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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28

Mrs. Henry Younghans, of Detroit, Mich,
who resides at 1908 Grand River Avenue, said
Ever since our last little one came I was an
invalid. For years have had the most painful
experience and would have to lie down most
of the time. After the last baby was born
was unable to attend to any homework.
could hardly stand up and had dizzy spells
wanted to sleep all the time and was treated by
some Of the best physicians I would have the
most fearful cramp, for which hot applications
were used. [ used these hot applications until
1 blstered myself severely.
"Before child was born I had been a
strong, healthy woman and was scarcely ever
sick. After he was born I grew weak and thin,
and received scarcely any help from the medi-
cine left by the doctors. They said I was not
properly cared for and that the baby was too
strong for me. My back seemed to be break
ing and I scarcely without a severe
headache. Could not tell how many different
prescriptions 1 have taken, but every doctor
had a different plan or treating my case. 1
wore supports and lay for weeks with my
limbs elevated, but without avail. One day my
husband suggested that I try DR.. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People, as he had read
several articles in the papers about women who
had been helped by them. I was discouraged
and thought / must always be invalid, but
said I would try them after [ had taken the
bottle of medicine I was then using.
GA few days after he brought me in box
and asked me to give them trial. [ started
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28
Pruning Figs.

The pruning of the fig varies ac-
cording to the age of the trees and
the purpose for which pruning is
done. While other fruit trees require
yearly, and generally heavy, pruning
to insure fruit of good quality, the
object in pruning the fig is simply, or
at least principally, to keep the tree
healthy and give air and light to the
fruit. The most important rule to be
observed in pruning the fig is that no
branch shall be cut off squarely or be
cut back so as to leave stump. This
is almost surely fatal to the quality
and quantity of it's fruit. When it
becomes necessary to remove a one
year-old limb the cut should be made
at least as far down as the next fork
below, and it should be close to the
joint in the fork. There should be
nothing left but scar to show that
limb had been taken away. There
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28

must be no stump left. The fig tree
may require to have it's branches
thinned out, but it must not be head
ed back except to correct unsymmet-
rical growth. In dense trees branches
which cross should be removed en-
tirely and in such way as to give the
tree a rounded, dome-..ke outline,
with the lower branches touching the
ground. In pruning recently planted
trees the object in view is, of course,
entirely different, as fruit cannot be eX-
pected orseveral years to come. When
two cuttings are set together little or
no pruning is required, as they will
generally shape themselves and form
two main trunks diverging from each
other, but when a single tree is plant
ed it is best to cut back the stem to
within a foot of the soil and let it
branch from that point. The only
case in which it is proper to have
tall standard is when it is desirable to
grow trees for shade and pleasure and
where the quality of the fruit and it's
quantity are of but secondary impor-
lance. If recently planted fig trees
show any tendency toward drying
out, the main limbs or the whole
trunk should at once be cut back to
live green wOOd.-Departmen of Ao-
riculture.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28

curing them for FODDER" entails the
greatest loss, says the Southern Farm
There is, perhaps, no better forage
than we'll cured, bright FODDER but
under even the most favorable condi-
tons it's cost is beyond it's value. By
the usual practice of stripping off the
blades and ears, and leaving the stalks
tops and part of the shucks to waste
in the fields, we lose about half the
feeding value of one of our main
crops. This has been proved by care
full experiment.
On a recent visit to the Georgia Elk
pertinent Station we found that the
shredded stalks, that is the stalks af-
ter every other part of the plant, tops,
ears, blades and shucks, had been re-
moved, were greedily eaten by the
pal liverymen of the town had pro-
nounced this shredded forage a very
desirable food for his mules and hor-
ses DR.. H. G.. White, chemist of the
station, gives it feeding value be-
yond cottonseed hulls, which has, of
late years attained such popularity as
a winter feed.
We have frequently called attention
to the yearly waste of this, one Of the
most valuable products of our farms
Public attention is beginning to focus
on this subject, and once the agricul-
tural mind takes in the tremendous
yearly loss from this source, amount
ing to millions of dollars, we shall see
a reform-EX.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28
Live at Home.

