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VOL. XVI. The circulation of The News is in creasing; seventeen new subscriptions in two days this week. **** The truck farmers of Southern Georgia are making arrangements for quick transportation for fruits and vegetables to Northern markets. * * * * The legislature of Pennsylvania has a bill before it to prohibit “treating;” making it a j>enal offence, punishable by a fine of not less than 850 or over §100, “for anyone to treat another to intoxicating liquors.” This is hard on the genteel, iinjiecunious, spongy to¬ pers. *#** The Alliances of several counties of North-west Georgia are accumu¬ lating a fund something after the plan of building and loan associations, en¬ abling people to borrow money at legal interest, so they can make cash purchases and do away with the time supply system. **** The great street railway strike in New York has ended. The principal effects are, that the strikers, as well as others, got bruised heads, broken bones; some were killed, all lost mon¬ ey, many, their situations, and their wives and children suffer from hunger and cold, with starvation staring them in the face. The most cruel and un¬ relentless tyrants in the universe are leaders of Trades Unions, Knights of Labor and all similar organizations. * * * * Albany, Ga., is on a boom. It has an electric plant costing §25,000, a railroad from Columbus will reach there July 1st; a guano factory is about completed; new brick stores are going up, also a freight depot; a daily steamer comes there on the Flint river, ami the Chautauqua will open up in March. Originally Chatauquas were designed to instruct Sabbath- school teachers, but now they are used to boom towns, and kite up real estate values. •* * * * State School Superintondant Hook thinks that school funds warrant four months terms, and advises that con- tracts be made with the teachers for that length of time. He is hopeful that the Legislature in the July meet- ing will put the machinery in motion for six months schools. We trust that term will be reached this year. Ti e la bor then should be to make education free to every child in the State;finally the timo should be extended to ten months in the year. The fanners are opposed to the ex¬ periment station being located in Athens, for fear their boys, instead experimenting in soil and manures,will prefer studying medicine, law' or di- vinity. Thk News suggests that Dahlonega is a suitable location; a school is already in operation there, plenty of land, doubtless will be dona¬ ted; the location and surroundings are highly favorable; the cost of living less than in large cities, and the at¬ tractions of city life and enticements to evil far loss. ^ * * * * Parnell is haring a big fight with the London Times. His suit against John Walters, the registered proprie¬ tor of the Times, for libel, has been dismissed on the ground that Mr. Walters is only a partner,and suit can¬ not be brought against him personal¬ ly. Meanwhile the times is moving England, Ireland and America in the prosecution of Parnell. Its aim is to crush him by proving that through Fenian and other organizations, he has aided and abetted murder and treason. * #*# News from Germany indicate that Prince Bismark’s influence with the emperor is weakening. It is asserted that the ladies of the royal house¬ hold are turning against him in his old age. The empress sympathises with his opponents, and the ex-empress, Augusta, blames his action for ex¬ posing to the world family quarrels. The iron-will of the great diplomat has been the most potent factor among European nations for a generation; "but with the woraen against him, he may as well give up. It is doubtful whether his mantle will fall on his son Herbert. **** A great wind storm prevailed throughout Nebraska on the 4th. inst. wrecking buildings and demolishing things generally. A school house was blown down at Hastings, killing a teacher and two pupils. The storm was electric,disturbing the movements of watches, and stopping clocks. In TOCCOA, GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1889. many places the thermometer went be¬ low 40°, freezing the mercury. No, thank you! We are very much obliged for your liberal offers of cheap farms and homes up there, but we prefer this sunny southland. The cold in Toccoa and vicinity was just enough to invigorate and make everybody feel lively and happy. * * * * The News is glad to see the inter¬ est of its esteemed cotemporaries in arcusing the people to active meas¬ ures to induce capitalists to invest in this Piedmont region. Notably among these is the Tribune, of Carnesville, the Sun, of Hartwell, the Star, of El* berton, and the Free Press, of Senaca. These excellent papers are stirring up the people, and we hope to see great activity in the grand work throughout this entire country. IIAItT COUNTY*^ SENSATION. Sometime ago, a man