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The Florida agriculturist., 1907-12-25
No Savings Bank
Is Equal to
Good Real Estate.
From Fertile Florida.

l.
Under this title the Fruit and Pro-
duce News tells of some OF the do1ngs
of the Florida gardeners, as follows:
Large shipments of pines are still
being made from Stuart.
Oranges, figs, strawberries and rice
are doing we'll in the Algoa section.
Sweet potatoes are selling at $I.4o a
bushe1 at Homestead and are rather
scarce at that.
At Lake Helen the thermometer fell
to 81 but neither beans nor tomato
vines were injured.
Quite a number of DeLand orange
growers are fertil1zing now for heavy
growth and bloom in the spring.
During the last mango season, L. N.
Pettigrew, of Palma Sola, sold from
three trees, over $50 worth of fruit.
The first shipment Of beans from
Boynton went forward one evening
last week. There were in all IS crates.
Coleman growers expect a cabbage
crop this season Of 500 cars. The crop
is 20 per cent. greater than last sea-
son.
Barnett & Sons, who recently moved
to San Antonio, are cultlvatlng 45
acres for the purpose Of planting
watermelOns and cantalOupes.
N O. Penny and F. C. Clifford have
a nine-acre grapefruit grove at Vero
from which they expect to get between
600 and 700 boxes this season.
w. C. Summers, of High Springs,
has raised on his farm on the outskirts
of that town, crop of sweet potatoes,
the average weight of each being two
and one-half pounds.
Farmers are commencing to break
ground for tomatoes. BOynton will
have about the usual tomato acreage
this year but much larger acreage Of
various kinds of vegetables.
The Monarch Orange Co., of Cole
man, will ship 10000 boxes of oranges
this year. They are sending off a car
a day and as they ship good fruit they
are getting excellent returns.
The orange crop of Mt. Dora, the
largest that place has ever had, is be-
ing removed rapidly. About 10 cars
week have been shipped since the
season started. The trees have suffer-
ed from lack of rain.
J. Sakai, of Yamato, the Japanese
colony III Dade county, is making
shipment of two crates Of large and ex-
ira choice pineapp1es to the royal
family at Toxic. These will be the first
green Florida pines to go to the Jap
anese empire.
R. Linke, who lives near Beeville,
sold $I75 worth of oranges from ii
trees on his farm, after having used all
his family and friends wanted. They
we're of the Satsuma variety and the
trees had been killed to the ground
nine years ago.
A six weeks drouth at DeLand was
broken last week by good rain The
rain was preceded by a slight cold spell
that caused the oranges to ripen up,
and heavy shipments are being made
daily. Four packing houses are run
ming full crews and about five cars
leave every day.
Ernest Lytle, the orange grower of
Ocala, is having unusually good luck
in disposing of his crop. He received
returns recently of S. a box. He is
shipping some 40 boxes of lemons
from the trees in his grove He has
some 400 boxes of oranges yet to ship
and is getting them off at the rate OF
100 boxes a week.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-12-25

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The Florida agriculturist., 1907-12-25
REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT.
SOME GENUINE BARGAINS IN FLORIDA PROPERTY.
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
FULL ASSURANCE.

Old Aunt Miasma.-Howdy, Gladys!
Howdy. chile! yeahs tell dat yo' am
uh-gwine to marry dat ar Cla'ence
Swagg?
Miss Gladys Guggles.-Yes'm Me
and Cla'ence Is gwine to sasshay 10th
hand in hand on de stawmy sea o
matimony. De obsequies am fixed for
next Friday evenin'. and rs as happy
as de day is long. right now!
Old Aunt Miasma.-Uh-huhi Well,
l admires to see yo' 'joying de pangs
OF anticipation and l sholy hopes de
retaliation will be de same. But-ah-
Eawd!-dese men, desc men! rs done
been mard to no less'n five o. de
scoun'rels in muh time, gal, and yo'
KANT place no mo oppedence on 'em
dan so many cells. dey's dat deternal
slippery! Dey talks and dey trans
playicates, and sw'ars by de moon and
stahs dat dey'll be true. but when yo'
gone fun yo'! Woman wes made to
moan, and man was made TO see dat
she does moan. U-m-m-m-ahl
Miss Gladys Guggles.-Yas'm. l or
ganiEes right smaht bout dat, muhsef,
uh-kaze rs done been fooled dat-uh-
way few times Already. 1 had muh
doubts o Cla'enee, 'spite-uh his proto-
plans of undyin' lection, twell he
took and jammed muh head against de
wall wild ferocity dat Jared de
house, and den knowed de man rally
loved me. Yas'm. den l knowed it.
Tom p. Morgan, In Puck.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
STRANGE ANTIQUITY OF EGYPT.
Country Has Remained Unchanged
Through Centuries.

