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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-10

liberal Judgment and knowledge of
affairs needs more than reading or
sleeping. 1t needs communion with
other minds, and the one who dis
regards the proper requirements of
such development grows narrow in his
ideas, is uncompanionable with his
family and others about him, finally
being Stunned by all those who re-
spect commonplace congeniality.
Mr.. Kelley reckons that two hours
overtime each day means one day
more in each week, which is very true
as the figures go; but nothing is in
Dictated by this reckoning as far as
economic labor is concerned. On the
same basis, one might do two weeks
work in one if the number of hours
of labor was the final point Of accom-
plishment. But the hour is economic
ally measured by the amount of work
done in it, and the final results, at the
contamination of the days, weeks,
months and years work. Long hours
deplete the physical condition; forbid
proper feeding of the mind, and cOnSe-
Quently foreshadOws it's weakening;
deprives social intercourse, and places
man on basis with dumb beasts, un-
able to control their better welfare
The ten-hour day in the field on the
farm with an extra hour added morn
ing and evening for doing chores is
enough, and the farmer who observes
this fact will amass as much wealth,
will have more satisfied hired help,
will better aid the social welfare Of
himself and his family, will come near
er keeping his boy and girl ON the
farm; will do more toward elevating
the farming vocation, and will be more
of benefactor to the human race.
than he who labors from before sun
rise in the morning until late hours in
the night.
AS we re-read the communication Of
Mr.. Kelley it seems that in itself it
should be so conclusively favorable
to short hours as to make others des-
pise the advocate of the fifteen to six
teen-hour day farmer. The argu-
ment set forth by it directs diametri-
cally against the point aimed at
The article from the Wisconsin
Farmer is as follows:
Hours ON the Farm.-The subject Ol
the long hours on the farm was dis
cussed in these columns some time
AGO. and since that date a number of
communications have been received
in which a variety of views are ex-
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-10
Shipping Green Oranges.

AS usual, at 1n1S season OF the year,
the state press is doing it's best to put
a stop to the shipment of green fruit.
1t is probably a waste of time, but
it is still the duty of every newspaper
man to enter a protest against this
suicidal practice. Still each year
there are some growers who, either
from necessity or greed, will rush off
a part Or all of their crop before it is
fit to eat The result is always dis
asterous to- the rest Of the crop. But
it seems to make no difference. The
next year others do the same thing.
The following editorials from South
Florida exchanges will show what is
thought of the business by those who
are in position to know what they
are talking about. The first is from
the Tampa Times, the second from
the Tampa Herald, and the last from
the Reporter-Star.
The market for Florida oranges is
being as usual spoiled by the prema-
.
stuff. There is no visible way of put
ting a stop to this criminal practice.
Estimating the crop of the present
year at two and a half million boxes,
it is safe to say this shipment of green
stuff Will cause the loss of half a dol
lar on every box of it.
Good Advice Given.-Last year
there was considerable criticism and
much fault-fnding about the early
shipping of Florida oranges in a green
state.
Complaints were loud and long from
the commission men in New York, and
other points, and it was repeatedly
claimed that the dumping of green
oranges on the market had much to do
with the low prices that prevailed.
Already the shipping of oranges
has commenced, the first car going
from Palmetto yesterday. 1t is very
early and the oranges are not good
at this time of the year They are
green and sour and give the people
of the North a very wrong impression
of the really delicious flavor and quail
ty of the Florida orange.
It is the eagerness of some growers
to beat their neighbors into the mar
ket and to realize on their crop as
early as possible, that induces these
early shipments, but the movement
should be discouraged, as it is liable to !
affect the entire crop.
AN indications point to the largest !
crop since the record breaker precedr !
ing the freeze of '95. Conservative
estimates place the crop at 100000
boxes, and if properly picked, packed |
and shipped this immense quantity Of
oranges should bring to the state
revenue that will be of great benefit
in developing it further.
A Blow to the Green Orange
anything is calculated to put a quietus
on the shipment of green oranges to
the Northern market it is just what
has happened
The reports are that the prices are
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-10-10

