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The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-12-28
FolIowina tha FlaR.

When our soldiers went TO Cuba and
the Philippines. health was the most
important consideration. Willis T. Nor
gan, retired Commissary Sergeant, y.
S A., Of Rural Route /, Concord, n
H. says: II was two years in Cuba
and two years in the Philippines and
being sub ect TO colds. took DR.. King g
New Discovery for Consumption, which
in New Hampshire. we find it the best
medicine in the world for coughs. colds,
bronchial troubles and all lung diseases.
Guaranteed at all druggists. Price 50c
and ST. 90. Trial bottle free
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-12-28
For Everybody.

Inc newspaper T. Tor everybody and
everybody II you see something
which is Of little interest 10 you, re-
member that there are others, and that
the entire paper is not printed especi-
ally for you. The very thing that is
dull and uninterPesting to you may be
the one thing in the paper for some
other readers. There are whole pages
in the daily papers that are Of no inter
est 70 uE, but they are 70 others, A
paper which contained nothing but such
matter that would interest any one or
another Of us would have limited mum.
Der Of readers. There are many people
Of many minds. - Gainesville Sun.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-12-28
Equal Justice A--speca Privileges

held so rudely- Elise, breathless and
painting, her sweet dimpled cheek close
against his coat, and her lips, rosy and
curved with a roguish smile, temptingly
near. He looked up; so did she. They
were right under the mistletoe. and ah !!
can you not guess what happened?
II took several minutes to explain
why she had come down at this hour of
the night, and in such a costume. Elise
had remembered, after going TO her
room, that, that she had forgotten
some gift for a member of the house,
hold, which she meant to have left on
the dining-room table as was the time
honOred custom of that house. Thought
lessly throwing about her long opera
cloak of yellow quilted satin, she had
tiptoed downstairs. Why she ran she
was at a loss to explain.
And you thought il was the yellow
ghost, " she ended, with catch in her
voice.
God bless the yellow ghost" said
Barnard, fervently.
The candles had now burned low in
their sockets, the CRATE held but a few
live embers, but outside the moon shone
through the window, stream of radi-
ant light Inside, as Barnard looked
into his sweetheart's eyes, he found
what he had long sought, for the mis-
chief had died out of them and in its
stead shone the love light, and he
needed no candles nor freight; he had
read her answer by the light of her
eyes, and claimed for his own the ghost
in yellow.
The next day at the Christmas dinner
the subject of the ghost in yellow came
up. Everyone laughed when Barnard
stated positively that he had seen the
yellow ghost, and some wondered why
Elise should blush 80 furiOusly at this
statement. But grandma knew, and
when she proposed toast to the ghost
in yellow and Elise raised her glass In
her left hand the party understood the
significance Of the diamond solitaire,
even though they did not quite appreci-
ate the toast TO the ghost. Christmas
Issue Times Union.
The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1906-12-28
Demand 20 Ragt Cfand Rark LOls.

We wish to call special attention TO
the advertisement Of that well known
Jacksonville corporation, The Jackson
vile Development Company, appearing
in this issue, offering East Grand Park
Lots
This property il known as the nRtu-
raj factory suburb around Jacksonville,
and Ia surrounded and intercepted by
practically all Of the railroads coming
into Jacksonville. At the prices Of
as. 90 and $e6 90 for these lots on terms
Of IS. 90 cash and 81 20 per month. with
out interest or taxes, Il is safe TO say
the entire addition will be sold out In a
few weeks, possibly in few days.
The development OF Jacksonville' .
suburbs along high class conservative
lines is a great and worthy cause, and
it is such enterprise as that shown by
the Jacksonville Development Company
that Is going to make Jacksonville the
greatest city in the South.
Read what the Metropolis, of the
18th, Florida's largest afternoon daily
paper, has TO say Of this property
East Grand Park lots sold like the
prOverbal "hot cakes" today j and the
Jacksonville Development Company
kept several carriages and buggies busy
uuIlHk NilS uoy bilOWtik bilC pIppelbJ w
prospective purchasers. There were
several out. of-town people here 10 see
this property. and IL seems TO have
pleased everybody. At noon nearly
two hundred lots had been sold, and
many others will be sold this afternoon
no doubt. The lots in East Grand Park
Immediately appeal TO far-sighted inves-
tors. who desire 20 establish savings ac-
counts in good. reliable real estate.
Indications are all lots in East Grand
Park will be sold in few weeks, and
the sale Of this popular property will
doubtless break all records in the hand
ling Of suburban real estate in Florida.
Tn chief reason is that It is "a fine
proposition, and more keenly appreci-
ated when seen.
Evening star., 1906-02-05
A Plea for Ideals.
,gper. In Harper's Bazar

