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Cftronuii ani> jointing!.
WEDNESDAY MARCH 8, 1876.
NOW.
Arise, for the dsv is passing
While you Ue dreaming ou;
lour brother* ere caged in armor
And forth to the fight are gone;
Your place in the ranks awaits you—
Each man has a part to play;
The past and the f mure are nothing
In the face of the stern to-day.
• i
Arise from the dream of the future.
Of g lining a hard-fought field.
Of storming the airy fortress,
Of bidding the giant to yield;
Your future has deeds of glory;
Of nouor (God grant it may);
Bft yoar arm will never be stronger
Or needed as now to-day.
Arise! if the past detain you.
The sunshine and storms forget;
No chains so unworthy to hold you
As those of a vain regret.
Sad or bright she is lifeless ever; ,
Cast her phantom arms away,
Nor look back, save to learn the lesson
Of a nobler strife to-day.
Arise ! for the hour is passing;
The sound that you dimly hear
Is your enemy marching to battle—
Kiss ! Biee! for the foe is near;
Stay not to brighten your weapons,
Or the hour will strike at last,
And from dreams of coining battle
You will waken and find it past.
VERMES.
You may talk of a “rly” flirtation,
By the light of a chandelier,
With music to play in the pauses,
And nobody over near,
Or boast of your seat on the sofa
With a glass of Especeal wine,
And woman —too blind to discover
The small white band in mine.
But give me the green sward and river,
The soul shine of sunlit eyes;
A breeze, and the aspen leafs quiver,
A sunset and Georgian skies.
Orgive me the moon for an astral,
The stars for a chandelier;
A maiden to whisper a pastoral,
Nor dream that any are near.
Your vision with wine being doubled,
You take twice the liberties due,
And early next morning ate troubled
• With parsons or pistols for two!
Unfit for this world or another,
You are forced to be married or killed.
The lady you ohooee or her brother,
And a grave, or a paragraph bill.
True love is at home among flowers,
And if he would dine at hi a ease,
A capron’s as good in his bowers
As in a room heated ninety degrees.
Ousigbs, intermingled, he hovers,
' He sports it, as light as he flies.
His arrows—the glances of lovers—
Are shot to the heart from the eyes.
ON THE THRESHOLD.
Standing on the threshold, with her wakening
heart and mind, .
Standing on the threshold, with her childhood
left behind;
The woman softness blending with the look of
sweet surprise
For life and all its marvels that lights the clear
blue eyes.
Standing on the threshold, with light foot and
fearless hand,
As the young knight by his armor in a minster
nave might stand;
The fresh red lip Just touching youth s ruddy
rapturous wine,
The eager heart all brave, pure hope, oh happy
child of mine!
I could guard the helpless infant that nestled
in my arms;
I oould save the prattler's golden head from
petty baby harms;
It oould brighten childhood’s gladness, and
comfort childhood’s tsars,
But I cannot cioes the threshold with the step
of riper years.
For hopes, and joys, and maiden dreams are
waiting for her there,
Where girlhood's fancies bud and bloom in
A ril’s golden air;
And pensions'e love, and passionate grief and
passionate gladness lie
Ahlong the crimson flowers that spring as
youth goes fluttering by.
Ah 1 on those rosy pathways is no place for
sobered feet,
M> tired eyes have naught of strength suoh
fervid glow to meet;
My voioe is all too sad to sound amid the joy-1
ous notes
Of the music that through charmed air for
opening girlhood floats.
Yet thorns amid the leaves may lurk, and
thunder-clouds may lower,
And death, or change, or falsehood blight the
Jasmine in thy bower ;
May God avert the woe, my ohild ; but oh !
should tempest come,
Remember, by the threshold waits the patient
love of home!
LOVE UNEXPRESSED.
The sweetest notes among the human heart
strings
Are dull with rust ;
The sweetest chords adjusted by the angels
Are clogged with dust;
We pipe and pipe again our dreamy music
Upon the self-same strains,
While sounds of crime and fear and desolation
Oome back in said refrains.
On through the world we go, an army marohing
Wilh listening ears,
Each longing, sighing for the heavenly music
He never hears ;
Each longing, sighing,for a word of comfort—
A word of tender praise—
A word of love to cheer the endless Journey
Of earth's hard, busy days.
They love us, and we know it; this suffices
For reason's share ;
Why should they pause to give the love ex
pression
With gentle care ?
Why should they pause ? But still our hearts
are aching
With the gnawing pain
Of hungry love that longs to bear the music,
And longs and long in vain.
We love them, and they know it; if we falter,
With fingerg numb,
Among the unused strings of love’s expression,
The notes are dumb.
We Bhrink within ourselves in voioeless sorrow,
Leaving the words unsaid,
And, side by side with those we love the dear
est,
In silenoe on we tread.
Thus on we tread, and thus each heart in si
lenoe
Its fate fulfills—
Waiting and hoping for the heavenly music
Beyond the distant hills.
The only difference of the love in Heaven
From love on earth below
Is, here we love and know not how to tell it,
And there we all shall know.
THE NEW MAGDALEN.
“Neither do I condemn thee. Go sin no more."
We met and smiled, and met again,
Smile greeted smile upon the street;
His form and face it seemed to me
To be my fault and fate to meet.
He spake, and took my hand in his.
And pressed it; why ? I oould not tell;
I loved him ; I believed him true ;
I listened, and—l fell.
He spurns me now, and I have lost
All that was dear to me in life.
They call me “woman of the town"—
I who should be his faithful wife.
He ahnns me. bates me; those 1 knew
Before I drank the cup of grief
Abhor me now, but smile upon
The coward and the thief.
He lives, and moves in circles where
They seem with pride to call his name;
But all the wealth the world oemmands
Can never free his soul from shame.
He said “he loved me,” and it was
The happiest moment of my life ;
Bat now I'm scorned, because I’m called
His woman—not his wife.
He wronged me; and thie little child
I fold so lovingly to my breast,
Msv never live to know the shame;
He knows 'tis his—God kn ws the rest.
Though he should live an hundred years,
And roam about—l do not care,
On land or sea, 'wake or sleep—
Guilt follows everywhere.
O, woman ! woman! why thus hate
>ne of your i-ex ? Why not implore
The God of mercy to i orgive ?
Did He not say. “Go sin no more ?"
’Tis woman's hate to womankind
That makes our lives a wretched span ;
Since you will scorn a woman so,
Oh ! why forgive a man ?
I dare not go into your church
And kneel with you iu solemn prayer.
And ask God’s pardon for my sin ■
For you would scorn me out of there.
But, if the thief of virtue sat
Beside his sister. I’ve no doubt
He would be first to leave his pew—
To oome and drive me out.
j
Tis human nature oft to err.
And sweet forgiveness is divine ;
Ah ! where's the Christian woman who
Would speak to troubled hearts like mine ?
Who comes to talk of Christian love.
To one whose heart and soul's defiled ?
Not one among you! God forgive
A mother-and her child.
Ye angels holy, pure and good.
Go to oar Father—He yet lives ;
And tell Him net to scorn me too,
Though women hste me —He forgivee;
Teach. 0! teach them to forgive.
And let His spirit with them dwell.
That they may show lost souls the way
To Heaven—not to hell. Wnx SJ Hats.
Some time ago two London thieves
pnt in practice a plan of robbing a jew
eller which had been described in a
story in a popular periodical—a piece of
pare invention. The jeweller was fu
rions (he lost forty thousand dollars, so
it was excusable), and wrote to the edi
tor of the magazine, asking him if it was
his mission to instruct thieves in new
ways of plundering the public. “My
•dear sir," replied the editor blandly,
•“If you had taken my periodical (which
I hope in future you will do), you would
have been pnt upon your guard. This
comes of neglecting the claims of litera
ture.”
