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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-22
FOREST NOTES

As many as ~ different kinds Of
wood are used in the manufacture OF
umbrella handles. canes, and whips II
this country,
Authentic records show that Gin.
ders, from a forest fire in the tree
tops in northern Washington this fall
we're carried distance Of 20 miles.
According to the latest available
figures, Pennsylvania stands fifth in
the production Of wood pulp and is
second TO West Virginia in the amour,
of slabs and other sawmil waste used
for pulp; Maine stands third.
The better wood engravings are
made almost exclusively Of box wood,
and the large blocks are made Of small
pieces glued together. The engraving
is done across the end of the grain.
Japanese wood prints, on the other
hand, are made on lengthwise sections
of cherry wood parallel to the grain.
Throughout the national forests the
rangers are posting the roads with
permanent guide signs which tell dis
tanees and directions, especially at
forks and crossroads. The signs are
usually put up in the winter when
other work tends to be light. On
some forests the rangers go on snow
shoes, dragging loaded sleds and nail
the signboards to the roadside trees.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-22
Strange Businesses.

dredweight is paid for green snail
shells. They are used for inlaid work
by furniture makers and are also turn
ed into buttons.
A great many OF the so called peari
buttons we wear on our clothes are
made from certain mussels. The mus
sci shells upon reaching the button
factories are su wed into rough blanks,
and then turned on small lathe to
the proper shape OF the buttons. includ-
ing the depression In the center After
this two or four holes are bored for
the thread The buttons are polished
by means of chemical fluid.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-22
New Hampshire.

New Hampshire was first called In
coma, or I.acedaemon, a scholar among
the New Englanders remembering that
the Peloponnesus. the home Of the
Spartans and Argives, was mountain
Gus; so was portion Of New Hamp-
shire. hence the propriety Of the name.
John Mason. however. who held pat
ent for the district, called It New
Hampshire after his native country In
England. and then the name Laconia
was transferred to the billy district
near Lake Cbamplain.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-22
The Town Pump

A good place to feel the pulse Of
civic life is at the public drinking
trough. The ebb and flow of animal
life, as it quenches its thirst at the
public fountain gives US an estimate
Of the wealth, population and pros
perity of the community; the char
acter, habits and occupations Of its
people and the utility, pleasure and
hardships of its citizens. There is no
better place to study the progress of
the community than at the town
pump.
Every village in Vermont should
have town pump and every city with
waterworks should have a drinking
fountain where stream Of pure run
ming water, freely dispenses Adams
Ale to the thirsty populace. Pure
water and plenty Of it is good com
munity builder.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-22
A Good Card Trick.

Take two aces OF spades split them
carefully and paste them on the backs
Of the king Of hearts Your cards be-
ing thus prepared, take your stand ON
the opposite side Of the table to the
company.' holding mp in one hand
king of hearts and in the other an
ace Of spades, announce that yon will
make them change places with each
other Let each Of your hands be
covered with hat While they are 50
covered turn the cards. and upon the
removal OF the hat the transformation
will be shown. much TO the surprise VI
your friends.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-22

Vermont is to be the hostess state
for the New England conference dur
ing the coming winter. The Athena
club Of Burlington will open wide the
doors Of hospitality, and the Queen
City Of the Green Mountain State will
cordially welcome the delegates from
the various sections Of New England.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-22

ed out when the faucet was opened.
But on the farm 1t was entirely differ
ent. When the people wanted fresh
drink they went to the well and hoist
ed it up from the hole. That strange
way of getting water is great mys-
terry to Ernestine.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-22

When the little girl shown In the
picture went on her vacation last sum-
mer she was just a little over two
years old. She lives In New York city
and her visit to a Connecticut farm
was the first time in her life that she
saw the country. She was greatly in
terested in everything she saw. because
chickens and pigs and lambs do not
grow in New York city-that is. they
are seldom seen. Miss Ernestine Lin
daner. that is the little girls name,
couldn't quite get 1t through her mind
that water came out OF well In
buckets. At her home 1t always splash
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-10-22

For earaehe, toothache, pains, burns.
scalds, sore throat, try DR.. Thomas
Eclectic Oil, splendid remedy for
emergencies. adv.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
EUROPE CONTROLS RADIUM
Claimed Americans Fail to Recognise
Importance of Radium.

