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Z_ r YU "IPkdbbal Union Establishedl nl829.1 V OLUMB LixVl~L. jSOUTHBBMRBOOBDKB 11 “1819. ) OOSSOLIDA.TED 1872 Milledgeville, Ga., December 22,1891 Number 25. jV not contain ammonia; Losts no more than ammonia powders; It goes farther; It is pure and wholesome. You should use it. May 19,1891. 4G ly. Editorial Glimpses and Clippings. Dr. Josenli S. Lawton died in At lanta last Wednesday. Mr. W. J. Ross, a young merchant of Macon, died in that city on the 14th, inst. The new Georgia congressmen in Washington have all suffered with light attacks of the grip. For the Union-Recorder. Woman’s Rights Column. BY H. AUGUSTA HOWABD—Columbus, Ga. “Freedom’s battle, once begun. Though ballb-d oft, Is ever won.’’ *** A patent for a road-cart has been taken out by Annie R. Crittenden of Oseola, Iowa, its recommendation is that tiie pressure of occupants is received by the axle so as to relieve the animal of stiain. i *** Miss Harriet Hosmer has completed her mode] for the Queen Isabella statue. She writes from Rome. Italy, that Signor Kelli, of the bronze foundry, “l^tis fallen quite in love with Isabella and thinks It will make a very effective bronze.” * * The will of Mrs. Barnard gives $10,000 to Barnard College, the wo man’s annex of Columbia University, and which bears the name of her late husband, its founder. Barnard is not, like many institutions, it col lege only in title without the ao- companying curriculum, training girls to be young ladies but not women. * * * The ‘‘Illinois Suffragist” is a new champion of woman’s enfranchise ment edited by Senator Castle who, more than once, lias ably represented tiie movement on the floor of the United States Senate. incentive to forming opinion—and we shall have a new order of writ ers and students of political economy, whose purpose will be something more laudable than a display of their own learning and penetration witli correcting the trivial misconceptions of theft predecessors, and we shall get down to the plain problem, “IIow is the unequal distribution of wealth to be corrected?”—without the solu tion of which, works on political economy are little more than a j “vain multiplication of words with out knowledge.” The world has as signed chiefly to women the task of caring for its ill-fed, ill-clad citizens, and hence it is that tiie majority of intelligent humane women do yearn for an age in which the poor shall not he always with us, and will gladly exert themselves to prove an alibi for this long-suffering,long-suffered, and ever present contingent of civiliza tion. When woman suffrage pre vails, Mr. Qeoge’s followers can iind a hundred women conscientiosuly pon dering whether the single-tax be* the remedy for unequal distribution, to one man whom uow they can induce to study their theory Then, if the single-tax men desire the co-opera tion of women, let them first s«t to work to give women tiie rights, which can render a woman’s advo cacy effectual. If the unlettered hand canont strike decisive blows for liberty, how shall tiie fettered? The Atlanta Constitution will have at work in Jarrtiary a new press, which will run off 48,000 six-page pa pers an hour. This is the time of year when the majority of people are thinking hard how to make a limited purse gratify The promptings of a generous heart. Christmas is an annual puzzler. The wholesale discharge of em ployees of the Central railroad at the shops in Savannah, Macon and Au gusta comes in on unfortunate season for those who are thrown out of work and may result in a grtat deal of suf fering. _ When John Greenleaf Whittier was S2 he said in a memorable conversa tion: “I don't care for intellect—it’s character that is important.” Ira mortal poet, immortal sentence from the lips of a man who lias lived over four score years of an unblemished life. John P. Richardson, of East Caroll Parish, La., the largest, individual cotton planter in the world, died, on the Epis plantation in East Carroll on the 14th. He owned fifteen planta tions in Mississippi and Louisiana, and eight large mercantile establishments in the same States. A Japanese doctor never dreams of asking a poor patient for a fee. There is a-proverb among the med ical fraternity of Japan, “When the twin enemies, poverty and disease, Invade a home, then lie who takes aright from that home, even though it be given him, is a robber.” There are on file irr the Executive department in Atlanta, approved and payable 3,000 windows’ pension claims in round numbers, and the list is be- ing added to*?very day. It will reach 4,000 by the time payment is begun, which it will require $400,000 to meet. Under the law the pensions which will be paid in February have been due for twelve u ontlis on account of an absence of funds to meet the claims of the widows being paid at the end of the year, while the soldiers, prac tically speaking, got theirs in ad vance. Congressman Blount is quoted in Macon as saying thut lie will not be a candidate for re-election. It is said, in this connection, that two politi- cans in that district have made three bets. First, that be would not be a cundiduts; second, that he would be defeated if lie runs, and third, that Tom Cabuniss would be tiie winner. It depends to a very considerable extent on the outcome of the first bet. If your Uncle Jim mie decides to run, whoever beatB him to ihewire will have to hustle. That’s his record and nobody knows it better than the politicians of the sixth.