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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-02

Sunday school meets at 9:45 a. m.
Splendidly officered large classes
taught by competent teachers. We
offer you good opportunity to study
Gods word.
Preaching by pastor at II a. m.
and 1880 p. m.
Mid-week prayer meetings Wednes-
ady evenings 1880.
Strangers are invited to worship
with US during their stay in our city
and al are welcome.
P. QUINTIUs CASON, Pastor.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-02
Collapses in Order.

While the colored baseball game was
in progress yesterday the grandstand for
colored people collapsed. Immediately
after the grandstand for the white dit
toed. Though no one was seriously in
iured, those who participated were
more or less frightened. The game
was won by the Palatkan's, score II.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-02

A Roman cardinal said: There is
nobody whom fortune does not visit
once in his life; but when he finds he
is not ready to receive her, she goes
III the door and out through the Win
uow!"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-02

Real rain is to be a feature Of a
forthcoming play. Nervous playgoers
gre hoping that the Reinhardt craze
viii not cause il to enter from the
uditUrium.-London Punch.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-02

LOST-ThurSday gold neckIess with
pearl pendant. Was in an unsealed en-.
velope addressed to Mrs. Harwood
Rosser, Jacksonville when lost. Finder
please return TO Miss Ellene Merrydav.
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CAST. On CHARACTERS

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First Baptist church, the sermon TO
the graduates Will be preached by
Rev. +: 4. F. Golden OF LeeSburg
RIA. lhe ministers and congrega-
uonS OF the other churcheS are cor
daily invited to unite IN these SER
wees.
Monday evening at the Howell the
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-02
CLOSING EXERCISES
OF HIGH SCHOOL
At the Howell Theater, Tues
day, May 18th.
Primary Department.

Friday morning, May 9Th, at $3.50
o'clock, in the high school auditorium,
the Primary department, under the
direction Of Mrs. Pickren, Mrs. Merry
day and Miss Spain, will render the
following program which promises to
be very interesting and pleasing:
DIALOGUE.
Walter Anderson, Roy Dougherty,
George Cottingham, Coy Hancock.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-02

The Misses Barstow will spend the week
end at Daytona Beach.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Baptist church will meet at the home
of Mrs. Dyke on Kirby street next
Tuesday afternoon, May 6.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-02

Mr.. H. Merryday was in St. Augustine
and Jacksonville this week.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-05-02

Friday evening, May 9th, at the
Howell theater, the Eighth grade will
render the following program:
Music Orchestra
Invocation Rev w. NJ. Poage
Class History, Miss Elizabeth Pursley
Declamation-The Character of Wash
ington-- Master Dewey Hutchinson
Music Orchestra
Recitation-Mrs. Tubbs at the Sew
ing Circle---Miss Florence Smith
Observation-Disclosures and Aim
Master Roy Edmonson
Recitation-The First Banjo
Master Max Wilson
Music ------------------ Orchestra
Presentation Of Certifcates-------
------------- Supt. Cottingham
Music Orchestra
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which the ten-cents lax should apply
The tax ON the sales in question ag-
gregated LOO, 900. 1t was at first
proposed to settle OH the basis of one
tenth of this sum. The negotiations
hung fire for some time. Finally, at
A minutes before II O'Clock March
4th, Secretary MacNeagh approved
a settlement for SOL, 600, or less
than one tenth Of the amount due.
The department officials claim this
is all that could be proved in court,
but here are plenty of others who
are none too sure about that. Why
should there have been "A suggestion
for a settlement for ten per cent in
all cases? If there was any doubt
about the proof, why should that
doubt be resolved in every case by
charging off just 80 per cent?
Against creameries, as is we'll
known, the government has been re
lentless in the enforcement of the
strict provisions OF the law. Ii a
creamery should place one per cent
more water in a lot of butter than
permitted by the department, the de
partment has not hesitated to assess
penalties that have even compelled
some firms TO close their doors.
There can be no doubt that the
butterine makers We're guilty OIL
sharp practice. The best that can be
said for them is that they attempted
to dodge the law by a subtcrfuge.
There could be nc assumption of any
innocence of intention. They simply
wanted to avoid paying that ten-cent
tax. To allow them to get off by pay
ing only a tenth of that tax is TO
leave a premium upon dishonesty.
Judge Lands is to be commended in
ordering Il thorough inquiry intc
the whole affair.
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SIX FROZEN TO
DEATH IN SNOW
PARENTS AND CHILDREN TRYING
TO REACH RANCH ARE OVER
WHELMED BY BLIZZARD
OF LAST WEEK.

