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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
THE SPUR
VI A MOMENT
BY Roy x. Moulton.

outen the han1mick she had on the side
porch last summer.
Mrs. Arson Frisby has got rubber
tired trap at this writing, but we amt
seen her catch anything in it yet
Colonel Fri bought some chestnuts off
a dago down to the city the other day.
II seems as though he ought to patron
ize home Industries and get his chest
nuts here at home by taking the
Clarion. A new piano tuner has
bowed into our midst and taken a job
stretching wire for the telephone COM
pany. Miss Euphenia Nudge, our
only Vassah graduate, went over to
West Hickeyville yesterday to attend
the rah rah game. Uncle Ezra. Har-
kins had chicken for dinner yesterday,
and Constable Ezra Hand is working
on the case with only slight clew.
A move Is on to pave Main street
Some folks favor cedar blocks and
others want asphalt, while still others
who are high toned want to find some
new kind of pavement 40 town in this
vicinity has got. Most Of the delin-
quent subscribers of this town will find
new kind all right when they get to
the place that is paved with good in
tentions.
One of the pool balls suddenly flew
off the table and disappeared during
game in the Golden Nugget saloon
five weeks ago and its whereabouts
was a mystery until yesterday when
Amariah Tilson, our tonsorial artist,
found it in Grandpa Hibbins's whis-
kers. Am" got a drink fer takin' it
back to the Golden Nugget and says
he is going to examine all whiskers
in the future. Who knows but some
day he may find a pianola or a forty
five candlepower automobile?
It don't pay to rub cat or a plug
hat the wrong way. T. Egbert Peavey
expects to leave soon for the city to
accept a lucrative position as second
mandolin in a barber shop.
Amos Butts, livery, feed and sales
stables and undertaking with neatness
and dispatch, also folding chairs to
rent says he has got q roam gelding
which went better than three-ten on a
! kite shaped track to trade for three
| bushels of potaters and a cord OF
| wood. If the other fellow will throw
| in a wringer, grindstone, box Of red
| herrin' and a set of false teeth suit
| able for middle aged gent, Amos viii
throw in a bride, laprobe, one bushel
corn, set of hobbies, ore good meal
| grinder, second zinc board. one
hose nozzle (slightly wore) two vol
umes Of Swede Borgian religion and
! first-class wire dishrag. Here's q
| chance for dicker, gents.
Mrs. Arson Frisby told a friend thai
she cut Mrs. Hank Tumms dead tn.
| other day. Constable Exta Hand il
workin' on the case, but he aim
found no murder clew as yet Grand,
pa Bibbins has got new set Of falst
teeth made out Of second hand pianne,
keys he got at a bargain down K
the city.
The Rev. Mr.. Hudmutt says there
is one good thing about an atheist
He never goes to sleep in church
Mrs. Ansel Hanks is improving con
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
Let the Good Work
Go On.

When guilt is made personal and
men at the head of illegal corporations
are punished for their violations of the
law in the same measure that is melted
out to petty thieves and other Offend
ers, great step will have been taken
towards breaking up the corrupt and
illegal practices OF these corporations
A federal grand jury at Washington
has indicted two railroad presidents,
both of them very wealthy and promi-
nent for alleged violations of the
Sherman anti-tr law.
These men should be granted a
speedy and fair trial, such as the
constitution says all persons accused
Of crime shall have, and if they are
found guilty they should be given the
punishment provided in the law.
In other words their wealth and
prominence should not be considered
and all guilt should be made a per-
sonal matter.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

the level of the United States, despite
the vast difference between the two
countries in population, wealth and
habitable area. The Dominion has need
of the new lines it is building and
room for them, without running the
risk Of laying double burdens upon the
producers and consumers who will be
expected to pay interest on the bonds
and dividends on the stock of the
companies furnishing these transpor-
tation routes.
In this country the great need is
more adequate equipment Of the roads
already in operation and that want is
being met at a rate which promises
much for the future Of railway bust
ness, from the point Of view Of the
shipper as well as the common carrier.
Things are rather quiet at Arranged
don now.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
A Correspondence
School for Farmers.

