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THOMASYILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, <880
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"Not a Potato in the House.”
Editor Times Enterprise:
“Broad Street” puts himself ou the
witucss stand, iu his communication
of Wept. 3d, and tells us wliat Modern
Reformer says to Mrs. Modern Re
former. The public will have to ac
cept this as original evidence. It’s a
stunner to those who favor Tliomas-
villc moving forward with all the
other live and progressive cities of the
day. But here is what “Brond Street”
tells.
“I commend to the consideration of
the Yankee Paradise friends, the lit
tle dialogue between Modern Reformer
and his wife. Says lie:
‘My dear, the food product of the
world belongs to iifj in equal shares.’
‘Yes,’says she, ‘but its a condition
that confronts us, and not a theory,
There isn’t even a potato in the
house.’ ”
poor, but a weak argument, attempted
iu tbeir name, to defeat a great pub
lic enterprise. “Broad Street’s” last
article is the strongest I have seen in
favor of a park, for after laboring
through a whole column iu your paper
he docs not suggest an argument
against it worthy of a serious answer.
/Citizen.
A full stock of
the latest styles of
Dress 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.
Now, Mr. Editor, I insist that
“Broad Street” misquotes Mrs. Re
former. I’ll wager a barrel of pota
toes that she said to Modern; says she
“Modern, that may be so, but you
know the Lord helps those who help
themselves. Now, you trifling, lazy
good-for nothing fellow, you stand
around the streets all day, wearing
breeches and* trying to look like
man, when you are not. It’s a condi
tion that confronts us, Modern, and
not a theory, and timt_ condition is
your unwillingness to work. There
isn't even a potato in the house,
you will just go to work, we will have
our share of that food product you arc
talking about.”
Now, Mr. Editor, I was not present,
and therefore cannot say what Mod
ern and his wife did say to each other,
but if “Broad Street” will bring them
to court. I’ll
ination
will bring out just such a dialogue ns
I have suggested.
I presume “BroadStrcct” introduces
Modern as an anti-park man. As a
park man straight out, I repudiate for
them, tho company which “Broad
Street” tries to put the anti-park citi
zens of Thomasvillo in. They don’t
gang with Modern, the man who has
not a potato in his house, and is kick
ing up a fuss because he is going to be
taxed. You can’t tax his wife, and
you can’t tax his potato, because he
hasn’t got one to tax.
If there is aModern in Thomasvillc,
and I defy anybody to produce him;
and if lie is here, above all men, he
ought to vote for the park, because,
under our liberal form of government,
he would acquire thereby an interest
in a valuable property, which would
not cost him a cent, and which he
could enjoy just as fully and freely as
the brawny-armed, industrious man,
who could, after a weeks’ hard work,
take his wife npil little ones into the
shades of tho beautiful park on Sun
day afternoons, for a bit of fresh air.
Modern is not one of our citizens, and
while there may be, and no doubt arc,
some good men (as good as any who
favor it), who arc opposed to the
park, they don’t belong to tho Modern
stamp.
If there is a Modern Reformer and
a Mrs. Modern Reformer dwelling
hereabouts, and I were Mrs. Modern
Reformer, Mr, Editor, I would de
mand of you the name of “Broad
Street,” and I would get after him with
a sharp stick or a broom handle, for
publishing family secrets and mis
quoting what I had said to Modern in
one of our numerous private conversa
tions. And further, Mr. Editor, if
there were a real Mrs. Modern Re
former here, who was confronted with
such a condition, nnd who did not
have a potato in the house, I would
just make Modern vote for the park,
if I had to go to the polls with him
and sec him cast his vote, because
then we would have a place where I
and the little Reformers could go and
drink in a little of heaven’s fresh air,
and where the landlord would not
come for his rent, and where, for a
season, at least, I would not be dis
tressed think ing about that missing
potato,
Lights, Water and Jail Discussed by “One
Interested.”
Mr. Editor : “Communications”
seem to be the order of the day, so I
beg you wdl give a resident of the
western part of town a little space,
The citizens up this way (west of
the Methodist church) seem to be
aleep while so much is being, or has
been said, about the location of the
new jail. Or, perhaps, they think the
city fathers are as much interested in
them as in other parts of the town
I think they need a little waking up
on that subject, for it is very clear to
my mind that this “part of the town is
dead,” or so considered by those in
authority, and if expenses have to be
curtailed, or water and lights cut off,
this is the place to begin.
On dark nights a person going to
church, or anywhere else, from this
part of the town, cannot sec their
hand before them, but have to feel
their way along, and as our sidewalks
are not as nicely kept as those on
which the mayor and aldermen live,
we are apt at times to stumble and
fall. But it is not my object to com
plain of the sidewalks.
