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The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-13

Investigations he has already made
he believes a large part of the loss
from decay in transit is preventable.
At the Farmers Institute to be
held i'm Riverside April and s he is
to make a report on his inquiries so
far as they have been completed. This
will be his first appearance before a
body of orange growers. and If they
are to get the best results from his
Investigations they ought to be here
to hear him and discuss with him and
among themselves the report he
makes.
In connection with these articles
following which were prepared before
results of the Investigations of Mr..
Powell.
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-13
Stealing Oranges.

After writing at considerable length
on other subjects, lady tourist
winds up letter to The Riverside
Press and HOrticulturist as follows:
My particular ambition when 7 first
came to the orange country, was to
steal an orange from tree and eat il
| never had picked an orange. much
less stolen one. | don't know Just why
| should have desired to steal one and
only one. but certainly | had felt
reTer could he happy until l had done
So
Was Privileged to Steal-But. bless
you, There is no chance to steal an
orange in Riverside county. The own
ers are so generous they give you your
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-13
Does Farming Pay?

No doubt many of our readers will
he ready to answer this question.
at once. in the negative Yet there are
hundreds in the state who are finding
il profitable. With our soil and eli
mate, if you are not prOspering, it
must he that you are in poor loca-
ton or in the wrong branch of farm
ing. The editor of the Midland Farm
er takes very favorable view of the
condition of farmers at the present
time
''PrObably more than Il third of the
persons living in the United States
receive their support from the farm.
The question is answered. Country
Life in America.
To the farmer more than any other
is due the groundwork of the great
tide of prOsT Gritty which has carried
the country to the first position among
the nations of the world. Neither the
farmer. nor his wife. nor his son. nor
his employee, know the meaning of
an eight-hOur day. The farmers time
to work is Just as long aS there is
work TO be done. The work may be
drudgery. the man may be awkward
but his sturdy back. his healthy body.
his simple life. have given the strength
of mind and body to the sons he has
sent out into the world to make their
way in other paths of life. 1t is. the
strenuous metropolitan life which Saps
the strength and undermineS the
nerves. The everlasting push. push
of active trade. ceaseless competition.
struggle for business, greed for dol
lars. would soon blight and destroy.
were it not for the constant infusion
of the rich. pure blood and sound
mind and nerve of the country boy
who seeks the business or profession
al life of our business centers.
There is phase of rural life, how
ever, which is seldom considered i'm
business In measure, the farmers
life is more rural than ever before;
his home is changed for the better
There is more of comfort, more of
education and refinement than ever.
due to the ease of intercourse with
the outside world. thanks for it be-
longing to the railroads. the vast
trolley systems, good roads, quick
mails and better schools But the
rural districts are devoted to farming,
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-13
Why Oranges Decay.

We do not know what kind of clip
rers are used for picking oranges in
California. but certainly they must
be very different from those used in
Florida. if we are to believe the re
port that the decay of California Or
anges in transit is due to the skin
being damaged by the shears in pick
ing.
What do our growers think of the
following from The Fruit Trade
Journal?
Prof. G.. Harold Powell. of the Unit
ed States Department of Agriculture,
who has been in California for some
time investigating the decay of fruit,
has completed one stage of his work
and his conclusions are valuable
He says the chief cause of decay is
the puncturing of the fruit by nippers
i'm picking. and has issued a bulletin.
the main points of which are that one
in five or six oranges is so injured or
else badly cut. due purely to careless
ness. to the use of pointed shears, etc.
and great deal of the injury passes
unObserved at the time This makes
the fruit very susceptible to rot from
blue mold. Mr.. Powell says:
SIN our experiments as much as 40
per cent. of the cut fruit has developed
Gecay under ordinary conditions while
uninjured fruit under similar cOndi-
tiOns has shown less than one per cent.
The essential conditions for this de-
cay are that the spores of the disease
he present. that there he sufficient
moisture and temperature high
CROUCH to germnate them and to
make them grow. and a weakness i'm
the skin of the orange through which
the disease can enter. If any one of
these factors is wanting there is slight
chance for the orange TO decay from
this disease.
"A fundamental requirement eithe.
for successful shipping. or for storing
is sound fruit. Mechanical injuries of
this nature render the orange liable TO
decay in warm weather. and account
for no small nart of the trouble that
arises when the fruit is on the way
across the continent There are other
factors that favor decay but q bruised
orange that hecOneS infected with dis
ease may rot i'm spite of the hest con
ditionS that transportation now pro-
vides''
The conclusions are that growers
should be extremely careful on this
point. and Prof. Powell gives specific
directions for avoiding injuring the
fruit
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-13
Weighty Professional Endorsements.

