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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-26

and take from ourpockets in private?
From the ticket as proposed by the
republicans, we can have no hope
of change. At time when our
vital necessities urge progress, and
the affairs of fourishing NUM-
cipality demand enlightened guild
ance, ignorance and incapacity are
offered-the hardest stone that was
ever given to an appetite hungering
for bread. When robberies occur
nightly and the police go unrebuked,
we are asked to continue the present
government with as much confidence
as if it was the best under the sun.
At time when financial embar-
rasment clogs the wheels of progress
and puts to naught the efforts of all
public spirited citizens, we are asked
to elect as members of our council
men without financial standing, OF
ability. This must not be.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-26
THE STATE CONVENTION.

There seems to be an insistent de-
sire on the part of our Gulf Coast
exchanges to have the democratic
convention meet at Pensacola. IF
this means that they wish any par
ticular candidate to be imposed on
the party, we can assure them that
the question of location cannot pos
sibly have any decisive weight on
the choice of the convention. We
of East Florida want the man who
can win; his views must be pure and
his record stainless, his democracy
unquestionable and his views pro-
nounced and clear. Satisfy us, we
have found the man, and at Pensa-
cola or Tallahassee, Palatka or San
ford, the decision will be prompt
and the endorsement cordial and
unmistakable.
But the people will frown upon
wire-pulling, and the candidates
have done wisely in waiting for the
choice of the people to formulate
and declare itself. We are glad to
see that no democrat in Florida is
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-26
The Philadelphia Times.
I $50 4.
TIMES 1884

THE PHILADELPHIA TIMES, 1854.
THE TINES will enter upon the new year
fore IN its histOry-more widely read and
quoted, more heartily commended, and more
herCely criticized, with q more complete or
ganiZatiOn. and an able ssOff of contributors
and with the same independence and fearless
ness that has made it successful and powerful
in the past.
THE TIMES has no party to follow. no candi-
dates TO advance, but will meet every issue, as
it has ever done. with consistent devotion to
the right, to honest government, and the pub
lie welfare. And. while maintaining its posi-
tiOn as the leading journal Of Philadelphia, it
will aim 10 be continually in the advance in all
that can add value to newspaper
The value of newspaper is not in its size or
display, but in the intelligence and care, the
cOnciseness and freshness with which it is
edited. THE TINES spends laVishly for news
from all parts OF the world, but all It's dis
patches are carefully edited and condensed, in
order to give the complete news of the day in
the most concise and attractive shape, and with
II a large variety Of entertaining and lnStruc-
tive reading. The best writers at home and
abroad are employed to enrich its columns,
and to make it a journal adapted both TO the
busy man and TO the leisure OF the home cir
Gle, a welcome visitor to intelligent and honest
citizens of every political, religious and social
taste.
THE WEEKLY TINES is altogether different
from the weekly newspapers OF twenty years
ago. The day of those papers have gone by.
The telegraph and better local newspapers
everywhere, especially in the thriving centres
Of rural population, have made the old weekly
metropolitan newspaper unSatlsfying. Those
that cling to their ancient usages have lost
their hold on our forWard-moYIng people; they
are but shadows Of their former greatness. and
they have but a shadow of their former power.
Those papers have had their usefulness but il
is gone; and, with it. they are going, too. 1t
was not the fault of the papers; it was the i'm
prOyement Of the country that brought about
the change. Men and women, wherever they
live, now require fresher news; and they re-
uuire more than news.
THE WEEKLY TINES gathers off the types Of
every passing week whatever has lasting in
terest to the people at large, and sets it before
them in such generosity Of paper and print as
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IS year; ten copies, SIS year: twenty cop
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up of every club.
THE TINES.
PHILADELPHIA.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-26

urging his claims upon the party or
making his nomination matter of
necessity on any pretext. We have
many able men, any of whom would
make a good governor. Our politi-
cal fortunes depend on no one man,
and all sections will unite in support
of the nominee of the convention,
who shall represent the desire for
frugality in government, energy in
action, and purity in political meth
DDS. To such an one, the nominal
ton will mean an election, and the
independents will find themselves
entirely without an issue in the
appreciation of the people.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-26

