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J. S. PARKER, WOOD CARVING IN
all its branches. 906 Ninth street, oppo-
site Plaza
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-WILCOx & GIBBS AUTO.
matte sewing machine, nearly new, at I'll
ii street. mr5-3t*
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WOODS CHEAP STORAGE ROOMS,
ll23 Front. Baggage, furniture and
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NOVELS AND BOUND BOOKS Bought
sold and exchanged az reduced prices
725 & street.
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506 K-CONVENIENT LOCATION; ALI
outside rooms; day, week or month
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TO LET-TWO FINELY FURNISHED
rooms, with bath and kitchen. Inqulr
DIR. A. J. THOMAS, Dentist. 511A J ST.
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GENERAL NOTICES.

WRINGERS REPAIRED, 824 K, OPPO-
site Hale Bros. TeIephone 454.
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GOOD PASTURAGE-MIX HORSES
and colts at 81 head 1,7OO acre tract
adjoining Cardwell Colony; mixed cattle
90 cents. JOHN T. CARDWELL. 3Ol ]
street, or at Cardwell Colony
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MEETING NOTICES.

WASHINGTON LODGE, NO. 20. F, a
and A. M.-Stated meeting THIS "a
n MARCH A;l,SI 9TH, 5th, at as $50 p M Members NN
1t* G. HEISEN. JR.. w. NJ.
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MONEY TO LOAN. H. j. GOETHE. 1o11
Fourth street.
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ury, exclusive of coupon ac-
counts. :. 50 O4o 6eg 81
Total amount in several cou-
pom accounts. LID 90
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AMERICAN DYE COMPANY HAVE
removed from 1909 Fourteenth street to
2509-11 ]. In the future they will be
known as the San Francisco Dye Works
with increased facilities for turning
work out promptly, they hope to merit
the patronage of the public. SAN
FRANCISCO DYEING AND CLEAN
ING COMPANY
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BOARD AND LODGING.

S31 NJ STREET-BAY WINDOW ROOM:
well furnished; also board if desired.
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tween Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth,
to rent. Inquire H. J. GOETHE. 1O11
Fourth street.
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FRONT ROOM WITH MANTEL AND
crate Apply 222 M street.
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MEETING SUMNER CORPS THURSDAY Y
at $50 p. m, at Foresters Hall.
Its CORDELIA /. WILEY. President.
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VIENNA CAFE AND OYSTER AND
coffee parlors; fine commercial lunch
from IL TO 2; oysters for family trade;
oyster loaves a speciality. WILLIAM
BODEEIEID. Proprietor 701 ] street.
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REDUCTION IN FUEI-SUMMER
wood, stove length, 81 per cord; oak
stove wood from So to 81 30; 4-foot oak
81. and pine So 50. Also Wellington,
Castle Gate Rock Springs coal always
on hand and for sale at the lowest cash
prices. JAMES MCAW, 518 L street.
Telephone No. 53S
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ELEGANT UPRIGHT PIANO FOR
rent. Apply at once to CHAS. NJ. CAMP
BELL, 4O9 K street.
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sweet potatoes that certainly looked fine
and I saw on one side several punches OF
vines that had from four to SIX fine po-
tatoes still adhering to them and Mr..
Adams said it was not uncommon to
find hills with 10 to IL large fine pota-
toes in hill and but few small ones;
the potatoes all in shape of an oval and
thick meated and very light flesh color,
some little pink on one side. | cooked
some and found them free from strings
and rich in flavor. Mr. Adams planted
the seed and found this variety and he
tod me he had near 40 bushels on
three-eighths of an acre or at the rate of
$50 or over per acre, with moderate cul-
ture, and he set draws instead of vines
and cultivated fiat. was so well pleased
with them I bought one.half bushel to
bed out and raise vines. I got one vine
with four potst toes still adhering to it
that weighed nearly six pounds. Then
Mr.. Adams showed me some fine corn
and also shed full of bundles Of rice
he had grown. The bundles were very
heavy and the rice heads long and we'll
filed. Still he advocates no diversity of
farming.
But to get back to the question of
what is best to do with the orange trees
is still a study to those who advocate a
thorough tillage. The old tops must
be got rid of and out of the way but it
is costly job to cut the tops out of very
large trees and get the brush out the
way so as to make clean cultivation, and
such as have not got means can let them
rot out as Mr., Adams IS doing.
FL. J. M. PORTER.
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For the Florida Agriculturist.
Hard Wood Ashes.
FL. J. NJ. PORTER.

