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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

They will no doubt have to shoot
craps to decide who won the election in
Maine.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

Togo has gone back home and says
he took away much American spirits.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

Yes, we remember hearing of New
York having governor named Hughes
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

Sundays are days of happiness In
Pensacola.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

Now the courts say they haven't time
to test alcohol. There are several in
Pensacola who will take the Job.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

Women are right In most instances
but their reason for being right cannot
be given.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

A kiss waltz Is one Of the kind where
the essential part may be carried out
while sitting out the dance.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

The business outlook for Pensacola
has q background Of dollar marks.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

They are still trying to make the
Pine Tree State have one.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

One Of the rube editors think II is
time for The Journal to advocate the
back to the farm" movement.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

Tennessee insurgents sent a love let
ter to the regular Democrats, but the
wedding has not been announced.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

Uncle Joe wants to BE- sneaker again,
but he is referred TO Jim Jeffries.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

George Bailey, OF the Houston Post
refers to the red-headei widows of thai
town ass'fnherent lights" We expeci
to hear of George lighting q rag.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

II you really must reform something,
Try yourself.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

The rnbe editors are not only ball
players but are classy road builders.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

No one 80 far has had enough nerve
to tackle the congressman at large lob.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

It wouldn't be a bad Idea to bet a few
on Connie Mack's tribe.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

VIII somebody finish driving the
wagon-Tom Watson is for Underwood
for president
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-17

CONTINUED on Page sikh
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

Side by side with the corpse sxtracts,
and the t1ncturs oe human skulls for epi-
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
b.
REPRESENTATIVE JOHN ]. FITZGERALD

and the cost OF the work would at the
same time be cheapened."
Where should the big cuts be made
in the money bills OF Congress?" / in
quired.
Il would begin with our military eI-
penses. The people do not realize that
our naval establishment cost the tremen-
dous sum of S136,00o. coo in 1910, as against
the sufficient sum of s22,Oc0.00O in 1894
Dewey's victory at the battle of Manila
Bay, let me add. is costing the Ameri-
can people an immense sum of money
every year. In the meantime we are
annually spending 100000. 900 on our army,
as against s24OO0.0OO in 1894. Pensions, a
war charge, amount to sl52, ,0o0, 900 a year.
The three items. the navy. the army.
and pensions, amount to S3SS, ,0o0, ,ooo Be
Sides we are paving interest on the war
debts of 1916 and 1895. Moreover, we
are supporting the military schools at
West Point and Annapolis, and are spend
ing about 100000 year on fortifications.
Army Too Expensive.
we talk about Europe groaning under
the burden OF military taxes. II we are
not doing some grcaning ourselves we
ought TO begin right of. The gross reve-
Britain, Germany. France, and the United
States are not so widely different, even
though the army and navy of Great Brit
ain are almost three times larger than
our own Because European countries
are draining their treasures and grind
ing the faces of their taxpayers. we must
initiate them, now that we are a wsrld
power and have become the sole pretec-
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

terious sense they are able to set their
course across the misty outlines of a
continent and fly unerringly from the
bayous of Louisiana to the orchards of
New England and the wild-rice fringed
lakes of Minnesota. The little catbird
hardly seems substantial enough to make
a long fight from Northern Florida to
Southern Maine twice year. He sum-
mers in the orchards and the groves
away up North, and when the first frosts
set the naples of the North on fire he
sets sail for the rice fields and the green
groves of the South Atlantic Seaboard.
No aviator can set a course better than
this diminutive migrant.
Mystery in Sky Lines.
The very word wild duck suggests
to most folk who have ever lived in the
open a line across the spring sky at sun
in these lines and the dark triangIes that
move across the red tints in an April
sky at dawn or at dusk. The imagina-
ton follows the V-shaped flock into the
fogs and mists that lie over the land that
is beginning to steam under the rays of
the sun of spring. The frost is coming
out of the ground and here and there
along the streams the willows and the
The eye of the wild duck can doubtless
see on either flank of his own swift and
high-hying squadron a score, maybe a
hundred. other fiocks that are all moving
in the same direction.
Generations of flight, countless genera
tions, have given the raucous-voiced
leader an unerring sense of direction.
He may be moving faster than an ex-
press train. an aeroplane moving at forty
miles an hour beneath him would seem
to be standing still among the tree tops,
but somewhere in that misshapen head
of his that wise old black duck has a
hereditary sense of direction. Doubtless
the ducks and the geese that dart across
our hunting fields and over our care
fully concealed blinds among the high
weeds by the lake shores have been
moving North and South as regularly
as clockwork for few thousand years.
Feels Call of South.
lone duck. but a season old. if lost
from his companions would never stay in
the Canadian woods all winter. II reared
along the banks of a New England river
or in the Hudson Bay country or any
where else that wild ducks build their
nests he would feel that mysterious in
stinct tugging at his wing muscles before
the first flake of snow sifted into the
reeds around his feeding grounds. The
first gray sky and breath of chill wind
would wake all the inherited memories
that have etched themselves on wild
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

