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Our Love Letters.
I was betrothed in infancy to Miss Gertrude
Duval
There I pause.
The statement sounds romantic. You may
doubt the facts.but who can guess to what length
a romantic woman may go?
There were three romantic women in our fam
ily; my mother, Gertrude and a maiden aunt,
who had property which she wished to bestow
upon us *j : ntly,’ a la Captain Cuttle.
Circumstances separated Gertrude and I be
fore we were old enough to talk.
They drove me and my small affimced, then
attired in dresses three times her own length,
to K'DR8ton.
I believe that. I bad a dim remembrance of her
as she appeared while sucking an orange; bat
when my mother would say:
‘Oh, Effingham. don’t you remembir your
sweet little wifey? —another romantic blight in
the shape of the name of Effingham had been
bestowed npon me—I answered: ‘No’ as a mat
ter of principal.
A ter this, I would generally add:
‘I hate her! All girls are hateful, but she is
the hatefulest.’
Tuere is an age at which all boys make this
declaration witb perfect ease.
In after years, had they not lost that far from
fascinating frankness peculiar to youths of four
teen, the same boys would not nnfrequently
change their song and declare that they loved
all girls.
At eighteen, I confessed to myself that this
was the case.
The thought that a young beauty was ‘saving
herself up lor me,’ really touched my soul; and
when one day, there arrived by mail, a small
box containing a photograph of a fair-haired
young lady with dark eyes and dimples in both
cheeks, which my mother presented to me as
the likeness of M ihb G tftrude Duval, my affianc
ed wife. I fell in love with it at one.',as I should
have fallen in love with any other passibly pret
ty portrait of a lady
‘Yon are now eighteen, Effiagham,’ said my
mother, ‘Gertrude is seventeen. You will be of
age iD three years. Iu one more I intend to send
you away on a visit; but before you meet, I trust
you will gain some knowledge of each other by
correspondence O: coarse a betrothal in infan
cy is no longer binding. You need not gratify
the hopes of your parents unless yon choose to
do so,’—here my mother sighed; ‘but I am sure
you will at least cultivate the young lady's ac-
q lintancs as I have suggested. It is your place
to write first.’
AN I said was:
‘Y*»s ma’am.’
But that night I went early to my own room,
took half a quire of note paper under my hand
and began:
‘Dear Madame—’ that was too formal.
‘li'spectfully Miss—’ ridiculous.
‘My Darling Gertrude—’ she would be insulted.
How would it do to commence without any
formal begining ?
But if so, what should I say ?
I sat with my head between my hands and my
elbows on the table, when a knock sounded on
the door.
I knew by tbe sharp sound that it was Obed
Drake who applied for admission.
Obed was a young man some ten years my se
nior, who had been left at an early age upon the
hands of the world in general, by the disappear
ance of his father and the death of his mother,
who had had recourse to the gin bottle to com
fort her in her afil ction.
Handed about I rum uniglibtrr Co neighbor, he
had filially taken root in our house, where, dis
covering that, having to split wood, draw wa
ter, milk the cows and run on errands all day,
he sat up all night to s udy geography and bat-
tie single-handed with geometrical problems,
my father's scholarly heart was drawn toward
him. and he became a sort of adopted eon.
Despite hi-, unpromising antecedents, he was
a wonderfully worthy young man, and now a
hard-working and rising lawyer.
M »ny a scrape had he helped me out of.
Now, as I heard the knock upon the door,one
that knuckles less bony could never have made,
I called; ‘Cime in,’ in tones of relief.
Ooed Drake could assuredly advise me as to
a ‘beginning’ of my letter.
•Come in,’ said I, and the door opened a long,
thin f irin advanced and half retreated.
‘Ob, if you are writing, I’ll not disturb you,’
said the voice belonging to this apparition.
•No, no,’ said I, ‘not at all, not at all. Come
in; I want you. Obed, I'm in a dilemma. Sit
down.’
Ooed sat down, and I confided the facts of the
case to him.
•Yju see,’ I said in conclusion, ‘I am obliged
to write a letter to a young lady I never saw, on
whom I desire to make a favorable impression,
and I can’t imagine how I ought to begin. It’s
really the most difficult task.’
‘D.ffijult! cried Obed, with a curious jerk,pe
culiar to him when he was excited. ‘Difficult!
No such thing. Not at all difficult. Most en
joyable task—most enjoyable. I only wish I
bad it to do. But really, do you find it difficult,
EAT
•Terribly so,’ I said. ‘S ce, this is her picture.
