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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-05-10
Hours of w ork.
Editor Florida Ag1jcuIturist:

Editor Florida AgIjcuIturiSt:
Permit me to offer an amendment to
Mr.. w. II. Haskell's excellent article on
Work for April" 10 your issue of April
9th. He advises doing most OF your
work between the hOuls Of and 10 am.
and 3 and p. IN. In place OF 10 a. m.
| would substitute II m, and in place OF
3 %. m ! would advise p. III. find that
the most unpleasant hours Of The day for
outdoor labor are from to s q. m. and
2 to y. N. In the first period, to s
a. M, there is usually no, or very little
breeze, and the heat of the sun is more
exhaustively oppressive than at any
other time of the day. From 2 to 4 p, m.
the sun is too scOrching hot for comfort.
From 10 to - a. m. there is usually an
excellent breeze, and one can labor with
out any more danger or more serious
discomfort than at any other hour OF
the day, with less in fact, than from { to
a. III. and 2 to p. III. 1t might be we'll
for our people to adopt 10 a measure an
European custom of eating. Take a cup
of hot coffee and light lunch before go
ing to work in the early morning, then
come in at Z and devote the time from
to s to good brea kGast, leisurelY eaten
and enlivened with pleasant conversa-
ton. Cast work and worry aside for the
time being. A fter the meal joke and laugh
some. Youwill find it great aid to diges-
ton.
The chief reason, i'll my opinion, why
people are sometimes Frustrated and die
of brain fever, is because OF insufficient
protection to the head. Many are surely
attempting to commit suicide, ignorantly
it may be, by wearing such light, nom
protective head-gear. The straw hat SO
commonly worn is a folly and adeusion.
We should learn a lesson from the inhab
itants of trop;c countries and protect the
head. The person who wears a common
straw hat in the sun during the summer
here invites brain fever. No wonder
many complain Of headache after being
out in the sun a short time with the de-
lusive protection OF Il straw hat. There
should be three thick nesses of felt, or its
equivalent, between the head and the
sun. The best hat is cork helmet with
plenty of ventilating space all around be-
tween il and the head, that the air may
pass over the head freely. | speak from
experience, having tried nany styles of
head, gear. Even u straw hat can be.
much improved by cutting up felt hat
and sewing two or three thicknesses in,
side the crown.
Please advise your readers to cease in.
viting headache and nervous prostration;
advise them to stop trying to commit
suicide. Ii suicide they must, there is
plenty of water here and the exit init will
be easier and less painful than by solar
heat. SHERMAN ADAMS.
Gabrielle Fla.
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one hundred pounds and she looked
more like girl of sixteen than a wom-
an of twentv-six. / got a chance to
run up and see her one afternoon in the
month and found her nicely settled.
She had been moro or less annoyed by
roughs. but there had been no occa-
sion to test her nerve as yet / found
her double barreled shotgun loaded
with buckshot and her navy revolver
ready for business, and she assured me
that she should not hesitate to fire upon
any man who menaced her safety.
! went home much relieved in mind
Outside of the fraternal feeling so
strong among the brotherhood of the
key, there was something in the
thought of that little woman being
perched up there alone among the grim
hills and wild forests calculated to keep
man awake when he should have been
sound asleep on his cot The first
alarm came one night early in July.
In the forenoon of that day two very
rough-looking men had come up the
track from the west They halted at
my station, sized me up, and then de-
manded something to eat / might
have given them q bite had they re-
queSted instead OF demanded; but when
l saw that they meant to pick quar-
rel and have an excuse for assaulting
and robbing me. brought ont nv shot
gun ana Obliged them to walk on. As
soon as they were out of sight l mott
fed the little woman at Lone Pine 10
look out for them She replied that
she would, and up to ten o'clock at
night heard from her every hour, but
the tramps had not put IN ali appear
ance. 1t was ha.f-past eleven o'clock,
and was sound asleep, when l heard
Lone Pine cali noe over the wire. |
rolled on my cot and ran 20 the in
st-ument and asked what was wanted.
The tramps are here was the re-
ply. They are knocking on the door
, and asking for food and shelter"
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q burden for all train conductors, and
the small stations were entirely at
their mercy. There were plenty Of
telegraph operators out of JOB who
could not be induced to take a lone sta
ton at any salary, and sometimes the
company had to send three men to Ii
station where there was little or moth
ing for one to do.
