Columbus enquirer-sun. (Columbus, Ga.) 1886-1893, September 26, 1886, Image 4
DAILY ENQUIRER - SUN: COLUMBUS GEORGIA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1886.
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.Knquirkk-Hun.
A i.rrn.K crack in the crust at Canada,
just big enough to drop Wiggins out of
sight, is quite desirable.
Whkk a man runs as an independent
lie naturally gathers up all the scraps of
platform that have been rejected by the
builders in other parties.
A Nmv York man declares it is
cheaper to live in Florida in the winter
t han it iH to stay at home and buy seal
skin sacks for his family. lie has not
tried Jacksonville.
The canvass in Tennessee iH regarded
its a slow mule race. In some instances
the members of one party will vote for
tlie candidate of the other party to keep
their own candidate from being govern
or. An exchange says: “No matter
which Taylor is elected, the people of
Tennessee will wish it hud been the oth
er one.”
It is supposed every man has soino-
thing to he proud of. An ox-judge con
fined in the Louisiana penitentiary
claims to he proud of his record on the
bench. There is in jail in the City of
Mexico a young man who is awaiting ex
ecution for the murder of his mother.
Last week several of his friends received
nicely printed cards worded as follows:
“Francisco del Moral lias the pleasure to
invite you to be present at his execution,
so that you may be able to judge how n
man should die.”
Whii.e tin* democratic campaign book
was being edited a prominent democrat
proposed to pay ?I(KKI for the privilege
of writing one page in the hook. lie was
asked wlmt he desired to write. He
said: “1 only want to write one line, to
lie printed on one page. It shall lie good
democratic material.” The proposition
was accepted and the next day (lie gen
tleman presented a certified- check on
Higgs A Co.’s hank for $1000 and a slip
of paper upon which was written in a
bold hand, "To the victors belong the
spoils.” The member of the committee
looked lit thei’heek, then at the sentence,
scratched his head, returned both to the
giver, saying: "I agree with you, Imtcan
not accept your proposal.” The prom
inent democrat tore up both check and
paper upon which the famous matter
was written and walked out of the com
mittee room.
the schools to iieoin.
People may talk of the Hitting of the
summer hoarder, or the arrival of cool
weather, or the coining of the
autumnal equinox as the real
beginning of the fall season,
but they know they are wrong all the
time. The real beginning is always the
opening of the schools. No one will dis
pute that it is so to the young folks, and
the youngsters rule the household. There
are about thirteen hundred of them who
are expected to enter the public schools
OU Mi unlay. In addition to this there
are several other private schools to begin,
and during the next ten days nearly
all the schools in the city will be under
full headway, which will increase the
number to near 2iXX). Kacli one repre
sents at least three other human be
ings—probably four, So there are 0000 or
stXX) people in ColumbuB whose daily
routine is attected move or less by the
opening of the schools. The opening of
the ••fall trade" may have its intluenee
upon as many more, Imt the opening of
the schools comes home to the “business
and osoms” of two-thirds of the families
m the city.
The children have now had a long va
cation and are prepared for the work of
study that is before them. Fortunately
the schools will open with substantially
the same officers and teachers as before.
Teachers are like federal office-holders
in one respect, and that is few die and'
none resign. The principles of civil
service reform are pretty firmly ground
ed in the educational department, and
where the teachers are of such high
character as those in Columbus, it is a
cause for congratulation that this is
true. However, several very valuable
acquisitions have been made to our
private schools for the opening of tlie
fall term.
I here are few things which add more
to the progress of the city than our
schools. They are of a high order and,
people recognizing this fact, are liberally
patronized. The schools bring new and
good citizens to help swell the popula
tion. This brings trade and thus the
city grows.
JffiVlTIA FUT COLLI’* BEAT.
