The Daily times-enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1889-1925, September 01, 1889, Image 1
VOL 1-NO 95.
TttOMASVlLUS, GEOKU1 A, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1, '889
A full stock of
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Press Goods,
Dry Goods,
CLOTHING,
Boots,
Shoes,
HATS,
Hosiery, Trim
mings, Domestics,
and all articles us
ually kept in my
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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.
' .