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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-10-29
Botany Made Easy.

Children dearly love to initiate; in
that respect they should not be offended
at hearing themselves called very nearly
the equals of monkeys. Boy Blue lives
in family where botany furnishes one
of the occupations and pastimes of the
hour. Scarcely a day passes without
some learned exposition at the table or
the display Of a leafy wonder.
1t is not strange that the little lad has
caught the prevailing mania to the ex-
tent of dabbling in science ON his own
account. One day he was overheard by
his elders, as he gave the following
learned exposition to little cousin.
Boy Blue held an apple tree branch iIT
his hand, and began charging upon it's
peculiarities.
"Now, Tommy" said he, ''see how
very curious this is. There isn't often
so many pistils in the middle, but this
is rare specimen, and it's got, should
think, as many as fifty. The petals, you
notice, are pinkish. 1t isn't often you
find one yellow orblue, but if you should
you'd send it to some professor and he'd
name it after you. Perhaps he'd call it
the Tommy-ania.
''Then here are the leaves. You'd
SAY, if you didn't know anything about
botany, that they were netted veined;
but look q little Closer
Here Boy Blue himself looked little
closer, and found that he was not stat
ing fact.
II do b'lieve this is netted," he ex-
claimed, recovering his self possession
with the GOODNESS of true scientist. 81
shall have to press this specimen and la
bel it rare, very rare indeed Now, OBJ
serve how few leaves is on this stem.
Only six or seven, you'll find; never more
than seven. One, two
AS the young lecturer proceeded he
found his prophecy was to be belied.
That, however, did not daunt him.
Calmly stripping off the superfuous
leaves he went on counting and an
nounced in triumph: "Seven! I told you
so. Oh, Tommy, it's great comfort to
be areal botanistv- Youths Companion.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-10-29

con.
"The SEVENTH
"No."
Another minute of study, then Celia
Brown put up her hand.
"What do you think, Celia?'
''I think it might be the eighth, for
when the COW turned her head to look
back, her own horns would be behind her,
wouldn't they?"
"No, it isn't the eighth" the deacon
said.
About this time little Johnny Harris
horn on the front seat, began to smoker.
"What are you laughing at Johnny
asked Miss Plummer.
"Cows-can't talk' giggled Johnny.
Deacon Day laughed, too, then.
Johnny has answered it," he said.
"None of the COWS could do it, of course"
Then all the scholars laughed and woke
up for the rest OF the day, and Deacon
Day bowed himself out.-M. G. w. B. in
Companion.
This is the way one bright boy takes
to get his physiology lesson:
"Martin," said a wise school boy to
his little brother of six, ''come here and
tell me what you have inside of you"
"Nothing," said Martin.
Eyes you have. Listen. You've got
whole telegraph slowed away in your
body, with wires running down to your
very toes and out to your fnger-tips."
81 haven said Martin, looking at his
feet and hands.
"You have, though, and that isn't all.
There's big force pump in the middle Of
you, pumping seventy times a minute all
day long. like the great engine showed
you the other day at the locomotive
works."
"There is no such thing"
"But there is, though; and besides all
these things, tree is growing in you
with over two hundred different branches,
tied together with ever SO many bands
and tough strings"
"That isn't so, at all, persisted the lit
tie boy, about ready to cry. Il can feel
myself all over, and there's no tree, or en-
CINE, or anything else, except flesh and
blood"
ooh that isn't flesh and blood; that's
most of it water. This is what you are
made Ola few gallons of water, little
lime, phosphorus, salt and some other
things thrown in" said his brother.
Tears stood in Martins eyes, but the
grammar-school boy went on: "And the
worst Of it is, that there's ever so many
million little-but where is MARTINEZ
The poor little fellow had run away
When his brother found him, he was
kneeling with his head in mothers lap,
and crying.
81 was only teasing him mother, ard
kind OF getting up my lesson about the
body, that we're to have this afternoon. [
didn't think it would worry him So"
The big boy kissed his mother and ran
away to school, while the little fellow had
talk with mamma about the wonderful
things inside of him.-Santa Claus.
*x*
A certain school girl declares, that do
what she will, she can never remember
dates.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-10-29

