The Daily times-enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1889-1925, September 01, 1889, Image 1

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VOL 1-NO 95. TttOMASVlLUS, GEOKU1 A, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, '889 A full stock of tlie latest styles of Press Goods, Dry Goods, CLOTHING, Boots, Shoes, HATS, Hosiery, Trim mings, Domestics, and all articles us ually kept in my line, just purchased in New York by Mr. Lohnstein, is now coming in. Call and inspect them. OLD THINGS, YET NEVER OLD. There is no song like an old song That we have not heard for years; Each simple note appears to throng With shapes that swim in tears. It may have been a ch 2rful strain, But ’twas so long ago That glee, grown old, has turned to pain, And mirth has turned to woe. There is u<» trjcpd like an old friend, Whose life path mates our o\ n, Whose dawn and noon, whose ovo and ejul, • Have known what we have k no wit. It may he, when we read his face, We note a traec of car j; ”f»* vejl that friends in life’s last grace Sliaro sygifi jys swMes they sjiare. There is no love like an 0(4 A lost, iir.y he, or dead. Whose place, since she has gone above, No other fills instead. It is not we ll ne'er love anew, For life is doar if so, But that first love had roots that grew Where others cannot grow. There are no days like old days, When we, not they, were young; Wnort all life’s rays were golden rays, And wrong had never stung. Dear Heart! If now our steps could pass Through paths of childhood's morn, And the dew of youth lie on the grass Which Time’s fe’l scydio has shorn! t»id song, old f.lend, old love, old days; Old tilings, yet never old; A stream thaj/u dark till sunshine plays And change s it to gold* Through all winds memory’s river on, •Mid banks of soro regret, But a gleam’s on the peaks of long ngonc Jhat softens sadness yet. TOM BLINKER’S BABY. Tlie Life of a 2-Ycar-0ld Darling the Price of a Man’s Redemption—The Lillie Mound of Earth on Crown Hill -The Neat Cottage of the Old Time Tom. Tom Blinker was one of the ‘ boys,” and there arc many in this oily who would know him should his right name he given. He made good wa ges, spent his money freely and was a hale fellow well met with every one. When lie and Mary stood before the altar in the little church and link ed their lives together, many were the compliments they received, for indeed they were a tine couple. Their friends congratulated them and the future lookecj bright. And when the first little prattler came the acme of their happiness seemed to have been reached. But Tom's old habits clung to him, and ere many years had gone ho be gan to neglect his home. Often lie would come home late at night under the influence of liquor. Tlie money lie earned passed over the bar of tlie saloon, and the roses faded from Ma ry’s checks. The stars left her eyes ; her face became pinched, and deep lines of sorrow chased away the dim ples. Still she did not complain, and Tom did not see what great changes were going on in Ids homo. From one house to another they moved. The little home on which Tom on his wedding day had made the first pay ment was gone, and at last his mid night reel carried him to a miserable hovel in which a heart broken woman and children existed. THE tNVEI/S j'l’.. Tom had reached the bottom. So >w had ho descended that he would scrub out saloons that lie might get the dregs of nlpolioljp stinuilapts. He was Bummer Blinker now with a rum colored nose and eyes bleared and bloodshot. Many times lie inhabited the “drunk room” at the station house, and when lie wn.s Igo’.ig'pt in the desk sergeant would say, “Hello, Blinker; you here again ? Why don’t you brace up and he some one ? You used to he u preuy good kind of a fel low.” Tom would mumble and drop down into a corner to sleep. In po lice court lie was a “chronic” and was fined time and time again, One cold ami dismal night, when the snow was on the ground and all nature was ice clad, Tom was in a low barroom asleep. Some cruel jo kers had painted his swollen face with lamp black and were having rare sport with the diunken man. When lie awoke and rcabzed b : s condition he became angry, and the result was that he was badly beaten and thrown out of doors. Then he staggered homeward. That night while the father was at the barroom 2-yoar-ol' baby Mary, whose eyes and dimples were like mother’s used to he, was taken suddenly ill with that night dread of all mothers the croup, and in a few hours its little life was ond cd. While the mother bent over the form of her child and bathed its face with her tears, Tom staggered in and threw himself on to a chair, with a besotted oath ; then, as sleep over come him, lie fell to the floor, where lie lay till morning with Mary’s faded and torn shawl under Ids head for a pillow. \ 11 night long the mother sat he side her dead and sent her prayers heavenward. When morning’s light appeared, and Tom, benumbed with cold and partially sobered, saw his dead child and realized that lie had not been near to wipe the death damp from its brow, or help it battle for life, then an old feeling, become new, came to him, Down on his knees, with liis face buried • 1 the tattered bed clothing, lie sobbed as only