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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

Some men learn to be pretty good at
figures in figuring on a favorite fans
batting and fielding average.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

Red snappers abound In the waters
around Pensacola and on the dinner
tables.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12
The Conviction
Of Beattie.

An over the country there was con-
siderable speculation as to the out
come of the trial of Henry Clay Beat
tie, Jr, charged with the murder of his
young wife. but the opinion seemed
to prevail, especially in Richmond
where wagers were laid on the result
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

An Illinois girl is going TO give her
friends slumber party. No, we are
not on the list of invited ones.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

The Friend-I suppose it was hard
to lose your daughter?
The Father-Well, 1t did seem as If
it would be at one time, but she landed
this fellow just as we were beginning
to give up hope.-Christian Intelli-
gencer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

Don'ts: Doctors should let the well
enough alone."-JudRe
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

The Angler--Is this public water for
fishing?
The Native-Oh, aye!
The Angler-Then 1t won't be q
crime to land a fish?
The Native-No; 1t 'ud be q bloornin'
miracle The Tattler.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

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Common Colds must be taken Seriously
For unless cured they sap the vitality
and lower the vital resistance to more
serious injection. Prote your chill
dren and yourself by the prompt use
of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound
and note its quick and decisive results
F'olr coughs, colds, Group, whoopnlg
cough, bronchitis and affections of the
throat, chest and lungs it is an ever
ready and valuable remedy.
w. A. DAlemberte. druggist and
apothecary, 121 S. Palafox st.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

eossiping about good roads is per-
MISSILE.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

The hay fever paragraphs should be
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

There are special styles
in the Shield Brand Line
which are the finest shoes
for children that can behad.
Shield Brand Shoes for
children are made for rough
and ready, healthy boys
and girls who climb trees
and fences, and scamper
over the face of the earth.
Many fathers and mothers
find Shield Brand. Shoes
hold the children and give
more genuine wear and
comfort than any other
M. C. K
MANUFACTURERS OF ST
gift BEST y
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12
BIC. VS.. A. ..

Methusateh lived nine ana sixty-uine wears
and did exactly his father did such
strenuous proposition In those days
1t not question OF saving OF killing time
II people OF the time long
Methusaleh did they would have
shorthand. have mproved
why not the system OF teaching shorthand?
time when It required week for to
from New York to Chicago The trip is ID
eighteen .
You can learn the Byrne System Of Shorthand In one
halt OF the time that 1t reQures OF
systems and write It twice fast NE
easily read and Transcribed -
Byrne System is based on alphabet the Same ss
nat OF the English language which by
Byrne has only Is rules vvhIe 5
Ger systems have thousands which be
School open day and night
JONES BUSINESS COLLEGE. a.
p West koa1ana St.
WE ANNOUNCE that Prof. A. g, EGN1,6s :, =, sn;s ~
Gate will conduct literary at seehr
lights week. These in
.-|e information by calling the school.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

We want more railroads right away
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12
Fine for your Children

shoes anywhere near the
price.
If service Is what you
want in children's shoes, :,
be sure and buy Shield
Brand Shoes.
Shield Brand Shoes are
made for men, women and
children and sold by lead
ing shoe dealers throughout
the South. 80 ~, Y.
Ask your shoe man to
show you Shield ErEEd.
Shoes.
TSFR CO
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-12

We ANNOUNCE that Prof, A. 6. EGNsrsis - n .e;s f.
cate VIII eonpuet literary at
shte week. These interested in corrsr q ssSay soy
Ts information by calling the school,
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08
DUTY OF THE PARENTS
THEIR RESPONSIBILITY FOR CHILL
 DREN NEVER ENDS
Loving and Reckoning Thought and Action of Father and Mother Should Continue, Whatever the Con
 duet of Offspring.

