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Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-06-14

}. X. Boutwell,. who organized the big
canal scheme for retaining Bear River val.
'ey. Utah, has similar plans regarding Sierra
valley. The field is favorable. and il the
,.na owners there will meet the capitalists
u:.n'way' they will multiply their commu-
S"y ny ten IN short time. Reservoirs will
Is quit IN Last Chance, Badeno canyon and
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1890-06-14

Trans and 2 run daily.
Train runs Mondays. Wednesdays and Fri
days.
Train runs Tuesdays. Thursdays and satur-
days
Passenger trains make close connection at
Mound House with express trains of Virginia
and Truckee Railroad, which connect at Reno
with east and west-bound trains OF Central Pa
ciHc Railroad.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
At Hawthorne. with United StsIes Stage Cos
coaches for Aurora rs miles,: Bodie t37 miles,
and for Lundy and Bridgeport.
At Luning. tl25 miles from Mound Housed.
with Gilmer. Salisbury 4 Co.'S triweekly
stages. pesying Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
dsys for Downeyville. Grantsville and Bel
mont.
AZ Candelaria. with United States Stage Cos
stages for Columbus 70 miles, silver Peak.
hontesuma, Aida Valley. Gold Mountain. etc.
Keller. with stages for Cerro Gordro Is
miles, Darwin (22 miles). and Panamig;a.
HIN. YERINGTON,
81. LAWS. General superintendent.
Assistant Superintendent
u. A. BENDER,
General Freight and Passenger Agent.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
WIT AND WISDOM.

The vain man never can see any
excuse for vanity in the men he knows.
-Somerville journal.
The evil that men do lives after
them, the good-they publish while
they live.-Van Dorn's Magazine.
-Aman with an umbrella that doesn't
belong to him is not watching the
lost columns of a newspaper to see if it
is advertised.
OF course man should be able to
look out for himself, but he need not
devote his entire attention to it.-Terre
Haute Express.
You hear good deal about the mys-
terious ways of Providence from the
friends of the man who carried his live
Goals and gunpowder in the same pocket.
-Atchison Globe.
In all things we have to be some
what venturesome, taking risks and
counting on possible losses. He who is
not willing to do this will lead tame
and fruitless life.
Money may purchase mansions, So
cial standing, and even high offices, and
luck may bring money; but brains, prin-
ciples, honesty and good governmentcan
not be purchased.
"A wise man plays the fool when he
enters into an argument on the street
corner, for it is easy for the jester to get
a corner on the merriment when logic is
slain with a smile. West Shore.
The moral law is written on the
tablets of eternity. For every false
word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty OF
oppression, for lust or vanity, the price
has to be paid at last.-N. Y. Ledger.
Every ono must have felt that a
cheerful friend is like sunny day,
which sheds its brightness on all around
and most of us can, as we choose, make
of this world either a palace or Q
prison.
Greatness, heroism, glory spring from
what is left over above necessity. Some
people have just soul enough for salt
You can not conceive further diminu
ton of their mental endowments unat
tended by physical decomposition. o.
course they have nothing to spare FOL
fame.-Gail Hamilton.
Remember that he is indeed the
wisest and the happiest man who, BY
constant attention of thought, discovers
the greatest opportunity of doing good
and with ardent and animated resolu
ton breaks through every opposition
that he may improve these opportuni
ties.
Young man, you are wanted from
the street corners, from the dram shop
and from the card table. Turn you
step into the road of noble aims anC
earnest work. There are Offices for CIV
cry successful worker. There arr
crowns enough for one to be placed Of
the head of every young man who goe
through the smoke of tho conflict TO vic
tory. The Old Homestead
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
THE CONGO BASIN.
Some Writers Estimate Africa's Popula-
ton at 325, 600, 900 Souls.

Some Writers Estimate Africa's Popula-
ton at 1926, 100000 Souls.
And under the name of the Independ-
ent States of Congo its government was
organized after the mostapproved meth
DDS of Belgian administration, and it
entered fully equipped into the family
of nations. There is within it's area,
which, as said, is thirty-three times
that of Belgium, population Of $50
whites, about one-half State officials
and employees, and the estimated num-
Der of natives within its borders is
about 40, 600, 900; and in the whole Con-
60 basin is estimated at about 80, 900, 600.
Africa is about three times the area of
Europe, or IL, 600, 900 square miles, and
some writers estimate it to contain
about an equal population-925, 600, 900
souls. The enormous trade developing
there comes mainly from the narrow
selvage which separates the mountains
from the sea. 1t is great basin com
posed of plateaus gradually ascending
| to 1000 feet at some of the central
lakes. 1t has four great river systems:
On the west the Congo, second only to
the Amazon in the volume of its waters,
and the Niger; on the north the Nile;
on the east the Zambesi. These rivers
once formed vast internal seas, which,
finally breaking through the mountain
barriers, have descended by cataracts
and canyons to the ocean, leaving great
areas of rich deposits of wonderful fer
tility.
THE Congo basin," says an eminent
scientific authority, Prof. Dupont, fresh
from a visit there, 'is destined to be the
granary of the world" Is this the
ground to draw the gathering electricity
from that black cloud spreading over
the Southern States, which thus far has
dropped fairness upon and given vast
production to them, but which is now
growing big with destructive elements?
Perhaps here may be found q solution
of the race problem that presses on us
and must be met and must be solved.
What eminent statesman will give him.
self to this great work, compel public
attention, and point the way thither for
these disturbing elements? Though
condemned at present by many from
partisan or other standpoints, an exodus
of the better educated and more ambi.
tious people of the colored race would
lead up to practical, peaceful, happy re-
suits for us and for our African races
and to immortal honors for that states
man. When is the new cOlored Moses
to rise for this exodus and lead his peo-
pie home?- Henry S Sanford, in Fo-
rum.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Tho Harvard College overseers have
voted not to allow women admission to
the university divinity school.
AT the seventy-sixth annual COM
mencement of Princeton Theological
Seminary class of ilfty-nine was gradu-
ated
"A portrait of William Lloyd Garri-
son has been presented to the public
school at Washington which bears his
name.
The receipts of the Baptist Home
Missionary Society during the year are
$40, 1904; the number of laborers sus-
tanned, 1913; the number Of schools sup
ported, 25,
The first theological school of the
country Bangor Theological Seminary,
was chartered in 1914, and opened in
1916; the last is the Common School Of
Theology, located at Atlanta, Ca, was
chartered in 1888.
-Vassar College celebrates this year
the twenty-ffth anniversary Of its estab-
lishment. Its first president who served
about one-half of its first quarter CEN
fury, John Howard Raymond, was one
OF the great educators of our time.
Oxford possesses two vigorous
ladies' debating societies-the Ladies'
Association for Promoting the Educa-
ton of Women in Oxford and the Somer-
vile and Lady Margaret Joint Debating
Society Both societies are flourishing
and hold three or four sessions in each
term.
Midland College, at Atchison, Kan,
was founded by the General Synod in
1887, for the purpose of supplying home
missionaries for the ever-growing Luth-
eran population of the West and South
west. There is now goodly number
of young men in preparation for the
ministry.
George w. Scott, Of Atlanta, Ga,
lately gave $4,000 to the Decatur Fe-
male Seminary, which was founded
about year ago. Twenty-Five thou
sand dollars of this gift will be spent on
building and grounds, and SIS, 900 to en-
dow scholarships. The First and Sec.
ond Presbyterian Churches of Atlanta
will each endow chair.
The University of Moscow recently
celebrated its one hundred and thirty
fifth anniversary. Its teaching force
consists of So regular professors and 81
private instructors; the number of stu
dents is 3,SO5. The Minister of Instruc
ton has in recent years made several eff
forts to lessen the attendance at THU
and other Russian universities, particu
larly by keeping away the poor. II
Russia, too, the professions are over
crowded One of the latest orders is
that the sons of coachmen and washer
women shall not be admitted to any o
the higher grades of schools. Anothe
order is that only certain percentage
of the total number of students can b.
| JnwS
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Fruit is the best spring medicine
that we know any thing about. Money
invested in apples and Strawberries is
much better invested than it would be
in sulphur and molasses. Western
Rural.
"A weak galyanic current, which VIII
sometimes cure toothache, may be
generated by placing silver coin on
one side of the gum and piece of zinc
on the other. Rinsing the mouth with
calculated water will increase tho eff
fect.-Scientifc American.
-Stuffy furniture is made endurable
by means of pretty, clear starched linen
slips, and such pretty linens come now
adays, Powered and striped and damask-
cd, that the homeliest set of furniture
clad therein is transformed into some
thing pleasing. The Home.
So long as woman is required to be
cook, laundress, dairymaid, sewing-girl
and gardener, so long will she remain a
mere drudge. The truest domestic
economy consists in furnishing conven-
fences for the wife and house-keeper,
that she may save her own strength
Rural New Yorker.
Those with weak stomachs should
avoid pork, veal, liver, salt meat, sau-
SAUCES, hashes, mackerel, salmon, her
ring, salt fish, melted butter, cheese,
fresh bread, mullins, buttered toast, pas
try, cakes, cuStards, nuts, pears, plums,
cherries, pine-apples, cucumbers, car
rots' peas, beans, pickles chocolate, etc.
The most potent and most perfect
remedy for sleeplessness is to drink hot
water. If one awakes in the night, as
hopelessly wide awake as if galvanized
or electrified with vital activity, an in
variable remedy is glass of perfectly
hot-not warm-water. 1t can be heat
ed over the gas, or over a spirit lamp,
and slipped while almost at boiling heat,
and one who tries it will find himself
going off to sleep like an infant, and get
ting, too, the most restful and peaceful
sleep imaginable.
The method of cleaning furs prac-
ticed in Russia, the land Of furs, is
given in recent number of La Science
Illustre. 1t is as follows: Rye flour is
placed in pot and heated upon q
stove, with constant stirring as long as
the hand can bear the heat. The -four is
then spread over the fur and rubbed
into it, After this the fur is brushed
with very clean brush, or better, is
gently beaten until all the flour is re
moved. The fur thus treated resumes
its natural luster and appears as if abso
lutely new.
"A neglected hand, which is solely {
convenience to its owner, may be sur
prisingly improved by continuous care
says Shirly Dare. The first point is t.
make and keep it clean. You many
think your hands well washed, yet afte
submitting them to q manicure the!
come out so much whittier that one feel
they never were clear before. To pu
careless hand in good condition ma,
require half an hours work three time
week for fortnight, in which tim
the new skin should grow whittier an,
finer than before. Soak ill-kept hand
in hot bathing soapsuds with half
teaspoonful of boraX in the water, whicl
acts wonderfully in removing CRIME.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
How to Cook a Postum.
Murfreesboro Home Journal.

