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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-07-10
FIRST BOAT TO THE
ISLAND IS OPERATED

The first boat to Santa Rosa Island
since the blow, was operated yester-
day afternoon, and it Is expected that
# the weather is good, number of
pleasure parties will pay a visit to the
gulf beach during today.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-07-10
IookIMo aAckANARn

There's no danger" said the doctor.
TITS only a carbuncle coming on the
back of your neck. But you must keep
your eye on itr'-Christian Register.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-07-10
IMPATIENT

Lawyer-You say you want this dam
age suit pushed through with the utmost
speed?
Client-Exactly. have e child six
weeks old, and / want the money to pay
his college expenses.-Gargoyl.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-07-10

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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-07-10
The Great
American Smoke

Fall In line with the red
blooded smokers of the good
old y. S. A. Smoke the ciga-
rette tobacco that's been an
American institution for three
generaions-"BulI" Durham.
The snappy. relishy, star
spangled taste Of Bull" Dur
ham puts the national spirit of
get-up-and-hustle into your
hand-rolled cigarette.
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reaching out your hand-that sense of
great, strangeness in face as familiar to
you as your own.
There were moments when Bessie Har-
low, looking across the breakfast-table at
her husband that morning, suffered such
deep wrench-as if he were already ir-
reparably separated from her, a stranger
to her heart. The most poignant barb in
this was his utter Inconsistencies of it.
He reached no hand, gave no call. On the
contrary, he went on eating his bacon and
eggs quite as usual-although hooks sunk
into her flesh were dragging her away
from him. How could he not know? She
blamed him for not knowing.
Even the little dining-room were
only five small rooms in the white cottage
took on unreality. Someway, it ought
to know. She slipped her coffee, but the
lump in her throat would hardly let her
swallow it. Tiny Ben, aged eighteen
months stopped scattering his saucer of
oatmeal and cream and dropped the
spoon. Bessie stopped and picked it up
with fingers that felt nerveless. Return
ing it to the high-chair tray, pale bit of
smile Just fiickered in her gray eyes and
on her red lips, and she surreptitiously
squeezed the baby's chubby hand. He
alone remained intimate. If he were older
he would have known the trouble that
racked her.
This was the Friday morning following
Labor Day in Plum Hill-where and
when the foundations of living had sud-
denly slipped.
ON the Tuesday morning following
Labor Day, as Lon Williams ambled
down Main Street toward the Farmers
and Merchants Bank, Plum Hill was
much as it had been on any summer
morning in the last thirty years. Main
Street had been macadamized in the
thirty years; the red brick Swartout
House on the corner had been painted
white; the two elms beside it had achieved
nobler height and girth. But the three
citizens who leaned against the white
painted brick wall in the shade Of the
elms, smoking their pipes and discussing
the prospects of rain, might have been
Just there thirty years ago. The little
group in front of the post-office, morning
mail in hand had so leisurely an air that
one imagined the passing of three decades
W Dt u utdVUST vi luulHCECuScs
Lon Williams, cashier of the Farmers
and Merchants Bank, paused moment
to chat before going in for the banks
mail. He was spare, round-shouldered
man, so near-sighted that he wore spec
tacles with thick lenses. His dense brown
beard was cropped short, but even then
it seemed to pull his head forward, as if
its weight were too much for his thin neck.
With double handful of mail he went
diagonally across to the new bank build
ing-of brown pressed brick with white
stone trimmings-of which the town was
justly proud. 1t was a good hour before
the opening time; but industrious, me-
thodical Lon Williams always got down
early and left late. Eph Stone, the negro
janitor, was still at the mornings sweep
ing and busting behind the drawn win
dow-shades. The cashier went around to
his desk and began looking over the mail.
Almost at once he sawa letter addressed
to himself in the heavy handwriting of
President Leffingwell. He opened the
envelop, and thereby loosed an earth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-16

