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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-16
NOW HEAR THIS.

There is newspaper somewhere In
the wild and woody West, called the
Register. 1t is published in the great
State of Iowa and is set down in the
Newspaper ANIMALS as the Iowa State
Journal The editor of this paper, per-
haps, has been in Florida, and perhaps
he has not at any rate, he presumes to
write the following and then to publish
it in his paper:
"It is astonishing how any man of
sane mind, as capabilities to discern the
first principles requisite to success,
could ever indorse Florida as fitting
place for the permanent residence for
any man, or that it had any elements
which sre requisite for successful farm
ing of any kind. No country is fit for
farming which does not produce grass,
corn or wheat. The fact that it pro-
duces an uncertain crop of the semi
tropical fruits, which can never be
made profitable, sets some silly heads
crazy, leaving just enough gush in
them to write back here the most ex-
travagant statements of the productive
ness of that State, and that it is a per-
feet paradise Ana the least particle of
common sense would teach them that
thereis not word of truth in all of what
they write"
We have to thank the editor of the
Register, first of all for his information
about Florida producing neither corn,
grass or wheat. We have not the least
idea where the aforesaid editor obtained
his information, but we thank him for
it just the same. If, as the Iowa editor
says, it is true that Florida is not fit
ting place for the permanent residence of
any man, many people have made sad
mistake during the past few years, as
the percentage of increase in the popu-
lation of Florida during that period far
exceeds that of the State in which the
Register is issued.
Some people are so wrapped up in
the mselves that they Can see no good in
anybody or anything else. Now the
Register m an lives in Iowa and he thinks
there is no place but Iowa. He sees
corn, wheat and grass growing and, of
course, imagines that any place that
does not produce corn, wheat and grass
is a mighty poor place. Iowa does not
produce semi tropical fruits, hence any
place that does has gone to the DENIM
ton bowwows, or is soing there at a
rapid gait.
This is the fallacious reasoning of a
narrow minded class of people, and
from the item printed above, our readers
will readily see that the Iowa man is
still in "his class"
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BARLOW.


few years and the freeze had made.
The phosphate industry around Barlow
gave it quite an impetus and the pros
pect was good for large city. The de-
cline in the price of phosphate and the
shutting down of mines put check on
this, not, however, before many good
and substantial Improvements had been
made which makes Barlow one of the
best towns in South Florida. Nearly all
of her streets have been graded and paved
good system of waterworks put in and
many other things done to make Barlow
a pleasant place in which to live and
good business point
The freeze made big change in the or
ange business but it has greatly devel-
oped others. While there we saw loads
of baled hay going through the streets.
This hay was made of crab grass and
beggar weed grown on land that was
planted to vegetables in the spring and
also from between the rows of orange
trees. Abundance of corn and sweet
potatoes have also been raised by the
heretofore orange growers about Barlow
so that the outside grain merchant has |
no hold on Barlow and vicinity Talk |
| ing with grain merchant there he
said"w used to sell two carloads of hay
and car each of corn and oats week,
but since this years crop has been har-
vested we have sold no corn to speak of,
occasionally bale of hay to town
people and a few sacks of oats. The
railroads are not only suffering from
want of outgoing freight but the incom-
ing traffic is being greatly reduced" The
farmers have also discovered that
they can take some of the $3.50"
cattle turn them into a beggar
in prime condition without being stall
fed, and realize from SIS to 500 for them.
The groves about Barlow are doing
nicely and have made splendid growth.
Mr.. VIM. Lyle who is one of the most
enterprising growers, is making every
thing count that will bring in returns
from the SOIL Besides fattening cattle
he is fattening hogs and claims to be
making profitable business of it. His
groves are universally doing we'll and
some of them are rapidly loosing their
unsightly appearance and are becoming
''things of beauty" In company with
Mr.. Lyle we visited the Hancock
Grove" about three miles west of Bar
tow. This grove is on the south of Lake
Hancock, and passed through the two
freezes and only lost the outer small twigs
and today the trees are loaded with fine
fruit. The lake and a small strip OF
cypress trees so modified the tempera-
ture during the freeze that the trees did
not drop all their leaves. The county
commissioners of Polk county have
bought this crop to send to the Atlanta
Exposition. 1t will not be necessary for
them to say that it is the entire crop of
Polk county or that it is the only grove
so favored by protection that old Boreas
did not get his death grip on it.
