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Female College,
Cuthbert, Ga.
REV. A. L. HAMILTON would respect
fully announce to his friends generally,
that this old and popular Institution will be
re opened under his immediate supervision on
MONDAY, October 1, 1877.
His former patrons and friends will please
Sake due notice, and govern themselves ae
cordiugly. The spacious and comfortable
Boarding House and College Buildings are
now being repaired and re furnished In ele
gant style, and two weeks in advance of the
opening will be ready for business.
The Corps of Officers and Teachers
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and will represent the principal branches of
the Christian Churches. The College
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age. It embraces equally the Physical,Men
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The Terms
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the necessities of the times, as will uppear
from the following exhibit:
Ter Session of Nine Months.
REGULAR COURSE.
Preparatory Department, $3'J 00
Academic “ 45 00,
Collegiate “ 60 00
BOARD—Furnished room, washing,
lights and fuel, 162 <lO
“ Washing not included, 144 00.
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Drawing and Sketching, Painting, in Oil,
Pastel Grecian and Antique Painting. Orna
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its varieties, Physical Gymnastics, &c.
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CUTHBERT, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1877.
The Sick Artist.
We kept a bearding house, Mitty
and I. To be sure, people said it
was a shame that Mr. Fountain’s
daughters should stoop so low m
life as to deal out their hospitality
for money. But Alitty said—and
Mitty had a great deal of common
sense—“that we must live, and all
the genteel company that came to
visit us wouldn’t put so much as a
penny in our pockets toward coal
and taxes.
Mrs. Hall, who lived next door to
us, said she knew we wouldn’t
make it pay. No one one but an
experienced housekeeper could
make it pay.
Miss Cynthia Caldwell thought
that it would be much nicer and
more select to do fine sewing or get
a place as governess, or something
of that sort, which wouldn’t have
been quite so public.
Old Fernleaf said bis daughters
shouldn’t visit us, and Dr. Millet
looked the other way when he
brought his fashionable new bride
to town and met Mitty face to face
in the street.
“Dear me,” said Mitty, laughing,
“ what a queer world this is.”
But I was angry enough to cry.
“ No matter, Mitty,” said I, “ we
will teach them that we can bo
quite independent without them.”
Well, as time went on, w T e had
several boarders. Old Mr. Petti
grew and his neice Clarissa, the
two Mr. llenleys ; and the minis-,
ter’s neice, who gave lessons in wax
flowers and water color paintings.
Our rooms were full, all except the
little one over the wing.
“ Katie,” said Mitty, triumphant
ly, “we ate making money. I put
eleven pounds in the savings bank
to-day, over and above all expenses
for the past month.”
“ I dare say Mrs. Hal! saves more
than that,” said I.
“ I think very likely,” said Mit
ty. ‘ Only, you see, Airs. Hall does
everything ou a grander scale than
we can pretend to keep up with.”
“ We do our own marketing,
wash and iron our own table linen,
and sift the ashes on the sly, while
Miss Henrietta Ilall is practicing
the ‘Maiden’s Prayer’ on the piano.”
“ But then,” observed I, “ we are
not such flue ladies as Mrs. and
Miss Henrietta. We are only 7 two
poor little old maids, who are
obliged to earn our own living.”
“ Kate, you are not an old maid,”
indignantly cried out Mitty.
“ And you arc as fresh as a rose
bud beside Henrietta Ilall,” said I
patting her cheek. “Do you know,
dear, I think haid work agrees with
both of us.”
So things went on, until one sum
mer evening we were out on our
steps, when there was quite a com
motion in the carpeted hall ol our
neighbor, Mrs. Hall.
“Of course he must go,” Mrs.
Hall’s voice shrilly announced, “it
was a great imposition on me that
he should ever come here. I sup
posed he was an author, or a law
yer, or some such genteel occupa
tion, and now, you see, he’s nothing
but a painter. A common painter.”
“An artist, ma’am,” suggested
Mr. Birdseye.
