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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
SEVERE PUNISHMENT
Of Mrs. Chappell, Of Five Years
Standing, Relieved by Cardui.

Mt. Airy, N. C.-Mrs. Sarah M. Chap.
pell of this town, says: 81 suffered fol
five years with womanly troubles, alsa
stomach troubles, and my punishment
was more than any one could tell.
] tried most every kind of medicine,
but none did me any good.
Tread one day about Cardui, the wo-
mans tonic, and decided to try il.
had not taken but about six bottles until
| was almost cured. II did me more
good than all the other medicines had
tried, put together.
My friends began asking me why I
looked so well, and told them about
Cardui. Several are now taking it."
Do you, lady reader, suffer from any
OF the ailments due to womaniy trouble,
such as headache, backache, sideache,
sleeplessness, and that everlastingly tired
feelingP
II so, let us urge you to give Cardd q
trial. We feel confident ii will help you,
Just as ii has million other women In
the past half century.
Begin taking Cardui to-day. Yoa
won't regret it. All druggists.
Write 10: ch.ttanoor, Medicine Co.. Lafiss
Advisory Dept. Chattanooga Tenn, for .Stsrisl
Treatment for wsmsn In nlaip wrapper. NC. ~
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
"For delicious hot Biscuits use Juba
Self Rising Flour-at sIl Grocers."
9-15-tf
How Tapioca Is Made.

Hardly Is there any article of whose
origin so little is known as taploca.'
writes J. X. Jank in book on Spices"
1t is manufactured from tapioca
flour on the islands Of Singapore, Pc
nang and Java. This -four Is made
from the tapioca potato, the root of
the cassava or manioc plant.
These potatoes often weigh over
twenty pounds. They are washed.
skinned. cut into small pieces and put
into a crater, where small circular
saws reduce them to pulp. The fine
-four IS separated by revolving drum
and after being washed six times Is
dried on heated trays. 1t Is then made
into dough and passed through sleeves
and baked.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
SHOT" SELF TO DEATH.
Edgar Fulton Was LOYAL to Tradition
of Family.

W. Edgar Fulton killed himself at
the home of his brothcr-in-law. f.. ].
Loiman, at Tampa, Fla, with a D.
calibcr rifle. No cause is given for
the act except excessive drinking. ac-
cording to the brother-lnl
Fulton belongs to a family in
which. 1t is said there has been three
suicides and double murder In the
past three years. Two brothers end
ed their lives in Il similar manner, one
three years ago and one six months
ago A niece of Fulton'S married a
man who killed her shortly afterwards
and then killed himself. Both We're
buried in the same grave. An uncle
is said by the police to have thrown
himself under Il train several years
ago.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
49,. + j. j. + + + + I. + + + i. i
SAFETY FIRST.


The advice has become more force
| tul since it has been coined into this
popular slogan. 1t has been posted in
public places everywhere as an ever
present reminder to everybody who
can read street car drivers have it
impressed upon them constantly-in
fact it is emphasized everywhere for
the prevention of physical accident
and mishap to human beings.
Isn't it about time that it was CIV
en- a wider application and made to
safeguard human life and health
against mishaps and accidents and
blunders and ignorance which permit
or cause disease?
Accidents happen, usually, through
careless lack of foresight. Most &C
cdentS are unnecessary because they
might be prevented. Blunders and
ignorance, which result in accident,
are neXCuSable.
Apply these generalities to the oc-
nuence of disease among human be-
hgS. One-third of the deaths-prob-
ably more than one-third-in Florida
are from preventable diseases. One
third of the babies born in Florida
don't reach voting age; one-quarter
die before they are five years old
and one in five doesn't reach his first
birthday. Such life wastage is fright
tul, all the more frightful because it
ISN'T necessary.
Preventable diseases are called pre-
yentable, because their causes are
known; each particular disease germ
and its method of transmission, its
life history and the means to prevent
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10

its ravages are all known, and how
to control these ravages. Because
they are not controlled, through care
lessness, neglect or ignorance, does
not change the result, and such neg
lect and ignorance become ineXcusa-
BILE. There is no consolation to the
weeping wife or mother or father in
the demonstrable fact that the lost
one might have been saved by simple
precaution or through little easily
acquired information that was offer
ed, free as air.
The awful death rate among chill
dren-young children--is due largely
to two general causes-unhealthy
parentage or to criminal incapacity
or ignorance attending childbirth.
More than one-half of the blindness
in the United States is caused by the
neglect of simple precautions at
birth, administered to counterfeit the
effect of venereal disease of either
parent.
No law has ever been written into
the statute books Of Florida to pre-
vent marriage Ol peIoolo, Hltti VI W.
man, who are contaminated by dis
ease transmissable to the next gener-
alton. Popular sentiment is not yet
ready to sanction that. No law de-
mands proof of the physical fitness
of any person to marry. Safety for
unborn generations cannot be secur-
ed through such regulations-not yet
and the possible evil results of pa
rental impurity must be, and can be
to large degree, counteracted in
other ways and by other means.
Typhoid fever can be prevented,
and malaria and tuberculosis, just as
certainly as yellow fever and small
pox and bubonic plague. Medical
science has not yet advanced to the
reasonably sure control Of all disease
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
HOW TO INDUCE SLEEP.
Try to Think of Nothing and Create a
Mental Vacuum.

MENTAL vacuum.
When insomnia is caused by some
trifing or temporary disorder Of mind
or body 1t can usually be overcome by
ceaSing to divagate, says contributor
to the New York Sun. SO long as the
mind chases itself from one subject to
another, as a wakeful mind is apt to
do in the dark and i'll silence, so long
is it kept active by the very succession
of different thoughts, and sleep refuses
to come.
The thing to do is to concentrate the
mind on the corner of the room or on
anything else. \ flock of sheep, the
multiplication table or anything else
will do. So will counting if the thought
can be confined to the succession of
numbers without straying away to 9th
er subjects while the counting goes on.
as a nimble mind is likely to do.
The best of all things | ever found
to concentrate on. however, is nothing.
Let the sufferer try to form mental
concept of nothing as start. with the
purpose of fixing his mind on it. He
will be surprised at first, If he has
never tried it before. to find that he
cannot do it. Positively one cannot
think of nothing as actually existing
Perhaps that is because ii doesn't, if a
bull is allowable.
But let him not he discouraged. Let
him continue to try. and presently he
will he so fascinated by the effort that
he will still continue till he becomes
fatigued and forgets that and every
thing else in peaceful slumber.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
Her Son Subject to Group.

"My son Edwin is subject to Group"
writes Mrs. E. O. Irwin, New Ken
Pa. 81 put in many sleepless
hours at night before I learned of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Mo-
theirs need not fear this disease if
they keep bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy in the house and use
it as directed. 1t always gave my
boy relief" Obtainable everywhere.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
Fleeing SLAYER CaughI.

Sheriff Ramsey. Of Gainesville
Fla, has returned from Tampa will
a prisoner, George Brown. colored
charged with the killing of another
negro. Sip Baskins. last July. Brown
was arrested the day of the killing,
hut was released on bond Of $1,500
He Is said to have been attempting n
leave the state when arrested in
Tampa.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
FLAGLER HOSPITAL.
st. Augustine Institution Will Be Re
buiIt on Site of One Destroyed.

All doubts as to sufficient funds be-
ing raised to rebuild the Flagler hos
pital have been set at rest by the gen.
crosby of Mrs. Fl. NJ. Flagler' Who
through Or. Anderson, has advised the
trustees that she will rebuild the hos
pital in its entirety.
Mrs. Flagler will erect the new
hospital building as memorial to
her husband. the late Henry NJ. Flag
Ter. Florida's greatest developer. The
entire expense of the new structure
will be borne by Mrs Flagler. The
new building will eclipse the old one,
being modelled on the order OF the
best hospitals in New York and other
large cities.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
Why United States Marines Suffer Lit
tie From Foot Troubles.