The Times Union never descends
to personalities, but it has called us
so many names lately that we sup
pose some one has been sent around
to investigate US. But he can't pos
sibly buy drink from us, and as he
will probably be absent when the
case is called, his alleged discoveries
make little difference. We have
been "a iournaIette," ga minor" and
now we are Gan outrage" but when
he ascribes to us enough influence to
to bring about the reign of terror
he says is devastating the state, he
does us proud. But we know the
gentle editor does not think us
bloodthirsty or he wouldn't talk So.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-26
THE OUTLOOK.

We are glad to see by our valua-
bic exchanges that throughout Flor
ida the promises of past years have
ripened into a harvest for all our
people. Real estate commands
ready sale at good prices everywhere,
and even the cold, the effects of
which were so much dreaded,
has furnished renewed encourage
ment by demonstrating that such
waves, while unusual, are perfectly
harmless. The growth Of wood
was checked, but the compensation
will be found in a crop especially
heavy and of good quality The
insects infesting the trees were, in
some localities entirely killed and
the trees will be all the healthier for
what was looked upon at the time as
a calamity.
While we rejoice that her sisters
have participated in her good for
tune, we believe Putnam has had
more of the benefits of the season
than any of her neighbors. Not
only have many persons with COM
mand of abundant capital settled
within her borders, but her resour-
ces have been developed and many
enterprises of moment to her future,
projected or begun. Palatka has
developed in trade and size to a
wonderful degree. Her wholesale
houses furnish goods to interior
towns on the lines of railway where
Jacksonville and Savannah two
years ago enjoyed the whole pat
ronage, and she has been enabled by
the enterprise of her business men
to take a commanding position on
the road she will henceforth travel.
Her young groves are blooming on
every hillside, and her vegetable
farms are encroaching everywhere
on the wilderness lately abandoned
to COWS or wild beasts.
That Bloxham's administration
has been a splendid success to the
people and state, only chronic grum-
blars can deny in face of the facts.
That many abuses exist we know,
but the past few years have seen
enough of solid results to cQmpen-
safe for many sins, both of omission
and commission. With such a past,
outlined on the darkness of republi-
can rule since the war, the democ-
racy can confidently appeal to the
people for renewed confidence and
further support. With a better
constitution we can command better
results, and the party should make
no mistake by hesitancy in deliver
ing itself on this point. No attempt
at frugality or pretext of such ex-
cuse can blind the people to the
urgentneed and paramount necessity
of the measure.
We need a constitution suited to
our larger growth and we must have
it at the earliest possible moment.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-26
OUR CITY ELECTION.

The issue is now fairly joined in
municipal affairs, and our citizens
must now take grounds for or against
reform. For many months the city
has been confessedly in need of a
stricter police force and more en-
ergetie executive government. The
council, hampered by the need of
funds, has confined itself to the cor
rection of some fragrant abuses, and
the stopping of leaks which for
years have drained the treasury.
The pamphlet lately published dem
onstrated conclusively to all fair
minds that under the old
order of things the citizen was
robbed under the forms of law
whenever it was necessary to do
any public work, and that the clerk
of the board of aldermen was utter
ly incompetent. Under the skilful
hands of Mr. MOates, the statement
as published grew painfully out of
chaos, and the discrepancies yet
showing, make the inetficiency of the
present clerk perfectly patent The
mcompetency Of the clerk and the
utter uselessness of the marshal was
acknowledged by a prominent col
ored republican at the citizens mass
meeting. Yet this same republican
who realized so well the absolute
necessity of reform in the munich
pal government, accepts a place
among the very men he has con-
demned, and shoulders the response
biity for abuses he has helped to
expose.
In community where robbery is
a common occurrence, gambling no.
torious, and disorder rampant, the
republicans offer us a police headed
by man indicted for felony, the
protector of gamblers and thieves;
they nominate an officer who has
been tried and found wanting b1
their own confession, and in this
momentous crisis of our city's his
tory, they ask us to vote for the
champion of ring, and a council
man who is innocent of all knowl-
edge of public affairs or policy.
They ask us to endorse a ticket
confessedly inefficient or totally I'M
tried in all the exigencies of bust
ness, when we need water works and
gas works, when our city must have
credit or remain village, with the
knowledge that she has been dwarfed
at the threshold of a larger life.
These are the facts into which the
nominations of Tuesday night trans
late themselves.
And to the consideration of these
questions, all property holders in the
town of Palatka, and all interested
in her future growth and continued
prosperity must bring careful
thought. Is reform impossible?
Must we always be bound in the
same rigid lines to the same tread
mill routine, and shall the same
abuses forever shame us in public
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-26
PALATKA, FLA, MARCH 26, 1884.

