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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-14

quite so deep. The fruit is seedless,
thin rind, and full of juice. The sizes
are mostly 27Os to 42Os, and we'll Sc
lected and graded. Around $4,000
boxes of Florida lemons are expected
on this market this year, and if they
show up as favorably as this car does,
there is no reason why they should
not make for themselves a good mar
ket.-Fruit Trade Journal.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-14
The Pistachio Nut in California.

This nut, which is the fruit of
Plstacla vera, member of the family
OF Anacardiaceae to which the Mango
also belongs, is being cultivated in
California. We have not heard of any
attempt to grow this nut in Florida,
yet we do not see why it should not
succeed here wherever the Mango can
be grown. The following account of
what has been done is from the Cali
fornia Fruit Grower:
ConfectiOners and bakers will be in
terested in learning that the National
Department of Agriculture is making
an effort to introduce into the United
States the culture of the pistachio
hut with promising outlook for sue
cess. Many thousand of the pistachio
nut trees are growing in the great
Sacramento valley of California,
where the Plant Introduction Garden
of the Department is located. That
the trees can be grown in this valley
is already demonstrated.
The Saturday Evening Post, May
-, 1906, contains an article on the
pistachio nut subject as follows:
"'The Government Plant Bureau
believes that it has worked out the
problem of the pistachio, which has
been beset by many difficulties. To
overcome these obstacles was worth
the trouble, because the market de-
mand for the nut in the United States
is steady and increasing at high prices.
The confectioners must have it, and
lack of homegrown supply obliges
them to impart it in large quantities.
Hence the effort made to introduce it
into cultivation on this side of the
water.
'The first difficulty encountered was
the growing Of the plants from seeds;
they obstinately refused to sprout and
develop satisfactorily. Then the i'm
ported budwood exhibited an equal
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lions of the heart Weld tc its curative action.

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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-14
A Talk on Oranges and Lemons.

The California orange season is
closed. The total shipments we're 25,-
27O cars, or a shortage of 400 cars
A short crop of from 20 to SO per cent
is estimated for the coming season be-
cause of less fruit and smaller oranges.
The Florida crop will soon COM
mence to move. There is not an
abundant crop according to all reports
and the prices ought to be good though
it is said in the lower part of the
state there are swarms of buyers who
offer only Is cents per box on the
tree.
There were six cars of California
emons sold in New York last week,
not Of good quality, for an average
price of $3.50
One carload of Florida lemons was
received and put in storage to be sold
this week These lemons were from
J. R. Knight of Green Springs, who
will have six cars of them and refused
S6 per box on the trees.
There were 10000 boxes of Sicily
lemons sold for from $4.62 to 1887
per box.
This story shows how much more
profitable the growing of lemons over
oranges would be. The Florida lemons
are said to be very fine and mention is
made in the Produce News that prior
to the freeze good many Florida
lemons of fine quality were marketed.
Twenty-Five years ago, Rev. T. w.
Moore, author of Orange Culture in
Florida, made regular shipments of ex-
ira fine Sicily lemons from a grove not
far from Mandarin on the St. Johns
river. Orlando used to have some mag
ni6cent old lemon trees of fine variety.
The only crop of fruit the writer ever
marketed, contained several barrels of
lemons sent forward without sorting or
wrapping for which he received $3.50
net.
There should be future for lem
on culture in Florida. The lower sec
tons of the state are comparatively
rec from loss by freeze Even
though the trees should freeze once
in several years, the lemon is a very
rapid grower and would be producing
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again in three years. The price for
lemons is. nearly always superior to
that paid for oranges. Why do Florida
growers not pay some attention to
this crop?
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1906-11-14
Treasures Found in
Our American Forests.

