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DELAMERE;
Corinne the Sphynx!
BY PAUL C. LE SUEUR.
CHAPTEK IX.
On the morning following her fright, Corinne
received Diana Etbmer with more cordiality
than Eryc bad ever seen her manifest on any
occasion or to any individual.
‘Did yon bring yonr apparatns?’ a sbe enquired.
Mies Etbmer had not brought her apparatus.
'It does not matter though,’ said Corinne, ‘I
can get you a set. We must go; that’s flat.’
Whenever Corinne 9aid a thing was ‘flat,’ in
that shape it remained unalterably, for no one
ever ventured to thwart or contradict her. She
was possessed of invincible resolution on mat
ters which conduced to h r own gratification or
amusement, or where she had only to overcome
the objections of those around her; and prided
herself somewhat upon the headstrong tenaoity
with which she always urged and carried her
point The balance of the day was spent alter
nately with music and singing, and the labor of
preparation. The next morning by nine o’clock
the carriage was at the door and Corinne. Diana,
MiBs Devon and Eryc entered it and were driv
en by Bose out toward the mountains. The
place which Corinne had selected as the scene
for labors of the day, was one of considerable
romantic interest, but inaccessible except on
foot. A quiet little lake to whose sloping mar
gin, the mimic waves, stirred by the gentle
breath of spring, danced ripplingly; a tall oliff
beyond with stunted, scraggy trees skirting its
jagged edges and looking down over its giddy
height and seamed and cbasmed sides; a tall
pine here and there that shot straight upward
to the cloudless, vernal sky, aud willows green
With the naspepi garniture of spring—these were
its striking features, and these Corinne pro
posed to-day to oonvey to canvas.
After the little party had sufficiently admired
the beauty of the surroundings, Corinne, whose
idle brain had planned the present enterprise,
selected a convenient position and began to get
ready her apparatus, requesting Diana to take a
different station so as to obtain a different view
of the scene.
She was possessed of considerable skill, if not
talent, in such things and Eryc watched with
interest for a while the progress of her work,but
soon went over to where Miss Devon and Diana
were. The former of the two young ladies, af
ter a few words, was attracted by the sight of
some ferns growing off at a little distance, and
went to get them, but did not return.
In carrying on any operation, however, of
practical utility oriwhioh required constant,
steady application, Corinne did not retain the
energy with which she worked on things of less
importance, and she soon grew tired, dissatis
fied and restless, and went over to where Eryc
and Diana sat.
‘Let me see how much you have done,’ she
demanded of the latter.
ThiB was about as awkward a question as she
could well have asked. Diana s cheek redden
ed visibly, she had not drawn a line.
‘The scenery is so fine,’ she explained, ‘that
I have been admiring it and have not yet be
gun.’
Corinne glanced searchingly from Diana to
Eryc who sat idly toying with a twig of wild
honeysuckle blossoms and gazing calmly out
upon the rippling lakelet. A faint light broke
for an instant over her face and she said almost
contemptuously:
‘Humph ! Let's walk around the lake. I think
I shall feel more disposed for work then.
To this proposition, of course, there was no
objection made, and the whole party set out
along the edge of the lake. The ground as they
approaohed the clifl grew broken and precipit
ous and the ascent became difficult. As Corinne
seemed unequal to the task of climbing so far
Eryc gave her the assistance of his arm.
For some reason known only to herself, and
springing doubtless out of her pride, though
she took the help Le offered, the act evidently
angered her. It brought more forcibly to her
mind that physical weaknesss which he had,
ere now discovered to be with her a strangely
tender point After resting once or twice upon
the way, they reached the summit. The view
lrom this place was better than the one Corinne
bad attempted to sketch and great was her cha
grin at the discovery.
'Why did we not come here at first ?’ she ask
ed in vexation. ‘It’s too bad !’
She walked near the edge of the cliff and
looked recklessly down the giddy height.
‘Come back, Corinne,’ said Eryc warningly,
‘yon are too near the edge.’
‘Pshaw !' answered Corinne scornfully—'this
is nothing; I am used to it. I thought you were
ever so brave, Eryo. You will not be out-dared
by a woman, will yon?‘
‘It is no mark of courage,’ replied Eryc, ’to
incur useless and unnecessary danger. *
Corinne still continued walking along the
edge of the cliff toward a point where it rose
straight upward from below like the solid ma
sonry of a gigantio wall.
