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THE DAUGHTER'S DOWER.
J?y Ern-e&t Lzgouye.
At the annual meeting of the five Academic) of
Paris held on the tUlh of last October, the little
sketch, of which a translation is subjoined, was
read aloud by its author,
I.
There was a time when, according to
onr old usages, a young girl’s dov.-ry con
sisted of nothing more than a chaplet of
rosea. That period is long ago.
In these days, the question of dower is
the main point in marriages, and gives
rise in the domestic circle to occasional
scenes, that may be droll, or sad, or pa
thetic. It is onp .oi these that I desire to
bring here before you.
Come in, if yon please, to the sanctum
of M. Desgranges, in his house at Villen
euve-Saint-Georges. M. Desgranges, a
merchant retired from business, is talk
ing by the fireside with his wife and his
daughter, and tho talk is extremely ani
mated, and it is all about a marriage. A
young architect, M. Henry Grandval, has
asked the hand of Madeleine, with whom
he is in love, and who is in love with him.
So far, nothing plainer. But M. Grand
val senior will let his son marry only a
girl of two hundred thousand francs, and
M. D : granges will give his daughter on
ly ore hundred thousand. His wife
press- s him to yield, his daughter tender
ly bei.oeche3 him, but ho refuses point
blank. A practical man and a firm one is
M. Desgranges, and there is no moving
him against his will. Good Madame Doe
granges belongs to that tribe of soft-na
tured mothers who can’t speak of her
child without a certain choking in her ut
terance. She insist, she prays, and then,
finding her husband inflexible, she rises
from her scat, and nays to him, indignant
ly:
“AI. Desgranges, do yon wish to know
just what I think of you ? You nave nei
ther heart nor bowels 1”
"No doubt of that, my dear 1”
"You are not a father ; you are a-—”
"An executioner! As is said in Tphi
genia:’
•Thy daughter's oxecutlonor, ’twere right
Ti.at tor h«r mother thou ehouhist now pre
pare
A ghostly festival!’ ”
"M. Desgranges!”
“Madame Desgranges!”
“Do you know, sir, that with your iron
ical indifference you will end by putting
mo beyond myself, by driving me entire
ly ont of my character!”
"Provided, my dear, that you don't ge
back Into it again !” gently suggested M.
Desgranges.
"Ah, this is too much !”
"Enough, mamma, enough!" said Mad
eleiuo, rising in turn, "I will not be tin
cause of such language between my fa
ther and yourself. And, since he doe*
not believe that ho ought to do what w<
ask him," added sho, beginning to cry.
“since lie refuses what we so much de
sire, and what would bo tho happiness ol
Henry and inysolf—”
“Sno is crying!” exclaimed Madame
Desgranges—"O my child! my little dar
ling!—And this doesn’t move you, mon
ter! You can see her tears, you can beai
her say with that sweet voice of hers that
her happiness is involved —and remain
inflexible ?”
"What would you, niy dear? When 1
see a woman cry, I’m always on my
guard."
“How HO?
"it's iiot my funic chat 1 remember it.
lu tho early clays of our marriage, you
used to cry ho often when you wanted to
get something out of me, that I nlwayi
iook now upon feminine tears as a sort ot
investment."
“0 papa, papa!” exclaimed Madeleine,
“how can you mistrust my sorrow ? You
don’t behove, then, (hat I’m in lovo with
Henry ?”
“Os course 1 do."
“Henry is good and clover. You say
yourself that ho has a fine prospect before
him ns an architect.”
“That’s true.”
“Urn father, M. da Grandval, is a
mnn—”
“Os the highest honor.”
"Well, then ?"
“Ych, well then ?” chimed in Madame
Desgranges.
“Well, then, let her marry him, and
with my consent, and a hundred thou
Mind francs for dowry. But, as to th<
i vo hundred thousand that M. de Grand
val asks—no 1"
“Why?” replied Madamo Desgranges
“Why! That’s charming. Becnuso I’m
not rich enough to give two hundred
thousand francs to my daughter, without
crippling myself.”
"You will have enough, all the name.’
"Enough! That’s too little.”
“At your ago, one has no longer any
wan’s.”
‘ On iao contrary, each advancing yeru
brings a furttior want with it. There’t
not an infirmity that is not a source of ex
pciiso : my sight fails, I must have spec
tad os ; my legs glow feeble, I must liuv<
u carriage; my hair falls out, I must havi
u wig j and then tho India-rubbers anc.
flannel! Why. tho flannel alone will cosi
a hundred franca per annum. ”
“But— ’
“No, no; lot youlli bo poor. Tiiat'.-
Jiut. That’s its lot. Is it, in fact, ii
v...ut c; any tiling? What matters i
good supper and a good lodging, whei.
one has rest ? While, as for out age -"”
“You’re not old,” said Madame Des
granges, amiably.
“Oh, oh ! Tuo case in grave, if you’;,
going to flatter uio."
“Gome, come, let's roe,” continued sin
in a coaxing tone. “Let’s reusou abou
it. Alter ait, what, is ihe question? Jin
some slight reductions m our mode ot iiv
ing—our having for instance one servan
less."
“Exactly ro!”
“Well, to much the better!”
"So much the worse I I’iu lory. I hk.
to be waited on.”
“And you grow heavier, and aro got
ting la?, while, if you waited a litllo o.
yourself, you Mould remain active
young—”
"I don’t care about that 1"
“But I care about it—for yonr sake l—
it’s tho sumo of our table. Suppose w.
were to retrench one dish at our din
ner—”
“Not at all. I won't have it. I’m i
gluttou.”
“That’s a sin, papa!” observed Made
leine
“Just so, lmt a very pleasant sin. and 1
have so foiv of that sort left mo. My deai
good appetite! Why I never notice tin
coining on of dinner-time without fleeing
before my eyes—ns it were in a dream—
the bill-of-fare, without saying to myself,
‘Ha, ha, what delicious dish of sweet
will my wife have intended for me to
day ?’ I'or I must do you justice on tba'
point j you have a good deai of imagina
tion in the matter of sweet dishes.”
"Yos, yes!” answered Madamo Des
granges, in gentler tone, flattered by tin
compliment to hex house-keeping abili
ties, “but what happens? That you eat
too much. Y’ou do yourself harm. You
become all flushed. The doctor says that
this will work badly for yon ; while, with
simpler fare, iu keeping sober—”
"Sober, eh? What a foolish term !’’
"You will remain fresh—calm—the ;
head clear—in shoit, you would be really
bettor.”
"Yes, ves; mens ixma in cor pore •
tano /”
“That is to say, that, if you have any
common-sense, you ought to’thank Made
leine for the dowry that you are giving
her, for you then prolong your life in tliiX
world, aud insure your salvation in the
other?”
“0 papa, papa!"
