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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MOB NINO. OCTOBER 1, 1880
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Fancy Dress
ginghams
Arc acknowledged to be the
handsomest in the city. They
are selling rapidly, especially
those splendid patterns we offer
at
Sc ci Y mpcL.
' A! a ho your selections before
theV are picked over too much.
Our Fancy Ribbons
3 INCHES WIDE,
/
Which wo are offering at the
marvelously low price of
£5o a, Yiii'cl,
Ar§the talk of the , town. If
ymiiifiVo hot secii tftcin yet, it
will pay you to call at once
and inspect them.
For lO .cts.
We will sell you a beautiful
Ladies’ Union Linen Hem
stitched Handkerchief, which
is certainly the best value ever
offered in Thomasvillo.-
For 5 cents
You can buy a nice colored
bordered handkerchief, plenty
good enough for the children
to lose at school.
Wejhave an elegant all wool 1
Saxony wove Jersey at the as
tonishingly low figure of
• #1.00,
Never before sold for lcss"than
one dollar and fifty cents.
These are but a few of the
plums we have in stock for
our friends; and lots more to
show, if you will j ust take the
trouble to come and look at
tjiem. We intend to make
things lively this season, and
wc have the goods and prices
to do it with.
Wc extend a cordial invita
tion to all to visit pur establish
ment, whether you buy or not.
Wcare always glad to sec you
and show you what we have.
132 BROAD ST.
‘GOOD-BYE—GOD BLESS YOU."
KUCiENK FIELD.
I loveii tlic words—perhaps because
When I wits leaving mother,
Standing at last in solemn pause,
We looked at one another.
And I—I saw in mother's eyes
The love she could not tell me—
A love eternal an the skies,
Whatever fate befell me;
•She put her arms about my neck,
And soothed the pain of leaving,
And, though her heart was like to break,
She spoke no word of grieving;
She let no tear bedim her eye,
For fear that might distress me,*
But, kissing me, she said good-bye,
And asked our God to bless me!
John’s Mother.
C. M. I larger in Detroit Froo Press.
There was a timid knock at the
door of the country printing office, or
rather of the room which I dubbed
the “punctual” of tint Weekly Pallad
ium, over whoso destinies I presided.
After the usual “come in” there en
tered a faded and bent old lady,
whose dress immediately proclaimed
her as a resident of the far hacl town
ships. She Had a frightened, bewil
dered look, and her bombazine dress
was wrinkled and dusty with tlw? long
ride she had taken over the Kansas
prairies in her trip to the county sent.
I regretted liaviug called out so
roughly, and apologized. She did not
notice my apology, bub; asked in a
trembling voice:
“Is this the printin’ office?”
“Yes, ma’am,” I replied; “what can
I do for you?”
“I saw yc didn’t have nothin' about
John in the paper.” . m ; ■
I did not know John from Adam,
and was about to tell her so, but 1 was
glad a moment after that I did not.
“I told the undertaker,” she went
on, “ter see that the paper knew
about it; hut
hSl> t; 1 a i« fis she answer^:
«•% ho never tom %e, 1 am sure.- ‘„ Thmlk voll> ]t till<
Ye sec, wo live nut in Cheever
township, an’ ye prob’ly didn’t hear of
John’s dyiu’. I looked for it in the
paper, but didn’t se nothin’.”
“I am sorry, but it you will give
mo the facts, I’ll sec that it goes in
next week,” was the only reply that I
could make.
“John was an awful good boy,” she
began. "He was good ter me, an’
that’s what counts. When we came
West we had kiuder poor luck. My
Inishan’ died an' the other hoys left
mo an’ with debts on the claim an’ no
money ahead, I don’t know what I’d
a done Vept for John. Ho worked
night an’ day, plowin’ an’ plantin’ an’
sowin’. lie never had a harsh word
for his mother—never.”
She stopped a moment to wipe her
eyes, and I found it convenient to
look in another direction.
She continued: “Ho was twenty-
five years old, but lie looked ten more
—ho worked too hard. I guess it
killed him, but I didn’t know he was
overdoin’; he nevergomplained. He
wasn’t sick long—just a few days. I
done all I could. I’d have given my
life for John, if the Lord’ have let it
be that way. You don’t know how
lonesome the claim is now. Just me
alone in the sad cabin; 1 can’t die, an’
it’s only sorrow to live. I had John
buried on the prairie, so I could go to
him. I’ll go to him fer good pretty-
soon I hope.”
She sobbed a little and then recov
ered sufficiently to give me the full
name, age, etc., of the dead youth,
after which, hei erraud accomplished,
she left me to ride home across the
sun-beaten prairies to the lonely cabin
set amid the billows of green, far from
the rushing world’s highways.
If I did not give John a suitable
death notice the nexi week, if I did
not feelingly portray the unselfish
heroism of the hoy whose world was
his mother and whose ambition was to
aid her in her necessities, it was not
because I did not try faithfully and
earnestly. I hope I succeeded in
bringing a little comfort to the heart
of John's mother, who may bo yet
waitiug to join the noble son buried
beneath the carpet of sod stretching
away fiom her door.
