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The Florida agriculturist., 1889-04-10

sisters, Misses Gertrude and Kate, who
have been visiting her here, accompanied
her.
CHARLES Wood is painting the interior
of the north room of the Lynch block,
recently purchased by Mr.. M. Davis.
Mr.. Davis contemplates enlarging and
making other extensive improvements
on the block.
Rev. Robert Telford captured five
foot gator in his grove on East New
York avenue last Friday. Where his
'gatorshlp halls from no one knows. The
place where he was caught is several
miles from water.
The DeLand public school, or rather
the scholars of the school enjoyed pic
mic at Spring Garden Saturday. A cheap
excursion rate was given them, and sixty
little ones availed themselves OF the op-
portunity Quite sprinkling of grown
up children were also peresnt.
Mr.G w .McLaurine sold several pieces
of property last week, among which was
the lot of Mrs. d. Moore on Minnesota
avenue, near the University, to Mrs.
Mary w. Bristol, and the Robinson
grove and ten acres of unimproved land
| on South Boulevard to Mr.. w. H Bristol.
Court is being held in the city hall,
which, although quite smsll,i is verycom
Portable. It has been arranged and i'm
proved for the occasion. The west room
in Goodrich block is being used as the
grand jury room, and the Office of the
| Superintendent of Public. Education for
the petit jury room.
People were in town Monday on court
| business who had never been here be-
fore. 1t was quite interesting and
amusing to listen to their remarks and
observe the surprise depicted on their
countenances. They had no idea there
was such a big place SO near home, and
the electric lights were objects of never
ending wonder to them.
The Sullivan property on West New
York avenue, containing twenty acres of
land and an eight-acre bearing grove,
was sold last week to Mr.. Welth, from
Maine, for $4,000. Mr.. Weith, with his
family has been spending the winter at
the Putnam House. He intends to
build handsome residence on the grove,
and in the future will spend the winter.
! there.
A great part of the success of the local
branch of the W. G. T. u. should be at
tributed to Mrs. T. r: Webb, the ener
getic and accommodating superintendent
of the "Press Department" Mrs. Webb.
has been indefatigable in her efforts to
/ increase the usefulness of the organiza-
ton, and her judicious management of
the "Press Department" has increased
and kept up the general interest in the
society. She is ever willing to aid the
searching reporter IN his quest for news,
and the hungry pencil-pusher is never
turned away itemless.
Gimlet Holes, mo Cure, No Pay
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Misses Kate and Gertie Earle came mp
from Jacksonville Thur dav on visit to
their sister, Miss Elsie
The best sulphate of potash and pur
ground bone can be had by leaving or
ders with Fred Nylund.
Rev. w. C. Hughes, of Philadelphia,
the new Methodist minister, preached
his first sermon Sunday.
An effort is being made 10 get Emma
Thursby to give concert at this place.
She has agree to do it for 5000.
Mrs. Bigelow receives every month the
latest styles of patterns. Parties wishing
such would do well to call early.
Miss Matte Fish accompanied the
Misses Earl to Jacksonville to-day. She
will visit them for several weeks.
When going North call on w. a. Allen
and get ticket via the elegant Clyde
Line. State rooms engaged ahead.
Parties who wish good adjustable
orange sizer should go 20 Cairns & Pear
sons where they can be had for $6.
Mr.. G. F. Spaulding was baptized in
the Christian faith by Rev. Hopper, at
the Baptist Church Sunday evening.
Mr.. G. F. Spaulding expects to leave
the latter part of this month on visit
to his mother and father in New York.
Mr.. G. M. Gardener, representing the
Tallahassee Flori1ian, was in the city
last week and made us a pleasant visit.
Rev. G. M. Harshman, president of
the Orange City College, was in town
yesterday, and made us pleasant call.
Mr.. E. D. Beggs, rising young attor-
! ney of Orlando, and brother of District
Attorney J. D. Beggs, was in town Satur-
day.
Parties wishing dark cotton seed meal
from long staple cotton, can procure the
same at this Office in any quantity de-
sired.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. d. Mcbride left yes
! terday for their home in Rochester, N.
| Y. They spent several months in De-
| Land.
