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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08
OFFICE or

OBTTCB or
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION,
TALlAHAssEE. March 6. 1888. }
Edisors Fkridiam: Please give place to the
following announcement anent the State Teach
ers' Institute to be held, beginning March IL. at
DeFuniak Springs:
The Institute will open on Monday mornings,
18th March, aud close on Friday, the 10th. The
forenoon hours will be devoted entirely to the
exercises Of the Institute.
Lectures will be delivered by eminent instruc-
tors from the corps of Florida teachers, and dis
cussions ensue by the Institute BY this means
1t is expected that many questions and troublous
problems conccrningsour own field OF work will
be answered and removed.
The most favorable rates have been given by
the P. & A. r. R., the F. r g. N and the Flor
ida Southern, making the fare one cent per mile
for the round trip and accommodations can be
had al very reasonable rates.
These State Teachers Association will hold 1t.
sessions during the week, and u convention OF
County Superintendent will also meet. The
sessions Of all these departments Of the educa
tional work of the State will afford an excellen,
opportunity to study and learn our system. and
tend to unity and intensity our work, nourished
by flow of fraternal sympathy.
These Conventions and Institutes are called in
obedience to the law and not as a whIm Of the
Superintendent, and he does SO earnestly and
enthusiastically because he realizes the wisdom
of the law and the beneficial results OF the meet
ings
therefore expect, and shall be greatly disap
pointed if l do moi meet, large numbers of the
teachers and school workers at the Springs IL
Institute, Convention and Association.
Let every one see that tina. the blank certif
cate at the bottom of the lst page of the Circu
laI programmes sent you, is filled out with
name and otherwise and signed by your County
Superintendent, for upon the presentation of this
to the Railroad Agent will depend yonr getting
rates.
Respectfully A. j. RUSSELL,
State Superintendent Public Instruction
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manufactures can be lowered without injury 10
employers or workmen and this b % judcious-
y and carefully done In the present bill that
many manufacturers will flnd to their surprise
that the actual protection in the bill for them
10 greater than that they now enjoy. Here again
the employer and his workmen are guarded,
while 1t the same time the consumers, the mass
Of the people. will get their goods cheaper than
before.
1t ID not "free trade" measure; on the con-
trary, no free trader eau examine It without
strongly disappearing very many OF Its provi-
sioua It 10 measure tor tariff revision made
strictly from the protectionist stan dpoint, and
there is not q section or clause in il which does
not show the influence Of protectionist opinion
or protecsionist information upon those who
framed IL 1t will. therefore, in many ways dis
appoint tariff reformers and free traders.
But it deserves the support Of all moderate
protectionists, and the prudent friends of the
protective system will do well to study its pro-
visions and the spirit in which they were drawn
before they are misled by extremists into oppos-
ing It.
For if this bill is beaten, the next will, we ven-
lure 10 say, ucai IAI uoTc ucnChduiy Win tnS
question. tits quite certain that all the revenue
the government needs for all purposes can be
got from taxes and duties on no more than
twelve articles, all Injuries If the friends of
protection reject this bill they will hasten the
day when the people will demand that revenue
shall be raised by taxes on the fewest possible
number OF articles, and those Injuries only II
will ne great folly in those who sincerely hold To
protection by foolish resistance to the present
measure to bring about the downfall OF their
system-N p Herald
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Blaine's asssrtione Has the policy which
b desires continued, and which has been
prActiosd for many years. forwarded. the
results he promissss On the contrary
has not the condition ofthe laboring
masses gone from bod to worse under it
until the very existence Of organised in
austries is threatensd by the conflict be-
tween capital and labor, and strikes and
shut-offs are of constant occurrence? But
he makes his bold assertion in the face
Of all these things, and his purblind fol-
lowers swallow it acknowledgement.
con-, Notwithstanding all facts are to the
contfarv
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Hos tAs RrszDsAx.l
Aesn County scAs..-


Editors Foridisn: As the schoo,
ing 70 close With . number A. .s IA
schools, and 70 fulal q lone msd. y Ne ens,s'
NIT to you the following statemsnT, . Lex
ditiou and progress. TIER =.
have found in nv sr.u;.
schools satisfactory progress on ,sos q d
pupils and the heavy enrollmsc,' ~: pst Il q
out u the assertion that an iucr...-n oeH =
public education 10 very mauifess interest )
we are operating 6fty schools. ,h;.
and twenty white 'any enlor,I
The enrollmento Of white pupil. !.
ine enr0'i"en' Oh colored pupils is. $3.50. =
Making total enrolment Of uuna. 81, -
Inc Leon Academy has of the white ~, 80
Inc Lincoln Academy has Of the CO. 49, U
P~Pus'' '....... ...........
Inc saia.y amount paid per month a n. "
Leon Academy is. ue
nc wh;,s '. .csoo,i ps,a per month to count, ~
IN nw s:uoo'e amount TO-.
Inc salaries paid to the colOred school. -, =
Amount of salaries for the entir. ,s,,. Z,
The Leon Academy has a EnIs
one fourth of the white enrollms.,
monthly salaries 0fits three teacher. 20 I
but very little more than one fourth NJ ,s.rl
~ salaries paid 10 white schools. Ths
our county school tax for the present 80
is $6,SO5- We derive from the comrS,-a
fund the one mill tax, about $6 OO0 re-
amount IS paid by the Superintendent, a.
instruction on the apportionment m,6..Ae
ing TO the last census OF school childrro l
II is just here that the enrollmen, a.,
children comes to our aid in ,hi. snr,-,.s oNae<
and entities them to the eturs,;o-.s va
sideration which they receive IT our 49,. ~
While they are not tax payers IN a..
extent. their presence gives US an ad,,s1e
the apportionment Of this fund, jus, A. 4,
to the entire South. 10 her political r.,,..
ton, power which she could NOT o,n..-A
WELD. 0Aslss
The county school tax is not bura.,
the best investment that could possibly \. -.
Nearly every tax payer is a patron az -
school and his school tax is only mill. - -
on the valuation of 81 900; there is ~
way by which his children could be sdnr.,.s
80 little money.
There is vast power for good in The A.
ican-African and il is the part of vis,on az
der it useful. The task Of improving b- -.
and moral condition is imposed upon N. -
and We need all the aid that we can po,.;N.
for that purpose.
Our public school system is imn,,z..
every way. The total enrolment a. r.nS..;
by my annual report flor the las, ,er.e :
2,747; il has increased now TO 324O Dr,r.
this term.
The value Of County school buildinr ::
ture and grounds amounts to $I6 229
Hoping that the information furnished :.
statement might be useful and gratifying IS.
people Of our county, entered into de;al :,
for the purpose of explanation than o,h.rvs
Respectfully, N Era
County Superiuteadss,
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08

The way of the transgressor is hard "h1
gets into Sheriff Pearce's bailwick or The 81
tory adjacent thereto. So DInk BuckAes'
Alabama desperate, found out last Saiuroa! ]
ternoon Mt Newport, when he was pouace
by Deputies Arvah Hopkins and J. d. 90
The Sheriff feared the game would aH
alarm If he went down, and as the deputs
known to sometimes go hunting for tour -
game in that neighborhood they were disp@
on the errand. They camped the opposite y
the ST. Marks river. as if for that purpOs-
crossing over to Newport with the aV'"ea
pose of getting dinner at Whites Hotel su'F
and caught their man. Buckalew is an sA
white man about thirty-six years oil ase'
when grabbed was at work on boat IN
he intended to voyage down the coast rs
armed with two revolvers, had two
in his pockets, and Winchester rifle was
eight feet of him. What he lis wanted
Alabama, and why a reward was orefs
him, is to answer several indictments Tor "
with intent to kill, in Chambers counV
Birmingham. and for escaping froU the
gang. In Chambers lcounty be asSaui'ea
intent to kill his wife and children, and ne
the buckshos charges OF double barrel sn0s
into two young men. In Birmingham "
four bullets from 44-calibre ball dog Id"
unlucky detective. Buckalew Travelled
billiard, alias d. Leon. He was ccmmln"
Leon county Jail and Sheriff Pearce takes III
Alabama this week.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08
The Pear Crop.

