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The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-09
First Oranges From Porto Rico.

The Fruit & Produce News reports
that the first oranges from Porto Rico
arrived in New York, on Saturday,
Sept. 26.
There were 40 boxes, and were pack
ed in regular orange boxes and are
said to be very fair fruit, showing that
this years crop is much better than
that of last season.
No prices were quoted, possibly the
fruit had not yet been sold as the
paragraph was written the next day
after the arrival Of the oranges in
New York.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-09
Convicts as Road Builders.

We have advocated the use of all
convicts on road work for two reasons.
We believe that the present system of
leasing convicts leads to a vast amount
of cruelty and oppression. Criminals
should be restrained of their liberty,
but they are still human beings and
entitled to human treatment
Furthermore we believe that this
mode of road making has been proved
to be the most economical which can
be used. An article, which you will
find in our columns this week, gives
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-09
Paspa11m Grass.

On the editorial page Of the Agr1-
cu1turist for September II, we wrote
something about this grass, and on the
third page you will find an article
from the California Cultivator telling
how we'll it did in Australia. In our
editorial we told all that we could find
about the species mentioned, Paspalum
dilatatum
In the Journal of Agriculture, this
week, we found an article about this
grass, or at least the same name.
But the editor says that he got seed
from Australia and the person who
sent it to him said: Paspa1um is an
other name for millet, of which there
are 262 known species. Paspalum
scorbiculatum, or pltted mlllet, per-
haps better understood as dented mil
let, is used for food in India. He goes
on to mention some other kinds Of
millet but they do not concern us at
the present time. Since reading the
article we have been looking up the
different species Of Paspalum, at the
former writing we merely looked for
the one species, P. dilatatt1m. We
find that P. scorbicu1atum is largely
cultivated in India for the grain it
furnishes, but we do not find it called
millet Opinions seem to differ as to
It's value, for forage But as the speci-
hc name, dilatatum was given we
need not be concerned about that All
accounts agree that this species is a
native of the Southern states, and is a
desirable grass. Therefore it is de-
sirable that it should be tested in this
state.
Perhaps it may be we'll to add that
while the variety mentioned is called
by Prof. Shaw, Large water grass" ;"
and is a native of low, moist land,
yet Baron Won Mueller describes an
other species, "P distichum, the Silt
grass Cultivated from India to
Southeastern Australia A creeping
swamp grass, forming extensive cush-
ions. It keeps beautifully green
throughout the year, affords a sufi-
ciently tender blade for feed, and is
exquisitely adapted to cover silt or
bare slopes on banks of ponds or
rivers, where it grows grand1y; moder-
ate submersion does not destroy it,
but frost injuries it; it thrives we'll on
salt Marshes There are lands in
South Florida which would no doubt
be better adapted to this variety than
the other
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New Crop Pineapp1es.

A few crates of the new crop OF
Florida pineapples have been received
in New York and sold at prices rang
ing from S.. to So. per crate.
It is said that the season is not yet
sufficiently advanced to determine what
the range of prices is likely to be
when shipments arrive more freely.
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-09
Fungi and the White Fly.

Editor Florida Agricu1turist:
[ read in the ST. Petersburg indie
pendent, about Mr.. Geo. Mears killing
the white fly by spraying with gold
dust (washing powder). Have also
read it in your paper of the 4th inst,
and your comments on the same.
There is no doubt but Mr.. Mears, Mr..
Potter and others thought they had
found something that is sure remedy
The Florida agriculturist., 1907-10-09

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trap, but Iron Tail disproves the
claim of an Indian ambush. New
York World.

