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Cuthbert Enterprise and Appeal.
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VOL. IV.
CUTHBERT, GA- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1884.
NO. 36
NEW FIRM!
HEW GOOES! LOWFBICES!
JanirsG. Mathews, Proprietor of“THE EMPIRE DRY GOODS
STORE,” Cuthbert. Ga.. is now receiving a large and well assorted
Stink of FANCY DRY GOODS, NOTIONS. CLOTHING. HATS,
HOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, SATCHELS, UMBRELLAS. Ac.,
which I offer to the trading public, at prices that deft competition.
I solicit a lilitral aliare of your patronage, and will certainly
it if von will onlr step into my store and see the many REAL HAK
GAINS 1 am giving away daily. I was in New York at the time
when money matters pressed down most heavily upon the people, and
with the CASH in hand I knockeil down the best DISCOUNTS that
could lie offered. I am therefore prejiared to give you PRICES that
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MISS PIPER’S PUPIL
Miss Pandora Piper, teacher of
music, who had hard work to
keep soul and body together, but
was not onbappy, because, as site
said, she was never left without a
new bonnet for Easier Sunday,
and one black silk, somehow, al-
ways lasted until sbe managed to
a new one, received a very
siagnlar note one morning—a
note which bad been handed in at
the door, the landlady's “girl"
said, by an “olderly gentleman.”
The epistle was envelo|ied in
the costliest and mot richly dec
orated envelope to lie procured
for love or money anywhere. The
paper, nearly as thick as card
hoard, was to match. A coal of
arms was in the corner, and the
words below were as follows:
Miss Piper: A person of neg
00 ^ nc ^ le< l edercashun is wishful to
50j be undcrtuck. Will kail at 3.
Mister Sijoek.
“My gracious!" ejaculated Miss
Pandora; “he must have been
neglected, tliat’s certain. I never
saw anything like that before in
ail my life! Fatally forgotten, I
should say. Well, I wonder what
lie can be like. He must be rich,
I suppose. Poor people can't af
ford such stationery as this. And
a coat of arms, too! Shoddy, I
suppose; but so that he’s respect
ful, will - should I care for that?
He will probably pay well, and
life who could not play upon the
pyanner. Begin with that and
goon to spelling, which I in con
scions that I sadly need.”
It was not the usual course, but
there was a serious and dignified
manner about this neglected per
son that made it impossible for
Miss Filter to say so. Sbe men
tioned her terms and set tlie
hours for the lessons, and so skill
fully emphasized the name of the
instrument that Mr. Shger before
his departure had begun to call it
“the peearaw” instead of the “py-
anner.”
At the door, however he gave
her s dreadful shock.
“I wish, mam,” he remarked,
“to begin with tunes.”
Miss Piper was a conscientious
little teacher, but she felt that
there were |ieople in this world
who must have their own way,
and Mr. Sliger's first lesson con
sisted of the “White Cockade."
He hail a very good ear; he
was anxious to iearn. From the
“White Cockade” he went on to
“Lite Let Us Cherish,” and poor
guilty Miss Piper, who felt that
the notes had very little to do
with his performance beat time
and counted.
Meanwhile she found that leav
ing education out of the question,
the man was very sensible—that
he was very kindly and amiable.
Once corrected in the pronuncia
tion of a word, lie never became a
I’ve lost Anne Eliza Griggs hy j backslider on that question
marriage, just as she was begin ' However, it was he who arranged
I ning to take variations. everything, not his teacher.
“Nora, I shall lie in if a new ' As other lessons were added
pupil—a gentleman—calls at 3 ; the neglected person set the hours
o’clock.” | IVir them: finally lie had six hours
I Nora, who liked Miss Piper, a da}’. All the pupils were dis
who often gave her little presents ' missed but one. The spelling
and who kept on an up|ier shelf of ] lesson, the lesson in geography.
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Iit r dost.-t some soolbiog balsam
which she was always ready to
apply to the poor girl’s awkward
fingers, which were always beir.g
cut or burnt or pinched in some-
thing, gave an amiable grin and
offered to polish up the grate
when she had a minute, “aee-ing a
stranger was coining.”
