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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-27
GunSauluS and Labor.

DR.. Frank w, Gunsaulus, upon re-
Stunning his work after four months
absence in Europe, preached recent
" upon the subject, by way OF
Gethsemane, Calvary, and the
Cross He said in part: 1.-The So
luton of the great problems of to-
day is a religious one. The labOring
man is told today that labor pro-
duces all the wealth. This is not so.
Today the labOrlng man produces
three times as much as he did 80
years ago, and it is not hard to see
that it is the brain idea, culture and
technical education, combined with
labor, that are producing the wealth.
Eight-thirteenths of the wealth is
produced by the men of ideas, the re-
mainder is the proportion allotted to
labor. Add to your boy of today
idea, and you add to his muscle that
which counts for eight-thirteenths
in the matter of the production of
wealth. / do not know how any of
our current troubles are to be set
tied. We have tried everything
else but Christ. But labor, Smutty
and begrimed, will become calm at
last-not by might, power, the
sword, or by arms, but by Gethsem-
ane and Calvary"
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in its limits, and the price to be paid
therefor shall be it's fair market value
for the purposes OF its use, no portion
of such plant to be estimated, however,
at less than its fair market value for any
other purpose, including as an 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 incumb"ance 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 tnrmine. 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,
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SEQ. 8. When any city or town Shall
ecide, as hereinbefore pr0vid d, to estab-
lsh 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 estab-
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 a 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 estab 'ish a
gas plant, and shall only be Obliged to
purchase the existing electric plant or
plants If 1t has Ony voted to establish an
electric plant II the main gas works,
in the case Of 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 or
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, 1902-11-27
OUR FLORAHOME LETTER.

Editor NEWS:
The arrival of Mr.. and Mrs. A, W..
Fucker from Chicago to make their
permanent home with us, marks, we
trust. change from the comparative
standstill of our colony to more
progressive spirit among us that will
bring the greater prosperity. Mrs.
Fucker in her Chicago home was an
active worker in church affairs and
from force of habit will scarcely be
tble to drop it in her new home.
There is room here for larger in
huence for good, not that our people
particularly need greater moral re-
straint-I might make one or two eX-
oeptions-but an addition to our al
ready excellent band of workers will
infuse new life into the work. Mr..
Fucker with the energy of life long
active spirit is preparing to build up
a home and moving in other ways to
try the effect of his influence for the
general good of Florahome. Long
may they enjoy their possessions
here and prosperity attend them.
J. d. BraidwOod of Chicago, has
been looking over his interests here
for the past few days. He has ten
acres of peach, plum and persimmon
and other fruits, with pecans, and is
quite well pleased with his prospects.
Mr. Braidwood will continue his res
idence in Chicago for the time being,
bat we trust for not long, as he would
be a very acceptable addition to our
numbers.
Rev. Holzhausen is now residing
on and improving his place 2 > miles
south of our village. He has Il small
house erected on it aud has a number
of hands clearing, blowing, etc. A
nice plot of Strawberries has been
put Ort and seeds of vegetables that
our winters permit to yield results
planted. Thus starts another to reap
the benefits and pleasures of our
beautiful land. Mr.. HOlzhausen is
indeed a valued and important adj
dition to our colony, earnest, ener-
getic and helpful.
Thursday mornings train from the
north brought with it the familiar
and pleasant face of Mr.. NJ, Christe1
Of Montana, Mr., Christen has To-
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and IL shown to have 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 10 this Act, or recon-
structing, extending, or enlarging 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 " 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 sinking fund to meet the
same at maturity shall be provided for
by ordinance Of the city or town
Council"
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"IS 1t Worth While 2"

Among the poems of Joaquin Mil
Ter, 1.-THE poet of the Sierras," is one
entitled us 1t Worth While?" which
runs:
Is it worth while that we iostle a
brother,
Bearing his load on the rough road
Is it worth while that we ieer at each
other
In blackness of heart that we war
to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitiful strife.
Were it not well in this brief little
journey
On over the isthmus, down into the
tide,
We give him fish instead of a SER
pent,
Ere folding the hands to be and
abide
Forever and aye in the dust at his
side?
Is it worth while that we battle TO
humble
Some poor fellow down into the
God pity us all! Time oft soon will
All of us together, like leaves in a
gust,
Hqmbled, indeed, down into the
dust.
Bible.
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I Another misconceptien of Florida
is best stated in the question of a
gentleman in Chicago. How much
soil is there in Florida on top of the
sand?" The question is amusing be-
cause SO impossible of conception to
anyone acquainted with Florida s
soil. Florida-Florahom 's--soil is
not sand; it is sandy loan, or [
might say a Sanded loan. 1t has no
top soil any more than Illinois, ii in
dee d, as much. 1t is composed of di =
integrated rock Of u granite nature,
friable and of variable thickness
from five to ten feet to the hardpan
or underlying firm bed of soft stony
nature. This dislntegrated rock has
by centuries of accumulated vege-
table matter become filled with
humus, often in quantities greater
than its sandy mixture which serves
but to hold it in condition to be us
able by vegetation covering it
Where the subsequent growth has
been hard timber the accumulated
vegetable matter in the sand has been
in greater and richer degree ana We
call it hammock. Where by design of
the Advise Creator pine timber with
its limited underground has predom-
mated, the soil has less humus
hence less fertility, yet these lands
even the thinnest-I am writing of
Putnam cOunty-are not poor for
can show on such land but partly
cleared and plowed last winter, fresh
from natures hand, as fine a growth
of COW peas and velvet beans2manv
of the latter climbing five to twenty
feet on trees not removed in clearing
and lying in heavy matt on the
ground, as one would wish to see.
1t is wise provision of the Gre
ator that all vegetation, all life, shall
draw from the atmosphere a greater
or less amount of life sustaining sub
stance; a provision that with the
operating laws of life and death on
all earthly things has given the
power to Mother Earth to sustain !
life in increasing ratio each succeed
ing era.
l have favorable reply to my sug-
gestlon that the nonresident pnr.
chasers of land at Florahome chin in
and forma stock company to aid in |
putting in canning and picking
factory here. The suggestion has
merit as it will enable us to start an
industry that in few years will
not only pay back the sums invested
but a goodly profit in the bargain
besides adding to the value of every /
acre of land here and bringing to ms
many more colOnists to help build nm
what Is destined to be one of the /
best settlements of northern peonle /
in the south. We, now residents
here, are willing to do our part and I
more too, in furthering the good
work. / would like to hear from ali .
non-residents who read the News.
D, W, STARKEY,
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PAGAN, BUT A GENTLE
MAN,

Several American cities have
Just finished bowling and scraping
before a youth who has royal
blood in his veins and is going to
be a monarch some day.
The crown prince Of Siam is Il
pagan. His country is not civil
lied, and it wouldn't be fair to eX-
pect much from him in the way Of
modern manners.
But he doesn't get drunk. He
has displayed no fondness for
chorus girls or champaign; he has
expressed no desire to do the ten
derloin and make a show of him
sell.
You see, he is a gentleman.
That is something that wots
not so much the color Of man S
hide or his place on the map of
the world. Even educat o II
doesn't entirely subordinate IN
stinct, and so we have people with
white skins coming from highly
civilized lands making beasts Of
themselves, while the man from
China and the Crown prince Of
Siam and the other representa-
tives of nations that are thous-
and years behind the procession
are setting the pace for good
manners for the blue bloods of
the world.
These pagans never forget their
dignity or position. Scandal does
not creep into their legations at
Washington. They are calm,
quiet and courteous wherever they
are TO md. Compare them with
Bo. Is, the ducal drunkard of Rus
STA, u French count or two and
some of the English nobility, who
have disgraced America by their
presence in time past, and one
would almost cry out: LET us
be pagans for the sake of de-
cency."
When the crown prince goes
home he will leave behind him
pleasant memories and carry with
him a hearty invitation to come
again.
When some of the more en-
lightened visitors have departed,
America has notified her best bad
debt collectors to follow them,
while society, which can stomach
almost anything that looks hui
man and wears a title, fumigates
the house.
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A HIDEoUs PICTURE.

A short time ago Hall Mahon,
a negro, was publicly hanged in
the presence of 5000 men, women
and children. Mahon had COM
mitted an assault on Mrs. Nc
Cloud.
The body on the scaffold
swayed by the side of Mrs. Nc
Cloud, who had been given the
nearest seat to the condemned.
The account says:
"She uttered a shout of approx
al as Mahon's body swayed to and
fro. "
Do you take in the full horror
of the hideous spectacle? Read
it over again.
A negro hanged in the presence
of an entire community, both
sexes, old and young. That alone
is a crime against civilization.
And the nauseating particulars
tell of a woman, the victim of the
negro's lust, woman with no
sense of fitness and no conception
of delicacy, who occupies the
front seat at the hanging and
Historically applauds when the
body is contorted in the death
struggle!
Certainly Buddha was right
when he said: There is no fire
like passion, there is no shark like
hatred"
The authorities who permitted
this public execution and exploit
ed the woman victim as a part OF
it are a thousand years behind
Buddha. To punish the negro
and that severely, was demanded
of justice.
But what warrant have officials
for bunting the sensibilities of 4
community, brutalizing people
hardening the tender hearts OF
little children by familiarity Will
savagery-a savagery that gloats
over a victim like the glee of 4
Sioux Indian tending the torture
fire of his foe?
This unholy exhibition did not
take place at Tyburn in the eight
zenith century, but in Arkansas il
the year of Our Lord, 1902.
The picture is one that charity
would fain turn to the wall, but
cannot. There it hangs. Look al
II
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I Gated near Lake Grandin, and in
that immediate vicinity has between
700 or 800 acres of pine, hammock
and prairie land. The company set
for him some l,200 trees.-fruit and
nut-in the spring of 1901, which are
doing we'll. Mr.. Wilcox had charge
of part of Mr.. Christen's land this
year. The five acres planted to Jap
anese sugar cane made an immense
yield Mr. Christen intends in the
near future to make Florida his per-
manent home. He, like others who
give Florida more than cursory
view, is well pleased with its pros
poets.
Mr.. Shippee and Mr.. Humphrey
f.om Cory, Pa, are making a tempo
rary stop with Mrs. Rainsford These
gentlemen while not at present di-
rectly interested in our colony, hav-
ing purchased outside it's limits, will
be near enough to us to help its
growth. The purchase made by them
if not the best, it having been made
through an agent, is yet worth all
they paid for it even as speculation.
It might, for the present, better be
held so then improved as it is some .
what out of the way.
There is a very serious Tisconcep-
ton among northern people regard
ing Florida's swamps. No such
thing, as we understand and know
the swamp in the north, exists in
Florida. Florida is absolutely with
out them, the sandy nature of her
soil utterly preventing the bog and
mud holes so common in most north
ern states. There are water covered
areas in Florida from a few acres to
thousands in extent, but the water is
pure, soft and healthful and the land
covered by it firm, safe and solid
with very, very few rare exceptions.
OF this nature is the muck prairie
belonging to Florahome colony. 1t
is not peat, for while portions of it
where certain grasses attaining
heavy and dense growth have by the
accommodations of centuries left
somewhat loose and spongy top COW
ering to the soil proper, yet it will
not burn as does peat and has as
sumed a solid consistency owing to
the drainage given by the canal cut
for that purpose. This spongy top
but a few inches in thick
ness is readily removed by loosening
up and burning to the advantage of
the soil under it by action of the pot
ash and lime resultant. Doubtless il
this top covering could be washed so
as to remove what sand there is in it
and by pressure with some cohesive
substance like crude petroleum, be
made into blocks, it would be most
valuable fuel, but in its native state
not so. We have no mud here nor
the soil to make it, as rain but adds
to its firmness instead of mixing with
it and holding it in solution as in
Illinois and other northern states.
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Sunrise.

The blush of morn died out of the east
Swift as Appolo's messengers fly,
Along the horizon the soft hues
ceased,
But frightened again farther up in
sky;
Sudden the birds ceased in the trees,
Sudden the squirrels paused in their
game,
Suddenly lulled the soft sea breeze
As riding in his coach of flame
The King appeared.
ELIZABETH n. BARR, Flora
home, Fla.
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HAS ALL THE QUALIFI-
CATIONS.

The Palatka News suggests the
name of Hon. f. S. Grill, State Sena-
tor from Putnam county, for the
next Governor of Florida. No man
in the State is more eminently quail
flied to fill the executive chair than
DR.. Grill. AS a business man he is
without peer, and his char
acter, both as private citizen and
as a public official, is above re-
proach.-Tropieal Sun, West Palm
Beach.
Yes, and the more the character
and abilities of the man are studied
the more the press and people of
Florida are going to see in him the
ideal man for a Governor of the first
glass.
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/ THANK thee, God, for these,
My trinity of blessings:
A seeing eye, the open door
Through which my soul looks out
And grows more glad
At every glowing sky and open
ing flower:
For ears that hear thy music,
Alike in speech of friends or song
of birds
Or man-made harmonies of
sound
BY thee inspired;
And lastly, God, for this thank
thee,
A heart through thee
Made friend to all humanity,
A heart of understanding, swift
to read
In all the beauty of the world,
Thy message of eternal love,
Cromwell Prentiss in No
vember Criterion.
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A COLLEGE PRESIDENT ON
UNION LABOR.

