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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-08-30

There was a knock at the door. A
waiter opened 1t and Sir William
Couldesbrough came into the room
CHAPTER TX
Gratitude Of Mics Marjorie Pooto.
Az the III to whom she had been
engaged came into the room, Marjorie
rose to meet him.
She was not embarrassed; the
hour and occasion were too serious for
that, and she herself was too brok-
a down for any emotions save those
that were intensely real and came
from IN anguished heart.
She went up to him, IN pale and
Dropping, and took him by the hand.
Thank you, William" she said. in
. low voice, and that was all
But in her words Gouldesbrough re-
allied all that she was powerless to
ny. He heard. with an inward thrill
and leap Of the pulses, an immense re-
spect for him. which. even in the days
Of their engagement, he had never
heard.
Always Marjorie had reverenced
his attainments: never had she SEEM
cd to be SO near to him as q man as
now.
He looked straight into her eyes, nor
did his own finch from her direct and
agonized gaze. The frightful power
Of his domineering will, the horrible
strength Of his desire, the intensity Of
his purpose, enabled him to face her
look without q sign Of tremor.
He-this man with q marvellous in
tellect and = soul unutterably stained
By the most merciless perady-was
~ able to look back at her with q
kind, sorrowful. and touching glance.
Sir william Gouldesbrough wore no
metal helmet which should make the
horror Of his thoughts and knowledge
plain for Marjorie to see. The man
VINO had committed . crime "a foul
md sinister as ever crime was yet:
Ne man who was responsible for the
pale face Of the girl no loved, the
dropping form. the fearful eyes. yet
smiled back ct her with q mask Of pa
tsnt resignation, defiance and chiv-
airy.
Il I'm 90 glad you've come, Will
3am," Lady Poole said. And I'm
sure. distressing ~ Ill these circum-
stances are. We cannot thank you
snough for what you have done and
: doing. No n else In your posi-
ton would have done SO much. And on
Nar5orie's behalf and on my own I
thank you with a full heart"
Sir william bowed.
Then Lady Poole, voluble a. she
Usually was. and unabashed In almost
overy circumstance, hesitated . little.
The situation was certainly very deli
cate. almost unparalleled, indeed, and
q was certainly quite outside even her
wide experience. But her voice had q
genuine ring Of thankfulnsss and
gratitude, and the real woman emery
"a from the veneer Of worldliness and
banned ambition.
There was q pause for . moment:
10 one Of the three spoke . single
word. Then Lady Poole. BY an intu-
ltion, said and did exactly the right
tAing-perhaps old Sir Frederick,s
hobby Of tact" had not been without
- = after all! She sank into .
ahnfr
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-08-30

II you make your mind . cesspool
your life certainly will have IN evident
III odor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
The Inconsistency and Inehciency
Of the Regulation Ordinance.


that
which really
matter inefficient than the old
a.
weeks will fail accomplish the objects
fessed We refer the
Does imagine $4,000 license will
inc o
a
West Hill Immunity a
which the friends of $4,000 license
will
The Journal also connded for O'Clock Saturday night closing but
permitted become a the Regulation
condition
is
infamy
respectable and lite children.
The Saloon Regulation idea originated with
AniSaloon
Enthusiastically
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
WHAT STRONG DRINK
FREQUENTLY LEADS TO

Gaskin, Fla, Sept %. 2
Editor, Pensacola Journal:
Let me add few lines TO the cen
sure Of Whiskey for the benefit OF
our country, as well as for those who
drink strong drink.
A man that drinks whiskey viii, tell
you that there is no harm in a dram
lit only costs 5 cents-and on he
goes, cents at a, time. If that was
all, his bill would be small.
He who drinks gets a-going, and
can't stop So on he goes with his
same old word, only cents a drink.
and it's my money and no ones bust.
ness" Yes, it is his money, and his
family, who need it, get nothing.
He still goes On with his drinking.
His son soon takes up the same old
habit. They go on together with their
drinking. They get drunk, soon spend
all of their money paying policemen.
lawyers and other officers.
This don't satisfy them yet.
They borrow some money. They
want to gamble awhile, SO they play
a few games Their money is gone,
One of them flies into passion, shoots
the other man, and the other man
shoots him. The father sees his son s
life ebbing away, and kills the other
man. Two of them I'LL drunkards'
graves, the other one lies in a cell,
his debts too heavy to pay, his doom
no one able to tell.
only 5 cents drink, SO you easily
can tell
1t leads their families to starvation,
grief and great vexation. 1t also leads
their souls to that awful fire that
never ends.
Pay good heed, all you who read
and bear in mind all you who drink,
a fiery furnace you're sure to find.
For the benefit of your family and
the respect you have to your coun
try, lay aside that awful fire that
leads to destruction.
Yours respectfully,
NEAL McGILL
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
Mr.. PoRTER's PLACE
OF EMPLOYMENT.

Editor, Pensacola Journal:
We met in open, honorable contest
upon the forensic arena. Neither low
cred his arm to strike below the belt.
nor paused to inquire from whence
the other came. Each had adopted
Pensacola as his home. each. presumed
the other to be a gentleman in the
absence of any reason to presume 9TH
erwise. Neither sought to inquire
where the other was at present en-
ployed, nor where the first work was
done by either in his adopted line. We
met In a discussion Of the question Of
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
VOX POPULI

Prohibition, and to that question
alone We addressed ourselves Each
delivered his thrust, in an open, man
~ way, and thought each retired en-
joying the respect of the other.
To the gratuity in this mornings
editorials, reply that l am now, and
for the last three years have been
in the employ of The Lewis Bear Co
mot only "one of the largest whole
sale liquor houses in Pensacola" but
the largest wholesale grocery, grain
and feed dealers, with the largest and
best equipped warehouses in the state.
inLo which no liquors have yet been
stored. The Liquor Business of this
progressive firm, while large. forms
but a small portion of the volume of
their mammoth transactions. They re-
spond with as much hberaiity to char
ity's call as any of those high priests
of Prohibition, whose sweetness, If
placed on the market, would bust the
sugar trust" This firm, of which any
city in any section of the country
might well be proud, can point with
pardonable pride to more enduring
monuments to their civic pride and
progressive spirit than hosts of those
who decry them. There are others
beside the humble writer who are en-
ployes of this firm and who are prom
inently identified with the Prohibi-
ton hallucination, but l guess their
alignment protects them from Shiny
innuendo.
My views upon the Prohibition ques-
ton were fully formed and unalter-
ably fixed before ever saw Pensa-
cola, and were as unknown to my en-
ployers prior to the. publication of my
first communication In The Journal
as to the editor of The Journal him
self Paradoxical as it may seem
to some, yet it is a: fact, that / can
openly advocate my own convictions
untrammeled by the dictation or be-
hest of any soul living. Had this ar
ticle you returned to me as exceed
ing the limit allotted, been published,
possibly my position would not have
been construed to mean that because
] refused to enlist under the banner
of Prohibition, whose crimson folds
are bathed in the blood of crucified
God, advocated the operation of UNI
restrained hell holes, which are
whitening blight to the escutcheon OF
common decency. Possibly, too, the
bewhiskered sage OF Grand Ridge
would not have been so hasty in pour
ing oil on the troubled waters of his
Immaculate conscience by disclaiming
relationship which was never ex-
pressed or implied. and only existed
in his frenzied Imagination.
AS you have evinced such a spirit
of fairness throughout this campaign,
would it be asking too much. as mat
ter of fairness to me, to publish the
article referred to? 1t exceeds the
500 limit, but is not as lengthy as the
enc from Grand Ridge.
C. u. PORTER.
OF Mr.. Porter will send in the let
ter which he himself requested TO have
returned before the editor had even
read it, 1t will be cheerfully published.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

