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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-20
No. IeO1.-A Riddle.

A husky ball am, or slender cone;
A solid shaft, I raise my head on high:
I drop to earth or by the wind am blown;
! stand mistaken, and the storm defy.
AN.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-20
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1lS2.-A sosp-bubbls.
1IS3.-Rest.
11SL-Madam, I'm Adam.
1lS5.-Foist, first, fit.
CHELIDoSrsMA.
IChelIdonisma is THE Swallow Song"
an old, popular song of the return of the
swallows, which the boys Of Rhodes went
about singing, of which the refrain meant,
He has come, has come the swallow" 1t
is reported by Athenaeus about A. d. 200. ]
11S7.-Summer.
1lSS,-Mist-rust
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-20

DR.. 6. w. Collins, Upton, Ind, says: 81
use il in nervous debility brought on by
over~ork in warm weather, with good re-
tsD
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-20
No. 1864 Star of the East.

1 arose N the East like a beautiful star.
And my light TO the distance sIreamed fearless
and far.
And the hope and tn stay of glorious nation
Came kneel1ng to me in mis- mad alteration.
lifted him up to my magical chair,
And the world never looked on so matchless
pairi
We dazzled tlet srth in our splender and pride
Then en ded ny life in the Orient far.
And there never has fallen such a beautiful star.
J, A.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-20

No. 1196 An ADagrams
A fisherman caught a fish
Which had thornv in,
And he held the fish aIoit and said,
''Ahi poet can try gin" q. BEES.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-20
No. 1900 GREAT Jump.

never was or could be one.
But in extremes am ALWAYS met
of perjury or plenty.
I would be nothiI & found alone,
But after two should be set
then would jump to twenty. A
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-20
A Modest City.
HOrsfOrd's Acid Phosphate in Debility FIR

Buffalo has not asked or recsived a1y
Office as yet.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-20

No. I199.-Thers's Something In It.
in every crowd can be seen;
I'm black and white. snd also green;
I'm purple. yellow. red and blue;
Before your eyes you see me too
i n thick, I'm InIn, m weak, m strong;
I'm light. I'm hesvy, I'm short. I'm long;
4 m in the vale, I'm on the hill.
Wherever you !oo6 you see me still,
I'm hard, I'm soft, IN cold. I'm hot;
You oitIimes COOK me in the pot
] walk, run, Green. jump:
You often and me IN e lump.
stand erect full six feet high.
Yet on the ground yo1 see me lie,
] IN large, I'm small, I'm great, L n grand;
This moment am in your hand.
I'm higher than tue highest tree:
L IN deeper than the deepest sea.
} often do your minds engage;
Sometimes put you in rage.
Asain 1 fill your hearts with JOY.
Your peace of mind l may desiroT.
The ladies wear me on their De cks.
And hang me up upon taelr racks.
Some men for me would lose their lives,
They love me beftar than their wives.
Say what am !. ye learned swans,
III give you total Tor your pains.
p. J. Mccoy,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-05-20
No. 11e1 "A Charade

No. 1877 "A Charade.
Sometimes our way is first beset.
And skies grow DARK around Us,
Bus let usscorn TO weekly fret
though trOublOus times have found US.
The last or lie is trim and tough,
She'll bear the tempest finely,
Or il 1t be that we must sink,
Then let us sink sublimeIy.
Trim up the sails and halliards round,
And let the lost go sliding,
And let her buffet every ell
Upon the gale a-liclng:
Let every slightest motion tell,
And every thought be timely,
But II IL be that you must sink,
Then sink, my frit nd, suDlImelyi
no. 119S. "A Truth Teller.
Faithful to beauty's charms and grace,
The form OF loneliness trace;
But every blemish l detect,
And point out every defect.
III ough long a favorite with the fair,
Itometimes ill them with dispair:
Still I'm consulted every day
By the Old and young, the sad and gay.
All fly to me so famed for truth,
Unintiuenced by age or youth;
For do not Halter or d. fame;
Now, try if you can guess my name.
Mrs. W. 5. W.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07
Home Nurseries,
B. +. Hicks & Son, Propr's,
Memphis, Tenn, Nov. II, 1884.
/ have tried Bradfeld's Female Regulator,
and find it splendid, and all you claim for
it. Respectfully,

