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New President and Director.

The Board of Trustees of the State
Agricultural College held a meeting
Thursday of last week in Lake City,
and after due elaboration elected Dr.
w. F. Yocum, president of Summerlin
Institute at Barlow, as president. This
appointment of president carries with
it the position of Director of the Ex-
pertinent Station.
1t is the prevailing impression that
the Board made am admirable selec-
ton, as DR.. Yocum for many years
has been engaged in educa tional work
in the State, and is in every way quail
flied for the position.
The Agriculturist trusts that the
Agricultural College will prosper I'M
der the able management of DR.. Yo-
cum, and tenders to the new presi-
dent its promise of hearty co-opera-
tion in any work that is aimed at the
agricultural education of the people
of the State.
The salary of the president was re-
duced by the Board from $4,000 to
$4,000 per year. This may and may
not have been wise move. We are
inclined to think it was not, but have
no disposition to criticise the board
for looking to the financial part of the
business.
A resolution was also adopted by
the trustees requesting the newly
elected president to begin canvas of
the State at once in order to bring
the college into more prominence.
Prof. B. G. Irby, of the North Car
DINA Agricultural College was tender
ed the chair of Agriculture.
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manufacture the Starch, make the
thousands and keepathem at home.
What is true ofcassava starch facto-
ries and broom factories is also true
of canning factories, cigar factories,
palmetto factories and thousand and
one other things we hear of.
The people of Florida must go into
the developing business themselves.
If they wait, capital will wait. If
they go ahead and prove that the
thing can be done capital will be con-
vinced and come.
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would be willing to sell their crops
for in the New York market
The orange growers certainly have
no cause to complain over the new
tariff law. They were given more than
they had any reason to suppose they
would ever get-we do not say more
than they deserve, for if any industry
was worthy the fostering care and pro-
lection of the nation, it was the orange
industry of Florida.
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To Protect Florida.

State Health Officer, J. Y. Porter
has issued the following proclama-
ton:
"Whereas, the State Board of Health
of Florida has received official infor-
nation of the existence of yellow fe-
yer in the States of Louisiana and
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Effect of Burning.

Effect of Burning.
Editor Florida Agriculturist:
[ would like some information on
one point that l think is Of much in
terest to all farmers.
| notice that when a log heap or
palmetto roots have been burned on
the ground that for several years
thereafter that our vegetables grow
much more rank and prolific with
much nicer fruit than they do on the
adjacent land that is not so burned.
Is it the burning of the soil or is it
the lime and the potash from the
stuff burned that makes the differ
ence? And how are we to find out
what and how much of the same sub
stance we need in the fertilizer used
to bring the ground up to the same
standard as that which is burned?
j. T. johnson.
Cocoannt Grove, Fla.
The effect on the soil of burning
log heaps depends on what kind of
soil the heap is burned. On high pine
land the effect is the very opposite to
what you report. The burning of a
heap of pine logs seems to thoroughly
destroy every particle of plant food in
the soil, and renders it so barren that
it will not grow anything for years.
On hammock lands or lands that have
been drained, the effect is quite diff
ferent. In the first place the materi
al burned is not apt to make as hot
fire as the pine logs, hence the heat
does not penetrate so deeply or de-
stroy all the plant food under it. The
benefit comes from the fact that the
heat destroyes the acids in the soil
that are injurious to cultivated plants
and the consumed wood and trash add
potash and phosphoric acid to the
spot, making it a congenial location
for the plants which respond in
way that is quite marked. One of the
quickest ways to get saw grass land
into shape for cultivation is to burn
off two or three inches of the top,
which can be done in dry time, and
then pillow if the soil will bear up
team, otherwise it must be dug up by
hand.
The best plan we know of to sweet
en- soil without the aid of fire is to
scatter broadcast quantity of un>
Stacked lime and pillow. This lime
neutralizes the acid and aids in break
ing down the vegetable matter in the
soil. After this has laid for few
weeks give liberal dressing of pot
ash in the form of sulphate of pot
ash or unleached ashes. The latter
will give the best results if they can
be had unleached. Harrow in thor
oughly and pulverize the soil as
much as possible.
There is no plan by which we can
tell just what must be applied to your
soil to bring it up to the desired fer
tility except by repeated experiments
with reliable fertilizing materials.
To Protect Florida
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WEDNESDAY,, SEPT. Is, 1897.
Table of Contents.

