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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-02-13
ness the budding out of their beautiful

ness the budding out of their beautiful
groves.
One pleasant feature OF our ex-
stence down in South Florida is that
we no longer depend solely upon the
orange crop and winter visitors for
livelihood. While we still appre-
ciate both, we have other industries
that keep us gonig, and they are sub
,tantial, too. For instance, we have
ene of the finest farming sections, in
GLIDING all of Polk county, to be found
in Florida Our farmers all live at
leisure and produce enough to live
On and to spare, thereby gradually in
creasing their bank accounts. Then,
the phosphate industry does great
deal for us. The mines are all rum
ming on full time and many on over
time, trying to keep up with the de-
mand, and in addition, new ones are
being erected all over the county,
which afford more employment of la
Dor than can be supplied. So, while
we are proud of our orange groves,
we are not financially ruined when a
cold snap damages them.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-02-13
A Citrus Fruit Section.

The following editorial, from the
Fort Pierce News, explains it's self
St. Lucie County has always been
known as the pineapple county and it
is not generally known, even by Our
own citizens. that oranges and grape
fruit are shipped from this section in
car lot but it is fact nevertheless.
The citrus fruit growing industry has
advanced wonderfully in this county
during the past couple of years and it
is:still on the increase Tn the north
end of the county there are numerous
orange and grapefruit groves that will
compare favorably with any in the
State. Some are old groves, but the
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-02-13
Unfrozen Fruit.

A few days ago, w. w. Davis, a
farmer and fruit grower living north
of the city, handed the editor few
oranges, as big, fine and yellow as
one could wish. Inside the fruit was
firm, sweet and luscious. He says his
fruit was unhurt by the cold, and the
samples he gave us certainly bore out
the statement. He has one of the
finest orange and grapefruit groves in
the State, and we are pleased to state
that the freeze did not harm them
Courier-Informant.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1907-02-13
A Model Fruit and Stock Farm.

The following from the Kissimmee
Valley Gazette is quite an interesting
description of the work of one man,
in building up and improving a home
for himself:
At the invitation of Mr.. w. L. Van
Duzor, party of gentlemen compos-
ed of Mr.. A. E. Bearden and his
guests, Messrs. J. W. Leake and c. c.
Bailey, of Clinton, S. c., Mr.. c. E.
Franklin and the editor of the Valley
Gazette were given a rare treat on
Tuesday in the way of a days outing
at his fruit farm about seven miles
south of town.
The day was an ideal one for just
such an excursion, and leaving town
about 9 o'clock in the morning the
drive down was thoroughly enjoyed
by the entire party.
Arriving at the farm about II
o'clock we found Joe Tuck, Mr. Van
Duzor's man of all work, busily en-
gagged working around the place,
which showed every evidence of being
we'll kept.
We had often heard of Mr. Van
Duzor's farm as one of the show
places of this section, and were pre-
pared for something out of the or
binary, but must confess that what
we saw on this trip more than met
Our expectations. Mr. Van Duzor
has a clearing of about seventy acres,
a large portion of which is planted
in fruits of different kinds and varie-
ties. On the place he has two orange
groves, the older trees of which came
through the recent freeze unscathed,
not even shedding leaf The grape
fruit trees which are still loaded
with fruit, Jared but little worse, she'd
ding some of their leaves, but the
wood is uninjured His young trees,
however, suffered considerable dam
age, but it is thought most Of them
will come out all right
Besides his orange and grapefruit
he has the largest peach orchard in
this section, which is just beginning
to bloom, and which yields a hand
some annual revenue He also has a
nice plum orchard, of the Excelsior
variety, which will come into bearing
this year.
Mr.. Van Duzor is also a believer in
improved stock and poultry, evidences
of which are found on every hand
around his place. He has a small
stock of cattle, composed of Here
fords, Shorthorns and Jerseys; he has
two fine two-year-o1d colts, sired by
his celebrated stallion "Perfection"
a lot of pedigreed Berkshire hogs,
that are as fine as any in the country,
and in which he takes great pride In
his poultry yard we found chickens.
turkeys, ducks and peafowls, all of
which showed good attention and fine
breeding.
In fact, Mr.. Van Duzor's place is a
model fruit and stock farm. and
shows what energy and thrift can &C
comp1ish in this country.
Free press., 1907-05-25
RUFF PLEADS GUILTY.
0ethroned Political Boss of San Fran
cisco Throws Himself on the
Mercy of the Court.