In early days in New England 1t was the custom of many fathers to give each son, on reaching his majority, ~his portion" of the family fortune, send the young man out into the world with paternal blessing, tell him to take care of himself and cease to be re- sponsible for his conduct.
 In a sense, of course, this was fol- lowing the teaching and practice of earlier peoples. That most of the sons attained to independence and posi- tions of respect in the world was the general rule. The system was a part of the stern methods of dealing with family affairs. And it bred a race of stern men.
 In those days, seldom. if ever, were advertisements-so familiar in these later tlmes-published announcing that the advertiser would not be Ire sponsible for debts contracted" by anybody but himself. In the case of the sons, there was no occasion for such warning, for the whole situation was understood by the public.
 Changing times and manners have
 
 responsibility of parent for care and conduct of offspring cease? Does the mere fact of a boy or girl passing a certain birthday anniversary end that responsibility? Does any line of con duct-careless, frivolous, extravagant, even criminal-silence the call of a boy or girl-or of the community-for father or mother to continue loving. saving, rescuing, redeeming thought and action?
 Certainly, the boy and girl had no least responsibility for their own be- ing. They were not consulted. It could not be known that they would be gratified with the conditions and influences into which they were brought at birth and to which they were to be subjected in early life.
 The tiny tot who falls and is bruised in the effort to walk is caressed and comforted by father and mother When maybe 15 or 16 years old, or even at tained to the stature of manhood or womanhood, the child-still tot in to fall or fail in those elements of moral strength or discretion which make for successful life records. Must the caressing and comforting parents be withheld?
 The sterner the parent in such case, the more obstinate is the child likely to seem. That responsibility which Is conceived in love, born in the spirit of devotion and nourished by purpose and hope for the best for the child never ceases while the parent lives.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08

r OPERA, Kan.-If walking is good \ exercise for the city man on Sun day, why is 1t not good for him on any other day of the week? That is a question which not less than twenty hiking clubs are considering in as many Kansas towns. Golf and auto mobiling are threatened by this new system of exercise. Edward Payson Weston when he walked through Kan sas year or more ago started the idea of hiking clubs among the busi- ness men of the towns and cities. In forty or fifty towns clubs were formed to go on walks on Sunday morning
 Sunday was chosen because 1t was the only day the business men could de vote to exercise. Now they are plan ming in several towns to make two or three hikes each week. An early morning walk and a fried chicken breakfast five or six miles out in the
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08
BIG DOG NEARLY KILLS A BOY
Great Dane Grabbed Youth and Dragged Him Through Street
 of Washington, Pa

Washington, Pa.-Grabbing Charles O'Brien, aged eleven years. by the thigh, a Great Dane dog belonging to a prominent physician. dragged him through the streets of the city this week and came near tearing the thigh muscles from his leg.
 The O'Brien youth was on his way to the store when the animal attacked him. He tried to beat the brute of, but could not Terror-stricken people beat the beast over the head with umbrellas, but failed to cause him to relax and finally the police were called. It was nearly ten minutes before they pulled the dog away from the lad and managed to drive him home.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08
TERRIBLE TOLL OF THE SEA Steam VesseIs Totally Lost in 1908 Numbered 9e6-FIfty Ships Mise
 Ing That Year.

