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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
RAPID-FIRE MATRIMoNY-

A romantic wedding was the result
of the snow blockade, the contract
ing parties being Miss Ethel King,
of Jefferson, Wis, and Willis Hall,
an oil magnate. Miss King had been
visiting friends near Binghamton, N.
Y, and had started for western
trip. The train on which she was
travelling became blockaded in a
showbank far from any station. The
crew succeeded in getting food for
the passengers by raiding nearby
farms and the passengers proceeded
to make themselves comfortable.
They quickly fraternized, and in
their informal manner, Hall met
Miss King. 1t was case of love at
fl st sight, and Hall, who is noted for
has business energy, applied it to his
love-making with such success that
within six hours Miss King had
promised to become Mrs, Hall, The
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
Murder.

On his last visit to Philadelphia Col Henry Waiter
son told story that did not get into print 1t was about
much battered old lawyer who went up into the
tain region to collect claim. He was lame and half
blind and one-armed. local celebrity in the was
the districts dead shot, who had killed many men and
who was ready to shoot anything anybody. He
in daily the lawyer about ease in which he
interested until his visits became extremely tiresome
Finally the old lawyer exclaimed: Get out of here
and stay out of here Get out right away I'm sick of
seeing you Don't stand there. Go out tell YOU -
The desperate looked at the wreck of in incred-
ibe dsmay, and before he knew what he doing he
was backing out of the room. When he reached the
street he burst into tears. The inhabitants crowded
around and asked him what was the matter
HE druv me out" he walled "Druv right out of
the room Said he's tired o. ookin at and won't let
me come back more"
tWhy didn't you shoot him?m asked the crowd.
''Shoot hm?" echoed the slayer of many lives. Shoo
him7 He couldn't walk. He couldn't see. He's def
and couldn't hear. He couldn't run and he couldn't
fight Why fee- citizens if I'd a-shot him it would a
been urder."-Philadelphia Times,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
ANCIENT LETTER

Twenty years ago, Mayor Carter
Harrison of Chicago, then young
man of % years, wrote letter to
VIM. Dean Howells, man of letters,
and confided a simple request for the
authors autograph. The mayor has
Just received an answer from Mr..
Howells, and after the long wait the
mayor now has Mr.. Howells' auto
graph. 1t is appended to the very
Slip of paper on which the request
was made. 1t came in the envelope
inclosed at that time for the reply.
When the mayor opened the envel-
ope out dropped his HOwells' letter of
20 years ago At the bottom of the
reverse side of the single sheet of
paper was added: II have at last
found time for subscribing myself,
Yours very truly, w. d. HOwells, 4S
West Fifty-ninth street, New York,
Feb. Is, 1902.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
POSTMASTER FOR 65 YEARS

The postoffice at Compton, Della
ware county, Ia, is to be discontin-
ued. 1t has unique record. On
Sept. l, 1857, A. V. Brown was ap-
pointed postmaster and has held the
office ever since. His commission
has never been revoked; the men who
signed his bond are still alive and on
his bond. His wife has been his
deputy through all these years, and
the office is still in the building
where it was first located in 1857.
He is believed to be the oldest post
master in Iowa. Owing to rural mail
delivery the office will be dropped
from the list.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
FORTUNE BURIED FOR 80 YEARS

By the departure for the east of
VIM. G. Henpaw, president of the
Union Savings bank and executor of
the wills of the late Henry ID. Cogs-
we'll, the philanthropist of San Fran
cisco, and his wife, Mrs. Caroline f.
Cogswell, is disclosed a quest for a
fortune that has been buried in an
eastern bank for 80 years by the Cog
wells. All of these years it has lam
untouched, accommodating interest to
add to the half million fortune left
in California. 1t was only after the
death of Mrs. Cogswell, several weeks
ago, that the existence of the sum
of money became known. The bank
in which it is deposited has not been
revealed to the fortunate heirs.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
AGED WOMAN'S LOVE-

Mrs. Caroline Holley, of Middle
town, N. Y, aged rs, just dead, leay-
es property valued at $4,000 to l.. B.
Eaton, aged 80, a government clerk
in Washington, referred to in her
will as an adopted son. Relatives
will try to break the will on the
ground that Eaton was not an adopt
ed son, but q young man with whom
the old lady was madly infatuated.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
ONE GENEROUS WOMAN

