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The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-12-22
When a Man Grows Old
fC ornhiu Magazine.

When man grows old most pleasures. indeed. properly so called. are dead to him and if, in spite of natures warning h- will still pursue them. his experience is the reverse of tha, of Don Juan, who. instead of spirit. found her f,olIc grace tuz fulke;" he tinds then the mere ghosts of hi. dead follies. There is no,h
 ing, for example, more pitiable than any pretensions to gallantry in an old man. Let him adopt the role of heavy father" !" benevolent uncle" or whatever best suits his character. bu, a, all events dis. card that of dover" once for all. The only possible ground for his retaining i, would be that his doing so affords amusement 10 his fellow-crea,ures. al the expense. howeyer.-of. all who wear gray hair There IS another pleasure jus, as inappropriate, but 10 which old age is much more inclined-that ot money getting. l, has been said of il. as of whist, that it Is ike only pleasure that lasts. IL may be so-for unfortunately l have never been in position to les, it- but certainly, to the lookei on. nothing can be more oon,emptible than this piling up heaps of money upon the verge of the grave. If, as the wit suggested. one could " begin the next world with it." then. indeed, such solicitude would be applicable enough. How little would people then leave behind them.." How small would be the probate duties. How rare the beques;s to missionary enter prise. But since 1t must all be left. and that so soon, how amazing is the sa,is- faction derived from its increase. There is an idea among the baser sort of wealthy persons that the more money they can hoard the more respected ' they are ; but as matter of fact they are the more detested for 1t. "How much have we lived worth ?" not ..H How much shall we die worth ," is the question.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-12-22

A New York woman keeps coach dog to match her freckles. She probably calls him "SpoL'-CoH,Ie,- faarnsk
 A miss is not as good as mile. for a Miss has.only two feet, while mile has S,,So. Shoot the maxim maker.-.Ner- efasf- zras'eify.
 Why is young lady's age, after she reaches $, like a floral wedding bell .' asks an outsider. And he says it is because it is never told = but tha, is a libel.-Noyrisfosrn Heyakf.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-12-22
FOR THE WEST.

There are a number of routes leading to the abeSe-menti. ned section. but the direct and reliable route IS wa St. Louis and over the Missouri, Pacific Railway. The tNo trains daily are run from ;he Grand Union Depot. St. Louis to Kansas City. Leavenwcrth, Aich- ison. St. Joseph and Omaha
 Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars Of the very finest make are attached to sS, trans
 Al Kansas City Union Depot. passengers for Kansas. Colsrado, New Mexico and Cai- ifornia connect with express trains of all lines.
 At Atchison, connection IS made ~iih ex- press trains for Kansas and Nebraska points At Omaha, connection Is made @Ith the O,sriand train for California.
 This line offers 10 parties en route to the West and Northwest not only fas, time and superior accommodations, but beautiful scenery, as l, passes through the finest DOT ton of Missouri and Nebraska Send for illustrated maps. pamphlets. eic., of this line. which 1ili be mailed :sec.
 F. CHANDLER
 C. R. klNNAN, G-n'I Pass. Agt.
 Asst Gen'l Pass. Agt.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
MEANWHILE TENNESSEE SATURDAY, JUNE g. 1888
HOw's Your Dish Cloth.
American Farm and Home.

American Farm and Home.
There is nothing cheaper and at the
same time more wholesome than neat
ness. There is genuine neatness, where
things are kept as clearly at the back
as at the front of the house where you
are likely to find dust ON the centre-ta-
bic in the front parlor as fnger-marks
around the kitchen door. Then there's
another kind of neatness, where every
thing that shows is in "apple-pie ORDER"
but if you look in the corners, behind
the Kitchen door, you may lind plenty
Of dirt and hanging III one corner Of
the pantry may be an old dish cloth that
will tell more powerfully of lack of neat
ness than as 81! The other signs put togeth-
er. Some unknown writer gets off the
following.
81 have seen women who would have
resented with indignation the insinua-
ton that they were not extra neat house
keepers, wash dishes with rag that |
wouldn't touch pair of tongS with
You may, if you have time, knit fancy
dish cloths, or you may use old stock
ing legs, or your husbands old shirt
flaps, or your grandmother's night cap
i am not particular about the mate
rial, but insist that they must be kept
clean. A woman who will wash dish
es with rag that looks like stove
cloth, and smells enough to knock a
mule down, cannot 60 down in my books
as neat housekeeper. If the model
young man who, after counting a girl
for year or so, goes spying around the
kitchen to find out something about
her housekeeping abilities, would take
look at the dish.cloth instead of polk
ing his nose into the bread tray and the
swill bucket, he might learn something
to his advantage"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
A Cup Of Coffee.

