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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
ALL IS QUIET
At NATALBANY
Band of 500 Armed Italians
Proves to Be Thirty
Refugees.
BY Associated Press,

Natalbany, La, July ga threat
ened race riot between Italians and
Americans was averted today by the
hasty flight from this community OF
about $50 Italians, composing nearly
the entire foreign population These
refugees have gathered in Hammond
and New Orleans.
Governor Saunders and the Italian
consul have restored quiet and pros
poets are that by tomorrow many
Italians will begin returning TO their
homes. The Americans at Natalbany
number less than three hundred, and
were under arms for twelve hours,
alarmed by the reports that the Ital-
1ans were to dynamite the place.
These reports proved gToundless.
and what was last night mistaken for
camp of five hundred beIligerent
Italians was today found TO be a band
of thirty frightened refugees.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
Roosevelt as Author.

Is Theodore Roosevelt the Midas Of
authors2
As statesman and fighter he needs
no bush. but as an author he rather
forged into general comment with the
dispatches from New York annOunC-
ing that Charles Scribner's Sons had
CONTRACTED to pay him abost 50 A
word for an account Of his fOrthCOm-
ing big game hunt in Africa.
Two dollars a ward is easily the
worlds record for prose. though the
poets, Of course. have often Ragged
more than that Mark Twain reached
81 a word once. but that was in his
heyday and before HarDer's put him
on a regular annual stipendium- His
books are still good sellers. but they
are not among the best sellers" and
it is only there that financial returns
comparable to Author ROOSevelt's nav
be found
According 70 the New York dispatch
es. the president is to receive for his
story a lump sum of between $50 600
and $4,000 and $4,000 for the Sc
rial rights alone. After their pubIica-
ton in ScTibner's Magazine they will
be put on the market in book form
probably at 81 volume and the pres
ident will receive-sO the Scribner
people estimate-in book royalties and
serial rights something in the neigh
borhood of sf50.0O0. For a 1000
word article this would mean 81 A
word
But the men in the local book and
publishing world are inclined to dues-
tion the statement that the president
had already received s250-000 for his
previous works. - Chicago Evening
Post
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
THE WRITING TRADE.
Better Paid Now Than 1t Ever Was
Before.

The trade of writing, as well as the
profession of letters, is much more
highly paid in the twentieth century
than ever before in the history of the
world, and the rewards for both medi-
Ocrity and genius promise to be larger
in the future than they are in the
present. As the captains of industry
have brought to a highly specialized
condition the market for brains that
prevails in the fields of industrial en-
teTpTise, the publishers have special
lied the market for brains that pro-
dUcC anything that the overwhelming
public viii read. Here is a market
for blank verse poetry, and there is a
place where limericks are bougI< at
so much a line; here is house that
deals in the output of the novelist
and there a holein-the-walI where the
dTamatist may submit his wares to
purchasers who may make him famous
in a night and rich in a twelyemonth
and who are sufficiently hard driven
by competition to keep an eye peeled
for whatever bids fair TO touch the
popular taste. The cOmmerciaIizatiOu
Of writing may cause lovers of liter
atuTC to lament, but it has opened a
most fruitful field of endeavor to the
writer folk of every class.
Mark TwainS earnings amount 10
almost $1,000 000-an amount that
many persons mistakenly assert can
not he honestly made in commerce in
a lifetime. This shows how much
richer the field of humoT is today than
it was a century or a few centuries
ago George Bernard Shaw might
have remained a clerk if the pOssibil
tiles of getting money returns were
no greater than those thar were offer
Cd r-hnn Tnrnnrn nd DIotue .
Mr.. Dooley is vastly better paid than
the Athenian philosophers and Wal
lace Irwin is much more handsomely
TemUneTated than was the brilliant
but now almost forgotten Winthrop
NaCkwOTth Praed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
Dont's for Hot Weather.

Don't go around talking about the
heat; everybody knows it is summer
time.
Don't get angry. it only makes you
hotter.
Don't go around asking rs If hot
enough for you2' One fellow got hit
for that one day.
Remember Commander Peary may
freeze if he reaches the pole before
Christmas.
Remember this is FIoTida-In New
York, and Chicago. and in fact. Bos-
ton. people are dying every day from
the heat.-JacksOnville Times-UnIon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
Adventurous Life in India.