Lone Pine station was up in the
mountains, just at the east end of a
long stretch of snowsheds. 1t was
thirteen miles from Bad Creek to the
west and eleven from Big Rock to the
east. The names of these stations, to-
gether with dozens of others, have
since been changed At the date L
write of man named Clark had the
Big Rock station. l had Bad Creek and
2 new agent and operator had just
taken possession of Lone Pine. That
station had been vacant for a week.
1t had been held by young man
named Reed for about three months,
but one night he was found dead and
robbed-the work of the lawless ele-
ment then overrunning the west. The
first news got from the new agent
came from herself over the wire one
afternoon, and this is what she said:
Allow me to introduce myself as
Mrs. Hadley, the new agent at Lone
Pine. / am just out from Chicago.
Charming place this, and know shall
like it. Hope to become better ac-
quainted."
| found out later on that she was a
widow, about twenty-six years Old,
good looking, well educated, and pos
sessed plenty of courage and common
sense. just why she didn't do as most
other young widows do was no ones
business but her own. Finding that
she must earn her own living, she
learned teleRraphy and came down the
road in search of a place They didn't
want to give her the station at Lone
Pine, but she was so persistent that
she was finally installed. AS at many
other stations, she had to gather her
own frewood and cook her own pro-
visions. and there were many an
noyances to be encountered.
Clark and l were both knocked out
to find that woman had been sent to
Lone Pine. Had it been a man we
should have expected him to take care
of himself, but as it was we couldn't
help bat worry. There was hardly a
day that we didn't have TO drive some
tough out of our houses at the muzzle
of shotgun, and both of us had twice
been held up and cleaned out by gangs.
Her station was even more isolated,
and though her sex might be respected
by some there were men abroad as
wicked as the old-time pirates. In re-
Spouse to our inquiries she assured us,
that she had been provided with the
regular outfit of weapons by the COM
pany, and that she should not hesitate
to shoot if she found it necessary.
1t was in May when the little woman
took possession. In describing her 1
did not say that she was little, but such
was the fact. Her weight was not over
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the glories of the republic. In the cause
of temperance, too, he is an enthusiast.
For twenty-five years he has been the
incessant advocate of temperance, and
has been instrumental in esta blishing
temperance societies all over the coun-
try. Throughout the state of Mime
sofa are scattered thriving colonies of
temperance people whom he induced to
leave the crowded cities. AS the oppo-
'nent Of Cahenslyism and the advocate
of broad, radical system of educa ton,
Archbishop Ireland has become noted
IN America as well as in Europe. He
has been called the "Lavigerie of
America" but those who know him
best compare him to Cardinal Manning
HE stands as well with the working
men as did the London cardinal, and he
stands higher with his non-Catholic fell
low citizens than did his eminence of
Westminster, as evinced by the honors
heaped upon him by the management
of the auxiliary congresses of the
worlds fair. Archbishop Ireland is in
the prime of life and is likely to be
heard on the great questions of the day
in his church for many years to come.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-21
An Hnnest Customer.

There is an old merchant in a thriv-
ing little town near Minneapolis who
scorns paper ledger. and insists on
keeping pine board account with his
customers. He planes this board off
every five months and starts a new &C
count. The other day a man came
into the old merchants store to pay a
balance of forty cents. Il guess you
don't owe me anything" replied the
old trader, to a question about the
debt. The customer protested that he
did owe the debt; In fact. he remem-
bered buying the goods some six
months ago. ''Oh, WELL five months
alters the case said the weigher of
sugar and coffee. You may owe me
forty cents for all know. You see
I've up and started a new board since
you got your goods, and don't remem-
Der your debt. You may pay me if
you want to, but if you don't it's all
o. K, as I've shaved your account out. :"
The trader got his forty cents.-Golden
DAYS.
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WAXING DOWN PILLOWS.
Easy Method of Keeping the Down From
Working Through.

Easy Method of Keeping the Down From
Working Through.
