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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-01-01
English Walnuts in Florida.

The Tallahaseean, of Leon county, Fla.
says: ''Mr. John A. Pearce presented us
with some fine English walnuts from two
trees in his yard planted six years ago.
Last year the trees bore a few walnuts
and this year they have half bushel on
each. In few years they will begin to
produce them by the bushel. Our soil
and climate appears to suit this valua-
BILE nut. The samples before us are large
and well filled and the shell is SO thin itcan
be easily cracked between the finger and
thumb A grove of English walnuts and
pecan nuts, which also do well here, would
be about the next best thing to a pear
or an orange grove. Come to think
about it, we don't know if it would not
be surer and more profitable invest
ment. The nuts are always in demand
at good prices, and there is no Quitting
the market with them, for they will bear
keeping until the demand is equal to the
supply"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-01-01
The Compost Heap.

AuC OVmpO0U 4AC0P'
There are two main things to be con
sidered at the outset in making the best
compost heap. One is how to hasten de
composition, and the other is how to
prevent the escape of gases that are Gre
ated? The compost heap should he so
located that it can be drained and the
drainage saved, for necessarily it must
contain valuable fertilizing ingredients.
The site of the heap selected and drain
age provided, construct the heap. Barn
yard manure and any deposit that con-
tains plenty of vegetable matter are the
principal ingredients. When it can be
had swamp muck is just the thing.
There is one bit OF caution that ought to
be given, and that is to be careful that
nothing is used in which there are weed
seeds.
The proportions should be one part of
barnyard manure and two parts of muck
or whatever is used Now determination,
the basis of the compost is made. To this
is added everything that is lying about
the premises, that can possibly add to
the value of the heap, and one of the
greatest advantages of the compost is
the utilizing very much of value as fer
tilizers which would otherwise go to
waste. Gather up the night SOIL chicken
droppings, wood ashes, sawdust, corn
stalks, leaves, straw, soap suds, fish or
meat brine and old mortar, and thor
oughly mix them with the heap. The
farmer or gardener will be surprised
to see what a large quantity of fertilizer
he will get by gathering up these odds
and ends. 10 every load of material
about pounds plaster ought
to be used
Now the chemical changes begin.
Putrefaction, or fermentation-both be-
ing the same so far as the chemical op-
GRAFTON is oncerned-commences The
carbon contained in the dead vegetable
matter unites with oxygen from the air
or in the water that may be in the ma
terial, and carbonic acid gas is the re-
suit. This gas acts on the silicate Of
potash in the mixture, separates thesili-
cate from the potash, and the silica being
freed becomes hydrated SILICA, and both
these elements are thus made at once
available for plant growth Observe,
therefore, the benefit of composing in
thus making these two elements avail
able. Before the changes took place,
both were insoluble and utterly useless.
Suppose unroOted straw had been ap.
piled to the land. 1t would require a
year, and perhaps two years, before these
elements could be made available-West-
ern Rural.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-01-01

as well as having homes in the Gland OF
flowers and sunshine"
S. p. SHEPHERD.
Lake Brantley Orange Co., Florida.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
COST OF WARS.

"In times Of peace" says the San
Francisco Chronicle, 1.-The statisticians
count the cost of wars in men and
money, which does not seem. however,
to have any effect whatever in the way
of prevention"
The wars Of the last thirty Yeas ac-
cOrdInG to French and German statisti-
clans have cost the lives of $3.50, 900
men, in addition to the inconceivabie
sum of S13, 600 100000. OF this amount
Frances war with Prussia cost her in
money s., 500, 600 600, and in men 155.-
600 in round Numbers. According TO
DIR. Roth, German authority, the Ger
mans lost during the war over GO, 600
men killed or rendered invalid. and
$500, 100000 in money, this being the ex-
cess Of expenditure or of the material
losses over the 81, 600 paid by
France by way of indemnity.
DIR. Engel, another distinguished Ger
man statistiCian, gives the following as
the approximate cost of the principal
wars of the last thirty wears; Crimean
war, s., 900. 600 600; Italian war of 1859.
$500. 600, 600; PrusSo-DaniSh war of 1864
$35, 00O,0 600; Civil war. north. %5.I0O-
600 600; South, s.. SOC. O00, 600: Prusso-
Austrian war OF 1866, $3.50. 600, 600:
Russo-Turkish war. 1926. zoo. 600: South
African wars, $50. 900: Afghan war.
Sl3,250,0 600; Servo-Bulgarian war. Sl16,-
600. 900.
All these wars were murderous in the
extreme. The Crimean war in which
few battles Were fought, cost 1J0. 600
lives, only $4,000 less than the Germans
estimate of the loss TO north and south
in the civil war. The Mexican and
Chinese expeditions cost 5000. 600 600 and
5000 lives. There were 100000 killed
and mortally wounded during the Russo
Turkish war. and $1,000 each in the
Italian war of 1859 and the war between
Prussia and Austria.
However, notwithstanding the moral
of such figures, wars will continue when
ever nations become mad. and statisti-
clans Will show them afterwards their
madness.
rs the Chronicle says: You can not
make governments count their dead be
forehand. though it is easy enough TO
count them afterward. which as for the
prospective debt. a nation assumes it in
advance as coolly as farmer places a
mortgage on his farm"
Nevertheless, and Notwithstanding all
this there are times when governments
can not control circumstances that con
spire to make war a necessity for self
preservation. however much such
exigency may be deplored, as for in
stance our own civil wars.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
JUSTICE MILLER.

From the Globe Democrat
The career of the late Justice Miller af-
fOrds an impressive illustration of the ex-
tent to which natural aptitude and earn
estness can triumph over ordinary limit
ations and disadvantages. Law as life
pursuit may be said to have been sort
Of afterthought with him. In the begin
ming he seems to have been attracted to
the profession of a physician. At all
events he practiced medicine for time
before he gave his attention to the law.
In this calling, however, he found his
true vocation. He was never what NAV
be termed a profound jurist. As Justice
Harlan, who was associated with him
on the supreme bench for more than a
dozen years, says, The was not as learned
in the books as some judges In the
extent of his requirements he was below
Rutledge and Clifford, while he could
not at all be compared to Story or
Curtis. There were a few of his CO.
temporaries, also. who were superior to
him in legal attainments. yet probably
no member of the tribunal in which he
served ever pronounced opinions on so
many important points of constitutional
law as he did accept John Marshall.
For the past fifteen years and over
Justice Miller's influence was paramount
in the supreme court. From the time of
the death of Chief Justice Chase onward
he was the head of that tribunal in every
thing but name. Nearly every import
ant decision which haI been made by
the court in this period has borne the
impress of his acute and logical mind.
He has framed most of the utteranceS on
constitutional Interpretation which have
been made in recent years. Some of
these decisions will constitute epochs in
eur Jurisprudence. The police powers of
stat were never more clearly and
strongly stated than they were by him in
the noted Louisiana slaughter house
cases, nor did the powers and limitations
of congress in matters of taxation ever
receive more vigorous and lucid definition
than were given them by him in a cele-
brated suit brought before the supreme
bench about fifteen years ago. He de-
Tended the rights of states when. in the
excitement and prejudice engendered by
the war, they were in danger of being
overthrOwn, and preserved, evenly and
equitable. the balance between them and
the federal power. None of the i.lustri-
Gus men who have been members of the
nations most eXaulted tribunal have been
more liberal, progressive and courageous
than he, and none have met its Onerous
and eXacting requirements more fully
and satisfactorily.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

