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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-09-02
AN EXPERT an RUBBER.

The cultivation of the caoutchouc tree
may and may not eventually develop into
an industry of promi ence and importance
in Florida. We are inclined to the opin-
ion that the average soil of the state is too
thin, but the tree might flourish in the
heavy hammocks that are so numerous in
Florida.
We find the following interesting dis
cussion of ssthe tree and its possible adapt
ability to Florida in the New York Sun:
Theodore E. Studley, of Murray Street,
has been a prominent man in the India
rubber business almost ever since there
was any business in India rubber, and is
considered to know pretty much all that
is known by anybody about caoutchouc.
He was greatly interested in clipping from
the Daily Florida Citizen, recently repub
lished in the Sun, and said yesterday that
it indicated possibly important resource
of the state of Florida. now absolutely un-
known in the commerce world
The clipping referred to was brief de-
scription of the caoutchouc trees of south
ern Florida. According to the newspaper
quoted. these trees grow in great mum bers
on both coasts of that state, south of line
drawn westward from New Smyrna. They
grow wild. being indigenous to the soil,
and have never been utilized; and the sug.
gestion is that the sap can be gathered as
it is gathered by the natives in the tropics
from which comes the worlds supply of
rubber. and so material addition be made
to the wealth of the country
sit is certainly possible" said Mr..
Studley, "that India rubber may be OBJ
tanned in large quantities in Florida. The
climate is similar to that of central Mexico,
l presume. as the latitude is the same, and
great portion of what is used was for
merly obtained from central and southern
Mexico. In late years, however, we get
very little from Mexico probably because
the supply is exhausted. The worlds an
nual supply of the gum is between 90 .ooo
900 and 7o,ooo,ooo pounds, and of this,
roughly speaking, about two-thirds comes
from Para and Manaos. Of course, if we
can produce the same gum in our own
country there would be possibility of gain
in it.
LAS to the probability it is impossible
to speak with certainty for the reason that
no civilized man knows much about the
business of gathering the gum. All that
we know is, practically. that weget it from
the shippers in those countries where it
grows. All that the shipper knows is that
he gets it from the contractors. All the
contractor knows is that he sends bands of
natives into the forest each season, having
grub-staked them, and that at the end of
the season they either come back or they
don't. And if they do they usually bring
more or less gum with them.
lit is believed, though, as 1 said, very
little is known about it, that the Indians
bleed the trees to death, and that they have
to go further and further into the forest
each season. This seems certain, because
the supply has ceased in many districts.
Whether it would be practicable to save
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-09-02
EDITORIAL CHAT.

THE summers backbone is broken and
we will all feel more like getting down to bust
ness now. Orange growers will feel somewhat
ZONES ONE this winter without oranges to pick
and commission men to swear at, but they can
find considerable amusement scratching around
in their gardens.
Nv
Ii HUNG CHANG. the giant Chinese dip
Iomat. has been received in this country with
blave of trumpets and salvos OF artillery: Thus
do we discriminate. An ordinary wash-a-wash
Monaghan can't come to this country al ALL
egally. The only way he can get in is to SNUG.
gle himself in washtub over the Canadian
border.
~
SOME original genius has suggested that
the water hyacinth that is proving such a curse
to river navigation in Florida could be utilized
as fertilizlng material He suggests that the
plants be hauled out of the water and spread
on the land three or four feet thick and mixed
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-09-02
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14
Those Useful COnduits,

The kidneys and bladder, sometimes
become torpid and weak from unas-
certainable causes. When this OC-
ours, their discharging function is
of necessity very imperfectly per
formed and certain debris, which is
the result of natural bodily waste
and decay, does not escape as it
should, but remains to corrupt the
blood and develop poisonous humors
and dangerous as well as painful
diseases, 1t is one of the beneti-
cent effects of Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters to gently stimulate the
urinary organs, and prevent them
from lapsing into a state OF mac
tivity, always provocative OF their
inhammatory degeneration and de-
cay. How much better then is it
to adopt this mild diuretic as a
means of melting them to action,
than to incur the danger of this de-
struction. To expel from the sys-
tenn waste matter through the bow
els and kidneys, and to regulate
and arouse the stomach and liver,
are among the chief uses of this
valuable remedy.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14
K. C. S. & G. NEWS.
The Doings of the Men Who Work
for the Above Road at
Shreveport

