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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1874.
YOL. XVI.—NO. 185
A MESSAGE.
BY EBBN B. BKXrOKD.
, rising fair through
at m
he mldt v
hills which the sanshlne eternal has kissed.
You
You are going away,
will meet, on the shore that
will flu
your new life
Dear friends who sailed outward and left us
behind;
You will know them, and clasp them, and kiss
them unco more,
Grown young again there on the Beautful
j Shore.
V Oh friend, if you meet
The worn n 1 loved, on the shore far away,
BWttyou give her the message I tell you to-
YoRpill i'now her, I’m sure, by her faoe that
lair
I face of an angel, and long shining hair.
drifted over my
"•biff,
When the' ways that were severed on earth
shall be one.
I shall dome to her then, o’er the great solemn
Andolasp hor and claim her—that tell her for
me.
Bcmember, my friend,
YoUV bark Id already afloat on the tl >e
That Shall boar you out o’er the sea wild and
ling you’ll see her, and tell her for me
her and miss her this side of the
i DIRK NIGHT’S WORK.
BY MKH. OA8KILL.
Arranged from the English.
CHAPTER III.
[continued.]
Mr. Gorbct, as Ralph was always called
in Harnlov, was resolute in his cultivation
of himself, even exceeding what his tu
tor demanded of hiui. He was greedy of
information in the hours not devoted to
absolute study; Mr. Ness enjoyed giving
information, but most of all he liked the
hard, tough arguments on all metaphysi
cal and ethical questions in which Mr.
Oorbut delighted in engaging him. They
littd together on terms of happy equali
ty, having thus much in common. They
wave essentially different, however, al
though there were so many points of re-
•Mkblance. Mr. Nobs was unwordly as
ffcV as tho idea of real unworld!mess is
oompatible with a turn for self-indnlg-
enoe and indolence; while Mr. Oorbet
was deeply, radically worldly, yet for the
uooompli'hment of his object could deny
- * elf all the careless pleasures natural
* one frequent relaxation—that
of Mr. Wilkins’ company. Mr. NeRs
would stroll to tho office after the six
hours* hard reading were over—leaving
Mr. Oorbet still bent over the table—book
hoatrewn—and see whut Mr. Wilkins’ en
gagements wore. If ho had nothing bet
ter to do that evening, ho was either ask-
•d to dine at the par.-ouage, or ho, in his
careless hospitable way, invited the oth
er two to dine with him, Ellinor forming
the fourth at table, as far as seats went,
although her dinner had been eaten early
with Md-h Monro. She was little and
Might of her uge; her father never seera-
ed to nnder.stund how she was passing out
of ohildhood. Yet while in stAture she
was like a child, in intellect, in force of
character, in strength of clinging affec
tion she was a woman. There might be
much of the ttin.plicity of a child about
tj there whs little of the undeveloped
aryingjfrom day to day like an April
' ireless ns to which way her own
i tending. So tho two young
maople Hat with their elders, and both rel
ished the company they were thns pre
maturely thrown into. Mr. Corbet talked
•a much as either of the other two gen-
tlsmgn; opposing and disputing on any
Mdflt ns if to find out how muoh he could
urge against received opinions. Ellinor
eitMlent; her dark eyes flashing from
> time in vehement interest, some-
in vehement indignation if Mr.
riding a tilt at every one, ven-
i attack her father. He saw how
thMoonrsc excited hor, and rather liked
pursuing it in cobequeuce; he thought it
only amused him.
Another w ay in which Ellinor and Mr.
Gorbft.were thrown together occasionally
was this: Mr. Ness and Mr. Wilkins
■hared the same Times between them;
and it was Ellinor’s duty to see that the
paper was regulurly taken from her fath
er's house to the parsonage. Her father
liked to dawdle over it. Until Mr. Cor
bet had oonie to live with him, Mr. Ness
had not much cared at what time it was
passed on to him; but (he young man
took a strong interest iu all public events
and especially iu ail that was said about
them. He grew' impatient if the paper
was not forthcoming, and would Kct off
ihimself to go lor it, sometimes meeting
Abe penitent, breathless Ellinor in the
long lane which led from Hamley to Mr.
Wilkins* house. At tirot he used to re
ceive her eager “Oh! I am so sorry, Mr.
Corbet, but papa has only just done with
it,” rather gruffly. After a time he had
the grace to tell her it did not signify;
and by and by ho w ould turn back with
her to give her some advice about her
garden or her plants, for his mother snd
sisters were first rate practical gardeners,
and ha himself was, us he expressed it,
“a capital consulting physician for a sick
ly plant.”
All this time his voice, his step never
xaiaad the child's color one shade the
highary never made her heart beat the
least quicker, as the slightest sign of her
father's approach was wont to do. bhe
learned to rely on Mr. Corbet for advice,
for a little occasional sympathy, and for
muoh condescending attention. He also
gave her more fault-finding than all the
Teat of tho world put together, and curi
ously enough, she was grateful to him for
It, rorsbe really was humble and wished
to improve He liked the attitude of su
periority which this implied and exercis
edright gave him. They were very good
friend* at present. Nothing more.
All this time I have only spoken of Mr.
Wilkins’ life as ho stood in relation to his
daughter. But there is far more to be
uaiaaboutit. After his wife’s death, he
Withdrew himself from society for a year
Of two iu a more positive and decided
manner tbnn is common with widowers.
It was during this retirement of his that
rivited his little daughter’s heart in
way as to influence all her future
i he began to go out again,it might
i perceived, had any one careato
, how much the different characters
father and wife had influenced him
t him steady. Not that he broke
immoral oondoot, but ha
had hitherto been only occasional; they
now became habitual, as far as the sea
sons permitted. Ho shared a moor in
Scotland with one of the Holsters one
year, persuading himself that, the bracing
air was good for Ellinor’s health. But
the year afterward he took another, this
time joining with u comparative stranger;
and on this moor there was no house to
which it was lit to bring a child and her
attendants. He persuuded himself that
by frequent journeys he could make up
for his absences from Hamley. But jour
neys cost money; and ho was often away
from his office when important business
required attending to. There was some
talk of a now attorney setting up in Ham-
ley, to be supported by one or two of the
more influential country families, who
had found Wilkins not so attentive ah bis
father. Sir Frank Holster Rent for his
relation, and told him of this project,
speaking to him at the same time in pret
ty round terms as to tho folly of the life
he was leading. Foolish it certainly wus,
and as such Mr. Wilkins was secretly ac
knowledging it, but when Sir Frank,lush
ing himself, began to speak of his hear
er s presumption in joining the hunt, in
aping the mode of life and amusements
of the lauded gentry, Edward tired up.
