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Newspaper Page TextVolume LXLLI. 1logTHH«XwB B D 9 K5 bi - 1 ***[consolidatedma, Milledgeyille, Ga., December 6, 1892. Number 23, Editorial GlimDses and Clippin(js. Pay for your paper. Congress convened yesterday. It is said -that Tom Watson h«« ost !$3.000 on his “People s Port} Paper,’ 1 ^ The Augusta Evening Herald at tained its second birthday on Thanksgiving. ' # The last congress had nine Third party men in it aud the next con- gresswlll have six. It is asserted that there is only one railroad in Gporgia making more than its fixed charges. Prof. Willett, oj Mercer Univer sity. is acting president of the Insti tution since the resignation of Ur. Nunnaliy. _ A movement has been inaugu rated in Eatonton for a dispensary. The Messenger takes strong ground against it. The comet has scared a Niagara Falls Miser into dividing Ids money with his needy .family. It s an ill comet that scares nobody good. President-elect Cleveland wascom- pelled to leave New York last week to save himself from being tored to death by over-zealous office-seekers. The grand jury of Richmond county recommends that the legis lature be petitioned to change the law so that* state, county and con gressional elections shall be held the same day. The New York World says: “Per haps tiie most severe pangs of Repub lican remorse follow the thought that the World's Fair was given to Chicago in order to prevent this stale from being captured by the demo crats aud to hold Illinois in the re publican column.” In the House of Representatives Tuesday a big batch of bills was passed. Mel Branch’s anti-monopoly resolution came up, but was recom mitted to the Railroad Committee. The day was busy but uneventful. In the Semite Mr. Robbe intioduced a bill to amend an act for the protec tion of persous confined in the lunatic asylum in the right to communicate witli their friends, etc. Other bills, all of a local nature, were dieted. Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Rathboiie reports the number of new postofilces established dur ing the last fiscal year to be 4,105, a greater number than during any previous year except 1890. Over one-fourth of these new offices went to Arkansas, Texas, Missis sippi, Alabama and North Carolina. The greatest increase in any of the states was in Georgia. THE PENSION FRAUDS. Cuimk Against Tiik w ipc line ated LB Dr. John Witherspoon Scott, the venerable father-in-law of Presidi-nt Harrison, died Tuesday afternoon last*, at 4:10 o'clock at the age of 93 years. He died in the executive man sion where tie went with his daught er and son-in-law when they made it their home. Dr, Scott’s illness wus ql short duration. He went to Indianapolis with the party that accompanied Mrs. Harrison’s re mains. He bore the fatigue of the trip very well and returned to Washington in his usual health. Saturday, November 18. he caught a cold and was compelled to go under a doctor’s care. A dispatch from Baltimore says: “Aft answer to the advertisement in a matrimonial publication has got Miss Maggie Hyde of Georgia into apeck of trouble. Some months ago Wilson Tindell, of Gumboro, Sussex connt.v. Delaware-inserted r head vert isement in question. He was pleased with Bliss Hyde’s answer and the correspon dence was continued until Tindell j made a proposal of marriage which j was accepted. Tindell went to Geor gia, where the couple were married. ]The couple returned to Sussex coun ty where they lived happily for sev- leral weeks. This week Miss Hyde [discovered that her husband was a (very much married, man, having two 1 wives from whom he had not been [divorced living besides lnrself. Khe [at once packed up her goods and left [for Georgia and passed through this Jcity Sunday, The Georgia Legislative party re timed from Chicago in their special ars on the East Tennessee road at o’clock Monday morning, 28th. hey were a little tired and sleepy fter their thirty-six hour run, but alked enthusiastically of their trip, net were ardent in their advocacy f a Georgia exhibit at the Wot Id’s ’air. The party, which included wenty member- of the House of Representatives, ten members of he Senate, the Governor and Half dozen newspaper men, left Atlanta n two special cars in charge of Col- ►nei Beverly W. Wrenn of the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. t Vednesday afternoon. They spent 'hursday in Cincinnati, arriving in Ihlcago Friday morning. Friday hey inspected the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 893. Saturday they saw the sights t the Windy City and called on fice President-elect Stevenson at lie Palmer House. Saturday night hey left Chicago for home. Tiik Great United States Treasury. Nearly 700,000 persons are on the pension roll of this country to which the treasury will pay out this year about 150 millions of dollars. Ten years ago the amount expended in pensions was about 50 millions, but it has been creeping up year by year until three times that sum is taxed out of the people to pay what 50 millions would be ample to pay for this purpose. It is calculated by some that by another year or two not less