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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-08-25
Losing an Opportunity.


zen deplores the Indifference of Flor
idians in the matter of developing our
sugar possibilities, and compares cane
and beet sugar as to profits. He says:
A crop of 40 to As tons of stripped
cane is not unusual, while 5000
pounds Of cane sugar per acre have
been frequently made. The average
of beet crop Gin good season) is
about ten tons per acre, worth, say
$50 gross. Ordinary good fatwoods
land of Florida to say nothing of the
hammocks and muck beds, will read
lily produce an average of twenty tons
of cane with an equal value per ton
for sugar making, or $500 per acre
gross.
The cane crop is not delicate one;
it is hardy, and will stand an amount
of neglect or abuse that would de-
stroy most cultivated crops. 1t is but
little affected by drouth, and will re-
cover in an incredibly short time if
subjected to one, which seldom oc-
ours in this State, and never lasts be-
yond the middle of June.
The various railroad and lanl COM
panies of the State own millions Of
acres of land equal in fertility t.
those of Louisiana, with climate far
superior. [ do not allude to muck or
drained lands, of which there are also
vast quantities, but to the clay and
mari bottom fatwoods, lying along
the various railroad lines in vast
quantities, and on which our native
farmers make heavy crops of cane
annually with crude apparatus, fire.
quently producing 400 gallons Of
syrup per acre, equal to 5000 pounds
of granulated sugar. When we con-
slider that their little mills, with wood
per cent of the sugar in the cane, the
result is phenomenal
Beet lands rent for from SIS to $40
per acre per annum. Lands that will
produce 5 per cent more sugar at a
much less cost per acre for culture
can be purchased outright in Florida
at from $3.50 to $40 per acre in small
lots-from 40 to 100 acres-nedr rail
roads, churches and schools, and in
larger bodies-1,OO or more acres
these lands can be had at reduced
prices.
When, however, some of our large
land owners-the Jacksonville, Tampa
& Key West Railroad or Florida Cen
trail & Peninsular Railroad, the Plant
or Flagler Systems-will establish at
some convenient point on their lines
central mills, say 1000 tons Or more
per day, costing say 100000, and will
encourage or assist farmers to grow a
| few thousand acres of cane, by adj
vancing, under proper security, an adj
ditional 100000, making a total in
vestment of $5OO,OOO, about 10 per cent
of the cost of either the Ponce de
Leon or Tampa Bay hotels, they can
rest assured of an increase in the val
lie of their lands of from 10 500 per
cent, and of an income from their
sugar mill of IS per cent per annum,
or more, while the increased traffic on
the railroads would soon make them
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HOW TO FIND OUT.

Fill bottle or common glass with urine and let it stand twenty-four hours ]; a sediment o1 settling indicates an un- healthy condition of the kidneys. When urine stains linen it is evidence of kidney trouble. Too frequent desire to urinate, or pain in the back, is also convincing proof that the kidneys and bladder are out of order.
 WHAT TO DO. -.-
 There is comfort in the knowledge so often expressed, that Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great kidney remedy, fulfils every wish in relieving pain in the back kidneys, liver, bladder and every part of the urinary passages. It corrects inabil- ity to hold urine and scalding pain in passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant necessity of being compelled to get up many times during the night to urinate. The mild and the extraordinary effect of Swamp Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures of the most distressing cases. If you need medicine you should have the best Sold by druggists, price fifty cents and one dollar. You may have sample bot tie and pamphlet both sent free by mail Mention The Press and send your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,, Binghampton, N l. The proprietors of this paper guar antee the genuineness of this offer.
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rraes on rhoronnr,sarna.