goose brains and wild duck gangiia for
the last ten thousand years. There
would be furry in the water. a black
object would flap steadily up above the
tree tops and set its course southwark
In a minute it would be dwindling to a,
mere speck on the southern horizon.
The downy little wild ducks that hide
among the grass roots along the summer
ponds feel the same pull southwark as
the wise old leader who understands
something of decoys, traps, and guns
Great Migration Under Way.
II it were possible for the ornithologist
TO get a comprehensive view of the feath-
cred things at this time in the year it
would be easy to see that a great migra-
ton is taking place. First come the tire
less. high-fiying game birds. who reel of
the miles as tape unreels from a stock
ticker. Then follow at the lower levels,
fiuttering from grove to grove, hopping
and running along the warming earth.
the more homely birds who move in a
multicolored cloud of red, blue, black,
gray and scarlet wings. Here and there
a portion of this moving column halts.
1t has reached it's home grounds. The
familiar trees and orchards, barns and
wood lots will again be the scene Of their
nest building and the rearing of a
family.
The greatest of all the migratory birds
of the New World has vanished. Ten
years ago the wood pigeon was common
enough in many localities. They were
still building their nests in the depths
of the woods and rearing a large brood.
In Irving's day the wood pigeon, or pas
senger pigeon, was the most striking
example of bird life in America. They
flew in such clouds as to darken the sun.
Great clouds of them whirred and called
over the Mississippi Valley. They mi
grated in communities of millions, but
now il is doubtful if a single bird Of all
the billions that were once in the United
States can be found. A large reward has
been offered for the capture alive OF a
single pair of the once numerous "ecto-
pistes migratores." The quest for food
explains much Of the wandering done by
this remarkable but now extinct bird.
There are about fifty-one species of mi
gratory birds in the duck family alone
in the New World. These fifty species
make up the greater part of the migra-
tory squadrons that sail overhead every
year in the spring and the fall. There
are others, however, who help to form
the grand army Of semiannual fiiers.
Great and small. fast and slow. from
the tiny humming bird to the giant sand
hill crane they all feel the same mysteri-
Gus impulse when the frost comes or
when the sun crosses the equinoctial
line.
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
QUEER MEDICINES STILL IN USE SOUND
LIKE INGREDIENTS OF WITCHES CAULDRON

lepsy, appears the same old toad still
fiourishing in the modern pharmacopeia,
but urged by wiseacre Schroeder as a
cure for dropsy.
These queer remedies" explained Prof.
Remington. ''are all We have remaining
Of the horrible things included in the dis
pensatory of the ancient days. and they
are steadily being reduced in number and
frequency of use. Medicine has long
since learned its lesson Of employing the
active principle of the drug administered.
and of using only those substances which
have, in their essential natures, remedial
effects Independent of the old horrors
and fables as to character and virtues
Yet there is one modern tendency in
medicine which, quite apart from the
queernesses that linger because of some
intrinsic merit they are thought to pos
sess, Is bringing us back toward the an
cient. copiousness of dose in certain
drugs Not a few physicians, in pre-
scribing drugs liable to lead to danger
Gus habits. are reverting to large vol
ume by means Of infusions or dilutions,
and so make the patient take a maxi
mum of stun which might well have been
swallowed in smaller apparent quantity.
The object is to make II impossible for
the patient to overdose himself, and so
safeguard him from becoming slave
to that particular drug.
But this is only matter of form, an
expedient in prescription, and II doesn't
argue In the least for any general re-
turn to the old decoctions, either In
volume or substance. Those freak reme-
oies we have escaped from will never
overtake US again; and those still with
US ars being gradually eliminated from
our practice"
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
CALL OF THE NORTHLANDS
NOW SOUNDS ITS MESSAGE
TO THE BIRDS OF MIGRATION
MYSTERIES OF BIRD MIGRATIONS.