‘‘Come, come,” ccntinued|Madimie Des
granges, imagining that her husband was
giving way, “I know you well. Your
heart, aftor all, is in the right place. All
these little privations will be so much
satisfaction to you. Toll me, wouldn't
you l>3 ou!y too happy to shed your blood
for your daughter ?”
“Yes, yes, I know ; the pelican story!
But it. seems that it isn't true.’’
-it this moment the young suitor walks
in. Seeing him, Madelein runs np to
him, and takes him by the baud.
“Come, Henry, coaie! Uuite with ns.
Pi pa is beginning to let himself be
touched.”
“I ?’’ said Desgranges.
“Oh, sir!" commences the young mat),
wih emotion; but ail at onoe 31. Des
grunges turns sharply upon him:
“Zounds! you come in at the right mo
t> cut. You bring mo back to myself.
Why, yon can’t have any heart, young
n.un ! What, to have so pretty' a girl m
tore with you, so good, so well-informed,
s i affectionate, and you’re not willing to
marry her if she has only a hundred thou
sand francs?”
“But. papa!"
“He is bargaining for you.—Ah, when
I married your mother, she was worth
fi' ty thousand francs less than you are!”
“What!” exclaimed Al-dame Desgran
gos
“a meant to say that she had fifty thou
sand francs less tbau yon—and i" didn’t
hesitate, notwithstanding.”
“Neither do I hesitate a moment,” re
plied Henry, eagerly.
"It is his father who refuses, my dear.”
"Yes,” say* Madeleine, “it is his fa
ther. As for himself, he doesn't care the
least for your fortune. Ho has told me
twenty times that he would take me with
i out any dowry; that he would even pre
fer my not having any.”
“And it is tmo!” cried the young man.
I “Yes—yes ; one says all that—l «aid it,
too, myself—but inwardly—”
I “What! ’ exclaimed Madame Desgran
| ges, petulantly, "it wasn’t true then ?"
“What is true is, that I hold the max
j im to bo an extremely stupid one, which
! says that fathers ought to sacrifice them
j selves for their children,”
"Sacrifice yourself!” said Madeleine.
\ "Just as if wo would consent to that!
i Why, wouldn’t ihe money remain with
i you ?”
“Ta, ta, ta! money can’t be in two
i places at once. If I give it to you, I lose
! it: and if I don’t give it to you, I keep it.
| It’s clear as daylight.”
"But, papa!”
"My views on this point are settled.
A father ought to be richer than hi.s chil
dren.”
“What does it matter who is the rich
er?” says Madame Desgranges. “Will
not Ihcir house be ours?”
"By no means whatever! A father
never ought to put himself into a state of
dependence on his children; and this for
the children’s own sake, to prevent their
becoming ungrateful.”
“O papa,” ejaculated Madeleine, “how
can you dare to say so ?”
“Your good littlo heart, child, revolts
at Rnch a word. ”
"Yes, indeed ; you hurt my feelingß
aadlv!”
"I believe so ; I believe iu the sinccri
•y of your indignation ; but—"
"For whom can you take ns, sir?” ask
ed Henry.
"For young persons of good heart and
right feeling; -and it is for that very rea
son that I am unwilling to spoil you. Did
you ever hear speak of u play called ‘King
Lear ?’ ”
"By Shakespeare ?”
“Precisely. Well, do you know what
he is, this King Lear? An old fool, who
only met with the fate he deserved. As
tor the ladies, his daughters, Shakespearo
—all Shakespearo as ho is—made ono
grand mistake, which was in picturing
tnem wicked from the outset. What
ought to have been, was to have shown
them corrupted by tho absurd prodigality
of their father, and led on to ingratitude
by what he did for them. That is the
truth ; for, in fact, if you suppress the
oenefits conferred, there is no more in
gratitude. Now, as I have as much solic
itude for your perfection as my wife has
for my improvement, I refuse out-and
>nt to impoverish myself for you, lest
you should bo exposed* to temptation.”
"But—”
"There are no Luts. My mind is made
up.—Henry, go and talk lo your father,
and try to make him renounce his preten
sion. What the deuce ! it is easier to ab
stain from asking a hundred thousand
francs than it is to give them.”
"But,” said Madeleine, “if ho docs not
succeed in convincing his father ?"
"It will be because ho does not love
yon well onoitgli. In thatcaso I shall not
mourn for him."
"Monster! egotist! materialist! cried
Madamo Desgranges.
"Away with you ! away with yon !"
“Adieu, Henry !” said Madeleine.
"No, mademoiselle, au revoir! Your
father is right. I should not be worthy
of you if I did not win you ! ”
“Ay, ay, young man, that’s well said,
and replaces you in my regard. I won’t
give you a sou (he more for it, but I like
you tho better. Be off—and come back
again !"
a.
A month after tho above scone, the
young people were married. A year af
ter, Madame Desgranges was godmother,
fwo years later, M. Desgranges was god
father. At tho end of three years we find
the young household and tho old, the par
ents aud the children, installed in the prot
y house at Yilleneuve-Saint-Georges.
I have said that M. Henry Grandval
•vas an architect; but to speak or a young
irchitcct is, too often, alas! to suggest an
irehiteet m jmrtibwi. Os all artists, the
most unfortunate are certainly the archi
tects. Let a poet bo ever so poor, he can
always find a pen wherewith to scribble
ais verses; a musician a sheet of ruled
paper, on which to transcribe his notes;
i painter, a brush and a scrap of canvas,
whereon ho can jot down his pictorial im
tpiDings ; whilo ouo has not under one’s
uanil, and can not command at will, quar
ried and shaped stone and plots of ground
suitable for building. No ono builds a
uouso for tho sako of the architect; and
what is intrusted, iu this line, to a young
ono ? Ho is master of an art, and he has
uo materials for exercising it. Ilia pro
fession is to construct, and he has noth
mg to construct. I imagine a beaver
waiting for employment! Hi.s only di
nts aro .small proprietors, who, having a
revico to be filled tip, or a window to be
pierced, or a wall to be propped, send fur
wu architect in a small way, just as, in
cases of indisposition, one sends for an
humble practitioner of medicine, with the
view of getting advice more cheaply.
Such was the condition of Henry Grand
val.
By way of compensating himself for
ikeso wretched little jobs, which he called
uis broad-and-cheese work, ho employed
ns rare talent ns a draughtsman and w»-
er-eolorist in drawing plans of country
cats, iu competing for all great, publn
•econstructions. and in pending out, in al
uitable directions, his designs for edi
toes of general utility. At tho satin
mat, as ho m.ide very just pretension t<
ming a piactical no less than an aitisti
can. he joined to his drawings emblem
tic devices, sections, and models, tba
effected the highest honor on the thor
ugliness of his studies, but which ha<
no one grand iucouveuieuee of costin;
iim a great deal of ruouey. He had t.
