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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-01-19
HOW EDITOR STORRS
WOULD BOOM DeFUNIAK
DeFuniak Breeze
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Since the last issue of this paper, a
gentleman who for the present shall
be nameless asked this question:
You are always talking about get
ting more people and booming the
town. how would you do it?
To nut it briefly, We would follow up
the splendid opportunities we have in
advertising, and then do more, and
then more.
DeFuniak Springs and Walton coun-
ty could make splendid investment
of 81 900 in 1905 in advertising its re-
sources. We do not believe that that
amount would come back in this year
or in next or possible in five years,
but that it would prove a splendid in
vestment there is not the slightest
doubt.
There is a magic in the very name
Of Florida which makes it easy to ar
rest atteution, which is the first step
in successful advertising. Then tens
OF thousands of dollars are already
being spent in advertising the state
at large, and what we would have to
do would be to direct the attention
toward this section.
The L. & N. is sending out to sew
eral parties in every section along
the entire system every week a list
CT from twenty to fifty parties who
have answered the general advertis-
ing of the company, and who are seek
ing homes in the south. Some sort
of descriptive matter should be sent
every one Of these if nothing more is
done. But that does not begin to be
enough. We should advertise our
section in papers in the north, and
then follow up the inquiries with print
ed matter and personal letters, as
long as there was a possible chance
Of inducing them to locate here.
Other counties are doing this. and
II is paving them. In the last issue
Of the Breeders Gazette, a journal hav-
ing a circulation of probably $4,000
among stOckmen all over the coun-
try, Marion county has a page adver-
tisement We mention this as an IL
lustration merely of what is being
done. and of what we should do.
But, says some one, that will cost
money. Certainly. So does ii cost
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NEWSPAPERS.
Striking Things That Great Men
Have Said About Them.

Striking Things That Great Men
Have Said About Them.
A correspondent requests that we
pint some Of the striking things great
men have said about newspapers-that
is, sayings that embody the purpose
aud doings Of the press. With pleas
ure
Bryant said: The press is good CG
evil, according to the character Of those
who direct it. 1t is a mill that grinds
all that is put into its hopper. Fill the.
hopper with poisoned grain, and it will
grind 1t to meal, but there is death in
the bread"
James Parton said: 1.-THE newspaper
press is the peoples university. Half
the readers in Christendom read little
else" a-t f.--
Jefferson said: THE basis Of our gov.
eminent being the opinion Of the peo-
pie, the very first object should be to
keep that right, and were it left to me
to decide whether we should have .
government without newspapers or
newspapers without a government I
should not hesitate a moment to prefer
the latter
Cardinal Gibbons said: "The dread Of
exposure in the public press keeps many
a man sticking close to the path Of rec
titude who otherwise would stray of
into the byWays Of graft" - Chicago
Journal
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DueIinE Pistols.

The pistol used in the duel is not the
military arm or the revolver, but a
very carefully made and wonderfully
accurate weapon known as the dueling
pistol For many years tie length Of
this arm was matter Of grave dis.
cussion at all the clCas in England and
on the continent. At first the dueling
pistol had a twelve inch barrel and
carried twenty round bullets to the
pound, but in 1910 the elder Devisure
with his confrere, Lepage, at Paris,
and Manton and Egg Of London, the
most eminent pistol makers Of their
respective countries, Fixed the actual
length Of the dueling plStol barrel at
nine inches, and there it has remained.
A case Of the best pistols used to bring
from 500 to $50 francs. or 500 to SfhQ
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The Splendid Annual Report
Of Secretary W. c. Jones.

