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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-04-24
TOWN AND COUNTY.
Easter Sunday tomorrow.

Wild flowers are very plentiful
along the river banks.
If you want good groceries at low
prices go to Potter Bros.
Mr.. Geo. L. Beech and his moth
er returned from Nashville this week.
Charley Scales is now employed
on the Office force of the Peoples Mu-
tual Life insurance Order.
Remember Potter Bros cheap
store is the place to get your goods.
The pay train of the n. G. & st.
L. Railroad passed up to Sparta and
return last Saturday.
If you want nice straw hat for
little money, go to Potter Bros
cheap store and get it.
There will be preaching at the
Presbyterian church tomorrow morn
ing and night.
For Landreth's and Sibley's fresh
Garden Seeds, in bulk and papers, go
to j. b. Ritchey. lift
DIR. G. T. Stainback will return
from Presbytery today, and fill his
pulpit tomorrow morning and night.
The best cigars in town will be
found at the Warren House Corner.
Brown keeps the most popular brands.
Mr.. w. B. Meeks and DR.. E. NJ.
Sims, of Pelham, were in McMinn-
vile for few hours Thursday.
A. Nunnelly still keeps that good
home made bread. Fresh baked
every day at sc per loaf.
John Duncan, prominent far
mer and citizen of this county, was
in town Monday.
-Griswold & Co., have purchased
an elegant soda fountain, which will
be received and put up ina few days.
j. j. Morton and J. j. Walker
of Grundy county, were in town this
week.
Honest Indian tobacco-the finest
smoking in the land, at a. Nunnel
ly's.
Every candidate can lectioneel
with a smile on his face after he take
q dose of Persuader Pills. For salt
at ]. B. Rithey's.
-Messrs. Jones, Whitson, Smith
and Murray, of the McMinnville bal
attended Circuit Court atSpencer thi
week.
Mr.. Drew King shipped fit!
barrels of apple brandy from Morri
son depot, in this county, last Tues
day.
Every candidate ought to buy
bottle of Persuader Oil and box @
Persuader Pills. For sale at j. 4
Ritchey's.
Mr.. c. G. T. Myers, who has bee
over in Sequachee Valley for the las
six months, returned home last Sal
urday.
We have one White SEWN
Machine to sell cheaper than an
body, to close out the trade on ms
chimes. POTTER BROS.
Col. j. II. French came up froI
Tullahoma last Monday to spend
few days looking after his interest
here.
Mrs. Chas. Clement left on Wee
nesday morning for Chicago. Sh
will spend the summer among rel;
tives in the North.
Take all your produce to Pottt
Bros. and exchange it for some of tt
cheapest goods you ever saw. The
is no mistake about this.
Mrs. j. NJ. Burger, with he
daughter, Miss Meta, and little Sol
Robert, left on Thursday to Wis
friends at Murfreesboro and Nasl
vile.
Potter Bros. have a beautiful liz
of cashmere shawls and scarfs, a
colors. Come and see them befo
you buy and save money. Wemea
business.
subscriptions to the Nashvil
American, daily and weekly, will
received at the STANDARD offiC
We club the Weekly American wi
the STANDARD at $1.90 per year f
both papers. Sample copies can
seen at this Office.
Mrs. Chas. Colville, with her l
tie son, John Lyle, returned hor
I,1o1- ( INr,Ip,-\ g.. . ~ l..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

will probably enter the heads of the mass
of our population, and instead of living
on sirloin, they may live better in many
respects on what we now virtually throw
away. When every acre of our immense
area, improved and unimproved, is stock
ed with cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry to
their fullest extent, we may not export
SO many bushels yearly of the cereal
grains, but we may produce larger pro-
portIonate amount of meat per capita
than we do now.
1t is to be hoped we may go on increas-
ing our facilities for manufacturing to
such degree that it will not be required
that we export either animal or vegetable
products. If we continue to breed no
our stock and at the same time increase
the bushel producing capacity of our
land in gram, and has been in England
and equally feasible here, there is little
fear of a meat famine in the near future,
except by means we cannot help.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
SnhSOilin0.
Farm and Mirror.

