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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
HISTORY OF THE OLD
BATTLESHIP MISSISSIPPI
BY VIM. H. Trimmer, Molino. Fla.

Speaking Of the battleship Missis-
sippi, recently at anchor and eoaling
OF the navy, yard, you say, named
after the stats of Mississippi" She is
the namesake o. the Father OF Wa
tiers. and also carries the title Of the
historic battleshIp Mississippi. that
was sunk in the Mississippi river.
The Mississippi was a United
States side wheel steamer OF the Sec
ond class, 1892 tons, carried 229 men
and IL guns, was attached to the west
Gulf blockading quadron commanded
by Admiral Farragut at tne time she
was sunk. Here rs a description Of
the loss Of the Mississippi on the
night of March 18th, 1863:
AT 9:15 D. N. the flagship Hart
ford made signal to get under way
and in thirty minutes the fleet was
moving toward the batteries on the
west side of the river. At IL p. m.
the batteries opened fire on the Hart
ford, the leading vessel. The Essex
engaged the lower batteries as soon
as the flagship opened fire. The Es-
sex was an iron clad steamer of 1000
tons and z guns. Following the flag
snip came the Richmond, screw
steamer, 1929 tons, % guns and 261
men Then the screw steamer No
nongahela, 1878 tons, II guns and
176 men. Following her the paddle
wheel steamer Mississippi, Captain
Melancton Smith. The admirals or
ders were to keep the port side bat.
teries clear for the enemy's battery
On the port side Of the river going up
after we rounded the point opposite
Port Hudson. It was while engaging
the batteries after midnight the Mis-
sississippi grounded and heeled over
three streaks to port. The engine
was immediately reversed, and the
port guns were run in to bring her
on an even keel after watch we open
ed fire from our starboard guns.
I'VE kept the engine backing Tor
thirty-five minutes with Is pounds OF
steam, all the engineer said she could
bear. The pilot stated 1t would be
impossible to get her off. I then or
dered the port guns to be spiked and
the pivot gun thrown overheard. In
the meantime the enemy had gotten
perfect range Of us. The cross fire
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
Tampa, of Course, !"
Claims the Earth.

Under the caption Tampa, of
Course" the Tampa Tribune, of
course, arises, or rather falls down,
to make the following remarks:
The Pensacola Journal INDUCES in
some rainbow chasing in the follow
ing: -Four big steamers are to be
built at Norfolk to run between New
York and gulf ports. Which gulf
ports? Why does not Pensacola go
out after these steamers? There is no
better gulf port than that of the Deep
Water City of Florida" Tampa is
the answer to The Journals question.
Pensacola is fine port but the Har-
riman eye is on this city just now
and, while it has not yet been made
public, The Journal will soon have
the pleasure of printing the announce
meDt that Tampa has secured another
big steamship connection.
Really. Pensacola is a fine port, Ell?
Well, rather; with thirty-three feet
of water over the bar at low tide and
bay so uniform in a still greater
depth that it will accommodate three
or four of the greatest navies in the
world and then have room for many
leviathans of ocean commerce. to
steam up to the city docks.
Harriman's eye may be on Tampa,
as the Tribune declares. but his and
many other eyes are also on Pensa-
cola-have been for year or more,
and we are inclined to give the
wizard" credit for enough wisdom to
discriminate between a twenty foot
channel and a thirty to forty foot
basin.
Wonder why some of the Tribune's
writer's do not come up to Pensacola,
anyhow, and find out what a sure
enough harbor looks like? Do they
prefer to soothe their souls into false
confidence? Do they believe that
where ignorance is bliss it's folly to
be wise" is a good business PROPOSE
ton?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
CHALLENGE FROM
WHITES PHARMACY

