Georgia Historic Newspapers

    COLUMBUS
STTICTID.A.'X'.
ENQUIRER.
FRANK WESSELS,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1874.
YOL. XVI.—NO. 190
TUE LIFE WBICK.
Treading the n lley-ways dark u l damp
By the flickering light of the feeble lamp,
Bre iklog 'he night with her ghostly tramp,
She totters a otig alone, alone.
F otn hovel to hovel, from street to street,
Mie picks her passage thro' rain and sleet,
With not a friend in the world to greet;
Not a bonnet to wear, nor a morsel to eat,
Not a speck of earth to os 11 her own.
i of heaven, the glorious ■«»,
Weary of 11 e, afraid to die,
Afraid of the e irth and afraid of the sky,
Allrat l ot the lignt, sho knows not why,
•he woe- the night, as she heave- a sigh,
And think* ol a race that Is almost run.
Phantom of life and beauty fled,
•hhdow un ting the quick and dead;
I knew h r before her soul was wed
TTaiid suuled,
Wien her heart was pure and her spirits wild,
And all her tr oubles were light as air.
Ihnew her again In womanhood,
Whose beauty and wit no heart withstood;
Grand and 1 i.ely, yet gentle and good,
Admired and loved by the wlite and great.
Perfect In all that grandeur lends
To native beauty; fit all that send*;
A thr 11 whenever the poud knee bends,
The crowing g in ot a cluster of friends,
A queen la sonl and a queen in state.
I know hor now, and I know her not I
Where ail but praise from the »enseless sot,
Where all that Is pure Is spurned,forgot,
I nothing know but a holy dread.
8looped In misery and disgrace,
The e e of man no more can trace.
In the shattered form and shriveled fece,
A single mark of their ancient grace,
Tho figure is there, but the woman Is dead.
Shades of Immaculate women, when
Will the curse of God lo de down on men
For woman’ - wrongs! For not till then
Shull he atono for thy nameless woes.
Whon t'<y < ppressor, unhoused, unfed,
'o -tin tho wrotch wherever he tread;
i DARK NIGHT’S WORK.
1IY MBS. GABKILL.
Arranged from the English.
CHAPTEB IV.
T CONTINUED.]
Mr. Corbet, used to leave hie tutor and
Mr. Wilkins and saunter into the library.
Tbero Rut Ellinor and Miss Munro, each
busy with their embroidery. He would
bring a stool to Kllinor’a side, question,
And tease her, interest her, and they
would become entirely absorbed in eaoh
other, Miss Monro’s sense of propriety
beiug eutiroly sot at rest by the conside
ration that Mr. Wilkins must know what
he was about in allowing a young man to
become thus intimate with his daughter
who, after all, wus but a child.
Mr. Corbet hud lately fallen into the
habit of walking up to Ford Bank for the
Times every day about twelve o’clock,and
lounging about in the garden until one;
hot exactly with either Ellinor or Mias
Monro, but certainly far more at the book
Md call af the one than of the other.
Miss Monro used to think he would have
been glad to stay and lunch at their early
dinner, but she never gave the invitation,
And he could not well stay without her
OEpre sod sanction. He told Ellinor all
gjbout his mother and sisters, and their
* ways of goiug on, and spoke of them and
'af his fu ller as of people she was one
piy cei t tin to know, and to know inti*
'Matoly; and she did not question or doubt
Sis view of lhiugs;she simply acquiesced.
jfHfl had some discussion with himself
Ws to whether ho should speak to her, and
bo secure her promise to bo his before re*
“Burning to Cambridge or not. He did not
like the formality of an application to Mr.
Wilkins, which would, after all, have
Ween the proper and straightforward
•■’/course to pursue with a girl of her age—
ghe was barely sixteen—not that he antic*
ffipated any difficulty on Mr. Wilkins’
ra part, his approval of the intimacy which
at their re*ptdive ages was pretty sure to
lead to an attachment, was made as evi
dent ns conld be by actions without
words. But there would have to be ref
erence to his own father, who had no no
tion of the whole affair, and would be
sure to treat it as a boyish fancy, as if at
twenty-one Ralph was not a man as clear
and deliberative in knowinghisown mind,
.as resolute as he ever would be in decid
ing upon the course of exertion that
ghould lead liinu to independence and
fame, if such wore t<? be attained by a
dear intellect and a strong will.
No; to Mr. Wilkins he would not speak
for another year or two.
But should he tell Ellinor in direct
terms of his love, his intention to marry
her?
Again he inclined to the more prudent
course of silence. He was not afraid of
any change in bis own inclinations; of
them he was sure. But he looked upon
it in this way: If he made a regular de
claration to her she would be bound to
tell it to her father. He should not re*
spect her, or like her so much if she did
not. And yet this course would lead to
all the conversations, and discussions,
And references to his own father, which
made his own dire t appeal to Mr. Wil-
Jrius appear a premature step to him.
| Whereas ho was as sure of Ellinor’s
j| love for him as if she bad uttered all the
. vows that women ever spoke; he knew
even better than she did how fully and
entirely that innocent girlish heart was
his own. He was too proud to dread her
inconstancy for an instant; “besides,” as
he went on to himself, as if to make as
surance doubly sure, “whom does she
aee ? Those stupid Holsters, who ought
to be only too proud of having snch a girl
for their cousin, ignore her existence, and
spoke slightingly of her father only the
very last lime I dined there. The coun
try people in this preciously Boeotian
shire clutch at me because my father goes
up to the Plantagenets for his pedigree-
in order to have this confidential tete-a- he likes yon so much. O, how happy I death, yet I can do much to make the es- , brain and his retirement to bed the bet-
tete with his motherless girl; And there am !” * ■ tate worthless. Hitherto regard for you i ler his chance of sleep nud refreshment,
was nothing to make confidence of. He “But still I must speak to him before I i has prevented my taking steps ns to sale j To him an hour after midnight is proba-
was half inclined to be angry; but then ho go. When eau I see him, my Ellinor ? of timber, etc , wlrch would materially bly as good as two hours before it. and
saw that,although sad, she was so much at ( 1 must go bock to town at four o’clock.” j increase your sister’s portions; this just even then his sleep will not so completely
and quickly restore him ns it will his
neighbor who is physically tired. He
must not only go to bed later but lie
longer. His best Nleep probably lies in
in the early morning hours, when all the
nervous excitement has passed away, and
he is in absolute rest.
