The Daily times-enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1889-1925, July 24, 1889, Image 1

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VOL, 1-NO 61. THOMAS V1LLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 24, 'S8U fHE ORIGIN OF WOMAN. a H t 0 f ffl 1 H 3 H' ® CD a CD CO s W " td 0 i Who was Most to Blame for the Trouble In the Garden ?—Should Adam Have a Monument? ‘•Woman's first appearance has been n fruitful subject for the iegend mongers,” sajs the London Tablet. “The Phienician myth of creation is found in the story of Pygma lion and Galatea. There the first woman was carved by the first man out of ivory and then endowed with life by Aphrodite. The Greek theory of the creation ot women, according to Hesiod, wnt that Zeus, as a cruel jest, ordered Vulcan to make woman out of clay, and tlicu induced the various gods and goddesses to invest the clay doll with all their worst qnulities, the result be- ing a lovely thing with a witchery of mein, refined craft, eager passion, love of dress, treacherous manners, and frivolous mind. The .Scandinavians say that as Odin, Till, and Ve, the three sons of Ilor, were walking along the sea beach they found two sticks of wood, one of ash and one of elm. Sitting down the gods shaped man and woman from these sticks, whittling the woman from the elm and calling her Emia. The American Indian’s myths relative to Adam and Eve arc numerous and entertaining. Some tra ditions trace back our first parents to white and reil maize | another is that man, search ing for a wife, was given the daughter of the king of the Muskrats, who, on lieing dipped into the waters of a neighboring lake, became a woman.—Ex. But, dear woman is here, and she’s here to stay. In fact, il it was not for woman the balance of us would not be here at all. Let us accept the evil —or blessing—and the situation, with out complaint. How grandly, howcv cr, does the account oi the creation of the first pair, as given in the bible, stand out, when compared to the crude ideas of the heathen ? Nature never smiled so sweetly as on the niQrn of -woman’s making. God, in all his wonderful rich gifts to man, • (liver gave him such a blessing. Last at the cross, first at the tomb, her sweet presence, seen and fell wherever sor row and sadness reigns, woman has ever been—and will ever be—the guardian angel ol man, elevating him in the scale ol humanity, toning down atfW smoothing the rough points and places in his character,-and fitting him for a higher, purer, nobler existence, both here and hereafter. The .pres ence and smiles of woman have illu mined earth since (he fall, as only woman’s presence and smiles could, dispelling the gloom and shedding a radiance around her but little less than angelic. If woman, as is alleged, was the cause ol the fall, she has, by her gentle ministrations, wooed erring man back to holiness, uprightness and purity. This should atone for the thoughtless act in the garden. Wo man, we forgive you. Go, but do not listen to the tempter again, or offer man another apple. For lie’ll take and eat it, so sure as you do. He would bite it if it was a crab apple. And then be crabid about it, just as the descendants of Adam have been since their progenitor took and ate the fruit, because, forsooth, the woman did give it to him. Confidentially : we have always had a sort ol dim idea that Adam was about as much to blame as Eve. He had probably been thinking of pluck ing the forbidden fruit himself. To say the least of it, it was a little shabby in Adam to put all the blame on the vided the responsibility, if indeed, lie did not assume it all. For this reason we have never favored a monument to Adam, always having firmly declined, on all occasions, to subscribe for such a purpose. We.would not, however, cast any reflections on Adam; he was related to the writer, distantly, how ever; but this fact docs not blind us to his faults. It was punishment enough to be driven from paradise, and told to make a livinc by the sweat of his brow. And this sweating process has been goiijg on ever since. Especially does it go on when the thermometer is up in the nineties, as it has been for sometime. O,there's no doubt about the perspiring part of the programme. It is "down on the bills,” and it must be played. Now and then you may find a man who is dodging the edict. But he isn't living—he just breathes; that’s all; and were it not that his res piratory organs are admirably adapted to breathing, he might stop breathing. He certainly would if it caused much effort. But we digress. To return to Adam: He was young and inexperienced at the lime, and was no doubt very much in love with Eve, a state of things which has existed ever since, notwith standing the fact that the first woman got us all into trouble; and her fair daughters are keeping up the racket and record. Man now, .is then, tails right into the traps and pits; falls a willing victim and slave to the charms of the charmers. And thus it will ever be. This is all we know about the sub ject—and more too. The Best Ten Books. A few necks ngu the St. Louis Itcpiihlir, the greatest nnil best newspaper of the west, ottered a handsome premium for the he.