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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-10-03
Failure of Old Orchards to Bear Good
Fruit.
Spirit Of the Farm.

Spirit Of the Farm.
One reason, and the principal one,
of the failure of old orchards to bear
good fruit is the want of proper food
for the development of fruit. The
apple tree, standing as it does in one
spot for fifty or sixty years, throwing
out its roots in every direction and
deep down in the earth, naturally eX-
hausts the soil Of its elements of
growth. 1t cries out for food by its
failure to hold fruit; it makes its
wants known by its dying limbs, and
the cry is unheeded. The owner pays
no attention to its calls of distress,
but allows them to die, when little
assistance would give the old trees a
renewal of life, and it would show its
gratitude in bearing in its arms great
heaps of luscious fruit. He thinks it
has done its work, and so lets them
die out and sets new trees, when, by
proper care, they would continue to
bear without the loss of time conse-
quent upon growing a new orchard.
AS an evidence of the truth of this
statement, set out new trees in the
old places, and no good will be the
inevitable result.
All this can be remedied by proper
ly manuring around the old trees
The ground around is allowed to
grow up with grass and weeds, and
this drinks up all the moisture falling
on them, so the tree is deprived of its
necessary drink. In the first place
spread heavily manures from the
barnyard and stable. Get all the
leached ashes from the house-yard
and from the ash-hopper. Put al
around the trees, and then turn il
under as deep as a large pillow viii
turn it. Continue to do this every
spring, and the trees will never cease
TO bear full of fruit; nor will they LOSE
limbs or be numbered with moss
The crops raised under them will re
pay all the labor richly, such as peas
potatoes and roots of any kind.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-10-03
No License for Buying Growing To-
bacco.

Nashville American.
A subscriber wishes to know if a
license is required to buy tobacco
while growing in the field.
A growing crop of tobacco is not
the tobacco of commerce or tobacco in
the contemplation Of law. 1t is no
more tobacco than a cotton boil is
cotton. 1t is something out of which;
by the agencies of soil and rain and
heat, may be developed into tobacco,
but it lacks every important element
of the tobacco of commerce. 1t can
not be manufactured, or smoked, or
snuffed, or chewed. 1t is simply a
growing crop unsevered from the soil
and comes under the head of real
estate rather than personal property.
It,may be sold standing on the ground
without the violation of any law, and,
therefore, no license is required, for ii
is only a prospect of something to be
developed into valuable forms. One
buys this prospect and nothing more
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-10-03
KINGS EVIL

Was the name formerly given to Scrofula
because of q superstition that 1t could be
cured by a kings touch. The world Is
wiser now, and knows that
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-10-03
Some Recipes for Young Men.
BY JUD LAFAGAN.

Cultivate the respect ofothers COM
mand your self-respect.
a good name is your best trade
mark. 1t can be equaled but not coun-
terfeited.
Young man, honesty nowadays is
rare, and those who believe in and
practice it arerarer.
Look closely after the construction
of an estimable reputation, and leave
the esteeming of it for Others.
Young men are often seen hunting
for a reputation, but reputation will
never hunt for young man.
Ifyou will toleratea liar to-day, you
will befriend him next week, if not
sooner, and pose as one yourself soon
after.
Youcanproveyourpedigreebyy your
parents, but your good qualities will
be recognized without any such evil
dence.
When finally you decide that you
don't know much, the sooner you stop
talking, sit down, and look wise, the
better.
If you will talk out of but one cor
ner of your mouth at once, somebody
may suspect you of having ordinary
intelligence.
Envy is no respecter of persons.
Place man upon throne or adunghill,
and envy is always on hand and ready
for business. Envy will live and
thrive, but those who permit famili-
arity on her part must eventually
break for the tall timber.
Confine yourself to facts and exact
the same of Others. No one ever ac-
cumulated "scads" by taking stock in
guess-work or possibilities.
Hyou become discouraged you are
apt to make fool of yourself, which,
as fool is nothing more nor less than
stupidity gone to seed, is not to your
credit.
When any one asks you why you
made fool of yourself, tell them
you don't recollect. That's my motto.
And Tve tried it, and know what
am talking about, too.
IfyOu will attack your vices with
an honest determination to root them
out, virtue will spit on her hands and
make it her business to see that you
pull through in good shape.
The devil is still pretty smart for ar
old man. If you outwit him it will
start the sweat! 1t won't be case o.
cunning, but principle, on your part
to which he is stranger.
Every year there are many of you
who begin life's race in earnest. A
few lucky ones, by some hocus-pocus
manage to get in under the wire. A
much larger number never reach the
quarter pole, and many there are who
succeed only splitting their breeches
when the word "go!" is given. Thi;
is no guess-work either, for guess
work and prosphesying are twin
sisters and out of my line of business
Immediately after you decide to make
your way independently in this
world, don't forget to pocket you
pride. You'll have to, any way, il
you succeed in the undertaking.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-10-03
CANCER OF THE TONGUE.
A Case Resembling that of Gen. Gran

