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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-21
THE TUG OF WAR.

Among savages the boy becomes
. man when he has won his first
scalp; with us, whatever his age, he
must prove his ability to hold his
own in the struggle with his fellows.
A. with individuals, SO with COM
nunities, virtue untried is always
matter of doubt, and inherited
wealth can not command that re-
spect and esteem which is freely
given to what is won in fair battle
with equal foes. The time has now
como for Florida to enter the ring
and prove herself worthy of the
place we have asked for her among
her sister states. The time Is not
30 long past since the crops of Kan
eas were consumed by insects so
fierce that they skinned the fence
rails-our brothers Of the west met
their trials like men and won golden
opinions on all sides. The sudden
destruction Of TIVE millions will fall
heavily on all of r,, but we are not
men if We fold our hands idly as the
stream of time passes us carrying
onward to others the wealth which
might have been ours. The richest
pearls are drawn from the lowest
depths, and calm thought, the firm
purpose and the strong hand should
scorn to yield till they have trans
formed the flood which brings ca
lamity into the captive river rolling
. golden tide of prosperity past
hsppy shores to which it brings the
commerce of nations from. the great
ocean of business which is the cen
ter Of modern life.
Florida has hitherto been wonder
fully blest; to her now comes the
tug Of war which i. to prove her
strength Of heart and hand. If we
have heretofore rested content on
the bounties brought to us by our
climate we are warned now that this
earth is not Eden, and the coin is our
greatest affection as when the mu-
siciao was deprived of his hearing
and the naturalist of his sight. The
stupefaction of despair will never Get
tie upon US; even had our groves been
killed more would have been set out
Immediately. As it is, those who
have lost the crop from which they
expected to realize the cash i:nmedi-
atsly needed will turn their hands
to the work that lies nearest, and
thus We shall develop new sources
of prosperity for the future and
prove to others that the s'sand bank"
over which arches a sky kind as our.
10 richer than the mines of Golconda
could make ii. Let our people but
have the knowledge and industry
to develop what we have at our
doors, and we will be more in love
with Florida two years hence than
we are to-day.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-21
Blood

Is the life. and he is wise who remember. il.
But in March OF last year QSs4D l contracted
blood poison. and being in Savannah. Ga, at
the time. went in the hospital there for treat
msut. | suffered very much from rheuma-
tisn at the time. did MT get well under
the treatment there, nor was cured by any Of
the usual means. / have now taken seven
bottles OF Swifts Specific and am sound and
well. II drove the poison out through bOils
on the skin. DAN LHAuY.
Jersey City. y. J.. Aug :. 1855.
Two years ago 1 contracted blood poison.
After taking Prescription. from the best ply
sicians here and at Dallas. | concluded TO visit
Hot Springs, and on reaching TexcrEsna
doctor recommended me TO try Swift's
Specific, assuring me that il would benefit ne
more than Hot Springs. Although ths
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-21
OUR WATER SUPPLY.

1t has been proved by actual ex-
pertinent that the water from our
srtesian wells is pure and whole
some, that the sources from which it
il drawn is practically inexhausti-
BILE and We know that it can be east
Il Supplied to every house in the
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-21

It has been decided by the pioneers of
Eustis, Seneca, Mount Dora, Tangerine,
Bay Ridge, Indian Springs, Sorrento,
Zellwood and the intervening territory
to organize a permanent association, to
be chartered by the homesteaders and
purchases of land who lived or owned
land here before Jan. 1, 1880. A pre-
liminary meeting will be held at an
early date.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-21
Poison

had pro 1uccd great holes IN my b-ek and
chest, and had removed all the hair OF OF my
head, yet began TO improve in weeks
time. and the sores began TO heal. and were
entirely gone inside of eight weeks.
WILL JONES. Porter. Union Pass, Depot
Cisco, Texas. Julyl 3. ISIS.
Sold by all druggists.
Treatise on Blood and Skin disease free.
The SWIFT SPECIFIC Co..
Drawers Atlanta. Ga
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-21
Disappointed Employees.

Savannah News.
The House had spasm Of economy
Friday. The employees of the House
have for long zine been given an ex-
ira months pay every congress. The
custom has been for each new congress
to vote this extra pay to the employees of
the last congress. On Friday the resolu-
ton to give an extra months pay to the
employees of the Forty-eight congress
was defeated by quite large vote.
The people will not find fault with the
House for refusing to pass this resolu
ton. There never was 4 time when such
a resolution ought to have passed. The
House employees are not overworked.
While congress is in session, they have
a pretty easy time of it, and when it is
not in session, which is about half the
time, they have nothing TO do at all.
They are paid, however. whether con-
gress is in session or not.
Everybody will agree probably that
the extra months pay business was stop
ped none too soon. What right has
congress to vote away the public money
in the shape of gifts? 1t is q wonder
that there have not been congressman
with sufficient courage to attack this
abuse long before the present time. If
the House employees deserve n gift of
500 or $500 apiece there would be no
objection to their having the extra pay,
but they do not deserve it. Every gov
eminent employe has just as much right
to a gift out of the Treasury as they have.
They have been favored, and, that too,
without any reason. Let the Forty
ninth congress continue as it has begun,
and it will make a record for economy.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-21

At Tavares the Peninsular house bear
has at last met the fate OF all bad bears.
He escaped on Sunday, and a party of
men and boys followed him, and he was
finally lassoed around the neck while
up tree and strangled.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-01-21

w. III. Hinton, who killed Jesse Ro-
gers at Jasper sometime ago, gave him.
self up to the authorities day or two
ago and stood a commitment trial before
Justice j. E. Hanna, which resulted in
his being bound over to the next term
of the circuit court in the sum of 50, 600.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
Mica aud Its Various Uses.

Mica has a variety of uses. 1t splits very
readily into thin, elastic plates, which are
generally transparent, and sometimes not
more than one-3oo, 000th part of an inch in
thickness. These are used in setting OBJ
jects for the microscope. Large plates of
it, often a yard in diameter, are found in
Norway, Sweden, Siberia, Peru and Mex
leo. There it is sometimes used as q. sub-
stitute for glass and is not liable TO be
broken by the discharge of cannon. 1t is
also employed in a powdered state to give
a brilliant appearance to walls, and as a
fina sand sprinkled on writing. When it
il a state of very fine powder it is known
As cats gold or cats silver. according 10
Its color, 1t is usually colorless, but is
often white, grey, green, red, brown black
or yellow.-Atlanta Constitution.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
Claims to Have a CHASTITY curio.

Curiosities are now the rage, and many
collectors are proud of their specimens;
but if II will visit my place on Grand
avenue / will show them a curio that
would make an antiquary's mouth water.
There is only one of the kind i'll existence;
there never was another and there never
will be. Rare3 Well, I should think il
was. 1t is the left ear of John Brown. II
is not a wax imitation, nor the ear of some
ordinary individual procured from a dis.
secting-room. 1t is the bona ide ear OF
John Brown, all except the "bony" part.
1t is well authenticated, and its history is
this: When the post mortem) was made,
the physician who conducted the examina.
ton cut off the left ear and sent it to Gov.
ernor Wise, who retained it till his death,
when it fell to his son., and this son in per.
SON gave it to me for my collection. There
are few people whose left eur will be pre-
served and treasured for tw~enty-seyen
years after they are gone.-Georee Conk.
lin in ODE -Democrat.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
Railroads in Central America.

There is much in the region and approach
to Isalco to remind one of Vesuyius. 1t
is the most active volcano on the CONT
nent, and its whole appearance, it's ire
mendous power in throwing stones, scoria,
and lava to heights estimated at 4, 200 and
even 800 feet, render it the most Interest,"
ing mountain of Central America, if not
the western world.
The railroad mounts up steep grades at
a distance from the volcano of only five
miles, and bends about it until it reaches
the village of Armenia. This town is a
place of Spanish days, and is in a broken
region where coffee comes to great per.
lection. A few miles further will carry
the road to the capital of San Salvador,
and another projected branch bends around
the volcano to Santana, a city in the coffee
region.
All Central American railroads are mar
row gauge, and generally have Americans
back of them, though some English CAPT.
tai has been invested in them. They are
generally well built, excellent masonry
and iron bridges being the rule. Many OF
the ties are made of lignum vitae and an
other kind OF wood equally hard, and to
fasten the rails to them holes are bored
fCi the spikes.
1t is easy to see that when completed
from the Pacific ocean to the Caribbean
sea as the projected lines contemplate,
they will prove very remunerative as we'll
as opening to commerce new and undevel-
oped fields; moreover there will come an
awakening of the native population out OF
q lethargy inherited from the cruel Oh.
preston Of the Spanish rule.-Gautemala
Cor. Kansas City Journal.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
9ailg gsess and 9akntaiaa
BE PATIENT WITH THE LIVING.

Sweet friend, when thou and I are gone
Beyond earth's weary labor,
When small shall be u need of grace
From comrade or from neighbor;
Past all the strife, the toll, the care,
And done with all the signing;
What tender truth shall we have gained,
Alas, by simply dying2
Then lips too chary Of their praise
VIII tell our merits over,
And eyes too swift our faults to see,
Shall no defects discover;
Then hands that would not lift a stone
Where stones were thick to cumber
Our steep hill-path, will scatter flowers
Above our pillowed slumber.
Sweet friend, perchance both thou and /,
Ere owe is past forgiving,
Should take the earnest lesson home;
Be patient with the living!
To-day's repressed rebnke may save
Our binding tears tomorrow;
Then patience, cen when keenest edge
May whet a nameless borrow.
IT'S easy to be gentle when
Deaths silence shames our clamor,
And easy to discern the best
Through memory's mystic glamor;
But wise it were for thee and me,
Ere love is past forgiying,
To take the tender lesson home;
Be patient with the living.
Good Cheer.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
ADVICE 10 Mothars.

HErn
Are you disturbed at night and broken
OF your rest by q sick child suffering and
crying with pain OF outing teeth If so,
send at once and get abottls of Mr.
WMsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP fol Child.
rem Teething. ts alue is l~ncalculable
II will relieve the poor little suffere,
Immediately. Depend upon it, mothers
there is no mistake about it. 1t cures
~dysentery aud diarrhoea, regulates the
stomach and bowels, cures wind colo,
softens the gums, reduces inflammation,
and gives tone and energy to the whole
system. Hrs. Winslop's Soothing Syrus
for Children Tsethsng is pleasan to the
taste, and is the prescription of one OF
the Oldest nurses and and best female
physicians in the United States, and is
for sale by all druggists throughout the
would. Price % cents a bottle.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
cure For Pies.

Piles are frequently preceded by a sens,
Of weight in the back, loins and lower par
Of the abdomen, ~causing the patient t.
suppose he has some affection of the kid.
neys or neighboring organs. At times
symptoms of Indigestion are present, a,
aatulency, unessinesa of the stomach, etc
A moisture, like Precipitation, producing 8
dizagreeable itching, after getting warm i.
a common attendant. Blind, bleeding
and itching Piles yield at once to the ap.
plication of Rosanko's Pile Remedy, which
acts directly Upon the parts affected,
absorbing the tumors, aliaying the intense
itching, and efecting a permanent cure.
Price fifty cents. Address, The DR.. Bo.
sanko Medicine Co., Piqua, o. sold by
tPnrdy1 Il Brecht.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
Mustang Liniment is older than
most men, and used more and
more every year.
Scrofula of Lungs
Relieved.

