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Volume LVI11 —ft Sm* * m- ^ . I FBDEltiXi USTON Established In 1H29. I J£o<£l£HKltm)OIWKHr~^^l>n9^JCOS80LIDATr:T‘ 1 Millrdoeville, Ga., August 30, 1887. THE UNION & RECORDER, I’ubliHlied Weekly In MIltcdRevlIle.Gii. BY BARNES & MOORE. ipriB .. ■ atnl flfty cents a for »evfat»-ttffe ■ l li advance. Tkkms.—ouedolli auvanoe. Two dolls Tin aarvi G *fhe ''tCT^AL tJHION~”an(l the' 'SOUTHERN RECORDER” w«recon«olldatecl, August 1st, 1S72, the Union being In lt» Forty-Third Volume and the Kecordettn Ite Fifty-Third Volume. -Oue dollar a: CyjjHfcotpeid The eervieei of Col. j amk« M. kuytbk .areen- aged a* (leneral Aealaunt The 1 •tbdkSa l union" Number 8. ON THE PROLONGATION OF HU MAN LIFE. simply woody fibre or organic matter in a state of decay—it matters not what, so it is the , . . ' . product of growth. Nfcf taluahle • . , ^ L ' " . , plant* Of gun to pflfow O.n me earth opinion tliat human life was sliorten- unt3 tfco soil laid boon futnished ed after tlie deluge. Whether this with vegetable mould by the Je-I Mi " or not, many persons have . °. , . . , J xir j been known to attain ages, since, nl- cay of inferior plants. Woody | „ IO( . t incredible, fibre consists of carbon, (or coal,) j The author, ‘‘Hermippus Hedlvl- nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen, '. u> was John Henry Cohausem a a. i5i . i i • u . x ’ Gei uuoi physician. He lived to the the latter two being the elements I ft(ft llf nr, years, and commends his of water. Valuable as humus is j p:an iu the consideration of pliysi- to render soils fertile, vet, as hu-j^ iulll “ ‘"id posterity. The people of ja Lea. one of the clycedes.) had a law mus it does not < ntei directly in- tlluI ,. ulupo ii e a all those who survived to plants. Ill its decomposition , tlu* a^e of three noore to drink the it becomes a storehouse for car- ! juice <<f hemlock. We wonder of bonic acid, the form in which **•* tbe Senators were who plants derive their carbon. Hu- fi.-li PURELY VEGETABLE. It act. with axtraerdiaary tflletey on Oio TIVER, |^|D||£YS t i—and Bowels. AN EFFEtTMl SPECIFIC FOR Malaria, Bowel Coatplainta, liyiptpila, Sitk Headache, Con.UpaUea, BtUoaaaeaa, Kidney Affections, Jaundice, Menial Depreaeion, Colic. BEST FAMILY MEDICINE So Hoisihold Shoild bo Without It, and, by being kept ready for Immediate use, will save many an hour of suffering anu many a dollar in time and doctors’ bill*. THERE IS EUT ONE SIMMONS LIVERREGULATOR 8ee (hit you g.t (he g.iuiae with red 1 ‘ Z ’ ‘ o*. front of Wripper. Pr.per.d edy by J. H. 2 El LIN 4 CO., Col. Proprietor., Philadelphia, Pa PKICK, OI.OO. Mareli 29, 1887. 28 civ ly ( For the Union & Recorder.) HUMUS. this act of parliament! In < hiuu they order matters differently. T; • ui'cv-L... aded auges permit in fanticide to prevent exces-of popula te ei.. ii IsnOC'stumnj&t tin* old are Ji-pose11 of in sfce Sam** ia|, An odd instance, .ui fok> tie se, is li,:.itKiiiculiy Valerius Maximus where an nlU I'udy who had been happy all h i- life committed suicide, lest an and eloquently to live. After stating tl ui she had experienced the smiles ol fortunes she said, “I voluntarily quit the light while yet I take pleas ure in beholding my countenance.'' Exhorting her two daughters uiulsev en grandsons to live in pence and uni ty. lo rake care of her household anil worship her domestic deities, she took the glass with a steady hand and drank the poison. She calmly stated in altar manner the poison wrought, lnni tli" lower parts of her body be came cold and senseless, by degrees, and at the last called one of her to do the lAst office by- eyes. As for tiS,' says What it is—It* Value—Its Essential ity to Profitable Farming. A few years ago we presented some thoughts on this important subject that were so favorably re ceived by many thoughtful farmers, we are tempted to renew the dis cussion of the subject and to pre sent a few additional thoughts iu regal'd to it. "We fear no contra diction in the statement that the distressing condition of Southern farming now is chiefly owing to the fact that the majority of our farmers are cultivating soils so nearly impoverished as to pre clude the hope of making their farming profitable, except perhaps in occasional years when the sea sons happen to bo propitious. This poverty of tlio soil is ow ing almost invariably to the ab sence of humus from it. Long continued cultivation in crops that required clean culture with out a rational proportion of grass land and stock has brought the bulk of the cotton lands of the South into a condition so gullied and impoverished of humus that it is impossible