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a sagacious Terrier.

A small Scotch terrier belonging to a
man who lives near one of the Scranton
hotels got in the notion early in the sum
mer of following the hotel omnibus to the
railroad stations. He came near being run
over one morning, and after that the driver
scared the dog back whenever he started
to tag along after the vehicle There was
a good hiding place under the hotel We
randa, aud in it the dog kept shady until
the driver had mounted his seat. Then he
stole out, and before the omnibus had got
fairly under way hoped upon the rear
step and hung like mailer as the omnibus
jolted and rumbled over the rough wooden
pavement down to the station. Before the
driver had time to get down the dog was
minglinc with the crowd, where he stayed
until the driver was ready to start back,
when he sought his perch again. The cum
ming animal had done this number or
times before the driver found it out from a
gentleman who had been watching the dog,
and it pleased the driver so much that he
let the dog have its own way after that,
and the interesting brute continues to ride
back and forth on the step.
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POINTS ABOUT cANARIEs.
Old Age and Sometimes Severe Cold
VIII Make Them Blind.


Cant you tell me of some antidote that
l can give my canary?" asked lady the
other day of the proprietor of a Ninth
street bird store. Pm afraid it's grow
ing blind, though / can't imagine what is
the cause"
I" How old is your bird ?' was the mans
questioning reply.
I've had it eighteen years-ever since
/ was very little girl" she added, blush
ing.
''Well, then, the cause is easily found"
came from the smiling man. Your ca
nary's blindness is due to old age. It's on
its way to the grave, and nothing can now
restore its sight"
"When birds live to good old age, 20
years or %, or sometimes so, their sight
often fades, and total eclipse settles down
upon them. 1t is Just as impossible to re-
store birds vision at such stage as to
prevent an old mans locks from turning
gray.
"There is, however, a species of blind
ness that is liable to victimize songsters of
all feathers and all ages. This is of COM
paratively rare occurrence, and it is doubt
less sometimes due to cold which the
bird has caught while hanging in a
draught. Then cheap bird foods contain
ing opium are very injurious to canary's
health,
=" | believe, moreover. that brass or
painted cage is not the best thing in which
to house ones lemon-colored troubabour.
The birds continual pecking at the wires
must result in considerable amount of
paint or lacquer finding its way into its
nav, and this surely cannot be whole
some. Besides, in the case of brass cages,
after the lacquer is nibbled away, verdigris
accumulates on the wires, and this poison
must have baleful effect on the yellow
peckers within, acting as prolific source
of sightlessness. philadelphia Record.
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He SAW a DIFFERENCE.

Perhaps He Was Mistaken After All, and
Women Haven't Changed Much.
MADAM" said the gallant old man after
obeying her request to close the car win
dow, Il was just thinking how different
the women of to-day are from those of ten
or fifteen years ago in the matter of travel.
Formerly lady who had to journey alone
was -"
eyes, sir" she interrupted, "but would
you please tell me if l am on the right
train for Buffalo ?"
"You are, madam. As 1 was saying, the
women Of ten years ago were continually
worrying for fear"
''And does this car go right through
without changer
at does, madam. l was going to say
that the women"
"And do you think my trunk will go
right through with me%
"Of course, madam. In former years a
woman travelling alone was afraid that"
"You are sure we are on the right
train?" she interrupted.
every sure"
"And we don't changer
'No'm."
"And we get in at o'clock"
ave do
"And they'll call out the name when we
get there?"
ooh yes"
'SYell, l hope nothing will happen, but
I'm very, very nervous. Would you mind
asking the conductor if we are likely to
have collision, go through bridge or
get in an hour late?"
And the gallant old man who saw
such great difference between the wo-
man travelling to-day and those of ten
years ago retired into his shell, looking as
if something had rubbed against his pla-
cidity of mind.-New York Sun.
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Facts About Musk.