Tram travelling in Calcutta evident
y calls for special training of the
nervous system. A correspondent
gives details of three mishaPs which
he observed during the space Of a
few hours. He saw one car with no
apparent excuse crash into another
standing at a junction In the next
case ne saw a car. upon which the
driver was drinking a '-IOtd o
water. charge a number of bullock
carts and his final experience was
% a CycIiSt contemplating the ruins
of his bicycle and addressing meas
uTed and adjectival language TO an Of
fetal az the steering wheel. -'-Advo-
cate of India.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
HEARD
THE ADDRESSES
Although Several Hundred
Miles From Denver He
Heard Nominating
Speeches.

At his farm in Lincoln, Neb.. VIM.
putting him in nomination at the con-
ventiOn at Denver. says the New
York World. At d distance of sew
eTal hundred miles he could hear the
proceedings almost as distinct as II
they were in the Lincoln town hall
Mr.. Taft enjoyed similar telephone
and telegraph facilities while the re-
publican convention was going on.
So did President Roosevelt. who at
the White House was able to direct
what was going on at Chicago as
quickly and as literally as l. he were
on the ground
One of the first uses to which
MOrse's invention of the telegraph
was put was Cor Silas Wright 10 tele-
graph his declination of the pomina-
ton for vice-president from Washing
ton to Baltimore, getting il there in
time fer the convention to nominate
George NJ. Dallas in his place Prior
to the telegraph there was no oppOT-
tunity for speedy consultation be-
tween an absent candidate and his
friends and floor managers at ma
tional convention
The telephone brought the conven-
UOQ ana the candidate even closer To-
gether- TelegTaphins took some time
The messages had 10 be written out,
and with a politicians aversion to
committing himself fully in writing.
consultation by telegraph even over
special wire had its restrictions The
long distance telephone gives the can
didate the same opportunity o. con
sultatiOn as IF he were explaining
from his Office 20 his wife at his house
why he would not be home to dinner.
When the long distance telephone
Is fitted with visual attachment, so
that the man at the receiver can see
as well as hear whoever is talking
to him. then the necessity viii be
lessened for national conventions al
all Each delegation can meet IN its
own state and the proceedings can
be conducted without special trains or
SiX-in-a-rOom hotels.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
PUBLICITY AND
PARTY MORALS
. - = = = .

Burke said you cannot indiCt
nation" nor can you lnfICt a great
political organization like the TepuO-
IiCan party But what can be done
is to appeal to the COnsCienCeS and
better judgment of the honest masses
of the party against the policies OF
the men into whose hands its lead
ership has fallen 4 party's stand
ard of public morality must be judg-
ed By the acts which it approves and
sustains. When a republican COM
mittee in congress reported favoTably
the Mccall bill providing for ante
election publication of campaign con-
tTibUtiOnS of money there was much
misgiving as 10 its passage II was
not believed that the republican SEN
ators and members o. congress
would voluntarily foTeso the secret
and lOng-cOntinued advantage in levies
Of corruption money upon the favor
ties Of legislation TO secure their
election Such a thing, il was thought,
was too much TO expect OF the public
spirit of republican leaders by no
means scrUpulOus as to the means OF
retaining their power
The even more than justified lie
prediction. When. after long delay
until nearly the end of the session,
Speaker CaRnon's committee on rules
was constrained to fix a day for the
publicity bill the republican managers
were prepared for the emergency.
No sooner was the bill taken up than
the CTumpaCker scheme to reduce
southern representation in congress
was fastened upon II as an amend
ment, though the two measures had
nothing in common.
Had the republicans desired they
could have passed this OTumpacker
bill at any time on its Own merits
such as these are But they had no
notion of passing the bill through the
house, with the certainty. that its
only effect would be to make the
south more solid than ever while IL
would fall in the senate. Its sole use
was as an instrument to defeat pub
licity of corruption funds to carry the
elections. In the parliamentary arse
nal there was no weapon so cOnven-
lent for the purpose. For this act OF
Unexampied political ipul1cIty and
fraud an Indictment lies not merely
against the republican leaders, bur
against the whole republican majority
in the house Upon the call of the
yeas and nays they all participated
in il. They thus made the degrading
confession before the American peo-
pie of their hostility to a measure for
restraining wholesale corruption OF
the elections
The question recUrs whether party
spirit is so rank and political morals
so low in this country as to cOIdone
such an act Of iniquity. Levies OF
blackmaiI on the trusts to elect re-
publican members of congress Will
not bear the light of day. The whole
nation would revolt at the exhibition
But why should there not be re-
VIOLA of the public conscience when
this thing is VIGOROUSLY done in Sc
crecy and darkness? WAT shall be
the answer to the corruptiOnists at
the ballot bOx?-PhiIadelphia Record.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24