Norfolk. Neb.- The train service
has not been completely restored in
northern Nebraska, as a result OF
Thursdays blizzard, the worst in 20
years. No train has moved west OF
Valentine ON the Black Hills route
in five days.
\ baby was born on tie train at
Valentine. At Chadron a funeral
party from Hot Springs. S. D., to
Chicago. has been held up since
Thursday.
Rapid City. S. D.. Fifty men with
shovels are trying to break a path
from the Freeze ranch % miles east
OF this city to enable the undertaken
Mrs. \. f.. Perry and four children
who persisted in the blizzard FRIDAY
night.
There is no communication on the
Northwestern east of Cladron, Neb..
and the train from Pierre is stalled
in a drift TWO miles east of this city.
A rotary pillow broke its shaft in a cut
400 feet long and piled with snow 40
feet deep. Another rotary and two
engines are out of commission east
OF Chadron. e 3;
The bodies of six victims of last
weeks blizzard We're located Satur-
day night. Frank Perry, age so; Eta
his wife, 40; Margaret. aged s; Bees
sic. aged 3, and Thresa, the baby. ali
are dead.
The bodies We're found on the Mil
ton F'raze ranch II miles east ii this
city. They We're all sitting in the
wagon huddled together stiff. The
father had started for help.
A. F.. Perry, his Wife, three daugh-
tiers II a son We're found frozen to
death on Box Elder divide 16 miles
OF here. Leslie Perry, 10 years
old, the elder son, was found delir-
ious on the prairie by w. +. Green.
OF st. Paul. He talked incoherently OF
searching for his parents since early
Friday morning. When told they
pital. His face. hands and feet are
Perry who was the postmaster AT
Big Bend left here Thursday after
with his family and household
goods loade in four teams attempt
ing to face the blizzard to reach the
ranch he had leased. The frs in
timation OF their fate came when
a pair of horses with gunnv sacks
over their heads and traces dragging. |
into the correl of Milton |
Frazee's ranch. The trail of the hors-
lead the searchers TO a wagon half
buried in the snow. On the wagon. |
Perry's four children and Mrs. Perry
found. The father lay half on
the ground. his feet in the wagon
spokes. Five others of Perry's child
en- with the wagon We're found at
he Cardez ranch.
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bill is passed. This must lie true be-
cause is it a literal impossibility for
him to know. Practically all of the
legislative work in the session recent
ly closed was done within a month.
The legislature was in session most
of the day, during which time mem
bers had little If any chance to in
quire into the measures OF The vari-
GUS bills introduced. 1t is a mental
impossibility for any man, in the few
odd moments allowed him during a
single month apart from regular
meetings of legislature and commit
tees. TO 20 over n thousand different
bills. covering every subject from
Chinese pheasants 10 irrigation, and
arrive at any definite conclusion
about the merits OF any considerable
number oil the DIS!
Either the legislature should be in
some way prevented from grinding
out bills the members know Re to
nothing about, or else they should
be given more time in which to con
slider them or else the entire legisla-
turo should be abolished. 1t is more
than unbusincsslike to say that the
legislature must conclude its sessions
in sixty days. 1t would be Just as rea-
sonable to say that the supreme court
should decide every case after consid-
ering it only an hour. BY every rea-
son in common sense, the legislature
should remain in session unti1 it has
finished It's work and finished it in
the right way. This rough-and-tumble
exhibition that is made in South Da-
kota every two years is becoming
more of a disgrace all ;he time. If ii
keeps on, there viii be small re-
spect left for the laws OF the state,
Gov. Hodges of Kansas has pro-
posed a commission to take the place
of the legislature-and in Kansas
the legislature is nat practically pro
hibited by the constitution from
knowing what it is doing, as is the
case in South Dakota. The proposal
is worthy of serious consideration.
Something, most anything, would be
better than The present system OF
"making laws in South Dakota.
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ANDY LEE is
WINNER IN SUIT
FORMER GOVERNOR OF STATE
COMES OUT BEST IN CON
TEST OVER RAILROAD
PROPERTY IN MICH.
IGAN.

