THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
<£l]e l)er^snian. 
A SPLENDID BULL. 
Red Short boras are in greatest demand by 
those who do not make a careful study of ped¬ 
igree and actual merit. It is a fact, however, 
that the deep red cattle are not always the 
best. At the fat stock shows, the Short-horn 
winners have invariably been red-aud white. 
The solid reds make the finest appearance to 
the ordinary eye, but wheu they come to the 
real test, the butcher’s block, they fail. The 
flesh is inclined to bo tough and close-graiued, 
with the fat laid on in pads without the 
“marbled” meat so much desired. At Fig. 
503 we show an animal of which the London 
Livestock Journal says:—“During the past 
two seasons, he has been universally regarded 
as the best bull of his age in the country.” 
This animal. Royal Ingram 50874, is the 
property of Mr. William Handley of England. 
His was calved January (Itb, 1888, and is by 
Sir Arthur Ingram 32490, out of Harmony. 
He has taken many prizes, notably that at 
Preston, where he was declared to be the best 
Short horn bull in the yard. As will be seen, 
he is rcd-and-white in color, long and square, 
with short neck and legs and splendid hind¬ 
quarters. 
SOLID SENSE IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS. 
E. 8. HOPKINS. 
W hy do yon despise dress and wear that old 
overcoat that hasten ten years’ hard service, 
when you have buudredsof dollars lying idle 
in the bank? The 
farming, but there has always been a man 
between me and the plow handles.” Whose 
money Is he holding? 
Be hospitable; invite your true friends to 
visit you, let them see your broad acres, your 
herds of fine cattle, your great abundance,and 
impress it on their tniuds that you earned this 
not by grinding the faces of the poor, not by 
interest, hut you laid your labor and capital 
away in the earth’s warm bosom, and she re¬ 
turned to you a hundred-fold. 
Let the world know there is money in farm¬ 
ing. not by hoarding away your dollars in 
hanks or old stockings and dressing your 
daughters in calico and brogans; but by 
educating your boys and girls, building a 
good house, furnishing it nicely, riding to the 
city in a neat carriage and giving to the 
poor. 
Don’t think “anything is good enough for 
the old woman;” but think nothing is too 
good for your wife, She has been mother, 
nurse, housekeeper, cook, seamstress, washer¬ 
woman for many years; and for what? A 
home and possibly the batter money. 
Hold jour land and jour purse in jour own 
bands while you live. You can divide with 
John and Mary, if you wish, but keep plenty 
for yourself. It’s yours, you earned it, and 
we are all familiar with the sad spectacle of 
the old man or woman who has “mad* over 
the property to the children," sitting in an 
unwelcome chimney corner, and looked on as 
a burden, where he or she should be a ruler. 
Don’t go in debt, buy an acre if you can’t 
pay for more, and work or starve on that be¬ 
fore you condemn yourself, your wife and 
helpless children to a Ixmdage only less 
dreary than death There is an Eastern na¬ 
tion that when wishing to represent life as in¬ 
expressibly bitter, speak of it as “ the time 
of my debt .’’ 
Divide with your wife, settle some property 
or money on her, you owe it to her as her 
right. What though she “never made a dol 
lar in her life,” she has done, and was never 
paid for, thousands of days’ worth of labor. 
The heart goes out to the farmers’ wives 
into Florida every Winter has been greater 
and greater as the years have gone by. Quite 
a large number of them have settled perma¬ 
nently in the State, and maDy others have 
made investments there in land and houses, 
though residing, themselves, at the North. The 
favorable reports of visitors and settlers, to¬ 
gether with the accounts (sometimes exagger¬ 
ated) of the great profits from fruit culture 
and truck farming for the Northern markets, 
have induced a steady immigration to the 
Peninsular State. The movement has been 
greatly, but legitimately, encouraged by the 
glowing accounts, published by the State 
authorities, of the great advantages offered 
to those who may engage in raising oranges, 
lemons, banauas, cocoa-nuts and other semi- 
tropical fruits, as well as vegetables for the 
Western and seaboard markets: while the 
opportunities for the profitable raising of 
cattle for the West Indian and Northern trade 
have also been strongly emphasized. Wealthy 
corporations owning vast tracts in various 
parts of the State have also been vigorously 
puffing the resources of the country at large, 
and especially of the sections in which they 
have made investments or secured land grants. 
All this puffing has resulted in a land “boom.” 
Now “booms” are nearly always founded on 
something of really great merit; bat even the 
honest men who aid in creating and floating 
them are very apt to go too far in their state¬ 
ments, at first through simple enthusiasm, 
and afterwards through enthusiasm and an 
eye to profit. In all cases, when the “boom” 
has been fairly launched, unscrupulous specu¬ 
lators seek dishonest gains through means of 
it, and this class has of late been very active 
in taking advantage of the Florida land 
“boom.” 