He knew how much Sir Frank was dipped
and comparing it with tho round sum his
own father had left him, ho said some
plain truths to Sir Frank which tho latter
never forgave, and henceforth there w*as
no intercourse betweon Holster Court
and Ford Bank, ns Mr. Edward Wilkins
had christened his father’s house on his
first return from the Continent.
The conversation had two consequences
besides the immediate one of the quar
rel. Mr. Wilkins advertised for a respon
sible and confidential clerk to conduct the
business under his own superintendence,
and ho also wrote to the Herald’s College
to ask them if he did not belong to the
fumily bearing the same name iu South
Wales—those who have since renssumed
their ancient name of DeWinton.
Both applications wore favorably an
swered. A skillful, experienced middle-
aged clerk was recommended to him by
one of the principal legal firms in Lou
don, and immediately engaged to come to
Hamley at his own terms, which were
pretty high. But as Mr. Wilkius said it
was worth any money to pay for the re
lief from coustaut responsibility, which
such a business as bis involved, some peo
ple remarked that he had never appeared
to feel the responsibility very much hith
erto, as witness his absences in Scotland,
his various social engagemeuts when ut
home; it had been very different (they
said) in his father’s day. The Herald’s
College gave him hopes of affiliating him
to the South Wales’ family, but it would
require time and money to make the re
quisite inquiries and substantiate the
claim. Now in many a place there would
be none to contest the right a man might
have to assert that he belonged to such
and such a family, or oven to assume
their arms. But it was otherwise in
shire. Every one was up in genealogy
and heraldry, and considering filching a
name and a pedigree a far worse sin than
any of those mentioned iu the command
ments. There were those among them
who would doubt and dispute even the
decision of the Herald’s College; but with
it, if in his favor, Mr. Wilkins intended to
be satisfied, and accordingly he wrote in
reply to their letter to say tliut of course
he was awaro that such inquiries would
take a considerable sum of money, but
that still ho wished them to be made and
that speedily.
Before the end of the year he went up
to London to order a brougham to bo
built (for Ellinor to drive out in wet
weather, ho said; but us going in a closed
carriage always made her ill, he used it
principally himself in driving to dinner
parties) with the Do Wiuton Wilkinses
arms neatly emblazoned on panel and
harness. Hitherto he had always gone
about in a dog cart—the immediate de
scendant of his father’s old-fashioned gig.
For all this the squires, ;his employers,
only laughed at him, and did not
treat him with one whit more respect.
Mr. Punster,the now clerk, was a quiet,
respectable looking muu; you could not
call him a gentleman iu manner, and yet
no one could say he wus vulgar. He had
not much varying expression on his face,
but a permanent one of thoughtful con
sideration of the subject in bund, what
ever it might bo, that would have fitted
as well with tho profession of medicine
as with that of law, and was quite the
right look for either. Occasionally a
bright flash of sudden intelligence light
ed up his deep sunk eyes, but even this
was quickly extinguished as by some to
ward repression, and the habitually reflec
tive, subdued expression returned to the
face. As soon as he came into his situa
tion he first began quietly to arrange the
papers, and next the business of
which they .were the outwurd sign into
more methodical order than they had
been in since old Mr. Wilkins’ death.
Punctual to a moment himself, he look
ed his displeased surprise when the infe
rior clerks camo tumbling in half an hour
after the time in tho morning; and his
look was more effective than uiiiny men’s
words; henceforward the subordinates
were within five minutes of the appoint
ed hour for openiug the office; but still
he was always there before them. Mr.
Wilkins himself winced under bis new
clerk’s order and punctuality; Mr. Dun-
ster’s raised eyebrow, and contraction of
the lips at some woeful confusion in the
business of the office, chafed Mr. Wilkins
more, far more thun any open expression
of opinion w’ould have done; for that he
could have mot and explained away, as
he fancied. A secret respectful dislike
grew up in his bosom against' Mr. Dun-
ster. He esteemed him, he valued him,
and he could not bear him. Year after
year Mr. Wilkins had become more un
der the influence of his feelings, and loss
under the command of his reason. He
rather cherished than repressed his ner
vous repugnance to the harsh, measured i
tones of Mr. Punster’s voice: tho latter
spoke with a provincial twang which
grated *on his employer’s sensitive ear.
He was annoyed at a certain green coat !
which his new clerk brought with biin, .
and he watched its increasing shabbiness ,
with a Rort of childish pleasure. But by i
and by Mr. Wilkins found out that from j
some perversity of taste Mr. Punster al
ways had his coats,|Sundny and working j
day, made of this obnoxious color: and
this knowledge did not diminish his se-
cret irritation. The worst of all, per- !
haps, watt that Mr. Punster was really in
valuable in many ways—“a perfect treas
ure,” as Mr. Wilkins used to term him in
speaking of him after dinner; but for all
that he came to hate his ‘perfect treasure’
as he gradually felt that Punster had be
come so indispenable to tho business that
his chief coulu not do without him.
The clients re echoed Mr. Wilkins’
words, and spoke of Mr. Punster os in
valuable to his master, a thorough treas
ure, the very saving of the business. They
had not been better attended to, not even
in old Mr. Wilkins’ days; such a clear
head, such a knowledge of law, such a
steady, upright fellow, always at his post.
The grating voice, the drawling accent,
the bottle-green coat were nothtog to
them; far less noticed, in fact, than Wil
kins’ expensive habits, the money he paid
for his wine and horses, and the nonsense
of claiming kin with the Welsh Wil-
kinoes, and setting up his brougham to
drive aboat shire lanes, snd be
kaoakad to pieoea over the rough round
••JjRdojMiUnriof.
