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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-08-27
An Exploded Boom.

A long, lank, lean and chronic Anti Potash
Boom met the new fat and saucy Atlanta Big
Bold Boom, on a hot, sultry day.
who are your" asked the Ii. b. ID. Boom.
II am the old Anti-Potash BOOM was the
sad reply, as the persplraton rolled down, and
it leaned heavily on the %. Ii. II. Boom for sup
port.
Don't lean on me-" said;the B. b. u. Boom.
Il may look strong, but am quite young-on-
ly IA months old, am growing rapidly, and am
mighty weak in the knees. i am doing the
work which you have failed to do, although
yOn are 80 years old. You are old, and tough,
and rich, and don't require. a support. But
what causes you to look so thin of later
"WeII, hardly know" replied the Anti Pot
ash Boom. my physicians tell me that my a
bilities have been oyer-rated, and that while
trying to whip out all opposition by boast and
Drag, that have proven my inability. Old
age is also creeping on me-having fought
near 80 years before any one knew was living
and now am unable to perform feats that
Others are doing. i am collapsed; my friends
have turned against me and call me names,
and oh LOrdy, how sick | become at the very
sig mt of b. Il. Is. Hold my head while die"
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-08-27
Provisions for an Ocean Steamer

Provisions for an Ocean Steamer.
London Times.
Few person are aware of the extensive
nature of the victualing on board the
great ocean steamers. Each vessel is
provisioncd as follows for the passengers
and crew: $500 pounds of butter, 5000
hams, 1000 pounds of biscuits, exclu-
sive of those supplied for the crew; 5000
pounds of grapes, almonds, figs and
other desert fruits: 1900 pounds of jams
and ieIlies: timed meats, 5000 pounds;
dried beans, 5000 pounds; onions, 5000
pounds; potatoes, 10 tons; flour, 5000
barrels, and eggs 1900 dozens. Fresh
vegetables, dead meat, and live bullocks,
sheep, pigs. geese. turkeys, ducks, fowls,
fish. and casual game are generally sup
Piled at each port, so that it is difficult
TO estimate them. Probably two dozen
bullocks and 60 sheep would he a fair
average for the whole VOYAGE, and the
rest may be inferred in proportion. Du-
ring the summer months, when travel
ing is heavy. - fowls are often used in
soup for single dinner.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-08-27
PALATKA, FLA, AUG. 81, 1885.
The Daily News
Reading Notices.

WANTED.-A sober and reliable man Of ex-
perience to take charge of an orange grove.
Apply to II. l. GREEN, Shoe Store.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Daniel
Manning, and family. and Mrs. Zacha-
riah Chandler, are at Watch Hill.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-08-27

Regular and transient boarders can
find first -class accommodation ut the
Orange Bloom House, Lemon street.
travellers. Rates reasonable.
RUTLEGE HUNTER,
ct Proprietor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22
Idle Farmers,


America is no place for idle farm
ers,'' says the London Mart-LGne En-
press. That will serve as damper
upon the hopes and expectations of
some men who seem to have the idea
that a farmer may come hither and
make money by hiring laborers while
the employer rides around and occa-
sionally oversees his men. A success
full American farmer is no such proxy
farmer as this. and he is successful be-
cause he is hard worker and an ex-
cellent manager of such labor as he
hires. The average American farm
laborer does one-half more work than
an English workman, because he is bet
ter educated, used to employ his brains,
is self-confident and self-dependent, and
what is more than all, because his en-
ployer works with him. The. result is
that our farm laborers always become
farmers in few years, and then are
employers of labor. and il is this am
bition which makes good workmen.
No, an idle farmer will find no place
on farm in America; he may become
an inmate of a county poor-house, but
will never rise above that position. -
N. y. Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22
FROST AND FERTILITY.
The Part Which the Former Plays in Dis
integrating and fIellowing the Soil.

