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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-07-03
FOR SCHOOL COMMISSIONER.

hereby announce myself candidate for
County School Commissioner from District No.
l, sub1ec- 10 the approval of the democratic
voters at the approaching primaries.
L. X. TUCKER,
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FoR scHooL COMMISSIONER.

the earnest solicitation of friends hereby
Rnnce myself as a candidate for County
#ol Commissioner for District No 3, subject
Pc approval OF the democratic primaries.
s. L. TIMMuNs.
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FOR THE LEGISLATURE.

Fo Il Democratic Voters of Putnam County:
i take this method of announcing my candi,
lacy for the office of representative in the next
legislature, subject to your approval at the COM
ng primaries. If elected 10 this place OF re-
promise to do my utmost to pro-
note only such legislation as VIII rebound to
be best interests of our county and state.
q. F.SI RAGUE, NJ. d.
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FoR THE LEGISLATuRE.

Il hereby announce myself a candidate for
be Stale Legislature from Putnam county sub
sct TO the acIiOn of the Democratic primaries.
JAMES NJ. CHESSER ST..
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Political Announcements.


Thanking my friends for the generous sup,
Iort they have glvon ne in the past, l hereb y
nnOunce ySelf as a candidate for State Sena-
pr, aud request your support at the democrat
primary to be held July 18th, 1902.
L. S. GRILL.
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FoR COUNTY ooMMIssIoNER, /,

&c hereby announce the nama Of John O.
Hickland as a candidate for County Commits
Hner for District No 4, subject to the approv-
|pf the democratic primary.
MANY VOTERS.
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FOR SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRATION.
hereby announce my candidacy for the Of
flee Of Supervisor of Registration for Putnam
County, subjectto the approval of my fellow
democrats at the approaching primaries.
HENS pETERAfANN.
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FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER

hereby announce myself u candidate fol
|onty Commissioner from District No. 1, sub
Fl TO the approval of my fellow democrats al
3 approaching primaries.
WD ALLEN
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June 20, 1902
Oakes Republican., 1902-07-18

yrot to get it away. But, then, I only
escaped from the Brighton police IN
those days by the skin of my teeth.
And they had followed me from Hud-
derstield like those cursed bloodhounds
here. I wonder"
He paused as the brilliant outline of
some cunning scheme occurred to him.
thin, cruel smile crept over his lips.
Never had he been in tight place yet
without discovering loophole of es-
cape almost before he had seen the
trap.
A fit of noiseless laughter shook him.
Splendid" he whispered. worthy
Of Machiavelli himself! Provided al
ways that I can get there first. If
could only see Bells face afterwards,
hear Iittimer ordering him off the
premises. The only question is. am I
UP to seeing the thing through?"
Oakes Republican., 1902-07-18
CHAPTER XIV.
Littimer Castle.

If you had asked the first five people
on the Littimer estate what they
thought of the lord of the soil, you
would have had different answer
from everone. One woman would have
said that a kinder and better man new
er lived: her neighbor would have de-
clared Lord Littimer to be as hard as
the neither milestone. Farmer George
would have rated him a jolly good fell
low. and tell how he would sit in the
kitchen over a mug of ale; while
Farmer John swore at his landlord as
a hard listed grasping miser. devoid
of the bowels Of compassion.
At the end of an hour you would be
utterly bewildered. not knowing what
Oakes Republican., 1902-07-18
would Suggest crucinxfon.

Jabez Spencer Balfour, first mayor Or
the fourishing town Of Crowdon. near
Lcndon, was afterwards convicted Of
extensive frauds. The second mayoA
was Hobbs, the contractor, who was
associated with Mr.. Balfour in schemes,
and met with the same fate.
The third mayor was Sir Frederick
Edridge, who retained the Office until
recently. He was asked, short time
ago, why he had not presented his por-
trait to the council. "There's vacant
space between the portraits Of Balfour
and HOBBS he was informed.
81 dor't care to have my picture there
at present." said Sir Frederick ''If
they'll remove the other portaraits. I'll
have it put up. At present it would be
too suggestive of the crucifixion."-
Oakes Republican., 1902-07-18
Probably True.