Beautiful, isn't it ?’
‘Yes,’ said Obed. ‘But I like dark girls. It
wouldn’t inspire me particularly. Now, do you
know, if I were going to write, I should imagine
to myself quite another girl. Do you know -I
shoul 1 think vou’d like to write to an unknown
yor.Dg lady. Here, 111 show yon how I’d begin.’
He sat down to my desk; I lit a cigar; he took
up my pen.
Instantly it began to fly over the paper.
With hi3 shoulders to his bead and his nose
on the lines, Obed worked away.
I finished one cigar and lit another; still he
wrote on. „ , ..
At, last, three sheets of note-paper lay id a pile
be ‘There”said Obed, with a long breath, ‘that
is a little'of what I would say.’
He selected a cigar for himself and puff ed in
silence, while I read his production.
‘It s a very fine letter,Obed, I sal 1. I con.dn t
do anything half so good. Bless my soul, how
many quotations! Where do you keep tuem
stored away? I say- Obed would you mind my
i ist copying this and sending it r
J ‘Do as you like, Eff. I d have taken more
pains, however, if I had thought of that.’
1 I took advantage of his permission, copied his
letter and dispatched it to Miss G rtrude Duval.
In iess than a fortnight I received a rep y.
It was long poetical and as full of quotations
as Obed’s bad been. Ia fact it was a complete
answer to bis epistle.
Of course I took it to Obed.
‘Fine letter,’ he said, as he turned its pages
for the third time. ‘I say. if this was to me I
would get up a famous reply. This remark now
about men and their want of appreciation of wo
men, and quotation, twisted to suit herself;now
1 d ‘Obed ’ I eric d, ‘do you say what you like. The
voung woman is too opinionated for me; sue
knows too much; she is too sharp. .1 can t write
to a giri like that. And who woald think it from
^‘Nobody!’ said Obed. ‘She looks like a bread-
and-butter miss.’ . .
Then he once more seized upon pen and pa
mper. and this time an enormous packet made its
Kay to Kingston.
r=
To cut a long story short,Obed and my young
betrothed ware s ion exchanging not s j much let
ters as parcels of manuscript.
They wrote regularly,and tomhed upon every
subject under the sun, from love to electricity.
’They had read every author who ever wrote,
and had opinions on every ‘ism’ that bewildered
people’s brain.
Ot course I knew that. Obo-i, whe was at least
eight-anti-twenty, had dabbled in everything;
but that a girl of seventeen should have gone as
tar as ha, was a mystery I could not explain. It
did not attract me.
But fir that beautiful portrait, I should have
returned to my youthfnl opinion of Miss Ger
trude and declared that I hated her; hut the face
was piettior than any I knew, in my eyes.
Some times my mother perns id what she sup
posed t> be our correspondence.and greatly com
plimsiited us on our flowery expressions.
But oue or two letters were two heavy for light
reading, and once she remarked, having folded
the many sheets of Gertrude’s last, with a very
grave air:
‘There ia so much about the doctrines of Con-
fucious, my dear. I hope he is not one of those
liberal preachers silly youDg people are all run
ning after now-a-davs,and that if you do marry,
yoa'li take a pew at Dr. Crosby’s. I hope she
doesn’t go to hear this Confucious regularly.’
However, the poetical epistle ploased her,and
when the correspondence had been going on for
a year, it was decided in family conclave that
had hotter go aDd visit my brother.
It was decided also that Ooed should go with
With a new warlrobo, a full pccket-book and
my parents’ blessing, I started on my romantic
journey.
I left the letters at home, bnt I took with me
the photograph.
Obed attended to such practicable matters as
baggage and lunches, tackled cabmen, and saw
that we were not sunt into the roof at any hotel
we patroniz id.
I must confess I felt that he was not ornamen
tal,with his tallow-colored complexion and bean
pole aspect, his wild sweep of greenish yellow
hair and his large knuckles; but he was useful
and I was very fond of him, and it might hurt
his feelings to explain to him that his yellow-
gray traveling suit was three siz -s too small for
him.
We reached Kingston an! made our way to a
mos' respectable house, with a large garden,
where dwelt the parents of my alii '.need.
Having attired ourselves for a call, we engag
ed a cab to take us hither, and arrived in the
middle of a fine summer afternoon.