William A. Coffin, the landscape painter, in a lecture on art before woman's society, made an earnest plea in the furtherance of art for the plant ing of more trees on our thoroughfares
 These play a great part in breaking the lines of our monotonous or often inoon- gruous architecture. He pointed out that Paris, with climate as rigorous az ours, owes it's beauty to great extent to the enrichment that verdure lends it for six months of the year. He counted on the doctors bearing him out in this plea on account of the sanitary proper ties foliage possesses. He remarked that while we are waiting for Baron Haussmann to rehabilitate our thorough fares and make them yield artistic an- gles we can at least render the vista en- compassed by the eye more agreeable by having it presented through horse chest nuts and naples. New York Times.
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MEDITERRANEAN RENTS.
Highest at Gibraltar and Lowest on the
 Island of Malta.

Highest at Gibraltar and Lowest on the
 Island of Malta.
 In no place on the surface of the globe is rent so high as at Gibraltar, the req son being that the geographical posi- tion of the town precludes the possibil- ity of it's being extended in any direo- tion. A long, narrow strip of what was once seabeach is alone available for building purposes All the rest is pre- cipitous rock.
 Upon this narrow parapet, in some cases less than 100 yards in width, are crowded the homes of 25,000 people. As much as $1O week is asked and obtained for the use of one small room, and this, too, in place where the nor mai rate of wages is quite 10 per cent less than in America Naturally the overcrowding is fearful, and, the water supply being scarce and intermittent, cleanliness of living as we understand it is almost impossible.
 No wonder that i'll the old days the plague and the cholera ravaged the "rock" with a virulence unknown in the filthy and presidential cities of the far east
 In Malta, on the other hand, house rent is ridiculously cheap Anywhere outside of Valetta an excellent seven room house can be had for $15 a year, while rates and taxes are unknown The houses are built entirely of the cream oolored stone of which the island is composed, and which is so soft that it can be cut with saw into blocks or slabs of any desired size or shape So while the Maltese builder is digging up his foundation he is at the same time getting out the material for his walls, his flooring and his roof. f.-Philadelph Inquirer.
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Orchard Cultivation.

An orchard we'll managed may be made to pay several times as much for the land occupied and the labor spent as the best field on the farm. But it will be poor investment if it is neglected and suffered to go to ruin. Cultivation is indispensable 10 enable the soil to contribute its fertility to the trees. TLe surface must not be left untouched, to become covered with rank weeds or moss, to lie bare and barren. There is nothing better than crop of clover, and this should he permitted to die down and decay on the surface A blow should never be suffered in an orchard. Only the surface should be stirred, lest the fine feeding roots be injured and the trees checked in their growth. A good narrowing in the fall and two or three in the summer will be all the cul- tivation an orchard requires. mans Rural World.
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How He Became g cxn,e.

Some lovable traits of character in Prosper Merimee, the famous French novelist, who has left to posterity the reputation of misanthrope and cynic. are revealed in the pages of Augustus Filon's 'Merimee and His Friends 7
 M. Filon tells us how this celebrated author devoted 100 louis of his salary as senator toward pensioning an old prefeot of Louis Philippe who had been ruined by the revolution of 1848, and how for 90 years he assisted and pro- tected humble sculptor in whom he had become interested
 M. Filon relates an incident of Meri- mee's childhood that shows how sus- oeptible his nature was to strong inn pressions, and how responsible older people, and particularly parents, are for the development of certain traits in children.
 When the future novelist was years of age, he was once punished by his mother for some naughtiness of which he was guilty Mime Merimee, who was an artist, and who was at the time engaged at her easel, put the oulprit out of the room and closed the door upon him.
 The little Prosper, already penitent, anxiously besought forgiveness through the closed door, expressing great con trition and promising good behavior, but the door remained inexorably shut Finally, after much effort, he opened it and dragged himself upon his knees to- ward his mother. His piteous supplica- tions and his pathetic attitude so amused Mime Merimee that she began to laugh.
 Instantly rising from his lowly pos ture he exclaimed indignantly, "Since you mock me will never ask pardon again. He kept his word. Thus was sown the seed of certain cynical phil osophy that tainted his after life
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Millions of Frogs Rain Down.

