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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
THE BATTLE AT RENO.

Said one gentleman TO another the
other day:
II must go home and get my glasses;
my eyes are giving me lots OF trouble
lately. Why, couldn't tell you whether
that man pointing TO man standing
some 10 yards away is white man or a
niger"
That's nothing" responded his com
panion, 'I've just been talking with him
and am in doubt myself. He has the
blood of the Caucasian, but the princi-
pies of the niger"
So it was with the white pug who en-
gagged in pugilistic encounter with the
niger, Johnson, at Reno last Monday.
Morally speaking, these contestants
entered the arena with the same com
plexion.
The contest was not one over which
there is dispute among the white peo-
pie best acquainted with the negro.
By common consent they yield the
palm 10 the negro in all matters of brute
force and moral degeneracy.
1t is only on rare occasions like the
one at Reno that some fool pug with
white skin and the moral degeneracy OF
the negro has TO have these universally
conceded facts pounded into him.
From all accounts the job was salts
faclorily performed.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
Married at Florahome.

The home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cot,
tingham at Florahome was the scene Oh Oh
a quiet though beautiful wedding Sunday
at 4 p. M, when their sister, Miss KUN
Strickland, was united in marriage 10 MI.
Preston II. Lee of Miami. The young
bride was beautifully attired in white
while her travelling dress was brown
silk with hat and gloves TO match. The
couple were attended by Miss Pearl Pad
gett of Grandin and Mr.. Raleigh Lump
kin of Florahome. The ceremony was
performed by the pastor, Rev. Is. H.
Moseley. The bride is beautiful young
lady OF rare accomplishments and is
is prosperous young orange and truck
grower of Dade county. The young
couple boarded the north bound train
for White Springs and other points In
north Florida where they will visit rela-
tives and friends before leaving for their
home in Dade County.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
GIVING OUT.
The Struggle Discourages Many
a Citizen of PaIatka.

The Struggle DiScourages Many
a Citizen of Palatka.
Around all day with an aching back;
/. Can't rest at night;
Enough TO make any one give out "
Doan's Kidney Pills will give renewed
life.
They will cure the backache;
Cure every kidney i'll.
Here is convincing proof that this is
so:
Mrs. ]. ]. Chaplin, Starke, Fla, says:
"Doan's Kidney Pills did me great deal
of good. | suffered from kidney weak,
ness for long time. The kidney secre,
tons were unnatural and my back ached
almost constantly, making ii impossible
Tor me 10 assume position that was
comfortable. finally procured Doan s
Kidney Pills and began their use.
They soon removed the backache and
il was not long before the lameneSs and
soreness left The kidney secretions
are now more natural and am feeling
better in every way. You are at liberty
to publist this testimonial"
For sale by all dealers. Price SO cents
Fosi en- Nj burn Co, Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Uoan's-and
take no other.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
Why does Great Britain buy
its oatmeal of Us?

Certainly it seems like carrying
Goals to Newcastle to speak of export
ing oatmeal to Scotland and yet, every
year the Quaker Oats Company sends
hundreds of thousands of cases of
Quaker Oats to Great Britain and
Europe.
The reason is simple; while the
English and Scotch have for centuries
eaten oatmeal in quantities and with
regularity that has made them the
most rugged physically, and active
mentally of all people, the American
has been eating oatmeal and trying all
the time to improve the methods of
manufacture so that he might get that
desirable foreign trade.
How well he has succeeded would
be seen at glance at the export re-
ports on Quaker Oats. This brand is
without a rival; is packed in regular
packages, and in Theoretically sealed
tins for hot climates. 81
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
When immigrants Were Sold.
take no other

II Is pointed out by the London
Chronicle that. although the modern
immigrant to American ports may be
sold" in a way. he is never sold in
the same sense as were those emf
grants of the eighteenth century
whose fate one gathers from an al
vertisement in New York paper CT
TIA. The advertisement runs: "Serv-
ants just arrived from Scotland. to be
sold on board the Commerce, Captain
Ferguson. master, lying at the ferry
stairs. among which are number Of
weavers, taylors, blacksmiths. nailers
shoemakers. butchers. hatters and spin
sters fourteen TO thirty. five years Of
age. For terms apply to Henry White
or said master on board
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08