Minister Den by, at Pekin, has reported to the
secretary of China several coses of recent out-
rages upon American missionaries. One was
that of Rev. A. A. Fulton and wife and Miss Mary
Fulton, when a church edifice erected by money
sent from America for “foreign missions,” valued
at $5,500, wuh also destroyed. Another case was
the attack upon tbe Methodist mission hospital
at Chung King, in the absence of all the male
members, when one of the ladies was severely in
jured. Such outrages ns these are
enough to make tho average Christian shake
his head when the contribution
plate is shoved at him for the cause of foreign
missions. There is too much cant in the Chris
tian churches of this country on the subject of
foreign missions, anyhow. There is plenty of
work nearer home than China for all the mis”
sionnries wc have, and many communities in
different parts of the United States are without
$5500 churches. Wouldn’t it be a good idea,
then, for our Christian churches to first spread
the gospel throughout our own land, and build a
few mission churches and hospitals where they
are sadly needed nearer home, before wasting
any more money in erecting “Joss” houses for
the “heathen Chlresc” to destroy?
The above remarks are ft line illustra
tion of what debaters technically term
“begging the question.” There are some
patent truths stated, it must be admitted.
There ought to be more home missionary
work; hut the writer is illogical in making
that an excuse for the diminution or ces
sation of foreign missionary work. It is
true that many of our female missionary
societies in the large cities are making
shoes and shirts and buying catechisms
forthenaked “niggers” in Caffreland, and
collecting funds for the enlightenment
of the heathen in China, while about
their very doors there are ragged, un
kempt orphan hoys whose lips have
never uttered a prayer and on whose
rude, untrtored cars Ciirist’s gospel
never fell. But is the condition of the
latter an excuse for the neglect of the
former? Charity ought to begin at homo,
but it ought not to stay there. The
spirit of home missions, in order to be
consistent, must sanction foreign mis
sions. An exclusively home mission
spirit is simply religious sectionalism—
tho same kind of sectionalism that is
deemed a narrowness and a disgrace in
politics. There are a class of men who,
when a missionary collection is being
taken up, have a habit of saying, “Here’s
ten dollars for home missions. J don’t be
lieve in foreign missions until everybody
at home is converted.” This is simply
fencing in the grace of Cod with geo
graphical lines. It is a sentiment and a
spirit to beashainedof, not to boast of. As
long as the Bible revisions fail to change
the proclamation “Go ye into all the
world and preach the gospel to every
creature,” anti-foreign mission men must
remember that their creed is inconsist
ent with the word of God.
But there is a side to this question of
the recent riotH in China upon which the
American press is strangely silent. The
Chinese are our antipodes; but wrong
cannot personate right even with
the diameter of the earth between
them. Tlie government of the United
States has been shamefully recreant to
the pledges made to China in several of
the articles in the Burlingame treaty.
Of course mob violence is lawless. But
is it more reprehensible in heathens
than Christians? Is it not less repre
hensible when it is done from a desire
to average wrongs than when it is done
in a spirit of mercenary aggression? The
missionaries who were mobbed and
whose property was destroyed tlie other
day in Chinn are self-abnegating servants
of Cod, who deserve the amplest re
muneration and the sympathy of the
civilized world. They suffered innocent
ly. They were scapegoats for the sins of
the nation to which they belong by
by birth and allegiance. For years, ever
since tlie anti-Chinese demonstration of
I tennis Kearney and his hoodlum ad
herents, Chinamen have been massacred
by Americans in the towns of the Pacific
slope by hundreds. The civilized and
Christian (?) murderers were prompt and
accommodating in rendering a reason for
their faith and works. The Chinamen
were butchered on American soil—
America, the refuge of the oppressed, the
“land of the free and the home of the
braue"—because they did better work
for less money than the flannel-mouthed,
beer-guzzling hoodlums who slew them.
Would it be much of a joke, after all, if
some day a Chinese junk, loaded with
Chinese missionaries, should drop anchor
in the harbor of San Francisco and the
missionaries should ask tlie humble
privilege of laboring for the conversion
and reclamation of the American people?
WIUT WILL THE HARVEST HE!
