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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24
The Negro in Politics.

j. r. Inman, a negro of Union
City, Tenn, writes the following
article to the Democrat of that place.
1t is an encouraging sign when indi-
viduals of the cOlored race come to
see their condition in the true light,
and display the courage to express
his convictions in such clear and I'M
equivocal terms. Read what he says:
:"The fact that the negroes of the
South and West are seriously debat-
ing a policy to pursue in the coming
years, policy especially relative to
politics, is, in my mind, the most
hopeful indication of his future sue
cess.
"FOr a quarter of a century he has
chung to the Great Republican Party
like the fond memories of home and
early childhood cling to one in the
decline of life. From the days OF
Grant down to the present, through
all the smoke and battle and even
amid high-blOoded and white-heated
political contests he, led by carpet.
bag politicians whose highest ambi
ton was self-aggrandizement, has
only succeeded in making his OWL
way hard in the South. Back in the
days of the seventies the party haC
only to say, "We fought to free you
But the negro has outived those
hateful days when an appeal to war
the most cursed of all national calami
ties, is enough to arouse his feelings
and control his ballot against the PEG
pie with whom he must live, thu
very people who he must associate
with in all his business transactions
and upon whom he must depend fol
the education of his dear little ones
To the negro of today one thing il
passing strange, that he must be Re
publican regardless of his own politi
cal views or interest; or be stigma
tized by the rest of his race. Fo
twenty-five years he has contentedly
knelt at the Republican swill trough
without even raising his head to SCI
from whence his blessings come. Thu
present Administration has assisted
him in looking around and h,
reasons like this: Every negr,
application Of any worth, especial!
from the South, has been rejected b,
Harrison G. Blaine, President of tn
US. Therefore he begins to calcu
late, "Naught isanaught and a figur
is figure, all for the North and no
for the negro" Then he says, l liv
in the South; if have any friends OF
the globe they are in the South. If
buy a home l buy it in the South ant
from Southern man. If | have t
borrow money | must go to a South
ern man for it. If | have it to LEM
| must lend it to Southern man
And l pledge myself from this fol
ward to vote with but three great OF
jects before me: LIST. The best inter
est OF myself and family. 2nd. Th
best interest of my neighbor when
does not materially affect my ow
interest. 3D.. The best interest of tn
country in which live regardless {
men or parties. The negro ha
pushed his little bark out from tn
Republican port and having succeed
ed in reaching the trade winds lik
Columbus fleet, the compass no Ions
er points Northward.
1--WE look with pride to the grea
negro convention to be held betwee
this and 1899 by colored Souther
politicians, preachers and teachers, t
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24
Edison's Machines.

Mr.. Edison is reported, in con-
versation with an interviewer who
solicited his ideas on the subject Of
the projected worlds fair in New
York, as saying that he would take
an acre of space in such a fair and
completely cover it with his inven-
tons, of which he has no less than
seventy now under way. "One of
the most peculiar, and now promis-
ing good results" said Mr.. Edison,
sis what l may call far sight ma
chine" BY means of this eXtraordi-
nary invention he hopes to be able
to increase the range of vision by
hundreds of miles, so that, for in
stance, "a man in New York could
see the features of his friend in Bos-
ton with as much case as he could
see performance on the stage.
That" he added, "would be an in
vention worthy a prominent place
in the worlds fair, and l hope to
have it perfected long before 1892"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24
Peculiar

In the combination, proportion, and
preparation of its ingredients, Hoods
Sarsaparilla accomplishes cures where
other preparations entirely fail. Pc
culiar in the good name at home,
which isa "tower ofstrength abroad"
peculiar in its phenomenal sales it
has attained, Hoods Sarsaparilla is
the most successful medicine for puri.
flying the blood, giving strength, and
creating an appetite.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24
A Sure Sign.

Miss Magruder --You say that tall,
handsome man over there is a real
foreign lord, Mr.. Maginnis. How dc
you know?
Maginnis-Yes, Miss Magruder,
Pm quite sure he is. He has the
room next to mine at the hotel, and
hear him beating his wife every
morning. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24
A Mistaken Idea.

