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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-09

You profted 10y them and some of
you pl4ofited 10y these fairs while 9th
el1s did NOT. Whose that did not are the
ones we are after with a sharp stick
and are going to prod you good-natur-
eddy and we don't want you Ito get
''huffy." 1T lis for your own good we
are Surviving. Your teachers will be
those who took "a lively interest i'm
these former fairs, they are going to
keep them up mntil the last ONE of you
are saved; they are going among you
year after year with 'thjose fairs in
summer and Farmers Institutes in
winter. Educate! is THE word. You
need lit and must have it.
Now we have formed West Florida
Agricultural Society, and the farmers
are going to push bit ito the front and
make tits good works felt from FlOma-
ton ITO ,Apalachicola. When the melon
fair adjourned it was resolved that
another would he held, minus the mel
the line of the P. & A. Thalt point has
been selected and Laurel Hill in Wal
tom county, is to he the place, and Oc-
tober 7 lis to he THE date
Capt. Eric won Axelson, who is the
agent of the Yellow River Railroad,
lis making himself prominent in the
matter; he is business all over and the
wide-awake farmers all along the rail
road here are going to lend him a
Fair a great, big grand success. They
are going to help him bring the latent
resources of West Florida right UP to
the front.
Soon premiums will be offered on the
varied agricultural exhibits and we
call upon you, each and every one of
you, to save mp the biggest pumpkins,
preserve the tallest corn stalks, COM
mence to sow all the crops THAT you
know that will mature about Oct. r,
and send them to this fair. No doubt
but what IA free car will be run for
the accommodation off ONE and all who
grow something for this fair. Com
mence to plant so soon as you read
this article, and commence the same
day to save all other articles THAT have
matured If matters move properly,
a Farmers Institute will he held each
night during this fair. Laurell Hill dis
on the Yellow River Railroad, 68 miles
northeast form Pensacola, and SO miles
NORTH off the Gulf, right in the heart
of the truck and fruit growing portion
of West Florida. Commence to pre-
pare for this fair.
w. III. Lawrence,
Sec'y w. Fla. Agricultural Society.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-09
To the Florida AgrIculturist:
Another E'air.

This time at Laurel HILL Walton
county. to be called a Harvest Fair
Officers elected-October I, the day
races, games and other amusements
on the outside.
Farmers of West Florida, yours is
the most honest living in the wide,
wide world, if you did but know it,
but you do not. Too MANY of you are
not of the onward and upward stripe;
you have not enough of the article ex>
celsior in your makeup. When you
go to one of your towns up along the
lime of the 2. & "a, about one-half
of 1.-THE merchants of the same look at
YOU sideways and to themselves say:
'qBdt he wants something on credit,
but you exhibit a check for that car
or paa,t of a car of melons you sold, or
those barrels of syrup that went up
North, why, they will just about get
ready TO grease and swallow you. Put
yourself above the merchant who,
when you drive in with your barrel OF
syrup or bale of cotton, wants to jew
YOU down and obtain the Same for
much less than both of you know it
is worth, and then, on top of all this,
wants you ito TRADE it partly out and
then ''pops up'' the price one-third
higher than the very same goods are
sold to the cash buyer. Year after
year some of you, doubtless, have sold
some of your corn ITO merchants you
could name, along about ChI1sdmas
time, for IS cents "a bushel and Hhen
in March went back and paid from so
cents ITO 81 for some of the same kind
with the weeVil thItoWn in for good
count.
Too many of you have an utter dis
regard off the first economic principle,
and it is becoming aDarmingly mani
fest in more ways than one. There
must he change for THE better or you
will virtually go to the wall. Mayhap
lit lis you that l ann talking to, when
you are advised to no longer keep your
pork barrel at Phil Armor's i'm Chica-
go, your meal tub i'm Columbus, Ca
your hay in THE Kankakee SWamps of
Illinois and your sugar bowl With
Havemeyer. There is "a way out of
this, and we will now commence TO
point it. We Illustrated it in part at
the tobacco flair in Pensacola a few
years ago. Again lat the Agricultural
fair at the same place, later ON and
hastily at the melon and agricultural
flair at Grand Ridge last 4th of July.
These things are copies on the Same
principal your instructor wrote copies
for you in your copy book at school.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-08-09

