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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-19
a QUEER STORY.
The Psychic Experience of a London
Author.
Especial Correspondence.I

Especial CorrespondenceI
NEW YORK, Aug. 3O-At the house of a
literary friend of Brooklyn few weeks ago l
met Mr.. and Mrs. Gustafson, of London. Mr..
GustafSOn won fame in England and also in
this country by his book on the drink ques-
ton entitled The Foundation of Death" His
wife, Zadel Barnes Gustafson. American born
and brought up, is poet and magazinist of
distinction, and while in this country is the
special representative of The Pail Mall Ca
Zette. MIR. Gustafson is a tall, dark haired
Sweoe, who retains enough accent of his ma
tive tongue to mark his nationality distinctly.
He talks rs well as he writes, though not so
well rs his handsome wife, a young-faced
beauty with gray hair
After the larger part of the company left,
the remaining few of us, feeling relieved
from the constraint which is the unavoidable
favoring of the atmosphere of a large com
pany, found ourselves chatting without re-
serve in the happiest manner imaginable. At
such times conversation Is really spontaneous
Bright thoughts, interesting experiences, hui
morouS adventures come forth in attractive
form and with spirited step move about for
the entertainment of those who called them
forth
Somebody said something about the super
stition of Ia NorweSianS regarding sleep.
us it toe, Ir. GuStlf>on," asked another
that they never wake anybody from sleep,
for fear of hurting the soul. which they be-
lieve To L. away from the body when one
sleeps =
"NcS; when the spirit travels they think it
should Ia permitted to finish its journey. A
sudden awakening is a shock"
How | wish lived in Norway said a
tirci woman, who looked as though she could
take six months uninterrupted nap if the
cares OF life would but permit her
Then the talk driftel toward the psychic
and mysterious, and Mr.. Gustafson told this
story:
Some years ago was visiting my home in
Sweden My sister was To h. married i'll a
few weeks and was anxious To have me re
main for the wedding. Though l wanted to
do 81, / could not. Business affairs called me
back To London n month before the wedding
occurred, and l did not see my sister again
for five Years. Then, when 1 went to visit
her and her husband, after greeting me, she
said: oh, brother, | have always been so
grateful To you for coming To my wedding,
although you stayed such a very, very short
time
/, knowing that had not been there, and
believing she was teasing me, said, Come To
your wedding, indeed; you know very well l
wanted TO come, if / did not
"Oh, to he sure you Were not here for the
ceremony, but you were here a little while
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He Found His Heart.

Il remember" said an old physi-
clan, "a man who in the forty or fifty years
of his Woodworking but prosperous life
hal never given place to a tender senti-
ment Children had come to him and
gone, and his eyes had never been wet with
a mans tears, but when four of his group
of stalwart boys went away to the army
that man found his heart. When these
boys in their make believe indifference
and their affectation of jollity came To
shake the old mans hand they were sur
prised to see tears running down his
cheeks, and in many a trying ordeal they
remembered that old mans face. From
that day he grew in tact and tenderness,
and lived in his declining years the emo
tional life that should have come to him as
a boy and young man. The whole country
grew wonderfully during the war. l do
not mean in prosperity, but in emotional
feeling. Inter Ocean "Curbstone Cray
ons.n
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At PalatEa with jacksonville. T.fgts.. 4. .
Nvst Hallway, and 81 Augustine pu.f t-.,5..zz
Halfway, and fast river steamers Tor ~
EustIuc, Green Cove Springs I..A--r--r.
AMI all points North, Fast AMI W,--f mi :
zap river steamers f1T south Ffar5.t.s
Nith the TWIN Screw Iron steamer = .Ft
fhihtkn, aud Steamship CITY 81 Month"; s
Tor Charleston, New York, Boston Fhif.,5.
-hIn. etc.
Mail trans mat f. clos" connection hatr .4--
wa = - h w KY, at JaCksonyIile wit
lhIl-c Coast Line, Fast Mail,
Al GAINESVILLE with Through Pullman .f...-
err over savannah, Florida y Western r.,
New orleans, Cedar Keys, Pensacola Sst,-
nah. ALBANY, hOutgons.rV It,t5IS,.f H. IL
Louis and all points West
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Yer Springs
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AT Leesburg With the ST Johns s.I.ts 4
hustis division OF the IIUrida Southern
way, and boats on Lakes Harris and ~ -5-
fOI points on Lakes
AT Femberton's Ferry with Soutb FI,,.s b..
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FROM BOSTON.
A Scrap from Prentice milford About
Writers.
EBBoN OLIVER.
Especial Correspondencc.l

Especial Correspondence
BoSToE, Aug. 3O.-Able and interesting
writers are increasing at IA rate alarming to
those long in the profession. Everybody"
now writes and almost everybody writes
we'll New literary stars of second and
third class magnitudes are constantly
appearing III the horizon. y new con-
stellation rises, sets and starveS about
once in seven years. The average pay on
newspapers may be sig week. When the
literary horse is worked out, hc or she goes
off in corner and dies quietly and miser
ably. OF late peoples writings most
valued who have done something worthy Of
note and can tell of it. An exConfederate
or Union general who tells his story
III a magazine probably gets as much for it as
the mere Bohemian receives for half a years
work in telling other peoples stories, An
article from Jay Gould or John l.. Sullivan
would bring the average Bohemian's yearly
salary. This is rs it should be. People want
that those who have done something should
tell themselves how they did it. The mere
writer who can do nothing but write is really
now a medieval institution. Besides, the
profession, connected with newspapers, is
not respectable. To lie known Us a news
paper man. or correspondent is to he prac-
tically tabooed III fashionable and business
circles. \ newspaper feller," male or female,
is regarded as IA sort of spy or eavcsdropper,
ready to pounce on any bit of gossip, real,
manufactured or inferred, and sell it for q
price. OF course, the public wants the gossip,
still they are disposed To regard its collectors
as safe only when they are poaching on
other peoples preserves. These observations
are intended only for the latitude of Boston.
PRENTICE MILFORD.
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ENGLISH WOMEN.
What Caste Does for Them Over the Sea,
Poor Things