Key West, according to the census re-
turns, is the largest, or, at least, most
pOpulOus city in the State.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-10-29

confidence that the prescription would
never fail. Later in the evening, how
ever, her friend mischievously resolved to
test her memory.
"Well, Mary" said she, 81 don't be-
lieve you can tell when Columbus discov
cred American
"Of course l can," returned Mary
promptly and with some Indignation.
Gin fourteen hundred ninety-three
Columbus sailed the dark blue sea-
~
Little Annie was sorely puzzled as to
how Jonah could ever be the same again
after having been swallowed by thewhale.
Her mother explained to her that Jonah
was not eaten, but swallowed. ooh, now
I know" said the little girl. 'Tt just
swallowed him whole like did the Car
ter's without chewing him." Don't
think this is an advertisement.-ED.
**x
Next month comes Thanksgiving, and
our young folks may look out for a nice
Thanksgiving story.
*x*
Here are two puzzles sent me by a
bright young Miss from Stetson Uni
versity for our Young Folks page.
Who will read them correctly?
No. 1.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

STRANGER FROZEN TO DEATH - lie ENTERS
OPEN HOUSE TO SLEEP AND Is FOUND
DEAD-SANE UNKNOWN.

STRANGER FROZEN TO DEATH - UE ENTERS AZ
OPEN HOUSE TO SLEEP AND Is FOUND
DEAD-NANE UNKNOWN.
wH1rEwR1aHT. TEX, Feb. 2S.-Aiter raining
and sleeting all day yesterday 10 settled qJ@- -
q cold, stiff norther, mGslng la,i might lis 60
est of the season. This morning II Is ori50' AM
clear. .-z. u,
had one in the rear room Of Z wards * ross "
sleep during the night. The h'use OeiAs 49,
and he having nothing 10 sleep on 81. G 49,
barrels and boxes, and his clothing D-'4e - II
he froZe to death. The inquest was p'''D-'-
until Saturday. He viii be buried 10 me slA.,s,
yard. He is a stranger; no one knows any 'A'Ns
about HIM. ,sq1
Editor Gazette.
The above item, which appeared IN In'
Dallas News, is not true. There was 10
Imam" frozen to death at this place. !
suppose the Item was intended for joke
but it reads too real, which Is entirely
untrue. The firm of Edwards { hos'
have a ''nigger dummy" when 'He'
place about for advertisement sODs
times in front OF the house, other 1luis'
inside of the house. This was tue OHiJ
thing in the shape Of man thaI "ss -
the store the night mentioned ia
News. So, of course, it Is not Ou''s4
neither will it be buried. 1t beIou-s -
Mr.. s. E. Marshall, furniture dealer aat
undertaken of this city, who bou1nI i =
Paris Il think aud had it placed III z
coffin and shipped TO him. After Tue .,
rival of same, he hired a young in"u
open all the new cofrins and take OUT ~. -,
trimmings, etc. When ne opensI s a..
coffiu containing the "dummY, ~
covered the black face and Whlte uA- 80,
He ran and exclaimed that the VIZ
coffin had been shipped, that Their "I'
corpse In Que of them. So Nj. AA' -
enjoyed a hearty laugh over his Iosg'
Since then he has loaned 1t TO Me'sr'. LI
wards s Ross. and this is the frozen - lIa5
If the above item in the News Is in1guI :.
for joke, your correspondent la'i, -
see where the joke comes in, or WIZ
do the laughing. When, aud a. "n@''
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

many instances Of the loss OF manufac-
turing enterprises which have been re-
moved to the South. One OF the most
striking examples to show why removals
are made is that of a large machine tool
company formerly located at Worces-
ter, Mass. The business was a
prosperous and growing one. In
fact, it had outgrown its facilities
and location, and in order to meet
the demand for its productions, better
facilities, larger shops and an increased
capital were necessary. It was one of
the largest concerns in the city, and one
which it could i'll afford to lose; but
when called upon to aid in building up
the business by increasing its capital and
facilities, the citizens showed an indif-
ference and disinterestedness which at
once discouraged any further attempt on
the part of the company to continue
business IN that city, when all, and even
more, than they asked was willingly
offered elsewhere, and the city lost this
industry ,,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07
THE SPRING PALACE.

