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Volume LXI. Milledgeyille, Ga., January 27. 1891.
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
cream of tartar, pure bicarbonate
of soda, and a little flour to pre*
serve the strength.
fjftveland Baking Powder Co.,
61 <£ 83 FuUen St., New York
Washington Letter.
Editorial Glimpses and Clippings.
King Kalakaua. the Ruler- of the
Hawaiian?, died in Sun 1 rancisco,
on the 30th.
The democratic caucus of the New
York legislature has nominated Gov.
Hill for li. S. Senator, and the re
publican caucus re-nominated NY m.
M. Evarts.
On the 20th the democratic major
ity in the Indiana legislature in
caucus nominated Daniel W. Vouc
hees to succeed himself in the Uni
ted States Senate.
Mr. 0. T. Campbell has been ap
pointed to till the place of Mr. W.
H. Clavton in the Express office at
Atlanta. Mr. Campbell’s present
headquarters are in Texas.
Rejoice, oh young man, in your
strength, but be careful not to let
the sins and follies of youth blight
the serenity of old age, if you are
not cut down in your prime.
Hon. Z. B. Vance was re-elected
U. S. Senator by the legislature of
North Carolina, on Tuesday last.—
The ballot stood, Vance 126; Pritch
ard 20. This is a worthy tribute to
a brilliant statesman.
It may be safely said that the po
litical career of Senator Blair, of
New Hampshire, is about ended.—
His successor was elected last Tues
day. His name is Jacob H. Calling
ger. It is sincerely to be hoped
that he will not be so much of a
crank as Senator Blair.
We are in receipt of bulletins No.
9 and 10 of the Georgia Experiment
Station—li. J. Redding director.
No. 9 is a “special” bulletin Jind is
entitled ‘Potash and Paying Crops.’
It gives the various sources from
which potash is derived, the differ
ent estimates of the value of pot
ash as a fertilizer by German fann
ers, and also some experiments with
it in the United States. This with
other matter makes up an interest
ing bulletin of 47 pages.
Bulletin No. 10 (for December) is
entitled f ertilizer Experiments on
Corn ’ (2) “Culture Experiments on
Corn” (3) “Variety tests of Corn.”
A number of experiments are re
ported and the number of varieties
tested were 21 in all.
Any farmer desiring these reports
can get them free by making re-
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 20, 1891.
Mr. Harrison has succeeded by per
suasion, bull-dosing and promise of
patronage in getting the republican
Senators to make a last desperate ef
fort to perpetuate the power of the
republican party by passing the Force
bill, and the fight is now on, which is
to result either in striking a deadly
blow at the liberty of the American
citizen, by the passage of a measure
without a parallel in American an
nals, or in the final defeat of the bill.
Finding it impossible to unite the
republican Senators in support of the
revolutionary gag rule proposed by'
Senator Aldrich the republicans have
adopted the tiring out process, and
hope by a continuous night and day
session of the Senate to succeed in
compelling the democrats to accetd
to a vote on the bill. This, it is not
believed, they can do. The session
which began last Friday morning has
been one continuous sessioneversince,
except on Sunday, and is to continue
until the republicans tire of it or suc
ceed. The democrats are making a
grand ffght in talking against time
and express confidence of being able
to win.
How the democratic Senators feel
in this matter may be judged from the
extract from a speech of Senator
Reagan, which reflects the sentiment
of his democratic colleagues, and
tiiat they will never willingly surren
der: “As dear a? my life is to me, as
Number M:
refuse to tell the committee what they
are alleged to have told to private
parties.
The democratic leaders of the House
are carefully watching the proceed
ings in the Senate and should the
Force bill pass that body they are
prepared to make a desperate fight
on it in the House when it goes there
for concurrence in the Senate amend
ments.
George Bancroft, the historian, who
was Secretary of the Navy during the
Polk administration, when he estab
lished the Naval academy at Annapo
lis, died here Saturday afternoon in
his ninety-first year.
Senator Quay has taken the troub
le to deny*the rumor that he intended
resigning his seat in the Senate. It
was entirely unnecessary. Everybody
knows that he isn’t one of the resign
ing kind.
TheHouse committee on the World’s
Fair think the officials connected with
that concern are drawing too much
money and recommends a cut in sala
ries,
COMMUNICATKD.
Was Han Evolved or Created.