That the several American medicinal
roots, the concentrated glyceric extracts
of which make up DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, have the strongest
kind of endorsement by scores of lead
ing medical writers of all the several
schools of practice, a brief glance at
the standard works on Materia Medica
will show. Of Golden Seal root, which
is one of the prominent ingredients of
UGolden Medical Discovery, "Dr. Roberts
Bartholow, of Jefferson Medical Col
lege, says: vVery useful as a stom-
achic (stomach) tonic and in atomic
dyspepsia. Cures gastric (stomach)
catarrh and headaches accompanying
same" He also mentions catarrh of
the gall duct, jaundice and constipa-
ton as diseases which the use of
Golden Seal root overcomes; also
catarrh of the intestines, even when
it has proceeded to liberation, is
remarkably benefited by Hydrastis
Golden Seal root.
Dr. Grover Coe, of New York, says:
~Hydrastis Golden Seal root) exer-
cises an especial influence over mu-
cous surfaces. Upon the liver it
acts with equal certainty and eff
ficacy. AS a cholagogue (liver invig-
orator. it has few equals" DR.. COe
also advises it for affections of the
spleen and other abdominal viscera
generally, and for scrofulOus and gland
ular diseases, cutaneous eruptiOns, in
digestion, debility, chronic diarrhea,
constipation, also in several affections
peculiar to women, and in all chronic
arrangements of the liver; also for
chronic Inflammation of bladder, for
which DIR. Coe says cit is one of the
most reliable agents of cure"
Prof. Hobart A. Hare, M. D., of the
University of Pa, says of Golden Seal
root that it is uOf service in chronic
catarrh of the stomach and bowels,
following abuse of alcohol, and as a
tonic after malarial fever" He further
says, it "has a distinct anti-malarial
influence" Also good in all catarrhal
conditions, as uterine catarrh, leucor-
rhHa, etc., and as "a curative agent in
chronic dyspepsia"
Prof Laurence johnson, NJ D., of
the Medical Department, University
City of N Y, is equally loud in his
praise of Golden Seal root, especially
for its tonic effects in convalescence
from acute diseases and its special
tonic influence upon mucous surfaces
and upon the gall bladder.
Doctors Barton and Tully recon-
mended Golden Seal root as a pure
tonic and as an Alternative in dis
eased conditions of the mucous MEN,
branes.
Prof. John King, NJ. D., late of Gin
einnati, author of the AMERICAN DIS
PENsATORY, gives it prominent place
among medicinal agents, reiterates all
the foregoing writers have said about
it, as does also Prof. John M. Scudder,
M. D., late of Cincinnati. DR.. Scud-
der says: vt stimulates the digestive
processes and increases the assimilation
of food. By these means the blood is
enriched, 4 the consequent
improvement on the glandular and
nervous systems are natural results"
DR.. Scudder further says, Tin relation
to it's general effect upon the system,
there is no medicine an use about Uhich
there as such general mnanimity of
opinion. 1t is universally regarded as
the tonic, useful in all debilitated
states ~
The Florida agriculturist., 1905-12-13

