davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20
THE CURSE OF NEPOTIsM.

The curse OF nepotism, which
President Cleveland so emphatical-
" denounced recently, is becoming
great topic. 1t has honeycombed
the entire system of government at
Washington. In the Departments,
in the Cabinet, in the very halls of
Congress, it is rife-though neither
more nor less SO than when the Re-
publieans were in power. There
has never been a time when the
evil was more general and undis-
euised. Presidents Of the United
States have rarely INDUCED in nep-
otism, any attempt on their part to
adopt the practice giving rise to q
disturbance. When John Adams
appointed tive Of his relatives to Of
fee howl Of disapprobation at
once arose. A letter Of his is still
extant, in which he replies to a
cousin, Benjamin Adams: "You
know it is impossible tor me to APP
poiut my own relatives without
drawing forth a torrent OF obioquy.
Washington would never give an
office to any member Of his family.
Another OF the early Presidents
said that it was the first duty of the
cniet executive to secure the conf
dence OF the people, and their trust
in him was impaired when he show
ed official favor 10 = relation.
The latter-day Presidents have
not been SO particular. Andrew
Johnson employed his own son as
his private secretary, and President
Hayes did likewise for awhile. 1t
will be remem bered what a disturb
anee was created by General Grant
appointing certain relatives of his
IL Office while he was President.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

IDAHO has been very unfortunate,
a car load of her most valuable ex-
hibits caught fire and burned up
while en- route to the Worlds Fair
few days ago. Among the ar
ticles lost was sketch of the cele-
brated Great Shoshone Falls. 10x12
feet, which a skilled artist had
spent i've years preparing. The
painting was done by gentleman
acquaintance of the editor of THE
TRIBUNE who has had the pleasure
of gazing upon what would have
been, no doubt, the finest exhibit of
the kind from west of the Rockies.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

"PEoPLE are usually disappointed
when they meet editors and auth
ors" said citizen at postotfice.
"The averge member of society ex-
poets to find when he meets u
writer a person of striking appear
ance and exuberant speech-at
least, person who will be in his
personality what he is in his writ
ings. 1t may surprise you to know
that [ had pictured you as a young
man, something OF dude, or per-
haps I would better say, an asthe-
tic-a critic of the most profound
type, sir" The scribe smiled. "Of
course | knew the average writer
reserves his best observation and
choicest criticism for print-It is
his stock in trade. We're he to
ventilate his views of public ques
tions in the sh eet and at the club
room and wherever he could get
an audience, there would be but
little fresh and interesting matter
in his paper. l knew all this but
somehow | got the impression that
You were a very different looking
and appearing person from what
you are. OF course you will take
this IN good part, as l was once
the wieldcr of the pen myself.-Ex
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

INCOMPLETE as the Chicago Fair
will be on the opening day there
will be enough to satisfy any ordi-
nary mortal, and it will take weeks
TO see what will be on exhibition
there. Over Two thousand land
scape gardeners are now hard at
work putting the ground in a pre-
sentable shape, and there will be
some fine floral displays even by
the time President Cleveland press
es the button and declares the ex-
hibition open. Some time in May
will be good time to go.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20
NORTH STAR STATE EXHIBIT.
iCoNCLUDED FROM PAGK /.

ayers expect it to capture all honors in
this department.
Oregon mas adopted very practical
method of displaying the woods pro-
duced in that State There is now be-
ing erected at the Park house con-
structed entirely of Oregon woods. 1t
is to be ten feet square and nineteen
feet high, and will be surmounted by
an open cupola. The body of the struct-
ure wilt be Of yellow pine. The roof,
which will be of red cedar shingles, will
be supported by four Doric columns.
The columns are of maple and are
richly carved. The exterior will be
furnished with panel work obtaining
about all the woods of the State, among
which manzaniti, madrone, y ew, lau-
rel, myrtle, ash, maple, oak, balm,
spruce, fir, sugar pine, cherry, curly
maple and aldar. The.house will form
the Oregon pavilion in the Forestry
building.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

