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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
SEA MINES IN WARFARE.
The Result When Vessel Strikes On
Of These Deadly Engines.

The Result When a vessel strikes Che
OF These Deadly Engines.
To merchantmen. to the smaller and
older warships-tO everything tia!
floats except the very highest and NOR,
recent products of the shipbuilder'S art
the mine presents the danger of com
plete and almost instant humiliation.
The rigidity Of the ship is in itself an
element of danger. for the water sur
rounding it is incOmpressible.
If the skin and frame could give way
without rupture and permit the enor'
mously expanding gases 1000 times
the volume Of the solid eXplOsive) to
transmit their energy in such way as
simply to push the ship aside and thus
find a way to the surface, the damage
might be slight.
But this cannot be. There is no sue.
elasticity available. And the expansion
is so nearly instantaneous that push
ing the ship aside is physically impos.
sible. Therefore the structure must
break, releasing the gases first into the
interior and then by lines of least re
sistance finally up into the air.
This action is completely instantane
Gus. 1t blows off hatch covers and deck
plates. twists massive steel members
into unrecognizable shapes, spreads
havoc broadcast. 1t transmutes proud
ship into a sinking mass of wreckage-
a happy passenger saloon into a sham
bles-carries mourning into hundred
homes. Such is the effect of Mines
Sidney Graves Koon in Leslie's.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
Sick Headache.

Sick headache is nearly always
caused by disorders of the stomach
Correct them and the periodic attacks
of sick headache will disappear. Mrs
John Bishop of Roseville, Ohio, writes:
about a year ago l was troubled
with Indigestion and had sick head
ache that lasted for two or three days
at a time. / doctored and tried a
number of remedies but nothing
helped me until during one of those
sick spells a friend advised me to
take Chamberlain's Tablets. This
'medicine relieved me in a short time.
For sale by all dealers.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04

Don't wait until you reach the sta
ton, a few minutes before it is time
for the train to start, before you find
out the time for starting. arriving at
your destination and the time of con-
nection. Other passengers wish to
take the same train and must buy
tickets. And don't argue the question
of the price of your ticket with the
ticket seller. The price is settled by
the managers and directors of the road.
If the price is unjust, address COM
munication to them and stay at home
till the price is satisfactory or pay it
and keep still.-Exchange.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
ONE VIEW OF WAR.
And the Question Of the Mother of the
Slain Soldier Boy.

Slain Soldier Boy.
When / but consider the word war
feel shock. as if one spoke to me Of
witchcraft, inquisition, some dead and
distant thing. abominable, monstrous,
unnatural.
When we hear of cannibals we smile
with pride and proclaim our superior
ity over those savages.
What are savages, real savages-
those who fight to eat the victims or
those who fight to kill, merely to kill?
Those youthful soldiers of the line
speeding along yonder are destined to
death. Just as the 1ocks Of sheep driven
along the roads by butcher. They are
destined to fall ON plain, their heads
cleft by a stroke from sword or their
breast pierced by a bullet. And these
are young men who could work, pro-
duce, be useful. Their fathers are old
and poor; their mothers. who during
twenty years have loved and worship
ed them, as mod\rrs can worship, will
learn in six months or perhaps year
that the son, the child. the big child,
brought up with so much trouble, with
so much money, with so much love,
was thrown into hole like dead dog
after his body, riddled by bullet, had
been trampled and crushed into pulp
by the charge of cavalry. Why have
they killed her boy, her noble boy, her
only hope, her pride. her life?
She cannot tell Yes whyHGuy de,
Maupassant.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
Germans Battle
Despite Losses
SUNS AND THE UNIVERSE.
And the Theory Of One Great Central
Blazing Orb.

