The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-03-06
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

with the governors OF hldteHs bifhe
their opinions on the value to the
United States and their own respect
i've states Of the around-the-wOrld ma
val cruise which ended that day at
Hampton Roads. The honor Of lead
ing the list was accorded to that sent
by Governor GilchHst Of Florida. II
was his opinion that this cruise dem
onstrated the necessity of the Pan
anna canal as war and peace meas
ure: that II a nation possessed Of a
suitable feet should, coincident with
declaration Of war, land a quarter
TO a half million OF men on the Phil
ippines we could not land thereafter
even a brigade: that the republican
policy in not neutralizing the Phil
ippines was q weak one; demonstrate
ed the folly of spending billions of
money and thousands OF lives in the
army of occupation, in educating peo-
pie whom we can't assimilate and
who don't want to be assimilated;
and demonstrated that IL the Phil
ippines are not neutralized the eff
cheney Of the navy should be trebled,
and that two-thirds of this increased
navy should be stationed at the Phil
ippines TO retain people whom all par
ties here say they do not wish to
retain and all people there say they
do not wish to be retained" There
were other points made, all clothed
in language equally incisive with that
Of the passages quoted The govern
or ends with a fitting quotation from
Washington's farewell address con-
corning entangling alliances.
Go in what direction you please in
Jacksonville nowadays and you will
find 1t hard to escape the noise Of
the hammer and saw. And families
no longer wait for a dwelling to be
finished before they move in. If 1t
is capable of being locked up enough
to keep lntruders out, some family is
sure to be willing to set up its Lares
and Penates before the carpenter and
plasterer are quite through with the
building.
The citizens Of Monticello are much
stirred up over the rumor that the |
Atlantic Coast Line Railway intends |
TO construct a line of road from Per- |
ry, Fla, TO Amsterdam via ITALIA |
hassee and give Monticello the go !
by, instead of building through that |
city, which is considered by the peo- |
pie OF Monticello TO be the only log |
cal point Of construction.
The inventive spirit is strong in
rampans and that city bids fair TO
-iVal the former fame of New Eng
and for inventions. The latest is a
patent whereby any may may put a
in roof on his house himself. Now
I some Tampan will invent something
whereby any man can acquire a
house Of his own on which TO put a
in roof we may all be happy vet.
Never in the history of st. Pc
ersburg has there been so much
building OF homes and residences as
here Is at the present time. 1t Is
lot boom of buildings as most of
he structures under way are being
rected by those who live in st. Pc.
the year round. 1t shows
heir opinion of the city's future.
Pensacola is to have a seaside no.
Ell, a summer hotel, on Santa Rosa
sland, on the site of the old life
aYing station, which was blown
own In the great storm three years
go. II will have about a hundred
ooms and is expected to be finished
q few months, in time for the next
eason.
Wear a white flower on the second
unday in May, preferably a white
but be sure to wear a
'hite flower That day has been Sc
'cted as Mothers Day" such a flow.
as a means OF observance. There
no holier sentiment In mankind
IAN the self-sacrifcing love Of a
lother for her child. Every man
nd woman is ennobled through cher.
hing love for the mother who bore
I'm OF her. No relation I'm life Is
lore tender than that OF a mother
her children, or grateful children
their mother. Motherhood means
lore danger to life than the battle.
ED, II means countless sacrifices.