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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: SEPTEMBER 26, 1876.
PARING APPLES.
Ont underneath the apple tree
A bonny maiden ant,
And by her aide, in drowsy state,
Keposcd the old gray eat.
The sky above, the fields below,
The litfle^ maiden sitting there,
The goldeifcurls and soft blue eyes
A1J formed a picture sweet and fair. ,
And in her lap a dish she held
Of fruit—a tempting sight,
And in a cherry voice she sang,
14 These must be pared ere night;
Hut mother’s gone und I’m alone,
And now I’ll try my luck and sco
If brown-eyed Hobiu—whom I love—
Has really given his heart to me.
“ For I’ve often heard if I should pure
An apple whole and sound
Without a brtsak, in one long strip,
, And cast it on thcjground,
That, falling, it would twine ami take
The first initial of his name,
When, some fine day—if it is true—
Will surely come my hand to claim.'’
Then, quick'as thought, the deed was done,
And, lying at her feet,
Thu ruddy skin, with joy she saw,
Had formed an R complete.
She clasped her hand in ebild-likc glee,
And, gaziug o’er the distant green,
A tender song burst from h< r heart,
“Now, llobln is all my own, I ween.”
But why do sudden blushes rise,
And mantle cheek und brow ?
/nd see the snowy, dimpled band,
Why does it tremble so i
A step she hears, a manly form
She knows is close beside her chair,
And, looking up, with shy blue eyes,
She sees her lover standing there..
He lightly laughs, and taps her cluck;
“ Yes, little lassie, mine,
The apple-skin has told thee true,
For Robin’s heart is thine.”
And now, lioglecteo in their dish.
Repose the apples, red and gold.
While in the sunny afternoon
The old, sweet tale once more Is toid.
[K. M. K., in Battnn Transcrijit.
Build Up a Homestead.
The feeling licit you are settlml
ami fixed will induce you t<> work to
improve your farms, to plant orchards,
to set out shade trees, to enclose pas
tures, to build comfortable outhouses,
and each successive improvement is
a bond to bind you still closer to
your homes. This will bring con
tentment in the family. V our wives
and daughters will fill in love with
country; four sons will love home
better than grog-shops, and prefer
farming to measuring tape or pro
fession*! loafing, and you will be hap r
j,y iiv seeing the contented a Ad ’cheer
ful faces of your families. Make
home beautiful, and convenient and
pleasant, and your children will love
it above all places; they will leave it
with regret, think of it with fondness,
come back to it joyfully, and seek
their chief happines around their
home fireside. Women and children
need more than meat and raimnent;
more than acres of corn and cotton
spread around them. Their love for
the beautiful must he satisfied ; their
taste must he cultivated ; their sensi
bilities humored, not shocked. To
accomplish this good end, home must
he made lovely, conveniences multi
plied, comforts provided and cheer
fulness fostered. There must he
both sunshine and shade, luscious
fruit and fragrant flowers, as well ns
corn and cotton. The mind and
heart, as well as the fields, must he
eultivnted and then intelligence and
contentment will he the rule instead
of the exception. Stick to, improve
and beautify your homesteads, for
with this good work comes content
ment.
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A Portion for Poor Maids.—By
the will of Henry Rainc, a London
brewer, a fund was some time since
established to provide for the mar
riage of poor maids. Before his
death he established an k asylum
where forty young girls are trained
for domestic service* On arriving at
the age of twenty-one any girl who
has been educated in the asylum
und"can show that she has behaved
well, may become a candidate for a
marriage portion of §500, for which
six girls are allowed to draw twice
each year—the 1st of May and the
5th of November. The portion
drawn in May is given, after a wed
ding, oa tlic 5th of November, and
the November money is given in
like manner on May-day.
Medical men say that when a man
<»full of whiskey he can’t freeze, and
' appearances indicate that a large
number of onr citizens arc expecting
a mighty cold snap, says the Fulton
Times.
DFLMONTCOS.
Reminiscences of a New
York Restaurant.
Delmonico pays his head cook
$i,0°0 a year, and yet ho—the cook
—is not happy, for, like a majority
of his kind, he must die. They all
do.
As a rule, fancy cooks are high
priced and short lived. They can’t
stand the heat.
John Delmonico was fat and round,
and full of fun. Peter was grave
and reserved, and as polite as Ches
terfield inJiis happier momepts.