The great and wealthy state OF
Texas has an innovation in the way Of
schools. This is a correspondence
school for the teaching of farming.
More properly speaking the Texas
Agricultural and Mechanical College
gives correspondence courses, primarily
intended for those who are unable to
leave their work to attend school, but
who at the same time want to keep
up with the progress of science. The
departure is popular in Texas, for
nearly $500 students have enrolled and
it is said these come from all the
walks and conditions Of life.
The promoters of this enterprise do
Lot claim that their correspondence
students receive as much benefit as
they would by attending the agricul-
tural schools, but they do assert that
if the students give proper attention
to their lessons and read and study
all the lectures and bulletins in con-
nection with the text books, they will
get great deal of information that
will help them in their work.
The Texas school has twenty ono
correspondence courses, each course
being given on some one branch OF
agriculture and the kindred sciences.
We look for the Texas plan to be
adopted all over the country.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
A c;rrs Wild midn;oh+ Ride.

To warn people of a fearful forest
fire in the Catskills young girl rode
horseback at midnight and saved many
lives. Her deed was glorious but
lives are often saved by DR.. Kings
New Discovery in curing lung trouble,
coughs and colds, which might have
ended in consumption or pneumonia.
1T cured me of dreadful cough and
TT cured me Of dreadful cough and
lung disease" writes W. r. Patter-
son, Wellington, Tex, after four in
our family had died with consumption,
and I gained 81 pounds" Nothing SO
sure and safe for all throat and lung
troubles. Price soc and $1.o0. Trial
bottle free. Guaranteed by ". A.
D'Alemberte's. (Adv.)
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
New Railroads
Where They Are Needed

The passing year, though prosperous
and active in trade and industry, has
been marked by lean record in rail-
road building. The railroad companies
OF the United States have spent a
great deal Of money in strengthening
their organization and increasing their
facilities for doing business, but they
have put it into cars and yards, sta
tons and locomotives, rather than
larger mileage. Much new track has
been laid but 1t has been the rebuild
ing of established lines and improving
roads already in operation.
The explanation, Of course, is that the
country is already so covered with
railways, except in certain limited Sec
lions, that there is little need Of i'm
portant extensions or of the building
OF new roads. The record of 1915
shows that in some of the richest, most
prosperous and progressive states
hardly any new mileage has been built
this year. This is true of Ohio, New
4bAhB AAAA1OAot -AeisSSlS1ASClbSs view
Jersey, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri
and Wisconsin. Even much younger
states like Colorado, Utah, South Da.
kota and Oregon have done very littls
railroad building.
The new lines and the extensions Of
old roads are most numerous in tbs
South, including certain states of the
Southwest, such as Arizona and Okla.
homa. There are twenty states IL
every one Of which more than fifty
miles of new track have been bull
and eleven Of them are in the southern
part of the country. Ten states hav,
built more than 100 miles of new road
apiece, and OF these six are in tn,
South, including the Southwest
In other words, the railroad building
of the country is going on in the RICH
place It is aiding in the development
of the sections which are least sup
piled with transportation facilities am
have the greatest undeveloped resource
awaiting the creative touch of capita
and labor.
For the same reason the railroat
building Of Canada is rising nearly t
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
SUNDAY. JANUARY 5. 1913.
The Journals Circulation
For Past IA Years.

