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The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01
Our Hidden Wealth.

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State are illimitable; they boldly assert
that no other State in the Union possesses
one-half of our advantages. Unfortu-
nately however, they do not gofar enough;
they linger on the glittering generalities,
tell us the resources that are here, but
fail to either locate them or give us the
solution of the problem of their develop
ment.
Not so with the AGRICULTURIsT. While
it is not given to expressing opinions
based solely on theory, it is ever on the
alert to investigate the plausanility ofany
theory advanced, and if proven practical
BILE to give it's readers the benefit OF the
investigation.
In this connection we would say that
for the past year or more we have been
examining into thepossible profit of gath
ering medicinal herbs, roots, barks, ber-
ries, etc., for the market, and we are
pleased to say that our investigation
conclusively proves that the business may
be made a profitable one. Do not under
stand us as advising our farmers, fruit
growers or those engaged in any business,
to quit that business and enter a new and
untried field. Such is not our idea. But at
many seasons of theyear those engagedin in
almost any character of business have leis-
ure moments that can be proitably en-
ployed in gathering the articles for the
| medicinal market.
| We have in our possession letters from
extensive manufacturing chemists inquir-
ing about many Of the plants Indigenous
to Florida, and Offering to purchase large
| quantities of them at what appears to
be remunerative prices One firm wishes
to purchase a large quantity of saw pal
metto berries (SauOle saureletta) and
agrees to pay eight cents per pound for
them. Considering the amount of these ber-
ries produced in Florida, and the ease with
which they can be gathered, it certainly
seems to us that many an honest
penny could be turned by the Industrious
Floridian during the otherwise dull sum-
| ul0I AIOHUllo. We hLIOW VI OLiC l0uJ WIZ
| picked enough berries during one month
to net her $135.
The same firm wishes to purchase Still
lingia root, the market price of which we
believe is fifteen cents per pound. Any
quantity of these roots can be found al
most anywhere in the State, and an in
dustrious man could gather several hun
dred pounds per day. A few days since
we were talking with citizen of Volusia
county who had contract to furnish a
/ proprietary medicine house with 1000
pounds of dried Stillingia roots, and was
very well satisfied with his bargain
Among other articles Of this character
which find ready and profitable market
and which abound in the greatest pro-
fusion in our State, can be mentioned the
prickly ash bark and berries, blue flag
root, sweet gum bark, vanilla leaf (deer
tongue), wild cherry bark, wild indigo
root, yellow jessamine root, white pond
lily root, and in fact a long list Of them.
We do not assert that it will pay for a.
man to devote his entire time to the bus
mess, but believe he can proftably en-
ploy his leisure moments in gathering
these herbs and berries.
One of tile articles mentioned abovewas
| at one time an article of GREAT inn
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1889.
LOCAL WEATHER BULLETIN.

The following observations were taken at the
office of the FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT during the
week ending Sunday, April %, 1885,
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01

ADVERTISING RATES.
Rates for advertising furnished on application
by letter or in person.
The Florida agriculturist., 1889-05-01

at. Rainfall too small to measure.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19
FEED.
Hay $l7@l8 per ton, bran $l4.50, chop
$I802O, shorts $16 so, barley $2l.

~, resisted III 's:lo 81 adF growth
Il artifciality and fl'ivolty; age ac-
;epted means deepening experience
and widening life. Som one has said.
with the deepest wisdom. that the
way to get the most out of life is to
accept completely each stage OF it. to
drink to the bottom the cup which
youth and maturity and age hold to
the lips and so to take from life all
that lies in its bands. ExohanDa-
When the opportunity OF man .
life presents itself he usually Walls
for AN introduction. Boston Post
Folly must hold its tongue while
wearing the wig of wisdom A.
Macon.
Education does not hurt young
man if he has good common sense 10
70 with it.-N. o Picayune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19
Egg-Yelks for Boils.

The yelk of eggs made into plaster
with honey and flour. of about the con-
sistency Of mustard paste, gives speedy
relief to one afflicted with boils. The
white, used as coating for scalds and
burns, excludes the air, which SO ag-
gravates the sufferings OF burned
person. 1t is softer than collodiou,
therefore better, and is always at
hand: it is more cooling than
the once popular sweet oil and cot
ton. The white, beaten with sugar. Is
invaluable in bronchial affections, ,espe-
ciallv in hoarseness. when a little
lemon juice may be added with good
results. Cider vinegar may be sub
stituted for the lemon juice when the
latter is not available. Leather chair
seats nay be revived by rubbing them
with well-beaten white of eggs.
Leather binding of books may also be
cleaned by this method, but white
Roman bindings should be washed
with a soft flannel saturated in soap
suds Detroit Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19
TYPOGRAPHICAL BULLS.
Oneer Mistakes for Which We Bless Com
positOrs and Proof-Readers.