That Our American forests abound plants which possess the
virtues abundany aeed by Of the
emineN medical writer's teachers this
the Indians had discovered the usefulness of native
plants the advent of the white This information impaired
freely whites led the latter continue Investigations until to-day
haa rich valuable American medicinal
Dr. Pierce Of Buffalo n y believes that American forests
abound in medicinal for the Of obstinate and fatal
eases would properly investigate and in confirmation Of
ced BY his Golden Medical Discovery which has itself be
the most efficient stomach liver inygorato reg
u!ator and blood cleanser known medical science Dyspepsia
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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-12-20

quill pen was in use long before the
time of St. Isdore, and remains that
have been found indicate that even metal
pens were not unknown TO the ancient
Romans.
Practically all of the early literature
Of the white races was preserved by the
monks, who used the quilts. st. Thecla
Of Isauria is said to have written out
the entire Scriptures without blot or
mistake and to have used one quill.
So firmly did the quill pen become inn
bcdded in the affections of mankind that
the quilts of the gray goose still are
used in some of the English courts.
II was not until toward the close OF
the eighteenth century that experiments
were made in England, France and
America looking toward the manufac-
ture OF metal pens. An interesting in
vention at such time was the an
nouncement in 1909 by Joseph Bramah,
who fathered the idea of having a nib
and holder in separate pieces in PLACE
Of the complete quill. His machine cut
quills into separate nibs, which were fas-
tened on to handles of metal, wood and
ivory.
The earliest record of the manufac-
ture and sale of steel pens was in 1908,
by Mr. Wise, in London. These pens
were barrel-shaped and made as much
like quill as possible; but they were
inhexible and unsatisfactory, until in
1920 Joseph elliott, of England, began
the manufacture OF a vastly improved
pen at greatly reduced prices. This pen.
with improvements and variations, is the
steel pen in use to-day 1t is interesting
to note that the manufacture OF steel
pens in the United States did not begin
until 1860 and the steel used in most
Of the factories is imported from
Sweden, even to this day.
Gold pens first were made in 1895 in
England, and in this country in 1885
First the points of the gold pens were
protected by diamonds and rubies, but
in 1850 it was discovered that iridium
could be used as advantageously, espe-
cially il inbedded in the gold instead Of
soldered on, and would be far less ex-
pensive. This principle is followed to
the present time
The fountain pen OF to-day, the most
perfect of writing implements, is the
development Of the idea, expressed in
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-12-20

Romans, later on, recorded public docu-
ments on the wax-covered tablets of
stone, bronze and wood, using the stylus.
They, too, used papyrus and reeds, while
parchment was somewhat used as well,
but the wax tablets, some even being
on ivory, were the favorites. In some
of the writings of Pliny reference is
made to the use of rolls of lead and of
linen, the stylus being used for the lead
and reeds for the linen. In the British
Museum there are many Greek docu-
ments, Of the time of the Ptolemys,
written on papyrus with reeds.
The stylus OF the old Greeks and
Romans generally was sharp-pointed at
the one end and blunt at the other, so
the latter could be used 10 erase by
smoothing over the wax the mistakes
of the writer. A stylus OF that sort was
a formidable weapon of attack or de-
fence, and Caesar used one when he was
attacked by his murderers, stabbing
Casca in the arm. At one time the use
of the iron stylus was prohibited IN
Rome because Of its danger as a
weapon
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-12-20

From the bronze chisel of the ancient
Egyptians, used to carve the hero
Iyphics which constitute the Oldest
known writings, to that modern ideal
writing implement, the fountain pen, is
a far cry.
1t takes one from the days of mans
groupings for learning to the present-day
high standard of intellectually, although
the ancients who used the bronze chisel,
as we'll as their successors who used the
stylus, the split reeds or the writing
brushes, should not in any way be con-
fused with the men of savagery, for
they possessed no mean abilities, and
showed, through their crude and cum
bersome processes, how keenly they felt
the need for records by which the
knowledge acquired by one generation
could be preserved for the next.
Prosaic pen, what treasure store
you have been to the human racel Truly
''the pan is mightier than the sword."s
And as the pen" has been simplitied
from the days of its direct ancestor, the
bronze chisel, so has its value to man
kind been increased. AS the stylus, used
on the wax-coated tablets of stone and
metal and wood, was wonderful step
over the chisel in the march of improve
ment, so was the quill pen of so many
centuries still more wonderful step IN
advance, although destined to give way
so comparatively recently to the steel
pen, the gold pen and the fountain pen,
which to-day is the acme of perfection
IN the way of writing tool.
One result Of this great chain OF i'm
provement and development is found in
the general education of the masses OF
to-day. Whereas, in the days of the an
clients it was only the savant or the
skilled artisan who could preserve
knowledge and records for the then I'M
porn, to-day IT is rare indeed to ma
man or woman who cannot write and
who does not write, every year, more
than one of the ancient savants could
transcribe in a lifetime.
Possibly some fault may be found
with the reference to the old Egyptian
bronze chisels as writing implements,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-12-20
OLDSDAYS e -
THEY MADE
THEIR OWN PENS