Most people take it for granted that be-
cause musk is sold in what is called a pod,
therefore it is a vegetable product But
the truth IS that it is entirely an animal
product, being a substance found in a two
or three-inch sac in the body of the little
musk deer Of Asia. The sac, when tied up
and dried, goes by the name of a pod
among the hunters who bring it into
market. Probably there are few things sub
iect to such adulteration, as one part of pure
musk Will scent thousands of some other
powder mingled with it; and as the pods
sell from SIS to $50 apiece the adultera-
ton has It's profit. 1t is indeed so pungent
that when Just fresh it has been known to
produce violent bleeding at the nose, and
many people are so susceptible to it as to
have sad headaches brought about by con-
tact with the pure article, and while a
suspicion of it is very agreeable to many
persons, one atom too much becomes often
sive, as the case is with patchouli and
many other odorous substances. 1t was
formerly largely used in therapeutics,
especially in the Orient, having become
disused as much from the difficulty of OBJ
tanning it in a pure state as from anything
else, and it is now seldom given except in
hvsteria and hiccoughs.
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attended him, but he grew continually
worse under their care, and everybody
expected he would die. l had heard OF
the remarkable cures effected by Ayers
Sarsaparilla, and decided to have my
boy try it. Shortly after he began to
take this medicine, the ulcers COM
menced healing, and, after using several
bottles, he was entirely cured. He is
now as healthy and strong as any boy
of his age" William f. Dougherty,
Hampton, Va.
ain May last, my youngest child,
fourteen months old, began to have sores
gather on its head and body. We APP
Piled various simple remedies without
avail. The sores increased in number
and discharged copiously. A physician
was called, but the sores continued to
multiply until in few months they
nearly covered the child's head and body
AT last we began the use of Ayers Sar-
saparilla. In few days marked
change for the better was manifest. The
sores assumed more healthy condition,
the discharges were gradually dimin-
lshed, and finally ceased altogether.
The child is livelier, its skin is fresher,
and its appetite better than we have OBJ
served for months. Frank NJ. Griffin,
Long Point, Texas.
"The formula of Ayers Sarsaparilla
presents, for chronic diseases of almost
every kind, the best remedy known to
the medical world. ID. NJ. Wilson,
M. D., Wigs, Arkansas.
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"Nine Tailers. -

The old saying mine tailors make a
man" is so seldom correctly quoted that
the true reading and meaning are worth
reproduction. The proper word, as above,
is "tailers," not "tailors," as often written,
and its origin can be traced back several
centuries. 1t was one of the customs when
a person died in the parish to toll the
church bell once for every year of the de-
ceased's life. But nobody from this could
tell the sex of the departed, so the sexton,
to crafty public curiosity, after ringing in
the usual way the number Of years, would
give eight quick strokes if the deceased
was woman and nine if it was man.
These being run at the end of the strokes
for the years, were called "tailers," and
thus nine tailers made man.-Boston
Traueler
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TIE ELIXIR OF LIFE.
What a Prominent New York Doctor has
to say upon the Subject which is At
tracing so much Attention.

What n Prominent New York Doctor has
to say upon the Subject which is At
tracing so much Attention.
DO you believe in the Elixir OF Lifeg' I
asked OF prominent New York physician re-
Gently.
The doctor thought moment. carefully, and
said Certainly l do but not in the way in
which Doctors BT0Wn-Sequard or Hammond
have been describing it. All that has been said
proves that something is needed to assist and
sustain the vital and often failing forces of life,
hut nature never Intended the human body for
injections, and they are always injurious be-
cause unnatural"
But is it not often done, Doctor?"
II am sorry to say it is. Morphine injections
are far too common, and they are the great
cause of that fearful living death, known as the
opium habit There Is but one way to properly
reach or sustain the vitality and life, and that
is through the stomach. and there is no diseov-
cry of modern times which, if rightly used. does
this SO thoroughly, keeps back disease and pro-
longs life, as pure whisky. Mind you. say
pure whisky, for all else is injurious The et-
fects of a pure article, like Duhys Pure Malt
Whisky, are practically those OF an elixir of
life Ii tones up and strengthens the system,
without injurious reaction or without the for
nation of any habit. 1t tends to renew life in
the aged and restore 1t to those in middle life
For women, especially, who are weak, languid
or suffering as most women are, il is almost in
valuable. All physicians learn these things
from their practice, and cannot but be believers
in true and sensible elixir OF life like this
pure article of (which have been speaking
The doctor himself seemed ID be good ex-
ample of the truths he advanced, for his. strong
frame and clear eye showed him to be in per-
feet health, and ! left him, much impressed by
the clesrness, truth and common sense of his
statements.
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LESS and Better"