peace with heTself and with the world, j “I heard his voice in the stable yard j measure I shall infallibly take if I find
that he, always an optimist, began to j only just before you came. Let me go j you persevere iu keeping to this silly on-
think the young man had done wisely in and find out if he* has gone to the office gageuient. Your fnther’s disapproval
not tearing open the rosebud of her feel* yet.” always a sufficient reason to allege.”
ings too prematurely. ! No! to be sure he was not gone. He
The next two years passed over in ! was quietly smoking a cigar iu his study,
much the same way—or a careless spec- i sitting iu an easy chair near the open
tator might have thought so. lhave heard [ window, and leisurely glancing at all the
people say that if you look at a regiment ; advertisements in the Times. He hated
advancing with steady sten over a plain j going into the office more and more since
on a.review dAy you can hardly tell that ! Dunsterhad become a partner: that fel-
Sot one whit fur myself—and neglect El
linor; and only condescend to her father
because old Wilkins was, nobody knows
—who's son. So much the worse for
tharn, but so much the better for me iu
this case. I’m above their silly, antiqua
ted prejudices, aud shall be only too
glad when the fitting time comes to make
Ellinor uiy wife. After alia prosperous
attorney’s daughter may not be consider
ed an unsuitable match for me—younger
•oo os I am. Ellinor will make a glorious
woman three or four years heuce, just the
■tyle my father admires—such a figure,
•uch 1 nibs. I'll be patient and bide my
time, and watch my opportunities, and all
will oorue right."
go ho IGllinor farewell in a moat
reluctant and affectionate manner, al
though hie words might have been apoken
out in Hamlejr market place, and were
little different from wbat he said to Uiaa
Monro. Mr. Wilkins half expected a dis-
closme to himself of the love which be
aa-pc 'tod in the young man; and when
did not come, he prepared hima.lt
fldeuce from Ellinor. But ahe
tell him, aa he rery well
the child', open, onambar-
' were toft atone
they are not merely marking time on
spot of ground, unless you compare their
position with some other object by which
to mark their progress, so even is the rep
etition of the movement. And thus the
sad events of the future life of this fath
er and daughter were hardly perceived in
their steady advance; and yet over the
monotony and flat uniformity of their
days sorrow came marching down upon
them like an armed man. Long before
Mr. Wilkins had recognized its shape, it
was approaching him in the distance—
as, in fact, it is approaching all of us at
this very time; you, reader, I writer, have
each our great sorrow bearing down upon
He may yet be beyond the dimmest
point of our horizon, but in the stilluess
of the night our hearts shrink at the
sound of bis coming footstep. Well is it
for those who fall into the hands of the
Lord rather than into the hands of men;
but worst of all is it for him who has
hereafter to mingle the gall of remorse
with the cup held out to him by his doom.
Mr. Wilkins took his ease aud his pleas
ure yet more and more every year of his
life; nor did the quality of his ease and
his pleasure improve; it seldom does with
self indulgent people. He cared less for
any books that stiained his faculties a
little—less for engravings and sculpture
—perhaps more for pictures. He spent
extravagantly on his horses, “thought of
eating and drinking.” There was no
open vice in all this, so that any awful
temptation to crime should come down
upon him and startle him out of his
mode of thinking and living; half the
people about him did much the same,
as far as their lives wore patent to his
uarefleotiug observation. But most of
his associates had their duties to do, aud
did them with a heart aud a will, in the
hours when ho was not iu their company.
Yes! I call them duties, though some of
them might be self-imposed and purely so
cial; they were engagements they had en
tered into, either tacitly or with words,
and that they fulfilled. From Mr. Heth-
eriugton, the Master of tho Hounds, who
was up at no one knows what hour to go
down to the kennel, and see that the
men did their work well and thoroughly,
to stern old Sir Lionel Playfair, the up
right magistrate, the thoughtful, consci
entious landlord—they did their work ac
cording to their lights— there were few
laggards among those with whom Mr.
WilkinB associated on the field o** at the
dinner table. Mr. Ness—though as a
clergyman he was not so active as ho
might have been, yet even Mr. Ness fag
ged away with his pupils und his new edi
tion of the classics. Only Mr. Wilkins,
dissatisfied with his position, neglected to
fulfill the duties thereof. He imitated
the pleasures and longed for tho fancied
leisure of those about him—leisure that
he imagined would be so much more val
uable in the hands of a man like him,
full of intellectual tastes aud accomplish
ments, than frittered away by dull boors
of untraveled, uncultivated squires—
whose company he never refused, be it
said, by the way.
And yet daily Mr. Wilkins was sinking
from the intellectually to the sensunlly
self-indulgent man. He lay late in bed,
and hated Mr. Dunster for his significant
glance at the office clock when he announ
ced to the master that such and such a
client had been waiting more than an
hour to keep an appointment. “Why
did you not see him yourself, Dunster ?
I am sure you would have done quite as
well an me,” Mr. Wilkins sometimes re
plied, partly with a view of saying some
thing pleasant to the man whom ho dis
liked and feared. Mr. Dunster always
replied, in a meek, matter of fact tone,
“Oh, sir, they would not like to talk over
their affairs with a subordinate.”
And every time he said this, or some
speech of the same kind, the idea came
more and more cleary into Mr. Wilkins'
head of how pleasant it would be to him
self to take Dunster into partnership,und
thus throw all the responsibility of the
real work and drudgery upon his clerk’s
shoulders Importunate clients, who
would make appointments at unseasona
ble hours aud would keep to them, might
confide in the partner, although they
would not in the clerk. The great objec
tions to this course were first, and fore'
most, Mr. Wilkins’ strong dislike to Mr,
Dunster—his repugnance to his company,
his dress, his voice, his ways—all of
which irritated his employer, till his state
of feeling toward Dunster might be call*
ed antipathy; next, Mr. Wilkins was ful
ly aware of the fact that all Mr. Dunster’s
aotions and words were carefully and
thoughtfully prearranged to further the
K Bat unspoken desire of his life—that of
ing made a partner, where now he was
but a servant. Mr. Wilkins tcok a mali
cious pleasure in tantalizing Mr. Dunster
by suen speeches as the one I have just
mentioned, which always seemed like an
opening to the desired end, yet fora long
time never led any further. Yet all the
while that end was becoming more and
more certain; and at last it was arrived at.
