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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-12-06

Bad Drinking Watcr.-Every one
suffers greatly from the different
kinds of water he is compelled to drink
and nothing is so likely to bring on an
attack of diarrhoea. Perry Davis
Pain-Kiler is the only safe, quick and
sure for it, cramps and cholera NOR
bus. Avoid substitutes, there is but
one Pain-Killer, Perry Davis. Price
25c and SOC. 16
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-12-06

"long Sleep within the past two
months.-Titusville Advocate.
George w. Saxon, president of the
Capital City Bank, has just closed a
big land deal in Leon County. The
transaction embraces about $4,000
acres, at the average price of $1.25 per
acre. This is fine body of land for
lumber and naval stores, and saw
mills and turpentine distilleries will
soon be in operation on these lands
St. Augustine.
Something like two hundred dollars
a week are being paid to- espinosa
pickers and other laborers on Manager
VanDuzor's farms, and this has been
going on for some time. This is one
of the new industries which we under
stand is to be very greatly enlarged
next year. In the place of two hum
dred acres there will probably be a
thousand planted next season. Bar
tow Courier Informant.
Preparations are being made in
Tampa for some heavy suits, growing
out in the increase in the price Of
phosphate. Prominent Tampa attor-
neys are being sought to take a hand
in these suits. Operators have made
long time contracts under the low
prices which formerly prevailed. Now,
that prices have so greatly increased
these operators, in some cases, it is
alleged, want to jump their contracts
Nassau having put on 6O-days
quarantine against Miami and Key
! West, it is now impossible to send
building material for use in con
structing the new hotel at Nassau
This will not interfere with work or
the hotel, however, as material will be
sent direct from New York. There is
now large amount of material in Mi
imi which was brought here for ship
ment to Nassau, and the probability il
that it will be used here in putting III
new dwelling houses for which Their
is great demand.-MiamiN News.
The former sportsmen guests of tn
hotels at Hawthorne have cancelled al
their orders for rooms since learnin;
Of the nonresident game law. Not on
has decided to pay the tax. This i
a good thing. We know of a vicinit!
where a nonresident hunter formerly
came every winter and killed fourteen
to sixteen hundred quail. In the sam,
vicinity is a negro who would ever.
season kill from eighteen hundred tt
two thousand Of the birds, and LOAF
around on the proceeds of their sale
until the next season. The present
game law is good one.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-12-06

In DR.. Hathaway's most
extensive practice, GOV
ering a period of more
than 20 years, he has been
called upon to treat all
manner of diseases of
men and women and
along the whole line of
human ailments he has
been uniformly sue
ceSSful.
DR.. Hathaway's me-
thod of treatment gets
directly at the seat of
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-12-06

80. the trouble purlneS the DIOO0
rurMies tones up the whole system and
the Blood. neutralizes the pOsons which
produce the diseased conditions.
r Yearly he restores to perfect
AS Dssedses health thousands of sufferers
Treated. from Catarrh, Bronchitis, AS
thma, Hay Fever. Lung Complaints. Stomach,
Liver and Kidney Diseases Piles, TumOrS, Can
GERS, Eczema and all manner of skin affections
DR.. Hathaway also treats with
UtSedSeSW the greatest success all those
women many distressing weaknesses and
diseases by which so many women are afflicted.
-..v Dr. Hathaway's offices are fitted
E'eS1''""' with all the latest electrical an
AppHanceS' other appliances. IN the use OF
which, as we'll as the microscope, ne has world
wide fame as an expert. All of the medicines
used by DR.. Hathaway are compounded in his
own laboratories. under his personal direction
and special remedies are prepared for each in
dvidual case according to its requirements.
DR.. Hathaway has prepared
examination series of determination blanks
Blanks. applying to the different diseases
which he sends free on application: No l, for
Men; No. for Women; No. 3, for Skin Diseases;
No. A. for Catarrhal Diseases; No. .. for Kidneys.
Dr. Hathaway makes no charge
G0nSultats0n for consultation at either his
Free. office or by mail.
j. NEWTON HAT7AWA M. ID.
,t DIR. Hathaway CO.,
26 Bryan Street, Savannah, Ga"
MENTION THIS PAPER WHEN WRITING.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-12-06
Dr.. Hathaway
Treats All Diseases.

