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J. W ■ WKM«WBSt, Miler * .A , aw Ma a. BMivaM, rv£;"«. r rf* I VOLUME I rM4T TIKK n IT> , Wh*l It? Ttos Ttoe to »*• bettar orr* up that *ru<u»~ Ar>rw»r that totter— tft that kls-1 tonM, to ewretec • error; 0.- U>al *oo4 deed you woeld toare HD to-mome. Tl»o to try hart In that near «SlnrU™ Xtino lota 114 aj> on A aobd tenndMtaL attns «p nwUroiity mi u« and driftinn : itartx* the qulrkssuas th>‘. ever are atuftinf. WbarttMotottt Time to to thrifty ; t Fsntari. late vsrain* - Plow tn tberprtsgtlmo- Bow tn Uto ttKrrulnu fan H romla*. Bspbjnuw Nowin*; . ’ Uearwi will attend to tjp qwtokaatun and (rowmg Time to noent ooat - ’ I aura, erpenaoa Tttne to took wall To IN gaue and fairer ; Makis* and msoCte*, aa food woriam ahrnttd; HholUn* out aril ao<t kenpiug ttx- food. , Whptttareintit.- TlmetobeaaAiwt. **' L*ri>W optreaeure ; Tran to he thoughtful, Cbooaang num ploaauro, I.'ftn* atom truth Nm* fond; Makin* you word Jost at food aa your bond. Time to Uh happy, ■—■, eMa<yo«r bant {Time Maty Wuatful, I Tmltf hirat, Knowing, Is wbareaan aountrj or rtiK, Ma a can we Ban bant rain minute of Urn*, * TAKTVgJ JNMRDm . ■ "*■ 1 - f "u “It ™ a ecm dal, the neighbors said ** that Wise Delia should be obliged to take boarder*, after all she’d been through; and heaven knows tmardern did not help a body to work out her sal ration. Anri so much money m the fami ly. too, taking it by small and large. Wasn't her Uncle Ebon, over at Dover, well-to-do, and not a chick of his own to care for, except tliu boy he had adopt • ed, who was no credit to him ? It odd, now, that a mm with poor rt. toons should take a stranger when his own flesh and blood was needy; but sometimes it does seem aa if folks had more feeling for others than for their own kith and kin. Then theft- were cousins in the city, forehanded and fuehi'ioable, who wen never worth a row <d pins to Delia, and there was her great-uncle John’s widow a-larkinon the Continent, a-gatning at Baden-Baden, and trying the waters of every mineral spring in the three kingdoms, for no disease under the sun bnt old age. She had been known to say that her folks were too rich already, and probably she would endow aome hospital with her property." Plainly, wealthy relatives ware of no value to Mum Delia, To be sure, she had never seen her great-aunt since she was a child, when her Unde John had brought her into their simple life for a month's visit, with her French maid and dresses, her jewels and fallals, which won the heart of her name sake. Since then Uncle John's widow had become a sort of gilded creation, al ways young and beautiful; for, though Delia had received little gifts from time to tome across the seas for the last fifteen years, she had neither heard nor seen anything of the being who had inspired her youthful imagination, and was quite uncertain if such a person us Mrs. John Rogerson was in the land of the living. Dead or alive, alio seemed to have made no material difference to Delia's hum drum life. After having nnreed her father through a long sickness Delia found that he had left a heavy mortgage on the homestead and her mother and hereelf on the high road to the poor house, unless they should liestir them telvea. As her mother was already bed ridden. the stirring naturally fell noon Delia, and she advertise-1 for summer t ■carders: CaovTsaosovoH, Me.—Good board in lb* country to tta nrem.lt. it •? awrek. Large mambera, broad piaxxaa, fine views, berries and new milk. One ttik from the rtatiom Address Dun Roasaaos. "Cheap enough ! * commented an el ■lorly lady who happened upon it. “ De ha Rogerson. Au old maid. I suppose, "bilged to look out for herself. I've a (rood mind to try her broad piaxzas and new-nilk. If I don’t like it tere’U be n<> liarm done." And sc Delia’s first boarder arrived *n old lady with false front ha”, brown, wrinkled akin, faded eyes, a blank al -I‘aca gown, and » hair trunk. Delia made her aa welcome as if she had bean a Ihi cheia: lighted a wood tire in Mr*. Clement'S room, as the night was damp, •nd benight out her daintiest cup an<i saucer, with