Some time ago I noticed an article
in your paper suggesting- the lot form
erly occupied by the negroes for a
school house, as a suitable place for
3on?t pur
on any airs, and noqj of Us are fortu
nate enough to own corner lots on
Broad street, Cut our humble little
houses are just as dear to us as if they
were corner lots on Broad, and they
are all we have, and we object to ob
jectionable things near us, as much as
the Mitchell, Stuart, or any who live
near the jail now. There is much
valuable property around here, and
that would decrease its value very
much. I know of one party who went
to a real estate agent to sell for them,
and he remarked that “property up
there will not bring what it is worth.”
Now, do you think the location of the
jail on that lot would enhance the
value of our property any? Or is it to
ruin the property of citizens (most of
it owned by widows and poor people)
by deliberately removing an objection
able object from a part of town that
happens to be owned by rich, prosper
ous men, and placing it near the "poor
and widows? I, in the name oi all
interested up here, beg the county
commissioners, if they have any idea
of locating the jail on the lot mention
ed, to reconsider the matter.
One remark in your paper this
morning that “the jail lot question had
been postponed till next Monday in
order to investigate titles” calls out
this communication, as I know that
property has not very clear titles. If
the jail is put there, and no lights or
water given us, we would like to sell
A New Factor in Life.
Most Savannahians have read of
Edison’s phonograph. But few of
them, though, know that in the busi
ness life of this city an invention, based
on the same principles, has begun to
play a part which is evidently destined
to materially decrease the demand for
stenographers and perhaps lead to the
removal of a number of them from
fairly lucrative positions.
Two firms of the Bay now have in
daily successful use the phonograph,
graphophonc. One is a leading cot
ton house, the other, Baldwin Fertili
zer Company. Each highly eulogizes
the machine, for which a rental of $40
per annum is paid, and neither would
dispense with it if even a larger
amount was necessary to retain what
will probably soon be considered one
of the greatest conveniences of the
day.
“I find it more pleasant, faster, and
equally as reliable as a first-class short
hand writer,” said one of these gentle
men to a Times reporter this morning.
"I constantly utilize it. Instead of
dictating to a clerk. 1 ‘speak’ to it
our business and sometimes personal
correspondence. Our lady type-writer
then rcproducesUhc sounds, at the
same time making a copy on the
‘Remington.’ Asa saver of time, la
bor and money it far surpasses any
expectations I had conceived of it
merely from reading newspaper ac
counts, and I do not doubt but that in
a year it will be doing service in dozens
of offices in this city.
The machine is exceedingly simple.
The frame consists of end pieces con
nccted by rods, In the top of the frame
is journaled a fine screw, partly inclos
cd by a tube, the screw being driven
through a train of spur wheels from
the main shaft, journaled in the lower
part of the left-hand piece. The main
shaft—besides carrying the gearing
which moves the feed screw—is pro
vided with a conical chuck. In the
opposite end of the frame is journaled
a spring, pressed spindle, which also
carries a conical chuck of the same
form and size as that on the main
shaft. The cylinder upon which the
speech is to be recorded is received be
tween these chucks, and in much the
same manner as the bobbin is placed
in the bobbin-winder of the sewing
machine, the cylinder being revolved
by the fractional contact with the
chuck on the main shaft. By a shaft
the driving wheel is thrown in and out
of connection with the gearing.
A pen engraves the record on the
surface of the cylinder, which is of
prepared paper, and coated with wax,
To a movable diaphragm cell, exceed
ingly sensitive to sound-waves, is at
tached a tube of rubber, furnished
with a mouth piece, into which the
words to be recorded are spoken. In
reproducing, another tube, which is
branched and provided at its extremi
ties with car pieces, is attached. The
rotation of a cylinder containing a mes-
pouring over bad type, will retain its
brilliancy nnd power to extreme old
age. To hear ourselves as others
hear us is as great a sclf-icvclation as
would be that self-sight that Robert
Burns longed for.
“In time, the art of speech will be
come a far finer and more accurate
art than it has been heretofore; wc
can study it at our leisure from the
grapliophonic records that will be
ready in unlimited quantity to our
hand. Of the inestimable value of
personal and family records there is
no space to speak. The voice of fath
ers and mothers, sisters and brothers,
wives and children, will speak to u
from past years with all the living tcali-
ty of the present moment. The worst
of the past will cease to be. Century
will converse with century.”
sage causes vibrations to be set up in
out to the commissioners. Perhaps lhe reproducing di hragm , sitnilar t0
they could wake up this end of town, those utlercd original | yj to producc
and do something to increase the val-
ue of property.
