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week, and then something happened.

week, and then something happened.
l had been sent on an errand directly
after breakfast, and passed house
which had been burglarized the night
before. There were quite number of
people about, and the owner was tell
ing them how entrance had been effect
ed and what had been taken. What
hunters and farmers call tracking
snow had fallen during the night and
the first thing looked for was the
track Of that pushcart
An alley ran alongside the house, and
there they were. There were also
prints Of rubber boots. The alley gate
opened rather hard, and sticking to it
were some small threads of blue yarn.
The farmer had bought blue mittens
for the widow. Taking up the tracks, l
followed them for two miles before
they were obliterated by travel, | kept
on to the house Of the widow and
found it a small cottage. Between the
gate and the road the cart tracks and
the footprints were as plain as day.
1 had worked the case as far as /
could, and / now went to the police.
was sneered at and warned not to
NEEDLE with their business. l went to
the sufferer by the last robbery, and as
he was man of influence and anxious
to get his property back he not only
listened, but insisted that something
be done. A search warrant was pro-
cured, couple of detectives went out
to the widows farm, and from an out
door cellar enough stolen property was
dragged to fill several stores.
She had been stealing off and on for
three years. She had always dressed
as a man in her excursions. Until she
stole the pushcart she had used
wheelbarrow Stolen money she had
made use of, but not a stolen article
had been sold. She had passed for re-
spectacle, hard working woman, and
by her keeping the goods on hand her
| lawyers made out that she was KEEP
tomaniac and got her sentence Of
| two years, when she might have other
wise got fifteen. M. QUAD.
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CRESCENT CITY.

Is one of the most beautiful
locations in Florida. Tourists
will find it an ideal spot to
spend the winter, or pass a few
days Of keen delight.
The town is on Crescent Lake
ian arm of the st. Johns River
and is 100 miles by water, and
" miles by rail from Jackson
Vile.
The all day river ride on the
steamer Crescent, 'from Jack
sonville to Crescent City, is one
of the delightful experiences of
Florida travel. The steamer
leaves Jacksonville at s a. m.
every Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, reaching Crescent
City at 6 p. m. This trip is the
only daylight ride up the broad
and picturesque st. Johns.
The steamer has pretty cabins
and offers a delightful outlook
even in stormy weather.
Crescent City is the center of
the orange growing industry In
middle Florida, and beautiful
groves surround the place.
Good boating, hunting and
fishing will afford amusement
for sportsmen.
Naptha launches can be Sc
cured cheaply for water trips.
Crescent City has good hotels
and boarding houses at mode
rate rates.
Beautiful shaded walks and
bicycle paths.
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Crescent City News

The street gas lamps were lit for
the first time last Saturday night
and those of them that would burn
gave brilliant light. Some would
not burn owing to the amount of
air In the main pipes. All are work
ing well now and add much to the
attractiveness of Central Avenue at
night.
Fire at an early hour last Thurs
day morning destroyed the barn Of
u. Joseph Braddock between this
place and Huntington. Within the
barn was several tons of hay which
was also lost. Some chickens and a
hog in the barn were also destroyed.
The loss is quite heavy one on Mr..
Braddock. The origin of the fire is
unknown.
Hon. and Mrs. Edwin Gilbert are
more than likely to come down this
winter, in which event they will
stop at the Southfield Hotel. Mr..
Gilbert has improved much in gen.
eral health and if it continues good
he will more than likely come. 1t
will be a great pleasure to Crescent
City people to welcome this aged
couple again.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Presbyterian church held its annual
meeting last week with Mrs. w. @.
Norton Of Grove Hall. Mrs. w j.
Norton was reelected president and
Mrs. S. B. Shaw, treasurer. Mrs. j.
Q. Grimsley was elected secretary
in place of Mrs. E. L. Waterman, re-
signed.
Oranges continue to go forward
with each trip of the steamer and
in increasing volume. The tanger-
inc market has been especially good
during the past week and it is pre-
sumed that those who had shipped
this fruit will be in receipt of big
money in few days. The fruit here
is coloring rapidly and the ship
ments are therefore unusually early.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Buck arrived
from Philadelphia last week Thurs
day and are again at their old quar-
tiers in Grove Hall. OF course every
one is pleased to see Mr.. and Mrs.
Buck return. They are among our
most popular winter visitors for they
are getting to seem more and more
like home people. Mr.. Buck begins
shipping his fruit this week, and he
has considerable of it.
The Presbyterian church bell has
been taken down this week and
shipped to a Cincinnati bell foundry
where it is to be recast. Tho new
bell is expected in about a month.
The bell weighs 900 pounds and it
was no easy matter to handle such a
monster, especially to take it from a
church tower. The re-casting of the
bell will cost about $65, and the
freight to Cincinnati and return will
be about $25 more. This money will
largely be provided by the Ladies'
Aid Society of the church.
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No. S0-DaiIy Pullman Drawing Room and
Buffet Sleeping Car between Jacksonville and
ST Louis.
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FOOTPRINTS
IN THE SNOW