other time. He took the three o'clock
train Saturday, carrying brown ALI
gator leather bag with silver mountings.
ment, that he looked just as usual-erect,
brisk, CHEEKY, with no mark Of Cain visible
upon him.
The note Cashier Williams opened
Tuesday morning advised him to tele-
graph the State banking department at
once that the bank was utterly insolvent,
and to ask that an examiner be sent up to
take charge of it. Arriving that afternoon
at town which fguratively sat dumb and
aghast before the locked doors of the bank,
the examiner found nothing but shell.
So Plum Hill was stricken as by a
lightning-bolt; plague descended upon
it overnight; in every block, almost in
every other house, there was desolation
and mourning. For, if anybody possessed
money, vigorous ALI Leffingwell had got
some or all Of it into his bank.
There was Lon Williams himself in
dustrious, methodical, mechanical man,
obeying the president implicitly, with too
little imagination to conceive of ALI Lef-
fingwell as an embezzler. 1t Immediately
developed that for two years the presi-
dent had been draining the banks re-
sources into those Western speculations
and forging the books to cover it up. Lon
Williams had trustingly done as he was
told. But the State banking department
outraged at the deception practised
upon it and smarting under the animad-
versions OF the metropolitan press upon a
bigger bank failure which had happened
that summer-took high and firm ground
with the cashier. He lay in jail thirty-six
hours before he could get bail. The State
Commissioner Of Banking, in an interview
breathing righteous indignation, promised
to put him in the penitentiary. He had a
wife and three children.
ONE of Marcus Leffingwell's two asso-
ciates in founding the bank had been
Tom Dickinson-dead these dozen years;
but his widow survived. She was @Aunt
Martha to half the young people in town.
When her companion and nurse took her
out in wheeled chair-for she was Grip
pied with rheumatism girls ran to hand
her flowers, and shone before her ashen,
deeply lined old face, which shone back
at them through its mask of bodily suf-
fering. She loved these other children for
the children that had been denied to her.
With the companion-nurse, she lived on
in the house her husband had built in his
prime: square, two-story frame affair
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bedizened all over with jig-saw orna-
ments, like frosting on a brides cake.
Such had been Tom Dickinson's notion
of proper house. There were long, mar.
row French windows opening down to the
veranda, and long colored glass panels be.
side the front door. That morning Aunt
Martha had been found dead in bed, with
an empty morphine vial under her pillow
stricken by the plague. All she had
was the bedizened house and fifteen thou
sand dollars of bank stock which her hus-
band had left her. 1t had paid eight per
cent. regularly-suffici for her living.
But the bank examiner said the stock was
utterly worthless now, and holders of it
would be assessed hundred per cent.
An i'll outlook for woman Of sixty-nine
who could not get out OF her chair without
help She preferred not to wait.
ON the next corner stood square brick
house with a cupola, and futed iron
columns on the veranda. That was Adam
Benson's house. Adam, too, was getting
old-his thick yellow beard nearly all
gray now. His big freckled hands bore
scars of hard framework, although he had
handed over the three hundred and
twenty acres-prize farm of the township
to his two sons seven years before.
Adam had some bank stock; also he had
crowned his honest career by getting
elected county treasurer. A good part OF
the public funds for which he was under
bonds were deposited in the Farmers and
Merchants Bank. He was lying up there
in the corner bedroom, with the white
blinds carefully closed, in a precarious
state of collapse.
Lesser victims were everywhere. Even
young Ben Harlow was one of them. His
burly, grumpy, rock-handed father owned
the undergrad, among other things.
When young Ben-not to the parental
lilsing-married Bessie Walker, Josiah
said to him: an give you nine hundred
dollars year to run the undergrad.
You can live in the Wicklow cottage and
pay me eight dollars month rent for it.
When you've saved thousand dollars
I'll give you half interest in the bust
ness
1t didn't sound easy, and proved even
harder than it sounded-especially after
little Ben appeared at the end Of the first
year. They had bad luck with that--Dr.
Brunt down from Ashland. eighteen miles,
in racing automobile at night, and then
trained nurse FIVE weeks. DIR. Brunt's
bill was predicated on old Josiah's various
possessions rather than upon Ben's modest
salary. Altogether it set them back fear
fully.
At the end Of two years and half Ben
had saved six hundred and nine dollars.
1t was on deposit in the Farmers and
Merchants Bank. The bank failure had
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eight. Ten years later a good many
people were saying privately-for, as it
implied derogation of Plum Hill, it was
not thing to be uttered publicly-that
the town wouldn't hold him long: his
talents demanded a wider field.
He was stocky and sandy man, with
a smooth-shaven face upon which all the
features were strongly marked. His fore
head bulged, his chin jutted,, his nose was
thick; there was breadth and solidity in
his jaw and cheek bones. He seemed, so
to speak, over-emphasized, over-charged.
His red hair was curly, as if the energy
radiating through it would not let it lie
straight; his blue eyes snapped and
twinkled; and he laughed readily, showing
even white teeth.
He was warm, overlooking, friendly
sort of man. If he was asked to head a
subscription for new grand stand in the
baseball park, he seized pen and dashed
down his signature before the committee
got its business fairly stated. Forlorn old
Sara Gregg, Sinking into the bank and
lowering in the background until she
caught his eye. began mumbling tremu-
lousy that the rent of her two rooms over
the harness shop was whole quarter in
arrears. His fingers dove into his vest
pocket and brought out bank-note
which he pressed into her clammy, flesh
less hand, with a cheerful word.
lie was tremendously active. Trebling
: the banks deposits kept only his left
hand busy. He organized the Local I'M
provement Club, and dragooned every
body into it with laugh and slap on
the back. The club got Main Street
macadamized and laid out tiny park.
He inspired and financed the canning fac
tory. He introduced mint culture on the
idle muck lands south of town.
But Plum Hill had only sixteen hum
bred inhabitants-one of innumerable
Middle Western rural villages that reached
about the limit of their commercial devel-
opment as soon as the farms upon whose
trade they subsisted We're all taken up.
OF late years All had gone much beyond
the village boundaries. Every winter he
travelled to California and the Southwest.
The town heard, with more or less def
niteness, of large enterprises out there
an irrigation scheme, oil lands in Cali
fornia, copper in Arizona. 1t was saying
behind its hand-that Plum Hill
wouldn't hold him long
Sunday followed by Labor Day gave
bank holiday from Saturday to Tuesday.
Friday President Leffingwell observed to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-16
Settled Out Of &C
By WILL PAYNE