The groveof Mr.. A. d. Alderman while
nearly lost in beggar weed is coming"
as well as any budded grove that we
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| the same position, practically, as the
gigantic trusts Of the coun try. They
are monopolists; they set the price for
their product, and the consumer must
pay this price or do without, for there is
no ompetitlon-tbere is no other mar
ket in which the commodity can be
purchased.
Cuba has been considered the only
country on the globe where the genuine
Cuba tobacco could be grown. By Cuba
tobacco we do not especially mean any
tobacco that is raised in Cuba, but use
the term as descriptive of certain
grade-the tobacco from which is made
the world famous Havana cigars. Cuba
has monopolized this industry hereto
fore, but recent developments Justify the
belief that in the not distant future
Florida will be strong competitor, and,
so far as known, her only competitor.
If Cuba tobacco can be grown in Flor
ida at all--and there now seems no doubt
of tit can be grown almost anywhere
in tie State. This will m axe the crop a
general one, and not confined, as is the
case with pineapples. oranges and ther
semi-tropical fruits, to any particular
section. We hope much from tobacco
culture IN Florida ON this account.
The growing of long staple cotton, at
one time great industry in Northern
South and Middle Florida, is apt to be
revived. The culture of long staple
cotton was discontinued practically
when the orange boom commenced. At
that time the long staple cotton markets
of the world were very much depressed,
and the price for it reached the mini
mum figure. Besides this, the orange
business, then at it's height, gave employ
ment to thousands of laborers. The
price for common labor suddenly jumped
from fifty cents per day and ten dollars
per month to one dollar and quarter to
two dollars per day. The cotton grow
ers could not stand this raise. The price
of cotton would not Justify them in pay
ing it.
There has been a revival in the price
of sea island cotton lately, and the price
is now nearly double what it was at the
time referred to. In addition to this,
many laborers have been thrown out of
employment on account of the injury to
orange groves by last winters freeze.
The supply of labor is now more in
keeping with the demand for laborers
than when the orange boom first started.
1t is generally admitted that no coun-
try on earth can produce finer long sta
pie cotton than South Florida, and while
many of the orange growers are waiting
for their groves to grow, it is likely that
that they will turn their attention to
cot ton.
One advantage that long staple cotton
has over the short staple is that it can
be marketed In the seed. Parties wish
ing to engage in the cultivation of cot
ton in sections where there are no gin
ming facilities, need not be deferred
from it by the fear that they will not be
able co get their cotton ginned and pre-
pared for market. 1t can be bagged and
shipped to any of the larger town of the
State, where it will find a ready sale.
This. like tobacco, will also be a gen.
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L,ncoln,s Gettysburp address.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: happened
to be looking over my NATIONAL TRIBUNE
OF Feb. IA. BY request you published Lin
coins Gettysburg speech on that date, and l
think made two mistakes. j quote: And
dedicated to the proposition that all men are
created free and equal" kthink free
does not belong there. Again quote: "And
that the Government of the people," etc. My
impression is that "the" underscored does
not belong there, either.-JoHN r. KING,
Sugar Grove, Ill.
We took the address from book enti-
tied g Lncoln's Pen and Voice." by M. Van
Buren, which gives it exactly as printed in
The NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
In the Century Magazine for February,
1894, John G. Nicolay had quite an exhaust
i've article on tie address, and gave fac
simile OF it as President Lincoln first wrote
it on paper headed "The Executive Man
sion," and also of n copy that he made for
the Sanitary Fair in Baltimore. He also
gives the address as taken down by the
stenographer ut Gettysburg. In all these
the phrase is that of the Declaration of In
de dependence.-"a men are created equal" !"
which the President marked with quota
tions in the first copy, but not in the sec
ond. In all these there is no 1.-THE before
Government" so that our correspondent is
right, and the book is wrong.-EDITOR Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE.