more machinery than formerly, and il
takes more horses to run it and con
sequently more time must be spent in
caring for the horses. This same la
bor-saving machinery makes farm
work of such a characte that it is nc
hardship for a man to work long days
(from 8 in the morning until 8 or 9 in
the evening, if you please), and why
shouldn't he? What excuse can q
man have for not working up to his
full capacity?
The hired men who are really worth
having are not the ones who are look
ing for soft snap, but are perfectly
willing to work as long as the boss
does, just so they get good wages; and
the boss who doesn't have interest
enough in seeing things move to- want
to work from in the morning until S
or 8, Or even later, and do it all sum.
mer, is not successful farmer, al.
though he may appear so. The chanc-
es are that this $50 man got his
start from someone who did work long
days or else he got it by sharp, not ito
say dishonest practices.
Now, two hours day means one
day week, and if we pay a man for
all his time, why should we have to
give him one day of each week ito
keep him good-natured, besides fur:
nishing him with all appliances tic
make his work lighter? What benefit
would it be to him anyway if he
spends his time loafing around town
smoking, drinking or gambling, or il
he goes to dances, or even if he doesn't
do anything worse than stay at home
and read the murder and scandals in
the daily papers? He is far better off
physically, mentally and morally to be
at work. To be sure, he may spend
his leisure wisely, but the bane of
these times is not too little reading
but too much, and too little thinking,
and if a man really wants to- Improve
his mind by good reading he can read
enough in half an hour to keep him
thinking all day.
So here's for the long day ON the
farm, with everyone busy and happy
in the consciousness of doing with our
might what our hands find to do.
Surely life that is not a battle is not
worth living, and really if that $50
man lived in this neighborhood we
would call him for want of a better
name, ''laZy."
Those farmers who continue to con-
tend for long hours, and argue along
similar lines with the above writer,
we are glad to observe, are gradually
growing fewer and there is a reason
for it.
There is little more reason for long
hours on the farm, except i'm times of
a rush of work, than in many other
businesses which are being success
fully pursued on a basis of more regu-
lar working hours. If it be true that
farm work is more laborioIls and re-
quires longer hours with the com
pensation it affords, then the vocation
is not an inviting one But such is
not true, as is proven time and again,
cOncluSiVolV AS we mass thrOuoh tfhe
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-01
Curious English Almshouse.

The most curious almshouse in
England is ST. Mary's Hospital at Chi
chester. There eight old ladies live
actually in the church. which is a fine
old building dating from 1880 II was
originally a monastery. but when
Queen Elizabeth came to visit there
she turned II into an almshouse. TO
endure as long as almshouses exisA
The old ladies' have two neat little
rooms each down the sides OF the
main church. with windows looking
out on the garden. They have each
coal supply. a kitchen range. water
and gas. At one end OF the church
is the chapel. wlsere daily services are
held. The choir stalls are beautifully
carved old oak, the original seats that
the monks used. The church stands
in a quiet little square.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-01
breaking the Trail.

Winter in the mountains Is severe
in its restrictions. SIedging and travel
over the snow-banked trails are lin
tied TO bare necessity. In the colder
seasons the trails are kept open by
shoveling and packing them down.
When the runners sing intermittent
ly In high. thin voices. the teamster.
with a belt tight around his overcoat
and Topping his arms to keep warm.
faces his greatest hardships. But
when the heavy SHOWS aud rapid thaws
OF spring come. teamlng means a bat
tie and a venture with sudden
termination hanging Just above.
Thousands OF tons OF snow up the
mountain sides hang on trigger
that can be sprung by the sigh Of
a breeze or the rolling OF a pine cone.
and IN summer many a barren slope
and pile OF rock and timber al the
bottom tells a skeleton-tale OF the win
ter's night Flounderlng. swearing
and persevering opens the trail-a lit
tie ruffed thread OF white from up
above but hard days work for a
man.-Outing.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-01
THE OLD. OLD STORY.
But the Night Grew Suddenly
Chilly and the Making
Was a Frost.

