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The Florida agriculturist., 1889-04-03
Making the Best of It.

Rarely do we find q person entllely
satisfied with their lot in life. That little
word ''if'' has a wonderful power some
times to spoil our peace, mar our Joys
and make us grumblers, and even whim-
perers and cowards No little word OF two
letters seemingly bristles so thoroughly
with reStlessness and dissatisfaction.
There is no one thought more universal,
it may be often uneXpressed, than ''n'' |
could do this or that, or if lcOuldpossess
this or that; if | had little more money
to improve my surroundings how happy
and contented / should be, yet if all these
desires were realized, experience goes to
show that happiness remains as far Off as
ever. We seem to think that the good
things of life are far out of our reach and
quite unattainable whereas, il we did but
know it, the things which make for our
happiness are with us all the time, in one
sense, or as the old song goes, "the hap
piest time is now"
To be sure xternal things, books, money,
houses, lands fine clothing, such as we
cOvet. are great helps TO our happiness
nobody would decline their possession,
but they are not the causes of happiness.
True happiness springs from within, and
is the result of painstaking culture of the
heart and mind. Our happiness is de-
termined by what we really are. How
often it is the case that we envy the posi-
tiOn of our more fortunate friends. Ger
tainly they do not have to pinch and
twist and turn the pennies as we in order
to make ends meet. They know nothing
about the worry and fuss, the pinches
and scrimps of grinding poverty Seem
ingly they have all they want, and enjoy
without stint all the good things Of life.
Thus it is that we measure our own wants
by theirs, but alas, we know nothing of
the secret sting that may be consuming
their very lives, the bitter bondage that
is so calling to sensitive hearts. If we
did, we might gladly decline any change
with them of their lot in life.
1t is a good way when we become dis
satisfied with our lot in life, to remember
the millions who are bearing heavier loads
of sorrow and discomfort than ourselves.
Making the best of our lot in life, what
ever it may be, shows the strength of
character. 1t is great thing for any
one to fill well his or her place in the
world, and the lowest well filled is vastly
morecreditable than a higher place poorly
filled, and after all, it matters but little
where that place is, if it is filled accepta-
bly,, both to our fellows and to God who
assigns to each of us our individual place
in life
There is vastamount of grumbling in
the world which might be avoided, by
following the advice Of the good old saint
who said: Count up your marcies' !
Surely the balance would be found on the
side of our blessings many times over.
0TodxyD
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-04-03
F.. DistamceG 1m the Race.

Why should not DR.. Pierces medicines
distance all competitors in amount
OF sales, as they are doing, since they are
the only medicines sold by druggists pos
sessed Of such wonderful curative proper
ties as to warrant their manufacturers in
guaranteeing them to cure the diseases
for which they are recommended. You
get cure or money paid for them re-
turned. The Doctors Golden Medical
Discovery cures all diseases caused by
arrangement OF the liver, as biIiousness,
indigestion or dyspepsia; also all blood
skin and scalp diseases, tetter, salt-rheum,
scrofulous sores and swellings and kindred
ailments.
Don't hawk, hawk, and blow, blow, dis
gusting everybody, but use DR.. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy and be cured.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-04-03

mixed, one portion will be quite pink,
and the other stiff and white; then pile
them on glass dish, taking spoonful
of each alternately.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-04-03
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT.
BY MRS. J. II. FARR.

SAN MATEo, FLORIDA.
To whom all correspondence for this Depart
ment should be addressed.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-04-03
l6 NEW SUBSCRIBERS

at S'2 a year will get MACHINE
NO. 2. This machine has orna-
mented head on iron stand;
drop-leaf table of walnut; goth
ic cover, with veneered panels;
case of three drawers at each
end of table; centre drawer,
with locks, veneered fronts and
nickle-plated drop-ring handles.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
Other Places.

