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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-05-05

peculiar sadness by the members of
the Tennessee Press Association who
attended the late meeting at Mem
phis. Mr., Martin was guest Of the
local press Of Memphis during the
meeting, and at the banquet respond
ed to the toast, Mississippi" in one
of the wittiest and most eloquent
speeches to which we have ever
listened. 1t was a master stroke Of
genius. Eloquence, wit, and sarcasm
rolled from his lips apparently with
out effort, and he held the undivided
attention of every person in the room.
He was but twenty-five years Of age,
and while such tragic ending of any
man would be deplorable, it is doubly
sad for one so young and talented as
was John II. Martin. Martin was
the partner and chum of Gambrell,
the young prohibition editor who was
killed at Jackson by Hamilton last
year. He figured prominently in the
prosecution Of Hamilton, and the
trouble which cost him his life grew
out of that case, his antagonist, Gen.
Adams, being strong supporter Of
Hamilton. Gen. Adams was in his
SEVENTEEN year, and was a distin-
guished cavalry commander in the
Confederate army. Physically Mar
tin was exceedingly frail and deli
cate, but he was as courageous as a
lion, cool and deliberate in every ac-
ton, and absolutely fearless in the
utterance of his opinions.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-05-05

THE Democratic State Convention
to nominate a candidate for Governor
will assemble in Nashville next
Wednesday. While the probable
action of the convention in naming
a standard bearer for the party is
attracting the greater part of public
attention, work of more Importance
to the party is the platform Of
principles which thatconvention will
annunciate for the guidance of the
party during the next two years.
The Democratic party of Tennessee
has by no means smooth sea and
clear sailing before it. There are
brakers ahead which will require
wise and skilful party management
to circumvent or overcome. The
temperance question is pretty certain
to come before the convention in
some shape for solution. The Banner
of Tuesday says: "Aspecial commit
tee has been appointed by the eXecu-
tive committee of the State Tenn
perance Alliance to take into con-
sideratiOn the proper course topursue
in regard to the Overtures Of the
temperance element to the democrat
ic and republican state conventions.
Just what is expected or what is to
be done appears not to be entirely
agreed upon, but the question is one
which may have an important bear
ing upon political parties this year."
While we do not believe that prohi-
bition should cut any distinctive
figure in the contest this summer,
yet the warning voice of the one
hundred and seventeen thousand
votes cast for prohibition last Sep
tember must be regarded in the
shaping if political policies and in
the naming of candidates for
political preferment. Although the
prohibition battle was lost, its lessons
are none the less deeply marked
upon the past, present and pros
pective political history of the State.
The margin with which the victOrs
gained the day was too narrow for
them to assume any domineering
spirits over the serried hosts who,
though overcome by superior num-
bers at present, are not routed or
vanquished by any means. Neither
should prohibitiOnists assume any
pictorial attitudes, but put their
shoulders to the wheel within their
respective party lines, and spend
their best efforts in the elevation OF
the fittest men to positions of public
trust. The prohibition element is
not in a position to demand men OF
strong prohibition principles for all
the offices, but every good citizen OF
the State should demand for public
Office men who are not themselves
slaves to the rum power. Let the
people of the State, of both parties,
see to it that the men who arc
elected to office in this good year Of
1888, from Governor down tC
constables, are above the plane OF
rummies in their private lives.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-05-05

TAYLOR will go into the conven-
ton with a handsome plurality Of in
structed votes, and there is a fair
probability of his receiving the NOM
inatiOn on first ballot.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-05-05

The signs Of prosperity for the
country far outweigh those of depres-
sion and disaster. Business failures
continue to grow less than at cores
ponding times last year, and the
movement of merchandise is very
heavy. Added to these things is the
fact that foreign capital continues to
pour into the United States without
stint.-Toledo Blade.
And all this in the fourth year of
Democratic administration. Even
such rank Republican sheets as the
Blade will own up to the truth occa-
sionalIy.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-05-05

GLADSTONE "the grand old man."
shakes up Bob Ingersol in a twenty
eight page article in the current num-
Der of the North American Review.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-05-05

Boston, MASS, May 2.-Sullivan
was arrested early this morning for
disorderly conduct. He was released
soon after. He was drunk all night
and on town.
And it is to this disgraceful pug,
this great lubbering blot upon
American,manhood, that the daily pa
pers ofthis country have devoted col
umn after column ofspace that should
have been used for worthy subjects.
The graceless John i. would bring
ignominy upon chain gang.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-05-05
Dr.. J.B. Ritchey, Agricultural Editor.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE.
OUR AGENTS.