— Columbus Enquirer. There nrel44 electoral votes, allot ted to the several States as follows: Alabama, 11; Arkansas, 8; Califor nia, 9; Colorado, 4; Connecticut, 6; Delaware, 3; Floiida, 4; Georgia, 13; laabo, 2; Illinois, 24; Indiana, 15; Io wa, 13; Kansas, 10; Kentucky, 13; Louisiana, 8; Maine, (i; Maryland, 8; Massachusetts. 15; Michigan, 14; Minnesota, 9; Mississippi, 9; Missouri, 17; Montana, 3; Nebraska, 8; Neva da, 3; New Hampshire, 4; New Jersey, 10: New York, 3(1: Norih Carolina. 11; Not ill Dakota, 3; Ohio, 23. Oregon, 4; Pennsylvania, 32; Rhode Island, 4; South Carolina, 9; boutli Dakota, 4; T» nntssee, 12; \Y ashiugton, 4; West Viiginia, 0; Wisconsin, 12; Wyoming, 3. L. M. Gay, of Staten Island, reply ing in Henry George’s Standard to a letter of tiie undersigned in the same organ, combats the proposition that women should withhold from the single-tax movement their actual support until they are clothed with the franchise. The single-tax men, it is alleged, are “nearly all in favor of woman-suffrage, bnt they realize that until men are free from landlord oppression there is little hope of woman’s liberty.” It is eusy to discern that tiie withholding from man of an essential natural agent ot production constitutes a materiul ob stacle to liis attainment of wealth; for, let liiin possess the agent, neither law nor custom denies his right to avail himself of the agent in what ever way and to whatever extent his interest or inclination dictates. But women, it, would seem, sustain an en tirely different, relation to the single tax principle. Grant that under such system land were to be had in abuudanoe by any woman who wanted it; would the facility of ac cess thereto' break down the preju dice which, in many localities, yet stands in tiie way of her following certain professions and industrial pur suits? or would the attainability of land afford her the technical training requisite to the availableness of the natural agent? Could hot men then, as well as now, perpetuate laws and foster customs, which deny woman her half of the benefits to be derived from what progress the race have already made? To an abecedarian in the single-tax mysteries the success of such a movement would seem to bode actual calamity to womankind, enabling all men ho go at a bouud to the summit and simultaneously press women to the fo^t of the hill beyond hope of further scansorial effort. Much of the sympathy which women claim to-day from labor organizations is dictated less by a sense of abstract justice [than self-interest. Many a gallant, who would, without scruple, underpay woman’s labor, has affixed his seal to resolutions crying “equal pay for equal work regardless of sex,” because he realizes that diminished wages for women mean loss of em ployment for men. Alas for woman kind when through the success of such a reform, the interests of self- supporting women are no longer bound up with the interests of the less fortunate class of male laborers. Furthermore, few men besides those who have a predilection for econom ics will give their time and attention to the study of the single tax theory, or will choose to sacrifice their per sonal interest to the interest of labor; for, owing to the sex- pArtiality of our civilization, con- erable civic disorder may sur round the individual man without disturbing the “even tenor of li s way;” it is'woman who is the final sufferer from every social derange ment. But let women be enfran chised—let them have that power of applying opinion which is the surest “Voting would increase the intelli gence of women, and be a powerful stimulant to female education. It would enable women to protect their own industrial, social moral, and educational rights Woman's vote would be to the vices in our great cities what the lightning is to tiie oak. - ’—Rev. Joseph Cook. Rev. J. B. Hawthorne, of Atlanta, is authority for the assertion that if every malignant liar in that city were removed, “Atlanta would be left with a population smaller than tiie village of Martlmsville from which it sprang.” This aspersion of