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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-10-04
For THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT
The Cow Pea.


Webster defines cow pea as "a kind of
pea cultivated in the Southern portion of
the United States and used as a substi
tute for clover"
Worcester's definition is "a kind of pea
cultivated in the Southern portion of
the United States instead of clover.'
Both definitions are virtually errone-
Gus as any Floridian, native or adopted,
can truthfully testify.
The cow pea is a legume of great value
as an article Of food. In fact the cow
pea is of so much Importance that if it's
production was discontinued immense
suffering would ensue to those who rely
upon it as one Of the staple family sup
plies. Wipe out the growing of the cow
pea and sweet potato Gin the Southern
part of the United States and you
might as we'll depOrt all of the old set
tiers and pronounced majority Of the
later corners. This provincial esculent
fills its place in our commercial quota
tions side by side with other adiuncts
necessary to the maintenance of life in
the Sunny South.
The cow pea supplies one Of the prin-
cipal dishes on the tables of our best peo-
pile, both as "snaps," hulled, green or
dried. A small portion of white bacon
cooked with the pot of COW peas adds u
satisfactory zest to the ever-ready appe-
tite of the partaker of this toothsome
Wand, and the ''pot liquor" is esteemed
as a special delicacy.
Cannot our dictionary makers be in
duced to give the cow pea better def
milton? 1t takes crank in the Southern
portion of the United States" with the
navy bean in the Northern part. To
be frank. the cow pea is not pea, but
a bean, taking it's name from the pea
bloom it bears. When its growth is per-
fected it is as much of surprise to the
student Of botany, as a nest of ducklings
are to the step-mOther hen that Matched
them!
"a substitute for clover indeed!
very lluICcu quhHCIClcS vi Vic COW pea
vineare ever used for ''roughness> or even
for green feed for horses. Cattle or
horses not in actual use, are never "f d.
in Florida. Cow pea vines are sometimes
plowed under for green manure, but this
is now considered as an exploded fallacy,
especially in orange groves.
But mister dictionary maker, for the
love of heaven and your fellow man Sin
the Southern part of the United States,'
don't deprive us of the cow pea as
legume, even in its definition.
RoBT. A. MILLS.
Chuluota. Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-10-04
Vol. Xxx. No. 40. Whole No. 772.
For THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
Camphor, Tea and Cinnamon.