great strong men can soli, and Mary, the wreck ol long ngo, placed her wasted arm -about his neck, and with her wan face against his, unmindful of the lamp black, the fumes of v ;l liquor, mingled her I -ars with hi; But no promises of reformation did Tom make. Kind neighbors furnished a little coffin, and when Tom, trembling in every limb from dissipation, dropped hot, burning tears on the little face upturned, and with Ids shaking hand caressed the thiy white hands peace fully crossed on the bosom of white, people wondered “if this will he a lesson to him.” The funeral was unpretentious. Every clod that fell on the coffin struck a blow on Toni’s heart. For two day’s Tom yemfi'ued at home, and on the third, when lie started away, lie ‘took his wife in his arms and kissed her ashe did in times gone by. And when ho' returned Mary listened for his step, oh, so nux- ioualy, and, when she heard it thank ed God it was tho step of a sober man. Tom was mis-ed from the hr-room, from the police station, from the po lice court. He quit drinking and went to work. Go to one of the lar gest factories in the city. Pass among the whirring wheels and ring; ing hammers. f*co tjiat tall, broad shouldered man with a cheery face, begrimed, not with lamp black, hilt with the result of honest labor ! That’s Tom Blinker. When the whistle sounds lie takes off his apron, ..hut tons his stout cort about him, and xvit.li a brisk swinging walk and a cheery whistle .'starts 'for home. Follow him to a neat little cottage and watch the picture that the light throws upon the curtains at the window. Bee a happy wife in tidy attire throw her arms around his neck and kiss away flic dirt of the factory. Bee happy children clamor ing to kiss papa. Bee them at their evening meal—and then if Tom does out after stmpe,- Mary and the children go along! The neat cottage isn’t Tomb yet, hot it will i>e some day, for he is the old time Tom, so ber, hard working and honest. Out in Brown Hill is a little mound of earth that 'linn and Mary visit every Sunday. On this mound in summer the flowers ever bloom, and winter’s fiotyo gale that rends the oak and shakos the evergreens, sinks to a low sweet and tender lullaby, as it passes over the spot where rest the remains of Blinker’s baby.—Indiana polis News, STORMS FOR SEPTEMBER. Rev. Irl R. Hicks Says There Will be Se vere Wind and Storms For a Month. The following predictions arc given to the world through the columns of Word and Works, a monthly journal published in Bt. Louis, by Rev. Mr. Ilicks: The first day of September is the center of a regular storm period, therefore put down in the calendar, the 1st, 2nd, and tlrd as the days in which the most active storm move ments arc liable to occur. We write this forcast on Friday morning, Au gust lfitli, and dispatches, ns well as private advices, inform us of snowfall within the past two or three days at various places in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. This, together with tlie fact that there was frost in North ern Illinois 011 the 1st day of August, not only continues to sustain our pre diction for a cool summer, but our special announcement of “amazing (lights of flic mercury up and down” for this exact time, in August Word and Works. This condition, in nil probability, will continue, making heavy frosts to the northward more than probable at (lie close of Septem ber’s first storm. About the 7th the rise in temperature necessary for secondary storm developments will take place. First quarter of moon on the 2nd at 1 o’clock “4 minutes p. m. The 12Ui of September is not only about the date of greatest electrical excitement during every autumnal equinox, hut is, this ycr-, the center of a regular storm period. Therefore, from the 10th to the 15th, may be expected many active and perhaps violent destructive storms and gales. Seamen and others will do well to prudently heed all storm signals and indications on or about the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14tl|. Ecthquakc phenom ena at this time,, or incccd at any storm period in tho month, would lie most natural, hut perhaps harmless h»ults. : 7”Full moon on tho lllth at 7 o’clock and 52 minutes a. in. A gen eral high barometer, with some freez ing and much frost, to he looked lor behind the storm of this period. About tlie 18t.li warmer, followed he react ionary storms. Moon’s last quarter on the Kith, 10 o’clock 18 minutes Carrabello & Augusta R. R. From the Augusta Chronicle. Cahuaiikm-k, Fi.a., Aug. 20.