-t list of ten tiooks (or boys and girls, reading for pleasure or profit. Tliis idea found great approval in the minds of intelligent people in the west, and in a very short time .'120 lists of good books were received before the time for the close of the competition. The competing lists were submitted to an admirable committee of cultured people who, excluding the llilde, text books and series of books, agreed upon the following list, presented by Miss Cathe rine lllair, of Bunker Hill, 111., as represent ing the best ten books for hoys and girls: 1. “Little Women,” Miss Alcolt. 2. “Little Lord Fiuintleroy,” Frances Bur nett. ;t. “David Coppcrfield," Charles Dickens. •I. “Pilgrim's Progress;” John Banyan. 5. “Scottish Chiefs,” Jane Porter. ti. “Anderson's Fairy Talcs.” T. “Robinson Crusoe." “8. "Tales from Shakespeare.” Charles Lamb. 9 “Arabian Night*."’' —10. “Water Babies,” Kingsley. This is certainly an admirable select and The Tribune presents it to the thought ful men and women of Rome in the way of a suggestion toward the reading which they prescribe or which they advise for the young people about them. It seems to us, however, that in “Tom Brown’s School Ilaysat Rugby,’ 1 one of the best books in nil the world, for hoys, has been omitted, nod in “John Halifax, Gentleman,” the sweetest and most derat ing story-sermon for both sexes of youth, might have been added with great profit to the list.—Tribune of Rome. Anti to the list, which has been prepared, evidently, with great cf re, we call the attention of parents who read the Timed-Enterprise. Light, trashy, flash literature, litis destroyed and ruined hundreds and thousands of girls and boys all over our la id. No sooner should a parent allow a child to read a demoralising hook than to keep had company. Keep the yellow hack trash out of the hands of your children. Children, most of them, have a passion, • more or less developed, for reading stories. Give them clean healthy literary food. MADE HOT FOR M’DOW. Taking Their Leisure. When the House met on Monday morning last the attendenee was very slim, and Mr. Snelson introduced a resolution that no more leaves ol ab sence should be granted “except for providential cause, ■ or on demands of the courts of the country.” Mr. Cog gins moved to refer to the committee on the lunatic asylum. This motion was.of course ruled out. and the resolution woman. He should, at least, have di- tabIed by a vote o| l0 , vided the responsibility, if indeed, lie 1 * • The trouble about this matter is about this: Members in middle and north Georgia can leave Atlanta at noon on Saturday, spend Sunday at home, and return at noon on Monday. As a consequence little or nothing can be done on Saturdays and Mon days, and much time is allowed to run waste. Members from south Georgia cannot avail themselves of this con venience and they have to remain at the capital, unable to push the busi ness which they were commissioned to do. Mr. Snclson’s resolution would shorten the session two or three weeks, and it ought to have been adopted.— Valdosta Times. Mr. It. Moore, of Mobile, is stop ping at the Whiddou. Two More Denunciatory Sermons at Charleston. Charleston, S. (J., July 21.—The parsons pitched into MoPow to day without gloves. At the Huguenot chttrqh, the oldest French Protestant church in the United States and the plate of worship for 200 years of the old cavaliers of Carolina, the Rev. I)r. Veddcr preached a powerful ser mon from Proverbs xvii., 15. Allud ing to the McDow verdict he said: "Our city, so long and so worthily the pride of those whose birthplace it is, or who have learned to love and call it home, never more dear than amid tin* calamities with which it was visited, nor more worthy of honor than from the spirit with which they were home and the strength with which their desolations were repaired, had already passed into popular liter ature ns the ‘City of Disaster’ when its crowning catntrophc came from its hall of justice. Whether or not the judgement there rendered was tcchni cally warranted—and it was reached by some, at least, of unimpeachable integrity, sonic, at least, who might have been mistaken—I think they were—but who would not knowingly lie unjust or untrue, yet there cannot lie a doubt, that a very large and in fluential portion of our community, and well nigh our whole land, hold it to have been there demonstrated that Charleston holds nothing more cheap that human lile; that truth lias l-ceii stricken down in what should have been its very citadel; that one, whose loss was a public calamity, has been stealthily done to death, under cir cumstances that sicken the heart which hears the. recital of them, whilst the waton and worse than worthless ‘slayer 1 goes forth, not only uuscnthfcd of penalty, but applauded by some as a well-doer. This is the verdict of a very extended and outspoken public sentiment.” AT GRACE K.ITSCOl’AI, CHURCH. At Grace Episcopal church, the fashionable church ot the city, JvCV. Dr. Charles Catcstvorth Pinckney, who is first vice-president of the na tional society of the Cincinnati, preached from Gen. ix., 5. (J: ‘-Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood bo shed.” He said : “Life is far too cheap in our land-. It is sacrificed with a recklessness which would not be tolerated in Eng- and or any other civilized land where God’s law is known. The result of the recent trial in this city scents to fall very far short of any 'censure of homicide. It has failed to condemn crime, to vindicate God’s law, or to protect human life against the mur derous pistol. That a human life has been taken by violence is an acknow ledged fact, and the tribunals of jus tice have no word of censure for the cd. The slayer is restored to his place without condemnation of any sort, without fine, imprisonment or any legal disapproval of the wrong. 