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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03
SPECIMEN DAKOTA TALES

y Great Country No Doubt, ISur Sto-
rics About IL Are Greater.
About two weeks ago L saw farmer
out behind a straw stack gathering into
a heap lot of old bones and pieces of
hides and sprinkling salt on them. Yes
terday l saw this same man selling a pair
nf fine steers to butcher up town.
They were - tat and had filled up so
fast that he had bound their tides with
an old buffalo rope. This granger was Il
Sunday school superinten. ent before he
came To Dakota. but lac swure these were
the cattle L had seen him kicking to-
gether behind the straw stack. He said
all they had eaten was some " I'D grass
that had sprung up in his door yard
where the wCmen folks had thrown "A
few tubs of warm soapsuds ON wash
days. lie said he had learned that the
best way To winter stock IN Dakota was
to knock them IL pieces in the fall and
set them up again as wanted. otherwise.
unless we get a blizzard every week,
they ere liable Ia get too fat and round
on the native grass.
l. asst fall | stopped at "A house to Dor
row match To light my pipe with. The
man told me To go right out in the gar
den and pick al | wanted. | did not
know WI It he meant at first: but lac
went out with me, and IN almost
afraid you'll think I'm a lior for telling
it-therc VS. about half an acre grow
ing the finest matches ever saw. They
were as thick as hairs on a blind mule
He said he had cor crop the year be :
fore, because the seed was too good for
such soil. This year he had m'xed his
seed matches with about one-third tooth
picks and got a splendid yield.
l went out after breakfast and saw the
man blow ing up liuhba-d squashes with
gunpowder. They were too large To lie
moved, and the fas ner wanted the
ground. | no, 4 that one of his wife 5
! legs was al mt eight inches longer than
the other, and the man explained it thus:
lie said when they first came To Dakota
they lived in ''dugout," with nothing
but the ground for a flo IT, from which
they had To NOW the rass once day to
find the baby. He said his wife had a
habit of sitting with one leg over the
other knee, aud thu, leg that remained
in contact with the soil got such "A start
that the other could never catch up
Dakota Letter ia ModcIH Miller
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03
The Teachers Institute.

About twenty-five teachers are IN at
tendance on the teachers institute now
in session in this city, and they give the
closest attention to the many interesting
and instructive lectures delivered each
day.
Yesterday Mrs. ii. X. Ingram delivered
another lecture on History. followed 10y
lecture on Spelling by Prof. Jno. y
Graham. Decimals and Percentage was
the subject of Prof. ii. n. Felkel's lee
ture, which closed the morning session.
la the afternoon Prof. j. w. McI.aury
delivered a lecture on School Govern
ment, and Mrs. Ingram on Colonial Gus
toms. Prof. Graham closed the days
session with an interesting lecture on
Technical Grammar
The public lectures promised last night
did not take place, because, owing 10 the
lack of interest, and Indifference of the
public in educational matters, but IA very
few We're presen The lectures viii he
delivered to night if there y any desire
for them, otherwise the reeular pro-
gramme mapped out for the institute
will be adhered to-
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03
Wine Making.

y vineyard scene in France : repr"
ducad N Leon county, where on it'.
charming shores of Lake Hs'l, an hor' =
drive from Ia lhassee, Mors. Dul.pis
cp'tivates the grape in the French m"ih-
cd, and this year harvests some two
thousand gs'lorS of red wine of exc l.
lent quality from six. acres of mes.
The plants are only fou- years oIi, but
each one affords a mass of heavy chs
tiers, and the vines being .-a'1ed clC5e to
the upright trell ses of wire N-cw of
double walls of crap. : presen' ii to the
eve in looking down the long pros rect.ve
of the rows The abundance of the
fruitage impresses one with the conv C
ton that tine vine CIn nowhere els =
thrive be,:ar and, indeed, the proprie n
SAYS that the growth and yield are better
than in his native France. In two years
more the product will be doubled, but
even the yield of this season shows a
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

GAINESVILLE, FLA, Aug. II, 1856.
l. HARKINs billiard, ESQ, State Agent
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York:
DEAR SIe-I desire, through you, to
thank the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany of New York for the promptness
with which they paid over to me the
sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, that be
ing the amount for which the life of my
late husband, John X. Strous, was in
sured in your company. Though only
insured for the short space of eight
months. they paid the entire sum before
the expiration of sixty days. which is
seldom done. l cannot find words to-
express my feelings of gratitude to you
for inducing my husband to take out a
policy, thereby providing for myself, his
aged mother, and four lille children.
1 hope you may succeed in persuading
every married man i'm taking apolicy.
so that if it should please Providence tn
call the father and husband, he could
die easier, knowing he was not leaving
his helpless family depending on stran-
gers.
Sincerely wishing the Mutual Life In
surance Company of New York a'l the
success it deserves, l am yours, most re-
spectfully, MARGARET j. STRoUs.
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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