Sanitary World.
An extraordinary fallacy is the
dread of night air. What air can we
breathe at night except night air 4?
The choice is between pure night air
from without and foul air from with
in. Most people prefer the latter-an
unaccountable choice. What will
they say if it is proved to be true that
fully one-half of all the diseases we
suffer from are occasioned by people
sleeping with their windows shut?
An open window most nights in the
year can never hurt any one. In
great cities night air is often the best
and purest to be had in twenty-four
hours. | could better understand
shutting the windows in town during
the day than during the night, for the
sake of the sick. The absence of
smoke, the quiet, all tend to make
night the best time for airing the pa
tient. One of our highest medical
authorities on consumption and eli
mate has told me that the air of Lon
don is never so good as after 10
O'Clock at night, Always air your
room, then, from the outside air, il
possible. Windows are made to open,
doors are made to shut-a truth which
seems extremely difficult Ofapprehen-
sion. Every room must be aired from
without, every passage from within.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24

The Annals Of Hygiene has dis
covered there is nothing that So
quickly restores tone 70 exhausted
nerves and strength to weary body
as bath containing an ounce Of aqua
ammonia to each Jail Of water. II
makes the flesh firm and smooth al
marble, and renders the body pure
and free from all OdOr.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24
Count Edison.

PARIS. August ia special en-
voy of King Humbert of Italy, to-day
presented Thomas a Edison, the
famous American electrician, with
the insignia of II grand officer of the
crown of Italy. Mr.. Edison thus bt :
comes Il count and his wife Il r0un.
tess.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24

Some men try advertising as the
Indian tried feathers. He took one
feather, laid it on the board and slept
on it all night. In the morning he
remarked: "White man say feathers
heap soft; white manifold"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24

SHILOH'S CURE will Immediately re
lieve Group Whooping Cough and Bron.
chits. Sold by W. IL. Fleming.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24
Club Rates.

We will Club the STANDARD with
any of the publications named below
at the price given for both:
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-08-24

The Housekeeper, sm-monthly 1.S5
We can give our subscribers a club
ate on nearly any publication they
may want. Come and see us when
you want to subscribe for any paper
or magazine. We will give you the
best rate obtainable.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-09-14
The Coal Supplies of the World.
Fr,n Iron

From Iron.
In view of the question which has sug-
gested itself on more than one occasion as
10 how long it would be- before the Old
World coal deposits would become exhaust
ed the D,Htscie Haadeks- Museum supplies
some interesting figures relating to the
worlds coal fields outside Of the North
American continent.
According 10 these the Low Countries,
Switzerland, Denmark, Germany, and Bo-
hemia, possess coal mines of a surface area
Of about $4,000 square miles. Russia
alone has - .O00 square miles The depos-
lis Of the island Of Formosa amount TO
something like 10000 square miles, some
Of the coal veins ranging up to 96 feet in
thickness
The coal fields Of Austria, Spain, Portu-
cal, Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Persia
cover about $4,000 square miles, those OF
India 1890 and those of Japan 5000
square miles, while those Of China are esti-
mated at the enormous figure Of 100000
square miles But these are not all.
The Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and
Iefu aTe very Iith III SVtii hHiAc ttsS eVutH
ern part Of Chill is one immense deposit.
la Brazil veins varying in thickness from
IL TO % feet are found in numbers, aud in
the United States of Columbia there is an
abundance Of the mineral Mexico and
the Vancouver Islands are also well sup
Piled, there being probably not far from
10000 square miles, while the deposits
thus far discovered in Tasmania, New CAL
edonia, and Natal are estimated to cover
100000 square miles, the larger number
Of these deposits not yet having been
worked
Without reckoning the immense stores
of coal in the United States, and merely
relying uponthos given above, there seems
to be but little prospect ofa coal famine
for some years.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-09-14
wolverines are Ugly Customers.
From the Nyashington Critic.