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Patrintin Education In Ohio.

EDITOR NATIONAL tribune: Your re-
marks ON "Our Greatest Difficulty" in the
issue of the 7th inst, are, without question,
true in regard TO the losses sustained by
the Union armies in the war of the rebellion,
as compared with losses sustained by Eu-
rOpean armies. At the last Reunion of my
regiment, the 9th Ohio Cav, one of the
speakers told as that at the famous charge
of Balaklava, the fame of which the poet
has so beautifully sung in the cannon to
the right of them, cannon to the left of
them," ETC., Their loss was 36 per cent. of
the charging column, and the British Gov
ernment put every one of them on the pen
sion-rolls; and that was the only action
they were ever in. The 9th Ohio Cav. made
one Charge at Upperville, or AIdie, in which
they lost rs per cent of the number in the
charge; and they are not pensioned, or
even mentioned in history, much less in
song or poem.
Let me tell you what we are doing in
this State 10 teach patriotism to the young.
Washington's Birthday being holiday,
the day before each school is visited by a
detail of Grand Army men to talk to the
children, and it is surprising to see how
eager the children become for the arrival of
the old vets, and how disappointed they are
if the time does not admit them to get
around to all the rooms in school building.
At one school-the Rockwell Street School
the committee could not visit all the rooms,
and both pupils and teachers expressed such
decided disappointment that the detail
promised to come back at any day the
teachers wished and finish out the balance of
the rooms, which they did the following
week.
No doubt but other States are taking some
or similar action to teach the children lessons
OF patriotism, but all the stories we can tell,
al the pictures that can be painted of Vicks-
burg, Gettysburg, or Petersburg, or any bat
tie, cannot convey to the mind of the listener
or beholder the terrible shrek Of shell, the
zip of bail, the yell of charging column
nothing but the actual experience can con-
vey that TO the mind OF anOther.-C. +.
WoLcoTT, 9th Ohio Cav, 1868 Curtis avenue,
Cleveland, o.
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surrender, come and take us" This
brought on another terrific fire, which
was promptly returned, after which the
voice of the Confederate officer called
out to OMeara to surrender, or he wonld
drive us into the river. Capt OMeara
gave orders to bis men to destroy their
rifles and render them as useless as pos
sible. Not wishing for his mems sake
to further provoke the Confederates he
marched up the bluff, where the men
were drawn up in line and counted, and
the surrender was made.
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Did It Paw

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE. / read
Did 1t Pay ?" in the issue of March Ia, and
it is as true soliloquy as was ever thought
or based on facts. am personally acquainted
with Mr.. Copperhead, and he tried to make
the very same impression on me, with the
substance identically the same, only little
later in the war, Summer of 1882 which
was very dark period in the great struggle.
The Mr.. Copperbead Of my mention is
actually living yet in person and flesh, and
in the same valley with myself We had
been personal friends, and each of our fami-
lies the best of friends. Our occupation
being camel coal mining, the industry of
which the advent of "well oil y took the
place of We both immigrated to the
Kanawha Valley in the Fall of 1861, and
both got positions as Mine Managers. Cop
perhead at Reynolds's furnace, three miles
above Charleston, aud at John ID. Lewis's
furnace, five miles above Charleston, with
each a salary of 500 q month. We were
living in good houses, free of rent, enjoying
ourselves, with easy and paying positions !;
but when / would read in the papers of the
repeated disasters to our soldiers / would
become uneasy, and, finally, one day / said to
my friend Copperhead believed it was our
duty to go in and help put down the rebel
you think am going to leave the best posi-
tion ever held and 500 month for S13 a
month, and be subject to all the inconyiences,
let alone the hardships of a soldier, and be
shot at to boot? Not much"
"WeIl, if everyone else was to be like you
what would be the result? These would be
Lords and Dukes Of the South would have
things their own way, with free access to
Africa, and overrun the South with African
slaves, and you and and every other white
man of the laboring element would have to
pick up our long.johns, unless we equalized
ourselves with the slave"
He said he did not think it would come to
that. At any rate he was not going to fight
to free the nigger, etc.
l said / was an American, and was.
