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For THE FLORAL DEPARTMENT.
The Violet.

The little violet prominently figures in
poetry and song, and it's praises are
sung by the lips of beauty and virtue,
in soft, melodious cadences, so jovously
sad and so mournfully sweet It's pres
ence brings the warm glow of sunshine
into the poverty stricken room and casts
an indescribable air of refinement and
beauty over the dingiesl surroundings. It's
presence brings the crimson CLEANS of
love and light into the sick room and
chases away the shadow feared by man.
1t modestly nestles at the base Of the
pulseless, moss covered granite, and JOY
ously beauties the sun-kissed hillside.
1t contentedly and profusely blossoms in
the mountain gorge, and the sparkling
river, cleaning in the sunlight, like show
ers of ripping silver, is violet bordered
and violet scented. In sylvan secrets
and shadow haunted hooks, in messy
dells and glens, near silver footed rills
and murmuring hrooklets the little violet
as cheerfuIly fulfils it's mission assigned by
nature, as when blooming in artificial
heat among rare exotics. Tt is nourished
by sunshine and showers and thezephyrs
whisper words of love and the laughing
sunbeams kiss dew laden violets fresh
from their morning ablutiOn. Heavens
own ETHEREAL blue is wildly portrayed in
the delicately tinted violet, and dream
of Heaven is in it's mild blue eye. 1t
pours out it's soul in fragrance, and dewy
clouds of perfume might be deserted near
violet patches. The weary, thirsty wan
derer, whose 'heart's roses are wit! cred
and dead" through the perfume ofviolets-
finds the fountain of pure water, and his
eyes fill with tear drops as the halcyon
days of his childhood are recalled through
the perfume of the violet. The violet,
with scepter and crown, sits enthroned in
the marvellous court OF the kingdom of
flowers. E.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-02-19
CATARRH.
Catarrhal Deafness = Hay Fever a
New Home Treatment.

Sufferers are not generally ware that
these dis eases are contagious, or that they
are due to the presence of living para
sites in the lining membrane of the nose
and eustachian tubes. Microscopic re-
search, however, has proved this to be
a fact, and the result of s.discovery is
that simple remedy has been formula
ted whereby catarrh, catarrhal deafness
and hay fever are permanently cured In
from one to three simple applications
made at home by the patient once in
two weeks.
N. B.-This treatment is not a snuff
or an ointment; both have been discard
ed by reputable physicians as injurious.
A pamphlet explaining this new treat
ment is sent On receipt of three cents in
stamps to pay postage by A. III. Dixon
& Son, 1877 and 339 West King Street,
Toronto, Canada.-Christian Advocate.
Sufferers from Catarrh troubles should
of,,I1 tLo oh
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-02-19

was still hung from the ceiling as it had
been in days when bit that fell to the
ground was supposed to portend i'll luck.
Until that happened it was sacred to the
benifcent Freya, but the ground was
Loki's emp ire and Loki was the promo
ter of all Observation-Disclosures and For
est
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-02-19

Did wego back to the fartherst antiquity
for our holiday customs we should not
hang up the mistletoe until a week after
Christmas. When the Druids had care
fully cut the parasite from it's oak with
golden shears and dropped it into the
white cloth held to prevent it from touch
ing the earth, it was distributed to the
people on the first day of the new year.
It's chief Offices were supposed to be the
comforting OF fertility and of lnvulnera-
bility to poison. With the advent of
Christianity the old reverence for the
plant remained in diluted form. It's
use was transferred to Christmas, but it
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-02-19
The Mistletoe Here and Elsewhere.
Crown Point, Fla.