for them to com pete with the newlv opened rich soils of the west and north-west. Year after year we see one per son or another planting land that has not made a profitable crop in years. One fails at it. Anoth er stops in and tries his hand and so it goes one year to another. We see even the same farmer cul tivating tho same piece of land year after year, first in cotton, then in corn or oats or peas or some thing else and never getting any profitable returns from it. He seems to be led on by some hope, a very unreasonable one, that ho will strike it rich on it some day to make up for all pre vious failures. Unless our farmers proceed at once to restore this essential mat ter of humus to their soils and e P laid down that agriculture cauuot be established and sustained without a proper regard to grass land and stock, it will not bo a good many years more before we are in a condition as bad or worso than Ireland is to-day. Wo will want to emigrate then but be too poor to carry out the desire. Vegetable mould or liumus is mus is also the medium through which plants receive a great part of their ammonia, i nitrogen, i Humus acts, says Liebeg, in the same manner in a soil permea ble to air as in the air itself; it is a continued source of carbonic | audition of years might “change liar acid which it emits very slowly, countenance.’’ Imagining that the An atmosphere of carbonic acid, f r ^ eUce of . 1>om P ey - w ^ u ¥ 1 d ,° h ° n . or . , . ,, . ’ to the occasion, she invited him to be formed at the expense ol the air, j present at her voluntary death. He surrounds every particle of de- attended and exhorted her earnestly caying humus. The cultivation of land by loosening the soil causes a free and unobstructive access of air. An atmosphere of carbonic acid is therefore con tained in every fertile soil and is tbe first and most important food for the young plants which grow in it.” I \ J I V 1 Unless the carbonic acid and ammonia are in the soil in prop er quantity profitable crops need j daughters not be expected from it. The lit-| closing lie tie of these derived from the at-1 Vill f ,-iu ?’ ™ almost stupefied ui x xuwD ; at rhe sight ot so strange a spectacle, mosphere, if any such is utilized, j q,.li-niL-sed us with tears dropping goes very little ways toward mak-j from her eyes. ing a profitable crop. Anv prac- ?’ < »fu-WAthor then proceeds to dlMiss the great question as to the possibili- *y ui prolonging life. He goes on to speak of “Asclepiades the Persian, - ' who looks upon a physician as igno re in ot his profession who could not defend himself from diseases; and tliN notion he supported by his own example. (Our uutlior does not men tion how long the Persian's patients lived. 1 n one instance our good Dr. Coliausen is very classical and lively. Alter some argument he thinks, we suppose, that it. is desirable to relieve tbe dryness of his style with a little of the imaginative and fantastical; _ _ and, accordingly, he puts on the robe izer available to farmers,"and no I thu " us lie wi y^ ” naf " ts farmer ever has enough of it to , "When the blooming Thishe, whom make it act the part of a humus | the graces adorn, and the Muses in provider to any considerable ex- I struct, converses with the good old f , t- • J • a;„ I Hermippus, her youth invigorates his tent. Experience in this country npe nml the brisk flame that, warms as wellas in older countries proves J h that humus can be profitably re-, bb; stored to land only by growing it i jKf'S.Sfel^Wr.i ... oil the 1 ana. It cannot bo hauled j her purple veins; these old Herinip- on to it as WO would SO much fer- ; pus greedily drinks in, and as spirits tilizers containing tie mineral el- j *" Thus the vapor, which ing a profitable crop. -Any prac ticod farmer appreciates this. We may supply commercial fer tilizers, especially the mineral, without end to soils destitute of liumus and yet produce no profit able crop, for as remarked carbon ic acid is the chief requisite in the growth of plants of all kinds and this commercial fertilizers does not supply, either directly or indirectly. Stable manure is the only humus-furnishing fertil- henrt, communicates its heat to -o often as the lovely virgin ithes the kindly vapors ily off ,J "'"■v.vxx—x.p, ^ " i preson tl v mingled with the blood of ements with ammonia m audition tdn? old iii bur a moment before was expelled I tie- brisk beating of the heart of Tiiisli-. is communicated by the li>-r to Hermippus, and passing cigli his heart serves to invigorate - blood so that almost without nctaplior, we may say, the spir- uf Thisbe give life to Her ippus l-'or what is there more easy apprehend than that the active iriis ui this brisk arid blooming id should, when received from the accept as true the principle long ago laid down that a successful thereto. Through the medium of grass (or clover) and stock on ly can humus be supplied on n largo scale to loam not woruout t' soils. In this section a system of ,1: farming that recognizes the value i i; . of Bermuda grass and gives it a 1 n. proper place on the farm, and the j c ' value of peas either sown broad- ^ > cast or being sown in the middles \ air. thaw the frozen juices of her aged r.f all cultivated crops as tliov are 1 friend, and thereby give them a new • -1 1.