tliatl 2U0 millions will be paid out on pensions. If it could be shown that this amount could be legitimately ex pended under an honest and equita ble pension law there would not be a voice of complaint raised against, it. But under the developments that have exposed to view the gigantic fraud that lias been perpetrated upon the tax payers of the land under the guise of patriotism the honest people of the country will demand that an investigation be made iutb the work ings of tlie pension law and deter mine, if possible, how many unde serving persons ure participating in its benefits without a color of right and how many more are being paid unreasonable sums for doing what already they have been amply paid for. Outside of the widows who are beneficiaries under the law, how many of the remainder on the list were nothing more than hummers, who were never in a place of actual danger once in their life. Let an honest pehsion list be reconstructed out of the present one. In no section of this country has there been or will be any objection to a proper compen sation being made to those who were disabled by services in the army from following their usual occupation. Has not millions been paid out to those who really *ere not io need of Help but merely took it because it was so generously offered—offered by a party who had determined to keep the “Soldiers vote with it by one means or another?” and there is no question that they have recklessly given many millions to the bummer and the undeserving that was not legitimate. Isn’t it time for a halt and an inves tigation? +* + Since the above was written the Secretary of the Interior lias reported to the Secretary of the Treasury that the amount necessary to meet the demands of the pension service will he $1GG,3G1,350—a sum greater than is expended by any great European power for its standing army. C. WOMAN! A French Philosopher once said, “If any religion i-' endurable it is tHat of a child naturally attracted toward heaven. 1 f prayt r is sacred, it is that which rises from innocent Jips. What matters it, if the belief or the system is groundless, if it strengthens the heart, and enlightens the mind. All prayer is good, if it be inspired by love and charity. I would not, for any consideration, that my daughter did not. believe in her God and Sa vior, and did ndt pray. If she did, she would appear to' me to be less good, less pure, less sweet. Beware how we take faith from women—we would loose too much by that. It is necessary for a woman to be a be liever. Faith is an occupation for Her mind: it gives her moral courage: It sheds an enchanting grace over her whole being. With women, ev erything that is not becoming and useful is hurtful. There is no middle ground. Free-thinking would lead woiupij directly to license of morals, and then to vice. Liberty of con science is too heavy a loud for them to carry.” zf not, wkt not? __ All annual subscribers to either Ihe Saturday Blade or the Chicago Ledger, W. D. Boyce's Big Weeklies, published at. 113, 115 and 117 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, receive certificates entitling them to free assistance in securing suitable stopping places in Chicago duriug the World’s Fair, at whatever price they desire to pay. Are you a subscriber to either of fhe.ee papers? If not, why not? Many people were victimized during Dedi cation Week with poor rooms at High prices, and many more will be in the same situation next year unless they receive competent assistance in the matter. This is wbat the “W. D. Boyce Bureau of World’s Fair Inform ation’' will give you, aud without one cent of cost for the service. Some trustworthy person will be Hent with each certificate hblder to the rooms selected, to see that they are com fortably and pleasantly located. The riib-f ription price for either paper is $2.09 per year. Letter From Eleanor Kirk. Brooklyn, N. Y„ Nov. 30, 1892. G98 Greene Avenue. To the various inquiries about style it can be truthfully said that never beforp, in the history of fashioh, did there exist so generous a margin for the exhibition of individual taste. Long cloaks and wraps, medium out. side garments and short jackets are equally fashionable. Patterns for these articles of apparel are now so carefully and scientifically cut that many ladies ate able to make them at home and at greatly reduced prices. One of the handsomest wraps 1 have seen this year was made by a young woman for herself and cost exactly fifteen dollars when com pleted. The material was a soft gray cloth, light in weight, but very/-warm. The body had an extra lining and the sole trimming was composed of very large gray buttons. It fitted per fectly, and could not have been bought, at any store at this season lor less than thirty dollars. This girl had plenty cf time and wanted to see what she could do, anil the necessity s upon her to economize. For most women it would be cheaper to buy the garments at. full price. The pressing of such garments is not only tiresome but requires considerable patience and much skill. “I could make me a handsome oloak for tiie pi ice I could afford to pay,'’ the mother of