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consolidated 1878, MiLLEDGEVILLE Ga., MaROH 3, 1891.
58
More
Biscuit
Qan be made with each
pound of Cleveland’s Superior
Baking Powder than with the
same quantity of any other
pure cream of tartar powder.
Phvpuxd Baking Powder Co.»
KiltonSt., NEW YOHfc*
Editorial Paragraphs.
The Fifty-First Congress will die
to-inorrow.
California and other Pacific States
are having the worst Hoods since 1884.
Franklin's silver watch was sold
for $2,100 at Philadelphia the other
day. ^
Charlie Bayne is doing some
sprightly work on the Augusta
Chronicle.
A great many people are moving
into Gainesville, among them some
from the north and west.
In Senator Colquitt, Georgia fur
nishes the Vice-President of the Con
gressional Temperance Society.
The nomination of Charles Foster
as secretauy of the treasury 1ms
been confirmed by the senate.
A company of Cincinnati capitalists
will soon begin the erection of a hand
some hotel on Cumberland Island.
Mrs. I)r. Felton is attending a
meeting of the lady managers of
the world’s fair, at Washington.
The latest congressional election
in Rhode Island lifts the Democratic
majority in the next House to ISO.
As a spicy paragraphist Branham
of the Tribune-of-Rome occupies
the front seat in Georgia journal
ism.
The tax collector of Bibb county
was unable to make bis bond and
COMMUNICATED.
Hubits vs. Vice.—Distinction.
Habits are of three kinds: Good
habits; bad habits; expensive habits.
Vices admit of degrees, great and
smuli. It is all important that words
should have definite and positive
meanings. A man with a vice may
have good habits; for a man with a vice
may have habits externally that no
one can take exception to. He may,
be faultless so far as the public eye
goes; and never offend in word or
deed; but yet bis secret life may be
full of bad habits—or a vice.
To be clear so that the reader may
take,in the difference, the distinction
between a habit and vice is marked.
A habit relates to the individual, and
may not go beyond himself. A vice
effects others, and reaches beyond
the Individual. Whenever a habit
interferes with the rights, feelings or
sensibilities of others, of a communi
ty, it then becomes a vice, a greater
( or less one. The chewing of tobacco
I is a habit, and so long as the man is
| neat, thoughtful and considerate in
his spitting no one can object to hie
| habit; but when he becomes filthy,
; dirty and inconsiderate in bis spitting,
j it becomes a vice if others suffer from
l his habit. When disgust is excited
in others because they are made to
suffer, tobacco chewing grows into a
vice.
| A habit may be defined: A use,
usage, practice, a custom, and the
habit may be good or bad or expen
sive. A vice on the contrary is some
thing more: It is corruption, pollu
tion, immorality, impropriety, de
pravity, grossness, flagrancy, indeco
rum; a deviation from the line of duty
or propriety.from virtue or rectitude.
Society is effected, individuals are
annoyed, others corrupted aud law
violated. A vice reaches out and
toujehes others; it is not confined to
the individual. A man may drink
dttilj, keep sober, attend to his bus
iness, etc., aud no one is injured; but
when he drinks to drunkenness, dis
eases himself, annoys his family, is a
nuisance on • the streets^ shunned by
his friends and liis presence an an
noyance, the habit of drink has ripen
ed and fruited into a vice. A vice
never stands aone, some one or many
are embraced in it, A man with a
bad habit may not have a vice, y et,
lie may be something of a nuisance
while he indulges in his habit. Tx
illustrate: A man given to chewing
goes into an office or store, and per
fectly regardless of the rights and
Go^eJnor 10 "' mS been ° rde,ed by the i feelings of others, spits on the floor.
He disgusts a neat man, liis habit is
disgusting and his presence for the
time being a nuisance. Iu church, lie
makes a spittoon of the floor, aud
i outrages the feelings of decency and
S?- - E. K. Wilson of Mary- p ro per respect for the bouse of God.
land, died suddenly’ at the Hamil- 1 H , . . .,
ton House in Washington City, last! lf S iven to BU)okln S 1)e P ,llTs
Gen. I.ew Wallace says that a
poultice of mustard and garlic ap
plied to tlie soles of the feet will
cure rheumatism in one night.
Number 35
the
smoke into the faces of any and
everybody' about, and to some na
tures nausea aud sickness is brought
on. That is a bad habit, with some
little kinship to a vice.