Queer Mistakes for which We Bless Com
positOrs and Proof-Readers.
A New England paper told about "a
drove OF hogs floating down the Con-
necticut river" instead of "a drive of
logs"
An editor discussed the political situ-
alton in q comprehensive editorial
and headed it, LET us Explore" He
neglected to read the proof and 1t ap-
peared under the caption, Let us Ex-
plode."
In lecture at Boston Rev. Joseph
Cook asked his audience-"Was st.
Paul Dupe? In the report of the
lecture Mr.. Cook was made to pro-
pound the startling eonundrum-''Was
ST. Paul Dude?"
An Indiana paper found it necessary
to publish the following correction:
For burglar meeting in the heading
of the article in our last issue relating
to the proceedings of the Town Coun-
Gil, read regular meeting"
1t was u Boston newspaper which
made its dramatic critic say: The
toast for Irving, like the toast for
olives. must be cut elevated. " What
the critic wrote was: The taste for
Irving, like the taste tor olives, must
be cultivated
Not long ago a telegraph operator
found the words orateS tratres in spe-
cial dispatch about the praying broth
ers." 1t is not definitely known wheth-
er the telegraphist or the cOmpositor
attempted to translate the words, but
it is certain they appeared in paper
as ''Oh. rats, father"
A recent society novel depicted
pretty two-headed boy playing ON the
green" secure from hunters OF Gu
riosities and agents of travelling mu-
seums. The boy was not such nat
ural phenomenon as he seemed, how
ever. for simple transposition OF two
letters had changed him from tow
headed" youngster into one with dupll-
cate heads. Printers Circular.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19
MASTERY OVER FEAR.
The Power of Mind Over Matter In Ne
mepts of Danger.


mepts of Danger.
1t would be interesting to know how
many courageous people are really ap-
prehensive and cowardly at heart.
Many a recklessly brave soldier has
confessed that he went to battle quak-
ing with fear perhaps as OverwheIm--
ing as that which prompted the de-
serter to flight. The great difference
between them was that of moral fiber.
The one was of stuff stern enough to
ensure his fidelity; the other was
craven. body and soul.
Mere hardihoOd of feeling is simply
an affair of the nerves. A person may
be endowed with it. or he may not.
and consequently his only responsible
ity lies in nobility of action. A lady
who had preserved an absolute calm
ness of demeanor during u night OF
great danger at sea, was afterwards
complimented on her courage.
did | really behave well?" sho
asked, in some surprise.
Like heroine. When those hys-
terical women screamed you didn't
open your lips, and you only moved to
make them more comfortable.
Il am glad, she replied, with sigh
of relief 81 was so beside myself with
fear that you wouldn't surprise me If
you said | screamed, too. | actually
looked in the glass the first thing next
morning. to see if my hair had turned
white"
But how did you manage to conceal
your fear?"
''Oh, | kept saying to myself: Re
member, you are not to make fuss
l set my mind on that"
What sort of man makes the
bravest soldier?" asked some one of
an old officer who had often been tried
by danger and was never found want
ing.
Well" he responded. after some
thought, Il should say it is the man
who keeps the steadiest grip on him
self"
Very few people. indeed. have a
sufficiently high estimate of the power
of mind over matter, in moments of
danger. A young woman-one OF the
modern young women VINO do not
hesitate to express an opiniOn-does
not think that boys are, by nature,
more courageous than girls. For she
says:
1T is a recognized tradition that
they are afraid, they say nothing about
it. Woman may scream without for
feiting her good name; therefore she
allows herself that privilege"
This young philosophers logic may
be defective, but it points 10 the very
evident fact that, while any one may
be conscious of fear. it is only the cow
ard who allows it to obtain the mastery
OF his actions Youths Companion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19
a PECULIAR DOCUMENT.
Ants-NuptiAl Agreement of = PrOsaic,
Business-LIko Nature.

