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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

COnsAsSens EfOnlDxS1On1sts
Even when a little fellow, says 81.
G., he was good boy: he never
whined, and whenever he was hurt
his parents knew that it was some.
thing serious, because he wouldn't
sham pain. At school the little
DULLES couldn't get him to fight
not that he was cowardly, oh, no
he only was averse to a punch.
He was pious, but when he read
the Bible skipped the part where
David used a sling. He never got
his soles mended, since he would
have been obliged to employ a cob
bier, and when some shares in cot
ton mill were left him he wouldn't
draw his dividends on account of the
cotton having been through a gin.
He was a proud man, naughty
about his family and all that; but
when he learned that an ancestor of
his was killed at the battle of Brandy
wine it would surprise you to see
how quickly he gave that sort OF
thing up.
At college nothing induced him to
join with the class singing "rum
steho!" q won't be responsible for
the photography and after being
graduated, though found Of high
class literature, never read the Forum.
He was always solemn because high
spirits were offensive to him; and
when gentleman came counting
his sister he actually insulted the
man for no cause whatever except
that his name was Treat.
This peculiar gentleman went
through the law school, but never
practiced. OF course he had serious
objections to being admitted to the
bar.
Once in the country he was cross
ing pasture lot, and a bull made
for him. Said he, walking on CON-
posed and calm: "What need have
| to fear? I never take a horn"
The bull didn't stop to argue the
point, but went right on, and our
friend had an accident which laid him
up for while. When he got around
again an acquaintance told him he
was getting stout. He was terribly
indignant.
He was averse to travelling, be-
cause he disliked to have his luggage
handled by porter; and never went
to sea, as in that case he would be
compelled to 60 into porto say
nothing of the helm being sometimes
that way, too.
At last he fell i'll. The doctor
thought voyage to Madeira would
build him up, but. not daring to say
80, prescribed a tonic. Consistent
to the last, our friend flung the med
icine out of the window. With his
principles, how could he do other
wise : The tonic was to be drunk
after each meal.
He got to looking so miserable
and wretched that people began ask
ing what allied him. His wife was
especially pertinacious; so much so
that our prohibitionist might have
chastised her but for the fact that he
was opposed to liquor.
He is still living, mainly, I think,
for dread he has of the bier.-Mir-
ror of Commerce.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

THE census bureau has issued q
bulletin showing that the assessed
value Of all property in the United
States has increased from $780,
993,543 in 1880 to $24,249,5S9,SO
in 1890, an increase Of $7,346,696,.
29l during the decade. The in
crease in Florida during the ten
years was $45,888,429.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

THE losses of the DaCosta Print
ing and Publishing House in the
great Jacksonville fire were $4,000
on Mr.. DaCosta's elegant .part-
ments the loss amounted to $12,;
500, only partially covered by in
surance, but Mr.. DaCosta is too pro.
gressive a business man to sit still
and bemoan his LOSSES. His office
will be refitted with new and i'm
proved machinery immediately and
he will be ready for business about
September /.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

amount Of silver worth only 70 or So
cents. Now the government makes
some 80 cents in the coinage Of each
dollar. Under free coinage the own
er Of silver bullion would make it.
He would get in coin or treasury
notes at the rate of $l.29 tor each 9s4
cents worth of silver he had"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29
Correspondence OF Jewish Exponent

Our dailies are the real rulers of
modern civilized countries. To be
al editor is a very hard task, for he
must be powerful to influence the
masses and not be influenced by them.
He is responsible to all, and not to
one Of them; he must work in the
service of civilization; he must fight
for the rights Of man, not for the
rights Of q nation ! he must main-
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

Mr.. John Bryson, an express
messenger between Jacksonville and
Pensacola dropped dead with heart
disease in Pensacoa Saturday.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

