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rKlDAY JUNE 9
PAGE NO. SIX.
J lift FALAilvA XNliiWO, rALAiftfl,
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Superstitions About Fowls.
Diviners of East Africa perform
divination by killing a fowl niul sprin
kling its Wooil on or near the thresh
old, "a practice most frequently ob
served when a chief has fallen seri
ously ill." It is a far cry from I'gamla
to the shores of Scotland, but here is
an Incident that runs the Uganda cus
tom close enough, surely. In a cer
tain place which docs not consider it
self less enlightened than similar com
munities of its size a friend was one
day suddenly asked by a woman, a
neighbor (whose son, a young lad, had
fallen clown in a fit), to run for 4 doc
tor. This he promptly did, and, re
turning before the arrival of the doc
tor, was pleased to see the lad had
come to in the interval, and said so to
the mother. "Yes." she replied, "but
what a pity we hadn't a live cock to
bury in the garden." Not only so, but
my friend, on expressing his surprise
to another party, was shown a garden
quite close where a live fowl had been
buried on a precisely siunfar occasion,
thus testifying to. a more general be
lief in the ellicacy of such a charm
than could be imagined. London Tit
Bits. Meant Well,' But
Viscount French of Ypres often tells
an amusing story about a French re
view that he attended a good many
years ago.
General French, as he then was, at
tended the men's dinner in camp one
day, and as he puffed on his cigar ho
noticed that 300 young Frenchmen had
nothing to smoke whatever.
Accordingly he sent to his tent for
three boxes of Ilavan'as, and these
were quickly distributed among the
troops, a rare treat truly. To show
their gratitude the soldiers without
consulting their sergeants lined up in
two files, inarched toward the English
general, and, raising their right hands
to their caps and holding their lighted
cigars in their left hands, they shouted
as with one voice:
"Vive la Russe!"
They had mistaken the uniform.
Washington Star.
The Price of Eloquence.
The auctioneer held up a battered
fiddle.
"What am I offered for this antique
violin?" he pathetically inquired. "Look
It over. See the blurred finger marks
of remorseless time. Note the stains
of the hurrying years. To the merry
notes of this fine old instrument the
brocaded dames of fair France may
have danced the minuet in glittering
Versailles. Perhaps the vestal virgins
marched to its stirring rhythms In the
feasts of I.upercalia. Ila! It bears an
abrasion perhaps a touch of fire. Why,
this may have been the very fiddle on
which Nero played when Rome burn
ed." "Thirty cents," said a red nosed man
In the front row.
' "It's yours," cried the auctioneer
cheerfully. "What next?" Cleveland
Fialn Dealer.
Death Watches In England.
Prisoners under sentence of death
are never left alone for a moment. In
England two warders are in attend
ance both day and night to prevent the
possibility of suicide or escape. Three
clear Sundays of life are allowed to
the murderer after his sentence. Usual
ly he is hanged upon the Tuesday aft
er the third Sunday. Some visitors are
allowed, but not even the most inti
mate relatives may kiss, embrace or
even take the hand of the prisoner.
During the awful three weeks of wait
ing tlie condemned man may choose
any food within reason, may smoke
and may read what he likes. Just be
fore execution he may have a drink of
brandy. A man about to be hanged is
the only person who can hear his own
burial service read. London Express.
Pretty Small.
Hewitt What sort of a fellow is
he? Jewett Well, he will never have
to say to his conscience, "How you
have grown!" Judge.
HELP FOR
WORKING WOMEN
Some Have to Keep on Uniil
They Almost Drop. Kow
Mrs. Conley Got Help.
Here is a letter from a woman who
had to work, but was too weak and suf
fered too much to continue. How she
regained health :
Frankfort, Ky. "I suffered so much
with female weakness that I could not
i do my own wor!;.
had to hire it done.
I ho a nl so much
about Lydia E. rink
ham's Vegetable
Compound that I
tried it. I took three
bottles and I found
it to be all you
claim. Now I feel as
well as ever I did and
am able to do ali my
own work again. I
recommend it to any woman suffering
from female weakness. You may pub
lish my letter if you wish. "Mrs. James
Conley.516 St. Clair St., Frankfort, Ky.