Ants-NuptiAI Agreement of = PrOsaIc
Business-LIke Nature.
An ante-nuptial agreement, docu-
ment rarely met with in this part OF
the country, was filed in the county
clerks Office at Albany the other day.
Its intent is to protect the respective
possessions OF each of the contracting
parties from liability for debts con-
tracted by the other. Following is .
literal copy. including few mistakes
in photography:
know all men by these presents
that, l, Samuel Woods. manufacturer,
of the city of Montreal, in the province
of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada,
of the first part, and jennie L. Martin,
spinster, Of the city OF Albany, of the
United States of America, of the second
part, being about to be Joined in the
bonds of holy matrimony, hereby mu-
tually covenant and agree that the afore-
said Samuel Woods, of the first part,
shall not be liable for any debts now or
hereafter for which the aforesaid Jen-
ME L. Martin is or may be liable; and,
furthermore, that the aforementioned
party of the second part shall not be
liable for any debts which the said
party OF the first part now owes. or
which he may hereafter contract; also
that she, the said Jennie l. Martin,
shall be separate as to all property,
whether real or personal, which she
now has or hereafter may acquire, to
have and to hold entirely apart for her
own benefit or use as she. the aforesaid
Jennie L. Martin. may see fit, and in
consideration of which she hereby re-
nounces all right of dover.
The document is signed by Samuel
Woods and Jennie L. Martin, and wit
messed by Graham Martin. 1t was
executed on September 50. 1s7s.-
Albany IN. ~ Express.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19

STEAMER 1899.
FROM PORTLAND TO SAN FRANCISCO.
Leaving Steamship Wharf. Portland, at II
midnight as follows:
Oregon-September s, Is, y.
state of acknowledgements :, Is.
Columba-September H. 2S
The company reserves the right to change
atpamers or sailing days.
Hates of Passage Including Meals
and Berths.
Cabin y
Ateernge -
Hound Trip, Unlimited 30
NOR flu n re- Isl lars inquire OF any Agent
of the Company or of the, General Passenger
md Tieket Agent. Portland. Oregon.
A. r.. CHANDLER, Ticket Agent
Pullman, Wash.
c. J. SMITH.
A L. MAXWELL,
A. C. p. s. T. A.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19

Charles Clark, convict sentenced to
the penitentiary at Walla Walla from
Seattle for thirty-six years, was shot by
the guard on the 10th inst. while attempt
ing to escape. He will recover.
Captain James Remington, late IN
command of Company B, Fourteenth In
fantry, u S. A., stationed at Vancouver
Barracks, has been arrested on complaint
Of his wife and charged with dangerous
insanity.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19
Nervous IIi.orders.

DR. FLINT'S REMEDY must be
taken when excessive or continuous mus
cuIar exertion, exciting passions, or over
indulgence, stimulating food or drink, or
nervous disorders have long continued.
Descriptive treaties with each bottle; or
address Mack Drug Co., N. Y.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19
PORTLAND MARKET.
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK MORE
FAVORABLE.
While There 10 no Direct Change in
Quotations, Every Business Man
Feels Confident of an Eary
Change all Round.

