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YOL. 1 --ETO 156. THOMASVILLE. GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, !889 $6.00 PER ANNUM 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. Respectfully, • 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- SasSr..;