This is question we think OF vast
Importance, especially to the southern
farmer. They are, as rule, in a de-
plorable condition, and we believe the
time has long since been, when they
should be striving to live at home.
They are being depressed by the
north, and also extortionate prices at
home. This is not late thing, but
has long been and is getting worse
every day.
To live at home so that this depres.
sion may be reduced, requires unity
of the southern farmers. they must
work together! If this be done they
will find it an easy task to live at
home and live in luxury.
They can raise their bread, meat,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28

and other necessary eatables, and also
make their clothes at home as they
once did. They may not be the finest,
but they are good. AS for coffee, they
can we'll afford to do without this
where plenty of milk and butter
abound, and these features add much
to home life. In addition one could
have few acres of cotton as a sur
plus.
It is said that if one bale of cotton
at six cents is required to pay mans
Indebtedness, it would take two bales
at three cents to pay the same. Of
course this will readily be admitted;
but if he is in debt it is his own fault.
He could have raised his living at
home, and thus escaped being in debt.
That is just what we are warning you
against, is this credit trade and cash
as we'll. We are warning you to make
your living and stop this depression.
The north will continue to push down
on us as long as we submit. Now, let
the southern farmers unite and live
at home, and if the north ships her
goods here, there will be no sale for
them, and she will be forced to keep
them at home.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28

This is the only way to stop this de-
preston that is being showed on us
more every year.-Arcadia Advance.
A card on the outside office door
says: "Gone to lunch. Be back in ten
minutes.'' And, the man will be there
on time. That is, for some days,
weeks or even months, he will. Then
he will be at home occasionally for
day. He'll tell you he had a headache
"a turn of cholera morbus, or maybe
he'll say he had lump in his stomach
and felt too miserable to move. The
lump was probably two or three ten
minute lunches condensed. The man
who bolts his lunches will find DR..
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets the best
friend he ever met. There is no case
of biliousness, constipation, indiges-
ton, ''heart burn" or any of the rest
of the nightmare breeding brood,
that these little "Pellets'' will not
cure. They cure permanently. Send
81 cents in one-cent stamps to Worlds
Dispensary Medical Association, Buff
falo, N. Y, and receive DIR. Pierce's
1908 page Common Sense Medical Adj
viser," profusely illustrated.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28
Pineapple Fiber.

1t may not be out of order to tell
your many readers few interesting
facts about pineapple fiber.
At a recent British exhibition, the
pineapple fiber of Singapore Qndia)
bore a strain of $50 pounds against
$50 pounds for New Zealand flax. The
last named has been demonstrated by
experiment to be superior to the best
English hemp.
In the Journal of the Agricultural
Society of India (vol. III, page 1922,
there is a record of a rope of pineap-
pie fiber, three and one-fourth inches
in circumference, standing a strain of
$500 pounds before breaking.
In the L hillipine Islands a beautiful
fabric, known as pima cloth, is made
from the fiber.
The leaves of the pineapple are of
no value to the plant after the fruit is
removed, and using them for fiber is
simply utilizing waste product for
valuable purpose. Machines are now
constructed specially for cleaning the
leaves of the pineapple plant in large
quantities, and they can be produced
at a nominal cost. These decortica-
tors are built on the same principle as
the automatic machines for cleaning
the Agave Sisalana and Sansaveria
plants, the cleaning parts being made
smaller and finer adjusted, to act on
the much smaller leaves of the pine
apple. It is claimed for this decorti-
Gator that it will clean 100000 pineap-
pie leaves in day, which would
amount to about ten tons OF leaves,
with Weld of about 600 pounds of
fiber.
The fiber from the leaves of the
pineapple plant is destined to become
one of the greatest and most profta-
BILE products in the state. 1t is
claimed for pineapple fiber that con-
slant immersion in water does not in
the least injure it, and the natives of
the East Indies increase this property
by tanning it. In tests of strength,
pineapple fiber exhibits superior
tenacity.-Cor Titusville Advocate.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28
The Modern Farmer.