His Method Invariably Cures All
Catarrhal, Bronchial, Lung, StOm.
ach, Liver, Kidney and Other Com
plants, as Well as All Diseases
and Weaknesses of Women.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-20
Secretary AIger's Resignation.

The resignation of Secretary Alger gives
rise Immediately to a wide variety of COM
ment Enemies of the Secretary renew their
assaults upon him, and read in his retire
ment a justification of all that they have
at any time alleged to his discredit. Enc
mics of the administration return to their
assaults upon it, and are preparing to use
the episode as club against the President.
Not unlikely. some of the very newspapers
which have been the most severe in their
arraignment of the Secretary of War will
pretend to soften toward him in his return
TO private life and play him martyr
in their game against the administration
So runs the political world away.
The case upon It's merits. however, and
as in the end it must be judged, is a very
simple one. Secretary Ayers resignation
was due upon every consideration of pro-
priety and fair dealing. If there had never
been an arraignment of the Secretary on
any ground; if there had been no war with
Spain: il his management of the War De-
partment had been absolutely fawless
evoking from political friend and foe alike
the most cordial praise, the day of his for
NAL announcement as a candidate for the
Senate should have marked the writing of
his resignation a member of the cabinet
To state the case is sufficient. 1t needs
no argument. Gen. Alger had a perfect
right to enter the race for the Senate But
he had right to the enjoyment in the
race of the influence and prestige of a cab
met portfolio. 1t is idle to say that he
would have striven to keep that influence
and prestige out of the race. He could not
possibly have done that had he tried. He
could not possibly have been Secretary
Alger here and elsewhere throughout the
Union outside of Michigan, and Gen. Alger
a candidate for the Senate within the state
of Michigan. Such division of himself, so
to speak. was utterly out of the question.
His office of cabinet minister would inevi-
tably have figured in the senatorial race
to his advantage, and the administration
thereby would. most unwsely and improp-
erly. have been dragged into taking a part
in matter which the republicans of Mich
igan alone are entitled to control.
Secretary Ayers delay IN Offering his
resignation has provoked some criticism
some deserved criticism. He should have
been very prompt with it. For some reason
he has been slow about it-has appeared to
miss the point at issue. and even to refuse
to see 1t when others. in no unfriendly
spirit, pointed it out But at last he has
been brought TO see il. and his resignation
relieves both himself and the President of
a serious embarrassment. He is neither
martyr nor a scapegoat, much as for parti-
san purposes the opponents of the admin
istration may now pose him for one or the
other. He goes out of the cabinet, where
his presence was not seemly, and into the
senatorial race in Michigan, where. as has
every other ambitious citizen of that state,
he has a perfect right to be. And that is
the story.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-20
Street Car Strikes and City Ownership.