One of the most curious phenomena of nature is the precipitation of frogs, fish, crabs, angleworms, etc., with rain from the clouds. The story is told in the annals of the French academy and may be found in the August num- ber, 1894. The narrative is by one Pro- lessor Pontus. In it he gives an account of an instance of millions of frogs which fell in a shower near Toulouse. He states that he himself saw numerous young frogs on the coats of two gentle men who were out in theashower. Pro- lessor Pontus says that he forthwith repaired to the spot where the storm had burst and found the roads and fields literally alive with young frogs and tadpoles. y ''In some places, J says the professor, "they were three or four deep all over the ground, and the hoofs of the horses and the carriage wheels killed thousands of them.
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roo GOOD TO bE TRUE.

OAs many vision I've cherished To brighten the days of my li1es or home amid roses embowereds On some one to greet me as wife, But to have such q home az you oS3@Es To have such 8 lover as you, With heart so devoted and tender, Seems almost too good to be trua. remember the times in my girlhood felt it my pride and my joy To have your attendance at parties For you were the favorite boy. And though there were hands0m@T maid
 ems,
 And others much richer than | There was none of the group 50 heart
 broken,
 When you left without saying goodby heard of you then in the ctty,
 And knew you were making 8 name. Each day by the efforts of genius Securing permanent fames And fancied you must have forgotten The poor little girl you once knew, And to have. you come back as suitor Seems almost too good to be true hoped to have cards to your wedding, To the church and reception beside. Where-I might with fearful emotion Congratulate you-no, the bride, But to stand by your side at the altaF To be solemnly married to you It seems, when think it all over,
 As if 'twere too good to be true. Josephine Pollard in New York Ledger
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THE TRUTH ABOUT Ir.
What Is the Use of Living if You Can
 Be I'm ItY

What Is the Use of Living if You Can't
 Be In LtS
 Yes, Erastus, we have noticed that article in scientific journal advising people to sleep more in order to live long, and to tell you the truth we take but little stock in it. We notice that Tesla, the great electrician, claims that & man might live to ba ZOO years old if he would only sleep most of the time. And suppose he should. What would man amount to sleeping like fat dog in the summer? For all practical pur- poses Il man might as we'll be dead as to be asleep, with this advantage in the way of being dead-he isn't in any body's road.
 Suppose man lived for 200 years and slept l60 of it. He eau only figure out when the thing is through that he has really lived 40 years, and in that 40 he neither cuts as much ice nor has half the fun the man has wl4o passes in his checks at 60 and out of the 60 has only slept SO years. Is there any particular object, my boy, in simply lying round asleep for l5O years, wearing out bed clothes and saving a trif1e on funeral expenses? We think not All there is in life worth living for you get while you are awake. All the time you ought to spend asleep is just enough to enable you to keep awake the rest of the time.
 Sleep is a necessary evil, just so much good time that you have to give up in order to keep your stomach, liver and other organs in fair shape Of course we have read good deal about beautiful dreams, when angels hover overhead and all that, but our experi- ence IS that this talk is almost alto gether rot. When you are in good phys- ical condition, you don't dream. When you dream, the angels aren't in that vicinity. It is when you have filled your interior with fatted swine and boiled cabbage that you retire to sleep, perchance to dream. To dream-aye, there is the rub!-when you feel four headed dog sitting upon your vitals and know that the horned and eleven tailed whangdoodle from the barren mountains l of Hepsidam is crawling upon you, breathing smoke and fire, and you are paralyzed, or you seem all at once to hAA0 JOA4nS4A HI bh6 1uAusb LII BOI16 gay and cultured assembly with no clothing on your person except perhaps a paper collar and pair of hose supporters and utterly unable to explain to the ladies and gentlemen present why you are there in this decollete costume or to take your departure.
 There is nothing angelic or heavenly about the average dream. On the con- trary, it is hades and repeat. The young man who has to be routed out of bed at 9 or 10 o'clock ill the morning may live good while, but the chances are that he won't amount to as much in life as a three legged dog in a jack rabbit chase. The proper thing, young fellow, is to sleep less and get hump on your self, even if you should pass out before you are 50. One year of life spent in knocking rich, ripe, luscious persim- mons is worth five sleeping in the shade with the worms crawling over your per son and the timber bugs trying to roll you out of their way.-Tom McNeal in l Topeka Mail.
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nervous trouble. The nerves are cry ing out for assistance. The cry should be needed in time. Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound was pre- pared to meet the needs of woman's system at this trying period of her life.
 MRS. DELLA WATSON, 524 West 5th St., Cincinnati, Ohio, says:
 II have been using Lydia E. Pink hams Vegetable Compound for some time during the change of life and it has beeu a saviour of life unto me. can cheerfully recommend it to all wo- men, and I know it will give permanent relief. would be glad to relate my ex- perience to any sufferer"
The Press., 1897-11-04
MAPLE SUGAR.