crop value per acre that means wealth
TO those who intelligently pursue the in
dustry of wine making on large scale
in Leon county. To the demand for
for such wine al the price it can lie pro-
fitably sold there is practically no limit,
and a million dollars worth of it might
annually flow from the wine presses
with less lator and more certainty than
attends the product.oa of the output of
the cotton pre- $50 of the county. The
wine house is easier filled than the giI,
house. The browning leauty of our
scenery would be the vineclad hillsides
and the pleasant homes, built and sus-
tanned by the products of their generous
sol. Tallahassee FIoriiisis.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03
Democratic Club.

Some OF the young men of the city,
as we'll as the older ones, are discussing
the propriety of organizing a local demo
cratic club. The executive committee
will have its hands full during the cam
paign, and a club, the advocates of it
say, will be the very thing to keep up the
interest in the district and county cam
paigns. With an active club, working
independent of, but in harmony with. the
executive committee, effective work can
be done, and some of the best speakers
and most noted men of the State in
duced to speak here and in this vicinity.
Let the club be organized
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

push and energy, and this new resort
promises bright future. For Palatka
and vicinity it will have a charm, being
so accessible, only two hours ride over
the White railroad. The surveying of
the plot was made by Messrs. Joseph &
Husson, of this city, and is nicely laid
out, every street Icing 100 feet wide and
well supplied with parks. The Halifax
Beach Company makes its debut by Civ
ing cheap excursion next Tuesday.
Look out for their advertisement Sun
lay
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03
he l'arnlin. Interest.

AlaChua Is essentially an agricultural
county. All other interests are largely
dependent upon the success of the farm
CT. If the crops fail, or from any cause
do not prove r"muucrative, the result
cannot hc otherwise than disastrous. Ii
has been truly said that agriculture i'm
parts the breath of existence To all other
Industries of civilized life. Ii sets III
motion the sails of commerce. II moves
the spindle of the factory. 1t feeds and
clothes the world. The foundation of
national prosperity rests primarily upon
the success of the agricultural Interests !,
and the tillers of the soil are therefore
entitled 10 such aid and protection as
will secure to them all the rights and
privileges which lcgitimately belong Ia
SO important factor In the body polite of
Il great dominion. Hence it is observed
that in localities where the farmers are
denied the fruits of their labor, in little
while prosperity wancs, the merchant Is
forced to sacrifice his goods or go into
bankruptcy, manufactures are compell-
eel to suspend ana mechanics are paid
starvation wages or forced to seek en-
ployment III a more prosperous commu-
nifty. Every obstacle permitted to stand
in the way of the success of the farmer,
is stumbling block to the further prog
ress of all other business. The farmer
must he sustained. Too much encour-
agement cannot be given those who are
striving To develop the agricultural re-
sources of this country. 1t is all impor-
tant that the farmers of this county
should be provided with all proper facii-
tiles for the trans ,ortation of their pro
ducts To paying markets abroad, and that
the home market should be improved.
Each of these desirable results can Ice at
tanned by concert OF action on the part
of the farmers, assisted by those who
repre- sent other interests. In this partic-
ular locality the time for action has ar
rived. All interests demand "A forward
movement in support of our farmers.
Rapid, safe and cheap transportation,
and better home and foreign market,
must be provided GdiHcSrUic Mars.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03
Halifax Beach

MIR. w. G.. Wright, the secretary of
the Halifax Beach Company, just lately
organized, gave us call yesterday. Hall
fax Beach is located on the Atlantic
coast, opposite the town OF Ormond.
This beach. extending southwark for fif-
teen miles, has long been recognized as
one of the grandest stretches of beach on
the American coast, being very wide,
hard and smooth. The gentlemen form
ing the company are men Of capital,
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03
n GOOD OFFER.
Cattle Men in Kentucky and Mary
land who are Interested in Flor ida
WESTNuNISTEp Mn Aup II

land who are Interested in Flor ida.
WESTMINSTER, Md, Aug. II.
Editor Times MON:
have read with much interest Mr.. j.
Selwin Tait's letter in the Weekly Times
of August 18th, and it brings TO my
mind a proposition that l was author
lied by Mr.. T. Corwin Anderson, of Ken
lucky to make to the cattle men of Flor
ida. was in Kentucky last summer,
and MIR. Anderson asked me about the
cattle of Florida. l told him all knew
and he expressed great surprise that no
effort was made to improve the stock,
a M finished by telling me he would give
a pure bred short-horn butl TO any man
that would come to Kentucky and buy
twelve TO fifteen head of good grade
heifers. The heifers would cost between
twenty-fiy and forty dollars, according
to age, size, etc. The bull that Mr.. An
derson would give to go with these heif-
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