The pear crop ofthis section will soon be
an industrial matter of large consequence.
The prospect now is that the crop of Leon
county alone will this season amount to
many Thousand bushels. Shipping to
distant markets would be the usual lot
lery business, in which some shippers
would draw prizes, others blanks some
be treated fairly by consignees and others
unfairly; some shipments reaching
glutted market and others meeting de-
mand more or less satisfactory. There
fore it would seem to be we'll for the pear
growers to adopt system similar to the
"Orange Exchange ." plan successfully
inaugurated through the efforts of Mr.. A.
S. Mann, the basis of which is that the
fruit be sold in Florida. The large deal
ers of other States, each of whom
supplies . large number of small
dealers as their trade requires, buy
at the auctions of the Exchange,
or At the groves at prices indi-
Gated by the sales at auction, and the
grower has no risks of shipment or uncer-
tainty of returns. This method Of hand
ling the orange crop has already fully
proved its advantages, and will doubtless
relieve the orange growing business of
most of its uncertainties, and the frequent
losses that will fall on individual shippers.
The heavy product of the LeConte pear
industry will soon make it . regular sta
pie in the fruit market, like the orange
and to sell it here would be . much bet
ter plan than making random shipments
over the country, exposed to all the mis-
chances of glutted markets, risks of trans
portation, inoompetencY, inattention or
dishonesty Of commission merchants.
Becoming . staple Of trade, dealers
will seek the pear at its centres of
production when they find that itl..will
not come to them in their own markets.
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claims 10 b the only living pssson who was ap.
pointed TO Ones ~ 0sassAl Jasksss.. he b %
years old, and III name b f. D. Taylor.
A dslagation q Chippsws Indiana about thirty
IN number called upon the President last Fricay
They shook haads with the Great Father, and
The most venerable locking eAsef ssaasd the OBJ
Jet Of their visit w. to urge the payment Of .
claim amounting 10 9iiSo00 which they have
against the government. under treaty stipulation.
The President replied that their grievances would
receive prompt attention. The Red men were
much pleased with their reception and the kind
words OF the President. lev.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08
Florida Chaatauaun.

The Assembly is progressing with great
success, and the crowds in attendance are
so entertained and instructed that each
day records agreeable or useful impress.
sions, to be stored among the "pleasures
of memory" A week OF important and
interesting exercises, added to the various
entertaining proceedings, begins next
Monday with the State Teachers Insti-
tute, and we refer to the call of the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, else
where printed.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08

Mr.. Blaine has written comparatively
little that will bear close analysis. He
is for the most part a forid writer of
loose and careless assertions or "glitter-
ing generalities," and it would be sur
prising that he acquired reputation even
among his partisan associates were the
explanation not found in his audacious
championship of the sectional issue. If
he is a close thinker his inexactness of
language bellies him, and exposes him
to the unfavorable criticism of honest
friends IS we'll as of opponents. In illus
tration we have the following from his
famous letter Directing to nomination:
A closer observation OF the conditions of life
among the Older nations gives one q more in.
tense desire that the American people shall make
no mistake 10 choosing policy which inspires
which gives safety to capital and protects its in
crease, which secures political power to every
citizen. comfort and culture to every home.
(which secures political power to
every citizen, comfort and culture to
every home," says Mr.. B., and let US
look into this expression: Political
power is readily interpreted as the
right of suffrage that the citizen already
has, but the "policy he recommends is
to secure" also comfort and culture
to every homeT" Did he really propose
to promise the millennium rs the result of
the American people choosing the repub-
lican policy Of extreme tariff taxation that
the democracy are determined to free them
'FRONT.' Whether he meant to say 90 or
not he does explicitly say that such pol
10y will secure to every home the great
Blooms for which mankind are struggling.
Ifhe did not mean to say so, he furnishes
another. specimen of uhiAs characteristics
oarelessness Of utterance. If be did mean
to say 50, he furnishes another specimen
Of campaign clapsrap with which ha has
70 often insulted the intelligence Of the
people. The sommoasst Of common sense
rejects his assertion. t Ia
And how do the facts sustain Mr.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08
The bill proposes In the main two things

