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Volume LVIII.
("Federal Union Established In 1829.
|SOUTHKRN UeOORDEB " “1819.
Consolidated 1872,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GtA., OotOBER 25, 1887
Number 16.
BALD W IN CO UN T Y.
BALDWIN SHERIFFS SALE.
W ILL be sold before the Court
House door, in tbe City of Mil-
ledgeville, during legal sale hours, on
the first Tuesday in Nov., 1887, the
following described property, to-wit:
One house and lot in the city of
Milledgeville, anil known in tbe plan
of said city as being the home place
of Henry Temples, deceased, contain
ing one acre, more or less, and being
the South-west corner of lot on Mont
gomery and Clark streets. Levied on
as tbe property of J. T. Temples, to
satisfy one Co. Court Ufa in favor of
Tlios. Johnson vs. J. T. Temples.
Levy made and Defendant notified in
person, this Oct. the 3rd, 1887.
Also at the same time and place:
One house and lot in the city of Mill
edgeville, and known in the plan of
said city as being in square No. 3(1,
and part of lot No. 8, fronting on
Wayne street <59 feet and 2.1 inches.
Levied on as the property of Mrs.
Dixie Haygood to satisfy a Superior
Court li fa in favor of E. H. Wall.
Levy made August 8th, 1887.
C. W. ENNIS, Sheriff.
Oct. 5th, 1887. 13 tds
Petition For Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County,
Court of Ordinary, Oct. Term, 1887.
W HEREAS, L. Carrington, Execu
tor upon tbe estate of Emmie
DeLaunay Nlsbet, deceased, has filed
his petition in said court for letters of
dismission from his trust as such Exec
utor.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all persons interested, heirs or
creditors, to show cause on or by the
January term next of said court, to
be held on the first Monday in Jan
uary, 1888, why letters of dismission
from said trust should not be granted
to said petitioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this October the 3rd, 1887.
DANIEL B. SANFORD,
13 3m.] Ordinary.
Petition for Letters of Adminis
tration.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County,
Court of Ordinary, Oct. Term, 1887.
W HEREAS, Walter Paine, Clerk
of the Superior Court for said
county, has filed his petition in said
Court, for letters of administration
upon the estate of Joe. Reeves, c.,
deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all persons interested, heirs
or creditors, to show cause on or by
the November Term next, of said
court, to be held on the first Monday
in November, 1887, why letters of ad
ministration upon the estate of said
deceased should not be granted to
said petitioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official sig
nature this the 3d October, 1887.
DANIEL B. SANFORD,
13 lrn.] Ordinary.
Petition for Leave to Sell.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, Oct. Term, 1887.
W HEREAS, C. W. Ennis, Adminis
trator upon the estate of W.
T. Ethridge, deceased, has liled his
petition in said Court for leave to sell
the real and personal property belong
ing to said deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all persons interested, heirs
or creditors, to show cause on or by
the November term, next, of said
court to be held on the first Monday
in November, 1887, why leave to sell
said real and personal property,
should not be granted to said peti
tioner as prayed for.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this the 3rd October, 1887.
DANIEL B. SANFORD,
13 lm.] Ordinal y_
Year’s Support.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary October Term. 1887.
IllI1EKEAS the commisnlonsrH appolnt-
VV oil to net apart a year’s support
t Tor Mrs. M. E. Whitaker, widow of H, E. Wliitn-
Ker, deceased, have Illed tlielr report in said
K court.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
‘ persons Interested, hell's or creditors, to sliuw
jjl cause on or by the November Term, next of said
H Court to be held on the first Monday in Novem-
i ber, 1887, why the report of the said commls-
H sioners should not he approved, made the judp-
■ ment of aald Court und lie recorded.
Witness my hand and olllclal signature, this
the 3rd October, 1887.
IlANIEI. II. SANKOltl),
13 lm. Ordinary.
Petition for Letters of Adminis
tration.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County,
Court of Ordinary, Oct. Term, 1887.,
W HEREAS, M. W. Hall has filed
his Petition in said Court for let
ter of administration upon the estate
of Mollie 8. Hall, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ad
monish all persons interested, heirs or
creditors, to show cause on or by the
November Term, next, of said court, to
beheld on the first Monday in Novem
ber, 1887, why letters of administration
upon the estate of said deceased should
not be granted to said petitioner as
ft proved for.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture this the 3rd day of Oct., 1887.
