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The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-09-20

such railway or street railway.
Section Z. If any person, corporation,
or company shall fail to pave any such
part of street within the prescribed time
in said notice the Board OF Bond Trus-
tees of said City shall have the work
done and the amount contracted to be
paid therefor shall be lein upon the
several lots of land fronting on such
street In proportion to the extent in
which such owners are hereby required
to pave such street. Such amount may
be assessed as a special tax against such
lot or the same may be enforced by suit
at law or in equity, or the said amount
may be recovered against such owner or
owners by suit before any court of COM
petent jurisdiction. The amount due or
that may become due or payable to the
City OF Palatka by any person, persons,
firm, company or corporation for paving
as herein before provided, shall be paid
by such person, persons, firm, company
or corporation in the following manner:
One-third cash upon completion Of the
paving in front of the property to be
charged and one-third thereof within six
months thereafter, and one-third within
II months thereafter. All of the deferred
payments shall bear interest at the rate
OF six per cent per annum from the date
of the completion of the paving in front
of the property to be charged or taxed
for these betterments, provided that
such person, persons, firm, company or
corporation shall have the privilege OF
paying the entire amount of their in
debtedness, as aforesaid, upon the com
pletion of such paving in front OF their
property to be charged or taXet for
these extensions, and all persons, firms,
companies, and corporations becoming
indebted, as aforesaid, who may not pay
the entire amount OF said indebtedness
shall issue to said City negotiable obi
cations for said installments or deferred
payments which shall be executed in
such form as may be provided by the
City Council of said City or said Board
of Bond Trustees which said certificates
shall constitute lien upon the property
against which assessment is made, ana
such certificates may be transferred by
said City Council or its Board OF
Bond Trustees in settlement to the con-
tractor for the paving aforesaid.
Section s. II any railway company or
street railway company required to pave
by provisions Of this ordinance or the
terms of its charter or franchise or laws
of the State of Florida or ordinances OF
the City of Palatka, shall fail to pave
any street or part of street within the
time prescribed in said notice the Board
of Bond Trustees shall have the WoEK
done and the amount contracted to DO
paid or cost Of such paving shall De-
come lien upon the property OF salu
railway company or street railway COM
pany, and may be by proceedings eD'
forced by the forfeiture of its charter OF
or by suit at law, or In equity
before any court of competent jurisdic-
ton.
Section 8. All ordinances or parts OF
ordinances in conflict herewith are here
by repealed.
Passed in open Council this Au-
gust goth, A. d. 1907.
HOWELL A. DAVIS,
Attest; President City Council
j. N. BLACKWELL,
[SealI City Clerk,
Approved:
FIJI. WILSON, Mayor.
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St. Joseph's Academy.

The School conducted by the Sis
tiers of St. Joseph will be opened for
the Fall term on September 10th. 1t
is advisable that all the pupils come
on the opening day, as much of the
future progress in studies depends,
greatly, on the fundamental work
which is gone over the first part of
the term.
Persons living at too great a dis
lance, and DESTROYS of giving their
daughters the advantage of attending
the Academy, may do so by placing
them as boarders, at the rate of
Three Dollars for the five school
days of each week.
Terms per month for day pupils,
Primary Grade $l.00; intermediate
$l.50; Advanced $500; Board $1,000.
Tuition in advance.
The Music Glass re-opened on the
first Monday of September
Children should receive instruc-
ton as early as possible in order to
accomplish in life all to which innate
talent entities them.
The Elementary and Preparatory
Course will include thorough foun-
dation in Technic. Studies and Som
atinas selected from Czerny, Han-
del, L9schhorn and others as well
as easy pieces by classical and mod
ern composers.
Terms of tuition, payable in ad-
vance, per term of eight lessons:
PianOforte $500; Piano rent Sl.0O
to $l.50; Violin $500; Mandolin So 90.
For further information address
MUSIC TEACHER
st. Joseph's Academy, Palatka, Fla,
9-13-3t
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lima to Quit.

A newly enlisted fireman of only
average pluck was serving at his first
fire, and the chief rushed up to him
and shouted: Shin up that ladder to
the eighth story, crawl along the cor
nice to the fourth window, drop down
three stories and catch that wooden
sign you see smoking there, swing
yourself along to the second window
that the red glare is coming from,
break the glass and go in and rescue
those three old ladies. Well, what
the deuce are you waiting for?' For
pen and ink, SIR" said the new man.
Il want to hand in my resignation
Argonaut
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Notice of Application for Tax Feed.

