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Newspaper Page Textr-r „ r VT lFSDERAL UNION kSta V OLUMR LiA-L. 1 jOPTHBBN Bboobdkb Fbdebal Union Established! n 1829. . nn «pDriATmi2ii 44 ‘‘1819. Consolidated 1872 MlLLEDGEVILLE Ga., JANUARY 20, 1801. Number 29 Cunning, but Tricky. A MMONIA powders claim to be “free from alum, etc. Alum powders claim to be “ free from ammonia,” etc. instead of saying what their baking pow ders don’t contain, why not state what they do contain ? ( All that is used in Cleveland's Superior Baking Powder is pure crjeam of tartar, pure bicarbonate of soda, and a little flour to pre serve the strength. Cleveland Baking Powder Go., 81 & 83 Fulton St., New York. The Augusta Carnival. King Cotton will enter Augusta to day (Jan. 20th) at 3.30 p. m., when the Mayor will deliver to hnn the keys of the city, and it* inhabitants and the thousands of visitors inside her gates will bpgin a royal Carnival to last four days. On the 21st at 7.30, p. in. the Trades Display will present a minia ture world of industry and progress, illustrating fully what Augusta is and what she can do. On Wednesday night, the Carnival will be a kaleidoscope of Fancy Scenes, and on Thursday night at 0 o’clock the Grand Ball of King Cotton will take plaoe. The Georgia railroad will sell round trip tickets at one cent per mile for the distance traveled and everybody will have an opportunity to visit Augusta on this interesting oocasion, at small cost. FIVE MONTHS SCHOOL. Editorial Glimpses and Clippings. This is carnival week in Augusta. The Forsyth murderers have ar rived at the Ohio penitentiary. Tl* dummy lifts made its first trip over the Albany street railroad. There are forty-two white physi cians in Augusta and one colored. Ur. John Temple Graves and his ide visited Washington City last M brid week. Gamble Hightower, a conductor on the Central railroad, died in At lanta on the lltli. The Journal of the 12th contain ed notices of the deatli of the fol lowing prominent citizens of Atlan ta : Messrs. W. S. Parks, G. P. Mitchell, W. H. Clayton. Chattanooga now has a regular service by steamboat with St. Louis. In Col. Tom Fort that city has a live man as the President of its Chamber of Commerce. Julia Ward Howe’s latest obser vation that he only is of good fam ily who stands by iiis poor relations after he gets up In the world, shows that she still retains her happy fac ulty of saying much in little." Couuties.grow to considerable size out West. Montana claims the lar gest county in the Union—Custar. it is larger in extent than the states of Vermont, Massachusetts, Con necticut, Delaware and Rhode Is land combined. Blind Tom, the colored musical prodigy is insaneand is fast sinking into his grave. His frame has shrunken into a mere shadow, his fingers have become palsied and lie cannot - evolve the sweet strains which have enchanted thousands. Not much good has come out' of Kansas since it was made a State, but it has a glorious opportunity in in the retirement of Senator Ingalls *rom public life. The defeat of In galls would make the whole coun- try grateful.—Columbus Enquirer. Thomas A. Edison is said to regard iiis deafness as a blessing in dis- gmse. It enables him to think and plan m perfect quiet, and lie can have his children about him at all times without being disturbed by their noisy prattle. He also misses the comments passed on his appear ance wherever he goes, Col. Tomlinson Fort lias been elect, ed President of the Chamber of Commerce of Chattanooga The Chamber consists of 3113 members and is great power in that city. All the Chattanooga papers are pleas ed with the selection. The Daily Times says: “TlieChamber isapovv er, but its alTairs need further sys tematizing, and Col. Fort is etui- nently the man for the work Death claimed a noble victim Sunday when the spirit of Col. R an i>on*naf r took it I s flight. He was an honest man and a goo l and loLftoTi , ttU<i his death iH a ijreat livid rJh ° 1, l I , UU,1 ' t - v in whic > 1 nvea, and to the State. He filled many positions of hono e r * a ," e and chscharged the duties of them cieditabl C v en Gen 81 *'-’ fai 1 hf «Hy and est regret. —Columbus Enquirer Sun. Tlie expected election of crelte la a n TivlTv ee in , this Ktat " will vear in nomL P ? le for this off tlie gentlemen naineVhave announ ced. themselves, but the following is a partial list of those who have H e on j a 0C?HU X n t S d < ’ ail< Iidates: Hon J. C. C. Black of Augusta; Hon. L’ - r' of Atlanta, Hon. ni w' ^ulbUDOn 0 f Savannah, Hon Wm°CHf^ ?H° n ° f Macon ’ Hon'- c B.Woo™n ot b, Oa a |KV" 1 H °“' State School Commissioner Bradwell states that the public school fund w^l enable the schools to have five months session. The impression somewhat seems to have gotten abroad that the Jackson bill passed both houses and that six months school were to be looked for. Even the press, in many Instances, seemed to take this for granted. As a matter of fact the bill