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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-24

"In 1896" said Comrade Myers, " was
reading an article in the daily paper regard.
ing DR. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
l was interested in the account as was very
sick. at that time with stomach and liver
troubles was all run down and was in
bad condition. What remedies had taken
gave me only temporary relief, and when l
read the article in the paper l decided to
give the pills a trial.
"The story read was about man in
Ohio, and said, that if he lived in Detroit
/ would go and see him.
"Well [ grew worse instead of better and
finally went out and bought box of DR..
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. The
first box did not help me apparently, but |
continued using the pills and the second box
gave me much relief.
1" I took five boxes before was cured BIZ,
that was q very cheap cure compared with
what had spent with physicians and drug
gists.
~ still use the pills once in q while and
can cheerfully and truthfully recommend
them to any old soldier who is suffering from
liver and kidney trouble or general debility.
JOSEPH B. MYERS"
Before me personally appeared Mr.. JOSEPH
B. Myers who being duf sworn, declares
the foregoing statement to be true in every
respect. Signed this 18th day of Septemb,r,
1897. ISAAC M. BATES
Notary Public
Comrade Myers is q prominent memhcr
of Gen. 0. M. Poe Post 1873, G. A. R., and il
well known In Detroit.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-24
A Running Fight
HOW A NOTORIOUS GUERILLA
BAND WAS FOUGHT.
Veteran of the First Missouri Cavalry Relates Incidents of Skr
mishes with Quante'S Bushwackes
From the Euensn0 Ne,os, Detroit, Mich.

The well known employee of Detroit, Michi
gan, Board of Public Works, Joseph B.
Myers, living at III Fort Street, west, is an
important member of the Grand Army Of
Veterans, and recently had remarkable
experience.
Comrade Myers enlisted at Edinburg, NO.,
in 1862, and served during the war in the
southwest and was discharged at st. Louis,
Mo-, in 1865. He was a member of Co. X.
First Missouri Cavalry, 18th A. c. Western
army, commanded by General Burnside, and
later by Gen. Eads. He participated in the
battles of Springfield, Seas Ford and all the
principal battles through Missouri.
For months the First Missouri Cavalry
followed the notorious Guerilla Quantrell
and his band of bushwackers Scarcely day
passed but what there was a running fight.
For nearly six weeks Comrade Myers was
in the saddle constantly. 1t was campaign
of strategy and endurance, as both sides
were well mounted. Night and day it was
fight and skirmishes and the men were pros.
trated for weeks after Quantrell was driven
from the State. Many times the command
rode all night to cut off his retreat and fought
all day The men slept and ate in their
saddles during this campaign, and were glad
when they were relieved.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-05-24