four little children told me the other day, “but I concluded it was better to weai the old one than to wear myself out.” That was a sen sible woman. She knew where to draw the line. Some hats are prettier aud more graceful than others, but strictly speaking every description of head- goar is fashionable, and it is impossi ble to discriminate between last win ter’s hats and bonnets and those of this full and winter. This ought to be a solace to those who cannot afford new hats. A ptetty and ex tremely natty turban is on exhibition in the window of one of our large dry goods houses, and it can be just as well made by a girl of ordinary gump tion. The material was shower-proof serge, and was trimmed with a narrow gilt band, a couple of gilt loops taste fully arranged with loops of the serge and two black quills. The gilt garniture can be easily dispensed with and something else substituted, so that the turban could be ”’orn in all weathers. The girl who wishes to be really stylish in the matter of a hat can accomplish her desire by pulling a couple of quills from th# wing feathers of any conyenient fowl. “Why don’t you show your readers how to keep from getting tired and how to thoroughly relax the muscles when they are fatigued?” a physician inquired a while ago. “It seems to me women can help women more in this way than any other.” I sighed. I couldn’t help it, for I have worked as hard as any trench digger in this matter and now a man “ups and asks” mo why I don’t* do something about it. I did not explain but simply accepted the suggestion as a hint that, it was time to begin again, so here goes with thanks to the doctor. If my friends will take the trouble to watch themselves when they are sitting “quietly”—as they call it— they will find that their muscles are in a condition of extieme tension. Very few women know how to rest, and not one in fifty ever really, re clines on the bed. They think^they do, but they stretch their muscles instead and lie on them. If they will kindly try the experiment, they will at once see that their spines and legs and arms are more or less rigid, und that the form does not sink into the couclp Now this is all wrong, and although it is difficult to entirely overcome the tendency of years it can be done with will and determination. For an example of thorough relaxa tion it is well to take the arm of a healthy infant, and see how limp the little hand hangs when the arm is gently shaken. Compare this 'with the usual adult wrist when in a so called position of rest. There are yery careful directions given for this process of muscle and nerve relaxa tion in Miss Call’s wonderful book, “Power through Repose.” I will gladly answer any letters of inquiry concerning the best physical exercises fur Mi* developiuen*' of the c! est and the prevention and cure, of puluion- ar> diseases. A school teacher in Iowa writes that the best, most satisfactory and staying bieakfasts the ever ate were composed of good buckwheat cakes, a piece of steak and a cup of coffee. “For heaven’s sake,” she adds, “don't ever tell a man who has to work all day with hand or brain, or a woman who lias to teach school bout nine till four, to take toast or plain bread at their matin meal, 1 tell you gobd buckwheat cakes smtain me as noth ing else does till dinn* r time, apd on a cold morning they keep me warm. Mv present hoaniihg house keeper does not know how to make them as I have been accustomed to have them. She stirs them up in the morning and they are tough. Will you send her u recipe und please tell me why some (oiks seem to think they must cry down this or that arti cle of food simply because it does hot' happen to agree with them?” This is human nature, and each person must be a law unto himself or herself. The caloric of the buck wheat is the cm H- of the feeling of comfort on a cold day. Buckwheat cakes should be made over night, and put in a warm place to rise. To a pint bowl of buck wheat add half a cup of indian meal, a little salt, a table spoonful of moliiM.es, and warm water enough to muke a soft batter in which a Fleischinan s yeast cake has been dissolved. This rule is un failing. Eleanor Kirk. Washington Letter. BKi SHIPS Gi* WAN. ComparUou of tho Grofttoet Vowels In ihe ITIoetN of European Powers. Tho Royal Sovereign, the largest warship in the world, made her trial trip with the officers of the British admiralty on board. Her displace ment is 11,009 tons, and her speed, which was kept up for three hours, was 18.1 knots per hour. ' The largest and fastest vessels of tho French navy, the Admiral Baii- din and the Formidable, are 3,000 tons less, and their speed is three knots less. Our battleships — the Indiana, the Massachusetts and tho Oregon—are 4,000 tons less, und their estimated speed is three knots less. Italy lias five ships afloat whoso dis placement is nearly as. large as that of the Royal Sovereign, and whose speed is almost the same. Neither Russia nor Germany nor Austria nor Spain has any ships that will compare in size or effectiveness with the Royal Sovereign. The crack ship of tho British navy, tho Inflexible, is nearly 3,000 tons less in