Mr. Dunster always suspected that the
final push was given by some circumstance
from without—some reprimand for neg
lect, some threat of withdrawal of busi
ness that his employer had received; but
of this he could not be certain; all ho
knew was that Mr. Wilkins proposed the
partnership to him in about «s ungracious
a way in which such an ^ *ffer could be
made; an ungraciousness w^iich, after all
had so little effect on tho re, 1 matter in
hand, that Mr. Dunster could pass it over
with a private sneer, while tukn'g all pos
sible advantage of the tangible benefit it
was now iu his power to accept.
Mr. Corbet's attachment to Ellinor had
been formally disclosed to her just be lore
this time. He had left college,
tered at the Middle Temple, and was fag
ging away at law, and feeling success m
his own power; Ellinor was to “come
out” at the next Hatuley assemblies; and
her lover began to be jealous of the pos
sible admirers herstrikingappearance and
piquant conversation might attract, and
low gave himself such airs of investiga
tion and reprelieusion.
Ho got up, took the cigar out of hia
mouth, and placed a chair for Mr. Corbet
knowing well wby he had thus formally
prefaced his entrance into the room with
“Can I have a few minutes oonversa-
tion with you, Mr. Wilkins 7”
“Certainly, my dear follow. Sit down.
Will you hnvea cigar?”
“No! I never smoke.” Mr. Corbet de
spised all these kind of indulgences, and
put a little severity into his refusnl, but
quite unintentionally: for though he was
thankful he was not as other men, he
was not at all the person to trouble him
self unnecessarily with their reforma
tion.
“I want to speak to you about Ellinor.
She says she thinks you must be aw are of
our mutual attachment.”
“Well!” said Mr. Wilkins. He had
resumed his cigar, partly to conceal his
agitation at what ho knew was coming.
“I believe I have had my suspicious. It
is not so very long since I was young my
self. ” And be sighed over the recollec
tion of Lottice, and his frosh, hopeful
youth.
“Audi hope, sir, as you have been
aware of it, und have never manifested j joy to overflowing, aud
any disapprobation of it, that you will -*- J —*- —* 1 1 —
not refuse your consent—a consent I now
nsk you for—to our marriage.”
Mr. Wilkins did not speak for a little
while—a touch, a thought, a word more
would have brought him to tears; for at
the last he found it hard to give the con
sent which would part him from his only
child. Suddouly he got up, and puttiug
his hand into that of the anxious lover
(for his silence hud rendered Mr. Corbet
anxious up to a certain point of perplexi-
ty_he conld not understand the implied
he would and he would not.) Mr. Wilkins
said:
Yes! (iod bless you both. I will give
her to you some day—only it must be a
long time first. And now go away—go
back to her -for I can’t stand this much
longer.”
Mr. Corbet returned to Ellinor. Mr.
Wilkins sat down and buried liis head iu
his hnnds, then wont to his stable and
bad Wildfire saddled for a good gallop
over the country. Mr. Dunster waited
for him in vain at the office, where
an obstinate old country gentleman from
n distant part of the shiro would ignore
Dunster’s existence as a partner, and per
tinaciously demanded to see Mr. Wilkins
on important business.
thought it a good time to make the suc
cess of his suit certain by spoken words
and promises.
He needed not have alarmed himself
even enough to make him take this step,
if he had been capable of understanding
her heart as fully as he did her apearance
and conversation. She never missed the
omissiou of formal words and promises.
She considered herself as fully engaged
to him, as much pledged to mam- him,
and no one else, before he had avked the
final qnestion as afterward. She was
rather surprised at the necessity for those
decisive words.
“Ellinor, dearest, will you, can you
marry me?” and her reply was—given
with a deep blu-h I must, reoord, and in
a soft, murmuring tone—
“Yes—oh yea—I never thought of any
thing else.”
“Then I may speak to your father, may
■ot L darling ?”
“Ha knows; I aas sure he knows; and
CHAPTER V.
A few days afterward Ellinor's father
bethought himself thatsome further com
munication ought to tike place between
him elf and his daughter’s lover on the
subject of iho approval of the family of
the latter to the young mau’s engagement
aud he accordingly wrote a very gentle
manly le ter, saying that of course he
trusted that Ralph had informed his own
father of his engagement; that Mr. Cor
bet was well known to Mr. Wilkins by
reputation, holding tho position he did
in Shropshire, but that us Mr. Wilkins
did not pretend to be iu the same station
of life, Mr. Corbet might possibly never
even have heard of his name, although in
n county it was well known ah hav
ing been for generations that of the prin
cipal conveyancer aud laud ageflt of
shire; that his wife had beeu a member
of the old knightly family of Holsters,
and that ha himself was descended from
a younger branch of tie South Wales De
Wiutonsor Wilkins; that E.linor, as his
only child, would nutuvally inherit all his
property, but that in the meantime, of
course, some settlement upon her would
be made, the nature of which might be
decided nearer the time of the marriage.
It was a very good straightforward let
ter, aud well* fitted for the purpose to
which Mr. Wilkins knew it would he ap
plied—of beiug forwarded to Mr. Ralph
Corbet’s father. One would have thought
that it was not an engagement so dispro-
port lotted iu equality of station as to
c iiiHe any great opposition on that score;
but uuluckily,Capt. Coibet,heirjaml eldest
sou, had just formed a similar engage
ment with Lady Maria Brabant, the
daughter of one of the proudest earls in
shire, one who had always resented
Mr. Wilkins’ appearance on the field as
an insult to the county, and ignored his
presence at every dinner-table where they
met. Lady Maria was staying at the Cor-
bots at the very time when Ralph’s letter,
inclosing Mr. Wilkins’, reached the pa
ternal halls, and she merely repeated her
father’s opinions when Mrs. Corbet aud
her daughters naturally questioned her as
to who these Wilkinses were; they remem
bered the name in Ralph’s letters former
ly; the father was some friend of Mr.
Ness’s, the clergyman, with whom Ralph
had read; they believed Ralph used to
dine with these Wilkinses sometimes
along with Mr. Ness.
Lady Maria was a good uatured girl,
and meant no harm in repeating her fath
er's words, touched up, it is true, by some
of the dislike she lieis If felt to the inti
mate alliance proposed, which would
make her sister-in law to the daughter of
an “upstart attorney,” “not received iu
the county,” “always trying to push his
way into the set above him,” “claiming
connection with the De Wintons of
Castle, who, as she well knew, only laugh
ed when he was spoken of, und said they
were mure rich in relations than they
were aware of—“not people papa would
ever like her to know, whatever might be
the family connection."
