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THOMASVILLE. GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, !889
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AT
When out shop-
j, ladies will do
well to drop in at
LOHNSTEIN’S
and inspect the va
rious lines of new
goods, just being
opened. They are
very handsoxhe and
at very attractive
prices.
We are very busy
and havh’t timd to
say much about
them in this issue,
but will be sure to
please you if you
will give us a call.
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• in uvuuMwiiij
ThelGreat Leade^'andlBenefactor,
132 BROAD ST.
A BOIL ON HIS NECK.
From tie Chicago Herald.
Bach heart has its moments of pleasure and
pain t; •
That follow the ebb and the How;
Each sou' has its portion of sunshtce and
rain.
Hope dawnings and sanies of woe.
But there ’ e few other erlls to wh'ch flesh
is heir
That with sorrow our joy can so fleck
And fill our whole being with so much da*
spa!;: ; I'?'* \ > . . . '
As a bolt on the back of the neck.
A man's wife may ill him in tones low and
sweet
Her mother is coming to stay,
He may tread a baaaia-pcol down in the
street 7 ,
And swear In a dignified way.
Homebody may walk on h's fluorite corn;
He may foolishly cash n snide check,
But one thing' that makes him regret he was
born ■' , .fi ' :
Is the boil on the back o! the neck.
The brooklet e’en sings in a sad undertone,
The skies are all clouded with care,
And nature’s voice echoes n saddening
t mean,
The breezes come freighted with care;
The futuie is naught but desert of night,
The present a m's’rable wreck.
Without creujast one faint spark of de
light,
For the man'nith a boii on his neck.
For the TiaEa-EsTEuru'sc.
- We are Passing Away.
j Autumn has come; the saddest sea
son of the year. The leaves are turn
ing brown and sere; tho trees are
looking bare. The naked stalks have
succeeded the broad blossoms of sum
mer, which only a few weeks ago were
of a uniform green; now they are
sickly and represent the various forms
of death. How this reminds'us that
we too are passing away. How well
I remember tho days of my childhood.
The reminiscences of younger days
flood even now into memory, and
makes me feel perceptibly the change
in life. Once I had an idol, a little
brown eyed boy. His voice was’mer-
ry and his eyes wore of liquid brown,
and bis fate was more beautiful than
I can te'l. One day, with a dreadful
fever, he went away, and he kissed
me good bye.
Dear lltt'e ha ldi. they have go-c from me
now.
Never again will they >eu oa my brow;
Never nga'n imoo.b my zo’ rowful face;
Never c’a»p me la a childish embrace:
And cow my forehead j ows wrl-flAd with
care,
Thinking of 1. tie bands oace restlug there.
Bat 1 know in abapplei, heavenller ciime,
Dear little haeds, I wl'l clasp you sometime.
Dta: 'i.lle bands, whea .lie Mm.er iha'l coll,
I'll welcome the summons that cores to ns
nil.
When my feet touch the wale s, so da,kand
j cold,
And I catch my first gliopso of the city of
i ' gold,—
If I keep my eyes fi. ed o i the fccaven’y gate
Over the t'de whe ■o the wV’e-robcd ones
‘ - wait,—
Shall 11 now yo.*, I wonder, among the
bright bands?
Will you beckon meore, O'dcar little hands?
How strange is life. The end is
death. How unprofitably many of
uspassaway our existence in this
world. What a grand thought to
reflect upon.
Only a short pilgrimage here, and
then pass away to our eternal homo.
Consider thp gooduesa of God. He
has provided eo abundantly for the
gratification of our senses. We should
try to make ourselves happy, thereby
making others happy. Let us love
each other. By faith, hope and char
ty may wo endure all our crosses pa
tiently and accept them as only steps
heavenward; and when we shall pass
away, may our souls bo transported ou
angels’ wings to a brighter and more
beautiful world.
F, L, E,
Physician--Yes, madame, I have
examined your husband. All he needs
is fresh air and exercise.
Caller—Oh dear! He never will
take exercise, and I know there is no
use urging him to do so. What shall
I do?
Physician—Move out of the city into
the suburbs. Get some house adver-
tis.cd as (: f;ve minutes from the station.’*
Then he’ll have to tramp about five
mile* twice a day, or starve to death!
—New York Weekly.
VAGARIES OF ELECTRICITY.
Interesting Views of William Hampden
Johnstone the Eleotrldan.
New York, Oct. 19.—The poor
fellow roastiug in the wires of % Cen
ter street telegraph pole the other day
before the eyes of thousands, was an
awful exhibition of the power of elec
tricity. Of the tragedies and vagaries
of this terrible force volumes might
be written. It is well nigh impossi
ble to say what it will do and what it
won’t do.|
The position of the most expert
elec triad engineer of to-day is very
much like that- ot a man who has
caught, harnessed and is driving a
horse in a dark night, wbfehhehas
never seen before. We drive the
horse nevertheless.
