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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12
A Square Deal
for the Gulf Ports.

Under the above caption the New
Orleans States publishes the following
relative to the commerce between the
Isthmus of Panama and Gulf ports,
but Just where the square deal'
comes in is rather defhcult for a Pen
sacOlian to see:
Announcement was made at Wash
ington last Monday that construction
work on the Panama canal had been
suspended and all the forces there
were now employed in battle to COM
pei death to release its grip upon the
Isthmus. It has been realized at last
that the King Of TerrOrs must be over
come before it is possible to build the
canal. and as the sanitary war will be
q long one 1t is safe to say that the
tine when a waterway is to be open
ed TO commerce will be advanced many
wears. In the meantime the Panama
railroad will have to serve the needs
Of commerce as best it can, hence the
business interests Of the country are
insisting that the railroad and its con-
Meeting steamship lines, now under
government control. shall be brought
Cd to the highest point of efficiency.
In this connection the Washington
Post says:
Under these circumstances the
present determinations and obstacles
should be removed, to the end that
commerce may not only be unimpeded,
but that all ports of the United States
may have a square deal. Charleston,
Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans and
Galveston have as much right to di-
rect connection with Colon as New
York has. San Diego has been and is
now ignored by steamers of the Pan
sma-San Francisco Line. Passengers
from Southern California 10 Panama
must travel northward nearly 500
miles in order to board the Panama
steamer. Freight, whether CONNER
cial or destined for canal work, must
be hauled hundreds of miles out of
the natural pathway. The mails are
from twenty-four TO forty-eight hours
slower than they should be. The same
conditions exist on the Atlantic side,
except that commercial competition
70 certain way ports gives some relief.
The fact remains, however, that en-
Rineers or clerks engaged in the South
for work at Panama must go to New
York TO catch the steamer TO Colon.
What our Washington contemporary
saws Is true New York has mOnOpo-
LIED the steamships controlled by the
government and which transport ca.
nal supplies and passengers to Colon
where connection is made with the
Panama railroad. The business men
OF New Orleans remembering what
President Roosevelt said about giving
everybody "a square deal have asked
that some OF these government con-
trolled ships be put in service between
this port and Colon, but apparently
no attention has been paid TO the re-
quest All of the ships continue TO
sail from and TO arrive at New York
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12
Are You Qualified
to Vote in Bond Election?

As a matter of public interest The
Journal publishes this morning the list
Of electors, as prepared by Register
Geo. S. Hallmark, who are qualified
to vote in the bond election to be held
August %.
If your name is not in this list and
you think you are qualified to vote in
this election, you should see Register
Hallmark at once and nave the mat
ter adjusted.
The council will meet Tuesday night
for final APPROVAL Of the list and if your
name is not on it at that time it will
then be too late to qualify and you
will not be permitted to vote.
The qualifications necessary for
voting in the bond election consist
simply in your having paid your city
taxes and being otherwise a qualified
voter in a city precinct.
Every taxpayer wants to vote in
this election. Therefore If you are
one Of them and your name is not in
the list which The Journal publishes
today. you should find out immediate
iy why it is not there.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12
Peace Conference
Is Held in Maine.

As all the kilograms relating to the
Russo-Japanese peace conference come
from Portsmouth, n. H., a misappre
hension exists in the minds of many
as 20 the actual place where the con.
ference is being held. This being So
the following from the Birmingham
Ledger is timely:
The peace conference is not beng
held in New Hampshire. but in Maine.
The navy yard is on little island that
belonged to Maine before the govern.
ment bought it. Not only that, but
Maine still retains her legal right to
serve papers on the government land
The sheTiffs of New Hampshire cannot
do that.
All the news from the conference
Genes from Port n. H., and il
is frequently stated, even officially
that the conference is at Portsmouth
n. H. The island lies between the
states Of Maine and New Hampshire
at the mouth Of the PiSCataqua river
but Maine coded the land to the gov
eminent to build navy yard, and the
yard is called the Portsmouth navy
yard.
The ENJOYS are CHARTERED in New
Hampshire, and the telegraph office Is
there, and the news senders have moi
considered it necessary to- be exact as
to the venue to the conference. Still
there are many people who like to be
exact in even the minor details Of the
matters they read about.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12
ENGINEERS FOR THE
UNITED STATES NAVY.
New Orleans PicayUne.
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While the Bennington disaster has
not developed anything new on the
subject of the scarcity of engineer
officers in the navy, it has served to
draw attention afTesh to the actual
scarcity of proper engineering talent
on board our naval ships. Prior to the
passage of the naval personnel bill
the navy possessed a corps of trained
engineers whose abilities were recog-
nized everywhere.
These officers were on every war
ship, some vessels having several.
They not only knew how TO run the
engines, but their mechanical know[
edge enabled them to keep the ma
chinery of their vessels in a thor
oughly efficient conuitiOn. At the
present time there Is bat q small rem
aant of the former engineer corps
left, and the service is forced TO de-
pend upon warrant machinists for the
management and care of the expen-
sive machinery Of the modern fleet.
Commenting upon the Bennington
disaster, the Army and Navy Register
Of last Saturday says:
"Fhe Bamentable incident at San
Diego, the effect of which is graph
cally shown in the illustrated portion
of this issue, will end in something of
profit to the service if it leads to an
amendment of the naval personnel
law. For some years it has been
quite apparent to the unprejudiced
observer that the so-called amalgama-
ton feature of that drastic statute
was a great 0eal worse than an ordi-
nary legislative mistake-it approach
Ell the estate of a crime committed
upon the naval personnel. II robbed
the service of a corps of efficient,
trained engineer officers and foisted
upon the government a hOdge-pOdge
arrangement which had nothing bet
ter to commend it to existence than
the high-sounding title of fighting en-
gineer.' The author Of that pet name,
which carried the amalgamatiOn
blight forward 10 enactment. made II
appear that there was a distinction
between oficers-that the man who
stood in the fTe-room or in the en-
gine-room, or who served his country
as a surgeon or paymaster on board
the ship in battle. was somehow, by
the subtle alchemy of glib speech, less
of a fighter than the officer of the
deck The attempt to adjust this as
sumed difference by fixing it so that
certain officers should do their alter.
nate share of deck and engine-room
DUTY was weak and dangerous sub
terfuge. It's menace ought TO have
been apparent to the makers of that
law, and would have been had it not
been for the alluring proposition that
the ridiculous quarrel over titles
promised to be settled for all time by
the merging of the line and engineer
corps"
Notwithstanding the serious risks
involved in delaying the rehabilitation
of the engineer corps, there is strong
coterie of navy people who are oppos-
ed to the restoration OF the corps.
Should congress take the matter up
in the winter and an attempt be made
to repeal the personnel bill in as far
as it applies to the engineers, we may
be certain that we will find many per-
sons within the navy arrayed in OBJ
position.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12

then applied only to the outlaws OF
society is now strictly true Of society
| Itself. The fighting is all right, but
there is no battle and no compau'
ions, no cause beyond the love of life
and no reward for the victor that is
worth Aaving-iL is a struggle of the
gladiator with the knowledge that
he can only live while he continues to
slay mis- opponents.
But the education furnished nv the
schools is still called the amor that
rCS Us for JnIS atT4le, Gha -. - Ie.z
want to ask whether the article fun
Rished is worth its cost. An English
statesman lately told his councrymel
their preparation was unfit-the
American lsaped into the arena PEE
pared at ell points, alert and aggreG-
stve-the German came clad in plate
Jf proof and could defend himself for
lays where the EngIishman bled aC
every thrust. Measura5ly it may be
Jrue-the agile American is twistin :
himself th-ouSn the ranks of opposl-
zion and the German -Tesists all at
tecks, while the Englishman is steadi.
Iy losing. Yer, the Freedman in
America and the Americans says
the world is giving way before our
guerrilla encroachments and the Ang-
.o-Saxon race is pressing into the
openings We leare.
Now speaks up Wolf Won Schier-
t!and for Germany and puts his finger
on the spots OF our education armOr.
To drop metaphor. he SAYS We are
superficial in ali things. that we are
profound in nothing, s;ovenly in our
methods and careless in our practice
that each tries 10 cover a wide field
and only succeeds in taking a birds
eye view of the country we hastily
traverse. To prove these points he
Instances professor of Yale who
vas not deep in the details OF Euro
pean history, without showing that
his fellows Of Europe knew anything
o. the details of ours. Then he de-
c.ares he once knew a 'Drainy Sena.
tor who tried to write a book on
Japan and the conditions in the East,
which is full o. misconceptions, mis-
prOphesies-in q word, totally value
less. Both these men are college-bred
and are popularity held t. be wonders
OF erudition."
But Herr Schierbrand proves too
much in this. 1t is not that Senator
Beverage failed utterly that tells
agirst the American so much as the
quick judgment on that failure speaks
for the good sense of our people. The
book had a large sale" undoubtedly,
but it has, and never had, any authori-
~ with us-on the contrary its figures
conclusions and opinions were both
ccntradicted and satiriZed. Nor did
the Senator fail-he did not expect
the book to do more than pay for his
trip-it did that and has since been
waiting for the funeral procession.
Our educational methods ere not good,
but better than was the German at the
same age; we have Americans with
out training, but the American PEG.
pie are not incompetent any more
than they are Christians or Good Sa-
n.aritans. Business PIRACY is the law
and with this for a starting point what
follows is both right and proper. How
is it in Germany?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12
Badly Brought IN Soldiers.

During an oflcial massacre at the
village Of Kouk1lsh the Turkish COM
mandant-a fat major-slept and smok-
ed in the shade Of tree near the scene
OF carnage. The trumpet sounded for
the assault. and the soldiers proceeded
to rob, kin, burn and violate. The
trumpet next sounded the retreat, but
the troop refused to obey, and the fat
major continued to sleep and smoke.
When spoken to about the excuses of
his men, he replied: what can one
do? They are so badly brought upr'-
Paris Afacedoine.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12

The Gulf ports are much nearer t.
Colon than New York, and in the
transportation Of canal supplies there
would be considerable saving in time,
distance and expenses, but these
things do not seem to count against
the desire of New York to monopolize
the governments steamship line to
Colon. The Gulf ports, by reason of
their geographic location and advan-
tages, are entitled to "a square deal, +"
but they have very little chance of
getting it.
Both the Washington Post and the
New Orleans States, while so strenu-
Gus in their advocacy of a square
deal'' either accidentally or malicious
ly overlook the fact that Pensacola
has the finest harbor on the Gulf
coast, has ample facilities for handling
any business that may come this way
and is the nearest port to the Isthmus
of Panama where deep draft vessels
can find a safe harbor The New
Orleans idea of a square DEAF ap-
pears to be a little bit warped in that
it apparently consists Of, trying to
grab everything in sight in the way
OF commerce, even though it is locat-
ed hundred miles from the gulf, up
a crooked and swift river.
By all means let us have a square
deal" but do not try to get it by ignor-
ing the finest deep water harbor on
the gulf coast-the harbor of Pensa-
cola.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12
lard on Mems Eyes.
ARMOa FOR THE
BATTLE OF LIFE.
Jacksonville Times-Union)

It is the fashion to represent life as
battle. but We object most strenu.
ously. 1t may be that humanity is a
mob and that every man lives by his
own hand, bat il cannot be true. any
mote than it ia Christian, that we are
divided into opposing armies and stand
up manfully against our enemies and
shoulder to shoulder with our friends,
We are not even divided into tribes
Ike savages-the voyage is now made
in pirate snip. where are nominally
officers who maintain discipline by as.
Sassination anG protect themselves by
murder. Shylock said You take
my life when YOU take the means
whereby l live" and the saying which
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12
NOTICE

On account of sickness, Mr.. Wooden
has decided ID close up his carriage
ard repair shop, located on the corner
of Intendencia and Baylen streets.
These premises. and also the second
story formerly occupied by Gonzalez's
Cigar Factory viii be for rent from the
18th Of August. For further partfcu-
lars apply to Thos. C. Watson & Co.,
agents. 10aug1w
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12

Poor old Chauncey Depew is catch.
ing it good and heavy. The newspa-
pers are now calling upon him to ex-
plain why, although he carries $780,
COO life Insurance. he has no po;.-=
in the Equitable.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12