n TO doubt you have suffered that
sense of great remoteness from
person whom you could actu-
- allV touch hy taking q stem and
The Gleam., 1916-12-17
Continued from page II

Continued from page Il
 printed in the daily papers, includ- ing his picture. We congratulate the people of Juneau on the removal of MT. Holzheimer to Ketchikan, and lastly, we congratulate MT. Holzheim- CT on the attainment of the end for which he came to Alaska.
 The Clean may have occasion to further comment on the speedy and remarkable rise of MT Holzheimer It will certainly be a greater in- ducement to immigration, but we are sorry we cannot commend the type of immigrant it will encourage.
The Gleam., 1916-12-17
THE GENTLEWO OMANS SHOP

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 There wonderful things shop
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The Gleam., 1916-12-17

DR. LEONARD p. DAWES Surgeon and Physician Office First Nat. Bank Bldg. Hours 10 to 12 M; 1 to 4;
 and ' to 9 D. m Phones: 2602 Res, 2603
The Gleam., 1916-12-17

WILLIAM PALLlsTER, MD.
 Physician and Surgeon Specialist in the treatment of disease. and deformities of the eye, and ear, nose and throat. Glasses fitted. Office Juneau General Hospital.
 Phone 500.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-22
AUSTRIAN PREMIER
 KILLED BY EDITOR
Brief Dispatch From Berlin States That Head of Vienna Gov ernment Was Shot While Seated at Dinner-No
 Particulars Given

says a Central News dispatch from Amsterdam. Emperor Francis Joseph was informed immediately of the death of the premier and was affected deep ly. A special meeting of the Austrian cabinet was held during the after noon.
 Special editions were issued in Vii enna and Budapest. the dispatch adds and announced the murder "as tre- mendous and sensational"
 Count Karl Stuergkh's ministry was formed November 3, 1911, and was reor- ganized November 30 1915
 Count Stuergkh has been a prominent figure in Austrian political affairs fol years. He was minister of public works in the cabinet formed in 1909 at the re. tirement of which in October of 1911, he was asked to form new ministry. The count was born in 1859 at Graz; was educated at the University of Graz and entered the service of the state in 1881.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-22
ORGAN|zEDLABOR . ISSUES APPEAL IN
 WILSON'S BEHALF
Heads of Federation Send Letter to Various Affili- ated Bodies Praising the
 Presidents Course
By Associated Presa