l am new 40 years old, and have suffered for
the last fifteen years with a lung trouble.
Several members of the family on my mothers
side of the house had died with consumption.
and the doctors were all agreed in their opinion
that L had consumption also. 1 had all the
distressing symptoms of that terrible ditease
l have spent thousands of dollars to arrest
the march of the disease; I have employed all
of the usual methods, not only in my own case,
but in the treatment of other members of my
family, but temporary relief was all that / OBJ
tanned. l was unfit for any manual labor for
several years. By chance l came into posses
sion of a pamphlet on BLOOD and Skin Dis
ease" from the Office of Swift Specific Co.,
Atlanta, Ga. A friend recommended the use of
Swift's Specific claiming that he himself had
been greatly benefited by it's use in some lung
troubles / resolved to try it. About 4 years
ago l commenced to take 8, 8. s., according to
and ansSf have used a aboae fifty IL 1 bo thTag0r1 Theg re eenle;
are most remarkable. My cough has left me,
my strength has returned: and 1 weigh sixty
been three years since / stopped the use of the
medicine, but l have had no return of the dis
ease, and there are no pains or weakness felt in
my lungs, 1 do the hardest kind of mechani-
cal work; and feel as we'll as / ever felt since /
was a boy. These, know, are wonderful state
ments TO make, but L am honest when / say
Icy " hS AEticuCc l. utIllu GO-uay 10
Swlfts Specific. 1t is the only medicine that
brought me any permanent relief. l do not say
that swift's Specific will do this in every case,
but most positively affirm that it has done this
much for me, and l would be recreant to the
duty l owe to suffering humanity if 1 failed to
bear this cheerful testimony to the merits of
this wonderful medicine. | am we'll known in
tie city of Montgomery, and can refer to some
OF the best citizens in The city.
t. ]. HOLT.
Montgomery, Ala, June 25, 1885.
Swift's Specific is entirely vegetable. Trea-
lse on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. 8
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,
1877 W. asd Street. NY.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07

Some n not long since invented a pa
pier mache coffin. Among the advant-
ages claimed for it was its close resem.
blance to wood, its lightness, waterproof
quality, and incombustibility, though
why this latter quality should recommend
the new casket is not apparent. The pa
per casket has beer patented, but has not
been put upon the market. Iron and
bronze Baskets nave been for some time in
favor, and recently marble caskets have
come in. They are practically indestructi-
BILE, being made of a composition of pow
dered marble dust and Portland cement,
and nodded and baked like pottery. A
certain peculiar post norton vanity has
found qualification in transparent glass
collins, but hard wood is still more used
than any other material, and for all prac-
tical purposes it is doubtless, rs satisfac-
tory as anything else. On the score of
healthfulness, indeed. the less durable the
casket the better for the surviving popu-
lation of The earth.-Chicago Herald.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
A MANS Breath Catchine Fire.

n.y. Il IuaIs BTeGCn SatCIllnS flres
I can not do better thar give the facts in
the words of the patient himself, who
communicated them to me by letter. He
writes as follows:
"a rather strange thing happened to my
self about a week ago. For a month or
so I was troubled very much with foul
eructations. / had no pain, but the smell
of the gas which came from my stomach
was disagreeable to myself and to all who
happened to be in the room, About q
week ago., as l said, l got up in the morn
ing n lighted a match to see the time,
and when l put the match near my mouth
to blow it out my breath caught fire and
gave a loud crack like the report of a pis-
tol. l burned my lips and they are still
sore. l got q terrible surprise, and so did
my wife, for the report awakened her."
From the above occurrence it would ap-
pear that the conditions known as "hali-
tosis," or diseased breath, is not only a
source of misery to the sufferer and those
compelled 10 associate with him, but may,
under certain circumstances, become a
condition of danger to the unfortunate
possessor of it. In the present instance
the gaseous results of the imperfectly di-
gestGd food had their atoms OF carbon and
hydrogen so arrangedias to give rise to the
presence Of carbureted hydrogen, the in
fammable and explosive qualities of
| which came into play when mixed with a
due proportion of atmospheric air in pres
ence of the ~unguarded light of the burn
ing match. may add that the patient to
whom the accident happened is a most in
telligent and observant man, and that the
diet l prescribed for the indigestion from
which he suffers from time to time has
alcohol excluded from it, and l know that
my instructions in that respect are acted
upon.-Dr. Beatson in British Medical
Journal.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
The sunday-Closinr Acc IN wa1e,

The Welshmen who do not approve of
Sunday-closing acts, nave improved upon
q device oInnaon IN Scotland. In the
north country you can sometimes get a
glass of whisky on Sunday If you pay six
pence for a biscuit to eat with It. The
drawback here has always been that some
persons have drunk the whisky and then
given the biscuit back. But in Wales q
barber undertakes to shave you on Sun
day at a higher charge than that made on
week days, and to refresh you he gives
you q glass of beer. 1t has become SO COM
mon for Welshmen to defer getting shaved
till Sunday that the law has interfered;
and Sunday shaving is now called liquor
selling without a license.-St. James Ga
Zette.s
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07