To make a good cup of coffee, an es-
pecial art is requisite. Many women
who pride themselves, and justly, upon
their skill, fail here. For early risers,
and those who require an early break
Iast, Jnere IL d m0ue or making c0nee
so generally practiced as to be almost
universal in this country, and that is
simply to boil the ground coffee for
few minutes and then either settle the
grounds with cold water or give them
time to settle gradually. This mode
can be greatly improved by corking the
spout with cork, cloth or paper, thus
preventing the escape of the steam,
which arises from the boiling coffee.
By the escape of steam we lose much of
the aromatic favors that render coffee
so palatable. Let those who cook coffee
after this method try this plan, and they
will find vast improvement. An en-
inent chemist recommends the follow
ing as a favorite way of making this
now universal beverage: Three-fourths
of the coffee should be boiled and the
remaining fourth infused, after which
the whole should be mixed. By this
means both the strength and the flavor
are increased. To preserve the flavor
of ground coffee, it should be wet with
the syrup of sugar and then covered
with powdered sugar; in this way the
volatile parts of the coffee are prevent
ed from escaping. As heretofore said
coffee, after being roasted, should bt
kept excluded from the air and kept il
dry place if not used at once, as i
absorbs moisture from the atmosphere
and gradually loses its favor.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09

Total net profit on rs acres, $6,631 10
During the year of 1882 there we're
grown within three miles of Hender-
sonville $500 barrels. The first crop
sold at SO net--S16, 500-and 5000
barrels of the second crop sold at 1925
net-S6,75 Total proceeds, $23, 250,
which shows a handsome revenue real
lied by one little neighborhood from
one Of the heretofore small industries
of agriculture, and which will afford
you a basis for estimating the capabili.
ties of Tennessee soil for agricultural
purposes. There will be about 200
acres cultivated in Irish potatoes in my
neighborhood this year, but l do not
expect to see as good price realized
for them as was last year, If this let.
ter and statement will enable you to
advance the cause of agriculture in the
State of Tennessee, l shall feel that 1
have lived to some purpose in having
developed an industry that need not
necessarily be confined to Middle Ten
nessee alone, but might most proftably
be extended to every part Of our State
wherever clover thrives, and can be
used as fertilizer. My chief ambi-
ton is to elevate the standard of agri-
culture and to do good to my fellow
men. Very respectfully yours,
VIM. HINES.
HendersOnville, March 20.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
Dishwashing Her Life Away.

The quiet fidelity with which wom
an will dishwash her life away for
her husband and children is a marvel
of endurance. Here is the servitude
of woman heaviest--no sooner is her
work done than it requires to be done
again. Men take jobs, work on them,
finish them and they are over for good
and all. The prospect of ending them
and drawing pay for the labor is allur-
ing, but no such allurements are held
out for the wife. She washes Monday
after Monday the same garments until
there is nothing more of them to wash
then they are replaced by others of new
material just like them, and the rubbing
and wringing goes on forever. She
mends the stockings with tireless fidel.
ity, the same holes meeting her gaze
week after week, for if there is darned
place in sock che" invariably puts his
irrepressible toe through it. Every
morning the rooms are put in order,
only to be in the widest disorder by
the time night falls. There are no jobs
each one different, no terms, no pay
day. The same socks, the same wash
ing, the same room every time. There
is too little brightness in the lives o
women in the country. They have to-
little help in their domestic occupations
The "nurse" In a house where ther,
is baby to care for ought to be Sc
down as enc of the regular expenses
as much as the potatoes for the family
A mothers health, both of body an,
mind, is worth more than additional
acres of land or finer live stock. tn
heart should not be allowed to grow old
Life should not have lost its charm. tn
heart its spirits and the body its elastic
ity at forty years. And yet how man
women are faded and wan, and shs
tered in mind and health, long befoi
they are forty. All the joy of life
not in youths morning. If we so will
we can to the last moment of life be
least negatively happy.-Exchange.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
American Apples in London.

