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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-16
The Outlook is Hopeful.


ruined our orange trees, with the best of
us the outlook ahead, so far as orange
growing went, was not very encouraging.
1t was an experience that none of US had
ever undergone before, and the question
was, what can be done to save the trees
what is the best treatment? This ques-
ton no one but a novice could answer;
often he knew all about it, and the butch
cry began.
AS for myself, | was entirely at sea.
did not forget that the orange tree has
more recuperative powers to overcome
injury from any cause than other trees
of my acquaintance, and | chose to wait
and see, thinking 1t better to do nothing
than to do something that | could not
give a scientific reason for; and [ waited
and waited, until | could get some idea
of how badly the trees had been injured.
When they had time enough to show
how far down the killing had gone, |
found that many trees had not only the
tops dead, but trunks as well. | started
in with an ak and cut to the ground all
dead or partially dead trunks. expecting
the large roots would send up lots Of
suckers and sprouts that in time would
become forks and linn bs of the new trees,
although it would branch at the ground
ms stead of up on trunk SIX or eight
feet high.
can't for the life of me see why those
limbs will not bear fruit just as we'll If
it is true that the sap of a tree is pro-
PEELED upward on the principle of a force
pump (and it is true), then my low tree
must produce it's fruit with less effort
than the tree with the long trunk.
The trees not cut to the ground were
left alone; no tops were cut off, no daub-
ing limbs with coal tar, but waited for
the new growth to come, and it did.
| went around to help them, and where
the new shoots would lop out | tied them
in; showed the tops of them up in among
those horrid, unsightly dead limbs, and
they Caught on" and now many of
those branches are pushing up nearly or
quite to the top of the old tree; often
they are sending out side branches, till
now many of the trees begin to have
quite the look Of an orange tree. Next
June many of them will be as large as
they were year ago last June, and will
be bearing some oranges.
I predicted those horrid looking limbs
would rot out very quickly and drop off;
often they will go so quietly we will not
miss them until they are gone, and they
have performed the important office Of
holding up these rapid growing limbs
until they are part Of the tree, and SO
strong the gales will EOt carry them
away; and l have noticed how much
more quickly this frozen wood decays
than if it had been killed in any other
way.
A few of the trees are wild Ones which
should be budded next spring, they were
all cut to the ground, as there was not
live trunk Of the sour orange in the
whole grove. The trees cut to the ground
were little slower in starting, some of
them are only now just coming, while
others are ten feet high and IN my eye
such beauties. The only question ! am
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The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04
MEDICINE SHELVES.
No Family Should BE Without . Well
Stocked Set of Them.

No Family should he without . Well
Stocked Set of Them.
set of medicine shelves should be
among the furnishings of every we'll
regulated house. 1t may be made
rather ornamental feature Of the
room where it hangs, being as like a
hanging cabinet as possible. The ideal
cupboard is divided lengthwise into
three parts, one of them fitted with
a door. The remaining two-thirds are
divided across, the upper compartments
being lockable, while the lower is sim
ply 4 shelf provided with a silk cur
tain. The wood should be painted to
harmonic with the other furnishings
of the room, and the locks should be
pretty affairs of brass. The silk cur
tain should match the other draperies.
AS to the contents of the cupboard,
remedies. In one of the locked COM
pa rtments brandy, linseed oil, lint, a
spirit lamp and some alcohol should be
kert. In the other closet arnica, lau-
danum, sal volatile, spirits of red Law
cnder, camphor and other things which
may not be saf cly trusted to the irno-
rant may be stored Behind the cur
tain commonplace and harmless arti-
cles such as even the inexperienced
may handle may be kept. Among
these are cold cream, vaseline, sticking
plaster, mustard leaves, and few
other everyday requisites. A wise pre-
caution is to copy on a card directions
as to procedure in case of emergency
such as how to dress a burn or bind
cut, or to stop bleeding from the
nose, etc, and to fasten this card in
side the cupboard detroit Free Press.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04
SHE SMOKED,