West End Select School. corner of
Kirby and Kirkland streets. Palatka VIII
open September 18th, 1886. Hours IA.
m. to p. M; Kintergartea a. IN To II
m. Terms So per month. Teachers,
Misses Alice and Nettie Mack. au31-14t
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

For SALE.-One house and lot, near
j., r. & X. w. II. X. shop. Also, one
young grove of 8 acres near Francis, 3
miles from town, on Florida Southern
Railroad, Palatka. Fla. S. E. BOND.
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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

For RENT.-Offices and furnished
rooms for rents in Kean building, corner
of Lemon and Front street. Very desr-
able location. aus3 I'm
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

HOTEL FOR RENT.-The hotel building
known as the Graham House, is offered
fol rent at reasonable rate. Apply to L.
Falk. ieStf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

For RENT.-Iouse of : rooms; also a
cottage of rooms. Apply t. S. c.
Chandler, corner of Lemon and Front.
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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

Palatka Lodge, No. "a, +. x A. NJ. reg
ular communications first and third FRI
day Of each month.
Il. l.. LILIENTHAL, w. NJ.
r. &. Posi-, Secretary.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

Go TO DIR. w. w. Estes, over Kers-
ting's drug store, for good Dental Work
and fine sets of Artificial Teeth. Teeth
Extracted without Pain je19-tf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

SOMETHING NEw.-Highland Brand
Condensed Milk, at
jy29-tf Nj. HAUGHToN & BROS.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

Vertrees & Co. have just received a
car load Of the celebrated Tennessee
wagons. aulltf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

Chase " Sanporns Java and Mocha
Coffee, at nj. HAUGHToN & Bros.
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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

Vertrees & Co. just received n carload
NOeIs best Flour. Guaranteed as good
as any in the market; at prices to suit
the times. jy27-tf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

Vertrees & Co. have just received a
car load of wheat which they are selling
cheap for chicken feed. The grain is
perfectly sound and plump. au5tf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

CITY LAUNDRY.-COrner Lemon and
Fourth streets. All work promptly and
we'll done. se3 2t~
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03
Intelligence Bureau.

Servants, cooks, nurses and laborers
furnished on short notice, by T. l.. Nc
Coy, the leading fruit and vegetable
dealer, corner Lemon and Peck streets
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The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

Two cottages to rent. Apply to Z.
Cunneely. au11-tf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

Vertrees & Co. just received a car
load of Irish potatoes. jy27-tf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

Strawberry Plants for sale. Apply tG
au21-tf III. l.. DINSEN.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

Lime for sale IN any quantity by Yer
trees x Co. aulltf
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03
To the Doubtful-Lookins Guest.

Doubtful-looking guest-Iandlord have
you fire escape in this hoteli
Experienced landlord-Yes, sir, but We
generally keep the bulldog chained at tho
bottom of it.
The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-09-03

The Transcaspian railroad is now open to
traffic as far as MsTv.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-01
steele Mackaye,s sew Play Of Anarchy.

Steele Mackaye's New Play of Anarchy.
New York, July 30.-Mr. Steele Mackaye has
written what consider a very remarkable play.
I think am entitled to say this for I have
never said it before. His plays up to this time
have been anything but remarkable. I always
thought he had it in him, but it did not appear
to me that it came ont in Marriage" or Rose
Michel or Hazel Kirke," or "Dakolah"
He has now seized upon stirring contempora-
neous theme and handled it, think. with extra
ordinary power and originality. His subject is
anarchy
/ heard the play read on Monday to select
company of actors and managers
Mr.. Mackaye is noted among these people as a
play reader. When an author has play he
wants TO work off on a manager he usually re-
marks with a sigh of regret, IF could only get
Mackaye to read it for me-"
Mackayes method is the tumultuous one He
reads play as List is said to play the piano.
He Talmages play all to pieces, acts every part
shifts all the scenes tears his hair plucks at his
eyes, and, streaming with gore and perspiration,
sweeps his listeners into agonized acceptance by
the torment of his own belief
You see / am notinclined to let Mr. Mackaye
off easily. have heard him read plays before.
am bound to say that they did not act so well
as they read So I was cautious this time, and
so was he. We handcuffed him and tied him in
the chair. Mr.. Tom McDonough would not come
unless he accepted these conditions.
have got to say now that I believe he has
made play that will make fortune for some
body for he has put into clear, uumiStakable,
eloquent action the opposing factors in the mod
ern social system, and shown with terrible
strength the true character Of the monster that
calls itself anarchy.
This is certainly live theme with the world
just now. And the man who gets the material
plainly before the eyes of the public, and inter
prets for them what they all feel but cannot ex-
press, will hold their attention and win their
money
Mr.. Mackaye has attempted to do this. and, I
think, successfully. The play draws clean line
between liberty and license between heroism
and fanaticism 1t deals with the fercest mo-
ments of revolution, but it hangs the terrible in
cidents upon noble clean and admirable love
story. If were an actor l would like to play
the hero of this drama.
Mr.. Tom McDonough said when il was over
that D'Ennery or Sardou never made stronger
or nobler play.
That left nothing whatever for me to say.
OF course there are half score of people who
want it.
If ] were Mackaye would go slow, for there
is bigger fortune in good play than there is
In Wall street. NYM CRINKLE
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-01
Sir Charles Dllke,s Father.