tiles propose to use TENTS to each Tree
in their groves. All these parties aim
to keep the trees warm, or to keep the
atmosphere about Them above the
freezing point. This we know must
be done either by retained or added
heat This brings us TO the conclusion
thaIt, heat being the final object 10 de-
velop and apply, that form Of covering
or protection best adapted to this pull
pose, and which is within the capacity
of the average orange grower is the
one to be adopted.
The covered grove as now proposed
and used has several faults of which
the easy escape of the warm air is
the prime one. Their great expense is
another, for the poor man or average
orange grower. The firing in This case
will be expensive, but not equal to the
Open4air firing. It is more than doubt
full if the very young growth and
bloom of February COULD be saved
with this kind of covering if a strong
wind should attend the freezing Wis
itOr. Tents are not a good security
without heat applied sufficient to over
come the effects of the cold that comes
lin contact with their thin walls or
sides. Another person proposes to APP
ply cOne-slhaped tent which, he says,
can be applied in half minute to a
tree. That person does NOT keep i'm
mind the Shape of the o1tange tree
when he makes THAT assertion, nor
does he tell how the side of this tent
is to be closed after he has succeeded
i'm getting it around a br0ad-topped
tree. Firing must be done in this and
all other tents, otherwise the still cold
air inside the tent will freeze the tree
'or bloom as quickly as Though not COW
cred by the tent. I think the cost of
"a good TENT will be too great for the
average orange grower; besides this,
it must be enlarged yearly at consid-
COSI duO CIOUUI0. III NC
difficult to apply, owing to the uneven
ness and thorny condition of the limbs
of the trees and their size They will
be liable to injury in drawing them
over the trees and fail by exposure,
etc.
There is a form of protection I have
not seen described or mentioned,
which think better for THE single tree
than the tent and cheaper, more easily
applied, more durable, easy to make or
Ito enlarge by any good carpenter,
quickly removed and in forum to be
easily STORED for preservation. Like
other forms it will require artificial
heat, but less than the tent. A full de-
scrip'tion will be given if desired.-Cor.
Times Union and Citizen.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21

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Continued from Page Seventeen.

self abroad
tracked him bodily
9a6 is @ that they may use strategy and
takes at night when he out for walk When few months
mama without money and means of securing employment Alex
nner Vdovitch fellow him food and shelter
The way country
Nicholas the town stavropo which in
the province of the in the southern part of Russia He
received his aSuostio n1 he was Years OF s
when suddenly
his entire life fell in the winng of His father had
be n but against whom they had direct proof
nay1 more than pSoeonai warmth and interest and unfortn
however convicted the penalty
whispered that
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the of ingaude and deception
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for Of the rich landowners He familiar with the country
when lVanhoe impaired his coming
Saghaen he told him that would impossible for him obtain
At first the poor fellow greatly discouraged seemed hard
him TO fail IN his undertaking
listened to his story and mpahized with him. He then advised
Siberia just the Tartary
he in
be o. his life.
Nicoaevsk he obtained employment a
that ply between that Saghan Here fortune
which
used Saghaen
the prisoners He
lost opportunity familiar with
the Of Tartary and the port Of Ncoaevsk.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21

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the town upon the island TaeTe sae pSoh h b es serving
lot @ % over on one when nd
lost Finally when the vessel reached the island the chief jae
guard Nicholas declared that he wiling and his
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21

on the woman's ticket, as II fate rebuked
the members Of her family, all Of whom
cast their ballots against her. Miss ONeill
is also Assistant Postmaster.
In Beattie such terms as Mayoress,
CONDITIONER and Postmistress are ia
booed. The women ran on the ticket and
were elected as Mayor and Councilmen.
LAS lone as we hold Office we are men
in every sense Of the word" is Mayor
Totten's dictum.
I asked one of the defeated men can
didates what feature Of the whole over
throw CALLED the worst
"Well, the majority of these women In
the Council were schoolteachers. It
was humiliating enough to be beaten by
women, but to be dictated to by school
teachers is rubbing 1t in. You know what
a schoolteacher don't know isn't worth
mentioning"
Back comes Mayor Totten:
'Schoolteachers know something Of
human nature. A man generally does not
know what is good for him
One of the things upon which the
woman government relies for success is
the fact that three-fourths of the Council
own their own property and have ably
managed their own affairs.
"A woman can beat a man in matters
she is his superior In political economy"
Mayor Totten emphasizes.
She is full of these aphorisms.
l saw many persons carrying letters to
the train instead of depositing them in the
postofflce, and found that the Postmaster
s. L. Wilson, had been under a boycott
since the election.
He also enjoys the distinction of editing
the Beattie Eagle. which supported the
woman's. or "drys," ticket against the
gang of vets.
The defeated "wets" are now trying tc
cut down his. cancellation of stamps from
which he derives most of his official rake
off
MORE COMEDY SITUATIONS UN-
FOLDED.
I invited the leading physician of Beat
tie to do me the honor, after L discov-
cred that there was a back door. Unfor-
tunately the srequest was not whispered
one.
"Ah, er-I thank you. I never indulge.
he demurred. Then, drawing me aside
he exclaimed:
BE a little careful-careful, my boy
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21

| These CONDITIONER have a COMPOUNDED
vigilance committee established among
their husbands and sons. If they knew
we were at it an army Of them would be
down here in half an hour and dump
every key and bottle into the street, and
really this is all we have left In the
town"
We went into the hotel, down back
stairway and raped at little door It
was unbarred by John Burnside, the man
who has run the only saloon In the town
for several years.
But somehow the vigilant Mayor did
hear Of the evasion and quietly sent word
to Burnside, ordering him to get rid of
every drop Of his liquor by last Saturday
night, without further notice.
'Will you do tt?" I asked.
"Will l do 1t? 1 guess yes. I'm going
to give up the hotel, too This is too hard
a game for any man to go up against"
Beattie is pretty little town of 1000 in
habitants, ninety-nine miles from St Joe.
on the line. of the st. Joseph and Grand
Island road. 1t is in the northeastern part
of Kansas. fourteen miles from the Ne
braska line. There are two business
streets and many attractive residences
dot the cluster of hills upon which it is
built.
1.-THE men must keep straight"
With this warning keynote as to her
future policy Mayor Elizabeth Totten
tucked up her skirts and resumed house
cleaning.
Suppose they defy your" suggested
mildly.
"Defy?"
The new Mayor suspended practice with
her new broom long enough to shut her
thin lips.
LET them try It,"
Any doubt may have held that Mayor
Totten ruled the roost in Beattie sud
denly quit me.
Mayor Totten Is a serious minded
woman with quiet vein of irony. She
parts her gray hair in the middle after
the good old fashion of our grandmothers
Her husband, Charles Totten, operates a
large farm near Beattie. They have three
children living.
New York was her birthplace, and out
Of the natural genius of New York poll
| ticians for government she thinks that
fate has led her to become the fenaIe
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21

mistaken. The town had been going to
the devil up TO April 4. But praise the
Lord, since that date she thought 1t had
been going the other way.
April 4, by the way, Is a date 1t Is well
to remember in this story. There was an
election on that day.
Several of the most prominent men in
Beattie, who were politically buried be-
tween the hours of in the morning and 6
In the evening of April 4, told me that
they were convinced that Mayor Totten
was very capable woman Of affairs.
They believed that she would run her
town for the next year with carpenter s
hammer, broom and a Marlin rifle.
"a rife?" I asked.
"Oh, yes; the Council has its armament
and magazine"
The former Council bought them for
protection against Lem Gouldsberry the
VermIllion Creek bad man"-but this is
another part of the story.
Well anyhow, Mayor Totten got wind
of the weapons and said she might need
them before she got through
These are only very small part of the
funny things I saw and heard in Beattie.
If Charles H. Hoyt and Charles Klein
want some new and strictly American
comedy or comic opera material or David
6elaScO Is a1ter an up-to-ddte western
drama. full of thrilling situations, Kansas
atmosphere and just a proper tinge OF
blood; Beattie is the place to go.
Even in Kansas. where they are used to
being original, Beattie is regarded as the
prize town.
No other Kansas community is worthy
of being mentioned now in the same
armament with Sockless Jerry and Sister
Mary Ellen Lease.
The strangest thing I heard while in
Beattie was that Mrs. Lease had never
lectured there.
The oldest thing I saw was the man
Town Marshal. sitting in Mayor Eliza
beth Tottens office, turning his hat in his
fingers, between his legs, like an awk-
ward schoolboy, as he listened to the
woman Mayors energetic order that he
should uphold every letter of the law II
1t took every Marlin and every woman In
the Council to back him
The Marshal did not seem overpleased
with his job.
Quite the most attractive thing In Beat
tie is City Clerk Kate O'Neill, a typical
Irish beauty who polled the biggest vote
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21

whats the trouble?"
"Troubler' repeated another -sad-faced
man. Lord, that isn't the name for it.
We've got a lady Mayor, lady Council
and lady Clerk. They're running things.
This town is going to the devil
Afterward, when l met Mayor Elizabeth
Totteu she told me that this man was
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21

The druggist who has conscientious
scruples should also possess conscien-
tious ounces and pounds
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
BEATTIE'S CITY GOVERN
MENT.

N MAN can't call his soul his own in
~ Beattie, Kans. Women are run
ming the town, and they have
~ tanned nearly everything that
l. y wears pants.
At least that is the way 1t
seemed to one man, a St. Louis Star
staff correspondent who dropped off
the train into that pretty little place the
other day, with a thirst and the knowl-
edge that 1t had not been lessened by rid
ing ninety-nine hot and dusty miles from
st. Joseph.
Nearest glass of beer I inquired of
sad-looking man on the station plat
form.
He grinned and pointed to sign up the
street. which said Saloon"
/ was surprised to find the place barred
and across the face of the closed doors a
placard with these words:
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-03-25
Something tor Nothing.

