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T ROM ASVTLLE, GEORGIA, SAT UR DAT MOHlSUR G, OCTOBER 19, ’889
$5.00 PER AOTiTUM
^AN:
Opto Letter.
We have heard
people wonder why
it is that at Lohn-
stein’s you can al
ways find more
customers than at
any other place in
town.
This question we
can easily answer
The people like to
trade at Lohnsteins
store,
1st. Because they
receive every possi
hie attention and
consideration from
the proprietor, as
well as from the
salesmen.
2nd. Because
they find a better
selection of goods
at Xiohnstein’s than
at any other place
in town, and
Last, but not
least, because a dol
lar goes farther and
reaches deeper .at
Lohnstein’s than
anywhere else.
Politeness,square
'honorable dealing,
excellence and
great variety of
stock, small mar
gins and quick
sales; These are the
cardinal reasons for
our flattering and
unprecedented suc
cess. And the good
work still goes on.
Come and see us
this week. W e
will divide profits
with you.
Dry goods, cloth
ing, shoes, hats,
complete in every
department. Bar
gains in every line.
They are waiting
for you. Come and
pluck them. It
will pay you.
HISTORY OF TWO COLTS.
Axtell 2:14 and Allerton 2:18 1-4—A
Hitherto Unpublished Story Concern
ing Their Breeding—Their Orig
in the Result of Deep Study-
Value of the Wilkes Blood
—Their Records.
Ihe Great Leader and Benefactor,
132 BROAD ST.
C. \V. Williams, of Independence,
la., the owner ofthe two greatest three-
year olds the trotting world has
ever known, Axtell and Allerton, is a
man about thirty five years old, be
low the medium height, oT spare
build, beardless, has an eye like a
hawk, rarely if ever speaks unless
spoken to, and withal a problematical
person. That he has shown rare
judgment in the breeding of gilt-
edged stock, the lact that he is the
only man who has ever had two
three-year-olds that could trot in
2:20 will prove.
Four years ago, says the Chicago
Herald, Williams was a poor man,
comparatively speaking. He owned
a dairy farm in Independence, la.
Business in the butter and cheese
line became dull, and he determined
to enter into horses—breeding and
racing. He wanted some brood
mares. Of course, not being a man
of great means he found that prices
for stock such as he wanted ruled
high. Mares that were fashionably
bred were rather expensive. But he
would have only the best, and con
cluded to purchase mares of great
individual excellence. After looking
about for a month or more Mr. Wil
liams found a strain .that suited his
ideas, a group of four mares by
Mambriuo Boy. He purchased them
without ceremony. Mambrino Boy,
as most turfmen are well aware, is a
celebrated Bire. He is a son of Mam
brino Patchen, himself a great horse.
For two years Mr. Williams had
devoted himself to the study of the
pedigrees of the different trotting
families, their record as sires and
producers of speed. After looking
over all the great trotting .families he
decided to breed into the Wilkes
family. Accordingly the mares were
shipped to Lexington, Ky., where
they were kept in a stable on the
agricultural fair ground while ho pro
ceeded to look around the different
stock farms. As Mr. Williams was
anxious to breed into the Wilkes
family, he naturally wont to Ash
Grove, Ky., the home of George
Wilkes, the founder oY that popular
family of brothers.
After looking well over the field
the horseman decided to breed one of
his mares to Jay Bird, another to
Onward, another to Baron Wilkes
and the fourth to William L., a trot
ter which is a full brother to Guy
Wilkes, 2:15?, at that time the fust
est stallion in the Wilkes family. He
was very much attracted by the ap
pearance of William L,, and was
very anxious to breed to him, but as
the colt was only a two-year-old,
the owner demurred. But Williams
was persistent, and finally, as a per
gonal favor, was granted it. The
Mambrino Boy mare Lou was bred
to William L. She was then a mag
nificent specimen of horseflesh, with
perfect action, plenty of speed,
muscle and endurance, Theproduee
was Axtell. The produce of the
mare bred to Jay Bird was Allerton.
After giving them every opportu
nity to become hardy, Williams took
the colts to his farm, broke them
when they were yearlings, jogged
them a little during the summer, and
turned them out Shortly after tho
colts became two years old, Williams
began to give them a systematic
course of training. As a result, in
one of his first races Axtell trotted a
mile on a half-mile track in 2:31 j,
which was the fastest two-year-old
record on o half-mile track. He
was subsequently trotted In soveral
colt stakes, and last August was
brought to Chicago and trotted a
mile for a cup at Washington Park.
The mile was mode, as history shows,
in 2:24?. Then he participated in
one or two more small colt races,
after which he was shipped to Lexing
ton, Ky., to combat in the fall meet
ing of the Kentucky Breeders’ Asso
ciation. This was in October. Here
Axtell started to beat his record. He
did the first mile in 2:28, and just at
evening on a cold day was cut loose
and trotted a mile, without a skip or
break, in 2:23.
This extraordinary per'ormance con
cluded Axtell’s engagements for 1888.
