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Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26
meetings ali a + the Candidates


speak.
If the primary elections were
held the first week in August
there would then be more than
three months until the November
election, which is ample time for
the nominees to make state
campaign, liz such were deemed
necessary / think that the State
Central Committee should b e
called together and this matter
considered
| can see no valid reason for
having the primary election eight
months befbre the general cleo
ton. Let Abe chairman of the
state committee call meeting
and set the time for holding the
primaries Aforward to July OF
August.
At the thine the state conven-
ton fixed March as the time fol
holding theI primaries, our gen
eral electiofp was held in Septem
Der. Now, | think, the commit
tee would have ample authority
to put the time for holding the
primaries fsDrward, as indicated
above.
Jas. w. Ellis
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26

The Governor of Utah may not
have good judgement, but no
one can say that he hasn't plenty
of backbone, He thinks ne IS
right. and neither threats or
persuasion have an y effect on
him.
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26

Operations in the Dardanelles
have been commenced again, and
some success has resulted for
the British and French.
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26
KEEPING THE PEACE.

"Is your wife the sort of woman
who insists OH having the last word ?"
'FNo, indeed" answered Mr.. Dugs-
forth, pleasantly. '1'm a peaceful
man and she gets it without insist
ing"
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26
TALLEST MAN DIES AT
PRESCOTT THIS WEEK

Pre- scott, Nov. "a. E. A.
Pruitt,, 26, a farmer residing
near here, died today of con
sumption. Burial was at Bluff
City today. Mr.. Pruitt is sur
vived by his wife and one child.
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26

FOR SALE: Half interest in
an l. H. c.. 10-horse Gasoline En-
CINE, also Blacksmith Shop in
good small town with 9 months
school; no opposition, good bus
ness, desirable partns .sei reaT
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26
Strong and Well As Ever

Fred Smith, Green Bay, Wis,
saws: Foley Kidney Pills com
pletely relieved me of all soreness
and pain in the back and l am
now as strong and well as ever.
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26
BREAKS Arm WHILE
CRANKING AUTO

Jesse Barr of Hope, formerly
of this place, suffered a broken
arm last week as the result OF
cranking an automobile. M r
Barr doesn't know just how the
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26

man in the county. He was mcr6
than seven feet tall, and local ~.
dertaking establishments w
unable TO furnish casket of SUI
ficient length and had to order
one from a casket factory at Tex
arkana,
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26

jurles.
The storm, which was one of
the most violent in recent years,
struck the city about 3 p. m. 1t
i estimated h a t IS or 40
houses. mostly residences, were
completely wrecked.
Mr.. Gold reported that he had
suffered no loss from the storm.
No serious damage was done
by Yesterdays storm in Wash
ington and vicinity. About one
o'clock in the afternoon the wealth
or became threatening, rain COM
menced falling, and by 3 O'Clock
il had almost assumed the pro
portions of waterspout 1t was
accompanied by very high wind
which probably would have done
considerable damage hadit lasted
long. Some timber was blown
down and a few telephone and
light wires were broken, but nc
serious damage resulted; how
ever, streams were out of banks
and the roads for a time were al
most impossible.
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26
!; reversed with such force

when he had all his weight on it
as to snap the bone in his arm;
he says he is reasonably sure
that his arm was not struck by
the crank. This is the second
accident of the kind that occurred
in Hope the same week.
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26
WoU Hb CHANGE
DAIEI OF Primary
Is. w. ELLIS OF
OZAN
OOuuLol1 JULY OR AUGUST
lion of State and
Elections Makes
ICE Desirable.

Ed;+or Tolo Ark, Nov. "a, 1918.
II saems kgraph:
to me that since our
,.- --.,o, FEDERAL elections have
- Daated, thereby put
oii7 VI" tie election more than
TWO " ! later. it would be
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26

is an American citizen, and oae
of the best; one of the kind that
has always been welcomed to
these shores.
Washington telegraph., 1915-11-26

Saratoga, Nov. 24.-Crops are
all harvested and the gins run on
ly on Saturdays.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12
Nsva, Wa a. Sortnesd 1915.