Those little speeches told in a way the
girl who uttered them di<l not intend they
bl.uuld. Mrs. Corbtt and her daughters
set themselves violently against tbis fool
ish entanglement of Ralph’s; they would
not call it an engagement. They argued,
aud they urged, and they pleaded till the
squire, anxious for peace at any price,
aud always more under the sway of the
people wbo were with him, however un
reasonable they might be, rather than of
tho absent, even though the latter had the
wisdom of Solomon or the prudeuce and
sagacity of his sou Ralph, wrote an an
gry letter saying that, as Ralph was of
age, of course ho had a right t > please
himself, therefore all his father could
say was that tho engagement wus not at
all what either he or Ralph's mother had
expected or hoped; that it was a degra
dation to the family just going to ally
themselves with a poerof James the First's
creation; that of course, Ralph must do
what he liked, but that if he married this
girl he must never expect to have her re
ceived by the Corb-ts of Corbet Hall as
a daughter. The squire was rather satis-
Ralph was annoyed at the receipt of
theso letters, though ho only smiled as
he locked them up iu his desk.
“Dear old father! how ho blusters!
As to my mother, she is reasonable when
I talk to her. Once give her a defi
nite idea of what Ellinor’s fortune will
be, and let her, if she chooses cut down
hor timber—a threat she has held over me
ever siuco I knew what a rocking horse
was. aud which 1 have known to he illegal
these ten years past—mid she’ll come
round. I know better than they do how
ltegiuald has run up post orbita; and ns
for that vulgar*, high-bovu Lady Maria,
they are all so full of, why she is a Flan
ders mare to my Ellinor, and has not a
silver penny to cross herself with, be
sides ! I bide uiy time, you dear, good
people!”
He did not think it necessary to reply
to these letters immediately, nor did he
even allude to their contents in his to
Ellinor. Mr Wilkins, who had been very
well satisfied with t is own letter to th«*
young man, and had thought that it must
be equally agreeable to every one, was
not at all suspicious of any disapproval
because the fact of a distinct sanction
on the part of Mr. Ralph Corbet's friends
to his engagement was not communicated
to him.
As for Ellinor, she trembled all over
with happiness. Such a summer for tho
blossomiug of flowers und ripeuiug of
fruit had not been known for years; it
seemed to her as if houutiful loving Na
ture wanted to fill the cup of Ellinor’s
if everthing,
animate and inanimate, sympathized
with her happiness. Her father was well
and apparently content. Miss Monro
was very kind. Dixon’s lamonoss was
quite gone off. Only Mr. Dunster c&tne
creeping about the house, ou pretense of
business, seeking out her father, and dis
turbing all his leisure with his dust-col
ored, parchment-skinned, care-worn face,
and seeming to disturb the smooth cur
rent of her daily lifo whenever she saw
him.
Ellinor made her uppearnnee at the
Hamley assemblies, but with less eclat
than either hor father or lover expected.
Her beauty aud natural grace were ad
mired by those who could discriminate;
but to the greater number there was
(what they called) “a want of style”—
want of elegauce there certainly was not,
for her figure was perfect, aud though
she moved shyly, she moved well. Per
haps it was not a good place for a correct
appreciation of Miss Wilkins; some of
tho old dowagers thought it a piece of
presumption for her to be there at all;
but the Lady Holster of the day (who re
membered her husbaud’s quarrel with
Mr. Wilkins, aud looked away whenever
Ellinor caiue near) resented this opinion.
“Miss Wilkins is descended from Sir
Frank’s family, one of the oldest in the
eounty; the objection might have been
made years ago to the father, but as he
had been received she did uot know why
Miss Wilkins was to be alluded to ah out
of her place.” Ellinor’s greatest, enjoy
ment in the evening was to hear hor fath
er say, after all was over, and they w
driving home,
“Well, I thought my Nelly the prettiest
girl there; and i think I know sonic oth
er people wbo would have thought the
same if they could havo spoken out.”
“Thank you, pupa, "said Ellinor squeez
ing his hand, which she held. She thought
he alluded to tho absent Ralph as tho
persou who would have agreed with
him had ho had the opportunity of Boo
ing her; but no, he seldom thought much
of the absent, but had been rather flat
tered by seeing Lord Hildebrand take up
his glass for the apparent purpose of
watching E linor.
“Your pearls, too, were as handsome
as any in tho room, child; but we must
have them reset; the sprays nre old fash
ioned now. Let mo have them to-mor
row to send up to Hancock.”
“Papa, please, 1 had rather keep them
ns they are—us mama wore them."
He was touched in a minute.
“Very well, darliug. Glod bless you
for thinking of it.”
But he ordered her u set of sapphires
instead for the next assembly.
[TO liK CONTINUED.]
An Unpleasant Ad venturi'.
The sympathy of his friends will not
compensate a gentleman named Smiley
for the sufferings which he underwent
during a recent journey from Pittsburg to
Philadtdphia. Just before the traiu
moved off a lady on an opposite soat
asked him to see that no harm cauie to
her babies—twins—while sbo hurried
across the street to a chemist's shop
Smiley consented with uccustnmed po
liteness, and entered upon a chargo
which he was utterly unable to fulfill, but
temporary nervousness changed it into
extreme anxiety when the train moved
off without the lady. Beiug of a sby
disposition, the criticisms of his fellow
passengers upon his method of dandling
a child on each knee afilictcd him consid
erably; but as the conductor of the train
absolutely refused to take care of the
suffering iufuuts, Smiley wus forced to
continue his ministrations. Throughout
the weary night he watched over them us
the train sped onwards, and when morn
ing dawned his state of mind is described
us having been pitiable, while the twins
were nearly starved to death. He had
nothing to give them to eat except plug
tobacco, or to drink except bayruin,
which he carried for liis hair; uml al
though ignorant of all that pertains to
the nursery, ho shrewdly suspected that
neither of those condiments would
prove nutricious. So fur the story is nut
novel. Mothers have, sad to relate, de
serted their offspring, and palmed them
off on unsuspecting strangers before now;
but the mother of the twins had no suoh
intentions, aud when the train arrived at
its destination, some policemen entered
the car, and ou authority of a telegram
from Pittsburg, arrested the wretched
Smiley ou a chargo of kidnapping two
children. After passing tho night in
prison ho was released on bail, but what
little affection he ever felt for infants of
tender years has, it is said, departed.
