Georgia Historic Newspapers

    -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,
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