A man who is in the habit of swear-
Mr. Frank E. Fleming, of Augus- I ing in the preseDce of his wi£p and
ta, and Miss Lila Twiggs, formerly children, wounding the pious sensi-
i bilities of those who reverence the
name of God, is fast coupling a liubit
i into a vice and a sin, one iu which
ho will be held accountable when he
is out of liis body.
The drunkard, the liar, the liber-
' tine, the licentious, the Gambler, the
thief, the wrong-doer, are indulging
bers of Congress. He looks well to. in vices not liabitB. His influence
the interest of the people and stands goes beyond himself and works inju-
ready to protect them against the i ries and wrong to others. All viola-
bmgton C.„,,
Tuesday evening, of heart failure.
Among the marriages in .Macon
during the last month there were
two lirides of more than the aver
age Truthfulness. One was 14 years
of age, the other 15.
of the same place, were married
last luesdtty morning, at the resi-
dence of the bride s mother ‘in
Washington City-
Hon. J. H. Blountdelivered a strong
speech in Congress against the ship
subsidy HI). Mr v Blount is one of the
oldest, ablest and most useful uieui-
schemes of public plunderers.
John W. Young, a student in the
tious of law are ariines and vices,
for the law takes no cognizance of
liubits, but vice. Vice then in its
real significance and meaning, is
crime, iniquity, fault aud wrong-do-
He was working his way through I ingi iu time becomes the
college acting as night clerk iii a °* our being, a kind of second
senior class of Harvard college died i
a few days ago of peritonitis’ He
was a mulatto, and a graduate of
Atlanta university, in Georgia — 1
hotel in Newtonville and attending nature, which grows upon us. Custom
h.s studies by day. * I i8 not tt ljubit; for the custom of
charity will produce a habit of lib-
Hugh O. West, who killed liis
brother, Maj. J. A. A. West, in Mis
sissippi several weeks ago, was ar
rested in Madison, Ga., last Wed
nesday, and jailed upon a requisi
tion of tile Governor of Mississippi-
the grand jury of the county in
which the killing occurred having
found a true bill against him.
The Directors of the Georgia Nor
mal und Industrial school should
meet and elect a President of the
College. Preparation for opening
in September will require much
work from a wise head. This bur
den should be laid on able should
ers at once. Tlie curriculum should
be arranged and the sympathy and
help of tne nobl
should be organized iu its behalf.
erality; habits of devotion will ripen
into a custom of going to church;
the habit of always speaking the
truth grows into a custom of cautious
assertion or expressions.
■‘All habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
"Vicecannot fix,and virtue canuotchange.
For vice must have variety.”
It. M. O.
A very considerate cyclone 1J
North Georgia, recently carried off a
house, leaving a sick man and liis bed
unharmed, but shelterless. It is fur
ther related that the kind neighbors
„ . immediately turned out and iu asiiort
women of Georgia while erected a temporary house over
. *.. ttic bed.
Washington Letter*
From Our Regular Correspondftnt.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 23, 1801.
Mr. Harrison lias been credited
with being a man who could not
be caught by the brass band brand
of office seekers, but his nomina
tion of ex-Gov. (“Calico Charley”)
Foster to be Secretary of the Treas
ury- proves that lie not only can
be, but that lie lias been caught by
the brass band methods adopted
by Foster and his friends to obtain
control of the Treasury depart
ment.
Personally there is nothing de
cidedly objectionable about Mr.
Foster except the abnormally big
head which his private financial
success has given him, and whioh
is certain to be greatly augmented
by the new honor he has just
captured. To be a self made mau
is highly creditable to anyone, but
to be always telling, by your man
ner, as Ml\ Foster does, how proud
you are of the job, and how much
better you have done it than God
Almighty could liav^done, is any
thing else but creditable. Politi
cally Mr. Foster is every thing that
is objectionable; he is a product of
the Sherman-Hayes-Kiefer school,
and I predict tliat within a year
from this time the Treasury de
partment will have become what
it was under the Hayes administra
tion, when John Sherman, now
Senator, was at its head, a thorough
ly organized political machine per
sonally controlled by its Secre
tary.
There is no probability that the
policy of the Treasury department,
if it can be said to bave any policy,
will bo changed under Secretary
Foster. It will go right on in op
position to giving tlie people a
sufficient volume of currency to
successfully transact tlie evergrow
ing business of the country, and
when its dear Wall street gets cramp
ed it will, as usual, rush to the
rescue with all the millions it can
control. This sort of thing will go
on until the 4tli of March 1893; then
there will be a grand change.
Well, tlie orders of Czar Reed and
Mr. Harrisson have been carried
out and tlie free coinage bill has
been killed. The committee report
ed it adversely to the House, and
one of its republican members
gleefully said: “Well, it -^111 be
impossible now to vote upon it at
this session."