Gen. Adam Badeau in one of his recent
articles Ola the aristocracy, tells the following
unpalatable truths: The women of tie aris-
tocracy are profoundly affected by the insti-
tuition of caste. Their lives and characters
are widely different from what they would
be without its influence. Born dependent on
the other sex: ineligible, for the most part,
to independent rank; only the daughters, or
wives, or sisters, OF mothers of peers; de
privcd Of any equitable share of fortune;
doomed to be- more than any other women,
the nero appcndage of maII-all the disad
vantagos of are for them intensified in u
peculiar degree.
The two facts of their absolute dependence
and their consequent and necessary anxiety to
please man-far other and greater than the
natural desire OF woman for "a mate-cannot
but tell upon the character and develop
traits not la themselves attractive or lovely.
They make the women less trustful, less IN
selfish. They dctract from the exquisite
delicacy which IL womanS greatest charm
The woman Who is known To seek a man is
far les likely Ia Ia sought: yet every high
born woman i'll England feels that she is in
the market waiting for the highest bidder;
every desirable man thinks he has but u
throw the handkerchief
Finally, the English women are inferior ia
position To the men, and this not only makes
them inferior in individuality and force of
their behavior. There Is something about
them when compared 10 the men that
makes you think of the Difference the second
rate people pay a lord-a relative absence OF
distinction. No one can posses pSrfe.t man
neSs who * incessantly conscious that his own
dignity Is inferior to that OF his companion,
and no woman in England Is the equal Of O
man This Il one result OF caste :
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wants accompanied them, and the party took
up their quarters at the City hotel at Alex
andria, where Washington used to sleep, and
which was then one of the fashionable taverns
CT the south. 1t still stands on the corner Of
Cameron and Royal streets, and is now used
as AN auction house Hero the young wife
became sick; and within few weeks she died.
During her sickness her husband, for so the
man calls himself in the epitaph on the tomb
stone, watched tendcrly over her. But he
would have nothing t. DO with the citizens of
Alexandria, and would give no account what
ever OF himself. The mysterious couple OF the
City hotel were the talk of the town, and the
lsUssips of the city were trying to learn some
thing about them They We're baffied at every
point. The French maid servants could not
speak word of English, and the physician
who attended the beautiful lady's last hours
would say nothing i'll regard to heG. When
death came the female servants and the hus-
band alone beheld the face of the dead wife,
and they alone were present when the funeral
services were celebrated The citizens wens
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Alexandria is only seven miles from Wash
ington. Ferry boats and trains run every
half hour, and pleasant way to go to it is to
cross the Georgetown bridge in a carriage
and drive past Arlington, where Gen. Lee
used to live, and on down the Potomac shore.
The ferry takes you from the ragged edge Of
the capital city, and a half hours ride down
the Potomac lands you on the Alexandria
shore, very near where Braddock jumped
from his boat on his way to his disastrous de-
feat. The city has l., 900 people now, but it
covers enough territory for twice the pOpu-
lation. As you approach it from the river it
is not hard to recognize its ancient grandeur.
The buildings are old and many of them are
breaking with age Empty warehouses line
the wharves, and the god of decay points his
paisied finger Mt you wherever you turn
The place seems to have fallen into Rip Van
Wrinkles slumber. Your feet echo along the
closed houses as you pass through what were
once busy thoroughfares, and the chief signs
of life are here and there sleepy looking ne
gross, in ragged clothes, leaning against the
brick corners of buildings whose edges have
been almost rounded by time. The main
business street of tho city is livelier, but even
the business men move as though they were
youthful Methuselahs, with centuries Of life
before them, and the very wagons go at the
pace of hearses.
The people, however, are well bred and
kind. The raggelest boy will tip his hat to
you if You speak to him, and if you ask a di-
rection of business man he will leave his
store and go four blocks or more to show you
what You want
The citizens of Alexandria have a great
reverence for Gen Washington, and the
town is full of unwritten tradition about him
Mount Vernon is only nine miles away, and
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-19
Woman on the Witness stand.

4 woman on the witness stand in n di-
vorce Case in which she is the plaintiff, as
a rule seems incapable of making out a
very dark case against her faithless lord.
Whether it is pity for him that moves her
heart or an inability to express herself
that leads To this result is hard to say.
Perhaps the two qualities are mixed, but
at any rate the female plaintiff generally
depends upon her witnesses TO relate the
blacklist features of her case--Pioneer
Press Voices"
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often got up md left before church was out,
and that he did not stay for communion.
There has always been a good deal OF doubt
as to the exact nature Of Washingtons re-
hgious belief He had no preacher at his
death bed, and though he undoubtedly be-
leved In the Christian religion it was a ques-
ton whether he was not a little more liberal
than the people OF his day
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CITIZENS OF ALEXANDRIA.


The Alexandria market is n quaint
sight 1t is kept inside of great court
on the spot where Payne had his fuss
with Washington. Lieut.. Payne was
candidate for the legislature against man
named Fairfax who lived at Alexandria
Washington supported Fairfax, and during
the campaign he and Payne meeting one day
on the side of this market began to talk
politics. Payne thought Washington in
suited him in n remark that he made and no
resented the insult by promptly knocking
Washington down. Washington was a
colonel at this time, and the report went like
wildfire through the town that Lieut.. Payne
had killed Col Washington. Washington's
troops wanted to take charge of Payne, but
Washington, as he pointed to his black eye,
said that the assault was his affair and he
guessed that he could manage it. Every ond
thought that this meant n duel, and when
Payne got note from Washington the next
morning asking him to come to the hotel no
expected nothing else than challenge He
found Washington with his head tied up, and
with some wine and glasses on the table
before him AS Payne entered Washington
apOlogized for his words Of the day before,
and the two drank to new friendship over the
wine. The Alexandria market is filled with
hundreds of little booths where the farmers
bring their produce and display it for sale.
In the Alexandria cemetery. surrounded by
pines through which the winds moan a con-
tinuous requiem, lies the grave of the female
stranger A great slab of marble, big enough
to cover the coffin of a giant, rests over it, and
the six quecrly cut marble pillars which up
hold this look as fresh as though they had
been cut yesterday instead of in the days OF
seventy years ago Around the grave runs a
little wall of granite, but the great tree, which
during this long period grew up and over
shadowed it, has been cut away, and the mid
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Preferred Tin Book Form.

There is a man, Mr.. Spicer,' said pi-
azza promenader, indicating an untiring
conversationalisr who was wearying the
ears of a patient victim, "who l. mine OF
information, perfect encyclopedia"
Waiting until out Of earshot, wary Seth
replied:
Yes, / know he is, but i prefer the en-
cyclopedia in book form You can shut
that up, you know. Bull
letin
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TOMB OF THE FEMALE STRANGER
day sun beats upon it now it did when it
was erected Around the outer edges of the
granite wall the grass is now green, and q
spray or two of ivy is growing here and there,
but under the slab the black earth has sunken,
and the coffin and its contents have long since
crumbled into dust.
In this grave is buried one of the most mys-
ferrous stories of American romance. 1t is n
story which the old people of Alexandria
have discussed for years, but which they arc
no nearer solving now than they were when
Washington was n village and Madison was
president Before l tell you the story let us
read the epitaph cut upon that big marble
slab. The type is well engraved, and the let
tiers are sunken deep into the stone They
read as follows:
To the Memory of
of
A FEMALE STRANGER,
Whose Mortal Suffcrings Terminated
On the Fourteenth Day of October 1916
Age, % Years and Months.
This stone is placed here by her disconsolate hus
hand,
And who under God did his utmost even To soothe
the cold dead ear of death.
How loved, how valued once avails thee not,
To whom related or by whom begot,
A heap of dust alone remains of thee.
It's all thou art and oil the proud shall he.
ITO whom gave all the prophets witness that
through his name whosoever believeth him
shall receive remission of sins
Acts. 10th; 43rd verse.
In 1916 Alexandria was greater than Wash
ington. 1t surpassed Baltimore in size, and
It was one of tho leading shipping ports of tho
interior. Many of tho old houses which were
tho mansions of those days still stand, and
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they are as large as the homes of the million
aires of the present Ships from all parts Of
the world then came to the Alexandria wharfs,
and there was a great deal II trade with the
West Indies One of the big West India ships
brought among its passengers in the October
Of this year a well dressed Englishman and
his beautiful wife. Two French maid ser.
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IN OLD VIRGINIA TOWN.
LExANDRiA, WHERE GEORGE WASH
INGTON WORSHlPED.

The Tomb of the Female Stranger, .
Romance of Seventy Years Ago-The
alexandria Markets-Queer Characters
and Characteristic Southern Scenes.
Especial Corrcspondence-1
WASHINGTON, Aug. S0.-ThOusands OF
tourists who come to Washington never visit
Alexandria Still it is one of the most inter
ssting sights along the Potomac. Old and
duh it may indeed he, but every stone in its
coibie pavements is full Of history, and the
cTulnblnS wharves and the great moss-grown
mansions lead one back to the days OF its pros
perity, when it was one of the greatest towns
iii the south, and when jefferson and WASH
ineton delighted to do it honor.
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MAIN IIAE


