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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN.
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Charles F. Crisp,
Attorney at Law*
AMERICUS, GA.
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Attorney at Law*
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Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY,
Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’
Clothing Store, Amekicus, Ga.
After a brief respite I return again to the
practice of law. As in the- past it will he
my earnest purpose to represent my clients
faithfully and look to their interests. The
commercial practice will receive close atten
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the Supreme Court and the United States
Courts. Thankful to my friends for their
patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf
CARD.
I offer my professional services again to the
good people of Americus. After thirty years’
of medical service, I have found It difficult
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Americus, - - - Georgia
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1883.
YOY/YWY.
“Ring IHe Bell Softly--There’. Crape
on lUc Boor.”
I.
Someone has gone from this strange world
of ours,
No more to gather its thorns with its flowers,
No more to linger where sunbeams must
fade,
Where in all beauty Death’s fingers are laid,
Weary with minglinglife’sbitter with sweet,
Weary with parting and never to meet,
Someone lias gone to the bright golden shore,
King the bell softly there’s crape on the door.
11.
Someone is resting from sorrow and sin,
Happy where earth's conflicts enter not in,
Joyous as birds when the morning is bright,
When the sweet sunbeams have brought in
tlie light,
Weary of sowing and never to reap,
Weary of labor and welcoming sleep,
Some one’s departed to Heaven’s bright
shore,
King tlie bell softly there’s crape on the door.
111.
Angels were anxiously longing to meet,
One who walks witli them in Heaven’s
bright street,
Loved ones have whispered that someone
is blest,
Free from earth’s trials and taking some
rest;
Yes, there is one more in angelic bliss,
One less to cherish, one less to kiss;
One more departed to Heaven’s bright shore;
Ring tlie bell softly,there’s crape on the door.
Beautiful Tliouglits---'Upon the
Education of the Daughter.
Bv Prof. M. J Michelet.
Speaking about the education of the
boy and girl, Prof. Michelet says:
“Let us have done then with what
is common between the girl and boy,
and dwell on the difference.
It is profound, and this it is: The
education of the boy, in the .nodenf
sense, aims to organize a force, an ef
fective and productive force, to create a
creator; which is the modern man.
The education ot the girl is to pro
duce harmony, to harmonize a reli
gion.
Woman is a religion.
Her destiny is such, that the higher
she stands as religious poetry, the more
effective will she be in common and
practical life.
The utility of man, being in creative,
productive power, may exist apart from
the ideal; an art which yields noble
products may sometimes have the effect
of vulgarizing the artist, who ma|r
himself retain very little of the beauty
he infuses into his works.
There is never anything like this in
woman.
The woman of prosaic heart, she
who is not a living power, a harmony
to exalt a husband, to educate a child,
to constantly sanctify and ennoble a
family, has failed in her mission, and
will exert no influence even in what is
vulgar.
A mother seated by the cradle of her
daughter, should say to herself: “I
have here the war or the peace of the
world, what will trouble the hearts of
men or give them the tranquility and
high harmony of God.
“She it is who, if I die, will at
twelve years of age, on my tomb, raise
her father on her little wings, and car
ry him back to heaven.
She it is who, at sixteen, may with
a word of proud enthusiasm, exalt a
man far above himself, and make him
cry ‘I will be great!’
“She it is who, at twenty, and at
thirty, and all her life long, will renew
her husband, every night, as he returns
deadened by his labor, and make his
wilderness of interests and cares blos
som like the rose.
She again, who, in the wretched days,
when the heavens are dark, and every
thing is disenchanted, will bring God
back to him, making him find and feel
Him on her bosom.”
To educate a daughter is to educate
society itself. Society proceeds from
the family, of which the wife is the
living bond. To educate a daughter is
a sublime and disenterested task; for
you create her, 0 mother, only that she
may leave you, and make your heart
bleed. She is destined for another.