stuck in the senate and failed to become a law. Mr. Bradwell says; “The assembly, at its recent session, increased tlie school fund about *1 70,000 and no more. The $500,000 appropriation in the general act was greater than the preceding year Oy that amount. Tlie legislature did that much for the schools and no more. The increase was sufficient to support them for five mODtiis in the yearon the basis of five cents a day, $1 per month or $5 per term for each scholar. “Had the Jackson bill passed there would have been money enough to keep the schools running # for six months, as desired and apparently expected by many.” She Had Her Way. Three of the candidates for the speakership of the next House, says the Washington Post, were joking together a day or two ago over the enterprise of a Washington corres pondent who had undertaken to name the speaker and the chairmen of the prominent committees of the next House. “There’s many a slip ’twixt the cup and the lip,” said candidate No. 1. “I should say so,” said candidate No. 2. “Out in my state there were two contestants for tlie position of doorkeeper] of the legislature. Di their canvass of the state they met and compared notes. Each had pledges enough to elect him. 'Wliat is the use,’ said one, ‘of wasting more time and money? One of us is sure to be elected. Let us go home, and we will agree that who ever is chosen will appoint the other his first assistant.” They agreed, and went home. When tlie legislature met neither man got a vote.” Great laughter. “There was a politician in my town,” suid candidate No. 8, “who was an applicant for the county clerkship. When I asked him how he was progressing, lie showed me a book, in which he had the names of 1,700 men who hud said they would vote for him. On election day that man received just 198 votes. He told ine afterward that there were 1,577 liars in that town and he could prove it.” M ore laughter. “I can discount your stories,” said candidate No. 1, who had been listening attentively to these reci tals. “in my town a man announ ced himself as a candidate for sheriff. When he went home and told iiis wife what he had done, she positively refused to agree to live in tlie tumble-down dwelling ad joining the county jail, which was the sheriff's residence. Nothing datmted, the candidate drove out six or seven miles to the jail tlie following day with his wife, and the inspection of the place simply confirmed the lady in her position. 1 hey qurreled then and there, and tlie husband and. wife actually sep- rated. 'In the convention the hus band received only 17 votes and was the last man in the race.” “What became of tlie wife?” asked t-iie interested auditors. “Ob, she came back to hfer hus band,” was the reply, “and has had her own way with him ever since.” Washington Letter. From Our Regular Correspondent. Washington, D. C., Jan. J3, 1891.' Senators Edmunds and Sherman have engineered a larger number of audacious schemes to success during their long legislative career, blit their latest scheme is tlie most audaefbus of all. It is, for the United States to practically assume the entire respon sibility of building the Nicaragua ca nal by guaranteeing $100,000,000 of bonds to be issued by the company now at work upon the canal. This scheme has been very quietly worked, and the first thing the public kuew of it was when the Committee on Foreign Relations presented a report td the Senate Saturday in favor of amendingthelaw under which thiscor- poration was chartered so as to guar antee these bonds, in order, as the committee gravely informs the pub lic, that they may be sold at par, in stead of at a big discount as they would if issued without the Govern ment guarantee. Thus it is proposed to make the United States furnish the credit to build the canal, while the profits should there be any, are to bs enjoyed by a private corporation. These gentleman may think that a lot of fine talk ab’out “American in terests” being at stake will reconcile the people to such legislation as this, but it will not. If the government is to furnish the money to build the ca nal let the corporation step aside and tlie government take cliaiVe. Mr. Harrison attempted to take a small revenge upon Senators Teller and Wolcott of Colorado, for their during to oppose tlie Force" bill and to favor free coinage, b£4ioiuinatiog ex-Senator Hill, of the same State, who is an implacable enemy of the two Senators, to be a member of the International monetary commission, and this nomination has brought ubout a unique state of affairs in the Senate It has always been a custom in the Senate to confirm the nominations of ex-members of that body witlioi^ the formality of referring them to com mittees, but Senators Teller and Wol cott have succeeded in breaking down usage and having this nomina tion, wbioh they both regard as in truded as a personal affront to them, hung up, and they will leave no stone unturned to have it rejected. On Wednesday