—As you are becoming interested in hav ing a lino of road which shall tap tin Gulf coast, perhaps I can give a few points that may encourage you. If you will take a map and draw a straight line to Tallahassee, Fla., and follow on to the Gulf, you will find Carrabello. It is about midway be tween Bt. Marks and Apalachicola. Our harbor lias eighteen feet over the bar, and upon investigation you will find it the Lest on the Gulf coast, ex cepting Pensacola, which is larger. Now draw the line due south to the hay of Honduras—skirt the coast and follow along on tno Carribenn sea. Perhaps, your merchants and manu facturers have never given a thought of the numerous ports in which they can find markets, and from which they can bring return cargoes. Let your hoard of trade send a rep resentative down here and examine our barber and the location of our town. We are building a standard gauge road, with Augusta as the ob jective point. Eleven miles of rails arc laid. Your townsman, (’apt. O. T. Gibbcs, is building the bridge over the Ocklockniiee, and the contract calls for the road to he completed to Tallaliasi cc on the first day of Decem ber, The distance is fifty miles. When the line is completed to Augusta, what is to prevent your Bus iness men putting on a line of steam ers to run between Carrabello and Central American ports? They can have their ware houses here and handle a business that must eventual ly he of magnitude. (). II. Ki i.i.uv. p. in. Make Less. The Alliance men arc doing their best to put the price of cotton up. We sincerely hope they may succeed; hut the surest way to put it up, is to make less, This scheme is warranted to work, Just so long as the south ern cottou planters, and those of the rest of the world, make more cotton than the world wants, then it follows, as night follows day, that the price will lie low. There is a great big chunk of profound wisdom in these impromptu, scattering remarks. Or. the 24th falls the center of Sep tember’s last regular period. This, together with the earth’s ' c piiuox, Jupiter’s disturbing presence, and the fact that the Moon drops between the earth and sun at 8 o’clock 11 minutes p. m., on the same day, indi cate violent autumnal storms and atmospheric changes, It the weather should be warm and undisturbed, with little o-,- ;i-'. electrical war in the atmosphere at this time, the chances will ho increased for violent earth quakes. We put down the 23d, 2 1th, 25 and 20th, as dungy days. React ionary lempcvulur and storms about the last of the month, into October. We Invite a most careful observation of these forecasts by every one who may read them, and, greatly covet the help gf ..11, that we may make them in future more and mere per fect. Death Preferable to This. For the next nine months Mrs. Maybiick will he kept on probation in solitary confinement in some county jail, probably where she is now. No one will be allowed to see her during that timo, nor any letters to reach her. She will ho kept continually employed at such work as she can do in a’cell. After her term of probation expires she will he drafted to one of the female convict prisons, though in what part of England no one will know until the moment comes to remove her. If she liar, been good during the probation she will he allowed one letter and out- visitor each year, till by further good conduct she earns three letters and three visitors each year. These rules are rigidly and inflexibly carried out in England. She may he removed from one prison to another. To Hide Behind the Moon.. The News, says: The moon, in comparison with the other planets of the sola- system, everybody knows, -s quite small. ID diameter -s only 2,100 miles, or about one fourih of that of the er-th. It is billy 238,000 miles from the eaitli, however, aud owing to tins is able to blot out from time to time in chang ing course planets several thousand times i's sHe, Jupiter, according to astronomical calculation, ! s 398,000,- 000 Hides away from the earth, and is sl : " a great mass of molten matter. Voice i ic eruptions are continually taking place in the planet, and the enti-c mass Is ad the time undergo- changes, produced by cooling aud condensation. The distance between the earth and Jupiter is so great that it is impossi ble for the mind to form any definite idea of it. Three hundred and nine ty-eight mdlion miles signifies noth ing, hut when it is said that it would take an express train, traveling sixty miles an hour and GOA days in the year, 7-)7 yca-'a to make the trip, the immensity of the distance : s more easily imagined. To the Front. Next Tuesday night the moon will, m its eastward course, occult tin. planet Jupiter, which is uow a very conspicuous object in the southern y. The phenomenon will he visi hie to the naked eye, hut a clearer view will he had of it by using a small telescope or a good opera glass. At this time the moon will he only one day and seven hours past the first quarter, and, therefore, only about half of her disk will he i'luminated. The planet will disappear on the east ern or dark side of the moon, a little below the eastern edge of the moon’s limb, where the moon will have an elevation of about thirty six degrees above the horizon. The i :o-ton gun at Shoehury is stated to have cost ^15,000,- and the carriage, with its various mechanical devices for handling it,"^11,000, a total of ^26,000. Each time it is fired it is calculated that, including wear and tear, tho explosion costs j£6oo, and experienced gunners assert that a hundred rounds is the limit of its capacity. Its range is fourteen miles. AS ALWAYS, IN II LEAD. The City Shoe Store, , (Mitchell House Block.) *4 Has just opened; up to the young and old gents the handsomest line of shoes ever of fered in our city, in all styles, from the narrowest to the wid est lasts. Patent leather shoes, hand some line of gents’ toilet slippers and full lino of ladies’, misses’ and children’s shoes. Mitchell House Block. ' .