The morning wore away. Two
little girls had gone through their
exercises and a heavy lady who
took lessons in vocal music had
nearly hurst a blood vessel in en
deavoring to gain a certain high
note, which was the object of her
ambition.
Miss Piper had been mound
the corner to give a lesson there
and over the way to see to anoth
er pupil’s practising.
She came home in a hurry, nr
ranged her hair saw that the lit
tle parlor was neat, and awaited
her gueat with feverish anxiety.
At last he came.
Nora showed some one upstairs
and there entered at the door an
elderly gentleman of benign ap
pearance, dressed in the la'.est
fashion, hut not without regard
to his age, who, bowing low, re
marked:
“I hope I am not late, mum.
I know your time must be very
valuable."
“I am sure I only wish every
body was as punctual,” said Miss
Piper. “It is exactly 3 o’clock.”
“You’re very kind, mum," said
the gentlemaD, seating himself, as
Miss Piper motioned him to a
chair. “I’m an oldish pupil, I
suppose you think; but I’ll ex
plain. I think I've explained in
my note, but I'll explain again.
I’ve been neglected, not from any
unkindness—for my mother did
the best she could for me—but
we were very poor. I don’t wish
to mention the humble position
I've always occupied until a year
ago, when somebody came from
England and bunted me up. Moth
er was dead, poor dear! hut this
ia how it was; Father was very-
rich and up in the world; mother
was a housemaid. He married
her, and his mother was furious,
and mother couldn’t atand it.
She ran away; she came here, and
lived an honest, hard-working
life. It was only when sbe died
she told me my name was not
Noggins, but Sliger, and that she
had written to my father, or got
some lawyer to write, and he was
dead, too, and 1 came into the
property and left the bumble po
sition I won’t allude to, and—
well. I’m rich, but I don’t know
anything, and before I go to
England I want to be educated.
You understand?”
“It’a a very laudable ambition,
Pm sure,” said Miss Piper. “I
usually teach music, but, of
course, I can undertake the En
glish branches.”
“Yes, mum.” replied the gen
tleman, hastily, “I want to begin
with music—the pyanner. I
have never known any one in high
tiic lesson in history, followed
each other. All the weekdays
were bis.
Poor Miss Piper had no power
to say him nay. lie paid well,
lie treated her with actual rever
cnee; but the last pupil went
when lie elected to copy some very-
flat “flower pieces” which Miss
Piper had executed in early youth
and call this a lesson in painting.
He had all her week days at last.
He certainly had improved in
pronunciation, hut Miss Pi|«*r
felt herself to be a humbug.
What they really did was tospend
the day together exactly as he
chose. Playing with educational
books, thumping the piano, daub
ing bristol board with impossible
flowers, scrambling through the
lessons, in French, of which Miss
Pi|ier had had a quarter from a
Swiss gentleman. For a long
time she was alone on Sunday and
usually went to the Methodist
church to which she belonged;
but Mr. Sliger soon altered that.
He began by asking her whether
they had “these ves|iers of theirs
the neighborhood. The church
going (if it M chnrcbj finished
’em. You’re of age this long
while, my dear; yon ought to
know bow to behave; lint I can't
countenance Una. I shall pat np
the bill. Oh, oh, oh. Pandora,
that it should come to this!'
Puor Miss Pandora!
As her friend and landlady-
walked out of the door with her
handkerchief to her eyes, she
stood motionless an though turn
ed to a pillar of salt.
She saw just how this repair of
neglected education must appear
to her small circle of discarded
pu|rffs, and (Hi a strong dealre to
drown herself or jump out of the
window, or turn on the gaa or
take a box of matches in her tea,
and she might actually, it seemed
to her afterwards, have died of
mortification, but that the gong
at the front door, pulled violently
at this moment, startled her, and
Nora, running up. wrapped in a
waterproof cloak, for she had been
making preparations to goto bed,
announced:
•Mr. Sliger. r
‘He can’t come up,’ said Pundo
ra, ‘at tint hour of the night.’
‘No, miss; he asks for you to
come down,’ said Nora.
Pandora went down.
Mr.' Sliger was at the door.
‘There’s a teleseo[>e at the corn
er,’ he said; ‘ something going on
in some star or other. I believe.
Get a bonnet and shawl, and
1.
come ami have a peep. It will be
you despise me for my ignorance
or not, hot if you don’t, why I
want yon to take me for your pu
pil lor life—to marry me, you
know, Pandora. Will you?’
It was a dreadful thing to do
in such a public |4sce, but Pan
dora Piper felt that she was going
to faint—the room grew black.
She held oat her hand for the
glass of water. Most of it was
spilt upon the front breadth of
her new black ailk, but that
which passed her lipa revived
her. Then a tweet soft sense
that there was no more trouble
for her in this world crept into
her heart and ahe smiled np at
him.
‘It was in my mind the first
day I came,’ he said. ‘I had seen
you often through the window
when you gave lessons to tiiat
little girl at Bell’s. I used to
watch you with my o|>era glass.
I felt sure you were just the wo
man for me, and every lesson you
gave me proved it. 'I shall - learn
everything from you—goodness
as well as spelling. Oh, say
'Yes!' I want you! 1 want you!
She said ‘Yes.’
Mrs. Grimm was sifting np for
her, pale with wrath, when she re-
turned; but Pandora took her by
lioth hands, and said:
‘You won’t turn me out until
after my wedding day, will you.
dear? You'll let me be married
here. It's next week. Mr. St.
Leger won’t wait. You sec we
will have to go to England and
a lesson in astronomy for me j live on the estate. And, after all.
Yon can explain it, you know
same terms as the other lessons.'
Pandora without a word obey
ed.
The door closed after the two,
leaving Mrs. Grimin staring at
Nora.
‘That's the capsheaf,' said the
lady.
*Shall I sit up for them?' asked
Nora.
‘No.’ said Mrs. Grimm. ‘I will.'
Meanwhile, Miss Pandora and
Mr. Sliger peeped through the
telescope and saw the rings of Sa
turn, which SI r. Sliger supposed
to be phenomenal and temporary,
and which were explained by- Miss
Pandora to be fixtures, and then
adjourned to an ice cream saloon
of much elegance.
This, indeed, was desperate
dissipation, Miss Pandora aai j to
herself, as she sat lieforc the cut-
glass goblets on the damask cloth,
and saw the water splash from
the little fountain in the centre
into the acqnariure and over the
glossy plants, all reflected in the
long mirrors. However, what did
it matter? Site was already -talk
ed about,' turned out of her lodg
ings as a person who bad gone
wrong. Sbe would k .eplhis mer
ry moment to remember when she
had put an end to all by saying
at the Cathedral on Sunday j to llie neglected pupil that she
morning?” And when she in- - could no longer impart instruc-
’ tion to him.
struvted him that “vespers” were
in the later part of the day, said
lie would call for her.
Accordingly she went to ves
pers at the Cathedral in the af
ternoon and after that regularly
three times a day to different
churches.
It was then that the landlady-
thought it her duty to call.
She appeared in Miss Pandora
Piper’s apartment at the awful
hour of 10, majestic in her crimp
ing pins, and with a very serious
countenance, and was welcomed
in with a smile by the little music
teacher.
•Good evening, Mrs. Grimm,'
said she. ‘I haven't had a call
from you for a very long while.’
•No. Miss Piper, you havn’t,’
said Mrs. Grimm with emphasis.
He was ordering every indiges
tilde luxury- on the bill of fare,
the diamond on his little Anger
flashing like a small sun. obse
quious waiters bobbing aimut be
hind them. He looked kindly at
her, and asked her if she liked
this or that. He was as simple as
an old baby; as kind as an old
lady; ar.d he was a nice pleasant-
iooking man
‘All over! All over!’ she said
to herself. *1 might have known
what a wicked world tbia is, and
how ill it thinks of innocent
things. Why might not I go on
teaching him forever without
harm?"
People were coming in from
concerto, from the theatres; ta
bles were filling; but theirs be-
You couldn t expec. me to call tween two columns beyond the
after such carryings on.’ j f olin tain, was very quiet.
‘Why, what do you mean, Mrs.
Grimm?’ ejaculated Miss Piper.