That Was Made Evident by tho Contents
of Her Nun.
She was tall, slim girl, of the
Burne-Jones type, with an ingenue
with heavy black plumes Her eyes
were of the big babyish appealing
type, and she wore bunch of violets
pinned on her fur cape, the collar of
which hared up at the back OF her
head and turned away from her throat
in dashing style Her two slim
gloved hands were tightly clasped in a
neck by broad satin ribbon coquet-
tishly knotted on the shoulder.
AS she entered the car she cast one
timid glance, like that of fiuttered
bird, mp the left hand row of seated
passengers and down the right, this
having the effect of causing two men
to crowd a place for her between them.
She advanced to the vacant seat with
decorous, graceful steps and downcast
eyes, and as she swept her skirts about
to sit down she removed one hand from
her muff to settle them in place.
just as she did SO something awful
happened. A small, fiat box of cigar
cites fell from her muff. The cigar
cites scattered on the car floor, at her
side. But she was equal to the emer-
gency, and, with only a heightened
rose flush on her check. she dropped
her arm with a truly magnificent gest-
ure to the car floor, and with a dexter
Gus twist gathered in every one of the
cigarettes and the box, and replaced
them in her muff, crushed and man
g1ed, but hidden from sight. watched
the whole performance, and felt like
breaking into applause, but several of
the men openly snickered, and all the
women looked shocked and democrat
ized-N " Herald.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04
WIT AND WISDOM.

There is one sign that should be
placed over every letter-box in the
city, ''What is that?'' -" Post no
bills "-Ram's Horn.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
1t also laughs when you groan-
Borrow, and friends stand by you;
Pay back, and you pay q loan.
Kansas City journal.
The Third Day Out.-Ethe1-This
air is so bracing! I am fairly intoxi-
Gated with it, Marie-Well, why not?
Most people arc intoxicated when they
are half-seas over.-Harper's Maya
zine.
-IIanllet-I had a funny experience
on the road recently. Yorick-What
was that? Hamlct-Why, the manage
ment gave us our salary regularly ev-
ry week for two weeks.-Syracuse
Post.
The man VINO boasts that he works
with his head instead of his hands is
respectfully reminded that the wood
pecl<er does the same and is the big
gest kind of a bore at that.-Waterloo
Courier.
81 always try to keep up with the
the times remarked Charley Nairgo,
as the clock struck eleven. YES" re-
piled the fatigued young woman, ''you
are the latest thing I know off,
Washington Star.
-He-Perhaps you are aware that
most of the great inventions of the
world are conceived by men. She
Oh, they are driven to invention. They
haven't any hairpins to do things
with.-Indianapolis journal.
-Figg-Youn generally find that
people believe what they want to be-
lieve. Forg-,oes; and probably that
accounts for the belief in everlasting
punishment-for other people, of
course, being SO popular.-Boston
Transcript.
I'm the Reserves Enthusiastically,
Netti, you are nice girl! What are
you doing with two sweethearts?
Maid-Oh! please, ma'am, 1 have only
one. The other only comes when the
one is ill or on furlough.
Nachrichten.
-Mother-Johnny, go down to the
JOHNNY heard pa say he didn't like
black tea. Mother-1t makes no diff
ference what your father says Johnny.
This family is in mourning now.-Ber-
liner Tageblatt.
-Judge-I understand the plaintiff
is suing for a horse. Attorney-Yes,
your Honor. but there seems to be a
hitch about the evidence. Judge
Well you can't saddle the responsible
ty on the court. Let the case proceed.
Atlanta Journal.
next to ycu," said the usher at the
crowded theater, seem to be unoccu'
pied. Please let these gentlemen sit
down in them Those seats, me good
man." responded Choly, languidly pro
| ducing his checks and looking at the
| usher through his eye-glass, belong tc
me ovahcoat. Please stand a little K
| one side. You obstvuct me view of thu
| etage.-Chicago Tribune.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04
Latest In Capes.

A satin cape with elaborate embroid-
cry is a, work of art. The ground is of
dust brown, the embroidery in shades
of brown and very dark red. There
is a collar of brown velvet, lined with
satin of the color of the cape, and this
collar is edged with lace about two
inches wide. AS heading to the lace
there is a band of brown bead passe-
menterie about an inch wide. The
collar of the cape is of satin and velvet
and a rose ruching. A black velvet
cape is deliberately embroidered with
jet, and has a fringe of jet and silk
strands The fringe is without head
ing. and is set in under the edge of tho
velvet. The collar as of velvet. lined
with black satin, the edge deliberately
embroidered in jet. A ruching of vel
vet and black thread lace finishes the
neck, IN. Y. Ledger.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04