Actual nHEH. Marinrr nh> been wit.
messed ny Hlng of hngiand nj spit
head In Iuv l5+5 Henry VIII.
watched from SuuthSea castle the at,
tack 10y the French Heel upon the Eng
fish fleet which WAS 10 have gone
against the French shores The two
days of skirmiShlng had no decisive re-
suit. but the English fleet suffered one
great loss The Mary Rose. the pride
of the navy. II four castled sixty gun
ship of tO0 tons. Overweighted by the
ordnance, suddenly neeled over ut
Spithead In consequence. says Raleigh.
Of "a little sway IN casting the ship
about. her ports being within sixteen
inches of the wafer" Some 600 men
went down with her-about 100 fewer
than those lost with the Royal George
237 years later.-London Graphic.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12
Mystery, the Essential.

The entire superstructure of fraud
in medicine has for it's foundations Sc
crecy and mystery. Take away these
elements, and that gigantic monu-
ment to human credulity-the pat
ent medicine" business-crumbles
Hence the frantic efforts of those who
have built fortunes through the ex
ploitation of nostrums in opposing ev-
cry movement that would permit the
public to know the drugs it is taking
in "patent medicines" A forgotten
chapter in qlackery is related by The
Journal of the American Medical As
ISOLATION. About hundred and fif-
ty years ago Mrs. Stephens in Eng
land claimed to have discovered cure
for, "gravel and stone in the bladder
and Kidneys" So skillfully did she
call her wares that she deluded igno-
rant and educated alike into belief
in her discovery Dr. David Hart
ley, physician and philosopher, COL
lected and published reports of one
hundred and fifty cases-his own
among them-showing the value of
Mrs. Stephens "cure." Convinced
that Mrs. Stephens had discovered a
boon to suffering humanity, many
urged her to make public the secret
of her formula. Quacklike she re-
fused, but-also quack- like-she off
cred to give up the formula for five
thousand pounds ($25,O00) Attempts
were made to raise this amount by
public subscription, but without. sue
cess. In spite of the fact that many
contributed to this fund, only about
thirteen hundred pounds was raised.
Parliament was then petitioned to
make a grant, which, in due time, it
did, Mrs. Stephens got her five thous-
and pounds and the public got her
formula" The latter was publish
ed in the London Gazette. The
"cure" consisted of egg shells, snails
(shells and ally, hips and haws, ash
keys, swine cress and various other
all burned to a cinder and
the ash mixed with camomile flowers
and fennel and other vegetables. But
alasl Now that the public knew what
was in Mrs. Stephens nostrum, it
would have none of it. The cure
fell into disrepute, and finally went
the way of all such frauds, into OBJ
livion. DR.. Hartley died of the dis
ease of which he believed Mrs. Steph-
ems had cured him.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12
The Sex of the Insane.

Of approximately every five hun
dred persons in the United States in
1910, there was one an inmate of an
insane asylum. The exact figures
expressed in a recent report of the
Census Bureau, state that in a yypi.
cal community of 100000 persons,
equally divided as to sex, 208 of the
males and 200 of she females would
be found in the insane asylums. In
the course of year, 72 males and
60 females would be admitted to the
asylums. In 1880 the total number
of inmates in insane asylums in the
United States included 20,635 males
and 20,307 females. Thirty years
later the number of male inmates had
increased to 98,695, and the number of
female inmates to 80,096. The ex-
cess of men among admissions in 1910
indicated still further increase in
the proportion, namely, 1913 males to
100 females. An analysis of these
admissions as to the specific forms of
insanity involved brings to light the
interesting fact that if alcohol psy-
Ghosts and general paralysis are de-
Quoted, the proportion of the sexes is
practically the same. The diseases
mentioned, says The Journal of the
American Medical Association, would
seem to be those which, generally, are
the result of dissipation. Alcohol
and syphilis again established their
superiority as mans most dangerous
allied foes.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12
WHEN THE TIRED
MOTHER GIVES OUT
What Then?-The Family Suf-
fers, the Poor Mothers Suf-
fer-Mrs. Becker Meets
This Distressing Situation.

