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The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-30
PROTECT YOUR HOME
Every Workingman Should Provide
for His Loved Ones.
A Plain Talk on Life Insurance by the
Southern States Mutual Life
Insurance Co.

~ Life Insurance Company is
Il co operative associations for the
4 prevention Of human distress, not
Il business enterprise.
It's an absolute certainty that
out of each 100, 900 persons Il Ger
tain number will die each year. If
YOU are 30 years OF age and in good
health your expectation Of life
should be approximately 80 years.
! Ale average payment for each wear
OF your life expectancy invested at
~ u and compounded will pay the
amount Of your policy. This is
Life Insurance.
All forms Of policy contracts are
! founded upon these facts: They
are absolute and Interchangeable and
cannot be overcome. In addition
to the payment of your policy the
expenses of the company must be
| met. For this reason the policy
holder must pay an amount greater
than that necessary to pay his pol
icy, that his pro rota share of the
expenses may be met. This is
called the loading This loading
differs in different companies. The
loanlng in the Southern States
Mutual Life is less than in other
standard companies, and all money
not used in paying death losses or
providing for the legal reserve and
payment Of future death losses will
he returned annually to the policy
holders. The payment of death
losses in this Company is provided
for upon the basis of investments
at 3! II, while. as IA matter of fact,
the investments in this Company
will not be less than 5M.
There is widespread idea that
Life Insurance is Il speculation in
which there is Il possibility for get
ting something for nothing. This
is an abSuruitN. Knowing def
nltrlN how many people in each
1000 or 200. 900 are expected TO
live for d given period, Il number
OF men at various ages may enter
into combination. paving into IA
common treasury Il certain fixed
sum. varying at the different ages.
which compounded at ;! III will
pay the beneficiary of each member
81. 900 ut his death. Any profits
or dividends paid to the member
III excess of this 81 900 are derived
from the excess interest earned
aboyc.33 n. 1t is an unchnnuing
fact that all men who contribute TO
the fund get out of it only what
they putin. plus the interest the
fund earns. less. of course. the en-
pcnSc Of MANAGING. makiu" srcurp
and investing it. The policy hnIdrr
gets Just this and nothing more.
When a man dies before tine aver
age time. the loss is made GOOD by
the excess contribution by some
man who lives beyond the AVERAGE
time. You cannot beat the com
panN or the policy drrby divine
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1906-08-30

conditions. Let temperance join
with unionism to accomplish indus
trial freedom, and many grave pro
blcmS viii cease to bc.-E.X.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12

blocks of wood. AS a whole, the
native plants, though botanically ex-
ceedingly interesting, cannot be. COM
pared with the beautiful tropical
kinds. 1 have Billbergia zebrina, B.
rosea, B. rhodocyanea, Aechmea spect-
abilis, Chryptanthus zonatus, Tilland-
STA fenestralis, Pitcailrnia coccinea,
P. alta. They all do we'll in pots and
many in baskets.
Most of the Gesneriads, such as
Achimenes, Gesneria, Gloxinia, Tyde-
as, etl., are also fine verandah plants
for our humid climate I grow them
among the Caladiums, but they do
better in the shade, and where the
foliage does not get wet so often
GloXinias with their large wonderful
flowers form bea utiful objects.
HI. Nehrling.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12

where they took root and thrived
Mrs. Mary Crosby's little daughter
removed them to the family straw
berry bed, and this year they have
yielded a crop that, plant per plant,
makes their red sisters look small
The discovery is regarded as impor-
tant by horticulturists, who have for
years regarded the Jamaica white
berry as standard so far above the
ordinary red berry that it has been
considered impossible to reach it.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12

