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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
Some TinN Republics.

The smallest of all republics is that of TaValora es-
tablshcd in the island of that off the coast OF a
dniG 1t has population of fewer than sixty, nclud
inc the president and his congress of six Originally E'
island owned by the Bartoleonl family the head
which ruled as King Paul l. from 1896 until 1882 In hi
will he made over the island to his people, who were
proclaim a republic forever. .
territory consists of only 70 1t marks the debata
be land at which the boundaries of Belgium, Prussli
and Holland converge and the Morsenetans declining
all temptations to belong to other nations 1t remains
self-gov ernng and useful buffer.
San Marine is of the most ancient states IN Eu
rope 1t consists OF a craggy mountain in Italy and
has an of % square miles The population is abou
maintained their independence since the tenth century
The republic of Goust consists of 500 acres perchet
away up in the Pyrenees, where l4O free independent
republicans glory in their immunity from liability t.
any other race. u, 49,
Andorra is republic the borders of France ant
Spain 1t has of 75 square miles and "a popua
ton of 6,000.-ChicagO News.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
Bill NYe'S Little Joke.

James Whitcomb Riley went to Philadelphia re-
Gently sit to John s. Sargent for his portrait The
sittings in John Lamberts studio on South Sew
''Bill Nye and once played good trick on a New
York millionaire. Twemlow was the fellows name and
he was an insufferabe snob-nsuferable. All his
house hung family trees ancestral portraits crests and
atsof-arms You'd have thought him descended in a
direct line from at least hundred earls.
ut happened in New York one day that Nye was
upset by dray and rolled about in the mud. When he
got up he sight, his clothes were in rags his shirt
and face black, and his hat without rim.
"'Let's 90 and see Twemlow he said suddenly
Think how disguised he'll be to me in this rig
1--WE went to Twemows house and turnkey in
knee breeches answered our ring.
- Mr. TwemlOw is not at home he said
ooh very we'll said Nye Just tell him that his
uncle from the workhouse called kansas City Jour
nal.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
Too Sweet to BE True.
Senator Sc

Senator Scott of West Virginia tells story of e
young friend of his who out hunting He came to {
norked at the door to ask for drink The water
handed out to him by girl charming that with 4
smile, he said: . ,uo
for kiss?" w -,
mo, sir - the girl answered with a little blush ,
So the boy took the kiss and then he gave tht
maiden the dollar She balanced it in her hand mo
ment. She knitted her pretty brows in perpleNity -
''What," she asked, shall do with this money?
"Why, anything you please my DEAR" SAID the
youth. ,, ..,,.,- !.
'Then," she murmured, ~ think III give 1t back t'
you and take another kiss
Say, if those little incidents we tell really happened
this would be better world-Minneapolis Journal.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07

Eskimo women wear the most Gu
rious kind of underclothing, its pecul-
iarity being that it is made of the
skins of birds. These skins, before be-
ing sewed together, are chewed well
by the women in order to make them
soft. About a hundred skins are re-
auired to make a shirt, and the labor
of chewing the skins which form their
garments is quite enough TO account
for the massive, well developed jaws
of Eskimo women.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
Not the Right Kind.

At a recent trial of liquor in a nearby town
the witness the stand under examination as to
what he had in the defendants place, which he ad-
mitted he had visited often.
Did you any spirits there, anything you
regarded as spirits?' asked the presiding Judge.
s.Why, yes don't know but what have" was the
reply of the witness.
&Do you know what kind of spirits?"
Yes"
How do you know"
II kinder split it,"
"Well now, said the Judge, Strengthening himself
up for the convincing will you kindly tell the
court what kind OF spirits it was?"
"Spirts of turpentine your Observation-Disclosures
Ledger
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
When Baby Sang.

When baby sang we never knew
How sweet melody it was
How dear to us that ''goo-la-goo"
Would grow in time to come, because
We did not understand how soon
Our hearts were doomed to feel the pang
That comes when death has claimed "a boon
We scarcely heard the plaintiye tune
When baby sang.
When baby sang the angels knew
1t was song too sweet by far
For human ears, and "Goo-la-goo"
Now echoes where the seraphs are.
We see the tiny silken shroud-
We hear the tolling church-bell's clang!
Andsthen-and then we weep aloud!
We were too cold, we were too proud
When baby sang!
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
The Same Species.