»e«sasfca did not oome near
n. Hi nor to trouble her life. To her her
dear father was tho first of human be
ings; so sweet, so good,so kind, so charm
ing in conversation, so full of accom-
E lishment and information! To her
oalthy, lmppy mind, every one turned
their bright side. She loved Miss Mon
ro—all the servants, especially Dixon, the
coachman, lie had been her father’s
play fellow ns a boy, and, with all his re
spect and admiration for h»s master, the
freedom of intercourse that had been es
tablished between them then had never
been quite lost. Dixon was a fine stal
wart old fellow, and was as harmonious
in his ways with his master ns Mr. Pun
ster was discordant; accordingly, ho was
a groat favorite, and could say many a
thing which might have been taken as
impertinent from another servant.
He was Ellinor’s great confidant about
many of her little plans and projects,
things that she dared not speak of to Mr.
Corbet, who, after her father and Dixon,
was her next host friend. This intimacy
with Dixon displeased Mr. Corbet; he
once or twice insinuated that he did not
think it was well to talk so familiarly ns
Ellinor did with a servant, one out of a
completely different class, such as Dixon.
Ellinor did not easily take hints; every
one had spoken plain out to her hitherto;
so Mr. Corbet had to say his meaning
plain out at last. Then for the first timo
he saw her angry; bin she was too youug,
too childish, to havo words at will to ex
press hor feelings; she could only say
broken beginnings of sentences, such as
“What a shame! Good, dearDixou, who
is as loyal and true and kiud as any no-
blemuu. I like him far better than you,
Mr. Corbet, and I shall talk to him.”
And then she burst into tears and ran
away, und would not come to wish Mr.
Corbet good-bye, though she knew she
should not see him again for a long time,
as he was returning tho next day to his
futhor’s house, from whence he would go
to Cambridge.
He was annoyed at this result of the
good advice he had thought himself
bound to give to a motherless girl, who
had no one to instruct her in tho proprie
ties iu which his own sisters wore brought
up; ho left Hamley both sorry and dis
pleased. As for Ellinor, when she found
out the next day that he really was gone,
—gono without oven coming to Ford Bank
again to see if she wero not penitent for
her angry words—gone W’ithoutsayiug or
hearing a word of good-bye, she shut her
self up in her room, and cried more bit
terly than ever, because anger against
herself was mixed with hor regret for his
loss. Luckily her father was dining out,
or lie would have iuquired what was the
matter with his darling, and she would
have L td to try to explain what could not
be explained. As it was she sat with her
back to the light during the school-room
tea, and afterward, when Miss Monro had
settled down to her study of the Spanish
language, Ellinor stole out into the gar
den, meaning to have a fresh cry over her
own naughtiness aud Mr. Corbet’s depart
ure; but the August evening was still
und calm, and put her passionate grief to
shame, hushing her upas it were with the
other >ouug creatures who wero being
soothed to rest by the serene time of day
and the subdued light of the twilight
sky.
There w as a piece of ground surround
ing tho flower garden, which was not
shrubbery nor wood, nor kitcheu garden
—only a grassy bit, out of which a group
of old forest trees sprang. Their roots
were heaved above ground; their leaves
fell in autumn so profusely that the
turf wus rngged and bure in spring ; but
to make up for this, there never was such
a place for snow drops.
The roots of these old trees were Elli
nor’s favorite play place; this space be
tween these two was her doll’s kitcheu,
that its drawing room, and so on. Mr.
Corbet rather despised her contrivances
for doll’s furniture, so she had not often
brought him here; but Dixon dolighted
in them, and contrived und planned with
the eagerness of six years old rather than
forty. To-night Ellinor weut to this
place, aud there were all a now collection
of ornaments for Miss Dolly’s oitttog
room made out of fir-bobs, in the pret
tiest and most ingenious way. She knew
it was Dixon’s doing, and rushed off in
search of him to thank him.
“What’s tho matter with my pretty ?”
asked Dixon, ns soon ns the pleasant ex
citement of thanking and being thanked
wus over, and ho had leisure to look at
her tear-stained face.
“Oh! I don’t know! never miud,”
said she reddening.
Dixon was silent for a moment or tw’o,
while she tried to turn off his attention
by her hurried prattle.
“There’s no trouble afoot that I can
mend?" asked bo, iu n minute or two.
“Oh no! it’s really nothing—nothing
at all,” said she. “lt r s only that Mr. Cor
bet wont away without saying good-bye
tome, that’s all." Aud she looked as if
she would have liked to cry again.
“That wus not manners,” said Dixon,
decisively.
“But it was my fault," replied Ellinor,
pleading against tho condemnation.
Dixon looked at her pretty sharply from
under his rngged, bushy eye-brows.
“Ho had been giving mo a lecture, and
saying that I did not do what his sisters
did—just as if I wore to bo always trying
to be liko somebody else—and I was cross
aud ran away.”
“Then it was Missy who would not say
good-bye. That was not good manners
iu Missy.”
“But, Dixon, I don’t like being lectur
ed!”
“I reckon you don’t get much of it.
But,indeed,my pretty,I dure say Mr Corbet
was in tho right; for you sec muster is
busy, and Miss Monro is so dreadful
learned, und your poor mother is deud
aud goue, and you have no one to teach
yon how youug ladies go on; and by all
accounts Mr. Corbet comeH of a good
family. I've heard say his father hud the
best stud farm in all .Shropshire, and
spared no money upon it; and tho young
ladies, his sisters, will have been taught
tho best of manners; it might be well for
my pretty to hear how they go on.”
•'You dear old Dixon, you don’t know
anything about my lecture, and I am not
going to tell you. Only I dare say Mr.
Corbet might be a little bit right, though
I am sure ho was a great deal wrong.”
“But you'll not go on a fretting—you
won’t now, there’s a good young ludy; for
master won't like it, and it will make him
uneasy, and lie’s iu enough of trouble
without your red eyes, bless them.”
“Trouble—pupa, trouble ! Oh, Dixon,
what do you mean?” exclaimed Ellinor,
her fuce taking all a woman’s intensity of
expression in u minute.
“Nay, I know naught," said Dixon eva
sively. “Only that Dunster fellow is not
to my mind, and I think he pesters the
master sadly with his fid-fad ways.”
“I hate Mr- Dunster,” said Ellinor, ve
hemently. “I won't speak a word to
him tho next time he comes to dine with
papa.”