FARM GROVE, AND GARDEN-How
to Prepare Budding Cloth; African
Horned Cucumber; Some New Straw
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-12-07
PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
TContinued from second page. |

ICOntlnued from second paRe.I
ness. the government will continue its
xvatchful care over the rights and
properIty of American citizens and will
abate none of it's efforts to bring about
by peaceful agencies peace whlch
shall be honorable and enduring. IL 1t
shall hereafter be a duty imposed by
our obligations to ourselves, to civiliza-
tion and humanity to intervene with
force, it shall be without fault on our
part and only because the necessity for
such action will be so clear as to COM
mand the support and approval of the
civilized world.
r'By n special message dated the 10th
day of June last, 1 laid before the sem
ate of the United States treaty signed
that day by the plenipotentiaries of the
United States and of the republic of
Hawaii having for its purpose the in
Evaporation of the Hawaiian islands
rs an integral part of the United
States and under it's sovereignty. The
senate having removed the injunction
OF secrecy, ahho Ugh the treaty is still
pending before that body, the subject
may be properly referred in this mes
sage by the necessary action of con-
gress is required to determine by leg
fslation many details of the eventful
union, should the fact of annexation
be accomplished, as 1 believe it should
be.
'While consistently disavowing from
a very early period any aggressive
policy of absorption in regard to the
Hawaiian group, a long series of dis
cussions through three-quarters of
century has proclaimed the vital inter
pendent life of the Hands and their
Intimate commercial dependency upon
this country. At the same time ii
has been repeatedly asserted that in
no event could the enmity of Hawaiian
Statehood cease by the passage of the
Islands under the domination or in
nuence of another power than the
United States. Under these circum-
stances the logic of events required
that annexation before offered but de-
clined, should in the ripeness of time
come about as the natural result of
strengthening the ties that bind us to
those islands and be released by the
free will of the Hawaiian state.
"That treaty was unanimously rati-
fed without amendment by the senate
and president of the republic of Hawaii
cn the 10th of September last and only
awaits the favorable action of the
american senate to effect the complete
absorption of the islands into the do
mains of the United States. What the
conditions Of such union shall be, the
political relations thereof to the United
States, the character of the local ad-
mlnistratlon, the quality and degree of
tie elective franchise of the inhabi-
tants, the extension of the federal
laws to the territory or the enactment
OF Special laws to fit the peculiar con-
dition thereof the regulation of needs
of labor therein and all matters upon
which the treaty has wisely relegated
to congress
IF the treaty is confirmed, as every
ccnsideration of dignity and honor re-
quires, the wisdom of congress will see
to it that avoiding abrupt assimilation
OF elements perhaps hardly yet fitted
to share in the highest franchises of
citizenship. and having Cue regard t.
the geographical conditions, the just
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-12-07

: 'i''':a:'''s';'4y<<1 !; 1z.7z IL, u 4
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1897-12-07

the service have been enlarged, and at
the same time rendered less technical
and more practical; and a distinct ad-
vance has been made by giving a
nearing before dismissal upon all cases
where incompetency Is charged or de-
nanded, or removal of officials in any
of the departments.
This order has been made to give
5he accused his right to be heard with
out in any way impairing the power
II removal, which should always be
exercised in cases of inefficiency or in
competency, and which is one of the
safeguards of the civil service reform
system. preventing stagnation and
1ead-wood, and keeping every emp
ploye keenly alive TO the fact that
security of tenure does depends not on
favor, but on his own tested and care
fully watched record of service. Much,
Of course, still remains to be accom-
phshed before the system can be made
reasonably perfect for our needs.
There are places now in the classi-
fed service which ought to be ex-
empted and others unclassifed may
properly be included. 1 shall not hest
tate to exempt cases which 1 think
have been improperly Included in the
classified service or include those
which, in my judgment, will best pro-
mote the public service The system
has the approval of the people, and 1t
will be my endeavor to uphold and ex-
tend II,
81 am forced by the length of this
message to omit many important refer
ences to affairs of the government
with which congress will have to deal
at the present session. They are fully
discussed in the departmental reports,
to all of which invite your earnest at
tention.
THE estimates of the expenses of the
government by the several departments
should have your careful scrutiny.
While congress may find 1t an easy
task to reduce the expenses of the gov
ernment it should not encourage their
increase. These expenses will, in my
Judgment admit of a decrease in many
branches of the government without
injury to the public service. II is a
commanding duty to keep the appro-
priatdons within the receipts of the
government, and thus prevent a de-
fcit. WILLIAM MKINI.EY.
Executive Mansion, Dec. 1S9 4"
a. :, g-ssFE-HERT
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MEATS AND POULTRY.

