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■■■■■■■ , GEORGIA, AUGUST 42 *sS LSE. ••• : - Published every Friday by the uis.Enterprise Publishing Co. WifeenM. Hardy, Preeldant, John O. McCartney, sec. db trees. At tin Thne-Enterprise Building. TbomuviUe, G». Entered Rt the iwstofllce at Tliomss- ville, On., ns second-class mail matter sunscmPTiott ratkh. Weekly, (hie Veer. <1.00 " Six Months....,’.. 60 •• Three Mouths * Belly, One Year ;.,. *6,00 " Six Months..; 2.0o ** Three Months.... 1.: ** One Month '. 60 Official Paper of Thomas County Oueratlctd Cluuletlcn 3,400. 1 SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT. lliis week’has witnessed the orgnui- nation ole school improvement clnb in Athens.' Its special object Is to eulist the women of every oommOnity In the state to organise themselves into local school Improvement clubs, having in view the improvement of v the school buildings and the introduction of pic- ’ tares, the beattUfying of the grounds, the addition of school gardens, and all the facilities for making the schools neat, clean and attractive. ‘ v Mow, this la a etep in the right dime- tain. If tjjero Is anything that has suc ceeded since Eve organised the apple consumers union m the Garden of Eden, itumgeess has beon more or lees due to woman's Influence. The chart'll if stronger than it has ever been. Bnt csst yonr eye over the audience and yon will see Ally a sprink ling of tdack coats. Look over the list Of olinroh workers and the prefix “Mr.'* is about as common as a wintry day in May. .. .The fine qualities and powers uf wo manhood are Indispensable to the sac- l Olinroii. The sumo powers and at im the canse of education, will i lift and porposo and vigor. ‘ With increased appropriation froii ;the ate, the earnest efforts of 1I10 splendid i of teaohdrs now engaged, and tho y of the interest and sup- , port of Georgia womanhood tho com mon schools, must In the very nature of i things outer upon tho brightest epoch of their hlstory- PRINTER—PREACHER, The Headland (Ala.) Poet brings the new* that Chester B. Johnson has been licensed to preach in the ’Florida 00m fereuoe. Mr. Johnson!* a native of Quitman and is welt known in South Georgia print shops everywhere. The Wsyrreee Herald snggesta-tliat it mi in tliat office that ho received the , in- spiration that has culminated so for- tnnately. Mr. Jolmscn was also an emplqye of the'Times-Enterprise- After seeing sin and being tcuned against It in Wayeross, ho donbtlees received a mighty shove along the road to ecclesi astical ecstasy, here in TbomuviUe - Our printers don’t case, even when they pi a form. Well, the political surprise matoral- Peabody la treasurer of the Demo cratic campaign. Ho is’not pea-brained cither. The ldoa df the county picnic seems to do spreading liko w.lld-firo, Como Oomo come alt Hooeerelt will play for the coon rote. Ho baa bad his picture taken' showing him eating a watermelon. Bishop Potter has started a model saloon m New York. We await wjtli bated breath the model drunkard.- Tbe House of Representatives has passed the boll weevil bill. Mow let hope that the b. w. will pass Georgia by. - The postmaster at Esopus says every body in the country seems to have writ ten to Judge Pprker. Billets will change ■4o ballots In November. m **Rnd.vard Kipling has writtcu a poem ’entitled "Once on a Time there was a Man.” We have it ou good authority that he baa received the following tel- i'. egrem: “Dear Kip:—Please change ttWar I am still alive. Teddy. Georgia legislature was wise the school fund and denyanuppscpnaHta (or the mala Botnl of Health. What good wiUit do th* kids to be educated If they dta from contagious diseases in - SEND WORKERS It has become^uhionable for people to knock the legislature and mate 'fan of it. Most of this is done in a good natnred way, however, and the solons do not feel tne gibes very deeply. Tho Georgia legislators is abont to alote a fifty day session, with a mod rush of bnslness, night sessions and the con fusion usually incident upbn such occa sions. In this confusion it lays itself open to the most serious criticism and ought to be handled without gloves, and in any but a good natnred way. Thomaa county it fortunate in having a trio of hard working, conscientious members, bnt all of the legislators are not like them. l]po many of the solOne regard the session as a holiday, a play time. They accept the sop of a (tye pass from the railroads, and from Fri day until Monday gad abont the state to tea-shore resorts, and moo n tain hotels leaving the state business to take care of itself. As » consequence there is no quorum in the lipnae. An occasional faithful'member sticks np his hand like an oasis in adesert land of empty bench es, the clerk counts a constitutional