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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

vast fields that need developing
where all the capital in this traffic
could be profitably invested with cred
1t TO the community.
1t is up to the moralist TO see TO
IL that no one is selected to the leg
lsIature but those who will work for
prohibition; in this matter of select
ing candidates it is up to the whites,
the negro being eliminated, is not the
balance of power, nor can they affect
the result. Some of those recent con-
Vets TO the prohibition cause. who
got on the band wagon at the eleventh
hour will find it a difficult matter to
convince the Npublic that the CONVEX
sion is not spasmodic and of short
duration, and if they are elected that
morality and prohibition would not 70
celVe a black eye, as did a certain
divine who had the temerity to criti-
clze the would-be moralist who was
constructing the wheels of progress
upon righteous and meritoriOIS
cause.
1t is not safe to select men to carry
out reforms whose motive and con-
version are of a questionable Chardc-
ter We are discussing needed re-
forms on questions of morality that
should engage the serious attention Of
Inv expenditure Leu uS uOI lOl StI
gambling. Gambling is a vice; all
forms of it should be prohibited Dy
law. BY all that is holy and righteous
what is the difference between a wa
ger or bet upon the result of a crap
game which our officials so vigorous
Iy prosecute. and a wager on the Te-
suit of political or a horse race,
which Is openly and VIGOROUSLY car
ried on on the public thOrOughfares
OF our cities and public race tracks,
right under the eyes of our officials.
Why should there be two sets of
gamblers, one a gentlemanly set, ser
ting bad examples and going scot
Eee, and the other a criminal set,
going to the chain gang?
Let's get upon a higher plane of
moral ethics and civic righteousness.
Respectfully.
T. j. PRYOR
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

that he had been intimate with the
daughter of the woman he married
did not seem to weigh on him in the
least. He seemed perfectly conf
dent Of an acquittal, although there
IS the damaging evidence of the chill
dren of the dead woman against him
and fine chain of circumstantial
evidence woven about him by the
detectives.
I'VE Were living happily when this
dago, Sam, came in. He was keeping
Mrs. Hawthorne. Il accused her of it
and she denied it. il told her that &C
tons spoke louder than words, and
told her she would have to make
him move On.
"A week ago l got s174. Of this
j paid out S74 toward my new house.
The girl asked me for 500 to start
buying a lot next to mine. | told
her I'd give it to her if she would
break up with the dagO. She never
gave me any answer Yesterday I
was talking with her and Sam came
in. He Joined in and l left. Two
minutes afterward, while l was on
my way to my own home. I heard
that my stepdaUghter had been kill
ed. / never carried or owned a gun
in my life. The pistol that was found
was her pistol l believe she com
mitted suicide because / told her she
had to break off with the dago."
An examination of the clothes of
the woman discIoSes no signs of
powder burns which would in all
probability be present had the shot
been fired by her own hand
The body of Mrs. Isadore Haw-
thorne viii be buried in Greenwood
cemetery this morning at $50 O'Clock
the funeral services to be held frof-
Roche's undertaking establishment.
Helena and Eunice Hawthorne. tn
two little daughter of the murderer
woman, spent the night at the home
OF a neighbor. Mrs. Meyers, at AS
south Johnston street. and will he
taken in charge today by John Sum.
dermaker, a neighbor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22
GRAND POPULAR POLITICAL
RALLY AT CENTURY.
Century. Fla, April 20, 1908.

Century, Fla, April 20, 1908.
Editor Pensacola Journal
The citizens of Century assembled
at the schoolhouse on the afternoon
of the 18th inst, and organized a 20
litical club. Friday afternoon. April
"a, a grand rally viii be held at the
schoolhouse. The friends and patrons
of the school will be out in large
numbers, and refreshments will be-
served.
1t is a popular and not partisan
rally. All the candidates are special
ly invited to be present. 1t is intend
ed TO give each candidate limited
opportunity of addressing the assem-
'blage. A very large attendance is
practically assured. The arrange
nlents are in charge of Prof Mad
deX, assisted 10y the teachers of
School No. 70, and several ladies OF
Century. The presence of the ladies
would alone insure the fact that the
utmost decorum and good feeling will
prevail. Courtesy and consideration
will be shown all, and every effort
made to make them ccmforta BILE
Every man who wishes TO vote intel
Hgently and with q due regard for the
welfare of our county and state
should be present TO hear the candi-
date give his reason why, for the
hope within him. on Friday, April
"a, Z p. m, at Century, Fla.
]. R. BRADLEY.
Supervisor School No. 49,
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Soldiers to
Be Proud Of.

