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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

"The Governor said he was unal-
terably opposed to bringing the SUBJ
treasury scheme into the platform of
the Democratic party in Tennessee"
The above is from a Chattanooga
special to the American. No doubt
the Governor would like very much
for the platform Of the Democratic
party in Tennessee to let the subs
treasury scheme pass again, and thus
give him chance to dodge the ques~
ton, as he did in the last campaign,
should he be renominated. The next
Democratic State convention may
pass it again, but we don't think so.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

THE newspapers are reviving the
talk of an extra session Of the Legis-
lature again. The Nashville Banner
thinks it will certainly be called to
meet in September. So far the Gov
ernor has had nothing to say on the
subject.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

THE death of Chancellor Key sets
another plate of chicken pie before
the Governor to be passed around to
some friendly hayseeder like farmer
Mcconnell.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

THE West Tennessee Wing esti-
mates that the strawberry crop of
West Tennessee this year, distributed
$2l1 ,34O.SO in that section, $S4,616.32
Of which was paid to pickers. The
total shipments amounted to 176,24S
crates. That beats raising cotton
mighty bad.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

THE Nashville Herald has inter-
viewed, Congressman Richardson
upon the sub>treasury matter, and
this is what it learned regarding his
views upon that question:
80 0 0 @ 0 0 0 0 0 0 O"
1t will be observed that Mr.. Rich
ardson is in perfect harmony with
Tennessee's chief magistrate.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

THE Republican State convention
Of Ohio this week, in the platform
adopted, strongly endorsed President
Harrison's administration, the Nc
Kinley tariff bill and the late unla-
mented Congress in general.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

VIM. MCKINLEY, of tariff bill
fame, was nominated for Governor
of Ohio by the Republican conven>
ton of that State last Wednesday.
This honor was bestowed by acclama-
ton, but he won't find it so easy
getting elected. The Democrats of
that State firmly believe they can
re-elect Gov. Campbell.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

OUR last Legislature passed a law
making three wires a legal tense.
We would like to know if this isn't
equal to hog law in any town in
the State.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

NOTHING short of a positive refusal
to accept will prevent the next Re-
publican National convention from
nominating Blaine fer President.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

AS A newspaper the Nashville
American scars away up among the
stars in Southern journalism, and as
an upper-case democratic political or.
gan. it is some pumpkins, but the
Americans great forte is giving opin-
ions on religious, church, and theolog-
zeal matters. What the editor of the
American thinks he don't know
about these weighty problems would
not fill the first page of the smallest
catechism.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

CHA NCELLoR S. A. KEY died at
his home in Chattanooga at $3.50
o'clock last Sunday afternoon.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

PREMIER MCDOWELL has gone on
a missionary tour for the sub-treas-
ury scheme into Mississippi.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

Immediate reliefby using Preston's
"Hed-Ake.n
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20
What They are Good For.

Clarksville Leaf-Chronicle.
The English sparrows are generally
condemned by the public at large,
but people connected with the Uni
versity have found out that they are
good for something. The electric
light in Stewart Hall attracts bugs,
flies, ETC., by the wholesale at night,
and many Of them are killed and fall
to the floor. Instead of paying some
one to sweep them out, the windows
of the hall are opened in the morning
and the sparrows go in and clean up
every insect found. This has been
kept up until the birds swarm around
the windows every morning waiting
for some one to admit them.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

The following is the personnel of
the private land claims court: Chief
Justice, j. NJ. Reed, of Iowa. Asso-
ciate Justices, w. H. Stone, Of Colo
RADIO; II. C. Sluss, of Kansas; II. c.
Fuller, Of North Carolina, and w.
w. Murray, of Tennessee. Two OF
these are democrats.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20
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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-20

This fine young stallion will stand the
present season at Ewing Grizzlies stable in
Pleasant Cove, 8 miles East of McMinnville,
and will serve mares at $3.50 to insure live
colt, payable when colt is ioaled or property
transferred.
All possible care will be taken 10
prevent accidents, but no liza
bility for any that may occur.
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Standard:
, 1891-03-11