REGISTERED AT THE PABATKA POST OFFICE
AS SECOND-CLAss MAIL MATTER.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-26

Who hath vanity Who hath
much babbling? Who hath s'lead-
ing daily" Who hath picked up
the choleric end of the rural press !?
Who clamoreth with a loud voice,
and saith, "Verily, am not a great
little editor % Let us be tender
with the idiosyncracies of the i'm
migrant cracker.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-03-26

BY sPEER & HARRISON.

The DAILY NEWS is published every morn
ing, except Monday, and delivered by carriers
IN the CITY, or mailed postage free, for 80 cents
a month, S1.50 for three months, $3.50 for six
months, or IS per annum.
THE WEEKLY NEWS is an SPACE 48-column
paper, published every Saturday, containing
all the news of the week. local and general. 1t
is the largest and handsOmest weekly paper
published in Florida, and will be mailed post
age free for 81 a year, 80 cents for six
months. Specimen copies free to any address.
Local advertisements 20 cents per line for
first insertion and 10 cents per line for each adj
ditional insertion. Special notices 10 cents per
line. Reduced rates on continued advertise
ments.
All advertising bills become due pro rata
every month. Local advertisements due at
the expiration of the time for which they are
inserted.
All remittances should be made by express,
mOney-Order or registered letter.
Address PALATKA DAILY NEWS,
PaIatka, Fla.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
A Costly Piece of Furniture.
The finest and most costly iiece

The finest and most costly Piece OF
furniture ever conceived was the famous
peacock throne" of Delhi. T~avernier,
a skillful French jcweler, saw it, and
made a computation of its intrinsic val
ue. He calmly estimated that its econ
omical worth, aside from its claims in
al artistic way, was $50, OOO, 900. 1t
was but 6 feet high and 4 feet broad,
but it was composed of solid gold inlaid
with rare oriental gems. 1t received its
name from the jeweled images of pea
cocks which adorned its canopy. This
canopy was also of gold supported on
twelve gold pillars, and hung all around
with a fringe of pearls. On each side
of the throne stood two chuttahs, or
umbrellas, symbolical of royalty. They
were made of crimson velvet, embroid-
cred with gold thread and pearls, and
We're equipped with solid gold handles
and diamonds. This throne was CON
structed by Austin de Bordeaux, at the
order of the Emperor Shah, the same
enterprising monarch who had con-
strncted the Tai, the pearl mosque Of
Agra and the other most remarkable
monument of architecture in these parts.
The peacock throne was carried away
by the Persian Nadir Shah, while the
ieweled ceiling was melted down by the
Mahrattas at the time of their inva-
sion in 1859. This ceiling was valued
at about $3.50, 900.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
A Woman Of Nerve.

