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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
bringing IL Home.

He was an understood man, with burning
eyes and fierce goatee, and he danced around
the saloon on one leg and cursed the Chicago
jury which condemned the Anarchists, and
danced around on the other and yelled about
free speech and free press, and waltzed up
and down and vowed that capitalists ought
to be blown from the mouths of cannon.
"Shayi" said big hulk of chap who had
his head on the table and was aroused by the
racket, "free speech's all right, amt sEes'
at isl Free speech or bloodI"
"Shay, you're liarI You're thief
You're a scoundrel and swindler and robber!
Shay, you're children are fools, and your
wife don't know huff t pound sandl" You
arc the meanest, most contemplate looking
cur ever shawl 1 wouldn't be found dead
on your land!"
IN kill him!" howled the little one as he
peeled off his coat.
'Shay, hold on! Don't go back on 'er con-
situshun, you know? / shee you've got
s'money. haven't got 'er red shent. You're
one of 'em Internal capitalists, an I'm going
to blow you sky high"
He rushed the little man over beer table
and damned his head against the wall, and
when four or five men pulled him OF and
hustled him ont doors he turned and shook
his fist and yelled:
"Shay! what sort of u crowd are You, any
howe Mint l whoop 'er up on free speech
and try to down monopoly you go back on
me and fling me out! Rahi for FER cons'itu-
shuni Rah for 'cr free speech! Free country
FOR everybody-whoopce" - Detroit Free
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
Gen. Van Aliens Use OF Negroes.

Immediately after the evacuation of York
town (by the Confederates) the place was
filled to overflow by negro refugees, and
their care and disposition was one of the i'm
portant questions o: the period They were
installed in the vacant cabins of the old Con-
federate camp and made as comfortable rs
possible, and at the same time kept under
strict discipline by the provost guard. When
Mcclellan became straitened for troops and
laborers before Richmond he drew every
able bodied man away from the garrison.
One morning n steamer on its way to the
army with troops was detained several hours
because the quartermaster had no men to
transfer coal from the bargcs. To meet the
emergency Gen. Van Allen, without authority
or advice from anyone, ordered the provost
marshal to select gang of negroes from the
camp and set them at work. The ice was
broken, and from that time negroes did all
the manual labor of the command The
quartermaster and commissary departments
had regular details every day; all the graves
were dug and the dead from the hospitals
buried by squads selected for the PURPOSE
and finally more than 900 picked men were
sent up the James river to work in the
trenches with McClellan's army. There were
some adverse criticisms 10y few ''red-hot"
newspapers upon the generals action, but he
was sustained by the government and
thanked by the general-in-chief.-C Boston
Journal
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13

In ante-railroad days the young folk of the
mainland, as now, came over TO the ocean
for some fun and bath. According TO the
account of an old inhabitant they were the
days of primitive simplicity.
They first came in boats, and as they round
ed Rum point in the inlet they would hoist a
flag for Aunt Judith Ryan TO begin the prep
aration for dinner.
Later they came by wagon. On the beach
at low tide they would dance the hornpipo
to the music of a fiddle. 1t was romping
such as one would see at n down-eaSt corn
husking. At high tide they hathed. There
were no four miles of bathing houses then nor
padded bathing robes. They went into the
bushes and changed their apparel The chief
sport of the beach frolic was when the young
men would tie the girls feet together and roll
them down the sand hills into the surf. Tho
first bath house was constructed Of brush and
was of "a rude character In this for several
years the young folk for miles around the
country put on their old clothes for their dip
in the oCean.-AtlanticC City Cor Philadelphia
News
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
a Lesson Lost.