Between the consideration of ap
propriation bills the Senate has
been debating the bill* providing
for the guaranteeing of $100,000,000
of bonds of tlie Nicaragua canal
company. Senator Vest made
a very strong speech against it, in
which he called attention to the
millions this Government lias sunk
in the Pacific railroads and pointed
■out the fact that the passage of
this bill would violate a treaty with
England and lie the certain cause
of war. Senator Morgan defended
the bill and intimated tliat there
were special reasons, not made pub
lic why it should be passed. It
is almost certain to pass the Sen
ate, but look out for the liveliest
kind of a circus when it reaches the
House.
Czar Reed grows worse as the
time draws near for him to be un
crowned; lie now not only refuses
to have a capitulation of a vote an
nounced for the information’of the
House, but lie orders the clerk to
read a skeleton journal instead of
the full journal of the previous
day's proceedings, and lie lias mem
bers not present entered therein as
being present aftd refuses to allow
changes to be made when attention
is called to such palpable errors,
and he is supported by the vote of
every republican. On Saturday
Representative Crisp, who is credi
ted with being one of the most
conservative men in the House,
stated, as did liis colleagues, Clem
ents and Turner, of Georgia, Blan
chard, of Louisiana and Wilson of
Missouri, that lie was entered upon
the journal of the previous day as
present and not voting when as a
matter of fact he was not present-
lie left the House with the other
democrats forthe purpose of break
ing a quorum. Failing to get the
error corrected Mr. Crisp said that
he wished to call the attention of
the country to the manner in which
the presiding officer made up aui
falsified the record. This arraign
ment brought a storm of applause
from the democratic side and tlie
galleries. Is it any wonder that
democrats in the House fillibus-
ter? * k «
The story published here pur
porting to state by authority that
Mr. Cleveland would under no cir
cumstances be a candidate next
year was undoubtedly concocted by
an enemy of Mr. Cleveland, and it
did not require tliat gentleiffan’s
denial to refute it. His position is
well understood here. Of course
everybody knowns that* he isn’t a
candidate, that is to say that he isn’t
seeking the nomination—if ho was
the anti-silver letter would never
have been written. That he would
refuse tlie nomination if tendered,
no one for a moment believes, un
less he thought his acceptance
would jeopardize the success of the
party.
Today is a legal holiday and the
departments are all closed; Tues
day and Thursday of last week they
were closed on account of the fune
rals of Admiral Porter and General
Sherman. No people anywhere
get as many holidays as the depart
ment clerks here.
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—U. S. Gov’t Report, Aug. 17, 1889.
ABSOLUTELY PURE
Letter From Eleanor Kirk.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 25th, 1891.
To give au opinion iu regard to the
fashionable diuuer and its influence
upon health, as I have been asked to
do, would be to arrogate to myself su
perior wisdom aDd better taste than
many of my friends and neighbors
possess. But a two or three hours’
course dinner was always to me an
insupportable and unnecessary bore.
I have-never bad any use for these
occasions and never shall have. That
this lack of appreciation of what is
generally considered the very climax
of hospitality and good cheer may
be due to a vital lack in myself, 1 am
quite willing to concede. I like u
dainty luncheon where ladies are per
mitted to wear suitable costumes, but
I do not like to feel compelled to re
move a flannel under garment for the
purpose of exhibiting my neck and
arms. I see no reason for thus en
dangering my health, or sacrificing
my modest, or my prejudice against
this decollete style—whichever my
friends may choose to call it. But
the objector may say, “One in not
obliged to bear one’s neck and arms.”
This is Vue. One could go in a stuff
dress, and wear tourists’ ruffling in
the neck and sleeves, and still be al-
lowered to sit at the table, but when
one Is invited to a ‘‘swell dinner”—
what, an appropriate term—one is ex
pected to wear a costume which con
forms to the ptevailing style. It is
alui6st us unpleasant to depart from
the ettiquette of such occasions as it
is to shiver and flush in a low body
aud no sleeves—to speak of. I hon
or the woman, however, who can at-
t^iil’u dinner party in a modest and
healthful gown. The examples of
such must be of the greatest value,
and I am equally ashamed of the wo
men who wear gowns immodestly low
in the neck, and who are so* ignorant
of the laws of health aw to thus reck
lessly expose themselves to draughts
and varying temperatures.
