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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-02-21
The Labor Question.

1t has been said that there are two
sides to every question There are
certainly two views of some questions.
A writer, in the EpitOmist, takes up
the labor question and gives a differ
ent view OF it. Not more cheap labor,
but better quality is the need in his
estimation.
Much is being said just now about
plain that labor is both scarce and in
efficient, while the farm hands grum-
bic about poor pay and long hours.
AS to the matter of wages, | believe
the hired man is right; while the farm
er is often correct as to the poor
quality of the help to be had. The
reason for this is not far to seek.
Other occupations have offered great
err inducements to the man without
capital and the best men have left the
farm and gone to them. There is, it
must be confessed, little inducement
for a strong, willing, energetic young
man to work on farm at So or $15
per month and board. He can usually
do better elsewhere and elsewhere he
goes. This is true of all grades of
service: and not until the farm can
offer the man of muscle and the man
of brain as much for their service as
they can get elsewhere can the farm
hold them. Higher wages for farm
hands are to my mind, inevitable; and
this means that many farmers will
have to learn how to better handle
their men. What is needed is not
cheap labor and lots of it; but good
labor and Skillful management for it.
While this is true of the labor problem
as a whole. it is equally true that the
main question is that of individuality.
4 farmer who treats his hired man as
he would wish to be treated if he were
tht wage-earner can usually get men;
and the labOrer who looks after his
employers interest as his own can
always find employment You can no
more leave out the individuality in
considering the servant question:
What is in greatest demand is mutual
confidence and mutual desire to do
the best that can be done. differ
ence in wages of a dollar or two a
month is a small thing to the differ
ence between q good man and a poor
one or between a good place and a
bad one.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-02-21
More or Better Laborers, Which


The labor question will not be set
tied until it is settled right. The diff
ficulty is, to decide what is right Else
where you will find, this week, an
article which takes new view of the
subject. Not more laborers but bet
ter quality of labor. Men to whom
the farmer can afford to pay higher
wages is his solution of the problem.
The difficulty in the way of carrying
out such a plan in the South, is the
fact that while our IabOrers have no
organized union, they are strict believ
ers i'll equality, and if one gets $1.5O
per day every other man in the cOun-
try thinks that he is entitled to the
same.
Some way may be devised to OBJ
we do not see what it is to be. The
scarcity of labOrers might be partially
remedied by the Use of more machin-
cry. There is too much one-horse
farming, too many men blowing with
one horse when they could do twice
as much work and do it i'll Il better
manner by the use of Il twO-hOrse plow
The same thing is true with other
tools, harrOws, cultivatOrs, etc. Tie
day of one-horse farming ought to be
over. We do not mean that every one
who cultivates the soil must keep two
horses, but that where two are kept
two horse tools should be used in
stead of so many One-hOrse tools. At
the North we have known market
gardeners, who had only small places,
to keep one horse for cultivating and
hire their land plowed but some one
who would use two horses. Though it
is possible to pillow land just as shall
low with two horses as can be done
with one, yet there is too much shall
low blowing I'D Florida, and the
sooner our farmers learn the fact the
better it will be for them.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-02-21

Dog chased colt through barbed wire
fence. Colt so injured it was shot.
Dog escaped. In the first place the
dog should have been shot; i'm the
next place it shows the need of woven
wire fence to keep dogs out and pre-
vent stock getting cut up.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-02-21

