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The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-20

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Write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO., Patent Attor
ueya Washington, D. O., for their oi 800 prize Ofef
lnd list OF two hundred inventions wanted,
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-20

IWpIOVUU so WOLIVr-
fully from the frs
that 1 Bt once dis
missed tho physicioEs
She now eats and
sleeps wcll and does
ner own huusework
We have recommend
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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-02-03

that the fine leaf known as Sumatra
tobacco is a native of Florida. His
idea is that years ago when New
York buyers came to Florida to pur-
chase tobacco they took some of the
seed back with them and in their in
tercourse with Sumatra growers who
visited New York, gave the latter
some seed, hence it's existence upon
that island. Then, too, it has many
characteristics similar to those of the
original Florida leaf, principally
among which are the inclination 20
speck and the fact that it grows
larger here with each successive
years crop.
COL Curtis referred to theory TO
the effect that Sumatra leaf, as pro-
duced on that island, was too bitter
for filters, but that that bitter taste
was eliminated after the first years
culture in this state. Mr.. Curtis says
that the very reserve is true, and that
Sumatra tobacco raised in Florida
has peculiarly delightful odor
which is totally wanting in the leaf
grown in Sumatra. This and other
good reasons he gives for his convic
ton that Florida ought soon to be-
come famous for it's tobacco product.
Col. Curtis was highly pleased with
what he saw of the tobacco produced
here, and says that gray hammock
with yellow subsoil is the best for
growing wrappers.
He finds, wherever he has been in
Florida, that the greatest drawback
to the successful prosecution of the
tobacco industry, is the inexperience
of growers in the matter of curing,
but he says this can and will be over
come in due time.-Lake Region.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-02-03
Florida-Sumatra Tobacco.

1t becomes more and more evident
as Investigations and experiments in
tobacco growing proceed, says the
Orlando Reporter, that Florida is des-
tined to outrank every state in the
Union in the quality. if not quantity.
of it's product of the weed
Tn short interview yesterday with
Col. H. Curtis, immigration and agri-
cultural agent of the F. C. & P. Ry..
that gentleman expressed his belief
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-02-03

of the fruit it transforms to pupar-
afterward turns darker. From this
puparium the fly matches and, after
pairing, the female fly seeks other
oranges and deposits her eggs and
the cycle of Transformation is again
gone through.
This larva is neither venomous nor
/ poisonous, which L have proved by
eating it without i'll effect, although
it might not be very DESTROYS to
fly larvae are very tenacious of life
and might produce irritation by
crawling about in ones digestive
tract.
A species or trypeta (the genus to
which the orange fly belongs) is, in
Brazil, called the "Berna fly" and
deposits it's eggs in wounds of both
man and beast, and the negroes suf-
fer sometimes from it's attacks, for
it deposits it's eggs in their nostrils
when they are sleeping These eggs
hatch and the larvae burrow in so
far that death sometimes ensues.
The "fesh fly in this locality
deposits it's eggs in wounds and sores
of both men and animals. | have seen
living wounded bird eaten up with
these maggots. A lot of living frogs
that | had in a vivarium were fly
blown about the ears and killed by
the larvae The common hare of this
locality Enormously called "rabbit''
is sometimes attacked by a large fly
called cuterebra cuniculi, which de-
pOsits an egg in the fur on the back
of it's neck. This larva bores into
the skin and hollows out pocket in
which it lives, sucking the life out
of the poor animal, which has no
power to reach the fearful parasite,
the mother fly always placing the
egg where the hare cannot get at il
with teeth Or claws.
A fly deposits it's eggs in cheese,
producing what is called the ''skip
per-" so called from a habit the MINI
bic larva has of jumping about. 1t is
esteemed a great delicacy by some
cheese eaters. The dot flies are
fearful pests in attacking cattle, de
posting eggs on their backs, eating
holes through the hide and injuring
the leather Some of the flies deposit
vast numbers of eggs, notably the
flesh flies. 1t is estimated that pail
of flesh flies and their progeny could
devour the dead body Of an OK more
quickly than could a lion. The flea
or as naturalists call it, puleX irri-
tans, is fly, though wingless and
degraded. Therefore the ''orange
fly and flea are closely related, and
both members of the enterprising
dipterous family. 1t is to be hoped
that this orange fly will not become
acclimated in the United States, as it
would be in the nature of a calamity
to orange culture.-Chas. Dury, in
Cincinnati Post.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-02-03