The Part Which the Former Plays in Dis
integrating and Mellowing the Soil.
Persons who have not studied the
subject carefully do not understand the
part which frost plays in disintegrating
and mellowing the soil and in setting
free the elements of plant food. Never
theless, it is the chief means by which
the fertility of soils in Mort hern eli
mates is held from soon becoming bar
rem. The lack of frost is the chief
reason why soil continually cropped
so soon becomes infertile in Southern
climate. 1t is the hard freezing and
subsequent thawing of the soil, espe-
cially in fall-plowed lands, that render
it in the spring so soft and friable.
Hence the reason. well known to think
ing farmers, why hard winter, or a
succession of item, gives other seasons
of great fertility. Yet how many farm
ers are there who fal to take adj
vantage of this natural law, to get the
greatest advantage from it by fall plow-
ing, leaving the surface rough to the
acton of frost How many farmers
reap the full benefit of this unlocking of
the elements of fertility? Not those
certainly who pillow loans and clay
when 50 wet that they will not disin-
tegraSe when cleaving from the plow-
share.
Every clod or lump in field detracts
from its fertility in proportion to its
size. An analysis of lump and of sur
rounding mellow SOL may show identi-
cally the same. In the case of Jumps,
however, they are no better than stones,
Roots can not penetrate them; the fer
tility contained is locked up. The tend
ency of all cultivation, or rather OF soil
long cultivated is to become compact
below the line of blowing. Summer
droughts often compact such soils to
such degree as to render them almost
impermeable to the water of rains.
Hence many soils become pasty and run
together. Hence, again, the value of
understanding as a corrective. Whyp
The frost enters such soil more deeply,
and it remains open and porous down
to the line of the tile.
When not filled with water the pores
of the soil are filled with air, and this
air is always giving up moisture to dry
SOIL Thus two important ends are
reached such soils are moister during
droughts and they are dryer in wet
spells. Thus just the proper conditions
are secured for the growth of crops,
through the vapor of water in the soil,
for root-fbers do not take up actual
water but water in the state of vapor-
the state in which it is found in moist
soils. Chicago Tribune.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22
WORKlNG-DAYS.

A-wooing you came with your dulcet voice,
Your manner so knightly and debonair;
Who would not proudly have been your
When you wove her garlands SO rich and
rare?
1t was well enough in the counting time
When your tongue spoke only in tuneful
praise,
With love-words set to a silvern rhyme;
It's other now in the working-days.
Could ever she dream, that tender girl,
When you pledged her the tenderest care
That your brow would knit and your lip
would curl
When She poor child, was your welded wife?
Would the pretty maid have been swift to
yield,
Caught in the tolls Of your winning ways,
Had a rift in the futures veil revealed
The gloom that should shadow the working
days?
IT'S easy to carry the hardest load
When two who share it in mind are one;
IT'S pleasant to Chamber the toughest road
With friend who is CHEEKY from sun to
sun.
But brushes the burden with aching weight
LII only the weaker that burden raise,
And bleak the path in the frost of fate
When jars the music of Working-days.
o holiday sutton, so brave and trim,
So gay Of mien and so soft of speech,
Pray what is your ring but fetter grim
To the wife who is learning what tyrants
teach?
Would it cost'you much her home to bless
With the love you promised, the love that
strength and sweetness through all the
stress
And all the strain of life's working -daysP
Margaret e. SdTlgster, In Hdrper's Bdzdr
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22
a MEAN TRICK.
Dastardly Attempt TO Confuse Right
Meaning Jurist.

Dastardly Attempt to Confuse a Right
Meaning Jurist.
I witnessed mean trick one night
last week, l was returning home at
one a. NJ. from Brooklyn. There was
Brooklyn newspaper man with me.
We were passing through very quiet
dark street, with rows of stately brick
houses on either side of the way. You
couldn't tell one from the other They
were identical in their outward looks.
and there were no numbers visible.
"Ah," said my journalistic friend,
''this is Judge Jones' club night.
''Why do you make that unprovoked
assertion?'' / inquired. t-f%
= Because he lives in this row and /
see mis- sign out. -
'His sign? What dc you mean?n
'Look at the gate under the stoop of
this house. You remark a futterino
scrap of linen tied to the bars? Welt
that's put there by the servant that the
Judge may identify his own house when
he returns home in the small hours
loaded to the muzzle, J"
That's an infallible scheme, y said /
in enthusiastic admiration of this de-
vice. s
''Infalliblea" repeated the waggish
Brooklyn journalist Don't be so
sure of that. Wait till the thing has
stood the test of time.'
And with that he deliberately united
the linen signal and, walking two doors
down. tied it to the area gate of an
other house. ~
What did you do that for?i [ asked,
as he hurried me away. ~
TO convince some people that they
are not as smart as they think them
Selves" said he, with chuckle.
''But the Judge may be shot for
burglar"
THAT will be no irreparable loss.
There are fifty persons anxious to fill
his place. Offices never go begging in
Brooklyn" said the hard-hearted
jester.
| have been watching the papers for
an account of the accidental shooting
of a Brooklyn Judge. but not line has
appeared. | wonder how the Judge
got out of the scrape, anyhow.
should like to have his story of the adj
ventures of that early morning, but of
course would not dare to ask him. ".
Z. Star.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22
TEMPERANCE.
CALL OF The CHILDREN.

