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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
HAWAIIAN FISHERMEN.
Hands and Teeth Play a Part In
Capturing the Octopus.

Hands and Teeth Play a Part In
Capturing the Octopus.
The native fisherman of Hawaii
while an adept with the hook and line
does not sCorm to use his hands to cap
ture his prey when occasion arises
The bonito is the fish most generally
caught with hook and line, and as the
hook used is of mother of pearl, made
from the shell Of II mOluSk now quite
rare, which glistens with an rides.
cence similar to the simmer from the
scales of the smaller kinds of fish on
which the bonitO lives, no bait is need.
ed. The barb of these hooks is of
bone, and two tufts of hogs bristles
attached at right angles to the barbed
end keep the inner side up, so that the
hook lies fiat on the surface of the
sea. When likely fishing ground
has been reached, the fisherman, stand
Ing up i'll the canoe, casts out his line
violently, so that the hook falls with
slap on the water and attracts the
attention of the fish. The line and
the boat, as though it were spoon,
and the bonito taking the hook to be
a small fish, rises to it Immediately.
1t is fortunate for the fisherman that
be has to waste no time in batting his
hook. for this method of casting fright
ems the school, and the fish disappear
within ten or fifteen minutes.
An ingenious plan by which very
large fish are caught is by planting
long pole on the shore in such posi-.
zion as to cause it to lean decidedly to-
ward the water. On the top of this
bell is arranged so that it can swing
clear Of the top of the pole A block
and fall are also attached to the pole
close TO the top, and long line, with
baited hook at the end, is run through
the block and allowed to float out to
sea, the land end being tied in a slip
knot to the bottom of the pole AS soon
as Il fish is hooked its struggles cause
the bell to ring, whereupon the fisher
man runs to the pole, loosens the slip
knot and plays the fish until he has
drowned 1t, when it is hauled ashore.
In fishing for octopus the native dives
to the bottom and with stick pokes
Ground in the small holes in which the
octopus lives. When he touches one,
1t seizes the stick and allows him to
draw it out of the hole. When he
reaches the surface, the native grabs
1t with his hands and bites into the
bead. thus killing the animal.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
How Old is Ann?
-Milwa ukee Sentinel.

My dear Boy: Your letter reached me in Butte
yesterday and hasten to reply. Mary is u you say
Thai S my age. knew devil once-he lurked near my
soul and coaNed my eyes away from the empyrean-
down. down. down INTO the depths of his home! o. sweet
devil! AIMS age do not know, unless YOU refer to nv
friend Annabel Lee. She is old as eternlty-older
than the pyramids that their heads over the tombs
of the PtOlemys. know, because asked her soul and
her soul whispered it to sroed on the shining
sands by the grand old ocean! | thinking of the
devil tonightnOt of AIMS age, What is the age of
silly girl compared with communion with the evil one
that is everywhere-everYwhere! | do not like girls
silly, gigglng girls! am not girl am lost wan
derng soul that walks abroad in the still watches of the
starsrewn night, drinking in the beauty OF the twink
ling planets listening to the boot of the owl and lifting
song of the nightingale and looking always looking for
my MASTER the DEVIL MARY MLANE.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13

are hard toers through necessity. They would
throw off the bonds if they could. The slavery is
hateful to them.
But this young man takes up the burden voun-
tarily. He had open to him other and easier ca
reers. But he chose this because he considered 1T
the road to manhood.
TO be able to estimate how hard decision it
must have been to make, consider how fewyou
men, placed as this one was, make that decision
Hats off to the boy who would rather be man
of his own making that millionaire made by his
father.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
TO CONSIDER CUBAN RECIPROCITY.