displacement than the Royal Sover eign. .felie is 320 feet in length and 75 feet beam, as against 380 feet in length and 75 feel beam in tho Royal Sovereign. The great Italian ships are 400 feet long by 7-1 feet beam. But when we turn to the crack merchant steamers of the day we find that the City of New York and the City of Paris, which have just passed under the Ambrkau flag, are 500 feet long by G3 feet beam. They are 200 to 260 feet longer t ban the types of the English and French battleships before the Royal Sover eign and twelve feet narrower. In them the proportion of beam to length is 8.89, while in tho battle ships it is Jess than G, or about the proportion which was usual in the forties. The Royal Sovereign's armament reflects tho progress of naval gun nery. The Italian Italia, Duillo and Dandolo, which were built between 187G and 1881, carry 100-tpn guns, the British Inflexible carries 80-ton guns, the French Admiral Baudin and the Formidable cany 75-ton guns, but t lie Royal Sovereign only carries 07-ton guns, and our three battleships carry 45-ton guns. Tho reason of the reduction in tho size of the gun is—first, the difficulty of handling enormous masses of metal with sufficient rapidity, aud, secondly, tho apprehension that no vessel can he built so as to eiiduro the concussion of the fire of very heavy, guns without her plates split ting and parting. The best opinion now is that guns not exceeding forty- five tons in weight would be more effective in action than guns exceed ing that weight. There is very little doubt that tho Italia and Duillo would wrench themselves apart in From Our IlegularCorrespondent. Washington, Nov. 30th, 1892. The i-xtra session pendulum swings back and forth from day to day. Last week for a lime tt seemed that the sentiment, in favor of an imme diate extra session was overwhelming among prominent democrats, as for several days about nine out of every ten Senators and Representatives that arrived and were willing -to express a decided opinion were in favor of an extra session at. the ear liest possible moment. Then there was a change the other way, and aliout the same percentage of arrivals op posed an early session, although many of t tiese opponents of an early extra session, think it would be an advan tageous saving of time to call an extra session ' about September or October. If a poll of nil the demo cratic Senators and Representatives now in Washington were taken on the question of an early extra session it is extremely doubtful which side would get a majority, so evenly divi ded 1ms the sentiment become. Hon. Chauncy F. Black, of Penn sylvania, President of the Na ional Association of democratic clubs, is here to confer with Secretary Gar dener as to the association's future work, particularly that relating to the campaign of 1896, which he says is already commenced. Mr. Black called Attention to! the manner in which the Walker tariff of 1840, which was one of the most satisfactory the county ever had, was prepared, and asked a good many democrats if the next democratic tariff could not -be better prepared in that way than in anv other. He was surprised to find that very few people remembered, if they evert knew, how the Walker tariff bill was’prepared. It was pre pared during a recPss of Congress by Robert J. Walker, President Polk’s Secretary of the Treasury, aud when Congress met in regular session it was substantially as prepared enac ted into a law and brought credit and honor both to its author and to the democratic party, if that plan suc ceeded so well then why not try it again, by letting the Democratic Secretary' of the Treasury to be lected by Mr. Cleveland prepare tariff bill to be sfibmitted to cougress when it meets? is now being asked on all side*. Ordinarily the officials of the Treasury Department who have to deal with importations are better posted on tariff matters than out siders, evemamoeg those who have devoted much time and study to I lie eomplicated question, and are conse quently' better prepared to arrange the details of a tariff schedule, but it must not be forgotten that nearly or quite all of the tariff experts now in the employ of the Treasury ure hide-bound protectionists, and that it might not lie altogether safe to trust them with the work of uiakiug a new tariff bill on reform lines. The relations of tiie Comptroller of the currency with theNatiotaal banks are so close that when a Comptroller retires from office lie usually enters the employ of a National bank, but all the same much surprise was caus- el when the annual report of the preset.t Comptroller was made pub* lie and it was seen that, he had em bodied therein an argument against the establishment of State banks with authority to issue currency’. It is regarded as nearly akin to inso lence for a republican official thus to attempt to tell tho democratic Con gress that it should not carry out a plank of its National plutform. which the country has just endorsed. General Itosecrans, Register of the Treasury, and about the only demo crat noiv holding a prominent posi tion under the Government, struck the civil service law a knock down blpw