A Case Resembling that of Gen. Grant.
Some ten years ago had q scrofu-
lous sore on my right hand which
gave me great trouble, and under the
old-time treatment healed up, but
it had only been driven into the
system by the use of potash and mer-
curry, and in March, 1882, it broke out
in my throat, and concentrated in
what some of the doctors called can
Ger, eating through my cheek, de-
stroying the roofmy mouth and upper
lip, then attacked my tongue, palate
and lower lip, destroying the palate
and under lip entirely and half my
tongue, eating out to the top Of my
left cheek bone and up to the left eye.
1 could not eat any solid food, but
subsisted on liquids, and my tongue
was so far gone l could not talk.
Such was my wretched, helpless con-
dition the first of last October Q8SD,
when my friends commenced giving
me Swift's Specific. In less than a
month the eating places stopped and
healing commenced, and the fearful
aperture in my cheek has been closed
and firmly knitted together. A pro-
cess of a new under lip is progressing
finely, and the tongue which was
almost destroyed is being recovered,
and it seems that nature is supplying
a new tongue. can talk so that my
friends can readily understand me,
and can also eat solid food again. If
any doubt these facts, l would refer
them to Hon. John H. TraylOr, State
Senator, of this district, and to DIR. 7.
S. Bradfeld, of LAGRANGE, Ga.
Mrs. MARY l.. CONFER.
LaGrange, Ga, May IA, 1885.
Treatise on Blood and skin Diseases
mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer
3, Atlanta, Ga, or 159 w. 23d street,
n. Y.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-10-03
Ginseng.

Spirit of the Farm.
The question is oftener asked than
answered, What is done with the vast
quantities of ginseng shipped from
this and other Southern cities? What
use is made of it, and where does it
go? 1t has had larger demand than
even now since the supply has so
greatly increased. At one time it
sold for almost four times its present
value, and even now it commands a
good price-one that enables the
"sang-digger" to make number one
wages. During the war it was a term
of reproach used against the Brown
militia of Georgia, and applied by the
Federals to all Southern soldiers who
were a little scant in their clothing.
No occupation should entail disgrace
so long as it is honest, and the "sang-
digger" it just as honorable and the
calling as dignified as any other. 1t
is true the business has been relegated
to the poorer classes, but the wealth.
est grocers buy it, and it is no less
honorable to dig than to buy and sell
it.
Now, as to its uses: 1t will make
some Of our readers laugh to know
that it is used wholly by the Chinese,
and for the purpose Of cOnciliating
evil spirits. 1t is used to burn as in
cense in the Chinese pagodas or tenn
piles in their religious exercises to eX-
Orcise evil spirits in the household.
All sickness among them is attributed
to bad spirits, and unless these spirits
can be propitiated they think they
will die. The ginseng is considered
the best agent for this purpose. 1t is
also used internally as tea, though
it has no medical properties what
ever, so far as is known. They make
charms of it and hang on the neck,
especially of children and travellers,
to protect them from evil influences
They pick out the largest roots and
make images of their gods, which are
considered to possess great good
qualities.
At one time it was weighed on one
scale and gold was put on the Other
scale, and that determined its price
Then when the supply increased il
was sold for its weight in silver. Now
competition has so lessened its value
it is sold for from three to five dollar;
per pound. Should the Chinese evel
stop buying it there would be no fur
ther value attached to it, though
some patent medicines use it to {
small extent.
Only five and a half million dollar
worth Of property was destroyed by
fire in the United States and Canada
! in the month of August.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-10-03

Farmers who raise corn should bear
in mind that the best time for select
ing their seed for next year is when
the crop begins to ripen in the field.
After gathering the largest, earliest
ripening ears from those stalks bear
ing.two fullgrown ones, trace them,
hang in a warm, dry place. and let
them remain until planting time.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-10-03
New Hair on Bald Heads.