A rain and wind storm came up suddenly
at $50 ?. NJ, and blew over two
of the stacks of the Sunbury PENN
Nail Mills. They crashed through the
slate roof, completely demolishing the pud-
ding department Of the mill. Thirty five
were employed in this department. and half
of them were buried in the ruins Six men
were taken out dead
A number of buildings were destroyed at
Steubenville, Ohio Several buildings were
blown down at Jeanette. on the Pennsyl-
vania road. kilograms report damage In
all the interior towns. Several bridges were
blown down at Altoona.
Brooklyn has been visited by a genuine
cyclone. 1t came from the southeast, and in
less than three minutes did many thousand
dollars worth of damage. Houses were un-
rooted, trees torn up, and the United States
Marine Barracks at the Navy Yard were de-
molished. Twelve marines were injured. Two
gas tanks belonging to the Citizens Company
exploded, wrecking nine houses in the neigh
bOrhoOd.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE st. Marks Railroad in Florida has a
lady CONDUCTOR
IN Eastern shoe factories the girls make
from s to SO a week.
IN nearly every industry men are paid two
to three times as much as girls.
IN New England candy factories the wages
OF girls are from 81 to ST a week.
IN the California cotton mills the average
pay OF woman is $3.50 week.
FlBEsIDE locomotives, there were seventeen
rotary snow-plows built last year.
AS a rule the hours of labor have been re-
duced within the past half century.
THERE are indications of another big
strike in the Pennsylvania coke regions.
THREE men over eighty years of age are
employed in factory in Taunton, Mass.
THE average of salaries paid to working
girls in the city of New York is about $3.50
a week.
bra cut of the Panama Canal have been dis
charged
AN increase of fifteen cents per day has
been granted the striking switchmen at
Lima, Ohio:
THE average salary earned in Germany by
men working on machlne-made shoes is about
So 90 week.
For girls under fifteen years old in North
ern factories the pay is from thirty cents to
seventy cents a day.
FROM 400 to 500 tramps have taken up their
abode in empty coke ovens between Pittsburg
and JOhnstown, Penn.
AN electrical locomotive is building at the
locomotive works in Rome Y. Y. 1t will be
constructed as an experiment.
THERE are said to be women in Cincinnati
who do all the work on pantaloons for five
cents pair, and furnish their own machines.
THERE are now in the Southern States
more than 800 cotton mills weaving l, SOO, 900
Aspindles against $50 mills and 100 900 spindles
lin 1880.
THE retail clerks of San Francisco are said
&o be preparing to make a vigorous effort in
he beginning of 1889 to establish early clos
% in stores.
IT is reported that all of the st. Louis
I'm TO- shoe factories are overcrowded with
ders and there will probably be no shut
tFVn this year.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
PASSENGERS ROASTED ALIVE
A Green Brakeman's Error Causes a
Fatal Collision.

The worst wreck in the history Of the New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio road occurred
at three o'clock in the morning one and a
half miles east of TalImadge, Ohio. The
east bound fast express, No. 8, consisting Of
baggage and express car, smoker, coach and
two sleepers, crashed into a west bound extra
freight, No. 81. Eight persons were killed
and dozen in jured
The long freight train, in. ascending
heavy grade just east of Tallmadge, broke
in two. The first part was taken to a siding
near Tallmadge and Engineer Robinson, be
train, put out as fagman his fireman, named
Brady, an old railrOader, fearing to trust to
the brakeman, who was green hand. A
fagman had also been sent back as warn
ing to trains from the east. The engineer
then went back and coupled on to the re-
mainder of the freight train to pull it also to
a siding. He then gave signal of four long
whistles and one short whistle to call in the
rear fiagman. The Ragman near Tallmadge
thought he heard four long whistles without
the short one-the signal for both fiagmen to
return Putting out his lantern, he started
back, thus leaving no guard toward the west.
Just as he got to the freight engine, the
walk taking him about fifteen minutes, the
fast express dashed round the sharp curve
into the cut from which the freight was just
starting and then came the awful crash.
Engineer Huntington reversed his engine and
put on the air brakes, and then had no
crushed to death. The baggage car, smoker
and ladies' coach were telescoped The smok-
ing car and the passenger car next to it took
fire, and then followed the slow roast
ing of wedged-in passengers. Most pitiful of
all was the fate of little girl travelling
alone, ticketed from the far West to Cherry
Creek, n. Y. She was not injured by the
crash, but seat caught her fast and held her
as in a vice, and then the flames crept up and
slowly burned her to death.
There were seven Cinnamon in the smoker,
and three were pinned in the wreck and con-
sumed by the fire, which reduced to embers
the smoker and the passenger car next to it,
The little girl and the Cinnamon
were pinned down by seats, and their
shrieks rent the air until the smoke
stiffied them. The passengers who es-
capped, and the farmers, who were quick
ly on the scene, worked heroically, but
were beaten back by the fierce heat. All
that remained of the six persons in the three
coaches was heap of bones and burnt flesh,
gathered up in a common receptacle The
express engine smashed to bits. Three
freight cars and an oil car took fire and burned
up. The loss to the railroad company
is $4,000. A quantity of gold and silver
bricks in the express car Were partly fused
with the wreckage. A strong guard was put
about them. A lawyer who was going East
to try an important case saw his trunk full
of valuable papers burn up, and remarked:
"There goes $25, 0OO."
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