Pierre, S. ID. The supreme court,
morning affirmed the lower court OF
Clay county in the case of William
h, Niles VS.. Andrew +. Lee. in which
former Governor Lee secured a YER
dict i'll a suit brought against him
by Niles Yer a railroad deal in Mich
lSan. The situation as shown in the
record indicates that Niles, a Chicago
promoter thought he had picked an
easy mark in the former little COVER
nor of South Dakota. and i'm the end
found the Dakotan not so easy. 1t
appears that he induced Lee TO go
INTO Il railroad deal with him in Mich
igan. and continued to draw expense
money from Lee to pay bills and
work the promotion end of the deal,
but when Lee visited the road in
question and discovered that the
money he was advancing was not be
ing used for the purposes which Niles
CLAIMED 1T was being used for, and
he secured from Niles Il fun transfer
of the property, following which
Niles attempted to bring suit against
Lee in Chicago, which was evaded
by a hurry up trip OF Lee outside the
jurisdiction of Illinois courts, and
the suit was brought in this state.
with the result that Lee is the win
ner.
Another opinion was by Policy in
the case OF A. \. Louseau VS.. II. n.
Gates and others in which the lower
court of Minnehaha county is affirm
ed.
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plan of social Insurance against wild
owhood, unemployment, invalidity or
accident, such as is now in vogue in
England, Germany and other Euro
pean countries. His conclusion is that
serious evils are produced by the
mothers pension plan, especially in
these two particulars.
I'D In the greatly decreased in
terest of relatives, churches and emf
ployers in doing lheir share since the
public pensions went into effect, a
decrease shown IN 81 out OF the 100
cases studied; and O. in the total
incompetence OF a large mGioritN
OF the probation officers supposed to
have supervision OF the pensioned
families"
Thus it Will be seen readily that
the plan of pe%nsioning mothers,
While admirable in its purposes, an
not be expected to work out automat-
ically the entire problem of caring
for the children of dependents. If
every mother of such children were
what she should be, devoted to good
morals, clean in her own life and un-
selfish in her mother love, the mere
payment Of pensions to her would
nearly solve the problem. But unfor-
tunately there are many mothers
who are grossly unfit to have the
of even their own offspring. The
fact Of their extreme poverty
is in itself a certain mount OF evid-
ence of serious shortcomings in
been Audited to the use of liquor. or
We're not shiftless and lazy. they
might not be dependents. Certainly
the most careful and intelligent kind
OF supervision must be exercised il
children are to be left in the care of
mothers under payment of pensions.
Else the states stipend may only in
crease the immortality of the home.
~ Z-Alr
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GIRLS
TO PROSECUTE
PARENT OF GIRL ASSAULTED
At SALEM, ILL.,. WILL CON-
DUCT CASE AGAINST HER
ASSAILANTS.

Salem, H.. Charles Il. Holt.
father of Dorothy Holt, the 4-year-
old girl kidnapped and attaked by
lS-year-old Frank Su''ens, will act
as prosecuting attorney in the trial
of the confessed assaiiant and his ac-
cused a~c"omplice. Mr.. Holt is as
s%istant states attorney of Marion
county. and has spurnod suggestions
one else.
Wen hang beth sullens and
Harrison said Mr.. Holt. God help
them
Ernest Harrison. who, according
to Suilens. planned the abduction
and intended to hold the girl for
RANSOM, was taken Yesterday to
where lie was lodged in
Jail. Company G.. Fourth Infantry
OF Dillingham; acted as the military
escort for the prisoner.
Harrison smoked a cigarette as he
marched with Sheriff c. w. Nursell
IN the center OF the guard of troops
en- the way to the railroad station.
Sallons was taken Saturday night
TO Mount Vernon. With both men
out vi 'o"i' tue ia9l Oh tne tHFee
Fourth Regiment companies l. OF
left Salem
Mayor Charles q, Huh was hanged
IN etfigy Yesterday from the top of
4 drug store en- the principal bust
ness street. The guardsmen on patrol
during the night itad- been instructed
% look out for such an occurrence,
but the effigy was put up without
knowledge an0 was not cut
until the middle of the day.
The eifigy bore this sign 'Ou
The root of all evil"
These responsible for pulling up
effigy We're citizens who have
1een particularly Interested because
II the mayorS failure toy close the
iozen blind tigers.
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e<
THE MOTHERS PENSIONS

