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~... , j a l»nMtate*r I .44'1-m mmun A. iniva**, | ■ ' VOLUME 1 » 1< r it » {nuuu at/rjuu notra.) naar. v«*4n Dmil st Ma mateuoteMi »u*. Stood wit* uia and Mr; tma nd him ipraad *!■ rich mtete. Waar ram Ute manaloa fair, A*S wta* a iMl«hbor, n«cod, aadk Ualaarnad, ;oaaml that way, Tb» fathar tamed, aadde tba lad I Them Madly words did any; •*t*aro tear poor Magftaa: U.ny«, r How ikanhfal we UioaM Im 4 That oar rapabttc rlraa a ohanoa To iaUowa aooh M be I ” t- twxbx>. Ul *" M’-gala, biased In Jeweled 11**1, eoept in ailkaa sheen; fc. o9 *?**" U,OD « 111 • “tod so br.jbt •Mid btaateoos ne'er was seen. Aloft she bald bar haughty head, Hartayed Jwr Palis atou.es I "diaM a>ae< patron .sr, »abeea>4, to * ** Mias <MI, I soppoas. **She's poor, eha teachaa, baa n* ttytef " In Borope, acw-bet dli* A jX r - In th*« republic, ve'rv oompeUed wl T» yoakaowj” , r s -.snihfr'i Mtarmna. T£U£ Lil TLE BOOTS. In the morning, on leaving my room, I used to see hi* *hoe*_ carefully p ] aoe< j •*» ide jflfown before trig door' They wore LitMm, laced “boota, rather worn ami iu > .el.£ by the rough *ag.> to which j- Mfejeoted them. The note* *ren- TWnewhal thin tn and tt jittlo ijHa menaced tfo toe the rightjfoot. Ifee strings, lopi Ignpf Mng t-.ir- to tho rig® Ind! left By the .IconJd •Juuly •' j»hi by bib - **’ mnvwsrwn.iof & fooQ had left traced jffcr ui dMp or a&uutot im - I vrorjtilJe inmQgtiona. Why has mesnfoy ching to all this v ) know drill sro my .1. .. A.,r*r t>, ■ YJ'ahiKltfnwrfT placed by my own—two grains of sand beside tw<. living -stones, a goldfinch i n compan v With an eieptumt! They wet., hi. “everyday” IxaXa, his play corn pan jobs, with which he traversed his san,l mountains and explored the depths o! the neighbor juf Hff4* irf-Watfir Jl teir existence was *o l '*s | kd to ana partook so much of his own that eometiiiug of himaglf seemed to have been transferred to them; to me they appeared to possess ; a peculiar physiognomy; I felt that an visible bond attached them to hitn, uid I could not look tipon their still itA decided form, so comically graceful, without thinking of their master and avowing that they resembled him. Everything that comes tn contact with babies grows a little babyish also, and becomes charactenaod by that awk ward grace peculiar to them. 8.-Hide these laughing, gay, good-hu mored little boots, demanding but to •xr.Hir the fields, my own appeared tnou stmua, heavy, grow and absurd, with their gigantic heels. Looking upon them, as they stood there, with heavy, undeceived aspect, one could not bnt feel that for them life wan grave, the road long and the burden to be born* altogether aerioua. The contrast Via rfikrtred and the !<*- m profound. I ua«-i to approach these tiny* boots wry gently, sh order not to wakp the old man who still slept sound .f io V l9 adjoining chamber. I used to tap them, turn them over and over a* 1 examined them on all aides, and j felt * delicious smile mount from my heart to my lipa. 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 emotom. Parental love is not a passing aff.o tion cast upon the winds ; it has its fol lies and its weakness it is either puer ile or sublime. It never analyze* itself ami never seeks to explain its emotions; it makes itself feltand 1 allowed my self to drift with its delicious surrent. l*t the papa who is without weak Hess cast the first stone at me—th< mammas will avenge me. Remember that this little toned boot recalled to my mind a tiny, dimpled fool to which was attached a thousand cher ‘•bed souvenirs. 1 can still see my dear noy swung upon my knee as I cut his finger nails , how be straggled and pulled my >*asd, 'anghingtn spue of himself for !