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THE FLORIDA AGRIC ULTURIsT.

then started down stairs 4 full of un-
easiness, and shrinking from the task
before her.
at is three o'clock Iow, and
George will be home at seven. I'd
better tell them now while Charlie
is here, and get It over all at once.
Poor childrenl How little they
dream Of what's before them. JAM
net has never seen Mr.. Brown, and
hardly heard of him. / expect she
has about forgotten about the miser-
able promise her father made, and as
for Charlie don't believe be has
ever heard ofi6 at all. They have
been so happy ID their love, poor
dears They ere just made for
each other"
Slowly Mrs Winston descended
the stairs, but at the parlor door hel
heart failed her, and she sat down or
little chair that stood against the
door frame. and tipped it backward
slightly that she might the more
comfortably think.
ITO be continued)
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Choice Tuberose Bulbs
LEMON & ORANGE TREES.

Bulbs by mail postpaid, sent out after De-
cember 18th.
81 AS for 50 90 for 81.
Common Doubtless for % cents; 13 for 30
cents; 81 for 81; so for So; 100 for So.
Second size bulbs of both varieties at Zone
third) less price. viii exchange for good
li0bt colored gladoli OF choice lilies. Send
them to me by mail and / will credit you
their value as per Northern bulb dealers cat
alogues.
Small trees of Orange and Lemon, suitable
for sending by MALL year budded top on 2
year-old Seeding root; top cut back to two in
ches foi convenience in mailing.
CHOICE VARIETIES LEMON:
The celebrated Villa Franco and Belair Pre-
MUM, both fine fruits and of everb earring hab-
it. A tree of the latter, near my home, years
old, budded on a good sized stock, and has 800
Lemons on it.
Mediterranean Sweet, very early bearer, and
ripens late-Januaryt to May-nearly thornless.
These little trees are suitable for planting in 5
or 10 gallon tubs or half barrels. They viii be
sent out in January to FlOIida purchasers,
and later to fill Northern orders.
STOCK LIMITED. Send orders now, with
cash, to secure what you want.
PRICES:
Single tree, 40 cents; 2 for 70 cents. The set
of 8, or three of one kind, 81.
win have a fair supply of nursery grown
trees in fall of 1888. j. III. FOSTER,
Tangerine, Orange Co., Fla,
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Jennie may get ready for the cere-
mony tomorrow, as soon as Mr.
Browne arrives. Just give Mr.. Char.
les Raymond my compliments, and
tell him to stay away from this house
in future, unless he wants Jennies
husband-her husband mark you,--
to kick him out of it. Not a word,
ma'am, or you'll make me angry,
and ] don't wish to get angry Just
get Mr.. Brownies room ready, and
tell those young people what say.
The sooner they know it the better.
And throwing down his brush, as
though it, too, came in for a portion
of his vengeance, Mr.. Winston flung
on his coat and his hat, and then
flung himself savagely out of the
room, and as the slamming of the
street door testified, out of the house
as well.
AS for Lis gentle wife, she sat for
some time in Supplied silence, and as
she slowly recovered from her as
constituent and began to realize the
harnh words and tones that her idol
lied husband had used towards her
for the first time in their forty years
of married life. The tears rolled
down her cheeks.
"He must have been sick, or be
would never have treated me so
she sobbed, They'll bring him home
directly on a stretcher." Then the
! old lady's really good sense asserted
itself, and she ascribed her husbands
unwonted disturbance to its true
cause.
" And l can't find it in my heart tt
blame him after all, poor fellow 7
she concluded. at was too bad o
brother John to put him in such ;
trying position. If he wanted t
have his daughter marry the son o
his best friend, he ought to hav,
attended to it himself. But law
what am I thinking of? lie did'D
die on purpose, suppose, whel
Jennie was baby, instead of wait
ing until she grew up. What COOS
/ am? But then Pm all flustered |!
And good Mrs. Winston smiled al
she wiped the tears from her eyes
81 expect it will all come aroun,
right after all.
| sob! / forgot that Mr.. Browne
coming tomorrow, and the weddin
is to be the next day, aud Jennie ha
no outfit of course. Oh, dear! Of
dear, what am ] to do ?"
And again the old lady began 1.
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REPLY no .wANTED A wIFE.,