The ladies of the w. G. T. U. desire
to return thanks to DIR. P. p Sutton for
set of twenty-five volumes of Irving's
works.
Mrs. T. r. Webb and daughter, Miss
Mamie, will leave next week on visit
to Indiana. They will remain all the
| summer.
WANTED-Situation as care-taker of a
grove; five years experience in Florida.
Address M. r. Benedict, South Jackson
vile, Fla.
The Jacksonville, Tanpa and Key
West land agent was in the city Friday,
| looking after the interest of his road in
| this section.
My stock of groceries is complete in
every particular. Special prices to hotels,
boarding-houses and those buying round
lots. R. G. Bushnell.
Mr.. Harvey Granger, representing the
DeBary Line, was in town Monday in
the interest Of the proposed railroad from
! this place to Beresford.
Last week Mr.. HI. A. DeLand sold his
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anime them.
We regret to hear that Mr.. r. P. Ran
dali and family will soon leave for Roches-
ter, N. Y, where they will make their
future home.
Ex-President Cleveland was at Berse-
ford Wednesday. 1t is said that Bert
Dare enterte ined him with some Of his
alligator yarns
There is nothing so attractive in our
town as the fine row of water oaks in the
center of the Boulevard. Oh, for thou
sand more like them.
1t is said that it takes the mail nearly
as long to get from our depot to the post
office as it does from Jacksonville to the
depot Why is it thusly?
During the week ending Saturday
night, there were filed for record in the
clerks office thirty-seven deeds, six
mortgages and seven releases.
Fine cereals and faranaceous special
ties, such as oatmeal, Wheatlet, cereal
inc, entire wheat flour, samp, macaroni,
vermicelli, tapioca, etc., at r. G. Bush
nell's.
The DeLand Rifles will leave this
afternoon, twenty strong, for Jackson
vile, to be present during the Inter
State drill. They will not compete for
the prize.
The water from our "artesian" well
has established quite reputation for it's
medicinal properties. Asa a blood puri-
fer and for skin eruptions tits said to have
no equal.
For reliable. ''gilt edge" fire, life and
accident insurance, call on Silas B.
Wright, at the bank. Agent for all of
the first-class companies doing business
in Florida.
Quite large crowd of our people at
tended the Thursby concert at Orange
City last Thursday night. They express
themselves as being delighted with the
entertainment.
Quite a crowd Of attorneys from Kis-
simmee were in. town Saturday on
chancery business before Judge Broome.
Lawyers from almost everywhere are in
town this week.
The temperance mass meeting was
held Monday night at the Presbyterian
Church. The exercises consisted OF
songs and recitations by the school chill
dren of the town.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. H. Dearborn, of st.
Johns, N. B., and Mr.. and Mrs. W. w.
Dearborn, of Boston, who have been
spending the winter at the Putnam, left
yesterday for Boston.
Mr.. A. 6. Kingsbury is making ar
rangements to erect saw-miil at the ice
factory and electric light station. He
informs us that it will be in operation
some time this summer.
It is said that two young people OF De-
Land will shake off the coil of single
blessedness this week and form life
partnership. We hope it will be a long,
prosperous and happy one.
There is considerable talk just now
about finishing the railroad already
graded between Lake Helen and De-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-05
NEVADA'S CONDITION.

4 State That Has Been Child of Sin
from the Beginning.
While four new States, and possibly
five. are preparing to enter the Union,
and showing every qualification for
that condition. the moribund State of
Nevada seems to be on the point of re-
lapsing into Territory again. Her
population numbers scarcely $4,000
souls. and the resources of the whole
State scarcely suffice to support them.
The revenue to maintain the Govern
ment is derived chiefly from the bo-
nanza mines, and their exhaustion is
solely a question of time. Long be-
fore that happens. however, the popu-
lation will have dwindled to the
jewellers in the mining towns, who
certainly will not long be able to
maintain the expense of State gov
eminent.
What will be done then? The prob
lem will undoubtedly be solved, when
it arises, in conformity with the gen.
eral good sense that characterizes
American craftsmanship. but theoret-
ically it presents some difficulties. II
a State can not dissolve its connection
with the Union, can it in any way
change its condition of Statehood?
