a per is high vertie Ver THE PALATKA NEWS AND ADVERTISER. PALATKA EDITION. NEW SERIES VOL. XI, NO. 8.
PALATKA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1903. $1. Per Year, The Fearnside Clothing Co. Announces: 1st.
That it is going to work 312 Days each year in study of the Clothing and Shoe wants of the people of Putnam County. 2d. That it is determined to handle nothing but goods of proven excellence--Goods which have been put together by skilled workmen and which bear the impress of style a and the stamp of Artistic Workmanship. 3d. That it is determined to make a record in Low Prices for High Values that will be the pace-setter for others.
4th. That it is determined to secure the trade of all classes by honest efforts in behalf of quality. IN The Fearnside Clothing Company was incorporated for the sole purpose of greater trade expansion. Just now we invite attention to our low prices on odds and ends of cool weather garments; To Hanan Son's and Burt Packards Shoes. To those Harbingers of Spring--known as new and nobby creations in Neckwear.
The Fearnside Clothing Co. Palatka, Florida Last Call For Coupons Girls, the contest is about over now. Tie up your Ads in neat packages, marked with your name, age, adof dress, ads you number have BUCK'S 3 saved and leave JUNIOR with us on FEB. 21st, by 4 D. BUCK NIOR when the ads will be counted and the little prize awarded.
Palatka, HARDWARE CO. Florida, To All Whom It May Concern. TAKE NOTICE: That application will be made to the legislature of the State of Florida at the ensuing session for the enactment of a law prohibiting the killing for sale, selling or offering for sale of quail in the County of Putnain for a period of five (5) years. Feb 6-2m NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR Tax Deed Under Section 8 of Chapter Laws of Florida. Notice is hereby given that E.
S. Paine, purchaser of Tax Certificate No. 4 of 52, dated the 4th day of July, A 1893, has filed said certificate in my office, and has made application for tax deed to issue accordance with law. Said certificate embraces the following described property situated in Putnam County, Florida, to wit: As to of ne 1, 4 of se section 6, township 8 range 27, 160 acres. The said land being aesessed at the date of the issuance of such certificate in the name of Mrs Hardy.
Unless said certificate shall be redeemed cording to law, tax deed will issue thereon on the 23d day of Feb. A. D. 1903. Witness my official signature and seal this the 8th day of January, A.
D. 1903. JOSEPH PRICE. Clerk Cireuit Ct Putnam Co. Florida G.
LOPER BAILEY. CHAS. M. HILLIARD L. LOPER BAILEY Fire Insurance: Leading American and Foreign Companies.
Accident Insurance: The Travelers of Hartford. Life Insurance: The Old Reliable "Germania Life" of New York. Marine Insurance: The Leadimg Companies. All Claims Promptly Settled. Office, 28 Front PALATKA, FLA EDITORIAL JABLETS.
The recent absorption of the Gainesville Daily News by the Sun of that city is but another illustration of the principle of the survival of the fittest. Gainesville is the capital of a large and prosperous county and a city which has given liberal support to one good paper. Editor McCreary of the Sun had nished that paper, represented the people well, and there was never the shadow of an excuse for the establishment af the News, cept to cater to the goo-goos and plug for a dispensary. It has been weakling from its bornin'-intellec ually, spiritually, politically, morally and otherwise. It was conceived in the mind of a crank, born of his inordinate vanity, inherited colic, fed on wind and harbored a chronic pain in the tummy, which pain became epidemic among its readers.
It came, into the world naked of purpose, has served it fait! fully and passed on. Its. reincarnation in the body of the Sun was the only sensible move it ever made. If some of the editorial sermon writers in Florida could be induced to take a course of absent treatment with a veterinary surgeon it is just possible they might inject more of horse sense into their writings. None of these writers make any pretention to orthodoxy, and yet mons diffuse a certain narcotic influence which affect one in the same old orthodox fashion before he gets to thirdly.
The installation of a complete illustrating plant in the office of the Times-Union is the latest improvement made by Florida's representative daily newspaper. Hand-made cartoons will now smile upon you daily, and some of them will point a moral while others will be content to adorn a tale. Some may shock the artistic in you, but that will not be half as bad as the feelings of the other -the depicted one. With the many improvements in this paper and the recent heavy reduetion in its subscription price Floridians cannot well afford to be without the Times-Union It is a model paper; one hundred per cent. better than any other city in the country the size of Jacksonville gives.