Female Beauty.
The inclosed, in regard to the Thirty
Requisites of female beauty, has been
preserved by mo, says “Gaspard,” in tho
Nashville Manner, for more tbau thirty
years. The subject of female beauty
will ever be one of interest; the youug,
having felt its influence, kuow ite force:
aud experience of age tells that Do stage
of life is beyond its control:
Thirty points of perfection, eaoh judge under-
stands,
The standard of feminine beauty demands.
Three white: and without prelude we know
That tho t>kin, hands, and teeth, tthould be
penny as snow.
Three black: and our standurd departure forbids
" uuliirk eves, darksome tresse.*. ami darkly-
fringed lids,
ee red:
the hut
cheeks.
Thr e long: and ot tills you, no doubt, are
awaro,
Long, tho body should be, long the bauds, long
the hair.
Three short: and herein nicest beauty appears—
Feet short as a fairy’s, short teeth, aud short
Threo largo: and romember this rule as to sizo
Embraces tho forohead, the shoulders, tho eyes.
Throe narrow : amaxlinto every man’s taste—
Clroumter*nce small in mouth,ankle,and waist.
Threo round: and In this I seo Infinite charms—
Hounded fullness apparent In log,hip nml arms.
Three fine: and oan aught tho enchantment
eollpse,
Of fine tapering fingers, fine tresses, fine Ups?
Three small: mu my thirty essentials are told—
Sm til head, nose, and bosom, compact in Its
mold.
Now the dame who oomprlsos attractions like
those
Will need not the costUB of Venus to please;
While lie who has met with a union so rare
Hus had better luok than lias fallen—to my
share.
llt'lENTIFIC NOTES.
Indelible Ink.—The cheapest material
for marking lineu is coal-tar diluted with
benzine to the proper consistency. Anoth
er inexpensive prescription is to place
iron filings or old nails in strong vinegar;
let them stand many days, and filter the
liquid. Anothor way is to take equal
quantities of verniilliou und copperus,
aud rub them up with oil varnish. The
first aud last preparations have to boused
with a fine brush; the second with a com
mon pen.
Liquid India Ink.—Dissolve the pow
dered ink in hot water, and when deep
blaok add one-tenth its volume of glycer
ine and shake well together.
—Prof. Huxley in Popular Science
Monthly says: I do not know what the
requirements of your examiners uiAybe,
but I sincerely trust they are uot satisfied
with a more book knowledge of these
matters. For my own part, I would uot
raise a linger, if I could thereby intro
duce mere hook work in science into eve
ry art curriculum iu the country. Lot
those who want to study books devote
themselves to literature, in which w
have tho perfection of books, both us to
substance and as to form. If I may par
aphrase Hobbes' well known aphorism,
I would say that “books nre the money
of literature, but only the counters of
science,” science (in tho hcuho in which I
now nso tho term) being tho knowledge
of fact, of which every verbal descrip
tion isbutun incomplete and symbolic ex
pression. And be assured that no leadi
ng of science in worth anything, as a
nenlal discipline, which is not based
upon direct, perception of the facts, and
practical exorcise of the observing aud
logical facilities upon them.
Even in such a simple matter as the
more comprehension of form, ask tho
most practiced and widely-informed anat
omist what is the difference between his
knowledge of a structure which he has
read about, and his knowledge of tli
same structure when ho has seen it for
himself, and ho will undoubtedly tell you
DOMENTIC RECIPE*.
To Bottle Fruit.—To throe pounds
of fruit al ow one pouud of loaf sugar;
put the sugar aud half a teaspounfnl of
cold water into your pan, and let it stand
a few minutes over the fire, then put in
the fruit, and when it is just at the boil
ing poiut lot it boil ten minutes; stir it
very gently, so as uot to break the fruit,
and skim it. Have wide-mouthed bottles
warm by the fire, and pieces of damp
bladder ready out, and sotuo common
brimstone ma'ehes. These things should
be got ready first. When the fruit is
done, light a match, an 1 hold the bottle
downward over the smoke till it in filled
wdh it, then quickly put in the fruit and
tie down immediately.
Bottled Plums.— Gather the fruit
wheu dry; put it into atone jars, tie it
down with bladders, and over the blad
ders tie a paper (to keep the bladders
from drying.) Put the jars to stand in
a very cool oven for about twenty-four
hours or longer; tako off the paper end
look at the bladder; if it is not oranked,
label aod put away in a warm, dry place.
If any of the bladders be cracked, put on
n now one, aud just make the plums hot
through iu the oven, so as to exhaust the
air. The oven, throughout this process,
should be very much cooler than even for
a baked custard. These plums keep very
well, and are more like fresh fruit than
wheu done with sugar.
lUspuKHRY Beverage.—For a raspber
ry effervescing beverage, take six quarts
of raspberry juice and filter through
blotting paper; add to it six pounds of
sugar and twelve ouuccs of tartario sold.
Bottle and cork it tightly. When desired,
add two tablespoonfulH of it to two-thirda
of a tumbler of iced walor, And stir it
into one soruplo of carbonic of soda.
This maUoH a delicious draught for a hot
summer’s day, mid it cau he made of
cither currants or strawberries as well as
raspberries.
Simple Dental Hurof.uy.—Tho opern-
tiou consists iu simply slipping a rubber
ring over the tooth and fon iug it gently
undor the edge of tho gum. The patient
is then dismissed and told not to remove
the appendage, which in a few days loos
ens the tooth nud causes it to fall out.
Grown children who shrink from the
shock and pain of the dental nippers,
may also have their teeth removed by
means of the rubber, which is a wild
form of treatment.
Drop Cakes.—Mix two pounds of flour
with one pound of butter bra en to a
cream, thrco-fourths of a pouud of fine
moist Riigar or pounded white, one pouud
of currents washed and dried. Make it
into a stiff paste with three well-beaten
eggs, a large spoonful of orange-flower
water, two of sweet wine, and one of
brandy; lightly tloiir a plate, and drop
tho mixture on it about the size of a
walnut. Bake a light brown in a rather
quick oven.
