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New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
THE MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS.
FOREIGN PORTS.

FOREIGN PORTS
Liverpool, 49, m-Saled steamer Taurfc Usr>
Caven, New-York. "
Prawle Point. Dec ia-Passed. steamer Marquette (3r
Richardson. New-York London. "
Lizard Dec 1e-Passed. steamer British Empire C,r)
pEagen. New-York AntwerD
Dec 10, 9:10 m--Passed Moltke 1c:er,
Dempwof New-York for Plymouth, Cherboure" " ana
Hamburg -
Plymouth Dec 10, BIS m--Arrived. steamer Moltka
burg tand proceeded.)
18-Arrfved, O3r, si,h
ardson. New-York " ~
Hamburg. ie-AlTivsd steamer Washington fc.-,
New-York ''''''
Copenhagen Dec 1SArrived. Nicolai III dan,
Drum NeH-York for Stettin: 18th sailed ne,
Hekla DAM wulf. New-York eihef
Dec H. a steamer Osc.- r,
dam. Skjodt. New-York. 4 II
1S-Saied. Nicholas Lad.
Rotterdam. Dec 17-Arrived. steamer Ryndam irutchs
Van Zee New-York. e"'
Hamburg Dec lS-Sailed. Florida Jan.o,
New-York. -'
Aden Dec i8-Arrived. steamer Verona Gen Sne.en
New-York for Singapore Manila " NA'
Dec l3-Sailed. steamer Eastry New
~
Naples. Dec 1e.Arrived steamer Nord America Ctap
Msscazzini. New-York 'A''
Auckland l9-Arrved (prevousIy) steamer C;raccbus
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
YOUTHFUL CULPRITS.

Workings of the newly instituted Chill
dren's Court in this city, with many
humorous incidents that have arisen
there
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COSTLY PRIVATE DWELLINGS.

Tremendous increase in the cost OF the
average private dwelling house IN Man
haitian Borough, with photos or Henry
Selignans new 100000 house in East
Fifty-sixth-st
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SWEEPING MADE EASY.

BY means of air suction office build
ings can be cleaned without raising a
dust and all the rugs and carpets there
in The process at work in a New
York skyscraper.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
FREE LECTURES.

The system of adult education main
tanned by the city of New-York What
II is. and how it is conducted. with illus
trations
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
THE NEW "MESSIAH. -

A new edition of Handel's great Ora
torio. BY Professor Ebenezer Prout. OF
Dublin University. Some OF its feat
ures, with portrait of the composer
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
A. SURPRISE.

The enlarged and improved Cmldren's
Department last Sunday was an agree
able surprise TO many. To-morrows
Tribune will be even better
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
EX-ATTACHE

describes how the precocious Boy King
OF Spain tackled his first Cabinet crisis,
and the writer gives pen sketch of the
Kings new Premier
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
CATHEDRAL OF THE SACRED
HEART. IN NEWARK. ". J.

Illustrated article on the above. with
the first four years of its building
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
A BEAUTY HINT.

Follow the simple course OF physical
culture exercises published IN the up to
date Women's Department every sun
day
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
PAGODAS AND TEMPLES ON THE
PLAINS OF PAGAN.

Several hundred of the thousands of
these fine specimens of ancient Burmese
architecture still exist. Pictures of them
and bits OF fresco work from the crunl-
bling walls will be described
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
MINIATURE ALMANAC.

MIINIlNI IKE NI-HI1t-N7NN-
Sunrise 20 Sunset 435 Moon rs pm ~ Moons 20
HIGH WATER
AM-sa1dv Hook 1l:5ol Gov 1905 Hell Gate :55
p M-Sgndv Hook -- Gov Island IL: % Hell Gate 2:l1
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
GREAT SALT LAKE.