■ay ihe geometricians, to pay the mens
irers, to pay the verifiers, so that he ex
tended on these projects for construotioi
ill that the repairs brought hiru iu. H<
ild out on poetry what he pioked up it
arose.
Hi.s budget was made up, as has beer
fiuti-d, from his wife’s dowry and hit
nvu, which together brought him in ui
iicorne that would have been amply suffi
meat for a citizen of olden time. But an
-rtist! a man that likes everything that is
beautiful 1 It is a dear business, this
lovo of the beautiful. There is a chance
f getting a bit of antique tapestry ; how
can you resist the delight ot buying it t \
Jue reads the description of a remarks j
ble monument recently discovered; how i
can one help going to see it ? Artistic I
pilgrimages are all but an obligation for I
artists. But what is most ruinous foi J
hem is tho reduced prices. Think ol
those immense advertisements placarded !
ipon the walls, setting forth, in huge red
otters, these cabalistic words: "A !
Month’s Tour iu the North of Italy, with I
dl«ps at the Principal Cities—One hun- j
dred and Fifty’ Francs!” Only a him
died and fifty francs ! It is so cheap! j
Yet there is nothing that does so much j
mischief as cheapness. These enormous i
pulls are as immoral ns the exchange- j
shops; and you can just so much the
less resist the temptation as you have the
air of being reasonable iu yielding to it.
Onr young household, then, gave way !
pretty often ; and if to this you add that
tho husband was very much in lovo with
his wife, and consequently desired that
she should be charming and well got up;
bearing in mind, also, that, in three
years, they had indulged themselves in
the luxury of a little son and a little j
daughter, you will easily understand that, j
during the latter part of the quarter, they
wore very apt to be in difficulties—diffi
culties that broke the heart of the excel->
lent Madame Desgranges, and drew up
on the head of M. Desgranges a deluge
of prayers and invectives.
"I beseech yon. my dear, to add some- j
thing to their dower.”
"I shall take good care not to do it,” ,
was the nuswer of M. Desgranges. “I
congratulate myself too sincerely on the
course I adopted. My system is too
good to be changed. ”
"Is it possible that you have the heart
to see them thus embarrassed, and to
leave them so ?”
“Are they embarrassed ?”
“Frightfully, my dear.”
“So much the better. My son-in-law
will take all the more pains to find em
ployers.”
“But they don't come, these employ
ers.”
“All tho more cause for working hard
to procure them.”
“They have additional burdens besides
their own.”
“Additional sources of happiness, you
mean." And, as Madame JDesgranges
made a gesture of despair, “Come, come,
wife, no outburst. Let’s talk it over
calmly. Supposing that three years ago I
had given my daughter a hundred thou
sand francs more, as you wished, what
would have happened ?”
“It would have happened," replied
Madame Desgranges, with mingled indig
nation and pathos “that instead of living
in a state of privation, as they have been
compelled to live for three years; instead
of denying themselves everything—”
"Stop, stop, my dear, permit are. It
seems to me—”
“It seems to you, indeed? Well, then,
would you have mo tell you? When I am
with them at their home, when I see thoir
poor little modest table — just a single
dish of meat, just ono vegetable, aud no
sweets whatever—aud when I come home
and find you, yes, yon, seated there com
fortably with your chin almost upon the
tablecloth, with your excellent broiied
chickens and yonr patridges larded—for
you must needs have them larded now—”
“What would yon, my dear ? As one
grows old—”
"Well, well, all this hurts rue much. I
reproach myself at every good mouthful
that I eat.”
"I don’t.”
“I find onr conduct revolting.”
i "Be calm, my good wife/and come
back to the question, from which you
have completely wandered off. Follow
!my argument, if you are able. We are,
: to-day, at the 15th of November. Our
j daughter, our son-in-law, their two chil
; dren, and their two servants, have been
■ here ia our country-house since the 13th
of August—that is to say, throe months
aud two days; and thoy reckon on re
maining here—they, their children, and
their servants—until the period of onr
leaving, which will be on the 20th of De
cember.”
“Well, and would you reproach them
for staying with us now ? Are you going
to compluin of what their presence cost
you ? Have you any idea of exiling them
from your home, from my home?—Oh,
wait a moment, I beg—”
“Wife, wife!”
| "Depriving me of tho sight of my chil
dren—my only consolation in life!”
"Thank you!”
"Yes—yes, I know yon. You arc capa
ble of declaring that the children make
too much noise ! Poor pets, whose little
voices are so sweet, and whoso little stop3
aro so full of grace 1”
“Bat who says anything to tho contra
ry ?” exclaimed M. Desgranges, impa
tiently. "Do let me speak, and once
more follow up my lessoning. Why
have our daughter aud our son-in-law
been with us for throe months aud two
days, and why will they stay with us until
the 20th of December ?”
“A pretty question!—Because they
love us! because they are happy in being
with us ! because they know how to make
[heir stay pleasant to us ! because they
are warm-hearted, sensitive —”
“In short, just tho reverse of myself!
Isn’t it so ?” said M. Desgranges, laugh
ing, and adding, as he went up to hi3
wife, “Come, come, let me give you a
kiss. I can’t help adoring you, for yon
are never more than twelve years old f”
“How ! —l?—twelve?”
“I mean that yon aro and always will
be the same good creature, simple confi
ding, credulous, whom T married with so
much satisfaction."
"Simple and credulous!” cried Madame
Desgranges, somewhat hurt. “Would
you pretend that our children are not ?”
"Yes, my dear, they are all that, and
more still! But do you suppose that yonr
daughter, with her pretty face, that she
takes pleasure iu showing because it is a
pleasure to look at it—that your son-in
law, with his artistic tastes and his imagi
; nation, would leave Paris and tho enjoy
ments of its early winter; and, particu
larly, that he would go there for hi.s busi
ness every morning and return every
j evening, ail for the solo delight of taking
a hand at piquet with a father who is be
ginning to boa Jittlo deaf, aud a moth
er who would gain something iu being
partially dumb ?"
"But what else can you imagine?
What motive can you assign for their pro-
I longed stay with ns?”
"My doar,” answeied M. Desgranges,
laughing again, “when you were young,
and had very beautiful hair, you were
enchanted at going into the country, so
that ihe parting might have a rest. Well,
onr children are delighted to stay here
and give a rest to their purse !”
| “Outrageous ! Can yon suppose—?”
“I’vo no grudge against them for it. I
do not accuse them, either, of ingratitude
or indifference! lam sure that, if they
had an income of twenty thousand francs,
instead of ten thousand, they would love
us always—but not quite so long at a
time. In the same way, lor instance, I
don’t know any son-in-law the like of
mine. It is impossible to show more de
ference, to pay more attention. lie nev
er allows one of my anivorsaries- -fete
duy, birth-dav, wedding-day—to pass,
without hastening forward with an im
mense bouquet.”
“And you believe that interested mo
tives only—?”
“Oh, no, roy dear, not interest alone—
no -no—an interest made up, half affec
tion, half calculated—an unconscious cal
culation, of which one takes no account,
but the existence of which I surmise,
originating in a necessity by which I
profit, while it does not vex mo in the
least!”
"Ah, you are really too bud. Y’ou dis
enchant—you take the poetry out of
everything ! One must be capable of such
sentiments, in order to imagine them in
others! It is mostrous !”
“By no means! It is quite natural.
Old people are very much in tho way.
They must make amends somehow. I
make amends bv hospitality 1”
"Say at once that our children take our
house for an inn ! ’
"Ah, just so ; the ‘Golden Li.a: ’’ iier.
are lodged and boarded certain embar
rassed children, desirous to economize
Lave they spent too much upon theatres,
nails, concerts? —‘Let’s go and pass s
week with papa !—ls one of the children
ml of sorts? Send him or her into tin
•ouutry, to papa’s!’ And the child if
-ont—and they a 1 come at the same time
V.mi, as they are received with open arms,
uid as they are spared all expense, and fa
papa has good quarters and a good table
md as they find there good capons and
; good pal ridges that the egotistical father
-s enchanted to share with his children,
why, they come, and return, and remain
with pleasure!"
"Ah. how disgusting! He invests
everything with egotism, even paternal
love! ”
“But, suppose, on the other hand,”
continued M. Desgranges, without ap
pealing to have heard his wife, “suppose
that I had doubled Madeleine’s dower,
according to your wish, what would have
happened ? That at this moment our
children, considering that our son-in-law
is Roniewhat of an enthusiast, would not
perhaps be much richer, while I should
i i>o a great deal poorer; that I could nor
receive and entertain them for so long «
time, nor so well; mid that they would
come less frequency to uh, because they
would lie better oil at home. Ah, my
dear, if our children had more money
tiian ourselves, our daughter would have
discovered six weeks ago that Villeneuve-
Baint-G-eorges is too damp in the autumn,
and would have feared for the children
the effect of the fogs from the river, while
our i-on in-law would have declared that
these dlily trips to Paris were affecting
his heaiiu. This brings me, therefore, to
my conclusion, which I dedicate to a!i
fathers who have marriageable daughters:
‘Would you keep your children ?—keep
your money ! Would you have pleasure in
your grandchildren ?—keep your money !’
For it is thanks to the money tbit the fa
ther remains tho head of the'family ; that
the father's house remains the domestic
rallying-point—that is to say, an honora
ble and comfortable retreat for the aged ;
for the young, a place of refuge and en
joyment; for the babies, a near, to which
they will come in search of health, and
sometimes for nurture more judicious
than that of their mothers themselves;
for all, in short, a centre and a sanctuary,
wherein occur things to bo remembered
—wherein successive generations grow np
and grow old, and wherein are perpetua
ted traditions of respect and affection !
Call my foresight, if you will, calculation 1
and personality ; for my part, I call it the
true paternal love, that which consists in
making children happier and better!
For, note well, my dear, that my son-in
law had, I am quite willing to believe it,
everything iu favor of his becoming a
pattern son-in-law; but, without this
foresight of mine, his good qualities
would perhaps have remained in a bud
ding state only. To whom does he owe
it, if they have bloomed ? Plainly, to
me ! —Moral of the fable: I shall not add
one sou to my daughter’s dowry !”
111.
We have now reached the 80th of No
vember, a fortnight later, but still at Yil
leneuve-Saint-Georges; for, if, in this
sketch I have slightly violated the unity
of time, I have at least respected the uni
ty of p ace. The house of M. Drsgran
ges is ail alive. Never has he himself
appeared so gay and so happy, It is the
twenty-fifth anniversary ot his wedding
day.
“Wife,” said he to Madame Desgran
ges, “this is a day that must be worthily
celebrated. No economizing to-day,
spread all sail! give ns a dinner—just as
though I was an epicure! I have particu
larly recommended Madeleine, who has
been passing a day in Paris, I don’t know
on what affair, to return with her hus
bnnd by the four-o’clock train. She will
find in her room n pretty new dress,
which. I would like her to wear to-day.
As for you, if yon still love me a little in
spite of my deficiencies, prove it; make
yourself changing also. Put on for din
ner—and for the evening, for I have in
vited ail the neighborhood—put on, I say,
my poor mother's diamonds. They rep
resent, in my eyes, alt that I have most
loved in this world .’—her, who gnwe them
to me for you—you yourself, who have
worn them for my sake and hers—yonr
daughter, who will wear them for all
three of ns!” And thereupon Mr. Des
granges walked off to conceal some slight
emotion.
Why did not Madame Desgranges an
swer him? Vtbv did she remain some
time immovable and with her head sunk
down ? Why did her daughter, coming
in, carry her off to her own room, in
tears? Why was the son-in-law so gloomy ?
Why did the dinner bell make them all
threo start,? Why, on entering the din
ning-room, did the mother give a troubled
look at her husband ? Why did M. Des
granges, on observing it, utter a few
words that were almost n reproach ?
Why! The words themselves explain all.
"Yon have not got on yonr dia
monds !” cried the father. Asher solo re
ply, the mother threw herself, weeping,
into the arms of her husband. The
daughter took his hand, and kissed it, on
his knees before him. Y’ou have not got
your diamonds, what have you done with
them?” The wife and children were si
lout. “Y’ou make no reply?” continued
the father,, in a harsher tone. “It is I
then who must speak out. You have sold
them to cover the imprudence of your son
in-law ! Yes, because ho was pleased to
associate himself with an ill-devised
enterprise, because he had the
folly to make himself responsible for
scamps who have deceived him, you have
been obliged, in order to pay one-half of
his debt—for ho still owes twelve thou
sand francs —you have been obliged to
tear away from me the dearest souvenir of
my poor mother, and the most precious
voucher of our own affection, and you
have oven embittered the enjoyment of
this special day ! Ah, it is too bad!
Madame Desgranges endeavored to mut
ter excuses.
“That is enough!” said M. Desgranges,
interrupting her. “Hero are the servants.
Go, take your places!”
Mother and children went silently to
the table; but suddenly, as she unfolded
her napkin, Madame Desgranges uttered
a loud exclamation. Her son-in-law did
the same thing, and both leaned over to
ward M. Desgranges, their eyes filled
with tears. The mother had found her
case of diamonds under her and her
son-in-low had the twelve thousand francs
he needed.
“Ah, my dear!”
"Ah, father?”
"It’s all right, it’s all right!” repliedM.
Desgranges, disengaging himself from
embraces. “You will not hereafter call me
an egotist. It seems that there was some
propriety in my foresight; and you compre
hend at last that a father ought always to
remain richer than his children, were it
only—wore it only, my dear ones, that ho
may bo able to help them at a pinch, and
save them from a catastrophe. Never
theless, Henry, don’t do tho same thing
again, because I shall not be able to re
peat my part.”
mi'EX ING EOR HEATH.
No on?', says Yon Hmnbolt, can fear
death less than I do, neither am I much
attached to life ; but I have never known
tho feeling of an anxious longmg for
death ; and although it be a nobler one
than that of an absolute weariness of ex
istence it is nevertheless blarnable. Life
must first, for rs long a period as Provi
dence wills it, be enjoyed or suffered—in
one word, gone through, and that with a
full submission, without murmuring, la
; menting, or repining. There is oae irn
; portaut law of nature which’ wo should
I never lose sight of—l mean that of ripen
ing for death. Death is not a break in
existence, it is but an intermediate cir-
I cumstance, a transition from one form of
■ final existence to another. The moment
of maturity for death can not be decided
by any human wisdom or inward feeling;
and to attempt to do so would bo nothing
; better than the vain rashness of human
: pride. That decision can only be made
; by Him who can at once look back
through our whole course ; and both rea
j son and duty require that we should leave
| tho hour to Him, and never rebel against
his decrees by a single impatient wish.
The first and most important thing is to
learn to master ourselves and to throw
: ourselves with peaceful confidence on
Him who never changes, looking on every
situation, whether pleasant or otherwise,
as a source from which our interior exist
ence and individual character may draw
increasing strength; and hence springs
that entire submission which few attain
to, although all fancy they fee! it.
The Asbantee Kino.—CoffiCaicali, the
King of Ashantee, who it is reported is
dead, was famous from his contentious
with the British. He governed a country
extending several hundred miles north
ward from near the equator and very far
inland from the British territory known
as the Gold Coast, which divides it from
the Atlantic ooean. The Ashauteo3 have
always looked upon the English as inva
ders, but were on better terms with the
Dutch, who until 1872 also owned part ot
lie coast, in that year the Dutch tiaus
fem-d their territory, including the port
of Elmiua, to the British. King Coffi be
came incensed at this; aaid. the Dutch
always paid him tribute, and that In
iiust iia.c Ktmina iu order to have
access to the tie*. “.EUnina is mine,’
he declared ; “it is there I eat my salt;
it is there I drink my rum.” During the
present year the Chieftains, it appears,
cried out to the King that they were hun
gry for war, that they would drive the
wiJite man into the sea and make him hide
in tho belly of the herring. The King
gratified ll ese ardent warriors and declared
war. His troops advanced to Cape Coast
Castle without attacking it, but were re
pulsed at Elmina. VViieu news of the
fighting reached England an expedition
was sent out and disembarked in October.
The King, according to recent accounts,
was holding his own, and the announce
ment of his death is as unexpected as it is
unexplainable.
This British Wab in Africa. —Tho news
from Ashautoe to the 2fth of November
is not by any means encouraging for the
cause of the British expedition against the
native African King. Sir Garnet YVolseley
has recovered his health, but the very seri
ous fact that military operations had been
entirely suspended during his illness was j
made known to him at the first moment !
of his convalescence. The progress in
the field since has been slow, and tho
army columns of the Queen are being
encumbered and the advance impeded by
the number of the sick. Then there are
difficulties on the seaboard. The authori
ties at Madeira have placed obstacles in
the way of the establishment there of a I
sanatorium for the shelter of English sol- !
diers stricken with fever. This action,
apparently inhospitable, may lead to :
Complications between tho Porlugees and
the British governments, as it is abso
lutely necessary that the fever-patched i
sad enervated Europeans should be re
turned to the influence of the sea breeze,
so far as it jpay be practicable to do so.—
A tic York lltrald, 17 th.
A Hcssian J avert.— Minister Jewell, in
a recent letter from St, Petersburg, mi vs :
"ibe most powerful man here, after the
Emperor, is •Tripoff,’Chief of Police—a
man of wonderful executive ability, al
ways at a fire or n parade. He is always
just behind the Emperor when out, and
says who may come aud who may go, and
"ho shall lie tried too, I think, and per
haps who may be convicted, He just
runs ills city, and does it to perfection.
He is accountable to nobody but the Em
peror. I send to him to get Americans
out of scrapes or out of the country, or to
do anything else—all I know is that it is
done. His dispatch to the frontier lets
anybody in or out, stops them for exam
ination. He is said to be a very just
man. and he oertainly is a very uctive
one.”
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune, whose letter is re
produced elsewhere, states the case of
Busteed, the United States District Judge
for Alabama, as it now stands. The
Tribune says, editorially :
“The allegations made against Busteed
will find ready support, but the curious
feature of the business is that the move
ment against him is not so much in the
interest of morals as of politics. Senator
Spencer wants Bnsteed’s place for another
man: therefore, Busteed is a disgrace to
the Bench. Another Alabama politician,
who thinks the Judge will neither resign
or be impeached, proposes to limit his
power for mischief to anew district, which
shall be composed of a single county in
the backwoods. In Washington, this sort
of management is called ‘statesmanship.’”
The San Antonio jferald reports the
sale of the Trio river, Texas, at
five, six and seven cents per acre.
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200 PIANOS and ORGANS.
Now anil Second-Hand, of First-
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Illustrated Catalogues mailed.
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ggjSjajajaLj Their Coxbiseo Engine
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izx’rSg'lJßS"'vgpi.iapted to nil purposes re
i;u 11Ing small pacer. More
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but impurities, so that while they purge they
also si lengthen and hence they cause no de
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Da. Tutt's Fills have a wonderful influence
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STOVES, STOVES
jgl* NATHAN CROWNgpu
IfjgjL (Opposite Sun Office)
COLUMBUS, CA.,
WOULD respectfully Invite the attention
ot hia friends and customers to his exten
sive Block ot STOVES, HOLLOW AND
STAMPED WARE, HOUSE FURNISHING
GOODS, isc. AIso,TIN WARE at wholesale
and retail.
Manufacturer of TIN, SHEET IRON and
COPPEk WORK.
Roofing and Guttering
done promptly and In the best manner
He solicits a call, feeling assured that he can
give entire satisfaction
Price as low as the lowest. Come and
I" erm liny nclKeodfcW
NOTICE.
Georgia, muscogee county.—ah
person* indebted to the estate of Allen
Andrews (colored), deceased, are requested to
make immediate payment, and tho-'e having
dem m if against said estate to present them to
me within the time prescribed br l*w.
noil wei 11. T. YOUNG, Adm’r.
i. & J. KAUFMAN,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
14 and 16 Broad Street, .
'Columljms. G-eorsia
Here’s Your Chance!
NO EXCUSE FOR A RUSTY SUIT!
CLOTHING AT GOST!
xpon TIIE'NEXT THIRTY DAYS WE WILL SEED OCR SUFERE STOCK OF
GENTLEMEN'S, YOUTHS’ AND CHILDREN’S
Clothing and .Underwear, Hats, Umbrellas, Trunks, Valises,
Carpet Bags, &c., at Cost for Cash,
Come at once, if you wish to buy CHOICE CLOTHES for a little money.
THOMAS & PRESCOTT.
Columbus, da., Dec. 20. 1573. eod&w
SMmWi Til,if «Tffi!
50 TONS COTTON SEED,
In Splendid Order.
For Saie by
The Eagle and Phenix Manufac’g Cos.
de2o dsod2w&w2t
R. R.Goetchius & Cos.
COLUMBUS
STEAM PLANING
Corner of St. Clair and Jackson sts,
Columbus, Ga.
WE have commenced operations with Ma
chinery of the latest improvements; we
have secured experienced workmen, and intend
to use none but good material.
Sash, Blinds and Panel Doors
: will be furnished and boxed at the Factory at
; the following prices:
WINDOW HASH, QLAZED. ELINDS
size, lights, width. height. perpair, window
Bxlo 12 2ft. Sit. 10 *2 65 *2 B 5
Bxlo 15 2ft. 411. B'X 330 325
Bxlo 18 2ft, 6ft. o>£ 300 375
10x12 12 211. 411. 6 326 300
10X12 16 2ft. 10U 6ft. b]4 405 37a
10X12 18 2ft. loU 6ft. B‘,J 480 440
12X14 12 Sit. 611. SU 420 305
12x14 15 3ft. 4U Olt. 4 ‘A 525 440
12X14 18 Bft. 4"'4 7ft. 6>4 630 525
12X16 12 Bft, 4IZ sft. 10W 460 406
12X10 18 Sit. iy 2 Bft. oj| 685 595
12X18 12 3ft. 4W eit. Ok 610 450
12x18 15 Bft. 4k Bit. k 6 45 500
12x18 18 Bft. 4'4 Wit, 7' 775 070
12X20 12 3ft, 4k 7ft. 2k SWO 4WO
12X22 12 3ft. i'A 7ft, 10k 685 »45
Sash 1% In. thick. Lip Sash lk la- thick 2c.
per light additional for Lipping and Ploughing
itlinns 1 % in. thick.
All Sush Glazed with Best French Class.
Snsii Weights and Cords on hand; also,
Builders’ Hardware, such ns Leeks, Butts,
Hinges. Screws, and Blind Fastenings.
Two Panel Doors, 3x7 leet, 1 % inch thick,
no Mouldings ' -a 00
Two Panel Doors, 3x7 leet, 1% inch thick,
Moulded one side 3 50
Two Panel Doors, 3x7 feet, lk inch thick,
Moulded two sides 4 00
Four Panel Doors, 3x7 feot, 1% inch thick,
no Mouldings 4 00
Four Pauel Doors, 3x7 feet, 1% inch thick,
Moulded one side 4 50
Four Panel Doors, 3x7 leet, 1% inch thick,
Moulded two sides 6 00
Doors of any thickness desired made to order.
Doors with Raised Panels, Raised Mouldings,
and-Circuiar Hoad Panels, to order.
Persons ordering Sash for frames already
made, should send width, height of frame, thick
ness for sash, and number of lights wanted to
the window.
All kinds of Moulding’on hand and furnished
at short notieo.
Brackets of any desired pattern.
Persons desiring work in our line will find it
to their interest to consult us.
Send bill of items for estimate, nr e.,11 at our
Mills.
Worked Flooring and Ceiling on hand at
lowest market rates.
Planed Weather Boards.
Iron Railings for Cemeteries,
.All kinds Wood Working Machines.
Hoadley’s Portable Engines.
Judson’s Governors at factory prices.
R. R. Goetehius & Cos.
Terms , Cash or City Acceptance. felßwly
Bowery Academy,
Located s milks west ok j
T AIBOTTON AN D 4 MILKB JSASTI
OK JIT. Alltv, ON TUB liOAU FliOM xljypi'feS j
COLCJUUSTO I‘ALIiOTTON. j
rnilE undersigned will open his school m the 1
_L beautiiul and commodious building leeent- j
l> completed, on the First Monday in January'.
This thoroughly finished Mehooi-Room will I
aocuumiud.tu eighty puinls. us internal ar
rangement is-it that van ho lie. ired tor con
venience, comfo: t anti health.
'I be Pfine pal line permanently located his
family com euient to this Academy, and wii!
devote Uit- res-it o> 2u yours experience, united
Willi li a best eneigiea, to the Work ol thorough
ly pillaring tboao olio may be placed under
his training i.ir the active duties unite.
believing that unless the theories ot all sci
ence tire acquired in connection with tito ren
>ons upon which they ate hated, are soon lost,
ho adheres to the •• Why and 11 hi rejort ” sy ■ lem.
lit all his 9th .ol room his primary
object is the development ot thought. Hard stu
dy and lose thinking have mane, are making
ud w ill make (as long us there are any,) iLe
practical, useful and sueeesstul men o: the
world. Hy a literal conformity to this m thud,
he Principal is determined to make it the in
terest of a 1 parentStiml gUurdiaosto send their
tons and daughters of tttr da to iiowiiUY Atij-
DkMY.
it wc look over this country, and through
our marts ot trade, w see that by far the larg
er part ol ourhusine s passes; hrougli the hands
ol those whose school days CO' silted ot at least
ten hours each, while the pilots of evanescent
enterprises and t.uir-brained projects are the
J fruits ol 4 and 0 hour day schools! Therefore.
I the Silling term of this School, lor 1874, ivili
| op-n on the ftrst .Monday in January and cou
! tinue 120 scholastic . ays ot 10 it tits each,
j t tile low rate S2O 09 tuition, hall ot which
! mu t ho paid on entrance and the other half on
; he Ist ol October, The second term will con
i sistot eighty scholastic days. Tuition, sl3 00,
I due O 'tuber Ist.
•OSiySuch boys and girls as arc too delicate,
| physically or mentally, to undergo closo u.en
| tal liißciptlue under th.s plan, am not solio.cd
‘at tliis school.
*S~EO • RD.can he had l a good fa miles at
Isl 2 50 per month."SSJ,
4IS“Ao experienced Instructress will have the
MusLal Department in charge. Parties inter
ested in this depa tment vvi.l make their ar
rangements with her.
<#®-Oarefully read this proposition : Any
patron who will visit tbi> School monthly dur
ing each term, anil who feels when a term lias
(nosed tnat the pupil or . upils in vvh m she or
he is Interested, have not received full voluouf
the tuition charged, will he receipted gratis
further particulars address the un
dersigned at Talbotton, (la
J. G. OAUIOUN,
Principal.
Txr.nr.TTOY, G A., Nov. 221. 1873. [deed »lm
AT COST!
!
My Large and Choice Stock
DRY. GOODS
AT
COST for CASH!!
Heat naiicnes (not second’.-) s»t iOe.;
Itesl Spoot Celiun. ?2c. perdue.;
Paciory Checks, 14c;
faetery Shi eling, l!r;
tiobil tics) Ticking, lit-. A upwards: ;
lard wide flieaiiied i oilois }u.
worth 1.3 c;
Yard wide Sea. Island Cottuu, lit,
worth 15c;
Kentucky Jeans, 22, worth 30e:
“ “ 33, “ SOc;
Carpets and SSugre ( neap.
Drets Goods at Great Sacrifice!
BLACK. ALPACAS, 30c , worth 45c.;
“ “ 45c„ worth flOe.;
LADIES’ CALF SHOES. $2 23, w-.rin $2 75;
“ Cloth OAITEKS, $2 20. “ *2 75;
Everything else Cheap in proportion.
t£n_Call early, I am determined to sell.
H. T. CRIGLER.
n02.-> W
Georgia, Muscogee County.
TTTHEREAS, Mrs. Savannah Taber has ap-
W plied lor letters of adm nlstratlon on the
estate of Edward A. Faber, late of said cuun
ty, deceased ;
This Is therefore to cite and admonish all and
singular tne kindred and creditors of raid de
ceased to be and appear at my office, within the
time prescribed by law,to show cauße, it any
they nave, why said letteis should nut be
granted.
de4 F. M. BROOKS, Ordinary.
! POSTPONEMENT
FOURTH
! Grand Gift Concert.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
Public Library of Kentucky.
Over a Million in Bank!
Success Assured!
A FULL DRAWING CERTAIN
On Tuesday, 31st March Next!
In order to meet the general wish and expec
j tatien of the public and ticket-holders, for the
! lullpayme tofihem gnificent gifts ann unc
! cd lor the Fourth Grand Gift Concert of toe
I Public Lib;ary of Kentucky, the management
have determined to postpone tho Concert and
Drawing until
Tuesday, the 31st of March, 1574!
They have already realized
Over a Million Dollars,
And have a great many Agents yet to hear
from.
NO DOUBT IS ENTERTAINED OF THE BALE OF
EVERY T CELT lIZKOKE THE DRAWING, BUT
Wi,ETHER ALL ARE SOLD OR NOT TH CONCERT
AND DRAWING WILL POBITINKLY AND UNEQUI
VOCALLY TAKE PLACE ON THE DAY NOW FIXED,
AND IE ANY REMAIN UNSOLD THEY WILL Si
CANCELLED AVD THE PRIXES WILL BE REDUCED
IN PROPORTION TO TUB UNSOLD TICKETS.
Only 60,000 tickets havo been issued and
12,000 Cassis. O-jLJTfts*,
#1,500,000,
will bo distributed among the ticket-holders.
A he tickets are printed in coupons, of tenths,
and all fractional parts will bo represented in
the druwingjast as whole tickets are.
List of Gifts.
ONE GRAND OAStI GIFT ..*280,000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 100,000
j ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 60,000
; ONE GRAND CASH GITT 25 000
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT 17.500
10 CASH GIFTS SIO,OOO each 100,000
30 CASH GIFTS 6,000 each 160,000
60 CASH GIFTS 1,000 each 60,000
40 CASH GIFTS 500 each 40,000
100 CASH GIFTS 400 each 40,000
100 OASII GIFTS 300 each 46,000
260 C A.-'ll GIFTS 200 each Ou.ouO
j 825 CASH GIFTS 100 each 82 600
j 11,000 CASH GIFTS 60 each 660,000
\ TOTAL, 12.000 GIFTS, ALL CASH,
| amounting to *1,500,000
; The chances ior a gift aro as one to five.
Price of Tickets.
Whole ti kets*so.oo; Halves *25.00; Tenths,
i or each coupon *5.00; Eleven Whole Tickets lor
; 8600.00, 22J4 Tickets for *1,000.00; 113 Whole
Tickets for *5,000.00; 227 Whole Tickets for *lO,-
000.00. No discount on less than *500.00 worth
of Tickets.
Tile Fourt h G ift Concert will boijonducted in
all respects like the three which have already
; been gi/ou, and full particulars may be learned
irom circulars which will he sent free from this
office to all who apply for them.
Ordo s for tickets and applications for agen
cies will ho attended to in tho order they aro !
received, and it is hoped they will be sent in
promptly that there may he no disappointment
nr delay in filling all. Liberal terms given to j
those who buy to sell again. All agents are
peremptorily required to settle up their ae.
eounts and return all unsold tickets by the 20th I
day of March.
T32©. JR. RUAMI.F.TIE,
Agent Public Library Kentucky, and Manager ■
of Gift Concert, Public Libfarv Building,
Louisville, Ky. [del3 d2taw&.w I
Tickets for sale and"piizes coilooted free of
charge, by
Capi. C. A. Klink, Agt.
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liii; i v yi'di'S ol trial, vr.ia tko mostenb*
ctsaiialrb3ulie,aadb7 r.muili'.udo ofwitcesaes.
If the T inlsisat i3 net as rcsoiamoaded, tha
Moiwk wil tbo liefnndedL
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Sold ey all Druggists akd Countbs
&TOBLS AT
£sc., SOc. arid Si per Bo'itle.
KOIICS SIZS OP liOTTXL, STYLE, &C.
LYON MFG-, CQ.
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Carriages and Harness
on hand, and ar.y style furnished to order.
THE OLD CARRIAGE HOUSE is per
manently opened,
OGLETHORPE STREET,
a few doors north ol the Postofflcc.
Salt's. E. KICKS,
oetll dsatAw2m] Agknt
! J RHODES BROWNE. President. GEO. W. DILLINGHAM, Cash e
GEORGIA HOME BANK
Bank of Discount and Deposit.
Deals in Exchange, Coin, Stocks and Bonds.
Drafts Collected and prompt returns made
Georgia Home Savings Bank
. Offers the greatest inducement to those having idle funds, fur which they want UN
DOUBTED SECURITY, n LIBERAL INTEREST, ami PROMPT
PAYMENT, when required.
DEPOSITS °* SI an, l uiwur‘l* rei rived. Iteposils « all be ivithdrawi
in person or by t-ltcck by those of our patrons tvlio live »t
a distance.
INTEREST al,owe ‘ l n( (?) Her t'c-»»»., • compounded Jniinar)
April, July mid October---four times n year.