named Estes enticed the little daughter of Mr. W. J. Dyar away, and the heart stricken father has been searching for her weary months in vain. He finally got on the track of the fugitives, eaughti the villian in Florida, and rescued his daughter. The following narrative from the Hartwell Sun will interest our readers. Mr. Dyar says: I took the train, and in due time reached Palatka, a beautiful little city on the St. Johns river. Here I began diligent search,but it was several days before I could hear anything of the fugitives. Finally I was told that a man and girl answering the descrip¬ tions were out at a vegetable farm owned by a Mr. O. W. Young. About a mile from the vegetable farm is a post-office kept by a young lady. I went to the post-office and making a confidant of the young lady, I asked her if she had seen a man of Estes’ description. She said a man by the name of Roberts had mailed letters there, and that he answered to my des¬ criptions. She told me to whom and where the letters were sent, and I was morally certain that it was Estes. But to make assurance doubly sure I went out to the farm, taking care not to show myself. The land near the house was cleared with only here and there a bush that I could hide behind. I saw a man working among the vege¬ tables, and I crept closer and closer; sometimes crawling on my hands and knees for 50 yards at a stretch. Sud¬ denly the man turned and started to¬ ward me. I grasped my pistol. He stopped, however, in a few yards of me without discovering me, and pick¬ ing up a rake returned to his work. But I was rewarded for my caution— fhe man was J. R. Estes. My feelings can better be imagined than described, 1 felt ver .V much like shooting him down,but restraining the rash impulse 1 returned to Palatka and reported to the Sheriff. A warrant was sworn out, and the Sheriff, who had other business to attend to, deputized me to go and make the arrest, sending his deputy, who was a negro, to assist me. When we got near the house we found that Mr. Young and Estes were at work in the vegetable farm. I knew it would never do to let Estes know what was up, as he would make a break, so I resorted to stratagem. Se¬ creting myself near the house, I told tne negro deputy to go to the field and tell Mr. Young and Estes that the Sheriff was at the house and want¬ ed them to come and witness a legal document. They were unsuspecting, and after some parleying came to the house. As they entered the piazza, I met Estes with my pistol leveled in his face and finger on the trigger. “Throw up your hands!” I thundered. Instantly his hands w’ent up, as he staggered backward,as pale as a corpse Oh! he thought he was’shot! But he wasn’t, richly as he deserved it. I told the negro to tie him with a rope and search him. Found no weapon but a pocket-knife. Found Betty in the house, badly frightened. Estes had told her that I would kill her if ever I found her. Well there is little more to tell. Estes was lodged in the Palatka jail, and with my little , _ , lter cane ome, , ut, , , , o on, what do you reckon the scoundrel as ^ ei l me to do? “I have no idea—shoot him and put him out of his misery, perhaps.” “No, sir! he wanted me to let them loose, and come home and say that I couldn’t find them!” “And you—” “I told him to shut up!” said Mr. Dyar, as he ground hU teeth and clenched his fist. Mr. Dyar’s hunt cost him about $150 in cash, besides over a month’s The Toccoa News. time lost. Application has been made to Gov. Gordon for .requisition oit the Gov ornor of Florida for the delivery of Estes, and in short time he will be brought to Hartwell and landed in iail, there to await trial at the next term of Hart Superior Court for his cruel abduction of poor little Betty, OUR COUNTRY. A party of 70 New England capi¬ talists have invested one million of dollars in Ft. Payne, Ala., a village 51 miles south of Chattanooga. They have purchased 32,000 acres of min¬ eral land, at a cost of $750,000. The bank of J. N. Knap, at Mar¬ quette, Mich., has failed, liabilities about $50,000. Colored Republicans of Alabama are going to have half of the federal offices under Harrison or leave the party. Keelv, the mighty motor power man, has been release from custoday. Five thonsand tons of Alabama coal will leave Pensacola each month for the West India islands. Mr. Herbert, of Alabama, declares that all vessels for our new navy Re¬ cently laid down, would be equal, if not superior, to any vessels in the world of similar types. The Democrats have agreed on a compromise tariff bill, as a substitute for the Senate and Mills bills. There will be deficiency of pen¬ sions amounting to $8,000,000, and Congress will have to make special arrangements to prevent the stoppage of payments. Gen. Powell Clayton and Judge Clayton, brothers of John M. Clayton, who was assassinated Jan. 29th., fur¬ nished a statement*of the circum¬ stances of the murder. They