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Newspaper Page Text-A.3STID COLUMBUS FRANK WESSELS, UIRER. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1874. VOL. XVI.—NO. 196 MANY CHANGES I HAVE SEEN. Many changes I have seen, O'er many lands I've teen, And I’ve learned a thing or two lu my time. I never knew a knave Who went happy to the grave. Or reached ti e'mountaln top he meant to climb, i Thouuh I’ve traveled tar and wlue, An t I've waited time and tide, If never knew Dishonesty to win; B ora heart, however hard, K From atl sympathy debarred, That kindnoss could not touch and enter in. „ . Jvo sought him, have i toun A thriving man contented with his gold; ~ Or \ho chtldren of the just, Lying homeless in the dust. Without a friend to shield them from the cold ! Newr jet could 1 discern, Though I've struggled hard to learn That the i ich could bolt out sorrow front the 4oor; ^ Or the wisest of the wise, A. In their own anl other’s eye*, Dli not nurse some little folly at theoore. ,7 tS Never yet I knew a man Who made others’ good ids plan, WlM»W.iS not overpaid in peace of mind; Whwe treasures wore not scattered to the Wind '* ' And now the song Is done, Hero's euccoss to every one Whoplay8 throuh all Ills Ufa a manly part! And he blessings iound them flung. < Vlfc.- Bo thev old or be they young Who unite in all their doings, willing hand and loving heart. DARK RIGHT’S WORK. BY MRS. OA8KILL. trraiiged from the English. CHAPTER V. IcONTlNUED. ] Xfceae balls were not such as to intoxi- ttpfBlhnor with success, and make her mime with gayety. Large parties came from the different country houses in the neighborhood and danced with each other. When they had exhausted the resources fllty brought with them they had general- ly a few dances io spare for the friends of t|m same standing with whom they werti the most intimate. EUinor, coming with her father, and joining an old card playing dowager by way of a chaperon— the gaid dowager being under old busi ness: obligations to the firm of Wilkins andvon, and apologizing to all her ac quaintances for her own weak oondescen- filOh to Mr. Wilkins’ foible in wishing to introduce his daughter into society above htV&atural epherq. It was upon this la dy, iafter she had uttered some such ~T§ch as this I have just mentioned, that ay Holster and come down with the ligree of EUinor’*mother. But though i old dowager hud drawn back, a little comfited at my lady’s reply, she was | more attentive to Elliuor in conse- She allowed Mr. Wilkins to j in his daughter and place her on the j«on sofa beside her; spoke to her •tonally in the interval that elapsed > the rubbers could be properly ar- 1 in the c.trd room; invited the girl ompany her to that sober amuse- and on Ellinor’s declining, and •ring to remain with her father, tbe r left her with a sweet smile on ffump countenance, and an approv- ^conscience somewhere within her feoij&y frame, assuring her that she had done all that could possibly have been ex- rit'ffid from her toward “that good Wil kins* daughter.” EUinor stood by her ftlber watching the dances, and thankful tot the occasional chance of a dance. White she had been sitting by her chape- ron, Mr. Wilkins bad made the tour of fthtfooni, dropping out the little fact of lygMtUglilcr's oeing present wherever he ttMjht the seed likely to bring forth the Hj|| r of partners. And some came be- MMMCthey liked Mr. Wilkins, and some naked EUinor because they had done their dtttyitiances to their own party, and Mfljtilt please themselves. So that Miss Hpns usually had an average of one in- vnBnon to every three dances, and this ^HKcipally toward the end of the eveu- at, considering her real beauty, and are which her father always took t her appearance, she met with far “an her due of admiration. Admi- I she did not care for; partners she pd sometimes felt mortified when 1 to sit or stand quiet during all tbe hrtof the evening. If it had not pr her father’s wishes she would Jlther have staid at home; but, nev- «. slio talked even to the irrespon- I dowager, and fairly chattered to :on she got to him, because ,:.o him to fanoy that she was yiug herself. pdeod, she had so much happi- i in the daily course of this part of her life, th it, on looking back on it after ward, she could not imagine anything brighter than it had been. The delight of receiving her lover’s letters—the anx ious happino-s of replying to them (al ways a little bit fearful lest she should not express herself and her love in the precisely happy medium becoming a maiden)—the father’s love and satisfac tion in her—tho calm prosperity of the whole household was delightful at tbe time, and, looking back upon it, it was dream-like. Occasionally Mr. Corbet came down lo see her. He always slept on these occa sions at Mr. Ness’s; but he was at Ford the greater part of the one day be tween two nights that he allowed himself for the length of bis visits. And even these abort peeps were not frequently ta ken. He was working hard at law; fag ging at it tooth and nail; arranging his whole life so as best lo promote the ends of hisambitioD; feeling a delight in sur- n swing and mastering his fellows—those who started in the race at the same time. He read Elliuor’s letters over and over gg^lBj nothing else besides law books. He perceived tbe repressed love hidden a wav m subdued expressions in his mistress’s communications, with an amused pleasure at the attempt at concealment. Ho was glad that her gayetics were not more gay; he «a* glad that she was not too much yj although a little indignant at \ taste on the part of the nen. But if other admirers omineutly forward he should i Borne more decided steps to rights than he had hitherto l had caused EUinor to express a wUU Wir father that her engagement tight noSjjbe too much talked about un til naaref me time when it would be pru dent for Win to marry her. He thought that the Jpuowledge of this, the only im prudently hasty step he ever meant to thha iu his life, might go ugainst his char acter for wisdom if the fact was known while he was ns jet only a student. Mr. Wilkins wondered a little; but acceded, m be always did to any of Ellinor’s re- qoeeU. Mr. Ness was a confident, of eoufie; and some of Lady Maria’s con nections