of this week the Senate will vote on the new silver bill, and there is little doubt that a free coinage amendment will be adopted by a very substantial majority, but that it' can get through tiie House in the face of the opposition of Czar Reed and the administration, is not so certain, although the silver men in the Senate, who claim to have made a careful canvas of tlie House, say that it is bound to go through Reed or no Reed. But something is being hatched up between the anti-silver republicans and the administration that may have some effect upon th House. I can’t say just what, it is, but I know that conferences are con stantly being held, both at. tlie While House and at the residences of Sena tors and the silence of tlie anti-siivi-r republicans when asked as to their intentions is of itself suspicious. Some people think that Mr. Har rison is trying to make a bargain with tiie republicans, who voted against their party to lay aside t tie Force bill by promising to sign tlie free coinage bill, if it passes tlie House if they will promise to vote to take up the Force bill again wheu the fiuancial bill is disposed of and to vote for its passage. If this be true he must have made a failure with the Colorado Senators, or lie would not have affronted them by nominating their most bitter eueuiy to an impor tant position. It is denied that there is any fric tion between Secretaries Proctor and Noble over the Indian policy that lias been adopted by tlie administration of putting Army officers in charge of tlie agencies. All the same it iskn-iwn that Mr. Noble publicly stated his op position to the change before it was ordered*by Mr. Harrison. Whenever anybody in Washington gets possession of an unprofitable piece of real estate they immediately begin to lay wires to unload it upon the Government. Here’s a ease In point; Several years ago a capitalist built a hotel opposite the Senate wing of the capitol; it bankrupted everybody who tried to run it and for a year or more it has been tenant- less. On Saturday a hill was favora bly reported from the Senate commit tee ou Public Buildings and Grounds to purchase this building for $125,- 000 to be used as committee rooiusaud to accomodate the Senate folding rpom. It now looks as if the ship subsidy bill job might be defeated in the House. Its opponents are increasing on the republican side and it is. mak ing no gains among the democrats. It now turns out that Spain isn't half as anxious to negotiate a reciproc ity treaty with usas has been stated by Mr. Blaine’s friends, and that she will demand the big half of the bar gain in any treaty that is proposed by Mr. Blaine. Representative Turner, of Kansas, intimates that the letter offering a bribe to Mr. McGrath, to wiiich his name was forged, was instigated by friends of Ingalls. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889, Powder absolutely pure COMMUNICATED. “What Make* a Man Old. Widows’ Pensions. From the Constitution, The following circular lias been issued with reference to the pen sioning of confederate widows. The matter is ene of general in terest : Static ok Georgia, Executive Department, Atlanta, Ga., Janu ary 8, 1891.—In answer to numerous inquirers, and in order to explain tlie law pensioning certain widows of confederate soldiers, the follow ing points are mentioned: • 1. Tlie law provides a pension of $100 per year. 2. The pension year will begin on 15th of February, 1891. 3. The payments»will be made up on proper proofs presented to tlie executive department, in compli ance with the laws and forms to be furnished through the ordinaries of the state 4. These blanks will be prepared during tlie latter part of March and sent to the ordinaries. 5. The payments will begin about the 1st of April, 1891, and will be for the pension year ending February 15, 1892 6. The pension is only payable to certain classes of widows. (a) Those whose husbands were killed in service. (b) Those whose husbands died in the army of wounds or disease contracted in tiie service. (c) Those whose husbands went to the army and have never been heard from since the war. (d) Phone whose husbands were wounded in the army and have since died from tlie effects of tlie wound. (e) Those whose husbands con tracted disease in the service, and who, after the war, died of the dis ease caused by tlie service. 7. No widow is entitled unless she was tiie wife of tlie soldier dur ing the war and lias never remar ried 8. The law does not provide for any one living out of the State of Georgia, or who did not live in the state at the date of the act. 9. The facts to establish a claim must be substantiated by the testi uiony of three witnesses who per sonally know of the enlistment of tlie husband and iiis death, and the immediate cause of the death. lit. Widows, who have married since the service of their husbands in the army are not entitled. 