relative to the Prohibition question.
We must go back TO first principles.
We must defend the right of the ma
jority to rule If the people of Es-
Gambia county wan. Wet comfy they
have q right to have it. II they want
Dry county they have the same
right
This is a business matter and We
must look at it from a business sranu-
point. The greatest good to the great
est number OF people must be had in
mind. Those opposed to Prohibition
object to mixing religious argument
with secular matters, so we will con-
fine our remarks entirely TO the busi-
ness side of the question. Liquor deal
ers look at it from a business point.
They reason that so long as the peo-
pie want liquor sold and they pay
their license, they may as well sell
it as any other person, for If they do
not sell, some other person will and
In this way the blame is thrown on
the people where it really belongs. If
the people get what they vote for who
can complain? 1t will be useless TO
say mean things about the saloon
keeper.
The question isis the saloon nee
essary from a business point of view?
Is any advantage derived from the
use OF intoxicating liquors.? There
has been no argument produced to
show that there Is. The writer once
read an essay on the subject Of the
use and abuse of alcoholic liquors
written by one of the most prominent
physicians Of England, TOR which
prize of twenty-one gnineas was paid
by Prince Albert, Prince Consort Of
Queen Victoria, and awarded by
committee of leading physicians OF
the British Empire. This essay went
to show that they were of no essen
tial benefit as beverage and very
little use as medicine, and that other
things would answer the same purpose
as a medicine.
II the money that is paid for liquor
Is not wasted, why not? Can any man
who contributed toward the million
dollar drink fund of the past year
show single dollars worth for all
the money he paid? He can not and
the whole million dollars is a dead
loss.
The fact that some of the money
was afterwards invested in the city
has nothing whatever to do in case.
The men who paid the money for the
liquor have nothing TO show for it.
This amount of money would furnish
lumber for near.y three hundred miles
of plank sidewalk, or 1t would furnish
clay for every street in the city, or 1t
would furnish capital for the fo"owing
manufacturing plants: A $4,000 tan
merry. a $4,000 shoe factory, So 900
cracker and candy factory, a 5000
furniture factory, $4,000 cotton fac.
tory, $4,000 WOODEN factory, a $50
600 glass factory. a $4,000 factory for
cutlery and edge tools, $50, 900 wagon
factory. $40. 900 canning factory, a
500, 900 water works plant. a $50. 900
knitting works. $54 900 factory for
making farm implements. and then
have the other half million 20 buy raw
material TO stock up these factories
with. This would bring a thousand
skilled workmen TO the city, and with
their families FIVE thousand more OF
a population. Would this ruin the
city?
j. W. SINDORF
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
AN INSTANCE OF
"WET" MENDAciTX
PensacoIa, Fla; sept. Is, Is

Pensacola, Fla: Sept. s25, 1907.
Editor, Pensacola Journal:
Referring to statement that is
said to have been circulated to the
effect that in case the county should
go dry, all fish business would be at
once removed from Pensacola to some
other port, would state that so far
as I am advised, there is no inten-
ton to take any such step. The fact
that l am well known to favor the
Prohibition cause should be proof that
l have no such fear or expectation.
Yours very truly,
A. F. WARREN.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
Nothing to the Argument.

There is nothing to the argument
being used by 1.-THE whiskey men to the
effect that prohibition will not pro-
hibit. You might as well argue that
the law against killing does not pro-
rying concealed weapons prohibit the
carrying of them. We all know that
there is no law that entirely prohibits
crime, but law decreases it to great
extent. And SO will prohibition de-
crease the saleaof whiskeysto a mini
mum.-Sylacauga Advance.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
PROHIBITION
LEAGUE MEETING

The Woman's League is continuing
its daily meetings at Armory hall, as
semblying every day at 2:S0 p. m. All
ladies' and children in the city who
are interested in the abolition of the
Saloon are invited to be present to
assist in the good work of organiza-
ton.
Tomorrow. Friday. is a day of fast
ing and prayer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

The fnanciers of Wall street have
lately been talking in favor of a slow
ing down of business, to allow the
money supply to catch up with the
business of the country, and now E.
n. Gary, of the Steel corporation, de-
clares that the slowing down has al
ready occurred, accomplished its pur-
pose, and business is now ready to
boom again. That is the right kind
of talk and probably is pretty close to
the truth.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

There is to be a general observance
by the Germans of the United States
of German Day on O ,tober 6. in com
memoration OF the settlement of the
first German colony in this country in
1888. The German residents of Pen
sacola should take steps 10 see that
the event is properly observed in this
section. There are several German
steamships due in port within the
next two weeks and the crews of these
ships would doubtless enjoy partici.
patton in any celebration which
might be arranged.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