claim it was political^ that intimidation was practiced on Republican voters at the pools; that the ballot box was stolen containing 697 ballots* 5t2 of which were cast for John M. Clayton; for these reasons Clayton instituted a contest for his seat in Congress. And so, after he had been engaged several days taking testimony, Jan. 29th. about 9 P. M. while in the act of sitting down to write to his moth¬ erless children, he was shot through the window by a concealed assassin and instantly killed. GEORGIA. They are about establishing a re¬ formatory school for bad children in Richmond county. The Douglasville College opened last Monday with 191 students. A ban*; has opened in Washington with a paid up capital of $62,000. A dry goods firm in Eatonton lias made an assignment;the reason given is owing to short crops last season, they are unable to sell goods for cash. Savannah people want an appro¬ priation to deepen the channel of the river to the sea, 26 feet, the cost be¬ ing about $3,000,000. Covington has decided to have free public schools. A syndicate of local capitalists is putting out a pear orchard just back of the old college property at Bain- bridge. In Oglethorpe country grave fears are felt for the safety of the grain crop after the hard freezes of the past few days. The Oglethorpe Granite Company of Lexington is on a boom. The other Jay it secured a $500 order from Athens and has several smaller orders from parties in Augusta and Atlanta. All that is needed is railroad facili¬ ties. Dr. N. A. Williams, of Valadosta, one of the most prominent dentists of the state, passed through Americus to day on his way home with his bride. He was married in Colodin yesterday to Miss Winfield, one of the leading belles of the state. It is more than probable that a blacking factory will be started in Athens, where the best blacking made can be had. One of the largest fur- ni:ure factories in the city will be in¬ terested in the enterprise. It is said that the settlement with tiie Kimball house finishes winding up the . estate of . Gen. _ Toombs. m The ^ heirs are four. Toombs Du Bose, of the . ...... Wilkes Pub. * o Co.; n Dudley ,, r. Bose, of Atlanta; Mrs. Henry Colley, of Washington, formerly Miss Camil¬ la Du Bose and Mrs. D. E. DuBose, of Washington, D. C., formerly Miss Loulie Dubose. It is said that only three are interested in the Kimball h wise settlement. A. F Ross, -ho took 130 prizes in six weeks on his cattle and horses, is making money on his dairy near Rome. He gets 35 cents a gallon for his milk, the receipts from each CO w averaging $i00 a year. He has one cow that has been giving milk for 7 years. His daily ration for his cows is8 quarts of ar. equal mixture of corn meal, ground oats and bran, and four quarts of cotton seed ineal. The bet- ter he feeds, the greater his profits. Lafayette Messenger: In a neigh- boring section, an unruly cub of youngster had made himself ious to a & couple of pretty girls by sticking them with a pin whenever they passed him. They held a coun- cil of war. That night when he re- tired to his couch he left it with a shriek of pain. The cruel angels had gathered a full supply of holly leaves and placed them as thick as hops un- der the bottom sheet with the nee¬ dles up. The enemy was conquered. The Americus correspondent of che Savannah News writes as follows: About one year ago, Messrs. Rust & Neyswinder came from Ohio and bought the Wade Borlin place, one mile from this city. They planted IS acres in oats, and harvested a fine crop, in fact, Mr. Rust says they were as fine as he ever saw grow in Ohio. After the oats Were cut, the land was broken up and 8 bushels of peas plant ed. The grass and peas were allow¬ ed to grow up together. 21 tons of hay was cut off the patch last fall. The hay is now being sold in our lo¬ cal markets at 75 cents per hundred. A Sample of Western Energy. The people of the West appreci¬ ate the value of manufactures, proba¬ bly more even than the majority of the inhabitants in the most progres* sive industrial cities of the South, „„ I hree cities, . . Cheyenne, Denver and . Omaha, have been competing to se- cure the location of immense car and locomotive works, to cost million .... dollars, . „ and , employ to about 2,500 hands, which the Union Pacific railroad will build. The rivalry was vprv \ery sharn sharp, and and even e\en the the Concrress Congress men from these cities were pressed into service and induced to bring all their influence to bear upon the man- a K*”° f “7 che y euMsec,,res the shops, but the terms are not made jublic. Denver was so much in earn- est that a special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, a committee was appointed to offer to build the shops and turn them over to the company, and a bonus of $1,000,000 and a permanent exemption from tax¬ ation. These people realize the im¬ portance of manufactures and they are full of