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Volume LXI.
] Federal (Jrion Kstabllshedln 1829.
Southern Recorder “ “1819.
Consolidated 1872 Milledgeyille, Ga., February 10. 1891.
Number 32
COMMUNICATED.
Woman.—Her Nature.
Practices
What He
Preaches.
(This is 1890.)
Dr. Mott, late U. S. Gov t
Chemist, says: “Owing to
the purity, strength, effective
ness, and constancy of compo
sition of Cleveland’s Superior
Baking Powder, I have
adopted the same for use
in my home." July 23, 1890.
Editorial Paragraphs.
Goriuan in the ablest general of
them all. m
Ancient history—Minister Mizriers
letter explaining why he shouldn’t
have been recelled.
Senator Hoar probablyfullyrealiz.es
the force of the ancient adage “deliver
me from my friends.”
Wanted—an issue upon which the
republican party can agree. Address
with particular* B. Harrison.#
Oue would hardly have expected a
man of Senator Hoar's age and disposi
tion to play peek a boo with the pub
lic, but that’s about wlmt he has been
doing of late. _
The Force Mil lacked the force
necessary tomake head way against the
stronger force of an intelligent pub
lic opinion which had long ago con
demned the measure and it went to
the wall, as such odious things al
ways should.
The proposed World’s Fair boycott
of the Force bill may not have been
the wisest course for Southern Demo
crats to have taken, but no one can
deny that it was effectual, and after
all, you know, “nothing succeed like
success.” •
If Vice-President Morton had the
the key to the Force bill legislation,
as tlie country bad been informed by
the republican press, be either must
lost it or the lock rnuit have been so
badly broken that it wouldn’t work.
Any way lie didn’t unlock it.
Early in the present session of Con
gresssenator Hoar stated that he would
rather see every manufacturing es
tablishment in New England in ashes
and the people reduced to 50 cents a
day and an exclusive diet of cod-iish
than tosee the Force bill fail to become
a law. Well, the Force bill hasfailedto
become a law. What does Mr. Hoar
think of it now?
The ignominious failure of the Harri
son wing of the republican party to
push the Force bill through Congress
and thus make the campaign of next
year on the old, old “bloody shirt”
lines, brings up the^question of what
will fomi tlje , issues upon which
that paffy will make what "will pro
bably be its last national campaign.
It dares not make the tariff the issued
because repeblicans are becoming
more hopelessly divided upon that
every day; on finance there is even a
worse division, so that at this time it
is hard to say what the G. O P will
do for an issue.
Tlie Atlanta Evening Journal has
purchased a second lightning press.
The remarkable growth of this ex
cellent paper has made this neces
sary. The combined speed of the
two presses is 24 000 eight page pa-
pers and enables the enterprising
publishers to turn out their edition
forty minutes earlier every after
noon. The Journal lias a plant un
surpassed by any paper i n tlie
South. It is appreciated as a iourn
al of solid worth, and its already
reas-
irnal
F". Hoge was the founder. It pass
ed into other hands, ami Messrs
Hoke Smith, H. H. Cabiuess and
Josiali Carter purchased it in June
1887, and made it a first class even
ing paper. It now stands with easy
grace in the front rank of Southern
dailies.
large circulation is rapidly increai
ing. The first issue of the Journs
apprtired February 24, 1883. Col I-
Some writer has said: “Woman’s
apparent weakness is her over-confi
dence in man. This does not arise
from lipr lack of knowledge of human
nature, for in that she is an adept, but
from tlie fact that containing in this
age more goodness than man, she nat
urally expects to find in him her
equal.” It is not so much equality
with woman, as her love nature,
which goes out from her. Love is her
whole existence, when the stern
necessities of life does not divert
the true current or channel of her
nature. With no daily eating cares;
no hard struggles for bread and the
common comforts of life, her love na
ture hungers after some one to love.
Nothing on earth can fill the heart
that is love’hungry. The uffections
of our nature are altogether a differ
ent feeling; the affection and attach
ment of brother and sister, the pater
nal and maternal affections of paren
tage are not love’s passions and senti
menu. As soon bask in the cold rays
of tlie moon and expect warmth, as to
substitute affection, esteem or regard
for love.
As prayer is the strongest expres
sion or passion of the soul, a seeking
after God, an adoration towards God,
a hungering and thirsting after God;
a bringing of God down to the heart,
and the raising of the heart towards
God; a wooing of God; so love is tlie
strongest passion of oitr earthly de
sires; a passion that is developed with
our growth and thoughts. There are
five steps or stages in love’s growth
tlie same in both sexes, but more re
fined in wouiaD, more delicate and
more enduring. 1. “I like that|nian
or woman. 2. I esteem. 3. I admme.
