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The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17
SAN MATEO.
LOCATION. ATTRACTIONS. ADvAN.
TAeEs.
TAeEs.
information for the Visitor or Home
seeker.


ban MnteO, putnam County, 10 all
uated on the onst bank Of the st.
Johns River. and % feet above II.
The highest point in Florida east Of
the St. Johns river. which Is onO-half
nile wide At this point
Five miles from Palatka. our county
Jeat. (clty Of 10000. rs miles from
D. Augustine and about 70 miles
from Jacksonville.
The terminus OF a branch OF the
Florida East Coast Railway. The de.
pot being three-quarters OF a mile
from the river wharf.
Advantages and Attractions.
San Mateo has good shelled roads
and miles of hard sidewalks. Beauti.
ful wateroaks line both sides Of
streets. and meet overhead In many
places.
Two churches, public and private
schools. telegraph, telephone, express,
money order postofIice, three mails
daily, meat market, two genera
stores, who take orders and deliver
goods at your door, weekly paper.
The place is incorporated, but no
town taxes have been collected for
over ten years; the many public i'm
provements are made by the push and
generosity of the citizens and pulling
together. The state and county taxes
are about 90 mills on about one-third
valuation.
Good hunting and fishing, deer. tur.
key, ducks and quail, black bass and
other Florida fresh water fish.
Good boarding house, Byrlyn Place,
open winters; rates eight to ten dol
lars per week; S2O0 day.
Six thousand people went through
the San Mateo Fruit Corlpany's grove
here last season.
Ono of the best advantages San
Mateo enjoys is transportation; being
on both river and rail is an advantage
that few Florida points enjoy. The
past season, for instance, railroads
and terminals at Jacksonville were
more than congested and fruit ship
ped from points down the central
part OF the state was, In some cases,
three weeks getting to Jacksonville,
On route to northern markets., and
did not bring enough to pay freight,
while San Mateo shippers. at same
time. would ship from here one day
and have fruit go out OF Jacksonville
on the Clyde ship the next. This lit
tie matter this season alone was
worth thousands OF dollars TO the San
hateo growers and the homeseeker
will do well To bear In mind trans
portation and cheap rates that come
With competition, in selecting a Flor.
ida location.
The population is about $50, who
came mostly from the northern states.
As a class they are men OF means,
progressive and sociable. Have q bet
ter class OF homes than can be found
In any place in the south of its size.
The buildings kept painted and
grounds IN good order.
Healthfulness.
On account OF its high altitude.
there is no healthier spot in Florida
for all the year round or for the win.
ter visitors. For those who come 10
Florida on account of health. many
nnd this higher altitude. dry and
balmy air Is better than the lover.
more harsh ar found in salt water
sections.
Business.
The principle business is orange
growing. some 400 acres In groveO
are here. and as this proves profit.
able, there is not much attention paid
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17
Remember we Sell the Only Guaran-
teed Patent Leather Shoe Sold
Putnam County.

We have complete line of mems linen
popular ando over-s
worth while
Our Stock of Suit Cases, Trunks and Grips is Unex-
ceIIed in this Section. These we are Sell
ing AT FACTORY PRICES.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17
In Mems Clothing.

offering fabrics
s27bG
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17
Business.

The principle business is orange
growing. some 400 acres In groVeg
are here. and as this proves proflt
able. there is not much attention paid
other crops. although there are some
vegetables grown for shipment and
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17

We have decided to continue our
sale on all mems and boys clothing
and furnishing goods, Leather
goods, ShoeS---and in fact every
thing that comprises our stock.
while we are at our present lOca-
ton.
the store,
patrons
Is to be had have done heretofore
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-07-17
This Sale is No Fake.