The Eustis Lake Region says: "Pa.
latka is iubilant over the fact that
United States Senator Frank Clark has
been successful in getting $50, 600 fed
eral building for Palatka. That city and
ST. Petersburg are the only two cities in
Florida to get the benefit of this omni-
bus public building bill" OF course
the Lake Region knows that Mr.. Clark
is not senator, but perhaps it thinks he
ought to be. The towns in Florida that
have no government buildings should
waste no time in envying such as have.
All they have got TO do to secure such
buildings is to grow TO federal building
size and their representatives will do the
rest. Many of them are making rapid
speed on the way.-Times-U Union,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
500 Reward 500,

The readers Of this paper will be pleased to
l arm that there is at least one dreaded disease
hat science has been able to cure in all its
! ges, and that is OatarTh Halls Catarrh
; re Is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con-
StiiutiOnal disease, requires a constitutional
tr atment. Halls CatRrrh Cure is taken in
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system, thereby des-
uoyinR the foundation of the disease, and Civ
n the patient strength by building up the
and assisting nature in doing Its
w. rk The proprietors have so much faith in its
sa atiVe powers that they offer One Hundred
10 lars for any case that II fails 70 cure. Send
or list OF testlmonials
2. J.OHENEY CO., Toledo, o
Tafs Esli'S Family Pills Ter constipation.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08

The esteemed Miami Metropolis
thinks the people of Palatka have cast
politics on low plane because they feel
kindly toward Congressman Frank Clark
for securing an appropriation of sou, 900
for erecting a public building in their
city, but it feels that the people OF ali
Florida will be heavily obligated 10 Sen
ator Fletcher if he succeeds in securing
the passage of bill introduced for the
purpose OF terminating the term of Joe
Lee, the negro who holds the office of
internal revenue collector at Jackson
Vile. Mr.. Clark's performance il seems
TO consider very sorry sort of affair,
while it seems 10 look on Mr.. Fletchcr's
move a very fine article of statesman
ship. Funny how our likes and dis
likes will sway our judgment, isn't it'
The Telegraph thinks both gentlemen
did well. We like both OF them
Bradford County Telegraph
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08

Chief Justice Melville w. Fuller OF
the U. S. Supreme Court, died at his
summer home, Sorrento, Maine, early
on the morning of July Fourth. He was
II years of age, and was appointed Chief
Justice by President Cleveland in 1888
His home was in Chicago, and he was a
delegate to the national democratic con-
ventions of 1864, 1872, 1876 and 1880.
His service of % years as Chief Justice
has only been exceeded by two-Chiei
Justice Marshall presided over the court
for "a years and Chief Justice fancy for
% years.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
PLEASE DON'T.

Before the anti,prohibition papers get
fully warmed up on the subject, the Her
aid begs TO respectfully address TO them
two earnest "Please Dont'S," viz:
Please don't insult human intelligence
any more by alleging that prohibition
does not prohibit; and
Please don't prate any more about the
restrictions which prohibition is charged
with placing upon personal liberty"
These two old things that are used as
arguments against prohibition are utterly
worn out and il makes sensible people
sick to hear them repeated.
Any man with grain of sense knows
that absolute prohibition is impossible,
and has been since God on Mount Sinai
gave the first prohibitory laws to Moses.
By those God.given laws, murder, theft
and other sins were emphatically pro-
hibited, but, Notwithstanding the fact
that human laws as we'll as the Deca-
logue prohibit murder and theft, those
crimes are daily perpetrated throughout
the United States. AS these laws do not
absolutely prevent crime, would any one
but an idiot or an anarchist advocate
their repeal? And yetit is just as logical
TO oppose the law against murder on the
ground that it is disregarded as il is 10
denounce the efforts TO prohibit the
liquor traffic for the reason that people
will sell and drink liquor in spite OF all
laws.
II we must not prohibit liquor selling
because people will sell it regardless of
laws 10 the contrary, then we should not
prohibit theft or murder, because men
will persist in stealing and committing
murder to the end OF time.
AS to personal liberty" only two
things need be said. First, as it is urged
in behalf of the man who is determined
to drink liquor, he should consider the
fact that prohibition seeks to stop the
selling rather than the drinking of liquor
In DeSoto county for example, in
which ii is unlawful to sell the stuff, no
man is prohibited from drinking all the
liquor he can get.
Secondly, if majority of the people
vote for prohibition they have the per
sonal liberty" to enforce it. In such
case, II would be arrant presumption for
the minority TO claim that their ideas of
personal liberty" should override and
defeat the declared wishes of the ma
iority In other words, the majority are
entitled 10 some personal liberty"
themselves.
Now, if our whiSkey friends will only
abandon these two nonsensical argu-
ments () and address themselves to the
real questions involved, the Herald will
give them real vote of thanks.
The only questions worth considering
are, first, will prohibition contribute to
public peace and morality, or to disor
der and vice? and, second, will it benefit
or injure the commercial interests of the
statel These questions and these only
are open for debate, and our whiskey
friends will greatly oblige US by con
filming themselves 10 the issue and not
seeking to lug in lot of irrelevant non
Sense.-Punta Gorda Herald.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
Breaking a Wishbone.

