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Voi r.MF LV1I1 f Federal Union Estiibllslie.l In 1829. ( jjjOCXHEBW Ueothdeii 18111. j CONSOLIDATE!. 187'i Milledgeville, Ga., September I1887. Number 10. THE UNION k. RECORDER, I*ul>lt»lie<l Weekly In MIUeilKeville,On. BY BARNES & MOORE. Tkkm*.—One dollar an<l fifty cents a year In advance. Six months for seventy-livecents.— Two dollars a year If not paid In advance. The services of Col.. J amku M. SMYTHl.areeu- paged as (leneralAsslstant. Tli c ‘ ■ K K OK ft A L UN lON” n nd t he ‘ ‘ SOOT 11E HN RECORDER'’were consolidated, Augnatl»t,lK72, the Union being In Its Forty-Third Volume and the Kecorderlu 11n Fifty-Third Volume. 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Endorsed b/ the use of 1 Millions of Bottles, a THE BEST FAMILY MEDICINE for Children, for Adults, and for the Aged* ONLY GENUINE h:»p our Zi Stamp in red on front of Wrapper J H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., a Lk ■ Print. Ml.00 Mureli 20, 1887. 28 cw ly 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. P. PROPHILL. LaGrange, Ga., Jannary 13, 1886. 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