One may safely say that the large major
ity of dogs are kept nowadays not because
Of any service they render, but for the sake
of their appearance. Like the link holders
still to be seen about the doorway of Ger
tain London houses, what was once a util-
ity is now preserved merely as an orna-
ment. Theoretically, no doubt, even in
town houses, people keep a dog as a means
of defense, but in most cases they really
value him as II decorative a%ppendage. This
applies particularly to the more handsome
breeds-the St. Bernard, the colly, the
mastiff and the rest. Indeed, such are the
strange diversities of human taste that
even so unpromising a specimen of canine
beauty as the bulldog will be sought after
by the uninitiated for the sake of his good
looks.
And it is only fair to suppose that the
discerning creatures recognize their new
position in the scheme of things. May we
not see, indeed, now and again in their
mournful and downcast expression Il con
scious sense of degradation2 Look, for ex-
ample, at the nobly formed st. Bernard
that gloomily follows the procession of
fashionably dressed misses in the park.
Cannot the dullest observer perceive signs
of al infinite boredom His pensive and
melancholy eye suggests that he has had
full experience of the tedium vitn, and is a
pessimist of the darkest shade. -Cornhill
Magazine.
, 1891-03-11

Any one who has ever visited a county
cattle fair" knows for what "A great variety
of animals. articles and contests prizes are
awarded. IL Is seldom, however, that one
exhibitor has such a successful set of pos
sessions as those of Uncle Ahab Drake.
Uncle Ahab, with his entire family, a
large stock Of fruit and vegetables, a yoke
of oxen and various other animals, went to
the fair at Greenby one fine September
day and returned in triumph two days
later. lie presented himself at the village
shop half AN hour after his arrival, evil
IDENTIFY anxious to be questioned as to his
winnings.
well, Uncle Ahab. how'd you come
out2" asked one Of the men.
pretty fair-pret-ty fairl' replied Uncle
Ahab, cautiously.
How many prizes d. you takei" asked
another.
"EightP' said Uncle Abab. with evident
satisfaction. YES, | made out to take
eight, this time. There was DRAWN an
haulin' @(oxen), sow an pigs, cucumbers,
bread, butter, garden sass. braided rugs,
an motherl'
"Why, how did Aunt Sally come in for a
price" asked one of his awe struck list
eners.
Heaviest weight there today" replied
Uncle Ahab cheerfully. "A merciful Provi-
dence kept Ann Slater, of Greenby Hill,
away; her boys twisted his ankle. Ann
would ha' turned the scales twenty pound
higher than Sally, but rs twas, there want
another woman there weighed over a hun
dred and seventy, an we fetched that prize
home along with the rest. youths Com.
paniou.
, 1891-03-11

1t is not long since that an author. whom
all the reading world of America admires
for his clear headedness, laid down the
proposition Mt a dinner table where n brill
liant company were assembled that it is
impossible to believe in Immortality with
u allowing at least the possibility of
ghosts. He was asked If he believed in
haunted houses, and answered in the af,
irmutive with the greatest readiness and
emphasis. IL was in commen upon the
talk at this dinner party that the state
ment wa made by a lady who knows the
best social and literary life of Boston that
it was nowadays looked upon as a proof
that one is not up with the times here to
express n doubt of the reality of the Incl
dents which make up thes staple of ghostly
tales. You are Mt liberty, - she said, ito
have any theory w. -,oOse in regard to
them. Nobody iu~ ,.t YOU shall believe
that they are cau-a,. Intelligent or I'M
intelligent ~personaiit.el You may talk of
unknown forces, undiscovered laws, or
mind influence. or anything else that comes
into your head, but you must not presume
to doubt that things have hRppened."-
Boston Cor. look Buyer
, 1891-03-11