Can it go back to infancy and ask to
be supported at the expense of it's Sis
ter States? There is no provision in
the Federal constitution that contem-
plates any such condition of affairs,
and whatever decision will be made
must be e:ztra-constitutiona Several
times in our history resort has been
made to some such course, as in re-
construction and the Electoral Com
mission.
Nevada has been child of sin from
the beginning. 1t is a mere appanage
of the San Francisco millionaires. and
gives two additional seats in the SEN
ate to California 1t probably never
had population enough to entitle it to
Statehood, but it was juggled into the
Union at a time when the supremacy
of the Republican party was consid-
cred more important than either right
Or justice. There is not creditable
line in its whole political history. Its
Legislature has always been notori-
ously venal, and it disposes of the Sem
atorships as the Pr9torian Guard dis
posed of the imperial throne. Some
way should be devised to reduce it to
the condition of a Territory again. It
is an outrage upon all the States that
such a rotten borough should have an
equal representation with each of thsm
in the Senate of the United States.
Chicago Herald.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-05

party's candidate ia tho next Pres,-
DENTAL contest It Is natural that he
should have ambition. and If he Is ann
bilious there Is no reason why he
should not obtain for himself what he
can 80 readily obtain for others He
is in supreme control Of the machine,
nomination for himself as it is to grind
out one for Harrison. for Blaine or
for any other ambitious party leader.
His candidacy is ridiculed because he
possesses none of the elements of
craftsmanship. but is only known to
the country as the organizer OF the
greatest Doodle campaign even known
in the history of the country. 1t should
be remembered, however, that these APP
parent elements of weakness are in
reality elements of strength in a man
who aspires to leadership in his
party. Craftsmanship cuts very
sorry figure in these degenerate times.
Capacity to raise and handle Doodle is
regarded as the most superb accom-
plishment in modern American poll
tics; in fact. it is essentially the fine
art of politics, and in this respect tn e
charge of amateurishness can not be
laid at Mr.. .Quay's door.
Senator Quay can get the nomlna-
ton If he wants it. His friends are
not modest in their assertion that he
does covet it. So that. unless Mr..
Quay dies Or loses his ambition within
the next three years, the Republican
nomination for 1892 is practically set
tied. 1t is not matter of surprise.
therefore, that the Harrison Admins
tration is jogging along in such a
listless sort of a way. To man of in
tense piety and deep moral convic-
tions like Genera! Harrison it must be
q rasping reflection that the best re-
suits of his Administration will be to
leave his party at the absolute mercy
of the boss boodler OF American poll
tics. Still, Quay's elevation to the
Presidency would be the logical re-
suit of the Harrison casnpaign.-St.
Paul Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-05
HINTS FOR HOUSEWIVES.

Interesting and Useful Bits of Domestic
Fact and Fancy.
A raw cranberry. cut in two, and
half of it bound over a corn, is recon-
mended as relief.
Individual plates for vegetables are
not used much now. Only salads are
separately served.
Cold tea is the best thing with which
to clean grained wood. Never use
ammonia for this work.
After washing a wooden bowl dry it
at distance from the stove, so that it
may not warp or crack.
When recipes call for a cupful it
means just half pint; this amount in
granulated sugar weighs just half a
pound.
Salt will curdle new milk; so in pre-
pairing custards or porridges the salt
should not be added until the dish is
prepared.
To remove tar, rub well with clean
lard, afterward wash we'll with soap
and water. Apply this to either hands
or clothing.
To take ink out of linen. dip the ink
spot in pure melted tallow. then wash
out the tallow and the ink will come
out with it.
A silver spoon put into a glass jar
will temper it SO that it can at once be
filled with any thing hot, even to the
boiling point.
Red-pepper pods or few pieces of
charcoal thrown into the pot in which
onions. cabbages. etc, are being boiled
will prevent the unpleasant odor.
Starch Polish.-A piece of sterine
candle. spermaceti. or white wax as
large as a robins egg will give a nice
gloss. A teaspoonful of salt to each
pint of starch will prevent Sticking
Chicago News.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-05
THE sOUTH.s DEMOCRACY.

ing Public Opinion.