The law of the harvest is to reap more
than you sow Sow an act and you may
reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap
a character; sow a character and you
reap a destiny. Shakespeare says:
“There’s a divinity that shapes our ends,
rough-hew them as we will.” The senti
ment of the poet as expressed in the
quotation seems to be at variance with
the law of the harvest, as stated above,
and when put in apposition they ap
pear paradoxical. Can tlie sentiment
as expressed in both be true? Yes,
both are true. The common expe
rience of mankind proclaims botli to be
true. We know the law of the harvest
to be to reap more than we sow, both in
the spiritual and mental as well as in the
material sphere of man’s operations.
One grain of wheat sown makes a har
vest of many grains. Tlie grain first
sprouts from tlie soil and then sends out
tillers from tlie parent stem, each of
which bears an ear and each ear many
grains. So one good act is a grain of
good, planted in the fruitful soil of
our own soul, * which may
not to-day or to-morrow, but
sooner or later, whenever the proper con
ditions concur, will germinate into grow
ing activity, and multiply as it grows,
until the harvest time, whicli comes al
ways in this life ami often sooner than
we anticipated.
Evil acts are likewise seeds of evil,
which lodge themselves in tho soil of the
soul and which, like the noxious weeds
and brambles covering tlie earth, will
grow and multiply and yield most mar
velously.
How many men and women are there
to-day who can look back over mem
ory's reccord and fix their minds upon
one act of their lives, either of good or
of evil, and reulize that that act has been
perennial and fruit-bearing through all
their days. That net was the reed germ
which lias fixed the nature and quality
of all tlie harvests they have since
reaped, even down to old age. That act
was voluntary on their part—they were
tlie sowers; yet who made the seed to
take root and grow and yield fruit?
That was tlie part enacted by the hand
of that Divinity which shapes our ends.
We scatter seeds upon our fields und
the heat, the moisture and tlie proper
conditions of atmosphere necessary for
their gemination, growth and fruitful
ness are controlled alone by that
Divinity which pervades all things
spiritual and material.
As the devout husbandman goes out
to sow, and is careful to sow good seed
and of a kind whose harvest he desires
to reap, and as lie recognizes tlie fact
that he must sow in orde r to reap, and
at the same time prays tlie Lord of the
harvest to give the increase, so while we
sow good acts wo must not forget that a
Divinity supplies and controls the con
ditions for their germination and growth.
As a seed may lie for a long time before
germinating, so an evil act may lie dor
mant until forgotten by tbe seed sower,
and then at some unexpected and un-
propitious time spring up and bring
forth a full harvest of evil that will poi
son and embitter our whole existence.
ADVANCEMENT IN MEDICINE.
For the Enqulrer-Hun.
Science iH compiled experience. Dr.
Rush, a great name in his day, founder
of one of tlie best medical schools in
America, was a combination preacherand
physician. One Sunday while in the
pulpit almost ready to begin his sermon,
he was handed a note in which a request
to visit a young lady was made. He
picked up a prayer book and Hcribbled
this: “Bleed tlie girl; I will see her after
service.” In those days, one hundred
years ugo, it was considered proper to
bleed everybody who fell sick. Blood is
simply digested food, and now we seldom
seek to rid the body of it. That is a
Btride forward. Fever in general, that
is, any elevation of temperature,
means increased heat production, a sur
plus of heat, more heat than is necessary.
Fever is no disease in itself, but a symp
tom of various diseases. Whenever
germs of anykind—as measles, typhoid,
scarlatina, scarlet fever, roseola, puerpe
ral fever,malaria—enter the human body
an irritation of tlie nervou ssystem takes
place, and this latter in turn reflects on
tlie blood-vessels, causing them to act
more rapidly. The result is fever. It is
a wonderful phenomenon that the tem
perature of tlie body in health remains
the same at all altitudes and climates.
To reduce fever the over-production must
he reduced or the cause must be quieted.
The entire laity and some physicians
have unlimited confidence in quinine to
control fever. In fact, the immensity of
their faith cannot be over-estimated.
