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SOUTHERN STANDARD MCMINNVILLE, TENNESSEE. SATURDAY, FEB, 6, 1886
Our Shame.
Spirit of tlie Furm.
Stock raisers should takeadvantsige
of the experience of the past winter
and fall and not find themselves in
the same situation again. A refer
ence to our cattle market reports for
that period will explain our mean
ing. Each week the report comes
steadily from the stock yards : "Fat
cattle in demand and prices good ;
poor cattle and scalawags not wanted;
yards full and no buyers." This
ought to teach the farmers of Tennes
see what wo have been trying to in
culcate all the time never put a hoof
on the market until ready for sale.
And to make it ready for sale it must
be fat. That is the sine qua nod.
They must be fat or the carcass is
thrown away. Cattle are raised, it is
presumed for market, and unless in a
proper condition arenotready forsale.
A carcass is nothing more than a ve
hicle for the sale of grain and hay.
A farmer can get far more for his pro
duce crowded into a carcas than into
a wagon. The sale of poor cattle
evinces poor management and thrift
less management. They are poor
from several causes. A farmer has
too many cattle for the size of his
farm, or his farming is so poor he
makes nothing to fatten them on. If
overstocked, it is right he should re
duce the number, but in doing so he
should select a time when they are
in good order. Nature furnishes
food enough during summer and fall,
ordinarily, to put all stock in good
order, and it is the farmer's fault if
he does not take advantage of it. If
he refuses or fails to sell from weight
while in good condition, and waits
for better prices until they get poor,
he forfeits his reputation as a good
farmer. Unless he has provision to
keep them until prices advance he
should, by all means sell when they
are iat. it lie does keep them over
for this purpose he should not stint
the food, but give it in sufficient
quantity to put them for the highest
price our market affords." To exem
plify this idea, last fall when two and
a half cents was the highest price of
fered here at the stock yards a Sum
ner county farmer, at his home, sold
his herd of fat cattle to a Nashville
firm at three and a half cents, and
sent them off to Louisville, because
they could sell them there for beef at
a profit. It may have been, and is
so charged by many, that this firm
would not have paid so much if the
cattle had been brought here. This
may have been the case ; we have
nothing to say about that, only if it
is so, it is a poor commentary on our
traders. Nevertheless, this single
example shows the great advantage
of having fat instead of lean cattle for
sale. It is still so at the stock yards.
They are still overflowing with scala
wags, selling at any offer made for
them. Such economy will bring any
farmer or any set of farmers to want.
The profits on cattle are very short
with the best of management, and to
sell that way involves positive loss.
We accidentally heard a traveler
commending the beef at one of our
principal hotels, and he asked the
manager where he bought it. The
answer surprised us no little. He
said he bought it in St. Louis. Think
of people going to St Louis for beef,
living in the midst of a fine bluegrass
country, one of the finest in the world.
V care also reliably informed that
two or three car loads of beef are
brought here by our butchers every
week from a neighboring city. It is
not that we have no fat cattle here at
all ; the sales for Christmas beef
shows differently, but that we have
no regular supply of fat cattle. This,
looking at the large number of poor
cattle offered weekly, is a shame to
our country and should be rectified.
it can only be done by never selling
cattle until they are ready for sale,
The plan is apt at any time to work
great mischief by throwing the decis
ion of some heated contest, in which
the whole nation has been stirred to
its centre, on some close State in
which the political parties are evenly
divided. This was the case in the
last Presidential election, where
everything turned on the pivotal
State of New York.
One of the principal reasons that
induced our wise fore-fathers to re
move the election of the President
directly from the people, was that it
would be impossible for all the people
of the nation to ever become acquaint
ed with the candidates. There were
only 3,0()i),0()() people in the United
States at that time, and under the
conditions that then existed, there
was force in the argument. But the
wise men of that day and generation
didn't dream of the railroads, tele
graphs and daily newspapers that
would render such an argument ridic
ulous when the population of the
country had increased to 55,000,000.
The electoral college is in fact, a
fossil. The men who compose it are
mere machines, so long as they act
honestly, and there is where the dan
ger lies. The will of the people can
at any time be defeated by some elec
tor who chooses to exercise the right
the law gives him of voting as he
pleases, and contrary to the way he
was expected to vote.