And the Theory of One Great Central
Blazing Orb.
That very high. imposing. mathe-
matcally proved science celestial me-
chanics-demonStrate that there is 40
necessity for colossal. dominating
central sun The idea of central sun
controlling the entire sidereal universe
was advanced by what are called meta
physicians. totally opposite in nature
from mathematicians For one guesses;
the other either proves or admits that
he cannot
If the universe is finite 1t has pre-
else center. Photos OF the entire
celestial vault reveal at least 100000
200 giant suns, our sun being one OF
the smaller And these or some OF
them are known to be two quadrilion
miles apart Mechanics know that
the entire congeries of suns has cen
ter of gravity. And it knows that lis
center of gravitation. even If e, 2ty
and void, dominates all motions all
the millions of suns around it
But all suns move as bees In a
swarm, and no such immense body has
been sensed in space. Kapteyn's dis
covery of drifting of suns in opposite
directions may indeed be the beginning
of a discovery of rotation around a
center. but the rotation would as well
ba mointa iDa6 If rho cpntpr iS an aDSC-
lutte vacuum.
If the universe is infinite it has no
center, and the above line of argument
backed by rigid mathematics cannot
apply.-Edgar Lucien Larkin In New
York American.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
Post Office For
War Prisoners
DUMDUM BULLETS.
They Get Their Name From the Town
Where They Originated.

They Get Their Name From the Town
Where They Originated.
Dumdum bullets have their name
from a little town in India, near CAL
cutta, where the ammunition factory
for the British government In India is
situated For the benefit Of Afghans,
possible Indian mutineers, negroes and
other barbarians the British had bull
let manufactured here which is half
covered with steel. but with soft
leaden nose. When discharged from
modern rifle of high power this soft
nose expands. or mushrooms" turn
ing the bullet in the air into horrible
bullying object. which tears through the
flesh of a man. surely bleeding him to
death.
The purpose of this bullet is to kill
the man every time. The purpose Of
the ordinary humane bullet of modern
warfare which is wholly incased in
steel or nickel, is merely to put the
man out of the fight. 1t makes a small,
clean wound. If it does pot strike
vital part the bullet may go entirely
through the man without wounding
him seriously. But it shuts him out
of the fight for the time being
The British military authorities In
India considered that a humane bullet
like that would be of little use to fight
savages with. and therefore, at Dunn
dunn, they manufactured the soft nosed
expanding horror. But the interna-
national conference at The Hague in
1899 decided against the use of this
bullet in war and adopted rule for
bidding it.-New York Mail.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04

A Broad street employer of a tenn
peramental stenographer is man of
practical sense and real kindness who
wants the girl to succeed at her bust
ness. The other day he called her into
his private office and had fatherly
talk with her. Later one of her col
leagues in the same building met her in
the elevator.
Say, Gladys" she said, whats this
about your boss having heart to heart
talk with you this morningT
Heart nothing" responded the TEN.
peramental creature, tossing her blond
locks like an oriflamme of war. what
he handed to me hadn't no more heart
in it than there is in a slab of liver at
a ten cent beanery. See"
Which is one reason why girl stenog-
raphers can be hired at SO a week
New York Sun.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
Germans Weakening Says French

Notwithstanding up the situation
Field Marshal Sir John French says:
LAS l close this dispatch, signs are
in evidence that we are possibly in
the last stages of the battle from
Ypres to Armentieres. For several
days the artillery fire of the enemy
has slackened and his infantry at
tacks practically have ceased. In re-
marking upon the general military sit
uation of the allies it does not seem
to be clearly understood that the op
erations in which we have been en-,
Gagged, embrace all central Europe"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
Selim the Grim,

Sultan Yawuz Selim (Selim the GRIM
is certainly not a pleasant Turkish
potentate to recall. When he created
his secretary Mohammed grand vizier
the poor man had to be bastinadoed
into accepting the honor. For "Mayst
thou be Selim's vizier" was well
understood equivalent of the time for
Strike you dead" Selim loved litera-
ture. however The poem which his
brother wrote, in the hours grace
granted before he was strangled with
every other possible rival to Selim,
moved the sultan to tears. But it did
not save the poet.-London Chronicle.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
LAW OF GRAVITY VIOLATED.
Conditions Under Which Water Ac-
tuaIIy Flows Upward.