II. NJ. Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific rail-
way, Is noted III railway circles for his prone
uess TO give his interiors good, sound lectures
on the slightest provocation. Hoxie is a hard
worker, and all who have seen him know how
round-shouldered he is. One day brake
man called on him with n letter request for a
pass in his pocket, leaving the door wide open
as he entered the Office, and wearing his hat
on his head in true brakeman style. In loud
voice he called out:
as Hoxie ins'
At this stage the general manager looked
up from his desk and replied:
''Ycs, sir, Mr.. Hoxie is in"
The brakeman took his letter out of his
pocket, grabbed the corner of the envelope
between his thumb and forefinger, and sent
the missive spinning and whirling upon his
superior's desk. Hoxie looked up in amaze
ment, and said:
Now, young man, would it not look better
for you, when coming into n gentlemans
Office, and especially 50 when asking n favor,
to remove your hat, wipe your feet, and in
9uire in quiet voice: Is Mr. HoXie inf"
The brakeman looked at the general mana
ger n moment, asked for his letter, got it,
went out, closed the door, and in n moment
marched in again, closed the door softly after,
wiped his feet, put his hat under his arm, and
in the most polite manner possible, inquired:
as Mr.. Hoxie, the general manager, inp
II am Mr. Hoxie," replied the general
manager; what can / do for your
"You can go to h, you round-shouldercd
son of a Gun!" retOrtcd tho brakeman II
don't want none of your favors-Im from
Texas."-Chicago Herald.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
The Taylor Family in Politics.

Not only have two Taylor brothers been
nominated respectively 10y the great parties
in Tennessee for governor and their father
been proposed as n candidate by the Prohibi-
tionists, but n third brother is now mentioned
possible candidate of the Labor party. 1t
is TO be hoped in common justice that old
Mrs. Taylor will be recognized by the Woman
Suffrage party.-Albany Times.
The people of Tennessee are to be congrat-
ulated on their prospect of escaping in some
measure the character of personal politics
which so often disgrace heated campaigns.
The gubernatorial standard bearers of the
two parties being brothers, the Republican
candidate cannot well call his opponent a
slab-Sided son of a saw-log without rejecting
at the same time on his own origin, while the
Democratic candidate will be restrained, for
the same reason, from hurting the charge
against his antagonist that his grandfather
stole sitting hen from her ncst.-Louisville
Courier Journal
1t is said that the father of the Taylor boys
Of Tennessee got them into their present
awkward position of running against each
other for the governorship of Tennessee by
making them speak against each other when
children. He kept them up till IL o'clock ut
night on occasions, and often had to whip
each one of them three times before the de-
bate was closed Dallas News
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
The Pied Piper of Atlanta.

Atlanta has vcrnin cXterminatOr, but I'M
like the piper of Hamelin, he uses no magic
The Atlanta rat catcher trusts nothing short
of "cold pizen," but his rats act very much
like the rodents of Hamclin-thcy make for
the water. When the Atlanta rat catcher
starts in he secs that no water about the place
is accessible to rats. He then puts out poison,
and when the rats get hold of it they start for
water and die by the wholesale wherever tho
first water is found The Atlanta vermin ex-
terminator also kills moths, reaches, belbugs
and the like Once he was called on to clear
a large northern brewery of vast quantities Of
flies. Millions of flies had collected in tho
beer hogsheads and the vermin eXtcrminator
was asked how much he would charge to
clean out the lot. His figures We're 800, but
he offered to tell the brewery men how they
could do the job for $3.50. The oirer was ae-
copied.
"Roll these barrels into the ice room, he
said.
The barrels We're rolled into the room where
ice was made
"Freeze 'enl" said the vermin exterminator.
The brewery men Were surprised that they
had not thought of that simple remedy.
They tried it and in short time swept out n
countless number of frozen flies Atlanta
Constitution.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
The Goddess On the Dome.

There is said TO be superstition attached
to the Goddess of Liberty that stands silently
on the dome Of the Capitol. Though it is not
Widespread, it is said To- b. deeply rooted in
some minds Had congress decided to gid the
goddess. it would perhaps have been found
difficult TO get any one to undertake the task
Ii is well known that when the dome was
thoroughly painted, several Years ago, the
painter who worked about the goddess lost
his reason, declaring that she had life and
was possessed of the spirit of the Virgin At
q certain hour i'm the morning, very near the
moment OF sunrise, there is one point i'll tho
hcad-iresS of the statue that reflects back the
light, appearing rs star. IL Is only for u
short time that il can be seen Every morn
ing this ensIar'Si painter would kneel in front
Of the Capitol and worship the star-crowned
goddess as long as the star was visible. 9th
ers are said to have come under the influence
OF this bronzed goddess, and have imagined
that She exercised some mysterious power
over them Some imagine, it is said, that
should they look too often at tie star that
shines ON her forehead at morn, they might
saifer the fate Of the poor painter.-W ashing
ton Star.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
Mime. Barrios' Methods of Life.