The street railway strikes in Brooklyn
and Cleveland have recently given fair
demonstration of the fact that state boards
of arbitration are useless appendages to
the commemorative administrative ma
chinery as far as the function of prevent
ing labor disturbances is concerned They
may amply justify their existence in other
directions, in adjusting minor differences,
in maintaining a system of clearing houses
between capital and labor. Perhaps in
some of the crises which do not attain to
large proportions they actually operate to
prevent ruptures in the relations of en-
ployer and employed. Yet the fact re-
mains that in these two late instances at
least and in many others which have pre-
coded they are impotent when the street
railway labor troubles approach a climax
This fact lends emphasis to the plea of
those who advocate that sort of municipal
ownership of the traction facilities which
has from time to time been mentioned in
these columns. This is the project of the
city ownership of the fixed plants and the
perpetual franchise, with private main
tenance under lease during a specified term
of years Once the central principle of this
project is adopted and the plant is acquir-
ed, by either purchase or construction
many opportunities arise to modify existing
conditions. especially with regard to the
labor interests. The city in leasing the
right to operate the lines may prescribe
not only the fare rate and the service
schedule. but it may stipulate that a GER
tain standard of wages and hours be main
tanned, designed to prevent friction with
the employees 1t may in addition require
as condition of the lease, under penalty
of fine or forfeiture, that in any case of
dispute between the Iease-holder and the
employees the issues involved shall be forth
with submitted to competent board of
arbitration. either standing or to be i'm
mediately assembled In short, as soon as
the fixed features of the roads are once
possessed by the municipality-and without
them no private corporation can do bust
ness-the city becomes master of the sit
uation as regards the interests not only OF
the citizens and passengers. but of the on
eratives as well. Thus the proposition
which is gaining in favor as other plans
Tor municipal ownership fail appeals both
10 the citizen and the employee as assuring
larger measure of protection than is
theoretically and as a rule actually possi
Die under corporate ownership. The state
boards OF arbitration will never be able
70 control these serious affairs until they
represent the infiexible mandate of the law
beyond which there is no appeal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-20
A Sensible Strike Settlement.

The employing electricians of Washing
ton are to be complmented upon their
public-spirited solution of the problem pre-
scented by the strike of their journeymen
Their decision to grant the demands of the
workers. with certain notifications, has
doubtless prevented an awkward contin-
gency in the local construction industry,
and has gone far toward establishing bet
ter conditions in their own particular trade
than have prevailed here for some time.
At the same time the men are entitled to
praise for their disposition to take the
terms offered, foregoing the maximum
wage until the 1st of next April, in order
to permit the completion of pending con-
tracts under the temporary compromise
scale agreed upon last night. Thus by a
reasonable display of mutual forbearance
the two sides to the controversy have
reached an understanding which should
prove beneficial to both. 1t is to the credit
of any city to have these affairs between
employer and employee settled by resort to
the principles of business and justice in
stead of to coercion. In this intelligent,
conservative community there is a mini
mum of reason for public agitations re-
sulting from the differences between these
two great classes, each of which is so
vitality necessary to the prosperity of the
other, and of the people in general, includ-
ing them both.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-20
Esterhazy Conresses Axnfp

Count Esterhazy is universally believed
oy this time to be such a precious rascal
that his latest Confession" in the Paris
Matin must be accepted with great reserve
He says that the French war office was
morally certain of the guilt of Dreyfus, but
was unable to secure material evidence to
prove It. The French secret agents in Ber-
lin had given what claimed to be the most
positive proof that French military secrets
were reaching German authorities and thai
all the tokens of the case pointed unmistak
ebly to. Dreyfus. Under the circumstances
forgery was committed to supply the miss
ing links In the chain which the army staff
believed to be actually but not technically
and legally perfect. connecting Dreyrus with
this treason Hence Esterhazy's services
were called Into requisition ana he was re-
quired to devise the bordereau which was
sent to the house of the German military
attache and then recovered" by secret
agents of the French war office.
Esterhazy further declares that the mil
itary chiefs and former ministers OF war
knew these facts and were absolutely GER
tain Of the guilt Of Dreyfus, and approved
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-20

Tho Inauguration of the full electrical
service on the City and Suburban railway
line yesterday closes a long record of ex-
ceptional interest in the history OF the insti-
tuition OF rational rapid transit in this city.
The New York avenue branch of the road,
which was the last to be placed upon an
electrical basis. was the first battlefield of
the war between the overhead and the I'M
foreground systems. The presence Of an
overhead line on that thoroughfare was re-
garded by the citizens for several seasons
with grave apprehension. 1t had been orig
inally installed in virtual defiance of the
law by means OF mad rush of construc-
ton enterprise which gave the wires a
questionable legal existence at the very
close Of the eleventh hour before a pro-
hfbitory statute took effect. When the time
came for them to be removed these wires
were given further lease through the
thoughtlesj generosity of Congress, which
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-20
The Law and Trusts.
From the philadelphia Textile Record,