The Electoral .College.
Clakrsville Chronicle.
ine electoral college has never
served the purpose for which it was
created since the election of the elder
Adams. It was supposed by the
Cramers of the constitution that it
would prevent tho excitement and
turmoil incident to a Presidential
election by taking the choice of
chief magistrate out of the hands of
the people. In this it has proven a
conspicuous failure. The republican
:pirit is so rife in the people of this
land of liberty that they claimed the
right the constitution denied them in
this particular, and by a custom, now
long established, annulled tins pro
vision.
Tho only feature of tho original
electoral college now preserved is that
the vote is counted by States, and the
arguments that may be urged for a
continuance of this practice are found
ed more in sentiment than sense.
HAD I THAT POWER.
Will Meredith Nicholson.
Were I oml-iweil, a MMim wan of old,
vvitn woiurom weaitu -creating powsr,
KUOll
As caused all thing beneath bin niaglo
touch
To be transformed into the rarest gold,
until uh wint to where factolas rolled
And, bitbintf, lost the power which gave
o'ennuf
Of yellow nwtal to his miser clutch.
According to tlie ancient story told,
would ask the altering ot my
to bo
My prnytJr
cut.
That. 1 miht causo all words
'I'licned so
With tlmti bif uluoss that never one would
drift
Boyond the enteway of the lips to throw
A shadow, but each should have power to
lift.
And truth should gleam with precious,
goMon glow.
A ST-TO AT WEST POINT.
In the Country Lawyer's Office.
N. Y. Sun.
He wanted justice. You could see
that in his eyes afar off. He didn't
want a little bit of justice weighed
out in a gingerly manner and done
up in a course brown paper, but he
wanted justice by the ear load and at
wholesale rates. lie hitched his old
white horse and dilapidated buggy in
front of the drug store, mounted tlie
stairs running up outside to the
second story, and his eyes brightened
as they rested on the sign on the door
"George Boxem, Attorney-at-Law."
The lawyer was in. So were a two
dollarde.sk, two fifteen cent chairs, a
huge cuspidor, and a rusty stove.
"Morning."
"Morning."
"I'm Jim White, sir. Live out bv
Gray's Corners. Bought Tompkins'
farm, you know."
"Ah !"
"Skinner jines farm with me. I lis
steers get into my corn. I want dam
ages but he laughs at me. I turn my
hogs into his 'tater patch."
"Good ! I like a man of spunk."
"And he kills one of 'em."
"What!"
"He kills a hog worth two dol
ars." "You don't say! Well, that man
ought to be made to understand that
he doesn't own this country. What
an outrage! Have you demanded
pay?"
"Oh, yes, and he said he'd like to
shoot me."
"Is it possible? Why, he's a dan
gerous man, very dangerous."
"I came to ask you if if "
"Why, of course you have the best
kind of a case against him, and it is
your duty to push it."
Yes, I want justice, but now
how much will"
"Oh, the cost will be nothing. Just
leave me $5 as a retainer and we'll
make Skinner sweat. I haven't
heard of such an outrage for years.
He probably reasons that you are
chickenhearted and afraid of him."
"Well, he'll find that the Whites
have as much grit as the Skinners."
"And as much to law with?"
"You bet!"
"That's the talk ! We'll make him
a very sick man. Your case appeals
to me as a citizen as well as a lawyer.
Now, we'll secure a warrant as a
starter."
Skinner visits the other lawyer, in
tho same village, and the conversa
tion is about the same. White gets a
warrant for Skinner, and Skinner gets
a warrant for white,
v irst year two adjournments, a
disagreement, twenty-four days lost
time, and a cash expense of to
each farmer.
Second year Three trials, one dis
agreement, four adjournments, one
appeal, and a cash expense of $lo0 to
each farmer. Time lost, thirty-five
days.
Third year Two trials, two ap
peals, two decisions, and two farms
pass into the hands of two lawyers.
'Rousli-and-Tumble" Fight lletwoen Two
I'ligHUMo Cndet.4 King and Keforee.