The church, science, philosophy and
general thought are now dealing with
the question as^to whether man is a
development in nature or a positive
creation. If the story in Genesis is
true, he is a positive creation from
the hand of God. If iu this day of
scientific investigation and the study
of the laws of nature, man then is
the highest development on earth.
Your writer is at a loss to take a
God is my Judge, if I could save the definite and positive side. There is so
American people from the pending much of the animal iu man that he
measure by giving up my life, I would looks and acts like lie has some dis-
surrender it as freely as I ever per taut sort of kinship with the animal
formed any act of my life.” It was world. When I look at the lowest
an imposing sight to see Senator Ilea- order of the negro, indian and Austra-
gan as he stood, every feature show- lian races of man, I see more of the
ing his earnestness and sincerity, and animal than of anything else, espec-
spoke these words, and it was not sur- ially when I compare those races
prising that they were greeted by an with the highest type of the white
outburst of deafening applause from race.
the galleries, which Mr. Morton was There is a mighty leap in nature
quick to reprove by threatening to from the animal to man. From in-
have the galleries cleared. j stinct, to reason, judgment and trac-
Senator Stewart on Saturday gave ing cause and effect. I see in man a
notice of a motion to recommend the three-story brain, while in the ani-
election bill with instructions to mal a one-story brain. The praying
the committee to report it back with organ of man deolares his immortality,
the provision for <he election of mem- or a desire for life after his physical
bers of Congress on days when no death. Is that a development, or is
other elections are held in the several it God iu man? and if so then God
states; and this motion may be made must be his father. What is intellect,
the excuse for getting rid of the hill j what is thought, what is prayer? No
quest to the directors at
rnent, Georgia.
Experi-
The latest issue from the Census
Bureau is bulletin No. 18 (dutetj
Dec. 20,) and has for its subject the
“Statistics of Churches.” This bul
letin includes only a few of the
smaller denominations or societies.
For the edification of our readers'
we stop merely long enough to re
mark that there are only 306 Sche-
venfeldians in this broad country
with Pennsylvania as their exclu
sive habitat. (This surely cannot
be a new name for the famous “306”
third termers of recent history')—
The Theosophical Society we find
number only 695 members, not one
of which is credited to Georgia
The “River Brethren” are credited
with a membership of 2080 and the
“7th-day Baptists ’ with upwards of
nine thousand. The '‘Salvation Ar-
my” is on hand with a brigade-
numbering nearly nine thousand
rank and file—mostly file.
Further review of this valuable
addition to classical literature is
committed to Mr. William Nye who
is well known as an expert and en
tertaining reviewer of current mas
terpieces in art and literature.
quietly when the republicans discov- \
er their iuabilitv to pass it, for if it:
is recommitted to the committee it
will never go before the Senate again. |
Notwithstanding their having made
speeches against the Force bill Sena-
animal can lay claim to any such fac
ulties. I am impressed with the idea
that man is a kind of spiritual lusus
naturae in nature. A leap so far be-
yoDd the mere animal, that he cannot
really be said to be kin to him. The
mere physical make up of man, is an
notating with and"voting with their j ^ true, but of what use is an
republican colleagues in their efforts engine without steam, the steam is
to pass the bill. This is significant really the soul of an engine, and the
in as much as it shows that the dem- engine was made to be moved by the
ocrats need expect no help from re-1 steam. The body of man was never
publicans iu defeating the bill.
Mr. Harrison’s henchmen are now
trying to prevent the passage of Sen-1 tions for the fol owing reasons:
ator Vest’s free eoinagfb bill, which
intended to be immortal, but the soul
was. I am lead to the above reflec-
was adopted by the Senate last week
as a substitute for that hodge-podge
of absurdities known as the republi
can caucus financial bill, by the
House by talking veto. The bill,
which is now before the House com
mittee on coinage, is in far more dan
ger from Speaker Reed’s opposition
than it is from a Presidential veto.
1. Man is self concious, he reasons
from induction to deduction. He’.flrst
feels then .seeks the object of that
thought, or the reason for such a
thought. The mind grows and devel
ops just like the body. The child is
not the man for he has not a man’s
body. There are seven steps or stages
in man's life and especially in his re
ligious development. The first stage
Reed has the audacity and the nerve or step resembles an animal, conscious
to resort to any methods to defeat
it, and if he doesn’t attempt to do so,
it will only be because he prefers see
ing Mr. Harrison, whom he dislikes
very much, weaken and sign it, as I
believe he will, if it passes the House.