An Ohio lady is the mother of large
family of children, and they are all rather
diminutiye. A few days after the birth of
the youngest, little neice of the lady
called to see the baby. After looking at
the tiny specimen few minutes the child
remarked Aunt Maria, don't you think
it would be better to have less of 'em and
have 'em bigger g'-Boys and Girls.
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GOOD ADVICE.

II you worry when there's trouble,
You but make the trouble double
Do not fret.
Bear up braYely, don't cry baby,
And remember that you may be
Happy yet.
Don't waste precious time repining;
Your cloud has a silver lining,
Like the rest.
Always look upon the bright side,
You will find that that's the right side
And the best.
Sing the blithest songs you know of,
And await better throw of
Fortunes dice.
Hard it may be to be merry.
But you'll own that this is very
Good advice
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killed the Mascot.

1t is singular fact that no white man
ever saw a buffalo west of the Rocky
Mountains. This is accounted for by a
legend of the Northwestern Indians. Many
moons ago, they say, some Indians were
hunting buffalo on the other side of the
range. They were plentiful over there
then. An old medicine man told them
where to find big herd which, he said,
was led by a red bull calf The Great
Spirit would give them all the buffaloes
thew desired, but the red calf must not be
killed. If it was killed the Great Spirit
would punish them severely. The braves
started out, found the bufaloes and slaugh-
tered them by the hundreds. When they
looked among the carcasses the body of the
red calf was found. 1t was never known
who killed it, but the bufaloes all disap-
peared, and were never again seen on the
other side of the Rockies.
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Previous to the year 1s49 the only bar
Der in Dexter, Ne, was an amateur who
worked not for pay, but to accommodate
his neighbors. The only compensation he
ever received was a handsome pair Of
shears, for which some of his friends took
up a contribution.
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ANGosTURA B1TTERs is universally con-
sidered to be the best appetizer in the
world. Manufactured by DR.. J. G. B. Sic
CERT & Sons. Al all druggists.
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the erupIlVe us
eases peculiar to
children nothing
else is so effective
as this medicine.
while its agreea-
BILE flavor makes
it easy to admin
lister.
My little boy
had large scrofu-
lous ulcers on his
neck and throat
from which he
suffered terribly.
Two physicians
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PREJUDICE and ignorance have given way
to Simmons Liver Rec ulator. 1t has stood
the test
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-09

If you are all run down, tagged our, take
Simmons Liver Regulator and be spry.
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The Safest

Al ND most powerful Alternative is
n Ayers SarsaparilIa. Young and
old are alike benefited by its use. For
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excepted. A.-For morning. P.-For after
AN. TOwNE, General Manager.
7. Il. GOODMAN, General Passenger and Ticket
Agent. If
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THE ANNUAL. MEETING