purchased
be convinced the bargains giving.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-12-18
Old General Got No Aid from His Aide

and higher grew the mound of enc
mics slain by his sword. More and
more numerous became the bullets,
thrusts and slashes sustained by him
self. At the end he always appealed
to the grizzled aid; and in silence
the aid nodded confirmation.
The general one night gave large
abundant than superb, and at dessert
the old warrior let himself out upon
the charge as he had never heretofore
done. Four horses were killed under
him. Three lances passed through his
right arm, five through his left, Nine
sabres crashed down upon his
head simultaneously. The bodies of
his slain formed a wall wellnigh i'm
passable about him. And it seemed
that there was hardly a muscle in his
person wherein a bullet failed to i'm
bed itself.
You remember all this, don't you
De Courcey?' he said, in conclusion
THE silent and long suffering aid
at last spoke up.
No, general he shouted, in a loud
indignant voice. No, of course l don't
remember it. How can you expect me
to? You know as we'll as 1 do thai
the cannon ball that killed your fourth
horse struck the breastplate of {
cuirassier behind us and then bounded
back and took my head Off"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-12-18

have a photograph of himself wearing
the gold medal presented by the So
ciety for the Prevention OF Pain to
Those Who Sit on a Bee.
Along about the 9Th of August
Uncle Ashdod opened the hermetical-
ly sealed incubator in which he had
deposited the eggs of the bisquito, as
pared the eggs carefully, cutting each
egg in two and then gluing the rear
end of mosquito egg to the fore-end
Of a bee egg. He did this with sew.
eral thousand eggs, and then put them
to hatch in a butter tub in his attic.
1t was his first attempt at egg graft
ing, and he hardly hoped that more
than one or two of the eggs would
hatch, but the results far exceeded his
expectations:
The 9Th of August was a warm day
and Uncle Ashdod was but lightly clad
when he entered his attic. When he
took the lid off the butter tub he ut
tered an exclamation of surprise, for
it seemed that every egg had matched
The butter tub was full of bisquitos
of the strongest quality. They were
full of vitality and they seemed to
recognize that Uncle Ashdod was a
sort of step-father to them, and seT
eral Immediately arose and kissed him
in the face and he uttered several eX
CARNATIONS of surprise in a hasty
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-12-18
A Perfect stradivarius.

One hears frequent talk Of Stradi
varius vioIins, particularly at auctions,
but, IS a matter of fact. there is only
one perfect "Strad'' violin in the world,
AID that is owned By a gentleman of
Edinburgh. For it ne cheerfully paid
$4,000. and, should it ever again be
offered for sale it will doubtless com
mand a much higher figure.
AS long ago as 1872 Charles Reade.
who knew almost as much abort vic
Inns as he did about literature. valued
the instrument at c COO iutting the
worth of the varnish alone at G 5G5
sterling. At that time ii was owned
by Villaume of Paris, the greatest vio-
lin expert of the age. and he kept it
until his death in 1875 81. Alard. u
wonderful violinist. was the next own.
er, he paying 91.e00 for it. It was
at his death that Mr.. Crawford. the
present owner. purchased it fer e.
OOO
There is reason fer this high yalua.
ton, as this is the only instrumen;
that has come down from Stradiyari
us's own hands in state CT perfec.
preservation. The rudy, glowing
varnish is as fresh as though pgs on
but a few weeks ago
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-12-18
BETZVuIE TALES
Uncle Ashdod and the Bisquito
RBy Ellis parher BL1Hefd
e2D Author Pigs IS Pigs Etc W.
ILLUSTRATED By PETER NEWELL

Early this spring Uncle Ashdod
Clute made up his mind that he We
pretty sure to die within twenty or
thirty years, and he felt that it would
be aIshame to die and not leave any
thing to carry his name down to pos
terity, and that he ought to hustle up
bit If he wanted to enroll his name
on the banner of fame. The only
thing that troubled him was that there
were not many things man could do
in BetZville to make his name resound
around the world like a June bug in
a bass-drum, but one day, when he
was down at the creek fishing, the
idea came to him like a flash.
He says he was sitting there with a
grasshopper in one hand and the fish
hook in the other. ready to thread the
grasshopper on the hook, when sim
ultaneously at the same time a bee
alighted on his left ear and a mos
quito on his right ear. He says that
any ordinary man might never have
got an idea from that, but Uncle Ash
dod can wiggle his ears to and fro like
a flag in the breeze, and he wiggled
them. He says he must have wriggled
them too hard, but he wasn't paying
much attention to his ears just then
He says that if he had wiggled his
ears with just a slight wiggle all
would have been we'll. but he must
have wiggled them mighty strong, for
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-12-18