No woman suffering from any form of
female troubles should lose hope until
she has given Lydia E. Finkhum's Veg
etable Compound a fair trial. 1
This famous remedy, the medicinal
ingredients of which are derived from
native roots and herbs, has for forty
years proved to be a most valuable tonic
and invigoratorof the female organism.
AH women are invited to write
to llio Lydia E. Pinkliani Medi
cine Co., Lynn, Mass for special
advice, it will be confidential.
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WWII
A Wild Goose
Chase
By F. A. M1TCHEL
This Is a copy of the will of Edward
Spangler, who died leaving a daughter
who was engaged to Thomas Ormsby,
a young man of whom the testator ap
proved. Mr. Spangler was considered
a very singular personage, and his will
bears out the opinion.
"Believing that between husband
and wife the one showing the greater
thought, resource, ingenuity indeed,
those faculties which go to make up
smurtuess should rule, I bequeath my
fortune either to my beloved daugh
ter, Imogene Spangler, or to the man
she shall marry, the inheritance to be
decided in the following manner:
"My property, consisting of twenty
bonds of $,"),000 each, is buried .in the
state of Florida. They will be found
either on the right bank of the St.
Johns river, at its junction with the
ocean, or at Glencove Springs, twen
ty miles northeast of St. Augustine.
The finder of the bonds either my
daughter, Imogene Spangler, or her
husband shall be their possessor."
"Surely, Tom," said Imogene after
reading the will, "father must have
been delirious wheu he signed his will
You'd better go to Florida and visit
the two places named in the will.
Quite likely you'll find a pointer in the
one where the bonds are (buried."
"I think you had better go with me
We can make it a bridal trip."
"Very good. Name the day."
Imogene and Tom were duly mar
ried and preparations made for the
wedding journey. The evening before
their start Imogene went into her late
father's library, where the old gentle
man had kept many atlases for lie
was much interested in geography
with a view to locating the points
where they were to hunt for the bonds.
Mr. Spangler had set great store by a
revolving plaster globe four feet in
diameter. Imogene found St. Augus
tine on this globe, but not Glencove
Springs, so she got down an atlas con
taining a sufficiently detailed map and
located the points exactly.
The couple left the next morning for
the Flowery State, passing gradually
from winter into summer. Wheu they
reached St. Augustine Tom proposed
that they put up at a third rate hotel
or a cheap boarding house. lie did not
approve of spending money freely until
they had found the money to spend.
But Imogene said that, being on her
wedding journey, she proposed to live
like a bride. Tom was overruled, and
they went to the most expensive hotel.
After a few days' rest from their
journey Tom proposed that they should
proceed to look up their fortune. Imo
gene seemed to be in no hurry.
"I'm comfortable here," she said.
"Suppose you go to both points."
"But in case I find the bonds I shall
be the owner of them.''
"Suppose you are? That won't make
any difference to me. I think the hus
band should have the money anyway.
Papa was like most men; he thought
that power in the family is lodged In
the one possessing the funds. He
should have known that women don't
work that way. Their power lies be
yond dollars and cents. You go ahead
and find the bonds."
Tom was puzzled. For him to go off
to hunt for a fortune on such meager
information as he possessed seemed
ridiculous. He showed a disposition to
give up the matter.
"Oh, go on!" said his wife. "You'll
get mighty tired sitting around with
me long before the honeymoon is over.
Quite likely you'll find a clow. Father
wasn't such a fool as to hide a fortune
where no one could find it."
She kissed him and patted him on
the back and sent him away. He went
first to the Springs, where lie spent a
day looking for a sign. Finding none,
he proceeded to Jacksonville and
thence to the coast. But never a sign
did ho see. As for digging anywhere
without a sign, ho was not so stupid
as that. So after three or four days'
absence he returned to St. Augustine.
He expected to find his wife disap
pointed at his failure, but she met him
with n smile.