The state troops, except one pro-
visional company. have lett Pensacola
and returned to their homes in the
various cities and towns of Floridal
Never before in the history of the
state since the civil war were so
many of its troops called out at one
time and on such short notice to
meet an unexpected emergency, and
the record made in this instance is
one for the soldiers themselves and
all the people of Florida to be proud
Of
1t was discipline and efficiency al
most up to the standard of the regu-
lar army itself, and the soldiers-Sore
themselves in such a way while in
Pensacola as to win the genuine re-
spect and admiration of our people,
no matter on which side their sym
pathies were in the pending troubles.
They had the true military spirit
from start to finish and obedience to
orders was the guiding star of every
man who wore the khaki.
Had they been a clustering, swag-
gering, foud-mouthed set, boning over
with brash opinions on = our local
troubles. they might easily have been
OF more disadvantage than advantage
to us, but they were precisely the re-
verse. and carried themselves as sol
diers and gentlemen in a quiet, unas-
Stunning. but thoroughly alert and eff
ficient way. content TO do the duty
for which they were called here,
which was to preserve order and
maintain the supremacy of the law.
Perfect success in that respect
crowned their work. and while they
leave us with our troubles still un-
settled, that is no fault of theirs. and
they take with them to their homes
THE respect and friendship of our
people generally.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22
FORMER MAN
Of PENSACOLA
Ship Carpenter is Charged
With Murder in New
2 Orleans.
ALLEGED JOHN WESLEY SUM-
MER KILLED HIS STEP DAUGH-
TER IN JEALOUS RAGE OVER
HER ITALIAN LOVER-STRANGE

Two minutes after | left the house
my stepdaughter was killed. ] don'j
know anything of her murder, but
believe she took her own life"
This is the only explanation that
John Wesley Summer, the old ship
carpenter, held in the parish prison
for the murder of Mrs. Isadore Haw-
thorne. his step-daughter, can make,
says the New Orleans Morning World.
With remarkable frankness for a
suspected murderer. he admits being
in the home of his steddaughter, 1901
Fern street, just prior to her death.
He admits that when she was 10
years old he betrayed her and later
married her mother. He admits
having quarrelled with her and her
Italian lover, Sam Palminsano. He
admits that his stepdaughter asked
him for money, and that he refused
to give her the sum until she would
rid herself OF her Italian lover. And
on this account he claims that she
took her own life.
When arraigned before Judge Skin
ner in the First City Criminal court
yesterday morning he entered a plea
of not guilty, and was remanded to
the parish prison without benefit of
BAIL to await trial before the criminal
district court.
No Criminal Appearance.
Summer, whose first cognomeu is
that of the founder Of mighty Method
ism. is in appearance and in words
person entirely disSimilar to a crea-
ture who could commit the bloody
deed of SUNDAY afternoon. He is al
legged TO have shot and killed his step
daughter in a frenzy of jealousy be-
cause she preferred the love of the
Italian to his devotions Her two
little daughters, his grandchildren,
were near at hand when the alleged
murder took place They will be the
principal witnesses against the man
who married the mother of their
mother.
Summer is a simple plebean. He
belongs to a class that has small re-
gard for morals. He is a shipwright
by trade, out says he has done gener-
al carpenter work about New Or
leans.
With his wife and stepdaughter he
came to the Crescent City two years
ago from Pensacola, Fla They e.
tabllshed little grocery store. And
although the stepdaughter lived near
the shipwrigh1. the family connec-
tons were closer than the distance
between the houses.
Here is Summers story. The story
was told yesterday afternoon in the
parish prison. The old carpenter sat
On table and related the narrative
Of the tragic incident without emo
ton and without color. The fact
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