heard of it, and forgot it again on, and, as it happened, no one i sufficiently interested in EUinor to ascertain the fact, rs time Mr. Corbet maintained r decided attitude toward his was engaged to Miss -V ooul.l My WM that he He he trusted that his own family would tuke a more reasonable view of things, and be willing to receive her as his wife with all becoming respect or affectiou. This was the substance of what he repeated in different forms in reply to his father’s angry letters. At length his invariable determination made way with his father; the paternal thuuderings were subdued to a distaut rumbling iu the sky; and pres- eutly the inquiry was broached as to how much fortune Miss Wilkins would have; how much down on her marriage; what were the eventual probabilities. Now this was a j oint on which Mr. Ralph Cor bet wished himself to be informed upon. He had not thought much about it in ma king tho engagement; ho bud been too young or too much in love. But an only child of a wealthy attorney ought to have something considerable; aud an allow ance, so us to enable tho young couple to start housekeeping iu u moderately good part of town, would bo an advantage to him in his profession. So he replied to his father, adroitly suggesting that a let ter containing certain modifications of the inquiry, which had been rather roughly put in Mr. Corbet’s last, should be sent to him, in order that he might himself ascertain from Mr. Wilkins what were Ellinor’s prospects as regarded fortune. The desired letter came, but not iu such a form that he could pass it on to Mr. Wilkins; he preferred to make quo tations, aud even these quotations were a little altered and dressed before he sent them on. Tho gist of this letter to Mr. Wilkins was this: Ho stated that he hoped soon to bo in a position to offer Elliuor a home; that he anticipated a steady pro gress in his profession, aud consequently in his income; but that contingencies might arise, as bis father suggested, which would deprive him of tho power of earning a livelihood, perhaps when it might be more required than it would be at first; that it was true tbut, after his mother’s death a small estate iu Shrop shire would come to him as second son, and of course Elliuor would receive tho benefit of this property, secured to her legally as Mr. Wilkins thought best— that being a matter for after discussion— but that at present his father was anxious, as might be seen from the extract, to as certain whether Mr. Wilkins could secure him from tho contingency of having his son’s widow aud possible children thrown upon his hands by giving Elliuor a dow ry; and if so, it was gently insinuated what would bo tho amount of tho same. When Mr. Wilkins received this letter it startled him out of a happy day-dream. He liked Ralph Corbet and the whole con nection quite well enough to give his con sent to an engagement; and sometimes even he was glad to think tbnt Ellinor’s future was assured, and that she would have a protector and friends after he was dead and gone. But he did not want them to assume their responsibilities so soon. He bad not distinctly contempla ted her marriage as an event likely to happeu before liis dektli. lie could not uudorstaud how his own life would go on without her; or, indeed, why she and Corbet could not continue just as they were at presont. lie came down to breakfast with tbe letter in his hand. By Ellinor’s blushes, as she glanced at the handwrit ug, ho knew that she had heard from her lover by tho same post; by her tender caresses—caresses given as if to make up for the pain which the prospect of her leaving him was sure to give him —he was certain that she was aware of the contents of the letter. Yet ho put it iu his pocket, and tried to forget it. Ho did this not merely from his reluc tance to completo any arrangements which might fauiliUte . Uinor’s marriage. There was a further aunoyauce connected with the affair. His money matters had been lor some time iu an involved state; he had been living beyond his income, even reckoning that, as he always did, »*t the highest point at which it ever touch ed. He kept no regular accounts, reason ing with himself—or, perhaps, I should rather say persuading himself—that there was no great occasion for regular ac counts-, when he had a steady income coming in from his profession, as well as the interest of a good sum of money left him by his father; and when his expend iture, living in his own house near u couutry town where provisions were cheap, for bis small family—only ono child—could never amount to anything like his incomings from the above men tioned sources. But servants and horses, and choice wines and rare fruit trees, and a habit of purchasing any book or engra ving he might take a fancy to, irrespec tive of the price, run away with the money, even though there bo but one child. A year or two ago Mr. Wilkins had been startled into a system of exag gerated retrenchment — retrenchment which only lasted about six weeks—by the sudden bursting of a bubble specula tion, in which he had invested a pnrt of his father’s savings. But ns soon us the change in his habits, necessitated by his new economies, became irksome, he had comforted himsell for his relapse into hiB former easy extravagance of living, by remembering the fact tbnt EUinor was engaged to the sou of a man of large prop erty; and though ltulph was only tho soc- ond sou, yet that his mother's estate must come to him, as Mr. Ness had already in formed Ellinor’s father, on first hearing of her engagement. Mr. Wilkins did not doubt that he could easily make EUinor a fitting allowance, or even pay down a requisite dowry; but the doing m> would involve un examina tion into the real state of his affairs, and this involved distaste!ul trouble. He had no idea how much more than mere temporary auuoyanco would arise out of the investigation. Until it Was made he decided iu his own mind ihat he would not speak to Elliuor on the subject of her lovers letter. So for the next few days she was kept in suspense, Being little of her father; ami during the short time that she was with him she was made aware that he was nervously anxious to keep the conversation engaged on general topics rather than on the ono which