In 1889, Prof. Waite was assigned
to the study of this disease and de-
voted several years exclusively to this
work. AS result of his investiga-
tons. and those of others, he makes
the following positive assertions: Il
am enabled, at the present time, to
lay down practical and feasible
method of controlling, if not of COM
pletely wiping out, this disease IN the
pear orchards
He then goes on to say that the
pear blight has done great damage to
the pear orchards of the Eastern
states. Not only has it almost ruined
the pear orchards, but has. been quite
serious in many apple orchards.
The people of the South know how
much damage it has done to the Lee
COnte pear trees
The disease is usually most serious
on pear trees, it also attacks apples
quite severely, often disastrously.
The ounce, the wild crabapple, the
various species of hawthorn, the serv-
ice berry, the mountain ash and other
related fruits are more or less subject
to it's attacks. The LOquat GOTTEN
! called Japan plump is a related fruit
and is occasionally attacked.
The external appearance of the
Il 1i,rI,f fI,nr, 0,f
monty the first thing to attract at
| tentiOn is the shriveling and dying of
the clusters of blossoms. From the
bloom the disease spreads down the
fruit spur until it reaches the branch
and in that it spreads both ways, up
and down. The rapidity with which
it spreads varies with the season, be-
ing much more rapid when the tree
is growing most vigorously.
The germ which causes this disease
has been named by botanists Bacillus
amylOvOrus. The bacteria are plants
and are the smallest living objects
that are known. They consist of only
Il single cell, and multiply by length
ening IL little and then split in two.
These germs are so small that they
are only about 1-25OOO of an inch in
diameter, and the length is very
little greater than the diameter
| These germs form no spores, multi
plying only by division. They are very
sensitive to heat and drOuth, dying
in few minutes if exposed to the di-
rect rays of the sun. They are wholly
uninjured by any cold that is likely
to occur. 40 degrees below zero has
no effect whatever.
Investigation indicates that insects
are the most prolific source of infec-
ton. 1t is shown almost certainly
that the germs are not carried by the
wind. In a few instances it is carried
by birds, especially by sapsuckers, who
dig into the bark of a blighted tree
and then carry the germs on their
bills to a healthy tree, and when pick
ing into the bark, leave the germs to
develop blight.
The vigor of the tree is an import
ant factor the more vigorous the tree
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
Hard Sentences to Say.

A good merry making game is try
ing to repeat difficult sentences over
and over again. One of the simplest
and best of these is ''mixed biscuits. ~
Another, says the Boston Herald is
"gig WHIP" and even worse than
that is ''slx thick thistle stlcks.''
Peter Piper fades into insignificance
when compared with such Jaw
breakers. Having mastered them,
attempt, "She stood at the door well
coming him in," and proceed to the
direction which the writer has been
obliged to give, "Stop at the shop at
the top of Sloane street, Should
any member of the company feel sure
of the prize thus far, an antidote to
conceit is: ''There was an old
woman, and she was thistle sitter.
She had a sieve of sifted thistles and
sieve of unsifted thistles, and she
was thistle sifter.''
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
SIMON MAGUS.
The Legend From Which Was BOrI
the Story of Faust.

the Legend From Which Was Born
the Story of Faust.
Almost every renowned man of an
tiquity in the middle ages was believed
to be attended by a spiritus familiaris
and not few were suspected of being
in direct league with Me devil. Proba-
bly, the oldest legend of which the
Faust legend is continuous thread is
that of Simon Magus, mentioned in the
history Of the apostles.
According to Justin, he was a native
Of Clifton, village in Samaria. He
was, no doubt, a man of great intellec-
tual powers. He was the father of the
school Of the Gnostics. N is also re-
ported Of him that he could make him
self invisible, that he could pass
through flames unharmed, could trans
pose matter, make gold and exercise
demons-in fact, he laid claim to all
these powers, and his name lived in the
mouths Of the people as a sort of demi-
urge through many centuries until some
other miracle working personality took
his place at the popular fireside. I'm
usual accomplishments, great erudi-
ton, were attributed to the supernatu-
raj influence and the general disposi-
ton to supersttious assumption was
strengthened on the one hand by dog
matte affirmation on the part of the
church Of the existence of a personal
Satan, with his numerous household,
and, on the other hand, by incorporat-
ing the magic arts among the practical
sciences, Of which astrology and al
chemy occupied no mean part.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
A Love Letter 700 Years Old.

While carrying on some excavations
near the foundations of the old church
of st. Peter, on top of -Montmartre,
according to the Pail Mall Gazette,
M. Sauvageot, well-known French
antiquary, has discovered love
letter which is TOO years old.
1t was written by the knight Jean
de Gisors to his lady, Alice de Llsle.
In his letter the knight declares for
all the world to know that he has
worshiped the fair Lady Alice from
afar, that never had she given him
any right to declare his love, but that
her image has been his guiding star
for years, and that now, on the eve
of battle, he wishes to send her a
chaste farewell.
Apparently the damsel never got
the letter, for the knight was slain
the next day upon the battlements,
and buried in the trench, whence his
bones have been exhumed by the
casual pick of modern antiquary.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