How still the third house is keeping
The capital seems to be as far off from
| Tohee as ever.
Guthrie is very jubilant, but it doesu Z
/ say much about Capitol Hill"
Seven to Six" will be motto for the
| campaign banners, next election.
Kingfisher is scraping off the top Of a
/ hill for the foundation of a capitol
The Oklahoma papers are bowling mad
and who wouldn't be, in their place.
Nobody would be to blame if the capital
question was settled by popular vote.
How happy most boys would be if their
vacations were as long as that school bills.
It is a question now with the house:
Gould legal ABILITY done mOres' Prob
ably not.
Grist Mil Jones is reported 70 have told
the governor To 90 towel. not back to
Indiana.
Norman and EIReno are lying in wait
for the capital, 10 grab Is when 1t comes by
their way.
Guthrie man mas written a piece 81
poetry on the vet. some people never
can stand luck.
The best looking man in the legislature
Simpson. has become sn editor. He
couldn't help H.
!. c. Adams i Gagged again. This will
Kind Of alleviate Okl4hOms's feelings over
the failure 70 get the capital.
The first jury trial held in Canadian
county was held last week in the court q
Justice II. X. Kicker al II Reno.
The Oklahoma City Times publishes a
blank column with Governor steele turn
cd upside down and a hearse at the bottom
Down AZ oklahoma City they think that
Governor Steele took his senatorial ign
down when lie failed 70 sign up the capital
bill
Mr.. Terrin states that he pays a. much
taxes as Mr.. Neal from Oklahoma The
joke Is that neither one Of them yet pay
cent
70 begin work ia the Iowa. Poit0Eattomie
and SIC and Fox countries the 9Jth Of THIS
month.
Governor Steele will LOT suffer much
from Billiards this winter II the Okla
hounA City papers keep a. hin a. tie
present rate.
Mr.. Campbeu, q Logan. says be came
20 the legislature AGAINST bis wisbss This
expression looks Ike. a scooY' on TIE
other iellOWz
Now that the Peep le have stopped . con !
sder, this Is a case where the capital - 10 I
Gated by the legislature and tie g0TeFuoT-
especially the governor.
When people Sc Mr.. Frank Greer they I
e1p~Ct 70 nad her husband a dreadful 4
uZly man But that where they are Enls- 4
taken Mr. Greer = said 70 - o1e q tEe 4
p-ettiest women IN the territory
When Daniels moved that the hoBSe aG- /
so1En toZ fo1E weeks IEers wzs AZ audible j
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
SOME INCONGRUVIALITIEs

In speaking of the cotton crop of the
south few days ago the Advertiser of
Montgomery, Ala, made this statement:
THE recent rains have prevented the
gathering of the cotton crop. and much Of
the staple has been beaten off in the fields,
but the crop will be an average one. The
price is now too low. The planter ought
to get not less than 10 cents a pound Tor
his cotton. but the record of the past is
that the produces has been forced to take
the very lowest figures. and just as soon
as the crop comes in and passes into the
hands of the speculator, the price Is forced
up and the shylocks reap all the benefit.
Any plan that viii prevent this injustice
viii do a great service to the farmers of
the country"
The conditions last referred to are not
peculiar to the south; they obtain extant
and apply to all farm products. And
they constitute a field of operations for
the Alliance that could be made fruitful
of practical results to the infinite adj
vantage of its members and the farming
community at large if properly man
aged. Such matters are entirely within
the province of the Alliance for action
to right by such concerted action as they
may devise consistent with the laws and
the rights of others. More attention to
such things that are practical and prac-
ticable and less to the impracticable in
the way of politics, and they would be
the gamers, immeasurablv.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
THE STATES ADMINISTRATION.

The seventh biennial report of the
state treasurer is at hand. 1t is rather
too fgurative to be as attractive as
Kreutzer Sonata, but under the head of
county delinquents we find that sixty
three counties are delinquent in the sum
total of S117, 06334 Leavenworth alone
owes the state So, 1866. Sedgwick,
one Of the newest, as she is next to the
biggest tax paying county in the state,
owes not a single cent. This state of af-
fairs is an outrageous injustice. As for
the disbursements Of the state funds.
amounting TO about one and one-quarter
millions dollars per annum, Topeka
seems to get the bulk of it for her state
house building, asylums, Libraries, etc.,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

murmur in the lobby that might have
been construed a. an amendment by sub
stituting ever" for the week..
The Oklahoma City Journal says. The
governor Of Oklahoma b. q com 1Iuat IUu u
social impurities, moral dehnquencies.
egregious egotisrH. political duplicity and
marvellous assurance He IS zygomatic
zoophyte, praZmatiCal parachute. a
Autographed mUryalocapu5 xiZnOgala-
thule
Oklahoma City Times: A farmer. m Old
tobacco grower, living neag town. has a
fine field % Tobacco. The seed plants are
eight feet high. The merchant tobacco
has leaved ont well and Is equal % ary
raised in the best tobacco countries The
gentleman speaks from experience when
Be SAYS the soil. climate. and other coufI
tIous mere. are such that tobacco can 30
raised easily and probably. Tie growth
and the fibre ATe excellent and a cure. in
this climate remarkably we'll Tobacco a.
ways Gnd- a ready sale. and brl ~ rI-h
price. The gentleman thinks 10 sill nm
dOubtedly soon become one ~ fHy calef az
ticles Of commerce % this county
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