4. 1 love. 1 5. I want that muu or wo
man.” Like and esteem neyer ripens
into marriage; but admiration is near
kin to love, and love wants. When'a
woman tells a man that she likes or
esteems him, her heart is far from
him. If she admires him, he can soon
win her. No matter how much she
may esteem him, for she may esteem
his moral or intellectual qualities, he
Ums not touched the secret main
Spring of her woman’s true nature.
There is such a thing as affinities, a
mutual tasting of two souls for each
other. It is called love on first sight,
or that secret mesmeric influence,
which involuntary goes out from us
without an effort on our part. There
is something more than mere tyodily
attraction in the sexes; there is a soul
or spirit attraction, which is beyond
mere coporeal desires. As the soul
far out ranks tlie body, so the spirit
ual desires of man and woinan for
each other, are higher, nobler, more
refined and more lasting than beauty
y>f person or grace of manner.
As to woman’s mental qualities 1
many are the equal of their brothers
or fathers. In tlie nice creation of a
human being, tlie blending of two dis
tinct natures are called into active
play, As purple and green make
olive; or should a straw color be de
sired, we take five parts of yellow,
two of white, and one of red; for
pea green, five parts of white and
bne of chrome green and so on
through all ^ie shades of colors, for
they are the creation of mixtures in
different quantities. So of womun’s
mind.it may be as strong as tlie parents,
or even stronger; a mere decided or
mere attractive color maybe produc
ed. • But after all, we cannot be in
dependent of our physical make up,
which controls the mind in a more uc-
tive or passive expression.
Talents are gifts, genius is originali
ty independent of parentage. Take
a Caesar, a Napoleon, a Bacon, a
a Shakespeare, a Newtou, a Jefferson,
a Franklan, a Clay, a Calhoun, who
looks back totheir parentage for their
wonderful gift,s or genius? A happy
combination in their creation, created
a new being intellectually, who out
ranked the meresurrouudingsof birth,
they were simply born great and op
portunity was all that was desired,
it came, and the men were in their
true elements. Great men or women
create circumstances, aiui control
them after they are created, iu that is
their real greatness.
A woman with a cold, hard muscu
line mind, does not give play to the
nicer feelings and sentiments of her
nature. She may be lovuble in a de
gree, but not in such a degree as to
draw out a man’s warm nature to-
ward’s her. Man sees too much of
himself in such a character and can
not love it. He may admire or re
spect it, as ho does brains in another
manfbut (or warm love there is no
room. Man’s body was made for
strength; and woman’s form for beau
ty, and it is beauty that attracts, not
strength. Woman was made to be
wooed and won, and her heart is ever
responsive to her impressions if she
admires.
Says Shelly: “Win her and wear if
you can Heaven’s best gift, man’s joy
and pride in prosperity—Man’s sup
port and comfort in affliction.”
“Woman's love
•Its fondness wide as the limitless wave.
And chaining by aught but the silent
grave.’’
R. M. O.
Letter of Eleanor Kirk.
SENSIBLE TALK ON THE SUBJECT
OF MOTHERS IN LAW.
Brooklyn, N. Y. )
Feb. 4tb, 1891. /
There is one subject which I
have especially labored to keep out of
my public correspondence, but I haye
at last been obliged to succumb to
the force of circumstances. It is a
subject which appeals to me very
strongly, nnd my unwillingness to
touch it has been caused by the
knowledge of my inability to properly
deal with it. It is the mother-in-law
question, a very common and hack
neyed theme, and one which always
causes a laugh from the pit and gal
leries wlieu facetiously mentioned iu
out theatres and lecture halls. I do
not think that I am an exception
ways wise and agreeable, and all
children-in-law unwise and disagrea-
ble would be exceedingly foolish. I am
acquainted with some mothers-in-law
whom it would be kindness to call
crazy, so nagging and exasperating
are they. An angel from heaven
would scarcely undertake to liye in
peace with them. They are tactless,
critical, quarrelsome ami impossible
to get along with. But these urc
the exceptions and not the rule. For
many mothers, death would not have
been so bitter and hopeless a separa
tion, as the marriage of their children,
and this is especially true of the mar
riage of daughters. It is hard enough
any way, but to l^ve a man, a
stranger, stalk in and ruthlessly
trample to piecesall the relations that
have made life so sacred and beautiful
for both mother and daughter,• is to
submit to a torture more agonizing
than the rack could evor be to the
material body.