The controlling features of the business
situation have undergone but little
change since the close OF last week, the
distributive movement Of trade having
been satisfactorily maintained, while re-
ports from all important interior distrib-
uting centers reflect the same satisfactory
cor ditions both as to character and ex-
tent OF the autumn demand. Coffees re-
main firm at last quotations. Sugars are
lower all round. The fresh fruit market
is still firm and active. Fresh vegetables
are still in good receipt and prices are
well maintained. For dairy, produce and
poultry there is not much to report, last
weeks prices being well maintained.
Wheat is more active and firmer -Four
and feed is unchanged, the demand con-
tinuing good. The local wool market is
still exceedingly dull. Hops are coming
in more freely, but the market is still
without interest.
GROCERIES.
Sugars, Golden G 614c. extra q $50,
dry granulated 77sc, cnbe, crushed and
powdered Sic. Coffee: Guatemala 20
@22R, Java 3G@32c, Costa Rica 2l@
231ac, Mocha 371Rc, Rio 22@23c,
roasted Java 30@32c, Arbuckle's roasted
25c.
PROVISIONS.
Oregon ham 13@l3kc, breakfast bacon
1216@l3c, sides 9@10c, Eastern ham 121s
@l4c, breakfast bacon 121sc, sides &c,
shoulders &c. Lard SIC.
FRUITS.
Apples 81, lemons So. Sicily $3.50,
pears $1@l.25.
DRIED FRUITS.
Apples 495c, evaporated 6@61ec sliced
&c, pears SC, peaches S@lOc, Oregon
plums 3@4, petite pruues 5@6c, German
519@6c, prunes, Italian 7c, silver 616 @7c.
California figs &c, Smyrna figs 14(6l5c,
ap. icots 13@14c, raisiDs $1.75@2.25 per
box.
VEGETABLES.
Potatoes, new, $9c@l, sweets l34c
per tb, onions 85c.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter, Oregon fancy SOC, dairy
25@2716c, common l0@l2hc. Eastern
ZOC, OdlllOIhLh IL 'RC.
KGGs.
Oregon eggs 80; Eastern 25e.
POULTRY.
Chickens $3@3.50. old hens $4@4.25,
young geese $8@10, turkeys l21ac per Ii.
WOOL.
Valley l7@19c, Umpque I9@20c, East
ern Oregon 10@l4c
HOPS.
Hops 6@8c for Oregon, 6@9c for
Washington.
Wheat, Valley s1.221a @I.25, Eastern
Oregon $1.1591.171a. Oats 37@39c.
FLOUR.
Standard $4.25, other brands 1915
@3 80.
FRESH MEATS.
Beef, live. 21ac, dressed, &c; mutton,
live, &c, dressed, 61ac; hogs live, 5t654c,
dressed IL h, deer "a @3c.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19
without Change.
STEAMER 1899.

Close connections at Portland for San Fran
cisco and Puget Sound points.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-19
TICKETS

To and from principal points in the Unite
States, Canada and Europe.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-12
NOT TO BE NEGLECTED.
The International Delegates Will Visit the
Southern States ut a Later Date
Incidents of the Present
Excursion.

WASHINGTON, October 1.-THE Secre-
tary of State receives many invitations for
the International American Conference to
visit certain sections of the South. 1t should
be generally and widely known that the
present arrangement is that early in Janu-
ary an itineracy will be arranged for the
South relatively more extensive than that
which is now in progress in the North. To
have taken in both sections on one itineracy
would have been fatiguing and exhausting,
and besides the month of October is not re-
garded as the most favorable season for
visiting the South. The principal cities of
the South may be assured of visit from all
the delegates in proper season. This an
nouncement is made on authority of Secre-
tsry Blaine.
A dispatch from Springfield, Mass, says:
The delegates to the International Congress
went to sleep last night in New Haven,
Conn.,, and opened their eyes this morning
in Springfield, Mass, having slipped from
one State to another without being aware of
the fact that the cars had moved during the
night. AT the station the party was joined
BY Colonel Burlington, commandant at the
arsenal, members of the municipal gov
ernment ana number OF prominent cltl-
zens of the place. After the formal intro
ductions had been made the visitors were
placed in carriages and driven to the
armory, the Morgan envelope works, where
all the stamped envelopes used by the Gov.
ernment are made, the Smith & Wesson
arms works and other places of interest
A committee of the Holyoke Manufacture
ers' Association welcomed the excursionists
at Holyoke, where they arrived at 2 o'clock
They were at once shown the magnificent
dam across the Connecticut river and one of
the most modern of paper mills in full oper-
alton. At about half.past the train started
for Albany, stopping long enough at Spring
field to take on Mr.. Bliss, who, with Mr..
Henderson, represents the United States
delegates. Mr.. Flint left the party at New
Haven last night for flying trip to New
York. He is expected to rejoin it at AL
banV
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-12
NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE.

Indeed, if anything is being done in
Paris toward this end, we are not in the
least aware of it, for even when they send
US news they do it in such a Geographically
brief and automatically indefinite terms
that we are very little the wiser thereby.
even the most hopeful who were wont
to say in the early days of the crash that
the company would come out all right, are
now respondent, and nobody believes there
is any reason to expect happy outcome for
the undertaking. The gradual suspension
of work began in December last.
"When the final blow came and laborers
and all other classes of employees were dis
charged in such numbers that soon the force
was merely sufficient to keep up a show of
doing something, in order that the con-
cession might not be forfeited, as would be
the case upon total suspension of work.
TO CoNFIsCATE THE CANAL.
Many an article has appeared in the
Colombian press in which the canal COM
pany has been roundly rated, and the
Government called upon to take away the
concession and to coniscate all the com.
pany's property, as provided by the agree
ment upon which DeLesseps started to build
the canal.
"One of these articles was supposed to
have been inspired by DR.. Nunez, the
scholarly President of the Republic. 1t has
even been thought to be the product of his
own pen. This article, especially, gained
wide publicity, having been reprinted
throughout Colombia, other South Ameri-
can countries and also in France and other
parts of Europe.
''The concession grants until 1892 for the
opening of the canal, provided the work has
been delayed by earthquake or such other
causes over which the company could not
have control. Otherwise 1889 is the limit"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-12
CEREMONIAL UNCHANGED.
Sir Knight Hopkins. of Pitfsburg, Submits n
History of the Grand Encampment.

