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THOMAS VILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 30,
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‘NAUGHTY BUT NICE.”
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What E. M. M. Says About Surf Bathing
at St. Simon’s.
St. Simon’s Island Hotel, "I
July 26,1889. j
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Editor Times-Entkrphike.—Our
TlminasvHle party lias now been en
joying tho pleasure of this delightful
dace for four days and can write and
speak of its virtues .from experience.
Tho weather has simply been perfect.
In the afternoon when we bathe a
soft reddish haziness, such as is seen
some evenings in autumn, obscures
the brightness of the sun, and makes
Ihc hath doubly delightful;
Everything is novel to the ladies
of our party, who have never been on
the sea-shore before; . the fidlers and
sand crabs, as well as the roaring, rest
less waves and the immense expanse
ot smooth white, sand. They stroll
along the shelving beach and gather
sea shells and sing songs about the
sea, and tell wonderful things they
have read about curious sights and
awful catastrophics on the great deep,
which now they can realize as never
before. They stroll and talk and
watch the distant white caps like
great masses of cotton tossed upon
the face of the waters, and the gulls
who seem to be ms restless as the
waves above which they fly. They
let the great waves, which the sands
ofthehcach have rubbed of their fu
ry, break harmlessly at their feet and
bathe their bodies in the salubrious
breezes which rise from the mysterious
bosom of the deep. In the early
evening, ms one walks, in the presence
of this mighty ocean, a strange feeling
comes over him, a feeling of sadness,
but not a sadness withot t .pleasure,
It is oteqsfcthp same feeling of which
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be good, but too listless to be active,
for a happy reverie has taken posses
sion of him. It makes thoughts of
home and love and peace spring up
in the soul. Who can analyze this
feeling and who can tell whence it
comes. But there arc other pleasures
as Well. We went seining this morn
ing on the beach, almost in front of
the hotel. Mr. Arnold, who keeps
a popular hoarding house on the
beach, furnished the seine, it was 342
feet long. We made three hauls and
dragged ashore hundreds of fine cro
cuses and trout, besides ent fish and
flounders, whiting, stihgarccsan'd bar
rels of crabs. It was rare sport lo us
landsmen from the interior and espe
cially to the ladies, who could get di
rectly at the place without soiling the
most delicate slippers. Among the
fish there was a monster which could
scarcely be called a fish. It was a
whiprig, so called from its tail which
was seven feet long and about the size
of ajiuggy whip, and much more flex
ible. The moustcr was five feet
across and must have weighed two
hundred pounds. lie was armed
with four dreadful stings, which pro
jected from the upper part of tho tail
near where it leaves the body. It had
little round yellow eyes -on the
side of the head and siiout
holds on top. The mouth was
under the head like a shark. No
ho<ly here had seen one before. We
had heard that there was no fishing
at fit. Simon's but that it was good at
Cumberland. This is a groat mistake.
Among tho many other good things
at this line hotel, we have fresh fish
three times a day, and guests cau go
seining or fishing with hook and line
any day.
Bat we promised to tell about the
bathing, about which wo had also
been misled, having been told it was
very poor at this place. The beach is
splendid and the surf bathing most
excellent and delightful, especially to
ladies and children who prefer milder
surf to the fierce breakers so much
courted by stronger arms. The slope
is so gentle and the roughness of the
waves is so softened by the bar which
extends for three and a half miles in
front of the beach, that there is no
undertow, and there is absolutely no
danger to bathers. Some may prefer
the mountains, but for pure unadul
terated pleasure,as well ns health, our
whole party unite in prefering the
surf bath, at least for a short vaca
tion.
You would split your sides with
laughter to see dignified and portly
Tom Ball in a liberal bathing suit.
He is a dude, And changes his suit
every day, sometimes he looks like he
might be a convict, only his stripes
arc red. These suits are very mca-
re, and the cloth is cut scant, but
Tom looks fairly well in them, for all
that. He says he wanted to go to
Tallulah but will never want to go
again. lie is bound to come here
every season, and then he looks seri
ous a while and says nothing, for he
knows he has a new want and an ad
ditional expense. Your correspond
eut is entirety too modest to speak of
himself in his bathing suit.. He only
trusts that the sea side style will nev
er become the general fashion, for he
candidly does not think it suits him.
Bony limbs may do very well in the
surf or in padded, tailor made
clothes, but bony limbs in a bathing
suit, especially if by any chance it
should become wet, would be bad,
yes, very bad and unpleasant to behold.