Mr.. Wilson and His Wife Diversity.
From the Ruralist.
DR.. Ragland, in Farm and Ranch
has a companion article to Miss Mar
rowfats story, on the Family Garden.
1t is so instructive we reproduce it:
Mary, that's my wife, has been read
ing about diversifying, and she has
been planning how to bring 1T about.
Last year she concluded we ought to
have a garden, but we didn't have a
dollar to buy seeds with. She did all
she could. She sent for several cata-
logues that she saw advertised. After
supper she trimmed up our old lamp
that has no chimney, and read about
the beautiful peas, beans, melons, ETC.,
and she would say, II wish to good
ness I had dollar to send for some
of these Seeds" More than once when
she thought wasn't looking, I saw
tears stealing down her cheeks, because
we were so poor we couldn't raise
W UuJ SdAOCA 0CONs OAC AA<1A~
~ decided to go to Mrs. Rountree's, a
lady who lived on the same big cotton
farm we did. eve were all renters.)
Mary asked Mrs. Rountree if she was
going to make a garden this year.
ooh, yes" she said, prov ded my
seeds have kept ali right" So she rose
up and got her seed bag out. She be-
gan to shake various little packages
out on the bed coverlet. She had
nigh to teacupful of speckled beans.
Mary said they looked SO nice her
mouth fairly watered, for the old lady
kept on opening her seeds till she had
the bed coverlet nearly covered. Mary
was wonder-struck to see an old wild
ow lady and renter, too, have such an
abundant supply Of seeds. So she I'D
and asked her where she got them.
The old lady replied, "Oh, raised
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The name here shows that the pea
is one of the very best articles of food
for the COW. The name "cow pea" Is
not given to any variety Of pea, but a
large number of varieties. Some of them
do not run to vine, but like the Whip
poorwill peaIs bear very heavy crops or
peas. while they yield very little vlne'
These are generally earlier in matur-
ing, but you must not conclude that
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DO the corn. They claim that the peas
do not injure the corn. We do not
think this claim is true. While the
pea does not injure as much as a weed
or bunch of grass, yet it takes part
of the plant food from the corn. In
dry spells it also divides the water
with the corn We think this a bad
practice. Others plant row of peas
in the middle of the corn rows in the
time of second blowing. They make
the same claim ais the others. But in
blowing there is generally a deep fur
row made between the corn row and
the pea row, and this interferes with
the growth of the corn roots. Again
in the hot dry spells the peas will get
the water the corn should have. Hence
we object to the plan.
Still others SOW peas broadcast
when blowing the corn the last time.
AS the corn roots have already extend
ed over all the ground, and the peas
Will 11OC glow uAAtAA CA4O NOAA
quits growing, they do not injure the
corn. When the corn has finished it's
growth, there is yet time for quick
growing peas to make a crop. This
secures a crop to cover the earth in
August and September, and often
makes quite a good crop of peas. The
soil is greatly benef tied and ready for
grain crop, or for cotton next spring.
1t would be Well to sow peas in every
corn field. If you pick the peas you
are we'll paid. If you have fields SO
arranged that hogs can run in these
fields, then you have the cheapest and
best hog food. If you lose the peas,
then you help the land. There is no
cost except time of sowing and value
of seed, and this is not very much.
When sowing peas for hay, it is a
good plan to mix corn or sorghum with
them. These help to cure the peavine
hay, and increase the yield. But you
must manure heavily for these crops,
as they take more from the soil; par
ticularly do you need more OF the min
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heavier If planted in rows and cult
waited If you wish to gather the dried
peas, then it is always better to plant
in drills. This can he done very we'll
with corn and pea planter, or by
hand if you have no planter. One or
two light plowings with scrape, har-
row or cultivation lis all the work usual
ly needed. If planted early and grass
threatens damage, hoeing will pay.
Treated in this way the yield will be
very heavy and the picking easy.
If the object is to make early hay
crop, then sow the peas broadcast, ON
land that has been we'll broken, and
cover with any good harrow. There is
danger Of sowing too many peas per
acre, and thus causing the vines to be
too slender and the pods too small. We
have had better results from less than
a bushel, than from above that guam
tity.
Remember that you are always look
ing to the improvement Of the soil, as
we'll as the yield of the crop. If the
plants have room, they throw out
strong roots that go well down into the
earth, and at he same time shoot up
vigorous tops with large foliage which
gather sunshine and car1bonic acid and
nitrogen from the air. Both roots and
tops work together to produce better
results when they have room. We
have found three pecks per acre very
satisfactory.
AS you expect the peas to help you
make your soil more productive by
storing away nitrogen for future crops,
you must help them do this by giving
them plenty Of the plant food they
need. Experience shows that phos-
phoric acid and potash help the pea
crop and the crops that follow. If
you have plenty of home raised ma
nure, thsn use that, but if not, acid
phosphate 1000 pounds and kainit 600
pounds mixed and used freely, say 500
pounds per acre, will greatly increase
the growth Of the peas and the roots.
The roots will help the soil. If the
soil has been we'll prepared, the roots
will go three or four feet deep. The
tops should be used for hay. They are
too valuable to pillow in for manure.
Good peavine hay is generally worth
from SIS to SIS per ton. They are
worth about $3.50 for fertilizing. Now
you are supposed to be farming to
make all you can. If SO, you cannot
afford to lose the $40 or SIP difference
on every ton of pea hay you grow.
Besides if you do not wish to sell the
hay, and have cattle to feed it to, then
you get another profit in flesh, milk
and butter, and If you save the ma
nure carefully it Is worth all Of the
expense. If you have planted the
bunch peas and promptly pick the first
ripe pods and Immediately cut the
vines with the unripe pods, you can
often get both a seed crop and hay
crop.
There are so many advantages in
growing peas that it is difficult to
speak of all of them in any one article.
They build up the soil, build up the
cattle and build up the pocketbook all
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eral ingredients, phosphor:ic acid and
potash.
JAMES B. HUNNICUTT.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24
FALLING PRICES.