Notice of Application for Tax Feed.
Notice is hereby given that D. b.
harmon, purchaser of tax certificate
No. 1877, dated the Sd day Of April, A. D.
1898, has filed said certificate in my Of
flee, and has made application for tax
deed to issue in accordance with law
Said certificate embraces the following
described property situated in Putnam
county, Florida, to-wit
e. of sci section 5, township 8,
range $50 acres.
The said land being assessed at the
date Of the issuance of such certificate
in the name of Unknown. Unless
said certificate shall be redeemed &C
cording to law, tax deed will issue there
on on the 5th day of October, A. D. 1907.
Witness my official signature and seal
this the 21st day of August, A. D. 1907.
Seal JOSEPH PRICE,
Clerk circuit court, Putnam county, Fla.
By R. Raymond Price dep. clerk
The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-09-20

Up in Worcester, Mass, Rev.
Orson L. Mallory is a pastor who is
mighty in prayer, and the fact ought
to be known, hence this mention
Because some of the men connected
with the New England Fair insisted
on opening their Midway tents on
Sunday, the Rev. Orscn prayed that it
would rain and spoil the fairs bust
ness. And it rained, too, and now
the fair managers are criticizing the
petition. The minister SAYS
he did pray for the rain and he's
glad of it." We don't know the Rev.
Orson Mallory's denomination, but
If he is affiliated with any one of the
churches, and can repeat
his Worcester rain work on demand,
there's an opening for him in Florida
or most anywhere else. The
preacher who can make good and
isn't ashamed to acknowledge his
pull, will always be in demand in
truck growing country.
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and voted against it, it is neverthe-
now its strongest supporters. 1t is
city of Gainesville single substan-
oppose with all his might any at
tempt to bring back the saloon.
The beneficant Influence of prohib-
ition upon the county at large is fully
as marked as in the city of Gaines
vile, the happy history of which is
repeated in that of dozen smaller
towns. A few years ago our county
school system was seemingly on its
last legs. The teachers were incom-
petent, the salaries ridieuously low
and the school term shamefully
short, with the school board encum-
bered with an indebtedness of about
$50, 600. Today no county in the
State has public school system it
has more right to be proud of than
has Alachua. She has corps of
teachers fully the equal if not the
superior of that of any other county
in Florida. The school term has
been heightened, and salaries have
been increased by nearly so per cent,
and the huge debt has been reduced
to less than $4,000.
These, my dear sir, are the plain,
simple facts, against which the spe-
cious arguments of the saloon ele-
ment break themselves in vain. L
have written at length, but L am
aware that | have but imperfectly
told the story. TO sum it all up:
Prohibition has made us a prosper
Gus, progressive, happy people. Gods
blessing as surely and unfailingly
goes with it as warmth and light
follow in the wake of the rising sun.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) w. r. THOMAS,
Mayor of the City of Gainesville,
and President of the DnttOn Bank.
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THE QUESTION
OF TODAY

The one burning question in Put
nam county today is:
Shall saloons be legalized--per-
mitted longer for money consider
alton to debauch our youth? Or
Shall the business of vending al
cOholic drinks for beverage purposes
be declared an outlaw?
1t will be up to the voters of the
county to decide this momentous
questions on Monday, the Both inst.
There is no middle ground. for the
voter to occupy on this question. 1t
may be placed before him in a varie-
ty of ways and each way may be
loaded with half-baked suggestions
as to more practical remedies for
mitigating the evils which all ad-
nit constantly flow from the traffic,
but in its last analysis the question
must be settled by him on the 3Oth
inst on this basis:
Am l for the saloon, or against it?
The Palatka News is against the
saloon. 1t is for prohibition.
Two years ago in announcing its
position on this question the News
said:
"Whatever the News may say in
this discussion, it will be its purpose
to confine its remarks to the liquor
business and not to the men in it.
Some of them are as truthful and
honorable as any other class of men,
and many of them are keen to drive
out of what seems to them a legiti-
mate and necessary trade, the VIC
ious concomitants that have gather
ed in and around 1T -
The News again wants to empha-
size the fact that it is after the sa-
loon and not the saloon keeper.
Prohibition is the moral side. 1t
is the side of good citizenship.
Even liquor dealers admit this.
Prohibition is best for the city and
county from the standpoint of bust
ness. Liquor men do not admit the
truth of this proposition. They will
tell you that prohibition will kill Pa
latka commercially. 1t is doubtful
if they believe it.
Such is not the testimony of
Gainesville and Live Oak and other
cities in this state that have abolish
ed the saloon, And neither does it
look reasonable. And then
If Palatka has reached that point
in its history where its commercial
prosperity and growth is dependent
upon the saloon iniquity, 1T is GER
tainly in bad way.
The only business that will be in
jured by prohibition is the liquor
business.
And it ought to die because it is
the prolific cause of poverty, disease,
crime.
Until this question is settled on
the 3Oth, the editorial space in the
News will be devoted chiefly to it,.
1t is the question of today and it is
important it should be settled right
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st. Joseph's Academy, Palatka, Fla
9-l3-3t
The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-09-20