majority, and a hill is nulled through, with only a baker’s dozen who know or core wliat it la abont. True these Sat unlay sessions are devoted to local bills, but the precedent Is a bad one, and tlie practice if not checked out will lead to dangerous results. The early days of the session are con- apioioua for absentees and wind jam mers. The business of the state has.a hard timo steering- between -the Soylla of one and the pharybdis of tlie other. Enough talk Is wasted to start a gas- plant ot calibre to float a Santcs-Dn-. Wont air ship. Laxity, carelessness, laziness, are the trinity adopted as guid ing stare by tli.o majority of the legisla tors. Work is poetpouod from day to day, ami finally Is rushed through with out deliberation or thought. This oc- , HELP; AT HOME. . Yesterday we mid a few words'about the help that could be given school im provement by tlie women of Georgia, The women of TbomasviUe can help in town Improvement if they have a mind to. Mot even 'they could keep- the cows oft the street. -They are as fixed ana unalterable in their garden-destroying freedom, as the laws of tile Meil.is and Persians of fabled immutability, Bnt therein room for improvement else where. | The TliomasviUe women can begin at home.- By the way most TIiouus- ville ladles rale tlie house as well as keep tlie jSoqse. . Sncli of the homes as wo liave been privileged to .enter are immaodlkte. Mow let tho orderly housewife, extend tins sway of neatness over the yards. Let her see that the tree* are trimmed, the siirabs trained, tho grass cut, and that the picket-fence doesn't have a snaggled-toothed appear ance. • And let her snggest to her husband, four or five times a day that'some of tlie sidewalks hate minature reproduc tions of the Mammoth Gave, and that some of thesvstreets need fixing, and wouldn’t he plegse speak to tlie mayor add aldermen abont it If a few Iran, dred ladies did till fatew hundred meu would speak to tlie mayor and conncil- men and they would spend a few hun dred dollars fixing np, and maybe in a few hundred days Thomatvllle would assume the appearance that she ought to keep pace with liei natural advan tages, and make her visitors name her far and wide as a model city, Mow all of this may be a dizzy dream bat there is no telling what women can do—if thoy will. THE SUKDAY SCHOOIi.; the tricky grouse. LESSON VII, THIRD QUARTER, INTER NATIONAL SERIES, AUO. 14. Tho Macon Mewssnggcsts that college students by acting as street oaf conduct ors In vacation may best develops the tire centres. Balwbridge merchants aip suffering ffom snf epidemic ot burglary. A warding to them to lay up treasures where no thieves bleak in and steal. Judge Alton U. Parker lias resigned as Jndge of the Oonrt of Appeals. His action'was necessary and proper and we trost will be rewarded ny a higher of fice. A GeorgHt legislator lias introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a drunken person -to enter;'a railway coach, or strpet car. How ls a fellow to esespo an Irate wife or mother-ra law'' Tlioiuasvllle is an minsallv good town, to be trusted daring the absence of two of Its preachers on a vacation. Along curs every year^ud a whole lot of people | „ 0 ronliimert tlmt tll0 rtCT l| are growing tromondously weary of its senseless repetition If tlie election bould beheld Just after adjournment while the memory of tho misdeeds is fresh, about 00 per ceut of the legislator* would fail of re-elcc- tion. But the people are good at for* getting aud they «ond tho same old crew bask year after year. They ought to remember that the legislators are tho people’s servants. How loug would you keep a clerk who dojiortod himself with the intelligence aud industry of the average Georgia legislator? Three $nd one-half minutes would be a long term of service. Yet how much more important is tlia business transacted by legislators. The qualification* that go to make up an ideal legislator are not a hearty hand-clasp, a surplus of avoirdujiois and a never-sax^dle, thirst. Some day the people are going to b$ shocked into con scionsuess by something or other, abd when they are—but that’s another story, "** Judge Parkor is one of those rare men who improves ou acquaintance. takes no vacation and if. tho ministers had his physique they probably wouldn’t either. Text of tho Lmdoo, I Kins* xrUU MlM^eiuorr Verse*. 13-10—Guide* Text. 1 Ktus* xrlll. 