Whites Pharmacy is seeking the
worst case Of dyspepsia or constipa-
ton in Pensacola or vicinity to test
DIR. Towards new specific for the
cure of those diseases.
So confident are they that this re-
marEable medicine win effect a last
ing cure in a short time. that they
offer to refund the money should it
not be successful
This specific of DIR. Towards will
cure sick headache. dizzy feelings.
constipation, dyspepsia and all forms
Of malaria and liver trouble. It does
not simply give relief for a time; it.
makes permanent and complete cures
II viii regulate the bowels, tone up
the whole Intestinal tract, give you
an appetite, make food taste good and
digest well, and increase vigor.
Take advantage OF Whites Phar-
macy's challenge and secure a bottle
OF DR.. Howards specific at half price
with their personal guarantee to re-
fund your money II it does not help
yea.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

Editor McCreary, of the Gainesville
Sun, is fond of moralising and it is a
relief to the mind to read after him
when in such a mood. He declared in
his last issue: This is an age which
adores power and success. 1t is i'm
patient with failure, yet how frequent
ly the failure of today becomes the
success Of tomorrow" If one will
stop to think he will realise that few
of the worlds great advisers have
lived to enjoy the fruits of their work.
Yet such lives have been eminently
successful and most powerful, their
impact being stamped forever upon
the brow of an advancing civilization.
What is called success and power by
the world, the temporal product Of
money or brute force or cunning, are
but ephemeral froth patches cast upon
the shore by times ocean, unpro-
ductive of any lasting good and des-
tined for ar Initiation.
Is it prophetic? The Miami News
Record cdIls it Wet Palm Beach.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

New York World says:
eff there be skeptics who think
that Col. Harvey has allowed enthus-
iasm to overmaster Judgment let
them ask themselves what this M
ton would have been without these
fundamental guarantees of freedom
and tolerance. Or let them ask
themselves what this nation would
become were these fundamental
guarantees obIiterated
Is it possible for any American cit
iZen, except sIberhaps Theodore
Roosevelt, to conceive the United
States without this greatest glory Of
any people?' F" AZ
1t might also include those Florida
legislators who wanted to tag" the
press of this state
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

The meek and 1owIy gopher may
now hold its head aloft and point
with pride to law which has wealth
cred all the storms Of legislation and
has finally fioated into the security OF
the Florida statute books, duly Ep-
proved by a benign governor. This
law provides that in the portion OF
Florida lying west of the Chattahoo-
chez none may modest or make the
gopher afraid--'nod in the summer
time. Jakey" Citizens living east of
the Chattahoochee may go for the
gopher at any time-but IL is report
ed that there is an unusual activity
among the gopheTs and a general mi
grafton Pensacolaward, ito spend the
summer"
This law, which might have been
entitled. AN act to encourage the
immigration of the gopher to West
Florida" is hailed with delight by the
citizens of that section, who insist
that the recent legislature is the only
one that ever considered with proper
appreciation the real needs Of the
people. It is fondIy hoped that under
the fostering wing o. state protec-
ton the gopher will increase and
multiply until it is within reach of all
and the humblest citizen may par
take in season of this delicious It'd
bit-the food which has made PEN
sacola famous.
What a pity the state legislatures
do not always conf1ne themselves 10
the consideration Of such benevolent
and benefcent measures as the go
pher and Iimpkin laws, and not med
die with things that are too large for
them!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
VOX POPULI.
SUGGESTION FOR LOCATION
OF TRI-COUNTY FAIR

Editor Pensacola Journal:
AS the subject of a Tri-County Fair
is being agitated, l for one hope we
will have it, and crowds of visitors
here to see it. But where will we
have it? That is the question.
The armory hall is of course entire
ly too small, but it ought to be some
place easy of access. Why not have
it on that vacant lot across Palafox
street from the armory? l think that
is the largest lot near in, and tempo
rary structures or tents could be put
up there easily.
Hoping you will let US know what
you think of it.
W. g. FREDERIC.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
Blend Praise With Blame
Wherever IT'S Deserved.

The newspapers Of the state have
been almost unanimous in villifying
the late lamented legislature and in
dulging in loud paeans of thanksgiv-
ing over its adjournment. Para
graphers have shot their usual shafts
and given vent to their accustomed
sarcasm. This, however, Is largely a
matter O. habit and the states rep
resentatives viii, no doubt, size 1t all
UP at about its true worth.
The Journal does not pretend to
be without sin in this respect, but it
has tried to confine its censure to
specific acts of omission or commits
sion, avoiding wholesale condemna-
ton. 1t is right and proper to give
even the devil his DUE. and how
much more deserving of the same
courtesy are the hornless, hoofless,
taiIless patriots who recently adorn-
ed the red hills of Leon during sixty
anxious, perspiring days to pass laws
pro bono publico or pro bono of some
other old thing.
The legislature passed several COM
mendable acts. The members who in
trodueed these laws deserve praise,
the two houses that passed them de-
serve praise and the good governor
who signed them deserves praise.
The JournA says it and means it and
hereby tenders all concerned its
heartfelt thanks.
And it wishes now to mention par
ticularly two acts which, along with
others already alluded to and duly
approved. call for universal COM
mendation. The first is the law re-
curing the separation OF white and
negro criminals and the separation of
males and females in the prisons OIL
the state. The second is the provis-
ion that the elementary principles of
agriculture and civil government be
taught in public schools, and penal
king the county boards of education
which neglect to carry out the law.
Both these acts are righteous and
will tend Cor the moral, intellectual
and financial betterment OF the state
That the condition which necessitat-
ed the passage of the first should
have previously existed is most hor-
rible TO think about, and it is graft
tying to note the advanced apprecia-
ton Of economics and need for poIit-
icsl education which called forth the
second. Every child at the age OF
twelve should know much of the soil
whence springs his only hope for ply
steal life, and should also be able TO
recite the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
For these beneficent acts let US all
join in eulogizing the recent legislat-
ure-arousing, perchance, it's mem
BERG from the doldrums into which
they may have fallen because of a
superfluity of abuse, and bracing
their spirits to a point where they
may slap each other on the back with
the mutually exhilarating conscious
ness of having taken part in "a beau
tiful work well done.'
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
The Clutter Music
House
A Few Specials.

New Pianos, $500 per month.
Used Pianos, $500 per rsonth.
Square Pianos, Soc per week.
Artist Victims, $50 70 SEQ, IS per
month.
Victor and Edison Paragraphs,
$1.oo per week.
Records-s5c and soc, Edison Rec.
ord; DoubIe-race Victor e reeerds)
75c each.
Hear caruso, Media, seotti, and ali
the celebrated artists on vIctroIa
every afternoon.
Music Rolls. soc to $500.
New Popular Sheet Music received
daily at Csc each.
A large line Of new pianos en-
monthly payments.
Pianos Tuned, $500.
Pianos rented, $500 per msnth and
up.
Pianos stored, $1.oo per E.oath.
Player Pianos, the best ever.
Several good used upright planes,
from $50 to $500, $500 and $500 per
month.
In our repair department. we have
three first-ciaas men and guarantee
satisfaction. We car make your old
piano look like new-on monthly pay
nnents, II wanted.
ll2-ll4 S. PalaiOx ST.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
Inconsiderate soostiss.

Can't some Of our contemporaries
let some legislator or public man do
something good without speaking OF
him as the next governor" or good
senatorial or congressional TIMBER"
Why not let young statesmen wait
till their business and reputation will
warrant their accepting high office?
No greater harm can come to a young
man with little income than to induce
him to become "a standing candi-
date" The sea of politics covers
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

The Pensacola Journal is bitter in
its criticisms of Frank Clark. But
Clark is at least a live one" and
keeps his district and himself before
the public. We have all but forgotten
the name of the present congressman
from the Third district. Is he work
ing?-Tampa Tribune.
Yes; and not bowling and hammer
ing his party.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
PENSACOLA AND
PENSACCLIANS