Charles Wagner. In Harpers. Bazaar
Then let US all have an ideal. Let US
have courage! Do not put them on on hoii-
days. only to lock them afterward In the
closet. Put them on every day and carry
them everywhere. Take them as one takes
a torch: bring them near to the realities OF
life. as you would carry light into dark
place.
The treasures of the ide al VIII ch are in the
souls Of others may be transmitted to our
own Let the world with its ugliness. its
trials and its pains experience the contact
of the human soul, which. impregnated with
the memory of heaven. Is the creator of the
ideal and of light. Some of our fathers who
have passed before us along the ways,
sometimes so hard, where we in our turn
pass, have thrown their lights even up to
the very portal of the tomb. They have
put strength into weakness; have expert
enced that In poverty itself the spring OF
riches rise. In realizing the mystery which
operated every day of their lives-that is to
say. the transformation of outside incl
dents by means of the inward energies OF
the soul-they truthfully might have said.
Eve are poor, but with our energies we
have enriched Others"
Evening star., 1906-02-05
LIBERALS HESITATE
UNDECIDED ABOUT BALFoUR's
CANDIDACY IN LONDON.

LONDON. February 5.-The liberals
still hesitate to decide whether they will
or will not oppose Arthur r. Balfour's cleo
tion for the city of London, the constitu-
ency which Alban Gibbs. conservative. re-
signed in the former premier's favor, after
the latter had been defeated in the east
division of Manchester. The executive
COMMITTEES Of the Liberal Association held
third meeting on the subject this morn
ing, but again adjourned without reaching
a decision. The matter will be further
considered February IL, the eve of the
opening Of parliament. by which time the
uncertainty enshrouding the position
which the former premier intends to take
upon the fiscal question will possibly be
dissipated. Should Mr.. Balfour definitely
split with Joseph Chamberlain on this
question and declare himself outspokenly
against protection, the liberals probably
will not oppose his return to parliament
Walter Long. the former chief secretary
for Ireland. has lost no time In repudiatfng
any connection with the proposals to raise
him to the leadership of the unionist
party. he says:
II regard the suggestion as both absurd
and impossible. The statements made on
I am loyal follower Of the leader of the
unionist party. Mr. Balfour"
This unequivocal Endorsement of Mr.
Balfour's leadership by man who was
claimed as a strong Chamberlainite and
tariff reformer is likely to further COM
plicate the political troubles Of the oppo-
Sition.
Evening star., 1906-02-05
Niagara Falls Doomed.
From Public Opinion.

=
Drain Lake Huron. Lake Michigan and
Lake Erie? No. That is not likely, but 1t
must he remembered that the water that
makes the falls is the overflow, and this
is OF very limited amount The beauty of
the falls is not due to their great height.
but to the volume of water which passes
over them. Reduce this to any great eX-
tent and before long one of natures grand
est works will be destroyed. Incidentally,
one of the most popular Meccas for bridal
couples in all the United States will have
passed away. The immediate menace to
the falls is the erection of power plants on
both sides of the river. Six of these
plants are now in operation are almost
ready te begin work. That there will be
more of them is certain, because one of the
cheapest ways in the world to obtain power
Is to take in water above the falls and run
1t through penstock. Now the mean dis
charge of the Niagara river is 222OO0 cubic
feet per second, but this often falls to
165, coo. Two of the plants on the New
York side are already using 5000 cubic feet.
per second Another has capacity of.
7,700 cubic feet during the same period,
On the other side Of the river 81. 600 cubic
feet of water are used every second during
which the plants there are operated under
full load-a total of $1,000 cubic feet when
the demands of one or two small pumping
plants are added. This Is % per cent of the
minimum discharge of the river, and the
only conclusion one can draw from these
cold figures is that the Niagara falls have
not long to live The Canadian falls Will
outlive the American falls because they
receive three times as much water from
the river, the disparity being so great that
at times when fierce east winds have pre-
vailed, lowering the level of Lake Erie be-
low normal the Niagara river discharge
has been so reduced that the channel be-
tween Goat Island and the New York side
has become a waterless ditch, and the
American fall has for the time being dis
appeared from view.
Evening star., 1906-02-05
Tyranny Of Bachelors.
From tie London Chronicle


