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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-06-21
CONSIDER THE LILIES.

Consider the lilies, 0 faithless hearts,
How stately and fair they grow;
Behold the quivering, golden darts,
Lying deep in their hearts of snow.
Consider each pearly petal unfurled,
How pure and white it is;
The wisest and grandest of all the world
Was never arrayed like this.
To hearts bowed down, we lilies so,
And bear His accents mild
"Think we that One who clothes us so,
Can ever forsake His child"
"But your hearts, like ours, must be golden
true,
And your lives, like our petals, pure;
And the Fathers blessing shall rest on you
He has said-and His promise is sure"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-06-21
From Hot Springs, Ark.

IIOul I1OU ~ plIuBoj 1AIh'
To the Standard.
When left McMinnville last Sep
TENDER, l promised several of my
friends l would let them hear from me,
but circumstances have been such as
to render it next to impossible until
now.
| left Nashville on the Sd of Septem-
Der, and after spending few days at
the Louisville Exposition arrived atSt.
Louis on the night of the 18th, My
intention was to go to Kansas City, but
yielding to the persuasive arguments of
my "two cousins" I consented to re-
main in st. Louis until after the fair,
and l have never regretted it for the
Yelled Prophets procession and the
Trades procession were two of the
grandest displays l ever saw on the
streets of any city.
They also led me to believe that
there was millions in the law in ST..
Louis (and | expect there is, for but
little has eyer been gotten out of iD.
So l opened an office and began prac-
tice and they said | did exceedingly
well-Pd rather you'd take their word
for it than to question me about it.
Suffice it to say l was busy all the
time, and my confinement was such
that soon found recreation absolutely
necessary. So / came down here to
spend a few weeks. While in st.
Louis had the pleasure of meeting
Messrs. Mead and Stokely Black who
informed me that McMinnville was still
among the things that are, and |
learned through the STANDARD that
iron bridges, telephones, barrel factores
are getting as common with you as pig
tracks in the lane. Cousin Will Jones
and I regret to hear of all the improve
ments, for we had thought to live with
you; but the rapid strides you are
making toward the improvement O
your resorces will so enhance the value
of property that it will soon require {
fortune to buy house and lot in Nc
Minnville.
But / know you had rather hear O.
Hot Springs. So hear goes. At
o'clock p. m. May 9Th, I bid adieu tt
the folks at St. Louis and boarded thu
Iron Mountain train, determined tt
tear completely loose from the hum
drum of city life and seek rest and quie
among the Ozark mountains. / Sc
cured a berth in one of the palatia
sleepers of the /. NJ, and retired 70
the night, where rested until 8 o'clocl
Tuesday morning, when [ was SUDDEN,
aroused by the porter poking his heaO
behind the curtain with the interrog
atory: "Boss, yer amt gwine ter sleeI
all day, is yer?" After dispatching
hasty breakfast, which was served u
toaqueen's taste in the dining room car
, 1 went out on the platform to inhal
the fresh morning air and behold tn
many varied pictures of hill, vale an
, dell that present themselves to view {
the enraptured traveller along this lin
f of road. The day passed pleasantly
, and at 4 p. m. I found myself at tn
r Hot Springs depot, where, after NAL
| ing my way through regiment of he
f tel drummers, ropers and steerers,
. cIambered into buss. "The AIRING
s ton" simply said, and away he wer
: over the hard, smooth gravel road, a
r irving in due time in front of hanc
!. some three-story frame structure wit
t verandas, on which numerous ladit
D and gentlemen were quietly chatting
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

ticipate In the making or administering the
laws. Suffrage has never been regarded as
the natural right Of all the people, or OF any
particular class or portion of the people. Suf-
frage Is representation, and 1t has been given
In free governments to such class Of persons as
In their judgment would fairly and safely rep
resent the rights and interests OF the whole.
The right has generally, IL not universally,
been conferred on men above twenty-one years
OF age, and often this has been restricted by
requiring the ownership Of property, or the
payment of taxes. The great majority of
women are either under the age Of twenty-one
or are married, and therefore under such inhu-
ence and control rs that relation implies and
confers. Is there any necessity for the protec-
ton and preservation of the rights of women,
that they be allowed to vote, and, of course, to
hold office and directly to participate in legis-
lation and in the administration OF the laws
Nearly every man who votes has wife, or
mother, or sisters, or daughters; some sustain
all these relations, or more than one. Now,
think 1t certain that the great majority Of men
when voting or when engaged as legislators,
or In administering the laws in some official
character, are as fully mindful of the interests
OF all that class with whom they are 80 closely
connected, and whose interests are so bound
up with their own, and that, therefore, they
fairly represent all the rights and interests OF
women as well as their own. Persons who
have been accustomed to see legal proceedings
in the courts, and occasionally TO see female
are apt to suffer wrong because their rights are
determined wholly by men. There is just as
little reason for suspicion that their rights are
not carefully guarded in legislation, and in
every way where legislation can operate.
There is another reason why think this pro-
posal to enlist the women Of the country as a
part of its active political force, and cast upon
them an equal duty in the political meetings,
campaigns, and elections-to make them legisla-
tors, jurors, judges, and executive officers-is
all wrong. believe 1t to be utterly inconsist-
emit with the very nature and constitution OF
woman, and wholly subversive Of the sphere
and function she was designed to fill in the
home and in society. The Office and duty
which nature has devolved upon woman dur
ing all the active and vigorous portion of her
| life would often render it impossible, and still
| more often indicate, for her to appear and
| act in caucuses, conventions or elections or to
act as member of legislature, or as juror
or judge. | cannot bring myself to believe
that any large portion of the intelligent women
of this country desire any such thing granted
them, or would perform any such duties if the
chance we're offered them"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

the village common to the production or
preservation of physical conditions which
protect or promote healthfulness in a
community; 10 the establishment Of salu-
tary social customs and amusements to
the collection of public libraries which
shall help to encourage a wholesome in
tellectual growth, and the formation of
sturdy and correct literary tastes to the
protection of public morals, by assisting
the hand OF the law, or, better still,
by pre-occupying the thoughts, and ele-
waiting and purifying the aspirations
of the members of community, 30
that the slumbering terrors of the law
may never be invoked for the defence
of society. These are some of the OBJ
jects which may engage the attention of
rural improvement society. Not all of
them could, at the outset, be successfully
undertaken perhaps, but such an associa-
ton should be formed for continuous
existence, and in course of time should
embrace all the objects we have enumer-
ated, and many others besides. A large
number of such associations have been in
existence for many years in Connecticut,
and in the localities where they have been
formed they have been powerful factor
in building up towns and villages. These
societies were formed under the auspices
of B. G. Northrop, LID, for twenty-five
years secretary of the Connecticut Board
of Education. He has devoted many
years of active and gratuitous labor to
the subject. He has conquered ignorance
and public indifference, and converted
misrepresentation and ridicule into SYM
pathy and cooperation. Mr.. Northrop
lectured through Vermont last fall on the
subject of rural improvements, and ex-
cited a strong interest in the matter
wherever he addressed the people. The
season is favorable for considering the
recommendations and suggestions he has
made, and incorporating them in organi-
Ldeiouo loi dOtINo opola1iouo Ill oho 1oWho
and villages of the state. As Mr.. North
rop says, a liberal spirit will invite wealth
and population to our borders. The pro-
gressive towns of the state are the friends
of rural adornments, knowing well that
these are Investments which enrich any
community. On the other hand, penu-
rious policy is penny wise and pound
foolish. 1t defeats its own aim of saving
and results in deterioration and loss.
Men of influence and culture shun mar
row-minded and illiberal community. A
good name tends to enrich town as we'll
as an individual, while bad one may
impoverish both.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14
Rural Improvement.

Vermonters as class are not aesthetic.
They live in the midst of rural charms
and mountain scenery that move the souls
of appreciative beholders in whom ia.
miliarity has not dulled the sense of pic
turesque beauty or cloyed the appetite for
magnificent views, but the aspect of the
country at large, the dwellings and out
buildings, school.houses and public edi-
fees, the general characteristics of the in.
habitants, all indicate severe devotion
to policy of thrift, to cultivation of the
arts by means of which the material
estate is directly improved, rather than
the spiritual estate developed, or the
moral and material welfare of coming
generations wisely regarded. Nature has
royalty endowed this mountain land, and
man should join hands with nature in
the work of making it dwelling. place
distinguished for the preservation and
cultivation of both moral and natural
beauty and splendor. Efforts have been
made, with little of system, organization
or persistence, to encourage the growth of
public spirit, local pride, which, work.
ingindependently, or allying itself with the
constituted authorities, shall endeavor to
promote general or local improvements, to
add to the outward attractiveness of the
country, and take an interest in the phys
ical, moral and social welfare of the in
habitants. In other states, and in som'
towns and villages in this state, rural i'm
provement societies have been formed
under whose direction trees have beer
planted-and which have interceded TO
the sparing of trees that the woodman'
axe was menacing-to add beauty, com
fort and picturesqueness to the household
lot, the roadside or the landscape. B,
these local agencies villagers and towns
people have been melted to the improve
ment of the highways, streets and side
walks to the laying ont and identifying O
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14
What Is Abuse.