It supplies the complete daily doings of the world and is the only paper in the state that does, for is the only one that receives the full associated press dispatches. You may not always its opinions, but you can and must admire its general excellence as the representative paper in the state we all love so well. The editor of the Times-Union asks the Palatka News for information on how to acquire a "fat, lazy sensation." Sure; that's easy. It is acquired by publishing a newspaper in a town where there is little reputable rivalry, when, if you are not overly ambitious, you'll acquire it d. q.
The Time Union has the tions and its editor is in danger. But there is an antidote. Sig: Hyperdermic injections of equal parts extract of plate matter and fake telegrams shipped to a certain sundown publication and labeled "Not Yesterday's News, but Tomorrow's." A subscriber asks the editor: "Are you kin to Rufus A. Russell of the Metropolis?" Nope. Rufe's from Georgy, while we're but two removed from Ireland.
Rufe's a Campelhte, we're only a heathen, and never got nearer than to imagine a vain thing. Rufe earned his money, we borrowed ours. Rufe's nice looking, we are ugly. Rufe was raised on milk, water bran mash, we on sour mash and grits. Rufe's mushy, we are tough; Rufe's had his fun, we're having ours; Rufe runs a great daily, we but a small weekly; Rufe's press runs 'steen thousand a minute, ours but 1,200 hour; Rufe swears to his circulation, we only affirm; Rufe only thinks he's the real stuff, we know it.
The John H. Sparks show comes highly recommended for being a clean, up-to-date show, allowing 110 gambling or games of chance around the grounds. Will exhibit at Palatka March 2. Mrs. P.
H. Fairchild and her two charming little daughters, Ruth and Mildred, left on Saturday for their home in Passaic, N. after a visit of some weeks to relatives in this city. A GO. RECOMMENDATION.
have noticed that the sale on 'hamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets is almost 1 variab to those Wi.0 have once used them," says Mr. J. H. Weber, a prominent druggist of Cascade, Iowa. What better recommendation could any medicine have than for people to call for it when again in need of such a remedy? Try them when you feel dul: after eating, when you have a bad taste in your mouth, feel bilious, have no appetite or when troubled with constipation.
and you are certain to be delighted with the prompt relief whiel they afford For sale by Ackerman Stewart, druggists. 6 Notice. LT. PERSONS HAVING CLAIMS AGAINST A the I. Meyer are hereby notifiled and requested to present same to me for payment immediately, duly itemized and sworn to.
All persons having such claims and failing to present same within two (2) years from date of this notice will be barred in the recovery thereof under the statute. and such failure and this notice will be plead in bar thereto. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate and settlement me uS duly authorized legally appointed executor of said estate. G. LOPER BAILEY, Executor.
Dated February 14th, 1908. GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA. Tallahassee has a new electric lighting plant. Sorrento will have 75 acres in melons this year. The annual Catholic fair is now being held at St.
Auguftine. Braidentown now has a spur of railroad track running into the town. Joseph Jefferson the celebrated actor is again at his winter home in Palm Beach. Thomas A. Edison the great inventor is coming to Florida for several weeks of rest.
The Dade county fair building is being erected at the personal expense of H. M. Flagler. Ten new brick stores are to be built in Lakeland this spring, as well as several residences. The Rollins college ball team has won a game from the Bartow Milltary Institute nine.
It is estimated that the celery farms around Sanford will produce 150 carloads this year. The church of the Immaculate Conception (Catholic) is to be rebuilt in Jacksonville at a cost of $60,000. Bishop Weed laid the corner stone of the new St. Johns Episcopal church in Jacksonville last Wednesday. The wife of Dr.
Henry E. Palmer, a leading and popular physician of Tallahassee, died last Sunday evening. The old Magnolia hotel at Orlando is being remodeled and refitted ard will soon be opened up as the Hotel La Casa. Adams' jewelry store, Tampa, was robbed of $2,000 worth of diamonds in broad daylight last Friday. The robbers are in the toils.