Slowly they walked in the twilight
he and she, writes c. w. Taylor. In
the Chicago Tribune.
He was no longer in the heydey OF
youth.
Time. however. had laid light hands
upon him. So had his barber. but
oftener and more artistically. and be
was well groomed.
She was a rare and radiant maiden.
known to the regular frequenters OF
Spotcash q Co.'S great emporium OF
trade as the girl at the robbon counter,
Miss Mildred" he said. with a sort
Of premonitory cough. ''let us suppose
case"
"A case Of what kind. Mr.. Mate.
werT' she asked. Notions? Or rem.
nants7"
Let us not talk shop. Miss Nil.
dred. II case suggests business
will vary the phrase. Let US consid-
er a hypothesis"
"A what?"
"A hypothesis. A hypothesis is a
superstition. an assumption. a postu.
late. a working basis. or an idea taken
for granted, for the purpose OF laying
foundation. establishing a PROPOSE
ton. or demonstrating a fact Get
the idea?"
20. yes: anybody can understand
that Is there more OF IT."
There is. Some day, my dear girl.
you expect to marry somebody"
rs that the hypo-hypo-"
No: that is one of the eternal
verities. Every pretty girl expects to
marry somebody. Here is the hypoth-
esis: Suppose some man, slightly
past the blooming period Of youth.
but we'll preserved. in full possession
Of health. strength. and all his intel
lectual faculties"
"A hypothesis is a man, is it?"
He's a necessary part of this one.
Suppose some such man as am de-
scribing. not at all i'll looking. and
possessed of a reasonable share OF this
worlds goods. should fall wildly.
madly. desperately in love with you.
Miss Mildred"
''Weli?"
"And offer you his hand and heart
do you think you could learn to
love him7"
They walked along a block or two
In silence.
Then Mr.. Matewer spoke again.
Feels a little as II II we're going
TO snow, doesn't it. Miss McGlnnis?"
he said.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-01
DISEASE OF lNeaRlETY.
A Medical View Of Drunkenness and
Some Theories as to It's
Treatment

The disease OF inebriety "a a condi-
ton OF morbid impulse. in which the
patient Is impelled 10 secure relief
from a state OF exhaustion aud feeling
OF want which nothing but alcohol
can crafty u Is not a matter OF
reason or judgment but an insane i'm
pulse which So pervades the system
and controls il as to dominate every
other instinct There may be stages
OF this impulse in which Il is weak
and can be diverted by drugs OF RENE
dial measures. There are other stages In
which nothing but force can prevent the
person from gratifying this impulse.
II We could determine the degree and
intensity OF this impulse. we should be
able 10 apply the exact means. but not
knowing this and attempting TO use
uniform remedies mistakes will occur.
Journal OF Inebriety
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-01
REFORM PROGRESS.

The lord bishop OF Swansea. Eng
land. has signed the temperance
pledge.
Moie than 1000 persons were regis
tered at the great International tenn
perance congress at Buda- pesth. and
IA different languages were spoken.
The Jerome (Arizona) Miners union
cut out saloon aud gambling dens. In
two months $4,000 was placed to
their credit in the banks and $4,000
in money orders was issued Does
temperance payY
Last year there were brought into
this country 100000 pounds OF opium
and a ton OF morphine. which Is five
times as much as was used six years
ago. and the Chicago Tribune esti-
mates that 100000 people in THIS
country are addicted to the use Uf
either morphine or cocaine
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-01
TRAITS OF INHERITANCE.
In Books as Well as in Life There
Are Certain Strong Family
Resemblance.

One may imagine an artist attempt.
ing. on a wager, TO paint landscape
without using a single tone of yellow,
let us say, or blue, says Frederic Ia
Der Cooper. in the Bookman. In the
same way one may imagine a nov
elist writing a story of a man and a
woman. so detached from the outside
world, so silent regarding their ances-
try, their past lives. their present
surroundings, so nearly a record OF
two naked souls, that heredity and
environment may be said for once TO
be eliminated. But such a picture,
such a story, would be a mere tour
de force. not an honest transcript from
life. Every landscape must contain,
in varying degrees, some yellow and
some blue. Every human story must
concern itself with traits inherited
from our fathers or acquired through
the company we keep.
And the novelist to whom his char
acters are a living reality, men and
women whom he thinks of as having
an existence outside the pages of his
book. needs no promptings from Oar
win In order to make us recognize
the ties of blood and OF propinquity
any more than the Photographic
lens needs to be prompted in order
to show, ia family group. how the
fathers eyes. the mothers lips are
mirrored back in the faces Of son
and daughter.
II is not venturesome 10 say that
in some of our best English novels,
in Belinda" and Emma" in The
Newcomes" and The Mill on the
Floss" there is often more heredity
than Miss Edgeworth or Miss Austen,
than Thackeray or George Eliot we're
conscious of putting there. Take any
novel of the first magnitude. in which
whole household is described. three
generations OF genial. kindly gentle
folk. the sort OF family that II would
be q privilege TO know in real life.
One Of the granddaughters. let us say.
is the authors chief concern. and the
whole book reyolves around her per
sonality.
Now IL the book is based upon an
intelligent observation OF life It is
not vital matter whether the author
has worked out the heredity for you.
Ike logarithms, down to the tenth
decimal. You are free to work It out
for yourself, TO trace the heroine's
qualities. good and bad. back to their
various sources; TO conjecture about
her many things which the author
never once mentioned. perhaps new
er even thought OF. In books. as well
as In real life. there are certain fam.
lily resemblances that are never no
ticed until pointed out by some com
parative stranger.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-01
S SE4ISlIII2i5alEea
7h1.s55zsi[p5TifEs5
TOBACCO SMOKING.
What Sir d. w. Richardson bad to
Say as TO It's Baneful In
huences.

believe Il IL almost impossible 10 In.
duce a confirmed smoker TO give up the
habit. and I speak Ia this respect from
personal experience myself In early
life was not a smoker | went through
all the arduous work Of a medical stu
dent by being present al operations In
large hospitals. In studying anatomy
in the dissecting and postm0rtem
rooms. and In the fever hospitals. and
! never smoked, though | went through
my work with great facility. Later on
| learned to smoke. aud continued TO
do so for many years. Tho whole OF
that time I was dyspeptlc from smok.
ing. I az length resolved to give Il up.
II was hard work TO DO SO. but |
eventually succeeded. and have never
been more thankful than Tor The day
u was accomplished I gave un wine.
beer and every other alcoholic drink
with infinitely less trouble than smok.
ing u Is very dlnlcult indeed to aban.
don this pernicious habit OF smoking
invcterate smokers are those who
commence 10 smoke early 10 life
Smoking Is. 10 a certain extent connect.
"a with drinking Persons who smoke
experience faintness. followed by
nausea. which alcoholic drinka often
allay. on this point I can speak from
personal experience. should have
been led into the fields OF total absti.
nonce i've years before ! was had II
not been for the smoking habit | had
contracted Whatever may b. said
about the effects OF tobacco smoking in
adults. there can be no doub, AZ to i,s
effects on the young In them % al
ways produces a state OF functional
disease which Is unquostionable. and
OF serious character. II stops the
proper working OF the digestive pow.
ers II Il were fac; that all our
young men and young women were 10
smoke. and continued the habit until
they we're fathers and mothers. their
offspring would b. 80 stunted ard ~.
tie ms 20 b. thoroughly Incapable %
carrying ont the duties reQnired by
our generation. We cannot praise our
mothers too much Tor the fact that
they have not become smokers The
late Sir n W Richardson. n. D.. y.
r. s.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-01
Enslaved Children.