Perhaps one reason why Gov,
Broward has not called an extra
session of the legislature, as it was
intimated by the Court Gazette he
would do, is to be found in the fact
that there isn't sufficient money on
hand in the fund to pay for the in
diligence, and won't be until the Ii
cense money begins to roll in next
month. ItwOuld be useless to specu-
late on other reasons.
The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-09-20

You can not make sweet butter in foul, un-
clean churn, The stomach serves as churn
our food as Il is being digested. fit be weak.
sluggish and foul the result will be torpid
sluggish liver and bad, impure blood.
The ingredients Of DR.. Pierce Golden Medi-
cal Discovery are Just such as best serve to
correct and cure all such arrangements. II is
made up without drop Of alcohol in its com
position; chemically pure, triple-retined glycer-
ne being used instead OF the commonly en-
ployed alcohol, Now this glycerine is fltseif
a valuable medicine, instead OF a deleteriouS
agent like alcohol, especially in the cure of
weak stomach, dyspepsia and the various
forms Of ind gestiOn.
Prof. Finley ElllngwOOd, VI. D.. OF Bennett
Medical College. Chicago, says OF il: "In dys-
pepsla II serves an excellent purpose. - II
Is one of the best manufactured products Of the
present time in its action upon enfeebled, dis
1-dcred stomachs
The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-09-20

B. F. Stoneman, editor of the Mi
ami Record, was but recently nomi-
mated in a Dade county primary for
Judge of the criminal court of
record, but Governor Broward, with
the advice of the attorney general,
held that not being a lawyer, Mr..
Stoneman was ineligible, and he
thereupon appointed w. [. Metcalf
of West Palm Beach, one of the low
men in the primary, but said to be a
good lawyer. That's hard luck for
StOneman.
The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-09-20
THERE is A DIFFERENCE.

Last week the News published
part of an able editorial by Editor
Frank L. Mayes of the Pensacols
Journal on "Why Prohibition will
NOT kill the Town"
In later edition of the same pa.
per Mr.. G. U. Porter of Pensacola
comes back at Editor Mayes with Il
communication in which he admits
that the $250,00U which Pensacola
annually sends away>to the brewer
and distiller for liquor is abso-
lutely lost to the community, but
justifying it "by dropping the issue
and asking this altogether alien
question:"
Does not the same condition ap-
ply to dry goods, groceries, grain,
feedstutfs, hardware, coal, lumber,
timber and every other article of
commerce that comes into Pensa-
cola from other states? Does it i'm
poverish Pensacola because the cost
OF production and transportation of
liquors is absorbed by their produ-
GERS, any more than by the produ-
GERS of the other articles mention
ed?''
To this question Editor Mayes re-
plies:
Certainly the same condition ap-
plies, Mr.. Porter. You have asked
the very question we expected some
one to ask, and now before answer
ing it, we are going to adopt your
rule and ask you question or two:
do you not know that dry goods,
groceries, grain, feedstutfs, hard
ware, coal, lumber, and timber are
necessities of life? And did you
ever hear OF anyone dying because
he had too many of them?
Ibid you ever know of family
getting cold because there was too
much coal and too many dry goods
in the house, or going hungry be-
cause they had too many groceries?
Did you ever know of man buy
ing lumber, timber, and hardware
for a house without having some
thing to show for it after he had
made the purchase? And do you
know of any houses of that kind in
town that are not on the tax books?
did you ever hear of groceries or
dry goods making man drunk, and
have you ever known the ownership
of house causing man to commit
murder?
"And, furthermore, can you tell us
how the community would exist
without dry goods, groceries, grain,
feedstutfs, hardware, coal, lumber
and timber?
Now, as Mr.. Porter admits that
Pensacola is sending thousands of
dollars away for liquor every year,
we are going to admit that the city
also sends thousands away every
year for the articles he mentions,
but with this difference: FOR
THE MONEY SPENT FOR IL
QUORS, THE CITY GETS ABSO-
LUTELY NO RETURN. IT DOES
GET A RETURN FOR EVERY
DOLLAR EXPENDED FOR
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, AND
THE OTHER NECESSITIES OF
LIFE.
There is both difference and
distinction in the two propositions,
and we trust that each is clear"
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Bids For Bridge.