the di vine’s fellow-townsmen »is recom mended to the consideration of Dr. Edward Everett Hale, tiie omniscient bostonian, who lately charged that an aptitude for making "awful state ments,” which could not be verified was a peculiarly feminine character istic. * * * The British Conservative National Union have adopted a resolution fa voring tiie extension of ilie parlia mentary franchise to women. Al- r ndy tiie married women and widows in England can vote for all elective officers save members of parliament. Says the London Advertiser, “It is h tremendous advance when each of the two political parties in Great Britain competes witli the other in promoting woman suffrage.” The newspapers nave Dot yet fin ished quoting an utterance of Mr. Cleveland at a recent, Democratic meeting in New York: “I have been especially interested in a young per son during the last few days who will never be able to help tiie Dem ocratic party until the prohibition against woman suffrage is removed.” When Mr. Cleveland was governor of New York he signed several bills giving women tax payers a vote in local tax electi' ns, and otherwise showed that he recognized tiie justice of the principle involved in confer ring suffrage upon women; but in liis inaugural address and his mes sage to congress lie made no men tion of tire fact that one-half the cit izens of the country are taxed with out. representation and governed without their consent. Tnat Mr. Cleveland’s little daughter and her mother are classed with lunatics, idiots, and traitors, is, one would think, a reflection not calculated to swell a father’s heart with pride, ana ill suited to beeome the subject of ora torical pleasuDtry. H. Augusta Howard, Columbus, Ga. The One-hoss Shay. The peculiar feature of tlie “one- hoss shay” was that it was "built in such a wonderful way” that it has n0 “weakest part.” The “weakest part” of a woman is invariably her back, and “female weaknesses” are only too common. With the use of l)r. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, this may be avoided, and women mav be ’comparatively as strong as their brothers. Prolapsus, inflam mation, ulceration, periodical pains, leuchorrhea, dragging-down sensa tions, debility, nervousness, 'sleepless ness^’despondency, are only a few of the symptoms of weakness of the fe male organs which tiie “Favorite Pre scriptiou” is warranted to remove. The New York Board of Trade and Transportation has recommended that I Seerley $1,000,000 should be expanded in pre-1 Quac kenbush, (N. Y.), Griswold, ut the World’s Fair in Chicago. and Cutting (Cal.) Mileage Washington Letter. 1 •— From Our Regular Correspondent. Washington’. D. C., Dec. 14, 1891. i Speaker Crisp may have made some j promises before liis election as Speak- j cr—few men ever occupied tiie posi- , lion who had not done so in their can vass for votes, but he has made few, j if any, promises since liis election. Hi' lets the other follows do the talk- i ing while he does double duty ns u thinker; lie knows that it will be im-! possible to so arrange tiie committee assignments that all the democratic members of the House will he pleased and, if those who enjoy his confidence may be relied upon, lie will devote himself principally to the task of mak ing an equitable distribution of the chairmanships and places upon the important committees between tiie various sections of the country; be lieving ttiat no Representative will allow his personal disappointment to make him angry when he sees that liis section is fully represented. It is now almost certain that tiie lists of committees will not be announced until after the Christmas recess, and it is expected that Speaker Crisp will, after ail tiie members have been giv en a chance to be heard, retire to liis home in Georgia, or to some other place, where lie cun devote liis time during the recess to making up tile committees. All sorts of gossip about the chair mansliips and tiie make up of the im portant committees may be heard, but about tiie only thing that every body seems 10 be agreed upon is that the Ways and Means committee, which deals with tariff matters, will lie dominated by Northern and Wes tern members, whoever its chairman may be. The general opinion is that Mr. Mills can liaye the chairmanship of this committee if he wishes it, but some of his close friends say that he will not take tiie place, several rea sons being given why lie will not; one of them being that if there is an extra session of the Texas Legislature in the Spring he will be a candidate for tiie unexpired term in tiie Senate of ex- Senator Reagan—now temporarily be ing filled by Senator Chilton—and that if lie is elected lie will at once resign liis|seat in the House. But there are those who think that is just the reason why lie should take the chairmanship. They argue that for Mr. Crisp to tender this important place to Mr. Mills and for him to ac cept it would show that no bad blood was left by the hot fight for the nom ination, and that the committee could be so made up tnat the next democrat on the committee could from the first take up the hard work ot the chairmanand that in tile eyent of the election of Mr. Mills to the Senate this gentleman might be made chairman. Resolutions providing for an inves tigation of the Pension Office will be offered in the House by Representa tive Cooper, of Indiana, aud Enloe of Tennessee. Tiie latter gentleman says that his resolution will be for an investigation of the methods used and is intended to save some ot the tax payers money that uow goes through leaks which he thinks are in the ma chine. Mr. Cooper is particularly interested in going for Gen. Raum, lie being of tiie opinion that the investi gation by tiie lust Congress was not as impartial asj it might have been. Both resolutions will not be adopted, but the probabilities favor the adop tion of a resolution wliut will be ac cepta'ole to both gentlemen. Gen. Forney, of Alabama, who was the senior member of tiie House Com mittee on appropriations In tiie last Congress, has, on account of his age and somewhat failing health declined the chairmanship ot that committee, which was tendered him by Speaker Crisp. It is believed here that Rep resented Holman, of Indiana will, in the interest of general retrenchment in appropriations, be put at the head of that committee. Speaker Crisp pleased those mem bers who wished to get the cash for their mileage before Christinas by announcing at the short session of the House held on Saturday, previous to the adjournment until Wednesday, the membership of Committee on Ac counts aud that on Mileage, as fol lows: Accounts—Rusk (Md), Cooper (Ind)., Dickerson, (Ky), Moses, (S. C.), (Iowa), Person (Pa.) Castle Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report Baking ABSOL&/TE1Y PURE C.\ Kendall >) mid Flick (Minn.), Crawford (N. (Ivy.), Caldwell (Ohi (Iowa). Representative Culbertson, of Tex as, one of the best fitted men in pub lic life for tiie position, inis decided to accept the democratic vacancy on the Interstate Commerce Commission, which Mr. Harrison tendered to him sometime ago. H1h nomination wi.l go to the Senate at once, and lie will forward his resignation of his seat in the House to the Governor of Tex as. It was rumored that some of tiie republican Senators proposed taking steps to have the senate declare Seim- tor Hill’s seat vucant, because of his not having nppeared >o be sworn in and of bis retaining tbe office of Gov ernor of New Y'ork, but tbe most dili- igent inquiry failed to oonflriu the story. FLOATS. MERRIWETHER TEMPERANCE UNION Bits of Ilutuor and Wisdom Go the Rounds. nu He: Ho you know what I’d do if I were you? She: No; what? He; I’d marry me.—Puck. The mail train is seldom late, hut tiie train of, a female is always behind.—Glens Falls Republican. Penlope—“Do yon see that hand some fellow by the piano? I rejected him once.” Perdifu—“That’s noth ing. I rejected him i wice.”—Life. Don’t pen missives to your best girl on postal cards. She may have a suspicion that ymi do not care f cents for her.—Union County Stan dard. The thing that really kills u great many people is laziness, though the doctors generally manage to find a more respectable name for it.—Ram’s Horn. Judge: You are accused of not sup porting your wife Prisoner: But, your Honor, you don’t know my wife. She is insupportable. — Boston Truus- script. The fact that inillionares are not so safe as their more impecunious fel lows does not seem m check the mad rush for tiie immortal dollar.—Detrot Free Press. Amy: Papa, deal, Mr. Hunker says lie loves tb« ground 1 walk on Pa pa: No doubt, my daughter. Young Hunker wants Hie earth.—Smith & Gray’s Monthly. The Voice of Experience—“People shouldn’t marry,” said the bachelor, “until they know each other.” “If they didn’t,” said the married man, “they wouldn’t ■. urry at $fl.”—New York Press. Site—“Dear tne, Walter, these are terrible things you ’ell me about Ar thur! How do you happen to know so much of him?” He (a rival of Ar thur's for her hand)—“Why, Daisy, I’m liis best friend.”