DANIEL B. SANFORD.
13 lm.] Ordinary.
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formerly occupied by T. J. Barks
dale. For terms, apply to
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Valuable Property
FOR SALE.
F OUR well improved, valuable lots,
three on East Green Street, oppo
site the Methodist church, tile other
on East Hancock Street adjoining the
Baptist Parsonage. This property is
without doubt the most desirable,
for sale in the city, being central
ly located, convenient to business,
churches and college. Buildings all
new and of modern design. Property
sold subject to present lease. 1 will
at any time, take pleasure in showing
the property to any who may desire
to purchase. For terms, Sic., apply to
S. BARRETT.
Milledgeville, Ga., Aug. 29, 1 87. 8 tf
FOR SALE.
T HE residence of Mr. O. H. Fox on
North Wayne Street. Large lot.
House and out houses in good repair.
Terms |l,70O. Apply to
O. H. FOX.
Milledgeville, Ga., Sep. 27, 1887. 12 tf.
Notice to Debtors And Creditors.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
A LL PERSONS Indebted to the estate of Sum-
i\_ ucl E. Whitaker, late of Baldwin county,
deceased, are requested to make payment, and
all persons having demands against said estate
are requested to present them to me In terms
of tile law. II. I). ALLEN,
Sept. 27, 1887. 12 6t. Adm'r.
Tax Notice.
M Y BOOKS are now open for the
collection of the State and Coun
ty Tax for the year 1887. The books
will be closed 20th December next, as
the law directs. Office at the Court
House. Office hours from 9 a. in., to
4 p. m. I will be at my office at the
Court House on Tuesdays and Satur
days. T. W. TURK,
Tax Collector Baldwin County.
Sept. 20th. 1887,11 3m.
FOR SALE
' EDITORIAL GLIMPSES
| The secret of happiness is steady,
hopeful employment.
It pays to cultivate good humor,
j The happy man gets the best of eve
ry thing, for he rises superior to his
; surroundings.
Nina Van Zandt, the proxy wife of
Anarchist Spies, last week wrote her
signature in the autograph album of
a Munoie, Ind., man. She wrote
‘‘Nina Spies.”
President Hyde, of Bowdoin Col
lege, is one of tlie best amateur lawn
I tennis players in the country. He
I pronounces the exercise necessary to
ft good game second only to that to
bo found at the oar.
Dutiful and affectionate sons and
I daughters make happy parents. No
other successes in life can compensate
for the want of these. Children who
honor their parents always prosper.
God has so promised: and His word
never fails.
On days when Alfred de Cordova,
the New York broker, doesn’t want
to leave his comfortable home near
North Branch, N. J., carrier pigeons,
sent out by his clerks, bring him hour
ly quotations. The distance is forty-
three miles, but the birds never get
lost.
Chief Justice Waite is paying a
great deal of attention to educational
matters. He says liberal education
for the rising generation will do more
towards suppressing Anarchism then
nny safeguard which can he devised
by legislation. He favors a general
law of compulsory education.
Since Mrs. Langtry became a citi
zen of California, with the object of
securing a divorce, the SuperiorCourt,
of San Francisco lias been overrun
with women seeking relief from mat
rimonial chains. In the past four
months over 200 women have begun
suits for divorce in San Francisco
alone.
A. Bronson Alcott lias kept a jour
nal ever since lie was a hoy. Among
the earliest entries are the following,
if we are to believe a facetious ex
change: “Went in swimmin’ to-day.
Read Plato while dryin’ off and got
offullv sunburnt.” “To-day began
kriticle study of the Greke trogedise,
but Ralf Emerson come around and
we concluded to go after chipmunks.*
Phoebe Couzins, who is now United
States Marshal at St. Louis, said to
President Hayes, just after his inau
guration, that it was a pity that some
women lawyers like herself was not
the Chief Justice who administered
the oath to the President. “In that
eftse,” gallantly replied Mr. Hayes,
“I should have kissed, not the book,
but the Chief Justice.”
The young man who cannot get
along without his beer, • says an ex
change, should be tied a while longer
to his mother’s apron strings. He
has pulled himself a little too green.