Mime suppose it to be more proper to
style her 'Scnora"-BaTrios attracted my
attention on the drive to-day. She had her
troup of children with her, tributes TO her
marriage with Senior BarTios, crstwhile
fugitive president of the Colombian CON
federation. This lady has an interesting
history. Her husband is said to have left her
s2"O,OOO, which Is very probably within tho
mark, and she is enjoying it in truly royal
style She has several of the most elegantly
appointed apartments at the West End hotel
with music and attendants galore at her bid
ding.
have often thought, when musinG on her
methods of life, what "A difference there is lc-
tween republicanism among the Latin races
and with the Anglo-Saxons. There anything
approaching power is autocratic and ariSto-
cratic; here inGratitude and neglect are often
est the rewards of merit and service. Sonora
BarrioS is the widow of a smart cx-prcsident Of
an insignificant and poverty-striclScn Central
American travesty on nation, and she may
revel to her hearts content in all that wealth
affords or an aspiration for swelldom desires
But Mrs Grant, widow of the greatest gen
cral of the age and of eX-preSidcnt of the
greatest republic and one of the richest ma
tons on earth, Is compelled to retirement and
ohscurity, and in her modest life is almost for
gotten by the people of the United States her
noble husband did SO much Us soldier and
statesman To save and advance. Mrs Gar
field, too, is hidden from the public gaze; iii
short, lack of ostentatinn is the admirable dis
tinction of the truly estimahle among our poo
pie. Among the petty republics of Central
and South America the enrichment of the
officeholders and the impovcrishmcnt of the
people is the rule.-Cor. Philadelphia Times
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
THE SECOND HAND SHOE TRADE
How They Are Made Over and Soid-Se-
crets Of the Trade.

How They Are Made Over and Sold-Se-
crets OF the Trade.
Said the shoemaker: you would be sur
prised to see the class of men who purchase
second hand shoes / have among my Gus
toners an elderly gentleman who comes here
regularly every three months and buys pair
Of shoes for S1.50. He is wealthy, but a
miser. Many men whom / might name and
who are well able to buy new shoes prefer
second hand ones for economy's sake. When
o pair of shoes are cast off they are worthless
TO the original purchaser and can be bought
for a song. When business is dull L some
times go out on a collecting tour, and in a
couple of hours will obtain enough shoes and
boots to keep me employed for a month.
Boots are much more valuable than shoes, be-
cause they contain more leather. l find
that they are not worn much nowadays,
and those ] occasionally come across are made
of the finest leather"
"What means are taken to burnish up old
shoesl- was asked
THE uppers of second hand shoes are always
good, whether the lowers are worn or not. IL
the body of the shoe is not in patchable con-
dition must put on an entire new instep.
Usually the upper part of the heel to the curve
of the foot remains in good condition. Some
times il becomes necessary to entirely reno
vate old shoes, so that when finished they are
like new ones, with this difference, that tho
leather used is not good as the original.
Soles and heels always have to be rebuilt and
the toes capped. In all these repairs the
cheapest of sole leather is used. When finished
the shoes can be sold from seventy-five cents
to q. So A shoe must be of the finest leather
and be but little worn to bring So"
"Who are your customers"
"Poor people, who can afford to pay but
little for their shoes. supply whole families
with shoes, from the father and mother to the
baby. 1 do but little business in women's shoes
Women usually wear their shoes in the street
until they become shabby, when they are cut
down and used in the house as slippers. And
then, besides, women's shoes are now so cheap
that it would not pay to make them over"
While the reporter was listening to the cob
bler's chatter there entered the store labor
ing man who, after much dickering, bought
n pair of brogans three sizes too large for
him for ninety cents.
"Those shoes which have Just Sold" con-
tinued the shoemaker, will wear the man
nearly year. You know what he paid for
them, and can estimate about what shoe
leather costs some poor people who know
where to purchase "-Brooklyn Eagle
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
woRKlNGmEN OF PHILADELPHIA.
a City Where I.aborcrs own Their Homes.
Mnral and SnCiaI Iununnce.

