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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14
TOO MUCH PIE.

By RUTH A. KENNETH.
HEARD the grown folks talking,
As I lay in my bed,
And opened my eyes and listened
To everything they said.
It seems there was a circus
Coming to our town.
With an elephant, tiger,
A bear, and funny clown.
They said there was lion
That had an awful roar;
A camel, lots Of monkeys, and
A thousand things or more.
And then I heard little noise!
Though dark, just did see
The whole of that big circus
Coming straight for me!
On they came, right toward me,
From where, nobody knows,
With bands of music playing,
Horses stepping on my toes.
They came right through the dark
ness
And never touched the door;
/ didn't see the lion,
But I think l heard him roar.
And then I grew most awful 'fraid,
Called, Mother" With a light
She scared that horrid big parade
And put it out Of sight.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14

Poor Blondine began to cry bitterly
oh, cried she, why Is my father left
all alone? Where are my sister Bru-
nette and the Queen7"
THE Queen seemed to care so little
for your death-for you are believed to
be dead. dear Blondine-that the king
grew to have a. horror OF her, and sent
her back to King Turbulent, her
father. There she was shut up in a
tower, where she soon died of rage and
modification. AS for your sister, Bird
nette. she was growing so nl-tempered
and disagreeable that the king was
glad TO marry her on last year to
Prince Violent, who made up his mind
to try to reform her. He treats her
quite roughly; she Is beginning to see
that her bad temper is not bringing her
happiness. and she Is really improving
a little Some day you will see her
again, and you must help her to grow
better by setting her q good example"
Blondine thanked the White Deer
gratefully for all this news. She want
ed very much TO ask when she should
see her father and sister again, but she
was afraid this would sound as If she
were in a hurry to leave her kind
friends, so she decided to wait patient
ly.
Blondine was never idle, for she
found plenty to do here, but she was
sometimes sad. There was no one for
her to talk with except the White Deer,
and she was with her only at meal
times and during lessons. The White
Cat had no way of talking except by
signs. The gaZelles waited upon Blon-
dine very nicely and kindly, but none
Of them could talk.
IN her walks Blondine was always
accompanied by the White Cat, who
showed her the prettiest walks and the
most fragrant flowers. The White
Deer had made Blondine promise never
to go outside the park and never to
60 into the forest. Several times Blon-
dine had asked why she must not do
these things. Then the White Deer
would sigh, and say, "Oh. Blondines do
not ask me to go into that forest. It
| is q place that brings nothing but mis-
fortune to those who go there
Sometimes Blondine would climb into
q little summerhouse, on top of 8 hill,
| from which she could see into the for
est. She saw manifcent trees, charm
ing flowers, and thousands OF birds
singing and circling about as II to call
her. "Oh, why will the White Deer
not allow me to 80 there?" thought the
little girl. What danger can there be
| for me when I am under her carer
Then the White Cat would seem to
know what Blcndine was thinking, and
would NEW and pull ut her dress to
| get her away from the summerh ouse.
| Blondine always smiled, followed the
| White Cat. and went on with her lonely
walks in the quiet park.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14

gate into the Forest; that Gourman-
dinet had gone nearly frantic with
grief and terror; and that she had sent
him away to her fathers court. When
the king heard this, ne was in wild
despair. He rushed to the Forest OF
Lilacs, and his people had to use force
to prevent him from trying to follow
his little daughter. They took him
home. but he fell into the most dread
full state, calling constantly for his
dear Blondine, his darling child. At
last he fell asleep, and, in q dream, he
saw Blondine In the palace Of the
White Deer and the White Cat. The
White Deer promised him that Blon-
dine should one day return to him, and
that her childhood should be calm and
happy.
The mirror turned dark then, and
everything disappeared. Then 1t grew
lighter again. and again Blondine saw
Ter father. He had grown old and
gray. and his face was sad. In his
hand was little picture OF Blondine,
and he was kissing it and weeping over
1t. He was alone; there were no signs
OF the Queen or Brunette.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14

