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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-04-23

II le42 him many mou.1S 70 -.
and my gentle siX-year-old Nellie
lovelier than / had dreamed she could
be. My welcome was all | could
have wished, and oh what bright
DAYS those were that followed my
immediate arrival.
The third day my boxes were
brought out. Now the opening OF a
sailors boxes is always momentous
affair to his family, and had brought
mine all the presents could possibly
procure for them. Two pieces of
rich silk tor dresses for my wife,
beautiful Chinese table linen, carved
chess-men, and so on. saw a look
of disappointment on my wife's face,
but she said nothing, and the matter
passed off. &.
"My old friends came to see me-
my wife gave me my favorite dishes
and the week so happily spent was
gone before 1 knew it. Sunday
morning came, bright and beautiful.
To my surprise, my wife came to
breakfast with rumpled hair and
looking decidedly cross. After awhile
she declared she would not go to
church, though she was regular as
the sexton, for she had nothing fit to
wear. l thought it very odd, but
said nothing, having long since found
out that arguing with a woman is
about as effectual as dipping the
ocean dry with teaspoon.
"When Nellie and got back
there stood my wife-her hair still
uncombed, and ready to scold the
child for. muddying her shoes, her
blue Chinese boots with the little
bronze bird on the side of them. l
interfered with a good deal of firm
ness, and we went in to dinner. No
thing on the table was cooked de-
Gently. And so it was all the next
week-my coffee was thick and mud
dy, my meat done to crust, and I
we'll knew the demon OF mischief was
about to be let loose, but why | could
not guess.
"In the meanwhile my wife's SIS
ter, who had been kind Of ships.
cousin quartered on me ever since
my marriage, looked as demure as a
Connecticut deacon, and gave me no
hint what it was all about. On the
next Saturday afternoon l was sitting
With my wife and children when
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-04-23
NV Wife's New Shawl.

"But why did you pay SO much
for a shawl? 1t was sheer nonsense"
said my old friend, Captain Morton,
as he mixed his third glass of grog,
and stirred in multiplicity of spices
before drinking it-atter the manner
of sailors when they can get It.
"Why on earth did you pay SO much
money for shawl, when you could
buy one SO much cheaper? Nine
hundred dollars-by the blood of a
shark-it would buy house"
That was his oath" by the blood
of a shark" He never swore any
other, and the most abusive epithet
he could apply to a man, one that to
him embodied the quintessence of
meanness, was to call him ga shark"
II will tell you, captain" said l;
"but then you must acknowledge
that the shawl is a beauty-if it did
cost a small fortune to poor man.
Last year, when L came home with
cargo of tea from China, left my
ship in good hands and hurried to my
home in the little village of Twice
aweek 1--WE called it that, because our
mail came twice a week), where all
my hopes and affections were invest
ed in a wife and two children. was
in joyous spirits, and as happy man
as ever stepped on ter~a trina. MY
handsome wife was well and young
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-04-23

WT The AGRIcULTURIsT, reaches
all parts of the United States, the
West Indies, and Europe. What q
medium for advertising.
The New York herald., 1879-09-29

JACKSONVILLE AND FERNANDINA FLA, DI-
~ tnMn'lory line Touching ut Port Royal, s,camcr
tITf OF DALLAS leaves October 10 and ~, WESTERN
TEXAs October aud n For freight passage aud gen
oral information apply 70 y. II. MALLOkY CO.,
Agents, onice pier ~ Esst River
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
Daily.Life of a Trappist.

A gentleman who has been visiting
the monks, at Lebanon, KY, writes to
the Louisville Courier-JournaL: He rises
at two o'clock in the morning, and OH
the nights of feast days at midnight,
and with all the community enters
church, which is never supplied with
light or fire. He sings there until five
o'clock. chanting necessarily the psalms,
mathis, and lauds, and other devotional
hymns. AT the conclusion of this he
goes to whatever labor may be assigned
him, working in the fields or in one of
the many shops attached to the abbey.
At eight o'clock he again enters the
church and assists at Mass, at the con-
clusion of which he returns to his work,
at which he labors until the Angelus at
twelve o'clock, when he prays for an
hour or more. Now, during all this
time he has neither spoken nor broken
his fast. At half past two o'clock he en-
ters the refectory and partakes of his
frugal meal. The Trappist eats only
once in twenty-four hours, under the
circumstances mentioned, and again re-
turns to his work until vesper time
four O'clock, when he sings again re-
turns to his work, never speaking or
even making signs unless absolutely
necessary, until the Salve at half
past six, which is sung, occupying a
half hour; after which he retires to his
bundle of straw in the dormitory TO
rise at two o'clock in the morning to re-
peat the same next day; and yet with
all this he is cheerful, and / honestly
believe, happy in pursuing what he
thinks to be his vocation.
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How a Paris Publisher Missed it.