The modern professional farmer is
a professional man in the very best
sense of the term. The necessity of
men of high intelligence and broad
knowledge is no greater in the pro
fessions," as we now speak of them,
than in the farming industry. The
up-to-date farmer must be, in a small
degree, scientific man. He can not
draw solely on his own experience for
proper methods any more than law
yer or physician can. He must be
familiar with theory as well as prac-
tice; must be we'll read in the best
literature of his class; must thorough
ly know the text books of his trade.
Equipped with both a scientific and
practical understanding, the modern,
progressive farmer is no ordinary,
every day person. His work is not
only honorable, but one that demands
the brightest sort of intelligence for
its practice. There was once a time
when people went into farming be-
cause it was $50 easy" All you had
to do was to pillow, and sow, and reap.
Nature took care of the rest, and the
farmer was supposed to lead an en-
viable life Farmers sons are made to
learn their fathers business as the
only available occupation of men of
small intellects and little or no mental
cultivation.
All this has been changed; stupid
men are no longer needed. Neither
stupidity nor ordinary ability can fol-
low farming without starvation.
Mother Earth refuses to yield her fav
ors without a good deal of coaxing,
and it takes a scientific man to coax
successfully. The value of fertilizers,
the needs of different soils to make
them productive; the proper rotation
of crops to renew the life of the land;
the care of trees; the protection from
various insects which infest them, ne
cessitating a familiarity with the
habits of such insects; the best mod
ern methods of butter and cheese
making, with the mechanical skill
necessary to manage the modern ma
chinery of the dairy; these are a few
of the things the farmer must know.
In addition to the great information
suggested in the part above, with
which he must be in close touch, he
must have business tact, CONNER
cial sense, in order to get the best
prices for his products and to market
them economically.
The South offers to farmers of this
class the best opportunities of any
section of this great continent. What
we want is modern farmers.-South-
ern News Bureau.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1897-07-28
A Wasted Farm Product.

Of all the expensive methods into
which we have fallen, that of pulling
the blades of corn, one by one, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-27
OBITUARY.
MOSES EDISON WoRTHEN.

Passaic. N. j. Dec. 26 (SpeciaD.-Moses Eoson
Worhen died at his home. No IS Passaic-aVe'. ."''
city. this morning, from typhoid fever MI. Wo'
then was president CT the Worthcn Aidrich No'"-
pany. No Is North Moore-st-. New-YorK. ana was
one OF the bestknown and most valued cit'zehs VI
Passaic.
Mr. Worthen was born in Charlestown, Mass
sixty years ago He learned the carpenters trace
and worked at it for several years. until ne wen
into the wooen business. He came mere twe".s
five years ago as manager for William II. LOON
print works Lock failed In 1873 and Mr.. Wor'nen
and William Aldrich started the Manhattan print
works Two years later they started the Emp'ie
Print Works, at Jane-st- and Thirteenth-as we
New-York These were destroyed by nre IN 1871
but were rebuilt at Soho, n. J. Two years ago the
Waldrich Dye Works were built at Deiawahha'
near here.
During Mr. Worthen's twenty-five years ie''
dence here he was known one OF the most CHAR
bile Of PASSAGES citizens. He was president Oh
the new General Hospital and was Interested III
the Home and Orphan Asylum. He had been sew
erul times Councilman. president OF the board Oh
Trade and was at the time OF his death one OF INC
County Courthouse Commissioners. Ho was vice.
president of the Passaic National Bank, presioent
OF the Dundee Wooen Company. stockhooer IN
Passaic Club and the Washington CLUB ana
Mason. w, ,. .u,o
Mr. Worthen was twice married he leaves WV
children-a son and a daughter. -.
The funeral will be held on TUESDAY, at . p. H. a.
Mr. Worthen's late home
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-27
DIR. s. AMELIA BARNETT.

Dr. 8. Amelia Barnett. one OF the pioneer women
physicians Of this city. died at her home. NO. z'l
West Twenty third-st.. yesterday. She was In her
elghty-fourth year, and had been III for about
three weeks. old age being the cause OF death.
Dr. Barnett who was unmarried. was native
OF Newark. She was possessed OF considerable
property and took her degree as doctor OF medi-
cine because Of her interest In the subject and her
wish to be OF greater to the poor and afflicted
instead OF any desire to obtain profit from the
practice OF medicine. She was graduated In this
city about forty years ago. and practsed until four
years ago when a serious illness compelled her to
give up her work. She was for many years asso-
cllted with Dr.. Lozler, dean OF the Women's Medi-
cal College OF NewYork.
Dr. Barnett devoted her lie and her means 10 me
poor and many a family in this city and IN Newark
VIII depore her death. She never asked a Zee from
a poor person. and regarded her knowledge ana skill
only as a 10 alleviate distress Sne nau
boarded at No 26l West Twenty-thrd-st for over
fifteen years and was endeared 10 every one IN the
house through her kindly nature. A short funeral
service vii! be held at her home on "Wednesday ana
the body will then DE taken 10 Newark, Where MISS
Barnetts only brother lives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-27
Huss. When and where does It tthe Bible uphold