The Time to be Pleasant.
Tlie Youth’s Reaper.
Mother’s cross,” said Maggie,
coming out into the kitchen with a
pout on her lips.
Her aunt was busy ironing, and she
looked up and answered Maggie:
“Then it is the very time for you
to he pleasant and helpful. Mother
was awake a great deal in the night
with the poor baby.”
Maggie made no reply. She pflt
on her hat and Walked off into the
garden. And a new idea went with
her—“The very time to ho helpful
and pleasant is when other people are
cross.”
“True enough,” thought she, “that
would do the most good. I rememb
er-when I was ill last year, I was so
nervous that if any' one spoke to me I
could barely help being cross; and
mother never got cross of out of pa
tience, but was quite pleasant with me.
I ought to pay it hack now, and I
will."” ‘ • ^ "
A»d she jumped up from the grass
on which she had thrown hcrseW; and
turned a face full of cheerful resolu
tion towards ’the room where her
mother sat soothing and tending a
fretful, teething baby.
“Couldn’t I take hint out to ride in
his carriage, mother? It’s such a sun
ny morning,” she asked.
“I should be so glad if you would,”
said her mother.
The hat and coat were brought and
the baby was soon ready for his ride.
“Pll keep him as long as he is
good,” said Maggie, “and you must
lie on the sofa and take a nap while
I’m gone. You are looking dread-
fully tired.”
The kind words and the kiss that
accompanied them -were almost too
much for the mother, and her voice
do ntt IT
world of good. My hea l aches badly
this morning.”
What a happy heart Maggie’s was
as she turned the little carriage up
and down on the walk! She resolved
to remember and act on her aunt’s
good words:
“The very time to be helpful and
pleasant is when everybody is tired
and cross.”
Putting “Baby” to Sleep.
The young of all animals except
man, put themselves to sleep, hut the
putting of “baby” is quite a solemn
function, during which the houso
stands still. Why, it’s the greatest
piece of folly to pamper a little being
who has come to us in a ntatc of na
ture. You may say lie don’t know,
and neither doeB lie. But it is not
things we know and think about that
do us either harm or good. It’s what
we get “used to.” Th’s is what grows
into us, body and mind, and makes
us the creatures we arc. Pamper an
infant, nnd he will grow up to pamper
himself. Then, besides, all this sooth
ing and singing, and the occasional
sudden starts, have a bad effect on
the child’s nerves. It’s like opium
eating; the more you have the more
you want. The nerves refuse to do
their own work if you do it for them,
and the little shocks you cannot save
a child from if you “put him to
sleep” do real harm in other ways.
The thing is to put the child in the
proper condition to sleep, lay him in
a darkened nnd quiet silent room at
precisely the same hour every day,
and the rest will take care of itself.
Nature will see that ho sleeps.
Good Boys’ Reward.
Visiting Aunt—Ah! Johnnie, I
am very glad to have your mother tell
me that you are such a good little
boy. Of course you know where all
good little boys will go?
Johnnie—Yes, ma’am.
“Well, tell me.”
“Their papas will take ’em to the
circus.”—Exchange.
Whatever is worth doing at all is
worth doing well.
Progress of Inventions Since 1845.
In the year 1845, the present owners
of the Scientific American newspaper
commenced its publication, and soon
after established a bureau for the pro
curing of patents for inventions at
home and in foreign countries. Dur*-
ing the year 1845 there were only 502
patents issued from the U. S. Patent
Office, and the total issue from the
establishment of the patent office, up
to the end of that year, numbered only
4.347-
Up to the first of July there have
been granted 406,413. Showing that
since the commencement ot the publi
cation of the Scientific American there
have been issued from the U.S. Patent
Office 402,166 patents, and about one
third more applications have been
made than have been granted, show
ing the ingenuity of our people to be
phenomenal, and much greater than
ever the enormous number of patents
issued indicates. Probably a good
many of our readers have had business
transacted through the offices of the
Scientific American, in New York or
Washington, and arc familiar with
.Munn & Co.’s mode of doing business,
but those who htve not will be inter
ested in knowing something about this,
the. oldest patent soliciting firm in this
country, probably in the world.
Persons visiting the offices of the
Scientific American, 361 Broadway,
N. Y., for the first time will be sur
prised, on entering the main office,' to
find such an extensive and elegantly
equipped establishment, with its walnut
counters, desks, and chairs to corrcs.
pond, and its enormous safes, and
such a large number of draughtsmen,
specification writers, and clerks, all
bpsy as bees, reminding one of a large
banking or insurance office, with its
hundred employes.
