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GEO- B JORDAN, Lessee and Editor. VOLUME IV. KEPUBLICAXISM-fTHnEE QEXEH A. TIOffS.) rinaT. 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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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,