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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-21

POULTRYMEN who feed wheat are get
ting the eggs, are you? Fowls that are
moulting need feather-making feed.
Wheat makes feathers. Get a prime
article at F. 8. MeI1en & Co. Phone 3sA
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YoU CAN pay the Same rent forever and
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can pay "a for OF years ana own q
home. Let NJ tell you. Leslie b Brooxs
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HOLLY HILL Farm Poultry Eggs for
hatchnfg; SL25 per Is: Rhode Tsland
Reds, White Rocks and Black Langshans
J. A Anderson, Quintette, Fla 2Sjan1m'
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Dept. r. Pasco Novelty Co, Pasco. Fla.
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Feed F. S. MeIlen q CO.. Phone ss4,
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ISLAND REDS Fertile eggs for hatch
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MISCELLANEOUS.

WrCKT BROS. PLUMBERS at
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-21

We CAN-Secure positions for ! few
young men here Ia Pensacola which will
q business course In our school. Jonez
Bastnses College. Pensacola. Fla 1ljan
1900 RAILWAY MAIL CLERKS wanted;
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FOR SALE.

FOR SALE-Eggs for hatching-reds.
white and barred Rocks white and
brown Leghorns, Pekin and Indian Run
ner docks. Cottage Hill Poultry Yards,
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-10-25

clean boy like this one had not been
sent to her in her youth. You see,
the worldlywise woman knows that
1t 10 invariably the lay-1gure' and not
Prince Charming that a woman mar
ries, and that matrimony Is blind
mans buff in grown-ups.
Many Of US lay the blame upon
parents. We shift the burden of won-
dering why we have this fault and
lack that grace to the shoulders OF
our immediate forbears. We go to
the office each morning denying that
we have any responsibility; We let
the boss do the worrying. But George
never went prospecting in his soul for
any such dross philosophy. He was
grateful for having had 30 beautiful
a mother; proud Of having had SO
honest a sire; and II either Of them
had endued him with false weights he
did his best to v up the balance.
The mother had been al romantic
as any heroine out Of Mrs. Radclifr's
novels, while the father had owned
to as much romance al one generally
finds in a thorough business man,
which Is practically none at all. The
very name itself Ia a bulwark against
| the intrusions Of romance. One can
| not lift the imagination to the pros
pect Of picturing a Jones in rufies
and highboots, pinking a varlet In the
midrf. 1t smells of sugar-barrels and
| cotton-bales, Of steamships and rail-
roads, Of stolid routine In the office
and Of placid concern owe the daily
news under the evening lamp.
Mrs. Jones. lovely, lettered yet not
worldly, had dreamed Of her boy,
| bayed and decorated. marrying the
most distinguished woman In all Eu-
rope, whoever she might be. Mr..
Jones had had no dreams at all, and
had put the boy to work In the ship
ping department a little while after
the college threshold had been crossed.
outward bound. The mother, while
sweet and gentle. had a will, iron un-
der velvet, and when she held out for
Percival Algernon and q decent knowl.
edge Of modern languages, the old
man agreed If, on tho other hand,
the boys first name should be George
and that he should learn the business
from the cellar up. There were sew
eral Tits over the matter, but at
length q truce was declared. II was
agreed that the boy himself ought to
have q word to say upon a subject
which concerned him more vitality
than any one else. So, ct the age Of
fifteen, when he was starting of for
preparatory school, he was advised
to choose for himself. He vas an ODE
dent con, adoring his mother and idol
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-10-25