Flaming advertisements of new towns in va¬ 
rious parts of the State, and especially in 
Marion County, have appeared in Northern 
papers. The advantages of the surrounding 
country are set forth in glowing language, 
and the health, wealth, and happiness that 
await settlers in the favored places are pic¬ 
tured in the most attractive colors. Dishonest 
ing information about some of the places mis¬ 
represented is the result of these exposures 
and of our own investigations. 
Marion City, Marion County, is widely 
puffed at by tbe “Florida Home Investment 
Company,” George G. McWhorter, Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida, 
being given as one of the “references.” 
Under date of Nov. 16, the Judge writing 
from the Supreme Court, Talahassee, Fla., 
says: 
•‘I desire to siate that I know nothing of this 
scheme, except what I enn gather Trotn their adver 
tlsemen', and that they have used mv name without 
m.v permission or authority,” 
by spec 
ate 
and 
They 
3ame county a correspondent, writing from 
Ocala, Marion Conntv, says: 
_)**larlon City. Grant Park, P’rkersburz and Pe 
W itt all new-towns, hsve recently been located In 
this county, and each place claim* to possess the 
he*t land, convenient to rallrna a and water naviea 
tlnn, and in trood n-tcbhnrhnod; Notone of them 
Is near a railroad, and THo°r of Them are or poor i>Jne 
land, uat tit for the culture of any kind nr frutr or 
vegetables. These places have been started b- 
ul“tlve parties who live outside of the Sta 
have made their purchases through agent*. ,m-> 
paid about *1.2* per acre, and are ottering lots WxSui 
feet at *5, #10 and *15 per lot.” 
Belmore City, Clay County, is another 
“boomed” place. Speaking of this, the Jack¬ 
sonville Times Union says: 
Last Tuesday there arrived m tills city two English 
gentlemen from Chicago, with tbcr household 
goods, etc., bound for t'e well advertised 'CHv of 
Brimore located somewhere In ihedeeo ho'ioms 
of Jr, lHy l C ount >' They left their effects In thlseitv. 
while they went up to Hurt their future home. Thev 
lots In Re tin or- City, and had nego¬ 
tiated for 20 acre* of laud to riant an orange grove, 
but preferred seeing H before .-losing ttic tran°ar- 
tlon. At Green Cove Spring they rook the little 
railroad running out from that piece, and when 
about seven miles from Bel more rp v they got into 
naox-cart a ltd were hauled the rest of tbe wav. Ar¬ 
riving at Belmore city. they looked about fordrv 
land but it ft-lied to appear. There «•»; '‘water, 
water, everywhere,” and upon their lots It was over 
two feet deco They vent.-d their in-ilgnatlr-n at the 
focalseen! at Rpiruqre City, who was on hand to 
show where the lot - lay. hut he assured them that it 
was not hi- rault. rhey returned to this cltv with- 
out deb. y and made the above statement to scores of 
our citizens Their Indignation was at fever heat 
and they presented tb- ir bills of lading at the Way- 
cross D pot requesting the .went to ship th*dr 
breakingbuUt” t0 0,her poln * without 
Tbe Florida Agriculturist says: 
“People in the North ca->uot be too particular in 
regard to purchasing land from Irresponsible per* 
Be,more ci,y 
The correspondent from Ocala, telllnir some 
of the ways in which new towns are smarted, 
world judges strang¬ 
ers at first sight by 
their dress, and why 
will you allow your¬ 
self to lower your 
calling by such a trifle 
as that? 
Don’t lay up much 
money for children. 
You have worked for 
the money you have; 
and let them work 
for tbeirs. 
Lay up money 
enough to enable 
you to pass your old 
age in comfort, 
without labor, but 
not enough to make 
your death desirable. 
Make money, all 
you can honestly, 
and give itawuy dur¬ 
ing your life time. 
If you wish to endow 
a college or found an 
orphan asylum, do it 
so as to hear tbe 
words of praise and 
receive the blessings 
before the grave 
hides you. 
Giving grows on 
one. If yon com 
mence by giving the 
Lord’s own tithe, 
you will end hy 
giving one-half; and you have His promise 
that you have laid up treasure in heaven; it 
won’t l»e many years till you will know for 
yourself whether this be true. 
You may reform a drunkard, a thief, or a 
liar; but have you ever been able to reform a 
lazy tuau ? 
1 often wonder what God will do with lazy 
men aud women, who make their relations 
and employers howl with despair. They are 
certainly thorns In the flesh, aud what is the 
fate of all thorns? 
Teach the boys aud girls that the only hon¬ 
orable way in the world to get money is to 
work for it; if John wants a watch, or Mary a 
piano, they have two hands apiece, aud let 
them use them to obtain the objects of their 
ambition. 
Pay your girls for their services. If Mary 
saves you 12 a week in servant’s hire, hand 
her over the money, not grudgingly, but as 
her right. No boy of spirit will stay on the 
farm and work for his father after he is 21, for 
his board and a few clothes, aDd why should 
you ask it of your girl? She has too much 
pride to work in another’s kitchen, so she sub¬ 
mits to slavery at home. Pay her, her wages. 