There are 1,700 acres planted in potatoes at Hastings, 700 acres more than last year. Some of the plants are now 18 inches high. The East Florida Seminary at Gainesville is said to be doing fine work and there is great interest being taken by the students. John Chase of Haverhille, addressed a big crowd in the court house Monday night on the subject of Socialism. This at Tampa.
The Cubans living in Tampa are hot because the wicked police won't let them indulge their favorite sport of chicken fighting on Sunday. It is stated that the wind blew 77 miles an hour in Jacksonville last Monday evening and that many plate glass windows were broken other damage done. Lake City Daughters of the Confederacy gave an entertainment last week and raised $40 with which they will build a fence around the veterans graves in the cemetery. Strawberries were plentiful in Orlando on Monday at 15 cents per quart. One man there sold over 2,000 quarts before the price went down, at 25 cents per quart.
Gov. Jennings ordered the flag on the capital building at half-mast last Saturday out of respect to the menory of Dr. J. L. Curry, trustee of the Peabody and other educational funds.
Rev. O. A. Meyers is dead at Tallahassee. Mr.
Meyers was formerly editor of the Gamesville Sun, and was at one time U.S. district attorney for the southern district of Florida. A government engineer is at Miami engaged in surveying channels and basins preliminary to deep ter. As soon as the surveys are made a. channel will be mapped out and dredges put at work.
The government hyacinth sprayers are having trouble at Enterprise, where cattle have been killed from eating the treated vegetation. The work has been stopped pending another investigation. Several policeman have been suspended from the Tampa force for using language unbecoming to an officer. If this thing was carried to its legitimate end there would be few police officers sure of their job. J.
H. Perkins of Monticello has sold his big plantation near Greenville to A wealthy man from West Virginia who will engage in raising grain and hay extensively, and who will convert a large part of the plantation into a hunting preserve. Aasistant Postmaster Conoley of Punta Gorda was taken to Tampa Friday by Deputy United States Marshal john Thigo. Conoley is accused of opening a letter containing $2,000 in checks and appropriating the contents. The grand jury has not yet returned an indictment in the case.
I. E. Cooper has been arrested by Sheriff Fielder, at Punta Gorda, suspected of being the assassin of the late Marshal Bowman of that place, and has been placed in the county jail at Arcadia. Cooper has resided at Punta Gorda several months, having gone there from Fort Ogden. He is about 37 years old.
The officers of the Florida state troops in Jacksonville anticipate meeting a great many of the officers of the state troops here on March 11. The meeting has been called by Adjutant General Foster for that day, and in addition to this meeting the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, is to meet here on the same day. As there are a great many of the officers of the state troops who are Knights, there every assurance that the military convention is to be largely -Times-Union. Come now, money talks. In his! sermon at the Kavanaugh M.
E. church, South, in Gainesville, last Sunday night Rev. W. J. Carpenter the pastor made the following declaration: "I will give away $100 to any man who will show me where the Bible states in a single instance that any person was ever immersed or flipped any under man the who water; will will show give me in the good book where a woman ever took sacrament; and will make it another bundred to any person can point me where the scripture says A word againt gambling.
VERBAL ALIASES. WORDS THAT GET TOO FAMILIAR TC SUIT SOME TASTES. The Scientife Fad of Clothing Old Things In New Terms-Some Words the Meanings of Which Are Commonly Misunderstood. When the report was recently circulated that a prominent public man had lost his life through accidentally inhaling a quantity of carbon dioxide, the man in the street began at once quiring what carbon dioxide was. As a matter of fact, carbon dioxide is merely another name for carbonie acid gas, one of the products of combustion and a constituent of atmospheric air.