Rather than blight the life of the
woman he married illegally, and to
save faithless husband from the
penitentiary, the lawful wife of
George Marcier, of Chicago, a self
confessed bigamist, released him
from his marriage VOWS in Justice
Sabath's court. The self-sacrificing
wife entered into the contract on the
promise that the husband would be
true to his second wife, and be legal
ly married as soon as a divorce is
secured.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
REMARKABLE TREATMENT

John Armstrong, who claims to be
a magnetic healing physician, has
been arrested at Far Rockaway, N.
Y, for peculiar methods of applying
his Treatments" to his feminine pa
tients. 1t is charged that he com
PEELED them to completely disrobe.
Then he transmitted vital influ-
ence" by applying his hands. Com
plant was made by Beatrice Kill
patrick, who said that her mother
compelled her to undergo the ordeal.
Armstrong is said to have similarly
treated 80 prominent women of
that vicinity.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
KINDHEARTED BURGLARS

Gentlemen, said DR.. Grace Elan
ders, as she leaned out of the window
of Eagles Nest Sanitarium, near
MOrristo wn, n. j., to two burglars,
who were trying to climb up to the
porch atInidnight. Gentlemen, we
have % patients in this house.
Should | scream or fire at you and
awaken them the consequences
might be disastrous not to you but
to them, Some of them might die
of nervous shock. / wish you would
90 away at once.n The men went.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
QUEER FAMILY RELATIONS

w. V. Holloway has been compelled
to leave Helmet, Cal, by the force
of public opinion. 1t became known
that Mrs. Holloway, who before her
marriage was Halloway's first cous-
in, consented to permit Holloway to
install Bessie Rogers in the Halo
way home as sharer of his affec-
tiOnS,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
jim KEBN's PHILANTHROPY

When a big storm struck New
York the other day, James R. Keene,
the noted Spectator, gave $4,000 to
relieve suffering among the very poor
remarking II believe in giving
money to people who need it. | don't
give books. Poor people don't need
books. They need food.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06
TRADES TOMB FOR DRINK

John F. Haydee, of Chicago, suf-
fering a well-known form of thirst
for which water is not considered an
appropriate remedy, wandered into
the liquor emporium of Peter J. Skel-
ley, on State street, and traded his
deed to a burial lot in Calvary ceme-
terry for a glass of beer.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06

PRAYER LEADs mo- DIvoRCE-

Fisher Ames of Akron, Ohio, asks
divorce on the ground that his wife
won't permit him to say grace at
meals, always interrupting to refer
to him as a hypocrite, whited old Sc
pulcher, dodo and other things.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06

Mr.. S. E. Gouray of the Canadian house of COM
mons declares that Canada can whip the United
States capture the capital and annex this country
to Canada inside of six months. We are glad to
note that the lawmakers of other countries occa-
sonally make fools of themselves. 1t serves to dis
tract attention from Congressman Wheeler, of Ken
tucky. and the Senators from South Carolina.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06

The Literary Digest asks the question: "Does
electrocution kill?" We are not quite sure whether
it is the electrocuton the autopsy that gives the
finishing touch, but it be definitely stated that
the combination of the two is certain preventive
of longevity.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06

groom then secured the services of
Rev. Fred Cummings, who was on
the train, and there was a wedding
in the presence of all the passengers
who could be accommodated in one
car,
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HIS LIMIT OF LAzINEss.
This Man Named HIS Two DoEa
Cocoa" Because They Were
Always TeEether.

