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GEO- B JORDAN, Lessee and Editor.
VOLUME IV.
KEPUBLICAXISM-fTHnEE QEXEH A.
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Squire Cecil at Ms liigh-arehod gate,
Stood with Uia ron and heir;
Around him spread his rich estate,
h'oai rose the mansion fair,
And when a neighbor, ragged.
Unlearned, passed that'- ‘
The father turned, T
T ,OHe k!mll^v >dsdidsay:
41 There cc
Jf w ** poor Muggins! Aid, ruy son,
T ANARUS, ° W . c&ankful weeliould be
our republic gi*. ea a chance
” o fellows such as ho ! 11
T HIE
■’iliae Muggins blaeed in Jeweled light,
And swept in ei.krn slieen ;
i iler courtiers thought a maid so bright
And beauteous ue’er was seen.
• A'oft she held her haughty head,
Hurrtiyed her Paris clothes !
■" And I must patronize,” she said,
“ Miss C.'cil, I suppose.
” She’s poor, she teaches, has no style I
ill Europe, now—but oh!
In this republic, we’re compelled
To meet ail kinds, you know ! ”
—Scribner’s Magazine,
THE LIITLE BOOTS .
In tl’.o morning, on leaving my room,
I to see his shoes carefully placed
*/ide my own before the tloor. Thov
were little, laced boots, rather worn and
tarnished by the rough usage to which
ihe subjected them. The soles were
-somewhat thin in places, and a little
dtolo menaced the toe of the right foot.
Th strings, loose and limp, hung care-
Ilesßly to the right and left. By the
swelling of the leather, I could oasily
reooguize the position occupied by his
great and little toes, and all the accus
tomed movements of his foot had left
their traces either in deep or almost im
perceptible indentations.
Why has memory clung to all this ? 3
really know not, but I can still see my
dear boy’s boots ambitiously placed by
any own—two grains of sand beside two
paving-stones, a goldfinch in company
with an elephant! They were his
“every-day” boots; his play compan
ions, with which he traversed his sand
tmowptams and explored the depths of
Hhe neighboring pools of water. Then J
Existence was so devoted to and partook
so much of hi,- own that something of
himself seemed to have been transferred
to them; to me they appeared to possess
a peculiar physiognomy; I felt that an
invisible bond attached them to him,
And I could not look upon their still un
decided form, so comically graceful,
without Drinking of their master and
avowing that they resembled him.
Everything that comes in contact
with babies grows a little babyish also,
and becomes characterized by that awk
wanj grace peculiar to them.
Beside these laughing, gay, good-hu
mored little boots, demanding but to
scour the fields, my own appeared mon
strous, heavy, gross and absurd, with
their gigantic heels. Looking upon
them, as they stood there, with heavy,
undeceived aspect, one could not but
feel that for them life was grave, the
road long and the burden to Ihj horns
ai heisser ious.
ihe contrast was marked and the les
son profound; I used to approach these
tiny boots very gently, in order not to
wake the old man who still slept sound
ly ia the adjoining chamber. I used to
them, turn them over and over as I
examined them on all sides, and j felt a
delicious smile mount from my heart to
my lips. The old glove, perfumed with
violet, which I have so long kept hidden
in the most secret depths of my drawer,
never filled my soul with so sweet an
emotion.
Parental love is not a passing affec
tion cast upon the winds ; it has its fol
lies and its weakness —it is either puer
ile or sublime. It never analyzes itsell
and never seeks to explain its emotions;
it makes itself felt; and I allowed my
self to drift with its delicious current.
J<et the papa who is without weak
ness cast the first stone at me—tin
mammas will avenge me.
Remember that this little laced bool
recalled to my mind a tiny, dimpled fool
to which was attached a thousand cher
ished souvenirs.
I can ctill see my dear ooy sitting
upon mv knee as I cut his finger nails ,
how he struggled and pulled my beard,
laughing in spite of himself, for he wa
ticklish.
I can still see him when, in the even
ing. beside the bright, warm fire. I re
moved his little stockings. How de
lightful it was !
T u-ed to say; “One —two — Am
he, enveloped in his vast night-gown, h>
hands lost in the sleeves, which were bv
far too long, with sparkling eyes an
ready to burst out laughing, awaited th
glorious “Three.”
