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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-09
Skipping the Hard Points.

Boys, want to ask how you think
c0nqueror weuld make out who
went through a country, which he
was trying to subdue, and whenever
he found a fort that was hard to take
left it alone? Don't you think that
the enemy would buzz wild there,
like bees in a hive, and when he was
well into the heart of the country,
don't you fancy they would swarm
out and harass him terribly?
Just so, want you to remember,
it will be with you If you slip over
the hard places in your lessons, and
leave them unlearned; you have left
an enemy in the rear that will not
fail to harass you and mortify you
times without number.
"There was just a little bit of my
Latin l hadn't read" said a vexed
student to me, land it was just there
the professor had to call upon me at
examination. There were just three
or four examples 1 had passed over,
and one of those l was asked to do on
the blackboard"
The student who is not thorough is
never we'll at ease; he cannot forget
the skipped problems; and the cons
seriousness of his deficiencies makes
him nervous and anxious.
Never laugh at the slow, plOdding
student; the time will surely come
when the laugh will be turned. II
takes time to be thorou h, but il
more than pays. Resolve when you
take up new study that you will &c
through with it like a successful con
queror, taking every strong point.
If the inaccurate scholars Difficult
ties closed with his school life, i
might not be so great matter for hi
future career. But he has chained t.
himself a habit that will be like al
iron ball at his heels all the rest of hi
life. Whatever he does will be lack
ing somewhere. He has learned Il
shirk what is hard, and the habit viii
grow with years.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-09
Condescending to be Ministers.

At a recent meeting of the Meth
odist ministers of London, says the
Canada Presbyterian, DIR. Parker
gave the following wholesome advice,
greatly needed by some men who are
ministers aad by many who are not:
"Never allow yourself 10 think
that in any other position you would
have been greater than the preacher.
When a man tells me that if he had
been a mill-Owner he would have
been a millionaire, believe that he
would have been the last syllable or
ly. never feel that for any work
that have ever done in the Chris
tian ministry Christ is indebted to
me. l go to him and thank him that
hehas given me the great honor of
preaching. If any man thinks he is
honoring the ministry by being in it,
he has no place in it. We cannot
patrOnize the Son of God"
That is exactly what teo many peo-
pie do. They might. possibly shrink
from saying that they "patronize the
Son of God" but they manifestly feel
that they patronize the Church OF
God, which is substantially the same.
1t is no unusual thing to hear men
speak as if they conferred a wonder
full favor on the Church Christ bought
with his own blood if they accept
slme Office or undertake some work.
Nobody should be allowed to patron.
lie Christ'S Church. Better a thou.
sand times to let the office go untitled
or the work undone. We have nc
right to put Christs cause in such q
position that any man can patronizf
it. Closely akin to the spirit. that
patronizes Christ is the spirit thai
boasts of the amount of work done
for him. Such Boosting, besides be-
ing the very quintessence of conceit
is entirely useless. If the Lord owe.
any man, lay or clerical, anything
he will pay him. Christ will not bC
any mans debtor.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-09

which it can A natural historian Of
repute relates: "In 1858, in stormy
weather, a sailor fell overheard from
frigate in the Mediterranean. A
shark was close by, which, as he was
swimming and crying for help, took
him in his wide throat, so that he
forthwith disappeared. Other sails
ors had lept into the sloop, to help
their comrade, while yet swimming I:
the captain had gun which stood on
the deck discharged at the fish,
which struck it so that ii cast out the
sailor which it had in its throat, who
was taken up, alive, and little injur-
ed, by the slOOp which had come up.
The fish was harpooned, taken up on
the frigate, and died. The captain
made present of the fish to the sail
or who, by Gods providence, had
been so wonderfully preserved, The
sailor went round Europe exhibiting
1t.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-09
Patience,
Epworth Herald.
it