q dog; but n can not carry a dos
half way round the world and back, at
least lot with comfort. What with
all these new-fangled quarantine laws.
duties, and fussy ships officers who
wouldn't let you keep the animal In
your state-room. travelling with a four
footed friend was almost an impossE
bility. To be sure, women with
poodles. And then, there was
the bitter Of acid In the knowledge
that no one eve came up to him and
slapped him on the shoulder with "a
Hello. George. old sport; what's the
good word?" for the simple fact that
his shoulder was always bristling with
spikes, born Of the fear that some one
was making fun Of him.
Perchance his mothers spirit, how
| ering over him this evening. might
have been inclined to tears. For they
do say that the ghosts Of the dear
ones are thus employed when we are
near to committing some folly, or to
exploring some forgotten chamber OF
Pandora's box, or worse still, when
that lady intends emptying the whole
contents down upon our unfortunate
heads. II SO be, they were futile
tears; Percival Algernon had accom-
plished It's deadly purpose.
Pandora? Well, then, for the bene
At of the children. She was q lady
who was an intimate friend Of the
NEUROLOGICAL gods. They liked her ap
p~earance so we'll that they n day
gave her a box, casket, chest, or what
ever II was, to guard. BY some mar
velous method, known only Of gods.
they had got together all the trials
and tribulations Of mankind land some
OF the joys) and locked them up I'M
this casket- 1t was the Golden Age.t
as you may surmise. You recall Eve
and the apple? Well. Pandora was a,
forecast of Eve; she couldn't keep her
eyes off the latch, and at length her
hands-Fatal curiosity! Whirr! And,
everything has been at skies and at
sevens since that time. Pandora iS
eternally recurring, now here, now,
there; she Is a blonde sometimes, and
again she ia a brunette; and you may
take It from George and me that there
is always something left In the casket.
George closed the book and consult
ed his sailing-list. In q short time ha
would leave for Port Said, thence to
Naples. Christmas there, and home In
January. Business had been ripping.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-10-25

ing white mustache and imperial,
there was a suggestion OF militarism.
He was Immediately followed by a
young woman of twenty, certainly not
over that age. George sighed visit
fully. He envied those polo-players
and gentleman-riders and bridge-ex-
perts who were stopping at the hotel.
It wouldn't be an hour after dinner
before some one Of them found out who
she was and spoke to her in that easy
style which he concluded must be a
gift rather than an accomplishment.
You mustn't suppose for a minute that
George wasn't well-born and wellbred.
simply because his name vas Jones.
Many a Ftz-Hugh Maurice or Hugh
Nts-Maurtce might have been But,
no matter. He knew instinctively,
then, what elegance was when he saw
1t, and this girl was elegant, In dress,
In movement. He rather liked the
pallor Of her skin, which limited that
she wasn't n Of those athletic girls
who bounced In and out Of the din
ing-room. talking loudly and smoking
cigarettes and playing bridge for six
| penny points. She was tall. He was
sure that her eyes were on the leve'
with his own. The grey veil thai
dropped from the rim Of her simple
Leghorn hat to the tip Of her nose OBJ
scured her eyes, 80 he could not know
that they were large and brown and
indefinably sad. They spoke not Of
a WEAKNESS Of travel, but Of a weari
ness Of the world, more precisely, Of
the people who inhabited 1t.
She and her companion passed or
into the hotel, and II Georges eyes
veered again toward the desert ovel
which the stealthy puppies Of might
were creeping. the impulse was me
chanical; he saw nothing. In truth
he was desperately lonesome, and ht
knew, moreover, that he had no bust
ness to be. He was young; he coult
at a pinch tell a joke as we'll as thu
next man; and II he had never ha(
what he called an adventure, he ha(
seen many strange and wonderful
things and could describe them will
that mental afterglow which still lin
gers over the sunset Of u first ex
pressions in poetry. But there wa
always that hydra-headed monster. TO
ever getting about his feet, numbinl
his voice, p~aralyzing his hands. AM
never he Topped of a head that an
other did not instantly grow In It
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-10-25

place. Even the sword OF Perseus
could not have saved him. since one
has to get away from an object In
order to cut 1t down.
Had he really ever tried to over
come this monster? Had he not wait
ed for the propitious moment (Which
you and l know never comes) to
throw of this species from Hades?
It Is all very well, when you are old
and dried up, to turn to ivories and
metals and precious stones; but when
a fellows young! You can't shake
hands with an ivory replica Of the Tai
Mahal, nor exchange p~leasantries with
a Mandarin's ring. nor yet confide joys
and ills into a casket Of rare emer'
aids; indeed, they do but emphasize
ones loneliness. II only be had had
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-10-25

30 observed the world through . pair
Of kindly. shy. blue eyes.
Young girls, myopic through igno-
tsance or Stiffness, seeing nothing be-
yond what the eyes see, seldom gave
him q second inspection: for he did
not know how to make himself at
rtractive, and was mortaliy afraid Of
the opposite, or opposing sex He
could bullyrag a sheik out OF his cam
els saddle-Bags. but petticoats and
lace parasols and small Oxfords had
the same effect upon him that the
prodding stick Of Q small boy has
upon a retiring turtle. But many a
w~orldly-wise Yoman. drawing out with
lact and kindness the truly beautiful
thoughts Of this young mans soul.
Ndly demanded ~ fete Why z sweet
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-10-25

iEing his father. He wrote himself
down as George Percival Algernon
Jones, promised to become q linguist
and to learn the rug business from
the cellar up. On the face Of II, it
looked like q big Job; 1t all depended
upon the boy.
The first day at school his misery
began. he had signed himself as
George P. A. Jones, no small diplo-
macy for a lad; but the two initials,
standing up like dismantled pines IN
the midst Of u~ninteresting landscape,
reused the curiosity Of his school
mates. Boys are boys the world over,
and possess q fnesse in cruelty that
only Indians al match; and 1t did
not take them long to unearth the IA
~ secret TX three years he was
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-10-25

He would be jolly glad to get homs
again. to renew his comrcdeship with
his treasures. And, by Jove! there
was one man who slapped him on the
shoulder, and he was no less a person
than the genial president Of the firm,
his fathers partner, at present his
own. II the old chap had had a daugh.
ter now. . And here one comes
at last to the bottom Of the sack. He
had only one definite longing. .
healthy human longing, the only long
ing worth while In all this deep, wide,
round old top; to love . woman and
by her be loved.
At exactly half after six the gentle.
man with the reversible cuffs arriveds
and George missed his boat
CTo an CoNTuSuEnA
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-10-25
CHAPTER !.


What'S IN q Manner
To possess two distinctly alien red
Norpuscles In ones blood, metaphor
acaily If not in fact. two characters or
Municipalities under one epidermis,
n, in most cases, a peculiar disadvan-
&ge. One hears Of ~scoundrels and
Aaints striving to consume one an
other in one body, angels and har-
pies; but ofttimes, quite the contrary
% being a curse, these two warning
temperaments become a mans ulti-
mate blessing: as In the case OF
George P. A. Jones, Of Mortimer &
eones. the great metropolitan Oriental
rug and carpet company, all Of which
has a dignit1ed, sonorous sound.
George was divided within himself.
This he would not have confessed
sven into the trusted If battered ear
81 the Egyptian Sphynx. There was,
however, no demonangel sparring for
points in Georges soul. The difficulty
might be set forth in this manner:
On one side stood inherent common
sense; on the other, a boundless, 70
seate Imagination which was like
wise inherent-a kind Of Q~uixote imag-
nation Of suitable modern pattern.
This alter ego terrified him whenever
u raised its strangely beautiful head
and shouldered aside his guardian
angel (for that's what common sense
N, argue to what end you WHY and
pleaded in that luminous rhetoric un
Der the spell of which our old friend
Dancho often fell asleep.
p. A, as they called him behind the
counters, was but twenty-eight, and II
be was v~ice-president in his late IA
theirs shoes he didn't wabble round
I'm them to any great extent In a
crowd he was not noticeable; he
didn't stand head and shoulders above
his fellow-men, nor would he have
been mistaken by near-sighted per
sons, the myopes, for the vatican's
Apollo in the flesh. He was Of me.
dium height, beardless, slender. but
tough and wiry and enduring. You
may see his prototype on the streets
= dozen times a day, and you may
also pass him without turning round
Tor q second view. Young men like
p. A. must be intimately known tc
be admired; you did not throw your
arm across his neck, first-off. Hi
hair was brown and closely clipped
about q head that would have gained
the attention of the p~hrenologist, Il
not that OF the casual passer-by.. Hi
bumps. in the ~phraseology Of thai
science, were good ones. For the rest
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-08-20
DISLIKES THE COLONEL.

