The Daily times-enterprise. (Thomasville, Ga.) 1889-1925, October 08, 1889, Image 1
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You can b«y a nice colored
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Wcflhave an elegant all wool
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Never before'sold for lessjthan
one dollar and fifty cents.
These arc but a few of the
plums we have in stock for
our friends; and lots more to
show, if you will just take the
trouble to come and look at
them. We intend to make
things lively this season, and
we have the goods and prices
to do it with.
We extend a cordial invita
tion to all to visit our establish
ment, whether you buy or not.
We are always glad to see you
and show you wnat we have.
132 BROAD ST.!
I.1STEN TO YOl'R WIFE.
You may say that girls are silly,
That even women’s minds a*-e weak;
Ilut the foolishest among ’em s
Sure sometimes to show a streik
Of sound common sense w hen needed.
And their wits a r c like a knife
When tlieyve shaipened by love, so,
Just listen to your wife I
Women know, by intuition
(As philosophers admit,)
What you d dig your brains a lifetime
For, and then most likely quit
A loser. Tho’ my brothers,
With your rnilleues you are rife,
Not a one of yob’ll regret it
IT lie listens to his wife.
“From the mouths of babes and suck
lings”--
But you know what says the book,
Or yon ought to- -and a woman
Can do something besides cook;
And that man be is a tool, who,
In this muddled mundane strife,
Thinks that he's too high anu mighty
E'er to listen to his wife.
You can’t a*way3 measure w isdom,
Nor know whe»e it mayn’t be hid.
A solon might take lessons
From a chit that you have chid;
And you’ll own up, if you’er honest,
T hat many times in life
You’ve missed it, when you wouldn’t
If you’d listened to your wife!
—Boston Globe.
EDITOR UNDERWOOD.
Of the Camilla Clarion, On tho Baxley
Trouble-What This Baptist Preach
er Thinks of the Course of
Lovo and Williams.
•'Well, about that negro trouble at
BaJdey, and the noise the Indtznapolis
Baptist convention made about it?”
The Clarion repeats its sorrow that a
negro preacher, who has hitherto con'
ducted hitnself so well, and stood so
high in the esteem of the white people
of Georeia, as Rev. E. K. Love, of
Savannah, allowed himself to get in
such a scrape. Love once taught
school here in Camilla, aqd at the
same time studied under Prolessor
Sheats. The editor ot the Clarion
esteems him highly, and he is a sub
scriber to our paper. But Emanuel
got off his guard that time. His head
got turned.
It was this way. The best oT nc
groes and white men have a big streak
of vanity in them. Now, Love and
Parson Williams, of Brunswick, had
started to a great national convention
at Indianapolis in the north. That’s
a big thing, you know. Your coni'
mon cornfield darkey couldn’t take
that trip. Now, instead ot taking a
seat in the comfortable car assigned
to negroes, they all tn a bunch march
ed into the white people’s coach and
put on airs. “We are city folks, you
know, going to Indiarapohs.” Now,
the Georgia railroads wisely give sep
erate coaches to white and black.
We all like it. All parlies travel more
comfortably.by the arrangement. The
negroes enjoy having the coach to
themselves, and many a time have the
conductors asked the writer to get out
of the negro coach, and we always
“get.” We respect the law. We re
spect the liberal arrangement of the
railroads, and we respect the rights of
negro passengers. But love and Wil
liams didn’t feel that way. They
could ride among Georgia negroes
very contentedly on ordinary occa
sions, but they were going to "de
norf’ this time, right to the home of
President Harrison, so they perched
themselves in the wrong box and
wouldn’t get out when asked to do so.
Somebody telegraphed on ahead to
Baxley, and when the train reached
that village, a mob rushed in and
made the negroes get into their own
coach. They could expect nothing
but rough treatment, and they got it.
Love and Williams failed to remem
ber that being messengers from hum
ble Baptist churches to a large meet
ing ot their brethren, doesn’t give
power to preachers to change customs
agreeable to all parties, to alter rail
road regulations that have been
agreed upon by' all, as the best that
can be made under just laws, and to
ride over social customs which are in-
{jpitely best for black and white. If
they got hurt, we do not justify the
hurting, provided they were acting
like humble Christians and gentle
manly passengers ought to act. But
we can safely say that we never saw a
negro at all rudely treated who was
conducting himself in that manner,
and there is reason to believe that in
this instance, Love and his crowd were
trying to bully customs and social in
stincts and to defy authority. When a
negro or a white man attempts that in
Georgia, he will be rudely treated,
and we are not surprised at the treat
ment.
