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Kansas City daily journal., 1896-07-29

General Passenger Agent Lockwood. of
the Memphis line. is In Memphis attending
to business matters.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-07-29

Shipped daily in secure package. by
GEORGE EYSSELL. Druggist.
Opposite waiting room. Union depot.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-04-08

supporting outside of orange growi ng.
And this means that the orange crop
will be surplus crop and a genuine
source of wealth.
The great majority of orange growers
are hard at work to rehabilitate their
groves. The appearance of the groves.
a year after the freeze, is such as to rem
der it certain that, with we'll directed
energy, the groves can readily be again
brought into bearing, and the growers
have shown during the past year suf-
ficiency of pluck and energy, and fer
tility Of resource, to accomplish all that
is necessary.
In again establishing the groves, it is
to be noticed that great care is being
exercised in budding to obtain the best
varieties, and the consequence will be
that the great proportion of the fruit
produced will be of a superior quality.
The next ten or fifteen years will wit
ness the receipt by the growers of good
prices for their fruit, caused by the
limited supply and the greatly superior
quality.
And all this points to what? All our
home needs produced at home and the
orange crop realizing more largely will
bring about one certain result. Florida
will become, and that soon, field for
investment equal if not superior to any
other in this country. Those with
money to invest will not be slow to see
this and property in Florida will be de-
sirable. Those who see only the hard
work ahead of them, and allow their
pessimistic dispositions to blind them to
the natural probabilities of the future,
will see cause for regret in too hasty
action in sacrificing now what soon is
bound to become valuable. But year
or two, and Florida will be one of the
most prosperous states in the union
Palatka Times-Herald.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-04-08

partial shade for ITSELF He advised
planting in rows three and one-half feet
apart and one foot apart in the row, Gull
tivated one way. He prevented the dep
relations of the boil worm by putting a
pinch of sulphur on each ear just as the
ear was forming.
Mr.. Smith has been very successful in
raising field corn, largely due, he thinks,
to fat culture and almost constant Gull
tivation. His corn will stand the test
commonly used in the west, as follows:
Take piece of paper and wrap it around
the ear, drawing the ear out. The corn,
shelled from the cob. should fill the pa
per bag thus formed. To come up to
this standard the cob should be small,
the kernels long and the ear well filed
out at the ends.
Mr.. Smith keeps the weevils out of
his corn by sprinkling a little baking
soda over the corn in the bin.-Palatka
Herald.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-04-08

Florida's educational record for the
period covered by the last census period,
from 1880 to 1890, as compared with
that of the United States, and of the
Southern States, was exceedingly salts
factory. What it has been since 1890
can be estimated only from the local
evidences of continued progress. Ac-
cording to the census reports, the
decrease in the percentage of illiteracy in
the United States was 21.S. In the
Southern States it was 24.1, being
gain of 2.3 per cent. over the average of
the Union. In Florida the percentage of
decrease was $50, or 11.S greater than
the average of the Southern States, and
AL greater than the average of the
United States. The decrease in the per
centage of illiteracy among the negroes
in the United States was 1879; in the
Southern States, 1877; and in Florida
2S.4.-Citizen.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-04-08
Sweet Corn Culture.

Last Saturday afternoon the Fruitland
Peninsular horticultural and Mutual
Help Association met at Huntington,
and talked about various matters of in
terest. Probably the one of as great
benefit as any other was the talk, by re-
quest, which Mr.. A. J. Smith gave his
ellow-cultlvators on sweet corn. Mr..
Smith has been about as successful in
his methods of cultivation as anybody
in Florida, counting results as the
standard; so what he says has value.
He planted his sweet corn last year in
moist ground, and he thought 1t should
be planted quite thickly so as to make a
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-04-08
The Future in Florida,

The experiences of the past year have
taught US all that there is something to
be done in Florida besides growing or
anges. The measure of success met with
in growing for our home needs has in
dlcated what the State has squandered
in the past in foreign markets. The en-.
couragement thus given by the results
of the first years efforts will be followed
up to vastly greater extent, and the
future will see the State more than self
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-04-08

only few months ago, and had been
fattened on cotton seed meal aud hulls.
Such results are possible in any portion
of the State, and the sooner Florida stock
men realize how easily they can supply
the market with fine meat, the earlier
will they begin to share with the i'm
porters of Western meats the large
profits that are now made in the busi-
ness.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-04-08
Florida Beef Cattle.

The Barlow Courier-Informant gives
an a account of the shipment of thirty
beef cattle, from Polk county to Key
West, which averaged 1880 in weight.
They were ordinary "Florida scrubs
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-04-08
The Home Garden.


and it is far less trouble and expense
than one who has never tried might
suppose. 1t is not necessary to plant
everything in the seedsman's catalogue.
non even to try noveltles-though a
person who takes an interest in such
matters will always do it. Most people
have their favorite vegetables, and 1t Is
best to put in the ground, for home use,
simply such as the family prefer to
have upon the table-the housewife can
usually advise upon this question-and
then take proper care of them. Too
many plant this and that, little of
everything they take fancy to in the
spriag catalogues (they like the looks OF
it in the picture) get tired when the
real Florida weather comes, let the
ground pack about the roots, weeds and
grass choke them, even if they have
made much headway-we all know that
persistent war must be made on the
crabgrass-then when a few, if any,
small, stunted, tough vegetab les are the
result, who is to blame?
sOh, says Farmer Told-you-so, don't
buy your seeds of that man. Why, l
planted nearly everything he advertises,
and we haven't had decent mess of
vegetables yet-all trash-now warn
you;and they're more bother than they're
worth anyhow, even if they'd grow"
"Garden stuff" will not grow any
where under the sun without attention
of the proper kind. don't consider
few rows of turnips, or dozen er so
cabbages supplementing the patch of
sweet potatoes, a garden by any means.
Seed should be started early, and when
in danger of frost the young plants may
easily be protected--newspapers, small
boxes, or anything convenient can be
put over them; the square cartridge
boxes chat accumulate where the good
man is hunter, are found exactly
suited for covering quite young plants.
Lettuce, radlshes. onions and some
others need no protection. Tomatoes
should be sown in boxes In the house,
may be set out of doors in the sun dur
ing the day, and brought in at night
when nights are cool, then when the
earth is sufficiently warmed to warrant
planting; the young tomato plants are
ready, and no time lost. Besides you
will be using this excellent "fruit of
the vine" long before the rains begin to
devastate the gardens, and the vines
being to "scald," an important point in
growing tomatoes. There are SO many
different and equally nice vegetables,
and individual tastes differ so, that I
could not advise in regard to what
should be planted in the Florida spring
garden. Some are much more easily
grown than others, and some are truly
"too much bother"as not suited to our
soil and climate-seedsmen here tell
you this in their catalogues Cat least Mr..
Hastings does), and when that IS the
case, do not waste your time and labor
but plant the vegetables better suited
to Florida. For home garden, home
made fertilizers and those from cow
pen and stable are all that are needed
Southern RuraliSt.
The news boy., 1896-05-16

The Administration Democrats
have hatched out a very nice scheme
if they can work it successfully. Any
State that has a ''favorite son" who
asks for an Endorsement usually gets
it-although Cullom got slipped up
on in Illinois. The Administration
proposes to have 'favorite son" in
as many States as possible. In Illi-
nois Stevenson is to be the presiden-
tial possibility; in Kentucky Carlisle
is to be the man; in Pennsylvania ex-
Gov. Pattison has already received
the endorsement; in Georgia Hoke
Smith proposes to carry the day, and
SO it will go all along the line, and
the people are to be buncoed and
hoodooed into voting for this or that
or any other man-just so it is not
Bland or any other free silver advo-
cate. In this way they hope to con-
centrate their forces and defeat the
will of the people. On square deal
the free silverites can defeat the gold
bugs and give them the ace, deuce
and jack. All we ask is a fair show
for the game.
The news boy., 1896-05-16