can hear the voices of the children,
Calling in the dawning and the dusk:
sweet as cleIt pomegranateS are their faces,
SWeeter than the scent of myrrh or musk.
SoIter are their voices than the lutte is,
Soft their laughter falls as falls the dew;
Yet the voice of their lamenting pjerces;
Wheresoe'er we go it doth pursue.
For the little children all are crying
In the lanes, the alleys and the streets.
CRYING with the sobbing that betrays them
When they tain would hide from those they
Crying in the depths of loathsome novels.
Crying il the homes of wealth and ease
Crying in the crowds of costly cities
Crying in far, silent places by the seas
Evermore goes up the ceaseless wailing.
Neither dawn nor dusk can bid it cease:
And no change of swift-returning seasons
Has the power to say unto it: Peace.
Md the daisies in the fragrant spring-time,
Mid the roses in the summers flush
Mid the fruity treasures of the autumn,
Comes no change no pause, no moments
hush.
For the children weep for fallen fathers,
Weep for homes made desolate as death;
Weep for fear, for shame. for wild forebod-
ing,
Cover before demons bhghting breath;
COVER before an unSpeakable terror,
Cover before objectionable wrongs,
And their hearts sound only miserereS,
When their young lives should be glad as
And they cry against the cup that blights
them
Till the cry is deeper than curse;
Deeper, aye, and to our ears who hear il
Seems the cry far sorer, bitterer worse
And TO God, who listens up in Heaven,
Could no curse pierce half so keen
As the frenzied sobbing of the children.
Reaching to the depths of Heaven serene.
And they call to the great world unheeding:
Help us, brothers, or we perish ere our
time;
Save us from our fathers, from our brothers.
Save us from the woe, the shame, the crime.
HurI the cup far from us, oh. our brothers;
We are weak and bound by cruel thongs;
We can only sob on in the darkness,
Urge in baby voices all our wrongs.
Help us, oh-our brothers and our sisters,
Innocent are we. yet held in thrall;
Rise! deliver us from out the bondage
Which the stoutest heart may well appal.
Give us help to live the lives of children,
Clean, and pure, and innocent, and calm;
Help to change the voice of our lamenting
TO song of triumph-to psalm.
Brothers, shall we turn away our faces?
Shall we leave the children in their tears?
Shall no echo from our happy chid-lfe
EPlead with us down through the lengthen-
ing years?
Must we leave them to the blghting presence
vi wrong so deep, so dark, so dread,
That we joy to see the faces that it dlrkens
Lie before us, faces of the dead?
Nay, my brothers; nay, my sisters, hearken
To the children calling in Gods name;
All their trusting faces turn toward you,
Plead with you to help them in their shame.
Cruel ye who would be kind and tender,
Far more cruel than We feel or know,
II ye leave the children undefended
From the cup of cursfng and its woe.
Hottie TU'g G'1SooId, dH Chicago Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22

was only few dollars, that would not
hare amounted to anything without his
wife's care His children were tidy and
sweet, and everything around and in
the house had that CHEEKY look that
rested him so after the hard, dull day
at the. mill They sat again at the
table that had been source of comfort
and pleasure to him for so many years,
and he wondered how he could have
enjoyed it so long without even thank
ing the woman who had provided it.
True, she had his money in bringing it
all about, but how else could his money
be of use to him? Who else could have
turned it into just what he needed for
years? And he began to have an unde-
fined feeling that it took more than
money to make home. He glanced at
his wife's face as he buttered his last
slice of bread.
1t was not that of the fair, rosy bride
whom he had brought to the mills years
before, but at that moment he realized
it was far more dear to him, for he knew
that she had given the bloom and fresh
ness of her youth to make her home
what it was. His daughters had her
rose-leaf cheeks, his sons her youthful
beauty, all had her cheerful, winsome
ways, and comforted him now as she
had in those days when, hardly knowing
what care meant, she had lived for him
alone. And new thought came TO him:
"Who was comforting her now when
she had 50 much care?n Was not that
what he had promised to do when he
brought her from her old home? He
sighed as he thought how far he had
drifted from her while in bondage equal
to Cuffee's. Nay, he felt that her chains
were far more binding than any which
had ever held a negro, and that his
obligations to her were SO much tia
greater.
Something called the children ous Of
doors, and Mr.. Jarvis took his easy
chair. His wife came and stood beside
him. II fear you are not well, Donald;
are you displeased with meP''
He drew her into his arms and tod
her how her words had showed him
what manner of man he was, and there
were words spoken that need not be
written, but from that day forth diff
ferent man was proprietor of the Jarvis
mills, and there was brighter light ir
Mrs. Jarvis eyes, for at last she had
something of her own, nor has she re-
GREETED that she applied for wages. -
chronological Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22
WHY HE DIDN'T SAY AMEN.
A Business Which the Lord VIII Not
Take HINDER His Care.

A Business Which the Lord VIII Not
Take Under His Care.
A few years ago, as Charles G. Fin
ney was holding a series of meetings in
the city of Edinburgh, many persons
called upon him for personal converse
ton and prayer. f.
One day a gentleman appeared, in
great distress of mind. He had listened
to Mr.. Finney's sermon on the previous
evening, and it had torn away his
''refuge of lies" Mr.. Finney was
plain with him, pointing out the way of
life clearly, and his only hope of saliva
ton. The weeping man assured him
that he was willing to give up every
thing for Jesus that he knew of moth
ing he would reserve-all for Jesus.
Then let's GO upon our knees and
tell God of that" said Mr.. Finney So
both knelt at the altar, and Mr.. Finney
prayed:
40 Lord! this man declares that he
is prepared to take Thee az his God. and
cast himself upon Thy care. now and
forever
The man responded: "Amenr'
Mr.. Finney continued: 80, Lord!
this man vows that he is ready to give
his soife, family and all their interest, up
to Thee "
Another hearty "Amenr' from the
man.
He went on: 80 Lordl he says that
he is also willing to give Thee his busi-
ness, whatever it may be, and conduct it
for Thy glory" .t.-t
The man was silent-no response.
Mr.. Finney was surprised at his silence,
and asked:
"Why don't you say amen to
this?''
because the Lord will not take my
business, sir; am in the spirit trade"
he replied III ~ .-
The traffic could not withstand such
test as that. "The Lord will not
take such business under His care.
He demands its destruction, as one of
the mightiest obstacles to the progress
of His. cause in the earth. --NGttonGI
Presbyterian -. ..
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22
4 Suggestive Item.

i"The Brooklyn Health Commission
err" says a New York paper, suspect
ing some of the dairymen who supply
the city with milk of using brewery
slop as food in their diaries, lately EN-
ployed detective for some weeks to
work the cases. All these
dairymen will be prosecuted The
above suggests some questions to our
mind. Is it any. worse to feed brewery
slop to COWS than to men, women and
children? If milk from COWS fed on
brewery slop is utterly unfit for hu-
man food" while it is abundant and of
fine appearance, how about the milk of
human mothers produced by drinking
lager? If it is a good and lawful thing
20 prohibit dairymen feeding brew
cry Stop to their cows, is it not an
equally good and lawful thing to pro-
hibit saloon-keepers from selling "brew-
cry slop' to human beings to drink
GOLC}en Rule
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22
Please lust sit down and think if an,