whom she found in the room where she
had seen her for the first time.
"Oh, Madam" cried she, please
tell me why I am al 50 changed.
What has happened to me? Last
night went to bed, little girl. This
morning I am grown UP. Is It ell
dream? Or have / really grown SO in
one night?"
1T is true, my dear Blondine, that
you are now fourteen years old, but
you have been asleep seven years. My
son and wished to spare you all the
tiresome years of study. When you
came to us you did not know anything.
You could not even read. / put you to
sleep for seven years, and we have
spent those seven years, you in learn
ing while you slept, the White Deer
and I teaching you. I see you do not
believe you can have learned much in
that way; come with me to your study
and see what you can co."
Blondine followed the White Deer to
her study. She ran to the piano and
tried ii, and found that she could play
very well; she tried her harp and drew
sweet, melodious sounes from it; she
sang gloriously. she took pencils and
brushes, and drew and painted so
easily, that she saw she must have
real talent. She tried writing, and 1t
went as we'll as the other things; she
glanced through her books and re-
membered perfectly well that she had
read them.
Full Of surprise and Joy, she threw
her arms around the White Deer, then
kissed. the White Cat affectionately,
and cried, 'Oh, my dear, good, kind
friendsl How much / owe you for tax
ing care of me so kindly and teach
Ing me SO muchl have improved so
much in every way, and l owe 1t all
to your
The White Deer embraced Blondine
tenderly in return. The White Cat ca
ressed her hands with his little pink
tongue. When the first moments OF
happiness had passed, Blondine low
cred her eyelids and asked. timidly.
do not think me ungrateful, kind
friends, If I ask one more favor OF you.
VIII you tell me what my father is
doing? Does he still mourn for me
Is he happy since he lost me?''
Your wish is but natural, and I will
grant It, Look in this glass, Blondine
and you will see all that has passed
since you left your father, and how he
is now
Blondine looked In TIE mirror and
saw her fathers apartment. He was
pacing UP and down inlpatently, and
seemed to be expecting some one
Queen Fourbette came Ia and told him
that Blondine, in spite of all Gourman-
dinet could do had insisted on driving
the ostriches herself; thai they had run
away with her in the direction OF the
Lilac Forest, and upset the carriage
the Rlondine had been thrown over the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14
A.Recipe for Insomnia
By Gelets Burgess

To Be Administered the Patient n Slow and Monotonou
Doses in Low Voice
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14
TOYS
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS

. OUR in row the stockings swung
N BY sister Kate to the mantel
hung;
Her own was blue, and black
was Ned's;
The next was red. and that was Ted's;
And, queer and bulgy as to toe,
"A white one swung for Baby Joe.
Down beneath them-what was there?
A sheep, a COW and Teddy bear;
a woolIy poodle that really walked.
And q doll--a wonderful doll-that
a train Of cars, a big Noah's ark,
In through the window pane there
A noonbeam, past where the children
slept,
Across the floor to the fireplace:
And, 10! within the enchanted space
The Christmas toys in the magic light
Awokel Was ever there such sightl
The Teddy Bear reached forth a paw;
he yawned and stretched, and then he
me painted door of the ark swing
And. two by two, from it's dim inside
The animals march as, long ago,
On Arrarat they marched, you know.
Into the magic Christmas light
OF the wee sma' hours Of the night
The toys all came from the stockings
And out Of their paper wrappings
my fellow toys" twas the poodle
.swe're gathered here for yon little folk.
Across the ocean they brought me
The most wonderful toy produced this
I'd have you know I'm of high estate,
I'm quite the latest thing to date:
Ny whole inside is filed with wheels. /"
Moor asked the COW; ARE they in
your heels?
MOO, moo, moo, perhaps it's true,
But not for worlds would change with
1 have not wheels, for I'm all of wood;
I've never danced, but I've stood and
On my spotted legs, and they're strong
For ladies who play a little rough.
"A little German boy named Max,
with eyes OF blue and hair Of fax
Who whistled all the 1tveIong day,
As happy as the birds at play,
In wooden shoes and funny froclz
Whitfield me from a wooden block
And as he carved he watched his COW
And petted her, and wondered how
The grass so green made milk so white
And sometimes Rugged and Rugged heI
tight
Because he loved her SO, and then
Why, he just Rugged her once again.
"And so, because his heart was glad,
Because he was happy lad,
He whistled and he carved all day
While other boys were off at play;
And every night at set of sun
A little wooden COW was done.
'For Max was making Christmas toys
For far, far distant little boys;
Itch 1iebe dich,' he'd say, each day,
AS each of us was sent away;
And so die liebe kinder small
Are sure to lose US best Of all"
The first white ray of early dawn
Proclaimed that 1t was Christmai
The moonbeam ned: the toys were stin
The sun stole IN and seemed to fill
| The room and food each little bed
And lift the lids Of Master Ted.
'"The poodle's greatH' cried master Ned
Just see my train Of carsTi cried Ted
The Paris doll was Hates delight,
But Baby Joe from morn till night
Because, said he, ST loves her so"
The spotted COW held close. you lEnow,
Il
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14
WHAT ABOUT THE CAT?
Transcribed From the Chinese Fairy Tale by Sui Sin
Far-Il:ustrated by George F. Kerr

