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FLEMING
speclaI 20 The Journal.

Fleming. Juna 29.-We have had
several showers Of late and crops are
looking fine. Potato planting is pro-
crossing well and there will be a large
acreage planted to sweet potatoes
Cotton is doing we'll Some farmers
report open blooms.
F. S. Gray has been very sick but
is improving at this writing.
Tom LandOn made a business trip
to Milton Saturday.
Walter Rivenbark with F. S. Gay,
visited the home folks at ,RhOdaviile
Sunday.
Charley Bass was visiting in RhOdd-
vile Sunday last
E T. and E. N. Pitts Of Red Rock
attended singing "a 1-F17IzIg Hin Sun
day.
Nfr. Parramare with the Santa Rosa
Turpentine Co., was visiting F. S. Gay
Sunday.
I.B. Wheeler and H. H TOmpkins
were business visitors to Milton Sat
urday
n B. Roberts was N Milton Thurs
Gay and Friday OF last week attend
ing a meeting Of the county school
bOar0 of which ne is a memDer.
S. H. Bass is at FlOmatOn this week
on business.
James Ates left Tuesday for Falco
Ala
Walter Rivenbark was in Milton
yesterday.
w. W. Wolfe was at F. S. Gays
Monday.
The many friends of Hardie Gay
viii be pleased to know that he has
So far recovered as to be able to re-
sumo his place as head stiller for F.
s Gay.
Mrs. Landon was visiting Mrs.
Roberts Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. S. Gay were in
Milton Friday.
Jewell Bass who has been at Til
more Ala, for some time returned
nome Monday.
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now seems an imperitive necessity for

now seems an imperitive necessity for
irrigation.
Such are some of the conditions
against which the Louisiana sugar
planter has to contend, and the dis
tance between enough and too much
rainfall during the cultivating and
harvesting season, is so small that a
small excess, one way or the other, is
fatal to the crop just as it is to corn
in the great corn belt,
If cit would simply stagger any pro-
fessiOnal statistician to learn how
many thousands of mics of canals and
bitches and minor drains our LOuisia-
ma sugar planters have dug" how in
comprehensive it must be to our. best
Florida farmers And when we know
that with all the tabled sickness of
that soil, and the large quantity of
fertilizer used, the average yield of
cane, to the whole of Louisiana for a
term of many years past, has been
less than twenty tons per acre. 1t is
true that when all conditions are fav-
Orable some parts of the state and
some favored plantations do grow
double that tonnage, but it is equally
true that when ever conditions are
favorable to a large tonnage of cane
the sacharrine content is very low,
and a burden of cane with a small per
cent of sugar content is a great fail
uTe.
We cannot find fault with our Louis
lana friends that they hold on and
struggle with the enormous prob
lem Of ditching as one necessity
and irrigation as another. The mil
lions of money now invested in that
industry will justify the expenditure
of millions more rather than lose what
is now invested But we do wonder
that any intelligent FlOridian would
seek out an area of our own state that
will require the bitter wall of Louis
lana planters Ditch, ditch, ditch for
years if not like Louisiana fOc all
time and then join in the same new
CRY. "Irrigate. irrigate, irrigate.'
This letter is now much too long
and | will close with the oft repeated
statement, that more and better cane
can be grown in this part of Florida
for the same labor and cost than in
any part of Louisiana today or any
part of the Everglades after millions
Of dollars of expense.
JOHN THOMAS PORTER.
Grand Ridge, Fla. June 29.
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MAYORS RIGHT TO HEAVEN
Chicago Executive Says Job Merits
Eternal Bliss as It's Reward.

chicago Executive Says Job Merits
EternnI Bliss as Its Reward.
"Any man who has once served a
term as mayor of the city OF Chicago
&c entitled to eternal bliss i'll the
realms beyond" said Mayor Dunno re-
ceptlv when a conscience stricken cit
izen who confessed that he received
from a former employee Of the city
three cbisels which belonged to the mu-
nicipality sent IS cents in stamps 10
ease his conscience and declared that
he hoped to meet the city executive IN
heaven. says a Chicago dispatch.
DO YOU expect 70 meet him there
Afr MavorY" the municipal chief was
asked.
~ think l am entitled to go to heaV-
on" the mayor said, smiling, as ne
viewed the mass Of petitions, com
pIaints. protests and applications Tor
Jobs lying on his desk.
"Do YOU think all the mayors Will 90
IN beaven?' he was asked.
''They ought to, and 1 hope to meet
them there. believe it should be their
compensation," replied he.
Navor Dunno said he expected 10
meet Carter H. Harrison in heaven and
declared that the aldermen, too, are
entitled to an eternal reward.
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IN HONOR OF
f. GROSSJOHANN
ARMY AND NAVY UNION ADOPTS
RESOLUTIONS OF coNDoL-
ENCE UPON DEATH OF
THE SERGEANT.

The Army and Navy Union, of
which. Sergeant z. GrOssjOhann, who
expired recently, was a member, has
adopted resolutions Of coincidence
upon the death of their cOmrade. Ser
geant OssjOhann was one of the
most popular nOn-commissioned Off
GERS ever stationed at the fort and
the resolutions are a fitting tribute
to his memory. They are as follows:
Headquarters. Ft Barrancas, Fla
June 26, 1906.
At the first regular muster of
Major Lorenzo LOrain Garrison No,
20 subsequent ID the decease Of Com
rade GrOSsjOhann the following TesO-
lutions were unanimously adopted
BY the will Of Divine Providence
our loved respected and honored
Comrade and Past Commander Ernest
GrossjOhann mas been removed from
amongst US.
Be it therefore. Resolved as a mark
of loving respect from his comrades
fellow members of Major Lorenzo Lo-
rain Garrison No. 20 Army and Navy
Union of the U. S. A.
That in the death Of COmTade Ern-
est Grossjohann who was caIed to
his eternal rest on Friday June Is,
1906, Garrison No. 20 has lost a de-
voted and faithful brother who for
many years was a valued member an6
oficer of the Army and Navy Union
and whose loss we deeply and sin
cerely mourn.
That We tender herewith to his
H-gT
of our sympathy and coincidence and
sorrow with them in their grief and
mourning.
That as a mark of respect for oul
late cOmrade the charter of the Gar
TisOn be draped in mourning for &
period of thirty days.
LEROY n. HAMMOND,
Commander.
HOWARD RUSSELL,
Adiutant.
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TerSeLy Told

J. G. Seasons. a naval stores opera
.or Of Andalusia, is in the city on a
short business visit
j. A. Giveus. Of Falco, Ala, was
among the prominent naval stores
operators in the city yesterday.
W. o. McLamore, Of Gulfport, was
among the business visitors in the
city Yesterday.
Judge F. E. Carter. who spent two
DAYS in the city hearing chancery
cases, has returned to mis- home in
MaEianna
Henry Mclaughlin. who has been
on a bus ness visit Of several days to
New York and St. Louis, has returned
20 the city.
Captain Jacob Kruger is moving into
his new home at the corner Of Bel
monr and ReUs streets. which he pur-
chased some months since from Sam
R3seuau.
Noise DeLeon. contractor for the
construction Of one of the large build
faes at the navy yard, and Claude A.
NcGiunis, both of Atlanta, are in the
ci-r.
In giving the name Of the winner Of
.ae prize for the most popular flag
man ar the o. R. c. picnic it was stat
e. that T. Hahn was awarded the
prize. Il was F. Horne who was
chosen as the most popular fiagman
and who received the scarf pin.
Mrs. James Sheehan. who was badly
injured recently by being thrown from
buggy al the corner of Intendencia
5na NeyalCs streets, is greatly inn
proved. and is now considered out Of
iau-o~.
o. Conrad Scott reached the city
feS.erlar over the P. & A, after an
iaseuce Of several weeks on business
and pleasure combined. Owing to
.chneSs among Mrs. SCOTS relatives
s'H was compelled TO remain in Car
-7'e.c Tor a few weeks longer. Mr..
Sea. . return TO DeFUniak tonight
70 be ahsen. until he can bring mis-
family home.
Nm Fisher, who recently complet-
cd law course. has passed his eX-
anlina"ons for admission to the bar
sna Is now a full aedged attorney at
Law
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CANE GROWINGIN
FLORIDA AND
LOUISIANA
Comparison Of Methods Employed
and Results in the Two
Sections.

Editor Pensacola journal:
THE Louisiana Planter" of New
Orleans La, which is the official or
gan of all the sugar planters asSOcia-
tions of the United States, in its is
sue of 23d inst, has a most remark
able editorial under the head of
Steam Drainage" which contains so
many facts that are new to your cor
respondent, and which affords such
valuable comparison for us who claim
the gray sand lands of West Florida
as the best sugar cane section of the
United States, that l must ask some Of
your valuable space for quotations,
and some comparisons. The article
is as follows:
Steam Drainage.
To paraphraSe the poet Hood in his
celebrated Song of The Shirt" the
most appropriate refrain of the sugar
planters of Louisiana for a century or
more has been
Ditch. ditch, ditch"
In the most of our lOwlands where
sugar cane has been for several gen.
erations the leading crop grown, drain
age has been the most important and
the most costly part Of it's cultiva-
ton. So far, with the problem Of
profitable irrigation still strangely un-
solved, with the most advantageous
conditions on earth for its economical
solution, fresh rain water has been
about the best friend and stagnant wa
ter or cold seepage the worst foe Of
the cane plant in our sugar region.
1t would simply stagger any profes-
siOnal statistician to learn how many
thousands of miles of canals and
bitches and minor drains our Louisia-
ma sugar planters have dug and are
digging every year to drain from their
fields the excess of a sixty inch annual
rain fall and the levee leakage or seep-
age from the Mississippi river during
the several months of its vernal floods.
In round numbers, with a sixty-inch
annual rainfall, seven thousand tons of
water fall every year on every acre
of the sugar fields of Louisiana; or in
every One-inch rain that falls about
100 tons of water is dropped on every
acre Of a cane field that catches it, or
about five pounds of water on every
square foot of ground:
BY maintaining deep drainage and a
porous absorbent soil in dry weather
this enormous mass of water is made
most effective, and more easily re-
movable in wet weather. In a very
! large proportion of our lands at pres
ent devoted to cane culture no amount
of ditching in the world can draw of
the surplus of water and keep down
the line of soakage to a low enough
level without lowering the natural lev
el artiflcially by means Of great me-
chanical power.
Much more is said in this article
on the question and cost of drainage,
and the best machinery for the great
work, all of which only magnifies the
ideas and figures above quoted.
1t is here stated that the normal
rainfall of the sugar belt of Louisiana
is sixty inches per annum and this
same issue of the Planter shows that.
from all points reported, there is a
damaging droUth at this the and The
cane crop in some parts is given up
as ruined; so that nOtwithstanding
this heavy expense of ditching, there
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Appointed Court Commissioner.

Judge Carter, before leaving the
city, appointed John P. Stokes as a
court commissioner for this county
and he will hear cases during the alb
sence of Judge Carter which are OF
such nature as to demand immediate
hearing. The first case heard by him
was the injunction brought by H. H
Jeanette, through his attorney, Geo
I. Morgan, against H. o. Arson, to re
strain the latter from entering a sui
in Alabama. A temporary injunction
was granted.
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AN OLD SAYING.
Showing How Cause and Effect Ar,
Never Far Removed.


II is an olG saving "Where's there's
honey there's bees"-nOt less true is
cne which science has coined more
recently. where's there's Dandruff
there's germsH-and-tO push the in
ference still further we may truly say
where's there's Dandruf cured
Newbro's Herpicile has been at
work
The reason Of Herpicide's Isolation
AZ a genuine cure for Dandruff lies
in the fact that it attacks and de
strovs the root of the whole trouble
a parasitic germ which feeds upon
the material which nOurishes the hair
fOllicle.
Other sO-called remedies are not d.
rected at this true cause of the dis
ease.
Accept no substitute, there is none
For sale by w. A. D'Alemberte
druggist and apothecary, 121 South
Palsfox street, or send 10c in stamps
for sample to The Herpicide co.. De
tnoit, Mich.
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THE PENSACOLA
BUSINESS COLLEGE

= now Offering special advantages
20 lhose Who desire to take prepara-
,o'! work in the common school
--ahcaes- Students who wish to do
1,,.-nlShed I, work in any of the grades
u ne public schools are requested TO
"a. and see the manager of the col
*. Special rates are afforded for
summer course in bookkeeping and
lhand in both day and evening
SESSIONS, Students enrolling the first
NteA IN July may be able to accept
Pos.lon in early fall.
SEARS & EILIS. Props.
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The Recorders Court.

