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About The Advocate-Democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1897)
1_ Tomato Culture. iron the Agriculturist. B Xhe growing of tomatoes for mar B.-t and for private use is of far ■icater extent and importance than t iny people imagine, when it is a ■ell known fact that of all the truek R’s crops the tomato is one of his Best stand-bys. We can readily see Re importance of giving this crop ■ie very best care and attention, and ft. the end that a good crop may be ■ad. we must take care to make ■vervthing at the beginning as per l-i-t as possible, for the crop almost Ritirely depends upon the start the ■ ants get. v ■ in our latitude here we are teadv ■> set out the plants early in April nny time before then they run the Rsk of being caught with a slight Rost). In that case we must sow Rir seed in the latter part of Janu By: it should not be any later in any Rse than the fourteenth of Febru By. To prepare a bed for the seed, Re must choose a location of a warm Rture, having a southern exposure. R is not necessary to provide any Rittom heat, but on cool nights the Hi should be covered with sacks or Hte to prevent the young plants Him getting chilled. In making this Hat-bed, a slight sprinkling of eot R seed meal should be mixed in the Hi a week before planting. In sow H the seed it should be sprinkled K evenly as possible on the top of H soil and covered with soil by the Hud. instead of raking in the seed His usually done. The former plan ■glnre.s HR a more even distribution of seed than by raking. When the Hb’ is covered about a quarter of an. Sj|h, Rp> the bed should be well tramped the feet and left as even as |Hsible, RR to prevent any water stand on the bed during a rain; this best be wearing without heels on that occasion. M the beginning of March the ffng ^Lsplant plants should be expressly ready to to another bed ^■pared Bond for them. The soil of this bed should be made as rich Hit fertilizing as the soil will be in Hich ■p. they are to grow and make a This bed should lie laid off in ^Bares Kl about two inches each way in every check a young plant Hmld be set. A small smooth piece Hstick of the size of a lead pencil Hmld be used and a hole made in Hli of these checks and a plant Hck in. A little water dropped in Hthis hole after the plant is iusert H w ill be sufficient to cause it to |fke root and grow. After the plants ire well started and showing signs of Jjukiug good growth, we must begin At prepare the ground for the crop, f we ha»* land that had a crop of Potatoes or some other root crop last year, it will suit our purpose; if not, we have got to do the best we can, BKntoes hut on no account must we plant to after a cabbage crop. The ^Round ^forougliiy should be well plowed and worked in every way to Bonier it smooth and put it in good Milth, and at the last working our fer IHlizer should be applied. I prefer to ^R>rk ^feans the fertilizer in the soil by of an ordinary one-horse eul RBvator. The quantity of this fertili¬ ser must be determined by the na ■Rire of the soil; on poor thin soil jgifeout one thousand pounds per acre fonld be, about all it could take care liif, whereas on good stiff soil, fifteen I u mired pounds would be none too Hiueh. Now as to the quality of this fertilizer, we must consult the re¬ quirements of the tomato plant. 1 'should recommend a fertilizer for crop to analyze somewhat as un about three per cent nitrogen, per cent phosphoric acid, and to teu per cent potash, and the of the pntaah should be sul if at all powtffite*. I have been experimenting for the last eight years in this tomato fertilization, and “very year I get more and more oon vlneed that if we use plenty of pot ash and a reasonable quantity of phos phorie acid in our fertilizers, we will have less blight and fungous disease in our tomato crop. Last year I used excessively heavy on my crop and I was free of blight that causes such havoc among our tomatoes ev ery year. The rot is also reduced to a minimum when plenty of potash is used. The reason of this is easily ‘keen by any one who takes the trou¬ ble to examine into the matter. The average run of fertilizers used on tomatoes contains more nitrogeu than either potash or phosphoric acid. The consequence is a plant of a succulent, soft nature, an easy prey to all diseases. A plant again that is fertilized with twice as much phos phorie acid as nitrogen, and half as much agatn • of t potash . . - ofphos phone ae,d. is a thrifty plant, able to i ombat all diseases, an gives ar su pel .or rint in appearance qna l y. - ppearante goes a ong way fertilizerT'insures "tl ° m Ttent U v of 1 ’ ThiTdavs *tash in | our both. of hap-hazard 1 work in this line are gone forever, , and , the ,. successful , , grower has got to kno^ everything pei taming to as ‘ ro l’- 18 ean - be cone y consuttng t e ana tabies o t e constituent par s ° ^ < rop in const era ion, an riirimi^time studies°thoioughiy ^ the nature of his *oil he may reasonably expect to be well repaid for his time - d outlay in other ways I would have liked to have said something on the further care of this very import ant crop, but space forbids just now. C. K. McQuarrie. iJe Puniak Springs, Fia. St. Cloud Farm Sold. The Kissimmee correspondent of the Timos-Lniori says; The sale of the St. Cloud Sugar teams and apparatus, to a syndicate of Cuban sugar planters has been definitely arranged. The terms have !>een accepted, and the titles and abstracts have been ordered deliver mi to a bank at Tampa. This sale lias been made through the efforts of Oaptaiu R. E. Ross, of this place, and Captain John B. Walton, of Tampa, and will give an immense impulse to the growing of sugar in Florida. The purchasers are practi¬ cal sugar planters of large means and long experience. They believe that the growing of sugar in Florida can be made more profitable than in Cuba. The export, and import du¬ ties on Cuban sugar alone would be a fair profit. With the prospect of a fair duty on sugar, which is con¬ fidently hoped for, Florida should soon produce a large part of the sugar consumed in the United States, if not all of it. Captain Ross established the St. Cloud Mills in 1886 atferward selling the plantation to the Disston Com¬ pany. He has always contended that the Kissimmee Valley was pre-em¬ inently a sugar growing region, and this purchase by men who have ac¬ quired a full knowledge of the busi¬ ness in all of its details confirms the believer. Kissimmee is elated over the transaction, and hopes, with mueh good reason, to see soon a number of mills similar to those at St. Cloud established on the vast area of rich muck land in this valley. The exact consideration given for the estate is not positively known, but it, must be in the neighborhood of $250,000. The purchasers will take charge as soon as the former own¬ ers ean remove the products of the present crop. The property consists of 2,250 acres of rich reclaimed land lying between East Lake and Lake To hopekaligo, with mills having a ca¬ pacity for 200 tons of eane a day. The property is approached by the Sugar Belt railway of the Plant Sys¬ tem. The Cuban purchasers will treble the capacity of the mills at an estimated outlay of $50,000, and 600 tons of eane will be handled every day of the grinding seasou; and they intend to begin at once prepa¬ rations to put in 2,000 acres of eane. They propose to bring skilled la¬ bor front Cuba, adepts at cultiva¬ tion, milling, find all branches of sugar-making and refining. The buy¬ ers are acquainted with all the eco¬ nomies of the business, and are quick to perceive the employment of useless labor. As an instance, on their recent visit they found sixteen men employed in doing what two or three men do in Cuba. On their es¬ tates in that country the slightest expense is a matter of the greatest consideration, for the growers hate to compete with the whole world. In the operation of this great plantation these men will have a number of associates, all practical sugar-producers. Captain Rose will very likely be associated with them in the management. Potash on Deciduous Fruit Trees. Near Bellemonte, Pa., a few yeai# ago was an immense pear tree with a trunk nearly two feet in diameter. The tree had been set seventy years, and for sixty years it had not failed to produce a crop of fruit, while other trees of the same variety, planted at the same time, had all died of old age several years before. This remarkable tree always had by its side an ash leach, from which a considerable quantity of potash in the form of lye had escaped and found its way to the root* of the tree. Thus the potash kept the tree alive. story told , , of printers . . , ap A is a prentice in Tallahassee whose moth er imd a peach tree that was sickly and appeared to be dying. T e young man conceived the idea that the tree was suffering from the ef fects of borers. He stripped the earth away from the roots, which he erroniouslv thought was the seat of the borer, for a considerable dis tance out, and applied to them sev era! times a liberal drenching of a solution of caustic potash, which was used in cleaning type, and when » became saturated with printer’s „ guaIIj . thrown away . Whether he kU , ed borer8 u doubtful, but ^ accomplished his purpose, for the tree speedily recovered its vigor