"You don't seem to be much de
pressed at the loss of a fortune," he
remarked.
"Isn't it a wife's duty to cheer her
husband in times of adversity?" she
replied.
"1 hope you'll bo able to keep it up
when the bills begin to come in."
"Brush your hair and get that disap
pointed look off your face. Things are
not so bad as they appear. I have
something to tell you. The night be
fore we left for this place I went into
father's library to look upon his globes
and maps where these places you have
been are. Something in the words
Glencove Springs sounded suggestive.
'Springs, springs,' I kept saying. Why
I did It I don't know, but I pressed
my thumb on the globe at the point
where Glencove is ami broke through
the surface. Taking a knife, I began
to dig and found the bonds. Here
they are."
Going to her trunk, she unlocked It
and took out twenty 0 per cent gilt
edge bonds.
Tom kissed her enthusiastically.
Then suddenly the smllo left his face,
and he said:
"This makes you governor of the
household."
"Nt at all. I expect to defer to
you in everything," was the comfort
ing reply.
But she never assigned the bonds to
him, and he learned In time that her
father was not so crackbratued as was
eupjiosed.
A Rip Van Winkle
Story
By OSCAR COX
Mr. Rip Van Winkle Stone went to
sleep in the province of Marne, France,
after a tramp, In the middle of July,
1895, and slept the twenty years bis
great-great-great-grandfather had slept
hi the Catskill mountains, In America.
Like his progenitor, he was on a height
and could look down on a broad ex
panse of country. It was the same
season as that in which lie had com
menced his slumber, so he didn't realize
that he had slept a couple of decades.
"What a peaceful scene!" he re
marked. "It makes me feel like taking
another nap."
Hearing a buzzing sound above, ho
looked up.
"My good gracious!" he exclaimed.
"Have whales from the sea got into
the air?"
A Zeppelin was swimming along laz
ily. Mr. Stone watched it till it passed
out of sight, wondering what It could
be. Beneath him, running from north
east to southeast, was an ill defined
zigzag line. He didn't remember hav
ing seen it when he went to sleep.
While he was wondering how It came
there he saw a flock of birds rising
from the other side of a hill and come
toward him. As they approached they
grew larger and larger, and when they
passed over his head he saw men on
them.
"Great Scott!" he exclaimed. "What's
the matter with me? First, the world
seems turned upside down and whales
swim where the birds should be. Next,
men ride by on the backs of birds."
A party of men in uniform rode up
in an auto to a point near where lie
was gaping, and one of them brought
binoculars to bear on the country be
low. They were a German general
and his staff. Stone spoke French
pretty well and hailed them.
"Hello, you fellows! What are you
doing cavorting in uniform in these
peaceful times?"
The men looked at him curiously,
and one of them asked him in German
who he was and what he was doing
there. He said he was an American
on a tramp; then, rising, he was be
ginning to descend the declivity when
one of the officers asked him where he
was going.
"To Paris," was the answer.
"I hope you'll succeed in doing so,"
was the reply. "We've been trying to
get there for a year and haven't ac
complished the feat yet."
The American started down the de
clivity. "See here, my man, do you want to
walk straight to your death?"
"How can I walk to my death going
down into that quiet country?"
"What's the matter with you? Don't
you see that zigzag line down there?"
"Yes, and I can't make out what it
means."
"It means 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 of
men, armed with all the implements
of modern warfare."
"What are they doing there?"
"They're at war."
"You don't mean to tell me that
there's war going on down in those
peaceful meadows and slopes?"
At that moment came the roar of a
hundred guns from a segment of the
line not a mile long.
"What's that?" asked Stone.
"Cannon, you fool."
Stone didn't hear. A light breeze
was setting westward. A brown
cloud arose and drifted with it
"What's that?"
"Asphyxiating gas."
"What's it for?"
"There are millions of French sol
diers down there. That gas is intended
to poison them so they can't fight.
Wait a minute and you'll see a charge."
