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Enquirer-Sun.
EnuI/ANd hus a navy scandal, also a
navy. The United States in knocking
along with the scandal only, ho far.
It wit* perhaps with a view of demon
strating the immortality of the spoils
system that Henry Ward Beecher in
duced President Cleveland to give an
olllce to his son.
Among the resources of civilization the
Balter holds its own against the dyna
mite bomb. There are several gentlemen
in jail in Chicago who will have a practi
cal illustration of this before the “robins
nest again” many more times.
Klim C. Laimiam, in the Forum, asks,
"What shall he done with women who
exit do nothing?” They seem to get
along, marry rich husbands, and have a
Sgood time. The difficulty is in finding
jOaves for the poor women who am work
and must work for a living.
Ministkh Cox has. left Constantinople
on a I at vc of absence, and before it ex
pires some should bn found to succeed
turn who will not be so much missed at
Itome. Mr. Cox is needed on the floor of
the house. He is too useful to bo ban
ished to Tnrkey,
Unovnu Cleveland, president of the
United States, lias the reputation of hav
ing pronounced opinions on every sub
ject. lie hasn’t been heard from on the
Charleston sufferers yet, not even a dol
lar’s worth. Is Grover economizing since
lie got married? It begins to look that
way.
Carl I’uurrz, of Greifswald, Germany,
the eminent naturalist, has committed
tmicide hv taking poison. In a letter
which lie left lie stated as a reason for
liis desperate act the fact that, he was
threatened with total blindness, and that
the certainty of being deprived of sight
within a few weeks, and thus bceonio
unable to continue his studies, made iifo
no longer dcsirnblo for him. He added
that he felt he had a right, in his 73d
.year, to put an end to an existence which
was no longer of any use to himself or to
his fellow-men. Only a week before lie
had sold his magnificent collection of
butterflies, probably unequalcd any
where.
Judge Ciiukciiii.i., of New York, lias
rendered a wholesome decision in the
Joslyn divorce case. The parties to tho
suit were stage people, and the marriage
was of the kind known us “consensual”
—that is, it was contracted with an entire
absence of ceremony. No license is re
quired in New York, and when Mr. Jos-
lyn, whose real name is Davis, met the
young woman who claimed before the
courts to be Mrs. Davis, they took a fancy
to each other and indulged it without
any formality whatever. The idea lias
prevailed that this “consent” constituted
a legal marriage, but Judge Churchill
•decided the consensual marriage to he no
marriage at nil. The decision is antago
nized by previous decisions of the New
York courts, but it is a departure in the
right direction, and Judge Churchill did
a great deal for good morals when he
branded the so-called consensual mar
riage witli its projier name of concubi
nage.
Uk.v.Siikkmax’s interviews have a great
Heal of vitality about them. The one in
which ho asserted that “if Gov.‘Ireland
attempts to act lor the federal govern
ment and commits an overt act we will
try him and hang him for treason," still
keeps alive; and its progress southward
is marked by frequent explosions. If they
only knew the old gentleman, they would
know he doesn’t really mean to hang
Gov. Ireland. It’s just a way he has,
and his language is not a bit stronger
about Gov. Ireland than it was about the
minion of the St. Louis water department
who called on him to collect his hose
license.'
GEttOMHO.
A friend in Florida wants to know if
we won’t advocate puttinglGeronimo in a
museum. We will with pleasure. We
also advocate killing and stuffing him
beforo putting him in. Stuffed curiosi
ties may look rather tame, but you can
trust them in the dark, and they never
get away. Gen. W. T. Sherman is not a
good man. He lias been guilty of incen
diarism by wholesale; he does not al
ways tell tilings straight; and now he
wants to hang the governor of Texas.
Hut Gen. Sherman told the truth and
made an immortal epigram besides when
he said; “The only good Indian is a
Head Indian.”
| II01V TO ESTIMATE CHARACTER.
The man without faults is not now and
I never was an inhabitant on this earth.
Men have existed in every age to whom
the superlative best, in its comparative
i sense, might properly lie applied. But
; tho perfect man never was and never
. will he found.
We are constantly forming estimates of
the character of those witli whom we
come in contact. We note their faults
ami we sit. in judgment upon them.