Under this heading the Rutland Herald
is lead by the issue of local contest to
make some remarks which are worthy of
a much wider application than to can
vass for the Office of municipal judge in
the village of Rutland. L. w. Redington,
a democrat, was the successful candidate
and in his speech at a serenade he spoke
of having been abused by the press. The
Herald says:
"A man who seeks public office at the
hands of his fellows of course expects oppo-
sition and criticism, and has no cause
to call legitimate criticism and opposition abuse,
II that criticism does not pass outside of
the consideration OF his moral. intellectual and
civic qualifications for the office IL a vo-
ter thinks that a candidate for a political
office is too much Of political partisan to
make good magistrate; II he thinks that it is
not prudent in apubic sense to place the office
of judge and town grand juror in the Office
of two men who are partners in the practice of
law why should he not present these objections
before the public on the eve of an important
local election Considering the
amount of vile, obscene, purely personal abuse
that men who are not candidates for Office at
all regularly receive at the hands of the DEM
democratic campaign orators, we think Mr.
Redington ought not to call the legitimate pub
lie criticism and opposition, which his candi-
dacy fairly invites, abuse 1t is not abuse /;
it is an argument of the opposition on purely
public grounds; 1t does not wander into the
domain of personal scandal, or ribaldry of any
sort; 1t is directed simply at his public disqual-
ifcatons for the office, and in no way touches
on the parliamentary freedom of public discus,
sion. OF course we cannot expect that the
criticism of the opposition will please the
officeseeker, but IL it Is confined to the single
question of the fitness Of the candidate meas
ured by his public career and professional en-
tanglements 1t certainly is not abuse; 1t is
good for any community to cultivate spirit
of challenge when man, by his own action
and aspiration, comes up for office. II there
was more of this honest, ugly opposition to
candidates, on public grounds, there would be
fewer feeble. careless or corrupt men in office,
because they could not face vigorous fire of
questions concerning their qualifications A
candidate for public Office must stand the dis
cusson by the press Of his public career; IL the
facts OF his public career are not misrepre-
scented there is no abuse, even il a conclusion is
drawn from the career not flattering to the
candidate. Nay, more, IL a man asks the peo-
pie to entrust him with honorable and import
ant responsibilities he cannot complain II any
private habits that threaten to interfere with
his public efficacy or usefulness are fairly dis
cussed and considered by his fellow citizens
poon private citizen, through motives OF
personal malice or self-interest, is abuse, but
a candidate for a decent public trust cannot
complain IL both his public career and his pri,
vate character are freely discussed in the
| decision
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14
Woman Suffrage In Congress.

Last week we made mention of Judge
Polsnd's report concurring with the ma.
jority of the judiciary committee in its
report upon the joint resolution proposing
an amendment to the constitution of the
United States, extending the right of suf-
frage to women. We publish below the
full text of Mr.. Poland's report. If the
argument against the measure were in
definitely drawn out it could hardly be
more forcibly or more comprehensively
stated. The following are the views OF
MIR. Poland:
"The undersigned concurs with the majority
of the committee on the judiciary In recon-
mending that 1t Is inexpedient TO submit to the
states a constitutional amendment for the
establishment of woman suffrage. concur
generally in the argument OF the report by
which that conclusion Is supported, but the
report does not state my individual views Of
the question fully and exactly, and therefore
desire to add a short statement of them. NJ
government founded upon the principle tina
sovereignty resides in the people has ever al
lowed all the people 20 vote, or to directly par
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

PRECEDENTs are easily established, but
they are not always as easily disregarded.
An established precedent has the arbi-
trary force of an unwritten and often an
unreasonable law, for law of this kind
is quite as likely to be the child of acct
dent or caprice as of intelligence or de-
sign. 1t is also quite as likely to be obeyed,
against ones better judgment, from deli.
cate scruples or from some utterly frivo-
lous motives. Vermont has escaped the
danger this year of having for governor a
candidate dictated by machine. Let
her now be on her guard against establish.
ing troublesome precedent in the ad.
ministration of state affairs. Several
times within the past few years the lieuten.
antgovernor has been promoted to the
governorship. Promotion can hardly be
said to have become an established prece-
dent, still the choice of governor bien.
nially shows sign of embarrassment by
reason of these instances of promotion.
1t is undeniable that from term to term
more Importance has been attributed to
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS insignif-
cant Office of itself alone-by aspiring
men, from the fact that it has come to be
regarded as sort of stepping-stone to the
governorship itself. If it should become
a settled practice to promote the lieuten-
ant-governor, that would become the
chief Office of the state, and the object of
the ambition of every petty politician.
If this year Lieutenant-governor Pingree
is made governor, let it be because he is
the best man in all the state that will take
the Office, not because Proctor and Bar
stow, very recently, were advanced from
the second to the first position. And
whoever may be nominated for lieutenant
governor let this preference carry with it
no assurance and no obligation two years
hence to make that man governor. Let
the acknowledgement take his chances
with other citizens, and "let brains win"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