MurlreeSb0rO Home journal.
"The best way to cook 'possum,"
remarked one Of our farmer friends
last week, sis the old fashioned way.
You catch the 'possum and clean
him up in regular fashion, and allow
the frost to fall on him a time or two.
Then you select the biggest pumpkin
in the patch and scoop out the seeds
and insides completely. Now season
your 'possum to your taste, place
him inside the pumpkin, and fill up
the space with strips of seasoned
sweet potatoes. After this place the
plug which you cut out Of the pump
kin back in its place, and fire the big
gest brush heap on the place. When
only pile of hot Goals remain, dig
out place and cover the pumpkin
up. Next morning you can remove
the warm embers, easily peel the
outside of the pumpkin rind off and
feast on a disk fit for a king. I've
got my pumpkin, potatoes and brush
pile at home, and as soon. as / have
better luck and catch a fat 'possum,
will invite my neighbors in to eat
with me-"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
POVERTY IN SICILY.
The Pathetic Side of Life in Sunny Italy's
Sunniest Province.

Sunntest Province.
The distance from the Simento river
to Palermo is about 100 miles. We
travelled this distance on our excellent
donl1eys in four days, writes the Naples
correspondent of the New York CONNER
cial Advertiser, with time to spare for
brief excursions from the main highway
to objects of special interest. The face
of the country is mountainous, save
where now and then inlrequent level
plains intervene. The mountainous
districts recall some of the sterile and
forbidding heights of Spain The plains
though exceedingly fertile, seem unin-
habited.
Italy and Sicily are sunny" enough.
Cereals, fruits and flowers are almost
tropically luxuriant; but how can the
humane traveller rave over the glories of
pagan ruins, the massiveness Of medi@-
val monuments, monasteries, cathedrals
and fortresses, or the dazzling palaces Of
the nobility of to-day, when almost the
entire people of the land are the serfs Of
few; when the lowly comprise all but
the nobility, the governing classes and
ecclesiastics; and when doubtless $780,
900 souls out of Sicily's 1854 O99 inhabi-
tants are ambitionless, ignorant and sod
den as swine?
An infinite compassion fires ones
heart for the hopelessness of such q peo-
pie; and when interest in tremendous
natural phenomena, classic regions and
old remains lessons, the pitiable and
pathetic side of life in such land be-
gins to possess and hurt you. Any land
boasting no progressive farming, popu-
lation masters of the soil they till, with
out fairly contented peasantry possess
ing secure and well-deined rights in
their holdings, is doomed to desertion
and decay
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
A Duty to Yourself.

