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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-18
THE PARSONS CORNER.
A PARsoN EDITOR.

''Too SMART" Hear this young
man. D. j. Burrell D. D., says
some timely things for young men
who take pride in their rowdyish,
coarse and vulgar ways. 'More
young men die of smartness than
of all the epidemics and contagious
that flesh is heir to-. Then he
goes on to say, "Where lies the
fascination of cigarette for a
twelve-year-old? He thinks it
smart; thinks it manly. He brags
about it. He makes himself a
hero. A little further on he buys
him a revolver-calibre 22-and
carries it in his hip pocket; A lit
tie later on he ventures to make a
trial of lager beer, then follows the
oath, the clandestine book, the
game of pool, the hero grows in
honor and in his own opinion fast
approaches the estate of man."
Thus honor is gone, his charac-
ter becomes contemplate, and
instead of being a man whose life
counts for something good in the
world, he is among the ''danger-
Gus class from which society must
protect itself.
Genuine goodness, real honor,
honesty and moral worth, they are
too tame and commonplace for our
''smart" young man.
Jesse James in his eyes is a
greater hero than George Wash
ington. To be though" is a
greater honor than to be President
of the United States.
If Princeton has any ''smart"
young men we hope they will re-
cover from the disease before they
reach the felon's cell or the gal
lows.
GENERAL HARRISON AND WINE.
"A Pennsylvania lady tells that
when General Harrison was run
ming for the presidency, he stopped
at the old Washington House in
Chester for dinner. After dinner
was served, it was noticed that the
General pledged his toast in water,
and one of the gentlemen from
New York, in offering another,
said, General, will you not favor
me by drinking glass of wine?"
The General refused in a very
gentlemanly manner. Again he
was urged to join in a glass of
wine. This was too much. He
rose from the table, his tall form
erect, and in the most dignifed
manner replied: ''Gentlemen, I
have refused twice to partake of
the wine-cup. That should have
been sufficient. Though you press
the cup to my lips, not a drop
shall pass the portals. I made a
resolve when I started in life that
l would avoid strong drink, and I
have never broken it. I am one
OF class Of seventeen young men
who graduated, and the other six
teen fill drunkards' graves-all
through the pernicious habit of
wine drinking. I owe all my
health, happiness and prosperity
to that resolution. Will you urge
me now?"
FIRST MEETING. Those first
Christian Endeavor meetings were
great delight and give promise
OF good things to come.
On THE PRA1R1E.-The meet
ings at the Prairie School house
closed last Friday night. The in
terest was good. The results are
best known in heaven.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-18
STATE OF MINNESOTA,l

SSS.
County of Mile Laos.
District Court, Seventh Judicial District.
Isaac Ptrr. Plaintiff,
against
Mary Ptrr Defendant
The State of Minnesota. to the above named de-
PENDANT:
You are hereby summoned and required to an
swer the complaint of the plaintiff in the above
entitled action, which is filed in the office of the
clerk of the district court of the 18th judicial dis
trct in and for the county of Mile Laos and
State of Minnesota, and to serve a copy of your
answer to the said complaint on the subscriber,
his office in the village of Princeton, in
said county, within thirty days after
the service of this summons upon you exclusive of
the day of such service; and if you fail to answer
the said complaint within the time aforesaid the
plaintiff in this action will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in the complaint
Dated Princeton, Minnesota, November 10, 1890.
CHAs. KEITH, Plaintiffs Attorney.
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STRAYED. very light red colored
heifer strayed from my premises some
time last June. Any information
thankfully received.
Z. BERRY, Baldwin, MINI.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-18

new STORE
-AND-
new GOODS.
TO the People of Prince
ton and Surrounding
Country You are COR
daily invited to come and
visit my New Store and
inspect my goods. I pay
no rent and my expenses
are as low as any firm in
town, consequently I can
and am bound to sell my
goods as low as they can
be bought in Minneapolis
or st. Paul at retail. L
am only one block from
Main street and it will
pay you to come and see
me.
In Christmas Goods I
can sell you Albums and
other Holiday Presents
% per cent. cheaper than
you can get the same
grade at the stores on
Main street.
1t you want Custom
Made Boots and Shoes, for
Ladies, Gents or Children,
as cheap as you can pur-
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of Rubbers, Arctics, Boot
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the High Rubber Shoe to
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you.
We have Hats, Caps,
Furs, Clothing, Etc., at
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If you want some Bar
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Hardware, come in as I
am closing out this class
of goods, and about Civ.
ing them away.
Next week l shall have
a Full Line Of Groceries.
Flour, Feed, Bran and
Shorts, and lots of other
New Goods.
Don't take my word,
but came in and see the
Goods and get prices, as
seeing is believing.
Don't forget the place,
Heads New Store, Corner
First Street West and
Washington Avenue.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-12-18

Assignee's Attorney, Princeton, MINI.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
N Standard MNNNVIILE TENNEssEEsATURDAY DEC p

the papers which were criticising Mr..
Wade so severely would have lot
of explaining to do when he came out
from the great and awful secret cham
Der of the Alliance, and told his side
of the story. And so it happens.
Since Mr.. Wade's return home he
has had an interview with an Amer
lean reporter, in which he not only
disclaims the authorship of the re-
ported resolution, but says that no
such resolution was ever offered in
the convention by any one. Contln-
uing, Mr.. Wade puts himself on rec
ord as follows:
81 am not in favor of the sub-treas-
ury bill, or the Government owner>
ship of railroads and telegraph lines,
nor any other demand that places
the organization in the attitude of
subscribing to policy of centraliza-
ton and Government paternalism.
speaking for the order, l want to
say that it is non.partisan; our first
declaration is, TO labor for the edu-
cation of the agricultural classes in
the science of economical,government
in strictly non.partisan spirit, and
to bring about a more perfect union
of said classes We bind no MEM
Der, be he high or low, to vote for
men or measures, but leave each
individual to act as his conscience
dictates on all political questions and
politics.
"The Tennessee delegation at the
Ocala meeting, composed of Govern.
or-elect Buchanan, j. H. Mcdowell,
w. c. Lightfoot and myself, endeav-
ored by all honorable means to have
the national organization adopt a
broad liberal and conservative policy,
so that we could go before the coun-
try with the motto inscribed on our
banner. Equal rights to all and
special favors to none.' We are also
unalterably opposed to any third par
ty movement, and had agreed among
ourselves that if this issue was forced
upon us we would retire from the
body. However, no attempt was
made in the meeting looking to this
end"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
Literary Note.

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The publisher believed that first
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itan reached the 10000 mark.
With a view to the introduction OF
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better than the very low price of the
magazine. To those who have never
been subscribers to the Cosmopolitan,
we will furnish the STANDARD and
that magazine at s.. 30 for the two.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27

told them his name was Peh. He
then said Grepau was right and San
was wrong. The people agreed to it
and drove San off. (Of course was
satisfied by this time that San was
the devil and Peh the Holy Spirit
They then all went back to the viii
lage and Grepau called them all in
to the broad street and said Il am
now going TO my place in heaven.
Peh has come and will stay with you
and let you know what want. And
if any of you do any wickedness and
afterward will go alone in the field
and hold up his hands (prayer) and
call upon Grepau, when that one
dies will take him to heaven. But
if any one does none of these things,
but goes into the field and holds up
his hands and calls upon the name of
Grepau, when he dies l will make
him blessed"
then asked, where is San now,
and what does he do? They said,
80, San is everywhere; he puts it
into the hearts of children to disobey
their parents, to lie and steal and
fight, and grown people to fight and
lie and steal and do all sorts of wick
edness. Then Grepau is not pleased
and don't send rain, and the rice don't
grow, and the people are distressed.
1t is Sans delight to have people dis
obey Grepau and get into trouble"
| then asked where is Peh, and
what does he do? They said, so, he
is good he puts it into the hearts of
children to obey their parents, to tell
the truth and of grown people not
to fight, or make war, and be honest
with one another. And then Grep-
au is pleased and sends them rain,
and they have good crops of rice and
are in peace"
questioned them about these
things and find they have many an
ecdOtes of the acts of San and Peh,
and they regard both as persons.
Also, how Peh counteracted the work
of San. They said Peh is smarter
and wiser than San, and knows what
he is doing; often catches San in his
meanness.
Does the Spirit operate where the
Word is not? These people had new
er seen a white man or Christian be-
fore. They knew absolutely nothing
of the gospel or the Word of God.
A. d. PHILLIPS.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
REMEMBER THIS.

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would be pleased to accommodate
many of our friends longer, but a
faithful trial Of the credit system,
with the exercise of all due diligence
to make collections, has proved a
costly experiment to us, and in JUS
tice to ourselves we must adhere to
the cash plan IN future. The change
may reduce our circulation to some
extent for while, but it is comfort
ing to know that it will also reduce
our paper bills, and thereby increase
our profits.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
SOUTHERN 8tanoarS.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.

r. M. REAAES,
EDITOR AND ETOR.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
Spiritual Light in African Darkness


To the Standard.
In going among a heather people
it was always our custom to ascertain
what they knew about a Supreme
Being, a future state, etc., and such
other things as might be useful to us
in teaching. In the absence of writ
ten language as among the Africans,
this had to be learned from them
orally.
The last time l was in Africa, it
was my duty to go from Liberia
across the Kong Mountains. was
the first white man or civilized per-
son who had ever crossed these
mountains. Some of the same tribes
lived south of the mountains, and
from them l learned a few words of
their language. Some few of the Lii
berians had learned more Of it. From
them learned that the name of the
Deity was "Grepau," and that they
had no word in their language that
meant or expressed satan, or at least
no foreigner knew of such a word.
The people are called Bassens. The
first town reached, as usual great
crowd soon surrounded me, as l was
great curiosity very few had ever
seen a white man.
After talking with them for some
time l asked them where people
first came from; how did they start.
After a good deal of caution on their
part and a private consultation by
some of the old men, they said: GAS
you seem to be a good man we are
willing to tell you, but we don't often
tell strangers" One of them told the
following:
GA long, long time ago at the first
there were very few people living on
the earth, and they all lived in one
village with a wide street running
through the middle of it. Grepau
lived and ruled on one side and San
on the other. q just guessed San was
the Holy Spirit.) San and Grepau
were in partnership getting palm
wine. One day Grepau went alone
to the palm trees and found a man
and took him for his slave. When
he (Grepau) came home at night he
said nothing about it. The next day
San went out alone and found the
slave and brought him to the village,
and told the people he had found a
slave. Grepau said he was his
slave; he found him the day before.
From that a great dispute arose, and
they all left the village and went to
their council place. While they
were discussing the matter a short,
heavy-set man came 10 them. He
walked with a long stick, wore very
little clothing and had very large
eyes. He said to them: i have
come a long way, and this is the first
time l ever came to you and found
you in a dispute. What's the mat
ter" They told him and then said ;
you are little man and don't wear
much clothes, but You speak great
words. What is your name" lie
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
Why Not? It Costs Nothing

Why not ascertain whether that
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describing it, to C. A. Snow q Co.,
Patent Solicitors, opp. U. S. Patent
Office, Washington, ID. c., and they
will inform you free of charge.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27

The grip has taken fresh hold
npon the populace of New Orleans.
There are 5000 cases of the disease
reported in that city, and there were
236 deaths last week, mainly from
this cause.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27

THE Shelbyville Gazette devOtes a
quarter of column to putting one of
its friends forward as a candidate for
State Treasurer before the next Cen
eral Assembly. We were under the
impression that the State Treasurer
was elected for four years, and that
the present incumbent had two more
years to serve yet.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27

THE responses to our request for
advance payments on subscription
have been very gratifying to us. The
number to be dropped from the list
will be much smaller than we eX>
pected when we determined to change
to the cash system. This will be the
last issue to go to many old subscrib-
ers, but we hope to have them all on
the list again before many weeks roll
around. TO all who have been read
ers of the STANDARD in the past, and
to all who continue with us in the
future, we wish happy and pros
porous New Year. AS we will waste
no time or money dunning subscrib.
ers in the future, and lose none on de.
linquent subscriptions, we hope to be
able to make the columns of the
STANDARD brighter and newsier than
ever throughout the New Year.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27

News from the West of the Indian
troubles is very contradictory. One
day we are told that all the bad In
dians have surrendered to the mili>
tary authorities, and the next that
they have put on more war paint and
there is trouble ahead. 1t will take a
genuine blizzard throughout the en-
tire Northwest to effectually cool the
fighting blood of the red braves.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27

DURING the Ocala convention of
the Farmers Alliance a report was
sent out by the Associated Press to
the effect that Mr.. Eth B. Wade, of
Tennessee, had introduced a resolu-
ton strongly indorsing the sub-treas-
ury scheme, ETC., and that said reso-
luton was almost unanimously adop-
ted by the convention. Mr.. Wade is
State Secretary of the Alliance in
Tennessee, and also Secretary of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee, and before going to Ocala had
uniformly expressed strong opposi>
ton to the sub-treasary bill. The
STANDARD made no mention of the
matter at the time, as we believed
then that there was something
crooked about thereport, and thought
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27

PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued
his proclamation authorizing the
Worlds Fair at Chicago, to be opened
the 1st day of May, 1898, to close not
earlier than the last Thursday in Oc-
tober of the same year, and inviting
all nations of the earth to senG repre-
sentatives and exhibits to the Fair.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27

THE Shelbyville Gazette cOndenses
lots of Philosophy and good advice
into the following: "Let us all make
"a resolve and stick to it that next
year we will live within our incomes
then work to secure the income"
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

The Fort Worth Gazette in des-
cribing midnight assault on two
ladies by a would-be murderer, says
that he crept along the hall with
stealtly step and listening ear, carry
ing large rock in his right hand as
big as ones double fist ; that he tip
toed to the bedside and found the
victims wrapped in the folds OF un-
suspecting slumber; then raising
aloft his arm and gathering the full
force of his sinews, with murder in
his thoughts and glancing out from
blood shot eyes, down with sicken-
ing crash came the heavy rock, etc.
And yet nobody saw the intruder
enter the room or watched his mo-
tions. This style of reporting is
good enough for penny-a-liners and
space writer's, perhaps, but it is
awfully disgusting.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04
New York STAR: A tribute is

New YORK STAR: A tribute is
due to the admirable conduct of the
democratic senators during the con-
test against the fraud and force
election bill. Everything has been
well done by them, and nothing
overdone. Senator German has
shown himself to be parliamentary
leader of the first wary, cool,
patient, enforcing reticence when 81
lence was golden, and putting in ez-
actly the right word in the right
time when there was need for posi-
tive utterance. Republicans have
been quietly afforded every facility
for developing their differences, and
never for an instant have the demo
Gratis done anything to relieve the
majority party of its full response
bility. The national democracy
never presented picture Of more
perfect union or deeper earnestness
than 1t does to-day.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

The Bellville Standard has been
victimized. The proprietor of the
paper few months ago took a man
into partnership who had no money
but plenty of newspaper knowledge
and experience. 1t is The same old
story. The proprietor of the paper
now has the experience and the
other fellow the money.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

Two years hence Chiffon, Brown,
Huteheson and Hogg will have to
swallow the principles Of the sub
treasury bill or take to the woods.
These men do not make this a test
of fealty now, but two years hence
it will be made a test for them
Hopkins County Echo.
They will do neither. They will
never favor the sub-treasury bill and
they are not the kind of men to take
to the woods. If the subtreasury
bill comes up they will fight it, but
the BANNER predicts it will not be
heard of two years from now.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

The Houston Post thus represents
the situation in the republican camp:
"AIr. Blaine knocked the Mckinley
bill into cooked hat; Mr.. Quay has
destroyed the force bill, and now the
New York Tribune is jumping upon
the favorite bill of the Grand Army
of the Republic, calling for service
pension
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

The column of drummers' names
in the Houston Post in the diamond
ring contest is steadily advancing.
It wouldn't be ike a drummer to
miss a good chance fer bit of free
advertising even il he didn't secure
the ring.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

JOHN B. LoNG, of Cherokee county,
who was nominated to succeed Hon.
W. II. Marein in congress, is far
mer and newspaper man. He has
never held any political Office.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

The war between the lily white
and black-and-tan republicans is Oh,
and in the language of Macbeth, id
be he who first cries hold, enough
However, at the same time we do
not hesitate to say that our sympa-
thies are with the black and-tan
wing of the party, which is by far
the most respectable of the two.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

IT is sud to be the ambition of
Miss Frances E. Willard, president
of the national women's christian
temperance union, to see the order
combined with the Salvation Army
before the present year is closed.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

BARRILLIAs, the dictator of Guate-
mala, proposes to make a forced loan
of a million dollars from his subjects.
Consequently they are unhappy and
threaten to revolt.