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(fiolimitosCiujutrcr^uit. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. 58 YEARS OLD. Daily,. Weekly and Sunday. The ENQUIRER-SUN In Issued every (lay, ex oept Monday. Tho Weekly Is issued on Monday. The Daily (Including Sunday) is delivered by carrier* In the city or mailed, postage fVce, to sub scriber* for Jfie. per month, J-J.IM for three months, 84.00 for six months, or $<.00 a year. Ihe Sunday is delivered by carrier boys in the city or mailed to subscribers, postage free, at 81.00 a year. The Weekly is issued on Monday, and is mailed to xaltscribera, postage free, at 81.10 a year. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Daily at fl per square of 10 lines or letts for the Orst insertion, and 50 cents for each subsequ ' insertion, and for the Weekly at for each •ertion. All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of corporations, societies ur individuals will he charged as advertisements. ISpeciai contracts made for advertising by the year. Obituaries will be charged for at customary rates. None but solid inetal cuts used. All communications should be addressed to the 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, Greased Lightning Business, the TUI T Din F U •|1 Pf 1111 1 HAD I r Jl jA uL C. 1 1 u.. 1 . i. . 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 E, 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 INCREASING FAST, m “l TOBACCOS U) CD I- cc < O 11 < Ll. I— U.O ° Ll. ceK UJ ss a: O CO —J So —I S3 UJ O s I H % — Q S wz <! UJ < Q U ; E Z 1 ^ CU s § I B m < t->JO —j— O |H hi ^:= 0 - co oc DC LU is rapidly increasing, and we take pleasure in 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. of Richmond, Virginia, l KEEK dk LOEB are oar Hole Areata for tkla territory. DflMtO c-5 QC =t CO ® 5 m HOME SCHOOL FOB GIRLS, „ M» *1W» N. Charles St., Baltimore. Mra. W. M. Cary. MIssCary. Established in 1842. French the language of tha pcbool. y 14 wea sat*w^m 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 once to ... SOULE REDD, eepldtm - - m