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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-10-18

Though every large city ia the country
ia nov well supplied with fresh fruit there
is scarcity Of 10 in most OF the villages
and small towns. Especially is this true
NJ places that do not have good railway
connections. Even ia these places prices
are much higher than IN cities, while The
quality 30 poorer. The poorest fruit ~
likely 20 be gent from a great distributing
point into the country. If it il sent over
two lines OF road 10 Is often pretty stale
when il reaches its destination. This Is
particularly true Of small fruits, such as
berries. They are very perishable.
They DO not stand trans portatiOu we'll,
are injured by handling and soon begin
20 do sriorate after they have been picked
aud ace allowed 70 be OUTSIDE ~ cars and
buildings that are not especially arranged
for their preservation. Small fruits tngt
have been ia a room cooled BY artificial
means decay very quickly when they are
taken iuto warm air.
Solid fruits, like apples, pears ma
ounces, will bear exposure aud will not
b. much Injured by transportation.
Oranges, lemmOna, and bananas, are pre-
serypd by their skins. Grapes can be
Kept many weeks after they are picked
and can be carried across the continent
or round the world without great liability
20 l5ss or injury Peaches i picked be
fore they become soft, may be Kept sevef-
81 dogs. Cfanberfies can be sent long
distances without injury and can be kept
a. long as apples can. Bat eurfepis and
all cultivated berries are too perisheoio 20
BE- handled and kept ike he more solid
/ fruits. 10 have them Of their BEST they
/ should bs raised 4hers they are to be eat
en. city having railaay connee ioDs
/ with distant parts Of the country may be
/ suoplied with small fr1its out OF the
season vhsa they hre produced near
/ hone, but qui'e small town can not be
supplied ia THE manner. Il should reil
on a home supply.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-10-18

The product of a small fruit farm can
generally be disposed of in any town>hav-
ing population of thousand or more.
Ii all the currants and berries can not be
disposed of for eating at the time Ahey are
ripe they can generally be sold at Z. fair
price fer canning and preserving The
produet of many grape.vines car be sold
80 prices above those realized in large
cities. The cost of marketing fruit rails
ed near small town will be very small.
There Will be no railway or express
charges. Many will get their supply di
rect from the producer, and by so doing
the commission for selling will be saved.
One horse and a light wagon, which will
be needed for other purposes, can haul all
the fruit TO town and distribute it. When
fruit is raised on small scale there ia no
trouble in obtaining persons 20 gather it.
Some farmers living near. every small
town in the west can do profitable
business in raising and selling perishable
fruit
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-10-18

she added, meaning the absent Ma-ia
| Smith.
From which 1t will be seen that the uu.
conquerable Mrs. Seaver, although min
listers wife, let her sympathies run ava
with her sense OF abstract right and JUS
/ tice.
The morning was bright and mild, but
/ tbs ride was a very silent one.
( Mr.. Hunter wore an OF pression Of suf-
lfering and resolution that would have
done credit to a medieval martyr.
| Mrs. Hillerd met them at the door.
"Wal, yes, she admitted, "there was a
lady there who came on the train The
night before the new school ma'am, an
she guessed she'd nav pretty good
gover'ment-she'd sos the snap to her"
| Yes, they would see her" aud she usher-
ed them into the presence of Nays fel
low traveller of the day before.
as this Maria SMITH" asked Tom, in
q tone that showed be feared lhe worse.
tits calculated that parsonage re.
sentfully.
81 thought 5o,' murnured Tom,
R'comily. "Thore's been some mistake.
Miss; this little girls come up here to
teach school and made mistake an, go.
of
"Nill you shut your mouth, you ninuy,"
snapped Miss Maria with such gsperty
that instead Of complying with her 70.
/ quest Tom stood with il wide open.
"If Mary Smith, she went 90, soorn.
| fully, "has made q nistake that's her
/ lookoat--though guess she didn't make
no mistake-she knew what she was
about fast enough. foand that / was
/ expected TO teach school ana that's Just
| what I'm gOin' to 90; aud as for YOU, You
blundering no-notbiug, il you over open
! your head and say ] diduto0ma here TO
! teach school, and found there wasn't any
/ fool Of g man here to meet me, as he'd
1 agreed to, I'll have the law ON yuun
AS the two guilty culprits hurried to-
ward the door. Miss Maria added, wi,her
| ipgy that she hoped "thls would DO a
lesson to him, not 10 tr,fe With gentle,
loving, trusting heart" meaning hers
! again.
"Ihe~e', trunk hero I've no use for"
| she called atfer chem.
~ amt calm no names, said Tom
solemuly, as they drove or, "but there's
such things as narrer escapes And weil
go back to Mrs. Seavors you know what
they said"
"Mr. Hunter" said May tearfuuy, ~
must go home Please take me 10 the
depot
"Home! Git out!' seid Tom incredu
ously; 81 can't give you up now"
"You say this because you pity me for
losn my school" she fatered.
mo I DONE, honest" be exclaimed F.;
"5uy I love you, darling, and OF you'll
only vary me, IN stan Buyer thro'
thick an thin, "a long ez we botd do
| live"
She lifted her eyes 10 his and saw the
| love aud comfort her in vivid contrast to
the lonely trouhled life she would lead
without him. The hor5e, judging by the
/ loose hanging reing, that not much was
expected of him, stopped, and gazsd
peusively at the bright snowy landscape.
A strange conscious silence fCli on the
two in the sleigh
"Im afraid" said May shyly, that if
we stay here VEN be late TO dinner with
Mrs Seayor
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-10-18