This famous inland sea is being rap
idly dried up by the irrigation bitches
and salt plants of Utah. illustrated
StOry
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20

Siberian Squirrel Lined Circulars fashionably
worn; large assortment, $50 to SI25.
c. c. SHAYNE, Manufacturer, 4Ist and 42d
Carriage entrance 41st St. B'way 9Th Av.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20

Literary Reviews, Sports of
Saturday and the Week,
Matters of Special Interest to
Women, Entertaining Ufs-
ceUany from The Tribune's
Foreign and American Com
pOraries, a Page OF
HumOr, Special Correspond
ence from London and Paris,
the News of the World.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20
IRISH SOCIETIES OF WATER
BURY, CONN,
FOREFATHERS' DAY AT PLYM-
OUTH, MASS,

will be celebrated next Sunday by the
Old Colony Club, organized IN 1869.
and the Miles Standish Guards, both of
Plymouth. Pictures of the Old Colony
Clubhouse and officers OF the Standish
Guards.
New-York tribune., 1902-12-20

Announcements
ICARIA.
A New Collar
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-04

SEC. 8. When any city or town snail
lecide, as hereinbefore provid d, to estab-
fish a plant, and any person, firm or cor
poration shall at the time of the vote
required for such decision, be engaged
in the business Of making, generating or
distributing gas or electricity for sale,
for lighting purposes in such city or
town, such city or town shall, II such
person, firm or corporation shall elect
to sell, and shall comply with the pro-
visions of this Act. purchase OF such per
son, firm or corporation, before esta0-
fishing public plant, such portion OF
his, their or its gas or electric plant and
property suitable and used for such bus
mess in connection Herewith as lies
within the limits of such city or town.
If in such city or town single corpora
ton owns or operates both gas plant and
an electric plant, such purchase shall in
clude both of such plants, but otherwise
such city or town shall only be obliged
to purchase the existing gas plant or
plants. if it has voted only to establish a
Gas plant, and shall Only be obliged to
purchase the existing electric plant OF
plants if it has only voted to establish an
electric plant II the main gas works,
in the case of a gas plant. or the central
| lighting station, in case of an electric
| light plant, lie within the limits OF the
city or town which has voted to estab-
fish plant as aforesaid, such city OF
town shall purchase, as herein provided
the whole of such plant and property
used in connection Herewith, lying with
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-04

in its limits, and the price to be paid
therefor shall be it's fair market value
for the purposes of it's use, no portion
of such plant to be estimated, however,
at less than its fair market value for any
other purpose, including as au element
of value the earning capacity of such
plant based upon the actual earning !
being derived from such use at the time
of the final vote of such city or town to
establish plant, and also any locations
or similar rights acquired from private
persons in connection Herewith. plus
the damages suffered by the severance
of any portion of such plant lying out
side Of the limits of such city or town,
and minus the mount of any mortgage
or other incumbrance or lien to which
the pant so purchased, or any part
thereof, may be subject at the time of
transfer of title; but such city or town
may require that such plant or property
be transferred to it free and clear Of any
mortgage or lien, unless the gas or cleo
trio committee Of such city or town shall
otherwise d termine. Such value shall
be estimated without enhancement on
account of future earning capaci-
ty. or good will, or Of eXclus-
i've privileges derived from rights
in the public streets. When any capital
has been paid in, in pro erty instead OF
cash, the valuation placed upon such
property in estimating it as paid-in cap
| ital shall not be conclusive in estimating
its value under the foregoing provisions,
but may be disputed by the city or town.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-04

and if shown tohave been excessive, may
yet be reduced by the Al thOrity fixing
the price of the plant and property as
hereinafter provided.
"SEC. 4. Any city or town establish
ing or purchasing plant within its lin
its, as provided In this Act, or recon-
structing, extending, or enlargiDg the
same, as provided in Section 5, herein
after set out, may pay for the same by
the issue of bonds. payable In term not
exceeding thirty years and bearing in
terest at rate not exceeding seven per
cent. which shall not be disposed OF for
lie Is than par with accrued interest, and
the Indebtedness thereby created shall
not be included in the limit of indebted
ness OF such city or town provided by
law; but such bonds shall not be issued
until vote authorizing the same has
been taken and passed as provided for in
Section 2, and the whole amount OF
bonds so issued by city or town and
outstanding shall not exceed at their par
value the amount of seven per cent. OF
the total valuation Of the real and per,
sonal property within the limits of said
city or town, according to the last pre-
ceding valuation of the same made by
said city or town. The interest on such
bonds and a sinking fund to meet the
same at maturity shall be provided for
by ordinance Of the city or town
Council"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-04
THERE'S BUSINESS IN IT.