San Francisco, Calf. = Abraham
Ruef, better known as Abe Ruef, the
acknowledged advisor of Mayor
Schmitz and once the recognized dicta-
tor cE municipal affairs in San Fran
cisco, pleaded guilty to the charge
of extortion in Judge Dunne's depart
ment Of the superior court Wednes-
day. Sentence will be announced up
on him two weeks hence.
After a private conference with his
four attorneys in Judge Dunne's pri-
vate chambers Wednesday forenoon,
and after they had withdrawn from
his case because of the resolution he
had taken to change his plea and avoid
trial, Ruef, to the utter astonishment
of the prosecution, arose in court and
announced in a dramatic address,
that after long and earnest considera-
ton he had determined to withdraw
his plea of not guilty and enter a plea
of guilty. He asked that the jury be
dismissed and the trial abandoned.
Free press., 1907-05-25
WHEAT KEEPS SOARING.
Options for July, September and De
cember all Pass the Dollar Mark
MAY Reach SIPS.

Chicago. = Wheat options for July,
September and December all fled up
past the dollar mark Friday and stuck
there to the close, with the pit in a
condition which a local newspaper
describes as brain storm" Erst
while mythical dollar wheat being a
reality prophesy took on new enthus-
iasm and talked of $1.25 wheat. 1t
was this sort of talk, coupled with re-
iterations of previous short crop pre-
dictions that brought flood of buy
ing orders into the market Friday
and set a new record for the volume
Of business done.
News from California was surpris-
ing. Ordinarily that state is a good
wheat producer. Friday California
bought half million of real wheat to
be delivered at her granaries and
predictions from that state were that
California would need close to ten
millions of bushels ere long.
Free press., 1907-05-25
Yale unlversltv WeaIthx.

According to the Yale Alumni Week
iy, the property of the university in
New Haven which is exempted from
taxation, is appraised at $9,431, $50, an,
increase of $685. 900 over the apprafs-
ed tax exemptions of last year, though
this increase does not necessarily rep
resent actual additional values sub
tracted from the New Haven grand
list. OF the total exemptions about
$1,370,000 belongs to the Sheffield Sci
entific School. The old campus, as
land, is valued at 1893, 400, and the
buildings on this campus at $2.483 500.
The appraisals are high On many Of
the buildings, as compared to actual
cost. The valuations are placed. and
as they are exemptions there has
been no occasion to appeal fc.' their
reduction.
Free press., 1907-05-25
NO KISSING IN CHURCH.
GaIician Peasants Punished for Un-
timely Oscillation.

Twenty Ruthenian peasants belong
ing to Ispas, in Galicia, have been SEN
fenced to various terms Of imprison-
ment, from week to q month, for
kissing each other in church.
: feud has arisen between two par
ties in the town, and the priest
preached a sermon IN which he urged
the peasants to make friends before
they came to church again. They
took him at his word, and on the fol-
lowing Sunday the two hostile parties
marched up the church side by side.
and kissed the altar. Then they sol
emnly shook hands and kissed one an
other on both cheeks in the Polish
fashion to seal the reconciliation.
The kissing scene excited loud
laughter among the members of the
congregation, and the priest prosecut-
ed the peasants for unseemly conduct
In church. The court held that 3
church is no place for kissing and
found the peasants guilty.
Free press., 1907-05-25
Germs in Books.

The authorities of the city libraries
in Berlin have been making some in
teresting experiments with the pur-
pose of determining the hygienic con-
ditions of books that have been used
great deal by the people. With the
dirt gathered from such books, some
of which was known to include tuber-
culosis bacilli, experiments were made
on guinea pigs. In the case of books
used but two years, no result could be
noticed, but the refuse collected from
particularly soiled books, that had
been in circulation from three to siY
years, did produce an effect Attempts
to destroy the bacilli by sterilization
through formalin vapors failed; but
the books themselves suffered to such
an extent that many were practically
spoiled. In view of this fact, the city
authorities have decided to abstain
from further disinfecting experiments
In conjunction with the city medical
society and the police department, it
has now been decided periodically to
examine the public libraries and to de-
stroy those books which have been
used so much as to make them a dan
ger to public health. Such books
must be destroyed, not sold for old
paper.
Free press., 1907-05-25
STANDARD OIL MONOPOLY
Commissioner of Corporations Ex-
plains How 1t Is Maintained.
Railroads are ResponsibEe-S Scanda-
lous Discrimination and other Un-
lawful DeVices-Enormous Profits.