Prof. Finley Ellingwood, NJ. D., OF
Bennett Medical College, Chicago, says
of Golden Seal root: VT is a most
superior remedy in catarrhal gastritis
inflammation of the stOmach) chronic
constipation, general debility, in con-
valescence from prOtracted fevers, in
prostrating night-sweats. 1t as an I'M
pOrtant remedy IN disorders of the
acOmb." (This agent, Golden Seal root,
is an important ingredient of Doctor
Pierce's Favorite Prescription for wom-
ans weaknesses, as well as of the
cGolden Medical Discovery.") DIR. FL
lingwood continues, "in all catarrhal
conditions it is useful"
Much more, did space permit, could
be quoted from prominent authorities
as to the wonderful curative properties
possessed by Golden Seal root.
We want to assure the reader that
vGolden Medical Discovery" can be
Golden Seal root in the cure of all the
various diseases as set forth in the
above brief extracts, for its most
prominent and important ingredient is
Golden Seal root. This agent is, how
ever, strongly reinforced, and its cura-
tive action greatly enhanced by the
addition, in just the right proportion
of Queens root, Stone root, Black
Cherrybark, BloodroOt, Mandrake root
and chemically pure glycerine. All of
these are happily and harmoniously
blended into most perfect phar-
maceutical compound, now favorably
known throughout most of the civilized
countries of the world. Bear in mind
that each and every ingredient entering
in the discovery" has received the
endorsement of the leading medical
men of our land, who extOl each article
named above in the highest terms.
What other medicine put up for sale
through druggists can show any such
professional endorsement For dys-
pepsia, liver troubles, all chronic catar-
rhal affections of whatever name or
throat and lung affections, the "Dis-
egn remedy.
By reading the little book noted
below any one will readily see the
applicability of the cGolden Medical
Discovery to the cure of all the fore
going list of diseases as well as many
other chronic affections, especially
those of the heart, kidneys, bladder,
skin and blood.
A little book of extracts treating of =
all the several ingredients entering into
DIR. Pierce's medicines, being extracts
from standard medical works, of the
different schools of practice will be
mailed free to any one asking (by postal
card or letter., for the same, addressed
to DIR. r. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y, and
giving the writer's full post-office adj
dress plainly written.
In cases of chronic ailments, at
tended by marked, or persistent, con-
stipation, DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
should be taken conjointly with the
use of the cGolden Medical Discov-
ery," to regulate the bowels. They act
in harmony with the Discovery" and
will be found to be a most valuable
laxative, or, in fuller doses a cleans
ing cathartic.
Podophyllin, the active medicinal
principle of Mandrake root, enters
largely into the composition of the lit
tie sugar coated vPellets," in fact is
one of their chief ingredients. They
regulate the liver, stomach and bowels.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-30
MAGAZINES
eO%OAO%O%O%OAo
The Pacific Monthly.

There are nalf dozen articles in
The Pacific Monthly for December of
unusual timeliness. There is q rail-
road story by Fran Ikra White, tell
ing of the many protective railroads
about to be built On the Pacific coast.
This appears under the general title of
Driving the Iron Stations Down to
Drink" William H. Galvani's "Russia's
Struggle for Freedom takes up a mat
ter which is in the minds of every
body. The fifth paper on "The Com
ing Supremacy of the Pacific" by DR..
Wolfe Won Schierbrand, is devoted to
the extremely pertinent subject of ir-
rigation and takes up in connection
with it that greatest question of ir-
igation-immigrati - and explains
now the reclaimed land will have to
be populated. In this connection he
shows the value Of a good European
immigration.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-30
The Presidents Greed.