Emerson never was a platform orator.
he was purely an e~ssayist. His manner
was very far from energetic, and his sub
iect matter unfit for a popular audience.
He never drew n crowd twice. In all
towns he had a handful of worshipers. He
was one OF the purest, most gentle of linen.
No committee was ever annoyed by his ex-
actions. But if he had forgotten his
manuscript, alas for everybody. He could
do nothing. He had no ready wit. And
he was very likely to forget his papers.
Emerson had u habit of seeing in people
that which other people did not see. He
was wonderfully interested in any nature
that was downright earnest. II their
views diyerged sharply, all the better. His
question was, how and why is this max so
sincere? No one can be in dead earnest
without there is a truth somewhere in
him. He did not care to lecture, and it
was with much difficulty that he was
drawn far from Boston. Globe Democrat.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07

Wing paper, and saw that evidently the
same figures had been forwarded to that
journal. So he ceased his own work n
clipped out The Express table as pub
lished and sent it to the composing-room.
Next morning, on looking over The Trib-
une, Mr.. Greeley saw that there was an
important error in the returns. He forgot
that he had clipped the table from The
Express. In u great rage he went into the
composing-room and wanted to know who
the - had set up that matter. Tom
Rocker examined the proofs and found
that a part of it was set by old Maj. Moul-
ton, and the rest by james Bayard, who
had been in the office more than a dozen
years. He charged OF Bayard's tripod:
Jim, 1 thought you'd been here long
enough to know something. Look at
that"
What's the matter with it?n
eMatterl Why, grent Scott, it's all
wrongl" [Only Mr.. Greeley was never
known to say great Scott.]
(Which partSp asked Bayard.
First '~take'-right there. See"
"Mr. Greeley, l didn't do that"
"You liei Who did?n was the absurdly
impatient response of Mr.. Greeley.
Bayard laid he believed Major Monlton
set up the text take" Mr.. Greeley at
once assaulted the calprit: Major, you've
been a printer over forty years, and ought
to know something about typesetting.
Here you've made a blanked fool of your
self n mel" The major examined tthe
paper, blushed and said he was sure he
had followed copy.
Followed copy!' Followed copy!''
mimicked the employer, angrily. "That's
what you always say when you make 8
blunder. Wen see! Come into the proof
room. There's a blankety-blanked jack
ass lying around this office somewhere
that ought to be kicked from here to Sing
Sing. IN see, now, whether it's you OF
Clark"
Clark, the proof reader, brought out the
copy, and the moment Mr.. Greeley's ey,
fell on the reprint cut from the Express
he recollected that he had not finished the
table himself, He collapsed, called Bayart
into the group, turned around to the win
dow and exclaimed: Here! Kick me
Kick me! Kick me."-W. A. Crotfuti
Lette..
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
An Undoubted BIessinu.

About thirty years ago a prominent
physician by the name of DR.. William
Hall discovered or produced after long
experimental research, o remedy fol
diseases OF the throat, chest and lungs
which waH of such wonderful efficacy
that it soc gained a wide reputation il
this country. The name of the madi
cine is DIR. VIM HALLS BALSAM
FOR THE LUNGS, and may be safely
rolled on as a speedy and positive cure
for coughs, colds. sore throat, Sc.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-06-07
He Wanted i Car 70 himself.

When. the Duke of Sutherland left his
l,000-ton yacht ut Fortress Monroe and ran
up through here to New York to catch a
steamer for Europe his grace was very
much bothered by She curiosity Of his
fellow passengers in the Pullman, who
stared at him as if he were an escaped
lunatic. This wasn't the worst, though.
Somehow the news of his passage had got
ahead of the train, and at every station
the doors and windows had as many eyes
as Argus, all conferred on him. Finally he
called the conductor and whispered to
him, The functionary shook his head in
reply and walked away muttering to him
self. Some folks want the earth for a
quarter he said, when he got out ct
earshot of the duke. 4Whysn ooh, his
nobs there, says 4 can't travel with this
mob. Can't Q give me q car to my
selfg'p
BY the way, his grace was the worst
dressed man In the car-shabby yachting
fiannels and a battered derby. But this
sort OF thing is proverbial with peers
Philadelphia Press.