Palatka, Florida, August 2lst, 1907.
Scaled proposals for the construction of
Bridge over the st. Johns River at Palatka,
Putnam County, Florida, will be received
by the Board of County Commissioners of
Putnam County, Florida, up until noon,
October 9th, A. d. 1907, and then publicly
opened.
Plans and specifications may be seen, ex
amined and found on file at the office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of Putnam Coun-
ty, Florida, at the Court House in Palatka,
Florida
Each sealed proposal must be accompan-
led by certified check for the sum of One
Thousand Dollars tSl.00000.
The Board reserves the right to reject any
or all bids.
l.. G. STEPHENS,
Chairman, Board of County Commissioners
Putnam County, Florida
JOSEPH PRICE,
CLERK
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-11

about midway between the two forks
Of Salt river. This noble stream. cele-
brated in politics, runs into the Missis-
sipp1 river just above Louisiana, Mo-,
In Pike county. Down at it's mouth it
Is wide enough to make an impression
and deep enough to fish in. but I'D
above It's fork it is merely a couple Of
silvery streaks. Yet Florida was locat-
ed between the forks because the p1o-
neers imagined that Salt river was
navigable for steamboats, or could be
made so and with boat traffic touching
both sides the town would become a
metropolis. There never was water
enough to float washtub, and that Is
why the Clemens family finally moved
away and most of the other people
vanished.
Mark Twain's first home, where he
was born; was small one story house.
Opinions are divided as to whether it
still stands. Some persons aver that
it was chopped up for stove wood years
ago and burned in the larger house
which now occupies the site. Others
declare that the original house, like the
star spangled banner, is still there.
His Boyhood Home.
But the one really important Mark
Twain home in Missouri, the house as
ISOLATED with his boyhood, is still in
fine state of preservation and still &C.
cupied. 1t stands smack up against
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ea TO learn Of II, TOR Il would haye
been an international calamity. Con
sequently that house must be there.
and you can find it easily If you visit
Hannibal.
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A Life of Freedom.

People sometimes think how delight
full it would be to be quite free. But
a fish, as Ruskin says, is freer than a
man, and, as for fly, it is a "black
incarnation of freedom" A life of SO
called pleasure and self indulgence is
not life of real happiness or true
freedom. Far from it. If we once be-
gin to give way to ourselves we fall
under a most intolerable tyranny.
Other temptations are in some respects
like that of drink. At first, perhaps,
it seems delightful, but there is bitter
ness at the bottom of the cup. Men
drink to satisfy the desire created by
previous indulgence. So it is in
other things. Repetition soon be.
comes craving, not a pleasure. Re.
sistance grows more and more pain
full. Yielding, which at first, perhaps,
afforded some slight and temporary
qualification, soon ceases to give
pleasure and, even if for a time it pro-
cures relief, ere long becomes obi
Gus itself.-LondOn Times.
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the brick sidewalk on Hill street in
Hannibal This I set forth Of my own
knowledge, for on Memorial day Of
1902 Mark Twain himself positively
identified and acknowledged it, and
took a photograph of the wanderer
standing at the front door of his old
home. The illustration on this page
is redrawn from that photograph. That
was the occasion Of the humorist's lat
est and perhaps last visit to his boy
hood home and haunts. It was the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch and not mere curl
osity that was responsible for my pres
ence in Hannibal at the time. I am
positive that it was Mark Twain who
stood at the door Of the old house, for
I went up on the train with him and
witnessed his signature, rs. L. Glenn
ens," on the hotel register, heard him
ask for room with private bath and
heard the clerk inform him that he
might have room near the bathroom,
but the bath was not private.
Mark Twain lived in that house a
dozen years or more before he began
to rove again, and after that at inter-
walls for a few years he reappeared.
Then for nearly fifty years he never
spent more than day at time in
Hannibal until the occasion mentioned,
when he went back and paid the old
town a visit of nearly week.
The house stands a block or so up
from the Mississippi river. Tom Saw
yer, who was Sam Clemens, could slide
out of his back tard and into the back
yard Of Huck Finn, whose family name
was Blankenship, without leaving the
block. Huck lived on the next street
north. Of Huck's house I also took a
photograph, but that house has burned
down since. The reason I am positive
that Tom Sawyer's house has not been
destroyed Is that I could not have fail
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-04-11
BY ROBERTUs LOVE.