Mr Harrison has made threats before,
but his spinal column h£s always
wilted when the time came to carry
them out.
Another erstwhile prominent re
publican is in the toils of the law. W.
P. Canady, who for many years, be
cause of his ability to control the
North Carolina delegation to republi
can national conventions, held the
position of Hergeant-at-Arms of the
United States Senate, has been ar
rested for obtaining money under
false pretenses. And ye Gods, how
cheap he sold his character. The
amount he obtained on a worthless
cheek was just $35.
Some startling exposures will short
ly be made by the House oommittee,
which is investigating the Silver pool
charges, unless the witnesses, among
whom «^e Senator Stewart and Jour
nal Clerk Smith of the House, shall
•nly of his instincts and bodily de
sires, without any positive concep
tion of a divine element in him.
2. He begins to have a kind of
feeling or JnBtinct or presentment of
something higher in him.
3. He begins to seek to find out
what that something is. He feels it
but does not understand it, for his
lower element preponderates over his
higher. There is more of flesh than
of mind.
4. The higher and lower elee-
rnents are begining to counterbal
ance each other. The mind is en
croaching upon the flesh and putting
it under subjection—the animal is giv
ing away.
5. He begins to feel positively there
is a divine nature in him, and looks
for it externally; begins to worship
some object or idea that ho sees and
attributes to it good, to make him
better, for he is feeling that he is
not as good as he ought to be. He
looks wjthin himself, and not out of
himself.
6. He finds that his real self is his
soul’s self, his higher manhood, the
stimulator of his feelings and desires
for a higher life. He begins to feel
that there is a God within him.
7. He now knows there is a God
in his nature, and that nature is
spiritual, and that God must be
worshipped in a spiritual way; and
that way is through prayer, faith
and confidence in that God. The
seventh step or stage is a self-knowl-
edg«. He then can stand alone in
his individual spiritual nature.
Man. is then what he really wills;
he has put his body and mind under
subjection, and has a will power he
never had before. A diseased body
has not the will power of a healthy
one. The poor diseased drunkard
may will, may pray, may desire to
reform himself, but as long as the
body is diseased with a thirst for
liquor, his will power yields readily to
the strong cravings of a diseased phys
ical nature. Cure his body, and his
mind asserts its power, his will has a
force in it, and his spiritual nature
takes full control of the man. He is
thoroughly himself.
A man may have, or he can culti.
vate the lower order of his nature,
at the expense of his higher. He may
live only an earthly life so to speak,
which only differs from the animal in
degree but not in kind. If one lias no
higher object in'-’view in this life but
to eat, drink, sleep and propagate his
species, he may be perfectly happy in
following the lower instincts and de
sires of his nature. There is nothing
wrong in that, he is put here to do
all of that, but there is something
more he should cultivate, and if he does
not, he simply dies like a brute, fo%hc
only had brutish desires. Eternal
death may mean, and to my mind does
mean, eternal annihilation. Death
means total destruction. Eternal pun
ishment is altogether another thing.
The prisoner is sent to the penitentia
ry for life; but he who is hung has
eternal punishment inflicted upon
him so far as man can inflict eternal
punishment or rather eternal death,
for he can never be re-called to life.
We hope the reader may gather a
thought from the above.
R. M. O.
About Printers’ Ink.
This is the day of printers’ ink,
and the prizes are for those who use
it. Your traditions and prejudices
may be to the contrary, but the
world doesn’t care a fig for them.
The man who sits and waits for his
trade in these days gets left. Dou’t
advertise, don’t quote your price list,
don’t see that your city or your busi
ness is represented in your patronizing
territory, and don’t stand up mau-
fully alongside of those who are
fighting for your rights and interests**
and there cau be but one -result—
shriveling up. Good salesmen, first
class articles, gilt edge credit are not
enough. They are excellent, neces
sary—but not enough: Printers’ ink
beats them in the long run. Uncle
Satu’s mails go every day, carrying
their freight of special offers, new
crops, long credits, cash discounts,
job lots and lovers’ tales from every
where. And iu the end your trade is
seduced. It’s the world old story of
the honeyed tongue and open ear. In
the fierce" competition of these days
old habits uri<^ associations simply
cannot stand the pressure. The trade
is for the man who uses printers’ ink.
—Grocery World.