No ono answered. All tremolsd and
paled.
They are all untrue" announced
the princess.
She lifted her arm and there crawled
out of her sleeve her white cat. 1t
had been there all the time.
Then the courtly chamberlain adj
vanced toward her, kotowing three
times. Princess" said he, would a
story be a story IL it were true? Would
you have been as well entertained this
morning If, instead of our stories, we,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14
CAPTAIN NOAH

aid Captain Noah could not tell
The hour when every one should
rise,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14

rise,
So Rufus Rooster, by request,
Awoke the crew with flaps and cries.
Goliath Gobbler's Jealousy
Made him quite wroth, It'll Noah said
He'd hold competitive exams
To see who'd call him out of bed.
Old Gottlieb Gander was the Judge
And Rufus Rooster had first go.
His exhibition was so good
That Gottlieb cackled, just to show
How much he liked his cockle-doo. 4
Goliath's gobble then was heard,
And Gottlieb Kissed as though he said
He thought such sounds as that
absurd.
At this Goliath was so mad
His face grew red and also blue,
And, swelling up, he walked away,
While Rufus shouted, "Cockle-doo.'H
To cheer Goliath, Noah said:
You call the birds and beasts to-
food"
But this task was not done quite right,
For ''gobble, gobble," sounded rude.
His good wife, lilly Turkey, who
Had better maners, cried out "Quitl Vi
Which caused the animals to cease
Their rush, and mend their ways g.
bit
Now, even to this day you hear, =
Where turkeys, geese and chickens
feed,
The gobbler cry out "gobble," while
His wife says, "Quit, at all such
greed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14
AN UNFINISHED RACE.
By MARY DAY WYNN.

By MARY DAY VIM.
w.R ITH A Zone, two, three!"
Al And shout OF glee,
wv They start on their merry race
My little boy Jack"
With his curls Of black,
And Bob, with his laughing face.
boy Jack" rides as fast
AS the whirlwind's blast,
And spurs on his steed with pride;
but Bob, at his right,
Keeps up with him quite,
And so they ride side by side.
Now this is the case
In every race
That Bobby and Jack begin;
For, ride though they may
Till the break of day,
They neither Of them can win!
This puzzle is plain
If you'll look again,
And examine their steeds with care.
For, safe from alarms,
They ride on the arms
OF Grandmother's rocking chairi
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14

your unworthy servants, had simply
told you that the cat was UP your
sIeeve?'
The princess lost her severity IN hi
larity. THANK you, my dear servants"
said she. az appreciate your desire to
amuse me-
She looked at her cat, thought Of all
it had done and been IL the minds
of her servants, and laughed like a
princess again and again.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14
BIONDINTE
segur by Rachel H. stannard-Drs.wings
by F. Strothmann.

tail, and--yes, very pretty: a hundred
times prettier than when she went to
bedl Her beautiful fair hair fell al
most to her feet; her lovely blue eyes,
her charming red mouth, her pink
cheeks. her slender, graceful figure, all
Eaade her the most attractive person
ever seen.
Now was Blondine excited, almost
afraid. She dressed as fast as che
could, and ran to the White Deer
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14

about the cat?" asked the
w little princess of her eldest
w maid. "It is sitting on the sun
ny side Of the garden wall,
watching the butterflies. It meowed
for three of the prettiest to fall into
its mouth, and would you believe 1t,
that is Just what happened. A green,
a blue. pink shaded with gold, all
went down pussy's red throat"
The princess smiled. What about
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-14
EXPERIENCE.
81 7. W. 3.

A BOY met bee in the clover
"a And bothered the spry littls
y rover;
The bee grew first mad and them
madden
And the youth is now wiser and
sadder.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19
WEBB KENYON LIQUOR Law
Its Constitutionality and Interpretation
to Be Considered by Supreme Court
After Easter Recess
By Associated Press.