South Dakota is one OF the first
states to adopt pensions for moth
through the recent session of the
legislature practically without oppo-
sition. 1t provides that pensions may
be ordered paid to mothers who have
been made dependent by misfortune
or by the conviction of their hus-
bands for some crime. The pensions
may be ordered only for a period
be renewed upon order of the court.
The theory of this legislation is
that children may be better cared
for by their mothers than by institu-
tons. William Hard, writing in the
D%elineator for January. said that 60
per cent of the inmates of the Elmira,
N. Y. reformatory, We're brought up
in state institutions. This surely is
an appalling indictment against the
efficiency OF the homes for children
now offered by states and charitable
organizations.
Illinois and Colorado have gener-
al mothers pensions laws, while in
Missouri, Kansas City has been given
authority TO adopt the plan. In Illi-
nois it is asserted that the children
of pensioned mothers cost the state
So.15 each per month, as compared
with an institution cost of SO each
per month. This year the cost to
Illinois will be 500, 900, but a friend
of the system asserts that the officials
of that state will not care if the
amount run up to $500, 900. In Cook
county alone the bill for crime each
year runs to $4,000, 900 and the prob
lem of caring for dependent children
is considered to have an intimate
relationship to the problem of pre-
venting or diminishing crime.
Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver, per-
haps the best known student of this
problem, is authority for the state
ment that as an average it costs
a third as much TO keep a child in
its home as in IA state institu-
ton.
On the other hand, G. c. Carstens.
secretary OF a Massachusetts charit-
able organization, investigated the
workings of the mothers pensions
and is quite pronounced in his OPP
position to it. While families con-
tanning LOO children in Chicago
We're being pensioned, he found the
population of Chicago institutions,
125 greater for the six months end.
ing June 80. 1912 than for the same
months in 1911. He favors instead a
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-03-20
\ PECULIAR SETTLEMENT.

Judge Lands, of the federal dis
trict court at Chicago. is apparently
still OF tile mind that was in him
when he assessed Il fine OF 500, 000,-
600 against the Standard OH comp
my. He now has Instructed "A special
grand jury to make AN investigation
of the settlement by the government
OF its penalties imposed upon butter
inc manufacturers. The fines which
the internal evenue department
claimed to be due the government
aggregated $1,2U0, 900 and Secretary
MaeNeagh of the treasury depart
ment, with the approval of Nttorney-
General Wickersilam, made Il settle
men upon payment of Sl01, 600.
Now Judge Lands wants his special
grand jury to find out whether on
" tlitlt W u any SUIT vi tOilSDlI tCN
upon the part OF the manufacturers.
or on the part of any government of
%icials, to defraud the governments.
carrying prison terms as penalties.
III amy government officials have par
~ticipated IN any such conspiracy, the
number must include Secretary Mac
Neagh and Acknowledgement Wicker
sham, for they gave their express APP
proval to the settlement.
The case revolves around the So
called oleomargerine law, which pro
vides IA special tax of ten cents per
pound upon imitation butter OF any
kind. if colored to give it the appear
itation is uncolored it need pay a tax
OF only a quarter of a cent a pound.
A few months ago some ingenious
individual conceived the idea of man
ufacturing butter with the use of
cotton seed oil, treated by IA special
process giving it a golden yellow col
or. No artificial coloring matter was
added to the oil, and it was believed
it could o be reached by the oieo-
margarine law. 1t did in fact present
a kiiotty problem to the internal re-
venue department. At first the gov
ernment's tests failed to disclose any
artificial coloring and only the nom-i
inal TAX was assessed against the pro-
duct. 1t was understood, however.
that If it should be found later on
that it was artificially colored. the
tax of ten cents per pound would be
due.
III the course of time it was dis
NN
covered by the government that the
oil was colored by treatment TO a
special sulphur process. 1t was some
time before the government chemists
Were given any intimation as TO what
they should look for. AS soon as it
suggested that they look for
sulphur. they had no difficulty in
discovering the presence Of that art
icle. This. of course, clearly brought
the coloration under the Inhibition of
the federal law concerning the sale
of oleomargerine.
There seems to have been no diff
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-03-20
OFFICIAL COUNTY PAPER
LIQUOR BARRED FROM WHITE
HOUSE.