A reputation which increases with
age and grows in the affection of the
people, on account of the real intrin-
sic merit of the article it represents,
must be founded upon some better
theory than mere flattery. Such, in
brief, is Interpolation of "Mansfeld's
La Creole Hair RestOrer." Thous-
ands can testify that it is the best hair
restorer ever offered to the public,
and the Incompatible hair dsessing
of the age. 1t gives health and tone
to the scalp, and does and will cause
new hair to grow and revive when
the original has been lost by disease
or age. 1t is sold by all druggists,
prepared by the Mansfield Medicine
Co., Memphis, Tenn.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-10-03

To make good broil, leave letter
from one of your sweethearts where
your wife can find it.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1885-10-03

Only five and a half million dollars
worth Of property was destroyed by
fire in the United States and Canada
i'm the month of August.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-30
Indigestfon,s mart1rs.

Half the diseases of the human family spring
from a disordered stomach. and may be prevented
by inyigorating and toning that abused and neg
lected organ with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Let
II be borne in mind that the liver. the kidneys.
the intestines. the muscles. the ligaments, the
bones, the nerves. the inieguments, are all re.
newed and nouriShed by the blood, and that the
digestive organs are the Grand alemDic in which
the materials of the vital fluid are prepared. When
the stomach fails to provide heslthful nourish.
ment for its dependencies they necessarily suffer,
and the ultimate result, IL the evil is not arrested,
will be chronic and probably fatal disease some
where. II may be developed in the kidneys in the
form OF diRbetis. in the liver as congestion. in the
muscles as rheumatism, in the nerves as paralysis,
in the integuments as ~scrofuia. Remember, how
ever, that each 6nd all Of these consequences of
indigestion may be prevented by the timely and
regular use OF that sovereign antidote TO dyspepsia,
HOstetter's Stomach BitteIs.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-30
SUBURBAN I

THE following society notes were crowed out of
our Sunday issue Ell account OF the pressure OF adj
vertisemenu.l
seymour.
Mrs. T.. W. Kennan and son have returned to De-
Soto, no.
Mrs. Rev. Dr.. Curtis went to indianapolis
Thursday
Miss Vallie Hill is visiting friends at franklin
this week.
Mrs. F. l.. Sawyer was visiting friends at Frank
lin this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. 7. B. Hubert have gone to Hot
Springs for health.
Miss Alice Christopher. OF Groesbeck, o., is here
visiting her parents.
Mrs. C. c. Thompson has gone to Columbus, o.,
&c Join her husband
Mrs. Joseph Davis, OF Helena. Mont, is the guest
OF Mr.. John III. Blisn and family.
Mrs. c. II. Trimble, who has been visiting
friends, has returned to Louisville.
Misses Mamie Wascom and Mary Johnson are
the guests OF friends at Indianapolis.
Mr.. E, w. Collins returned Thursday from q sew
en- months visit to friends in Nebraska.
Some twenty young men of this county left this
week for Kansas, TO reside In the future.
Mrs. Thomas Trevors. OF Cincinnati, was visit
ing her husband, Of the Hotel Jonas, this week,
Mrs. Julia Allen and daughter, and Miss Minnie
McRee, OF North Vernon. were guests OF DR.. S. II.
Charlton and wife this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. V. Harding, his daughter, Miss
Stella, and Mrs. Hon. Jason &. Brown, lett Thurs
day for an extended visit to the Sunny South,
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-30
CumhArIAnd.