The girls, of course, are simply charm
ing in their pretty costumes. Pretty
girls look well in anything. It mat
ters not how much or how little they
wear, when they come tripping, light
fohted, down to the water, they call to
mind pretty French peasant girls,
When they come up out of the water
thev lock more like the dryads of the
ohl\>oet8. One can imagine he sees
among them the real Undine. They
have learned to swim and can ride
feeling ot which the breakers liko a sailor. •
' The spravfrtjv
*aml the paIt whf?rTliDhc»o‘and v moulF
and cars, but they don’t care, they
come up serene and smiling and a
hearty feminine cough mingles its
tenor with the bass of the roaring
waves, and so it goes merrily on.
To sum up wo have this to say: for
sport tho surf bath is absolutely per
fect. It includes grace ot movement,
exhilarating and healthful exercise
and more down right enjoyment
than any other amusement. It may
be naughty but it is nice, and conven
tionality makes it right.
- ' E. M. M.
THE FALSE MESSIAH.
How a Town Won a Prize.
Nine years ago, Chattanooga,
Teun., raised a large sum of money
for advertising its advantages. The
sum was well spent although it did
not briug in an immediate return.
It made the town talked about, in
duced capitalists to go there and ex
plained its advantages. These visits
resulted in large investments and immi
gration. The result is seen pfainly to
day in acity of nearly 50,000 people,
where nine years ago there were but
15,000, and possessing hundreds of new
andprofitable industries.
Chattanooga has proved what great
advantages come from advertising,
mid every southern city will reap
similar rewards by making known
her resources. We have noticed the
disposition on the part of some to ex
pect immediate returns from an in
vestment of this kind. They expect
to see capitalists and immigrants
pouring in the very moment the ap
peal is made. Chattanooga has
His Black Followers Fall at His Feet and
Worship Him—Liberty County De
moralized—Tho Craze Spread
ing—The Falso Christ in Jail,
take tho following from the
Atlanta Journal:
Excitement is still at fever heat in
Liberty county—false Christ and
false Christ deacons arc still holding
sway. Crops arc, as before, neglected,
and the craze is as pronounced a3 ever,
hut there is reason now to believe that
the fanatics may be halted in their
madness and peace and quiet be re
stored. 'flic better • class of colored
people have taken tho matter in band
and have appealed to the law custo
dians to take charge and enforce order
in tiie locality.
The true picture of events in this
county has never been given—never
can be faithfully pictured. Huts arc
desirted by their tenants, little patches
which have been cultivated by the
women have gone to the dogs through
neglect; the. turpentine farms and
cotton fields arc without bands, cloth
ing remains unwashed, cooks - have
deseitcd the stoves, servants have left
their positions. Men and women,
even children, get together and talk
over the new Messiah, extol his quali
fications and submit proof ot his divine
origin and supernatural power. The
sway of James, ns was that of Bell, is
all-power'ill, and his authority unques
tioned. Ilis word is law—his com
mands' unquestioned.
"Yh e negroes are crazed into blind
simplicity ami utter worthlessness.
The blind faith with which they follow
in the wake of tho ugly pretender, the
manner in which they beat aud kill
and off*
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f2 his every wish—endeavro to antici*
pate his wants and provide for his
comfort. He is the lion of the hour,
and could to-raorrow morning cause
the massacre of every white person
and the burning of every residence in
Liberty county.
Hon. T. M. Norwood, who has just
returned to Savannah from Liberty
county, confirms the wildest reports in
regard to the new Messiah business.
James is or was a justice of the peace.
Court was to have been held yester
day, blit he dismissed all cases and
said that as he was soon to lead all
people into Canaan there- would be
no further use for courts. As an indi
cation of the madness'of the negroes,
Mr. Norwood says they fall down and
worship .Tames wherever he goes, aud
believe he is Christ, though lie was
born and raised in the neighborhood.
Mr. Norwood says the negroes at
the meetings practice voodooism in its
most immoral, disgraceful and inde
cent forms. The congressman con
firms the report of the killing of the
child, the beating ot the devils out of
unofiendiug lookers-on, the throwing
away of money, eto. Mr. Norwood
hears that James and his immediate
followers have been arrested, and is
hopeful that their detention may have
the effect of allaying the excitement.
Laykis-’-McIntosii, July 27.—The
posse of the sherilf has succeeded iu
landing James and twenty-nine of Bis
most noisy followers in jail. A jury
has found James to be a lunatic, aud
has asked his incarceration as such.
The sheriff had a crowd of forty citi-
Albany and.Cordele-
It is a well known fact that our
neighboring sister, Albany, has been
for some time desirous of railroad con
nection with Cordele.
Much has been said about thisroad,
and now it seems that our Albany
friends have determined to build the
road at once.