The only thing that an inventor or
experimenter can rely upon is to go
ahead and try. Twice in five times
hd will succeed in his endeavor.
Three times he will fall, hut in those
very failures he will learn new and
valuable truths that can bo-put to use
in other fields. In the long ran he
succeeds, however, and carries bis idea
into execution
A good illustration of this was af
forded in the famous experiments
Edison made in the development of
his syestem of electric lighting; At
the outest he thought that fine platl
num wire would be the best material
so far as incandescence is concerned.
The amount of tljis metal in the mar
ket is comparatively very small and
its valuo is very great, being in feet
a'dose second to gold. In order to
secure a regular supply the Wizard of
Menlo park sent letters of inquiry to
out fishing in Newark bay was struck
by a heavy bolt and instantly killed.
His body, clothes and the boat were
uninjured, but one of his shoes was
badly split, and the fishing pole was
broken off as clear as if struck by an
ax. Friends who were near when
the accident occurred declared that
there was no noise, and that the wa
ter was not even rippled. Yet the
force involved mush have been far up
in 200-foot tons of energy. Of the
same class of cases was that of a wo
man in New York state who was car
rying a metal tea pot, a chiua cup
and saucer, and a tumbler in a wood
en salver when she was struck by. a
thunderbolt. The tea-pot was melted,
the cup and saucer broken, the salver
split to pieces, but neither the woman
nor the tumbler were damaged in
the least. The melting of substances
by lightning is very common. When
a sand bank or a clay bed is struck,
there is almost always produced a
curious figure of sand or clay which
resembles the bough ofatreo with
branches growing from it at irregular
intervals, and which is composed of
sand and clay that has been partially
or wholly fused by lightning, Tho
unspeakable heat that is generated on
such occasions may be estimated from
the fact that only the most powerful
furnace in the world can melt sand,
and that no aitificial heat yet pro
duced has even begun to soften clay,
much loss to fuse it. Tyndall, the
great. English savant, says that the
temperature in these cases will go as
high as 7,000° Fahrenheit.
A scientific writer lately said that
an ostrioh, a seal, and a yak could
stand in a rainstorm of thunder
bolts with impunity on account of
burning out long lines of flesh and
blood, but was not strong enough to
kill him. When finally he was res
cued and taken to tho hospital, where
he died, he was still conscious, and
was suffering an agony it is hard for
us to understand. Of the same class
are the 304 cases that have already
occurred in this present year. Fortu
nately in most cases there has been
little or no pain, the sufferer usually
being instantly killed.
There is only one remedy to all
these troubles, and that is to bury
the wires. Once below ground
they can do littlo or no harm.
Chicago, Philadelphia and New
York have set the example, and
there is no reason why every other
city should not follow it. -The rule is
obvious fer telegraph, telephone and
burglar alarm wires. It is more than
obvious for lightning wires, and for
those used to ran fans, brashes, blow
ers and [small dynamos. What will
it not be when we employ currents
to operate elevators, passenger and
freight cars, and heavy machinery, ns
is bound to occur in the next five
years. - W. H. Johnstone.
A REAL ROMANCE.
almost every point on the civilized their nonconducting exterior. While
globe, and in tl.e courser of a year this is not strictly true, it well ex*
racti- rk-ocflAa 4lir* wnnrlrn fill ty
found that ho could obtain a pi
caliy unlimited amount of platinum.
While, ns a matter of feet, he did not
use platinum in his incandescent
lamps when he manufactured them
oln-a vast commercial scale, his expe
riments and inquiries were of incalcu
lable benefit to the scientific world,
when from both a chemical and phys
ical standpoint platinum is indispen
sable in the finer and more delicate
investigations demanded by the mod
ern age.
It is now quite easy to form a com
prehensive view of the curious action
of the electric current. Nearly all
our leading investigators keep scrap
books of every fact recorded in the
newspapers and periodicals of both
the United States and Europe con
cerning this field of science and as a
matter of feet have the published
account of eveiy accident, invention
and discovery. In my own scrap
books I have thousands of such clip
pings covering a period of twelve
years. Though not complete, it is
already a library in itself. A few
cases taken at random will give a
good idea of what may be termed
electrical vagaries.
At Baretta point, a pretty little
cape that projects Into Long Island
sound or the East river just beyond
Hell Gate, two men took refuge be
neath a hugo elm tree during a vio
lent thunder storm in the month of
August They were standing shoul
der to shoulder when the treo was
struck by lightning. Both were
killed, butono was seemingly un-
touched by the fluid while the other
was fearfully torn and mangled. A
singular feature of the injuries inflict
ed was that tho thunderbolt engraved
upon the manh back a rough picture
of tho treo against which he stood
when he died.