The severe attack made upon him
in the Senate by Charles Sumner
was largely devoted to criticism OF
these acts of nepotism. President
Harrison appointed his brother
United States Marshal for the State
of Tennessee. Mr.. Cleveland, when
he was President before, made his
cousin, Ben Folsom, consul at Shet-
field, England, and he still holds
the place, Mr.. Harrison having re-
tanned him, perhaps as a matter OF
courtesy.
Among the less prominent Off
cials opotism is practiced to much
greater extent. Vice-President
Stevenson has chosen as his private
secretary his son, Louis G. Steven
son, who will draw $2,400 per am
mum in that capacity for the next
four years. At the very outset OF
the last administration, Mr.. Blaine
excited much adverse comment by
appointing his son, Walker, to be
Solicitor of the Department Of
State. During the last Congress
Speaker Crisp's son held the posi-
ton of clerk at the Speakers desk
at $4,000 q year, Nearly every
member of the Senate who holds
the chairmanship of "a committee
has secured the appointment of a
son as clerk Of that committee, and
many Senators have other relatives
on the payroll of the Senate in one
position or another The same con-
dition exists on the House side OF
the capitol. The late Samuel }.
Randall made himself remarkable
by refusing TO countenance the en-
ployment of any Of his relatives IN
the service of the government. He
positively declined appointments
which were offered to him for his
brother and son.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

in bloom, and 800 pots Of pansies
French daises charmed the visitor,
while the cenararias still hold their
own share of admirers.
Fourteen Fort Rupert Indians from
Vancouver Island arrived last night.
They will erect house near the south
pond, which is nesr. the antbropologi-
cal building. During the far they will
manufacture baskets and other 'arti-
cles, and will illustrate Indian life and
toms during their sojourn.
The Norwegians will have quite IAN
extensive exhibit at the Fair, while
many Norwegian manufactures wiz
make fine displays.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

South CAROLINA will, after July
1st, be able to "play both ends
against the middle, with the cer-
tainty of winning every time. It
gets the profits on all the whiskey
sold, as we'll as the fines collected
from the proprietors Oft the '.jags'
brought on by too liberal con-
sumption of the same. But 'tis
poor business for State to be in.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

THE people of Arkansas manage
to maintain biennial Legislative bull
pens at the expense of $4,000 each,
the chief function of which is to op-
crate as u scare crow to frighten
inmi grafton and capital from the
state and grow scabs on the body
politic.-Howard County Press.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

THE man who struts around
proudly because he happens to own
the tiniest little bit off diamond
should be reminded that diamonds
enough to FIJI the cars of two long
coal trains have been taken from
the Cape fields alone in the last
twenty-five years.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

A MAN with a million dollars
that he has earned himself always
has to stay at home to see that no.
body gets away with it. Having
too much money is worse than hav-
ing none, if your only desire is to
see the pile grow.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

WITH three hundred dollars to
pay the expenses ef an educational
exhibit, and the lady manager OF
Arkansas exhibit paid $3.50 per
month, our State Legislature will
be fairly represented at the Worlds S
Fair.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

HENRY NJ. STANLEY accuses Ger
mars and Portuguese OF aiding and
encouraging theAfrican slave trade.
Henry ought to know something
about that subject, as he has been
accused of doing the same thing
himself.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

The attempt TO prove that blue,
and not green, is the proper color
for Ireland is not meeting with
much enthusiasm, and no wonder,
either, for what would then become
OF the best Irish songs.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

juror SHEER holds that corpora
tons are just as amienable to the
law as are labor unions his may
be startling to corporations, but it
will strike most people as cor
lnff
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20
Chaznberlain's Eye and glzin
Ointment.

A certain cure for Chronic Sore Eyes,
letter, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Old
Chronic Sores, Fever Sores, Eczema.
Itch, Prairie Scratches, Sore Nipples
and Piles. 1t is cooling and soothing.
Hundreds of cases have been cured by
it after all other treatment had failed.
25 cents per box.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

BROTHER J. D. HALEY of the
Progress will be the next post
master at Berryville. Jeff will
have plenty of work to do if he
undertakes to edit the mails along
side of his paper.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

In view of the tendency to tum-
bic down, whenever there is a hard
blow, of the hotels being erected
for visitors to the Worlds Fair, it
might not be a bad idea TO stick to
tents.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