degrees. The reflection is focused in
the camera in the usual way. A
smooth surface bromide or negative
paper Is used instead of glass plate,
and the picture shows white letters
on dark background. With proper
exposure and development, positive
print is unnecessary, the characters
being as Iegible as black on white.
The extremely sensitive galvano.
meter devised short time ago by
Herr Elnthoven, a German electri-
clan, consists of a silvered quartz
tiEer stretched between the poles of a
strong electromagnetic, the passage of
the faintest current moving this fiber
IN the direction of the lines of the
magnetic field. The movement can
be measured directly by a microscope
or recorded by photography. The
mlllionth of an ampere, and suggest
ed use is for studying the electric
currents of the human nerves. Mus
cular contractions of the heart had
been already shown to vary the elec-
trio resistance of this organ. 1t is
now claimed that electric waves
corresponding to the beating of the
heart have been photographed, the
electric phenomena continually alter
ing; and it is predicted that we may
be able to record the state of PERSONS
health or the phases of hysterla or
other nervous disorders, or to plot
the wailing and fretfulness of peev-
ish child.
Magnetized places-spots attracting
iron like the lodestone-are often
noticed in volcanic rocks. They have
been ascribed by Folgheraiter to
lightning, but he knew of no magnet
lied rocks that had been tested before
the lightning struck. An instance
has now been described. Two In
vestigators had been testing rocks
near Mount Etna, when during
September night, lightning fused
telephone wire from which an un-
insulated earth wire ran along a
basaltic wall, which had previously
shown scarcely trace of magnetism.
Next morning the stones of the wall
we're strongly magnetic for five inches
on both sides of the wire. the polarity
indicating that the current passed
upward.
For raising sunken vessels, also for
operating floating docks, Pierre
Hurry, Frenchman, proposes using
calcium carbide IN cans placed in the
vessel or in attached f1oats. Electri-
cally exploded caps would break open
the cans, wetting the carbide, and
generating a great volume of acety
lene to force out the water.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
JACKSON SCHOOL REpoR2.
For the month of March-April.

Pupils highest in, standing in tn,
various grades are as follows:
First grade Cristina Marelia 98
Elena Dall'ama 9S, James MartelI 81
81, Evelyn Morrow 96.
Seoond grade-Vivian Butch 95 ST,
Rudolph Belluomini "a At.
N. E. B. Morrow, teacher.
Second grade-Anna Conlon 93L.
Denman Lester 933s.
Third grade-Henrietta O'NeiI 9616,
Helen Rust 961s, Veda Morrow 955s.
Agnes +. Newman, teacher.
Fifth grade-Idalie ON'eil 96 7-l2,
Edna Lasswell SO 1-12.
Fourth grade-Wallace Jones 90 1-5,
Cecil Earl "a, jamie Nettle "a.
Margaret E. Devan, teacher.
Sixth grade-John Love 96 7-12,
Laura Parker 95 %.
Fifth grade-Thelma Kay 95 1912,
Alfonso Burgin 95 5-12.
Mary l. Bernecich, teacher.
Seventh grade-Leslie Love 98A,
Albertine Lester 81 5-12. Anna Nc
teacher.
Eighth grade-No l. Clara Johns
95.2, No 2 Lena Podesta "a, Eunice
Going "a. A. r. Gartlin, teacher.
Ninth grade Lewis Love No l. 81. l,
Bertha Eudey No 2. 94.2.
W. H. Greenhalgh, principal.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
THE ODD LITTLE GECKO.
A Queer Animal That Lives In Africa
and Southern Europe.

A Queer Animal That Lives In Africa
and Southern Europe.
The gecko is an odd little creature.
His name is seldom heard, and his
form is seldom seen, for he lives in
Africa and the southern countries of
Europe.
This little gecko has so many strange
ways and there is something so un-
canny in his appearance that the peo-
pie Of the countries where he lives are
rather afraid Of him, believing his bite
to be poisonous, although this is de-
MED by naturalists.
He is little creature, with a broad,
fat head, like a snake, and a long
body, with a narrow tail, with odd
shaped bits of skin arranged like seal
lops along the sides of it. He has
short legs and queer, catlike claws,
which enable him to easily climb the
old walls and rocks upon which he
lives, catching the insects Of various
sorts which make his dinner.
He is a nocturnal animal, walking
abroad at night and sleeping in the
daytime. He moves with sudden
rushes and without any noise what
ever. His odd name was given him
from the queer noise he makes, which
is something like the noise you would
make to start horse with. The male
gecko is of gray color, so near the
shade of the old walls and rocks
among which he makes his home that
he can barely be seen.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
NEVILLS SELLING FRESNO VINE
YARD.
Captain NeViIls of Fresno will
Dispose of His Interests.

