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TEOMASYILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, '889
[$5.00 PER ANN DM
Our low Prints
AND
Fancy Dress
GINGHAMS
Arc acknowledged to be the
handsomest in the city. They
arc selling rapidly, especially
those splendid patterns we offer
at
8c a Yard.
Make your selections before
they arc pickedjovgr too much.
Our Fancy Ribbons
3 INCHES WIDE,
Which we are offering at the
marvelously low price of
25c aYard,
Arelthe talk of the town. If
you*havo not- soen thoin yet, ii
will pay you to call atone*
andJinspect 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.
JTor 5 cents
You can buy a nice colored
bordered handkerchief, plenty
good enough for the children
to lose at school;
Wojjhave an' elegant all wool
Saxony wove Jersey at the as
tonishingly low figure of
#1.00,
Never bcforejsold for lessjthan
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 just take the
trouble to come and look at
them. We intend to make
things lively this season, and
wc 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 what we have.
132 BROAD ST.
HER ANSWER.
‘ Young man proposed to me lust night.”
•You can’t mean that?” “Indeed its
true;
Aske l me to be his wife, outright. 1 '
“Good gracious, dear! What did you do?”
“Boor hoy! He looked so handsome, Nell,”
“Handsome! A clerk on weekly pay
Asks you—a beauty and a belle !
But tell me what he dared to say.”
“Well—first, he loved me!’’ “0, that part,
Ofeours*! What else?’’ “And that he
thought
I was the sort of girl whose heart
Would never let itself be bought.
“He said that lie was a man—that I
Wa9 just a woman, equal so
In youth, health, brain we stood, and—why.
You’d think he never dreamed of no—■
“That lie was poor need be no bar—”
“Well! what an attitude to take !”
“For Love would prove the guilding star
To fame and fortune, for my sake—
“And then ho begged my heart and hand,”
“Stieh Impudence ! Who’d ever guess?—
I hope you made him understand
Ills place?” “I did—I told him ‘Yes!”
Common Schools.
Mr. Editor: —In my lasl I made a
poet c allusion about the budding
rose. As I am not well up on such
things, I may not have got it right.
But I am disposed to make another
quotation : “ ’Tis education forms the
common mind; just as the twig is bent
the tree's inclined.
Now, you have what is commonly
called a common school system, but it
applies, practically, to only a few
neighborhoods in the southern part
of the county, and for certain reasons
“the twig is never bent, nor the tree
inclined." in that part of the county by
means ot common school education.
The law tequires.that there shall be a
certain number of children within such
a d'stance from a common centre;
then you can have a three months . ,
r _hoo. r oth*m*,yo,rc«n.rhave
Now, if Jim Blackshear. Captain Doss, day ’ uo,n the cfc,dre " c0 ™
and a few others I could name, lived
close enough to each other, and would
agree on a common centre, they
might reap some benefit from the
school fund, for three months.
But, as they do not live so near to
each other;as to make a common
centre practicable lor school purposes,
they are deprived of the benefits of any
part of the school fund. Now, do' not
understand me as intimating that ei
ther of the gentlemen named are to be
blamed, because they have not child
ren enough to make up what is known
as a common school. But facts are
said to be stubborn things, and when
they exist they must be looked at just
as they are, and not as you wish they
were. The case is very different with
that class ol persons who are not free
holders. They live in bunches on the
farms, and every neighborhood has
children enough of that class not only
to agree on a common centre for the
school house, but, at the same time, to
furnish the regulation number ot child
ren. You pass along the road in the
early morning, or late in the evening,
and you can meet squads of colored
children on their way to and from
school, with tiny tin buckets in their
hands, fed and kept alive by the bur
dens borne by the class of people who
pay the taxes and own the lands.
But how is it with the white child
ren* If they get any education at all
ii has to be paid for by the land own
ers, in private schools, kept up and
sustained at their own individual ex
pense. This is a great evil, and will
not be uncomplainingly borne much
longer.
But you may ask, what is the reme
dy for this state of affairs.
Well, I answer you in this way:
Suppose a lot ol these western and
northern farmers come down here this
winter to see this countiy. They look
at the soil, compare it with their own,
they can work here every day in the
year, but in their country they can
work only eight months in the twelve;
they see they can make everything in
abundance necessary for the camforta-
Dle support of theii families, and there
are no blizzards or other drawbacks,
such as they meet and have to endure
in their own country. They talk with
the land owners and enjoy the conver
sation and hospitality, and while Jim
Blackshear tells of the deer he shot,
the fish he caught in the river, and the
possum hunts and fox chases he has
had, they listen, enchanted by his vi
vacity and cleverness. No wonder the
sturdy western farmer says to himself:
“I wish I had a home here, where
every thing is so pleasant and agreea
ble.” And while these thoughts are
running through his mind, up comes
a neighbor, who takes part in the con
versation, and supplements Jim’s ex
periences by his own, and adds to the
general hilarity of the occasion-
While the men are thus enjoying
themselves, there comes to the piazza
a matronly lady, who says: “Mr.
