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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-04-15

Augustus Grover Wilson, Bill for
Fannie L Wilson. Divorce.
1t appearing by affidavit appended to the
bill filed in the above stated cause that
Fannie L. Wilson, the defendant therein
named is a nonresident OF the State OF
Florida, and that her residence is unknown
and that she Is over the age of twenty
one years. and that there is no person in the
state of Florida, upon whom the service OF
Subpoena would bind such Defendant IT is
therefore ordered that said non resident De-
PENDANT be and she is hereby required to APP
pear to the Bill of Complaint filed in said
cause on or before
MONDAY, the I'd DAY OF MAY,
A. D., 1910, otherwise the allegations of said
bill Will be taken as confessed by said De-
PENDANT.
1t is further ordered that this Order be
published once a week for Eight consecutive
weeks In the Palatka News, newspaper
published in said County and state.
Witness my hand and official Seal this,
the Sd day of March, 1910
GSeal1 HENRY HUTCHINSON,
Clerk Circuit Court
K. N. CALHOUN,
Solicitor for Complainant.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-04-15

To feel strong, have good appetite
and digestion, sleep soundly and enjoy
life, use Burdock Blood Bitters, the
great system tonic and builder.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-10

who proved to his highly gratifed flock that
the colored race stood high, as far back as the
days Of Jesus, by referring to "Nigger
Demus".
It was probably the same colored clergy
man who explained that The Ta0ez0e Disciples
ate all those thousands of loaves and fishes;
and that the miracle was that they, The
Twelve, "didu't 6ust".
So you see some we'll -meaning folks can do
some ludicrous stunts when they venture to
quote from the Bible
And here is where John Temple Graves
comes in. A perpetual source of pride, joy
and comment is John. But since he went to
New York things are not as they once we're
to him. While he knows as much as he ever
did, he has got some of it mixed. had to
take him in hand and straighten him out on
a little question of history, some time ago;
but his latest break can't be mended Al
luding to tender friendship which John
Temple attributes to President Taft and Ed
tor Hemphill, John compares this tender
friendship to that which existed between Da-
vid and Goziath!!!
Ny! N.Y.! The first thing we know John
Temple will be telling us that Jonah swal
lowed the whale, and that the Hebrew chill
dren were cast into the lions den; that John
the Baptist was stoned to death, and Stephen
hung at Tyburn.
Dear john Please slow up, and search
the Scriptures!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-10
As TO Laurence Bird

Dear Mr. Watson:-I am just in receipt of your
letter of February 28th (having been away from
my desk for two three days) enclosing check
for $4.55 to be handed to Mr.. Lawrence Bird. 1
will certainly that this money is handed to
him placed to his credit in the bank. His bank
account at this time is quite large as postoffice
money orders are coming from all over the coun-
try by nearly every mail. While it is all right
for this money to come to this needy man and
his mother, it tends to rather blacken our town
and our people because of the false impression
created that he was not being looked after by To-
cal charity. AS previously advised you, Mr. Bird
has been looked after by Dalton people for years
and SO has his mother, but he is very shrewd and
knows the ways of the world quite we'll for a man
who has been fat his back for twenty odd
years.
1t might be of help to people and to the
town if you would say in your weekly that Mr..
Bird and his mother have been cared for so long
they have been helpless by local charity and it
is certain that the people of this city will never
them starve suffer There is not a town
in the United States of the size of Dalton that has
not objects of charity similar to the we have.
Thanking you very kindly and with best wishes
beg to remain, Yours very truly,
T. S. SHOPE, Editor Citizen.
(As Mr.. Bird failed to acknowledge nv
letter and some small remittances, I thought
best to remit next time to friend Shope His
letter tells the rest TIE. WY
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-10
The Fluent John Temple a Bible
Scholar

In speech to Lincoln county jury, the
late Milton P. Reese-once a State Senator
and always prominent attorney-enlivened
the dull court proceedings by an allusion to
the Na6o6's vineyard.
And my jovial teacher in the Long Ago,
Rev. "Leck" Steed, was sure to be reminded,
every now and then, of the backwoods
preacher who,-having quoted a certain
Scripture and given from memory the book,
chapter and verse-was interrupted by
hoarse whisper from his brother minister, in
the pulpit:
'"Taint Marn'
Some folks are stubborn in such matters,
and the preacher again named the book,
chapter and verse.
'"TAINT THARr- came the hoarse
Whisper louder and more aggressive than be-
fore. The preacher got thoroughly nettled
and put his brother out of business by ex-
claiming, sharply:
II say that it IS thar, or THAR
ABOUTSn
Then, of course, all of us have heard the
anecdote which has been localized by every
Southern State. In Georgia, it was "laid on
Turner Clanton and one of the Lamkins, of
old Columbia county. The one bet the other
that he (the other) couldn't recite the Lords
Prayer, and the other reeled off,
''Now | lay me down to Sleep" etc. Where
upon, the one who offered the bet sighed a
deep sigh paid over the filthy, remarking,
"Well, had no idea that you could do it,"
Equally we'll known is the colored pastor
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-10
Claude L 'EmgIe for the United
States Senate

In Florida, this gallant gentleman made
fight against marauding corporations similar
to that which we have made in Georgia. His
paper, The sam, was one of the best weelzlies
ever published. But the Flagler-L Lumber
Trust Naval Stores power was too great for
one editor to break, and The Sun went down.
But L'Engle had done some fine work for
the people, one of his victories being that
splendid elections-law which he framed and
which the Legislature passed.
Claude L'Engle is in the prime of life,
lusty and strong, physically and mentally.
He's straight, clean man, of very decided
ability. His heart is in the right place, and
his convictions are those of Jefersonian
Democrat
[ certainly wish him success.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-10
Woe Unto You, Christians of
Nashville!

Last summer, there was convention of
Laymen in the capital city of the glorious
State of Tennessee. The purpose of said con-
vention was to do something more for the
heathen-not of America but of the outside
world.
DR.. Bradley, medical missionary to China,
addressed the convention, told of the won
drous chances to win souls for Christ by Civ
ing pills and poultices to the Chinks; and
asked for $4,000 to build a new hospital in
China.
In three shakes of sleeps tail, the money
was subscribed. You can get amy amount of
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-10
bbe 5efferson,an

the filthy, at a,ay time and onyaohege in this
country, if you'll just say ''HEATHEV''I
The word has talismanic power. 1t hypno-
ties the old and the young, the rich and the
poor. It enraptures the country and fasci-
mates the town. 1t gets hold of Brother
Tightwad and makes his pocketbook turn
wrong side-outward. 1t seizes stingy old
woman, and she plants a missionary cotton
patch, or sets apart certain number of her
hens to lay missionary eggs. 1t makes few
passes before the eyes of sane man, and in
pair of minutes he's as wild as a buck, and
ready to tramp on" any friend of his who
is not equally daft about the heather.
Coming back to Nashville every cent of
that $4,000 could have been used to the very
best purpose among the sick and the destitute
of that one city. For few months before
the convention met, the Mayor of Nashville
had gone around in the poorer quarters of
Nashville, to find out what conditions were;
and what he discovered appalled, him.
Mayor House was driven to several cottages
where the struggle has been FIERCE to keep the
WOLF FROM THE DOOR! He found conditions
TRULY DEPLORABLE, and immediate succor is
necessary to prevent some of the families from
STARVATION!
In one house, said the Mayor, L found an
old with hardly sufficient fire to keep him
from freezing and with NOTHING IN THE
HOUSE TO EAT and NO medicine He had been
sick eight weeks.
AT another place l found a with
little baby seated the floor quilt. There
a handful of fire in the CRATE and with the
exception of bed and sheet and pillow slip
there was nothing else in the room.
AT another place there woman who
had three children. They almost without
sufficient clothing to keep them from freezing,
and are minus the necessities of life.
This is no exceptionable case. Nashville is
no worse than any other city. You can find
just such conditions in Atlanta, in Montgom-
cry, in Memphis in St. Louis, in Kansas
City, in Richmond, in Louisville, in Balti-
more.
I read Of one fearful case, aOhere the star0-
ing aoretch eapi"ed on the steps of one of the
fine churches of st. L0uis.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-03-10

fMS NJ. Sims
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE NINE)
books, pamphlets and partisan literature
acAoz1y disconnected from Congressional
oceed5ngs-fooding the mails, free of
charge; and piling up profits for the rail
roads, to the injury of the people
Which brings me, at length, to my text,
THETUS ". SINS.
To be honest with you, and to keep nothing
back, his entire name is Thetus lVattrette
Sims.
And what has he done? Thetus Willrette
has been in Congress some twelve or four
teen years; and all that | can tell you about
him is that he likes the job and wants more
of it,
My business makes it necessary for me to
keep fairly well posted as to public men and
measures. You can see that, for yourself.
Well, I give you my word of honor that
among all the public men in the whole nation
al menagerie, Thetus Willrette Sims has new
err bulked on the horizon before now
But he is in the limelight, at last. 1t took
him long time to get here, but he's here. 1t
may not be so in your State, but in Georgia.
we are just simply overfowed by Thetus
Willrette BY every mail he reaches u.s. We
have him for breakfast, and then for dinner
anu Illell 1O1 ouPP0A' 11N0Ay oA0000A OoIA
gresham who wants to go again, and a0h0
can't gice 0roy good reason aChy he should, is
inundating his district with a speech said to
have been made by Thetus Willrette Sims.
The subject of said speech is "z'HE IN
FLUENCE or LONG SERVICE ~ CON-
GRESS''.
While the title of the pamphlet is, "Speech
of Thetus W. Sims, find on closer inspec-
ton that Thetus spoke only foe lines, and
that the balance of the whole business-7fOe
pages-is by q newspaper man, named II. j.
Groves!
Now, what do you think of THAT?
Don't you think that Edwards, Hardwick,
and so on, are mighty hard run for an argu-
ment, arhen they hare to borr0v Mmder
from a newspapers correspondent?
If these Democrats who have been in office,
term after term, can't be reelected on their
oacn merits, they had better retire.
1t is certainly not to their credit to be ask
ing for reelection on the strength of a Re
publican argument.
Let each candidate for reelection show
what he has done for the country. These
Representatives are now costing you, in all,
at least tacenty thousand dollars for every
Congressional term. Require them to make a
showing of h0ac they have earned the money.
If they cannot do it, try new man. AS
to Thetus Willrette SIMS if he can't do any
better when he does emerge from obscurity,
than, to make a speech out of somebody else's
letter, he'd better quit. The idea of stlch
man costing the taxpayers about $4,000
term
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-02-02

solved them by a rough and ready rule
of thumb. He built structures which
would have furnished a winters dis
cussion to some committees, just as
the loggers had built through a rough
country hundreds Of miles of road
better than railroad grade and smooth
as turnpike, the quarter Of which
would have occupied the average coun-
ty board of supervisors for five years.
The drive was to be delivered at the
booms Of Morrison and Daily above the
city Of Redding, a thriving place of
about 10000 inhabitants situated on
long rapids forty miles from Lake
Michigan.
The last camp was made six or eight
miles above the mill. A good proper
ton of the riyermen, eager for the
town, tramped down the road, to re-
turn early in the. morning more or less
drunk. One or two did not return.
Among tue jewellers was the cook,
Charlie, commonly called '.the DOCTOR"
and he moped about disconsolately. In
the evening he looked so much like a
chicken with the pip that Orde's at
tention was attracted.
sGot that dark brown taste, Charlie?"
he inquired, with mock solicitude.
Il tell you | only had two glasses Of
beer!'' cried Charlie, goaded.
'"Then why this joyless demeanor?"
begged Orde.
Charlie grumbled iercely inarticu-
late, but Johnny Challan interposed
with chuckle of enjoyment.
''He got sbunked.'"
"Iell us!' cried Orde delightedly.
ct was down at McNeilIs place.
explained Johnny Challan. "They was
a couple Of sports there who throwed
out three cards back up on the table
and bet YOU couldn't nick the lack
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-02-02