"where did all these skeletons come
trom?" asked the visitor at the medical
college.
"Can you keep a secret?" queried tho
medical student.
"Sure thing" replied the visitor.
"Then I'll tell you," said the embry
NJ D., and continued, in a loud whisper:
1--WE raised 'em!"-Chicago News.
Oakes Republican., 1902-07-18
MObbed,

First College Girl hear you girls
mobbed the umpire at the class game?
Second College Girl-Yes! We called
her "mean old thing and told her
that she was perfectly horrid."-Puok.
Oakes Republican., 1902-07-18

Goldsteln-I understan' dat you had q
fire In your clodlngs store last night?
Cohersteln-No; 1t Won't be until
neRxd veele-Ohlo State Journal.
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generally done by vigorous
young men and athletic boys.
Not many young women would
exchange places with the fear
less Texas girl though the profits
were doubled. Those who are
engaged in the business, have
to camp out in the woods, often
many miles from a ranch or a
town.
After Miss Bardine became
convinced that pecans would
command fair price she at once
set to work to discover some
method through which she hop
ed to gather the crop in some
way that would be an improve
ment upon the old plan of opera
tions. This led her into a VEN
ture that nearly cost the brave
girl her life.
The largest and best pecans
grow upon the topmost bows of
the tallest trees, often a hun
dred and fifty feet from the
ground. A daring athletic elm
Der of light weight gets a few
bushels of these "top gallants, :"
as they are called, but ordinary
threshers are forced to shake
their fists at them and walk
away. They often leave from
$50 to $50 worth of pecaDs in the
tops of the taller trees. Few
boys can be found who dare to
ascend to such dizzy heights.
Misf Bardine determined to
harvest the crop clean. Il will
have those big pecans in the
tops of those trees if I have to
go after them in a balloon" she
said. Her assistant laughed at
this idea, but after she had tried
various ways to accomplish her
purpose without success, this
lrrepfeSSlOle genus actually
concluded to construct small
balloon. Her friends looked on
in amazement and many Of them
advised her to abandon the dan
gerous project. "Those pecans,
she said, ''are worth several
thousand Of dollars" and I need
them in my business.
The experiment was made at
Granite Shoals on the Colorado
river, where there is large
forest of the tallest pecan trees
in Texas.
Miss Bardine's people had al
ready gathered the nuts from
the branches of the giant trees
as far up as the threshers dared
to venture. They estimated that
there were at least 500 bushels of
pecans yet remaining beyond
their reach.
The balloon was transported
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This story so inter.

before her. This story so inter-
ested the artist that he communi-
Gated it to the police, who, act
ing on his suggestion, searched
his models lodgings, with the
result that a great part Of the
stolen property was found on
the premises.
Many years ago the late
George Cruikshank told the
writer that a gentlemen who
was glancing through one of his
sketch books was so struck by a
mans head that he, with visible
trepidation, inquired the name.
of the original. Cruikshank,
surprised at his emotion, answer,
ed that the portrait, the result
of pure Imagination aided by
abstract observation, was inten-
ded to represent a typical crimi-
nal, and demanded the cause Of
the others so anxious inqniry. Q
Only that it bears a striking
resemblance to my butler,' was
the reply.
'sIn that case your buffers as
suredly a thief" said Cruik-
shank. ':Keep a sharp eye on.
him.
Which the gentleman did,
with the result that the artists
statement was soon justified
London Tit-Bits.
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Too Much For The Minister.

A clerical correspondent Of the
London Express tells Of a wed
ding ceremony in which he Off
ciated, and inhis zeal for rubri-
cal observances laid himself open
to a comical and crushing retort.
Il was then curate of a small
country parish in; Somersetshire
and one day a couple presented
themselves, after due prelimina-
ries. for marriage in the village
church.
"All went well until the mo-
ment came when it is directed by
the rubric that the man shall
place the ring upon the fourth
finger of the woman's left hand,
but then trouble began. The
yokel, apparently from nervous
ness or ignorance, laid hold OF
the right hand of his expectant
bride and placed the ring there
reSOlutely.
NO. I said, with quiet firm
ness, you must put ering onto
her left hand To this his only
reply was a stolid stare. Think
ing he had not understood me,
I repeated my words, but with
no better effect.
':Nith as much warmth and
insistence as was justified by the
occasion, I now took frmer
ground and said, If you do not
put the ring onto her left hand L
must stop the service.
''And then the climax came.
With a complacent smile, that
seemed to show his satisfaction
at having for the moment best
ed the parson, the bridegroom
settled the point for all time
with the words, Please, sir. she
amt got noue!"
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thought, industry or ambition.

