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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-05
FLORIDA FARMERS
AND THEIR WORK

Our Sea Island Supremacy.
In this section of Florida Sea Island
cotton is our leading money crop and
is likely to remain so. 1t is all right
to diversity, and the wise farmer VIII
do so for obvious reasons, but there
must always be one crop of most value
and to the perfection of that crop the
farmer should give his best attention.
This limited area in which Sea Island
cotton is grown and its necessity of
manufacturing purposes are factors of
permanent advantage to the farmer
who grows it. and from a recent article
on the subject in the Manufacturers
Record we take the following which
will be of interest:
''The two important features of Sea
Island cotton, looking to the future,
are that no real substitute has yet
been found for the finer grades, and
the limited territory in which it can be
successfully grown. The first gives IL
a permanent and increasing value, and
the second prevents an overproduction
by extension of territory, as was the
case with uplands when Tevas swamp
ed the market with it's enormous crop.
At present fits production is confined
to the counties of Appling, Berrien,
Brooks, Bulloch, Clinch, Coffee, Col
quit, Echols, Emanuel, Irwin, Pierce,
Lownes, Tatnall, Ware and Wayne in
south Georgia; Alachua, Baker, Brad
ford, Columbia, Hamilton, Jackson,
jefferson. Lafayette, Madison, Suwan-
nee and Taylor, Florida; Beaufort
Charleston and Colleton, in South
Carolina. AS further showing. the
limitation Of the Sea Island cotton
territory, in 1909 there was produced
in the countries traversed by and i'm
mediate tributary to the Georgia and
Florida railway 81 per cent of the to-
tai crop of Georgia and So per cent
of the entire crop of the world. If the
manufacture of automobiles continues
at the rate of the past few years, it
alone will consume the larger portion
of the Sea Island cotton crop."-Su-
vance Democrat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-05
Profit Per Acre for Various Crops.

Profit Per Acre for Various Crops.
So many conditions enter into the
making and marketing of a crop Of
fruit or vegetables that it is impossi-
BILE to say just what any particular
crop will produce. One acre of celery,
for instance, has been known to net
the grower $1,150.00 in one season, but
the average would, of course, be con-
siderably less than that.
Following is a table showing what
one might reasonably expect an acre
of thoroughly prepared land to yield
with normal market conditions. These
figures are estimated as net to tha
grower, after freight and selling
charges have been deducted:
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-05
sueeessfuI Women Farmers.

Successful Women Farmers.
Women are quickly learning that the
country offers better opportunities for
wholesome and sane living than does
the congested city, and as a conse-
quence a number Of our eastern aban-
doned farms are being reclaimed by
women who are anxious to escape the
strain of professional or clerical life.
Insan address to the students of
Wellesley college, Laura d. ellis, of
the intercollegiate Alumnae Associa-
ton, said: Girls take up farming"
and judging from the popular response
to the back to the farm" cry it would
not be surprising if more than one
Wellesley graduate followed DR.. Gills'S
advice.
Mrs. Charlotte B. Ware, of Norfolk,
Mass, was a school teacher and al
ways had dreams of a life in the
OPEN" AS a wedding present she re-
ceived Jersey calf and that was the
beginning of the now famous Ware
lands dairy. Mrs. Ware has gone n.
step further, however. Last summer
she opened a school where students
from Hartford, Wellesley, Clark, Cor
nell and the Carnegie Technical
schools, attended for the purpose of
Studying the milk question anu It's
lation to infant mortality. This unique
summer school is the only one of its
kind in the country There is a Mrs.
Strong in Whittier, Cal, who COM.
menced with few walnut trees who
now is about the largest walnut grow
er in the country A great portion of
our olive supply comes from Sacra-
mento valley and the head of a large
ranch there is Mrs. Freda Ehman, wife
of an eastern physician who. finding
herself dependent on her own re
sources, went in for olive growing.
Some women have found it profitable
to specialize in cabbages; others in
onions; and there are still others who
wouldn't think life worth while with
out their chickens and ducks.
Miss Frances Duncan, writing on the
subject. says there is a good chance
for a woman horticulturist to go into
partnership with a landscape gardener
one for artistic results and the other
to study materials.-Success Magazine.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-05