Washington, March 19.-Prepara-
tions have been made for consideration
by the Supreme Court shortly after the
Easter recess of litigation involving
the constitutionality and Interpretation
of the Webb-Kenyon liquor law, enact
ed by Congress in 1913.
The "drys' contend that the Webb
Kenyon law mas Withdrawn from in
terstate shipments of liquor consigned
to local option territory the protection
previously offered such shipments by
the commerce clause of the federal con-
stitution. The "wets' declare that the
law was merely aimed at "bootleg-
ging' and does not withdraw the com
merce clause protection from interstate
shipments designed for personal use.
Express companies and railroads are
as much concerned over the proper
construction of the law as over the
question of validity. Liquor dealers
throughout the country have gone into
the courts to compel carriers to accept
shipments for personal use" into
"dry' territory.
In Kentucky, the courts adopted the
"wet' construction and an express
company, foreseeing an alleged neces-
sity for employing a big force of in
spectors and detectives to ferret out
the purpose of each shipment, appealed
to the Supreme Court. 1t is this case
which will be argued after Easter.
Somewhat similar cases involving West
Virginia and North Carolina liquor
laws are also before the court.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19
A LAND OF EXTREMES
Peru's Violent Contrasts in Climate.
Altitude and Scencrv


Were | to be cxiled and confined for
the rest of my life to one country |
should choose Peru.
Here is every altitude, every eli
mate, every scene. Coastal Peru is an
Egypt, central Peru Tibet, eastern
Peru Kongo country. The lifeless
desert and the teeming jungle, the hot
test iowlands and the bleakest hiqh.
lands, heaven piercing peaks and riv.
ers racing through canyons-all are of
Peru.
Here one meets with the highest til.
lage, the highest mines, the highest
steamboat navigation. The crassest
heathenism flourishes two days in the
saddle from noble cathedrals, and the
bustling ports are counterpoised by Sc
cluded inland towns where the past
hes miraculously preserved, like the
mummy of the saint in crypt.
In the year 1900, when the Tyrol
and the Abruzzi, Dalmatia and Carin-
thia, have lost their old world charac-
ter, travellers may be seeking the towns
hidden away in the Andes-Caiama a,
lHuancavelica, Andahuaylas and Ava,
cucho-for rare bits of lustrous medi-
eval life untarnished by the breath of
modernism.-From 'S' outh of Pana-
ma by Edward Ellsworth Ross, in
Century Magazine.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19

Oranges will be featured tomorrow in
markets and stores on hotel, restaurant
and dining car menus, at the soda foun-
tains and on the tables of American
homes Californias big, brilliant coat
ed, juicy fruit will have its innings to-
morrow, for growers, merchants, news
papers and other agencies are co-operat-
ing in big effort to get people better
acquainted with oranges-to make
"Orange Day a big success education
ally. "Orange Day" is not designed to
be day of big profits in the orange
business. Its purpose is to attract in
terest to the subject of oranges as a
health food-to reach the ears of the
people with the truth about orange
juice as nutritious and blood purifying
food, as well as delightful and refresh
ing one. Special low prices will be in
effect at all fruit stands and stores.
The orange is fruit that should play
most important role in the daily af
fairs of everyone, because it carries
tucked away inside its golden coat a
most desirable treasure-health. The
great food and diet specialists have con-
sistently emphasized the benefits of
fruits and nuts, and special value has
always been given to oranges. Orange
Juice, for instance, because Of its mild
ness and nutritive value, is universally
prescribed for breaking fasts, in cases
where fasts have been necessitated for
curative purposes.
There used to be saying, IAN apple
day keeps the doetoE away" This
helps TO emphasize the value of the
natural foods; but apnles have no cor
Ter on heaithfulness. In fact, it is very
lrobable that the orange offers, of all
fruits, the most certain health insur-
lnce Doctors found out years ago that
orange juice should form part of the
liet of every baby to prevent any pos
sibility of scurvy. And where seurvy
aas already set in, orange juice is one
IF the most important elements in it's
cure Citric acid and fruit sugar are
found in their most delightful combina-
tion in the orange, and the blood-puri-
tying properties, as well as its digesti-
bility, have made it common prescrip-
tion for sick people and invalids. Or
ange juice has been found of special
value, also, as a cooling drink for fever
patients.
OF the healthfulness of orange juice
the Ehcyciopeuia DrlCannlca says: be-
sides the widespread use of the fruit as
an agreeable and wholesome article of
diet, that of the sweet orange, abound
ing in citric acid, possesses in high
degree the anti-scorbutic properties that
render the lemon and lime so valuable
in medicine, and the free consumption
of this fruit in the large towns of Eng
land during the winter months has had
very beneficial effect on the health of
the people,"
Growth of the Industry
Nm industry can really prosper until
the marketing end has been systema-
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19
$5OO.0OO IN TIE-MAKING
Carnegie Company to Make Big Ex
tension Outlay