The Journals long established GUS
tom Of publishing its circulation re-
ports is a custom that gives The
Journal increasing pleasure each year
and it is with exceptional pleasure that
The Journal publishes its detailed re-
port for the year 1912 on this page
today
This report shows that the advertiser
who used both the daily and weekly
editions of The Journal during 1912 got
the benefit of the following circulation:
Average daily circulation ......7 ,010
Average weekly circulation ....2,s12
Total daily and weekly 1922
The Journals circulation by years as
published in detail form every year
since The Journal began business
--..,,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
VOX POPULI.
STRANGER SUGGESTS WAY
TO SELECT A QUEEN

Editor Pensacola Journal:
I am a stranger in your city and
am not interested, but I know there
has been dissatisfaction in the way the
queen of the carnival has been chosen.
l would suggest a way that would be
fair to all and no one could find fault
with any one but their friends, for It
would be up to the friends of the lady
whether or not she would be the chosen
one.
Have a committee from the CONNER
cial Association invite ladies from all
sections of the city to enter the con-
test; elect the queen from that num-
Der by vote; sell votes, get the friends
Of the Brown eyed Beauties" at work:
get the merchants interested; get them
to give so many votes with each pur-
chase. Why, they will have a Mardi
Gras such as they never have had be-
fore, for the sale of the votes will give
them so much more money to use, see?
MRS. GEORGE PARKER.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
Former Presidents AS
Professors.

The question OF the disposition of
cur ex-presidents seems to concern the
general public more than 1t does the
persons chiefly concerned. Most OF the
ex-presidents have been able to find
some congenial employment, though
all Of them have not.
President Taft was and is an able
lawyer. He seemed to want to return
tothe practice of his profession. Al
this juncture, his alma mater, Yale
college, happens to want a law pro-
fessor Of high repute and recognized
authority and has offered the position
to Mr.. Taft.
This seems like a splendid way in
which to dispose Of Mr.. Taft. The
only question is this: Had Mr.. Taft
never been president, would his lega,
attachments have attracted Yale;
Good lawyer though he is admitted t.
be, We do not believe they would. Had
Mrs Taft never reached a higher posi-
ton in official life than governor gen
eral of the Philippines, we do not be.
lieve Yale college would have ever ten.
dered him a professorship.
Then after all should he not be per,
mitted to practice his profession ant
in accepting the Yale professorship, Il
he not to a certain extent trading Oh
his name and official position?
The question of what to do with tn,
ex-presidents seems to remain un
solved, but one thing is sure, tn,
country will not suffer them to be pen
sioners of milIionaires. whose swollel
fortunes were gained through govern
ment subsidy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

trimmer at Miss Amy Stubbs's mill
linery emporium has two colors OF
hair, dark near the scalp and yaller
at the ends. Elmer Sphinx expects to
hang her May basket next spring.
Somebody must be dead in Tage
Wilkins's family. He is wearing his
pants at half mast at this writing.
Arrangements are being made to re-
ceive the next message of the presi-
dent by rounds at the harness shop.
Young fellers part their hair in the
middle and show that they have got
a soft spot in their heads and old fell
lers part their hair on the side SO as
to cover 1t up.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
The Wet Blanket.

The Wet Blanket.
Old Uncle Peter never had
A single happy day.
Because you see old Uncle Pete
Just wasn't built that way.
Whene'er the sky was cloudless and
The sun came out real bright,
"a weather breeder" he would say.
You'll see that 1 am right"
When anybody had the sand
To open up a store
Or go in any business
Old Uncle Pete would roar:
by gravy, but that mans c1ump,
Times are so gol ding tight
That he will never make his salt,
You'll Sc that 1 am right"
When folks began to igger on
A railroad for the town
Old Uncle Peter was dead set
On turnin' of it down.
He said railroad is all bosh,
Won't help this town a mite,
Twill only kill our sheep and hawgs
You'll see that l am right"
One day old Uncle Peter died,
A cynic to the end.
He kicked until the very last
And never would unbend.
But still he was contented as
With death he made his tryst,
Because he never really knew
How much Of life he'd missed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
hows the following gratifying figures

Since The Journals custom was es-
tablished-and it began with the first
year Of The Journals existence-many
other papers have taken up the prac-
tice of publishing their circulation fig
ures, but few of them can show the
clean, consistent and open record
which The Journal presents in the
matter.
Circulation figures are something
which every advertiser is entitled to,
and The Journals circulation records
are always open to the inspection of
any interested patron of the paper.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
Noah Webster Down to Data.