At length, alter a thousand delays,
—* G FAWN, DADE COUNTY. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1881.
* thousand attempts at teasing
excited his impatience and gavo
me an opportunity to steal five or six
kisses, I cried * ‘ Three."
The stocking flow to the further end
of the room. Then it was a veritable
pleasure. He threw himself back in my
arms, and bis bare legs cleft the air.
From his wide-open mouth, in which I
could see two rows of brilliant little
pearls, escaped a cascade of hearty and
sonorous laughter.
His mother, who laughed also, would
say to him, after an instant or two :
“ Come, baby ; come, my angel; you
will catch cold! Hold him ! Will you
be quiet, little wretch!”
Then she would wish to scold him,
but could not suppress the unmistakable
smile upon her lips. And who could
have looked serious in the presence of
that flaxen head of hair, of those rosy
cheeks, flushed and happy, and of tlioso
baby lips that opened but to vent his
little heart in peals of merry laughter,
as he bounded upon my knee ?
My wife turned toward me, saying:
“He is intolerable! Good heavens!
what a child 1 ” But I understood very
well that she meant; “ Look how
pretty, how healthy and how happy he
is, our little man, our darling baby !”
And in truth he was adorable; at least,
I thought so !
I was wise enough—l may Bay it now
that my hair is white—not to let pass a
•ingle one of those joyful moments
without enjoying it amply; and, truly,
I did well. Let us pity those fathers
who know not how to be papas as often
as possible, who never roll npon the
carpet, never play at hide-and-seek,
never imitate the barking of dogs or the
roaring of lions, never bite with all their
might without doing harm, or hide be
hind the arm-chair, taking care the while
to let themselves be seen!
Let us sinoerely pity those poor un
fortunate ones I These are not only
childish and agreeable pastimes that
they neglect, they are real joys, delic
ious pleasures ; they are trifles that,
taken together, compose that happiness
which so many persons slander and ac
cuse of existing only in the Imagination,
because they expect it to fall from
heaven in the form of an ingot when it
is beneath our very feet, in pieces which
need only to be gathered up. Let us
then gather these little fragments, and
learn to drop our continual cry of com
plaint ; every day brings its bread and
portion of happiness!
Let us walk slowly, with our eyes,
now and then, fixed upon the ground ;
let us look around and peer into the
little corners ; it is there that Provi
dence hides the treasures.
I have always laughed at those per
sons who go through life with the
reins slackened, the nostrils dilated and
the eyes fastened on the horizon. It
seems that the present burns their feet,
and if you say to them : “ Stop an in
Uant, let your feet l/ead upon the
arth, and take a glass of this good old
vine ; let us chat awhile, smile a see
■nd and embrace our children 1 ” they
oply: “Impossible; we are awaited
town there. Down there we shall chat;
down there we shall be happy ! ” And
when they have arrived down there,
breathless and broken, when they cry
mt, claiming the reward of their
intigues, the present laughs under her
peetacles, saying : “ Gentlemen, the
safe is locked up ! ”
The future promises and the preseu*
pays, and we must cultivate the acquain
tance of the cashier who holds the ke.i*
if the safe.
Why imagine that we are the dupes of
Providence ?
Do yon suppose that this good Provi
dence has sufficient leisure to serve each
me of us with perfect happiness, de
liciously cooked, already cut and pre
•ared upon a plate of gold, and, more
over, to tickle our ears with sweet
drains of music during the repast ? A
reat many persons do expect it, how
ever. ~ „
We must be reasonable, roll up our
sleeves, cook our own food and not ex
pect Heaven to make our pot boil.
I thought of all this, in the evening,
when my boy lay in my arms and his
regular, moist breath came against my
hand. I thought of all the happy mo
ments which I already owed to the
man, and I was thankful to him for
them.
“ How simple it is,” said I to myself,
“to be happy—and what a strange idea
it is to seek that happiness in China! ”
My wife entertained the same opinion
and we remained hours at a time before
the bright fire, speaking of that of which
our hearts were fulL
“ Do von not perceive, nay dear,” she
often said, “ that your love is of an en
tirely different nature from mine ? Pa
“ Faithful to the Eight, fearless Against the Wrong.”
pas calculate, Their affection is like a
trade. They never love their children
well until their egotism is flattered.