Curried Eooh.— Mix very smoothly
Homo ourry powder with nicely flavored
rich gravy, hulvo some hard-boiled eggs,
take out the yolks, and beat them in a
little of the gravy and curry powder; re
place them into the whites, of which tho
uuderpart must be out a little to nmko
them stund nicely in the dish. Hiuuuer
them in the rest of tho gravy, thicken it
w ith a little butler aud flour, garnish with
fried onions, and serve with boiled rieo
in a separate dish.
Black Currents (To Bottle). — Fill
some bottles as full as you can with the
currents, add ns much cold water ns they
will hold; then put them iu a boiler filled
with cold water, aud lot them boil until
the fruit sinks in tho bottles. Then take
them up, cork them while hot, and paste
thick brown paper over them.
Noyeau. — Rlteueh and pound two
pounds of bitter almonds; put those into
a gallon of pale brandy, with two ponnds
of white sugar, half an ounce of mace,
aud one nutmeg, grated; stir it well for
a fortnight every day, Hnd then leave it
to staud for six or seven wanks; bottle it.
It will not be ready for use for some
months afterwards.
[From tho Rural Now Yorker. J
A Household Ornament. —E li
Lawyer*.
Joseph r. pop.
Attorney at Law,
and Judge of Ooaaty Court.
Practices is all other Courts.
Office over store of W. U. Roberts I Co., Broad fit.
jaw!*
SAKUKL R. HATCHER.
Attorney at Law.
JaM _ Offie# over Wlltlch A Rinsel's.
J. M. MeNKILL,
Attorney and Counsellor nt Lew.
Practices in courts of Ueor|U and Alabama.
Office 139 Brad lit., (over Holsteed A Co.’s
fipeoial attention given to collections.Jail
Poena Inessa.
u
IH6RAI * OBAWfiRM,
Attorneys at Law,
WIU predict In the State aod Federal Courts ol
OAm uttr I*rear in*—
oorter Broad and fitjnalr fits.
A. A. DOIIIR,
Attorney and Counsellor al law,
Practices la fitate and Federal Coarts In Georgia
and Alabama.
Office 124 Broad t\. % Columbus, Qa. Ja4
Mark II. Bunuroan. Loon P. Gauxasu.
■UHBFBBB * GARRARD,
Attorneys and CmbmIIoh nt Law.
Office No. 67 Brood street, over WUtich A Kin-
oel'e Jewelry Store.
Will practice la the fitate ead Federal Courts.
that tho two things are not comparable— j Madison, Ga , describes it in the li ■uit
tho difference is infinite. Thus I am
very strongly inclined to agree with some
learned schoolmasters who say, that in
their experience, the teaching of science
is nil waste time. As they teach it, I
have no doubt it is. But, to teach it oth
erwise, repiiros an amount of personal
labor and development of means and ap
pliances, which must strike horror und
dismay into a man accustomed to mere
hook work, and who has been in the hab
it of teaching u cIqhs of fifty without
much strain upon his energies. Aud this
is one of the real difficulties in the way
of the introduction of physical science
into the ordinary university course, to
which I have alluded. It is a difficulty
which will not be overcome, until years of
patient study havo organized scientific
teaching as well as, or 1 hope betterthan,
classical teaching has been organized
hitherto.
PRENNINUM*
—Berlin lias 1 .*10 public schools.
—Pittsburg, Pa., has eleyen glass facto-
—Goft'eo is being cultivated in Amador
Co. Cal.
Itreorder iu tills wise:—A small wire
basket lined with various colored tissue
paper, nicely fringed, hangs in tho corner
of the room; a buuch of gay Southern
moss hangs iu wavy flakes around the
basket. In tho basket sets a two-pound
oyster nan, tilled with water and a sweet
potato. It has sent out a number of vines
several feet in length, guided by strings
over the clock, around picture frames,
ami twining through mantle ornaments,
adding beauty and cheerfulness to the
room. It may not be generally known
that with a vessel kept full of clear water
iu n warm room a sweet potato vine will
grow ull winter. It is not necessary that
the sun shines upon it.
To Take Marks oik of Furniture.—
Have neglected to write to the It aval fur
some time. Will you tell the many ludy
loaders how I took the white spots und
marks off my varnished furniture and
made it look now and glossy. Simply by
wetting a sponge in common alcohol
camphor and applying it freely to the
furniture. It has nearly if not quito the
same effect that varnish does, and is
much cheaper.—Beunick Better.
To Kill Flies.—I am told by one wbo
has tried it that a strong tea of quassia
Jas. M. Russell. Oh as. J. fiwivt.
BURRELL A SWIFT,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. Will practice
lu tli» Courts ol Ueorgl* (OhnltahoocUoa Circuit)
aud Alabama. Offica over 0. A. Kodd A Co.'s stoi»,
Broad street, Ooln tubas, Ua. jat
L T. DOWNING,
Attorney aod fialleltor.
U. 8. Cou'r aud Uegiitor In Oankruptoi. Office
uovWM over llrooks* Druf Store, Columbus, Oa
PEABODY A BRANNON,
Altoraeyi at low.
Omci ovaa J. Mams A Co.’s fivoaa, Booad At.,
novlfi* Wist Bias.
B. J. NOftKB,
Altoraey and Caaasellar ml low,
Georala Home Iaenranoe Company building, sec-
tr ly 1 oud story.
ROBERT THOMPSON,
El very, Bale and Exehaafe Itobles,
OoLsraonps, Noam or Randolph 8ts.,
J»rt30 Columbus, Qq.
A. DARREL,
Livery aud Bale * table*,
OoLKTiioapx Hr., Columbus, ga.
Particular attention given to Feeding and Sale
of Stock.
donee aud Mulee tiourded In stables by tha
month or day. oct20
Doctors.
DE. COURT.
Reeldouoe and Offlco corner of fit. Clair and Ogle
thorpe sts. Office hours—T to 9 a. a., 12 to 2 r. m.,
7 to 9 p. a. eep27 dtt
DB. II. B. LAW.
Offlee corner Broad and Randolph streets, Biirrus’
building.
Reuldence on Foraytb, three doors below fit. Clair.
DR. J. A. VRR1THART,
Office at 0. J. Moffett's Drag Store, Broad street.
Residence on St. Olalr, between Mroad aud
srpr* Front Sts., Coiumbns, Ga.
DR. J. €. COOK,
Druggists.
