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The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15

A Missouri farmer sold a lot Of
hogs the other day at 8 cents a
pound, took the money and went to
store and paid Is cents pound for
a sugar.cured ham. He must be
some relation to the Florida farmer
who sells corn one month for IS
cents a bushel and a few months
thereafter pays $l.l0 for like quail
ity.
Farmers, did you know that the
pea vine feeds greatly from the
atmosphere, to a certain extent it is
similar to the Spanish moss. Well
all plants that will return to the
soil about the same amount nutri-
ment they take away are we'll looking
after cultivating and curing for on
an extensive scale, because the most
of the land now in cultivation is
getting thin and beautifully less
and anything the farmers can grow
on his thin land and still make that
land "hold its own" he should do it
at the earliest opportunity. In short
we must raise and care for more
forage. Depending on few corn
blades won't do in the future.
more forage is needed and pea vines
are one Of the foremost things.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
The Democratic Chairman.

From the Richmond State-Dem.
Senator Calvin S. Brice, Chairman
OF the Democratic National Commit.
tee, turned the Craftsmanship over
temporarily to Senator A. p. Cor
man, just before sailing for Europe.
1t might be we'll to make German
the permanent Chairman. Brice
will do well enough between cam
paigns, when there is little or moth
ing in the way Of committee work to
be performed. But in the campaign
of 1888 he did not display any spe-
cial talent for the high and exacting
position. German is known and re.
cognized all over the country as an
astute and successful political mana
ger. He is certainly hundred per
cent. better man for Chairman than
Brice.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
Our Weather.

Just now our Florida portion of
the sun is tolerably bold, l thank you,
but it does not last long, that's the
beauty of it. Not day passes but
up come from the Gulf many of
those delightful breezes not in the
shape Of hurricanes or cyclones but
gentle balmy breezes that give we
crackers gentle cooling off.
You of the North, East or West
have them Dot-you amt built that
way-your location is different in
thousands of instances, always few
exceptions Of course.
We know it to be fact that our
decidedly hot periods are less in
number and stay shorter length of
time than in any other state in the
Union. OF course our summers are
longer, giving us more hot days, but
then there come in the nights, every
last one Of them cool and refreshing,
not one hot night have we been in
troduced to this summer-not one
sunstroke or other heat prostrations
are known with US. Scarce a day
passes at this season Of the year but
what we have one or more showers
if not a shower the breeze from
one which cools one and all off in
happy and pleasing manner. Cen
orally speaking our houses are we'll
and consequently we keep
cool have more summer comfort than
any one who lives in an overcrowded
city with it's hot brick walls.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
LADIES
Needing tonic, or children who want build.
ing up, should take
BROWNS IRON BlTTERS.
1t Is pleasant to take, cures Malaria, Indf-
gestion, Biliousness and Liver Complaints
Jug.IIandled Reciprocity.

From the Baltimore Sun.
Reciprocity does not seem to be
booming our exports to Brazil as
was promised. Our exports of
cotton goods to Brazil in the eleven
months ending May 81, 1891, were
worth S4O5, $40, as against S726,5
for a like period of the preceding
fiscal year. On the other hand the
English exports of cotton goods to
Brazil IN the first tour months of
1891 were worth $7,59l,44o, as
against $3,7o2.2l5 in the like part
Of 1890. AS England has no recipro-
city arrangement with Brazil, and
we have-or are supposed to have -
special advantages by reason of our
arrangement with the new republic,
this increase of English trade and
falling off Of ours is disappointing.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
ByLaylnR.on Of Hands!

Woman restored to perfect health Just
talth and confidence n enough required to lay
hold Of Dr. Pierce's Fa a, Prescription,
little perseverance,, and complete restora.
ton to health and vitality is Insured. Not
far, indeed, from the miraculous, are many
of the wonderful cures of lost womanhood
it has effected. There are few cases, in.
deed, within the requirements of sick and
suffering woman, outside or beyond lite
helpful influence. So confident are the
makers of DR.. Pierce's Fsvorite Prescrip-
tion of it's power to heal all female dis
eases, that they warrant satisfaction in
every instance, or refund money. Large
bottles 800 (6 for $780, at druggists.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
An Empress Draws the Line.

