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UNION-RECORDER. HlIIiLKltaKVLLK, Ga., Aug. 0, 1889. EDITORIAL. GLIMPSES. Augusta is wrestling with the Mor mon question. Senator Jos. E. Hrowu has not got over his illness. Th# Law <A Diet Life and Iti Trouble*. as g< mad Prof. A. Mooty, superintendent of public schools in Columbus, died of paralysis last Thursday. The corner stone of Savannah's new court house was laid on Wednes day with appropriate ceremonies. It is said by an Athens expert that ood bagging as the jute cau be e from the common hog weed. The U. S. and England are to have a little spat over the seal question up about Alaska and the Behring sea. Augusta is much agitated over the proposed electric railroad in that city Horse whips are in demand in that city. .Hon. F. G. DuBignon and his part ner Mr. Fraser recently made a $2,500 fee in a railroad case in Chatham Superior Court. Tom Woolfolk has changed bin mind about fasting, and now says lie will eat all the victuals jailer Birdsong will bring him. _ Macon received on Friday her first bale of new cotton. It was from Lea ry, Ga., weighed 431 pounds, graded middling; and was sold at 12} cunt" Judge L. Q. C. Lamar of the U. B. Supreme Court has recently been having some fun witli the “boys at Indian Spring. The Judge Riiowh when to take off the ermine and put on the jacket of the god Motnus. Sullivan took such a fancy to Mis sissippi on his former visit that ho is going to return, this time by iuvita tion of His Excellency Governor Low ery. Were you ever at a fashionable -summer resort when it rained three or four days in succession? Then you can imagine liow the tourists at Geor gia resorts felt last week. Oil, there's no place like home. The Supreme Court of Georgia has been temporarily transferred to New York. Chief Justice Bleckley and associate Justices Simmons and Blandford sailed for the above port on Saturday last. The overseers in the Columbus cotton mills petitioned the Legisla ture for a law prohibiting the facto ries from requiring more than ten hours as a day’s work, and pro hibiting children under ten years of age, from working in tin* mills. Did ever a piece of property have as many' guardians as the Stain Road has? Why not punish t item for mis application of funds, as a bill be fore the legislature proposes to pun ish guardians of private estates? ButbiesH you how can you get at them? Fut your finger on them and like the Frenchmna s flea, they aint there. Tjiere is u gentlmau living near Quitman, in Brooks county who never ate a morsel of bread or meat in his life. He subsists principally on fruits and potatoes. He weighs nearly 200 and was never sick longer than an hour in his life. He drinks a gallon of milk a day. Col. Gibson of the Augusta Even ing News had a splendid talk for young men in a recent issue. He said he was one of them, and did not exempt, himself from the teuipations that lie warned others of. Col Gibson never wrote a better article, and lie deserves tiie approbation of every lather and mother in Georgia. The Georgia House of Representa tives is sucli a large body that there will ever tie diversity of opinion among it members even on a subject that wouldn't puzzle a school boy 12 years old five minutes to get at rigid solution. There are but two things that body is ever unanimous on, and they are adjournment for dmuer and per diem to its members. One of Ellftville’s gallant young disciples of Blaekstone, finding busi neFS in the legal profession rattier dull at this season, and having a wife and babv to provide for, laid away his law books, closed his office, doffed his standing collar, congress gaiters and court house clothes, hauled on his seediest garments, seized a trowel, and sallied forth to earn bread by the sweat of his brow until the law busi ness picked up. He had gotten a job of brick laying, and earned over $100 before his friends missed him out of town. _ How much credit is to be given many sensational stories going th rounds of the newspapers may bo in ferred from the one ubout Gen. Bob Toombs and his graduating speech at Athens under the “Toombs Oak.” The story goes that Toombs, for some misconduct, was refused a diploma and not allowed to speak with his class on Commencement Day. That he hired a brass band, and made his speech under an oak tree in At liens, and drew a big audience, and the baud played “Dixie” with great applause. Now, Toombs graduated away back in the thirties when there was no such a thing as a brass band in Ath ens, and the air “Dixie” had never been heard of. Many persons suppose that a very few ] Enjoyment, in this transitory exis- even two artioles of diet, is more con- tence, depends in a great measure ducive to health than a‘ greater num- upon the constitution of the mind, her. A distinguished German physician Its ready adaptation to circumstances, named IJle urged thq constant use of or fretful agitations when they do not a variety of articles of food nt each readily accord with the feelings and meal as conducive to