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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10
A Young Mans Peril.
petroit Eree Press.

Detroit Free Press.
They were in to see lawyer yes
terday-Mary Ann and her mother.
Mary Ann was little embarrassed,
but the old woman was calm. When
they spoke about a breach-of- prom.
Use case, the lawyer asked:
"What evidence have you got?
''Mary Ann. produce the letters"
commanded the mother, and the girl
took the cover off a willow basket
and remarked that she thought 927
letters would do to begin on. The
other 651 would be produced as soon
as the case was fairly before the
court.
sand outside OF these letters ?"
queried the lawyer.
"Mary Ann, produce your diary !"
said the mother. Nov turn to the
heading of "Promises," and tell how
many times this marriage business
" F 'a'1s { s44e.'....,',
swered the girN
Nov turn to the heading of Oar
ling and give us the number OF times
ne has applied the term to YOU"
"lf l have figured right the total
is 9,254 times"
II guess you counted pretty
straight, for you are good in arith>
matte. Now turn to the heading of
'Woodbine Cottage and tell US how
many times he has talked of such a
home for you afier marriage"
''The footing is 1896 times"
every well. This lawyer wants to
be sure that we've got case. How
many times has Charles Henry said
he would die tor you ?"
"350,"answered the girl as she turn.
Ell over Leaf.
"How many times has he called you
an angel ?"
"Over 1900, mamma
GLOW about squeezing hands ?"
cover $4,000 squeezes."
"And kisses? 2"
"Nearly 417,00O"
There's our case" said the mother,
as she deposited basket and diary on
the lawyers table. "Look over the
documents, and if you want anything
further can bring in dozen neigh
bors to swear to facts. We sue tor
$4,000 damages and don't settle
for less tn all an eighty acre farm,
with buildings in good repair. Wen
call again next week. Good day, sir. "
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THE MARVELS OF ICE.
VIVA: is it i?
BY HELEN HARCOURT.

What is it?
In these enlightened days when
people know everything, the smallest
scboolboy may speak up in quick,
proud answer" 1t is frozen water,
of course everybody knows that !"
Yes, so it is, frozen water, but it is
frozen water with history, frozen
water with an element of the marvel.
GUS and the beautiful, aye, and the
terrible too, that we blind mortals
overlook, just because it is so com,
mon, SO plentiful around us, that we
look upon it with that unconcious
contempt which is bred of familiarity,
and neser stop to ask the "why, and
how and wherefore"
IT the buttercup, or violet, or
spring beauty were rare flowers, how
they would be cherished, and des-
cribed in glowing colors in our hor~
ticultural works but they are scat
tered in boUntiful profuson all about
us, and therefore we think nothing
of them. So it is with ice, and with
many another of natures glorious
works-undel valued because bestow.
ed so lavishlv.
And now let Us see how much OF
the marvellous is hidden away IN the
hard, gliste ming sheets of ice that lie
spread around us, these cold winter
days.
One day we stand upon the rivers
bank, and fling out upon the ripping
waters a little stone. No matter
how small it may be, it will at once
sink out of sight
The next day, perchance, we seek
the same spot, and cast out upon the
shining surface a stone ten times the
weight OF the first one, and yet it
will not sink at all p!
Marvellous change, wrought in
few short hours by the magic wand
of the Ice King; few hours more
of his industry, and the once yielding
waters will uphold our own weight,
and yet a little later, horse may
walk in sataty where yesterday he
would have sunk beneath the indus
lating waves.
Such is the magical change wrought
by single sweep of the Ice Kings
wand across the gliding waters; and
now we will look upon his mode OF
operations, and note how this change
is effected.
First, when the temperature of
the air has been for some time at or
below twenty-five degrees, there
comes faint wrinkle creeping over
the surface of the water, forming a
thin, blue layer; then, as the cold
continues, this layer thickens and
whitens, until very soon, from being
a smooth, flowing mirror, the river
is held fast prisoner, and put, as it
were, under lock aud key, beneath
an icy-prison root.
It is well>known rule that " all
bodies increase in density as their
temperature diminIshes" Put sew
eral liquids of different densities, and
without chemical affinities, into a
glass vessel, ana you will see each
one seeking its own level, as it were !;
the denser or heavier fluids will form
the lower layers; the lighter fluids
will appear at the top.
But there are exceptions to all
rules, and TO this one the Icy King
bows not down, rather, to a certain
extent, he ignores it and deien its
principles. And we'll for US that he
does SO.
Have YOU ever considered what
the result would be, it the ice that
now floats 50 buoyantly ON the sur-
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Honest and Liberal.