More money is spent for brass
bands than for the schools of the Ar
gentine republic.
"A domestic Institute" the object
of which shall be to train girls for do
nestle service, is contemplated by
Rev. G. Wynne Jones, of Baltimore,
Md.
The New England Kitchen, of Bos-
ton. serves five-cent lunch consisting
of hot soup, bread and butter, sand
witches, buns or cookies, to the pupils
of the Boston high schools.
Sylvester Jackson, whose widow
has left 500, 900 to Tufts college for q
building for women, was formerly
soap manufacturer in Providence, and
died about four years ago.
esta blished in Paris through the exer-
lions of the French Society of Aerial
Navigation. Prof. Cornu, of the Acad-
emie des Sciences, delivered the OPEN
ing address.
At a gathering in Ohio 4 aston got
together a number of young people,
talked with them, interesting them in
Christian Endeavor, and sent them
home with such purpose to enlist
others in the same cause that nineteen
new societies were started.
The only school in the United
States for the teaching of the art of
letter writing is said to be at Chautau-
l.. Galloway, has pupils ranging from
the Texas cowboy to the aristocrEtic
society woman, and in age from II
to 70.
Mrs. Mary Reynolds Schauffier, the
first single lady missionary in the for
eign field, died recently near Rochelle,
n. Y, aged % She was sent by the
American Board of Foreign Missions
(CongressionaD to labor among the
Mohammedans at Smyrna, where she
married DR.. Schauff1cr, one of the first
three American IN missionaries to Turkey.
Pope Leo XIII. is planning the
erection of a cathedral of the Greek
Catholic rite in Constantinople, says
the Politische Correspondent, in addi-
ton to the seminary for the training
of priests for the Oriental Christian
churches. The two establishments
form part of the scheme for giving au-
tonony to the Greek Catholic church
in the cast.
Denver is already making prepar a-
tions for the meeting of the National
Educa tional association to be held
there from July to IL. There will be
the lowest sort of railway fares from
all parts of the union and all sorts of
RADIO arc to be arranged. Denver ex-
poets this meeting of the association
to be the largest ever held.
Rev. DR.. Moses ID. Hoge, of Rich
mond, Va, who recently celebrat ted
his fftieth anniversary as pastor OF
the Second Presbyterian church, had
an interesting experience as a block.
ade runner in the course of the civil
war. He slipped out of Charleston to
Nassau in 1864, and went to England
to get Bibles and religious books for
the confederate army, and succeeded
in obtaining free gifts of 10000 Bibles,
So 900 New Testaments and ESQ, 900
pocket editions of portions of the
Scriptures
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04

together. We had gone to school to-
gether. For months 1 had loved her.
BY day she was ever In my thoughts,
and by night her spirit filed my
dreams with music. I had given her
my heart without the asking, but had
never asked for hers. It didn't seem
necessary. 1 thought of course she
knew I wanted it. Now, 1 was brought
face to face with the facts. Had L ever
presented my claim? Well, 1 had not.
At least, not with the formallty which
my training as a lawyer demanded
that I should.
':Oh, Kitty, Kitty" and 1 almost
cried from the reaction. II love you
more than all the world, antf u want
you as much as I want all the world;
for you are the world to me. Now,
will you say that my claim has not
been presented"
It doesn't make any difference what
she said, or how she said it. or Swheth-
er my arms were on the mantelpiece, or
where they were, and it's nobody's
business how much that man Kilmer
had to do with bringing me to a rea-
LIKING sense of my situation, or why he
and Kitty smiled when 1 told him it
was all right.
I think Kilmer is the best fellow in
the world, and SO does Kitty, with one
exception.
When left the house Mrs. Miltby met
me in the hall.
Here's q sovereign remedy for the
headache, john" she said, handing me
a bag of herbs, ''I've used it for forty
years, and it never falls
''Oh, that's all right. moth-Mrs.
Miltby," said l; 81 guess I'm cured of
that kind of headache forever" and if
she hadn't stood in the door as / went
down the walk, I'm sure 1 should have
jumped clean over the gate, and acted
in n manner utterly unworthy of my
dignity as a rising young lawyer.
1t was six p. M, and Kitty had not
missed her engagement at four, be-
cause by that time it was permanently
settled.-Detroit Free Preas.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04
TOOTH FOR A TOOTH.
That Ia W hat the Dentist OF tho Presen
You.

