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FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1915.
THE PALATKA NEWS. PALATKA, FLA.
PAGE NO. THREE
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ELECTRIC LIGHT FACTS
OF INTEREST TO THE PEOPLE OF PALATKA
RATES m ELECTRIC
MOTOR SERVICE
Franchise granted us August 21, 1914:
Section 4. The rates to be charged
in the City of Palatka for electric motor
service shall not be more than the fol
lowing rates: Meter measurement, Two
Hundred Killowats, or less, eight cents
per killowat; all in excess of two hun
dred killowats up to five hundred kill
owats, seven cents per killowat; all in
excess of five hundred killowats, up to
one thousand killowats, six cents per
killowat ; all in excess of one thousand
killowats, up to eighteen hundred killo
wats, five cents per killowat; all in ex
cess of eighteen hundred killowats,
four cents per killowat: provided that
the said grantees shall not be compelled
to furnish electric power to any motor
consumer for less than twenty-two dol
lars per year per rated horse power of
motor as shall be determined by the
said Grantees. Meters to be furnished
and kept in repair by the Grantees here
in at their expense.
MOTORS, AljY SIZE
Certain parties are circulating reports that it will be in
convenient to obtain 133 Cycle Motors. We request that you
do not pay any attention to such absurd statements even though
yau may believe that the parties are sincere or posted.
UE WILL GUARANTEE
You delivery of 133 Cycle Motors in the usual time and will also
assure you that we will furnish like sizes for exactly the same
price of standard make 60 Cycle Motors. We are now prepared
to take your orders for Motors
The cleanest, most economical and
satisfactory power service known.
FIRE ALARM
WHISTLE
Franchise -granted us August 21, 1914:
Section 11. The said Grantees shall
provide and keep in repair one cross
arm on each pole when requested by the
City Council, for the free use of the
City of Palatka in operating a police or
fire alarm system or both and shall also
provide and equip the power plant of
the Grantees herein with a fire alarm
whistle, and shall upon notice by the
City or its authorities, cause to be
blown a fire alarm upon said fire alarm
whistle indicating the ward within
which a fire may occur.
This whistle has been installed and
approved by City Fire Department.
RANGING FROM 1-16 H.P.
TO 20 H.P.
AND LARGER IF REQUESTED.
OBTAIN THE MOST SATISFACTORY POWER IN THE
WORLD.
SAVES TIME, MONEY, LABOR
AND WORRY
ELECTRIC FANS LESS THAN
3-4c. AN HOUR
Be comfortable in your home or office by using an Electric
Fan at a maximum cost of three-quarters of a cen per hour for
the large sizes, less for smaller sizes.
Why live in misery when you can be at ease in this swel
tering heat at so small an expense?
You can communicate direct with the Company, or
MR. A. M. LEACH. MR. C. D MARVIN, MR. GEO.
I. HOMEL, or MR. E. W. MOISE.
MR..G. LOPER BAILEY will also be pleased to
give any matter his personal attention.
SIZE OF ELECTRIC
PLANT
Franchise granted us August 21, 1914:
Section 10. The said Grantees shall,
within nine months from date of this
ordinance, so enlarge, extend, improve
and equip its electric light plant in the
City of Palatka, that it will then be ca
pable of furnishing all electric lights
and power required under the terms of
this ordinance that may be necessary
to then supply the demand and require
ments of the business and people of the
City of Palatka then attached, and from
time to time so continue to improve and
extend said plant as to meet the grow
ing demand of Palatka, so that said
plant shall at all times be capable of
providing ample and sufficient electric
ity, light and power for the City of Pa
latka ; and the said Grantees shall with
in the nine months begin the operation
of said electric plant and shall thereaf
ter operate the same on a twenty-four
hour per day schedule, and continue so
to operate the same day and night,
thereby giving a continuous electric
current for all necessary purposes dur
ing the life of this franchise, excepting
failures caused by the act of God, war,
strikes, and unavoidable accidents.
Street Lighting System Two Wood
Arc Dynamos Each capable of carry
ing their present load Only one need
ed to light the streets. DUPLICATE
SYSTEM.
Incandescent Alternating Dynamos,
owned and operated BEFORE fran
chise was granted:
General Electric Company 90 K. W.
General Electric Company 60 K. W.
Total 150 K. W.