Huss. When and where does It (he Bible uphold
the evil deeds OF fallen and ruined man.!
To the undersigned. Bible student IL docs not
seem possible that the author Of such question
can have read. even in the cursory manner to
which many are accustomed. the Book TO which he
refers. else he would find his question so OFTEN and
plainly answered that no intelligent seeker could
shut his eyes to It. Among the many striking ex-
ampes see Numbers XXI. verses Il and Is, and then
verses % and following; also Deuteronomy xiii.
verses 10 TO- and then verse IS. II in these in
stances the Bible does uphold the most horrible
Of the evil deeds OF which fallen man is capable:
and assuming Jahvch Of Israel TO be the very God
II the God OF the Bible does not sanction and
order these deeds then is there no meaning in
language Far be 1t from the undersigned TO
charge our Great Father God with this-the words
and orders put into His mouth, as the under
signed believes falsely. by the savage ana narDar-
Gus tribes of Israel in order to justify their own
cruel deeds by THUS saith the Lord, and he cam
not suffer such vile ISLANDERS on the Mercfu One to
pass uncontradicted. JOSEPH A. ROBERTS.
Savannah Ga Dec. II. 1897.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-27
HE AGREES WITH DIR. SAVAGE.
ORTHODOX CREEDs MUST BE REPLACED BY
SOMETHING HIGHER.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Is there. in this wide world. other thing
half so ennobling truth? In fact. is there aught
besides truth which can elevate and perfect man?
Is not God Himself the author Of truth: and did
He not give 1t man for his acceptance and use.
that so he might realize his highest and best
that is become man after Gods own Will and
purpose? But. what Is truth? Truth. as / In
terpret IT, Is simply this: Gods will working out 10
a purpose through the universal method In
terpret science mans knowledge OF Gods way
OF doing things.
Now. don't suppose that any one. In this ad-
vanced age will be foolhardy enough to claim
that God the Creator Of this magnificent universe
has so far mscarried as to establish universal
system OF one order. and a system, applicable to
man only. OF an order so unlike the universal as
to be antagonstic TO 1t. And yet II the present
day Christian creeds. so called. are true. God GER
taIny has mlscarred When these creeds had
their genesis the world believed In the ptolemaic
astronomy. These creeds fitted in and harmonized
with that astronomy. Now. however the world
little notes the ptolemaic world scheme other than
as matter OF history: having learned that II was
about the opposite 10 truth. Nevertheless. the
world still cllngs to the ptolemaic theology and
exhibits disposition to serve It's questioners much
as II did Coperncus and Bruno In the pamy days
OF the ptolemaic astronomy DR.. Savage Is one
who believes in a God OF harmony and order. He,
therefore. would have theology that fitted In and
completely harmonized with such truths as are to-
day commonplace OF science. He believes in a
universal order. as Gods way OF doing things. in
science as mans knowledge OF Gods way OF dong
things and In a theological system that shall make
part OF the one and completely harmonize with
the other. In this he stands on the highest ground
Orthodoxy mus. needs learn that age long ac-
ceptance is BY no means firm fogndatlon on
which 20 rest dogmatic statements. Truth alone
makes the sure foundation. The orthodox or radi-
tional worli-scheme. as II seems 70 me. must go
Into the limbo OF the past. as thing WHOLLY at
variance with Gods way OF doing things Nor
need mourn its loss. for assuredy. us but a
man-made scheme, after all. and. like many an
other will go that higher. better and nooler may
so find acceptance. Should traditonailsm 60
God stu remains. to come yet closer and more
completely into tho hearts ana lives OF his chill
cren. l. u CooN.
Coopersiown. y. Y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-27
INCIDENTS N SOCIETY.