Contortionist-Manw who can undress
in the upper berth of a sleeper.
Contributor-An ultimate consumer
Conventional crooked political
meeting very popular with the an
clients.
Copperheads-Man who does not
agree with you on politics. See also
Malefactor, Demagogue, Imbecile, Liar,
Horse Thief, etc.
Cornet-An instrument OF torture.
Corset-A gay deceiver which doesn't
deceive anybody.
Count-A gentleman who has no
money.
Courtship-A period in a mans life
when the foolish house gates are just
yawning for him.
Cow-An old fashioned animal tnat
will never be superseded by the auto
mobile.
Cuban--Man who isn't happy unless
he's unhappy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
MRS. HERR WARNS
MISSION CONTRIBUTORS

Editor Pensacola Journal.
This is to notify the public that no
money should be paid anyone for the
support of the Mission unless such
person can show written authority for
receiving such money. The only per-
sons now authorized to receive money
are Miss Lila Mckinley and myself.
Any funds paid either of US will be
thankfully received and will be used in
a worthy cause.
MRS. L. H. HERR,
Superintendent Mission.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

The supreme court has sustained
the South Dakota law which makes it
a crime to sell, for the purpose of
sitting competition, a commodity in
general use to a dealer in one place at
less cost than to a dealer in another
part Of the state. The law is confined
to staple articles and it may have an
important bearing on the trade of that
state
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

good because you were always hungry.
1t would serve every sour old bach
elor right if he had to marry q sour
old maid and vice versa
There are too many young kids run
ming automobiles and not enough of
them working for a living.
For all around knowledge, nobody
has got anything on the hotel clerk in
a town of 1900.
The new woman will never get very
far without the old man.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
Caught.

"John. John!" cried Mrs. Dubbleigh,
shaking her husband by the shoulder.
Wake up--there is a man in the
housed"
Nonsense, susan, retorted Dub
eieigh. shivering with apprehension
and hiding his head under the pillow.
Nothing Of the sort"
sHumph!" said Mrs. Dubbleigh. i
guess you are right. was referring to
you!"-Harper's Weekly.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
Hard on Pensacola Newspaper.

Now will the News come across and
acknowledge that everybody takes it
for a joke, and admit that to most
people in this section of the state the
mere publication Of an item in the
News is proof positive that it is not
so? Some people even doubted that
woodrow Wilson was elected presi-
dent last November after seeing 1t in
the News. Others do not even be-
lieve the date line.-Jackson Leader.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

For years J. S. Donahue, So. Haven,
Mich, a civil war captain, as a light
housekeeper. averted awful wrecks,
but a queer fact is, he might have
been a wreck, himself, If Electric Bit
tiers had not prevented. They cured
me of Kidney trouble and chills," he
writes, after 1 had taken other So
called cures for years, without benefit
and they also improved my sight.
Now, at seventy, I am feeling fine"
For dyspepsia, indigestion, all stomach,
liver and kidney troubles, they're
without equal. Thy them. Only so
cents at w. A. DAlemberte's. (Adv.)
"I' asked your husband last night IL
he had to live his life over again II
he would marry you, and he said he
certainly would"
"He certainly wouldn't" Judge.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

'Have you anything laid by for a
rainy day, Mr.. Bookly?'
Indeed, have. It's one, Of the best
novels written in a decade and can
hardly wait till 1t rains. "-Bfrmingha
Age-Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Mrs. William e. Corey, who was for
years Mabel Gilman of the vaudeville
stage, says America is too noisy to
live in. A little money does wondrous
things
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Graft has been found to exist in the
navy. The right kind of investigation
would probably bring 1t to light in
other departments too.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

The republicans are still very much
worried and disconnected about the re-
organization of their party. The few
that are left had better desert the old
thing.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Clusters last scout" has again
passed away. And probably he has
still more lives that haven't come to
an end yet.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

President Taft showed good sense
and good taste at st. Augustine when
he predicted that under the new ad-
ministration, prosperity would be ma
tion-wide.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Foraker said the Hearst letters were
stolen from the Standard Oil Com
pany. Perish the thought that any
one should steal from Standard Oil.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