Few Washington people know what a
wolverine Is. They know that Michigan is
called the Wolverine state and that Michi-
gan people are called Wolverines. But
they have little or no idea why the state
was so named or what the nickname means.
The state is nicknamed after an animal
that used to infest, and still frequents, the
dense woods in the northern part of the
state, as well as the woods in northern
Wisconsin and Canada. This animal is
the wolverine, or, as the varieties of him
found in northern European countries are
called, the glutten. They are savage beasts,
these wolverines are, and they play sad
havoc with the cattle of the Michigan far
mers, They are like a cross between
wolf and bear. The tail and the temper
resemble those of a wolf, but in strength
and size and sayageneSs they much resem-
ble bear
They are less clumsy than bears, though,
and they can climb trees. Many hunter
has walked under tree up in Michigan
without looking for wolverine in the tree
first, and the wolverine dropped down on
him from one of the lower limbs, and be-
fore the next morning had eaten him up,
buekskin breeches and all, even to the heels
ofhis hunting boots. They are ugly beasts,
the only pretty thing about them being
their bushy tail, foot or so long. Their
claws are longer and sharper than bears,
and their teeth just as sharp.
Altogether the animal is very unpleas-
ant sort of one to see outside of a cage.
They are so savage and so wary and sus-
picious that it is almost impossible to catch
them alive, and so they don't have them in
circuses and geological gardens, and most
people don't know what they are. They
are so savage that hunters don't care to
hunt them, and so the wolverine has things
about his own way where he lives.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-09-14
London Docks.

The London docks, scene of the great
strike, form probably the greatest docking
system in the world. 1t is probably true
that hundred million dollars have been
expended upon them and they do not yield
direct profits to the dock companies pro-
portioned to their great cost. Indirectly,
however they help to promote British COM
merce, and are in that way profitable TO
their owners. St. Katherine's docks, the
nearest to London Bridge, were opened in
1928 and cost S10,000,000. London
docks are still older, having been opened
in 1905. They cost $4,000, 900 and con-
tain the great warehouses for tobacco rented
by the Government. The Surrey docks
and Commercial docks are more spacious
and devoted to the grain shipping trade.
The West India docks, opened in 1902,
cover 800 acres, and the East India docks
81 acres. Milwall docks in the Isle of
Dogs cover 200 acres. But the great
docks are the Victoria and Albert, opened
respectively in 1856 and 1880. The Vic
toria docks cover 200 acres and contain
dry docks capable of docking the largest
steamships afoat. One set of warehouses,
used chiefly for storing tea, silk, cochineal,
carpets and other products of India and
China, is said to have continuously stock
valued at S25, 100000. The Royal Albert
dock, which is connected with the Victoria,
is the greatest of all, and its completion in
June, 1880, was made the occasion for a
royal celebration. This dock is a splendid
stretch of waterway almost three miles in
extent, with range of over a mile of iron
warehouses, and double lines of locomotive
tracks and numerous travelling cranes.
The dock walls throughout are constructed
entirely of Portland cement concrete, made
and deposited IN situ The aggregate
length of dock and passage walls is 81 miles,
The walls are 40 feet high, 3 feet thick at
the top, and from Is to 19 feet thick at
the base, and used up in their construction
100000 cubic yards of concrete, represent
ing $4,000 tons of Portland cement. Three
thousand workmen, 600 or 700 wagons, II
or Is locomotive engines, three steam
~navyies, and great quantity of minor
machinery of various kinds, had been en-
S"5eu AAoH AStO untAi INC summer Vi 1OoO,
in the construction of this magnificent sys-
TEN of doeks-a work compared with which
the building of the pyramids, with modern
appliances, would have been no very signal
feat. Railway trains from every company
can unload straight into vessels, cattle are
driven aboard, the railway platforms being
level with the receiving docks, and the
largest possible weights Of merchandise are
lifted by hydraulic cranes that travel from
shed to shed with singular facility. The
dock is lighted with electric lamps, and the
enormous sheds and warehouses are so con
that they can be opened out from
end 10 end.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-09-14
A Hay Fever Cure.