To our inquiries, the little servant who open
ed the door replied that Mis Gertrude was in
‘the abour,’ and as we bad heard much of ‘the
arbour,’ in the letters, and it was in full sight,
I suggested to Obed that we should approach
unseen and surprise the lady by our appearance.
It was an impudent thing to do, but consider
ed myself priveleged.
We accordingly followed the winding walk
with careful steps, and arriving at the arbor,
peeped through the vines an d saw, not one young
lady, but two.
Tue youngest was the original of my picture,
fair with golden hair, dark eyes, dimples and a
rose-bud mouth.
The other was about thirty, sensible, shrewd-
looking, and vary dark. She was writing.
The sheets of note-paper on tbe table looked
familiar.
‘Finished,’shesaid,laying down her pen. ‘Aid
as he's to come soon, that I suppose, is my last
letter. Heigh-ho! Gertrude,he is much too sen
sible a man for you. How such a boy can have
acquired so much information I do not know,
bnt I've acquired my share of the correspon-
de> A C uu ini mncti o.Miged, Mirtha,’ said the oth
er. ‘I never could think of anything to write
to the prosy thing If he is like his letters, I
can’t like him; but Lis photograph is ever so
nice looking. M tybe be won’t talk as ho writes.’
I looked at Obed; he looked at me.
We tiptoed our way back to the house, found
the servant aDd sent her out with our cards.
**•**»
‘Do you know, Effingham,’ said Gertrude to
mo a week later, ‘I have a confession to make ?
I didn’t think I’d like you a bit.’
‘Why.’
‘Dic’tbe off nded. Your letters were so—so
solemn—like improving works we ought to read,
and never do—at least I don’t.’
‘Gertrude,’ said I, ‘I have a confession to make
too. I never wrote one of those letters; Obed
did them for me.’
•Oa!’ said she, ‘Do you know that Martha
wrote all mine?’
Afterwards I told her that I did know it, but
not then.
‘Mr. Drake is a very nice person, isn’t he?’
asked G rtrude very soon.
‘A splendid fellow,’ said I.
‘I am very glad,’ said she, ‘for Martha is en
gaged to him, and she told me she did not be
lieve you ever wrote a word of those letters.
So i returned home with news that made my
mother happy; but Obed stayed behind.
He married Miss Martha, and settled down in
Kingston. He is a successful lawyer.
She occasionally lectures,and both seem to be
as happy as Gertrude and I, and only for our
love-letters they might never hava met.
Says my wife sometimes:
‘Well, they were our love-letters, af.er all.’
Letter From South Carolina,
Gen Hampton in the Rural, Districts at Home
—Pouring oil upon the Troubled Waters of
a Young Namesake.
Bx Gage Hampstead.
A new county was formed during the setting
of the last S. C. Legislature, and baptiz d with
the honored name of Hampton. Like most in
fants this young county grew contrary and
wanted too abundant a diet of fat offi sos.
Nurses of many ilks and nostrums were sought
to quiet the claruerous babe, but each in turn,
failed and lefc in vexation, discouragid. The
attention of Gov. Huupton wa3 fi tally drawn
to this incorrigible offspring of old Beaufort.and
he was forced to pause in his triumphant tour
over the State to devote unwonted time to his
name-sake. It was diffi jult to say whether she
needed a sound castigation or a drop of the oil
of kindness. Kindness won. The presence of
the good Governor acted like a charm. The
babe stretched out its hands the moment its
great name-sake approached, and now scarcely
whimpers, besides has promised strict obedi
ence to the G overnor’s commands. But we will
rehearse her behavior :
The corner stone of tbe new court-house of
Hampton was laid on the 12 h of Oct. The day
was bright and beautiful, and summer weather
bore the breath of flowers and the scent of the
woods From all parts of the country the peo
ple came. Many hundreds from their homes
in these low-lands, but a goodly number by rail
from a distance. The scene was gorgeous as
throngs of men in red shirts, women and chil
dren in red jackets, and horses and vehicles in
the same gay trappings assembled.
When Governor Hampton, escorted by .the
military and preceded by a fine band of music,
arrived, the enthusiasm was as unbounded as ic
was joyous and spontaneous. Never was Napo
leon the recipient of heartier, pmer devotion
than this hero of the great peaceful revolution
in South Carolina. The people looked in the
face of the man who, in a terrible day, risked
life and property for them. In that trying time
this face was earnest, sorrowful, determined ;
now a deep calm rests upon-it, a holy self grat-
ulation, and tbe laurel wreath lies where the
cypress was threatened 0-ily these people
knew the full meaning of those twelve horrible
years under radical rule, hence only they could
almost lose themselves iu joyous huzzas at sight
of their liberator.
