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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03

best advertising mediums. Two or
three extra words would do the BUSH
ness. II saw your advertisement in
the Estate paper) of nursery stock for
sale" Such a painstaking writer has
at once the athy and considera-
ton of the party addressed and his en-
quirers are apt to be the first ones an
swered. Last, but not least. 1t is due
to the publisher of your paper that he
should have the credit for the adver-
tisement that he has put in attractive
type foryour convenience and informa
ton, as well as for the profit of the
advertiser.
Gentlemen-Please turn over a new
leaf( some of yoU. Write your post
office address plainly. State name of
your county Write your name plain
ly Give the devil (printers) his due,
live long and die happy.
NurSerymah.
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lamity, and yet they are willing to
send money away from their neighbors
to strangers that have no more inter-
est in them or their home than they
have in a Hottentot.
Read the sayings of Grady and
stand by home and home people. They
are your best friends. Every new in
dustry started, it matters not how
small, will help to increase the bust
ness of your own section, furnish en-
ployment for the worthy poor and en-.
nance the value of property. Stand
by home institutions and they will
stand by you.-Metropolis.
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stances were returne,. to the soil, the
time would inevitably come when the
fertility of the soil from which they
were removed would be seriously i'm
paired. 1t was upon this theory that
the manufacture of artificial fertill-
zers was founded. At first, the en-
ployment of these fertilizers was not
satisfactory because, as was afterward
learned they were then prepared in
the most insoluble form possible and
necessarily, therefore, when applied to
soils, they could not yield beneficial
results. 1t was not until La ter investi-
gators discovered that plant-food
must be in soluble form before it
can be appropriated by growing crops,
that methods were devised for effect
facture of artificial or commercial fer
tilizers became a pronounced success
After it was known that the ashes of
plants and soils were alike in their
composition, it was at once assumed
that close relation existed between
them and that chemical analysis
would reveal that relatio 1t was
naturally inferred that where a par
ticular soil failed to produce a profit
able crop, a chemical analysis of it's
ash would show what the plant lack
ed. But when the operation was car
ried out, it was soon discovered that
a soil analysis frequently would fail
to show a deficiency in any plant-food
essential and still crop would fail to
grow upon it. Hence, for chemist
to have stated that given soil was
necessarily productive because he had
found present in it all of the elements
that plants required in growth, would
have been great mistake, for a prac-
tical test would often have proven his
statement false. This is probably the
chief reason why so many are today
skeptical concerning the ability of the
chemist to render much practical as
sistance to the agriculturist in study
ing the needs of his soil.-Bulletin 43,
Florida Experiment Station.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-11-03
For the Florida Agriculturist.
Celery-Varieties, Culture, Soil.

Celery-Varieties, Culture, Soil.
Many letters reach me enpliring
about celery, it's culture, varieties, and
the kind of soil on which to plant.
Judging from these letters | thought
perhaps one letter or so to your pa
per might reach more enquiring
friends than private letters to individ-
uals could possibly do.
In regard to varieties [ will say that
the Golden Self Blanching is one of
the most popular varieties and de-
servedly so. On good strong land it
makes a vigorous growth and being
easily blanched and of a golden color
makes a very snowy plant. The Hart
well Perfection celery has also been
very successful in my hands. 1t does
we'll on sandy fiat pine land making
a celery excelled by few in richness
of flavor. 1t also makes a very hand
some plant, being, when well blanch-
ed an ivory white with deep green
tops. Other varieties have done well
but the two | have just mentioned are
hard to beat.
In regard to soil. l do not so much
select my soil for celery as I do my
variety of celery for the soil | have.
Moisture is the one thing essential to
all soils or celery. Where the soil is
sandy rather poor and not very deep
choice. While this variety would do
well on such land [ would much pre-
fer for it deep rich mucky soil oo'>'
tanning more or less sand. A rich, mel
low, deep, soil containing decaying
vegetation if damp enough would
make fine spot for patch of Golden
Self Blanching celery.
Setting into the field may be done
any time from the list of October on.
In preparing the ground [ pillow out
burrows or shallow bitches from three
and one-half to four and half feet
apart. In these burrows [ spread sta
BILE manure, cotton seed meal and
commercial fertilizer. IS to the
amount of each to use | will say that
the more the better of all but the
commercial fertilizer.
1t must be used with discretion to
prevent injuring the plants when set
into the rows.
After the above fertilizers are plac-
ed in the row light cultivator is
brought into use to thoroughly mix
up every thing in the row. Ter
standing from one to two weeks run
the cultivator through again to loosen
up the soil and it is ready to receive
the plants.
On wet land I am careful to fiji the
ditch up so as to bring the plants on
a level, but on dryer land they can be
left a little below the level.
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The Development of Scientific Agri-
culture @
culture.