she had at heart. Mr. Corbet had written to her by the same post as that on which ho had sent the letter of which l have already spoken, to her father, telling her of its contents, and begging her (in all those sweet words which lovers know how to use) to urge her father to compliance for his sake— his, her lover’s—who was pining and lonely in all tho crowds of London, since her loved presence was not there. He did not care for money, save as a means for hastening their marriage; indeed, if there were only some income fixed, however small; somo time for their marriage fixed, however distant, he could be patient. He did not want superfluity of wealth; his habits were simple, as she well knew; and money enough would be theirs in time, both from her share of contingencies and the certainty of his finally possessing Bromley. EUinor delayed replying to this letter until her falher should have spoken to her on tbe subject. But as she perceived that be avoided all such conversation, the young girl’s heart failed her. She began to blame herself for wishing to leave him, to reproach herself for being acces sory to any step which made him shun being alone with her, and look distressed and lull of care as he did now. It was the usual struggle between father and lover for the possession of love, instead of the natural and graceful resignation of the parent to the prescribed course of thtam; and as usual, it was the poor girl who bora the suffering for no fault of her "*» bUnud baraalf for be ing tho cause of the disturbance in the previous order of affairs. Illinor had no one to speak to confidentially but her father and her lover, aud when they were at issue she could talk openly to neither, so she brooded over Mr. Corbet’s unan swered lettor aud her father’s silence, aud became p.do and dispirited. Once or twice she looked up suddenly And caught her father's eye gazing upon her with a certain wistful anxiety; but the instant she saw this ho pulled himself up, ns it were aud would begin talking gaily about the small topics of tho day. At length Mr. Corbet grew impatient at not hearing either from Mr. Wilkins or EUinor, aud wrote urgently to the for mer, making known to him a new propo sal suggested to him by his father, which was that a certain sum should be pAid down by Mr. Wilkins, which should he applied, uuder the mauagement of trus tees, to tho improvement of the Bromley estate, out of the profits of which, or oth er sources in the elder Mr. Corbet’s hands, a heavy rAte of interest should be paid ou this money, which would secure an iucome to the young couple immedi ately, and considerably increase tho val ue of the estate upon which Ellinor’s set tlement was to be made. The terms offered for this laying down of ready money were so advantageous that Mr. 'Wilkins was strongly tempted to accede to them at once; as Ellinor’s pale cheek and want of appetito had only that very morning smote upon his conscience, and thiH im mediate transfer of ready money was, as asaciifice, a soothing balm to his self- reproach, and laziness and dislike to im mediate unpleasantness of action had its counterbalancing weakness in impru dence. Mr. Wilkins made some rough calculations on a piece of pupor—deeds, and all such tests of accuracy being down at tho office — discovered that ho could pay down the sum required; wrote a let ter agreeing to tho proposal, and before he sealed it called EUinor iuto his study, and bade her read what he had been writing, and tell him what she thought of it. lie watched the color come rushing iuto her white face, her lips quiver and tremble, and oven before the latter was ended she was in his arms, kissing him, and thanking him with blushing caresses rather than words. ‘•There, there!” said he, smiling aud sighing; “that will do. Why, I do be lieve you took me for a hard-hearted fath er, just like a heroine’s father in a book. You’ve looked as wo-begoue this week past as Ophelia. One can’t make up one’s mind in a day about such sums of money us this, little woman; and you should have lot your old father have time to consider.” “Oh. papa! I was only afraid you were ang v ” •Well, if I was a bit perplexed, seeing you look so ill aud pining was not the way to bring me around. Old Corbet, 1 mint say, is trying to make a good bar gain for his son. % It is well for tue that I have never been an extravagant man.” “But, papa, wo don’t want all this much.” “Yes, yes; it is all right. You shall go into their family as a well-portioned girl, if you can’t go as a Lady Maria. Come, don’t t rouble your little head any more about it. Give mo one more kiss, aud then we’ll go and order the horses, and havo a ride together, by way of keeping holiday. I deserve a holiday, don’t I Nelly V” Some country people at work at the road-side, as the father and daughter pass ed along, stopped to admire their bright, happy looks, aud one spoke of the hered- tary handsomeness of tho Wilkins fami ly’ (for tho old man, tho present Mr. Wil kins’ father, had beeu fine looking in his drab breeches aud gaiters, and usual assumption of a yeoman’s dress.) Anoth er said it was easy for tho rich to be handsome; they had always pleuty to eat, aud could ride when they were tired of walking, and had no care for the morrow to keep them from sleeping at nights. Aud in sud acquiescence with their con trasted lot, the men went on with their hedging and ditching in silence. Aud yet, if they had known—if tho poor did know—the troubles and tempta tions of the rich; if those men had fore seen the lot darkening over the father, and including the daughter iu its cloud; if Mr. Wilkins himself had even imagin ed such a future possible Well,there was truth iu tho old heathen saying, “Let no uiau bo envied till his death.” EUinor had no more rides with her father: no not ever again; though they had stopped that afternoon at the summit ot a breezy common, and looked lit a mined hall, not so very far off, and discussed whether they could reach it that day, and decided that it was too far away for auy thing but a hurried inspection, and that some day soon they would make the old place into the principle object of an ex cursion. But a rainy day cam© on when no rides were possible; and whether it was tho influence of the