CampnOr, lea ana cinnamon.
In regard to the culture and manage
ment of Tea, Camphor and Cinnamon |
was able to corroborate the main state
ments | made not long ago in your col
umns.
In the Ceylonese Building at the
Worlds Fair had long conversation
with Cingaese Of great intelligence,
with scores of specimens of tea before US
as to the culture of the tea plant and Of
the others in question.
First as to the tea, the statement was
positive that all varieties of tea are pro-
duced by one plant; that all differences of
green or black in color or quality are
produced by soils and altitude in part
but chiefly by methods of curing and
age Of leaf The very finest teas known,
whether green or black are made from
the very young leaves even buds before
the leaves are out. The green teas are
cured very rapidly; are left in the sun
only to wilt then dried on copper Or iron
Pohns amy WIN CNCI OCCL
lar with the curing of clover hay knows
the difference between rapid curing in
the cock and slow curing in the sun, the
slower The work the blacker the product
The other important factor is the age
OF the leaf, the older, larger, coarser leaf
makes the low-priced tea. The buds and
youngest the superior qualities.
First of April buds and very young
leaves are picked, first of May larger
leaves and in July still larger and
coarser and sometimes still another pick
ing is made.
The tea plant is shrub but is kept
drawf by pinching as we'll as by the con-
stant stripping of leaves. The seed are
gathered in fall, kept in sand and in
spring planted in seed-bed or nursery
rows, and usually planted in permanent
form at year old four to five feet apart.
They are pincEed back to make them
bushy. About the third year the first
picking is made, and they last not over
ten years.
4 Asking about the manipulating
of leaves to make the tea, filing the
score of small compartments before
me, was at once shown a complete
model of tea factory as it now is where
machinery does the work formerly done
by hand. So that am quite fortified in
my opinion that considering the fact
that the tea plant is admitted to be per-
fectly at home in the Southern States
growing in perfect health and vigor ON
poor sand and on richer soils, we may
and soon will grow our own tea.
81 Camphor is also produced in CeylOn
and all the gum camphor of commerce
is produced by the identical tree that
grows SO well in Florida-The Camphor
Laurel In. many respects Ceylon. re-
sembles Florida. The soil is for the
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most part light, sandy and poor, the tree
growth is tropical or sub-tropical de-
pending a good deal on elevation.
The camphor tree attains good size
there as here. know tree forty feet
high and of fine proportions. Every
part of the tree smells of camphOr, the
wood, branches and all are Clipped into
bits and put into still with water; the
head Of the still filed with straw on
which the camphor settles in small
grains containing considerable water
which is removed by still another distil
lation in which the pure gum is secured
in solid form.
Another tree growing to gigantic size
in Borneo yields a camphor which is
monopolized by the Chinese and by them
valued fifty or more times higher than
the common but is precisely the same in
composition and qualities. 1t is obtained
by cutting the tree into bits and is
found in slivers and elongated masses
seldom of much size.
The Taurus Cinnamonum from which
all pure cinnamon is obtained is also
native of CeylOn, and the bark we know
is obtained not so much from wild trees
as from plantations and produces from
fifty to five hundred pounds per acre.
The finest quality is grown on light
sandy soil.
The trees are raised from seed and
yield bark in six to seven years. They
are so treated as to make them bushy
with many slender branches which are
cut twice year, in May and June and
in November. The bark is cut in sec
tions of not much over foot in length
and after stripping is bundled and left
few days to ferment when the outer bark
is easily removed and it is very slowly
dried and again bundled for market.
The Cinnamon plantations as well as
the tea gardens in Ceylon are largely
fertilized with litter scrapings from the
woods and wild lands and the cultivation
is very slight and shallow.
Now please consider the points In favor
of these three plants, their perfect adapt
ability to our soil and climate, for there
are specimens scattered all about showing
good health. the great ease of bringing
the products into omerchantable form, and
surely you have as good showing as can
be made for any plant under the sun.
DIR. r. PILsBRY.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-10-04

Daytona is still yearning for the estab- &.
lishment there of a palmetto fibre factory
says an exchange.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31

An old lady, wife of Il bank president,
has one happening to rclatc-as She
does unccasngly-thc single adventure
of her life. But that was sufficiently
exciting to last throughout an ordinary
existence, says the New York Times.
Her home WAS entered not long ago by
gang of burglars, whose search was
for her son, the cashier, to open the
safe for them in the bank next door.
AZ the sight of the young man lc.i
away, with rcvolvcrs pointed at his
head and surrounded by dcSrcrnic
masilcd men, his mothers fright AND
horror found vent in wild cries and {,
passion of tears. The rest of the family
We're gagged, handcuffcd and bound
to chairs. She was tied 10 bed IN
caophor and water left close AZ hand.
80 ono else took any other notice Of
her, but rs the strange procession
novcd off ono Of the ruilians hastily
stepped back 10 where She lay. stopped
over. and kissed her shrivclcd check.
rurmur.ng in her car: II had u mother
once An incident SO romantic tina II
does not ring true. Which ii is.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
1rida, Wrea,hs for All Ha,;,u.

The German bride wears the myrtle
for her bridal wreath, while the girl Of
the Black Forest adcrns herself with
the flower of the hawthorne In Fran
and England and in the United States
the orange Hover is in vogue, while the
maidcns of Italy and the French PROV
inccs OF Switzerland use white roses.
Pinlls, carnations and red roses are
worn by Spanish brides. In Lithuania
the bridal wreath is wound of the Syr-
ian rue, on the Ionian islands the
grapevine, in Bohemia, Carinthia and
the Krain districts OF rosemary, and in
lIessc of artificial flowers, to which
ribbons are added. In Norway. Swc-
den and Scrvia bridal crowns are made
of silver: in Bavaria and Silcsia of
gold wire, glass beads and tinscl;
among the Fins, the Wends and the
peasants of Altcnburg of paper, ant,
in Athens of costly tiligrcc. Bridal
wrcaths were in vogue among the pa-
gans and were introduced among Chris
tian brides during the fourth century.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
Believe Rowland Was Poisoned.