ID 4a4
ton. No one seems TO want ii in the
neishborhood in which he lives and this
is as aale of the men engaged in the
wine ara spirit trade as of any one. else.
5 Ths people who deride prohibition APP
parentis make no effort to prove that
sthe saloon evil Is checked bv license or
local option or that their laws would be
any better enforced than the Maine law
Either seemss to depend on the honesty
and efficiency of the ofhelals. Why don
the friends of license come out in the
open and explain to the common people
some of the benefits of their SYSTEM 1t
is we'll known Chat the friends of the IL
quor interests, In the saise of runners,
agents. etc, are working strenuousiy
throughout the state. Why don't they
speak and explain their ideas in places .
where the friends of prohibition are
largely found-in the ehufches the
Grange halls and the schoolhouses-eYe
at the risk. quite imminent, Oh beng
classed among the "holier-than thous"'
Personal liberty seems to De the war
cry that is rung in most frequently; DO
not any laws restrict man nbefty
even as the gates of a railway crossing
or the quarantine in contagious diseases
debut liberty does not mean license IN
more ways than one. Let us near from
some of it's friends. wherein local option,
or high license will benefit the business
of the grocer. shoe dealer, the dry goods
merchants or the railways and nahufae-
schools or any of the bread winners; lei
us hear why in most license states inc
saloons are not allowed i'll the vicinity OF
schools and churches. and also VIII they
tell us where III the Model saloons os ..
Dayton, Ohio (of which those Interested
boast that they are unimpeachable, pet-
ter than best. are Anore moral or less
hypoeritical than prohibition? think m
formation on the above questions Will De
of interest to others besides
A MAINE. WOMAN
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A Hut In the Apennines.

High on a pass among the Apennines
y friend once took me TO peasants
hut
Where at the table as We entered in
An aged couple sat, who played at cards
The husband. white haired, ruddy, fresh
from toll
His hands yet stained with balsam OF
the wood,
sat smiling at his wife. her lover still;
And she gave answering smile, sun full
OF charm.
And when we asked the reason of their
GaylS aud easily they answered US,
In the sweet Tuscan speech no tongue
cam match
Each night We play, and he who loses
Through the next day be subject to the
other,
And gladly do whatever ne is bid.
Il kIsow not why. but oft this little scene
fau{ps back to cheer me as onward go
ItestIessf self-centered, doubling, blindfy
often / seem to see the mountain hut
Whose seanty windows scarce let IN tne
Buried perhaps in snow Through winter
| see again the brightly glowing logs.
The fresh piucked daisies placed before
the shrines
TIN. tender face OF that sweet aseu Wue,
The STOPPING shoulders of her husband
true.
Oh, / am sure they nearer are 10 Goo
Who bear the lingering years with SIM
Miss E. Boyle oReiIly, in the Inde-
pendent.
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that the open sdloon is a menace to
health. to CHARACTER and to personal ana
nolitical puritvhi il l. hereby charged
That the saloon is a murderer and an as
sassin. The Chicago Tribune kept track
for 10 years and It found that 6S,boe muir
ders were committed by men under IN
huence of LIQUOR In the light OF TINS
fact. supported by proof that cannot be
questioned are not voters Justified IN
finding the saloon business guilty OF muir
der and assassination and in sentencing
IL to death20
AZ n second count I'm the Indictment it
is charged 4Ahat the saloon is thiei'
Last wear H. saloons took from the Ia
boring men%of this eountfy more thah
two thousan4million of dollars and gave
less than notbing i'm return. Last year
fine saloons a this country paid SS5o'Ooo
in revenue to the government and that
same wear II cost the people of this coun-
try Sc, 900 go. 600 to care for the paupers
criminals and insane, orphans. and fee
ble-minded. more than three-fourths OF
whom we're made what they We're by the
saloon
Aso third count II Is charged: That the
saloon is a perverter of morals Prosti-
tuition iS| a creature VI ''"S'''
born of the saloon. lives.by grace of the
saloon and is openly maintained as
source of revenue for The saloon. De-
stroy the saloon and this social cancer
can no longer exist.
II is further charged: That the saloon
Is a burglar 1t goes into the home and
steals the peace, the joy and content
ment of the family. 1t robs man OF
hope here and hereafter. 1t steals the
character of father. son, sister, brother
1t destroys the sanctity of home. rms IS
n small part of the Indictment that could
be drawn against the saloon. Under that
indictment are you not justified In find
ing verdict of guilty? In the United
States there are $4,000 women made wild
ows by the saloon. Do you suppose the
saloons care? Certainly not. Don't get
an idea that this happens away from
home. You are helping pay the expense
of keeping the orphans and the paupers,
of maintaining the jails and penitentia-
ries, the asyums and hospitals. If the
saloon has not struck your family. then
it has struck some other family twice
and it may yet strike yours. The sa-
looms must be voted out.
This from the Arizona Gazette was
evidently never questioned or denied by
the liquor interests of that vicinity, and
the statement of T. NJ. Gilmore, president
of the Model License League, would seem
to confirm and emphasize the indictments
made against the saloon. He says;
The saloon is under public condemna-
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WHO CAN PRAISE 1T.
"A Maine Woman" Asks Proof of the
Beneficial Ends of License.