Whetfier or not this he right, yet, in tho
nature of things, it is so
—always has been and always will lie.
It is quite important that our estimate
of others should lie approximately cor
rect: Important because it is never good
to he ourselves deceived; and it is unjust,
unfair and ungenerous to one
who is the subject of harsher
judgment than lie deserves.
IIow unfair it is to mis
judge another, wo may readily appreciate
by t he annoyance we ourselves feel when
conscious of having been misunderstood
and unjustly criticised.
Men form their estimate of others, not
by any universal or recognized standard,
hut from tho whims and passions of the
hour, or by comparison with an ideal
standard which they, out of their own
imaginings, have created for themselves;
or, oftener still, by looking alone at one
single act to the exclusion of all else the
man may have done, though every other
act and the whole tenor of his life may
lie contrary to the one act by which he is
judged.
It is clear that by cither rule this
standard of measurement must partake
of the imperfections which belong to the
things out of which that standard is cre
ated and must often lead us into error.
But, even if there was an universal
standard which the general judgment
and common experience of mankind ap
proved, and by which every man might
lie properly estimated and the exact
mead of praise given him, or the full
share of dishonor bestowed upon him,
which lie deserved at any given period
of his life, yet wc find that man is not
at all timoH the same in conduct. The
mind of man is subject to change. The
spirit within him ami the impulses
which move him to action vary greatly
at dill’ercnt periods of his life.
The hoy of eighteen n ay be wild and
reckless and fond of “sowing wild oats;”
yet the same individual, at thirty, when
facing the stern realities of life, and
shouldering its cares and responsibilities,
may he most exemplary in lus character
and conduct. It would he manifestly
improper to judge the man of mature
years by the things he did in heedless
boyhood.
Every man can call to mind some one
or more of his acquaintances the whole
tenor of wlioRe life has changed since
first he knew him. History, both sacred
and profane, is full of notable instances
of persons who at different periods of
their lives have, without dissimulation,
and in all sincerity, displayed exactly
opposite traits of character.
Tlte law-breaking blood-thirsty man of
thirty may be the lamb-like, lawloving
and iawabiding citizen of fifty. The
spendthrift at twenty may be the grasp
ing miser at forty. The dissolute man of
twenty may in after years be the chaste
and virtuous head of a family. The
drunkard of to-day may in u short time
become the very pattern of sobriety.
Most men who have lived their throe
score years can look hack to some period
in the (last and fav of themselves I am
not now a? 1 then was.
The changes thus constantly occurring
in human life and character are some
times gradual—taking years to round
them up. Sometimes the change is com
pletely wrought in a twinkle and with
the suddenness of the lightning’s flash,
varying according to the temperament of
the individual or the strengtli and viru
lence of the influences brought to hear
upon him.
Now the natural deductions from the
foregoing are, first, that every man, being
possessed of faults, must himself he pass
ed upon and he subjected to the esti
mates and criticisms of his fellow-men.
Every man is, therefore, personally and
directly interested in the establishing of
a proper standard by which human char
acter shall he estimated.
Secondly, no man ought to ho judged
by any single act of his life.
Thirdly, that no single period of life,
especially if the matters connected there
with he in tho remote past, is a proper
basis of facts upon which to form an es
timate of character.
The saying is that all men completely
renew their physical natures every seven
years. The spiritual and mental parts of
man being of a much more lively and
pliant quality, and much more readily
conforming to our environments, much
more readily assimilating themselves to
our surroundings, can surely be revolu
tionized within tho same period of time.
If this he so, why then should we, in
forming an estimate of character, go hack
beyond a period of seven years?
If the general tenor of a man’s life for
the past seven years has been such as
good men approve, why not bury all be
yond that period in the sea of forgetful
ness ? Why remember or resurrect
afresh anything so far back, which is at
variance with the later and
fresher tenor of a man’s
behavior. Is it not just to
take a man as he now is and represents
himself to be, and not as we remember
him by our impressions formed of him
in the dim, remote past? Under the old
theocracy we are informed that special
privileges were granted every seven
years—the sentences, tines and penal
ties imposed were remitted—lands which
had been forced to sale were restored to
the original owners; in short, the past
was all wijied out and all persons put
again upon an even footing for the race
of life.