We do not publish anonymous commu-
nications under any circumstances The
real name of the author must accompany
every communication, or else it will be con-
signed to the waste basket. We do not pub
fish the names of correspondents, but want
them simply as guarantee of good faith.
All calls on candidates, obituaries, trib'
utes of respect, etc, are charged for as ad-
vertising matter. Simple announcements of
deaths, marriages, ETC., viii be published
without charge, and our friends all over the
county will confer favor by furnishing us
with such as soon after their occurrence as
possible.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-05-05

IT IS really pitiful to watch the
Republican press of the North shed
crocodile tears over the "free trade
spirit of the South" as some Of them
are pleased to term it. The truth of
the business is that the reverberations
from the Democratic cry of tariff re-
form which is going up, not only
from the South, but from all over
the country, is shaking the very bot
tom out of the rotten old Republican
ship, and all this cant about "free
trade" is nothing but a subterfuge to
draw public attention away from the
glazing iniquities of the robber tariff.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-05-05

We have received an advanced
proof copy of Commissioner Hord's
new map of Tennessee, just publish
ed by Rand, McNally & Co., of Chica-
go. 1t is handsomely printed in colors
showing the location of various min
eral deposits throughout the State,
and contains also a brief description
of each county in the State. 1t de-
stroys the graceful circle of the
boundry lines Of Warren
county, and gives our county a
shape something like Chinese kite.
We think Commissioner Hord has
treated us real bad about this, as we
enjoyed the distinction Of having
the only round county in the United
States, and wanted to keep it for q Gu
riOsity.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-27

rciapsed into a swiiI Eng trC., and Paul sat
upright in the saddle
The storm was now past, and the dark
clouds drifted by rapidly before the rising
wind, leaving the drcnched landscape flooded
with silveiy moonlight. Paul could SEQ the
corn lying PROSTATE in the flooded fields, the
meadows cleaning in the watery light, with
the Overlooking brooks that washed over
them, and now and then a fallen tree or
overturned fence.
Tho horses trot grew slower and slower.
Paul could feel tho trembling limbs totter as
they staggered onward. The heavy breath
ing grew shorter AID quicker, the smoking
tanks were covered with foam, and from
the disteuded uo5trils trickled a tiny stream
Of blood.
One mile, two miles, they crept on. The
trot rela?5od into walk, the walk into a
staCger Then, with loud half neigh, half
groan, the exhausted animal fell to the
ground dead.
Paul sprang OF rs the horse rolled over and
get out down the road at a run. Up and
down hill, splashing through the streams, he
hurried, with but one thought in his mind
to deliver the dispatches in time For more
than mile he ran, but his exertions began
to tell on him and his legs began to weary.
Once be slipped and fell, then sat for a mo-
ment breathless, but he sprang up and hast
ened forward.
His strength was beginning to fail him
when before him he saw a light twinkling in
a farm house. With the energy Of despera-
ton he ran forward and opening the door
fell PROSTATE in the room.
a woman who was knitting near crib
screamed at the sight Of the boy drenched to
the skin, spattered with mud and sprinkled
with blood, lying on the floor, but soldier
in the uniform of a Confederate colonel
sprang up from the chair in which he sat
smoking, and lifting up the helpless form
laid it tenderly on a sofa.
''Oh, sir" gssped Paul, jerking the dis
patches from his pocket, take these, take
these quick to Col. Raynor. His courier was
killed and IL brought them!"
Col Raynor, for it was he, opened the pa
pers, read them hastily and, calling an or
DERBY from the next room, issued some bur.
ried orders.
In the meantime the woman had poured q
glass of wine down Paul's throat, and he soon
regained strcngt. enough to tell his story.
The next day he returned homo on fine
tav horse, of which the colonel had made
him a present for his services The horse
lived for many years and WAS always pointed
out by Paul whenever he told the story
of lis terrible ride when he brought the dis
vatcLeS tnat saved the battle.-V. Stuart
.iosDy il Philadelphia Times.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-27
Endurance or .-.A.sa.n Natives.

