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The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-07
A Happy Home.

The first year of married life is
a most important era in the history
of man and wife. Generally, as it
is spent. SC is almost all subse-
ouent existence. The wife and
the husband then assimilate their
views and their desires, or else,
oonjuring up their dislikes, they
add fuel to their prejudices and
animosities forever afterwards.
81 have read somewhere" says
the Rev. Mr.. Wise, in his Bridal
Greetings, tof bridegroom who
gloried in his excentricities. He
requested his bride to accompany
him into the garden, a day or two
after their Wedding. He then drew
a line over the roof of their cot
tage. Giving his wife one end of it,
he retreated to the other side, and
exclaimed:
Pull the finei'
She pulled at his request, so far
as she could. He cried:
Pull it oyerl''
81 can't" she replied.
But pull with all your might, p"
still shouted the whimsical hus-
dand.
But vain were the efforts of the
bride to pull over the line SO long
as her husband held the opposite
end. But when he came round, and
they pulled ct the same end, it
came over with great ease.
''There, as the line fell from the
roof, you see how hard and in
was our labor when we
both pulled in opposition to each
other; but how easy and pleasant
it was when we both pulled to-
getherl It will be so with us
lifeP'
In this illustration, homely as it
may be, there is a sound philoso-
ply. Husband and wife must
bear AMI concede if they
wish to make a home a retreat of
iov nnd IL alone cannot
y. There needs
sweetness of
clearance and
] and wife, to
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-07

For SALE.-A neat residence in
the town of San Saba with neces-
sary out houses. Lot 240x12O
feet. VIII be sold cheap. Apply
at this office.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-07

Strangers have been numerous
for several weeks past, and near
ly all of them are looking for
homes.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-07
Olive Branch.

IL THE INTEREST OF WoNES.-Dr. Kilmers
Wonderful Specific "Olive Branch a positive
for all female complaints sent TO any address
receipt of price sl0O per box one month
treatmcnt-self treatment Consultation free.
Address DR.. Kilmer q Co. South Bend Indiana.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-07
MISSION VALLEY
~ UR SER les

These Nurseries were established at
NJ ssion Valley, Texas, N 1870. To
secure better mail and shipping faeili-
ties, we have removed to the Gulf,
West Texas and Pacific railroad, ten
miles above Victoria and eight miles
from the old location.
We have made the most exhaustive
experiments, combine with careful
study,
In Southern Texas Ground for
a Third of a Century,
We have spared neither care nor ex-
penso that could Increase the value Of
our results to the people. We have
kept up
Large Experimental Grounds
in which to make our tests, in both the
Fruit and Ornamental Departments.
Our tests are, therefore, so complete
and thorough that we are enabled to
offeI Varieties well adapted to the
wants of our very peculiar climate.
We handle DO cheap, unacclimateG
northern trees. We do not propose to
supply bIbts anu pldutS az AO"OA Ae'S
than other Nurseries, but we do claim
to be able to
Furnish Better Trees
for Texas planting than can be obtained
at any other Nursery in the world.
We have arranged for
Special Express Rates on all Our
Shipments.
Have our own grnunds and packing
house Immediately by the station, so
that we can ship by every train, and
have a postoffice with daily mail in
our office at the Nursery, so that cor
dependence can be promptly attended
to.
We solicit orders by mail OF any of
our authorized agents. Catalogues
sent free upon application. Address
GILBERT ONDERDONK,
Nursery, Victoria County, Texas.
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3. T. johnson & Co,
1909 Main Street, Richmond, Va

l bought fifty cent bottle of Chamber
lain's Pain Balm ard applied it to my
limos, that had been afliict ed with rheu-
matism at intervals for one year, At the
time bought 5he Pain Balm was una
BILE to walk. l can truthfully say that
Pain Balm has completely cured me.
r. II. Farr, Hollywood, Kansas.
For sale by J. N. Eddins & Co.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-07