r FIFTEEN years ago Francis j. Kill
i kenny arrived in this country from
ireland. He was so green that he
mistook a Fourth of July celebration
as a reception to himself. Young Kill
kenny had relatives and friends in
Milwaukee and Chicago and he made
for the middle west soon after his
landing He had fund of native wit
and IN abundance of energy and
p!eck. He got job cutting grass and
soon came under the notice of Charles
G. Dawes. When Mr.. Dawes came to
Washington as controller of the cur
rency he brought Kilkenny along as
his private secretary. When Dawes
retired from the controllership his
successor found he couldn't get along
without Kilkenny. Mr.. Ridgely was
succeeded as controller by Lawrence
o. Murray and that official has re-
tanned Kilkenny who has now be-
come one of the institutions of the
treasury department
Young Kilkenny is making remark
able Roadway with movement for
the "home-going" of Irishmen in 1910.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-12-18

w ASHINGTON.-Sir John Courts,
W Bart, K. C. NJ. G., K. o. c., C. B.,
who, as plain James c. Courts serves
the United States government in the
responsible position of clerk of the
House committee on appropriations,
has his troubles just like other folks.
People are all the time Fostering him
to death to know if it was his grand
father or his great-grandfather or his
grandfather who used to
own about 10000 acres in Maryland
and who presided over the feudal glo-
ries- of Clean Drinking Manor. And
every time he gets through with one
of these historic bugs and settles
down to work a delegation of home
folks from Tennessee drops in on him
and demands to know why he accept
ed from the Emperor of Korea-be.
fore that eminent parsonage was sat
upon by the Japanese military
order of the Setting Moon, third class
and wears the undress button thai
goes with it all the time.
But even these annoying things pale
into insignificance beside an incident
that happened just the other day. Mr.
Courts has his nose in d chaotic appro
priation bill and was debating to foul
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-12-18

RR. WILLIAM C. WOODWARD,
= health officer of the District of
Columbia, is in favor of abolishing the
only form of athletics INDUCED in b.
members and graduates of the Chau-
tauqua literature and reading circle.
He says that the Chautauqua salute is
a menace to health
The salute, as all Chautauquans
know. is a waving of the handkerchief
when friends make a hit on the lee
ture platform or sail away for distant
lands. Everybody waves and every
body is happy provided that one does
not overtax his or her energy.
The custom of waving handker-
chief vigorously in the air." says DR.
Woodward. lis dangerous. Nearly ev-
cry contagious disease can be com
municated in this manner, If the hand
kerchief is slightly sofled. If the lin
en- square has just been purchased, or
mas come straight from the laundry
there is not the slightest danger, bui
the waving of a handkerchief that has
been used even once is harmful
When a handkerchief is waved the
wind blows the germs from it. Ty
phoid fever, scarlet fever, tubercuios
is, smallpox and chickenpox, measles
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-12-18
DOES WITHOUT EGGS
NEW YORK HOUSEWIFE HAS
LEARNED SOMETHING.
Pastry and All Sorts of Goodies fos
Which Recipes Are to BE Had
Means Distinct Saving
In Kitchen.