Alabama editors must be doing
pretty well, thank you They are hold
ing their 37th annual convention al
Bessemer this week, despite the fact
that free passes are prohibited, and
hey are not allowed to swap advertis-
ing space for transportation. When
editors ride on the cars nowadays
they must have the cash to pay their
fare That's why you don't get a
chance to read such fiattering stories
In the country press any more about
the conductor. engineer and all the
rest of the train crew, when the editor
gets back from his trip.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
EDITORIAL PAR

Ed lOhiAlE FAX
The newspapers of New York are
still arguing that no candidate for
president can be elected who fails to
get the votes of both New York and
Indiana. The World says:
In fifty years no Democratic candi.
date for president has been elected
who did not garry both New York and
Indiana. Since Jackson's day no Dem
ocratic candidate who carried both
New York and Indiana has been de-
feated.
That may be true, but political con-
ditions cannot always remain the
same. The west and south are grow.
ing in voting strength more rapidly
than New York and Indiana The pro-
portion of their electoral vote to that
of al the states is continually growing
less and the time must come sooner
or later when a presidential candidate
can be elected without their aid. Dem
ocrats OF the south and west believe
that the time had already arrived and
hope to be able to show New York
how the trick can be turned next No
yember. 1908.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24

The contest between Americans
and Britons for athletic honors In the
Olympic games at London is very
close, with America a few points
ahead at present and both far in the
lead of all others, The sympath1es OF
the great crowd of spectators are
almost entirely with the home attn
Ietes and when q Britisher wins over
an American there is tremendous
cheering and demonstrations o. ap-
prevail This is but natural aid Is ex-
pected though 1t must have a more
or less unfavorable effect upon the
American contestants. However so
long as the rulings are fair and i'm
partial the Ysnks won't kick. and are
pretty sure TO come away with the
honors
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
LOCOMOTIVE NESTING PLACES.
Strange Preferences Shown by Birds
In Home-Makinq Arrangements.

Strange Preferences Shown by Birds
In Home-Making Arrangements.
The sparrow which was discovered
a Jew days ago sitting on a nest
among the coal of a Great Eastern
COmpany's engine running between st.
MaTgaTet's and HUntingfOrd, has had
several predecessors in her preference
for a locomotive nesting place
A year or two ago a thrUsh's nest
containing two eggs was found snugly
enSCOnSed on the Westinghouse brake
pipe of carriage on an express train
which had just returned to York
from trip to Newcastle. The nest,
We are told, was quite warm and
comfortable"
About the same time a couple OF
robins built their nest on the axle
of collieTy wagon which was stand
ing idle for a few days at Seghill.
Northumberland Six eggs were laid,
and then the wagon started on its
Journeys again. The parent birds fol
lowed it all the way to the Tyne, and
il was their excited lowering over
the wagon which led to an investiga-
ton and TO te discovery of their
strange nesting place
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24

The Jacksonville Times-Union has
begun agitating the determination of
rats in that city II is doubtful if one
city working by itself can make much
Roadway against rats. They will come
from other places as fast as they can
be destroyed. 1t will require a general
crusade by the state or the nation, to
exterminate the rats effectually. And
now that they are charged with being
the active dissemiRatorS OF disease.
the time is not far distant, when the
state and national governments must
act in the matter. The experiments
being tried IN several cities in the eff
fort to find an effective means of de-
stroying the rodents will be of benefit.
as at present about the only known
means of fighting them is with traps
and poison.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24

The ordinary make of bathing suits
don't go with Mayor Green of Fair
Hope, the little burg on The east shore
of Mobile Bay, which is operated on
the single tax plan. One day this
week the town constable swooped
down upon two young men who were
taking a dip in the waters of Mobile
Bay fronting Fair Hope and hustled
them of to the caIaboose. Later When
they appeared before the mayor they
were fined SIS each because the legs
of their trousers were too short. Ii is
understood that the mayor and other
Fair Hopers came from a section of
the country where bathing is not
much INDUCED in, hence they are not
accustomed to seeing people so scant
ny clad. and are naturally shocked.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
The Worlds Securities.

