The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-02-28
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When I reach the ripe age of three
score and ten years, methought It
wise to lay aside this time-wo pen
forever.
But through the recuperative
agency of long research for the repu-
ted fountain of Youth" Throughout
this far famed land of flowers, unde
italian Skies" and stirred by sue
events as the suicidal attempt of the
"Old World the celebration of the
successful severing Of the North and
South America, by the completion of
the Panama canal the earthquake
shocks of bursting 'impregnable"
Pensacola Banks, and the sad prema
ture departure of our beloved Journal
ist-all seem combined to stir this
rusting pen anew, If only it may be,
to say, little more that a loud AMEN.
Our great struggle for peaceful
congress to arbitrate the differences
of all nations, seems to have only pre-
cipitated the world-powers into the
most unwarrantable and ferocious con-
f1ict of by-gone centuries.
If Uncle Sam can firmly stay a sui
cidal hand, and foster peace with every
warning nation"zone," I anticipate a
booming wave of prosperity over this
lovely land-from ocean, to ocean; and
from the great lakes on the north, to
the gulf of Mexico on the south
On the other hand / fear that the
coritagion may become worldwide, and
hasten that oft predicted end of Mother
Earth
Last winter I spent much time in
the citrus and phosphate regions of the
Southern Peninsula.
The tomato fields of 20 years ago at
Winter Haven have been converted
into Orange groves-the popular
Grape fruit" being mainly planted
now.
hundred pretty lakes claim half
the acreage in this '.frost-rare' section
of Polk county The Florence Villa
Fruit Company have planted a grove
of three hundred acres between Lake
Florence and Summit Lake. The sur
face is rolling and the soil thin enough
to require sseverlasting' fertilization.
Pecans are a failure there-the zone
of West Florida is proving a fine home
for these valuable nuts, if You shun
the barren quarters of the destructive
salamanders.
There are some very old trees in
Santa Rosa county-bnt ] believe that
the pecan is not a native of Florida.
1t is being extensively planted-and
also the Satsuma orange.
These nuts have never succumbed
to a Florida winter, and we may hope
to have yet a few years more before
the next ''unprecedented' freeze out
AT the head of Escambia1 bay, I find
Floridatown to present an ideal loca-
ton for an all season resort The cold
waves of winter are modified by the
evergreen forest, while the Southern
bay front exposure affords a cooling
breeze through the heated summer
tine.
have found no prettier Live-oak
grove in Florida that that sllrting the
bluff, which was several feet above tne
memorable tidal-wave which wrecked
the wharves at Pensacola in 1906.
Two artesian wells are ever wasting
superior water-as soft as the preci-
pitation from the sky kissing clouds.
and claimed to have valuable medicin
al properties.
Under the new dispensation Florada-
town may be found on the map when
the great nations of Eurone sha1 he
no more. The name of the hotel has
been changed to Bay lee
post Office is to be re-estahlishe3 at
once A abbath school has oeen or
ganized, opening with an attendance
of seventy three scholars.
PREPARATIONS are making for a Ferry