Little civilities are so easily
taught a child; they so inevitable
cling to him hereafter, it is a
burning shame that parents of
sense and taste allow the sim
plest rule of politeness to be gath
cred from a later social inter
course, or to be donned and dotted
like the sunday dress. To the
first lesson, not to put his knife to
his mouth, can be added further
injuctions just as important, which
must by taught some time, with
no real reason why they should
not be taught now. The only OBJ
lection can be that too many rules
bewilder and perplex, and that the
most important are those of prin-
ciple, not behavior. And object
teaching is said to be wearisome.
If one sees and knows only the
right-vay, how Will he learn the
wrong?-Goo Housekeeping.
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Thought would write few line:
to your most excellent paper, and
in so doing l want to give some
thoughts and facts that exist on
Richland creek.
Flowing is the order of the day
Farmers are a little backward
with their work, considering the
warm winter.
There is not very much wheat
sown in this streak.
From the talk one would guess
that cotton would be the largest
end of the crop this year.
There is a right smart of sick
ness in the way of colds and rose
ola, which was first thought to be
the measles.
I understand that two of J. J.
Taylor's daughter are very sick.
1 have just learned of the death
of old Mr.. Coughran and wife, as
fine old people as ever lived on
Richiand. They we're in one of
the lower counties with some of
their children. l understand they
both died the same day.
Now Mr.. Editor l was at San
Saba a short time ago and [ saw
that the public road has been
changed. I don't think that any
one would put the road on such
ground as it is without a legal
right to do so. Now, Mr.. Editor,
l want you or some one else to tell
through the News who had the
right to put the road where it is
or does one commissioner or the
county Judge have the right to
give up the old road and let the
road be put on such ground as it
is or does all of the commissioners
and the Judge have a right to do
SO? New suppose [ was to come
to town in my wagon and the man
on the south side of that new road |
was to put up fence along there
and L get there in the evening
what am l to do? l can't pass
over that road with loaded wagon
and it is a penitentiary offense to
tear down a fence, now l want this
answered if it takes Judge Ray to
DO it. HIGHLAND THINKER.
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The other day Senator Vance,
of North Carolina, expressed some
views concerning the race prob
lem" During his remarks he
said; "Itis the constant interior
ence on the part of northern poll
ticians that causes most of the
trouble among the colored people
of the south. Why, at this mo-
ment 1 have in my desk letters
from colored men in my state ask
ing me to see a certain republican
senator about some money claim
ed to be due for political work
done during the last campaign.
1t appears that these eolored men
were employed to do certain work
for the republican managers in the
last contest, and were promised
money consideration for the labor
performed, Times are hard and
crops are not the best down my
way, so these republican workers
who put their shoulders to the
Harrison wheel want me to help
them get their money, 1 declare, "
said the senator, smiling at the
idea of presenting the letters in
question to one of the richest re-
publicans in the senate, Il am
almost too tender-hearted to do
such an uncheritable piece of bus
mess. The question in my mind
is which will suffer the most? the
senator, upon brought face to face
with such an unrighteous debt, or
the poor darkies being kept out of
their hard earned money!"
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-07

The first use Of a locomotive in
his coutry was in 1929.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-07

Yonng men make sad mistake
when they think it necessary that
they should have a personal ac-
quaintance with the dark and
seamy side of life. Many a man
who has peered into the, abyss
Gust to see what it is like, has
lost his balance and fallen almost
hopelessly. A young man was
talking to pilot on one of our big
steamers. "How long" he asked,
"have you been pilot on the wa
ters?" The old man replied,
twenty-five years; and L came up
and down many times before [ was
pilot" "Then," said the young
man, 81 should think you must
know every rock and sand bank on
the river" The old man smiled
at the youths simplicity and re-
piled, "Oh, no, 1 don't; but I
know where the deep water is
That is what we want-to know the
safe path and keep in it.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-07
Prof. Henry saws: "Experience

Prof. Henry says: Experience
has taught us that at the expert
mental farms that oats are just as
valuable for milk production as
they are for horse feeding, and
that when it comes to feeding
calves nothing besides the milk of
the COW itself will equal them.
Four or five pounds of ground
oats with a little corn meal and
bran will make a grain ration that,
with a fair amount of ensilage or
fodder, will cause a COW to give the
heaviest milk flow possible and of
the finest quality. We have been
feeding ground oats to our COWS
this winter at the station and are
greatly pleased with il"
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Q dIUHt CdUuUJ
Y. There needs
sweetness of
rbearance and
/ and wife, to
of happiness
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-30

pointment. Instead of the information
we expected, after reading few rules by
which the organization claims to be
governed, the speaker read from a news
paper, an GRAFTON which he said was de-
livered at DeFuniac Springs on the 4th
of July, which, as near as [ can describe
it was kind of hybrid somewhere be-
tween an address to farmers, q 4th of
July grafton, general impeachment of
government officials and a Democratic
free trade speech. What the speaker Cor
rather reader) expected to demonstrate
by it | confess / could not understand,
but feel safe in saying that he added
nothing to thestrength of the Alliance or
to the confidence of the people, in it's
management. And if the farmers are to
depend on such pilots to conduct them
safely through amongst the shoals, I
fear, indeed, that ''the wreck will be utter
and complete" A. M. RICHEY.
Port Richey, Fla.
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Received no Information.
Editor Florida AgTicultuI1St:

Editor Florida AgricuHUIlSt:
| most heartily endorse the advice
given in the editorial in the AGRICULTURE
IsT of July 10th, "What Farmers Or
carnations Must Guard Against" and
would most sincerely commend it to the
careful and thoughtful consideration of
every farmer, whether member of any
protective Alliance or not. Tt recon-
mends the use of goodpractical common
sense, and the reputation of designing
demagogues. What more forcibly i'm
pressed on my mind the soundness of the
advice given, is the fact that on last
Saturday | attended an Alliance meeting
at the Anclote precinct, where expected
to hear the principles endorsed by the or
ganization, and the methods proposed to
be used to insure the needed reforms fully
explained; but, like others who went for
the same purpose, was doomed to disap-
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HACKETT, ARKANSAS, Aug, 20, 1887.

HAcKETT, ARKANSAS, Aug, 20, 1887.
DR.. A. T. Shallenberger, Rochester Pa.
Dear Sir:-I wish you to send me
bottle of your Antidote for Marlaria,
which | see advertised in the Methodist
Advocate, Chattanooga, Tenn, and
which [ cannot get here. Fifteen years
ago my mother had third day chi'ls, and
after trying the dc cors and other medi-
zines without relief, friend recon-
mended your Antidote; she tried it and
one dose effected permanent cure.
j. S. EDWARDS,
Pastor M. e. Church.
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The Garden Number.
Port Richey, Fla.