Collinsville, III. -"I suffered from a
nervous breakdown and terrible head
aches, and was tired all over, totally
worn out and too discouraged to enjoy
life, but as had four in family and
sometimes eight or nine boarders, kept
on working despite my suffering.
"a | saw Vinol advertised and decided
to try it, and within two weeks l
noticed a decided improvement in my
condition and now am well woman.
Mrs. ANA BECKER, Colinsville, Ill.
There are hundreds of nervous, run
down, overworked women in this vicinity
who are hardly able to drag around and
who we are sure would be wonderfully
benefited by Vinol as Mrs. Becker was.
The reason Vinol is so successful in
building up health and strength in such
cases is because it combines the medici-
nal tissue building and curative elements
of Gods livers together with the blood
making, Strengthening properties Of
tonic iron. We ask every weak, ner-
vous, rundown man or woman in this
vicinity to try bottle of Vinol on our
guarantee to return their money if it
fails to benefit
Ackerman-stswart Drug Company,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12
The Grapefruit as a Luxury.

Forty cents for grapefruit bought
for one cent is not such bad profit
only a little matter of 1000 per
cent! But then the Pullman folks
ought to be allowed to make that
much of a profit, think of the good
they do!
Twenty cents for half of a grape
fruit on dining cars that pass by
acres and acres of groves laden with
golden fruit, going to waste on the
trees! Twenty cents for half grape
fruit when it is so entirely to tn
advantage of the railroad companie
as we'll as to the growers of Florid
to make this product popular an
saleable one.
Our information on the price o
grapefruit charged in the Pullman
dining car of the Atlantic Coast lin
Fright out of Miami" comes in a com
munication published in Mondays Me
tropolis, and the writer goes onto sa,
that the same greedy prices prevail
in hotels and cafes in northern cities
The fruit started out with the repu
tation of being some sort of an arts
tocratic orange quite out of the reacl
IF the poor mans breakfast table, ant
there are thoughtless people still
keeping up the fiction.
at seems a pity" says the letter to
The Metropolis, chat in this great
U. S. with its 1O0,O0O000 (million) of
people, of whom 100000 use grape
fruit, and only one state in the U. s.
to produce it, that thousands of box
ps should be going to waste because
the grower can get nothing for it."
Yet this is true, and we fear it will
continue to be true until cooperation
is secured from the dealers and the
middle men that will make grapefruit
popular every day food on the ia
bles of fifty million people.-Miami
Metropolis.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12
HOW SOME DOCTORS"
GET THEIR START.
Fakirs who Work the "Me-
chano-Therapy" Graft
..N Are About You.

1t beats all what schemes of graft
are worked in Florida, especially at
this season of the year. Impecuni-
Gus fakirs from the frozen north, at
tracted by the milder climate and
open air life of Florida come here
to ply their schemes for taking easy
money from a people whom they
seem to think will consider it a
privilege to be this bilked.
The wods are especially filled
with them. this season. They are in
every little town and country cross
roads; they have all sorts of schemes.
One of the latest to be called to
our attention is the Mechanic The
rapy" doctor. He cures by the lay
ing on of hands, and his readily ac-
quired "science" enables him to
tackle anything with an easy assur-
ance of cure from pips to salt
rheum, from hookworm to cancer,
from itch to epilepsy. "No drugs"
simple treatment, something a child
can take, that babies cry for.
"Mechano-Th erapy' is one of the
latest fakes; it had its origin in a
Chicago Office building inhabited by
cheap skates who lie awake o nights
to scheme some way of securing a
living without work. In many of the
cheap publications of the country
these "Mechano-Therapy" specialists
insert advertisements calculated to
attract the attention of those who are
willing to reap where they have not
sowh. Here is one such advertise
ment taken from the columns of The
Menace, the anti-Catholic publica-
ton from Missouri:
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12

The imperlShah'e apIeg"ry on which
RunyHn r!aim To- immortality chiefly
reSIS the Pilgrim Progress. was al
leaSt Planned in Jail and probably the
first part waS written there His "tirlcu
Ahouuding.' Holy city" 'Resurrec
ton of the Dead" with luther treatises
aud tracts. We're aiSo CONFUSED in the
den where he lauguiShed twelve years
He obtained his full release through the
Intervention of the Quakers. ana EiS
name is included In the general pardin
passed by the king in council In behalf
of the prisoners of that persuasion
bearing date OF Sept IL. 1872. Bun
yam will perhaps always hold rank as
one Of the first among religious writers
in the English language.-Case and
Comment
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12