health. We sentiments of the individual. Bucli a give his views in a fews words of our person, as the last alluded to, is con own for the sake of brevity. We stantly disturbed by doubts and fears must not partake of the same food and sees the lowering shades of dark- from day to day but must vary as ness in everything that does not read- much as possible. Only with a varying ily meet his views in the ordinary and alternating dietary can we be transactions of life. The impartiali- sure that what is lacking in one kind ties ofjfate if contrary to his wishes, will be supplied In another and that shades dtod darkens his mind, beclouds what we full to get to day we shall , the sun, obscures hopes and covers have tomorrow. What is commonly the earth with gloom. It is tins un regarded as simply the result of a fortuuate temper or turn of mind spoilt palate, viz: The repugnance that gives gloom even to temporary excited by a steady recurrence of the hope and ovorcasts the pathwuy of same disli is an uprising of the organ- his life. The hope, that spreads over the mind of such a character occa sional sunbeams of success in bis or dinary business, is easily over-cast with clouds of gloom, deepening his cares, obliterating liis anticipations and if yielded to, gives to despair, eventually, the empire of liis soul. And what does it biing to liis contem plation; Instead of success it. holds up the pictures of failure, of famine and ruin to /his mind, and long in dulged in, gives to despair the empire of liis faculties. The spectre of fam ine often stares him in the face, and without a mighty struggle, he falls Into its embrace anil becomes a slave of liis hideous power. It may be said that this is a higli and overdrawn picture, and so it ip, fortunately, in a large majority of- cases. But there are many who are the victims of a hopeless desponden cy, and it is by no means oonflned to one sex, but Is sometimes found in the female as well as the male sex. But we incline to the opinion, con trary to the general view that more males are its subjects than females, especially in the married state and particularly if the females are moth ers. In the troubles of life there is a manifestation of more heroism and bravery in most women than men if there are children in the family. The tender heart of the wife, especially if she lias children makes her the hus band's best friend. In difficulties of Wo have known porsons who, wea- j kinds, of a serious nature, her ten- ried of eating biscuit, were delighted I <lerness inspires her witli an eutliu- to partake of llglitbread, and others, superior to man’s and more who tired of ham and roast beef, felt ri> ' especially if a sweet pledge of love, or galed witli ham patties and beef hash. j several children reposing'in her arms But the variety is sufficient without ,lro left specially to her care to be resorting to varied preparations of the trained in the paths of piety and de- same tiling. We have only to men- pendence upon the Heavenly Father tion a few articles to show this. We for eternal happiness. A good wo- liave beef, lutnb, mutton, pork, veal, ' tuan’s tenderness is free from every chickens, ducks, geese, turkey, shad, hBse alloy anil withal she is true to >ysters, sturgeon, fish in great varie- - tiod und necessarily so to her bus ty, and in their season cod, crab, lob- end children in all the walks of sters, shrimps, salmon, mullets, mack. life - Her tenderness inspires truth erel and other kinds besides. Surely aui t devotion in ull the changes in the we can never be at a loss for variety walks of life and fortune, in none so witli all these foods at our t doors or faithfully as in leading her cherubs within our reach. °» high in the unbroken pathway of We would fatigue our readers were heavenly as well as worldly duty. we in the vegetable lines, to add ' who witli soft seraphi# hand might bind, , , . , , me wminus or rnt« slid ornament tier kind, cabbages, turnips, peas, potatoes, ~ ‘ ‘ onions, beets, and all the others that ism itself against a food which does not meet its requirements; »r rather, the consequences of a deficiency al ready established. Here we have ail important rule for determining a wholesome diet. The foods wo use must contain the indis- peusibie elements of nutrition in due proportion; our food must bo mixed, varied and alternating; and what is here said with regard to the individuals holds good also for nations. In the climate of Goorgia and especially in more southern latitudes where the heat is intense, while it is not whole some to indulge in eating heartily of stimulating meats in the heated montiiB it is equally as important to have a frequent change of food as in other climates. The necessity for variety is as great in one climate as anothor, however one tnay require rnoro stimulating food than another. In very cold countries the inhabi tants need a larger oonsumptiou of fatty meats and oils than in more temperate climes and doubtless the frequent changes are not so essen tial. We need not in our temperate