SECURITY **>’ ,hc of tile Company's clmrler, slfe entire i apiu l
nm! properly of the f'oiupany anil the private roper >
of the Miareliolricr* is pledged for file obligation, oft! ~
savings Hank.
DIHECTOXiS :
J. ERODES BROWNE, President of Cos. ] N. X. CURTIS, of Wells, Curtis A O.
JAB. F. BOZEMAN, Capitalist, Atlanta. | L. T. DOWNING, Attorney-art aw.
; J. It. CLAPP, Manuf’r, Clapp’s Factory. I JOETAH MORRIS, Bunker, Monfgomety.
Hon. JOHN MoILHENNY, Mayor. ‘ i CHARLES WISE.
JAMES RANKIN, Capitalist. I D. F. WILLCOX, Secretary of the i' ; ,
my 4 i eod.tw
:GREAT SACRIFICE!
j
w e have just received, another lot ol
I3esxixtitYxl Calicoes, Aviiieli were ordered
before oui* determination to close out.
We must dispose of tliem. Therelore we
will sell
BEST CALICO at 9c.
and make a lilsre redaction on all other
goods.
JOSEPH & BRO.
uovl3 diiWtf
L. M. BURRUS. G. M. WILLIAMS.
i lUIEUS 1 WILLIAMS,
Alabama Warehouse,
Columbus, Ga.
Special Attention given to Storage and Sale of Cotton.
BAGGING AND TIES
On hand at Lowest Market Price. Also sell
sep2 6mw BROWN’S COTTON GIN,
“the iwiiiu smi;
t —^ —
PEYTON, CORDON & CO.,
Wlioloealc and Ketail X) oal oi a
No- 89 Broad Street,
{Store formerly occupied by Mbs. Lxb.)
| STOCK UN HAND. GOODS ARRIVING DAILY, embracing all the noveltlo
DRESS AND FANCY GOODS;
A Splendid Stock of Black and Colored Silks, Cashmeres, Satteens, &c.. Ac.;
Fuil Stock Staple Goods at Lowest Prices.
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, RUGS, CURTAIN DAMASK and LACKS;
Cloths, Cassinieres and Gents’ Furnishing Goods a Specialty.
SUITS MADE TO ORDER and guaranteed both as to quality and Hi.
SOLE AGENTS FOR “JUGLA’S” KID GLOVES, none better; Also Richardson's Colleae
| Shirts; A handsome assortment Shell, English llorr. and Oxyde ;-ets; Heauntul Furs to arrive
only 8 > 00 per set; Gents’ French Calf Boots and .Shoes made to cur order and warranted not to
rip; also a lull line Ladies’ shoes.
£S~Wo sell only good Goods and guarantee t rices. Wholesale buyers will find it, totheiriio
terost. to examine our Slock before making their purchases. sep2s eod&w
FIFTEEN REASONS
WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE YOUR PICTURES TAKEN AT
Williams’ Gallery of Art.
i ST ,- , xt tho best arranged GALLERY in this ei-y for taking tho Beet, Pictures and comfort
_L Its Patrons, unving a private dressing rouio tor the ladies, in which they oin arraajie
their toilets. ’ 1 a
2. It has tlio best instrument that Is made.
3. It is kept well warmed and pleasant as summer tho coldest weather.
4. Pictures ol every kind, colored or plain, from card to life-size.
6. Eighteen years’ experience in Picture taking is a full guarantee of tho best Pictures.
0. It is the only Gallery in the State ha ving a No. 1 Retoucher and Colorist.
JOHN L. DLFI EE, tho Artist, late of New York and Washington, has charge <-.'
the Coloring Department. 8 ’
8. You don’t havo to wait for clear weather; Pictures taken just as well In cloudy.
desired l o nforin itlon ,|CtUreS ’ l ’ y * neW procee? ’ t 0 look ft3 well as if taken from life, by giving the
10. Tills Copying Process is only known to this Gallery, and competition is defied.
11. You will never fail to get Pictures of Children.
12. You can get any kind or prico of Plctnre you want.
p£j^to^e?. todyOUO “ Brtth * m,b,,t mUSt eipCU 10 pay 6Xtr “
Photographic 'artls ableYo jUj^S Uken at lhlS ° allery are the LeEt «*
Nove.nuerT ber ’ WillLa,ns ’ Gnllfr V >’» over Carter’s Drug Store, Columbia, Ga.
R E3 El Jhf'E B ES n. 2
THE
NEW YORK STORE
Is Still Selling at
Our J ouvin 2-Button KID GLOVE at 90 cents ner pair.
Only a lew dozen left.
FALL AND WINTEfT GOODS!
;
CHAPMAN & VERSTILLE
wuf 0K t 0 tU,r ,r,en<U * ad lh lt their Stock w.ll be kept coneUntly replenish
SEASONABLE GOODS
r Ijoweet IVlnrliLot H’i'iocn
M^eTrat™ eeiVe in Paymeßt KA, * Lt AXDPHENIX MONEY and COTTON at highest
_ octls deotl
Dealer iu
liA S S, CAPS, UMBRELLAS,
AT THE OLD STAND OF F. LANDON,
on hand and receiving regularly from Manufacturers Direct »
Full Stock of Staple and Fancy Hats; in Fancy Hats, the
very Latest in Styles and Colors.
nocl2 P ‘ e ’ iar a '“ ! W ° o1 ’ hIS Stoek 18 P" 1601 anJ t 0 whloh he inv ‘t«» the attention ol planters
||mb eo.iAw
BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS!
K.HSTG,
Broacl Stroot, Columfous. Goorgiu.
A\’holosnle anti Tfetail.
I of inr ° rm “ y fr,<>n,,s and the i' ul ' lie ,bat 1 have just received a laige .ni
HOOTS, SHOES AND IIATS,
nll«:ra<ies nml st vie usually kept :n a Im-t-claF-g Shoe store
v/a y K T f oi!lr^r « SHOES hdfi been IL t ie expressly lor my own trade, and I will
W AKUAJV I every pair to l*e as represented.
1 can otter extraordinary inducementa to Country Merchants and small Dea’er*
,y "■ ’■*»*='■> *"
E 3 A.TNTIO ! PAIXTIC! !
I AM NOW SEI.LINO AT PAN’IU PRICES AIYLARGE AN D FASHIONABLE STOCK OF
MILLIN E It Y ,
Comprising all the latest Novelties in the line of Trimmed
and «nvo r Tni :lined au d Bonnets, Ribbons,
Silks, Piowers, Ornaments, Velvets, &e.
HAIR GOODS in all Styles,
Jet and Immitation Jewelry
MJE»S*S »•
Mrs. M. E. HOV/ARD,
November 21. eod&w RANDOLPH ST , NEXT TO STRUPPER’S.