IT is now twenty years since A. T.
Stewart, the merchant prince of New
York, died and left will. During
all this interim the distribution of
the estate has been in litigation. A
dispatch from New York announces
that there are now only six suits
against the estate pending, and that
the expiration of twenty years time
will act as bar to the filing of new
suits. In the course of years it is to
be presumed the estate will be
finally settled. The wealthy man
who undertakes to distribute his
property according to his own desire
is usually inviting endless litigation.
Imaginary relatives turn up every
where, and expert testimony is never
lacking to prove that the will was
the result of deception, undue in
tiuence or insanity. Samuel ]. Til,
den was one of the best lawyers in
New York, and yet his will was pro-
tested as soon as it was offered for
probate. Poor men, it may be OBJ
served, do not experience much diff
Guilty in disposing of their property.
Jefferson City Tribune.
The news boy., 1896-05-16

KNOWING that the NEwsBoY has as
little use for Cleveland and his ad-
ministration as cart has for rud-
der, Editor Henderson, of the Dunk
lin County Register, gets off the fol-
lowing: "The Benton Newsboy is
always 'gnatty and clipper and
abounds in expressions which cannot
be borrowed without consent of Edi-
tor Hafner. 1t is among the few ad,
ministration papers OF the Southeast,
and no doubt Mr.. Cleveland will re-
ward the brother at the end of his
term, with an appointment as super
visor of the free silver mints of the
country. Seriously speaking, the
Newsboy is a bright, ncwsy sheet
and is welding a power in shaping
the politics of Scott county"
The news boy., 1896-05-16
NO DIFFERENCE

In order to prove to the people that
there is positively no difference be-
tween a John Sherman Republican
and Grover Cleveland Democrat
we will quote from the Republican
State platform of Illinois and the
Democratic State platform of Penn
sylvania. In their platform the Re
publicans of Illinois say:
'We are opposed to any and every
scheme that will give this country {
currency in any way deprecated OF
debased, or in any respect inferior t.
the money of the most advanced ant
intelligent nations of the earth. W,
favor the use of silver as currency
but to the extent only, and unde
such restrictions, that parity will
gold can be maintained.
The Pennsylvania Democrats agre,
with their Republican brethren of II
linois and adopted the following
money plank:
"We believe that the interests O
the people demand money of tn,
greatest intrinsic value and of th,
highest standard adopted by the civ
ilized nations of the world. We are
therefore, unalterably opposed to al
devices and schemes for the debase
ment of our currency and to all eva
sions and compromises of question
SO closely affecting individual ant
National credit and honor"
What the NEwsBoY is looking TO
just now is some ''honest money
man to explain to us the difference
between the declaration of the Re
publicans in Illinois and the Demo
Gratis of Pennsylvania? The differ
ence is the same as the difference be
tween Sherman and Cleveland.
The news boy., 1896-05-16
AS To A Senator.

Last week the Democrat suggested
few points that representative in
the lower house of the Legislature
from this county should possess. This
week is good time to suggest that
a state senator from this district
should be even more attentive to the
business he is elected to attend to.
He represents a number of counties
that expect he will look after theil
interests. Two years ago the sena.
tor from this district, through want ol
watchfulness, came very near letting
the Republicans organize the senate
he was not present in the senate al
the most critical hour of the session.
True, only a political advantage was
at stake then, but it might have
been a more serious question.
In this connection it is proper tc
state that lobbyists, in the past few
years, have learned that at the state
capitals, as at the national capitol,
it is much cheaper to control the
senate than the house of representa-
tives. The numbers are SO much
smaller. In Missouri there are but "a
senators and 143 representatives. 1t
is so much easier to control, influence
vote or own (any Of the words NEAR
the same thing) 18 men, a majority
of the senate, than it is to control 72
men, a majority Of the house.
So these lobbyists, or promoters,
in Missouri have but to see that
they have lS reliable men in the
senate and they can defeat any mo
tion, bill or measure that comes up
So let's have safe, wise aud pure
man forsenator. .--Dunklin Democrat
The news boy., 1896-05-16
AFTER ALL THE PIE.