That In What the Dentist or tho Present
Gives You.
Perhaps no profession has made more
progress in the last thirty years than
dentistry has done. Half century
ago dentistry, as separate branch OF
the medical profession, was but little
known. and dentists were but very
few, even in the great cities. The reg
ular physician pulled the aching tooth,
and we have even seen case where he
filled it, and the filling, owing to the
healthy character of the bone. posi-
bly,, remained in that tooth for all of a
long lifetime. At that period the dent
list travelled about from one town to
another through wide district, and
people who availed themselves of his
services were thought to be rather fam
tastical, and foolish and extravagant
as we'll. In case where new front
teeth were wanted the old tooth was
sa wed off and the nerve was destroyed
with hot irons and infinite torture. in
order that new tooth might be driven
in on a wooden peg, tooth that was a
perpetual trouble and never perma-
nent. A tooth that ached then was ex.
tracted without remorsc, and a filing,
when filings came to be known, a s
often dropped out as staid in. Now,
on the contrary. if the tooth
must be parted with, there are
SO many ways of evading the
S>-~~1t ~-AA"'SS~ go S~A0'O~~~
time, Isaac of York might have kept
his money, and the anodynes are SO
used that the patient is conscious and
sees the whole operation and suffers
nothing at all. But no tooth is taken
out now that can possibly be kept in.
If a nerve must be killed it is usually
killed painlessly, ana the tooth that
once could not bear permanent and
solid filing is treated till it is able to
do SO. Even when tooth is so nearly
gone that retaining points for the fill
ing are not to be had, tiny gold screws
can be inserted whose heads answer
for the points, a fine gold wire can hold
the fragile sections together and be
built about, and anodynes have been
found that can be injected into the
gum or applied to it and do away with
much of the pain once attending 4 bad
excavation or a tender filling. Filings
are made SO artistically, too, as almost
to be beautiful in themselves; ane, it is
even possible, in case of a cavity on the
front surface of a tooth, to insert bit
of enamel SO dclicately that even the
cracks can not be discerned. -Harper's
BaZar.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04
A Witty Reply.

The crown prince of Germany,
though only about twelve years old,
has a very ready wit and a queer way
of saying things. He sees the funny
side of a situation at once. One day,
while visiting Potsdam, the little
prince was amusing himself by trying
to make a donkey draw a cart. But
the donkey was stubborn and would
not .tgo.'' Your donkey has great
deal of will power" called out the en-
peror, who had been watching the
struggle between his little son and the
stubborn beast. ''Oh, no, papa, - replied
the little Prince quickly, lit isn't his
will power that troubles me. 1t is his
won't power. He won't go."-Amus.
inR journal,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04
~ certainly do. Isn't he friend Of

yours?''
mot at all. If he were, he would
not have interfered with my happiness
as he has done.'
II beg your PARDON" she said. Il
didn't know he had
didn't tell you last night he was
a scoundrel, intent only upon sepa-
rating us?" asked, hotly.
And didn't tell you that would
permit no friend of mine to be called q
scoundrel by anyone without resent
ing it to the utmost?'' she replied.
But 1 did call him that insisted.
Eyes, and what good did it do your
she said, stepping to the mantel and
holding out the empty frame in which
my picture had formerly been the at
traction.
Ellis will take place of the former
occuPant?'' said, scornfully.
His or another's,' she responded, and
actually giggled.
''Great Scott!' 1 exclaimed, staggering
to my feet, lam then a two-fold dApe?
Are the returns all in? Have the back
counties been heard from, Miss MiIt-
by?" and buried my face in hands.
mr.. Kilmer is, at least, enough of q
gentleman, scoundrel though you say
he is" she said, mot to talk to a lady
as you do
''Oh, Xii beg your pardon, Miss
Mi1tby," apologized, II hope you will
forget that ! spoke SO rudely. Indeed,
1 did not mean it,
II don't see what reason you have
for objecting to Mr.. Kilmer paying me
any attention he sees fit to pay" she
told me for an answer. II have known
him for long time and he is held in
the highest esteem by everyone except
you"
But have known you quite as long
as he has,'I commended.
(which is hardly a reason for acting
as you are now acting," she said.
''Does he love you?" I asked, and
could feel Thousand throbs in my
head at once.
II presume not" she replied, smiling.
eff he does he has been too modest to
say So"
do you love him?''
THAT is my own affair."" she an
swered, freezingly.
for, l live, I thought that instant
that my heart would certainly break
loose and drop down. / think if l
could have stepped on u scale that mo-
ment with it in my bosom, I would
have weighed a ton.
1T is not altogether yours" I said,
with a gasp.
mop" and the Interrogation point
ran up into her eyebrows and arched
them sharply like a spear point, it
seemed to me.
mo, and want you to SO under
stand it." I was growing desperate.
IL have some rights which propose to
see are respected, and shall not stand
like a post and he dumb as one"
''And what rights have you, pray,
that should respect them?'' she asked,
SO snrcastically that felt as if I had
stepped across the path of cutting
hailstorm.
The right of having my claim heard
before it is disallowed and thrown out
Q: souri, I responded, dropping into
shop talk without knowing it.
''Have you ever presented your
claim?" she inquired with judicial dig
nifty.
Had I? That was the question. Had
I? For years had known Kitty Milt-
by. We had grown up from childhood
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04