Widespread Ignorance the Part of
 Consumers.
 Speaking of maple sugar brings to mind the fact that there is no product of the farm concerning which there is greater ignorance on the part of con- sumers than maple sugar and sirup. It seems to be almost the universal opinion that maple sirup to be genuine must be dark in color and of thick, heavy body. I have carefully studied this mat ter, and am convinced that dealers in large towns and cities are largely re- sponsible for this. Maple sirup is one of the easiest things to "doctor. For in- stance, gallon of strictly pure, light colored maple sirup is received, and for eign substances, as cane sugar or glu- cose, are added and three gallons made, and all are branded ''pure maple sirup. !"
 Some years ago l stepped into gro cery store in the city of Denver and in quired if they had any genuine maple sirup "Oh, yes''-and l was shown cans branded "pure Vermont maple sirup" asked the grocer if he would kindly let me taste sample He did so, and as I looked up 1 suspect he be- gan to ''smell mice'' and asked if I was a manufacturer of the article. I said. "Yes, and 1 ship it every spring to your city. 7 Seeing he was fairly caught, he said 1.-The fact is I cannot fool you, l see. This si1ap of ours was probably made i'll Chicago"
 Last spring 1 sent a gallon by re- quest to pastor of a church in Brook lyn who ill his boyhood days used to live on farm ill ChcLango county and knew what real maple sirup was We sent him a gallon Of early make, of a light amber shade, and at once received word that the sirup was entirely ahead of any he had ever seen, and that it was an utter inlpossibility to procure such in the city
 Why is it impossible? I know fine sirup is made and shipped. The fact is, as I said before, the consumer is not allowed to taste that fine, light colored, genuinely pure article, for once he gets taste of it the trade for the bogus ar ticle is gone A few days ago a friend told me he sent pound of fine sugar, made by one of our farmers, to his mother in Baltimore. The cake weighed IS ounces, and as it went by mail il cost him IS cents postage. The letter carrier who delivered it said it must be something valuable to pay so much postage. The lady said she could guess what it was It was cake of maple sugar her boy had sent her from New York
 As the carrier lived close by the lady told him to come ill during the evening and she would show him something good He did so, but the moment he saw it he said: You can't fool me. That ism t maple sugar. Maple sugar ii always black. '' She chopped off COT. ner and told him to sample it. He de- clared he had never seen maple sugar before and wanted the lady to write and order him 100 pounds. The sugar was shipped, cash received, and ont man learned that maple sugar. ill order to be genuine, need not be black as 2 stovepipe Country Gentleman.
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A pr. Johnson Story.

In glancing through the recently pub lished work on that worthy bore, Dr. Johnson. failed to discover the folloy>, ing anecdote. It is carefully preserved by a family whose Scotch ancestors took a rise out of the great lexicogra- pher:
 Hostess-Dr. Johnson, what do you think of our Scotch broth?
 Dr. Johnson-Madam, in my opinion it's only fit for pigs
 Hostess Then have some more. = London Figaro.
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J. c. Berry, one of the best known citizens of spencer, Mo, testifies that he cured himself of the worst kind of piles by using few boxes of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve He had been troubled with piles for over thirty years and had used many different kinds of so-called cures, but DeWitt's was the one that did the work and he will verify this statement if any one wishes to write him.-W. D.
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ArESmla

Mrs. Potts-I see your husband has bought bicycle suit. thought he was determined never to wear one.
 Mrs. Watts-I got him to get it by telling him he was too old to wear any thing of that kind. Indianapolis Jour nal,
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THE TURN OF LIFE.

Owing to modern methods of living, not one woman in a thousand app breaches this perfectly natural change without experiencing a train of very annoying and sometimes painful symp- toms.
 Those dreadful hot flashes, sending the blood surging to the heart until it
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Rule the "Roost,. or 4Roast9..

Steuen Gardener, all under cooke in the Cardinal Wolfe Wolsey hys house. and afterwardes allowed of kynge Hen ry the eyght to be master cooke, and hys principal cooke for longe tyme, ruled the roste in ye kynges house, as boldly and as saucely, as hys maister dyd before hym, as ye blowe upon his oheke that my Lorde of Warwyke gave him, may bare wytnes. Spiritual Physic, l555
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J. M. Thirswend, of Grosbeck, Tex, says that when he has a spell of indiges- tion, and feels bad and sluggish, he takes two of DeWitt's Little Early Risers at night, and he is all right next morning. Many thousands of others do the same thing. Do you?-W. H. Heald.
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There is no need of little children be- ing tortured by scald head, eczema anC skin eruptions. Dewitt's Witch Haze Salve gives instant relief and cures per manently.-W D. Heald.
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The longest commercial distance at which the long distance telephone is now operateg is from Boston to St. louis, a distance of i 400 miles, this line being twice as long as any European telephone lima
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WARNING-Persons who suffer from coughs and colds should heed the warn- ings of danger and save themselves suf- ferings and fatal results by using One Minute Cough Cure.-W. D. Heald.
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You can't afford to rish your life by al lowing cold to develop into pneumonia or consumption. Instant relief and cer. tain cure are afforded by One Minute Cough Cure.-W. D. Heald.
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President of Inc United States
 Private Secretary.
Cured by the Use of the Greatest of Remedies,
 Dr. GTeene'S NeVuTa,

Washington's Superintendent of Police, Ma jor w. G. Moore, Cured by the Wonderful pr. Greene's Nervura. Was President Johnson's Private Secretary, and Form erIy Secretary to E. M. Stanton, President Lncon's Secretary of War
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Disfigurementf for life by burns or scalds may be avoided by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, the greatest remedy for piles and for all kinds of sores and skin troubles.-W. D. Heald
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There is now machine for lathing. It will put the laths on the. inside surfaces of house at the rate of 1900 an hour.
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 Dr. Greene's Nervura Blood and nerve remedy keeps right on curing the most noted and famous among our people as well as those in the ordinary walks of life.
 We read continually about the cures of we'll known prominent people by this wonderful health-giyer, Dr. Greene's Nervura; but where one such eminent clergyman, statesman or public official is cured, there are thousands upon thousands of cures constantly being effected among the common people every where. The common people make up the great mass of our citizens, and it is they, the business man, clerk, salesman, mechanic, laborer, and the women of our land, the to- ing housewife, saleswoman, shop and factory girl, who receive the most cures and best know and appreciate the great blessing of health and strength which Dr. Greene's Nervura always brings to the weak, nervous, rundown, sick and dablitated.
 The recent cure by Dr. Greene's Nervura b 1od and nerve remedy of Major w. G. Moore, Superintendent of Police of Washing ton and District of Columbia, is of the utmost importance inasmuch as Maj. Moore, IS one of the best known men in this country, he having been confidential secretary to a President of the United States President Johnson, and also secretary to E. M. Stanton, President Lincoln's Secretary of War. The cure of so well-knOwn and famous man is a guarantee to the people that Dr. Greene's Neryura cures,
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You can't cure consumption, but you can avoid it and cure every other form of throat or lung trouble by the use of One Minute Cough Cure.-W. D. Heald.
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seems ready to burst, and the faint feeling that follows, sometimes with chills, as if the heart were going to stop for good, are
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