tf-aTie CoI. fnlladelphla Ielegraph,J
Here is an anecdote respecting one of
the leading publishers of Paris, which
may interest your readers. A good
many years ago the father of the pres
ent head of the house was offered a
manuscript by pale young man with
a,large forehead. The publisher glanced
over the pages, and saw that the work
was in verse. Without attempting to
read it, he handed it politely back to
the young author with a few of the
usual phrases about poetry being drug
in the market, depression of trade, etc,
etc. 81 am sorry for your sake" said
the young man impressively, as he
pocketed the rejected manuscript.
was about to propose to you con-
tract by which l would have assured to
you the right to all the future produc-
tions of my pen. 1t was fortune that
/ wished to offer you-but you refuse,
and so no more need be said" He
bowed and withdrew. The publisher,
struck by his manner, reflected for a
moment, and then hastened after his
visitor to call him back. But he was
too late-the young man had already
disappeared. "Never before or SINCE"
the old gentleman was wont to say when
relating this story, "have l ever met
with young author who so fully be-
lieved in his own powers, nor with one
that had so much reason for such belief,
for my visitor was Victor Hugo" For
tune had indeed knocked at the pub
lisher's door that day, and been driven
forth unrecognized.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
A Famous Rooster.

The Los Angeles Herald is responsible
for this story: Yuma has famous
rooster, and this is the way it came
about: 1t is emphatically self-made
bird. The firm of Sisson & Wallace,
among other things. sell eggs. 1t so
happened that all the eggs were sold out
of particular can, save one. Meantime
the sun went on getting hotter and
hotter, and presently the egg began to
warm up to the situation. About the
time the mercury reached one hundred
and twenty-four degrees in the shade
the chick began to peck its way out of
the shell, and presently it emerged as
defiant a little rooster as ever wore
spurs. 1t grew apace, and to-day its
habits are as eccentric as its manner of
birth. 1t is exceedingly fierce, and will
attack a man, a dog, or any thing that
comes in its way. All visitor has to
do to insure delivery of battle by this
pugnacious rooster is 10 hold up his foot,
and straightwav the bird will fly at him
viciously. We have heard of many
ways of Matching chickens, but rooster
Matched by natural heat in tin can is
little ahead of our previous expert
ence.
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are put in together, they will mix with
each other.
NEVER wash raisins that are to be
used in sweet dishes. 1t will make the
pudding heavy. To clean them, wipe
in dry towel.
I To brown sugar for sauce or for pud-
dings, put the sugar in a perfectly dry
saucepan. If the pan is the least bit
wet, the sugar will burn, and you will
spoil your saucepan.
| OUTLETS and steak may be fried as
well as broiled, but they must be put in
hot butter or lard. The grease is hot
enough when it throws eff a blush
smoke.
e To wash knitted shawl, take enough
warm water, not hot. and rub about an
ounce of soap in it; lay your shawl on it,
and pour over it tablespoonful of
magical mixture. After letting it lie
ten minutes, rub it out of this and rinse
out of cold blued water, and hang in the
wind to dry quickly.
b CURE for Group: There are many
varieties of Group, up to its most danger
GUS form, according to some, diphtheria,
when the whole body becomes infected
/
ensues. Mr.. Teste, physician of stand
ing, reiterates that he has never failed
to cure Group by means of bromium
since he first employed it twelve years
ago. The remedy is simple: the one
hundredth part of pure bromium is
dissolved in distilled water. Take every
hour, and oftener if necessary, at the
commencement of the disease, two ol
| RI af @1 e.
of sugared water.
IT is said there is a newIy.discovereG
process through which sugar Of the bes
quality can be made out of corn. Every
one must have observed the sweetness
of our common corn, owing to the suga
contained in it, but until now no one ha
found out process whereby this suga
can be economically extracted from to,
| grain. By this discovery it is ALLEGED
) that a thousand pounds of sugar can b,
; made out of the corR grown ON singh
, acre, which, of course, would give tn
} farmer far better returns than he nov
, obtains from that crop, or indeed iron
, almost any other now grown.
AS rule never plant large, darl
, evergreen in front of, and very near,
] brilliant light colored, deciduous tree
5 for thus planted it will dwarf ant
/ weaken the effect of the latter. On som
, lawns, however, few massive darl
} evergreens may be used with effect il
D the extreme, and, if possible, northwes
, corner of the lot. They will protect an
give character to the place, and heighte
the effect Of the deciduous trees. /
striking contrast my be obtained b
, interspersing few white birches anon
: and in front of these cvergreens. The
will serve in this case to brighten tn
, |, though usually we prefer not to mi
! evergreen and deciduous trees.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
Indignant Undertakers.