weather, or some other care or trouble that oppressed him, Mr. Wilkins seemed to lose ull wish for much active exercise, aud rather sought a stimulus to his spirits and circulation in wine. But of this Elliuor was innocently unaware, lie seemed dull and weury, and sat long, drowsing and drinkiug after dinner. If the servants had not beeu so fond of him for much previous generosi ty aud kiudiK ss, they would have com plained now, and with reason, of bis irri tability for all sorts of things seemed to annoy him. “You should get the master to take a ride with you Miss,” said Dixon one day, as he was putting Elliuor on her horse. “Ho is not looking well. He is study ing too much at tho office.” But when EUinor named it to her fath er, he rather hastily replied that it was all very well for women to ride out whenev er thej’ liked—mtn had something else to do; and then, as he saw her look grave and puzzled, he softened down his ab rupt saying by adding that Dunster had beeu making a fuss about his partner's non-atteudance, and altogether taking a good doul upou himself iu a very offen sive way, so that ho thought it better to go pretty regularly to the office, in order to hbow him who was master, senior part ner, and head of the business, at any rate. EUinor sighed a little over her disap pointment at her father’s preoccupation, and then forgot her own little regret in anger at Air. Dunster, who had seemed all along to be a thorn iu her father’s side and had latterly gained some power and authoiity over him, the exercise of which EUinor could hot help thinking was a very impertinent lino of conduct fiom a junior paitner, so lately only a paid clerk to his superior. There was a sense of some thing wrong iu the Ford Bank household for many weeks about this time. Wilkins was not like himself, and his cheerful ways, and caroless,genial speech es were missed, even on the days when he was u ;t irritablo and evidently uneasy with himslef and all about hiw.The spring was late in coming,and cold rain and sleet made uny kind of outdoor exercise a trouble and discomfort rather than a bright natural event iu the coarse of the day. All sound of winter gayeties, of as semblies and meets, and jovial dinners, had died away, and the summer pleasures were as yet unthought of. Btill EUinor had a secret perennial spring of sunshine in her heart; whenever she thought of Ralph she could not feel much oppression from the present unspuken and indistinct gloom. He loved her—and oh, how she loved him !—and perhaps this very next autumn—bat that depended on his own success iu his profession. After all, if it was not this autumn it would be tho next —aud with tho letters that she received weekly, and the occasional visits that her lover ran’down to Hamley to pay Mr. , „„„„ Ness, EUinor felt as if she would almost death-rate iu great cities. The late prefer the delay of the time when she Superintendent of tho United States Ceu must leuve her futhers for a husbands , H(l8 General Walker, gives the mean av- [to be continued.] SCIENTIFIC NOT EM. More Deaths than Birtus in Cities. — Some very st titling statistics have recently been published of OIHIM AND EM IlM. The School-Girl. Tho school-girl differs almost as much from the mature woman as if she were of another species, rather than n variety of the same. Sho may be said to live in a world of her own, which is subject to the tyrunuy of “the other girls”—a sort of Lilliputian Mrs. Grundy. She holds the grown-up world in a kind of indulgent contempt, as being out of date, old-fogyisb, teuucioiis of exploded theo ries, in behavior aud dress; and a person rising thirty has, according to hir thiuk- iug, passed the heyday of life, aud bus very little of pleasure to anticipate, rev el enco for age having beeu crowded out of her list of attractive atributos, in most cases by a too great belief in the possibilities aud promises of youth. Ofteu we fiud her mind made lip on the most diverse and difficult subjects—ou dress, marriage, politics, and religion—on nff'airs which demaud experience and conscien tious observation, we discover in later life, before arriving at a couvic- with regard to them. Iu tho mi crocosm of tho school there are codes that seem more striugcut to her miud than the laws of the Modes and Persians; and all tbe legislation in the land would fail to convince her of the propriety of a custom not recognized within tho boundaries of her republic, where* insubordination is much more rep- rehemible than uuder tho homo govern ment—which is more lux and unstable, perhaps, for the reason that power is vested, in the latter, iu two or three at tho most. We havo kumvu our school girl to raise an appalling hue and cry over some article of apparel purchased for her by her relatives, but after con sulting the oracles of tho school-room to return fairly in love with tho garment which they had indorsed. Everybody is aware that sentimentality, slate pencils, and pickles go hand in hand with the modern school-girl. She is as completely saturated with tho first as David Copperfield was with lovo for Doru; she believes that fiiendship is a plant of immortal vordure, though her own limited experience ought to teach her that it is of deciduous growth; she keeps a volume of autographs of porsons re markable for nothing but their insignifi cance and bad handwriting; her scrap book is a mosaic of moral maxims, comic songs,love-sick thymes,and dec.dcomanie; her diary is uot so much a record of hor individual emotions as a reduction from the inner life of her favorite heroines in romauce; she oats sweetmeats, and digests sensational novels; her idoal is a black- browed lover ut whom society shakes its head, after the manner of llocbestor; while Lucy Snow’s Paul Emanuel seems to hor a very apology for a hero, at whom she would not vouchsafe a second glauce. In composition she is prone to indulge in the melancholic stylo, and if sentimen tality is her god, Mrs. Heimans and L. E. L. are tho prophets whom she most affects. Read her letters to her comrades and those she writes home, and you would hardly guess that tho snmo mind had framed them both : tho ono is all extrava gance aud poetry, while the other is apt to be a^uieagre statement of progress, a financial complaint, with