12—Commentary Prepared by Bor. D. 31. Steam*. [Copyright, 10*4, by American trt'ta jUtodition.l In our study of the* life of Elijah we must ever see bJtp as a man of God, standing before God. bearing the voice of God and speaking the word of God. Hearing Implies obeying, so we see him doing just what God told him un hesitatingly/' A mi)n of God is a God controlled man, wholly in the hand ot God, that God may be glorified in him. We left Elijah in our last lesson in the home of the widow of Sarepta, the three inmates of the home witnessing day by day. the miracle of the con stant increase- of the meal and oil ac cording to the word of the Lord. The incident of the death aud resur rection of the widow’s son ’ and the widow's testimony, “Now by'-this I know that tlmn art Hi man of God and that the word of the Lord Id tby mouth Is truth," closed the chapter, showing that the Lord God of Elijah could uot only miraculously sustain life, but also give life to the dead. What an honor to be a representative of such a God and to be in constant and conscious touch with Him, as Elijah was! According to the Spirit’s testimony through the Lord Jesus atid through James (Luke Iv, 23; Jas, v. 1?) Elijah spent three and a half years by the brook and in the widow's home, a full, year being spent In the latter (1 Kings xvil, 15), bat now the same word of the Lord that sent him to bis hiding places comes to him with the message, “Go, shew thyself unto Aliub, and I will send rain upon tbe earth” (xvlil, 1); and obedient Elijah went to show himself to Abub. When Joseph was told to take Mary and the child Jesus and go down to Egypt, the comtnoqd was, -lie thou there until 1 briuglbee word,” and the same messenger brought him ..word when it was time tor him to leave Egypt God was man’ aging; Joseph bad only to obey (Matt. U, 111, 20). Turning from Elijah for a moment, we learn that A huh had as ruler of his house a God fearing man named Oba- dlah, who. us Ills name implies (serv ant of Jehovah), served the Lord .in that tmgddly house, reminding us 'of Joseph in Egypt and Daniel it) Baby lon and suggesting to us that it Is pos sible to servo the Lord under any cir cumstances in which He may permit us to^e placed. About tbe time that tlie Lord sent Elijah to meet Aliub both Ahnb and Obadiab started forth, Ahab going one way by himself and Obadiab another way by himself (verse C). to see if they could find water and grass to save tbe horses and mnies alive. Elijah*, met Obadiab and said* to him. "Go tell thy Lord, Behold, Elijah Is here” (verse S). Obadiab replied tlmt It was ns much as his life was worth to do Mach n thing, inasmuch as Ahab had caused search to bo made for Elijah every where and had taken an oath of every kingdom and nation that they could not find him (verses 0-14). Although ft Bw Bndredn of Dot lees Fox Eladinf tbe Hunter. The grouse has a btfudred tiTcks of defense, It will lie still until tlie hunt er is within a yard of It, then soar straight upward In his front, towering iike u woodcock; again, it will rise for ty yards away, and the sound of its wings Is his only notice of Its pres ence. It will cower ifron a branch under wblcli'be passes, and bis cap will he uot more than a foot below It as he goes, and, though It has seen him ap proaching. if will remain quiescent In fear until his back is tufned. It will rtish then, and when he hds slewed himself hurriedly around be will catch only.a glimpse of a brown broad wing . far A way. Wounded and falling in tlie open. It will be found—if It is. found at bll— with the telltale speckles ot Its breast against tbe trunk of some brown tree. agatuiit which Its feathers are indis tinguishable, and the black ruff about tlie neck ot tlie male will be laid against tlie darkest spot of the bark. Often it will double like a fox; often as a man draws near It will spring noiselessly Into some spruce and bide until he pusses, dropping then to the ground and continuing its feeding; of ten, too. It tfifi jlocJIne to take wing, though unhurt,Mind will run fast for half a mile*—so fast that the most ex pert woodsman will l»e unable to keep pace with it. This It wip only do on leafy ground and never when snow would betray its tracks.—Outing. PE-RU-NA NECESSARY TO THE HOME. FEAT OF A MACGREGOR. Wondcrfar Phralml Streanll* That Was I'wd to Good Parpoac, Sir William MacGregor was tbe hero of such an adventure as one expects ordinarily to read about only in fiction of n certain hue. The steamship Syria, with a lot of Indian coolies on board, struck on a rock about twelve hours from Suva, the capital of Fiji. Dr. MacGregor, then noting colonial secretary, organised a relief expedition, clambered ovej a broken mast that was the only path to the emigrants dud again and again returned with a man or woman on'his back and sometimes a child, held by its clothes between his teeth. v n. A mnn of vast physical strength, MacGregor wauled it all for hi* final feat. Down below on the reef was a woman who bad fallen ovorboMrd, had got, at the spirits and was mpd with drink. The captain of the ship and a police officer who had gone after her were being swept out to