A tall, thin man got mp early the other
morning at the Fifth Avenue hotel aud
coming down stairs ordered two glasses
OF water al the iiquId refreshment conn
fer. The trained bartender smiled, but
handed on. two large glasses full Of pure
cold water. The man smsGked his lips
aud said that II WAS healthy drink bo.
fore breakfast and ore that he reeOmsnd-
cd.
"You look thin, sirl
ayes, do bat II had hot drunk cold
water before breakfast might have been
ia my grave long ago. am a physician,
or rather was Ous before / retired, and
have made study Of lquids. Water,
drunk freely before meals, has q very
beneficial result, for 10 washes away the
msous secreted during the intervals or
repose. The membrane thus oieAnsed Is
in much better condition. 70 receive food
and convert 10 into soluble pounds.
Iu the morning the accumulation OF mu.
Gus "a specially marked when the gastric
walls are covered sith thick, tenacious
layer Nov food entering the stomach
~ this time will become covered with this
tenacious coating, which fer time pro-
tects II from the action OF gastric fer
meu's and 80 retards digestion. Your
man with q tn5alav contracted stomach,
Nith IT, puokered mucu. lining aud visoid
contents, normal condition in the morn
ing before breakfast, itis not suitable to
receive food. glass OF wa'er washes
ont the stomach, gives tone, and prepares
the alimentary canal for the morning
meal"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-10-18
SHE FORGOT HER WRONGS.
CAMILLA oRossLAxD

-. she forgot them !--Anery words
~, en- the heart Ike sharpest swords
We sbe forgot them Unjust deeds,
~ wrong that envy surely breeds
=. ,saner natures; but no stir
" nsssr passions marred In her
J. ~ ronnitering power Of purer thought
ser W remembering Who had taught;
.a.fstl'ar thev know not what they do;
I've them0--and she wished itso
iyrTres. She forgot them, one by one
,-bCngh never yet Kindness done
-.rer5us act. a kindly speech,
,s ,,il seem her very soul to reach,
tr0 there remain a lasting thought
e, be- with happy memor eS fraught;
Unlike cold natures, proud and VAN,
+, latitude she felt no pain.
RrT rather Joy, when on her face
H. lines of light knew how to trace.
uorder. did she iorg ago
issrn lessons of unfathomed woe.
-5arsbe forgot her wrongs alone,
plf never vet "a kindness done.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-10-18
THE FARM AND HOME
ARlnINGTRrsr.