1.-The object of the unions seems
to be to work as few hours as pos
sible, produce as little as possible
during the time and receive as
much money as possible for the
service given
This is the language of Presi-
dent Eliot of Harvard college.
When Samuel Gompers declared
the expression of such radical and
misleading opinions looked back
ward toward barbarism rather
than to the future, he was right.
An educator should make conser-
vative statements and should
know what he is talking abo It.
Let us take up the allegations
seriatim:
1. The unions want to work as
few hours as possible.
That is untrue. No labor
union has ever made any effort to
reduce the hours of labor below
that Of eight hours. All sociolo-
gists agree that eight hours of
manual labor is, or ought to be,
sufficient. The government of
the United States has enacted
eight hours as the standard. Ali
authorities agree that eight hours
for labor, eight hours for sleep
and eight hours for recreation and
instruction makes an ideal divis-
ion Of time.
2. Union labor produces as lit
tie as possible.
That IS also untrue and mislead-
ing. The American workman
produces more in given time
than any other workman in tie
world. The fact is matter of
common knowledge. The supe-
rior skill and capacity of our arti-
sans, more than any other factor,
has given us the markets of the
world. The merest tyro in eco
Monies could enlighten President
Eliot on this point.
3. Union labor wants as much
money as possible for its service.
Sure. Can you blame it for
that? Doesn't capital want as
large return as it can get? Can
you censure a man for getting as
large a wage as he can command?
Especially when his employer is
trying to get his service for the
least wage possible? Is not labor
free to make its own contracts?
1t is too late in the worlds his
tory to fight unionism. Unionism
is an evolution of our industriGl
age. Conditions have formed and
fostered it. 1t is part of the ma
chinery of the times. 1t has
come to stay.
The labor unions are far from
perfect. Few modern institutions
are perfect. Some of the unions
are too narrow in their views and
too selfish. They will overcome
that. Some of them have not |
always been honest. They have
not always kept their pledges.
But they are learning that homes
ty is the best policy.
Above all, the labor unions are
the American working mems
schools. The union labor hall is
a free forum. The old-time de-
batting school has been transferred
to the lyceum of labor. No
American need fear the outcome
of the free expression of the III
telligent and skilled laborers of
this country.
Unionism builds homes. You
need not fear the man who owns
his little home and pays taxes.
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In two columns of the Record
Herald William E. Curtis remarks
mat Chicago has the largest religious
parish In the wOrld-that of st. Stan
Islaus kostka, Polish Catholic, which
has over $4,000 communicates, and
valued at over $3.50, 900.
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Administrators Notice.

Six months after date, to wit: on 'tn as TssH
May, A. ID 1913, or as soon thereaItC ,. indgeOf
be heard, viii file with the county sJcrornis
Putnam County, Florida, my n ma - M the
and vouchers, as the administIattI county
estate Vim. L. Mel cod. late OF say t-Srl The
deceased, and ak 20 be d;seharseu
This 7th day OF November. a. .. ls9S.
as ''- '''' u ~ J.E LANE
Administers"
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THE PALATKA News
AND ADVERTISER.

Entered at the Palatka, Fla, postotfice as
mailable matter of the second-class.
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This paper is strictly Democratic in politics
for the reason that It believes such politics
represent the cause Of the great common peo-
pie. 1t Will not bow down to nor fawn upon
those political demagogues within the Iarty
who for selfish ends seek to lower the mass
to their own base level. The Democracy Is In
power in this state and county and the News
must believe that grave responsibilities &C
company that power, to perpetuate which
there must be an economical and business
like administration of public affairs, rs well
as a governmental reaching out for the higher
ideals whenever moral principles are involved
in legislation.
Published at Palatka, Fla, on Thursdays, by
RUS SELL Il WICKER ).
VIM. A. RUSSELL, EDITOR.