copyright, 1906, by P. c. Bastment,l
There had been no less than thirty
six thefts and burglaries in the eastern
suburb of the city, all evidently by the
same hand, and yet the police had
not found the culprit.
l know that the police worked hard
on this case, and that every seeming
clew was carefully followed, and that
they let a boy fifteen years old take all
the credit away from them was not
their fault. was that boy, and that
solved the mystery was owing to
luck. The crimes began about the
middle of September, and / gave them
no attention until about the LIST Of No
vember. Then l happen& to be talk
ing with a man who had had his push
cart stolen. This, in fact, was at the
beginning of the thefts. He mentioned
that the tire of one of the wheels had
been wrapped with wire to tighten it.
On the night Of the talk another
house was robbed. 1t was only two
blocks from my fathers house, and 1
went there, with others. The police re-
fused all information, but during the
day l was told by son Of the house
holder that they had found tracks I'M
der a window. 1t was an open fall,
and the ground had not yet frozen
The tracks were those Of boot, and
the sole of one had been mended,
went up and down the alley in the rear
of the house with this boy, and in
the dust we found the impress Of what
looked to be buggy tires. They were
something else, however-they We're the
impress Of the tires Of that pushcart
At every revolution one Of the wheels
left a sort of smudge, and was JUS
titled in believing that it was the tire
that did it.
My theory was that all the stolen
goods had been taken away in the
pushcart, but the case was blocked
right there. Where had they been
taken? Had gone to the police with
my theory l should have been ridicul-
GU ihe uetee'l'o VIM N''n At
clew hlihselr aoesh want any one eise
TO ma one. Wheh haa laln aWake
uozeh nlghtS trying 10 hsute lninss
out luck heipeu me- Inc streets were
sui dusty a Darn hau peeh DroAen
open anu iot Oh peuul4s .ehlpor"iilS
stored thefeih hau peeh taken.
happened 10 De passing tile place
Wneh tle discovery was hlaue anu tne
ponce lelepliolieu lor' Anere "ele .no
tracks OIL tlle pusllcutt as"ih' Ii 'ne
dusty ROAD loiio"lns tle car1 "eio
poot tracks ana one Vi tileill l"u d
patch on the sore loiio"eu liiell loi
mlle stfaisne OUT iiito lne Country
before they We're iost'
IL was easy 10 ns"le 'n"l II liie 'niel
was not seli!hs any u nis plul,tel NC
was storlns II soineMlleie "AAo tn"' w
country oneieu +" sulel pace 'lSn NY
CITY Inc luea ny" was " io,io"
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looking pace. hau NY iliiiu nl"ae W
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Personal and Social.

