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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-25

being done by the board of trade; that
wasn't strange, when you consider
that the great body of boards own
members were also ignorant. The
chamber of commerce is composed Of
young men in large part, young men
who have recently come on the stage
of action and who are moved by the
spirit of progress; the same spirit
that the old board has been instru-
mental in encouraging. These young
men are workers and when they get
into the new and amalgamated BODY
lust you wa their smoke; there'l
be something adding.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-06-25

The man who makes good doesn't
have to prove it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

It IS depressing thing to realize that we are beyond the normal, natural effect of great events of any character, but it is true. Now and then we might feel in- clned to thrill or enthuse, but we gaze at the faces about us, each covered by that mpenetrable crust of cold indiffer- ence. and we assume it likewise-for are We not in RomeY
 At the Winter Garden just now fair coinedienne is nightly singing that there Is "A Little Bit of Everything on Broad way Nothing was ever more untrue. If the song included all of Broadway, from Battery park to Albany N. Y., there might be something of 'truthinit, for up Leyopd the northern bank of the Harlem river, north of. Van Cortlandt park. one may stand rpon this same old Broadway and gaze at green fields and hills stretched pleasingly out before him But 1t doesn't The song clearly refers to that section of Broadway which lies be- tween Columbus Circle and Madison sqnare, within which gleam the white lights of the Great White Way. the mu- nicipal artery of art-and artificiality.
 And never were people more thoroughly the creatures Of environment than are those who frequesrt this section. The very inhalation of it's atmosphere seems tc act as anaesthctic upon many of their better qualities. These qualities promptly sink into Stupor and the person ir question tecomes q mere mimic, endeavor- ing to do as others do--on Broadway. un- der the erroneous impression that this
 is the life
 Well, ii is the life--the life of sameness the life of linTeaiity, the life of monotons beyond the reach of natural enthusiasm or the courage to give expression anl form thereto, the life of mmicry, the much-lspded and longed for existence o' the Broadwayite. Ii takes away from
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street It was once Martins, later 1t be- came the Cafe de rOpera and still later the Cafe de Paris. Now it is under mass of rubbish. for the old building has been razed and a clothing store is to take its place. It Is another indication of the general trend of business uptown.
 Charity has received setback locally Several of the bread lines are to be dis continued and the Hotel de Gink. where Manhattan has been housing its hoboes is to be closed for the summer. A Farm de Gink is under contemplation, however But the bread line boys are up against it fin earnest
 Everything must either progress or go backward-don't give me credit for that bit of logic. Somebody way back in B. C.. or more likely in A. B. C., got that off but it is true, just the same. And likewise notice that the more we stand for, the more we get especially on the stage. sa.
 I can remember day when, to see a certain kind of dance, one would have to slip quietly into little side tent labeled For Men Only. Now, however. the stage has been putting on dances more and more like that particular nonpedalic performance until, yesternight, I saw the very dapce itself. with all the ernbel- Iishments possible. done before the eyes aof rs,ixed audience of hundreds in one of the best theatres on Broadway. Fur thermcre. if WAS received with the high est approyai judging from the applause which followed
 Ncte--I am not 8 theatrical directory. ' therefore do not propose to answer r.,;.scuiinc requests as to which theatre this dance is tc be found in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

The transportation question here is be- yond control. The elevated is a fight, the subway is bloody carnage and the surface travel is snail progress. It is up to the aerial .avigators to furnish saliva ton Even automobiles must stop Tor long waits at every street intersection' and these Intersections are very close to- gether on the streets running north anu south, there being 20 such blocks 10 each mile.
 COURAGE. When the heart is sore and empty ana
 the world is bare and bleak, When the burden seems too heavy to
 endure, And the roses all have faded from the
 palhd, sunzen cheek, Then a smile is like 1ewei' rare ana
 pure. That. s the time to grin and bear it, and
 to struggle on like men, That's the time to sprinkle sand upon
 the track; ra If you stop to growl and grumble, or
 complain bout 1t then, You will find the wheel of fortune slip
 ping back. Oh. I know 1t seems uneven, and we can
 not understand
 Why one should smile, another shrink
 with fear But this we know--a thorou ughbred plays
 well losing hand, And courage smiles it's sweetest through
 tear. We may not all be winners ir this little
 game of life.
 Nor victora in this struggle that ws
 wage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