HARRIS LATE and Parson Brown trees and
Ill binds. Write for prices.-W. II. MANN
MN ville Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-02-03

HITRUS NURSERY TREES an BUDWUOD.
~ -Satsuma. Parson Brown, Stark's seedless,
Hcm"sassa, Jaffa. Tangerines, King, Tardiff.
Grape Fruit Villa Franco Lem ON and other va.
rietf' such as Maiorca st. Micbeal Maltese
Blood Cen -ennial and Nonparie Address A.
j. DUNCAN. Mgr, Milwaukee Grove and MUIR
series, Dunedin Fla
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-02-03

EOR SALE OR RENT-Improvedfar farm in Clay
q COUNT. For p rti ulars address B. E. VAN
buren,, Theresa, Bradford county, Fla.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-02-03

MAMMOTH BRONZE TURKEYS, Cornish
Iva Indian Ga es, 'ilack Langshans. Hen
eggs 81 per dozen, Turkey $2.-MRS. w. H.
MANN TO
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21
THE MEXICAN OBJECT LESSON.

Out-croppings from Europe in
reference to the financial affairs
of Mexico suggest very strongly,
says Texas Farmer, that the late
i decline in silver was part of a
cunning programme to force
! Mexico to adopt the gold stand
ard, and that the refusal of the
Mexican government to take this
step is causing great disappoint-
ment among European bankers.
They expected to ''financier" the
movement, and to bleed Mexico
as freely as they bled and are
bleeding poor old Austria, which
is virtually bankrupt through its
gold standard experiment. They
are anxious, too, to throw every
obstacle in the way of the re-
sumption of American financial
independence, and the desertion
of silver by Mexico would be
good campaign material to use in
the next presidential election.
Lombard street is not blind to
the true state of American senti-
ment, and to the probability that
free coinage will win in 1900. 1t
knows that an open mint in the
United States means either the
surrender of its financial policy
or of its commercial supremacy
by England. 1t is already in
the field with every device
known to dishonorable warfare.
Fortunately, the ruling authori-
ties of Mexico are made of stern
er stuff than those of our own
country. They are unwilling to
play the part of vassals to for
eign money lenders, and they
propose to see the game out to
the end on the basis of a Mexican
policy for Mexico. While the
sharks are fretting and Tuning,
foreign money, both gold and
silver, is rushing to Mexico for
investment, industry thriyes and
internal development has re-
ceived a marked stimulus. The
object lesson is at work, but the
result is not as its authors in
tended. The significance of it is
that in the internal commerce of
country which is the prepon-
derating element of it's business,
it is not of the slightest conse-
quence how another country
rates or treats its domestic
coinage.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

THE Alvarado Bulletin says the
freedom of the press is all right,
but thinks the press should not
demand too much. The press
owes something to humanity and
when it goes beyond the bounds
of common decency it should be
held to account for it as same as
an individual. There is no doubt
that many crimes have been COM
mitted against society under the
guise of free speech and free
press.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21
The Alvardo Bulletin say

The Alvardo Bulletin says
that Rush Fulkerson, who lives
near that place, has been arrest
ed on charge of counterfeiting.
He is said to have been in, COM
plicity with the Jones boys who
were arrested ten days ago on a
similar charge. Current rumor
has it that they manufactured
both gold and silver with a free
hand.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