What Mr.. Persons says about hard
wood ashes will be In the nature of a
revelation to most horticulturists.
That while oak ashes contain 46 per
cent of potash and hickory 28 per cent,
overturns all our previous knowledge
and should raise the price of hard wood
ashes to something like their true value.
l bought several carloads some years ago
mostly hlckory-and sent sample to
Professor Sharples, state assayer for
Massachusetts, and he gave an analysis
as 5.81 per cent potash and wrote me
they were "a good article"
l have before me the bulletin of the
Massachusetts, Agricultural College for
August 1892, which gives the determin-
alton of nine samples of wood ashes and
the average was 4.87 per cent potash.
These determinations correspond very
closely with determinations made in
other colleges and were nearly up to the
claims which the dealers in hard wood
ashes make for their goods.
Evidently there is great error some
where and it is very important to buy
ers Of potash to know where 1t occurred.
DUDLEY w. ADAMS.
TaRgerins, Fla, Feb, 2s, 80.
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Painting to Repel Borers.

Insectsare SO largely guided by the
sense of smell that anything which dis
guises the odor of their favorite food or
places for depositing eggs is likely to
serve as protection by throwing them
off the track. Painting with white
paint in which little carbolic acid has
been used to mix the paint has been
found an effectual preventive Of the
attacks of the peach tree borer. The
trunk should be painted to a height Of
two feet or more, and the earth should
be scraped away so as to paint several
inches beneath the surface. This earth
should be replaced after the paint has
dried. The odor Of carbolic acid re.
mains in paint long time, and one
painting each year will be sufficient pro.
lection, 1t is possible, however, that
the borer, finding the peach trunk dis
guised near the ground, may take to
laying its eggs higher up. 1t might be
even necessary Co paint the trunk up as
far as where the limbs branch out
Courier Informant.
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81 per Annum, in advance
Sumatra Tobacco in Florida.

BY far the most important part of this
industry is with reference to type OF
tobacco grown from imported Sumatra
seed. 1t has been demonstrated beyond
contravent1on that this high grade of
tobacco can be grown in Leon and Gads-
den counties In Florida in it's highest
state of development. Experiments have
been conducted for the last four years
with imported Sumatra seed, but it has
been exceedingly difficult to obtain
sufficient quantity of pure seed to raise
an entire crop. This difficulty has now
been overcome by the expenditure of
large amount of money, and it is safe to
say that the counties of Leon and Gads-
den will in round numbers produce not
less than $500 acres of tobacco grown
from the best type of pure Sumatra
seed this year, a very considerable
quantity having been grown last year.
The growing of the high type of
Sum atra leaf in Middle Florida has di.
rected the attention of tobacco buyers
throughout the United States to this
section this season, at least dozen Of
the largest houses having their repre-
sentatives in the field purchasing this
crop, the result being that today fully
ninety per cent of the crop of 1895 is in
the hands of the buyers within two
months from maturing of the crop. Or
dinarily, the crop of one'year is held by
the grower until the following spring,
when the buyer has made his appear.
ance; but those conditions have been
reversed. He is now on the ground be-
fore the tobacco is taken down from the
curing shed, and where careful attention
has been given to the handling of the
crop the planter has obtained fancy
price.-Middle Florida Industrial Bulle-
tin,
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DeLand, Fla, Wednesday, March ii, 1896.