Miss Burke. of Indianapolis. was visiting friends
here last week.
William +. Lsndes has gone to his home in
Lawrence, where he intends INDUCING in 3 few
weeks rest.
Eugene II. Darrach. formerly in the employ OF
the Panhandle in indianapolis, has gone TO Lin
coin. Neb.. 10 take 3 situation in the b. and NJ. K.
Railroad Office.
A party of young folks were entertained at the
home of Edward Heinrichs on Thursday evening
OF week before last.
The Public Schools OF this place were closed
last Saturday, the event being celebrated by re i-
tations by the scholars. and an excellent dinner
prepared by the ladies OF the town.
Nj. I. W. Little, Agent OF the c., st. L. and P.
Rail CAD, has been confined 10 his bed with fever
for the past three days. Charles s. Dsrracn acting
as agent and operator during his sickness.
GreenvilIe Fouts, who became deranged aud was
taken TO the Insane Hospital about a year sg0 or
more, has again been declared insane and re-
moved to the hospital.
Ed Bonge has a most valuable and artistic col
lection of stuffed and mounted birds. He is un-
doubtedly the most talented taxidermist in the
State, as AL his work shows a master hand.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-30
Greencastle.

College opens April l.
Mils Nellie Bridges is reported quite sick.
Miss Susie Kelley Is visiting at Wabash, Ind.
Rev. Il. A. Goblin breaches at 81. Louis to-day.
Ten miles Of our streets are now lighted with
ges-
The senior class have returned from New Or
leans.
Brush Taylor. of Indianapolis, was here last
Sabbath.
Mrs. Florence Dunbar has returned from Wash.
ington City.
D. C. Bridges, Esq, has returned from the City
of Mexico.
Lieutenant Finley, OF the Signal Service. in
spected this station this week.
Rev. r G. Talbot has accepted the call OF the
Episcopal Church of this city.
Dr.. Dudley Rogers and lady will visit the New
Orleans Exposition this week.
Port Harrison succeeds ]. V. Coleman as Assist
ant Agent at the Vsndslia depot.
Miss Ida Duis, art instructor al the University,
will spend vacation st indianapolis.
Walter Allen. Esq, was suddenly called to Ohio
on Sunday last. ''She is much better"
Mrs. Jane P. Coats and granddaughter, Libbie
Stimson, have gone 10 st. Augustine, Fla.
Misses Emma and Lizzie Brattin went TO hear
Emma Abbott on Thursday evening last.
On Wednesday evening next will occur the fist
commencement of the Law School of the Uni
versity, at which time six OF our most brill ant
young men viii say their little pieces. and Hon.
B. b, Elliott, OF the Supreme Court, viii address
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-30
ELOPED WITH A G.
A Young white Girl and q C0lored Boy
hun Away aad Arc Married.

ATcHisoS, Kan, March 2S-Willlam F0rber ar
rived in Atehison Thursday night on the Rock
Island train from Wallace. No. and reported to
the police station that Richard Coneel, aged eigh-
teen. q very light mulatIo farm band on the For
Der place. IN Platte County, had abduct-
ed Belle Bledsaw, aged fifteen. an adopted
daughter OF the family, last Monday even
ing. and, IL was thought, brought her TO
Aichison. He bad traced the pair 10 Wallace
Station, and thence 10 A;chison by train. Officer
b1ller was detailed to work on the case and, after
visiting a number OF houses OF lll-fame, in CON-
pany with Mir. Forber, they sought the home of
Peter Coneel. a brother OF Richard, who is en-
ployed at the Missouri Pacific Round-house, and
lives at ]. SIS Utah avenue. The searchers reached
the house about IL O'Clock, and, after some delay
and many threats. were admitted, aud. sure
enough, the runaways were there. The house is
a tumble-d0wn sbantY, containing only one
room, and in this room the entire family aud
The psir occupied a bed on the aooT.
They were commanded to get up and dress. which
they did promptly, and were At once conducted
TO the station, where COneel wss lodged in a cell.
The girl was taken by Mr.. Forber to the 81. James,
where she was sent to bed. When the pair were
separated at the station she begged 10 be permitted
to st0y with him. They seemed to be desperately
infatuated with each other, and declare they win
yet live together. COneel has the faintest trace of
negro blood in him, and il is only by the closest
inspection that African features can be detected.
He appeared TO be a very intelligent and gentleman
tive fellow. The grill a pretty little thing, as white
as a lily, and a pure Caucasian. She looks TO be
scarcely fifteen. An investigation to-day proves
that they were regularly married, as they stated.
but. as neither party is OF age, OF course the mar
rage is null and void. Mr.. Forber took his pris-
oners back TO Platte County this evening, where
COneel will be prosecuted for abducGing a female
under the age of eighteen and sent TO the peni.
Tertiary. The girl VIII be received back at her
home. The family are strongly attaches to the
girl, and her freak oveIwhelms them with shame
and grief. Much INDIGNATION is expressed in the
neignborhood toward Coneel, where race prejudice
exists TO a strong degree, which is intensified by
the tender years and popularity Of the girl and
the high standing OF the family with which she Is
cornec.ed. She shrank from returning 10 her
home to-day, but begged TO stay with her lovers
family.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-30
Greenfeld.