enterprise. The South can learn a lesson from the energy and liberal spirit display¬ ed by these cities in securing manu¬ facturing enterprises, the for there are many points in South where the people have not fully waked up yet. They do not see that it is the spirit of enterprise which promoted Denver to make such tremendous efforts to se¬ cure this great plant that has built up that city. wonderfully rich and prog¬ ressive Anniston’s offer to the United States Rolling Stock Co. to secure the location of their car works, which, when fully completed, will largest employ 1,200 to 1,500 hands, is the we have known any Southern city to make, though others may have done as well without it being made public. Anniston people thought for a while that they had offered too much and had been too liberal, but they never took a wiser step, and they realize it better now than when they ra : sed between $300,000 and $400,000 for this big enterprise. It is enterprise such as Denver and Cheyenne displayed which is going to tell in the future development of Southern cities.— Manufacturers’ Rec¬ ord. Yellow Fever microbes, savs a wri- ter in the Herald of Health, look like , three joints of sugar cane. They mal- tiply by dropping off the joints, ea.:h joint becomes a new microbe, from which joints grow and are thrown off. The parents keep forming and cast- ing off new joints, the children ditto; and so they increase with astonishing rapidity. Some galatine in which was placed a single microbe, in a few minutes became a .eethinw mass the minute monsters. TlS, feed on the red corpuscles of the bfood. Bill- ions after billions of them can exist • drop j of . blood. . * . rn, The ln one theory * . is that these microbes eat up ones blood and soon take it away. Some men ca „ s ,„ nd , he IeMin g blood more than others arid recover. Diligence is the mother ot luck. A Gentleman is one who combines a woman’s tenderness with a man’s courage, | A NEW PLANT OF GREAT VAL- UE 1*0R THE SOU TH. . t, Bienville ham> ed;tor of t c New Era, is trying to ■ introduce the cultivation of the plant known as the cassava or raanieo plant. J* not^fbi^itsenornimis ro,n wl, * t wc can le f rn yield.^n^ood * « similar land with proper cultivation, yield of sist J' tons per acre lias been obtained, W * a ^ oml below an extract from a o^MarTsville. La., who has h^Tcon- siderable experience with the plant: *‘J believe no other single article of '■ on tne face of the globe would far toward go stars sustaining animal life as eat it—hogs a-is » will sra quit for it. For puddings, custards, fritters, and bread, the roots arc grated and mixed with an equal quantity of meal or flour In fritters, with corn- meal mixed with cassava would de¬ ceive an old oyslerman. * The cassava is undoubtly a great thing for the farmer. A few acres of it to the farmer will mean plenty of lard, pork, bacon, butter and eggs, and do away with our smokehouses in the West.”—Times Democrat. THE CASSAVA. We have received from Mr. J, L. Normand, of Hillside Nursery, this place, a cassava which measured four feet long and Sor 10 inches in circum¬ ference, The cassava is especially adaped for cultivation in southern countries, yielding in rich soil many tons per acre. It is said to contain glucose and starch, and its grated roots are used in puddings, custards, fritters and bread. Its roots are al¬ so used in stew, where it said to ex¬ cellent in taste and flavor. Mr. Nor¬ mand tried the cassava in fritters and he speaks highly of it as an article of food. But it is not as food for man that this wonderful plant is more highly prized, but for stock of all kinds. Hogs, cows, horses and even chickens feed on it. If one-half that is writ- ten of this food plant in agricultural papers be true, it is the most produc¬ tive, profitable and desirable plant on the American continent. An acre of plenty of seal fat lior- «cs. larders full of bacon and lard, butter and milk in abundance, and chickens and eggs in every nook and corner of the yard, house, kitchen and hay loft. From the experience of Mr. Normand with the plant, an ,j w hat we ourselves have seen of it, we have no reason to doubt the least things said in its favor. We are so favorably impressed with its virtue as an article of food for “man and beast,” that we are going to plant one acre of our truck patch it in next year, an( l ^hen be safe against any “rise’ - ssk :-tz margerine butter. Farmers, plant cas- sava and learn to live at home.