In these days the epithet nervous"
is frequently applied to woman, but
rarely is one spoken of as a woman of
nerve" Psychologists say the sex has
physically degenerated since the days
when u grandmothers did their own
work and brought up large families.
But we heard an anecdote which ex-
hibits one New England woman as inher-
iting the firm nerves of ancestors, who
never tainted and seldom trembled.
One night, a lady living in q town
near Boston was sitting up alone for
her husband, who was expected to ar
rive by q late train. Feeling a little
unwell, she went to the closet and Sc
lected a bottle which she supposed to
contain tinctnre of rhubarb.
Pouring out q tablespoonful, she
drank it. Its peculiar taste causedher
to look again at the bottles label. II
read aTincture of Aconitie," and then
she remembered that a strong decoction
of that poisonous plant lad been pre-.
pared for the horse.
Though knowing that her life was in
danger, she neither tainted nor screamed
for help, but went into the kitchen and
made herself a cup of very strong cot.
fee. After drinking it, she walked uI
and down, fearing to sit down lest she
might fall to sleep.
At five o'clock in the morning, one O.
the household, on coming down stairs
found her pacing the floor, but as calm
as if walking for exercise. A physician
was sent for. He quickly came, anc
said that the coffee had saved her life
Lest some injurious effects might follow
he prescribed another antidote.
Only those who have been in similar
situation cur enter into tho feelings o
that woman as she read correctly thu
bottles label. But few, even of THU
class, a do nc more than admire hel
strength of will and nerves of steel.
The anecdote warns against the tor
prevalent habit of putting a bottle con.
tanning poison among bottles ofmedi
cine. 1t also reminds every reader thai
lis expedient to read a bottles laba
before imbibing its contents.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
Pad-Pad-Padding.

There is a tendency nowadays toward
padding in papers which readers can
not too strongly repress, if they value
their lives, or that which goes to make
up their liyes-their time. The New
York Herald is responsible for this bed
guilt journalism. If the Herald has q
tive-word idea to say, it takes twenty
five to say it in, and then INDUCES in
vain-glorious fapdoodle overits "enter-
prise" Its cable letter is simply mad
dening; the padding-pudding is so rich
and SO redundant that it is almost i'm.
possible to find tho news plums. The
Chicago papers have faithfully followed
in the footsteps Of the Herald; if a barn
blows down they devote a page to it.
There will be adiagram ofthe premises
view of the barn before being blown
down; view of the barn while being
blown down; view of the ruins; inter-
view with the hired man,
who said he always knowed
it was a-going to blow down; interview
with the owner, with his and other
theories on barns blowing down; inter-
view with Professor Mugwump, the
distinguished Chicago savant, with his
views as to the reason why barns blow
down rather than up; comparative ia
BILE Of barn mortality in this and other
States for the last forty years, showing
percentage Of barns blowing down
compared with the i~lliterate vote; his
tory of barns from the earliest times to
the present; statement of loss-fve
hundred dollars. And does o suffering
Chicago public read this? Great Scott,
no! Nobody reads it but the proof
reader; not even the men who write
it-they haven't time. 1t serves, how
ever, as a peg to hang a boast upon
concerning enterprise. San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
Spare mat. Tree.

The waste of forest wood on this con-
tinent has been shamefully extrayagant.
Forty years ago wood was very plenty,
and to the farmer every tree was an
enemy. Now that the hills and plains
are denuded, planting trees and
patientlywaiting until theyattain growth
enough to be cut; for their timber.
According tosthe, Indianapolis News,
q farmer in Indiana is calling himself
hard James because he didn't leave the
hundreds Of black walnut trees stand
ing on his farm just as he had found
them when he settled on it thirty years
ago.
Like all the, others, he went to work
with might andmain cutting them down I
piling them in vast heaps and burning
them. 1t was heavy work, and his two
boys Giedl from the sprains received
while tnggings at the big logs. andathe
old man is broken in health, ffoa the
same cause For all this labor.hss has .
farm worth at most eight thousand doll
lars, whereas if he. had left, the timber,
standing, it would have been, worth 4
million dollars at least.
Agents for English and French ycom-
panies are securing the state, buying up
all old logs, stumps and odd trees that
are to bs found. The reason Sc this is
that no other wood is 50. well suited for
veneering as walnut.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
Cold and Feat Near the Poles.