There is. however, one article of mems
dress In defense of which there ID nothing
to be said. What makes men SO often
late for a dinner party? What leads to
the emission of more words and pro-
volxes more ebuliitions OF trritability than
probably anything else In the worid-ex-
cluding always a herd of pigs to drive.
but we are not all pig-drivers. 1t is not
the starched shirt, with its front and cufrs,
hard, like a coat of mail? And yet into
its interstices delicate studs and sleeve
links have to be introduced before the
luckless wight can be considered present
= bile in society. A woman transforms her.
self. hair footgear, everything, decks her.
self in Jewels and in lustrous raiment, and
meanwhile her lord and master. man. the
one rational being Is struggling apo
plectic, with his shirt front. All. what
battles have been fought by distracted
bachelors! What tortures have been un-
dergone by sensitive women, when first
confronted with the man they love, whom
they had fondly deemed incapable of a
swear word, but like LAGOON contending
against embracing serpents, but contend
ing with a shirt front. into which he has
unwarily introduced his head, and which
has been sent home buttoned up from the
laundry.
Evening star., 1906-02-05
Plants as Furniture.
From Mothers Magazine.

rIou Magalne-
If one excepts the opengrate fire. there
IL no one thing that adds more TO the
honey aspect of room. either In winter
o. summer. than a thrifty. growing plant.
And of course IL one plant be good, a whole
shelf full is even better. Plants go wonder
ful lengths toward furnishing house In
homes where the furniture has grown old
and shabby these and other shortcomings
will not be nearly noticeable IL there
are pleasant green things growing In the
widows.
Besides serving as furniture, plants have
two distinct missions. They are good for
the mothers and they are good for the
mothers children. During. the long winter
when the mother-particularly the nervous
mother-is weary of everything else. a few
moments spent among house-plants Will
pf owe wonderfully restful. Whether 1t Is
the contact with the earth, whether II Is
the -rcstfulness OF green foliage to the eyes.
or whether It is the complete change of oc-
CITATION. do not know. At any rate,
those quiet moments spent among the
plants are distinctly beneficial 1t Is GER
tain, too, that this little daily playtime
does much toward shortening the longest
winter and. as harbirgers of spring. almost
all plants can be depended on, for they
show unfaiiingiy. by their increased vigor,
when the days are beginning to lengthen.
Almost all children can be interested In
the various forms of indoor gardening
Where 1t is at all possible. each child should
tie what the plants are. Even an ordinary
bean, planted in a tin can. proves thrill
In gly important when II is ones very own.
especially IL II Is, moreover. climbing right
out of its can before ones very eyes. These
eerly attempts at gardening, besides fur
nishing occupation for the moment, are apt
to prove Of benefit In later life because or
the useful knowledge gained.
Evening star., 1906-02-05
LIFTS" IN THE HOME.
Automatic Elevators Coming Into
Use in London Mansions.
From the London Mail.


When man can afford to build and fur
nish a mansion costing from 100000 to
ESQ. 900 he has right to expect the most
improved and most comfortable means of
getting about the house. and the passenger
lift provides this in very acceptable form.
In fact. the passenger lift in the private
house in the West End is rather the rule
than the exception. It may almost be said
that in every house OF any pretensions that
has just been built, or Is in course OF being
built, this addition to the comfort of the
occupants is included.
Those lifts are mostly operated by cleo
trio power, though In some instances hy-
draulic power is adopted. They cost from
e $50 to almost any price that the wealth
or fancy of the owner may dictate. Some
that have been put into West End houses
recently are highly artistic In design and
finish, the cage being of exquisitely
wrought grille work, the woods used be-
ing the most expensive of the hard tim
bers, cunniugIy carved and fitted, and the
upholsfering displaying the finest work of
which the best artisans in London are ca
pable. In the electric lift as now manu-
factured by London firms there Is abso-
luteiy no danger All the work is done
by button pressure automatically the vari-
GUS gates are opened and closed without
interference from the passengers. and the
gates cannot be opened or shut until the
lift is at the landing.
Evening star., 1906-02-05
sPINsTERs AND WIDOWS.
Funds for That Purpose In a Massa-
chusetts Town.
From the Boston Globe.