Prof. Gelger is boarding with Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Andersen,
Mrs. J. w. Miller and Master
George visited Jacksonville this
week.
DR.. e. w. Warren was called here
on professional business last Satur-
day night.
"Timn Allen has been home on a
visit the past week. He is now liv-
ing in Tampa.
viii Newman has put new roof
on his residence and added to the
size of the building.
G. H. Cash has been laid up for
week or more with an abcess on the
knee, and is quite i'll.
Mrs. Fred. Andersen has spent the
week in Jacksonville, the guest of
Mrs. DR.. Hastings.
Miss Charlotte Babcock was quite
i'll last week at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. L. Chamberlin.
w. II. Cooper will come down this
winter and spend the season with
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Andersen.
The Simpson cottage on Summit
street has been rented to Mr.. and
Mrs. Redding of Onset, Mass.
J. H. Babers has purchased the
Will Braddock place on the Hunt
ington road and will soon take pos
session.
Miss Katherine Keller will open
the Southfield Hotel January LIST.
This house, as usual, will be head
quarters for the Bible Institute
teachers and singers.
Charlie Babers is another of the
old-time Crescent City boys who has
been home on visit during the past
week. Mr.. Babers is now making
his home at Titusville.
Mrs. Joseph Combs returned last
Thursday from visit to her old
home in Port Jarvis, N. Y. With
her came Mrs. COPYRIGHT of Port
Chester, N. Y, who will be the
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Combs.
Capt. and Mrs. w. M. Ritch OF
Port Chester, N. Y, are expected
Monday and will occupy their de-
lightful home on North Main street.
1t is expected that Mrs. Oxer will
accompany them.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. Borsen returned
on Saturday night from a weeks
stay at Mr.. Borsen's turpentine CAM
at Carraway, and where he had sew
eral days of good luck at bird shoot
ing.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. N. Pool and Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. Burnham arrived on
Tuesday evenings steamer. II they
can secure suitable quarters these
people will remain through the sea
son.
1t has done everyone good to SCI
L. A. Ballard here this week. Mr.
Ballard is still an enthusiastic frient
OF Crescent City, and it was sorr!
day for the place when he quit tn
real estate business here to engag
in mining kaolin in Lake county.
Capt. S, NJ. LaBree has beef
placing the engine in his new launcl
. this week and the pretty boat vii
: soon go into commission. 1t is on
of the handsomest models ever see
in this section.
i w. b. Shotwell's residence o
P Main street has been neatly remod
. eIed and upper porches added. Thi
|. is one of the most attractive res
denees in the west end, with pre-
Z ty section of Lake Stella for tn
western boundary of the lot.
Mrs. H. E. Wilder and two int
estine little children from Madison
Wis. arrived Friday last and wi
/ spend the winter here. They wi
: reside in the Aumack cottage {
d Main street. Mr.. Wilder, who is
! newspaper man, will come down 4
a brief stay at the Christmas seaso
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"One way for you to improve your
self, young man, is to constantly asso-
ciate with your superiors."
"I know 1t is, sir, but am so con-
scientious l cannot bring myself to do
It,"
"And why conscientious"
81 hate to think what my superiors
would be suffering all that time
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
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10. LUsK, District Passenger Agent,
O. Il. ACKERT, @. M.
S. H. HARDwICK. P. 7. u.
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No. ls-sThe Florida Limited" Daily Pull
man Drawing Room Sleeping cars between
jacksonville. Birmingham, Memphis ana
Kansas City.
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Friend-I suppose you're always glad
to get a patient who's never had any
bad habits. Doctor-Indeed I'm not.
Friend-How's that? Doctor-Why,
man, I can't order him to stop any
charlottesville Courier-Journal.
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1ras For the SYNONYM.

Teacher-What is synonym? Pu-
pil-A word that has the same mean
ing as another word. Teacher-And
why does our language possess syn
onyms? Pupil-So you can use one
when you don't know how to spell the
other one.--Exchange.
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A fixup.

Magistrate I let you off this time
will you promise me to take the
pledgef Delighted Prisoner (excitedly)
-OI will, yer honor, an drink yer
health!
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Warden-Now, we try to give our
prisoners work of the kind they are ac-
customed to. Prisoner-That suits me.
l was a travelling ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Leader.
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Profit in Swine.

A young, thrifty. growing hog vii,
turn grain into money quicker than
any other kind of farm stock. Ever,
farmer who has not an extensive ranps
for his hogs should SOW rye to glvs
them green winter feed. Rake up all
the corncobs, burn them, and when in
the form of bright Goals, throw water
on them. thus making charcoal for thu
hogs. A little salt may be added. Tr
to feed young hogs regularly; neye,
feed late. especially the evening meal
Watch the hogs closely to see if Their
digestion is good. for If they are not
healthy they will not thrive we'll. To
get your hogs ready for market they
should be on full feed of corn; but
after they are as fat as they can b.
without detraction from their comfort
put them on the market at once, for
they are unsafe to keep, because hogs
fattened on the corn diet are very ten
der and cannot stand any abuse or dis
ease. The hogs kept for breeding pur
poses should never be put on corn diet
but, require feed that has more bone
and muscle-producing quality. Keep a
few more good brood sows; they will
prove to be the best investment on
the farm before another year Is gone.
Don't waste good corn by feeding it to
hogs in the mud. Your hogs will be
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EGYPTIANS BEAT HARVEY,

