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to doing one thing to-day and something
quite unlike it to-morrow-building up
party theories or purposes and then
tearing these down to substitute other
party theories or purposes quite different
if not antagouistic in character.
Legislation is a sort of dead weight
or useless burden that the farm
er is compelled often to carry when he is
no wise able thus to do. How to eman-
cipate the farmer from this thraldom is
very perplexing problem indeed. To
set forth the situation as clearly as [ can
is all this article is intended to accom-
plish. Looking back over long time of
experience it seems only too evident for
reasonable doubling that legislation in
this country has Handicapped the farm
er's more than floods and drouths and
fires, all combined have done. Farm
ers, let us take council what we can do.
..-.. ----. A. F.rBoYCE-
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we should know our competitors; know
what they can do, and so stimulate us to
higher attachments that in the end we
may not be left. No, Mr.. Com Il Isl
neither you or [ who are the fint d39
of the merits of the California or Flcs-
ida orange but the great co a3af
world. [ hope however they viii uro,do
ON Florida's as being the best. Ii my in
terest was in California [ might wish
otherwise. r. w. PIERCE.
Sunset Hill, Fla.
We have not the space to publish tt e
etter of Mr.. Burgess enclosed. He practi-
cally substantiates the statements made
in letter OF Mr.. Pierce in ref .rence to
the Ruby orange and lemon business in
ifornia-EDITOR7
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-10-11
For THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIsT.
Mr.. Pierce and California Again.