Situated five miles South of Smithville, near
the McMinnville road.
We would say to friends and customers
that we have good and select variety of
fruit trees, and will furnish to our customers
anything desired in the Nursery line, and
propose selling as cheap as any nursery.
men. Call on or address
B. F. HICKS & son,
Magness Mills or Keltonsburgh, Tenn.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07
Increase.
rREI3OR,
Nov. 4th, 1885.
To the Standard :

To the Standard:
Farmers are nearly done gathering
corn and sowing wheat.
Several of our friends are going to
the West. A. r. Smith is going to
Texas and G. w. Martin, Jr., is going
to California.
The meeting held at the Cove
school house closed last week. We
understand there were several mourn
ers. The services were conducted by
Rev. Norris Brown and others.
Prof. Clendennen began school
on the I'd inst, at the Duncan house,
near Mt. Vernon, we understand he
will have good school. He has had
large experience in teaching the
young minds how to shoot.
Mr.. II. l.. Mofiitt, of Van Buren,
county, has bought the farm Of Mr..
William Collier, near Increase. We
understand the figures were S33OO.OO.
Some others near the same place are
talking about selling their farms.
Mr.. Charlie Mauzy, Jr., has been
sick for sometime.
We have heard of two weddings
since our last communication, Mr..
Thomas Cardwell to a Miss Jones,
both Of Warren county, and Mr.. Jas.
Stipe, son of Elder Jacob Stipe, to
Miss Clarinda Mitchell, of Van Buren,
county. May peace and pleasure
attend them through life, is the
wish of the writer. C..
Nov. 3, 1885.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07
Fruit on the Table.

Nashville American.
In State like Tennessee, where al
most every variety of fruit may be pro-
duced, and where land is cheap and
easily obtained, it is remarkable that
farmers should pay so little attention
to fruit growing and fruit diet. There
is not one farmer in twenty that has
fruit throughout the year. With
proper management one may have
Tennessee>grown fruit upon his table
every day in the year, and yet fruit
as diet is not in general use. Begin
ming with strawberries early in the
season, one might have in succession
raspberries, blackberries, peaches,
pears, grapes, apples. The latter, by
a iudicious selection of varieties, could
be made to last until strawberries come
again.
A liberal part of every meal should
consist of fruit. 1t is more healthful
and agreeable to taste and stomach
than sailed meats and bread, upon
which a large majority of our farmers
subsist. The people in the country,
with every advantage for growing
frui' well, give more attention to few
hogs or corn6eld than to the fruit
orchard. They are disappointed if the
apple and peach trees which they plant
do not grow and flourish and yield
fruit bounteously without any attention
on their part.
A good orchard requires as much
care as cornfeld, 1t should be
worked with regularity, and MANFRED
annually. The worms and insects
which prey upon the trees and fruits
should be sedulously hunted for, and
destroyed as unremittingly as the to>
bacco planter searches for and destroys
worms.
There is nothing in nature that is
more beautiful or satisfying than an
orchard well kept, and in full bearing.
The blushing peaches and ruddy ap.
Piles and juicy grapes suggest comfort
and abundance. They unite the
poetical and the practical in farm life.
A good orchard is the browning orna-
ment of the farm, and every farmer
who deserves the name should pro-
vide one of choice fruit and have
fruit upon his table every day in the
year.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07
Masonic.
Nov. 3, 1Ss

At a stated communication of Eel
Lodge, No. 3S1, f. & A. NJ, held in
the masonic hall, at Vervilla, Tenn,
Sept. %, A. ID. 1885, A. l.. 1886, the
following preamble and resolutions
were adopted:
WHEREAS, God, in Hisprovidence,
has taken from our midst by death
our beloved brother, J. A. Biles, who
was born in Warren county, Tenn,
Nov. II, 1881. He joined the NJ. f.
Church, South, in 1917, and the Ma
sonic Fraternity, Dec. 16, 1869, and
lived and died worthy member of
both institutions. The sad event of
his death took place Aug. Is, 1885, at
his residence near Mt. Zion Church,
Warren county, Tenn, and,
WHEREAS, we held our deceased
brother in high esteem, and feeling
that in his death, the Masonic Frater-
nifty has lost a worthy member, we
regret that he was taken from us in
the midst of a useful life; yet we bow
in humble submission to His will
who doeth all things well.
ReSOlUedheref0re, That Eel Lodge,
No. ISL, in the death of Brother Biles,
has lost one of its best members, the
church a consistent christian, the
community an honorable, upright
gentleman, and society one whose
sense Of honor was too high to be
guilty of anything that was not high
toned.
ReSOIUed also, That we tender to
his now deeply grieved family our
heartfelt sympathies in this their sore
affliction, and that we will remember
them in our devOtiOns to Almighty
God.
ReSoIvedtWther, That these pream-
bic and resolutions be spread upon
the minutes of Eel Lodge, that a
copy be furnished the family of our
deceased brother, and that a copy be
sent the SOUTHERN STANDARD, Nc,
Minnville, Tenn; for publication.
G. B. MCPEAK,
w. Z. GARNER,
w. r. PARKER,
Committee.
Nervilla, Tenn, Sept. %, 1885.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07