There is still another side to this
dinner party subject. While the pro
cess of eating is going on, one can
only talk to one’s immediate neigh
bors. There can be no general con
versation and unless one has enter
taining companions there is nothing
left but to listen to the buzz of voices,
and the popping of champagne corks,
aud to see that some sort of justice is
done to the viands. One very fash
ionable course at present is the speg-
hetti course. This delicacy is not
broken up in the cooking, and one is
expected to bold the fork in a per
pendicular position,andafter winding
it round and round tin's instrument
to carry it to the mouth without
dropping or trailing it. I am sorry to
say tliatit isconsideredaproof of famil
iarity with good society—not to say
the four hundred—to crowd this mass
into the mouth iu the manner describ
ed. To cut one’s spegbetti and take
it up in convenient and delicate
mouthfuls, is to show one’s self a very
coarse aud common person. I am
always very coarse and common on
these occasions and very unfashiona
ble, for my collar bones and should
ers feel more comfortable when cov
ered, and I don’t like to see goose
flesh on any one’s arms, particularly
uiyowu. At the last diuuer party I
attended a lady who was so supreme
ly decollete as to be disgustingly
naked, had a severe chill which wan
only mitigated by frequent sips of
cognac. She died a week lattr of
pneumonia developed from the cold
caught at this dinner party. “Oh, 1
wish I had worn a hKh bodice,” she
said to me after the brandy began to
take effect.
“Send your waiter for a shawl,” 1,
suggested.'
“Oh, dear uo,” she replied with an
expression of anxiety impossible to
describe, “that would never do.”
. These are some of the reasons why I
do not like the ultra fashionable din
ner-party. There are others Just ns
vital but space forbids me to pursue
the ^ubjeot.
Mr readers and especially those
who bave asked me for the “St Denis
roll” recipe, would laugh heartily if I
could tell them my persistent and he
roic attempts to capture it, and my
various aud iguominious failures. I
suppose if I had asked to see the cook
who made these rolls, in other words
if I had gone to the work iu a
straight-forwnrd way I should have
succeeded. But I didn’t. I attack
ed it diplomatically—that Is political
ly—though not in the least as Watter-
terson went for Hill. I hinted, and
praised and sounded the depths of
knowledge possessed by assistants, iu
short made such an utter goose of
myself that I had not the face to do
what I should have done in the first
place. But the experience has pro
voked many a hearty peal of laugh
ter, and given birth to some Jokes
which without it would have been
impossible, A young Brooklyn house
keeper, who was determined to get
this receipe or perish in the attempt,
invited a few friends to luncheon tlie
other day. I must confess that I felt
a little paick of jealousy as my eyes
rested upon the St. Dennis rolls. They
were perfect in appearance, and when
I asked “how on earth” and all that
sOrt of thing, she responded that she
had just imitated and had not been
able to get even an official whisper
regarding the delicacies. These much
sought after rolls are said to be thor
oughly liygenic, and they look like
four very light and brown little bis
cuits put together. “1 took,” said
my hostess, “one quart of sifted flour,
a little salt, a great, spoonful of pow
dered sugar, a scant half cup of sweet
butler aud enough warm milk to
make a soft dough. Into tins milk
I dissolved one-half of a Fleiscli-
inan’s compressed yeast cake, and
when thoroughly mixed placed the pan
containing tlie dough in my bread-
raiser. Iu two hours and a half it
was as light as a feather. Then I
floured tlie moulding board aud cut
off enough dough to make four little
biscuits—a la St Dennis. 1 cut each
separately and then joined them till
I had a square of four, and so on until
I had used up my dough. Then l put
tlie biscuits into by bread-raiser for
half an hour, und afterwards baked
thpin half an hour in a quick oven.”
c These rolls were just as satisfactory
as tlie ones I had worked so iiard to
get, und resembled them in appear
ance as well.
Tlie bread-raiser spoken of by iuy
friend is a wonderful invention. Let
the day be cold or'hot, wet or dry tlie
breud always raises perfectly and in
just such a length of time. It is a
great saving of work and worry.
“What of the dress goods for spring
and summer?” I am asked. We have
bad no opeuiugs yet, but spring bon
nets are already seen on tlie streets.
There is a new material for gowns
called the Armadale zephyrs. These
gowns are very dainty aud lend them-
I selves beautifully to tea g, wn ef
| fects. Some of 411686 designs are suit
able for street wear. Tlie Zephprs
will wash perfectly aud bid fair to be
tlie most sought after among thin
goods. They are as cheap as they are
artistic. Eleanor Kirk.