The only color that can be determined
by the sense of touch is blue.
Persons who have had smallpox are
peculiarly liable to tuberculosis.
During the last year the output of the
Walter A. Wood works, at Hoosack
Falls, n. Y, was 30, 900 complete har-
vesting machines.
A single shad produces 10, 900 eggs.
and only about 5000 are Matched natur-
ally. By the artificial method $500 are
successfully Matched.
A single attack of yellow fever, how
ever mild, mostly protects from future
attacks. There is reason to hope that
such protection might be gained by in
oculation.
Two hundred dollars per month is the
amount of royalty said to be received by
the inventor Of the cement like substance
with which manufacturers of corncob
pipes fill the interstices of the cobs.
White birch is the favored wood in the
manufacture of toothpicks, the wood be-
ing delicately white rs we'll as sweet to
the taste, and there i a constant demand
case of $50, 600 picks.
The abutments of bridge over ariver
in Austria have settled twenty feet in
the river bed since 1886. AS the settle
ment progresses the masonry of the
bridge is built up correspondingly so as
to maintain the same road level
Experiment in transplanting the beau
tiful Al pine flower, edelweiss, into the
other mountain ranges of Europe shows
that the flower changes its character in
new home. In the mountains of Bo-
hemla 1t has become new species, bear
ing red blossoms instead of the beautiful
pure white blooms of Switzerland.
Sulphate of copper is recommended
for keeping posts and timber from de-
cay. Telegraph poles in Norway are
sad to be preserved by boring inch holes
about two feet from the ground, and fill
ing with the sulphate of copper crystals,
afterward plugging the holes with wood.
The crystals generally dissolve and per-
meate the wood, turning it greenish
color.
A new Persian industry is the manu-
1acture of hoar frost glass, which is
covered with feathery patterns resemb-
ling those naturally produced upon win
dow panes in cold weather. The glass
is first given ground surface, either by
the sand blast or the ordinary method,
and is then coated with soft varnish.
The varnlsh contracts strongly in dry
ing, taking with it the particles of glass
to which it adheres, and this reproduces
very accurately the branching crystal of
frostwork A single coat gives delicate
effect, and several coats yield bold de-
sign.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
SCOTT g. BOVINE, Chemists, NY

swift's Specific cured Of malignant Blood Poison
After had been treated in vain with old sO-called
remedies Of Mercury and Potash : 5, S not only
hsm which caused by the poisonous minerals.
GEO. BONELL 24R2 81 Avenue n. Y.
Nine years ago ScrOfuIa attacked two of chill
dren and they badly afflicted with the disease
which resisted the treatment of tami ply ician
account of cures in my county paper. The improve
nent apparent from the first few doses, and in
short time my children were cured, and still
sound and well. JOHN WILLIAMS. Lexington, Va.
SwIFT's SPECIFIC is entirely a vegetable remedy,
and is the only medicine which permanently cures
SCrOfula, Blood HumOrs, Cancer and Contagious
Blood Poison. Send for Books on Blood and Skin
Diseases, mai ed free.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
At PittSburC.