Failing Prices and the Remedy" By
Lyman F. George. Published by the
George Book Publishing Company, Bos-
ton.
In this volume of 2S1 pages, the author
makes a thoughtful study of the great
and persistent fall in prices which has
taken place in the last 80 years, it's
causes and social and financial effects
on employer and employee. The fall in
prices he attributes to the contraction
of the money volume, which began in
the United States in 1865 and has been
steadily progressing ever since. He
pleads for a bimetallic standard of cur
rency and the free coinage of silver,
with an issue of paper dollars, in suffi-
cient volume to restore values to their
normal value. THE corrective valve,
therefore, for the fall of prices and a
consequent depression in business is to
increase the volume of money, until
prices advance to that point for labor
and material where a sufficency of it
will be left in the consumers hands TO
enable them to relieve the market of ac-
cumulated goods. The trend of Mr..
Georges ideas can be guessed from the
above quotation He offers an original
ana able diagnosis of hard times and
railing prices and is deserving of a re-
spectful hearing, although his views do
not coincide with those held by the ma
Jorlty of the nation
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don't suit me. 1 guess I'll have to
give up beat"
1t was one cold, raw day in early
November that Luther sat at a window
making clumsy attempts at mending
a pair of very ragged socks Happen
| ing to glance across the road, he saw
a woman out in the Hammonds' yard.
She was busy raking up the fallen au-
tumn leaves.
"Letitia Hammond" Luther COM
| nlented bill Hammond's sister. We
don't see much of her lately. She don't
even go to church, there's so many Of
| Bills children to look after, and Bills
wife is so took uD with her clubs and
things. It's hard on Letitia, but she
never finds word of fault
The sock he was mending fell to the
floor and the wooden egg inside 1t
struck with such a loud bang that the
cat started in his sleep. Luther did
not notice. He was standing at the
window staring out.
" That is best which lieth nearest"
he said solemnly. What a fool I'VE
been"
He found his hat and left the house,
almost running across the road. He
took the Iron rake away from Letitia
senliy' lnat TOO nard work for q
little thing like you" he said
Letitias blue eyes were full of won
der, but she yielded up the rake weakly.
You'd better go into the house, too"
said Luther. Its cold out here
No one had been thoughtful of her
before for a long time and Letitia
couldn't understand it. When Luther
returned the rake she asked him to let
her do something for him.
He carried her his best pair of socks.
She was Mortified at their condition,
and mended them In a very artistic
manner
Luther looked at them in wonder and
reverence. TN never wear EN-" he
said, when he was at home again. IT
wouldn't have let her do it only / knew
1t would make her feel better, and 1t
gave me chance to seesher too
He found that 1t was an easy matter
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24
WHITE HOUSE COOK BOOK

The art and science of cooking have
during the past ten years received a
great impetus and made marvellous
growth. This is mainly due to the
widespread introduction of the white
House Cook Boook," the sale of which
now approaches 200, 900 copies. All of
the recipes included in this book rave
undergone thorough and practical test.
and can be absolutely relied upon tc
give entire satisfaction when the speci-
fic directions are infinitely followed. At
the beginning of each recipe is a list
OF the ingredients to be used, which in
cludes all that is required to make the
article. Then follows clear expiana-
ton of how to put them together, thus
rendering it easy for even an inexperi-
enced housewife or cook to accomplish
the same results as one more familiar
with the art of cooking Among tie
subjects treated are carving. dinner
giving, laying of the table, garnishing
dishes, homemade candy, the laundry,
items for the toilet, medical items, chat
ing Dish recipes, hints on table etiquette
and list of terms used in cooking. be-
sides over sixteen hundred recipes. ir-
Guiding every variety of dish known to
American housewives. Published by tie
Werner company, Akron, Ohio.
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, to invent excuses for seeing her. and
finally, some time in the winter he
asked her in fear and trembling if she
would be Mrs. Luther Wilkins.
AT first she was afraid it would not
be right to abandon her brothers child
rem, but her scruples melted away be-
fore the warmth of his eloquence. Then
she confessed that she was tired. ut is
so long that 1 have had to take care
of other folks, and it will seem like
heaven to have some one to take care OF
me-"
So it happened that in little less than
year the letter to Mrs. Luther VII
kins was given to it's rightful owner
Circumstances over which l had nc
control have prevented your getting il
before" Luther said.
Why, it's nothing but an ADVERTISE
ment of some new preparation of ce,
reals" she said, when she had opened
it.
Luther looked blank.
II see how it is, she said, after a
moments thought. "They sent to the
different grocers for lists of their Gus
toners, and then sent these circulars
to their wives"
Lets keep it," said Luther, softly
IF it hadn't been for that -
Yes, Wen keep It," said Letitia.
blushing. Susan Brown Robbins, In
Cleveland Leader
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THE WORLD OF BOOKS!

