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The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-10-09
NOTICE or APPLICATION FOR
TAX DEED.

Notice is hereby given that Ran.
dali Wells and r. l.. Smith. pur.
ohasers OF Tax Certificate No. 2I2.
dated 9Th day Of July A. d.. 1903,
have filed said certificate I'm my OF.
foe and have made application for tax
deed TO issue IN accordance with
law. Said certificate embraces the
following described property sit.
uated in Putnam county, Florida.
to.wit:
Six acres In NV cor. OF NV IA OF
NV Ia, Section 20, Township H.. s,
Range "a E.--6 acres.
The said land being assessed at the
date Of the issuance OF such certih
cate In the name OF Thomas Hines.
Unless said certificate shall be re-
deemed according TO law, tax deed
will issue thereon on the 18th day OF
October, A. d., 1909
Witness my Official signature and
seal this 18th day OF September, 1909.
HENRY HUTCHINSON,
(Seal) Clerk Circuit Court.
Putnam County, Florida
BY J. G. BALLS, ID. G. II
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-10-09
Door plates Out Of Fashion.

Door plates are going out OF fash.
Ion" said q man whose business Il
Is TO make plates of all kinds. Tween.
" years ago every man OF promln.
ence had his name craven upon a
plate and that plate affixed 10 his
front door. that all might know who
dwelt within. The daily task OF the
negro houseman was to rub the door
plate until IL shone. II took the
place OF the, lares and penates OF the
Romans, and was attended TO just as
carefully as were the ancient house
hold gods.
Everything is changed now, though
I suppose the reason Is that people
don't have homes as they used 10.
They simply live In houses and apart.
ments, and move around so much that
a door plate couldn't possibly endure
the pedpatetic existence. A collec.
tion OF brass door plates screwed 20
the portal Of q big apartment build.
ing would, confess. look rather odd
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-10-09
NOTICE or APPLICATION FOR
TAX DEED.

Notice is hereby given that John
Stoddard, purchaser of Tax Certif.
icate no. 262. dated 1st day of June,
1895, has filed said certificate in my
ONCE, and has made application for
tax deed To issue in accordance with
law. Said certificate embraces the
following described property sit.
uated in Putnam County, Florida,
to-wit:
Lot 3, Section 81, Township 8, s.
Range q E.--70 acres.
The said land being assessed at
the date OF issuance OF such certif.
icate In the name OF J. w. Cooling
ton.
Unless said certificate shall be re.
deemed according TO law. tax deed
will issue thereon on the nth day OF
October, A. d., 1909.
Witness my official signature and
seal this nth day of September. 1909
HENRY HUTCHINSON,
(Seal) Clerk Circuit Court.
Putnam County, Florida.
BY J. c. Balls, Jr.. ID. G. II
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-10-09
JUVENILE IMAGINATION.
Asking the Child What He Would
DO With a Million Dollars.

The other day a metropolitan news.
paper put before its child-readors
very serious temptation. II asked
them what they would DO n they had
a million dollars
Even the normal child. like "the
lunatic. the lover. and the poet" is
"of imagination all compact Goethe
said he got from his mother his
Lust "a fabuliren''-hls passion for
fiction. So the child gets from It's
mothers exhaustless power OF nc
ton and halfcreated lore its passion
for fancying things. for living in a
world as remote from its real condl-
tions as are castles in Spain or Isles
OF the Blessed. II seems hardly wise
TO fire this fancy OF the child into
imagining what II would do with a
fortune so great that IL cannot be
conceived. and thus encouraging II
10 downright pretense and hypocrisy.
What would a normal child do with
$1,O00,000? Would it not, II left TO
itself. tear up the pretty paper in
sport, or stick IL around on wall and
doll houses: or. II in gold. would IL
not naturally, consider the yellow
counters merely as playthings? But,
apparently, only the abnormal chill.
dren undertook to answer the riddle.
They proved to be more generous
than older miliionaires and would
scatter a golden shower over the
world. There would be 10 more poy.
erty OF distress
One boy said that he would turn
over his fortune TO orphan asylums
and the Salvation Army.
III s1,000.000 were mine TO spend"
wrote one delightfully."- sentimental
Tommy Il would use but little or q
for myself" As Swinburne would
say: "Oh. child. what news from
Heaven"
III | had a mother" wrote an
other young sentimentalist. Il would |
support her. | would buy a com.
Portable home to live in. give some |
money 10 the poor. and help build |
them homes"
IL seems that one OF the boys struck |
a sort OF average OF humanity. but |
could not hold TO Il. lie would buy |
him an automobile. But would he use
II selhshly? Not he lie would take
the poor people ont riding in his
luxurious car
Why encourage this sort of thing? |
n little later in life these pious lit |
tie fellows will look about them. see
men that have the coveted million
dollars. and will note well what they
are doing with It. II they shall have
retained this pretty nonsense in their
heads, they may then find their milk
Of human kindness soured, and learn
10 despise those that are rich in ev'
save ideals and generosity.
II is too easy a thing TO spoil a
child. and to turn II into a sickly
or a thoroughgoing lit.
he hypocrltO. Let il alone. TO pre-.
serve it's sweetness until such time
~ age and slow training may ripen
It's imaglnings into true ideals for
It's older years.-Columbia State.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-10-09

An early start Il one OF the essen
tials to getting our portion In this
NE,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17

the larger they are. Of course, the
longer they take to melt and the far
Their south they are carried before they
disappear. There are always during
the summer months more or less Of
these silent destroyers cruising to-
ward the ocean lane south Of the
Grand banks, and this year promises
to witness a. record number. Until
ten years ago accidents to liners from
collision with these were numerous, as
then the sailing track Of the New
York "greyhounds" traversed the
southern end of the Grand banks,
which. owing to the meeting of The
currents, is where most of the bergs
are found. Disasters became so COM
mon that an international conference
was called which resulted in shifting
the ocean lane nearly 200 miles farther
south.
Last year one of the big German
fliers struck berg, luckily without
lnjuring herself, but it is rarely that
steamers survive an encounter with
these Ice masses, as only one-eighth OF
the total volume Of the berg appears
above water, and its contour below
may be very different from that above,
so that when steamer rams an ice
berg she may disturb its equilibrium
and cause 1t to topple over.-St. Johns
IN. F.( Cor. New York Post.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
MASCOT FOR LATHAM.
Daring MonopIanist Given Live Pigeon
by Fair Lover of Aeronautics.

Daring MonopIanist Given Live Pigeon
by Fair Lover of Aeronautics.
That Latham has twice failed to
cross the English channel is not due to
the neglect Of the fair lovers of aero
nautics. They iaeve been. on hand. at
both of the imrGatant flights and have
given him every encouragement. The
aviator has been waiting for the OPP
portunity to emulate the feat of Bile
riot. and the tedium is relieved by the
lively interest of the women who flock
from Calais and the other nearb!
towns. As mascot one of the youn
women the other day presented to the
daring monoplanist live pigeon.
She did not share the popular super
stition that pigeon is an uniuckF
bird. She took the view that with the
guidance of one of these fiiers that
cross. the channel repeatedly Latham
may be spurred to success. Latham. IA
true gallant. promised that the pigeon
would from a siiken ribbon show bin
the aerial road to Dover when hs next
attempts to cross the international gap.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
New Compass For warships.

The new compass recently adopted
by the German government for their
warships is a remarkable instrument.
It is known as the gyroscope compass
and is the invention of DR.. Anschuetz-
Haempfe A nine pound wheel mount
ed in a holder of quicksilver is made
to rotate at the rate of 21,000 revelu-
tons a minute by an electric motor.
After running for two hours the wheel
is set in the direction of the mathe-
NAUTICAL meridian, which direction it
maintains The advantage of the new
compass is that it is entirely unaffect-
ed by neighhoring iron or steel or by
vibrations and rolling of the vessel.
A compass card attached indicates di-
rection in the usual way.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
MENACE IN MAGAZINES.
Editor Thinks Constant Reading of
Them Will Harm Americans.

Editor Thinks Constant Reading of
Them Will Harm Americans.
Frank Chaplin Bray, editor of the
Chautauqua Magazine, in a recent adj
dress at Chautauqua, N. Y. said:
There is menace in the maya
zines. The magazine habit may be-
come as bad as the morphine habit.
Mere desultory reading of magazines
may result in a loss of the power to
select good reading and to think about
it intelligently.
"Carolyn Wells has aptly defined a
magazine as small body of literature
entirely surrounded by advertisements.
Some magazines are playing the ad-
vertising game to such an extent That
their productions seem to be made up
of anything that will hold the adyer-
Using and support picture of a
vaudeville actress on the cover. There
are notable exceptions, however. In
many cases one magazine one month
is so like another magazine for an
other month that they are practically
indistinguishable.
.Careless reading of the magazines
will make US as a nation more hyster-
terical than ever before and worse
than the French in not having back
ground of steadiness and sense of
proportions We shall lose our power
of thinking"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
sHERIFFs SALE.