11. There is no need of employing a lawyer or other agent to attend to these claims ’The department will furnish full and specific instruc tions. and give ample opportunity to every claimant. By order of the governor \S H. Harrison, Secretary Executive Departmen Tom Crenshaw, collector of inter nal revi-ntm under President Cleve land, and known to every politician mid ahun r i-v -ryho'lv else in Georgia, tolls the following story: “Whai would you tlii ik of a train running right through a urove of uiu'es, kill ing sixieeo of them, ami the train passing on without any accident, and withou' .eiec-esity of stopping ex cept to find oil' *hi damage had h-eu done to 1 he rn'Ues. That, was tlie ca-e I ooke . Into some time ago. Sixteen mules bad t>e» n killed in less time tii in six'een seconds, and yet nor 01.e o' 1 lie bodies fell 011 the track. They weie. of course, thrown every way imaginable, but ihe mole catch er, a* it whs in this case, did its work well and the train was not impeded D seemed a m ricaloos escape from a very serious accident. W< rk on the two 1 ridges now be- oig constructed across tlie Oconcj river at Diibdn is progressing rapidly, ■,nd me nanks of 1 lie Ocoliee present hh appearance of I’fe and activity mat would suggest to the onlooker proximity to a metropolitan city. The railroad "midge will lie a ste 1 struct ure, 1 esting on brick piers, and will cost including tlie piling through the swamp, $30,000. The couniy bridge will be an iron structure, resting on concrete piers, cased with iron sheet ing ouw-fourtli of an inch thick, and will cost aoout $10,000 when complet ed. m _ Ask no man to do for you more than you are willing to do for him. A short piece in your paper of the 13th attracted my attention. When your readers’ eyes shall have run over these lines your writer will have just begun his 62d year. Am I an old man? Do I feel old? Do’ I 1,00k tuy age? These are questions which each one puts to himself; and as iu your article—“To himself a man is as old as lie feels; to others, ns old as he looks.” A great deal of truth in that. But as there are always two men in oue, for as we can see and feel the outward or physical man, so we cun judge of tiie inner or spiritual man, by his actions and desires. Tiie Cain and Abel of our creutiiu twins. The physical laws of our nature are growth, maturity and decay, and that decay may begin in tlie twenties, thirties, forties or fifties. How many reach tlie age of sixty? At the age of fifty, out of 10,000 born, 4,397 will be walking tiie earth. At tlie age of six fy, 3,033 will answer to tiie roll call or life. At 100 years nine will lie living. At 104 years all will be gone of tlie 10,000. At birth of 10.000 children 1,533 will die the first year. So much for poor mortality, suys statistical tables. Tlie spiritual mnu ranks tiie pliys ical, us much so, as tiie soul docs tlie body. The bright, active, progress iye, cheerful, hopeful, and aggressive mind, which is the inner man, keep alive tiie body many times against its will. Thus those given to mental la bors, those with bright elastic minds, outlive the mere laborer or physical jmiu. Tlie alcohol in the spit its is the soul of the liquor whatever it may be. Take that away and fermenta tion and decay begins iustanter. A mao’s mind is tlie best part of his life. Your wtiter as lie pens these lines is mentally younger and bright er tInin he was at twenty-five. 1 The more I thiuk about it, themore I aui impressed witli the thought that we sin far more agaim-t ourselves than we do against God. Tlie physical man belongs to earth, and we should take good care of ourselves, for we are told: “ To honor our father and mother that thy days may belong in tlie land Iwhicli the Lord thy God giveth thee”. Not because it is right to do so, but that one may live long; or in oilier words, our parents can give us good advice as to how to take care of ourselves. To tionor our parents is to listen to their ad vice ami experience, mini do accord ingly. But to come hack to old age, let us see wliat some writers .have to say about it. Says Seneca the old Roman writer: “There is nothing more disgraceful than that auold utau should have nothing to produce us a proof that lie bus lived long, exoept iiis years.” “Although my heart In earlier youth Might kim 11- with more warm (Latte, Relieve me, I have gain'd tu truth Much more tluiu I have tost la the.” "I left him in a green oM nge. And looking like the oak, worn, hut Still steady Amid the elements, whilst young r trees Feil fast around him." “Though ..Id lie still letsined Ills manly sense and energy of uilirl. Vil li.o m and w ise lie was, hut not sever*. He still remembered that he oueo was young And 1 lugldirg could Instruct." “When men grow virtuous In their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the devil’s leav ings.” Old age is what, we make it and it can he inviting or repulsive; instinc tive or a waruiti.; it (sever a guile board on the road of life. R. M. O. SCHOOL OFJARMING. GEORGIA CAN GET THE GOVERN MENT APPROPRIATION. have more mental life in me, and the trouble is my body is not as strong as my mind, and cannot keep up with it. When 1 shall go home, 1 will step iu- to the spirituul world, us bright and elastic as any young fellow who may be called at the same time witli me, and many are called uway in tuoir twenties He is really old who is ever talking about the past, who believes the past better thau the present. Who be lieves the world is growing worse more tiiau better. Who mourns for tlie past. I live in the present bright sunlight of to-day. Men know more, think more, do more, feel more, and enjoy more to day than did our fath ers or forefathers. 