The president once answered in this
wise man who had expressed admir-
alton for his successful career:
1T has always seemed to me that in
life there are two ways of achieving
success, or, for that mater, of achiev-
ing wha- is commonly called greatness.
done by the man of exceptional ana
extraordinary abilities. Of course,
and it is very rare kind of success
or of greatness The other is to do
that which many men could do, but
which, as a matter Of fact, none OF
them actually does. This is the ordi-
nary kind of greatness. NOBODY but
one of the worlds rare geniuses could
have written the Gettysburg spech, OF
the second inaugural, or met as Lin
coin met the awful crisis of the civil
war. But most of us, can do the ord1-
nary things which, however, most OF
us do not do. Any hardy, healthy man,
fond of outdoor life, but not in the least
an athlete, could lead the life l have
led if he choose-and by choosing !
of course mean, choosing to exercise
the requisite industry judgment and
foresight, none Of very marked type
Choosing to exercise the requisite
industry, Judgment and foresight
here is the key to the presidents ply
steal and intellectual provinces. He
chose; and choosing wisely, he has
blazed the way for any hardy, healthy
man who is fond of outdoor life.
He began mis- choosing when small.
lad. II was not so difficult then, for
he had an inspiring companion con-
stantly by his side. The president
was more than ordinarily fortunate iE
the possession of such a father as
Theodore Roosevelt, first of the line. 1t
is not enough to say of him that he
was well born, and that he was man
of means, of intelligence and cultiva-
ton, and of high character. He was
the finest man. the president lever
knew"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-30
His Boarding House Girl
Man Tells His
t.

my trousers leg for a while, leaving
enough gallery hair on them to stuff
sofa pillow. and then wabbles out
into the hall and disappears, probably
to tell the rest of 'em that that Teller
that calls upon Miss So-and-So is in
the parlor'
"Then three raucous-voiced Young
men with pomaded hair, who look as il
they might belong to the night shift
in a laundry, descend the stairs noisi-
ly, rubber at me as they pass by the
parlor door, wing sagaciously at each
other, and jerk their thumbs toward
the stairs, and go out, grinning broad
ly, and banging the doors after them
Then the Second Floor Front, a
wedge-faced lady with a voice like a
lathe working overtime, bustles down
the stairs, demanding to know at every
step, What's becoming O. them towels.
I'd jes' like t. know and when she
sees me in the dimness of the parlor
as If she didn't come down for the
sole. purpose Of rubbering-she glances
in upon me with an accusing glare,
back up the stairs, saying something
half audible about people that has the
To Y,t To no oF q
public boarding house all the time, etc.
Then the Fourth Floor Back, sup
ty years standing, who never gets
home to the boarding house dinner, but
who always arrives promptly at p.
m. with a bun hefty enough to keep
four 'longshoremen busy carrying it,
reels in through the hall, and, per-
ceiving me in the semi darkness, grins
wisely, as much as to say, We'll here's
that bone-head again, calling upon
that girl, I s'pose,' and tnen he wad-
dies in and asks me whether I think
they'll abolish football in all the COL
leges, and then, not being encouraged
with much CUFF on my part, wabbes out
again, favoring me with a parting leer
of understanding as he passes under
the Intel.
"Then the whistling silk goods clerk,
who has at last mastered the kinks
and intricacies of In the Shade Of the
Old Apple Tree and wants everybody
to know it, sails jauntily down the
stairs, merrily piping, and, as he passes
the parlor door, looks in and perceiv-
ing me, sort of ho-ho's and he-he's
under his breath, as much as to say,
Well, that Teller is mere again, hey?
and pipes his way out, after bestowing
kind of arch and roguish wink at
himself in the natrack mirror.
Then the young woman upon whom
I have come to call makes her appear
ance, and for the remainder of the call
1 have ner to lean upon-metaphorical
ly speaking, of course-when the rest
of the boarding house rubbernecks
show up and do their peeking and
peering around"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-30
NOPLACf fORPOOR NAN