near Readyville, moved to his farm
last Saturday.
Mr.. S. B. Pope closed school at
Hickory Grove Friday. Mr.. Ed
Wheeler commenced aschool at same
place Monday.
Mr.. w. A. Robinson was exhibit
ing at Henegar q Sons store last
week stalk Of sugar corn grown
from a joint brought from the South
last spring. The stalk was of good
size and well matured.
Notwithstanding the cool weather
we have been having, John Henegm
still holds TO his old straw hat.
Oliver Towles, merchant, at Gath
was here few days ago.
TREB0R.
Nov. 4th, 1885.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07
From Daylight.
To the Standard.

To the Standard.
Corn gathering seems to be the or
der Of the day.
We had another "Frost" last week,
Mr.. Frost representing We'll q Co.,
Nashville, was calling on our mer-
chants presenting the claims Of his
house.
J. b. Henegar made a business trip
to Trousdale last Saturday.
a little childOf Mr.. Vanhooser died
last week after a confinement of sea-
era months. The bereaved parents
have the sympathy of the entire com.
munity.
Mr.. Green, who recently sold hi,
min property and purchased Il farm
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07

We, the citizens of DeKalb and Warren
counties, take pleasure in recommending
B. F. Hicks & Son, who are conducting the
Home Nurseries, as honest, upright citizens
and men of integrity, who will fulfill their
promises promptly; w. L. Cantrell, far
per and orchardist; VIM. Cope, merchant !;
B w. Magness, merchant; Jas. Webb, ESQ.,,
Rev. J. L. Byars, Elder Isaac Denton, Rev.
L. p. Potter, w c. Potter, merchant and
bank director; R. H. Ellsworth, nursery.
man, DeKalb; W. H. Magness, L. j. Potter,
r. 5. Potter, E. Webb, Warren.
Any one desiring nursery stock from the
Home Nursery, can apply to B. F. Hicks &
Son, or their agents, S. S. Young and D..
Patterson.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07
A Hard Working President,

Cincinnati Enquirer
How is the Presidents health, and
how does he like being President any,
way?
Ellis health is excellent and he is
cheerful, but very hard worker, and,
of course, knew before he took the
office that it would bring many burdens
much more so, of course, because
of the change of administration. He
works at his office sometimes until
o'clock in me morning, and rarely
leaves it untifatter -
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07
Living Witnesses
Testify.

Memphis, Tenn, Nov. II, 1884.
/ have tried Bradfeld's Female Regulator.
and find it splendid, and all you claim for
it. Respectfully,
MATTE A. LOWE.
Due West, S. c., Nov. II, 1854.
/ have used one bottle of your Female
Regulator, and can recommend it to the
public as being a specific for the diseases of
women. Yours Truly,
HESTER SMITH.
Smithland, Texas, Nov. IA, 1884.
l have been taking your Female Regula.
tor, and think it a good medicine. Have
recommended it to several of my friends,
who have used it with the most happy re.
suits. Yours truly, +. NJ. WHATLEY.
Websterville, Texas, Nov. II, 1884.
Having used your Female Regulator with
great success, and also the Mothers Friend
with the same result, send you my thanks
and best wishes. | think every female
should know of this boon to woman, name.
lly, Brad6elds Female Regulator and the
Mothers Friend.
Respectfully, Mrs. JAS. THOMPSON.
Linton, Ga, Nov 10, 1884.
| have been using your Female Regulator
for some time with the best of results, and
find it to be just what you claim for it to be
-wOman's best friend.
Respectfully, Mrs. w. L. REAVES.
We are constantly receiving such vclun.
tary testimony.
Send for our Treatise on the Diseases of
Women-maled free, Address 9
The Bradfield Regulator Co.,
Box %, ATLANTA. GA /.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07