Leathersville, Ga, June %, 1907.
Hon. T. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga.
Dear Sir: I find from the label
that my Jeffersonian has not been
moved up from Jan. 27, 1907, to
Jan. 81, 1908.
If you remember, five or six
weeks ago, / met you on the street
In Thomson and gave you 81 on my
subscription. write this TO remind
you, thinking that you failed to get
my address, not charging you with
any carelessness in the matter. But,
knowing you have so much on your
mind, you failed to make note of
it.
want to say to you, in this co.,
nection, have been a strong friend
and supporter of you, from the time
you made your first speech in Lin
coin county at Wheat s old camp
ground, denouncing the Jute Bag
ging Trust, along with other things.
And also down through popuism I
have always supported you, stood by
and sympathized with you in all of
your disappointments and hardships
that you have undergone.
And [ expect to stand by and
help you in my feeble way as long
as you continue to represent these
grand principles that you have been
fighting for these many years, and
for which you will some day reap
your reward.
May the good Lord guide you in
your work.
My wife has been lifelong friend
OF yours, also. You may have for
gotten her, as you have not seen her
to know her in long time. She was
Miss Sudie Steed, daughter of Iren-
eus E. Steed. She often speaks of
you, in attending school at Thorn
son, Ca, when her cousins Leek
and Tom Steed taught there. We
have several of your pictures that
she cut from papers and magazines
and some as good as I have ever
seen Of you.
l just write this to remind you Of
some of the by-gone days. No more
for this time.
Most respectfully your friend,
JOHN T. BENTLEY.
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JOIN IN three days on the Yellow
stone at the junction Of the Big
Horn.
On that fateful Sunday morning
Custer, who had struck and followed
the main trail of the Indians, saw
an Indian village over the Little Big
Horn. He sent Major Reno with six
troops to cross the river below the
village. He left Capt. Benteen with
one troop to guard the pack train
and with five troops started across
country to strike the village at the
upper end. The attack of the two
commands was to have been mad
simultaneously, which Custer expect
ed would stampede the Sioux.
Major Reno crossed the river as
directed, ran into pore Indians than
he had ever seen before and at once
retreated to the other bank, where,
on high hill, he entrenched his
command.
OuSC6T LdSI SCanQ.
Meanwhile Custer surprised the
village and started the stampede.
The Indians did not know which way
to turn. They fed in terror, but
soon were brought into action by
Gaul, who made them circle the
handful Of men with Custer. 1t was
not long before the soldiers horses
stampeded or were killed to be used
as breastworks for the men fighting
valiantly and waiting momentarily
for Reno to attack from the other
side-waiting for an attack that nev-
er came, waiting for assistance that
was needed and never given. One
by one the little command fell be-
fore the merciless fire of the hordes
of fiends before them. At last, am
munition gone, hand-to-hand combat
resulted, the soldiers killing many
Indians with their sabres. The COM
mand sold their lives dearly and at
such terrific cost to the Indians that
after the battle the squaws and chill
dren horribly mutilated each body,
except that Of Custer, the last to
fall, the bravest Indian fighter Of
them all.
The battlefield is today laid out
and marked by stones. Each stone
bears the wording:
GA u. S. soldier died here. !"
On the four sides Of a mammoth
shaft are cut the names of all the
officers and men who fell-262 VIC
TINS Of more than 5000 Sioux.
The stones indicate the perfect
discipline maintained in the face of
terrific odds. Each Of the FIVE troops
is distinctively marked, each man
almost in skirmish formation. The
shaft stands on the spot where Gus
ter fell, surrounded by the remnants
who made the "Last STAN" 1T was
a heap Of soldiers surrounded by a
fringe of Sioux, victims of soldiers
selling their lives dearly. Near the
high ground and not far from where
the monolith- is erected, the body of
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-16
Spent Yesterday at Quaran-
tine Station and Will
Leave To-Day.
HAVE VISITED FERNANDINA, CAR
RABELLE AND APALACHICOLA
REPORT HEALTH CONDITIONS
OF STATE AS BEING GOOD.