With eggs at so cents a dozen and
ny family of four clamoring for cakes.
cookies, desserts and breakfast breads,
egg economy was simply forced upon
me-" said a thrifty New York house
Keeper. I'D always heard of eggless
recipes and laughed at them, but with
:uin staring me In the face I decided
10 make a thorough search through
:eliable cookbooks and domestic mag
azines until I'd collected a good as.
sortment of these eggless recipes.
Il gave up the best part or threa
lays to looking through the cook,
books at one of the large public Il.
braries and l was simply amazed as
the results of my search. While some
If the best authorities had not a single
recipe for cake made with less than
three eggs, others OF equally high
standing usually gave one egg caks
and occasionally an eggless cake.
"An authorities gave directions for
making icings and filings without the
use of single egg, while up to that
time I'd always used at least the white
Of one egg for any kind of frosting
All the books gave recipe for mo
lasses cake or gingerbread without
eggs, and one or two included an egg
less recipe for cookies.
When it came to breakfast breads
1 had quite hunt, but after a close
examination of every recipe of this
kind in the best books / copied hall
a dozen into my notebook. Most OF
these I've tried since and they've
proved to be all that was claimed fol
them, eggless but nevertheless light
and nice. Some of these were so sim,
pie as to seem really ridiculous until
| l tried them. Waff1es without eggs
were unknown except in one book, and
but one recipe could / find for an egg
! less griddlecakei
Desserts without eggs seemed ia
! offer the most promising field for my
research, and | found | could not only
| treat my family to eggless pumpkin
and lemon pies (Which vas surpriss
/ to mel, but l could give them a vart
ETY. of buildings of the kind that usu
ally called for two or three eggs al
the very least"
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father had heard himself thus ceremo-
niously addressed, and the canny Scot
blood leaped in veins he thought long
dead to pride.
Somebody said: well, Mac, 1
reckon that's you," and he shuffled up
to the tree and took the slip of paper
Santa Claus proffered. 1t was sworn
promise to buy the 20-acre lot adjoin-
ing MacGregOr's place, adding that the
mysterious donor had stopped by the
owners farm and taken an option on
it in favor OF Malcolm MacGregor!
Below the business form were the
written words: 1.-The one and only
consideration therefor, to be the hand
of his daughter, Mary, to be mine, to
have and to hold from this day forth"
MacGregor tottered to chair.
where he sat gazing at the precious
paper. In the hubbub nobody noticed
him; the children fingered about
Santa Claus, shifting at his empty bag,
longing to touch the hem of his robe.
iIc waved them away, signifying to
Malcolm to follow him out of doors.
Here, ct the edge of the clearing, he
awaited the man and his daughter
When they came ne said, still in the
disguised voice: May I hope, Mr. Mae
Gregor, that you will accede to the
! plan-?"
Put her thar, Bud and Mac Gregor
grasped his hand.
! But he reeled and leaned against a
blasted tree for support when Santa
Claus, throwing off the cap, revealed
! the smootl-snavcn, square-jawed face
| of the teacher at R&bun's Gap.
Thank you, Mr.. NIacGregor," and
the teacher moved to Mary's side.
Her father rallied to swear and say:
| But / thought"
You thought you were swapping
your daughter for a 20-acre lot,-and
you were not mistaken; the only mis-
! take is in the identity of the party,
and that viii scarcely matter. Or.
| perhaps. you prefer TO let your friends
know that"
/ But nobody ever did know, and the
identity OF Santa Claus was so well
| kept that TO this day the children be-
! lieve that he hid in cave, and the
spring freshet rushed in and drowned
aim. Anyway, he has never come
back.
~~~-o-~~~~-~~~~~~~~~~~
And cradie-sonSs. mysterious. soft.
Are sounding sweet and low.
Is it Z dream? Far. far away,
! Yet drawing ever near.
! I see the little Christ-Childs form,
/ 1t is His voice 1 hear
| g., srbo,, 800. <.h,i5 1,i,-,
] Back through the stormy dome,
We pray Thee. bless each little child.
/ And bless each earthly home.
/ Oh. grant to us, thou Christ-ChiId pure,
The love that casts out fear:
| And in our weary, Esor<aI hearts
Make Chris mas all the year.
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you are crazy for it, and you want me
to marry Bud because he's promised
to buy the lot if you make me marry
him. Promise! he has promised every
thing-from that land to a collar for
