davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-11-03

MIR. Harry Ryder. who was married last
week. is The ciairionist of the Bubb
opera Company, ot which Mr.. Joseph c..
Kessnich is musical director Mr.. Kess-
Mich has fifteen members In his orchestra,
OF which he is the only southerner, and
trip through the New England. States.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-11-03

Secretary Herbert. Bishop Keane, Justice
Brown. Of the Supreme Court. and othefs;
Mr.. Thurbcr said he had been directed
hy President Cleveland TO express the
Presidents wish for the success OF the
movement inaugurated by the Alumni
Association and his regret at being upapic
IN attend
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-11-03

State Councillor l.. w. Guyer. of the
Junior order United Mechanics. was ten
dered a serenade last Tuesday night by
some Of the members In honor Of his cleo
tion.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-11-03

Following was the range Of the thsr.
mometer Il The Times oezcs yestexdey;
= 4 n. n; ~ IS i F. N i. .; si4sisis s =
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-14
A More Promising Future for Farmers.
Editor Florida AgricuIturist:

Editor Florida AgTicuIturist:
The signs of the times are now evil
IDENTIFY more favorable for the farmers
than for q generation past. We have
most likely entered period of lower
prices for nearly all lines of labor pro-
ducts, land, etc., yet if the ratio of val
ues is adjusted, as the writer believes it
will be, more to the interest of farmers
than has been the case during long
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-14

conception of what Florida was thirty
years ago.
On the arrival of the railroads the
people went wild on the raising of early
vegetables, the writer among the bal
ance. Four acres of land cleared - all
the stumps and roots taken out and it
put in excellent condition and in fav-
ored spot we'll suited to the growing of
truck, with pleasant anticipatiOns. But
10! in less than two years the business
was abandoned and instead of vege ables
rag and other weeds grew ten feet high
and there the land is to-day, unculti-
waited in anything to ship, for the rail-
roads got all there was in it; and thus 1T
happened to hundreds of men who have
not for the past five years raised any
thing to ship and never will with the
present freight rates 1t is wasting time
to point out the mistakes Of the rail
road companies by charging such ruin
Gus rates. have always claimed that
AS rule wherever there is money there
is brains to back 1T but it don't hold good
when applied to the Florida railroads.
True they have gotten the lions share Of
all that has been made in Florida but
they could just as easily have doubled
the amount with a prosperous and happy
reOple to back them. AS it now exists
the people on whom they measurably
depended are virtually bankrupted, the
most promising industries waning and
dragging, with no hopes and no pros
poets for the ullers of the soil. Wake
up, brother farmer, let each community
hold meetings and if possible come to
some definite rstanding as to the
future-what to grow in order to eVade
this ruinous drain on your hard armed
money. Go back to the good old former
days when the crib was full OF corn,
peas, pumpkins, rice, potatoes, sugar
cane and all other field crops supplied
all your wants. 1t IS easily done and
surely the crops in Florida are the surest
than in any other country in the world
It will pay. 1t is our only alternative
between living or starving. We have
been slaves long enough, will you be
free? 1t will cost you nothing but
patient resolution. Rise to your full
manhood. Shake off the rotten fetters
that bind you, be men.
GEO. w. HENDRY.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-14
DeLand, Fla, Wednesday, August Ia. 1895.