"Since these all have the same poll
ty," said the speaker, "and firmly ad-
here to the same doctrine, they should
avoid the handicap which comes from
divided effort. If Methodism were
united to-day they could mobilize an
army for righteousness, which might
we'll put to fight the evils which curse
our country. Efficiency would be pro-
NOTED. Expense would be lessened.
The Union would put so much iron in
to Methodism that her progress would
be greatly advanced, and the kingdom
of God FASTENED.
"All denominations have agreed
among the heather not to enroach up
on each others territory, and yet one
great family of Christendom cannot
agree at home. There is a Northern
Methodist Episcopal Church in Allan
ia and Southern Methodist
Episcopal Church in Seattle! Mount
Vernon and McKendree Methodist
Churches are within a block of each
other in Washington. The former is
Southern and the latter Northern. Ep-
worth and Waugh Methodist Episco-
pal Churches in the nations capital
are about four blocks from each 9th
err, and yet one is Northern and the
other Southern. Methodism could
vastly increase her strength by union.
She needs to remember the words of
one of her great sons, Grant, when he
said, Let us have peace; and that
other, Mckinley, when he advocated
the Northern people decorating the
graves of Southern soldiers buried on
Northern soil"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12
Work of Children's Home Society.

At the annual meeting of the Chill
dren's Home Society of Florida held
in Jacksonville, January 28th, Super
intendent Marcus c. Fagg, reported
that $50 homeless and needy children
had come under the care and atten-
ton of the society during the past
year of 1914, this number being the
largest number of children ever re-
ferred to the society for aid in all it's
history. These children were referr-
ed to the society from every section OF
Florida and represented all 'creeds and
races except colored. A good family
home was secured for every orphan
and homeless child and others We're
sent to special schools, hospitals,
boarding homes and were provided the
care and attention most needed.
Practically $4,000 was spent IN
providing for these $50 little ones an
average of little more than $500
per child. The society closed the year
free from debt and expects to do even
greater work for Florida's little ones
il need in 1915, and appeal to the good
reople of Florida to send money,
clothing, food, ETC., to help in the con-
tinuance of the great work-generally
conceded to be Florida's Greatest
Charity. The work is supported en-
tirely by free-will donations and has
provided for thousands of little ones
in it's twelve years of work.
Judge w. H. Baker, Of Jacksonville,
was elected president for 1915, Frank
G. johnson, secretary; R. V. Coving-
ton. treasurer; and Marcus c. Fagg,
was reelected as State Superinteni-
ent. Forty other prominent men of
Florida were elected as directors for
1915.
The state headquarters for the work
are located at 361 st. James building,
where applications for children viii
be gladly received and also donations
of money. TIL State Receiving
Home-in which no child is kept per-
manently-is located at 1914 Riverside
Ave-, jacksonville, where the children
car be visited every day between 3
end p. m. Everybody in Florida is,
invited to come and see what this
great organization is doing.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12
One Tree Brings $1OO.

Washington Feb. 10. The govern
ment has received $99.40 in settlement
for a single sugar pine tree which
was cut in trespass in the Stanislaus
National Forest, in California, and
which yielded more than enough &C.
tual lumber to b1ild a good-sized SUI
burban house. The tree scaled 49,
933 board feet and was valued at $5.25
per thousand feet.
Not many trees contain enough
lumber to build a two-foot board walk
nearly two miles long, and this is be-
lieved to be the first case on record in
which single tree felled in Ma
tional Forest was valued at almost
500 on the stump, although National
Forest timber is frequently sold at
considerably higher rates.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12

Crescent City in this county has
one of these doctors" of Mechanic
Therapy; he is a reformed preacher
from the west, and knows about as
much concerning the cure of the ills
which afflict mankind as he does
about the whichness of the whence.
The most plausible fakir is the re-
ligious fakir; he is usually a smooth
guy who VOLTS around in sheep pa
jammas and meets the people in the
weekly prayer meeting. He is
"broke" and needs your money. "Me-
chano- Therapy" offers him an easy
opportunity to get some of it.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12
DeIlcately Put.