ments. In fact the vFavorite Prescrip-
ton" stands alone as being the ONLY
medicine for woman's special ailments
which has any such professional endorse
ment of it's several ingredients which
fact is generally recognized as entitled
to much more weight than any amount
of lay, or non-professional testimonials.
The vFavorite Prescription" stands
alone as the only non-secret, medicine
for woman's ailments. Its manufact-
urers are not afraid to publish it's in
gradients, as they do, broadcast-thus
counting the fullest scrutiny.
The "FavOrite Prescription has been
on trial in court and came out fully
indicated as containing no harmful or
habit-formlng drugs.
What other medicine for women could
stand such q test?
No invalid women can afford to
accept a secret ,sOstrWm of etssk9sOsOss
composition for this tried and proven
remedy OF KNOWN COMPOSITION. Lead
ing physicians often prescribe it because
they know exactly what it is made of
and that the Ingredients of which it is
composed are the very best known to
medical science for the cure of woman's
peculiar weaknesses and delicate
ailments.
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is not
advertised as q cCure All" but admirably
fulflls singleness of purpose, being
superior and most positive remedy for one
class of diseases only-those easily recog-
nized weaknesses, arrangements, irregu-
larities and painful disorders peculiar to
women. It is a powerful, yet gently act
ing, invigorating, tonic and strengthening
nervine. For weak, WORKOUT, over-work
ed women-no matter what has caused
the neutrality-suspicious. it be from too
frequent bearing of children or from much
worry, care, or over exertion of any kind,
rFavorite Prescription will be found
most efficient in building up the strength,
regulating all the, womanly functions,
ular and healthy, vigorous condition Of
the whole female system.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12

S. Experiment Station grounds near
Miami, and sent to J. B. Beach, of this
city. 1t was about what might be
called ordinary mango shape, only
very much larger, as it weighed Is 12
ounces.
Tt was what was known as the Sun
dersha mango, native of CeylOn, In
dia, and it is claimed to he one of the
rarest and choicest varieties of man
goes in the world.
AS Dade county is one Of the best
places to raise mangoes there is, it
is to be congratulated on ON it's posses
sion and good prospects of the propa-
cation of this valuable fruit Palm
Beach News.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12
TO READERS OF THE
LADIES' HOME JOURNAL:

Did read the article published by The Ladies' Home Journal
May attacking Dr. Perces Favor1te Prescription have
magazine his "has paid single penny Dr.
v Pierces settlement of any suit " We
wish you to know truth. The facts these:
days article in May 1904, appeared Dr. Perces
company sued Home Journal publishers for libel The
had April last Dr. Pierce proved that the attack made by
The Ladies Home Journal false He proved that DR. Perce Fa
vote Prescription did either alcohol
injurious which The Ladies Home Journal falsely stated
This conusvey shown that the attorneys for
The Ladies' Journal forced admit The jury rendered
against The Ladies' Home Journal in favor of Dr. Pecs
company This complete vindcaon of Doctor
and his "Favore Prescription" udcia1y established that
uhozy false and without any justification
Pierce however, believed that his justly entitled
verdict much larger Through his attorneys he has
therefore, applied trial of the For this
reason has The Ladies' Home Journal
paid single penny Dr. R. v Perces concern Dr. Pierce
has simply collect the judgment until the motion for
new trial has been decided.
the light of these facts does not this boau statement that it
single " Perces look like
bluff half truth intended to mslead your
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12