She will live for others, not for you,
not for herself; it is this relative char
acter which places her higher than
man, and makes her a religion. She is
the flame of love, and the flame of the
heart. She is the cradle of the future,
and she is the school, another cradle—
in a word: She is the altar.
God be thanked, all the debated sys
tems for the education of the boy end
here, all disputes cease here. The great
conflict of methods and theories expires
in the peaceful nutnre of this blessed
flower; discords are disarmed, and em
brace each other in Beauty.
She is not condemed to strong and
violent action; she will know, but not
enter into, the frightful work of details,
ever increasing, beyond all the powers
of man.
Will she rise to the summits of high
speculation? Very likely; but not by
following in our footsteps. We will
prepare ways for her to reach the idea,
without subjecting her charming soul
to the preliminary tortures in which the
spirit of life is lost.
What shall she be? Beauty. After
what model, 0 mother, shall she form
herself?
Every morning and every night, offer
up this prayer: “My God, make me
very beautiful! that iny daughter, to be
so need only look on me!”
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A WRECKED life.
A Beautiful Baltimore Belle
Ruiuect by Morphine.
The Dauohter of a Leading Family
with Scores of Suitors Marries a
Prominent Merchant and Takes
to the Morphine Halit—He Kills
Himself and She Dies a Wreck.
Baltimore, February I.—Ten years
ago no more beautiful woman walked
the fashionable promenades of Balti
more than Miss Nannie G. Lynn. She
was a true representative of that fasci
nting type of female beauty that appears
to be the order of the day in this sec
tion of the United States. Blonde, be
witching, tall, of rather commanding
appearance, with form developed tojust
the right degree of maidenly perfection,
her figure alone was sufficient to bring
many slaves to her presence, lie per
sonal appearance was such that she
could uncrown a king or make a stoic
bow at will. As may he safely sur
mised, she numbered,
HER ANXIOUS, EAGER SUITORS
by the score. In the latter part of the
month of May, J 87-1, this priceless
gem in the matrimonial department of
life was led to the hymeneal altar by,
at that time a prominent young mer
chant of Baltimore, Col. N. G. Pilson.
He possessed a sufficient amount of the
currency of the realm to support her in
elegant style, and after the grand cere
mony under the floral bell, and amidst
the chants of the sonorous clergymen
and loud peals of the expensive organ
in an uptown fashionable Episcopal
church, the loving and happy couple
took a wedding trip to Europe, and
they began housekeeping in grand style
on Madison Avenue—one of the most
aristocratic sections of this city. Here
for a time peace seemed to reign supreme
and happiness to have found her throne.
But before a year had been numbered
with the innumerable throng which had
come and gone, the husband discovered
A TERRIBLE SECRET.
lie had daily the most undoubted
evidence that his beautiful wife, the
angelic creature which he had grasped
from so many outstretched masculine
hands, was a slave to the terrible opium
habit. In other and more significant
words she was a morphine maniac. It
seems that a short time before her mar
riage she was afflicted with a very pain
ful illness. To quiet her and soothe
her sufferings her physician, one of the
leading medical lights of Maryland, had
given her morphine. When she re
covered her usual health, which she did
in the course of a few weeks, the crav
ings for the drug still continued, as is
olten the case, and she became in the
habit of buying it at various drug
stores. The fatal appetite rapidly
grew, and as has been stated before,
the happy husband had not had what
he supposed to be a priceless treasure a
year before he discovered the awful
truth. Then commenced on his part,
a long series of fruitless efforts to con
ceal the terrible fact from the argus
eyes of the world and to wean her from
her powerful and perverted appetite.
Earnest reason, logical expostulation
and loving entreaty were first tried.
All, all in vain. She would promise
reformation, but would soonagain take
the temporarily entrancing drug. Then
the husband sent her to a prominent
institution in a northern city, where
they profess to cure this awful disease.
He kept her there nearly a year and
spent money in his efforts in this direc
tion with lavish hand. She returned
home at the expiration of that time ap
parently cured. For a few months hap
piness once more reigned supreme in
that household, when suddenly one day
the husband was horrified by finding
A BOTTLE OF MORPHINE
in one of the private drawers of the
bureau, in his wife’s room. For several
days prior to this time he thought she
acted strangely, but attributed it to
temporary nervousness. When charg
ed with again using the drug, she
weepingly confessed that it was so, and
with loving arms entwined around his
neck, and her still beautiful face press
ed to his, begged his forgiveness, prom
ising him that it would never occur
again, and he, man like, under the ex
isting circumstances, did as she wish
ed. But as may be imagined she
did not keep her earnest promises.
She still continued taking the drug
Matters went from bad to worse.
It began to be noised about among
their numerous mutual friends that she
did as she did. One night when she
was out on the street she became so
much affected by the now larger doses
of morphine which she had taken that
day, that she was actually arrested by
the average, astute American muni
cipal officer under the mistaken sup
position that she was really intoxica
ted. She spent that night within the
dirty and gloomy confines of the sta
tion house cell. Her behaviour and
appearance next morning before the po
lice magistrate was such that she at
tracted the attention of the industrious
city reporters, and the details of the
whole sad case were sprad in glowing
English rhetoric and chaste significant
adjectives in the royal papers.
THIS SAD lILiOW
almost broke the living husband’s
heart. A year after this sad event,
and five years after their marriage, a
more terrible calamity occurred which
was the final drop that filled the poor
fellow’s cup of woe to overflowing.
Their only child, a bright little girl
aged two years, was scalded so badly
that she died, iu a few hours. After
this sad event and finding that it was
utterly impossible to free his wife
from the terrible malady which was the
bane of her life, the husband lost all
hope and
TO QUENCH HIS DOMESTIC ANGUISH,
sought the aid of King Alcohol. The
usual results followed with speedy and
destructive steps. He soon lost his
wealth, and his business became so in
volved that he made a heavy mercan
tile failure. This- once blessed and
happy couple sank lower and lower in
the scale of degradation. In Septem
ber, 1881, the poor fellow one day blew
his brains out, leaving the following
PATHETIC NOTE.
“Opium has directly ruined my wife,
I have done everything that mortal
man could do to save her, but all in
vain. Opium has indirectly ruined me.
Had it not been for the fatal appetite,
I could have saved her. I would never
have tasted whisky, and had I never
drank I would not be where I am nor
fill a nameless sui'eide’s grave. I love
her yet, devotedly and passionately.
May God in His infinite love bless her,
and may we meet where there are no
tears, where there is no sorrow. For
without her there would be no heaven
for me in whatever will come to me in
that life into which in a few minutes
shall usher my soul.”
THE YOUNG WIDOW MADE ANOTHER AT
TEMPT
to stay the terrible appetite after the
tragic death of her husband. Kind
friends rallied around her and assisted
her, and for a time it really seemed as
if she had actually conquered the fiend.
However, six months after his funeral
she was discovered one day in her poor
ly furnished room almost unconscious
from the effects of opium, and several
large pieces of the crude article was
found upon a table beside her. When
this became known among the kind
friends who were helping her, they
without exception at once deserted her,
and in a few days she stood upon the
threshold of extreme penury—upon
the brink of actual starvation. At this
particular crisis in the life a wealthy
young married lady of Baltimore heard
of her pitiable condition. This lady
had been a school companion of the
morphine eater when both were young
misses at St. Mary’s Hall, the fashion
able hoarding school for young ladies
at Burlington, N. J. She had lost
sight of her for a number of years,
but when she found her in her utter
destitute and sad plight, she remember
ed the many happy hours they had
spent together during the joyous days
of their -girlhood, and at once took the
poor sufferer to her own luxuriously
furnished home iu her carriage. Hero
she was surrounded by every comfort
imaginable and nothing she desired was
denied her except
THE ONE FATAL CURSE.