NJ. Neymarck, of France, has made
detailed estimates of the worlds Ne
gOtiable securities. For twelve Euro
pean countries his aggregate is S75.-
000, 000.0 900: for the United States,
$685. 900 900. and for Japan 81 ,563,.
000. 900 He estimates the total pop.
ulation of these countries at SOS, 500
900 and therefore assigns an average
of 1896 per person OF this paper
wealth-COnsular Reports.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
Poor Taft,
Poor Public!

L OOL Il
Taft, it would seem, has shown but
little political acumen in his announce
ment that he will give to Roosevelt
his speech of acceptance, so that the
present chief executive may revise
and return to the nominee a speech
that Roosevelt thinks proper to deliv
er on the momentous occasion.
1t has been charged, and not with,
out apparent foundation, that Roose-
welt dominated the Chicago conven-
ton; that Taft and Sherman were
named by the convention at the nod
of the weilder of the "big stick" that
the platform was written at the die
tation of the head of the adminiStra-
ton, and that Taft is but the puppet
of the White House Punch and Judy
manipulation
Now. the ex-secretary of war practi-
cally confirms all these charges. He
has prepared after studious labor an
address of 10000 words.-which he
the midnight oil in study of the
speeches of acceptance of candidates
who have gone before, the platforms
of the two parties, and all other data
that might aid in the composition OF
his first post-convention address.
Mr. Taft has been accredited with
most judicial mind, capable of study
ing and solving problems OF govern
ment, and the republicans proclaim
him as a man well-fitted to fill the
office of president.
The president of the United States
is provided with a suitable advisory
board in the personnel of the cabinet.
The president is expected to be guided
more or less in his administration by
his cabinet, the house or representa-
ives, and the senate. But the presi-
dent of the United States is also ex-
pected to be man of individual
force and decision, capable of carry
ing on the duties of his office without
the assistance OF his cabinet should
duty point to a course not endorsed by
his advisors
If Taft be a man in whom there re
quirements are to be found, then
surely he should be competent to
compose his speech of acceptance.
without his alleged master welding
the blue pencil" on the advance
proofs.
1t is to be regretted for Taft's sake
that he has committed this error. IL
is too bad that the voters of the
country will not he able to near Taft
express his own views on the great
party issues Maybe Taft's views are
good ones. Perhaps he has ideas that
are worth considering. Possibly he
might offer good reasons for the re-
publican conventions refusal to adopt
the publicity of campaign contribu-
lions plank. who knows? He might be
man well worth while, but how in
the world is the voter to find II out.
if he merely stands upon the speaker
stand and phonographicaIly repeats
the words that Roosevelt has written ?
Taft is to be more pitied than cen
sured. For seven years Roosevelt has
filed column after column of valuable
newspaper space with messages and
more messages, with haTangues on
dear Maria and Bellamy, or the Ana
Mas club. and its members, and now
Taft, poor, big Taft, must needs be
the mouthpiece for more RooseveItism.
Poor Taft. Poor public!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
Fl. M'HenrY's EIan.

The decision OF the committee on
Founders Week, which will be ceIe-
brated in Philadelphia in October. to
ignore the story of Betsy Ross and
to mark her home as Betsy Ross"
Home. instead of the birthplace OF
the Stars and Stripes. recalls to the
Baltimore Sun that the flag that float.
ed over Fort McHenTy and inspired
Francis Scott Key TO his immortal
national hymn was made by MIS-.
John Pickersgill in the old house at
the mort Invest corner OF Pratt and Al
hermarIe streets. Baltimore Three
fragments OF the flag, which were
torn from the old banner by shelly
that whistIed by il in the memorable
engagement. are still preserved
They are in the possession of the
Maryland Historical Society.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
A Safe Bet.

