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The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05
ZOE REPREsENTArIvE.

To the Democratic Voters of Putnam
County:
preaching primary for the office of
Representative IN the Legislature,
for which office respectfully solicit
your support. In the event of my
election as one OF your Representa-
tives / will strive earnestly to serve
your interests and those of the State
Of Florida intelligently, faithfully
and In harmony with Democratic
ideals. w. A. RUSSELL.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05
Political Announcement.
FnR THE SENATE.

FUN THE SENAIEs
To the Democratic Voters of Putnam
County, Florida:
j hereby respectfully announce
myself as candidate for the State
Senate from Putnam County, sub
ject TO the action OF the Democratic
Primary soon to be called i'm this
County. If you think have been
faithful In the few things entrusted
TO me as a member of the House OF
Representatives, shall be pleased
to have your support.
Respectfully,
s. j. HILBURN.
= Palatka, Fla, Feb. 10, 1910.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05
FOR COUNTY TREASURER.

To the Democratic Voters of Putnam
County:
lam now serving my first term as
your County Treasurer, an Office
which l hold by your suffrage and
for the honor of which 1 have al
ways felt particularly grateful to
you. 1t Is a trust / shall be able to
return to you unimpaired at the end
OF my term, and one that, with your
approval, i should again like To as
sumo. i therefore take this oppOr-
tunity to say that will again be a
candidate In the coming primary
and respectfully ask your support.
j. T.. EDMONsON.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05
FoR REPREsENTATIyE.

To the Democratic Voters of Put
nam County:
/ hereby announce my candidacy
for Representative OF Putnam Coun-
~ I'm the approaching primary, and
would appreciate the support OF my
friends and fellOw-citlze
Very Respectfully,
w. s. MIDDLETON.
Pomona, Fla.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05
ZOE TAx oOLLEoT0R.

To the Democratic Voters OF Putnam
County:
j hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the Office OF Tax Col
lect0r OF Putnam County. ~ my
service, since appointed, has been
satisfactory, i VIII appreciate your
support IA the approaching Primary.
Respectfully, ~. y. HANCOCK.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

At the solicitation Of many friends,
/ hereby announce myself as a can
didate 20 represent District No. 3 on
the Board of County Commissioners.
/ have endeavOred TO serve my dis
trict and county TO the very best OF
my ability, and L hope that / have
merited reelection. Thanking one
and all for past support, and with
assurances Of sincere appreciation Of
the same, / am Very respectfully,
B. Il. SoLANA.
San Mateo, Fla.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05

Auto parties are an everyday oc-
currehce here now. Not day has
passed since the opening of the
bridge but what several machines
have been over here from Palatka.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05

Mr.. and Mrs. McLain who have
spent the winter in San Mateo left
Friday for their home in Granville,
Ohio.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05

l.. A. Derby left yesterday for
Washington, ID. e., where he will be
joined by his wife and they will
shortly return to their home in Low
ell, Mass.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
TAX DEED.


Notice is hereby given that j. w.
Hill purchaser Of One-half of Tax
Certificate No. 1897 dated LIST day of
June, A. d.. 1896, has filed said frac-
tional Certificate In my office, and
has made application for Tax Deed
10 issue I'm accordance with law.
Said Certificate embraces the follow
ing described property, situated In
Putnam County, Florida, tO-wit:
All Block 4-BOstwick.
The said land being assessed at
the date Of issuance of such certif-
icate In the name OF Parker d Cara
way.
Unless said certificate shall be re-
deemed according to law, tax deed
will issue thereon on the 7th day OF
March, A. D., 1910.
Witness my official signature and
seal this 9th day of February,
A. d., 1910.
HENRY HUTCHINSON,
lSeakl Clerk Circuit Court,
Putnam County, Florida.
By III. Hutchinson, Jr., ID. g.
fe6
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05

Mrs. Sternburg and Mrs. Allen
who have been guests at Byrlyn for
several weeks left today. They will
spend a week In st. Augustine en-
route TO theifheme In GlOversville,
Ny.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05

Quite party Of Palatka young
people were over last evening to at
tend the dance ut the school house.
All reported a pleasant time.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05

Mrs. f. G. Budd, of Jacksonville,
and Mrs. Marshall, Of Poughkeepsie,
n. Y, were guests of Mrs. j. ID. Gray
a few days this week.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05

+. j. Fearnside and family, of Pa
latka With invited guests have been
over several times this week with
their auto enjoying our good shell
roads.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05
Notice to Contractors.
Office of the Board of Trustees
for County Bonds. Putnam Co.
PALATKA, FLA, Feb. o, 1910.