__ .1 .1 J.1.„ xVa fnrci- and a freer passage, and thus H••nnippiis . possessing at, once the si l 1 ' iigth his nature retains, and bor- fresh spirits from the lovely isbe. what wonder that he, who enjoys two sorts of life should live twice a.^ long as another maud' Leaving the fanciful now, our au thor proceeds to facts. We hear of Uni-gins, who when 108 years old be ing asked how he could support the burden ol life so long, replied that “he regretted nothing tliut lie had done and felt nothing of which he could reasonably complain. My youth.'' said he, “cannot accuse me, nor can 1 accuse my old age.’’ Of Isocrates, who published u book at 9s. of VenophiluB, the Pythagorean, who taught a numerous train of stu deui-till he was 104, of Leonicanses. who read his lectures at 90—Fusili fa little short of this)—and others. Among these is the celebrated Mar- shad and Duke de Shomberg. of whom laid by alone can solve the prob lem of an econominal restoration of liumus sufficient in a few years ! rpw to render our soils worth culti- 1 vating. Such soil as a farmer de votes to cultivated crops let the rows in every case be wide enough to admit a sown row of peas as that crop is laid by, tho next year planting the crop, whatever it may be, where the peas grow, giv ing a row of peas in tho middle, every year. Alternating in this manner a very decided improve ment will be observed yearly. Devoting a fair proportion of the farm to fall oats, rye ai\d barley, and allowing tho stubble to grow up in weeds during the summer and turning it under in the late fall or winter will also help to solve this important problem. If preferred this stubble land cau be sown to peas. Stubble land should not be pastured at all and : an no way when wet. Then with ^ permanent grass and stock in fair ' proportion to the area cultivated , H wo may yet see our Southern' 11 farmers on the tidal wave of re- j, turning prosperity, but not 1 fore. S. A. Cook Midway, Aug. 24. Legal blanks for sale at this office. ■ U ill (Uivi jjuao vavi Ol TV I AO til our author gives specific and pleasant accounts. He wan one of the greatest officers in the last century; wiu Marshal of France, Generalissimo of the troops of the elector of Branden- burgli, Duke and grandee of Portu gai. Duke anil peer both In England 1 reland, and knight of the Garter -time of his decease. Ho was iivs old and was killed when lead- ins forces at the battle of tbe w iili all the vigor and spirit of mug man. The winter before he killed iii Ireland he was walking lie park with numbers of young • around liini, and being met a grave English nobleman, he Iu not help telling the marshal t h<- was surprised to see him in ii company, jlli berg, “dontycm know that a good gen eral always "makes his retreat, as late ns he can"?'' Old Parr, as he was called, an Eng lishman, was over 140 at tile time of his dentil, aud the famous Countess of Desmond, as was shown by deeds, settlements and other indisputable testimonies, was over 140 years old at the time of her death, and Lord Ba con, who knew her personally, said she thrice changed her teeth. A lu- dy who was intimate with her said she was personally cognizant of her having a new set of teeth after she was four score years of age. We pass over several notices in the work before us, showing other in stances of long life, and with here and there an exception, the facts show that rhe old age of nearly all the per sons alluded to, was the result of fru gal diet, pure air, regular exercise and sufficient sleep. (< Our space hftH forced ti« to much greater contraction than we expected in the outset. It would have taken fourteen columns of our paper ^to make a satisfactory abstract of Hie interesting facts con tained in the I? large pages of the magazine from which we condense them. No one can read the original work without being impressed with the fact that a due regard to wholesome diet, used in moderation, to ample and undisturbed sleep, to ample daily ex ercise, as much