We have heard Of the boy who
wanted to eat his cake and keep it, too.
but never before Of a business man
who sold his goods and then gave the
purchaser credit 70" the amouut paid.
To learn about this send to james
NiCks Sons. Of Rochester. n. v. whc
agree to do This in their guide. The
Golden Wedding edition Of Nick's Gar
den and Floral Guide is certainly an
artistic work, with its t~wenty-foul
pages autographed in colors. and
nearly n hundred more pages filled
with handsome half-tone Illustrations
photographed from flowers, fruits. veg
etables and homes.
While this guidcis really too exuen-
siVet to give away. they give it with a
due bill for p cents worth of seeds for
only - cents. Another new feature is
the doing away with the Old packet of
vegetable seeds and stating the guam
tity in each case, the buyer getting
more for his money.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-03-25
Notice to Creditors

In the First Judicial District Court q
the state Of Nevada, in and for Ormsby
county.
In the matter Of the estate Of John G
Garter, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Mary Car
ter has been appointed by the above en-
titled COurt as eNecutriN Of the estate OF
J. G. Carter, deceased, and that su n APP
pointment was made Or the I4th day OF
March, 1899. Notice is further given tc
the creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the estate Of said deceased
to exhibit them, to the Clerk Of the above
entitled Court, with the necessary vouch-
erS, within sixty days after the first pub
licatiOn of This notice.
ml5-4W MARY CARTER.
EXecUtriX.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-03-25

5. b. Cohen will give you shirtings
at DC a yard in dozens of different pat
terms, he is not advertising them as
specials, &c a yard is his regular price.
The same chAngeable silks as are ad-
vertised as special bargains at soc else
ware can be bought at ). b. Cohen ;
for zoe, regular price.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-03-25
Snerman's Condition.

Santiago De Cuba, March 23-John
Sherman passed a good night and is now
better than at amy time since he was
taken sick. His recovery is now con
tidently expected.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-03-25
Eureka's Assessor Dead.

Word was received here yesterday of
the death in san Francisco of Assessor
Powell of Eureka. He died from a sur
gical operation for cancer OF the stomach.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-03-25
Furnished Rooms,

Ell suite or single, or for housekeeping.
Apply at Mrs. Cary'S, east Of the capitol
dl&In.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-03-25

The Parker Jointle3s Fountain Pen
is the only pen with the Mabie, Todd
and Co. gold point. Davis & Farrer
have d large assortment to arrive in a
day or two.
Engraved cards, wedding invitations
and announcements, letter monOgrams
all in the latest styles and best copper
plate. Look at samples, and leave
orders with Dav Wis & Farrer.
The Reno journal continues to heap it's
unwarranted abuse on the Governor for
vetoing a bill whose history shows was
beaten.
j.. NJ. johnson has a fine display of
seeds in his window. Now is the time to
plant, after the rain.
The Hebrew feast and PASSOVER begins
to-day at sunset.
The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-11-11

THE ICE MACHINES PART.
At Last There Has Been View Fea-
ture Introduced Into Uncle
Toms Cabin.

There is a new wrinkle in "Unce Toms
Cabin" theatrical companies. One of them,
which is ransacking the state of New Jer
sey for audiences, has hit upon the device of
buying "A reirigerating machine and using
real blocks of ice in the scene in which Eliza,
pursued by pack of barking mongrels
crosses the river carrying in her arms a
stuffed doll.
The icemaling machine has proved an
enormous success. At the Ridgewood opera
house, where the ice machine played few
evenings ago, a frantic crowd fought its way
through the doors AT the first perform
ances the ice machine was kept in the back
ground. Several cakes were manufactured
before, the performance and placed on the
green baiZe river. They were carefully sand
ed on the surface so that when Eliza made
her grand dash for liberty she would not
turn undignified somersaults. The ice ma
chine, however, had been so largely adver-
tised that yokels wanted to see it. They
Sat in their places after the curtain de-
scended upon the solemn death of Little
Eva and howled for the ice machine to come
out and show itself. The stage manager
and a couple of deck hands had to carry it
down to the footlights. Then they turned
the handle and, amid uproarous applause,
the machine produced a cake of real ice.
Since then part has been written in the
play for the ice machine. When the river
scene opens couple of southern spectators
are discovered experimenting with the
machine They produce their ice, and not
having any immediate use for it turn it into
the river. and it sits upon the river surface
at proper intervals to accommodate Eliza
footsteps. \ colored man comes out and
sprnkles sand over the ice in full view OF
the audience--Chicago Chronicle.