Many tourists who have crossed
the Mediterranean to Alexandria and
have made the three hour journey
thence by express to Cairo, establish
themselves In one of the fashionable
hotels. do little shopping in the ma
tive quarter, see a mosque or two.
native wedding. ride camel the quar-
ter mile distance from the Mena house
to the sphinx, and perhaps go as far
as to visit Saqqara-a days excursion
from Cairo-then return homeward
fancying and also declaring that they
have seen Egyp.
So they have, In a sense: but Cairo
is no more representative of Egypt as
a country than New York is of the en-
tire United States,
To see upper Egypt, with its fell
Iaheen life. its mud cities, and its
quaint scenery, Is like turning the
leaves of an old history and studying
the engravings, for neither the coun.
try nor the people has changed to any
appreciate degree since the days OF
Mohammed, unless it be in the &C.
complishment in which all seem to be
equally well trained-that of begging
backsheesh. Egypt is spoken of as
becoming modernlzed, but there is no
indication of anything more modern
than 1000 years ago between Cairo
and Luxor-or, more properly, the lit
tie English city of Kom Ombo, beyond
Luxor, where an English company has
been formed and agricultural expert.
ments are being carried forward
Harriet Quimby in Leslie's Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
Value of Trade Secrets.

The value of trade secrets as a bust.
ness asset was emphasized recently
by decision of the court or errors
and appeals of New Jersey, compelling
the American Can company to REIN
burse an eastern concern for having
used one of the latter's secret proc
esses in manufacturing tin. One of
the employees of the eastern concern.
which is known as the Vulcan Detin.
ming company, left his position and
some time later secured place with
the American Can company. To che
officers of that company he then told
OF the methods that were used by the
rival fra. and these at once were
adopted by the American company.
There was a suit, and now. after sew
eral years OF litigation, the American
Can company has been found to have
no right to make use Of the secrets
of its competitor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
WAUSAU in LIGHT OF AN old TIMER.
The Thriving Entepisng Northern Wisconsin City Seen
After Lapse Of Several Years.

sau lies 1t lies in the fact that the
heavy operators, the owners of its mills
and factories, are themselves among
these homes -thus in close touch with
their own labor; in fact, of it and with
lit. A remarkable incident of this truth
the writer had when in telephoning in
the morning last Monday on business
matter, and putting off the 'phoning
on purpose till 7:30. so as not to disturb
, the dreams, say, of the 'phoned party,
it was replied, Mr.. left for the
mill an hour ago And this party is a
respected millionaire, but prefers per-
sonally to see bis men before work
starts, Just as in the earlier days twenty
five years ago. 1t is that kind of 10y
atty to the best interests of employer
and employe both that YIELDS the mutual
bond of sympathy and interest TO tie
the Industrial knot for life Of capital
and labor.
The Marathon county fair, horse races
and all, was not, except in more elab-
Grafton, much different from some per-
formances in the past, though it must
be conceded that such old-timers as
August Kickbusch, Jack Clark,
Pete Plumer land the staid old Mol
wegian from Eau Pleine, John Week-a
good combination of Dutch, English,
pure Yankee and Norsk were rather
missed This affair now was a bit too
unanimous to be really interesting.
at is not in manufacturing alone that
Wausau is to the front. AS a progress
sive city it is well up in line on the edu-
cational, professional and religious field
as we'll. Its new $4,000 Y. M. G.. A.
building will he by far the climax of its
kind in the northern and central parts
of the state and its churches are models
of up to-date devotion as well as COM
fort-the writer being rather partial to
the latter part.
CAS- the pathfinder, one might call it,
in procuring good and wholesome water
the present administration of Wausau's
city affairs may well be handed the
prize. Its water has for years been a
standing objection to the water cure !;
in fact, it was generally assumed by
outsiders the bleweries and water works
had gone into a trust for the benefit of
the former. But with the new artesian
we'll system in operation and the mains
all flushed clean of the old deposits or
growths, as You may like 1t good drink
of pure water can again be enjoyed
even from one used to the limpid purity
that percolates from Bessemer water
faucets. But the days of the 'percola-
ton system, over which, in its day, so
much wind, il not argument, was
wasted, is passed in Wausau and a new
era of going down deeper and nearer
the preserved purity, as well as quanti-
ty, below is on. And it has all indica-
tions of proving a grand success
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
f'ublishsd weekly and entered at the Post Offic
at Wsusau as second class matter.
SPECIAL EDITION OF THE PILOT.

A special industrial review of
Wausaus business interests will be
published in the PILOT on Oct LIST.
The edition will contain a concise,
matter-of-fact statement of the
resources of Wausau and vicinity,
showing our advantages as a manu-
featuring and commercial centre
and residence city. The compila-
ton of this review is in charge of
Miss Georgia Brouthers, of Chicago,
who comes to us well recommended
by publishers throughout the United
States and with her assistance we
feel sure that the edition will be a
creditable one. A circulation of
5000 copies is assured and these will
be mailed broadcast to advertise
our growing city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
THE INGENIOUS MAN.

Once there was q very ingenious
thing according to its intended use as
indicated by it's label.
One day he sat thoughtfully picking
his teeth with the point of his jaw and
trying to count the twigs in his family
tree. Also he was giving some thought
to the number of tiles in the roof Of
his mouth and the leaves In the palm
of his hand. He spent lot of valuable
time looking for the visor and ear
flaps on the cap OF his knee. He
wondered, casually, why the bridge
of his nose had not been made on the
suspension principle instead OF using
abutments, and how many stones
were in the arch of his foot-connect-
ing this vaguely with the tendency OF
the sole in its vicinity to contract
stone-bruises. He marve,ed by the
hour why the pilgrims progress would
not have been more rapid without
bunions, and as he pondered he abb
sently played toss-and-catch with the
ball Of his eye, occasionally throwing
1t across the base of his brain, as IL
he were catching runner at second.
He spent a week trying to make an
arrow he could shoot from the bow OF
his legs, whiting 1t out painfully
with his shoulder-blade, and Cling
down portions of his finger-nails for
points. Wherever he went he careful
ly kept step to the drum In his ear.
and he almost went insane wondering
why all his food did not make full
stop when it reached his colon. On
Halloween he suspended his adams
apple from one OF his vocal cords and
tried in vain to bite a piece out OF it.
One day he ran pell-mell for three
blocks to try to get policeman to ar
rest the crook in his elbow.
Naturally this sort of person would
meet unique death. One day he dis
covered his funny-bone and laughed
himself to death at it-Strickland w.
Gillian, In Judge.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
WANT WHIST PLAYER BACK.
Chaplain Had Been Banished to Mon
astery by Superior.

The Metropolitan of Petersburg,
Archbishop Antoni. has succeeded In
earning the hatred of the card play
ers of all Russia.
Every one plays cards in Peters
burg, man, woman ami child. The
chief game among the upper classes
is Vint, word wS.Sn means screw"
1t is whist with the screw on.
Probably the most perfect vint play
er in the Russian capital was FIR
Komendantoff, the chaplain of one
of the large grammar schools His
play was so admirable that he was
often invited out to aristocratic gather
ings, where he would play for the en-
tertainment of the company.
The fame of this priest at length
reached the ears of the metropolitan
and as this dignitary was of opinion
that a priests fame should rest on
some more solid foundation he SEN
fenced him to Punishment for ten
years to a remote monastery on an
island in the White sea-
The sensation in Petersburg may
be imagined. A petition is now be-
ing circulated begging the metropol-
itan to be merciful and to allow Pc
tersburg to retain its darling.
The petition has already been sign
ed by three grand dukes, six grand
dfchesses and over 40 titled persons
belonging to the aristocracy and the
foreign diplomatic corps. A sentence
In this curious petition runs as fol-
lows:
'Fr. Komendantoff has been an in
fiuence for good in society, and many
have been attracted to the church By
his polished bearing"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
aoo-Hoo Fever.