—Marks Bulletin. •m i « THE VALUES OF BRAINS. There is romance in the announce¬ ment that the four leading Edison companies are to consolidate into one general electric light company, with a capital of $12,000,000. What a proof this gives to the value of first-class human brains! Here is a business ag¬ gregation that springs from the in¬ genious wits of one man. A few years ago Thomas Edison was a poor and obscure telegraph operator. To-day, by devising machinery of advantage to the human race, he is a millionaire and the means by which ether acquire immense wealth. Yet no one is in¬ jured. The new fortunes comes trora traits of observation and mechanical wits that lay hid in the brain of one poor wise man. There are mines of tue mind that are richer than any which the geologist finds in the moun¬ tains, aud more precious gems lie hid¬ den there than can be dug from the rocks or washed from the streams of the wilderness.—Doyer Democrat. A PAPER MINE. Froir the New York Star. Did any of the readers of the Mar ever hear of a “ paper” mine? I re¬ cently met Henry Palmer, an old California friend and one of the Ar¬ gonauts, who told me he had aban¬ doned the west and had settled in St, Lawrence county. “What are you doing up there? ’ I asked. He ex- cited my curiosity by replying “Working a paper mine/ 'What do you meanV’ Til tell yon. When I was a boy I worked in a paper mill in Camden and became familiar with tl 16 clays used for sizing and weigh- ^ ,n S paper. I conclned a short time a ”° leave California and spend the balance «>t my days in the east. ^ *“ ie ori a v | s, t to St,. Lavrrence coun- '* ! w ! ^ 1 ! 5 cl1 r ‘ < b ^ vt n = bcen or,e f ' a y idong a new r “ 1 w ' fur s,,,nc di »' ta "' :e U ' ru0 « l “, ! ' l»cul,ar i„rrnaticm of ?" y ."'‘"f "*f- l “ f cammed .tcare- I t . lesTT Ui’l!' cuiiariy . n 'ii ar l v aiapten a ianted to to paper making. l haii tests m9Ae hy lnanu f act urers who re,to ted favorably, so I bought the land and began mining. We are now shipping over a hundred tons a day, and it is rapidly displacing the clays formerly used, as itsjfibrous na¬ ture makes it a part of the warp and weft of the paper, instead of sizing clay. No other such deposit is known n ttai* country. A COWETA FARMER. —:—i “ Ct 1 d Mr - E - b - t>odds. “f ol Oak •"* R*^o e . Meriwether county, with whom I was discussing the question ofdiver- sified farming, and whether or not a m * U °° uld raako raonev ,n hi3 county unt ^ er lhat plan and also it a man could make’ money in agricultural business where he made one staple his 1 ie at,t ^ < l uestlon so ' e P™duet was emphatically His answer no, to a ”d the following statement from him as to his own experience here in Meri wether countv is a sufficient Lorrobo- tamed - uo " r T iuon so long main Mr. Dodds began farming in said county, with his two brothers in 1870 with $2,403‘on their J home place 360 acres. At that, time he began working at fifty cents a day to sup¬ port his young wife'arid children. In 1871 he bought one mule and gave his note for same for $150, payable in the fall of that year. The brothers plan- ted their lands half in corn and half in cotton, sowing some wheat and oats making everything onHhc farm nec¬ essary for their own consumption. They now own 1,400 acres of fine land in that county, five good gins, one merchant mill, and are running twen y plows on their farms. The place is entirely out of debt'and they arc now worth $25,000, which they have made by a diversified syste n o r Intensive farming in the past fifteen years, without anv capital to start on, and a liability of $2,400. That proves the position of The Constitution that farming pays in Georgia* if made self- sustaining.—Constitution. WIIAT WE CAN SHOW PRESI¬ DENT HARRISON. Mr Charles Howell who lives near Howel’s mill, in this county, says; “When President Harrison comes to the exposition I can show him the exact ground over which his* brigade charged. Jn connection witli some members of his brigade I have lo¬ cated the detailed route of the charge and I have on my place the graves of some of his brigade, perfectly inden- tified. He will find it very interest¬ ing to go over this ground again. In the residence of the late Judge Howell is a picture shot through with a bullet which was fired in the charge of Harrison’s brigade. GOULD AND SON. The Chattanooga l imes : The well authenticated report comes from New York that Jay Gould and his son. George, have taken 30,000 shares of stock in the Richmond Terminal sys¬ tem, and thus A seeured an Atlantic sea board outlet through the Memphis Charleston and the Iron Moun¬ tain system. The news of such a mammoth deal by the Gould’s makes th* matter one of special local importance. In the first place, the south will boast of the principal point on the Guilds stem at Memphis. The combination would give Goulds a leverage for east and west business that would pro. e most dangerous for their competitors. It is also urged here that such a deal would signify the immediate c »> - struction of the Memphis and Charles ton railroad from Stevenson to this city. This short piece of road, being a lessee of the Nashville,Chattanooga and St Louis tracks, is constantly hampered more or less by those bonds arising from the nature of a lease, aud the authorities of the lessee road think they could control a better bu -i less and do it witli more satisfaction over their own tracks. It is considered a matter of course that if Gould has a ‘say so” in the management of the Memphis and Charleston, be will cause the road to be THE GEORGIA AND SOUTH FLORIDA. General Bobert Ober. General Clin¬ ton Payne, Mr. Hamilton, a promi¬ nent banker, and Colonel R. W. Price, also a prominent banker, all of Balti¬ more; Mr. Charles Watkins, a to¬ bacco merchant of Rrcbrobn J, and Mr. Ed Scheaffer, of Tocc.oa, all stockhol- era in Georgia and South Florida pas¬ sed through the city last night o their way to Macon. To-day they will go over the road—140 miles—on a tour of inspection.