For some years past members Of
Congress have been allowed $100 per
month to be applied to the hiring Of
clerk during the sessions of Con-
gress. Last week the climax was
reached when the Republican house
voted that a Congressman should be
entitled to 800 per month for clerk
hire during his entire term in Office,
whether he had clerk or not.
The more respectable and respon-
sible men on both sides voted against
this measure, but it carried by o vote
of 100 to 1OS.
Many Congressman employ no
clerks at all and simply pocket the
extra 800. Congressman who do
their duty have great deal of work
and quite an extensive correspon-
dence, and there can be no good
reason why they should not be allowed
clerk at public expense during the
sessions of Congress, but to allow
them 800 for clerk hire while they
are at home and doing no service
for the people is very much like al
lowing a man pay for acting as his
own deputy.
However, should a Congressman
see fit to employ a clerk during his
stay at home, that clerk would be of
no service to the people but would be
paid by the public to perform cam
paign services for his chief. But this
is not the chief argument against the
scandalous transaction, says Wash
ington correspondent. 1t is notorious
that many members employ no clerk,
but religiously draw the 800 a month
and deposit it safely in their own
pockets. This, of course, is a palpa.
BILE fraud. 1t is worse than that; it
is robbery. Efforts have been made
from time to time to amend the law
so as to make the clerk a public Off
cial, drawing his money from the dis
bursting officer the same as other EN-.
ployes. The thrifty jobbers in the
House, however, have opposed thi:
and kept the law so that they coult
profit by it themselves. 1t is motor
ious that several members of Con
gress give this 800 that they have
voted themselves to their wives ant
daughters.
The news boy., 1896-05-16

THEY talk about the gold leaving
this country if silver be restored.
We would like for someone to devise
means by which gold could leave this
country faster than it is now leaving.
Only recently we borrowed 800, 900,
600 in order to protect our treasury
reserve. OF this over s25, 900, 900 has
already crossed the ocean. Few peo-
pie realize what is meant by s25, 900,
600. 1t means ten times the assessed
valuation of Scott county. Do you
understand?
The news boy., 1896-05-16

ITseems ridiculous to discuss witch
craft at the close of the nineteenth
century, and that anyone should be-
lieve in it's existence is incredible.
But there is such case in suburb
of Wilkesbarre, Pa. A miner had a
COW and the foreman of the mine
wanted to buy her. The miner re-
fused to sell, and the next day the
COW went dry. Furthermore two of
the miners family were taken ill.
The miner accused the foreman of
bewitching the COW, all the neighbors
sided with him, and the foreman
actually had to leave town to escape
personal violence. The miner even
threatens to 60 to law, and there he
may, perhaps, have his eyes opened.
The news boy., 1896-05-16
AS TO CUBA.

Cuba is an island whose people are
fighting for liberty-just as our fore.
fathers fought. The people of Cuba,
like all people who are enslaved and
oppressed, are not burdencd with
''book learning" but they are suffl-
ciently wise to know that they are
being oppressed-just as our people
were being oppressed by England
more than a century ago.
For more than year the revolu-
tionists have established and main
tanned a government of their own.
Recognizing the United States as q
nation favoring liberty and opposed
to oppression, the Cubans have ap-
pealed to Uncle Sam for recognition
as belligerents.
While Congress has expressed q
willingness to lend, at least, an i'm
partial hand to our struggling neigh
bors, our Grover can't see it that
way. He don't see anything in sight.
They've got no barl.
However, Gen. Lee has been ap-
pointed to investigate the condition
of affairs, and the result of his in
! vestigation will be awaited with
much anxiety. A Washington cor
respondent says that in Havana Cen
eral Lee will be surrounded by wholly
Spanish influences. The Spanish side
of the question will be presented to
him at length and in strong lights.
General Weyler may be expected to
welcome the new official with due
ceremony and with the intention of
favorably impressing him. That will
mean much. Soldiers know how to
entertain soldiers and reach each
others chummy side. But who will
speak for the insurgents? Where and
from whom is General Lee to get his
information about them? Is he to
90 out and seek them2 Will General
Weyler permit that? Will General
Lee undertake that? And if he tries
such a course what is likely to be the
! result?
The news boy., 1896-05-16