A big real estate deal is expected to
be closed this morning when Captain
W. A. Nevills will part with the title
OF the Paragon vineyard, adjoining
Kearney park, for s35, ZOO. The pur-
chasers are to be Casparian brothers,
three wealthy Americans who have
come here from Los Angeles and have
put in several weeks looking over the
country.
The sale includes everything on the
place-house and house furnishings:
also title to power line built to the
place. Old-timers will remember that
it was the building of this line that
led to the bitter feud between Kearney
and Nevills. The house was elabor-
ately furnished some years ago at a
cost of $4,000. The house itself cost
about $4,000.
The vineyard consists of eighty
acres, and the land is figured in the
deal at $3.50 an acre. The Paragon is
an old vineyard, but good producer.
Last year 1t produced ton and a
third to the acre.
Nevills is closing out his vineyard
interests here, and has the La Favor
ita for sale also. This consists of 12O
acres and contains a large packing
house. The price asked for this, with
the improvements, Is said to be some
thing over 100000
The reason assigned for Nevills' de-
sire to close out his vineyard inter-
ests is that his health is precarious
and he Is converting some of his prop
erty into cash. He is heavily inter-
ested in mines, the Rawhide, famous
producer, and others, but some time
ago was hard pressed for ready
money. I. W. Patterson and ex-
Mayor Steinman of Sacramento came
to the rescue with 5000, 900. Since
then he Is said to have made some
goods tuIns.-Fresno Republican.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
The Holiness of Truth.

What Is truth that through the ages
man should rifle earth and star
Seeking ever in the unknown where
its mystic fountains are,
For the law of righteous living, for
the love that shall not die,
While the soul has aspirations 10 be
glorified on high?
What is truth thst in the distance it
should blaze with holy light,
Beating back the hosts of darkness IN
the worlds enfolding night,
Making man nobler creature, giving
states wiser aim,
Giving virtne, knowledge, valor, each
bright, immortal name?
Lo, the world is ever changing, and
the new is ever old,
And who fights with human progress
is warrior overbold;
And the truth is what we make it by
the light of that great love
Which forever lifts the planet toward
the singing stars above.
Truth is simple as the sermons nature
tells US on our way.
Gentle as the though. of brothers who
were parted yesterday;
IT. ia nIaln az honest facea that hetokan
hearts so kind
They are hands unto the weary,
seeing eyes unto the blind;
1t is beautiful as morning when the
world awakes to joy
And life's golden expectations thrill
the eager heart OF boy;
1t is lasting as the cliff rock that for.
ever fronts the sea,
Lasting as the ocean waters that shall
wash the cliff rock free;
And although it wrings emotion from
the life that suffers long,
Though it girds the loins OF labor for
the battle fierce and strong;
Truth is ever what we make it in the
light of love and peace,
Help and hope unto the toiIing who
would give the soul increase
Charles W. Stevenson, in New York
Press.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
Climbing Fish of India.

1t is not to be supposed that fish
is absolutely comfortable away from
its own element, but it is nevertheless
true that it sometimes sees fit to live
on the land for a short period. Of
all land frequenting fish. the most
famous is the climbing perch of India,
which not only walks out of the
water, but also mounts into trees by
means of sharp spines situated near
Its head and tail. 1t has a peculiar
breathing apparatus. which enables
it to extract oxygen from the water
stored up within a small cham Der
near its gills, for use while on land.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

church, and he had friends in all, get
a promotion, he could not as the
president take any part in suggesting
action to Rome. This was a very
natural and proper position for the
president to take. But the matter
was discussed by the high officials in
Vatican circles and they decided that
the president did not seem to be
particularly interested in either
appointee, so the matter was dropped.
The result has been that second
American cardinal has not yet been
appointed. This made Mrs Storer
very indignant and she lost no
opportunity to make trouble for the
administration. There was the case
of Consul Hurst who was dropped
from the service. Both ambassador
Storer and his wife wrote some very
acid letters on the subject cIiticising
the administration. For this the
ambassador was sharply called down.
The breach widened and the Storers
left their post in Vienna and went to
Egypt. The ambassador sulked and
for about three months failed to
answer the letters of the president of
the secretary of state. Matters finally
reached stage where the president
was forced to write his ambassador
that he would either go back to
Vienna, answer the letters that were
addressed him or resign. Mr. Storer
chose the latter alternative and the
post has been filed by new ap-
pointee. But it all shows how
woman playing with politics can
make mess of it just like a man.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
A Cold, Hard Snub.