Blackshear, dinner is ready.” And
they all go into an old fashioned din
ner, such as you and I used to enjoy
when we were young.. And now, Mr.
Editor, did you ever take it at its true
value, in these later days, what an old
fashioned welcome dinner meant?
If there are any words or language
which can adequately express its value,
they are beyond my powers of descrip
tion. I can only think and feel their
value, and ask you to put it in words
if you can. I Irave heard it said of
great orators that they uttered words
that breathed and thoughts that burn
ed, but I will wager that neither Clay,
Webster, Calhoun, or any other gjeat
man, could ever give a description of
an old fashioned county dinner and its
genial surrounding that was equal to
the reality.
When I commenced to write this
number, I intended to give my views
about the children and common
schools, but when I get to talking
about a country dinner, and old fash
ioned times and scenes, I forget my-
another
and the
quality are served. “Experience’
Three Months of Tanner.
Philadelphia Times.
The treasury statement lor September
reveals very clearly why it was neces
sary to get rid cf Tanner.
Of the increase in government ex
penditures for the quarterending Sept.
30th,. it appears that $10,568,000 was
due to increased outlay for the pension
bureau. At this rate the increase for
pensions alone for the fiscal year
would have been $42,000,000 and
upwards, or more than 50 per cent,
more than in any former year. In
Other words, to the $80,000,000 ex
pended for pensions last year would
have been iidded^$42,ooo more, mak
ing a total ol $122,000,000
This sum is $30,000,000 greater
than is expended for the maintenance
of Germany’s enormons standing army,
$11,000,000 [more than, the annual
war outlay ol France and $32,000,000
'more than that of England. Four
years more of Tanner, at this rate,
would have made our pension expen
ditures equal|to the war.expenditures
of all three of the great powers of
western Europe, unless some one could
have been hired to hold him.
Is Marriage a Lottery ?
Sir Edwin Arnold said in a lecture
the other day, that in "India, with its
200,000,000 inhabitants, there never
occurs a marriage of inclination. Yet
there are more happy marriages in In
dia, more happy homes, more pure
domestic relations than in any other
part ot the world.” This is a surpris
ing statement to come from a poet of
Sir Edwin’s standing, love and court
ship having been always the poet’s
favorite themes, for it amounts to an
argument in favor of making marriage
a family arrangement, in which the
parties immediately interested have no
voice. Perhaps Sir Edwin’s study of
Indian subjects has given him an ad
miration for everything Indian that
renders him incapable of just judg
ment.
The best society is that in which
yesterday’s money does not call on to
day’s.
Keep the Files.
It is a fact worthy of note, that
there are in existence to-day only two
files of Rome’s old representative
newspaper,the Courier—one perso
nally kept by Col. W. H. Hidell,
and the other purchased by Capt. A.
B S. Mosely at the final sale of Mr.
Dwinell’s effects.
It is a facteven to be more regretted
that there are perhaps only two files
being kept in Rome of the present
Tribune—Rome’s only dnily—and
both of these in the office of the paper.
It the office should he destroyed by
fire there would be absolutely no files
of the paper left, and the official his
tory of the last two years be blotted
out.
There arc probably one hundred
files of the Constitution carefully kept
in Atlanta by merchants and lawyers
and politicians. And in every other
town in Georgea, many of them with
newspapers that do not hold a rush
light to.the Tribune, there are regu
larly kept a number of files of the
representative newspapers. There
ought to be a score of files of the
Tribune regularly kept in Rome.
A newspaper is the history of the
year—the best history. It is the daily
reCord of local evc-its, and the reflex
of current sentiment and thought in
cident to the period of its existence.
It embodies the truthful annnk of
the time. The merchants need it to
improve by comparison upon their
advertisements, and to vary their
stocks. The lawyers need it for the
legal advertisements and the records
of the courts. The politicians need
it for the accounts of conventions and
pnblic]meetings,to depend outheir own
records and to attack their opponents.
Amid all these, with many others,
whenever a question of record arises,
rush to the office of the paper to con
sult the files. If the office should be
burned this single source of reference
would be destroyed, nnd all of us
would be left without an appeal to the
files.
Now, a regular newspaper file at
the beek stores costs aboutsixty cents.
If you don’t care to pay that money
you can make a file of your own for
' nothing, And prudence would sug
'* crest tliat gkery steady' and ambitious
merchant, lawyer and politician in
Rome, should, after reading his
morning paper, corefully lay it over
his file, wrap every six month’s accit
mulation in thick pnner, label it and
lay it away as a volume of current
history more valuable to him for ref
erence than any book in his library.
By all means keep the files of- the
representative paper, nnd keep plenty
of them.—Tribune of Rome.
