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nterprist VOL 1--N0 136. 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 Axtell 2:14 and Allerton 2:18 1-4—A Hitherto Unpublished Story Concern ing Their Breeding—Their Orig in the Result of Deep Study- Value of the Wilkes Blood —Their Records.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.