The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-28
SAGE LEAVES
Special to The Journal.


Brent, Oct. N.-We have had a
rainless week-fne for making hay
and getting out sweet potatoes. =
These are about the only crops that
the storm left on our farm. Greens
are almost as scarce as Leghorn
"hen-teeth" now. Hungry sufferers
are walking out to Clopton's in search
of green leaves, only to be turned
down without a mess.
Young garden truck planted since
the hurricane has come up very nice
ly, and will soon be tender enough for
Jack Frost to bitei
On Sabbath morning, the 22nd inst,
Rev. F. A. Rogers united in marriage
Miss Laura Harrington and Mr.. Mil
ton Clopton, at the residence Of Mr..
q. e. Spoon.
May their love increase with more
intimate acquaintance; which only be-
gins before the marriage knot is tied;
and may their attractions and happi-
ness ever multiply like the constella-
ton of stars that swing around the
heavenly sun.
This young couple has not made a
wedding tour to the springs and
falls" but, settled quietly down to
new life" in Thiesen's rural resi-
dence at Brent Station.
/ dislike to see young beginners"
spending half they are worth in an
attended honeymoon outing. It Is
no guarantee against extended" an
giles after the honeymoon is vanished.
A stirring reaction eliminating in
quarrels and fights too often occur,
in the course of future events, to
speak well for our defective marriage
institution. In fact, cross squalls be-
tween the parents, and piteous cries
for-are generally recognized as a
normal condition within short year
, of the matrimonial date!
That unusually cold week early in
October changed the green color Of
our potato field to a complete golden
hue. The normal color Is again being
restored by the return of warm wealth
er.
fear that our fruit trees are max
ing fatal mistake" by blooming
out In October instead of the spring
month of March. Being denuded of
foliage by the hurricane they may
have concluded that winter had pass
ed. New leaf buds are bursting forth
together with the snow-white flow
ers giving every appearance of
spring.
The wasted effort will be hard on
the trees, and unfavorable for the
next crop of fruit.
| My brother, writing from eastern
Ohio, speaks of snowfall on the
10th of October, followed by severe
freezing which did great damage to
crops not housed Apples, which arc
abundant in that section, were not
materially injured.
He gives account of many wonder
1 49, AO'NtCPhOhbS PAO1CNSAhS VA Oil
sides, the greatest of which is a
ship canal, without government aid,
from Lake Erie to the Ohio river
Pittsburg, which Is the southern ter.
minus is cramped for "elbow-room, .
and proposes spending a hundred mil
lion dollars on the undertaking, and
TO have it completed before the Pana
ma canal is ready for business.
The narrowest width Is to be ICE
feet The summit being ST. fee
above the lake and 1S0 feet higher
than the river, will have to be fec
by immense reservoirs, catching the
head waters Of the Allegheny river
which VIII be conveyed IS miles IL
a fifty foot ditch, s feet In depth.
This scheme was agitated ava,
back in my early memory--iike thu
seyering of the Florida peninsula
Under our great prosperity the wild
est theories are-fast coming into ,prae
'tical realization.