Mr.. Wilfrid Wisgast writes the Toronto Mail:
"The father of Sir Charles Wentworth Dixie
was q market gardener and florist, in large way
of business, at Fulham, southwestern suburb
of London. He was engaged to arrange the
grounds about the Hyde Park Exhibition of 1851,
and thus came to know and be frequently in con.
tact with Prince Albert Mr. Dixie was d
man of much shrewdness and a real artist
in the cultivation and arrangement Of
flowers and the acquaintance with the Prince
Consort resulted in lifelong friendship, and
hence came the title. Having been for many
years a resident in the borough of Chelsea, +
can say that to no one there is this scandal d
revelation, and among those who presumably
know there is but one opinion in the matter.
Sir Charles Dixie had been for long time
prior to the Crawford scandal on very strained
terms with the educated portion of his con-
stituency. The loss Of his seat was a foregone
conclusion directly this exposure occurred, as
was shown by Mr.. Whitmore, being only ITO
behind Dixie at the election last year, and his
gaining the seat the other day by a considerable
majority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-01
Prohibition Evaded by a Club.

Atlanta Constitution
few weeks ago Raleigh, N. c., voted for pro-
hibition by rousing majority. The law went
into effect shortly after the election, and. accord
ing to all accounts. has been properly enforced.
Recently however, a new question has given the
prohibitionists considerable trouble. It seems
that Raleigh has social organization known as
the Capital Club" This club has been in the
habit of furnishing its members with meals,
wines, liquors and cigars, at prices intended to
cover the actual cost without making profit on
the articles furnished Under the new schedule
the club continued usual. Finally the prohi-
bitionists had the steward indicted, and upon
special verdict embodying those facts, Judge
Phillips held that the steward was not guilty, as
the liquor was disposed of without profit. The
prosecution contended that the local option law
made no exceptions, and that any disposal of
liquor was q violation of the law. It is stated
that when Chief justice Waite visited Raleigh IN
June he gave it as hts opinion that the club had
the right to let its members have liquor
The prohbtionists loud in demon s::< .a1
decision, because they fear the multiplication Of
clubs, thus completely multiplying the local OPP
ton law. The case has been appealed by the
State, and will be decided at the October term of
the Supreme Court. The final result will be
awaited with interest by many other towns
where the same kind of prohibition Law is in
force.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-01
"No Substantial Truths in the Story.

Long Branch Letter,
Apropos of the Grants, 1 may say that Mrs.
Grant has been very much panied by newspa-
per paragraph that has been going the rounds
giving alleged details concerning the married
setting out that Nellie was anxious to separate
from her husband, and that she had counseled
her to do so, and so on. Mrs. Grant says that
there is no substantial truth whatever in the re-
ports Nellie she says, has no thought of leav-
ing her husband So deeply had reports to the
contrary disturbed her that she had given up
projected visit to her mother for fear that if she
came out to this country it might be supposed
that there was some shadow of truth in the as
sertions so persistently made. Neither is it true
Mrs Grant declares, that Nellie is in peril OF
poverty, as some have said Although her hus
band has expensive tastes and lives extravaganza
", he has money enough, and his children, after
his death, will come into large fortune that has
been settled on them.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-01
Doing PYRAMIDS for Christ.

Mamma" said little ve-yearold boy, II
wish Jesus lived on earth now "Why, my darl-
ingl" Because l should like so much to do
something for Him. But what could such
a little bit of a fellow as you are do for the
Savior9" The child hesitated few moments,
then looked up into his mothers face and saidi
why, mother, could run all his errands fog
him." $50 you could, my child, and so yoR
shall. Here is glass of jelly and some oranges
was going to send to poor old sick Margaret
by the servant but will let You take them in
stead, and do an errand for the Savior, for whefi
upon earth He said. Inasmuch as ye did it
unto of the least of these, ye did it unto me-.
So remember children, whenever you do kind
act for anybody because you love Jesus, it is
just the same as if the Savior were now living on
the earth and you were doing it for Him.-The
illustrator.