suggestions to ward a dress reform : for our young girl has her practical side ns well us her senti mental, and puts no faith iu beauty un adorned. She pours out her soul to her hoRotn friend; but entertaining an idea that older folks have no sympathy with the longings aud aspirations of youth, and are wholly absorbed in the sordid cans of life, wilh small interest in the play of the finer emotions, hor nearest of kin are often loft in utter ignorance of her peculiar faculty for gunbing. And perhaps this is not so uuuatuuvl seems, since confidences inu-<l bo invited by confidences; the bosom f riend gives measure for measure, but are there not often gulfs of reserve existing between tho school-girl and her mother or grown up friends in tho matter of the emotions? Perhaps we would not have our school girl oilier than Rbe is, with tho except of the pickles and slate pencils, tho too early lessons in flirtation whi. h she p tices, and the respect for dress which she develops. Only a few generations Imck our mothers sent us to school ginghams—yts, and in warm Unsay-’ , , ,, .. . , . . - . wooUeys fashioned in all wmylidly; tho poiirwB half a pitcher of water down hie orage of human life in the whole United States At fill 1-4 years, while in New York and Philadelphia it is only 23 years, but littlo more than ouo-half. About fifty per cent, of the deaths iu our large cities of children uuder five years of age; aud this is one reftsou for the low general average of life. Thu rate of iufant mortality is so great iu cities, that the deaths frequently ex ceed the birtliR; and were it not for ac cessions to the population from the rural districts aud immigration, they,would bo depopulated. Dr. Htockton 1 Lough as serts that if all the inhabitants of the world were liviug in cities of the inugtii* tude of London, the humiiu race would become extinct in a century or two; while if the population of the globe waH con- entrated iu n single city, little more than a century would be^required to auuilute .'he causes of this excessive mortality of cities are various, but tho priuoipui one is undoubtedly tho crowding of tho poor into wretched tenements in un healthy localities. The quality of the food aud air consumed by the poor also have much to do with it, and the dissipa tion which inevitably results from pover ty, ignorance and depravity. Owing luaitdy to these causes, and to the un healthy confinement in stores, shops, fac tories and offices, diseases of tho lungs are twioo ns fatal in great cities as iu the couutry, and nervous diseases five nud a half times as fatal. In contemplating these facts, it is easy to see that cities are poor places iu which to endeavor to rear families. Tho cut ire atmosphere is, to a degree, poisoned by emanations from filth aud disease;aud get get as tar as you may in city limits from the worst localities, it is impossible to es cape their pernicious influences. The on ly remedy for tbe city is in more stringent sauitary regulations, and compulsory leg islation governing the buildiug of houses for the accommodation of the poor. A better way for the peoplois to seek homes near the city, where they can have pure air and plenty of room, and avail themselves of the constantly in creasing railway facilities for getting to and from their daily labor. Spiders and tiieir Webs.—The gar den spider usually constructs a well- shaped perpendicular web, aud on this circumstuuco some naturalists have bnsed a characteristic distinction between this and other families of spiders. But it m often found that the garden spider can vary tho form and atrnetnre of its web according to circumstances. This is well shown iu an experiment made by a Ger man observer, for au Account of which we are indebted to Die Natur. This writer inclosed two spiders in a prismatic pen case, with a view to see how they would behave in this abnormal abode. In the course of two days the cover was raised and oue of them was partially de voured by the other; the victorious indi vidual had wovon over his body and on tho inside of the cover, a rectangular wcl) one-half to one millimetre thick, ten centimetres broad, and three or four long, with tho threads lying mostly paral lel wilh one another. It bad no room for a well-sbapod web, the inside height of tho ease being but little greater than tho spider's length, lienee she must perforce spin a horizontal wet tho (Inor or on tho cover of the ease. Hints for Hot Weather. Everybody knows that white objects reflect light, while dark ones absorb it, but if their actions are an indication, there are many thousands who do not know’ that the same rule applies to ray of heat as well as to ruys o! light. Among a hundred mechanics and laborers work ing iu any purt of the city, moro than half of them will be fnuud dressed in dark clothes, and often wearing heavy bluck hnts, which would be too warm oven for winter in this climate. White, loosely braided straw hats can bo bought for uext lo nothing,and working men who wear those hats iu the city should have the underside of the brim lined with greeu to keep off the light and heat that is reflected back by paving stones, white walls, piles of bricks and beds of mortar. '1 hose who go upon the water should especially take this precau tion, as water is a great conductor. There is no more sense iu a person ju26 jeweler did not boro ebaius about our small necks; n raantun-mnkcr shape our figur patterns a generation ago. B we hear inquiries for corsets f«j of ten years, and wo begin to r the school-girl m«y not bo alio blamo for her weak nesses is to her K to-day r children fleet that 'other to irbid throat because he feels warm aud thirsty than there would be iu his jumping iuto a freezing river, if one were handy, or plunging into boiling water on a winter’s day because his hands aud feet were numb with the cold. Peopio who take a cold bath every morning through summer are the ones that suffer most from the heat. The re action is inevitable iu every instance. Wo would admonish our sweltering fel low' mortals to banish ice from their breakfast tables, and after that to keep it out of sight all the rest of the day. By observing this rule there will be ull the greater quantity of ice for tho refrigera tor, where it