of this little comedy, airy and graceful
as it is, increases our good opinion of
the author of "Cyrano de Bergerac." 1t
is one Of his earlier works, and is fanci-
ful and entertaining, but the spirit of
art1ficiality and make-believe so colors
1t that one doubts. whether, after all, it
is worth while. SylYette and Percinet
are as calow and silly a pair of lovers
as ever walked the boards; it really is
not of the slightest Importance whether
they marry or not Likewise their
fathers are silly old men, in whom the
reader fails to place confidence, for
whom he declines to have respect" The
scene is laid where you will, provided
the costumes be pretty" is the author s
stage direction, but where out of France
do lovers address each other as my
friend? Where else are betrothals So
liditied by the presence OF a notary?
His characters are like the Vatican fig
ures on a fan, or the Dresden china
shepherdesses one sometimes sees under
glass cases; they are as fanciful and as
unnatural as these Mary Hendee, the
Translator, has done her work well.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24

The postmaster smiled little when
he passed out the mall but Luther Will
kins did not notice. He was trying to
remember whether it was a yeast cake
OF pound of cheese he had meant to
get at the store. He went out of the
post office still bordering, and ended by
forgetting both articles, his attention
being diverted by the sight Of two boys
playing marbles on the sidewalk. This
was the first sign of spring Luther had
seen, SO it was no wonder that his mem
DRY played him false.
After he got home and had eaten his
supper he thought of the mail in his
overcoat pocket. He brought it to the
table, and sat down to examine it,
There was the weekly county paper, a
poultry journal, an agricultural month
ly, and last of all, letter.
"Well, now" said Luther, picking it
up, Il wonder who's been writing to
me. l don't know when I've had let
ter"
He looked at it eagerly, held it near
err his eyes, then farther off He re-
moved his glasses and polished them in
his nose he picked up the letter again
and scanned it narrowly, then he looked
over his glasses as If at some person,
and said
II snum"
He sank into q revery, out of which
he reused himself with start to study
the envelope with renewed interest.
Mrs. Luther Wilkins" he said MRS
Luther Wilkins. And | an old bachelor
who never so much as hardly thought
of getting married! Mrs. Luther Will
kins, why, where is she? And who is
she?
well, l guess I'll see what's in it,"
He inserted the point Of his knife under
the corner of the envelope flap, then he
hesitated.
What business have l opening Of her
letters7' he asked himself. II never
did open other folks letters. and
guess l won't begin now" He rose to
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24

his feet, and, carrying it. to the mantel-
piece, leaned it up against the clock.
He settled himself to his papers, but
thoughts Of Mrs. Luther Wilkins kept
intruding on what he was reading
about patent nest boxes and under
draining and the news of the village.
Thereafter during all his waking
hours Mrs. Luther Wilkins was often
in his thoughts. She even haunted his
dreams at times. He wondered what
she was like and he thought of the kind
of woman he would wish her to be, and
enjoyed himself very much in imagin-
ing how it would seem to have her meet
him at the door when he came in from
the field, and how nice it would be not
to have to get his own meals.
At first he was a little cynical and
told himself that the imagining was
much more satisfactory than the reality
would be, but after a while he changed
his mind and would sigh heavily when
he came into his lonesome house.
This letter by the clock too, began to
trouble him. He had deyouring curiosi-
ty to see what was in it, and besides, it
did not seem just right to keep it so
long before delivering it.
One evening in June Luther put on
his best clothes and walked three miles
to see an old schoolmate who had an
unmarried cousin living with him. 1t
seemed to him that Eliza Elliott fitted
in exactly with his idea of Mrs. Luther
wilkins. He came home quite early
very much disappointed. Eliza wouldn't
do at all.
He worked doggedly for a month,
trying hard not to think Of the dis
quieting subject. 1t was no use, and
toward the end Of July it was observed
that Luther was becoming very neigh
borly. He spent his evenings at diff
ferent neighbors houses, he accepted
invitations TO tea, he went to church
regularly and to all Sunday school pic
MICS. And still he could not find a
suitable owner for the letter.
II must be terribly fussy,' he sighed.
i've got acquainted with about all the
women in town; they're nice women,
every one Of them, but somehow they
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24
LIFE OF ADMIRAL DEWEY.