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comparatively recent origin. The re-
suits from the fact that it is dependent
on so many other sciences which are
themselves of such recent origin.
These latter sciences had first to be
developed before agricultural science
could rest upon permanent bases.
The sciences of chemistry, Of biology,
of mocha nics, OF geology, of meteorol-
ogy and of botany, had first to be
worked out. For chemistry teaches
the farmer the composition Of his soil
and of the plants growing upon it; OF
the atmosphere surrounding him and
the water he drinks, and employs 9TH
erwise for various purposes in his pro-
fession. Biology acquaints him, not
only with the selection and care of the
livestock at his command but also
with the insect friends and enemies
that he will be called upon either to
foster or combat. Mechanics inform
him regarding the proper construction
Of his farm houses, farm implements,
etc. Geology tells him of the original
structure of the rocks out of which
his soils were made and this knowl-
edge is often of much value to him i'm
his practical farming operations. Me-
teOrOlogy instructs him in studying
the seasons, etc., and the benefits to
be gained from proper observance Of
the same. Botany acquaints him with
the laws that govern the selection,
propagation, haD.'ts and care of the
several forms of vegetation that he is
called upon to grow.
1t is not claimed that the farmer
must have an accurate knowledge of
each of these sciences in order to prac-
tice his profession to the best advan-
'tage, but he must be, at least, some
what acquainted with each. Every
successful farmer is, to some extent
scientific man and every farmer,
whether he is conscious of it, or not,
if he is a successful one, is practicing,
in some measure, the principles I'M
deriving the sciences which have been
cited.
AS recently as 1850, it was an I'M
solved problem as to whether mineral
after was necessary to the life of
growing plant. Since that time, there
have been many theories and conflict
ing ideas concerning the relation be-
tween the plant and the soil in which
it grows and the theories applicable
to the discussion have been modified
and governed by the times in which
they were promulgated. Indeed, it is
true that only about thirty-fve years
have elapsed since agriculture came
to rest on "a truly scientific basis, for
twas about that time that Liebig first
discovered the true philosophy OF
plant nutrition. His discovery was
not made until bitter experience
had told him that theories, however
plausible, were often disproven by
practical tests. Before this great in
vestgator discovered the true philos-
ophy of plant nutrition, he examined
plants from every portion OF the
world. He found that all plants con-
| toino5 Tho Samo aSh Ctit1JantS al
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AS to the best methods of setting,
cultivating and blanching will write
at another time. HI. G. Fletcher.
Gainesville, Fla.
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but failed. We called
several physicians but
the spasms continued,
her tongue became
partially paralyzed
and the doctors said
she would never talk
again. Night and day
we watched the poor
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27

A forerunner of the eleventh annual
chysanthemum show at Tomlinson Hail
next week was the opening of the Berter-
mann Brothers new flower house, on Mas
sachusetts avenue, yesterday afternoon and
evening. The display was of chrysanthe-
NUNS, roses of all kinds, orchids, carna-
tions and other rare and beautiful flowers
OF the conservatory season. Decorative
plants were feature also and were ar
ranged in the long room which opens on
Delaware street. Artistic panel cards were
presented to the visitors and over three
thousand blossoms were given away, show
ing that there was a large attendance of
flower lovers.
A similar display on a larger scale will
be made next week, when florists from all
parts of the State and from other States
Will be here with the best their greenhouses
afford. The unusual list of premiums Of
fered, through the generosity of the mer-
chants, makes the competition for the prizes
one which will bring out all the art and in
genuity of the florists, The display of cnrys-
anthemumS Will DO greater than ever, and
the Florists Association is looking forward
to the most successful show of this kind
ever held in this part of the country :
The history of the chrysanthemum is
unique for it is said that all the many
kinds of these flowers may be grown from
the seed saved from one plant The plant
was not found in the English gardens until
late in the last century, and now 1t is Gull
uvated in most countries of the world. 1t
is not commonly known whether even the
flowers In the imperial gardens of Japan
where the flowers are jealousy guarded
are as large and wonderful as those which
are shown at the chrysanthemum shows of
this country.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27