a City Where Eaborcrs own Their Homes.
Moral and Social Influence.
Philadelphia, Us the greatest workshop of
America. furnishes n striking illustration in
point Its comparative exemption from
strikes is due TO the fact that, rule, the
workingnan there owns his home. Hence
he is as conservative as the capitalist. You
may find scores of squares with nice brick
houses of workingmen, not one of which is
a tenement house Philadelphia now has
double the number of dwelling houses of any
other city of its size in the world.
This marvellous increase in its homeStcads
Is due to its cooperative building associations
numbering over 100. They have been tried
for nearly fifty years, and have proved such
valuable forces in promoting industry, econ
omy, sobriety, thrift and prosperity that tho
state encourages them by excmpting all their
stock and mortgages from taxation. Though
the holdings of these associations exceed $50
OOO, 600, they are managed by workingInen at
little expense, and are always open To public
scrutiny. Failures have been very rare less
than in any other class of financial aSsocia-
tons. The worst OF those closed during the
panic of 1873 paid ninoty-three cents on the
dollar. These associations, so unique, tried 50
long and SO successfully, are a model for tho
worllingmen Of the country, certainly in large
manufacturing centers.
That l may speak authoritatively, / will
epitomize certain statements kindly furnished
10y an eminent Philadelphian, especially CON
versant with rhiS subject, who says: "The
tenement house is unknown here In the
riots of 1877 the 10000 members of building
associations acted as an efficient counterpoise
TO the lawless throngs that crowded tho
streets. This instinct of self-preservation, Of
social order. was Us strong with them as with
the wealthicr classes, and was even more eff
feCtual 1t ncutralized, in their own camp,
the clamors of n vicious and riotous rabblc
so that the presence of the mayor and the
police was sufficient to quell all disorder with
out collision. These associations have been n
potent factor iii making our people prosper
Gus and moral, encouraging sobriety and pre-
venting dissipation. The absence of any So
cialistic tendencies can undoubtedly be traced
to the general ownership of homes Ago OF
Steel.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13

Joseph Williamson, the emigrant agent and
interpreter of the Pennsylvania railroad, re
Gently found on n west bound emigrant train
a young girl who had been robbed Of her
money by a fellow passenger. Telling her he
would find her money, Nathanson borrowed a
carrier pigeon, closed the car windows so that
the bird could not escape and addressed the
passengers, telling them that the bird would
alight on the head of the one who had COM
mitted the theft He released the bird just
as the train entered the Spruce creek tunnel
and on stirling a match found suspected
woman crouching between two seats and
waving her hands above her head 10 keep the
bird away. She gave mp the moncy.-Phila-
delphia Times
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13

at Palatka with Jacksonvfile Tamna = K,y
West Halfway, and 81 Augustine and iuI,r ku
Halfway. anu fast river steamers for 81. Au-
gusthe, Green Cove Springs. Iacks0uyiII,.
and all points North, East aud West ami wit
up river steamers for South Florida lso
with the Twin Screw Iron steamer CITY II
Palatka, and Steamship City of MonticI M.
for Charleston, New York, Boston. FhiIadeI-
Ohia, etc.
Mail trains make close connection both WAYS
wa j. Il. u N. w R'y., at Jack sOnNilIe with A.
lanI:c Coast Line, Fast Mail
At Gainesville with through Pullman sI,cY,-
err over savannah, Florida \ Western Rry f6r
New Orleans, Cedar Keys, Pensacola, Savnn-
nan. Albany, ioHtgpIncry, Louisville, st
Louis and ALI points West.
At OcaIa with Florida Railway and Nayira
ton Co., ;. :. q. y q. 4. Il, and Hacks Tor SiI-
yer Springs.
At Astor with ST. Johns river steamers fcr
Jacksonville, Sanford nj way landings
At Lecshurg with the St Johns ami ak,
EustiS vision OF the FLORIDA Southern RsiI-
way, and boats on Lakes Harris and ElIetis
Ton points on tnkcs.
At Pcmbcrton's Ferry with South Florida
ny Tor Lakeland, Tampa, h iSsimme, HARLOW
Orlando, SAM ord, Tuck crtO an and Fort D.tf,.
At Puuta GOrGa with steamer Alice How
ard Tor Liverpool, runta Rassa and Fort
Myers
3. CONANT, o. w. CROMWELL.
dSiefe! Manage r Genl Pass. Agent.
A &. towAN. Ger" Trav. Agt.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
Power of a Well Trained Actress.

