The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-30

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Teddy is beginning to wonder
whether the people do rule after all.
Boss busting" has grown to be
greater necessity than trust 'sbusting.-
The Holy Rollers were rolled out OF
Ohio. in quick order a few
days ago.
Bradentown, down in the land of
the sea cow, is TO make things merry
with motor boat races January 81.
Is it pot making light of love to
spend a honeymoon in a balloon as
by young couple in Chica-
go? And. then, suppose they should
fall out?"
The best way to reduce mine disas-
tiers is to hang a few operators who,
to save expenses, fail to adopt the most
thorough systems of protection for the
toilers in the dark.
A Missouri farmer died the other
day from the effect of seeing lot of
hogs slaughtered. Perchance fellow
feeling made him wondrous kind and
he thought he ought to go along with
the majority.
Appleyard's piquant paragraphs con-
tinue to iilumine the editorial page of
the Lake City Index-occasionally
bursting into brilliant scintillations
and ever and anon simmering down
to moonshine.
The Gainesville Sun has greeted its
readers twenty-five times with merry
Christmas and it is the earnest hope
of The Journal that 1t will continue
this greeting year after year till
heaven and earth shall pass away.
Roosevelt's first duty after leaving
the White House shonld be to assem-
BILE his Ananias club and deliver a
lecture ON George Washington and the
iniquity of cutting down chorry trees
when there are no cherries on them
with the incidental promise Of pie.
N. B.: Taft has been riding at the
expense of a railroad company 1t is
safe to say he would not have done it
before election. What's the dif? Has
the sworn promoter of my policies
reached 1.-THE p. B. D." stage OF man
" independence as exempl:fied by the
late w. H. Vanderbilt?
The suggestion made by General
Fred. Grant that after six years of
service American soldiers should be
provided with jobs in Washington or
elsewhere in the government service
seems to indicate that army exper-
fence in this country disqualifies a
man from fighting the hattie Of life
along with his more pacific brethren.
Much hard feeling is being engen-
dered by the dispute as to whether
Paul Jones or John Barry shall be
dnbbed father of the navy whereas
everybody knows that neither of these
gentlemen, were he alive, would lay
claim to a title which belongs to
George Washington, father of his
country and all things pertaining
thereto.
Careful scientific investigation should
he made into the trnth of The story
that comes over the wire 70 the effect
that 15-year-old Brooklyn lad coz
mitted suicide because he couldn't
study his lessons. II the tale be true
then has evolution o'eriept itself by
some two or three millions of aeons
and produced a mysterious anomaly
most hopelessly out of touch with the
times and the spirit of yourg America.
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Professor Joseph F. Johnson, dean
of the school of commerce of New
York University. mas obtained Stats
tics, diagrams ano comparisons to
show the increased cost of living for
the period from 1897 to 1907. and
while the average householder does
not require mathematical demonstra-
ton to substantiate the conviction
that money does not so anywhere near
as far nowadays as it did ten, or even
five years ago, the conclusions of the