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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14

To enable farmers and housewives
to test eggs before candle and tell
accurately their condition before they
are opened, the U. S. Department of
Agriculture has just published col
ored egg Gambling chart. 10 give
a true picture of the eggs, twelve
impressions were necessary to pro-
duce this autographed chart
This chart shows the eggs in the
natural size as they appear before
a candle, and also as they look when
open in a glass saucer. The pictures
include an absolutely fresh egg,
slightly stale eggs, decidedly stale
eggs, eggs with yolks sticking, to the
shell, eggs where the chicken has de-
yeloped so far that blood has been
formed, moldly eggs, added eggs and
eggs with a green white.
Comparatively few housewives are
aware that a green color in the white
of eggs is due to the presence of bill
lions and billions of certain species
of bacteria that make a green color
ing matter. Eggs with this greenish
tint, even though the yolk seem to
be perfect, are not fit for food.
As long as the Departments sup
ply lasts, these charts will be fur
nished free upon application to the
editor and chief, Division of Publica-
lions, Washington, D. c. The chart
alone will be found to be not merely
of great service to the housewife
wishing to test the eggs she is to
serve to her own family, but also
of commercial value to farmers,
country merchants or egg shippers
who wish to buy and handle eggs on
an accurate quality basis.
The great spoilage of eggs in this
country is due to bad handling and
is quite unnecessary. Part of the
remedy is to teach everybody, from
the farmer to the consumer, how to
tell the quality of an egg without
breaking the shell. The country buy
ers, the middlemen and the housewife
Judge of the quality of the inside OF
a cucumber or an eggplant, or any
other vegetable, by the appearance
of the outside and the firmness of its
texture.
1t is not possible to tell the quail.
tv of an egg by looking at the shell
though it is safe to say that the eggs
with shiny shells are apt to be aged
A fresh egg looks as though it hac
been busted with a very fine powder
the "bloom," as the egg man say
But in order to know what is inside
the shell the egg must be held in front
of a strong light-such as an cleo.
trio bulb furnishes-which comes
through a hole about Ia inches il
diameter. The room must be dark
When the egg is held close against
the hole the bright light renders its
contents visible, and the quality is
indicated by the appearance of The
yolk, the white and the air space a
the blunt end. There are many egg
candles" on the market, but the
housewife can easily make one fol
herself by cutting a hole in small
paste board box, which is slipped ovel
an electric light bulb. If gas or al
oil lamp is the source of light a Iii
box or can should be used.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
THE RAT MENACE.

Surgeon General Blue, who IS
spending thousands of dollars to
rats and check a panic and paraly-
sis of business at New Orleans, on
account of the bubonic plague, says
the time is coming when there will
be no rats in the United States.
The rat carries the bubonic plague
through the medium Of fees. Sin
gular to say the rat can have the
germs of the plague and yet not
suffer from it. The flea bites the rat,
sucks the blood filled with germs, and
should it bite human being, then
trouble follows. In from two to
eight days after being bitten the per
son will have a tired, aching feeling,
with slight fever and headache.
Then the glands in the grOins and I'M
der the arms and neck begin to swell,
and anyone who has had boils knows
the suffering. The boils are easy to
handle in comparison. The swellings
break and run 1t is a dreadful dis
ease and has killed millions of peo-
pie in all parts of the world,
Rats abound along the water fronts
of cities They come and 90 on ships,
They are known to carry dozen OF
more external and internal parasites
Not only do they carry diseases, but
they are the most destructive nam
NAL known to man. The annual cost
in the food eaten and wasted, and
the property destroyed runs into
hundreds Of millions of dollars.
The Palatka water front is alive
with rats. 1t is a breeding place fol
these pests. Are we to allow thi.
menace to continue? We know the
danger-now shall we let it go al
that
Not only are the old wharves anC
boats breeding places for rats, bu
flies and mosquitoes issue forth il
vast numbers from the garbage t
annoy and carry disease from thi
rat infested frontage. Has our cit!
government no authority to act? L
not let an appeal be made to thu
State Board of Health. The presi
dent of that board lives here. lie
PaIatka get in line with other progress
sive communities and put up a goo,
front.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Z Z = I. z Z I. = itf = = = Z Z = I.
!. Fl Saturday
Sernlollette:

+ "The Lord is faithful, who shall +
+ establish you and keep you from =
+ evil."-II. Thess. 3:3. +
+ We may read over words many +
+ times, and yet not really read +
+ them. And then, some day, they +
+ suddenly stand out in high relief +
= above everything else on the page. +
+ So, with wondrous sweetness and +
4 strength, recently rose these words 4
+ on the plane Of our page. They +
+ were as wine and tonic. Above +
+ everything else on the page, they I.
+ blest. They gripped and held +
+ heart and mind. One is almost Z
+ afraid to touch such words with +
J. any comment of his lest he mar +
+ them for others by his clumsy eff 4
+ fort. Get the words themselves; +
+ get their innermost meaning, and +
T. let that bless and strengthen you +
IF you forget all else that may +
f. be written. +
+ One great meaning of these =
+ words is Gods faithfulness. "The +
+ Lord is faithful" This assertion +
+ is backed by every type of writer +
+ in the word of God. The great =
T. Lawgiver wrote to Israel "The +
+ Lord thy God is the God, the +
+ faithful God, keeping covenant and +
+ mercy" That defines Gods faith =
+ fulness. 1t is keeping covenant. +
+ The Psalmist gives the dimen- +
+ sons of the Divine faithfulness +
+ thus: "Thy faithfulness reacheth +
+ unto the clouds" Heighth and +
+ depth! "Thy faithfulness is unto +
+ all generations" Length and +
+ BREADTH So great prophets, evan +
+ gelsts and apostles assert this t
+ blessed truth. "The Lord is faith +
+ full" This truth is in that other +
+ book of God-Nature. Why can +
+ man make a clock? Because +
+ God who ordained day and night +
+ is faithful to His ordinance. Why +
I. can the farmer sow in faith and +
+ rest in hope? Because He who +
+ promised seed time and harvest t
!. is faithful. Why can the scien- T
+ fist reckon on the constancy of the :
1. law of cause and effect? Be- +
+ cause God is faithful. Human ex- t
+ perience lends its testimony to +
!. Gods faithfulness. Sarah in her I
+ old age nursed the heir of the t
+ promises because God is faithful: T
+ Israel inherited the promised land +
+ because God is faithful. In the :!
+ fullness of time Christ came be 7
i. cause God is faithful. And mill +
+ ions more have testified this truth +
FIN their lives. y
+ Moody, looked into an old lady's :!
+ Bible, saw it marked in many +
+ places with this sign. 1T and p."'
+ Asked the meaning by Moody, she =
+ replied, "You see these are all !
1. promises. And It and p means =
!. tried and proved" She had test +
+ ed God; and with the writer of +
4. Hebrews she could say, "He is r
1. faithful that promised"
1. "Tell of His wondrous faithful +
+ ness,
f. And sound His power abroad; +
+ Sing the sweet promise of His +
+ grace,
1. And the performing God" +
+ + + r + r + r + + + + + + I.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
THE BELL AT LLOYDS.
Tolls Whom a Ship ls Posted IN tho
Chamber OF Horrors.