of its saIable value, citing, for instance,
growing crops, which may be sold or mort
gagged but not taxed.
What is the value of a life insurance
policy TO the person on whose life ii Is
written, or TO the benefciaries? A policy
of life insurance is valuable simply as a
policy Of life insurance; its insurance value
is not fixed by what Ii can be exchanged
for in the way of temporary insurance,
paid-up policy, or for cash. While it is q
policy of life insurance it must be valued
and taxed eff 1t could be subject Of taxa
tionl as such. Such a policy. whether is
sued by a level premium company. a nat
ural premium company, a fraternal society
organized for the purpose of life insurance,
an advance assessment company, or post
norton assessment company (where all are
equally solvent) would have the same pres
ent insurance value. That is to say: AT
the death of the person on whose life ii
was issued the sum insured would be paid
by either kind of company to the BEN
eficiary named. or to the estate of the per-
son on whose life it was written, if no
beneficiary was named. The value of
anything that Is taxable is its present value
not a past value nor future value
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27

His concerts are free from trickery and
falSrism of every form. His programmes
are sufficiently varied to suit every taste,
but at no time does he allow his admirably
balanced organization TO stoop TO cheap
ness. His concerts are popular in the best
sense. He makes judcious concessions to
the public's love of melody, while offending
in no instance the trained musician whose
standards are high. Even the simplest pieces
which he gives as encOres have musical
merit, and last evening every number was
received with enthusiasm. The most nota-
BILE characteristic of the band as Mr.. Her
bert has developed it Is it's ability to pro-
duce true orchestral effects. Under his lead
ership the proper string effects were sur
prisingIy rendered by the reeds, the music
OF Thomas and MaSsenet being notably free
from the crash and blare with which most
bands would have ruined it, Chief of his
soloists is, of course. himself, and his cello
playing never seemed more delightful than
last evening, when accompanied by Mr..
Hagedorn on the harp. Miss Donavin, his
soprano, also won deserved favor with her
sweet and flexible voice and excellent meth
3D. One OF the evenings hits was the FAM
taisie from Mr.. Herbert's opera, The Ser
enade' which has never been heard in
Louisville, and which closed one of the
most enjoyable concerts given here in many
months"
There was a large advance sale of seats
for the concert here at Wulschners music
store Yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
CITY NEWS NOTES.

The Philharmonic Club, under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Edward Nell, held its first re-
hearsal of the season last night.
Chairman Walters, of the Republican
committee of Allen county, and business
manager of the Fort Wayne Gazette, was
in the city yesterday.
Albert J. Beveridge has accepted an invi-
tation to adress the Middlesex Club of Bos-
ton next April on Conservatism, the Pol
icy of the Republican Party"
The Marion County Homeopathic Medical
Society will hold its regular meeting this
evening at the Denison House. DR.. w. b.
Stewart will read paper on Chronic Gas
trio Catarrh."
A meeting has been called for tonight at
Sol Maxwell street, by the residents of the
twelfth precinct of Fourth ward, to indorse
DR.. Fergusons candidacy as superintendent
of the City Hospital.
Nellie Walden, a colored woman, living at
No. SIG West North street, fell off a street
car yesterday afternoon at the corner of
Washington and Pennsylvania streets, and
sprained her ankle and bruised herself
slightly. She was cared for and taken home
by the City Dispensary physicians.
Many friends of Miss Kate Shayne. the
young woman whose hair was torn out by
a revolving shaft in the Allen Surgical In
stitute, have submitted TO operations for
skin grating. The young woman's ply
siclans now believe that she will recover.
The skin grating has been slow and
painful process, but it is proving success
full.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
MURDERED HER HUSBAND
CHARGE BY TERRE HAUTE POLICE
AGAINST MRS. CRUIKsHANKs.
The woman Arrested in This City and
Returned-she Claims 1t
Was Suicide.