“ And where’s the difference I
should like to know ?” sputtered
Mrs. Hail. “ Except that one has
at least daily wages to depend on
and liie other hasn’t. And now here
he is down with scarlet fever or
small pox, or some such hidieous
ailment, and—”
“ Only a malignant form of inter
mittent fever, ma’am,” again put
in Mr. Birdseye.
“ No matter what name they call
it by,” said the lady, waxing hotter
and hotter iu the ardor of discus
6ion. “ I don’t keep a hospital here,
and if I did, I wouldn’t harbor any
such low trash. So the sooner he
packs off the better I shall be
pleased.”
“ But where is he to go ?” asked
young Deiderman. He has no
friends that anybody knows of,
and—”
“ All the more reason that I
should get him off my hands as
quickly as possible,” said Mrs. Hall.
“ The idea of my becoming respon
sible for his funeral expenses, or—”
“Hush, Waller will hear you, in
terrupted Mr. Birdseye. His win
dow is open.”
“I don’t care if ho does hear me,”
snapped Mrs. Hall. “ lie ought to
have been ashamed of himself,
coming here under euoh circum
stances as this. But he goes, sick
or well, before sunset this very
night. There are public hospitals
enough, 1 suppose.”
“ i’leuty of ’em,” said Mr. Birds-
eye, dryly, and while be is waiting
for all the forms to be gone through
with, in order to gain admission, he
will most likely die in the street.”
“ Well, let him die,” said Mrs-
Hall. “That’s no busiuess of mine,
that I know of.”
Mitty looked at me. I looked at
Mitty. Our eyes sparkled mute tel
egraphic messages to each other —
and I spoke out of the choking in
dignant fullness of my heart:
“ Mrs. Hall,” cried I, “ Mr. Wal- 1
ler may come here, whoever ho is.
A sick man, friendless and alone,
should be able to claim brotherhood
with all the world. Mitty and I
will take care of him until be is
able to take care of himself.”
Mrs. Hall took us at our word
with extreme promptitude, and be
fore nightfall poor Bernald Waller
was snugly installed in the little
vacant room over the wing—a pale,
ghostly-looking creature, babbling
idly of people and places on the
Continent that we never had heard
of.
Dr. Millet shook his head very
gravely. “Heis a very sick man,”
was his verdict.
“ Kate,” whispered Mitty, when
the doctor was gone and the sick
man was all still and settled for the
night, “suppose suppose he
should die?”
“In that <*ise, Mitty, 1 don’t
think we should ever repent that
we had done our duty.”
“ I am sure we should not,” said
Mitty softly.
But Bernald Waller did not die.
11c got well —and of course, accord
ing to all the rules of true love, he
lost his heart to Mitty’s blue ey 7 es
and pretty face.
“ You’ll never allow your sister
to marry a painter !” said Mrs. Hall,
spitefully.
“ I’m sure I’ve no objections to
her becoming an artist’s wife as
long as they love each other,” said
I, laughing.
“ Well, really, said Mrs. Hall, “if
it were my Henrietta—”
“ But it isn’t your Henrietta,” I
interrupted, a little sharply ; it is
our Mitty, and she has chosen for
herself and I, for one, am entirely
satisfied.”
Well, they were married in a
quiet sort of way.
I am reaching the end of my sto
ry now—the romance that irradia
ted our lives, when the cake was
cut, and Mitty and Bernald had
gone on their tour with humble lit
tle me along ia the capacity of
bridesmaid.
We had traveled all day, and to
wards night, on a glorious October
day, we drove into the gate of a
spacious old place, where were oc
tagonal towers and ivy-mantled
walls.
“O, what a fine old place !” said
Mitty. *‘ Ah, look at that lovely,
glittering fountain, and the beds of
scarlet geranium. Bernald, are you
going to sketch this place ?”
“ I may, in time,” said my sis
ter’s husband, composedly, as he
sprang out and opened the carriage
door.
“ Are we going to get out here,
Bernald? Ho you know the peo
ple ?”
But before he could answer, the
great carved oak doors flew open,
revealing a stately entrance hall,
with a fire burning at the farther
end, and glowing softly, pictures
gleamed down from the walls, chairs
upholstered in violet velvet stood
around. To Mitty and me it was a
glimpse of fairy land.