In yesterdays issue of The Journal,
In quoting from the Gainesville Sun
In reference TO the candidacy of Hon.
Robert e. Davis for presidential cleo
tor, and commenting on it. we stated
enormously that Colonel Davis was a
candidate for delegate to the national
democratic convention. The mistake
was the result of hasty reading of the
paragraph in the Sun, in which we
got the Colonel as candidate for del
egate instead for elector. What we
said on that text was mighty sound
democratic doctrine, especially at this
time. and while it has no application
to Colonel Davis as a candidate for
elector. it is snug fit for the gentle
men who are seeking to 60 to Denver
as delegates to the nominating con-
vention without declaring in advance
their preference for president.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22
VOX POPULI.
ANDREWS
EXPLAINS HIS POSITION.
Pensacola, Fla, April 81, 1908.

L..
Editor Pensacola journal.
AS it was simply stated in Sun
days issue, that / voted against the
resolution offered at the Council
meeting, without giving any reason,
now wish the public to know why |
did 1t. knew that Sheriff Van PeIt
had summoned about zoo men to serve
as deputies, and l thought that should
have been enough.
Besides that, l did not think it right
that the city should have to pay for
troops. When = raised the question.
| was told that it had been done in
the Jacksonville case, but that was
not q parallel case at all, and though
they did have troops kept there after
the companies left, they were paid by
private subscriptions and not out of
the taxpayers money
II was estimated that the pav-rolI
would be about $3.50 per day, and. as
Mr.. Geo. T. Morgan's resolution reads
is for an indefinite time, and beliey.
Ing 1t to be wrong, and being legally
advised that the Council had no
right TO appropriate money for the
purpose, / voted against it.
Very Respectfully,
]. n. ANDREWS.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

attracting little or no attention, is that
between the Florida railroad commits
sioners and the L. & n. Railway COM
pany in an effort to compel the latter
to produce its books showing its pas
senger receipts and expenditures on
the p. & A. division between Pensa-
cola and River Junction. The object
is to ascertain if the company is not
getting a revenue from the division
which would justify it in reducing it's
present excessive four-cent fare to
the usual three-cent rate. The COM
pany fatty refuses to produce its
books, thus warranting the inference
,6hat it cannot plead the original
reason of light traffic for the high
passenger rate it maintains, and now
We all want to know what the COM
missioners are going to do about it.
There ought to be a remedy in law
somewhere to meet such a situation,
especially as public sentiment is prac-
tically solid to the effect that the L.
& n. can give no valid reason for
continuing the four-cent rate, and is
merely begging its patrons because
it can, regardless of the right in the
case.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22
POLITICS AND
POLITICIANS
Looks Good for Stockton.

Looks Good for Stockton.
For the past two weeks or more
Jonn Stockton has been moving
around over the state and is being
cordially received at every point
Eeacsh day it becomes more and
more evident that he will be nomi-
mated IN the first primary The peo-
pie are with him and will Justly re-
Duke the whisl1ey and corporate in
terests by giving him a handsome
majority over. both of his opponents.
-Manatee Record.
Stockton in Lake City.
Hon. John n. c. Stockton was in
the city last Friday night. and Sat
urday morning left for Madison. He
expressed himself very sanguine of
success and said he would return
here in the near future and deliver
a Characteristic political address He
says if elected he intends going
about the state to foster and encour-
age interest in affairs of state gov
eminent. He is in favor of the
drainage of the Everglade region 3if.
after decision by impartial and thor
ough investigation by competent en-
glneers, it is found that such drain
age will prove a good business prop
City Index-Reporter.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

ACTS OF VIOLENCE
MUST BE STOPPED.