SIEAMEtiS A !. LANEANB nISPA.s a.
MAKE daily double round triErS al tk,-. 49, =
Hhd haItis, touching AT All landings
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The Rev. DIR. Wayland Hoyt, of Phila-
delphia, has gone for bicycle tour OK
England
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Alexandria was Wushington's town. Old
citizens tell Lie that he had a little Office here
and did great part of his business in it. He
used To ride up from Mount Vernon daily, and
while he was n young man he was such a
lover of horses that at one time it is said no
rode ten different horses during the same day
through the Alexandria streets. He owned
property la Alexandria, and one of his first
Investments was "A couple of lots in the city.
During the greater part of his life he went to
church at Alexandria, and the old church he
attended, still stands and is used now rs it was
then by All Episcopal congregation 1t has
queer green window shutters which lift up
ward from the bottom and under which show
out small, square, Old fashioned panes OF
glass. n large lawn surrounds the church
and this Is fiile, with the tombstones OF gen.
er.itions long passed away. Curious stones
they are Slabs OF slate with death heads
ami cross bones. Slabs Of broken marble
with chcrubs above the inscription, and q
whole volume OF obituary poetry below it.
N'~t of them date back to 100, and none
are later than iSao Tho interior of the
church Is flied with high box pews, and a
wide gallery upheld by yellow pillars runs
around the walls below the ceiling. On either
side OF the pulpit is sunken into the wall q
marble slab. one Of which reads:
In memory
ROBERT EDWARD LEE
ana the other,
In memory
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Washin yton's pew was in the center OF the
.huish, and il L. still preserved rs il was
when he and Martha used to occupy il. Old
Aiexanirlans tell me that Washington was
not half 50 pious as he Is painted; that he
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Fast maui trains stop only where T,ut,- /
gwen aHl only AT Lemon street. PtIaIka.
\ hlAtd tram - Iuu between Paiatka aut
SANFORD, IN both directions. which ~IaIS "a
all stations, ia addition To the regular ts..us
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liaii's i"aNIng jacksonville l. 80 u M. and
diINih i.lu y. IN, nun daily between Jack
SonNiiir Enterprise AMI Sanford Others
daily except sunday.
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CHARLOTTE HARB0R DIVISION.

IloSc connections u abe with StgtHtt O. Z t.s.--
DAY. Thursday and Saturday Iur Puut.l Haas
Fort Myers, etc.
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Inc i3'1 y. M Fast Mail from IacksunyIIit-
ana 80 II. Ia. FAST Mail from Sanford max {.
hiitct connections with South FIoriua IIaI1-
way at sanford Ia ami from Orlando kiSsin-
me, Harlow, Lakeland. Tampa. and all it,
lions.
steamer MtScuttc leaves Tampa Tor Ny
West 1 nd la ana twice a week
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St. JOHNS AND HALIFAX
(The NVhItc.l
RAHRoAD
NIA .D, A - Sc

NORTH BOUND
Leave TomokR, : a. m
Arrive Rollston, d. a m, making coltr+pr-
ton with j. T. a h W. * y train which lee yes
PaIatka at Ills, arrive jacksonville. L u ID n
SOUTH hound
Leave Roilston, II-E1 a m
Arrive Tomoka, p m making connect -,
with J.. T. n w R'y train which Issrs,s
Jacksonville -:lu- arrive Palatka l0-l0. n n
NOTE No. Train runs daily except Sundep
NOTE No. 2--Gonnectiou between Palsr "A
ami kollston Il made by ferry
Hacks make connection with train al To-1.,-
"A for Ormond and Daytona
E. 3 SPENCER, u WHITE
Gen. Pass. and FRI Agt, President
san Mateo, Fla San hateo. Fla
my25tf
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Connections made ~. Augustine with
HALIFAX RIVER stages Tor UTmund, Holly HIM
DAY tnna and other points ON Halifax river.
CITY Ticket oiiice. NV cor. fiay aud Hogan sts
NJ It, MORAN.
Gen'I. Supt. AMI o. +. A
l.. &. DEMING. A. u. T. A
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III" - - IA. ana l. III a. Ia. trains from
J"'N>"hNI'"', AMI he l2Ul u ami $40 ~ IN.
Trains itoIn ialatka, make dire 81 connexions
1T ftitl ha with the Florida Southern RaIiw aN
To- AMI from gainesville, DcaIa IerSialr.s Fort
Mason. ! aNar.s, Lame Park, Astur. aui utht r
points reached 10y that road.
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ST. JOHNS & LAKE EUSTlS DIV.

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