The factory wants the child. There
Is little to suggest the Magic Piper in
Its whistle. yet the summons brings
the children scurrying down the
broken stairs of poverty and want,
and the factory doors close upon them
by tens of thousands, leaving their
childhood outside. The factory wants
the child, says a writer in Success
Magazine, and will pay for him; the
child, and often his parents. can see
no value in a birthright as balanced
against a little handful Of silver; only
the state and the disinterested pub
lie are left TO care and protest Per
haps the present attitude OF tenn
pered humanity, which still allows
children of 13 to work all night and
keeps boys and girls Of nine from 10
to IA hours at the spindles for wages
ranging from 10 to 20 cents, will seem
as incomprehensible, 100 years hence,
as that past feeding OF "workhouse
brats" to the factories does to us.
But the new measure OF what is hui
name cannot become established I'M
less We know clearly what is happen
ing and how and where the children
are at work. Knowing, we must care.
Ruskin said: Luxury, at present. can
only be enjoyed by the ignorant; the
cruelest man living could not sit at
his feast unless he sat blindfold.
Picture an army Of 100000 children,
all under Is, and then realize that that
army tramps, day after day. not TO
school and playground, but to the
factories, fields, mines and workshops
of these United States. One million
seven hundred thousand was the num-
Der Of child laborers estimated when
the census of 1900 was taken; only
the God of fallen sparrows knows
what 1t is by this time. In the 20
years preceding 1900 the number Of
boys in manufacturing and mechan-
zeal pursuits-boys between 10 and
15-had increased 100 per cent; the
number of girls, $50 per cent; but
only so per cent. increase had been
added to the population. To-day. in
spite Of all the child-labor agitation
of the past few years, it is estimated
that 10000 children under 16 are at
work in Pennsylvania alone. and the
southern mills are said to employ
10000 children not yet IL.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-01
ONE CASE.
How an Injury Was Followed by
Periodic Cases Of Drunk.
enncsa.

This Incident il by no means rare.
but itR significance has not yet been
realized. A temperate. hard.woFking
man was made unconscious BY the
kick Of horse on his head The
next morning be awoke ana demanded
spirits Whisky was given him. and
he soon became intoxicated. on re-
covery he demanded more. and con
tinued 10 drink to intoxlcation for the
next three days. then a pronounced
epileptic paroxysm came on from
which he recovered. Two months later
he began TO drink again. becoming
wildly Intoxicated. then recovered
From this time on for the next i've
years until his death from sn accident
he was a periodic drinker. and when
intoxicated was very dangerous The
free Intervals were marked by intense
Efforts TO help himself and great con
triton Tor his condition. tie was
treated as n moral delinquent who
could have helped himself. but did no,
care 10 do so.-Journal OF lnebrie,y.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1906-02-01
Him in Securing
Uniform Divorce laws
BY WALTER s. LOGAN.
Secretary National Commission for Promotion
OF Uniformity OF legislation.

legislation would affect divorce would Of necessity uniformity
of the of divorce That is that the of obtaining divorce
should be New York South Dakota
That my Interpretation of however my
dream do believe possible obtain uniformity Of
divorce uniform divorce conceive possible
sirable will seek unity the for separation but the macn>
cry legal process by which such separation will be obtained
this have hands full 1t the
with but until step has been made
simplify present complicated and contradictory methods Of pro-
unhcaon OF processes for obtaining will
away with practically all the scandals upon present
phcated The fact OF the that the
because there
great variety Of them South Dakota but of
New York have relation whatsoever the of
of South Dakota other state they affect marriage
divorce
Owing the varying ethical values obtaining widely separated
regions of the fact which the province of
psychologist than of the anawe hardly
arrive of divorce which would
desirable We however unity laws that will
possible for a have than legal wife egn
family of children within the territory which the
United States hold jurisdiction AT present it possible for
have simultaneously legal wives many legal husbands
Now, under such practicable reforms for uniformity of legal proc
look forward such anomaly would be impossible
formity of process might for instance make impossible
for divorce to be without personal