The Mistletoe Here and Elsewhere.
Many who are familiar with California
species of mistletoe and desire to know
more about the plants and their botan-
ical affiliations will be interested in the
following essay by e. R. Orcltt in the
San Diego Union of recent date:
The mistletoe is one of the historic
plants of the civilized world, and was held
in great reverence by the Greeks on &C
count of it's supposed medical virtues.
The Druids ascribe to it many miracul-
Gus powers. This parasitical plant ex-
tends in Europe from Sweden to the Med
iterranean Sea, and the English mistletoe
Or misseltoe (Viscum album) is common
i'll the southern counties of England,
where it grows on many varieties OF
trees, especially the apple tree, which
it sometimes kills. When found upon the
oak, where it is rare, it was an object OF
superstitious regard among the Druidical
Briton priests.
among the English-speaking people of
the earth next to the Christmas tree, and
every year it becomes more popular. 1t
has always been an important guest at
English winter festivities since histriOnic
times, and this Anglomania in America
is both Joyous and healthful. The house
that is at this season without a twig of
mistletoe has either no children in it or is
unable to procure the rare parasite.
The derivation of the word is from the
German mist, which is supposed to have
reference to the belief that the seeds are
deposited by birds who eat the berries,
and the Norwegian word TEN, the prong
of tree or twig. The word is also writ
ten mistletOe or misseltOe.
The English mistletoe bears glutin-
GUS fruit from which a bird lime is pre-
pared. The radicle is peculiar in always
turning toward the object to which the
plant is attached. The branches are op-
posite and whOrled with wedge-obovate,
three nerved leaves; the auxiliary spikes
a little shorter than the leaves; the ber-
ries a yellowish-
The mistletoe which plays so impor-
tant part i'll America at Christmas
time is quite different from it's English
relative. It has leaves of more yellow
ish-green; it's stem is brittle and green
back, and it has translucent pearl-like
berries Nuttall, the noted American
naturalist and botanist, who was born
in England, gave new generic name to
our American plant, phoadendron (born
to tree.) Nuttalf was one of the earli-
est botanists to visit San Diego, and
thus our own California mistletoes were
mostly named by this eminent botanist,
who was long connected with Harvard
University.
The mistletoe which we usually see in
the Christmas books is the Phoraden-
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the "mistletoe in South Carolina dis like
the way of the transgressor." Hesays fur
ther: "You cannot make it easy. Like
all sinners, you need a guide. Take
one or you will not get much. The
plant always attaches itself to trees in
swamps or very near them. Your guide
soon discovers the coy parasite at the
top of some oak or gum tree right in the
middle of a large pool of water. Rubber
boots are a desperate need. You will be
surprised to find them useful in climbing
as well as wading.
'"The trees are desolate and bare, their
deafness unreieved except by thepatches
of brilliant green on the topmost branch
es. The effect is so romantic, the prize so
inaccessible, that before you start the
dangerous climb, with mistletoe above
and water below to deaden possible or
rather probable fall, you wonder how
many blushing maidens will be kissed un-
der those branches.
"That climb will not be easy. You are
entangled in dead limbs, scanty boughs,
that would almost discourage a bruin.
1t will take fully quarter of an hour to
get to the top. Then you will stand on
a dead, swaying arm, with the precious
green leaves on all sides of you. Fortu-
nately the mistletoe's brittleness makes
it easy to break off bit by bit, otherwise
you would have been at your wits end
to get any at ALL Down the berried
branches drop, fully 80 feet, until the tree
is stripped bare. Then the descent i
but we will forbear repeating the harrow
ing tale"
The mistletoe has been so sedulously
hunted in the northern Atlantic States
thatit is now so nearly exterminated in
some sections as to beno longer protita-
BILE to the hunters The main Christmas
supply necessarily comes from the South
ern States.
This mistletOe is abundant in CalifOr-
MIA. but as yet, [ believe, has escaped
the commercial dispOiler. Should he ever
approach with cOvetOus hand to pluck
our beautiful evergreen, he will find the
way scarcely easier than as above des-
cribed, through different obstacles will
beset his path. The oak, the sycamore,
and the willow are the favorite foster-pa-
rents of our Phoradendron, which differs
but slightly from the eastern mistletoe.
| We have, however, no less than six or
eight varieties of Phoradendrop, and
each selects some particular tree or class
of trees for it's favorite abiding place.
One of these shows especial fondness for
the grand cedars in the mountains (Li-
bOcedrus decurens), while another af-
fects the humble juniper bushes and is
equally friendly with the mesquite and
acacia bushes of the desert, which are
constrained to act as unwilling hosts
This latter variety of mistletoe is
quite peculiar, is much slenderer than
the other species and bears profu-
sion of lovely red berries, very different
from the pearly-white fruit borne by the
other species.
The mistletOe grows within easy reach
OF mans hand on these low bushes, but
woe to the one who incautious1y ap-
proaches the host, who seems reluctant
to part with his self-imposed guests. The
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-02-19