History of the Grand Encnmpment.
WASHINGTON, October II. AT the
meeting of the Grand Encampment Today,
the Committee on Ritual made its report. The
report was accepted in part, so much of it
as related to ceremonials being referred back
to the committee with certain amendments,
with instructions to prepare report to be
submitted at the next triennial conclave.
This leaves the present ceremonial in force
for three years longer.
Sir Knight Hopkins, Of Pittsburg, from
the Committee on Correspondence, sub
mitted a history of the Grand Encampment
from 1916 to 1859. This history proves con-
clusively that the Grand EncampmeDt was
established in 1916 by Communicates from
Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New
York.
A resolution was passed declaring that it
was the sense of the Grand Encampment
that in all knight Templar parades and
demonstrations the Sir knights par
ticipating shall wear no badges
except those belonging to the
Knight Templar or Masonic orders. This
resolution was passed because Of the fact
that many Knights have paraded wearing
Elks, Knights of Pythias and other badges.
Robert Heirtung, the oldest Templar in
the State of Indiana, delivered an appro-
pirate address at the tomb of Washington
to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-12
NOT INDICTED.
A Louisiana Grand Jury Fails to Bring In n
True Bill Agninst Alleged Murderers.

A Louisiana Grand Jury Fails to Bring In n
True Bill Against Alleged Murderers.
LAFAYETTE, La, October 1.-THE
grand jury to-day, after long and tedious
session, returned not true bill in the case
of the State versus Charles Guidey, Rast
Hatton and Alicinde Landey, in the Cor
miere murder. Many other cases of much
gravity were considered also, but with the
same futile result in almost every instance.
Only one or two trus bills were returned
and these were trivial offenses. The fore
man of the grand jury, Mr.. Edmond
Pellerin, in handing the returns to Judge
Edwards, said very earnestly:
"We have worked hard, but with little
results. indicating very plainly the inabil-
ity OF one or two good men to overcome the
settled determination Of few others in mat
ters of the greatest character. The three
parties above mentioned were thereupon
discharged from custody, and this ends the
prosecution in the matter of the horrible
Cormiere tragedy. Attorney Smeds states
that he does not intend to pigeon-hole the
charges against the Cormiere prisoners, but
was unable to say when he would prose-
cute. 1t is his intention also to make test
case of one of the charges preferred against
the st. Martinsville regulators and others
implicated, and if the State is not accorded
a fair trial here he will move a change of
venue.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-12
ANOTHER NIAGARA SUICIDE.
A Heart-Broken Woman From Buffalo
Goes Over the Falls.


Goes Over the Falls.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM To THE DIsPATcH.1
NIAGARA FALLS, October ia
woman's hat, umbrella and handbag were
found on the walk at the end of the
Third Sister Island bridge this
afternoon. The three ladies who
discovered them took them to the
Office of the superintendent of the reserva-
ton, and there the handbag was opened and
this letter, written in pencil, was found:
BUFFALO. October Ill am about to take
step which had not ought to do; but cannot
live like this any longer. May God forgive;
the blame will be on my husband. If my body
is found, l wish it buried in st. Johns
Cemetery, at Pine Hill, lot 573, where my
children are buried. This is the last wish of a
heartbroken wife. LOUISA PETSCHKE.
l bid all my friends goodby. May they re-
member me in their prayers, and not think
hard of me. God alone knows how I have
suffered. Dear Freddie, you have driven
me to this. l forgive you more than
thousand times; but l can stand no more. May
God forgive you, as forgive you. l die loving
you. Your wife. Farewell forever.
1t is probable that the suicide entered the
river, which there flows at fearful speed,
at the foot of the Third Sister Island, and
that her body passed over the Horseshoe
Falls. The woman was undoubtedly from
Buffalo, and family troubles were the cause
of her suicide.