When the Hops in each bottle OF Hop
Bitters Cat the present price. 81 70 per
lb.,) cost more than bottle is sold for,
besides the other costly medicines, and
the quality and price are kept the same,
we think 1t is honest and liberal in the
proprietors, and no one should COM
plain, or buy or use worthless stuff, or
cheating bogus limitations because the
price is less.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10
Orange Grove for Sale.

Thirty acres of high pine land about 2
miles west of DeLand and one mile from
Beresford, 10 acres under fence of which
10 acres are in grove of 500 trees about
half budded-5 years-the balance seed
lings about years old. Fully $50 of these
five rooms costing $1,000 with necessary
ont buildings and splendid well Of wa
ter costing $500. Apply to r." at this
office. 50 AZ
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will explain that whenever ! want
a thing, and Mrs. McWilfiams wants
another thing, and we decide upon
the thing that Mrs. McWiliiams
wants-as we always do-she calls
that4 com PROMISE ZaoGi11.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10
An Old MANI BELIEF.

Have used Parker's Ginger Tonic for
my bad cough and hemorrhage l had
twenty-five years. / feel like another
man since used it. Am 66 years past.
Believe it sure to cure younger persons.
A. OrLer, Highspire. Pa.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10
Observation-Disclosures

Quick, complete cure, all annoying
Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases.
81. Druggists.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1883-01-10
Orange Park,
AND
RIDGEWOOD,
Containing $500 Acres.
Beloao the Line of Injurious Frosts.

What the Public Wish to Know-Can They
Make Living in Florida!
Can They Live There the Entire Year and
Maintain Their Health Equally
as at the North?
TUNO the first we would say: In any of the Or
dinarily fertile localities near to transpor-
tation, yes, most assuredly. 1t is as thoroughly
demonstrated a fact as to the successful raising
cations in Florida as it is that cabbages, ap-
pies, or corn can be raised in New England.
The experimental gardening to establish this
fact was done years ago. 1t is now only mat
ter of planting. cultivation, and harvesting.
Secopd-as to health in Florida. 1t is impOr-
tant to select healthy location. With health.
you can make poor land productive ; without
it, you could not care for an agricultural
paradise if you were in it. At Orange Park
these two desirable conditions are demonStra-
ted to all visitors. Our lands are high in ele-
vation and free from malarial influences.
Our permanent residents have something to
show for their two to four wears living in Flor
ida. The Florida Winter Home Co. has opened
up the opportunities for Northern people to
make successful homes in this State, if they
will follow the advice of the families already
living in our settlements, who will cheerfully
give suggestions, obtained bv experience, to
all deserving neighbors. Therefore, going
from the North to Orange Park or other
equally as desirable locations, is not an ex
pertinent to any thrifty families, only matter
of application of the resources surrounding
you.
Send for our Winter Home (32 co.umn) paper,
sent free. On receipt of two Scent stamps we
&c. Address Orange Park, Florida. or Com
pany's Northern Office, 50 Devonshire Street
Boston, Mass.
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LYDIA z. PENKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND.
Is n Positive Cure
For all those Painful Complaints and Weaknesses
common to our best female population.