When it is possible, in arranging
your music room, always place the
piano with its back to the room, not
agaist the wall, as it is SO frequently
seen. It is the best arrangement both
from a. musical and from an artistic
standpoint. AS the plain uncovered
back of the piano is not usually beau
tiful, one sees in different houses vari-
Gus graceful designs for hiding it.
Sometimes it is beautiful piece of
painted tapestry, a musical subject be-
from the back by brass rod. Scarfs
of liberty satin or other beautiful
pieces of rich and flexible silk are also
used, kept from slipping by two or
three handsome ornaments, such as a
pair of Florentine caudc1abra, a few
framed photographs or miniatures of
musicians, or bowl of flowers
Against such a background a tea-table
is very effective.-N. Y. Post.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04
HALF soLED WHITE YOU WAIT.

Shoemaker Shop.
''Your shoes half soled while you
watt is a Madison street announce.
ment which recalls many pleasant
memories to the man who was raised
in the back country and paid periodi-
cal visits to the crossroads cobb1cr dur
ing boyhood days. The face of an old
man with all of his hair on his chin,
and that white with age and streaked
shoemakcr's bench in a little back
kitchen of a log house in the woods
rises before me as I pass. I smell the
sole leather soaking in the tub near
the red hot kitchen stove, and hear the
play of the shining hammer as the old
man beats the stiff cowhide on his
knee. And such knees. Many a time
have I seen him crack walnuts on them
with no other protection than his shoe
makers apron. The old man always
performed that trick for my boyish
edification as I sat metaphorically at
his feet of cold winters night and
my shoes were being half soled while
I waited. 1t seemed to give him as
much pleasure as it did me.
He was a philosopher who had seen
much of the great world, and had re-
tired from it to the low cabin in the
back woods of northern Indiana, and
as he drove the lockwood pegs home
with certain i'm he awol<e in me the
overmastering desire to see some Of
| that same world on my own account
He seemed to me to know everything
worth knowing, and scrupled not to
part with fractions of that knowledge
| upon the slightest provocation. The
shoe-pegs or waxed ends in his mouth
never interfered materially with his
volubility. Nothing ever disturbed his
good humor.
That was forty years ago, but I re-
member the deeply sympathetic glance
from the mild blue eyes of the old shoe
maker as he turned them from the
shoe he was trimming and bent them
expression to a desire to ''see the
world.''
you'll be disappointed, boy-there's
| nothing in it. ''-Chicago Times.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04

Like q Hen.
Kicksy-Wife, can you tell me why
am like a hen?
Mrs. Kicksy-No dear. Why is it?
Kicksy-Because I can seldom find
anything where I laid it yesterday
Philadelphia Record.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04

Within the Reach of All.
She (philosophicaD-Doy 70 think it is
easy to die?
He (commonplace)-w a lot of
very stupid people have managed to do
tn. Y. Sun.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-05-04

Lie in the lap of sin and not mean
harm? 1t is hypocrisy against the
devil. They that mean virtuously, and
yet do SO, the devil their virtue tempts,
md they tempt Heaven.-Shakesoea