to quit shipping out and quit shipping
in. raise all that can be raised at home
by which the store accounts can be
lessened three-fourths. Now if the
Farmers Alliance and all other organi-
cations having for their object economy
in selling and buying would determine
on policy of this kind it would revo-
lutionize the whole line Of present Oper-
ations and cause the railroad corpora
tions to "wonder where they were at. "
Had / the power to use language of
such force as to make lasting impress
sion on the tillers of the soil | would feel
we'll compensated for all the solicitude
and anxiety that | nave experienced
over the welfare of Florida and the
people in it, but when | take my pen to
write on this it is only a repetition of
what I have many times urged on our
people without any good results.
Well, if the old and new settlers of
Florida are bent on being hewars of wood
and drawers of water for the railroads, l
say it is no matter for them and only
what they we'll deserve. Were it not in
the power of the people to remedy these
misguided policies it would be quite
different but there is nothing to do but
to act in accordance with reason and
common sense, "experience is dear
cOh h11f Oyill loor in no of
and too often people fail to profit by their
own experience or even learn anything
from the experience of others. /Only
few years ago all the farmers in Florida
raised all the stock feed they consumed
together with potatoes, sugar, syrup,
bacon, lard, butter and nearly every
thing needed except flour, coffee and
salt. Not only did they do this but
they made corn and fodder to sell to the
stockmen and sugar and syrup to sell to
anyone who needed it. All through Polk
county, my old home, the farmers raised
all they needed for their own use and
enough to sell to pay their store accounts
all from the soil and lived easy and lived
we'll with no railroad nearer than $50
miles and our principal market was
Tampa, forty miles away. Shoe Fly
we are aware that the orange craze threw
too many off their balance; farming was
neglected, wages high, many farmers
threw down the shovel and the hoe took
contracts for crossties, hired to monied
men who came in to raise big groves, saw
mills, the clearing of land, the setting
and caring for groves, with the results
that down went the farms 80 far as field
crops went. Orange trees put here and
there in the best land where corn and
oats ought to have grown. Everybody
everywhere depended on buying every
thing, as most of the old settlers had
some bearing orange trees which sup
plemented the pocketbook to pay for
supplies. All this has so changed things
in South Florida until more than half of
the people in Florida to-day have no
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-14
81 per Annunl, in advance

run of years, the result cannot be other
wise than benefcial-frst to the farm
ers and secondly to the whole body OF
our people.
There are several healthful indications
which unitedly 60 to prove the long ebb
tide of the agriculturistS has turned and
is now on the beginning of It's inflow.
The great natural law of action and re-
action, ebb and flow, rise and fall, growth
and decline, must have it's proper recoe-
milton and allotted influence. The dec
ade from 1850 to 1860 was the best for
the farming interest, for the com mer-
cial interest, and for the larger body of
the people, that this century has kept
record of. 1t must be admitted that
higher prices and more activity in pro-
ductlon has exhibited itself since the
decade referred to than during those ten
years. But high prices are so delusive
that nothing can be established by them
only that at reckoning day about one
claims, and an intense activity may
only go to show an artificial condition of
things
We sometimes hear men prate about
an undercOnsumption and that if labor
was more fully employed and better
paid there would be a greatly increased
consumption and, in ine no danger of
overproductiOn. Some of us who are
older know that the facts in the case
Call for a widely different conclusion.
When labor was most fully employed
and paid unusually high rates there was
a degree OF waste never known before in
this country, measure OF extravaganza
simply astonishing, recklessness of in
vestment and purchase on time that
BODIED no good to tens of thousands who
sought to gain thereby. The larger pOr
tion of the people were as a man intoxi-
Gated who seems to think he is able to
out-dO nearly every other man whose
name he hears.
The truest picture Of those ten years
from 1868 to 1878, when highest prices
and most intense activity prevailed,
would be to state in all soberness of Ian
guage that as people we were at least
semi-intOxicated. Some of the head
ache or other attendant ills are yet dis
coverable to those who will investigate.
The writer was ground badly between
the upper and neither millstones in those
succeeding days and knows full we'll
whereof he treats.
1t is not high prices that bring pros
perity, but close fitting adjustment of
supplies to the healthful demand, by
which we mean a demand that pays for
what it wants rs it goes along and buys
no more than it really neeos, Buying
to lay up in store, buying because the
product offered is cheap, buying Just on
a venture is far more apt to result in loss
than otherwise. Production beyond a
he althtul demand has the same general
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-08-14
Vol. XXI. No. 50 Whole No. ST..
For the Florida Agriculturist.
The PEOPLES Fault.