There is something of the proprietor in
the papa. You can analyze your par
ental affection, discover its causes, and
say: ‘ I love my child because it is thus
and thus.’ For the mamma this analy
sis is an impossibility. She does not
love her child because it is pretty or ug
ly, intelligent or absurd, because it re
sembles her or does not resemble her,
or because it has her gestures and tastes
or because it does not have them. She
loves it because she cannot do other
wise; with her it is a necessity. Mater
nal love is an innate feeling in woman.
In men parental love is the result of cir*
cumstances. Witli her it is ail instinct;
with him it is an involuntary calcula
tion, but, at the same time, the result of
Various other feelings !”
“Oh! very well,” I replied, “speak
your mind. We have neither heart not
soul, we men; we are bloodthirsty can
nibals. Terrible sentiments, those !”
And I plunged the poker into the fire
with a violence that caused the sparks
to fly in every direction,
And yet I could not but acknowledge
that my wife was right. When a child
makes its entrance into the world, the
mother's affection cannot ba compared
to that of the father. With her, it is
already love. It seems that she has
known her darling a long time. She
seems to say : “It is ho.” Site takes
him to her without embarrassment, her
gestures are easy and unconstrained,
and, folded in her arms, the baby finds
a place exactly to his measure—a soft,
warm nest made expressly for him, in
which he sleeps in happiness. It really
seems as if women had served a mys
terious apprenticeship to maternity. *
Men, on the contrary, are plunged into
deep trouble on the birth of an infant.
The first cry of the baby touches them ;
hut there is more astonishment than
love in this emotion. The father’s affec
tion is not yet born. His heart has need
of reflecting upon and habituating itself
to this tenderness which is entirely new
to him.
An apprenticeship must he served to
the art of being a papa ; there is none
to that of being a mamma.
If the father is awkward in loving his
new-born baby, we must acknowledge
that he is none the less awkward in
handling it.
Trembling and with a thousand con
tortions, a thousand efforts, he succeeds
in raising this insignificant weight. He
is afraid of breaking the puppet; his
puppetship is aw are of the fact and
bawls accordingly. Ho exerts more
muscular force in raising this child,
poor man, than would be necessary to
shatter his front door. If he kiss it, his
board pricks its face ; if he touch it, his
fingers hurt the delicate being. He h.os
the air of a bear attempting to thread a
needle.
And ' ?t, this little baby must gain
the affection of its poor father, who, at
first, meets only with misadventures;
it must win him, enchant him, cause
him to conceive a love for his position
and not force him to endure his role of
con -cript too long.
Nature has provided for this, and the
papa is advanced to the rank of Corpor
al the day his baby stammers its first
syllables.
And how sweet is this first effort to
speak, aud how admirably chosen, how
well calculated to touch the heart of the
father iB the first word; papa. It is
strange that the very first word of a ha
man being expresses precisely the most
profound and tender of all feelings !
Is it not touching to see this little be
ing find, without assistance, that one
word which must surely gain the affec
tion of him of whom it has the greatest
need ? - that w’ord which says: “I am
your own ; love me, give me a place in
your heart, stretch out your arms to me;
you see that I know nothing as yet; I
have just lauded in the world, and think
of you already; I am one of your
I shall eat of your food and bears your
name—pa —pa —pa—pa. ”
He has found at once the most delicate
of all flatteries, the sweetest of all affec
tions. He enters the worid with a mas
ter stioke.
Ah ! the beloved darling ! Pa—pa—
pa—pa. I can still hear his hesitating
little voice and still see his tiny red lips
rise and fall. We were on our knees, in
a circle around him, and even then we
towered above like giants. We said to
him : “ Say that again, little man, bay
that again ! Where is your papa ?”
And he, cheered by tho bright faces
around him, turned his eyes toward mo
and held out his little aims.
Ob 1 how I embraood the darling. My
voice was choked with tears.
From that moment I was a papa, se
riously a papa.
I had been baptized ! —From the
French.
BTKOXIC JOKES.