How the frai wings of the tiny warbler carry from the
Hudson Bay country Southern Mexico in few days?
Where blown the Tortugas during
Gulf storms flown from?
Why do the wild ducks and geese follow the aerial high
ways, year after year?
Why does the curew make single deour in his fall migra
ton that carries him thousand miles of his course?
How tiny songbrds keep their of direction when
flying a height of three miles after nightfaT?
What birds in the Mississippi Valley winter
far south as Venezuela and the Amazon Valley?
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
TENANTS HAUNT
OLD WASHINGTON HOUSES

entrance, listening attentively. Sure
enough. a distinct rapping was heard
as though at one Of the upper windows.
This was enough. The urchins took the
steps in a bound, and never stopped run
ming until they were at a considerable
distance from the house of terr1.
1t was afterward ascertained that the
ghostly tapping was caused by the
branch of a tree which crossed one OF
the windows, and. moved by the wind,
beat against the glass.
Some "ReaIo Ghosts.
This experience and its subsequent ex-
PLANTATION is probably the counterpart Of
many others, though in some cases the
explanation is unfortunately left out. It
would. indeed, be difficult to furnish an
explanation of the facts as narrated in
some instances, as these are so ex-
traordinary as to stagger credulity.
Whether to impute such narrations to a
diseased imagination, a love to astonish
and confound the hearer, or an abso-
lutely truthful recital of actual occur
re noes witnessed, is sometimes a puz-
zling matter. There are. unquestionably,
people living in this city who have to
the best OF their belief lived in haunted
houses. in which they are convinced they
witnessed the most astounding and un-
accountable phenomena.
To recall an instance in point, the mar
rator of which was of unquestionable
veracity. certain house in the city was
rented by a married couple. A stair
case in this house was very dark and
steep and it was rumored that the wife
of the landlord. who had previously ten
anted the place. had fallen down these
stairs and was instantly killed. Both the
gentleman and his wife heard what they
described to be groans, as Of a human
being in extreme agony. coming apparent
ly from the foot of the dark staircase,
and continuing at intervals during the
night. They were. up to that time. un-
acquainted with the tragic event which
had happened in the house. The landlord
called in person. one day. to collect the
first months rent On that occasion, and
during the course of a pleasant conversa-
ton on different topics, a sound resound-
ed through the room as throuh a body
had fallen from the top to the bottom
of the stairs, which opened into the
apartment, and near the foot of which
the landlord was sitting. The noise was
as If body had fallen with a frightfui
thud at the very feet OF the stairway
The landlord started back with an outcry
and facial expression never to be forgot
ten. Nothing was to be seen. but there
was something so CHASTITY about the
whole affair. especially taken. In conjunc-
tion with the story Of the death of the
landlords wife. heard shortly afterward
by the tenant. that the abode was soon
vacant.
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cockroach, which is useful in affections
Of the kidneys.
Over in England the tincture made
from the red or wood, ant is valued as a
cure for gout as well as rheumatism; the
potato bug. in extract, is used for back
pains and trembling of the limbs. To
homeopaths has been credited the use of
the familiar ladybug as cure for tooth
ache and neuralgia; of the hornet for
swellings OF the eyes and the face and OF
the bodies of cockroaches, crushed in al
cohol for sore throat and erysipelas. In
the chemists shops, sometimes, old
bottles can still be seen. containing the
dried bodies of earwigs, which were pop
ular as a nerve tonic more than 100 years
ago. and of wood lice, which were ad-
niinistered in cases of jaundice.
Go back another century or two and
cne nears the time when William Penn
sailed from England to found his colony
in the New World, and was solicitous to
include in his library the very latest.
rlost reliable work on the practice of
medicine as embodied in "Schroeder's
Dlspensatory" 1t is worth more than
81 900 now, and Penns own copy is in the
library of Prof. Joseph p. Remington.
dean of the Philadelphia College Of Phar-
macy and chairman of the committee OF
revision of the pharmacopeia Of the Unit
ed States. They made a speciality, In
those days, Of drinking the liquors that
sweated from the tombs Of the dead, OF
boiling mummies and more up-to-date
corpses for the sake Of extracts, which
were good for cough. wind. stopt terms.
and .outwardly heal wounds" A fine,
wholesome mummy could be made by
slaughtering a red-haired man twenty
four years of age and drying the flesh.
II may be that this suggestion was the
first Of the pure food and drug schemes
formulated. because the author casually
remarks that the modern. red-headed
mummy flesh takes Us from the fear
that our tshop-mummy Is the Juice Of .
rotten carcass. inspissa.ed and danger
ous.'
Toads to Cure Drepsy.
Side by side with the corpse sxtracts,
end the tlnctufp oe human skulls for epi-
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