This is wrong. Antipyrin, thafiin and
cold baths have about supplanted qui
nine in Europe, except for diseases with
a malarial origin. St. John, the evan
gelist, speaks of twelve trees that grow in
the celestial city, the New Jerusalem,
whose leaves shall be for the healing of
the nations. Doubtless the quinine tree
is one of these trees, but only one. It
does not take the place of the other
eleven and cure all diseases.
Aconite and veratrum I omit, as they
paralyze the muscle of tlie heart when
given in sufficient doses to reduce the
temperature to any extent. It were ns
rational to suffocate a patient with coal
gas to produce insensibility in order to
perform a surgical operation as to use
large doses of veratrum in fever.
Quinine acts best in malarial troubles,
and it should only be given in them. It
produces a benefical effect in that it en
ters the blood and kills tlie malarial
germs. Thegrcatest advancement in the
past year is, I take it to be, tlie intro
duction of antipyrin and thallin. These
two substances are produced from
coal tar. Like every other medical term
ending in in, or inc, it is an arbitrary
name. It was baptised chemically tetra
liydraparachinanisol. This name, how
ever, would be ponderous even for the
offspring of chemistry. These substances
are in the form of whitish powders, pal
atable to the taste and highly efficient.
They have completely robbed quinine of
its crown. There are still sources of
fever other than I have mentioned, as
wounds, inflammation,mechanical irrita
tion from undigested matter, etc. but what
ever the source,fever can he reduced by
antipyrin and thallin. They are not ex
periments, but have taken permanent
root. Salves are only medicine in grease
and that grease is generally cosmolln or
vaselin, the residue of coal oil. Formerly
hog’s lard was only used. Recently a
new substance has been introduced to
supplant cosmolin, a substance that is
more easily absorbed by the skin. This
product is the fat from sheep’s wool, and
is called lanolin. Ifris a very useful addi
tion. Almond oil is often used to
rub into tlie skin to increase the
flesh. Lanolin takes its place admirably.
Lanolin is the only fat that readily unites
with water. As a promoter of sleep
chloral and the bromides fill an excellent
purpose, but they are being shoved back
by a substance, urethan, that produces
more natural sleep, and atAhe same time
it does not depress the heart as do the
first named drugs. Urethan is an im
provement, and lias come to stay.
l’asteur’s efforts at curing hydrophobia
are highly commendable, yet it is diffi
cult to comprehend his working theory.
For a time it was believed that his
method was analogous to vaceinatiotv^-
give tlie patient a mild form of tlie dis
ease. r l'liis, however cannot be true, for
Pasteur does not strive to prevent hydro
phobia, for the individual that is bitten
must have the virus in the system as
Hoon as the bite is inflicted. He endeav
ors to cure u disease with its own virus.
I trust it may lead to other studies in
this direction. Preventive medicine,
warding off disease we see all along
the line. Tlie school for training
nurses has its idea in avoiding
tlie many complications that jeopardize
life. Vaccination, schools for nurses,
drainage for towns, exclusion of air from
wounds—these are all schemes to keep
disease from entering. These ideas are
being largely fostered in this modern
age, and the hunt for specifics is not so
vigorously pursued. Improvement in
the use of what we have, attention to de
tail and minntia are the watchwords.
The beauty of language consists in its lit
tle particles, of the human system in its
small nerve and arterial fibres, of suc
cess in any walk in a knowledge and re
gard for the little parts.
If Florida should send Geronimo to
tlie United States senate he would be an
improvement over Jones. Gero would
not spend bis entire time in Michigan
hunting a hopeless mash.
&c OO.
Ready for Business in Our New
Location.
W E wish to announce to Our Patrons that we
have removed from our former location,
(Rear of Hill & Law’s Store), to the Store former
ly occupied by M. Joseph, where, with more room,
mater facilities, and a much larger and more
Comprehensive Line of Goods,
Wo Ex poof to I>o i% Larger Business
Than Hus Ever Before Been
Bone In Tills City.