Story About the Two Hor.ssI 's ss sAss.
on the Continent Vsrs

ON the Centinent esfs
ed" Corrigan, the horse-o,
says the Chicago Post, is not ". y
model from which the artist fssh; .ae
ed the Apollo Belvedere. and 70
brother "Pat" would never he -. ~
taken by even a blind man n, 'a ~
Venus de Milo in male attire. ~: T ne
means that ED" and @Pstn -. ~
homely. It's natural and thew CAM. ny
help it, and so are not asbams sSu !. !
it; but they dress good deal hs s "
now than they did a few years soa
When ''Ed" Corrigan first came s..
from Kansas City he looked like
section hand on a Colorado railv..s
and "Pat" looked like another sss -
ton hand on another railway in the
same state. '
Well, one day the two Corriosn
brothers came up to Chicago to See see
the sights. They had been doins inc
pretty well in Kansas City and had
plenty OF money; and 80 they went
to the Grand Pacific, which at that
time was the best hotel in town. Az
soon as they registered Ed said to
Pat:
"Come on, now, Pat, and let's
change our breath"
Gall right, Ed" said Pat; "I
want to wash my face, but YOU 90
ahead and get the bottle out on the
bar and I'll be with you"
So "Ed" went ahead into the
bar-room. When he got closer up
to the bar he noticed a peculiar rig
idity in the eyes of the barkeeper.
but he was not, therefore, the less
surprised when that individual. who
was still staring at him, broke out
into a loud and long-continued
laugh.
What in - is the matter
with you ?" growled the man from
Kansas City.
"He, he! Ha, ha! Ho, no! Haw,
haw!" laughed the bartender, as the
veins came out upon his forehead
one by one.
Corrigan didn't quite know
whether to be offended or amused.
So he asked again to make sure:
"What's the matter with your"
"Haw, haww gasped the bar.
tender, the tears rolling down his
cheeks.
"Where did you come from?"
"Kansas City. What OF it?"
"Kansas City, eh? Haw, hsw!
Well, I'll be eternally jeewhizzled
and catawumpussed if you amt the
doggondest homeliest man l ever
say in my life!"
Huh, is that ALP" said Corrigan.
81 amt beauty, that's sure; but I'll
bet there are homelier men than me
right here in Chicago"
"I'll bet there aint," said the bar
keeper.
"Well," said Carrigan, "I'A tell
yon what I'll do IL a.homelier man
than me comes into this bar-ro0m in
side of five minutes you buy me a
new hat. 1t he don't, l buy you
one; see?"
"Who's going to be the judge!"
"I'll leave it to you"
Cali right" said the bartender,
"I'll have to go you" He thought
he had cinch, you see.
The words were hardly out of his
mouth when in walked "Pat" Cor
rigan.
The bartender threw up both
hands.
"Good LordI" he exclaimed. III
buy two hats"
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

Fierce fighting between the gov
eminent forces and the insurgents
has been going on in Chill this week.
The loss OF life on both sides has
been heavy. Three thousand of the
insurgents and very near as many OF
the government forces were killed
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

THE tobacco industry in Middle
Florida is enabling the planters to
pay cash for their supplies and add
many comforts to their homes.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

A rate war is on between the
competing line of boats on the
Chattahoochee and Flint rivers,
aud shippers are getting astonish-
ingly low freight rates.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

A PHENOMENAL cold wave prevailed
in southern Iowa this week. The
mercury dropped SIS degrees in
twenty-four hours and at some
places there was a perceptible white
frost.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29
DETERIORATION PRoHXB11y