sea. Mac Gregor slid down a rope, caught the knot of . the woman'* haIr lu his teeth and with his hands seized the two men and drugged them both into safety. He nt back to Suva Jrt a -borrowed suit of pajamas, having left all his clothes and a-good deal of bis skin on the coral reef. * > ^ - * Modest. like many heroes, MacGregor left himself out of hi* own repoft, and it was from the governor that the qnecii first heftrd the whole story. Congressman George llenry White, of Tar boro, X.C., writes the following letter to Dr, Hartman in regard to the merits of the great catarrh cure, Peruna: House of Representatives, ) Washington, Eeb, 4, JJO9. ] Peruna MedicineuCo., Columbus, O.: Gentlemen—•• I am more than satis* fled with Peruna, and find it to be an excellent remedy for the grip and ca* tarrh. / have used it in my family and they all Join me in recommending excellent remedy. ” Very respectfully, IP George H. White. Mrs. Nannie Wallace, Tulare, Cal., President of the Westorn Baptist Mis* ijonarj* Society, writes* “I consider Peruna an indispensable article in n»y medicine chest. It is twenty medicines in one, and so tax cored every sickness that has been f» mf home for five years, I consider it ot special value to weakly women, os it builds np tho general health, drives out disease and keeps you in the best of health.”—Mrs. Nannie Wallace. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to lir. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will bo pleased to give you his valuable ad- rise gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President, of Hie Hartman Sauitariufti, Columbus, ' Ohio. Th© legislature acted wisely and well in appropriating $95,000 to'the Stato Normal School. Tlie gift is coudHiouod ou the mining of a like amount by tb© friends of the great institution. They should get to work at once. Georgia has a good list of now indus tries for tho past week. It is us follow ing. Macon—Stouo and tiliug company. Oartersvillo—$100,000 development company. •" S.tiHmore—Eloctric light- plant. Valionta—$100,000 naval stose com pany. Colnmbns—30,000-spludIc cotton mill, j before whom 1 stand.’ Macon—Cooperage plant. Carrolltou—Fertilizer factory. Lamont for Govornor of New York means a lament for the Republicans. Shaking of monumental failures, lnok'at the Greater*Georgia association. The Georgia lcgis’atnre appropriates mo my to fight the boll weevil and gives nothiug'to wage war against small pox and consumption. • Congressman Jas. M. Griggs lias been appointed as the member from Georgia of thej Democratic campaign committee. Griggs is a campaigner allright. MONEY TO L0\N. I negotiate five years loans ou farm lands at lowest ratest of iuten sr. Com mission charge* reasonable A small abstract fee, consistent with the amount of work and trouble involved, will !*• charged in each case. Bring your chain o ’ title with yon. EDWIN L. BRYAN, Attorney-ni Luw, 8-Mv Moultrie, Ga, Thomasvilte Business College. If yon are interested in a Business Education, you will do well to investi gate the method* of x $k( >boy©rnamed Institution. For “full information, ad dram or call on, ANSON W. BALL, * President.' Obadiab feared the Lord and was brave enough to risk the vengeance of Jezebel when lie. saved alive a hun dred of the Lord’s'prophets by hiding them in caves at tbe time that ahe at tempted to kill them all. yet he feared death, for note his threefold. "He will slay me” (verses 0, 12. 14). Bnt this is“ not stxpnge, for Abmlmm asked Sarah to lie, and he himself wall dot truth ful cottceruhip their relationship, for fear that he might bo slain. They had»not revealed to them (a those days that whieh we have re vealed to us concerning the gain that death is to the believer (Phil. I, 21, 23; II Cor. Vi 8), nor was it quite the same to the believer to die before Jesus Christ died ami rose again that it has been since. Tire captives whom! He set free, according to Epli. iv, 8, may have been tho redeemed of the Old Testament days, who until the resur rection and ascension of Christ had not the happiness which then became theirs. There are still many believers who are all their lifetime subject t6 bondage through fear , of death, but there l* no need of it, for lie is uble to deliver from nil such fears. Elijah’s reply to Obmliab's fears was, ”As the Lord of host* llvctU before whom I staud, I will surely shew, my self unto him this Cay” (verse 13). Compare xvil, 1, aud let us take as one of our watchwords. “The Lord llveth Note In con- I auction with It Gabriel’s testimony in Luke i, 19, and our Lord's own wbrds In John vi, 57, “As the living Father hath sent Me.'and I live by the Father, so be that eatetb Me, eveu he fehail live b.v Me.” Obadiab, being encouraged aud as sured. went uiul told