washington. - That the history
and present operation of the Standard
Oil interest Show throughout the
past 80 years substantial monopoli-
zat1on of the petroleum industry OF
the country, a deliberate destruction
of competition and a consequent con-
troll of that industry by less than
dozen men, who have reaped enor-
nous profits therefrom, largely
through abuse of transportation IA
cilities, is charged in a report just
submitted to President Roosevelt by
Commissioner of Corporations Herb
ert Knox Smith. Part one, of the re-
port, was made public Sunday and
other parts Will follow. Cectain in
formation acquired is withheld for the
present, in accordance with instruc-
tions of the president, who feels that
their publication might interfere with
the prosecution of the governments
suits pending against the Standard
Oil company, and its subsidiary com
panies. The report contains the net
results of a study OF the petroleum
business during the year 1904.
1t is the first of the statement OF
the operations and methods of the
Standard Oil company, by which, the
report states, through "Scandalous
railway determinations and other un-
lawful devices they have secured and
maintained an exclusive domination
of the petroleum industry.
1t is shown that the Standard con-
trolls not only the wholesale but aIsA
the retail trade in oil.
In conclusion, the report says it is
apparent that the dominating position
of the Standard Oil company, in the
oil industry has largely been secured
by the abuse of transportation facili
ties, first, by flagrant determinations
obtained from railroads second, by
a refusal to operate its pipe line sys-
tenn so as to extend to Independent in
terests the benefits to which they
were both morally and legally en-
titled, while at the same time the
Standard has prevented such indie
pendent interests from constructing
lines of their own
Free press., 1907-05-25
No Surrender for Them

Dickson. Tenn. = The seventy-sev-
enth session of the general assembly
of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church Friday elected Rev A. N. Ess-
man president of Radnor college,
Nashville, as moderator. General j.
F. Fussell, of Tennessee, who pre-
sented the new moderator with a
gavel made from wood of tree which
stood in the old Meadow yard ex-
pressed the hope that the new moder-
ator would not be stopped in his duty
by Injunction nor threatened by i'm
prisonment. DR.. Essman in his reply
declared that it was weakness which
caused the leaders to make a
coward surrender Of the church to
another denomination.
Free press., 1907-05-25
lnnueuce Of the Politicians wife.

tHHuSuCc OF tne PolitIcI5n'S WIFE,
1t has often been asked how much
influence the wife Of a public man
bears on his political career. This is
hard to estimate; but this much is
certain: The man who comes to Wash
ington, either as a member OF Con-
gress or OF some other branch of the
government where his position is one
OF prominence, is very unfortunate If
his wife is not one whom he can trust
to making her way socially. Not nee
essarily being a great social success,
but capable OF mingling with the aver
age woman at the national capital.
For, in spite of the fact that a small
percentage of society looks leniently
upon the married couple who are sell
dom seen in public together, the aver
age sound American believes in the
comradeship of man and wife. But
when we sum up this question of the
influence OF women in statecraft we
pass the judgment that, on the whole,
the influence of woman in statecraft
is for good, says a writer in Home
Magazine. Being impulsive, she is apt
TO make mistakes now and then which
cause the more logical males to laugh
at her, but as rule she is pretty sure
OF her footing before she attempts TO
make the jump across the political
stream that divides womankind from
mankind.
Free press., 1907-05-25
BRIDE IN HARD LUCK.
Inconsiderate Husband the Cause Of
All the Trouble.

Alexis AIladin, the leader of the
Russian douma's labor party, was
marveling in New York at the
strength of the labor unions of Amer
ica.
NOW that I grasp the size and
power of these unions" he said. smil-
ing, 81 see the point of a story that
/ failed to understand coming over
on the boat. An American woman
told me this story She said that a
young bride was found one afternoon
crying bitterly in the smoking room
of her club. Why, my dear said an
elderly matron, what is the matter
with your oh, sobbed the bride, I
am going to leave George. Dear me,
am going straight back home to
motheri' What exclaimed the ma
tron, has George already proved un-
kind? Well, they're all alike. my"
But the weeping bride interrupted
her No. she said, her shoulders
shaking with grief, George is dear.
He's perfect. But that brute of q
Henry Simmons has refused to buy
Mrs. Simmons a new dinner gown
and district No. 4 of the Amalgamated
Wives union has been ordered out
on strike"
Free press., 1907-05-25
FIT THE GROCER
Wife Made the Suggestion.