cli mate fear a want of the variety sug gested by the German writer. We have beef, mutton and hog meat and a great variety of fowls from which to choose; but wo apprehend the wri ter alluded to, recognized thechanges in cookery of the same materials. we can easily have in inexhaustible quantities. And so of fruits, peaches, apples, pears, grapes, quinces, figs, raspberries, strawberries, plums, mel ons, and others which it will he our own fault to be without. We think Mr. Ule is rigid, and take much pleasure in the belief, for if riety is the spice of life it is doubly so when it conduces to health and of course longevity: Migm with the tender heart, tho useful life, Pilfer in the friend enamour in the wife; .sooth with consoling sweet the pangs of woe Ami raise the torch of mercy here below.” We have not gone into the subject as deeply and fully as we intend, for oircuilistancs pfornp I1H t.n innL-i> n tttusiVi Sensible Talk From A Big Farmer. Hon James M. Smith of Oglethorpe county one of the most extensive far mers in Georgia, was In Atlauta last, Wednesday and was interviewed by a correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle on farm topics. He is thus reported. Mr. Smith lias 3000 acres in cotton, one thousand in corn and and fifteen hundred in small grain. To cultivate this vast area of land he employs three hundred laborers. Seveuty-five are convicts, the others tenants and wago hands. If the sea sons are good he expects to get over one fourth of a bule of cotton to the acre. In the course of the conversation Mr. Smith said: If the farmers would livo inside their income and practice half the economy that prevailed fifty years ago there is no reason why they should not become as independent as they were in times past. Before the war tiie farmers owned the railroads tiie hanks ami fhe factories and loaned the merchants money. After the war all of this was changed. The farmers now owe the merchants and the mer chants owe the banks. There is no goodreuson why this should he so. It is much easier to make a living now than it was fifty years ago. The ne cessaries of life are fifty per cent cheaper and labor is one hundred per cent higher than it was. So it fol lows that p day’s labor now is from three to four times more beneficial to tiie laborer aud his family than it was fifty years ago. I think the country is beginning to see the situation in this light, and the encouraging pros pect is thus accounted for,” ircumstancs eforce us to make a much | narrower view of “Life and its trou bles - ' than we intended at tiie outset. We intended to sketch some of the t r >’ ln K scenes and -troubles of life, | overcast with gloom, in which despair va-J usurps the empire of mind, but only for a time, leaving a bow in the cloud to check the supremacy' of spectres which overcast with gloom man s pathway along the journey of life. But we saw that tile pathwav would be longer than we anticipated’, and lead us to scenes and dreary places that would unduly lengthen out tiie little brief work intended for a short talk witli our readers, which would be all we could give them and we veered around from onr pros peetive purpose to bring brieily in to view a woman’s halcyon smile mingled with that,, momentarily, of a cherubs smile and the influence of that smile ami its mother's upon tiie heart of an erring father. Its a species of writing easily done and often done, and lightens an editorial job for one wlio in tbe night-falls glooms, us well as tiie day time—bus been for nearly ten months the recipi ent of rheumatic paius and aches. We don t commend them to our readers as they are plague-spots without mer cy or pity to which our text is iu eve ry sense appropriate, Court Honors.—The Superior Courts are the grave-yards of politital aspirants. When a man takes a seat on the Superior Court bench, in nine cases out oi ten lie is politically bur ied. Farewell, then, Congress, fare well Executive honors. Tiie door is sealed to the judges and “no entrance here’’ written over it. It is not so with Solicitors General. It is with them oftener a stepping stone to Congress. They' have many of their counties in their own polit ical as well as juiiicial district, and learn'tiie wants, and get at tiie hearts of the people. Not so with thu judge. The people fear him, and yet the Solicitor General especially in criminal cases has far more influ ence tliun the Judge lias. As for tiie J udge's salary it is “nae rnuckle” to w ork for, BACON OB 8HAXB8PEABE. We are permitted to make the fol lowing brief extract from a private letter of Rev. I)r. A. A. Lipscomb to a friend In this county. Tiie thou sands of friends of this venerable man of God aud Sliukesperiau scholar will be rejoiced to know that his short stay in England was productive of an improved condition of health. Students of the great- dramatist will be interested in t lie following remarks of l)r. L.: “I saw nothing, tieard nothing iu Stratford-upon-Avon |or anywhere in England to disturb the one impres sion made supremely