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THE NATIONAL LEAGUE.
The recent vote in the House of
Commons, was a temporary triumph
for the Saulsbury administration.—
Confirming the Proclamation of the
League, in effect, makes the Irish peo
ple criminals who may lie punished
even without trial. It makes all the
Irish who favor the League, criminals
and in fact puts all the people at the
mercy of a barbarous government,
tor the League exists every where in
Ireland, and will eontinne to exist in
spite of the proclamation by the act
of government, that every member of
the League is a criminal who may be
seized and punished without a trial.
Mr. Gladstone moved an address to
the Queen, praying for the nullifica
tion of tlie government’s proclaiming
the Irish National League, The effect
of this proclamation makes every
member of the league a critniuul and
subjects him to punishment without
atrial worthy of the name. Nothing
more seems to be necessary than
merely to prove he is a moiuber of
the League. ' iL ,
Mr. Gladstone’srerolqfiop was nega
tived by a vote of 272 to 104. Tins
<lifTers but little, in principle, from the
despotism in Cromwell's time to which
we recently referred. Tlie^riiiciple
is t,lie same now, on the part of the
government, that it was then. Crom
well put Ihe Irish out of the piUe of
mercy, and so does the Queen’s gov
ernment in this year of our Lord 1887,
nearly two centuries and n half since
the atrocious murders of that blood
thirsty bigot. In tbe world’s annals,
nothing, in the plans and principles
of government in the most arbitrary
institutions, can exceed this procla
mation against the Irish League, in
its violation of justice and all the
maxims of humanity. Nothing ex
ceeds it in all the dogmas of violence
and terror, and it looks the darker,
following the Queen’s Jubilee. This
revolting effrontery will blacken her
reign with a violation of the estab
lished maxims of political morality
and even religious sanctity. If en
forced it will disgrace the Queen’s
rule as cruel, heartless and perfidious.
Perhaps she may interfere and check
the cold-hearted, vindictive and cruel
policy of her ministers. If she does
not, h stain will rest upon her reign,
and convert into a mockery her Jubi-
lee, in which most of the nations par
ticipated to praise and honor her.
Prof. Thiersch, of Leipzig, has now'
ghown that if a piece of a negro’s skin
is grafted on a white man, the piece
of transported skin gradually changes
its color till it is white, and conversely
if a piece of white skin be grafted on
a negro.
This goes to prove that God never
intended a negro to be a white man
or a white man to be a negro. .
A correspondent mentions that two
telegraph operators, a male and fe
male, both otherwise healthy sub
jects. aro being treated in Berlin for a
newly developed ailment, namely,
the dropping olf one after another of
the linger hails. Professor Mendel at
tributes this curious abaction art ha
result of thp constant (juft. caused Uj*
hammering and pushing with thft fin
ger ends in working tin* Morse system
Of t^logrunliv •■Bnartaffgifc-
For tin' Uiiloi, llocor I'T.
Pencillings From My Perch.
My Mit. Picki.k.
No. 4.
All tlie honor should not go to the
discoverer. Many a Columbus never
saw the sea.
»**
He is thO true type of a Christian
who is pleased to see others happy
for their sake, and not his own-.
* *
He is not a wise man who won’t do
anything, because he will not do the
best thing.
*
♦ *
When a Woman starts out to hate*
her husband, she doesn’t want any
outside help. Proffered assistance
takes the edge olf her keenly whetted
blade.
if >f
Idleness is the parent of most of the
crimes that disfigure humanity and
deform tin* beauty of the world.
When once it fastens its syren but
deadly fangs on a young man. lie is,
to till good purposes, dead. Farewell
then to improvement; farewell to self
approbation.
While tlie doctors and scientists nre
racking their brains to find out tlie
true causes of earthquakes, cyclones
and floods that have in recant years
been so destructive at the South, will
some generous soul arise and tell us
all why it is that the short, red-faced,
big-boweled man when on the cars,
tries to outsn'ort tne engine, and at
the hotel breakfast tables bellows
louder for his fried potatoes and pone
corn bread than an elephant with a
red hot iron prod in his trunk?
**.
If you have the faculty of singing,
playing, ora talent for anything with
in the range of the agreeable or amus
ing, do not hide your light under a
bushel, but boldly publish to tlie
World what a clever fellow you are.
If you wait until your accomplish
ments are discovered, you may wait
lonfj, And at last not have an oppor
tunity to display your wonderful
abilities.