—[Harper’s Ba zar. The Toper’s Wile's Story. “I’ll tell you my secret,” said a heart broken wife: ‘‘It’s the shame ot my children, the load of my life; ,5 My husband, so kind, so gentle and good. Takes more of strang drink than a pru dent man should. “He’s a hard working man as] any you And, And when ho fioosn’t drink he’s natleat and kind; He gives me nis wages and stays home to rest, And maseK us all happy, contented and bleat, ’’Hilt husband will drink I’m sorry to say, And then from his homo ho wanders away. Comes in lute at nlglu when the family’s abed, And fills the whole house with terror and dread. ‘ I never before of my soirows have spoken. And would not speak now, but my heurt Is nigh broken. I’ve come to my pastor, bit not to com plain, Rut only seme counsel and comfort to gain.” Poor woman! her secret Is sadly we.l knewn; Alas! on toe street It Is pub 1, ly slm vi,; As plainly ’lis seen In the wife’s paid i lace As in thcdebauoh aud drunkard’s disgrace. ’Tis the old story, told forever retold, As vividly new us terribly old, How the Devil ot Drink, when he ’enters the home, Puts out its caudle and shrouds nil in gloom. O mothers and sisters and sweethearts, arise! Take In the drink-curse with your pitying eyes; Ry the iiiighL of vour love, your tears, and your faith Oh ! save our dear homes from the blight of I Ills death. —Joel Swartz, 1). 0.. In National Temp. Advocate. For (Mr. [Hiram Tliweatt, an 35 - aged and prominent citizen Years, (living near Troy, Alabama, says that for tliirry-flve years he was sorely afflicted with Eczema on his face. The eruptions were of a lurge and cancerous nature. That he tried a number of experienced physicians, but witli little result, and then re ceived only temporary relief. After having used only seven bottles of 8. 8. 8., he feels like a new man. The painful trouble is all gone, and now at sixtv years of age he is once more in good health, and restored to his family. He states that his cure is entirely due to 8. 8. 8. He says that he is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 8outh, and that his post office address is Olean, Pike county, Ala., and that as he wishe nil sufferers to know the good that lie has received from the medicine, lie will take pleasure in answering uny inquiries that may be sent him. Uur treatise on the blood and skin will be mailed free. Address, THE 8 AVI FT SPECIFIC CO., At lanta, Ga. On drinking in tiie present as com pared witli the past the Temperance Leader has a sensible word to *^y: “Instead of drink being the rule-bow' among tiie native Americans, it is the exception. It is rarely seen ou our diuing tables. Church members sel dom make a practice of drinking. It is never lieurd of at ordinations and not often at funerals. Thousands of children grow up without ever taking a glass as a beverage. Total absti nence has become respectable und druukenance a disgrace. And yec sensible people seriously tell us that our reformatory methods must be given tin, because we have made no progress. They say there is more drinking per capita now than when we began the temperance work. Will they please tell us if this means more whiskey or more beer? But suppose it means more ulcohoj, will they please tell us how much we would have been taking at tbe previous rapid rate of increased iuii- gratiou of drinkers, if it had not been for temperance work a.:d teaching. The ‘Christian ut Work,’ comment ing on the question, “Is Drunkenness curable?” says : "The liquor habit must b» regar<(ed, first of all, as a vice, ami not a disease, and treated accordingly. Some are led into the drinking habit, no doubt, largely through the influence of an inherited appetite; but, in the vast majority of cases, men form the liquor habit, just as they form any other bad habit —just as they learn to swear, to gam ble, and to steal : because their evil tendencies lead them that way. In other words, most men get druuk be cause they want to get drunk. An attempt to cure intemperance in gen eral by the uhh ot medicines would be very much like trying to cure pro fanity in the same way.” The Youth’s Companion comes to the rescue: “Nothing has been more certainly demonstrated than that tfae use of alcoholic drinks by young per sons in our keen, exciting oliuiate is a mistake, and is to no class so inju rious as to students. To them, more tnan to any other class, wine increases the difficulty of every duty, and adds alluring force to every vice. This i« not preaching; it is simple fact, au4 known to be such by all honest inves tigators. Students need the best food that civilization can supply, and that food should be eaten in the best man ner known to civilized life. But when it comes to intoxicating drinits, there is only one wise aud safe rule, whiolt is expressed in one word—abstain.” Can You Eat Heartily, with relish, and without distress afterward? If not, we recom , - .. mend to you Hood’s Sarsaparilla, (Ohio), which creates a good appetite and so invigorates the stomach and bowels that tiie food is properly digested aud all its nutriment assimilated. According to a statement, in Den mark drunken men are sent home in cabs, at tiie expense of the mail who sold them the last drink. Joseph Cook says: “License makes the community itself a rum-seller.”