One Interested,
Miss Susan B. Anthony has hopes.
She has said so. Miss Susan, as is
well known, is for female rights, in
cluding suffrage, and although she
is 72 years old, she hopes to live to sec
the day when women will not only be
allowed to vote and to hold office,
but when they will have the privi-
leg of asking the men of their choice
to marry them. Miss Susan might
begin tlic last named reform by pro
posing to some nice young fellow,
like Gen. Butler, for instance.—
News.
The electric light in front of Stcy-
erman’s, attract a great deal of atten-
j tion and show off his handsome win-
The writer does not ridicule the I dows and goods in splendid style.
the impressions upon the cylinder.
In the.two in use in Savannah, the
foot is used for power as in a sewing
machine. As soon as a sufficient
number have been introduced, and an
agency established here, small electro
motors will be put in for this purpose.
“It is when we consider the possible
effects of the phonograph, grapho-
phonp upon literature, however,” says
Julian Hawthorne, “that imagination
finds its broadest opportunity. A
spoken literature, instead of a written
one, a library full of human voices.
Authors and novelists and poets es
pecially will necessarily attain a hith
erto unimagined cultivation in the
speaking art. Thought and even
character will be modified by this
change, and the eye, instead of being
worn out in middle life by constant
In a short period the autograph
fiend will disappear and in his place
will conic another more incarnate, the
phonograph seeker. Then the mails
will be laden down with cylinders.
The postage stamp and the postal card
will disappear from business life. Ex
istence will, in part, dc revolutionized.
The limit of the possibilities of the
phonograph arc, indeed, beyond con
jecture.—Daily Times, Savannah.
Metcalfe Notes.
Our correspondent at Metcalfe, un
der date of Sept. 2, sends us the fol
lowing items :
"Metcalfe school opened yesterday,
with Miss E. C. English as tcachet.
Miss English is a good teacher, and
has served this community in that ca
pacity before and needs no commenda
tion. We bespeak her a full attendance.
Shade Lee and Columbus Gayton,
negro tenants on Mrs. Fletcher'
place, had a difficulty yesterday, in
which Gayton shot Lee twice, once in
tho left hip, tho ball, a No. 22, rang
ing down and to the rear, and'lodging
in the fleshy part of the thigh, the
other cutcring about midway between
the little finger and wrist joint of the
left hand, going across flic bnck of the
hand to the bone of the forefinger,
passing through it and the middle
finger, then across the palm of tlio
hand and lodgiug iu the fleshy part at
the base of the thumb. The wounds
while painful, are not necessarily dan
gerous.”
To the Front
AS ALWAYS,
Called His Mule Harrison.
The following anecdote represents,
probably, pretty closely, the appreeia
tion of Mr. Harrison by the negro
who, witli hoodie, raised Benjamin to
his occupancy of the White House
Mis. Samuel Sullivan Cox writes to
a friend iu Washington that while sho.
was visiting Yellowstone Park they
employed a colored man, William
Vilen, for a guide. William was the
possessor of a mule of extraordinary
friskincss, and a great part of his
time was spent in remountitg that
mule. William would jerk thcmule’i
head on such occasions and advise the
animal with :
“Who dar, Ben. Harrison. Don’t
you do dat any mo’, Ben. Harrison.”
This was repeated so often that Mrs.
Cox asked William why lie called his
mule Ben. Harrison.
“I has called dis mewl Beil. Harri
son cber since the fothof March, las’,’’
said William, “because lie’s allers
thrown dc colored people.”
Col. Elliot F. [Shepard, editor pf
the New York Mail and Express,
ays that “the Lord God Almighty
led the Republican party to victory.”
If Col. Shepard is right, the faith of
ajgrcat many will receive a shaking
up. In well informed, unbiased theo
logical circles, there is a well defined
opinion extant that the Almighty -is
not, just now, engaged in endowing or
aiding the Republican party. Quite
the contrary.
“Why do wc not say “father
tongue’ instead of ‘mother tongue f ”
asks the Nashville American. Oh,
well, the tongue is always the female
member of the family, you know, ami
generally has the floor.—Times-TTuioii
Jacksonville.
TheCity Shoe Store,
(Mitchell House Block.)
Has just opened up
to the young and ola
gents the handsomest
line of shoes ever of
fered in our city, in
all styles, from the
narrowest to 1 the wid
est lasts. Patent
leather shoes, hand
some line- of gents’
toilet slippers, and
full line of ladies’,
misses’ and children’s
shoes.
Mitchell House Block.