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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29
THE WORST WRECK, PHYSICALLY


JACKSON. Mich. October. 1885.
Rheumatic Syrup 20.
GENTLEMEN: In November. 1884. / was
cut in the wrist by n broken bottle. from
which / suffered extreme pain. called a
doctor who pronounced 1t sciatic rheumat-
ism. He gave me "a morphine injection
in my right shoulder. which resulted in
paralyzing my right side. was kept un-
der the Influence OF morphine until last
March. Ny right leg and arm had become
badly withered and my joints were so
stiff that there was but little action in
them. About that time 1 discontinued
the use OF morphine. About SIX weeks
and was advised 20 try 1t. And here let me
impress this fact upon your mind. that my
right arm and leg were shrunken. para
lyZed. and withered so much that i could
hardly walk or swing along, and that but
little. and attended with great effort and
pain. Since have been takin your Syrup
j have lett off the use OF crutches entirely.
and only use cane. and for the past few
days | often forget 10 and walk without any
aid. To say that / am happy. and that it
has greatly benefited me. but poorly ex-
presses my idea OF your Rheumatic syrup.
Yours truly. G. ID. DEMO.
Dealer in General Groceries, corner Trail
and Mechanic Streets.
Mr.. G. ID. DEMO is man we'll known in
this community. and was probably the
worst wreck. physically. OF any man this
country ever saw. he was paralyzed from
rheumatic poison, and no one ever ex-
it Is simply marvellous The above state
meIit made by him is true. and may be
fully relied upon. am truly yours.
FRANK l.. SMITH,
Ex-member State Legislature. and Pro-
prietor Hurd House. Jackson. Mich.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29
Misdirected Sympathy.

A young man who met Miss
Thomas at dinner recently was called
upon to sympathize with her because
her father would not take her to
the German opera. He had taken her
once and gone TO sleep, she averred.
The young man suggested that per-
haps the inappreciative papa might
enjoy light opera, but was quickly in
formed that the gentleman understood
Wagner music we'll enough, but dis
liked the mode of presentation. Later
on the young man was little uncom-
Portable when told that he had been
talking to a daughter of Theodore
Thomas. Philadelphia Press.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29
The Mature and Immature Mind.

Il beg your pardon, sir, but / find
this treatise on representative govern
ment almost incomprehensible. / have
come TO return it.
What's the matter with it ?"
ut abounds in classical, scientific,
and other illusions, and contains an
immense number of words which / am
obliged to look up in the dictionary
and when L have done 80 find them
marked obsolete"
"Ah, L seel 1t was a mistake. This
work is intended to he used in schools.
/ will give you another treatise on the
same subject for grown readers that
can be understood. Time.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29
The Ladies' Smoking-Jacket.

The Russian woman of fashion is
almost invariably a smoker; nor does
her dainty Parisienne sistrr object to
the weed, as a usual thing. In Amer
lea, fair smokers are rarely met with
outside of the massive seminary por-
tails: and, even in this instance, it may
be claimed that the practice is in
dulged in more through the miscellaneous
desire to break rules than actual fancy
for the weed. Despite this, the breeze
of fashion is blowing briskly in the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29
Western Lakes Drying Up.

The lakes in Eastern Oregon, as
we'll as In Nevada, are driving up In
some instances the water IN the lakes
is subsiding because the streams which
empty into them have been diverted
fIom their natural channels for pur-
poses of irrigation, but the continuous
drought, doubtless, has had much to
60 with the low stage of water in them.
The HerdLd, published in the new
county of Harvey, Ore. says not over
four square miles of the original bed
of Warner Lake is now covered with
water, whereas in 1865 there was
seven feet of water where the land is
now dry, and this spring a stack con-
tanning 300 tons of hay was burned on
land which in 1874 was surveyed as
Warner Lake. Goose Lake, which
once reached Lakeview, Ore, is now
five miles away, and Malheur Lake,
in Harvey County, is eight feet lower
than at any period within the memory
of the oldest inhabitant. In this county
Humboldt Lake, which some years
ago comprised sheet of water sixteen
or eighteen miles long and from eight
to twelve miles wide, is now only a few
miles long and perhaps a mile or two
wide. The Humboldt has not dis
charged any water into the lake for
several years, and a large area, which
was covered several feet with water at
one time, is now rs dry as any other
part of the Humboldt Valley. 1t is a
fact, however, that the lake was as
low nine or ten years ago as it is to-
day, and that five years ago it was as
high as it was ever known to be. I'm
migrants in early days who saw the
Humboldt discharge an immense vol
ume of water into the lake, or sink, as
it was called. believed it had a sub
terranean outlet; but that idea was
erroneous, as the volume of water was
reduced by evaporation, not drainage.
Uili1leniltccG iSilrer State.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29
How 10 Get Rid OF GOnhers.