1OI OOunby DOnub. Gutndln 20.
PALATKA, FLA, Feb. o, 1910.
The Board Of Trustees for Putnam
County Bonds will receive separate
sealed bids for the construction of
hard surfaced roads, over the routes
indicated below, until Saturday
March B, 1910, and OH that day at III
a. M, will publicly open same at the
office OF the Board, No. 7z2 Water
ST., Paiatka, Fla.
The roads contemplated In the
above are:
l-Palatka, Fla, to Bostwick, Fla,
Ia miles.
2-Francis, Fla, TO Keuka, Fla,
l2-miles.
3-San Mateo, Fla, 10 and includ-
ing both approaches TO Dunn's Greek
Bridges miles.
Prospective bidders will obtain all
plans and specifications OF the
work contemplated upon application
TO II. II. Ensey, County Engineer,
Palatka. Fla, and their bids proper
ly sealed and inscribed may be left
at the office Of the Board until the
date and time specified.
=. WORDEN,
Clerk OF the Board,
722 Water 81, Paiatka, Fla.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05

u. 3. Senator J. r. Taliaferro Is
candidate for reelection. He de-
serves the consideration due a faith
iol servant Of che people.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05

Miss June Brown is spending the
week end at Pomona with her friead
Miss Faith Leonard.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05

Mrs. A. II. Gibbs, of Kankakee,
Ills, spent few days this week with
Mrs. J. A. Crosby.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1910-03-05
News Of the Week /;

Rev. and Mrs. Lemley will spend
the coming week in st. Augustine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
The Dancing Soldier.

From the New York Times.
OF course every soldier should dance.
and the kaiser has done we'll to put all
the dancing at his court balls in charge
of officers of his bodyguard. Soldiers
should be good dancers. The kaiser
authorizes his officers to open all the
dances and supervise the other dancers
The civilian boor who treads on his part
ner's toes will be exterminated. This
does not necessarily mean that the
reverse will be speedily introduced in
German Waiting. We must not expect
too much. One may waltz we'll I'm Ger
many without reversing. The kaiser S
new order is not, of itself, revolutionary,
but 1t suggests that German military Of
ticers have been neglecting their dancing.
There are too many bored lookers-on at
the dance in civil life. Every man who
hopes for any social distinction should
dance we'll. Dancing is not going out Of
fashion. Society has no more pleasurable
or profitable diversion. Conversation
went out entirely more than a half CEN
fury ago. Argument is heard sometimes,
and anecdote frequently, but neither suf-
fees for the graceful and witty inter-
change of ideas. The waltz, of it's later
equivalents. remains, and the cotillon
survives, and there is still some grace
full dancing in generally graceless and
rapid age. The dance should be revived,
not suppressed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
LIVELY LATIN-AMERICA.
Sister Republics Perform Many En-
terprising Stunts.