can not always see the path
Which thou, Lord dost mark out for m
II may be dark with sorrows wrath,
Or radiant vi h prosperity.
Yet thou who can aH things foretell,
Wiz deal with all the righteous we'll
In mystery thou do;t hide thy face
Which men on earth can not behold:
but through the power OF Jesus grace
saints are made happy Ia thy fold
Guarded by thee 2ua housed and fed,
And IN the way 20 glory led
plans may be made which please Che heart
We pray Tor thgit complete success;
but like vision they depart
Coz does not our fond schemiug bless
Ami D. greet aud smartug pain,
We iget and murmur aHd complain
We ildhopes, like "a mansion great
With JOYS tNpee}aut sWeety inlad;
Then uks small children, we must wait,
To set what God in high has wiled
How of lie leaves on a-waves tossed,
Oar hopes arc overwhelmed and lost
40 such times hard it Is Go SAY:
Father above thy will be donc'
We bow resigned 60 thy good way,
Though NO rich irnr oar toll has won.
Though Eropius mid ahl,gtou's night.
We know That lu0u arr doing right"
a mist will often ycij the earth,
Hong Us sceues from human view.
Bus the sun Will rise above the dearth.
Gods S.Gn that Do IS good aud true
Whatever ne doth to us send,
VIII bless oar welfare iu the end
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-10-18

The Superior Daily Inter Ocean re-
suspended publication. Il did net has
eeive sufficient support.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
Geo. Angustas Sala.

George Augustus Sala, the well
known English writer, on his last
Australian trip wrote as follows to
The London Daily Telegraph:
81 especially have pleasant re-
membrane of the ships doctor-a
very experienced maritime medico
indeed, who tended me most kindly
during a horrible spell of bronchitis
and spasmodic asthama, provoked by
the sea fog which had swooped down
on us just after we left San Francisco.
But the doctors prescriptions and
the increasing warmth of the temper
ature as we neared the Topics, and
in particular, a couple Of A1LCoCK's
PoROUs PLALTERs elapped on-one
on the chest and another between the
shoulder blade-soon set me right"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
Entirely Free from faint.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, July2, 1888.
The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga:
Gentlemen.-In 1884 I contracted
blood poison. 1t was in its most
loathsome form. Sores and ulcers
came upon me until my entire body
was absolutely covered. I put my
self under the treatment of the best
physicians in the city, but no good
came of it. 1 could not sleep or rest
day or night so intense my sufferings.
At last 1 began taking S. S. S. The
Improvement was slow at first, but
after while the disease yielded, and
in a short time the sores commenced
healing, the ulcers ceased running,
and in a few months my body was
free from faint. | continued the
medicine and today am free from
faint. My body, however is a living
monument to the intensity of my
sufferings and the curative powers of
Swift's Specific. The scars remain.
PAT. J. O'CoNNoR,
sLL.AlA II u 1913 Depot Street.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
WESTERN SOD SHANTlES.
At Their Worst They Are Far Superior to
Mexican Abode Houses.


To begin with, there is something
forbidding and repulsive about the
very name of shanty. We associate it
with condition of dirt and dilapida-
ton, although there is no reason why
a shanty should not be neat and clean
both inside and out.
The word is said to be derived from
two Irish words meaning an old house;
therefore, a shanty need not be small,
dirty or out of repair. In this country,
shanties are chiefly found in the West,
and although they present no feature
to crafty the artistic sense, they are
better than they look.
The sod shanty marks the crest of
the advancing wave of civilization, and
it is never built with a view to more
than temporary occupation, giving way
in time to commodious and stylish
dwellings or substantial farm houses
with spacious barns and outbuildings.
But, while it lasts, the sod shanty
possesses qualities of more practical
Importance than mere beauty of form
and color. 1t is warm in winter and
cool in summer, and no other dwelling
affords more secure protection against
the storms which sweep across the
country from the extreme north to the
Gulf of Mexico
Most of these shanties are finished
inside in style that renders them
more than comfortable. Narrow boards
are set against the inside of the walls,
and nailed to the floor, as well as to
horizontal strips built into the wall for
that purpose. Thin, cheap cotton cloth
or building paper is tackled on these
strips all around the room, and wall
paper is then pasted on in the usual
way. The roof is of boards or of earth
sodded over.
Thus, with ingenuity, taste and a few
hundred feet of pine boards, the enter
prising settler and his wife will soon
build comfortable, if not elegant,
dwelling, to shelter them until the in
creasing wealth OF the settler warrants
a change.
But, at its worst, the sod shanty Of
the West is far superior to the Irish
mans hovel, the Mexican adobe hut,
or the "auld clay biggin" which shell
tered Scotland's plowman bard
Golden Days.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
The Power of Words.