When she appeared last April at Her Males
TVS theatre the differences between the Sarah
Berniiar,it of to-day and the Sarah Bernhar,lt
OF ten years ago were scarcely greater than
the mere lapse of time must have caused even
had she scrupulously huSbanded her resources.
If she is no longer the silver toned sylph whose
nameless charm of speech and movement still
haunts us at the mention of 40 Sphinx" or
la File de Roland, that is merely because
the most perfect of conscrvatoires cannot i'm
part the secret of eternal youth All the
essentials of her talent she retains well nigh
unimpaircd Ii she puts them to less exqui-
site use than heretofore, sacrificing nobility
Of pose to restless vividness of gesture, purity
OF diction to ingenious elocutionary effect
seeking, that is the fault of the plays i'm which
she appears She has the old means Mt her
command, and she them with the old
mastery, though sometimes to less worthy
ends.
What then, has given her this power Of
passing undesraded through all the influences
that make for degradations What talisman
has saved her voice from becoming coarse,
her plaStik from hardening into mechanism,
ami her passion from habitually rushing into
rant: Simply. believe, the talisman Of a
thorough training, an early and systematic
mastery OF the methods of her craft 1t is
one of the characteristics Of physical accom-
pishment-and the qualities which can be
acquired by training are mainly physical
that 1t even Is more difficult TO unlcarn than
I" learn a good swimmer, a good skater, a
good cricSeter may, by sheer disuse, decline
III actual power; but he will never lose his
form, and swim, skate or bowl like one I'M
trained or i'll trained in these exercises. Sim.
ilarly. an actress who has once learned to
move gracefully AMI speak beautifully will
retain these distinctions, in spite of star parts
AMI long runs and boulevard audiences and
England and America-in spite OF all the cir
c;iniStancCs, IN short, that tend to produce
Crudlty and commonnesS. National review
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
ROUMANIA'S CUPID jig.
A Wedding Dance That Tests Wind and
Limb of Jolly Participants.


A Rounanian wedding party is one of the
nosiest and joIliest gatherings that can be i'm
agined. The chief feature of the celebration
is the dance held after the tying of the nup-
tial knot. \ reporter was present for n short
time at a dance of this description held at
hall on the Bowery. The couple had been
united at the synagogue in tho afternoon.
The wedding feast was eaten shortly after
at the home of the bride. Everybody, in-
Guiding the children, then proceeded to the
hall and the dancing went on continuously
until 2 o'clock the next day.
At about IL O'Clock the fun was at its
height. The favorite national dance was on.
1t is called a jig, though bearing little resem-
blance to a good old Irish dance of that name
The orchestra struck up "A monotonous but
not unpleasine one two tun-tum melody.
The dancers formed in circle, tho men and
women being placed alternately, and Joining
their outstretched arms, the hands of each
person clasping the shoulder of his partners
on the right and left
The components of the living ring or circle
thus formed then began stepping time to the
music, slowly ut first, but with increasing
speed, the circle moving now to the right,
now to the left, the step now becoming all the
time more lively and less regular until it was
a hop backward, a skip forward and n jump
sideways. This continued until some
links of the human endless chain abruptly
broke Off from exhaustion.
The bride, very pretty girl of about 90,
was attired in an old gold bronze dress, walk
ing length, and deliberately flounced and en-
bellished. Over her head she wore a white
fchu. The groom was in regulation full dress.
A peculiar feature of the affair was that
one of the walters, attired in uniform of
short white coat and long apron was the
brides brother. He danced tho jig with
great gusto and was said TO be the best Rou-
manian jigger in this country.-New York
Journal
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
Two Mnxs of Counting.

$50 you are paying attention to the hand
some Miss DaShaway, George! You're lucky.
i was making attempts in that direction my
self, but my wOuing was failure"
"Ah: indeed; how did you proceed with
your wooins."
Il told her l loved her.
"ScS7
And asked her if she would have me-"
YES
Twas no good. What did you dos"
Nothing l simply treated her TO ice
cream and Stra wbcrrieS> Never spoke n word
of love-
and you are solid with her nowFr
Il am, You bet. Boston Courier.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13

Summer resident-Ive an important letter
here. What time does the next New York
mail so out!
Country postmaster-Wall, yer see my son
Jerry, what kerris tn mail ter tn station, :
got ston' bruise OH his heel, n | told him he
could favor it leetle II stay ter home ter
day. Yer letter II so tO-Inorrer o. next day
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-10-13
A Suggestion of Economy.

Lady Gn dry goods store)-I will look at
your material for towels
Clerk Presently transferred from the dress
goods departmentl-Yes, ma'am; something
that won't show dirt,-Life.