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THOMAS FILLS, GEORGIA, JUNE 2. 1900
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South Georgia Progress,
Published every Fridsy by the
Times-Enterprise PuWiihlng Co.
Wt'sen M. Hsrdy.lPreeMent.
lahn D. MoCirtnsy, mo. &
u the Ttms-Enterpnsu Building.
Thomasrille, O*.
• entered at the poetoffloe at Thoma*
rttle, Ga., m eecond claas mail
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Pelham went* » city court,
it sWUng litttle place.
' Snell ttnS aa dreamt are made of—
the Atlanta Jon mala candidate for gov-
A lot of politlnlaoe ate making my»-
terioot little pilgrimagct to Atlanta now
dare. We are on to yon boy*.
A Caroilua paper ad rite* Georgia
journal* to *tay on thefenoe during the
approaching campaign. Mot for ne.
Atlanta hat ‘Hoar the big Prwby
tartan Unlveralty. Thia i* one care
Where alia loet aomethlog ahe didn't
bare.
It appeara a* if Smoke Hill* la getting
ready to ahoot tha eoapy chore into tl e
terrible water* if tha gubernatorial
A woman la Baltimore aned a on-
laborer beoauae ho pm an oil oan with a
abort nozzle in her chair and al.e rat
down On it.
Bank Wattoi*oii aaya ho. r mirl art
are brother and aiatcr. Moat |».iple wo
know nay "Hollo Bod," oft. nor tliau
“Howdy ala.”
CAN’T BE DONE.
The editorial page of 'the Hawkina-
vllle New* ia pretty haary ae a general
proposition, bat in it* tatoet laane, editor
Harvard feU ona of the tip*. Ho pat
np a two atory leader to the effect jthst
it U'nuder consumption rather than
orar prodnolioo that ia tha matter with
tbe price of cotton. He thinks that,we
have been trying to atop np the spigot
while forgetting that the barrel bad a
bang hole.
That’s an atlraotiv* idea and we wish
we oould think it were true. As a mat
ter of fact, you can’t regulate the throt
tle of consumption lik“ you oan that of
prod action. It takes a long prooeae of
ednoatlon and sometimes cron then the
horse won’t drink after yon’re led him
to the water. People will net bay what
they do not want land you can’t make
them want it unless you allow wherein
lu'advantages are greater than thorn ol
the old artlole that.!* filling tbe need.
If we oan dlaoover new nies for cot
ton, If we oan Indnce the Oliinaman to
wear more clothes, if wo oan demon
strate to tbe ladles that cotton dresses
are jml as prefer as sUk ones, than jwlll
we have made at least a step toward
solving the ootton question In accord-
auce with the Mews’ Idea*.
In all throe theories we ran plump In-
MITCHELL AND GRADY.
Both member* from Decatur are said
to be down on Grady count*. But the
three member* from Thomas are in
favor of It—Savannah Pres*.
’ Hon. Foudren Mitchell has repeatedly
said."When the;legislature convenes
my attitude will be entirely satisfactory
to the {opponents of Grady coonty.”
That doesn’t sound like favoring it,doea
it? Every time a statement like that of
the Pfree ia made, and goes uncontra-
dioted, somebody tote* a stone and pete
It on Mr. Mitchell’* political monument.
In justice to him we take pteiaurp . 1
stating where he stands.
You see he represent* Thomis ccnoty
In the legisleture. Thomas county
doesn’t want Grady, and for him to
favor It would be contrary to Demo
cratic precedent in the first place, and
a qnlek and easy method to commit po
litical saioide in the seoond. This 1* a
statement of foots.
EVERYBODY WANTS . A TIP,
Exiwrlrnrr of aa American* Wo****
While Visiting Veit tee.
One of tl* • tilings that most astonish
you with regard to tbe working class
Italian Is the perfect-frankness with
which be shows bis desire for a tip.
No false modesty obscure* lb Ton
may sometimes fear that you will for
get lb Let such fears forever resb
He won’t let yon. Ho wIK follow you,
asking you If yon have your parasol
A SEA RHAPSODY
Why It sbonld be so I cannot tell, bat
today ai I sat on tbe ramshackle old
pier from wblcb boats ran to and fro
to France and tbe big world of Europe
It did not seem to me that I looked
upon tbe channel only.
The gray waste of waters leaped un
der a northeasterly breeze; there was
a gray sun In a faint bine sky, but as I
when be sees it In your band or If yon j cut I saw faroff sunny seas, a sky aa
SETTLE IT NOW.