is needed to keep the meats and vegetables fresh aud sweet, aud the exorbitant price of the article will he sure to go down, 'two or three goblets of pure water, just us it co « es from the pipe, tuken at breakfast time, are the best protection against the dangers and annoyances of u hot day in August. —“ ‘O France, Franco ! ’ 1 inwardly ex claimed, iu s tting down to a comfortable dinner at the table d'hote, 'with all thy faults I lovo thee still. Heaven be prai/ od for thee ! Confound tho narrow souls who would polish thee off the face of tho earth ! Without then we should have no ntmne, no cooks, no names fur new dishes, no Lyonuaise potatoes, no Bordeaux, no Burgundy, no French bread, no coffee, no Sevres china, no Lyons silks, no dress makers, no fashions, no bonnets, no de cent gloves, no bonbon*, no Alfred do Musset, no Victor Hugo, no George Haud, no Jtevne den Deux Monde*, no school of acting, no plays to steal from, no live school of painting, no language to suy nothing in beautifully, no “Bon March,” no urticles of \crtu, no revolutions, no Commune, no Paris to go to when wo are good onddio young! Salat a la France !' and waving an imaginary tricolor in my light hand, I took soup with my left.” If tho reader has not guessed this is from Kate Field, he is no prophet in tho litera ry world. The London Saturday Rroietn heads its .. » ouunt3 article on tho liquor-crusade us “Intiini- | dation by Prayer,” and says: “What | chiefly dr solves to be noticed about this —It is related of George Clark, tho I ft K* : »tioii is, that it is him, 1; a form of celebrated negro minstrel, that, being j mob intimidation which, iu any country’, examined as a witness, he was severely | where personal rights weie respected and interrogated by the attorney, who wished 1 reasonable freedom maintained, would be to break down his evidence. “You are in i suppressed at onco by the authorities. If tho negro minstrel business, I believe?” i the people who are.now praying down the inquired tho lawyer. “Yes, sir,” tastos. She wears finer clot bes at her reci tations now than her grandmothers donned on holidays—clothes more < laborntely de signed, and in such sickening mimicry of adult fashions that it would seem, after all, os if her precocious fondness for adornment might he reasonably charged to the vanity oi lier guardians. However, our school-girl will doubtless work clear of her weaknesses in time, ller souti- meutulities will got winnowed in ilio pro cess of liviug, and tho chaff separated. The girl who weeps over The Children of the Abbey and The My*tcrie* of Udolpho at sixteen will be convulsed with laughter on a second rea iug at twenty; and sho will one day discover that tho safest ear into which sho can pour hor confidence is the maternal; while* even tho inordinate lovo of dress and of masculine admira tion that has been ingrafted on the tender sapling may ho subordinated to higher impulses in proportion ns tho original stock is health}’ and vigorous.—Harper'a Bazar. —“That woman,” says Professor You- nmus, in The Popular Science Monthly, “has a Hphero marked out by hor organi zation, however tho notion may be scout ed by tho reformers, is as true as that the bird and tho fish havo spheres which arc determined by their organic natures. Birds often plunge into tho watery deep, and fishes sometimes rise into the air, but one is nevertheless formed for swiming and the other for fight. Ho women may make transient diversions from the sphere of activity for which they arc constituted, but they are nevertheless formed and de signed for maternity, the cure of children, aud tho affairs of domestic life. They are tbe mothers of humankind, tho natural educators of childhood, the guardians of the housoko'd, and. by the deepest ordi- ; nance of tilings they are this, in a sense ! and to a degree that man is uot.” The 'Times tliiuks that many of its readers “must havo noticed the impor tant part which the imagination plays in polities.” NVo should say so unqnostiou- 0 fti ably. —At Fontanelle, Iowa, lately, a couple wero married with tho following brief service: “Join your right hands. Do you want one another? Both replied, “Yes.” “Well, thou, have one another.” —A district schoolmaster in ono of the upper counties of Michigan was asked what algebra ho prof erred,and he replied: “Oh,I ain’t particular-most any kiud that will just peel tho bido when you strike.'’ —Tho evening Post is of opinion, in re gard to President Grant’s extreme meas- for the return to specie payment, that there is no use of jumping from a roof while tho way is clear to walk down stairs; aud that there is a bettor way of cut iug tho toothache than by killing the patient. A Sabbath-school teacher, desirous of waking tho dorment powers of a scholar, asked the question. “What are wo taught by the historic incident of Jacob wrest ling with the angol?" Tho cautious reply came, “Dunno, ’zaotly, but I 'sposo ’twas to tell us we mustn’t rustle.” L will save you n thousand pounds," said an Irishman to an old gentleman, “if you don’t stand iu your own light.” “How ?’’ “You have a daughter, aud you intend to give her ton thousand pounds as a marriage portion.” “1 do.” “Sir, l will take hor with nine thousand.” —After tho prosecuting attorney had heuped vituperation upon tho poor pris oner without counsel, the judgo asked him if he had anything to say for himself. “Your honor,” replied tho prisoner, “I ask for a postponement for eighteen days iu order Unit I may find a blackguard to answer that ono there.” —A Western paper says dealers iu but tor classify it us wool grease, cart grease, soap grease, variegated, tasselbited cow grease, boarding house bienkfast, inferior tub, common tub, medium roll, good roll and gilt-odgo roll, i ho terms are strictly technical. -A lady under gront affliction, which she did not bear inn very angelic way, onco said to her friend, “Oil, my dear, what should 1 have done in all this with out roligiou ?” “I'm sure 1 cannot tell,” was the answer; “but you could not have done much worse thuu you havo with re ligion.” —An nffeetod fellow in company, hold ing up a hoipiot to a friend, told him thnt a young lady had presented him with Oillcoc a boket, aud on the gentleman asking ji„ 8 |,| OII( who the fair