From the Boston Globe.
A -veritable "old maids paraGise' is To-
Gated In Scituate. That ancient Souch
Shore town bears the distinction of possess
Ing fund of which the proceeds are de-
voted to the care Of the dependent maiden
women iiaf q ri'f-. - -E'-
SO far as the Scftuate selectmen know.
there Is not a life, fund under the supervf-
SION OF town anywhere in the state. More
than a quarter of a century ago Miss Eliza
Jenkins decided that women approaching
the sere and yellow leaf of lIfe who had,
like herself. remained single from choice
or otherwise. should be provided for when
tney became dependent wholly upon them
selves. The idea of an old folks home In
Scituate was at that time entirely out of
the question: Miss Jenkins straightway did
Z the next psst thiR&4Fd left fund of s. ,O00.
among the worthy maidens OF the town
The Jenkins fund has always been sa
charge of the selectrlen. In the last few
years they have placed about S2U each in
the hands OF half dozen persons This odd
fund has banefited persons In Scftuate for
SO many years that the townspeopie have
come to regard 1t as a very common institr-
tion: II is available only for natfve-born
women, and this. is about the only restrie-
tion its donor made.
Many person has been helped in the last
twenty-five years to pay off a mortgage
buy fuel for the winter months or pur-
chase seeds for the spring planting through
this fund. The selectmen know pretty near
every one in the town. and 1t is compare
lively easy for them to discriminate be-
tween the worthy and unworthy.
Soon after Miss Jenkins thoughtfully pro-
vfded for the 'old maids" another maiden
woman. Miss Lucy Thomas, originated the
idea OF a similar fund for widows She left
Sl,Ooo. also under the care OF the selectmen
for native born widows. Interest has been
drawn from this fund nearly as many years
as from the Jenkins fund.
Evening star., 1906-02-05
Savings Bank in Mexico.
From the Mexican Herald.


Savings banks are practically unknown
institutions in this city. If a. man has a
small amount to deposit, with the expeeta-
ton of being able to add to 1t from time
to time he will be at loss to find a bank
that will be willing to take care of his ap-
yparently Insignificant sums and pay him
interest on the money that issthus gradual
ly deposited.
AS a matter of fact there are only about
two places in the entire city that will show
any interest in his small savings, one OF
these being a little bank for working peo-
pie which was organized couple of years
ago, and the other place being the. Monte
de la Piedad, which receives deposits of
any amount and pays per cent interest
per annum on them. The little savings
bank has had a hard struggle to maintain
itself 1t is noticeable fact, however.
that the bank In question has few Mexican
working people as depositors, most OF its
patrons being Suaniards who are working
for wages as grocery clerks and book
keepers.
Evening star., 1906-02-05
Clothes Posts and Beauty.