The Times Eoterprise rejoices at the
prospect of n peaceable settlement of
the light que-iion- A proposition matft
yesterday afternoon by Mr. Gamble; to
to that old polloal economy law of sup-i 0ltl ”“ , GommittBe °< ,8D,th » *»J
ply and demand .ad there we have toj ° ,U “ °“ th0rn
torn around and go the other way. We
•till think that the man whs carried
orer any 1904 cotton had beat pray for a
bad season to counteract this year’s
overproduction.
There never we* a truer aayiug than
the mau who nster dors say more than
b* Is paid for, never gets paid for aur
more than he doe*.
Why do the newspaper* persist in
taring to kill off Kojntvenski when
hit time is *0 limited aujway.
The battle can’t b* long delayed, at
When all those Bmitlii got togetlior
at Maeon they ought to Institute suit
against Jim aud Telemon Ornger for
defamation of their good name.
Lat»r development* auem to show
that Hoke Smith’s “no. by no meant”
was »* positive evidence of determine,
tion as the tamo atatemont iu the
month of a summer girl.
Judge Heu.y C. Shefilsld, the YvDura
ble jurist of the Pgtsul* circuit will
retire next year. Humor says the judge
would like his ill very head to shine in
oongretaional hall*.
The new de|»t condition* may tickle
Hie unde of Atlanta, lmt t cy are awful
on the poor iravtler who in* grown *c-
ouumued to til* convtuietice of the old
time uuion stotios.
“J. E. M.’* • 1>. D. Q.” “H. A. T. S’’
and otlier initialed grutleiuon are
writing to the Atlanta Journal urgiug
Hoke Smith to run for governor.
”3. E. K. S. E.,’’ would dictate hia
a; ng out.
Editor Allot! uf III. Camilla Enter
prise doesn't went Stephens enuuty
frith Doerai. us the county site to have
any cf MitolicUV territory, But Editor
Allen is in favor of o'her coniines being
partitioned. It make- avcb a .l-ffe vuce
whose ox ii gored.
CUT OUT THE ORGANIZER
The report of Grand Matter Bennett
or the Odd Fellows shows that there
arW275 lodgt-s in Georgia, with a mem
bership pf 28,000. This proves the Odd
Fellow* to be (hestrongest order in the
state numerically. The uninitiated
person can form bm little oouoeption or
tlie vast influence for good that the
0h*in Gang” exercises. Their 275
lodges are scattered over every eeotiou,
and eaoli one is a fountain of good cit
izenship, a school for self oontrol, a
leaven that spreads itself through every
oomranuity.
Mr. Bennett made a mistake though,
in our opinion, ^when lie rooommended
that a state organizer bo pet in the field
at a «alary of $50.00 per mouth. In the
first place, we are uot iu sympathy with
the institution "organizer." He is too
similar to the "walking delegate." The
employment of an agent of that kind
pais the order on tlie footing of e bus,
ine.*» rather than a fraternity.; JHo robs
the organization of that halo of rover-
once whioh is its real soat, and makes
the pubLo regard It assumebody’s mon
ey making scheme.
Tbe Odd Fellows have had a growth
that ought to satisfy the most ambitions.
Tins growth has been natural nud
steady. Purged by au organizer, of
oearse Odd Fellowship will spread more
rapidly, but this exteusive growth will
be at tke expense of intensive develop*
uient. The plant will be of the mash*
room variety aud tho weeds that are
certain to spriug up in the very heart
of it will all but choke ont the good.
The fraternal order organizers are
responsible fur tlie opposition that is
showing itself to the very institution of
fraternities. This opposition was
voiced only last Sunday in a Nermou
by Kev. W. N. Ainsworth |of Macon.
We do uot couutenauoe the attack of
Mr. Ainsworth, while at the same time
we acknowledge that the (>olioy of gome
orders iu assuring a buuuee* plnuo lays
them opeu to just each attacks.
To revert back thoogh to the particu
lar ca*e in hand, Mr. Bennett has
placed hto sights too lew. If he is
unalterably determined on putting an
organizer iu the fi ild, for gooducta soke
let him gel a good one, one that will
not dntcredit the name of Odd Fellow*
-hio. Fifty dollars a month will hardly
attract a good man. Iu fact a fifty
dollar asau will leave the last state of
hat order worse than the first. It takes
ability to organize and install a secret,
order, end such ability doesn't oome
heap.