EpWorth Herald.
FIVE will only have patience with
Gods leading he will always show
the way as fast as we are ready to go
on. The trouble with us is that we
want to see the path through to the
end before we take the first step.
We want to know before we start
how we are to come out, But this is
not Gods way for us. A man who
is travelling in a dark night on a
country road does not have the whole
way lighted at once by the lantern
he carries. 1t shows him only one
step; but as he takes that the lantern
is borne forward, and another step is
lighted, and then another, and an
other, until in the end, the whole
way has been illuminated, and he
is safe at his destination. Gods
word as guiding light, is a lamp
unto our feet, not a sun-foOding a
hemisphere. In the darkest night it
will always show us the next step.
Then, when we have taken that, it
will show us another; and thus on,
till it brings US out into the full clear
sunlight Of the coming day. We
need to learn well the lesson of pa.
thence if we would have God guide
us.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-09
Fattening at Different Ages.
Cor. Country Gentleman.

Cor. Country Gentleman.
| will say to your correspondent,
T. D. E., on page 10, that / will give
the experienced had during four years
of growing and fattening Al three
year-Old steers, and also the next
winter feeding Al large cattle from 6
to years old. Both lots were fed on
roots, mostly beets, in the morning,
and on corn meal mixed with
s,me oatmeal and oil meal cake
at night, with a good allowance
of hay through the day. 1t was
clearly shown that the hest sue
cess in growing steers is obtained by
making a twO-year-old as large and
worth more money than the common
run of three-year-old steers, gaining
one year by a little extra feed and
corn. Also that winter-feeding Of
cattle cannot be success unless they
are in good condition to commence
feeding in the fall and farther, that
steers the winter before they are two
years old will gain five or six times
as much as older cattle, or the one
mentioned as being II years old, and
with much less feed. On the first lot,
after paying literally all the expense
of raising and fattening, there was a
clear profit of nearly 5000.
The second lot was bought with
great care, and well attended, and
sold the same as the others, about the
LIST of May, and the price received
only paid the purchase money and
the cost of the hay, leaving a loss of
a ! the other teed. There has been a
time when beef was worth, in the
spring, double the price it was worth
in the fall, making it an object to feed
winters, even if little is gained ex-
cept keeping the flesh that came
from the pasture in the fall but
the cheap feeding at the West,
and the quick transfer to market,
have equaIized the price through the
year all over the country, so that it is
less an object to feed here, where the
price of grain is double it is at the
West where corn is plenty, and the
best grain for fattening any kind OF
stock. w. r., FredOnia, n. Y.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-09
"a Great Fish. "

Fish of such size that they can
swallow a man whole, and which are
so formed as to naturally swallow
their prey whole, have been found in
the Mediterranean. TIL e. white
shark, having teeth merely incisSive,
have no choice except between swal-
lowing its prey whole, or cutting of
portions Of it. 1t cannot hold its prey,
or swallow it piecemeal. It's vorac-
ity leads it to swallow at once, all
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-09
FOREKER IND 4 Day.

Take a little dash of water coldsfk
And little leaven of prayer,
And a little bit Of morning gold,
Dissolved in the morning air,
Add to your meal some merriment,
And a thought for kith and kin;
Aud then, as your prime ingredient,
A plenty of work thrown in,
But spice it all with the essence of love,
And little Whit of play;
Let a wise old Book and glance above
Complete the well made day.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-09
MAY g.. 1891
FURNITURE STORE.

of FRANK OWENS, 228 N. COLLEGE St,
Where viii see displayed the ndmes stock Bedroom Sets
Lounges ension Tables and article kept in
be just represented Special inducements offered
A. NJ lwiuus sand
be glad ALI friends aud will take
All mail orders will
E7RA-Nk OWENS
No. 228 N College ST., Nashville Tenn.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-09

For headaches, biliousness, .consti-
patton, dizziness, sleeplessness, the
blues, scrofula, the blood and all skin
eruptiOns DR.. Fenner's Blood and
Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic
never fails. Warranted TO satisfy or
money refunded, For sale by J. D..
Tate d Go.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-09

The deepest running stream that is
known is the Niagara river, Just un-
der the suspension bridge, where it is
seven hundred feet deep by actual
measurement.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-05-09
- RR0WNS LR0N RLTTERS

Cures Indigestion, BiiiOusness, Dyspepsia Mala-
ria. Nervousness, and General Debility. Physi-
clans recommend IT, All dealers sell il. Genuine
hsstmdc mark and crossed rcd lines on wrapper.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-06
PITTsBURG. FRIDAY, MAR. 6, 1891
An UNCOMFORTABLE BURDEN.