by stating in his annual report that the compettive examinations held there under were practically of no use in determiningtliecoinpetencv of a clerk. Not that this statement was new or surprising hut that it was made by a big official. It lias been fashionable among officials for several administrations to bow down joint committee which has been in- vestigating the subject shall in their report which will soon be roady make any practical recommendations it is altogether probable that, thpv will be embodied in legislation. Most demo crats agree with the National plat form, that industrious and worthy foreigners should be free to come to us. and all stand rea-’y to vote to prohibit the coining of the unworthy. Whether tt is because the newspa pers got the news first or because they really think there is nothing in it I cannot say, but any way the State Department people poohpooli • the story about the French agent who controls the Panama railroad liaviqg violated the Monroe Doctrine by dis criminating ngainst American ship pers over that road. Senator Ivenna of West Virginia, is dangerously il*. He bus been sick for soyerat weeks hut a few days ago it was thought the crisis had passed and that lie whs on the road to recov ery’, but Saturday he had a relapse and today the worst is feared. He ‘ lias pleurisy and heart trouble. FLOATS. Bits of Humor and Wisdom Go ing the Bounds. action long before they’ had destroyed their enemy. The projectile thrown j to this civil service mumbo-jumbo, by the Royal Sovereign will weigh ! an d it is refreshing to find one that 1,200 pounds. Such missiles will do w pj speak what so many of them quito us much damage if they striko an object as a missile weighing a ton or nearly a ton.—Cincinnati Com mercial Gazette. ,j"'t : s»— - think. The question of .immigration legis lation at the coming session of Con gress is being agitated, and if the A fool thinks he is right because he con’t see very far. Indecision is the greatest robber on the face of the earth. A Georgia Judge decides that a mule is a deadly weapon. Bread is the staff of life, and pie is the stumbling block. The party who won’t forgive is the one who is always in the wrong. A man who likes.anvthing that, is good for him is a curiosity.—Atobi - son Globe. Look ahead, but do not spendi'aU your time in the vain effort, to scan eternity,—Galyeston News. “All road* lead to rum” remarked tiie tramp as lie started once more on his travels.—Washington Htar. “So you’ve got a wife?” “Well, I don’t exactly know; but I rather think she’s got me.”—Ally Hloper. The embarrassment of a stuttering man in the act of asking for a loan is somethin? painful to behold.—Phil adelphia Record. Marie—No man should kiss me un less he was engaged to me. Claire—And no man should lie en gaged to me unless he kissed me.— Detroit Free Prps«. “Undeistand you are are teaching physical culture. Miss De Bootop.” “O, yjes, I was bound to be recog nized bv good society—if n ot in one way, th6n another.”—Detroit Tri bune. Thev elected another woman a trial justice out in Wyoming last week. The first one, who was elec ted a year ago, sent her husband to jail for contempt of court, and the Wvoming voters seem to have cotn- to the conclusion that female justice cant he bulldozed. Mrs. Outnme—How do you account for this hair on your coat? Ontunie—It niii«t have come from the hnrh«r’s hoy brushing it. Mrs. Outume—But he wouldn’t put a woman’s long hair on vou. Ontume—Yes lie would: I dffin’fc give him a nickel.—New York Her ald. A FREE TRIP TO TH E WORLD’S FAIR, and countless other attractive premium-', from a doll to a watch, byolele, organ or rifle, are offered for a little pleasant work near liomri bv the publishers of WIDE AWAKE. For full particulars, free, address W. F. Kellogg, Box 188, Boston, Mass. General Richard A. Jackson diefi at Fort McPherson in Atlanta on the 28th, ult., of inflammatory rheu matism. General Jackson had been in. active military service since 1851 and was in command of the military that guarded the tomb of General Grant. While performing that service he was severely shocked by a stroke of lightning, from which he never re covered. General .Jiickson entered the army as a private and worked ,his way gradually to tiie position made ya» cant by his death. He was promoted to the position of corporal soon after his enlistment and that was really the beginning of his brilliant career. Nee Tlte Woi lil'n Fair For Fifteen Cents, Upon receipt of your address and fifteen cents In postage stamps, wo will mall you prepaid our Souvenir Columbian Ex position, the regular price is Fifty cents, tmt wo want you to have one, we make tne price nominal. Vou wilt find It a work of art and a thing to bo prized. It contalus full page views of the great buildings, descriptions of same, and Is executed in highest stylo of art. IT not satisfied with It. after you get It, wo will refund the stamps and let you keep the book. Ad dress H. E. Bucklen A Co. Chicago, 111.

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Union recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1886-current, December 06, 1892, Image 1