The effect an advertisement has
upon the reader is very well illustrat-
ed by the following, as related in the
Mechanical News:
A wealthy man who owns a coun-
try residence recently became dissatis-
fed with it, and determined to have
another one. So he instructed a real
estate agent famous for his descrip-
tive powers to advertise it in the pa
pers for private sale, but to conceal
the location, telling purchasers to APP
ply at his Office. In few days the
gentleman happened to see the adj
vertisement, was pleased with the
account of the place, showed it to his
wife and the two concluded that it
was just what they wanted, and that
they would secure it at once. So
he went to the Office of the agent and
told him that the place he had adver-
tised was such one as he desired
and he would purchase it. The
agent burst into laugh, and told
him that was a description of his
own home where he was then living,
He read the advertisement again,
cogitated over the ''grassy slopes y
beautiful vistas," "smooth lawns
ETC., and broke out, SIS it possible;
Well, make out my bill for advertis'
and expenses, for by George! ]
wouldn't sell the place now for three
times what it cost me-"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
FULL OF Fun.


Professional Associate Ito legless
man begging on street corner)-
"How's businesspn Legless Mani
can't kick. "-Philadelohia Call.
II will now take de sense OBJ de
meetin'," said the "free lecturers" but
his audience had wild visions of
penny collection and bolted for the
door.-Judge. ~ p
-"Gentleness can not be kicked into
cow" says an exchange. Neither
can tenderness, or there wouldn't be
SO much tough beefsteak. -DaaSvtlle
Breeze.
-"What sort of girl is it that Muff-
leys engaged TOP" "Oh, nice enough
girl-rather good looking-why-er
you know, the sort of girl that Mufiey
usually is engaged to.n-Puck.
1.-THE cook is soup-reme in her
dough-main, " was the remark which
precipitated the social boycott on a
young man whose prospects in life
up to that time were very brilliant. =
Merchant Traveller.
AT Barnum's recently the leopard
began teasing the elephant. The ele-
plant bore 1t in majestic silence until
the thing ceased to be amusing. Then
he growled, Hush, child, or I'll knock
the spots off you!n-TId-BitS. 81
Ambitious Mamma" Edith l no.
ticed last night that Mr.. De Rich paid
you considerable attention. hope you
showed him proper amount of civil
ity." Ingenious Debutante- "Oh, yes,
mamma, l did! I'm sure he knows he
can have me for the asking."-LJe.
-Lawyer-"Now, Jim, you have
heard the last witness on the stand,
would you believe him on oath?''
Jim-"B'lieve dat niger! Why, boss,
he dat ontruful if he wus ter tell me he
was hungry an / kno'd he hadn't had
e mOutful in a month, | wouldn't
b'lieve him!"-Golden Days. " 'Nd1
Young Husband-"E r-what kind
OF cake is this, my dear?" Young
Wife-''Marble cake, Algernon. Isn't
it nice?" Young Husband Splendid
If there was enough of it it would make
a nice front for public building, y
NJ Y. San.
Funny Mans Little Boy-"Papa,
what does the Senate do with treaties?"
Funny-'My son, it codifes fisheries
treaties, and ratifes Chinese treaties.
There now, run away and laugh, and
let the gray matter in papa's brain
have chance to recuperate. WASH
ington Critic.
They were at the front gate in the
moonlight and he had asked her to be
his wife. With outstretched arms and
a throbbing heart he waited her an
swer. George" she said, in a nerv-
Gus whisper. "You must give me time
you must give me time" "How
long" he hoarsely asked, "a day, q
week, month, year?" Mono,
George" and she quickly scanned the
sky, "only when the moon gets behind
a cloud. "-Epoch.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
Conceded With Papa.

1t is related of a clergyman, who
was the happy father of very
charming and beautiful daughter,
that one day while preparing his Sun
day discourse he was suddenly called
away from his desk on a mission of
mercy. So imperative was the sum-
mons that he left unfinished this SEN
tence:
81 never see young man of splen-
did physique and the promise of a
glorious manhood almost realized,
but my heart is filled with rapture
and delight"
His daughter, happening in the
study, saw the sermon and read the
words. Sitting down, she wrote
underneath:
"Them's my sentiments, papa, ex-
actlyw
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
The White House Built by a Dublin
.II| Man.