QUR NEW FALL STOCK
Is Now On Exhibition,
And Should lit Seen by Every Lady in Columbus,
—Our Assortment of—
Ladies’ and Children’s
ZEZfcTOIRzIMIOTTS.
And includes Every Desired Shape, Shade
and Quality in the Market.
—Our Stoc k of—
Fancy Feathers, Birds’
Wings,Ostrich Tips and Plumes!
Ribbons, Silks, Velvets,
And Mateiials of ALL KINDS
Is Elegant
And Almost Endless!
Every Lady in the City is Urgently Re
quested to call in and Look
at Our Stock.
m-Dur Notice of Our Opening- Day
Will Be Given.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
I take this method of informing the Public
that I have sold my MILLINERY BUSINESS to
Messrs. BOUGHTON & CO., who will carry on
the Business at 1133 Broad street. Thanking my
patrons and friends for their generous patronage
in the past, I bespeak for Messrs. BOUGHTON
& CO. a continuance of same for the friture.
Very Respecttully,
M. JOSEPH.
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. mhJ8sely
SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION!
aRAY’S
Bankrupt Stock Just Bought at Forced Sale
IN NEW YORK NOW ALL IN.
For the past week our resources were tried to their al
most. Never before in the history of Columbus were such
great bargains put before such a well pleased people. The sale
is positive, and without limit or reserve. Before reading our
prices we would say, remember, be certain to call and see
this new stock during Monday and Tuesday, as you will have
first choice before they are all picked over,’ as we will sell at
this season of the year largely to merchants that have spot
cash.
Still Without a Rival. Note This Price List, We Have the Goods,
40 Inch Black Brocade De VERNEY CLOTH, sold by many at il 00 a yard: our nrir,,
25c—warranted all wool, 40 inches wide. ’ **
8 Ounce Colored Heavy VAMAST; also Fairburn’s Suitings, worth 25c ; our price 12*,■
6 Ounce NORMANDY TWILIJ3 and DIAGONAL SUITINGS, worth 20c; our nrfee
10 cents. r
4 Ounce DACELL and UVILLE DRESS GOODS, worth 15c; our price 7 cents.
One case of good WASH POPLINS, worth 10c; price till Wednesday 0c, all shadea.
Lead on, oh! Sparticus! Remember this for Monday,
as all will be gone that day:
38 Inch English Fold Fine Soft CASHMERE, worth 40c: price 15 cents.
Lupin’s 40 inch Blue and Crow Black CASHMERE TWILL, 1800 fine, worth 66o« nrice
25 cents.
All our large *1 26 BUTTONS are marked down to 50 cents, all you want.
All our best KID CAMBRICS ore marked down to 5 cents.
All our BRASS PINS are marked down to 2J cents a paper.
All our Ladies’ 25e COLLARS are marked down to 121 cents.
All our 11-4 BED SPREADS, worth |1 50, are marked down to 75 cents.
All our White and Red 35c FLANNELS, all wool, marked down to 20 cents.
All our 76c Barnsley TABLE DAMASK marked down to 50 cents.
All our 65c Red DAMASKS marked to 36 cents.
Gents’ $2 00 Scarlet UNDERSUITS marked to $1 00 for full suit.
Scan this Price List well. Oh, iny! did you ever? Keep
a reading: ■
200 Pieces 4-4 full heavy SEA ISLAND, worth 10c; our price file, same by the bolt
200 Pieces 44 full heavy SEA ISLAND, worth 8c; our price 5c, same by the bolt
200 Pieces bleached and unbleached CANTON FLANNELS, worth 124c ; our price will
be 7J cents, heavy.
500 Pieces 44 BLEACHINC4S at 4 cents ; also 4-4 Undressed Heavy at 71c.
200 Pieces Best KING PHILIP CAMBRICS at 9j cents.
Have you noticed how Gray has knocked the bottom out
of Calicoes ? Remember the best Fall Prints are priced by
us 5 cents; even good Prints can be had at 4 cents.