A grocer has excellent opportunity
to know the effects of special foods on
his customers. A Cleveland grocer
has long list of customers that have
been helped in health by leaving or
coffee and using Postum Food Coffee.
He says, regarding his own expe-
rience: Two years ago I had been
drinking coffee and must say that
was almost wrecked in my nerves,
Particularly in the morning l was
SO irritable and upset that 1 could
hardly wait until the cofree was
served, and then had no appetite for
breakfast and did not feel liks attend
ing to my store duties.
Zone day my wife suggested that
inasmuch as was selling so much
Postum there must be some merit in
it and suggested that we try it. took
home package and she prepared It
according to directions. The result
was a very happy one. Ny nervous
ness gradually disappeared and to-day
/ am all right. / would advise every
one affected in any way with nervous
ness or stomach troubles. to leave on
coffee and use Postum Food Conee.
There's Reason. Read. The Road
20 Weilville. in plkgs.
Free press., 1907-05-25
Jap sailors See New York.

New York. = While high officers of
the Japanese fighting forces just now
the guests of New York city, made
official calls Thursday, 700 sailors,
just one-half of the crews of the Jap
anese battleships Tsukuba and Chit
ose had a holiday in Manhattan. They
swarmed ashore and tumbling into
automobiles provided by their Amer
icanized cousins saw the sights with
undisguised enjoyment: conducting
themselves the while in a manner
that will remain shining example to
visiting sailors.
Free press., 1907-05-25
The Money Devil


TITS my candid opinion hn said
that money is infested with 5eveni
devils, and 1 shouldn't wonder if TO
wouldn't be more correct. There is
trouble and a world of worry IN the.
very name of it: When I haven't got
it, I'm worrying as to where I'll get
it, and when I get it 1 worry about
what to do with it; if I put it in the
bank 1 worry because it don't grow
fast enough, and if l spend it l worry
because 1 got rid of it so soon; so
you see, it's world full O. trouble
anyway you take it! The poor bless
and curse it; the rich don't know
what to do with it; there isn't hand
full of happiness in ton of it. Here
comes bill collector now, to get
what little 1 haven't got. Stay here
and entertain him while climb to the
roof!"-AtIanta Constitution.
Free press., 1907-05-25

Alonzo II. Evans, Boston's oldest
bank president. at 81. is robust and
hearty. and shows by his own example
the result of living the kind of life
that he prescribes for the youth of
to-day. Mr.. Evans has the greatest
confidence in the generation of the
present and thinks If they follow his
advice they will succeed. He says:
Apply yourself. young man. if you
would succeed. Work hard, be hon
est. be truthful. be loyal to your en-
ployer, save something out of each
weeks pay, even if it is little, but,
above all, apply yourself"
Free press., 1907-05-25

Toledo, o. = Chairman Walter F.
Brown, of the Ohio State Central
committee Friday broke through the
reticence he had so far observed Since
the commencement of the Taft-Forak-
er imbroglio. He declared himself
as unqualifiedly for Taft, said the re
publicans of Ohio We're solidIy in IA
vor of his candidacy and declared that
Senator Foraker and Dick owe it to
themselves and friends to settle the
report that they are secretly sup
porting the candidacy OF Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks.
Free press., 1907-05-25
DR.. KIopsch is Decorated.

New York. = The decoration of the
Oder of the Morning Sun was We'd
nesday conferred upon DIR. Louis
Klopsch, editor of the Christian
Herald, by Baron Takewo Ozawa,
personal envoy of the Emperor of
Japan, in recognition of the doctors
work in relieving famine sufferers
in Japan last year. More than a
quarter of a million dollars was rails
ed by the Christian Herald for the
purpose.
Free press., 1907-05-25

AT Krupp's, in Essen, an army of
10000, fed with coal and iron from
vast private mines. turn out engines Of
destruction by the thousand. There
are another $4,000 men at Lord Arm
strong's works in the north of Eng
land, besides an aggregate of 10000
more in the titanic government forges
of Great Britain, France, Germany,
Austria. Italy, Japan and Russia, and
these thousands are quite apart from
armor plate makers and builders of
battleships.
Free press., 1907-05-25
Japanese warships Have Gone.

New York. = Vice Admiral Ijuin,
of the Japanese navy, has sailed and
Rear Admiral Baron Hermon Won
Plesskott, of the Austrian navy has
taken his place. The cruisers Tsuku-
ba and Chitose steamed out of port
Sunday to hasten over to Germany
to cement good relations with the en-
peror. They dipped flags to govern
or's island on the way out expressing
their thanks for the hospitality of the
New Workers and the Japanese COINS
here
Free press., 1907-05-25
Japanaese Inspect West Point.