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For all those Painful Complaints and Weaknesses
common to our best female population.
Medicine for Woman. Invented by Woman.
Prepared by Woman.
The Greatest Medical Discovery Since the Dawn Of Hsory
ty-It revives the dropping Spirits invigorates and
harmonzes the organic functions gives elasticity and
rmness to the STEP restores the natural lusre to the
eye and plants the pale cheek of woman the fresh
roses of LIES spring and early summer time.
eR Physicians Use It and Prescribe It Freely -IEA
Itremoves faintness, atulency destroys all craving
for stnulant and relieves weakness Of the stomach.
That feeling of bearing down, causing pain weight
and backache is always permanently cured by its use
For the cure of Kidney Complaints Of either sex
this Compound Is unsurpassed.
LYDIA E. PINKHAM's BLOOD PURIFIER
Will eradicate every vestige of HumorS from the
Blood and give tone and strength to the system, OF
man woman or child Insist on having it.
Both the Compound and Blood Purifier are prepared
at 23S and 25 Western Avenue, Lynn, Mass. Price Of
either 81 Six bottles for S. Sent by mail in the form
of pills. of lozenges, receipt Of price, 81 per box
for either Mrs Pnkham freely answers all letters OF
inquiry. Enclose Set stamp. Sendfor pamphlet.
No family should be without LYDIA E. PINKHAMS
LIVER PILLS They cure constipation, Dlhousness
and torpidity Of the liver. rs cents per box.
RFSOld by all Druggists. =GA u
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08
Mahogany.

The mahogany, says The Lumber
World, Is a native of the West Indies,
the Bahamas, and that portion of Cen
trail America that lies adjacent to the
bay of Honduras, and has also been
found In Florida. II 10 stated to be Of
moderately rapid growth, reaching Its
full maturity In about 200 years. Fall
grown, It is one of the monardhs OF
tropical America. It's trunk, which
often exceeds forty feet Ia length and
ak In diameter, aud massive arms, ris'
Ing to a lofty height, aud spreading
with d graceful sweep over Immense
spaces, covered with beautiful foliage,
bright, glossy, light and airy, clinging
30 long to the spray as to make IL al
most au evergreen present a rare CON-
biuation of iovliness and grandeur.
The leaves are small, delicate and
polished like those Of the laurel. The
fruit Ia hard, woody capsule, oval, not
unlike the head Of a turker in size and
shape, and contains five cells, ip
each of which are inolosed about IL
seeds.
The mahogany tree was not discov'
cred till the end of the 10th century.
and was not brought into European us'
till nearly a century later. The first
mention Of 1t Ia that II vac used In the
repair of some of Sir Walter RAleigh'I
ships at Trinidad, In 1897, It's finely
variegated tints were admired, bat II
! that age the dream Of FL Dorado
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08
Egg-Laying Breeds Of Poultry.

There has been a wonderful I'm.
provement made In the last few years
In thoroughbred poultry, bred for
special purposes. 1t Is impossible to
combine all the exoellenoes In one
breed. 1t Is possible to combine
them In a moderate degree, so as to
get good layers and a fair average
weight Of body. The Plymouth Rocks
are an illustration of the best that can
be accomplished In this way Those
who breed for heavy weights must not
expect to secure great laying qualities
In the same breed, any more than
they can expect speed from a heavy
DART animal. Poultry mon, who are
near large city markets, and take ad-
vantage of high prices for fresh eggs,
must be satisfied with medium-sizsd
fowls. All the best laying breeds are
below the average weight. The Ash
atics (Brahmas and Cochins) lay very
large eggs, but not so many dozens
during the year. We no not
condemn any breed, but In the
selection of poultry. as In
that of other 1.-Two stock, 1t Is desirable
to choose animals bred for the especial
purpose needed. During many years
experience With poultry Of all kinds we
have fopnd the white Leghorns to
stand at the head of the list of layers,
pad not only do they produce An i'm.
menEe number of eggs each year when
well fed housed properly and cared
for as all the property should be, but
they arc hardy and productive, lively
and vigorous chicks. AS these chicks
feather up so quickly, and, when
Matched early, lay the same fall they
are Matched, they are doubly worth
breeding. Their clear, white bodies,
and large, blight combs, make them
vary attractive. The young birds,
and especially the pulletr, made fine
eating when four or five months old,
but we prefer the cockerelc.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08
an office and approached one of these
men and said:

an office and approached one Of these
men and said:
"You look Ike an honest man."
"Yes, SIR"
"And you are o hard workerl"
81 am that"
81 presume you could DO trusted In
any capacity
"Oh, l know l could"
"Well, l have a job for you. Our
porter at the Sixth National Bank has
left us, and we must fill his place.
The only thing-that in-you see
"Do you want a recommends" asked
the man, as the other hesitated.
"Oh, no, no, no! You see, we have
boon paying the other man $4,000 per
year, and and"
"Aud what, sir2'
"Well, the hoard has decided to cut
1t down to So, 500"
Then don't you take It," said the
mans partner
"Then l won't! II l amt worth o,
much as the other man was, the boar6
IA do Its own sweeplng!"
The gentleman walked back Into tbs
office, tho winner of q box of cigars
He had wagered that no would Offer
the man q place at 90. 500 per year
and that IL would be refused.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08
Wheat Production In India.

India Is already y great whest.pro-
duclng country. The crop covers many
millions of acres and many degroes of
latitude. The harvest period extends
over many months, so that when the
wheat crop of the southern provinces
Is cut and we'll on It's way to Europe,
the fields Of the Northern Punjab are
still csrpetsd with O green sward of
growing grain. The laborers who toll
In midas vast wheat folds are content
with elk cents n day rs wages, and for
attire theyrequire but two cotton shirts
every year for each individual. 1t is
with such labor as this--the most ser.
vile, degraded and hopeless on earth
that the American wheat grower
is competing and must com.
pete. This competition Is not a ques,
ton of methods of wheat culture. 1t
ia purely o matter cf prices. The
growers who can cell cheapest In the
European market will hold and control
that market. Thus far the American
farmer has been able to compete sue.
cessfully with the wheat producer of
India ir the markets of Great Britain
and France, the great wheat con
sumlng countries. He has, In addi-
ton, maintained q successful rivalry
with the pauper labor of Europe.
Cheap land, improved machinery
and unremltting industry have
enabled him to keep in the
field against all opposition. Some
recent discussions In the British house
of commons, on the Importance of In
creasing railway facilities In India,
are broad and pregnant hints of the
possibility that he may have to com
pete with an increased Asiatlc produc'
ton. Tia reduction of freight or
Indian railways now In operation
should be accomplished, and a little
encouragement of the home govern
ment to the construction of new liner
be adopted as a settled policy, It can
not be doubted thst the resulting I'm
pulse to wheat growing to India wouIt
materially effect American agrl
cultural interests. 1t would become
necessary to substitute other crops fol
grain, which could no longer be solo
at a fair profit; and q new standard O
value would BIO established for thos'
agricultural products for which thu
world Is a market. Hindoo cheaI
lsber would become q considerable
actor In determining what the Ameri-
can farmer should raise on his land
Intelligence of a famine In lndi'
would induce the swing of a greater
acreage of wheat, to be surrendered t.
other crops another year,
While our agriculturlsts are thu
confronted by a constantly enlarginl
competition, they can hardly fall tt
note that the burden of taxes causet
by vicious tariff legislation fall
heavily upon them. They are paid II
tho marts of the world, but they mus
purchase everything they need iron
men who have secured them from tn
government the privilege Of taxipl
the farmer. Aud although the creI
. raiser cannot control the cheap laool
q If other lands, he may still haV
r something to say concernig the ialla
> olous policy Of protection, which
while powerless to advance the vaiu'
a of his grain, IL constantly operating t.
increase the cost Of every article n
a needs or consumes.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08
COMMERCIAL.
COUNCIL BLUFFS MARKET.