PROGRESS
It is very important in this age of
yast material progress that a remedy
be pleasing to the taBte aud to the
eye, easily taken, acceptable to the
stomach and healthy in its nature
and effects. Possessing these quali
ties, Syrup of Figs is the one perfect
laxative and most geutle diuretic
known.
MACON IS AROUSED
OVER TDK MAGNIFICENT WORK OF
RAILROAD RKVRI.Or. MKNT.
The Chamber of Commerce, of tla-
cou, held a meeting ou the strength
of the late deal between John M
Robinson and Willis B. Sparks, where
by the Seaboard and Roauoake sys
tem, and the Georgia Southern have
combined. Resolutions were passed
assuring President Robinsou of the
■*upport ot tile people and merchants
of Macon, and promising him their
moral aud commercial support and
putronuge. i he merchants aud busi
ness men generally will give the new
combination ail the business possible
from aud to this point.
Mr. S. R. Jaques, one of Macon’s
wealthiest and largest merchants, in
troduced Hie resolutions, which were
unauiaously and enthusiastically
adopted. They were embodied in a
letter which has been addressed to
President Robinson. The litter und
resolutions are as follows:
Chamber of Commerce. Macon
Ga., February 23—John M. Robinson,
President Air-Line Seaboard K,i road
Baltimore, Md.— The following pream
ble und resolutions were adop.oa at a
special call meeting of tlie Chamber
or Commerce, of Macon, held Iki - to
day at 4 o’clock p. si:
Whereas, We are informed that Mr.
John M. Robinson, president of the
Seaboard Air-Line railroad, has leased
the Georgia Southern and Florida
raiiroud, and lias iu contemplat ion
tlie building of a distiuct ruilroa 1 line
from KUiertou to Macon, thereby con
necting this city with liis system of
roads, and giving Macon uuothee
competing line to the east.
Resolyed 1st, Tliat as business men
of Macon, we wish to congratulate
Mr. Robinson on the lease ot the
Georgia Southern and Florida rail
road, as we regard it a wise move ou
his part. It is already earnffig in
terest upon its bonds and the stock
guaranteed, and when connected with
tne Robinson system through the pro
posed road Irom Maoqu to Elberton,
must contribute largely to tlie earq<
iugs of tins property.
Resolved 2nd, That the Chamber of
Commerce of the city of Macon, fully
appieclating the value of tins system
and tlie increased transportation
facilities it affords, desire to extend to
to Mr. Robinson, president, our hearty
assurance of sympathy in ibis move
ment, and pledge ourseves to do aft
in our power, as merchants and busi
ness men, to susiuiu him by giving
the proposed lino our business W#
recognize that the building of this
road is apace with tlie increased bu-i-
uess requirements of Macon, and are
pleased tliat Mr. Robinson apprecia
tes this fact.
Resolved ord, Tliat a copy of these
resolutions be forwarded to Mr
Robinson, with the information that'
the Chamber of Commerce lias con
vened singly for that purpose.
We have tlie honor to be, on the
part of the Macon Chamber of Com
merce, Very respectfully,
„ Nmith, President.
George T. Kershaw, Secretary.
In a conversation With The Con-
titutiou, Director Collins said :
^ bis deal not only means grea
things for the Georgia Southerri peo
ple, out it means immense possibili-
wbh 0 |L,^ aCOn ' The Co, ubination
with Robinson will give Macon a
grand trunk line for passenger and
ireight traffic at competitive rates.
mnnrt'V™ 8 1“ V*® grttSp ° f th ® Kioll-
board Br .T ml PU ° f)le ’ bUt th « 8ea-
board aud Roanoke brings our people
“ ud . contribute much to
the material development and sub-
riuntmi growth aud upbuildiug of this
“Willis Sparks,” continued Mr. Col
lins, “stuuds high in the estimation of
the Seaboard and Roanoke people.
They think a great deal of him, and I
take pie tsure iu asserting that he lias
the brightest and most promising
future of any young man in th-j south
to-day.
WILL BUILT AT ONCE.
From Ur. Collins the* following in
formation was learned: The Macon
and Northeastern road, from Macon
to Elberton, will be built at once. The
Seaboard and Roanoke people have
enough money in hand now to build
it. They have sufficient bonds in safe,
worth 117, to construct the entire line.
The road will be about 110 miles long,
aud will cost from $l,25Q,iOO to $1,500,-
000. Robinson saves $1,000,000 by
building this new road, instead of
buying the Covington and Macon.
'lhe bonds of the Mucon aud North
eastern will be endorsed by the Sea
board and Roanoke, the Raleigh and
Gaston, aud the Georgia Southern
railroads.