"And now" said the inquistivs person, who had
been asking all sorts of mpertnent questions of the raw
boned mounaineer, who sat at his cabin door smoking
q corncob pipe, 'now will explain to you why have
been so inqusitive, sociological investigator,
aud doing this in the interest Of science and hu,
mRnitY,h
"Haow things do change remarked the mountain.
eer as he lesurey stretched himself, WHEN I were
boy we called your kind o people dsfH sucpp-noGpd
mshdeu. '@1altimore American,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07

Mrs. NagguSs-What an odd. inter
esting piece of furniture! 1t looks like
an antique. Is it chiffonier or a
bookcase?
Mrs. Borus wife of struggling au-
thor)-Neither. It's my husbands
writing desk. He calls 1t his bureau
of publicity.-Chicago Tribune.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
Couldn't Think of Pillar.

Teacher-And what happened to
Lots wife?
Scholarship was turned to salt.
Teacher-Into a what of salt?
Scholar-Why-er-a sort of job lot
of salt, | guess-EXchange
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07

He-The astrologer described you ex-
actly and said that l would marry
you.
She-Don't you think it was waste
of money to consult him?
why"
II could have told you the same thing
myself if you had asked me."-Stray
Stories.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
~N~>~~%~N0~
!, GLEA-NTNGS-
NOcturile.

Up to her chamber window
A slight wire trells goes,
And up this Romeo ladder
Chambers IL bold white rose.
| lounge in the lick shadows,
see the lady lean,
Unclaspug her silken girdls,
The curtains folds between.
She smiles on her white-rOse lover,
She reaches out her hand
And helps him in at the window
see it where stand!
TO her scarlet lip she holds him,
And kisses him many time
All me! 1t was he that won her,
Because he dared to climb.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
A Startling Request,

Percy is a little boy who makes plans
to shirk his bath sometimes. But the
other evening he came in from play
tired and hot and sticky.
ado get a bath tonight, maj" he
asked.
yes" answered his mother.
"Well," he said cheerfully, 1.-THE Lord
knows need it"-BrOOklyn Eagle.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
John Bond

has Just received another lot o. Nv y.
new Fine Spring Mosquito Nets y w
same old price. Come and get ass'
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07

Before we bring happiness to others
we must first be happy ourselves, nor
will happiness abide within us unless
we confer it on Others.-Maeterlinc
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
F. E c, RAILWAY NOTICE

In order to make connection at Orange
City junction with Atlantic Coast Line
train No. 30, the trains operated on the
Orange City branch known as Nos. 3 and
will run on the following schedule com
mencing Monday, May 4th. 1909.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-07
PILES CURED

PILES CURED.
DR.. Niles Pile Cure will cure all forms
OF Piles and is sold and guaranteed at
Lound's Drug Store, Crescent CITY. Fla.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10
SCANDAL I'm A PRISON.
Convicts in Philadelphia Peniten
tiary Make Bogus Coans-Took
Metal from Plumbing.

Counterfeiting of United States coins
by Eve convicts has been going on in
the eastern Pennsylvania penitentiary
under the noses Of the officials.
The government detectives have been
at work on the case for some time and
SO have some of the pnitentiary board.
DR.. w. d. Robinson and George Vaux.
Jr., who are at present visiting inspect
ors on duty at the penitentiary, have
issued a statement. They admit that
the convicts have manufactured coun-
terfeit silver coins, but claim that only
few pieces we're made, and a number
of these came into the possession of the
inspectors, together with metals and
chemicals used.
The convicts secured, through the
plumbing department of the prison, the
necessary metalsfor the coins, made OF
solder, tin and ground glass. The molds,
1t is believed, were made of plaster OF
There is belief that certain employees
who did favors for the prisoners were
given the bogus money as tips, and that
they innocently passed 1t into circula-
ton. The leader of the counterfeiters
is now completing his second term for
this offense. The others were profess
sional criminals. When the leader was
caught he said he had known that he
and those arrested with him would be
detected but that it was good thing tc
| have money with which to get luXuries
| from the outside.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10
FARM LABOR SCARCITY.
The Long Drawn-Out Day Has Much
to Do With Driving Men From
the Farm.