The Garden, one of the best and most
popular of the English Agricultural
Magazines, full of the best information
about Agriculture and Flower culture,
in speaking of apples imported from
America says:
The report which we have received
from Messrs. j. w. Draper q son,
Covent Garden, the principal London
agents for the sale of these fruits, indi-
cate that the crop is most prolific this
season. From personal observation we
gather that in England the crop is COM
paratlvely failure in France poor
half crop is calculated; in Germany one.
third crop only; in Holland only hall
a crop and in Belgium not half a crop
thus the prospects were never more ia
vorable for shipments from America tt
England than they are this year. The
America apple trade, formerly monop
olised by Liverpool has during the las
few years lin consequence of direc
steam communication been gradually
diverted to London, which market nov
completes favoradly with that of Liver
pool.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
Glover for Hay.

Clover stands at the head of grasses
in the proportion Of nutriment it con-
tains. This is not the general opinion.
but it is fact nevertheless. As usu-
ally treated much Of the goodness Of
the clover is lost. The common plan
is to dry it in the sun, whereas, it
ought to be cured in the cock. There
is all the difference IN the world be-
tween these two methods Of treatment.
The drying process evaposates and
wastes much of the nutriment corr
tanned in the clover. When cured.
this Is retained, and lis presence ID
what imparts its peculiar sweetness to
well-made clover hay. Sun.dried cTo-
yer has but little virture in it. The
leaves crumble into powder, causing
that well-known dustiness which has
led to the general impression that
clover hay is largely the cause Of
heaves in horses. While dried clover
is one of the worst of folders for horses
affected in their wind, cured clover is
one of the best. Precisely as a large
amount of human food is spoiled by
bad cookery 80 is a great proportion
of clover hay rendered valueless by the
way it is made.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09

Mothers at this period of the year
have sick children. The little one lms
fever. Hectic fushes up its cheeks;
its eyes are either preternaturally duh
or prsternaturally bright. The little
handy~a unsteady and the nose is
picked. There Is short cough occa.
sionally and the little victim gets tired
and Tolls. The sweet breath IS foul anil
tainted and there is diarrh@a and fux
occasionally, and occasionally there is
costiveness. There are worms here ut
work in the delicate constitution. On
the appearance Of these symptoms get
Edw. Wilder's Mothers Worm Syrup.
pin worms equally, and sweeps away
the dangerous parasites at one food.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
COURTS.

NHANCERY-Sits LIST Monday in May and
" November; John W. Burton, Judge; j..
c. Biles, Clerk.
NIRCUIT-Sits Tuesday after 4th Monday
" in January, May, and September; }. j..
Williams, Judge; A. J. Curl, Clerk.
NOUNTY-Sits by quorum LIST Monday in
u every month; fun court every quarter;
]. L. Miller, Esq, Chairman; A. H..
Gross, Clerk.
OTHER COUNTY OFFICIALS-H. P.
" Maxwell, Sheriff; Jno. i. Jaco, Register;
IL. A. Cunningham, Trustee and Tax Collec-
tor; Geo. T. Purvis, Ranger; r. NJ. Argo,
Jailer; Sam 0'Neal, County Superintendent
of Public Instruction
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS-Mayor, J. F,
IN1 MOrford Aldermen, II II. Faulkner,
ID. f. Wallace, NJ. b. Harwell, G. W. Hood
enpyl, j. L Ramsey, Ed. Seals.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
Mails.

TulIahoma to Observation-Disclosures $50 p
M: leaves sos a. M, daily except Sundays.
McMinnville to Sparta-Arrives 500 Am;
leaves 800 pm; daily except Sundays
Beersheba Springs-Arriyes 500 pm;
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays; leaves
600 a. M, same days.
Smithvlle (route No. 19299)- arrives 1900
M. Tuesdays, THURSDAYS and Saturdays;
leaves 100 pm, same days.
Smithville (route No. 1929S)-arrives 800
p. m, Mondays and Fridays; leaves 600 a.
M, same days.
Woodbury-Arrives y m, Wednesdays
and Fridays; leaves 100 pm, same days
Horse Shoe Falls-Arrives 1900 m, Mon
days and Thursdays; leaves 200 pm. same
DAYS.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
Girls a Fishing.