Editor Florida A gricuLurist:
Will you permit me to make o few sug-
gestions with regard to a certain class Of
articles that should, it seems to me, re-
ceiye very especial attention Just now,
and pardon me for so doing?
AS you are aware, the making of the
Florida home comfortable, attractive,
complete, is the one thought uppermost
in my thoughts. Ii the home be made
what it should be, what it can be, if there
be perfect harmony of the surroundings
with the individual and the family, what
more can be desired to render the happi-
ness complete? To this end, the proper
adjustment of our environment to pro-
mote our comfort, pleasurable conditions
of both body and mind, what is more
conducive than a good, complete gar
den? 1t gives health and strength to
both. According to the holy writ, the
care of a garden was the first duty, the
first pleasure, afforded to man. All along
the course of human history we find that
the garden has beer especially priced by
the best and Wisest of mankind It's ten
denotes are all elevating. ennObling,
strengthening, refining. 1t was not until
after the fall that man became weary
toiler in the fields and workshops. A
good garden then is a visible and incon-
trovertable evidence of return, in part
at least, to the Edenic state. We need
more Of these evidences in Florida. They
are now few and far between. Complete
gardens are a great rarity, and Florida
will never prosper in the highest sense
until the conditions are reversed, until
the garden is made a success instead of a
failure as now. This ignorance as to how
to make successful garden must be dis
PEELED. Ii it be not, if the unsuccess of
the past-and the PRESENTS to be the
rule rather than the exception, then fare
we'll to all hopes of the proper and the
satisfactory development of Florida
Home life is surely, certainly and neces-
sarily failure if the garden fails to ma
terialize into a thing of beauty, profit,
satisfaction.
The preamble is long, too long perhaps,
yet after all incomplete. Now to bust
ness. The matter | wish to bring to the
front is this More attention to the gar
den in Florida. To this end would sug-
gest that you have q special number de-
voted to the garden. 1t is certainly as
important a subject as irrigation, or any
to which you havegiven special numbers
AS it is already time to begin the prepa-
ration of the fall and winter garden, the
number should be issued as soon as the
proper material can be got together, say
the first week in September. What d.
you and your correspondents say to the
suggestion? Your other special numbers
have proved very useful; this would be
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see no indications that they were injured,
| did it thoroughly and they all with one
accord responded the next season with
an unusual burden of fruit, bending the
limbs over and down badly, and also
made a wonderful growth of new limbs
from the upper side of those bent down,
so that the bearing wood Or bear
ing capacity appeared to be about
doubled in the two seasons. And
that experimental tree still keeps to the
front, is a fine, shapey tree with more
fruit on it than on any other three trees
of like size near it.
My theory is that that particular tree
was very sick and | CHANGED to blunder
upon just the treatment suited to it's
case, as results fully prove. But do not
hence infer that l must proceed to
'butcher" all my healthy, vigorous grow
ing trees. No, Brother Adams, "they
that are whole need not a physician
havelearned something, even in six years,
and do not believe in and will not advo-
cate excessive pruning, even letting
Brother A. decide what is excessive.
[ have we'll digested and practical
system for making an orange grovef from
the seed up, and am acting upon it with
very satisfactory results to myself and
others for whom | am making a model
grove. That "system" includes but very
little pruning, and | am ready to COM
pare results with any one. But do not
set myself up as teacher nor claim even
equality with those pioneers of much
longer and larger experience. But make
this proposition: If Mr.. Adams will give,
through the AGRICULTURIsT, plain and
concise statement of his mode of making
a grove, when to bud, when and how
much to prune, how and when to trans
agree to follow it with, a like statement
$50 far as [ am able) with my system,
and | think this may call out others and
result in great good. | will sometime
give what to me are good and sufficient
reasonsfor not pruning as much asmany
do, and show how fine, early bearing
trees can be SO grown as not to require
much pruning and still be shapely mod
els of beauty. can readily forgive Mr.
AS sarcasm at the close OF his article in
asking me to tell him how to prune his
fine, thrifty, very prolific trees.
Why did not the council of doctors cut
off my good mothers left arm after hav-
ing such good luck with the right? Prac-
teal information and a friendly fraternal
comparison of views, plans and practice is
what We need rather than these sharp,
lawyer-like criticisms and misleading per-
versions of the obvious teachings of even
hastily written articles. Give US facts,
plain facts, and let us fit our theories to
them ii we can. Otherwise discard them
and try again. S. BIGELow.
Lake Mary Fla.
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no less beneficial. There are few who
would not be glad to get all the informa-
ton possible with regard to making
garden in Florida-in South Florida, say
in the belt of country between TT and
29c of latitude. Instructions for further
north and south would add needless COM
plications.
Now, if am not making t his article too
long, would suggest that the first things
to be considered will be the location of
the garden, the character and quality OF
the SOIL need of drainage, kind and
amount of fertilization, mode of prepar-
ing the ground, size and shape of a gar
den that would supply a family of say six
persons, what to plant and proportion
or amount of each kind of vegetables,
best times-giving day of month-for
planting each kind of vegetable, kinds of
vegetables to be planted on the same
ground that the one of slower growth
may mature after the other is removed,
names of plants that do best by trans
planting and OF those that should grow
where planted, those that need protec-
ton from heat or cold, how best TO pre-
vent destruction by insects, etc, etc.
The articles should be practical, not the
oretical, but derived from personal eXpe-
rience or close observation.
| would further suggest that as every
garden should first exist in the mind of
the gardener and that it's entire plan
should be traced on paper before attemp-
ting to make it in the dirt, that it should
be idealized before it is materialized,
therefore, each writer should draw plan
of his Or her proposed garden, giving the
number Of square rods, the location and
the exact amount of space assigned to
each particular vegetable OF course it
should be drawn to a definite scale and
the points Of compass indicated.
BY means of the rules, letters and other
characters found in every we'll regulated
printing office, you could readily transfer
OhS ONSO PICUiio ~ ~ pCISC3 anu
thus make the garden number yet more
complete. Every one would, it seems to
me, take pride in showing what can be
grown here successfully and, also, in
pointing out the cause of past failures
and the means to be used to transform
past failures into present or future sue
cess. There is plenty of garden knowl-
edge scattered over the country; the i'm
portant thing to do is to concentrate it
in an available form.
SHERMAN ADAMS.
Gabrielle, Orange County, Fla.
We consent to the Garden Issue and
will encourage writing with 500 in prizes.
See editorial, "Family Gardening," page
442.-ED. +. A.
HACKETT, ARKANSAS, Aug, 20, 1887.
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For The FLORIDA AGMCULTURIsT.
To Prune, or Not to Prune-Mr. Bige-
lows Reply to Mr.. Adams.