If such was the wisdom of God in the
goverenment over which he saw proper
especially to preside, ought not that fact
to have some significance with us in
making up our judgments and forming
our opinions of the character of others?
When 1 hear a man relating and re
hashing an event in the life of any man
which dates back more than seven years,
either as being the basis of his own opin
ion already formed, or for the purpose
of giving direction to the opinion of oth
ers, I involuntarily ask myself the ques
tion : Does that man’s mind ever feed
upon tho musty things of the past—is he
so fond of conning over a weakness, once
displayed, that his mind cannot graspthe
newer and fresher present?
Whatever is the general tenor of a
man’s conduct now, that and that alone
is the proper criterion by which he ought
to he estimated.
NINETY-NINE FAVORS.
In the unwritten volume of folk lore
there i6 a maxim on ingratitude to'the
ell'ect that there are some persons for
whom you may do ninety-nine favors,
and if you refuse the hundredth, they
will hate you forever. Like all homely
proverbs, it contains more truth than
poetry. Ingratitude is the basest of all
passions of the human heart. It is a
subject that has formed the theme of
many a sermon, newspaper article, and
school hoy composition, and yet it is not
threadbare. No pen lias portrayed it in
overdrawn colors, no tongue enunciated
the despicahleness of its nature.
If “old scratch” is responsible
for all the wicked devices of men, and
all sinful emotions of the heart, he
must have felicitated himself very much
when he instilled into human nature
the poison of ingratitude. It sets man
at variance with his maker, makes ene
mies of friends, and scotches the wheels
of benevolence and brotherly love. It
reminds one of the serpent, which, when
warmed into life, sent its deadly fangs
to the vitals of its benefactor. “Going
back” on a friend or one’s country is ac
counted as treason, and what else is in
gratitude but treason? It not only
alienates friends, hut it chills the warm
currents of human generosity. IIow
often do we hear people say “my bitterest
enemies are those to whom I have ex
tended most favors?” Many good people
are discouraged in and stopped from
the performance of kind actions because
of the malignity of these ungrateful
creatures who hear the name of humani
ty, hut who are more properly the chil
dren of the evil one. If ingratitude is) so
hurtful and displeasing ' to men, how
must it appear in the eyes of Him
who gives liberally of his bounty I
to all creatures? There are people 1
who apparently do not recognize God in !
all their thoughts. They drink in the
pure air and sunlight of heaven and quaff
from tho rippling fmintainsof earth With
out a grateful emotion or upward glance.
Ingratitude was planted in Eden and evi
dently came to stay, as there is an im
mense crop of it on earth at this time. In
the grand consummation of the future,
when man stands face to face with the
eternal, one of tho bitterest dregs in his
cup of remorse will he the thought of his
ingratitude to his God and to liis fellow-
men.
Superstition in Medicine.
For the Enquirer-Sun.
We must die in order that coming generations
may have room. Tho world is not large enough
to contain all the turnips that would spring from
oue seed in a hundred years should all the seed
live and none be destroyed. The Fulmar petrel
lays but one egg, yet it is believed to be the most
numerous bird in the world. For some reason
its eggs are not easily destroyed. The elephant
is reckoned to be the slowest breeder. Assuming
that they breed at the age of thirty and continue
until they are ninety years old, and in this pe
riod bring forth three pairs, at the end of five
hundred yeaYs there will be fifteen million ele
phants on hand. These actual calculations are
given as corroborative of the assertion in the first
line. Now the perennial fountain of hope in
man blinds him to the cold truth that death may
enter any moment of time. The various organs
of all animals are made defective in order that
they may break down in due season, so that the
coming seedlings in part may live and be not en
tirely choked. The average age of a horse is
seven, of a dog five, of a man thirty-two years.
Up to one hundred years ago it was only thirty.
Hygiene, state laws and all science has aided in
adding two years to the life of man.