BUFFALO. n. Y, May 3o.-A special
from Batavia says: The Chatauqua
Mutual Life Association has determined
to have the remains of the late Ira r.
Rowland, of Alabama, exhumei on the
ground that he came to his death from
the effects OF poison. The relatives OF
the deceased assert that he died from
apoplexy, and have resisted all attempts
to have an autopsy performed, and say
trouble will occur. 1t is shown that ii
Howlan1 died from the effects of poison
1t will invalidatc the $1,000 insurance
which he placed on his life few mouths
previous to his death.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
Clubs for village Young Men.

Village churches are now favorinc
the introduction of clubs as places for
Young men to resort to in leisure hours
instead OF to the hotel porch or saloon,
says contributor to an eastern cX-
change. There is nothing in city or
country more necessary for young men
than jnst such places, whore they can
meet and yet not necessarily come in
contact with bad Influences. Men will
have lettering places. The church is
recognizing this as Il fact and in pro-
viding for the necessity is keeping
many young men from surroundings
which arc altogether hurtful.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31

was admitted to the bar in the CITY Of
New \ oril in 1855, and removed to Mil
Yankee i'll 1857, where he practiced his
profession. He was city attorney of
Milwaukee for four terms, from 1865 to
1867, and practiccd in the supreme
court of the state and of the United
States.
In 1877 he declined the democratic
nomination for governor of the state,
but in 1879 accepted such nomination,
leading forlorn hope. In 1850 he re-
ccivcd the compliment of the vote Of
the democratic members of the lccis-
latUrc for United States senator. The
same year he was named by the bar
OF the state as the successor of Chief
Justice Ryan OF the state supreme court,
but the governor chose Il member OF
his own party for the position.
In 1875 he was nominated for county
judgc Of milwaukee, county, Wis, but
declined. In 1856 he was rendered by
the president a position upon the
bench OF ,he supreme court of the Dis
trict of Columbia, but also declined
that honor. IN lSSS. upon tho rcsigna-
ton of Judge Charles j.. Dyer. he wa
appointed by the president United
States judge for the eastern district OF
Wisconsin.
Judge jenkins marricd the only
danght o. of Judge Miller, ono of his
predecessors and his home is model
of refinement and the resort Of Il large
circle OF cultivated people. He i, Il
man Of many accomplishments outside
OF his profession. He is Il rapid work
or. close and logical thinker, and Il
ready and brilliant speaker His selcc-
ton for the leading judicial position
to which he comes has been eminent.
satisfactory, not only to the members
OF the legal profession, but to citizens
gcncrallv
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
DIR. Topper Declines to Serve Longer.

RICHMOND, May 3O.--Rev. DR.. II. A.
Upper, who has for some twenty years
filled the Office Of corresponding secre-
tary Of tho foreign mission board OF the
Southern baptist convention, will soon
retire from that position, although
unanimously re elected by the board at
it's meeting held here a few days after
the adjournment of the convention Dr.
Upper has positively declined to serve
another year. Rev. DR.. L. p. Bell, for
merly assistant secretary of the board,
and now secretary of the Sund ay- school
board at Nashville, has been elected to
fill the VACANCY.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
ROANOKE, VA, MAY 81, 1898.
REaPPEARANCE OF CHOLERA 1,
EUROPE,

FL NUT
According to yesterdays New York
Herald dispatches the Hamburg commit
tee FOR me detection OF cholera have re-
ported Cjiicially a fatal case or the dis
ease N that city last week and the Ber-
lin police have consequently resumed
the use of disinfectantS in every quarter
OF that city. Paris dispatch states
that three deaths from q disease of a
cholora.c nature have occurred, TWO at
Toulouse and one at Mines, and our
medical representative at Marseilles
te .ographs that cholera now exists in
that city in limited degree.
These cases may all be sporadic, but
the rearpearance of cholera at several
points in Western and Southern Europe
should be a signal for the exercise of
doubled vigilance by quarantine
authorities at all American ports, es-
pecially st New York.
Preparation should Immediately be
perfected for dealing with any cases OF
tho Asiatic plague that may have bcen
already shipped to this port.
After all the warnings we have had
to be on the lookout for cholera it will
not do for our quarantine officials to be
now caught mapping.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
WILD CRIME OF 4 FANATIC.
Aged Christopher Habcrcus Murders His
Wife and X ills Himself.