1t is pertinent to warn our friends in the
Legislature that if the tendency manifested
in the House to generally modify and
loosen the provisions of the license law, is
permitted to reach the form of perfected
legislation, the party managers who are held
responsible for legislation will find they are
playing with fire.
1t Is easily to be conceived that the men,
bers Of the Legislature regard the liquor in
terest as a force in the local politics Of each
member which it will pay to conciliate
But what may be water on the grindstone of
each member may attain the danger line of
a food in the politics of the State. There
has been a tolerably clear view of the opera
tion of the license law ior the past two
years. The people have generally recog-
nlzed that it is good. While there have
been periodical outbreaks of acclamation
over its restrictive effects we have yet to
learn OF a single case in which any portion
of the public has suffered serious hardship
for the lack of liquid refreshmeut. If it
were submitted to ! vote of the people
whether the law is 10 be retained as it is, or
emasculated in its important provisions, the
law, we believe, would be maintained by an
overwhelming majority.
Under these circumstances it is we'll for
the legislative managers to understand that
the Republican party in Pennsylvania can
not afford to shoulder the burden of retro
grading toward the old system of unlimited
saloons, as is comprised in reducing the
license fee forty per cent, or permitting
brewers or wholesale firms to furnish bonds
for retailers. The party has already got to
bear the weight of dissatisfaction with the
Legislature in the oil regions. Il, in, addi-
tion, it takes the burden OF breaking down
a salutary and popular law in the interest OF
free liquor traffic, and in a way which the
most responsible Of that trade does not ask,
it will lay up most unpleasant future for
itself
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-06

The story of the missing heir to great
fortune in Germany, as published in another
column this morning, makes interesting
reading, and draws attention to thecurlous
contrasts of life. American claimants for
vast fortunes in Europe are by no means
rare nor are their chances of handling the
coveted wealth at all good in most
cases. These people are generally the
victims of their own delusions or of the
machirations of dishonest men who hope
TO make capital out Of the claimants greed.
1t has been proven that regular business
OF discovering immense wealth tied up in
chancery in England or other countries
exists and the mere fact that reputable at
torneys generally fight shy of clients after
these fortunes does not seem to deter those
anxious or easily acquired wealth from
sending good money after bad.
The case made public this morning is the
direct opposite of these. Here we have a
real fortune hunting claimant instead of a
claimant hunting an unreal fortune, and,
judging by the completeness with which the
much wanted young man has managed to
lose lluScll, IL i Ilh6ll ludt SOm6 Time Will
elapse before he turus up.
That he will eventually turn up, if alive,
goes without saving, unless he is radically
different from the rest of mankind. A
share in fortune such as is said to be
awaiting him is quite sufficient to make
him discover himself with startling sudden
ness. However, before he does make
known his whereabouts the prediction that
numerous false claimants will arise may
sa ely be made.
THE DISPATCH hopes that it will prove
the medium by which the missing man is
made aware of his good luck, and in case he
is found will add its congratulations to those
of his friends.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-06

been banded about with great freedom.
The charge of treason to the British Crown
was also made early in the campaign, and
was reiterated at every opportunity; but,
like his fellow across the border, the
Canadian voter seemed to be but slightly
affected by the rabid utterances of political
organs, and deposited his ballot in accord
ance with self-arrived-at convictions. The
reports of the election indicate that
Canadians are about equally divided
on the questions of high tariff
and reciprocity, with the advantage
slightly in favor of the former at present.
This result means the return cf Sir John Mac
donald to power, and the failure of the
plans for commercial union between the
countries; but by its closeness it also shows
that public sentiment in the Dominion is
veeriug around to reciprocity as desired by
the Liberals
Further and more complete returns may
change slightly the figures published this
morning, but they will have little effect on
the final result Canada has weighed the
issues of the campaign, and the decision in
favor of the Conservatives will stand for
time at least. The Liberals hope to force
Sir John and his followers from power before
next winter, ard they may be successful.
Until then quietness will reign.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-06
DEATHS OF A DAY.
Mrs. Eleanor McGinnis.