But it looks as if Love, led on by
the more turbulent and bloody Parson
Williams, of Brunswick, was trying to
make a case for a sensation at Indian
apolis. We don’t know about that,
but they are shrewd men, and they
know that a little bump on their heads
o- scratch on their faces would make
heroes and martyrs' of them when
they reach Indianapolis. And this
brings us to a quasi justification of
these Georgia darkies. It was a
splendid policy. They are not hurt.
They are glad of it. They made a de
liberate bargain and gained what they
wanted—noteriety and promotion.
You see, Georgia is alwas ahead, even
among her darkies. What negro but
a Georgian, and a sharp Camilla one,
at that, would have been willing to have
himself kicked out of the white folk’s
coach, and get a few knocks on the
head. These Mississippi or Alabama
negroes are not up to snuff and never
would have thought of it, Our Geor
gia darkies captured the northern part
of the convention, the republican pa
pers and northern south haters, by the
hundreds.^Love was made president
of the convention and Williams at once
sprang-to the front as the biggest man
in it. Hurralf for Love and Williams!
Hurrah for Georgia!
But here comes a more serious
matter—the horrid crime of it alt.
The indianapolis convention, under
the inspiration of the pitiful tales and
rampant harangues of Williams and
Love, passed very incendiary resolu
tions, breathing a spirit of vengeance,
and calling upon their people to a
course which would plunge the coun
try into trouble and annihilate the ne
gro race. To put it more mildly 1 they
call for the use of the pistol. In other
words, the Indianapolis convention
passed resolutions directly encoutaging
the negroes of Georgia to break the
laws of the state. Morever,the pream
ble stated that the negroes are being
“shot down like dogs.” Now, Wil
liams and Love both know that they
are not shot down like dogs, but are
shot down just like white people are
shot down, and the people of Georgia
can no more prevent murder here than
the people of Indiana can prevent
murder there. These expressions of
the convention wete murderous,
bloody, false and malicious, and as
much unhke'Christ as midnight is un
like day. The Georgia delegates
should have been the first to repudiate
them, arid we know Love well enough
to say that if he hadn’t been betrayed
into that Baxley folly, he would have
been the first to protest against a!
such action. Thank God, the Missis
sippi delegation were honest enough,
cool enough, Christian enough, wise
enongh to enter their written protest
against all such incendiarism. Wil
liams and Love assumed a fearful re
sponsibiity by their course, and if their
fair names suffer on account ot it, they
must bear it. And if good men and
the God of peace bring them to ac
count for their arrogant and unchrist
ian course, and their infamous slander
upon southern society, they must meet
the judgement. The peaeful negro
Baptists ot Geoigia were not represent
ed by their delegates this time. We
judge them not. In horror of their
action in their convention, we honor
the delegates from Mississippi, and we
pity those from Georgia.
HUFF AND FOLSOM.
The Latter’s Book of Poems—How Fol
som Started Hi9 Career.
Cora—“I really must be careful
not to give Mr. Smythe any more en
couragement, for I do not want to
hurt his feelings.” Edith—“Ho has
not proposed, has he?” Cora—“No,
but ho has been asking me if I thought
I could keep house on 810 a week.”—
Epoch.
Everybody in this city knows
Montgomery Folsom, the ex-Macon
correspondent of the Atlanta Con
stitution.
A large number of copies of Fol
som’s new book—“Scraps of Song and
Southern Scenes,”—have been sold in
Macon.
It is a neat volume of two hundred
pages, and is filled with choice selec
tions from the author’s best newspaper
work.
Some of the poems evidence rare
poetical genius, and the stories are
graphic and true to life.
Tho Atlanta Carrcspondent of the
Augusta Chronicle publishes the fol
lowing:
“Speaking of Folsom tho other day,
Hon. W. A. Huff, ’of Macon, said
there wrn not a man in Georgia that
deserved more credit. ‘He can write
like the devil,’ said he. ‘The first
time I ever saw him he wa3 the most
insignificant looking little mustard I
ever saw.
“Col. Willis Hawkins brought him
to' Macon to see what he could make
of him. He brought him to my
office and said: ‘Huff I want you
to take care of this thing for I think
there is something Tn it’
“I surveyed the little mustard from
head to foot and asked Hawkins how
he would manage to get something to
eat.
“ ‘Oh,’ said lie, just give liitn a
brick bat or anything that comes to
hand. He had lived on pipe clay all
his life and don’t care much about
eating anyway. Just turn him
ajposc and let him write.
“I gave Folsom free access to my
office, and he went out and got a tal
low candle, a lead pineil and a table
about as big as my hat. He then
begun work and kept it up both night
and day. How the little devil man
aged to live in the meantime I was
never, able'to understand, but one
day lie canto to me and .said lie had
found a piece of property lie wanted
to buy. I gave him a little help, and
the first thing I knew he had the
property paid for and a nice house on
it.