' ’i hey originated the house.
No gilt and gingerbread for them.
No costly mirrors averaging §5,000
each for them! No suppers at $15,-
000 in their time! No §1 75 steaks
on their hills of fare!
John and Peter Delmonico grew
rich very surely, hut they did it very
slotvM
“ How much for roast boef, John ?”
“ Six pence, with potatoes, sir, and
a delicious gravy.”
“John, I want a particularly nice
kidney chop, thick, done just light.
Cook it yourself, John. IIow
much ? ”
“Cook it myself? Let me see.
Well, with the kidney turned twice,
I really couldn’t do it less than a j
shilling, sir.’’
.So it was in 1827, when John and j
Peter, the originators of the new sys- !
° -I
tern in this country, opened their
modest place in William street, then j
as far up town as prudence permitted j
them to go.
Lorenzo, the Delmonico of the j
present age, came to New York in ;
1811, at which time they had, in ad- j
dition to the William street restau
rant, a kind of hotel on Broad street,
corner of Marketfield.
At this hotel stopped all the noted
“fiill,” it may he said that he took a
tolerably good drink.
The Press Club of Ntfw York gave
Dickens a dinner there, presided
over by Horace Greelv, and the
speech of the occasion was made by
Henry J. Raymond. AH the press
nobs and some of the * press snobs
were there, and a very joyiftl even
ing was passed.
When*Gen. Grant was General, he
breakfasted in the smaller-room with
Horace Greeley, and subsequently
A. T. Stewart, Munson, Pierrepont
and otherdisinterested patriots gave
him a grand dinner and reception.
At the reception which was very
high-toned, there was a dais at one
side of the saloon on» which the Gen«
eral stood.
“ What wages do you pay. Mr.
Delmonico ?
“ Ten thousand .dollars and more
the first of every months
“ What rent ?”
“ All told §100,000 a year. You
see besides onr houses we have three
great wine cellars down town. We
get wine and liquors by the 100, 200.
300 casks at a time, and can hay di
rect much cheaper than any dealers
here can afford to scH#ts-”
“ Do hard times affect you any ?”
“ Yes, indeed, and mainly in wines, j
I remember the time when I walked
through the rooms and saw front one !
to three bottles of wine on every ta-
hie. Now if w
turn to see where it is—and then It’s
generally a bottle of Bass.’’ * |
Jim l'isk was not a regular pal ion |
of Delmonico’s. lie went further,up j
town, hut now and then ho spilled '
over from his howl of bounty tlnjre. j
On one occasion at 4:30 p. m. lie !
called at tin* office. “ Charley,”
j said be, “ I want a tip t<q> stand up
lunch, with flowers and all that sort
! of thing, served in the Erie building *
singers and artists of tin
dav. Poli- ; f° r 150 men at half past six.’’
tieians gathered there at night, and i
little jobs were as familiar to Del-;
moideo’s then as they were in later ;
days to the Astor, and later yet to the j
Metropolitan and the Brunswick.
Head and front of the entire me- j
chanism, controlling all the business j
of all the houses, is Lorenzo Delnion-!
ieo, with a capital of §500,000 in- j
volved, with an expenditure of §1,- \ an ^ equally ot course tlih 81,500 hill
0 '0,000 a year, and always with his
balance on the right side of the
ledger. Siro and Charles arc like of dollars there every year. Others
was paid.
One vounc
the sons of the biblical woman, one
one his right, the other on his left,
forming a trio of rcstdurationary ex
cellence to whom New York is large
ly indebted, and of whom I write.
“ What was the costliest dinner
you ever gave?” said the writer to
Lorenzo.
“ Sir Morton Peto’s. He paid $15,-
000 lor the dinner he gave to some
merchants here.”
When the Grand Duke Alexis was
here, he being a sailor, it was deemed
the correct thing to dine him. The
jolly tars of the New York Yacht
Club got together and resolved to
invite him to" their quarter deck,
sling the hammock of courtesy in
their fo’castl’, and overwhelm him
with the binnacle of their hospitality.
They did it. He came, they ate—
and Jim Benuett paid for it. In
other words, although the entertain
ment in honor of the Russian Grand
Duke was one of the- most elegant of
its kind, gotton up in Delmonico’s
best style, and done in the name of
the yacht club, the expense was de
frayed by Mr. Bennett and Mr.
Douglass, a fact well known in tarry
circles, hut not hitherto made pub
lic.
For §5,000 Delmonico can make
fifty people quite gastronomically
comfortable.
When Charles Dickens was here
he made his home further up town,
but was a frequent visitor at the
Fourteenth street house. lie was a
heavy eater and a- heavier drinker.
Two bottles of champagne at lunch
were a mere trifle to him, hut his fa
vorite gargle was brandy.
“ Give me a thimbleful of brandy,
said Dickens, as ho was about driv
ing to the Lecture Hall. A bottle
and a tumbler were produced, and
considering the size of the “thimble’’
and the fact that it was literally
“ Is a Paint Mule a Hoss ?”
Nothing is more remarkable than
the facility with which the colored pop
ulation become acquainted with the
forms of law, and the practical man
agement of a ease in court. There
was a striking illustration of this fact
in the Recorder’s Court this morning.
The prisoner was accused of riding
across one of the bridges in a gait
faster than a walk, and the proof was
that he galloped a paint mule over
Houston street bridge. He managed
his own case.
His Honor said, “I think I’ll have
to fine you Johnising.’’
“May lax ver a few questions?’’
“ You may ’’
“ Isn’t thar a sign over dat bridge,
warning people how dey must ride ?’’
“ There is, and that makes you all
the more guilty.’’
j “It does, does it? Now, Mr. Re-
| corder, is dat sign what I has to go by?
J Is dat de law ?” .
j “ It is.”
j “ Well, den, cat sign reads, ‘ Walk
j your horse or you will he fined.’
i Don’t it—don't it hoss ?”
“ It does, Johnsing.”
“ Well, the proof is, I was gailopin’
a paint mule, wasn’t it, boss?”
“ Y e-s, I believe so,’’ replied Ills
Honor, beginning to smell a rat.
“Now, if Your Honor is willing to
admit dat a paint: mule ain’t no hoss,
I’il rest «le ease heal), becase you see
icar a cork poplwe j , . . T , ,, „ , ,
.. . de law is I shall walk my hoss, and as
it was a paint mule, dat is fatal to de
indr tment. Yna is a lawyer, and you
ought to know dein pints most as well
as myself.”
Recorder—Ahem ! for the purpose
of this suit, Johnsing, I'll regard that
paint mule as a hoss.
Prisoner—Your Honor will please
note my ’ceplion. I jess wants to
made one more pint. Allowin’ for the
sake of argument, dat a paint mule is
a hoss, de sign reads: “Walk your
hoss.” Now I has de witnesses here
in Court to pro\e dat paint mule hoss
was not my boss at all. De law say
walk your hoss.
Recorder—I’ll fine you $10, John
sing.
And a% Johnsing was condiictt’d A
the lock up he‘ expressed great sympa
thy for the tax payers, as ho intended
to bring a suit for 8100,000 damage*?
for false imprisonment*
He is now, ho Aever, at work on the
streets.
“That’S two hoars from now.”
“ Well, a great deal cna he .done
in two hours.”
“ All right. Colonel, I’ll do in, but
it will he an expensive job for ton.”
“ Who said anything about the
cost? Yon do it and I>11 yen/ for
it.” ’
Of course the lunch was served,
man spends thousands
in the same sot emulate his extrava
gance as far as their inherited of bor
rowed wealth permits. But the
NO DRONES
IN THE STORE OF
S. C- DOBBS. .
EVERY MAN WORKS, PRINCIPAL AND CLERKS,
The undersigned having just returned from the
NORTHERN MARKETS,
With a full and varied stock of every description of Goods,
BOUGHT AT LOW AND PANIC PRICES.