81 never hear laziness discussed" said
Frederick Kost, the artist, according to the
New York Times, but / think of old man
Crawford, who used to keep an inn down on
South beach, when the place was practical
ly wilderness, and a lot of us fellows were
in the habit OF running down there to sketch.
He was without doubt the fellow most ut
terly devoid of energy it is possible to i'm
agine. He wouldn't have breathed if he
could have helped it.
Zone of his sons, who had settled in New
York, sent him two dachshund pups. re-
member just how Crawford would sit sun
ming himself on the porch the whole day,
with one of these dogs, like animated
sapsages, on each side of him. They were
always by him, one to the left, the other to
the right of his chair, when they were at
rest.
Zone day, as 1 sat talking to him, the
dogs were romping in the house. Crawford
turned and called: Here, Cocoa, Cocoa 7
and the dachshunds came trotting out.
What are their names, Crawford?"
asked, thinking ! had misunderstood.
Cocoa replied Crawford.
But there are two,' ! reminded Elm.
Zone does for both, replied the old man.
They're always together-come and 60 at
the same time. And, anyhow, I'm not going
to worry myself into decline by thinking
up dogs Names"
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changed if, after further construction, it
should seem best The depth of water in
the locks is to be generally 29.5 feet All
the locks are to be double, the working
length being for both 1892 feet. The route
of the canal is the same as originally
adopted.
For considerable of its length, the loca.
ton of the canal is in the valley of the
Chagres river, which, though not of much
moment in the dry season, is very formida-
BILE after heavy rainfalls. The unbridled
Chagres had much to do with the failure
of the old company, and is problem the
new considered with greatest attention.
To regulate the flow of the Chagres, two
large dams are to be erected, One dam,
located at Bohio, the last group of locks
on the Atlantic side, is to transform the
River Chagres into a vast lake, covering
an area of 21.5 square miles. This dam
is designed not only as a regulator of the
Chagres floods, but also to. obviate strong
currents where the canal traverses the bed
of the river. The other dam will be To-
Gated at Alhajuela, on the upper Chagres,
a little more than nine miles from the canal.
1t is to form a reservoir covering ten square
miles, and is to act as feeder to the canal,
providing the summit level with water in
work expected of the Alhajuela dam will
be of assistance in controlling the floods of
the Chagres, and the furnishing of n.y.
draulic power, transmitted by electricity,
for operating the locks and lighting at
night the entire canal from the Atlantic
to the Pacific.
The sanitary conditions along the Pam
anna route are much improved over the con-
ditions existing in the early labor on the
canal, the unhealthfulness then being due
in large measure to the uplifting of the.
surface of the ground. To-day labor is
easily obtainable from the British Antilles,
and it is said no great difficulty need now
be feared because of insalubrity of the
climate. The constant high tempera ture
and moist atmosphere do not act as a tonic,
however, and the influence of the climate
is certainly enervating.
The cost for the construction of the canal
was estimated by the international con-
gress of 1879 at 2I4,000, goo, and the time
calculated at u years; although NJ. de Les
seps later announced the work could be
accomplished in eight years at less expense.
The expenditures actually made by the old
company upon the isthmus, as entered in
the files of the court of France, in the re-
ownership proceedings, was Sl56, 400, OO0
The international technical commission give
estimates of cost of completion, estimates
made after several years actual work by the
new company, as follows:
The total cost of the work proper
under plans adopted .............$ 81. COO 600
Add for cOnt1n gencieS- Is, 10000
If both locks be built with width
of SOS feet, the cost would be
increased TO ----------.---------.--sI zo,vv.ovo
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PRESCRIBED FOR HER.
Desperate Case That Taxed the Doc.
tors Patience to the
Utmost.

When DR.. Blank, of Fourteenth street,
who isn't the most patient of men at any
season of the year, goes away for vacation
nothing infuriates him so much as the sight
of an invalid, says the Washington Post. A
month ago he went to Atlantic City for few
days rest, and he had no sooner settled
himself for brief time of being an ordi-
nary mortal than chronic patient of his
appeared on his horizon. He endured her
complaints all one day in silence, but the
next morning she accosted him while he
was smoking his cigar on the veranda after
breakfast. 1 will say in her defense that
she isn't married, and she hasn't father,
SO she didn't know what she was doing when
she broke in on mans smoke.
"'Oh, doctor" said she, 81 do wish you'd
tell me what to do. just can't sleep at all.
Why. last night / didn't once close my
eyes"
The doctor glared at her.
81 didn't close an eye," she went on 81
do wish you'd tell me what to do
The doctor glared again.
Good Lord, madam" he Numbered, "try
closing your eyes. How on earth do you ex-
pect to sleep if you don't?"
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POLITICAL DRIFT.