The Lewiston sun. which is shouting
for local option published the following
communication and tried to score on 1t
editorially but fumbled:
1t is probable that not many of tthe
readers of The sun are familiar with the
teachings of the papers of the liquor m
terests or with the opinions which they
express in their meetings, those who
have never heard 1t may be interested to
know that Vice President Brown of the
Retail Liquor Dealers Association. Fort
Worth, Texas, speaks thus to his col
ieagues:-
l advise you to think less of your
rights and to become familiar as soon as
possible with the true feature of your
business and that is that you are merely
licensed tolerated evil, looked down on
by thee hureh. looked down on by the de-
cent elenient Of society. and constantly
harrassed by class legislation.
And even Ronforts Wine and Spirit
Circular, which is one of the leading
liquor journals in the country. says:
If there is one thing settled beyond
question, it is that the retail liquor trade
of this country must either mend its
ways materially or be prohibited in all
places except the business or tenderloin
precincts of our large cities.
In view of such arraignments as these
by liquor men themselves, is it strange
that our State, even with our Maine
laws feebly enforced in many places, does
not want the licensed saloon in our midst
AT a recent election in Arizona. says
a writer in Western paper, the saloons
were voted out of Maricopa county Dur
ing the campaign the Arizona Gazette
published the following Indictment the
voters at the ballot box handed in a
verdict of guilty and the saloons were
banished:
The saloon business has been placed on
trial before a tribunal composed of vot-
ers This Indictment, the most terrible
ever drawn against any person, business
or interest. is as follows: In the name
of law and order, in the name of justice
and decency. in the name of good govern
ment. good morals, and good citizenship,
in the name Of all the people who believe
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-05
Prevents Contractors Frauds