Such fruit should hang long. Why
don’t the girls and mothers of our
towns patronize the saloons? If fath
ers and sons make better citizens
through the influence of the saloons,
why cannot we make better mothers
and daughter^ in the same way?
Professor Hermann, the conjuror,
who recently died at Carlsbad, was a
great favorite with the late Sultan
Abdul A/.iz, and used to get a thous-
■and pounds (Turkish) for each per
formance. Once, after exhibiting two
pigeons, n white one and a black one.
lie managed to put the black head on
tbe white bird, and vice versa, which
1 so pleased tbe sultan that lie ordered
! a black slave and a white slave to be
| brought in, and requested that the
same trick be repeated with them.
Hermann was forced to acknowledge
that he could not do it. m
THE residence of Alfred Hall; 3
1 rooms; front and back porches and
kitchen attached; good well of water;
one-lialf acre of ground; 100 yards
south-east of College, on Elbert
street; bouse new. For terms apply
to ALFRED HALL.
Milledgeville, Oct. 11. 14 lm.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
B Y VIRTUE of an order granted by
tlie Court of Ordinary of said coun
ty, will lie sold before the Court House
door, in the city of Milledgeville, on
the first Tuesday in November, 1887,
between tlie legal hours of sale, tlie
following real property belonging to
tlie estate of Mrs. Martha F. Robin
son, late of said county, deceased, to-
wit:
AH that tract of laud situate, lying
and being in the 115tb Dist., G. M., of
said State and county, bounded on tlie
north by lands of C. E. Prosser, east
by D. H. Wilkinson, south by Sam
Walker, and west by Mrs. J. Butler,
containing eighty acres, more or less,
known as the Martha Robinson place.
Sold for the purpose of paying debts
and division. Terms cash.
W. H. 8TEMBRIDGE,
Oct. 4. 13 lm. Administrator.
Posted.
A LL parties are hereby notified that
hunting or tresspassing of any
description is strictly forbidden on
lands of undersigned in Baldwin
county.
B. B. ADAMS, Sr.,
B. B. ADAMS, Jr.,
H. M. ROSE,
J.. CARRINGTON,
J. F. LITTLE, Adm’r.
Oct. 3rd, 1883. 13 4t.
Roscoe Conkling lias taken up his
residence at the Hoffman House, and
now divides tbe attention of strang
ers with the “Nymphs and the Satyr"
and Billy Edwards, ex-champion pu
gilist and “bouncer” of tlie palatial
barroom. Mr. Conkling no longer
appears in the faultless garb for
which be lias so long been famous.
He now wears a short and heavy dou
ble-breasted pea-jacket of the kind
affected by sailing masters, and a
black slouch hat with a brim that a
cowboy might envy.
Education—Anarchism.
A distinguished 'American has said
recently that be saw but one way to
eradicate the spirit of Anarchism, just
now lifting its Briarean head in this
country, and that was by thoroughly
educating the people. There is a
mine of wisdom in this opinion. A
republic like ours tolerating freedom
of thought, expression, and action to
such an extent, must depend for per
petuation on the intelligence and
virtue of its citizens. Education is
tlie corner stone, and on itHhe edifice
of our Democratic temple must rest,
if safety and perpetuity be expected.
Tlie legislature should encourage the
young men of the State to embark in
the honorable profession of teaching
by every means possible within con
stitutional limits. No pursuit in
which men of liberal knowledge and
limited property limy engage is no
bler than tlie instruction of youth in
those moral, religions and literary
principles which adorn humanity.
Education, we believe, is to be the
giant that shall destroy tho viper of
Anarchism. With it, we may, like
St. Paul, shake off the serpent into a
consuming (ire.
President Cleveland’s National Trip.
President < heveliiml’s extended trip
through vast sections of oar country,
taking in many large cities of tlie
great west, up to his arrival at At
lanta, accompanied by his lovely and
charming wife, lias demonstrated be
yond the possibility of a doubt, his
strong hold upon the confidence and
even affections of the people. His re
ceptions have been cordial, amount
ing to ovations at every place he vis
ited. All classes of tlie people num
bering many thousands, assembled to
pay him their respects and demon
strate their confidence in his ability
and devotion to constitutional liberty
and the rights and interests of all
classes of his fellow citizens. No
where was there tlie slightest exhibi
tion by the people of dissatisfaction
or discontent at liis methods In hold
ing the reins of power, dispensing the
principles of the government ana
guiding its destinies for tbe good of
all, whether in high stations or low,
whether surrounded with the glitter
ing trappings of wealth or clothed in
the plain habiliments of tlie laborer.