the bed OF woman, acOuncIl OF doctors,
thirty strong, OF the disciples of AGscula-
plus, to determine the issues of life or
death Of this sick woman. | can in fancy,
or imagination, see them examining that
afflicted right arm and then retire forcon
sultation, brief, but big with meaning to
the young matron whose three young
children had been sent away fer the occa-
sion. Soon the spokesman reports, "The
only thing which can be done is to ampu-
tate the arm at the shoulder Joint, and
there are nine chances for you to die in
our hands during the operation, to onefor
you to live through it; let us know your
decision and wishes, shall we proceed?
No hyprotising then, no chloroform, no
laughing gas or ether to deaden pain,
simply opium, which always made the
patient crazy with extreme nervousness.
Now, good woman, show your nerve and
do justice to your Puritanic ancestry.
She and her husband decided to take
the one chance for life, and with steady
nerve she sat bolt upright in her chair
and saw the offending member cut away
and lived to rear four more hardy sons
and one daughter. and afterWard moved
to Ohio with her eight children to help
develop the then ear West" and lived
to good old age; and in washing, clean
ing, scrubbing, kneading, baking and
Il .tC0 hop nd I'M for
lily Cf eleven, gave many proof of the
truth of the trite old saying, "Where
there is a will there is a way" Now, as [
CHANGED to be the first born CATER the Sc
we're nerve testJ OF the good old yankee
mother, / fancy that have inherited SUI
fcient nerve to endure patiently a fright
smart" dressing down and raking over
by all such good natured critics as good
Brother Adams, and | want to say just
here that am not only pleased to have
called attention to the subject under con-
siderati on, but feel a little fattered to
havecalled out so able a pen by my hasty
scribbling. For were | to choose a half
dozen Florida orange growers from
among all that [ have met Or read OF
their writings, Dudley W. Adams would
surely be one of them and near the head
of the list; and would be a quiet and
teachable pupil and try to make good
use of all might learn.
But to Mr.. Adams article. He seems at
first sight to have made a strong case
against me, when he asks, eff the expert
ment he tried proved that pruning is ben
eficial why not profit by the knowledge
gained" Ii the experiment those doctors
tried on my mothers diseased arm
proved beneficial, as it most assuredly
did, she being able to walk to the neigh
bors in less than four weeks with per-
fectIy healed wound, then "why nOtprofit
by it" and proceed at once to cut off the
arms of the rest of the family There is
lust enough of the tactics of the lawyer
who seeks to make case from INSULT
Gent data, in Mr.. Adams article, to mis-
lead and to direct attention to other
DOints than the ones intended to be made
prominent. My main object was to show
that there are cases where even "herOic
pruning" is beneficial. | gave this one
example, but could give numerOusO others
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