“Missy will do what papa likes best,”
said Dixon udmonisbiugly; and with this
the “pair of friends" parted.
CHAPTER IV.
The snmmer afterward Mr. Corbet
came again to read with Mr. Ness. He
did not perceive any alteration in him
self, and indeed his early matured char
acter had hardly made progress during
the last twelve months, whatever total*
leotual acquirements he might have made.
Therefore it was astonishing to him to
see the alteration iu Ellinor Wilkius. She
had shot up from a rather puny girl to u
tall, alight young lady, with promise of
great beauty in the fuce, which a
year ago had only been remarkable for
the fineness of tho eyes. Tier complex
ion was clear now, although colorless—
twelve months ago ho would have called
it 8h11ow—her delioato cheek was smooth
ns marble, her teeth wore even and white,
and here rare smiles called out n lovely
dimple.
8he met her former friend and lecturer
with a grave shyness; for she remember
ed well how they had parted, aud thought
he could hardly havo forgiven, much less
forgotten, her passionate flinging away
from him. But tho truth wus, aftortho
first few hours of offended displeasure,ho
had censed to think of it at all. She,
poor child, by way of proving hor repen
tance, had tried hard to reform her bois
terous tom-boy manners, iu order to
show him that, although she would not
giveup her dear old friend Dixon at his or
nuy one’s bidding, she would strive to
profit by his lectures in all things renson-
ble. Tho consequence wus, that she sud
denly appeared to him as an elegant, dig
nified young ludy, instead of tho rough
little girl he reuiembored. Still below
her somewhat formal mnnuers there lurk
ed the old wild spirit, as ho could plainly
see after a little more watching; and he
begAn to wish to call this out, and to
strive, by reminding her of old days, und
nil her childish frolics, to flavor her sub
dued manners and speech, with a little of
tho former originality.
In this he succeeded. No ono, neither
Mr. Wilkius, nor Miss Monro, nor Mr.
Ness saw .wiint this youug conp’e wore
about—they did not know it themselves;
but before tho summer was over they
were desperately iu lovo with each other,
or perhaps I should rather say Ellinor
was desperately in love with him, ho ns
pussionately as he could bo with any one;
but in him the totel lout was superior iu
strength to either affections or passions.
The causes of tho blindness of those
around them w’ore those: Mr. Wilkins
still considered Ellinor as a little girl, ns
his own pet, his durltog, but nothing
more. Miss Monro was anxious about
her own improvement. Mr. Ness was
deep iu a new edition of Horace, which
he was going to bring out with notes. I
believe Dixon would have been keouer-
sighted, but EllRor kept Mr. Corbet and
Dixon apart for obvious reasons—they
were each hor dear friends, but she knew
that Mr. Corbet did not like Dixon, aud
suspected that tho feeling was mutual.
The only change of circumstances bo-
tween this year aud tho pievious one con
sisted in this development of attachment
between the young people. Othowise
every thing went on apparently as usual.
With Ellinor the course of the day was
something like this: Up curly and into
the garden until breakfast time, when
she made tea for her father aud Miss
Monro in the diniug room, always taking
caTe to lay a little nosegay of freshly
gathered flowers by hor father’s plate.
After breakfast, when tho conversation
had been on general and indifferent sub
jects, Mr. Wilkius withdrew into the little
study, so often mentioned. It opened
out of the pnssngo that ran between tho
dining room and the kitchen, on the. loft
hand of tho hall. Corresponding to tho
dining room, ou tho othor side of the hall
was tho drawing room, with its side win
dow serving us u door into a conservatory,
and this again opened iuto the library.
Old Mr. Wilkins had added a semi-circu
lar projection to tho library, which was
lighted by a dome above, und showed off
his son’s Italian purchases of sculpture.
The library was by far tho most striking
aud agreeable room iu the house; and tho
consequence was that the drawing room
was seldom used, and hud tho aspect
of cold discomfort common to apartments
rarely occupied. Mr. Wilkins’ study, on
the other side of the house, was also an
after thought, built only a few years ugo,
and projected from the regularity of the
outside wal 1 ; a little stoue passage led in.
to it from the hall, small, narrow and
dark, and out of which no other door
opened.
The study itself was a hexagon, ouo
side-window, ono the-place, and the re
maining four being occupied wutU doors,
two of which hnve already been mention
ed, another at the foot of tho narrow
winding straits which led straight iuto
Mr. Wilkins’ bed-room over the diniug
room, and tho fourth opening into a path
through tho shrubbery to the right of the
flower-garden as you looked from tho
house. This path led through tho stable-
yard, and then by a short cut right into
Hamley, and brought you out close to Mr.
Wilkius’ office; it was by this way ho al
ways went to and returned from his busi
ness. He used the study fora smoking
and lounging room principally, although
he always spoke of it as a convenient
place for holding confidential communi
cations which such of bis clients us did
not like discussing their bu-inehs within
the possible heuring of all the clerks iu
his office. By the outer door ho could
also pass to the stables, and see that all
proper care was taken at all times of his
favorite and valuable horses. Into this
study Ellinor would follow him of u
morning, helping him ou with his great
coat, mending his gloves, talking mi infi
nite deni of merry fond nothing, and
then, clinging to his arm, she would ac
company him in his visits to the stables,
going up to tlio shyest horses, and pet
ting thorn, und j utting them, and feed
ing them with bread all tho time that her
futher held converso with Dixon. When
he was tiua’ly gone—and sometimes it
was u long time first—she returned to the
school room to Miss Monro, and tried to
set herself hard at work at her lessons.
But she had not much time for steady
application. If her father had cored for
her progress in anything, she would and
could have worked hard at that study or
accomplishment; but Mr. Wilkins, the
ease and pleasure loving man, did not
wish to make himself into the pod igoguc,
as ho would have considered it, if lie had
ever questioned Ellinor with a real steady
purpose of ascertaining her intellectual
progress. Itwasquito enough for him
that her general intelligence and variety
of desultory and miscellaneous reading
made her a pleasant and agrcoublc com
panion for his hours of relaxation.