It is a wicked, impious, awful thing*
to do, but it iBtime that women them
selves are held responsible for the un
happiness which is so universal. Tlie
Biblical command »o literally con
strued by husbands to “forsake father
aud mother and cleave only to him,
ought certainly to be taken witli as
many grains of salt as tlie command
to give a coat as well us the cloak
which is asked for, or to turn tlie port
cheek when one 1ms just received a
blow fin the starboard side. How any
body witli a graiu of common sense
could believe that a tenjder and lov
ing heavenly Fattier could authorize
or inspire a man to say that tlie
mother who bore the child and by her
Highest of all in Leavening Power.— U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, if
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
A THRILLING EXPERIENCE.
Remarkable Statement of Personal
Danger and Providential Escape.
take it; the sickening sensation de
parted and 1 was finally able to re
tain food upon my stomach. In a
few days 1 noticed a decided change-
for the better, as also did my wue-
and friends.. My Hiccoughs ceased!
The following story—which is at . . „—
tracting wide attention from the *.® X1 ^‘ ence< * less pa,in than*
press—5s so remarkable, that we I ! or,nerl y*- I was so rejoiced at this:
could not excuse ourselvfc if we do
not lay it before our readers, en-
atnong women, and 1 can say that I
never yet listened to one of these ! counsel and her affection lias brought
coarse aud brutal jokes without him or her to manhood or woiuan-
metaphorieally cuffing the ears of
both author and actor. From time
immemorial the mother-in-law ques
tion has been a one sided and pre
judged matter, aud all women whose
children marry have been, according
to this universal standard, a prying,
curious, mischievous and unreason
able set, entirely unfit to have a voice
in the family councils.
Up to the point of her children’s
marriage a woman is often all that is
admirable. Her management lias
met with general approval and she is
praised and respected for the fine dis
cipline, the unwearied pains and
patience wliiah she lias shown in the
education and training of her family.
Her children are a credit toher, it is
said. After a while a young man falls
iu love with her daughter or her
daughter falls iu love witli a young
man and marriage after a longer or
shorter courtship—shorter generally—
ensues. Then tlie sweet, gracious,
tactful, unselfish mothers who up to
date have had tlie well being of their
children vitally at heart, become
mothers in-law, members of that
whispering, sneaking, inquisitive,
underminding sisterhood, so univer-J ache,
sally reprobated, and worse than this
are expected to show no further in
terest in their children. The hus
band without the least practical
knowledge of the constitution and
character of tlie ^irl lie has married
becomes a domestic Czar, whose yea
and nay, she shall and she shall not,
are to stand uncontradicted if tlie
heavens fall. Tlie mother-in law, poor
lieartaching woman, who remembers
the typhoid fever or tlie congestion
of the lungs, aud who knows that the
skating pond or the ball may be the
death of tlie precious one whom she
has nursed and held close to her
tender heurt year after year, must
say nothing. The young husband
who knows it all, lias said “my wife
must look her prettiest,” and that is
expected to end the matter. I trust
that none of my readers will here rush
to write me that he or she knows
many mothers-in-law who are not so
regarded. Thank heaven, so do I.
If this were not so, 1 should feel as if
this world were too full of heart
break to be longer desirable as a place
of residence. I know families where
the mother-in-law is the dearly loved
mother and where the obnoxious “in.
law” is never spoken or thought of.
But where there is one such happy
matron there are scores of the other
kind. I know some men so thought
ful, so tender, so loving, so grateful
to the mothers who have made it
possible for them to have such sweet
aud precious companions, that they
cannot do too much to show their ap
preciation, Butcommunities are not
built of such men. They are very
rare.
To say that mothers-in-law are al-
hood, should be thrown ^entirely
aside, blotted out, because of another
tie which cannot be more sacred than
that between mother and child, passes
my comprehension. I never took
tlie slightest stock in that passago of
scripture, as commonly interpreted.
I do not know what It means, but I
know that a good mother will desire
her daughter to be a good wife and
her sou to be a good husband. She
will never foolishly interfere with any
tiling timt concerns their relations.
Then I say that mothers are greatly
responsible for their own sufferings;
I mean not one thing but a great
many things, so many that it would
take a book to tell them all.