Your s'wanted wife, has claimed my atten-
ton,
And suggests to my mind query worth men
ton.
The requirements, as usual, are not q few,
Nor the accomplishments asked altogether
new.
A common-sense creature who can handle a
broom,
Can keep your shirts clean and tidy your
VIII brush down the coowebs and make good
bread,
Can do this and all else without any spread;
Can make her own garments and still have a
To teach and to guide-exalted, refined.
Now, what as an offset, kind sir, can you offer?
Have you jewels and wealth untold in your
Golfer?
DO you chew? DO you smoke? DO you just
take drink
And imagine your wife would not even think
For anything less than an angel, just down
From above, minus wings and a ruby sci
crown?
Are you kindly of heart and pleasant of fea
ture?
Do you ever lend aid to poor fellow crea
Or do you just fancy, like some of your sex
With good qualifications your mind you'll moi
vex.
In short, do you think you are good enough
quite
To possess such wife as you think s'jus
right?'
Would you make her life happy? Her fac,
beam with smiles?
Or fill it with sorrow, sadness and trials,
sac.
Cooper, Mich.
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FEBRUARY Il.
EXPERIMENTATION.
Independent Line.

VNor Palatka, Sanford, Enterprise and inter
ii, mediate landings, the Swift and Elegant
Mississippi Steamer.
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On - o. Get was dark one. Look
where she would she could see no
light. nothing but trouble and sor,
row in store for her own tender
heart, and for the two young people
whose happy laugh ever and anon,
fioated up from the parlor below.
And as she listened she shook her
head sadly, for she could not but re-
member that the tidings she must
presently carry to the unsuspecting
lovers would still their joy GUS mirth,
perhaps forever.
Loyal, loving wife as che was, she
could not but feel that her husband
had acted, to say the least, hastily, in
sending tor Mr.. Browne without a
word of warning to those who were
most concerned In his arrival, and the
all important ceremony that was so
closely to follow it, he had acted
hastily in this, and cruelty in laying
the task of informing the young
couple of their impending fate upon
her, who dearly loved them both, for
Charlie Raymond, a lifelong neigh.
Dor, had ever been as son to her.
Having worked herself up into a
state of righteous Indignation. the
worthy lady proceeded mechanically
to fulfil her duties as hostess, IN pre-
pairing for the expected guest. And
all the time as she worked, her
thoughts were very busy, as one
could easily have perceived, by the
spiteful energy with which she shook
and "pummelled" the pillows.
81 wish they were his head, the
mean fellow, TO come here spelling
those two young peoples happiness"
punch, punch, bang" Yes, l just
wish that pillow was William
Brownies head. lit would be aching
before was done with 1t; yes it
wou--ldw And Mrs. Winston,
gentle, kind~hearted, Mrs. Winston,
actually threw said pillow violently
across the apartment by way OF en-
phasis, not having paused to take a
very careful aim. The result was
not calculated to sooth nerves already
sorely shaken. The upsetting of a
toilet table. The SCATTERING of two
valuable vases, and large bottle Of
cologne, were things she had not
calculated upon.
Hastily she gathered up the frag-
ments, laid the offending pillow back
very quietly in its proper place, and
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-OHnt 6uC $3dVO I'LL OouSO 49, No GER
either real OF. Imaginary.
In fact, searching back in her
memory; as her husband stood before
the glass, vigorously Furnishing what
little hair time had spared to him,
she could not recall ever having seen
him in quite such passion, tor by
nature Mr.. Winston was a quiet,
good>natured, man, full of jokes and
humor, and by no means given to
outbursts OF temper.
"But then," thought gentle Mrs.
Winston, "no wonder he feels sore
about it 1 ought not to have both>
cred him by talking of it. There
now, father" she continued, aloud,
"don't get angry at me People
say that vanity is the spice OF life,
but don't think anger is pleasant
spice in mine; I'd rather have it
good humored all through"
"Well, what are you talking about.
wife? Who's angry? Are you =?
wouldn't be if / were you, it don't
pay to get in passion, take my word
for it! But now let me just tell
you one thing, Mrs. Winston, once
for ll,-and that is, that won't be
bothered about this affair any more !;
won't wont Do you hear? What
is more, am going to make an end
of it-mig hty quick too. That is
what you have gained by bcthering
me about it all the time. You know
very we'll that brother John on his
deathbed made me promise that
Jennie should marry William
Browne during her twentieth year,
and if she refused, that l would
never give my consent to her marry
ing any one else, or leave her a
dollar if she did it after l had refused
it. / never broke my word in my
lite, Mrs. Winston, and l am not
going to begin now, so there
You've driven me mad ma'am, with
your pitching into me, and I'm going
to make an end of it / have writ-
ten TO Mr.. Browne and he will be
here in" there Mr.. Winston referred
to a memorandum, "lst's see-tve
days since l wrote. So Mrs. Win-
ston, you may get room ready for
him to morrow, and get Jennie ready
for her wedding the next day,-yes,
the next day. Don't oh, George!'
me, ma'am. See what you have got
by it already. Keep on, and Miss
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Written for The Florida A0~iculturist.
STRATEGY.
BY HELEN HARcoURT.