Gophers are so numerous in Dakota
that they are a great nuisance to farm
ers. Frequently the little animals get
into field and spoil a days labor of
the husbandman 10y digging up the
corn which he has just planted. A
South Dakota man has hit upon the ex-
pedient of smoking his seed corn, and
he says the gophers won't touch it. He
puts it in sack, hangs the sack in the
upper part of barrel, then builds a
smudge in the barrel and smokes il
just as he would ham.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

direction of little early spring neg
lige garment, called the ladies' smok-
ing-jacket. 1t is "chic" affair, open
ing from the throat, displays n trim
fitting waist beneath. 1t is made of a
bright-colored tint of soft, twilled
silk, and is lavishly covered with
.tinsel, embroidery and braid. There
is just sufficient of the militaire air
about it to suggest the accompaniment
of q mild-toned cigarette. - Table Talk.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29
100 Ladies' Wanted,

And 100 mon TO call daily on any druggist
for n free trial package OF Lanes Family
Medicine. the great root and herb remedy.
discovered by DIR. Slas Lane while In the
Rocky Mountains. For diseases OF the
blood. liver and kidneys IL is a positive
cure. For constipation and clearing up the
complexion IL does wonders. Children like
1t. Every one praises IL. Large size pack
age. 80 cents. At all druggists.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29
WHAT Is sweeter than roses
Tina bloom in the beauty OF Jun,

WHAT Is sweeter than roses
Thay bloom in the beauty OF June?
Or the stately and fragrant lilies
Whose bells ring n summer tune?
ALI, sweeter the roses blowing
On the checks OF those We love,
And the lily OF health that's glowing
The cheeks red rose above.
But how soon the lily and the rose wither
in the faces of our American women? Why
is iti Simply because SO many OF them are
victims of weaknesses. irregularities, and
functional arrangements incidental TO the
Sex. II they would use DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription all these beauty and health de-
stroying ailments might be- warded off. and
we would hear less about women growing
old before their time"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

HENDERSON (who is struck with an
idea -Baw Jove, Minnie, but isn't it
dooced odd, don't yer know, that the
first President should have had the
same name as the Capital of the United
States? And quite appropriate, too,
when fellah comes to think of it, don't
yer know.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29
How Opium Is Secured,

Opium is gotten by cutting the cap
sule of the poppy flower with a notched
iron instrument at sunrise, and by the
next morning a drop or so of juice has
oozed out. This is scraped off and
saved by the grower, and after he has
a vessel full of it it is strained and
dried. 1t takes great many peoples
to make a pound of opium, and it goes
through a number of processes before
it Is ready for the market. In liquid
state it looks like dark strawberry
lam.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

MISS PLAINUM-That horrid Mrs.
Butte actually has her photographs for
sale in the stationers' shops. / could
not do such thing under any consider
alton. Her bitterest friend-You have
not the face to, have you, dear?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

AT Tampa City, Ia, revivalist
asked all in the church who had paid
their debts to stand up. They all rose
except the editor. who said he was un-
able to pay his debts because all the
rest of the congregation owed him sub
scriptions.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

The wild rumor is borne across the
seas that Queen Victoria is exceedingly
fond of tapioca pudding. Now let some
one cable to London that Baby Mckee
likes sugar.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

Mrs. SLIMDIET boarding house
keeper)-Isn't this coffee just leetle
thin ? Cook-I amt made the coffee
vet. mum: that's water.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

HAVE you ever tried Dobbins' Electric
Soap? II don't cost much for you to get one
bar OF your grocer. and SEQ for yourself why
IL Is praised by so many. after "a years
steady sale. Be sure To get no imitation.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

CHARACTER, says DIR. Bartol, is the
diamond that scratches every other
stone.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

"What was that man lynched for !?
"For riding a horse"
"Riding a horse Is that alp"
at was somebody else's horse.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

Mr.. B.-My dear Mrs. Cresus. may
/ not put your name down for tickets
to Prof. Pundit's course Of lectures on
Buddhism? Mrs. Cob, by all
means You know how passionatcly
fond / am of flowers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

DE GARRY hear old Lordly is
being sued for divorce. Bjones-Ac-
tress or typewriter?
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

u Afflicted with Sore Eyes, use DR.. Isaac
Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it 80
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

A DIscoURAGING combination = O
baiky horse aud sulky plow
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

To REGULATE the stom ach, liver. and
bowels. DR.. Pisrce's Pellets excel One a
dOna.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

Mild equable climate certain and abundant
crops Best fruit, grain grass, and stock coun-
try in the world. Full information free. Address
the Oregon immigration Board. Portland, Oregon.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-29

This Inhaler consists of powerful Magnetic Coil in
closing supply OF pure Japanese Crystals of Menthol
the whole incased in polished rubber with nickeed
removable caps. Sufferers are scarcely aware that
Catarrh is due to the presence of microbes in the
one or two simple inhalations the microscope win
show in the catarrha mucus dead forms of the par
asites which, before the inhaatons. 10 be
alive and active. They only exist in membranes
that are below the healthy standard IL Is for ths
want of the OF these facts tn the euro
OF Catarrh is made difficult For permanent cure
81 Is necessary not only 20 kill the but also TO
strengthen the membrane This is accomplished by
the electric force stored in the Magnetic Coil be-
ing the most powerful natural tonic 10 the weakened
tissues. Speakers and vocalists will find the In
hsler very beneficial in strengthening the voice
Forwarded by mail on receipt of the price by d. o.
GALLEAR CO., 21 Franklin Street. Chicago, IL.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01

the warmth of spring resuscitates them,
and now with sharpened appetites after
their long fast they will eat any green
thing that comes in their way. In a
vegetabl garden we can circumvent
them by planting one or two long rows
of succulent perennial plants. We have
in our garden on either side OF the walk
which is some two hundred feet in
length-rows of hollyhocks. In August
these great clumps of fresh looking green
attract the parent moths to lay their
eggs under the shelter of their broad
leaves, SO in the following spring it is
comparatively an easy matter to capt
ure the worms. | have sometimes gath
cred pint of worms at one time along
such rows of plants. By following this
plan find they trouble the rest of the
garden very little.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01
Florida Becoming self-supporting.

From the 1st Of October 1888, the be-
ginning of the shipping season, says
correspondent of the Lakeland Cracker,
to this day (April 2Oth), have cashed
checks and drafts, given in payment OF
returns from the land, for the total sum
of SIS, ,O2492.
/ have come to this result from very
careful analysis of my collection books,
and the amount as stated is below the
actual total, as I have only included all
checks and drafts of the nature of which
| was positively certain.
In this amount is included the sum of
$2,135.5O, received by our enterprising
nurseryman, Mr.. E. H. Tison, for car
load of nursery trees sent to the Pacific
coast; also about $3.50 received for hides
and skins; leaving to my certain knowl-
edge a balance of $12, ,639.42 received in
this market during the last six months
as returns for fruit and vegetables, and
this total represents, in all probability,
only about three-fourths of the amount
actually received from those sources in
Lakeland.
Judge Mills kindly submits account of
sales of nineteen crates of beans for which
he received $7O.65, or an average of
$3.71 net per crate
Mr.. N. S. Galloway sends in report of
sales of 1920 quarts of Strawberries, for
which he received total Of $460.57,
netting him an average return of about
"a cents a quart.
Both parties still keep on sending in
their beans and strawberries.
In a following letter l hope to be able
to give reports of sales of Irish potatoes
at this season in the Northern markets,
and of which I have made already three
shipments, with more to follow.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01