‘Think if some accident should happen—'
urged Eryo.
‘O, as to accidents,* interrupted Corinnesneer-
ingly ‘you should be very willing for any acci
dent to happen to me, and I dare say you are,
for you know that one false step here on my
part and all Delameie is yours.’
Eryo shut his teeth tightly together to keep
back the burning tide of bitter anger, that, at so
cruel and unprovoked a taunt struggled fiercely
in his bosom for expression. Before he had
left home that morning, Mr. Delamere had priv
ily taken him off to one side, and, with that
anxious, harrassing solicitude which the parent
of an only child alone can feel, asked him to
take especial care of Corinne, and to let no
harm befall her. Aa he saw her imprudence in
venturing so near the preoipice there had
arisen in his mind Borne faint picture of that
frenzied grief and utter despair which would
take plao<> at Delamere if Corinne should be
borne home that day bleeding, mangled and
lifeless. Accordingly he had anticipated and
avoided every shadow of possible danger—had
given her all the assistance in his power, and
this was his reward—to be taunted with bis
poverty and to have even his honor and disin
terestedness impugned. Both Diana and Miss
Devon, who knew that Eryc would fall heir to
his uncle'B property if Corinne should die,
and therefore understood the full force of the
innuendo which the latter had uttered, were
dumbfounded by the wantoness and virulence
of this attack, find even Corinne seemed almost
to fear she had gone too far herself. For, as
they wound their way back down the height
she managed to get alone with Eryc and actual
ly told him that perhaps she was wrong in
speaking as she did. Tnis, he, willing to ex
tenuate whatever was amiss in her conduct, con-
8tru -d into an apology. Corinne's mode of
apologizing however, was something unique.
She did it with an air which seemed to say—
•Perhaps I was wrong. I do not know. At any
rate 1 am willing to play quits with you. I
have several old scores against you to match
with this. Now say we are even, or else, I will
make you repent of it some day in a manner
which yon will little relish.' And yet she well
knew how to give a deep, poignant stab and
then smooth and plaster it over with useless
and unmeaning protestations and expressions
of good will.
When they had finished the descent Corinne
resumed her original station and began to
sketch, assigning to Diana the position in which
she had so Bignally failed in her dnty before.
Miss Devon took a place near Corinne and began
arranging some flowers whioh she had just gath
ered. Her beauty was of that style which flow
ers greatly enhance, and when convenient she
always had them about her and wove them into
garlands, or placed them tastefully amid the
wavy masses of her dark hair. Eyre, as before
sat near Diana. He had scarcely ensconced
himself comfortably against the trunk of a tree
when, upon looking toward the upper part of
the lake, he sawtwo men approaching along the
indistinct pathway that skirted the little body
of water. Shielded from their observation by
a thin hedge of holly that grew between him
and the path, he resolved to await their closer
approach without oalling to them the attention
of his companion, who, in obedienoe to the
commands of Corinne, had now commeneed
upon her work. I accordance with this deter
mination he took from nis pocket a couple of
old letters and began to read their contents
over. When the two gentlemen he had seen
came opposite to where he sat, but were still
screened from full view by the hedge, be recog
nized them as Mr. Glenville and Colonel Fen
ton. Diana had by this time als > become aware
of their presence and he was about to call to
them when he heard Mr. Glenville say in a tone
of voice that caused him some surprise and
hesitation.
‘I will not do it, Arthur, and it is useless for
you to urge me.‘
He now instinctively refrained from address
ing the two men, for as Mr. Glenville spoke to
his companion with unwonted familiarity and
used the strange appellation of ‘Arthur* he was
led to the necessity of concluding that there
was closer connection between them than
had been hitherto apparent. This suspicion
was strengthened when he remembered the
mysterious circumstances of that memorable
visit of Colonel Fenton’s in which he had first
met Corinne. I addition to this, other little
facts bad been noticed and dwelt upon in mind
by him, and the conclusion that there was some
imposition somewhere on the part, both of
Colonel Fenton and of Mr. Glenville, had
gradually shaped itself in his mind. To find out
wherein lay this imposition, this mystery, had
become a ruling object with him, and now that
some clue was about to be obtained, he forgot,
in his eagerness, what under less interesting and
less important circumstances would instantly
havs occurred to him—namely, that the part
whioh he was about to play was in some respects
that of an eaves-dropper. When by the work
ings of Diana's countenance he saw she was
going to betray their presence, he made a ges
ture of silence so earnest as to be almost implor
ing. The two new comers were now so close,
that being distinctly seen, each word they had
uttered could be easily heard. Corinne and
Miss Devon, however, being at a distance could
neither see nor hear them, nor were they aware,
as yet, of the presence of any one except those
of their own little party.