and ^ years afterward bore heavy an n,iaI crops of fruit. It was doubt less the result of the potash appli nation. potaKj) is frequently not only the medh . ilie for lack of which the tree is sickly and dying, but also its meat and drink. The quantity °f unleached ashes that a tree will re ceive without injury is astonishing, " l,e " the is 8 P read we ” around over the ground and not heaped against the tree. An ac qnaintance used to tell of a farmer near Griffin. Ga., who carefully aav ed up all of his ashes, made from hardwood, and gave a barrel of them, unleached, to each peach tree once a year. He had only a choice trees, and they yielded Mm enormouB crops of the moat excel lent fruit* free from blemishes and rot. large, brilliant-colored, and of I delicious flavor.--Florida Citizen. SUPPORT OF A THEOR Y. The house party at Westwood were dawdling over their coffee on the moon-lit piazza. It was a meny crowd; everybody knew everybody else, and there was much laughter and talk, but suddenly a silence fell. Then it became patent to all that the couple seated on the steps leading to the lawn were engaged in a quiet but bitter altercation. The girl’s listless air was in striking contrast to the man’s eagerness. “Your idea is an absurd one!” he exclaimed. “Oh, fie!” she said, “to speak so rudely to a Woman.” “It is not rudeness, but truth.” “Then you are apparently synony¬ mous.” “1 can’t help it; it exasperates me to hear an intelligent girl like you—” “Now where,” she broke in, “did you pick that up? I am not the least bit intelligent! If 1 were I would know better than to argue with you; it is perfectly hopeless”—sighing— “and you do get so excited.” “And who wouldn’t?—listening to such impossible theories!” “You don’t have to! 1 never asked you to talk to me. I came out here to be by myself, and you deliberately followed me. Why didn’t you stay with the others? They are all pleas¬ anter than I am?” “Humility,” he said, “is a cloak that fits badly on your shoulders.” “My sheeves are too large, per¬ haps! but really you misunderstand —I have an excellent opinion of my¬ self. I can be quite agreeable, when I choose, but 1 am not in the mood tonight.” “Then according to your theory .you ought to be most attractive.” “What is your theory, Kate?” call¬ ed out her cousin. “One you have heard me express thousands of times before.” “Shall I tell him. Miss Doane?" “Certainly.” “She says that a man doesn’t like to feel too confident of a woman’s af¬ fection; that it is the element of un¬ certainty in love affairs that makes them interesting; that he enjoys be¬ ing puzzled and played with, and that a clever woman has only to ap¬ pear indifferent to first pique and then attract him.” “Heresy!” exclaimed a chorus of manly voices. “Mr. Stewart, has omitted a very important clause.” said Miss Doane. “I added that to do this the woman must necessarily be good to look at and not lacking in this world’s goods.” “Oh, Kate, Kate!” sighed her tjous in, “would you insinuate that the masculine fancy is influenced by worldly advantages?” She shrugged her shoulders. “I have stated the ease; you can make it what you choose.” The hostess, who had been listen¬ ing idly, now put in a word,— “The trouble with you all is that you analyze too much,” she said. “Why not take things as they come, without worrying over their possible causes? It is so .much simpler and healthier.” “Isn’t Madge charming?” she said, amiably. “To hear her, you would suppose that she had never seen the inside of a drawing-room. She al¬ ways gets like that when she comes to the country; something in the air probably.” “And you?” said Stewart, when the laughter following her speech had died away; “has it no effect on you?” “The country? Oh, yes, it makes me—if that is possible—more indo¬ lent than usual,” and she leaned her head against the pillar and looked, not at him, but past Mm to the stretch of rosy sky. “What an actress you are!” he said. “You are not the least bit indifferent, really, but it has amused you to pose as such so long now it has almost be¬ come second nature.” “To pose as anything involves a certain amount of exertion.” “Doubtless you find it worth while, if your audience is appreciative, as it * * j 1miwine .. IJotjeed those two c , ou(Jg? „ ghe ^ “ It ta curioug n<ytp how theJr fl oa1/ fi r(rt toward and then awgy fjx>m each otheri a « do people w j,o are playing a t cross pur ]K)sf!S ” “You were evidently not listening 1/0 a won j \ aaid.” yes, I was. You were scold j n g. roe> but you generally are, you know, and you said something about my posing. You have told me that often, and so—” “And so, apparently, there was no need of listening