davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-01
Fruit Farm on Saw Palmetto Land.

TO the fruit OF Samuel Filler, about
mile and three quarters north of Miami.
Mr.. Filler has one hundred acres of land
in this tract with half mile frontage
on the bay. 1t is what is known as
heavy saw palmetto, and is richer than
the ordinary high pine land. Mr.. Filler
has a magnificent view from his place
on the bay being located nearly west of
Norris cut, through which heis favored
with strong breeze nearly the entire
year. A portion of Mr.. Filer's place
has been planted into fruit trees a
number of years and he has some very
large ones. The foundation of the soil
is of the coraline rock, which prevails
to so generally supposed that oranges
will not thrive upon rock of this kind,
but Mr.. Filler points with pride to a
number of large orange trees which
must be fully 20 years old, and which
are apparently grown upon solid rock.
They are large, thrifty, of good shape
and are also full of fruit. They bear
we'll every year, and Mr. Filler does not
think that the rock formation, judging
from his trees, is fatal to the growth of
the orange in this section. Certainly
his trees gives him reason for so think
ing. Of The orange, he has four or five
fine varieties, which are all looking we'll,
growing WE'LL and are very full of young
fruit. He is putting out to lemon up
wards of ten acres. OF the lemon, he
prefers Villa Francois and imported
Sicily, to which he is setting out his
orchard. Some of his lemons have been
set out five or six years and are this year
full of fruit and promise a handsome
crop. Mr.. Filler is also indulging to
some extent in grapefruit. He has in
grapefruit the Imperial, Trumpet,
Seedless and Royal, some of the very
finest varieties known. They have been
but recently set out, but show remark
able growth for SO young trees. In man
goes Mr.. Filler has seven varieties, for
several of which he paid as high as 81. so
when they were mere slips. He has
few old trees which are full of fruit.
Besides these fruits, Mr.. Filler has, in
full bearing, sSpodillas, maumee apples,
sugar apples, and some very rare avo-
cada pear trees, a number Of varieties
of guavas, which are also full of fruit.
Mr.. Filler has into pines about seven
acres, being very much pleased with
the prospects for a full crop this year.
Besides the common red, he is induiging
in some of the finest varieties. He has
quite large field each of Sugar Loaf.
Porto Rico, Jamaica Ripley, Egyptian
Queen and the Golden Queen. Some Of
his Porto Ricos of which we took note
will probably when fully matured, bal
ance the scales at twelve to fourteen
pounds.
Upon his place Mr.. Filler has very
nice frontage Of cocoanuts and oleander.
His residence is all that could be desired
in a tropical climate; standing back a
few rods from the bay in the midst of
this profusion of tropical fruits and
many beautiful Towering trees, vines
and plants. His rooms are airy and pos
sess all Of the qualifications of a pleasant
home.
Mr.. Filer's place is not by any means
the only one in this section which shows
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-07-01
Real Estate Directory.

Any one contemplating the purchase Of rsat
estate in Florida shostld 7v1te to the ba,tses
6eIo7O in 70AateOer section they uGsh to locatea
It's Mee60T Of the Agricultur1st to haze NON.
but first class firms rsbaesented in this c0lstmut
p EST BARGAINS ever given in orange groves
40 houses. city lots improved and unimproved
lands. Call on address 81. A. DeLand, De-
Land, Fla.
T0HN L. NUCKOLS, dealer In Improved and
- Unimproved Real Estate, DeLand, Fla
I HAVE some OF the finest Orange Groves and
Wild Land Large or Small perties-Some
in the Indian River section Send for circular
@. P. WILLIAMS, Oviedo, Fla.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
81 Sc; special taxes. 1914 IT; total,
$40 1893 81.
ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