J. I. GRIFFIN,
Imported Drags aad Chomloals,
JOHN L. JORDAN,
Bmiflit,
Two door* Mow Geo. W. Brown’.,
Hrood Street, Columbue, Oa.
p Night Dell right of «ouJh door. _ ee|*A
A. R. BRANNON,
Wssr Sins, Booad Stout, Columbus, Ga.,
Whaleaala aad Ratal! Dealer la
Draff* aad Hedlelaee,
Toilet Article# aad Perftoanery.
Cotton Fsetorloo.
COLUMBUS MANUFACTURING OO.,
Manufacturers of
Slieetluga, bhlrtlafft, aad Bewlaff aad
KalUInff Thread.
Curds Wool and Grinds Wheat and Corn-
Office la rear of Wittich k Kinsers, Randolph at.
j«IS K. II. CHILTON, Freeident.
MUMUOGEE MANUFACTURING CO.
Manufacturers of
RHKMTINGB, SHIRTINGS,
TARN, ROPB, Ac.
OOLUMRUfi, OA.
0. Y. SWIFT, President.
W. A. SWIFT, Secretary A Troeanrar. octal ly.
— Delawares p«»cli crop ia aalinialed j awoolened willi luolamoa will kill llioa,
at (.02,000 ImxketH. ' an<l has tko advantage uf nut being a
St. John, N. li., t.OiiNtH uf a vimt | d'mdly puixon. It iaaaid, too, that horaea
from n genuino crocodile
—Oshkosh, Wis , is to have another
large cranberry company.
—Ibiriiurn's se»» lion which died tho
other tlvy was worth $5,000.
washed with u tea made of quasda will
not he tormented by flies. It oan be
bought at any drug store, and is worth
trying if it will abate the fly nuisance
any.— F. W.
. . . , , Lous.—A German girl tells me that in
Washington never wax no hoalthy a» G(J |h k “ wi(b „
now, nay tho local paper*. , en( , ,, ow ^ |J ry ^ and „ nd „„
—Ihe populition of Butler county, ; trouble in keeping them.—U. 0. D.
Kan., bus increased 8,000 in three years, j —
—Iudiannpulis has eighty-two railroad Hyglenlc Note*,
offices. Every family hLioii d have one.
-Scranton’s (Pa.) working popula'i
Resuscitation or Drowned Person*.—
was reduced 10,000 within a few months, i Massachusetts> llumar.e Hocie'y baa
issued a card with these directions f »r re-
—Helms, Ala., hns a man who has six
fingers on one haud aud seven ou the
other.
—Two tons and a half of milk per day
is used by the Cascade, (Mine ) cheese
factory.
—Nine thousand acres of swamp prairie
near Fort Wayne, Ind., arc to he druined
for sanitary purposes.
—A man iu Nebraska made last spring
!!00 gallons of syrup from maple trees
planted nine years ago.
The smalleai estimate of the California
How Long to Sleep. —There has been
a great deal of trash written and labeled
“Hygienic,” but tho following (we are
sorry we do not kuow who wrote it) so
entirely accords with our own experience
that we recommend it as sensible: The „ , - ...
fact is that as life Lecomes concentrated *y» receutly shipped two gold bars,
and its pursuits more eager, short sleep ! valued at $40,000, to Sau Francisco,
and early rising become iuipossib'e. We —Battle-Creek,Mich..with a population
take more sleep than our ancestors, ! of 0,000 has sixty rnuntif ictories, wi h
storing persons apparently drowned:
Convey tho body to the nearest boil sc,
with head raised. Strip and rub dry.
Wrap iu blankets. Inflate tbe lungs by
dosing tbe nostrils with thumb aud linger
and blowing into the mouth forcibly,
and tbeo pressing with hand on tne ohest
and so <m for ten minutes, or until be
breathes. Keep the body warm, extremi
ties also. Continue rubbing—do not give
up so long as there is any chance of suc
cess.
Charcoal for W’oundh.—A correspon-
grain crop for the present yeur j.ces U ! *»* «** -
at 80,000,000 bushels. I Ih0 bel,t fmedy I have ionnd
—The Spring Valley Mino, Butte eoun-
niinple remedy
for surface wounds, such as cuts, abra
sions of the skin, Ac., is charcoal. Take
a live coal from the stove, pulverize it,
apply it to tho wound and cover the whole
with a rag. 'Ihe charcoal absorb* the
fluids secreted by the wound, and lays the
‘Watchmakers.
C. MUROM BURG,
Practical Watchmaker aad Jeweler,
fi«oc«Mor In L. Gutuw»kj,
10fi Knout Htrarl,
Jail Coluailms.Jia.
O. H. LKQUIN,
Watchmaker,
r and warranlH.
Tobacco, Cigars, fee.
MAIER DORN.
If yon want to enjoy a xo <d amok., go ta hi.
Cigar Man n tator j,
Hot worn Uaorgiu Uoiuo aud Mnscogno llom*.
€. LOPES,
Dealer In and Haanfaclnrer mt Fine
Uflffara,
J%9 Near Broad Street Dr|»ot.
Barber Shop..
LOUIS IVKLLM' MM A VINO MAL OON,
(rinccMsor to II. IlenfA,)
I’ari-r Georgia Horn. Invurenre Building.
Prompt And polite barbers in attendance.
Ja2A
i"S
ED. TERRY, Barker,
wf,rr4 fk., undor Rnnkiu House, Columbus, La.
Dress-Making.
MIfftt M. A. HOLLINO*WORTH,
Drees-Muklng, Catting and Fitting. T.rmscboup
IPwideuce andekop in Bruwaevitle.
and we take mure because wo want more, j valued products for 187# of $1,220,300. j foundation of tho scab; it also prevents
Six hours’ sleep will do very well for a —A man in Victory, Vt., lost nineteen the rag from irritating tho flesh, and it i*
plowman or brick-layer, or any other lambs out of a flock of twenty-seven by | antiseptic.
man who has no exhaustion but that pro- ’ washing them in a solution of arsenic to
duced by mauu&l labor, ai.d the sooner destroy the sheep ticks.
be takes it after his labor is over the bet-
tor. But for a man whose labor is men- Bed Buo Exterminator Wanted.—A
tal, the stress of work is on his brain and i subscriber wishes some good housewife to
fled with bis production, and took it to I nervous system; and for him who is tired | tell her through'the Rural of a sure bed
show it to his wife; but she did not think | in tbe evening, with a day of mental ap- { bug exterminator; also a moose and rat
it was strong enough, and added a little j plication, neither early to bed nor e*rly | exterminator, or some thing to drive them
poeteoript: to rise is wholesome. He needs letting away. Thin is a queer question, but ne-
“Deab Ralph: — Though as second down to the level of repose. The longer i cessity says it must be asked. Tbe an-
son, you are entitled to Bromley at my I the interval between the aotire use of tho i awtr should be from praotioal experienoe.