Colorado Exchange Journal: Fort
Worth g business men have again mani
tested the enterprise and liberality which
has so often distinguished them. by sub
scribing the necessary funds to insure the
success of the Texas Spring Palace. The
second season of the grandest and most
unique exhibit OF the products of the soil
ever presented to the public will be
opened at Fort Worth, May 10, 1890, and
continue twenty-one days, according to
the wording of circular with which this
office has been favored. The buildings
will be greatly enlarged and improved,
and the decorations and arrangements OF
exhibits more elegant aud superb than
last years. exhibition, in max
ing allusion to which the Bos-
ton Herald appropriately remarks:
"'The one great effort OF this Spring
Palace is TO get the people OF the North
to visit Texas, aud see Southern state,
its products and its people. Texas pro-
dures any and every thing that is pro-
duCed in any state in the American
Union. Texas can show gold to Cali
fOrnia, silver to Nevada, iron to Penn
sylvania, coal to Alabama, lead to Mis-
souri,. copper to Michigan, lumber to
Wisconsin, rice to South Carolina, sugar
to Louisiana, cotton to Mississippi, corn
to Iowa. wheat to Minnesota, wool to
Ohio, hay to New York, and to every
state that which it produces and much
that it does not.n
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

not effected by q process Of removal.
Radically reform the individual and he
will elevate his surroundings; but the
converse does not hold. The mistake Of
modern reformers is in dealing with the
physical rather than the moral conditions
of the race. ANY scheme that ignores
the existence OF moral faults and that
would prescribe for social ills Is dealing
in quackery and not in science. In all re-
lations Of man with his fellow
creature it is true, "Out of the
heart are the issues of life, and under
any system that does not take this into
the count, the lazy man, the stupid, the
vicious will continue to be, as now,
Destilent fellows. The selfish. the grasp
ng, the man of low aims and ambitions
will pervert society and wreck any project
for illumination. The idea TO lift ones
self is in physics an absurdity, but in the
moral world the man himself is the only
lever to lift him and permanently place
him on a higher plane. By any other
method, once take down the derrick, re-
move the guys and ropes, and he is sure
to fall, and falling, then, like the dog
and the COW, to return to revel IN the
filth from which forces outside of him
self have endeavored to elevate him.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07
HIINELF HIS LEYER.

The plan proposed by such modern re-
Johann Most, and others for the anchor
alton Of the race are Incomplete No
equal distribution of land, no commun-
ity of property, nor paterualism of gov
eminent, will accomplish the radical
change that these retormers expect from
their theories. There must BIZ a reform
of mankind beginning in the heart of
man, reform that Christianity terms
regeneration, new birth. BY what
ever name, it is a radical reformation :,
essential and helpful, that is required
for genuine philanthropic work.
Every physician knows that no deep
seated ulcer can be healed by
closing the surface, that were it pos
sibIe to cover with clean, healthy
skin foul putrefyiug sore, the healing
would be only superficial, and beneath a
fair surface would be fostering putridity =,
sapping the life, and that, sooner, or
later. it would destroy with deadly viru-
lenoe. So in the body polite; the deadly
germ that dweIls in immo raIity, the foul
weeds of idleness thriving in hot beds of
Isziness, aud scattering seeds of discon-
tent, discord aud revolt, must be eradi-
Gated, and the ground thoroughly broken
up, and by careful tillage made to pro-
duce harvest of wholesome grain. Any
social theory Is of necessity defective
that looks only to outward conditions.
Even casual observer readily
understands that human beings
living in filthy, ill-ventiIated homes,
fed upon garbage and clad in ill-smell-
ing rags are likely to be vicious. Such
an one VIII also contend that the work of
removal to better surroundings is the
work Of reformation, but IN the struct-
ure of the words is the pith OF the argu-
ment. To remove is not to reform. In
the human plant as well as vegetable,
where there is radical disease, the cure Is
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

PRESIDENT ELIOT thinks he has
grievance in that Harvard graduates
who seek newspaper work are put to
reporting instead of editing. To write a
good essay may be good preparatory work
for street-car driving, which is too often
the dernier resort of college graduates,
but the best method for making an
editor, quick TO catch the drift OF cur
rent events and ready with the pen, Is to
put college graduate through the re-
portorial drill.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

SOME of the newspapers are exercising
William Waldorf Astor will do with the
5000, 900, 900 that is now his. He might
run for another Office and scatter 500
gold pieces IN the Bowery and low bar
rooms, as when he tried TO beat Flower
for congress, or pursue Wanamaker's
plan enlarged and improved in the next
presidential campaign. But if he really
wishes to crafty his constituency let him
buy a worlds fair for New York and
build the Grant monument.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