On occasions when we misjudged distances
and were obliged to pass about twenty hours,
mostly Of great exertion, without food, our
anxiety about our companions was met by
the polite assurance that ''they had eaten"
They even contrived TO turn the sympathy
the other way by saying, "We are used to
hunger. but the white man will faint"
The white man might endure hunger
nearly as long, but the native has this adj
vantage: when food comes he has an enor-
nous capacity for quantity; he is dreadful
eater, while the white man can scarcely taste
a morsel
The natives can also endure the burning
thirst of this land. On long days march
they pass all the streams in the morning
without drinking; it is not till 3 or 4 o'clock
in the afternoon that they become thirsty.
But the white man may drink by the end OF
the first hour, and then he becomes ode
morali2ed" for tho day.
As the hot march continues, his thirst in
creases, but he cannot quenchit. He arrives
at q clear ripping brook, hastily puts stone
under his knees-a drinking jug is a mockery
now, he must get at the stream itself-still h0
Is never quite satisfied He Graves the drink
ing for rs own sake After imbibing great
quantity, he is grieved that he cannot 60 on
drinking more, and no sooner has he left one
stream than he begins Ia long for another.
The unpleasant craving continues till the
sun begins to sink in the west. He may avoid
the torture by abstaining at first; but in
order to exercise this self denial, it is almost
imperative to shut the eyes while passing q
stream. Some natives suffer in the same
way, but they are chiefly boys-Youth's
Communion
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-27
HIS LAST WEDDING FEE.

| Some years ago, when marriage licenses
had to be paid for, the Marylanders and
| Virginians rode across the narrow frontier
| in the valley and were married for nothing
| in Pennsylvania. OF course they gave some
| thing to the preacher for his trouble. The
consequence was that all the preachers on
| the Maryland side of the line became as lean
| as geese, and the preachers across the line in
Pennsylvania grew as fat as turkey gobblers
But there was one preacher near Waynes-
| boro who did not grow fat. Garrick Howton,
who did the largest business, became leaner
| and leanar the faster he married people. Ho
was too mean, the people said, to enjoy life
| like good Methodist itinerant or rubicund
priest No chicken coops were agitated at
mis- approach No little pigs squealed and
got under their anxious mammas when Gar
rick leaned over the sky and surveyed them.
Nobody knew just what sect or church
Garrick belonged to there where everybody
was his own theologian.
He called his church The Zionskites, and
was the only one of 1.-THE bishop indeed
except his son, Weasley Howton, whom he
| called 1.-The deacon"
The church building did not exist, though
| branches of The Zionskite body were said to
deacon.
Inquisitive people limited that there never
would have been as many as two Zionskites
except for the fat marriage fees which were
to be had along Mason and Dixon's line; ard
that Bishop Garrick Howton only ordained
lis son Weaslev into the priesthood reluct-
antly that he might occasionally takes some
recreation himself and not miss any runaway
couples which should arrive between mid
night and morning.
All people far or near understood that the
Howtons would marry anybody, the delivery
of the certificate being conditional on the
payment Of the fee; and pains wero taken to
impress strangers that in tho EionsxItes dis
cipli@e TIC certificate was part of the cere-
nony iSS4lf
A story was started and grew that old
Ilowtoa married children for the sake of his
fees
Us Story came up from Borrowing and
b?O.-cl hearted parents i'll Virginia and
fro.A the rich rlanors and hamletS of Freder-
lex in Maryland. The Pennsylvanians never
ver...ed these reports because it was none OF
their business.
That was the golden age, when the people
of every state did to the people of every
other state just what they pleased, and the
boundary line made outrage justice or sim
picity criminal
AS time advanced Bishop Howton became
a widower, and his mind was set on marry
ing again.
1t may have been the example of marrying
children under AGE torn Ernpl -thair rar.ants
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-27
The Wonders of Nor way.