An Albany doctor, who is wintering
in Colorado, was reported dead, and he
is very indignant over it, for he says:
There are three undertakers in town,
and as soon as they saw the notice they
all waited upon me, and were extremely
indignant to find me alive. One of them
was very boisterous in his indignation,
and insisted that was trifing with the
finer and more sacred feelings of his pro-
fession, and had particularly outraged
his feelings, he being the father of 9
large family, and he absolutely declined
to leave the house without an order to
be used upon a future occasion. His
terms were half cash. 1 will say moth
ing of disgraceful fight between the
uperintendents of the two rival GENE.
teries on my account, and of the flowers
I had to pay for because they would not
keep"
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
Henry Clay's Last Visit to New York.

An old friend sends to the Syracuse
Standard the following report of an
incident connected with the last visit of
Henry Clay to the City of New York !;
Early in the Spring of 1852 l spent
some days in the City of New York. |
learned from the papers that Mr.. Clay
was in the city. on his way to Washing
ton, and they noted his daily move
ments. He was mostly engaged in call
ing upon his old friends. One afternoon
/ started out for a stroll through Wall
street. got down as far as the Custom
House, when noticed strange move
ment of the people; everybody was rush
ing out doors, and they came pouring
up Braad-street and down Nassau, and
looked one way; not word was said
except by some men who ordered the
people to stand back, and leave an open
ing. / asked man what was the mat
ter, or what was coming. He said moth
ing and paid no attention to me. I
applied to the second and third, and got
the same treatment; to him ] said
ID you, | can stand this as leng as
you can." This he didn't notice, SO
sought and found a standing on the steps
OF the Custom House. After while
saw single open carriage coming slowly
up the street. One man sat bare-headed
on the back seat; two men with hats on
were on tae front seat. soon saw that
the man on the back seat was Henry
Clay As he passed he looked weak and
sad, and seemed to be saying, "Adieu,
my dear friends" and thought he was
shedding tears. Not word was said,
not a drum was heard, or funeral note,
not a movement was made or head
uncovered in the vast crowd until the
carriage went out of sight in Broadway.
That night, or early the next morning,
Mr.. Clay left New York Tor Washington,
and died there in June. And here is
your greatness.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
How TO be Beautiful.

Many hundred thousand dollars are an
nually expended by ladies, for artificial -
appliances to hide the shrunken and wasted
form. or the sallow skin, blotches, or liver
spots, which are due to female weakness,
dyspepsia, torpid ii HvsI, .s and consti patton;
in DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, ladies
would soon really be what they now seem to
be. 1t readily corrects those weaknesses
and diseases upon which debility and ema.
citation depend. 1t cures dyspepsia by
toning up the system, and when used in
connection with DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pur-
gative Pellets, speedily oyercomes all ir.
regularities of the liver and bowels. No
"bloom of YOUTH" no beautifer of the
complexion" can impart such permanent
beauty of face aud form as DR.. Pierce's
health-giving Favorite Prescription.
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Lightning Benefits.