The congress of the United States is in extra
ordinary session by proclamation of the president
to consider Cuban reciprocity.
In the whirligg Of time two years is not much
But this has happened
During the last session of Congress Cuban re-
ciprocity urged a duty. During the present
session it will be urged policy. And Policy lin
congress) is stronger than Duty.
Cuba no longer starving country holding
out its hand to us in pleading. 1t is being we'll
governed, comparatively, and is prosperous. High
ways have been raised. Railroads have been built
The cultivated of the country has been in
creased 10 per cent. Cuba, the garden spot of the
world, is coming into its and It's development is
rapid.
But American trade with Cuba has been steadi-
ly declining So our consul at Havana SAYS Eu-
ropean merchants are getting the market.
While go the world round for markets here is
one being taken from under very nose. Cuba is
agricultural country. 1t will never manufacture
much. SUIT it wants all sort of manufactured goods
And its wants will grow with it's thrift in constantly
increasing ratio European commercial agents
know this, and Spanish, French, German and En-
glish agents everywhere in the island securing
trade. There is but one way, apparently, by which
W." ol"uole Gull loPe W s1cuTe all auVan-
tage-4 reciprocal trade treaty.
This will create opposition in certain quarters
of the United States where our own trade is most
likely to be affected Such opposition proves the
truth of Gen. Hancocks observation that "the
tariff is a local ssue.'
Congress will probably act this time The
question has assumed economic phase And
that's different. 1t is no longer question of duty
or of sympathy. Nor of annexation. But of busl-
ness
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
S1OO ReMard. 500.

The readers Of his paper viii he pleased to
learn that there is a least one drea ed disease
stages and that is Catarrh- Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure known 10 the
med cal frateTn ty CatRrrh being ooust tu.
tonal disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Halls atsrrh Cur, Is taken internally.
acting directly upon the blood ana mucous
surfaces OF the system. thereby destroying the
foundation Of the disease and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the constitution
aud assisting nature In doing Its work. The
propretors have so much faith in its curative
roWers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails 10 cure send for list
Of testimonials. Address
FJ. CHIMNEY 4 co., Toledo, o.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills are ileq esi,-
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
MASTERS SALE.

Notice is hereby given that under and by viz.
turt Of certain decree of foreclosure and sale
heretofore made In and by tie Circuit Court
OF The United Status, Fifth Judicial Circuit IN
ana for the southern District of florida, In
Chancery sitting, in certain cause pending
IN said Court wherein Charles H. Leonard Is
Complainant and Joseph Z Lucas AID Others
a e defendants, the undersigned L. Haske !,
as special Master in Chancery, appointed I'm
and by said decree, will on Monday the 9TH day
OF October, d 1903, during the legal hours OF
sale, in front of the court house door in the
c!tS OF al1lka, Putnam County, State OF Flor
ida oHtf Tor sale at public auction and will
sell TO the hi hest and best bidder for cash tho
pr lperty deScrbedtn said decree of foreclosure
ana sale, as follows:
The steamer Metamora, together with all and
singular hef boilers, engin' s, tools, fixtures,
appliances and furniture of every kind and
description whatsoever to said sttamt oat be-
longing or In any wise appertaining.
me steamboat Alligator, together wi all
anu singular her boilers, engines, tools, app l.
anceS ana flu uitufre of every kind and dcscrip-
tloh 70 SAID steamboat belonging or in any wise
appeTtaining.
AND also that certain piece or ARIEL ofIand
situate IN the City of Palatka, County of Put
nam and STATE of Florida described as I lows
to wit: Beginning at the North sido OF square
stake set by NJ II. Dalton and ]. E. Lucas as
lhafklhg the upper portion Of the division line
between them, said stake being distant thirty
eight i"S) feet and six o. inches In the easterly
direction from the west side OF Water Street In
Sald CITY OF falatka; thence from said stake
easterly along the North line of the lot owned
Dy said Dalton TO the channel Of the II Johns
river; thence at right angles North seventy
one tIl) feet and ten (l0) inches thence West at
right angles to point on the east side of Water
street due North Of the division stake above
referred to; thence South seventy-one ~ feet
ten QO) inches to the North side Of said division
stake to the point of beginning, together with
all and singular the tenements, houses and i'm.
proVements thereon and thereunto belonging
or III any wise appertaining,
L. E. HASKELL,
,o,,,, ,,,, Special Master.
E, p. AXFELL,
C"mplainant's Solicitors.
The sale OF the above described property ia
p' stpoled until Monday, Ice. 7,h, A, d 1909,
during the legal hours OF sale
HASKELL,
Palatka, Fla, Nov g. 1905
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
How Old is Ann?