Has Them Worried.
Senator John s. Beard has his
friends on either side of the liquor
question considerably worried as to
his exact position on the subject. He
is something like the Irishman's
rheumatism, here today and gone
yesterday. Record.
Please Help US Swat.
We thought we were hitting the
pestiferous fly some hard blows, but
now that The Pensacola Journal is
attacking him with a poetic club, wen
have to take a back seat and swat
only the stray ones that escape those
awful blows.-JacksonVill Times
Union.
Pensaccia's Palms.
The Pensacola Journal in advocat-
ing the planting OF palm trees says;
These trees can be procured and
planted at q maximum Of $40 per tree.
Ten thousand dollars spent for this
purpose would mean a thousand palm
trees In Pensacola and they would
make the city famous" Quite num-
Der OF palm trees have already been
planted IN Gainesville this spring.
They add adorpmAak ts . zlaca ESaSh
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

To talk democracy to the Miami
papers is like shaking a red hand
kerchief at a bull Pineapples have a
peculiar effect on the equipoise and
politics of some people; yet it's a
luscious healthful and appetizing food,
and the Florida variety is without a
competitor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

many a wreck OF brilliant hopes and
possibilities. Our advice to our
young men. who are making good in
the bays and harbors, would be,
Stay in sight of land for several
years, regardless of injudicious
friends who urge you to launch out
in the deep. News.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

gold, yea, to much fine gold. sweeter
than honey and the honey-comb. -
Pensacola Journal. From this extrav-
agant praise which Brother Tyler
lavishes on the gopher, we are in
clined to think that he has some
strong personal interest. Does The
Journal use gophers in meeting its
pay rolls Tampa Tribune.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

Florida's dentists will pull on their
meeting at Ocala, commencing Thurs
day. 1t will be the crowning event of
the Brick City's convention year, and
every hotel and other cavity will be
filed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

Where is Beveridge?" asks the
esteemed Times Union. Hard to tell
just where he is right now; but it is
easy to see that before long he will
be where Moses was when the light
went out.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

as no other tree can give, and are
quickly noticed by visitors.-Gaines-
Vile Sun.
Doesn't Want It.
The Taylor County Herald docs
not believe there is any better mate
rial in the state than Hon. Frank L.
Mayes, editor of The Pensacola Jour-
nal, for the position of U. S senator
TO succeed Senator Taliaferro, and
suggests that if West Florida people
will bring him into the arena he
(Mayes) will give all competitors the
night OF me."-Palatka News.
The Tax on The People.
The Pensacola Journal SAYS: when
the last session OF the sixtieth con-
gress appropriated $1,044, 401,757 it
placed tax Of S12 on every man,
woman and child, from the gentleman
ian to the newborn baby. Of the
country's 100000 population. Now
what do you think of that? In a
final analysis, you know, there is no
one else to pay the money" But
that is just a starter. A tax twice as
large is levied on the American peo-
pie every year for the benefit of the
protected classes. The average Amer
lean is taxed at least $50 a year to
enrich the privileged American
Jacksonville Times Union.
Hew About This?
The Tampa Tribune Jumped on the
Valley Gazette with both feet a few
days ago, calling this paper an igno-
ramus and other bad and naughty
names because we inadvertently
mentioned the name Spaniard in con-
nection with the black hand" atroci-
ties in that city. Now listen to the
Tribune: The Fernandina Record
prints four extra pages, devoted to
information concerning Pensacola and
its business interests. The Record
is doing good work for the lovely little
seaport city" We submit that it is
Just as likely Spaniards would be
found among the members of the
BLACK Hand Society" as that a Fer
nandins paper would devote four
pages to Information concerning Pen
saocla.-Kissimmee Gazette.
Just As Good AS Gold.
The jests poked at the gopher leg
islation at Tallahassee are Unkind
and unjust. Really so far as the go
pher section of Florida is concerned,
this gopher is used for currency
Tampa Tribune. This from a news
paper representing a city OF nearly
so 900 whose people feel so poor they
continue to travel over a rickety old
bridge and supply a barn for their
public officials instead of a decent
city building is cheeky to saw the
least. II Is quite evident that Editors
Stovall and Dambright have never
eaten gopher gumbo or they could
sing g different tune. Currency in
deedl The gopher is superior to
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