A good story is told of a well known
real estate dealer, with whom the use of
business terms in his conversation be
came a second nature. He was a widow
er with two children, and one evening,
among a party of intimate friends, he
laughingly told a young lady she had
•better marry him. “Weil, I has* made
■up my mind to marry no one but a wid
•ower with six children,” replied she,
“and yon have but two." “Oh !if that
ds all,” retorted he, all alive for a bar
tgaie, “I’ll pay ou the usual terms—
■onethird down, the balanoe in one,
•two, three and four years,”
THE MEDICAL COLLEGE.
ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT EXER
CISE*.
Decrees Conferred—Addressee by Rev. C. A-
Evans and Dr. Adman.
The annual commencement exercises
of the Medical College of Georgia took
place at Masonic Hall yesterday at 12
o’clock. The exercises commenced with
prayer by Rev. C. A. Evans. W. Hope
Hull, Esq., one of the trustees, then
stated that in oonseqaence of the un
avoidable absence of Chancellor Tucker,
the duty had devolved upon him of con
ferring the degrees npon the Graduating
Class. The degree of M. D. was then
conferred npon the following graduates:
William Arnold Adams, of Linton, Ga.
John Henry Orozier, of Clay county,
Georgia.
John Middleton Courson, of Warren
ton. Georgia.
William Preston De La Perriere, of
Jackson county, Georgia.
Andrew Jefferson Graham, of Saline
county, Arkansas.
Lamartine Griffin Hardeman, of Har
mony Grove, Georgia.
Pierce Hubert, of Warren ton, Ga:
Henry Harris Ivy, of Jasper county,
Georgia.
Francis Marion Jordan, of Hawkins
ville, Georgia.
William Erwin King, of Waynesboro,
Georgia.
Mark Madison Lively, of Lawtonville,
Georgia.
Joseph Andrew Liddell, of Cedar
Town, Georgia.
Robert Julius Matthews, of Monroe,
Georgia.
John Grieve Medlock, of Sandersville,
Georgia.
Ezekiel McNair, of Twiggs county,
Georgia.
Willis Jackson Mitchell, of Talbot
county, Georgia.
Dennis Brant Nisbet.of Eatonton, Ga.
Allen Ebenezer Oglesby, of Herndon,
Georgia.
bbelby Velpeau Oliver, of Waynes
boro, Georgia.
George Rockingham Patillo, of Sparta,
Georgia.
George Thomas Perrin, of Richmond
county, Georgia.
Edward Janins Rowland, of Greenes
boro, Ga.
Benjamin Richard Saxon, of Saxon’s
Landing, Georgia.
George Washington Sherrer, of Wash
ington, Georgia. *
Samuel George Scoven, of Herndon,
Georgia.
William Bryan Standifer, of Blakely,
Georgia.
William Marion Usry, of Thomson, Ga.
Franklin Rush Wallace, of Lawton
ville, Ga.
Tbomas Russell Wright, of Riohmond
county.
After the degrees had been conferred
Dr. DeSaussure Ford rose, turned to
Colonel G. W. Rains, a member of the
Faculty, and stated that it was his pleas
ant duty to present to that gentleman,
on behalf of the Misses Dearing and
Young, a testimonial from those ladies
for his kindness and courtesy in permit
ting the pupils from their school to at
tend his lectures at the College. The
testimonial was now on the table before
him, but he would leave it to recipient
to unveil.
Colonel Rains advanced, lifted the
covering and disclosed a very handsome
tilting pitcher. He returned his thanks
to the ladies for their testimonial, and
stated that nothing had given him
greater pleasure than the presence of the
girls from their sohool at his lectures.
Mr. Hull then introduced to the au
dience Rev. C. A. Evans, who spoke as
follows:
The Ministry of the Medical Scientist.
The point in speech, or lecture or ad
dress that always gives me trouble is
the starting point. I have an antipathy
to an introduction, and I think that by
tbe laws of etymology an exordium is
out of drder. There is something wrong
about it or our teaohers in the art of
discourse would not insist that the first
part of the speech shall be written last.
In fact there is a dead level and an in
ertia in a starting off which are not easi
ly overcome. But beginnings are the
puzzleß of all philosophers. First truths
and facts —those primordials that lie
back “in the beginning” are deeply, and
darkly sequestered in cavernous con
cealment too obscure for distinct vision;
or else they glow in the primal light
tod bright for present sight to
bear. Yet the world of Mind
is now lawfully engaged in looking into
the exordium of all this Natural world
which in its own marvellous facts, mar
shalled in order; in its logic clear as
crystal and incisive as diamond; in its
diction magnificent and rythmical; is
itself a Divine discourse flowing on in
sentences, paragraphs and periods, from
an unknown exordium toward no perora
tion. In this day we have turned our
backs on Apocalypse that we may gaze
into Genesis, and we do not seem to
care so much what will become of the
world as to find out how the vast thing
begun. Is such an inquest on the Past
profitless and dangerous ? I think it is
neither. Is it lawful and safe ? I think
it is both, provided we sre not chained
like couvic’s to its corpse. It may be
that Human Quest at this age is round
ing a point in the course of its cruise
where the final and most favored look may
be taken of the shores whenco we have
sailed and a true picture be obtained of
the origin' of things, or the knowledge
be lost forever. Mankind has moods,
like individual men. It is now in the
mood of the Arohaist, and should un
fetter its spirit and let it drive down
deep to the et'.ent of its cable and go far
back to the tightest tension of its tether.
For the mood will pass away and may
not ever oome again. We are ignorant
now and will be always so, of valuable |
knowledge beoause the spirit of certain
ages was clipped and caged, and its
mood was bound and banished. Now I
say that this earnest interest of tbe
world in beginnings, this intense gaze
into retreating vistas, these glorious
soundings of the deepest seas where
worlds of beauty undreampt of hitherto
lie in luscious grace on cduches of such
gorgeous drapery as earth's patent plains
have not yet produced; this Chinese—
like idiosyncrasy of the world’s present
mood that sends it to stir ancestral
ashes and make hoary heuded primords
prominent. This pro tempore disposi
tion to invert the common order of in
quiry and retrovert the former way of
moving, to unravel and unwind the
wound up ball of Nature that we might
find the beginning of tbe clew that does
seem forever and ever to lengthen as we
unwind-all this, I say, is the offspring
of a mood Divine, and whoffights against
it will be found fighting against God
In such a mood discoveries may be made
that will brighten Revelation’s story.
And in such a mood the origin and
euds of all truth and facts would soon
be found if we but possessed these two
attributes—infinity of raeotal grasp—
eternity of mental duration.
I now hope that I have made a start
in this discourse, although like Israel in
the exodus from Egypt I have taken my
departure in the dark. But I do not
know that I enter the desert of this dis
cussion with any jewels at all, either the
spoils of enemies or the gift of friends.
And if in this starting off you have at all
suspected the course before us, my
strategy has failed. I desired to steal
out of port like a blockaded pirate and
get to sea unseen, and cruise without a
clearance or a flag. In either case lam
now beyond the blockade, and find my
self afloat on the bonyant bosom of thie
delightful theme— the Ministry of ttie.
Medical Scientist.
It is a e imforting reflection that lack
of professional qualifications is uo hin
drance to my cruising in this trackless
sea. Free expression of thought is ex
pected in complying #ith the flattering
invitation of this eminent Faculty. The
invitation indeed I consider a lawful yet
a cunning device to draw oat the com-1
man views that non-profeßsional men
do have of that honorable art of Heal
ing, which occupies a most distinguish
ed place and fills so Urge an area in
daily popular thought. It is a physi
cian’s way of feeling the pals* at tbe
public mind. It is a diagnosis by which
the public patient's mental malady or
sanity in regard to medical science may
be ascertained. And I know full well
taut, by mere force of professional habit,
these skillful scientists are now feeling
mr pulse, and inspecting my tongue,
and looking keenly into the pupil of my
eye. I khall be most happy if in the
end I am not pronounced unsound.