‘Please remember then* returned Col. Fen
ton to the last remark of his companion ‘that
you have made me this promise at least. As to
your marriage I care nothing except in so far
as it furthers my own schemes, and yon dare
not betray me. ‘
‘I dare do anything sometimes* responded
Mr. Glenville angrily ‘you seem to think
of nothing else here of late but being betrayed.’
Here their voices died away in indistinct
murmurs seeming to grow more and more angry
in their last remarks, but he could here no
more.
‘What does it mean?’ asked Diana'in a fright
ened half-whisper,
‘I do not know ‘he answered, he did not wish
to communicate his suspicions to another.
Perhaps it means nothing at ail more than some
trifling agreement between them. ‘
Bat although this explanation did not satisfy
Diana, and although Eryc had bis own private
opinion to the contrary, the conversation soon
passed on to other subjects, and the little scrap
of dialogue they had just heard, though
not forgotton, soon lost its sinister and
suspicions aspeot. Erye presently approached
Corinne.
■Did yon see them? 1 he asked after telling her
that they had passed him.
‘Yes, i saw them,’ she answered. ‘But why
did you not call out to them when they passed
you, for of course they were looking for ns,
■I had no reason to think they were,’ he re
turned puzzled to give a suitable reply without
giving the real cause of his silence. ‘How do
yon know they were looking for ns?’
He answered her question by asking another,
a method which has been for some time in
vogne. Corinne knew why Mr. Glenville had
oome, because she had written to him, and told
Him she wonld be there that day.
This information, however, Bhe did not care
to impart to Eryc, so she asked with some ab
ruptness:
‘How is Diana progressing? Has she done this
much?’ and she showed him the result of her
work.
‘Hardly so much. She says her hand is un
steady to-day.’
‘Humph!* said Corinne.
Eryc, regarding this expression as a final one
upon the subject in hand, glanced in the direc
tion which had been taken by Mr. Glenville and
Colonel Fenton.
‘See,* he said, ‘yonder are onr two friends.’
He pointed toward the cliff npon whose sum
mit near to where it shot down perpendionlar'y
to the banks of the lake, the two men were walk
ing.
‘Are they not very close to the edge? asked
Corinne.
‘They certainly seem so from here,* replied
Eryo.
‘They mast be between it and the path. ‘
Miss Devon eame forward to get a better view
of the men. At this instant Erye observed one
of them, which he conld not tell, suddenly
thrust out his arm and shove the other down
ward toward the edge of the cliff, the falling
man, however, grasping the hand whioh gave
him the blow, and clinging to it with desperate
force, while his antagonist seemed endeavoring
to free himself. Corinne sank back lifelessly
where she sat. Miss Devon stood yith clasped
bands, and form leaning slightly forward,dumb,
motionless and deathly pale, endeavoring by
word or cry to give vent to the mate agony ot
terror within. Eryc dashed with the fleetness
of a grayhound along the narrow path around
the lake and up the steep ascent beyond with no
thought save that of giving aid to the man he
had seen hanging half-way over the edge of the
cliff, whoever he might be. So swiftly had he
moved that those below on the otber side of the
lake had scarcely missed him ere they saw him
appear on the height. When he arrived at the
place where the two men had been engaged in
the short out desperate struggle which he had
partially witnessed, he found them standing face
to face with an expression, which, in his excite
ment, he hardly knew whether to deem one of
ferocity or fatigue.
‘A narrow escape!’ said Mr. Glenville yet
breathing heavily and casting at the same time
a look of significant and pecniiar meaning up
on Fenton.
‘Yes.‘ returned the latter gazing steadily,de
fiantly, and intelligently at Mr. Glenville. ‘A
very narrow esoape.’
‘How did it happen, gentlemen?’ asked Eryc
breathlessly.
The two men again looked at each other. Mr.
Glenville made a sign full of meaning to the
Neither the look or the sign escaped
other.
Bryc.
‘I was walking too near the cliff and ■stum
bled,’ answered Colonel Fenton.
‘And I saw him jnst in time to lend him my
hand,’ added Mr. Glenville.
There was something so nnnatnral in their
manner that, despite this plausible explanation
Eryo regarded them with wonder and suspic
ion. That one of them had attempted the life
of the other, or that each had attempted the
life of the other, he was morally certain, though
beyond the mysterious hand-thrust and the
frenzied struggle, no proof eonld be adduced.
That from some motive of mntnal interest they
had cleverly concealed the true state of things
he greatly suspected, and that which strength
ened each of these conclusions was their sin
gular conduct when, after a few more words
and explanations,they decided to descend from
the height. The path which ran along the prec
ipice, was so narrow that two could not move
abreast. Eryc went ahead to lead the way
down bat Colonel Fenton qnietly stepped in
front of him, and bade him follow close after.
After Eryc had left Corinne and Miss Devon,
the attention both of the latter and of Diana
had been drawn wholly to the former. Diana
herself knew not the cause of the sudden cooi-
mo ion which she saw take place, for the posi
tion which she occupied did not command a
view of the cliff and the scene which had been
acted npon it was altogether lost to her. Cor-
iune responded to her anxious inquiries, when
she became again conscious, that she thought
she had seen a man fall over the cliff. But now
however, she saw oa it the forms of three men
and she was no longer anxious as to the result
of the fearful scene she had witnessed. On
casting her eyes over to the opposite height Di
ana also saw them, and as they now stood with
their forms outlined against the clear blue sky
beyond, although at a considerable distance,
she recognized one of them as Eryc and an
other as Air. Glenville. The third she knew
was Colonel Fentoo,
This was the first time Corinne had seen
Mr. Glenville since she had written her peni
tent letter to him, but as be approached in com
pany with his two companions she could not
torbear a shudder, for the scene on the height
yet dwelt painfully in her mind.
He told her that be had received her letter and
bad come to meet her but at first could not
find her. But as he had seen fresh tracks in
the little path around the like, he had, with
Colonel Fenton, ascended the height to look
for her.
Colonel Fenton, on his first approach, hav
ing singled oat Diana, langhed and chatted with
her as gaily as if no dark image of the death
he had just escaped, had ever entered his
mind. Death in every form had hovered
about him for years and he hud come to look
too recklessly upon it to be disturbed by its
spectre now. " * •
Eryc was unusually silent and thoughtful.
The scene which he had jnst witnessed had
sunk deeply in his mind, aud long years af
terward dwelt there with nndiminished fresh
ness. Its meaning, except by conjecture, he
never knew. No word of explanation ever
reached him, and whether what he had seen
was accident, or attempted murder remained
to him one of those mysteries which even Time
does not reveal. His mind wandered over
again all the little incidents, furtive glances,
and hints dropped in conversation which
stamped these two men as villiaus or impos
ters from the first time he had seen them to
this their last-fierce scene culminating almost
in death, but all was dim conjecture and con
fusion. i .
* D.'auA (JUtrtWaniEiated, and he no
ticed with something akin to pique, that she
smiled as brightly and as joyoasly on Colonel
Fenton as ever she had on him. Lunch was
shortly afterwards spread ont and partaken of.
The balance of the day was spent as pleasantly
as was possible under the circnmstances, and
when thesnn was sinking nearer to the hill
tops in the west and the shadows had begun to
lengthen on the calm surface of the lake they
prepared to leave for home.
Mr. Glenville had come in his baggy, Colonel
Fenton on horsebaok, but the former now got in
the carriage wtth Corinne, while the latter took
his vehicle and offered Diana a seat within it.
What might have been her reasons for appearing
so light of heart after what she had Been and
heard that day .Eryc knew not, but he noticed
now with a strange triumphant thrill of pleasure
that she appeared a little confused at Colonel
Fenton’s offer and seemed to hesitate whether
or not to accept it. Her irresolutiou was but
momentary however and nnnoticed of all save
Eryc, for she quickly intimated to Colonel Fen
ton that she would be pleased to go with him
and was soon seated by his side.
Perhaps, sir,’ said the latter to Eryc it that
tone ot ready kindness, urbanity and careful
ness for the comfort of others which seldom or
never fails to procure good will—‘perhaps aa
you are fond of horseback riding yon may prefer
to go back that way. Yonder is my horse—a
splendid animal wholly at yonr service.’
Eryo thanked him and turned away.
‘Put him to his best,’ continued Colonel Fen
ton; *1 wish to show his speed to Miss Ethmer,
because the last time I rode with her she had
the advantage of me in this respect ‘
Eryc glanced at Diana just in time to see her-
bestow one of her archest smiles he thonght,
npon Colonel Fenton. The sight displeased
him in spite ol the direct consciousness on his
part that anger was useless and unreasonable
He mounted the horse, and, as the whole party
now started homeward, he wonld fain have rid
den along by the side of the buggy, bat seeing
this was impossible from the narrowness of the
road and imagining, morever, that both Colonel
Fenton and Diana seemed inclined to admit,
tacitly ana indireotly, that his remarks and com
pany could both be altogether dispensed with
npon this oooasion, he gave the reins to his
horse and dashed recklessly down the Bteep
mountain road as if he might by this means free
himself from certain uncomfortable thoughts
and sensations.
‘Bides well,’ commented Colonel Fenton mus
ingly and sententiously as Eryo’s form rapidly
disappeared from sight aronnd a curve in tbe
road. ‘He is a general favorite is he not?’ and
his eyes sought hers searchingly.
‘I have heard father Bpeak well of him,’ an
swered Diana turning aside her head to avoid
the penetrating gaze.
‘Indeed?’cried Colonel Fenton, ‘how long
ago has that been?*
T did not make a record of it,’ was the care
less response.
‘It must have been some time ago,’ continued
Colonel Fenton, ‘for he speaks and thinks very
differently now.’
•Ah? said Diana, toying nervously with a
twig which she had in her lap. There was now
a short pause between them. Finally Diana said
she felt ct.illed by the evening air and requested
her companion to drive faster. She shivered
as if to confirm her words, and he quickened
the paoe of the animal and they soou arrived at |
Delamere. The carriage arrived soon after, j
Eryc met them and conducted them in the par- j
lor. When Corinne entered the house, Diana {
joined her in another room. Mr. Glenville en
gaged Mr. Delamere in conversation out in front
leaving Eryc with Colonel Fenton. Eryo could
neither like or dislike the latter. Sometimes he
felt drawn toward him; at others be felt repulsed
by what the French would designate as 'Je ne
sais quoi. * Suspecting him, as he did, of play
ing a double part, he could not allow himself to
place confidence in him, and yet his uniformly j
gentleman-like deportment, his rare powers of
persuasion, and, above all, tbe bright flashes of
higher and finer feeling wnieb he sometimes
unconsciously threw out in animated conversa
tion, made it impossible for him to be regarded
as a man altogether to be hated or despised.
Mr-Glenville and Colonel Fenton remained
to sapper, soon after which they took their de-
partnre. To the former at parting Corinne gave
her hand; to the latter she bowed with distant
civility. Colonel Fenton was ibe first to leave
and rode off rapidly. Half an hour later Mr.
Glenville followed him.
(To be Continued.)
Hailvoacl
jfemail (gossip.
Nina, a daughter of General Kearney, was
crowned Queen of Love and Beauty at the Ork
ney springs tournament.
Tbe reason why young ladies make good arch
ers, is, they are used to beaux.
‘You have played the deuce with my heart,
said a gentleman to a lady partner during a
game of whist. ‘Well,’ replied the lady with an
arch smile, ‘it was simply because you played
the knave.’
What a feeling of relief comes over a woman
as she enters a church and discovers that her
neighbor's wife has the same feather on her hat
that was worn lost summer.
During the deluge Mr. Noah was in the habit
of calling his wife an ark angel.
•Oh, look, Louis! Fred jnst sent me this sweet
little puppy. Wasn’t he kind?’ ‘Yes, dear, but
it's just like him-'
The game played by the female base-ball club
in Cincinnati was marked by a fight. The left-
fielder went to her position with a fan in her
hand. The captain ordered her to pnt the fan
down, but she persistently used it. The cap
tain seized it, tore it into shreds and was at
once grappled by the angry left-fielder. The
encounter was short but vigorous.
Mad. Gelyot lately brought an action against
Professor Bert, of the Sorhonnor, for damages
caused by loss of lodgers in consequence of the
bowls of dogs in process of vivisection. She
lost her suit, bat will appeal.
The coming Queen of Spain, aged twenty, al
though an Abbess of the noble Order of Prague,
with twelve Cannonncsses under her, wearing
on state occasions a miter-shaped cap. is devot
ed to dancing, and will probably infuse some
Welcome gaiety into Aranjuez. The woman who
will give gayety to the Escurial has yet to be
born.