Inc OIL proposes In the main Two things:
Fr"-To make raw materials used in the great
manufacturing industries Of the country duty
free. This will be an undoub,ed and very great
advantage to the manufacturers and still moro
10 their workmen. What b saved BY the manu-.
facturer in duties on his raw material enables
him on the one hand to pay his workmen better
wages, and on the other to cell his surplus pro-
ducts In foreign markets, and thus keep hh
works and workmsn more steadily employed
1.-THE bill becomes law 1t will secure this great
boon OF steady, uninterrupted industry in
many Of the great branches Of manufacturing In
this country. and by enabling our manufactur-
err to export their surplus will prevent those
frequent giuts Of the home market which hare
been % injurious 10 workmsn, and win q the
same time revive our foreign commerce.
6econd-Wkh free raw materials duties on
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08

The following civil appointments have been
made during the week:
Napoleon Bonsparte Broward, to be Sheriff In
and for the county Of Duval.
Henry y. Thomas, to be Commissioner Of
Deeds in Florida, in and for Maryland
w. T. Craig, to be Justice Of the Peace in and
for the county Of Alachua
Geo. w. Dickson, to be Justice Of the Peace
in and for the county Of Volusia.
]. s. Pedhck, TO be Justice Of the Peace in and
for the county Of Levy.
w. r. Soesd, TO be Member Of Board of Dental
Examiners In and for the cennty Of Jackson.
r. F. Fowler, d. L. Gaulden, to be Notaries
Public in and for the Stale It large.
f. d. Alderman, to be Member Board OF
Health In and Tor the coupty OF Putnam.
N. B. Ivey, 10 be County Commissioner In and
for the county Of Clay.
r L. Miller. to be County Commissioner In
and for the county Of Walton.
JJ McCalIum, to be County Comnissioner
In and for the county d Putnam
Isaac Mnden, 70 Be Ooanty Commissions In
and for the county Of Levy.
z C.. Chambliss, to be Notary Public Ia and
for the 6tate af large. f @
- joan -BradsAsw, to b Notary Public In and
for die Gnts q largo. Is.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08

-Ssnstor Pssco has introduced bill
in the sensts granting pensions to ell
surviving officers and enlisted men who
served ct least 90 days during the Flor
ida or Seminole Indian War, and who are
es years Of age, or suffering from any dis
ability incident 70 their service. We
hope to zee that bill pushed 70 ito pass
age. The old Indian fighters Of Florida
deserve . psasios, and should have it
Isnspo ztj6wns.
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PROF. HENRY NOEL FELKEL

PROF. HENRY NOEL FELKEL
PRESIDENT OF THE FLORIDA STATE soEx,.
Prof. Felkel was born in 1850 on hi, Eihr
farm. Was instructed in the common -
branches and elementary classics in Pisrah a.
School near his birthplace Learned the hi.s-
branches OF mathematics and coatlnusd =
classical course under his brother in IsF u
going into business. He has been called Il
made man but this is giving him, perhaps nd
credit than Is due him, for his tutor was 4
only thorough scholar but an excellent ;escaz|
The credit that he does deserve, is in the ID
that he pursued his studies without the IN
illus OF emulation, and frequently under cd
difficulties.
His first work in teaching WAS in lS,3 : Il
country school in his native county. Ehe. Il
taught nearly two years. He took n An.
part in the campaign of 1876, and on the inass /
ration of Governor Drew was appointed Sss
intendent of Schools of Leon county n va
position he continued for over nine yesr ii
the meantime he was elected TO the char 4
pedagogy and physics 10 the University Of Fl
ida at Tallahassee, serving II that positioz 4
partial time, for two years. At the req9S 1
the Trustees of the literary department, to ~
on full time, he resigned the Office Of Cox
superintendent, aud filed The chair OF EaE 4
Literature and physics in The University 81
that time hi. entire attention has been ETes
the work OF teaching. He was re-eieessd !
chair mathematics and physics in the ClT
sity but resigned al the instance of the Boari
Public Instruction of the county and took chzas
as principal, Of the Leon Academy Il 4
while serving in this capacity mat be uas
to his present position as President Of The =
Normal College at DeFuniak Springs
Prof. Felkel was the pioneer in the iesrA<
institute work 10 Florida, having conduciet
first institute ever held in the Stale under
Hon. E. Z. Foster. He has delivered n
seven hundred lectures on teaching in dI1e
parts of the State, and is certainly the best ksda
teacher in Florida
He is also known as a strong college hae7
man. Was a delegate to the NsIiond AZ
Tau Omega lCongress held in Atlaul. .
and then made q member OF the Gsnd -
Council Of the fraternity and elected etisf
chief of its organ, The PIla." Since n
torial control this magazine is admitted 10
best college quarterly published in Amera
Both degrees, A. B. and A NJ. were coa11
upon him by The Florida University pFeLSe
his onnection with that institution. H
thus honored al his own home, s1d g
who knew him hest, a fact valued both -
and his friends
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Rlewing Up Hell Gafe