DR.. Joseph Y Porter, state health
officer, and in charge of the Marine
Hospital Service in Florida, and DR..
Hiram Byrd, assistant state health Of
f1cer, were among the visitors to Pen
sacola yesterday, coming on official
business. They will depart this morn
ing, DR.. Byrd stopping at Jacksonville,
where he has charge of the headquar-
tiers of the State Board of Health, and
DR.. Porter going on to Key West.
On Inspection Trip.
When seen at the Merchants Hotel
yesterday Drs. Porter and Byrd stated
that their visit was that of inspec-
ton of the Santa Rosa quarantine sta
ton, which they visited yesterday,
and found to be in good condition,
with many of the buildings destroyed
last September again in good condi-
ton. They returned to the city late
yesterday afternoon.
Before coming to Pensacola they Wis
tied Fernandina, Apalachicola and
Carrabelle, where they found the quar-
antine service good.
General Conditions Good.
They reported the health conditions
of Florida as being good. The prevail
ing disease, said Dr. Porter, is ty-
phoid fever, which also prevails to a
large extent in all other states
The state board, said DR.. Byrd, is
now treating very successfully chill
dren who are suffering from the I'm
cinaria, a small worm, which exists
in the intestinal canal of some chill,
dren. 1t was not until a few years
since that this discovery was made,
children who formerly appeared to be
suffering from malaria, and who had
sallow compilations, being treated for
malaria.
1t is the uncinaria, said DR. Byrd.
that gives the children, especially
those residing in the 1owlands. the
sallow complexion, and causes stunt
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-16

FOR CITY HALL
Five Thousand Dollars to
Be Expended For This
Purpose Soon.

A committee composed of Mayor
Goodman, and Messrs. Forbes, Walker
and ThieSen, of the Board of Public
Works, has been named to select the
furniture for the new city hall, and it
is probable that within a few days
this committee will meet and begin
the work of selecting the furniture.
1t is the intention to fit out the
new city hall with handsome and mod
ern furniture and fixtures, and in or
der to defray the expense the sum or
$4,000 has been appropriated for this
purpose. This amount, it is believed,
will be sufficient not only to furnish
each of the many OL-ces with neat
desks, chairs, cabinets, etc, but also
to furnish the large council chamber
in a neat manner
The Board of Works named three
of its members as a committee to Sc
lect the furniture, and the council at
its meeting Of Wednesday night added
Mayor Goodman to the committee.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-16

follow the regular 1 o'clock passenger
train out Of the city every afternoon,
both passing the train going in the
opposite direction at Palmetto Beach
The regular train yesterday was in
charge of Motorman John Maloney
and Conductor A. W. Bfllingim and
passed the train, which was laetr
wrecked, on the turnout as usual.
The freight train left this city with
five cars, dropping three at Brent's
station, and was several minutes be-
hind the passenger train, but the crew
expected to meet the Pensacola bound
train at Palmetto Beach as usual. The
exact misunderstanding of orders was
not clear last night, but will be
brought out in the investigation this
morning.
The freight car which figured in the
wreck was oVerhauIed during the
night and needed repairs made. 1t
was not badly damaged. The entire
end of the passenger car was ruined,
and will necessitate its removal to the
shops for repairs.
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and the brothers and cousins of this
| Theodore The big boy and the small
er boys get into a boat and row miles
| and miles away to some quiet haven
| where they put up tent and camp out
| overnight Theodore senior likes tC
| bury some CLAIMS in the sand and build
fire over them for a clambake- He is
| one of the boys. He is Peter Pan, who
| never grew up. or course in his other
| identity he is president of the United
| States, but he forgets it. Such a SOL
| emn responsibility as that is a good
thing to forget every little while.
| A Vigorous Swimmer.
| At the outlet of Owl creek, close to
| the Roosevelt home, is a bathing beach.
Mr.. Roosevelt is not such a beach fiend
as the boy who recently loafed twelve
| hours in the hot sunshine in his bathing
fsuit and lost large sections of his skin,
but he likes to swim. Frequently he
| finds an hours leisure before luncheon,
after working at his official duties.
Lets all have a SWIM suggests pater-
familias Down to the beach trips the
Roosevelt tribe. carrying towels. In
they go, and the father of the family
swims vigorously, varying his stroke
to get the benefit Of muscle exercise.
A Fearless Rider.
Three saddle horses in the OYSTER
Bay stables give Mr.. Roosevelt variety
of thrills in horseback exercise One
of the animals is a specialist in Jump
ing stone walls and rail fences. Mr.
Roosevelt is something of a specialist
in sitting horse at that exercise and
during the summer he samples many
Of the fences in his neighborhood. The
other horses he uses for riding along
the shady country roads and the sunny
stretches of Long Island scenery where
trees are scarce Only a few days ago
he rode along a road where a laborer
was digging a trench. Everybody
around Oyster Bay is supposed to know
Mr. Roosevelt, who makes a habit of
bowling or speaking a word in greet
ing when he passes by anybody The
president was wearing a panama hat.
probably out of compliment to a GER
tain important ditch. He lifted his pam
anna and smiled affably at the trench
digger, who regarded him with a STONY
stare. The president of the United
States passed on. The man in the
ditch turned to a bystander and asked
disgustedly. who's that fresh guy?"
The ditch digger of course was
stranger in those parts and likewise
q stranger to the fact that there are
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-16

for the purpose of securing the
Standards foreign business.
High monopoly prices have been
maintained in non-competing terri
tory in order to make good losses SUI
fered where there was competition.
The oil trust has raised prices, in
stead of lowering them; it has peck
eted all the advantages of it's econo-
mics, instead of sharing them with the
public.
American consumers of oil paid 4
Genus a gallon more than the Standard
sold it for in Germany; % cents more
than in Great Britain; 1.9 cents more
than in Belgium; 1 cent more than
in the Netherlands, and 2.8 cents
more than in the Orient.
The Standard is powerful enough,
by reason of its enormous shipments
of petroleum products, to induce most
of the railroads to pay excessive
prices for lubricating oil, even when
such roads know with certainty that
they can get oils of equal quality for
very much less.
The prices railroads were compelled
to pay for lubricating oils varied
widely. The Pennsylvania Railroad,
for instance, got it's oils for about one
half what many other roads were re-
CURED to pay.
Whatever view may be taken as
to the advantage of a. great combi-
nation in furthering the export trade,
it is entirely clear that the advan-
tages derived by the American peo-
pie from that trade are very small,
as compared with the disadvantages
imposed upon them by the Standards
monopoly at home. American consul
mers might, for the sake of maintain
ing large foreign trade and thereby
benefiting American industry, be will
ing temporarily to pay prices little
higher than are charged for the same
product abroad That American con-
sumers, however, should be compelled
to pay prices so high that. when an
immense quantity of oil is sold by
the Standard in foreign countries on
the basis of little or no profit, the
total profit on domestic and foreign
business combined should be so to so
per cent. on its capital. is an obvious
injustice. - From Herbert Knox
Smiths Report to the President
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-16
NO INCREASE
FOR OFFICERS
Finance Committee CouId
Not Grant Request of
the Safety Board.

The police officers of the cit, 49,.
not receive the anticipated incress' " =
salaries prior to the ending of -
fiscal year, as requested by the Rs
of Public Safety.
The finance committee of the Cor.
Gil, to whom was referred the reoUa-'
of the Safety Board, has renor,a:
adversely upon the proposition srs'
ing that all of the money allowed =.
department would be necessarv -
make up the deficit in the stationo,o
and incidental funds of the dens-r
ment, for which the board had "a
quested a special appropriation.
The Safety Board, at a recent nss,.
ing, found that the force had hasr
short of men for a number of montba
and that on this account there, bgS
accumulated considerable monav
from salaries. The members desfrs5
to use this money in increasing tba
salaries of the officers to the end Of
the fiscal year.
1t is very probable that there will
be an increase in salaries when the
budget for the coming year is prs.
pared, as the salaries are now very
low, and it is the desire to give them
an increase if possible.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-16
NEW ELECTRIC
CARS ARE HERE
Two Arrive and Four Have
Been Shipped by the
Manufacturers.