At tw elve o’clock Ellinor put away her
books with joyful eagerness, kissed Miss
Monro,asked her if they should go a regu
lar walk, and was always rather thankful
when it was decided that it would be
better to stroll iu tho garden—a decision
very often come to, for Miss Monro hated
fatigue, hated dirt, hated scrambling, and
dreaded rain; all of which are evils, the
chances of which aro never far distant
from country walks. Ho Ellinor dunccd
out into tho garden, worked away among
her flowers, played at the old games among
the roots of the trees, und when she could
[ seduce Dixon in tho flower gulden to
, have a little consultation as to the horses
j und dogs. For it was one of her father’s
1 few strict rules that Ellinor was never to
| go into the stable yard unless ho were
j with her; so these tete-a-tetes with Dixon
I were always held in the flower garden, or
bit of'forest ground surrounding it. Miss
l Monro sat and basked in the sun, close to
I the diul, which made the centre of the
gay flower-beds, upon which the dining
i room/and study windows looked.
1 At one o’clock EUinor and Miss Monro
; dined. An hour wah allowed for Miss
1 Monro’s digestion, which Ellinor again
■pent oat of doors, and at three lessons
began and lasted until five. At that
time they went to dress preparatory for
tho school room teant half past live. Aftor
tea Ellinor tried to prepare her lossons
for tho next day; but all tho timo she was
listening for her father's footstep—tho
moment she hoard that she dashed dowu
her book, and flow out of the room to
welcome aud kins him. Soven was his
dinner hour, lie hardly ever dined aloue,
indeed he often dined from home four
days out of soven, and wheu ho had no
engagement to take him out ho liked to
havo some ono to keep him company. Mr.
Ness very often, Mr. Corbet along with
him if he was in Hamley, a stranger
friend, or one of his clients. Sometimes,
reluctantly, aud when ho fancied he could
not avoid tho attention without giving of
fense, Mr. Wilkins would ask Mr. Dmi
ster, and thou tho two would always fol
low Ellinor iuto tho library at a very early
hour, as if their subjects for tete-a-tete
conversation wore quite exhausted. With
all his other visitors Mr. Wilkins r.at long
—yes, and yearly longer; with Mr. Ness
because they became interested in each
other’s conversation, with some of the
others, because the wine was good, and
tho host hated to spare it. ,
[to be continued. ]
SCIENTIFIC NOTES.
—A wiiter to Nature says the timo is
passed for the publication of simple state
ments of the commonplaoe facts of oste-
ology ; tho subject is more than over
loaded with them already. What is now
wanted is the application to thorn of some
methods by which, like the doctriuo of
evolution, or the vertebrato theory of the
skull, those at present on hand may bo
turned to better account in determining
tho true affinities of different animals, or
the means by which the proRcnt state of
things lias been arrived at.
—Mr. Loiseau, of Philadelphia, has in
vented a uiachiuo which, with the holp of
two men, will produce cue hundred and
titty tons of artificial fuel in a day. The
materials are of ninety-five per cent, of
coal dust with five per cent, of clay,
sprinkled during the mixiug with milk of
huio. Tho pastry mass is then monldod
into egg-shaped lumps; these are dried
on belts of wire gauze, aro dipped iuto n
solution of resin and benzine, to render
them damp-proof, and aro ready for the
market. In this way, it iH hoped, a menus
of utilizing the prodigious heaps of coal-
dust at the Pennsylvania mines has been
discovered.
—OyBtors are senreo iu Englaud, und
tho celebratod bods of Arcachou aud Con-
curneau iu the west of France, are less
productive than formerly. People have
made more progress iu eating than in
raising thtsu bivalves, aud notwithstan
ding the millions eaten every year, very
little is known of their habits and the
condition of their growth. It is now
ascertained that oysters will not grow in
certuiu localities where the conditions aro
apparently exactly similar to other locali
ties whero they will thrive; and tho
gradual change wrought by the sea in
certain pnrt.s of the coast may account,
quite as much as overfishing, for the
grnduul extinction of oysters.
—A paper has been read before the
British Meiorological Society by W. Gal
loway, inspector of mines, which showed
beyond the possibility of a doubt that the
escape of tire-damp is related unduly to
the conditions of atmospherical pressure,
aud tliHt a careful watch over the harome-
tor is, above all, necessary iu oneh colliery,
though one such record would suffice for
KuVt iul adjacent mines. The paper gives
some instances of explosions which might
all have boeu prevented by proper Venti
lation und by the use of safety-lumps, and
slutes how pressing the need is that -nfe-
t.v lamps only should be used in all places
where fire-dump may accumulate, when
ever the atmosphere is in u disturbed
condition, as shown by tlio record of the
barometer and thermometer.
—Three different velocities concurring Id'
produce iu an open organ-pipe the one
fundamental tone, which we call its pitch,
the super-nodal wave having ono veloci
ty, and the sub-nodal wave having for its
course aud recourse two different rates
of progression. The motiou of vibra
tion is an activity tempered by rests. In
every wind-instrument wo perceive in'i-
luutmiiH that the period of rest is origi
nally governed by ihu special structure
of each, and experiment shows that we
can arbitrarily limit or prolong it; this
variable ratio of rest to activity is to be
taken into all calculated times und veloci
ties. In forming a true conception of the
behavior of musical reeds, and in tracing
out the process of tone-making in organ-
pipes and other wind-instruments, the
modifying influence of tho “rest” be
tween the vibrations announces itself as
of vital importance. The uction of the
heart furnishes u parallel instance—con
traction, dilution, pause—tho three mak
ing up the rhythmic period of the heart’s
bout, und their relative duration varying
with tho individual organization.
—The mass of water in the tropics,
says Leuz, warmed dowu to a certain
depth by the sun's heat, cannot maintain
its equilibrium with the colder water of
the middle and higher latitudes; a flow
of the warmer water from the equator to
the poles must necessarily take place on
the surface, aud this surface-flow must In-
supplied at the equator by a flow of
colder water from high latitudes, which
would at first flow in an almost horizontal
direction but wbichiiuderlhe equator must
rise from below to tho sur'ace. In this
manner, in the northern hemisphere, a
great vertical circulation takes places in
the oeoun, which lias its direction above
from the equator lo tho pole, and below
from the pole to tho equator. Sines these
flow-, moving in opposite directions, are
distinguished by their different tempera-
turn*, we observe in tho submarine isoth
erm an indication of the dim tion of tho
lower portion of this flow. A corns
ponding flow, but movitig in 'he opposite
direction, takes place in tho southern
hemisphere; so that in a zone surround
ing' the equator, where tho two flows meet,
tho water flows almost in the direction
from below up to the surface.