The following articles of incorporation
have been filed in the office Of the Sec
retary of State:
! The Western Box, Barrel, Basket anG
Manufacturing Company. Principa
place OF business, Oakland. Capita
stock, 100000, all subscribed, with
Herman Paine, L. C. Jenkins, G. A
James, George E. Randolph and VIM
n. Van De Mark of Oakland as direct
ors.
The New Granada Quartz Mining
Company. Principal place of business
San Francisco. Capital stock, 100000
with $780, 900 subscribed, and r. p
Keating and P. Kerwin of Virginia City
Martin Ford of San Jose, P. J. Dunn
Charles Hirschfeld and Roger Prem
dergast of San Francisco and Frank
Golden and Charles Tozier of Nevada
City as directors.
The Falbrook Club. Principal place
of business, Fallbrook, San Diego Coun-
ty, with c. Hull, NJ. Moulton, w. S. Har-
greaves, N. S. B. Pentreath and H. c.
Hargreaves of Fa1lbrook as directors.
The e. A. Fargo Company. Principal
place of business, San Francisco. Cap
itaI stock, 100000, with $50, 900 sub
0N14DGQy clI0 Il IGQCI1Ch OuCh1tIdIs ~
Goetz, Charles Stepp, Oscar E. Johnson
and Carl Goets of San Francisco as di-
rectors.
Charles w. Pike & Company. Prin-
cipal place of business, San Francisco.
Capital stock, $4,000, with $25, 800
subscribed, and Willis Pike, Charles
w. Pike, Thomas H. Pike, Annie A.
Pike and Charles A. Shurtleff of San
Francisco as directors.
The Pacific Pump and Windmill Com
pany. Principal place of business, San
Francisco. Capital stock, $50,000 all
subscribed, with George P. Thurston,
Fred H. Beaver of San Francisco, James
p. Pierce of Alameda, Joseph II. Pierce
and R. r. Pierce of San Jose as direct
ors
The Agnew and Kisco Company.
Principal place of business, San Fran
cisco. Capital stock, $4,000, with $500
subscribed, and G. M. Agnew and c. E.
Hovey of Alameda, F. Irving Kiser of
San Francisco, G. c. Pratt of Oakland
and H. G. Galley Of Sausalito as di-
rectors.
The California Fruit Company. Prin-
cipal place of business, San Francisco.
Capital stock, $4,000, with SIS 900 sub
scribed, and A. Devote, Victor Devote,
John Connor, S. B. White and p. H.
White of San Francisco as directors.
Boswell & Noyes Drug Company.
Principal place of business, Los Ange-
les. Capital stock, $4,000, with $15,
030 subscribed, and Frank M. Boswell,
Charles f. Noyes, Nellie J. Boswell
and Nettie G. Noyes of Los Angeles and
John B. Robie of Detroit, Mich, as di
rectors.
The Alaska Improvement Company.
Principal place Of business San Fran
cisco. Capital stock, $250,000, all sub
scribed, with James Eva, J. Pentecost,
H. J. Barring, Sam J. Eva, James Mad
ison, Thomas Pollard and B. H. Madi-
son of San Francisco as directors.
The Lodi Cemetery Association. Prin-
cipal place of business, Lodi, with S. e.
Wright, George W. LIE Moin, H. L.
Clark, C. H. Nevin and John B. Merrill
of Lodi as directors.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
A Kick. From Freeport.

Eds Record Union: / noticed in
your paper of the Sd inst. that the City
Trustees of Sacramento had agreed to
pay to the trustees of the reclamation
districts lying just below the city GER
tain sums of money for the privilege of
allowing the fioodwater that had ac-
cumulated in the southwestern part of
the city to run over their lands. Now
/ would like to know who is going to
pay the landowners below the districts
for the privilege of allowing that same
water to remain upon their lands until
late into the summer months? For it
is fact that the waters that come
from the city and these districts keep
the low lands adjacent to Freeport COW
cred with water until July or August
Is it justice, is it right for those trus-
tees to receive money for the privilege
they grant the city, when they will
simply open their floodgate at the lower
end of the district and run their water
upon the land of someone else who gets
nothing but soup? Are not those
trustees receiving money under false
pretenses?
If the landowners who are injured
in this manner would awake from their
slumbers they could set the people of
the Pocket" " and even the city of Sac
ramento, TO thinking, and a remedy
would soon be found for this evil. A
substantial dam across the drainage
canal below the districts would be an
eye-opener. ONE INTERESTED.
Freeport. Cal, Feb. 4, 1896.
The record-union., 1896-02-06

These things had to be learned from
his essays and debates. Yet there
were lines of study in which he de-
lighted, of which even his closest read
ers had but small information, as for
instance, he explored in scientific fields
and in natural history studies made
much progress, indeed. it is said that
natural history was the restfuI and de-
lighting study in which he took es-
pecial pleasure.
That he mingled but little with men
in social circles and was Of domestic
and retiring nature, made Mr.. Lansing
less known in public life and social
circles, but to those who knew him best,
this rather endeared him to than sep
Grated him from them. His death is a
distinct loss to the State and to the
world of letters and economic science.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
Is THE ATTEMPT To DICTATE.