Mrs. Eleanor McGinnis died at Pitts
burg. February Is, 1884, in the SD year of her age
loved and honored by all who were privileged to
know her throughout her long and useful life
She was a dau ghter of William and Mary Ramsey
of Allegheny county, Pa. She born on June
s. 1903, at Six Mile Ferry the Monongah
river, near Ptltsburg.' In 1925 being then about
IS wears of age she married John McGinnis and
resided in Pittsburg, where her husband was ell
gagged in business, a number of years. Later they
removed to a farm, whereon a part of the flourish
ing town of Braddock was subsequently, built The
place was long and popularly known Brad
docks Field. - In commemoration of the battle in
ed land mortally wounded) by the French and
Indians from Fort Duquesne. John McGinnis
removed from Braddock's Field to a large tract of
land at Turtle Creek about II miles east OF Pitts
burg which he purchased aud improved as
homestead and for half u century it was the home
of the family. This homestead tract of land was
celebrated as a camp ground of colonial military
forces during the war between contending powers
for the sovereignty of the then Western frontier.
Marvellous changes have been produced in this
region during the lifetime of the deceased. John
McGinnis died about II years since. His widow
survived him until February Is, 1891 She came
and great intellectual ability her life ard charac-
ter were lights and landmarks of that early peopc
who made. improved and elevated Pennsylvania
homes and families, and whose descendants have
greatly aided in building uD great common wealths
thr0ughout the West. With all her strength of
mind and character, her womanly graces and
and loved wife and mother and kind and hon.
ored neighDor. She is sadly missed among a wide
circle of friends and the vacant chair in her late
home reminds all of us of the tender hands and
loving heart stilled i'll death. She was n
member of the Presbyterian Church, and her body
was buried in the ''Old Stone Church, Cemetery.
SAFE beyond the troubled stream
Her tired hearts strife o'er,
Our angel mother, giorifled,
VIII grow old nevermore.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-06
TWO ANTI-CANAL MISTAKES.

The report of the Commissioners on the
Pittsburg and Lake Erie Canal project is
reviewed at length By the New York Post.
That journal presents a favorable contrast
in recognizing some of the strong features
OF the report Thus it starts out with saying
that nowhere in the United States could
commercial conditions be found more favor
able TO an artificial water way" and gives
full weight to immense business furnished
by Western Pennsylvania, and the fact that
it is now limited by the carrying capacity
of the railways.
But that the tendency of journals which
imagine the interests they represent will not
| be subserved by this enterprise produces
criticisms OF largely factitious character,
is still illustrated by the Posts article.
Thus it criticjses the report because in its
estimate of the extra charge which vessels
must make for extending their trips to and
from Pittsburg it does not include the canal
tolls for interest on the cost or maintenance
and operation of the canal. This omission
was plainly due to the fact that the charges
for these items would depend so largely
upon circumstances that they cannot be de-
termined until the plan OF the work is fixed.
Thus if the State and national Government
should undertake the work and make it a
free highway, like the Erie canal,
or the Sault Ste. Marie this Item would not
exist. If the Government or State should
guarantee the bonds of the enterprise and
have tolls imposed to pay the interest, one
rate would be fixed; while if private capital
should build the canal another rate would
be imposed. The Post thinks that if these
items were supplied the cheapness of trans
portation over the canal would disappear.
Its own estimate leaves margin OF forty
five or fifty cents ton, and it is swelled by
estimating but five million tons of traffic for
the canal, when eight million tons can be
taken as a certainty at the start; by calcu-
lating twenty or thirty cents per ton as nec-
essarv for the cost of maintenance and opera
ton, when ten cents per ton would be lib
eral: ana by adding a charge fifteen cents pei
ton for storing ore in large quantities; which
has to be done under the present system.
Further. with reg ard TO Government aid
OF the canal project, the Post saws: "There
are cases, indeed, in which Government or
State aid is rightly given. The Sault Ste.
Marie Canal was all that was needed to give
us thousands of miles Of uninterrupted water
communication Has the esteemed Post
ever considered how many thousands of
miles of water communication this project
will join? The Sault Ste. Marie project
united Like Superior with other lakes.
The proposed canal will unite the entire
lake system with the almost countless thou
sands OF miles of river navigation.
If this project is properly understood, and
more especially is recognized as one of the
first steps toward furnishing a comprehen-
sive and united system of internal water
routes for the whole country. it will COM
mand the respect and approval of ali whose
interests do not lead them to oppose the i'm
proyement Of the methods OF inland trans
portatiop.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-06
THr RIGHT COURSE TAKEN.