Recorder Laney disposed of sixteen
cases in the municipal court yester-
day morning. OF this number one
case was continue, one sentence sus-
pended, one defendant turned over
to the county authorities, another
given a Jail sentence Of 80 days and
fines imposed amounting to $40.
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q K WHILE

Matchmaker. Manufacturing Iswelsr, and Graduail
'Optc,sn. so S. Paisfox Street. Pensaco Fla.
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CHURCH ORGANS

We wish to call attention to the
fact that we will supply any church
with a first class organ at the lowest
possible price and on terms that will
make paying for it very easy indeed.
We can furnish both the Vocation and
Farrand Organs, than which no better
church organs are made, especially
the Vocation. Write for price and
terms.
CLUTTER MUSIC HOUSE,
Pensacola, Florida.
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HOWARD RUSSELL,
Adiutant.
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If your stomach troubles you do not
conclude that there is no cure. for a
great many have been permanently
cured by Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets. Try them, they are
certain to prove beneficial. They
only cost a quarter. Sold by all
druggists.
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Bio Catch.

The fishing schooner Lettie G. How
ara of the fleet Of Saunders & Co..
arrived in port Yesterday with catch
of 1000 snappers.
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lope exactly as does the guard on the bowie knife or sword, for countless thrusts that would have slipped up the horn and reached the head were caught with admirable adroltness In this fork.
 And the lnturned, harmless looking points! I had to watch long before I saw how dangerous they might be when the right moment arrived After several minutes of fencing one of the bucks got under his rivals guard, and, making 8 sudden lunge, which the oth- CT failed to catch in the fork he brought his inturned left point to bear on the unprotected throat of his op- ponent, who saved himself from injury by rearing quickly and throwing him. self backward. though it seemed to me that such a move could scarcely have foiled a dangerous throust if they had been fighting a deadly duel.
 l find further that in their fights the wild antelope are usually struck in this way. Mr McFadden tells me that he has seen two bucks badly ripped by rivals horn; one in the throat, the other in the side of the neck close to the throat.-scribner' Magazine.
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LOST MINES.

Among the rich mines worked by the Spaniards was the Tarasca, in Sono- ra, of which Humboldt writes so fas- cinatingly, and Ward and other histo- rians mention favorably. The history of Tarasca is one of evil deeds, of du- plicity, of theft, of greed and all the base passions melted by the love of gold. The mine was worked long be- fore the Spaniards arrived in Mexico and the gold and silver fashioned into ornaments by the aborigines. A fami- ly in Guaymas has a necklace of flying fish purchased from a Pima Indian lchief, who stated that the metal was dug from Tarasca. The mine was worked by various Spaniards, and later, acquired for the Crown of Spain. It was extensively worked, barring cer- ,,tain periods during Apache wars, until the epoch of the French intervention. when the shafts and tunnels are said to have been concealed by the adminis- ftrator, Don Juan Moreno. an Imperial ist, who was forced to seek safety in flight. After the restoration of peace
 etl cloScb WelS AUph6u lOI III NdlH, anu to the present thne no one is certain of its location, though the mine now known as Ubarbo is believed to be the Tarasca. Charbo had been extensively worked when rediscovered years ago, and the shafts and tunnels concealed under earth and brush. Rich pillars of /, ore were found in the drifts, and the mine corresponds with the description
 in the archives of the American consul late at Guaymas
 But the lost mine about which tradi- tion gathers thickest is Talopa, sup posed to be located in the Shahuarina
 district, in Sonora. Little documenta- " evidence exists to prove Talopa's reality, and that has evidently been
 manufactured by interruptions manip-
 ulators. A wealthy Mexican gentle man recently made trip to Madrid,
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and after minute search, at great ex- .pense, found absolutely no date to prove that such a mine was worked for
 the Crown of Spain and no reliable data in the Mexican archives or else where to prove that such mine was
 ever known, But quite as trustworthy as most written documents are the
 traditions gathered from the Pimo In- dians. They stoutly maintain that
 Talopa exists, and a few claim to
 know its locality. Small quantities of very rich ore are occasionally sold at
 the mountain mining camps, and all
 attempts to follow the Indians to the
 spot where it is found or bribe them to
 reveal 1t have failed. Wanting but lit- tie In addition to the corn they grow. they are imbued with superstition that if they reveal the locality of a mine they will instantly drop dead. To one unacquainted with the Indian
 character this statement may seem fn- credible, but any prospector or miner in the Sierra Madre will affirm its truth. Large sums of money have been offered the Pimas to tell where the lost mine is. They score money, and the only open sesame is mescal by the liberal use of which the Indian may
 be made to disclose many things, but
 so far he has held inviolate his vow tt
 reveal to no man the famous Talopa.- Modern Mexico.
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little hope that the black mud and the
 disgusting sights and stenehes would ever give place to anything better.
 %
 The board that had been appointed to repair the streets was considered to
 have an A1lgean task and was the butt nf many facetious remarks. Now the
 broad thoroughfares are fast being converted into handsome avenues. The
 central portion, strip of about seven wards in width. Is being well macadam- ized with the aid of steam rollers.
 This is fanked on each side by shall low drains of brickwork, row of trees
 an unpaved strip of five yards in good repair then a curbed sidewalk of vary ing width, cheaply cemented Wath
 pounded lime and earth. The building line has been straightened, necessta- ting the rebuilding of many shops the rehabilitation of which is in keeping
 with the rest. Long forgotten sewers have been reopened, and places of con-
 venience erected, the use of which IS made compulsory. Innunerable un- slightly sheds which have occupied half the roadway are being removed, for
 ever. it is hoped, and the squatters
 have sought other fields in which to ply their trade. The new roadways
 are guarded by uniformed police in | their sentry hoxes, and kept in order by numerous laborers. Fine telephone
 poles. strung with countless copper
 wires, replace the topsy-turvy line of
 the last few years. The telephone is
 no longer a curiosity, butts fast be- i coming a necessity to progressive busi-
 ness men.-Century Magazine.
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Millennium.