•Can you ask, Pandora Piper?’
answered the landlady in her
<lee|iest chest note. ‘The whole
neighborhood is talkin' about
you.’
‘About me!’ screamed Miss Pi
per.
‘You and that man,’ said the
landlady.
‘My pupil, Mr. Sligerf sobbed
Miss Piper, now fairly in tears.
‘Your pupil? Don’t tell me,’
said Mrs. Grimm. 'Miss Pando
ra Piper, I shall be obliged to pal
up a bill for my second floor.
You've got to go.’
‘Oh, oil, oliT cried Pandora.
‘Can you tbink any barm of me?
Wliv, you could come in at any
moment. Nora ia in and out ev
ery now and then. Such a re
spectable elderly gentleman, and
such a correct person as I am f
‘It isn't me. Pandora,’ said
Mrs. Grimm, quite melted. ‘It’s
The waiters were gone to exe
cute Mi. Sligeffe behests. Sud-
iteuly he turned to her, and took
a letter from his pocket.
‘Miss Piper,’ he said, ‘read
that.’
Pandora opened the missive
and perused it.
It was from a firm of lawyers,
sjieaking in plain terms of Mr.
St. Leger as a gentleman, and a
man of honor and fortune.
‘I got'em to give it to me,’ be
said, ‘to show you.’
‘I iid not need it, indeed,’ said
Pandora, sadly. ‘And this is the
way your name is really spelt?
St. Leger! It’s a beautiful name.’
‘It sounds a little curious to
me,’ he said. ‘Mother wrote it
Sliger. I never knew, bat you
see, I’m all right. They never
took me without a character when
I went for a place in the poor
times, and I couldn’t expect you
to take me without a character,
either. I—I don*', know wkcUtcr
a poor little teacher needs no
great preparation.'
■Scrvaula and diamonds, and a
country house, ami a city house,
and everything heart cooid wish,’
Mrs. Griinm says, in telling the
story. It’s like a romance.
And Pandora, happy with her
good, simple husband in her new
surroundings, often thinks so her
self.
“The I.Uile NsiUrhrrr;.”
There are very few who do not
know of this little hush growing
alongside onr moilntains and hills ;
but very few realize the fact that
the little purple berry, which so
many of us have eaten in most
every shape, there is a principle
in it having a wonderful elfW-t on
the luiwels. Dr. Bigger*’ Hnek
lelierrv Cordial is the GREAT
SOUTHERN REMEDY that rc
stores the little one teething; and
cures DiarrluEa, Dysentery and
Cramp Colic. For sale by all
druggists at 50 ceuts a liottle.
Be a Lady.
Wildness is a thing girls cannot
afford. Delicacy is a thing which
cannot tic lost and found. No art
can restore to the grape its bloom.
Familiarity without regard, is de
structive to all that makes woman
ennobling.
“The world is wide, these things an-
small;
Thev may be nothing, but they are
all.”
Nothing? It is the first duty of
a woman to be a lady. Good
breeding is good morality. Awk
wardness may* be ineradicable.
Baslifuluess is constitutional. Ig
norance of etiquette is the result
of circumstances. All can be con
doned, and do not banish man or
woman from the amenities of their
kind. But self-possessed un
shrinking snd aggressive coarse
ness of demeanor may lie reckoned
as a State prison offense, and cer
tainly merits that mild form of
restraint called imprisonment for
life. It is a shame for women to
be lectured on their manners. It
•s a hitter shame that they need
it. Women are the umpires of
society. It is they to whom all
mooted points should be referred.
To be a lady ia more than to be a
prince. A lady ia always, in her
rights, inalienably worthy of res
ided. To a lady, a prince and
peasant alike bow. The natural
sentiment of man toward woman
ia reverence. A man’s ideal is
not .wounded when a woman
fails in wordly wisdom; but if in
grace, in fact, in sentiment, in
delicacy, in kindness, site should
be found wanting, he receives an
inward liort.
A Bear Kills a Bather.
Gainesville, Fez., Sept. 20—
This afternoon about 6 o’clock
while a number of the cadets of
llie East Florida Military College
were bathing in the pool of H. M.