When mothers cease thinking that
their daughters must be married be
fore a certain age, or be hopelessly
disgraced, when they familiarize them
with the exactions of married life and
tlie necessity of a thorough knowledge
of tlie character of the man whom
they are attracted to, when they
prove to them that unless they
ctioose wisely marriage will mean a
tyraunical husband and tlie loss of a
mother, then there will be less lieart-
One needs to begin early and
to lie “instant in season and out of
season.” That passage of scripture I
endorse without change or explana-
tion, but to cleave to a man—and per-
iiups a bad one—and forsake the lov
ing unselfish mother is to me as
wicked as any other crime—mur
der not excepted.
Eleanor Kirk.
The liberal-minded and progressive
wing of the republican party, repre
sented in the Senate by those Sena
tors who possessed tlie moral courage
to vote against the radical and revo'.u-*
tionory views, which Mr. Harrison
has adopted as his own, of how the
republican party might be indefinitely
kept in power by the intimidatiug use
of tlie Army in the South, will do
much to save their self-respect and to
avoid future abuse from radicals of
their party, by leaving tlie party
with which they are no longer .in ac
cord, and with which they can never
hope to be again in harmony.
The democratic party stands for much
that these men believe in, and it
stands ready to give them a warm
welcome to its ranks. Will they
I have used Brewer's Lung Restorer
in my family with the happiest re
sults, and pronounce it tlie best
cough medicine in the world. My
wife had a cough four years nnd
found no relief until she used Brew
er’s Lung Restorer, one bottle of
which cured her entirely.
Allen F. Owens,
Tbinuaston, Ga.
Tlie new lessees of the Western and
Atlantic railroad have paid to the
State the first full month’s rental,
$35,000.
tire.
To tlie Editor Rochester (N. Y. Dem
ocrat:
Sir:—On the first day of June, 1881,
llnv at my residence in this city 1
surronded by my friends and wait
ing for death. Heaven only knows
the agony 1 then endured, for words
can never describftTT. And yet, if a
few years previous anyone had told
me that I was to be brought so low by
so terrible a disease, 1 should have
scoffed »t tlie idea. 1 had always
been uncommonly strong and
healthy, and weighed over 200
pounds and hardly knew, in my
own experience, wliat pain or sick
ness were. Very many people who
will read this statement realize at
times that they are unusually tired
and cannot account for it. They
feel dull pains in various parts of
tlie body and do not 'understand
why. Or they are exceedingly him
gry- one day and entirely without
appetite tlie next. This was just
tlie way 1 felt when tlie relentless
malady which had fastened itself
upon me first began. Htill 1 thought
nothing of it; that probably I hail
taken a cold which would soon ^>ass
away. Shortly after this I noticed
a heavy, and at times neuralgic
pain, in one side of my head, but
as it would come one day and be
gone the next, 1 paid little atten
tion to it. Then my stomach would
get out of order and my food often
fail to digest, causing at times great
incoiiyeilieiice. Vet, even as 11 phy
sician, *1 did not think that tliese
tilings meant anything serious. I
fancied I was suffering from mala
ria and doctored myself according
ly. But I got no better. 1 next no
ticed a peculiar color and odor
about tlie fluids I was passing, also
that there were large quantities one
day and very little tlie next, and
that a persistent froth and scum
appeared oil tlie surface, and a sed
iment settled. And ye.t 1 did not
realize my danger, for, indeed see
ing these symptoms continually, I
finally became accustomed to them,
and my suspicion was wholly dis-
armed by tlie fact that 1 hud no
pain in the affected organsor in their
vicinity. Why I should have been
so blind 1 cannot understand.
I consulted tlie best medical skill
in tlie land. 1 visited all the famed
mineral springs in America and trav
eled from Maine to California. Still
1 grew worse, No two physicians
agreed as to my malady. One said
I was troubled with spinal irrita
tion; another, dyspepsia; another,
heart disease; another, general de
bility; another, congestion of the
base of the bruin; ami soon through
a long list of common diseases, tlie
symptoms of many of which I really
ha I. In tliis way several years
passed, during which time 1 was
steadily growing worse. My condi
tion had really become pitable.
Tlie slight symptoms 1 had first ex
perienced were developed into
terrible and constant disorders
My weight had been reduced from
207 to 130 pounds. My life was a
burden to myself and friends. 1
could retain no fotgl on my stomach,
and lived wholly by injections. -1
was a living mass of pain. My pulse
was uncontrollable! In mv agony 1
frequently fell to the floor and
prayed for death. Morphine had
little or 110 eflect in deadening tlie
pain. For six days and nights 1
had tlie deatli premonitory hic
coughs constantly. My water was
filled with tube-casts and albumen.
1 was struggling with Bright's Dis
ease of tlie kidneys in its last
stages!