Pittsburgh, March 19.-An outlay
of 100000 viii soon be made by the
Carnegie Steel Company to build a
steel tie plant in Homestead. A. C.
Dinkey, president, says so. 1t will
manufacture steel ties and tie special
ties, including sleepers, used by Euro
pean lines.
A plant to manufacture benzol also
has been planned and will be built at
New Castle. Benzol is valuable in the
making of high velocity powder and in
the hardening of rubber, and shutting
Off the supply, formerly procured in
uermany, has given impetus to its
manufacture in this country.
The McClintick- Marshall Construc-
ton Company yesterday received an or
der for $1,000 tons of structural steel
from the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19
20 YEARS In COMEDY TEAM
Montgomery and Stone Have Been To-
gether Since 1895

New York, March 19.-Fred Stone
and David Montgomery, the comedians
celebrated yesterday the twentieth an.
niversary of the team of Montgomery
and Stone. They got together on March
Is, 1895, and formed partnership
which has never been interrupted.
Montgomery and Stone met in Gal.
weston, Texas. They played there with
a minstrel troupe and later in New Or
leans and Western towns. Gus Hill
brought them to New York, where they
played at the old Miner theatre and at
'Hammerstein s. Then followed HfThe
Wizard of or, - and the Dillingham; pro.
ductions of 'The Red Mill, - "The Old
Town. "The Lady of the Slipper"
and now "Chin Chin"
we started together twenty years
ago in vaudeville" said Fred Stone
yesterday. "We were making only $40
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19
TRoTTING OR sHELLING PEAS?
Which Is More Unhealthful For Girls
AS . Nightly Pastime?

Albany, March 19.-During a dis
cussion of the Thompson bills permit
ting minors and women to work nights
in canning factories during the can
ming season Senator George F. Thomp-
son, of Niagara, who introduced the
bills, suggested that the city Senators
take care of the city girls and let up
State men handle the upstate labor
situation.
You are going back to the days of
barbarity," Democratic Leader Wag-
ner declared, opposing the bills. "This
Is humane question and not one of
dollars and cents.
The people on the upstate farms
understand this matter better than the
Senators from New York. said Sen
ator Thompson. "They think it is more
unhealthful for the girls in your city
to turkey trot all night than to shell
peas. ~
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19
WAR NO BAR TO wEUDIru
Miss Marsden Marries AS Father
Braves Mine Fields

New York, March 19-Miss Tillie
Marsden, daughter of Captain Chris
topper Marsden, who is now on the high
seas in command of the sailing vessel
Georgiana, laden with cotton, bound
for Rotterdam, was quietly married to
George Milroy Marshall at the home of
her parents in Corona Tuesday after
noon. After the date for the wedding
had been sent Captain Marsden was
called away to take command of the
Georgiana, so that he was unable to
be present at the ceremony, which was
performed by the Rev. II. B. Belcher
The bride was given away by her
mother, Mrs. Mary Marsden, and the
groom was attended by Harry Butler
Guillan, of Brooklyn.
Captain Marsden had retired from
the sea and was interested in civic
affairs when the war broke out.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-03-19
MOVE TO GUST FILM CENSOR
Pennsylvania Exhibitors Deliver an
Ultimatum

Philadelphia, March 19.-The Penn.
sylvania Moving Picture Exhibitors
Association, which clashed recently
with State Censor Brietinger over his
right to hold up some of their plans and
which charged the censor with grating
and with lax inspection methods, de.
manded yesterday that Brietinger va
cate his headquarters in the city at
once. The film men, who pay all the
expenses of this office, gave the censor
forty-eight hours to comply with their
request.
The exhibitors maintain that Briet-
niger has failed legally to itemize his
inspection charges and they have de-
cided to carry their fight up to Cover
nor Brumbaugh.