By this time there was so much noise
that It was useless to ask any more
questions, and the Yankee simply gap
ed. Ho heard the charge and saw
some of it, but the foes were so near
together that it seemed 'to him like a
gigantic football game wherein the
two teams were deadlocked, and when
ever they moved they left heaps of
men lying still. Gradually the din
died down, and the Yankee found it
possible to make himself heard again.
"See here!" lie said. "Did those sol
diers got vomited out of the bowels
of the earth?"
"They came out of the trenches."
"Trendies! What are they?"
"Don't you know anything about
war?"
"Y'es, my father was in the great
war between the states in America.
I've heard a lot about war from him.
But that was a war of men, not of
rabbits. He was in the battle of Get
tysburg, the biggest of the war. There
wero a couple of hundred thousand
men engaged. The line must have
been several miles long."
"Oh, give us a rest about your Amer
ican battles! There are three or four
millions of men in that line and it Is
200 miles long."
"Whew!"
A flock of aeroplanes was seen in
the distance. The general and his
staff manifested some trepidation and
descended the hill rearward to seek
cover.
"I'm going home to America, w here
everything is as peaceful as a ceme
tery," said Stone to himself.
But when he had reached Taris by a
roundabout way and bought a news
paper the first thing that arrested his I
attention was n scare head:
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CUSSING PREPAREDNESS I
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barbers In Japan.
In Japan not only men, but women,
go to. the barber if there be any sign
of hair on their faces. They do not per
mit even the soft down to grow, which
the Japanese are often astonished to
see left unmolested on the faces of
some western women. Often, too, the
eyebrows are shaved. In recent years
the female barber has become a feature
of the profession in Tokyo, most of
these being the wives of barbers who
wish to make themselves useful to
their husbands, though some are in
dependent. The 17th of every month
is regarded as a barbers' holiday, when
they close up shop and go to theaters
and places of amusement, for which
they are often furnished with free tick
ets, because they allow the playbills
and other advertisements of the places,
of amusement to be posted in their
shops free.
The Various Ages.
In the Greek mythology four the
golden, self sufficient; the silver, self
indulgent; the brazen, warlike, and
the iron, violent; together with the
heroic, nobly aspirant, between the
third and fourth.
In archaeology throe the stone age,
the bronze and the iron.
In history t he middle and dark, be
tween the ancient and the modern.
In Ficlite live of instinct, of law,
of rebellion, of rationality, of conform
ity to reason.
In Shakespeare seven infancy,
childhood, boyhood, adolescence, man
hood, age, old ago.
Pity the Poor.
"There's no justice in this world for
a poor man."
"That's right. Hero I've got one of
the fastest little cars in this town, and
I don't dare lot it out, because I haven't
got enough money to pay a fine for
speeding." Pittsburgh Press.
Domestic Bliss.
Mrs. Neighbors Do you and your
husband live happily together? Mrs.
Enpeck Sure. I'd just like to see my
husband try not to live happily with
me. Indianapolis Star.
A Statistician.
"What is a statistician, pa?"
"A statistician, my son, is a man who
conies to the aid of figures which can
not lie for themselves." London Tele
graph. Her Business.
Fatience Don't you think she knows
her business? Patrice Well, if It's
knowing everybody else's she does.
Yonkers Statesman.
No. 666
This ii a prescription prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER.
Five or six doits will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. It acts on the liver be'ter than
Calomel and does not gripe nr sicken. 25c
NOTICE OF SALE.