Ever notice the newspaper pictures
Of Serene E. Payne, congressman from
New York? They make him look as
though he knows as much about the
science Of the tariff as anything else
Ahem!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

cent. None but the wealthy can en-
Joy this life, until the rascals shall
have been turned out.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
cIark's Cutting Up"

GtarkS Cutting Up.
1t is believed by many that both
Farris and Hilburn will enter the
contest for Frank Clark's place in
congress. Frank has been cutting up
monkey shines at Washington, repud-
iating democratic principles and
jumping on Bryan, the greatest pri-
vate citizen IN the world, to such an
extent that his defeat is only ques-
ton of the right man. For many
reasons a straight republican is pref
cradle to a haIS-baked democrat 30
Southern people who look upon devo-
ton to principle far above any mon
etary OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Ar
gus.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

July Fourth will be Sunday; but
July Fifth-siss, boom, rahi
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

The latest is for Walter weIlman
to plant a wireless station on the
north pole. The idea is a stroke of
genius.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

Why don't they make the wireless
distress call P. d. Q. and be done
with it?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

Jim Jeffries, the pugilist, talks fair
The sports code of ethics has points
which the commercial world would do
well to copy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

The Japs have Hawaii now, but it's
q good thing America stepped in when
she did. despite Queen LIS lamenta-
lions. What strategical point it is.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

Robert Bacon. who is to succeed
Henry White as ambassador to
France, was born in Massachusetts
forty-nine years ago and was gradu-
ated from Harvard in the same class
with Theodore Roosevelt. He joined
the bank firm Of ]. P. Morgan & Co,
and at one time was the firms Euro
pean representative. In 1905 he ac-
cepted the post Of assistant secre-
tary of state and was the close COM
panion and friend Of, President
Roosevelt until the end OF his admin
istration. Mr.. Bacon became secre-
tary of state upon the retirement OF
Elihu Root and occupied the place
in the cabinet until the appointment
OF Philander G. Knox.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

Put the lid on the househy.-Jack-
sonxille Times Union.
No sir; not if he's in the sugar
bowl or bread-box.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

Duty on works of art, nil; duty on
diamonds, 15 per cent. ad valorem;
duty on stockings, shirts and other
manufactured cotton goods, the cloth
ing OF the poor, anywhere from a
hundred to . hundred and forty per
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
Hits Right Out.

Hts RIqnt OUT
Governor Gilchrist is demonstrat-
ing that the people made no mistake
in placing the affairs of the state in
his hands. He has unhesitatingly We
toed such measures as did not meet
his approval, and will undoubtedly
decline to approve several Ubiquitous
bills which he did not have time to
consider prior to adjournment of the
egislature.-Gainesv Sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY STATE PRESS

The destruction of the forests may
be bad for other sections. but here 10
Covington county when the timber Is
cut the land is opened for cultivation,
and its crops are of infinitely more
Importance than its pine trees.-Opp
(Ala.) Messenger.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

Is it prophetic? The Miami News
Record cdIls it Wet Palm Beach.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15
ONE GOOD LAW
j WAS ENACTED.
Lakeland News.

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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-06-15

as no other tree can give. and are
quickly noticed by visitors.-Gaines-
Vile Sun.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-04-23
A Remarkable Record.

Once more. after an interval of
eight years, the English railroads have
achieved the remarkable record or
carrying on their operations for a
whole twelve-months without the loss
of a single life. The last period IN
which this was achieved was the year
1901. In 1902 six lives were lost, in
1903 twenty-five. in 1904 six. in 1905
thirty-nine in 1906 fifty-eight and
in 1907 eighteen. AS matter of fact
there has been no loss of life for nj
teen months past. The relatively large
number of fatalities in 1906 was
mainly the result of three disasters
which we're found, upon investlga-
ton. to be due entirely to the failure
of the human elemental the mechan-
zeal arrangements on train and track
being found perfect.