the fadelres old roses wreathing them. " Wonderfully kind, reflected Mrs. (dement »r she combed ■■at her wis|« of gray hair and con&fad the false front to a box. *' Wonderful • mdnemfor 87 s week! Site's new to the trade. Hhe’ll learn better. Human ■lafure doesn't change with latitudes Columbia &e'lt fl w lller Uj(< HHr* ’ s \ • i creep «<" &>■ -r . V#.ltocon- to demanil F JU multiply bercarm.' T f co n fl l( . t ing temper T roof was a sew naner. " «■ MHiei, Mre. Dresome c l> , mcaquito,k, kith ati air •, w w sou were re •possible fe J Ip. dMU, flics, te if | fl intancre; of »aat of ap JU-dfh Delia had •greed to a- with berries and new mil - as if she had pledged , jKhere would be no sudden chan, her boarders; of Uashabbjr antiquated fur nitnre, ■' tfwtfoM and not old enough Delia doubted if taking hour jjm was her mission. " What makes WL. keen us. mv dear’" asked Mrs. Cl«Klt, after a day when everything and Jmrybody had seem< <1 to go wrong, didn't you ever marryt You ii .pw lover, I dare say?" '* Yes ; a I<jngjfcg time ago.” "Tull me a)\Ziilim—it ? ” " There isn te act to tell. He asked mo to marry him fie was going to Aus trtli*- I -*1 leave father and mother, .jithey were both feeble) and he couldn't, here. That’s all. '* "And you—; ><»—— " “ ' Now all m -buHi'l l ’ are to mo like shadows.”* “And you ha*, Me ver heard of him since I " . jiM “ Yea. He wAV: but where was the tee ? It could uflcr come to anything. It was better for fihim to forgot mo and marry. I was a Nfilstone about his neck -1 didn't answer i.a letter." “And supixtaflMr he should return some dev. marry him?/’ ’•"ghed Delia, gently, Smiliar, “ let the nt /' '«> wisely. I've if* thought oi i. ) sitting alone, when Ute world to'fißrrm and coinmon l»tece. Ono must hare recreation of some kind, you know. Everyboffy re quires * Bule romance, a little poetry, to flavor **ul dome I'm afraid you think me a silly old maid, Mrs. Clement” " No. The heart never grows old The skin shrivels, th,> color departs, the eyes fade, the features grow pinched ; bnt the soul is heir of eternal yonth ■—it is as lieantiful at four-score as at •sweet 20 ’ Time makes amentia for the ravages of tha body by developing tbe spirit You didn't tell me your lov er’s name. Perhaps you would rather not.” ■‘ilia name was siophen Langdon. Sometimes Capt Seymour runs against him in Melbourne, and brings me word how he looks and wliat he is doing ; though I never ask, and Stephen never asks for me, that I can hear. ’’ Delia's summer iKiarders were not a suoceae, to be sure. If they took no monev out of her pocket, they put none in. She was obliged to ek« out her support by copying for Lawyer Dun more and embroidering for Mrs. Judge Dorr. Ono by oae her Ixiardere dropped away like autumn leaves; all bnt old Mm. Clement “I.lielieve I'll stay on,” she said. “I'm getting too old to move often. Perhaps you take winter boarders at re duced rates. Eh 1" “Do you think my terms high?" “ By no'means. But when one’s purso is low —” ••les; 1 know. Do stay at your own price. I can't spare you." She hail grown such a fondness for the old lady that to refuse tier at her own term* would have seamed like turning her own mother out of doom ; l>esi<te, one month more would not signify. But die found it bard to make l»otb ends meet, and often went to bed hungry that her mother and Mrs. Clement might enjoy enough, without there appearing U> be •• just a pattern. At Chnstmar, however, came a ray of sunshine for Delia, in the shape of a 1100 bill from m unknovn “ It can't be meant for me," sheened. “It’s directed to Delia Rogerson,” mud her mother; “and there’s nobody else of that name, now that your Aunt Delia's deml. " •• We are not sure she's dead," ol>- jected Delia “ Horrorw! Don't you know whether your own aunt is dead or alive ?' asked Mm. Clement, in a shocked tone. “It isn’t our fault Shew nch and bves abroad. I was named for her. I used to look in the glass and try to be lieve I’d inherit her beauty with the name, though ahe was only our ffreat uncle’s wife." “ She ought to do something for you.' • • How can she, if ahe is dead ? I Devoted the Interests of Columbia County and the State of Georgia. ARLEM, GEORGIA. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 6, 1881. (lou t blame tier, anyway. Her money is her own to use according to tier pleas ure. Undo John made it himself and gave it to her,” g|* But it ahe should come back to you, having run through with it, you’d di vide your last crust with her. I’ll lie bound.” ' I suppose I should," replied Delia. The winter wore away aa winters will, “ mid the miracles of spring liegan in fields and wayside; and Delia's Ixiardera returned with the June roses, and dropjMxl away again with the fading leaves, and still Mrs. Clement stayed on and on. Just now ahe bad lieeu some weeks in arrears wiui ner reduceu ooaru. No money had been forthcoming for some time, and she was growing more feeble daily, needed the luxuries of an invalid and the attention of a nurse, both of which Delia Iwstowed upin her, without taking thought of tbe morrow. “ 1 must hear from my man-of-bnsi aeaa to-morrow, Delia; Pm knee-doep in debt to you,” she Iwgan one night. " Don’t mention it!" cried Delia. “ I’d rather never see a cent than have von take it to heart. Yon are welcome to stay and share pot-luck with us; yon are sucli company sot mother and ■ me.” “ Thank you, my dear. I’ve grown as fond of you as if you were my own flesh and blood. There, turn down tbe light, please. It grows chilly, doesn’t it ? You might kiss me just once, if you wouldn't mind. It’s a hundred years or so since any one kissed me." And uext morning, when Delia car ried up Mrs. Clement’s breakfast, hen lioarder lay cold amt still upon her pil lows. The first shock ovur, Delia wrote to the lawyer of whom ahe had heard Mrw Clement speak ai having charge of w affaire, begging him to notify that ladv*t relatives, if she had any. In reply Mr. Willis wrote : “ The late Mrs. Clement appears to have no near relativon. Home distant cousins, who have an nbimdanoo of this world's goods, yet served her shabbily when she tested their generosity Ste she fried yours, m . all that remain of her family. In the meantime I inclose you a copy of her last will and testament, to peruse at vour leisure." “ W bat interest does he think 1 take in Mrs. element's will ?" tb eight Delia; but she read, nevertheless : Being of sound mind, this I6Ui dsr of June, . IS—, I, Heli* Rogerson Clement, do hereby leave tlOOtoesch of my cousins, ami I be qnesth the residua of my property—vix.: $30,- 000 invested in the Ingot Minin* Company, •50,000 In Unitel Blates bonds, $20,000 iu the Bertune Flannel Mills, and my jewels-to tbe beloved niece of my first husband, John Roger son. Delia Rogerson, of Oroftstorougb, Me “ For I was a stranger and ye took me in ; hungry, and ye ted me ; Uck, and ye miris terod unto me." “Goodness alive!” cried tbe neigh- Ixirs, when the facts reached their ears. " What a profitable tiling it is te> take Ixiardcrel Everybody in town will be trying it. Os course Hteve Langdon will come and marry her if ahe were for ty old maids. You may stick a pm in there I" Delia did net open her house to board ers the next season. Hhe found enough to do in looking after bar money and spending it; in replying to letters from indigent people, who seemed to increase alarmingly; in receiving old fnenda, who suddenly found time to n memlier her existence. And, sure enough, among the rest appeared Bteve Langdcu. and all the village said, “I told you ao." “ It's not my fault that you and I are single yet, Delia," lie said. “ And wo are too old to think of it now, Steve," “ Nonsense! It’s never too Ute to mend. I'm not rich, Delia, but I’ve enough for two and to snare." "I wouldn’t"be contented not to drive in my carnage and have servants under me now," laughed Delia. “ Indeed I Then perhaps you have a lietter match in view. Capt Seymour naked me, by the way, if I had come to interfere with Squire Jones' interest." “ Yew. Squire Jones proposed to me last week.” “ Now, see here. Della. Have 1 come all the way from Melbourne on a f<toil's errand? There I was growing used to mv misery and loneliness, when Um mail brings in a letter tn a strange