West Point, N. Y. = The methods
of training an American army officer
were demonstrated to General Kuroki
of the Japanese army and the officers
of his staff Thursday. The Japanese
were the guests of Colonel Hugh l..
Scott, commandant of the academy for
four years. They watched cavalry
drill in the riding hall, witnessed
parade of cadets on the barracks
piazza and visited the academy build
ings.
Free press., 1907-05-25

Twenty years ago the population of
dams and few thousand squaw men.
cowboys and cattle kings. In 1890, one
year after the first opening of Okla
homa territory, there were more than
$4,000 people living on 100000 acres
of land. To-day the white population
may conservatively be estimated at
over 100000.
Free press., 1907-05-25

My doctor kept me On a strict diet. but
as his medicine was not helping me,
1 began using Doan's Kidney Pills
They helped me at once. and soon all
traces of sugar disappeared. I have.
regained my former weight and am
perfectly WE'LL
Sold by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co, Buffalo, N. Y.
Free press., 1907-05-25

In the newly organized province of
Alberta, western Canada, bordering
the foothills of the Rocky mountains.
is the latest stake of Zion. There
5000 trekkers from Utah are farming
and ranching, and incidentally build
ing up a strong cause of Latter Day
Saints in the dominion. as an integral
part of the army OF 100000 that con-
stitutes the sect the world over.
Free press., 1907-05-25
Lake Mohonk Cooferenes

New York = Many prominent edu-l
Gators and statesmen will gather at
Lake Mohonk, n. Y, on Wednesday
to take part in the three days ses-
sion of the 18th annual meeting of
the Lake Mohonk conference on in
ternational arbitration
Free press., 1907-05-25

canned article We have always with us.
and in a salad it can hardly be distin-
guished from real simon pure arrivals
from Maine. Mayonnaise is wonder
full magician in making things appear
what they are not, especially when pig
masquerades as chicken.
Free press., 1907-05-25

I Alphons Mucha. the noted French
artist. has come to America to live
and is now teaching art in New York.
He was born In Moravia in 1860. but
has lived in Paris most of his life.
Free press., 1907-05-25

rcjoices over the discovery that the
sea has added 3O.752 acres to the
British isles in 25 years and carried
away only 419 acres. The land cut of
has been valuable. however. while the
sandbanks added may remain useless
for many years.
Free press., 1907-05-25
schmitz Wants Another Indne

San Francisco. = District Attorney
Langdon was Saturday night served
by Mayor Schmitz's attorneys. with
notice for motion for substitution
of trial judge on the ground that Judge
Frank H.. Dunno is disqualified for
bias and prejudice.
Free press., 1907-05-25

A writer estimates that there are
rs American railroads which did not
kill a passenger last year However.
It is possible that they routed lot
Oh passengers over lines that cid.
Free press., 1907-05-25
shriners Arrive at READING.

Reading. Pa. With practicall'
the entire community paying respect
to their memory, the bodies of the
Mystic Shriners of this city who were
killed in the Southern California
wreck ON May IL, were brought here
Sunday night.
Free press., 1907-05-25
stephenson Formally EIeeted.

Madison, Wis. The nomination
of Isaac Stephenson by the republican
caucus Thursday night as United
States senator. was Friday formally
ratified in joint assembly.
Free press., 1907-05-25
Senator LaFoIIette win Hunt sea

Glenwood Springs, Colo. = Senator
Robert LaFollette of wisconsin, wro
arrived here Saturday will start on
lear hunt in the Muddy district Mon
day with Jake Borah as guide. rne
Muddy is the famous bear country IN
to which Borah had intended to take
President Roosevelt two years ago.
Free press., 1907-05-25
o'Brien VIII Go to japan.

Copenhagen. - Thomas ]. O'B~;en,
American minister to Denmark. wIl2
win become ambassador to Japan IN
September, and Mrs. OBrea will
leave for London June 5.
Free press., 1907-05-25

that my housework
was becoming a bur-
den. 1 tired easily.
had no ambition and
was fading fast. Ny
complexion got yell
low and 1 lost over
so pounds. Ny thirst.
was terrible, and
there was sugar in
the kidney secretions
Free press., 1907-05-25
WORN TO a SKELETON.

A Wonderful Restoration Caused q
Sensation in Pennsylvania
Town.
Mrs. Charles N. Preston, of Elkland,
Pa, says: Three years ago found