The late General Spinner, a good
soul did not believe iu the supreme
efficacy of the switch as applied to
children. A year ugo writing pf
his school days, he said: “The rod
was never spared on me at home or
in school—and now, with grown-up
grandchildren, 1 can truthfully say
1 have never, in all my long life,
struck a child a single blow. I was
licked enough to last through the
whole four generations of self and
my posterity. 1 have found it safe
through life'to practice the reverse
of what was taught me to do.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17,
Powder
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Editorial Comment.
The British government has 4n one
move done more to solidify American
sentiment against it than Mr. Blaine
has been able to do in nearly two
years by negotiation.
Messrs Harrison and Blaine have
earned the title of Tiddledy Wink
statesmen by the agility with which
they have jumped arouud on the
Behring Sea question.
This administration will go down to
posterity as the one that got away
with the largest surplus the country
ever had in less than two years after
it came into power; it will also be
known ns tbo murdererof tbe republi
can party, as a national organiza
tion.
Tlint’s a cool propo-ltion on the
part of the republican Senators, ask
ing the United States to guarantee
the payment of $100,000,000 of the
bonds of tbe Nicaragua ship cnnai
company. If there are nny good
reasons for this Government, building
the canal, let them be put forward
and if acceptable let us build it and
own it; but for the Government to
furnish the money to build it without
owning it is too absurd a proposition
to be seriously discussed.
The opening of permanent head"
quarters of the democratic national
committee at Washington, which has
been determined upon, is a move in
the right direction, as it will enable
party workers throughout the country
to keep in constant touch with tlie
party managers on all matters per
taining to national politics. The de
cision of the committee to begin at
once the preparatory educational
work of the next Presidential eotn-
paign was a wise one, and one that
will be productive in votes. This ac
tivity on the part of tbe national com
mittee is highly gratifying and augurs
well for democratic success. Keep it
up, gentlemen.
Public opinion has at last compelled
the republicans of the House of
Representatives, or at least enough
of then added to the solid democratic
vote to make a majority, to agree tto
have the ugly charges of Congressman
having speculated in silver investiga
ted by a select committee of tbe
House, and by the thoughtfulness of
Representative Rogers, of Arkansas,
an amendment was added to the re
solution authorizing the committee to
ascertain who are the owners of the
$12,000,000 worth of silver that the
government isusked to purchase In the
bill now pending. If this committee
does its work properly an end will be
put to tbo rumors that have long
been prevalent. Will the committee
do its work properly? That’s tile
question. .
DIRECT TRADE.
At a rough estimate 12,000 young
women were thrown out of employ-
meet in New York the last of the
year from the retail dry go*bds
stores between Fourteenth and
Twenty-third streets, Broadway
and tSixtli avenue. One firm alone
dismissed 1100 women and girls, and
another 700. These little mar
tyrs of commerce and circumstances
were, for the most parts, “extras.”
hired in November and December
for-tile holiday trade at salaries
that barely paid for car fare, lunch
es, and the wear and tear of cloth
ing. m
In Cheatham’s Tasteless Chill Ton*
ic will be found a sweet without its
bitter. Pleasant to the taste, without
a parallel as a remedy for chills und
fever. It is the production of the
well known A. B. Richards Med. Co.,
of Sherumu, Texas, and guaranteed
to cure. _ 28 lm.
For burns and wounds we would
recommend Salvation Oil. All drug
gists sell it at 50 cents.
Tbe direot trade convention vriiusfii
met in Atlanta on Wednesday,
adopted the following resolutions.:
Whereas, The wonderful de^dkys-
ment of the south’s resources, <tft»
enormous increase in amouat oxil
variety of her freight products., KJbe
Increasing wealth and consequent to~
creasing power to purchase as weld mv,
1 to sell, the rapid opening up ef new
markets in foreigu countries lar «wnr
raw materials and finished prwdfeo&a.
indicate the importance of direct treufte-
to foster such development, and to
iusure to tlie people of the south ttfae
largest returns 011 their freight pti»-
ducts with the lowest possible toKsfinr
carriage to destination, as well as6be>-
privilege of direet exchange <Eacr
foreign goo Is freighted at lowest jr<ae~
sible rates; and whereas such (tcivfn-
will open up a wide field of legefcltaafc*
business effort to tlie enterprUazsr
ousiness iiieu of the south, and «4£d.