In the intense heat the young cap
tain smiled.
This recalls to my mind" he said.
"boo-hoo fever"
sBoo-hoo fever? What Is THAR"
1T is a fever brought on by the
heat among our soldiers In the Philip
pines. A mild fever. it becomes high
and active only when the weather
grows unusually hot. Then 1t throws
our young men into a strange delir-
rum. They cry and weep. They
boo-hoo.
IF you ahould go into one Of our
hospital wslrds in the Philippines on
a very hot day. the loud walls OF
the young fever patients would soon
show you the origin Of boo-hoo fsvsr's
fuhpy name. ,..
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
Cat in a Mine.

After spending two years in the
depths of a coal mine cat owned by
James Warke of Ashley, has returned
to him. The cat was such an invet-
crate thief that Mrs. Warke insisted
two years ago that it should be killed
or lost. Several attempts to lose it
failed, and Warke, who is a miner,
then put him In bag and took him to
one of the lowest levels of the No 20
coIIiery. There he hourfshed and grew
fat There was fne hunting, the biz
mine rats being numerous and dar-
ing Recently the mine was shut
down, and as there was no more grain
In the stables the rats left Now
there is no more hunting, and the
cat made its appearance at Warke's
home. How it got out of the mine is
a mystery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
SNAKES CROWN OF THoRNs.
Nature Story Told by the Man with
Reputation.

His friends sometimes called him
\ Nature faker, but he always strenu-
ously denied the charge.
Then" he resumed, 1--WE went to
Southern California, and in certain
wild and lonely trails the rattler's
crown of thorns strangely impressed
u.s."
Now, now!" they warned him.
1.-THE rattler's crown of thorns' has
a steep sound You know the
charge that has been brought against
you"
1.-The rattler's crown of thorns," he
went on, quite unmoved 1T was the
skeleton of RATHER lying curled up in
the grass, with circle of great. sharp
thorns, a hedge of thorns. surround
ing it. We found two or three of
these odd and tragical things each
day The guide told US what they
were.
They were the signs of the ven
geance of the bird called the road run
ner, bird as big as chicken. The
rattlesnake eats this birds eggs. The
outraged bird, while the snake is
asleep, softly, noiselessly surrounds
it with a circle of the sharp and
thorny leaves of the prickly pear.
"Awaking, the RATHER tries to scale
this barrier In vain. The long thorns
wound him sorely. he suffers madden
ing pain, he can't get cut,
And in the end he bites himself
and dies Then his skeleton remains
there, surrounded with ring of dried
thorns, a proof of the vindictive intel
ligence of the road runner"
1.-THE rattler's crown of thorns," said
a listener; and he whistled, and look
ed about him obviously.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17