Gossip" of the Harrisburg, Pa 7ele-
gram, gives the following cure for hay
fever:
''There is a simple and inexpensive rem
edy which will give them relief-or those
of them, at least, who suffer from the dis
ease in its incipiency. Let your druggist
put up for you mixture in the proper
tions of one grain of sulphate to one ounce
of pure water After shaking it up well,
put little of the mixture into the palm of
your hand and snuff it up your nose, re-
peating the operation until it reaches your
mouth-and when it does you will know it.
Do this as frequently during the day as is
convenient, and Gossips word for it, unless
you are a confirmed and chronic sniffler,
you will experience speedy relief; and even
in eases of long standing it frequently does
much good This is by no means quack
nostrum, but formal prescription from as
straight-laced a disciple of Esculapius as
ever felt pulse 1t has done much good
in the past, and Gossip hopes it will dc
much good in the years to come"
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-09-14
stone-crushers fer Good Roads.

\ letter in the New York Tribune says;
am more encouraged to think | shall live
TO see better roads than ever before. There
Is much useful advice in all the papers
Some road districts have little fruitful
rivalry with each other, but the thing that
promises to do most to revolutiouize road
making is the stone-crusher. In the ad-
i1ining town of Sweden, Monroe county,
they had a stone-crusher about three years,
and have now finished, or have stone on
hand enough to finish, as much as fifteen
miles of road. The roads where the crushed
stone is laid were formerly almost impassl-
able in fall and spring; now team can
haul as much in the worst time in spring
as in summer, and are so hard that loaded
wagon will crush small stones, and where
the stone track is worn smooth and washed
off by hard shower it looks like mosaic
work. The erusher in Sweden in the
three wears has cost but triAe for repairs.
The town gets all the stone it wants free,
and money is raised by tax to hire men
and teams to haul the stone to the machine,
and they are crushed and spouted on to
wagons furnished by the road districts.
In Sweden they say limestone is best, but
any kind of stone will do
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-09-14
poetrp.
A Vision of Home.
From The Gettysburg Pa Compiler.

l have been there-I know not how | went.
What power propelled ne as my steps bent
Back through the mazss fthe Past, until
The old home rose before me-ah. l see it still
How fast my pulses beat as through the gate
passed. thought l surely could not wait
To climb the hill, the well-known door to gain
And enter in-the waiting gave me pain.
There stood the old house on the same old ground,
reached the steps and cleared them at a bound,
! grasped the latch, but grew faint and chill.
My feet were stayed-I could not cross the sill.
A moment on the viue-clad porch ! stood.
With eager eye glanced over field and wood;
The meadow there in smiling beauty lay.
The orchard-trees still stood just DER the way.
But a strange dimness fell upon my sight.
dreamy glamour spread through all the light
The sun shone through film Of mist
The distant hills by fcccy clouds were kissed.
With trembling hands raised the latch at last
Aud inward through the opeu portal passed:
A solemn stiffness reigued within the hall;
The sunlight cast wieTd shadows on the wall.
Ny footsteps echoed strangely on the aoor
As passed onward to the parlor door;
That bright familiar spot. where OF Of yore
In JOY we met---we1i meet there, ncver-morc.
sadly wandered on from rocm to room,
But over each there hung cloud Of gloom:
While unseen forms around me seemed 10 hiL
And lingcr where nay loved ones used to sit
Yes, there Il stood-the windows, walls and dooTS.
The chimneys. mantels and the oskeu aoor,
Were Just the samc-bui something made Il seem
As If the home-life ell had been q dream.
Just as the body. when the soul has acd
stlll lies eef1re US bul is cold and dcai
So like corpse I found what once was home.
For they who were IT, life fromoui is walls hs,
gone AGAFA.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-09-14
Interesting Facts About Newspapers