The divinin2 rod is a feature In all
early mythology. especially so among
the Hindus As the forkcd branch of
tree IL Indicated in various parts of
Europe. Asia and Africa where treas
ures were hidden or where water might
be readily found. From the fUrked
branch Of II tree 1t was but a step to
the fOrked clavicle of bird. and this
bone was soon invested with the power
of securing the qualification of the
wishes of those who In breaking It re
tanned the forked part. for II was the
fork that was possessed of mystic
power
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
The Mouths of Leaves.

The botanist. the real investigator
who has got down to making real ex-
plorations for himself. will talk to you
about the thousands OF minute sto-
mates on the surface of asleaf. These
invisible stomates are really the
mouths through which the leaves take
in carbonic acid They are most abuu-
dant on the upper surface of leaves.
Each is an oval opening guarded by u
pair Of lips which open and close ac-
cording 10 requirements. They vary
from less than 1000 10 more than 70.
900 to the square inch of leaf surface.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
RECIPE:
Notice to Contracto IS.

Sealed proposals will be received by
the undersigned clerk of the Board OF
County Commissioners for Putnam
County, Florida, at his office in the
court house, Pslatlla, up TO a. m, We'd
nesday, July 9th, 1910, and at 10 O'Clock
on the morning of that day will be pub
licly opened by the said board, for the
building of Judge stand in the circuit
court room of the new court house, a
grand and petit jury box, one witness
box, one bar rail, and one rail around
the courtroom stairway. Each bidder
will be expected to furnish his own
plans and specifications. The Board of
County Commissioners reserves the right
TO reject any or all bids. Information
concerning any further requirements
may be obtained on application 10
HENRY HUTCHINSON,
June 17-3t County Clerk.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08

Notice of Application for Tax Deed
Notice is hereby given that james Pad
sett, jr., purchaser of tax certificate No
49, datyd tie Isl d. of July, A ID. 1901
has filed said certificate in my office, and
has made application for tax deed to issue
in accordance with law. said certificat,
embraces the following described property
situated i'll Putnam county, r lUr.dH, tO-wit
81 of nw14 of swh of swl{, section 49, town
ship y S, range >, e.; acres.
The said land being assessed ut the date oil
The Issuance OF such certificate in the name
of VIM. Smith.
Unless said certificate shall be redeemed
according to law, tax deed will issue thereon
ON the nth day OF July, a, u. 1910.
witness my official signature and seal this
the ldth day OF June, x. D. 1910.
[Seall HENRY HUTCHINSON.
Clerk Circuit Court Putnam Co Fla.
BY Henry Hutchinson Jr. DC
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08

According to telegram from New
York the evening following the Reno
fight "reportS of race trouble gathered
from all parts of the country indi-
cate that eighteen are dead and over
three hundred have been badly injured
in fights over Jack Johnson's victory at
Reno yesterday. The trouble is not con
fined to the south but is scattered all
over the United States"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08

The prayers OF the righteous availeth
considerable. Out at Hutchinson, KanS.,
a Negro Holiness church held prayer
service during the Jeffries- Johnson fight
Monday afternoon, to pray for the sue
cess of Johnson. More than a thousand
negroes attended the service and the
fight was bulletined to the church by
rounds. The result was never for mo-
ment in doubt among these people.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08

The wages of sin as measured in coin
OF the realm seem most alluring. De.
spite his losing fight, it is stated that jim
Jeffries cleaned up total of $192, 900,
while Johnson netted $145.6 800. The
profit of the promoters will be above
$500, 900.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08

The Palatka News really has no OBJ
lection TO the Tallahassee True Demo
Graf reprinting its editorial matter, but
submits that ordinary professional cour-
tesy would suggest that this paper be
given proper credit.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
The Colt Widow.