Coca sionally republican state
convention ventures to insinuate that
President Roosevelt is too good for his
party.-Detroit Free Press.
Mr.. Hanna has not taken occa-
sion to put any ditto marks under his
declaration that there were no trusts
in this country.-Washingt Star
(Rep.).
The attempt of the junior SEN
ator from Indiana to besmirch the
character of Gen. Miles has, like most
of the political moves of this eXuber-
ant young man, proved boomerang
to his own party.
Whatever may be said of the
beet sugar republicans treachery to
their party. it was no worse than the
administration forces treachery to
the cause of reciprocity.-Louisville
Courier-Journal (Dem.).
For man who vaunts himself
upon his independence of other peo-
pies opinions Mr.. Roosevelt is most
supple and adaptive person when the
machine politicians of his party are
involved. No president ever has
shown a more eager desire to concili-
ate the bosses.-Chicago Chronicle
(Dem-).
Ordering a whole province to
be made a bowling wilderness and
the killing of all over ten years of
age may be the modern system of
warfare, but it sounds nightly like
the middle ages. 1t must be remem-
bered that the homes, the wives and
the little ones of the Filipino are as
dear to his heart as ours are to us
and his devotion to the stars and
stripes is not likely to be enhanced
by such strenuous achievements
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Truth Crushed to Earth.

Truth. the woman's forum, a
monthly launched to boom the feder.
alton, persisted the other day under
very distressing circumstances. A
post norton examination showed
that the managers of the publication
secured a large number of photo
graphs of club leaders to adorn its
pages. Most Of the photographs
were in decollete dress. When these
appeared in print they were adorned
with high neckwear. The resultin.
wrath produced periodical heart fail
ure.
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Brooklyn, New York.
four months, when my husband became
impatient because grew worse instead
of better, and in speaking to the drug
gist he advised him to get Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and Sanative Wash. How l wish I
had taken that at first; it would have
saved me weeks of suffering It took
three long months to restore me, but
it is happy relief, and we are both
most grateful to you. Your Compound
has brought joy to our home and
health to me. y Mrs. PAULINE JuDsoN,
AZ Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, N. Y
$4,000 forfeit If above testimonial is not genufnc.
1t would seem by this state
ment that women would save
time and much sickness if they
would get Lydia e. Pinkham'S
Vegetable Compound at once,
and also write to Mrs. PinI1f1am
at Lynn, Mass, for special ad.
vice. It is free and always helps
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entire distance, and the entertainments con-
the level of the sea to about the height of
Bohio, which is 1872 feet in depth, and
from 50 to Ss-5 feet.
From the 18th mile rises the central mass
of earth called the Cordilleras. A good deal
of work has been done between the 18th
and SD mile. The cut begun by the old
company has been continued by the new
company, and now has an average depth of
l64 feet.
The slope towards the Pacific ocean is
now reached. and here the declivity of the
land becomes great. The height of the en-
bankment varies from - or IS feet to about
1856 feet. diminishing at the 10th mile to
from 6.5 feet to 1874 feet. From this point
to the Pacific the canal has been completed
% the depth of from SIS feet to 26.3 feet
From mile 42S to the great depths near
Navs, at mile 45.9, the canal is completed so
as to be navigable to a depth of from 165
feet to 29.5 feet.
As is well known, it was the original
purpose of the old company to build
anal without locks, freely open from
ocean to ocean; but, after years of work,
the plan had to be abandoned. The -enor-
nous excavations needed to cut through
the Culebra, the central mass of mountain,
and the torrents from the River Chagres.
were the obstacles In the way of the open
:anal. The plan adopted by the new COM
'anx was to reduce materially the depth
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- WHlCu SAlSHOSu VIC I1HC VI thC
completion of the waterway to October,
1894. Afterwards Colombia granted an ad-
ditional extension of six years.
The new company has made extremely
thorough investigation of the character of
the country, spending three years in the
work of investigation and the gathering
of experience; and this, added to the
knowledge gained by the experiences of
the old company, should lay good founda-
ton for future execution-"the more de-
tailed and careful the surveys, the surer
and quicker the execution of the work. !"
The company has avowed these to be its
principles:
First-That any plan involving any diff
Guilty impossible of execution in the al
lotted time and within the limit of ex-
pense should be rejected.
Secondly-That in the solution of the
technical, and detailed problems of the
work, only those plans should be consid-
cred which had the support of experience,
and every new idea which should tend to
mislead should be rigidly excluded.
Third-That in arriving at the proper So
luton it was necessary to consider the par
ticular place where the work was to be ex-
ecuted, and also to make due allowance
for the climate of the region. Hence the
necessity of undertaking only work not
requiring exceptional conditions.
In regard to description, work accom-
plished, and work yet to be done, the inter
national technical commission have given
in an elaborate report, which report seems
to establish the practicability of complet-
ing the canal. Extracts from the report
are as follows:
The Panama canal extends from Colon,
on the Atlantic, to Panama, on the Pacific
ocean; a total length of 1852 miles, includ-
ing 3.36 miles dredged in the Pacific to deep
water.
The work already done constitutes fully
two-fifths of the entire canal works.
Starting from Colon, on the Atlantic
coast, Is situate the new city of Christie
pher Columbus, the location of the plant
and works of the canal company. From
the little port of Folk river, the canal is
navigable for Ills miles, varying in depth
from 1864 feet to 29.5 feet. From the H.
to 267 mile excavation is proceeding the
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cooperative Hou.ekeepinr.

A cooperative housekeeping as
ISOLATION of 20 persons in Sioux City,
Ia, after an experience of five
months, finds that the table expen-
ses of each individual are $2.S5 a
week, including the cost of food,
fuel, light, cook, servants and rent
ed dining apartments. The saving
is figured at 1924 a week for a
family of four, in addition to escap-
ings''a great deal of bother" Bills
of fare are made out by q com.
~mittee of five women. The house
keeper receives 81 a week
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of the central excavation, and to estab-
lish therein series of locks to be fed from
the Chagres river.
Three principal problems were pre-
sented:
l. The determination Of the depth to
which the central mass must be eXcavated
and of the number and height of the locks
to be built.
2. The designing of the proper methods
for the regulatio of the flow of the Chagres
river.
3. The feeding of the canal
The commission decided on 6S.0S feet
above the sea, with four locks on each slope,
as the altitude at which the bottom of the
canal should be placed, but this plan to be
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Pensions for Old People.

Edward Everett Hale bases his
plea for pensions for old people on
the following conditions: First, to
persons who have never permanent
ly abandoned their native state;
second, to those who have paid
taxes since they reached manhood;
third, to the persons so or IS years
old. DR.. Hale thinks $1OO a year
would keep the old folks from the
poor house.
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His Fatal Omission.

That sea captain who reports hav-
ing encountered floating island in
habited by parrots and monkeys and
supposed to have been cast adrift by
the volcanic disturbances in the
caribbean sea, should have grappled
to his find and towed it along to New
York harbor. This fatal omission is
likely to relegate his yarn into the
,ea-yarn class.
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In Washington. ss..oa Negroes.

Just why Washington, D. c., should
have the largest population of negro
blood is a matter the census sharps
did not explain 1t is fact, and
there are $1,000 negroes in the cap
ital city. Baltimore, one of the most
progressive cities of the south, has
7s,259, and New Orleans, 77,714. Phil
adelphia numbers 62,613 negroes
among her citizens, New York, CO..
CSC, and Chicago, 30,15O.
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Arctic Circle to Patagonia.

When the railway from Duluth to
Dawson City is completed, for build
ing which company has recently
been incorporated with capital of
S1S0,0eo,00O, the North American part
of the road from the arctic circle to
Patagonia will be finished. 1t will
be a long time before the South
Americans do their share.
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'Slmply q Lucky Dog.n

The ST. Louis Globe-Democrat has
a dispatch describing military dim
ner given to Gen. Funston at Pres
colt, Ariz. One of the officers toasted
the general and spoke of him elo-
quently as the hero of the Philippine
war. Funston responded in just three
sentences. He said: 'I don't look
like a hero. I don't feel like a hero.
1 am simply a lucky dog"