“About that time lie was unearthed
by Henry Grady and brought to
Atlanta. Now the little mustard has
written a book and I will hot ten
dollars some of the pieces in it were
written by the light of that tallow
candle in my office.
“As Col. Ilufif told this story he,
handed Folsom one dollar and told
him to send a copy of his hook to his
little daughter.—Macon Evening
News.
Sell Eggs by Weight.
The following from Farm, Stock
and Home needs no comment:
Two farmers brought in some eggs
to sell. One was evidently proud of
his eggs aud proutid of the birds that
laid them. He had a flock of Plym
outh Hocks, and the eggs they laid
were beauties. A dozen of them
weighed thirty-nine ounces. Tho
other farmer brought in his eggs
without saying n word; had nothing
to say of them or the fowls that laid
them. A dozen of his eggs weighed
twenty-one ounces, an average of one
and three-fourth ounces each. Both
lots were carried to the rear of tho
store by a clerk and counted, and
each ' man got a cent apiece for his
eggs. As he ot the small eggs passed
a bystander in going out, he winked
kuowingly and said: .“That raau
with the big eggs is a fool; his hens
cat a heap mere than mine, make no
more eggs—though they are bigger—
but he gets no more for them.”
Young man (proudly)—“I am
building a great reputation, sir,” Old
Gent (sitting near by)—“Maybe,
maybe, but it strikes me you’re put
ting in a lectio too much liquor to
moke a strong foundation and a
steady upper story.” -
The Smokoloss Powder.
From the London Globe.
The Militarischo Zeitung publishes
an article pointing out many disad
vantages which will nttend the use of
the new smokeless-powder, which was
tried at the recent review at Spandau.
The duties of the guard and the patrol
will be made immeasurably more
difficult by the absence of tho smoke
and noise, which, in the case of the
employment of ordinary powder, at
tracted their attention to, and pointed
out the position of the enemy. On
the other hand, it will render capital
service to the franctireurs, whose object
it is to escape from’ and confuse the
guard. ;; Sudden attacks and surprises
will become matters of such daily oc-
cdircncc that outposts and patrols will
have to be immensely strengthened
and kept at the utmost tension of
watchfulness. Firing drill and disci
pline must necessarily be made much
stricter than at present. The most
important fault of tho smokeless pow
der is, however,'the terrible clearness,
the overwelming distinctness with
which, when it is used in battle, every
man will be able to sec the carnnge
and slaughter around him. Hitherto
the heavy roll of the firing lias merci
fully smothered the cries and shrieks
of the wounded ; the cloud of smoke
has veiled the horrible sight of men
piled in heaps, dying and dead, their
dreadful sufferings, their agonized
end. Each man, fighting behind a
thick fog of smoke, which was only
wafted aside now and then by a gust
of wind, or lightened by a pause in
the firing, felt a certain sense of
screened security, mistaken, indeed,
but none the less reassuring, until ha
himself was struck by the fatal bullet.
How will it be in the future? The
fall of each man who Is shot down
will bo clearly seen by his comrades;
every cry of nnguish will bo heard by
half the company; thcleast hesitation,
the least vacillation which, through
the rapid change of commander that
a death or a severe wound oftcu ren
ders necessary, will be immediately
observed by the tneu and rob thcrajof
that feeling of perfect confidence they
ought to have in their officers.
The Latest Shot of the War.
A dispatch from Chicago says: A
peculiar accident occurred Sunday
afternoon in the Libby prison. Many
persons were frightened and some
confusion resulted. Resting against
one of the pillars were a number of
old war muskets. No one was nearer
than five feet to them. Suddenly one
of the muskets discharged, the con
tents tearing a hole in tho ceiling
above. The report was terrific, and
several people were greatly excited
over its suddenness. IIow the old
musket was exploded no one can ex
plain. It had done service during
the late war, and some soldier had
loaded in readiness to fire. The
charge must have been in the rifle at
least twenty-six years.
We DoNot Credit It.
The Constitution gives a report that
the Alliances contemplate petitioning
the governors of the .Southern states
to call the Legislatures in extra ses
sion for the purpose of passing laws to
suspend for six months the collection
of debts.
Such an extraordinary proceeding
could ouly be justified on one or two
grounds, to wit:. In case of a revolu
tion or a general calamity to the crops
and industries of a slate.
Neither of these grounds exist as a
justification. Such a step would ruin
the credit of the planters and destroy
the commercial credit of our people.
We cannot believe that any such
movement as is rumored by the Con
stitution is in contemplation by the
Alliances. It would be suicidal.—
Augusta Chronicle.
A City’s Mail.—Stringer (in Chica
go)—What is that moving speck out
there in the prairie? Chicago man
(straining his eyes)—I can’t make ou
whether that’s an Indian or a letter
carrier.—New York Weekly. “
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