To whom all correspondence relating to this de
partment should be addressed.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-02-19

Sufferers from Catarrh troubles should
carefully read the above.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-17
NREAT NORTHERN R'Y LINE

Montana Central Railway.
n Great Northern Railway.
Eastern Railway of Minnesota.
N willmar 4 Sioux Falls Railway.
~ Duluth, Watertown & Pacific Railway.
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Christian the promises of the Bible were
all . fable and God knows that ] would
rather die than for . moment imagine
beneath the old "Narshfield" tree, Web
ster used 10 talk with Charles Lanman Of
the books Of the Old Testament, and
dwelt with unaffected pleasure upon
Isaiah, the Psalms, and especially the
book of Job. The latter, he said, taken
as q mere work OF literary genius, was
one OF the most wonderful productions OF
any age or of any language. As an epic
poem he deemed IL far superior to either
the Iliad or Odyssey, being a purely in
tellectual narrative depending upon the
power Of the dialogue, and no upon the
interest of the story, to produce its ef-
fects,-BosfoR SATURDAY. Gazette.
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The Gane Was Landed.

Ii was at the bar Of those places where
theater goers Of the sterner sex 20 ITO see
a man. says the Chicago Neirs.
Two young fellows had just come in.
They were well dressed and both carried
canes. One Of the canes was a slight stick
made of bamboo, while the other was a
massive affair with a magnificent gold
head. The young fellows stopped near
the door and commenced to talk.
The n carrying the heavy zane care
lessly laid il down while he pulled OIL his
gloves. Then. apparently forgetting it.
he walked up To the bar with his compan-
ion aud both called for drinks.
While the two were stacking their thirst
a shabbily dressed fellow who was IN the
rear of the place started to carelessly walk
out. When he neared the vicinity - b
abandoned cane he stopped and com
menced TO tumble with his necktie.
CHANGING carefully around to see IL any
n was looking, lac put his hand upon the
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HI c
These Quotations Ars Revised and Cor
rected Fyery Day.

These Quotations Are Revised and Cor
rccted Every Day.
sugar-Granulated, per 100, &c" 5000; light
brown. $50; pulverized II & A., New York, s13.-
30; loaf, sI3.i0; maple per pound. 2c.
CofeeaMarket strong; green Rio, leG2tc;
Mocha, ss6slOc; roasted Rio and Costa Rici, 26G
SOC; roasted Carbaio, SIC; roasted Mocha and
Java, 3s6tJOc: Arbuckle's, Sc.
~Teas--Japan, s5G5oc; English Breakfast, 4ocG
sl.Oo: Gnnpowder, 46c@si.oo; extra Young Hy-
Pickles Eastern-s gal, s2.5o; 8 gal, $3.50; 10
Potatoes-si.7 rs per cwt.
Cabbage-Per cwt, $500.
Eggs-Per case, $500.
Butter-Per ~, 3Jot40c.
Cheese-Per n, 20Dc25.
: Dried apples, per CD packages, 75cG
salt Lake, Ice; aprieots, e9c; evaporated ditto,
25c; blackberries, lie; raspberries, 35c.
California fruits. s5.06G.0 per case.
3b standard tomatoes, 1925.
2-b standard corn, s3.0.
2-b standard peas, $3.50: seconds, S2.75.
2rb String and Lima beans, S2.75.
Dried Beans-Na'y, 5000 per 100 D; Lima,
500; Bayos, S6.25.
wheat. No. /, per 100 n, s2.@.
Bran-Per 100 b, si.S; bran and shorts per
Floar.Per 100 n, Pflsbury's best. $3.50; og-
den, $3.50; strague, "Daisy, $50.
Corn meal-Per 100 n, $40.
Dat meal-Per 100 n, $3.50.
Iard-lDdi2c.
Fresh Meais-Pork, i5c; beef, 5000; lamb,
quarters, 75cSuSl.0o; mutton, 79i5c.
Salt Meats. Ham, io6t20c; bacon, lie; corned
beef, Zoe; pork, i,c; sausage, iellGl5c.
Gol,Per ton, hard, $500; soft, $3.50.
ay-P ton, s25.OO.
ton, S12.OO.
Oats-Per cwt. 500.
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sNATIONAli8TS."