Preparations for the performance OF "Allce IN
Wonderland" for tho benefit OF the Society OF
Decorative Art. which will be given on SATURDAY
afternoon January S. In the ballroom al the AS
toria are being made and everything indicates
thoroughly successful entertainment Tho per
Torrance will take place under the management or
Miss Amy Baker The special committee In charge
consists OF Mrs. Lewis Livingston DelaAe!d and
Mrs. Thomas S. Young. jr. Tickets "hich are
s. 80 each. all seats reserved are on sale AZ TIE
rooms OF the society, No IA East Thirty-fourth'
St Among the pa,ronesses o. the entertainment
are Mrs John Z. Alexandra. Mrs Edgar
Auchlncloss Mrs James l.. Barclay. Mrs Charles
H. Bergman. Mrs Edmund l. Bayl!es Mrs John
S Barnes Mrs Clement Cleveland. Mrs. Robert
Livingston Crooke. Ms. w Bayari Cutting. Mrs
George B. De Forest. Mrs. Henry VI Day. Mrs j
J. Emery. Miss Calender. Mrs Robert End!coit
Mrs Charles Dudley Fuller Mrs. Charles j Gould
Mrs. William r. Grace. Mrs. George Griswold
Haven. Mrs. J. Lyon Gardiner. MIS-. J. Hooker
Hamersley. Mrs Clarence II. Hyde Mrs. Morris
X. Jesup. Mrs. John Garrison Jay, Mrs Samuel
Keyser. Mrs. Edward King Mrs. Levi p. Morton
Mrs John W. Min,urn. Mrs. Arthur J. Peabody
Mrs George B. Post. Mrs W. Watts Sherman Mrs
George X: Schieffelin Mrs F S Witheroee; Mrs
William c. Whiiney, Mrs; william Hopkins Young
OF Poughkeepsie. Mrs; Jules Reynai and Mrs
The wedding Of Miss Maude. Scott. daughter OF
coiviiie ' Dyer. viii be celebrated on "Wednesday
afternoon. in the Calvary Baptist Church. In West
The engagement is announced OF Miss Louse
Van Zandt ST. John. the only daugGtcr o: Mrs.
William ST. John. OF Yves; Seventieia-st.. 70 Rob
ert White Butler. member Of the IN Regiment
Mrs Lewis Quentin Jones will give dance a.
Sherry's tomorrow night In honor OF her daughter
Miss Fanny Jones
large dance vii. be given at sherrys on Wetnes-
day night by Mrs Charles Il. Van NOstIani o.:
Plerrepont-st.. Brooklyn. in honor Of her son. who
Is a senior a. Cornell College
quie, wedding on January u Will be that OF
Miss Iilias Juanita Grace. 70 George Edward Kent
which viii take place at the home OF the BRIDE
parents Mr. and Mrs. William H.. Gracc. 40. 81
East SeVenty-ninth-st The general reception VIII
be held at the home OF Nj and Mrs Grace, on
February j. when the couple have returned from
their honeymoon trip.
The engagement is announced ~ Miss Nay
Kenworthy Barbour D. Washington, 10 George
Cochran Broome OF inghamton. y Y. a member
or the METROPOLITAN Club OF Washington.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-27
STAGE CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS.

The annual festival for the children OF the stage
took place last night At Tony Pastors Theatre.
E,st Fourtecnth-st. The stage childrcn's CHRIST
mas distribution. rs It IS called was founded ten
wears ago by Aunt" Louisa Edrldee. For VEGAS
IN. had laborcd with unnasSinS z>al for las;
nights a.t.ir and she SAW her efforts CROWNED
with succcss This year 2.W| was subscribed 81
,,,.n 81 LOO WAS raised by Aunt" Louisa herself.
Three hundred children OF the stage were made
h,:r.y !y receiving Christmas presents such as
cclls tie, ces umbrellas. banioS. 'l"'ns' games
shoes clolhing etc. In the ballioofa OF 1amm@ny
uau adjoining the theatre. were three mammoth
Christmas trees. loaded down win presents
There were special rre-snts FOR 'h@sc children VINO
hal requested certain articles m me S'istnn ,
Wa rii"n in the theatre. Lille MARKS better
known as Baby LII was the sar Oh Oilers t%e who
sang. danced ard did spccalcs were walter Lr9n;
Alien sadie Jacoby vonne Wells Wee W s,,S Sunii.
Master Ralph baby M!nznhcEcr. nike MISS ter
iar Maud iacoby. little Florence dip cara MIS-
sail, Renic Humphreys. Lottie ana Lille "eh'ie
and Anna Wilkes Dian .ha .ntsrtainment