"Oh, / see onel"
"Where?"
"Oh, my, SO he is !"
"Let's catch him."
"Who's got the bait?"
"You lazy thing, you're sitting on
my polel"
"Oh, something's got my hook"
"Pull up, you little IDIOT"
ooh, murderl take it away. Ughl
take it away, the nasty thing!"
GLOW will it ever get off"
CANT it pretty?"
"Wonder if it amt dryi"
"Poor little thing Let's put it back
again."
elbow will it get the hook from its
mouth ?"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
unvI " out nvaC.
Ohio Farmer.
Hendersonville, March 20.

One of our readers asks me through
the Ohio Farmer to reply to the follow
ing questions:
ITO get the best feed, when should
wheat be cut? Is the sample of wheat
as good as when the wheat is fully
ripe?"
| have heard old wheat growers say
that the best flour could be made from
wheat when it was cut in the dough
state. There will be enough substance
left in the straw to mature the grain.
1t is certain that wheat cut before 1t is
dead ripe will make winter flour, as
the skin or covering, will not be so
thick, or the division between it and
the -four portion will be more marked
or distinct which will admit of the bran
being separated better or colser. When
wheat is left to get fully ripe there is
more waste from Smelling. If cut too
soon, when in the milky state, the
kernels, especially in dry, hot weather
would be apt to be somewhat shrunken
This wheat will make the sweetest and
best -four, and the shrinking of the
berry will not equal the per cent of
loss by shelling if left to get fully ripe.
In regard to the straw the difference is
still greater. Dead ripe straw must
loose at least 33B per cent. of its value
as compared with straw cut while the
grain is in the milky state, and proper
tiOnately in the doughty condition.
Straw is more valuable in proportion
to the amount Of juices in it and gums
which very ripe and dead or dry con-
dition causes it to loose by evaporation
and chemical change, and furthermore
the straw in its very constituency Of
organism changes from digestible and
flesh forming material tOan indigestible
substance and, of course, valuless fol
animal food except to fill the stomach
and distend the bowels. Straw not
so mature and dry, is not all digestiblC
but the point is, that more of it is il
this condition when it is cut greener
When very dry it assumes the form
of woody fiber and is not food. Whea
straw is one of the most valuable o
all for animal food. Sometimes tn
I relation of straw and gram in ripenini
e are not equal. A drouth might dr..
up the straw before the grain had full,
matured, so that the state of the grail
, can not always be made guide, bu
the condition of both must be take
into the account, and a proper allow
o ance made. In the early dough stat
Q is the best time, all things considered
q for cutting wheat to get the best result
% in grain and straw, and in the milk
% state to get the best quality of stra
a with no material loss in the value Z,
the grain. F. d. CURTIS.
6 CHARLTON, n. Y"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
Notice 70 Mothers

DIR. DUNCAN'S BLACKBERRY
ELIXIR is sure remedy for teething
children and all bowel affections, such
as Diarrhea, Summer Complaint,
Bloody Flux and Gripping Pains in the
Stomach and Bowels, in both young
and old. 1t is an Elixir made from
the berry and root of the plant, and
therefore contains all the medicinal
virtues of the plant of which everyone
is acquainted. Sold by all druggists.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09

Coussen's Honey of Tar cures coughs
colds and all diseases Of the throat and
lungs. One trial of it will disarm pref.
udice, and convince the sufferer that it
is all that it claims to be, viz: A safe
and pleasant antidote for diseases Of
the throat and lungs, and never-failing
remedy for coughs and colds. Price
so cents. For sale by j. B. Ritchey.
Whites Cream White Vermifuge Is
the best worm killer. jy20 3m
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
SPECIAL FEATURES.

Bilious fever, Remittent and Inter-
mittent fever, malarial fever, Jaundice
and many more of the most deadly dis
eases of America have their starting
point in a torpid inactive liver. ANY
or all of these diseases may be avoided
by the timely use of Portaline, the best
and most perfect Vegetable Liver med
icine in the world. Price so cents.
For sale by j. B. Ritchey.
Whites Cream White Vermifuge is
the best wormkiller.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
General lireFtnrp.
CHURCHES.