as possible in the open air, are essential to secure and main tain health and give to life itself its greatest duration. INEBRIETY. Morally, Physiologically and Path ologically. Hy MkDiets. The second paper of this series had reached a point where, from its length, it had to be closed, wlien tho history of several very interesting cases were to be given portraying the sad and i serious eonseiiuenc.es resulting from that well known heredity that be longs to inebriety ; whether from al coholic liquor or opium, or other drugs that enslave the human race. Any number of remarkable instances have occurred to the writer in tlio course of a long pructice, both in civil and military duties, but one or two will be sufficient to mention. The first is that of a boy eighteen years old, who, though he has never tasted liquor iu all his life, has been from his very birth, and every moment of his life since, staggering, stammering, maud lin drunk; with only about as clear an intellect as you would find in a man of ordinary intelligence who was so drunk he could hardly recognize you and barely able to walk by catching hold of chairs, fences, or whatever was in reach as he attempted to navi gate, and with that thick tongued, Hsping tone und utterance that so un- mistukeably indicates adrunken man. This boy had the misfortune of hav ing both a drunken father and moth er. This is only one out of hundreds of cases that could be cited and de scribed to show the incontrovertible fact that not only a predisposition to drunkenness may be inherited, but that beings may be born drunk and remain so all their lives. This is not so incomprehensible to the medical profession when they are so well a- ware that not [only n tendency to cer tain diseases, but actually the diseases themselves, fully developed, have been seen iu infants in the very hour of their birth. Hut other frailties, bad habits, or call it by whatever name you please, besides inebriety, are transmitted by heredity. The Opium Habit, which "is becoming in the Uni ted States almost as much of a nation al vice us it ever was in China oi Tur key, lias been unmistakeably proven to be in like manner transmissible to the offspring of one or both parents so addicted. A case that most strik ingly illustrates this is a child, eight, years old, closely related to one of the highest government officials of this state, who cannot live without two or three hundred drops of lauda num every twenty-four hours. If the usual quantity of the opiate is withheld from him, lie not only be comes cross, peevisli and fretful, but his hands and feet grow cold and clumsy, he yawns and stretches, his eyes become watery, a profuse, cold sweat breaks out dll over him, with alternate shivering rigors and burn ing heat; lie cries, moans, his eyes “in a fine frenzy rolling,’’ begin to stare till they become set, lie foams at the mouth and if the drug is still withheld, he goes off into violent con vulsions, which would result in death if the opiate is still withheld; yet strange as it may appear to those ig norant. of the condition and necessi ties of a confirmed opium eater, and tlie incalculable power the habit pos sesses over the physical organism, if the boy be given his usual dose, he will, in fifteen minutes, be entirely relieved and as well as before these alarming symptoms seised him on the withholding of the usual dose of the drug. This is a sad, sad case and bet ter far would it be for this child and his parents if he were to die, or bet ter still if he had never been born. This is one of those cases giving such pointed and conclusive evidence that u necessity for opium or some other stimulant is often bom in the child; for both the father and mother of this child do, and have for years past, taken every day from twenty to forty grains of morpliine. Indeed for years neither oue of them for a single day, has ever been from under itsiniluence. my lord," replied Shorn- 1 This is no hypothetical nor lieresay case, foritlm writer knotorb all the par ties well and has weighed out the morphine for them. Ill some respects the liquor habit and the opium lntbit are sbmewhnt similar, but dissimilar in tliat when a man has a liquor habit lie may be forcibly deprived of liquor without much more serious trouble than some uneasiness and nervousness, with an intense desire for the nooustomed stimulant; while with the opium hab it, when once it fairly is formed and gets full possession of its victim, to deprive hiui of it would be to throw him into convulsions and imperil, at least, if not destroy his life. There more serious results arise from the fact that a man may, and