has been q laborious and costly Won, ~
end iustifies the effort Obstructioas = -,
portsnt channel means disaster Oos'' 80
the organs Of the human body onns - ~
disease. They must be cleared away, =" -
wreck win follow. Keep the liver N S S, q
the pure blood courses through ~. 4 20
veying health. strength and lie; 80 q
dlsordered and the channels are ~ =
impurities, which result 10 oisesS .. c.
Medical Discovery ibr acting upos
and purifying the blood.
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The cause may be hidden while the t1S
notorious. You may not know how yOu n's
that cold, but the effect OF that distressing a@
you know, alas, too we'll. Cure j! d
Warmers Log Cabin Cough and Consun
Remedy simple compound but wOndef
effeciiue
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VIM buy . copy Of The Leon CO.. -
Let. 1t
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08
"A" Leon County Bow

The Florida School Journal of recent -.
contains the portrait and biography Of a -,
able and accomplished gentleman whom or $
ems generally are glad to claim As n.ii,.
Leon county. The following is the biora,s
cal sketch
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-03-08

The tariff bill of the democratic ma
jority Of the Ways and Means Committee
was reported on the LIST instant to the
full Committee, which Immediately ad-
journed to Tuesday, the 9Th, to give time
for the republican members to examine
the details of the bill. Mr.. Mills, chair
man Of the Committee, prepared for the
New York Herald q statement of the
changes the bill proposes, from which we
extract:
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-04-20
LICHENS y.

The lichen is remarkable for the great
for believing that they endure as long as
a. hundred years. An authority states
that some plants have been found by ac-
tual observation to endure forty five years.
Their growth is exceedingly slow, indieat-
ing that only a little nourIshment serves
to keep them alive. In a dry time they
have power of suspending growth alto
gether, renewing it again at the fall of rain.
In time of rain they change their color, be-
coming greeBer. Another interesting fact
about lichens is that they grow only where
the air is free from smoke or dust They
are never found growing in the neighbor-
hood of towns, where the atmosphere is
impregnaIed with SCOT and smoke. Thus
these plants afford an indication of tn.
purity of the air. The lichens are of no
little use to man. Some of our most valu-
able dyes are made from them, and in the
far north. as is well known, the Iceland
moss Ca true lichen) furnishes food to both
man and his indispensable ally, the rein
deer. This animal scrapes away the snow
with its feet and crops the lichen from the
ground, this plant constituting its sole
food As the reindeer is not only beast
of burden to the Icelander, but also fur
nishes him food and clothing, it is seen
that the lichens render these regions habit
able. No plants grow in latitudes so far
north as they. There are quite number
of kinds of common lichens. Most of them
consist of fiat, crumpled, grayish-green,
leaf-like growth, but some have branched,
stem-like parts growing out at an angle to
the surface to which the stems are at
tached. Lichens, like the other cryptic
gamie plants, reproduce by means of
spores. They grow in cavities, which ia
the most common liehens are arranged in
disks easily dscernabe 10 the eye. The
spores escape from the cavities, and under
favorable circumstances terminate in
to new plants. The entire productive pro-
cess of the lichens is not well understood
1t is probable that besides the spores other
reproductive cells are produced, which are
of sexual nature and which by their union
form germ cell.-F0rest and Stream.