During the trial of the libel suit
against the above mentioned publishers,
DR.. Lee Fl. Smith, Vice. President of the
Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
tion, stated ats,01er oath that the ingredi-
ents of DR.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip-
ton were wholly extracted from the
following native roots; Golden Seal,
Blue Cohosh, LA1y's Slipper Black
CGhosh and UnicorH>by means of pure
gly&eSiQe Of proper sN<mgth He was
asked how he knew, as Aphysician and
experienced medical man, pat the VIA
vorite Presexiption was \ure for the
diseased peculiar to women, >such as
~female NweaAness,X w>ak1 Mpg>pelv
catarrhal \dralks, 1feld Psus, IetfNxer-
sion, irregular and painful periods, AID
other diseases of the womanly or9apA
the che fact because Of his Professional ex X
perience and the many thousands of
women whose ills, to his personal
knowledge, had been cured by this
transcription"
This experience Of Dr: .smith was corrob-
GRATED by the STANDARD Medical Authorities
of the several schools Of practice endorsing
terms Dr. Smith being asked to name some
Of tho above roots read from the standard
works. such as the United States Dispense
tory; The American Dispensatory; Organic
Medicines. by Grover Coo, M. D.; Materia
Medica. BY Professor Finley Ellingwood Of the
Bennett MEDICAL College. Chicago; view
Remedies by Prof Edwin M. Hale. NJ. D.. of
Hobart A. Hare. Prof. in Univ. Of Penn'a;
Laurence johnson. NJ D., Prof in University
Of New York: Prof: John King. Author OF
woman and Her Diseases; Professor John
NJ. scudder. M. D., Author Of a treatise on
wThe Diseases of Women y; Horatio G. Wood,
NJ. D.. Author Of Therapeutics ". Roberts
Rartholow. A. NJ. NJ: D., Professor Of Materia
All these recognized and standard
authorities praise, in the strongest pos
sible terms, each and every ingredient
which enters into the vFavorite Pre-
scription " of DR.. Pierce for the cure of
woman's peculiar weaknesses and all
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12
White Strawberries.

White Strawberries.
We have found, in one of our agri-
cultural exchanges, an item which we
copy, not on account of it's valuable
information, but to show how much
miSinfOrmatiOn a reporter can COM
press into a short paragraph. We
ate white stra wberries, at the North,
40 years ago. While very good, they
were no better than many varieties
now in cultivation. Again, it would
be impossible to propa gate strawberry
plants from leaves even if fresh, but
those which might be in the boxes
after coming by steamer from Jamaica
would be so withered that there would
be no vitality in them. 1T might be
possible for plants to have sprung up
from the seeds of berries dropped by
the vendors while picking over the
fruit. 1t is possible that there is a
variety of white strawberry grown in
Jamaica, of which we had not heard,
varieties. If so, we should be glad to
know more about it.
The Boston Journal tells the follow
ing story about the Introduction Of
white Strawberries into this country:
Seeking to outwit their customers
by mixing strawberry that would
not sell with one that would, two
Italian street hawkers are responsible
for the discovery. that the luscious
white strawberry of Jamaica, berry
that surpasses all red berries i'm flavor
and juiciness, will grow in New Eng
land, as from leaves thrown on the
ground by the Italians come -four
ishing plants which this year have
given off good crop in West Rox-
bury
The white berries reached this port
as private speculation on the part
of a steward on one of the United
Fruit Co.'s steamers, who took aboard
a crate of them with the idea of work
ing up a demand AIT the fashionable
hotels. His scheme fizzled almost as
soon as the stewards of the local
houses saw the berries. No amount
of persuasion could convince them
that the berries were not green when
picked and subjected ito chemical
process that would give them every
other appearance of ripeness.
In any event they refused utterly to
have anything to do with them, and
this resulted in the italian vendors
getting the white berries as a bargain
They did their best with them from
house to house, but the people Of
Boston were as skeptical as the hotel
stewards.
This did not bother the Italians,
though, for they simply went to a
vacant lot in West DOxbury, picked
over their berries and mixed the white
ones with the red. In the process
some of the leaves fell to the ground,
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12
Fine New Mango.

There has been on exhibition in
Idner & Sons show window this week.
one of the largest and, said to be, fin
est manages known.
This specimen was raised at the u.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-09-12