General Kelley's opponents over in the
Fourth district are trying TO make
capital against him out Of his vote in
congress for the silver bin that passed
and is now a law. We suppose the
point they would make is that a free
coinage bill is hat the people of the
west wanted. So it was, and no man in
congress did more. 10y speeches and votes
TO secure the passage of the free coinage
bill than did Harrison Kelley, disregard
ing the caucus rules and voting against
the majority of his own party and with
its political opponents on the measure
even 10 its final vote. But this failing.
like the faithful and true representative
that he was, he accepted the next best
thing he could get and voted for the
present law. And he did right. and his
constituents understand il and will suit
ably reward him for his faithfulness
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
TOO MUCH POLITICS.

AtchisOn county has gained only thirty
four inhabitants since 1880 This does
not account for the natural increase bv
births, and tine county has, therefore,
practically lost. Doniphan county shows
positive loss of 745. An the other coun-
ties of the district show gains of from
200 To 800. No county in the state
has better natural advantages than Atch-
iSon or Doniphan. There Is seldom a
crop failure in this region. and peStilence
and famine were never known. In ac-
counting. therefore. for the loss of popl-
lation We cannot say that nature Is at
fault. The fault lies with che Deonle
themselves-too much politics. At every
opportunity, spring and fall. in season
and out of season, cheap men keep the
political pot boiling III the decent men
select one Of their number to represent
them in the town council. there is
Immediately a roar of protest from
the ward politicians, who proceed
10 issue call for a ward eau
Gus, and the nomination is given to one
of their number. In county affairs there
Is the same strife and senseless party
zeal \ man must be a very bad man
10 be defeated on his personal record in
either AtchisOn or Doniphan county, and
sometimes the greater shySter a man Is
the larger the party majority at the
polls. This Is a subject for the people
10 think about. II does a community no
good TO be ruled by professional Office
seekers, and the people Of Atchison and
Donlphan counties should rise in their
majesty and destroy these cheap men
whose only object in life Is 10 run con-
ventlons. You never find prosperous
man among them, and they are fire.
qUently dishonest and characterless-
When the people make II a rule 70 ignore
party aud vote for the man IN preference
Ia the partisan. they viii attain happi-
ness and prosperity, and not until then.
Globe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
THE BIG SEVENTH DISTRICT.

The Seventh Congressional district of
Kansas is the largest in area as it is the
most populous in the United States. The
official figures are out for Kansas as a
whole and for Supervisor Hubbard's dis
trict, which includes the Big Seventh.
The population Of the state of Kansas,
according to the official count completed
at the census Office, is .423, 485, as COM
pared with 800, 096 in 1880. being an in
crease in ten years Of 427, 3S9, or 1891
per cent. The leading towns are given
as follows.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17


The effect of the short agricultural crops
is seen in the continued rise in the prices
of farm products. The unscrupulous
Democratic press assigns the rise to the
new tariff law, but tariff or no tariff, prices
on such products would have advanced
this fall Witness the decline in the val
ues of the shares of the granger railroads
through the fear that there will not be suf-
ficient cereals transported to pay more
than the fixed charges on the companies
LeavenwOrth Time.
As compared with prices of one year
ago there has been a sharp advance. but
prices for all farm products were higher
before it was definitely known what the
new tariff bill would be than they are
now; nor is there at this time any mark
ed upward tendency in the price of any
of such articles. As to the railroads,
they are reporting increased business and
earnings right along, almost without ex-
ception. So it would seem from these
facts and conditions that somebody is
drawing largely upon the imagination to
make point. 1t cannot be denied, how
ever, that there has been marked adj
vance in the prices of most articles of do
nestle manufacture as well of as foreign.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