/ see in the AGRICULTURIST of August
80, Mr.. JnO. Cornell has made some COM
ments on my article Of August 2. He
apparently seemed surprised at some OF
my statements with regard to the Ruby
orange and the lemon business in Cali
fornia. If Mr. Council will notice [ did not
mention Riverside especially but said |
WIS surprised to find go much being done
in the lemon business in the State but as
| had got the impression that saw quite
a number of lemon groves about River
side, some more than Mr.. Council men
tiOns, [ wrote Messrs. Burgess and Frost
asking them to give me something def
mite, which Mr.. Burgess has done and
not wishing any one to think that have
misrepresented. send Mr.. Burgess let
ter for publication, thinking he will have
no objections. Remarking however, that
I think Mr.. Burgess very conservative in
his estimates as see he makes no men,
ton of a ten acre lemon grove OF his own
just coming into bearing. can also verify
his statement with regard to the amount
OF Ruby orange trees in the State. My
books will show that alone have shipped
there more than $4,000 trees and buds
Of this variety (mostly trees) and have
no idea how many have been sent by
others. can say as Mr.. Cornell said of
Judge Brown, have six lemon trees but
wish l did not have but one, not but
what I think as I always have that lemon
growing will pay better than oranges if
rightly managed but you will want trees
enough to make it pay to handle them
properly, to get the most money out OF
them. I have been accused by some as not
being loyal to Florida in writing about
California as did, and to such [ would
say that it is because of the interest take
in our State that write as do, so that
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The Farmer a Sufferer from Legis-
lation.
Farming, in it's broadcast sense, is an
industry that thrives best when legis-
lation neither attempts to foster it nor to
discriminate in favor of other lines of
industry. Unfortunately, the history of
the past, both elsewhere as we'll as in
this country, shows general tendency
of law makers to foster certain branches
ofindustry whereby wealth might be in
creased and taxes more readily obtained.
If we will but sift out the chaff, or pre-
tense, SO invariably set forth, We will
quite surely find the real intent of such
legislation has been to obtain larger
sums OF taxes without exciting open
hostility.
Farmers are the most available class
of workers upon which governments can
prey, and for this reason the farmer is
found mainly toiling in what might De
fitly called the background.
The Farmers Alliance movement had
for it's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. from
thraldom, through unity of action"
But it had as it's purpose of action the
worst error conceivable-"Special legis-
lation for the farming interest" This
insidious idea had become so deeply
rooted and gilded oyer that the farmers
were, like others have been, captivated
by it and thus easily led to the altar
where victims are bled. The farmer
needs no protecting legislation, for if
left free be can protect himself. The
farmer needs no fostering legislation,
for this is sure to cost him far more than
the same is worth.
A good illustration of this can be found
in our government experimental stations
Seed and plant Observation-Disclosures
tons, etc, etc. All of which cost the
farmers from two to ten times all the
gain they derive thereby; not that these
sources of information and distribution
are wothless in fact and truth but be-
cause we get the same sooner in other
ways; notably larger through the agri-
cultural journals of the country. Now
there is no sound sense in our having to
pay SO largely for what we have already
obtained from other sources.
Legislation is expensive at best, it is
quite useless if it costs more than it is
worth, or if takes from Peter to pay
over to Paul that which each one had an
equal right unto, his own earnings.
An entire freedom, as to all industrial
pursuits before the law, is the proper
ground for the farmer to take. This
leaves him with his own row to hoe and
entangles him with no other mans mis-
fit occupation.
Two distinct ideas ought to be clearly
fixed in the mind of every farmer-so
far as legislation is concerned-One is
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that no legislation as to industrial pur-
suits should be countenanced, and the
other is that the currency of the country
ought to remain rs fixed a quantity as
the salt in the ocean.
Legislation has time and again sought
to do something with the currency prob
lem land generally it has simply disturbed
matters causing worse condition than
before. This is all that legislation can
be expected to accomplish, in any f.
nancial sense-for our law makers are
no wise qualified to solve problem, so
little understood by our wisest men even.
To play with fire is almost sure to invite
some harm from burn. To tinker
away at mending money matters is not
more wise than mending All old kettle or
roof, new hole comes tomorrow near
by the one We mended yesterday.
Congress is now in session to try and
mana our rnnnoy rna+tA~e: i+H a-l;ls~~~.
tons have shown the clearest OF in
competencyto grapple with the problem.
it's chief work will probably be to simply
undo that which was done three years
back July 1S9O) and then give up the
Job as too big to master. Quite likely
this is we'll, for no legislation is almost
sure to be better than any probable leg
islation we hear spoken of. The farmer
does not need any increase of currency
for the more of currency we have the
more the farmer pays for all that he
wants of other mems products or labor
and when he sells his own he gets no
more than before. In every exchange
he thus makes it take from him more of
labor to obtain what he requires than it
should with proper and equitable vol
ume of currency. A fixed or stable
volume of currency enables the farmer
to forecast, as best he may be able so to
do, the cost of production and the prob
able income from what surplus he may
haye to dispose of upon the market.
Could we but eliminate all the paper
money from circulation, or perhaps what
would be better, compel gold or silver
reserve fund to be kept equal in value
Tor nominal amount) to the paper issued
so that every paper dollar simply rep
resented specie dollar held for it's full
redemption when it might be required,
we could then more safely calculate the
value of property ahead, and not be 80
often subject to losses from a sadly
fuctuating volume of currency such as
has been the farmers lot these many
years gone by. But whoever believes
that such sound policy, or financial
ground to stand upon, will eyer Re
adopted by our future Tor presently law
makers has more of hopefulness, or
genuine simplicity in his personal make
up, than will be considered as highly
creditable to him. Our law makers are
too fond of legislation-too much given
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-10-11
Green Oranges Again.