A New Bedford woman was told by a Spirit
ualist medium that her mothei’s body had been
stolen, bnt warned her, ‘for reasons best known
to tbe spirits,’ to accept the news without in
vestigation. Bnt she had the grave examined,
and found that there had been no robbery.
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iiiMirsjfUl
Virginia L. Minor, of St. Louis, refuses to
pay taxes on her property because she caunot
vote. She quotes the constitutional provision
that no person shall be deprived of property
without due process of law. and says; ‘That
surely cannot be ‘due process of law’ wherein
one of tbe parties only is law-maker, judge, jury
and executioner, aud the other stands silenced,
denied the power either of assent or dissent.'
Mrs.-Langtry, the professional ‘beautifulest
woman’ of England, is not, it appears, a silent
beauty. An American who met her at a ball,
writes of her that she was ‘greatly interested in
this country, very simple and gentle ir, her
manner, aDd without affectation.’ Arnr’ng hef ra
pacities is that of doing her own millinery. The
strange, original, and becoming hat which she
wore at the French/eiejwas made by herseif. It
was constructed lrom her grandmother’s finest,
softest old Leghorn straw. The brim was flat
and broad, and faced with dark violet satin,
with a wreath of flowers across the top; it just
touched upon the back of her head. The crown
was the original crown cat down to an inch.
The principal stroke of originality was a care
less looking dent on one side, where it was
joined to the brim. A tuft of corn-flowers was
carelessly thrown, as it were, on the other side.
It suited her style, and both were picturesque.
A housemaid wilting to a friend respecting
the fashions, says: ‘As for lo necs, the loer it is
the mo fashunable yu air drest. Mrs. Goodra
gave me a blew dress ov hern, I cut its nec orf,
and Susin Simmons cut orf hern, an we attrax a
great deal of attenshun to our necs, prominadin
in the stretes lyke other ladies, an holding up
onr cloze. Nobody isn’t nothing now which
doesn't hold up her cloze, and the hier yon
holes them the more yu air notised.
Mrs. George W. Taylor, a wealthy widow of
Centrevilie, Queen Aunt’s county, Md., has cre
ated a sensation by disappearing from her home
after disappointing a large audience who bad
assembled in tbe Methodist Protestant chnrch
to witness her marriage to Mr. J. W. Merchant.
Tbe clergyman was all ready, and bad been
waiting tor some time, when the groom-elect
entered, and after a harried consultation it was
announced that the marriage wonld not take
plaoe.
Madam Angelo, ‘the famous Hercules,’ and
D'Atalie, ‘the man with the iron jaw,'used to
perform with circuses in this oityand elsewh-re.
The woman employed a pretty little boy in ber
feats of strength: bnt he was, after awhile, taken
away from ber by the anti-cruelty society, and
pnt into a Philadelphia asylum. He ran away
from that institution, lived a year with a New
Jersey farmer, and has at last wandered to Bos
ton. There it was learned that his name was
Henry Gilbert Grattan, and that he was stolen
in England from his parents, to whom be will
now be restored.
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Neuralgine.—This unfailing remedy for Neu
ralgia and Headache has won great favor among
the afflicted. Neuralgine is not claimed to be good
for anything but Neuralgia and Headache. For
these troubles it is a specific.
Hutchinson & Bros., Proprietors,
14 Whitehall Ht., Atlanta, Ga.
Jlcur Syducttiscmcuts.
REA DING, ELOCUTION,
AND DRAMATIC ART.
Miss Louise Clarke, formerly of Selma, Ala., will
i take a class in Reading, Elocution aud Dramatic
! Art. Voice culture a specialty; stammering and
! all impediments of speech permanently cured.
[ Round shoulders, badly developed chests, and weak
’ lungs, very much Improved, and in all cases where
! the pupils will practice the exercises as instructed,
j an entire cure is guaranteed.
For terms and particulars apply to the Johnson
House, 72, Marietta Street, Atlanta, Georgia.
References—B. M. Wooley, W. M. & K. .1. Low
ery
is
References—b. at. wooiey, >v. jh. .y n. .1. um-
>ry, U. F. Maddox. Dr. W. G. Owen, Chas. B. Wal-
aee, Howard & Wood, W. M. Scott, W. W. Clayton,
1. H. Porter, O. M. Frazier, W. D. Luekey. lm
ATLANTA MEDICAL COLLEGE,
The Twenty-Second Annual Course of Lecture
will commence October 1.5th, 1879, and close March
4th, 1880.
