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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1884-06-23

Life Preserver.
II you are losing your grip on life try "Wells'
Health ReneWer.' Goes direct to weak spots 9
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-06-18
The Land of Flowers.

we occasionally observe that persons
arriving In the winter season experi
ence disappointment in not fnding
themselves surrounded with flowers
and say that it is misnomer to cali
Florida the Land of Flowers. Asa mat
ter of fact Florida did not receive it's
name from any profusion of flowers
greeting the eyes of its first discoyerers
but simply because the old navigators
were in the habit of giving the name of
any feast or saints day on which thew
| happened to discover new island. cane
or coast to the place they discovered:
and Ponce de Leon, in 1912, coming upon
the coast of Florida upon the festival
called Pascua Florida, gave the name
FLORIDA to the coast which it has now so
long borne. But apart from this, we
clalln that 1t is truly land of fruit and
flowers. Nature has it's season of re-
pose IN Florida as well as elsewhere, and
has It's spring, only the spring season
comes much earlier. In March, and
thence on, the many wild Towering
plants and water lilies, which come ear
lier. In May the bay and the magnolia,
the dogwood, the elder and many others
give color and beauty to the landscape.
Ihe people who talk of Florida not
aiS AO"Clo WlleH tney look at IL IN
Spring, confuse it with their old long
settled towns. 1t is true that in the
newly settled parts of Florida, cultivated
flowers are not yet abundant; in fact,
like most other. pioneers, people who
came to Florida to settle, cultivated food
plants before Towering plants, but the
flowers soon follow Let the visitor 90
to Tallahassee, Quincy or Monticello in
April and May, and he will take back
his hasty conclusion and admit that he
has never seen flowers so numerous. 40
abundant and such free growers. Or let
hlm look at some of the finer homes in
Jacksonville, st. Augustine or Palatka,
and he will admit that it can readily be
made the land Of flowers.
We have to submit to a great deal OF
hasty and gl ill7qfeFlnetalu netalu ,jitidiffur, pss
Net US 90 again in January and 20, ,a.es1l.l
hastily condemn the country as bleak,
barren and desolate. Strangers come i'll
our winter season, when the grass in the
pine woods is brown and sere or black
ened with the forest fires, and Florida is
seen at its worst, and yet even then,
compared with the bleak, frozen fields of
the North, our dark green foliage of the
forests and the beauty of our groves,
give an aspect of beauty; but instead OF
admiring the beauty which surrounds
him, the querulous traveller asks where
are your flowers, your magnolias, your
cultivated Edens. He wants paradise
ready made to suit his expectation. If
he has means, taste and patience he can
soon make one.-WirrOr.
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the seed. This is an ascertained fact
established ina dissertation by Flor
entine naturalist, published in 1914.
1t is owing to formulation; it is fact
which results from it's forms, from the
nature of its productions, and from all
the phenomena of its existence. ~
The pink of mixed flower, giving red
and white flowers, is due to the seed,
and to a seed proceeding from fecun-
dated flower; it is physical fact, since
1t results from an operation made with
the greatest exactness.
The phenomena of these two hvbrids
have great analogy with the phenom-
ena of the streaked plants.
We remark i'll these hybrids this same
INCONSISTENCY i'll the accidents which gave
rise to the belief that the streak is only
a disease. If the heterogeneous mix
ture in fecundation is the cause of the
mixture which affects the fruit of the
bizarrerie and of the colors which APP
pear and disappear in the pink, it may
be equally the cause of the streak The
streak offers no other circumstance
which it might be difficult to reconcile
with these principles except the incon-
stancy of its phenomena. The example
of the orange and the pink prove that it
is not Incompatible with this cause. If
this streak be disease, it originates in
the germ and affects the substance of it
in the fructifying principle, and in this
case can be due only to formulation. But
this phenomena of streaks seems to be
rather a monstrosity than a malady,
since it has uniform and regular forms
which affect all the leaves alike. If it
were malady, the individuals affected
by it would not possess the vigor and
health which usually characterizes them.
1t would not be produced by preference
from seeds gathered from plants mixed
with other varieties, and whole plot
would not be effected by it, as happens
in the caulifower, but they would appear
among healthy individuals, and
might be produced by any seed what
ever.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-06-18
Milk From Fresh Cows.

