The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-03-31


lingering illness of pellagra.
No State in the Union can surpass
Florida in either corn or cotton, both OF
the long and short variety. 1T Is the
real home of the tobacco plant and
nowhere in the South can syrup be
made with the excellent flavor of the
Florida product.
Sarasota has been visited by the
Prince and Princess Michel Cantacur-
gene Of Russia, who were the guests OF
Mrs. Potter Palmer, Of Chicago, for Il
time, at the Belle Haven Inn. The
princes swas formerly Miss,Juia Dent
Grant, granddaughter Of the late Pres
ident Ulysses s. Grant, and daughter
of Gen. Frederick Grant.
There will certainly be strenuous
times in Tallahassee for the next three
months. First a Sunday school con-
venton with a thousand delegates.
Then the legislature. the State Press
Association. the convention Of Southern
telephone operators, and several other
big things which we are not permitted
to disclose. Tallahassee True Demo-
crat.
The Trustees Of the Internal I'M
provement Fund passed a resolution
recently authorizing j. O. Wright, the
chief drainage engineer, to proceed
with the survey of the Everglades
lands A party has been organized to
commence work Immediately on the
survey Of lands just south of Lake
Okeechobee and second party is just
commencing a survey of lands in the
vicinity of Miami and Fort Lauderdale.
Plans for the establishment Of an
experimental farm on land just west
of Lake Okeochobee, in DeSoto county,
Fla, to be employed by Luther Bur-
bank, the California plant wizard, are
all under way. Mr.. Burbank will eX-
pertinent with fruits, vegetables and
other plants that are brought to such
state of perfection in Florida. 1t is
said that company will be formed for
the purpose of marketing the products,
and especially the seed produced on
the Burbank farm.
1t is suggested that the road from
Jacksonville to Miami be named the
"John Anderson Highway" as a mo-
mortal to the late Mr.. John Anderson,
Of Ormond, who was one of the first
promoters and incessant workers for
this highway, and for good roads gen.
orally. 1t would certainly be appro-
pirate, and we do not believe that
there would be the least opposition in
this county to thus honorng the name
Of one Of its nobest and most enter
prising citizens. New Smyrna Breeze.
1t will doubtless astonish many peo-
pie, and particularly those interested in
the naval stores business, to learn that
there is in the Pensacola storage yards
at Gonlding today more turpentine and
rosin than is stored at any other single
place in the world. The combined
value of the naval stores at Pensacola
equals nearly three million dollars.
There is now at the Pensacola yards in
round figures 10000 barrels of rosin
with total value of $4,000 900. This
is nearly .hree times as much as is
now stored at Savannah and is equal
to the total amount stored az any other
two places in the world. Pensacola
Journal.
Every line in newspaper cost the
proprietor something If it is for the
benefit Of the individual, it should be
paid for. If the grocer were asked to
contribute groceries to one abundantlv
able to pay for them, he would refuse.
The proprietor of a newspaper must
pay for the free advertising, if the
beneficiary does not, and yet it is one
of the hardest things to be learned by
many, that newspaper has space in
its columns to rent and must rent TO
live. To give away rent for anything
less than living rates is as fatal to a
newsprner as for landlord to rent
free. Exchange.
A Boynton dispatch says: Mr.. Fred
Head, Of New York anda also of Moline.
ILL.,, was drowned in the surf at Boyn.
ton Sunday morning. While bathing
in company with Mr.. Whaley and Mr..
Wright he was warned against ventur. !
ing out too far among the heavy
breakers. He was a powerful swim.
mer and was in the habit of floating
for fifteen ar twpnty rnipntoc auo.,