If Sydueyfrepu wants to ruu for gov
ernor we insist that car man Ji nemith
withdraw.
PolUi'al prophets say Po|w Hrowp I*
practioiig the *oug. " f here's a tia.e
for di**piv»arii*g."
Arbitrage, that's it.
in rhomasvilie's flesh
The proposition offered by tbe Light
Company as we understand it, is|that a
board of arbitration be appointed to
place a prop jr value on the property of
the Oompanr. the city to purchase it at
the figures fixed by this Board, The
Board would be constituted in aoooid-
ance with general custom, one mem-
bo/ selected by the oitv, one by' the I Argonaut
Light Company and a third by these
two, shontd they fail ' to agree.
This committee would go thor
oughly into the entire question, aud
bring in an opinion as to the present
valneofthe Light Company's plant,
forty thousand dollars to be the maxi
mum price.
As the Times ^Enterprise? has stood
before, we believe that if properly man-
aged eleotrto lights wilt be cheaper and
more satisfactory under muuicipti
ownership than under private owner
ship. There have been Instances where
public ownership has proved a failure,
bus nsnally inch failure was the result
of gross mismanagement* A heavy pre
pond srance of evidence Is lin favor of
public ownership and the theory is an-
qnes* ion ably good.
On the other hand, we, aloeg with
most other fair mindod citizens, be
lieve it would be a breach of the civic
conscience to confiscate private propor*
ty if confiscation oan be avoided. JJ'The
Eluctrio Light Company has invested a
considerable amount of money in
Tnomasville in good faith. Tho city
has it in its power to maUe^this invest
ment pr\otioaily worthless in the end,
despite filibustering, bnt we do not
thiuk might should make right.
VVe bolieve that a majority of the
voters of Thomasvillo will agree with
ns. and this being the ca*o the only
pomt of difference is as to the price that
should bo paid the Light Oc„ for iu
property. Knowing bnt very little
abont electricity we are nuable to sag
gest a figure that would bs equitable.
Wo, for oar part, would trust u pro
perly appointed board of arbitration to
arrive at that figure. Mr. Gamble mu
not expect to get back what his p ant
originally cost, nud on the other hand
the oity would have to bay some article*
that she would nut hove bought except
iu the job lot. The net cost to tlie city
will be something greater than a uew
piaul could be built for. This excess
can be properly charged up, however, to
peace iu the family, aud facilry, and if
the proposition of Mr. Gamble, is
accepted, the eleotiop will be carried
anauimausiy. If it is rejected and the
fight is oominaed the electiou will still
be carried, but the courts might again
be appealed to .and auoiher;loug delay
brought about.
It seems to us that the .cheapest and
quickest way in the tong ruu to muni
cipal ownership of lights is down the
road of arbitration-
know tbe way out when he baa Just
told it to yon. The whole poor popula
tion of Venice ia abaolntely naif in ita
exhibition of a desire for any small
sura of money the passerby may throw
it Tbe children, one and all, make a
demr.nd for a eoldino aa a matter of
cour.re. It la a sort of greeting to ev
ery foreigner casually aa a phrase of
general usage.
Coming from the bath yon fee the
girl who has charge of the bathhouses.
If yon don't ahe has a dozen ways of
making herself disagreeable next time
you come. And do not allay yonr trou
bled anticipations by the thought she
may not recognize yon. One glimpse
of a face fixes it in her memory for
months. After that you fee tbe wom
an who takes care of your purse and
Jewelry. If yon fee her enough she
drags out 'from some inner recess a
cheap mirror which distorts yonr coun
tenance and allows you to look into It
and see bow truly hideous the human
visage can be made to appear. Before
tho hath yon have to fee the old wom
an who gives you your bathing suit
If you neglect her the. next time you
come she will give you a suit that
doesn't fit you or la full of boles.
When you go out on the terraaso for
a black coffee, -which costs 10 cents,
you fee tbe waiter. When you get Into
your gondola you fee tbe old man who
draws it close to tbe steps with a book
ed atick and offers you bis withered
old arm to lean on. - When you get out
of your gondola at tbe hotel you fee
another old man with a booked stick
and a withered arm. And then at din
nor, If you haven't just feed tbe wait
er be will be cross, and np in your room
afterward if the femme de ebambre
has not recently had a tip she will re
fuse to answer tbe bell.—San Francisco
WISDOM’S WHISPERS.
‘It's lucky, we don't know bow un
lucky we may be.