Some writer lias said that mind is de
throned in America, and that money
rules now in our great republican
land. The people have closely watch
ed the career of President Cleveland
and with a (universal acclaim avow,
that he stands by the principles of
justice between man and man, which
should penetrate our republican na
tionality. His whole conduct, since
he occupied the Presidential chair,
sustains this opinion of our able and
faithful President. He has shown in
all his acts that lie holds to the doc
trine that the constitution has adjust
ed the rights of all parties in the ag
gregate and in the separate States, to
the social compact, laying them in
tlie deep ground work of equity—
maintaining, at the same time, the
true principles of republican liberty.
Such is tlie high plane upon which
Mr. Cleveland stands ns shown by all
tlie acts of li is administration. Pub
lic virtue is ns essential to the pros
perity and glory of a people as the
oxygen of the atmosphere is to ani
mal life. The people believe that
President Cleveland possesses public
virtue. It is this, more than merely
to see a President, that draws so many
thousands around him wherever he
goes, i In saying this we would not
detract a single flower of sentiment
from tlie attracting influence of tlie
lovelyjjand charming lady who ad
ded to the President's good fortune
in uniting ber destiny with bis. Some,
wishing to detract from tbe Presi
dent’s popularity, say she is tbe at
traction which draws tbe crowds. We
will not be so ungallant us to deny it,
but we raise high Mr. Cleveland’s Hag
when we say, lie was the winner of
such an enchanting prize. With this
statement we leave detractors to their
ignoble snarls.
For a brief time democrats and in
fluential ones too, exhibited strong
excitement at the retention of some
republicans in office; but the senti
ment lias become almost universal in
tlie democratic ranks tho tit was done
under the restraints of obedience to
the laws of tbe land. As far and ns
soon ns circumstances released him
from obedience to tbe civil service
law, lie called upon democrats to come
to his aid in administering tlie laws
for the good of the people. He had
acted under the proper and primary
obligations of obedience to the laws,
und when exempted from that, lie
quickly obeyed the instincts of loyal
ty to bis party and tendered oflicial
diplomas to competent and faithful
brother democrats. While democrats
approve liis course republicans are
forced to honor him for liis fidelity to
official duty. No one cun charge him
with cunning and exquisite balancings
in his official duties and the public
voice gives him credit for unstinted
honesty and executive ubilty of the
highest kind. He is already charged
with making an electioneering tour
to secure a triumph for unother Pres
idential term. That charge was ex
pected as a matter of course. It will
he trumpeted by the republicans
throughout the land, and yet, if ever
a man was subjected to more eupho
nious invitations founded in deep and
exalted regard, to let the people see
and take him by tlie hand for liis hon
est and faithful services as a purely
political official, we are at a loss to
name him. There was nothing in the
drum bent, tlie sound of bugles, the
roar of cannon, blood-stained fields
and shouts of victory to attract the
wonder and admiration of the people
in Mr. Cleveland's career—nothing
but liis patriotic devotion as an hon
est, faithful civilian and guardian of
the peoples’ rights. As sucli they cor
dially welcome him to their hearts
and homes.
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13 lm
Envelopes for sale at the Union
Rkcordkr office for one dollar per
thousand.
Visit of the Athens Committee of In
vitation to Ex-President Davis
and Family.
The Athens-Banner Watchman of
the 18th contains a very interesting
account of the visit of tlie Athens
committee of invitation to Beauvoir
to invite Mr. Davis and family to visit
Athens and take a rest there previous
to the opening of the North East
Georgia Fair. Tho committee were
most cordially received and the invi
tation was extended in a very linppy
and graceful manner. While it was
not distinctly accepted the committee
hope that tho Ex-President will visit
Athens before his return to his home
at Beauvoir. All depends upon the
state of his health, lie is eighty years
old and suffers considerably from an
old wound received in liis foot in tlie
war with Mexico. Mr. P. A. Stovall,
who was one of committee, gave a
most excellent and interest ing account
of tlie visit in which lie alludes to
the wurm personal friendship which
existed between the Ex-President
and the late Hons. Howell Cobb,
B. H. Hill, and Gen. T. R. R.
Cobb, and Mrs. Davis’s remaining
with the Cobh furnily in Macon, after
her husband was captured. These
tender intimacies and associations
will have a powerful influence with
Mr. Davis and his family. After a
long and deeply interesting account
of the visit, taking up nearly three
columns of the Banner-Watchman,
Mr. Stovall says : “But under all cir
cumstances and with all the lights
before us, I do not think there is any
doubt that Mr. Davis will visit Athens
during our Fair. A committee will
wait upon him at Macon and bring
him in a special car over tlie Georgia
Railroad, by tlie way of Ciunack
and Union Point, reaching Athens
Friday or Saturday of next week.—
It will be a great day for Athens and
North East Georgia.”
.Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Oct. 18, 1887.
Editors Union-Rkcordkr:
Of the many annual reports now
being prepared in tlie several Federal
Departments, perhaps none are of
such general interest as is that of
Commissioner Sparks, of the General
Land Office, which has just been sub
mitted to the Seoretarv of tbe Inte
rior, and which speaks more than
mere platform platitudes of the sin
cere desire of the Democrats to re;
deem their pledges to reclaim und re
store to the people the public domain
of which Republican rupacity and
venality have wrongfully deprived
them. These vast funds are not con
fined to any particular locality but
impartially and unblusliingly pene
trate and permeate every State and
Territory of the Union, which shall,
for many years to come, emblazon on
the pages of our country’s history the
degradation mid infamy of the most
corrupt party of the century.
Considering the number of impor
tant and interesting cases to be adju
dicated, tbe October term of the Su
preme Court of tiie United States
promises to be of extraordinary in
terest. First in magnitude istbe trial
of tlie Virginia State officials impris
oned by United States Judge Bond
for alledged contempt of court in tbe
celebrated “coupon crusher" cases,
as this unheard of proceeding involves
a grave constitutional question in re
gard to the relation of the State and
National Governments.
Then there are the famous Bell tel
ephone cases, the case of the l’rellar
murder at St. Louis—with a stroog
probability that the fate of tlie Chi
cago anarchists will also be decided.
Among the bills to be introduced in
Congress next session will be seven
on pension legislation, prepared un
der the auspices of tho Grand Army
of the Republic, witli tlie purpose of
providing aid for all soldiers who saw
actual service. But if Congress
should be weak enough to sanction
such a wholesale raid on the Treasu
ry, President Cleveland will again
stand like a stone wall between that
body of designing politicians—with a
few honorable exceptions—and the
coveted coffers of a great and gener
ous people.
Another measure that comes near
the people will be the introduction of
a bill providing for the licensing of
railway engineers and conductors—
the object being to obtain for such
service careful, temperate, and exper
ienced men and thus secure tbe safe
ty of the passengers.
In this conection I may say that it
is highly probable that Congress will
abolish kerosene lamps and heating
stoves on all railroads—replacing
these death-dealing agencies with
electricity and steaming apparatus,
attached to the locomotive.
The citizens of the National Capi
tal are making an earnest effort to
have the next National Democratic
Convention meet in this city. The
initiative was taken by the Columbia
Democratic Club in behalf of Wash
ington, and the whole city is second
ing their endeavor as a public meet
ing will soon be called to consider the
undertaking. Tlie chief obstacle to
tie overcome is tlie fact that tlie city
has no ball large enough to accomo
date the convention; but it is pro
posed to obviate that hindrance by
the erection of a large temporary
structure for the purpose. Another
essential part of the program will be
the dining and wining and lioniz
ing of the National Democratic Com
mittee when that body meets here
next winter.
For tho fnlon Recorder.
Pencillings from my Perch.
By Mr. Picklk.
No. 9.
PLAGIARISM.
