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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-27
ELUDED CAPTURE
ON TAMPA WATERS
Gen. Judah P. Benjamin
Posed as Cook When
Schooner Was
Boarded

The meeting of the Florida Confed-
crate Veterans in Tampa last week
brought out many interesting stories
of the war and the men prominent
in leadership of the South in those
DAYS of civil strife. Here is one of
them taken from The Tampa Times
of Thursday:
Among the many interesting exhib-
it's in the windows downtown, in con-
nection with the reunion, is one which
is of particular local interest. 1t is
the sword of General Judah P. Ben
iamin, who was at one time attorney
general and later secretary of state in
Jefferson Davis cabinet, and who
escaped from the United States at the
close of the war through this city.
General Benjamin was helped to
escape by old Captain James Mckay,
wartime mayor of Tampa, and he
gave his sword to Captain Mckay,
who gave it to Donald Mckay.
Charles H. Spencer has the sword and
arranged the exhibit in the window of
Henry Giddens Clothing Co., Franklin
and Lafayette streets.
From Tampa he went to Braden-
town, living at the Gamble house now
known as the Judah P. Benjamin
house. Union soldiers learned of his
presence and endeaVored to capture
him, according to local tale. He
was out in the boat with one man
when boat containing soldiers over
took it. As it approached, General
Benjamin donned cooks clothes, and
ducked into the galley,
"Who's on board?" the Union COM
mander asked.
"No one but me and the cook" the
skipper replied.
: They went on, and by schooner
} reached the Bahama islands. From
the Bahama General Benjamin went
to England, and later became queens
counsel.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-27

oFor delicious hot Biscuits use JIba
colf Pieino Flour-at all Grocers.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-27
MOTHER TELLS HOW vINoL
Made Her Delicate Boy Strong

New York City.-'SIy little boy was
in a very weak, delicate condition as a
result of gastritis and the measles and
there seemed no hope of saving his life.
The doctor prescribed cod liver oil, but
bp could not take it. l decided to try
Vinol-and with splendid results. 1t
seemed to agree with him so that now he
is strong healthy boy."-Mrs; THOMAS ni4
FITZGERALD, 1000 Park Ave, n. Y. City.
We guarantee Vinol, which contains
beef and cod liver peptones, iron, and
manganese peptonates and glycero-
phosphates, for rundown conditions
holerman-Stewart Drug Co., Palatka'
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-27
Good Business.

"vby do you keep that clumsy Wai',
49,, no breaks tray of dishes nearly
every day." ,+ro,s omus.
-, Zoo Beats any cabaret feature
Philadelphia Bulletin
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-27
Jack Sheppard as a Text.

Jack Sheppard had a great hold upon
the imagination Of the people Of his
time. The fact that 100000 people wit
messed his execution at Tyburn on Nov.
IS, 1924, is some witness to his grim
popularity. But one Of the strangest
tributes ever paid him was the sermon
preached upon him in London church.
ooh, that We We're all like Jack Shep-
pard." began the preacher, to the stu
pefaction of his flock. He went on to
draw a parallel between things of the
flesh and those of the soul and tospoint
out that the genius shown in house
breaking might have been bestowed
upon picking the locks Of the heart
with the nail of repentance"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-27

MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS. j.
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- : : j. i i i !" !. E. i + :. j. j.
What world this would be if ev-
erybody in it did exactly what he
ought to do.
The only troubles that could arise
then would come from differing indi-
vldual conceptions of what ought to
be, and so civil courts would still be
necessary to decide the meaning of
duty toward others. Unfortunately
individual consciences are modelled |
after about as many patterns as the
physical bodies that carry them
around.
At the risk of a wearying repeti-
ton, the subject of the relations of
the citizen be the public is brought |
up again, under the suggestive idea
that if every one in every Florida
community would consider that he is
a part of that community, if he would
do his part to make it attractive and
keep it clean, to make himself a de-
.sirable citizen and not "a menace,
Florida would increase in population
and prosperity far more rapidly than
the fifty per cent growth that has
marked the last several decades. The
idea is Utopean but perhaps not i'm
possible.
First impressions are the lasting
ones. They are hard to wear away.
The new conner to Florida forms his
ideas of the city, town or village from
the appearances of things about the
station where he leaves the RAILROAD
train. If the unpaved streets are
deep in sand, where an empty wagon
is an overload for the toil-marked
mule if the buildings are dilapidated,
he wishes he had stayed on the
train. 1t requires many blocks of
neat homes and big shade ,rces and
flowers to remove the first depressing
Illusions or they may be deluslons.
Fresh paint, well kept lawns, choice
flowers and trees, substantial pave
ments and clean sidewalks with well
dressed people on the streets, activl-
ty in the business sections and sug-
pcstions of refinement about the
homes, invite the stranger to get ac-
quainted and spend his money. They
make him hunt the real estate offices
and ask questions, and if he discoV-
ers that the community Is iiVlnE uP
to its appearances, he is likely to
stay, for he has found his kind Of
people.
One indolent, don't-care neighbor is
actually detriment in the block or
streets. His presence puts down the
price of real estate and it's money
saving proposition to buy him out
and get rid of him. But II each
one does his part, if he minds his
own business in the sense th2t he does
what he ought, the block, the street,
the community is a moving picture
advertisement of prosperity.
But it is quite essential that the
appearances shall be true reflection
Of the things that don't show, on inc
surface. It's important that the PACK
ward shall be as clean and sanitary
as the front lawn. And it's very
important that these appearances arc
backed up by low SlcH anu ue ,,;TI
90 with personal cleanliness and n.y.
@E living. but they ought to, fol
10Th are the mark of intelligence anc
common sense.
Florida cities and chambers o.
commerce are preparing to repeal
, the investment of last season, by
E buying large space in northern perlou
homes v%1Ts a. and farms and investments il
T t tbis state, But it will be ill-spen
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-27