The day passed all too soon. The speeches
a_.d ceremonies were ended and then the crowd
melted away, many to hie to the little village of
LaTtonviNe, .the central point in the county
where the G ivernor was to speak on the morrow.
Again the throngs of people came, and d tzzling
red was the order of the day. The little village
was wide awake. Almost the first d welling had
an arch of evergreens over its garden gate and a
“Welcome Hampton’’ ia bold letters. What a
jubilee there was. Even our old Pegass ts
snuff id the breeze, and tossed his head an l rad
pendants iu triumph.
Eve.y wherj c m!d be seen men in red shirts,
and lovely, gentle women who smiled their deep
satisfaction. What bevies of bright-eyed, beau
tiful young girls, and how soft and musical were
their voices ! a trait peculiar to this land.
Under the shadow of the great oaks stood the
spacious rostrum. Fair hands had so adorned
the canopy that it was indeed ‘a bower of beauty.’
The glossy magnolia leaves were made to ser,ve
as festoons of beads. Vases and wreaths of au
tumn fliwers and grasses, graceful^hungiDgbas
kets added to the pleasing picture. Taere were,
at the fi-st glance, handsome magnolias in
bloom, but a second inspection proved them to
be but bolls of cotton, ready for the picker.
And those hanging baskets, what a delicate green
t ej were, what a Roft polish! Not until the
place was deserted and a few curious ones made
a personal inspection, were they discovered to
be—green gourds! They were cut iu half and
ihe grasses and fl >wers found a nice support iu
the pulpy matter. The idea is novel and bril
liant, and Lawtonville deserves from fntare
copyists fall credit for the invention.
But there were thirteen fl igs, besides mottoes,
revealing the mind of the people for their Gov
ernor, and more than all of these, more than
any of the moving mass of humanity, was Wade
Hampton, General, G ivernor, noble master—
and last though great—humble Christian ! Oh !
it was a sight worth the seeing, this good m in,
whom the world so cheerfully calls great. Even
this welcome visit was a noble mission to a
broken, worn, but now hopeful few—to a little
stray corner which more than any place in tDe
State has been s’ a^k.ed, almost stiff >d to death.
Tue hundreds of eyes that were leveled upon
him were earnest and full of graticu le, for did
not each one feel that he had helped all out of
the S’.ough of D jspond ?
When he arose he stood as a very king amidst
the people, and his words were to them as Her
man s dew. Yet his tongue did not roll in gold
en eloquence, nor did his words flow in mag
nificent periods. His true, manly face is not
handsome like many of the commonplace men
he beholds. He spoke in plain Sax in of what
he had done and what he wou’d do, and since
they have cause to believe him. every word was
equal to a sworn statement. The man is great
in actions—there are few who c mnot talk, b ct
fewer still who can perform as Hampton has
done. Time and circumstances have made his
greatness immortal and looking upon the man
in his grand simplicity we realize how possible
>. is for each, all of us, to be great, likewise, in
our peculiar spheres of life. Had Hampton
been obscure and poor, he wouli. have never
been a general, or the most remarkable gover
nor ever known on the American continent, yet,
with those fine elements so inherent in his na
ture, be would have been, in his sphere, ever
oo hnmblc, a trnlj £rcat mau—14 LiTftll Of dCllOIi-4,
bravery and sincerity.
Not until the sun was waning toward the
West did the people leave the pleasant spot
the eloquent speakers, the entrancing music,
held them spell-hound. The day closed upon
bright faces, glad wi.h the thought of the meet
ing with friends, the pleasure of sparkling ebul
litions of gifted minds, and the sight of tbe
hitherto unseen, but loved and honored Hamp
ton.
The road leading towards the Savannah was
thronged by the red shirt cavaliers—and many
in buggies. The multitude had discovered that
the morrow would find Hampton at Brighto i,
where busy and glad hands were weaving
wreathes and festoons for his bower of beauty.
Thus he moves as G ivernor never moved before
ia this State—followed from place to place and
covered with fairest flowers, even as he is en
veloped in a people’s affection and gratitude
Yet, like all truly great men he is humble, and
points the people to that God who alone used
him as the instrument of victory.
Stxllwood, Hamptjn, S. C.