We are strongly inclined to question II
legislative action can be SO arranged as to
prohibit the consolidation of many firms or
many companies into one firm or company:
and this kind of consolidation is in truth
precisely the thing of which the opponents
of so-called trusts complain. If Smith owns
a worsted mill and Jones owns a worsted
mill. 1t will be hard for the most ingenious
lawmaker to find any warrant in the funda.
mental law for forbidding the two men
from coming together and, under the firm
name of Smith & Jones, operating the two
mills with one ownership and one manage
ment. Indeed, this, in one shape of another,
is just about what is done, and has been
always done, when firms and companies
have been formed for manufacturing pur-
poses.
While, therefore, law may effectively deal
with and prohibit, in one measure or an
other, fraudulent capitalization. the issue of
stock for which no solid assets can be
shown. and similar methods of practicing
deceit upon unsophisticated investors It
can hardly be extended so far as to prevent
property owners. whether they be natural
persons or corporations, from throwing all
their holdings into the hands Of single large
corporations. Every antitrust law thus
FAR adopted has failed to check such move
ments, and every law must fail unless there
Is TO be such overturn of fundamental
rights as to deprive a man of control of his
own property and to rob him Of the liberty
OF action which is justly his
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-20
Certifying to Their Loyalty.

The democratic candidate for governor of
Kentucky has gone to Chicago to give per-
sonal assurance of loyalty to Mr.. Bryan.
John r. Mclean, who aspires to be the
democratic candidate for governor of Ohio,
has written letter in which he declares his
loyalty to Mr.. Bryan. The one man points
to the platform upon which he stands,
which declares for the Nebraska leader;
the other points to an editorial in his Gin
cinnau newspaper welcoming Mr.. Bryan
to the state on his recent visit to Columbus.
All of which is interesting enough in it's
way.
1t remains true. however, that there are
some sharp corners turned in politics. Ones
friends of one day may be ones opponents
of the next. And vice versa.
Let US take the case of Mr. Goebel in his
recent contest for the nomination he has
secured. During his canvass of the state
he paid his respects in vigorous style to
Henry Watterson from nearly every stump.
1t was the popular thing to do. He as a
silver leader, although a convert to the
cause, could not hope to please his au-
diences better than by Blasting" the most
notable gold bug among the democrats. Be-
sides, he was urging Endorsement of his
election bill, and Mr.. Watterson had de-
nounced that in the most scathing terms.
If anybody had predicted six months ago
that in the event of Mr.. Goebel's nomna
ton for governor Mr.. Watterson would
support him, the average democratic voter
in Kentucky would have smiled with incre-
dulity. And yet that is the spectacle pre-
sented today. In fact. Mr.. Watterson came
out so promptly and SO enthusiastically for
the man he had been abusing and who had
been abusing him that a suspicion of con-
spiracy has been raised. The people who
have not been rendered uneasy on the SUBJ
ject are INDUCING in a guffaw at the light
ming changes that politics make possible.
In other words, while some of the demo-
Gratis are shaking their heads over the COM
bnation, others are shaking their sides.
There seems reason to believe that Mr..
Bryan was not born yesterday. He has
good forty years to his credit, and he is an
observing politician. He will receive these
assurances with a good grace probably, but
they will not cause him to close his eyes or
ears to passing events. His reputation is
not that of unusually confiding or credu-
lous politician.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-20

