The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-28
! NEWS AND VIEWS
FROM STATE PAPERS.
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MobiIe,s ouarantlne Policy.

/ Mobiles Quarantine Policy.
The local quarantine commission
! ers at Mobile endeavored TO shorten
/ the quarantine term of fruit laden
i vessels coming into that port from in
/ fected points on the caribbean sea.
4 THIS federal collector of customs, I'M
( der his instructions from the treas
ury department. has said no, anu will
not permit vessels from such points
1 to enter the harbor until five days
have elapsed. The collector is moral
/ ~ as well as officially right Ii Mo-
/ bile was running the risk of fever
solely for its own people it might
take the risk and welcome, but when
| its policy proposes to endanger the
entire south 1t should be immediate
| " cancelled by any authority having
the power In this matter of quar-
antine the whole country is interest
ed, and no port has a right to act as
though it alone were involYed.-Tam-
pa Times.
The Good Old Days.
People talk about the good old days
when everybody was better than now
and things generally were cleaner
and decenter and yet in those same
good old days a state and county po-
litical campaign was a thing so fierce
and virulent, so full of abuse and
defamation and rows and rowdyism
and bloody collisions that the CAM
paign which closed yesterday was a.
Sunday school picnic by comparison.
The superior merits of the good old
days" are largely in our imaginations,
lot only in politics, but in many other
things.-Live Oak Democrat.
IS
Still Doing a Stunt.
One of our citizens who occasional
iy wipes the dishes for his wife, be-
came tired of the job and refused,
saying that sit was not a mans
work" Not feeling disposed to lose
his help, she brought tie Bible out
to convince him of his error and read
as follows from II Kings BIB: "And
will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth
dish, wiping it and turning it up
side down" It is needless to say
that he is still doing his occasional
stunt-Arcadia News.
Fort Myers Eats Beef.
Had yot ever thought how many
pounds of beef that is ate each mon
in this town Of Fort Myers? We learn
fIom our two enterprising market
men that about twelve beeves per
week were sold in the local market
here. or fOrty-eight head each month.
At a rough estimate these beeves
would weigh on an average of 300I
pounds each, or in other words $4,000
pounds of beef is consumed every
twenty-eight days by people of this
town. Fort Myers has a population
of about 1900 inhabitants, this would
mean that each inhabitant, men,
women and children included, would |
each eat nine pounds of beef steak, !
stew. rOasts, etc., each twenty-eighs /
days that passed. These figures do /
not include the immense amount of
fish, pork, chickens, canned meats, !
etc., that are consumed each month. I
which would possibly run it up to
twelve pounds.
Talk about the people of Boston
eating beans, but they are not in it |
when it comes right hard down to
eating.-Fort Myers Tropical Breeze.
Florida Ship Canal.
Hon Frank Clark, Congressman
from the Second District of Florida.
is never firing when it comes to the
interests of not only his district. but
the state at large. Mr.. Clark has in
troduced a bill to provide for sur
yey for a ship canal across the state
from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf
O. Mexico, and making appropriation
therefor. This bill was referred to
the committee on railroads and canals
which now has the same under con-
sideration.
The question of a canal across the
state, such as is provided in Mr.
Clark's bill, has been agitated for
several years. but this is the first
definite step ever taken to secure the
same. Such a canal would prove of
incalculable value to the commerce
not only Of Florida, but Of great bene-
At to every port in the United States,
shortening the distance between Gulf
and Atlantic ports several hundred
miles
This measure will be watched with
a great deal of interest by the ship
ping industry of the country. who viii
hope for it's success and the ulti-
mate accomplishment of it's purpose
Sun.
Making a Record.
Hon. Frank Clark is making a
record for himself in Congress. The
Tribune has always been an aGnirer
Of this bViny statesman and it IS a
matter of cOngratulation to note his
monumental achievements and rapid
to political fame Tampa
Tribune.
Taliaferro's Promotion.
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