Milk from fresh cows that are just in is
not fit to drink, although it is drawn from
the COW and sent to market as soon as the
calf is born. 1t is ropy, and liable. to
cause disease of the bowls to those using
it, and especially fatal to young children
to whom it may be fed exclusively.
Butusing the term fresh milk we do not
infer that the milk from cows that have
been allowed the calf for brief period
is not wholesome. At least a month or
more should elapse from the time OF
calving before the milk should be used.
In some portions of the South the calf is
not taken from the COW until it is at least
three months old, but while we suggest
the propriety of using the milk only from
cows that have not been deprived of their
calves too early, yet it is not expected
that dairymen can afford to lose so long
period, which certainly would deprive
them of any chance for profit. As a
rule, the majority of our dairymen are
very careful, and there is this in their
favor which is to their credit, and that is
they do not tolerate unhealthy animals
among their herds.
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frf<ytfstss .rss..s - :, -,
1854, by by Rev. j. PsDe Pass, Of Bronson, Levy
: County. Florida M
Mr.. sPresideht,y aud Gentlepaea of the
4ssocidtica;A y A-4ss>-8 ~ -.
A verv general interest in peach grow
ing is rapidly developing in Florida.
Every year adds largely to the NUMBER
of those who are making efforts IN TINS
direction. OF this j am satisfied, be-
cause I not only receive orders for trees,
hut am frequently applied to for informa-
tion concerning the peach, as to soil, cul-
ture and varieties, east OF the Chatta-
hoochee, and as far south as Fort Myers.
The Importance of this growing in
terest. not only in regard to home con-
sumption, but in reference to the de-
mands of commerce, i'll view OF the con-
traritv of opinions regarding the adapta-
tion- OF our soil and climate to the profit
able production of the peach, makes 1t
matter of hesitancy to express an opinion
where so much is involved. But still IN
view of the fact that l have had SIX
years practical experience in peach cul-
| fure, and also having been solicited by
the Fruit Growers Association OF the
State. to write an article to be read be-
| fore this body, | comply, in the hope
that my experience and observation may
he of some benefit to those, who, like
myself, have confidence in, and have
| invested in this enterprise, and also to
those who contemplate engaging in it.
I shall not make any effort at display IN
writing, but in order that | may reach
the desired end, propose to discuss the
subject under sevaral practicaE> heads.
Hence, therefore, my
First Observation-Disclosures the peach
will grow successfully in Florida? can
easily trace the peach in Middle and
East Florida, as far back as fifty years.
From whence it was introduced, l am
not prepared to state, but from old resi-
dents it can be established that the peach
was a prolific bearer, that the fruit was
llarge and delicious, ard that it was the
exception that it did not fruit annually
1t has only been since the war that the
opinion has been obtained that our sol
, and climate were not adapted to its cul
, ture. To account for this opinion, l have
| but to state:
, First-That during the war, trees wer'
neither planted very generally, nor cult
4 waited, and the orchards in the country
{ being neglected, began to die out.
$ Second-The changed condltlon Q
. thing resulting from the war, the peacl
: having been cultivated only Tor nom
o use, public attention was directed t
i those methods to recuperate fallen tol
@ tunes which commonly obtained, and tn
). peach was overlooked. !.
{ Third-When, after the war, attentio
! was given to the subject, the!public Wer
o directed from home varieties to thos
e raised successfully in states north OF u'
! and these not succeeding, the idea bega
to grow that the peach would not DO
, this State. Now, the erneglect OF native
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-06-18

Promises and threatenings, cursings
and blessings go together. There is no
act but carries it's fruit with it. The
young should be taught that Gods law
is strict and curses and blesses. 1t is
Gods law in Nature as we'll as Revela-
ton. One who Gates proper food is nour-
ished; one who Gates poison must die.
Human law protects those who obey it
and sets the alternative of punishment
before those who disobey. 1t will not do
to resist the threatenings. They are for
our GOOD. They can not be escaped ex-
cent by obedience. In that way they
can be escaped, and in that way is the
only true liberty and happiness.-Ec-
change.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-06-18
[coPYRIGHTED.l
A Treatise on the Citrus Family.
BY NJ. GEORGE GALLEsIo.

Translated from. the French. expressly for The
Florida A0ricuhariSt.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1884-06-18

When sowing small seeds, care should
I,be taken not to plant them too deep. The
smallest seeds need simply to be covered,
and the soil pressed down on them to ex-
clude the light.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-03-01
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

There are in Iowa four Methodist
Conferences, more than five hundred
pastors and over $4,000 members.
An Indian student at school in
Huntsville, Tex, was recently expelled
for packing his clothes in q trunk on
Sunday. - Chicago Times.
OF the 2,616,s79 pupils at clement
airy schools in Japan only 734. SOL are
girls. At the high schools there are
only 204 female pupils out of 1885.
The Brooklyn City Bible Society was
organized forty-three years ago. 1t
distributes Bibles in Brooklyn at the
rate Of 5000 year Mt an average an
nual cost of as many dollars.
"A Scotch clergyman at Ayr, a few
days ago, prayed: 20 Lord, bless the
Established Church, and the Free
Church., and the United Presbyterian
Church and all the other churches
thou knowest the various nicknames,
Lord, by which they are called-bless
them all!n-N Y Herald
Henry Ward Beecher said recently:
All the assaults made upon religion
have in the end exalted it, purified it,
made it more practical" and .that
statistics showed that the best men and
best citizens are children of devout
members of the church..
Prof. L. j. James, while on a visit
20 Germany, last summer, asked the
professors of twelve German UNIVERSE
ties: ''Do you think that too many
young men are studying at the UNIVERSE
tiesP" Almost uniformly the answer
was; 'rhere is no doubt of it. Ger
many" said one of the professors, sis
fostering the growth of class of pro-
fcssionally educated men for whom
there is no room in the professions and
who are too proud to 60 into business
Of any sort. Result-poverty or
suicide"
People arc beginning to ask them
selves whether the millions theyannually
give for public education, a sum which
Is all the time increasing, are so ex-
pended that they produce the best re-
suits; and the question is becoming a
leading one in other cities besides New
York. Tho conclusions reached are
everywhere substantially the same.
They are that in trying to do too much
we are maIr'ing the effect of the whole;
and that we should. produce better re-
suits at much less expense ii the In
struction given by the State was rudi-
mentary only, but thorough so far as it
goes. IN. y. Sun.
When the late Professor Sophocles
was a proctor in Holworthy Hall, Har
yard, one night tipsy student, rolling
up to bed, fell against his door, and
upon being interviewed was anything
but respectful in his language. Next
morning, awakening with remorseful
stomach and an aching head, the of
fender felt it to be the part Of discretion
to go to the proctor and apologize. He
had not proceeded far in his hating
explanation, however, before the other
interrupted him with the words: mot
yourself, siro You were drunk, sir!
drunk! But you were SO drunk as to
be curiosity, and therefore l shall not
report yvu. boston Post.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-03-01
In the ''Tupalo.v
Trip sat on tho stairs, talking to her


Trip sat on the stairs, talking to her
new dolly.
. Seems to me that you look sorwy,
Kathleen. Is it because you are lone-
some without all those dollies ut the
store where you come fromp don't
want you to be homesick here, tause
| loves you dearly, I'll do anything to
Please you. I'd carry you way up in
the tupalo, only mamma doesn't low
me to go up there, 'tause Pm vcrwy
libel TO fall down those 'tccp tairs
"Mam,na has callers in the parlor,
and don't want TO int'rupt but dess
she'd say might go, II would be verwy
careful and not fall. Z
So up stairs toilcd Trip with Kathleen
In her arms, till she finally stood safe
in the cupola.
:. Here we are, Kathleen, darling;
isn't it lovely up herep Sec these wed
curtains and that little lounge. Let's
play we're travellers, and have found
this nice little house to stop at, and we'll
20 to bed on the lounge and sleep till
morning.
~ So Trip laid down with Kathleen on
the low, wide lounge.
why! it's most like Jack and the
beanstalk! I'm Jack, and you're my
| little sister, and this is the little glass
house way at the top. Jennie tells me
the story every day. We coined up here
'tause kept saying Hitch my hatch-
ct and up 60! Hitch my Ratchet
and up GOT Oh! I'm SO sleepy!" and
Trip yawned once or twice and was soon
fast asleep, but Kathleen never shut her
eyes.
There was fine stir down stairs
about half an hour after, when the cali
ers were gone and mamma wanted to
| find Trip.
"Jennie,' she said, looking into the
kitchen, s'tcll Trip it's nap-time."
"She isn't out here, said Jennie;
''and / haven't seen her for an hour, as
knows of. =
They looked cup stairs and down
stairs and in the lady's chamber" then
all over the shed, yard and barn, call
ing: "Trip! Trip!' but no Trip could
they find. Neither Of them once thought
Of the cupola.
Jennie went one way to the neigh
| bors, and mamma the other They sent
| to the store fod papa, and had half the
men and women, boys and girls, on the
street looking everywhere for Trip.
! An anxious crowd stood in the front
! hall, all talking at once, advising and
suggesting. Somebody looked up, and
there sat Trip on the upper stair, look
| ing on with wondering eyes.
ssWhy, Tripr' screamed mamma,
rushing up to her. Where have you
becnp''
up in the tupalo," said Trip. ''And
we had booful nap up there, Kathleen
| and r. Youths Companion.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-03-01
First Sight Of the Caspian Sea.