Careful French statisticians compile each year for the Bureau Veritas" a record of the accidents and losses sui fered for a twelve-month by the mer- chant marine of all nations from which data are obtainable. says writer in Harper's Magazine. The yearly sum- mary put forth by the Bureau Veri- tas" is counted authoritative by all maritime men-owners, agents, under writers. Few who loll in the palm gardens or loiter on the roadways of the swift cities of ease that cross the Atlantic know the Bureau Veritas, % its record of the tolls gathered by that complacent sea down-far down below the rails.
 Nine hundred and eighty-six vessels of the worlds merchant marine steam and sail-totally lost in the year 1908, says these careful French statisticians; and this tally recognizes only steam vessels of over 100 tons burden. Such the record of complete destruction, and the following the count of damage not irreparable: 4,273 steamers injured by fire, collision, stranding, stress of weather, and other causes. The destruction varies from year to year; in 1907 there were 1,104 total losses among merchant ships; in 1905 1,O3S steamships and sailing vessels were gripped by the sea.
 No count is kept of the men who go down in the ships that are lost. The statisticians deal only with conner cial values. No bureau in the world finds profit or incentive in keeping count of the thousands of sea-workers who are claimed as toll by the sea we reckon tanned. Only this is taken in count; that every day in the year somewhere on the restless wastes of the seven seas two-in some years three-ships are snatched in greed by the power that tolerates the many. So the average has 1t.
 The sea takes most of its 1.-the by stealth. bandage of fog about the navigator's eyes, a racing current moving unseen beneath the masked innocence of fiat water, a knife-edge reef, or sand that yields until keel is fairly trapped-then destruction. Not quite 400 of the 9S6 vessels lost in the year 1908 were wrecked through stranding; 15S of these were steam ships, superior as they were over the barks and schooners subject to the whims of the wind Collisions sent ninety crafts to the bottom. Fire de- stroyed thirty-eight Ninety-three filled and foundered. Under the head miss ing" which means that not even care full French statisticians can divine the secrets of the deep, fifty ships were registered in the 1908 record of dis aster.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08
Kansas Hiking Clubs on Long Trudge

country is something to think about
 The business men organize a walk ing club, the Peripatetic club or the Weston Wabblers or something like that, and select a captain. It Is the captains business to pick out the road over which the hike will be made on Sunday morning and notify his com pany. Another of his duties is to have a conference with Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Smith or Mrs. Brown, who happens to live five or six miles out on the road selected, and arrange with her to have ready steaming hot break fast of fried chicken, brown gravy, biscuits and alfalfa honey at seven o'clock. Usually the price for such a Sunday morning breakfast out in the country is 50 cents a plate.
 During the last summer the farm ers' wives who have prepared these feasts for the hikers have been astir early. They watch down the road for the column of walkers to come over the hill, and then they take the bis- cults and fried chicken out of the oven. The table is always set when the men arrive. and it Is the evidence of every Kansas woman who has en- tertained the hikers that they are hearty eaters.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08
Moving Picture Shows Grip Chicago

~ HICAGO.-The moving picture show L. is putting baseball far in the shade n it's bid for popularity. In Chicago there are four persons who attend moving picture shows for every one that attends a baseball game. Moving picture fans" are becoming more and more numerous, and their patronage IS becoming so popular that the pro Drietors are giving more than 30 per cent. more pictures for a nickel than they did a year ago. The records of the moving picture bureau of the po- lice department in charge of Sergt Jeremiah O'Connor show that there are 556 shows In Chicago. Besides .hese. all of the large vaudeville houses are running moving pictures, and the craze has reached such pro portions that the centrally located the zters even are presenting pictures be- .ween the acts.
 The first moving-picture shows were tabished in 1908. The first neigh oorbood theaters were located in re- modelled store buildings. The public ;ook to them quickly and they grew in number rapidly. All were not success sul, principally because every Tom, Dick and Harry who had a few dol lars to invest bought a moving-picture machine. rented place and made a bid for patronage
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08
HARDTACK OR PRUEES2 DIGGING TIE OzARKs
DOUBT ABOUT THE BEST FOOD
 FOR NATIONS SOLDIERS.
Varied DIetarIes of conquerIng LegIons of the Past t-Japanese Armies Fight on Rice, Raw Fish and
 Vegetables.