There was an awful catastrophe at II. sc
in the afternoon at Pittsburg caused by the
same cyclone that wrought such havoc at
Reading. At least fifteen persons were
killed, twenty-nine injured and several were
missing.
The high wind that struck the city at that
hour completely demolished the large brick
building in process of construction in Dia-
mOnd alley, Immediately in the rear of
Weldiu q Co s big bookstore.
The building had been completed to the
seventh story. 1t is a complete wreck, and
as 1t went down crushed the barber shop
next to it. The falling debris was thrown
against Weldin & Co.'S store, the front of
which was Knocked out.
The rears of all the stores on Wood street
as far up as the hat store of Paulson Bros.
We're wrecked. Six men were in the barber
shop. Two have been recovered alive, two
are dead and two were still uuder the debris.
There were at least fifteen printers in the
rear of Weldin & Co. s store on the second
Ioor and many Of them were badly injured.
AS fast as they could be brought out they
We're carried on stretchers to the various
hospitals,
Un6 man, who was on top of the new
building, fell into the basement. His skull
was fractured and both legs were broken.
throughout the afternoon the firemen and
police worked hard to rescue the victims or
recover their dead bodies.
A large number Of physicians arrived at
the scene, rendering all possible assistance tc
the injured.
At the time the whirlwind struck the build
ing most of the men were on the first floor.
1t was the dinner hour and the men were
sitting around the fire eating The
whole rear of j. A. Gallinger's china
ware store was crushed in EverMa
lew seconds during the afternoon pitiful q
would come from under the mass of VI
and brick, and encouraging shouts won
up from the crowd. The sight was
rending, and moved many to teaSa6
midst of their work of rescue
At Weldin's store the wreckM
Scrlptlon. The means of the I'm
under the debris were heartMM VIII
The cries of several mad W
from the cellar. Yet it.
get at them and they pei
was running on them ind
water mains
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
Something New.

A new and very effective thing which is TAX
ing hold on the market is a valuable discovery
Co., Baltimore, Nd, proprietors of the re-
nowned ST. Jacobs Oil, and known as Diamond
Vera-Cura, for Dyspepsia, a positive cure for
Indigestion and all stomach troubles arising
therefrom. If not found in the stock of drug
gist dealer, it will be sent by mail on receipt
of 25 cents Is boxes 81 in stamps. Sample sent
on receipt of two-cent stamp. 1t has been
found on trial to be a specific for sour stomach,
heartburn, nausea. giddiness,, constipation,
nervousness and low spirits, and it is spoken Of
and recommended by hundreds who have used
it and have found lasting benefits
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25

Have you a father? Have you a mother?
Have you son or daughter, sister or a brother
who has not yet taken Kemp's Balsam for the
Throat and Lungs, the guaranteed remedy for
the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Group and
all Throat and Lung troubles? If so, why?
when a sample bottle is gladly given to you
free by any druggist and the large size costs
ONLY SOC and 81
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
A Family Gathering.

THE Car will visit the Emperor of German,
in Berlin early in 1889.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25

VERMONT factories turn out 6OO,0OO
snoW-shovels per year, and New Hamp-
shire and Maine send the figures up to
100000.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25

To the Editor-Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
named disease which Warrant to cure the
worst cases. So strong is my faith in its vir-
tues that will send free a sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give
II. G. ROOT. NJ. c.. 1S3 Pearl St. New York.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
CON SUM PTION

have positive remedy for the above dseass by its use
thousands of the worst kind and long standing
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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25

It is known that at least twenty-five men
were at work on the Wiley building and not
one of them has been heard from but the
three taken from the ruins. and the suppose
ton is that all the others are under the ruins
still
Later IN the day another section of the
wall fell down. Three firemen and Rev. Faith
er Canavan were buried under it and 1t is
believed that they were killed. Father Can
avan's head was cut and his back
cut and bruised. At $50 the
dead BODY of ,olored boy,
name unknown, was taken out and removed
to the Morgue A few moments later the ele-
vator boy. James Caring, employed in Wei
dins store. was removed. He was I'M
conscious and fatally injured.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
EVERY FAMILY SHOULD HAVE ONE.