"Well, wife, l dare say you are
right ] think as you do, that it is a
very hard case that our Jennie should
have been marked out and tied down
from her cradle to marry man she
has never even seen to this dayl 1t
Is abominable, no donbt of it; none
at all But it was none of nv dos
ings, you know that, wife, as we'll as
do. ! did not induce my brother
John to sign such a ridiculous, wick
ed contract, no more than l made
him die, and leave me, as Jennie's
guardian, to see his contract carried
out. / had no hand in it, Mrs.
Winston WASN'T such a fool, no,
not l ! So why do you pitch into
me about it ma'am? I'd like to
know, there !" concluded Mr.. Win
ston, facing round upon his meek
little wife SO snappishly that she
jumped out OF her chair.
She was not accustomed to such
outbreaks from her husband - bQt
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Pat-"An' is il the next train for
Boston, ye want? Faith that wint
an hour ago, sorr p-Hdrvdrd Lam
pooh.
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skinny MEN.

"Wells' Health Renewer' restores
health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, I'M
potence, Sexual Debility. 81.
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An attractive youthful appearance
secured by using Parker's Hair Balsam
to all who are getting gray.
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CONNECTIONS.
At Palatlxa with all fast River Steamers for
all points in South Florida, st. Augustine
Green Cove Springs, Jacksonville, and ali
points East, West, and North.
At Waits Crossing with Peninsula Railroad
for Waldo.
At Perry Junction with Ocala Division for
Micanopy, Orange Lake, Ocala and interInedi-
ate points.
At Gainesville with Transit Railroad for
Cedar Key, Pensacola and New Orleans.
At Ocala with Peninsula Railway for all in
terror points in South Florida, Tampa
and Charlotte Harbor and hacks for Silver
Springs
Passengers leaving Ocala at a. M, Gaines
vile at 10 10 a. M, arrive at Jacksonville at
p. M, connecting with Waycross train which
leaves at 6 p. m.
Tourists and Sportsmen Tickets at greatly
reduced raues on sale.
II. S. MING, ). II: BASS,
Gen. supt. Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agt.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
ILLINOIS CITY.

ILLINOIS CITY. April 81. 1888.
Your correspondent just arrived at
Illinois City from travelling through the
towns of Buffalo and Drury.
The farmers are as busy as the little
honey bee; sowing oats and blowing for
corn. Everybody is in good spirits and
trying to have this little town keep up
with the times They are now erecting
school house, which will be the finest
in the lower end of the county. 1t is a
two-story frame structure, forty feet
square, with belfry on top of the build
ing The contract was given to MIR.
Hays. of Andalusia. for ST 800, with the
agreement that the building should be
completed ready for furnishing. 1t is to
be finished the 1st of June, 1888.
The election came off last Saturday, to
vote for special tax of per cent In
consequence of this move there was
strong talking and some ha,d feelings;
owners of land in this district came from
adjoining districts TO use their power TO
defeat the tax. but their labors were in
vain, as the count showed % for, and 10
against.
Last Monday, about o'clock p. m.
Cornelius Hawk left his place of residence,
known as the Ballord farm, to set some
IISn hooks, anu ifRhI tHe SoFeEnheht
light at hfcPherson's Landing. While out
on the river in a skiff, from some unknown
cause one barrel of his gun was discharged
the contents entering his right arm just
below the shoulder, SCATTERING the bones,
and leaving only small piece of flesh.
He started for home, screaming as he
went; his wife heard him and succeeded in
getting him home, IN a weakened and
fainting condition. Drs- Tyler and Twigg
were called. but the poor man was br cath
ing his last as they reached the place. He
leaves wife and six helpless children,
the oldest of which is 12 years The fu
neral took place at the U. B. church We'd
nesday last at 2 p. In., and was attended
by large concourse of people.
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Geo. w. d. HARRIS,
Real Estate
Insurance Agency.
FOR SALE.