On what shall the warrior feed that he may gain that iron in the blood and steel in the muscles that carries on ar mics to victory? We had pinned our faith to hardtack and black coffee. But now hardtack has been put under the ban, and the recent Illinois military maneuvers marked the ascendency of the prune. Did not the much reviled hardtack save the nation in '61-65? Could an army fed on prunes have done it? And what, indeed, will be the army without that staff of life that has survived even the pricking of army poets pen points? AS well Ham let without the melancholy Dane-or the ghost, or the skull of poor Yorick. Though it was reviled, still was it loved by those who by dint of long ne cessity or perseverance acquired the habit; for surely hardtack is as much an acquired taste as the olive, cigar cite or high-ball. We must admit that we are apprehensive about the prune; and still cling stoically to the opinion that more hardtack and less bully beef would have enabled us to come out of the war with Spain with record OS fewer soldiers killed by rations served than by Spanish bullets.
 There seems, as we survey the ground, to be no hard and fast diet etary for conquering legions. The Spartans, according to Lycurgus, trained on game and wine; but was it not game and wine, and few other things, that undid Hannibars conquer ing legions in that fateful winter in Capua? There can be no doubt that the grand Old Guard fattened and kept up it's fighting heat on win ordinare, and rather frugal fare. Still the Rus sians who met the rice-fed Japanese had almost the same fare-when they could get it. Evidently national tenn pcrament and early training must be considered. Washingtons army fought rather badly and won very slowly on very little food. And then came in the long reign of the hardtack.
 The Japanese are the greatest fight ing people of the east Their armies fight on rice, raw fish and vegetables; and this, well warmed up with cur ries, is the diet of the other great fighting people of the east-the great Sikh brotherhood. the military Spar tans of the modern world Slowly, but surely, 1t seems that the fighting world is falling into two parts-the meat and the rice armies, and the wine that the Spartans and the French drank, is be- ing eliminated. But the substitution of the untried prune for hardtack seems to be a rash step that shatters all calculations on the strength of our striking arm.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08

Those handled by experienced show men prospered. A moving-picture in- spection bureau was established, and after the usual red tape and delay it got down to working order. The Chi cago bureau has been so we'll handled at all times that 1t is acknowledged to be the best in the United States. Seventy thousand feet of films are inspected every week by the bureau.
 The seven police officers in charge are responsible for the supervision and censorship of all the theaters in the city. their inspections extending to both sides of the footlfghts. Souvenir postal cards offered for sale in Chi cago also are under their inspection.
 From two to ten sets of pictures are rejected each week. "Cutouts' are ordered in perhaps an average of a dozen sets of films each week. The police censors order cut every scene which If enacted within their sight would be prohibited by law If pre- sented in reality.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08
Value of the Handa.

Twenty thousand dollars for the boy who lost both hands-the reward just sustained by the New Jersey courts is little enough.
 It is about all that most persons with two hands can do to earn liv- ing at manual labor in these days of high rents and high prices. There are few trades open to a man handicapped by the loss of one hand. For him who is without hands there is forever no opportunity, no outlook.
 More than this, the handless man must all his life have attendance. He cannot dress himself He cannot feed himself The most intricate artificial hands can never perform a tenth of the services rendered by natures ex- cellent implements. He is cut off, too, from participation in most forms of pleasurable and beneficial physical ex- ercises and enjoyments
 The decision Is especially note worthy as a new mark in the appar- ently increasing appreciation that courts and juries all over the country are showing as to the handicap of physical disability
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08
To Marry and Keep HIs Work.

Making good his promise to break bachelorhood before reaching the age of 40 years, and marry a girl half his age, Constable William G. Yearsley of Magistrate Hagerty's office will in a few days wed Miss Lillian M. Ken dell of Clifton Heights, Pa.
 The bride-to-be is IS years old. Yearsley is 3S. They were introduced by Mrs. William Davis, sister of the constable. who played the role. of matchmaker. She always counseled her brother to get married and have 8 home of his own.
 ''I'll get married before I'm 40," de clared Yearsley a year ago, at which time he had not met his fiancee. And I'll surprise you by getting a wife half as old as I am."
 Eight months ago the couple were introduced. It was mutual love at first sight Yearsley won her consent to marriage several weeks ago. They will be married at the sisters home, where they met, 155 North Fifty-sev- enth street.
 Miss Kendell is a graduate of the Newark, N. J.. high school, and an ac- complished musician. = Philadelphia Times.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08
RAID ON WOMEN GAMBLERS
Fashionable Resort in Minneapolis, MInn., Closed When Husbands
 Complain of Wives Losses.