The Atchison Champion processes to be
orely puzzled to understand the con-
sistency of the papers that oppose the
Mckinley bill and vet support Senator
ingalls, who voted for that measure. OF
course the Champion is entirely consis-
tent in its opposition 70 the aforesaid
measure, while it Loyalty supports the
state ticket and platform, part of which
last is hearty endorsement of Senator
Ingalls, and also, by indirection, the Nc
Kinley bill. The esteemed can well
afford to relegate the term consistency.
in this campaign, to i d, don't YOU
think?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

prints, together with the alleged reasons
therefor. These are several and various;
but the one credited to the young lady's
mother is, if true, not only reasonable
but praiseworthy. 1t is that Miss Davis
health has been bad for some time and
does not improve, as it was hoped it
would at the time the engagement was
consummated. And her action in this is
not only commendable in her, but is
worthy of imitation. A woman who
enters the marriage state in an unhealthy
and infrm physical condition commits a
crime against herself, her husband and
the community, and one that she can
not afford to commit from the standpoint
of either interest.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
QotnzThA va.

Fr1-a ths Nswt0l Rr54biicau.
The death n Justice Miller removes
perhaps the ahlest man - the supreme
court q the United States and leave. on
the bench only one mem .sr Of thee
who have me down % "a from a
former generation. Justice Field b
now the only Judge appointed Nv Prsz3-
dent Lincoln Justices Bradley and
Harlan came from the Teconstructson
PERIOD, while i've. the rest - the bench.
have been appointed within ;be last nine
year. The advanced age q justice
Field reminds as that 70 cannot - ing
until the last living reminder q .'of
bloody prTiou ~iil nave pas-si awav.
With tho9e who served IA the senase q
n the fed and finally qnellssi a great
dispute ETe gong down The oues before
whom a. Tribunal the zEful catl-. first
bad q heaTIug. soon we shall not have
left even the IssmoTles q war. al
things vii IT. reduced - record
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

in the world. The American hog gets
up early m the morning with q good,
vigorous appetite. and keeps 10 ali day
long. Iie requires 10 stomach bitters or
other stimu,ant g. keep him in ol
condition. Possibly the prejudice
against the American hog has arisen BY
mistaxiuz counterfeit - the genuine
animal IHls counterfeit Is a beast tina.
puts his feet 9r car .eats and deGles tins
floor with t,blccy-spttle. II foreign
countre- wiii take th., feilOW they can
have hIfq a. a -Ift
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

Over 500 cigar hands in New York
have demanded an advance of 50 a thou
sand for making the higher grades of
cigars, under the new tariff laws. They
will get their demand, and the bill will
be presented 10 the consumer as usual.
There is this consolation left to the lat
ter, however, they don't have to buy them
if they don't want to.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

The Wichita EAGLE says Senator Ingalls,
receives 50 a word for every magazine ar
ticle he writes The Champion is really
glad TO know this fact. 1t Will now quit
worrying over how the senator is going to
get through the winter on his small sena-
torial STANDARDIZATION Champion.
If the alleged statement you credit to
the EAGLE has the effect of softening the
hard lump in your craw as you intimate,
let 1t GO. CBut the EAGLE never said it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

The fact seems to haveat last dawned
upon the Latter Day Saints that the
government Is in earnest and deter
mined to suppress their polygamous
practices, and if they are, indeed, sincere
in their professions that they mean TO
obey the laws and respect the sentiments
of the people of this country it is a
wise conclusion and will save them from
a deal of trouble and remove a public
scandal of long standing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

Because a railroad in Texas has hired q
few colored employees, the switchmen's
federation threatens to strike. Those
delicate Texas gentlemen are on the
brink Of a big, deep mistake. twill take
very rock-ribbed arguments to bring the
publics support to any boycott on the
negroes attempt TO make himself useful
in the south
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

The Peoples party, as party, haven't
got around to the proposition for the
state to establish a pension roll for all
citizens when they arrive at a certain
age, but it undoubtedly will pretty soon.
A candidate of that party for the legisla-
ture declared himself, in Salna last sat
urday, in favor Of the state granting an
annuity to all citizens of given age.
From that party'S standpoint we ask
why not? Ii is as plausible and reason
able as some other Of its propositions and
demands