No. I3,I37-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
Thomas c. Barrett VS.: Frank Rio
cich, ct al.
By virtue of writ of feri facias to
me issued from the Honorable First
Judicial District Court of Caddo Par
ish, Louisiana, in the above numbered
and entitled suit, I have seized and will
offer for sale at public auction, for cash
according to law. at the principal front
door of the premises on Louisiana street
in the City of Shreveport, known as
the National Hotel, recently occupied BY
the above defendants, during the legal
hours for sales, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST IA, 1893.
The property, furniture, fixtures, houae-
hold goods, carpets, mattings, etc. in
the above premises. Tbs. above property
seized as belonging to the above de-
PENDANTS, and to be sold to satisfy the
amount specified in the above suit, say
in the sum of $6oS.so. with 8 per cent
per annum interest thereon from May
| I, 1908, and all costs of suit.
j. P. FLOURNOY,
Caucasian Aug. S. Sheriff
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
marriage Of chimpanzees.

James Reid. whose title of Marry
Ing Squire was gained after he had
married 400 couples within four years,
recently dictated at the wedding" of
Julia Krager and Master Tony. CHM
panzees owned by August Larmbrig.
ger, banker OF Orville. o., in the
presence OF over 200 people Master
Tony's bride was a tiny monkey.
The license. which bears the name Of
Edward Hankee, clerk Of the circuit
court. announced the bridegroom to be
two years old. the bride year. a
daughter Of Dom Paul of Palshye.
Africa. Chief Of Police Vincent SkeI.
ton volunteered to give the bride away
Reid used hia usual ceremony and
0oekated 81 rendered By Larmbrtgger.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
COL DENIS HARD sNoWsToRM.
incident In Career Of Actor Famous as
Old Jed PFouty.


Richard Golden. the actor, who re
Gently died on a private yacht which
was anchored OF the Brooklyn O.. y
Yacht club. Gravesend bay. achieved
fame In the role Of Jed in comedy en-
titled "Oid Jed Prouty." At one time
he was an actor In stock company
zone night at the old fremont thea
ter In Boston, he remarked some time
ago, Ia speaking of the experience, Eve
were putting ON the old meIodrama,
storm Beaten In which | was COM
PEELED TO play the aged father. 1t was
Hazel Kirke affair, the only scene
Of Importance that had being in a
snowstorm, when had to grope
around with my face npturned to
heaven, murmnring. My child, my
child, where are you tonightY
II got ! fair start, and was looking
heavenward and reading the lines with
all the pathos at my command when
suddenly something about the size of
toy balloon, 1t seemed to me, struck
my front teeth and passed on into my
throat. / stopped, coughed, choked.
got red 10 the face and threw myself
forward in q spasm, and, to my great
relief, an object struck the stage with
sharp click and bounded out into the
audience.
.arhe darned property man had put
rock 10 the snow. After the audi
snce quit having Mysteries continued.
but refused to look squarely at
heaven again during the run of that
play"
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
EsTRAY NoTIcE

Taken up by Taylor Buck. two miles
from Keithville, La, and estrayed be-
fore me, the following described stock,
to-wit: One red cow, Tor 8 years old,
smooth crop and two small splits in
left ear, and split in right ear. One yell
low cow, or years old, smooth crop
IN right ear, and under-bit in left ear !:
no brands on either animal. The owner
will come forward, prove property and
pay costs, or the same win be sold as
the law directs, at Keithville, on the
nth day of September 1909.
]. B. LEWIS,
Justice of the Peace Seventh Ward Of
Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
Caucasian, August u. 1909.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
BOTTLED BAIT TO LURE FISH.
Connecticut Man by Novel Scheme
Made Record Haul.