tuaIly Flows Upward.
There are conditions under which
water actually flows upward and rises
dipped into water the column inside
will be above the level of the sur
rounding surface. Moreover, if a tube
of half the diameter be substituted the
column doubles its height. The water
creeps along the inside of the tube,
owing to the adhesion. and forms a
cup shaped depression at the top.
An explanation is not difficult. 1t
can be proved automatically that if
the diameter of Il circle be diminished
one-half the circumference is also re-
duced to that extent. while the area is
one-fourth of its former value. The
circumference of the column of water
being reduced one-half, its contact
with the glass. and hence the adhesive
force, is also diminished to that extent,
while the cross section. and hence the
weight, is decreased to fourth of
what it was before Therefore the Sec
OH Colulnn Gan pe t"i'e Ihc hSiSh' Va
the first without exceeding the lifting
power.
Remarkable as the underlying prin-
cipleS of this phenomenon undoubtedly
are. nature made use of them long be
fore man made their discovery. Every
tree and flower adds its testimony.
The core Of tree or plant, instead of
being single open channel, consists
of a spongelike substance containing
many miniature tunnels through which
the sap and moisture collected by the
roots flow upward in small rivulets.
rising higher and higher in sheer de-
fiance of the great law of gravity.-St.
Louis Republic.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
Her AlimonX Exnlained.

Miss Curley kept private school and
one morning was interviewing a new
pupil.
What does your father do to earn
his living?" the teacher asked the little
girl.
Please, ma'am," was the prompt re
ply, he doesn't live with US. Ny
mother supports me-
well, then" asked the teacher
'hOw does your mother earn her liv
ing?"
Why" replied the little girl in Al
artless manner. ''she gets paid for stay
ing away from father. london Stand
ard.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04

Deep-seated coughs that resist or
binary remedies require both external
and internal treatment. If you buy
a dollar bottle of BALLARD'S
H0REHOUND SYRUP you get the
two remedies you need for the price
iof one. There is HERRICK'S RED
PEPPER P0RUS PLASTER for the
chest, free with each bottle. Sold
by Ackerman-Stewart Drug Co.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
Safety First.

Prospective Father-in-law - You've
got some nerve to ask me for an ad-
vance payment of the dowry. | think
you are fortune hunter. The Count
oh, no. monsieur; am only what you
Americans call re safety first" crank.
Puck.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
A Horse on Him.

College Youth writing to father)-
Dear dad, send me $500. Money makes
the mare go.
Father (by return maiD-Yours re-
ceived. Enclosed $50. That ought to be
enough for a jackass. - Boston Tran
script.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
Sick Two Years With Indigestion.

1.-TWO years ago / was greatly ben
Gifted through using two or three bot
ties of Chamberlain's Tablets" writes
Mrs. S. A. Keller, Elida, Ohio. "Be-
fore taking them ! was sick for two
years with indigestion" Sold by
all dealers.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
A Veteran,

The chef was interviewing the young
man who had applied for work.
Have you had any experience in the
lunch business?" he asked.
why, l should say So" replied the
energetic youth. 1--WE been lunching
for almost twenty years. "-Lippincott's.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04

"In the doldrums" is a phrase more
often employed than understood. 1t
refers to belt of Gains contiguous to
the equator and situate between the
course of the southeast and northeast
trade winds. Long periods with scarce
ly stir in the air and torrid sky
above. broken by sudden squalls and
violent storms Of short duration. make
the doldrums dreaded area for sailing
ships.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
RattIesnakes,

Advancing civilization is fast dimin-
ishing the rattlesnake on the American
continent. There are said to be twelve
species and thirteen varieties. While
the poison of this snake is usually
fatal to man, it never attempts to
strike unless it is molested.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
Literary Note.

II must confess that | don't under,
stand Henry James. His style is so in.
volved."
"I'll tell you how to go about reading
him. First run over a life insurance
policy. After that Henry James will
seem lucid and lear."-Pittsburgh
Post.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
Tommy's Share.

"Wel. Tommy, what part o: the
chicken will you haveT
"Why. paw. you know I always take
the back when there's company."-St
Louis Republic.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
This Is Not the WAY,

Wife with magazine,-Here's an ar.
ticle on "How to Avoid War" Hub
What does it say-remain single?-Bos
ton Transcript.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04

A good conscience is to the mino
what health is to the body.-Addison.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04

The deeper a man is in debt the
less he cares for expenses.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04

AS man grows older his bump Oh
conceit gradually becomes a dent.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04

Wheeling in the lungs indicates
that phlegm is obstructing the air
passages. BILLIARDS HORE.
HOUND SYRUP loosens the phlegm
so that it can be coughed up and
elected. Price 25c, SOC and S1.00 pei
bottle. Sold by Ackerman-Stewart
Drug Co. an
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
From a Soldiers Father.

This letter is from the father of a
French soldier:
Paris. 80 Sept, 1914
NJ le President - Under the circum-
stances through which we are passing. so
painful for all. l come to ask you from
your goodness to give me the following
information:
My dear child was wounded at the same
time and at the side Of his captain. This
Is the only information 1 can furnish you
which came to us from a comrade II is
now thirty-nine days that we are without
news. In the name Of pity and of hu
manity pray you let me know the truth.
painful as 1t may be-
My dear child was of the One Hundred
and Fiftieth OF the line. Ninth company.
Fortieth division. last garrison ST Mihiel
The deepest thanks from the heart, from
his mother. his brothers and his sister.
Accept. monsieur with all my respect.
the deep debt of gratitude from a father
who weeps. (Signe0 -.
At the present time the bureau Of
information is receiving about 10000
letters of inquiry each day Among
the letters are many containing money
to be sent to prisoners of war. Like
wise there come great number of let.
tiers from soldiers In hospitals and In
foreign prisons with requests that they
be sent to their families.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-14
6nnnlull1 Star Bull ptla
EDITOR


should expose themselves to such danger, but
the difficulty has been with the leaders of the
American Ambulance to keep their associates
out of the range of fire. The American Ambu-
lance train is often eheered when it appears
close to the trenches. The men stay at the
front week or ten days and are then relieved
by others from Paris. A repair car accompan-
les the ambulances at the front and any acct
dent to machine is thus almost Immediately
repaired Enough duplicate parts are kept in
stock in this repsir car to construct a new ma
chine outright.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-14

A pessimisHs Which results from touch upon the
pocket nerue IS just uRsound an optimism whieh
rests ITS case solely upon the state Of trade Eeher
touches fundamental point, and neither is rorthy
Of more than passing consideration. Pessimism is
only justified rhen the foundations of he gorern-
Ade,a are being undermined and the safeguards of
tie constitution occfurned and disregdrded. Opti-
misal Is only justified When is based upon national
progress born Of unity Of purpose and confidence IN
TIC integrity Of all The factors making u2 compiler
national Efe.-Harry A. Wheeler, Chicago banker
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-14
CHARTER DISCUSSION BENEFITS

Henry NJ. Waite, the city manager of Dayton,
Ohio, recently told the National Municipal
League concerning the city manager plan 'tthat
! its permanenee depends upon intelligent citi-
zenship, and their continued determination to
keep partisan politics out of municipal affairs "
Under almost any form of municipal govern
ment an Intelligent citizenship" and ''con-
tinued determination to keep partisan politics
out of municipal affairs will result in good
government and in real progress. -.
The advantage of the city manager plan to
mainland municipalities is due to other reasons.
1t is due to the fact that the plan itself quick
ems the interest of the intelligent citizenship,
because these intelligent citizens see business
like government structure and are able to tix
responsibility for failings. It is due to the fact
that under this plan nom artisanship is fairly
easy to compass. 1t is due to the fact that
under this plan the man who is charged with
the actual running of the city has less of the
hampering bonds of party obligations upon
his hands than under the older plans. {.
& Whether the city manager plan would work
out successfully in Honolulu no man knows.
But it is certain that the present agitation for
a new city charter is gong to be beneficial,
whether or not it results IN new charter The
agitation will stir up just that interest of IN
telligent citizenship, and recommend to public
favor Just that determination to keep partisan
politics out Of municipal affairs, which City
Manager Waite has found SO beneficial in the,
reconstruction Of food-stricken Dayton.
Because this agitation and discussion Isl
bound to be educational and enlightening, the
move for a charter convention is wise move.
The reviews of the charter convention bill in
the Legislature next spring; the campaign and,
election of convention delegates; their prelim-
mary and final debates over the drafting of,
the charter bill the presentation of this charter
bill to the Legislature of 191 all viii awaken
public interest; will stimulate the feeling of
personal participation in the growth and de-
velopment of Honolulu
"A new charter will almost certainly be,
adopted. Half Of its benefits will have been
gained in the preparatory discussion.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-14
ORDERS OF THE
HAWAIIAN DEPT.
December IL, 1914.

ass.sE. p D6C0IDDef IL, 1S1fs
1 Special Orders No. 236.
2. Pvt. Gaetano G. Bonofiglio, Com
'pany F, I'd Infantry, Fort Shafter, T.
H., is transferred to Company /, Sd
Battalion of Engineers, at that post.
He viii report to the commanding Of.
ficer of the organization to which
transferred, for duty.
3. Upon arrival in this department.
pursuant to paragraph "a, Special Or
ders No. 247. War Department, 1914.
Sergt First-C Glass George G. Young,
Hospital Corps, viii proceed to the
Schofield Barracks. T. H., reporting
upon arrival to the commanding off
Ger, for duty. The Quartermaster
Corps will furnish the necessary trans.
portation. The journey is necessary
for the public service.
Special Orders No. 237. 3.
81 Pvt. Jesse Marcus, Troop X, 9Th
Cavalry, Schofield Barracks, r. H., is
transferred to Company G. I'd Infan.
try. he Will proceed to Fort Shafter,
T. H., reporting upon arrival to the
commanding officer Of the organiza.
ton to which transferred. for duty.
The expense of this transfer will be
borne by the soldier.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-14

sufficient means for comfortable ex-
istenes. afid ether similarly beReGi-
cient things BGt peace and the other
states CT being just mentioned are
net always or even often solety with
In ones own control R may truth
fully be said that eternal vigilance Is
the price which must be paid in order
to obtain the desirable things of life
and to defend them.
In the early history Of our nation
there was u natural, almost inevitable,
adherence of military force, because
II connected military despotism. Most,
Is not all. CT the early settlers in this
country came from nations where
few powerful persons tyrannically I'M
posed their will upon the people by
means OF military power. or course
all this has long since passed into
history. No reasonable person in this
country today has the slightest shad
: ow Of fear of military despotism. nor
OF any interference whatever by mill
tAry force in the conduct of civil al
fairs.
1t also seems proper, in passing,
to refer to the frame of mind OF those
who use the word 'militarism' as the
embodiment of the doctrine Of brute
force and loosely apply IL to any or
ganized. preparation Of military force,
and therefore, deprecate any adequate
military preparation because it is a
step in the direction of the condemn
ed 'militarism.' Eve:y nation must
have adequate force to protect itself
from domestic instruction, to enforce,
its laws and to repel invasions; that
is, every nation that has similar char
acteristics to those of a self-respecting
man. If ii prepares and maintains
more military force than is necessary
for the purposes just named, then 1t
is subject to the conviction, in the
public opinion of the world, of having
embraced 'militarism, unless it in
tends aggression for cause which
the public opinion of the world con-
ceives TO be righteous one. To the
extent, however, that it confines it's
military preparedness to the purposes
first mentioned, there is neither war,
rant nor justification in Characters:
ing such action as 'militarism.'
Discussion Of Preparation.
Equally useless, in my view, is the
discussion frequently INDUCED in a.
~ doos Mt tand :, .vo;S NO. tarrn
s,,cb d,so".s;on ."sa,aas, haco,se> 80
d. o. W. ara oonne-naS wsatsvsr
aono,ns,, Ter, ~ .aaohad 1890
wnMId not attao. 80 dn.n S,nna q e
NJ. " MT 80 80" - s"aaast anu rn;I,.srS
= ranar.tion - ~ eet,on's rooanrcos
boupnd "' .ha. ahanInta,u assan,;oI nm
AZ. au,,tina oonS;t;ons a. nras,io-
Of whethar mora extensive nransration
For tho rrs,noSa' sc ayoid;ns uar would