That United States marines suffer
little from foot troubles on long hikes
in the tropics is attributed to the fact
that they invariably sprinkle soap pow
ings just prior to the march, according
to a naval surgeon just returned from
Haiti
In the Haitian campaign the United
States marines were sometimes forced
to march thirty or more miles a day
over rough mountainous roads, and the
cases of blistering or painful swelling
of the feet were almost negligible.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
MARKING FISHING SPOTS.
How to Recall the Places and Properly
Locate Them

TOW TO Recall the races ana properly
Locate Them.
A. Hamilton. Jr, writes for the New
York Sun on how to mark good fishing
spots as follows:
at is necessary for the successful
fisherman to mark the good fishing
spots. and it is simple matter.
'The first thing civil engineer Is
taught is to tie his survey to some
a deed be setting forth the boundaries
Of a piece of property if it did not
have permanent point of beginning?
eff you are fishing in a body of wa
ter with land on all sides it only be-
comes necessary to look in four direc-
tions-first north, and then take some
object due north of your fishing spot
and remember it, such as a big tree.
smokestack or building.
''Then look due east and fix upon an
other object and your fishing spot will
be at the intersection of imaginary
lines drawn from both those points.
'If you desire to be doubly sure you
can site on objects due south and
west. but any two objects ninety de-
grees apart will be sufficient to fix a
point.
at Is assumed that you are seated
in a boat directly over the spot you
wish to mark; hence it is easy to take
shots due east and south or north
and west. Any two are sufficient"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
BAD STOMACH TROUBLE
Yields to Delicious Vinol

Shreveport, La.-"I had bad stom-
ach trouble for years and became SO
weak 1 could hardly walk or do any
work. My appetite was poor, my food
would not digest, I bloated and was very
weak and nervous. 1 tried many rene
dies without help. 1 saw Vinol adver-
tsed and tried it, and now my stomach
trouble is completely cured and l am
well. "-E. L. MARSHALL.
Vinol is guaranteed to tone up the
tired, over-taxed and weakened nerves
of the stomach and create strength.
Ackerman-Stewart Drug Co., Palatka.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10

es, even of those which are more or
less common in the United States, but
classified knowledge, which is the con-
crete product of science, is sufficient
to reduce Florida's death rate from
approximately 1915 per 1000 per an
mum by one-third, and with a ratio
between 10 and II per thousand, Flo
rida would be the most healthful and
inviting country of equal area on this
terrestrial globe.-Bulletin State Board
of Health.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10

A broken cOllarbOne of student
of the University Of Florida. while
undergoing "hazing" treatment by
fellow students at Gainesville. Fla,
has resulted in those implicated in the
matter being suspended from the col
lege.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
Plain Speech,

"Tm plain spoken person." said the
aggressive man.
That's lucky. You're at least one
subscriber who saves the telephone op-
orator the trouble of asking you to re-
peat your number. Exchange.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
" MMMmM " y " y " " " " " y " y:
HOW FLOWERS CAN BE
KEPT FRESH FOR

Ht" fhO" Ems S+A-> DE-
y KEPT FRESH FOR
Y A LONG TINE. - Flowers
y should, if convenient. be gath
y cred at some other time than
y during the heat of the day and
y be placed in water in cool
y place as soon as possible. Aft
y err this treatment they will keep
y much better than they would If
I: not induced to fill up with wa
y ter. Most flowers keep and look
y better if gathered when in bud,
y Just before opening. This is
y true of roses, poppies, peonies
y and others. Double flowers, as
y a rule, keep longer than single
y kinds.
y For cut flowers in the house
y it is very desirable to have
:. kinds which will continue to de-
9. velop buds into flowers after be-
y ing placed in water. Perhaps
y no kind has this quality in a
y more marked degree than gladio-
y lus. During parching hot winds
y it is possible to have such in
y their greatest beauty in the
- house when the weather will
y not permit such conditions out
- of doors. Before storms 1t is
~ we'll to secure supply Of flow
=: ers for indoor use, that their
- beauty may he enjoyed while
.: those out of doors are recover
- ing.
!. Some kinds which have
- milky juice, like the peoples and
y some others. as the dahlia, will
=: keep better If the tips of the
~ stems are dipped in very hot
y water before they are cared for
=: in the ordinary way. 1t is we'll
!. nigh impossible to have the orr
- entail peoples hold up fresh with
y out such treatment.
y Poppies should always be gath
y cred in the bud Just before they
~ are ready to push through the
- calyX. With kinds that last we'll
=: in water it is desirable to renew
:. the water often. Otherwise the
y smell of decay at the base of
=: the stems sometimes becomes
y offensive. which is not health
y full.
~
Ils AZ
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
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The Hard STRUGGLE.