Notwithstanding Byron’s assumed con
tempt of death, nothing could exceed
his abject terror when laboring undei
even the slightest illness. He was dining
at Pisa, with Hunt, Trelawney and
Shelley, one day, when he was suddenly
seized with a violent attack of colic. He
hastily arose from the table, threw him
self upon the sofa, and began to say,
‘ Oli, my God ! I am dying, I am dy
ing !” Trelawney, who was a very pe
culiar man, went np to the terrified
bard, and said, “Come, come, Byron, if
you are dying, you needn’t make such a
confounded fuss about it. ” The tone in
which he said this was so irresistible
that the sick man could not help joining
*n the laughter which Trelawnoy’s non
ehalance caused. Byron, who really at
heart was a very kind man, and whose
nature rose at every oppression, was
very fond of making himself out a very
bad one, and when he had indulged
liimself with a little more gin and watei
than usual he would frequently grow
almost maudlin over his imaginary
wickedness. One night he was partic- j
ularly dismal over his own iniquities,
and expressed great repentance. He
was very much put out by Mrs. Hunt
saying, in a tone of affected consolation,
“Come, my Lord, yon are not half so
wicked as you flatter yourself you are.” j
He gave his publisher, John Murray, as
i birthday present, a Bible very nicely
bound. On the outside, stamped in
golden letters, was the inscription,
“ From Lord Byron, to his friend, John
Murray, Esq.” This was ostentatiously j
laid on the center-table of the great pub
lisher’s drawing-room, and Murray was
very proud of the gift. At a large party ‘
at his house, one evening, a friend was
turning over the leaves of the magnifi
cent Bible, when he suddenly cried:
“ Why, Murray, come here 1 Aiyrou has
been altering the this, i
he pointed out to the*rotonished and in- j
dignant publisher that Byron had al
tered a verse by drawing his pen through
the word#* robber” and substituting an
other word, so that the verse ran thus:
“ Now Barabbas was a publisher.” After
that unlucky discovery the book disap
peared. —Thongs Powell.
MEIUCA/L, tt/A SUJUXATIOX.
The practice of calling in an additional
doctor, w%n the one already in attend
ance feels lie case becoming grave, has,
if the latter is a skillful and experienced
man, somewhat the same reasons in its
favor as Parliamentary Government.
The appearance of doctor the second
strengthens the nerves of the patient’s
family, and sometimes, though not al
ways, those of the attendant physician.
The patient himself is generally startled 1
and alarmed by it. In ninety-nine cases
out of 100 it has not, as everybody j
knows, any influence whatever on the :
management of the case. The consult- !
ing doctor almost always approves of j
what the other doctor has done; seldom
or never does he suggest anything new.
But he makes the other doctor decidedly j
more comfortable in his relations with
tho family, and makes the family com- !
fortable in the feeling that they have left
aothing in reason untried. —Nation.
BIG FAXS.
The immense fans suspended in the
great hospitals at Madras, India, for the
purification of the air, the movement of
which has hitherto been by hand, are
now operated by steam power, the sub
stitution being both effective and econom
ical. The machinery by which this is
accomplished is quite simple, all of the
fans in the great establishment being
pulled by a steel wire line some 1,700
feet long ; that is, the whole number of
tans—loo, presenting a total area of
2,050 feet —are all pulled as one pendu
lum, giving a swing of seven or eight
feet, smoothly, steadily and without
uoise of any kind. The long swing and
uniform continuous motion produced by
this arrangement insure the desired
-•hange of air, without occasioning a
itraught.
John 8. Williams, United States
Senator, recently sold his crop of tobac
co, raised on seventy-five acres in the
“blue grass” section of Kentucky, for
321,419.96. There were ninety-five
hogsheads, and the yield from each acre
was nearly 8300. He was assisted by a
flock of 700 turkeys, who kept the plants
clear of worms.
Thu total area planted with tobaoot) in
the United States is 638,841 acres, pro
ducing 472,661,159 pounds.
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4nyi.”
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POE NAN 0E BEAST.
Fok tlie sixth time in the history of
the nation the President of the United
States is without a wife to adorn the
White House. Jefferson was a widower.
Mrs. Andrew Jackson died just before
her husband was inaugurated. Martin
Van was a widower. John Tyler
was a widower for about two years dur
ing his term of office, and James Bu
chanan was a bachelor. Now comes
Chester A. Arthur, whose wife has been
dead more than a year.
“ Kalakaua” in Hawaiian means “the
day of battle.”