Japan does not demand a war in
demnity; all she wants is reimburse
ment for war expenditures. It will
take an exceedingly fine microscope
TO distinguish the difference.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12

WI Ting Fang. ex-Ninister of China
to the United States, Is said to be
back Of the Chinese boycott of Amer
lean goods. Mr.. WI may be trying to
modernize China by the adoption of
American customs.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12

General Linevitch continues to
stroke MS gorgeous bunch Of whiskers
and wait for something to turn up.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12

If they jail many more grafters in
Milwaukee there will be no one left
TO run the city.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12
GOING AWAIT

When you leave the city for your
summer vacation have The Pensacola
Journal follow you. Notify cireuia-
ton manager, Phone SO.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12
NEWS AND VIEWS
rROM STATE PAPERS.
eubernatorIaI Bees

GubernatoriaI Bees.
GubernatOrta! bees are bEDlng
about the bonnets of 50 many r lori
clans that one Is puzzled as to VINO
Will harvest the honey, while the hum
or desire is so loud IN the neads Oh
some mat they imagine the wHoIe
colony OF bees Is SwarmIng ABOUT then
ears-but on! how severe will De the
sting of disappointed ambitiOn.-Jack.
sonvIlle Times Union.
Hard to Decide.
A mishap to the car ferry that cross
es East River at New York resulted
in dumping a car overheard, and they
are having a time to decide whether
il shall be called a shfpwreck or a
railroad accident-GainesVille Sum-?
That Tarrapin Farm.
West Palm Beach has started a
terrapln farm. History is to repeat
itself. 1t will be a question of but a
short time before tle people of that
section will be trading with and giv1n :
out young te-apins for change over
the counter-Quiney Times.
caterpIlIars Out in Force.
Caterpillars by the thousand have
taken possession of pecan tree in a
lot on Charlotte street, midway be
tween st. Francis and Bridge streets.
The premises are occupied by Span
dc 81 -
pests daily by burning them in huge
piles. Despite the work of destruc.
ton the insects cover the tree in ever
IL creasing numbers. The leaves have
Geen eaten by the caterpiIlars, but
the tree has not been killed-St. Aug
Justine Record.
The Flag Neglected.
The flag at the Gainesville Graded
end High Soho Il has been kept waving
day and night, rain or shine, ever
since it was placed there when the
news came THAI the University had
Eeen located in this city, said a gentle
man to the Sun few days ago. There
should be some one to look after this
matter, and the flag should not be
allowed to remain out over night nor
during rainy weather.
There are certain rules to be OBJ
served in regard to the flags on all
school buildings, and the school board
should see thai they are enforced
Gainesville San.
Hard on Mems Eyes.
Neutral tinted wells. with long flow
ing ends, are again in vogue, adding
charm to the pretty faces of the
Tearers-and they are hard on mems
eyes, TO they awe TO look with pene-
tr2ting gaze TO see if they know the
Iace behind the screeu.-Jacksonvi
Times Union.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12

Washington has 200 cases of typhoid
Why not quarantine against the Ma
tIOnal Capitol?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12

Russia's Colonial War" has turned
out to be pretty big proposition.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12
Hard TO Decide.

A mishap to the car ferry that cross
es East River at New York resulted
in dumping a car overheard, and they
are having a time TO decide whether
il shall be called a shfpwTeck or a
railroad accident-Gainesville Sum-?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12

The following figures show The Pen
sacola Journals circulation for each
day during the month of July, 1905,
with the average number of copies
dni1r.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-08-12

We draw our own Bills Of EN-
rnange on Great Britain, Ireland,
Germany, Francs, Austria, Italy,
Holland, Spain, Belgium, Russia,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and
cther European eountEieo
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-02-03
EXPERT WITNESSES SAY TWELVE AND
A HALF CENTS PER ACRE.
SOIL or DOGGY Kind
Deputy Clark Pronounees it of No
Value and Dangerous to
Walk Upon.