Only commentator of President
Wilson for his instructions to serve
only liquors in the White House, has
been found in the comment upon
that order all over the country. Even
those who are partial to the liquor
traffic cannot but respect the new
president for his refusal to sanction
the use of intoxicants. =.
For, after all, the president is no
ordinary man. He has been elevated
TO the highest position, politically, in
the gift of the people. This also
means that he has been elevated So
cially to abo"t as high an eminence
AS can be found in this democratic
country. For the president to make
il a rule to serve intoxicants in the
White House is to dignity the use of
liquor. III 1t equivalent to saying that
wines and WHISTLES are the proper
associates Of those who move in high
places. IL has the effect of surround
ling the use of liquor with an attrac-
tive glamor, when the one effect of
alcohol is to degrade.
Surely the president OF the United
states should Engage in no practice
that is questionable. No one can say
how many poor devils have found
their graves In the gutter because
liquor was introduced to them in Gu,
glass, upon a banquet table Surround
ed by brilliant mem and perhaps
women--and served with an elegant
fepast. Certain 1t Is that the ex
cesslve use OF liquor in the home
esnd at social affairs is prevalent in
Washington as perhaps it is in no.
other city of the country. No doubt
the Influence of representatives Of
foreign countries where liquor is al
most universally used, has had its
part in bringing about this state of
affairs. But il the president of the
United States We're always to take
the position that a cup of cold water
Is infinitely to be preferred above a
ifquor whose M faculty is to de-
D umanize its devotees, he would at
least be free from responsibility for
lie spread of drunkenness in the
national capital.
Liquor ought to be left to argue
its W case. Ii it's use is proper, then
II should be able to stand alone. Why
aid it in securing victims of it's hab-
itual use by surrounding it with a
brilliance that expresses the very OPP.
posite of its natural effects?
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THE BIENNIAL HEMoRRHAGE.

Says the Sioux City Journal, whet-
Ting its sarcasm:
legislature enacted go new laws
must not be accepted as an indication
that the legislature accepted every
blk that was offered. The records
show that several bills We're rejected
outright in each house"
In the first place. the Sioux City
paper has mis-stated the number OF
enactments by the South Dakota law
makers. They total 800 instead OF
go. However, the Sioux City paper
eannot be blamed if it Topped a hun
bred from the number out of utter
incredulity.
The Republican lost count OF the
total number of bills and resolutions,
presented to the legislature, but the
Last time it was footed up, it was
something ove 900, if memory serv-
Is. This goes to show that the mania
making new laws is growing more
malignant in this state and that
something should be done for it. A
third or fourth OF the bills put
through We're enacted during the last
forty-eight hours of the session.
The Republican makes this state
snent without fear of contradiction:
Select any bill passed by the leg
glature-aside from a mere dozen
or SO, that were thoroughly discuss
ed and understood--and ask the
members of the legislature, singly,
why the bill was passed, and not to
exceed a dozen members can give
amy intelligent Isl why it was put
through.
The factis that the average legis-
sature doesn't know why the average
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-03-20

Paris. France. The French gov
eminent. under the premiership OF
Aristide BRAND. was defeated to-
day on q vote of confidence during a
debate in the Senate,