BY some unaccountable Misrepresentation
of facts, there is large class of people in
the world who think that it costs little or
nothing to run newspaper, and if they
buy copy occasionally they are regular
patrons and entitled to unlimited favors.
Men ask for copy of a newspaper for
nothing who would never dream of begging
pocket handkerchief from dry goods
store or a piece of candy from eonfec-
toner, even upon the plea of having done
business with them before One paper is
not much, but hundreds at each issue will
amount to something in the course of time.
But this is small drain compared with
the amount of free advertising newspaper
is expected to do Some people when they
once pay for an advertisement think they
are stockholders in the establishment for
eternity. Without being represented in
its advertising columns, we have had people
to request us to gratuitously insert this
notice, or draw attention to this article,
with the slight suggestion that sit will cost
you nothing to put this in, which is just
as ridiculous as to ask man to grind your
axe on his grindstone, and graciously tell
him it won't cost him a cent.
II takes money to run a newspaper as
well as any other business; no paper can
succeed financially that carries dead-head
system. Any mention of peoples affairs
which they are anxious to see in print Is
worth paying for, and when printed is gen.
orally worth as much as any other invest
ment of the same amount The newspaper
business is very exacting on all connected
with it, and the pay is comparatively small;
the proprietors risk more money for smaller
profits, and the editors, reporters and prin-
ters work harder and cheaper than the
same number of men in any other profess
sion requiring the given amount of intelli-
gence, training and drudgery.
The life has its charms and its pleasant
associations, scarcely known to the outside
world; but il has its earnest anxieties, and
hours Of exhaustion, which also are not
known to those VINO think the business all
fun. The idea that newspaperdom is a
charmed circle, where the favored members
live life OF ease and are free from care,
Is an idea which shonld be exploded.
Business Is business, and the journal that
succeeds is the one that is run on square
business footing, the same as banking,
building bridges or keeping hotel.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-09-14

A curious discovery connected with the
recent disastrous fire at Spokane, w. T.,
is reported by local paper. a safe be-
coming cracked by the intense heat, the
books inside were charred and baked to a
blackened crisp, though they remained in
tact Not a figure could be read. One
of the bookkeepers, while turning over the
leaves, noticed that where his finger, which
was wet, touched the page the figures be
came legible He procured a paint brush,
dipped it in water and dampened the whole
page and was grati6ed to see all the figures
dimly outlined. Two bookkeepers then
went to work, aud by wetting the pages
and carefully turning the leaves succeeded
in a few days in transferring all the ac-
counts to a new set of books.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1889-09-14
4 NEW Depot in westminster.

A gentleman stopped in No. 80 W. Main
street, and asked what is your name, SIR ?
Gladhill. What viii you paper room ~
feet square and Z feet high for. in good papers
$255, sir What viii you paper Il in good
gilt for2 $l25. Is that so? Yes, sir. Why,
can have my whole house papered for about
$I2 or SIS, can'tI? Yes, sir. Say, did you
Iaper the rooms Of S. Kann, Sons Co. and
FsD. Miller 4 Co? Yes, sir; they were the
FIRST Jobs l ever did. Is that So they are
good enough for me. Yes, and vail put my
work against any other paper hanger in the
state. / guess you viii If they are your first
jobs. What do you put Embossed Paper on
the wall for9 SOC apiece. What is that sol
SOC apieee. What IS your cheapest paper +?
I5c and zoe | guess that IS brown back :
No, sir, We don't keep that; If you want i /
can get it for yon, and put il on the wall for
10c piece. but It hiss seven yards in pieces
all OF my paper has yards in il. DO you
want any brown back ? No, sir; the paper
you have IS good and cheap enough for me.
Well, must say that you have the prettiest
patterns Of paper l ever saw. Vel, must
20. / am glad came in here. | an sure
that / saved at least 25 per cent. by coming to
see you. ! will tell my neighbors about you,
and when We ger you in our neighborhood We
viii keep you all spring. Iherel well, good
bye. Good By. Oh, by the way my wife told
me 10 see about Curtains. Where can ! get
them made to ft my windows Right here
Where can / get Picture Frames made. Right
here. Is thar SO. What ali do you keep
keep Accordeons, Albums, Pictures, Frames,
and everything that can be found IN q first
class g9c Store. Well. wkEs don't you keep
Railroads aad trains. HIl, hai Well, good
bye. Good bye. | am mich obliged for yosr
order mario