The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-05-24

fruitful field for the literary bucca-
neer. Scores of transla tons from
French, German and other European
magazines, slightly changed TO suit
the American taste, are annually
served up in the American magazines
| To the man or woman possessed OF
| little ingenuity and a minimum OF
| honesty, the occupation of literary
| pirate should be both pleasant and
| profitable.
/ Cured, but UngratefuI.
! Miss Frances Wynne, OF this city,
| is a shop girl. healthy and withal
| beautiful. One morning about year
! ago she went to the department store
| where she was employed and was
| greeted with SneeTs, grin5 and glgsles
! on the part of her companions me
! reason for these manifestations OF
levity was supplied by a sympathetic
| friend, in a newspaper advertisement.
| illustrated with a picture of the beau
| tious Miss Wynne- Reading the ad-
vertiseemnt, the fair shop girl discov-
| cred. to her horror that she had
| been suffering with divers pains, aches
and maladies and that she had been
| jerked from the jaws OF jeopardy and
! an untimely grave by the medicine
manufactured by feminine phlian-
| thropist of Lynn, Mass.
| So it came about that Miss Wynne
| appeared in the United States circuit
/ court, asking for $4,000 as a saive
| for the mental anguish and mortihca-
| ton she had endured She declared
| that she had never suffered from the
! pains and a-heS described in the teS-
! timonial. that she had never taken
! the vegetable compound Of the femi-
! nine phildnthrOpist and that her pic
! ture had been obtained by false pre-
! lenses. The jury decided. after hear
| ing all the evidence, that $4,000 would
| cover the damages.
Work Horse Parade.
| Equine thOrOughbreds with arlsto-
| cratic pedigreeS may now take back
stall. Bill. the truck horse, who pulls
| heavy loads along the side streets and
! is constantly greeted by signs warn
/ ing him to keep next to the curb ana
| in other ways TO make himself as I'M
! obtrusive as possible, will have mis-
day next Saturday. Wearing his
best bib and tucker, the aforetlme
plodding Bill will prance lumberingly
along Fifth avenue, as proud a Steed
as ever was seen on that exclusive
thoroughfare, and will prick UP MS
ears in sheer delight as the thousands
of humans applaud his splck ana
sDan condition. The occasion for this
aDothesiS of the work hOrs evil De
the annual Memorial Day parade
given under the auspices OF the Wo-
Mans Auxiliary of the Society LOT the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
A similar parade was held last year,
with inward of 1900 work horses i'll
line. and was witnessed by fully 1OO,-
600 spet- tators. Next Saturdays event
promises to be even greater than IS
predecessor and to furnish truly
magnificent exhibition of the prole'
itariat of hOrSedOm.
Back to the Mines.
1t will be back to the mines Tor
thousands of New Workers next week,
when the first international mining
exposition will open in Madison
Square Garden for run OF four
weeks Uncle Sam, through his geo.
logical survey, will make an extern
sive display, and many western states
will be officially represented by mag
nificent exhibits of their mineral and
metal wealth.
The promoters of the exposition,
among whom is John Hayes Ham
mond, the world-famouS mining eng1-
neer declares that the underground
resources OF this country, Mexico and
Canada have scarcely been touched,
and that the big show will lead to a
widespread interest in the legitimate
development of the mining industry.
and aid in freeing it from the wild
cat" element that has been its bane
for many years