1t is surprising that people will use
a common, ordinary pill when they
can secure a valuable English one for
the same money DR.. Acker's En-
glish pills are a positive cure for sick
headache and all liver troubles. They
are small, sweet. easily taken, and do
not grippe. Sold by W. II. Fleming, ,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
FACTS ABOUT HAIL-sToNws,
It Takes But Ten Minutes to Form tho
Largest Ones Ever Known.


Largest Ones Ever Known.
Meteorologists are not unit in agree
mont upon the manner of formation Of
hail-stones. The theory of Dove has
been given most credence. He believed
that the Maidstone passed rapidly from
the cold air to the warm, moist air, and
again from the warm air, into the cold
err, thus alternately taking on jacket
Of moisture and freezing it around the
nucleus or heart The formation of the
nucleus itself, it is conceded, is from the
snow-hakes in the cold cloud, which be-
ing whirled about forms a small ball,
about which subsequent layers CONCEAL
as the ball is tossed about into the at
mospheres of different temperatures,
The Maidstone, from it's varying shapes
and angularities, shows that it has had
wild and irregular career in the sky,
sometimes melting into crooked shapes,
then being tossed upward and CONCEALED
rapidly. 1t takes but ten minutes, so
the meteorologists say, to form the
largest hail-stones known. While many
of those that fell Sunday were nearly
spherical, more of them were rough and
jagged, and some had a fiat face on one
side and were covered with nobules on
the other.
The most remarkable hail-storm on
record was that of July 49, 17SS, which
passed from Touraine, France, to Bel
GUM. 1t travelled in bands or separate
belts. While the western band had a
width of ten miles and a length of 400
miles, the eastern band had with of
five miles and length of 500 miles. A
band of rain twelve miles wide was be-
tween them. Over 1000 communes suf-
fered, and property valued at SIS, 900, 0OO
was destroyed. The most fatal storm OF
the kind was that of April 80, 1888, at
Moradabad, India, in which over 2SC
lives were lost. John Eliot, meteorolog'
ical reporter to the government of India,
says of this storm; "Verandas were
blown away, and the massive Pucca por.
tico was blown down. 1t was nearly
dark, Hail was on the ground two feet
deep Persons caught in the open were
simply pounded to death. The area Of
this storm was only about six or sever
miles around Moradabad.p
Probably the worst hail-storm thai
ever occurred in this country was tina
of June 16, 1882, at Dubuque Iowa. Fo
thirteen minutes, beginning at 1885 p. m.
hail-stones fell, some of which were sew
enteen inches in circumference. The
largest weighed IL pounds. They ex
hibited diverse formations, some 0
them having knobs and icicles half al
inch in length. Others were surrounded
by rings of different-colored ice, will
gravel and blades of grass imbedde,
within. The foreman of the Novelt,
Iron Works stated that he melted tw
which had living frogs within them
This report comes from the Month";
Weather Review, issued by the Govern
ment.
A Dubuque newspaper report accom-
panying the picture states that hail
stones as large as cocoanuts were throw
down, and some ladies cooled a pitche
of lemonade with them, and wrote t
Eastern friends that they had made tn
drink palatable with ice frozen in tina
city on June 10. In falling the stone
went through the roofs Of street cars
baltimore SIM.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27

Subscribe forthe STANDARD. 81.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
Can't Sleep NIGHTS

Is the complaint of thousands suffer
ing from Asthma, Consumption,
Coughs, etc. Did you ever try DR..
Acker's English Remedy? 1t is the
best preparation known for all Lung
Troubles. Sold on a positive guaran-
tee at pc. and soc. by w. II. Elem
ing. :
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
She Was Willing.

Ethel-IIere is an article in this paper
entitled: why don't young men mar
ry?" wonder why?
Maud-Because they don't asl, you, l
suppose. Puck,
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
WTHLETEST MpR0VLHGI,

SOLD BY FURNITURE, CARPrT ESo hs7oWA'
DEALERS EVERYWHERE, OR WILL uE SshF 81 %
SELL CARPET SWEEPER CO. GRhRp RAPIDS, M'o'
PRICE IS 90
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
Handy With the Shears.

Tall Boy-Hello, kid; who cut your
hair?
Short Boy-My father cut it
Tall Boy-Hah! Yer father a bar
ber2
Short Boy-Naw; he's editor
I irb
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
Is Life Worth Living.

Not if you go through the world a
dyspeptic. DIR. Ac5er's Dyspepsia
-ablets are a positive cure for the
Torst forms Of Dyspepsia, Indigestion.
Fhtulency and Constipation. Guar
anteed and sold by w. H. Fleming. >
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-12-27
NINIlY L'ersnnS

Are eroRen down from overwork o. household
cares Browns Iron Bittera
rebuilds the system, aids digestion removes ex-
cess of bile. and cures malaria. Get the genuine.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-07-10
NORTH DAKOTA CYCLONE
Fargo Nearly Demolished and Sew
eraI People Killed.

A reporter of the Record at Detroit,
Mimi, describes the Tornado which
struck the city Of Fargo, N. d., at
2:30 o'clock on the morning of July
9TH, as follows: About midnight
strong wind prevailed, but no atten-
ton was paid to it until about half
past two o'clock, when in few min
utes the citizens realized that ter
rible tornado had veered down upon
the city by the Red river and left a
birthmark that will be remembered in
years to come. The storm demolished
the Manitoba and Milwaukee freight
houses, threw down the electric light
towers, destroyed the fronts OF the
Davis block, the opera house, the
Continental block, the Garfield block,
the Webster block, unroofed the
Northern Pacific freight depot, also
the Republican office and the Chaplin
hardware store. The court house
tower is badly twisted and deposited
on the sidewalk on Tenth street. The
Plymouth congre gational church is
destroyed. The Luger Furniture COM
pany's warehouse is damaged, Numer-
Gus bricks from the Argus brick block
lie on the ground. The Deering ware.
house is damaged to some extent, as
also Alfstadt's hardware store and
Vachen's restaurant and The rear bat
Element on the bank OF North Dakota
lies on the ground in ruins. The Ex-
change hotel suffered badly. Dozens
OF smaller buildings and rows of side
walks are demolished. The saddest of
all is the death Of the entire family,
consisting of the mother aud seven
children of the late Captain Mccarthy
which occurred at their residence at
the corner of Ninth and Fifth streets.
The family had taken refuge Ia the
cellar and in some manner were caught
in the timbers OF the falling building
and crushed to death. The storm ex-
tended over Northern Minnesota and
was slightly felt at Detroit, Minnesota,
where it demolished the plate glass
front OF the Record Office and over
turned a few small buildings, and one
house was struck by lightning and
burned up.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-07-10
A DESPERATE CRIMINAL.
Fatally Wounded While Resisting
Arrest.

George, alias Tony Sarvis, young
criminal, at Newberg N. Y, charged
with innumerable crimes, and for
whose capture reward of 500 was
offered. was shot and fatally wounded
by John Levesop who recently re-
signed from the police force OF that
city. On Sunday night two daring
highway robberies were committed in
the streets OF Newberg by three mask
ed men. 1t was believed that Sarvis
was one Of the robbers, and as there
was a warrant standing against him
for shooting at u police officer recent
ly, the marshal decided TO offer IL re-
ward of 800 for his capture. Leve.
son, knowing that Sarvis was in the
city, made an attempt to capture him.
When the two men met scots were
exchanged. Leveson was shot Gin
both legs, and one of the bullets is
still imbedded in the flesh. Sarvis
was shot in The lower part of the body
and also in the left hand, II is be.
lieved that he may die. The coroner
has taken his ante-mortem statement.
Tony Sarvis has long been des-
DC rate fellow. He has been identified
with band of criminals known there
as the bridge bandits" This gang
has been guilty OF almost every con
ceivable crime. Tony" was at one
time known as the king OF the "bridge
bandits lie has served term in
the state prision for burglary.