This kind-hearted, wealthy youug
lady, kept the victim of opium fastened
in a handsomely furnished room in her
house for three months, and had strong
hopes of effecting a permanent cure when,
one day, the young widow was found
in a helpless condition on the floor of
the apartment. The family physician
pronounced the cause of the mysterious
illness to be solely morphine. How
she succeeded in obtaining the drug will
nearer be known as she lefused to tell,
but it is supposed some of the colored
servants, to whom she was very kind,
moved to compassion by her earnest
entreaties, secretly procured the opium
in one of its many forms for her. Af
ter several exhibitions of this kind, and
many broken reformation promises on
the part of the now wretched woman,
the husband' ot the kindly disposed
woman turned the once beautiful blonde
belle out of the house, and she had no
where to seek shelter except the resorts
ot the depraved of her sex. To one of
these places she went, and after a brief
sojourn there, on account of her loss of
beauty and attractiveness
SHE WAS AGAIN TURNED INTO THE STREET.
Nothing now remained for the man
and woman forsaken creature hut a
charitable home, and after being al
most starved for lack of food and almost
frozen by being without shelter, on the
25th day of last month—when it seeni
as if all the world was filled with holi
day joys and mirth held high carnival
even in the remotest corners of the earth
—she was admitted to an institution
ot this kind. The once lovely face had
now so changed that there was not even
the shadow of resemblance between its
now hideous distortions and contrac
tions, and the lily and roses commingl
ed, and the beaming bluo eyes which
charmed all beholders ten brief
years ago. And the stately, graceful
figure, once so envied by every woman
who saw it, had now shrunk into a
miserable burlesque upon what it once
had been. A few days ago the sorrow
ful and eventful life was brought to a
close by the advent of the king of ter
rors. A few hours betore her death
she feebly wrote the following sorrow
ful note which shows that she was only
too glad to escape from the woes of her
life and the anguish of her existence:
lIEU LAST WORDS OF ANGUISH.
“I have not only ruined my life, but
I have ruined that of my loving hus
band, and am truly his murderer; just
as much so as if I had personally dealt
him a death blow; had killed him with
my own hand. lam going to die in a
very few hours, and am thankful to
God that the end to my wretched,
weary existence has come at last. • My
only hope now is that I will meet my
dear husband in the next world, what
ever that maybe for me. Opium ruin
ed me, and by destroying me killed
him. After acquiring the fatal appe
tite for that datnuabledrug I could never
resist its terrible seductions. Great God
how I have suffered, how I have wild
ly fought, but all in vain—all in vain.
See what I am, how I die, and what 1
might be and my dear loving husband
might be, too, had it not been for that
awful appetite.
I DO NOT FEAR THE HELL
ministers talk about in the next world
—the world I very soon shall be in—
for even in its worst aspect it cannot be
a more terrible hell than I have suffer
ed here for five years past. Oh if this
is male public, if it should happen to
get into the papers, girls, women, you
of my own sex who read it, I beseech
you never touch opium in any one of its
many seductive forms. No matter
what your family doctor may say,
never, never think—”
HERE THE NOTE
came to an abrupt termination. The
wretched sufferer’s strength had evi
dently failed her at this moment and
she could write no more. Iler
hand was stilled forever by the icy
touch of death. She was quietly hur
ried by the authorities, and the once
beautiful blonde Baltimore belle, of
only ten years ago, now rests beyond
all the cares and sortows of her bitter
life of anguish in a nameless pauper’s
grave.
ANSON GREY.
Anson Grey was a still, stern man
at thirty, shut up within himself and
by himself, in his great stone mansion
on the hill, and people knew no more
about him than they knew about the
dead. His early years had been pass
ed abroad, where, or how, nobody knew
and most had ceased to care, for that
matter; the last two had been passed in
Burlingame.
A brilliant light at night,shining from
the great east windows, and occasional
gallops through the town, by day,
were the only tokens of his presence.
However a change was coming and that
without warning. Anson Grey fell
sick, suddenly and dangerously so.