See that mani" asked a Broadway car
conductor, as he jerked his thumb toward
Il passenger who alighted at Union square.
Yes; what OF itf'
"In the last stages Of consum ption, and
he'll never see the leaves again on these
elms."
"weIly"
well, it isn't two years ago since he
was a freight conductor on a road running
west, and | was his mead brakeman. Jim
and | were in the same crew for more than
three years"
And he got hurt. / suppose;"
mo. He got hoodooed by a tramp. You
may smile. but you can't alter my belief,
and he knows it as we'll as the rest of us.
That man used to be a terror to tramps.
Indeed, we all did. Our train finally got
such a reputation among the fraternity
that they called IL "The DEVILS Own" and
it wasn't once a week that any of them
would try to beat US. I've seen Jim tackle
six of them at once, and, Lord o. massy,
how he used to knock them about2"
But about the hoOdool"
well, one night ut a water tank Jim
pulled n tramp off the buffers. He was a
chap who wasn't posted. or he wouldn't
have been there. He was sick and weak,
and perhaps he was an honest fellow who
was playing in hard luck. However, Jim
pulle4 nun uoNn anu used Nun rough, and
while they were struggling the train backed
up and cut the Strangers legs off. Landsl
but whata sight it was, and he lived for a
quarter of an hour and cursed Jim to his
very last breath. He called out that the
Lord would surely punish him. and he
prayed that i'll luck might follow him, and
he cast a hOodoo over him rs sure as we
stand here"
"Wellg"
''There is no we'll about it. On the next
trip Jim had a collision, on the very next
he had IA hand smashed, and in six months
he lost his place. Then his wife died, a
sharper beat him out of 500 he had saved
up, and Jim tried to suicide from n ferry
boat. They saved him.. but he's penniless,
walking in the shadow of death, and I'll
bet you there isn't an hour in the day he
doesn't recall the words of that dying man.
I've slipped him many II quarter in the last
year, but he won't want many more. He's
got the death mark and he's got to 20. It's
n case of hoodoo, sir, and every man on his
old train knows it is."-New York Sun.
, 1891-03-11

While the unmarried woman Of the
year 2OO0, whether young or old, will
enjoy the dignity and independence Of
the bachelor Of today, the i]nsolent
prosperity at present enjoyed by the
latter viii have passed into salutary. if
sad, eclipse. No longer protitiug by
the effect Of the pressure Of economic
necessity upon woman, to make him
Indispensable, but dependent exclu-
sively upon his intrinsic attractions,
instead Of being able to assume the
fastidious airs of n sultan surrounded
by lnnguishing beauties. he will be
fortunate II he can secure by his merits
the smiles Of one.
In the year 1000 no man, whether
lover OF husband, may hope to win the
favor OF maid or wife save by desert.
While tho poet, justly apprehending
the ideal proprieties, has always per.
sisted in representing man at the feet
Of woman. woman has been, in fact.
the dependent and pensioner of man.
N~ationalism will justify the poet and
satisfy the eternal fitness of things by
bringing him TO his marrow bones IN
earnest. But indeed we may be sure
that In the year 2OOO lie will need no
.compulsion TO that attitude
Edward Bellamy in Ladies' Home Jour
nal
, 1891-03-11

The credit of the first Universal ex-
position is due to Albert, the late prince
consort of Queen Victoria, and the initial
i've was taken Mt n meeting OF The society
Of arts in London, 1919. A guGrantee fund
of Sl,0OO,0OO was raised, and the Exposition
was held in 1851. The second xas held In
New York in 1853. Thu idea became popu-
lar, and several countries held smaller ex-
positions in the few years following, but
the next great effort was in South Ken
sington, London, in 1862, and an effort was
made nine years later to keep upan annual
exposition OF a grand scale. The fairs
were continued during several months
each of 1871. 1872 and the two following
years, but public interest tagged, and the
attempt was given up.
In the meantime expositions had been
held in Paris in 1855 and 1867, and a most
splendid display in 1873 demonstrated the
business tact and energy of the French.
while in 1873 an exposition was held in
Vienna, and another in Berlin in 1881, sue
ceeded in Europe by several others on a
smaller scale. and lastly by the great
French fair of 1889. In the United States
there has been held since the Centennial
exposition of 1876 but one display of the
kind-the Worlds fair in New Orleans in
lSS5.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
, 1891-03-11

Two callow young operators made an ex-
PLANTATION necessary from a young New
York newspaper man recently. He was to
be married in the west. Before leaving
town he devoted several days in searching
over Brooklyn for a fiat, being assisted in
the search by n young married woman, the
friend of his betrothed. Upon leaving his
office one morning about > O'Clock he sent
the Brooklyn lady a telegram, which he
expected would be delivered to her about
$3.50 or o O'Clock in the morning. The dis
patch was worded apologetically, "WH be
over TO worry you this afternoon"
The message was "bulled" on Its way
across the East river, and a meaning of so
much Importance was given to it that the
Brooklyn operator rushed it out, the mes
senRer boy arriving at the house at about
4 n. m. The husband of the lady got out
Of bed to answer the bell. BY "A further
mistake Of the delivery department the
envelope was addressed to the husband.
He opened it and was astonished to read,
Mrs. -@ Will be over to marry you
this afternoon"
When a man is awakened from a sound
sleep and informed that his wife is to be
married to a young man who, he has had
every reason to believe, was to be married
to a young lady in the west, he is apt to
conclude that he isn't awake after all. No
one who has not experienced it can realize
how very startling it is. 1t was the first
his wife had heard of it. They racked their
brains for a solution of the puzzle. 1t
wasn't solved, however, until the young
newspaper man arrived.-New York Times.
, 1891-03-11