We are accustomed to associate this
geographical position with extreme cold
(remarks the duke of Argyll in the April
number of Good Words. But the rocks
of Greenland tell us that, although this
is the case now, it was not the case in
former ages, and consequently that
there is no necessary connection between
an extremely low temperature and a
position near the pole. They tell us in
short, that this association is purely
temporary and accidental. It is strik-
ing and curious enough to find, in the
bleak headlands of the Isle of Null, on
ON own coasts, the leaves of an abun-
dant forest vegetation-the large leaves
of the plane tree, the evergreen needles
of the %texodium, Of the yew, and of the
pine, and mixed with these the frond-
like leaves of the tree called by botan-
lists "Salisburia," which is now an in
habitant of Japan. But the curiosity of
this contrast between the present and
the past, as regards climatal conditions,
is nothing to the still gerater contrast
in this matter which is presented by
finding the same fossil flora in the rocks
of Greenland-rocks whose surfaces are
o almost wholly bare of Vegetation,
and all the higher elevations of which
are covered with eternal ice and snow.
And yet even this contrast is not the
contrast highest in degree which the
rocks of Greenland present. The Mi
ocene flora, to which these leaf-beds be-
long, is a very old flora now. but there
was another flora much older, which
we have never seen in life, and which,
from its nearest living a%nalogies, we
are accustomed to think must have been
associated with almost a tepld and sire
my atmosphere. This is the fora OF
the coal Yet this flora, too,
in long ages before the Miocene, has
certainly fourished on the ares which
is now occupied by Greenland. It is
needless to point out what curious ques-
tons these frcts raise.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
The Prince ofwales Bored.
From the London Truth

NV VotANa0
The Prince of Wales has not so much
as gone to Royat for his health as to
avoid being condoled with on the death
of his lamented' brother. He has been
surfeited with conventional mourning
in Germany, because, as one of the
Prince Consort's sons he is Duke of Sax
ony. He could not traverse a village or
stop an instant at a railway station
without being pounced upon by we'll
meaning fun%ctionaries of the locality
and obliged to listen to a dull essay on
the shortness of life and the irreparable
loss the royal family has sustained. At
Darmstadt every lady wore a long face.
At Berlin the lugubrious ceremonial
observed by every mi who approached
him became intolerable. The Prince
vas thankful to find himself, after all
this simulated woe. in a republican city
where not a creature thought of pre-,
senting him with an address.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
home gymnastics. Every lady. is AM
bilious to be the possesssor of
wELL-RouNDED MUSCLES

nome gymnastics. livery lady, is m
bilious to be the possesssor Of
wEIL.-RoUNDED MUSCLES
and q full chest; and where she is not
possessed of them she ries to dupe the
public into believing that they are hers
by means of pads; or else she resorts to
quacks who advertise nostrums for the
Development OF the figure.
Take the biceps muscle of the arm,
for instance, one of the most noticeable
features Of q woman in full dress. How
much. i n your Judgment, will a few
minutes exercise each day for a year
increase the girth of this muscles"
"Give it up"
"Two inches. Enough to make all
the difference between a thin arm and o
plump one. And the same amount of
exercise given to the chest will increase
it how much? You have no idea?
From four to six inches or more. In
addition to the beauty given to the fig
ure by the full chest the increase in
lung power will serve to v~italize every
organ in the body, and will bring with
it a clear eye, good blood, and its at
tendant, a fair complexion, o springy
step, high spirits and q capacity for
enjoyment unknown before. An addi-
ton of three inches in the girth OF
the chest means an addition of fifty in
ches Of surface in the air cells of the
lungs. just make "A note of that fact
please, and remember hat while nc
doctor living can furnish drugs that vii
beneticially enlarge the lungs, ever,
man in Cincinnati can add fifty niche.
to their surface by a little regular exer
else.
"The season is now here when out
door exercise may be taken with comfort
and if l could impress the ladies of thil
n city alone with the Importance which
really attaches to the subject, I am con
fident that before winter again open.
more good will have resulted than ha,
been done by lifelong efforts Of the
best doctor in the city.
"Of course, an exercise that will de.
velop one set ofmuscles will not benefit
another. By practice you must find
out for yourself what movement affect.
each muscle, and direct your movements
accordingly. But it is safe to say that
the thrse exercises which I have given
you may de followed with profit by
everybody as they tend to produce a
full chest and an erect carriage, which
are desiderata required by every man,
woman and child.