In its recent announcement OF a
voluntary reduction of 20 per cent in
its passenger tariff, to go into effect
Christmas day, the Florida East
Coast Railway is simply giving
another example of that liberality
in management which distinguishes
it from other lines operated in this
state, and not to the advantage of
those other lines. The East Coast
Railway is young, but its vigor is
the result of good nourishment
rather than youth. This nourish-
ment comes from the men it has en-
Outraged to settle along its line and
develop lands hitherto waste.
Fifteen years ago the whole east
coast of Florida was practically a
wilderness.
Today that wilderness and the sol
itary places are glad with the hum
of prosperity and beautiful with the
blossoms of the rose. Prosperous
cities and towns are numerous on
it's line, and the whole 400 miles of
it's way constitutes what is common
ly called the American Riviera.
During three months of our Florida
winter probably more people travel
up and down the Florida East Coast
Railway than is carried by any
other single lire i'll the United
State. The reason for this is be-
cause the company has made its
line attractive. During the other
nine months of the year, the man.
agement turns its attention to the
work of development.
The cut is one of business policy
and not philanthrOphy. Though the
policy that helps men to help them
selves, is, after all, the sort of phil
anthropy the world needs. The re-
duction is big one and an increased
volume of business will result.
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( be thousands of miles from the out
let. Just so on limited scale Ope-
rates the waters on these prairies.
The canal cut u new main channel or
artery. Water Immediately each
side of it formed at once an outlet,
but that further off took time to
change its course parallel to the gen
eral trend Of the veins and led to the
impression that the canal would not
be success. 1t is, and now the own
er can 90 to work improving what
in time will be the richest and most
enduring crop land in the state.
Rice will doubtless prove Il best
first crop, some very fine having al
ready been grown on it. Irish pO-
tatoeS also make a heavy yield on
the prairie where it has been well
worked.
Messrs. a. W. Tucker, Holzhausen
and Marzahu are among those prin-
cipally engaged in clearing ham
mock land at present. Almost all
those here are adding to the cleared
area of their holdings.
Our weather from Sunday DIST to
Saturday 10Th has marked one of
Florida's peculiar changes. The
mercury registered each morning at
5 Il. M, $50, 62o, $50, 62o, 56o, 35o
and 55o respectively. Friday morn
ing the 18th giving us the first frost
of the season. On Friday morning
in some exposed parts of our settle
ment 20 were noted and ice a inch
thick formed. Though only for less
than "a hours the chill on the atmos-
phere was severe, it yet proves the
necessity of building houses well for
protection against it. The fact that
in less than 30 days of the 1856 of the
year, a fire is an absolute necessity
to comfort does not initiate this
necessity, a fact we are all aware of,
Then a warm winter house wi h
of room for the summer
air to circulate in, is far more comfor-
table during the hot months than one
but slightly protected with outside
With our cheap lumber
and cheap plaster none need suffer
and to do so is short sighted and in n
measure penurious.
Messrs. Schfppee and Humphrey
the young men referred TO i'm nv last
letter have bought the E. o. Long
and are preparing for a
spring crop on it. Mr.. Long failed
to make gon in Florida and left
Tor his northern home several
ago. We trust the change tn
.hese young men will prove a bene-
it to all remaining. There is room
or it. ID. w, STARKEy
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Another View of the Literary
SweatShOp.
ELIZABETH y. BARR, FLoRAHoME.