@OnnGCCICQI wan Dy iNoNSI OSfiSts1S
Made Record Haul.
All piscatorial artists who enjoy bass
and pickerel fishing will be interested
in the way D. J. Coffey, a member Of
the Winsted (Conn) fire department.
who recently spent weeks vacation
on the Highland lake fishing grounds.
managed to break all previous records
there for big catches. Here's how he
did it.
He placed number of sinners, or
live bait, and one or two small frogs
in glass bottles of two gallons capaci-
ty and then suspended the bottles in
deep water from small raft AS the
big bass and pickerel tried in vain to
get the little fish in the glass Enclosure,
Coffey, VINO ffshed from rowboat
nearby, dropped his baited line close
to the bottles. and the assembled fish
were caught as fast as they could be
pulled in.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
NOTED PREAcHER-HUMoRIsT.
stery Told About Robert ]. 5urdette
by q Brother Humerist.

stery Told About Robert ]. 5urdette
by q Brother Humerist.
Rev, Robert ]. Burdette Of Los An
geles. CAL, one Of the last Of the brill
liant galaxy Of old school humorists, Is
the subject OF the following story,
which Is told by his friend, Strickland
w. GILLIAN, also humorist. who halls
from Baltimore:
One day as California clubwoman
was driving an eastern friend along
Orange Grove avenue. Pasadena. CAL,
she pointed to the beautiful Spanish
home Of the Burdettes on the hilltop.
'"That," she said, SIS the home OF
Rev. Robert j. Burdette. You've heard
Of him and read his prose and poetry.
ave heard of his prose, of course =
replied the eastern lady, "but don't
recall his poetry"
"No, OF course not" replied her Cal
ifornia hostess. ''for It's the funniest
thing-he signs all his prose writings
Robert ]. Burdette' and all his poetry
James Whitcomb Riley
During his seven years of newspaper
work in New York Mr.. Burdette made
host Of friends and gained larger
host of admirers in the metropolis. His
career began obscurely on littlt
newspaper published in Peoria. Ill. i
was there that his humorous writings
frst attracted attention In 1874. HI
soon went to the Burlington Ga.
Hawkeye, on which paper he worked
with increasing briiliancy and success
for several years.
The vein Of sweet seriousness which
marked so much of even bis most hu
morous writing was traceable in par
to a living tragedy that clouded hi:
early career His young wife, TO whom
/ he referred as .her little serene hap
piness," became an incurable invalid
| But she never ceased to share will
him the pleasure and the labor of hi
| literary work He did most of hi
writing at table close to her bedside
and she read every word of his pro
litic output, often criticising. often sug
costing a thought or an abridgment.
1t was years after she died befor
Burdette could resume entirely hi
work as humorist. But after man.
years he was married again to- Mrs
Presley Charlton Baker. brilliant wo
man possessing vast estates in AM
around Pasadena, Cal.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
WATERWAYS COMMISSION.
Work In Europe For the Board APP
pointed by Congress.

pointed by congress
To investigate the waterways Of Eu-
rope for the purpose of making recon-
mendations for the Improvement Of
the rivers, harbors and canals OF the
United States eight members OF the
national waterways commission ap-
pointed by congress recently left New
York city on the Kronprinzessin Ce-
ellie. The party is headed by Iheo-
dore e. Burton, senator from Ohio,
chairman, and he is accompanied by
Professor Emory R. Johnson OF the
University of Pennsylvania; Colonel
w. H. Bixby, corps of engineers, Z. 5.
A.; Herbert Knox Smith, commission
err of the bureau of corporations, de-
partment of commerce and labor, and
three secretaries.
The other members of the commits
sion will leave later, and the whole
commission will unite at Strassburg,
Germany, Sept. s. when an investlga-
ton of the Rhine will be begun.
Professor Johnson represents the
national rivers and harbors congress
and, besides making report OF his
Independent findings to the commits
sion, will submit also statement to
the national rivers and harbors con-
yention, which will be held in Wash,
ington Dec. s, 9 and TO- He occupies
the chair of transportation and com
merce in the University of Pennsyl
vania and has on other occasions made
investigations of the waterways OF
Europe He will give special atten
ton to the relation Of waterways t.
railways and the industry and trade
of the waters so connected.
An investigation of the canals and
rivers around Berlin will be the first
work of the commission. After visit
ing Dresden, Prague and Vienna a
stop of three days at Budapest will
be made for an investigation of the
waters of the Danube. The Rhine viii
be reached Sept. 10, and four day
trip is planned on that waterway.
The commission will also study Hol
lands bikes and canals and the cana
system of Belgium, regarded as the
best in the world Eight days will be
spent in Paris, which viii allow the
party to reach London Oct. 1. The
harbors and waters of England, in
| Guiding trips on the Manchester shiI
canal, will demand attention unit
Sept. Is, when the party will prepare
for the return home, arriving in New
York on Oct %
Immediately thereafter the commits
sion will go up the Hudson river as fal
as Albany, then on to Buffalo, from
which point tour of the great lakes
will be begun.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
The Hudson Trio.