Somebody has said that Chile will go
on making money out of her nitrate
fields till some nearsighted German sew
eral thousand miles away discovers how
to make nitrates out of air.
4 syndicate of certain members of that
always painstaking and ingenious race is
approaching this discovery by preparing
10 make commercial fertilizer out of the
Iocusts of the Argentine republic. 1t is
said that locusts contain about IA per
cent of nitrogen, and there are no end
Of them in the Argentine.
Echoes of business come up from most
of the South American cities. Buenos
Aires is building another fine new ave-
nue.. to be known as the Avenida Cen
tenario, In honor of the city's one hun
dredth anniversary.
The Bonaerenses are also to have fifteen
more hospital ambulances, SO pleased
were they with those recently sent down
from the United States. Valparaiso.
struggling to repair the destruction OF
the earthquake three years ago, has
placed a loan of 100000 to carry on
the work.
Pernambuco, which has always been
without a harbor, has begun the con-
struction OF new port works to cost over
Sl6OoD,O9. Lima reports that the Chinese
who have been fiocking there of late as
they used TO flock to California, have
gone into the shoemaking business and
set up more than twenty cobbler shops
near the central market.
If Mr.. Zelayas country quiets down
within month, Nicaragua will celebrate
the :}U0th anniversary of the founding Of
Leon, west coast city. with an exposi-
ton In January. 1910. Prizes are prom
ised for all sorts of things, including
idols, vases, urns and other examples OF
what the Nicaraguans cab the retro
Spective arts"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
Opening Up Central Oregon.

From Putnam e.
The story Of the coming Of the rail-
roads to the western lands and or the
prosperity that followed in their train
has been rehearsed so often that new
chapter must be indeed brilliant to claim
attention. Such a one Is furnished oy
the Forthcoming railroad development or
central Oregon. Primarily, this Is the
heart of the largest teri TORY In the ohi'ed
States without a railroad. Within the
actual state boundaries are some 6O,UO
square miles entirely devoid OF trans
portation facilities. Taking into con-
sideration northern California, Nevada
and southwest Idaho. the 'railroadless
land reaches the astounding total of 3d.
600, 900 acres. Think OF an area the size
Of New England, and the equal Of New
England in natural resources, practically
isolated from the world OF commerce. and
this in the most progressive region In the
far west! Let the man who says AL
the cheap land is gone" and him who
complains that the west is crowded"
consider that in one central Oregon
county alone q million and half acres
of free government land await the com
ing of the home-makers. And be II
known that this huge and almost un-
touched empire is no barren waste, but
land Of opportunity. Within its
boundaries are to be found the finest
belt of pine timber left in the west,
river unequaled for its enormous and
inexpensive water power possibilities,
hundreds Of thousands of acres OF viz
gin wheat land. several great irrisAc
ton projects, and virtually unlimited
AGRICULTURAL. cattle, sheep and dairyinR
opportunities. One may well wonder how
it has come to pass that this vast EN-
pire has been left a dormant oasis. sur
rounded by rapidly developing regions
where transportation is not unknown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
MAN TALK" Is BANISHED.
Back to Boredom Before Advance
Of Woman's Wit.

From the New York Evening SUM-
Women are vastly pleased with them
selves these days. The reason IL that
they have thrown of one Of their old adj
vibrations. There is nothing for making
one lighthearted like learning that a
thing which you have painfully respected
for years is after all a simple matter and
one quite within your capabilities. The
bugaboo they have ousted from their
shoulders is man talk. It is not even A
matter Of languid interest. They have
reduced It to a yawning affair by the
clever means of making woman talk SO
brilliant as to cast all else into a bury
ing gloom. Man talk may be intelligent.
we hope it is; far be it from us to con-
denim any one to boredom, but woman
talk (and here we refrain with the great
est difficulty from a long drawn crow OF
talk Is so dazzling that
the participators are obliged to stop every
few minutes and, shaking each other
by the hand, exclaim, by heck. this is
scintillating." Dinners, say Of eight, with
nothing but women present, are exhaust
ing affairs. the standard Is SO high. Large
subjects fearlessly attacked, old friends
pitilessly downed. Good nature, humor,
facts, lit up by the fash Of summer light
hit made. We really do not know how
we do It No one is more surprised than
We After such an occasion we scatter
in couples breathlessly. reviewing the
conversation. With dilated eyes, and awe
in our voices. we exclaim, How did we
ever become so clever" The soundness
of our arguments passes our understand
ing. We discuss rong stimulants and
remain sober. we call great names to our
aid and dismiss them when We no longer
need them. We. we'll. to put It mildly,
we fabbergast ourselves, and for this
reason we refrain from talking In the
same strain when men are present. There
is no use in keeling them over all at
once. We will merely take this oppor-
tunity to tell them how remarkable
thing woman talk is, and when they nave
digested the rumor we will let them hear
the thing from which it sprang. At pres
emf we are not sure of their ability TO
discuss things with the high calm wnicn
we have attained. They have always
seemed to us a little biased: little, as
If were, timid in the face OF truth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
ANDREW JACKSON DAVIS.
| Remarkable and Long Famous
Seer and Spiritualist.
the Spripgfeld Republican.