hand, which tells me that my dear love, Delia Riigeneon. loves and dreams of me still, is poor and alone and npmls me me I And the letter is signed by hei annt, Mrs. Clement, who ought to know. I |«rked my household g<»*i» and came." “ I’m glad that yon dvl" "In ofilrr that 1 n,ay cougratul t e Squire Jones ?" < - • “ But I haven't accept'd him. In fs#. I’ve refused him—liecause—" F Because you will marry your old le*e, like the leas in the song, Delia?” l«. In Oroflsborough jxMiple are not yet tired of telling how a woman made money by taking lioardera. vnMNona rtf Miri cioranta p It is curious to note bow great are the slbauge- in men's costume. Looking only at one detail, the waistcoat, which, last century, was the cause of andlrae extravagance, we find that it is now of the utmost simplicity and is, for the most part, hidden by Uie coat But the waistcoat had its day. There wm a time when dandies made it a matter of pride to have dgpons—nay, scores—of waist ooata. In Germany, during tbe last cent ury, the luxury was considerable, and the love ol display uioalculable. * One of the Ministers under Frederick the Great useil to boast that ho had 800 waistooste and 300 wigs. “So many wige and so little head," said Frederick : the Great, speaking of him. Men of jx wittons were required to have a posi tive museum of waistcoats in the eight eenth century. There were cloth waist ooata, silk waistcoats, waistcoats in vel vet, waistcoats in doth of gold. Tbe waistcoat was a work of art, a painter’s canvas filled with subjects. It was oov ered with admirable representations of hunting episodes, of court scenes, of famous fables, of village festivals. The waistooek of the gallant of the period was enlivened with the pictorial history of the loves of Mars and Venus, the Marshal's waistcoat was embroidered with military scenes, while-one of the court dandies acquired fame (which he would not have otherwise enjoyed) by reason of the illustrations of popular •plays to be seen on hie manly breast. The rage for these illuminated waist •oate lasted till the and of Louis XVI. 's reign. Tbe buttons by which these gar ments were fastened were not lees •rortliy of notice. They were, for the moat part, of about the rise of our sil ver dollars, and were in steel, in silver, in precious stones, aometimre even in "tflamouda. The (fount d'Artois, after ward Charles X., was celebrated for the magnificence of his but tons, some of which wore in enamel, and embelliahed with miniatures of the celebrated beantiea, oi classic heads of the gods and goddesses. Home men of lower type wore on their buttons the portraits and initials of the queens of tlicir hearts. The revolution brought about some changes. Tbe waistcoat was shortened, and its buttons Ixire the jiortrait of Rolieepierre, who was known among the d indies aa the man with the beat-powdered hair in France I or of Haiut Just or Fauquier- Tinville or others. But tiiis fashion s>x»n disapjieared, end the waistcoat has gradually lost its importance aa an arti tide of masculine apparel, and is now considered useful iv, u depot for the witch, but aa an ornament ia none. “ Tub vaat strides which have been imule in the commercial growth of Win nqieg during the past three months." according to the Montreal (latrtte, “ have surpassed the dream* of the most aauguinx lielievare in preeent and future prosperity. Within that period property in and around Winnijxig, which baa deeervedly lieen styled the Chicago of the Northwest, hsa advanced in value D i tb<> astounding extent of from 200 to 300 per cent Buch ia said to be the rrare for the possession of lota around the city that auction sales are lieing held every night with the greatest suc <>eaa. The ex ft naive soale upon which building ia going on there is real ly wonderful. In all directions new stores and residences are going np a* faat aa tbe trowel and hammer can rear them, and in a very lew years Winnijieg will undoubtedly become the greet magnet among the cities of the North w»«‘ " r a <mujt or thk Mint am kakth. The moon revolves round the earth in an elliptic orbit, witii the earth in the