But in these days of* free inquiry and;
frank speech the humblest subject is’
permitted to look aay kingly science in
the face without first donning the attire
and wearing the bells of the King's jest
er. It ought to be the prayer of every i
science—
“O, wad some power tbe gift! gia us
To see ourselves as others see as.”
I venture then a steady look on -yon,
and go on to disenss my theme — the
ministry of the medical scientist—which
theme 1 beg leave to dedicate* to you,
young, gentlemen, who by authority be
gin yoar professional life to-day.
The terms by which the thought of
the theme is expressed were carefully
selected. I call the Doctor of Medicine
a scientist, because he is both a discover
er and a dispenser of valuable knowl
edge. I define his place in the sciences
with the word medical because he em
ploys science in the art of healing. I
pronounce his vocation a ministry be
cause it is a service of humanity, wheth
er done in experiment, lecture or prac
tice. He may, therefore, assume the
legend that attaches to a princely office,
and inscribe on his official escutcheon
the noble words leh Dim—l serve.
L I made my first observation on this
ministry that it is bf nature necessarily
conservative. The first principle of
medical science is Conservation. To
save what is vital force and natural .use
in human organism is its first care.
And its second great principle is Restor
ation. To uplift ‘he prostrate powers
of life, and by infusing strength, induce
the lagging organs to perform their
functions, is its kindly work. On these
two great principles this august Science
seems to be pillared, as the Porch of
the old Hebrew Temple rested on Jachin
and Boaz. They are the prime motives
of the thought, feeling and work of the
medical scientist. They irradiate his
field of study and practice. They per
vade bis intellectual and emotional
constitution, so that to conserve, to
restore, become ideas that dominate his
life-like laws.
Now, then, it is nearly certain . that
they whose science is grounded on snch
principles, and whose thoughts are con
tinually directed by their force, will be
conservative thinkers and aofcors in gen
eral. I mean that the necessitated con
servatism of medical science tends to
make its trne disciples conservatives in
all respects. In the general tenor of
their way, amidst the conflict of ultra
ideas, they will generally be fonnd in
media* res. Accordingly, the learned
Physician is rarely a fanatic. If one
exists, he is abnormal—a lusus medici,
a medical idiosyncrat. A whirly-gig
occupies his occiput. Indeed, the Med
ical Scientist has the same antipathy to
fanatacism as be is said to have to a
dose of his own medicine, and for the
same reason—both nauseate him. The
feud is as old as both antagonists.
Aeculapius, who ifl first iu hiatorio
medical apostleship, became a martyr,
the proto-martyr of Medical Science,
and he was slain on the instigation of
fanaticism. Legislatures and Councils
have ostracised the profession, and pop
ular folly has often accused medical
men of enjoying the rather questiona
ble luxury of familiar fellowship with
the Devil.
It is not surprising, then, in view of
the two great principles just named, and
the plane of thought on which its dis
ciples move, and the experience of this
school, that the Medical Scientist is the
intelligent foe of all sorcery, juggling,
and humbug. I know that spiteful wit
would say that he tolerates no juggling
except what he does himself. But this
is the wit of the man who is well, and
is readily recanted whenever he be
comes sick. It is that sort of wit that
even a cramp will wither. The Medical
Scientist is genuinely opposed to all
psuedo science and all magicions arts on
precisely the same principle that “bears
and lions growl and fight”—“for “ ’tis
their nature to.” Not that it is their
nature, too, to growl and fight, al
though they do much of even that
among themselves, but it is tbe nature
of their soienee to repel the unscientific
vagaries, and the visionary schemes of
men. For single example, the physi
cian’s views of spiritualism as having
any truth as its basis, or any power as
a medicinal agent, are well known. It
is certain that he does not recognize the
irregular practice of the disembodied
spirits. And to him and to science gen
erally all religious teachers may safely
remit the treatment of that singular
malady.
Yet with all thiß conservatism the sci
entist under present criticism does not
discard discoveries because they are new,
as the timid coney shys frem the new
sheaf of wheat in the field or flies from
the chirp of the first spring cricket. Nor
does he cling to ancient error in mere
affection for its hoary head, as a bat fas
tens on the rotting timbers of a venera
ble turret because that has been its ac
customed roost in the dark. And on the
other hand he can have no fondness for
novelties, and may not, must not, be
sensational. He will not sneer at a
truth that wears the crown of old age,
nor refuse to preserve and ponder a fact,
that bears the signet of universal and
ancient assent. For these two grand
sentinel principles that stand at the por
of his science, these two guardian prin
ciples that guide him across the thresh
hold of matriculation into the endless
and sublime mysteries that fill his field
forbid the saorilege of sensational phil
osophy and the stupidity of an owlish
traditionalism.
-11. The portrayal of the Medical
Scientist as a Conservative does not pre
clude this other delineation, that he is a
bold and wise explorer of his broad field
in searob of whatever truths and* faots
may be found there. Ido not propose
to describe the searoh of man for “ the
Truth ;” for that was powerfully and
beautifully done very recently by a dis
tinguished member of this Medical
Faculty. But I desire to follow the
Medical Scientist in his search for what
can be found end see him use what he
shall discover. Let me therefore make
a preparatory general survey of his great
field.
-There is not always a clear conception
had of the difference between Truths
and Fmts- The terms are often con
founded. But they are not synony
mous. Fact, in Soienee, is an act, an
effect, an event, a thing. But a Truth,
in Science, is a principle or law of a Fact
or of more than one. Thus it is a dis
covered fact that the human blood cir
culates. But one of the truths underly
ing the faet is that such circulation is
necessary to the continuance of human
life—and therein lqk subtle, power
ful law. Now keepin 5 this distinction
in view you understand why the Medi
cal Scientist is not in his ministry a
general searcher for “ the Truth,” but
in his keen scarab among the mysteries
of his science he must be a particular
and an actual gatherer of (a#t3 ftnd a
discerner of truths. He must know
apparitions from realties and principles
from delusions. Hi® keen eye and deli
cate touch and sensitive ear must detect
Facts that lurk i 14% (soils 9 8 well as
those that loom large and high before
him. And of what avail his discovery
ot facts unless he be a discerner of
truths also? He might be skillful in
detecting diseases and yet no healer be
cause unlearned in iuefr Jaws.
J state again that this evident distinc
tion between facts and truths leads to.n
observation of practical importance that
there is no fact pj principle that can be
exalted anddistiugsisbed as“the Truth;”
nor is there any combination of facts
and truths that will produce that fgjjpied
thing called “The Truth." Hence tim
attempt is vain to define truth by a pithy
sentenoe. Neither proverb nor maxim
has ever replied to that unanswerable
question—What is Truth? It iff the
vain question of the Restless, tbe Ro
mantic, and the conscience-stricken. It
is vain beoause it proceeds from nothing
ao4 leads to nothing, ft assumes that
aside from God there is a tbioF either
concrete or abstract, either actual gr
ideal, which is TYuth.” And that
it js the Truth of wbiofc 311 truths are
the progeny as all rays of son are
the offspring of its one beating .boe<m;
or, that there will hereafter be “Tbe
Truth” toward wine* gll truths are tend
ing as someone sea into
which ill streams flow.
I admit thsi jn all times and tongues
we find this ideaof “t,he Truth” and that
it is by univeral usage borne on the
wings of a figure that is as ncr.efll and
impossible as the thing it vainly seeks
to signify. There, by that favorite
figure of speech tire Truth is described
as a focus toward which the luminous
lines of all truths converge, aa ;f there
were soma period past when isoiLsd
truths lay almost Infinitely apart, and
some point iu an iuecugeiYable instant
of hereafter when all these iipes shall
meet and there ou a quivering maf&a
matical point converge, and blend, and
burn and expire is a final blaze ! It was
bewildered fancy that femed the figure
and the idea is as fanciful as its symbol.
