The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-12-05

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It seems that Mr.. Depew warped
his memory for business details by
wrapping it around chestnuts.
There seems to be more underground
work on the Panama canal than there
is work on the canal itself
People were wont to laugh with the
senior senator of New York If they
laugh now it is not with him, but at
him.
A Missouri schoolboy defined a
friend as zone who knows all about
you and likes you just the same.
That is better than Webster.
President McCurdy has generously
Topped of one-half Of his salary. Not
to be outdOne in generosity the policy
holders are. perfectly willing to Top
of the other half
Mr.. Depew was unable TO remember
the name of 'the friend who dropped
around once a year to fix things" Per
haps the friend forget to tell Mr.. De
pew a new funny story.
Mr.. Lawson declares that Mr.. Rog-
ers beat him out Of S12,000,O0O in the
collapse of the Amalgamated deal, The
loss of that amount would make
newspaper man real mad.
James NJ. Beck contends that public
opinion is all the supervision that
life insurance companies need. It is
gratifying to note that Mr.. Beck is
struggling valiantly to earn his sal
airy.
The National Grange Patrons Of
Husbandry announces its opposition
to the labor union demand for the
eight-hour working day The grange
wiz have the earnest support of a
large number Of gentlemen who have
prOfted largely by the overtime work
and failure Of the grangers to organ
ize
The Russian calendar is eleven days
behind the calendar used by the rest
of the civilized world. Russia now
1 proposes to adopt the prevailing cal
endar. Wisdom prompts such a course
for any opportunity to skip eleven
such days as Russia has been enjoy
ing for several years should be seized
with avidity.
I'VE can not stop the practice of Civ
ing rebates, pleads a railroad man.
Every state has an institution for the
cure of ha5itual lawbreaking.
A republican organ venture the
I prediction that the president and the
senate win have no trouble in getting
Z together on a rate regulation meas.
ure Perhaps. But is that a compli-
ment to the president?
It is announced that the mine own
ers are organizing for a labor war on
the miners. Perhaps at some not dis
tant day the public viii also organize
and teach the mine owners a thing or
two. Who knows?
A prize waltzer has been elected
mayor of Providence, a professional
viOlinist has been elected mayor Of
4 San Francisco, and a novelist has been
elected mayor of Toledo. The pro-
I fessional politicians seem to be on the
run.
Another last survivor" of the Light
1 Brigade" is dead. The last survivors
Of the famous charge seem to hang on
almost as tenaciously as some life in
surance presidents-Or republican
/ promises of tariff revision by friends
Of the tariff.
A contemporary deems it strange
+ that both Jews and Gentiles have sub
/ scribed TO the fund for the relief Of
the oppressed Russian Jews. There
I is nothing strange about that Broth
I erly love has advanced so far these
DAYS that it can no longer be bounded
/ by either race or creed, or both.
The European powers are now en-
joying their annual picnic of handing
redhot ulumatums to the sultan of
I Turkey The sultan looks upon them
very much like the republican leaders
( look upon their platform pledges to
deal fairly with the people