The empress Of Germany has become
so popular a godmother that she has
been obliged to draw the line sharply in
her own defense. Hereafter no little
herr or fraulein may have the distinc-
tion of an imperial godmother unless at
least one of his or her parents enjoys the
imperial acquaintance In other cases
the baby must be content with 100
marks and roll of linen, while his more
successful brother infant disports him
self in beautiful cloak bearing the en-
press monogram.-Exchange.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15

your employ and we have compared
it with tobacco grown in the vicinity
of Concord and they look just alike.
Our tobacco association has &C.
cured three-story brick building in
Tallahassee and by October lst it
will be we'll filled with Leon county
tobacco. We will have an expert to
pack and seal it up. Due notice
will be given of the auction sale and
buyers from your place, Jackson
vile, New York, Kentucky and
other places will be present. Come
down and see us. No time here.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
TOBACCO NOTES.

After reading our tobacco views,
and becoming interested, o. G.
Granting, Euslis, Fla, asks:
l. How many plants of the Sum
atra tobacco do you grow per acre I?
2. What amount of fertilizer
3. Which is best guano or cotton
seed meal |?
4. What expense to grow and
house one acre?
5. What is the average price and
how many pounds to the acre?
6. How much land can one hand
cultivate
7. Can two crops be obtained I?
l. We do not grow the Sumatra;
Vuelta de Absjo is our variety. Make
rows 3 feet apart and set plants Is
inches in the row. An acre con-
tains 10 square yards-make your
calculation.
2. Ny tobacco, especially on the
new land, looks we'll. | have used
no fertilizer whatever, if used, old
barn yard manure, cotton seed we'll
rotted and slight sprinkle of guano
is all the kinds we feel like recon-
mending.
3. The latter by all means.
4. On my one acre and half I have
not expended over SIS. If l had
spent more money for the pillow no
doubt but what | would have had
larger returns, $40 will grow a sin.
gle acre successfully and house it.
S. is owing to the quantity of the
tobacco grown. The proceeds will be
from $50 to $500 per acre for the new
beginner. There is a wide range ir
the returns. Good management and
careful handling are the two items
that must be looked at closely if thu
financial returns are expected to b.
large.
From 80 cents to So per pound
To the acre depends upon the grove
altogether. If he gets good "stand'
manures thoroughly his crop will b.
much larger than if it was poorly
tended.
6. AS much as he can of cotton.
Z, Yes. The first crop, then the
sucker crop which if the land is abb
to produce it will pay for all of tn,
work done on the first crop.
The first consideration with 70,
should be; do you think you woul'
like the business? If you mad neve
grown tobacco our advice to you
would be prospect with one acr
next year then you will know NOR
and be better prepared TO "branc
out" the following season.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15

The substances used in spraying are
either poisonous when eaten, of a suffo-
eating nature, or kill by external irrita.
ton. Of the first class, Paris green and
London purple are the ones chiefly used.
and have proved specifics when used on
potato bugs and for the Larvae Of the
cooling moth. In either case a minute
particle of the poison taken by the in
sect when eating the potato leaf or
boring into the blossom end of the apple
kills it. Pyrethrum and kerosene emul.
sion are good examples of the second
class. These destroy large variety of
insects, such as plant lice, cabbage
worms, etc, by contact. A solution Of
hellebore sprayed on the currant bushes
kills the worms that infest them, either
by their eating the poisoned leaves or
from the spray falling on them.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
TOBACCO CONVEN rION
AT SOME POINT AND TIME TO BE
HEREAFTER NAMED.
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE GADsDEN,
LEON, DECATUR AND THOMAS COUNTIES
TOBACCO ASSOCIATION.