to me. I had no wag 81lch a Uore “ She smiied ^ “Vow, you see, you are angry Don’t you think,” leaning to war d him confidentially, “you ought w do something for your temper? It may get you into serious trouble N<* everybody m as am.a ble as I! “»«]] wrangling?” asked Carl Jje IoI(n?in#r ( , own the “ M y j dear young friends, it grieves me to j the heart to see sin-bt a display of nn ■ Christian feelings. ‘Let dogs delight tl0 b ark and bite.’” ; “Blame Mr. Stewart, and not me,” j „ aid the gj r |. “You know, Carl, that , j haven’t the ene.igv to quarrel with any cue, especially in this weather.” ^, h , of course not. Miss Doane j only says the things that make people want to row.” > charming character you have jrjven me! After that I think I w*il | abandon the field to you. j Car3 f ” with a quick change the lake off for ner, “Let’s go down to a row.” *tswart watched tiiem with J %W r? ■N i« ' 1 Fifty Years Ago. No theory of germs to chill j * Adectiou’s buildiu^ blisses;,; When ardent lovet took tb<*fr fill, No microbes on their kistxi. How h.ipp*, they were not ijk&ov T he gci m»i;td— go years ago.l Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is the standard family remedy of the world for colds, coughs and lung diseases. It it not a pall'utive, and is not therefore put tip in small cheap b Jttles. It is put up in large 1 ottles for the household. They cost more but cure more. Fads come and go but no theory or fad can overthrow the fact, that the greatest cure for all colds, coughs and fliroat and lung Pectoral. diseases, is Avar's Cherry SO Nears of Cures. in her heart—the girl was talking gavly, her soft laugh floating back to him. “There goes a living denial of her theory,” he thought. "She is kind uess itself to Ainslie and he is devot ed -to her. Indifference, indeed! Yd like to see the woman who could at¬ tract me by that. As for Miss Doane, she is a heartless little flirt, and I don’t intend to fret myself about her.” And he climbed the steps and stalked away to the smoking-room. “Kate,” said young Ainslie, resting on his oars, “I’m your cousin and have a right to tell you when I think you are doing wrong, so I say—do leave old Stewart alone.” “Leave old Stewart alone!” indig nantly. “I think you had tielter sug¬ gest his leuving me alone.” “Of course, now, you know very well what 1 mean. It’s all right for you to trample upon Herbert, Reade, and myself; we’re used to it—been broken in too long to protest—but Stewart is another sort; he cares awfully about things.” “Oh, indeed, so he ‘cares awfully,’ and the rest of you are only amusing yourselves, I suppose.” “How you tease a fellow! No— what I mean is that he is terribly ‘all there,’ that If he lets himself be hard hit it would knock him out com¬ pletely if you threw him over." “So terribly ‘all there’—what u graphic expression. Yet undeniably true in this case; but why do you take it for granted that I will throw him over?” fttefrlxpressed Mr. Ainslie’s the ut most consternation. ' “Well, really, I don’t know, but i thought, I somehow concluded—” “What?” “Why,” a brilliant idea striking him, “that you didn’t care for any¬ body, and wouldn’t until you had seen more of the world, for you are very young, Kate, in spite of your experiences.” "Carl,” said Miss Doane, solemnly, “the liar lias lost a shining murk in you, but I am proud to claim you as u relative.” CHARTER It. It was a fortnight later; the house party would disperse, on the morrow, and Miss Doane, to whom Westwood was dear, was talking a farewell stroll through the gardens. She was idling down a path, when, catching sight of Stewart over the tops of the rose bushes, she ostentatiously pot up Iter parasol and turned in the oth¬ er direction. But he was not to be so easily thrown off; with a cur] < th Up (for he had recognized V f‘ Ml** oeuvre) he hurried to her. “Miss Doane,” he cried, spare me a few moments?” , She turned her head. “1 am not in a pleasant franc mind. Uncle forwarded me my dross maker’s bill this morning, with i ci¬ tato pungent comments of his i mi appended, and my best mamw pt returned to me as 1 m has just been available,’ so the atmosphere Is not rosy.” “Never mind about that. I will not detain you long,” and he pulled up a bench. p or a f e w moment* there was si tence for now that he had gained he , coveted interview Steward did te seem to know what to say, and J Doane, with the point of her panpoi, gketched triangles, and circles, and I a jj sorts of impossible devices in toe sar idy path. While looking the pie t|jre careless inattention, site iu reality curious to know ho# h>ug her companion intended to eontii ue staring ahead of him. When he fi^J ly