The President anxious desire is, it
appears, to build up white Repub-
lican party in the South. He under
stands that any party depending al
most exclusively on the negroes for
ton. In this conclusion he is I'M
doubleday right. About three-ffths of
the Southern people are white, and
the white man at the North who be-
ieves large white majority on the
other side of ':Mason and Dixon s
line" can be permanently subjected to
a negro minority is hopeless idiot.
But Mr.. Harrison is not we'll in
formed if he supposes that the Demo
cratic majority in the Southern States
may be broken up by the dispeneation
OF patronage. That method Was as
slduously tried throughout tho adj
ministrations of Grant, Hayes and
Garfield and Arthur. There are surdid
wretches, no doubt, in Southern as
we'll as Northern communities, who
will sell their opinions for mess of
pottage OR petty Office, but the sale
can not be concealed, and the MERGE
naries taxi no following with them.
The truth is that while the division
of parties at the North is now almost
wholly on the tariff line, the Republican,
ism of the South represents spoliation
by protection and negro domination.
1t is impossible that either of these
can command extended support among
the intelligent and self-respecting
farmers of the great Southern agri-
cultural States. just as it is impossible
that shrewd Northern farmers can ap-
prove tariff system that substantially
doubles the price of every manufact-
ured article they consume.
The Presidents scheme for debauch-
ing public opinion at the South with
paltry official brides is an insult to the
intelligence of the people. When he
has something better than tariff
rapacity, monopolistic greed and
negro domination to offer as party
programme he may be able to win re-
cruits. Until then he can not reason
ably expect that the success achieved
last year by stupendous corruption
will be repeated. The great Demo-
cratic State of New York will not
again be sold to the tariffites by a
handful of base hirelings in two of the
counties nearest to its commercial
center.-Chicago Globe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-05
ROUND ABOUT WATERLOO.


Reminiscent View of the Famous Old hat
tle-Field.
Waterloo and the villages near by
must have increased three or four fold
since the Hundred Days. Progress
shows her portrait in divers adver-
tisements of sewing machines and
patent fuel and infallible pills. and
what not. stuck up on walls or mold
ering boarding. You have left the
town behind you. and an awful stretch
of rough paving that has wrung your
ankles most horribly. The white
clouds are sailing in the blue sky.
The cornflowers nod their blue heads
upon the bank. The tall ears of the
wheat bend and mes tie before the fresh
breeze blowing over from distant
Hougoumont. Luckily you can boast
doing your five miles an hour, and so
can soon outstrip the worrying crew
of photo sellers that try to follow
yelping and bawling at your heels
Now you are up ON the top OF the hill
again and can look down upon the
field. See to the left the modest house
behind the light gate where Petit
Caporal slept the sleep of the unjust
the night before the great battle.
The peasants brought some bundles of
straw and chair to the knoll nigh by
(the butte de Rossomme). and there
he sat coming the maps and question
ing the old farmer who stood by him
nightcap in hand. Well! well! the
fight was fought and won; and the
dead sleep beneath the field and the
wheat grows just the same-only. per-
chance a little richer than it did
hundred years ago.
A pretty land. too, by the way, is
this land of Brabant. Now and again
red tile roofs are to be seen amid the
somber slate. In the chill months
teams of sturdy oxen pillow the curv-
ing slopes. Yellow-haired, close
cropped little ones play in the cottage
doors. And when the evening shadows
lengthen, the Angelus comes stealing
over the still fields, and the rough
laborer lays down his spade, and, cap
in hand. listens to the music with
half-murmured prayer upon his lips.
1t is evening now at last as you make
your way down the hill into old Gen.
appe. In the long street the children
are playing. AS you halt a moment
to look at the quaint little shrine out
side the church. the balmy fumes of
incense float through the half-opened
door. "Ave Maria gratia." the simple
folk are singing within. You picture
to yourself that day when Uxbridge's
men charged down the hill and pistol
shots and saber points even splintered
the lattice of the humble homes by the
roadside. Eli bien! that is long time
ago. Now the country is quiet enough,
and the children are playing in the
street. But yet a mushroom growth
of star forts is rising on the frontier,
and the rattle of wheels and tumbrils
is heard everywhere on the roads.