focus; the eccentricity of ths ellijise being equal to .W4Ol of half ita major axia, or more than 3f times that of tbe earth’s orbit Tha point st which the moon is nearest to the earth ia called the perigee, and that at which she la farthest from it her ap -gee. ami the line joining these two jxnnta is called th” line of apsides. When the moon ia at the pengee, ahe is within 225,000 miles, and when at the apogee more than 251.000 miles from the eartli. The txlh of the earth ia not strictly a eirete, but an ellipse of small acceatricity, in one of tbe foci of which ia tbe sun. It is nearsei the sun, or in nhalton, at tbe Ix-gir.niug of the year, |»r when the northern hemisphere baa winter •sr» roxnw muk. The following story, •“T* *be Waab mgtoti ia true in every detail: A milliner of respectability married a diaaipeted tailor, who abused, neglected and abandoned her. Several yearn hav ing peaaed without a clew to his wherea bouts her friends advised divorce and her acceptance of an advantageous offer of marriage. The woman persistenUy declined every offer, and when ahe had •ocumulated a sufficient sum started of! in tbe direction her husband was sup posed to have taken when he left her. At Halifax, N. 8., ahe received a slight ctew, and took the steamer to Portland, Me. Thence she followed his track to New York, where ahe ceased for many months to beer from him. Finally she found that he was working hi Albany, for which place ahe immediately started. She was about a week too late ; ho lual been discharged for drunkenness. Bpcnd ing her days al lucrative work and her evenings at detective service, the un wearying wife at length discovered that ho was employed by a large firm in Chicago. Hhe wrote there, mid was an swered that her Husband liadgopo away, nobody knew where. Not satisfied with this, she fravelwl to that city and ran sacked every concern interested in tailonag business there, until ahe met a fellow-countryman who said that her husband, when last heard from, was iu Omaha She wrote there, got no an ewer, bnt went on. There she hoard tliat he had certainly loft for Han Fran cisoo, where he had obtained a fine place aa cutter in a large firm. She, of couree, went thither, only to bo told that her husband had l>een several days away from work and was drinking har<L Ho had not boon even at his Ixiarding bouaea. Thia lod her to visit the station house, and in one of them she ascer tained that her husband was in jail tor ten days. Ho was released and prevailed on to return home after six years' absem-c AU this occurred eighteen yean ago, and to-day the prodigal husband of yore ia a strict temperance man, in independ ent etwevmatennaa, a model huabaml and talker and a respected oitiseu. XOITA. It will surprise many to learn of the singular political changes the State of lowa has undergone. Originally, by virtue of the diaoovery of Marquette, lowa became s jxisseasion of France. Afterward it was transferred to Hpaiu by secret treaty in order to prevent it falling into the power of England. By ths treaty of HU Ildefonao in 1800 Lows Itecams French soil once more. Then in 1803 came the Ixiuisiana perchae* by which the United States gained title to the great tract of land weet of tha Miasiasippi and including the preeent Btste of lowa. A temporary Govern ment was immediately formed, and what now constitutes lowa was part of a dis trict placed under the jurisdiction of Indiana. Afterward lowa peaaed through various changes, being flrat a part at the Territory of Miseoun, then of Mich igan and lastly of Wisconsin. In 1888 (owe was flrat organised as a Territory. -De* Meinae Nsptater. “I hava known more than one gen ius," says Oliver Wendell Holmes, “ high decked, full freighted, wide xailed, gay jx-nnoued, that, but for the bare, toiling arms, and brave, wwm, lieating heart of the faithful little wife that nestled doee in his shadow and dung to him, so that no wind or wave could part them, would soon have gone down the stream and been beard of no more.” SAW Him, GRIST MILLS, CANS MILLS * ft "'* .vtf Plantation and Mill Machinery. Engines and BoUera, Gotten fierpffK Pulleys, Hangers, Journal Boses, HUI Gsaring, Godsons, Turbin's wnnTWheels, Gib Geering, Judson’s Governors, Disstoe’s Circular Basra, Go masers and Fites, Bel tire, Babbitt Metal, Brass Fittings, Globe and Check Valves, Whistle Sangeaa, •■x. Iron and Brass Castings, Gin Ribs, Iron Fronts, Balcootea and Beusts!ting. GEO. R. LOMBARD ACO., FOBEBT CITY FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS, ». 1014 to IOTA FENWICK STREET, AUGUSTA, <M- [gVNear the Water Tower.] promptly dene at totrari prices. Boiler repairs of all kinds done promptly, dwal-ly operaTouse garden BEN NEISZ, PROPRIETOR. CHOICK WINKS, UQM AND W PHILADELPHIA AND CINCINNATI BBUL BROAD AND BLLIH STREETS. AUGUSTA, PA P»iMy TERMS-$lOO NUMBER 51. - tbjt unor Lmuir. Differences lietween the hvary stable man and the hirer of the horse are vary frequent, and generally, though this owner of the aafrsal may get pecuniary redreaa, it is the poor brute that inoatly snfiera. To ride or drive a borrowed or hired horse to the devil has beooma a common raying. Ono or two recent English caeca are worth commenting up on. as showing that that j|glj -much abused pcreou, the livery etable keeper, has certain rights. A mm hired a horse and carriage at Ipswich, with the underetandiiag that he would drive to Colchester add totalu the same day, a distance at twenty miles each way. Tha person whp had the horse md vdiido drove not only to tha place specified, bnt to a town tan aMtes further on—working the horse 'ataty miles within the specified tune of hiring The horse died next day. The Teterina ry surgeon was of the opinion that the animal had been overdriven. The da fendent’s counlMM argued that the rgrn mont was to drive “ through" GolchaMer, but the jury did no* think ao, and tbe plaintiff won the case, with a verdict of CH, the value of thiFhotw. q Deviations from a fixed route between two places,*when a home ia hired and in jury b sustained by the lirgr may bring a penalty on the hirer. Be tween New York and afflatt’ailfid A the distance may be thirty diliaajtaud the livery stable keeper taiiiwi thtadis tmoe. But if the hirer tahta round about ways to reach there, Moreeaiag the distance traveled, knowing ' the proper or shorter road, he ia, nalem he has specified to a go-aa-yuu-giease method of journeying, liable to dam ages. Aa to damages to ao constant with awkward drivers, it would be quite wine if a tariff of chargee ware put up in livery stable*. Than amm would know before ho started what his rig was worth. Omrter. , Very few know just what a barbeona means. Welt,* if you want to see one in ell its glory go to Maryland. Tbs' bar liecue ground is generally located near a fine afwtag. Awiunii its dear waters are hung a score of gourd dippen. Starting early in the morning we find the oampua already humming like a hive. Long, broad ditehec have leui dug, md thsos are floored with coals a foot deep, over which are laid great spite, and ad thrns lingo carcaasce of hogs and bolloeks. Farther on beyond theca trenohgs are great log fires, which are kept constant ly biasing, co that at my time tbe ditches may l>e replenished with eeala. > Buch hissing md crackling aa there is above theee immense fires es tbe mounting flames curl md wreath themselves into great volumes of smoke I bocyiee of coaches, ml wagons am pour ing in, filled with a laughing jolly crowd, all intent upon a day’s iralici Families some on horseback, tMte not infrequently cm be seen three riders on one mule. Gayiy-dreesed laijMa coma with their eeoorta, md negrpee pour in on foot. Tlie whole counted itotaas to have entered into the fhdic. Dtfwn by the greet boiling kettles uMr til* spring the darkiea are dressing ahoeta, sheep md greet beevea. Every animal, is left whole, but ia split to tbe backbone. Long tabtea are spread beneath the pines. Tbe horn is blown foe dinner. As the baud • trikes up a Hveiy air the people wind in a long, fantastic line in and out among ths trees to the wide spread tablas beneath. Ha Mee crow and prattle, mothers chat together, while old people find they have Act forgotten bow to laugh, (fortaialy 'nothing can « >.u ;