Washington.-How the American
people failed to recognize the import
ance of radium as a cancer cure until
European countries had obtained vir-
tually all of the present available sup
ply, is graphically told in the annual
report of Joseph A. Holmes, director
of the federal bureau of mines, made
public. The report tells in detail Of
the bureaus unsuccessful efforts to
obtain quantity of radium sufficient
to supply the twenty or more hospi-
tails of the public health service and
serve in part to meet the needs of
the various cancer hospitals of the
country"
Director Holmes estimates that Gin
the United States $4,000 persons die
each year from cancer. Explaining
that radium is considered the most
promising cure for certain types of
cancer, the director says the most
serious barrier to progress in demon
strating this is the scarcity of radium
There probably is not more than
thirty grams of rad;um now available
for use in such treatment in all coun-
tries" the report says. "Of this amount
there probably is not more than two
grams of radium bromide in the Unit
ed States in the hands Of few sur
geons. Probably fifteen grams of ra-
dunn bromide was produced during
1912, and of the fifteen grams nearly
11.5 grams were extracted in various
European countries from ores shipped
to them from the United States, main
ly from Colorado and Utah.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
Many BURIED UNDER WALLS
BUILDING FALLS IN HIGH WIND
CAUSING DEATH AND
DESTRUCTION.
Tragedy In St. Lois Due to Collapse
of Wall of Burned
Building.

st. Louis, Mo.-At least two persons
were killed, fifteen buried under de-
bris and ten injured when the west
wall of the Missouri Athletic club
building, which was destroyed by fire,
in which thirty persons lost their lives
a week ago, collapsed under a high
wind here, and crashed through a
four-story building occupied by the
st. Louis Seed company.
The wall of the Missouri Athletic
club building, which stood seven sto-
ries high, crumbled when 35-mile
wind veered to the northwest A few
minutes before the collapse, Building
Commissioner McKelvey, who was d.
recting ITO men in the work of ex-
ploring the ruins of the Missouri Ath-
letic club feared the wall would fall
and ordered his men out of the de-
bris. This action probably prevent
ed heavy loss of life.
The four-story building occupied by
the st. Louis Seed company had weak
ened, apparently during the burning of
the Missouri Athletic club building,
which adjoined it on the east, and
when the brick wall crashed on the
roof of the four-story building, the
walls Of the latter gave way and all
above tue second floor crumbled.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
THIRTY TORPEDO BOAT
DESTRoYERS AT PORT ST. JOE
Great mosquito Fleet" Will Assem-.
BILE in West Florida Port
for Exercises.

Port St Joe.-Thirty destroyers and
auxiliaries composing the torpedo flo
tilla and the reserve fotilla of the
North Atlantic fleet will arrive at Port
St. Joe on April l to remain till April
26 engaged in target practice and 9TH
at Guantanamo, Cuba, where the YES
sells have been engaged in maneuvers
with the North Atlantic feet and they
are expected to start from the Cuban
waters at an early date. The reserve
fiotilla is now at New Orleans and will
also leave that point soon.
While there have been no official ad-
vices to this effect it is expected that
all of the vessels will visit Pensa-
cola prior to going to Port St. Joe,
spending a short time there as on pre-
vious years, to give the men shore
leave.
That the entire fotilla is to go to
Port ST. Joe is proven by the following
letter from Secretary Daniels to Vice
President L. H. Dimmitt of the Apa-
lachicola Northern railorad of Port St.
Joe:
Washington, D. C.-Sir: Your tele-
gram of March II has been duly re-
ceived. According to its itinerary the
torpedo flotilla of the Atlantic fleet, &C.
companied by the reserve torpedo flo
tilla, the cruiser Birmingham, the ten
der Dixie and the fuel ship Arethusa,
will arrive at ST. Joseph Bay for joint
exercises about April u. The flotillas
are scheduled to leave St. Joseph bay
for Key West on April 26.
JOSEPH DANIELS"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
To REDUCE THE
COST OF LIVING
FARM PRODUCTS TO BE CARRIED
DIRECT TO DOOR OF THE
CONSUMER.
TEN CITIES ARE SELECTED
BY Parcel Post Postmaster General
Burelson Will Cut the Cost of
Living.