Peppers neck!"
The tiny black dog snoOzing under
the counter heard his name and crept
to her feet; she stopped and patted
him.
Her father paused in the act of pill
ing the good apples on top of the
barrel Il know; it's all on account
of that teacher man. And what's he
done? Tried to get the mountain folks
to send our youngsters to him to be
Iarned how to work. ThunderatiOn!
Can't we larn We that ourselves? If
he'd give We book-larnin', it wouldn'
be so bad. but"
That's fOolishness, Pappy; there S
a lot of good in this new kind of study
ing that they call manual training.
It's just because you haven't been
hearing it all your born lives that you
object. Why, you won't hear to any
thing that isn't as old as the noun
tains themselves"
Pepper dropped from her arms as
she lowered over her father. How
can we grow? How can we amount
to a row of beans if you keep us il
the same old rut? Only to-day / heard
you tell Bill Dawson that you were
sorry we were having such good
weather 1t don't seem natural foI
Christmas you said, it don't seem
like old times Old fiddlesticks! just
because the nasty wet fog is what
we're used to this time of year, you
don't want the sun to shine. Looks like
you don't want the Lord to improve
on his own weather."
A customer came in and got nick
els worth of candy for his baby
Christmas stocking.
Il hear you all air goin' to hev q
celebration tonight: III be along and
fetch the young uns," he said. Who's
goin' to play Santa CLAUSE
MacGregor looked at his daughter
Dunno; Names fixed up a rig and
says she'll find some un to wear it;
some IN to play Old Nick and give
the things of the tree
All this while Mamie was slyly re
reading the letter.
Your father win not permit me
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-12-18

manner. and then he put his hand on
the back of his neck and yelped like a
painful dog. The experiment had
been a great success. and one end of
each mosquito was annexed to one
end of each bee, but Uncle Ashdod
had got the wrong ends of them. Each
blsquito had a bees stinger on it's
nose and mosquitoes bitter on it's tail,
and they were ambidextrous, as one
might say. They worked something
like a see-saw. A bisquito could bal
ance on its legs on a tender spot, and
then see-saw up and down, and at
each teeter the stinger on one end
would do its dire work BY the time
Uncle Ashdo1 reached the attic door
the whole production of his bisquito
factory was showing him how it was
done.
Uncle Ashdod was seen passing
through Main street at about $50
O'Clock accompanied by all the bis
quitos known to be in existence, and
he was on the jump. and at every
jump he let forth yell. but at the
speed at which he was travelling the
reporter of the Betzville News could
SiCN tNii NilGlA-Nl II was q yen Oh TIL
umph or a mere expression of annoy
ance. 1t was later learned that he
had no thought at the time of ex-
pressing his triumph, but was simply
hiking for the swimming hole in the
creek
Three days later the biographer
from Chicago found him there with
only his nose above water while sew
eral hundred bisquitos sat patiently
on log near by. Occasionally a bis
quito would fly toward Uncle Ashdod.
who would then duck and swallow a
quart of creek water. The gentleman
from Chicago mentioned the subject
of the biographical history to Uncle
! AshdOd at the time. but he did not
wait for an answer. 1t seems that a
bisqulto answered him first. He ran
all the way back to Betzville, and the
! history was forced to go to press
without even a mention of Uncle
Ashdod.
/ BY the time we have a heavy frost
| Uncle Ashdod's friends hope the bis
! quitos will be in a comatose condition
and Uncle Ashdod can come out of
| the creek.
Copyright. 1909. by W. c. Chapman)
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1909-12-18

= EN-. Luke E. Wright, told at a din
" ner in Washington a war story
from Manila.
There was once upon a time,' he
began, "a gallant old general. This
general, leading a splendid charge in
his youth, got bullet in his chest and
two sabre cuts across the head. In
after life, relating over the nuts and
wine his many battles, it was this
particular charge that he always de-
cribed most f1amboyantly.
1.-The older the general grew the
more splendid the charge became; the
more awful was the slaughter that
he visited upon the enemy; the more
horrible were the wounds that he re-
ceived. For confederation he would
always turn to grizzled veteran on
his left, his aide-de-camp. The aide
de-camp would nod his gray head in
acquiescence silently.
Taller and taller grew the gen
erals stories of the charge. Higher