fully as we'll as on any grove had
seen. Mr.. Adams said he should not put
any fertilizer on these trees before next
fall as he considered the sprouts did not
need any and were growing as fast as
he cared to have them. asked him IT
he intended to cut the old, dead tops out
and he laughingly said: II can't get
anyone to do it for nothing and don't
feel like doing it myself, so [ have con-
cluded to let them rot ont and trim
themselves, they can do it much better
than I can and when the wind breaks
them off 1 will pile them around the
trees for manure"
then asked him if he intended to
thin out any of the sprouts and put in
any buds. He said: No, not sweet seed
lings, but lemon and sour stock I shall
bud, and in fact he had basket with
gratis and buds on his arm and had
started out to werk when l met him.
He said: "Come with me and l will
show you something" and he took me
to the north side of his old grove and
showed me some buds and CRAFTS he had
put in one year ago in February and
they were certainly fine sight. There
were ten acres Of as handsome buds as
ever saw, that stood about five to SIX
feet high, with nice spreading tops and
looked like trees at least six years old
and nearly all showed full of bios
som buds and bid fair to being a nice
little crop of oranges this year.
This ten acres had been budded
to oranges on old sour Florida lemon
stock and when the freeze came were
killed down to the ground. Mr.. Adams
sent to California for buds and gratis
and went to work and cut the old bodies
down clear to the ground and some
three to four inches below the surface
until he found solid live wood; he then
slipped in from one to five CRAFTS on each
stump according to size in between the
bark and wood and about 80 per cent
lived. When sprouts or gratis were two
feet high he went over the lot and
pinched off the top and the graft
branches and when about two feet more
growth had been made he went over
and pinched off again and he did so the
third time, the result was stocky well
branched bud; and now full of bloom
buds. Had all done so that had budded
trees killed, there would be pleasant
grins on their faces this spring instead
of sorrowful looks. The old tree tops
all cut up fine and all piled around the
young buds, and it looks like an old
clearing before the heaps are fred. But
who cares for looks when it shows
good crop? 1t is a sight worth travelling
a hundred miles to see and shows what
can be done if we only know how.
Now" says Mr.. Adams, ''let me show
you something else," and he took me
into building and showed me pile
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XIII, MOL |. Whole No. 9O7.

For the Florida Agriculturist.
Treatment of Orange Groves.
went to Zellwood from Montverde to
look after my orange grove in Zellwood.
Most of my trees were old, nearly
twenty-five years and seedlings; some
were about twenty years old. l have
plowed them out, turning under the
grass and weeds, with two horse plow
with moon coulter. / had left the
trees with most of the old dead tops and
now thought it time to cut them out.
But when viewed the trees full of new
sprouts from the ground up to six or
eight feet and many trees with sprouts
on fifteen feet from the ground I saw
what task Ihad before me. The trees
certainly look fine and I believe some Of
the largest sprouts will yield some or
anges this year. In another month the
blossoms will show. [ could hardly
make up my mind what to do so I con-
cluded to visit other groves and see how
the owners or managers were treating
their trees. Around Zellwood there are
ten to fifteen years and | found the old
seedlings had been pretty well trimmed
upand the budded trees cut to the ground
but saw none that looked better than
my own and but few that looked so well,
while as a general rule on trees that had
been trimmed up and old stumps cut
away the sprouts were not near as large
or thick around the trees as my own
that had not been touched. Around
Tangerine found them about evenly
divided. Part of the groves trimmed
up and part that had been left and
nothing at all done to them not even
plewed, and invariably the groves that
had not been touched looked better than
the groves that the tops had been cut
off and cleared away. Such was the
case all the way up to Mount Dora and
when got to groves that were in the
care of D. w. Adams none had been
trimmed or plowed out and also noticed
the old dead tops were rottlng and fall
ing off and they were piled around the
trees to be left to rot. Mr.. Adams had
cleaned space five or six feet wide all
around each tree and the grass and
weeds was piled up on the brush. I was
fortunate to find MIR. Adams at home
and who received me very cordially as
is always his way. With him l went
over his grove, and found it had not
been trimmed or plowed, and in fact it
would be impossible to plow it except a
narrow strip five or six feet wide that
had been cleaned out both ways so that
in case of fire there would be but little
fear of much damage, particularly If any
one was about to look after it. Mr..
Adams told me the old part of the grove
had not been plowed out in eight
years and the mulch around the trees
was several inches thick and the
sprouts were large and fine and looked
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to be insulting. Her quick wit ana
knowledge Of the world helped her to
solution Of the problem. II am poor
and dependent upon my brothers. char
ity," she concluded, with new and
sitting uprising of dissatisfaction with
her condition. Men rarely fall in love
with such-more rarely WOO them"
She never spoke the thought aloud, but
1t grew and strengthened until 1t re-
ceived startling blow from Mr.. With
ers' proposal Of marriage.
He was wealthy banker from
neighboring city, whom business rela-
tions with Mr.. Romano drew to his
house and into his sisters company.
His courtship was all Mrs. Romano
could desire. His visits were not too
frequent, and were paid at stated inter-
walls, as befitted his habits of order and
punctuality. His manner to the lady
honored by his preference was replete
with stately respect that was the an
tipodes of servile devotion, while his
Partially for her society, and admira-
ton for her person, were unmistakable.
He paid his addresses through Mr.. Ro-
maine as his fair ones guardian, offer
ing voluntarily to give his beloved
whatever time for delberation upon the
proposal she desired.
"You had better think 1t over for a
week." advised her brother, when he
had laid the case duly before Con-
stance at is too serious matter to
be settled out of hand"
After that, neither he nor his wife
obtruded their counsel upon her until
the afternoon of the seventh day. Then
Mrs. Romaine, going to her sisters
chamber to communicate the substance
Of telegram just received by her hus-
band to the effect that Mr.. Withers
would call that evening at o'clock,
was moved to grave remonstrance by
the discovery that she whom he came
to woo had no answer prepared for
him. Constance was no nearer ready
after the conversation before recorded.
81 cannot afford to be romantic"
she had reminded herself several
times. "And who knows but this IRA
tional repugnance may pass away when
I have once made up my mind to &C
cept him? This may be-in all likeli-
hood it is-my last chance Of achiev-
ing an Independent position. 1t has
been a long time coming, and my
charms will be on the wane soon. True,
a marriage with Elnathan Withers Is
not the destiny of which have dream
ed, but then dreams are but foolish va
carries after ALL Life is real and ear
nest"
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ness, a token, verbal or looked, that he
remembered whose child she was, and
that the same mother love had guard
cd their infancy. Her sister-in-law
would have been welcome to withhold
many of her gifts of wearing apparel
and jewelry had she bethought herself
now and then how gratefully kisses
fall upon young lips, and that youthful
heads are often sadly weary for the
lack of friendly shoulder or a loving
bosom, on which to rest. She did not
accuse her relatives of willful unkind-
ness because these were withheld They
interchanged no such unremunerattve
demonstrations among themselves.
Husband and wife were courteous in
their demeanor, the one to the other;
their children were demure models of
filial duty at home and industry at
school; the training in both places be-
ing severe enough to quench what fee
BILE glmmer of individuality may have
been born with the offspring of the
methodical and practical parents. Con-
stance found them extremely uninter-
esting, notwithstanding the natural
love for children which led her to court
their companionship during the earlier
weeks Of her domesticatiOn in their
house. 1t was next to a miracle that
she did not stiffen in this atmosphere
into buckram image Of feminine pro-
priety-a prodigy of starch and virtue,
such as would have brought calm de-
light to the well-regulated mind of her
exemplar, and effectually chased all
thoughts of matrimony from those OF
masculine beholders Had her discon-
tent with her allotted sphere been less
active, the result would have been GER
tain and deplorable. She was, instead,
popular among her acquaintances Of
both sexes, and had many friends, II
few lovers. This latter deficiency had
given her no concern until within two
years. At twenty-five she opened her
eyes in wide amaze upon the thinning
ranks of her virgin associates, and be-
gan seriously to ponder the causes that
had left her unsought, save by two very
silly and utterly ineligible SWANS, whose
overtures were, in her esteem, pre-
sumption that was only too ridiculous
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A GEOLOGICAL DIVERSION.
An Elephant That Used to Play Clever
Trick on Visitors.