One of the most singular mental eff
fects noticed on myself was that pro-
duced whenever walked to the quay
and saw the large fleet rocking in the
port. Shelley's Alastor had from early
youth haunted my memory and given
me the impression that Caspian was a
weird, half-ideal sea, with shores ten
anted by the ghosts of dead empires;
with coast which was a reedy morass
trodden one by the bittern and the
crane; with waters gray with the haze
of perpetual twilight, vast, mystic
rious solitude. Such in part it is on the
eastern shore, but at Baka the Caspian
conveys no such idea. Square rugged
ships ride at anchor by scores; the port
is busy with wherries and sail-boats
dartin.. hither and thither; and sharp,
heavily-sparred steamers of 500 to 1890
tons are constantly entering and leav-
ing the docks. The only peculiarly
that distinguishes these ships from
those of other seas is the rig, which
carried me back to my boyhood. Two
topsail schoone-s with very rakish
masts abounded, thoroughly piratical
and altogether like vessels com.
mon elsewhere thirty-five I years
ago, but not longer in use except on
the Caspian. Brigantines, with small
topsail on the main-mast, sloops with a
square topsail, and other obsolete rigs
were to be seen on this sea which has
fashions of its own; which has no rela-
tions with any other sea; which is
neither fresh nor salt, and also enjoys
the freak of lying over one hundred
feet below the level of the ocean. -
Manhattan. $50
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am deaf, and so Is old Hepsiba. and
you might have died there. Yes, aud
you'd have killed him, Cornena, added
the old lady. throwing his pretty dia-
mond ring on the fioorn'
sOn' moaned Cornelia. .sOr'
ut wasn't her fault. was con-
founded fool all through" cried Or
vile. II knew that closet had spring
lock. No; don't blame Cornelia.
II shall always blame myselfr'
sighed Cornelia. ..Ol how pale YOU
are,'
"And how pale you are, Cornelial"
sighed Orville. ''Did you really care
when you thought | was deadp"
Ladies', said Grandma Rashleigh,
"now that Oryille has recovered and is
getting on, let us 60 into the otherroom,
and leave these two young folks to
talk things over together. /"
She led the way, the others followed.
When the tea bell rang soon after, Or
vile and Cornelia came out of the
drawing room arm in arm, and the we'd
dingday was fixed. Philadelphia Call
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-03-01

tsrfcring. For instance, had You folded
your napkin ut the proper time, you
would not have had TO come back TO do
it, said Mrs. Wright. She added; II
guess you love order as well as any of
us, ii the truth were known
mo, mamma, | am sorry. but pos
itively hate order. What | love is, 10
| tly my kte--or to make boat and sail
it on the pond; and when il is dark.
love to come in and see you, and eat
supper OF hucklebcrries and milk, and
doughnuts; but just deSpise 10 DO al
ways folding up. or hanging up, or
picking up something"
In emphasizing his views, Jamie
jcrked the table-cloth, so that baby's
tray and spoon went Gathering to tho
floor. Then there were two more
things to pick up!
"Still. said Mrs. Wright, al think
there are some kinds Of order which you
like"
II am afraid not, mamma, not one.n
"When you have played out doors
until the last minute, and you get into
the house Just as the clock strikes ono,
then do you mind dinner being all in
orler?"
Jamie smiled; then he looked little
sober.
Yesterday, when Uncle Charles
came TO take you to ride with him, il
you could be ready in live minutes
Uncle Charles VIII, IL so elegant.-then
were You sorry 10 find clean col'lr, neck
tie, handkerchief, gloves, hat, all ready
to lay your hand on thcmpn
Mammal"
f"Would you like to find yourself at
school with holes In your iacketa DO
you hate when you go up stairs at night,
tired, to find bed madc up comfort
ablep"
Mamma, what do you meanpn
"That 1t is not order which you hate,
but tho trouble necessary to gain it.
All, my boyl no one Of us likes that;
but ought not each Of us TO take q part
of itp Or should papa or mamma or
grandma or Bridget do all the tiresome
picking up and fixing up, while Jamie
only enjoys itp'
Jamie put two warm arms around his
mothers neck. Mamma, You arc
great for explaining things, aren't youp'
- Boston Beacon
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-03-01
For Young Readers.
NINE YEARS OLD.

