The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-04-24
THAT CORNED BEEF MINE.

THAT CORNED BEEF MINE.
The recent announcement by New York paper
of the discovery of a vast mine of corned beef in
Yellowstone park seems to have been accepted, or
rather rejected by the incredulous people of the
country as d subject for ridicue. But why doubt
anything in this age of marvels?
The late Frank Stockton told how lover was
saved from despair by the opportune discovery of
an ice mine on his otherwise sterile farm. The
girls father objected to the young man because his
farm would grow nothing but a mortgage. But one
hot summer the young man unearthed an ice mine,
got rich and lived happily ever after.
Stockton given to fiction, but don't we know
that truth can be stranger than fiction?
And the corned-beef mine story is plausible.
Maybe it is too plausible and for that there
is doubt In this age of wonders 1t only the i'm
plausible things that are readily believed.
1t seems that in the days when the earth was
young vast herd of cattle were overwhelmed in one
of the canyons in that land of wonders by
vulson of nature. The geysecs spouted hot water
on the cattle and cooked the beef and the great sal
inc deposits preserved it, Then, to make its preser-
vation sure, by some following convulsion of nature
the meat became enclosed in walls of paleocrystc
ce which has kept the corned beef down through
the ages which have intervened
In these days of wireless telegraphy, flying ma
chimes, and antitrust decisions such wonder as
this beef mine appears tame. 1t is suggested
that the discovery not new and that the beef fur
Inished the army in the late war came from this
source Proof of this is said to have been amply
found in the beef itself
1t must not be forgotten that, not many years
min in thn ika pon a
deposit of ice cream deliciously seasoned with va
nla.
When the wonders of science and literature are
surveyed this beef mine is seen to be something not
to be sneered at.
Who knows but the president went to the yellow
stone for the purpose of examining into the possbii
ty of developing competition for the beef trust.
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Brown? Brown? Seems as if we had heard that
name before.
Legislators should hesitate before changing the public
school system of the state into piece of political
mechanism. The bill which creates the office of
high school inspector smacks strongly of the graft
It is announced that Senator McWilliams will be a
candidate for congress from the Second District to
ceed Hon. Robt. w. Davis Senator McWilGiams is an
able and dignied gentleman and would honor the state
of Florida in the United States Congress any other
body to which he accredited in representative
capacity.
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Much fun is being poked at Representative Wall, of
Putnam by the members of the present Legislature and
visitors at Tallahassee. Mr.. Wall is the man who
fathered the ridiculous and infamous dspensary
ure at the last session. and who had to make his consti
tuents some mighty binding promises to be returned
Tropical Sun.
The legislature has been pettiOned by the Florida
Press Association to pass fair and reasonable libel
law" and the Miami Metropolis, speaking for the asso-
cation says be unto them if they do not. The
News is in the association, and is not of the
threatening editors but it cannot do other than feel
would be nice thing at times to be able to call
scoundrel without afterwards having to prove it in
court.
Palatka doesn't seem to be on A b. Mann's proposed
good roads map, but this little omission will not count
for much. The idea of this good roads apostle is to
reach the sparsely settled districts, and his idea is
good one provided provision is made for good broad
highways being built intersect his trunk lines, with
adequate sgnbOards at the junction pointing travellers
the way to Palaka. All the railways of Florida lead
Paaka as also does the states great inland water
way Our farm lands the best in the state and
got 5000 coming the State Fair Association prove
this assertion. We favor good roads, would be the
trunk line if possible, but in the event that not
will not be sore. You can't lose us, anyway.
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The Senate has passed the university of Florida
bill What's in a name? That which we errone-
ousy wont to call college, by any other could
scarce be more ridiculous. So this university would
were it not university called continue burlesque
the less hfalutn name of college, university is an
educational institution for superior instruction for the
examination OF students already instructed. In the
United States the word is frequently used loosely but
hash In To
stuons offering nonprofessional instruction beyond
the bachelors degree The proposed university of
Florida" the Agricultural college, has never been
even college, Its graduates not fitted to en-
ter college as freshmen. That's why we smile,