THE press, state and foreign, is paying
the representative of the second Vermont
congressional district, Hon. Luke p. Po-
land, hearty and well-merited compliments
for his efficiency and industry and the
high quality of his services at Washing
ton. Judge Poland has lost none of his
vigor, and his great abilities do not ex-
hibit traces of age. On the contrary, he
shows how ripened experience has added
to his capacity for real usefulness. In all
this, he is but fulfilling the expectations
which his election excited, and justifying
the wisdom of the policy Of choosing the
best for responsible public positions.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

The solidity of the Blaine column is
said to be more matter of newspaper
claims than of fact. Iowa's entire dele
cation has been credited to the "mag-
netic candidate, but it is reported that
ten at least of the delegates do not mag
netize." The "Vermont of the West "
should be solid for the senator of the
Green Mountain state. Her infatuation
for Blaine since 1876 is one of the incom-
prehensible incidents of politics.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

RHEUMATISM is the most subtle and excru-
ciating disease flesh is heir to. Neuralgia,
sharper and more erratic, Is as much of an
enigma. Science has proved very non-com-
initial when asked to reveal aspecific for them.
Bnt At last she has consented Athlophoros
ia the tombstone she has provided. H. S.
Chandler OF The Independent, New York, says
that "one bottle of Athlophoros entirely cured
him of rheumatism, from which he had suf-
,ered for a year and half"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

THE people of this nation will feel an
honest and hearty sympathy for General
Grant in the financial misfortunes which
have overtaken him. The honor and
sturdy qualities of the old soldier are
conspicuous in the disaster which has
swept away the fortunes of his family.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

ga PROMINENT New York republican, a
well-known associate, friend and manager
of President Arthur in his presidential
aspiration gives out the following esti-
mate of the relative strength of the presi-
Dental candidates: Arthur, 397; Blaine,
259; Edmunds, 50; Logan, 43; Sherman,
90; Gresham, 6.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

A GUN weighing two hundred and twelve
thousand pounds has been successfully cast at
South Boston, Mass, for the United States
government 1t will be the largest gun ever
constructed in this country and will throw
proiectile six miles.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-14

How can you remain sufferer from dyspep-
STA when worse cases than yours are being
cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla. Try 1t.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1884-02-07

The Mississippi state senate has
passed the bill prohibiting public Of
ficers from accepting and using rail
road free passes and requiring foreign
nurseries to pay a privilege tax and
to give bond to sell fruit trees in that
state Dardanelle Post.
There is food in the above for the
next legislature of Arkansas. 1t is
dangerous custom for public Off
GERS as a rule to ride on free passes.
Men are so apt to recognize favors
in their public actions. As to lay
ing tax upon foreign nurseries we
do not know but that would be a
good measure also. Arkansas, nat
urally one Of the best fruit states in
the union, certainly ought from her
own nurseries to supply the trees for
her own orchards. This would en-
courage a development that would
develop in more ways than one.
The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1884-02-07

The man who fiippantly says: Il
don't care anything about politics,
and have not voted for years." ought
to move, and the quicker and farther
he moves the better. He is untitled
for citizenship in land whose lnsti
buttons have been bought with such
sacrifices of life and treasure. Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
This hits the nail on the head ex-
actly, and proclaims fact that ought
to see the light in this and every
other country. We do not know that
any of this class is in the bounds of
our circulation, but then they are
scattered in various quarters, and it
is a firstclass sentiment to foster
among our people anyway. The idea
is for man to be something, and
make himself felt in politics and
every where else. OF course a man
with too little thought or apprecia-
ton to feel an interest in the politi-
cal welfare of the country is very apt
to be too stupid or selfish for any
other good purpose. No man should
hold his religion in such way as to
degrade his ideas of politics, and,
when he does so, when he comes to
look upon the politics of his country
as something too impure for his
righteous hands to touch, he contra
venes the very.idea of his christian
ity which is to make men good citi-
zens while he makes himself no citi-
zen at all as far as his own actions
go. 1t is every mans duty to make
himself felt in the affairs of society
and politics and make himself felt
for good. If things are not right,
don't pine about it, but pull off your
coat, and right them, and let your
community and country be the better
for your having lived in it.