The queer things we use in medicine in
the United States-relics, most of them,
from our ancient "dispensatories' that
yet Hnger in the modern, official pharma-
copeia-rival the most repugnant rem
edies in benighted China.
We employ all sorts of animal products,
from greases for ointments to pepsin ex-
tracted from the hogs stomach to help
out our weak digestions. The man who
revels in ham and eggs and takes a pep
sin tablet to escape the dire results con-
verts himself into a genuine cannibal.
But medicine has to go further afield
when it wants a well-known anti-spas-
modic and stirnulant IN the exhaustion
Of typhoid fever. 1t uses a musk that is
extracted from the glands of the musk
deer. It goes to the whale for the sper-
maceti employed in numerous ointments;
to the liver of the Goldfish for the oil so
widely and so reluctantly swallowed in
wasting diseases; to flies for the burning
powers and to bees for the wax that help
make up a first-class fly blister; and to
the tiny red cochineal insect. pulverized,
for the bright red color that distin-
gUishes many preparations
Some Queer Extracts.
UnoficiaIly rated, yet still in use. are
ptyalin. a Preventative substance found
in the saliva, which helps a patient TO
convert starch into dextrine; shark oil
and skatefsh oil, extracted from the liv-
ers of these fish, and dugong oil, from q
denizen of Eastern Australia's waters.
used instead OF cod liver oil; hemogiobin,
extracted from the blood of dogs and
ujes and fed to anernic people as a sub
stitute for iron: dried and powdered
chicken gizxards. fine for dyspeptics; for
mic acid. used In rheumatism and neu-
ralgia and secured by distilling the bodies
of red ants: rattlesnake venSm, in which
there is quite a business noNt done. ad-
ministered as specific for consumption.
and phynin. extracted from the skin of
an elective nerve Quieter and
heart stimuianl and the sssencs Of plain
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

areas of forests along the Atlantic coast
that the purity of the water supply
for many towns and cities may be
secured. The State of New York, by
very large expenditure IN the Adiron-
dack Mountains, is paying to safeguard
it's own water supply. Jamaica Bay is
being improved and business men in
New York City are helping to foot the
bill. Elsewhere, however, Washington
is asked for money with which to pay
for all kinds of local projects. I think
that when a State or region desires
help from the national government it
should be willing to meet a part of
the expense-to pay its share toward
the thing 1t wants and the thing that
will increase its prosperity. In that
way pressure on the Treasury in Wash
ington would be substantially lessened
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
DEMOCRATIC ECONOMIES AND
HOW JOHN J. FITZGERALD OF
NEW YORK WILL LEAD BATTLE