Pensacola is fortunate in having q
live Chamber Of Commerce and boil
that body and the city are fortunate
In having a live secretary to handle
the almost unlimited work which the
duties of such a position entail.
The annual report of Secretary w
e. Jones which is published on page
tive Of The Journal today is not only
one Of the best reports Of a similar
character which have ever been sub
mittd, but The Journal regards it as
the best which these columns have
ever been privileged to publish.
Tn report is both concise and com.
prehensive and, while it is strictly
business from beginning to end, it has
a literary finish which is as marked
in this case as is usually cOnspicuOusly
lacking in the general run Of papers
Of this character.
Secretary Jones's remarks on the
need and value Of publicity are partic-
ulsrly apt Every man Of business
knows that what he says is true
every word Of it. Everyone with the
most ordinary business sense knows
that ublicity-rightly directed-is
what moves the world Of business to
day, and Secretary Jones puts this
fact very forcefully in his excellent
report.
His plea for the cooperation Of the
business men Of Pensacola in build
ing up their city is the strongest fea-
ture Of his report and one which de-
serves the closest attention. With
out that cooperation, the Chamber of
Commerce can do little. but with every
business man in the city behind il,
the body can be a power.
The Journal congratulates Sscre-
tsry Jones upon his altogether admir-
able report and il congratulates the
city upon having a man who is so
thoroughly fitted for the position
which he has filed so scceptably for
the past three years.
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cells, baggage and certain classes of
freight whenever the public con-
venience could be promoted thereby;
hence he urged the passage Of a gen
eral law on the subject. The governor
recommendation was accepted by the
legislature and at the present TIME a
number of trolley lines are carrying
freight, and much has been done III
that state toward giving the resi-
dents of interior towns the benefit Of
the transportation of baggage, ex-
press matter ana other things, with
the result that the revenue from this
business is assisting the companies in
meeting the expenses of extending,
improving and operating their lines.
Last year there were nearly 10000
miles of electric railways in operation
in the United States, and pa lines
in PENNSYLVANIA alone Many of the
latter are located in the large cities,
but there are also quite a number
serving the people living in the Outly-
ing country. That these lines should
be deprived of the right to develop an
important branch of the railroad bust
ness, which they are able to conduct
al low charges, is not in keeping with
the progressive spirit of the times.
However, this question is largely in
the hands of the farmers of the states
Ia which electric railways are Operat-
cd, but it is safe to say that they will
be aided by the enterprising represen-
tatives of other interests in convinc-
ms the legislature that the electric
lines are entitled 10 fair play and
that the public is entitled also 10 the
benefits which will result from grant
ing them the right to carry certain
classes of freight.
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TROLLEY LINES AS
FREIGHT CARRIERS
New Orleans States.
K*NA&N*&*R*ss RaRRRazRaRRsss,

The farmers associations of Penn
syIVanla nave united in a movement
10 secure legislation giving electric
railways operating between cities
towns and villages the right to cary
freight This is a movement clearly
IN the line Of progress, and that eIec
trio roads subject TO certain restric.
tons, will be granted the privilege Ia
serve as common carriers in ali the
states should be REGARDED as one ~
the certainties of the future because
II is merely the logical development
OF the electric railway svstm. II is
well TO remark in this connection thai
trolley freight cars are already in
evidence in a number of the states
ana IL is only question Of time when
they will be brought into universal
use Tor the transportation Of produce
and other commodities in the interior
districts of the country.
No. sounSI reason can be advanced
to justify the restriction of the busi.
ness Of the electric lines to the car.
riage Of passengers. Some of the
street railway companies in PennsvI-
Vania are now transporting freight
with or without a charter right to do
so, and the accommodation To the
farmers along the route is highly
valued. The steam railroad com
Fanies will be arrayed. Of course
against the granting of the freight
carrying privilege TO the trolley lines.
but good public policy and the public
convenience demand that the electric
roads shall share in the profitable
business Of freight transportation
This may be delayed on specious
grounds; but if those who are direct
~ concerned in the broadening of the
privileges Of the trolley lines unite in
urging the Pennsylvania legislature
10 place them on equality with the
steam RAILROADS. in this respect. is II
confidently believed that the necessary
legislation can be secured.
A short time ago Gov. Bates of Mas
sschusetts. in a special message veto
ing an act giving to certain electric
lines the right TO carry freight. and
hot comforting the same right on
others, said there could be no rea-
sonable objection TO electric railways
serving as common carriers Of par
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and taken ii as a part Of the natural
order OF things at the academy"
So far We nave failed to find in the
reports Of the trials Of certain erring
midshipmeG, direct evidence of such
cold-blOoded atrocities among the ha,
GERS as one would naturally expect
from the severity of the punishment
being inflicted upon the guilty.
Where Is the boy that has ever en-
tered any good, Old-fashiOned Ameri-
can boarding school without being in.
itisted,' or, in more Up-to-date Ian
guage-hazed? We do not know of
his existence. The faculty of most
American Institutions of learning for
boys have certain requirements which
they exact Of candidates before receiv-
ing them as students. But the stu
dents who are already in have lust
as eXacting requirements which they
demand with unerring certainty from
the new Teller"
II seems that all the evidence goes
TO show that hazing is simply part
OF the natural vivacity of youth. If
this is true it must be accepted as
such and the punishment made to fit
the crime.
Brutality is not a natural attribute
of the American youth; neither is cru-
city. COwardly attacks upon "plebes"
by bull-dozing upper class men cannot
be too strongly condemned. No fair
minded person would attempt to de-
fend such conduct.
But before a rOllicking midshipman
makes 4 lower class man do the "rab-
bit dance, or requires that he stand
on his head, for the delectation Of his
messmaJes, is he thus become so bad
hearted that he is unworthy To hold
the presidents commission as an Of
ncer In the navy? II hardly seems so
to the civilian.
Why not take the exuberant bazer
ana punish him In manner fitting to
the nature Of his Offense? Make him
stand upon his head. make him exc.
cute the rabbit dance" and do the
other antics that he has exactad from
the lower class men, and let a dozen
OF SO OF the latter stand around the
culprlt and give them permission tn
guy nm TO their hearts content
IL remains TO be seen il this wOuld
not have the desired effect instanta.
neously, and it would obviata sending
tnese young hazers forth into the
world branded for life as men who
nave oeen convicted of an Offense. who
nave been ANONYMOUSLY dismissed Inv
uncle Sam and rejected by him as fn-
lure officers of the great white sbins
WHICH are second to none on the
seas.
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The following figures show The Pen.
sacola Journals circulation for each
day during the month OF December,
1905, with the average number OF
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-01-19
Animal Having the Most Teetb.