"Who casts to write a living line
must sweat
The literary sweat-shOp is a build
ing forty eleven stories high; forty
of which are built of brick and the
remaining eleven of glass.
Out of the front door Of this shop
flows the endless stream of current
literature. Occasionally a product
of the sweatshop strikes the popu-
lace on a soft spot. 1t sets them
crazy. This is what we call, 'mak-
ing a HIT
The great sweatshop is very al
Turing place for a certain class of
people whose minds are not normal
iy balanced. This is probably due
to the fact that they are looking at
the top and not at the bottom. They
see the gigantic literary figures
moving about within the glass walls
in the upper stories and are seized
with a mania to be among them
But there are no outside stairways,
nor elevators on the inside, and all
must enter on the ground floor and
climb up hand over hand.
On the first floor they find it very
crowded and unwholesome. The
atmosphere is heavily laden with
rhetorical mistakes and unnecessary
words and phrazes. When he has
once ventured within the walls of
the sweatshop the victim never dies
a natural death unless he is spared
to get near,t the top. Sooner or later
he either starves or is smOthered, or
perhaps someone throws down a
of criticism and blows
him to pieces.
But if he lives to climb a few stOr-
les higher he finds things growing
better. He breaths easier, works
better and gets better pay. Of the
many thousands who enter below, a
few climb high enough to be seen
the glass walls. 1t seems as
though they are in a cage and so we
call them literary lions. The ex-
RENE upperstory is reached by few
indeed. At present it is occupied by
such writers as Rudyard kipling,
Mark Twain and Robert Barr.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-04
One Girls Kind Heart.

Miss Anna Van Dyke, of Nashota,
Wis, has visited her uncle in Mil
Waukee, Wis, so often that she is as
well known there as at home, and all
of her friends know that she is q
charmingly demure Young woman,
not at all given to doing uncOnven-
tional things. She has kindly
heart, however, and the courage to
do what seems to be the proper and
thoughtful thing.
returning from an eastern trip
with her mother, both of them in
deep mourning, they had few min
utes to spare between trains and
went into the lunchroom in the Chic
ago depot to get cup of coffee.
While there an old man with one
arm whom they had noticed on the
train came in, ordered something and
then looked around helplessly for
someone to assist him in carving his
meat. There was 10 one at liberty
and the man made a brave effort TO
cut 1t himself. But the meat was
tough and the effort was in vain.
Miss Van Dyke had noticed his
predlcament, and when some time
passed and no one offered to go to his
ASSISTANCE she marched bravely over
ana smilingly asked if she could not
help him.
The man in distress accepted the
oter in the same spirit in which it
was rendered and made a satisfac-
tory meal. When it was finished he
walked up to Miss Van Dyke, took
her hand and said in a voice which
tfembled with emotion: INV child,
you have done me a great Kindness,
| VIII never forget it. | wish YOU ali
happiness and prosperity. nv name
is Gen. o. o. Howard. "
Miss Van Dyke said that a tear
stole down his cheek as he made this
acknowledgment. 'i'
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A CHILD MOTHER.

The tragedy of Eden is always
being re-enacted. The tempta-
ton, the fall, the lost paradise
over and over again has the cur
tain gone up and down ON these
scenes of our human story.
Elsie Mills lived on farm IN
the western country, no matter
where. She was the only child.
There were Just her father and
mother and Elsie and her bird
and her flowers.
A time came when Elsie was 10,
but tall for her age, and pure and
far as lily. Her father said,
us he had said again and again.
"Well, mother, shall we let her
go?" Mother always said yes, it
was necessary that Elsie should
he educated. And the old father
poked at the fire and sighed. In
the flames he saw huttering visions
of Elsie's babyhood and budding
girlhood. She had always been
dads girl"
The girl was sent to the city to
live with an uncle and aunt.
Letters came to the old home
stead, but they said nothing
about a young clerk in her uncle's
store who carried Elsie's books to
school and helped her in her les
sons in the evening. Let us has
ten over the rest.
Poor Elsie was in the maternity
ward of the hospital. The frail
flower wilted aud died. But be-
fore her death father and mother
came and the young man was sent
for and there was a marriage and
Elsie's child bore fathers name.
At the old farmhouse Elsie
bird sings as Of yore and Elsie's
mother tends the flowers. And
an old mans heart is breaking.
There it is: Eden, Innocence,
Tempter, Fall. You can match
it from the lips of the matron OF
almost any hospital
Who was too blame? Not the
child. She was innocent-almost
too innocent. Did the mother
fearing to corrupt her mind with
a knowledge of good and evil
prove reticent, neglecting to prop
erIy teach her? 1t may have
been.
Primarily, the temptation was
the boy-man. He was not limo
cent. The noblest work of Goo
is q self-controlled young man
But there are so few of such young
men. That's why every fathe
fears. That's why every mother
throat swells with apprehension
because of her girl child.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-12-04
'UR FLORAHOME LETTER
Editor NEWS:

Editor NEWS:
Florida has no known bonanza
prospects, for while there are whis'
pers of the possibility of the exist
ence of oil beneath us, and water al
different places shows suspicious
scum of an oily nature, yet we think
we must be content with the slow
and sure that portends the more de-
sirable progress. History proves
that the eVanescent is not the lasting,
the boom to be but the precursor OF
the failure, the sky-rocket ascension
but the fall OF the stick.
FlorahOme is no exception and we
may truthfully say we are glad of it.
Our town located as it is on broad,
beautiful (to be made so) plain, large
! ly unimproved, but a little back,
hidden by forests from the town we
find homes, clearings, crops, i'm
prOvements of all kinds fOrecasting a
! future bright with contentment and
prosperity. 1t is best that it is so.
| 1t is but repetition of all that is
good and lasting in the history of the
world.
Several of our colonists, with a
small one horse power mill and a
crude evaporation, have been turning
out some very presentable syrup
from Japanese cane. The quantity
is not as great as expected, owing
largely doubtless, TO the smallneSs
of the crusher, but in quality it is
good. With a more complete mill
and an evaporation built on more
scientific principle there will be a
great improvement in both quantity
and quality. Some brown sugar has
been made from the southern cane.
These efforts we trust are but the
beginning of large and lucrative
business in our colony.
Some inquiry regarding the extent
of the drainage made by the canal
has been made. So far as ] have in
vestigated the whole of the prairie is
affected by lt.eyen where the canal
is over a half mile from the timber
muck-there its effects are seen in a
drying up and hardening of the soil.
1t is well known fact that the earth
like the body of man or beast is fill
ed with veins though which circu-
late the water that falls on its sur
face or following some main artery
carries water unknown distances
from higher to lower points. The
syphOn principle also governs much
of the circulation. have seen with
in six feet of the highest point ON
the Allegheny mountains in a ra-
idus of miles as fine a spring of pure,
clear, sparkling water as ever springs |
from the earth. Where did it come |
from is an unanswerable question.
Where does the water of artesian
wells spring from2 The source may
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The reported election of a vio-
lent anti-American as president
of the Cuban house of representa-
sives is but another of the many
FERROUS indications of Cuba's
gradual alienation from her step
mother country. This growing
ill-fseling and widening separa-
ton is due, not to waywardness of
the child, but to falthlessness of
the parent.
1t is unpleasant for the people
of this country to realize that the
fidelity and affection of the people
of Cuba has been forfeited by our
own broken faith, but the sooner
we do realize it the better.
Cuba came to us crushed by
long wars, but rich in natural re-
sources and strong in hope. We
gave her and the world many fail
promises. But'fcw if any of these
promises have been kept. The
protectorate we threw over hel
was restraint, and che "indepen.
dence" that has been accorded
her is a hollow mockery.
The interests Of Cuba were sac
rifced in the congress of the
United States for the interests OF
syndlcates Of this country, anC
her most vital trade regulations
were dictated by the sugar and to-
bacco trusts. We have destroyed
her former trade relations will
other countries without permit
ting her to form new ones. Com
mercially we have marooned her
Politically we have gyved her. In
dustrlally we have paralyzed her
Our promises have been forgotten
To her rights we have given III
heed. To her protests we nav
not listened. To her wrath W
must now lend attention.
The people that for two centur
les fought almost constantly 70
liberty and almost had it within
their grasp at last, must not b
expected to tamely accept in it
stead mere bauble.
The fault is at Washington, no
at Havana. 1t is the better par
of patriotism to realize it and t
provide the remedy.
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COULD CHANGE HIS MIND.

We know that Col. Robt. Davis
intentions We're good when he an
nOunced that he would retire from
politics after the expiration of his
present term in congress, but if the
people determine to make guberna-
torial timber out of him, as it seems
they are going to do, of course our
Bob could not be blamed or criti-
cised if he should change his mind
as regards his future, and turn him
self over to the people of Florida to
be dealt with as they see fit. A good
democrat is always willing to yield
to the demands of his people, and if
the democrats of Florida want Con-
gresham Davis to be Governor Da-
Wis the change should, and we be-
lieve will, be made. Anyhow we
shall see what we shall see in this
in due time.-Gainesville
Sun.