We take the four paragraphs
below from the Shreveport Times:
Captain Mat Scovell told Times
reporter yesterday that the Vicks-
burg, Shreveport and Pacific Rail-
way Company had some time ago
served notice on the Kansas City,
Shreveport and Gulf that it could
no longer than September lst use
its tracks and run down into the
city. Also that the Gulf road was
now engaged in constructing a
temporary depot on Southern ave-
nue.. The Vicksburg road doesn't
seem to care to make or hold friend
ships.
The Times reporter was told yes
terday, officially, that work had
already been commenced on the
down town line OF the Kansas City,
Shreveport and Gulf Railway, which
will be prosecuted as rapidly as men
and money can drive it, Messrs
Cassidy & Robson have the con-
tract to do the grading work
They are hustlers and will make
things hum.
Yesterday John Burke's grading
outfit was loaded on the cars and
sent north to the end Of the line be-
yond Hora tio, Ark, where it will
be used in closing as rapidly as
possible the mountain gap in the
Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf
between Mena and Horatio,
The Times reporter saw IN Assis-
tant Chief Engineer Gloster's Office
Yesterday a magnificent map of
the Kansas City, Shreveport and
Gulf Railway Company's line from
Shreveport to Port Arthur and
Lake Charles. 1t is a colored map
showing every subdivision of land,
all streams, country roads and
every other necessary matter OF
information. The map is the work
of Mr.. Frank Matthews, G. E., who
is chief clerk in Captain Glosters
Office. We can safely say that it is
the finest work of its class we have
ever seen.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14
West Side Democrats.

The Bryan and Sewall club, West
side. held a meeting last night, with
Vice President Charles f. Beard in
the chair. Speeches we're made by
Mayor Hardin, ] D. Gaines, Thos.
Fl. Estes and Horace Vaughan.
A committee of three was ap-
pointed to solicit subscriptions to
paw the debts of the club which
we're made on account of the torch
light procession, the money having
been advanced by Mayor Hardin.
The club will raise money and reim'
burse him. Mayor Hardin, Thomas
Estes and Joe Barkman we're placed
on the committee.
Horace Vaughn, chairman of the
committee on bylaws, said he would
report at the next meeting.
The club then adjourned until
Thursday night next.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

We are told that the restoration
of bimetallism would be a hardship
on those who have entered into con-
tracts payable in gold coin, but
this is a mistake. 1t will be easier
to obtain the gold with which to
meet a gold contract when most of
the people can use silver than it is
now when every one is trying to
secure gold.-[EXtract from Brgan's
speech of acceptance.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

My little boy; when two years Of
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part Of a bottle ! carefully read
the directions and gave Il accord
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and surely he began TO improve,
gradually recovered, and Is now as
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sure IL saved his life, I never can
praise the Remedy half les worth.
] am sorry everyone in the world
does not know how good It is, as !
do, Mrs Lima S. Hinton, Grahams.
Vile, Marion Co., Florida For sale
by Smith Drug Company
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14
AGENTS HARVEST TIME,
LIFE OF
BRYAN and SEWALL.

Only authentic biography of the Demo-
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This will be a year Of years for the sale
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14
For Sale

One saw mill complete. One Key
Stone palmer, re-saw and filing
machine, all complete for sale or
trade for city property
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14
AGENTS COMING MONEY
SELLING LIFE OF
Mckinley and Hobart,

BY Murat Halstead for 40 years the
most famous journalist in America, as
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Also contains complete biography Of
Hon. Garrett A. Hobart, nominee for Vice
President.
No campaign book equal to it has ever
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Mckinley, and all the great national
leaders; also persons and places of gen
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14
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Water by the glass or bot
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

We Always give our customers
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weights and prompt a+ttention
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14
Ha HE everlasting push ord hustle

1TT1 He everlasting push cCd hustle
of the American people has
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headache, nervous prostration, neu-
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Mr.. Jno. J. Kirk, whose portrait ac-
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in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio for flf-
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Mr.. Kinks tells how he was cured:
"I have been a sufferer from terrible
headaches for years. OF late they be-
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to forty-eight hours and obliging me
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resorts for rest and treatment, spend
ing both time and money without
benefit; returning, l would not be on
the road a fortnight before the same
old brain-splitting headache returned
and laid me up. [ had known DR..
Miles and the gentlemen composing
the Dr. Miles Medical Co. intimately
for years, but it did not once occur to
me that they were manufacturing a
remedy for me, until one day gentle
man told NE that his headaches were
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

Browns Iron Tonic tones up the
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

The strength which comes to us
from eating nourishing food is bet
ter than stimulation, because it is
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The health which belongs to a
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proper food (properly digested), Is
the only health that is lasting.
The difference between Shaker Di-
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is simply that it helps nature to
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to cure sickness, except as that
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caused by food not properly di-
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Shaker Digestive Cordial will re-
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make thin, sick, weak people as well
as if their stomachs had never been
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1t is a gentle aid to the digestion
Of natures strength-maker, food.
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

All the latest style writing paper,
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

Have your visiting cards en-
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

$500 suits $40O.
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at SHARPE q BREWER s.
The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

Browns Iron Tonic corrects iudi-
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The Daily Texarkanian., 1896-08-14

cured by one of DR.. Miles medicines.
And so it was that [ commenced
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-31
PRESIDENT cIsNERos
Issues Proclamation Pertaining to
Recent Acts of Insurgents.

New York, March 31-The Herald
today says: A manifesto signed by
Salvador CiSneros, president of the
insurgent Cuban government, has just
reached the United States. In it Cis-
neros states that the sugar este teS
which in the eastern division of the
island have been permitted to grind
while all others in the west have, as
he says, been prevented to do so, SIM
ply because at the beginning of the
war arrangements were made between
the proprietOrS of said estates and
some of the Cuban leaders, whereby
the former in consideration of a war
tax paid into the Cuban treasury
were granted the privilege of grinding
under the protection of these leaders.
The manifesto also states that the
country dwellings except when used
by Spanish troops as forts, or garri-
sons, and that for the sake of the fam
lilies, wives and children of non-com-
batants food is now allowed to enter
towns and cities at present held by the
armies of Spain on the payment of an
import duty.
Cisneros most emphatically denies
that bandits or outlaws form any part
army, and prOclaimS that notwith-
standing the course being pursued by
Spain toward captured insurgent SOL
dierS and political prisoners, the Gu
ba government will not retaliate
The manifesto concludes with these
words: I'VE are now strong in num-
bers, and in hopes, but if our armies
the field, we will never give up. Cuba
will perish with the world looking on
before renouncing her one great hope
and Observation-Disclosures"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-31
WILL BE COLDER.
Temperature May Reach Freezing
Point By Tomorrow Morning.

Temperature May Reach Freezing
Point BY Tomorrow Morning.
The weather of the last day of March
is somewhat cooler than yesterday, and
the wind is blowing at a velocity of IS
miles an hour The weather men state
that tomorrow they will spring an April
surprise in the form of a moderate cold
wave and that the temperature will reach
the freezing point by tomorrow morning.
They fail 10 say whether it will be fair
or cloudy.
Along the lines of the Rock Island and
Santa Fe in Kansas today the weather is
reported partly cloudy with high vari-
able winds and thermometer of from
"a to 90
In Colorado last night along the line
of the Rock Island from Roswell to Ly-
man snow and sleet was experienced.
and this morning in that state a melting
snow was reported to be falling along
the line of the Santa Fe. In New Mex
leo and Texas the weather is reported
cloudy and pleasant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-31
BUTGHERY.
Cuban Patriots Are ChOked to
Death Today
By the Inhuman and Horrible
Spanish GarrOte.
NECKS IN A COLLAR
Made of Iron, Which is Slowly
Compressed
Until Life is Extinct in the Vic
tim.
TO ADD TO HORRORS
Every One of the Five UnfOrtu-
nate CubanS
Is Bunglingly Put to Death
Emitting Clicked Shrieks.

Havana, March 31.-Never in modern
times has there been a more sicken-
ing spectacle than which today at
tended the public execution of the five
Cubans.
The men had been condemned to
death by the garrote as "murderers,
violaters and incendiaries." Troops
were drawn up in hollow square and in
the middle were placed the chair and
post.
Ruise, the public executioner had
deputized an assistant to conduct the
affair. The condemned men having re
ceived the offices of the church, were
brought into the square to meet their
fate.
. One of them had confessed his guilt
and affirmed the innocence of all the
others who also protested that they
were guiltless. The first man TO die
took his seat in the chair calmly; the
iron collar was fixed about his neck
and the cap drawn over his face.
Then the executioner undertook to
apply the screw but was SO excited
that his hand slipped repeatedly with
the result that the victim died by slow
strangulation emitting tie while the
most distressing cries.
The second execution was accom-
plished with even more distressing
awkwardness, the execution being
almost on the verge of collapse as he
performed his horrible function. The
protests of the officers and priests
forced Ruise to undertake the third eX
ecution, but he did little better than
his assistant had done. The fourth
victim of bungling garroters was like
wise tortured and then Ruise literally
fed from his post, leaving his assist
ants to put to death the fifth OF the
unfortunate Cubans, who escaped none
of the agonizing experiences that had
attended the execution of his fellows.
The whole affair has left upon those
who witnessed it and upon those to
whom it has been described a feeling
of the utmost horror.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-31
OVERMYER WILL BE PAID,
But Eugene Hagan's Claim for 81 900
is sHeId Up' for Time.

Washington, March 31.-The attorney
general has sent a letter to the house
committee on appropriations saying
Eugene Eagan, of Topeka, should not
ceiver of the Leavenworth Coal COM
pany until the suits are all finally ad-
justed in court. This does not meet
with the approval of Mr. Curtis, who
cannot see why pay should be withheld
from Mr. Hagan, who has completed
his part of the work.
An effort will be made to have the
allowance covered in the general def
cheney bill. The attorney general also
informs the committee that he can see
no objection to the payment of 9?,700
to David Overmyer for services in
BLACK Bob land cases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-31
tunity to join the rroutman-McKinley

tunity to join the Mckinley
procession.
The purpose of the meeting and the
organization of a Troutman club will
be accomplished if Cy Leland finds
that the state at large knows that there
is no division of sentiment in Topeka
and that when the time comes an I'M
divided delegation will be sent to the
state convention to vote for the nom
ination of James A Troutn1an for gov
ernor.
The friends of Mr. Troutman in To-
peka were at first afraid of coming out
boldly and declaring their preference
by the organization of a club in the in
terests of Mr.. Troutman. When it was
shown however, that the Troutnan
sentiment originated outside of Shaw
nee county and that the people were
waiting to see the effect at his home, it
was decided that they should not be
kept in suspense on the question.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-31
TROUTMAN FOLKS.
The Opening Of His Campaign for
Governor in Topeka Tomor-
row Night.

The details of the Troutman meeting
to be held tomorrow evening at Ham
tlton hall have been completed.
Unless something unforeseen prevents
it will be a meeting that will leave the
friends of Lieutenant Governor Trout
man all over Kansas with no possible
doubt about the attitude of Shawnee
county and that the county is over
whelmingly anti-Morrill and just as
unanimously for Mr.. Troutman
Every friend of Mr.. Troutman in the
city or county is invited to be at Ham
ilton hall tomorrow night. The ina
nimity of sentiment on the question
of Mr.. Troutman'S candidacy must be
shown by an enthusiastic meeting.
The Modoc club viii be present
with Major T. ] Anderson at their
head and they viii sing some special
music written for the occasion. In
the Troutman campaign this summer
the influence of the Modocs viii be
felt from one end of the state TO the
other.
Nearly all the prominent politicfas
in the city will make short speeches.
There Will be no long drawn out talk.
The speeches will be brief and to the
point.
Those who have aged to speak are
Judge N. C. Mcfarland, Major T. J.
Anderson, Gen. A. L. Williams. judge
John Guthrie, Judge John Morton. J.
Lee Knight and Major William Sims.
After the meeting a Troutman club
will be organized and as many of his
friends as wish will be given an oppor-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-31
Consulting the Proprieties.

''No, Maria, said Mr.. Cumrox, ST
won't have any coat of arms on my car
riage, and that's all there is about it. -
''But folks'n make remarks if we
don t. J"
t'Well, they'll make remarks if we
do.
''But don't you think that men who
have had your success in life are expect
ed to make some display"
''Oh. yes, and I'll tell you what TIL
do. I'll have my initials, all twisted to-
gether, painted on the carriage, and
then all that anybody can say is that
Cumrox has put his money gram on
his coach, which'll be just about the
fact of the case. Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-31

$50 you have been having pretty
dry time out in Kansas?''
"Dry? Well, rather. Why, the air
was SO dry out there that the moon used
to fairly raise dust as it went through
the sky and the moisture was all evap-
Grated out of the milky way until it
looked like a long trail of pulverized
chalk. -
Chow did you get water for your
selves and stock?''
"Well, that was a hard matter. We
used to have to run the we'll through
the clothes wringer every morning to
get water for cooking, and we would go
and throw lot of little pebbles on the
barn to make the horses think it was
rain falling on the roof, and in that
way keep them from getting discour-
aged. Truth.