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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-04
"reminiscences of Sepoy Rebellion
BY VIM. H. Trimmer, Moline, Fla.

fat of animals unclean alike to Hindu
and Mahometans The cartridge
in those days had otbe bitten before
it could be emptied on the gun. After
this nothing could quiet the minds of
the Sepoys. Fires occurred nightly
in the native lines, officers were in
suited by their men and all confidence
in them was gone.
Mutiny Breaks Out.
On the afternoon of Sunday. May 10,
1857, the Sepoys at Weerut broke into
open mutiny. This was the largest
military station in India. They broke
into the Jail and then ran through the
environments, cutting down every Eu-
ropean they met.
The news of the outbreak among the
native troops was telegraphed to
Delhi. The Mahometans had already
risen in such numbers that it was
decided to blow up the magazine.
Nanas Sahib, whose palace was near,
professed great loyalty, but as soon
as the mutiny took place he put him
self at the head of the Sepoys.
At Cawnpore there were a large
number of Europeans, far more
women and children than men. They
shut themselves up in, improvised in
trenchments, a mud wall four feet
from the sun, often $50 degrees. 44O
men and $50 women and children
dwelt for nearly a month A small
amount of flour and split peas was
their only food. There were two wells
near by; one they used to drop their
daily dead in, the other the water from
which was obtained at risk Of being
shot by their enemies guns.
Fearful Suffering.
Here then these unfortunate humans
were penned, starving, sun-struck,
feVered, suffering more than human
nature can imagine. Mana Sahib
finally agreed to let these prisoners go,
provided General Wheeler would sign
a treaty. His wife, a native woman,
told him he could trust Sahib So it
was arranged for them to take boats
on the Gauges river and be taken
down to Allahbad.
Twenty eight boats were filed with
men, women and children. Each boat
contained ten armed natives. Then
three boats fastened together were
brought up and General Wheeler and
his staff got in. Mana Sahib and his
staff were watching the embarkatfon
and objected to the young women go
ing, allowing only the children and in
firm women to go.
natives
jumped into the river and swan
ashore. Then commenced a desultory
firing from guns on the river bank
from natives. All the boats were sunk
but one, and as the drowning attempt
ed to land they were met and cut and
slaShed to pieces. Sahib and staff
themselves hepled with their swords
to kill General Wheeler and his Off
GERS. Then the young women that
had been reserved were marched away
under guard Of the Sepoys and placed
in building with two rooms, each
29x10 feet, without windows
Women and Children Imprisoned.
Here they were shut up zoo helpless
creatures. Only one boat escaped with
four men, who swan ashore to tell the
tale.
Many of these women were carried
off by promise to return by the
Sepoys. Among them a daughter OF
General Wheeler was taken to the tent
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-04
BY J. .. kUYKENDALL.

nized that man is only partly saved
if he is converted from his sins. The
church which provides only for the
giving Of strictly spiritual instruction
is inadequate, and must be supple
mented.
Therefore the Fairgrounds Associa-
ton is a religious institution. 1t is
not antagonistic to the churches, how
ever much it may seem so to some few
it is supplementary to the churches.
1t recognizes. that the desire for recre-
alton is perfectly sane and legiti-
mate desire; that God has no prejudice
against fun; that laughter growing out
of clean hilarity is a hymn of praise
that heaven itself delights to hear.
But it recognizes that the desire for
RECITATION is an impulse that may be
diverted to the basest uses, and to pre-
vent this distortion of a God given
human desire the Fairgrounds Asso-
citation of Pensacola, and every other
city, is trying to turn this legitimate
impulse into a legitimate channel. It
is giving all whose hearts are young
or whose hearts have a longing desire
to be young, an opportunity they have
not had to get acquainted with Gods
beautiful out doors, and to learn
that there are sane and healthful ways
Of having fun.
Not by evangelism are Bayview Park
and the North Hill ball park saving
the men and women and the boys and
girls of Pensacol but they are saving
them from the physical and mental
and moral weaknesses that our civil
iZation inevitably creates, and are
giving them clean bodies and clean
minds into which the seeds Of a pure
gospel may fall.
Pensacola Leads Them All.
FTTl.
done splendidly. Pensacola-the state
ment is made advisedly-is ahead of
any other city of the United States,
population considered, in the matter
Of providing for the recreational needs
of the people. Not even Chicago, with
its magnificent park system, the won
der Of the world, reaches so many peO-
pie, proportionatelys as does Pensacola.
And the work is as yet largely expert
mental What has been done is only
part Of a plan whose completion will
insure to every person in the city an
easy way to supply his need for clean
recreation.
The Fairgrounds Association, and
the Playground Commission, and the
School Commission are all working,
quietly, earnestly, feeling their way in
order to make the fewest possible mis-
takes, toward a big plan of which
BayView Park is but an incident. They
need the support of all good citizens,
not the criticism and opposition.
I have knocked about the world
good deal. I have been both preacher
and newspaper man, and I probably
know a good many things that the
average preacher does not know.
could probably discover bad, if there
were any bad to discover, a little more
quickly than the average preacher can.
I went to Bayview, warned by the
criticism I had heard, to look for the
bad. I was agreeably disappointed. I
have never seen a more proper place,
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of a Mohametan, whom she after
wards married. The Sepoy guard
amused themselves by thrusting their
bayonets into the children and holding
them up before their mothers. Here
for IS days they were tortured by
stencil, starvation, flies and sickness.
Then Mana Sahib heard that General
HaveIock was coming. Rather than al
low these miserable creatures to be
liberated, he ordered that their threats
be cut. This was started, but failed,
as the law Of caste would not allow
the Hindu to hold the victim while
being butchered. Then a hundred men
were ordered to fire upon them, but
only few were shot.
Horrible Butohery.
Mana Sahib then ordered some pro
fessional butchers TO do the work
Five of them were turned in with
hatchets and knives and for two hours
this slaughter went on. The doors
were opened and the dead dragged out
by the hair to a well where they were
dumped in.
Sir Henry Lawrence had in the
meantime fortified and provisioned the
garrison at Lucknow, the Europeans
all congregating there. Two days af-
ter Lawrence was killed by a shell.
This was on July 2, 1857. September
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I send you a few lines Of history
long forgotten. Cawnpore, how few
of the present generation ever heard
of this name, and yet only a little over
fifty years ago one of the most horr1-
BILE massacres took place here.
A few days ago I was sitting on my
gallery when an old man came and
asked for something to eat. I asked
him where he was from, and his his
tory. He said away back in 1857 he
was in the employ, as a soldier, of
the East India Company at Calcutta,
and that he was with General Have
lock at the relief of Lucknow after
the massacre. This incident caused me
to hunt up my scrap book and from
extracts on the subject I base my
letter.
We have all read in our school his
tories of the BLACK. Hole of Calcutta -
This I refer to to show the hatred of
the natives of India to British rule
for long years previously. On the night
of June 20, 1856, these natives perpe-
trated a horrible cruelty on a lot of
innocent people.
The prison has disappeared long
ago, but a pavement 20x20 feet indi-
Gates the site and seige of this prison
hole. The building had two small win
two or three. These Indian jailors
crowded into this one room one hun
dred and forty-six Europeans.
1873 Prisoners Die.
The midsummer heat, the suffoca-
ton. the tramping of one upon an
other, the grooming, begging and pray
ing are all matters of history. The
native Sepoys that night held lights at
the windows and ridiculed the prison
ers In the morning 1913 bodies were
taken out; only % of the 14S were
alive, among them one woman, a Mrs.
Carey, who was taken by the Indian
Nabob into his harem and kept a pris-
oner six years.
One hundred years after this, Mana
Shahtb resolved to celebrate on June
90, 1857, an anniversary of the battle
Of Plassy, when, under Lord Give,
India surrendered to England and or
ders were issued TO kill every Euro
pean in Cawnpore.
The English East India Company re-
cefved its royal charter on December
81, 1900, Queen Elizabeth being then
on the throne. Both Europeans and
natives were in the service of the East
India Company. In 1888 the charter of
the East India Company was renewed
for twenty years, upon the under
standing that Europeans be allowed to
settle freely in the country.
Crosses the SuIIey.
In 1s45L the, sixth army of the
Punsab, numbering $4,000 men with
$50 guns, crossed the SuIley river and
invaded British territory. Sir Hugh
Cough was the commander in chief.
and with the governor general hurried
TO the frontier. In four weeks four
battles were fought, Aliwal, Wood
tee, Ferozshah and Sobraow, in which
the English whipped the Sixths, but
sustained very heavy losses.
I was a school boy then, near Lon
don, and our teacher of q night would
read to US the incidents Of these fights.
impressing on my memory this war in
the Punjab. This defeat with other
causes led to the mutiny in 1857.
In this critical state of affairs a
rumor ran through the cantonment Of
the Bengal army that cartridges
had been served out creased with the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-04
Just A-Summering In Pensacola
By Bonnie Burnharn.