dispatch from Ottawa says the de-
partment of labor has issued a long
and detailed statement of the working
of the fair wages resolution of the
House of Commons that was passed IN
July 1900 The resolution. which the
House accepted on the motion of Sir
William Mulock, then Postmaster
General, was to the effect that all
Government contracts should contain
such Conditions las will prevent abus-
les wfaeh may arise from the sublet-
Ting Of such contracts, and that every
effort should be made to secure the
payment of such wages as are gener-
ally accepted as current in each trade
for competent workmen in the district
where the work is being carried out"
The resolution, which did not go to
the Senate for confirmation, has not
the effect of an act of Parliament;
but the Government at once began to
act upon 1t as regards all construc-
tive work done by the Government,
and to apply its principle to the manu-
facture of the supplies for the Gov
eminent service and to works aided
by grants from the Dominion Treas
Jury.
II is said, in favor of the law, that
its operation successfully prevents
contractors frauds. Before contrac-
tors can collect money due them from
the government. they must furnish
statements showing the rates OF wages
paid to the various classes of labor
employed and for the hire of teams
and also showing any amounts re.
manning unpaid in respect of such
wages or hire, and should any con-
tractor after notice from the engineer
fail to pay such wages or for such
hire of teams, the minister of the de.
lpartment concerned may himself max,
such payments, deducting the amount.
then or thereafter due to the con.
TRACTORS.
During the fiscal year ended March
81, 1911. there were 275 contracts mad,
by various Government department.
containing these fair wages clauses
and since 1900, according to the re.
port of the Department of Labor. the
provincial governments of New Bruins.
wick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba. Sas.
katchewan, Alberta and British Co.
iumbia have all followed the examnl,
OF the Dominion Government in safe
= guarding the interests of empIovee
engaged on Government contracts an,
In the manufacture of many descrin
tions of Government supplies.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-05
Philadelphia, July 4, 1911.
NO ASST ATTY GENERAL.
Attorney General PattansaIl Sends
journal Kindly Explanation.

Editor Kennebec Journal:
| notice in your issue of Saturday,
July /, an editorial i'm which you criti-
else the administration for having APP
pointed Mr.. Carver as State Printing
Clerk. In that matter ] am not in
terested. but in the course of the edi-
torial you remark that | discovered
that there was need in the office of the
Attorney General of an equivalent OF
the abolished office of Assistant Attor-
ney General and you wonder how the
State can afford a clerk of the legal
skill of Cyrus r. Topper to transact
the duties of Assistant Attorney Gen
eral
l know that you did not intend to
misstate facts or to unjustly criticise
anybody, and l would like therefore for
you to permit me through the columns
of your paper to correct your evident
misunderstanding concerning the mat
ter of Assistant Attorney General.
Up to June 20 the law was COM
pulsory that the Attorney General
should appoint an Assistant who had
authority to perform certain duties.
Under that law | appointed Mr., Tup-
per hGoiStHht -htAoIIlte 1870
April II and he performed the duties
of the office up to June 20. when the
new law. abolishing the office, went
into effect Mr. Topper is not now
and never has been employed as a
clerk in the Attorney Generals office.
Further than that. he will not be so
employed. He is lawyer of too high
standing and conducting too large a
practice to desire employment as clerk
in any department. Nor has he any
connection at all at the present time
with my department.
There are no clerks employed in the
Attorney Generals office with the ex-
ception of Miss Richmond. who re-
ceives salary of $40 per week. and
unless the business of the Office should
change materially from what 1t has
been during the last ten years and is
now | should deem the employment OF
another clerk entirely superfiuous.
1t may be necessary at times to en-
ploy temporarily additional clerical
assistance. Attorney Generals Phil
brook and Hamlin both found such to
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zENAs THOMPSON, PORTLAND.

Statewide prohibition should be
retained in Maine and my reasons
are as follows. ID | have lived
long enough to see the rural peo-
pie of this State grow out from
under the cloud of poverty and
wretchedness brought upon them
by the free use of intoxicating Ii
uuors. and become prosperous and
happy with pleasant homes. ca
I have seen farming communities,
where once were untitled fields,
tumbled down buildings and
broken windows stuffed with old
hats uhe farmers spent their time
at the tavern or corner groeerS
where liquor was Sold. gradually
change to prosperity with finely
cultivated fields. growing crops.
herds of blooded cattle. buildings
in good repair and general air
of prosperity in all surroundings.
f31 I have seen our country VIII
lagos become thrifty and their citi-
zens living in comfort and their
children we'll dressed and happy
and all upon a much higher social
lived in Portland 81 years and have
seen the open saloon driven out
and only dives and kitchen bar
rooms take their places, and the
rum seller become an outlaw and
skulking in the dark to conduct
his unlawful business. In this pc
Rod I have seen the whole state
of Maine become prosperous ana
respected among the people OF the
whole country and her examples
regarding prohibition followed un-
iii the temperance wave is threat
ening to overwhelm the rum trat-
fic throughout all our land / don
believe in any compromises OF
substitutes. What we want Is
true men in the official positions.
That time is coming if we stand
true to our principles.-lfhaS
Thompson. Carriage Mgr. Port
land June II. 1911.
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r. w. DUNN, WATERVILLE.