Added since granting of
franchise, General Elec
tric Company 120 K. W.
Present Capacity . 270 K. W.
The heaviest load of electricity we
have EVER had was 116 K. Ws. Sat
urday night, May 15, 1915, our heavi
est load was 100 K. Ws.
You will note that our present ca
pacity is over 100 per cent larger than
our customers demand of us. We are
working hard for, and expect an in
crease. THE CONTINUOUS SER
VICE STARTED 5:10 P. M MAY
16TH, 1915.
PALATKA GAS LIGHT & FUEL CO.
PHILOSOPHY OF GOD'S
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Sermon Delivered by Rev.
J. T. Lewis at St. Marks
Palatka.
The following sermon, recently de
livered by Rev. J. T. Lewis, rector of
St Marks church (Episcopal) of this
city, had received so much favorable
comment from those who were privi
leged to hear it, that The Palatka
News has obtained the privilege of
publishing it that an even greater
congregation of believers may read
and enjoy it. '
Psalm lxxvii:16-19.
"The air is full of farewells to the dy
And mournings for the dead; (ing
The heart of Rachel, for her children
crying,
Will not be comforted."
On occasions of what we are accus
tomed to call divine visitations, the
mind goes further than the feeling of
fear. It goes to the very root and
bottom of things and its natural que
ry is, "where is God? Is there a
Cod? Can there be a God?" Men
thrill at the thought of bravery and
are grateful for concrete examples of
courage. When thousands fall on the
battle field the feeling is one of exul
tation rather than neglect. God, we
say, has given war His sanction as we
have given it our sanction. The cru
elty of God is not involved. War, we
say, is the plan of God working out
normally and naturally; but when hu
manity confronts what is rightly or
wrongly called a divine visitation, it
seeks with sorrow and surprise for an
explanation. "How can we consis
tently reconcile accidents, plagues and
shipwrecks with the belie: that a lov
ing God rules the universe? Can we are such a medly of the carnal and
continue to believe in the love and the spiritual, the terrestrial and the
! tenderness of the Divine Governor celestial, that we are increasingly un
when the secret elements of His crea- j wjlHng to accept them in their en-
tion, like ministers of death, open an tirety. It is the God that moves in a
untimely grave to thousands and leave mysterious way His wonders to per-
, behind an inheritance of loss and form that is emphasized. Doej God
grief?" It is not an unfair question. move ;n a mysterious way? Can we
It is right to search the plans of the ech0 8uch a sentiment especially when
I Almighty. It is right to admire the we upon ourselves as fellow-
beautiful in natiure and when the workers with God? That steamship
beautiful is transformed into the hor- ticket which refers to the "act of
rible, it is equally right to seek an God," or the "hand of God" does it
explanation of a discord in the music not really shift the responsibility from
of God's love. The elementary and where it belongs?" Is steaming at a
' easy explanation is a denial of the ex- high speed into an iceberg an act of
istence of God. "Lisbon is engulfed, Go(j? is colliding in a fog an act of
Paris dances and God is asleep, said (j0(j? God does not go on parade to
Voltaire with scorn. Again, "nature perform His wonders. . It is man that
is raw in tooth and claw and is con- js responsible.
ducted either by a savage God or The deist contends that God is ab
driven onward by blind force. solutely good and that the cause of
I It was after a catastrophy that an sufferings is the prince of dark
Prof. Clifford, once a saintly man, nesg. This, too, was the explanation
lapsed into infidelity saying, "The advanced by Zoroaster. Further, the
great companion is dead." How of- deist said that God suffered disaster?,
ten has it happened that evon while etCi as a punishment for sin with the ,
we were praying God to avert this or object of making men good as He was 1
: that disaster or trouble or loss, He K00d. It is difficult to believe that 1
1 has answered, as the Psalmist said, od. who is full of love, is the direct
"by terrible things." And so we drop cause 0f human suffering, least of all
into blind, hard, hopeless material- unnecessary sufferine. The other
ism; we bow the head, too crushed gl-eat theory is that of the pantheists,
even to disbelieve; we raise tearful which has its basis in its mde-n form,
eyes to steely, flinty heavens; we in Hegel's philosophy. It dispenses
have had our reply a reply to cur entirelv with the free-will of man and
earnest prayer and it has been ter- regard's any disaster as an expression
rible. We stood on the threshold to of Q0d ;n the element of force. But
keep back, if possible, the pitiless an- there is a conception of God more 1
gel of death from a loved one. How consistant with a belief in His eternal
we did pray! How we did agonize! goodness and love. Man is kept alive
How we did wrestle! What was the by knowing and oheving the strone
reply? The angel of death brushed forces of nature and is hurt and killed
us aside and claimed his victim. Then, Dy opposing them. The drink'ng of ,
like a thief in the night, unbelief poison will kill saint or sinner. Roman
crept in clammy, icy, horrid. Catholic or Christian Scientist o
I But there is another answer even w;n contact with a live wire, so wiM
to the unthinking man, the answer of , a snakebite, so will lighting a matoh
one of the greatest English poets: a mi;.e. It is not a sign of punish-
j i mnn ; V... i;v.t .