On September 18th Leon county
will vote ON the liquor question,
and it will then be decided whether
or not the sale of Intoxicating drinks
within the limits Of the county will
be prohibited. But suppose the
county is voted dry-will that stop
the sale of drinks? Would not low
groggeries and "blind tigers" spring
up in the suburbs? Would not the
lug trade be introduced and those
who now drink then drink the more?
Would not the prohibition whet the
thirst of the occasional drinker?
That is the way it has worked in
other places where prohibition has
been tried.
Prohibition does not prohibit. 1t
is failure. The best temperance
laws are high license and open bar
rooms.
Suppose Leon county is voted dry
would it not have the effect to in
crease our taxes? Leaving out en-
tirely the revenue to the state, it
would cut off 81 900 now paid to the
city of Tallahassee for liquor licenses
and a like amount to the county.
This loss would necessarily have to
be made up by an increased property
tax.
The FLoRIDIAN is an earnest friend
Of the temperance cause, but it does
not believe that prohibition would
reduce the amount Of liquor drank
in Leon county single gallon.
Speaking of prohibition, the New
Orleans Times-Democrat says that it
is now frankly admitted by the Kan
sas republicans that prohibition in
that state is a failure, and a revolt
against it has begun within the party
which threatens to abolish it alto
gether. It is much the same in
Iowa, and there is little doubt that
this fad will be dropped in these two
states within few years, for the
very simple reason that it has been
found impossible to enforce the laws
in support of it. In this respect the
experience in the Northwestern
states is in no respect different from
that Of New England. Massachu-
sets and Connecticut have long
since given up prohibition. Rhode
Island has tried 1t twice, put it into
operation short time ago, and after
two years. trial abandoned it. New
Hampshire and Vermont still carry
prohibition on their statute books,
but make no efforts to enforce the
laws. Maine is about the only pro
hibition state remaining, and even
there the law is defed in a number
of the principal towns, and the leg
islature is engaged in the vain task
of trying to frame each year a
stronger law against the sale OF
liquor-one that will put stop to it
altogether.
Take our own state. The writer
knows of one South Florida town
where, within few weeks after the
county was voted dry, five new drug
stores were started for the main pur.
pose of selling liquors, and each one
kept licensed physician busy at q
desk near the front door writing pre-.
scriptions for whisky straight, and
There was more drunkenness and
rowdyism there than ever before.
Look at the other dry towns il
Florida. Have you ever been in one
where you could not buy any kind Of
drink you called for?
| Lay the prohibition fad on thu
shelf; raise the license and pass laws
compelling bar rooms to keep wide
open doors without screens, an(
there will be much less drunkenness
and great falling off in whisky
: drinking.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

THERE was a slight frost in Texas
Tuesday. Weather prophets pre-.
dict an early winter and severe
one. Get ready for a heavy tourist
travel to Florida.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

IT is said the third party will put
q full state ticket in the field in Mas
sachusetts.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

ONE result of the low price being
paid for cotton will be greatly de-
creased acreage next year.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29
THE press of the country is filed
with presidential booms.

THE cooler the weather becomes
the hotter will grow political dis
cussions.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29
Growth Of Southern Cotton Factories

From best authorities the number OF
cotton spindles in the South as compared
with 1880, is as follows:
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

THE fourteenth annual meeting Of
the American Bar association was
held in Boston this week.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-29

tain principles, not dogmas. When
an editor works for the people the
charter Of success is granted to
him bv mankind.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
Diet for a Healthy Man.

A wholesome diet 10 good health for
man Of business, who walks fair
distance, or INDUCES in some equivalent
out door exercise, would be abundant
and palatable, inviting in appearance
and accompanied by plenty Of pure,
cool water, lemon and orangeade, the
juicy fruits and salads, the succulent
vegetables, meat aud vegetable soups,
beef and mutton-preferably boiled or
roasted-sea fish, clans, oysters, game
poultry digestible sweets and tea. coffee,
cocoa or chocolate in moderation
Frozen ices and creams eaten moderate
ly, when the system is not overheated
are refreshing and nutritious. Whole
wheat bread, baked potatoes, milk,
cream and new cheese, new laid eggs,
either boiled or poached, will complete
an ideal dietary for healthy man who
uses his brain rather than his muscular
powers .-Harper's Boar.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
Granite Cutters, Demands.

All granite manufacturers doing bust
ness in Concord, N. H., have received
from the Granite Cutters union printed
notices making the following demands
for increase in wages, beginning the 1st
of June: An increase in the minimum
wages per hour from twenty-eight to
thirty cents, and for all classes of plain
and bed (piece) work about 10 per cent.
increase. The Sharpeners' union demand
an increase from $2.75 to So per day.
The Quarrymen's union demand an in
crease from $1.65, the present minimum,
to 81 and upward day; also an increase
of 25 per cent. in the wages of powder
and steam drillers. The cutters, sharp
eners and quarrymen also notified the
manufacturers that, beginning the list
of June, they will work only eight hours
Saturdays, with full pay; that wages
must be paid before the tenth of each
month instead of the fifteenth, as at pres
emit, and that payments must be made
during working hours instead of before
or after, as stipulated in the present bill
of prices.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
For Arbitration.