An Elephant That Used to Play q clever
Trick on Visitors.
The elephant at the Jardin aes
Plantes, at Paris, used to play his VS.
itors a trick, which could not have
been thought of but by an animal OF
much intelligence. His house opened
upon an Enclosure called the Elephants
park, containing a pond, in which ne
would lay himself under the water,
concealing every part Of him except the
very end of his trunk-a mere speck
that would hardly be noticed by q
stranger to the animals habits.
A crowd would assemble around the
Enclosure, and, not seeing him in 1t,
would watch in expectation that he
would soon issue from the house. But,
while they were gazing about, CO
pious sprinkling Of water would fall
upon them, and ladies and gentlemen,
with their fine bonnets and coats,
would run for shelter under the trees,
looking up at the clear sky and wonder
ing whence such a shower could come.
Immediately afterward, however.
they would see the elephant rising
from his bath, evincing, as 1t seemed,
an awkward joy at the trick that he
had played. In the course of time his
amusement became generally known,
and the moment the water began to
rise from his trunk the spectators
would take flight, at which he appeared
exceedingly delighted, getting up as
fast as he could to see the hustle he
had caused.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION

erations as minister of the interior
the ruler of the establishment he, by a
much-abused figure of speech, called
his home. A snug and elegant abode
she made Of it, and. beholding Con-
stance well dressed and we'll fed, habit
ually cheerful and never rebellious, he
may be forgiven for not spending a
thought upon her for hours together,
and when he did remember her, for
dwelling the rather upon his disin-
terested kindness to a helpless depend
ent than specializing upon her possible
and unappeased spiritual appetites.
For these, and for other WITNESSES,
Mrs. Romaine had little thought and no
charity. Life, with her, was a fabric
made up of duties, various and many,
but all double-twisted into hempen
strength and woven too closely for
shine of fancy or romance to strike
through.
She had conceded readily in her hus-
bands plan to take charge Of his young
sister when her parents died. Her
brothers house is the fittest asylum for
her." she had said. II shall do my
best to render her comfortable and con-
tented"
She kept her word. Constance's ward
robe was ample and handsome, her
room elegantly furnished, and she en-
tered society under the chaperonage of
her sister-in-law. The servants were
trained to respect her; the children to
regard her as their elder sister. What
more could penniless orphan require?
Mrs. Romano was not afraid to ask
the question of her conscience and of
heaven. Her best" was no empty pro-
fession. 1t was lucky for her self-com-
placency that she never suspected what
years Of barrenness and longing these
eight were to her prOtege.
Constance was not a genius-there-
fore she never breathed even to her
self: Il feel like a seed in the cold
earth, quickening at heart, and longing
for the air." Her temperament was
not melancholic, nor did her taste run
after poetry and martyrdom. She was
simply young, pretty and moderately
well-educated woman, too sensible not
to perceive that her temporal needs
were conscientiously supplied, and too
affectionate to be satisfied with the
meager allowance of nourishment
dealt out for her heart and sympathies.
While the memory of her fathers proud
affection and her mothers caresses
was fresh upon her she had long and
frequent spells of lonely weeping-was
wont to resign herself in the seclusion
of her chamber to passionate lamenta-
lions over her orphanage and isola-
ton Of spirit. Routine was Mrs. Ro-
names watchword, and in bodily ex-
ercise Constance conformed to her
quiet espotism-visited, studied,
worked and took recreation by rule.
The system wrought upon her benefi-
cially so far as her physique was con-
cerned. She grew from slender, pale
girl into ripe and healthy womanhood;
was more comely at twenty-seven than
at twenty-one.
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Tho Colonel.s idea of II.

The debate on social conditions and
their remedies had been going on for
some time, and Colonel Stillwell was
getting very much in earnest.
what this country suffers from, "
he said, sis too much politics, sub.
Theah abe not enough men saying,
What can do fob my country?' and
too many saying, What can my coun-
try do fob mel? sub. We have too
many otiice-holdahs, subj"
II can't agree with you, colonel VI
said Senator Sorghum. 1t seems to me
that the chief difficulty lies IN the old
discrepancy between supply and de-
mand. AS you say, there are too many
holders"
EXACTLY, suh."
"And not enough Offices" Washing
ton Star.
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The expression of his face showed
that he was easily irritated, and the
contractor into whose Office he walked
braced himself for trouble.
~ WISH" said the irritable man,
shat you would do me favor in con-
nection with the work on my house."
Anything that we can do will be
cheerfully attended to-"
"Thank you. wish you would send
a new man to do the painting"
"But the one we have there is an ex-
cellent workman"
II don't doubt that. But he's been
there three days and he hasn't whistled
anything but Tell Them That You
Saw Me- I'm pretty slow at catching
tune, but I've learned that with all
the variations, and if its just the same
to you Id like to start in on new
one"