Against. Heaven's hand or will rot nincr or smitten with sunstroke, anv I
bate a jot imore than the falling of the tower
Of heart or hope; but still bear up of Siloam was. Nature hoists her
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and steer
Right onward."
When. Voltaire, after
God's hand in it Religion is so often
coated with the barnacles of senti
ment that it is difficult to divorce
truth from foreign accretions. What
we call, "Gospel Hymns," for example ' unchangeable design.
words of Sir Lewis Morris:
"Would you seek in an order reversed
and amended, a hand divine?
Nay, the wonder of wonders lies in j
Should God break His laws, as He
might, should He stoop from His
infinite skies,
To redress that to us seems wrong
to lift up the life that dies?
Should He save from His wolf His
lami, from His tiger His innocent
child?
Should He quench the fierce flames
as they burn or the great wave
clamoring wild?
I think a great cry would go up from
an orderless universe,
I And all the fair fabric of things
I would wither as under a curse."
The essence of the creation is its
uniformity and only through its uni
jformity is it possible to understand
it. Water drowns today and tomor
irow. and forever. You may have the
' faith of Abraham, yet you drown.
; Fire burnt yesterday, burns today and
i will burn to the end of time. Poison
infects not now and then, but always,
and the duty of man is first to study
nature and then as Bacon said,
"make it a handmaid." Without this
prayer is, in the nature of things,
useless, as man would simply be ask
ing God to heal Himself and change
the unchangeable. Prayer cannot
heal a pin-prick any more than it can
heal a gaping wound. Death itself is
a magnified pin-prick; it is a contra
vention of eternal laws and if prayer
can heal a pin-prick it can , on the
same grounds, raise from the dead
the bullet-mangled warrior.
After all, the mystery is not such a
great one, not as great even as it once
was. Accidents do not come from
God, but from man's failure to keep
God's laws in nature. An accident is
but a collision between man's action
and a force in nature which he ha1?
not fathomed either through careless
ness or ignorance. And it should be
borne in mind that this ignorance is
generally wilful, amounting, in fact,
to indifference.
Let us enlarge on this, to make it
as clear as possible. The loss of the
S. S. Bridgeport or the S. S. Titanic
an unmitigated evil, we say "Gcd
showing that man did not know it -
God showing what He could da."
That was what we heard on the
streets at the time from very pious
people; but God is not a brute. Man
had not mastered the secret; he be
lieved that the Titanic was unsinka-
ble; he had aimed at perfection and
perfection will some day come, but
only through bitter lessons of this
kind. God will not sink a ship just
; lor the sake ot showing that He can
do it, but He will sink a ship if in that
way He can get ships in the future to
avoid all unnecessary danger and un
necessary speed and to uo e n pp m
with every safeguard in case of emv
gency. The precautions lake si
that time have been idoM "the hone
out of the lion's carcass."
What is called the "coinve nro?cv'
by philosophers must be :tu;l:a l r.
the more we study ths mo-e co-hr-we
become that everyth'ng, soo-e
later helps towards richer an 1 bett
conditions, A tidal wrve or pesti
lence will suielv wmi "" of n i
of safety or danger, end te-h lh
to avoid lnbits which a:e dentine'
to bodily health and cls"nlinc"s. r
mysterious plneue has tu-"p'' atten
tion towards its causes and the r.-e
has in conseouence become cler.'.er,
purer and titter. Kverv visitation
intended for benefit. By war the
enormity p id crime of war arc mat1";
evident. Bv disease the necessity of
tne observation of the laws of health
is emphasized. Pestilence is a erim
teacher, yet oestilence h-s led o oci-1
flni,'fi. l...u;n r- u ti i.
ciibiui, piuuiuiiiK, ncMi ;'.n, wun-L'iOR-
ed food and the study of hygiene.