This border of Aroids, Scitaminae
and Ferns was prepared, before plant
ing with some care. 1t is near the
water and the soil is therefore con-
stantly moist l sprinkled, first, sever
al buckets full of Painters Simon
Pure fertilizer over the soil, then I
hoed it. While setting out the differ
ent plants, | used several barrels of
old rOtted cow manure, several barrels
Of muck and lots of sphagnum moss.
After planting the ground was covered
with sphagnum moss and with broken
bricks. The result was quite a reve-
lation to me. The intermingling of
the finest of my Caladiums add to
this border a wonderful charm. The
whole border is under a lath roof
which is more or less densely cover
ed with the fine sprays of the Yellow
Bgnonia (Bignonia Tweediana).
Nowhere have | seen such exquisite
verandah plants as in Florida. Or
lando is particularly to be mentioned
in this connection. Mrs. Myers, owner
of the Windsor Hotel has such won
derful specimen plants of bush Bego-
Mas as / never saw before, gigantic,
perfectly formed, glorious plants.
Then there are grand specimens of
Asparagus Sprengeri and fancy leaved
Caladiums galore, large masses of
Wall-grOwn plants.
The other day, while in this beauti-
full city, l walked around to- find out
what plants are mostly grown ON the
verandahs. Begonias everywhere
take the first rank, then the Ferns,
in many species, followed. saw sew
eral grand specimen plants of Gold
and Silver Ferns, (Gymnogramma
chrysOphylla, G. Calomelanos, G. ar
gentea etc., fine specimens of the Bos-
ton Fern and it's varieties in pots and
baskets. Davallias and many of the
native species, such as LOrinssria
areolata, Blechnum serrutata, the
hair Fern, etc. 1 counted over fifty
different varieties, among them even
a few Tree Ferns.
Another group Of plants on the YER
andahs are the different species of
Acalyphas, of which perfect specimens
may be seen. These plants are almost
always very tastefully arranged so
that htey form admirable ornaments
All are planted in pots, jardinieres and
fancy boxes The detestable tin cans
are banished, they are conspicuous,
here in Orlando by their absence. 1t
is also pleasant to notice that plants
growing well North, but do not thrive
well here, such as Geraniums, are
rarely found in these collections In
some of the more pretentious exhibits
we now and then notice fine large
specimens of Pandanus utilis, p. Veit-
chii and p Sanderi, the former mark
ed with white and the last with vel
low stripes ON the glossy green foliage.
Dracaenas are found now and then
and the rarer green house Palms, such
as Kentia Forsteriana, X. Balmorea
ma, Livistona Chinensis, and l.. aus
trails and many others so popular as
house plants in the North are very
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-05
Baron Rothschild's Singing Parrot.

1t will interest American readers to
that BarOn Alfred de ROthschild,
the London head Of the great financial
house, is a parrot fancier. He has
just acquired the most talented Polly
in the world, and not a little Of the
time he takes from the routine of
world finance is given up to basking
in Laura's expression Of eerie wisdom
cannot initiate a smile-and lis
tening to her extensive repertoire of
German songs. It reminds the baron
of the Fatherland, for, of course, you
know the house Of Rothschild is of
Teutonic origin.
This wonderful parrots name is
Laura-"Laura aus Afrika,'' she will
say if anybody asks her. Her plumage
is brilliant green, n her voice, when
she sings. is like the twanging of loose
banjo strings. Laura has learned over
200 words, and when she is Eat home"
in her cage in M Of the A1hambra
dressing rooms. with the baron and
a party of friends as audience she
gives a concert that leaves nothing for
criticism to fasten on, especially after
hearing the finale. a martial song to
the effect hat any one who wishes to
be a soldier must carry a musket and
load it with powder and ball. The ba-
ron has talking parrots out Of number,
but Laura is the prima donna Of the
household.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-05
(By William True Hawthorne.)