Dear Sir: have your communication and beg to
state that the following solution feasible though
it may be too copious for your limited comprehension
Mar, being "A, is enveloped, it We're with nnocuous
desuetude The premises being established thanks to
my perspcuity, AIMS age must be determined The
utter incomprehc sbity Of this evanescent, inconse-
quenai proposition appals me. will therefore refer
you to hat blatant that drivelng demagogue, Col
Bryan This is the first opportunity have had to get
back at him, and thank you.
q. CLEVELAND.
nl,npS
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
Forgotten, but Not Lost.

my dear" said Mr. Pewnyhub, ven
turing to put in word as she paused
for breath, may ask what you are
scolding about?"
81 can't remember it just now" re-
piled his irate spouse. you've driven
1t out of my head. But if | hadn't a
good reason for it do you suppose I'd
be as mad as amp
And she broke loose again.-Chicago
Tribune. -h,1~
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
BOTH YEAR OF PROSPEROUS BUSINESS.
ACKERNAN & STEWART,
\ Wholesale and Retail Druggists. \
Just RECEIVED LARGE Fresh Garden Seed rsp
IL
INDU COUGH CURE
bottle Guaranteed by
ACKERMAN e STEWART. DRUGGISTS.
BOTH YEAR OF PROSPEROUS BUSINESS.
Notice..

Notice is hereby given that on the first Mon.
day In February, A. D. 1904, !, A. j. Hilbourn,
as executor of the estate Of the late Porter o.
Hilbourn, shall apply to the Honorable NJ. /.
Coke, County Judge Of Putnam County, Florida,
at his office in Paatka, Florida, for final set
cement and di charge as such executor, and
shall then and there make final return OF es.
tate accounts. receipts and disbursements, and
shall then and there report and account ms re.
CURED by law in such cases, and shall ask TO be
discharged from my eXecutOrshipO OF said estate.
A. ]. HILBOURN,
Executor of the Estate of Porter o. Hilbourn,
(dcceascd.)
Thls July 2hth, 1903
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
Some More Problems.

The ''age of Ann" plobem has melted the funny
men OF the country to mrth. Here some of their
comments:
Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
Are you but twenty-four?
At twice old we are told
Orwhat you We're before?
If it takes 1914 yards of cheesecoth to make an ele-
plant pair Of paiamas, how long will it take cock
roach with wooden leg to bore hole in cake of
sapoliO?
Simple Simon met pieman.
Said the little man
"Sir, your pies show that you re wise,
What is the age of Ann?'
Chicago Tribune.
The Boston Post has this:
Where is the man who thought up this Mary and
Ann problem? If alive, he is menace to the human
race, because he might think up other problem
worse chan the Mary and Annf that could be possible
He might think up something like the following:
John has two apples James has hives Find the
difference between iggerbunty and dingbat.
P S.-Here is another one just arrived:
How much wood would woodchuck chuck, if a
would chuck wood?
Think it over.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
Administrators Notice,

Notice is hereby given that six months after
the date hereof l Will present my final account
and voucher as administrator cum testamento
anneXo Of the estate of Walter N Hart to the COun
ty Judge of Putnam County and ask to be dis
charged from the further administration OF the
estate of said Walter N. Hart, deceased July
2lst, 1903. THEODORA II HART,
ADMINISTRATIVE of estate Of Edward H. Hart,
and Ex-OfliciO Administrative OF said Walter
Hart. deceased 7-2I-O3 en-
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
WonIdn,t Entoxicate Hmm.

No, sub; haven't drank anything Intoxicating for
nearly yeah
Hold there, major! You told me yesterday
that you had Just taken couple of drinks with Colonel
Bloodgooi.'
$50 l did, sub. But sho'ly you don't mean to
intimate that couple of drinks Intoxicating?
That would be ridiculous, suh--rdicuous !"-Kansas
City journal.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
Wrong Time To Get Busy.

"Some men, said Uncle Eben 'is allus active at de
wrong time knows young cullud gemman datTl go
TO sleep wifi in his han while he's in de bahber
shop hut when he gifts TO pahlor social he wants to
keep dat blade goin ell de time"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
DOWie'S HYMN,

Onward Christian soldiers,
Marching to the east;
Settle with Elijah
Twice Il week, at least,
l, your royal master,
Am sort of joke,
But | need the money
Kindly watch my smoke!
Onward Christian soldiers,
Marching as to war;
Don't forget to pay, now;
That's what you are for!
Gamblers dealing faro,
DO you feel no shame?
There's bigger rakeotf
In my Zion game!
-NilWaukee Sentin,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
Rounded ON the Minister.

local Clergyman was being shaved by barber
who addicted to occasional sprees. The razor ma
nipulatOr cut the parsons face quite considerably.
You see, Sam that comes from taking too much
drink, said the of God.
Yes, sah," replied SAM "it makes de skin very
tend sab. IL do for fact Illinois State Register.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13
The Boston Post has this:
=MS
Very Considerable.