Two more electric cars have ar
rived for the Pensacola Electric Com
pany, while four are en- route here,
having been shipped by the manufac-
turers in Philadelphia.
The two cars which have reached
here are open ones, and are being
placed in readiness for use at the car
sheds on DeVillier streets. One of
them will be ready for service today,
and will be placed on one of the city
lines, taking the place of one of the
closed cars now in use. AS soon as
the other can be fitted out it will be
placed in use.
1t is expected that within ten days
the other four cars will arrive here.
Two of them are open ones and the
remaining two closed cars. With
their arrival it will give the company
sufficient open or summer cars to
take the places of all of the closed
cars now being operated. The two
additional closed cars are to be held
until the winter season, when they
will be needed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-16

pitchrorf and forked hay up to Ed
ward Maloney of the village, who
spread. it on the wagon. When the
wagon was loaded Maloney rode and
Roosevelt walked to the barn. Then
with his pitchfork, while Maloney
forked the hay through the window
and Roosevelt crammed it back in the
loft If you ever worked at haying
you are we'll aware that Roosevelt
chose the hardest and hottest job when
he elected to do the inside work Ma
loney says Roosevelt had on a white
negligee shirt and adds:
Before the first load was done you
wouldn't have given 80 cents for that
white shirt, and, talk about sweat
drops like peas, the president had them
as big as black walnuts dropping from
his face, and he didn't stop to wipe
them or either. but kept right on pitch
ing up forkfuls so big that he had to
get under them and shove them UP to
me- Then when he climbed up into the
loft and took the hay from the fork
and slowed it away more big drops
fell from him in streams"
No mollycoddle could do that kind OF
work MI Roosevelt can do IL be-
cause he has been in lifelong training
for it. 1t is play for him.
"Oh, Woodman, Spare That Tree!"
There are many trees on the seventy
acres of Roosevelt land near Oyster
Bay. In the big house on Sycamore
Hin there are three hreplaGes. Those
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-16

f1replaces require wood in winter Be-
fore he was president Mr.. Roosevelt
always spent several weeks in winter
the fine roads and to tramp over the
hills on snowshoes. When he gets back
to Sycamore Hill for the winter time
he will have enough firewood on hand
to last several seasons, for nearly every
morning now he picks up an ak, goes
out into the woods and chops down a
tree. The mornings when he doesn't
chop a tree down he chops one up. He
strips the branches from the tree he
felled the day before and cuts the
trunk and larger limbs into fireplace
lengths. Thus he enjoys both the poet
ry and the prose of a roaring fire on
the hearth.
Sometimes He's Peter Pan.
Mr.. Roosevelt hears and heeds the
call or the wild every now and then.
Perhaps it is a call of the boy to the
man, for he likes to go and camp out
just as all boys do. Boys sometimes
play hockey from school and retreat to
some sequesteref nook where they can
build fire, cook sneaked food in to-
mato cans and be free for a time. The
president of the United States is al
ways under guard Uncle Sans secret
service men surround him, even at
sycamore Hill But a boy named
Theodore Roosevelt, Sr-, sometimes
manages to play hockey He eIudes
the guards and goes out with another
boy named Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-08-16
THE FOUNDERS AND
EAST ENDS TO PLAY

The feature of the big picnic today
at Magnolia Bluffs is to be the base
ball game between the FOUNDERS and
the East Ends. Both teams have been
playing fine ball in the city league
and the rivalry is intense, and will
be made all the more so by the prizes
offered for the best work done this
afternoon. The game is to start az
soon as possible upon the arrival Of
the 8 o'clock train.
The following we'll known ball play.
ers are to compose the lineup which
the Founders will present to battle
against their arrivals: Ferris. catch +:
Johnson, pitch; Ramey, first base: B.
Bell, second base; R. Bell. third
base; Roach, shortstop; Bowen, Van
Metre and Durant, left, center and
right field, respectively