One of our prominent citizens, Mr.
W. B. Bothwell, who owns property
in and near Albany, has just returned
from there. He states that while in
the “Artesian City” he was present at
a nicceting of the projectors of the
road, and that it was determined at
the meeting to.take immediate steps
to consummate the project.
Mr. Bothwell owns a large tract of
land twelve miles from Albany, in
Lee county. The road will go through
this tract, and Mr. Bothwell offered
the company the right-of-way through
his plantation and a check for one
thousand dollars it they would give
a depot and a full station on his place.
Mr. BgthwcU’s proposition was readily
accepted.
From this there seems to ho no
doubt that the “Arlesian City” and
the “Magic City of the Pines” will be
more closely connected and tlicir mu
tual interests ftiore closely blended.—
Cordelean.
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takessomc years for this advertising to
have an affect, hut that if the advan
tages of a town are really what it
claims; it needs have no fear that cap
ital will ultimately find it and build
it up. C'lmttanooga was one of the
first Southern cities to advertise; it is
consequently the first to secure the
benefits of advertisements.—Ex.
There is lesson in the above for
Thomasville.
Chicago wants the 400th anniversa
ry of the discovery of America, but
New York seems to have the inside
track for the big show, with Washing
ton a good second.
peal is mauc. unauanooga mu . . . • , . .
learned better, has discovered that it to assist him ... mat mg the
arrests. It is hoped that this will put
a stop to the trouble.
Flour ought to lie cheap this year.
The wheat crop will amount to at
least 500,000,000 bushels in spite of
the damage in the Northwest. The
crop has never reached those figures
except iu 1882, when it was 504,000,-
000 bushels, and in 1884, when it was
almost 51-'1,000,000 bushels. Last
year’s crop jvas only 416,000,000
bushels. A great wheat crop, and
the magnificent corn crop which wc
have reason to expect, ought to make
this a year of plenty in the land.—
Telegraph.
Heeled For the Hereafter
A Chinese funeral took place it
New York the other day. The Chi
ncse provide their dead with food
to last them on the journey to that
bourne from which no “pig-tail ’ has
ever been known to get back. The fol
lowing articles were placed in the grave
of Mr. Chung Hung, the gentleman
who had shuffled off his Chinese coil:
A Chinese outfit ofctothca.,^
;.;a Chinese duck cooked
mother country.
A pot ot tea and a cup to drink it
from. Paper and matches to make a
fire to cook the tea.
.Two loaves of bread.
Five pounds of rice.
A plate, knife and fork.
Plenty ofluck sticks.
A fine tooth comb.
A porous plaster
Plenty of slips ol paper to keep off
evil spirits.
Unless Mr. Chung Hung lias a bet
ter record than many of his more or;
tliodox brethren, he will not need any
matches to kindle a fire.
The fine-tooth comb is suggestive.
It is likely Mr. Hung will stick with
out the aid of Allcock’s porous plaster
—for sale by all druggists.
P. S. —Mr. Allcock will please remit
whatever amount he thinks is proper
in the premises.
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PRICES!
AT-
LEYY’S
Ojir Mr. Levy is now
in New York making
Fall purchases, an(
In Three Paragraphs.
They sat together at the eventide
and gazed upon a star, which smil
ed upon them from the bright un
known beyond, and called it theirs.
To her, to him, it was the witness of
the troth they plighted then in the
blest twilight of a dying day.
Twelve years have come and gone,
and at the eventide they sit together
as of old, and sidle upon the witness
of a pledge redeemed. The star
which they called theirs is still their
own r.nd their children’s—beaming
out upon them from afar—and they
are happy.
Another year completes its cycle,
and once again there arc watchers of
the bright-faced star, which shines
upon them with the old time light,
softened rs they look up to it through
sorrow’s mist. One of the watchers
of thirteen years agonc—the fairest—
watches no more. The star which
shone upon them on a happier even
ing, 'ong ago, is shining on her grave.
—Ishmaclitc.
It has been computed that between
36,000,000 and 37,000,000 babies are
born into the world each year. The
rate of production is, therefore, about
8 eventy a minute, or rather more than
one for every beat of the clock.—Ex.
What an awful amount of flannels
and paregoric is thus called for?
he has sent us word
to KNOCK DOWN
PRICES on all sum
mer goods, and make'
room for our immense
Fall and Winter stock
that is coming. So,
from now on, all
Spring aud Summer
g 0 0 d s * go at old
“Knocked Down
Prices.”
Remnant table full
of choice bargains
every week.
-Lievys
Dry Ms Hod
Mitchell House Corner.
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