Faculty—J. G. Westmoreland, W. F. Westmore
land, W. A. Love, V. H. Taliaferro, Jno. Thad. John
son, A. W.Calhoun, J. II. Logau. J. T. Banks; Dem
onstrator, J. VV. Willliams.
This well-established College aflords opportunity
for tliorougu medical education.
It is in affiliation with, aud its tickets aud diplo
mas recognized by, every leading medical college
in tbe country.
Requirements for graduation as heretofore.
Send for Announcement, giving full information.
JNO. THAD. JOHNSON, At. D., Dean,
lm. Atlanta, oa
ANDREW FEMALE COLLEGE.
UUTHBERT. GA.
The Twenty-Seventh Scholastic >ear will open on Sep
te mbi-r 18th, proximo.
1. Faculty experienced and efficient.
2. Course of Study advanced and thorough.
3. Building commodious and elegant.
4. Grounds the handsomest in the South.
5. Location unsurpassed for salubrity.
6. Society of Cuthbert refined and cultivated.
(ilAlUlFN :
Board and Tuition in all English and Classic*! Studies
for the year, everything included $188.00. Music (vocal
and instrument#]), French, German, Oil Pa nting Pencil
Sketching, Fancy Needlework, and other extras, very
moderate.
Tuition free to all ministers of the Gospel in the regu
lar work.
B®*College endorsed by the million.“StA
.Vo Special reftrenees needed.
For Catalogue and additional information address
rev a l. Hamilton, d. d..
President, Cuthbert, Ga.
N. B.—Tbe celebrated Swedish system of Physical
Training for girls a specialty. Parents would do well to
investigate.
Note-Cuthbert is situated on tbe Southwestern Rail-
roa-i, the main line connecting Savsannah and Ms eon and
Montgomery, one hundred and eighteen miles south of
Macon, and" twenty miles from Eufaula, hence accessible
from all points.
ATLANTA FEMALE INSTITUTE
NEMNIOX OF 1779 AND l*KO.
ipHK FALL TERM of this School will commence on
A Mouiia\, September 1st. with a full corps of compe
tent teacher-. Music and French receive especial atten
tion. The Music Department is under the direction of
Prof. John Koerbi-r. graduate of the Royal Conservatory
of Mu-ic. Munich, Bavaria, aim tormei iy of the Augusta
Female Institute, StauBton. V*
For ciicular, apply to the Principal.
Mrs. J. W. BALLARD
No. 17a Peachtree, St., Atlanta, Ga.
A WEEK. $12
* * Costly Outfit free,
land. Maine.
1 day at home easily made.
Address True & Co., Port-
208 to 208
FOR
I N V E N TOItS
HOW lO OBTAIN THEM. Send for circular
PATENTS
HOW TO OBTAIN
charge unless patent is obtained. No charge for making
a pieliuiinary ex-mination to determine if an invention
is patentable. Theiearo manv inver tors who have fih-d
applications i the U. S. Ps.teu- Oilice mid through the
iguoratiee of the inventor or h; 3 agent many valuab’e pat
ents h..ve been rejected. In these cases a re-examina
tion. made free of charge unless sm eessful in obtaining a
patent. Write and have your case re-opened "
Refer to inventor in all the Kites, the present com
missioner of patents aud to the officials in rr
Patent office- Address
tl. JL Ennis
711 G street, Washington, D. C., Solicitor of Patents.
199 ly
Box 44
Just- IMioSd ami Head Alien!ivefv,
• NY USE 1IPT HAsTcAM KR IN ANY OF ITS
s* forms, Consumption, Scrofula. Tetter Kina’ 1 w v ii
mid in tact 11 impurities of the blood, here i s v, - ,
to oe cured. Mi lather was fortunate , ■ , , 1
this wonderful receipt lrom one , ii 1( , mi ,~ , . ‘
physicians of Ireland, s: i.as cured • v. , ■ „ ! 1eilt
on 111 iace and leli no sc ,r ; a (iiri - .. , - . 1 1
doctors ni d, Imd scrofula ; • d o' e with iv' ' , U ' 10 * '
was reported lwd comnmi,’ .. “ W !l ’ !Wh.;i*,allU
intercity. 1 tsk is a ;r
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1 lii- medicine is taken
M. M. WILKES,
nuge, Ga., P. O. Box 110.