the weaker among us our natural selves and substitutes therefore a poor actor whose highest ambition seems to be to be able to correctly ape the manners and customs of others with whom the life of Broadway brings him in contact. sincerely believe that the best attitude for the person from elsewhere to assume toward Gotham is that which will make It appear as a show-a sort Of continuous performance-which 1t is well worth ones s while to see, but which should be left as soon as tho novelty shall have worn away. New York is like the sleeping sickness. At first we realize that we are losing the keener consciousness, but the desire to sluniber is strong within us and grows as we yield to 1t until at last we are cen- tent to Cink into oblivion.
 AN EASTER DAY DAWN. (Re-published, not by. request, but as result of opportunity. Soft silence begins and Luna guards the
 world, a+i
 While far below her in the mellow light. Earth slumbersr meath the star-decked
 robe of night. The brook low murmurs tn iA dream While lovingly the waksful primrost
 near,
 Bends low to catch within her petAl-ear. Some ten1er message that her heart maJ
 keep
 AIS still. when on the earth's far east
 ern rim,
 The first faint promise of the dawn ia
 seen
 Changing to pallor Luna s silver sheen The lustre uf the morning star grows dim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

the fungus growth which he refurred to as his intellect was floating round in spase. He admitted that he was a high strung, ner- vus Suthern gentulman of an old and arr ristocratick fammcrly. He sed that when hc was q ylng man, he was verry popuer and could have married enny girl in his home town didn't ask him wheere his home town was, but he was certainly nook ing the gurls of that village. He sed that in a rashmonent he had married gurl grate- Iy his inferior, and who had not had the ad- vantages he had enjoyed, and she grated on him verry much. Sc sed he had met hur
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Of colse theere air at times a mistake maid. Sulntimes an ambisious yuth will marry gur who is not abull to support him in the style to which he is accustumed, and visc-vcrsy Moor oftin vise-versy. Sumtimes d yung man of nobul famerly will contract marriage i'll a rash momiEt with sum gurl who does not be long to his sosial set--this is indeed d turf situasion- l met one of those kind of yung men not long ago. He was away rum home he sed, trying to drown his sorrow in the flowing bowl. am not sertain that he had drowned his sorrow-but it was quite evvidint that
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under romatick condisions and ran away with hur and maid hur his bride. He sed that at the time he thought she was verry butiful, but now they had fore children and she did not appeer quite as we'll as then, and he had an artistick temperamint and craved the delicate and lovely. He sed his wife was not his intellectual equal, so he
 newer stayed at home but went down town wheere he could meet peepul of his own class and enjoy himself. He sed if this sit uasion kept up he feered the worst-theere weer times he sed, when he contimplated suiside to free himself rum the intollera-
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Yet each may battle braycIy- after all.
 it is the strife,
 Not the ending, by which courage finds
 its guaee.
 When fortune smiles serenely look her
 s1uarcly in the eye,
 Seek sorrow not, yet meet ir with a
 smile;
 Whate'er may come, rem,mser 1t ia
 passing swiftly by
 We live but once and but little while. Each day that goes Is gone for aye-'tis
 bravey lived, or lost But memory keeps record full com
 plete; x., Then fight it out. no matter what may
 seem to be the cost, For courage oft wins victory sfron de-
 feat S, An instance: Man gets almost run over by automobile. Looks at chaffeur irately ''D-n you, you get out of there and I'll show you how to run over me-" Chauf- feur gets out and comes up to injured party. Latter begins sermon ons care lessness with many strong adjectiyeS in serted here and there. Chauffeur repeats many of the adjectives. appropriating them to his own side of the argument. Each threatens bodily harm to the other; both stand still as if waiting for the other to act; crowd collects; chauffeur and in tured party go over same arguments and adJectives: chauffeur sneers, gets back in car and drives off: injured party turns to crowd-'sWhat do yoal know about that?" Moves on up Broadways while VI may think the T61t Of the world attractive and an that yet the thought of leaving New York foseyer is not to be considcred-we might miss something
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
Springtine
 and Marriage