A series of odd accidents is where
men and beasts have beenstrack with
little or no injury to themselves, but
with tho greatest damage to immedi
ate objects. A horse in Ohio had his
shoes torn up iu this way. Over
twonty human beings have had their
clothing ripped and tom, their boots
split, their canes or umbrellas shat
tered which they held their hands,
and boats, wagons and chairs in which
they were sitting. A man who was
presses tho wondeiful protection af
forded by nature against certain ills
and dangere. There can be no doubt
but what the principle involved in
theso matters underlies the heavy
growth of hair upon tho human head.
It protects the brain against electrical
disturbance and accident from with
out, and at the same time exerts a
beneficial influence or effect upon the
delicate electrical action which is for
ever going on within the skull. This
may possibly explain the universal
pity and sympathy that are extended
to bald-heads.
For the introduction of electricity
Into daily life os anew servant of
hnmanitv we have paid liberally. It
hasserved to increase our knowledge
of its vagaries, and in most instances
to increase it in a very painful man
ner. At the present moment we are
paying for our progress at tho rate
of one death, fiveaceidents and $5,000
in losses per diem. Despite tho
growth of our skill and science, this
terrible penalty augments and docs
not show any signs of decreasing,
Much of it is of oourso preventable;
some, so fer as our abilities go, is ab
solutely without, remedy, while a large
part lies in that border land over
which we hope to soon havo absolute
control.
These deathly effects of tho current
cannot be described in words. They
involve an amount of agony, disfig
urement, helplessness and horror
which passes beyond tho power of all
human language. The poor Italian,
lost month in New York city, who
fell across a lightning wire, suffered a
torture suoh ns the inquisition never
dreamed of. He stumbled and his
neck struck a live wire. The current
dashed through him, paralyzing every
nervo and muscle without, in all
probability, affecting his power of
sensation. It burned ghastly furrowa
iu his throat, until windpipe, vein and
artery jmd been out through and the
head was almost ready to fall off. The
Brooklyn newsboy a year before, who
heroically endeavored to extinguish a
fire on Fulton street and fell over a
lightning wire which touched him
at the arm-pit, suffered even a more
terrible fete. The current cut deep
gashes in hia arm and chest by
THE LEADING
A Oootor Falls In £Love with a Ploture
- and Weds the Original.
Dubuque Special to St. Louis Bepublic.
About four months -ago a music
teacher named Kline, of this city, went
to Germany and brought back a bride.
Shortly after settling down in this city,
a young Jand prominent physician,
named Minges, called upon thecouple
and was shown by Mrs. Kline the pho
tograph of her sister in Germany. It
seems that the young doctor at once
fell -in love with the-original. He had
never seen the young lady, nor had he
ever heard of her prior to seeing her
photograph. He asked for a letter of
introduction >to her, and, managing his
business so he could saicly leave it, he
departed for Germany to .visit the un
known object of his affections, taking
with him the credentials obtained in
Dubuque. He met the young lady *
few days ago, and word has just been
received that the couple were married
in Dresden last week.
Here is a real romancei ’no fiction
being necessary to give it an interest
ing flavor. Dr. Minges is one of our
leading physicians. He has long been
considered a good "catch”’ as the say
ing goes, and a few years ago was sued
for breach ot promise by an interesting
girl, whose desire to wed him overcame
her reason. No case was made ' out
against him, and his social standing
was in no way affected. The news of
his strange infatuation and sudden
marriage is the principal topic in Du
buque social circles.
Two Kinds of Girls.
From the Catholic Standard.
There are two kinds of girls. One
is the kind that appears better
abroad—tho girls that are good for
parties, rides, visits, bolls, etc., and
whose chief delight is in such things.
The other is that kind which appears
best at home—the girls that are
cheerful and useful in the dining
room, tho sick room and all the pre
cincts of home. They differ widely.
One is a moth, consuming every
thing about her; the other is a sun
beam, inspiring life and gladness all
along her pathway. Now, it d
not necessarily follow that there shall
bo two classes of girls. A slight edu
cation will modify both n little, and
unite their good qualities in one.
When a poor, penniless devil, in
Atlanta, gets into a street fight, he
is promptly ran in by “one of the
finest,” and Recorder Ander
sends him to the stockade. When
members of the upper air and solar
walk circles of society publicly
pommel each other, they simply
write cards for the newspapers.—*
Brunswick Times.
That action is best which procures
the greatest happiness for tho greatest
number.
IN THE CITY.
Still another in
voice of choice dress
goods just received
Our Ladies’ Broad
cloth in all the
leading colors is
certainly worthy of
your attention* We
are SOc. per yard
under New York
retail prices on
them.
In Carpets and
Rugs we down ev
ery in this market,
and we invite a
comparison of pric
es with other and
larger markets.
In Ladies, Misses
and Children's
Wraps we are head
quarters, as we are
in everything else
pertaining to our
line.
Levys
Mitchell House Block-
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