did speak, his remark was so «»* j ferent from what she expected tiiat | she almost started to her feet, J beautiful,” “I suppose he you said. know “Doubtless you are your very | mirror has told you that already, so j I need not worry you with r«p« > tiorus, but I feel sure that youi do 1 /t 1 realize bow absolutely charming you j are.” Sb® looked at him wonderingly; it ■ wa* a favorit® method of hers, agd usually" worked well, but now it fail¬ ed to produce the effect she intended. “Don’t look like that,” lie said, “or 1 shall think you are not sincere, and I don’t want to think that. I want to carry away the kindest thoughts of you.” "You have changed.” she said. “Ten days ago you told Mary Fair I was thoroughly heartless.” "Did I? Well, that only shows I was a fool. I know you better now; and what is more, I understand you.” A ^iglvt pause. “I beard up at the house that you were engaged to your cousin, and while the news could not but hurt me, it was in one sense a relief, for I knew at once why you had avoided and almost ignored me. You wanted to save me pain. Experience taught me that if a man saw much of you he generally cared for you, and you tri¬ ed to ward me off. But you cannot keep the moth from the candle, and l loved you in spite of your coldness. It almost looks as if there was some¬ thing in your theory, doesn’t it?” Miss Doane gathered herself to¬ gether. Stewart did not know it, but she was summoning courage to tell him the truth about herself. She lov Add In Support of a Theory, ed to be well thought of, and it was a genuine sacrifice to speak, but she could not, in common honesty, allow him to remain under his delusion. “You must not think too well of me,” she began. “I could not,” he cried. “One rare¬ ly sees so much youth and beauty and simple goodness united as I find in you.” ‘ Simple goodness! The words scorched her. “You are all wrong!” she cried, with burning cheeks. "I am not the least bit like that. Don’t you see? Can’t you understand? It vexed me to have you laugh at my theory, so I determined to make you an example of its truth. It was from no good mo taive- not to 'ward you off,’ or ‘to save you pain,' but with the distinct in tent ion of making you care for me, that l pretended to be indifferent." Stewart got slowly to his feet. “And so,” he says, “in support of a theory, iii for the sake of proving your¬ self the right, you could play with a man’s heart and make havoc of his life? Fool, fool that 1 was, not to understand!” and he’struck one palm sharply against the other, "Well,” with sarcastic courtesy, “the point 1 b gained, the poor dupe at your feet, ! hope you are content,?” “Content!” she cried. “I was never so sorry in my life. It seems strange 1 should care, doesn’t it? As you say, I huve gained my point—and yet—" “Yes,” he said, he suid, "and yet?” Instead of replying she turned her head swiftly away, but not before be luid seen that her eyes were lull of tears. lie stood irresolute, overcome by surprise; then he approached her. “Don’t cry like that," he suid. “You never meant to hurt me; it was a pretty hit of acting to you, and if I waa stupid and overdid my part yoo are not to blame. There, look up! What will your cousin say if he learns 1 distressed you?” “What is it to me what my cousin thinks?” viv. Stewart stared. “Pardon me, lint i thought that, being engaged to him—” "I am not engaged to him. Noth ing is further from my intention." A silence followed. Then Miss Goaue rose to depart, but Htewari, whose mind had been adjusting itself to the changed situation, put out a detaining hand. ^ » “Kate, if you are not going to mai ry your cousin, perhaps tlie.re might lie a chance for some one else." “I‘crimp*." He drew nearer. “1 know l‘in n perfect fool to rush on my fate, but what’s worth having is worth asking for. Kate, will you marry me?” She smiled, but her eyes were very tender. “I believe you do love me,” she said. “Well, a little.” "And if I many you i know 1 shall be happy, You are so strong and true, and have my confidence so ut¬ terly, but J have been horrid to you so rude and disagreeable that I don’t see bow you can bear me.” "Why, you are going back on your [theory.” “The girls will certainly laugh, and Call will never leave me alone about il. but I don’t care,” lifting her face resolutely. “I love you, and there’s no use pretending I don’t.” A little while Inter she looked up. “I always said I would never care, for anybody," she remarked, “What will this prove?” “That you are a woman,” be said.