FROM the Gafuen Magazlne.
Long ago, when we only dreamed of a
garden we had set our hearts upon certain
ideals Our garden was to have an arch, a
column and pergola, and We were able TO
construct something to caA by each of
these names, using mostly such material as
was at hand. The clothes posts being with
us to stay, we tried to utilize them to ad-
vantage.
We had done with rigid formality, and
to introduce break the two posts nearer
The house were moved further apart and
out of line while the other two were
brought nearer to each other. Each was
'encased in extra heavy chicken wire. and
provided at the top with a hook and cleat
fastened by bolts going through the post.
At the base of the first post are three
everblooming honeysuckles tE.onicera Heck
rottD The first year the buds of this vine
were mass of little green bugs which
neither liquid nor powder would Kill. The
following March the vine was sprayed with
kerosene soap, which seemed to be sue
cessfm treatment, as there have been no
insects since that first attack.
The second post was placed five feet from
a flower bed and an additional support set
in the bed; both were then connected by an
arch made of iron such would be used
for wagon tires. The ends were fastened to
the posts by bolts. and crosspieces of light
iron, riveted about eighteen inches apart.
to support chicken wire one foot wide.
The remaining posts were made to form
q small pergola, and connected by irons as
before to posts In parallel bed. In this
case the iron strips are supplemented by a
bar of angle iron along the top, to prevent
sagging under the weight of the wooden
crosspieces. Japanese clematic tClematas
paniculata) grows around all these posts.
and I have found 1t best to plant at least
two roots at the base of each, in February
trimming one vine back to the top of the
post and cutting off the other at the ground
level. In this way the taller plant starts,
soon covers the top. and the lower plant
clothes the post where the stalks of the
other are comparatively bare.
Evening star., 1906-02-05
Indecision.
n the Philadelphia Ledger.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
1t is fact not often noticed. or very fire.
auentIy forgotten, that one Of the greatest
dramas in literature is based not upon the
mighty passion Of love, but upon the
common, and even to many trivial. railing
OF indecision. That drama IS Hamlet.
How many Of those, however, who arc
thrilled by its situations on the stage feel
that the whole structure rests upon HAM
let's not being able to make up his MIND 10
act according to his plain duty? The truth
is that Hamlet is one of the most str1k-
ing Lsycholosical studies in existence, and
IL that truth were analyzed and known,
that is the reason why 1t is one of the most
telling most absorbing as well as most
popular of the productions OF shakespeare.
Sidney Lee points this out when he says:
I'm numerous familiar soliloquies Hamlet
reveals the course OF the struggle proceed
Ing within his brain between his lrresistiDie
tendency to introspective meditation and his
consciousness of the pressing need for &C
ton, which the working of his mind de-
prived him of the power Of taking, Scnlegel
also hits the same point: The whoie
play is intended to show that calculating
consideration exhausts the power of ac-
ton" And Boethe. too, remarks HAM
let is noble nature. without the strength
of nerve which forms a hero. He sinks be-
meath burden which he cannot bear ana
cannot cast aside.
There are plenty of Hamlets in the world
in every walk of life. although they are not
in such tragic circumstances or confronted
with such a terrible problem as the Prince
of Denmark. Like him. they may be men
Of noble nature. but without the strength
of nerve which forms hero. They are
as fully aware OF their position as he was.
They are able to reason. and are forever
reasoning about the influence of the macro-
cosm without upon the microcosm within.
They know what they are not and why
they are 80; they know where they are
and where they would be. And yet they
lack that decision which. by single step.
would carry them from darkness to light.
from unrest to rest. from torture of mind
to peace of mind.
Evening star., 1906-02-05
The Ideal Sitting Room.
From Haroer's Bazaar.

FROM Harper bazaf
Besides the table that will keep steady
when you work upon Il. and the chairs that
you can move about, the good floor and the
small carpet which can be bundled out OF
the room in two minutes. there must be a
Bookcase with great many books in 1t.
bench that you can SIT or lie upon a cup
board with drawers, and unless either the
bookcase or the cupboard be very beautiful
with painting or carving. pictures ard en-
cravings on the walls. or else the wall itself
must be ornamented with some beautiful
and restfhl pattern. then vase or two.
and fireplaces as unlike as possible to the
modern mean, miserable and snowy affairs.
plastered abosst with wretched sham orna-
ment. trumpery of cast iron and brass and
polished steel offensive TO look al and
nuisance to clean. To these necessaries-
unless we are musical and need piano. In
which case. as far as beauty Is concerned.
we are In bad wayne can add very little
without troubling ourselves and hindering
our work. our thought and our rest.
Evening star., 1906-02-05
Perhaps for Home Consumption.


For the benefit of law students who
imagine themselves tremendously overwork-
ed-and all law students dove lift from
the columns of an English contemporary
the following passage from the Memoirs
of Henri de Mesmes," descriptive OF a days
work of law student at Toulouse In the
sixteenth century: I'VE used to rise from
bed at 4 o'clock, and. having prayed to
God. we went at O'Clock to our studies,
our big books under our arms, our ink
horns and candles in our hands. We heard
all the lectures without intermission TIL 10
o'clock rang; then we dlned, after having
hastily compared. during half hour, our
notes of the lectures. After dinner We read,
as recreation Sophocles, or Aristophanes.
or Euripides. and sometimes Demosthenes.
Cicero, Virgil, or Horace. At l O'Clock 10
our studies; at back to our dwelling
place. there to go over and verify passages
cited in the lectures until 9. Then supper,
and after supper we read Greek or Latin.
On holy days We went to high mass and
yespers; the rest OF the days a little music
and walks, After all, that has a famil-
lar ring. What lawyer who ever went
through a law school has forgotten the ac-
counts of his austere devotion 10 his stud
les, contained In his letters to the home
folks-with never a word about the cakes
and ale?'' We warrant that Henri occa-
sionally indulged in Hveiier pastimes Than
attending high mass and yespers.