"Why don't you try to honest livin?"
me frien'," replied Meandering Mike, I'm afraid
dat if went to work regular I'd up money an
git to be trust promoter AS il is now, goes along
peaceabe, tan only what folks to give me- Std
o standin' em up an takin' it away from them:'-
Washington Star
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-11-13

Nos and -"Chicago and Florida Special " s.
and Cincinnati. Arrives daily except Mondays lei
man drawing room sleeping cars to Chicago Via Big
Library observation car to Louisville. First class
to Cincinnati. Also Tuesday, Thursday aud Sa
Detroit.
Nos. IL an 14.-"The Florida Limited" Solid yes
Ing cars, first class thOroughfare coaches and
cnnau, Through Pullman drawing room sleeping
to Chicago via Pennsylvania Lines. Daily.
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Nos. Ii and H.-"The Florida Limited"
Jacksonville and Kansas City. Dining cars.
Dining cars. Apply to any TT tket Agent 10
II. F. CARY, District Passenger. Agen,
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-13
congress grants a claim. Generally

congress grants q claim. Generally
the congressional favors are bestowed
on the least worthy. That seems a
hard thing to say, but it is true never
theless. 1t has got to be SO that the
most m%eritorious claims are those
which, can command the least inauen-
tial support. Seediness and merit too
often go together. The cases that go
through are those which are cham
pioned by prosperous attorneys who
have a close acquaintance with the men
who control legislation.
Not long ago o noted lobbyist died
in Washington. He had no occupation
except the r%ailroading of bills through
congress. He was a coarse, ignorant,
vulgar creature, whose principal char
acteristics were a capacity for making
money and a genius for displaying it.
Yet this man had among his close COM
panlons all but a few of the most con-
spicuous. members of the lower house.
He had weekly dinners at his house,
which contained one of the finest din
ing rooms in the city. At these dinners
a certain group of representatives were
always present. They came early and
stayed late. When Tom Reed left CON
gress and it was time to choose a sue
Lcessor it was found that every man
who was in the list of those mentioned
was among the lobbyists most con-
slant guests. He never lost one of his
cases.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-13

grows out Of the A Spooner compromise
Plat amendment which he had much
to do with and which he helped Sena-.
congress is sure to take up the ques-
ton of the Panama canal, which is now
being handled by the. administration
in accordance with the terms CT the
Spooner act passed last winter. Anoth-
er question that will disturb tue seren-
ity of legislation will be hat Of the
coastWise trade Of the Philippines, a
question arising under the Philippine
government act which Spooner had
much to do with perfecting.
In short, there is hardly any ques-
ton that can come up without touch
ing Spooner at some point, for more
than any other man in the senate it
has been his fortune to have drawn
bills which became enacted and which
settled great legislative problems.
Spooner is believed by many to be
the most useful man in the senate. He
is called In more frequently than my
other senator to unravel snarls of leg
islation and he has never yet failed to
furnish some compromise that would
meet the difficulty. Yet Spooner is not
by nature a c~ompromiser. He is dash
Ing, eloquent and pugnacfous, and he is
the hardest proposition to tackle in
congress when it comes to a rough and
tumble debate. He is always good ma
tured, never loses his temper, even in
the hottest of scraps, and has never Yet
been Worsted in a parliamentary wran-
gle. Tillman, Of South Carolina, is his
favorite game, because Tillman always
loses his head.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-13

