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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22
Mail Order
Competition.

To those country merchants who
are forever crying against the mail
order" houses, D. A. Valentine, Of the
Clay Center Times, gives this hint:
The home merchant who advertises
and gives prices in his advertisements
need never fear the mail order house" "
Kansas City Star.
It seems. from the above. that our
country merchants and their ally, the
country publisher, are at last begin.
ming to learn how to fight this mail or
der boyle man in a sane, sensible way.
And the hint contained in the above
paragraph is certainly a good one
even If it did emanate from a newspa-
per man who expected to profit by sll
OF this advertising he advised country
merchants to do.
II is, in fact, the only sensible, prac-
deal way Of meeting this mail order
competition which country merchants
IN some localities claim is hitting
them so hard-the only way that is
practically sure of meeting with any
degree Of success.
To plead with the horny-handed til
Ter Of the soil to stand by his home en-
terprises and help to build the towns
Of his own county up by patronizing
The home merchants, to sheer at,
abuse and ridicule the man who pat
ronizes the mail order houses, and to
attack and abuse the mail order
houses, viii never do any good in the
world.
To point to the fact that the NAH
order house pays no local taxes. con-
tributes nothing TO the home chart
ties and town and county improve
ments, or helps to pay the preacher,
or any OF the hundred and one things
IN the way OF home or county charities
or improvements, is useless-worseI
than useless. These mail order houses
are answering every one Of these srgu-
0ents 70 the perfect satisfaction Of
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22
Pistol Toters
a Menace to Peace.

The pistol tOter has become a menace
to the peace Of Birmingham, and the
newspapers of the city are endeavor-
ing to secure the Inauguration of a
campaign that will free the city of
that class Of undesirable citizens The
AgeHerald OF Sunday handles the
matter without gloves and has the fol-
lowing to say relative 20 the evil:
Drastic measures and a 6rm hand
TO enforce them are needed TO free Bir.
minghsm Of the Pistol Peril A book
full of laws restricting the sale OF re-
vOlvers and fixing punishment for
those who carry them win never abate
the evil Il has been tried here and
elsewhere.
Purge the city Of the class Of men
who go armed. Do not wait to catch
them with the goods on" as that dis
tinguished citizen of New York, VIII
liam stephen Devery, would say, for
in nine cases out of ten the harm has
been done before the goods" is dis
covered. It is useless to spike the gun
after il has been fired.
ally gamblers OF gentlemen OF other
occupations not recognized in law. The
vGgrancy law should cover them il no
other statute is available. If that is
not effective, arrest them on suspicion.
The courts will doubtless turn them
loose, but arrest them again. Harry
them until they conclude that some
other climate is more cOngeniaL It
has been tried in larger cities with
successh. II is by this system that New
York keeps its undesirable population
within comfortable bounds.
The man who thinks his toilet in
complete for a civilized community
without a shooting iron is not a desir-
lble citizen. He builds no slIyscrapers
or steel plants or iron furnaces. No
body wal weep at his departure.
Let the police start the crusade and
within a week there will be fewer loaf
ers on the street corners and fewer
pistols in the hip pocket ambush. Biz
mingham will be a safer place for law
abiding folk and the railroads will be
richer. The retreat Of the artillery
cannot begin too soon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22
Why Julia Quit.

The most peculiar reason yet as
signed for a servant leaving her
place without notice. was given
by a Germantown mistress when
asked why Julia, a colored maid,
had suddenly quit. ''The whole
trouble came about last wash dav,''
said the indignant housekeeper. TT
began to rain before the wash was
done, and when it was ready to hang
out it was drilling at good rate.
Then it was that Julia, the colored
help, came upstairs and asked me
to lend her my rain coat while she
hung out the clothes. 1 had never
found an umbrella or a macintosh
necessary when l did similar work
and declined to grant the request.
Then Julia quit" - Philadelphis
Record
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22
ANCIENT MEDICINE.
The idiotio Nostrums In Which People
Once Believed.