of the irregular methods employed to Sc
cure his conviction. Whatever may be the
low character of this man, who has told
many kinds of stories about the case and
is known to be utterly INSCRIPTIONS, this
is at least plausible explanation of the
marvellous indifference of a large portion
of French officialdom in days past to the
gross improprieties in the treatment Of
Dreyfus. 1t has been almost inconceiv
able that men should lend themselves with
such persistence to a prosecution which
bore every outside evidence of absolute
persecution. Not even the ferocity of the
hatred of the Jew which animates so many
of the French people today could account
for some of these prejudices.
There is assuredly mystery at the bot
tom of this case. If 1t be explained as
Esterhazy now suggests the solution will
reflect seriously upon the competence of
the French army chiefs, who were thus led
into tangle of deception and crime. If
they lacked only the last connection In the
chain of evidence they assuredly employed
the worst possible tools to forge a substi-
tute, in Esterhazy and Du Patty de Clam
and Henry. A far more practical method Of
stopping the leak through which military
secrets flowed to Germany would have
been to change the personnel of the war
Office and to transfer the suspects to far
foreign service 1t was at least a display
of wretched judgment to jeopardize the re-
public by a series of crimes in the hope of
capturing a traitor who could easily be re-
moved from his field of malevolent useful
ness. The process such as the malodorous
count now outlines is very much like that
related of a certain mythical people told
of in children's stories, the Mobos. One
day stork was discovered in field,
whereupon the apprehensions of the farm
ers were aroused lest the bird should tram
pie down the ripening grain. 1t was de-
cided to send man into the field to scare
away the intruder. But the man, it was
argued, would trample down more grain
than the stork. The problem was solved
by sending in the beaten mounted upon a
platform carried on the shoulders of six of
the largest men of the village
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-20

later refused a second extension 1t was by
this time evident that the purpose of the
owners of the line was to force a breach in
the anti-overhead wire law In the hope of
securing for the entire city the immensely
valuable trolley privilege which had brought
such profits to the corporation in other
cities and such woes to the people. But a
vigorous fight in the courts gave vitality to
the law, and after stubborn resistance
the wires were removed and the long strug-
gle of the citizens covering seven years had
been won. Then ensued a period of atroc-
ious service, marked by experimenting with
air motors, followed by an even worse serv-
ice as the road went into the hands of a
receiver and was brought to the verge of
utter collapse through the Vaccinations of
the owners. At length the logic of the sit
uation became apparent to a new group of
enterprising capitalists, who accurately
measured not only the force of the public
opinion adverse to the overhead trolley, but
also the value of a franchise maintained on
thoroughly modern basis. The purchase
of the road and it's rehabilitation followed.
Unfortunate delays occurred to postpone
the date of final and complete installation,
which arrived at last yesterday. 1t is not
to be questioned now that those citizens
the inadequacy of the service caused by the
conflict between the trolley syndicate and
the local insistence upon the highest stand
ard are agreed that the ultimate result
amply justiies the struggle of the people
and offsets the handicaps of the past few
seasons. 1t sometimes costs heavily to
raintain a municipal ideal. The tempta-
ton to accept substitutes for the sake of
temporary convenience is very strong. But
In the end the best results flow from an I'M
compromising demand for the best and
only the best. Chicago is now realizing
this fact. 1t will be wholesome spectacle
If that greas city shall, through the stub
born opposition of the people, prohibit the
use of the trolley in the urban area and so
earn the greater municipal security and
attractiveness which the adoption of the
conduit system will assure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-20

He waj jolly fellow,
With clothes that fit him fine.
He is the chap who sold me
This new gold brick of mine.
And now 1 take no chances.
l never tell my name,
But always greet a stranger
With, Mister, what's your gamer
The people once were trustful,
And when speaker told
His plans to make them happy
And fill their chests with gold
They welcomed every promise
With heartiest acclaim
And never once felt tempted
To ask him, whats your gamer
But now 1t doesn't matter
How aloquence may roar.
Men shake their heads and murmur,
We've heard such things before"
Your purpose may be noble,
Deserving naught of blame.
But men are almost certain
To query, Whats your gamer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-20
Black Goods Department.

to 81 so.
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yards 5o-inch Storm Serge Reduced from s1.5O
to 90c.
"a yards 4O-inch Atwood Cheviot. Reduced
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yards pinch Silk Wool Henrietta. Reduced
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