Washington. - Preliminary steps
were taken by the postoffice depart
ment to perfect it's plan for reducing
the cost of living by having the par
eel post carry farm products direct
to the door Of consumer. Ten cities
were selected to begin the work of
establishing direct connection between
producer and consumer, Postmaster
General Burleson having issued an or.
der permitting the use of crates and
boxes for butter eggs, poultry, vegeta-
| bles and fruit shipped by parcel post.
Orders went to the postmaster at
Boston, Atlanta, st. Louis, San Fran
cisco, Baltimore, Detroit, Lacrosse,
Wis; Lynn, Mass; Rock Island, Ill.,,
and Washington, directing them ito
receive the names of persons who are
willing to supply farm produce in re-
tail quantities by parcel post" Print
ed lists of these names will be dis
tributed among town and city patrons.
by the use of the lists" said First
| fAoolStdhl OolIldolSl NCuCl oil ltopCl I,
the city consumer can get in touch
with a farmer who will fill his weekly
orders for farm produce. The consum-
er will receive the product fresh from
the country, and the personal relation
ship established no doubt will tend
to improve the quality. The farmer
will be relieved of carrying his pro-
duce to market, as the rural carrier
will make daily collections at the farm
er's own door of the retail shipments
to city consumers.
THE point has been raised that diff
fculty will be experienced in the re-
turn of hampers and other containers.
This problem does not appear to me
to be difficult, as the farmer may use
inexpensive hampers whose value
would not warrant their return, or he
may use the higher grade hampers
for which he may include an additional
charge to be credited to the consumer
on the return of the hamper by par
eel post"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
BUREAU REPORT
ON COTTON CROP
CROP is ONE OF THE LARGEST
EVER GROWN IN THE UNIT
ED STATES.
NEW METHOD IN REPORTING
Over Thirteen Million Running Bales
Produced by Southern Farmers,
Is the Report.

Washington.-One Of the largest
cotton crops ever grown, amounting
to 14,127,356 equivalent 500-pound
bales of linters, was produced by the
farmers Of the United States during
1913, the census bureau announced in
its preliminary report of cotton gin
ned as reported by ginners and de-
linters to February %.
These figures compare with 13,703.-
421 equivalent 500-pound bales of lint
and 609,594 bales of linters last year,
and 15.692,7O1 bales of lint and $751;
575 bales of Interest in 1911.
The department of agriculture's es-
innate, announced December y, plac-
ed the 1913 crop at 13,677,000 equiva-
lent 500-pound bales.
The total value Of the crop, includ-
ing the value of cotton seed, is unoffi-
cially estimated roundly at more than
$1,000, 100000, compared with last
years $920,00O,OOO, and S969,O0O,-
900 for the previous most valuable
crop, that of 1910.
With this report the bureau of Gen.
sus departed from its previous method
Of reporting the cotton crop by not
including the quantity of linters in the
total production. Director William J..
Harris announced this was done be-
cause with the installation of modern
machinery closer delinting of seed had
increased the quantity Of linters
and at the same time lowered the aver
age quality of the fiber so that now
only small part, if any, was used
as substitute for lint cotton.
The number of running bale of lint
cotton, counting round as half bales,
was 13,964,9S1, and of Inter cotton.
629,019 running bales, compared with
13,4SS,539 running bales of lint and
602,324 running bales of linters last
year, and 15,553,O73 runnigg bales Of
linters in 1911.
Included in the production for 1913
are 29,267 bales, which ginners esti-
mated would be turned out after the
time of the March canvass.
Round bales included numbered 3d.
GIG compared with S1,52S last year and
101,554 in 1911.
Sea Island bales included 77,490 COM
pared with 1871 last year and 119, 293
in 1911.
The average gross weight of bales
for the crop, counting round as half
bales and excluding linters, was 505.S
pounds, compared with $3.50 last year
and 504.5 in 1911.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
SUPREME COURT
VAL|DATES BONDS
BELIEVED NOW THAT MUNICIPAL
TERMINALS WILL BE REAL.
lied SHORTLY.
MUNICIPAL DOCKS ASSURED
These Will Be Placed on Market Very
Soon-Expert Engineer to Come
to Jacksonville.