Ring ont. o bells, u merry peal,
Un this suspicious morn;
A little maid with golden locks
Aud soul OF Heaven born,
Is nine years old,
is nine years old.
From out your swelling throats. q birds
Pour forth your sweetest lays;
A little uirl, with eyes of blue
And winsomo, joyous ways,
Is nine years old,
lis nine years old.
o merry brook within the glade,
Dance lightly on your way; E
A precious child, this gladstone juno
And on this very day,
Is nine years old,
Is nine years old.
Frcsh summer tlowers, your petals ops.
With fragrance al the air.
A human blossom on its stem
Unfolding, free and fair,
is nine years old.
f.a Is nine years old.
Young Bladder, frlsky household pet,
Come, wag your tail In glcc;
Your little mistress, on tlis day,
AS even you may SEQ,
4f Il nine years old,
Is ninc years old.
Come, uncles, aunts, and cousins. too,
And Join In festive mlrth;
Dear graudmamma, b. young to-day;
Our maid of priceless worth
Is uine years old,
Is nino years old.
oliver johnson, ~ *. Nicholas.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-03-01
THE LOVERS QUARREL.

s'Never while live" said Miss Rash.
leigh, ''never while l live, will l see
your face again.
She meant it when she said it; and as
she spoke she threw her bethrothal
ring towards her lover, who had offended
her.
1t missed him and rolled down upon
the floor and over the sill of an open
china closet-one of those old-fashioned
closets that used to stand on either side
of tile mantel-piece.
She did not notice where it rolled; he
did though; and after she had left the
room, he turned to pick it up. The ring
she had worn would always be precious
to him.
Miss Rashleigh went straight to her
own room, as miserable a girl as ever
lived. and moment later Grandmother
Rashleigh hustled into the drawing
room, pushed the open closet door to,
picked up the fallen magazine, set the
ANIMALS and books of poetry straight
on the table, pulled down the shades,
arranged the chairs mathematically
against the wall, and hustled out again.
'I've had these things fifty years, y
she said to herself, land theirs Cornelia
and her beau with no more respect for
them than if they were SO much lum-
ber.'
Then she closed the door behind her,
and went away to her own room up
stairs, where fine silk patchwork quilt
was in the frame, q surprise for said
Cornelia.
Grandma Rashleigh gave every young
person of the family something Of her
own manufacture on his or her wedding
day.
"Now," the old lady had said dozen
times to Tripheny King, who was help
ing her; II rather think Cornelia will
have the best thing I've done; and
there's bit in it of every handsome
silk there's ever been in the family, and
of her fathers and grandfather s we'd
ding vests"
ssYcs'm, its real memorial quilt, y
said Tripheny. at takes goa, mum,
to plan such things. !"
The quilt was finished and bound
that afternoon, and Tripheny's joy Of
quilting being over she went home.
But she carried about the village the
news that she twas sure all was over
between Miss Rashleigh and Mr.. Spear.
She'd heard Cornelia saying something
to her grandma, and the old lady was
furious
HE would never have done that il
he had cared for me, you know, grand
ma" Cornelia was saying at that mo-
ment.
s.Stuff and nonsense! He loves the
ground you walk onr' said the old lady.
you'll never get such another, Cor
pelia?'
II shall never marry at all; hate
menr' Cornelia answered.
And then her grandmother made the
house too hot to hold her, and she went
to her mothers, her usual course when
she fell out with grandma.
Three days passed. At the end Of
the third Piety Pratt stepped in at Mrs.
Rashleigh's-young Mrs. Rashleigh, as
they called her, though she was nearly
fifty, Tor grandma was old Mrs. Rash
leigh,