Washington, October 21-Organized h.
 bors first official appeal to its member
 ship in behalf of President Wilson's re-
 election was made public today at the
 American Federation of Labor headuuar-
 CTS. It is in the form of a circular let
 ter to all officers of organized labor,
 calling on them to hold special meetings
 If necessary to consider the issues of the
 campaign and see to it that wage earn
 CTS go to the polls to protect their In. terests against Wall street" The letter is signed by Samuel Com pers. president; James O'Connel, vice president. and Frank Morrison, secretary, as the Federations labor representation committee, and it has been sent to the
 heads of all affiliated organizations It praises the Presidents course in foreign affairs, declaring that without war he l has secured all the protection and bene- fits that would have accrued from a suc- cessful war. and asserts that at home the
 labor movement "has been able to secure recognition for the rights of human be- ings and opportunity for all to partici- pate in the affairs of the nation in de- gree that never before has been accom- plished.''
 Following is the letter in part: Greeting: Never at any time within the last 50 years have the workers had
 more at stake in any political campaign than in the one that Is to be decided in the election of November 2.
 Tn the present administration and par ticularly in this campaign. there has been developed clear cut issues between the workers-the producers-and those who manipulate the products of the labor of others-the exploiters. The issue is rep resented in the campaign by the conflict ing interests represented by labor and Wall street.
 During the present administration the organized labor movement has been able to secure recognition for the rights of
 human beings and opportunity for all 10
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-22
Through gross carelessness and

Through gross carelessness and extremely bad management on the part of the Central of Georgia railroad and the Ocean Steamship line owned and operated by the Central of Georgia, The Age-Her- ald is not enabled to include it's R0togravure with this mornings issue.
 This RotOgravure Section is en- graved weekly on the joint presses of the Boston Herald and The Age Herald. It left Boston yesterday a week ago on the Ocean Steamship line and through carelessness in Savannah is delayed.
 While the Central of Georgia of- fic;als here did everything possible, it seems that Birmingham is a very insignificant part of this railroad system.
 The Age-Herald regrets that it's more than 100000 readers will be deprived of this section today. However, next Sundays issue will contain two sections or eight pages of Rotogravure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-22
MOVING PICTURES ! ARE D|SCUSSEDBY ! CHURCH ASSEMBLY
Episcopal House of Deputies Adopts Resolution Favor ing National Board
 of CensOrs
By Associated Press

St. Louis, October 2l.-The general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church turned its attention today on the effect of moving pictures on the morals of AmNica.
 A resolution adopted by the house of deputies directed the church social ser vice commission to arrange conditions to create a national board of censors.
 Whether the class of motion picture films shown in the United States is i'm proving was the question raised with the submission of the resolution sub mitted by Rev. E. V. Shaylor of Seat tie.
 The clergy and laity of the church are urged in a resolution adopted by the house of deputies to the rigid ob- seryance in all social habits of those Christian principles which make for sobriety, purity aN1 holiness in life The resolution which was presented by the Rev. James E. Freeman of Minne- apolis, Minn., asserted that there is
 
 in the United States .manifesting it. self in the increasing tendency to di- yorce and the dishonor of Sunday { The resolution also asserted that .the awful tragedy of Europe demands a searching investigation of the stan dards of our individual and corporate life. American life,' it asserted. "is marked in a vulgar and fragrant way by ostentatious luxury and prodigal ex- creating false standards of living and tending to make more evil dent the cleavage beween rich and poor"
 That the fight within the church for the prohibition of the remarriage by it's clergymen of divorced persons was not ended when the house of deputies recently rejected the proposal was evil denced today in a discussion intro- duced by Rev. Parks of New York and
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-22
Street Car Conductor
 Is Killed by Bandit
By Associated Press

Joplin. Mo. October 21.-Walter s. Witzer, conductor, was shot and killed this afternoon by a bandit who attempted to hold up an interurban car on the Southwest Missouri railroad be- tween Webb City and Carthage.
 The conductor. wttsnesses said, re- fused to obey the bandits command to throw up his hands. believing 1t a joke.
 man, who authorities believe was the bandit. was captured about two miles from the scene of the holdup an hour after 1t occurred He was taken to the county jail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-22
t. O. p. IMPORTING
 NEGRO VOTERS IS
 CHARGE ALLEGED
Department of Justice to h- vestigate Exodus From Southern States Into
 Doubtful States

Washington, October 21.-(SpeciaI) The department of justice has ordered its agents in North Carolina and Ala bama to trace carloads of negroes, moved in the summer by republican leaders into west Virginia, Ohio and Indiana. for the purpose of padding the legitimate vote in the November election.
 It is estimated by department off cials that 10000 negroes have been colonized in each of these doubtful states. where senatorial contests are particularly keen. United States Dis trict Attorney J. O. Carr of the eastern North Carolina district has been in structed to ascertain the facts regard ing the transportation last summer of carload of negroes from Fayetteville to west Virginia
 The department of justice, it is said is preparing to take drastic action in the matter. Republican leaders in five states are declared to be involved in the scheme.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-22
Jacksonville Car Service
 Maintained Despite Strike
By Associated Press

Jacksonville. Fla, October 21.-Regular service was being maintained tonight de- spite strike of motormen and conduc- tors called today. officials of the Jack sonvlle Traction company announced. The company claimed that very few men quit and that their places were quickly filled. A few arrests were made this aft ernoon for alleged disorder.
 Representatives of the union called the strike in an effort to get higher wages and to force reinstatement of about 45 men whom they claimed were discharged because of activities in organizing the union, which was formed here recently.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-22
TODAY'S AGE-HERALD
SECTION A

 l-British capture more trenches on west front.
 Rumanians being pushed back on 40- mile front. Democrats are not worse than G. O. F. in "gobble'' game. Farm loan board members keeping si- lent on plans. President gains steadily in race as \ indicated in Herald figures. Organized labor issues appeal in Wilson's behalf. Moving pictures are discussed by churchmen. Police officer instantly killed at Greenville President does not expect war he tells farmers. G. o. P. charged with importing ne- groes into doubtful states. Austrian premier killed by editor z-Farm loan system to be operated on simple basis. 3-"Wets'' and "drys' of Mississippi to have bitter fight 6-Substitute must be found to take gasoline's place. Railroads and industries facing seri- ous coal shortage. B'Nai BRith to hold open meeting today. l. 6-What Wilson has done to Keep the nation at peace. 7-Alabama counties win big prizes at Atlanta fair. S-Wants military at Huntsville to pro- tect Brooks. bankers want embargo or wheat
 SECTION B and 3-Sports. News and gossip among auto sellers and owners. 5-France is awake to great problem of repopulation. Humorous stories told of ''Zep' raids on darl1ened streets of London 11-News of the movies.
 SECTION c l, ?, 5, 6-Society. 3-The book shelf. EEditorial comment. Ned Brace talks about the presiden- tial election on wave of prosperity. EEnglish airnen tell how they fee when "Archies' pepper them from below. 9-Big push creates nurse shortage in British army. s-Today's sermon topics and religious events. 1o-Fewer hours of work is found more profitable. l1-Theatrical.
 SECTION D Magazine section.
 SECTION E Comic supplement-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-22
By Associated Press

London, october 21.-Striking har,i against tie Russian and Ruinaninn line in Dcbrudja. Field Marshal von Mack ensen has renewed successfully his off, fensivc toward the Constanza-Tcherna- yada railway. Attacking along the 40- mile front, the forces of the central powers have made good progress aI- most everywhere.
 On the Danube, the allied German, Bulgarian and Turkish troops have forced their way into the entente po- sitions south of Rachova. Along the Black sen, on the other end of the line, TusIa was captured and several heights further inland were conquered. Several hundred Rumanians and 5000 Russians were taken prisoner, Berlin records.
 The Rumanians have been pressed back on their center and left wing, Bucharest admits Petrograd says the
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