The Peoples Fault.
If this world was raked and scraped
from the north to the south pole | do
not believe there could be found more
hopeless and incorrigible set of gump-
skulls than there is in Florida, coun-
try blessed with more inexhaustible re-
sources and more varied and in as great
demand. No doubt, however, it would
have been better for the inhabitants had
it's resources been less varied for the rea-
son that the people made a specially Of
none, except orange growing OF late
years and cattle raising in former days,
but, the former has had such a woeful
setback and the latter confined now to a
limited locality those with the recent
freezeouts, it causes many to stagger
and wonder "where we are at"
There is no class of men in the United
States, that could succeed who depend
so much on shipping out their produce
and shipping in their necessities thereby
paying "A double freight on everything
consumed at home, especially when the
common carriers get three-fOurths OF
all that is shipped out and one-fOurth on
all that is shipped in, making four
fourths in the transaction. That is what
| would call sizing fellows pile and
taking it. But how are we to get people
out of rut once fully IN, especially the
tillers of the soil? AS rule they are a
dumb set and once they know thing
they are hard to get to act on it. Could
the practical articles written by Mr..
Boyce, be acted OMIT would at once bring
about revolution and restore some of
us to our common senses. The Farmers
Alliance was an institu tion born of ne
cessity and could have proven the most
propitious place to determine on some
line of operation with an understanding
that all should act on it. 1t was designed
that the farmers shOu d discuss such
topics as bore directly on their interest
in what they should produce in order to
sell less, hence buy less, raise more at
home and ship less abroad. Things are
now in shape to rub out and begin over
again on an entirely new basis. Any
man of common sense knows that the
vegetable business in Florida is a poor
makeshift for success. No doubt taking
Florida from the Atlantic to the Gulf
there has been $40 lost in the vegetable
business to 81 made. Had it not been
for high rates it would have been just to
the reverse. Ten men would be raising
vegetables to-day where there is but
one; ten boxes or crates would be shipped
to where there is but one. AS it now ex-
lists men halt and ponder and II produce
is raised it is on limited scale with no
pleasure and less profit to the grower L
know of no business now in Florida in
which a man can engage with any en-
couragement or a promise of profit, only
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17
ANNUAL MEETING
:ORstste Cont saof -Correc'
s n tions and Charities. ssa .

O4stste Gepfezellce yaofs G Gorrec-
tions and Charities. .
The annual meeting Of the state
conference of charities and correc-
tions will be> held at Faribault. Oct.
29-81. The program will be- one OF
unusual interest. Special efforts will
be made to make it useful to county
commissioners and others who have
to do with the administration of
charities in the smaller cities and vii
lages and in the farming communi-
ties. Special efforts will be made al
60, %to.make the conferences valuable
to those who are carrying on chari-
table societies or institutions in the
smaller villages and cities Of the
state and to those who contemplate
the establishment Of such an organi.
zation. . &
The following bodies are entitled
to send delegates: State, county,
and city institutions, county commits.
sioners, hospitals, asylums, homes
and all charitable socities or institu.
tionA. Each organization is entitled
to two or more delegates.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17
New, Organl.

The State Board Of Correction
and Charities have started a new
publication known. as the the
Minnesota State Bulletin of Coz
rection an'l Charities. Rev.. Fl
II. Hart, formerly Of this place is
the editor. The. Pioneer
Press says of the organ:
Secretary Hart, of the state
board 6f correction and charities,
has just received from the printer
the first number Of. the Minnesota
State Bulletin of Corrections aud
Charities, published in the inter-
ests of the work, of the board. The
Bulletin, although young, is a
lusty infant and has already 400
paid up subscriptions. The Bull
letin is we'll edited and is also
newsy, an excellent feature in that
class Of literature. Among other
things it contains reports Of ma
7tional conferences, statistics of
the state institutions, their popu-
lation, etc. The Bulletin will be
issued every three months.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17
RANSOM.

School in district No. l8. the
Hal sltkl,ssps district. commenced on
Mon.lay, Oct. It'll. Miss Good
lictl.of AVortiinyt,nl, who taught
the summer school III. tile same
district, is engagr' for another
term of five months. -E
4 a daughter or D. F. Settle was
sick for a few days with what was
thought to be typhoid fever, but
she is ar,und,again so that it must
have been a very light case. DR..
Carroll Of Rushmore attended her.
Rev. W.. Webster has been re-
turned to the Rushmore charge
for another year. His many
friends will be pleased to have
him remain with them.
Isaac Milton and his two sons,
John and Will, have just finished
threshing, and the aggregate
amount of grain they threshed is
about Ii, 900 bushels. The wheat
averaged about. 25 bushels per
acre, oats, so aud barley something
over 40. Spme of the grain was
struck by the hail or the yield
would have been still better.
Most of the grain was raised on
rented land, but still they will do
very we'll.
George Bristol, who bought the
north half Of section % from r.
B. Beeson, is keeping the plowe
going day after day, regularly, al.
most, as clock work. Look where
we will. everyone seems to be busy
The Wagner Bros. will soon
have Mons Sorem's barn fnis he'd
It will be one of the best barns II
town. e. &.
w. 7. Robertson Of Spencer, La.
was through this town last weeb
calling on his old friends and &C
! q quaintances. Mr.. Robertson doet
not simply travel around for pleas.
ure, however. While here he in.
sured Mr.. Sorem's new barn.
Lewis Larson has rented hi
farm for one year to Chas. Olson
q fellow conntryman who this sea
son rented a place near Bigelov
belonging to W. G. Grant. There
is q half section of land, and Mr.
Olson is to pay as rent for thu
same, $500 cash. Mr.. Larson =
one Of the supervisors in this town
has served US in that capacity fol
some four years and has been I
very efficient member. He ha.
not as yet fully decided what ht
will do in the future, but where
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17
He Got Ratified.

Exchange: The curate Of 9
church had two notices to
give out, and did SO proper.
" enough in the following manner:
"I am requested to announce that
the new hymn book will be used Tor
the first time in this church Sunday
next, and am requested to call atten-
ton to the delay which often takes
place il bringing children to be bap-
tized; they should be brought on
the earliest day possible. This is
particularly pressed on mothers who
have young babies. And for the
information Of those who have none,' s
added a deacon in gentle, kindly
tones, and who, being deaf, had only
heard the first announcement. =
may state that if wished they can be
obtained on application in the vestry
Immediately after service today;
Limp ones, shilling each; with stiff
backs, two shilling"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17

cooking does it. I never permit
interest in my announcements
tolag, and never miss an issue IN
my chosen publications. Adyer-..
ttising has made my store.
one of the largest. in the country.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17
first set foot on their farm.

Minneapolis Journal: Give tho
rich boy chance If There: -is
anybody Who is Disseminated
against it is lie. "a the first place
iitsisnot exp pected. he will amount
is anything. Il is taken for grant
ed that he will have no ambition:
to do anything for himself; that
he will be content to spend his
fathers money on cigarettes, walk:
ing sticks and good clothes; chat
he will never have any ambition to
excel in business or profession;
that his summers will be devoted
to tennis and his winters 70 theater
parties and afternoon calls. OF
course, he is expected to do these
things and nothing else is requir-
ed, it is very likely that these are
the things'he will do.
The poor boy, on the other
hand, has the stimulus of want,
the incentive of need to work. He
is expected to be industrious, to be
at the head of his class, to be On
terprising, to be on the outlook
for the main chance and ready to
accept responsibilities and impor-:.
tant positions requiring industry,
ability and integritN He has mo-
tive. The result is that lie gets on
and in the end becomes an impor-
tant factor in the community, a
useful member of society; a man
whose life amounts to something.
Think Of the advantages he has!
We are accustomed to talk about
the disadvantages Of humble birth
and early poverty, but those are g
the very things which make for
success IN. the end and start the
poor boy on the road to success.
He is expected to amount to some
thing and he does. The rich boy.
isn't and he does't. 4. 4.
II is time to give the rich boy 9
chance. When something is OK
pected Of him and vigorously re-
.quired, he will perform it
Exchange Writing recently
about advertising, John Wana-
maker, the millionaire merchant,
said: / do the heaviest adver-
tising in dull times. Then is
whom people look most keenly for
bargains, are anxious to know how
much things cost and when they
can save money. I advertise par
ticular things, give prices and take
pains with my stock. Ons big
DINNER won't keep the reputation
of the house, but steady, good
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17
AFTERNOON.
Fly in the Beer.

If a fly drops into beer glass one
who has made study of nation char
acteristics can easily tell the nation
ality of the drinker by his action:
IA Spaniard pays for the beer,
leaves it on the table and goes away
without saying word. ".
A Frenchman will do the same
except he swears while he goes out.
An Englishman spills the beer and
orders another glass.
A German carefully 8ahes out the
fly and finishes drinking the beer as
if nothing had happened.
IA Russian drinks the beer With the
fly. s. 4
A Chinaman fishes out the Ay,
swallows it, and then throws away
the beer. +.
M. HammOnd's AnnOuncement.
Quality is the tr,est test Of cheap
ness.
The best is always the cheapest.
You can buy stoves that are cheap
er than Garlands but none that ara
worth as much. MI
Many limitations are offered, which
the dealer will tell you are just as
good as ..Garlands". Insist upon
seeing the Garland trade mark.
Garlands are made in all needed
sizes and varieties, for all kinds Of
fuel and cell them all. Call and
see them MARVIN HAMMOND. ss|
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17
.Lo,RA'...I:liN'''ii'',:., !. ] \. I,
Too late for last wsek.

Too late for last Wsek.
Mr.. "A. E. Tuttle started q steam
thresher one day this week.
Mr.. Josiah Smith and son CLARK,
who have been visiting friends in
this town the past week, left for
their home in Wood county, Ohio,
last Thursday morning.
Mr.. Peter Williams and wife of
Colorado are visiting friends and
relatives in Hersey township. 4
Mr.. J s. Firth sold his farm in
Worthington township last week
to party from Indiana, Hedberg
& Clauseu making the deal.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17

ever he may 60 or whatever he
may undertake, he will have the
best wishes Of his neighbors and: and
friends. 5z1.,. z..5s 4: , 4 = '#.
~ ROBERT SHORE. 81
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17

If you have wagon Or buggy
that needs painting, brinf i to John
Rippberger. Shop near Aug. Falk's
shoe store. Att
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17
xClHANGE NOTES.

Morris Sun: When wheat was
. dollar q bushel in this market,
one bushel IN every twelve was the u
SHARE that went 4 to pay,'~its trans-
portation to Minneapolis That That
] the reduction IA transports y
rates has not kept pace With tho -
depreciation ID prices is evident
when we state that i will take
one-sixth Of the entire wheat yield
tributary to this point to send the
grain to the same destination. IT
would seem that it was q matter
that could be properly investigated
by the railroad commission or ex-
perimental farm, the former would
devise some means to reduce rates
or the latter some method Of in
creasing yields. We want help
from some source and are not par
ticular where the relief comes
from SO long as the difference is
adjusted, and the fact that it takes
two million bushels Of wheat to
move every ten millions to mar
>ket one hundred and fifty miles
distant, leads us to the conclusion
that either the price has got to
advance, the yield per acre IN n
crease, the freight rate be reduced
or the farmer go under.
A Chicago physician claims to
have discovered painless and
harmless depilatory liquid which
will enable men to remove the
hair from their faces without the
use Of 3 razor. After only one ap-
plication the hirsute adornment
will grow again, but1if the: prepar-
So alton il used seven Or eight times
tie growth is permanently destroy
cd. The physician bays he is not
going to manufacture It for sale,
but some enterprising advertiser
may get hold oft some day and
n y, 3515 q, "a TT l,ono,no nf kha kar-
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17
This week.

(This week.
Threshing is only about half
done in this town as yet.
Elmer Heron has moved onto
81. J. Ludlow's place in Worthing-
ton township. ..~:
Miss Cora Paine is teaching
school near St. Kilian. + +.
A brother of Frank Saner is
here visiting. " =
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17

Rem Mccartney was at Mitchell,
South Dakota, a few days the past
week. returning Tuesday.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17
For Sale or Trade.

A Eve room house, good well,
large lot and barn, cheap for cash, d,
on time. G. s. EAsTwooD. IN
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-10-17
Farm for Sale.

1w Farm for Sale. = .
The Southwest quarter Of section
%, 102, Al. Dewald township. En-
ouire of w. Barron, Rushmore MINI.