United Service.
Promptly tho principals would throw
off uniform eonts and and caps, unsling
suspenders, it they wore thorn few
cadets ever did and then the seconds
would sne to it that rings woro removed
Irom tho fingers. Tho referee would
caution the crowd against tho faintest
cheer or noiso, and order them to keep
well back if "rough-and tumble" was
decided on, or to form a ring if it were
"stand-up." Tho former was most in
favor, as boing quicker, sooner over
among evenly matchod men, and less
liable to interruption, so "rough-and-tumble"
it generally was, uuless a pair
of scientific boxers were pitted in the
ring.
Kicking, gouging, biting or striking
below the bolt were never permitted an
instant. The fight was lost to him
whose temper might betray him into
such a thing, and no cadet wa3 bound
to give him satisfaction in tho future.
These things wcro well understood. In
three minutes from their arrival in tho
fort the seconds had their men in readi
ness; the referee quietly nodded "go
ahead," and tho men were brought face
to face, and, with no other formality,
let ny at each other's headpiece For
two minutes, perhaps, they would make
the air lively with resounding thuds,
the blows would be thick and fast, and
tho combatants would dance around at
a lively rate.
Then would como the clinch, the
straining wrestlo, and then the heavy
fall to earth, with the seconds bending
over and watching every move; and tho
excited crowd muttering not shouting
cheer or counsel, the struggle would
last until tho exhaustion of one party
proved him defeated. Then his second,
not he. could call enough. A blow ono
instant after that was foul; a word of
menace or abuse during tho light was
punishable by tho referee, and uo man
dare interfere so long as fair play was
observed. I never saw more honest,
fair lighting than at West Point, and of
tho hundred or more that took place
during my four years of cadet life I can
recall only two that wero not pluckily
and sturdily fought out to the bitter
end. Then, and usually not until then,
time and again havi I heard the o.Vend
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quished, express his regret to the chal
lenger for tho word or deed that had
caused tho trouble.
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the duty is promptly restored. Last
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rice, peas and beans. The ports were
opened to those commodities at once,
the country filled with them, and
now the Treasury Department ha:
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.iany rins nave oeen ncstoweu upon
our poets, among otners pnysieal beautv.
io doubt ttioro are sotno who
have teen ill-favored. Merrick, if
his portrait speaks truly, was ?.n ugly
man: so was jonson; so, as we all know,
was Oliver (Joldsmith, and L'opo, though
dt) had spienuiu eyes, was deformed.
15 ut Chaucer, Spencer and Shakespeare
were hanosouie iinen. jviuton, as a
young man was extremely ueautiiul,
and called the lady of his college, whilo
in later life the want of sight left his
handsome face uninjured. Dryden, too,
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man in appearance. Burns had eyes
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had seen all tho great men of his time,
said he had never seen such another eye
in a human head.
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lovable, but his eyo, too, flashed with
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within; but Byron was Bplendidly hand
some, Shelley was oeautitul, so was
Koats, who had "an expression as if he
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Soldiers' Sleeping Places.
Boston Bulletin "Recollections."!
Sneakincr of queer sleeping places-
when we were quartered in Little Wash
ington ono company was quartered in a
brick warehouse, and the whole upper
parr was divided into immensely big
birr containing corn all shelled. We
found it quite a soft bed, only when
once laid down in any position you made
quite a mold of your body in the yield
ing mass of corn, and frequently on
waking up in tho morning I would find
myseli at an angle or iorty-nve degrees,
my head down, nearly buried in the
corn, and my left oi right arm buried to
the shoulder. It vtaa not so comforta
ble after all.
I have tried a bed of mud, with mv
head against the trunk of a tree and the
water trickling down my neck (it rained
at that time) and two or three inches
of water around me. I never recollect
getting cold or suffering any serious
discomfort resulting from exposure to
dampness, or rain, or mud beds, or any
thing of that kind. A fellow can get
used to almost anything. If our clothes
were wet, build a fire, if we could; if
not, stir about and dry them that way.
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poets as men do singing birds. We.
shroud the cage of the singer and make
it dark, until at length ho has caught
the tunes and can sing them rightly.
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