Baid a rich old farmer: “I have made money* 
SHORT-HORN BILL ROYAL INGRAM 50,374. Re-engraved fiom the London Live Stock Journal. 
Fig. 
303. 
throughout the land, the old wives with their 
wrinkled faces, their hard bauds, their thin, 
faded hair, whose lives have been a living 
sacrifice, but their crowns are waiting. 
Enjoy yourself as you go along; we are not 
promised to-morrow. 
Let your ebildreu have a happy childhood. 
They will think more of the nutting expe¬ 
dition, the trip to the fair, the book you bought 
them, tbe kind words you always gave them, 
tbau of all the money yon cau hoard for 
them, and when life comes to a close, and 
they are old men aud women themselves, their 
hearts will beat the quicker for the thought 
that father and inocner will be first to 
greet them, in the strange new, other world. 
Jefferson, Ind. 
FLOB1DA LAND FRAUDS. 
Since the war_the influx of Northern people 
speculators and unscrupulous land companies 
are the authors of these allurements. The 
towns xist only on paper, and “the sur¬ 
rounding country ” is generally grossly mis¬ 
represented. Florida is emphatically a 
“new” country, H3 many parts of it are go¬ 
ing through the process of “ creation,” even 
at this late day. The means of communica¬ 
tion and transportation are still extremely 
poor in most parts of it. while a very large 
proportion of the area of the State is abso¬ 
lutely unkuown. having never been explored, 
aud a large proportion of what ia known is en¬ 
tirely unfit for settlement, not having yet 
reached the consistency of “dry land.” Still 
a large area consists of fine soil well adapted 
to fruit and vegetable farming, and a still 
larger country is suitable for cattle raising; 
and the old settlers in most of this region are 
generally indignant at the fictitious attrac¬ 
tions in the speculators’advertisements. They 
know that people who have been allured to 
the State by such fabrications, will leave It 
in disgust, and give it a “ bad name ” where- 
ever they go, and that in this way the State 
will be ultimately injured. Several of them 
have, therefore, been exposing the misrepre¬ 
sentations of the speculators, and tbe Uollow- 
savs: 
"As an illimralton, 
take a town near Ocala 
Recently Silver Spring, 
famously feu* wn In his 
tory and books as the 
most henurlftil spring In 
the South, was purchas 
cd hy a COJPOflny repre 
sented bT v r . Briehsnt 
Bishop o' New Yo t. 
Soon nfier this a new 
town started some time 
aero three miles from Sil¬ 
ver Spring. <-ha* (red Its 
name from Gar-Vn City 
to Sliver Spring Park. 
Circular*, mans and 
other Information con¬ 
cerning It have been 
distributed Informing 
the people that If was 
Silver SprtnK proper. 
Silver Spring Park Is 
three miles from Sliver 
spring, an i the land is 
too poor to •.■row any¬ 
thin g c-cept black Jack 
and gophers Already a 
large number of lots 
have been «obl to par¬ 
ties who live elsewhere, 
aud who have not even 
seen their purchases." 
Here is a letter, 
i elating to some of 
(he “boomed”places, 
printed in one of the 
local papers, and 
written by Mr. H. 
W. Long, a resident 
for 30 years in Ma¬ 
rion County, and a 
man who knows 
every foot of land in 
it: 
Grant Park touches 
the dividing line be¬ 
tween Marlon and Levy 
Counties, cover* an area 
of one mile squnre. up¬ 
on high dry. black-jack 
land suppose*' by the 
old «eft!ers of the coun- 
trv to be worthless. It 
the nearest lake and 
Is one and a half mile from _ _ 
eight miles from the nearest railroad. 
Parkermlle Is situate upon similar land, aud Is 
about three miles from the nearest railroad. 
DeWitt covers two 'cctlons of s-l” acres each 
and is located upon a fair grade of soil as to fertility. 
Is surrounded by pretty lakes, and Is about tour 
miles from the nearest railroad. 
Marion ' ity Is located west of and adjoining Cotton 
Plant district, upon black jack land and embraces 
an area of over VGi acres of land, the nearest point 
to the railroad being three miles distant. 
The above, and Bertram, in Levy County, 
are the chief places which, so far as we know, 
have been misrepresented; but we would 
strongly advise all intending purchasers of 
Florida lands to take th6 advice of the Florida 
Agriculturist, aud be very careful of tbe 
character of the party who offers tbe land for 
sale. Better still, don’t buy a foot until you 
see it; aud apply this rule to land purchases 
elsewhere also. 
■fttiscetUtieoius, 
CATALOGUES, ETC., RECEIVED. 
J. H. Johnson, Pittsburg, Pa.—Illustrated 
catalogue of rifles, shot guus, revolvers, am¬ 
munition, gun„flxtures, seines, nets, sporting 