*• •“ ticklish. b I caunttl M# hi> When, in th- ♦ven- I mg. beside the bright. warm fire. I r " moved his ihfle stockings. How de lightful it wsa ! • • to say: “One two— Ant he, fflvetoped in his vast night-gown, hi hands.lost in the sleeves, which were by far too tong, with sparkling eye* *■* ready to bunt out laughing, awaited th • Wterkma “ Three. ” Mkl tongth, toter s thousand dels' ' —r / Columbia Itdrerliser. ■»« a ihonaaud attempt* at tetann, which excited hie i ßpatl * n ~ »” "‘'Wortnnity to st-ai fi Ta orwx khw» s> Y orfe,! “Threw ” iJeasuru. He thrst- himself back in mv . and Ids barn legs cleft the airJ From his wide-open month, in which ] sonorous Uaghter. " Hi' mother, who laughed also, would "*T. o *“ or two ; " ( oma, baby ; oorne, angel, y otl will etch, cold | Hold lam I ’•Will y OU be quieM little'wretch I ■ Then she would wish to scold him, but oould not oppress the unmistakable smile upon her lips. And who could have looked sprious in the presence of tha| flaxen hwul of hair, of those rosy cheeks, flushed and happy, and of baby lips that opened but U> vent bis. little heart hl peals of merry latyhwu as he bounded upon my knee f My wife turned toward me, saying: "He is intolerable I flood heavens I what a child I’• But I well that she meant : *" Look how pretty, hnw healthy ami hiwr*happv he is, our little man, our dart ug baby f" And in truth he was adorable ; at least, I thought so 1 I was wise enough—l may my it now that my hair is white— not to let i>aaai 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 upon the carpet, never play at hide-aad seakt I never imitate the barking of dogs orXhe roaring of lions, never bite with all their might without doing harm, or hide be hind the arm-chair, taking care tho Widle to let tjiemselves be seen I Let ns sincerely those poor un fortunate ones! Theae are not onjy childish and agreeable pastimes that they neglect, they are real joys, delic ious pleasures; they 'are trifles • that, taken together, compose that happiness -to Web rn> Many pemmßrslamU r and ac cuse Ol j .—.. T ...«„0U, beoauae 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 tlxm is.tlier theae httla opd learn to drop our continual cry of com plaint ; every day brings its bread and [xjrtion of happjuese I Ijet us walk slowly, with our eyes, uow and than, hied upuu Urn. ground J let us look around and peer into the little corners ; U is there that Provi dence hides the tresMires. I have always laughed nt Hiosc per sons who go through Un with the 1 reins slackened, the n.mtvtls ddtitod and the eyes f.isteiled oil the horizon J l seems that the present burfis theu fee'. and if you any to them : “Btop au in stout, let yonr feet .read tipon the in th, and takuj l glass of this good old I ainc ; let us eliat awhile, amHo a sec- I ,ii I and embrace our children 1 ” they p’ply ; “Ini J osHihl( r ;*Wi'"are awnftei! down there. Down tliuko wo shall chat, down there we shall be happy I " And 4hcn they have arrived down then, breathless and broken, when they cry <>nt, claiming the reward of their fatigues, tile present laughs under her -jiectaclea, saying : “ Gentlemen, tho .-»de,iM Joelssd up I” •Hie future promises and the present pays, and we must cultivate thf»ac<juaiu tance of the cashier who brills the keys of tho safe. Why imagine that we are tto< du|*s«>J Providence! Do you supjmse that thia good Provi dunce has sufficient leigproto serve each me of un with perfect happiness, de liciously cooked, already ent and ffre ■srvd njxin a plate of gvld, sad, m>'re .Tver tp tscklS. oitt wltl ‘ " w ‘*‘ •trains of music during the repast? A C ri-TT ‘5 hQ ” T We mint be reasonable, roll up oui cook our own food and not ex. noct Heaven to make our pot boil I thought of an this, in the ewfinng, when boy toy in •*"! •-» regular, mout breath came .gainst my hand. I thcmeHk of ftll **PPX ml ' ruenU which I already owed to the Utts ;u*u, ami I wan thankful to »im to. «Htomytolt ,-tob. happy-^lw^*^’* 1 * 1 it is to seek that hap,nnw- ™ Chm. “ Mv wife the —opn , remained hoars at a to®- “ e bright file, of that of wtnch "°. r . my «toa< £ •■ tw your low * •* * U.eiy dtfi-rtml nature tram m in. ? P- Parotid lhe Interests of Column County and the State of Georgia. HARLEM. GEORGIA,.TUIDAY. NOVEMBER 29, 1881. pas oalculaU Their afltoottoa is rite trade. Tbsypem love their child: wSU-riutri thrnr egotism to flatted There la something of the propneto* the papa. You can analyse your p cntal affection, discover ita oausea, 1 say: 1 1 Jove my child bacauae it to tk and thus.’ For tlie miunma thia ana. sto to aadtopossibility. She dose | love her child because it is pretty or « ly, intelligent or absurd, because it i Si-toblas her or does not reaemble hi or because it has her gestures and teal or because it does not have them. S lovee it liecause she cannot do othl 1 wise; with her it is a necessity. Mat* nal love is an innate feeling in worn In men parental love is the result of A eumstanefla. With her it to an mating with him it to an involuntary colour tion, but, at ths same time, the reaolt Various other feelings !** “Ohl very wall," I replied, "spa your mind. We have neither heart it tout w« men; wa are bloodthirsty os mbals. Tuxrible sentisaants, thoad’ Aad I plunged the poker into the 6- with a violence that caused the sputa to fly in every dirocriou. And yet I could not but ecknowledp that my wife was nght. When a ohfl makes its entrance into the world, lb mother's affection cannot be oomparfl to that of the father With her, it • already love. It seems that she he known her darling a long time. seems to say: “It is he." She takfl trim to hnr without embarrassment, hi gestures are easy and uuoonstrainiZ* and, folded in her arms, tho baby fl& a place exactly to his measnro—a S'H, warm nest made expressly for bus. in which he sleeps in happiness. It n<al|y leemH mis women had served a mte- U'rious apprenticeship to maternity. Men, on the contrary, are.plunged i,to deep trouble on tho birth of an in fait The Meat cry of the baby touches th-tei; but there is more astonishment tlian lore in this emotion. Tho father's affec tion is not yet liorn. His heart has need of reflecting ni>on and habituating itaolt to him. An apprenticeship must be served to the art of being a papa ; there is none to that of being n mamma. If the father is awkward in loving his new-to>m baby, wo must Acknowledge that he is none the less awkward in handling iL Trembling and with a thousand cm tortions, a thousand efforts, he hucc**U -hi raising this insignificant weight. Ho taahvodef .breaking the puppet; kis ptippetabip is aware of the fact and bawls accordingly. He exerts mare muscular force in raising this child, |wior man, titan would lie necessary to shatter his front door. If he kiss it, kis I Hard pricks its face; if he touch it, ii» fingers hurt the delicate lieing. He las the air of a l>ear attempting to threat a needle. And yet, this IHtle baby must gtfn tiie affection of it* poor father, who,at first, meets only with misadventuns; it must win him, enchant him, cai*e him to conceive a love for hia pooitou and not force him to «rdure his robot conscript too long. Nature has provided for this, and he jiaps is advanced to the rank of Oorjw al the day his baby stammers ite fist syllable*. And how sweet is this first effort'to speak, and how admirably chosen, few well calculated to touch the heart ofthe father is the first word: papa. lis strange that the v*ry first word of ahn man being expresses precisely the fail profouml ami texaler of all feelings I 1* it not touchUig to see tin* littWie mg find, without assistance, that on* word which must surely gain the aieo tioti of him of whom ft haa the grMeat ne*d that word which says: “lam your own ; love me, give me a pla4 in y>>V heart, stretch out your arms tope; you see that I know nothing a* yt-r, I have just lonite-1 m the worid, and Uink of yon alraody; I amonnuf your fa4ly I shall eat of your fool and bean ,tmr name- po—pa—po—pa.” He has found at o»ce the mot deltate of all flatteries *’•' "weakest of all .J.w How*. H« tbe wrwM with a tta»- *er etewAo- c*. | tii* boi >v*d darling I Pa— ja— I r*n still hear his hasitauag littb votco *nd *uji *e« hi* tiny rod lip n*4au.l fail We were on our kne«4 ii, » tede around him, and even then v toured above like giant*. We sail U fofy “ ttay that again, little man, m) khatiwln | Where i* your papa F' i-bearoii t>y to* bright faorn turned his eye* toward m< *4 ote hi* little arm*. Oh ! bow I embracod the darting My voice was choked with team. From that moment I was a papa, so nonaly a papa. I had been baptised !— From lAs MvncA. WTBOJrre 4-OKM. Not withstanding Byron’s assumed con tempt of death, nothing could exceed his abject terror when laboring undes even the slightest illness. He was dining at Pisa, with Hunt, Trelawney and Shelley, one day, whan he was suddenly seised with a violent attack of colic. Hs hastily arose from the table, threw him self npon the sofa, and liegau to say, i * Oh, my Qod I I am dying, I am dy ing I" Trelawney, who was a very pe culiar man, went up to tbs terrified bard, and said, “Oome, come, Byron, if you arc dying, you needn't make such • oocdounded funs abont ik* The tone in which he said this was so irresistible that the sick tnan could not help joining in ths laughter which Trelawney's non aiiatance caused. Byron, who really at heart was a very kind man, and whose nature rose at every oppression, was verv fond of making himself out a very bad one, and when he had indulged him self "with a little more gin and watei Than usual he would frequently grow almost maudlin over his imaginary wickedness. One night h" was jiartio ularly dismal over hto own iniquities, and expressed great repentance. Ho was very much put 'tent by Mrs. Hunt saying, in a tone of affected consolation, “Oome, mv Lord, you are not half to wicked as you flatter yourself you arc ” He gave hta puHtohar, John Murray, as a birthiMy present, a Bible very nicely bound. On the outside, stamped in gulden letters, was the macripriou, “ From Lord Byron, to his friend, John Murray, Esq." This was oefentetioualy laid on the center-table es 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 Mead was turning over the leaves of the ißagnlfi cent Bible, when ha suddanh cned: oeen altering the Bibl*." Haying ho pointed out to trio a*tonuih.»l and in dignant publisher that Byrou had al tered a verse by drawing his pen through the won! “robber” and substituting »n< other word, so that the verse ran thus: " Now Barabbas was a publisher. ” After that unlucky discovery the book disap peared.— TAonuM Powell. irDDJoIx coirivFraTiojr. The practice of calling in an add Hi >nal doctor, when the one already in attend ance feels the case becoming grave, haa, if the latter is a akillflil and experienced man, somewhat tho uune reasons in its favor as Parliamentary Oovaruinrut. The appearance of doctor the second strengthens the nerves of the (wtient'a family, aad sometimes, though not al ways, these us the attendant phymciau. Tlie patient himself is generally startled and alarmed by it. In flinety-nine oases out of 100 it baa not, as everybody knows, any influence whatever on ths manageiuent of Vie case The consult ing doctor almost always approves of what the other doctor lias done; seldom or never does ha suggest anything Me. But he makes the other doctor decidedly more comfortable in his relations with the family, and makes the family com fortable in the foaling that they have left nothing in reason untried. Nation. •io rant. The immense fans suspended in the great hospitals at Madras, India, ter the purifiosrion of the air, the movement of which has hitherto lieeti by hand, are now operated by steam power, the aob stitattoti being both effectivs and econom ical. The machinery by which this is accomplished is quite simple, all of the fans in the greet establishment lieing [lulled by a steel wire Line some 1,700 feet tong ; that is, the whole number of fens—loo, presenting a total area of 3,060 feet—are all palled as case pendu lum, giving a swing of seven or eight feat, «n<«'Udy, steadily and without noise of any kind. The long swing and uulioriu contriiuoua motion perxluoed by this arraugrment insure the desired ' h>ngc of air, without occasioning a draught. Jokm H Wlujams, United Blates H*n*U»r, recently sold his crop erf u,b*<'- co, raiaed on seventy-five acres in the “blue grace" section of Kentucky, for Ml, 419.06. There were ninety-five liogaheeds, and ttke yield from each sore was Merly fIBOU. He was ssatatad by a ioeh of 7W) tarkeys, who kept the plan to •leer of worms. Tsa total area planted with tobacco in -be United States as flifo.Ml acres, pro dnmng 473,M1,1W pound*. DXXDVOOI) as XT X*. Deadwood, writes a correspondent at the Biatoci Journal, is a town of 8.60 C to 4,000 people. Enthusiasts claim 6,000. Search all New England for tho deepest, narrowest valleys between the highest hills in the "Bwitaerland of America," not excepting the White mountains, nor the Franconia Notch, stretch the ravine two, three, five, ten milee, and you have a conception of the lay of the land about - Along the lowsat line of the ravine run the tho combined waters of the Whitewater and l>eadw<xxl creeks. Whitewater is the last name on* would I think of applying to the red stream of thin mud that comas down from the quarta mills of Ijead and Central, through the placer claims of hard-working men who are seeking to “ wash ” their way to wealth. Main street, Deadwood, lacks few of the kinds of business houses to l>e found in Minneapolis, for example, and has many Uiatewen Chicago has not. Miners* tools and materials make a distinct and 1 rofltabte liranch of bnauirsa. Schools as good aa town* of that eiae often anp- . ft,■flhttf.'bte--Congregational, Mvtho distf Episcopal apd Catholic- -as well organised, houfled and mann.xl a* the saiiitliost oould ask. Houses aa neat, tasteful and refined as culture ear earry to the froat, invite the bnsiiuiu, man, with hia family to settle for life. Hnch is the mthlligenoeaf the place—eo many of the people are educated and accus tomed to iim beat society furnishes ev sCßMPsthat a second-rate pMacher, teacher or craftsman of any sort would stand far less of a chance than among the staid oommumtina of-good old England. Daßnees, stupidity, tramps and quacks are advised to go East. Deadwood is tho hub of the hill*. Everything centers in there— radiates from there. It is the distributing point for Uncle Bam, for the miner*, for the ranobeca and th* proapectora. Bejpn aing with tower town, " Elk town OHy,” and passing through “Elizabethtown” (th* portion that was burned July 2fi) 11 *-> Itaadwood praurr. .- one would see rongnnees. vm-m**, wretchedness. Buch appendages Lang to every town. Civilisation sloughs them aa soon as the social machinery is I fairly in motion. Bo it will be here. Deadwood is a marvel of growth, en terprise and morality, when we con aider its isolation and the material that floats on the first waves of civiliza tion. Tnomi who have suffered from the lodging of a locomotive-cinder in the I eye have scarcely ever recognised it as a bhaaing in disguise. Indeed, curses I undisguised, together with weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, rubbing of tlie inflamed organ with only th<> ef fect of making it worse are the usual ac oomponiments of the affair. A Ixiy, blind in one eye, suffered for several days from the intrusion of one of these peats, but when the bandage was re moved he discovered to hia intense de light that he could sue for the first time iu several months, Th* cinder had re moved the scar of an ulrsr 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 diflerenew be tween canary bird* and women. A lady who was visiting at u neigh toir’s was asked to aing, and said that she really , could not <le *o in any circumstances, when a little girl went up to her and asked, “ Please, is you a-moulting /‘roitotence Star. JAW MILLS, GRIST MILLS, W Plantation and MUI Machinery. Engine* and Bolters. Ootton tfotwwa, BhaMtog Pulleyx, Hangar*. Journal Boxes, MUI (tearing, Qud*oo«, Turbin** Water y Gin (tearing, Judson’" Oovurno'*, Diaaton'a Circular Bswi, ilummcn dad Fitss, Belling, Babbitt Mstal, Bras* Fittings, Glob* and Cheek Valves, Whistle (bwfltifltrs. •te. Ireo and Bros* Osatioga, Gin Rib*, Iron Front*, Bxloonte* and Feoee B4Ml|pg OKO. R. LOMBARD A 00., FOBEKT CITY FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKfel ** 1014 to lOlfi FENWICK STREET, AUGUBTA, GW -qt toe Water Tower.] fl^*Repairing promptly dene at lotatet erietai floiler repair* of all kinds done promptly. -- fleeflS-apw OPERA HOUSE GARDES BEN NEISZ, PROPRIETOR oom WINKS, UQIIIRB AND I’IGAKS. FHILADXLPHIA AND CINCINNATI MBR. ' BROAD AND HLLW BTRKCTfI, AUGUNTA, •<. foDlllT "“■frVtvWcj"** * NUMBER 50.-« PULISANTBaS. o Ws wonder if grass widow* svss bay fever. -> ~u Evnv man of honor haa a uwthtagfor a low Hung. , JW( ,| It is hard to persuade a man a rich widow isn’t handsome, 4l oW «d Two msm in Newburyport played 0,2f13 games of dominoes Isst ywati Hliey must reckon that year as Anan Dweasio Con. Mnorui is the United States Hay Fever this year. He feels as muckles a manes Julius Hnccser. ‘ It isn't because a wooum Is afraid of aooW thit She huis Wdyffthd screams. It is becsAwb not fashionable, •< v mA Atrvton that is given away taMiwtiap preciated, and it is given away<bhaHflM the giver has no use for it hfoMgMU- Hntton I'ranirript. Tn proprietor of a factory announces that peteooi- leUrfog i their tomes with him can iiiriti*tb*n. ground at short notice. I sxiita val •' Wht is it,"uakod a tedj. ple lose their interest in 4nircl>-exjui t . nowadays?" “Because tiiey ‘EavTtos' their principle,*Lwaa the wWf WpJf* Im some Htate| the «vidapM oCgrpnan who habitually goes fishing twte* ayyr will lie received in ine courts. tHu renaon for this bit of judicial < obnous.— /Jurliofton /fovk-itiia. xlf A BBinan oouplo Irani at breakfast in a Bono hotel, converse as follows: Het.*' Hhall I stW“MP a l>ertat*r, honey F* <he—“ MbJ* tihitik you, deary, I have one already.akwg.,’; FsKnaaaow says he haa of jpare time on hia hands sine* he began lb at tend cxdnsivaly to hia own kwiiatei Formerly he wa* th* hardentatterited man in the city.—Boston JVanacrfjpf. “ (lows, now, it i* time for vou y> to bed,” said an Austin lady to children! " y<m must ge to bed. Dte'l you know all the little ohickena ,have gone to led? ’* “ Yea, but the old hen went to lied with them. Dwdlt -Tmx, aonp** full ofdßteiri tin.- dugnsted boarder. “I fcaow U," coolly returned the landlady. “And do you mean to go on ladling it out to us f" " It’s the beet I can do. I can’t board folks at H a week anti pay for fly-paper." —Brooklyn Eaglo. *1 ’ ' ’•O Tin name of Maria is eta jfopular in Ottumwa that when e eat-Miiaba a M»k fence in a well-pepaJated. and plaintively vooaliate twenty windows are and twenty female heads are thrust out wildly answering, “I* that JfOu* Bfir- Ottumwa Drew. “* 4 " * w *“** Wass Nuaon'a musls-nsiSiW ■ hw Solwtel MM* lau sail uMSSgta.*, . fl j H, wUUmI U>s« ste »*• btatataWs Tb«l *• ••» bsr IIMs trv"rfbte' , 't W> -1 *ad, wh«n U» pvroi.l >ta<l l*rfMP»,,l> I*l. >»ry wim u.u.l<n*n Would cutely lasts Ita Items, lidS’l 'aiTJ F.>r teschla*. •wn-sete»*lv vj tox* I— Yonktrs Mio exaajx'ratod th* other hJToffe by s|>eaking alurriagly of a beiKtMWi* had purchased. “ Ton nmit MMtt - gflt ton it of an Irish " There's nothing Irish aliont 4k F->4»- tortad she, spiritedly. “Oh lq hafljit must liav* oom* from soma wdhffok ga» tabbshment," was his calm MgfiQdes.— Yonkert GatotU. w-ww-swewaw 1 ’teaLA. Tims does not stop broeaaeia teaa's watch runs down. No mor* dutw a news|>aper because one man hnppetia to lose hia hood ami orders the paper dia continued to hia addraaa.— JBfo-