Senator Finn took the right course al
Harrisburg Yesterday in Offering on hls own
behalf an amendment to the much discussed
whar bill. providing that nothing to be
con. by the city shall interfere with the
loading or unloading of boats. With this
provision inserted, the river and coal in
terests will have remedy by injunction
should Councils interfere with their rights.
This goes as far as possible, aud certainly to
effective lengths in making impossible the
interference with the river traffic which the
opponents of the wharf bill claimed as the
ground of their opposition. The question
now turns solely upon the point whether, if
the city can utilize the wharf to any degree
for market purposes, subject to this neces-
sary restriction, ii should not be permitted
TO do SO. That object in itself is commend
able, not censurable; and so long as by the
amendment of the bill the river trafic
is adequately protected, there is nothing
visible to complain about
The Senator also repudiates the charge
that he said 'the river interests were dead
past resurrection" As The DISPATCH
criticised the folly of that alleged state
ment it is glad to learn that the Senator
did rot commit himself TO such an erroneous
and e1travagant proposition, but was mis-
repOrted.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-03-06
PROMINENT PERSONS.

MISS EMMA STEINER, Southerner by
birth, is said to be the only woman operatic con.
| ductor in America.
Miss BRADDoN, the novelist, is careless
! about the style and material of her garments
| but her diamonds are dazzling.
Mrs. w. K. VANDERBILT always wears
| a common sense shoe. and when she walks
! she places her foot squarely on the ground
ADMIRAL BROWN, of the United States
cruiser Charleston, is alleged to have klsse d al
the pretty girls in Honolulu during recent
| visit there.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS ("Uncle
Remus'') now so years of age, is great pedes.
TRAN and is said to have walked 36 miles in one
| day recently.
SAMUEL P. JONES, the Georgia evangel-
| ist, declared in letter to a Texas friend that
his health has failed and he is on the verge of
| physical collapse.
JOSEPH PULITZER, of the New York
World has much improved in health, and he
| expects to resume his personal management of
| the paper at no distant day.
FARRAGUT and Porter were the only two
American naval officers to hold the rank and
title of admiral. The rank will probably not be
revived until we have another war.
BARON Won OODEN Will, according to
Berlin papers. be appointed Governor of East
Africa, and DR.. Peters, the well-known trav.
eler will be mace Lieutenant Governor.
GENERAL BUTLER says there is lots of
fun in his coming memoirs Can it be possible
that the General contemplates giving the coun-
try his experience as MI. DaDa's Presidential
candidate?
PROF. THEODORE n. DWIGHT who has
recently retired from the head of the Columbia
Law School, had been with the college since
1858, and is probably the most noted teacher of
law in the country.
VASILI VERESTCHAGIN, the celebrated
Russian painter, whose pictures are to be sold
at the American Art Association after the
Brayton Ives sale, is coming to America to su-
peryise the exhibition which will be given pre-.
liminary to the sale.
EBEN D. JORDAN, the famous Boston
drygoods merchant went to Boston from
Maine fatherless boy of IA and worked on a
suburban farm at 81 month and thought he
had struck af1uence when he secured a place
in mercantile house three years later at S275 a
year.
WILLIAM MORRIS, the noted poet is
One of his Forthcoming volumes will be issued
from press which he has esi ablished near his
Hammersmith residence. There are indica-\
tions that Morris has tired of his socialIstic
crusade and that he will soon return to poetry
for the pursuit Of which he is much better
fitted