From various points in Florida come
rennrts of green ORANGES hein0 rnshed
into the markets. Many OF such ship
ments are made by growers through the
opportunities of unreliable commission
men who agree to put the fruit, upon
arrival, through some process of color
ing and thus supplement the work OF
nature by giving it q ripe appearance.
No intelligent grower should be mIsled
by such men into the indiscretiOn Of
forwarding green fruit, as the simple
fact of coloring the orange does not rem
edy, beyond mere appearance, the actual
condition of the fruit, which is thrown
upon the market and represented as first
class Florida product and purchased in
good faith by dealers and consumers
who, upon investigation, find the fruit
fiat or sour and insipid, and not fair
sample OF what it would be, if left upon
the trees a week Or two longer. The re-
suit is our fruit grows into bad repute,
dealers and consumers unconscious OF
the deception practiced upon them, be-
come shy,o the product, thinking that
the doctored article is as good as any
grown in the State, and thus the market
is crippled for the entire aeason When
will or ers wa4e CO - their own ID
terests Orlando Reporter
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The worst cases of Chronic Catrrah in
the head yield to DR.. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy. So certainis it that it's makers
offer $500 reward for an incurable case.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-23
-
MlLllONAlRES' HOBBIES.
iiaron Rothschiid and the Late Jay Gould
spent Fortunes This Way.

In reply to the question OF VINO
spends the most money on hoooles an
English writer says ms almost
necessarily, is one OF the great million
aires Of the world, who can not
only afford to have h'ooy' ouo can
indulge 1T to the fullest extent regard.
less OF expense. Two men, one SUN
living, the other recently deceased,
have been preeminent IN spending
large fortunes upon their respective
hobbies. The hobby OF laron hoths-
ehlld, OF Irlng' liertioroShlre' -
the accumulation OF WORKS OF art OF
almost every description ana 'he estap-
Hshrnent OF one OF tile nileaI museum
collections IN the world. ms resi-
aences az lr'hg ana III Town are oo'h
nI4'o WIN PIopan4J tilc HueSV pant
lngs ana works OF art IN tte possession
OF private ihulVlouai III tilis country
on III the world; Whl'e ms museum,
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The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-23
WEDDING TOUR IN A BALLOON.
A Wild and Fatal Adventure In the
Italian Alps In October.

Nine. Charbonnet, who went in n
balloon on her wedding tour and was
thrown out. with her husband and his
friend, in the Italian Alps on October
II. last, arrived in Turin a few days
later. Nine. Charbonnet says that the
balloon struck the glacier at three
o'clock in the afternoon. The car
went to pieces and the three occupants
were thrown out, but We're not badly
hurt. They passed the night in the
snow and ice among the Cairamella
peaks, their only shelter being tent
which they made from what remained
of the balloon.
When the next day broke they began
the descent of the mountain. They
had gone hardly mile when Char
bonnet disappeared in crevasse.
Ponta and Nine. Charbonnet wandered
over the glacier during the rest of the
day. In the evening Ponta fell and
broke his leg. The couple passed a
second night in the snow and ice, and
then Nine. Charbonnet went alone
down the mountain to a hut, where
She induced two guides to go back
after her husband and ponta. Char
bonnet's dead body, with skull and
limbs crushed, was found at the bot
tom of the crevasse. Ponta was un.
conscious, but revived after he wa
taken to the hut
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ODD CAUSE OF A FIRE.
Suns Rays. Shining Through Water
Bottle, IGnites "A Macintosh.


