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nterprist VOL 1-NO 1:'7. 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.” LEVY’S Latest access, -FOR- lies,mis BEAD, BEAD! And Profit by the Same. GUARANTEED, EVERY PAIR, Or Money Refunded, BLACK HOSIERY. THE GREAT SUCCESS Which our “Otryx" Dyed Hosiery met with last season, and the univer sal satisfaction given by these abso lutely fast dyo goods has stimulated us to still farther improvement for this season, by producing the good* from Ingrain yarns, thus giving greater strength ami wearing qualities to tint fabric, and at the same time re taining all the excellent qualities of dye, which have been so thoroughly tested and approved iu previous sea sons. Try a pair of Onyx, and you will never wear any other stocking, for every pair is warranted not to stain the feet and clothing, and to withstand the effects of perspiration as well os repeated washings. Furthermore, any pair not found as represented, re turn them and your money will be refunded. • None genuine unless stamped with above trade-mark. FOR SALE ONLY BY L Lfry & Cl, r Mitchell House Block*