This reminds us that it is impor
tant to our readers—many -of them—
to preserve files of-this paper. Scarce
ly a week passes without some one
calling at the office for the purpose of
seeing something that was published
weeks, months or years ago. Pre
serve your files; you will find them
vulunblc for reference. And yet we
do not expect any one to heed this
advice.
Wake Up!
An inventive genius of Talladega,
Ala., claims to have perfected a ma
chine, upon which he will secure let
ters patent, the purpose of which is to
take up the usual church collections
on Sundays. The power is furnished
by a smalj water motor. The contri
vance consists of a series of small
•wires directly over each pew and at
tached to the ceiling. Along the sides
cf the building and also attached to
the ceiling are two small wires run
ning at right angles with the other
wires, and to these wires arc attached
two contribution boxes suspended by
another wire within easy reach of the
pews. The whole thing is set in mo
tion by pulling a wire attached to the
motor. The contribution boxes then
begin to pass along the pews and re
ceive the contributions. If there are
vacant pews the contrivance is so ar
ranged that by pulling a wire it can
be made to skip any pew that lias no
occupant. This may be a very good
idea, but it won’t be altogether satis
factory until it is arranged so as to
wake the people who go to sleep just
before the collection is take*—Sa
vannah News.
"Her great fablt is iter devotion to
large theatre hats.”
“Well, can’t you overlook that?”
“No. Iflcouldl wouldn’t mind
it.”
Antiauity of the Glove.
From the Haberdasher.
No article of attire has more of in
terest in its associations and history
than gloves; for while the interest
attaching to most other garments has
been mainly thatjof utility, to the glove
has been attached a varied and wide
spread symbolism, given them'with
many curious observances, regal,
ecclesiastical, military and social.
The glove has been the emblem of
power and of purity, of defiance and
subjection. Lands and personal prop
erty were once conveyed by the de
livery of a glove ; the authority of
kings over provinces was attested by
presenting a glove; kings invested
barons with dominion by bestowing
on the favorite one of the kingly
gloves; and many ecclesiastical and
legal ceremonies could only be per
formed with white gloves, the emblems
of purity.
The antiquity of gloves is very
great; they doubtless antedate history,
for the earliest literature alludes to
them, and they have been known and
worn from the enrlicst ages of which
we have any knowledge. Homer, in
the “Odyssey,” describes Leartcs, the
fanner king, the father of Ulyscs, in
his retirement: “While gloves secured
his hands to shield them from the
thorns.” Xenophon jeers at the Per
sians for wearing gloves as a protec
tion from the cold ; not only did they
have umbrellas borne over them in
summer, not being content with the
shade of the trees and rocks, but iu
the winter it is not sufficient for them
to clothe their heads, and their bodies,
and their feet, but they have cover
ings made of hair for their hands and
their fingers. In their earlier day
the Greeks and the Romans scorned
such effeminacy, but at a later day,
in the time of PJiny, the uncle of that
lively historian is described as travel
ing with an amanuensis “who wore
gloves upon his hands in winter lest
the severity 'of the weather should
make him lose any time” in writing.
From time immemorial the glove
has had a legal significance in oriental
c nintrics in the transfer of property,
just as the “God’s penny” was form
erly used to “bind a bargain” in tho
west. A disputed passage in the Old
Testament—Ruth iv. 7 nnd 8—reads:
“Now this was the manner in former
time in Israel, concerning redeeming
and conceritig changing,. for to con
firm all things; a man plucked off - his
shoe, and gave to his neighbor; and
this was a testimony iu Israel,'' It is
now commonly agreed by scholars
that the word shoe should be rendered
glove, for in the Chaldaic paraphraso
the word is rendered “the case or cov
ering of the right hand ;” ami accept
ing this view, it appears that among
the Israelites the passing of a glove
was the method of transferring prop
erty.
Later the glove, as a pledge or em
blem of conveyance, came into use
among the Romans, whose ancient
law held property to have passed with
its literal transfer, or of part of it, into
the hand of the purchaser; and the
glove, doubtless as a matter of con
venience, took the placo of and sym
bolized this actual transfer.
The Washington cotrespondent of
the New York Times says: “During
the four years of president Cleveland’s
adminisistrtion, when the railway mail
service was under civil service rules,
there were 725 removals, 760 resigna
lions, 340 dismissals for inefficiency
and 166 for drunkenness, a total of
1,999 removals. Under the Harrison
administration from March 20 to May
r, were 1524 dismissals and 210 resig
nations in the postal railway mail ser
vice. From May 1 to July 1 there
were 23 dismissals and 147 resigna
tions, besides 530 clerks dropped from
the service ‘after a trial,’ making a
grand total of 2 431 in a little more
than three months. This record of
removals from the railway service ex
ceeds that ot the four years ot the
Cleveland administration by 435.”
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