Mr.. M. G. KNIGHT informs the
Dallas News that the pecan crop
of the world is a failure except
in Texas, where it is about the
average. l have an order for
ten cars of Texas pecans from
one firm in New York City. AS
little as people may think of it,
Texas will receive this year close
around the 100000 mark for
her pecans. The gathering will
afford employment for many peo-
pie up to Christmas, and improved
methods of gathering have been
invented. l have seen one clus-
ter of pecans this year with six
teen we'll developed pecans. l
have letter from a man on the
Concho who sold the pecans off
one tree for S45. The largest
pecan orchard in the world is
owned by a banker in Brown
wood, and there is no better pay
ing investment in Texas. The
world is looking to Texas for its
pecan supply, and there is none
left over from the last crop.
Texas hogs will not get a chance
at the Texas pecans this year.
Even the poorest pecans will
bring a good price this year, bat
the large orchard pecans bring
a good price every year. The
received this year in
Texas from truck gardens and
pecan orchards will result in
development of these
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21
The Washington News Lette

THE Washington News Letter
propounds the following pertinent
Undergraduates, which are worthy
of thoughtful consideration :
~tHow can the people expect re-
def from the exorbitant rates
charged by express companies,
telegraph lines and sleeping cars,
when every senator and con-
gresham who will accept the
brides are dead-headed by all of
these gigantic monopolies? John
Wanamaker, while postmaster
general, demonstrated that the
telegraph tolls charged the public
are from 100 to 1000 per cent
higher than they should be, while
competition in express companies
when real, has shown that the
rates charged are enormous and
outrageously high. The sleeping
car monopolies could make
la-gN profit at half the present
prices than is realized by any
transportation company on the
continent. Why don't some
strong man of the people come
forward and champion these real
and necessary reforms?''
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

THE Mallory line of steamers
has restored its rate Of 2 cents
per hundred pounds on freight
between New York and Calves
ten.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21
WHEN the United states r

WHEN the United States re-
adopts silver as money metal.
England will speedily do the
same on compulsion, or its fac
tories will become bat houses and
its boosted empire will follow the
fate of ancient Spain. Appeals
to English greed to relax the sys-
tenn that is more profitable to the
money sharks of Europe than
She most shameless usury fall
zapon dull ears, and dishonor the
nation that utters them.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

THE BANNER tenders its sin
cere sympathy to Mr.. and Mrs.
W. A. Shaw, of Dallas, at the
loss by death of their dear little
daughter, Annie, which took
place at Ell Paso last week.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

THE Hannacrats have about
ceased repeating that stale pas
sage about returning property
since the price of cotton dropped
to S cents, and business failures
are becoming so numerous.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

Geo. johnson, a prominent
colored politician of Sherman,
committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart, at his
home in that, city, at II o'clock
last Monday morning. Recent
reverses in local political in
auence made him respondent,
which is assigned as the cause
for the rash act.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

EXPERT prospectors claim that
the Klondike country is not as
rich and productive as has been
represented, while the hardships
and privations a minor has to
contend with during the winter
in that country are almost unen-
durable.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21
NEWS NUGGETS.

Extensive damage from prairie.
fires is reported from Michigan,
Illinois, Indiana, Arkansas and
Manitoba.
Thieves robbed the Union
County Bank of Morganfeld,
KY, of $1,000. while officers.
were at lunch.
An American bishop predicts
trouble for England in Africa.
Two hundred lives reported
lost in a wreck in Cuban waters.
Fifty thousand people turn Gus
to see Miss Cisneros in New York
Ventre, the Spanish anarchist
refused admission to the United
States and Mexico.
The most extensive cemetery
in the world is at Rome, in which.
over six million persons have
been inferred.
A law has been passed in New
York making it a penitentiary
offense to sell the unused portions
of railroad tickets.
Discrepancies amounting to
about 100000 have been, dis
covered in the accounts of the
city government of Brooklyn.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21
THE Abilene Renorter contains