Oliver at Orange Park a pet bear
that was on the place broke loose
and jumped into the pool and pur
sued tbe boys, catching William
Jefferies, alsiut 17 years of age,
son off W. O. Jefferies, agent of
the Florida Transit Railroad at
Fernaadtna, biting and mangling
biu| so horribly that be sunk to
the. bottom of the pool dead. His
parents have been telegraphed to.
Tbe young man had only been in
Gainesville two or three days.
Tbe bear had to be instantly kill
ed, he was so unmanageable.
Pally PateT.
Polly Putoff! vWasn^t that a
dreadful name for a little girl to
have? Of course it wasn't Iter real
name—that was Polly Putnam—
hut everybody called her by her
other name, so it might as well
have been the only one she had.
Of course yon can never guess
haw she came tr> have such a
name. It was because she put off
doing everything as long as she
possibly could, and the conse
qucnce was that very frequently
she didn't do things at all.
It any one sent a letter to the
posloffice by Polly it was pretty
sure tv be too late to go in the
mail; if mamma wanted anything
for dinner, and sent Polly for it,
It was sure not to come in time to
be cooked for that days's dinner.
You can see what an unreliable
little girl she was.
“Oh, you can depend on TV.:y
for one thing,” Uncle Will would
«aj-, with a merry twinkle in his
eye. “Yon can dc|iend on her
puttin'.' off everything, but that is
all j-ou can depend on.”
And I am sorry to say he spoke
the truth.
“Fully, Polly f’ mamma would
say in despair, “how shall I break
yon of this dreadful habit?”
Ever} body agreed that it would
need a very hard lesson to teach
her better, for it did not seem to
be of the least use to talk to her.
It was just three days to Polly’s
birthday, and she had been won
dering very much what her moth
er and father intended to give
her. There were lots of things
that she wanted. She coiild'ut
begin to count them up on her
chubby fingers, but sbe didn't
know which of nil tiiese she was
going to get. She rather thought
a music-box would be the nicest
tiling of all, blit she was almost
afraid to lio|ic for that. A man
who went around selling them had
brought some to the house, and
shown them to her father ami
mother, and Polly bad gone wild
with delight over their pretty
musical tinkle, but she was afraid
they did’nt mean to get her one.
“Folly,” mamma said that morn
ing. “here is a letter that l want
you to |>ost before school. So be
sure to start early, sy you will
have plenty of time.”
“Yes’m,” answered Polly put
ting the letter in her pocket, ami
off she started.
As she passed the school house !
she saw the girls were jumping
rope, and she stopped “just a mo
ment.” Then the bell rang, so
she could not |>ost the letter then.
At recess she took it out and look
ed at it. Should she go then?
She looked at the address on the
envelope. It was dii ceted to some
man in the next town.
•Oh, i* hasn't got very far to
S»,’ she thought to herself. ‘It
will do if I post it after school.”
After school she forgot all about
it, and so tbe letter went home
again in tier pocket.
•Did yon post my letter, Pol
|y? asked mamma, when Polly
was studying her lessons that
evening.
Polly’s face grew very red, and
she put her band in her pocket.
There was the letter, and site drew
it out and laid it on the table.
‘I will post it in the morning,’
she said faint!}:.
‘It is too late,’ answered mam
ma. ‘The man to whom the letter
is directed went away to New
York Ibis evening, and I haven't
got his address there. It really
only matters to yourself, for
it was an order for a music box
for your birthday.’
•Oh. mamma!' exclaimed Polly,
tears started to her eyes, ‘is it
really too late? Can't I have
one?*
Mamma shook her head. “No.
I don’t know where lie is now. It
you had not put off posting the
letter, be would have received it
liefure be started, and sent the
music-box. It is too late now.’
Wasn’t that a hard lesson? It
cured Polly, though, and she has
nearly lost her old name of Polly
Putoff. Sbe forgets sometimes,
of course because bad habits can’t
be broken ns easily as they are
formed, lint I tbink before very
long she will conquer her old bah
it of putting off.—Chris.
Work.
at
The Captain and a Lieutenant
of one of the companies stationed
at Sitka in the first year of Uni
ted States possession fell desper
ately in love with the same beau
tiful Russian. Stic was a most
charming woman, with soft, mys
terious eyes, a pale, delicate face,
and a slow, dreamy smile t!-.at set
the two warriors wild. All the
garrison knew of their fierie riv
alry, so marveled not a little when
their old friendship appeared to
be restored, and the two suitors
started off on a hunting expedi
tion together. One haggard man
returned two days later and told
that his companion had been at
tacked anil gored to death bv an
enraged lit i k in the forest. lie
was gloomy and strange in his
manner, and at nightfall went to
the house of Lite Itussi -a lady to
break the news of his rival’s
death.
The friends of tho lost officer
talked the thing over, and sus
pecting that a duel liad been
fought, decided to go out the next;
day and search for the body. In
the morning the surviving rival
was found dead in lied, with a
look of agony and horror on his
face. One story was that his
victim had appeared to him, and
he had died of fright and terror;
the other was that, some unknown
and subtle poison had been ad
ministered to him i.i a cup of tea,
and the official report ascribed his
death to heart disease. Tiic body
of the lost rival was found at the
font of a steep hank on the shore
of Indian river, where a tangle of
ferns, hushes and grasses shaded
anil almost covered the clear,
still pool in which lie lay. His
rifle lay near him, and a- bullet
hole in the heart told the sad
truth that his friends had sus
pected. Ilis death was officially
attributed to the accidental dis
charge of his own rifle while
hunting, and tinder these two
verdicts the real truths were con
cealed. The family of the Rus
sian bcautv disappeared front
Sitka in a few months, and the
story had been half forgotten un
til the recent opening of a path
along Indian river recalled it to
some of those who lived here at
the time.—Sitka Correspondence
San Francisco Chronicle.
A Itrwad IMstiuctfim.
The Colonel who lives in the
South, was findiug fault with Bill,
one ofliis hands, for neglect of
work, and saying lie would have
no more preachers about the place.
They had too many protracted
meetings to attend.
"Bill ain’t no preacher,” said
Sam, “He’s only a 'zorter.’’
“Well, what’s llie difference lie-
tween a preacher ari l an exhor-
ter?”
“Why, you know, a preacher
takes a tex, and den i.-e done gone
stick to it. Bet a ’zorter, he ken
branch.”
The Mao -onian reports the
following si nsaiinn: ‘A sensation
occurred in the Madison Male
High School last Monday by Prof.
Binns attempting to correct. Lut-
lie Penick.a twelve year old stu
dent, wiio set upon the teacher
with a knife, cutting several slits
in liis coat. The infuriated youth
afterward left tiie school, but was
returned next day by bis father,
who administered the punishment
that liis teacher had failed in giv
ing. Mr. T. L. Peniek, the father
of the lad. is one of our most cor
rect and prominent citizens.’
The Hartwell Sun gets oil this
bit of level-headed advice: ‘The
times are hard and so far as we
are able to see are likely to re
main hard. The oniy thing the
|ieoplc can do is to practice the
most rigid economy, hold a stiff
upper lip, and work ahead with
unflinching energy and courage.
Despondency and croaking will
not help matters.’
If there is any girl w ho doesn't
like to pop the question even if it
is leap year, she can get around
it by asking her young man if
he'd be willing to fill his name on
her marriage certificate.—Yon
kers Gazette.
Epitaph copied in a French
cemetery:
T AWAIT XT HUSAAMD'.
‘10th October, 1820.’
And below:
‘IIeke i ax!*
‘7th Febnary, 1880.’
The king drouth is playing
havoc with tbs sugar caoe crop of
south Georgia.
In Burmali, an editor receives
elephants in payment for sub
scriptions; in this country he
doesn't; in a great many cases as
soon as he starts a paper he has
an elephant on bis hands.
“Come back to bed, you old
fool,” pleaded tbe gentle voice of
Mrs. Mulberry. “That isn't eats;
it's Emetine's new bean down in
the parlor singing ‘Some Day.’ ”
‘Is man inferior to woman? 1
asks a correspondent. That de
pends altogether on whether it is
a married man or a bachelor.