The New York Times criticises bulle-
tin of the Missouri State College in re-
gard to subsoiling. The Times says:
"These extremely superficial expert
ments-so called-in subsoiling, which
are worth reading, if only an example of
the futility and folly of publishing such
crude and undigested facts as these agri-
cultural experiments. x
1t goes without saying that subsOiling is
only relative process for deepening the
soil and is of no value without accom-
panying manUring."
Farther on, after showing the proper
ties found in the Missouri subsoil, it
says:
every tyro in agricultural chemistry,
or in the chemistry of common life,
knows that sulphuric acid and iron, when
brought into combination, form sulphate
of iron, the corrosive copperas, than
which there is no more deadly poison to
plants in any soil"
In regard to the Extremely superficial"
nature of these experiments, readers can
judge for themselves. ''What goes with
out saying" is apt to be a groundless be-
lief on a subject that has not been studied.
We never heard it claimed that regular
subsOiling, which means loosening the
the subsOll without bringing it to the sur
face, made it necessary to use more man
ure. It simply gives the roots chance
to go deeper for water in dry time and
gives the soil greater absorbing and re-
tanning capacity. At least those are the
benefits looked for. If the first few inches
of soil rest on hardpan they will dry up
much quicker than If the subsoil was loose
as there Is a chance for the moisture to
equalize. But that these benefits are not
always obtained and the t they depended
on the nature of the season which no one
can foretell, is clearly''shown by the expert
ments of Prof. SanbOrn. What tyros in
chemistry knows about the poisonous ma
tUre of copperas for vegetation may do
for them; but the writer of this knows
that ne has many times planted corn that
had lain in a strong solution of cOpperas
till 1t was as green as the darkest grass,
and IN that solution the corn swelled till
1t was thoroughly soaked and sprouted;
and this method of preparing seed corn
was practiced for many years by farmers.
The Times seems to think that the roots
OF plants must and will go as deep as the
subsou pillow, for it says that subsoiling
should be done gradually, or be accom-
panied by liberal manuring. Whether
Prof SanbOrn's experiments are as
thorough as some theorizer might mark
out or not, they are guided by practical
intelligence, and it is just possible that
the results may be as useful a guide for
the colhmon farmers as the theory of one
VINO does not know the difference between
subscribing and deep blowing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
Profits of Benknenin@.

In proportion to the population the
number of persons who keep bees is very
small, yet there is no branch of farming
flor it should be connected with farming J
more profitable at certain seasons than the
keeping of bees. A good strong colony,
in the midst of the busy season, will col
lect and store four or five pounds of honey
daily; but the amount of work depends
upon the forage and the strength of the
colony. AS soon as the colony becomes
weak and incapable of defense it will be
attacked and robbed. Hence, in order to
keep each hive up to its fullest capacity,
the keeper must provide plenty Of comb
foundation in order to lessen the work to
be performed, and SOW such crops as will
afford honey later in the season, when
the flowers have finished blossoming.
The swarming process is nothing more
than the departure of the old queen and
her working bees, in order to abandon the
hive to the younger queen and bees. By
being on the alert and hiving the swarms
as they alight, the number of colonies
may be largely increased, but the weak
colonies seldom swarm. The moth US
ually attacks the weak colonies, and only
the stronger ones are able to pass safely
through the winter.
The common bees may be gradually re-
placed with the italian or Cyprian bees by
removing the old queen and substituting
a new fortified queen of either kind pre-
ferred. If she is carefully guarded in a
small cage for few days the bees will
soon recognize her, and in the course of
a few months the old bees will all be dead
and the new ones will be of the desired
kind. The queen is compelled to lay
large numbers of eggs daily in order to
supply the great loss constantly occurring
by the destruction from birds, storms and
other difficulties. They should be left
plenty of honey for a winter supply, and
the hives should be we'll protected from
the storms.
What the beekeeper should aim to do is
to SOW such crops as will enable the bees
to lay in large supply of honey, and he
can well afford to do so if he has a number
of hives. At this season the bees find
plenty to do in working on the flowers,
but later the crop of buckwheat affords
ample forage while it is in blossom. En-
terprising beekeepers combine beekeep-
ing and poultry raising, finding that a
small piece of ground may in that man
ner return large profit. How to manage
cannot we'll be explained in single ar
ticle. All who are interested should first
make themselves familiar with the de-
tails before beginning by consulting
authorities on the subject. That bee
keeping is profitable occupation, how
ever, has been demonstrated satisfactorily
to all so engaged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
Will Our Meat Supply Hold Out?
Farm, Field and Stockman.