Jacksonville-Th work Of the
board Of port commissioners of Jack
sonville took on more concrete form
when it was announced at the special
meeting of that body that the $780,
900 in bonds for municipal docks had
been validated by the state supreme
court in Tallahassee. Besides this an
nouncement, which came as no sur
prise to the members of the board, a
detailed report by the docks commit
tee of the board was rendered and
filed.
This report shows that prices have
been obtained from eight among
twelve owners of property on the wa
terfront Of the city. The body will
continue to secure estimates and prices
on all available property on the river
front, from what is now known as the
Old Soldiers home site, clear to and
including Commodore's Point.
A communication from Engineer
Coleman, who had charge of the con.
struction and designing of the immense
docks and terminals din New Orleans,
was read at the meeting. He stated
that he would come here to look over
the proposed sites for municipal docks
and hold conference with the board
S. ]. Nelson, well known memoer
of tn aboard of port commissioners,
stated that he believed that if the offer
made on the Commodore's Point prop.
erty is accepted, the $1,500O0O in bonds
will start we'll the enterprise of mu-
nicipal docks, and that at the end
of ten years the property will be
worth in round numbers $10,000,O0O.
He also is optimistic in the matter of
an income from the docks located at
this place, taking care Of necessary
expenses in their operation and af-
fording further fund for improve.
ments.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
Nolan Given Twenty Years,

Marietta, Ga.-John Nolan, accused
of the daring single-handed robbery OF
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
passenger train on the outskirts of
Atlanta on January II and of after.
wards engaging In pistol battle with
the porter and a county policeman,
was found guilty in the Cobb county
superior court here and sentenced to
twenty years in the penitentiary. F.
W. Hadley OF Atlanta positively iden.
titled Nolan as the bandit who reliev.
ed him Of ST on the train. Two ne
gro porters also identified him.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
u. s, Wool Not Well Handled.

shington.-American wool grow.
ers could add as much as cents a
pound to the value of their product il
sent to market graded and put up as
attractively as Australian woods, &C.
cording to estimates of the department
Of agriculture expert. 1t is admitted
by the growers themselves and by
dealers and manufacturers, said a de.
partment statement, that the American
system of grading and putting up wool
IS poor. Three cents pound on wool
selling at from Is to so cents pound
is a very high percentage Of loss.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
COTTON EXCHANGE REFORMS
New York Organization Adopts the
Nire-Grade System.

New York.-Submission to the nine.
type system of cotton grading favor
ed by the United States government
was acknowledged by the board of
managers of the New York cotton ex-
change in the adoption of a resolution
making the government standard types
of cotton the basis for trading on and
after April 1, 1915.
The resolution reads:
Resolved, That the government
standard types of the following grades
of cotton, /. e., middling fair, strict
good middling, good middling, strict
middling, middling, strict low mid
ding, low middling, strict good ordi-
nary and good ordinary shall be the
basis for determining the grade Of all
cotton for delivery upon contracts ma
turing on and after April l, 1915"
The nine-grade system has been ap.
piled by the New Orleans exchange
for years, and is said to simplify the
marketing of the product. Concilia-
tory action was taken last fall by the
New York exchange, but the conces.
sion did not completely appease dis.
satisfaction in the South, which has
insisted on complete surrender, it is
said.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
STOMACH TROUBLES
Mr.. Ragland Writes Interesting
Letter on This Subject.