The village doctor was summoned, who
in turn telegraphed for another from the
neighboring city in hot haste, and to
gether, they said in whispers, that their
patient would probably die. There
was no woman in the great house to
act a nurse, and the head servant, obey
ing doubtless his master’s orders, re
fused to allow one there as yet.
How it came about was a mystery, hut
one morning, when the master had laid
a week half senseless, an unusual cloud
of dust was observed whirling up the
hill, and emerging therefrom was a
carriage, splashed and weather-stained
headed by two straining, panting hors
es, who came up to the euterance as if
driven by the evil one. A lady, tall
and fair as sunlight, pushed open the
carriage door impatiently and sprang
out. With a hasty glance around she
hurried up the steps, entered the draw
ing-room aud stood before the astonish
ed gentlemen who were seated there.
“Is Anson Grey alive?”
“Yes, but he grows worse.”
Before they divined her intention, she
had passed them, and was in the next
room bending over the sick man.
“The devil will be to pay if she ex
cites him now,” the elder one said, “If
some good nurse had come, it might
have been of -some use; but this dainty
thing—bah!”
She came out in a moment, her face
white but determined.
“Will you be kind enough to send
for a minister and remain until' lie
comes?” she asked, as she began to re
move her things.
There was something iu her
that forbade questioning, and they obey-i
ed her like so many dumb men, as they*
said afterward.
The minister did come; William
Skinner, the head servant was called,
and after the three held a private con
ference, which seemed to be satisfactory,
they came out aud, to the amazement
of all, the lady stood beside Anson
Grey and the marriage vows were taken.
The wise doctors were mistaken in their
estimate of their unknown. She was
something besides a fair young lady, as
her actions soon proved. Anew order
of things was instituted in the sick
man’s room, and his wife installed her
self as nurse, a change which told for
the better. In a month ho was riding
through the vilage, with his wife at his
side, all eyes, of course, agog to catch
a glimpse of her handsome face.
All agreed that she was just an angel,
when they came to church the next
Sunday, and sat down in one of the
pews like other people, they were more
than ever confirmed in their opinion.
What they never knew was this:
Three years before, Anson Grey,
haughty and indolent, was killing time
at one of tlie fashionable watering places
where Edith Willoughby also lingered,
though sorely against her will.
A sweet and wondrously fair face,
much admired, and sought after, Anson
Grey had half a mind to enter the lists
with the others, but something kept
him back, and he only exchanged a
few words with her now and then.
There happened to come a heavy,
two days’ flood, and the first night of
it Edith sent a servant asking Mr.
Grey to come to a private parlor for a
moment. Ho obeyed the summons
with alacrity, wondering much what
could be coming now.
Edith was waiting for him, cloaked
and hooded, and evidenty in haste to
he off somewhere.
“I hope you will pardon me,” she
said, as she closed the door behind him,
“but really I did not know whom to
ask and mamma will not allow me to
go by myself. A poor woman down
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on the beach is sick, perhaps dying,
aud I must go to see her. Her little
boy just came after mo. 1 was there
yesterday and they are in great distress.
Could I trouble yon to go with me?”
“I will do your errand. It is too
stormy for you to venture out.”
“Oh, It is no errand. lam sorry to
trouble any body.”
Mr. Grey saw what was wanted, and
saying he would he back directly, van
ished for his rubber suit.
The rain drove into their faces, and
the wind howled through the dark
night like the minister of a thousand
storms—not for a poor fisherwoman,
perhaps, but for one as good as fair
Edith Willoughby, he should not have
hesitated a moment. When they came
upon the beach the waves fairly leaped
into their faces, and Edeth shivered
and clung half terrified to her compan
ion in spite of herself.
“I believe you had better return now
and leave it to me,” he said. •
“No, we are almost there. 1 should
never forget myself if 1 did,” she an
swered, catching her breath as she
spoke. “It is only you I am worried
about.” “I am glad to he able to help
you,” he said. And I think he spoke
the truth.