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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22
SOLDIERS RETURN THANKS
TO PEOPLE OF pENSACOl A

Editor Pensacola Journal.
The officers and men of Comnanv
l., First regiment, +. S t, of ApaIacb-
1cola, take this method of thanking
the citizens. the ladies, and last but
not least, the children of Pensacola
who extended their hospitality in so
many different ways during the STAY
OF our command in your city. ALI the
men have returned home except a
squad, who were detailed to STAY with
the provisional company.
Hoping the trouble in your city will
soon be settled in satisfactory way
TO all parties concerned, we beg to
remain,
Yours truly,
"CONpANV ~
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

They are going about it right over
In Suwanee county. The candidates
FOR county Offices have agreed upon
an itinerary and have made their
dates at all the towns and villages
in the county where they will appear
at the same time and present their
claims for office. All this is done
under the management of the chair
man of the campaign committee and
it secures a good audience at each
speaking point and a temperate dis
cussion between the candidates. We
would like to see this plan adopted
in every county in Florida.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22
SEC. CORTELYOU WAS
GUEST OF HONOR
BY Associated Prese.

Syracuse. y. Y, April 21.-Secre-
tary of the Treasury Cortelyou was
the guest of honor speaker at d ban
Duet Of the Syracuse Chamber OF
Commerce this evening Nearly 800
business men of the city. and invited
friends, surrounded the tables and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22
HE TAKES A SHOT AT BOTH
SALOONS AND GAMBLING.
Mary Esther. April 20. 1908.

Editor Pensacola Journal.
As prohibition is a live political
question, and one that affects the
moral status of society. every man.
woman and child is vitality interested
IN driving this traffic from the stare
as 1t is a burden upon our politics.
viewing it from any point There Is
nothing that can be said good for II.
as II stimulates vice, and the evil and
corruption that lowers our moral
standing and degrades society. is its
handmaiden and follows in its wake
From an economic point it adds moth
ing to the community, but there are
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22
cHlPLEY CORPORAL RETURNS
THANKS FOR COURTESY

Editor PenSacOIa Journal
Through your columns, we wish TO
thank the many good people, and es-
pecially the kind ladies, of Pensa-
cola, for their many favors and cour.
tesles shown to our company during
our recent stay there, and We can
truthfully say that we have never
been treated better at any place. We
were not only treated as soldiers. but
as gentlemen as we'll. Thanking YOU
one and all for your kindness, | re-
main,
Respectfully,
A Corporal of Chipley Platoon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

Miami must be a prosperous city
with an unusually large percentage
OF high-class reading people We
think so because with less than six
thousand people she supports two
such gemarkably strong daily papers
as the Metropolis and the News-Rec-
ord. These journals, despite the fact
that they don't seem TO love each
other. would be credit TO a city of
four times the population of Miami.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

It's a mistake to call Crap
Nuts simply a ''breakfa,
food"
1t IS more. All the nour
lshing elements of wheat ant
barley, SO prepared as to be
promptly absorbed by the
system for rebuilding brain
and nerve cells, and for stor-
ing up energy-the capacity
to think and act that's
Gape-Nuts.
The favour, of this world
famed food adds to its value
by promoting the appetite.
There's a Reason"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

Baseball is clean and manly sport
when properly conducted. The game
in this city is in the hands of capable,
competent and honest citizens, and
that It will be clean and free from
sharp practices, may be confidently
promised. Montgomery Journal.
The same may be said of baseball
as played in Mobile. 1t is the ma
tional game, beloved of all men and
is clean OF that gambling which at
tends other sports. II is needless to
say that it should be encouraged,
since 1t grows in favor year after
year. II has taken root in American
soil.-Mobile Herald
Baseball is as much the national
game of America as cricket is of Eng
land, and all over the north and south
ii is fourishing like a green bay tree
except in Pensacola. We can give
no reason for this, but it is a fact.
The Journal has set in to change this,
and as we have the material in album
dance to make a good baseball club
here we hope to give Pensacola a
respectable standing in the baseball
world before many moons. 1t is no.
bic and manly sport, and we urge our
young men to take hold of this enter
prise at once and let us organize a
baseball club without delay.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

There are wars and wars, some
more noisy and spectacular than 9TH
ers. but not more important. Among
the serious conflicts now on, and yet
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

being detailed for duty to make the
present provisional Sompany COM
plete.
Immediately upon their arrival the
men were sent to the pOwer-hoUse TO
assist the police in guarding that
place.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