A curious Continuance to prevent the
fluff of down pillows penetrating the
ticking comes from England. 1t con-
sists in simply waxing the inside of the
ticks before they are filed with down
Most of the manufacturers of cheap
down pillows fail not only to use a firm.
good quality of ticking. bat substitute
a muslin which is altogether too soft
and sheer for the purpose.
They do this for the specious reason
that their pillows appear thus more
delicate IN structure, and are conse-
quently more salable.
1t is possible 10 make up eider-down
in this light muslin, as it holds to-
gether by its nature and does not shell
off particles that float about in the air.
If the inside of the muslin case be thor
oughly rubbed with wax, it would stiff
fen it TO some extent, but il is said 10
remedy all trouble caused by the pro-
trusion of the feathers
Simply turn the ticks wrong side out
ward before filing them. warm piece
of beeswax slightly and rub it in
straight lines following each other over
the tick. When the entire surface is
waxed, fill il and sew up the tick
Boston Globe.
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WASHINGTON STATUE FOR PHILADELPHIA

WASHINGTON STATUE FOR PHILADELPHIA
this roof slopes up to an apex at the
center, In the top of which the head of
Washington almost touches The
statue itself is an equestrian one, and
it represents Gen. Washington in his
Continental uniform as ne marched at
the head of his troops The figure is
several times life size: and the horse,
which stands with the right foot raised,
is an immense stallion. Washington's
cloak is thrown back from his body as
though blown back by the wind, and
the whole statue is full of action.
The figures about the pedestal and
the base of the monument are even
more artistic than the statue itself.
Ascending the first steps, you reach a
second platform, around which lie
great figures emblematic of American
life and America There are two of
these figures at each corner of the
monument, and some of them are al
ready finished IN bronze Ascending
one set of steps, you pass between re-
Ginning statues of an Indian hunter and
an Indian maiden who is repairing her
nets for fishing. These lie on their
elbows. They are about twice life size,
and they are magnificent pieces of
sculpture. The fisher girl is entirely
nude, and the brave has only breech-
cloth of feathers. Below them are
magnificent bronze statues of bufaloes
and deer, and on other parts of the base
you find other animals emblernatic Of
America. At another corner Columbia.
in the shape of a beautiful woman with
horn of plenty In her hard, reclines
on the pedestal of the monument, and
there is magnificent statue Of America
with the famous officers Of the revolu-
ton offering her the lRurels Of their
victories. Under this Is the American
eagle on shield
To give you some idea of the size Of
these figures, those lying on the first
base must be fifteen feet long, and the
thighs Of the nude fsherTroman are as
big around as the ordinary maiden's
waist, and her forearm is as large
around as the thigh OF man Her head
IS beautiful in all its proportions, but
you could hardly put 1t into peek
measure The statues on the base are
more than life size.
This monument, writes Frank @. Car
penter IN Harper's Weekly. was begun
BIZ DR.. Sieneriug more than twelve
years ego. and he has been working a.
most incessantly upon IL Dr.. STEINER
ing is one Of the most famous OK Ger
man sculptors. and al Germany Is proud
u the work he has turned ont for Amer
ica- Il is the largest and most artistic
statue OF Washington IN existence
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through the door. 1 know what be-
came of the killed for l helped to bury
them, but the wounded were taken east
that afternoon.
When the little woman opened the
door to us she had her revolver in her
left hand, because one of the stray bull
lets had passed through the palm Of
her right. She had also been grazed on
the shoulder, and two bullets had
passed through her clothing. She had
fired both barrels of the shotgun and
eleven bullets from the revolver and
was doing bravely well when we
turned the scales And did she con-
tinue at Lone Pine? Oh, no. A divi-
sion superintendent fell in love with
her, rearoused the tender passion in
her breast. and away she went to set
tie down on the Pacific slope and be-
come nobody-that is, she couldn't
be a heroine any more - Chicago
Times
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A boy never looks in the glass to
see if his face is clean after he has
washed it; he looks at the dirt on the
toweL-Atchison Globe.
When wife counsels her husband
to come straight home after an evening
banquet she means it in morse senses
than one Boston Transcript.