London. September 22.-Once a year
london is staggered by the madhouse
returns. Other statistics of the dark
side Of city life contain much that is
appallingly significant, but the most
distressing part Of all is that the met
der every year.
From the census Of the insane for
1906, just reported by the board of
lunacy, it is seen that the rate of in
crease is more than double hat of
population growth, and this with the
causes Of insanity still an unsolved
branch of medical science. These Sc
rious figures are quoted to the utter
confusion OF the theorists who saw in
improved sanitation and other modern
Announcements a condition of things
less conducive to insanity than the old
fashioned n Of living. Another
common belief that appears TO have
no sound basis is that it is the pace
that kills, else now happens it hat the
figures from the agricultural counties,
where life still runs in the ancient
ruts, show that lunacy is more COM
mon there tina in the city. The stress
of modern life, the strain on the
nerves, the pressure of the daily strug-
gle are urged as some Of the causes
for a growth of insanity, yet it is he
who is stunted who passes to the other
side of the bOrde land more easily
than the nan Of strenuous life and ac-
tiv brain.
Then. who is the cause and the rem
edy? These questions are easy to ask,
but impossible to answer A little
illusions of the lunacy board. These ex-
perts say that hereditary influence
plays an important part. and seems
more powerful in the case of women
than men. Intemperance is another
powerful factor, and here the male
victims Outnumber the females four to
one, though on the Whole more women
than men go insane.
Lack of brain activity may conduce
to the dementia that accompanies old
age, intermarriage may favor trans
mission of feeble brains and c~Ongenital
deficiencies, ~avOcatiOnS may Expos to
risk of sunstroke, low w~age-earning
may be responsible for privation, re-
vivalism in religion may be more po-
tent in disturbing mental balance thar
| grief or anxiety.
But why follow the specialists into
a fretwork of maybes which, in the
| absence of a known cause for the
growth Of insanity, can offer no rem
edy, and from which we would emerge.
| only to find that London was still
| growing madden from hour to hour.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-05
And Still They Go.

Rats never left a sinking ship more
quickly than stalwart democrats of
New York run from William Ran
Hughes than for Hearst. Harry W.
Mcclellan, and indeed. many OF the
leaders Of the party. have announced
that while they have not joined the
republicans for all time, they cannot
e of the bribery convention at Buff
and will not vote for the yellow nomi-
falo. They contend that good demo-
Gratis could mor consistently vote for
Hughes tina nfor Hearst. Harry w.
Walker, who organized the Bryan re-
ception at Madison Square and who
really made it an event of national
importance, Is a life long democrat
and an ardent admirer of the Nebras-
kan, but, like the others, he comes
out in a statement in which he says
he will vote for Hughes.-Raleigh
Times.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-05
THE DEATH OF TREPOFF
What Effect it May Have ON Russia's
Future.

What will be the effect Of the death
Of Trepoff?
The announcement has Just cached
the outside world that this dictatorial
tyrant, who has apparently held the
car in the hollow of his n for so
long, has passed to the great beyond
by the agency Of natural causes.
It comes somewhat in the nature
of the sarcasm of fate that a man
who was SO heartily despised through
out Russia. who must have been more
feared respected by the car him
self, who has been the target for more
revolutionary bombs and bullets than
any man in the government service,
has gone to his reward by the laws
of nature.
What the history of Russia might
have beer if this maj had died six
months ago we can never know, in
the very nature of things, but there
is a strong probability that his pass
ing AVA at an earlier period would
have changed the whole history Of the
world. He it was who urged the czar
to a reactionary policy when the dou-
ma began to assert its strength, and
when the promises of liberty were
about to become concrete realities.
The grand dukes gathered around the
car were fnsistent upon a reactionary
policy, but none Of them apparently
had the same influence with the car
as Trepoff. He had shielded the Rus
sian autocrat so often that he had
made himself almost indispensable to
his master. or at any rate had made
the latter feel that such was the case.
It is safe to say that at best he
would not have ived for many years
longer. The reds were after him,
above all men. Their whole propa-
ganda, Of late years, was devoted to his
destruction, nothing but the unfailing
vigilance with which he hedged him.
self about could nave kept him safe
so long.
By whatever means he may have
been taken Off, h car has lost the
most reactionary of his advisers. and
there is a spark Of hope that a brigh-
err day will yet dawn for Russia.
It is known that Premier Stolypin
is liberal in mis- sympathies. At heart
he approves Of many of the measures
of reform for which the people Of
Russia are contending. but he has been
powerless to put them into effect so
long as his hands were tied by the
bureaucracy which entangied him.
We shall look with interest to de-
termine who is to take his place i'm the
official family OF the czar.-Atlanta
Georgian.