Its a tough struggle"
"What is?''
Doing without the things we actu-
ally have to have to try to keep up the
payments on the luxuries We didn't
need. Detroit Free Press.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10
Don't Make
Curiosity Telephone Calls

"Becau,e 1000 Idle curiosity seekers IN bintnam
e., a,k.d Genital where the hre was, an emergency
c,l for an ambulance was held up ior nearly MN
NO, and This delay resulted in The death u =,
Physicians say that had the ambulance seen
hoASs -Elmlru Advertiser.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10

Lake Huron holds curious record
In having more islands than any otner
lake. 1t has at least 5000.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10

Uncle Sans investments in forests
are bringing direct returns, which are
increasing every year.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-10

TT is beyond the bounds
of possibility to answer
promptly the mass OF GU
ri;osity telephone calls that
threaten to swamp our ex-
changes every time there is a
large fire.
Calls for physicians, the am
bulance or the police, held up
at such times might result IN
the loss of human life.
For your protection, as well
as for the protection OF your
neishbors, we ask you not TO
cali the telephone operator
merely out of curiosity. AFTER
all, she has no more informa-
ton than you have.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-06
INTERESTS
LOVERS Of NATURE
Students of J. 0. Wilson Nor
NAL School Arrange Unique
Collection of Objects.
SPECIMENS WHOLLY LOCAL

I,overs of nature who wish to forget
for a few moments the "careS OF the
working day" have an opportunity this
a.L which is considered by those who
have taken advantage of it so far to be
both interesting and unique. Inc op-
portunity is to visit an exhibition OIL
nature study subjects found IN anu
around Washington and arranged py
s,,,den+e of the j. o Wilson Normal
cobooI nth and Harvard streets north-
vast IT will be open all this week to
visitors at the school from AIN. to
pm.
Students of nature may not ind new
nv rare species or exhibits-in TACT,
thew nrobably will not The serious stu
dent NAV or may not find anything OF
interest in the collection-it all de-
peuds upon his own vision. But to the
true nature lover, be he student or not
the exhibit offers that touch OF ma
ture" which is exhilarating, yet restful
The students who made the coliec-
ton had a keen sense of humor; also
a sense for what is commonly known
as human interest" The exhibit is
unioue. inasmuch as it is wholly a To-
cal product and has such honey IN
terest Instead of rare specimens of
butterflies from South America and
Africa, which the average Washing
tonian sees only stuck on corks placed
under glass covers, common little cab
baee butterflies. which futter over the
streets of Washington during the sum-
,ner. luna moths. which spread their
green wings under the electric lights
at night, and similar local specimens
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-06
are shown.
Collection Covers Wide Range.

The range of the collection covers
not only the foregoing Specimens but
includes a large number of bird nests,
bird houses made by students of the
normal school. periwinkles and other
shells Ga few from more distant parts)
cocoons and many other things, in
Guiding many photographs taken by
the students in pursuit of their en-
deavors, which covered their summer
vacation.
experiences amusing. For instance. in
trying to get a photograph of few
geese in their single file marching
order (pleaSc note these were not rare
specimens. but probably would be
labeled "domesticus" by our scientific
friends). she fell in the mud. Then
she has shown the picture of COW
", "domestica"D which she followed
for two miles before that animal was
obliging enough to lie down and pose
for a photosra in the manner she
wanted.
One of the most interesting speci
mems in the entire exhibit, probably.
is gourd nest which came from
Charlotte Hall. Md. This had been
hanging for ten Years near a farm
house where the collector stopped this
summer Every year prior to this
summer a pair of house wrens had oc-
cupicd the somewhat ancient but very
comfortable quarters. This spring,
however pair of bluebirds came
along, decided they liked the locks of
the gourd nest and before the little
wrens knew what was happening, the
iains III q birdland melodrama and the
WTeuSr were seeking a new home.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-06
TO EXTEND ITS SERVICE.
U. S. Weather Bureau Plans Estab-
lishment of New Stations