Madison Heights, Va.-Mr. Chas. A.
Ragland, of this place, writes: 81 have
been taking Thedford's lack-Draught
for Indigestion, and other stomach troub-
les, also colds, and find it 10 be the very
best medicine | have ever used.
After taking Black-Draught for a few
days, always feel like new man."
Nervousness, nausea, heartburn, pain
in pit Of stomach, and feeling OF full
ness after eating, are sure symptoms OF
stomach trouble, and should be given the
proper treatment, as your strength and
health depend very largely upon your
food and its digestion.
To get quick and permanent relief
from these ailments, you should take
a medicine of known curative merit.
Its rs years Of splendid success, in the
treatment of just such troubles, proves
the real merit Of Thedford's Black
Draught. Safe, pleasant, gentle in action,
and without bad after-effects, II Is sure
to benefit both young and old. For sale
everywhere. Price sc. Rcn
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
Two Badly Hurt on Trestle

Atlanta.-Edward l.. HUE, senior at
Tech, and Miss Mabel Bixbie, a MILL
ner, were seriously injured when the
Seaboard Express No. from New
York City to New Orleans ran them
down as they were walking over a
trestle near this city. AS the fast train
swept around the curve, thirty minutes
late, the engineer saw the couple
crossing the steel structure. Too late,
he blew a warning blast. The couple
attempted to escape, but before they
ran ten feet the pilot of the engine
had tossed them into a dry gulley.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
Girls Flee for Iheir LIVES.

Wellesley, Mass.-Perfect discipline
GOODNESS and bravery on the part OF
students and faculty members pre-.
vented loss Of life or injury, when
college hall, oldest Of the Wellesley
college buildings, was burned here
Two hundred and fifty young women
students, fifty instructors and fifty
maids, were in bed when the fire was
discovered. Every one was saved, and
not one of the scores who marched
in an orderly procession through the
smoke-filled Railways, suffered so much
as a scratch.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
VILLA REACHES TORREON
Federal Stronghold Shelters 5000
Troops Under General VeIasco.


Constitutionalist Headquarters, Yer
mo, Durango, Mexico.-General Villa
and his army of 10000 rebels invested
the federal stronghold of Torreon.
The khaki-clad columns occupied the
environs of the city without opposi-
ton, and in wheeling and dragging
field pieces into place to shell the
federal trenches, dug at every point
where the federal commander, Gen.
Refugio Velasco, expects attack.
Velasco's army is estimated to num-
Der 5000 men. South and southwest
of this city his position is regarded
as almost impregnable by reason of
the mountains, through which only
three passes run, and these have been
rendered almost impossible by fortifi-
cations and barbed-wire entangle-
ments. In other directions the city
is reached through the desert and
high hills.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
Identifies Train Rohher.

Atlanta, Ga.-Harry B. Melville, the
postal clerk on the Queen and Cres-
cent sotuhbound train No. l, running
from Cincinnati to New Orleans, which
was robbed near Birmingham of $4O,.
900 on the night Of February 10, ar.
rived in Atlanta and identified A. o.
Perry, one of the three alleged yegg-
men, who were arrested at No. SO
Brookline street. as the train bandit
who stabbed him in the back with a
knife when he refused to tell the gang
of robbers where all the money in the
small Car was hidden.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27

Civil Engineer, age twenty-nina,
married, desires work with some es-
tablished business in or near Palat-
ka. Would prefer work in connection
with engineering or building where
experience in same would be of value.
Moderate salary to begin with, as es-
pecially desires permanent location
and chance for future investment.
Can give best of references and invites
closest investigation. All replies
treated confidential. Address C. E.,
care the News; Palatka, Florida.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
Mans SIays Four Persons.

Oak Park, CA. A. Eubanks, a
farmer of this place, killed his wife
and two young daughters as they
slept, and after setting fire to his
home, barn and several tenants hous-
es, fired a bullet through his own fore.
head, killing himself.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27

Apply a cotton cloth wet with BAL
LARD'S SNOW EMINENT to all
wounds, cuts, burns, sores or blisters,
and note its wonderful healing pow
er. 1t is prompt and very effective.
Price 25c, SOC and s1.00 per bottle.
Sold by Ackerman-Stewart Drug Co.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27
Task for Geocraphers,

Algiers Is said to have the largest
European population of any city in
Africa. johannesburg comes next,
then Oran. VIII the class in geogra-
ply kindly locate the latter town,
with its 100000 Europeans, without re-
ferring to the atlas'
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-03-27

Gabe-I saw the doctors auto In
front of your house today. Anything
serious? Steve-Serious? Should say
so. He collected his bill.-Cincinnati
Enquirer.