cOntempOraneOuS writer fears that
we are producing too much meat now,
but that eventually we shall have a meat
famine, and cites figures to show that
such is the case. Without going back to
the last century for comparisons, period
of thirty years will suffice, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the live stock interests
of the country were seriously depleted
between 1860 and 1870. In 1850 we had
in the United States 17,778,0OO head of
cattle; in 1860 we had 25,620,000; in 1870
this number had been reduced by war to
23,82O; in 1880 we had 35,925,OOO, while in
1885 we had 100000.
AS against this we had in 1860 popula-
ton of 24,OOO,O0O; in 1880 we had $4,000
900, and In 1885 probably 100000 of
people. Now in 1850, we had 17,778,O00
cattle and 100000 people; in 1880 we
had in round numbers 36,0O0,00O of cattle
as against 100000 population.
When we come to take into cOnsldera-
ton the vast increase in hogs, poultry,
eggs and fish, it does not look very much
like meat famine just now. In fact, the
increase of live stock is year by year in
creasing the meat capacity Of the country
as against the increase of population,
and this, Notwithstanding the fact that
many eastern states nave Idllen OH large
ly in their meat production per capita.
We are sending off yearly vast sur
plus of meat and meat products. This is
as it should be. 1t saves depletion of the
soil, as is the case when the raw grain
products are exported, Although to
maintain our present beef supply in pro-
portion to the population we must in the
next twenty years increase our cattle
from $4,000, 900 to 100000 head and in
As years from 100000 to 100000
head.
Allowing that in 1905 we have 100000
900 of people, the increase of our cattle
in twenty years to 100000 is by no
means impossible. But why beef alone?
Are not hogs and sheep to be intergers?
May we not take lesson from France in
the production of eggs and poultry, and
again another lesson in using up portions
of the carcasses of cattle, now almost
thrown away, and this in the production
| of savory soups and stews? With the in
crease of population to oyercrowding,
some common sense ideas in cooking
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
How to Get Rid of Rats.

A writer in the Scientific American
says he cleared his premises of the de-
testable vermin by making whitewash
yellow with copperas, and covering the
stones and rafters in the cellar with it.
In every crevice in which rat might go,
he put the crystals of the copperas, and
scattered in the corners of the floor. The
result was the complete disappear
ance of rats and mice. Since that time
not rat or mouse has been seen near
the house. Every spring the cellar is
coated with the yellow wash as a purifier,
and as rat exterminator, and no typhoid,
dysentery or fever attacks the family.
Never allow rats and mice to be poisoned
in the house; they are apt to die between
the walls and produce much annoyance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
The Family Asparagus Bed.
Nick'S Magazine.

When we came to our new place, where
the asparagus beds were made up with a
comfortable dressing six inches deep,
over winter, there was a lively discussion
between two of US most interested wheth-
er to dig them or let them alone. One of
them could be trusted to run a wheat
farm to good profit but never happened
to have the care of ''grass," and my knowl-
edge might have held everything else,
but It failed on this particular point.
We divided on the question; the young
master of the place pursuing the let-alone
system, l, taking the view that it is best
TO DO something, had three beds vigor-
ously forked over, until it was wonder
the plants were not lifted by the roots.
Happily they were set deep enough, and
the stirring was done early enough to be
a benefit. We had asparagus of excellent
flavor for the neighborhood. How much
the liberal dressing of salt had to do with
the crop [ can't say. but grass, of better
flavor l never tasted. The second wear
we used plenty of salt, but less dressing.
The result was crop of high flavor. but
less abundant. Third year, for some
reason, the beds were not well attended to
before winter, had no cultivation and but
a strawy covering. Somebody recon-
mended nitrate of potash as an applica-
ton. The intelligent man who sold far
mers' supplies suggested muriate of pot
ash instead. | took both, busted the beds
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
How Best to Treat the tate Beetle.
Rural New Yorke,