“ Who lives here, Bernald ?” still
persisted Mitty, as she advanced
timidly up the broad marble steps.
“ I do. Welcome home, sweet
wife; welcome home, sister.”
I stared blankly at his bright face.
“ But Bernald we thought you
were poor - ”
“ Did I ever say I was ? When I
went to B. to sketch, I certainly
saw no occasion to proclaim my pri
vate affairs to the good people
there. I engaged a room at Mrs.
Hall’s because it was convenient.—
When I was ill and delirious I
could not tell the truth. When I
knew how good and true you two
girls were, I resolved to wait and
give you a surprise. I was only an
amateur artist. lam rich, hut am
Bernald Waller stili.”
Now wasn’t that a romance ? Aod
you see it really happened to Mitty
and me, and we are fin© ladies now,
and drive about with our open ha--
rouche and cream colored horses.
And you can guess how discomfft
ted Mrs. Hall and Henrietta were
when they first heard the real posi
tion of the sick artist.
“They All l>o II !”
There are few books that can
boast of as much immorality with-
; n a space of four or five hundred
pages as is contained in this little
phrase, which has been placarded
on the bill-boards, and called into
the ears of the public for the past
two or three weeks. It is the one
sentence which takes the courage
completely 7 out of y 7 outh, searing
its conscience as with a red-hot
iron, and permitting despair to car
ry it off bodily into the depths of
crime.
“Oh, they all do it: why should
not you ?” that is the suggestion.—
“That man there lies and cheats,
and will commit any crime which
the law does not make dangerous.
So it is with all of them. There is
no use in your trying to be differ
ent from other people.” That is the
way the temptation comes to the
young man thrown on the world
with little knowledge of its ways,
and perhaps shielded only by the
loose training of an overfond moth
er. “People are grossly immoral.
Even temporance advocates get
drunk in private; church deacons
swindle savings banks ; all you see
of morality is but a surface show.—
Beneath, there is concealed wicked
ness. You will find you must fol
low the multitude,” and the youth
with the pleasure of the world held
up before bis glowing imagination
and full of bodily health, plunges
forthwith, into what he believes to
be “the world.”
If the devil had concentrated nil
his cunning during the centuries
which have elapsed since his ejec
tion from Paradise, he could not
have produced a more powerful ar
gument with which to conquer the
soul of man than this, “They all do
it,”
“But young man, listen. That
sentence is a lie. As base and foul
a lie as ever 4vas conceived in the
mind of man or devil. They don't
“all do it.” There are thousands
upon thousands of good, pure men
and women in this world, bad as it
may seem, who are leading upright
lives. They believe in a Deity, and
in the commands of virtue, and are
going along with the happiest re
sults to themselves and their neigh
bors. There are men who think
that they are pnt into this world
not to gratify their own base appe
tites, hut to he true and noble and
high-minded men. There are men
who disdain to tell a lie. There are
men who would disdain to he acces
sory to a woman’s fall. There are
men who would disdain to take an
advantage in trade, or to do any
other selfish or mean action. There
are men, who try to be just, always
and kindly both in words and feel
ings to all. There are men who
lead humble, unpretentious lives,
and who without making it known
to the world are daily doing a vast
amount ol good among their fellow
men.
And strange to say, these men
lead very happy lives and as a rule
very successful lives. While the
unprincipled man may enjoy tempo
rary success, sooner or later he will
suffer for his lack of honesty.—
There are a thousand ways in which
Virtue revenges herself upon him.--
But in one way or another he gets
his deserts. You have youth,
blessed with health of mind and
body. There are plenty of criminals
around you, it is true. But they
are to he pitied, not imitated.—
Never believe that what some do,
all do, and make in your own per
son a standing example of the falsi
ty of “They all do it.”— N. Y. Re*
public.
The Turks. —The Turks pray for
the dead, and invoke their saints to
intercede for them. Every Mus
sulman has his own guardian angel.
They believe that the soul returns
to the body when it is entombed.