When / went home / looked at my wife
and year-old boy, and was quiet for some
time. Then my father came in (aged 64 at
the time), and we began talking about the
war and the reverses, and / said that
believed all of US who were able should go
in and stamp it out, etc. Father said yes.
That gave me encouragement. | said to my
wife, thought / would 60, and that / be-
lieved the war would not last more than
another year, with the big calls made, and 1
would not like the soldiers to come home
after putting down the war and call me q
stay-at-home coward. My wife spoke up and
said: "If you think it your duty to 90,
go, and the God that will bless you will save
us the Union and take care of US and our
boy" These are the two answers.
Now, Copperhead, go and hide your cow
ardly head, and forever hold your hush.-
THOMAS MOORE, Co. A, 18th W. Va.
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HOODS
Sarsap pariIIa

marm; there was two of 'em, one was ship.
We found this On the beach; itwashed ashore
bout o'clock this mornin,."
1t was small box of hardwood with the
initials e. j. G. burned into the cover.
"Tbere was bucket with two KS cut in
it, that's Eds mark, and there was piece
of the figgerhead. I've sailed in the Wave
Crest too many times not TO know it, marm.
There hain't any bodies come ashore yet; if
there is, we'll let you know"
The mans voice faltered; he pulled a
silver quarter out of his pocket. "Give it
to Nita," he said.
Aunt Kareen stood with the box in her
hand. She must tell the child, but how?
She went upstairs and opened the door of
her room. NIta was dressed; she had not
been in bed all night. She was sitting by
the window, her head upon the sill, and the
lamp beside her bad burned the wick dry.
Weary with watching, she had fallen
asleep. But her prayer was answered; her
father would never 60 to sea again.-Short
Stories.
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His Luck.


Won Blumer-I had the most singular
thing happen to me the other day. Did YOU
ever go into mans place to pay bill you
owed him and find him Out9
Plankington (emphatically)-N sir.
Did that ever happen to you?
Won Blumer-It did. / took notion, or
rather nerved myself up to it, to settle up
some bills that / owed. So on my way up
from my Office dropped in to see my fish
man.
Plankington-And he was outP
Won Blumer-COrrect Then / tried my
groeeryman.
Planklngton-He was ont.
Won Blumer-Right. Plenty Of clerks,
but no proprietor. OF course left word
that / called in to settle up, but wanted to
see the proprietor first. Dispute about bill,
see?
Plankington-Oh, yes. That strengthens
your credit.
Won Blumer-Exaetly. Then / called to
see my butcher, and I'll be hanged If he
wasn't out also
Plankington-By Jove! But you were in
luck
Won Blumer-No, / wasn't.
PlaukingtOn-Whyn not?
Won Blumer-When got home I found
them all waiting for me.
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THE NATIONAL RIBNE WASHINGTON O. THURSDAY

how to knit now).a and bake-to bake pies,
Duroc. l can roll out the crust and put it
on the plates for Aunt Kareen, but 1 must
learn to put it together. Aunt Kareen will
want to go home when father gets back, and
Unjust know just how to keep house. There's
a good deal to learn"-this with soft sigh.
" But it's for father, and he isn't going to sea
any more. Won't we be glad, doggie?"
With that day began new order of things.
Domestic duties filed all the morning hours.
Aunt Kareen was not left to do baking and
brewing alone.
Often the tasks shaped themselves into
crosses. Smarting blisters tortured the ten
der flesh, and sometimes hot tears left queer
sears upon the pietcrust
The afternoons were given to lighter tasks,
as sewing, knitting, darning. Almost any
afternoon, when the sun shOne, the child
and dog might be seen going across to the
sandy opening near the Chamber Rock"
Nita would sit in the shadow and work, and
Duroc would stretch himself at her feet, or
make short runs after the birds that flew
by.
AS the days grew hotter, the fingers nm
practiced to such tasks often Jagged. Nita
liked to look at the clouds while she shaped
daydreams and sifted the warm sand
through her fingers.
: But one day the little company started
out early in the morning, Duroc with
basket in his teeth and Nita following more
slowly with small package.