The animal having the most teeth Is
the great armadillO of south Central
0d northern South America. 1t is a
fact we'll known to most people that
the normal or average =1mber Of teeth
In mammals is thirty sixteen
above. and the same number below.
The great armadillo, however, is an ex-
ception, having from 90 to 100. He has
from twenty-four to twenty-six in each
side of the upper jaw and from twenty
two to twenty-four IN each side Of the
lower jaw, Another popularity lies In
the fact that they are all mola1S or
grinders. They increase in size yrom
front to back, instead of from the FOOT.
and are wholly destitute of enamel
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-01-19

The DeFuniak Breeze has just in
stalled a fine Gordon press in its jon
department to assist in handling its
ever increasing business. Editor
SJorrs is a hustler and can always be
depended upon TO keep abreast of the
times and give his patrons the best
to be had at any price. The Journal
IS pleased 70 note this evidence Of the
prosperity of its valued DeFuniak con-
temporary.
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cor d. Nicholas, whit. Hor..,

IN Belgium the children expect the
good st Nicholas to visit them. They
think he rides on a white horse, so they
polish their shoes with great care, fill
them with hay, oats or carrots for the
saints horse and put them in the fire
place or on a table, and in the morning,
instead Of the forage, they find sticks
for the bad children and candies for
the good ones.
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L.urel For Christmas Decoration.

The laurel beiES an evergreen makes
a striking feature in n winter land
scape. Enormous quantities are used
IN the Christmas dressing OF churches
for wreaths and other decorations.
Mountain laurel can be grown for dec
Orative purposes, and 1t is easily cuIti-
waited. What comes to market is gath.
cred from the wild laurel growth
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PENSACOLA FLORIDA FRTDA MORNING JANUARY 49, 1906
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/ hereby certify that the above
statement is correct according to the
records on file in this Office.
FRED A. SWEET,
circulation Manager.
Sworn 10 and subscribed before me
this 1st day Of January, 1906
PERRY DICKEN.
Notary Public.
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GREAT FRUIT COUNTRY.
Farmer Writes Back to Old Missouri
About the Pecos Valley.

Farmer Writes Back to Old Missouri
About the Pecos Valley.
Following is an extract from a let
ter written to the Atchison County
CMo.) Mail by w. T. Baker, a farmer
who recently located in the Pecos
Valley:
People are blowing here now.
there being no frost in the ground.
People are out all day long, many of
them in their shirt sleeves. In the
daytime lit is warm, but the mornings
and evenings are cool and it even
freezes a little some times at night.
We have had three light SHOWS, but
they were soon gone and the roads
are dry and smooth and just as fine
as can be.
Some Of the farmers are selling
their alfalfa hay. 1t brings them So
per ton for the second class and $40
per ton for the best. 1t is the finest
kind of hay. The farmer thinks he
is well fixed when he gets a good
portion of his land well seeded to al
falfa. He expects to reap at least six
tons to the acre, worth from So to
$40 per ton, which soon pays him
back for all his outlay-usually from
$35 to $50 per acre, according to the
improvements.
"At home the fruit industry has
become a back number, but here it
is not so. The fruit business is some
thing wonderful. The trees come into
bearing profitable crops five ear af-
ter setting, and there are no insects
that I have seer to bother them. I
have not seen a worm in an apple
in the Valley, and 1 have sampled a
good many, 1 assur you, for they
are just simply delicious. No tree
blight here and no grubs in the roots
of the trees. Pears, cherries and
peaches do we'll here, although peach
es sometimes are caught by the frost
in the spring.
""This will, perhaps, never be a
land of as large farms as old Atchison
county, but it produces more dollars
to the acre, and the and is nicer to
work, and the weather both summer
and winter is so enjoyable that for
a man looking for a home outside of
But those who would be self-assured
should come and see."
WILBUR F. BAKER.
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Classified "Ad5.'
FOR SALE.

Milk cows for sale. Hondo Dairy.
P. o. Box Alb, City. 95tf-Wed.
FOR SALE A Smith Premier type
writer. Inquire at Record Office. tt
FOR SALE:-Furnished ent 12x16,
in sanitary condition. Inquire "L.
K" Record Office. 93t3+.
FOR SALE Mountain cottonwood,
Carolina poplars, and lombardy at
McClenney farm. 94t3*
FOR SALE Austin No. 4 well ma
chine with complete set Of tools.
Inquire at Record. 85t12*
FOR SALE Five acre orchard
rae II mile from growing town
in the Valley. Inquire Record estes
FOR SALE OR RENT My resi-
dence on Richardson ave. House
hold goods for sale. Call at house.
Chris Totten.
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out if they will. Partisan and merely
local issues should have no influence
in the constitutional convention.

J. A.. Wayland, editor of the ZAP
peal to Reason" the leading Social
list paper of the United States, was
here yesterday looking over the pros
poets, and may decide to establish a
cooperative colony in the Pecos Val
ley. Mr.. Waylani some years ago
started such a colony at Ruskin,
Tennessee, capitalizing the enterprise
himself, n afterward selling all his
interests to the colonists. His paper
now published at Girard, Kansas, has
nearly half a million circulation, and
is equipped with presses like those
used on the great city dailies. He
also does a book publishing business,
spreading the propaganda of Social
ism through millions of pamphlets
and books. He predicts that the Dem
ocratic party will sweep the country
in 1908 on the antitrust issue. He
considers the railroad rate bill now
pending in congress a piece of bun-
combe, but believes that it's passage
will help the cause of Socialism.
While Wayland is a dreamer of po-
litical dreams, he is a business sue
cess, and a writer whose widest fan
cies are always interesting on ac-
count of his direct, plain and forcible
style Of expression.
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POLITICS AND THE CON-
STITUTIONAC CONVENTION.