Once Believed.
II modern science can boast of
anything, it can of the way in which
it has rescued medicine from the
realms of Imagination, says the Lon
don Standard. The wonderful pre-
scriptions of the Magi, as narrated
by the Roman historian, Pliny, are
examples of what the earliest doc
tors were, while even the "salves" of
our own Elizabethans seem at first
sight not much of an improvement
upon those Of the Chaldean M. DIS.
Let us take a few examples of Ma
gian healing from Latin author, of
which perhaps the most useful is the
tollowing-one that in modern par
lance would run thus: A recipe to
make women disclose their secrets.
Take one hen and, having carefully
extracted her heart, place the same
on the mouth of a patient during
sleep. You will ascertain her exact
age the next morning. To do the
old Roman justice he stigmatizes
this statement as a "portentous lie"
(No doubt he had tried it,
Others are quite as grotesque. Fe-
verfew, when used incidentally, had
to be plucked by the left hand, after
the patients name had been spoken
over it, the herbalist taking good
care not to look behind him. A love
. charm could be easily obtained from
hyena caught when the moon was
in Gemini. Sporting prophets who
wish to excel in 'divination should
change their customary chop for a
few moles' hearts. 1t is stipulated
that these be fresh. The Romans
themselves, although no mean sur
geons-they made use of the probe
and nippers and instruments for
trepanning-were not less given to
prodigies than the people whose We
racity they doubted. They believed
that eating hare was a cure for in
somnia, and even the skeptic Pliny
imagined that there must be some
thing in the superstition that people
who had done so were good looking
for nine days afterward. A verita-
bic nine days wonder! He recon-
mended also, as a cure for quartan
fever, that the dust in which hawk
had rolled should be put into a bag
and the latter tied around the neck
with a piece of red thread. Other
cures for this same were the longest
tooth of black dog, in the same po-
sition, and wasp caught in the left
hand and then pressed against the
forehead.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22
UtiIIsInE n GIacierA

In France the Alpine glacier Ice is
spoken of as houille blanche, white
COAL" because of the mechanical pow
er supplied by the streams to which il
gives rise. One Of the greatest Of
these 'rivers of ice" is the Glacier des
Blossoms, on the northern slope of Mont
Blanc, at Chamouni. Lately this gla
cier has become a source of supply Of
ice for domestic purposes. More than
100000 pOundS Of the glacier ice is
sent to Lyons every summer. 1t is re-
markable for its extreme purity. The
ice is detached from the mass Of gla-
cier in blocks Of suitable size by ex,
plOding gunpowder in drilled holes
Dynamite was tried, but it shattered
the ice and also impaired to 1t an ob.
jectionable yellow tinge.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22
MOLINO
Social ID The Journal.


Moline, May 21.-Mrs. Grimlar re
turned Tuesday morning from Chatta.
nooga, Tenn, where she had been
spending a week attending the South.
ern Baptist convention.
Mr.. Davis TAFT went to Atmore, Ala.
to spend a few days with his parents,
Mrs. John Bayone and her little
daughter, Edwin have gone to Atmore
to spend some time visiting relatives
and friends
Mr.. Pleas. Dawson and Mr.. Willard
Crabtree, of Moline, have gone to the
big picnic given on the Southern
States Land Co. railroad at point
known as the Buckeye field.
Mrs. Dan Proctor and her father-in-
law returned to Dolores Wednesday
morning. after spending a few days
pleasantly visiting Mrs. ProctOr's rel
atives at Roberts and Pensacola.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sumpter Terry, of Mo-
limo, visited Mrs. Terry's mother last
Sunday at Atmore, Ala,
Mrs. E. S. and Mrs. Henry Barri-
neau, of Quintette, spent Friday af-
ternOOn in Moline the guests of Mrs.
Grimlor and Miss TAFT.
Mr.. B. Lenoir, of Womack Hill. Ala,
stopped here Saturday morning to Wis
it friends. He was on his way home
after a few days visit to relatives at
Muscogee, Fla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Hall are the hap,
by parents Of fine son, one week old.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22
Legal advertisements

TREASURY DEPARTMENT oao,
the Supervising Architect Wag VS. u
ton, D. c., May 9, 19O6.-SEsI- rs :
PROPOSALS will be received AZ - =
Office until o'clock P. NJ. on the I s. ;
day Of June, 1906, and then o7s,a5
for plumbing and sewerage ar So
Rosa Quarantine Station. Penssoo.-,'1A
Florida, in accordance with dravfT draw
and specification, copies Of which ms ms
be had at this Office or at the ofica !,
the Custodian Of the Station. PeDssoo
la, Florida, at the discretion of -
Supervising Architect. James KD-o
Taylor, Supervising Architect
15may6teod.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22

A report from st. Petersburg is to
the effect that Lieut. Gen. Stoessel,
who so valiantly defended Port Ar
thur aginst the Japanese, finally being
compelled to surrender when his force
had been reduced to a handful OF
weak. half starved men and cripples.
has been condemned to death. II any.
thing were needed to brand Russia as
q bsrbaric country the execution OF
the officers who made such a gallant
defense of Russla's citadel in the far
east would be ample evidence.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22

the countTyman, and he is going to
continue their customer just so long as
YOU allow yourselves to indulge in
these absurd antics.
If you want business-and you are
certainly entitled to it-get out and
fight for it like a man. Stop your cry
ing and abusing. You must, as the
old proverb tells us, Fight the devil
with fire" To successfully meet the
onslaughts Of an adversary, and defeat
him, you must use the same weapons
with which he attacks you.
In this case it is advertising-and
it must be met with advertising.
You have simply got to show the
people-by advertising-that you can
and will meet the prices Of these mail
order houses on most things-espe-
cially when the freight and express
charges and the. long waiting neces-
sary are taken into consideration.
Ignore the existence of the mail or
der houses completely. Let no one
think any Of them are troubling you
in the least
But keep hammering it at the peo-
pie that YOU can meet the prices Of
anyone. Do this not alone through
newspaper ads. but in circulars, mail
ing cards and the like. Illustrate
your ads and circulars whenever POS
sible with cuts Of your goods, and give
prices. This, more than anything
else, will open the eyes Of The people
to the fact that you can serve them
about as well as anyone else.
That is all the people want-.their
full moneys worth; and as long as the
mail order houses keep telling them
and you let all such statements go
on undisputed, and do no: meet them
with proof in The shape of facts and
tigures-that they can give them moreI
for their money than the local mer.I
chants possibly can, Just that long are
they going TO remain customers Of
these mail order houses. Sentiment
and frantic appeals to civic pride is
going to cut very little ice with the
country people, as a rule-they are 60
ing where they believe they get the
most for their money.
But. lastly. Is it not a fact that this
mail order bugaboo is greatly over
done?
While there is no doubt that these
big concerns have hit the country mer.
chants pretty hard in some places, It'll
is equally true that we hear much non,
sense about this mighty vulture who is
going about seeking whom he may
devour."
The trouble about the average coun.
try merchant is that he is too weak.
kneed and too scary.
Immediately anything looms I'D on
the distant horizon that has the an.
pearance of something which might
divide or capture a part of his trade. |
he gets badly scared, he gets shaky.
he gets panicky, and there is really
trouble on the old mans mind. But
[ believe, in a great many instances.
all of this racket is simply a case of a
thing badly Overdone-a case. so to
speak, of making a mountain out of
a mole-hin"
The probability of mail order COM
petition running them is not near so
probable as their own lack Of push.
and up-to-date business
methods.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22
NOTICE.

The She citizens and the publ, ..
large: d. F. Richardson, Of ITALIANS
see, Fla, the old Confederate. and -.
OF the few left after the seige Of yssi,.
burg, is here canvassing for the ANA
lean House Of New York city. and asE,
your remembrance. He is well fa-.I
fed with good endorsements Of soTs
of the best people of the city and ~
ficers Of the state. He is the o1a ia.
nominated himself for janitor os ~
last legislature by the permission =,
the house.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22

Notice for Publication. Depar.maT.
Of the Interior. Land ONCE at Ga .7as.
vile, Fla, April 9, 1906. Notice 4,
hereby given that the following aama4
settler has filed notice of his in.an.,o1
to make final proof in support Of H.s
claim, and that said proof Will he
made before Clerk Circuit Cou-- ~
Pensacola, Fla, On June 80, 1906. VIZ.
James S. Seals, Of Nokomis, Ala. Hf
3O488 for the lot 1 ( or E12 of NELL
Sec. 1 TIP. 5, N, r. "a W. He names
the following witnesses to prove 5,3
continuous residence upon and CHR.
walton Of said land, viz: J. E. Huh
bird, Of NokOmis, Ala, James HIM.
bird, of NokOmis, Ala, W. VI. Cog-.
ney, Of NOkomis, Ala, W. B. Seals. 2
Nokomis, Ala. w. G. Robinson, Reg.
lister
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22
sUPT COOK GIVES
NOTICE TO PARENTS

Patrons, pupils and teachers n NJ
City Public Schools. Attention.
Beginning with June the 1st. proz!'
mo, all the city schools 10 operation
will begin work promptly at 9 a. n
and with two recess periods o. ID
minutes each. Schools No. ] and 81
will close for the day at 1.3o %. ID.
and the primary schools will clos" as
follows: Grades I at II m; grades
at 1890; and grades 3 and AZ i.a'
p. m. Said two recess periods Of ''
minutes each to be divided so Us 20
give the greatest relief TO the pupils
and least detriment to the wOra N me
school
BY order Of the Board Of Public he
stTuction.
N. B. COOK,
22may3t. County Superin-andonL
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22
NOTICE

The WooIIey sanatorium, the Only "a
stitute In the United States where 10
Opium, Cocaine and Whisky Aao-l3
can be cured without expOsIF-r a-, -
with SO much ease for the pa-ieu- On-Y
30 days time required Describe
your case and l will write you a1
opinion as to what 1 can accom- Isl Isl
for you. Ask your family PlyslciSi
to investigate. Dr. B. NJ Wools!' ~
N. Pryor Street, Atlanta. Ga
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22

IN view Of the report that yellow
fever exists at Matanzas, Cuba's quar-
antine against United States gulf ports
has all the earmsrks Of a joke.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22

Notice for Publication. Deparne1.
of the Interior. Land Office az Canes.
vile, Fla, April g, 1906. Notice IS
hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice OF his intention
to make final proof In support Of rs
claim, and that said proof viii be
made before Clerk Circuit COur. Al:
Pensacola, Fla, On June 80, 1906. viz:
William B. Seals, of NOkOmis. Ala,
HID. 3O652 for the SW1I Of Section s.
TIP. ~, r. SO w. He names the fol.
lowing witnesses to prove his conanu.
Gus residence upon and cultivation Of
said land, viz: J. e Hubbird. Of W
kom.s, Ala, James Hubbird, of No60-
mis-, Ala, W. NJ. Courtney. Of Nob0-
mis-, Ala, James s. Seals, of Nok0mls,
Ala. w. G. Robinson, Register.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22

The Jacksonville baseball team ap-
pears to be in the also ran class.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22
221nay3t.
NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby given thai I'D.
dersigned owners Of the fOliOHi1I '.''
sells will not be responsible for "..
debts contracted in the nam5 o, san
vessels unless first suthOTizcd 't
written order signed by Us. The above
notice refers to the following FsS--.--
Schooner Althea Franklin, Ca.dTe.- lie
Colt, Mary L. Harry, Amy Wly'a. PIT
ma Jane, OsceOla, AriOla, Francs %
Margery. Silas Stearns. Algoua H.
cyOn, William H. Warren, Cara t.
Sewell, Isabelle
WARREN FISH COMPaNl.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22

nothing o concealI No
W. We publish the formulas Of all ed-
w q OH You will find these in Ayers Almanac
" ~ a Wv for 1905. II do not have a will
the formulas doctor he does
these stand
ard family medicines hand
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22

Notice for Publication. Deparmeu:
Of the Interior. Land Office al Gaines.
vile, Fla, April 8. 1906. Notice IS
hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice Of his intention
to make final proof in support Of his
claim, and that said proof will be
made before Clerk Circuit Court a,
Pensacola, Fla, on June 80. 1906. VIZ:
Thomas H. Nelson, Of Pensacola. Fla,
HID. 3O713 for the NE14 Cor lot - AMI
SEA Of NW14. (Or S15 Of Lot q Sec
80, TIP. s., r. 81 w. He names the
following witnesses to prove his con-
tinuOus residence upon and cultivation
of said land. viz: George P. Cross, q
Pensacola, Fla, B. G. Duval, Of Pen
sacola, Fla, Willie Simon, of Pensac1-
la, Fla, A. J. Nelson, Of Pensacola
Fla. W. G. Robinson. Register
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22

The erstwfile candidates have re-
turned TO work.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-05-22