W
OF THE OCCIDENTAL BUILDING AND
" LOAN ASSOCIATION viii be held at the
Sacramento, Cal, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
NOVEMBER 18th, 1889, between toe hours Of
and ?. Il. The Al unsl report Will be read and
three Directors elected, sud any other business
transacted that may come I'd before the meet
ing I. L. LEWIS, President.
eesober ssh o29-td
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An expert says that il butter be broken
when cold the broken parts should resem-
bic the broken parts of cast iron or steel,
and also the same Of rock formations.
Considering its cost, sawdust is an ex-
cellent material for bedding and as an alb
sorbent. 1t possesses but little manurial
value, but will answer well on the stable
floors.
Don't let the weeds occupy the ground
after early peas. Plow it up, and if you
have not the manure to spare, top-dress
lightly with fertilizers and sow barley or
Hungarian.
The hot-house violets should now be
protected against the sudden changes of
temperature. They are scarce and expen-
sive in winter, and will pay well for the
care given them
Late in the fall is the time to pillow the
land intended for corn next year, as by so
doing not only will cutworms and other
depredators be lessened, but the frost viii
assist in reducing the soil to a fine condi-
ton by crumbling the clods.
Asparagus beds may be made now.
Place the roots two feet apart, first max
ing the bed very rich with manure. 1t is
usual to have the roots close, but as the
roots will thicken in the bed in the course
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01

up and go ahead, taking more care to re-
move chances of this kind in the future
from employees. An open chance with
many men proves to be an irresistible
temptation.
And as l was raised a farmer, and have
been a iarmer most of my life, and know
something about farmers, feel justified
i'll saying that as class they are as hon
est as anybody else, and there is no rea
son why they should not be trusted as
far as anybody else.
Now in taking this cooperative column
in our organ, we do not propose to run
it ourself This would not be co-opera-
ton, but we wish the help of every pro-
gressive man or woman in the State.
And any thing that any friend can write
that is sufficiently concise and to the
point, will be given a place and chance to
do all the good it can. We would only
further suggest to amateur writer's, that
''a multiplicity of words only weakens
argument" So hoping friends that we
may meet again, accept my best wishes.
H. q. YOUNG.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01
What is a "No-Fence Law?

A 'Eno-fence law means that a man
who owns live stock should fence in said
stock. 1t means that he should raise his
own stock on his own land, and not fat
ten them on his neighbours crops 1t
means that my neighbours cattle and
hogs will not be allowed to trespass and
destroy, where my neighbor himself would
not be allowed to trespass and destroy
1t means that [ must fence in and care for
my own cattle, and that I require my
neighbor to do the same with his cattle.
1t means that when settler purchases
100 or /, 900 acres of real estate in Leon
county, he is not forced to build an i'm
passable and impregnable ''legal fence"
around the whole of it before he can have
the right to use and cultivate the land he
has purchased. 1t means ''every tub on
it's own bottom" and every man shall
take care of his own stock, and not ex-
pect his neighbor to do it for him. 1T
means that the average white man is to
be granted few rights which the Etheo-
plan ard the razor back are bound to re-
spect. 1t means for the colored man a
much larger percentage of cotton and
corn gathered in the fall to reward him
of his labor. 1t means that truck far
mers and grain growers are to have a fair
chance, and that what man sows he
shall also reap. 1t means that the grand
jury will have less to do in indicting per-
sons for protecting themselves, 1t means
that common sense law prevails, instead
OF legalized robbery. 1t means that the
razor back administration has closed,
and a new era has begun.-E. Warren
Clark in Floridian.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01
Pierson Orange Growers Association

The membership of the Pierson Orange
Growers Associa ton now numbers forty
eight. They meet every Tuesday night
and invite all who are interested in the
movement to come and take part.
They will hold rousing meeting at Pier
son on the first Saturday in May at 3
O'Clock p. m. and hope every body will
come. Our list ofnew subscribers for our
organ (the FLORIDA AGRIcULTURIsT) now
numbers thirteen. We find every orange
grower anxious to put his shoulder to
the wheel. H.Z YOUNG, Sec'y.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01

Periodic Headache and Neuralgia; cold
hands and feet, and general arrangement
of the system including impaired digestion,
with t.Tpor of The liver. &C., are, in cerrain
localities, Invariably caused by Malaria in
the system in quantity too small to produce
regular chill s. Many persons suffer IT, this
way and take purga'ives and other merii-
cines to their il jury, when few doses of
Shallenberger's Antidote for Malaria would
cure them at once. Sold by Druggists.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01
Valedictory.

