The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-15
PUPS VERSUS CHILDREN.

count upon the fashion pageantry of Fifth avenue
New York, it glittered by recent Sunday af-
ternoon, and in an hour he recorded seventy-one
dogs on the laps of addressed women and in the
same time nineteen children.
Well, what of 1t? This is free country and If a
woman prefers to be motherto dog rather than
to a child, what is there to prevent it?
The cold hard, brutal truth of the matter is that
whole lot of women are better fitted to bring up
dogs tnan they are to bring up children. When
these, by natural inclination and selection, have
found the measure of their affections, and that
measure is dog size, why-let them indulge it.
| 1t would be impossible to conceive of anything
more pitable than the fate of a child born to a
man whose heart yearns for pup instead That
poor child must shrvel up, body and soul, of heart
hunger. 1t is no imaginary Unfortunately
there are many such children in the world. 1t is
unfortunate for the children and unfortunate for
the world.
They are like little stunted shrubs that spring up
in soil that is barely sufficient to nourish the seed,
but too hard and dry to supply the tree. If they
survive it is without spirit and as eyesores Their
roots suck no emotional moisture. The sunshine of
life only gnarls and parches them.
Such children-God pity them denied the love
that vtlliZes the mother milk, wOrse-ten thOus
and times worse-than orphaned. Their childhood
! is unheaded wall of unsatisfied longing; the
wellsprings of natural feeling are damned up in
their little hearts, to stagnate and to poison their
| lives.
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that the mothers should raise pups instead.
There is good in pup, but there is little posibili-
ty of good in the child of a woman whose heart
affections are only pupsze But, even at that, 1t ls
Il pity for the pup.
There is no worthier animal than dog. He is
capable, when given chance of responding to the
intellect and affections of the highest natures
But, after all, he has his level and while we love
him because he at times raise himself to man s
even the dog himself must despise the woman who
can lowerherself to his,
For the benefit of it's Jacksonville contemporaries it is
be hoped that hereafter when the Live Oak Crescent
perpetrates joke it will not be allowed to leave the
office without being properly labeled.
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The friends of Senator Mallory and Congressman
Sparkmen and Davis cannot be other than grateful tC
the Times Union for its generous admission that this
ustrious trio national legislators have after all
been of little value to the state They had some
how gotten the impression from former cursOry read
ing of that paper that to business senator alone
belonged the credit for whatever Florida has of lat
been receiving at the hands of congress- The satemen
that this is not but that each of the above
gentlemen permitted, in his feeble way, to contri
butte somewhat to the attained, will great.
relieve those of who have been banking the abii
ties of these We farmers, you know, skepti
cal lot, and don't like the idea of being buncoed.
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Ex-Governor James P. Eagle of Arkansas presiden
of the Southern Baptist Association voiced safe prOpo
stion before the Baptist convention in Savannah tn
other day when he said: 81 would rather be presiden
of the Southern Baptist convention than to be presden
of the United States"
DR.. w. d. Crum, the negro collector of the port o
Charleston under ruling of the treasury department
will not be enabled to draw either salary fees.
will be remembered that he appointed to the oc
by the president after the adjournment of congress-
against the expressed wishes of the people of Charles
The only chance Crum has of getting any pa
is the to confirm his nomination and that
n too remote possibility for white to tax
= chances on let alone negro.
The appointment of Hon. James T. Wills of Starke
Judge of the newly created eighth judicial circuit
which Putnam county forms part, gives general salts
faction to the bar and people of this county For certa
reasons Putnam county would rather that the appoint
ment had gone to its distinguished attorney, tn
d Hon. Samuel j. Hburn, who by the way, had the en-
dOrsemen of the great majority of the bar in the
. circuit. Our not that we loved Wills les
but that we loved Hilburn And them there wa
the business reason-the advantage that would
rily follow by making Palatka the legal Mecca of tn
circuit But there isn't sore spot over here. Their
isn't lawyer who stands higher in this baliwick tina
the Hon James T. Wills and his elevation to the benc
is distinct gain to the judiciary of the state. Paatk
welcomes It's Judge and predicts for him brillian
e and useful career.
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Upin Fremont Ohio the other day, three negroes
arrested charged with the killing of Otto Mischkt
The negroes securely locked in JAIL but the excite
ment high and mob assembled to lynch the prison
ers The mob surrounded the jail from o'clock unit
four in the morning and the angry crowd called upon tn
sheriff deliver the prisoners. During all this time tn
: sheriff stood on the front steps and admOnished tn
threatening crowd to be careful and not commit
q that would forever shame Fremont in the eyes of tn
k world H said he chad taken oath to do his ofcia
duty and do it he would and he said he would shoot tn
first man who made an attempt to break down the ia
door and the building 1t is needless to say tina
there was lynchng. We refer to the incident smpl
to show what really brave do when he tries
n toward preserving the majesty of the law.
1890
The appointment of Hon. Benz. Putnam Calhoun
this city the responsibilities of the states attorneyshi
of the newly created eight judicial circuit will be pecu
ary gratifying to the friends and admirers
that distinguished attorney throughout Florida. Mr. Ca