type our candid opinion of this rene
gade preacher-p politician now running
on an independent ticket for Governor
of this State.-Jacksonville Floridian.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-27
SOLITUDE.

II is good, as often as we can
within reason, to get away from
people, away from the sight and
sound of things, to be alone with
nature for a season and get ac-
ouainted with ourselVes.-sruce
Calvert.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-27

"ITse Juba Self Rising Flour for
delicious hot Biscuits-at all Gro
cnrs.N S-lo-Cl'
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-10-27

"Use Juba Self Rising Flour for
delicious hot Biscuits-at all Gro
GERS" 9-l5-tf.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17
IN SHAPE OF LOCOMOTIVE
Remarkable Clock That Has Been Con
structed by Ingenious Kansas Me-
chanic-Eight-Day Type.

Quite a curious clock has been con.
structed by a Kansas mechanic in
the form of a miniature locomotive.
The dial, which is made of imitation
ebony, is fixed on one side OF the
highly ornate cab of the engine and
is studded with small ruby and green.
colored incandescent lamps.
The interior of the cab is supplied
with several other tiny globes, while
the headlight, which is fitted with
both a reflector and lens, also mounts
lamp. A switch controlled by
the clock automatically turns the
current on at six o'clock in the eve
ming and cuts it off IL hours later.
The headlight, the lamps in the cab,
and those on the face of the clock
are wired in separate circuits.
Each of these groups is flashed in
dependently of the others at inter
walls of about Is seconds and remains
lighted for period of approximately
three seconds. The clock is of stand
ard make and of the eight-day type.
It strikes on the hour and half hour
by ringing the engine bell and while
doing this turns the driving wheels of
the locomotive, which do not touch
the tiny rock-ballasted track on which
they apparently rest. A manual switch
at the rear of the cab provides an aux
iliary control of the lamps.-Popular
Mechanics Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17
TIRING OF EACH OTHER.

I was so tired of Jack. poor boy,
And Jack was tired of me;
Most longed-for sweets will soonest cloy;
Fate had been kind-and we,
Two foolish spendthrift hearts. made
waste
or life's gifts with eager haste,
We clanked our marriage chains and
pinned
For freedom we had left behind.
Turning from the altar, husband and
wife, does not always presage happi-
ness forever after, despite the general
belief of single folks to the contrary.
Good writer's warn men and maids
that they should study each other
carefully before the tying of the knot,
which becomes strained and tangled If
attempt is made to untwist it.
But how can woman. young and
unsophisticated, know what is in
mans heart, or in his thoughts? He
is sure to show the best part of his
nature to his dearie in his counting
days. Even his temper is held care
he thinks her extravagant in the pur-
chase of new bonnet. set of books.
or picture. Instead. he praises her
taste Why wouldn't she think that
the man she is going to marry is the
best natured, most appreciative per
son on earth.
If many lovers knew each other as
they really are. they would not be so
anxious to join their lives together for
all time. The majority of lovers are
not overfrank with each other. They
deliberately practice deceiving little.
He leads her to believe that he does
not care how much he spends on her
if he can only see her happy. Deep
in his heart he is concluding that he
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17
ATRIAL WILL CONVINCE ANYONE
THE GREAT KIDNEY REMEDY
MAKES FRIENDS

A few years ago I was troubled with
complication of kidney and stomach all
ments and although / tried two or three
different doctors, / was unable to obtain
a cure. Having heard great deal about
Swamp Root, l decided to give it trial
and purchased a one-dollar bottle of Mr..
Alexander, the druggist. From the be-
ginning l could notice a change for the
better and after taking eight bottles OF
your medicine, felt entirely cured and
have not had any trouble since.
Had / began using Swamp-Root sooner.
] would have been a few hundred dollars
to the good and saved myself lot OF
suffering.
You may use my testimonial any time
you wish. Yours very truly,
CHARLES e. HARRIS,
$50 Sixth st. Marion. Iowa.
I certify that Charles E. Harris signed
The above testimonial in my presence,
being first duly worn to the truth there
of, this the 18th day of July, 1909:
D. R. KINLEY, j. P.
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Send ten cents to DR.. Kilmer & Co.,
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nation, telling about the kidneys and blad-
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this paper. Regular fifty-cent and one
dollar size bottles for sale at all drug
stores-Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17
Parrot That Talked Egyptian.