Fine lot ON 9th ave and nth street.
Fine residence lots in best part of city; easy
terms.
$1,000 will buy row of three buildings which
rent for $25 per month.
So 500 will buy a nice residence with large
ground, in choice neighborhood.
So 500 buys nearly new honse, nine rooms, in
upper part of city that cost 81 500 to build honse
el,10O will buy good house and lot on 3D.
avenue.
81 900 buys good house, rooms. dry cellar.
$3.50 will take a good house, rooms, with barn.
in Greenbush; terms easy.
5000 will buy house and lot well located.
Nice residence on the bluff cheap
$3.50 takes an acre Of ground with house. barn,
fruit. etc. on the bluff.
8 Acres ON the blnff with new house, barn, etc;
all kinds of fruit; cheap, ON easy terms
Fine land for gardening adjoining the city and
on bluff.
street.
Nice brick residence with fine grounds and cut
buildings, outside city limits, on street car line
Large dwelling and grounds, well located, for
boarding house, saloon or summer garden.
Eighty feet front with two good buildings, next
to & passenger depot, on Moline avenue;
fine location for boarders, restaurant saloon,
market or any kind of business.
81, 800 will buy fine business corner lot, s0x
100 with dwelling and barn. ON 9TH avenue.
$1,000 will buy good house and an acre of land
on Milan street railway
$1,000 buys a house aud corner lot 60x15O Oh
9th avenue.
$3.50 takes house and lot on 5th street
Corner store and dwelling, large lot, 9th street.
good business location.
New house, 2 rooms, lot 42KI42 in upper part Of
the city for 81 600
INSURE your property with Geo. ". D, HAIR
RS Standard, Reliable Companies represented
No. 1920 SECOND AVENUE.
apl-edly Under Harper House
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
A NEW BUILDING.

1t will be seen by looking over the re-
port of the board of supervisors. tina t
honorable body, this morning, voted to
expend a sum not exceeding $1,000 for
the erection of q new county building, to
contain offices for the circuit and county
judges, The building of new offices is
rendered necessary by the cramped condi-
ton of the present offices, and for suff1-
cient room to keep the county records in
proper manner. The work of erecting
the building has been placed in the hands
of the committee on public expenditures,
with two additional members. The cite
selected is the southeast corner of the
court house yard. where the ground is
high, and where dampness would not be
so prevalent The dimension of the
building is to be 56x38 feet, and the vault
room viii be 46x22 feet There will be
the addition of tower or second story,
large enough for circuit judges office.
The work will be given to the lowest bid
der, but the cost must not exceed So, 600.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
AN EXAMPLE.

Peoria Freeman. Two years ago Dav
export, Iowa, like Peoria, had large
floating Indebtedness. For years men
were elected to the Office of mayor with
out any special fitness for the place, bui
rather because they had failed in business
and needed it." Two years ago the
Davenporters came to the conclusion that
they had made a mistake and they chose
a man who was a shrewd business man,
one who had made money for himself,
and what was the result? To-day the
city does not owe dollars Indebtedness,
and there is money in the treasury Al
the same time internal improvements
were carried on and the work done better
than ever and more of it, for the rings
who bled the city were shut out. The
fever for trying business man for mayor
of Peoria is gaining ground, and we ex-
pect to see such man the next mayor
of this city.
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JOTs FROM MILAN.