Bottle, IGnites n Macintosh.
Proof of the unusual heat of the
suns rays in the month of October,
says the London Telegraph, is given by
Il discovery made by Inspector Moran,
of the S division of the Metropolitan
police, which satisfactorily discloses
the cause of mysterious fire in the
Tre-wnt Industrial home for girls at
Hampstead Two or three days ago
bed in one of the rooms on the second
floor was discovered alight, and extn-
guished with some difficulty. The or
igin of the fire was mystery, and in
brigade officials were consulted, the
former because it was feared to be the
work of an inccndiary.
No satisfactory result was obtained
at the time as the outcome of the in
vestigations, but Inspector Moran, one
of the officers engaged in the inquiry,
was seized with Il happy thought"
while afterward bordering over tho
occurrence. Throughout the whole of
Thursday the sun had been shining
very brightly at Hampstead, and he
| full water bottle had been standing in
| the room between the open window
and macintosh on the wall. The
idea occurred to him that the suns
rays, shining through the water in tho
| bottle, might have set fire to the mack
intosh, causing the latter in turn to
| ignite the bedding. Accordingly, at
about noon on Friday, when the sun
was again shining brightly, though not
| so powerfully as on the previous day,
he proceeded to the house and expert.
mented with water-bottle and a
macintosh, The result clearly dem.
onstrated that the fire had been caused
by the suns rays being concentrated
by the water upon the macintosh, the
burning liquid substance from which
had fallen on the bed and set it on fire
The removal of the idea OF incendiar
ism was great consolation to the Off
GERS of the institution.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Archmologists and antiquarians in
their writings frequently refer to
the manufacture of flint arrow heads,
etc, as a lost art" that is great
mistake. The art is probably lost to
the Indians because they have no use
for it. The stone implements have
given place to those of iron and steel,
and the rifle and revolver have sup
planted the flint ak and arrowhead.
The art of making them is not lost,
however. There are many collectors
of relics of the aborigines who have
studied the art of working in flint and
have become adopts In Chattanooga
a gentleman has become so proficient
in the art that he has not only manu-
-faclured magnificent specimens of ar
row-heads from flint, but also from the
far more brittle obsidian, and even
from ordinary glass.
What A Prominent Insurance man Says
H NJ. Blossom, senior member OF
H. M. Blossom & Co Pr n. Sd St,
St, Louis, writes: had been left with
very distressing cough, the result Of
influenza, which nothing seemed to re
lieve, until took Billiards. Horehound
Syrup One bottle completely cured
rue. sent one bottle to my sister
who had a severe cough, and she ex
perien ced immediate relief. always
Recommend this syrup to my friends
John Cranston, 909 Hampshire
street, Quincy, Ills writes: | have
found Billiards. Horehound Syrup
superior to any other cough medicine
have ever known. 1t never disap
points. Price 500. Sold by Rishe
& Co., Waco, J. B. Cornish Eas
Waco, Texas.
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STARTLED THE ENGINEER.
The Practical Joke Played by Means of
Dummy on the Track.

A cruel joke was perpctrated on the
engineer of the Louisville & Nashville
passenger train which reached this
CITY late the other afternoon, says the
louisville Courier-J Journal. Several
miles from the city the engineer was
mortified to see what appeared. to be
the form of man asleep on the track
short distance ahead
He frantically applied the airbralles
and blew the whistle in short, quick
jerks, i'll the hopes of awakening the
sleeping man. Immediately heads be-
gan to pop out of the car windows, and
rs the supposed man in front was seen
upon the track they We're quickly
jerkcd back to escape seeing the sick
cning accident, which it appeared
could not be averted. AS the engine
passed over the object the engineer
and fireman closed their eyes and fan
cied they could feel the wheels pass
over the body.
When the train was finally stopped
passengers and trainmen hurried back
to the spot, where the dark object
could still be seen, but now cut into
several pieces. A search was already
started for doctor, when it was dis
covered that the mutilated remains
were. those of n dummy, with a pump
kin for head. The figure had on a
complete suit of clothes, and at a dis
lance had most natural appearance.
The men then returned, much dis
gusted but greatly relieved, TO the
train. which reached the city slightly
behind time.
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A QUEENS EQUlPAGE.
The Favorite Team Of England'3
Stout Sovereign.
Her Majesty Has Grown So Rotund tn
Her Old Age That Sho Prefers "a Low
Pony Phacton for Gen
eral Sc.