Some of the ancient papyrus, known
to have antedated Herodotus, was writ
ten with reeds dipped in gum water col
ored with charcoal or SCOT of resin. The
ink Of the cuttlehsh was also used. The
earliest use Of the brush pencil, invented
by the Chinese, appears to have been
about 2o6 B. C., although China had a
literature long before that. The ancient
Assyrians used sun-dried bricks.
Some biblical references to writing
implements are confusing, as for in
stance, the mention of an "iron pen" By
Job. This, however, probably meant a
grayer Of steel, serving to write on
stone or metallic plates. In the Book
of jeremiah reference is made to hard
ening a pen point with diamond, say
ing, Written with pen Of iron and
with ? POINT Of diamond" Much the
same principle is followed in the manu-
faeture Of the present day gold pens for
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-12-20

but the classification cannot be criti-
cized by any one willing TO accept the
Darwinian theory, and thus recognize
the ape as the ancestor of man. Outside
of the chisels, however, the earliest
writing instrument probably was the sly
lus. pointed bodkin of metal, bone or
ivory, which was used for producing in
cised or engraved letters. Then there
was the calamus, or asundo, made of
the hollow, tubular stalks of grasses
growing in marshy, lands. This was
the true ancient representation of the
modern pen.
Hollow joints Of bamboo were SINH
larly employed and the use of such pens
can be traced to remote antiquity
among the civilized nations of the far
east, where reeds and canes are in COM
mon use as writing implements to this
day. From out Of antiquity has come
principe, first shown in the split reed,
upon which every pen since made has
bee, modelled and upon which nobody
HIS been able to improve. 1t forms just
as much a part of the modern foun-
tain pen as it formed a part Of the old,
clumsy and troublesome reeds.
Long before the days of the reeds and
of the quilts, writers used the stylus, al
though it was varied in form and was
used in many different ways. Monu-
ments of ancient Ninevah show the use
Of sunburned brick, the stylus having
been used to engrave the fresh clay be-
fore the baking process was resorted to
for the preservation Of the writing.
Papyrus was used in Egypt from re-
mote periods, the writing being done
with the reeds, while juices Of berries
were used for ink The Greeks and the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-12-20

use in fountain pens.
II was the introduction of paper that
brought quilts into existence, and the
quill pen lived for more than thousand
years. the quilts Of the goose and of the
swan being preferred The earliest spe-
cihc allusion il history to the quill pen
occurs in the writings of St. Isidore Of
Seville, who died 636 A. ID. Reeds also
we're extensively used for many years
after quill pens were introduced. There
is reason to believe, however, that the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-12-20

even the early times,
pen and ink together.
Arabia came the earl
gestions Of the fount
now in the British M
The Arabian founta
pearance of a sword &
or sheath, and in real
similar. The extreme
cap is on a hinge, wi
reeds or quilts wer
sheath, while the ink
cup attached to the
this cup or bulb some
was inserted SO as to
Of the ink and keel
when carried at the
place much as a dagg
fair is made of bras,
over the surface, an
ciple, il not in const
horns carried by the
The Japanese foun,
the stem being hollc
the top to carry a spe
ink. There was no
to carry out this
until 1870, when 10
a fountain pen will
hollow, operated by
pressed by the thun
ink to the nib. jose
several ideas for 70
ing a hollow meta
ever, was so thin II
out of shape, SO t
lowed to escape.
he patented in 1888
stantial tube, fitted
which was used to
required after the !
by dipping the end
the ink and raising
ing the outer case
Several new idc
were brought forw
ceeding years, but
cumbersome affair
were cropping abou
until. in 1881, L. Z
the first fountain D
adaptation of an ca
principle, that OF
Although this seem
now, it was revo,
and, with the imn-o
made, II has result
world an absolutely
which Is as near to
day ingenuity can i,
Waterman Ideal, '
name.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-31
TOOK THE SERIES
BILLY EARLE'S BUNCH BEAT THE
 OYSTERMEN.
Thornton Appears fin Right Field for Mobile, Taking the Place of Me- Divitt, Released and Then
 Signed by Vicksburg.