1t is by no means a well-known
fact that the Executive Mansion was
designed and built by an Irishman.
1t was by Dublin man at that.
James Hoban, young son of poor
Erin, then living at Charleston, S. c.,
was the successful competitor among
six for the $500 premium offered for
the accepted plan design of Presi-
dents house, or "Palace," in July,
1892. His design having been ac-
cepted, he was invited to be the ar
chitect, and on October 18th of that
year the cornerstone was laid with
impressive and appropriate ceremo-
MES. The erection of the "Palace"
progressed slowly, owing to the oppo-
sition of the early patriots, who want
ed the Capitol to remain at Philadel-
phia. Appropriations were not forth
coming until General Washington
made few remarks on the subject.
The first President to take possession
of the mansion was John Adams, and
he took up his residence there in 1900,
as soon as the seat of government
was removed to Washington. The
Presidents House, as it was then
called, was destroyed by the British
in 1874, After the evacuation, Ho-
ban, who had taken up his residence
at the Capital, was requested to pre-
coed with the reconstruction of the
building, but the year 1918 had we'll
advanced before it was again ready
for an occupant. In the interim,
the President lived in a large house
on the corner of New York Avenue
and Eighteenth street, called the De-
tagon, and used until recent years by
the photographic Department. Va
rious additions were made to the
home of the President, and it was
only in 1929 it assumed the proper
lions that it still retains. About ST.
100000 have been spent on the White
House from 1892 to date. The official
home of President Cleveland today
was the first public building to be
erected at the Capital.
Hoban was also one of the original
architects of the Capital, as we'll as
many of the notable private buildings
of the city at that time. He is bur.
led in one of the Washington GENE
teries.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
Squire Hobbs Precepts.


The Century Bric.a Brac.
We never thoroughly know a man
until we hear him laugh.
Despair is the gateway to insanity.
Argument will pull a wise man
down to the level of a fool, but it
never raises a fool up to the plane OF
wise man.
Fame, like lightning, generally
strikes the man who is not expecting
it.
Originality is the faculty of adapt
ing an old idea to a new occasion.
Whena man ventures an opinion
he win find some one who opposes it.
Hence man without opposition is a
man without opinions. II
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
Rheumatism

Is undoubtedly caused by Tactic acid
in the blood. This acid attacks the
tibrous tissues, and causes the pains
and aches in the back, shoulders,
knees,ankles, hips andwrists. Thous-
ands of people have found in Hoods
Sarsaparilla positive cure for rheu-
matism. This medicine, by its pu-
rifying action, neutralizes the acidity
the blood, and also builds up and
strengthens the whole body.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
Absolutely Well.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. June %, 'SS.
The Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga:
Gentlemen.-Last year while living
in Macon contracted blood poison,
and placed myself under the care OF a
fine physician. He gave me the
usual course of potash and mercury
for two months, but this was too
slow a process, and l was induced to
try Swift's Specific. When began
taking the medicine pimples and
sores were appearing all over me.
The S. S. S., however, quickly
checked these, and in a few weeks
my skin was perfectly smooth and
without scar. When the six bottles
were consumed / felt that l was
absolutely well. l know that S. S. S.
did the work. I have been with
Messrs. S. Waxlebaum & Co., OF
Macon for FIVE years, but am now in
Chattanooga. You may address me.
CHAs. w. HOLMES.
1911 Walnut street, Macon, Ga,
or Brunswick Hotel, Chattanooga,
Tenn. a. u
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis.
eases mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Drawer
3, Atlanta, Ga.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
A Toad in Solid Coal.

The correspondent of the Colliery
Guardian reports a case which iftrue,
must be interesting to geoligi.ts.
In the Coleford district of the Forest
of Dean a small colliery has recently
been opened, and while a collier was
engaged in breaking upa fall ofblock
coal, he found a toad in the center.
1t seemed firmly embedded in the
coal, and it was alive. It's form was
imprinted upon the face of the miner
al, and the animal is still living.
The incident has occasioned
much interest in the neighborhood.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
Worth Remembering.

Turpentine mixed with carbolic
acid and kept in open vessels about
a room will, it is said, greatly lessen
the risk of contagion in scarlet fever,
diphtheria and kindred diseases. A
pan of raw onions placed in a room
where there is diphtheria, will obsorb
the poison and prevent the disease
from spreading, The onions should
be buried every morning and fresh
ones cut up.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-11-10
He Wanted a Get There" Wa III.

jewelers. Weekly.
"Do you want stop watch, sir ?'
Cskc1 the jeweler.
"Do want a stop watch? No,sir.
I want one that viii go. I've got a
stop watch now"