thought, industry or ambition.
Woe to the young man who allows
himself to become a grog shop loun-
ger. DR.. Adam Clark has said that
strong drink is not only the DEVILS way
into man but it is mans way to the
devil.
Yet these men are worth Swing and
improving. Let US not apply the Show
mans epithet to them, who, when eX-
hibiting an orang-outang, said: La
dies and gentlemen, this is rare spec
linen of the animal creation which
forms the connecting link that sepa-
rates mankind from the human race"
Still, men, aye Christian men, too,
will vote to institute and perpetuate
these Notwithstanding institutions.
Suppose it we're made obligatory that
their licenses should be made little
more explanatory: how shocked would
be a community to read in the papers
the announcement that Mr.. A. by the
payment of a stipulated sum had been
licensed to transform men of his vicin-
ity into idle, shiftless loafers or ire
sponsible demons; that DR.. B. had been
licensed the privilege of making wild
ows and orphans of wives and children,
and that Mr.. c. had paid requisite
license fee for the legal right to i'm
pcyerish happy families and dive them
from their happy homes ''over the hill
to the poor house" Every loyal and
true citizen would stand aghast at the
announcement, and Messrs. A, B. and
C. would be hooted from the town, or
hung to the nearest tree, while the
grantors or license board would skip to
pastures new for safety.
But oh, no! we are very fastidious
with our appellations. Mr.. A, B. and
C. have taken licenses for saloons, said
to be so necessary for the welfare of
the public in their localities, leaving to
the imagination to fill up the spectral
list of ruined regulations, lost souls,
drunkards' graves, widows tears, Or
phans' miseries, children's sorrows,
desolated homes, wronged and defraud-
ed wives. broken hearts Of mothers be-
reft, blighted manhood. sorrow, an
guish, poverty, slavery, death and the
lurid pail cast upon the life beyond.
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ONE WUMAN'S VENTURE.
How Miss Bec1ice Bardine Made Money on
PecarS.

Bernice Bardine, a Texas girl,
who is not yet 20 years of age,
has displayed business acumen
of a higher order than a score OF
male competitors who are en-
gagged in the same business that
occupies her attention at the
present time.
Last year Miss Bardine and
her brother, who is younger
than herself, made a little money
gathering pecans. Since then
she has been studying the busi-
ness and laying plans for future
operations, During the last
summer she carried on an extern
esive correspondence not only
with mercantile establishments
in various cities that handle pc
cans, but with reliable people
who reside in regions where the
nut grows. In this way she be-
came thoroughly posted in all
matters pertaining to the present
crop.
Feeling confident that pecans
would command a good price,
she set to work some weeks ago,
and, aided by her brother and a
few trusted assistants who were
sworn to secrecy, she quietly
leased every pecan grove of any
value in the Colorado valley.
When buyers appeared in the
country, startling the ranches
by offering to engage pecans at
y cents a pound. those who
make business of gathering
the nuts were astonished to find
that a young girl>had entered
the field and cornered the crop
so far as this particular region
is concerned. A little investi-
cation showed that this energetic
young woman is in a fair way to
make a fortune in a few months.
It is known that she got a great
bargain in nearly all of her leas
es. AS a sample of the shrewd-
ness that she displayed, it has
leaked out that she leased one
forest for 500 in which there
are several giant trees that will
yield twenty bushels Or $50
pounds of pecans. At a low es
innate the profits accruing from
this single transaction will fall
little short of $4,000.
When it is remembered that
nothing of marked value is sub
iect to such fluctuations Of price
as pecans, there is not much
matter for wonderment in the
fact that the people leased their
forests for so little money. On,
ly a few years ago there was an
abundant crop, and yet for some
unaccountable reason the nuts
were allowed to rot where they
fell. There were no buyers and
no market.
Aside from scooping the crop
this courageous Texas girl has
distinguished herself in other
ways. A pecan crop is not easy
to gather. The work is atten-
ded with great danger and many
hardships. The harvesting is
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-24
The " Whiskey Question. -