1t is better to carry some battle
scars and conquer in the end, than
to go to the grave of the pessimist
without scratch on you.-Live Oak
Democrat.
Brave, wise words bravely and
timely spoken. We need just that
spirit in the world today and need
it now perhaps more than ever be-
fore, We congratulate the editor of
the Democrat upon the maxim which
deserves to live and travel. The pes
simist without a scratch on him" is
a weakling and a coward who shirks
his duties and obligations in the
strenuous warfare of life, and he
should be driven to the rear and kept
there. We don't need his kind on the
firing line where there is something
doing and We must have nerve and
hope and conscience.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22
SMALL NUMBER
OF MEN ARRIVE

A detachment of about twelve men,
rived in the city last night, the men
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-22

gave Cortelyou an enthusiastic recep-
ton.
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Subscribe for The Journal
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Corporal of ChipIey Platoon.
Company NJ, F. S. T.
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Yours truly,
COMPANY L."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17

THE world was never 50 truth-tellins
as It is to-day Nothing like Il ever ex.
listed in the past The commercial
lie OF the world compels truth os
nothing has, nothing else can. for It
is on its credit and truthfulness that
the fabric Of our great commerce
rests. You may rest assured t4dt there
never was 40 much truth in the world
as there is to-day, and there never was
such rea! care for truths as there is
to-dsys--RnY- NJ. j. Savage
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
sarbarous EnaLIsh custom.

Boys in the west of England believe
that by squeezing a mole to death be.
tween the hands aud touching the af-
fected parts with the blood that oozrr
from the mouth Of the dying animal
warts will disappear and will not re.
appear. The culprits are convinced
that moles, worms and other subter-
ranean dwellers have no feelings, and,
therefore, it is not cruelty to put
them to death In this way,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
MOre Work: Less pIau.

Isn't there suspicion that at the
present time Australia might be said
to be "unduly p,easure-lovinse When
1t is remembered that the time is one
Of grave anxiety; that the sands run
rapidly out to give the signal for a
struggle for very existence-there
seems reason to suggest, for the ma
tional good. a little less horse racing,
little more attention to the serious
things of Iife,-Sydney Bulletin.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
Proofs Of olvmpia's creat ACE.

Excavation carried out in the sacred
precincts Of Olympia, Greece, near
The great altar Of zeus. have resulted
in the discovery Of interesting remains
of the neolithic period. including
house vessels and implements. Thus
4 is believed to be evident that Olym-
pia was place of human habitation
more than 5000 years before Christ.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
Mottn from Ruakln.

'1Try to get strength of heart to
look yourself fairly in the face in
mind as well as body / do not doubt
ahAt the mind is less pleasant thing
10 leok at than the face, and for that
very reason it needs more looking at;
10 always have two mirrors on your
&Silet table and see that with proper
care you dress body and mind before
aAem daily"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
Friends in Need.

What need we have any friends. If
we should ne'er have need of them?
They were the most needless creatures
living, should we ne'er have use for
them, and would most resemble sweet
instruments hung up in cases that
keep their sounds to themselves
Shakespeare.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17

When the crucial mcnsnt arrives
the steel of courage Is as likely to be
found in the quivering nerves OF frail
women as in the stouter makeup of
men. Courage is moral trait that
enables the soul to, possess Itself un.
der every vicissitude. In the common
spheres of civil and prosaic life may
be found instances of truest heroism.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17

Tommy Post, one Of the many stage
folk living at the house on Grove
street burned recently, was the heav'
lest loser of the actors stopping there.
He lost a nightshirt and red ban
dana handkerchief, and the leg OF one
of his trousers was water-scaked. He
will take immediate steps to replenish
his wardrobe. Idaho Statesman
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17

So, it's away with your old morality
and your prating about duty, self-re'
straint, sin and its punishment
Science" or evolution" as the case
may be, has shown th' 10 be strong is
to be virtuous. that to seize is the aim
Of life and to let so ones hold the SUI
preme transgression.--N. Y. Evening
Post