HUNTINGDON, Ind, May 3o-AtR a
noke, village in this county, Christie.
pier Habercus murdered his wife Satur-
DIV night, set fire to his house and
killed airnself. Habercus was seventy
i've years old and his wife seventy He
OBJECTED 20 Catholic women calling upon
her Yesterday two dill call. He abused
them, and, after they had left, ne and
his wlfc nad trouble over it. Al mid
night, while his wife was asleep, he
entered ner room and nearly severed hor
head from her body. Then he set fire
TO the bed, 20 The furniture upstairs
AID onon Killed himself 0y cutting his
throat. the body OF his wife was res
cned, but me head and feet of Habercus
Mere burned OIL
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31

NEW York, May 30 Senator Allison
was al the Brevoort House to night On
his way TO Washington Tne senator
said that under no circumstances could
he continue to act as . member OF the
international monetary conference.
which is to meet in Brussels next No
vem Der. The Senator said thas he and
every Republican was needed in the
Senate and the House for the extra SEES
sion, which n expects that President
Cleveland will call in September.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
The Monetary Situation in Rome

ROME, May 30.-The monetary situa-
ton grows worse. The scarcity Of silver
is pa'alyzing trade. and the revival of
forced paper currency is believed to be
inevitable. The parliamentary com
mission appointed to investigate the
reported completely of Italian senators
and Deputies in the scandals relating to
the Banco Romano and other financial
institutions has resigned on the ground
that the chamber of deputies made
valid the election of Aguglia, an op-
position deputy, contrary to the advice
o. the com mission. The weakness OF
the newly reconstructed cabinet is
aggravated by this resignation.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31

SEATTLE, Wash, May 3O.-The
steamer Haytien Republic, which has
been plying between Puget Sound and
Portland, Ore, has been seized here by
the United States customs officials.
The steamer is lying at anchor in the
bay, and the customs officers refuse to
say anything and will allow no one on
board. 1t is understood, however, that
the steamer has been seized on account
of her connection with the transporta
ton OF Chinese from British Columbin
10 Portland.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
sixty-four Persons Drowned.

LONDON, May 30.-During the fearful
cyclone which has been raging in the
bay of Bengal the ship Gcrmania was
lost and siXty-four men who were on
board the vessel LOST thor lives with
the ship. The British bark Rydalmere,
Capt Bernard, which recently sailed
from Calcutta, was swept high and dry
on shore near Diamond Harbon, on the
river Hoogly, thirtyfour miles below
Calcutta. The British ship Glengarry,
Capt Lindsay, was abandoned at sea,
but the crew was saved.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
Caught Many Seals.

SAN francesca, May 30.-Thc catch
OF the sealing fleet IN the Japan sea up
to May ) is reported from Hakodatc
The Allie Alger had /, 100 skins, the Her
man 27S, tho Agnes Mcdonald 500, and
the San Diego 90. All the others had
below fifty or none at all The schooner
Alexander has not been poaching, but
has been scaling with the other VI sels
in the Japan SEA, and at last accounts
had ,l02 skins.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
COL. kOCKHILL HONORED.
He Receives Gold Medal from the Royal
Geographic Society.

LONDON, May 3o.-At the Royal Geo
graphic Society meeting yesterday Mr..
Henry White, the American charge
d'atfaires, was handed gold medal to
present to Col. Woodville Rockhill, an
American. in recognition of the services
rendered by him to geography in his
hook, 1.-The Land of the Lamas."
In accepting the medal in behalf of
Col. Rockhill, Mr.. White explained that
the explorers engagements in WASH
ington prevented him from being pres
ena TO receive in person the distin-
guished honor conferred upon him by
the society.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
Told Her To Marry.