Chicago. Feb. 3.--Land which tie
Louisiana State Loan aud Trust COM
pany claimed to own and which the
Federal officials asesrt was the basis
of the alleged lottery scheme promoted
by John K Dalton. now on trail before
United States Judge Sanbcrn. is valued
st about l2s cents an acre by expert
witnesses
Thousands of acres OF land In Louis
lana which has never been surveyed
and which is o. a boggy nature, dan
gerous even to walk upon. was pur-
chased by Louis A. Gourdain and Dal-
ton, IT was declared. for SIG when the
property was sold for taxes in Louis
lana. 1t was on this sort of land. ae-
cording to the testimony in the trial
that options were sent to persons
throughout the United States to be sold
from rs cents to 80 ticket The pur-
chasers were given to understand that
the lands were rich in oil wells The
nearest oil well to the property are over
100 miles away, according to the wit
nesses who testified
f. J. Sampson. deputy clerk in the
NaFlnlIilon parish, Louisiana. land Of
flee. produced a plat OF the so-called
lands. These lands he said, are
practically worthless. 1t would be dam
gerous even to walk over them be-
cause there is but crust of earth over
bog into which one might fall and
lose his life. The plat flsd by Gour-
dain shows 135.2o0 lots OF 90 feet
square in this parcel OF land and am
sure there is not q man in Louisiana
who would pay one dollar for the whole
tracte
Oth1r wttnesse who testified were
:. M Abel OF Winn parish Louisiana
and J. r. Jordan, San Antonio. Texas
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-02-03
GROUND HOG DAY.
This Animal Supposed to Come Out
Of His snug DoFTnitory
February =.

According 10 the traditions OF
many centuries yesterday, February
2. was ground hog day The legend
goes that If that ancient weather
prophet comes out Of his snug dorrni-
tory Il the bosom Of mother earth
on Febrasry and looking about,
sees his shadow. he will sniff the
breeze a few times and return 10 his
den where he will curl up and sleep
six weeks longer IL Mr.. Ground
Hog turned out in these diggings yes
terday morning he failed to get a
glimpse of his shadow. and Is stiEl
frisking around and enjoying the
circumambi bient which augurs thar we
will have an early spring. the roses
will soon be budding and blooming.
the eowslips peeping from under the
dead leaves and the violet blossoms
signing TO be kissed by the vernal sun.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-02-03
THE FROST KING.
He Reigns Supreme in This Section
of the Country.

The frost king has extended his
realm over Texas where he now
reigns supreme The cold spell which
has prevailed in the North and East
for several weeks reached Texas Wed
nesday, being preceded by a light
Faia which fell nearly ali day We'd
nesday night there were scattered
snow flurries accompanied by sleet.
and yesterday morning the tempera-
ture at Waxahachie registered 20
degrees above zero. Sleet fell all
last night and this morning every
thing was coated with ice The
streets are not only frozen hard. bat
.are covered with ice, renderiRg trac-
fic almost impossible II is extreme
.ly dangerous for a horse which has
not been shod TO leave his stail.
Operation of the street ears was sus-
pended today and very little drawing
was done. The greatest amount of
hauling done today was by the fuel
dealers. who found II almost imper-
ative TO make deliveries of coal and
wood. hundreds of customers buy
fuel only in small quantities, and
when a cold snap comes along their
supply Is generally exhausted. The
coal supply In the city Is reported
as being a little low. but there is
great amount of wood on hand. pro-
badly enough 10 carry the people
through cold spell OF several weeks
duration.
No reports NJ accidents Of a seri-
Gus nature have vet beer received
from any section of the city or the
outlying districts.
u is uoF thought stock in the cuun.
~ will suffer To a Yers great extent
A. farmers are We'll sapnlied Nih fe.d
tblk winter
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-02-03

The man who set bis watch by the
court house clock this morning eyi-
IDENTIFY missed hts dinner today. No
longer do the hands perform their
cirsumgyratory function. They are
as motionless as the imposing temple
of justice itself This failure TO work
In not voluntary on the part of the
time indicators. but results from A
heavy accumulation of iee on them
which makes II impossible for the
mechanism that prnpels them tn pull
( sf~m around the dial Thts does not
interfere wlth the striking apparatus
and tlIe bell wtil continue 90 strike
the hours as regular intervals