NOTICE is hereby given that un
der and by virtue of a final decree of
foreclosure, heretofore on the 29th
day of May, lUhi, made and rendered
by the Judge of the Eighth Judicial
Circuit of Florida, in and for Putnam
County, in Chancery sitting, in a cer
tain cause therein pending wherein
Adelphia Ann Fennell, L. V. Fennel!,
Israel J. Fennell, Janie Price by her
husband and next friend, John Price;
Ida Alderman, by her husband and
next friend, Iiasil Alderman; Lottie
Tvler, by her husband and next
friend, L. W. Tyler, Rosa L. Brant
ley, by her husband and next friend
Z. Brantley, are complainants, and
Theophiel Aderholz, and Lena B. Ad
erholz, and William Laubach, are de
fendants, I the undersigned Special
Master in Chancery appointed in and
by said decree as such, shall offer for
sale and sell to the highest and best
bidder for cash, before the Court
House of Putnam County, at Talatka,
Florida, on Monday the
THIRD DAY OF JULY
during the legal hours of sale, the fol
lowing described property:
Northeast quarter of southeast
quarter of Section 10, and
Lot No. 1 of Section twenty-two,
and
South half of Southwest quarter (or
the South half of Lot 5, and the South
half of Lot ))' in Section fifteen, and
The fractional southeast ouartar of
the Eoutheast quarter of Section six
teen. All of said land lying and being in
Township nine, South of Range 23
East, in Putnam County, Florida.
Saving and excentin'ir from thn
above described property 17 1-3 acres
of land hitherto conveyed to Lewis
Washington Fennell by two deeds .riv
en by James Fennell and wifp. nn,I
recorded in Book of Conveyances 32 I
at page 717, and in Book of Convcv-1
ances 43, at page 33fi. in the office of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court, of 1
Putnam County. Florida. Said lands
described in said deeds and excepted
n.j
from the lands to be sold under the
decree being more particularly des
cribed as follows:
Commencing at the Northeast cor
ner of the Southwest quarter of the
Southwest quarter of Section 15,
Township 9, South of Range 23 East,
and run South 3 1-2 degrees East 14
chains to the place of beginning,
thence South 3 1-2 degrees East x Sec
tion line x Lot No. 1 (Section 22,
Township 9, South of Range 23 East)
to the waters edge. Thence from be
ginning North 87 degrees East 6.50
chains, thence South 12 degrees W
lake shore or low water mark, and
Commencing at the Northeast cor
ner of the Southwest quarter of the
Southwest quarter, Section 15, Town
ship 9, South of Range 23 East, and
run South 3 1-2 degrees East 14
chains to place of beginning; Thence
North 87 degrees East 6 1-2 chains;
thence North 12 degrees East 14
chains and 58 Links; thence South 87
degrees West 6 chains and 43 links;
thence South 12 degrees West 14
chains and 52 links to place of be
ginning, containing by estimation 9
1-3 acres of land moup or less.
HENRY STRUNZ
Special Master in Chancery.
Hi burn & Merryday
Solicitors for Compainants.
Notice of Appllcntlon for Tax Deed
Under Section 8 of Chapter 4888,
Lawn of Florida.
NOTICE is hereby given that
J. K. (innns, purchaser of Tax Certificates
No. W4 and 835, dnted the 6th day of July
A. 11. 1W7,
tuts filed said certificates in my office,
and has made application for tax deed
to issue In accordance with law.
Hukl certificates embraces the follow
injj described property, situated In
Putnam county, Florida, to-wit:
Said eertlllcate No. KU embraces 8$ of N
of H'iofNVV! of 8W) and said certlflcnte
No. W5 embraces 8-2 of of NWJ4 of 8Vi,
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NOTICE is here
i'-Fo"nllr.- Purchaser of Tv n" .'
u. c-uuiea tue 4th (v f v ""m
A.l..:5 ftoveuj;
has filed said certificate In m
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KiuiKe, if? K., SO Acres. U1P u,
The said' land be'ino-
date of Issuance of such c,r.i at M
the name of K. 8. Hnbiiw, CLrt"icate li
unless said certlnunte shall k
deemed according to in J , "al Us r(,
issue thereon on the Mh .M
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seal this the 86th (lav or lv k ,, ,?
Clerk Circuit CouVS't
By H.' Hutchinson, jr.. p! TA
ADMINISTRATORS' NOlTc
All creditor!?. 1
and all persons having'daiais 0Hd
fitiuau uiu estate ot John A
McCaskill deceased, are hereby
fied to present their claims or d
mands to me within Two Years'
all persons indebted to said John i
Biivnawii ucicM, are nouned tots
..uiiMii.ouaiui, ui uif estate oi
A. McCaskill deceased.
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