If the man has led an evil life the
angels of the grave—Monfcsi and
Guanequir—torment him till the
day of judgment. If his life has
been virtuous, his abode in the
graveisoneof pleasure and con
tentment. The Turks recognize the
ten commandments of Moses, and
enforce them with five others added
by Mahomet. These are : First,
to believe in and worship only one
God; second, to fast during the
Rahamadan ; third, to pray at cer
tain hours ; fourth, to give the for
tieth part ol their income to the
poor ; fifth, to- go on a pilgrimage
to Mecca once in their life. In the
observance of the first they are very
scrupulous and reverential; they
never undertake anything of impor
tance without iuvoking the blessing
of Heaven.
Woman’s Love of Appro
bation.
Woni3n was not made to live
alone any more than a man. All
the actions of woman, whether of
useful industry or of ornament, are
subject to the approval and pleas
ure of the Sterner sex to which their
own are subordinate and on which
they 7 are founded. To descend to
the humblest form of his feelings;
every one knows that a woman has
arrayed herself iu a pretty dress and
new ribbons, or any finery, put on
for the first time, although the ad
miration of her female friends may
give a degree of pleasure, it is as
nothing compared to the light that
comes into the eye of one whose
smallest compliment is more valued
than that of a thousand women ;
and this feeling modified by the cir
cumstances of individuals, run
through the whole sex and is a part
of the nature of their being, im
planted in the heart by the Divine
Artificer to produce the moat deli
cious fruits that grow la the garden
of human life.
Women by themselves require
little to be comfortable ; they can
live without ostentation, bustle or
form ; neither in heauty of raiment
nor in delicacy of food can they find
happiness, so long as they have it
to themselves alone. They require
to please the other sex before they
can please themselves. A knot of
old maids may, to be sure, be bit
terly merry over their tea and gos
sip, and outwardly despise all men
with profound disdain ; but there
is something very unnatural in that
enjoyment, nor does anybody sup
pose that the respectable spinster’s
heart bounds with such a sweet hu
man delight at the compliment of
her female friends on her neat room,
her pet spaniel and strong ten, as
the heart of a good wife when her
husband tells her how nicely she has
cooked his supper, and how street
and pretty she looks in that sweet
dress. It matters not whether her
husband be the master of a million,
or a salaried clerk ; whether his
days be spent in the field, the drud
gery of a profession or the labor of
a farm ; the pleasure of a wife and
the object of all her work is to have
a table comfortably spread ou his
return, and to see that he enjoys
the delicacies or the necessaries
which she has provided for him ;
whether the provisions be merely
plain fare and a snow white table
cloth, or the rich soup, the superb
joint and the exquisite dessert, both
women in their different positions
look not to, think not of, what they
are preparing, only as lar as it will
go towards pleasing the lord and
master of their homes’and hearts.
Business Precepts. —We find it
stated that the founder of the great
banking house of Rothschilds made
the following rules the guide of a
business career culminating in
magnificent success: 1. Combina
tion of three profits. “I made the
manufacturer my customer, and the
one I bought of my customer ; that
is I supplied the manufacturer with
raw materials and dyes* on each of
which I made a profit, and took his
manufactured goods, which I sold
at a profit, and thus oombined
three profits.” 2. Make a bargain
at once. Be an off-handed man.
3. Never hare anything to do with
an unlucky man or place. H I have
peen many clear men who hare not
shoes to their feet. I never aot with
them. Their adviee teems very
well, but fat* is against them; they
can uotget on tberuaelres, bow eau
they do good to me?” 4. Bo cau
tious and bold. “It requires a
great deal of boldness and a great
deal of caution to make a great for
tune, and when you have got it
requires ten times as much to keep
it.”
Diversity in Farming. —Diver
sity in farming has so many advaD
tages that it should find favor in
the practice of every sensible agri
culturist. It puts on the home ta
ble a great variety, and prevents
the necessity of many purchases;
distributes both the labor and cash
receipts pretty evenly throughout
the year ; prevents over stocking in
any single department and so tends
to keep up prices; is favorable to
advantages of the rotation of crops,
the advantages of which all appreci
ate ; and finally, is an insurance
against heavy loss by distributing
among many products the risk of
failure of One.