—( o istitotioe. A man is never so fortunate or so unfortunate as he thinks. Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. •Jealousy but is the sentiment of pover- ty, envy is the instinct of then. Have the courage to prefer and propriety to fashion in all things, NO. 5. Sp£CIAI, CORSESroXDEKCB TO T«E NEWS. Palatka, Fla., Feb. 5, 1889. Florida is rapidly recovering from its long affliction of more than a year. Yellow Jack first appeared in Key West in July 1887. Two months la- ter it entered Tampa; a year after¬ wards it broke out in Jacksonvilhvuul continued till last December. A large portion of that long period.our cities were surrounded by guards, as though beseiged by a powerful enemy. Compared to the great plagues which have at different times visiteVl the earth, this epidemic was of a very mild type; the rate of mortality be¬ ing remarkably low. Tourists are begining to arrive from the North, an 1 the prospects are, that as large a number of visitors as ever before will enjoy the balmy breezes of fair Florida, inhale the fragrance of the orange blossoms, and taste the de¬ licious fruit fresh from the groves. The first vestibule train loaded with tourists, reached Palatka last week. Palatka’sstreet railway is now com¬ pleted,and the merry jingle of the bobtail car is heard along our streets. The long looked-for bridge across the St. Johns river at Palatka is at last an accomplished fact. The tres¬ tle work is 4,000 feet long, and the draw is 23J feet in length with a piv¬ ot of 30 feet, which leaves an opening of 1(X) feet on either side, thus afford¬ ing passage to the largest vessls that may enter the St. Johns river. This is necessary as Palatka is at the head of deep water navigation, so that large vessels, not only from New York and Boston, but also from Liv¬ erpool, can bring their cargoes to her wharves. The railroad from Macon, Gs., will probably reach here next fall. Then thero is a prospect of a ship canal from Cedar Iveys across the state,ter- minating in the St . Johns river near our city. So that the future of Palat- ka is very bright. At a meeting of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons,held in Jacksonville last week, one of the toasts was the following: “Incomparable Florida, the oldest of Territories, the youngest of States; the blushing June of the calendar,an I the brightest of the sisterhood of com¬ mon wealths.” The Palatka Gem Cicy Guards is the “crack” company of the State. At a recent election of the officers, Mr. C. J. Joseph, formerly a Georgia boy of Columbus, was elected Cap¬ tain. The Duke of Southerland has a home in Florida; he is now in th’i state enjoying the incomparable win¬ ter climate. He is 60 nhlj ceedingly well preseved; hasa bright eye, a clear, ruddy skin, elastic step and deep strong voice. He lately at¬ tended a party composed of all class¬ es from Florida crackers up to the iroud and haughty dudes. Many peach and plum trees are in full bloom; and our winter gardens are making a fine display, so we are sure of prophesying correctly in say¬ ing that Palatka will be abundantly supplied with everything in the veg¬ etable line. In fact there is quite a supply of early vegetables already in the market. Orange shipments continue at the rate of about 5,000 boxes per day. A grove of 8 acres in Orlando, be¬ longing to Mr. Jacob Summerlin was sold for $8,000. W. J. Rast, of Orange Springs, has 30 orange trees on his place from which he has realized $500 net thi3 season. This has certainly been a most fa¬ vorable season for orange growers, and the crop throughout the State is very large. Surely Florida offers great oppor¬ tunities to those who have money to invest, or who desire pleasant winter homes in this sunny summer land. Marjorie. Praise is sometimes as hurtful cen¬ sure. It is as bad to be blown into t le air as to be east into a pit. As a man is known by his compa¬ ny. so a man’s company may he known by hi3 manner of expressing him¬ self. It is not tbe ability to be, but the ability to work, that constitutes hap- 1 ? ree ... . cultivate -G « m<T j. , 'T, g T fnen '' 3 T ^ ''"T; ' “ ave »'« to wear your oH c , ^°t^ es until you can par for new un ^; h trare , t|ie W) , rM uvor t > Q ntl t ue beautiful, we mn-t carry us or we xt not