long ago upon my mind that Shakespeare was tiie author of the poems and dramas bearing his name. 1 cannot think it possible that Lord Bacon, who had no poetic genius, could have had any connexion witli Shakespeare and liis incomparable tusk in that splendid epoch that dates from Shakespeare's genius and lias won for the “Bard of Avon the homage of tiie world." I do not know a single authority that commands the respect of Shakes- perlan scholars for tho wild specula tions of Miss Delia Bacon, Mr. Donel- ly and the others who side with them. I have never hud a doubt as to Shakespeare's authorship of dramas attributed to him. Charming as was the visit to Avon, to the church where he was buried and to tiie house in Henley street, Stratford, I did not need them to realize that William Shakespeare was tin 1 only man that, ever lived whose human brain was vast enough to entertain and express tbe well-nigh superhuman concep tions of tiie men and women witli whom this one divinely endowed thinker lias peopled our ideal world. Ho far as Lord Bacon was con cerned lie was simply tiie splendid courtier of Elizabeth’s reign, a selfish, money-loving aristocrat, who had no sympathy whatever with Shakes peare and liis democratic instincts and intuitions. I dare not say with the men who say that the Lord Chan cellor was the “wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind,” but in his make up there was no possible room for congruity of taste, genius and feeling with the iininortul Bard-of-Avon.” — — -*-*-♦ •— The Legislature. July 2!)th. in the Senate no matter of general interest came up. In the House Mr. Lewis offered a bill to provide a punishment for any executor, administrator or guardian who appropriates funds in liis care. Mr. Johnson an important bill to require railroad companies to cause all passenger trains to leave the ter minal points aud all stopping points on their roads, on schedule time, oi- within thirty minutes thereof. Nothing else of importance was done. July 30th. In tiie Senate and House to-dav the main subject considered was tbe West ern and Atlantic R. R. and the num erous side matters bearing on it. Other than this matter, which will consume much time, very little else affecting the public interest received attention. We will watch tbe pro gress of the “great argument” and give our readers any definite action that may bo taken. July 31st. In the Senate to-day, Senator Rice introduced a bill empowering the county commissioners, in counties where such boards exist, or where they do not, the ordinaries, to hire for road work tiie convicts of their respective counties aud such other counties as may not desire to employ their own convicts in such labor. Mr. Trammel offered a bill making it unlawful for county authorities hereafter to exempt from taxation any manufacturing or other property at present not exempt. There was passed a bill by Senator Bartlett to amend an act empowering building and loan associations to lend money to persons other than share holders at 8 per cent or less. Senator Whitfield’s bill to incorpor ate the Merchants’ Bank of Milledge- ville was passed. Senator Rice’s bill requiring rail roads to look carefully after their bridges and trestles was passed. Senator Lyle’s bill amending that part of the charter of tiie city of Mill- edgeville which relates to tiie election of its marshal aud liis deputy was passed. In tiie House to-day, tho State Road lease came up for considera tion and the entire session was devot ed to it. August 1st. In the Senate the Board of Pardons Bill was the principal subject of con sideration and was discussed at length. It was passed by a vote of 23 to 16. In tho House the discussion of tiie lease of the State Road was contin ued. The House adjourned, and the matter will come up again to-morrow. August 2d. In the joint session Hon. J. H. Guerry was elected Judge of the I‘a taula Circuit. Tiie vote was, Guerry 105, Harrison 03, Powell 22. The Sen ate passed the House bill compelling the owners of cattle in the 105th and 115th districts of Baldwin to keep them from running at, large. After a brief session tiie Senate adjourned till Monday. In the House tiie special order, the lease of tiie State Road, was postpon ed to Aug. 5th. A large number of local bills were introduced. The hill to increase the salary of State Libra rian and assistant was lost. A mmi- boruf local bills were passed aud the House adjourned till to-morrow. Aug. 3rd. Senate not iu session. .The House had bills read a second time, and at 11 a. m. adjourned to Monday. | Augusta District Coxference. Perhaps one of fhe largest attended ; and most interesting meetings ever I held by tiie Augusta District Confer- l ence of the Methodist Church was the , one which convened at Harlem, in Columbia county, last week, j Harlem is noted for its hospitality ou all occasions; for the high charao- ' ter of its people, and tiie meeting of the conference there last week only served to show those in atteudunoe j that its reputation is well deserved, i Tiie