Mobile, May 30.-(Special.) )-Billy Earles bunch got the third and last game of the series from the Oyster men, making it two straight. Mobile led with two runs in the first with two hands down. Leidy walked and stole Wagner hit to left, scoring Lei dy and going to second on a steal Wright went to second 'on Kelly's huff of a left field fly and Wagner crossed the plate.
 In the fifth. vicksburg put four runs over. Kelly singled. Ree6 sent first. Kelly scoring and Reeb landing at third. McEvoy was hit and walked. Following with a steal, Toner sent a threw wild, Reeb and McEvoy scoring and Toner coming in right behind them on the same throw.
 In Mobiles half. however, the oys- termen put three men across and again led. Hoffman walked. Leidy got safe on HeFold's error at short Wagner popped up a short one in the infieid and 1, Werden and Reeb started ice from second to W@rden N9' T scoTing safni; Hoffman, Thornton go. safe on poor judgment and Leady crossed the plate. Hankey sent one to Toner who cut him down at first, Wagner dashing across the rubber ahead of the re- turned pail
 In the. seventh vicksburg put two runs to her credit and won the game. Reeh hit to centre and McEvoy walk ed. Hooker got. safe on Wright,s. err TOT and the bases were filled Toner binglled to leaft field and Reeb scored. Werden sent long fly to left and out, and McEvoy scored on the throw in Mobile in her half of this inning got three men on bases but could not score the needed run to tie.
 McDtvitt was released today by Mobile and immediately signed by Bill ly Earle, McDivitt had been playing good ball for Mobile and the news of his, release was received with, regret. Mobile gees on the circuit tonight. Thornton went in today, taking Me Divitt's position. He was cheered cv- cry time he went up.
 White was off today and appeared to have lost control of the ball at critical stages. Reeb held the oyster men, well in hand and did some clever work The feature of the game was Rockers catch of Prout's fly to left after, the, ball had jumped out of keI. Wright's inhe'" fly and double of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-31

One bad inning in each game gave the Pirates both ends of the donole header yesterday afternoon ana sen, the largest crowd that ever attended q ball eame in Montgomery home with splitting heartaches.
 Both games were lost by one run and both abounded in loose fielding on both sides. Up. to the beginning oI the seventh inning In the first game Roy Hale had been pitching supero bah. only two hits and one run having been made of him while he had struck out four men and only given one base on balls. During this time the Climb CTS had been very busy and with the aid of eight punched hits had put over i've runs on Becker. Hale began to weaken and the game was lost in the
 ft was the third inning before a hit was made on either side In the first game, Houtz hitting single to left and going to third when Daly let 1t get by him. Then Bill Evans drop ped Busch's fly and Houtz scored.
 The first hit off Hale came in the fourth when Byrne singled with one out, the side being retired.
 Tn the last half of the fourth sin gles by McCann and McAlees with Hales's twobagger put in two runs.
 In the fifth King hit safe and was
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-31
PIRATES WON TWO GAMES
 FROM MULLANEY'S CLIMBERS
Great Crowd at Athletic Park Returned to Town Sick at Heart---Luck Was
 Against Elm.

sacrificed to second Abstein hit one that took bound and got away from Busch. King getting to third and SCOT ing on Emile Fritz's infield hit. Then Hale struck out Becker but filled the bags with only two out when he walk ed. Evans saving himself by a fly to Busch, making the score five to one in favor of the Climbers. In the sev- enth Ahstein pounded out twobag- Becker beat out an infield hit and Ab- stein scored on Evans's drive to right.
 In the eighth Clark hit one that Schwartz ran in on and missing the fly let the ball get by him. Daily hit one that looked like a long hit but Busch by great run, knocked 1t down and kept Clark from going to third. King bunted and as a result of Perry's in decision beat 1t out and filled the bags. Clark and Daly scoring on Hess's drive to center, King scoring on Ab- score. Then John Malarky went in and while two more runs wore scored not a hit was made off him. leaving the score seven to five in favor of the Pirates.
 In the last of the ninth the Climbers came pretty close to making a whirl- wind finish, but missed it. Sam Appe- rfous, the first man up. was walked and got to third on Mullaney's drive to right, scoring on Schwartz's hit to center. Right here Bob GlIks put Red for erry and hit one that looked good. By rupnig backward Evans managed to catch 1t. and before Schwartz could get hack to first, he threw 1t to Clark and the double ended the game.
 The score was: