antiseptic gauze of corrosive subli
mate or iodoform. Cat-gut is preferable to silk
for tying up arteries, as it is dissolved by the
moisture in the body and irritates less.
“They be the best chirurgeons which being
learned incline to the ways of experience,, or be
ing empirics incline to the methods of learning.”
SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE.
Thui'siday. September 16th.
•Eh, IH«I I Hear Von!**
Supported by their excellent Company, in
the new Musical Comedy,
"My Aunt Bridget!"
By Scott Marble, Esq., author of “Over the Gar
den Wall.” Constructed for laughing
purposes only.
THE GREATEST HIT OF ALL.
‘LET US BE CALM”
General Admission 75 cents. Reserved seats at
Chaffin's without extra charge. sepl2 4t
L’Conte Pear
Tlit Pride of lieontia! Tito Wonder of the Age!
I T is the most profitable fruit that grows, yield
ing from 600 to 1000 bushels to the acre. Now
is the time to order trees lor fall planting. Order
from the THOMASVILLE NURSERY.
Win. Wol.DNDON.
Proprietor Thouiamville Xurwery.
Sweeping Reductions
IN THE PRICES OF
GOODS
it BOUGHTON & CO'S,
AYE WANT to entirely close out our stock oi
Spring and Summer Goods, and we realize that
we have but about four weeks to do it in.
We had much rather sacrifice now than cam-
cur goods over, consequently we offer our stock
of Flowers, light colored Hats aud Bonnets and
Summer Materials of all kinds for the remainder
of the season at prices way below their actual
value.
We will sell what we have left of Trimmed
Goods at 50 cents on the dollar or less. No rea
sonable offer refused.
Next season we do not want to be obliged to
show any of this season’s goods. Now is surely
the time to buy your Summer Hat.
BOUGHTON & CO
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ESTABLISHED 1866.
C.CUNBY JORDAN
Fire Insurance Agent
Pioneer Building, Front Street. Telephone No. 104.
REPRESENTING
AMERICAN FIRE INSURANCE CO., of Philadelphia Honestly
paid every loss since 1810.
NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE CO., of New York. Every policy
issued under New York Safety Fund law.
SUN FIRE OFFICE, of London. Established 1710. Always
successful.
Policies issued on all classes of insurable proporty.
Representative Companies. Courteous Treatment. Fair Adjustments. Prompt Payments.
sep!2 sc tu&th tf
A share of your business solicited.
JOHN DISBROW & CO.,
Sale, Feed and Livery Stables.
New and Nobby Turnouts, Safe and Showy Horses, Careful
and Experienced Drivers.
FUNERALS personally conducted and properly attended to. The finest Hearses
in the city.
AFTER SEPTEMBER 1st, Horses boarded and carefully cared for at $16 per
month.
Ample accommodations for LIVE STOCK. Headquarters for dealers.
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Stimulate Business!
We are Offering Some Excellent Bargains.
WE MEITTIOIT .A. FEW:
Union Lawns at 3£c ;
Choice Muslins at 7c;
Figured Linen Lawns at cost.
Egyptian Lace, worth 12£c, now 8c.
Egyptian Lace, worth 20c, now 12ic.
Unlaundried Shirts at 65c; Worth $1.00.
Being overstocked in Table Linen, Towels and Napkins,
we will sell at prices that will pay you to buy and lay aside
until you shall need them.
J. A. KIRVEN & CO.
mum
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Entrance through Hill
Law’s Store.
&
Hill & Law’s
FOR THE PAST WEEK we have beed getting in our Fall Stock. Our buyer, Mr. Law, has
been in New York for some time, aud has made many beautiful selections in Dress Goods. We
have given special attention to this department of our business, and we think we can show one of
the most varied and best lines of Dress Gaods ever shown in this market.
Hosiery! Hosiery! Hosiery!
This department of our stock is now complete, aud we v ill show on our Bargain Counter Mon
day morning, as a starter, 500 pairs of Misses' Full Regular Hose, worth all the way from 50c to $i 50
per pair, to be closed out at 30c per pair. We will also put on our Bargain Counter 500 pairs of the
same goods in smaller sizes, to be closed out at 15c. 1 hese are great bargains, and we hope our
friends will come early and secure them.
CORSETS I CORSETS! OOIRSIETSI
We carry an elegant line of these goods and can suit every one, both in quality and price. Our
Juniata Corset for 30c is a beauty. Our Improved Corset at 50c is worth 75c Warner's Health, Her
Majesty, Delta, and many other celebrated brands will be offered at very low prices.
T3TJSTLES I BUSTLES I ZBTTSTITES !
Come and see our Bon Ton Bustle at 30c. Come and see our Caniport Bustles at 30c.
Come and see our Princess of Wales Bustle at 75c.
JERSEYS! JERSEYS! JERSEYS! JERSEYS!
A beautiftil line of these goods have just been received, and parties desiring to purchase anything
iu this line will save money by inspesting our stock.
DOMESTICS.
1000 Yards 4-1 Bleaching to be closed out at 5c. 1000 Yards [of 4-4 Bleaching, worth; 10c, to be
closed out at 8c; and as a leader we will offer 1000 yards 4-4 Sea Island, of a nice quality, at 6c.
Bargains to be had in every department. Come and see us and save your money.
HILL &c Xj-A.'W".
R egular MEETING to-morrow (Monday)
evening at 8 o’clock. Transient brethren in
good standing are cordially invited to attend,
J. F. WISE, N. G.
F. W. LOUDENBER, Bec'y. mhMsely
HomeSchool
ATHENS. GEORGIA.
Madame S. Sosnowbki, 1
Miss C. Sosnowbki, j Associate Principals.
T HE Scholastic year re-opens on Wednesday,
September 23d, 1886. Best educational ad
vantages offered to young ladies.
For similar of information apply to the above.
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