They tell US that our States unwell,
SHE'S sick with indigestion,
The cause OF which, the symptoms tell,
Is naught but ''whiSkey question
The SageS took her temperature
And then made bold profession
That they. indeed. with ease could cure
The State Of 'whiSkey question"
They gave TO her diSpenSary bold,
Which was great depression
From what the honest ballots told
Would cure the ''whiSkey question
They dose her with it day by day
And watch her hearts polSatlonS;
Oh. YES, they say, this is the way
To cure the "whiSkey question"
They've treated her without success,
Though tbs sore CONCESSION,
For though she has some WhlSkey less,
She has more OF the question.
Now. politicians, won't you, sag,
Cure our States affection:
Take the whiskey all away
When cured ot ''whiSkey question
Oh. take the poison from her blood
And give her good digestion,
Then she will be in happy mood
When cured Of ''whiskey question.
Oh. give to her. a conscience tells,
Ye rulers in position;
Oh. give TO her, echo yellS,
A dose Of prohibition.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-24
A Cold Wave.

The forecast of sudden changes in
the weather serves notice that hoarse
voice and a heavy cough may invade
the sanctity of health in Your OVID
home. Cautious people have bottle
of One Minute Cough Cure always at
hand. z. H. Wise. Madison, Ca,
writes: II am indebted to One Minute
Cough Cure for my present good
health and probably my life 1t cures
Coughs, Colds, LaGrippe, Bronchitis.
Pneumonia and all Throat and Lung
troubles. One Minute Cough Curn
cuts the phlegm, draws out the infa-
nation, heals and sooths the mucous
membranes and strengthens the lungs.
The r. B. Loryea Drug Store.
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to Granite Shoals and inflated
with hot air from a furnace con-
structed in the midst of a grove
of the tallest trees. The girl,
armed with a long threshing pole
stepped into the basket: and
when her assistants, who were
holding the anchor-rope announ-
ced that they were ready, the
signal was given, and the air
ship rose swaying and jerking
to the tops Of the trees. The
men who held the anchor-rope
had taken a halfhitch around a
small oak, and they found that
they could easily control the
ascent of the balloon.-Chicago
Tribune.
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HAVE AIDED JUSTICE.
Pictures That Helped in the Dection Ct crimi-
mails

For their success in securing
their quarry the police at times
owe not a little to the enterprise
of the press. Percy LEROY, the
murderer of Mr.. Gold, was cap
tured through the publication OF
his portrait in The Daily Tele,
graph, which, coming to the no.
tice of the landlady of the house
in which he was hiding, was re,
cognized by her as that OF the
self-styled engraver, Park, who
for a few weeks past had been
her lodger. She gave notice to
the police, who promptly arrest
ed the wretched man.
Mr.. W. P. Firth, r. A, tells
in his "reminiscences Of a friend
of his named O'Neil who was at
tackled one night by q footpad
and robbed of his watch. The
assault chanced to take place
beneath a gas lamp, by the light
of which the victim sufficient of
the thief's face to jot down a
rough sketch. This he carried
to thespolice. who by its aid soon
afterWard arrested his assailant.
In the possession of the writer
is a watercolor drawing by the
late William Hunt, which was
the-means of trapping a dishon-
est valet who had robbed his
master. The fellow had eluded
the vigilance of the police, and
the gentlemen had given up all
hopes of bringing him to justice,
when, happening to visit a
friends house, he saw on the
walls of the dining room a speak
ing likeness of his rascally SER
want in the guise of an Italian
shepherd. The following day
he called upon the artist, who,
on hearing the facts of the case,
supplied him with the address
of the original, who was duly
arrested and received his just
deserts.
Even more curious is the his
tory of the sketch of a spaniel
made by Sir Edwin Landseer, in
which a detective who CHANGED
to see the picture recognized
the property of man of whom
he was in search. The address
of the then owner of the dog
was ascertained and the animal,
being surreptiously taken from
his custody unconsciously be-
trayed his master by guiding the
officers of the law to the very
house where he was hiding.
Horace Nernet, the celebrated
French painter, was amazed to
notice the effect that the picture
of a brigand had upon a lady
who had called at his studio.
On his inquiring the cause of
his visitors perturbation the
latter replied that a week pre-
vious her house had been brok-
en- into by a masked man, whose
eyes-so malign and ruthless
we're they-had stricken her
with sickening terror-a terror
which had been strangely re-
vived by the eyes of the portrait
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1902-12-24
Ehat's In 4 Name.