President Roosevelt will not go OF
the stump. but no betting man lives
who would not give odds that before
November ne viii write a letter 70
some friend-for publication-stat
most emphatically that only Mr.. Taft
election could save the country and
that ne would interpret Mr.. Taft :
defeat as . population OF himself
and his policies.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24

That twenty-nine million dollars fine
was little steep anyway, to be as
but one million dollars capital stock.
Judge Lands probably imagined at the
time that he was assessing war in
tiemnity.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
BURNED TIE BOX cAR.

Princeton. Ky, July "a OOX car
which the Illinois Central railroad
yesterday put on a siding al Otter
Pond, Ky, to replace the station de-
stroyed by fire the night before last.
was burned late last night. II is sup
posed 10 have been the work OF plight
riders
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
Place of In1nortance.
visitor

Johnny was showing the visitor
about town.
That" said he. is one OF the
most important spots in town
Why | see nothing but a vacant
lot returned the visitor. What Is
there in II to be proud of"
Yes. but 'tisn't always a vacant
lot" retoTted Johnny Then he ex-
planned proudly: That's where the
circus alNaHS SfnnS-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24

The Times-Union says: Rats and
flies should not be tolerated. Why,
of course not. 1t is difficult to see how
any one can tolerate them They are
simply intolerable-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
MANY DEPUTIES
ARE ARRESTED
Men Serving in Birmingham
District Are Taken Into
Custody.
Special to The Journal.

Birmingham, Ala, July 23.-Many
more deputies were arrested as a re-
suit of clashes that have occurred
since the strike. Deputy Sheriff Geo.
w. COusson was detailed to serve war
rants upon deputieS and he has been
busy for three days. Most of the last
batch of deputies were arrested as a
result of trouble at Sayreton between
deputies and strikers when a large
number of negroes and few white
men were arrested for intimidation,
etc.
LOnnie Mcdowell was arrested on
a charge of carrying an unlawful pis-
tol. The warrant was sworn out by
Lee Meriweather-
Sam Black was placed under Arrest
for an alleged assault and battery on
ALI Mcdonald, who named the follow
ing other deputies in his warrant: AL
bert Mccormick, Mid Thompson and
John Bradley. e
Will Prichard was arrested on a
charge of presenting a pistol, the
warrant being sworn out by D. +.
Wilson.
Deputy bunker was charged with
robbery ans waived a preliminary
hearing before Judge l. H. Benners OF
the cTimianl court.
In addition to the warrant charS
ing Will Pritchard with presenting a
pistol, sworn out by D. F. Wilson,
similar charges were made againsl
him by Ned Goodwin, James Hill and
Monroe Price, and Aaron Conner charg.
ed him with assault with a pistol
Sam Black. Albert Mccormick, Mid
Thompson. Pate Moore, II. S. GeiSmer
VIII Mason and John Bradley were all
charged with an assault and battery
on William Porter, who swOre out the
warrant.
The same charge was made against
the same defendants by the follow
ing others Ned Goodwin, Jerry
Merriweather, Jim Owen, Aaron Com
er, Granville Hardy, Will Stuart,
viii Reynolds and Monroe Price Will
PritchaTd is also charged with an as
sauIt with a weapon, the waTrent
sworn out by Will Reynolds.
All the warrants were made return
able to the criminal court and most OF
them were sworn out before Judge H,
B. Alternately of the inferior criminal
court They were served by Deputy
COUsson and bond was made immedi-
ately.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
PENSACOLA FLORIDA FRIDAY MORNING, JULY "a,

William Jennings Bryan, FairvieW
Farm, Lincoln, Neb.
Journal issues call for popular con-
tributions to Democratic campaign
fund, and urges Florida press to do
likewise.
THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24

Of course Mrs. Carrie Nation. OBJ
jects to the sheath gown-her COM
plexion is hardly suited TO 'em--Co-
lumbus Enquirer-Sun-
1t isn't her complexion, its her
oh, very well.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-24
Quiet at VIVIAN.

Wylam. Ala. July 22-Were 1t not
for the fact that a larger number of
men are now to be seen on the streets
than usual no one would hardly know
that Wy1am is the center of a big
strike district Everything here is
very quiet
The local union of the United Mine
Workers of America held a meeting
Monday night in the Perolia building
1t is stated that the union is gaining
ground right along. and fight on a
high plane is being conducted. Lead
ers assert that they are advising tbs
men not to resort to any lawlessneSs
hut to be calm and obey the laws OF
the land.