Extension of the United States
weather bureau service in the Car
riboean sea and Gulf of Mexico, where
the present stations have been found
invaluable in gathering infornaations
OF hurricanes and storms approac ching
the American coast. is being arranged.
New stations will be established at
Belize. British Honduras; Bluefields,
Nicaragua Swan Island in the Carib-
bean. north of Honduras; Santa Marta,
Colombia: st. Lucia Island. Puerta
riata, Santo Domingo Republic. Island
OF NaVassa- between Cuba and Haiti:
Guantanamo. Cuba. and on one of the
Danish West Indies. Stations now are
maintained at Barbados. Trinidad,
curacao Bermuda and the Brahamas.
where the work of the observers will
be extended and improved
Daily reports will be made to the
weather bureau here, and from some
points two reports a day may be sent.
In this way officials here will be kept
in close touch with all weather coudi-
tons and be able to detect approach
ing storms
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-06
RETURN TRIP HARD
!. ON D. c. SOLDIERS
End of First Day Finds Many
BIistered and Swollen
Feet.
ARE EARLY ON THEIR WAY
ARE EARLY ON THEIR WAY
BY J.. CROSBY MCCARTHY,


LUXELLA, Tex, Temporary Camp, Cd
d. C. Infantry, November with
their feet swathed in hardaSes as a
precautionary measure LEST they arrive
at San Antonio in q crippled condition,
the men of the Sd !Diat".ct Regiment,
marching with the PROVISIONAL brigade,
reached here early th,s afternoon and
set up their temporary camp on the
same site occupied or their outbound
trip. Having been on the same ground
before. they lost no time in getting
their shelter tents in the proper posi-
ton. and soon the men were stretched
out in them, resting. Despite their eff
forts to get themselves IN shape to
withstand the march. many o. the mill
tiamen had badly hliste-o(i and swollen
feet that required attention by the
medical officers. \ number of the men
fell out before Luxella was reached
and reached camp &: E--eGiance and
escort wagons.
The men were IN a happier state of
mind than what they were at the end
of their first days !Ga"c'9 IN their out
bound trip, for thotg&ts Of the day of
pleasure they spent yesterday at New
Braunfels still were with them. II was
a day the District r:cn long VIII re-
member. As soon as brea kfaSt was
over they We're given liberty to roam
about the beautiful I.anGas Park. adj
joining their camp. TO-. the remainder
of the day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-06
REV. DR.. C.. E. HURLBURT
GIVES TALK ON PRAYER
Addresses Christian Laymen's Con-
ference This Afternoon at Y. M.
c. A. Building.

Prayer and the place it occupies in
our daily life was the theme of an ad-
dress by Rev Charles E. Hurlburt,
general director of the Africa inland
mission, at the Young Mems Christian
Assocatoin building early this after
loon. In the course of his address he
declared that prayer is the greatest
medium for bringing man into closer
relationship with God.
This morning DR.. Hurlburt talked at
a conference of Christian laymen at
the association building. at which the
Y NJ. c. A. secretaries and local pas
tors and Sunday school teachers were
present. The chief topic presented was
the fact that in order to teach true
Christianity and cleanliness of living,
the teacher must be the embodiment
Of these things. Yesterday afternoon
DR. Hurlburt talked on missionary
work in Africa.
His work in Africa stretches over the
territory explored by Livingstone and
later traversed by Roosevelt. Dr.
Hurlburt has been in Africa more than
twenty years engaged in missionary
work. While in Washington he Is
being entertained by Howard Banks.
Dr. w K. Butler is to speak on the
prevention of ear trouble at the Y. NJ.
G. A. tonight at 1:45 o'clock. This is
to be the fifth Of series of lectures to
be given throughout the winter unuer
the auspices Of the department of phys
ical education.
William Knowles Cooper, general sec
rotary of the Y. NJ. {. A. is to start his
class in training Christian workers
Wednesday evening at S o'clock. This
course is to continue throughout the
winter. and viii consist mainly OF con-
ferences on practical Christian work.
The junior secretaries of the local
association are to have supper at the
Raleigh Hotel tomorrow evening. Mil