Household Department
Hints for the Farm, Garden,
and Fireside.
The Orchard
Dear Editors:
You ask mo to tell you why I succeed so well
with my fruit; why it is of such good q lality and
so plentiful. It must be bocause I nave taken
care of my orchard. In the first place, I planted
good young trees (I am not much of a believer
in grafting upon old stocks) then I had good
fences and kept oat cattle. I prepared my laud
well at the outset; broke up and fertilized thor
oughly, with a home made compost. I give a
liberal top dressing occasionally. I planted my
trees far enough apart to give them ample space
to spread, and. pruned sparing’y I alio v no
fruit to be pulled when green. I have a few
rules for the orchard that I keep framed, as it
were, and hung up in my mind. Here they are:
1. Waon fruit trees occupy the ground, noth
ing else should—except very short grass.
2. Fruitfulness and growth of the tree cannot
be expected the same year.
3. There is no plum that the curculio will not
take, though aay kiad may sometimes escape
for one year in one place.
4 Peach borers will not do much damage
when stiff clay is heaped up round the tree a
foot high.
5 Pear blight still puzzles the greatest men.
The best remedy known is to plant two for every
one that dies.
6 If you dont know how to prune, don’t hire
a man from the other side of the sea that knows
less than yon do.
7. Don’t cut off a big lower limb unless you
ar<- a renter, and don’t care what becomes of tho
tree when your time is out.
8 A tree with the limbi coming out near the
ground is worth two trees trimmed up five feet,
and worth four trees trimmed up ten feet, and
so on until they are not worth anything.
9 Trim down, not up.
10 Shorten in, not lengthen up.
11. If you had your arm cut off, you would
feel it to youj heart—a tree will not feel, but rot
to the heart.
Iu moist charcoal, seed will sprout with re
markable quickness and certainty, but, after
they have sprouted, they do not continue to do
well in charcoal alone. Drilled in with the
seed, charcoal powder is said greatly to pro
mote the growth of wheat.
Fruitcake—Ooe cup of sugar, one cup of
butter, one cap of hot, strong coffee, ooe cup
molasses, one egg. four cups fl iur, one pound
raisins, one-half pound currants, one teaspoon-
ful soda, two teaspoonfuls cream of tartar, two
ounces ground cloves, two ounces cinnamon, a
grated nutmeg and a little citron cut in thin
strips. Bake one honr.
English Potato Balls. —Bail so ne potatoes
very dry, ruash tuem as smoothly as possible,
se ison wtl with salt and pepp r, warm them with
about an ounce of butter to the pound and a few
sp >onsful of good cream. Let them cool a lit
tle, roll them into balls, sprinkle over them some
crushed vermicelli or maccaroni, and try them
light-brown.
Cabbage Salad.—Shave a hard, white cabbage
into sm ill strips; take the yolks of three well-
beaten eggs, a cap and a half of good eider vin
egar, two te<.s.>oonful of mustard, mix id iu a
little boiling water, salt and pepper to suit the
taste. Mix ail but the eg ;s together, and let it
boil, then stir ic the eggs rapidly, tarn the cab
bage into the mixture, and stir well.
Pie Crust. —Here is a simple but excellent re
cipe, which please publish for the information
of yocng housekeeper-: Four cups full of fiiur,
one of lard, one of butter, one of ice water, one
teaspo'inf il of salt; mix with a knife and han
dle as little as possible. Bake in a quick oven.
Beef Omelet.—The readers of the Sunuy
S mtu will agree with ns after they have tasted
it, that but few more appotiz ng breakfast dishes
we e ever spread before a guest, than the fol
lowing: Cut the bone from a porterhouse steak,
pound it slightly; season with pepper and salt;
lay it in a hot, dry skillet, turning it almost
constantly until done. Then put in with it one
teaspoonful of lard and one of batter. As soon
as this is hot, pour over the steak the follo wing
ruix ure: Separate six eggs aud beat them light
—j ist before cooking them stir in the whites
with the yolks; keep lif.ing them gently with a
knife until done. Turnout on a warm dish and
serve at once.
To Renovate Black Cashmere.—Rip the dress
apart; then soak the goods in warm soap-suds
two hours; dissolve one ounce of extract of log
wood in a bowl of warm water, add sufficient
warm water to cover the goods, which is to be
taken from the suds without wringing; let the
dress stand in the logwoad water all nigh*; in
morning rinse ia several waters without wring
ing in the last water; add one pint of sweet milk
iron while damp; it will look like new.