A more thorough knowledge Of to-
bacco growing in Florida is needed
and to that end we suggest that a
convention be called by the associa-
ton to meet two days-morning,
afternoon and night session each of
the two days, making six meetings.,
at which time have competent grow
ers present to illustrate and post up
those who are not posted. Let pre-
miums be offered for the best five
pounds Of filters, wrappers and bags,
the ones taking the premiums to be
sold under the hammer on the even
ing Of the last day to the highest
cash bidder, the proceeds to be do
mated to some charitable institution
in the state Make each meeting
full of business, and omit all excur-
sions, banquets and champagne sup.
pers.
AS the F. G. e P. r. r. has taken
lively interest in tobacco growing,
we would be pleased to hear from
them.
All papers in the state and tobac-
co men in general who favor this
convention please signify the same
through their columns and others
unite to us and give their views.
If the matter is endorsed at the
next meeting of the association
preliminary steps might be taken to
put the ball in motion, towns and
cities asked to entertain the conven.
ton and correspondence opened with
prominent tobacco men with view |
Of securing practical addresses from
them on subjects designated by the
committee of arrangements.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
The Patient summer Boarder.

He slept up In the attic
With the boys and hired man;
He made his morning toilet
With battered old milk pan;
He lived on pork and gravy
And overweighted bread,
And the flies and skeeters ate him
From dawn till going to bed.
He bore it very meekly,
Nor grumbled all the while,
And though they charged him double
He paid it with smile.
But he weakened one fine morning
And tainted dead away
When they asked If he could give EN-
"A lift at pitchin' hay"
New York Herald.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15

The Down East tobacco buyers are
"chock full " of nerve; clearly they
have commenced buying tobacco a
la wheat and corn in Chicago. 1t
occurs to us that they are a
trifle premature but presume the
Mckinley bill is the cause 1--WE lay
everything nowadays to the McKin-
ley bill if it does not show up to suit
the notion ofthe party indulging in it's
works.) In the long run it seems that
much the best way would be to buy
when the crop is cured instead of in
the field, because there are so many
"slips between the cup and the lip"
1t IS simply a game of going blind
and will result in no good to the
seller or buyer.
We are through talking about the
first crop an the field. What is said
hereafter about the young crop
means the "sucker CROP"
Turn up the leaves of each plant,
there is where they are; you cannot
be two vigilant about picking the
worms.
When you spoil a leaf for a
wrapper than halfvalue follows.
The same rules in regard to
topping applies to the sucker crop.
Top SO that the sucker will rlpen
even.
Leave only one healthy sucker for
the sucker crop.
If your crop is curing two fast
stop up all cracks during the day
and open them at night.
Examine your sheds every day.
The slower you can cure your
crop the more valuable.
Keep the light from your crop
while curing.
The only danger in slow curing is
moulding in the damp weather.
If too much dampness and mould
Is about to occur put fires of dry oak
underneath, be sure that there is no
smoke.
During the damp weather inspect
for mould. Don't let a day pass
"lCnOuI uOlng IL. Inc lower tiers
will be the places to examine the
closest.
Mould generally commences in the
stem of the leaf-there is the place to
look
All moisture must be evaporated
from the stem Of the leaf before to-
bacco is properly cured. Be sure
the stem is dry.
| When the stem is perfectly dry
take it down the first opportunity
and commence stripping. Be sure il
Is in case sufficiently to handle with
out cracking or braking. Never
handle unless in case.
Old growers may think that man
of our suggestions are out Of place
but we intend many of them for the
new beginners.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15

MOTTO for the next farming cam.
palgn: l will try and strain point
next season and produce a dozen
different crops on the farm that
now buy at the store or of some one
else. BY so doing, along about the
October following, you will feel bet
ter when you count up the cash.
Make your corn bread and meat
at home then the debts that hang
over and threaten many to-day could
have been avoided.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
Pretty Well Understood.
From the Providence journal (Ind.).