from one doctors Office to another to,
be examined and given medicine. 1 sold
newspapers in the streets to earn money
for a pair of rubber boots. When 1 was
eleven years of age 1 was sent to the
Sacred Heart Academy, which was in
the country. The doctors said I ought
to leave the city and get pure air and
plenty of sunshine. At fourteen I re-
turned to New York and entered Man
haitian College. being helped financially
by a relative. Then / read law, working
in an Office at s. a week and attending
lectures daily.
Those who knew me were amazed,
and amused. 1 suppose, when they
heard what I was doing. I might get
along in medicine or in one of the re-
ligious orders of my church, they said.
but 1 was timid and clumsy at speech
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26

There are in Washington, and probably
idated-Iooking old houses. standing among
elegant and modern buildings, marrins
the appearance of the surroundings by
their unsightliness. Tenantless, with win
dows broken and cracked doors and shut
ters, sadly in need of paint, with grass
growing between the crevices of the front
pathway and steps, with the plaster
peeling of in strips and patches, these
houses seem as much out of place as a
pauper in. the midst of an assembly of
society people.
There are often strange stories connect
ed with such houses-tales of "spooks''
holding high carnival at night in the
rooms and driving the tenants away in
fear and trembling. Every resident of
this city can recall such houses. The
story of their existence in the midst of
thriving neighborhood is probably
prosaic one, based fundamentally on the
fact that the price asked by the landlord
for the property is too high. But the
popular mind will not be satisfied with
prosaic fact, and ghosts and hob
gobblins'' are brought in to lend their
aid in accounting for the presence OF the
forlorn structure.
How Report Spreads.
To account for the origin of these tales
Of haunted houses is sometimes impossi-
BILE. There is a rumor current among the
juveniles of certain neighborhood that
such a house Is tenanted by ghosts and
the youngsters take a fearful delight in
daring one another, when the shades of
night have made the time propitious, to
go up the front steps and peer in at the
windows and ring the bell. or .inaugurate
a game Of follow-the-leader in the tangled
and weed-covered back garden. Such ex-
citing proceedings are usually terminated
by an alarm given by one Of the party. I'm
mediately, each youthful member, feeling
vividly that ghost is after him, makes
a precipitate rush, and the investigating
urchins come together again under the
nearest light and tell fearfully of what
they have seen, such narratives being
generally remarkable for imaginative in
vcntion- Some bold and reckless spirits
there are. who, ignoring all supernatural
the walls of the haunted house sentences
derisive of the terrors of the ghost.
An old gentleman of this city, and
member of the Oldest Inhabitants Asso-
citation, recalls an incident that happened
In his young days, which he afiirms to
be his first and last supernatural expert
ence. 1t seem that the old mansion In
Georgetown once occupied by Baron
Bodisco, the Russian minister. was re-
ported and believed to be haunted. The
boys IN the neighborhood of the house, of
which the narrator was one. were In the
habit Of affecting to despise the ghost.
Of which they had. nevertheless. very
wholesome fear. This ghost, who seems
not to have been remarkable for origf-
naltty. and who manifested himself by
the manner common to his kind. OF rap
ping. but never coming In. had long been
the terror Of the neighborhood. and had
rendered the mansion he Inhabited I'M
passaSle after nightfall 70 the nervous.
The boys on the occasion In question.
mounted the front steps and stood on
The platform immediately In 'front.' Of the
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
A ChurchIess Town.

The little town Of Hartford. N. j..
which Is now sixty years old. has never
had a church. Nothing. comments the
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, could
more plainly demonstrate the mistake
Of founding . town along stream
where the Sunday fishing u - good -
4 y In Rancocas Crsek
The Washington herald., 1911-03-26
Tree Frog. Plug Nest.

tree frog. native Of Paraguay. makes
Its nest in bush overhanging = pond.
The lower ends Of a number Of leaves are
crawn together and fixed In position by
a number Of empty egg capsules. The
eggs are also covered with q shield OF
empty capsules to protect them from the
sun and air. When the eggs are 'hatched
the plug at the bottom appears to faii
out and the tadpolss tumble into ths
water