] otfe WHTn q oTtp 10 FooVoo vi hf'o
Chamber OF Horrors.
One of the most interesting Of bells
is the one at Lloyd's, the great Lon
don marine insurance exchange. MS
ringing has more significance than the
sound of most bells. for II is rung
only when a vessel is reported lost OF
when ship long overdue and ceessa
cred lost Unexpectedly reaches port
The bell now used at Lloyd's belong
ed to the Lutine, which was wrecked
near the Zuyder Zee in October, 1790,
while taking specie from English ner
chants to Hamburg
There is room at Lloyd's known as
the chamber of horrors. and here are
posted the kilograms that report casa
alties at sea. Unimportant accfienes
are not entered in the loss book. but
the most serious are not only entered
there. but are cried aloud by an of
fetal who stands in gorgeous uniform
beneath the sounding board.
When after weeks disappearance
It is feared that a vessel has gone
down the owners make an application
to the committee mt Lloyd's to have
the ship posted. That is done by post.
ing mp a notice in the chamber Of ,hor
rors which says that the authorities
would be glad of information concern
ing the boat
A week elapseS. and then second
notice is put up, saying that the boat
has not since been heard OF. When
you read that Il ship has been post
ed" as missing you may know that
declaration is upon the notice board at
Lloyd's. On that day the insnFaH
money is payable. and all who WERE
upon her are legally considered dead
When a ship is posted the old Lutins
bell is tolled once In the very unasn
al event of vessel arriving in port
after being posted the bell Is struck
twice. and the caller makes his an
nouncement from the rostrum AMID
GREATNESS silence.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14

During the last months of his life
Mozart imagined a man stood always
by him TO compel him to compose his
own requiem. Mozart played his harp
sichord when three years of age, at
the age of five composed concertos and
at six made "A concert tour in Vienna.
Extremely nervous, the musician was
so weak that at times he would faint
without any apparent cause - New
York Telegram
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Tennis az a Test.

Tennis is a sure revealer of charac-
ter. Three sets with a man suffice to
give one a working knowledge of his
moral equipment; six. of his chief
mental traits. and dozen, Of that
most important and usually vefed part
of him. his subconscious personality.
Young people of opposite sexes are
sometimes counseled to take long
railway journey together before decid.
ing on a matrimonial merger. But |
would respectfully advise them rather
to play singles" with each other be-
fore venturing upon continuous game
of doubles.-Robert Fl. Schauffler In
Atlantic.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
EXAGGERATED Evils of Insomnia.

OF the five minor exciting causes OF
functional nerve disease insomnia is
the chief, and its intrinsic evil effect Is
invariably exaggerated by the impor.
lance attached to it by the sufferer
himself If man does not mind lying
awake quite half the mischief is OBJ
waited, but in nervous people the idea
Of fatigue doubles the actual exhaus-
don.-Schofeld's Functional Nerve
Diseases
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
WOMAN IN HISTORY.
She Appears to Have Got Herself on
Good Many Pages.

Good Many Pages.
Some advocates Of equal suffrage and
feminine progress seem to think that
woman has not been given her proper
place and due credit in history.
And yet, don't you know, we had
not observed the historic discrimina
ton against woman! On the contrary.
the place of woman in history has look
ed pretty good to US.
What about Joan OF Arcf And Char.
lotte Corday? And Rebecca the jew
ess? Anything Mandy pnmby in them?
Who said Martha Washington and
Florence Nightingalef Then there are
don't let everybody speak at once
Ruth and Rachel and Potiphar's wife
not to mention Lots.
You bet Caudle had no contempt Tot
Mrs. Caudle, nor Muntalini for the
madame.
We need not 20 so far back as Cleo
patra and AspaSia except to remark
that in their day they cut a rather wide
swath around Alexandria and Athens.
and appear no small bunch of radisheS
on both the dramatic stage and the
historic page MOl Pitcher was a hum
mrr in American history ana Sal Jen
uiugs a IuIIrr in English history: Meg
MrrriIrS was no Slourh Does Cath
uriue of Russia count for nothing. nor
Maria Theresa of Austria. nor Eliza
beth ana Victoria OF Britain. among
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
HORRORS OF WAR.
Correspondents Describe the Battles
Around Liege.