one was, tie pompously re plied, “You may draw your own refer ences!” —A clergyman says: “I once married a handsome young couple, and as I took the bride by the hand at tho close of the cerimony, and gave her my warmest con gratulations, hlio tossed her pretty’ face and pointing lo tho bridegroom, replied, “I think he is tho ono to lie congratula ted.” —Tho proverb that “God helps those who help themselves” was well paraphras ed by a littlo follow who tumbled into a fountain and was nearly drowned, 1‘ale and dripping lie was put to lied, and when his mother requested him to thank God for saving him, young America an swered, “L ’spoHo God did save lue, but then I hold on to the gw ass, too.” - A boy six years old, having boon much lectured by his father ou the baby ishness of crying when any calamity happened, cheered tho paternal hoart, the other morning, by saying: “Hurry Bolton cried nearly all day ’cause his father died; Imt if you should die, pa, I wouldn’t cvy a bit.” —In the days when nn Armenian was looked upon pretty much as a Free Reli gionist is now’, a Rev. Dr., who was sus pected of uleuuing toward the liberalism of ‘.bo times, was waited upon by au old lady of his parish, who said : “Doctor, they say you nro an Armenian; now do toll me whether it’s true." “Why, niy r good woman,” said the Doctor, “1 was born in Danvers!” “There, now, said she, “I told ’em it couldn’t be so.” —A newspaper correspondent tells us that, good taste is outraged “at the Bight of a girl of fifteen wearing as many dia monds as would ransom a king.” Wh* re are iIioho young ladies to bo found ? We will forgive the outrage to tas’o just for tho sake of seeing the marvel. An anxious young friend of ours wants to know if I these diamond-dowered young ladies are in tho matriiuoniul market ? —A strong minded woman in Detroit, made tho following gentle reply to a poli- ; tioiaii who had called at her house to gel her husband to go to the poll and vote: ' “No, sir, ho can't go ! He’s washing now, I and lie’s going to iron to-morrow, and if he wasn’t doing unythiug he couldn't go. ! I own this 'ere house, T do; and if any one votes it'll bo this same Mary Jane.” I —A priest, tho other day, who was ox- i aminiug a confirmation clu.-s in the South j of Ireland, asked the question: “What is ! tho sacrament of matrimony ?’’ A little < girl at the head of tho class answered: j “’Tis a stato of torment into which sowls enter to prepare them for another and ; bettor world.” “Bcii.g," said the priest, i “the answer for purgatory.” “Put her down," Raid the curate—“put her down ; to tho foot of tho cliiRH." “I.uvo her alone,” said tho priest, “for anything yon or I know to the contrary, sho may be 1 parlictly right.” —Here follows a receipt for making a j good servant. It is taken from the J wtrman'H Journal: “Let tho mistress of | the house take two pounds of the very j best self-control, a pound and a half of pa- l tionce, a pound and a half of justice, a j pound of consideration, and a pound of ' discipline. Lot this bo sweetened with ! charity, let it simmer well, and lot it be taken in daily or fin extreme unsen; in hourly doses—and bo kept always on bund. Then the domestic wheels will run quite smoothly.” —Dr. H. was preaching on tho cruci fixion, and in tho course of bis discourse had so worked upon the sympathies of his auditors that many were iu tears. After dwelling on the cruelty of that mode of punishment the doctor spoke of tho | malefactor crucified at tho Saviour's right I Lund, who was so blessed as to roceivo \ pardon. “Brothers and sisters,” said he, | “who among us would not give all he Lawyers. JOSEPH F. 1*0U, Attorney ut Law, aud Judge of County Court* I’racticHH iu alt uther Courtn. if \V. II. Huliiirtn A Co., Rroad 8t. SAMUEL 11. HATCHER. Attorney at Law. JftSW OlWce over Wittlch A KiuNcl'a J. M. McNEILL, Attorney aud Counsellor at Law. PractW.wi lu courta of UoorgU awl Alabama. j Builders and Arehlteets. J. ©. CHAIjMERM, Honae Carpenter anti Ballder. Jobbing dono at abort notice, j PbitM and apeclftcattona furnlabed for alt atylaa ' of Imihliiigrt llroad Stroot, next to 0. W. Brown'a, i las rotumhnw. Qa, IN ©RAM * DRAW FORUM, Attorneys at Law, Will |. rue tic# in tho Htato and Vadcral Courta ot Georgia. Olttro over Freer, Illgu* A Co.’a atore, norttiwout corner Brood and Bt. Ohiir 8ia. Jii8_ A. A. DOZIER, Attorney anti Connaellar at law, iu tttate and Federal Courta iu Georgia Jo® Mauk II. Blandfood. Louis F. Gaooaoh. HLANUFORD * ©ARRARD, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law. Office No. 07 Broad atreet, over Wittich A Kilt- aol’a Jewelry Store. Will |>ractico lu the Stato and Federal Courta. lo|A Jas. M. RvaBKU.. Char. J. 8wm. RUMNELL A MW1FT, Atiorueyaand Oounaellora at Law. Will practice iu the Court, of Georgia (Chattahoochee Cirenit; a..d Alabama. Office over 0. A. Redd A Co.’a alore, Broad utrwi, Coluiuhua, Ga. jal L. T. BOHNINU, Attorney and Nollellor. PEABODY A BRANNON, Attorneys nt Law. k ovkr J. Ennis A Co.’a 8rooa, Broad Hr., l«J Wear 8idr. R. J. MON EM, Attorney aud Counsellor at Law, ■(•orgin Home Insurance Company building, hoc Doctors. DR. UOLREY. lloHiiloiice mid Office comer of Bt. Clair aud Ogle thorpe rite. Office liotira—7 to 0 a. M., 12 to 2 V. a., 7 to !» P. M. aep27 dtf DR. U. B. LAW. r Broad aud Haudolpli streets, Burma' buildiug. u Foray tli, throe doors below Bt. Clair. DR. J. A. (JRRU1IART, Office at C. J. Moffett’s Drug Store, Broad atreet. Ileaiilouce on Mt. Clair, between Broad aud sopo Front Bts., Columbtin, Ga. DR. J. €. COOK, ■ Kllirt A Harrison’* Commission House, Druggists. J. I. ©BIFFIN, n pur tod Drug* and Chemicals, riptioue carefully prepared. No. 10U Broad atreet. JOHN L. JORDAN, Drugglat, Two doors below Geo. W. Br»wu'a, Broad Street, Coluiuhua, Ga. ('■*)- Night lb'll rinht of eolith door. wepft A. M. BRANNON, Wkht Bids, Broad Htrert, Columbus, Oa., Wholesale and Retail Dealer I Drugs and Medicines, Toilet Articles and Perfumery. Cotton Factories. COMUMHUH MANUFACTURING CO., Manufacturers of NlientliigR, Mhlrtlngi, and Sawing and Kulttlng Thread. Cards Wool and Grind* Wheat and Corn- Office in rear of Wittich A Kiuael'a, Randolph at. jal8 K. II. CHILTON, Prealdmit. MI1MOUEK MANUFACTITR1NU CO. .Manufacturer, of BlIKKTINOfl, HIIIRTINUB, YARN, HOPE, Ac. COLUMBUS, GA. 0.1* SWIFT, President. W. A. SWIFT, Secretary A Treasurer. oct.11 ly. Watchmakers. V. 8CUOMBURU, Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler, Sucrcubor to L. Outowxky, 10/* Broad itr-i* t, Columhuii, Oa. Jr.11 C. H. LEQUIN, Watch maker, Dentists. W. F. TIGNRB, Dentist, Opposite Strupper'a building, Randolph St. Special attention giveu to tlia Insertion of Artl- tidal Teeth, aa well as to Operative Dentistry. fot>22 dAW T. W. HENTZ, Dentist. Over Joseph A Brother’s store. J*L. W. T. FOOL, Dentist, uov23J 101 Broad 8t., Columbus, Qa. W. J. FOGLE, ~ Dentist, lopfil Georgia Home Building, Coin tabus. Ga. Boots and 8hoes. WELLS A CURTIS, No. 73 Hroad Street, Havo alwaya a full stock of Itoote and Shoes, Upper, Sole and Her. ueaa Leather and Find Inge of all kinds. Hell able goods I Keanouabla priosa I N. B.