The man rho Hrss far himseu only lres for q
rerB small nan.
o star-buiit bridge. broad milky way!
o Star-lit, stately, splendid span!
II but one star should cease to stay
And prop It's shoulder 20 the plan! 49,.
The man who lives for self, l say,
Lives for the smallest, meanest man.
l count the coIumned waves at wal
With titan dement's; and they
In martial splendor storm the bar
And shake the world. these bits OF spray
Each gives 10 each, and, like the star,
Gets back its gift in ten-fold pay.
To get and give and give amain
The rivers run and oceans roll.
d generous and high-b0rn rain
When reigning Ms a splendid whole!
That mar who lives for self, again
say, has neither sense nor soul!
-Joaqaia Miller, IN the Independent.
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INTERPRETATIONS
IN TIE DISTRICT COURT OF TIE THIRD

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE THIRD
Judicial District IN and for the County OF
Deer Lodge and state ~ Montana.
IN the matter Of the estate ~ James Gallagher,
deceased.
Order 10 show cause ON sale OF mines and per.
sOnal property.
Bridget Gallagher the administratriN Of the
estate of James Gallagher, deceased, having filed
her petition herein, duly verified. paying for AN
order ~ sale of certain real est ,tr, mines, min
ing claims and interest in mines of said dccedcnt
and the personal property of said estate for the
pufI oscs therein set firth. II II therefore or
dered BY the said court that AL persons Interest
cd In the estate Of said deceased appear before
the said court on saturday, the III day Of August,
1880, AT 10 o'cloek "a. m. OF that day AT the court
room OF The said court AT the Court House In the
town and county ~ Deer Lodge, Montana, TO
show cause why an order should not be- granted
To the said administrator la sell all Of said real
estate, mines, mining claims and personal prop
erty or 81 much thereof as may he necessary az
public auction, and that a copy Of this order lie
published nj least four successive weeks In the
ANACONDA STANDARD, u newspaper printed
and published in said county.
Dated july 9Th, 1890.
ID. NJ. DuRFEE, Judge.
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MISCELLANEOUS.


EOR SALE5saloon and fixtures In good loca-
~ ton; a years lease. Address, r.. T., Stand
ard Office, Butte. loft
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-01-24

DIR. Benjamin Rush one Of the signers OF
the Declaration Of Independence, lived in
! Philadelphia in 1850 and 1890. when la
grippe prevailed there, and soon afterward
wrote book on the disease. His work
says It was universal. and caused a cessa
ton Of business for more than a week. In
the churches the sneezing and coughing
were so loud and prolonged that the ser
vices had 10 be discontinued Old men and
children were the heaviest prey 10 the dis
ease and people having indoor employ
ment did not suffer nearly so much as those
who were constantly exposed
The disease is given a certain dignity in
the public mind by the discovery that Schil-
Ter had il and Goethe wrote about it, In
May, 1852, Schiller went TO Mannheim to
see the second presentation Of his "Rob
bers' on the stage La grippe was then
making half Mannheim sneeze and groan
Alter attending one performance Of his
tragedy Schiller hurried off to Stuttgart
IN the hope of escaping the epidemic. The
day after his arrival there he wrote to Dal
berg, manager Of the Mannheim theatre :
Since coming here have more than paid
Tor all my pleasure with you by my suffer
lngs from the horrible epidemic, which, to
my unutterable disgust, has rendered me
incapable of work" At about the same
time Goethe was complaining in a letter to
the Duke Karl August that the "unusuallv
warm weather had become a standard topic
OF conversation, just as was the influenza a
short time ago" The great Kant digniied
the grip by trying to investigate its causes
He surmised that the insects which were
responsible for it had been imported from
China to Russia, whence they had spread to
the western part Of the continent.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-01-24