It's no use," she said, when they had
reached the sand and laid down their loads.
"They made we want TO play, and I just
promised wouldn't, if God would not let
my father 60 to sea any more"
She opened the packages, and took out 12
pasteboard boxes. They were of all sizes,
from two inches in length to a foot. Some
were regular boxes, others were made of
scraps of board sewed together and covered
with bits of bright paper. The covers were
tied with pieces of lutesiring.
tive marked the names on the top.
know they're only dolls, but loved them,
and Pm going to bury them right here in
the shade of the big rock. Well smooth
the graves over the top, and put some stones
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@4sssS.

twice, and then waited as if to give it time
to reach the blue above. "Dear God, don't
let my father go 10 sea any more. Please
answer my prayer, for jesus sake"
:" / feel just as if he was going to answer
it," she said, as they started for home.
At the door Aunt Kareen met them.
Mercy sakesi child what has kept you
ont OF doors so long? Your clothes are
damp But there was something in
the child's eyes that kept her from finish
ing.
well, dupno's ] blame herr she said,
while she went about the supper, no mother
aud father that's on the sea nine months
in the year"
"Aunt Ksreen, where does IL say we can
move mountains in The Bible?" The supper
dishes had been washed, and Aunt Kareen
was knitting.
Goodness! child, how you scared me! Say
we can move mountains? never heard of
such thing"
Father reads about it,"
"Well. dunno--whyi ] believe it's the
faith chapter You mean. If that's il, it's
| the 18th chapter of Matthew"
Mia climbed up TO the secretary and took
! a book from the top shelf 1t was bound in
dark leather, and the corners were worn to
soft gray. The gilt on the edge of
the leaves was tarnisbed, and there was
dust upon ii. She blew the dust gently
and wiped the edges with corner Of her
| tier; then, because the oil-lamp gave so lit
tie light she brought it over to the light of
the driftwood fire.
She was poor reader, but she found the
chapter and read IL through from the begin
ming to the last clause of the last verse She
read the verse about the mountain twice.
Aunt Kareen had been nodding She
reused up and said: " You better 90 to bed,
child; it's past g o'clock"
"Yes, Pm going. Come, Duroc. Good
! night, Aunt Kareen. Call me early, cause
want to get up"
Aunt Kareen followed her with soft,
"Well, never!"
" It's mothers Bible" Nita explained, when
she had reached her room. 81 like il bet
ter than the Others because the letters are
bigger, and because-because 1T was moth
er's. And / found the chapter about the
mountain, Duroc. I'll read it to you, and
then perhaps we can understand it better"
| She put the lamp on the stand, and sat
down On the bed. The dog sprang up be-
side her and laid his head in her lap He
was interested in the 18th chapter of Mat
thew because his mistress cared to read it to
him. 80
When the chapter was finished the dog
curled himself up on the mat by the door.
| The child said her prayers and went to bed
| to dream that her father came home in a
vessel with pearl sails and mnsts of gold, and
| he took her in his arms and said that he was
never going to sea again.
81 must begin this very day." Nita was
braiding her hair, and Duroc was sitting on
the rug, looking into her face with earnest
brown eyes.
II must learn to darn, and sew q know
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watsry fluid, and the burn
ing and itching would drive her nesriy
wild. Unless we incased her little
hands she would tssr patches Of skin
from her face and hands. We tried
many doctors and many remedies and
at last gave the case up as hopeless.
But our daughter Cora tried Hoods
Ssrsaparills, TO cure q scrofulous lump
near tho LETT breast which caused her
much pain and after taking bottles 1t
disappeared. Blanche, who is now
eleven, had spent seven years of suffer-
ing, so concluded to give her Hoods
Sarsaparills. She took 8 bottles and her
face Is smooth and soft ss q baby's, the
color OF rose petal. Her hands ars
soft and white, where four months
ago they were blue and red and
calloused nearly like leather. can
not express my gratitude by pen or
mouth. 1t seems q miracle and our
friends are surprised" Mrs. ANNA
l.. CLARK, 4O1 z. 4th ST.. Duluth, MINI.