Excuse me, madam" he said, "but
-ah-you remember, in the restaurant
after the theater the other night you
were kind enough to notice me. 1
hope 1 am not mistaken in supposing
that your interest was-ah-not alto
gether"-
"Oh, not at all. l remember now.
I thought for a moment that you were
the coachman my husband discharged
a few weeks ago for trying to make
love to the cook, and wondered how
pensive place."-Chicago Record-Her-
aid,
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
Lived to Old Age Without Exercise.

A British minister, Rev. William
Davies of Hereford, has confuunded
all the valetudlnarians. For thirty
five years he took no more exercise
than was involved in walking from
one room to another. He was a
hearty eater, with taste for indigest-
ible things. Yet he never had day IS
illness and always looked the picture
of health, and lived to enjoy hearty
meal on his 105th birthday.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
Reminiscent.

The author had written one success
full story, and he never grew tired talk
ing of it.
Don't you know" said one of his
friends to another one day, "Riter al
ways reminds me Of a pleased dog"
"That's odd. How does he?"
"He's always wagging his tale"
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
The Premier Fish Story.

Here is fish story told by British
An IIishman had caught
a big pike. Noting a lump in its
stomach, he cut it open. "As l cut
it open there was mighty rush and
a Tapping of wings, and away flew
wild duck; and when l looked inside
there was nest with four eggs, and
she had been afther sitting on that
nest."
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
A Friend That Was a Friend.

Don't fIown-Iook pleasant. If
you are suffering from indigestion or
sour stomach, take kodol dyspepsia
cure. Hon. Jake Moore, of Atlanta,
Ca, says: 81 suffered more than 20
years with indigestion. friend re-
commended KodoI. 1t relieved me
in one day and L now enjoy better
health than for many years. Kodol
digests what you eat. relieves sour
stomach, gas on stomach, beIching,
etc. Sold by F. W. Ruhser.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
He Ate Often.

Doctor-You must take a quarter of
an hours walk before every meal.
Stout Patient doctor, you surely
don't want me to walk all day long-
Fliegende Blatter.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
Sudden.

"Now," said the professor, describing
the work of his class to Miss Elderber-
ry, 1--WE are engaged"-
"Oh, are we? How sudden" was her
reply as she snuggled up. - Houston
Post.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
As to Heroes,

No man who is polite to his family
only when company is present can hope
to be hero to his son.-Chicago Rec
ord Herald.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

All kinds of harness from SIS up at
Pete Piccardo's.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

MISCELLANY
Reported weekly for the Legder.

The New Atom. Moisture for the
House. se.-lncandescent Oil Lights. =
Changing Elements Diffusion of
Solids. Manuscript Photography
Records of the Body's Electric Waves.
Lightning Made Magnets.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

For horse blankets and everything
in the saddle and harness line, see
Piccardo's fine stock on Water street.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

Lemons, oranges, and bananas con
stantly on hand at Nettle's Mkt.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20
Reserve Power of the Brain.

In lecture on the nervous system,
delivered at Gresham college, Prof.
Symes Thompson gave these facts
concerning the human brain:
In every mans brain there are many
cells waiting to be developed, he said,
and, as a matter of fact, the normal
person uses only half of the brain,
the other half being kept in reserve.
He instanced the case of man who
lost his sight, and at once developed
the sense of hearing. A blind man
as he walked along the street was
perfectly conscious of passing lamp
posts and other objects, and could
distinguish between man and a
woman.
Prof. Thompson also said that the
quality of the brain was not depend
ent on its weight, but on the number
and depth of its convolutions. A
mans brain at maturity weighs about
one-fortieth of his total weight, and
at birth about one-tenth of the total.
The brain of an elephant weighs
about 1-5OOth, and that OF a whale
about 1-3OOth of its total weight.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

Affection soothes, it hallows, elevates,
subdues and bringeth down to earth
its native heaven.-Landon.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

When you wish the fine}s favored
coffees and teas, remember that w. j.
Nettle keeps only the best.
Amador ledger., 1906-04-20

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