Southern Methodist-Rev II. B. Reams.
pastor; services every second and 4th Sum
days at II m, and at night every Sunday
Prayer.meeting Wednesday night
Christian-Services every Sunday. Prayer
meeting Wednesday night.
Methodist A. T.. Barnes, pastor;
services first and third Sundays; prayer
meeting every Friday night.
Presbyterian-Rev. -- pastor;
services prayer.
meeting every Wednesday night.
Cumberland byterian-Rev: G. T.
Stainback pastor; services every Sunday. and
at night prayermeeting Wednesday night
Episcopal-Rev. DR.. H. r. Howard, Rec
tor: services second and fourth Thursday
Aights in each month, ATM y. Church, South.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09

Lo! the poor Indian has his type in
the many Pile Ontments and salves,
which have from time to time been
forced upon the market, and forced
back out of the market, and out Of
memory by Tablers Buckeye Pile Oint-
ment, the never-failing and only surq
remedy for Piles. Price 30 cts. a h0l'
tie. Whites Cream White Vermifuge
is the best worm killer.
For sale by j. B. Ritchey.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
Close Planting.

The Farming World says: every
farmer must know that to produce the
heaviest possible crop a certain number
of stalks must be upon the ground. 1t
is often observed that the great sin of
American agriculture is too thin SOW
ing" The first proposition we will ad-
NIT is really true, "that a certain num-
Der of stalks must be upon the ground"
But the question is, What number is
that? We do not think that as a rule
the husdandmen of the United States
sow too little seed. The amount Of
seed required to insure q good crop
varies and cannot be determined, for SO
much depends upon the season. In a
cool, backward season grain will stool
much more than in warm, forward
one, and old, long cropped land requires
more seed than rich, new land. If
grain is sown too thickly the straw will
be fine and the heads short, two of
which will not yield as much as one
good large head that has had ample
room to grow in. Our opinion is that
as general thing the crops are too
closely planted in this country. With
exception of grass, we believe in light
seeding. However, grass should be
sown thickly, so that when it comes up
it will cover the ground we'll and pre-
vent the growth of weeds. The same
authority says that in England they
SOW four and five and sometimes six
bushels of oats to the acre; in this coun.
try not more than bushel ard half.
This is a mistake, as the rule is to SOW
from two to three bushels of wheat to
the acre. Hence in England they yield
three or four times as heavy as in this
country. England does grow large
crops Of oats, but We do not think the
same seed upon the same soil in this
country would produce more if four
bushels were sown to the acre than if
two and a half bushels were sown. IT
haslong been mooted question with far
mers what amount of seed to SOW, and
with various soils and seasons great
variety of results have been obtained
been arrived at. There is really more
differencein seed than is general conced'
ed. A bushel of well-cleaned, plump
grains of wheat, where every grain is
sound and will produce healthy stalk
is better sown on good land than 6
bushel and a half uncleaned, full of filth
cracked grains and dwarfed kernels
that if they do have life enough to ger
inmate, will at best put forth suckly
puny stalks. Knowing your land ant
being careful of the seed, any farmer o
experience and careful observation cal
tell pretty closely the quantity of seeC
to SOW. 1t is well to experiment in thi
direction little. San Francisco Chron
icle.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09

This paper has done as much as any
other to expose the worthlessness Of the
big pack Condition Powders, and
means to keep it up, too. We know
of only one kind that are absolutely
and strictly pure, and that's Sheridan's.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
Children Cry.

Children Cry.
For Duncan's Worm Syrup. 1t is
pleasant to take and sure to have tho
desired effect. 1t is fast taking the
place of all other preparations. Sold
by j. B. Ritchey.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09

The healthfulness Of milk depends
largely upon having clear and pure
water for COWS.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
Skinny Men.

"Wells' Health Remover" restores
health and vigor, cures dyspepsia, i'm
potence, sexual debility. 81.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
LODGES.

IL & A. M.-Warren, No. 125-lst Monday
l. night in every month, in their hall over
the court room. JAS w. HOWARD. w. M
IL night in every month.
II. KENNEDY, II. p.
o. o. F.-McMinnville, No. 14o; every
L. Tuesday night, in their Hall over II, II.
Faulkner's, JAS. NJ. MoFFITT, N. G.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR-Mountain City,
N No. l4O; meets in Masonic hall I'd and
4th Monday nights in every month.
II. KENNEDY, ID.
KNIGHTS AND LADY'S HONOR-2nd
N and 4th Thursday nights in every month
r.. KENNEDY, p.
o. U. w. meets LIST and Sd Thursday
"A. nights in each month in Odd Fellows
Hall j. P. BosTICK, NJ. w.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
BuchuDaiba.

Quick, complete cure, all annoying
kidney, bladder, and urinary diseases.
81. Druggists.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-06-09
"ROugh on Rats

Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies.
ants, bed bugs, skunks, chipmunks,
gophers. 15c. Druggists.