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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-19
TAX SUPPLIES FOR
OUTSIDE ASSESSORS

Tax Assessor James D. Holt has been
busy today experimenting the packing
Of the supplies for the various Terri
torial tax divisions. The supplies which
were printed recently are 20 be shipped
t. the various divisions. There were
no changes of consequence in the ma
ture of the forms to be used the en-
suing year
Assistant Tax Collector Nicely is busy
with the suits in the District Courts,
against delinquent taxpayers. The
list does not show any marked in
crease over that of last year. Many
of those who were delinquent last year
are looming up on the list for the year
just closed.
Josselyn, 1873 days from New York was
sighted at II 20 o'clock this morning.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-19

Interest in the Panama Canal
which is very general among Am
orleans, makes of interest informa-
ton concerning other canals, par
ticularly those which either from
the motive of their building, or OF
the ennineerinn featS ACCOMPLISHED
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-19

Nobody can find fault with this for
Christmas weather.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
THE CHRISTMAS EDITORIAL
Live Oak Democrat.
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The good old Christmas it at hand
and the good old Christmas editorial
must be dragged out like an ancient
piece of furniture, busted, cleaned.
repaired and made presentable
and handed out to our readers with
all form and ceremony as a thorough
ly respectable but generally useless
feature of the day. We love the Christ
mas editorial, not only because of its
Hnimpeachable pedigree, its antiquity.
Its moral worth, its tender and inno-
cent associations, its call back to
TO the dear days of the dead and
beautiful past when the Washington
hand press was the prevailing fashion
IN print shops and the printers devil
was picturesque reality; but because
IL was no strain on our intellect to
read it and absorb it; it didn't arouse
our resentment; it agreed with our
opinions; it promoted our digestion,
and was so clean and nice and good
and unexciting that we might safely
afford to skip it and turn to the local
columns of the paper. Heaven bless
the Christmas editorial! If it has
done no good. al least it has done no
harm, and its intentions have been
honorable from the start. We leave
it here and send it back to its peace
full slumbers, accompanied by the wish
that all our readers may have q merry
and sober Christmas.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
HOW MUCH 1T COSTS
YOU NOT TO READ.
FLORIDA AeRIcuLTURIsT.

ance cannot compete with skill and
knowledge Because it is negative
or unknown quality does not prevent
our money loss from being annually
enormous, from the lack Of knowledge
We might obtain from reading and as
similating the valuable information at
our command. If our fathers only had
eyes to see in dollars and cents not
to read, then no other argument would
ever need to be given them.
Thirdly, it costs us much loss in
pure pleasure and moral force. No
man revers or loves the pure and SIM
ple-hearted farmer more than we do
The style of city folks and the out
ward show of worldly success does not
oyerawe our minds.
But We know the refining influence
of culture and we have felt the pure
joys that can only come from. the con-
tact with higher intellectual develop
ment. So We would have our farming
class to taste these sweets also, and
in consequence, to be uplifted and
saved from many low and sordid in
fluences that tend to drag our human
nature lower Our natural force must
be expended upon the high and
worthy, or it deScends to the low and
debasing. While we would like our
farmers to make more corn and cot
ton, we want them also to know
How this globe was forged and
how our stars were hung and be able
to trace to their very source the
springs of life" and we lose this if
We do not read
Fourthly, it costs us much in our
influence in this world and in our
preparation for another. The farmer
who does not read, loses in his home
life. In the influences upon his chill
dren, in the interesting power around
his hearth, in his power and influence
In his community. We are all con-
scious of this when we talk to a man
who reads and informs himself. We
are no preachers and do not feel that
responsibility to fit men for a future
life; but rather to help them along In
THIS; but the two are intertwined and
ne is best prepared for future life
who makes the best of this" We are
unable to conceive of any high degree
OF immortality for us, that is not
rounded upon some high mental and
moral development while living here
So who can tell the eternal loss to
that human soul, who had the oppor-
tunities to unfold its wings which
alone can uplift and bear us above
the realm OF the brute, but who never
improved them?
Some wise man has written: at is
the imponderables (things that can
not be weighed) that move the world
heat, electricity and love" The |
most potent power is often the imma- |
terial; for to it Is given the power /
to change the form Of the material /
and bring order out of chaos and |
beauty and worth out of inanimate |
matter Since our loss from not read /
ing is often an invisible quantity to
us, 1t is nevertheless a most real and
stupendous one; it is so vast indeed
that many Of us cannot fully compre-
bend 1t. Fellow farmers. realize that
the twentieth century demands, not
that you improve one, but that YOU
all your opportunities And
reading is one of the most potent
opportunities within our reach.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

Every professional man considers
it necessary to take one or more jour
nails or magazines published in the
interests Of his profession, and to buy
each year as many of the new books
which treat of cases that concern him
as possible. Yet how many farmers
there are who think that they cannot
afford to take even one agricultural
paper, while some of those who DO
subscribe seldom take any time to
read its pages.
Farming has become as truly a pro-
fession as any of the so-called learn
ed professions. Therefore to succeed
in it at this day requires as much
study as for any other The idea that
it costs you anything not to read will
probably be new to you, but by the
time that you have finished reading
the following from the Southern Gull
tivator, we think that YOU will agree
that it is really too expensive habit
to be kept up any longer.
No doubt you have often had an
idea, but it remained for some one TO
embOdy it in terse, fOrcible sentence
for you. So with us, we were aware
of the fact that our farming class
were suffering greatly on account of
their lack Of reading; but it remained
for Mr.. J. M. Mcdonald. of Rockdale
county, to clothe the thought in a
most forceful sentence for us. In
talking to us out at the state fair, he
said: Our farmers often talk of the
cost of the few papers they take and
the expense of a few dollars devoted
to reading matter, but l ask them
Did you ever think how much it cost
you not to read?'" Let us review this
matter together. and see some of the
items of cost entailed upon us, by our
not reading more
First, reading is a habit. God has
made our physical body TO demand or
crave its proper supply of food. for
its maintenance and growth. The
mind, however, feels this appetite
only in proportion to the stimulus
given by the food taken in to pro-
mote its development and growth. The
more you feed your mind the more
1t demands food. Those farmers who
think they haven't time to read. are
simply the ones who have not ac-
quired the habit and taste for read
ing. Their minds, having never felt
the stimulus of this quickening power.
do not feel the necessity for it. or real
lie Its value or Importance to them.
Secondly, it costs us much loss, in
a financial way. knowledge is power,
and gust as great a power upon the
farm as in other vocations. There is
no way to increase our fund of knowl-
edge so readily and rapidly as bv
reading the thoughts and experiences
OF those who are travelling the same
road that We are called upon to travel,
Besides the vast fund of valuable facts
opened TO our choosing. our facili-
ties of perception are both uuickeped
and strengthened. Those who do not
read, lose money by not being up.
upon the best methods and from being
ignorant of many technical items that
we can turn into greater production
and hence into more money. Those
farmers who attain the highest degree
of success are reading farmers. Mus
Gle in no avenue of life commands
the high prices paid to brains. Ignor-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Stands by Noah,

He is wise man who can recog-
niZe his own mistakes even after he
has been hit with a club as a gentle
reminder. Mr.. Roosevelt has heard
from the country on that simplified
spelling order of his and he abandons
his effort to reform Noah Webster.
The house adopted a resolution to
stand by old Noah in the spelling OF
the official documents and the presi-
dent admits that he has lost and quits
the game.-Live Oak Democrat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Both Were NoncommittaI.

Speaker Cannon and Representative
Longworth, the presidents son-in-law.
were in the senate chamber yesterday
during most of Senator Foraker's
severe arraignment of the president
in the matter of the discharge of the
negro soldiers, says the Washington
Herald, Each listened attentively to
the speech. They left the senate o.
gether and were met in the hallway
by a mutual friend.
What do you think Of Foraker's
speech?" inquired the friend of I'm
Gle Joe
That question hasn't reached the
house yet, and for that reason | must
not express an opinion upon its mer-
its or upon speeches dealing with
it," answered the foxy Uncle Joe.
What do you think of it Nick?"
persisted the friendly interloper.
Clearing his throat, the presidents
son-in-law replied: THE speaker has
expressed my views exactly, accu-
rately."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

Some papers have queer ideas OF
political obligations. as will be seen
from the following item in the st. Pet
ersburg Independent:
The Tampa Tribune is still bewail-
ing that Governor BrOward appointed
Col. McFall as tax collector of this
county. 1t states that as Governor
broward was elected by the demo
Gratis. etc" and loses sight of the fact
mat Governor Broward. If he had not
been elected by the democrats he
would have been defeated by the dem
ocratS. Governor Broward is not under
oollgations 10 the Democratic party
as a whole. but simply the Broward
iactlon OF the party, and the Tribune
Is certainly not classed with the
Browardites.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Why Not Make
Endorsement Unanimous?

The alacrity with which an indiS-
criminate public is accustomed to sign
any and every kind of a petition that
is circulated was never better illus
trated than in the case of the present
postmaster at Pensacola who is secur-
ing endorsements for re-appointment.
Notwithstanding the fact that his
administration of the duties of the
office has been VIGOROUSLY bad and
that dissatisfaction has not only been
widespread but general, great many
, people who ought to know better are
/ signing his endorsement for reap
pointment and are thereby lending
their support in the attempt to foist
onto the community postmaster
whom the community does not want
| and whose re-appointment will simply
mean continuation of four more
years of service which is now be-
coming almost insufferable.
II was all right when The Journal
took up the cudgels a few months
ago to secure better service The
business public generally thought il
was a good thing and various and
sundry business men patted The Jour.
nal on the back and said We were per-
forming great public service.
Now, nine out of ten Of those same
business men are signing the post
masters petition for re-appointment,
and are lining up in support of the
little close-corporation republican
machine which has its being in an
other part of the state, which is domi-
mated by the negro, Joe Lee, and
which is just now engaged in an at
tempt to dictate who shall handle Pen
sacola's mail for the coming four
years.
We now have simply one suggeS-
ton TO offer-why not make the
endorsement unanimous? After the
banks of the city have all got through
endorsing the postmaster and after
the rest of his business endorsement
has been secured. it ought not to be
much trouble TO get an endorsement
from the city council. the county conf
missioners, the chamber of commerce,
and the democratic county executive
committee. Why not try it. anyway?
tSince the above was written, we
learn that the Escambia county repub-
lican organization has had the nerve
TO do that which most of the people
referred 10 above have never screwed
up courage enough to do, viz: repu-
dated the postmaster in his own town
and county and entered protest
against his reappointment. The action
ought TO make every businessman in
the city who has signed the postmas-
ter's endorsement asham ed of him
SELF
1t is said that the president will not
issue his proclamation admitting Okla
homa as a state in the union. and
thereby defeat the will of the people
as expressed in the bill passed bv
congress last year, but we rather
think that when Oklahoma adopts her
constitution she will elect officers and
do regular state business" i'm spite
of the absence of the official procla-
nation. The time for Roosevelt to
have blocked these people in their de-
sire for statehood was when he. had
the power of vetoeing the COMPRESSION
al measure, but at that time he was
anxious to get in the new state of
Arizona. and then again he probably
was not counting on Oklahoma going
Democratic.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
BIDS WANTED.

Bids will be received by the building
committee of the Palafox Street Method
ISL Church. up to January ], for removal
OF the LeBarOn house to the corner OF
Belmont and Guillemar1e streets. Ad-
dress or apply to A. NJ. MCMILLAN,
Zodec4t Secretary.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Will be an Old Maid.

While Miss Shonts pleads mot gull
ty" to the charge of being engaged
to a third foreigner, We hope she did
not resolve to remain single until her
father has completed the Panama
canal-Galveston Tribune.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

Oklahoma is debating the abolish
ment of the death penalty. As a f.
nancial proposition it would be bet.
Ter for them to make the criminals
serve life sentences in the convict
camps.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

If Roosevelt can secure an opinion
from the supreme court declaring the
Income tax constitutional it would go
down in history as the most important
accomplishment of his administration.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Observation-Disclosures Cost.

Battleships come high, but we must
have them. They cost nine and d
half million apieee.-Birmingham Age
Herald
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Goodbye, Andy.

BY unanimous vote, congress put
simplified spelling out OF "bizness. -
and the world is startled by the asser-
ton that the. president has caved in
and has dun Civ up his pei scheme.
Alas for Andy!-Tampa tribune.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
a Psalm of Weather.

Little drops of mercury,
Going up and down,
Cause the kind of weather
That makes people frown.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
PENSACOLA FLORIDA FRIDAY MORNING DECEMBER 49, 1906

The Bellamy Storers have rented
white house in Washington for the
winter, but it is not near The white
house.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
You must never be buttinsky
Aids Congressman.

The old style spelling will be con-
tinued in the congressional Record
because il is hard to tell what some
congressman are talking about with
out complicating matters.-Gaines-
vile Sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
The Proofreader Asks for a Christ
mas Gift.
At the Recital.

Il hear she is good judge of mu-
sic
she is also a good eXecutioner;
she murders ii"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Assault on Constitution.

AS the presidents attack on the old
way of spelling met with rebuff, per-
haps his onslaught on the old consti-
tuition will also be repulsed.-Mem-
pnis Commercial-Appeal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

Every town in the state should have
Ia representative at the meeting Of
the Jacksonville bar association in
that city in February at which time
state bar association will be Or
ganiZed
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
ALL SORTS.
Beyond the Hill.

Beyond the Hill.
Laugh a little, sing a little,
Whistle if you Will;
There's no time for sadness
When you're climbing UP a hill.
Laugh a little, sing little,
Smiles will trouble kill;
Perfect peace and joy are found
Just beyond the hill,
Same Thing.
did not make a new resolve
When the old year did fit-o;
| took the one / made last year,
And wrote beneath it: Ditto" "
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

The college greek letter fraterni-
ties are holding forth i'm different
parts of the country this week. Alpha
Tau Omega is holding their national
convention in Birmingham. and Sigma
-<frha Epsilon is celebrating in At.
lama.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
The Bio Stick.

After the earthquake, a fire and
after the fire a loud, big stick. is
the difference between San Francis.
cos experience and Elijah's. At
lanta Journal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Creators of Teddy.

It's a close race between Mrs. Stor-
er and the Hon. Tom Platt, both of
whom claim they created Roosevelt.
Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
More Sensational.

It's dollars to doughnuts that more
people read Mr.. Roosevelt's attack
on the Storers than the president
message.-Atlanta Journal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

Seventeen of the members of the
Oklahoma constitutional convention
were born in Texas. twelve in Illinois,
and twelve in Missouri Only five of
all the members of the convention
were born in the territory of the new
state
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Webster Good Enouqh.

The Fifty-ninth congress positively
and unequivocally refuses to adopt
the Roosevelt spelling book. Webster's
odd blue-back" is good enough for
them.-Ft. Pierce Tribune
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

Old Tom Cat Plat is immensely
tickled over the Dear Maria" cpl
sode.-Memphis Commercial-Appeal,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Vice VS.. Versa,

Il did not marry an American fam
lily, but vice versa" says Count Boni.
Why does Boni add versa" when
vice tells the whole story of his
unhappiness ?-Galveston Tribune.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
A la BelIamY.

id bcItdNly.
If your learning is emphatic
For to be a diplomatic
/ There are certain rules of conduct
you should know.
For the way that you must mosey
Isn't anything too rosy.
AS some recent publications seem to
show
You must never be buttinsky
With the whiskey on your chinsky.
And never talk too loudly from your
perch;
And il would not be an illness
If you'd keep stony stiffness
Especially in matters of the church
Shut the pages somewhat tighter
OF your Ready Letter Writer,
Or be careful/of the subjects that you
touch;
Or the parrot you'll resemble.
Who observed, all in a tremble,
THE trouble is with me. L talk too
much"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

Foraker may be able to handle Taft
in Ohio politics. but he will find that
Theodore Roosevelt is little bigger
proposition THAN the secretary of war,
even if the latter does weigh three
hundred pounds.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

The editor Of the ST. Augustine
Meteor does not think much of the
proposition To nominate southern
man as the democratic standard-bear-
err in the next presidential campaign.
The Meteor says:
When you read an editorial COM
mandatory of a southern nominee for
president you can set it down that the
writer thereof is either Indifferent as
10 the success of Democracy. or that
his judgement is very defective.
or that he would divert the attention
OF the masses from the one, true,
prominent, most available. incompara-
bic Bryan.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

The governor does not seem to have
agreed with those Tampa politicians
who claimed that it was his clear con-
stitutional duty to call n special cleo
ton in HillsbOroush county for the
election of tax collector.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Would Die for Her

Would Die for Her.
The fellow who tells girl he would
die for her may some day have a
chance to prove it by eating her bis
uits.--Philadelphia Record.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Trial Riches.

RAJ RICHES.
The Rev. DR.. Hills observes that
there's no harm in being rich" Most
people. logged by duns, will agree
that at least it is mighty convenient.
Mobile Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
Tells Which One She is.

Tells Which One She is.
Jack London, the well known nov
elist, has a great affection for chill
dren, says an exchange.
In San Francisco there are twin
sisters, little girls of six years, of
whom Mr.. London is very fond.
On the way to his boat one morn
ing Mr.. London met one of the twins.
He stopped and shook her hand.
Good morning. my dear" he said.
And which of the twins are YOU"
Il am the one that's out walkin'."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

The house of representative jump
ed on that reformed spelling of the
president and killed it in the road"
| Jacksonville Floridian.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28
BEATING the Street Car.

A young woman who got on Six
teenth street car recently and diScov-
cred shortly afterward that she was
without money or ticket showed such
perturbation that young man asked
her what the trouble was, and when
she told him he insisted on giving her
trip ticket, says the Philadelphia
Record. She demurred at first, but
the young man finally prevailed on
her, saying, as he moved farther
front:
It's the last ticket I've got, to pc
sure; but that's easy
When the conductor came to the
young man he was busy with his glove
until the conductor went by a little
way and then came back.
You've got my ticket said the
young man.
Not on your life," said the con-
ductOr.
Yes. you have" persisted the young
man; Il happened to notice the num-
Der. Just see if you haven't got a
ticket there in your hand marked
20. 1903"
NOR his refractory passenger, and
there. sure enough, was ticket No. 20,
103, which the young woman had ten
deTed as fare.
The Proofreader Asks for a Christ
mas Gift.
Just This
No Cussing,
Or Fussing
If He Makes a Break.
Not cen from the man who ne'er
makes a mistake.
And the Composition Room Makes
Answer.
Remember He's WHITE,
He'll Try TO Do Right,
SO On His Rough Way
Just Give Him Lift
tbs This,
That the Proofreader Has Gall Enough
To Ask for Xmas Gift-Only
ThiSi
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-12-28

The question of the constitutional
fly of an income tax is likely to come
up before the United States supreme
court again. Two of the original
members of the court who decided i'm
Favor Of the income tax are members
of the present court. and two others
have been appointed by Roosevelt.
which. if they are all in favor OF the
tax. with one other member of the
court, could settle the question right
by reversing the former decision.