ministers, delegates and visitors were royally entertained, and when i the time came for leaving, all were i profuse in their expressions of thanks to tiie citizens of the “sylvan city” for tiie numerous kindnesses whioh had been extended. WORK OK THE CONFRRKNCK. I The conference convened on last j Tuesday morning, Rev. W. P. Love- Joy, tiie presiding elder, calling tiie session to order, and preslili ng | throughout its deliberations. Rev. It. J. Higlium was eleoted secretary, I and after fixing tiie hours for rneot- , ing anil adjournment; establishing a ' line for tiie bar of tiie conference; ap pointing F. S.Hudson, J. J. AriHley anil 1 W. W. Parks a committee on quarter- j ly conference, tiie session entered upon a discussion of those topics of interest to the welfare of the church. ; The opening' sermon on Tuesday was an able and comprehensive one, and was preached by Rev J. R. King, of Milledgeville. The discourse Thursday night was delivered by Rev. W. H. LaPrade, of Covington. It was ornate and interesting. . THK 6KCOND DAY. Friday tho session was opened with oue of the grandest -sermons ever preached in Georgia. It was upon the subject “Perfect Love and Christian Education,” delivered by Rev. Warren A. Candler, of Oxford. Friday night there was no sermon on aocouut of tiie inclemency of the wen tiler. Saturday wan tiie last day of the conference, and it was a most impor tant one. The discussion on tiie yUKSTION OK EDUCATION . was opened on Friday and was con cluded Saturday morning. The suh- ject_of higher education and common schools was brought up and was i freely arid fully discussed. The ilis I mission resulted in tiie adoption, on j Saturday morning, of tiie following I resolutions by the conference: Resolved, That inasmuch as tiie churches iu the Slate have provided good colleges for both boys and girls; and, inasmuch as tiie State has a University owning property estimat ed at $603,000, and that the primury schools need much more aid than they get, it is the sense of this conference that appropriations by this State should be confined to tho common schools and not devoted to higher education. And moreover we feel it is an injustice to tax the members of churches who have provided colleges for th’euiselves iu order to make tui tion free for a few well to do people who prefer to send their children to the University, and ought to be wil ling as they are able to pay for what they prefer.” The following gentlemen were elected delegates to the next annual conference: Col. C. P. Crawford, Dr. J. W. Til- man, C. G. Goodrich anil Rev. John It. Lewis. The conference adjourned to meet next year at Warrenton, Ga. —Groensboro Herald-Journal. oumuim of Good Cropi. New Y'ork, August- o p n „ & Co., in their review oft«H D r U “ the week, say: oi * ra d 0 lor oiU’rsa 'xv o 'r «*• wheat began to arrive at rn 8 P r,D g tiie 1st, ten days ea rher tl Cag °, on year. The St. Lonis cornM “ D L asfc no effect. An abundant yield" peoteil and business in all ments is gaining. The North™ P . art " Miller estimates the wheat 500,000.000 of excellent nnalltv d w tli water plenty. St. Paul naturl ally reports an improvement in trade At L"!" 0 '“ •" At Uinaha tiie assurance of crons above the average makes business excellent. In the winter wheat re. gions tho improvement consequent upon a good vield has been steady for some weeks. At Kansas City business is rather quiet. ly In iron regions a distinct increase n demand is felt and here orders 100 new locomotives have been placed during the week. The certainty of a large truffle also has its effect upon railroad negotiations, which have made progress toward peace. In all oases of Cholera Morbus g n atouce and take a dose of Lamar’s Diarrhoea Mixture. Ripley, O.. Aug. 2.—At 2 o’clock tins morning a fire broke out which entirely destroyed every factory of the city. It started in the furnace room of tiie Ripley Mill Company and swept everything from Locust street entirely destroying the Mill and Lum ber Company’s property, the Phoenix foundry, owned by J. P. Parker, Rady’s piano factory, the entire ia- side of the building of the Ohio Val ley Piano Company, and all but six dwellings on tiie square. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Three hundred men are thrown out of employment.- The amount of in surance is unknown. That “Tired reeling.” The nowsyapors are having a good deal or run nowadays over that "tired feeling " bo much spoken of in medical advertise- ments, In connection with the Ill-health of females. It may be a source or hilarity to witty .paragraphed, but not so to suffer ing women, who by overwork and a dis regard of tbe laws of health, have lapsed into a condition bordering on invalidism. What most of the women need Is to be re- levioil of some of tho slavish work that Is piled on them, and a free but judicious use of strongthing tonics, such as P. p. p„ (Prickly Ash. Poke Root and Potassium), the greatest blood purifier and tnvlgorator In use. 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