A difference between knife-blade
losing its temper and a woman is that
the former becomes duller and the lat
ter more cutting. -Philadelphia Times
--Landlady-"Mr. Colfax, you look
i'll; l hope no unexpected" Board
er-''Yes'm, that's il; ne found his
steak tender an it shocked him In
ter-ocean-
Poor Benton IS having fire extin-
guishers put in every room in his
house" what FORE" We'll, you see
he had it built FIRE proof and has to. -
Inser-Ocean.
-Jagsby-"wife. I Chicl was held
up on m way 'ome." Mrs Jagsby
(ssrcastically)-"You wouldn't have
got home if you hadn't been Pitts
burgh Bulletin.
-Diner-'waiter ind ] have Just
money TO pay for the dinner; but i
leaves nothing in the way of tip for
yourself" Waite--''Let me add up
the cheek again."-N. Y. Herald.
True But Not Strange
a watch : one of the cleverest crea-
lures IN the world" Belle-"Why?'
Jennie-"Always has is business 80
well il hand. Jewellers Weekly.
George. said Maud. Il am VIII
lam. said William. sternlv. On !
know that. Willie returned Maud
= hurf mr. finger, and that was ny
Little swear word Bazaar.
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TO congress as a democrat, serving from
October of that year until March, 1888,
when he was elected to the United
states senate to succeed Henry G. Davis.
In 1889 he was reelected, and his term
of service would have expired March s.,
1895. He was one of the most infuen-
tial members in the senate. served on
many of the most important commit
tees, foreign relations, organization.
conduct and expenditures of the execu-
tive department, and was also a mem
Der OF the senate committee on worlds
fair. He had been sufferer from heart
trouble for a number of years and to
that his death may be attributed
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HuMoR in ANIMALS.
Instances GotaS TO show that Noakey
at Least Have IL.

Instances Gotag TO show that Monkeys
at Least Have It.
/ remember. says contributor, in n
description of India or Ceylon some
forty years ago, story of an English
man who had monkey. Looking out
of his window one day he saw his cook
getting fowl ready for boiling while
the monkey lay on the groand sham
ming death and a party of crows stood
at little distance. divided between the
desire for the kitchen offal and the fear
of the possibly shamming monkey.
One crow. more adventurous than the
rest, came within the magic distance
and was instantly within the clutch of
the monkey. At the same moment the
cook, having finished trusting the fowl.
put it into the pot and went away.
The monkey plucked the crow as he had
just seen the cook pluck the fowl. took
the fowl out Of the pot, put the crow
in, and retired with his exchange.
When the cook came back and saw the
fowl left Cor his masters luncheon
turned black he was, as may be sup
posed, struck mad with terror at this
manifest Intervention of the evil one.
Another story. some forty or afty
years earlier, is of monkey which INV
uncle brought TO London from India.
On one occasion he was seen PLAYING
with the ink, perhaps writing a letter,
in his masters bedroom. he upset the
ink, and thereupon he went 10 the
chest of drawers, opened drawer.
took out n shirt, and wiped up the ink
with 1t On another day he was sitting
in my grandmother's drewing-room fit
was in Hill street, when another lady
came in and sat down. The monkey,
after watching her for some time from
the back of the chair on which be was
perched, snatched the visitors bonnet
from her head, put il on his own. and
defed all attempts TO catch him and
rescue the bonnet At last, the win
dow being open, he leaped out upon the
lamp post. and there sat. sharing the
delight of the passers-by, looking a.
Butcher must have looked when years
after. he appeared on the field OF
Waterloo in an old lady's bonnet
In these instances the love Of mis-
chievous practical joking is manifest: IL
is probable il not so certain In \ story
of an eminent naturalist Il forget his
name). who WAS hoping 10 develop the
intelligence of monkey to whose edu-
cation he was devoting himself One
day he saw with delight that ithe mon
key was sitting at the other end OF sthe
room turning over the leaves Of n vslu-
able book on entomology and looking
at the plates with apparent interest
But on going nearer he saw, with dis
may, that the monkey was turning over
the plates in order that, when he csms
10 particularly large beetle or butter
fly. he might pick IL out and eat il. As
the paper could not have had a nice
taste, think he may have been actual
ed rather by the fun of the thing than
by mere depraEed appetite Perhaps
he was verifying the like method OF
learning among the philosophers OF
Laputa But this leave 70 the Judi
cious consideration Of yourself aud
readers London Spectator.