But it is itss that the Truth has b*ca
thought of, dnagied ot, battled over,
and adored as the Hfijks.own unknowable
God, It has been for with
retrove.tftd gaze as if it were SPXpie
single element, some primordial fact in
finitely insigniflccut in all respects,
save the stupendous one ut its supposed
infinitely productive power 4 h r a* if it
were once 40!pc one seed that burst
some time, no one jkpows when, nor how
and threw its impregnating pollen over
all receptive space and Mins gave per
petuati-ve existence to all that we 01l
Nature and Man: Or as if it were some
word uttered from Eternity’s breathing
bosom, a ventriloquiai sound, s deep
drawn sigh of the dark, V<4d,
lonely Nothing, and that this sigh
moved over the abyss and waked
a dead wave, which moved, and in
moving lived, and in living brighten
ed and brought forth all the substance
and forms of the Facts and Truths in the
universe. So, too, "The Truth” re-
as a thing “to be looked for,” aa
if it were sum# essence that a future
alchemist will extract from all Truths
and Facts, when it will app#4* S& § drop
of crystal dew to be gazed on for a mo
ment and then be exhaled; or as some
blinding biage where the faggots of all
gathered truths wifi be piled in focus
around captured and Aonyicfpd error,
and burning down that, burn up them
selves; or, os if The Truth were somp
mystic thing like 9 horning Eye, on
whose retina ail facta sed truths are
painted a a they successively arise, until
having seen aiL-having nothing more to
see, will wink itself out and leave the
universe as it was iu the beginning to
begin again, asd set oxer again the same
stupendous lie (
Such I conceiye are the absurdities of
a crude and common notion of “The
Truth," aa being a pluribus unurn like
this Government of o*rs; as being one
all begetting in the beginning and all
devouring iu the and. I find natural
science put on this vain search for pro
toplastic truth in Genesis, and the
science of theology seeking its epipbamy
in Apocalypse. One delves into the
exordium of nature’s speech, and the
other soars to hear its peroration. Bnt
the foundations cannot be discovered
nor the altitudes ever surmounted. Let
the Doctor of Medicine dream no snch
dreams. His field is not in the caverns
where mummies mould, nor in the
clouds where fairies float, bnt in the ac
tual world, where the facts and laws of
disease are snch real things as are within
the scope of hie scientific discovery and
use.
I will suggest to you that truths are
multitudes as Facts are many. That
Truths are equal, and all Divine, and
all eternal. I think they are in a broth
erhood, although they do make war on
each other as even the tribes of Israel
fought. They constitute God’s family
of Truths and Facts, albeit men will not
let them be a happy family. And, there
fore, I submit these truer illustrations
that truths and facts are leads of treas
ures that run in parallel lines from sd
unknown past onward toward eternity
beyond, all subject to discovery. They
are as parallel bands of distinct colors
that blend their edges to form many
secondary truths which flow on in con
current collateral course with their kin
dred primaries. They seem to form
separate systems of spheres,whose lights
and glories mingle in the spaces be
tween, while they roll on together to
ward the endless, as the Universe in its
final total motion poors its streams of
constellations directly forward. And
behind the beginnings of all these har
monious systems of truth and facts
stands Mind— stands He —Supreme—
Personal, filling eternity’s back ground,
and there all thought must pause for of
absolute origin man cannot even
think. Thus we go back on endless
parallels .of elements while beyond us
81 retch these lines of truth toward no
focus where they shall meet to die.
There is no sea where they will meet
and mingle in a commou wave. There
is only this broad field of the world
where all truths stretch in parallel
glory.
Now, snch is the field into which the
Medical Scientist is called to make re
search. What then to him is the prac
tical value of knowing that truths are
many, and that they are all discover
able. I will briefly answer. If he start
with the idea that there is one Truth he
will become a medical dreamist. Man,
as was so strongly shown in the address
referred to, is that unhappy dreamer
and should be so no more. If the medi
cal man take this taDgent he will have
his visions of one universal solvent of
disease. The elixir of life will become
the object of his quest. One agent will
dance in his daily dreams as the thing
that will cure—or kill. Some medical
monomania will possess him. It may
be about the unsophisticated liver that
does as well as could be expected. Bnt
woe to the patient who has that doctor.
It would have been better for that man
to have been born without a liver. Or
it may be that he will conceive the
Truth to be a sweat, and, therefore,
sweat his patient mast and will both in
person and in purse. One idea will be
come rampant in his mind, and instead
of being a medical scientist he will be,
if you will pardon me, a medical fool.
Paeonitic practice is a delusion, and
panaceas are frauds. No Cathalicon can
be found to ferret “the ills that flesh is
heir to” and drive them away. Elixirs
of life elude like the philosopher’s stone.
Mono-medicatnx is a monomania.
But, we the patients so called, the
subjects of medical care,cannot afford to
have medical men of this type: In witty
caricature of pretended medical skill the
old cuplet makes the psuedo-doctor ex
plain his whole practice briefly in two
lines:
“First X bleeds and then I sweets ’em,
And if they die, why then I lets ’em.”
This exaggeration is as a distorted
shadow thrown upon the wall to excite
public laughter, but by it the general
feeliDgis expressed that the human body
must not be practiced on by the un
learned, and life must not be trifled with
by the unskillfull.
We who are the subjects of medical
practice cannot permit the physician to
be other than a Medical Scientist. Oar
faith in his skill must be founded on the
evidence we have of his science. He
may call us his patients by misnomer,
but impatient we soon become of him
who wears the livery bnt has not the
erudition and the spirit of his profes
sion. He himself is bound by tbe na
ture of his vocation to acquaint himself
with the mysteries of medical, seienoe
and provide himself with the requisites
of skillful praotice. He must traverse
his field with honest diligence in search
of all that it will yield. His ministry
demands rapid reasoning, close analy
sis, vivid perception and accurate.judg
ment. It requires obedience of nerve,
clearness of vision, subtle hearing and
delicacy of touch. Therefore to be
what he is commissioned to become
must he not be a diligent gatherer and
gleaner of facts, and a discerner of
truths 9 It hig aim to acquire the eru
dition that distinguished Thabet Eb’n
Abrahim, one example of which will
suffice. He acquired snch delicacy of
touch that by only feeling an artery of
his patient a moment he could tell
whether he had eaten mutton chop or
beefsteak for breakfast, or drunk cow’s
milk instead of the milk of the camel
for dinner.
Medical Scientists are held bound to
explore this field fully and fairly to seize
and use all facts and truths, because
these are within reach of thaiitresearch.
We cannot, in misplaced charity, ac
coid to them the privilege called liberty
of error in non-essentials, for there can
be no non-essentials in this Bpience.
Speculation is for study, experiment for
the laboratory,but the clinic must be ex
act. Jn Theology there is allowable the
oharming pjfl saying first written in
latin,
In essentials unity,
, In non-essentials liberty,
In all things charity.
gut in Soienee, which deals not in forms
of worfisj and which has no ceremony,
the faot in everything and truth in the
least thing are to be nought and held
without concession.
jj'he changeableness of the phenomina
pf physical and mental maladies also
oommkmji him to be alert. Disease is
cunning. It is njnfrffold in kinds and
symptoms.. Like all other prrpr if, has a
subtle fickleness, and when detected,
exposed, and baffled in one attire it will
quickly don another. Its combinations
are mbr# numerous in variety than the
patent locks thaf bankers fondly use
and burglars as fondly piek, &.nd. lijce
the skillful burglar, the Medical Seien
jbmt must learn these combinations.