Notice for Publication. Department
of the Interior. Land Office at Gaines
vile, Fla, April 9. 1906. Notice IS
hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support Of his
claim, and that said proof will he
made before Clerk Circuit Court at
Pensacola, Fla, On June 30, 1906. VIZ:
Murdoch T. Mcmillan. Of Pine Barren,
Fla, Hid. 34574 for the NJ of NWIi
of Section %, TIP. 3 N, R. 81 ". re
names the following witnesses %
prove his continuous residence upon
and cultivation Of said land. viz. J.
S. Hobby, Of Pine Barren, Fla, JOd1
D. Berg, of Pine Barren, Fla, ". A.
Miller, Of Pine Barren. Fla, I. J. Hob
by, of Pine Barren, Fla. ". e. Rob
inson, Register.
The Greeley tribune., 1906-02-22
JUVENILE OFFENDERS
High School Boys Have Close
Call From Jail

About dozen Of the best known
boys In Greeley, around the ages of
IA to Is years, nearly found themsel-
yes In serious trouble the latter part
OF last week, on account of the time
honored habit of coping" ice
cream from party. So serious was
the trouble that had it been some
hobo or unknown man, he would
likely have gone to the penitentiary
for a year or so. The exact charge
would have been burglary in the
night. Because the offenders were
high school students and members of
the best families in town, and the
otfense was done in a spirit of fun
instead of with criminal intent the
aggrieved parties and the city mar
shal finally allowed the boys to go
without prosecution. But it is
likely that ice cream stealing in
Greeley has come to timely end.
Last Wednesday evening Miss
Freda Taylor and Miss Ina Abbott
gave valentine party to their young
lady friends at the home of the lat
ter. The organized gang of ice
cream snatchers sent out spies in the
afternoon to locate the freezer full
of cream, and found it in the kit.
chen. This was not the time to
steal it, however, even could this
have been done. as part Of the joke
is to leave the girls without their
necessary refreshments when they are
about to be served. The girls sus-
pecting that something of that kind
might be done locked the doors of
the house as night drew on.
But while all was jollity in the
parlor half dozen of the boys came
to the house from the rear, went
down through the cellar and back up
into the kitchen. stole the can of ice
cream and departed the same way
they came.
City Marshal Williams was ap.
pealed to the next morning and he
spent the day in looking up evidence
against all the offenders. BY night
he had list of a dozen young fell
lows, who had either taken part in
the carrying off of the cream or had
helped to eat it in the little build
ing in the rear of D.. NJ. Camtield's
home. This has been turned into a
sort of boys club room, where the
young fellows who have no better
place to 60 congregate nearly every
evening.
The boys offered apologies all
around and begged so hard Of the
city marshal to be let off this time
and they would never do 1t again,
and offered all kinds Of restitution
to the girls if no prosecution was
pushed that the case was finally
dropped
The Greeley tribune., 1906-02-22
On Christian Politics.

Rev. Purley A. Baker of Colum'
bus, O., general superintendent OF
the American Anti-Saloon League,
and one Of the main leaders OF the
reform movement in Ohio that de-
feated Boss Cox and his machine at
the last election there, will speak IN
the United Presbyterian church TO-
morrow seyening. His subject Will
be Christian Politics.
During the political campaign N
Ohio Mr.. Baker was one of the hard
est workers against the reelection Of
Governor Herrick and in the interest
of John NJ. Pattison, whom tie re-
formers finally elected with a large
majority. Mrs. Baker is with he'
husband upon his western lecturing
tour. and is assisting him In the
cork
The Greeley tribune., 1906-02-22
Valuable Prizes

at the Elks baZar to be held at
the Greeley armory March 10 to "a
there will be given diamond ring,
valued at $3.50, to the most popular
Young lady: another diamond ring,
valued at $3.50, to the next most
popular young lady: Morris chair.
valued at $50, to the most popular
fireman In Greeley; a single set OF
driving harness, valued at $40, to the
most popular farmer; a gold headed
cane to the meanest man In Weld
county, nobody barred and votes one
cent each. Every man In Weld
county can consider himself eligible
to enter the race for the cane. On
Wednesday night, March 2lst, the
Elks will furnish the license, the
minister and dandy bedroom suit
to any couple that will be married
in the hall. This is your chance
now. send in your names at once to
the general committee Of the Elks
at Greeley for any or all of the above
contests.
The Greeley tribune., 1906-02-22
Notice to Contractors.

To Ditch Contractors, bids Will DE
received by the board Of trustees OF
tho Union Ditch Co. up to Feb. 70,
,oo6 for building a ditch about one
and one half miles long at the lower
and of the Union Ditch. Profile and
her information at office OF John
n Behrens, Evans, Colo.
John Fl. Behrens, Secy.