—A memorial for woman suffrage s'gu-
ed by women, was presented to
Mr. Disraeli. Tho list is beaded by Flor
ence Nightengale, followed by Harriet
Mnrtineuu, Mary Carpenter, Lady Anna
Gore Langton,Miss Frances Power Cobbe,
Miss Thackeray, Miss Anne Hwanwick,
and many other ladies eminent for their
inte.lloctuul at twin merits and social posi
tion. The Premier, in his reply, express
ed himself as much honored by such an
offering. Vet wheu the moment came for
helping the oauso in the House, ho forgot
all his fine sontimeuts and complimenta
ry professions. A politician makes a
►orry sort of philanthrooist at the bed.
Reynard is a poor wutcu-dog for his
master.
—Tho Is tost device for preventing In
dian raids iH to abolish the Indians. To
steal their borseH. and then shoot whoever
tries to recover them is the programme.
It is simple as hrfads I win and tails you
lose.
— When Chicago was burning, tho
Mayor of Boston telegraphed an offer of
assistance iu case of need. Boston knows
bow to sympathise with Chicago. Sympa
thies, like honey-suokle, thrive wouder-
f ally under a treatment of aahes.
Why Dickens and Ilia Wire Farted.
Thu Loudon correspondent of the New
Yook A endian says of Dickuu's domestic
unhappiness:
“In the last American papers which
have come to hand I see that Wilkie Col
lins’ drama of The Frozen lhcp has boon
performed in Boston. You ure perhaps
aware that Collins lias recently boeu en
gaged in turniug this play iuto a novel.
The Frozen Deep awakens many sad re
flections in my miud, ns that piece was
indirectly the means of bringing about
much of Dickous' domestic unhappiness.
Tho whole story of his separation from
his wife has never yet been properly told,
and iu all probability novor will bo, hs
his widow is resolved to maintain tho
silence she has so long kept. But it is
generally known that the family is dissat
isfied with Forster's book. Your readers
may have heard of the grand umatcur
performances given in 18.V.1 at the Freo
Trade Hall, Mauchoster, in nid of the
Douglass Jerrold Fund. Dickens, Collins,
Shirley Brooks, Mark Lemon, and many
other celebrated writers took parts. The
ladies' characters wero interpreted by
professional uctresses. Among these wi«b
Miss Ellen Ternan. Sho w*s then n fresh,
ploasant-lookiug girl, not especially pret
ty, but possessing a good figure ami an
extiemely Agreeable muuiier. If over the
German poet's doctrine of elective affini
ties was proved to bo true, it was wheu
Dickons and Miss Ternan mot. It was
evident to nearly all that the two were
mutually infatuated. Dickens was con
stantly at her side, though his manner
was carefully guarded. Mrs. Dickens was
with the purty, but did not appear to
notice tho iutimaev. Very soon after
these performances Miss Ternan, at Dick
ons’ wish, left the stage. His affection
for her was Raid to havo been purely pb-
tonic, and I have never mot nuy ono who
was disposed to dispute this belief. But,
nevertheless, it was this intimacy which
was the final causo of tho rtjpturo be
tween Diekins and his wife. For many
years prior to 185!) their mutual rein ions
had been anything but happy, although I
do not think that Mrs. Dickous hud pie-
viously had any well-grounded cause for
jealousy. A short time after tho pur'y
returned from Manchester, Mrs. Diok.-ns
weut into a fashionable jeweler's n» the
West End, whore she was iu the Inh't of
dealing,and was asked by ono of the firm,
who kuew her well, how she liked her
new bracelet. Hhe said that she did not
understand him, as she had not received
any such urtiolo. The gentleman then
explained that it wasoue Mr. Dickons hnd
ordered for his wife, with a likeness and
some hair in. This of oourae opouod Mrs.
Dickens’eyes, and a separation speedily
followed. Hines that time Mrs. Dickens
has lived very quietly in a pretty little
house near the Regont’s Park, wlicro hor
children, whose respect aud affection she
has always enjoyed, have ever been fre
quent visitors.”
Dentine In Tigers.
Two dealers, Mr. Jamrach in London,
and Herr Hagcnheck in Hamburg, have
almost a monopoly of tile trade iu wild
uuimals. The former recoutly gave some
of liis experience with tigorH. He says:
When the young tigers are accustomed to
intercourse with men, they ure always
tame, but you must not go near them at
feeding timo. My assistant took a largo
tiger, two years old, to Londuu in n sail
ing vessel from Culcutta; ho pluyod with
every ouo on bonrd, and was ouly shut up
iu h s cage at night. His groat friend was
a dog, a rut catcher, and they were tnkou
together iu the same cage to America. 1
havo often tried to bring up tigers wi h
other uuimals, and havo succeed id beat
with common Indiuu jackals; 1 believe the
scent of this auiinul prevents tlio tiger
from nttaching it. The tiger's greatest
enemies next to man are monkeys It j N
interesting to see the courage und dex
terity of a monkey when he < annul es
cape an encounter. I once put a groat
baboon with a nearly full grown tiger.
The baboon leaped upon the tige 'h back
and look firm hold with his teeth. Tho
t ger could not shake him off, und it was
with great difficulty that we took tho Im-
lioon out of the cage. Ho seized the ti
ger by tlio neck through tho burs, and
vented his rage by biting them. I never
made the experiment again.