When 1 boarded the train at New
York yesterday morning, man said to
me:
:" Big thing, this telegraph.
"Yes," I said, cit was big as a
grapevine"
"No Joking" he said. al came
here to New York yesterday, one hun
dred miles out of my way to see man.
When l got here, went to the St.
Nicholas, and when | was ready to 60
out and see my man, by jocks, stranger,
1 had lost his address, and by George, l
couldn't think of his first name even.
And his last name was only johnson
Easy name to hunt for, eh? was left.
You know what it is to find anybody in
New York when you don't know their
address. 1t is worse than finding an
honest man. Well, this man was a new
conner here; name wasn't in the direc
tory. 1 asked questions until 1 made a
fool of myself.
"Then ! said to the telegraph operator
at the St. Nicholas:
"ItIl keep me here week. Pve got
to write clear TO St. Louis and get that
mans address,
AtlcSIdpH, 1ue opeIdGoI sdlu'
"Well, l never thought of that before.
1 wrote dispatch right away:
ITO Gettit & Keapit, brokers, St.
Louis-What is our man Jehnson's first
name, and what's his address,
"And in due course the answer came
back:
"tJames P. St. Nicholas Hotel
"What do you think cf that, stranger
| went to the clerk and said: r-sss
"' Is Mr.. James P. johnson in his
roomP
"sThat is Mr.. James P. Johnson
said the clerk.
"The man, stranger, was standing
beside me, waiting for me to move so
that he could speak to the clerk. And
l had just sent one thousand and sixty.
four miles to find where he was. Funny,
stranger, wasn't itT'
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
ITEMS FOR FIELD AND HO USE.

TEPID water is produced by combin-
ing two thirds cold and one third boiling
water.
The yolks of eggs binds the crust
much better than the whites. Apply it
to the edges with a brush.
s OLD potatoes may be freshened by
plunging them into cold water before
cooking them.
NEVER put pudding that is to be
steamed into any thing else than dry
mold. -
The water used in mixing bread must
be tepid hot. If it is too hot, the loaf
will be full of great holes.
In making crust of any kind do not
melt the lard in the flour. Melting will
injure the crust.
To boil potatoes successfully: When
the skin breaks, pour off the water and
let them finish cooking in their own
steam.
To make macaroni tender, put it in
cold water and bripg it to boil. 1t
will then be much more tender than il
put into hot water or stewed in milk.
In boiling dumplings of any kind put
them in the water one alta time. If they
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
The nle,.,ne or Strong Nerve

Is recoverable. not by the use of mineral
sedatives, but by recourse to effectual
tonic treatment. Opiate and the like should
only be used as auxiliaries, and then as
sparingly as possible. Vigorous nerves are
der them SO is to reinforce the vital en-
ergies. That sterling invigorant, Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters, will be found allsuficient
for this purpose, since it entirely removes
impediments to thorough digestion and as
similation of the food SO that the body is in.
sured its due amount of nourishment, and
denotes and affections Of the kidneys and
bladder are also counteracted by the Bit
ters, which is besides pleasant medicinal
stimulant, infinitely purer than the raw ex-
citants of commerce. which react iDjuriously
upon the nervous sys EN-.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01

along. All of a sudden was lifted up
several feet above the treetops, but only
to plunge down more suddenly between
the tall trees, where the balloon became
edged in and partly made up my mind
to have a nights lodging there. In an
other moment heard voices and called
cut for help, to which came the pleasant
response: Where are your | cried:
Up here in the treetop; help me down,
pleasev Mr.. Sheva asked how he should
do it; and l threw him a rope and he
pulled and pulled, but could not get the
balloon low enough. My car was now
partly bottom up, when he bade me
slide down into his arms. He was big
and strong. l slid down head foremost
into his arms, and thus reached the
earth unhurt.''
Astonished as the deliverer of the dis
tressed damsel must have been at COM
ing upon lady up a tree, his surprise
was not greater than that of the wheel
examiner at Rugby when he saw mans
leg protruding from under one of the
carriages of an express train and found
that it belonged to sailor coiled round
the break rod, who had adopted that
risky mode of travelling for want of the
wherewithal to pay his fare, and was
quite uninjured, after a journey from
Easton, distance of eighty-two miles,
accomplished in couple of hours
although when the engine, while at full
speed, took in water from the between
rails tank, there were only six inches
between him and the trough-a striking
example of the foolhardiness of Jack
Not but what railway servants are just
as reckless as sailors, putting their limb'
and lives in jeopardy without the slight
est necessity, and go swelling the tale O.
railway disaster; for they are not Away
SO lucky as the Ettingsball signal mar
who, attempting to cross the line il
front of the "Flying Scotchman," wa
caught by the buffer of the engine ant
sent whirliDg over the embapkment-
nearly twenty yards deep-to come dow
on his feet unharmed.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01
FALSE AND TRUE.
BIT J. @. HOLLAND.