Health and youth believe themselves immor
tal. To them death is appalling. All is as
bright to youth and strength as the field of the
cloth of gold. The air, the sky, the light, the
waving grass, the murmur of the brook, the cor
dial interview, the fond smile, the tender fare
well, eyes that look love to eyes, these all make
the heart flash and flame. Youth and health
cannot ponder on frigid t houghts of an icy hand
with finger outstretched and a voice growling in
monotone through an impenetrable black mask:
To-day is thino, is thine to die. What soul be
lieves it will leave this world this day? To
morrow it may, not to-day. This, then, is the
plea for superstition—eternal, ardent hope, fight
ing inexorable death. A friend of
mine a few months ago was
directed to take two capsule^ on retiring. On
meetiug his medical adviser the following day.
who solicitously inquired whether the capsules
were duly swallowed : “No, my dear doctor, I
took only one, as the other fell from my hand
twice, I believed that to be ominous.” This was
a tiny superstition.
How complicated is the human system! Made
up of nerves, arteries, blood, bones, brain, skin,
lymphatics! Hereditary influences play a grand
role, and each individual presente unique char
acteristics. A true physician’s life is a daily dedi
cation to study. To comprehend the minutia of
existence, to relieve pain, save and prolong life,
requires devoted research and tireless investiga
tion. When people have a com
plicated case in the law the services
of the most learned lawyer are engaged. Of med
icine this is not true. The long-haired Indian
doctor, whose only power, Sampson-like, lies in
his hair, has his supporters and worshipers. The
short-haired Indian has his, too. Only a hun
dred years ago it was believed efficacious by a
European people to put medicine on the dagger
or knife with which one had been wounded.
Recently I was called to see a friend profession
ally who was suffering of malarial night-sweats.
The first question propounded: “Well, did you
have a sweat last night?” “No, I suppose not.”
“Yes, but you did, my dear,” said his tender
wife. “But,” said he, “it was impossible, for did
you not put a bowl of water under the bed?” Of
i course, he could not have had it. Necromancy
in whatever form fascinates. Messmer, he of
messmerism fume, when treating his patients sat
amidst flowers and depended upon soft
music to charm the patient, awake his
healing powers, and to ecstacy the liv
ing liar. St. Anthony formerly was
believed to rule over certain parts of the body
and to him rheumatics prayed. Now, instead of
regulating the appetite they jump from Hot
| Springs to the potent Irish potato in the pocket,
j Within the past fifty years many families in this
! slate raised black cats for their blood, to be used
as a cure for erysipelas. In the olden days
Toxaris, a Greek physician, had a temple erected
to him and on its altar a white horse was sacri
ficed every year. The Athenians believed ho
had stopped the plague in a supernatural way.
Wc now have quarantines and vaccination. And
yet voodooism is here. too. Asafcetida, sweet
name, is said to drive off many contagious dis
eases. Probably it acts like Persian insect pow
der, it makes the contaminating germs sneeze
their heads off.
Not only odors and amulets ward oft’ sickness,
but the presence in the pockets of certain sub
stances seems to throw around the wearer of the
pockets a weird and magic spell.
God knoweth why
He hath made man superstitious;
Not I.—Buckeye.
As man learns the laws of nature, as he ad
vances in all knowledge, superstition gives place
to lofly reason. Sybilline books are no longer
consulted, oracles are forgotten, ^Esculapian tem
ples are only historical; warts are rarely removed
at cross-roads by talismanic chants. However,
now and then we hear of it. Even “alermergrac-
lin pills and spidernesses tea” are seldom to be
found at their old places of business. We must
feel, indeed, fhr advanced in science and truth
when we consider how little superstition exists
now compared with ancient times. Out of the
barber and leecher evolution has produced learn
ed surgeons, while the conscientious, studious
and scientific physician stands in the place of
conjurers. Only learning and a love for the
cause can vitalize and magnify any profession.
But the people, too, must study,, for Carlisle says:
“Through ignorance man dies.”
POSITIVELY GREAT!
Comparatively Grand!
Superlatively Stunning I
THE RED HOT,
Git Up & Git,
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Special Notice
The Following Will Explain Itself;
New York City, September 14th, 1886.
Messrs. C. P. Gray <£• Co., Columbus, Ga.:
Gentlemen—Have just bought the entire bankrupt stock I
telegraphed you about. You will find it impossible to make
room for them in the store. All the boxes are very large.
There are 432 of them in all. Mark at once the following-
prices on Dress Goods, so as to move them off quickly, so
as to make room for other bulky goods already bought.
Respectfully,- C. P. GRAY.