Carbonic acid gas is known by several different names, as, for instance, carbon dioxide, carbonic oxide and car. bonie anhydride. Consumption as a name for a terrible and widespread disease is known and understood by practically every man, woman and child in England. But the medical fraternity, ever on the lookout for something new in the way of professional nomenclature. elected some years back to call it phthisis, and then just when that unspellable word began to be known and recog.
nized they evolved yet another-tuberculosis. And as with consumption so with most other complaints. A quarter of a century ago even eminent physicians were content to speak of smallpox, of typhoid fever, of lockjaw. Today they are called variola, enteric and tetanus respectively. A doctor when giving evidence before an ignorant east end jury the other day said that the immediate cause of death was "a violent and prolonged fit of combined epistaxis and stomator.
rhagia." It would, one would think, have been far easier for him to have spoken of a bleeding at the nose and mouth, and he would at all events have had the satisfaction of making himself understood. Most people now living can remember the time when bacteria were known generically as animalcule--a not very strictly scientific definition, perhaps, but one easily understandable, and conveying, moreover, a distinct idea to any one of ordinary education and intelligence. For that very reason, doubtless, the title in question was voted out of date and old fashioned and the word "bacil11" was substituted. This means, literally, "little sticks," certainly a most novel definition. but one that scarcely strikes the average lay mind as being either lucid or suitable.
Nevertheless, It was accepted, and at last became familiar to the man in the street. That of course could not be tolerated. Imagine a bacteriologist using a word which conveyed any meaning to anybody outside his own charmed circle! The idea is both degrading and preposterous: so he set to work forthwith and invented a whole host of ritic verbal aliases. He called them for example, omycetes, neuromuskelzellen, megacocci and polymorphonuclear leucocytes, as well as half a hundred other things; while for the chemical substances incidental to science he invented such delightful terms as "tetra hydroparamethyloxyquinoline" and "tetramethyl- The craze, too, is getting commoner among other than scientists. Take the word "reeking," for instance, and ask your friends what they understand by it.
"Reeking?" one will say. "Why, soaked with wet." derive reeking weans dripping with, moisture, some amusem*nt from his surprise when you tell him that reeking means "smoking, steaming." A chimney can reek. When a horse reeks with moisture, it is because its danks smoke and steam. The change from the real meaning to that given it in popular, present day phraseology can easily be traced. Anything very wet will reek in frosty weather; so the wetness has been assumed to be the real characteristic of reek.
Then there is "lurid," which nine people out of ten use in an entirely wrong sense. Ask a man what lurid is, and he may answer correctly, but the chances are that he will say, "Red flame, orange or bright yellow." Of course, lurid means smoky or dull color. London fog is lurid. Thick, suffocating smoke is lurid. Lurid and livid are almost synonymous.
Lurid flames are flames choked and hidden by smoke. A lurid sunset is not a brilliant one, but one dull and gray and cheerless. Of course, the use of verbal aliases is not an absolutely new departure. It is only that we of this generation in our wild strivings after novelty have so enormously increased and multiplied them. The taste of our grandfathers and lay rather in the direction over and over grandfathers again two or three long and uncommon words.
Thus bonorificabilitudinitatibus, as a synonym of fame, eminence, occurs and recurs with almost depressing regularity in the plays of old pre-Elizabethan dramatists and is even used by Shakespeare on occasion. It was partly in ridicule of the silly custom of using this and other similar Idiotic verbal doubles, which bad survived in part even until his time, that Rabelais makes Pantagruel speak of gasachaquevezinemaffretiding my poor eye" and ask angrily of Mr. Mauhound whether it was not enough to have ligoscopapondrillated us all in our upper members, but you must also apply such morderegrippiatabirofreluchamburdureca burdurecaquelurintimpaniments -London Tit-Bits. to our Keep posted on county affairs by taking the News--41 the year. CURIOUS STORIES.
From the News of the Week. TITLED BELLE'S SAD ENDIn the death of Joanna Bulger of Boston, a woman who has for many years supported herself by hard work, is revealed a romance that will very li. ely make some hearts che in London. Fifty, belle years ago native Miss Bulger was of her Irish county, the daughter of nobility and the heiress to $100,000 a year. The aged Earl of Donegal, whose recent marriage to a beautiful young American girl has caused a stir on both sides of the Atlantic, is said to have been a relative.
Bulger's betrothal to an English army officer was so distasteful to her father that he broke up the match, and the girl slipped away penniless to America to hide her secret. Her life here has been full of hardship, and it is somewhat surprising that she left $1,300 in one of the city savings banks. There is no one to claim the little fortune. WANTS HUBBY TO TAKE A BATHA letter came to the Baltimore health department from a woman hiving in the fashionable neighborhood of Charles street stating that there was an urgent case for the department at her house. health warden was hurried to the house.