WHEAT No. 2 spring, Soc; No. 3, 20;
rejected 55c; good demand.
CoRN-There Is not enough corn coming
in to make q market; dealers paying $50;
rejected corn Chicago, g52c; new mixed.
55c; white corn, 53c. The receipts of corn
are light.
OATs-Scarce and in good demand; 35.
HAY-6 0O@7 so per ton. 50 per bale. ;
RYR-40@45c; light supply.
CORN MEAL 25 per 100 pounds.
WooD-Good supply, prices at yards,
5 OO@6 90.
CoAL-Delivered, hard, IL 90 per tom
soft, 5 so per ton,
BUTTRR-Good butter scarce and In fail
demand at 25G35c; creamery, 35c.
EGGs Ready sale and plenty al
10@11c per dozen.
LARD-Fairbank's, !wholesalins at 12ac
PoULTRY-Firm; dealers paying 13o per
pound for turkeys and 10c for chickens.
VEGRTABLEs-Potatoes, Soc; onions, Soc
cabbages, 30@40c per dozen; apples, 2 81
@3 80 per barrel.
City -four from l 60 to 8 40.
BRooMs-2 00@3 90 per dozen.
Took.
CATTLR-3 00@3 50; calves 6 N36 80.
HoGs-Market for hogs quiet, as tn,
packing houses are closing; shippers ar
paying 6 90 to 6 rs.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08
Hop Bltters are the Purest and Best Bltters
Ever Made.

HOp oltt0Vx " Wv FutObt aio SOs S'kkoi
Ever Made.
They are compounded from Hops,
Malt, Buchu, Mandrake and Dande.
lion,-the oldest, best, End most valu-
able medicines in the world and con
tain all the best and most curative
properties of all other remedies, being
the greatest Blood Purifier, Liver
Regulator and Life and Health Res
oring Agent on earth. No disease or
ll.health can possibly long exist where
these Bitters are used, 30 varied and
perfect are their operations.
They give now life and yigor to the
aged and infrm. To all whose EN-.
pigments cause Irregularities of the
cowels or urinary organs, or who re-
quire an APPETIZER, Tonic and mild
Stimulant, Hop Bitters are Invaluable,
being highly curative, tonic and stim-
ulating, without Intoxicating.
No matter what your feelings or
symptoms are, what the disease or all
ment is, use Hop Bitters. DON; wait
until you are sick, but if you only
feel bad or miserable, use Hop Bitters
at once. 1t may save your life. Hun.
dreds have been saved by 80 doing.
$50 will be paid for a case they will
not cure or help.
Do not suffer or let your friends suf'
fer, but use and urge them to s HoI
Bitters.
Remember, Hop Bitters is nc vile
drugged, drunken nostrum, but the
Purest and Best Medicine ever made
the "Invalid's Friend and Hope" ant
no person or family should be without
hem Try the Bitters to-day.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08