Time-Saturday I'D y IN
Mrs. Il. Mashie AT the window look
ing out wistfu'ly. -,
Mr.. T. Mashe appears every det"n
of his costume suggesting a longing
for the links. His cap Is In his hano
and his clubs within Snntching as
lance. For the fraction of an Instant
he leans nonchalantly against the
doorway. .,
well. nv dear" he asks. "how shall
we spend our half holiday: snail we
motor or drive or walk: Because
rapidly. us Mrs f. AaShe is about TO
speak. IF You really don't care ABOUT
any of these things. have an engage.
ment to play golf NJ 2:30. by love- !
must be off nj oncr"-Smrt Set
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08
lmpertinsnee.

"Will you marry me?"
swell, this is the greatest surprise
ever hadr
Il know it Is. But you've got to have
your first proposal some day. no mat
ter how old you are Well"-Cleve-
land Leader.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08

DIR. Thomas Eclectric Oil is the
best remedy for that often fatal disease
Group Has been used with success
in our family for eight years. Mrs
l. Whiteacre, Buffalo, n Y.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-07-08

Fuddy There would he fewer IN
happy maSriageS IN the world II men
and women would try to lind out each
others disposition during courtshIp IN
stead ~ doing their best ~ deceive
on. another. buddy Yes gness there
would be. rs you say, teweI unhappy
marriages. 10 fact. there would be
fewer marriages of any kind. ! guess
Boston Transcript
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-25
TEN HEALTH COMMANDMENTS.

l. Thou shalt have no other food
than at meal time.
2. Thou shalt not make unto
thee any pies or put into pastry the
likeness of anything that is in the
heavens above or in the waters un-
der the earth. Thou shalt not fall
to eating it or trying to digest it,
For the dyspepsia will be visited
upon your children to the third and
fourth generations of them that eat
pie; and long life and vigor upon
those that live prudently and keep
the laws of health.
3. Remember thy bread to make
it well; for he will not be kept
dough.
T. Thou shalt not indulge sor-
row or borrow anxiety in vain.
3. Six days shalt thou wash and
keep thyself clean, and the seventh
thou shalt take a great bath, thou,
and thy son, and thy daughter, and
thy man-servant. and .maid-servant
and the stranger that is within thy
gates. For in six days man sweats
and gathers filth and bacteria enough
for disease; wherefrom the Lord has
blessed the bath-tub and hallowed
il.
6. Remember thy sitting-room
and bed-chamber to keep them ven
tilated, that thy days may be long
in the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee.
7. Thou shalt not eat hot bis
cult.
8. Thou shalt not eat thy meat
fried.
8. Thou shalt not swallow thy
food unchewed or highly spiced or
Just before hard work. or Just after
it.
10. Thou shalt not keep late
hours in thy neighbor's house. nor
with thy neighbor's wife, nor his
maid-seryant, nor his cards, nor his
glass. nor with anything that is thy
neighbors.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-25
SUIT FOR si2,5OO.
Doctor Richard Gibbons Sues For
Big Fee.