generally does, drink hard fof a week or a mouth and t hen leave it off and re main sober for week* or months or even years before lie indulges again. But when the opium habit is once formed the vietlm 1ms to kKeri himself under its iiifiuonce ail the time;' or at least if he is nut absolutely compelled to do so, its withdrawal produces such distressing, painful symptoms that rather than endure them ne will seek relief iu another dose, aud yet each succeeding dose that lie takes but forges another link In the chain that binds him to the rook of despair, so that without help outside of his own weak efforts he will never release him self. The opium habit, too, is so much ttorse than the liquor habit because opium (or at least the quantity taken) does not so completely intoxicate a man as does the liquor, does not cause him to fall and lie about In the mud and iu the gutter, but is more slow and insidious, but none the less sure in sweoping its victims on to (lentil anil damnation while they listen to the soothing strains of its Siren song and is winding its fatal coils so closely around him. It is like tlie serpent, it charms its victims but to destroy them. Who that ever read that beau tiful, easy-ilowiny book of Dsl)iiinoey, his “Confession of an Opium Eater," or that imitation of it, “Tlie Hashisch (pronounced Hashheesh) Eater,’* by our own brilliant writer, Fitzhugh Ludlow, without feeling an almost uncontrollable desire to test the effect of opium or hashisch, to feel those transceudentally glowing and thrill ing sensations so graphically described by both of them. Hut alas, like alco hol, only more seductive and hence more fatal, poison lurks in the cup, therefore “taste not, handle not,’ - vea, even “look not upon tlie wine when it is red” in the cup. But this history of cures and tlie reflections induced thereby iiave unconsciously led into u digression from the subject, and this paper has already grown so long it must close till next week, when tlie subject will lie again resumed with a still further physiological view of it. Milledgeville, Aug. llith. Honesty Richly Rewarded. New York Tribune. “I think I’ve found tile most gen erous womud in New York,” said a Maiden Lane diamond merchant to u friend in the Astor House rotunda yesterday. “Proceed with your sto ry,” replied the other, resting his el bow on tlie polished bar. “Ted, my little office boy,” the mer chant continued, “found a lady's pocketbook tlie other day. It con tained about $100 in cash and several valuable papers valuable to the own- dr, 1 mean. lie picked it up near tlio door of my store, but as no one saw him do it,"lie could easily have kept tlie money without any one being aware of the fact, it must have been quite a temptation to the little chap, for lie only earns $2.50 a week, and 1 iis folks are very poor. Hut lie brought it right in to me like a little man. 1 watched the papers, lint it was not advertised. Several days passed and 1 had begun to think of giving tlio book back to tlie finder when l learned from a friend that a wealthy lady customer of mine who lives in Fifth avenue had suffered from a loss of this kind. 1 sent Ted up with tlie purse. Sure enough, it was hers. When lie had explained how he found it she became demon strative over tlie honest way he had acted. Him patted li is head and de clared that it did her good to know that there really was one honest boy in New York. “You’ll not go unre warded, either,’’ she added. “Just come with me.” He went witli her into an adjoining room, und then what do you suppose she gave him as a reward?" “Oh, $10, perhaps,” returned tlie friend. Tlie diamond man smiled. “The reward she gave him," he added, “was a big piece of huckleberry pie— simply that and nothing more.” Conklin's Dakotalan: Nothing is easier than to grow rich. It is on ly to trust nobody—to befriend none o gel get—to stint yourself and every body fne For tlie Union Hoi onlor. Pencilling* From My Perch. JJy Mr. PlCKLK. No. 2. People, no less than Poetry, suffer by translation. A poem is "never so sweet, tender, sublime or inspiring read abroad, or sung in strange lands, as when felt and heard in tlie land of its nativity. So with people. The English duke maybe ever so “cliawin- ing," and try ever so hard to impress the American habitue of Broadway anil Wall streets, New York, with his impressive dress nml expressive “aws” and h’s, but. lie is not appreciative as ho would be within tint sound of the bells of St. Paul’s. Even Dickens, with all his £pod shiiso, good breeding* and cosmopolitan popularity attract ed no attention on his visit to the United'States, yet Ids works are more