] believe the principle of state
wide prohibition of the liquor traf-
fic in Maine should be retained.
ANY other method would largely
increase the evils resulting from
liquor drinking. While our law
forbidding its sale has not annihi-
lated the traffic. il has restrained
ii to such a degree in most parts
of the State that its resultant evils
have been reduced to a minimum.
In license states they have fully
as many cases of Illegal selling,
l. e., violation of the prohibitory
features of the license law, as we
have and all the sales allowed by
license besides. The only virtue of
a license law is in its prohibitory
, features and everyone knows how
persistently and openly these are
violated. Neither minors nor
drunkards have any difficulty in
getting liquor, when they have
money to pay for it, and Sunday
sales are so common as to attract
little notice. Prohibition has driv-
en- the traffic off our best streets
and into places that are not at
all inviting or attractive. License
would open very attractive sa-
looms on the corners of our best
business streets into which many
of our boys would be entieed 9nd
ruined The help from our mills
and factories and shops could con-
gregate there and spend their
earnings for drink which ought To
go for the comforts of life and for
the support of their families. In
the case of those who have fami-
lies. AS a manufacturer and EN-
nlover of labor I have taken pains
to investigate and compare condi-
tfons in other states with ours and
find that where we are OCCASION
ally annoyed or interrupted in our
work because of drunkenness. such
trouble is of frequent occurrence
in license states and for several
days following pay day so many of
the help are drunk or recovering
from a drunk that it is Impossible
to secure help to run all of the
machinery They are continually
discharging help on account OF
drunkenness and hiring others in
their places. In spite of our pro-
hibitory law liquor is sold and evll
consequences follow, but with a
license law the sales would in
crease ten fold with the attendant
evils in proportion.-R. w. Dunn,
Edge. Tools Mgr. Waterville, May
"a, 1871.
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STATEWIDE PROHIBITION.
Should the Principle Of Curling the Saloon
In Maine Be Rejected or Retained.
GEO. E. MAcoMBER, AUGUSTA.

oEO, {. MACOMBER, Angus a,
1t has been my good fortune to
travel generally over this State
for the last twenty-five years and
] have noted with good deal of
interest the smatter of liquor
selling and liquor drinking. I
have also travelled very gem
orally in about every state in
the union and l have no hesita-
ton whatever in coming to the
conclusion that the prohibitory law
is better and less liquor is sold
under il than under any other
system of regulating the liquor
traffic.. This does not prove that
no liquor is drank in Maine, as
sucn condition of things is ut
terly out of the question, but there
are practically no open saloons.
The educational advantage of such
a condition to the young and
growing citizens of Maine. who will
he voters in few years, is, in my
opinion. beyond calculation. II
these young men and boys are ed
ueated to leave liquor alone there
viii be no drunkards to bother i'll
the future | do not believe the
people of Maine will ever sanction
any system of open saloons and
liquor selling.-Geo. f. Macomber.
Former Senator, Insurance, Au-
gusta, June 10, 1911.
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IN THE WIDE WORLD.
GBrooklvn standard union1

TBroOkIYn Standard IniuHJ
Germany has ordered of Glenn III. Cur
tiss for naval use two Curtiss biplanes,
while the German army has a contract
with the Wrights for four of their aero
planes
Chinese rice paper has no rice i'll Its
composition. The curionsly brittle. pure
white material used for the marvellous
drawings of Chinese artists is manufac-
tured from the pith of a tree peculiar TO
Formosa.
There are regions wherein the poorer
classes of peasantry eat little or no
bread. London .Tit-bits'' says; Baked
loaves of bread are practically unknown
in many parts of southern Austria and
Italy and throughout the agricultural
district of Roumania.