In regard to the birds of the Ba-
hamas, a lady of my acquaintance
reaped this valuable information from
the lips of one of the intelligent hack
drivers of Nassau. She had noticed
a bird looking something like black
parrot, and had asked the driver if it
actually was a parrot. Oh, yes. it was
a parrot, all right, he said. by the
way, it wasn't. } Did it talk, the lady
asked. Oh, yes, It talked. but-and
this was the really interesting infor-
mation-it only talked Egyptian"
"Egyptian!" exclaimed the lady. Yes.
all the birds of the island talked Egyp-
tan. Could he understand them?
Well, just little-bus in
short. he confessed that his own
Egyptian was rusty; but the birds
talked it all right for sure.-Richard
LIE Gallienne, in Harper's Magazine.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17
will soon put stop 10 that sort o
business after marriage.

will soon put stop 10 that sort OF
business after marriage
She leads him to believe that she
has an angelic disposition; no temper'
at ALL Tacitly she leads him to imag-
inc that he is to be martinez in the
household after marriage. His wishes
will be supreme; his word law. Men
tally she is concluding: I'm giving
him his way now After marriage
there1l be a different tune sung 1t
will be my wishes that shall be obeyed
or there'll be war in camp"
Ere the honeymoon has scarcely be-
gun, the mask has slipped just tribe
from each face and heart. The one
stands revealed to the otner, as he
and she really are. There are few
couples who take the situation philo-
sophically and good naturally strive to
overcome difficulties. More couples
give way to their disappointment and
make it the basis for quarrels and bit
terness.
Love cannot long Withstand such
cold, whitening blasts. The upshot OF
the whole affair is that they soon be-
gin to tire of each other. If common
sense comes to their rescue then and
there, they will frankly confess their
faults to each other and live up to
their promise. If there's but tiny
root of love left in each heart, it can
sprout up into a healthy plant, it's
beautiful tendrils INTERVENING. A
couple once welded should never al
low their hearts to drift apart through
wearying with each other.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17
Look and Feel
=sssszs =s=s -
Clean, Sweet and
H Fresh Every Day
Drink a glass Of real hot water
before breakfast to wash
out poisons. e

Life Is not merely to live, but to
live well, eat well, digest well, work
well, sleep well, look well. What Q
glorious condition to attain. and yet
how very easy it is If one will only
adopt the morning inside bath.
Folks who are accustomed to feel
dull and heavy when they arise, split
ting headache, stuffy from cold, foul
tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach.
can, instead, feel as fresh as daisy
by opening the sluices of the system
each morning and flushing out the
whole of the internal poisonous stag.
nant matter.
Everyone, whether ailing, sick or
we'll, should, each morning, before
breakfast, drink glass Of real hot
water with teaspoonful Of limestone
phosphate in 1t to wash from the
stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the
previous days indigestible waste, sour
bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans
ing, sweetening and purifying the en-
tire alimentary tract before putting
more food into the stomach. The ac-
ton of hot water and limestone phos.
phate on an empty stomach is wonder
fully invigorating. 1t cleans out all the
sour lamentations, gases, waste and
acidity and gives one a splendid ap-
petite for breakfast. While you are
enjoying your breakfast the water and
phosphate Is quietly extracting large
volume of water from the blood and
getting ready for a thorough flushing
of all the inside organs.
The millions of people who are both
cred with constipation, bilious spells.
stomach trouble, rheumatism; others
who have sallow skins, blood disor-
ders and sickly compilations are urged
to get quarter pound of limestone
phosphate from any store that handles
drugs which will cost very little, but
is sufficient to make anyone a pro-
nounced crank on the subject Of in
ternal sanitation.-Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17
Archie's Neck.

Little WILHELM small boy stories
the central figure is nearly always
named Little Willie-came running
into the house, suffering in his ex'
element:
"Mommer," he painted, do you know
Archie Sloan's neck?"
do l know what?" asked his
mother.
do you know Archie Sloan's neckf"
repeated her offspring.
Il know Archie Sloan." answered
the puzzled parent; so I suppose
must know his neck. Why?"
WELL" said Willie, che just now
fell into the backwater up to it."-Sat
urday Evening Post.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17
COSMOPOLITAN BANGKOK.