Numerous reports have been received of
late that the Car has either gone insane or
Is broken down nervously No contradic-
ton OF these reports is made and it is high
ly probable that the Young Gar, who. when
he came TO the throne, was one of the
strongest men in Europe, has presumed too
much upon his strength. The constant use
OF champagne, in the enormous quantities
in which it is drunk in Russia. is enough to
unsettle any mans nerves Add to this
chloral, cigarettes of peculiarly enervating
tobacco, brandy in floods and the continual
fear of death in its most violent form, and
the mystery is how the Gar has not become
insane long ago.
a settlement has been reached in the
Stewart will case, and Judge Hilton sub
stantially carries the day. as he retains
everything he ever received or claimed
except that he releases the estate from its
Indebtedness Of S9s7 .3js. All parties in
terested receive what the terms Of the will
entitle them to The cathedral endowment
is completed according to Mrs. Stewards
intentions
A New York man named Finch has been
convicted Of initiating the trademark of
Carriers Little Liver Pills, but by request
of the complainants sentence was suspend
ed by the court so long as he keeps out of
such business in the future In dismissing
the man the judge told him that he would
be sent to the pententiary just as sure as
he was caught in such business again.
Peter Henderson, the well-known florist
and scotsman, died of pneumonia last week,
aged 81. He was a Scotchman, and came
to this country in 1912
John Ruskin, the wellknown English art
critic and author, is hopelessly insane.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-01-24
NO. f..


Philadelphian, travelling around the
world, found nothing TO interest him mora
than the celebrated trained elephants of
India, which he saw at Moulmein. a sea
port town on the Bay Of Bengal. In writ
ing to friend he thus describes their won.
derful intelligence
Here you see the trained elepbants at
work, pilng up teak timber in the numer-
Gus timber yards that line the river. Their
knowledge and intelligence are simply won
deriul. They are guided by a native called
'mahout, who is perched on the neck
and who gives all the necessary orders a..
sisted by his heel and an iron sharp point
ed goad very much like a small pick.axe
The elephants thoroughly understand
what Is required Of them Think Of their
pillng up square timber to the height of 40
ieet, every stick Of which is in line and in
It's proper place, each piece weighing from
two TO three tons.
They carry the timber on their tusks,
holding 1t IN place by their trunks to the
place of piing. When the pile /. too bigb
for them to build upon comfortably. tbev
bulld staging for themselves out of the
same material, and do not hesitate to mount
1t with their load
Mr. Findlay, owner Of one the largest of
yards, had his force of ELEPHANTS put through
thelr various forms of work for our bene
hit, such as piling up the logs and tumbling
them down. as well as drawing by chain
harness and pushing with their trunks and
tusks from three to FIVE of these logs, end
to end, tandem fashion When drawing
the logs, the elephants, at the word of com.
mand, unhitch the chain or hook but can
not be made to couple it,
When pulling down the timber he had
Just put in place, | thought one of them
cast a suspicious eye in our direction. as
much as to say, "You people are at the
bottom of this. "
They are at times very troublesome and
dangerous, and great care is taken to keep
strangers at a respectful distance. They
are immense in size, and cost from 1900 to
29OO silver rupees each that is to saw
from 5000 to $3.50 each.
When the bell rings for dinner or ouit-
ting time, they quit at once what they are
at, and cannot be induced to 90 on, but
bolt immediately to their quarters for their
meal
Woe to the feeder should any of them be
cut short in their food They never forget
it, and revenge themselves at the first op.
pOrtunity.
They bathe in the river every evening,
and know as well as man when Sunday
comes On that day they make for the
mud pits, and, like pigs, wallow there all
day.