The following letter is clipped from
last Sundays issue of the Milwaukee
Free Press and was evidently written
by one who came here to attend TIE
home coming, for it is signed zone Of
the home comers'' As ii is dated
Bessemer, Mich. we are of the opinion
that it comes from the pen of X. ).
Markstrum, he being a resident OF that
city who attended the home coming,
and Is known To be an able writer.
There are few inaccuracies in the
letter, but we will not correct them, for
they are insignificant:
''As one of the home cOmers' at the
recent Wausau event in that line it may
be interesting to readers generally and
to Wausau and its public spirited peo-
pie in particular TO read some acknowl-
edgement of the treat extended to us
wanderers away from home-for what
once Wausau denizen but still looks
back to that far away Wisconsin
town as the real and final home. While
we do not exactly like to be classed
with the prodigal son for whom the
fattened calf had to suffer, it is still
pleasant and always profitable TO go
over the earlier experiences and note
its mistakes as well as occasional bril-
liancies.
"Tne anticipated decline of Wausau
a. its days of sawmill expansion ceased
has not materialized, and this because
lis leading sawmil men declined to
throw up the sponge and turned their
sawmill capital and energy into other
lines, but resting on the old town as
their base just the same. Many who
emgrated no doubt wish they had been
equally wise.
1T is due to the local home enterprise
that this once mill town only is now a
diversified manufacturing and COM
mercial center with such accumulated
momentum as to put immediate rivals
out of the race. A great illustration of
| this is its now accomplished and in
practical operation street railway sys-
tem-organized, perfected and operated
by almost exclusively home genius,
energy and capital. Of course, to an
early dweller in the days of yore when
plutocracy, bureaucracy and all the
other tariff fed ocracies Except Democ-
racy) was damned up hill and down
again, it seems painful now to find
Neal Brown, for instance, the president
of a 'bloated' railroad corporation
But such is iife-and especially the peo-
pie that make it.
To a residentforyea up here, where
the benign sway of the steel luminary
extends its warm rays to those inside
its trust, but leaves the rest of us in the
cold or go bust, it is easy to realize just
where the real prosperity and, steady
growth, particularly in homes-and
true American homes at that-of Wau-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
LINCOLN SCHOOL NOTES.

Vacation and The fair are past and we
are back to work.
Our building has received some
noticeable improvements during vaca-
ton; the outside woodwork has been
painted ana some of the rooms have
been newly vanished and the walls
painted.
The school is more crowded in the.
fifth and sixth grades than it has ever
been before; twenty live pupils have
been sent to the Irving and ten to the
Grant. 1t is still crowded except in
rooms A and and the kindergarten.
Our pictures which have been on
exhibition at the high school during the
summer have been brought back to the
Lincoln school, where they will not
only brighten the rooms but will also
help the children to do good work. it
There are eight new teachers at the
Lincoln school this year. They are the
Misses Killam, Ellis, Lennox, Cliff,
Chubbuck, Hanson, Ross and Gearhart.
Miss Daisy Wakefield, who has been
teacher in the Lincoln school for two
years, is now principal of the Humboldt
school.
Lawrence Bernhardt furnished the
music for us to march with last week.
The swings on the play grounds have
been repaired and are always in use.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17

THERE is to be great state park on
the Brule river. The Weyerhauser in
terests in AGO acres of land on that
river has been transferred to the state
forestry commission. The Brule is one
of the oldest as well as best trout
streams in the country. There will be
no dams allowed on it but arrange
ments will be made for cottages. 1t is
understood that if the property is used
for anything but park purposes it will
go back to the original owners.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
paiElnkls Will

An elderly gentleman, who knew
something of law, lived in an Irish vii
lage where no solicitor ever pene.
trated, and was in the habit of arrang-
ing. the disputes Of his neighbors and
making their wills. At an early hour
one morning he was aroused from his
slumbers by loud knocking at the
gate, and putting his head out of the
window, he asked who was there.
It's me, yer honor-Paddy F9aherty.
/ could not get wink of sleep think
ing of the will l have made" What's
the matter with the will?" asked the
amateur lawyer. Matter indeed" re-
piled Pat, sure I've not left myself
a three-legged stool to sit down
upon!"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
Not a Worklnnman-

How many workingmen are there
in this house?" asked the census
enumerator at the door,
Oars no Workman in dis ere
house, boss" replied the ebony gentle
man who answered the knock.
But. don't you live here, and
Jus scuse me, sab! My wife is de
lady OF dis ere house, and she does
take in washin', sahi"-Yonkers
Statesman.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-17
Sporting Blood.

Lands sakes, Hiram!" exclaimed
Mrs. Hard2pp.c Cider, as they emerged
from the Ultra-Tony lunchroom. do
remove those particles of yaller egg
from yeour whiskers. Folks will no
tice it,
That's just what I want them to
do, Mandy" drawled Hiram. as he
gazed at himself in store mirror.
when / go into a swell place where
they charge rs cents for two eggs
wait folks to know 1t, by gum. Moth
ing cheap about me.-Chicago Daily
News.