'Murder pollutes the land beyond all other evil deeds, 'and leaves indelible stain in God’s sight. Nor can this blood stain he obliter ated until it he ‘washed out with the blood of hint that shed it.’ - Mercy to the murderer is cruelty to the com munity. Every deed of violence, whethc murder, manslaughter or mob law, becomes the seed offuture crime, unlo w repressed by the majesty of the laws.” • McDow will, to-morrow, lie discuss ed by the Washington Light Infantry, the elite* military company of the city, of which lie is a member. He will probably be expelled. It would npp on top again in Virginia. He~1ias. with the aid of McQuay, Clarkson, Harrison & Co., vanquished tin: op position to him in bin own party. He will probably run for governor. And the democrats will lay him out; lay him out fiat as a Tom Wool folk’s wife has sued bin for a divorce. The South Leads Again. ’flic report of the Railway Age on railroad track laying ill the United ■States for the first six months of 1S8D furnishes fresh evidence of the mater ial growth of the south, the significant features of it being that more titan half of the entire number of 'miles put down wits in the south, and that the five states which led in track lav ing were southern states, viz., Missis sippi, Georgia, North Cnrolinn, Ten nessee and Texas. Mississippi led all the other states, there having been constnicted 'within her limits 171 miles. Georgia was second, with 117 miles. The track laying in Mississip pi was upon only three lines, however, and chiefly upon the Gco'gia Pacific, while in Georgia it was upon seven lines. Tn North Carolina lOli miles were laid, in Tennessee 10-3, and in Texas 101. Pennsylvania followed Texas with 87 miles. Only 71 miles were laid in New York. The total number of miles laid was 1,322, ol which 90!) were in the south. Railroads and manufactories arc two of the most powerful factors in the growth of any country, and for some time reports have shown that more of them were being built in the south than in any other part of the United States. It seems evident, from this report that there will he a considerable fall ing off in railway construction in the country this year froit? 1888, anil that there will be nothing like the number of miles that were constructed in 1887 That year the number was 1-3,000, The railroads that are being con structed now, however, arc the result of a legitimate demand, and this is especially Lite case in the south.— News. ‘ The New Orleans .Slates recalls t/ia fact that when John Quincy Adams was President and George M. Troup was governor of (leorgia there was a conflict of authority between them. The President wanted to enforce an obnoxious Indian treaty which affected the lands and boundaries of Georgia, andhc sent Get:. Gaines to this state to take charge of federal t roops and to sco that the treaty was enforced. Gov. Troup was a great states rights man, and a brief and spirited correspond ence between hint and the President ensued. Then the governor sent the following comprehensive letter to Wasliinglpn: “John Quitfcy Adams, President of the United .States: Sir— I have ordered (len. Gaines to forbear all further communication with this government. Should he presume to infringe this order I will send your itjor general home to you io irons,” Another Big Trust. The latest combine or trust, is the salt combination. There arc about one hundred and titty salt manufactur- ng establishments in the Unittd States. These have all been bought up by millionaires who will, hereafter, dictate what the people shall pay for sal*. And a significant fact connected with the transaction, is that five-sixths of the stock in the organization is taken by England, leaving only one sixth owned in this country. John JJuil is preparing to force Americans up to the “lick log,” and to lick salt at his own price. LEVY’S Has Made a BIG CUT They are Getting Ready. The colored people of Liberty county arc preparing their asccnsiou robes for tbo i6tb of August. That is the date fixed by the new Christ, the impostor Bell, when earthly mat ters will be closed up, when the grand crash takes place. The negroes re ligiously believe that Gabriel will, on that day, summon the sleeping dead, and startle the living, with such a blast on a great big tin bugle (that’s the way it has been described to them) as was never beard before on ■ earth. Fewer chickens arc disappearing in Liberty. Reform is the watch-word. It would not bc’a bad idea to start this, closing - out-business-at-thc-old-stand, story, periodically, all over the country. To continue unti closed out. Our remnant table is ful of choice BAR- gains, and will be all Summer. HW^Still left, a few of our (5 T-1 cts. Ging hams, worth 10 cts. Levys Dry Mb House