1t is to DR.. Won Bulow that is credited
the curt criticism of Il young and very
pretty girls effort on the pianofortc
When she had struggled through one
of Bach's fugues after the fashion of
the ambitious maiden aspirant, and
asked the great master what he would
advise her to do, Go and get mar
ried," he answered. as he turned away
and left her.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31

NV YORK, May a0.-It is stated
officially that outside OF Memphis and
Charleston and Mobile and Birmingham
security holders, the reception OF the
Richmond Terminal plan is more salts.
factory az the present time than the re-
organizers had expected it to be, and the
indications are ample now that the
Terminal plan will be success as it
stands without modification
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
Awards Declared worthless,

BERLIN, May 30.-The newspapers
here concur in declaring tn 81 he awards
3: the Chicago Worlds Fair will be
worthless, since the fair committee
have refused to give an international
composition to the system of awards.
The newspapers express regret that
German exhibitors were enticed to the
Worlds Fair.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
CHINESE FOR BRAZIL
Az Agent on the Way to China For IA Hun
lred Thousand Laborers.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 30 &C. A..
Carlisle, Of Brazil, has been in this city
this week on the way to China, where
he goes 10 engage 10000 Cinnamon for
the ctif g plantations of Brazil Since
the emancipation proclamation of Dom
Pe3ro ii IS impossible to get workmen
in Brazil. 1t is estimated that $40, 0OO,-
0c0 were lost to the government last
year through the inability of the
planters TO gather the berries. The
Brazilian government will aid the
scheme, and treaty will be negotiated
to protect the Cinnamon secured
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THEIR RESOLUTION COMMENDED.
Communicating Chief Palmer Says That
Farnham Post Was Right.

Farnhsm Post Was Right.
ALBANY, N. Y, May 3o.-Com mander-
in .Chiei John Palmer. of the G.. A. R.,
says that the members Of Farnham Post
are wrong.
at is not true" he said, that the
Grand Army requested the post to
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post to apologize for the violation of the
laws of tho order. This the post en-
phatcally refused TO do. II the mem
bers of Fsrnham Post had brought their
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tion believe they would have been
adopted Every soldier who rendered
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tanning the pension roll as roll OF
honor"
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31
Won oaprivi Receives Runyon.

BERLIN, May 30 Chancellor Won
Csprivi and Freiherr Marschall Won
Bieberstein, imperial minister of for
eign affairs, received the Hon. Theodore
Runyon, tho newly arrived American
minister, to-day
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31

SAEANAc LAKE, n. Y, May 30 =
Presiden, Clevelands cottage at Saranac
Inn has been completely renovated 1t
is stated upon good authority that Presi-
dent Cleveland will occupy it during
July.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31

VIENNA, May 30.-Twelve young noble
men have been arrested in Bale, PENN
sula of 1stria, for high treason They
are charged with having conspireu to
separate Trieste from Austria and annex
II to Italy.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-05-31

8o"clJ's American Newspaper Direo-
..Ey FUr 1891 puts the circulation OF THE
sD&NOKE TIMES above that OF any
ss;ssr paper In Southwest Virginia, and at
kaslS 1hsn that of all the other papero of
ac1DCRe combined.
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TIN TINES Is delivered in Roanoke, Salem and
yinton every morning oyicarriers for So cents per
ccOuth.
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W.T.. BARBOUR, ROANOKE, Vs.,

Ord TIoor, Rooms o and Z, Commercial
Bank Building,
Commission dealer in Stocks and Futures
ior Investment or speculation on margin
Reference, by permission, First National
Bank, Rome, Ga, and Commercial
National Bank, Roanoke, Va. 53l
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oRgsHAM's SUCCESSOR.
James G. Jenkins, tho New Judge of tn,
Seventh judicial Circuit.

Seventh Judicial, Circuit.
Judge James e. Jenkins. who has
been selected by President Cleveland
to succeed Judge Gresham as judge of
the Seventh judicial circuit. is in the
prime of life and activity. He was
born at Saratoga Springs, n. Y. Jan
uary is. 1854, his father being cousin
of Gen. Worth of Mexican war fame,
and his mother the daughter OF Chan
ccllor Reuben ii. Walworth. distin-
guisiicd jur;st of the Empire state. He
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