A HANDSOME compliment to THE GA
zETTE is paid by the Knoxville (Tenn }
Tribune: 1.-The Fort Worth GAZETTE is
the best newspaper published in the state
of Texas. 1t is enterprising and pro-
gressive and Is making a great city of
Fort Worth. The San Angelo Standard
Says of 1t: The Fort Worth GAZETTE
allows Its editorial columns to expand or
contract according to the pressure of
news on its space, and THE GAZETTE, as
usual, is right This thing OF filing so
much blank space with editorial opinions
every day, whether the heavens fall or
not, without regard to quality or fresh
ness of matter, Is the reason so many OF
us never get beyond :he head lines of
most OF the editorial writing of these
days.''
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

THE Brooklyn Eagle, in speaking Of
DIR. Philip Brooks and the difficult mis-
sion he has chosen, that of awakening
religious feeling in the bosom of Wall
street operators, says OF him person
ally:
Nevertheless, if there is any evangelist on
Gods footstool possessed of divinity capable
Of reaching their scared and obdurate hearts,
DR.. Brooks is that man. He makes no study of
the tricks of oratory. His sentences are not
framed TO please the fancy or crafty love of
the rhetorical. His power lies in his simplicity,
his directness, and his wonderful knowledge
OF the human heart. You feel in listening to
him that you are receiving message, every line
of which the GeliveIer of it firmly and sincerely
believes. His majestic figure gives q physical
force and impressiveness to all he utters. He
speaks more rapidly than any American clergy
man; SO rapidly, indeeds that il is often difficult
to follow him, and yet his influence is SO great
that irresistibly you strain your faculty OF hear
ing to catch every syllable that falls from his
lips. Moreover, he never tires you. for both in
the matter Of what he says and his manner of
saying there is that which constantly inspires
the wish that he would keep on talking.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

THE agitation, occasioned in political
circles by the suspension of Labouchere
from the house of commons, for Ian
guage used by him regarding Lord Sails
bury in the discussion of the Cleveland
Street scandal, is calling forth some fenc-
ing tactics. Gladstone was premier in
1871 and now those who listened to his
two hours speech in support of Labou-
chere's position are asking, "Why
peer notorious in a scandal at that date
was permitted to escape through official
intercession?' The foil such a query
raises will turn aside what might else
become telling thrusts. Going behind
the returns is very inconvenient,
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07
QUE KLDENIYG TERRITORY.

The country west of Fort Worth is
growing. What is this city doing to
keep up with the country? Not whole
sale house has been added in ten years,
and yet what do the figures show?
In 1881 the taxable values OF Hood
county were STA 900; in 1889 they were
81 900, 900.
In 1881 the taxable values of Johnson
county were So, G32 900; in 1889 they
were Sc, 412 900.
In 1881 the taxable values of Parker
county were So, 37S, 200; in 1889 they were
So 1853 900.
In 1881 the taxable values of Wise
county were 50, 1856, 600; in 1889 they
were 81, 774 600.
In 1881 the taxable values of Denton
county were 1888, GOO; in 1889 they
were Sc 1881 900.
In 1881 the taxable values of Clay,
Wichita, Wilbarger, Hardeman, Archer,
Baylor, Jack, Erath, Young, Montague,
ThroCkmorton, Haskell and Knox aggre-
gated $40, GIG 900; in 1889 the taxable
values of the same counties footed up
$8I ,58l ,O00.
Will any man deny that this country is
tributary to Fort Worth? No man
then, is Fort Worth doing to
meet the demands of the growth
of the country west of it and tributary to
it? In 1881, if Fort Worth was equipped
to meet the demand of taxable values to
the amount of $40, 923 900, how can ii
hope to meet that of over $50, 900, 600?
Fort Worth has added nothing to its ca
pacity for supplying the wants of the
West. Fort Worth has not grown with the
growth of the West, and others are per-
mitted to come in and possess that which
is legitimately our own. Waco, Dallas,
Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago are
doing business in Fort Worth territory be-
cause Fort Worth will not do it. The need
of Fort Worth is wholesale merchants,
and mere hants cannot Go business in tent
or IN the open air.
1uS IedI GSldIe owners OF FOrI worth
should look the situation squarely in the
face and build houses. Our people call
themselves enterprising, and yet
they do not build q storehouse
unless it is rented in advance. Cities are
not made so, but they may be unmade
go. Merchants have come to this city to
locate and they have gone away because
they could not secure houses in which
to do business.
Calamity is in store for real
estate buyers unless houses are
built. Fort Worth should move,
and move promptly If it would reap
where it might. This city might now
have 10, 900 more population than it has
If it had possessed the enterprise for
which ii is given credit.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande. the
Fort Worth and Denver, aud the Fort
Worth and Albuquerque are all making
the dirt fly and adding more territory to
Fort Worth s trade.
What is Fort Worth doing to gather
the harvest that would so enrich it?
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07
PREMIUMS TO COUNTIES.