All men with ambition are striving to
better their condition. In that view we
have organizations of bosses, of journey
men and of capital, each acting for a
class. What is to be done when newt
able differences arise? Mutual co-oper-
ton is necessary for success. Strikes
having wide reaching consequences are
deplorable. So are lockouts. So any
disturbance resulting in enforced idle
ness. Arbitration is the only intelligent,
humane remedy.-Chicago Times.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
The household,
Useful Recipes.

A tested recipe for the delicious
pop OVERS" which are so welcome on
the breakfast table, calls for two cups
of -four heaped little, two cups of
sweet milk, butter the size of walnut,
two eggs beaten separately, one table
spoonful Of sugar aud little salt.
These should be baked in hot gem
pans, the pans being only half full, for
twenty minutes, and it goes without
saying that they should be eaten at once.
HYDRoPATIo PUDDING.-Put three
ounces of grated crumbs of bread into a
bowl, with pinch of salt, grating OF
nutmeg, an ounce of grated cocoanut,
two tablespoonful Of fine white sugar,
and a teaspoonful of finely chopped
lemon find. Mix these ingredients
well; then pour over them pint Of
milk and two we'll beaten eggs. Let
the crumbs, &c., soak for an hour; then
beat the mixture up lightly with fork,
pour it into a buttered pie dish, and
bake 10 moderate oven for half an
hour. Serve hot.
RYE MUFFIEs.-One pint OF rye
-four, one-half plot of -four, one teas
poonful of sugar, one half teaspoonful
Of salt, three teaspoonfuls of baking
ing powder, one tablespoonful Of lard,
two eggs, one pint OF milk; sift the
meal and -four together, mix in the
sugar, salt and powder, rub in the lard
cold, mix into smooth. firm batter,
two thirds fill well creased muffin. pans
and bake about fifteen minutes.
CHICKEN FRIrTERs Chop cold
chicken, but not too fine, season with
salt, pepper and a little lemon juice
mix all together well aud let it stand
about one hour, and make batter Of
two eggs, one pint of milk, little salt
and -four enough to make good batter,
stir the chicken into this and drop it BY
spoonfuls into boiling fat; fry brown,
drain well and and serve hot; cold veal
can be utilized 10 this way, and will be
found yearly Is nice Is the chicken.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
A Little Girls Experience
I'm A Lighthouse

Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Prescott are
keepers Of the Gov. Lighthouse at
Sand Beach, Mich, and are blessed
with a daughter, four years old. Last
April she was taken down with measles,
followed with dreadful cough and
turning into fever. Doctors at home
and at Detroit treated her, bnt in vain,
she grew worse rapidly, until she was a
mere handful Of bones Then she
tried DR.. Kings New Discovery and
after the use Of two and a half bottless
was completely cured. They say DIR.
Kings New Discovery is worth its
weight in gold, yet you may get trial
bottle free at L. R. Kinks drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01

crossed over the River aud are biv-
ouacked under the shade Of the trees.
where they will rest peacefully until
the archangel shall sound the final
reveille and summon them to the G rand
Review on the Eternal Plains. Let
the living, and those who are to follow
us, remember only their virtue-their
superb manhood and hcroism.
Inscribe it on imperishable tablet |!
IImbalm it in uudyiDg songl Let the
! genius Of pencil and chisel embsllish it
with its most resplendent inspiration |!
Let fame place it among her richest
treasures in the Pantheon of Immortal.
ity, and let the time.swcpt harp of the
ages swell 10 grander strain the giant
anthem Of its praise
Fathers, brothers, husbands and sons,
who are more profoundly interested and
concerned in all that pertains to the
peace, the happiness, and prosperity Of
our country than the noble women Of
the land? They are here tonight. l
would be false to them, false to the
occasion, false to the Alliance, and
false to myself, did | fail to tender to
them my profound Acknowledgements
for the honor they have thus done.
Proud as we are, and should be, of the
splendid record OF the American SOL
diery to which have referrd, yet in
honor of her patient endurance, her
devotion, her constancy and her superb
moral courage, we stand uncovered in
her presence. Do you ask me for a
model Of moral heroism? l would not
go to the muster rolls of the splendid
armies Of a Grant or Lee; / would
not point to the waving plume in vic.
torious battle. but l would point you to
that isolated country home, with its
cares and trials, its loneliness and anx.
ieties in sickness aud in health, pre-
sided over by the queenly spirit Of her
whose hours o: anguish through four
long years of war we're more trying
than the ordeal of battle.
And | would summon all the grand
Old heroes among the living, and the
spirits of our immortal dead, and align
them In her presence and ask them to
join me in saluting her as the queen Of
the heroes Of the world.
A celebrated English barrister when
defending criminal, was reminded by
the court that he was extending his
argument to very great length. Turn
ing to his honor he said !: "Remember,
sir, that am pleading for the life of a
human being?"
Ny friends, if in my zeal / have
transcribed the proprieties Of the oc.
casion and have wearied your patience,
| enter the plea in extenuation that l
am pleading for the life Of the republic
and the liberties Of the people. n
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
Far Reaehing Benevolence.