*
* *
At an entertainment given by Gen
eral and Mrs, Sherman in New York,
in May 1887. there were a great many
pretty girls present, and tlie General
kissed every one of them, as is his
way, you know. He said there was a
great deal more vigor in the kiss of a
New York girl than in that of a St.
Louis girl. The General should not
have confined his comparison to two
cities or two States. He ought to
have told his female admirers some
thing about the strength, vig«r and
liquid sweetness of the “yaller gal’s”
kiss which he frequently tested when
“marching through Georgia.”
♦ ♦
*
Famous localities frequently, pro
duce weak brain work. The soil inay
be just as productive as it ever was,
but somehow results are not satisfac
tory. A few names have given a
hamlet town or city celebrity as a
literary center, and imitators of Irv
ing, Cooper, Hawthorne, Longfellow,
Emerson and other originals go there,
put up their machinery, and aim to
eclipse them, or by the aid of'their
wings reach “double-peaked Parnas
sus,” and drink dry the native still of
Hippocrene. A Boston girl, fresh
from tho walls of a neighboring Sem
inary, lays iu a stack of tlie ylost un
pronounceable and uncommon words
in Webster’s Unabridged, with Car
lysle and Emerson' dose by to supply
the style, and “The Recreations of
Christopher North,” to furnish sun
shine, shadow, flowers dog-rose, lily,
meadow-sweet, harebell, foxglove I
sun-dew, and other herbs and scents
from tlie Floral realm- (lies to a fa
mous spot, ascends to the unseen and
eternal beyond, and is lost to view for
awhile. Biniebv her soaring soul re
turns to earth and what does it bring,
what sort, of intellectual “belly-tim
ber” does it feedour fasting apetites
with? Intoxicating nonsense of “soft
papaverous potency.” So long!
***
Nothing so displays the wisdom
and goodness of God as the formation
of the human heart. It is the only
muscle iu tlie human body that is
absolutely beyond man’s will-power
to control. Had this great central
organ of life been placed in the con
trol of human will, so that a man
could puss instantly and painlessly
from life to death by stopping tlie
action of his heart, where there lias
been one voluntary suicide, there
would have been ten thousand mid
thousands of deaths the result of ac
cident rather than design.
Curiosity is a part of woman’s na
ture, and a big purt too; and to satis
fy it, she will rush in where angels
might fear to tread. The brilliant,
eloquent, fascinating, but bad Jean
Jaques Hosseau, was well aware of
this trait in female character, when
in his Nouvelle, Heloise, an intensely
interesting book, in the preface he
cautioned every female, young in
years, against perusing it at her peril.
The ingenious uuthor,- and close stu
dent, of womanly hearts and heads,
well knew how to bait a hook so that
women would bite at it.
“At Cost”. Few people who read
newspapers every day, and are passa
bly intelligent, seem to understand
the meaning of the two words at tlie
head of this paragraph, when put
over a merchant’s advertisement or a
shon-keeper’s shelves, or indeed any
where where a person has xyares or
.other'valuables to sell. 1 have even
heftrd people call merchants liars and
other hard names, because they claim
ed to sell goods “at cost”.' Now, that
was very wrong. The merchant is
not lying to you; he is only using a
business blind to catch your eye,
which is perfectly legitimate, as you
go into it or not, as you please, with
your eyes wide open. Then you say,
what does it mean—the merchant is
certainly not such ii fool us to si'll his
goods for what he first paid for them,
and lost' the freight, store expenses,
taxes, insurance, profit, Ac., on them?
Oh no, hv no means. All these are
part of tin' “cost”, don’t you see?
Sometimes he has goods left over
from a season that will be unsaleable
by time the next opens, or from dam
age, or some other cause, and these
he is willing, nay anxious to sell even
at tlie first cost paid to the New York
Jobber. But as to his saleable goods.'
when they are offered “at. Cost”, lie
means that he will hand them to you
over the counter, for just what they
have cost him. This includes every
item of expense, with more or less
profit, just us lie is more or less anx
ious to sell. Give him as much cred
it for sound sense, honesty and fair
ness as you claim. And so with law
yers, and other professional iften.
One has been to greater expense and
labor to get his knowledge than an
other, and lie puts that in his cost
charges. Cost means cost all tlie way
through, and that is all there is about
it.
pr.
EDITORIAL GLIMPSES.