1t is reported that nothing important
viii take place at The. Hague confer
ence until next week The record of
The Hague conferences SO far causes
it to be looked upon chiefly as a time
and space killer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

Do yon notice that when we are
all talking prosperity and hustling for
prosperity, we have it, have it as
never before? When We get tired of
prosperity and begun TO quarrel with
each other prosperity haIts and hest
tates. The truth is illustrated that
men get what they. seek. When we
seek prosperity unitedly we get it and
when we seek discord We get it.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

next annual report, because the Amer
lean people ought to have cheap ser
vice of that kind as well as the in
habitants of European countries, and
also because the government will lose
no money by such an enterprise. If
there were parcels post, perhaps no
express company could make a 200
per cent stock dividend, but that
would be no national calamity.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

me autumn season, which is usual
Iy the dullest in transatlantic voyae-
ing, promises to be made most excit-
ing through the international speed
races. The 1usitania has established
the English record, almost vanquish-
Ing the Deutschland, but the, latter
boat is now making a speed voyage.
attempting to still lower the record.
and keep speed supremacy with Ger.
many, while La Provence will start,
early IN October, on a french dash for
New York. Cup challengers would
not be in it with these ocean grey.
hounds.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
Time to Push II.

Some of our readers may think our
miscellaneous matter is too largely in
terlarded with prohibition cuttings We
do not think SO. Inls Is the time to
push the campaign of education on this
point while the minds of the people
are awake on the subject. Besides, all
the papers, daily and weekly, are so
full of the subject that it would be
difficult to keep from clipping a lib
eral proportion of temperance matter.
Roanoke Leader
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

The citizens of any prosperous
town are always public-spirited and
united Stand together, work for the
interest of the whole town. Always
stand ready to do your part Don't
grumble and spend your time in
prophesying failures, but help to make
every enterprise a success. be it great
pr small. Be energetic and enterpris-
ing and your example will be imi
tated.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

Chicago's City Beautiful campaign
ers say wonderful revolution" is to
be worked in the appearance of Chi
cago. And that is exactly what is
needed If the idea is to make Porkopo-
lis look as if she has been in the
hands of beauty doctor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

Another Alabama county has gone
dry. Pickens county voting for Pro
hibittOn at Tuesdays election by an
immense majority.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
Wish Glorious Victory.

The editor of The Sun ever since
he reached his majority or even be-
fore mas stood for, talked and worked
for prohibition, we have always stood
with the dry ranks, and now we re-
joice to see the prohibition sentiment
gaining such sway throughout Flor
ida We are heartily in sympathy with
the prohibition movement in Escam-
bia, Putnam, Orange and other coun-
ties and hope to see the ''drys" win
a glorious victory.-Lakeland Sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

lowing to the pressure on the vox
Popuii column during the present cam
paign. The Journal Is compelled to re-
fuse p, bIieation to communications ex-
cecding 500 words in lengthy
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

The wet" or dry" election in Mon
roe county is an assured thing, the
necessary % per cent of the voters
having signed the petition for it. 1t
viii come on the same day as that in
this county, October 1st
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
Arauments Are convineina.

The prohibition campaign in Pensa-
cola has developed some of the best
literature in that cause we have ever
read. Editor Mayes, of The Journal,
has published over his own signature
some of the ablest, COOL calm and reas-
enable, as well as convincing, argu-
ments we have ever read. His posi-
ton in the campaign is an exhibition
of real moral heroism, or courageous
and conscientious conviction and devo-
ton to duty that is inspiring Such a
man in such a cause is host IN him.
self, and fortunate for the cause of
man and morality that Frank Mayes
is what he is and where he is
Holmes County Advertiser.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
A Plain Question.

The issue is drawn. 1t is neces-
sary to line up. If you are helping to
perpetuate the sale of liquor in Syour
county, how can you say hereafter
that you have always been on the side
of temperance and law and order? II
you claim it, will not your advocacy
of, the sale of liquor refute the claim?
-Northport Breeze.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
Everything Clean Here.

-VGt yIIIIIIB NINaN EISSCs
Dirty politics is said to have been
resorted to by the liquor interests in
Birmingham. We are pleased to note
that nothing of the kind has been done
in Pensacola; though both sides are
working hard in the hottest kind of a
campaign, everything Is being done in
a clean legitimate way. Well, Pensa-
cola is in West Florida.-Chipley Yer
dict
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

Pensacola youngsters are beginning
to experience that queer feeling
which always develops when a new
school years is about to commence.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
THE GREAT WAVE
OF PROHIBITION
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have tried the high license and segre-
CATION plans in Admission, and yet the
people are not satisfied. Last jan
uary, the $1,000 license went into ef-
feet All saloons are located in
certain business district, and they are
required to close at 10 O'Clock p. M
But the people want liquor banished,
and you can rest assured that prohi-
bition is going to sweep Calhoun coun-
ty.-Birmingham News.
The Prohibition wave
Up in Birmingham the forces are
preparing Ior a grand battle. The pro-
hibition;sts and ants have girded up
their loins for fight to the finish.
The Birmingham News, prohibitions
list organ, says the whiskey men act
ing under advice from Toreign whiskey
houses mean to enjoin Judge Greene
from calling the election to say wheth-
er Jefferson county shall or shall not
sell whiskey, and the papers say the
prohibition people are prepared for
this by an arrangement whereby the
extra session of the legislature is
called to incorporate in the call a bill
calling for state prohibition. Both
sides are claiming the victory, and
time alone can tell who is right
Demopolis Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

Money is close" says a financier.
Still it isn't close enough for very
many Of us to reach.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

The baseball season has about end
ed and the football player is letting
his hair grow.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
The Fight Is On.

Inc FISnL Us 0ns -
The prohibition fight is on in Es-
Gambia county in earnest Editor
Mayes of the Pensacola Journal has
espoused the cause of prohibition, and
is attracting the attention of the whole
state by his unanswerable arguments.
Winter Garden Ricochet.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
Can Remove Temptation.

Can Remove Temptation.
Those who have argued in favor of
prohibition have always maintained
that they did SO through the unselflsh
motive of helping the man>who could
not resist the temptation to drink.
and they have declined to urge reas-
on equally potent-that the drunkard
who staggers about the street is a
worry, an annoyance and a nuisance
to his friends and the public gener-
ally, and that public nuisance should
be abated. The advocates of prohib-
ition do not hope to legislate religion
and morals into men. 1t cannot be
done, but when undue Influences are
removed, when temptation no longer
stands on every side and smilingly in
vites one to yield, there are many
young men whose habits have not
been formed who will lead lives of
soberness and responsibility who 9TH
erwise might become vagabonds.-Col-
umbus Ledger.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26

Postmaster General Meyer is going
to recommend the parcels post in his
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
WHY SHOULD NOT THE
LADIES GO TO THE POLLS7

Editor, Pensacola Journal:
] have no doubt the Liquor Dealer
would be glad to keep the women and
children away from the coils on Oct.
1. But we will be there, and be
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
A Pertinent Inquiry.

If prohibition does not decrease the
use and sale of whiskey, why is it that
the wholesale whiskey dealers of Gin
cinnati and other places are spending
large amounts of money in distribut-
ing printed matter throughout the
country against the success of pro-
hibition ?-Talladega Mountain Home.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-09-26
What whiskey Does.

What Whiskey Does.
Stays more than war, pestiience and
famine combined. Kills 100000 every
year Makes 100000 paupers every
year. Makes $4,000 criminals every
year. Makes 10000 idiots every year.
For every dollar the government re-
ceives as license from liquor interests,
it cost the government $3.50 to care
for these paupers, criminals and idiots
and bury the drunkards. 1t pays less
in wages and less to the farmers
than any other business. A dollar
spent for beer only gives 5 per cent
to the 1aborer and II per cent to the
farmer, while dollar spent for bread
gives 33 per cent to the labor and 35
per cent. 10 the farmer. One boy in
five dies drunkard. Your boy may
be that fifth boy. Your girl may mar
ry that fifth boy.-Sylacauga Advance.