Big Fee.
To collect his fee for professional
services while in attendance on Will
liam F. Hallstead, formerly general
manager of the Lackawanna rail-
road, who died February 23, 1908,
DR.. r. II. Gibbons, of New York and
| Scranton, has started suit in the
! United States court at Scranton, Pa,
! against Col. l.. A. Watres and the
! Scranton Trust Company, executors
of the Hallstead estate. DR.. Glib
| bons claims that he made sixteen
! visits to MIR. Hallstead during his
illness and performed two opera
tions. He submitted bill of $12,-
! 800, which was charging at the rate
| of $7S1.11 a visit. The executors
| turned down the bill as being ex-
tortionate. f. e. Donnelly is attor-
ney for DR.. Gibbons.
Mr. Hallstead was taken i'll in
January, of an infection of a big
toe and gangerene set in. Other
troubles developed and in February.
DR.. Gibbons, lifelong friend of the
patient, was summoned here from
New York. DR.. Gibbons performed
an operation on the toe and later
performed a second operation to ar
rest the infection, he claims. In all
he made sixteen visits, he says, COM
ing from New York and returning
several times in the meantime Mr.
Hallstead died on Feb. 25.
His estate, which was valued at
.
in trust with Colonel Watres and ,-e
Scranton Trust company, of which
Mr.. Hallstead was a director, and
Mrs. Hallstead being named as ex-
ecutrix, under Mr.. Hallstead's will
Some months after the death of Mr.
Hallstead a bill charging $12,5OO,
was submitted to the executors by
DR.. Gibbons. The bill was ignored.
The executors filed a partial report
of the valuation of the estate, the
report including items representing
debts paid, but no mention appear
ed in the report of DR.. Gibbons bill.
For a year and a half negotia-
tions have been carried on by the
doctor in an effort to have the exc
cutors settle his bill, but no salts
factory adjustment could be reach
ed. AS the Pennsylvania statutory
limit of two years allowed for the
filing of the suit expired on Monday,
DR.. Gibbons has begun the action to
protect his rights in case further
negotiations for a settlement should
prove futile.
DR.. Gibbons fee of $7S1.11 a
visit was, he alleged, his arbitrary
fee, based upon his privilege of de-
clining to come here from New York,
as a specialist, to attend the patti
ent. Had he been a Scranton doctor
his fee, he alleged, might be con-
trolled to some extent by the fee
charged by other Scranton physi-
clans, but as he was summoned
from New York, it was right, he
contends, to charge any fee which
he considered his services worth.
The fee fixed upon is the highest
ever known in this part of the state.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-25

If you have received a kindness,
remember it. If you have done a
kind act, forget it. We know this
is contrary to custom, for every day
we hear some one Dragging how
much he or she has done for
Reighbor, and at the same time
bewailing the fact that the action
was not appreciated. A short time
ago we heard a man Dragging that
he had done a great deal for GER
tain woman in town. On being
asked what he had done, he replied
that he had let her do his family
washing. If the truth were known,
the fact would probably be proved
that she did it at a mighty low fig
ure.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-25
TOP PRUNING
OF TREES.

An apple orchard that was start
ed about the year 1870. in Allegheny
county, the trees in which were prac-
tically allowed to grow wild for the
past twenty-five years, is being
pruned this winter, considerable
portions of the tops being cut out
AS Prof. II. A. Surface, State Zoolo-
gist, Harrisburg, is acquainted with
the orchard, having visited it some
time ago, his opinion was recently
asked as to whether it would be
advisable to continue this topping
OF the limbs. The answer of Pro-
tessor Surface was to the following
effect:
distinctly remember your ap-
pie trees, and | believe that the plan
OF pruning out the tops. and also
cutting out the upper branches to
bring the heads down. is correct. |
know where it has given good re-
suits, and, consequently, believe
that the general plan can be car
ried out with success.
think, however, that in the
case of your apple trees, which are
standing in a pastured grass field,
some plant food would be advisable.
They should have potash and phos-
phoric acid. with little nitrogen
added. The potash can be given in
the form of wood-ashes or kainit or
muriate of potash; the phosphoric
acid in the form of dissolved phos-
phate rock commonly known a.
acid phosphate, or as ground bone;
and the nitrogen in the form of
dressing with stable manure, or with
cleanings from any stables or poul-
try houses, or in the form of nitrate
of soda, or dried blood, or tankage.
1t is my opinion that the best
results will come from the combin-
ed use of these four sources of nj
trogen. For your trees, a mulch
would be a good thing. This can
be in the form of strawy, stable
manure or rotting straw or leaves
with brush thrown over them, or,
by waiting until midsummer, when
bushes and brush are in full leaf.
when these can be cut and thrown
around the trees as far as the
branches extend, or a little farther.
and this will make a very efficient
mulch.
In our model orchard plan we
expect fully to outline the details
of mulching and cultivating in ref
erence to invigorating trees, so that
they can be better able to with
stand the effects of pests"