The London Daily Telegraph's
Rotterdam correspondent, in dis
patch filed, says: "How deadly was
the task the Germans undertook in
rebuilding the bridge over the river
Mouse Is shown by the Rotterdam
Courant's correspondent at Mas
tricht.
"A pontoon bridge, built by the
Germans, he says, was shot away so
that further troops could not cross it.
The Twenty fifth and Nineteenth
German regiments, which supported
the bridge builders. were moved down
by the quick firing guns. A wound
ed Belgian was asked how the Ger
mans had Jared and replied in one
word. 'annihilated.'
THE wounded who can be trans
ported by rail are to be brought from
the hospitals at Maastricht to ak
MAS
Another correspondent who visited
the battletields at Wise and Liege
writes:
Not far from the little Dutch from
tier village Of Mesch, | passed the re-
mains of big German camp. Dead
soldiers, civilians and horses and
wagons. carts, automobiles and bicy-
cles lay in confusion. Germans and
Belgians lay side by side-evidence
that there was fighting man to man.
Houses had been sacked because the
soldiers wished to avenge themselves
on civilians who fired on them.
"Civiians who did not fight are al
lowed to pass, but German guards re-
fuse to allow this courtesy to Bel
gian civilians who were engaged il
the battle. Poor wretches, they must
wait where they lie, not daring to
move, for they declare they will be
shot at.
German Officers Dispirited.
Il met a party Of German officers
in an automobile. They held their
revolvers in their hands and scru-
tinized me closely. They appeared tc
be dispirited because of the fact that
twice during the last two days there
had been a panic and German sol.
diers had fired on comrades by mis-.
take They Asked me not to speak
in the presence of the wounded.
After the constant fighting the sol,
diers were exhausted, but they lay
by the side of their horses fully
clothed, ready to be reused at a mo.
ment's notice"
Morale of PrussianS Broken.
Telegraphing from Brussels. tn,
correspondent of the London Daily
Chronicle says of the fighting a
Licge:
The Germans tried to overpowe
the forts by finginG immense bodie
Of men against them in mass forma
ton. The las PruSSian assault o.
BoncellCs reminded one of the earl
days of Port Arthur. The infantr
melted away before the machine gun
of the defenders.
The morale of the Prussians wa
entirely broken toward the end Of tn
general attack. The casualties anon
the German officers were considerable
The attackers ran short of rife am
munition. Wounded Germans declare
they had had no food for two days.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Strong for Knott

Leesburg Commercials: The pro-
nouncement of Hon. w. v Knott that
he will be a candidate for governor
two years from now has been most
favorably received by the people Of
Florida; add to this the enthusiasm
of his friends and it looks as if he
will abide for four years among the
red hills of old Leon as our first citi-
zen, following the incumbency of
Gov. Trammell. 1t is with feeling
Of nride that we weave sentiment
Of this kind around the altar Of
friendship, for in memory the mind
goes back to thirty years ago when
we first met Bill Knott and learned
to admire him for numerous excel
lent qualities of mind and heart. Since
then our opinion has not changed.
Bill Knott is one of the best men that
ever contributed excellence to the
ranks of lofty citizenship, and if the
people of Florida want good gov
ernor they would do well to bear him
in mind.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Spoiled His Chanoa.

"Why don't you propose to that girl:
You like her. and I'm sure she would
have you"
"All true, but there is an insuperable
obstacle between US"
"All family Of religious objections
can be overcome"
Nothing like that. got little too
gay when first met her and told her
| was getting $50 week whereas !
am getting only $25."-Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14

The Corn Products Refining Co. of
Chicago reports profits of $1,7O3,-
1874 for the six months ending June
goth. This company makes glucose
from corn and mixing it with south
ern cane syrup in proportions of 80
per cent glucose and 20 per cent cane
syrup, passes it off for syrup. Gu
cose has little nutritious value, be-
ing a cheap filler.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14