Aliab. ahkf Ahab went to meet Elijah, and when they met Elijah fearlessly told Ahnb that he, not^EUJah, Was the cause of all this trouble .upon Israel, and he com manded him to summon tho prophets of Baal to Carmel, with all Israel, that the God of Israel might publicly give a token that He only Is (hi* living and true God. Our next lessen will fully describe this. There Is groat need to day or Elijahs who will promptly and fully obey God and either hide tbem- selyes or fcerle&ly meet the blasphem ing Ahnb* ns tbe Lord may say, or do both at once, for It Is only'as self Is hidden, reckoned dead, that God can manifest' Himself to the ungodly Ahubs who would fain rule Him and His Christ off the earth, and oat of Ills hook ami. as men sny„ run .things .tberaselvy*. exalting self above every god and recognizing no god bnt the In tellect of man and no will bnt their own. Yet the Lord llveth (Pa. xvlii, 46). Woe* of «a Editor. When a newspaper tells the simple truth about n bad juun who is trying to get Into a public pla* e where he can steal, the truth Is calletd “attack.” If when the same man runs for office tip* fa,cts of lfis past career are printed to show the people what they may ex pect. the editor who prints these facta is abused, and tlie rascal poses as a martyr. When a man turns oat wrong, as the editor said he would,’ If tbe edi tor says Ids prophpcles came true, the people accuse hfiu of persecuting a man nml “kicking him when he Is down.” Yet if the paper says nothing ub6ut bad ipen who are trying to rob the people they say that the editor Is bought off nml that be lias takeu hush money;- Emporia Gazette. TOE CENTRE OF LIFE. We live only ny the food tlmt is di gested and -assimilated, hence tbe stom ach is the “centre ot life.” If the stomach is Vroak, the bdfly will lie pro portionately weak. Strengthen the “centre of life” by using Rydale’s Stomach Tablets. They digest the food and rest the stomach. Thoy act os a tonic to the digestive organs aud help nature restoie them to health. These Tablets are guaranteed to cure indiges tion and dyspepsia. Trinl size 25 cents, family size coutains 2 1-2 times tbe trial size. 60c. J. W Peacock. Imitation Perfume*. “It may seem peculiar,” aaid a per* futnfcry manufacturer, “but perfnmca arc adulterated and Imitated Just us baking powder and other things are. For Instance, we mrke a high grade car nation pink perfume* from the flowers themselves. Tills, of course, is costly, but tho perfume returns 1^ odor, »ud a handkerchief that bus been scented with It will retain tbe perfume even r it Is washed. A h©t iron w!!l bring out the cdor again. Now, a per fume (hat I* Jest us good to all first appearance* and that for ten minutes will hive the same effect can be made out «>l*tln» oi) of cloves mixed with al cohol. At the c.i 1 of ten ukinutes the *«ior will be gone.”—Milwaukee Sen- tbwri. ’ k The PI rut Gingerbread. The homely luxury, gingerbread, has been popular ever since the fourteenth century. It was then made and sold la Paris. In those days It was prepar ed with rye meal made into a dough, and ginger and other spices, with sugar or honey, were kueutled Into It It was Introduced Into Enghiud by the court of Henry IV. for their festivals and was soon brot-'li; into general use. treacle being aft* - a time employed In the manufacture imm -su! of honey. , HOLINESS CAMP MEETING, IN DIAN SPRINGS. t*A. August tfth to 2tot,1904- On account of the above occasion a rate of one first fare, plus 25 cents, for tho round trip from all i>oiata in Georgia bus been, authorized. (Min imum rate 50 cents > Ticket* to be'eo’d to Fibvilla-August 10th to 16th inclusive, final limit August 22d, Southern railway train* leave Maoon 3:03 a. m , 8;30 a. in. 1*36 p. in. and 7:30 p.ra., all of which rnako direct direct connection at Flovilla for tJie- Springs except the 3.03 a. in. train. For further information apply to"' ==3 < JAMES FREEMAN, Phono 43t T. P. A Macon. Ga. aril) In Dauht. ,Bookie--So, y'scc, if the ’orse starts at fifteen to one you get fifteen quid. f*Mi to one you get ten quid, five to one five. D’y’see? The Imioccut—Oh, yes. I see perfectly. Bht what do I get if tbe horse starts at 1 o'clock exact- ly?—London Illustrated Bit*. Recoaclled. Widow. Wizen—'Yes, Henry died quite reconciled. I. was at his bedside until the last moment. Dumlej (mean ing to be complimentary)—Ah, that ac-' counts for It—Boston Transcript. Moit mon postpone bappin le future, a —Epicurus. tbe futnre, and ttyg future never < until About what you will give that friend who is going to get married. Simply come [down here and tell us.how much you want to spend. We’ll do the rest—and guar antee that the present wifi be elegant.*You don’t have to spend a fortune to obtain ele*- gance. L H. JERGER, .1