While suffering thus I received a
call from my pastor, the Rev. Dr.
Foote, at that time rector of St
Miul’s Episcopal Church, in this
city. 1 felt that it was our last in
terview, but in tlie course of conver
sation Dr. Foote detailed to me the
many remarkable cures of cases like
my own which had come under his
observation. As a practicing phy
sieian and a graduate of tlie schools.
1 derided the idea of any medicine
outside the regular channels being
in tlie least beneficial. 80 solid
tons, however, was Dr. Foote, that
1 finally promised I would waive
my prejudice, 1 began to use it on
the first day of June, 1881, and took
it according to direction. At first
it sickened me; but this I thought
was a good sign for one in my de
bilitated condition. I continued to
rejoiced 1
improved condition that, upon what
1 had believed but a few days be
fore was luy dying bed, I vowed, in
the presence of mv family ami
friends, should I recover, 1 wornidt
both publicly and privately make-
known this remedy for the eootll
of humanity, wherever and whe**/-
ever I had an opportunity, and
this letter is in fulfillment of my
vow. My improvement* was con
stant from that time, and in leanv
than three months 1 had gainedl 28-
pounds iu flesh, became, entirely
free from [min and I believe I we-
J»y hfe and present condition whol
ly to Warner’s 8afe Cure, tlie reme
dy which I used.
Since my recovery I have thor
oughly re-investigated the subject
of kidney difficulties and Bright^
disease, and the truths developed
are astounding. 1 therefore, state
deliberately, and asa physician, that
1 believe more than one ha f the-
deaths which occur in America are-
caus^d by Bright's disease of the
kidneys. This may sound like »
rash statement, but 1 am prepared
to fully verify it. Bright's disease
has no distinctive features of its-
own, (indeed, it often develops with
out any pain whatever in tlie kid-
neyn or their vicinity) but has tke-
syiiiptoins of* nearlv every otAer
common complaint. Hundredth- of
people die daily, whose burials. «M“o-
authorized by a physician'* certift-
case as occurring from “Heart Dis
ease* ’ , “Apoplexy.” “Paralysis.”
Spinal Complaint,” Rheumatism,’* -
Pneumonia,” and other common-
complaints, when in reality it is
from Bright’s disease of the- kid
neys. Few physicians, and fieveer
people, realize the extent of tdiis
disease or its dangerous and insUL
inns nature. It steals into the sys
leiu like a thief, nianife u ts its pres
ence it at all by the coniinovxtwV
symptoms und fastens itself in tile
constitution before the vidtinii is
aware of it. It is nearly as heredi
tary as consumption, quite as comr-
mon and fully as fatal. Entire fami
lies, inherit ing it from their ancestors-
have died, and yet none of the iiiiufe*
l>er knew or realized the mysterious
power which was removing them;
instead of common symptoms- it
often* shows none whatever, but
brings deatli suddenly, from con
vulsions, apoplexy, or heart disease*.
As one who has suffered, and knows
l> ' bitter experience what in* says,.
I implore everyone who reads these-
words not to neglect tlie slightest*
yinptoins of kidney difliiculty. No .
No one can afford to hazard such
fiances.
I make the foregoing statements
based upon facts which I can sub*
stunting" to the letter. The wel
fare of those who may possibly be
sufferers such as 1 was, is an ample-
'nducement for me to take the step*
’ have, and if i can successfully
warn others frem tlie dangerouV
patli in which I once walked, I am
willing to endure all professional:
and personal consequences.
J. B. HENION, M. D.
Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 80.
Help That Saves.
From the Now York Word.
Tiie benevolence which savespeopfe-
is infinitely better, whotheras charity
or as business, than that which seeks
to redeem them after they have fallen
Horace Greeley used to say to the
temperunce reformers: “The chil
dren are ours, to begin with: bring
them up in a temperate life and the
reform is well-nigh complete.” But
with all ids abounding faith and char
ity he had little hope of redeeming
drunkards.
Purify your blood,
Bui d up your nerves,
Restore your strepgth,
Renew your appetite,
Cure scrofula, salt rheum,
Dyspepsia, Sick headache,
Catarrh, rheumatism or malaria—
Take Hood’s Sarsaparilla,
100 Doses One Dollar.
Now that Jutlge Speer has refused
to grant a new trial and an arrest of
judgment in the Hall conspiracy case,
the council for defendants will take
the case to the Supreme Court of the
Uuited States ou a writ of habeas eor-
pus, when the entire matter of juris
diction, etc. will be presented. The re
sult will be awaited with great inter
est, *