Rev. W. X. Williams has returned from a trip
through Southern Indiana.
Miss Mary Riley, of indianapolis, spent last Sum
day with Greenfield friends.
L. p. Thsyer, Jr,, and Will and Clarence Hough,
students at De PAW, are at home on q vacation.
George S. Wilson returns to Fortville to-day to
resume his duties as principal of the Fortville
schools.
Oliver P. Hubbard. OF New Castle, began his du-
ties as official stenographer of the Hancock Circuit
Court, Monday.
The young ladies OF the Presbyterian Church
will hold q literary and musical social at the resi-
dence of Ephriam Marsh, Tuesday evening.
The concerts at the Methodist Church. Thurs
day and Friday evenings, have received the
praises of all who attended. All the best musical
talent of the church had parts on the programme,
and contributed largely to the enjoyment OF the
evening. The stars OF the evenings were Miss
Gertrude Sproule and Miss Jennie yelling, of In
dianapOlis. Miss Sproule has a clear mezzo So
prano voice, well cultivated. and, besides singing
IN several duets. sang a cavstina from the opera of
Robert lie Di2ble' aud '.SwitZeris Dream of
Home" The audience encored her high honors,
showing marked appreciation of her singing.
"Switzer's Dream of Home was called for again,
and, If possible, was sung with more feeling than
before. The Evolutionary powers of Miss Yelling
are marvellous, and she was called for again and
again. responding each time with q selection that
added more to her praises.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-30
CLOTHED IN SKINS.
Capture of the Wild Man of the Presknes
Mountains.

TRENTON, n. j., March 2s.-The people of Pater-
son were sstonished when those who were near
the jail saw Constable Post leading through the
streets a wild-eyed and long-haired man. clad in a
blanket composed of muskrat and squirrel skins.
His hands were manacled. but he grasped to his
breast an cld-fashioned. long-barreled gun,
which he guarded with Jealous care. he was An
drew Riker, for whom the police have been search
ing for nearly two years. Prior to the
time Riker was known as an outlaw and the rob-
berry of several rural postofices and other ofenses
were laid at his door. In April. 1883. the Grand
Jury indicted him for an assault upon his niece,
Jennie Riker, a supplemented girl of fifteen or
thereab0uts. Riker heard ef the action OF the
Grand jury and disappeared from his accustomed
haunts. All efforts to locate him proved futile.
A week ago the search was taken up by Constable
Post. who. at Sheriff MeKee's suggestion, made
frequent visits TO the Preakness Mountains.s blesk
range OF hills. thickly wooded in parts. There are
many places where the foot OF man has never
tfodden. Yesterday while Constable Post was
searching through this wild region. hunting here
and there among the natural caves and clefts IN
the rocks. he tripped and fell. Upon Investigate
ing he ascertained that he bad stumbled over a
section OF stove-pipe which protruGed, apparently.
through the SOLID esrth. Alter further lnveStiga-
ton he discovered a comfortable cave dug out Oy
hand and overtopped by turf. Within were all
kinds of skins and furs, 3 stove, cooking u.en-
sis, and a rudely-made couch. The cave was
tenaDtesS, but upon exploring the neigh
borhood, Post suddenly came upon Riker,
who was standing near a small lake tax
ing a muskrat from q trap. Upon be-
ing aec0Sted Riker. who was armed with q
gun, attempted 10 shoot Post. but he was soon
disermed and manacled. Tie weapon was dis
charged, and was then returned TO Riker. who
begged pitteously for It. Riker is undou otedly in
sane, and the two years subsistence on the noun
tain have left him a veritable wild man. he was
asoldier in the late war, aud has received & pen.
sion az intervals by disgusting himself and apply
ing Tor II in person, the attorney from whom ne
drew 1t never suspecting that he was the same
man who was wanted By the authorities. Crowds
visited the jail to-day to gaze upon The wild man
Of Freakness Mountains