A cigarette smoker cannot obtain
admission either to the JJ. M. Military
or naval academies.
Sam Small says lie once stuffed bal
lot boxes. Sam is stuffing the public
now.
A lady writ ing to a friend in Europe,
says, “Mrs. Cleveland is simply ex
quisite, and the President noble.”
One hundred and fifty-five thousand
bricks made on Mr. Gladstone’s estate
have been shipped to Boston for a new
court house.
The President write# all Ms letters
and addresses them, with his own
hand. He tried a stenographer
awhile ago, but it bothered him.
Mrs. B. F. Davis, of Harrison, Kan.,
a lady 37 years old, had her teeth ex
tracted three months ago, and noxv
nature is furnishing her with a third
set.
The best way to dress, in summer,
is to wear thin woolen material next
the skin, as little outside clothing as
possible, and that of a light color.
Dark colors draw the heat and light
ones repel it.
The tower which is being erected by
the Russians on the highest point of
tlie Mount of Olives is already several
stories high, but one more is to he
added. The object is to make it so
high that both theMedkerraneanujid
Dead seas may lie seen from tlie top.
Grand Rapids, Mich., has a needle
peddler who carries a revolver, and
he almost always manages to make a
sale when the man of tlie house is not
at home.
It is needless to add that he has an
eye always to tlie main point.
Tlie temperance women have pre
vailed upon the managers of the New
York State fair, to be held in Septem
ber, to allow no sale of intoxicating
liquors on the grounds, and to permit
temperance addresses to be made by
both men and women.
Influence of the Smile in Giving
Beauty of Expression.
A beautiful smile is to the fe
male countenance what, tho sun
beam is to a landscape. It ern-
bolishes au inferior faeo, and re
deems an ugly one. But the
smile, to be effective, should not
bo a studied and artificial one,
nor should it becomo habitual,
for, then, it becomes insipid.
Somo persons smile on one sido
of the mouth, lotting the other
sido remain passive and unmoved.
This may be somewhat effective
when tho smile is intended to be
satirical, but it is utterly ungrace
ful if meant to lie appreciative
and applausive. If so meant, it
fails of the object intended, and
imparts an air of deceit and
grotesqueiioss to the features. A
disagreeable smile distorts the
features in a face of beauty, and
is more T^pulffive, than a frown.
There are many kinds of smiles,
each having a distinctive charac
ter. flame., announces goodness,
sweetness, approbation, tender-
Wo differ with many who look
upon the present system as a
bad one for tho management of
tho convicts. It is better than
the old time penitentiary plan if
properly managed, and insures a
profit to the State instead of a
loss. It. does away with the ob
jections to the old ones, in which
the convicts were kept at work at
all the various trades, ami the
products of their labor were
brought into competition with
those of our good honest*citizens,
whose trades were depended up
on to support honest and worthy
citizens and their families. Tho
convicts, under the old plan, wore
put to work making wagons, bug
gies; shoes, and many other arti-
An English statesman asserts that
not only do married men live longer
than bachelors, but that the latter
are more criminal. He says that
there are thirty criminals among ev
ery 1,000 bachelors, while among mar
ried men the ratio is only eighteen.
The mighty relics of tlie late war in
these States are fast passing out of
sight forever. Recently the house
where Mrs. H> B. Stowe wrote “Uqcle
Tom’s Cabin,” that seed of the sec
tional slaughter, was burned to the
ground, why not let the captured
battle Hags go the same way?
An army officer now in Chicagp
asked the other day: "Do you know
where the exact geographical centre
of the United States is? Never
thought anything jabant it,, probably ?
Well, it is marked by a grare—that of
Maj. Ogden, of the United StateB
army, who died at Fort Riley, Kan.,
ill 1855, during the cholera epidemic
that year.” >
One reason why 1 admire birds so
much is because of the gallantry of
the male, meek contentment, indus
try and faithfulness of the female. It
is "a very bad femule bird that is
ashamed, of hqr diess and lack of
fieaity aiil adfednifljgBments, when
'the brilliant pUhnage amt fascinating
voice of her companion is so gallant
ly laid at her feet.
Of the “UW campaign” in Colorado
a Den ver letter says; “The expenses
will he very large. The men are
mounted on horses which are almost
all hired at the stables at froui $2 a
day upward. A great many will die
before they reach home, uuji for these
the State" will have to pay . abohfc
twice their value. Provisions have
been transported to Meeker and ‘tlie
front,' for which enormous prices
have been paid.”
sarcasm, bitterness and pride;
8oirfe"«often the countenance, ex
hibiting tenderness and affection;
others exhibit brilliant and spir
itual vivacity.
Some persons gaze and pose
before a mirror, to acquire beau
tiful smiles, and, as a result, be
come the objects of silent amuse
ment instead of admiration. Tlie
best of all plana, in acquiring
beautiful StfUleS, is to turn the
gaze inward; cultivate beautiful
thoughts, reflect upon tlm beauties
of character,..noble and* generous
deeds, cltarming sentiments, ut
tered py friends or fouhd in
books, or charming pictures, or
heard in the touching strains of
admiration in friendship, in love,
in the sweet harmonics of music,
choral or instrumental, iu the
sweet sighing of the winds, the
gentle murmurs of chrystal foun
tains, which nature opens to cool
the thirst of man, or animals, and
above all to keep tho heart unsul
lied from the practice of evil, and
illuminated with moral and spirit
ual veracity. In such, alone, can
we see and feel the influence of
the smile which gives to beauty
and character their highest pow
er in tho social structure.
Under What Government?
Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Thomas
Paine and some others adhered
to principle and. were incorrupti
ble. State' sovereignty would
have triumphed in our country if
1 heir*ideas cOuld have prevailed.
The f Tie tins of monarchy were
represented in the formation of
our' ■gdvertifilWtf.' Tho people
were deoeivedLind misled and the
plans of siuB-Uinen us Jefferson
and Paino had to yield and tho
government, as it was established,
was a political hybrid, a kind of
aeronautic structure that could
sail under free or half arbitrary
colors. Thei’e were about three
sets of opinions as to what it
was, and it so continued until tho
war made it a consolidated gov
ernment, abolishing the states and
putting us all under the rule of. a
majority in Congress. We have
often asked if somebody could tell
us whether we had left any states
or not. 1 r.,
We call them states but are
they states? In all the skillful
balancings about this question,
no statesman, North or South,
has undertaken to show what we
are, and we are going on ruled
and governed by a majority of
tbe 'people,'American ana foreign
born, including socialists, anar
chists and thousands of others
from abroad, who came under no
colors at all;-' We think it is time
to put the country upon some
stable basis so that wo can clear*
ly know among tho tine spun the
ories. of the world, what i,s the
rMl 'Imsrs'tif what We vet Kill the
United States.
■ J-St’kjcfcs to.iyuas if we aro mov
ing on to a point of timo at which
our hesitations and scruples
should bo settled upon a perma
nent basis. Would it not be a
good timo to docide this impor
tant and serious matter at thq
Constitution Centennial Celebra
tion) which is to tako place ^ut
Philadelphia in the present
month?
THE CONVICT SYSTEM.
ktitution became a great Work
shop, brought into competition
with worthy and honest citizens
who depended ujpon their trades
for a livelihood, and many of
them had to abandon them, after
having spent years in apprentice
ships to qualify themselves for
the trades they adopted, because
our citizens resorted to the Peil-
itentiury for their supplies. Near
ly everything needed for planta
tion use was made there and gen
erally sold at a lower price than
in the shops of honest citizens.
If we are not mistaken, this
great workshop of the State, was
kept up at a loss, more or less to
the Treasury. Under the present
convict system there is a clear
gain to tho State Treasury.
But much cruelty has existed
it is said, in some of the convict
camps. That only proves tho
want, somewhere, of due atten
tion and investigation into the
management at the camps. The
hire of the convicts is a source of
gain to those who hire them, and
would be so, under humane treat
ment. Tho fault, in the system,
is a want of due investigation in
to the management of those who
hire the convicts, and not to the
system itself. It is discreditable
to the Htato, that the cruelties
referred to have occurred, and
eminently so to tliofle who : have
hired and treated the TtinVictR
with inhumanity, ttugh persons.
shpYikl not oil lx deprived of
tne use of the convicts, hut
should be severely punished for
their inhumanity. Oar legisla
tors should seo to it that those,
who.hire them, should be held to
a strict and severe accountability
for inhumanity to those placed
under their charge. It. is a Very
easy and simple matter to ascer
tain the management of those
who hire them, and speedy pun
ishment should follow any de
parture from the laws of humani
ty. Tlie hirers of the. conVicts
should not be permitted to plead
absence*and iguorance of what
was going on in tho camps. They
should bo held to as strict ac-
countabiliiy as their agents. Let
this be done, and all cruelties will
cease and the present plan of
hiring out the convicts xvill be
the best and most lucrative dis
position that can be moda of that
unfortunate class of oi\r pfeople.