All newspaper readers are constantly ], edinE an
Atlas for reference in order to lntelgently under
stand the artiC they IerSsinE II il surprising
how much inform alton il thus stor,d away in the
and how soon one teCCmes familiar with
the chief points concerning all the Nations Of the
Word. Postpaid for rs cents.
BOOK lIR. HOT Sc. ia Leonard ST y Y. City.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
Cafarrh Cured.

clergyman, after years of suffering from
that loathsome disease, Catarrh, and vainly
prescription which completely cured and saved
him from death. Any sufferer from this dread
full disease sending a self addressed stamped
envelope to Prof j. A. Lawrence, 68 War; en-
St. n. Y, will receive the recipe free of charge
If afflicted with sore eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
son sEye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25

THE Gar and his brothers have built a Greek
church at Jerusalem in memory of their moth
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-25
Money i'm Chickens.

aman who devoted . years
of his life CONDUCTING
A POULTRY YARD As A
BUSINESS, not a. a pas
time. AS the living of him
self and family depended
on il, he gave the subject
such attention as only g
need of bread viii com
mand, and the result was a
grand success, after he had
spent much money and lost
hundreds Of valuable chicbs
ems in experimenting. What
he learned IN all these years
Is embodied IN this book,
which we send postpaid for
25 cents in stamps. IL
teaches you how 70 Detect
and Cure Diseases, how TO
Feed for Eggs and also for
Patching. which Fowls TO
Save for Breeding Purposes
and everything. indeed, you
should know on this subject
BOOK PUB. HOUSE.
I24 Leonard ST.. =. Y. City.
The national leader., 1889-03-09

therefore we have the key Gof and call
that letter do.
The notes do, IA, mi, ia, ETC., will
come in regular succession here and in
all the keys alike.
Next find piece of music with a
signature of two sharps. The right
hand one is on G. Then do is the next
one above on d, which is the keynote.
he notes will read from do in regular
succession as before.
When the signature is three sharps
the right hand sharp is G. Then do
will come on the next note above which
is A, the key note. With four shar2s,
the right hand sharp is on D. Then, do
is on the next note above, which is E,
and so on. It does not matter how
many nor how few sharps, the last or
right hand sharp is always the next
note below the key note, do or one of
the scale.
The fats transpose by fourths or fas.
The right hand fat is always on ia or
four of the scale. Find a piece of
music with one fiat for signature. 1t
is on B. Call 1t ia and read up or
down IN regular succession till you
reach do and you will find it on F
which is the key note. Proceed in the
same manner with any number of flats.
Always call the right hand fiat ia and
read up or down to do and you have
the key note. The number Of flats
makes no difference or exception to the
rule.
In determining the key of piece of
music first proceed according to the
foregoing rules for finding the key note.
Having found do or one Of the scale
cast your eyes to the left along the line
or space on which it is placed, and if
you see sharp on that degree of the
staff it is the key of that letter sharped.
For instance, if do comes on @ and G is
sharped in the signature, it is the key
of c sharp, and if do comes on B and
B is flatted, then it is the key of B fiat,
and so on.
No doubt to professional musician
these rules will seem mechanical and
incomplete. In one sense they are.
But they are philosophical in that they
teach the how before the whY-the art
before the science.
The details-the philosophy musi-
cal notation should come after one has
learned to read simple music. Just as
the alphabet and spelling should come
after one has learned to read or write.
The national leader., 1889-03-09

evening entertainment by the Manhat-
tan Social Club. of this city, at odd
Fellows Hall, on Friday night. March
Is. Extensive arrangements have
been made. and we predict an enjoy
able evening for the guests.
IF there is money in the treasury of
a society when it stops holding meet
ings, what Is the duty of the treasurer
In such caseP We have seen a letter
that claims that the treasurer doubts
the authority of the re-assembled club
to demand the money.
There is some talk of organizing
an independent military company here.
Registration books are open at the s.
W. corner of st. Asaph and Gibbon
streets. A meeting has been called at
the residence of Mr.. M. L. Robinson,
COG Glbbon street, on Monday night
for organization. Such a company
would be just the thing for Alexan-
dria. 1t would make lively times
here. Let US have soldier company.
We have the best drilled white COM
pany IN the State. Let US ''lnterest and
instruct" Washington in the matter OF
drilling as well as about ''ghosts.
N. B. I.