 Minneapolis, Minn.-An ultra-fash- ionable gambling house, like those con- ducted in frontier days, has been closed by the police. after running for several weeks, during which time hun dreds of women have squandered their money in the place. A society woman ran it
 The street in front of the house waS constantly lined with limousines and town cars of the rich women of Min neapolis. All sorts of games were played, so the police say The clos ing of the house was brought about by the wrath of a well to do grocer of the city, who discovered that his wife had lost considerable money there.
 The husband said his wife was mak- ing inroads On the family funds to such an extent that he was unable to meet his bills. He said he had heard that other women players were doing the like and their husbands were com plaining. He declared his wife had lost as much as $70 in single sitting. He said that when the card games were over the women were invited to buy tickets that entitled them in a chance in rallies of hand-painted china or other goods.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08
census Inaccuracies.

What relation does a woman's age, as it is disclosed by the census paper, bear to the number of years she has actually spent in this vale of tears It varies, probably, according to the fancy of the fair recorder. In the re- cent Australian census the common wealth statistician became so distract ed by the extent of the variation that, acting in manner which can only be described as brutal, he caused intima- tions to be inserted .n the press re- minding the public that birth regis ters exist, and could be referred to, even suggesting that he has actually had them referred to in large num- Der of cases, with Illuminating re- suits. The consequence of this was a mild form of panic, there being a 50 pound ($250) fine for inaccuracy. and there has been quite shoal of com munications from feminine core spondents, artlessly wondering wheth- CT they made a slip of the pen, and begging, if so. to correct.
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08
Miserable ToadstooI.

It is a pity that the edible mush. room of our fields, the most liked and the commonest- of all fungi, should be forever under a ban because ignorant or careless people persist in cooking a few specimens of the death cup Amanita, the commonest of poisonous fungi, with their mess of mushrooms and dying suddenly in consequence The death cup amanita Is the only toadstooI which could possibly be mis- taken for the common edible mush. room of the fields, the agaricus cam pestris, which is not generally known by its Latin name, and can get along very well without it. This field mush- room abounds in the pasture lots and moors. After heavy rain 1t can be gathered by the basketful. It is a nutritious and palatable food, which can be cooked and served in many ways, all enticing and satisfying In its wild state 1t is more delicious than any cultivated mushroom. One who becomes well acquainted with 1t never mistakes for 1t the poisonous fungi, which slightly resembles 1t in contour and color, but is easily recognized by one who has fair acquaintance with the fungi of the fields
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08

NEW YORK.-Why are there so " many fat women?" A man rushing upon his doom asked this question. He spoke of the increasing prevalence of large feminine persons. not with admiration, but with profound d1smay. Why are there so many fat women? ?" he reiterated. ''I have watched the passing throng in several cities and while one fat man was passing 1 have counted not fewer than four fat wom- en. This ratio has held true when ever and wherever. 1 have had occa- sion to take observations.
 These women are, for the most part, between thirty-five and tifty-tive years old. They either waddle ponder ously or propel themselves forward with not the slightest perceptible freedom of motion, looking the while ike statues moving on rollers. The alarming corpulence of our middle 1ged women is getting serious. They seem to be fattening for a slumber- ous old age
 'If one looks about in New York Lheaters and restaurants the conclu- sion that the New York women seen there are about twenty pounds over weight looms large and inevitable. And in these restaurants lies the ex-
The Holbrook news., 1911-12-08

and the easy spenders had treated even that somewhat contemptuously. The newspapers sell for five cents a copy. Children have been brought up to the idea of asking for a nickel for candy and spending 1t.
 Now the cost of living is coming home even to the free-spending west, and housewives have found that 1t is not only well to look after the nickels, but the pennies, too. It is pointed out that under the present system if 8 purchase comes to an odd amount the total is put up to make the even nickel for the shopkeeper.