* Tn conversation with one of the
firm, who had commenced the busi
ness of soliciting patents in connection
with the publication of the Scientific
American, more than forty years ago,
I learned that his firm had made ap
plication for patents for upwards of
one hundred thousand inventors in the
United States, and several thousand
in different foreign countries, and had
filed as many cases in the patent office
in a single month as there were pat
ents issued during the entire first year
of their business career. This gentle
man had seen the patent office grow
from a sapling to a sturdy oak, and lie
modestly hinted that many thought
the Scientific American, with its large
circulation, had performed no mean
share in stimulating inventions and
advancing the interests of the patent
office. But it is not alone the patent
soliciting that occupies the attention
of the one hundred persons employed
by Munn & Co , but a large number
are engaged on the four publications
issued weekly and monthly from their
office, 361 Broadway, N. Y., viz: The
Scientific American, the Scientific
American Supplement, the export
edition of the Scientific American, and
the Architects and builders Edition of
the Scientific American. The first
two publications are issued every week
and the latter two the first ol every
month.
Wanted to Stay Right There in
Missouri.
“All persons in the congregation,”
said an evangelist at a big meeting in
western Missouri, “who want to go to
heaven will please rise to their feet.”
Every person in the house got up but
oue godless strauger on the back scat.
“Now,” continued the evangelist, “if
there is a person in the congregation
who desires to go to hell, let him
stand up,” looking hard at the gran
ger, who again Kept his seat. The
revivalist decended from the pulpit
and approaching the case hardened
creature who refused to testify cither
for or against the Lord, snid: “My
perishing friend, you seem to have
no desire to reach heaven nor to
plunge into perdition ; where do you
want to go r "I don’t want to go
anywhere,” promptly replied the
granger. “I want to stay right here
in Missouri.”
WOMEN AND MASONRY.
Eli Perkins Manufactures an Ancient
Tradition.
Eli Perkins is a Royal Arch Mason,
and at a recent masonic celebration at
Washington, he undertook to answer
the question,‘“Why women cannot be
Free Masons.” •“Women sometimes
complain that they are not permitted
to enter the Lodge and work with the
craft in their labors, and learn all
there is to lie learned in the institu
tion. I will explain the reason. I
learn that before the Almighty had
finished his work, he was in doubt
about creating Evo. The creal ion of
the living and creeping things had
been accomplished, and the Almighty
had made Adam and created for him
the finest Lodge in the world, and
called it Paradise No. 1. He then
called all the boasts of the field and
fowls of the air to pass before Adam
for him to name them, which was a
piece of work which he was to do
alone, that no confusion might there
after arise from Eve, who ho knew
would make trouble if she was allowed,
to participate in it, if He created her
before hand. Adam being fatigued
with his first task fell nslecp, and
when lie awoke found Eve in the
Lodge with him. Adam being Senior
Warden, placed Evo as a pillar of
beauty in the South, and they receiv
ed their instructions from the Grand
Master in the East, and when finished
she immediately called the craft from
labor to refreshment. Instead of at
tending to the duties of her office ns
she ought, she left her station, violated
her obligations and let in an expelled
Mason, who had no business there,
and went round with him and left
Adam to look alter the jewels. This
fellow had been expelled front the
Grand Lodge with severnl others
sometime before. Finding that Eve
was 110 longer trustworthy, and that
she had caused Adam to neglect his
duty, and let 011c iu whom He had
expelled, the.Grand Master closed the
Lodge, turning them out, setting a
faithful Tyler to guard with a flaming
sword. Adam repented of his folly
and went to work like a man and a
good Mason, in order to get re-iusta-
ted again. Not so with Eve; she got
angry about it and commenced raising
Cain, nnd did it again when she got
Abel. Adam, 011 account of his refor
mation, was permittted to establish
Lodges and woik iu the degroes, and
while Evo was allowed to join him in
his work of charity on the outside, she
was never again permitted to assist in
the regular work of the craft. Hence
the reason why a woman cannot be
come and inside Mason.”
The Bost Remedy for Venomous
Snake Bites.
L. G. I.incecum, M. D,, writing
from Texas to the Southern Practition
er, says : “Parmanganate of potash
is a successful remedy. I have treat
ed over one hundred cases >1 Texas,
and have used whiskey, soda, bicarb,
spirits of ammonia, turpentine, chloro
form and other remedies, but have
found that potas. parmanganas in one
or two gr. doses hypodermically, and
chloroform locally and by inhalation,
are undoubtedly the most certain and
successful remedies in bights of venom
ous reptiles that I have ever used. I
have never .seen a case treated wflh
these two remedies result fatally.”—
Scientific American.
"Great Scott, Maria,” exclaimed a
Chicago father, as he saw* his infant
son with a daily paper in his chubby fist,
“don’t you know, you musn’t allow
•that-”
. “Why, what’s the matter, James?"
replied the mother, “Tommy’s amused,
and what harm can there come of it?”
"What harm? Can’t you see that
he is liable to receive certain impres
sions regarding the Cronin case, and
then when he grows up, he will be dis
qualified from sitting on the juty. If
you women had your way these Cro
nin murderers would never come to
trial.”—Boston Transcript.
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