THE Springfield Republican has got
enough of protection" and says that
an American firm has been selling
10000 tons of steel rails to Japan at
prices considerably below what the
English manufacturers have been
asking. And still they are bowling
for Mckinley, who would give the
steel rail ring higher tariff than the
present one behind which it is charg-
ing American consumers $28 ton
and foreigners s21.50. But heaven
protect US from another campaign
over this old straw.
The news boy., 1896-05-16

AcoxMrrTEE, representing foreign
business interests" presented Presi-
dent Diaz, of Mexico, with gold
plate, with suitable inscriptions,
which cost $4,000. Possibly these
foreign business interests" are
seeking to capture President Diaz as
they captured Cleveland and hope to
get the President of the Mexican re.
public to advocate "honest money.
These "foreign business interests
are not going over the country max
ing $4,000 presents just for their
health. If silver is restored in the
United States the value of that $780,.
900 gold plate will decrease one-half.
See2
The news boy., 1896-05-16
SIC I'M TIGE.

Rev. Chew, Of the Madison County
Democrat, and Bro. AXE, OF the Iron
ton Register, are now enjoying them
selves. Bro. Chew is making all
sorts of faces at Bro. AXE since the
failure of the Arcadia Valley Woolen
Mills, but Bro. AXE is equal to the
emergency and reminds Bro. Chew
of the "bunco" game played on the
Methodist conference to secure the
location of the Marvin Collegiate In
stitute at Fredericktown.
That questionable methods were
resorted to in securing the location
for Fredericktown cannot be denied.
A guarantee fund of s25, 900 ended
in wind, and the erection of the in
stitution had scarcely begun until
every part of the country was ap-
pealed to for assistance-and the
necessary assistance to complete the
structure has not yet arrived, but
State, district and county candidates
are being "worked" to their fullest
capacity-and preacher does the
working" act.
Bro. AXE, one of the oldest and
ablest of Southeast Missouri editors,
has this to say to his Fredericktown
brother:
Ever since its editor at
tempted to convince himself and the
public that Fredericktown had q
guaranteed fund of twenty-five thous-
and dollars, "as we'll worth that sum
as one dollar is worth another" to
secure the location of the Marvin Col.
legiate Institute at that point-al-
though no such fund ever had an ex-
istence-his mental perceptions have
been growing as unsteady as the feet
of an intoxicated man.
However, no one can accuse the peo-
pie of Arcadia Valley of attempting
to transfer their loss to the shoulders
of others, nor of having an enterprise
established in their own town at the
| cApcliSc vi Iut IcSI VI Vic OldJc. lit
Woolen Mill had no lottery attach.
ment to it. Our people did not &C
into the show business in it's behalf
No chain, or other device, was orig
mated to denude the earth of sill
yer in it's interests. No Conference
or other body was deluded into the
belief that we had money which we
did not possess. Agents were not
sent over the State to secure from
its people money that we declared
we had on hand. There are no un
finished barracks on our hands under
the non, de plume of College or Woolel
Mill, whose bare walls shrink abashei
from the gaze of the public, and i'm
plore the spiders to come and will
their webs make good our promise tt
hide their nakedness. Our highway.
and byways are not infested by mel
with subscription books, until the
traveller regards every hedgerow will
suspicion, and every fence corner as ;
snare.
The news boy., 1896-05-16

THE school board of Arcola, ILL.,,
has been served with notice that ac-
tion will be brought to recover s., 900
damages by the parents of a boy who
fell from temporary fence used as
a back stop by ballplayers on the
school grounds and received injuries
which will make him cripple for
life. The suit is based on the ground
that the school directors are liable
for the accident in permitting the
structure to remain on the school
Fairgrounds. 1t is not hard to guess
what jury will do with such plea.