you have but time to take advantage
Of it.
Try one vacation, spent about
the bay, the bayous, the sound, and
the Gulf of Mexico, and you shall have
filed your mind with picturesque
memories of a season well spent in
the finest state and the finest climate
in the world.
It has been hot7
OF course it has been hot: not only
here, but at nearly every point in the
country. But If you have the time to
keep cool-if you are a vacationist-
and wish to spend the time in or near
Pensacola, you will have made a for
tunate decision for yourself.
Some Logic.
You and I both know that to travel
during the summer time is one of the
very uncomfortable features of the
vacation trip.
The sIeepers are badly ventilated
and always much too warm for com
fort
The change In your daily habits,
made necessary by a long car trip,
lands you finally, sometimes thorough
ly exhausted, at your destination.
It takes some time to recuperate
from this, just as 1t does to finally re-
cuperate from the effects of your jour
ney home.
Very well.
II you are to visit" (deliver US from
that word in the summer time) you
are more or less "nerved up and ION
parade" all of the time.
You go too much, instead of resting
and relaxing, and you finally return to
the bosom Of your friends a jaded
thing Of tangled nerves.
It has cost you, in short, in dollars
and cents, and nerve force, a great deal
Hos
and you know ii.
About the most attractive part Of all
your vacation, anyhow, to tell the
truth, has been the arrival Of "the
mall from home.
Now isn't it so?
And is there very much to a frolic
like that?
A lot of real enjoyment you've had,
to be sure, with your thoughts right
down here in Florida all OF the time!
What would you have done had you
stayed at home, you say7
Let's give It a bit Of a thought then
this Sunday morning.
"A-PIeasuring in Florida"
Do YOU know that. beginning right
here in Pensacola, 1t is possible to
pitch your tent without cost on Bayou
Texar at Bayview Park. within a few
steps Of the street car, and still within
another Few steps OF the virgin pine
forests of Florida?
Here you have the finest bathing
and boating and picnic facilities that
you might wish for in a hundred
years; here, indeed, is the place ideal
for the family camp, and for your
special rest and pleasure and recuper-
alton.
Do you know the island-Santa Rosa
Island2
There the surf Of the Gulf Of Mexico
rolls and pounds at your feet on the
firm white sands of the island; there
all the breezes the Florida coast are
caught imprisoned, and set sail again,
straight on to Pensacola.
Then, there are the pleasures Of life
on the beyshore; the San Carlos, too,
among other places, provides a sum-
mer home for all who may wish to
throw dull care and cooking aside
for several weeks sojourn within its
hospitable domain; a happy refuge for
all incoming tourists who have
| stopped to bide a while with the Flor
ida gulf breezes.
Thirty-five and forty miles up Santa
Rosa Sound comes the glorious Up
Sound Country" where your boat steals
gently into the picturesque "Narrows, .
where, nesting on the banks, in Flor
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Are you going away this summer?
Think you must?
Oh. indeed! people expect 1t Of you,
you say, and you are bound to keep up
certain of the appearances"
And you are really going away, are
yCu-leaving the greatest, the most
witching, romantic, breeze peopled
body of water in the world behind you
this Mexic gulf that whispers and
means and suckles at your very feet,
to magically watt you the charms of
other chimes?
These gem-like bayous, with their
gorgeous pine-tree settings, where a
lone canoe snakes it's silent way in and
out among the dimmest of the shadows,
to wake the sleepy birds and TO start
the rippIes onward to the great salt
sea beyond.
This moonlight-FTorida's own moon
light, known to be the most verify gor-
geous in all this country-this moon
that glitters and glides and coquettes
and hides with you and all other earth
things on q fairy summer night!
Are you going to leave all this be-
hind. you, a sane, sensible person with
Florida tingling in your veins, and the
real knowledge in your heart that Pen
sqcCla is without doubt the finest sum
Tner resort city within the radius of
Inany miles?
Then listen, a bit, to logic.
Employ the same elaborate schemes
to keep cooI' right here at home as
you would employ at any summer re-
sort in the world; follow the same
routine that you would if you were a
vacationist anywhere; live on and near
the water just as much Of the time as
you would manage to do at a resort,
and then, for comparisons sake, note
lust how much cooler you will find
yourself in Pensacola than anywhere
else!
There is always a breeze obtainable
anywhere. remember, in Pensacola, If
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-04