Judge Eve, of Aiigofit*, a good
man and faithful officer, has fur
nished an example of fidelity to
the public and humanity to con
victs worthy of all praise, and we
will commend, too, as worth}' of
all praise, Mr. Berrien Rachels,
under whose management Judge
Eve has placed the control of the
convicts under his charge. Both
practice the laws of numafjf
with strict fidelity, to the ,pi
interests.
Impurities .of tlie blood often cause
great iiunoy'ance.at this season; Hood’s
Sarsaparilla purities the bl66d,rand
cures all snob affectlftn*. . T
Legnloap, foolscap, letter and note paper
—pens, pencils and Ink, tor sale cheap at
the Union A Reoorder office.
Obedienoe.—W. M. F. Round,
a very high Noxv York authority
on prisons, intimately acquainted
xvith tho causes whioh keep them
full, writes:
“Day by day I seo criminals;
hundreds of them—thousands of
them in the course of the year.
I seo scores of broken-hearted
parents wishing rather that their
ions had never been born than
they had lived to bear such bur
dens of shame and disgrace. I
hear the wailing of disappointed
mothers, and see humiliated fath
ers crying like children because
of the sins of their children. I
seo mothers growing gray between
tlie successive visits in xvhich
they come to inquire about tho
boys in prison. And seeing those
dreadful things till my heart
aches and aches, I say to those
mothers and fathers xvhose boys
have not yet' gftno astray, to
mothers and fathers xvhose little
families are the care of their lives,
teach your Children obedience.
I want it written large I wish I
could make it blaze here in letters
of fire. I wish I could write it
in imperishable, glowing letters
on the walls of every home—
OliEDIENCE, OBEDIENCE, OBEDIENCE!
Obedience to law—to household
laxv; to parental authority; un
questioning, instant, exact obe
dience, Obedience in family,
ob§dicnce in tho school! "Wkere-
ever, front tho beginning, from
the first glimmering of intelli
gence in the child, there is ex
pression of law, let there bo
taught respect for it and obedi
ence to it. It is the royal road
to virtue, to good citizenship; it
is the only road.”
The want of obedience, Dr. W.
A. Moore says, is cause of more
deaths in sickness than disease.
A NAMELESS CASE.
My case lias been a very curious one
for about thirteen years. At inter
vals of about one week I would
attacked with spells of severe and
most excruciating pain, always com
mencing in the region of my kidneys
Tlie pain would then go upwards and
affect my body and head, and seem
ed to penetrate my very eye-balls,
creating the most "intense suffering,
lasting about eight bourn each spell.
I resorted to all kinds of medicine
without benefit. Several doctors
treated my case, but none gave relief.
I finally used B. B. B. as an experi
ment, and to my utter astonishment
all pain and suffering vanished after
using three doses. To M lie present
time 1 have used three bottles, und-
not a pain lias ever returned. I do
not know what was the matter, neith
er could my physicians name the
complaint. The R. B. B. acted finely
and powerfully upon my kidneys; my
appetite lias been splendid anil .my
constitution bui.il up rapidly.
K. THOMAS,
Constitution, Ga., May (I, 188(i.
UNIMPEACHED INTEGRITY.
J am 55. Broke down twelve years
ago, and have not keen able to work
since. Have lost proper action of my
hips and legs. For five years scrofu
lous sores have appeared on my scalp
aud nose, and at same time my eye
sight began to fail, and for" three
years have been comparatively blind.
Have been treated by eminent phy
sicians of different schools without a
cure. I have taken five bottles of B.
B. B, (made at Atfunta, Ga.,) and all
scrofulous sores are gradually healing.
Inflammation about my eyes lias dis
appeared and there is som6 improve
ment in my vision. Am very much
benefltted and relieved and begin to
feel like a boy again—feel good. My
strength and activity are returning
iu my legs and hips. The B. B. B.
acts vigorously upon my kidneys, and
tlie great quantity of matter that has
been forced out through the skin is
utterly incredible, often so Offensive
in odor as to produce nausea. I refer
to all business men of LaGrange, Ga.
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LaGrange, Ga., Jannary 13, 1886.
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