Sequachee Advance: The most
certain way to double the value of Ten
nessee lands is to permanently improve
our public roads. 1t is "penny wise
and pound foolish" policy to expend
muscle and money from season to sea.
son in the effort to keep the old-fashion.
ed dirt road in repair.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07
VIM. H. MEADOWS.
The Great WiIapuS WaIipuS

Is coming, and will give general excursion
about Nov. 10Th, if the debtors of the un.
dersigned don't come forward and settle for
their last spring colts. Remember the date.
W. II. SMARTT,
f. i. MACON.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07
The Nashville Banner
Is always spicy, full of news, and entertain.
ing. 1t has an
Agricultural Correspondent

in each county, and makes monthly re-
port of the condition of Crops and Stock,
which is of great value to farmers and mer'
chants. 1t is one of the boldest and ableSt
journals in Tennessee, and is perfect ter
rOr to rings and monopolies and machine
politics.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-11-07
Subscription Rates.
WEEKLY
Clubbing Rates.

The Weekly Banner, a SO column. live,
newsy paper, and the Southern Standard,
both one year for $3.50.
The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-20
Leaving the Farm.

The Journal of education argues that, if the young men from the ru. ral districts, after recieving the benefits of education. desert the farms to engage in mercantile and other kinds of business. where they c,n secure for themselves a larger share of this worlds comforts and enjoyments, with shorter hoars of toll,' the schools ought not to be blamed but praised, for affording them, "the grand opportunity" This is a matter about which there is much difference of opinion. The boy ought not to get the impression that all the grand opportunities" are to be found in the cities. There are Opportunities quite as"grand" in rural life, and the boy ought to be made to see them in order that he may not mistake his proper course. The disposition of young men to leave the farm does not need any special encouragement.- Current.
The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-20
Preparing Pastures.

It Is now leisure season with our farmers and many matters of interest to the farmers can be atten
 ded to leisurably. which will prov 0 10 be real sources of profit or cum fort hereafter. Among which is the preparation of wood land for pastures. This can pc done by erubbing out all of the rubbish, stones etc., and tue cutting out of all the larger and most inferior of the timber. After this is done and the iire-wood is drawn off, and the brush burned, then the whole should be bull.tongued thorough ly, after which it should be harrow ed aud cross.hOrrowed until there is loose soil enough for a "catch" for the grass. After this is done a mixture of blue grass. and orchard grass-seed should be sown, togeth- CT with any other grass seed that is found to do we'll in shade, after which the whole should be brush ei in, The sowing of grass-seed for woodland pastures may be done during the latter part of August, and from that time on until Febru. ary next.-Rural and Workman.
The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-20


 The longest recorded prayer of our Savior can be read in four min- utes, the model petition, as given in the Lords Prayer is not one minute long. The recorded pray CT of Soloman at the dedication of the temple. can be uttered with all gravity and deliberation in six or seven minutes. Yet a case was lately mentioned of a pastor whose opening ..prayer frequently occu- pied a full hour and not a few good men think it their duty fo occupy with one prayer five, or ten, oi fifteen minutes of the short houi of an ordinary weekly prayermeet- ing. Would it not be better tc bring down the length of our ordl nary prayers more nearly to the limit of the Lords model? This would give time for large number to take part in the prayer,meeting and might add something to tht spiritual interest and life of the eX ercises.-Ey.
The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-20
Wilkins Star Proverbs.

*It is a bad omen to owe men.
 *When Dame Fortune wants q recruit, she calls for him.
 *In prosperity, enemies fatter, in diversity, friends encourage.
 *Nature puts up the perfect form for fashion to desecrate.
 *Many men before the people are like football-the moment the kicking ceases, they fall dead.
 *Man's career is skip, hop and jump. Naked he skips into the world; handicapped with cares he hops through it, and bald-heade d he jumps head first into eternity.
 #Misery is cured in the brine ot tears.
 #The cream of a joke should never be sour.
 *Man's character often speaks the loudest when hi s lips are si lent.
 *Put no faith in "tale-bearers, when milking a COW in fly time.
 *To climb a pillar of fame, rise early from the pillar of your couch.
 *"Retribution belongs to God, and He only has monopoly in that line.
 Reverence your su periors but do not let them use you for q cushion. #No man can successfully fight his way through the world with soft gloves.
 *"Quit not certainty for hope, y for certainty in hand is worth two hopes in a bush,
 *Many keep their regulations polished only that they may out shine their neighbors.
 *Anticipation is the seed of par ticipation, and oftentimes the seed is the most palatable.
 IA religion for this world find' more takers than a religion for the next. A religion to live by ma. not be a good religion to die by l Whitehall Times.
The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-20

that would prove to me how much they thought of tue maker of the flagp After some hesitation l ac- quisced although thinking it gest. A week later I was the astonished recipient of a lamented bit of linery left w ithin the lines a wrap of white and azure brought to us by Dillon himself, with a beaming face. He had gone through the Union pickets mounted on 8 load of frewood, and while peddling poultry had presented himself at our house, whence he carried off his prize in triumph, with a letter in its folds telling us how relatives left behind longed to be sharing the joys and sorrows of those in the Confectionery.
The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-20