Snow Pudding. —Soak one ounce of gelatine
in one pint of co d water for ten minutes; place
the same over the fire; stir and remove as soon
dissolved, and when nearly cold,beat to a stiff
froth with an egg-beater; beat the whites o r . three
eggs to a stiff froth and add to the gelatine froth
together with the j lice of three lemous and pul
verized sugar to suit the taste, and mix the whole
well together; next pour into molds to cool;
serve with a soft custard made of the yolks of
the eggs.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS,
Martha —To wash fl innels make suds of sof,
water as hot as you can bear your hands in.
Rinse in same way and dry quickly. Use old
soft soap, as the chemicals in har 1 siap full the
fl innels. This applies to all wooilen goods.
Reader —Exercise in the open air, with regu
lar and temperate living and early hoars, will
doubtless render your complexion satisfactory.
A mixture of fl iwers of sulphur and milk is
sometimes recommended to soften the skin.
J. L.—To make modelling clay,knead dry clay
witu glycerine instead of water, anl a mass is
obtained which will continue moist and plastic
for a length of time. This removes one of the
greatest inconveniences that is experienced by
the modeller.
Sufferer —Melt some rosin at night on go
ing to bed, and let the smoke from it fill the
room; inhaling the smoke heals the inflamma
tion, and sleep is often produred when one could
not sleep before for much coughing; a change
for the better should be felt in about a week.
Grace —To freshen black lace lay it on a clean
table, sponge it all over with a weak solution of
borax—about an even toaspoonful or less to a
pint of warm water. U le a piece of old black
silk, or black kid glove is better, to sponge
with. While damp cover with a piece of black
silk or cloth and iron.
A cement for meerschaum can be made of quick
lime mixsd to a thick cream with the white of
an egg. This cement will also nnite glass or
china.
A cement made of glycerine and litharge hard
ens rapidly, and makes a durable cement upon
iron or stone. It is insoluble and is not attack
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highly. The stvle is good, wlii’e the method of treat
ment of the subject matter is admirable. Its greatest
interest, however, to me consists in the bringing out
those traits and habits which throw so much light upon
many of the peculiar eccentricities of the wonderful
genius, orator and statesman of ‘Roanoke,’’ which have
heretofore led m my people to believe he was subject to
spoils of temporary mental aberration.
The Literary World, Boston. Mass: The 'undertaking
wi» most praiseworthy, and the resul is to cloth" o-e of
the most, remarkable figures of American history with a
large variety of new details. The whole man is brought
forth to us out of the past with a wonderful freshness
and reality. The whole hook is of that extremely quota
ble sort that one scarcely knows where to begin with it
or cease from it; aud from the first page to the la-d it will
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and in all respects he has performed a difficult task with
excellent discretion and complete success.
sep21-lm
In every city and county throughout the Southern
States to sell our Celebrated
pronounced the Champion Lightning Plaiter orthe world
It makes any and ail variety of plaiting in one-fifth the
time, m >ro regular anil unifor n than any other machine.
It will make from 50 to 100 yards per day. and is so sim-
p'e that a child can nse it. It is the best selling art icle
in the market, selling in every family. No lady will pos
sibly be without it after once seeing tin; working or it.
Energetic agents cau m ike from $5 to $10 per day. Pur
chasers sli mid see to it that every machine heirs our
name, and is stamped : Patented Ap il 16th, 1878.
Price, postage-paid, $1.30.
Address
IIoChiieimer & [\I.VAR,
Manufacturers,
aug!3-Im Atlanta. Ga
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AGENTS W&NTEO
The best, hook ever ptibished
on Romanism. Contributed
by the ablest divines of the
iifferent denominations. Il
lustrated with ti o Steel eu-
gravi gs of Bishops Marvin
and B nvman, aid portraits of the other co tributors.
We bei 'g the publishers, and emp oying no middlemen,
are ab'e to give direct to ca ivassurs the largest commis
sions. Sells rapidly. For terms a id circulars, address
J. II. CHAIIIIKltS <fc CO.,
St. Louis, Chicago, or Phi adelphia
WAHTta AS:STJ -'Dary.v u'j to sell our new
f? va .tiou—a ajeeuity— i> c>n otltfoi-asel
every house—tells o i
D 11’t fai
miles, po«ta,-*r free : 12 Rosrt.
or Ikd linz Plants. fl.fU 1<J
*. freo. 1<*0 other things, cheap,
icntal Trees, Shrubs, etc. A te
res. 1.5 grccn-houACS.
STOBBS, HABETSON & CO., '
FainesviUe, Lake Co.. Ohioi
S3
The woman who paints her face off -rs an un
mistakable insult to Nature—and to the lips of
man.
It is well enough for us to see beautiful illu
sions in oar dreams, but we should walk awake
with trulh.
Fun is worth more than physic, and he that
invents or discovers a new supply is a public
benefactor.
The world is full of sublime truths, and yet
mist people spend their time hunting fog vapid
curiosities.
Silence never shows itself to so great an ad
vantage as when it is the answer to calumny and
defamation.
GIT YOJH OLD PICTURES
Copied and enlarged by the
SOUTHERN COPTICS CO., ATU NT4 CA.
Agen’s w inted in every town and county m the South.
Do you desire an ageucy? Send for terms to agents.
If you cannot take an agency, but have pictures of your
own you wish copied, aud there are no agents of ours in
your vicinity, write for retail prices aud send pictures
direct to us (either by mail or express), and they will re
ceive our best attention. Address SOUTHERN COPY
ING CO., No. 9 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga. sepioct
0
B, M. Woolley’
Tue habit of using Morphiue
Ginn G| him. Laudanum or Elixir
Painless’ |of Opium cure', o-iulessly by
A .1IK RIGAN j this Improved rjm.
P ill M Manufactured at A' m fa. Ga ,
■ w !"• ,it relucad prices. Tested in
Cure or hundreds of cases. Guaranteed
ANllDOlh, j Particulars Free. Address B.
M. Woolley, Atlanta, Ga. Office No. 30, over Linen
Store, entrance 33jy Whitehall street.
3VE. H. LANE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Washington, Georgia.
Will practice in all the counties of the Northern Circuit-
Business solicited.
Office Over Green Bros- Confectionery Stor
Will attend to business in any part of the'State.
138—ti
Mnr# than to.000 yo.in« m*r ALREADY «T£AB
HEAVY MOUSTACHE AND BEARD, having uW
(Wtn 1 to3 Pack’s*. Kainjory. Eaailyapplied.(Via*
in affect. Paekacafrith dirortVoaa pow-pa.dY.Vta.3 Ut
SOrta. L. L. SMITH A CO. Sola A«*K.PalatiMt IU.
k Tkapablio willaMfl*
fiOLI) PLATED WATCHES. Cheapest
iuthe known world. Sample Watch Free to
-IgenlS. Address, A. CuUlike & Co., Chicago
Grand Opening I
MRS. 1. W. HEALD
(nee McCormick.)J
Takes pleasure in announcing to the ladies that she will
bd prepared to offer them a rare treat on
Wednesday,Thursday & Friday nsxt
which willibeher
FALL OPENING.
Mrs. Ileald’s long experience and familiarity with styles
and material gives her an advantage that is to lie appre
ciated. She has just returned from New York with a
MOST COMPLETE STOCK, ~
which will be offered at lower prices than ever before.
oct!2-4t
$55 W
djO A D>
jj) I Visit
Will ti A'ir.s. *1) r tt
D VI fCI It. Atguta. ‘.Iiin.
VY to Agents canvassing for the Fireside
isitor. Terms and Outfit Free. Address, P. O.
VICKERY, Augusta, Maine, 151-ly
D^. ULMER’S
Liver Corrector
OR
Vegetable
Aperient
FOB
Dim;
Arising
'llARfc.
, FROM A
Disordered State of the Liver,
Swaiosboro, Ga-
Dr B. F. Ulmer: I have tried all the medicines you
put up, au 1 can recommend them but especially the
Liver Corrector. I tried the bottle you seut me on ap:i-
tient, and it acted like a charm. If yon care to use my
name, you are free to do so. J. G. Medlock, M. D.
I have introduced Dr. B. F. Ulmer’s Liver Corrector in
my practice, aud find that it gives geueral satisfaction.
Toe beat evide ice of tho estimation iu which it is held
is the fact that persons tryiug it once Invariably return
for auother Dottle, recommending it at the same time to
their friends. G. A. Penny. M. D.,
Cedar Keys, Fla.
PREPARED BY 4
B. F*. ULMER,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Price. Oue Dollar. For sale by P. A. B 3ALL, 180
Broad street, Augusta, Ga., and Druggists generally.
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