Consisting in part of
50 Barrels Sugar, 50 Bags Bio Coffee,
200 ROLLS BAGGING,
1,000 Bundles Iron Cotton Ties,
10,000 POUNDS FLOUR, 10,000 POUNDS BACON,
4,000 lbs. Hemlock Sole Leather, Upper Leather & Harness Leather,
100 BOXES TOBACCO, ASSORTED.
200 SACKS SALT,
1,000 Pair Hand Mads and Northern Brogan Shoes,'
200 Kegs Assorted Nails, 20 hales Factory Thread, Sugar
Cured Ilams, Leaf Lard, Boots and Shoes, Kerosine
Oil, Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Hats,-Caps,
READY MADE CLOTHING,
Crockery .and Glassware, Saddlery and Harness, Cotton, Hemp,
and Jute Rope, and various other articles too tedious to
mention, all of which he offers to the trade of Athens 0
and the surrounding country lor cash,
Cotton and Country Produce,
At as low or lower prices than can he 1 anight in the State of Geor
gia. He makes a specialty of looking after country merchants who
wish to buy goods to sell again. He offers goods to the jobbing
trade generally and guaranties satisfaction,
sop 12-3 m
3. C. DOBBS,
A Treasury Girl’s Testimony.—
A voting ladv from the Bureau of
mere tact that this boy or that spends j Engraving and Printing in yester-
85.000 of his patrimony,in the lolly j Jay’s Republican pathetically and pc-
of an hour’s duration, is not matter
wortliy of report. The house is
known for better reasons all over
the world. On its hooks are emi
nent names—those of Presidents,
Princes, men of letters and of art,
great singers, players and experts in
every line of usefulness or entertain
ment. So it has been, and so, doubt
less, it will be hereafter.
Extravagance.
Ask your purse, not your pride,
what you shall buy. Let not desire
to excel your neighbor, run you into
lavish expenditure. There is no foible
so attractive for the time as extrava
gance. People call it liberality, no
bleness of spirit and enlarged views;
they look on with admiration, as
they do at a brilliant display of fire
works, hut the fire once spent, then
comes the reaction. Dress is, per
haps, the greatest medium ot extrav
agance. Shakspeare, Fuller, and
many old and standard writers, ad
vise display and costly attire, but it
is a very questionable policy
republic like ours where it is sure to
provoke envy and distinction. We
would have no reader of ours to fos
ter a niggardly spirit. The fact is,
it is the same with our expenditures
as with our enjoyment- pleasure and
diet ought to ho in perfect liannony,
bearing a just proportion to each
other; for while inordinate pleasure
puts nature in disorder, so also, a
sparring and dull way ot living dulls
the spirit and iaoultics. And thus,
while uuduc lavishness tends to de
range one’s means and leads to many
evils, so likewise a mean and parsi
monious spirit tends to make ns
blunted unto all good influences, and
shuts us out from the companionship
and regard of our fellow-men.—Ex.
eticallv remonstrates against being
stared at. Now, no one can blame a
man for liking to look at a pretty
girl, and no one can blame ns for be
ing pretty and trying to look prettier
than we are, hut after we have
dressed ourselves in a way calculated
to make that beauty as conspicuous
and noticeable as possible, I don’t
think we have any right to complain
ifmendolook at us and I guess we
should complain if they didn’t. I
know that when, just after the first
of this month, I had got a new bunch
of waving feathers for my hat, and I
tripped past Willard’s with the regu
lation two yards cardinal ribbon flut
tering behind me and a fashionable,
tilted hat, and just showed as pretty
an ankle as they bver looked at, I
should have felt mad if they hadn’t
looked.—National Republican.
A Broken Conversation.—A
widow of iny acquaintance at the
Ocean was emphatic on the horrible
figure that the loveliest woman must
In a j cut while bathing.
I remarked that thcQiiecu of Lpve
and * Beauty was fabled to have
sprung from the foam of the sea, and
that she must have been charming.
“ Oh, yes; but she had nothing on.
I should look charming ”
Here her speech came to a sudden
halt and observing roses blooming all
over her face, I said r “ I have no
doubt of it,” and walked away.—
Long Branch Letter.
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We arc happy to announce a rise
iu wages in Engiaud. The laboriug
man gets half a cent per day more
than last year, and is half as happy
again.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Foreign and Domestic
IDIEUY GOODS,
194 and 19S Broad Street? Augusta, Georgia.
The attention of the people of Clarke and adjacent counties
is respectfully directed to our
Fall and Winter Stoek of Dry Goods,
Which we are daily receiving.
Goxxixxxsxiciiig tl\© Soasoa witla a. Stools
NaiiwnrNBi. bm-*; e*b*jeq vkmz,
And bought exclusively for cash in the best Markets in this
COUNTRY AND EUROPE,
WITH LONG EXPERIENCE,
, . *
And abundant resources for the transaction of a Large Business,
We Can Guarantee
Perfect Satisfaction in Prices and Quality of Goods.
Personal attention given to the tilling, of orders.
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Successors to Center & Reaves,
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A LARGE STOCK ON HAND WHICH WE OFFER" TO THE
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