promote immigration into tbe Haunt
Resolved, That each state represeir-
tation in this convention choose (inant
among its numbers a chairman "< a
committee on subscriptions to si.*rfc.
in two companies, one to be know , **
the South Atlantic Trade and Navi : na
tion (Company, arid to be a direct troi*.
company, to transact business through
some South Atlantic port; the other
to be known as the Gulf Trade auA
Navigation Company, and to it* 1%
direct trade company, to treaeaeC
business through some gulf pert; <Mnf
that blank forms of subscription lr«dw
be printod at once for each of
companies, and that each delegate C<*
this convention be furnished with a.
subscription list for each company,anil
canvass for subscriptions to stock «t4
each company, urging subscribers C.«
stock to subscribe to noth compauics
and that within ninety days from etc
adjournment of this convection elaak
delegate sbull forward to tbe ebasr-
uiftii chosen from his state his esriv
sciptton lists, and each of such ckec-
meu shall ifiuke up from said «rfgf-
nal list an aggregate list ktC
all subscriptions from his .■d'.ab*
to each company and address to
secretaries of this convention wfi*
shall iti turn make up an uggrega.tr
list of tlie total subscriptions treu .-til
the states; and if each company ‘hftsxs
much us $350,000 subscribed they abcdi
address a nonce to each tit00kItoIda"
in tlie South Atlantic Compauy t»
meet in person, or by written jiretr,
at Atlanta, Ga , on the seteotfi
Weduesuay in May, 1891, to oi-goak*
!y.id company, mid to each stockholder
in the Gulf Coast Company to m«r4.««
person, or by written proxy, at Afc-
lanta, Ga., on the second Wednesday
iu May, 1891, to organize said cew-
puu\.
Setoator Quay who has let; it be
understood that he was opposed to
the Force bill, has come out in bis
truecolors by introducing a bill, which
by comparison makes the Lodge
Hoar bill appear almost just, iu spite
of its many iniquities, and which
would, if enacted into a law, give Mr.
rfarrison a power as great as that
wielded by tbe Czar of Russia, in that
most unfortunate ebuntry. Here is un
extract the most outrageous bill ever
introduced in the American Congress,
and for having introduced it Senator
Quay deserves expulsion: “When it
shall appear to the satisfaction of the
President of the United States that in
any locality the provisions of this law
cannot otherwise be executed it shall
be his duty and he is lieieby em
powered to suspeud there the writ of
habeas corpus and to employ tlie
armed forces of the United States for
its enforcement.” How is that for a
Force bill? It might be greatly simpli
fied and still mean the same thing by
changing it to read: “Be it enacted
that the American people having be
come tired of liberty hereby declare cure by
Benjamin Harrison to be Dictator.” Core.
Man is not changed by white
washing or gihliflg his habitat!®*;
a people cannot be regenerated hr
teaching them the worship of en
joyment; they cannot be taught v
a spirit of sacrifice by speakiag
to them of material rewards. It k
the soul which creates to itself &
body; the idea which makes itself a.
habitation. The Utopist may see
afar from the lofty hill the distant
land, which will give to society vir
gin soil, a purer air; his. duty is to>
point it out with a gesture and a.
word to his brothers; but he can
not take humanity in his arms, ami
carry it there with a single bouxdg
even if this were in his power, hu
manity would not therefore have
progressed.
. . . Man must not be taught to
enjoy, but rather to sulTeT Cor
others; to combat for the salvatiaa
of the world. It must not be sahi
to him, Enjoy; life is the right (to
happiness; but rather, Work; lift la
a duty; do good without thinking
of the consequences to yourseML
He must not be taught, To e*arA
according to his wants, or, To each,
according to his passions, but rath,
er, To eacli according to his lore.
To invent formula) and organiza
tions, and neglect the internal uuux,
is to desire to substitute the frame
for the picture. Say to men, Come
suffer; you will hunger and thirst;
you will, perhaps, be deceived, be
betrayed, cursed; but you have a
great duty to accomplish; they will
be deaf perhaps for a long tima, to
to the severe voice of virtue; bat
on tlie day that they do come t<*
you they will come as heroes 'and.
will be invincible. Say to them.
Arise, come and enjoy; the banquet
of life awaits you; overthrow those
who would keep it from you.—Max-
zini.
All sufferers from catarrh or influ
enza can look forward to a speedy
using Old Saul’s Camr.-it