Possibly it is on account of h ru-
NOR that Roswell men will start an
other newspaper at Santa Fe that the
New Mexican is coming out against
Governor Hagerman's view that the
non-partisan. The Record fears that
the New Mexican overestimates its
CO, and further that it is making the
mistake Of trying to hold it's position
as official organ by bulldozing the
new Governor.
The Record has always felt rather
kindly toward the New Mexican until
it attempted deliberately to make the
new Governor and his friends believe
that the Record was disappearing
and misquoting him. True, the New
Mexican editor in a private letter to
the editor of the Record offered an
excuse-but allowed it's misrepresen-
tation OF this paper to stand uncor-
rected, and did not verify our state
ments by going to the Governor him.
self as requested and learning the
truth. Hence we have, temporarily
at least, crossed the New Mexican
of our list of friends. The Record
cannot expect to have much influence
with a Republican Governor at best,
i'm fact we do not expect even a
word OF hanks in commencing him
for any stand which we consider for
the best interests of the Territory
but the Record will o knowingly
misquote or misrepresent him.
The New Mexican evidently would
like to creat the impression On the
Governor that only by keeping close
to the old gang can he hope to make
a success of his administration. 1t
will be found, however, hat Mr.. Ha-
german appreciates friendship more
thar he fears threats-and the New
Mexican will not be able to whip him
into line for a partisan constitutional
convention in the event of the state
hood bill passing.
1t is but natural Of course that so
far as New Mexico is concerned more
Republicans han Democrats will be
sent to the constitutional convention,
but In hat convention the Record
believes. with Governor Hagerman,
that all questions OF merely partisan
expediency should be eliminated, and
b result should be a constitution
framed i'm the interests of he whole
people Of Arizona and New Mexico.
without regard to party. Give all
fair representation in the convention
and provide for equally fair and equi-
table representation in the legisla-
ture after the Territory becomes q
state. Then let the parties fight 1T
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WANTED.

Wanted clean cotton rag at the
Record office.
WANTED Woman for general
homework. Apply 4o5 N. Richard
son. 94tf.
WANTED Man or lady, to solicit
agents on a regular salary. Address
Box 391, City 95t2
WANTED One 4 or 9 h. p. gasoline
engine, at once. Address Box 257,
Artesia, N. M. s4tf
WANTED Woman or girl to do
homework, family of four. Apply
6O4 N. Penn. ave. 94tf
WANTED TO SELL One two
seated hack, black top. 1t can be
seen at Sharp & Majors Black
smith Shop. it,
WANTED TO BUY A good team
of 4 to 6 years old mar Must
weigh 1000 to 1900. Address Chas.
j. Mackey, Hagerman, N. M. e3t6*
WANTED Position as private tea
cher or companion by young lady of
culture and education. Can give
personal interview. Address G.. G.
Record Office. 93t5.
Druggist wanted at Lake Arthur, N
NJ, with stock of drugs. No drug
store. Building for rent at reasonable
rate. Address Lake Arthur Townsite
Co., Lake Arthur, N. n. stiff
Wanted to borrow, 100000 on $50
acres of irrigated, patented land for
term OF two years. VIII pay 8 per
cent. Permanent water right for en-
tire tract. Address Owner, Box 315,
Artesfa, N. M. 94t6*
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FOR RENT.

FOR RENT Two nice furnished
rooms, with board If desired 100
Kentucky ave 95t6
FOR RENT:-S0 acres-8 acres bear
ing orchard, 8 acres in alfalfa, good
East Of town. Inquire of S. NJ. King
Roswell, SSt10*.
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The Santa Fe New Mexican was
told confidentially that Captain w.
be appointed attorney general. The
Roswell papers all had the same in
formation, and kept faith in not pub
fishing the same until permission was
issued; but the New Mexican tele-
graphed the story to Denver, for
spite we presume, and then the sto-
ry was out.
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Why would it not be a good idea
to submit the question of municipal
to the voters at the spring election
without either a franchise or bond
attachment? That is to say, let the
people decide which policy they pre-
fer, then proceed accordingly.
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OF course the Republicans of New
Mexico have the power to hold a
strictly partisan constitutional con-
vention, if they so desire-and in that
way they may defeat statehood. But
the Record does not believe that the
better class of Republicans favor the
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SPECIAL OFFER FOR
SHORT TINE ONLY.

Sixty acres of fine land, two miles
from court house. Small house, loo
bearing fruit trees, eight acres g.
year-old fruit trees, 10 acres in alfa1-
ia, fine artesiMn well afording am
pie water to irrigats the entire tract,
located in the most desirable part
ChAves county. This 10 q hns bar
gain.
CARLTON a. BELL
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The Record today publishes the
ing bonds. Readers who are not sat
isied with the Interpretation of the
same by the lawyers can read and
draw their own conclusions.