250 Pieces of Burnside Wool Mohairs, worth 25c, price now
10 cents.
200 Pieces of Lena de Nell Suitings, worth 35c, price now
8 cents. •
500 Pieces of Brocade Pose de Inuch, worth 30c, price now
7i cents.
720 Pieces of Dark Vidd Cashmeres, worth 25c, price now
61 cents.
878 Pieces of Diagonal Twills, worth 20c, price now 6i cents.
956 Pieces of Mongatelle Illuminated Ponsons will be sold at
5 cents a yard.
813 Pieces of Simeese Votex Suitings will be sold at 5c also.
SEE GRAY’S GREATEST EFFORT I
TO THIE PRICES :
Lupin’s Blue, Black and Diamond Crow Black Cashmeres,
very wide, double width, worth 65 cents a yard. In this lot
you can get what is left of them at 25 cents a yard. See
them. We reserve the right to change these prices alter
this week.
Price our Blankets and Flannels. We .are 40 per cent
below any one's prices. All Fall Stock now in.
Prices may shrink with us to an appalling littleness, but
it is taken for granted by everybody that we never permit the
quality of our goods to deteriorate.
Gray’s Fall Indigestible Pulverine—Sell Cheap, *Sell a
Heap.
Largest Business Connections South,
COLUMBUS, SAVANNAH, AUGUSTA, NEW YORK.
OPT-TOP-LIVE-HOITSE.
C. P. GRAY & CO.
Opposite Rankin Hotel.
People actually non plussed at the
Low Prices
We name for the finest line of Ladies
DRESS GOODS, TRIMMINGS and
FANCY GOODS ever shown here.
Customers and Lookers
Bewildered, dazzled and' asphyxiated at
the sight of our stupendous stock. Every
hour in the day our spacious salesrooms
are crowded with delighted purchasers.
No one leaves without a look of satisfac
tion, or articulating sentences of praise
Encouraged by the application of in
numerable doses of patronage (adminis
tered by all classes of people), we are over
flowing with business stimulants that
keep us on the keen jumps from morning
till late at night. The snap crack ani
mated tumult produced by the hum of
busy buyers almost makes the walls of the
popular wardrobe
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Our fair, square, systematic and pains
taking system of conducting business
draws like a mustard plaster, and fifty
thousand patrons stick to us like leeches.
They know we use them well.
They know we are one price.
They know we are straightforward.
They know we exchange goods.
They know we refund money.
They know we are honest to all men
and compel all men to be honest to us.
Stemberg&Loewenherz
LEADERS OF
Low Prices.
SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE.
TUESDAY. SEPT21
WILSON A- RANKINS
Entire new company, headed by the acknowl
edged Leaders in Comedy,
George Wilson and Call Rankin
A new and original programme, introducing the
greatest Stars of Europe and America.
thepoluskTbrothers,
Their first appearance in America, receiving
shouts of applause nightly.
“The PavnnelaN,'’ the most surprising
Marvels ever seen—five in number. Positively
the most artistic, the finest, the greatest and
most original feast ever offered to the lovers of
refined and progressive minstrelsy.
Prices—$1 and 50c. Reserved seats at Chaffin’s.
sepl7 d4t
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, Sec’y. mh28 sely
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bringing the following revised list of sueli dealers
to your hind notice:
J. K. Giadcns,
J. R. & H. F. Garrett,
C. E. Hochstrasser,
L. H. Kaufman & Co..
G. W. Lewis,
C. H. Markham,
P. McArdle,
T. E. Middlebrooks,
Martin & Chalmers, J
D. A. Andrews,
D. A. Anglin
Averett & Porter,
R. J. Auglin,
J. Adams,
C. Batastein,
R. Broda,
Bennett & Co.,
T. A. Cantrell,
V. R. Cantrell & Co.,
ft. S. Crane,
F. Conti,
M. E. Edwards,
A. Simons,
Tobe Newman,
W. R. Newsome,
J. H. Rumsey,
Rothschilds Bros.,
T. J. Stone.
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Mra. W. M. Cary. MIssCary.
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FOR SALE,
J tHB VERY DESIRABLE FIVE (5) ROOM
. reridenoe of W. A. Redd on Jackson street,
le-bnlf (>£) acre. Terms most liberal. Apply nt
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