Six of the members Of the City Board
of Trustees, skulking behind a secret
ballot, have given to thoughtful people
additional proof of the mistake of the
Freeholders who framed the city char
ter, when they declined to give the
Mayor sole power, absolute power, to
appoint certain city employees.
In the Board of Freeholders there
was a division. One section contended
that the wise policy is that adopted by
the city of Brooklyn, which gives the
Mayor free rein in the matter of ap-
pointments and fixes upon him the en-
tire responsibility to the people there
for Another section insisted upon the
system that gives the Trustees the
power OF rejection. A compromise was
patched UP by yielding to the ideas Of
the confirmation" group, who, in turn,
consented that there should be inserted
the proviso that no Trustee should ever
suggest or intimate to the Mayor whom
he should appoint. But there is nothing
whatever to prevent Trustee through
another making such suggestion; moth
ing whatever to prevent easy evasion
Of this proviso, and as matter of fact
1t is evaded. The consequence is that
if the Mayor refuses to submit to dicta
tion there is finally a division of re-
Eponsibility. A weak man, for instance,
is nominated and confirmed after
prolonged struggle in which the Trus-
tees refuse to confirm nominees who
were fitted for the place. The weak one
soon demonstrates his incompetency
and the people murmur. Thereupon the
Trustees respond He was the best we
could get from the Mayor The Mayor
states his case thus: It endeavored to
have a strong man put into the place,
but this one was the best for whom I
could secure confirmation" Thus be-
tween the two stools of responsibility
the people come to the ground with
thud.
We need to amend the charter, give
the Mayor absolute power, as under the
Brooklyn system, to select the subordi-
mates, and hold him to accountability
therefor. 1t is the safest and altogether
the best way. Division of responsible
ity is always bad in municipal govern
ment. When the people understand in
electfng a Mayor that they place ap-
pointments in his hands alone. they will
The record-union., 1896-02-06
RRIEF NOTEs.

During January the deaths in the
city numbered As.
The preliminary examination of Jack
Hurley, charged with manslaughter, in
shooting Hugo Klaas, will take place
in the Police Court this morning.
One car of wine and one of hops went
East from here yesterday. The freight
sheds are pretty well filled just now,
and large amount of freight is being
shipped daily.
The statement made yesterday that
the last Grand Jury had inquired into
irregularities in Precinct of the First
Ward, alleged by w. H. Bradley to have
occurred at the election last Novem-
Der, was incorrect. The Grand Jury
had adjourned before the election.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
EBU1Lrr1oNs OF J1Neo1sM.

When Dole and his compatriots
forced the abdication OF the Queen of
Spades, who really took herself seri-
ously as d monarch, some of the mem
bers Of the Queens Cabinet, who are
now refugees in San Francisco, applied
TO the commandant of the American
ship-of-war lying in the harbor at Hon
olulu for protection, claiming that they
were American citizens. These same
refugees complained of the overthrow
of the Queens Government by foreign
ers. Here were men in the Queens
Cabinet, and If they were not subjects
of the Hawaiian monarch they had no
business to be officers Of her Govern
ment. AS soon as the Queen was
dethroned they quickly became
American citizens; they were no longer
subjects of the Queen.
When Americans claim to be citizens
Of foreign countries they must take
their chances. They cannot expatriate
themselves and re-naturalize them
selves at will. But the case is
to be an American citizen in a foreign
country and joins filibustering raid to
destroy the Government. When he is
caught in his treasonable designs, he
will find it impossible to create any
sympathy for him in the United States.
The ebuIlition of jingoism which i'm
mediately followed the arrest of John
Hays Hammond is all evaporated. The
country has perceived that England in
tended to steal the Boer Republic be-
cause it was rich in gold, and the
American mining engineer Joined with
the foreign residents of the South
African Republic to usurp arbitrarily
the government of the country.
This incident will close by leaving the
American residents who have commit
ted treason against the Government in
which they were temporary residents to
the tender mercies of the courts of the
country whose laws they had violated.
The record-union., 1896-02-06

choose men they can trust implicitly;
when Mayor has this absolute power
vested in him he appoints with great
care, knowing that the people viii hold
him and him alone responsible.
The City Trustees have refused con-
firmation to several of Mayor Hub
bard's nominees. If there was reason
worth naming it was worth stating in
open board. Yet clearly the intention
and spirit of the charter is that except
nominee be notoriously unfit, he
should be confirmed mem con. This is
fairly expressed in the charter by the
prohibition, under severe penalty, that
a Trustee shall not suggest to a Mayor
Big Six in the board is doing just that
thing; whipping the devil around the
stump, to be sure, but they could scarce
ly more openly violate their oaths had
they voted for a resolution asking the
Mayor to nominate this one or that
one
For it is a common understanding
all over the city that the pressure is on
to have the Mayor name for Street Su-
perintendent a certain citizen, and it is
as common knowledge as that the sun
rises that the Mayor has said and re-
peatedly that he will not nominate that
citizen He will try some other candi-
date on the board next Monday night,
and the board may or may not confirm,
it all depending upon what pull the
nominee can bring to bear.
We say pull" not in the sense of
money. influence and application of OBJ
legation cinches, but in the political
understanding that certain manipulat-
ors and third-rate ward bosses propose
to have men who will use patronage
that will serve to lubricate party wheels
and personal ambitions. 1t is COM
mon talk that the big six and the Mayor
thoroughly understand each other; that
the matter of rejecting few times is
only play to the gallery, and that in
the end the men both the Mayor and
the half dozen want will be confirmed.
We do not believe this story for one
moment This journal did not support
the candidacy of the Mayor, but it does
not believe that he has entered or will
GO into any such scheme, or connive at
rank and open violation of their oaths
of office on the part of any of the Trus-
tees. OF this, however, the public may
rest convinced, no man who is con-
fessedly strong in the negative quality
of blamelessness, who is highly skilled
by education and experience in the
matter of modern road and street con-
struction, who has not the moss and
shell of old-time and abandoned GUS
toms upon his back, will be confirmed
as Street Superintendent. We are to
go on another two or three years in the
old rut
Just why the Mayors nominee for
Water Assessor was not confirmed no
one ventures to say aloud. Assuredly
no reasons have been advanced that
can be learned of. The whole matter
is made farcicaI in the Board of Trus-
tees. A majority in that body clearly
proposes to dictate to the Mayor. When
they get the men they want they will
dictate to them, and so the game will
go on. But the more it is worked the
greater the certainty that the people
will demand and have an amendment
to the charter rendering such thimble-
rigging impossible.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
THE LATE GERR1r L. LANSING.


The death of Gerrit L. Lansing re-
moves from life's activities a brainy
man. q student of political economy and
transportation statistics, and a we'll
read and fully rounded thinker who
had made distinct impress upon the
literature of the country and COM
manded the respect of the best thought
of the day.
Mr. Lansing was a trusted and hon
ored employe and officer Of the South
ern Pacific Company and had been
many years. During all his heightened
service, while he never neglected a duty
or evaded labor, he found time to study
economics, and make himself one of the
best informed and most logical stat
isticians of the day. We have read Mr..
Lansing's papers on social, railroad
and Governmental economics for many
years, our attention having been first
arrested by his earlier papers con-
tributed to the Popular Science
Monthly"
LII lWCnly -SlA JEcA9 A1C WOAA LIS W cSS
from an ordinary clerkship to a position
Of the highest trust, one demanding
mental grasp and intellectual power of
the best order. He was a winner by
merit, since he had no other aids than
his own fine abilities. Mr. Lansing was
in the broadest and best sense Of the
term a reasoner. He wrote without
shading of dogmatism, and sophistry
was unknown to his thought. He
started in all cases at basic principles
and reached conclusions along logical
and admirably fortified lines His
writing was always forcible, strong and
literary finish.
He had in high degree the art of in
vesting what are commonly called dry
subjects" with interest. because Of the
gracefulness of his style and the per-
suasiveness of his methods. He did not
hatter the readers vanity, nor appeal
to his prejudices, nor did he antagonize
him by vituperation or rude characteri-
VI lAOSC WIN 0AllS1td Will AliAii
on the contrary he believed IN the
power of reason and in the polished
steel of courtesy and appeal to manly
attributes In his earliest essays we
remember that these characteristics of
his system of contention forcibly i'm
pressed us, and as he gained years and
study they became more and more
marked As a result, his expression al
ways commanded respect.
We cannot recall single instance in
which his positions were assailed by
opponents with rudeness or contempt
His literary characteristics were re-
hected in his personal contact and COM
munion with men, for he was always
manly, courteous, kindly and a gentle
man, yet never undignified. trivial or
unduly familiar, and always and at all
times he was rigid and unyielding in
maintenance of strict integrity.
AS the truly learned and deep think
ing man is always a modest one and
shrinks from parading his abilities. so
with Mr.. Lansing. No one learned
from his statements that he was man
of broad reading and much knowledge,
or that he was one Of original research.
The record-union., 1896-02-06

This paper is for sale at the following
,laces. q. P. Fisher'A- room q, Mer-
chants Exchange, California street; the
principal News Stands and Hotels and at
the Market-street Ferry, San Francisco.
LOS ANGELES-Eclectic Book Store
sorner Second and Main streets
SAN DIEGO-Emmai g. Co., $50 Firth
street.
coRoNADo-Hopkins & Cox, Coronado
Hotel
SANTA BARBARA-Hassinge News
Bepot.
FREsNo-C. T. Cearley, iii street
SANTA CRUZ-Cooper Bros News De-
pot.
Also for sale on all trains leaving and
coming into Sacramento.
The record-union., 1896-02-06

One reason why women are so gener-
ally troubled with some arrangement Of
the distinctly feminine organism is that as
girls they learn nothing about their own
physical make up. Parents are waking up
to the importance of education of this kind
and young women are becoming more and
more able to take care of their health.
Carelessness in girihood causes the great
est suffering and unhappiness in after life
Little irregularities and weaknesses in gir1s
should be looked after promptly and treat
rent given at once. DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription promotes regularity of all fem
mime functions, makes strength and builds
up a sturdy health with which to meet the
trials to come. The Favorite Prescrip-
ton IS not a universal panacea It is
good for but one thing. It is directed
solely at one set of organs.
II have been a sufferer from female weak
cutting pains IN LEFT ovary, also in left side and
stomach. The pain in left side was constant
would have light spasms previous to monthly
period and when the spasin would leave would
suffer from severe soreness all over and could
bear nothing to touch me. also suffered from
severe headaches; burning pressure on brain
which almost caused me. to be insane T Could
not lay my head down without smotheriug Nv
face was poor: eyes looked dead; wasted in flesh.
was ccnstIpated and suffered severe pain when
bowels would act I coGld not eat for the full
ness IN region Of stomach. I had tried three Of
the best doctors here but they only gave me tenn
porary reliet had given up all hope Of yer
getting wei again. At last concluded to give
Dr. Pierce's Favor1te Prescription trial / have
taken two bottles. one of the Golden Medical
Discovery and one Of Pellets I have not felt
any signs OF my old disease: headache all gone;
nenses regular without ache or pain. Indeed 1
<eel like a new person" Yours truly.
,NAzo. n l2u<,,
Rogers, Benton Co.. Ark.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
No Police Court session,

There was no session of the Police
Court yesterday morning, there being
not a single case on the calendar. City
Attorney Brown is digging up a num-
ber of old appeal cases which have been
haroircr fra
The record-union., 1896-02-06
Indian War Bond Claims.

Attorney General Fitzgerald has fled
in the Superior Court answers to the
complaints in the cases of Samuel Da-
Wis, Thomas Scott, John o. Refs, A. S.
Baldwin and M. H. Mead in which
these parties sued the State to recover
on Indian war bond claims.
The record-union., 1896-02-06

Judge Catlin has appointed Henry
Hebb as assignee for the creditors of
Edward Date, Angelo Andrucitti and
Antonio Steffanini, insolvent debtors,
he to file his bond by the 14th inst.
The record-union., 1896-02-06

These publications are sent elLnsr a,,6, ~
Mail or Tgxnress to agents or single SUD
scribers with charges prepaid. All POST
masters are agents. 49,
The best advertising mediums on the
Pacific Coast.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
Wants a nivorce.

Emma E. Cooke has filed her COM
plaint in an action for divorce from
Frank Cooke. The ground alleged is
cruelty and intemperance. W. A. An
derson is her attorney.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
Reyenue ColIectfons.

The collections in the internal revenue
Office for this district during the month
OF January are as follows: Penalties,
S104 81; beer. S5,305 so; spirits, ST.
923 10. cigars, s.. .043 40; playing cards,
The record-union., 1896-02-06
THE DAILY RECORD UNION

For one wear. Sc 90
For six months. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 90
For three months. hs................... 80
Subscribers served by carriers at Flf-
tee1 Cents per week. In all interior cities
and towns the paper can be had OF the
principal periodical dealers, newsmen and
agents
The record-union., 1896-02-06
Fastern Business once.

1.-THE Tribune" Building, New York City.
Western Business Office, THE Rook-
cry" Chicago.
The s. G. Beckwith Special Agency,
sole agents foreign advertising.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
THE WEEKLY UNION

Is the cheapest and most desirable Hone,
News and Literary Journal puDAsneo Oh
the Pacific Coast. 20
The Weekly Union, per year........S1 OO
The record-union., 1896-02-06
Weather Forecast.

For Northern CaIifornia-Fair; cooler in the
north portion: conditions favorable for frests;
fresh to brisk northerly winds, high along the
northern coast.
The record-union., 1896-02-06
Record-Union Telephone.

Entered at the Postofice at Sacramento
as sseond-class matter.