In southern Siam, Bangkok, the cap
ital, is the principal port, and had at
the last enumeration a population of
540,679, of which a large proportion
are Chinese. The city of Bangkok is
situated on both sides of the river
Menam Chao Phya, about twenty-five
miles upstream from the bar at its
mouth This bar forms great OBJ
stacle to shipping, allowing only yes
sells to cross at high tide drawing
from IL feet inches to Ia feet G
inches, according to the season of the
year. Vessels of greater depth, how
ever, find safe anchorage at all times
at Kohsichang, an island located about
twenty-five miles from the mouth Of
the river.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17
s UDDEN DE AT H
Caused by Diseas

The close connection which exists
between the heart and the kidneys Is
well known nowadays. AS soon as
kidneys are diseased, arterial tension
is increased and the heart functions
are attacked. When the kidneys no
longer pour forth waste, uremic poi
soning occurs, and the person dies and
the cause Is often given as heart dis
ease, or disease of brain or lungs.
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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17
One Snowy
Night
Copyright. 1916. by w. G. Chapman)

NCOpyIlSut, 1SIos py w. VI. OAdpIudu.l
Norman Bliss had come to River
dale with a happy, hopeful heart He
left it gloomy, disappointed and dis
couraged Ringing in his ears were
words it seemed he never would for
get:
81 would not marry this country
lout, if he were the last man in the
world"
And Viola Tascott had spoken that
fatal sentence - peerless, beautiful
Viola, whom he had come to Riverdale
to see, to WOO, to wed, if she would
but say the word.
And now, driving his farm team
back to his lonely, lowly prairie home,
the brave stalwart young fellow
fiinched as he thought over the vivid
heart history of the past week.
He had lived in Plainfield, fifty miles
across country from Riverdale, where
his father died. At the former town
Viola had come to visit cousin, and
he had met her They were quite COM
panionable, when old Mr.. Bliss died
suddenly. The family home and some
other property had been owned by
Mr.. Bliss and, of course, Norman
would inherit it. When the estate
came to be settled up, however, one
James Monks, lawyer, seized the
same under mortgage.
Norman was amazed. Time and
L, |, Co ho6
told him that the old mortgage on the
property had all been paid up. The
records, however. did not show any
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17

oQL from the RS
ing to the setting of each days sun.
For them there is no thought of to-
morrow. They believe the present
only is ours and that each day should
be measured by it's joys, not by its
regrets, finding the pearl of hope in
the embers of disaster.
Across the happiness of some lives
the shadows fall early. The sunshine
is with others far into the middle life,
mercifully warding off the darkness
and loneliness. If the star of cheer
fulness shines through benighted
sky, a CLEAN of radiance lights the
path that leads onward.
Give youth pleasure, and it's cup of
happiness is full. Middle life and those
who have gone still farther on their
way find most pleasures empty
youth has been delusion, middle
age unsatisfying and added years
a burden and regret. If one can
clasp many outstretched hands, stead
fast and true, the year of the shad-
ows is not so keen. If one is alone
in the world when his life sun is at it's
setting life is cold and drear under
any sky.
1t makes matters worse if they
turn from the light to the gloom. If
they are honest with themselves, they
must realize their hearts crave
warmth and brightness still. Life
and they are still fast friends; there
is still much to live for ere the night
draws nigh. The hand that clasped
theirs at the altar may loosen it's clasp
in youthtime or afar down the path
which they have trod together, but
the cropping hand of the one that
is left cannot wither because of this
rending asunder. Few welded hearts
are destined to cross the dark stream
together. One takes the boat which
drifts away from the shore in the
early morn, while the birds are sing
ing from sheer JOY in their gladness
of living, loving and mating, and while
the dew besprinkles each flower,
blade of grass and leaf of tree, and
the young day pulses with warmth,
strength and life; the other is des-
tined to be left behind until the day
is well-nigh spent, and the purple
cleaning shuts out the worlds slen-
der rim.
Until ones latest hour there is still
a mission for the one that is left to
regrets and believe
whatever happens is for the best, max
ing no moan against the decree of a
power greater and wiser than ours.
The memory of love should never die
out Of the heart Love is youths de-
light 1t is the staff and solace of
middle age and the one comfort of
years in their decline. The heart has.
indeed burned itself out when it is
beyond the benign influence of love.
Yet, Ills better to have loved and
lost than never to have loved at all"
Let no one fear life's cleaning. 1t
will be beautiful according to the life
we have lived. No heart is so old
that hope and love may not nestle
themselves therein. No heart so worn
that it cannot be touched by hidden
spring and pearls of content be made
a setting for it. Peace, joy and love.
when the shadows fall, bring the
greatest happiness that can crown
life.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1916-02-17
ase of the Kidneys

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