Two sisters while visiting in Ire
land in Victoria's time got into con-
versation one day with a tenant Of
their hostess. One of the girls, who
is quite stout, asked the old woman II
she would have known them for sis
tiers. WELL" was the answer, we
look alike, but yer sisters slender,
while you. miss-well, you favor the
quane."
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12

| in It's range. NJ ~
he d01btles6 w<pli r.
sacola and W6st 7 ~
other one man a. ".
the things he has done M 4 & & !
ment of his home city an
along moral, educational arg Ss.
rial lines he has left an Ii. -
monument to himself and ia.
heritage to his wife and cho !.
The people of Pensacola =
him as their chief citizen ahM y.
knew always where to find isK
every issue between right and w. u,
He knew journalism as few men W
and he was one of the stronge; y
clerest and most convincing writer
on the State press. A leader from
Frank Mayes went all over the State.
His mind was wonderfully quick and
encompassing and it drove STRAIGHT to
the heart of every qpestion and was
not to be diverted by side issues or.
specious verbiage. Intellectual hon
esty was a marked characteristic with
him, and running through his make
up was a golden thread Of humor and
he could tell and enjoy good story
with the best.
But there is too much worth tell
ing of Frank Mayes to put into the
space at our command. We Of the
Florida press have suffered an ire
parable loss, for we shall not look
upon his like again, and those who
were closest to him and felt the mag
netism of his presence, the charm of
his simple, kindly, unaffected char
acter and devoted friendship, and the
of his clean life and con-
slant devotion of duty, feel grief
not to be expressed in words.
He believed profoundly in the inn
mortality of the soul, and now that
he has nassed behind the veil that
hides the inscrutable future, we know
that all is we'll with him; for
Heaven, we take it, is the place des-
igned for those who wrought well on
earth and, being called hence rich in
the treasures of mind and heart, leave
behind them the fragrance of good
name and the memories of just, clean,
generous lives.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12

Gas in the stomach or bowels is a
disagreeable symptom of torpid liv-
err. To get rid of it quickly take
HERBINE. 1t is a marvellous liver
stimulant and bowel purifier. Price
soc. Sold by Ackerman-Stewart
Drug Co. lib = u As&
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12

Happiness, like mercy, is twice
blessed, it blesses those who are most
intimately associated with it, and it
blesses all those who see it, hear it,
feel 1t, touch it, or breathe the same
atmosphere.-Kate Douglas Wiggin.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12

A scald, burn, or severe cut heals
slowly if neglected. The family
that keeps a bottle of BILLIARDS.
SNOW LINIMENT on hand is always
prepared for such accidents. Price
25c, SOC and $1.00 per bottle. Sold
by Ackerman-Stewart Drug Co,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12

Stage Manager-"Remember, Bangs,
we are depending on your baby to
cry Justify in the third act. Do you
think he'll do his part?' Actor Fa-
ther-"He ought to- He's been re-
hearsing every night for months"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12
Wasted Lives.

He that spends his time in sports
is like him whose garment is all made
Of fringes and his meat nothing hut
sauces: they are healthless. change.
able and seless.-Jeremy Taylor.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-02-12
THE MOBILIZATION OF
AMERICAN METHODISM
Secretary Daniels Advc.
Gates Organic Union of
Churches.

The Northwestern Christian Advo-
cate of Chicago in a recent issue has
a review of recent address deliver
ed by Secretary of the Navy, Hon.
Josephus Daniels, at the one HIM
dredth anniversary of the Foundry
Methodist Episcopal church in Wash
ington.
Secretary Daniels reviewed briefly
the founding of Methodism by Wes-
ley, seconded by the silver-tonged ora
tor of the movement in Whitefield,
and it's sweet singer in Charles Wes-
ley. He emphasized the fact that
Methodism came out of college, Ok
ford University, and made plea that
the college man catch the spirit of
Wesley and get vision of his posi-
bilities for service.
Greene, in his history of the En-
glish people, was quoted tegshow the
power of Methodism in England in its
powerful revolt against the religious
deafness of the times. Although
the Methodists in Wesley's day sprang
in numbers to a hundred thousand,
''the Methodists themselves were the
least result of the Methodist revival"
It's action upon the Church broke the
prevailing religious lcthargy.
In America, the new land of free
dom in religious tolerance, Method
ism was a potent factor in develop
ment of the tyical American, the sec
rotary said. Edward Eggleston in
+'The Circuit Rider" showed the infu-
ence for good of the Methodist par
son of whom Peter Cartwright was
perhaps the most conspicuous exam
pie.
He advocated organic union of the
various branches of Methodism, not
only the two great Northern and
Southern division but all the Method
list families, which are divided now,
by name and numbers as follows: