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POETICAL.
THE ORGAN-GRINDER'S SISTEE.
BY MAKY E. ERWIN.
Sweet child ot sunny Italy,
How dreary seems thy wretched fate,
How bleak thy little life must be,
Thy little heart how desolate. .
Our dull, pale skies are all too cold,
Our breezes thy young bosom chill,
As through thy mantle’s meagre fold,
They play and parley at their will
And hearts are colder than the blast.
And harder than the scanty coin,
Which pity’s gentle fingers cast
Thy little outstretched palm upon.
And warmer are our April skies—
So full of shadow, storm and cloud—
Than are the cold, forbidding eyes
That chill thee in the careless crowd.
I heard thy brother’s oigan play,
fire I thy little form had seen,
And caught upon tha air away
The ringing of thy tambourine.
And nimbler fingers never tried
The giving of our own gay atrs,
Nor little face put on such pride,
Such heroism, unawares.
I marked thy brother’s weary arm,
The liiting of his languid eye,
The drooping of the burdened form
jjfhat bore its load so manfully.
And as I saw him move away
I marvelled at so sweet a face,
And questioned if there ever lay
In peasant form so princely grace,
As strolling on I caught again
The mellow cadence softly clear,
When suddenly a cry of pain
Rung sharply on my startled car ;
I saw thy litt'e brother flung
From off a marble door-stone high,
His organ to bis shoulder hung,
And both fell prone and heavily.
I spiung, yet ere I reached the door,
The same rough hand was on thee laid;
The cry was shriller than before—
Ah, what impatient speed I made!
Thy aims for mercy were upthrown,
Thy shoulder quailed beneath his grasp,
A breath and he had hurled thee do#n!
A step—and thou wertin my clasp !
'‘For shame I” I cried, “fierce man, for shame !
Art thou a savage of the wood ?
Look on this creature’s quivering frame,
Her brother’s brow all bathed in blood !’’
One withering glance was all he gave,
One menace of the little hand,
As, bending o’er the bloody pave,
I helped the little hro stand.
And then to thee, sweet child, I turned
And learned thy hapless history,
And from thy broken words I learned
Thy love for sunny Italy.
The memory of a mother’s grave,
Perhaps it was that dimmed thine eyes,
Thy homo by Arno’s restless wave,
'Neath kindlier ami calmer skies.
And when thy quivering accents told,
Of a poor father’s ocean-bed,
And down thy cheek the tear-drop rolled
That thou coulds’t not have died irstead—
What wonder my impulsive arm
So eage.ly around thee thrown?
And that my tears, all fresh and warm,
Were freely mingled with thy own?
Alas! thou sighestall in vain,
Thy Tuscan home thou’lt never see,
Thy feet will never press again
The shores of thy dear Italy.
But in our cold, unloving land
‘ Thou’lt tramp thy little life away,
And few will feel and understand
All I have seen and felt to-day.
I fain would point thee to a home,
A land of love, a realm of song,
Wherein thy rested feet may roam
The sweet, eternal summer long.
Where tears shall never dim thine eyes,
Nor sorrow make thee desolate,
Nor scorn, nor pride, nor power rise
To trust thee from its golden gate.
[Wood's Household Magazine.
LAUGHOGRA MS.
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Which is the oldest woman’s club ?
The broomstick.
Women are the second to the press in
disseminating news.
Doctor’s motto—“ Patience and long
suffering.”
What word involves a paradox ? Can
did-ly [lie.]
“By your leaves, gentlemen,” as the
wind said to the trees.
Can a little girl weeping be called a
crisis?
Avery uncomfortable suit—A law
suit.
Though cattle are dumb beasts, by
gathering together they make themselves
herd.
’Ti.- sweet to court.
But oil! how hi; ter
To court n gal
And then not git her.
Have you a sister ? Then love and
cherish her. If you have not a sister of
your own, then love somebody else’s sis
ter.
What is the difference botnet n a fol
dier and a bombshell? One goes to
war; and the other goes to pieces [peace
is.
Ham, why is the snow under de street
lamp like de Gazette? Don’t know;
but I guess ’tis 'cause it is read with de
light.
A lady wished a seat. A portly hand
some gentleman brought one and seated
her:
“Oh, you are a jewel ?” said the young
lady.
“No, no,” replied the gentleman, “I’m
merely a jeweller ; I have just set the
jewel.”
AGRICULTURAL.
THOUGHTS AND SUGGESTIONS POE
THE MONTH.
Some who are intending to sow clover
and grass, will doubtless desire to sow
them with their small grain. This is the
practice at the north, and we have been
inclined to favor it, but later experiments
force us to the conclusion that it is best,
in our climate at least, to sow them by
themselves. If sowed, as they should
be—unloss a severe drought should pre
vail—during the present month, they
will, on suitable soil, attain such a growth
before the hot weather of next season
sets in, as will insure them against inju
ry, without the shade of the grain,
which will be injured by the clover and
grass while injuring them in return. In
any case, the land for clover and the
grasses should be rich and thoroughly
prepared by deep, close plowing, fol
lowed by liarrowing, previous to which
a good dressing of superphosphate may
be applied with advantage. Brush light
ly to cover, and by all means roll the
field with a tolerably heavy roller. This
last is an important, and too generally
neglected process. If you are to sow r
both clover and the grasses on the same
field, it is best to sow clover by itself, as
the seed doas not mix well with the grass
seed. The various kinds of grass seed
may be mixed before sowing.
A dressing of lime on land to be sown
with wheat oats or clover and the grass
es, is, in a majority of cases, one of the
most remunerative applications that can
be made, provided lime can be procured
cheap rates. It is not
merely as plant food that lime is so use-
ful. It is still more important as a pre
parer of plant food. Its reaction with
the acids of the soil, its strong action
upon decaying vegetable matter, and its
faculty of converting clay into mud, and
rendering it mechanically fit for agricul
tural purposes, are some of its more ob
vious uses, and, as a general rule, it may
be assumed that the-land which is rich
est in vegetable substances will be bene
fited most by the free use of lime, and
gravelly sand the least.
If a stand of turnips has not been ob
tained from August sowing, sow again
now. Thick sowing pays, as the extra
cost of seed is little compared with the
better chances of a stand. The fly will,
very likely, take a part, and you must
make allowances; besides, a thick stand
protects itself better against the hot
sun. It cannot be too often repeated,
that we attach too little iimportance KSVe
to the turnip crop. If planted on thor
oughly prepared and heavily manured
soil, no crop pays better.
[Rural Carolinian.
THE JACQUES STUMP EXTELCTOR.
For many years, indeed as long as the
clearing of forest land for agricultural
purposes has been necessary—and this
period elates anterior to the days of Co
lumbus—the great difficulty in clearing
has been to gut rid of the stump or root
of the tree which remained in the ground
after the tree was felled and converted
into the thousand and one uses for which
the timber was necessary. In such land,
interlaid with roots and stumps, the mod
eiu improvements in agricultural imple
ments could not be made use of, and in
these days, when all such labor-saving
machines are most essential to the thriv
ing farmer or planter, he must first look
to the radical dealing of his land.
Our enterprising fellow citizen and
master mechanic, Air. James M. Eason,
has given this subject much attention of
late, and has been so successful as to in
vent a very simple machine which has
been illustrated and described in a recent
number of the Rural Carolinian, but
which was not put to the test until a few
days ago. This new invention of Air.
Eason is appropriatelycalledthe “Jacques
The recent test of Fire-Proof Safes
by the English Government proved
the superiority of Alum Filling. No
other Safes filled with
Alum and Plaster-of-Paris.
MARVIN & CO,,
265 Broadway, N. Y.,
721 Chestnut St., Phila.
JOHN T. OSBORN,
ATTORNEY A? LAW
liIJIFKTOV. CA.
Will give undivided attention to law cases.
stump extractorand on trial, with a
leverage of only 36 inches it raised
16,000 tons of non; while the young
mn.n felt no more inconvenience than if
working a common cistern pump. With
a ten-foot leverage, a man, it is supposed
could Taise one hundred tons, and the
stump which would resist this force
should be left to its
Mr. Eason has applied for a patent
for the extractor, and in the course of a
few r days will take it up to some of the
neighboring farms and extract some of
the hind teeth of old mother earth.
[Charleston News.
A German Temperance Lecturer. —
This laconic but sensible German ought
to be sent out to lecture among people
on temperance: “I shall tell you how it
vos. I drink mine lager; den I put my
hand on mine head, and dere vosh von
one pain. Den I put mine hand on. mine
body, and dere vosh anoder pain. Den
I put mine hand on mine picket and
dere vosh noding. So I jine mit der
temperance. Now dere is no pain more
in mine head, and the pain in mine body
vos all gone avay. I put hand in
mine pocket, and dere vosh dwendy tol
lar. So I shtay mit der temperance.
Never expect a selfishly ambitious man
to be a true friend. The man who makes
ambition his god, tramples upon every
thing else. He will climb upward though
he tread all the hearts of tlios® who love
him best, and in his eyes your only value
lies in the use you may to him. Person
ally one is nothing to him. af£d, if you
are not rich or famous, or powerful
enough to advance his interests, after he
has got above you he cares no more for
you.
■*•**>►
The simple fact of the matter is, says
the Saturday Review’, that iiU at least
nine cases out of ten your early riser is
merely a fidgety, restless animal, who is
incapable of reposing after the fashion
or at the season ordained by civilized
mankind; and as to his inhaling the
pure morning air, that is all moonshine;
it is pure self-conceit that he inflates
himself with.
A writer in the Savannah News says of
Hon. B. H. Hill: “If losing fifty thous
and dollars in a few years at planting
can qualify a man for giving advice to
agriculturists, then is it appropriate that
Farmer Hill should lecture at county
fairs and give the hardy 'ytw&anry of
Georgia the benefit of liis dqM&gnd ex
pcaieuev:. ' V
Profanity never did any man'die least
good. No man is thelricher, cal. happier
or wiser for it. It commends no one to
any society. It is disgusting to_ the re
fined; abominable to the good; insult
ing to those with whom we associate;
degrading to the mind; unprofitable,
and injurious to good society.
SXHB6O-X
IS PURELY A VEGETABLE PREPARATION, com
posed simply of well-known ROOTS, HERBS
and FRUITS, combined with other properties,
which in their nature are Cathartic, Aperient, Nu
tritious, Diuretic, Alterative and Anti-Billious. The
whole is preserved in a sufficient quantity of spirit
from the Sl'OAll CANE to keep them in any
climate, which makes the
PLANTATION
Bitters
one of the most desirable Tonica Riul CatJiftr
tica in the world. They aro intended strictly as a
Temperance Bitters
only to be used as a medicine, and always according
to directions.
They are the sheet-anchor of'llie feeble and debili
tated. They act upon a diseased liver, and stimulate
to such a degree that a healthy action is at once
brought about. Asa lemady to which Women
arc especially subject it is superseding'every other
stimulant. Asa Spring and Summer Tonic
they have no equal. They are a mild and gentle
Purgative as well as Tonic. They Purify the Blood.
They are a splendid Appetiser. They make the weak
strong. They puriiy and invigorate. They cure
Dyspepsia, Constipation an"' Headache. They actas
a specific inall species of dioorders which undermine
the bodily strength and break down the animal spirits.
Depot, 53 Park Place, New York.
New Goods! New Goods !
J. H. JONES €O.
Ilarc just opened a beautiful assortment of
PRINTS, SHOES AND CLOTHING
New Designs, Latest Styles, Very Attractive.
We cordially invite all to call and see our Stock
before purolia sing.
FRIGES TO SUIT THE TIMES.
a Full Stock of Groceries and Provisions Always on Hand,
TO WIUCU WE INVITE THE ATTENTION OF IM.ANTEIiB.
T E M P TING- PRICES
Southern Dry Goods Store
183 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, O-A.-
OLD PRICES GIVING WAY TO NEW ONES. BARGAINS ALL 0\ ER THE STORE.
We are determined not to carry over any Spring or Summer Goods at all, therefore all persons
in need of anything usually kept in a first class Dry Goods Store should not delay calling on us
at once or send for samples.
BARGAINS IIV DRESS GOODS.
Including Silks, Poplins, Grenadines, Japanese Cloths, Batiste Cloths, Muslins, Cambrics, v lute
and colored Lawns, &c.
BARGAINS
In Hamburg Trimmings, Kid Gloves, Hosiery, Fancy Goods, Notions, &c.
EXTRA BARG lIXS
Tn Lace Points—a beautiful assortment, from $2.50 to $75, and many other articles too numerous
to mention. In all orders from samples sent we pay the express charges when retail bills amount
to $lO or ove, MULLER’S, 189 Broad. st.
The People’s Clothing Store
THIS LARGEST HOUSES IN THIS STATE,
268 Broad st., Augusta, W. A. RAMSEY, Agent.
t x r e offer this season the largest line of Fine, Medium and Common Ready-made Spring and
YV Summer CLOTHING for Men and Boys in tbe.State. We have some of the most elegant
n-oods that can be found, and every article of our own make, and equal to euston work, together
with the finest line of FURNISHING GOODS in the city. HATS, CAPS, TRUNKS, VALISES, kc.
New Goods constantly arriving. Large men or small will find no trouble in getting fitted. Boy*
rom 2i to 20 years old can be suited. No one should purchase Clothing before examining this
mmense stock. ap 23 .A. ii 4MSLY, Ag'itllf.
tilw spring - goods !
COME ONE! COME ALL!
TO THE STORE OF
S.©* BLA CKWELLISOX
WHO ARE FAST RECEIVING A LARGE AND JUDICIOUSLY SELECTED
STOCK OF TIIE MOST ATTRACTIVE GOODS.
SOMETHING WORTH REMEMBERING
icn>
OUR BUYER (MR. KEAN) IS NOW IN NEW YORK, CULLING GEMS FROM ALL THE
LARGE mFOSTING HOUSES,
in the United States, and feels confident that for
Style, Quality & Cheapness
HIS SELECTIONS WILL BE HARD TO SURPASS.
© SMM6 SSOOR
r s coming in rapidly, and we cordially invite all to visit us daily, as there will be something
NEW, ATTRACTIVE AM) NOVEL
Every day, and it affords us pleasure to display them, whether you buy or not.
We will sell to Ol \ l itV MERCHANTS at IVew York quo a
tions for CASH-
For apnroved City Acceptance we will sell on .a credit to Ist October next, adding 1] per
cent interest per month.
Apply with perfect confidence in our willingness and ability to
serve yon as well as any house South, and you will not be disap
pointed. Very Respectfully,
KEAN & CASSEX.S.
DOZIER & WALTON
*
‘441 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA.
E. G. ROGERS,
147 and 149 liroad Street.
AUGUSTA, GA■
I am now offering a very superior stock of
FURNITURE
Of all grades, comprising Parlor, Chamber, Din
ing-room, Hall and office Furniture, in great va
riety of style. My stock of Chamber Suites is
especially varied, being the best in the city.
UNDERTAKING.
My Undertaking department is now fully or-
I ganized,and I am prepared to furnish Coffins,
| Cases, and Caskets in all tli£ varieties,
! from the best manufactory and of iny own make.
JHETAS-jIC CASES from the most ap
! proved makers always on hand
Experienced attendants. Calls attended at all
hours. Apply at night, or on Sundays, in yard
at* rear of store at 102 GREENE ST., second
house b.low City Hall [Myl4-3tn
In Store and to Arrive.
100 Hbds. Bacon .SHOULDERS,
ho Duds. Bacon SIDES.
lOu Hhds. Reboiled MOLASSES
20 Hhds. Cuba MOLASSES
20 luncheons Demarara MOLASSES
200 Barrels Reboiled MOLASSES
dO Barr. Is New Orleans MOLASSES
40 Hhds. Nexv Orleans SUGARS
35 Hhds. Demarara SUGARS
150 Barrels Refined SUGARg
50 Tierces RICE
150 Tierces Choice Lesf LARD #
150 Kegs Choice Leaf LARD
150 Boxes Pale SOAP
150 Boxes and half boxes Adamantine CAN
DLES
100 Bags Rio, Java and Laguyra COFFEE.
325 Boxes Well-cured Bulk C. R SIDES
50 Boxes Well-cured Bulk SHOULDERS.
Brooms, Woodware, Spices, Starch, Matches.
Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, Twines, Wrap
ping paper, at lowest wholesale prices.
WALTON, CLARK & CO.,
Mcb2o A tit/usta, Georgia.
PIANOCOMPANY
It costs less than S3OO to make any SOOO
Piano so and through agents, all of whom make
100 ptr eenl. profit. >Ye have no agents, but
ship direct to families at factory price.
We make only onestylean i have but one price.
Two Hundred and Ninety Dollar*, net cash, with
no discount to dealers or commissions to teach
ers. Our lumber is thoroughly seasoned; our
oases are Double Veneered with Rosewood, have
front rou t’d corners, serpentine bottom and caw
ed legs. We use the full iron plate with over
strung bass, French Grand action with top dam
pers, and our k?ys are of the best ivory, with
ivory fronts. Our /'iano has seven‘octaves, is <>
feet 9 inches long. 3 feet 4 inches wile and
weighs, boxed, 955 pounds. Every Piano is fully
warranted for five years.
Send for illustrated circular, in which we re
fer to over 700 Bankers, Merchants, etc., some
of whom you may know, using our Pianos in 44
States and Territories.
U. S. fi’EAAO extra I>ANY,
810 Broadwt.y, N. Y.
Please state, where you saw this notif e.
SICILIAN
Every year increases the populari
ty of this valuable Hair Preparation ;
which is due to merit alone. We
can assure our old patrons that it is
kept fully up to its high standard;
and it is the only reliable and perfect
ed preparation for restoring Gray
or Faded Hair to its youthful color,
making it soft, lustrous, and silken.
. The scalp, by its use, becomes white
and clean. It removes all eruptions
and dandruff, and, by its tonic prop
erties, prevents the hair from falling
out, as it stimulates and nourishes
the hair-glands. By its use, the hair
grows thicker and stronger. In
baldness, it restores the capillary
glands to their normal vigor, and
will create anew growth, except in
extreme old age. It is the most eco
nomical Hair Dressing ever used,
as it requires fewer applications,
and gives the hair a splendid, glossy
appearance. A. A. Ilaycs, M.D.,
State Assayer of Massachusetts, says,
“The constituents are pure, and care
fully selected for excellent quality ;
and I consider it the Best Prepa
ration for its intended purposes.”
Sold by all Druggists , and Dealers in Medicines.
Prioo One Dollar.
Buckingham’s Dye,
FOR THE WHISKERS.
As our Renewer in many cases
requires too long a time, and too
much care, to restore gray or faded
Whiskers, we have prepared this
dye, in one preparation ; wincli will
quickly and effectually accomplish
this result. It is easily applied,
and produces a color which will
neither rub nor wash off. Sold by
all Druggists. Price Fifty Cents.
Manufactured by R. P. HALL, &. CO.,
NASHUA, N.H.
Prospectus for 1873—Sixth Year.
The Aldine,
An Illustrated Monthly Journal, universally
admitted to bo the Handsomest Periodical in
the Worid. A Representative and Ohatn
pion of American Taste.-
MoffoirSal la llookor RU w S3 r'N
THE ALDINE, wliili issued with all the reg
ularity, has none ol the temporary or timely in
terest of ordinary periodicals. It is an elegant
miscellany of pure, light and gracetul literature;
and a collection of pictures, the rarest specimens
of artistic skill, in black and white. The real
value and beanly of Tut: Amii.nk will be most
appreciated after being hound at the close of
the year. The Aldine is a. unique and original
conception, alone and unnppronclied, absolutely
without competition in price or character. The
possessor of a complete volume cannot dupli
cate tile quantity of line paper and engravings
in any other shape or number of volumes foi ten
times its cost; and then there are the chromes,
besides.
ti ! Depart mi*nt.
The publishers, anxious to justify the confi
dence bestowed during the past year, have ex
erted themselves to I lie utmost to develop
and improve the work; and the plans for the
coming year, ns unfolded by iho monthly issues,
will astonish and delight even the most sanguine
friends of Tub Amove.
The publishers are authorized to announce de
signs from many of the ">ost eminent artists of
America.
A copiously illustrated Christmas number.
Premium fiiiromos for 1573.
Every subscriber to Tub Aldine, wiio pays in
advance for the year 1873, will receive, without
additional charge, a pair of beautiful oil cliro
luos, after J. J. Hill, the eminent English paint
er. The pictures, entitled “The Village Belle”
and. “Crossing the Moor,” are 14 x 20 inches—
are printed from 25 different plates, requiring
25 different impressions and tints to perfect eaeli
picture. The same Chromos are sold for S3O a
pair in the art stores. These chromos wili be
ound to surpass any that can be offered by other
periodicals. The distribution of pictures of this
grade free to t he subscriber to ass periodical
will mark an epoch in the history of art.
In addition, Tiik Aldine will reproduce exam
ples of the best foreign masters, selected with a
view to the highest artistic success and greatest
general interest, avoiding such as have become
familiar, through photographs, or copies of and
kind.
The quarterly tinted plates for 1873 will re
produce four of John S. Davis’ inimitable chily
sketches, appropriate to the four seasons l They
will appear in the January, April, July and Oc
tober numbers, and they alone are worth ayear’s
subscription
The lilterary Derarfincut
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HENRY STODDARD, assisteJ by the best wri
ters and poets of the day, who willstrive to have
the literature of The Aldine always in keeping
.with its artistic attractions.
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with Oil Chromos free. .
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except in eases where the certificate is given,
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