— Waverley Magazine. All the element* that nature de¬ mands to make the hair abundant and beautiful, are supplied by Ayer’s Hair Vigor. It keeps the scalp free from dandruff, prevents the hair from becoming dry arid harsh, and it to tie rich, flexible, arid Ifloiury. Functions of time In the Soil. In the translation from the Uer man which appeared recently it was t(jat linie w a* an aoeliiriuiatoi' of nitrogen. In commenting on this an exchange say* that this is true in part only; it certainly iiu-rea*e* the stock of valuable nitrogen tn the soils, for when caustic lime is applied to land it at once decomposes all or gaiiic matter in it containing nitre a« graft** manure, muck, etc , an{ j jjberati • - nitrogen an ammonia. Though the soil retains with gra»p a small quantity of ammonia, still, if the amount liberated is large, a corresponding amount will be lost, so the folly of applying lime in large applications is seen. No more should Le applied than will liberate suf¬ ficient ammonia to be taken up by the glowing mop. The immediate I effect Ikorti an application of lime on laud which contains a considerable aniobut of organic matter is to great¬ ly increase the crop; if no plant food is added, after a few years have elapsed the soil will be left poorer than before. This will be readily un¬ derstood when we consider that lime is not really a plant food, but more of the nature of a stimulant; and if large crops are token off and noth¬ ing added, the land, is sure to be¬ come exhausted. These facts have given rise to the common idea that large applications of lime impoverish the soil. Lime also tends to the un¬ locking of inorganic food supplies, and this is especially true of potash and soda. It also has a good effect upon soils which are known as sour, ns it will, to a certain extent, neut¬ ralize the acid in the soil. Other ad¬ vantages gained by an application of lime will be the rendering of stiff soils more pliable and destroying the various forms of insect life and fun¬ gus growth. New Creations in Fruits and Flow • ers. A scientific farm has been started In California, and Its founder Is al¬ ready spoken of as the Edison of plant life. He works for purely sci¬ entific cause, and has produced re¬ sults startling to horticulturists and farmers. He plants the seed of a known specimen of plant life. Sup¬ pose it is that of a common quince, witli which lie has made vast expe¬ riments. It. grows and puts forth its fruit. Science Is then called upon. Cross pollination, hybridization fol¬ lows, and by constant and faithful work the experimenter is rewarded by a new and valuable creation. An¬ other change wrought by this plant wizard is in the prunes, which h« )m ft developed to a giant size, six times as large as those in geueral use, and from which they were de¬ rived. A plum twelve times the size of the parent, species has , Iso been created, and prououne.ed by good judges to be the handsomest In ex¬ istence. Hut it is in the flower king¬ dom that the creations which most amaze the world have been produc¬ ed. Among those are over eighty thousand unnamed types of lilies which alone represent a value of a quarter of a million of dollars. Yet the greater number of them will he destroyed, for destrvietiou follows where the created type is not con¬ sidered superior to the parent stock. In tills veritable Garden of Eden nothing is impossible; the science of the masterly gardener has been able to make nature produce any sort, of tree or shrub, plant or fruit, almost at, will. Working on the theory that tlie relation between the species is intimate that by constant arti ficial selection, which is one of the many steps in the production of new types, the lines of life forces can be changed, he has broken up the old habits of plants, and by a constant struggle inculcated new traits.— Ex. A stimulant if often needed to nourish and strengthen the roots and to keep the hair in a natural color. Hall’s Hair Renewer Is the best tonic for the hair. Th® Nicotiana. A really lovely flower, both for the garden and the window, or the greenhouse, is the night-blooming tobacco, Nicotiana aftlnis. While it# foliage somewhat resemble® that of the tobacco plant, it ha* not that coarseness which .characterizes it* better known relative. It i# of bushy habit of growth. It* white flowers are produced in loose bunches at the ends of the branches, and in shape are something like the Bermuda lily, though much smaller. They have a peculiar and delightful fragrance which fills a room with ft* penetrat¬ ing odor at evening. The plant is a persistent bloomer. Left to take care of itself, in the garden, It will yield flowers until frost come* and puts nn end to It. In the house it can be kept in flower the entire season by simply cutting it back sharply from time to time. Remove the old