A competent authority on things Chinese states that during the last two years China has made more real ad- vancement than in the previous millen- nium That his judgment is sound is apparent to those who enjoy the ad- vantage point of a residence in Pe- king. It has long been predicted that changes would be surprising in their speed, but the most sanguine had not hoped for what is taking place.
 In passing through Picking streets seem to be the most striking pheno- menon. Three years ago there semed
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Gtty Advertisements.
CITY NoTrcE.
MITTEE ON SEWERS
 SQUARES.

COMMITTEE ON SEWERS AND
 SQUARES.
 The Committee on Sewers and Squares will hold a public hearing Friday, September 14, 1906, at 8 D. m. in Rooms 10 and Il City Hall for the con sideration of the following petitions.N- Petition of Timothy F. Callahan ct als, for sewer in West street, between Washington avenue and Frank street, Petition of John Lowe, ct als for a sewer in Rowe street. between Pine and Chatham streets.
 Petition of Conrad Scholl, ct als for sewer in Gibb street, between Dix we'll and Shelton avenues.
 Petition of William H Crowther, ct als, for a sewer in Hurlburt street, north of Spring street
 Petition of J. Johnson & Sons, ct als, for encouragement of Church street sewer.
 Petition of Michael Ryan. ct aIs. for a sewer in Grafton street between Rowe and Atwater streets.
 Petition of Thomas Brennan, ct als for sewer in Arthur street between LaInberton and Rosette streets
 All persons interested in the forego- ing matters are hereby warned to be present and to be heard thereon without further notice
 Per order.
 r. $. HAMILTON, 1T, Chairman Attest:
 AMBROSE V. BEECHER, sl2 st Assistant City Clerk
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where it had a clear monopoly to make up the reduction in the contested district When the presumptuous an- dependent person had been driven out the price could be restored In the local ity which his precence had disturbed. The same tactice could be used to drive out an independent concern from a To- cality which the Standard desired for it's own And the consumers, in their desire to get the most for their money today and let tomorrow take care of itself worked the will of the Standard with a cheerful unanimity.
 Two and half years ago an inde- pendent oil company entered Spring field. The Standard immediately be- gan to undersell it, and is still doing so. The independent company sells oil in Springfield at S3a cents a gallon, the Standard at cent less. A few miles away in Hartford the Standard is selling at 10ls cents, so the Octopus Is not losing anything. But the wonder ful part of it is that the independent 1 company seems to be fiourishing and going concern, and the people are patronizing it to the exclusion of the standard. In public statement 1t reports that not one of it's customers has been lured away to the Rockefeller bargain counter. These level-headed Yankees have not forgotten that they had to pay 12 cents for oil before the independent company came in nor are they obvious of the fact that if they let 1t go out, the System would punish them for their contumacy by a still higher price. If the people of other communities would follow the example of the people of Springfield the tenta- cies of the Octopus would soon be- come shriveled.-New York Press