Sadie Cruikshanks was arrested in this
city yesterday afternoon and taken to Terre
Haute on an evening train to answer TO
the charge of numbering her husband. Last
spring she kept house in Terre Haute, and
her husband lived with her. He was found
dead in his bed one afternoon. and the indi-
cations were those of suicide The coroner's
verdict was to that effect
Some time afterward, it is claimed Mrs
Cruikshanks admitted to some women that
she had killed her husband One of the
women is said to be living in this city and
three in Paris, Ill. Cruikshanks was killed
with a pistol, which was found under the
bed on the afternoon he was found dead.
The Terre Haute. police have been work.
ing on the case for some time and, having
enough evidence, as they thought, to war
rant the arrest of Mrs. Cruikshanks, De-
tective McCrea was sent to this city, and
he and one of the local detectives arrested
the woman in a Washington-street restau-
rant On account of the character of some
OF the women who repeated the story al
legged to have been told them by the suspect
ed woman she police hesitated to make the
arrest. The police also found some diff
Guilty in locating these women most of them
having removed from Terre Haute after the
tragedy. Mrs Cruikshanks lives in di-
Iapidated residence in a respectable part of
Terre Haute. She conducted the place as a
boarding house. Her husband. who was
employed by the American Express Com
pany as a driver, worked at night. He was
about forty-five years old. She is a woman
of unprepossessing appearance. The day
her husbands life ended he had eaten a
hearty dinner and had gone to his room to
take a nap. A pistol shot was. heard in
his room and his wife, who was the first to
see his dead body says she found the pis-
toll on the floor. The couple were not known
to have any row and the police gave credit
to the theory of suicide at the time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
GREAT BRGTAIN,s DE8T.
1T Amounts to Nearly $4,000, 600, 600
Founded by Charles III.

w. u. curtis, IN Chicago Record.
The total interest bearing debt Of Great
Britain now amounts to 95S9, 146, S7S or So
945, 734, 800 in cur money. which is equivalent
to about S73 per capita of the population
The interest-bearing debt of the United
States is $S47, 365,320, or about $l2 per cap
ita.
Charles II had the honor of founding the
national debt OF Great Britain. Before his
time, when the King wanted money he used
to get II from goldsmiths or bankers by
pledging his jewels or giving mortgages
upon the hereditary property of the crown
like any other gentleman, or by squeezing
his barons. The merry monarch / have
named appropriated the property of many
of his mobiles and gave them notes Of hand
as security His brother james H. who also
needed funds. followed the same course
and when William III came TO the throne
in 1855 he found great trouble in obtaining
SUFFICIENT money TO pay the necessary ex-
penses or the court Being a prudent man
he consolidated or funded the obllga-
tons issued by his predecessors In order to
conciiate the nobility and strengthen his
own position with the people
what was known as the kings debt" was
then incorporated. and it was covered by
Understanding securities TO the amount of
E664,2 64. Then followed the wars with
France, which compelled William III to ex-
He found an easy way to borrow money.
and the revenues of his successors were
pledged TO pay principal and interest. When
and the annual interest charge was equal
to S6,000000. Then came the war of the
Spanish succession under the great Marl-
borough, which cost ESQ. 600 600 and at the
death Of Anne the debt had increased
&31, 600, coo. Before the outbreak of the
American revolution there had been se-
ries OF wars with France and Germany
including the seven years war, which in
creased the debt $50 600 Geo The struggle
with the American colonies was the result
of taxation 70 pay for those wars. But that
cost E9f, 10000, and increased the national
debt g EgSl 10000 In 1916. after the wars
with Napoleon, which cost over $780, 90, 900,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
Ireland,s "Joan of Are"