dollar each for Egyptian Queen or Trlnl-
dads, he can afford to have one thousand
to the acre and give each one the best ex-
ira care. These are, however, fancy varie-
ties and fancy prices, and the ordinary
market planter has to be satisfied with
having the bulk OF his crop in ordinary
red Spanish from which he can net from
~ to 4 cents each.-Cocoa Spirit.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01
Cut Worms.

4 writer in Orchard and Garden gives
the following plan for destroying cut
worms: In early spring, when vegetation
first starts, we must begin TO look forcut
worms. The parents of these cut worms
usually lay their eggs in late summer
around succulent plants, but the worms
being small eat comparatively little and
are not noticed. When cold weather
comes on they go down into the ground,
where they remain in torpid state until
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01
Peaches.

The peach industry OF Florida is assum-
ing such proportions that it will require
especial attention from the transporta-
ton lines. There are in this vicinity and
in country tributary to Sanford over
one thousand acres planted in peaches
which this year will have about as much
fruit as the trees ought to bear.
Mr.. F. M. Pearson, Of Mt. Dora, was in
town yesterday and he stated that on one
place which he was carrying on, he had
two thousand trees; that last year his
peaches sold in New York at from $8 to
500 crate; that the crop this year was
an assured one, and that he would have
large quantity to ship.
One great trouble that peach growers
have to contend with is the scarcity of
crates, the making OF which will keep
many of the smaller mills busy, or at
least give them work enough to keep
them employed from now until the crop
is sent away.
Oranges are not the only fruit that are
profitable in Orange county.-Sanford
Mascotte.
MAKE Your Own FERTILIzER.-Sendfor for
sample, price, etc., of our kilncured, dis
integrated. screened Humus for compost
ing with chemicals, cotton seed meal,
ashes, or stable manure. Address, Hicks
q NJ 0Yz E0r4 Hooo,, IH1o
Newcomers cannot afford to be with
out the FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT. Only
$2 per year
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01
Pineapples.

Pineapples.
After the disastrous freeze of 1886,
many Indian River people became dis
couraged in pineapple culture, and aban.
doned it, plowing up, or otherwise des-
troying their plants. 1t was the general
impression that every pine on the main
land side OF Indian River down to Sebas-
tian was utterly and entirely killed.
Such, however, is not the case. A few
persons who left their pine plants as the
freeze left them, -supposing that OF course
they were killed. were somewhatsurprised
to find that the roots were alive, and in
due course of time they put forth new
growth, and now they are blooming
where, in january 1886 the last one was
supposed to be as dead as a door nail.
All that has been lost is the probable
yield for one or two years. The planter
did not even lose the seed, SO TO speak
the same place planted is stillin pines and
without any additional expense for slips
or suckers.
Taking into consideration theprobable
immunity from freezes SAY one in thirty
five years, and the almost certainty of
saving a stand even if the plant is killed,
it is safe to say that the culture and pro-
duction of pineapples is destined to be
one of the most remunerative industries
of this Indian River country.
When the fact that high and seemingly
arid and infertile lands are best adapted
to pineapple production is taken into
consideration, it will be seen at glance
that there need be no conflict between
pineapple culture and any other produc-
tion. The hammocks are best adapted
to oranges, lemons, bananas Orvegetable
crops, are not so desirable for pineapple
culture, while the high, dry, sandy pine
ridges which are found in considerable
areas back of the hammocks are singularly
we'll adapted to their successful produc-
tion.
Allowing the pine to stand eighteen
inches apart each way, the number to an
acre will approximate $4,000. Again al
lowing rs per cent. of these to bear, we
have approximately, also, $4,000 pines
to the acre. If we can realize 2A cents net
per pine, we have $35Oper acrefrom pine
apple culture.
It may be suggested that this is all well
enough on paper, but do actual expert
ences of planters come up toit? Wereply,
most certainly. Where men have gone
into the business as business they rarely
ever fall below $400 per acre profits; and
under favorable conditions thenet results
have been as high as 800 per acre.
These differing results are account d for
in various ways, one among them being
the different distances between elephants,
and therefore, the varying number per
acre. Some fine varieties of large growth
have only two to FIVE thousand per acre;
but the price obtained for them more
than colnpensates for the lack in num-
bers When the planter can realize one
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01
Florida Orange Shipments.