From the Providence Journal (Ind.).
Pension Commissioner Raum re-
marks that he does not think it nee.
essary to say anything to the PEG.
pie in regard to the criticisms passed
upon him. 1t is not. The popular
verdict in his case was long ago
made up, and it is not usual for the
defendant to make explanations to
the jury that, has pronounced him
guilty. !; +.af>j, '@~" - 'e'
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
a Transformation.


He took her down to the beach one day,
To enjoy a swim in the briny sea;
The maid was dressed in her fine array,
And pretty and plump Of form was she.
She entered bathhouse on the shore,
To dress for the swim, and so did he;
He rapidly dotted the clothes he wore
And dressed in the others, and so did she.
But when from the bathhouse out she
passed,
He said to himself with groan, said he,
AS his cheek grew pale and his heart beat
fast,
This isn't the girl that came down with
me-
New York Press
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
Sugar Down.

The best of sugar at the lowest prices,
now enables every family TO preserve sum-
mer fruits tor winter use, at small expense
Ayers Preserve Book, just issued, contains
the latest and best receil Is for canning.
preserving, making jellies, catsups, pickles,
etc. Ask your druggis, for copy, or Send
2cent stamp to j. q. Aver Co., Lowell,
Mass.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
A Shrewd Girl.

Laura-What clever girl Jennie isl She
had sixty-seven offers of marriage within
a week after she left college.
Clara-1ndeed! And she is not very good
looking.
Laura-No; but the subject of the essay
that she read at her graduation was "How
to Keep House on Twelve Dollars Week"
-Munsey's Weekly.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
1t Wasn't Here.

SIS there an opening for a man like me
here" asked Cheeke of the merchant
eyes. You'll find it back there" re-
turned the merchant. ut is marked,
This way to the street. Good morning"
-Harper's Bazaar.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
He Told the Truth.

"You said the cherries I bought from
you yesterday were the very best"
$50 they were"
"Why, every cherry had been half eaten
by the birds"
II know it, ma'am. That's why 1 said
they were the best. The birds always
know the best cherries. New York Press
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
In the Surfs,

She loves to daily with the surf
That boils upon the sandy beach,
And, careless mid the breakers foam,
Swims gayly out beyond my reach.
And |, poor serf of her caprice,
Would vainly kiss her dimpled hand;
But, poorer than the sounding sea,
Alas! haven't got the sand.
New York Herald
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15

Carl Vogt q Sons, Quincy Fla,
write: "We hear considerable talk
about Leon county tobacco. AS we
intend to buy heavily this fall,
would be pleased to hear from some
parties posted on the subject in your
section"
What you have heard about Leon
county % no doubt correct, we are
growing the. Weed quite extensively.
The seed grown in my section of the
county came from a gentleman in
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
A Suggestion.

Jasper-What do you think of that for a
fish story?
Jumpuppe-You should get it patented.
Jasper-Why?
Jumpuppe-It is such a marvellous in
vention.-Harper's Bazaar.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
The COmmander-in-Chief,

why is this boat backing up?" asked
the passenger on the steamer.
'Oh," said the mate, 1.-The captains wife
and baby are on board and the baby
wouldn't go to sleep until he'd seen the
engine reversed. New York Sun.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15

AS general liniment for sprains and
bruises or for Rheumatism, lame back,
deep seated or muscular pains, Cham
berlain's Pain Balm is unrivalled. For
sale by M. Lively. Aug. lin.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
Look Out!

Get out the faded flannel suits
And blazers that we wore,
And let Us put our busters on
And hic us to the shore.
This time we'll 60 to some far place,
Where she will not appear,
For it would spoil our fun to meet
The girl we had last year
-Clothier and Furnisher.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
success is By No Means Sure.

From the Philadelphia Telegraph (Rep.).
There are signs all around that
Mr.. HARRISON is going to play the
game of practicable politics for all it
is worth during the next year. In
this he may succeed, and then again
he NAV not.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
NapoleOnic Financiering.

S. Ponge-Can you let me have ten dol
lars for week or so?
G. Enerous-I've only got nine but you
can have that if it will do.
S. Ponge-All right; I'll take that, and
then you will owe me one dolIar-Harvard
Lampoon
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
LuXuries Cost.