Overton county, Tenn., has not a
retail liquor store in its limits, Dor
a felony case on the circuit court
dockets.
To Young Hen.
It has been said, and tvtily-, that
a man is a bundle of habits. It
may be said, with equal truth, that
bad habits are our worst enemies.
Hoty they steal on us almost uncon
sciously and securely fasten them
selves to us ! What tremendous ef
forts it takes to rid ourselves of
them when once we have yielded.
In one of the great churches of Na
ples I looked upon a form in marble
that I shall never forget. The stat
ute is called “Vice Convinced,” and
represents, in life size, a man strug
gling with tremendous effort to
break loose from the network of
evil habits that have completely en
veloped him. The net is represented
by a cordon of open work marble
about him. A master’s hand has
wroaght eat thrs wonderful piece of
statuary. A strong man in th®
prime of manhood finds himself
completely encircled, bound hand
and foot, by bad habits. The net
work ih erthp!et. Thero terms to
be uo possible escape from its mesh,
es. But under the inspiration of a
new purpose that seems to have
come *.o the man from the face of a
beautiful angel, with a mighty effort
he has ftiVccceded in breaking asun
der the coils that are about him.—
Every muscle is at a tension, ever} 7
part of the entire form seems con
vulsed in the fearful struggle.—
But he has been successful, and a
radiant smile of joy and relief lights
up liis face. Never before had 1 so
fully realised the power and tyran
ny of a habit, and bow utterly im
possible it is to break loose from a
bad one. Every day I meet on these
streets men, who, though rich,
would give all their treasures in a
moment could they rise above the
power of an evil habit. Only the
other day a citizen fled from our
city to a distant part of the country
hoping, as he said, to get rid of the
temptations that were about him.
The formation of correct habits in
every life is comparatively easy.—
In a word : if you Would become
model characters you must discard
all that is Ungracious or ungrateful
in word or deed, or manner. In or
der t<\do this you must study con
stanily yourselves, and if possible,
be under the influence and shadow
of good men and women. Read,
in hours of recreation, good books.
Shun, as you would a deadly
poison, the impure literature that is
more or less abroad. Puss by on
the other side, always, when invited
to take a social glass with a friend.
Bear about with you the conscious
dignity of manhood, not in a vain
but in a modest, yet positive way.—
Never sacrifice principle for place.
Embark in no business scheme that
has not a fair promise of moderate
returns. IN ever spend that which
you have not got. Don’t discount
the future, it may not be yours.
Tom Paine’s Death Scene. —As
there is some discussion as to the
manner in which this arch infidel
“ shuffled off this mortal coil,” we
print the following from the New
York World :
Sia: During a stay of a few
months in Southeast Missouri, I be
came acquainted with a Mr. Spauld
ing, a nephew of the lute Archbish
op Spaulding, of Baltimore. He
said he had often heard his uncle
speak of the death of Paine. Ac
cording to him the Archbishop’s
uncle or father bad been called up
on to visit Paine on his deathbed
Some of Paine s friends asked him
if he would not like to see a minis
ter. Paine said that he had no ob
jection. A Catholic priest —Spauld-
ing’s ancestor —and a Protestant
minister were called in. They ask
ed Paine if he had any objection to
religious consolation in his dying
hours. He politely told them : “Not
any.” And ia conversing with
them he drew them into an argu
ment with each other. While they
were arguing as to how he should
be ministered on, Paine turned his
face to the wall and calmly died. —
Mr. Spaulding said his uncle rela
ted this as a lesson in charity. He
was no friend of Paine, but an ar
dent Roman Catholic. St. Paul.
Wheeling, W. Va., Oct. 23.
Marriageable New York young
ladies are accused by their home
journals of not knowing whether
icicles should be cooked with their
jackets on or oft'. The icicle should
be permitted to shed its own jack
et—say in June. Then cook with
mint, flavor with brandy, and gar
nish with the vemeil strawberry
and a golden straw.
“Humble as I am,” said a belly
ing spotter to a mass meeting of
the unterrified, “I still remember
that I am a fraction of this magnifi
cent country.” “You arc indeed,”
said a bystander, “and a vulgar one
at that.
NO. 47
Don’t t
Don’t forget, my girl, that
influence as a woman iB great Fob
good or evil. Upon woiitad de’*
volves the duty of training Up the
futuro men of the nation. It is the
mother who moulds the character}
under heb gentlo influence the V’otiUn.
ful mind receives its first imptes
sion. In society she is queen, and
all men are her eubjects. thetas
fore ehe must be careful ih hfet Jte*
portment. By a word, or eveh
look, she can encourage or effectual*
ly chock all attempts at familiarity.
If women, and especially girls*
would do this—if they Would sho*r
their displeasure at what they krtoW
is wrong—it would not be repeated
in their presence. Though the ag*
gressor might feign anger, in hi§
heart he would Teel more true re*
spect for one who had thus rtepboir
ad him than if she passed his fault
unrebuked. And again, don’t makft
yourself cheap—within the reach Of
*ll. Few young men want anything
to do with a cheap young ladyv
For a wife none but a fool or rasoal
will approach such a woman-***-
Cheap jewelry nobody will tottch if
lie can got any better. ChCUp girl*
are nothing but the refuse} and tho
young men know it* and they Will
look in every other direction for a
life long friend and companion be*
fore they will give a glance at thO
pinchback stuff that tinkles at every
turn for fascinating the eyes of any
that will look! You think it is
quite the “correct thing” to talk
loudly and coarsely, be boisteVoUS
and hovdenish iu all public places 1
to make yourself so bold, and for*
ward, and commonplace every
where, that people wonder if you
ever had a mother, or a home, ob
anything to do! So be it. Yoti
will probaly be taken for what yoit
are worth, and one of these years*
if you do not make worse than A
shipwreck of yourself, you will
gin to wonder where the dhabms Ab 6
that once you thoUght youbselt
possessed of, and what eVil spirit
could have bo befooled you.
A Dog, a Man and a Mule.—A
North Carolina wagoner sold his
dog to a LauTenS county man the
other day for half a barrel sorg
hum syrup. The dog, however, re
fused to be sold and took refuge Un
der the wagon. The Laurens couctjr
man crawled after him with a piece
of meat in one hand and a hope iti
the other. Although therb webb
several spectators of the scene that
ensued it ic. difficult to get at tbff
facts- All agree tl* Uess was
scuffle under the wagon, accompa*
nied by j'elps and yells; but no one
is willing to affirm that ihQ man
had the dog or the dog bad the rtiari;
Finally, the dog, it would seem,
brushed against the hind legs of the*
off mule and then all was still. It
is not certain what killed the dog.
One of the spectators said he
thought he heard the trace chaiti
rattle, but when he went around to
examine the mule she was asleep.—
The man had lost his bat, bin coat
and the greater part of his trowsers,
and subsequent examination proved
that the dog died with one ear and
a handful of hair in his mouth.—
Atlanta Constitution.
Bk Thorough.— lf you want to
succeed in life, be thorough in your
work, whatever it is. It is some
times convenient to be a Jack-qf all
trades, but it is always profitable
to be master of odc. A workman
who thoroughly understands bis
busiuess is seldom iu danger of com
ing to want. While the maaa of the
inefficient suffer, the fe# who do
the best work, whether men or vro4
men, are always sought fort
Never whip a balky horse, lot
the more he is whipped the crazier
he will become. Let everything be
done gently, for boisterous words
.only confuse him and make hint
worse. Treat him in the mild man
ner that you would a crazy ma
and yon will succeed/
Several Democrats in the House'
desire to insert a clause in the army
appropriation bill forbidding the
use of troops in the South. They
give as a reason that while they
. ticipate nothing of the kmd from
President Hayes, they are not so
certaiu what might happen in castf
Hayes should die and Vice-Prosi
dent Wheeler should succeed him.
An Illinois machinist has invested
and seeks to patent an apparatus
for inflicting capital punishment.
It is a gallows, with powerful springs,
instead of weights, and is calculated
to break the neck of the hanged man
with certainty and celerity.