A Michigan house caught fire from
a fireless cooker. But a freless street
car viii not do that, even Il it does
make the passengers hot.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

When on the witness stand, Mr..
Morgan is not very voluminous
talker.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

And some Of the Wall street people
are mean enough to insinuate that for
the first time since the death of its
founder there is to be railroad man in
the Gould family.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Whether West Florida becomes a
state in the Union or remains an i'm
portant part Of Florida, it will con-
tinue to grow in wealth and popula-
ton.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Some preachers are complaining
that ministers are paid less than Ia
borers. But there is demand for
labor just now.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Then, again, 1t might be different II
those suffrage pilgrims had to walk to
Albany.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

President Taft will find time after
March 4 to play many games of golf.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
Eriends Are Interested.

We don't know what Frank Mayes
of The Pensacola Journal wants under
the Wilson administration, but we sus-
pect that he is highly liable to get it
if he goes after it.-Lakeland News.
Frank Mayes is not going after any
thing but his friends will try and
make him Hitchcock's SUCCESSOR
Ocala Banner
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

II you want office under the new
administration, don't apply personally.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
When Father Was a Boy.

when Father was Soy.
This world was certainly frost
When father was a boy,
Just think of all the fun they lost -
They had no use for Joy.
They were a very gentle lot
And never did what they should not
To make their honored parents hot,
When father was boy.
They had no air guns fer to shoot
When father was a boy.
They had no bugles fer to toct,
Or any other toy.
And shortly after they were born
They had to hike out in the morn
And hoe the taters and the corn
When father was a boy.
They never skunk away from school
When father was a boy.
Off to the good old swimmin' pool,
Or words Of slang employ.
Then when up a tree they'd climb
To carve their initials twas a crime.
They must have had a hot old time
When father was a boy.
They never got single cent
When father was a boy;
They didn't know what money meant
And 1t didn't e'er annoy
The youth that fiourished in that day
II they could never get away
And go a-flshin' so they say,
When father was boy.
They never had an earthly chance
When father was a boy,
To own more than one Fair Of pants,
When father was boy.
They shined their shoes with axle
grease,
Their trousers never knew a crease,
They had one hicl1ry shirt apiece,
When father was boy.
All they cared to do was work,
When father was a boy.
| They were never known to shirk,
When father was a boy.
They drilled from morn till dewy eve
That Is, of course, II you believe
| The tales of what they did achieve
When father was boy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
Eronn +he HiokaxviIe cIarien.

Mrs. William Tibbitts is knitting a
crazy quilt for her uncle, who is in the
insane asylum. She Is one of the best
knitters In this mans town.
Gale Prouty, our jeweler and watch
maker. has got a job regulating the
works in Hod Peterss thrashin ma
chine Gale says he can't sleep al
night unless he hears a clock ticking
I should think he could get along just
as well by listening to the bed tick
Mrs. Hank Tumms was chewing slip
perry ellum the other day when heI
lower jaw slipped out OF Joint Neigh
bors advocate havin' something done
about il. but Hank says there amt nc
particular hurry. Mrs. Anson Frisb5
Is takin' them arts and gratis lessons
from down to the city, and at present
is poundtn' a forty-dollar brooch out
OF one Of Anse's brass suspender but
tons. Miss Lutte Bibbins is making
an up-to-date psek-a-boo shirtwaist
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
PENSACOLA AND
PENSACOLIANS
Somebody Told You.

Brother Mayes may and he may not,
but one thing is certain; he's going to
Woodrow with it personally. He'll not
trust 1t to anybody else to say whether
or not he shall hold a lucrative office
after next March.-Milton Gazette.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

West Florida is still growing.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Musings Of Pessimist.
When a woman gets hold of an au
tomobile in a crowded street, it is time
for pedestrians to take to the woods.
The old home cooking always seemed
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Things are rather quiet at Arranged
don now.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05
The Pensacola Journals Circulation Statement For 1912


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