It Is difficult to tako a woman by sur
prise In it love affair.
Some people are cranks simply be
cause you can't turn them.
Some men secure all the glory at
tached to whatever part they nsauma
A woman may know very little and
yet have a way that carries conviction.
Tho wont of refinement In a man
cannot bo corrected by the gloss of set
phrases. „
Some men take on an air of conse
quence to conceal the weakness of their
position.
When a man can hide his thoughts in
a smile he holds a powerful weapon of
defense.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
You dau'l bay health, bat you can
lake oars of it.
The Howells coutluue to holler at
Holy Hoke.
Where He Made Ilia Moaev.
Years ago n gentleman settled in tbs
south of England and been me very
popular In tbe neighborhood. The coun
ty families could nfever discover bsw.
he had made his money, but were sat
isfied by bis solemn assurance that it
was qot In trade. Nothing could ex
ceed tne ordinary gravity of bis de
meanor, which. Indeed, caused him to
be placed on the commission of peace,
but now and then, without any appar
ent provocation be would burst luto
such a laugh as no one ever beard be
fore except In one place.
Where they coukl have heard It puz
zled the county families for five null
twenty years, but at last be was be
trayed raesnscleusly by bis own grand
child, who after a visit ts a traveling
circus Innocently exclaimed, "Why,
grandpa laughs Just like tho clown P
—James Payu.
HtMM la the Ttme of Slower.
The horses used in Homer’s tints
were war horses. The warriors were
drawn In chariot*. Tbs art of riding
wns known, but It Is alluded to as
something unusual. Ulysses at the
time of his shipwreck "bestrode a
plank, like a horseman on a big stood."
There are reasons for believing that
the practise of tiding was mueli later
than that of*«.riving, aud tke tnytli of
the centaur, wt—re, according to Shako-
speare. "man Is inborpsed and demiua-
tured with toe beast,” probably orig
inated at an early period when the ap-
pennmcc of s mau ea horseback was
a novel sight.
A Saab For MoUrre.
A aaiuarkable HHWeut Is reported fer
a suburban (beater la Fasts, '■le play
was ‘Tartuffe," and at tbe sad ef ttie
fourth act the manager of tbs company
came In frout ef tbe certain sad sabl.
"Ladies aad gHmerneq^wwaball uot Vs
any further with this place, fez the fifth
act Is unworthy ef ttolieros" How the
audience took (Ms annouueecnctk Is uot
stated. Forbaps they wont borne s$ad
read* the fifth act crmoaMy Iu the seclu-
slea of Ibe library.
"Mrs. Onertttey remarked to me that
It must be pldhesnt to be martted to a
clever ms," saU Pro ad fey'* wMr.
"Aad wtett did you aayr qwaclod
Pro vd Ivy. a
"I toN her. of course, that I'didn't
know; that I bad only lieea married
BmMtas Dcmla.
Jody—Will ye give* me ytr promise.
Dentil, Aat ye!ll tore me forever?
Dennis Dura,* a*' Qi'4'Hke to. do that
same, Jody, het eifeslbhidly ef tbe
opinion that •i'll last aa long aa that—
New'York Times.
blue aa tbe purest heavens of the trop
ica and great sunlit shores. This was
the channel—the English channel—bnt
beyond Ita verge, beyond tbe Lizard
and the fatal rocks of Ushant, tbe At
lantic rolled, and not only tbe north At
lantic, but the southern, and beyond
the aouthern Atlantic the vaster south
ern ocean that washes the Ice barrier
of the antarctic pole.
I did not see tbe channel What I
saw was one; It was the ocean Itself.
I sailed, as of old, round the mighty
wedge that thrusts Itself outward Into
cold seas aud la knowu aa the Horn,
sdw the Diego Ramirez islands (known
to sallormeu aa the Daggaramma-
reens), and I came up by the windy
Falkland! to the calma of Capricorn,
or the horse latitudes, and lay there be
calmed.
Yet even so waa this tbe same sea,
the sea one and Indivisible, the repub
lic of waters. For uot a wave that
leaped au tbe shores of England bnt
bad lain In quiet calm south of the
Hue. It waa our sea, even yet ours, the
Eugllsh sea of tho world.
So wonderful a thlpg thia is to me
that low I never think of any separate
ocean. There is no Atlantic, no Pacific,
no great southern ocean. It Is one sea,
and whether we sail, as Drake did,
along the western shores of America or
blunder through the strait of Magellan,
as Magellan did, or go south to the Ice
barrier with Enderby or north with
Franklin It la the selfsame breathing
creature of a sea that bears us up and
onward.