ida's own woodlands, are Harris, Mary
Esther and Camp Walton.
Thirty five or forty miles from town,
too, by water, at many Of the up
Sound" points you are effectually and
completely cut off from the world ex-
cepting for the arrival of the boat.
three times during the week.-Mrs. for
your special rest and relaxation!
Leave all this for anywhere else in
the world in summertime?
These sparkling, laughing. flashing
gems from natures own store, right
here for our most immediate enjoy
ment2
These breezes that blow always from
the heaving bosom of the Mexican sea
This sensuous, dangerous Florida
moon?
Leave Florida?
Leave Pensacola?
CAN you?
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between the two oceans. watched
the bathers. Their conduct, without
exception, was marked by propriety.
There was nothing to shock the mod
esty or morals of the most sensitive.
The burden of the criticism, l under
stand, is that men and women are al
lowed to battle in the same waters.
This is hardly a custom that can Sc
riously damage the morals of the pure
minded, or cause more immortality in
those who are not pure minded. 1t is
a custom that is universal. I have
seen religious resorts where the
thought of evil in promiscuous bath
ing never entered the mind, and there
was not nearly the careful supervision
that there is at BayView by high
minded earnest hearted workers, who
are working for the love of their fell
low men. If boys and girls were
always permitted to battle together the
sight of each other In bathing suits
would probably never bring the
slightest tinge of an immodest thought.
1t is to those who have been too
straightlaeedly reared that the human
form becomes immodest and immoral.
It may be that things occasionally
happen at Bayview which are objec-
tionable. I saw nothing to indicate
that they do. If they do they are in
no wise the fault Of the idea or Of the
way in which the idea is being carried
out. They are the fault of a religious
system which has neglected to teach
men and women real morals, and
which has devoted itself solely to the
effort to evangelize. Bad people will
be bad wherever they are. I venture
to say, though, that they are less like
ly to be bad at a place like Bayview
than in the city itself, or at some place
where there is no supervision.
1 cannot feel that Bayview Park is
bad cannot feel that it should be
criticised. I cannot but believe that
when the churches and the ministers
turn their batteries upon Bayview be-
cause promiscuous bathing is allowed
there they very much resemble the
case of using a steam crane to lift a
toothpick. There are evils in the city
big enough to demand the services Of
the steam crane, but they are not at
Bayview Park.
The Gospel of Nature.
Bayview Park is not evil unless the
merry laughter of children is evil, un
less the sunshine and the songs of
birds are evil, unless the breezes
dancing over glinting waters are evil
unless Gods big, beautiful out-of-
doors, into whose wide reaching tenn
pie the Fairgrounds Association is
making it possible for the people of
Pensacola to come and worship, is evil
Isn't 1t about time to quit criticising,
and to help these few men and women
Of vision and Of love for humanity, in
the fine work they have undertaken
to do? They are preaching, in most
effective way, a full rounded gospel
W.T. NCE
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-04
MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED
DURING THE PAST WEEK