The Hawthorne-Bonet tournament
which aroused such a wide-spread
comment from Maine to Texas, in
the press, a few months ago, still
flares up here and there in sparks on
the horizon of the literary world,
when some over-zealous critic imag
ines he lias treed a big animal that
turns out to he a very diminutive
’possum or odorous skunk. Such
was the Now York Sun’s latest dis
covery in President Cleveland’s
Indianapolis and Terre Haute speech
es. Because Mr. Cleveland used some
statistics about the early history of
theseplttc.es, their growth, etc., taken
from some American Cyclopedia,
Dana rushes out with a very sharp
pencil and attacks the President mer
cilessly for having stolen public prop
erty without paying an equivalent.
It was verv foolish in the editor of
the Sun, who uses other men’s ideas
every day without credit, to do such
a thing. As well might it he expected
of him, when lie pens a line for his
paper, to say this hand is not mine
own that doeth this thing; my daddy
gave me this, or this pencil I write
with, and this paper I use were made
at the factory ana not In the office of
Dana the editor.
But this subject of plagiarism is as
old as the field of letters, and it lias
been handled with ability by more
facile pens than those of modern
Danas. And in every instance where
the parties engaged in the duel were
of eminence in authorship or literary
work, tlie result has been without
damage to the challenged side. Dr.
Ferriar tried to convict Lawrence
Sterne ot stealing the best of Trist
ram Shandy from Father Isla, a
Spanish author, and also of pirating
on Rabelais, D’Aubigne, Hall, Burton
and others, but failed to make out a
case of larceny. Shakespeare wus
accused of steuliug Othello's speech,
before tlie duke in the play, from
Paul’s speecli before King Agrippa,
and Byron of stealing ids grandest
ideas bodily from Isaiah and Job.
Yet Shakespeare and Byron still have
admirers and multiplied readers as
the years come and go. In early life
a man's memory is very powerful,
und in reading miscellaneons works,
especially where his attention is ar
rested uml his mind captivated, im
pressions strong ntul inextinguishable
have been made, which impercepti
bly arise and are used by him in writ
ing or speaking without tlie least
reference to the works from which he
is unconsciously quoting. No won
der then when such a man is writing,
ut a subsequent period of his life,
that his mind should be strongly im
bued with the images, ideus, forms of
expression, nay, very words, so famil
iar to him, should be constantly ob
truding themselves on him; no won
der that even whole passages should
bo presented bv his recollection,
which he mistook for a tribute of
fered by his imagination.
It is a notable fact that most men
who have been attacked liy critics on
the charge of plagiarism, were men
of marked ability, ns far superior to
their accusers in talents, genius, elo
quence, pathos, as President Cleve
land is to Clias. A. Dana in states
manship, ability and principle—men
who could far more easily compose
and construct one page for a book, or
a paragraph for a speecli, from their
own mental labratory or workshop
than they could steal and interweave
as their own one line from another’s
composition.
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Mr. Picklk: Will you pleuse tell a
school-girl who are you favorite poets?
Certainly; they are Shakespeare,
Milton and Walter Scott. Why?
The first furnishes strong pabulum
for the mind's sustentation; the sec
ond lifts the soul to heights where
it may commune witli God and an
gels; while tiie Inst supplies refreshing
dews that keep the heart in perpetual
freshness, flower anil fruit.
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Consistency is not only a jewel, as
tlie poet lias it, but it is a big dia
mond of tlie purest water. I huve
seen a man sit down to a 25 cents
dinner at a restaurant, anil besides
eating a half pound of beef, or ham,
as the case may be, consume u quar
ter of u pound of Goshen butter, and
tiiis same man, eating at his own ta
ble, at home, say lie “never eats but
ter—it’s too oily and disagrees with
his stomach.” But at the same time
lie eats about a saucer full of strong
hog gravy. Butter at the restaurant
and butter at home ain’t kin folks,
and don’t look alike.
I have seen a woman to take an ac
tive part at a Church supper, and ap
pear so anxious to utilize every
mouthful of the best there was
spread, eat not a mouthful herself,
who had, at the same time, two or
three plates full of the choicest cuts
there was on all the tables hid away
in a private basket, or other secret
place, to eat when slio went home
and all next day.
“Is there no balm in Gilead?
Is there no physician there?”
Thanks to Dr. Pierce, there is a
balm in bis "Golden Medical Discov
ery”—“a balm for every wound" to
health, from colds, coughs, consump
tion, bronchitis, and all chronic
blood, lung and liver affections. Of
druggists.