And who can tell what the future may
bring forth?-St. James Gazette
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-05
NOTES AND COMMENTS

1.-The deeper it goes into the
matter" says the Buffalo Commercial.
speaking of the commission investi-
eating God-help-the-Surplus Tanner.
1.-The better the people will be salts
fied.''
One of the Presidents fiatterers
says he has the gift of thinking on his
feet His reasoning has led not few
to suppose that he did his thinking
with his feet.-Louisville Courier
journal.
Senator Manderson's letter, in
dignantly declining to acce pit S., 600
Increased pension money, hasn't been
published yet. Perhaps it Is forth
coming and perhaps it isn't; more
likely isn't-Boston Herald.
After all the money Mr.. John
Wanamaker contributed last year tt.
buy votes against five per cent. gen.
eral reduction of the tariff, he has
been trying to get a reduction on an
article he himself imports. though that
article is manufactured in this coun-
try. He has been importing fancy
boxes as wicker baskets and saving
five per cent. in the operation. A
truly pious man is Mr.. Wanamakc;
when he is engaged in experimenting
his Sunday school, but when it comes
to busis,ess. business is business"
with him. Rock Islander.
"A letter in the official envelope
OF the United States Post-office De-
partment received at Reidsville, n. c.,
notifying a colored citizen of that
place of his appointment as route
agent in the mail service had to be
forwarded to the State penitentiary.
whore the new appointee is serving q
term of three years for a burglary
committed after filing his application.
Ii he were in for only a year or SO the
place might be kept open for him, but
unless an arrangement can be made
with the State to let him out. perhaps
q new appointment should be made
Chicago Herald
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-05
ABOUT cHRvsAnTnEMUMs.

Sore Rolmts Raxnraines che Eavoraes
Flower of tho Autumn.
Undoubtedly the chrysanthemum il
the most popular flower of its season
tho queen of the autumn, orchids
not even excepted-and some facts
about them not generally known are
of interest
The original chrysanthemum was in
troduced into Europe from China
about the middle of the last century.
but it was not until about twenty years
ago that the singular and fantastic
varieties were imported. These in the
hands of the Western florists have in
creased with wonderful rapidity. and
now form the largest and most popu-
lar. if not the handsomest section
Their striking individuality. huge
blooms. quaint and varied forms, and
great diversity of color, ranging from
pure white to deep crimson. with in
termediary soft and subdued tints,
render them especial favorites.
The annual increased attendance at
the exhibition of chrysanthemums
proves the interest taken in their Gull
tivation. New varieties are carefully
examined, notes taken of them and
points of excellence are keenly criti-
cised by the numerous visitors. Sew
eral new varieties displayed this year
will be eagerly sought by connoisseurs
DESTROYS of keeping their collections
in the first rank of merit
The cultivation of the chrysanthe-
mum is easy, as it is hardy plant.
They are raised every year from cut
tings or, better still, young suckers
thrown up direct from the root in the
autumn. These should be taken imme-
diately after or while the plants are in
bloom. to secure as long growing
season as possible, and placed in a bed
of light sandy soil in cold frame.
They will soon strike without arti-
fetal heat, but the frames must be pro-
tected from frost with mats and sack
ing. Until they are fairly rooted they
require but little ventilation. About
the middle of March they should be
potted and kept protected until the
1st of May. When the roots are found
to have filled the pots they should be
| transferred to larger ones. In potting
care must be taken to press the new
soil firmly around the old ball, for in
firm potting lies one of the essential
adjuncts of future success. Chrysan-
themums require much water. ALI
shoots should be removed and injury
from mildew be avoided. The flowers
exhibited are rarely put on show di-
rect from the plant. All blooms re-
quire more or less dressing. Irregular
petals should be put straight with a
pair of tweezers and imperfect ones re-
moved. Sometimes the center petals
of fine bloom are not sufficiently
grown to give the even and regular
form required. This can be remedied
few days before exhibition by draw
ing the bloom through teacup or
flower pot from which the bottom has
been knocked out. and laying piece
of glass over the top. thus bringing
the center petals up to the light OF
varieties there are the incurved, the
refiexed, the Japanese. anemones and
pompons, and many different kinds in
each variety.-N. Y. Mail and Ex-