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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. — - 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. '} 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. sepl9*3in ^50# REAVES aiClOLSOir Successors to Center & Reaves, Agents for Hazard’s Kentucky Riile& Blasting Powder, A LARGE STOCK ON HAND WHICH WE OFFER" TO THE PUBLIC AT Manufacture’s prices, freight added. aug.29.lm. * REAVES & NICHOLSON.