Miss Maud Come, who has come to
America in the interest of the Irish cause.
is one of the most interesting young WOIn-
en- that ever came to these SHORES. her
poor people of her country and romance.
She now lives in France, where she edlts
a newspaper devoted to war for justice 10
Erin and where the imaginative French
men have given her the title of the Joan
of Arc of Ireland" She is a convert TO
Irish nationaliGm from the camp OF the
Unionists, and she declared upon reaching
America that there was but one object IN
life for her-the rights of the commoners
of her native country. Miss Come is hard
ly what would be expected OF her, Daslng
the expectation upon her ancestry anu the the
surroundings of her early days. She is tfr0
daughter of Colonel Come, Who was an
attache of the English embassy in ST.
Petersburg. She was reared in the society
which would accompany such position
but as a young girl the stories of the life or
O'Connell, the liberator, came under her at
tontion and at the age of nineteen years
she had resolved to devote ner energy ana
years to the cause which had been his. She
was born in the picturesque gap of Dunloe
in the County Kerry, and as a bit or a girl
had been witness to the McGrath eviction
on Lord BaEtrys estate Colonel Come
died about the time she picked .ler work
in life, and left her an orphan with q Ialr-
ly good fortune. Parnell, Davitt ana
O'Leary looked upon her with suspicion for
time, fearing her because Of the record
Of her ancestry for its love of the aristoc-
racy. She had an opportunity to show her,
loyalty during the "Falcanagh evictions,g
where she fought so Loyalty for the peas
stI1fs that warrant was issued for her arr
rest. She went to France and Il is no one
else than she who Is responsibe for the
Bots riding horseback and the sight gave
rise to her French title. She has been In
the active battle for eleven years. has
dungeons and organized many societies for
the improvement of the Irish peasantry.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27
THE KELLEY RECEPTION.
ON TRIAL AGAIN.
Tenth Official Inquiry Into the Case
of Rev. G. o. Brown.


CHICAGO, Oct. 26.-The tenth official in
quiry into the conduct and character of the
Rev. c. o. Brown once of San Francisco,
but now pastor of the Green-street Congre-
gational Church, this city, began to-day in
the Y. NJ c. A. lecture room. The pro-
ceedings, according to Mr.. Brown, were in
tended more as an arraignment of the
Bay Conference, which suspended him
from his California post without a trial,
than as a probing into the minister's be-
havior. Dr. Bradley and Dr. Hollster, both
of Grand Rapids, Mich. were the first min
listers to enter the hail. Among the dele
gates who later reached the scene, besides
number of laymen, were the following:
Dr. Martin, of Detroit; DR.. Wallace and
DR.. Waterman, of Chicago; DR.. Bur-
ham, of st. Louis; DR.. Blanchard, of Au-
rora.
DIR. Brown, with his counselor, j. A.
Adams, came in with brisk step and smil-
ing face. Il think this counsel he said,
as far as can ascertain, determined on
justice while every circumstance since my
trouble in San Francisco has been in my
favor. The Rev. Philip Krohn, d. d.,
who was to have participated in the trial,
was not present, as last night he was
stricken with paralysis and is now at his
home in a very dangerous condition.
The session was rather stormy. After
Dr. Nehemiah Boynton, of Detroit, had
been appointed temporary chairman, the
members debated the advisability of hay-
ing an open investigation and involved
themselves in an almost hopeless muddle
with motions, amendments and sugges-
TONS Rev. DR.. Brown urged, through his
counsel, an open session Ii was hnally
decided to hold open meetings, and a COM
mittee composed of three delegates from
the Bay District Conference, Rev. DR..
Brown and his counsel, Mr.. Adams was
appointed to decide on the method of pro-
cedure
The evening session Of the counsel was
taken up by the address of Rev DR.. j. c.
Adams, who is counsel for Mr. Brown. To-
morrow morning Rev. j. X. Mclean, repre-
senting the Bay Conference, will speak for
that body. Rev. DR.. Little, of Dorchester,
Mass, has been elected moderator and
Rev. DR.. Bradley. of Grand Rapids, Mich,
src,riI,c, OF 4l,nnL rncai1