extensively read and ‘more generally admired here than in England or any other civilized country. This excep tion Is due to the fact that Dickens wrote iu tho same language spoken in America. It is tlie common cry with pessim ists and tlie hypercritical Jiow-adayg that whatever is excellent .is not orig Inal. Shakespere is tossed aside as whole-sale piracy liecause tlie great bard made Othello speak before the Duke and Senators in the style that Paul spoke before King Agrippn; and because his tragedies are mere refin ed copies of historical men and wom en who appear better in the original costume than in the dress the immor tal bard gives them. Byron, too, is made a plagiarist because he stud ied Isaiah and Job, and got some of his ideas from David and Holomon. Facts are facts, but they appear very differently told by different writers. Land is land, and only land, but cul tivated by different men shows vastly different results. If there was a great moral sifter into which tlie characters of men could be emptied and well shaken, some of the most pretentiously pious would dis cover more bran in tlie siftei than meal iu the pan. ‘,*L *** Nick-names—how they Jo stick, and how they do hurt! The shirt or xVessus never stuck to its wearer clos er or longer than a nick name given to a boy or girl at school. It clings to them, all through life, and lingers as long as the memory of them lasts after death. Oh, tlie mischief they have done; the friends they have es tranged; characters clouded, anil hearts broken! What is known a*s fashionable society in tlie principal cities at the North, with advanced ideus. is, to quote words from Dr. Taluutge, “rotten all through, and reeking with tlie odors of hell.” Its slimy, snaky, sinuous trail is not. only seen in the new ground of youth and innocence, but is marked on tapestrv and tinselliugs of elegant mansions'and in coteries and clubs of exclusive rank and dis soluteness. It murders morality, not so much by what it says, us bv wluifc it does; not so much by what it ex poses, os by what It suggests. Its types aye not Falstull ami Dame Quidkly, but Juan aud Haidee. %* “I didn’t gotodo ft,” is the A. It. <)., as “1 didn’t know it was loaded," is the last chapter in many a youth’s ruddy revelations. Sparing the rod in the beginning, means bearing the cross in the end. Show mo a boy who is fond ot frightening people one who steals up unexpectedly and shocks them, “only for fun" and i will show you a winning candidate for the peniten tiary or the gallows. There is no possibility of any mistake here. *** The wise man said, “lie thnt in oreasetli knowledge iucrenseth sor row." The fool su.ys, "if this be true, then ignorance is bliss." Not so. Only knowledge can remove tlie sting of sorrow. Tlie fool quits life to lay down the burden of sorrow; the wise make life tlie means of re moving it. Nearly ev#ry villain who is hung assigns women as one of tile main factors in his ruin. These wretches would come nearer the truth by us ing Fulstaff’s confession: “I have suffered more for their sakes, more, than tlie villainous inconstancy of man’s disposition is able to bear.*' *% It is said that water will always find its level. Has its level ever been found in a jug of whiskey or a can of milk? —to get all vou cau aud save all you get—to stint yourself aud os belonging to vou—to be the friend of " hi no man, und have no man for your friend—to heap interest upon interest, cent upon cent—to be mean, misera ble and despised for some twenty or thirty years—and riches will couio as sure us disease, disappointment and death. Aud when pretty nearly e- nougli wealth is collected by a dis regard of all the charities of the human heart, and of every decent, honora ble and manly impulse and at the expense of every enjoyment but that of counting the accumulating dollars, deatli will finish tlie work—the body be buried—the heirs (lance over boo dle that is left, and the spirit will go(1). Athens Banner: The farmer’s con vention refused to adopt either tariff or anti-tariff resolutions, preferring not to bring up political questions. It will be noted that all the Georgia • members except one voted for a revis ion of the tariff. This must have been a bitter pill for tile “great dai lies” in Georgia. Tlie anti-poverty convention inNeW York lias put up a united labor ticket, at the head of which Henry George will run for Secretary of State. An Expensive Delay, Is failing to provide the proper means to expel from tlie system those dis ease germs which cause scrofula, in digestion, debility, rheumatism, and sick headache. The only reliable means is Dr. Harter’s Iron Tonic.