However much England may have
fallen off in other respects there Is one
thing in which it assuredly retains its
supremacy namely, the number. the
variety. the comfort and the beauty of
It's carriages of one kind and another.
They range from every kind of coach
md drag down to the most diminutive
of pony carriages and carts, and it is
perhaps among the latter that tho
greatest ingenuity and amazing dis
.,similarty are to be observed. Especial
" rich in convcyances Of this charac-
ter are the stables of the queen and OF
the prince Of Wales. While it is i'm
possible TO conceive anything more
dainty and elegant than the littlo
phacton which the princess OF Wales
is accustomed to drive about Sandring-
ham, the acme Of comfort and con-
venicnce Is assuredIy embodied in the
low pony trap used by Queen Victoria
to take her daily airing ut Windsorand
Osborne.
Her majesty has inherited the ten
dcncy to obesity peculiar to the mem
bers of the royal house Of Hanover,
and this, together With the rheumatic
ailment from which she suffers, rem
dcrs loconotion a matter of some diff
Guilty and the use Of carriage almost
Imperative
1t is difficult to realize that the lit
tie, stout old lady whose stature is
considerably under five feet, was once
upon time famous for her horscman-
snip OF that she bears any relation 30
the young and elegant queen, whose
appearance on horseback, with her
shapely figure arrayed in the scarlet
and gold-braided jacket of colonel of
the guards, and Il plumcd hat on her
head, aroused so much enthusiasm on
the part of her soldiers at certain
memorable review at Aldcrshot short
" after the establishment of the great
military camp there.
As whip Queen Victoria has never
attained any fame, differing therein
from the princess of Wales and from
the lattcr's daughter, the duchess of
Fife, both Of whom arc clever four-in-
hand drivers. indeed. the princess of
Wales is almost as much at home with
her four-in-hand team OF ponies as is
her cousin, the queen of the Belgians,
while one OF the most charming and
welcome presents offered to the
duchess of York on the occasion of her
marriage was fourin-hand team Of
ponies and diminutivc phaeton in
keeping with their size. given by Lord
Vernon, whose wife is daughter OF
Francis Lawrence, of New York
American roads are as a rule so bad,
says the New York Tribune, that the
very low pony carriage SO much used
by women in England could hardly be
made available here. Where roads
permit they should certainly be adopt
ed by timid feminine drivers, for they
are among the most luXuriously com
Portable of vehicles, and it is very easy
to get out of them at the approach o
any danger rendering the use of ones
own feet desirable.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-23

The handsomest variety of white
canvas, brown canvas, Russia calf and
dongola ladies low qusrters are shown
at Sleeper, Clifton ~ Dukes.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-23

DR.. Reilly treats only the eye, ear,
nose and throat. Glasses adjusted
from scientific measurement. Office
over First National bank.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-23

Bless tina baby's laughing eyesl
Jackson Will photosra oh the prize.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-23

A large assortment and a new
line of guns, rifles and pistols at
Ambold's.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-23

On your way to the opera, drop into
Dismuke's and get box OF Bon
Bons. Plow's are the best.
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.

Advertsing.in this column charged . n
rate ofone cent per word for each insertion
Cash must accompany the order, except whei
ordered BY q REGULAR advertiser.
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Three cheers for Waco for hav-
ing such firm as Blackshear q
Co.
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Phone Lacy for McAliSter Coal.

To our lady trends: Is your
hair falling out? If it is, 60 to
Oismuke and get bottle Of "47ll."
lie will Guarantee To etop it.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-23

Blsckshear q Co. are selling out
80, 900 samples of holiday goods.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-23

No. 4 Is Egan's coal yard.
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No. 4 Big Muddy Coal.
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-23

tA flrst.class / otel drummcr
w Apply at this office 1915 It
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" ANrED-Everybody to send &c stami
w to The Climax Chemicsl Co., and get
free box of Climax pills that cure ali bilious
ness and torpid liver. Address p. o. BOX Az
AGO, Texas 3-l6 II
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-12-23

My love IS pretty as the rose,
AS Jackson's photographs disclose.
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WANTED.

\ATANTED-Po Position by good all around
w man; best reference. Address G. B.
NKwS office.
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EOR SAIE-A 60-Horse Power Engine.
1 Apply at the Egau Coal Yard. l2.i-tf
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be had with or without rooms.
ID southern exposure. large and conmodops
Terms reasonable. apply at corner OF Egth
and Clay streets. 7-lOU
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EOR RENT-One seven room house on
1 North Fourth street. Apply TO 7. A.
Blair. 7-ll ~