Plain Father-It didn't use to cost me O
tenth part as much to live when was at
your age.
Fashionable Son-I know, father; but
you didn't have the advantages then of
associating with fashionable young man
like me.-SOmerville journal.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
ENCOURAGING,

I'd penned the finest effort of my life
A poem twas, about the Vastly deep.
l took it then and read it to my wife,
And when I'd done, behold, she was asleepl
-Harper's Magazine.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15

A friend writing us from up North
the other day, among other things
wrote: 'Lawrence, you have got
tobacco on the brain :" Che reads the
FLoR1D1AN, quite oftep). We con-
slider it our duty to help our fellow
man and tobacco growing is one of
the methods we have adopted and
never intended to give it up until
we saw crop tested in this county.
Follow us week after week and we
will picture to you the happy results
attained. We are "hying high"
down this way and don't you for
get it. We sympathized with every
man who struggled along last year
with cotton, barely eking out a sub
stance when with the same energy
in tobacco might have accumulated
an independence. We have turned
many from the above course and to-
day they have all the buildings about
their farm homes "cram" full of to.
bacco instead Of cotton and are we'll
pleased with their prospect.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
Too Much Activity.

Real Estate Dealer-So you've been in
Guatemala, have you? Is there any activity
in real estate down there?
Returned Traveler-You bet there is.
The day before l sailed there was an earth
quake.-Munsey's Weekly.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15

81 ring medicine is now wanted for. il
you are out of sorts and feel badly, P. P.
P. is the remedy to take and get strong
and invigorated.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
She Stood bv Him.

Mrs. Prentice-How do you always man
age to have such delicious beef?
Mrs. Binthyre-I select a good, honest
butcher, and then stand by him.-Oswego
Times
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
Special Need of Phosphorus,

"Whatl None of the roast, BesseS"
"No, papa" replied the little Boston two
year thoughtfully. "a little more fish
instead, please. l am reading Sir Edwin
Arnold today."-Chicago Tribune.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-08-15
he may not.

DeWitt's Sarsaparilla destroys such
poisons as scrofula. skin disease, eczema,
rheumatism. Its timely use saves many
ives. Sold by M. Lively =.
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Beyond the Superlatiye.

Although her name was Carrie Best
When Peter Wurst with love beset her,
He wooed with such successful zest,
She changed it, as she thought, for better.
New York Herald,
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Loves Lesson.

One evening as they sat beneath
The moons soft lays SO pale,
Moved by an impulse born Of love,
He kissed her through her veil.
Next evening, as before, they sat
Beneath the star fiecked dome,
Yet not exactly as before
She'd left her veil at home.
Tom Mason in Life.
The McCook tribune., 1891-01-30
EUPEPSY.

This is what you ought to have, in fact, you
must have it. to fully enjoy life. Thousands
are searching for it daily, and mourning be-
cause they find it not. Thousands upon thous-
ands of dollars are spent annually by our peo-
pie in the hope that they may attain this boon.
And yet it may be had by all. We guarantee
that Electric Bitters. if used according to
directions and the use persisted in, will bring
you good digestion and oust the demon dys-
pepsia and install instead Eupepsy. We rec
ommend Electric Bitters for dyspepsia end
all diseases of liver. stomach and kidneys.
Sold at 30 cents and 81 90 per bottle by A. Nc
MILAN. druggist. 344ts.
The McCook tribune., 1891-01-30
BANKSVILLE BUDGET.

The snow is disappearing causing much
unpleasantness.
The citizens of Grant precinct held meet
ing on the 9th and considered the situation
and necessities of said precinct.
A series of meetings are being held at the
Dodge school house, in Gerver precinct.
r. s. Allan, S. NJ. Scranton, Andrew And
erson and Cain were helping fix Mrs. Hills
pump and part of the pump got away from
them and went to the bottom of the well,
but they fished it out again. OBSERVER.