1 care nothing for the thoughts of 100 or 1,000 years ago as bearing ou my character or ac tions. I do not purpose to stand up and be knocked down by the bones of the dead past. Tlie people of 1891, know more iu a day, than did our old grandfathers and mothers of 1791 know in a month, yea. in many re spects iu a year. They thought and believed for their day, we are doing tiie saute for ours, and are along ways ahead of them in every respect, save perhaps, in personal honor and virtue. In Europe, personal virtue wus a rare (lower, one huudred years ago, among tlie aristocracy of every degree. How often do we hear the exprea* stou: “That he is a very young look ing man for his age.“ It is the man’s soul and mind within him which makes him look young. It is holding up the body, manuring and watering it with young and progressive thoughts— not living in the dead past hugging old worn qut ideas, be liefs and opinions. The cheerful always outlive those of a sorrow fill, complaining, fault-finding nature, The latter minds are at work at all limes upou the physical tissues which go to make up the physical expres sion, and eats away life; while the toriuer feeds life. At about 55 years the material waste of one’s physical nature begins to make inroads upon .tisgrowAh. His waste is then greater than his repair, and it continues to gain upon repair. Tims at 63 years, or the ninth sep- tenial of life, called the grand climac teric of life, a man steps into the lane of life, he has left the broad road. He must then go slow, lake life easy, throw aside annoying cares, curb his appetites and desires, and cease to burn tlie candle of his life at both ends at the same time. All stuff and uousense to tell an old man over 60 to take exercise, especially, if he use* bis Representative Cannier Su orestn That the Atlanta Uuiversi'y Fund be L’Uiizerd iu UAtiihiialdiig an Agricultural College for N''groro—The White People’s Share ot the Money to 53 Per Ceut. Washington, Jan. 13.—Represen tative Candler has written Gov. Northen that the only way in which Georgia can get her $15,000 agricultural appropriation is by Complying with the requirements suggested by Commissioner of Edu cation Harris and adopted by Secre tary Noble, which are that Geor gia shall establish a negrq agricul tural college, and that it divide the appropriation according to the pro portions of the last school census, so that the negroes shall get 47 per cent, and tiie whites 53 per cent., according to their respective num bers of school age. TWO OBJECTIONS. Messrs. Harris and Noble objec ted to the act of the Georgia legis lature dividing the appropriation so as to give the blacks only one- third, and they also object to the payment of any of it until Georgia establishes a negro agricultural col lege. Representative Candler tells Gov. Northen that the act of the legislature dividing the appropria tion leaves it iu the discretion of the governor to make the division correspond to the terms of the act of congress; so that without fur ther legislation the governor can make arrangements to get the money. He will, of course, not on ly nave to make a new division, but appoint a commission to establish a negro agricultural college. CANDLER'S SUGGESTION. Representative Candler suggested that the $24,060 now in the treasury appropriated for the negro state university, which the Atlanta uni versity failed to get because it ad mit* white students, could be used for establishing the proposed negro agricultural school, the $8,000 an nual interest on the land script fund being enough, with the por- tioi/it would get from the national appropriation, to carry it on. Un less some one donates a site the state will have to bear the whole expense. Georgia is almost the oil- brains; for a man cannot eat up blood ly state which has not received its and tissues by thought and then tuke agricultural appropriation. Next physical exercise that will only eat up year the national appropriation more. To do so, he is sinning against I under the law, will be $16,000, and his nature, violating the laws of his $1,000 will be added each year, creation. until it reaches $25,000.

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Union recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1886-current, January 20, 1891, Image 1