The woman said the case was her husband, whom she wanted the health department to force to take a bath. She declared that he had not had a bath for six months, and had not changed his clothes for two months. The husband then appeared on the scene. He was polite enough, but firmly told the health warden that he had not the slightest idea of taking a bath. Asked whether he was afraid of water, he replied in the negative, but said the side." only way he likes water is "on the The warden reported to Health Commissioner Bosley, who has placed the matter before the city officers to advise him if there was any law by which he can forcibly administer a bath to the man who doesn't want one.
Consumptives Are Welcome. The Alkaloidal Clinic, a monthly magazine published in Chicago, and whose circulation is confined to physicians, has a long article in its February number concerning Florida as a resort for consumptives. In the article a are more than 2 hundred statements from leading physicians of Florida, and representing every part of the state, and all agree that consumptives are made welcome here. Palatka is represented by Dr. W.
H. Cyrus. Ever since the dissemination of the contagion idea the lot of consumptives has been grievous. They nave been denied transportation oli she trunk lines running to the west from Chicago and St. Louis.
What effect a general statement from physicians all over Florida will have as an inducement for them to come to Florida is not known. Dr. Cyrus is of opinion that consumption is contagious, but not in the same sense as other contagious diseases. The germs of consumption are in the sputum, and these are only absorbed in a dry state from carpet sweepings, etc. He is also of opinion that in the sandy soil and pure air of Flor.
ida there is little danger to health of the people from harboring persons afflicted with consumption. From the article in the above mentioned journal it would appear that leading physicians in all parts of the state hold to the same view. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR 'Tax Deed Under Section 8 of Chapter 4888, Laws of Florida. Notice is hereby given that H. W.
Brusie, purchaser of Tax Certificate No. 1183, dated the 3d day of Jury, A. D. 1899, has filed said certificate in my office, and has made application for tax deed to issue in accordance with law. Said certificate embraces the following described property situated in Putnam county, Florida, to-wit: All Grove Lots 107 and 108, Crescent City.
The said land being assessed at the date of the issuance of such certificate in the name of 0. W. Robinson. Unless said Certificate shall be redeemed according to law, tax deed will issue thereon 01 the 4th day of March, 1903. Witress my official signature and seal this 28th day of January, A.
D. 1903. JOSEPH PRICE, Clerk Ct. Ct. Putnam County Florida.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR Tax Deed Under Section 8 of Chapter 4888 Laws of Flori 1a. Notice is hereby given that W. B. Meyers, purchaser of Tax Certificate No. 20, dated the 3rd day of July A.
1899, has filed said certificate In my office, and has made application for tax deed to issue in accordance with law. Said certificate embraces the following described property situated in Putnam county, Florida, to wit: of nw t. section 11, township 8, range 26 -80 acres. The said land being assessed at the date of the issuance of such certificate in the name of Unknown. said certificate shall be redeemed according to law, tax deed will issue thereon on the 17th day of March, A.
1903. Witness my official signature and seal this the 11th day of Feb'y A. 1903. JOSEPH PRICE, Clerk Ct. Ct.
of Putnam county, Florida. SOMETHING THAT WILL DO YOU GOOD, We know of no way in which we can be of more service to our readers than to tell them of something that will be of real good to them. For this reason we want to acquaint them with what we consider one of the very best re.edies on the market for coughs, colds and that alarming complaint, croup. We refer to Chamberiain's Cough Remedy. We have used it with such good rest Its in our family so long that it has become a household recessity.
By its prompt use we haven't any doubt but that it has time and again prevented croup. The ence, testimony and is we given suggest upon that our our readers, own especially those who have small children, always keep it in their home a8 a safeguard against croup. -Camden (S.0.) Messenger. For sale by Ackerman druggists. 6 A Coming Entertainment.
The Woman's Fortnightly Club is making plans for an elocutionary and musical entertainment which is to be given at the home of Mrs. A. E. Wilson on Friday evening of next week, February 27th. An admission fee of 25 cents will be charged.
and the money realized will go to the W. F. C's. library home fund Everyone is cordially invited. The elocutionist engaged for the evening is Miss Gertrude Lyon, a talented young lady now in the state for the winter, and whose home is at Norwich, Conn.