1.-THE Life of Admiral Dewey" By
Will NJ. Clemens. Street & Smith, pub
fishers, 2SS William street, New York.
Illustrated.
This work is particularly timely ad-
dition to the literature of the day. So
much has been written in the newspa-
pers concerning the life and achieve
ments of our popular hero, that an au-
thentic record of his life, treated in a
narrative form, will prove peculiarlN ac-
ceptable. Mr.. Clemens Ia nephew of
Mark Twain) has already written sew
raj works which have permanently es-
tablished his name as an author. Nota-
BILE among these are "A Ken of Kip
ling" Theodore Roosevelt, the Ameri-
can" and 'The Life of Mark Twain. "
The book is illustrated and is a salts
factory product in both a literary and
mechanical sense.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24
WHEN PA FRS ct TABAsco SAUCE


When pa frs ct tabasco sauce-Tm smil-
In bout it yet
Although his SubSekent remarks always
shall regret.
We'd come to town to see the sights, an
pa remarked to me:
''We'll eat at a bong tong hotel an sling
some style" says he.
An then he sort O. cast his eye among the
plates an all,
An says, THAT ketchup mus be good, the
bottle is so SMALL"
An then he took a piece o meat an COW
cred it quite thick,
When pa frs ct tabasco sauce an rose to
make his kick.
1t all comes back so plain to me; rikol-
lect it well;
He just was talkin' mild an calm, an
then he give yell
An tried to cave the ceilin' by buttin'
"Er-hoohl Err hooh! Fire Murder!
Hooh!" | can't tell all he said.
But when they heard his heated words,
six women lef the room,
An said such language filled their souls
with shame, an also gloom;
But pa, he only gurgled some, and then
he yelled again,
When frs he ct tabasco sauce an told
about it then.
We laid him out upon board an famed
him quite while,
An pa he sort o. gasped at first an then
he tried to smile.
An says: "Just heat poker now, an run
it down my neck;
want to cool off gradual-it's better ]
eXpeck"
But when he'd got me out O. doors, he
says, Il want to get
That there blame ketchup recipe an learn
Jus how it's het.
So l can try it on the boys when you an
me git hum,
Till they, too, think the condiment is
mixed with Kingdom Come"
San Francisco Examiner.
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24
ALGER'S NEW BOOK.

"Rupert's Ambition" By Horatio AL
ger, Jr. Coates & Co., Philadelphia,
The hero is Mr. Ayers inevitable
good, smart boy, and he resists tempt
alton, is enabled to assist many worthy
but unfortunate persons, and is rc-
warded by dancing with the prettiest
girl in the room and selling his house
lots IN Harlem for $1,000 Part of this
good fortune is due to native ability
The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24
REMARKABLE RESCUE

Mrs. Michael Curtain. Plainheld, ILL.,.
makes the statement that she caught cold,
which settled on her lungs; she was
cian but grew worse. He told her she
was hopeless victim of consumption and
that no medicine could cure her Her
druggist suggested DIR, Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption; she bought a
bottle, and TO her delight found herself
benefited from the first dose She con-
tinued its use, and after taking six bot
does her own homework. and is as well
as she ever was. Free trial BOTTLES Of this
great discovery at BREWER &, co s
bottle guaranteed
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ally circumstances. Mr.. Alger is one
of the few persons who still believe that
virtue is sure to be rewarded, but he
does not go so far as to hold that virtue
is its own reward, and he rewards his
good characters suitably, beginning
with 50-cent pieces. There is one mar
riage in this story, and the hero, at the
age Of Is or 20, adopts little boy, from
which it may be gathered how super
fiuously and unnaturally good he is
But boys-and it is for them that Mr..
Alger writes-delight in this sort of
thing, so why criticise it?