I bad great difficulty in getting tigers
between the years 18(55 ’(57, as tho Indian
jewelers would give five or six rupees a
piece for claws,which wero used for orna
ments. The sliikureos, therefore found it
auswered better to shoot tigers than to
capture them. A good skill is worth two
or three times us much in India or it iH in
Europo. You may get 120 to 150 rupees
fora handsomely marked skin. There is
now but little demand for living tigers,
so that the Hhikarees devote themselves
chiefly to killing them. And, although
hundreds are killed every year, there is
still un immense number of them. It is
almost incredible bow many human be
ings are devoured by them. A tiger gen
erally only becomes a man-eater when
other food fails; but when he 1ms once
taken to killing men, he keeps at it. 1 be
lieve that all tlio tigers in Singapore are
man-eaters, for there is no other food for
them. It lius been proved that one Chi
nese wood cutter disappeared on an aver
age every day. I havo seen many tigers
from Singapore, old |nnd young, but
they were none of them tunic. At Ma
dras, on board n steamer, my assistant
wus frightened out of his berth one night
by a tiger having gnawed through the
roof of his cabin. This was ouo from
Singapore. Before tho opouing of the
Suez canal there was a great difficulty
about the transport of tigers. 1 once had
seven tigers on board a ship, and twenty
two oxen for food, of which seventeen
died in one week of u pestilence. Tho
tigers hud to content themselves with two
pounds of meat per day until moro could
bo procured ut Cape Town. There have
been many cross breeds between lions
und tigers iu English menageries, but the
cubs are never rearod.”
—Ouo of the best modern specimens of
tho hero is George Builbymer, who, while
uboad a Mississippi steamer with his hands
manacled for larceny, leaped into the
river after a little girl who had fallen
from the deck. He caught up the child
and raised her to tho surface, lint the rapid
current swept him under and oariiod the
child from his sehacklcd hands; again he
came to the surface, and again ho caught
tho child, and again ho began to struggle
to keep the child above water, wliilo
scores of men and good swimmers stood
by and waited for the Hmall bout to reach
tho struggling man und little child. They
wore saved.
—The Louisville Courier-Journal says
there was an accident opposite its
office the other day; aud as an illustra
tion of journalistic enterprise, it men
tions the faot that within ten minutes
of the occurrence a reportor of every
daily paper in the city whs at the spot
with note-book iu band. This is well for
Louisville; but had it occurred in Now
York the reportor of the Sun would
have got the start of the uociilont by a
couple of hours, and tho Herald would
havo had a special dispatch giving all the
particulars the night before.
—Mr. Barton finds that trying to teach
the daily paper* to tall the truth is worse
than lover labor lost. They do not be
lieve so much in lying as in stickiug to
the lie when onoe it is told. There is
nothing like oonriattnoy unless it be
mucilage.
Lawyers.
JOSEPH F. POU,
Attorney at Law,
and Judge of County Court.
1'ractlcos In all other Courts.
Ofllco over store or W. II. Roberts k Co., Broad 8t.
MAMIIKI. H. HATCHER,
Attorney at Law.
JttHO Office over Wittlch k Ktnsel's.
J. M. McNeill,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Prsctic os in court, of Georgia und Alubauia.
Office ia» Broad at., (over llolntcud k Co.'s.
j 1 i" , ‘> : ‘l attention given to collect ion*. Jail
Martin J. Crawford.
tWFORD.
INGRAM St URAWFORDM,
Attorneys at Law,
Wilt practice in tho State aud Federal Courts of
Georgia.
Illgcs & Co.'s Htore, uorthwest
Jtt8_
A. A. DOZIER,
Attorney aud Counsellor at Law,
Practice, in Htuto and Federal Courts in Georgia
JsO
Mark II. Ulandford. Louih F. Garrard.
RLANDFORD * GARRARD,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law.
GUIco No. 07 Bread Rtroet, ever Wittich k Klu
xer. Jewelry Htore.
Will practico In tho Stato and Federal Courts.
sep4
Jas. M. KurtMKLt. Char. J. Swift.
HUMNELL St MWIFT,
Attorney, und Counsellor, ut Law. Will practice
iu tlio Court, of Georgia (Chattahoochee Ciroult)
u..d Alabama. (Hike over C. A. Hedd * Co.’, .tore,
Broad street, Columbus, Ga. jal
L. T. DOWNING,
Attorney aud Nolleltor.
II. 8. Com'r and ltegister iu Uaukruptcj. Ollke
nov‘iO| over Brook.' Drug Htore, Columbus, Ga.
PEABODY St BRANNON,~
Attorneys at Law.
Gffice ovf.r J. Knnis k Co.'h Storr, Broad St.,
m.vlHJ Wist Side.
R. J. MOHEN,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Doctor*.
tliorpe Hts. Office hour.—7 t
DR. COLXEY.
a mid Office corner of Bt. Clair and Ogle-
12 to 2 p. M.,
«ep27 dtf
DR. U. B. LAW.
i corner Uroud and Randolph street., Burrin'
building.
leuco on Forsyth, three door. !>elow 8t. Clair.
DR. J. A. UBRUHART,
• at C. J. Moffett's Drug Htore, llroad street,
hwldeuca on Bt. Clair, between llroad and
ift Front 8ts., Columbus, Ga.
DR. J. C. COOK,
Dru&^ists.
J. I. GRIFFIN,
Importrd Drug, and Chemicals,
Prescription, carefully prepared.
JalH jNo. 100 Uroud .treat.
JOHN L. JORDAN,
Drufffffat,
Two doors below Goo. W. Brown's,
Uroud Street, Columbus, Ga.
4«r Nit>f Ibdl right of .oiitli door. st-pf,
A. X. BRANNON,
Wmt Side, Broad Strew, OoumsuH, Ga.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
Bruits and Medicinal*
Toilet Articles and Perfnniery.
Cotton Factories.
COLUMBUM MANUFACTURING CO.,
Munulacturer. of
Shm'tlngtt, Shirtings, and Hewing and
Knitting Thread.
Curd. Wool hikI Grinds Wheat and Corn-
Office in rear ol Wittich A Kinsel's, Randolph at
J.il8 R. II. OllILTON, President.
MUNCOGEE MANUFACTURING CO.
Muiiiir.vctnrers of
bllKP.TINGH, SHIRTINGS,
YARN, HOPE, Ac.
COLUMBUS, GA.
G. p SWIFT, President.
W. A. SWIFT, Secretary k Treasurer. octal ly
Watchmakers.
C. MCUOMIttJKG,
rriK tlual Wnlehnmker and Jeweler,
Sliereahor to L. Gutowvkv,
105 Uroud .tr o t.
Jail Columbus, Oa.
C. II. LK4JUIN,
Watchmaker,
Tobacco, Cigars, &c.
MAI UR DORN.
;U Homo aud Mmu«
• Ho
C. LOPEZ,
1 In and Maniifneturer of Fine
Cigars,
Near Broad Street Depot.
Barber Shops.
LOUIS WELLS' SHAVING SALOON,
(SiL-cosHor to II. Hours,)
Under Georgia Home Insurance Iluilding.
Prompt and polite harhoi. iu attendance.
ALEX A HAM,
a, Sr. Clair Strmt.
ED. TERRY, Rurbar,
Crawford St., under Uankiu House, Columbus, Ou
Dress-Making.
MINN M. A. HOLI.INGMWORTII,
Dress-Making, Cutting aud Fitting. Tcrmscluaj
Residuum und shop in Browneville.
Feed 8tore.
JOHN F1TZGIBBONN,
Wlu.U-.tiUi ttnd ltet.ll iu liny, 0«u, Corn
iUcon, Ik., OnlotlioriH) St., o|iiio.il.
Jal Tom,H-rni.ro ll.ll
Confectioners.
I. G. kTItUPPEK,
Candy Manufacturer
AND DEALUR IN
All klndit of Confectionery and Frulia,
Stick Candy 18 cents.
Full weight guaranteed In each box.
1a24
Hotel*.
PLANTERS* HOTEL,
Neat to Col ambus Bank Building.
Porters at all tba trains.
jalS
Builder, and Architects.
1. «. CHiLMin,
Monte Carpenter and 1
Jobbing done at short aotlss.
Plans and specifications furnished for til so 1st
of buildings
llroad Street, next to 0. W. Brown's,
itesjla.
Dentists.
na!S!i
W. F. TIONBK,
Dentist,
Opposite Btruppsr's building, Baadstph Ik
Special attention siren to the inssrtioa of Art!-
tctal Teeth, as well as to Operative Dentistry.
T. W. HENTS,
Dentist.
Over Joseph Jt_Brother'a store.
W. T. POOL,
Dentist,
nov23] 101 Broad 8t., Columbus, Oa.
J*L
W. J. FOGLE,
Dentist,
aepftl Onorsla Home Building. Oo'rahm. <U.
"" ■■■nn—i
Boots and Shoos.
WELLS A CURTIS,
No. 78 Broad Street,
Hare always a full stock of
Boots and Shoes, Upper, Sole aa4 Rep,
ness Leather and Find lags
of all kinds.
Reliable goods I Reasonable prlots I
Livery and Sale Stabloa.
IUIIIT THOIMM,
i.lvcrr, .«!« ami Ea.haaca Mablas,
OouTiiosri, Notts or Ransolm 8«a,
vi’KiO Columbus, Os.
A. GAMMEL,
Livery and Mala MaMaa,
OuLRtnotri 8t., Colombo*, Ga.
Particular attention given In Fitting sM Bsls
of Mtock.
Horses amt Mules boarded Is stables hf tbs
month or day. ^LfS
Restaurants.
MM. W. f. IKIBH, rmyrt*.
11ARR1H COUNTY RESTAURANT,
Na. SS Broad IlnM.
Thu best of Foreign and Domestic Lienors sad
Cigars. Meals at all hourm
J. J. BLAK8LT, Prop's.
Fresh Meats.
J. W. PATRICK,
8tails No. 8 and 18, Market Reass.
Fresh Moats of every kiud und best qsslity,
BUHs Nos. M sad IT.
Cun and Loeksmlths.
PHILIP EIFLEB,
Gun and Locknwith, Crawford street, sent t#
Johuson'o coruer, Columbus. Us. jal
WILLIAM 8CHOBRB,
Gun and Locksmith and dealer in Usssisg I
Julfl
torlals. Opposite Enquirer C
Piano Tuningffte.
E. W. BLAU,
Repairer and Tuner of Planoes,
Accordeons. 8igi “ *
Orders may be bo left
Grocers.
DAN’I, ]
Dealer in Family Groceries, ou Bryan street, be
tween Oglethorpe A Jackson streets.
Air No charge for dray age.
— v J. H. HAMILTON,
WbslMsIl Md Rota il Uro jsr,
Junction of Frankllui Warren A
No charge for drayag 0 -, * eapll
■SHAM COOPER,
Family Grocer and Dealer In Country Produce,
*e|di next to “Enquirer" Oftlee.
Tailors.
G. A. KGCHNE,
Merchant Tailor and Cutter, mstly
A full stock of French und English Broadeld*sMl
HENRY 8KLLMAN.
Cutting, Cleaning and Repairing .
Doijo in the boat etyle.
«|»r24J Corner Crawford aod Frost BlOOf
Boot and 8hoemak#ra htMl
WM. MEYER,
Root and Hhoemaker.
Dealer in Leather aud Findings. Nest to 0. J
Redd A Co.’s. Prompt aud strict attention fire
Tin and Coppersmiths.
WM. FEE,
Worker In Tin, bheet Iron, Copper.
ci ders from abroad promptly attended to.
No, 17*. Broad Street.
Painters.
WM. 8NOW, JB., A CO.,
House and Sign Painter*,
Old Oglethorpe corner, (Just north of |
Columbus, Georgia.
Wilt contract for House and Sign Painting at
reasonable prices, aud guarantee satisfaction.
LAWYERS.
w. r. William,. Cuu.IL Wiuum.
WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS,
Attorneys at Law,
COLUMBUS, UA.
es- Oflce over Alwiirsstonn JylTAns^
W. A. Farley,
A. ttornoy-»t-IJ»W
UUSSETA, Ohattauoouui Oa, o*.
DOCTORS.
Dr. J. H. CAKRIGEB,
SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN,
O FFICE up it.lr. 8. E. cor of Bro»£a*»«-
dolph Streots. where he may tefMWiGOf
or night when not professionally engs§*G»
iSotuuabus, April 2% 187*.
HINES DOZIER,
Vttorney at Law,
HAMILTON, UA.,
yy IM. practice to,the Cli.<Ub<wchw..Ctw«lt
iMutucu iii ......—r
any where else. Alt kind of
pusnxn. "I'ay me or runaway. novH M
MILLINERY.
SPRINC MILLINERY,
A K have lust received a foil line of . ^
AND MIMtRSIUI»aV,HsT
cluJIn* .11 IIID NOVItoTlM Of «bc «—«*.
“•KlSilNO *ND MJUCHINU Com to IS*
l.»>.t .1 tli. «h«to>ljwllcj. , ”