Rural New Yorker.
Again some writer's are talking of the
economy Of hand picking potato beetles.
IF this is well attended to, there will be
no eggs deposited on the leaves" they
say. Do they speak from experience, or
do they write such stuff because it seems
plausible? Years ago we diligently pick
ed and killed, once every day, every po-
tatO beetle to be seen on patch 300 feet
square, and yet there were, SO far as
could be judged, just as many eggs de-
posted and Matched as if this tedious
work had neye been done;
while the soil between the rows was kept
hard up being walked over so often. The
fact IS that the beetles are to be found
in every crack of the soil, under little
clOds and stones, about the stems and
creeping everywhere. One may pick off
all the beetles from the plants at 10
o'clock, and at IL o'clock they will be as
thick as ever. Hand picking destroys
just so many beetles certainly; and there
are just so many less; but it is like re-
moving mound of earth pebble by peb-
BILE, or emptying a tub of water drop by
drop. The work has no appreciate effect
We have tried every method of killing
potato beetles. For one entire season
we tried London purple, but found that if
applied the least bit too strong, it would
injure the foliage, because the water col
lects wherever the leaf will hold it, and
evapOrates, leaving film of paris green.
We nOwuse pure paris green and plaster
one pound to barrel of plaster-and
see that it is thoroughly mixed with rake
and hoe. The first application is made
as soon as the plfnts get well out of the
ground, and the second when the grubs
make their appearance. A fourth is not
needed for early potatoes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
DAVID DAVIS DEAD.
The Ex-senator Relieved of His Long Snfer-
inc.

The Ex-senator Relieved of His Long Snfier-
ing.
BLOOMINGTON, H., June 2S.-Judge
David Davis died at o'clock this morn
ing. He sank into a comatose state twelve
hours before his death, and passed pain
lessly away surrounded by his family.
During the early part of last evening
he appeared to be failing, and it was felt
certain that he could not live through the
night. At eleven o'clock he revived some
what, and was given milk and stimulants
in small quantities. The effect was for
the worse, however, for he at once re-
lapsed into a comatose condition, his
pulse becoming very feeble. During the
succeeding three hours he failed gradu-
ally, his respiration growing noticeably
weaker until the end came.
The cause of Davis death was Bright's
disease of the kidneys, aggravated by the
weakening condition of the system, dat
ing from the time when he became aff1ict-
ed with carbuncle. His last hours were
calm and peaceful.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
A Stiff Stand-Up Collar Saves Life.
Buffalo Advertiser.

Superintendent Schmitt of the Cleve-
land police, is in possession of quite a
curiosity. It is standing-up collar, well
starched, and in the back near the button
hole, bullet has entered and stuck there.
The man who owns the collar was standing
in Euclid avenue, near the park, when
the bullet struck the collar. No report
was heard, and it is believed to
have been fred from an airgun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
MEAD,

Boil well together three. pounds of
sugar and one quart of water; when cool
add one ounce of tartaric acid and vanilla
to taste. 1t is ready for use at once. 1t
is to be kept in a bottle and corked Sc
curely. When used put three tablespoon
fuls IN tumbler, add a quarter of a tea
spoonful of bi-carbonate of soda, and fill
the glass with ice water.
STRAWBERRY Or RASPBERRY ACID.
lake two and half ounces of citric
acid, sprinkle it over six quarts of the
fruit, add one pint of water, and let the
mixture stand for twenty-four hours; pour
off the liquid slowly, and to each pint add
one and half pounds of white sugar;
stir every day for week until the sugar
is dissolved, then bottle, but do not cork
for day or two.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
SwOre Enough.
Youkers Statesman.

''You say that the trout weighed ten
pounds?"
"Yes sir; it was the biggest trout ever
saw"
"And it got away from you:"
eyes"
''Will you take an oath to that"
sIll take no more oaths; swore enough
about it when it got away"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

with the muriate freely, and spoiled the
strawberries with the nitrate in solution.
1t was an expensive lesson on strawber-
ries, but the asparagus made it up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
HOP BEER.

Put three gallons of water into bell
metal or porcelain-lined preserving ket-
tie; add two handouts of hops; after
boiling for half an hour put in one cup
of wheat bran and one quart of molasses;
let 1t boil for fifteen minutes longer:
when it is milk-warm add one teaspoon
full of light yeast. Set the mixture in
warm place to ferment for a day and
might, after which it may be bottled;
secure the corks with wire or string and
lay the bottles on the side in cool
nlace
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
Summer Beverages.
LEMON SYRUP.