He was shipped home, jogged during
the winter, was in service in the early
spring, and early in July started at
the Minnehaha Driving Park in Min
neapolis to beat the three-year-old
record, which was 2:18. The colt
did the mile in 2:15 J. The following
week at Hamlinc, Minn., Axtdll
essayed to beat his record, but only
equaled it. Then he was sent to
Cleveland, and started to beat his
record of 2:15|, trotting the mile in
2:14?, which was his mark up to
Friday. The three year-old record
prior to Axtell’s performances was
that of Sable Wilkes 2:18, made on
the Pacific slope. As a singular
coincident Sable Wilkes, which held
the three-year-old record for two years,
is a son of Guy Wilkes, a brother of
William L.
Allerton last year, as a two-year-
old, trotter a mile in 2:40?. This
year he was in the stud and started
in his maiden race at Minneapolis
against a field of aged horses, winning
in the third, fourth and fifth heats;
obtaining a record for a fifth heat of
2:24?. The following week at Ham
line Allerton started in a large field
of aged horses again and reduced his
record to 2:23. That waR his last
effort prior to his engagements at
Cleveland, where he encountered
Lady Bullion and other horses, and
although he did not win a heat, the
colt was timed separately in his third
endeavor in the race aud marked at
2:20?. Three days afterward he
started again this timo to beat his re
cord, trotting a mile in 2:19, the sec
ond half in 1:07?.
During tho recent Washington
Park meeting Allerton trotted eight
heats, winning six. He made the
fifth heat in his first race at Wash
ington Park in 2:24 and the third
heat in the second race in 2:18?.
The mark is 2:13?, one-quarter of
a second faster than Axtell’s. Maxey
Cobb held the stallion record made in
a trial 2:13?. Axtell would have
wiped these all out had he kept his
feet in the last. fifty yards. It has
been Williams’ theory to give his
horses very little works between races
and to feed them all they will eat.
Axtell is at present eating eighteen
quarts of oats a day.
Allerton has been presented with a
suit of horse clothes, made by J. H.
Fenton, in commemoration of his
recent victories at Washington Park
by a number of his admires. The
blanket and hood are made of the
finest quality of cadet blue broadcloth,
lined with lavender eiderdown, trim
med in heavy weight gold satins and
Japanese gold cord. The trimming
consists of satiu two inches wide, run
ning completely around the blanket
and hood, edged with Japanese cord.
There aro six ornaments of elaborate
design made of, satin, but appliqued
on the broadcloth. The name Aller
ton is worked in raised gold letters
three eights of an inch high. The
clothing cost S150.
It will be remembered that Axtell
sold for 8105,000 the other day. This
is the highest price ever paid for a
horse in this or any other country.
Like Mr. Gallagher.
Grandmamma has been explaining
to the little girl how our earth is kept
from flying off into infinite space by
the attraction of the sun, which is
constantly trying to draw the earth
toward itself, while the latter always
keeps its distance. “Grandmamma,”
said the little girl, “I should think
the sun would get disoouraged after
a while and, like Mr. Gallagher, ‘let
her go.’”—Providence Journal.
Cotton Mills in the South.
From tho Atlanta Constitution.
The great trouble with the southern
cotton mills has been, and is now, the
fact that the most of them produce
the same class of goods. There has
been little or no variety.
The fact has been commented on
by the president of the Eufaula cotton
mills. After these mills had been
running for some time ^t was discov
ered that there was an over produc
tion in the south of heavy brown cot
ton goods—a state of things which
reduced the profits on such goods al
most to zero, and caused some mills
to close down. The managers of the
Eufaula mills found a remedy by en-
devoring to produce a finer quality of
goods, so that with at least a 'part of
their machinery they might produce
such goods as were not generally
manufactured by southern mills. The
president says that the attempt has
been successful to some extent, as the
orders for finer goods are increasing
daily.
In Columbus and Augusta the evo
lution in the products of the. cotton
mills has already commenced, and, in
the nature of things, it must continue
until every variety of the finest goods
are. produced in the south.
With our mills equipped with the
newest machinery, there can be no
profitable competition north of the
cotton growing belt. This may hurt
New England somewhat, but the rem
edy is simple. Let New England,
while it is yet day, transport her facto
ries and her exports to the south.
There is enough room here for all of
them.
Praise When You Han.
There is a little boy known to us
whose natural sullen disposition and
ungovernable fits of temper were entire
ly eradicated by a judicious system of
eommendation and approval. When
ever he was good his mother would
take notice of it and express her pleas
ure in it, and tell him that he was her
good boy, and she always expected
him to be good like that. And when
his naughty fits came on she would
put her arms around him and tell him
he was not like her good boy, and she
knew he did want to do it, and she
loved him and it made her happy to
have him good. He could never re
sist this loving treatment, and became,
while still a very little fellow, just the
sweet tempered, good little boy she had
led him to think he was. How often
a child, m utter discouragement at the
continual blame that meets it on all
sides, has said in his heart, “Well, it’s
of no use; they always tell me I’m
naughty, anyway, and I guess I can’t
be good, so I won’t try.’’—Kansas
City Grocer.