operative column, and has kindly invited
us to take charge of it, we wish to say
that wewill accept it's proposal for time,
at least until the organization of the
Florida Orange Growers Association is
accomplished.
Now from this standpoint we feel we
have avantage ground, and a field of use
fulness opened to us which we had not
before. And from this point we offer
greetings, and good will to all the read
ers OF the AGRICULTURIsT, hoping that
they will read and carefully consider all
. that we may from time to time say upon
the subject of cooperation, promising
you this, that we will write no idle words
Hoping that from this day forth every
reader of the AGRICULTURIsT, and every
organized association, will spare no effort
to increase the circulation of our special
organ; and, when it comes out with any
thing really encouraging, order number
OF copies and mail them to your North
ern friends. And if we are not mistaken
we can organize and operate the most
effective immigration bureau ever yet
tried.
What we mean by really encouraging
items, are such as show that Florida peo-
pie are prospering at home. When you
snow this, you have given the best assur-
ance to those who wish to come and set
tie here.
AS pointer to the probable usefulness
that we wish to elucidate the principle of
cooperation in all of the pursuits OF life,
wherein it may be employed as an active
and effective agent in securing better re-
suits for our labor, and the use of our
money, and higher and more satisfac-
tory social status. And if thorough
study and actual experience is worth any
thing, the writer has a store of forty
years gathering to draw from, during
which time he has invested money in CO.
operative enterprises to the amount of
thousands, and has made some and lost
some. Yet, through it all, whether met
byloss or profit, he has every time gained
knowledge, in the practical line, and real
lied the fact that we learn more by our
failures than by our successes. So we
may feel assured that if we engage in any
enterprise of this kind, and it first par
TALLY fails, we shall learn the weak points
in our working plans, and so learn how
to succeed.
And speaking from our past experience
we say that failure never occurs from the
principle of cooperation, but from weak
and ineffective methods, and from inefi-
cheney and dishonesty in officials. So now
we would say, drawing wisdom from the
past, that when you have organized, the
next thing is to select and authorize your
rep esentatives and officials. Let your
selections be made strictly upon the
ground Of efficiency and honesty, and
then with those who are to handle the
money, place them rigidly under bonds
sufficient to cover all liabilities. The
amount of business will justify you in
paying enough to secure the services of
men qualified to do the work, and justify
them in making the required bonds, re-
membering always that a rigid response
bility is the best assurance of honesty.
We should not be frightened by the risk
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01
COOPERATIVE DEPARTMENT.

EDITED BY H. z. YOUNG,
PIERsON, FLORIDA
Morning journal and courier., 1889-01-11

propriate literary and historical exercises, in which you will be invited to participate. It seems eminently proper that day so his- toric, marking the foundation of free gov- ernment by the people, should not be per- infused to pass unnoticed and forgotten, in these anniversary days, recalling the memo ries and history of the earlier days of the State and nation.
 CENTENNIAL.
 It is proposed to celebrate the centennial anniversary of the inauguration of Washing ton as the first President of the United States in New York city on the 30th of April next. The preliminary work of the committee hav- ing the arrangements in charge justify the belief that this will be an historic occasion and one worthy of the object which it seeks to commemorate. Connecticut filled an i'm portant part, through her representatives, in the framing of the constitution and the for nation of the federal Union, and it is meet that on this commemorative occasion the State should also be worthily represented. A commission has been appointed on behalf of Connecticut by the Governor to co operate in the preliminary labors. It is your privilege to determine and to provide by needed ap- Propriation for such representation at this historic centennial as will be worthy of this commonwealth.
 CONCLUSION.
 The work of the session is now before you. As the chosen representatives of the people it will be without honor if you fail, in your legislation, to contribute something to the future welfare and prosperity of the State. With an humble trust in divine providence that guided wisely the fathers in the founda- ton of this government, let us, through our labors here, strive to perpetuass and trans- nit to our successors the precious heritage entrusted to our keeping.
 MORGAN G. BuIkELEY