I'VE still live"
shake for we have clean cutters
now. Charlie Davis, with force of men.
did good job on them.
Lots of water now The Mississippi is
running Rock River up hill.
Supt. Scott, of the street railway. is
having the frogs at the bridge approaches
moved farther down the road, and here
after, with ordinary care, one will have
no ''dished" wheels.
It is time that someone, either the town
authorities, or parties directly interested,
should reconstruct the sidewalks III the
vicinity of the post-offiee. Better none
at all than the man trap it is at present.
1t is not pride that kills our village.
The metamorphosis of the Clyde House
House will soon be complete. Charlie
Dibbern viii then have one of the finest
hardware rooms in the county 'The
building has frontage of 80 feet and is
40 feet deep. 5Ox80 of it being two
stories.
"Doc" Latin, former Milan boy, is in
the drug business again, in Nebraska.
Miss Mamie Honens goes to Central
Iowa on Saturday next to visit friends.
Joe. our Joe, everybody's Joe. you
know him, is bothered too much since
the street cars have been running at night.
by the irrepresslble hoodlums. An even
ing in the cooler would-cure them.
How would this idea strike the Milan
ers? Save your money and buy not a
farm but a fire engine There are sew
eral schemes whereby one could be pur-
chased and there would be no attending
financial burden The idea may not seem
patent to all, but let the '.slow to grasp"
open his ears about midnight when the
breeze is blowing up the valley. and i'm
agine blaze three or four doors to wind
ward. about that time he would be
anxious for a steamer.
LET the dance roll on" Last night
the gay and festive took advantage of
| carpets up and gave Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Johnston very pleasant surprise, not
forgetting lunch and music. Dancing be-
gan soon after the arrival The program
designed by one of the leading spirits, was
unique, the background in pasteboard,
the foreground in lead. After the dance
had "gOne on" for a seasonable time, the
company, using words not our own, "got
gone" on the lunch, and soon the lunch
was gone, and. in fact, after another
hour, everybody and everything was
gone There were present the Mrs. r.
p. Dart. G. nj. Dickson, and Misses Sadie
Davis, Ella Kerr, r. Witt, Mamie Honens.
Hattie Honens, Alice Dickson, Jennie
Young Mollie Clippinger, Sadie John
ston and Emma Johnston, George M.
Dickson, Cash Hartman, r. P. Dart, s. r.
Hartman, HI. L. Frauing, John Zahn. F.
James Medill Will G. Whitehead, Ed. C.
Dickson. and J. G. Johnston. All voted
it real Coy"
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The last of the four enormous wal
ships built for the Italian navy has just
been completed The names of these
vessels are Tin the order of their construc.
tion) the Dandolo, the Duilio, the Italia
and the Lepanto. 1t Is said that any one
of the four SIS match for whole for
eign fleet" The Inf1exible, the most
powerful vessel of the. British navy,
would be completely at the mercy of the
Lepanto, whose guns can readily pierce
twenty-four inches of armor, while her
own armor, thirty-six inches in thickness.
will resist the shot of 1901 gun, as
shown by the recent experiments at
Spezia. The Lepanto carries four 100
ton guns.
A vivid impression of the sudden fury
of the southern cyclone is conveyed by
this brief statement of Mr. b. F. Jones,
of Beauregard, Miss, who, the moment
he saw the danger coming. called his wife
and little boy into the yard and made
them lie flat on the ground, and grasp
some small shrubs which stood within
reach: II put one arm around my wife, I"
says Mr.. Jones, while with the other /
clasped small tree, and made my son lie
close up to me, and then | said to them,
Hold on, hold on. for Gods sake 1t is
for life I and then the wind came. There
was whirl and a roar. l was shaken
and heard the crash of my fallen house.
An instant and it was over. | still held
my wife in my arms, but she was insensi
bic, and my boy was still nesting close
up to me, but bruised and bleeding" All
three escaped without serious injury,
thanks to Mr.. Jones presence of mind
and the prompt obedience of his wife and
child
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-03
SCHROEDER sCOOPED.
The Banner Ward Of the Democracy
Boosts Henry Lidders Into the
Aldermanie Seat,
Notwithstanding the Desperate Efforts
of the Republican Bosses to
Carry the Day.

The battle is over, and the victory is
his loudest, and tell the people that the
Third is still loyal For the past few
weeks its area has been travelled early and
late, and the moon has waned and the
light in the east proclaimed the break of
day, before the leaders of the party of
moral ideas would seek the god of sleep.
The tread of their forces could be heard in
the still watches of the night, vending
their way from one place to another, un-
til the book beer gave out. and the cleo
trio lights were supplanted by the sums
rays. Although they were weary and
footsore, they struggled bravely, not
withstanding defeat constantly stared
them in the face. They have the empty
satisfaction of knowing they did their
best, and this is their only consolation.
The fates were against them and although
money was spent without stint, it did not
have the desired effect The voters of
the noble Third cannot be bought by
filthy lucre, which lesson the republicans
have evidently learned by the result of
yesterdays election.
There was total vote of $40. nearly
a full vote. Henry ladders received EOS,
and Fred Schroeder 14O, making Lidders'
majority 68. When the result became
known, there was general congratulation
among the democrats. Although the re-
suit was not unexpected, there were many
who feared that the extra exertions made
by the republicans, and the large amount
of money spent by them would have the
effect of beating Mr.. Lidders. This was
not the case, however, with the demo
cratic leaders in the ward, who were con-
f1dent from the start, of his election, and
figured on the majority, The republicans
who could be seen in knots early in the
evening discussing the probable result,
did not tarry long on the streets, but
quietly dispersed for home, to get a good
nights rest. and make up for loss of sleep.