When money flows in steadily the wage
earuers buy the best cuts Of meat and are
liberal consumers of expensive early vege-
tables and fruit. The dispensers Of charity
for a church. more trustful than prudent,
gave a mill family protesting to be in dire
need orders on n grocer fora certain amount
weekly, and were astounded to find that
for the meat and meal Indicated the trades.
man was pursuaded to substitute fruit,
nuts and raisins.
At every DOR children squat around a
tin plate of strip, dipping in it big hunks
OF corn pone and smearing their yellow
faces more widely with each mouthful.
The sweet ''pertatur" roasted in the ashes
is always ready-a great advantage where
the housewife bees tired" from her birth.
In the crackers kitchen lard is the uni.
versal solvent. The tyrant OF his home,
the key to his habits, the blazon of his
civilization is the frying pa~n.-Century.
, 1891-03-11

II was on a Fourth avenu car that
it happened. a snow torn has made
the traffic unusually heavy, and the
line was running only single cars, The
men on the car had all risen but one,
and he sat next the stove unmoved.
The other side of the car had been
tiled by ladies, most of whom had been
given by the prompt sacrifice of
the men, who now filed the aisle.
The ladies were loosely distributed
along the seat one sab sideways, gaz-
ing out Of the window a second al
lowed her child room enough for a
good sized man by clambering around
with his face TO the pane u third,
dressed in silk, sat as though afraid OF
the touch Of a woman next 10 her.
4 lady entered and looked around
for a seat, and there was none. The
men all looked at the man by the stove.
lie was a stout, hearty fellow, growing
just a little old. He sat still. apparent.
ly unconscious. All the ladies across
the aisle looked at him the lady in
silk glared. He didn't move. The
lady moved up opposite him in the car
and took hold of a strap, and still he
sat still.
Madam, " said he at last, courteous
ly enough, but in n voice plainly heard
all through the car, Madam, / do not
feel inclined TO give you my seat when
so many Of your own sex on the oppo-
site side Of the ear make no move to
make room for you
, 1891-03-11

You and / are acquainted with many ex-
cellent persons of the national church es-
Enlistment who compOrt themselves as II
they could hardly speak two words with a
beggar or a being in Gags without defle-
ment. They believe fully in externals. 1t
is 50 precious to be able to look every one
in the face without winking; to be in the
family pew punctually at 1870 every Sun
day morning without missing once in the
year, and to be pervaded with a sense of
uprightness hat nothing in the world can
diminish. And yet TO- odious such good
persons arel Thanks to their belief that
Virtue and vice are never in one soul;
A man is wholly wise, or wholly is a fool,
they are among the worst of companions,
and are by no means the best kind of
Christians. 1t is not to such as they that
the man or woman in distress is impelled TO
apply.-All the Year Round.
, 1891-03-11

Not only is our modern dog learning to
regard himself as a lackey or a lappet, he
is rapidly finding out that Others besides
his owner are ready to prize hun just as
highly. In our big towns he is daily
brought into contact with the once sus-
pected stranger, who, on closer examina-
ton, turns out to be very much like his
master, wearing the same kind OF a coat
and hat, and, what is of greater conse-
quence, manifesting toward him very
much the same friendly sentiments.
Would it not be unreasonable under these
circumstances to expect the animal to con-
serve his ancient monotheism and worship
his master as supreme and unique?
Let us not forget that we have made u
domesticated q~uadrupeds intelligent. and
that by introducing them into conditions
of modern life we are directly putting
them into the way of seeing through their
primitive illusion. The sagacious quadru-
ped that in his daily rounds with master
or mistress has ample opportunity of OBJ
serving the general diffusion of good man
ners among men cannot be expected to go
on generating his master in the old naive
manner.-Cornhill Magazine.
, 1891-03-11
The Barber shop DrnI.