saused matters of more value to be
neglected. The first that was brought
to England was about 1924, q few
planks having been sent to DIR. Glib
bons OF London by a brother who was
a West Indian captain. The doctor
was erecting a house, and gave the
planks to the 'workmen, who rejected
them as being too hard. The doctor
then had a csndle.box made Of the
wood, HIS cabinet.msker also com.
planning of the hardness Ct the tim
Der. But, when finished, the box
became an object of general curiosity
and admiration, He had one bureau,
and her grace of Buckingham anoth.
or, made Of this beautiful wood, and
tho despiaed mahogany now became a
prominent article of luxury, aud ut
the came time raisod the fortunes of
the cabinet maker by whom 1t had
boon 20 little regarded. Since that
time 1t has taken a leading rank
among the ornamental woods, having
come to be considered indispensable
where luxury is intended to be indi-
Gated.
A few facts will furnish q tolersbly
distinct Idea of the slze of this splen-
did tree. The mahogany lumbermen,
having selected q tree, surround 1t
with q platform about IL feet above
the ground, and cut 1t above the plat
form. Some II or 10 feet of the
largest part Of the trunk are thus lost.
Yet a single log not unfrequently
weighs from 6 to 10 tons, and some.
times measures IL feet In length
and Al and 81 feet In diameter, one
tree furnishing two, three or four such
logo. Some trees have yielded IL, 900
superficial feet, and at average price
pie ces have sold for $40, 600. Messrs.
Broadwoods, London piano.forte
manufacturers, paid f3, 600 for three
logs, all cut from one tree, and each
about 10 feet long and more than
three feet squsre. The tree Is ont at
two seasons of the y%esr--ip the au-
tumn and about Christmas time. The
trunk, of course, furnishes timber of
the largest dimensions, but that from
the branches Is preferred for orna'
mental purposes, owing to Its closer
grain and more variogated color.
In low and damp soil Its growth Ia
rapid; but the most valuable tree,
grow slowly among the rocks on sterile
soil, and seem to gather compactnes,
and beauty from the very struggle
which they make for an existence. Ir
the Bahamas, In the most desolatt
regions, once iourished that curiously
veined and much esteemed variety
once known In Europe as "MadeirI
wood" but which has long sincs beer
extermlnsted. Jamaica, also, which
, used to be q fruitful source of mahog
| any, and whence In 1853 not loss thar
4 52l COO feet were shipped, Is nov
. almost depleted. That which Is nov
T furnished from there ia very inferior
, pale and porous, ard Is less esteemed
than that of Cubs, San Domingo, o
Honduras.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08
Real Estate Transfers.

The following are the real estate
transfers, reported June z, 1883 by
Rose & Mcmahon, Nc, 4 Pearl street,
Council Bluffs, Iowa:
John Dohany to William Stull, lotr
l, 2 and 81, Glennsle addition; 81, 300.
II. H, Oberholtzer to j. M Pal
mer, lot 8, block 81, Baylisu & Pal.
mer's addition; $50.
Barrett Thurman to r. Popham,
set of ne4, and n~4 Of set, Is, 76, 80
81 200.
Fannie M. Kendall to Abraham
Watson, lots 4, 8, 9 and 10, block II,
lola; $40.
Annie Darrsugh to A. p. Brainard,
lot 10. block 10, Bayliss' second add
tiop; 50, 600.
Total sales, 50, 500.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08

/ was pilot Of the Diana, jones d.
Battle and other boats during the late
war, from 1861 to 1864. The early
fiat boat and barge pilots were Elisha
C~haddick, Ben Brsehesr, Charles
Ross, John Bachelor, Cuff Wilson,
Joe Murphy. Capt, joe Wilson. OF
Nashville, was also one. Tho first
steamboat Charles Ross was pilot or
steersmsn upon was the Vulcan, In
1921; next the Patriot, in 1928"
Capt. Choat was born In Cincinnati,
OHIO, In 1899, and 90 Tuesday, the
22d, was 81 years of ege.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08
G0UN 4. BLUFFS
ADDITIONAL LNEWS
Charged with Assault.

Adolph Crouuoo appeared at police
headquarters yesterday with his head
all bloody from q gssh hchad received.
He wanted Charles Plertko as the one
who thumped him, and claimed that
he used a bar OF iron ~ a weapon.
A warrant was issued for Piertko's ar.
rest, on q charge of assault With Intent
to do great bodily Injury. Plerfke, on
being brought 10, gave bail to appsar
this morning. for a hesri,g.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-08
Humbuggnd Again.

saw SO much said about the mer-
It's Of Hop Bitters, and my wife who
WAS always doctorIng, and never well,
me so urgently to get her some,
1 concluded to be humbrgged again;
and l am glad l did, for In less than
two months use of the Bitters, my
wife vas cured, and sbe has remained
80 for eighteen months since. l like
such humbugeing.-H. T., st. Paul.
Press.