H. H, Richardson Of Jacksonville,
now European general agent Of the
Southern Settlement and Develop
ment organization, is marDoned in
Washington on account Of the war in
Europe. from whence he expected
to send immigrants to the South. We
have always had our doubts, howev-
er, about the value of anything ne
would do in that quarter at any time.
There's always people who want to
do big things off at the end of the
rainbow,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
No Hard Times in Florida

Orlando Sentinel; War or no war
there will be no hard times in Flori-
d.. The State is passing through
one of the most prosperous summers
in it's history. The cotton crop is
big. the orange and vegetable crops
will bring millions, the banks are in
better condition than ever before. The
next time a man prophesies disaster
in your presence just ask him what
he expects to make out of it If he
should succeed in talking people in
to believing a panic is coming.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14

Like Cadmus in the Greek fable.
who sowed dragons teeth and saw
armed men spring from the earth,
Franz-Josef has seen legions Of war
riors mastering from the grave Of
Franz-Ferdinand. And with all Eu-
rope melting into one welter of war,
Franz-Josef will never see the end
of it. He will lead the first peace
he has ever known among the royal
bones of his ancestors, possibly long
before the decisive battles are fought.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Ground Flat.

An old couple from the country were
In town on a holiday, and on going
along one Of the streets they saw above
one of the stair doors james Simpson,
Ground Flat" when the old woman
was heard to remark: sic death.
Surely he's been run cor wi a steam
roller. "-London Mail.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Something New

Clearwater Sun: Sarasota will set
out one thousand eucalyptus trees
along the curb line of their streets
for shade and ornamentation. Don't
do it. The roots of the eucalyptus
seek water and the moisture OF wa
ter pipes attracts them. The, roots
wind about the water pipes and ultl-
mately break them at the joints.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Retter Than HAT.

Girls ought TO be taught how to
stand and hold themselves. suppose.
Mrs. Comrup you want your daugh
ter to have a good carriageY
Indeed, she don't need none We
can afford 10 buy her an automobile
now Do Baltimore American
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Where They Differed.

"I always try TO hook at everything
from both sides"
Your wife tells Il different story
"How's that?"
"She says you haven't seen the in
side Of a church for ears."-ChicagO
Herald
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14

J. Fred de Berry, Plant City pub
Usher and politician, has failed in
business. But he didn't expect to
stay in business so long as he has; he
expected to go to congress, where
failures are the rule.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14

This is the man-Prinzip. He fired
the shot that killed Archduke Franz
Ferdinand of Austria. He is the man
who set the hay-stack on fire. Mrs.
OLeary's COW will not be more Gel
ebrated than he.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Easily Remedied

Creditor-still no money? Look here,
I'm mighty tired Of this everlasting
waiting Debtor-TiredI John, fetch
a chair for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bfattar.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
They Brush the Clouds.

Mr.. Foggy London-What causes the
delightfully."- clear weather you have In
New York? Mr. Man Hattan-Sky.
scrapers, dear boy.-Life.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14

Gibbs-So you send your wife abroad
for three months every year. Its great
to have money. Dibbs- Yes. money
is certainly great blessing. -Stam.
ford Cbaparral
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Safety First,

The reason we wouldn't hire a man
who never makes mistakes is because
he would soon have our job.-Galves-
ton News.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Lots of Money

Lakeland Telegram: With a bill
ion dollars more in currency to be
issued by the Government to meet
the existing crisis, and no chance for
Wall Street to corner it under the new
Federal currency system, there cant
be any shortage of money in this
country, no matter what happens in
Europe.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14
Comments Of State Press,


Orlando Sentinel: Editor Frank l..
Mayes, of the Pensacola Journal, was
offered the appointment as postmas-
ter at Pensacola and refused the JOB.
He is the only editor of that kind in
captivity.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14

Labor relieves US from three great
eyils-ennui, vice and want.-French
ProvPrb
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-08-14

There's no slipping up hill again and
no standing still when you've begun to
slip dUwn.-George Eliot.