THE loeked-out printers of a
Paris newspaper lynched the fore
man, who had been instrumental
in bringing about the trouble,
Over here they would have started
an opposition paper, which is
peaceabIe, if not ALWAYS profitable.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

The spring elections indicate
well, we are not certain what, ex-
cept that the way of the transgres-
sor is hard, particularly if he voted
the wrong ticket.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

IF the fellows who write the
financial articles would always fol
low the statement "m.,ney is easy"
with "to get rid of they would hit
the bulls-eye of truth.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

THE appointed Senators should
either be given their seats or re-
fused them. 1t is unfair to the three
States that are only half represent
ed in the Senate to keep the matter
hanging until ncxt winter.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

WITH potatoes a half dollar each
and tobacco SIC plug it is not to
be wondered at that miners are
hard to get even at $40 a day in
A laska.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

GONE million old-fashioned moth
ers are wanted, says prominent
preacher. Aren't old-fashioned
fathers wanted just in exactly the
same proportion.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

IF talk will keep the cholera
away the country is safe; but it is
just as we'll to do a little cleaning
up for appearance sake.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

WHY does Maxwell deserve CEN
sure for doing what Clarkson was
praised for? Our Republican ex-
changes needn't all answer at once.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

MANY Persons are broken
down from overwork or household cares.
Browns Ers,aI BitterS Rcbuilds the
system, aids digestion, removes excess Of bile
and cures malaria. Get the genuine.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

IF Bishop Perry be right in his
assertion that we owe nothing to
Columbus what an awful lot of
trouble we are taking for nothing
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20
DIRECTORY.
STATE OFFICERS.

L a L
C2EsFo95 sseFea5ry of State Y y F1ah9ssd
Auditor y, - d, - N.iiIe.
Treasurer IL ID; Ht0li.tfe loi
Attorney General y 4, Sialhe t
State Laud Commissioner 7: D. Myers
SuDt Pub instruction y II. sum M
ChefJustice supreme Court 5: r. GoekTlm' SbIiar
Com Agriculture w. G. Ninchenheller.
wv e Hemingway,
b Battle,
Associate Justices 5 r Hughes,
NJ II. sandles.
UNITED STATES SENATOR'S.
yames II. Berry Bentonyllle'
q James II. Jones asnhssoh'
JUDICIAL.
vndoe E S. Mcdaniel
j "ose HFSs. Attorney j n Tiimon
EGISLATURE.
Sese6attqorr. o,+ativa II 4 G. : po1nor. SSneg.
EefIegGaIsafrs fhegsIataTe meets biennay, on second
Monday inJanuary.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Judge j. /. Worthington
~ Circuit Clerk j > haPes.
County Clerk + fahc9ef.
Sheriff x naples.
Assessor J. s. Shipman.
Surveyor =. - olinsoB.
L0roner r. W NlnHela.
GOuuJY kAdhhtaSi -.
4~s@Tax collecting closes April 10.
r. Assessments Of real estate bennially, and
personal property annually.
COURTS.
Circuit court conveneg LIST Mondays in Feb and
" Aug. in Western District and 3rd Mondays
in Feb and Aug in Eastera District
County Courtlst Mondays in Jan, April,
PTobate Gourt-Easteru D. 3rd Mondays in Jan.
April July and Oct.- Western p 4th Mondays
in Jan. a pril, July aud Oct.
TOWNSHIP.
Justice Of the Peace W; A y Butt Butt.
LODGES.
GREEN FoREsT LoDGG No. 404 F. 6 A. NJ.
" Meets on Saturdays on or betere the full
moon Of each month G. j GRIM, W M
W. A. BUTT Sec.
CHURCH SERVICES.
ME. CuuRou souTu-services every fourth
GA Sunday and aturday night before. Rev. X.
s. Yanzandt. Pastor.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20
NOTES.

Nine thousand sand two hundred
people visited the Flower Show
Sunday. There were 5000 calceolarias
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20
NFWsPkPER LAWS.

g-z=Adverti sing agents or strangers who desire
to place an advertisement III this paper must ac-
company their orders with the CASH
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20

gGy@All local advertising is inserted
and charged for accordingly until order
ed out.
The Green Forest tribune., 1893-04-20
EGISLATURE.

Cenator A. r casey.
F-Legislature meets biennially, on second
Monday IN nJanuarY.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-01-25

at time of year when Florida farmers
have little else to sell, thus giving them
the money so much needed to carry them
through the long, dull summer.
Something of this kind seems to he
suggested at this time, when the future
OF the orange seems to be so uncertain.
Indeed it is an absolute certainty that
under the most favorable circumstances
there must be an occasional failure of the
orange crop as we'll as of other crops.
Hence we always see farmers who raise
their own pork, pay attention to stock
and put in a variety of crops, growing
well to do and independent.
''No country is better adapted to a
large variety of cropsRnd stock raising
especially sheep7sttihaan this portion OF
Florida. We shoalaaot fall into the idea
that nothing can be raised on our lands
but oranges, and that we must get our
wooden clothes and mutton from the
North and West. We have the soil and
the climate, let us add the industry, and
we shall have something coming in every
month of the year for which we can get
money"
We have serious doubts rs to the pol
ICY of pasturing the sheep in the orange
grove. and certainly would advise the
greatest caution in move of this kind,
but there are countless thousands of
acres Of fine pasture land in South Flor
ida upon which the animals could live at
all seasons.
We have heard of inexperienced men
who have attempted to raise sheep in
South Florida, and who failed to make it
profitable, but others in the same section
who succeeded, proved that the failures
we're more on account of inexperience and
mismanagement than anything else.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-01-25
THE Tallahassee Floridian speaks as

THE Tallahassee Floridian speaks as
follows OF the good points and prospects OF Flor
ida tobacco. There is certainly prospect that
in time the Florida tobacco will have good
market The flavor OF the leaf is peculiar to
ITSELF I should call it an agreeable flavor. 1t
burns superby, but experts tell me. and that is
also my own observation, that it can also be sue
cessfully employed only in a combination with
other tobaccos won'tundertake to enumerate
or suggest possible combinations, bnt know
that several manufacturers, are doing very we'll
with goods OF which Florida leaf is a part.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-01-25

fruitful of more than the average amount
of success and profit. OF course there are
disappointments,f failures and drawbacks,
but we perhaps have as few of these as
any other country.
The Halifax Journal discusses the mat
ter in a sensible manner. 1t says:
'"The farmer at the North who loses a
crop of wheat by frost, freeze or rust does
not sit down and howl and abandon
growing wheat. The man who loses his
crop of potatoes from the rot or the raw
ages of the potato bug does not put on
sackcloth and spend his days in weeping,
and declare that potatoes cannot be
grown in Wisconsin Or New Jersey. The
farmer of Dakota docs not abandon
farming because his wheat is ruined by
81 asshoppers, nor does the farmer OF
Kansas quit raising corn if he loses a
crop from drouth, or if his fields OF wav
ing green are parched and scorched in a
day by the hot winds from off the desert
sands.
"Florida has never yet chronicled
total failure of the orange crop, and there
has not been a year when the Halifax
country has failed to furnish it's quota of
the golden fruit.
''The cold has been severe this year,
many oranges have been badly damaged,
many slightly injured and many more
not injured at all. Thousands OF boxes
have been marketed at good prices, and
thousands more will be sold at good fig
ures. There has not been q year since
oranges were grown in Florida that
orange growing has notpaid a much bet
ter percentage OF profit, unless it was in
1886, than is paid by the growing of
grain in other States, and orange grow
ing will continue to pay better
profit than almost any other industry,
where it is intelligently pursued"
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-01-25
SHEEP RAISING IN SOUTH FLOR
IDA,

The cattle industry OF our State is not
only one of the Oldest but likewise one of
the most important of it's many enter
prses. Vast fortunes have been made in
cattle in the past, and are still being
made, notwithstanding the business is
conducted in a very crude and primitive
manner. No attention whatever is paid
to the matter of breeding. The cattle are
allowed to run almost wild on the range
winter and summer, and perhaps the
owner sees them only at rounding up
time or when sale is to be made.
That the business thus loosely con-
Quoted proves profitable, shows that the
State has peculiar facilities for the indus
try-facilities that perhaps are not sur
passed by any other State.
Sheep raising has also yielded hand
some revenue to those engaged in the
business in West Florida, and it has been
frequently suggested that this business,
in connection with orange growing, would
yield very satisfactory profit. The
Palatka Advertiser of recent date, in
discussing sheep raising in the orange
belt of Florida, says:
lone of the industries that might be
made very profitable in Florida is sheep
raising. There is plenty of proof TO be
had that sheep thrive here as we'll as
in any of the Western States, and the
quality and quantity OF our wool is equal
in every respect to that OF other States
Zone of the advantages of this business
would be that if the vegetable Or fruit
crops should fail from any cause the
farmer, with flock OF sheep, has some
thing to fall back on. Large herds of
them might be raised by every orange
grower. They may be allowed to pasture
in groves without injury to the trees. In
fact they are an advantage to them.
'The product from the sheep comes in
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-01-25
PERSEVERANCE ESSENTIAL TO
SUCCESS.

OF course the old idea that everything
succeeds in Florida at all times and all
seasons. and that there were no failures
and disappointments, has long since
been relegated to the shades of oblivion,
together with the calamity liar and the
boomer.
What every sensible man claims for
Florida is the existence of favorable con-
ditions, which if properly utilized will be-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-01-25
Imp ortant to Tobacco Growers.
TINE TO SOW SEED

TINE TO SOW SEED
In Western and Middle Florida the
best time to SOW seed is from the first of
January to the first of March. Sow a
bed or two every week if large crop is
contemplated; but the object of the
last beds is to secure young. vigorous
plants for re-setting the missing places.
LOCATION AND PREPARATION OF SEED
BEDS.
Select moist, not wet place, if pos
sibIe, on margin of stream or lake. II
none, then low, moist place, not too
far from water TO haul, if need be, to
water seed beds. The ground should
be rich, virgin soil. Some close, firm
muck beds make the best sort of seed
beds when burnt over and ditched
around so as to prevent water from
standing on the bed. 80
Too much care cannot be exercised
in preparing seed beds. The surest plan is
to rake off the leaves andlay green poles
alb nut five feet apart, then place brush
"OON WV AAANAAAE/ +OVCT the
poles on the ground land then put on heavy
sticks of wood at right angles across the
poles and brush, MASKING the latter as
fiat as possible, the object being to burn
the ground and notthe air above. The
poles l"skids'' serve to elevate the
burning wood a few inches above the
surface, admitting air (oxygen) freely
to secure good burn to kill all grass
and weed seeds and burrowing grubs.
and the ashes serve as the best fertili-
yer. After about an hour or two, when
the large wood is not quite consumed.
pull same with hook or hoe to the mar.
gin of the bed, and so extend same.
Some day, if possible, dig up the bed
we'll with hoe (not plow), and be care
full not to turn the burnt soil and surface
upside down. Then with prony-hoe
and rake remove roots, ETC., pulverized
and level surface.
QUANTITY OF SEED AND HOW TO SOW
One heaped tablespoonful of good seed
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-01-25
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1898.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.

FARM, GROVE AND GARDEN-Orange kCult-
ure-Following in Natures FoOtsteps........ 1880
Strawberry Culture in Putnam County; The
Cassava and It's Many Uses. so
The Florida Phosphate Industry in 1892; A
Cultivation OF the Cassava; Rough Handling
OF Oranges 81
Oranges in Paraguay SO
Packing and Marketing Fruit; Law
Against Razor-backs.
FLORAL-The Cinnamon Tree;I Who Wants
Cinnamon Tree; Roses; A Floral Chat That
Secret Rose Primer. 81
E0ITORIAL-The Freeze and It's Effects; Per-
severance Essential to Success; Sheep Rails
ing in South Florida; Important to Tobacco
Growers 90
The Orange 81
HOUSEHOLD--Frost-b (poem); Editorial
Notes. Gravies; Tea; Javelle. Water; Cure for
the Blues and CrOssness; Dress for Stout
POULTRY--F eeding Chickens; Poultry Culture
South; Poultry Profits ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SO
LITERARY-Story, "The Californians ......... As
FLORIDIANA........... AZ