with a farmhouse;
there are no neighbors within five
miles and the land is worth less than
$40 an acre..
He bought the place SO as to be out
of the world for a little while every
summer, but he has had the liveliest
kind of a time denying the rumors that
have gone out about it. In the first
place it was announced that he had
bought the entire town, which would
have made him a landed proprietor
with 250, 900 acres in his possession.
Then it was declared that he was going
to establish a game preserve, and he
received letters from all over the
United States, at the rate of half a
dozen a day. Offering him all sorts of
animals and birds to stock his place
with and making all sorts of offers.
The thing got to be a nuisance.
AS a matter of fact the senator's es-
tate is about as modest an affair as
anybody could ask for. His live stock
consists of two COWS and one horse and
he keeps a hired man. When he looks
out Of his window just after the first
frosts come in early September he sees
miles and miles of the most beautiful
forest colors to be found in the world,
and in the midst Of such delights he
ioafs and invites his soul.
The senator has one of the most
beautiful places imaginable at Madison,
Wis. If it were only a little farther
out of the world he would never think
of living anywhere else even for a few
weeks in the summer.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-13

49,
pass both house and senate in the same
congress. When finally it passed both
house and senate it was promptly We
toed by President Harrison in a mes
sage in which he said: cit has not
been possible for me to make such an
examination of the history Of Mr.. Nc
Garahan's claims as would be neces-
sary to form an intelligent judgment
as to it's merits and just extent" And
all the bill did was to submit the title
Of poor old Billy's land grant to the
court of private land claims. He was
justly entitled to millions and he died
a year or two later in the charity ward
of a hospital fighting cheerfully up to
the last.
That is not the worst OF it. Congress
not only refuses to submit to the court
of claims, created for the purpose,
claims which cannot be adjudicated.in
any other way; but in cases which
have been passed upon by the court Of
claims it refuses to act. Claims in
volying millions of dollars which the
court of claims has passed awarding
fixed sums to claimants still remain
unsatisied, because congress refuses to
make the necessary appropriations,
while the claimants to whom the
money is legally due are living in.
Washington in poverty and often dis
tress.
There is NJ creditor quite so merci-
less as the United States government
and no debtor quite SO interruptions.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-13
Novel Experiment.

A novel experiment is to be made
by residents of Edmunds county, the
object being to demonstrate the ex-
cellent quality of the soil of South
Dakota They have arranged to ship
a carload of Edmunds county soil to
Rockford, Ill, and next season SOW
and plant the same to grain, grasses,
vegetables and flowers. The South
Dakota soil VIII be spread over lot
in the business part of Rockford.
Those who have decided to make this
unique experiment will e~nileavor to
make the soil produce a better
growth than the surrounding soil of
Illinois.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-13
News Notes.

Lars Brudvig is at Sacred Heart
hospital, Yankton, suffering with a
broken leg. He was in a runaway ac-
cident.
The Elk Point and Akron, Iowa,
high school teams played football at
Akron, resulting in a tie game, 0 to o.
The story sent out from Canton
last week to the effect that 4 travel
ing hypnotist at Lamont buried Ole
Rasmussen at a schoolhouse exhibit
ton and the next night was unable
to rouse him, was an unmitigated
fake
A small railroad wreck occurred in
the yards Of the Minneapolis & ST.
Louis railroad at WatertoMn.
"A 3~-year-old deer was killed be-
tween Watertown and Lake Kampes-
ka. Game Warden Schoenberger ar
rested E. 2. Troch and J. i. Wiley
for hunting and killing the animal.
Lead and vicinity were visited by
a snowstorm. Attic the snow only
fell to a depth of an inch or two
here, at Preston, Grown Hill and
other higher points, it lay to the
depth of six inches. At Deadwood
the storm amounted only to a rain
shower.
Senator Gamble is confident that
the Rosebud reservation bill will pass
congress this session.
+. i. Winn Of Salem las marketed
-. NH4
$500 worth of potatoes which he rails
ed this year IN twen4y-three acres,
the crop paying q better than any
| other grown BY him this year.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-13

QOTS Oh Cne caplCOi
for a generation
with a claim which
was as just as the
moral law. Every
body knew that it
was just, but it
was for SO large
an amount and old
Billy had been at
it so long that con-
gress got in the
habit o~fignoring it.
The bill passed the
house S e e r a |
times. But never
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-13

which meets the
second Monday in
November. All the
legislation that is
likely to come up is
just of the kind that
he is especially in
terested in and in
regard to which he
has already done
important work.
The Cuban reci-
procity legislation
which will take up
SO u Of the
Special session