The following marriage licenses
were issued during the past week by
the county Judge:
White.
James NJ. Beck and Jennie burden.
William Sessions and Annie McCul-
Tough.
James Lawrence King and Lenora
Berry.
James Cannon and Lobertie Paul
Levy Bryant and Retta Lester.
Colored.
Charles Evans and Phillis Sanders.
Henry Sidberry and Ida Carson
Louis MCGEE and Stella Sheriff.
John Mango and Ethel Williams.
George Roberts and Maria Union.
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sycero extract (itout alcohol, Of boodroot golden
seal and OREGON Grape root stone root mandrake and
queens root with black oherrybark.
"My husband was sufferer from stomach trouble and
blood writes Mrs JAMES n MARTTE Of Prank
fort KY. "He had a his face thai would form
sca which would dry and drop of in month then
another would Immediately form. It continued this way
for long time lie tried every remedy that any would
suggest found relief He then tried Dr. PierceR
Golden Medical Discovery which completely cured him BE
has stayed cured for two years and recommend this
valuable medicine for impurities Of the blood"
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate and uvfaonto
stomach liver and bowels. Susar.o0ated, tiny eszness
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@gLEssINe TO WoMENy

is what one grateful woman calls Ly-
dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. This is because after suffering
for six long, weary years with a weak
ness so prevalent among her sex, she
was restored to perfect health by this
famous medicine for woman's ills.
This has been the experience Of
thousands Of grateful women who
have depended upon this tried and
true remedy.
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W arfie1d Grocery
Company
Corner AleanIz and IntendencIa Streets,
Phones: 1566-f567.

Father-You seem to have no idea of
the value Of money.
Son-No idea! Why dad, can
mention a hundred different ways OF
spending money you never dreamed OF.
Boston Transcript.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-04

How is your son getting on with his
violin playing?"
mot very we'll We can't tell yet
whether he's tuning up or playing.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-04

''The letter T. 10 a curious part Of
speech. At first a mere letter, IL be-
comes a pronoun."
Yes" replied the plain person: land
then it gets to be a habit. "-Washington
Star
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-04

Mrs Homer-You can't go home while
il IS raining. Stay and have dinner with
US.
Mr.. witlesg-Oh, no. thank you; II
isn't raining as bad as that
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How The Body Nils Germs.


Of
do
Of is the a
blood
nsufcenty
pOions nothing In the has
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-04

School Inspector-What was Ma
poleon's most famous costume? Kid
His divorce suit.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-04

Good coffee may not be able 10 pre-
serve happy families, but bad coffee
can break them up.-New York Press.
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Waiter-Anything the matter with
the meal, sir? Diner-Yes; it looks
like a ten-cent tip instead Of a quar-
ter.
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WE LOSE.
10 yards Anoskeag Cling
ham for Monday only, 85c.
Brawner-Riera Co.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-01
CLEICHMAN IS
DRAFTED BY
ORIOLES
In Draft" List Issued Today
Tigers Do Not Get
Anything.

Gus Gleichman. the local boy who
had a most successful season with the
Anderson Is. Co team, has been
drafted by the Baltimore Club and
awarded to Jack Dunn. Apparently
the st. Louis American League Club
waived it's right on the youngster.
Gieichman will undoubtedly prefer to
break in with 3 first division Inter-
national League team than a big
league ~tail-ender.
Gleichman should have little trouble
in superseding big Butch Schmidt,
who was not popular with Baltimore
fans this season The Newark boy Is
a fielder of the Agler type, and had a
good batting percentage at the wind
up of his first professional lea
season.
Elmer Stricklett was drafted from
Elmira some time ago. Through an
error the name was not included on
the list filed by Secretary Farrell to-
day.
Vice President George L. Solomon
left for Chicago today to attend to
some business there that will keep
him away until the end of the week.
incidentally it is mentioned that he
may confer with II. Clay Smith on
the proposed sale of the Smith stock
In the Newark Club. but this story
is secuted by those who are supposed
to be OH the inside.