The Appeal to Reason! socialist,
published at Girard, Kansas, is hot
upon the trail of Roosevelt, as the
following from its columns indi-
Gates:
AS this issue is being printed the
delegates to the Roosevelt conven-
tion are in session at Chicago. The
Appeal predicts that the most colos-
sal political steal of the century will
be attempted in Chicago, when the
progressives under the lead Of the
ex-president, burglarize the Socialist
platform. Roosevelt will appeal to
the people to support him on the
ground that he will give them all
the Socialists promise and at the
same time save them from the social
revolution that threatens to engulf
the country If something is not
quickly done. To save the nation
from Socialism on the n hand and
prevent it's enslavement by preda-
tory wealth on the other will be the
campaign slogan of the new party.
In the meantime, Mr.. Medill McCor-
mick for the harvester trust and Mr..
Perkins and Mr.. Munsey for the
steel trust are putting up the dough
to make the Roosevelt campaign a
winner. The Appeal called the turn
on Roosevelt six years ago-and 1T
will do it again. Watch these col
umns for some of the hottest politi-
cal reading matter that ever rolled
off a perfecting press.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-08-20
THE VITAL QUESTION.

Register and Leader: Mr.. Bryan
cannot understand why there should
be a cali for a third party If the re-
publican party is to be rebuked,
when, as he insists, the democratic
party has for two decades been fight
ing for the very things the new
movement is inaugurated to secure.
The answer is not far to seek.
The democratic party has never been
willing to present the issue of popu-
lar rights as the paramount issue.
The democratic party has always
been bound hand and foot to a GER
tain academic construction of the
constitution, and every reform it has
proposed, or proposes now, is Incl
dental to the historic attitude OF
democracy.
The new party approaches the
same thing from a different angle;
that is the reason why the rush
from Taft is not towards Wilson,
but towards Roosevelt. For the first
time in our political history what
the people have a right to expect of
government, what they may reason
ably look for and. demand. becomes
the real question, freed from all en-
tangling alliances with other ques-
tions.
1t is a matter for surprise the eX-
tent to which our great political
battles have been fought Owe
academic questions. There was lit
tie of popular rights, as we under
stand the term, contemplated by the
men who fought the revolution.
There were not to exceed three real
democrats among the great men
from the south. The south wanted
a feudal aristocracy, and not a de-
mocracy, and the doctrine of states
rights was the visible symbol of
that demand.
Before the civil war everything
turned on the rights of the state.
The tariff was debated pro and con;
Internal improvements, coast defen-
ses, everything in the light of that
academic dispute. The great debate
between Lincoln and Douglas over
salary was not over the rights and
wrongs of the slave. but over the
rights and wrongs OF the state.
Following the civil war, the de-
bate was resumed. II was then re-
adjustment as 1t affected the state.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-08-20
WAY TO MEET SOLID VOTE.

Times-Republican: Senator Ken
yon gives notice in the senate that
he will call up his bill prohibiting
shipments of liquor into dry states
as soon as the ~postoffice bill is out
of the way and press for its dispos-
al. This is a law which the tenn
perance people of Iowa and other
dry states have been demanding for
a considerable time. If it were to
pass and become a law the provision
of the interstate commerce law be-
hind which every peddler. of rot gut
whisky along the borders of Iowa
finds refuge would be surpeceded by
the right of the state to deny booze
Joints at Rock Island and Fulton
and Omaha privileges of debauchery
which it denies to its own residents.
There isn't much trimming on
the part of Kenyon to be found in
to push it. 1t loses him the entire
whisky vote Of Iowa, an important
vote in numbers and one which will
be polled against him If activity and
money can get it out. The Iowa
whisky vote is always at the polls.
1t may not be interested in the can
al, which is only water anyway, or
in the negro question. or the man
ner in which the Chicago convention
was conducted or in direct votes for
senators or any of these issues; but
it never forgets to vote against the
official or Office holder who stands
for the restriction of booze. They
will be out to vote early and as Of
ten as they can.
The temperance vote seem to lack
the solidarity of the booze vote. 1t
ducks and lodges and gets away from
the men who attempt to serve their
sentiment and the decency of the
state, and permits its strength to be
divided against itself. In the case
OF Kenyon what is the temperance
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-08-20
THE PARTY LASH.

Abraham Lincoln: @The party
lash and the fear Of ridicule will
over awe justice and liberty; for it
is a singular fact, but nom the less
a fact, and well known by the most
common experience, that men will
do things under the terror of the
party lash that they would not on
any account or for any considera-
ton do otherwise . . = "For in
stance-to press the point a little
Judge Douglass introduced his anti
Nebraska bill in January; we had
an extra session of our Illinois leg
islature in February, in which We're
seventy-fve democrats; and at their
party caucus, fully attended, there
were Just three votes, out of the full
seventy-fye, for the measure. But
in a few days orders came on from
Washington commanding them to
approve the measure; the party lash
was applied, and it was brought up
again in caucus, and passed by a
large majority. The masses were
against it, but party necessity car
.ried it. and it was passed through
the lower house of congress against
the will of the people, for the same
reason. Here is where the greatest
danger lies-that, while we profess
to be a government of law and rea-
son, law will give way to violence
on demand Of this awful and crush
ing power.'
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-08-20
LET THE PEOPLE U L

Algona Republican: Mr.. Julian
has charged that the republican pa
pers We're asserting fraud at the Chi
cago convention without presenting
any evidence to prove the assertion.
Well, it is a long story, these dele
gate contests, and a story we do not
pretend to be able to pass on. But
it does take a man with a large Sc
erection of gall to maintain that the
republican voters of the country
wanted Taft as their candidate, and
in the face of this well known fact,
which even the Taft men had to ad-
nit, the national committee went
ahead and seated the Taft delegates
in practically all of the contested
cases. AS far as we are concerned
we insist that it is time the people
have something to say in nominal
ing our presidents. If Mr.. Julian
wishes to have a few of the big poll
iticians get together and make his
nominations for him, that is mis- af-
fair, but he will find there are many
who are differently constituted and
who will insist that the people
have a voice in the nominations of
their presidents.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-08-20
THE SITUATION.

Traer Star-Clipper: We heard a
republican say the other day that no
man would get his vote this fall IN
less he pledged himself to vote for
Taft. We dislike to hear such
things. The world is supposed to be
growing broader minded and more
tolerant and liberal, but this kind
of talk would indicate that We are
going backward. It is just as foolish
for a Roosevelt man to declare he
will oppose every candidate n
does not declare himself for Roose-
welt. Such business would tear any
party into pieces and turn every
thing over to the opposition. Re-
publicans differ in their choice for
president, and honesty. One has as
much right to his opinion as the
other. Neither side has all the vir-
tue. 1t is not fair nor sensible to
make all the candidates on the state,
legislative and county ticket suffer
because the party is in a ~squabble
over the head of the ticket. These
men have accepted nomination at
the hands. of the republican party OF
Iowa. They have a right to expect
the vote of both Taft republicans
and Roosevelt republicans and they
ought to get them. We do not know
for whom we shall vote for president
of the United States, but we DO
know, at least we firmly propose. to
vote the balance of the republican
ticket, because it is a good ticket
and we feel an obligation to do u
part toward it's success.