The admission of the four new
states, Montana, Norih and South
Dakota and Washington will increase
the senate from 76 to 84 members,
the house of representatives from 325
to 330, and the electoral college from
401 to 415. Politically, the admission
of the new states will be a substantial
advantage to the republicans. They
get six of the senators and five of the
representatives. That will give them
in the next congress forty-five of the
eighty-four senators, a majority of
eight, It will give them one hundred
and sixty-eight of the house, or six
more than the opposition. With a
republican president, that majority will
make the party responsible for the
legislation cl the session.—Marrietta
Journal.
James Morgan, of Martiusville,
Ind., is 82 years old, but he hasjust
been married to a woman who. is
fair, fat and 47. Mr. Morgan is well
oft, and he advertised that he would
give 85,000 to the woman who mar
ried him. He received hundreds of
letters from bashful maidens who
were ready to jump at his offer.
It is stated that over 15,000 horses
are slaughtered for food every day in
Paris, and of this quantity two-thirds
are used for sausages.
A Homeless Statesman.
Atlanta Constitution.
The sad case of ex-senator Jones, of
Florida, is still a mystery.
Since Senator Jones found himself
unable to secure hotel accommodations
in Detroit he has lodged with his friend,
Mr. O’Neil, a postoffice inspector, but
after a few days he had to giye up his
room and hunt other quarters. It is
not known where the senator eats and
sleeps or how he gets along. When
he arrived in Detroit he was elegantly
dressed. Now he is in the last stage
of shabbiness. O’Neil says he turned
him adrift because he was tired ofsup-
porting him, but it is said that O’Neil
owes his appointment and retention
in office to Jones’ influence.
It is a strange story. Jones talks
well, and his speech before the nation
al editorial convention in Detroit was
one of the brightest of the occasion.
The southern editors who were present
said that if the senator would return
to Florida he could get anything he
wanted.
But the homeless and penniless
statesman remains a voluntary exile
from* the state that loved and honored
him. He cannot be made to believe
that his old sweetheart, Miss Palms,
the heiress, is married, and still speaks
tenderly of her. It is pitiful to see
this brilliant and amiable man in such
a wretched plight. If he could be
persuaded to return to Florida, familiar
scenes and care of devoted friends
might yet make him a happy and use
ful man. As it is, he is a stranded
wreck.
The Human Intellect.;
We ought to be perfectly happy
that we live in this elorious age of
scientific thought. We believe there
never was another age in which the
astronomer -of Harvard observatory
could propound the following problem
and receive so many perfectly reason
able answers to it: “Suppose,” said
he, “that three snakes, each two feet
in length, should touch each other by
the tip of the tail, thus making a circle
six feet in circumference. Suppose
that each snake should begin to swal
low the one in front of him. In what
way would the resultant figure, after
each snake had swallowed the one in
front of him, differ from the circle?”
The answers have been many and
numerous and various, some of them,
we are informed, "entering the con
sideration of the fourth dimension of
space,” because any one of the snakes
would have followed the two in front
of him and yet been swallowed by the
two back of him, and therefore, would
be both inside and outside of his two
fellows, The man who lives in an age
when men can tackle and grasp and
make so clear to others an ideaot this
sort has no business to be going about
talking the good old times, or looking
hopefully forward to anything more
milliniumish.—Washington Post.
Etiquette.
Etiquette is all right so far as it is in
keeping with common sense and com
mon politeness and doesn’t do away
with all naturalness. But that straight
jacket kind ot etiquette that breaks
the back of a fellow’s conduct, so to
speak, in order to conform him to
rules is an abomination. One afflic
tion with it is in tortures of mind and
thinks so continually about the rules
of etiquette that he hasn't time to
think about anything else, and hence,
when he speaks he doesn’t say any
thing. True etiquette is natural po
liteness, and cootributes to people
wherever observed; but the fraudulent
article demanding the observance of
arbitrary rules and prescribing artificial
formalities is a thing to be shunned,
unless a game of social fieeze out is
wanted. If people will always be
polite and indulge in the exetcise of
common sense, they need not jje dis
tressed about etiquette.
The latest educational report issued
in Russia shows that only about one-,
tenth of the children in the empire
attend sc'iool. The other nine-tenths
are growing up in ignorance.
A.
Now Goinron
-AT-
LBVY’S
DryGooisHora.
Our Mr. Levy-
having closed out,
while in N e w York,
large lots of
-IN-
Walking Jackets,
New Markets,
lodjeskas.
ALSO A LARGE LOT®
Misses' and Childrens’
Cloaks & Reefers,
direct from the
manufacturers, we
feel confident in as
serting that our
Prices
on them are
FAR BELOW
the cost of manu
facture.
Call early before
the choice ones are
picked over.
Levy’s
Mitchell House Block.