branches when their crops of flow ers become small, and In a short time a new and vigorous growth will take their place. Like all mem- Jacksonville's new hotel, fire-proof. Sotel Geneva, Corner Forsyth and Ced ar Sts., Jacksonville, Fla. Completed In 1895. Modern improvement*, bath®, etc., on every floov. Ga® and electric light*, passenger elevator. Artistically and elegantly fur¬ nished. Rate® per day from $*.00 to *3.00. Weekly rate* on application. Ed. L. Owens, Proprietor 50 000 ALLICATOR SKINS WANTED W WW W W W W W W Will pay you for usual averages, 4 to 5 ft, 20 cents; 5 to 0 ft 40 cents; 6 to 7 ft., 60 cents; 7 ft. and up, 85 cents. ********* aw mvwvti Actual measurement and prosnpg returns. We «Mo buy for tie highest market prlee cow hide®, deer skins, wool, beeswax, fur®, eto. Otter® a specialty. Try us with a shipment end we will oewrinoe you. Send ns card for quotations. TT,DiM MllflHCAli AftlidOR PAUPIUY UUIl HR I I KISSIMMEE Fit- hors of the tobacco family, it is a gross feeder, and in order to suc¬ ceed with it it must be given a strong, rich soil. If grown iu pots, apply some good commercial fertili¬ zer for flowers once a week. Give it a sunny place in the window and keep the red spider from working on it. This you can prevent if you are careful to shower the plant daily, being. sure that the water used gets to the underside of the fo¬ liage.—American Agriculturist. From the Agriculturist. The Substitution Fraud. 1 notice in the Philadelphia Press that California has appointed a com¬ mittee. to urge upon congress the necessity of imposing a tariff upon all foreign oranges. What’s Florida doing? Better sound the key note in your paper. A tariff on oranges is just what the country needs. Then there is another matter that requires attention, and its impoi tance demands it. A few days ago I went to a fruit stand in Easton, Pa., to buy some fruit. Jokingly 1 asked the dealer for Florida oranges. He replied: “i have some pretty fair oranges. Here is the box, you see. they are marked Florida oranges. They are not Florida’s, they are Jamaica or¬ anges.” Yes, they were Jamaica’s for l we.ll knew, so did the dealer, tiial there was not a Florida orange In town. There ought to he some way to stop such rascals from such nefarious conduct. It really brings the Florida orange into bad repute. The unthinking and unknowing are thus deliberately cheated, and the Florida orange put on a level with common foreign fruit. This is only a hint. «T. C. Prichard. I’hillipsburg, N. J. A young man in Lowell, Mass., troubled for years with a constant succession of boils on his neck, was completely cured by taking only three bottles of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. Another result of the treatment was greatly improved digestion with in¬ creased avoirdupois. Birds and monkeys will often warn the jungler of the approach of a tiger the latter especially take every ap port unity to express by loud hoot lugs the Intensity of their feelings at the hated presence of either of the dreaded beluga of the jungle#. I have heard too that peculiar bark of the sainbar stag sound again and again in the night-air from out the dark jungles on the banks of the Nerbud da, as he sends out a warning to his kind that murderous “stripes” Is stalking near. 25 CTS Look Hero Orange Growers! Standard Orange, Pomelo AND LEMON TRESS AT $25 PER 100 Will sell some few varieties #t f* P** f* pinch In the Btate -the Freestone Veenux time to plant. BOONE. ______ C. A. Orlando, Fla. ® 4.» » 4 ♦ ♦♦-f t - l THAT I0TED SPECIALIST, :: said Dr. that W. T. he S. stands Vincent, without of whom a peer It Jta tn ■ • - - treatment of chronic all diseases, of says: Ner- ’ ” ‘Folly 80 per cent, of cases • ’ Tons Debility, Lost Manhood, Premar - - ture Decay, varicocele and cored other if -» disease* of men. arc readily followed. The - - the proper course Is - - trouble Is that confidence the unwary in the are led of to - > _ place their advertisements scores fill the . , quacks whose their • • .. papers. They benefit send away Why money do - r ,. and get no in return. in the - - ,. this? hands Why of known not place expert, your and case who -» . „ a one - • ., wtlt give you an honest opinion and - • .. honest treatment? Hundreds of cases ,. corad. Send for further information dt - ■ .. atone®, to The Vincent Medical - ’ ,. Surgical Institute, Jscksenvllle, -. <. Via. ‘ 1 » + ♦ ♦ ♦ » ♦ ♦ »♦♦ - »+■ ‘ WUKUiUT PAID $10 Collection of Fruit Trees lor He Home) mmmm *t«*. Or In nine* of that collection, 125 early market peach U*m •» 12S esrly market ue«r taastr*** N. N. U. 5-35 PI SO’SC Hurt HHIB Coutfh WHtJft Hyruj». i In time. Hold by £3,523" 91's