Two mirrors placed opposite each other
reflect the objects between them ad inhnit-
UNI The other day a veteran politician
from the interior entered n GriswOld street
barber shop and seated himself in a vacant
chair. barber wa at work on a customer
In the next chair, The statcsmuu's eye
caught the long row Of barber - the glass
reflected from another glass behind him,
and be muttered, Big barber shop. this"
Shutting one eye, he glanced down the line
and soliloquized, well drilled. Oil, two
squirts; comb, N time and two motions;
brush, one time, one motion; brush ground.
ed in one time, one motion; all out the
chairs same time; customers well drilled,
too" and he lay back for a shave. Detroit
News
, 1891-03-11

Mrs. Michael Curtain. Plainfeld, Ill.
makes the statement that she caught
cold, which settled on her lungs; she was
treated for a month by her family physi
cIan, but grew worse. He told her she
she was a hopeless victim of consumption
and that no medicine could cure her. Her
druggist suggested DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption; she bought a
bottle and to her delight found herself
benefited from first dose. She continued
its use and after taking ten bottles, found
herself sound and well, now does her own
Homework and is as well as she ever was
Free trial bottles OF this Great Discovery
at B. B. David's drug store, large bottles
soc and Sl.OO.
, 1891-03-11

1t is on record in medical literature that
in the year 1881 n poor old man residing in
Tarentum, near Naples, was the subject of
a marvellous change when at the age of
nearly 90 years. His skin peeled of and a
new and soft skin supplied its place; his
muscles again became strong and plump;
the wrinkles disappeared from his face and
the white hairs from his head; black, curly
hnir grew on his head again, and his com.
pleNiou became fresh and youthful. Sixty
years later he again became decrcpit With
a second old age, and died after passing his
l6Oth yenr-St. Louis Republic.
, 1891-03-11
ARE You GOING EAsrt

Ii so you will ask for tickets via
WABASH LINE.
WHY? Because in the FIRST place it is
to many Of the principal cities of the East
the
SHORT LINE, and because on all
trains there are, free to all, new and ele-
giant
RECLINING CHAIRS and. from
pointl in the Rocky Mountain region, on
all through trains,
THROUGH PULLMANS, and, to cap
the climax of luxury, all trains are fed on
DINING CARS.
G. NJ. HAMPsoS,
Commercial Agent, Denver, Col.
1927 Seventeenth Street.
, 1891-03-11
Here 1t is, and il Ellis the bill much

Here 1t is, and it fills the bill much
better than anything we could say:
at gives me the greatest pleasure
to write to you in regard to Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. During the past winter
| have sold more OF it than any other
kind, and have yet to find any one but
what was benefited BY taking it. l have
never had any medicine in my store that
gave such universal satisfaction" j. NJ.
RoNEY. Druggist, Geuda Springs. Kan.
so cent bottles for sale by a. +. Roedel
, 1891-03-11

Wilson Noble, the member of parliament
for Hastings, England, and the soa-in-law
of R. Fl. Dana, Jr., of Boston, the author
of 1.-TWO Years Before the Mast" was left
an allowance of $4,000 a year by his father,
John Noble, the varnish manufacturer.
By an eccentric provision of the will this
income is to be reduced $4,000 if the son
ever fails of election to parliament Harp
er's Weekly.
, 1891-03-11
A FEW REASONS

Why you should Try the celebrated Or. n.
Wagners methods OF cure:
l. "Dr. h. Wagner is a natural physician"
o. s. FOWLER,
The Great Phrenologist.
you are wonderfully proficient in your
knowledge OF diseases and medicines"
Dr. ]. MATHEW.
J. Few can excel you as a doctor.r
L. "Ihe afflicted lind ready relief in your
presence" DIR SINfss
o "Dr. II. Wagner is "a regular graduate
nom Bellevue Hospital, New York City; has
had very extensive hospital practice and is
thoroughly posted on all branches OF his be
6. "Dr. II. Wagner has immortaIized himself
BY MS wonderful discovery OF specific rene
dles tor private and sexual diseases."-Vlr
ginia city Chronicle.
thousands Of invalIds flock TO see him"
Francisco Chronicle.
g. The doctors long experience as a spe-
eialist should render him very successuI,h-
Rocky Mountain News
, 1891-03-11
TWENTY DOLLAR GOLD PIECES

Mrs, John Curtis of Peoria, ILL.,, writes:
Used one box of Usage Pills previous to
my second confinement; they worked like
a charm. Would pay $40 for a box
rather than do without them, as they
have proved a Godsend to me-" Write
Usage Medicine company, Wichita, Kas.,
sor particulars, and their book to wives
mailed free. Sold by druggists. Sold by
W. N. Hunt, Cheyenne.