What though tardy may be renown2
Fame and honor are sure to crown.
Flags will fly and the bells be rung,
Speeches made and the praises sung
Though three centuries long have passed,
Hudson comes to his own at last
Thrifty do we twine the bay,
Double duty we make it pay.
For with the Half Moons captain brave
We hail another who tanned the wave,
And where the stately steamers speed
Robert Fulton win have his need.
Safe is your glory, William G.
Three more centuries soon win fee.
Then on the stream of Dreams Fulfilled
Folks will gather the great to gid,
Cheering the shades of the Hudson crew,
Hudson, Fulton and McAdoo.
New York TiInes
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
FARM FOR SHORT SERMONS.
Indiana Clergyman Given Valuable
Land For Concise Preaching.

The Rev. j. NJ. Williams. a Metho-
dist minister at Pine Village. Ind, re-
ceiyed a. deed recently for sixty acres
of land worth S125 an acre from Mr..
and Mrs. Rurgoyne Davis because he
preached short sermons while pastor
OF the church which they attended.
Mr.. Davis is wealthy and was so I'M
pressed with the brevity and pointed
ness of the sermons of Mr. Williams
that he determined to make him indie
pendent. The deed specifies the brev-
ity of Williams discourses as the con-
sideration received for the land. The
sixty acres comprise one of the most
fertile tracts of land in Montgomery
county.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-08-17
sHFRIFFs SALE.
No 13,I45-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
Silbernagel Company Limited VS..

No. I3,I45-In the First Judicial DIS
trict Court of Caddo Parish, La:
Silbernagel Company Limited VS..
w. E. Ivy.
By virtue of writ of seizure and sale
to me issued in the above numbered and
entitled suit, from the Honorable First
Judicial District Court of Caddo Par
ish, Louisiana, have seized and will
offer for sale at public auction, accord
ing to law, on terms hereinafter stated,
during the legal hours for sales, at the
principal front door of the court house
of Caddo Parish, Louisiana, on
SATURDAY, SEPT. Is, 1902
The following described property, to-
wit: The undivided one-half interest of
the defendant in and to the plantation
known as the Gold Point Plantation,
situated on both sides of Red river,
about eight miles north of the City of
Shreveport, and lying partly in the
Parish of Caddo and partly in the Par
ish of Bossier, more particularly de-
scribed as follows: The following in
Bossier Parish: Fractional section IS
fractional section IA, fractional south
west quarter section IL, southeast quar-
ter section J2, fractional section II, all
in township 70 north, range Ia west,
less, however, 30 acres in section 13
sold to ]. w. Vance. The following in
Caddo Parish, Louisiana: Fractional
section II, fractional south half section
2, east half section 10, and about 1oo
acres in section I'd, described as fol-
lows: Run line east and west entirely
across the southwest quarter and west
half of the southeast quarter at such
distance from the Red river on the
western boundary of section as shall
make the desired quantity of about 1oc
acres to lie between said line and sai6
river, about 100 acres, the land ac-
quired by ]. B. Pickett from S. w
Vance December 4, 1869, as shown by
deed recorded in conveyance book CO.
page 867, all of said lands lying ir
township 10 north, range "a west; with
like interest in all buildings and i'm
provements thereon.
Also seven mules and the one-fourtf
interest in the growing crop belonging
to w. E. Ivy, on the above described
property situated in Caddo Parish.
The above property seized as belong.
ing to the above defendant and to b.
sold to satisfy the debt specified in the
said writ, say in the sum of $I5ooo.oo
interest and costs, as follows: For cash
without the benefit of appraisement, te
pay and satisfy the sum of $I2,ooo.oe
with 8 per cent interest on said sun
from June 10, 1905, past due, together
with 10 per cent on said sum of prin.
cipal and interest as attorneys fees, anc
on terms of credit to pay the note oil
100000 maturing December IS, 1909
with 8 per cent interest from June 10
1905, until paid; together with 10 pei
cent on said sum of principal and inter.
est as attorneys fees, and all costs O
suit J. P. FLOURNOY,
Sheriff
Caucasian and Bossier Banner Au
gust 10. 1909.