Circulation of the Blood known ia
Their Doctors 5000 Years Ago.
The Harveian grafton at the Royal
College of Physicians, London, was de
livered this year by DR.. Richard
Cation, F. R. c. P. In the course of
his remarks he said that Harvey was
almost anticipated 5000 years ago by
the priest-doctors of Egypt in his mo.
mentous discovery Of the circulation of
the blood.
As far back as 1000 B. G. Egypt had
works on medicine and anatomy, and
one brilliant genius-forgotten nowa-
days and omitted from the cyclopedias
-I-em-hotep, priest of the sun god Ra,
and physician to King Torsothros. be-
came so eminent that he was revered
as a demigod after death, temple
was built over his tomb, and in his
honor hospitals were raised in Mem.
phis and other cities. Here the priest.
physicians treated the sick and EN-.
balmed the bodies Of men and sacred
animals.
These were probably, DR.. Cation
thinks, the first of mankind to acquire
rudimentary knowledge of the move
ment of the blood. Their papyri con.
tain intelligent references to the heart
the blood vessels and the pulse. OF
the heart in particular they knew
much, and their writings refer to ita
enlargement, fatty degeneration, dis.
placement, palpitation and pericardial
effusion. One remarkable passage OF
these old-world inquirers speaks OF
distension of the heart and shortness
of breath as occurring because the
blood has stagnated and does not cir
culate properly.
Not Greece. therefore, but Egypt
long before Galen and Hippocrates
was the motherland of rational medi.
cine and anatomy. The views Of the
Greeks on the circulation of the blood
were almost exactly those which the
Egyptians had taught many centuries
earlier.
On one remarkable means of treat
ment for incipiient valvular disease OF
the heart which these long forgotten
Nile doctors taught DR.. Cation laid
great stress. 1t was the method rec
commended at least 1900 years 60 tc
let the heart have as much rest al
possible wise injunction, said the
Harveian orator, which we may YET
practice with advantage. I-em-hoteT
seems to have been an all-round
genius-physician architect, astron
omer, alchemist-so illustrious that
after death he was reputed the son ol
the supreme deity, Ptah-all this and
yet nearly lost to fame.
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me. "Oh, you should! 1t soo.hes the
brain, 1t lulls remorse. Tobacco is the
modern Lethe: or, at all events, II it does
not obliterate old memories, it renders
you Indifferent to them, which is much
the same thing. suppose you have no
phantoms to fumigate. You are still
wandering in the happy regions Of inno-
cence"-this with sneer. Il had stray
ed very far wide of them long before
was your age. At twenty l was a gay,
dashing spark. At three-and- twenty l
was forbidden my fathers house. thanks
to woman-a prayerful woman, too,
that was always reading religious books,
and never happy out of a chapel; wom-
an with heart Of flint. All my sins
lie at her door; a wild youth might have
been succeeded by a reputable manhood,
but for her."
While he spoke his face became con-
vulsed with passion. As the paroxysm
increased. the foam dubbed from his
mouth. and he launched forth into the
most frightful imprecations.
Il say, old fellow. don't go on in this
awful manner" said Josiah, who. as well
as myself, looked rather alarmed at his
violence "'Pon my life. l can't stand
any more of it, and so | told you last
time. Come, tell us of some adventures
OF your past life that are so jolly anus
ing. Silas, here. has never heard any
OF them. You'd like to hear some,
wouldn't your" he added, winking hard
at me.
AT that moment l should have much
preferred to go to bed. but l did not
dare to say so: expressing, instead, a
great desire to hear anything Mr.. Mont
gomery chose to relate.
Don't be frightened" he said. wiping
the perspiration from his face. and
growing calm under this judicious fiat
terry, Il am not likely to harm you,
or anybody else except her. But when
l think Of all she has made me 20
through, and not only me, but Well,
If were to think of that long, should
60 mad in earnest"
He went on smoking his pipe in 81
lence for a time. seemingly lost in
thought.
Il wonder if 1 were to write my life,
II l could get any bookseller to publish
it? 1t would indeed be marvellous
story. But l don't believe that half the
people would credit it. l could write
half dozen sensation novels without
inventing single incident: but, then,
novel readers would cry. They are SO
far-fetchedv A man who began life as
a gentleman, and who, for a matter OF
twenty years. has passed through e: cry
phase of vagabondism. must have some
strange stories to tell.'
'Of course he must" said Josiah,
again winking at me. Il have often won-
dered that you have not set about pub
fishing your "reminiscences, or your auto.
biography. or something of that sort. But
it isn't too late, you know. But come
now, give us one Of your regular start.
lers; we are all attention"
ITO he contiuued,l
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A Fine Table Fowl.