Keep away from The Philippines
Is my advice to the American without
capital" said w. e. Holabird. in the
lobby Of the Palace hotel, at San
Francisco. the other day. Holabird re-
turned yesterday on the Siberia from
the islands, where he has been for the
last FIVE months as an agent for E. H.
Hartman to look into the feasibility
fan island railroad, says the Chron-
icle.
Holabird is a strong advocate OF
opening the portals of the Philippines
to the Chinese. Said he: This idea
Of the Philippines for the FILIPINO is
a wild flight of fancy. If the Chinaman
were admitted to the islands and no
restriction placed upon him the pur-
suit of agriculture could be made tc
amount to something The Chinaman
and the Filipino are the only ones who
can stand manual labor in that cli-
mate, where the heat and humidity
combined make it impossible for the
white man to live in comfort at ALL
The Filipino will work long enough to
get money to go to a cock fight and
the Chinaman is barred out, therefore
throwing to waste the valuable posi-
bilities of the vast uncultivated areas
Of fertile soil.
1.-The banana tree and the cocoahut
are the only forms of vegetation raised
in any quantities." continued Mr..
Holabird, land thev take care of them
selves. They form the starting point
of the two most important exports of
the islands, namely, Manila hemp,
which is the inner fiber of the trunk
of the banana tree, and copra, the
dried meat of the cocoanut. The for
mer is known and used all over the
world, but the expectation Of the lat
ter is confined almost entirely to Mar
settles, where it is made into desiccat-
ed cocoanut and cocoanut oil. On the
island of Mindanao there is a small
colony of American soldiers who do a
thriving business with copra. There
are also a number of American negro
traders who handle hemp. The use of
two sets of scales used in buying and
selling makes their trade profitable"
OF the American school teachers in
the Philippines Mr.. Holabird speaks
in the highest terms. He defers tc
them as the highest type Of American
manhood and womanhood and is es-
pecially worm in mis- praise Of DR.. d.
vid Barrows, superintendent of educa-
ton in the islands. AS for the Filipino
children, according to Mr.. Holabird,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-30
Anecdotes of Roosevelt
Nrom Theodore Needham In
McClure's

which has lasted through the years
lasted until he issued his call for re-
cruits for the regiment Of Rough Kid
ers; growing deeper through Las
Guasimas and San Juan; and swelling
to a wild chorus of devotion at the re-
union in Texas last spring.
On lust one occasion when living
in the west was Roosevelt in danger
q fserious molestation. He was then
threatened when that physical V1gor
for which he had striven had come In
full measure A big brawler, mlstak
ing him for a tenderfoot, cursed min
roundly, and, pointing two revolvers al
him. ordered him to buy the drinks.
Roosevelt, perfectly composed, maze
as if to comply with the request. But
as he got within reach Of his tormen-
tor. with a rush born of cleverness in
boxing, he delivered a blow on the
mans jaw that stretched him full
length on the floor. Meantime, the
pistols had gone off, the bullets pene-
trating the ceiling and doing no harm
to anybody. When the brawler opened
his eyes, he was ready to csurrende1
his guns, and cry for quarter. Where
fore, be it said, that, true to his later
day preachment, Roosevelt was never
spelling for fight, but would not suf-
fer an insult. A man of his type is not
often insulted.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-12-30
A Valuable Secret.

The young millionaire, as his eighty
horsepower car shot with the smooth
speed of a bullet along the firm white
road, cried exultautly:
"And to think 1 owe all this joy tc
a box of backing"
"You mean," said the young lady
1.-The backing that you manufacture?
Precisely" said the youth. ''The
backing that my grandfather invented,
and that mas kept our family in opu-
lence for nearly sixty years"
He swerved to avoid white goose.
"Grandfather didn't think much of
this backing at first he said. Be
fore he put it on the market, he mad
showed a number of people how it was
made. AS soon, though, as it began
to bring in money to him, he perceived
it's value, and from that time on it
mas always been mixed behind locked
DOORS"
What is it composed Off"
well, there is vinegar in it, malt
vinegar, and there is molasses, and a
little whale oil, and ivory black, and
candy. There are other ingredients,
too, and won't tell even to you"
Have there been attempts to dis
cover the secret of your blacking's
composition?
"Spies have worked for us a num-
Der of times, and number of time.
men nave hidden themselves in the
mixing room on mixing day. They
have never profited by their trickery.
though"
He ducked to avoid a stone hurled by
a mischievous boy.
I'm historic sieges," he said, men
have eaten our backing, nave pro-
it excellent, have fattened on
It. At Vicksburg this was the case. It
was the case, too, in Paris. And at
Port Arthur, our agent reports, many
q smooth, black lump of the stuff
slipped oleaginously down many a
yaunt Russian throat"