Everything is in the name when it
comes to Witch Hazel Salve. E. c..
Dewitt & Co. of Chicago, discovered,
some years ago, how to make u salve
from Witch Hazel that is a specific for
Piles. For Blind. bleeding, itching
and protruding Piles, eczema, cuts,
burns, bruises, and all skin diseases
DeWitt's Salve has 10 equal. This has
given rise to numerous worthless coun-
terfeits. Ask for DeWitt's-tbe gen.
uine. The r. B. Loryea Drug Store.
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Chips and Shavings.
BY DR.. D, Il. MANN.

In years gone by the great majority
of physicians leaned upon alcoholics as
the sheet anchor of hope in all emer-
gencies in which stimulus was re-
ouired, regardless OF the real physio-
logical effects produced thereby. The
practice became general hobby and
alcohol was played as the trump card.
No matter what may have been the
necessities for the use of alcohol in the
past. the best learned in the profession
today are Independent Of it as a RENE
dial agent, as there are now at hand va
rious drugs with which the we'll
informed practitioner is familiar, that
will give him all the beneficial results
formerly expected from the alcohol
family, without leaving behind them
the direful effects that so often re-
motely followed alcoholic prescriptions.
The knowledge of these restoratives
will enable physician to tide over any
case which alcohol could eyer have
done, leaving the patient free from any
Injurious effects of the remedy, no dan
ger of alcoholism following, as so fre-
quently observed in the past.
But today there is no excuse for TAX
ing the risk Of the deleterious results
for the little good that can be obtained,
as we have so many other and safer
remedies.
Medical men should avoid the use of
devil water in their practice.
When such learned practitioners as
Prof. n. S. Davis, DR.. Richardson and
hosts of like men OF renown tell US they
have found no disease that they cannot
treat more successfully without, than
with intoxicating liquors, 1t IS about
time lesser lights begin to look little
at what they are doing.
So long as there is a class OF physl-
clans who deal out whiSkey and brandy
to their patients, just so long Will new
drunkards be coming to the front.
Beer drinkers do themselves double
harm, which spirit drinkers partially
escape. Beer guzzlers flush their blood
vessels with the miserable slush, and in
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Kodol Dyspepsia Cure.

Digests all classes of food. tones and
strengthens the stomach and digestive
organs. Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Stomach Troubles, and makes rich red
blood. health and strength. Kodol re-
builds woruout tissues, purities,
Strengthens and sweetens the stomach.
Gov. G. W. Atkinson. of W. Va, says:
I havs used number of bottles of
Kodol and have found it to be very
effective and, indeed, a powerful RENE
dy for stomach ailments. I recon-
mend it to my friends. The r. B.
Loryea Drug Store.
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GAS ORA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
s'sas:sss assss the Of GsMzzzzz4
His Dog, Moreover.

his Dog, moreover.
::What's your dogs name, I'm
Gle Lazarus?" asked the man,
according to Brooklyn Life.
"Boss, dat purp hez got er
Bible name"
"a Bible name?"
eyes, sab, Massa. He's got de
same name as Laz'rus dog got,
Wot we read bout in de Bibul as
lay down afore de rich mag
gate.'
"But the Bible does not give
the name of any dog. 1t only
says that they came and licked
Lazarus sores"
':Boss, yer yent read um
right"
::Well, What is your dogs
name?"
sMoreober. Iyerry my mis-
tiss read un what hit says:
sMoreober de dog came and lick
ed de sores Vent vera see? My
name Laz'rus an my dog name
Moreober. Bress de Lawd.
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In January the death rate
from accidents is slightly great
er in rural parts than in cities;
in February the death rates in
city and country are similar; in
March the country is more dan
gerous; in April the rates bal
ance again, in May and June the
city leads; in July and August
the country leads; in September
the city is ahead; IN October and
November the country is more
fatal; in December the city takes
the lead again.