Remidy for Loohnehh in tue Bowels
or Cholera Morbus.— It as an old thing
and has probably been told thousands of
times, yet some may have forgotten and
others may never have beard it. 8o here
§ oes:—Mix two tableapoonaful of wheat
our with just water euough to moisten
tbe flour; drink it. If tbe first does not
check pain, or the purging, repeat tbe
do«e in half *n hour. Severe oaaaa some
time! require e third dee#.
Peed Store.
JOHN FITSGIBBON*,
Whotosala and Ratnil Dealer in Hay, Oats, Corn
Bacon, Ac., Ogletkorpe fit-, opposite
jal Temperance Hall.
Confsctloners.
I. CL ffTKUPPER,
Gandy Manufacturer
AMD DSALSS 1M
All kinds ot OonfaetSenary and Fralta,
Slick (toad, li entf
Fall weight guaranteed in each bos.
1*24
Hotels.
Next M
Fortac .1.11 Ik InlN.
MM W. V. Unpift
Builder, and Architect.^
J. U. CHALMEM,
Hnnae Carpenter and BnIMer.
Jobbing done at short notice.
Plana and ipeclflcations furnlihed for alt ftylte
of building.
Dentists.
W. F. TIGNKK,
Dentist,
Oppocita fitrapper’M building, Randolph fib
Special attention giv«n to tbe inaertlon of Artt-
cial Teeth, aa well aa to Operative DeuUatry.
T. W. HINTS,
Dentist.
Over Joseph A Brother’s store.
W. T. FOOL,
Denllat,
nov28] 101 Broad 8t., Coimnbuw, Go.
Jiii.
W. J. FOGLE,
Gcntl.t,
.,|>6( Oe-rgl. Hnmn linIHIng. Gt nmlin.. <l«.
Boots snd Shoes.
WELLS A GURTIB,
No. 78 Broad Street,
Havo always a full atook of
Roots and Shoes, Upper, Sole and 8ms
ness Leather and Flndlaffa
of all kiuda.
Kaliable gooda! kooaouable price. 1
N. B.—Special attention to orders by Bxpreee,
C - 0E -
Livery and Sale Stable*.
Restaurant*.
HAEBIk COUNTY EF.BTAUEABfT,
Na. 12 Brand fftreet.
The beet of Foreign aud Doraoatle Liquor* i
deolB
Fresh Moats.
J. W. PATRICK,
Stall* No. * and 18, Market Hons*.
Fresh Meats uf every kind nud beet quality,
J. T. COOK,
Freeh Henle of All Kflnde,
* 8UII. Non. Ifi aud
Cun snd Locksmiths.
PHILIP E1FLER,
Gun and Locknwith, Crawlord street, next b
Johnaou’a corner, Columbus, Ga. j*0
WILLIAM SGHOBEK,
Gun and Locksmith and dealer iu Gunulug I
terial*. Opposite Enquirer Office,
iate
Plsno Tuning, fto.
E. W. BLAU,
Kopalrar and Tuner of Finnoes, Organs sad
Acoordeona. Sign l'aiuliiig also doue.
Orders may be be left at J. W. Pease A Normanl
Hook Store. .upa
Grocers.
DAN’L M. RISE,
Dealer in Family Groceries, ou Bryan stroet, bo
tween Ugletkorpu * Jacksou street*.
F No charge for drsysgo. Aec?
J. H. HAMILTON,
Wholeanle and Retail tiroeel,
IRHAM COOPER,
Family Grocer and Deulnr in Country Prodaea
sepA next to "Enquirer" Office.
Tailor*.
O. A. KCEHNE,
Merchant Tailor aud Gutter,
A full stock of Freucb and Knglisk broadcloths,
CaMimeres aud Vuslinxs. ,
aprtd No. 134 Broad Street.
HENRY SELLMAN,
Gutting, Cleaning and Repairing
Done in tbe best stylo.
*pr24 J Corner Crawford and Frout fits.
loot snd Shoemskers
WM. MEYER,
Boot and Shoemaker.
Dealer In Leather and Fiudiugs. Next to 0. A
Redd A Co.’a. Prompt aud strict atteulion gives
to orders. jail
Tin snd Coppersmiths.
WM. FEE,
Warkar In Tin, Sheet Iran, Capper.
Orders from abroad promptly attouded to.
J»7 No. 174. Broad Street
Painters,
WM. SNOW, JR., A CO.,
Houee and Sign Pulntero,
Old Ogletborpo corner, (Just north of pontoffios)
Columbus, Georgia.
Will contract for IIuuho and Slgu Puintiug at
reasonable prices, and guarauteo satisfaction.
Refer to Wi
faprfi
LAWYERS.
W. P. WlLMAMrt. CUAf. 11. WlLUAMI.
WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS,
Attorneys at Law,
COIXMBUN, GA.
_*.■ OUc. orer AI.kII'k .(ore. JyIT Sm
W. A. Farley,
Atlornoy.»«.I.*W
OUSHETA, UuxTTXHOOUun 0o., OA.
peoia 1 attention .Iren to eollwtloM.
DOCTORS.
Dr. J. H. CARRIGER,
SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN,
/OFFICE up stair* S.Eroor of Broad h Roa-
V-J dolph Streets, where ho iu iy be found day
or night when not profe»«lon*ll>
Oolumbus, Apr.l 2*, 18*4. aw
HINES DOZIER,
Attorney at Law,
HAHII.TON, UA.,
nr?ILL practice in the ChiitL.hoocboe CircuH
Kf or any where else. All kind of collection*
rusBBD. “Pay me or run away." Uovl4 >f
MILLINERY.
w
8PRINC MILLINERY.
■ have lout received a m'l tin- of SPRING
AND RUMMER MILLINERY, io^
11 the NOV*lTI*8 ul ill. ws»«. f:
INU AND BLEACH ING done 1# |Ra
at the shone tjioiice. - S
A styles,
«t door
the Nsw Toik Ftare.