The false Is fairer tbsn tine true. Behold
Yon cloudy giant on the hills supinei-
The figure OF falsehood that doth shine,
trmored and helmeted. In such gold
As IN the marts was never bought or sold,-
Giant and armor the exalted sign
Ot shapes less glorious aud tints less fine
Of forms OF truth outmatched thousand fold
All. Poesiei Thou charmer and thou chesti
Painting for eyes that hll with happy tears,
In iiots delusive, pictures that repeat
Dull, earthly forms in heavenly aimosy heres,
How dost thou shame the truth, till IL appears
Leslovely far than thy divine deceiti
- Scribaey for Mdy.
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CHRISTIANITY is progressive; there is
meaning in it greater than its speech.
The last. word it ever utters does not
exhaust its significance. 1t has the
element and provision for perpetual
growth. 1t meets askings, wants and
aspirations, outreaching all time. 1t
looks back, it looks forward; and its
broken syllables will at last be gathered
up and put into the mighty syntax of
the Divine Providence, and spoken out
God in realization, as it wasoriginally
God in expectation.-J. L. Dudley.
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AFTER the bedroom carpet is put
down, tip over saucer of tacks on it.
If John should get one in his knee, it
would add religious fervor 10 his de-
votions. Do not rap the SCOT out of the
stove pipe until there is good wind and
young Spriggins goes by with his new
light overcoat. He will ever after
shower blessings on your head. Whip
the carpet in the, front yard, especially
if it is nice one. The neighbors will all
regard it with an envious look, and you
can heap Goals of FREQ the head of Mrs
Robinson by covering, her bonnet with
the dust as she passes tby.-Hotlse-clean
ing Rules cftheNeao Haven Register.
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American Farmers Future.-The ma

American Farmers Future.-The ma.
tion is looking with wondering gaze at
the growth of railroad, mining and
manufactures as the types of prodigious
advance in material Development. The
farmer has learned to feel that he has a
direct interest in all this, because it
gives him home markets that render it
unnecessary for him to depend upon the
foreign demand. But the farmer has
not yet learned (kecause the agricul-
same scale as the industriaD that in all
this opening of higher and better civil
ization he has new aims to look to, new
interests to develop, new importance to
understand and care for. He has not
understood. because it is difficult for
the scattered and isolated cultivators to
learn these things, that with the in
creased variety of manufactures there
come openings for new crops that he can
raise.
The capitalists can employ chemists
and scientists to prepare processes and
and adopt rare materials to the arts,
but the farmer has no chemists at his
command, and no scientists to advise
him of the methods of utilizing what he
wastes for lack of knowledge. The
Agricultural Department tells him at
times of new crops he can raise for which
there is demand in the home markets,
and it distributes seeds far and wide,
some of which are always tolerably sure
to fall on congenial soil. What is needed
is. that our American farmers should
exhibit the same intelligent spirit Of
enterprise displayed by the inventor and
manufacturers; that they should ap-
preciate the new spirit Of American civil
ization, and rush forward to make agri.
culture not the mere follower and
servant of manufactures, but the great
leading and advancing interest.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1879-05-01

SAFETY, efficiency and reliability are the
three cardinal virtues of remedy, whether
in the hands of physician or in those of the
people at large. For the cure of all malarial
or miasmatic diseases, such as ChiIls and
Fever, or Intermittent Fever, Dumb Chills
have such remedy in DR.. F. Wilhoft's Anti
Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic, the com
position of which has been published by its
proprietors, Wheel ock, Finlay & Co., of New
Orleans, and is approved by the medical
profs ssiop, aud for sale by all Druggists.
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To RE or PERMANENT BENEr1r a

To BE OF PERMANENT BENEFIT a med
icine must reach the source of the disease.
The reason why SCovILLs BLOOD AND
LIVER SYRUP is so successful in overcoming
scrofulous, syphilitic and eruptive COM
plants is that it entirely roots out those i'm
purities which give rise to them. The cause
of the evil being thus removed and the nor
NAL purity of the circulation restored, the
skin resumes its original c1earness and sores
and pimples disappear. Sold by all Drug
gists.