—Special attention to orders by Express, C.O.D. ‘ JiL Livery and Sale Stables. ROBERT THOMPSON, l.lv.ry, .ale and Ei.Iumw. IMIm, OaumioRPi, North or fUKDOLru Bn., ectdO Columbna, Ga. A. ©AMMEL, Livery nud Male Mtables, Ouletuohpk Ht., Columbus, Ga. Particular attention giveu to Feediug and 8ala of Stock. THca and Mules boarded in stables by tho month or day. oetD Restaurants. ItARRIH COUNTY RESTAURANT, No. sa Broad Street. The beat of Foreign and Domestic Liquors and Fresh Meats. J. W. PATRICK, Stalls No. I and 18, Market Hoorn, Fresh Moats of every kind ur.d beat quality, Jal 1 always on hand. J. T. COOK, Fresh Meats ef All Kinds, |Stalls Nos. I ft aud 17. Cun and Locksmiths. PHILIP EIFLER, Gun and Lockmwith, Crawlord street, next to Johnson's cornor, Columbus. Oa. ja« WILLIAM 8CHOBGR, Gun aud Locksmith and dealer in Uunulng Ma terials. Opposite Enquirer Office. Piano Tuning, Re. E. W. BLAU, Repairer and Tuner of i’luuoes, Organs and Accordeous. 8‘ Orders may be bo l Grocers. DAN*L R. BICE, Dealer In Faniilv Groceries, on I'ryau atreet, bs- tweou Oglethorpe A Jackson streets AMT No charge for Ur ay age. <tao7 J. H. HAMILTON Wholaaala and Retail Grocer, IHHA91 COOPER, Family Grocer ami Dealer In Country Product* ■epA next to “Knquiror” Offiee. Tailors. A full atock of Froncb and English Broadcloths, Cassi meres and Vestlnpa* aprlfl __ No. 131 Broad Sir—t. HENRY BELLMAN. Cutting, Cleaning and Repairing Done iu the best stylo. upr24J Corner Crawford and Profit Bts. Boot and Shoemakers WM. MEYER, Root and Shoo maker. Dealer lu Lcuther and Findings. Next to 0. A. Redd A Co.’s. Prompt und strict attention givsu to orders. Jail Tobacco, Cigars, 6tc. MAI Ell DORN. you want t» enjoy a go >d smoke, go t ir Manufa< tory, » el ween Georgia Home and Muscogee Hoi J*8 C. LOPEZ, 1 In mid Manufacturer or Fine Cl Kara, Near Broad btreot Depot. Barber Shops. LOUIS WELLS' leorgia Hr id polite l> SHAVING SALOON, r to II. Hour M,> unt Insurance Building. Titers in attendance. Ja2A ALEX A NAM, Ht. Clair 8trkkt. ED. TERRY, Barber, rd bt., under lUukiu House, Coin mini Dross-Making. MINN M.A. HOLLIN-JMWORTH, ■ess-Maklng, Cutting and Fitting. lYiruaclicap Residence ami shop in Browneville. possesses to-day lo bo thus favored? £ Wholesale and Retail Itealeriu 11 would yivo ten thousand worlds if I could I j lt i Alou ’ Tomperance Hall’ Feed Store. JOHN FITZG1RBONN, il Retail Dealer iu liar, Date, Curu ippositu prompt reply. “Isn’t that rather a low calling?” demanded the lawyer. “I don’t know but what it is, Hir," replied the minstrel, but it is ho much better than my father’s that I am rather proud of it.” “What was your father’s calling ? ” “He was a lawyer,” replied Clark, iu a tone of regret that put tho audience in a roar. The lawyer let him alone. , the rum-shops and whiskey-bars roully believ- havc boon thoro Yes,” continued pause, as if to eleven thou that thief, moment’s fb’ct, “I would give d!” The effect upon tho after audience of this additional bid may bo immagiuod.- Advance. Curb ant and Gooseberry Compote.— Put one quart of rod currant juice to five pounds of loaf sugar; set ed iu tho efficacy of prayer pure and simple, they would be content to pray ftre, and when tho sugar is dissolved put comfortably at home, instead of g -ing 1 in eight pounds of red, tough, ripo out into the stroets. The mere fact that gooseberries; let them boil half an hour, the prayers havo to be delivered iu then put into an earthen pan and leave tbe presence of the saloon-keeper or iu them to slaud for two days; thon boil front of his door sufficiently proves that them again until they look dear, aud let the prayani are directed not to Heaven, ! them Stand a week to dry a little at the but at the persons who are to be ooeroed.” | top, then oover them with brandy papers. Confectioners. I. G. 8TKUFPER, Candy Manufacturer AND DXALKR IN , : All kinds of Confectionery and Fruits, Stick Candy 18 cents. Full wvight guaranteed in ssch box. ta24 Hotels. PLANTERS’ HOTEL, Next to Columbus Bank Building, portsrs Rt all tho trains. Jail MRS. W. f. SNIDKR, Froyr’ss. Tin and Coppersmiths. WM. FEE, Worker In Tin, Shaft Iron, Copper. Orders from abroad promptly attondod to. Ja7 No. 174. Broad Stront. Painters. WM. KNOW, JR., St CO,, House aud 8lgn Painters, Hid Oglethorpe coruer, (just worth of postoffics) Columbus, Georgia. Will contract for Iiouso and Sign Fainting at ronton able prices, and gun8fciit>‘o outieractlon. Refer to Win. Snow, 8r. (apr® LAWYERS. W. F. Williams. Cius. II. Williams. WILLIAMS & WILLIAMS, Attorneys at Law, COLUMBUM. «A. 8iF* Office over Abell's t W. A. Farley, A.ttorney-at-XsffiW UUSSETA, Ohattahoochm Co., Ok. gg-Spoclal attention Rlvoa to eollsctloss. DOCTORS. ' Dr. J. H. CARRIGER, SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN, O FFICE up stair. S.E. oor of Hro.J Hu- oolpli Streets, where he mij l» touudtU, or night when not professionally eagaR®®. Ooluinbus, April 2s 1874. HINES DOZIER. Attorney at Law. HAMILTON', OA., MILLINERY. SPRING MILLINERY. have Inst received » inU »!«<• 8FRIBD W AND BUMMER MILLINERY, In* eluding all the MOVKlTUJ _ PHK88INU AND ULJCACHINd don* Ul *** latest st ‘ ‘ Hast 4 oc 118—1/ s»r4 now xors acers. MBS. COL VIZ ltd HIM DOMMBLLI, r

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Sun and Columbus daily enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1874-1874, August 23, 1874, Image 1