vana have both fallen off in the past fort
night, but the trade in Florida oranges is
occupying a mighty large share OF the at
tention OF capitalists interested in fruit
Importation all the same. The Sicilian
growers are managing to make pretty
lively time
Talk of combination to control the
crop is what is making all the fuss. A
good deal has been said in the last few
weeks about a big trust in Florida or
anges. 1t woke up d good many New
Workers. There doesn't appear to be
much danger of an orange trust, but
there is likelihood that a combination
will be effected to, control the Florida
trade this summer This is to be accom-
plished, so report says, by what leader
of the movements has called "mortgag-
ing' the crop. That is, the combination
will advance to growers something like
o-thirds guaranteed value of his crop
while in process of cultivation, and then
handle it after it is ready for shipment,
making good to the growerfor any excess
in product over the amount advanced to
him. The scheme is not perfected yet,
though. and it might even tumble to
pieces.
Enthusiasts speak in glowing terms of
the remarkable developement of the Flor
ida groves in the last decade. 1t was re-
u l.. hot A1.>Ao
were 10000 orange groves in Florida
now, many of which will bring $500 per
acre.
The trouble in the Sicilian orange trade
seems to be the freight charges demanded
bv the steam vessels that have started in
to collar the fruit crops from there.
number of Sicilian plantation agents have
inst banded themselves together, it is re-
ported, into the Sicilian company, with
Headquarters at Palermo, and have an
nounced their determination to force
freight rate concessions from the bosses
of the steamship lines engaged in the
fruit traffic
But the most interesting feature of the
fruit business to New Workers after all is
the report that New Orleans has popped
up ais a stalWart competitor with the
metropolis as fruit port, and has given
us, ii ST atstics are to be relied upon,
mighty tough wrestle for the mastery
Recent statistics show that for the four
months Just ended the receipts at New
Orleans increased over the similar period
last year 81 1892 boxes Of oranges and
50.732 boxes of lemons. The increase
of shipments at this port, while marked
didn't come up to this, and i'll fact fell
away below it in the items of lemons
The fruit handlers explain the preference
for the Southern port on the plea OF it's
milder winter climate New York billiards.
are mighty rough on the oranges and
other tender fruit Gotham dealers don't
seem to be very much alarmed at this,
however They rely upon the summer
months, when the Southern climate is
Just a little too hot for the health of the
fruit intended for market, to even things
up and restore the leadership to New
York as the big fruit port.-New York
Fruit Trade Journal.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01

Newcomers cannot afford to be with
out the FLORIDA AGRICULTURlsT. Only
~ per year.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-03-06

Whenever great crowd Is drawn to-
gether in this country to witness a pub
lie spectacle, the reporters find occasion
10 tell that II was a good natured crowd.
No matter how disagreeable the day, no
matter what Inconvenience, in spite Of
all disapointments, the crowd is good
natured,
Like reports on similar occasions are
rare in other countries. In almost any
European Capital an occasion bringing
together 80 vast a multitude Of people as
were in Washington on Inauguration
day, would have given the authorities
grave apprehension and unusual ar
ranpements would have been made 10
preserve the peace. The police force
would have been strengthened, and great
bodies Of military placed near at hand,
not as in Washington, to form part Of
the pageant, but to hold down lawless'
ness and club OF shoot II into pcaceful'
ness as occasion might require.
Ii American human nature 80 vastly
different from other human nature 2nnd
II 40 whyY There must be something
In free institutions, free dir, free men.