No*' ;i he suffer himself to be ruled
by tradition, all traditions are
but the relies of thoughts that once
lived, breathed and had ttiei* ugps.
They are often an inheritance of chains
designed to fetter the inquiring spirit of
the after fg£ - mortgages on a deviled
estate. All lore must be
submitted to tests fhat try its worth, for
iu tfejs ,as in all science “authority"
must be *6*efv,ed yitfi caution anfl can
command assent ou}y when jt pomes
with vouchers in its hands. Pfpcpdents
1 ip Medical Soienoe are quotable sug
gestively only. Inflexible formules are
bonds that ipi,client and free inquiry
must break at will.
Snch the eager, honest wit Ckfltious
quest of bim who justly deserves the
title which I Uye given. With patient
pursnit as a philosopher, witf) the cul
tured eye of an artist, with even the
sentiment of a true poet, with the devo
-1 tiGB sf a lover and with the philanthropy
of the ityoofl (Samaritan, he explores his
world that ho nmy fcpppme the efficient
friend of his fellow-mW) i fcpnr of
ne*vj.
ILL Submitting these yiews of this
ministry, in regam to jtg conservative
character and its place in Science, I
will now hold you to a moment’s look
1 at ifie crown which it worthily wears.
! This crowii j.s its service of suffering
! man. The jpeniey.l profession cannot
j lay down this crown ii it Mer
cenary it cannot be and live. By a law
beyond its control, its ministry is public
service, afid lie Richest skill must be
used gratis to the poor. ft is this that
piakes the science a service thaf grsat
ehs i*, And the most skillful are on
that acco'cci o*ct subservient to this
law.
There are, in this view of your pro
fession some peculiarities of which yon
will have abundant experience. Like
Shakapeare’s contented swain, yon will
have to be ‘‘glad of other meu's good
and content with your own harm.” Yon
will baye to cay &S?en to the prayer for
the sick although 4 seem* to contravene
your prayer for daily bread, ?on will
find yosrsolf sometimes jn a strait be
twixt two feelings, having the humane
desire that the people be healthy, and
having the conflicting wish for money to
soothe yonr butcher’s paiute and ease
yonr tailor’s aches. Yon cannot be
thankful for a customer like a trades
man. nor be glad at a rise in fever like a
broker rejoices iq f rise ifi stocks. Yen
are in this dilemma that if your voca
tion brings yon thrift yonr friends mnst
suffer, and if they suffer not, why, yon
mnst perish.
Ta this science then without the de
served recqmpen3.es ? I answer that the
profession is one ip wposp Practice the
acquisition of wealth must be slow bnt
may bh sure. In its pursuit the oppor
tunity will rarely rise by which one may
spring suddenly into fortune. Happily
the medical scientist may be free from
tbp fond dream of becoming a milljonare
in a Jt may eyen happen that
none of tbeae geatfpjpen who are now
beginning their medical career will be
come afflicted with a plethora of that
printed faaoiuafipp which bears the im
age and superscription of onr Caesar. I
imagine that while J have the honor of
addressing yonng men who will become
tree Medical Scientists that opt ope ex
pects to be a Medical Croesus. Bnt if
is all the nobler in yon that you enter a
service without the hope of such reward.
Snch are some of the peculiarities of
your position which do themselves train
yon to a noble manhood in a noble work,
where yonr ministry is [exalted. I have
placed the Healing art abreast at least
with the foremost sciences and find all
science bringing gifts to its conrt as
Kings bring gifts to Kings. Perhaps I
have even most properly advanced it one
step beyond the rest, and if I have I
only imitate the wisest of ancient unin
spired sages. When Socrates came to die
his last religions act was sacrifice to
deified Escnlapins. He turned from all
other gods to adore the power that seeks
to conserve the vis vitae and to restore
the lost hygiene. His science culmi
nated in the idea that Curative powsr is
man’s greatest want. And what if
in that this Grecian sage felt
darkly after Him whom God sent
into the world to be the Great
Physician I And what, if in this min
istry, so much like His own, you shall
learn of Him the mysterious secret that
neither Galen, Hippocrates, nor Escnla
pins, nor Socrates knew, but all desired
to knew. What, then, I say ? Why,
then, there is one more penoil stroke to
finish the exalted man whom T have
faintly sketched— he is a Christian
Medical Scientist. Digging one day in
the debris of ancient peoples and their
tongues, I gained a hint from certain
ancient words, and seizing the sugges
tion, saw, in my mind, an old Phenician
and an old Pelasgian meet 4,000 years
ago, in the land made famous since as
classic Greece. Each had his name for
God. In the names they differed wide
ly, bnt, finding that between themselves
there was perfect correspondence of
ideas, they blent the names in one, and
from those blended roots a word in
Greek has grown, which we translate —
“The Troe,” Thus, in the beginning,
where haze befogs inquiry, we find this
germinal human idea rooting in primal
tongnes of aboriginal peoples that God
is, and that He is the True; and toward
the Endless, where wearied honest quest
folds its pinions to rest upon the heav
en-gilded outer peak of faith, we dis
cover increasing facts and truths which
signify that “Ood is, and that He is the
True." Thus may the various truthful
tongnes of all the sciences proclaim that
there is one God of whom all facts and
truths are witnesses, and blend in broth
erly confession of Him, the Son of God
—whom all truths sustain and every fact
affirms.
The following valedictory address was
then delivered by Dr. Adams, of the
Graduating Class;
Ladies and Gentlemen :
It is customary on occasiona like the
present to spread rich, ambrosial feasts,
where all may taste of delicate viands,
and sip from the sparkling goblet filled
at Helicon’s fount, while showering
beautiful wreaths of poesy, gemmed,
with brilliant pearls of fancy. I will
not, however, invite you to partake of
such literary dainties/ nor need you um
brella yourselves with all your practica
bility against a shower of poetic meta
phors, or a sparkling of classic pearls.
I will not ask yon to ramble with me
through Arno’s lovely groves, nor stroll
by
“Tempe’s classic sunlit streams;
Nor will we pay a visit to the god’s
’olympus home, to disturb the siesta of
nodding jove. I rather invite you to a
plainly’ served repast. I hope it may
prove palatable, and sincerely pray it
may prove beneficial. The times de
mand, perhaps more than ever, noble
men ana women in all the vocations of
life. Those who will act out noble lives,
those who in life’s grand battle fight,
will plan with care the campaign snb
limen “and having done all, will be able
to stand.” And then we’ll onward move,
and moving onward, we’ll upward move,
to nobler aims—to God.
The times admonish us not to be ga
zing starward, or like Thales we may
fall ditchward. The burning rays of
misfortune melt the wax wings of imag
ination. Calliope, herself, accom
panied by her music-loving band, would
be an intruder in onr bankrupt land,
and even Orphean notes would discor
dantly jar with the wailing prayer of onr
mother South. It is the time for he
roism; the opportunity for greatness;
and while this is true of all the profes
sions, we need none the less “the true
physician,” the characteristics of which
I will now discuss briefly. My topic
means so much that I am at a loss to
know what to say or where to begin. I
look over this and other countries to find
a model; many devotees in our own
glorious profession have strewn their
pathway with blessings; healing the
afflicted, filling thousands of despondent
hearts with joy and gladness; turning
abodes saddened with disease into joyous
homfs. We hear the plaudits of appre
ciating multitudes whose heart’s are
aglow with a sense of merit’s proved pre
eminence; we see the objects of their
applause ever urging their onward
course in their path of duty and high
calling; regardless of the applause their
ears are inolined to the claims of the
afflicted and to the ories of suffering hu
manity.
We see them self-sacrificing, strug
gling against pests and epidemics, and
shall we select from their number one
who shall be woTthy of the high name—
true physician ? Shall he have drank
deeply at the fountain of knowledge ?