Before you kill yourself trying 70
accumulate wealth, go and ask a mill
lionaire how much money it takes 70
make a man rich
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SENATOR KENNA.
nc was = Self-Made Man In Every Sense
of the Word.

&c was = Self-Made Man In livery Sense
of the Word
The late Senator John E. Kenna, of
West Virginia, was born in Valcoulon,
w. Va, April 10, 1S4S. OF his early life
little Is known except that he worked
upon his fathers farm. At the age of
fourteen be entered the confederate
army as private and saw great deal
of service, especially in Missouri. He
was wounded in 1864 and was surren-
dered at Shreveport, La, in 1855. At
the close of the war he returned TO
Wheeling, where he attended St. Vim
cents college, and afterward studied
law at Charleston. He was admitted to
the bar in June, 1870, and in 1872 was
elected prosecuting attorney for Kama
wha county. In 1875 he was made cir
quit judge and in 1877 he was elected
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a Genius.

"Pensmith, the successful writer of
French-Canadian dialect stories, was
never in Canada in his life"
''Then how did he master that Pc
cuhar dialect?-
His plan of working is simple one
He has for an assistant a Norwegian
who suffers badly. Pensmith writes
any kind of simple tale, gets his as
sissant half drunk. and makes him
read it into photograph. The utter
ances of tho phonograph are then
copied verbatim, and the result is a
Reconsideration dialect story that the
great magazines fight for. National
Tribune.
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and If they bring up batter1ng ram
lower panels"
What was to be the last message
came about ten minutes later.
They brought UP BEAM" tele-
graphed the little woman, land gave
them the buckshot through the lower
panels l think l hit three or four.
Some of them are now firing into the
house, while others are bringing up
fire brands to burn me out"
''Coming-don't give up!' I ratified
off to her. and thirty seconds later the
engine was moving away with our
crowd. We had wet track but clear
run. and after the first two miles we
simply few. We had some fear that
the fellows might have turned the
switch or pushed 4 freight car down on
the main track, but no such idea had
occurred to them. We went through
two miles of snow shedding like q
rocket shooting along tube, and when
we popped out of the eastern end we
were among the tramps The first two
cars were blazing away and fire had
just been started in third. Fire brands
were piled up against the house at
three different places, and three or four
fellows with revolvers were blazing
away at the door and window.
Before the engine had come to stop
we dropped off and began shooting to
kill, and in five minutes we had
cleaned out the gang. Perhaps you
remember the way that certain news
papers pitched into US about that af-
fair, calling it massacre and bowling
for our arrest. There were four killed
and seven wounded. Three men were
hurt when the little woman fired
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FINEST IN AMERICA.
DIR. Rudolph Siemering's Statue Of
Washington.
Grand In Conception and Perfect In Exc,
cution-Is VIII Soon Grace the En-
trance to FairmouRt Park,
Phiiadeiphia-

Berlin has had magnificent exhlbi-
ton of modern paintings and sculpture
during the past year. 1t has been held
in the Austeuungs park, and a vast
building covering several acres in the
midst of this park devoted to It A
leading idea connected with it was the
popularization of art, and concerts have
been held every night in the buildings
connected with it, and the Germans
have turned out by the thousands with
their families to enjoy the paint
ings, and then go to another part
of the grounds and listen TO some
of the finest military music in the
world. The paintings in the exposition
are by the most famous of the modern
German artists, and the rooms devoted
TO sculpture are full of magnificent
pieces. The work which has attracted
the greatest attention is the memorial
statue of Washington, which Prof. Ru-
dolph Siemering is making for the city
of Philadelphia. Some of the figures of
this have been completed in bronze, and
q life-size model of the whole monu-
"cuC taxes up One OI IIlc IdI BeSI rOOIHs
in the whole building. This room is al
ways crowded, and the statue is consid-
cred one of the finest of modern times.
1t has a base which is fully thirty feet
in diameter, and this base octagonal in
shape, and you rise from it by easy
steps to the bottom of the pedestal
upon which the monument stands.
The whole structure is fully fifty
feet high, or about the height of four
story house. A great glass roof had to
be built up above it in order to allow it
to be erected in the exposition hall, and