From the Springfield Republican.
Andrew Jackson Davis, beginning MS
life as an illterate youth OF nineteen WHO
dwelt in frances, spoke and reao la'i-
guases Of which he was totally ignorant
and clairvoyantly visited regions on eai. III
and in other spheres, has closed II III
WATERFOWL at his summer nome as
reputable though peculiar practitioner Oh
medicine-which he did not study until ne
was more than sixty years DID, ana theh
graduated from full course of study at
the New York Medical College. He was
a farmers boy. but was shoemaker
apprentice, when in 1s43 his extraoro1-
nary clairvoyant powers were discovered
and developed by William Livingston, a
travelling expositor of mesmerism
His trance utterances were lar beyond
any ability of the mesmerist to inspire,
and they covered not only the strange
gift of tongues which he manifested: ana
he never became commonplace, Whiie ne
dealt with the diagnosis OF diseases ana
dictated medical prescriptions IN Ihe
magnetic sleep which were apparently
as effectual as those of educated prac-
titioners. But this sort OF work ceaseu 10
be his; after 1874 (March y he Tell into
a trance in which he met and conVersed
with spirits and began his large dls-
courses on all concerns of human me-
present and future, and when ms frln-
ciples of Nature; Her Divine Revelations"
appeared in 1915 he was recognized as the
highest product of the then new Spirit
ualist movement, teaching from the In
terror state" as Swedenborg had done.
He was never concerned in table tip
ping, raps and the other phenomena OF
mediumship, which he declared to belong
to the infancy Of spirit communication.
He lived in an atmosphere of the fur
Their world. He wrote a great many
books of things human. divine and in the
mid-region of life in the borders of the
| worlds; in fact, he was the first philoso-
pher Of Spirtualism. His books are OF
mixed merit. but there is no denying that
they abound in an interest more than cas-
ual, though no doubt SO largely forgot
| ten that his name is strange to the pres
ent and even the next preceding genera
ton. Few can now remember to have
read his big work. THE Great Har-
| monia. in four volumes, or even his
most entertaining and worthy book 1.-The
Magic Staff 1t is not worth while to
record the titles of voluminous output.
| but whatever one may think of his
claims to a spiritual experience and au-
| thority, these many writings abound in
matter of psychologist and sociologic IN
| tereSt.
| Davis in his prime. forty years ago, had
! a personality of remarkable effect. He
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
OLD BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.
Sheets of Horn Protected the Pages
From Dirty Fingers.

+ rom the queen
The earliest English book for children
was The Babies Book, or a Lyttle Re
port of How Young People Should Be
have" TIE horn books existed in Eliza
beth's reign. The writing was covered
with a sheet of horn in order to protect
the lettering from contact with dirty
fingers.
The chap books contained most Of the
familiar nursery rhymes and stories
which have appertained to nursery lore
for generations. They exhibit very crude
woodcuts, often daubed with inappro-
pirate color. and the commonest paper
as a rule was used. They were hawked
about by the chapmen or peddlers and
cost only few pence apiece.
They served to perpetuate such familiar
ditties as Sing a Sing of Sixpence,"
which dates from the sixteenth century;
Three Blind Mice in use. with music.
in 1863: The Frog and the Mouse" in
existence in 1850, and Girls and Boys
Come Out to Play which was sung by
the villagers in the time of Charles IL;
than the seventeenth century, and last
hut not least, Lucy Locket,' the tune
from which originated Yankee Doodle -
y few of what were called ''battledore
hooks" have been handed down to us.
They were three-leayed cards which were
folded up into oblong pocket-shaped
volumes. These taught reading and nu-
merals in the dame schools in town and
country. The little gilt books, as they
were called, adorned on the outside with
gilt Dutch paper-colored flowers, were
much priced gift books of that period.
Children were employed coloring such
picture books by hand, one child doing all
the red in the series of illustrations, an
other all the blue, and on. OF course,
they gained precision by repetition, but
we very often find the tints overlapping,
as if carried out by an inexperienced
hand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
A JOHN ADAMS LETTER.
About Politics of His Day and Was
Sold Recently.
From the New York Times.

From the New 1Ork Times.
An interesting letter of John Adams.
written nine years before he died and
while he was living in retirement at
Quincy, Mass, sold for $3.50 in Phila-
delphia the other day. The letter is dated
Montezillo, January II, 1917 In part it
is as follows:
"Montezillo in the Spanish language
means "a little hill Neither
Montezillo nor Monticello deserves many
Of your thoughts: but the Italian repub-
lies, like the Grecian. deserve your seri-
Gus attention. There is not city in
Italy that has not its historian. All In
the same strain; eternal squabbles be-
of madiatorial balance between them.
We are SO much disposed
to such dispute. quarrels and civil com
motions that I wonder our orthodox FED
eralists have not accused JEFFERSON OF
idolatry In reviving the worship Of the
host OF heaven on the high places Of his
lofty mountain. Nothing but Ignorance
and want Of wit has prevented them
charged with the worship of the sun:
for it is the very contrast, the vey an
tithesis of Monticello. the lofty noun
tain-vive la bagatelle. II l should live
thirty or forty years longer. become as
opulent as Pliny, the younger. and can
acquire a style MULE dulcior like his.
will write you a description Of my villa
and Monticello Editors and
scribblers intermeddle very impertinently
in arranging a cabinet for the President
Judgment without regard to their title
tattle.''
In the same sale were two letters of
John Quincy Adams, written during his
presidency. In one, dated September 90
1897. he refers to the death of George
CANNING, the British statesman, which
took place August ssos. Of that t. same year
has buried in my bosom all the feelings
of resentment which eI, his conduct toward
The other letter. which sold for $50, is
dated August o. 1928. In it Adams says;
conouering republic. The military char
acter and military. renown were there
fore in the highest estimation from the
foundation of the city until the age of
Cicero. She had. before him. hosts of
heroes, few statesmen. and no phi!oso-
pliers. But the superiority of the states
man over warrior was never more sig
nally manifested than in his person when
compared with julius Caesar"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
METHODS OF PROLONGING LIFE
Plans Hitherto Proposed for Improving and tx
tending Human Existence.
- No. 21-"The Philosophy of Eating.

A j. Bellows
horses
developed beauty
furnish little milk
Our bees must
live and
The
and on o
that they
mik
of
phosphes
be
o.
activity seeds and the flesh active ed are
thirty OF
of
in
aten two monthS O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23

From the New York WOrld.
Lord Rothschild, in a Liverpool address
touching on the improved business con-
ditions in this country. declared that
when the diamond trade is brisk there
is no unemployment in America. That
being the case, in the light of the in
crease of diamond importations in De-
cember, 1909, to an amount s2.750000 in
excess Of the imports for the correspond
ing period in 1907. labor must now be
everywhere at work. If there are any
men out of a job and any company of
unemployed on the Bowery or elsewhere.
the fault is with the human factor, not
with the theory.
Accepting this astute observation of the
English financier as authoritative, econ
omists have reason to he grateful to him
for providing new barometer Of pros
perity. Steel and wheat have served
that use, but henceforth, instead of es-
Inmates of the visible supply of grain or
cotton, statisticians will take note of the
visible display of diamonds and include
them In the comparisons Of commodity
prices. Empty jewel boxes will rank
with empty cars as indexes of lack Of
prosperity.
The remedy for business depression is
a simple one, though, as with the recipe
for cooking the hare. 1t is necessary first
to obtain the diamonds.