Reed qUheelcd, has thumb on the hammer,
waving a frantic dish towel at him.
Nothing could induce the cook to at
tempt the logs.
"What is it. Charlie?" asked Orde,
1eaping ashore and stamping the loose
water from his boots.
"It's all off," confided the cook pes
simistically. cts no good. He's stop
ped US now"
"What's off? Who's stopped whatY'
'Reed. He's druv the men from the
dam with shotgun. We might as
well quit"
Shotgun, heyw exclaimed Orde
swell, the old son of a gun!' He
thought a moment, his lips puckered
as though to whistle; then, as usual,
he laughed amusedly. Lets go take
a look at the army" said he.
He swung away at q round pace,
followed rather breathlessly by the
cook.
Orde found the center Of the dam
was occupied by Reed, his plug hat
fuzzier than ever, his coattails and
loose trousers tapping at his every
movement. Over his shoulder he car
ried long percussion lock shotgun.
Perched along the bank sat the river
men, watching III / in silence.
whats the ma ter| inquired Orde,
approaching.
IF the law don't protect me I'll pro-
tect myself" Reed proclaimed. 81
give ye fair warming"
"But surely" said Orde, 1--WE have a
right to run our logs through. It's an
open river
'And hev ye ,een runnin your logs
through z. cried the old man excitedly.
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ANE more to interest in affairs
w W the morning was well spent.
On the river the work was
going forward with the precision of
clockWork.
Orde discovered about noon that the
jam crew was having it's troubles I'm
mediately below Reeds dam ran a
long chute strewn with bowlders
which was alternately a shallow or a
stretch of white water according as
the stream rose or fell. Ordinarily
the logs were flushed over this decliv-
ity by opening the gate, behind which
a head Of water had been Accumulate
ed. Now, however, the efficiency Of
the gate had been destroyed.
II wonder if we can't drop that gate
way down to get something for a
head" said Orde to the foreman
The two men examined the chute
and the sluice gate attentively for some
time.
eff we could clear out the splinters
and rubbish we might spike couple
Of saplings on each side for the gate
" S11uC uO" Ii lHIC, IL.
The logs were held up in the pond.
and a crew of men set to work to cut
away the splintered ends of the old
sill and apron. The current rendered
footing impossible, so all the work had
to be done from above. Wet wood
gripped the long saws viselike, so that
a mans utmost strength could scarcely
bulge them. Nevertheless they held
to it. Orde, satisfied that they would
succeed, departed up river to the rear.
This crew he found working busily
among some overflowed woods. They
were herding the laggards Of the flock
The subsistence Of the water conse-
quent upon the opening Of the sluice
gate had left stranded and in shall
lows many hundreds of the logs. From
the advantage of deadwood, stumps or
other logs the "sackers" pushed the
unwieldly timbers forward, leaping,
splashing, heaving, showing, until at
last the steady current of the main
river seized the logs and bore them
away With marvellous skill they top
ped the dripping, bobby, rolling tim
bers, treading them over and over,
back and forth, in unconscious preser-
walton of equilibrium.
Hardly had Orde the opportunity to
look about at the progress making,
however, before he heard his name
shouted from the bank Looking up,
to his surprise he saw the solemn cook
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-02-02

tract to handle 9 lot OF drunken river
hogs as well as go against a game
The thirty men of the rear crew
signifed their intention to stay by the
procession
you can't make those sharps dis
gorge" counseled Newmark. sAt the
first look of trouble they will light
out. They have it all fixed. Force
won't do you much good and may get
some of you shot"
I'm not going to use force denied
Orde. s1'm just going to play their
game. But bet can make it CO.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-02-02


They showed you where the jack was
before they throwed, and it surely
looked like picnic, but it wasn't"
'Three card monte" said Newmark.
GLOW much?" asked Simms.
"About $780," replied the boy.
Orde turned on the disgruntled cook.
''And you had fifty in your turkey
camping with this outfit Of hard citi-
zens" he cried. "You ought to lose
it."
Johnny Challan was explaining to
his companions exactly how the game
was played. ..
At this point Newmark broke into
the discussion.
"Haye you a pack of cards?" he ask
ed in his dry, incisive manner
An old deck was produced.
Newmark cleared a cracker box of
drying socks and drew it to him.
'These three are the cards." he said.
speaking rapidly. ''There is the jack
Of hearts. pass my hands-so. Pick
the jack, one Of YOU" he challenged.
''Any Of you," he urged. 'You, North -
The foreman leaned forward and
rather hesitatingly laid blunt fore
finger on one of the cards. 1t was the
ten Of spades LET me try,' inter
posed Tim Nolan. II bet / can pick
her."
ooh, yes, you bet!' shrugged New
mark. "And that's where the card
sharps get you fellows every time"
He deftly tipped the cards.
Nolan, who had watched keenly, in
dtcated one without hesitation. Again
it proved to be the ten Of spades.
Everybody was ambitious, and the
young man, with inexhaustible pa
tience threw out the cards, the cor
ners of his mouth twitching sardonic-
ally at each wrong guess. At length
he called a halt. 'By this time I'd
have had all your money! he pointed
out. "Now I'll pick the jack" He
made his swift passes and distributed
the cards. Then, quite calmly, without
disturbing the three on the cracker
box, he held up the jack of hearts.
An exclamation broke from the
group. Nolan leaned forward and turn
ed over the three on the board They
were the eight of diamonds and two
tens Of spades.
'"That's how the thing is worked"
announced Newmark s.Once in awhile
you'll run against straight game. but
not often'
'But you showed us the jack every
time before you throwed themW puz-
zled Johnny simms.
''Sleight Of hand" explained New
mark, "the simplest kind Of palming."
"Whered you get Oh to doing all
that, NeWmark 2" inquired North. ''You
amt a tin horn yourself?"
+ NeWmark laughed briefly. mot To-
said he. Il learned a lot of those
tricks from a travelling magician in
college"
Orde had sat well in the back.
ground, watching intently all that wax
going on. After the EXPLANATIONS fol.
lowing the exposure had subsidized, he
spoke.
Boys said he, chow game are you
to get Charles money back and then
someg'
'0Try u.s. returned big Tim.
"This games at McNeiIrs, and Nc
zNeill's is a tough hole warned Orde.
Maybe everything will go peaceful, !,
and maybe not And you boys that
go with me have got to keep sober.
There isn't going to be any row unless
.I.saZ so. and I'm not taking any. con
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S