She comes bearing the most flattering press eredentials from Stamford and other Connecticut cities, and those who have had the good fortune to hear her say that a real treat is in store for Palatka people who attend the coming entertainment. py today. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR Tax Deed Under Section 8, of Chapter 4888. Laws of F.orida. Injunction Denied.
Judge Bullock has denied the application for a permanent injunction restraining J. E. Lucas from operating a line of steamers on the Ocklawaha River. The injunction was applied for by the the Hart Line. Mr.
Lucas was represented by Hous. B. P. Calhoun and S. J.
Hilburn. Mr. Lucas is exceedingly Notice is hereby given that W. L. Fallon, purchaser of Tax Certificate No.
563, dated the 2d day of July, A. D. 1900, has filed said certificate in my office, and has made application for tax deed to issue in accordance with law. Said certificate embraces the fol owing deseribed property situated in Putnam county, orida, to wit: Part lot 3, Book R. p.
190 Section 28, township 10, range 27-3 acres. The said land being assessed at the date of the of such certificate 10 the name of Clark. Unless said certificate shall be redeemed 80- cording to law, tax deed will issue thereon on the 24th day of March, A 1903. Witness my offcial signature and seal this the 19th day of Feb. A.
D. 1903. JOSEPH PRICE. Clerk Ct. Ct, of Putnam County, Florida GOT A BIG FAMILY QUICKLYPeople are wondering if the duch*ess of Connaught will ever have another experience similar to the one she has just had in India.
The duke and auchess were staying at the hotel in the hill station, Mussourie, kept by a clever, energetic little Swiss. In the hotel there was a woman who had been sent to the cool climate to await a happy event. Her husband was obliged to remain in the plains, but he had been promised by the hotel proprietor that he should have a telegram directly, there services was were any news. required At to send the telegram; ne ordered his horse, galloped down to the postoffice and wired: "Boy arrived, send dhai" (native wet nurse) On returning to the hotel he was met by the doctor, who told him that there was another baby. Back he rode, and sent off 2 second telegram: baby, send fwo happened twice more, until the telegrams had been sent to the astonished husband, and a message from him to the Swiss.
"Repeat telegrams" had been complied with. hours the unfortunate man arrived with four wet nurses in his train. The duch*ess was godmother to the four infants. HUSBAND'S GRUESOME FINDLooking for work to keep alive, George Grandon of Brooklyn wandered along the water front of the East river in Brooklyn early one morning last week. There was little further incentive.
His wife, for whom he had been willing to work for years, was missing. She had left her home on the evening of Dec. 5 last and failed to return. For weeks Grandon walked about the streets of the city looking everywhere for some trace of the missing woman. No thought of work entered his head until he came to feel the real need of food and found himself penniless.
Even then he worked only long enough to get few dollars with which to continue his search for his wile. As he walked along the dock at the foot of Adams street he saw 8 crowd gathering at the end of the long pier. a woman," he heard someone say. "Poor thing; guess she got tired of it and jumped in." Grandon elbowed his way through and lifted the tarpaulin covering the face. "Minnie" was the only word that fell from his lips.
Minnie was Mrs. Grandon. Grandon fell unconscious across her body. GRASS EYE FOOLS EXPERTSThe civil service commission at Washington recently received from a concern which manufactures glass eyes a request for an indorsem*nt of its wares on the ground that "a hazel, crystal left eye worn by one of our patrons was marked far-sightedrefraction excellent' in a recent examination for the All the details of the matter were given, candidate's name, the date on which he took the examination and the percentage he made. The commissioners found that the statements in the letter tallied with the records.
The candidate was summoned before a medical expert at the commission's New York office and the report of that officer confirms the company's assertion. The medical officer says the left eye was of glass, but that it could hardly be detected, as it rolled in unison with the other. was of the same color, and looked for all the world like a natural optic. The physician was in some doubt himself. he says, even after the usual tests, until he tapped the candidate on the pupil with the butt end of a penknife.
The commission announced with considerable heat that it would not comply with the company's request. F. E. Reeder of Welaka will address 8 meeting at Chamberlin's Hall, Crescent City, next Monday night and organize a temperance al(liance,.