Shall all the sciences have ’ adorned his
intellect, the richest,lavished by the hands
of nature? Who ? What man shall con
stitute the model where so many illustri
ous examples by their devotion and self
sacrifice are enriching the time-honored
profession of their choice. Among so
many of talents rare, of motives pure
and of triumphs yariefl we will forbear
to select a name, bnt may we not point
to scores as worthy of emulation ?
With a heartful of sympathy the true
physician labors for those who suffer.
In the hour of peril the confiding suf
ferer sends for the physioian with im
ploring’eloquence and heartfelt earnest
ness begs for assistance, having, it may
be, nothing to offer in return save grati
tude. Or it may be the anxious heart of
a mother, almost wrecked, with anguish,
in consequence of the suffering of a
loved ope, whose pleadings start the
unbidden tear, nnd m°Y e 8 his manly
soul to action.
“Nq radiant pear) which created fortune
WP*P>.
No gem tb*t twinkling hangs from beauty’s
ears,
Nor the bright stars, which night’s bine arch
adorn,
Nor the rising son, that gilds the vernal
morn.
Shjnes with such luster, as tbe tear that
Lrpafra
For other's woe down virtue's manly cheeks.”
Character is destiny, is the language
of an aphorism, that is a volume of
truthi and pregnant with an argument
exemplified by history and every-day
life illustrations. Character is life, and
he who would make his life great, mnst
make his character noble. Analyze
character, and you analyze life. Know
beyond all qnestion the prominent traits
of‘character, and you can prophesy be
yond al) doubt the salient features of
fif<s. Show mo hf e W>tb po struggles,
no po yiptoyies, and I will
either show yop 4 character ip almost
stable equilibrium, or so wenk as to be
unable to leave the old beaten highway,
or too timid to loose the skirts of his
father. Some characters are built—
they ayp rather 4 jumbling together of
precious stones ppd half-burnt brick.
Write nptn ajl spob the truth that has
been echoing over the waste of years :
“Unstable as the water, thou shalt not
excel.” If onr lives be symmetrical and
beantifnl, symmetrical and beautiful we
make them. There is an inner and
there 19 pp enter life; the outer is but
the refiex' of tfip ipppr, ps if js stamped
upon each (Jay-leal ip tfie rpoprd yplpme.
Wp takp opr piptpresj at least we
are our own life's photographists; good
character is the corner-stone to success,
the noblest virtue of the true physician.
Another essential element of the true
physician, and gnarantee of success, is
self-knowledge. He who would dispense
with it la iaapphjpg bis frail life-bark
upon the afofTp-pregpapt qepp ip drift
without chart on the" dangerous tide; or
t,o be tossed without compass op the
temgesf waves. Spectral mists obscures
his lutnre, aimlea* iippp! B ? B control his
present, abd humiliating mistakes mark
hjs past. ¥ainly will he atiempt to
comprehppd life's science, whpn he
has fai ed tp master lifp’s elements,
for self-knpwlpdge is tbe rntjiment of
universal knowledge, as it is the high
est mmompUgbmmrt Q f the ipdividual
man. The great bprripr {p f J)e success
ful prosecution of this stpdy is opr own
vanity! Jt is this thpt prevents ns from
seeing opnetyps 88 ofh.'yß see us.”
Self-knowledge ever begew kindness,
which is an element of the true physi
cian. Indeed, we too often condemn
the erring fallen,’when did we know
ourselves as. we ought we conld readily
see how, placed under the same circum
stances, we too wonld have yielded.
Self-ignorance makes ns Pharisees to
■corn Bublieajus.
When yod meet an erring brother oh!
do not thank Clod that yon are better,
bnt thank Him that yon have never been
tempted as he, and giving him the hand
of kindness, pud speaking words of for
giveness, tenderly lead him back to the
right path-. When pelf-kpowledge has
furnished tpe park for the qangeyous,
haunted voyage of life, when self-oonr
trol has equipped it, let energy com
mand the oars and unfanltering faith
stand at the helm. The tree physician
recognizes that there is no resting
place in the science of medi
cine. Deai| and pninyiting wppld
he that science, the ultimate hounds
of vho kuojrjeage had beep at
tained,” is the language of a tree
medical philosopher. The science is
progressive; it requires arduous labors,
dtjpanfls great sacrifices, and entails
solemn responsibilities.
“Work while it is day.” This law is
written in all nature; in the purling of
the brooklet, aa it babbles over its peb
bly bed; in the restlessness of the peean’s
waves, as they throb over the fathom
less deep. In the fretting cascade, and
in the twinkling beams of the scintillant
starworldf in a word, all nature bows to
the decree of God, and shall the true
physician, engaged, as he is, in the no
blest profession of earth, refdse to yield
fealty to this law ? No ! Consoious of a
moral necessity for “work,” and acting
in harmony with its promptings, he
yields to it a practical recognition. Nor
does he esteem pecuniary compensation
as the only reward. He has his higher
compensations, his. hours of triumph.
The beacon 'lights upon the hilltop
speaks the gratitude of his countrymen,
and the caressing smiles of nature pene
trate the realms of ether, while the tris
tal battlements of Heaven echo back a
welcome.
And in this connection, gentlemen of
the Faculty, I must beg leave, ere we
bid yon a parting adieu, to leave testi
mony in behalf of myself and the entire
class to the fidelity and perfection of the
lofty ideal of high professional life and
duty, which, both by example and pre
cept, you have ever kept before our
eyes and impressed upon our minds.
And rest assured this added to the
patient and persevering assiduity, which
you have evolved for our benefit, the
deep love of the great science of medi
cine, and the persistent and unwaver
ing kindness and pains-taking forbear
ance which has always marked your
intercourse as professors with us as
your pupils, has enshrined each and
every one of you in our heart of hearts,
and gives to the word farewell which we
now pronounce a sadness our bosoms
comprehend, but our tongues cannot
utter.
And now to you, gentlemen of the
the Graduating Class, let me in conclu
sion say a few words : You are on the
threshold of wedding your bride pro
fession, and once wedded, I beg you
never be divorced; be true to your pro
fession and it will be true to you.
Our lives will come to Autumn’s hours,
And all may chill and dieary seem ; ,
But even then we’ll find some flowers,
And even then some joyous beam.
Repine not, therefore, that thy youth,
And manhood’s prime so swiftly flee.
Lo ! with advance of years come truth.
New life, new hope, calm joys, for thee.
Unfortunately some men are Mormons
in their life’s secular wedding; they
marry one profession to-day, another to
morrow; some are old “bachelors” and
never marry, but drift aimless and pur
poseless, while many, too many, permit
others to select their avocation for life.
Gentlemen, as you have chosen the
most honorable profession, let us press
forward to the high niche of true physi
cians. Oh ! learn early in your profes
sional career to be unselfish; selfishness
is the bane of goodness, the poison of
happiness, the murderer of peace, the
Daralysis of nobility; a delusion; a tan
talizing shadow that will deceive your
life and work your death. And now, re
alizing fully the moral necessity for la
bor; knowing yourselves well, having a
right conception of your life, let unsel
fish love be the motive power. Then
devots yourselves with all your energy
to,your life-work. Do your best to ac
quire fame, power, money—yes, get rich
if you can; for nobody has a better
right, or. a poorer chance, than the
“ Doctor but in the name of our Alma
Mater, I entreat you to contend honor
ably, for if such are to be attained at the
sacrifice of honor, let them pass as beneath
the dignity of a true physician. Be pru
dent, kind, temperate in all things. Be
refined and gentle in your deportment,
with a sympathetic, heart and firm char
acter. Above all let your morals be in
corruptible, and your faith in a higher
life “be fixed, forever fixed.” And when
this life grows fainter and fainter, may
its fading joys and wasting sorrows die
gently away, while memory from the
garden of the past will bring sweet
flowers and strew them upon your dying
pillow; and may the stillness of the twi
light hour be thrilled by the enraptu
ring music of angel bands coming to
waft you on their snowy wings to the
quiet and peace of Heaven’s home,
where the melody quavering cycles of
eternity ring God’s praise.
The exercises were concluded with a
benediction by Bev. Mr. Landrum.
A MYSTERIOUS BIRD-CHARMER.
[Paris Correspondence Philadelphia Telegraph .]
I witnessed the other day, one of the
celebrated sights of Paris, of which I
had often heard before, but never before
had seen. Crossing the Tuileries Gar
den on one of the late mild days, my
attention was attracted by an intense
commotion among the sparrows which
abound in that locality. They were
chattering and flying to and fro, and
finally collected in Jswarms at a single
point. There I saw the cause of their
agitation, the well known bird-charmer
of the Tuileries Garden. She is a per
son about thirty years of age, pale, with
very black hair, dressed in the' deepest
mourning and wearing no bonnet. She
was surrounded by birds that hopped
and perched right at her feet, or flew
circling round' her head, apparently
without the slightest fear. She would
hold out a bit of bread, instantly three
or four would hover around it with rap
id whirring wings, like humming-birds
around a flower, some perching on her
fingers, while others would peck at the
coveted morsel on the wing. Then she
would throw crumbs into the air, which
would be adroitly caught by the swift
est winded birds before they reached
the ground. A shower of crumbs
brought the little creatures to their feet
like chickens, nor did the presence of
the by-standers that soon oolleoted in
great numbers appear to terrify her por
teges in the least. They seemed to feel
perfectly secure while in the presence
of their benefactress. She walked slow
ly on, followed by hundreds of the
eager, flutteriug, chattering birds, and. I
lost sight of her in a distant walk. I
am told that she sometimes sits down,
and that the sparrows will then perch
all over her, and will get into her lap to
eat bread from her apron. No one
knows who she is; she never speaks to
any one, and pays no attention to any
body or anything except to her beloved
birds, which she feeds daily throughout
the Winter,
A New Entertainment to Baise
Money fob Charitable Purposes.— A
new social entertainment given in aid of
charitable institutions is the “Pound
Party.” The affair is like any ordinary
reception, excepting that each person
invited is expected to bring a package
weighing exactly one pound, and which
is afterwards sold at one dollar. The
fun comes in when the papers are taken
off and each one exhibits the contents of
his or her parcel, when, perhaps, a
small dog or kitten appears, and is in
troduced for the first time to fashionable
society. Why not vary the monotony
of fairs, festivals and cc ncerts in Augus
ta, when necessary to raise money for
charitable purposes, by organizing a
“Pound Party ?” Such an entertain
ment would be prolific of much merri
ment, and we doubt not a goodly sum
could be realised in this way.
--
The question, f ‘lf the third of obe 3
what will the fourth of 20 be?” has puzzled
many shrewd heads, although the an
swer and its rnothod of attainment is
very simple. It is worked by rule of
three and is simply that the real foilrth
of 20 will bear the same relation to the
supposed fourth as the real third of 6
does to its supposed third. Therefore we
have as 2 is to 3, so is 5 to thp answer.
The product of the means being equal
to the product of the extremes the result
proves itself, as follows:
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OXFORD, GEORGIA,
One Mile from Covington Depot, between At
lanta and Georgia R^Uyad.
THE BPRING TERM begins WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 19, 1876; ends WEDNESDAY,
JULY 19th, 1876.
Special attention ie called to the desirable
ness of Oxford as a place to educate young
men, its location ;pd bealthfufuess, s well as
its social apd rejigUßis features offering pecu
liar advantages.
Four large and well appointed buildings, be
sides the two Society Halls, afford ample facili
ties for all fhe work of the College.
The Faculty has been strengthened by pro
viding fully for fhe <3haip of RugUkh Ran.
guage apd literature,
FACULTY.
Rev. ATTICUS G. HAYGOOD, D. D., Presi
dent and Professor of Mental and Moral
Science.
Bet. GEO. W. W. STONE, A. M., Vice-Presi
dent and Professor of Mathematics.
Rev. OSBORN L. SMITH, D. D., Professor of
Latin Language.
Rev. ALEX. MEANS, M. D., D. D., L L. £>.,
Professor Emeritus qI Natural Scietice.
Bev. MORGAN LALtAWAIf. D. D., Professor
of jjngiish Language and Literature.
JOHN 11. DOGGr.TX, A. M., Professor of
Greek Language and Literature.
JOHN F. BONNELL, A. M.. Profewo; ei N%t
ural Science.
RUFUS W. SMITH, A. M., Principal of Aca
demic Department.
. TERMS:
Tuition, Spring Term, in College Glasses,
#35; Tuition. Spring Term, in De
partment, Classes, #3d; Academic
Classes; #3l,
Board, in good families, including all ex
penses for fuel, lightatfatc., from #l6 to #2O
per month.
For further information, address
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WHANNS
Raw-Bone Superphosphate
Manufactured by Walton, YVhann & Co*, Wilmington, Del*
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SEEING OE 1876.
Year after year we have supplied the Planters and Farmers of Georgia and South Carolina
with this Standard article. Each year has added to its popularity and increased number of
friends. It is so well and favorably known that it needs no commendation from us. It has
been used more extensively in Middle Georgia and Eastern South Carolina than any other
Fertilizer in the market.
We refer to the thousands who have used it. The prices this season frill be #47 per ton,
cash, delivered on the cars at Charleston, Port Royal, Savannah, or Wilmington, N. C., or #6O per
toa, credit, until November Ist, 1876, with the option, up tu that date, of payiug in Middling
Cotton, at 15 cents per pound.
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field. Ga.: D. A. Jewell, Jewells, Ga.; O. T. Rogers, Covington, Ga.; W. C. Smith. Bartow, Ga.;
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PLANTERS, ATTENTION
DOUBLE ALL YOUR CROPS
By the Use of the
TENNESSEE VALLEY GUANO
One that is Recommended by the United States Government, a Sample
Being Desired for Exhibition at the Centennial.
WE REFER YOU TO CERTIFICATES GIVEN BY THE PLANTERS OP
GEORGIA AND ALABAMA AS TO ITS VIRTUE.
Price, $45 Cash ; SSO First November, wilh City Acceptance,
Or S6O with Cotton Option, 15 cents per lb.
FOR SALE BY
T. Gr. Barrett & Oo.^
AUGUSTA, CIA.
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The attention of the Planters of Georgia is called to the followng certificates from
Hon. Frederick Watts, Commissioner of Agriculture. The TENNESSEE VaLLEY GUANO is a
home production, and is peculiarly adapted to our soil. With this Guauo crops can be increased
to an extraordinary extent. 'J he worst worn out laud can be built up to a high productive capa
city. We unhesitatingly recommend it as the Best Fertilizer extant. The commendations of
our best citizens fully substantiates this claim. A fair trial will always be attended with satis
factory results. Read the following certificates:
International Exhibition of I S7(i. Board on Behalf of U. N. Executive Department.
U. S. Department or Agriculture, Washington, D. C., January 14, 1876.
J. S. Miller, Huntsville. Ala.—Dear Sir: The publication of our analyses of your Bat Exore
ment aroused considerable interest in the mattor, and induced us to issue a circular letter to
our Southern Correspondents for information with regard to other localities of this valuable
material. We have received quito a number of specimens from various sections, and, after
analysing them, propose exhibiting them in the forthcoming International Exhibition. We,
therefore, write to ask that you will have tho kindness to forward to us, for this purpose, sam
ples of your product—both of the brown and the white material, sufficient each to fill a two
qua rt jar If you will favor us in this matter your kindness will be highly appreciated.
Very respectfully, FREDERICK WATTS, Com. of Agriculture,
l I used last year the Tennessee Valley Fertilizer on Cotton. I applied ODe hundred pounds to
one-half an acre. The results wore equal to any fertilizer used by me. I have bought six tons
this year. S. W. MAYS.
Columbia oounty, Ga., 12th February, 1876.
Columbia County, Ga., December 20, 1875.
Mr. T. G. Barrett—Dear Sir : You ask my opinion of the Tennessee Valley Guano as compared
with other Fertilizers. I used the half ton you sold me this year ou cotton, and by comparison
with other kinds of Fertilizers used this year, I think it fully equal to the others, and can reo
ommend it as a good fertilizer. You can send me two tons next year.
Yours, truly, T. B. JENKINS.
t Augusta, Ga., February 12th, 1876.
Colonel T. G. Barrett—Dear Sir: I used your Tennessee Valley Guano last season on vege
tables and oates. The result was so gratifying I wish yon to reserve me several tons for my
cotton crop this year. Very respectfully, J. M. TURPIN.
Augusta, Ga., January 3lst, 1876
Mr. Thomas G. Barrett—Dear Sif : Last year I used your Tennessee Valley Guano on cotton
and com both. I was well pleased with it. lam satisfied it added flfiy per cent, to the yield
on cotton, and added a great deal to the corn. I intend this year using it in connection
with an Acid Phosphate, feeling confident I shall realize still greater benefit.
Yours, truly, B. H. LAND.
Huntsville, Ala., December 3,1875.
Mr. Wm. Donegal), Huntsville, Ala.—Dear Sir: Yours of the 15th ult., asking the result of
my experience with your Bat Fertilizer, the present year, was duly leceived. I used the fer
tilizer npon very poor laud, which I am satisfied would not have yielded more than 200 lbs. of
Beed cotton per acre without manure—tho yield with the fertilizer could not have been less
than 500 lbs. i endeavored to scatter the fertilizer, at the rate of 200 lbs, per acre, but think.
I put less than that amount. My experience with the fertilizer was sufficiently encouraging to
induce me to try it again next year. Very respectfully, WM. W. GAttTH.
Huntsville, Ala., November 15, ISTtf.
Mr. W. H. Donegan. Huntsville, Ala.—Dear Sir: Your letter of this date has just been hand
ed to me by my son, Wm. M. Bradley, at my private residence, and inferring that yon wish to
make use of my answer to show forth to the public the efficacy of your Bat Fertilizer or Bat
Manure on cotton, I retnrn yon my answer without hesitation, believing in doing so I am doing
good the public. I used your Bat Manure on or in cotton rows to a considerable extent the
past Spring, and am free to say, that I will gather 700 to 800 lbs. of seed cotton ou lands that
would not have yielded 50 lbs. witnout the Fertilizer, aud from this faot consider your Tennes
see A alley Guano (Bat Manure) as one of the very best Fertilizers that 1 have ever used in
growing cotton plants—producing abundant fruits on the same, and forcing it to m&turo tho.
oils three to four weeks earlier than cotton unfertilized, on same character of lands in thia
latitude. I believe your Bat Guano should'be used freely on our rich bottom or basins, so aa
to force the cotton to mature three or four weeks sooner than it usually does, not fertilized, in
North Alabama. I know fields of cotton (rioh basins) that will not make BhO lbs. of seed ootton,
owing to frost, that if it had been fertilized with 2MO to 300 lbs. of Bat Manure when planted
would have yielded 1,500 lbs. of seed cotton. It is upon these rich basins, in my opinion, that
Bat Manure should be used to produce a large orop of cotton.
Very respectfully, JOSEPH C.'BRADLEY.
Wheeler Station, Ala., November 20, 1876
W. H, Donegan, Esq : In reply to your favor of the 15th, in regard to experiments with Bat
Manure on Experimental Station of State Agricultural and Mechanical College, in my
would state that the result is most satisfactory to me, being second only in its fertilizing pio
prieties to “Villes complete manure ” With this exception it i% the most satisfactory of somoi
forty or fifty experiments with other fertilize**, and I congratulate the farmers of the Tennes
see Valley upon the di-eovery and availability of this most valuable Guano. So soon as the,
committee shall make their report, l shall he happy to furnish you a more detailed statement.
Your obedient sorvapL J. J, BARCLAY,
Huntsville. Ala, December 3, 1875.
W. H. Donegan, Huntsville, Ala.—My Dear Sir; It affords mo great pleasure to answer yoor
communication of the 15th November, in regard to the Tennessee Valley Guano, or Bat Ma
dura. I consider it the finest fertilizer for ootton, corn and all cereals, as well as for gra-ses
hat has ever been introduced. As to cotton it certainly fruits and matures beyond our most
saDguine expectations. Respectfully, . T- "• WHITE,
— Huntsville, Ala., November 16, 18 7 ,5.
Mr. W, H. Donegan, Huntsville, Ala.—Dear Sir: In reply to your note requesting the r eßU lt
of my experience with the Tennessee Valley Guano, I have to say : The middle of Mar eb last
I sowed broadcast two hundi ed pounds of the Tenne-see Valley Guano on one and one-six
teenth acres o f very poor red clay laud, whioh had been turned out as useless for years, and
only cultivated, for the first time within my recollection, the year before this. \ turned this
under deep with a two hor-e plow. On the 10th of April I bedded up this land,, after putting in
the drill two hundred pounds of the Tennessee Valley Guano te the one and obe-mxteonthacres.
Adjoining this I plowed the same way one and one-tbird acres, with seven two horse wagon
loads of good stable manure in the drill. I also prepared the same waj one acre of adjoining
land of like character without any manure or fertilizer. Cotton planted on all three tracts
the same day and received the same cultivation. The result is ;
Tennessee Valley Guano, 1 1-16 acres 784 pounds of seed Cotton.
Stable Manure, 111 acres 741 pounds of seed Cotton.
Without Manure, 1 acre 176 pounds of Beed Cotton.
An increase of five hundred and twenty-nine p**rads of seed ootton to the acre by the use
of the Tennessee Valley Guano—making in njppey, at present low prices of cotton, fifteen dollars
and eighty-seven cents, by the expenditure o i eight dollers. Upon the laod manured aud fer
tilized all the bolls of the cotton matured. lam satisfied the result would be equally as aston
ishing if used on the richest of c#r lands. Very respectfully, SAMUEL H. MOORE.
Cochtland, Ala., November 22, 1875-
Maj. Wm. H. Donegan, Huntsville. Ala.—Dear Sir : Your favor of the 15th of November,
asking to knuw t*e result of the use of the Bat Manure on my crop ie to hand. I used none of
it alone, hut in many instances in combination with the Super Phosphate. The trial was quite
satisfactory. Two hundred pounds of Bat Manure, combined with one hundred pounds of Super
Phosphate, increased the cotton crops from 75 to 100 per cent. Very respectfully.
febl3-d<fcwlm Yonr obedient servant. JAMESjjh_SAUNDERg : __
The Champion Fertilizer!
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DEFIES COMPETITION.
THIS FERTILIZER is NOT manufactured from Fish and Charleston Rock, but from Genuine
Peruvian Guano and Pure Ground Bones.
Professor Johnson of Yale College, and Chemist for the State of Connecticut, in his report
on. Commercial Feteriizers to the Board of Agriculture, says therein, .referring to Russel Coe’*
Bone Superphosphate: . .
“We have but one Single Superphosphate whose reputation is so good that dis
honest dealers care to steal its brand to sell their trash.”
TERMS—Free on cars at Augusta, Cash, SSO; Time, $65, with option of paying;
in Middling Cotton, on or before November Ist. Send for Circulars.
For sale by
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Local Agents at all points, GENERAL AGENTS FOR GEORGIA^
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