The printing press has made presidents, killed. poets, furnished bustles for beauty, and polished genius with the sand-papers of its criticism. It has set the price on bale of cotton, and made the country post office the glimering goal of the rural scribe. It has curtailed the power of kings en- bellished the pantry shelves, and brought cimipals to punishment; it has furnished the whole female race with dress patterns; it has converted bankers into paupers made wood sawyers college presi- dents: it has educated the home less lad and robbed the philosopher of hls reason; it smiles and kicks and cries and dies; but it cant be run to suit every body. and the edltor who tries it is a fool.-Ex
The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-20
Little Mary's Question.

A good story is told of the Bish op of Atlanta, Ga. He recently addressed large assembly of Sun day school children, and wound IT by asking in paternal and conde- scendihg way, ."And now is there a-a ny little boy or a-a-ny little girI who would like to ask me ques tion?"
 A little shrill voice cried out "Please, sir, why did the angels walk up and down Jacobs ladder when they had wings'"
 "Oh ah, yes-I see," said the Bishop, "And now is there a-a-ny little boy or a-a-ny little girl who would like to answer little Mary's question?'
The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-20
AGRICULTURE AZ.
Small ys. Large Farms

D. D. T. Moore in A merican Agriculturist
 Our notion is, that small farms we'll culti yated are almost invari. ably the most profitable; and hence we firmly believe (what has often been asserted), that if many a far. mer would sell half or twothirds oi the acres he now occupies, and poorly tills and manages, and de vote his time and energies to the care and cultivation Of the remain der he would derive far more prof it from his labor and investment
 with much less yexation of spirit, The fact is somebody truly asserts, we have to many farmers who are Hand poor"-who have so much land they cannot make a living. Parade xical as they may appear, a' applies truthfully 10 many a natur ally fertile and productive locality When such farmers learn that 1t IS not economy to own more land than they can till in the most prof itable manner, so that it will pay for the money expended in keep. ing it from taxes, weeds and other incumbrances they will have solv- ed the problem of case in practical rural life. The happiest and thrif. tiest farmers we have ever known lived on farms of only ten to one hundred acres every foot of which was made to count. On the other hand, the farmer who has so many bread acres that he cannot walk over them daily-where rods of fence corners are never cultivated or otherwise utilized--liycs a life of anxiety and worry. Instead of working like slaves and living in a miserly manner, in order to run big farm" or purchace "all the land that joins them,7 it would be wise for the host of farmers to sell some of their broad acres, and look more to the comfort and happiness of their household, and the comfort and proper education of their chil- dren. Even if large farms were the most profitable which We deny small ones are to be preferred for many reasons, not the least of which arc the comfort, peace, and general welfare of the owners and their families.
The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-20

"What is your name, little girl? asked the Sunday school teacher of new scholar.
 "Sheolon Miller, Miss"
 "Sheolen," repeated the teacher much surprised, ''isn't that rather a queer nameF
 ''Yes, Miss, but before the revis, ed version came out it was not SC queer.n
 Then the teacher fell to thinking of spiritual matters. .-Ex.
The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-20
Warning Order.

In Justice Court before J. w. Neill, j. P w. c. Barton X Co.,, Plff
 against Attachment. Jno. Timmons, Doft. The Defendant, John Timmons, is here by warned to appear in this court within thir- ty days to answer the complaint of the Plaintiff. w. G. Barton X Co. Given under my hand this. the 29.h day of July, A. D. 1885.
 J. W. Neill, J. P.
The Nevada picayune., 1885-08-20

Mrs. away, while cleaning house, asked her husband to nail up some II; he refused; she looked II at him, told him his conduct was without and beat him with her se- until he saw .*.s. He now lies in a ,tose state, and may be a subject for diss. Aman must be an his life and limb in such q way as that. He02 ~- up and { her.