To us the wonder of the nights that we
have known has been enough. There has
been no darkness since we have been in Nor
way. Not once have we lighted the candles
In our bedroom, and though among the
mountains as we have been, we never were
able to see the northern horizon, yet toward
the north there was always light, and
whether the red clouds signifed sunrise or
sunset could only be determined by looking
at the watch. The voyage to the NORTH cape
is not often a dangerous one, however, being,
like the one we have taken from Bergen
hither, almost entirely within the island
belt. Seasckness is rare from the same
cause Only twice were we out upon the
main ocean-in going around the promontory
of Stadtland and that of StemheSt-but at
both these points tho sea was fearfully rough
and tremendous storms sometimes occur.
The fishermen say that the waves are often
$50 feet in height. Stadtland in particular
is so dangerous that it is proposed to cut
canal for steamers and coasters through the
neck of the peninsula. The celebrated Mael-
strom lies about half way between Trondjem
and the North cape, and is not so formidable
as Poe and other fanciful writer's have de-
scribed it, and is easily avoided by passing
vessels 1t is caused by the rising and fall
ing Of the tide in the narrow straits between
tho lofty Lofoden Islands and is only danger
Gus at certain hours of the day.-Norway
Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-27
TO A BUTTERFLY.
Whittier so fast with your two white sails

whittier so fast with your two white sails,
fair little craft of the high sea?
Where do you go when the sunlight pales,
And It's dark on your trackless high scar
Do f1refies furnish you beacon lights
When, soft as the sigh of babe, you wafi
From yellow moons to the moon shod nights
beautiful, fairly like, elfin craftS
So fair, so perfect, so light, so free,
o flower of the airl almost one knows
The symbol Of your immortality,
For surely you are the soul Of the rose.
Marion Manville in Belford's Magazine.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-27
METHODS OF READING.
Several Habits Which Should Be Avoided.
Three Types of Readers.

Three Types of Readers.
But you see that the object Of reading may
be not only to learn, but to prevent you from
learning too much. By reading in one chan
mel we are in danger Of becoming worshipful
rather than judicial You may be surprised
at the statement, but there are at present
great many books that have more ardent be
Levers and devotees than the Hebrew Scrip
lures | should not like to estimate the NUM-
Der OF bibles that we have and are liable to
have There is also bad habit of reading,
OF the opposite sort, that only runs book
through the head, without assimilation of
any part of it. The reader is simply reading
for mental intoxication.
think of all bad habits Of reading the
poorest is reading into book your own emo
tons or hobbies. | know readers of a good
grade of intelligence who can read out of a
book ANYTHING whatever, either favoring or
antagonizing themselves and their favorite
views Is it any wonder that it has come to
te Il common saying that a preacher can
prove anything he pleaSes with the Bible3 |
lately sat down in reading club The
reader came on this passage: SIS the Golden
Icuie yet workable rule OF average human
!fei" and the author argued that we had not
yet reached the evolution essentially of that
sort One person. and a bright, keen mind
she has promptly protested The hour was
Elled with argument to show that 1.-The
Golden Rule is just and righteous rule"
tAat I'VE ought to be perfect" that 1--WE can
obey that rule if we will" AL which, as
you see, was wholly to miss the purport of
tle author, who desired to show that man
kind is not yet willing to obey any such rule
I believe the average reader fails at this
point-he does not undertake accurately to
determine the meaning of the writer. My
.&dy friend believes in perfection. She
promptly read herself into the book.
have three boys who are readers. One OF
them uses a book as he goes to fish pond.
lie lets down his attention as he drops line
Ito the water. In fact, he is bobbing for
i-cas that suit him. What does not suit his
purpose he drops back. He is in danger of
being a specialist Of an extreme sort. The
second uses book as he cats an apple, to
enjoy himself. 1t is feast he is after He
is III danger of too much RESPONSIVENESS. The
third quarrels with his books. He bluntly
gives an author the lie, when they transcend
lis experience. They grumble and growl to-
gether, and that boy is a natural agnostic.
Books, you see, are not quite the safe things
wo used to suppose them to be-especiaLly
good books Bad books are every year more
powerleSs. Society will outgrow cowboy
literature as 1t has popular lectures, and for
the same reason-we can do better.-"E. z.
p" in Globe Democrat
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-27
Republican Electors of Texas.

Electors at Large T. o. Hanna, Denison;
A. J. Evans, San Antonio
First District-J. II. Stewart, Liberty;
LSecond District-C. G. Flanagan, Calvert.
Third District w. II. McCacver, Carthage.
Fourth Dstr CIV. E. Singleton. Marion.
Fifth District W. II. Andrews. Mckinney.
ESixth District-Phillp Altbayer, Terrell.
Seventh District D. NJ. COnnorr Reiuglo'
Eighth Distrlct-A l.. Maynard, Lockhart.
Ninth District John W. Mcdonald, waco.
Tenth District-Herman Seele, New Braun
fels.
Eleventh District-George A. Knight, Pecos
City.
sThe name of d. NJ. O'COnnor, in the Sew
enth District, is substituted for that OF Z, u.
Brewster, by authority of the state Campaign
Committee, Mr. Brewster having since mis- APP
pointment as elector accepted nomination TO
Congress,
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-10-27

An Old German Of New Torl city has in
vented little buoy, which floats when tho
snip goes down and marks the exact spot.
II the ship moves the buoy, being attached
to the ship by a rope, moves also and rings Il
belL-uOme Journal
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-19

all delightfull' Such is her present atti-
tude toward the veriest dragon of chap
eTOne
And the rides in the park and the spins on
the road and the delightful evenings at the
theater which used to be the privilege of the
young man n I'd his best girl. All gone. Not
one of them permitted without the attendant
chaperone. If it is a case OF theater, it's
case of attending the play first by your
s5lf and considering it carefully to make
sure that it contains nothing to shock the
bud or offend the chaperone. Then it is a
case OF inviting both, sending flowers to
both and devoting yourself to the elder for
her graciousness in allowing the younger to
appear. If you've a pair of high steppers
that show clean heels, not even by daylight
IN the bright morning sunshine must you
venture to invite madamoiselle out alone.
Hardly will she speak to you when the for
mulares or the code have been fulfilled: she
carries in her hand possibly one of the
flowers you sent her, dimples when addressed,
but listens for the most part to your talk
with the presiding genius of tne occasion.
And if you meet her, meet her by acct
dent, on Broadway of a morning! Ger
tainly you may stop, may walk with her
few PAGES, may step with her inside the
florists door but you mustn't be too effus-
i've. You mustn't begin to chat, or her
heightened color aud uneasy look will tell
you SueS dLrdiu UHey uOn L quite 10 So III
Paris
She is charming. half foreign little
damsel with odd, unfamiliar ways. sitting
quietly by mamma, saying little. but with
glances rowing just the same. She can
look back to tie days before she was ex-
ported, and though she has caught the con-
tlnental manner 50 readily she knows that
girl is Of great deal Of consequence here
after all. The manner fits on her almost
uneasily already. She chafes in the har-
ness. and a piquant, whimsical creature
with old world Ways masking new world
Independence she will be before spring.
The domestico-foreign girl remains differ
ent from the native product to the last. but
there's no masking her essential American
lsm-thank fortune-very long. The re-
straint OF education struggling with the
flow OF spirits of Young America gives her
peculiar spicy favor which seems to suit
society's relish in these days.
ELIZA PUTNAM HFATON