ScOW ABOUT twenty IeeL long
by ten wide It was very solidly con-
structed of hewn timbers, square at
both ends, was inconceivably clumsy
and weighed an unbelievable number
Of pounds. When loaded, it carried all
the bed rolls, tents, provisions, cooking
utensils, tools and chest of tobacco,
clothes and other minor supplies. It
was managed by Charlie and his two
cookies by means of pike poles and
long sweep at either end.
The packing began before the men
had finished breakfast. Shortly after
daylight the wanigan, pushed strongly
from shore by the pike poles, was drift.
| ing toward the chute. The heavy scow
i threatened to turn side on, and the
sweeps at either end churned the wa
ter frantically in an endeavor to
straighten her out
| AS NeWmark looked at the smooth
rim of the water sucking into the
chute he began to wonder why he had
come. The noble ship was pointed
| right at last and caught the faster wa
| ter head on.
Cali rightv' Charlie shouted.
| Zeke and his mate took in the oars.
| The Wanigan shot forward below the
gate.
Whack, bump, bang, and the scow
stopped SO suddenly that it's four men
plunged forward in miscellaneous
heap. The water, backed up behind
the stern, began to overflow into the
boat. Newmark saw that the scow
had run her bow on an obstruction
and had been brought to a standstill
square beneath the sluice gate. The
water was beginning to flow the entire
length of the boat Various lighter ar
ticles shot past him and disappeared
over the side.
Newmark had an inspiration. The
more important matters, such as the
mems clothes bags, the rolls of bed
ding and the heavier supplies Of pro-
visions, had not yet cut loose from
long oars, thrust the blade under the
edge of thwart astern, laid the shaft
of the oar across the cargo and by
resting his weight on the handle at
tempted to bring it down to bind the
contents Of the wanigan to their
places. The cookies came to his as
sistance. Together they succeeded in
bending the long hickory sweep far
enough to catch its handle end under
another forward thwart The second
oar was quickly locked alongside the
first, and not moment too soon. A
rush of water forced them all to cling
for their lives.
Two or three rivermen appeared al
| the edge of the chute. A moment later
! old man Reed ran up, carrying a rope
This, after some difficulty, was made
| fast to the bow of the wanigan. A
| short rope from the top Of the dam
| allowed the boat to be lifted free OF
the obstruction; a cable astern pre-
vented the current from throwing he1
| broadside to the rush Of waters; an.
other cable from the bow led her in
the way she should go. Ten minutes
later she was pulled ashore out Of the
eddy below, very much waterlogged
and manned by drenched and dis.
gruntled crew.
"'Bout two ton of water in them
bed rolls and turkeys grumbled
Charlie.
In a couple of hours run the wani-
gan had overtaken and left far behind
the rear of the drive.
| ri; OF c>t
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-02-02

b e t t er m a k e
camp. Well be
down in the jam
pretty soon."
"W ell, " said
Ord e to New
m a T k la t er
around the camp
. fire, chow does
river d r i v in g
strike you 2"
"It is extreme
~ interesting, y
re phi e d New
mark.
Like to join
the Wanigan crew
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1910-02-02

n
ing strike You?" 49, :,
returned Newmark dryly.
SWELL stay with US as long as you're
having a good time" invited Orde
heartily.
'"Thank you, NeWmark acknowl-
edged this, 81 believe I WILL
'That old mossback Reed was right
on deck with his rope" remarked john
ny Simms ''That was pretty decent
Of him.
cold skunk growled North. HE
lost us two days with his nonsense
'Oh, he's a poor old devil" replied
Orde easily. chats the way the
Lord made him. He can't help how
he's made.'