Please Just sit down and think if any
child of yours, any friend, anybody
that comes into contact with you is be-
ing led by your example to taste and
love the drink. You can do without it
and be far better off in health and
pocket. Then do so, and give no oc-
casion to stumble or fall to any one in
your way.
Do not drink at all; then no one who
follows your example can be injured.
4. Because in drinking you help sup
port and perpetuate the traffic.
And what is this traffic? Behold it.
Millions of bushels of food are by it an
nually wasted and turned into a subtle
poison. Millions of dollars of capital
are kept by it from productive business,
and turned into an enginery of waste
and ruin. Idleness, discomfort, pow
erty, misery. crime and death crowd to-
gether in its wake. The homes it de-
stroys, the hearts it breaks, the lives it
sacrifices, the hopes it quenches, the inn
mortal happiness it destroys, are simply
incalculable. 1t is a foul, dark, devilish
blot upon our civilization. There is no
good thing it aids, there is no evil thing
1t does not render more evil.
Every dime you spend for drink goes
to build up and keep this monstrous
system of evil. Why should you help it
with your money? Every time YOU
darken the doors of dramshop your
influence is given to the traffic. The
more respectable you are the more help
you are to it. Why should you lend
your influence to this dark system OF
wrong?
Every time you put your money or
influence at its back, that act is known
and noted by many. The example
otells. Others do as they see you do,
your custom brings others custom, and
thus by example you are bringing grist
to the fatal mill. Why should you
draw custom for such an awful busi-
ness?
And the traffic has the benefit of your
Endorsement. Whenever the drunk
ards shame brings the blush to its
face, whenever the earnest, honest de-
nuneiation makes its conscience uneasy,
whenever the tears and expostulations
of the,wife or widow soften its heart
for the moment. whenever the terrible
ghastliness of the ruin it works flashes
before its vision, it finds support and
comfort in your sanction and influence
and name, and wrapping itself about
in the robes of your responsibility for
gets the shame, stiles conscience, de-
MES the prayer of the heart-broken,
and fortifies itself for the continued
work.
As q moderate drinker you injure
your health, you play with an awfully
fatal temptation, you lead others astray.
and put your money and influence at
the back of a most vile and destructive
traffic. Can you afford to do that?-
Prof S. E. Foster. If. F.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22
Prohibition elsewhere.

It is a notable fact that, in addition
to what is going on in civilized coun-
tries, there is a movement against liquor
in some of the uncivilized countries of
the earth. Madagascar, only half q
century out of barbarism, rigidly pro-
hibits the importation, manufacture and
sale of alcoholic liquors. The African
Trading Company of Zambezi, native
corporation, will not allow liquor to be
transported in their ships. This be-
cause of its dreadful effects among bar
barous and semi-civilized people. 1t is
one of the scandals and shames of
Christendom, that the commerce Of
Europe carries liquor to all the uncivil-
lied nations. and TO this cause, more
than any other. is due the degradation
and gradual disappearance of once
happy and healthy races. -Demorests
Monthly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22

In Alabama, any person is Liable to a
fine of two hundred and fifty to one
thousand dollars and Imprisonment for
twelve months for concealing liquor in
a prohibition county, with intent to sell
the same or gve it away. Also to
knowingly permit any one to conceal it
on ones premises renders a person la
bic to like Imprisonment. The sale Of
liquor annuls man lease, leaving him
without remedy, and persons frequent
ing place where liquor is concealed
are punished by fine ana Imprisonment,
and for all convictions in liquor cases
the prosecuting attorney gets double
fees. ~
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22

TIE vigorous work of the Brooklyn
IN. " Excise League IS having
marked effect Tie successful prose-
cution of liquor-dealers for violations
of the Excise laws has caused large
numbers of saloon-keepers tofsurrender
their licenses rather than stand prose-
cutiOn.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-22

The white brick now made in
France from the immense accumula-
tons of waste sand at glass factories is
likely to prove valuable industry.
The process of production consists in
subiecting the sand to an immense
hydraulic pressure and then baking in
furnaces at a high temperature so as to
produce blocks of various forms and
dimensions, of uniform white color
and of almost pure slick. The product
is unaffected BY the heaviest frosts or by
the sun or rain.