THE Abilene Reporter contains
the following bit of timely criti-
cism, which is reproduced for the
benefit of some of our young
readers, with the remark that il
contains more truth than poetry /:
GA mother can protect her
, daughters hands from dishwater
and marks made by the broom
handle, but she cannot insure
her against making living at the
washtub for some curbstone
patriot. Once in awhile we hear
young ladies boast that they
know nothing about cooking and
never swept room in their lives,
while the mere suggestion of
wetting their lily white hands in
greasy dishwater throws them
into fits. Such talk reminds Us
of a sweet girl graduate who
professed not to know a wagon
wheel from pair of shafts and
who, inside of a few years, was
seen loading and hauling wood
with jenney on one side of the
wagon tongue and a cow on the
other. 1t seemed to US that her
mother had not fitted her to en-
joy life by teaching her that
work was degrading. A girl
loses nothing by knowing how to
swing a broom handle, turn a
flapjack and wallop a dishrag,
whether she be poor or rich, be-
fore or after marriage.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21


THE Greenville Herald solo
quizes thusly: "Many heap
flowers upon a coffin when the.
form within is ifeless and knows
nothing about it. Do you do
this? If SO, you doubtless think
of the opportunities to show love
and appreciation before death
took your friend away. Pray do
not again keep roses for the
dead, when it is best to give
them to the living. Give roses
to beautify homes, to beautify
minds, to beautify hearts; roses
of all colors, roses of knowledge,
roses of sympathy and roses OF
love. They gladden. hearts
They lessen trials, increase hap
piness and sweeten life in every
way. They help those who re-
ceive them to grow purer, nobler
and more heavenly minded.
They benefit you more than
words can tell. Blessed is the
cheerful giver-he who gives
time, money, instruction, kind
words, sympathy or anything
else for the good and ennobhng
of others. Yes, strew roses OF
knowledge, roses of happiness
and roses of love- -
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

AN order was lately issued by
the Board of Education of a West
Virginia county notifying male
teachers under his control that
they must stop chewing tobacco,
drinking whiskey, parting their
hair in the middle and
wearing their trousers in
their boots. A few more
advances in this line and
the people of the East will soon
come up to the Western standard
of civilization.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

Mr.. CHAs. A. DANA, editor of
the New York Sun, died at his
home in Glencove, Long Island,
at 1:20 o'clock last Sunday
morning, aged IS years. He was
a self-made man and a great
editor. Peace to his ashes.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

TIE Russian representative to
the sealing conference has ar
rived at Washington.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

OVER one million voters have
already registered in Greater
New York, and the work con-
tinues.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

THE Alvarado Bulletin says.
GAS booster of cotton sound"
money is a flat failure.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

THE revival at the Methodist
church which was interrupted in
its incipiency by the dengue will
be resumed early in November
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

THE st. Louis Republic says
the George movement in New
York City is distinctly opposed to
democracy.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21

Brennan. Thursday, Oct 81, 1897,
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21


On the 10th inst. the American
Sugar Refinery Company paid
into the New York Custom House
check for S1S5, 1880 upon due
entry of sugar amounting to H.
100000 pounds. The check is
the largest in amount ever re-
ceived at the Custom House in
settlement of a single entry.
Larger checks, however, have
been received upon a number of
entries. The largest of all was
that of A. 7. Stewart & Co.,
years ago, for 100000.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21
The Weekly Banner

JOHN g. RANKIN, Editor and Proprietor.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-10-21
SCARCITY OF CATTLE.