One cause of the scarcity of farm
laborers is the long-drawn out work.
ing hours, often extending from ID to
Is hours. Up at five, work till twelve
o'clock, back to work by one, stop
when it is too dark, and then feed the
stock or clean the stable by the dim
light of lard oil lantern. Supper be-
tween seven and eight O'Clock, and to
bed. That's what's the matter. Is it
any wonder that muscular and sensible
men hesitate to accept farm work, for
the compensation does not tally with
the hours of labor Factories will pay
so per cent. more for rs per cent.
shorter hours of labor. This is not as
it ought to be- Farm labor, whether
done by the farmer himself or by hired
hands, should be better regulated, and
can be without detriment to the con-
duct of the farm. The necessity for
10 hours labor per day can only result
from bad management, poor teams and
ineffective tools. A man, team and
pillow can do an acre day by work
ing from day dawn till dark. A good
mai, SOou t6dLH dL1u al uP-so-u1lC 49,
plement can do better work and twice
as much of it in ten to twelve hours
Any farmer can have good, well-fe1
teams, and good tools, but he can't get
good men to do good work unless they
are treated fairly we'll. It is this bad
management Of farm labor that drives
boys and men away from the farms
and keeps them away. There is M
good reason why q farm laborer should
work more hours per day than 9 car
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10
SCIENTISTS MAKE DISCOVERY.
Multiplied by Mixture with Sub
stance Called WilIemite.

BY working in their experiments to.
gether Dr. George F. Kunz, the honorary
curator of the American Museum of Nat
ural History, and DR.. Charles Basker.
vile, of the University of North Caro-
lima, believe they have made valuable
discovery in connection with the mys.
terious substance known as radium. The
discovery is that by mixing radium with
natural willemite in pulverized pow
der the activity or power of the former
substance is multiplied hundredfold
and probably a thousandfold.
That at least is the temporary effec
of mixing the two substances. Time
must tell whether one will nullify the
other. Willemite is a comparatively
cheap silicate zinc. 1t is possible also
that there is in willemite substance
which is as yet unrecognized as dis
tinct element, but which produces the
radio-activity that has awakened the en-.
thusiasm of the two experimenters, but
thus far it is taken for granted that the
one substance merely stimulates the &C
tivity of the other.
It is the assertion of DR.. Kunz thai
radium withoutthe interposition of glass
is much more highly active, and hi
further asserts that certain rays o.
radium are possibly equivalent to the
ultraviolet light and that the ray does
not penetrate, but is retained in glass.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10
Shnrt-Sirhted Farming

Farmers spend too much time fight
ing weeds and not enought fighting
drought. If there are no weeds in the
corn or cotton, they conclude not to
put the pillow in, and let the crust
formed by the last rain remain, and if
the soil is clayey it soon cracks, and
some farmers imagine that network
of cracks benefits the crop by letting
in the air, ignorant of the fact that in
dry weather the air is thirsty and will
penetrate the soil by way of these fis-
sures and drink all the moisture it
comes in contact with. Then the
drought cuts the crop short, while the
farmer who keeps the right sort of
plows going, prevents a crust from re-
naming, and kills the weeds before
they come up, didn't know there was
drought. This indicates that there
is lack of information in many places,
and that agricultural education is
needed, for farmers who pillow only to
kill weeds certainly do not read agri-
cultural papers, for if they did they
would know better, do better, and
make better crops, and be better salts
fed with their condition.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10
NEW FIRE MASK A MARVEL.
Improved Helmet Recently Invented
by a Member of the Paris
Department.

A member of the Paris fire brigade has
invented a new mask which is claimed
to be great improvement over all pre-
vious ones.
1t can be fixed to an ordinary helmet
and around the neck by straps. The
visor is of mica, protected by wire. In
front of the mouth two pipes open, one
furnishing fresh air and the other carry
ing off what has been breathed. A reser-
voir worn on the back as knapsack con-
tains two compartments, one holding
two steel jars filled with compressed air.
The other bag. which is called the lung
and which is connected by copper tubing
with the steel jars and special mechan-
ism, admits air only at nominal pressure
to the lung, whence it is conveyed to the
mouth.
The mask leaves the ears uncovered.
An electric bell gives warning when the
supply of air is running out. The ap-
paratus weighs only II Kilograms and
will be put into immediate use in the
Paris fire brigade.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10
TO HONOR PIGEONS OF SIEGE.
Paris to Erect Monument to Perpet n
ate Memories of Feathered
Heroes of 1870.

Among the military and other celebri-
ties that Paris has recently perpetuated
in bronze and marble, none are more
worthy of such fame than the little he
roes of 1870, which are now to be hon
ored They are the carrier pigeons who
played so important part during the
memorable siege.
Francis Sarcey, Edgard Quintet and
others set the scheme going, and the dis
tinguished Sculptor Fremiet has made a
sketch of the proposed monument to the
winged aids of the French. This repre-
sents a shield in enamel and on it a
pigeon, poised with outspread wings,
ready for flight Beneath 1t second bird
falls dying, its breast pierced by bullet.
A third group shows mother bird how
ering over a nest of her young. -Four
slender columns are intended to support
the shield.
The monument will be placed either in
front of the Paris city hall or in the Jar
Des Plantes, near the approach to
Cidge of Austerlitz.
~ enough, the actual model Of one
dese brave little soldiers is in exist
ence. A pigeon killed near Blois on its
return from Tours. November 5, 1870
was preserved by M. Roosebecke. He has
kept it, stuffed, in little cage.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10
GOOD WORK OF GUNNERS.
Great Shooting of Men on Battleshfr
Indiana Ina Recent Tar
get Practice.

The officers and crew of the battleship
Indiana, which recently arrived at New
York after target practice off Martha S
Vineyard, are jubilant over what they
declare was the best shooting on record.
The records already have been reported
to the department. They say that, TAX
ing into consideration the type of her
guns, she has beaten the Alabama, which
recently set up a new worlds record off
the Florida coast.
With all of her heavy guns, the In
diana's proud gunners say, she has done
better work than any ship with guns of
the same type. She has created new
standard for eight-inch guns, one pointer,
Seaman Treanor having made four
straight hits in two minutes and Is sec
onds. All the shots struck bulls eye
about four feet square.
With her old hydraulic 13-inch mounts
the Indiana has done better work, they
say. than some vessels with mounts con-
trolled by electricity, one pointer hav-
ing made four straight hits in five min
utes and 81 seconds. Her men at the six
inch guns gave an average of nearly four
hits per Minute.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10
SKILLFUL BURGLARS.
Aliens Display Most Ingenuity In
This Calling.
English Police Are Surprised at the
ingenuity of Foreign Compet-
itOrs of Bill Sikes-Former
Are Learning.

That the many alien burglars In Eng
land display more skill and ingenuity
in the pursuit of their calling than the
British members of the fraternity is a
fact recently acknowledged by a royal
commission and generally recognized by
the police. The superiority of Bill Skies
foreign competitors is further evidenced
by burglary at Romford Common, to
committing which two Russian Poles,
unable to speak English, pleaded guilty
the other day.
In the possession of one prisoner, who
was caught after long and strenuous
hunt engaged in by nearly score OF
constables, mounted and on foot, an i'm
plement was found which is regarded by
the police as "the latest thing" in burg
lars tools.
At first glance it seems to be little
more than strip of highly polished
steel some seven inches long, the pur-
pose of which is not apparent. But by
touching spring O. screwdriver pro-
jects from one end. Another spring re-
leases a gimlet, a third causes a sharp
wedge to project, a fourth produces a
diamond" glass cutter. Then, when
closed, this "multum in parvo" of burg
larry appliances is a hammer at one end
and a Jimmy" at the other. In one COM
pact little strip of steel that can be easily
carried in the pocket there are seven
serviceable tools.
The police of London almost daily
learn something new respecting the
scientific principles upon which burglars
go a-burgling. They have been known
to use on different occasions the follow
ing implements and chemical prepare
tions:
Oxy-hydrogen blowpipes, electric
glow lamps Tin place of dark lanterns),
"thermit" for burning holes into safes,
automatic furnaces charged with coke
and charcoal for a like purpose, me-
chanical blasts" nitroglycerin and
dynamite.
Bill Skies may be pardoned if he de-
spairs of keeping pace with this kind
of foreign competition.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10
Easy to Get.

Pierpont, o., Oct. Remarkable in
deed is the experience of Mr.. A. S. Turner, .
man now over seventy-one years of age, and
whose home is here.
For many years this old gentleman had
suffered with very unpleasant form of Kid
ney Trouble, kind that very often both
ers aged people. He would have to get up
four or five times every night, and this very
tiresome disease was fast wearing him
out.
At last after having almost made up his
mind that he would never be able to get re.
lief, he stumbled over a medicine which re.
heYed him almost Immediately, and has cured
him permanently. 1t is so very easy to gel
and SO simple that Mr.. Turner thinks every
one should know it. Every dealer in the
country has it, and all you have to do is tc
ask for Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr.. Turner
says
81 can heartily and honestly recommend
Dodd's Kidney Pills, for they cured me. Sew
eral others in the family have used them, too
and always with the best results. thinl
they have no equal"
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10
Au Unsettled Question.

The question whether two filters of
pigs a year should be required of a
sow has never been definitely settled.
Eminent breeders occupy both sides of
the question. The discussions on this
subject has been voluminous in the
northern and western states, and the
parties seem to be nearly equally di-
vided. In the southwest, and especial
ly in Texas, expert opinion seems to
favor spring and fall litter. 1t may
be, and probably is fact that our
milder climate, and especially our
shorter winters favor the two-litter
side of the controversy. At any rate
many of our most successful pork rails
ers say that if they had to confine
thems elves to one litter they would go
out of the hog business. They claim
that the more pigs they have the more
hogs they have to sell, and that fall
filters are almost as profitable as those
deposited in the spring.-Farm and
Ranch.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10

dropsy, rheumatism, Bright's disease.
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Pills when I noticed warnings of an
attack. On each and every occasion
the results obtained were just as sat-
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brought to my notice. l just as en-
phatically indorse the preparation to-
day as I did over two years ago"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mr.. Heller
will be mailed on application to any
part of the United States. Medical
advice free-strictly confidential.
Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo,
N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price
so cents per box.
The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1903-10-10


It would seem that farmers sons,
who associate with horses from earli-
est hoyhood, should be expert whips
and accomplished equestrians. In the
south, planters excel in horsemanship,
and the man that owns a horse is a
good rider. Not infrequently you will
see the majority of the horses hitched
on the village square equipped with
saddles. Many prefer the use of the
saddle to a carriage, even when at
tending church. 1t is the favorite
system of locomotion in the south. The
graceful accomplishment But few
pastimes are more invisorating than
horseback riding, as it exercises and
develops all the muscles Of the body.
In the north it is now an exception
to find saddle on the farm. The car
riage is the exclusive vehicle of trans
portation. 1t is more economical to
use horse under saddle where only
light packages are to be handled. Ev-
cry farm should have saddle, and the
boys taught eQuestrianism. There is no
excuse to use the carriage always be-
cause the roads are good, for in En-
gland. where the public thoroughfares
are macadamized, horseback riding is
popular with all classes While an ex-
cellent mount is not always good per-
former to harness, good driver has
increased value if well broken to sad
die. Combination horses are in good
demand, and the farmers son who
breaks the horses on the farm to go
under the saddle will not only add a
great convenience to the farm, but al
so increased value to the animal when
! it is offered for sale.-Midland Farmer.