Inside the cottage poor Grace Pooley
lay on her hard bed trying to breathe
on a little longer, if so the good God
might send some good friend before she
died, to care far her orphan boy.
When the door opened her eyes
brightened, and she raised up a little.
“The Lord bless yon for coming. I
know He will,” she_ said as Edith
threw off her wet covering and went
toward her.
“This is only one of the boarders
who came with me,” she said in reply
to the woman’s questioning look. “I
should have come to-day had I known
that you were worse.”
She sat down beside the bed, and
Anson Grey watched her as she spoke
in a low, tender voice to the grateful
woman. Among the words which she
could distinguish was a promise to be
kind to Jamie,and when the old woman
who seemed to be nurse came up to ad
minister something, and in a half’
whisper asked Edith to pray with
them, he began to think he was in an
other world. And itjwas another to
him truly. Surely she would never
do that. But she did. Kneeling up
on the bare floor, clasping her white
hands, she sent up such a prayer for
help and strength as Anson Grey had
never dreamed of hearing before.
Alter that night Anson Grey knew
where his heart was, but for his life he
dared not approach Edith. She seemed
an immeasurable distance from such as
ho, but he cherished the memory of her
prayers as the one glimpse into heaven
for which he should thapk God all his
life.
Edith’s mother was a gay woman,
and such she meant her daughter to be,
though for her life she could not keep
her from ferreting out and helping also,
an innumerable number of forlorn,
poverty stricken people who had no
earthly claim upon her, as they went
their fashionable rounds. It was mor
tifying, even exasperating, hut she was
powerless to prevent it. They were to
be off again soon, Anson Grey heard;
but lie would have missed seeing her
had he not accidently met her as she
was hurrying up the beach toward their
boarding house on the very day they
left. He could not let her go without
telling her what was in his heart.
“May I speak to you a moment?” he
said abruptly stopping her.
“Certainly.”
As the words left her lips she saw
what his speaking was going to be,
“Oh, not that, Mr. Gray!”
Somehow he took courage from the
quick paling of her lips,
“Yes that I love you and want you
formywifq.”
“1 am to" be married Christmas.”
lie turned aud was leaving her,when
something made her speak.
“Mr. Grey.”
He faced her again and she saw how
white and stern he looked.
“Had I been free you would not have
asked in vain.”
“For days and weeks afterward An
son Grey hugged the memory of her
look, as she said those words, to
his heart, caring more for that than
for the love and caresses of any other.
Christmas came, but death came with
it, and Edith’s lover went his long
journey, leaving his affianced bride and
her scheming mother to console them
selves as Lest they might.
In a way mysterious to all save Wil
iam Skinner, Edith heard of Anson
Grey’s illness, and, as we have seen,
went to him and had the courage to be
come his wife.
The people of Burlingame learned to
love the gentle mistress of the old stone
mansion on the hill, and never a suffer
ing one called for help in vain, as long
as “ray lady,” as they called her, was
mistress there.
What an Editor Says.
There are so many patent humbugs and
nostrums, in the way of medicines, adver
tised all over the country, that the masses
are skeptical and are loth to buy unless the
article offered for sale is known to possess
real merits; and on the other hand, names
of well known citizens are often forged to
certificates for the purpose of effecting sale
, mid palming off a worthless preparation.
Taking these facts into consideration, it
gives me pleasure to add my testimonial to
a medicine which I know from personal ex
perience to do all that is claimed for it.
(>f course liefer to “Neuralgiue,” a spe
cific for neuraligia and headache, put up in
tins city by Hutchison & Bro.
. „ W. T. Christopher.
Ed. Atlanta Dally Phonograph,
HUTCHINSON * BRO.,Propvictors, At
lanta, Ga. Sold by Dr. E. J. Eldridge, J. E.
Halh W. TANARUS, Davenport & Son andAl J.&
\V. B. Hudson. j Rn . 101 m.