Average World Reformer-We are go
ing to have another great meeting to-
night, to protest against English tyranny
in Ireland, Russian tyranny in Poland,
Turkish tyranny in-in some place or
other, I forget the name; and to protest
in the name of the Christian world
against the cruel treatment of mission
aries in China. Can't you come?
Everyday Citizen-Very sorry, but /
promised to go around this evening and
help relieve the necessities of some poor
families in the street back of your resi-
dence.-New York Weekly.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
From The Nation
Capitol.

Mr.. A. N. Hazen, Washington, D. c.,
says the famous red flag oil is a perfect
family medicine, and has no equal for
rheumatism, neuralgia, srrains, cuts,
burns and all bodily pain. Pain 25cts.
Consumption Are you troubled
with this terrible disease? IF SO, take
healthy exercise, live IN open air, use
pan.tina cough and consumption cure
and be cured; don't delay. Trial bottles
free at G. G. Silrs drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
Remedy for Burns.

A celebrated German remedy for
burns is made as follows: Take fifteen
ounces Of the best white glue, break
into small bits and soak in a quart Of
water until soft. Then dissolve by
means of a water bath, and add two
ounce of glycerine and six drachms of
carbolic acid; continue the heat until
thoroughly dissolved. On cooling this
hardens to an elastic mass covered
with a shining. parchment like skin,
and may be kept for any length of
time. When required for use it is
placed for few minutes in water
bath until sufficiently liquid, and applied
by means of broad brush. It forms
in about two minutes shining smooth,
flexible and nearly transparent skin.
This preparation cost but-a trife, and
is easily kept at all times ready for use.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
EVERY Home should Have It.

1t is not always convenient to call
physician for every little ailment.
Having Red Flag Oil in the house you
have a Physician always at hand, 1T
kills Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Burns,
and all Aches and Pains. Price 25c.
There are few things in this life of
which We may be certain. but this is
one of them, Pan-Tiua Cough and Con-
sumption Cure has no equal for Coughs.
Colds and Consumption. Price 25 and
SOC. Trial bottles free
AiG o. Silps drug store.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
Meetings Of County Commissioners

The regular meetings of the Count,
Commissioners will be held on the
second Tuesday of every month. Col.
iectors and others having accounts to
6e stated or settled will apply to the
CLERK during the recess of the Board.
PERSONS having claims against the
county. will please file the same in the
commissioners Office, with a legal
voucher, as no account will be allowed
not properly chargeable to the same.
by order. CHAS. H. SMITH, Clerk,
Commissioner Cecil County.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01

White or colored Bolton sheeting is
effectively used for sofa pillows, glove
sachets. party bags and many other
ornamental and decorative purposes. 1t
may be painted with roses or foliage, or
in scroll designs, aad outlined with gold
cord, which should be sewed down
with COUGHING silk Of the same color.
Old pink silk or any of the delicate
tapestry colors make pretty lining for
a bag or sachet of this sort, and the
satin ribbons which are used to com
plete it should be of the same color as
the painting. Two colors are often
employed for this purpose.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1891-05-01
ORPHANS COURT.

The Stated Meetings of the Orphans
Court of Cecil county will be held on the
second Tuesday ofevery month. Executors
Administrators and Guardians, wanting
their accounts stated, will please bring ip
their vouchers few days before Court.
Test: r. E. LAMAR, Register