Estate street, near railroad. Freshest and
best meats. My patrons say keep the best
meats in town. 27e
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"The Light Of the World

OR OUR SAVIOR IN ART"
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Every picture Is reproduced from some
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Also man or woman Uf good church
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same man, Imprisoned in the charnel-house
of ill-heaith will but too often idly, and
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II is to grasp the best weapon at hand and
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Just a
Little Pain.

The first touch Of Rheumatism Is
fair warning Of much torture to follow.
The little pains which dart through the
body are not 50 severe ct first, possibly q
mere pang, and cause little inconven-
ience, but If the warning Is unheeded,
they will multiply rapidly and increase
in severity until they become almost
unbearable.
Rheumatism as a rule is much severer
In winter, though many are so afflicted
with It that they are crippled all the
year round. Those who felt its first
touch last year, may be sure that with
the first season of cold or disagreeable
weather, the mild pain of last year will
return as a severe one, and become more
and more intense until the disease has
them completely in its grasp.
Being a disease of the blood of the
most obstinate type, Rheumatism can
be cured only by a real blood remedy.
No 1iniments or ointments can possibly
reach the disease. Swift's Specific
Is. s. S. is the only cure for Rheuma-
tism, because it is the only blood remedy
that goes down to the very bottom of all
obstinate blood troubles, and cures cases
which other remedies cannot reach.
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sioner, with Mr. Chapman Coleman, Of
Kentucky, as secretary, and Mr.. John
Ball Osborne, of Scranton, Pa, as as
sistant secretary The commissioner
is charged particularly to look after the
agricultural interests both north and
south, not forgetting the large and
constantly increasing manufacturing
interests east of the Alleghenies.
Mr.. Kasson was minister to Austria
from June II, 1877, to May, 1881, and
minister to Germany from July 4, 1884,
to March, 1885. He was also one Of the
commissioners to represent the gov
ernment of the United States at the
conference held in Berlin concerning
Samoan affairs. Preceding his diplo-
matte service Mr.. Kasson was for many
years a member of congress.
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..Duke,, -rhomp.on smed lor Assaurr

Trenton, oct. 15.-Suit has been insti-
tuted in the New Jersey supreme court
by Peter E. Wurlnein, a Trenton re-
porter, against ex-Assemblyman Will
lam ]. Thompson. Wurfilein asks for
$4,000 damages. The plaintiff states
that he approached Thompson in the
directors room at the Interstate fair
on Sept 80, and asked for an interview
with Thompson on the result Of the
constitutional election anti-gambling
amendment. Wurfflein claims that
Thompson rushed at him and struck
and kicked him and injmad him
physically,
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Baltimore, oct. 15.-Matthew Rogers,
grocer, at 16 West Randall street,
and Mrs. Ida Wright, his mistress, were
found dead in Rogers house yesterday.
Both had been shot The police look
upon it as a case Of murder and suicide,
but Rogers relatives insist that 1t was
the work of a former admirer Of the
woman. Her husband is living and is
thought to be in West Virginia. The
only other person in the house was a
little daughter of the dead woman, who
knew nothing of the tragedy until
awakened several hours afterward.
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he FIre I'D Dhrhnm. N. q

Raleigh, N. c., oct. 15.-The city Of
Durham was yesterday visited by the
most destructive fire in it's history.
Seven four story wooden houses, filled
with tobacco, and eight dwellings were
destroyed. The total loss is $3.50, ,OOO
with 5000, 900 insurance.
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A Ya1nable Presoription.

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YIce Presldent of AIestern Union.

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terday Thomas f. Clark formerly as
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acting vice president, to succeed John
Van Horne, who on Wednesday re-
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for 16 years Mr.. Van Horne had been
connected with the Western Union Tel
egraph company almost 40 years.
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Jersey City, Oct 15.-A police permit
has been granted the Swedish EbenezeT
Evangelical church, Of this city, to
hold a fair to raise money with which
to pay a church debt. The police were
informed that piano and other arti-
cles would be raffied off at the fair. The
law of New Jersey, as amended re-
Gently, is stringent against any gamb'
ling device or game of chance. Law
yers say that to play such a game az
progressive euchre for prize is now q
criminal onense.