bull condisions and surroundings thrust upon him by the folly of his yuth I felt keenly for the yung fellow; it was plain that he was seeking my sympathy, and dio ncz. have the hart to withhold it frum him. ' told him that it looked to me like he had got himself into bad fix. Yung, tallinted and handsum, he was certainly in the rong pew l suggested to him that while he mite have been shining lite as leedur in sosietv. that 1t was plain that as a husband and fathur he was a brunett fizzle. I asked him it it had evver occurred to him that he was rocking the boate. l told him to borrv the mummy frum his muther-in-law and take out life insurance polisy in favur of the kids and their uneducated muther. and then cum to me, and I would loan him late edision of Messrs Smith and Wessun's pubicasion on how to reduse the populasion in six chapturs and give him full instruc- tsions free how to use it. If he would do this 1 told him, he would confur a grate boon on sosiety and cum neerer handing out evven handed justise to the poor deluded gurl who was bound to him, than ennv time Tn theere married career. I sed sneeringlv to him, that it mite be possibulI that he had married a gurl who was his inferior, but persunnelly, had my doubts. I was so doubtful about it, assured him. that nuthing short of desission by the soopreem cort to that effect would con- vinse me- and if it was given would then be convinsed that he got hur frum the zoo. It IS just such nuts as this who air being permitted to marry and establish theere trade mark on sivvilizasion that has put the nosion in the heds of women to want to vote, and when you considur it, it's hard to blame lem.
 It certainly makes me soar to see-as in menny instinses you do-an butiful. at tractive and accomplished yung wom- en, fall for one of theese little so- siety shrimp who hasn't enuff branes to burden bool weevel. This IS the time of yeer for gurls to get foolish about such matturs-and while we would not want them to take the situasion too ser iusly-for as we have sed-when they do, they mite draw back perminintly frum the prospects of the future-still they ought not to fall for the line of bunk peddled out by evvery pair of pants that happens along sailing under the non de bloom of man.
 The same mite be sed to the yung men. No self respecting ynng man expects to marry a gurl and make cook of hur. Neethur is he marrying hr purely for ornimintal purposesif so, he's bound to get stung, for aftur while they won t look so blamed ornimintal ennyhow. It don't make much diffurense how ornimintal one is, it is cinch that old fathur time will get hur goat aftur spell in spite of all the artifisial meens of presurving it. So if buty is hur only accomplishmint the time will cum, when she will be delusion and false alarm Let the understanding be one of mutuel affectsion; mutuel esteem and team work-and the following events will justify it's wisdum Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES. 4
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

teipiiSeS, 1ndBnlIuu1nOuS unQer- tak.ngs and world-thrilling activities, I am attacked by the deadly monotone. Hardly 8 day passes that some New York occurrence does not send it's printed thrill throughout the civilized world. and even Into some parts of Europe. but here, where tiie occurrence actually takes place, we fee. it not.
 of course, we each have our little joys and sorrows, but underneath all of them lies the deadly Gotham monotone, the monotone from which no relief is hoped fer and from which none is pos sible. Ii is not such monotony as the vil- lager would experience during his wait for an event to take place. He has the hope that the event will come and the Knowledge that when it does it will bring its thrill with it. But here We are be- yofd the ieac.- of events They have occurred SD often, and are of such vary- ing importance.A Athatlwe have become im- mane to the thrill they once brought to us. They arc like the stings of a gnat upon the lnttoIn of an elephants foot.
 If the Woolw orth building should top pie from it's mighty height today the nuvsboys would be crying 'wuxtry' al- most before the gilded dome came in con tact with stony Broadway. far below. But New York would pass.these boys by with the same old indifference. for New York CTS read their papers when they get ready 10 read them. and not before. and that time generally arrives when they are Yisijug to and from their hofnes aud places of business I venture to say that the news would make no perceptibie change above Great Jones street and create only . mild curiosity south of Maiden Lane.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04

The cock harsh herald of a gentle dawn sounds loud his reveille in soulful bliss, The rose is wakened by the dew-drops S
 kiss
 The East glows crimson and the night is
 gone!
 Then bursts the rising suns bright. new
 born ray,
 Bathing the earth in Hoods of golden And Nature dofrs her star-crown of the
 night 4,...s.. ss-s.ts.. e. ,as < TO don the gorgeous sceptre of the day. The scent of April blossoms fills the air, And madrigals of feathered songsters
 rise,
 While day-dawn's changing, opalescent Bend softly over all, and all is fair. The reversnt tones of chimins Easter That m,nsis swest,y with fast fading rlost 'si gently OCT sas hnls and pur,,ns Ana, ., .aSo n the qimpssd. sun-isss1sa
 dells. sa4 Yst iot Above 1t ,ali. cs,estial clear Avoice. from that fhr LAnd of xester- Comes aoatinr from ths tomb vhsrs And 'ssdn cssins: chr,.. |. rlssa: He is no,
 herei
 Ono of the most fAmouD rogtaurant and oafo uites in New York 10 to De occupied '6v mod rn business building. This cite Ss locdted cn the west side of Broadway 1ust two doors south of Forty-second
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"ISTUR EDDITUR:-Eastur Sunday
 M1 is supposed to ushur in Spring; the GsD seesun of the yeer when evvery- boddy feels green, and billyus, but full of Pep. The moist and fragrint spring time of frollick and festivvity-when we cheerfully change our red flannel under shurt for sumthing thinner, just as Man nitoba cold wave forgets sumthing and cums back aftur it. The seesun when we contract Newmonia and the fishing habit Our wife also contracts for new bonnit and flimsey frock, and we contract floating livver, and stasionery mortgage Our bank account which has grown robust and viggerus by careful nurture through the long wintur munths begins to take on fateegued and remorseful expression not in keeping with the cheerful seesun. Still we think of Pick hicks and uther forms of pass time looming up in the offing and do not re pine The spring Is the favorite seesun for the yung peepul to becum infatuated with each uther and becum reckless-not to say rash In the Spring a perfectly normal yung man who has hitherto led an ex- emplery life newer in the slitest degree arousing the suspission of his trends and relatives that his mind had becum moth eaten, or that his high and intellectual dome of thought contained scrambulled myonaise dressing, suddenly assumes the habit of ronfiding to all acquintenses that sertain chicken" has a cornur on all the charms and buty now roaming at large. By and by
 while still under this hipnottick spell he borrows dollar and half rum persun- nel and bids fond farewell to persunnel liburty-he becomes the life press agint for a sufferagett and pays for the privilege Still in most instinses he seems to like it. and makes noise like he is having a swell time
 This is of corse, the trew Americon spirit and should be encouraged If the average Americon yuth and yuthess weer to pawse and take in consideration all the ups and downs of the opake future the Republick would swivvle up, and we would becum a lost and undun race. It is a verry fine thing for the country that the average col lege graduate starts out in life with sevverel tons of confidence and pc rfectly innosent of experience. Long before his confidence dwindles till it's no biggur than wart on dill pickle, and his experience looms up like the nose or prize drunkered in prohibision town, he has been successfully hooked by the Bell of the village, and is paying for Nicktrolla and permabulatur on the in stallmint plan. Theere air times in the lonely hours of dark nite aftur he has pee raded seventeen miles and five laps with collicky off spring, listening the while to the zillifone solo in F mynor wait ed to him rum the turned up nose of the wife of his boozum, that the vaguely wun- ders how 1t was this self same nose used too look so cute to him, and longs in way for the unrestricted liburties of his yuth, but if he is maid of the rite stuff he newer whimpers and sticks to his job
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-04
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY-By Allen Griffin Johnson

EW YORK, April S.-(special)
 Here in the very heart of this
 city of wonders, of great en- terprises, agnitudinous under
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-05-20
NORTH ISLESBORO.

Fred Coombs expects to move his family to
Castine for the summer.
Mrs. J, o. arrow of Saco was the guest of
relatives in town last week.
congratula lions on the birth of a son.
Miss Gayle Ryder of Belfast recently spent
few days with her mother, Mrs. Helen Ryder
Mrs. Elzina Knowlton, who spent the winter
with her children, has returned for the sum-
mer.
The arrivals at Ryder's Cove for the summer
are Marcellus Niles of West Somerville, and
Martin Ryder and family.
Mrs. George Robinson, who has been in Ban
gor for about two years, where Mr.. Robinson
has employment, has returned to her home
here.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-05-20
NEURALGIA, CATARRH
md That Tired FeeIins-AII Re-
ieved by Hoods SarsapariIla.