There has been talk of cattle
shortage for several years past,
says the Drover's Journal, but
there has not been a time for
many years when there was such
a sure enough shortage as at the
present. AS long as there are
plenty of calves and young cattle
in sight, the shortage of fat cattle
does not amount to much, but
the time has now come when
there is a big shortage of not
only matured cattle, but of
calves, yearlings and breading
stock. Not only are cattle short
in the corn belt, but they are
scarce in every section of the
country to which one may turn.
The eastern states are short in
spite of rather liberal purchases
from Canada, and the south
western purchases of Mexican
cattle have seemed to cut no
figure. Texas has been drawn
upon for all the young cattle she
could spare by feeders in Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.
California has no surplus;
Oregon and Washington are
lightly supplied; Arizona, New
Mexico and Colorado are short;
Utah has some to sell, but not
many; Idaho and Nevada have
no surplus, and Montana, Wyom-
ing and the Dakotas will not
have as many cattle to ship or
put on the ranches as last year.
The southeastern states have not
enough cattle to supply them in
beef. There is unquestionably a
great shortage in cattle, young,
old and of all kinds. Buyers
who have to look out for the
future are well aware of the
situation, and are securing the
country in all directions, trying
to 'get line" on the situation.
The herald., 1897-05-15
LOS ANGELES FERALDs SATURDAY MORNING, MAYS 1897

Foshay, as the executive head of the
school department, was appointed a
committee OF one to appear before the
meeting OF the committee Of the council
this afternoon. and, furnish them with
all the Information they may desire
about the necessities of the school de-
partment in the way of new buildings,
ETC., after which the meeting apjourned.
A conference will be held this after
noon between the committee on pub
lie buildings of the city council and the
members OF the school board, at the city
hall, at which they will exchange views
as to the powers and rights of the two
bodies In the matter. 1t is said the city
attorney has given an opinion to mem
berS Of the city council that under the
law that body has the sole and exclusive
right Of disbursing all moneys raised
under the bond Issue, and that the board
can act only in an advisory capacity
On the other hand, 1t is claimed that the
board Of education has several decis-
ions of the courts to the effect that that
body has the sole and exclusive right
to handle all moneys in connection with
school matters. no matter from what
source 1t comes. This being the case.
an interesting time is anticipated.
The herald., 1897-05-15
BOYLE Heights

Queen Esther circle and the Woman's g
Home Missionary society are holding
their yearly convention in the Methodist
church. The residents have Hospitality
thrown open their doors and are enter
tanning large number of visitors. The
church is handsomely decorated and a
most excellent choir is d feature Of the
occasion.
The Holiness camp meeting is we'll
filled and attended.
A large number of visiting conductors
are being entertained on the Heights.
John Carroll of Singapore, India, is
en- route for thie place, where he expects
to remain.
E. f. Armstrong and wife leave on
Sunday for their home In Seattle, Wash.
Mr.. Il. Stutt and wife Of Ottawa, Can
ada, have taken up their residence at 1927
Pennsylvania avenue.
Rev. H. Smith is attending the series
of meeting held at Fresno.
Joseph Mulhattan, we'll known in lit
erary circles as Orange Blorsom,. has
gone to his Arizona mines, strongly
backed with San Francisco capital.
The family of Rev. Farand, pastor of
the Presbyterian church, have arrived
fom Pittsburg, Penn. They Will remain
permanently.
Miss Alice Moore McComas leaves next
The herald., 1897-05-15

To the Public: take pleasure in tes-
tifying to my marvellous recovery under car
Upper Main street, Los Angeles. from
number of stubborn ailments, among
which were chronic sickheadaches, dys-
pepsia and kindred stomach troubles.
heart affection and kidney disease:
But what consider this physician excelled
in, so far as my case is concerned. was In
the restoration Of my. eye service. Astigma-
tism, coupled with other disorders, was my
affiction in this respect and, although a
number. of well-known skilled oculists in
advised me l should always have to de-
pend upon glasses and receive but poor ser
vice even then. DR.. Wong Him's remedies
have enabled me to abandon totally the use
Of any artificial help to sight. and my eyes
continue to give such service, both for
near work and distant, as is truly wonder
full. To the skill and remedies of the ply
sician named can alone be attributed grew
olution in my physical condition through
out that puzzles those who knew of inc
..incurable", character of my Affections,
Respectfully, G. l.. PLOWMAN.
Pico Heights. P. o.. CAL. Sept. 5. 1896.