Put in preserving bottle three pounds
of white sugar, cover with one quart of
water, and let it boil until it is a clear
syrup, stirring frequently; when cool add
one ounce Of citric acid and two teas
poonfuls of oil of lemon; bottle imme-
diately.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN.
A HOUSEKEEPER'S TRAGEDY.
ST. NICHOLAS.


One day as 1 wandered beard complaining
And saw poor woman the picture of gloom
She glared at tie mud on the doorstep Ctwas
raining)
And this was her wall as she welded the
broom:
ooh life is a toll and love is trouble.
And beauty will fade and riches will flee,
And pleasures they dwindie, and prices they dwin-
die,
And nothing is what could wish it to be.
There's TOO much of worriment goes to bon
Theraiss also too much of ironing goes to a
There's nothing that pay for the time wasted on
There is nothing rhas lasts but trouble and
I'm March it is mud it's slush in December.
And midsummer breezes are laden with dust
La fall the leaves litter, ia muggy September
The wallpaper rots, and the fiat-irons rust
There are worms in the cherries, and slugs in
And ants in the sugar, and mice in the pies,
The RUBBISH or spiders mortal supcoses,
And ravaging rocches and damaging flies.
"Its sweeping at six and busting at seven,
It's victuas at eight and dishes at nine,
us pottiDg and panning from ten 10 eleven,
We scarce break our fast ere we plan how to
dine.
Last night, in my Dreams was stationed for
on bare little isle in the midst of the great
sea,
My one chance of life was a ceaseless endeav-
To sweep off the waves ere they swept over
me.
ALAS! twas no dream-again beDold it:
Iyield; am helpless my fate to avert. -
She rolled down her sleeves her apron she
folded,
Then laid down and died, and was buried in
Dirt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
The Funeral to Occur Tuesday-The Pail Bear
erS Chosen.

BLOOMINGTON, June 28.-The funeral of
Judge David Davis, will be held from the
Davis residence, next tuesday, at O'Clock
p. N. The remains will be inferred in the
family lot in the Bloomington semetery.
The following gentlemen have been in
vited to act as honorary pail bearers.
Judge Walter c. Gresham, Lawrence We'll
don, Leonard Sweet, Governor Oglesby,
Joseph E. Mcdonald, Judge ] ohm M. Scott,
Clifton Il. Moore, Col. r. B. Latham, Jesse
W. Fell, John Wentworth, Judge Oliver
Davis, Judge Thomas Drummond, d. W.
Voorhees,, II. Fl. Treat and John A. Lo-
gan. The following have been invited as
acting pail bearers: Robert t. Lincoln,
A. z. Stevenson, James S. Ewing, Human
Burr, Frank D. Orme, Duncan NJ. Finch,
Henry ". Bishop and Lucius G. Fisher.
The death is received in Washington
with profound sorrow. Flags are at half
mast, bells are tolling, and stores and
houses are draped in mourning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
DEATH OF DAVID DAVIS.
Judge David Davis Dies at His Home
in Bloomington, Illinois, of Brights
Disease of the Kidneys.
The Funeral to Take Place Tuesday
Afternoon From the Residence
The Chosen Pail Bearers.

The Remains to be Inferred i'll the
Bloomington Cemetery HiStori-
can Sketch Of his Eyentful Life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01

The Indianapolis Bar Take Action on the
E-xSenator'S Death.
INDIANAPOLIS, June 28.-A largely at
tended meeting of the Indianapolis bar
was held this evening to take action on
the death of ex-senator David Davis.
Judge Walter Q. Gresham, presided, and
speeches were made by ex-senator Nc
Donald and others. An eulogistic me-
mortal was adopted, and all the members
who could make it convenient to do SO
were requested by resolution to attend
the funeral.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-07-01
FOR THE BEST PLASTER.

For quick restorative is to take a six
inch square of common adhesive plaster
and sprinkle it over with cayenne pepper.
1t does not adhere to the underclothing,
as the plasters that are made up with
pitch are sure to do, and it sticks
fast enough for as long as is required.
The yellow adhesive plaster can be pur-
chased in long strips very cheaply.