Zaston, N. H.-Mrs. e. E. Brown,
who is a resident Of this town, urges
people needing a good blood-purifier
md general tonic, to take Hoods
Sarsaparilla, and in a letter to a
lend dated Feb. 10, 1915, says:
MY health was badly broken down
With complication of diseases.
suffered great deal from neuralgia
and catarrh. and then came nervous
prostration. had four doctors
around here and then went to Boston,
where two physicians treated me.
They all practically agreed that there
was no help for me. Sometimes it
would seem as if my throat was near
ly paralyzed, as could swallow food
only with great difficulty. I knew the
merit Of Hoods Sarsaparilla, because
I had taken it once, and so decided to
try it again. tell you am thankful
I did. When I commenced taking it I
weighed SO pounds, now I weigh 140.
I could not stand on my feet long
enough to wash dishes. Now can do
all my house work. and have made
butter and cheese all the summer.
Friends would exclaim after I had
taken the medicine, How well you are
looking!' I have such faith in Hoods
Sarsaparilla I always recommend it,"
Remember to ask for Hoods Sarsa-
na~illa and insist on having it.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-05-20
STANDPOINT.

Mrs. Frank Hartman spent Friday in Ban
gor.
F. F. Perkins was in Bangor Tuesday on
business.
Several from Bangor spent Sunday at their
cottages at the Point.
Charles French has gone to Moosehead Lake,
where he has employment.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Perkins of Milo spent
last week at their cottage here.
Mr. and Mrs. Audbury Folsom have return
ed to their home at Boyd Lake.
H. N Bunker and wife of Brewer were here
last week getting their cottage ready for rent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Ames arrived home
last week from Virginia. where they had been
since last fall.
Mrs S. Jennie French had the misfortune to
fall last Tuesday and break her ankle. She is
attended by DR.. Stevens and nursed by Mrs.
Edna Cousins.
The Scribner well drilling machine left
Mon day after four days work at the Point.
They went down IS feet and got flow of
seven gal Ions of water per minute, which was
abundant to supply the demand for the resi-
dents during the summer season.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-05-20
would lessen the, time and cost of shift

would lessen the, time and cost of shift
ing cars on the present tracks. When
that is done the city should arrange to
have sewer outlet to low water mark
at this point, as before the filling in the
work could be done at very small cost.
The gain from sanitary point of view
would be decided one.
At the meeting of citizens the increase
in the freight business on the road in re-
cent years was advanced as reason
why the stock should bring higher price
than that offered by the Maine Central
but this was brought up at the confer
ence with President Mcdonald and his
reply was that the operating expenses
had increased in proportion to the in
creased business, and this seems reason
able in view of the extra train crews
required to handle the shipments of the
Coe- Mortimer Co. and the Lubec Sardine
Co., in addition to the general run of
freight.
The sale of the stock at the price Of
fered by the Maine Central would give
the city enough cash to build the needed
schoolhouse, land enable it to complete
the sewer system; and we are not sure
but that building the sewers is of the
first Importance. Residential sections
north and south are without the sewer
connections called for in the plan by
Parks & Wheeler adopted by the city.
Under Republican city governments the
policy OF building a section of this sewer
system each year was adopted and fol-
lowed until the control passed to other
hands. The conditions in these sections,
where dependence has to be placed on
cess pools, are menace to the public
health, and are such at the Mcclellan
school as to call for immediate action.
In the present condition of the city
finances nothing can be done in this di-
rection.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-05-20

The people of Sanford and Springvale
do not intend to eat their "peck of dust"
this year, having made liberal appro-
priation for oiling the roads. They
began with a car load, tank car, of oil,
45 per cent asphalt, bought of the Stand
ard Oil Co., and it is estimated that it
will take three car loads for the first ap-
plication. While the cost seems heavy,
if the damage to property and the detri-
ment to health caused by inhaling germ
laden dust could be accurately estimated
it would no doubt far exceed the cost OF
oiling the roads.