54 Inch Ladies’ Imported MOGULL SUITINGS, worth $ 1 25 a yard; our price 45 cents.
72 Inch Silesia Face Satin Palm Leaf Damask, worth J2 75 a yard; our price *1 See it
All our Blankets, Ladies’ and Gents’ Underwear, Skirts, Linens, Notions, Hosiery,
Dress Goods and Shawls now in. Special prices on Silk, viz: 65c, 66c. 75c, *1 00, up to
f4 00 a yard. Endless array of fine Silks and Velvets and Courtauld’s Fine Crapes. 500
Pieces of Hamburg JSdge and Insertings to be thrown away.
THAT IDiRzIELAIM:.
The following was overheard as some high price competitors were in conclave ou
a Dry Goods box the other night: “What are we going to do since Gray has bought
that large bankrupt stock T” “Weil, I had on awful dream the other night about Gray
cutting the prices last week, and that dream has caused more sorrrow to the soul of
mine than ten thousand earthquakes, or a million bankrupt stocks not handled by
Gray,” “No use,” said the other, “trying to match Gray’s prices. It is like the noted
Indian chief, Geronimo, trying to catch an ostrich in the Saharah Desert on the
back of a Florida gopher.”
Our aim during this sale will be to have our bundles delivered promptly and show
goods with pleasure. Strict attention and politeness Gray’s imperative rule. Remem
ber the one that keeps the prices down.
Largest Business Connections South,
COLUMBUS, SAVANNAH, AUGUSTA, NEW YORK.
ON-TOP-LIVE-HZOTTSB.
C. P. GRAY & CO.
Opposite Rankin Hotel.
is LIKE A
Pretty Girl!
It Can’t Be Overdone.
We Hecognine No Competition. Wc Have None
Within 300 Miles of Columbus,
and convince yourself. When
every other house is deserted
our house is crowded with
customers.
Our Cloak Department will
be second to none in styles
and assortments. Prices, of
course, the lowest. We are
selling the handsomest Jersey
ever sold here for $1 25. We
carry a beautiful line in all
styles, from 50c to $10 each.
All we ask is to call at our
stores before you buy and we
will convince you that we are
the Leaders of Styles as well
as of Low Prices.
Stemberg& Loewenherz
LEADERS OF
We are showing handsome
styles in Silks and Dress
Goods (Trimmings to match)
in all the newest effects.
Beautiful finest Velvets
from $1 50 to $2 00 per yard.
Jet and Bead Trimmings in
all the newest colors. Feath
er Trimmings, Ostriches, Moss
and Braid Trimming in all
desirable shades.
We can't begin to make any
pretention to enumerate one-
fiftieth part of all the newest
styles godds we carry. We
boldly assert we carry more
stock, more line goods, more
styles and more assortment
than all the Dry Goods trade
in Columbus combined.
Last, but not least, we do
more business than all com
bined. Facts will tell, and
figures won’t lie. Call at our
stores at any hour of the day
Low Prices.
SPRINGER OPERA HOUSE.
Tuesday Evening. September 38.
POSITIVE APPEARANCE OF
MB. EDWIN THORNE,
In his Greatest Success, the
Black Flag!
Supported by a Powerful Dramatic Company,
And With New Modeled Scenery,
Note—When a Convict Escapes from Portland
Prison, England, the Authorities
Hoist the “Black Flag.”
General Admission, 75 cents.
^*F* Reserved Seats at Chaffin’s, Without Extra
Charge.sept24-lt
UNIVERSITY OP GEORGIA,
1*. H. HELL, D. IL, LL. D., Chancellor.
r FHE 86th Session of Departments at Athens
A will begin Wednesday. 6th of October next.
Full courses of study in Letters and Science;
special courses in Engineering, Agriculture,
Physics and Chemistry. TUITION FREE. For
catalogues and information address the Chan
cellor at Athens. Law School opens at the same
time. For information address Prop. Geo,
Dudley Thomas, at Athens, Ga. Lamar Cobb,
Sec’y Board of Trustees, Athens, Ga. Aug., 1886.
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