The Spring Palace will present solid
gold medal, suitably inscribed, to that
county in the state which shall make the
finest exhibit of the products of the soil.
solid silver medal TO the county max
ing the second best exhibit Of the pro-
ducts of the soil.
A solid gold medal to the county max
ing the best exhibit of minerals.
solid silver medal to the county
making the second best exhibit of min
erals.
solid gold medal TO the county
making the best exhibit OF the products
of the forest.
A solid silver medal to the county
making the second best exhibit of the
products OF the forest.
A solid gold medal to the county
making the best exhibit of the products
of the orchard and garden.
A solid silver medal to the county
making the second best exhibit of the
products of the orchard and garden.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

JERE BAXTER is a candidate for gov
ernor of Tennessee. He does not elec-
tioneer by public speeches or fiddling,
but speaks TO the individual. A rustic
asked him if he had ever made any public
speeches, and this was his reply:
''No, sir, have not. While other men have
been studying the political photography of the
state, have had my eyes bent on its topogra-
ply. have been looking for a vein of coal and
iron, or some good region through which to
build a railroad; at something that would give
the people work, and at the same time bring
capital into the state.''
Jere may not be much OF a public
orator, but he evidently knows how to
tickle the ear of the people.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07
WE thought it would come

WE thought it would come. There
are insinuations of bribery in connection
with the selection of the World g fair
site. A member OF the New York dele
cation says some of his colleagues were
approached by an individual (name not
could have the fair II willing to paw for
it. The wild improbability of the story
is discoverable at glance. Who would
ever dream OF bribing New York con-
gresham or member of the board OF
aldermen, The idea is preposterous.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

TIE majority of settlers in Oklahoma
are Northern men, and yet there is
manifested there a decided aversion to
negro settlers, and an absolute intoler-
auce of negro rights. This ought to con-
vince agitators that the race problem is
not to be solved by Southerners only,
but that those OF a section whose public
men so persistently thrust the question
into motto are likely to have to solve for
themselves that which they SO willingly
assign TO others.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07
AUSTIN.
Working for thu State Democratic Convention
Raj WY Charter Filed.


Raj WY Charter Filed.
Special TO the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX. March ga meeting
of citizens was held this afternoon to
take action toward securing the state
Democratic convention. Ex-Governor
Roberts presided and Judge A. s.
Walker was secretary. Hon. A. W. Ter
rell, Woodbridge aud Moore were sp-
pointed committee on invitation.
The charter OF the Gulf, Brazos Valley
and Pacific railway was filed to-day;
capital, $500 900. Direotors-H. n.
Taylor o; Weatherford; Ed G. Gurley
H. d. White, George B. Gurlev, w. B
Worsham, w. II. Ross and A. J. Doug
lass. ali of Waco. The prepared route
is from Velasco, near the mouth OF the
Brazos river, in Brszoria county, to
Henrietta, in Clay county, about 400
miles, through the counties Of BraZoris,
Austin, Washington, Milan, Falls. Nc
Lehman, Bosque, Hill, Sommervel,
johnson, Hood, Parker, jack aud Pslo
Pinto.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

WANTED-More mercantile houses in
Fort Worth. This city needs wholesale
dealers in groceries, hardware, queens
ware, saddlery, dry goods, boots and
shoes, clothing, drugs, etc. The coun-
try tributary to Fort Worth has out
grown the city. and there has been no
houses. If ever a city needed more
wholesale houses that city is Fort Worth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-07

A REPUBLICAN member said to Mr..
unseating, that he knew it was a bare
faced swindle, and that if a half dozen
Republicans would vote for him, he-the
speaker-could be counted in, but did
not want TO be alone in the innovation.
To vote against a barefaced swindle is an
innovation for Republicans, is the fair
deduction