Hore are tbe Palm islands of tbe Pa
cific, truly, 1st us say, and here
strange, bold eyed Samoans paddle In
their lucid waters. Yet these same wa
ters are the equal heritage of tbe Eski
mo, the God given gift to those wild
savages of Tlerra del Fuego. Whether
the trades blow or tbe passage wind*
that help us to India or the cyclones of
tho West Indies or the typhoons of tbe
China seas, the seas are the great high
ways for all races, and dll roads lead
to England, as all paths lead to Rome.
la this, then, to say nothing or to say
what la known? I have beard of those
who were disappointed with the Atlan
tic; I have known children to cry at tho
poorness of the reality they saw at
Ramsgate. Had they known what the
sea was—bow it gleamed under a great
moon even then, bow even at that quiet
hour wild woolllwaws spun across tbe
foam that Magellan plowed, bow at
that very mouieut vast cyclones roared
by the “vexed Bermoothes" or scream
ed under tlie high cliffs ef mighty For
mosa—they would have sat down In
strange astouisliment by (he eventful
sea they knew sot All my fancies spin
strange webs nbout this thought, and
out of the kuowledge that I hare first
hand or that I have gathered from
quiet seameu or from books It comes
that I never l>ehold any narrow creek
or strait of tlie great waters but I see,
too, the one parent of them all.
The BSfi sea is tbe sea's, and the sen
made It Tbe Arabian sea la his, ana
the tiot waters by barren SokoLra, and
tlie cliffs of Guarduful, where the mou-
aoon dies In calm at last Tho thunder
of the sea upon the bench at Colombo
and upon Mi* breakwater J* the music
of the great ocean. Its equal diapason
votings la Aetiill and os the red por
phyry of the bold I.leard ihuI In the
coral line barriers of Fiji or the Great
er Barrier reef that makes Great Sandy
■trait
Thia la tlie music that we hear la the
channol. Thia they hear at the Mar
quesas. TTie Indians kear the song out
of the PaclBe. This same wind fingers
this same Instrument lu tbe sea of
Okhotsk nud off the windy Cnpe of
Grod Ilepe. This Is the lute C&nsens
beuBd. This Bnlhqp knew. This the
Romans feared aud tlie Greeks faced
boldly. They who sailed to Opblr or
to the far Cassiterides know It Tho
music has euchautcd old viking*, pi
rates, buccaneers and explorers of the
unknown.
What boa is tiisre but one? The 1 lit
tle land upou which vn widk Is but r.u j
tncldeut la Ks great history. From the
Foreland or frjin Bournemouth or
from lighthouHC on the Start you
or I or any ene with eyes con look
across a little way waste of crowded
water and ses tho rollers of the Horn
or tho cross, itysumklal teas of the
ospe or tbe sunlit seas of the Islands
of Palms. Whatever we sail la, wheth
er it be a fonr masted ship of steel
that the Cly/e saw th^ birth of, or a
wooden baric built of soft wood from
Nova Scotia, or. a deal mUey f or a Re
main galley, or a junk from Whampoa,
or a oatifniaran from Colombo, or a
prahu of the Malays, or a war oanoc of
tbs Maoris, or a/felucca from Sicily, or
a goggala from Zanzibar, we sail the
same sea and drear the same music aad
see the Mms^thisgv.
We are equal sitizeus of the republic
ef tbs see. So much I saw from an
#M pier tint sheltered eroos channel
boots flat nut ts Franco. Bo much
osn any tone see wkt> steads by salt
waters sod boa eyes to beheld things
which but * little beyond tho hori
zon. In tils end knowledge of tbe
•on sqd fts teal'conquest, may bring
the world together better tfihn any oth
er knowledge or any, other^onquest
that the pasting heart of man may do-
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Many women Buffer an told torture
through nerve debility, caused by
disorder* of tbe feminine organs, and
drag along from day to day, getting
worse all the time.
They know their needs, bnt natural
modesty makes them shrink from ex
posing themselves to the embarrass
ing questions of the family physician.
In such cases as these a woman’s
future happiness or misery hangs on
the selection of a remedy. If she gets
the wrong medicine her troubles
grow worse and her hopes of finding
relief become blighted. The chances
are she will never make another ef
fort to find relief as long os she lives.
What she needs Is
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