NUMBER 3.
SUBSCRIPTION BAT EH,
One Year, in advance fl 00
Six Months. “ 75
Three Months, “ 45
II not strictly in advanct 1 60
CtKNHRAI. DIRECTORY.
CHURCHES.
! r Preaching by the Circuit preacher, os
the 3rd Sunday in eech month, at II
o’clock a. m. end at the Furnace et #
o’clock p. m.
Preaching by the Missionary Baptist
at the Furnace on the first Sunday and
Saturday Dight before, in each month,
by the pastor.
MASONTC:
Tho regular meeting of Riming Fawn
Lodge No. 293, F. A A. M., tho Ist and
3rd Saturday nights in each month. T.
J. Lumpkin, WCM., J. W. Raesey, So
rectary.
fgTrenfoa Lodge No. 179 F. A. A. M.,
meets on the 2nd and 4th Friday nights
in each month H. A. Russell, W. M.,
J. A. Bennett, Secretary.
Trenton Royal Arch Chapter meets
on the 3rd Wednesday in each month.
\f. A. B. Tatum, H. P.; W. U. Jaco
way, Secretary.
COURTS:
Court of Oriinary meets on the firsi
Monday iu each months. G. M. Crab
ree, Ordinary.
The Jin tics Court for the Rising
Fawu district, en the 3rd Saturday in
each month.
EDUCATIONAL:
Tne county Bjardo* Education meets
•n the call or the chairman. W. N.
JiCoway, County School Commissioner.
professional cards.
T. J. LUMPKIN I j H. P. LUMFIIK,
Rosing Faivu. ) ) Lafayette,
rjl J. LUMPKIN A BRO.,
Attorneys at Law,
Rising Fawn A Lafayette, Ga.
Will ray promps attention to the col
lection of claims and all business en
trusted to their care, if the aevara!
courts of the counties of Dade, Wklker,
Chattiogi and C.itooaa. 1-tl
Alabama Great Sitiern Railroai
TIME CARO.
Taking efffet February 20th, 1881.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1 Mail.
Arrives. Leave*.
Chattanooga, rrwr to.
Wauhatcbie. 815a. m. BIS “
Mlorgansville, 834 “ BS4 “
Trenton, 861 “ 852 “
Ris’ng Fawn, 014 “ 915 “
Sulphur Springs, 9 83“ 952 “
Valley Head, 965 “ 955 “
Fort P.vne, 10 21 “ 10 "
Brandon. 10 26 “ 10 St “
Tortersville, 10 60 “ 10 50
Collinsville. 11 02 “ 11 05 “
Greenwood, 1! 88 -l ll 25 “
Attalls. D6O “ 12 U p..
V’bilker, 12 58 p. bb. 12 57 “
Sprißgrills. 131 “ 155 “
Truarviiie, 207 “ 205
Birmingham, 243 “ 841
Woodstock, 402 “ 405 <*
Coaling, 434 “ 455 ( |
Cottondale, 452 “ 56S (j
Tnscaloosa, 512 “ 615
Entaw, 818 * 705
Miller, 740 “ 742
Epee,’ 751 • 762 ”
Liviegsten, ! 8 14 • !•
York I 840 “ 541
Meridian, j 950 “
Chas. B. Waii.ack L. B. Moikiso*,
Sjp ninuxtsiit. Gen’l Pss*. Ag’t.
Those who have suffered from the
lodging of a locomotive-cinder in the
eye have scarcely ever recognized it as
r blessing in disguise. Indeed, curses
undisguised, together with weeping,
wailing and gnashing of teeth, rubbing
of the inflamed organ with only the ef
fect of making it worse are the usual ac
companiments of the affair. A boy,
blind in one eye, suffered for several
days from the intrusion of one of these
pests, but when the bandage was re
moved he discovered to his intense de
light that he could see for the first time
iu several months. The cinder had re
moved the scar of an ulcer which had
troubled him a year ago, but which the
surgeons could not cut away.
It is of no use trying to explain to
children that there is a difference be
tween canary birds and women. A lady
who was visiting at a neighbor’s was
asked to sing, and said that she really
could not do so in any circumstances,
when a little girl went up to her and
asked, “Please, is you a-moulting
Pi evidence Star,