N N ARK TWAIN is going to settle
V down. Don't laugh. He says
I so himself, and when was he
known to tell a lie? He is not
even on the official administration list
Of Ananiases. He has spent fully for
ty years telling the serious, sober truth
in his own way, and when he makes
the solemn declaration that he is 60
Ing to build home at certain spot
and stay there it behooves the public
to give him the benefit of the doubt.
For nearly seventy years Mark Twain
has been a wanderer. He was forci-
bly, removed from the place of his
birth at the tender age of three by be-
ing carried in arms to a farm wagon
that was bound to another town with
the Clemens household goods. The ex-
ample thus set him by his elders he
has been unable to resist, so ever since
about 1888 he has been moving. Now
and then he has tried to settle down.
He has made brave efforts in that di-
rection, but always the pesky little mi
crobe Of wanderlust has stirred him to
be up and away. In his time he has
enjoyed living at many places, but al
ways he has preferred somewhere else.
Mark Twain has been a constitution
al tramp all his life. He was actually
a tramp printer in his later boyhood,
though by no means one Of the pan
handling sort. Throughout his more
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mature life he has been high class
tramp. for which he need offer the
world no apology. He has paid his
own way and more, for everywhere he
mas scattered garlands of good cheer.
Il have lived more and in more
places than any one else ever knew"
he once confessed.
There is none who will dispute him.
Mark Twain probably holds the worlds
record as wanderer. If anybody ever
lived who has had more homes than he
the world has forgotten the individual,
for Mark Twain surely holds the cham
pionship so far as human chronicles in
Gcate.
Ihe present writer, being a fellow
Missourian, once boosted that Mark
Twain is the most famous man In the
world. The other party, after mo-
ment's reflection, replied:
well, he probably is, for he has
lived everywhere in the world. and
everybody knows him personally"
Mark Twain, who has changed his
home so often, has changed his name
only once. Off the stage and in pri-
Vate life he is still known to his init
mates, when they happen to reflect, as
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, IL. D.
With the exception Of the doctorate de-
gree, which was conferred by Yale and
the University Of Missouri, that was
bis name when he was picked up and
carried away from his first home, going
with the second load, having been over
looked when the rest of the family
started from Florida, Mo-, to Hanni-
bal. thirty miles away, in the same
state.
Where He Was Born.
Florida was a boom town in the thir
ties. 1t now has population Of about
twenty-five people. The hamlet lies in
Monroe county. northeast Missouri,
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Japanese LACQUER.

This is the most beautiful material
of the kind in the world, and it has
recently been the subject of a special
study by two chemists. The special
qualities of Japanese lacquer are its
brilliance, it's great hardness and
toughness, and it's resistance to acids,
alcohol and boiling water. 1t is made
of the gum of the Rhus vernicifera
which grows and is cultivated in
China as we'll as in Japan. For the
weak and overworked we suggest the
daily Use of golden grain belt beer.
It's daily use will build up and feed
your nerves and induce sleep. Order
of your nearest dealer or be supplied
by Henry Veidt, Princeton.
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George Parsons, editor of the Green
Lake Breeze, published at Spicer, is
dead.