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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09
Men Who Get Side Tracked.

Yankee Blade.
Perhaps the most numerous class
of men who get side tracked are those
who start in life in an occupation for
which they have no natural aptitude.
There are thousands of farmer boys
who never should remain on the
farm-the loud protestations of the
agricultural press to the contrary
Notwithstanding. There are doubt
less men who make a life business of
stirring the soil when they ought to
be stirring the senate; and, on the
contrary, perhaps there are men who
are trying to stir the senate who
ought to be stirring the soil.
Good business men are frequently
spoiled to make poor preachers; and
there are many large and heavy law
yers who would make ideal black
smiths; and there are some slender
blacksmiths with the keen logical
brain and the shrewd masterful mind
of the lawyer. Such men are side
tracked for life, unless there is some
great event crosses their track, such
as crossed the track of Grant the
teamster, or Cromwell the country
squire. But no doubt there are many
Grants who always team, and many
Cromwells who never leave the farm.
There are many men who start out in
life, like hunters, on the wrong trail.
They never bring down their game
because their game has gone in an
other direction. They are like fisher
men who bob for cod in trout brook,
or start a-whaling on an inland pond.
There are some men who are side
tracked for life at their very birth.
They are born into a mesh of circum-
stances from which there is no extri-
cation. OF course it is easy enough
to say that man, like water, will
always find his level; but it's hard
for water to rise plump with its foun-
dation head when confined in an I'M
derground pipe. 1t would have been
difficult for Shakespeare to assert his
claim to immortality if he had been
born in Patagonia, and we would
never have heard of Plato hadIhe first
seen the light in Scythia. To say
nothing of the hereditary influences
that mold the unborn man, the en-
vironment of theyoung humans in
fancy usually shapes and directs his
destiny so irrevocably that only men
of the strongest will and the toughest
mental and physical fiber can ever
counterfeit the impetus that is given
them in childhood.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09
A Knotty Question.

A Washington gossip says: 1
heard very good anecdote day or
two ago from Chauncey Depew, about
Rutter, now president of the New
York Central railroad. Commodore
Vanderbilt picked Rutter up when
he was acting freight agent on the
Erie railroad. He was paid $4,000
to 60 over to the Central and take
charge of their transportation bust
ness. Rutter was a slim young fell
low, with a ruddy face and a prema-
turely gray mustache, and he never
got over being surprised with him
self at his remarkable growth in the
railroad business. There came up
decidedly knotty problem one day,
not long after he had taken hold of
the Central's business. Rutter did
not know what to do,and so he walk
ed into the Commodore's office and
stated the case to the old gentleman.
Said the commodore: "Jim, what
what does the railroad pay you"
"Fifteen thousand year, sir"
"What for?"
"For taking charge of the transport
tation business
"Well, then, if we pay you for
that, why do you come to me? Do
you want me so earn your salary for
your
Rutter took the hint. He went
right out, made a decision in the
knotty problem, realizing that if he
wasn't competent for the duties Of
the.company,th they would make short
workwith him, and if he was compe-
ent it required difficult problems like
that in question to show his compe-
tency. From that time until he be-
came president Of the great corpora
ton he never asked anybody's adj
vice about his action. He did what
he did shouldering the responsibility,
and expecting to stand or fall by it.
So it happens that this man, who a
few years ago was handling baggage
at an obscure station on the Erieroad,
is now president of one Of the great
est corporations in the world.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09
The Great Yellowstone Geyser Now
Active.

A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune
says the Excelsior geyser in the yell
lowstone Park is in operation. This
geyser is in the great middle geyser
basin, close to Fire Hole River. 1t
is in the form of an immense pit 800
feet in length and 200 feet wide, and
the aperture through which it dis
charges its volume of water is nearly
200 feet in diameter. Its general APP
pearance is that of a huge boiling
spring, and for many years its true
character was not suspected. Its first
eruption occurred in 1880, when it
revealed itselfas stupendous geyser.
The power of its eruptions was almost
incredible, sending an immense
column of water to heights of from
100 to 800 feet, and hurting with it
rocks and powders of from 1 to 100
pounds in weight. Its present
eruption is said to be a repetition of
that of 1880. 1t is throwing its
volumes of water 800 feet into the
air, and Fire Hole River is reported
to have risen two feet from its rush
ing floods. This is now conceded to
be the most powerful geyser in exis-
tence.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09
DIsQUIETUDE.

Little one, sing me roundelay,
Something to Tighten my weary heart:
Moonlight sleeps on the grassy bay,
Stars in the ether are far apart.
Pensive shadows droop from the pine
Tighten this lonely heart of mine.
What avails us this life we lead?
Whence do we come, and whittier tend?
To what goal do we proceed?
When it is over, is that the end?-
All! of these mysteries who can tell?
The dead say nothing; they slumber
well.
Yet there is hope in your happy song
Something that comforts and still sustains,
Saying, "What though the way be long!
After the struggle, peace remains"
Music spans with an angels wing
The gulf between faith and conjectur.
ing.
-HoaVdrd Seely.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09
WOMEN AT COURT.
The Position of Diplomatic Females In
the Courts of Europe.


The Position of Diplomatic Females In
the Courts of Europe.
At European courts daughters have
no rank whatever. on account Of their
fathers official status, and in En-
gland even wives have no precedence
on this account. Many time have
seen Mrs. Gladstone utterly neglected
at court ceremonies. when her hus-
band as Prime Minister was hobnob-
bling with royalty. While the Sha of
Persia was in London there was
great fete in his honor at Greenwich,
given by the First Lord of the AID.
miralty, and two thousand guests
were present. Tho royal family at
tended, and separate table on q dais
was set for the grandest person.
ages, among them the Premier,
but CHANGED upon Mrs. Glad
stone stumbling along without an
escort half mile from the dais.
and very grateful she was for the arm
of Secretary of Legation, to whom.
as he looked surprised, she exclaimed:
1.-THE wife of the Premier has no pre-
cedence in England"
So far from giving ladies places on
account of her husbands Office, the
Queen more than once has requested
the wives of her Ministers not to come
to court so often; they crowded her
drawing-room. No wife of Cabinet
officer. or judge, or Bishop or member
of the House of Commons. or officer
Of the army or navy, however high.
has any rank or precedence in En-
gland because of her husband place.
Hereditary rank is all that women can
claim. The wives of peers are peer
esses, and the daughters and daugh-
ters-in-law Of a nobleman take rank
according to his degree; but no others.
But although the question of daugh-
tiers never rises in English official
precedence, it has come up in the Dip
lomatic corps more than once of late
in London. When it happened that
the United States Minister had no wife
the Queen invariably refused to allow
his unmarried daughters to present
their country women at court. If
American ladies were to be presented,
some English or diplomatic matron
always performed the ceremony. But
more than this, the exact question that
arose in Miss Bayard's case was set
tied by the Queen. The Dean of the
diplomatic corps for many years was
Musurus Bey, the Turkish Ambassa-
dor, a widower with four charming
daughters, among the most brilliant
members of the English court.
These ladies, or their father for
them, claimed the preference at all
court ceremonies which their mother
would have enjoyed; and, as their
father was Dean, this would have
placed them at the head of the diplo-
matte corps. Noy, in England, the
diplomatic women precede the men,
and at drawing.rooms 60 into the
royal presence in body before the
highest English ladies. even the Ouch
esses. Thus, if the pretensions of the
Turkish demoiselles had been adj
mitted they would have been the very
firstin the land in point of precedence;
but the wives of the other Ambassa-
doris and ENJOYS disputed the claim. -
aaiA
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09
THE CURSE OF GOLD.

Discoverers of Famous Mines Who Met
With Violent Deaths.
There is singular superstition in
the mining districts of America that
the discoveries of hidden treasures in
the bowels of the Iearlh are sure to
meet with a violent end. Many in
stances are from time to time adduced
in support of the statement and go
far to show that numbers of adven-
turers literally die in their shoes. The
original proprietors of close on forty
successful mines have been accounted
for in this way. Twelve were shot,
three were ingulfed, while the rest
disappeared in the cities of Dakota
and New Mexico, and were never
heard of afterwards. George H
Fryer, from whom the Fryer Hill
mine had its name, committed suicide
in Denver. Two years before his
death he possessed one million dol
lars; the expenses of his funeral had
to be paid by the authorities.
1u0 ulsCONoIcI VI GuS DIdUu-
ard mine in California was
swallowed up by an avalanche.
Colonel Storey, another wealthy miner,
was killed by the Pyramid Indians. !
William Fairweather, who brought to
light the hidden treasures OF Alder
gulch, came to his death by drinking
and riotous living Ayet more terrible
end had William Farrell in a hospital
at San Francisco. He had discovered
the rich mine at Meadow Lake; but
hundreds of deceived gold-seekers sur
rounded his bed, "gnashing and grim
ming so horribly that he could not
die" The owner of the Homestake
mine became hlghwayman; one day
he attacked q mail-coach, but the at.
PENDANTS shot him dead. John Homer
of the Homer mine spent his last cent,
and then put bullet through his
brain. "Doughnut Bill" "Old Eure-
ka," "Ninemile Clarke" died liter
ally in their shoes, being killed in
saloon scuffles. Montana Plummer,
who discovered one of the richest
mines in the world, and was sheriff
for time, died on the gallows.
Chambers Journal
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09

of the clover" "Woman," says
another writer, Unjust be regarded as
woman, not as a nondescript animal,
with greater or less capacity for
assimilation to man." DIR. Clarke says
again: Educate a man for manhood,
a woman for womanhood; both for
humanity" Roger Williams said
"Woman is Predestined, is Called, is
Justified, is Glorifed, and wears
that Golden Chain as we'll as the
Wisest and Strongest of Mankind"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09
Very truly,
j, P. EPPERSoN,
y, :. EPPEKSUN,
Dealer in General Merchandise.

Wife (pleadingly)-"rm afraid,
George, you do not love me as well
as you used to do.
Husband-"Why?"
Wife-"Because you always let me
get up to light the fire."
acknowledgements my love /!
Your getting up to light the fire
makes me love you all the more."-
Boston Courier.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09

Lawrence Pierson, of Lancaster,
writes us to stop his paper, giving as
his reason that she loves a hamorist,
but hates fool" That's right, Law
renee, kill self love; tear it out of
your heart; trample it under foot.
Under the Constitution of the United
States you have a citizens right to
kick yourself without laying your
selfliable for arrest on charges of as
sault with intent to kill a mule
Burdette.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09

7. I. N. c. is not a cure-all, but a
quarter Of century of constant use
has demonstrated beyond question
that Tanners Infallible Neuralgia
Cure is the only known infallible
cure for all kinds of neuralgia and
for nervous headache. so cents per
oox. Manufactured by Rangum
Rodt Medicine Co., Nashville, Tenn.
Sold by w. H. Fleming.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09

Positively the best remedy ever
discovered for all diseases of man and
beast that can be reached by externa
medical application, is Rangum Roo
Liniment. One trial will convince
Manufactured only by Rangum Roo
Medicine Co., Nashville Tenn. 80
centsper bottle. For sale by w. H.
Fleming.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09
DFFD Sea Wonders exist in thou

nFFD Sea Wonders exist in thou
DUUL sands of forms, but are surpassed
by the marvels of invention. Those who
are in need of profitable work that can be
done while living at home should at once
send their address to Hallett & Co., Port.
land Maine, and receive free full infoma.
ton how either sex, all ages, can earn from
So to $50 per day and upwards wherever they
live. You are started free. Capital not re-
quired. Some have made over $50 in a
single day at this work. All succeed.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09

OF course Solomon was the wisest
man. A fellow with 700 wives has a
chance to get instruction.-Journal Of
Education.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09
WILLIsToN, FLORIDA, Sept. 9TH, 1886

Messrs. A. T. SHALLENBERGER & Co.
Rochester, Pa. GentS.-I have tried the
bottle of Pills, for Malaria, sent me, with
the most wonderful results; one dose cured
case of two months standing. Please
send me one dose by mail, Immediately
with some advertising matter.
Vary fruly
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09

For sick headache, female troubles,
neuralgia pains in the head take DIR.
J. H. McLean's Little Liver Pillets.
% cents vial. Sold by, Fleming.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09

The most powerful nation on the
face of the globe is America, and
the most powerful remedy on
earth for chicken cholera is Ganter's
chicken cholera cure, sold and war
ranted by w. II. Fleming.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09

The Christian at Work says that
every week day about 100000 copies
of the Bible, either in its entirety or
in portions, are sent forth from the
British and Foreign Society, and
since its foundation it has issued
translations in $50 languages. During
its last year Of work, 3,11S,3O4 Bibles,
or portions, We're issued.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-09
Don't Get Caught

This spring with your blood full of
impurities, your digestion impaired,
your appetite poor, kidneys and liv-
er torpid, and whole system liable to
be Frustrated by disease-but get
yourself into good condition, and
ready for the changing and warmer
weather, by taking Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla. Itstands unequaled for purify
ing the blood, giving an appetite,
and for general spring medicine.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-12-01

A representative OF the Courier, hav-
ing discovered that one-twentieth OF
ticket numbered 1886 which drew the
second capital prize of 100000 in the
last drawing Of The Louisiana State Lot
terry Company held Oct. 0, was owned
by man living ON North Margin street,
thought il would be interesting both TO
himself and the public 70 look the mat
ter up and find il there was man upon
that street by the name OF Charles
Joseph Harkins, who was reported
TO be the lucky individual, and II so,
il he had actually received the 5000
OF which he was said TO have so suddenly
become the owner. Much more difficult
~ was experienced in discovering the
whereabouts Of the obscure and not at
all aristocratic street than in fndings.Mr.
Harlxins' residence upon il, and even the
man himself. At the top of n three-story
brick house Mr.. 'HarlSns occupies, with
his wife and family, n neatly kept tene-
ment, which betrays that its inhabitants
are as comfortable as their circumstan-
ces will allow them TO be; but that
poverty has for many years cast its
shadow over the little household is also
evident. To no one could a windfall Of
1000 have been more welcome. Mr..
Harkins received the money through
the express company few days ago
and has IL now safely deposited 10 his
credit. What he will do with so much
money he has not yet decided. His pres
ent occupation is that of a laborer in a
sugar house on Commercial street,
where he has worked for some time, or
since he was employed in similar work
in East Boston. Although he has bought
tickets in the lottery but once or twice
before, he is now thoroughly convinced
of the wisdom of buying ticket at least
now and then. boston Mass. Courier,
Nov. A.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-12-01
one nay ne a rrme.

One day nc tlme That's all II can be;
No faster than that is the hardest fate;
And days have their limits, however we
Begin them too early and stretch them too
late.
One day at a time!
It's wholesome rhyme
a good one 10 live by,
a day at a time.
One day Mt time! Every heart that aches,
Knowing only too well how long they can
seem;
But it's never to-day which the spirit breaks,
It's the darkcned future without CLEAN.
one day az n time. When Joy is at height
Such JOY as the heart can never forget
And pulses are throbbing with wild delight,
How hard 10 remember that suns must set.
One day ut a time But n single day.
Whatever It's load, whatever its length;
And there's bit OF precious Scripture 10
say
That, according to each shall be our
strength.
One day at n time! IT'S the whole OF life;
All sorrow, all JOY are measured therein;
The bound OF our purpose, our noblost
strife,
The one only countcrsIgn sure 20 win!
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-12-01

jowl, produced by good living, the
innamed and heavy eyelids, resulting
from port and madeira, the swollen
veins, the puifed-up cheeks, caused by
bard breathing and asthma, and the en-
larged neck, were initiated with n skill
that has made his representations n
model 20 all the world. A work Of
equal artistic value is Joe JeHerson's
presentation Of Rip Van Wrinkle after his
long sleep in the Catskills. The hollow
ing Of the checks, the exaggerated
veins, arteries and tendons, the sinking
of the eye into it's socket. and the weak
ening and ilabbiness OF the facial mus
cies from non-use, are reproduced with
startling fidelity to truth.
Opposite in nature, and perhaps more
difficult, is il for an actor past hfty years
of age 10 make up as young man, and
especially when il involves romantic
or heoric part requiring high activity.
The late Lester WallacS was n master in
this regard, and in "Rosedale" and
Ours" for example, gave an imperson-
alton so natural and youthful that il
was difficult to realize that you saw be-
fore n grandfather and not royal-heart-
ed youth.
Equally meritorious is the representa-.
ton OF D'Artagnan, by Frank Mayo, il
'The Royal Guard" He has passed TN,
half-century mark. and yet for the night
he becomes STRIPPING of nineteen. As
you see him once, you see him always
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-12-01

.'ack ia which isa certain .-nornt OF
nitr,nprine.
Tie iesh tin.s. which are rendered
invisible ~ staSe-iight. are replaced b.
rouge and powder. 10 Had out how
much Is required 70 give tho wearer q
natural appearance, just notice the face
o. some actress who, between matinee
and night performances, has run into
some restaurant and forgotten 10 remove
her makeup" She doesn't look like
even a painted Jezebel. Her effect is
such as TO suggest cheap doll baby,
and excites amusement. il not ridicule
and contempt. Yet at the two perform
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-12-01

Foolish girls apply in drug stores for
the same face powder that Rose Coghlan
or Leonora Bradley wears, while women
OF maturer years call for the rouge sup
piled TO the great theatres of the city.
Yet there is not n particle Of mystery in
making up the face, If you give the
matter the slightest study, or IL you
pass an hour behind the scenes. 1t is
simply the old. old story OF art trying.
If not TO reproduce nature. at least to
initiate il as closely rs possible
A stage, even the tableau at the end
OF powerful act, is more than picture.
II is intended 10 be reality. To obtain
the natnralness which is the condition
OF success, we have recourse 20 num-
berless expedients. So far rs the face
OF actor or actress is concerned, we use
what we call makeup"
The FIRST great difference between
the stage and nature that we are called
upon to make allowance for is i'm the
distribution of light. In the latter IL
comes from above. As u result, the
eyebrows and arch cast shadow upon
the lids, and bring out the eyes in conse-
quence. The nose casts slight shadow
upon the lip, while the head itself
throws most of the neck into shade. In
the former most of the illumination is
thrown upward from the footlights.
This does away with every normal light
and shadow upon the face, and makes a
new series OF very different character
IL person goes before the footlights
with no ''make-up' on, he loses that
expression which we call character. In
some cases the face seems TO grow fat
and insipid, in others white and blood
less, but in all there is change which
strikes the observer as unnatural, il not
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-12-01


actually repugnant. 1t is on this ac-
count that the professional player
b'ackens the eyeIashes. and, il he is
careful in his work. darkens the upper
eyelid and the under surface Of the
brow. until a shading Is produced SINH
lar 60 the shadows thrown there by the
sun at noon in the fields. Many artists
20 so far as 10 slightly darl<en the lip
just below the nose and the neck below
the chin.
The second difficulty the actor il
called upon to contend against is the
different quality Of light upon the boards
from that In the open air. IL has, in
the former case, as many sources as
there are lamps or electric lights, and
Is yellow or reddish-yellow in color.
while in the latter IL has one source,
the sun, and is pure white In hue. A
result Of this Is that colors lose much OF
their natural value when used upon the
stage, and especially those exquisite
tnts which belong TO the human phys
iognomy.
As the artificial light is yollowish, the
darker cosmetics should contain blue or
purple a. compensation. The best
black for the eyelash is bIue-black.
So far Is this principle carried that
Fechter employed blue pigments 70
shade his eyes, and Coquelin uses a
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-12-01

ances she will look handsome and
real, while You, reader, il you went on
before the footIights, would apparently
show the hue and horror Of deaths
head.
What has been said refers only TO the
necessity Of making the face seem nat
ural when exhibited in the glare Of the
stage. But this is small part of what
must be done.
Through the makeup" we give our
faces the appearance of age and youth,
of health and sickness, OF race and
blood. To be natural, IL Is necessary
only 70 follow the suggestions given
without taking further thought; to be
accurate, demands study and hard work.
Thus | ann playing Dan Darcy in "In-
vestigation," who, in the story, is n
handsome. woll-preserved man Of forty
20 forty-iive years Of age. The first
thing TO be done is 10 make allowance
for the lights. This is accomplished in
essence by darkening the cyelash and
the eyelid. Next is TO make Mr.. Darcy.
His prevailing characteristics are
shrewdness and charming good-nature.
A man OF that type has little wrinkles