Cholera originated 'n Bengal in 1818.
It destroyed 9,000 British soldiers and
12,000 pilgrims to Mecca. As it ap-!
proached Europe it vanished as if j
lifting a finger of warning, hut l-c
warning wrs not heeded and in 1830 :
it crossed into Eurore, ravaged St.. i
Petersburg, killed 18,000 in Paris,'
skiored r.coss the English chnn-'e! I
and from England crossed to America. :
There was but oie svmntom He"h. I
Mr. Robertson of Brighton, at that
time reminded his ro!igre?ntirn thpr
out of 24;! that died in Brighton, ,
were receiving parish relief. He
rightly, therefore, attributed the His- I
ease to the transgression of the laws
of health, bad air, crowded dwellings, 1
neglect of sanitary laws, poor drain-1
" i-'norap'-e. selfishness and the
weakening of the human frame byj
dissipation and sensuality. The great
fire of London practically destroyed
the city, but after it was rebuilt, no j
plague could take away 100,000 of its I
inhabitants as, it did before the fire. I
The same may be stid of Chicago and
of Jacksonville. The death o thous-1
ands of Frenchmen in the Panama
Republic has been the means of,
practically exterminating yellow fe
ver in the canal zone. The last yel
low fever epidemic in Florida was not
without beneficial results. The warn
ing has been given. The almost fatal
illness of Edward, Prince of Wales,
afterwards King Edward VII,
was the means of driving out mala
ria entirely from the British Isles. It
i? the large toll of life and the heavy
mortality! that are pushing fellow
fever out of the "white man's grave,"
and making West Africa habitable.
An experienced deep sea captain stat
ed that vessels on the great lakes
were built in a slip-shod fashion and
that their sailors were inexperienced.
The loss of nearly 300 lives in a storm
that raged over the lakes two years
ago can be traced to this omission.
The warning has been given. Rail
road disasters have emphasized the
fact that safety must depend on up-to-date
signalling systems and physw
cal fitness of all railroad men. The
N. Y. N. H. & H. had had the warn
ing but clung to an antiquated system
with the result that not long ago hun
dreds of people were mangled in a
death-dealing collision. All coal mine
disasters can be traced to carelessness
on the part of man. The laws of God
are fixed it is for us to obey them.
Earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes
what of them? Each visitation is an
educator. It is possible to build on
sand and it is possible to build on a
rock. The Lusitania disaster of
course being purely man-made and
man-contrived on the face, of it offers
no difficulties. It is certain that it
has weakened the cause of its perpe
trators more than the defeat of their
whole army.
I have thus attempted in as small
a compass as possible to ctate my
conception of God and the philosophy
of God's "terrible things." No disas
ter should shatter our confidence in
the goodness of God. We cannot see
as far as He sees the long train end
wide compass of purposes. The
ground reels and the earth spins.
Actually the earth is stationary, but
we are dizzy and short-sighted. If
we could hold a longer reach of times
and seize the connections of history
with a broader grasp of intelligence,
events, now difficult of solution,
would become transparent. "The
wisest," sayo Parker, "only knows
that he knows nothing." We have
been baffled in our purposes; our
plans have miscarried; our ideals have
been shattered; our castles have
crumbled; our hopes have been crush--ed.
We longed for weslth but wealth
has not come; we sought position but
the fruit was beyond our reach; we
desired leisure but our hands are
blistered with toil. We must confers
ignorance of the cause. The veil that
shrouds the statue of the god of the
i future has never been lifted. We
(know this that hindrances are made
ministers, opposition of enemies
(Strength and moral evil nobly resistel
a means of spiritual expansion.
I "What seem to us but sad funereal
I tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps."
Let us conclude with those noble
-expressions of firm faith and unwa
vering resignation from the pen of
the pious poet Browning
I "I praise Thee while my days go on,
'I love Thee while my days go on;
Through dark and death, through fire
I and frost,
I With emptied arms ant! treacure lost.
I thank The?, while my days go on."
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