A Fine Table Fowl.
For some years the old English game
fowl Of England has been coming "
the front. We see much In print aDou'
the revival Of the old English game
This fowl occupies foremost place
as table poultry. They are most dell
cate and fine favored fowls, q we'll
known fact to those who have feastea
on what we call pit game. In facI Il
is said that they outrank the pneas-
ants in delicacy when served on the
table. They grow very fast and are
always plump and ready for the spit
any time after they are six weeks OLD.
The colors bred are black breasted
reds. brown breasted reds. duckwings'
blue reds, piles. black, white and span
giles. the latter the most popular. AS
shown by the illustration, these fowls
are beautifully built and free from
the long shanks of our standard games.
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Draft Colts on the Farm.


Grooming is all important. The colts
should be well cleaned twice a day.
Before breakfast they should be thor
oughly brushed, the currycomb not be-
ing used too freely, especially in the
summer when the hair Is short. After
the days work Is done and the team
ster has had his supper--the horses
will be dry then-they should receive
their second cleaning. Be sure to re-
move all the sweat and dirt and leave
the horses In shape to take comfort
able nights rest. The names and tails
should be well brushed, and, above
all things. do not cut on any Of the
name or forelock. The name Ii some
times cut on under the collar and
bride and does not look 90 bad when
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Cure for the Dog Evil.

Nufc IOT the log 1vlAs
The Rural New Yorker says: The
only cure for the dog evil is law re-
curing the owner of one male dog to
pay q small sum for a metal tag, with
the name and address of the owner
and the date, placing practically pro-
hibitory tax on additional dogs and
female dogs, making it the duty OF the
proper officers to kill all dogs not tug
ged. When a dog is killed while wor-
rying sheep or other domestic animals
or fowls, the tag would show the own
er and recourse could be had for dam
ages done. A law something like this
was on the statute books of Indiana
several years ago and worked well;
the revenues from that source were
trebled, and the dog population de-
creased two-thirds, but for some rea-
son it was repealed. II majority
Of farmers could be induced to put q
small flock of sheep on their farms
sentiment would soon be nodded to
back such law. Now the dog owners
are in the majority and sentiment
trends the other way. The same com
plant may be made In most sections
Of the country:
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81 Bound by a Spell

ture ominous. Thus l knew nothing Of
her past life, nor did l wish to know.
Like her, | did not wish the happiness
Of the present to be marred by one pain
full image.
She had lived with Mrs. Wilson above
two years, yet even she knew nothing
of her life for a single day before she
came to her. II have always had good
references before l would take any one
into my house." said the old lady. es-
pecially young ladies without friends;
but she said she could give ME none,
and she looked so innocent and good that
| took fancy to her upon the spot; ana
| have never had cause to regret IT, Tor
a dearer, purer creature never entered
house. and l feel for her quite as II she
was my own child. But | must say
that | do feel curious about her. and
often think what mystery she is. She
is so strange at times, and 80 unlike any
other young lady l ever met"
With my old reticence, l told Martha
No word of Clara. l Rugged my secret
With selfish tenacity, as something 100
precious to be shared. She wondered
at my unaccounted-for absences, and
| think felt hurt that l did not coniide
in her. She frequently remarked upon
my changed appearance.
81 do declare" she used to say, that
never saw any one SO altered for the
hest as YOU are, Master Silas! Why,
| you've got to look quite handsome late
ly"
In the meantime was not idle. Mr..
Montgomery brought me more copying TO
do, and in order that my visits might
not interfere with my work. l frequent
| " sat up all night writing. My expenses
were very small, and even with the little
| l earned, l contrived to cover them.
What more could l desire? l was more
than happy, for was living in an IDEAL
world.