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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-17
DAILY LESSON in HISTORY


one 7unored Years ago Today.
1915 Samuel A. Allibone.
who spent IL years in compiling
his dictionary of English litera-
ture. born in Philadelphia. Died
in Switzerland, Sept. 2, 1889.
} Ssventy-five Years Ago Today.
. 1S41-Dr. Harrison Allen.
celebrated leader in American
medical science, born in Phila-.
delphia. Died there. Nov. IA,
1897.
Fifty Years Aga Today.
1866-The British battleship
Northumberland, one of the
largest warships built up to that
J time, was launched on the
! Thames.
Twenty five Years Ago Today.
1891 = The Western States
Commercial congress. in session
at Kansas City, adopted reso-
buttons fayoring unlimited coin
} age of silver and tariff exclu-
slyely for revenue.
q d n d d . d Q On d D a n q a q
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-17
Resinol Stops
Itching at Once

It is a positive fact that the moment
resinol ointment touches any itching
skin. the itching usually stops and
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-17

Garden, grass and field seeds. w. S.
& G. Co. 9th and Grove. Phone 323. tt
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-17

large order for flowers next week for
my daughters coming out. I
''Yis, mum. ! shall see that you have
the very best for err poor dear. Wot
were she put in for?"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-17
One Year 400 IN The War.

April II. 1915,-British sub
marine Els ran ashore In the
Dardanelles; southeast of Ypres
the British took Hill No. 50: al
lies attacked Gallipoli peninsula
and Dardanelles forts; Ger
mans reported capture of
French positions in the Vosges
and Champagne; French cruis-
er fred on Turkish Notifications
at Ell Arish In Egypt.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-17

Storage Cor household goods. pianos
and furniture. Few equal, none better.
Peasley Transfer e Storage Co.
Phone 73. Adv.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-04-17

Phone Compton Transfer Co. for the
Jest moving job you eve: had. Phona
s.-Adv. tt
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
GUARDING AGAINST THE scoURGE

The spread of infanti1e paralysis to
Chicago, where Sc deaths occurred from
the scourge, the other day, shows how nee
essary it was for the Pennsylvania authori-
ties to place an embargo on all children
under six years Of age, who are not allowed
to enter the state, no matter from what
point they are coming, unless provided with
health certificate.
OF course, adults are not immune to poll
omelytis, but to institute quasi-quarantine
against children is striking at the greatest
source of infection. Havana, Cuba, has
likewise quarantined against American
ports.
Why is it that the federal government
doesn't have greater power in matters of
health? Surely no one will suggest states
rights in matter of this kind. It's not
question of states rights at all-it is merely
matter of public hygiene IF the federal
authorities were in charge, no one
would be allowed to leave an infected area,
unless he bore health certificate. The
disease would be localized, and it would not
be necessary for states to quarantine
against the world.
But this, after all, is merely theorizing.
1t is with actualities that we must cope.
lnfantile paralysis has made a slow but
sure progress south; it is in Montgomery;
deaths from the scourge have occurred in
Mobile; there is case at Brewton, Ala,
just over our own county line.
II Florida would avoid a repetition of the
Chicago story, it must do as PENNSYLVANIA
has done and quarantine against all chill
dren, who will not be allowed to enter the
state unless provided with health certif-
cate, no matter from what point thew come
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
STATE PRESS
COMMENT
''MentaI Assault

Mental Assault
A coroner's jury in Chicago has
assigned mental assault" as the
cause of the death of a woman. The
testimony showed that the woman
had been worried to death by the
unfavorable comments of her neigh
bors. She had been literally talked
to DEATH" Unfounded attacks on
her character were circulated by
long-tongued gossips and she gave
way under. the strain.
No such crime as mental assault"
is known to the statutes-yet it would
be we'll if we could have such an Of
Tense catalogued and made the sub
| ject of prosecution and punishment.
Mental assault" has caused more
sorrow, disgrace, agony, crime and
death than all the physical assaults
which are listed in our law books
Tampa Tribune.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
COOPERATION.

Tucked away in an obscure news dispatch
is a little story characteristic of West Flor
ida's development
One hundred and twenty-five acres will
be planted to. snap beans in Gadsden county
this season. The seed are being bought by
the farmers jointly, and the product will
be marketed comparatively Last year only
twelve acres were planted. It is signif-
can't that the acreage should be multiplied
by ten this season
With an acreage of this extent, buyers
will most undoubtedly go to Gadsden, and
will bid against each other The Gadsden
farmers will get quite different prices than
the farmers who plant little of this,
little of that, and little of something else,
and send it to market for whatever the
commission merchant is pleased to give
them
Cooperation, and large shipments mean
cheap costs and high prices. Gadsden
county has found the key to prosperity,
and if we of Escambia and West Florida
would be successful, we must adopt similar
methods
Here the interests are in livestock. But
the man who raises one hog and one calf
has no more chance than the man who
raises one bushel of potatoes or one row of
snap beans. If our farmers will cooperate.
will purchase good bulls and fine boars. and
upbuild their stock; if they will produce in
sufflcient quantities to make the BUYERS
come here and bid against each other for
what we raise, this wonder region will WELD
the harvest of gold that nature intended.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
FARM DEMoNsTRAToR's WORK.

Fifteen wears ago twelve bushels of corn
to the acre was considered good crop.
Now it is a failure Why? Because the
farm demonstrator has taught us what to
expect from our soil and has shown us how
to get it.
There are still some twelve-bushel
farmers They are the ones who can't be
taught anything. It's not much use trying
to educate them. But the demonstration
has taken. hold of their sons and is making
real farmers of the next generation. The
boys are starting with only one hog or one
acre of corn, maybe, but they are learning
the methods that mean dividends. The
one hog will bring more in year, under
the new methods being taught by the
demonstrator, than dads entire hog lot.
There will be more meat to sell and it will
bring more per pound. And the one acre
of corn will yield more than five, six, seven
or eight of dads. Dad will see the corn
measured, and he won't be convinced even
then Twe1ve-bushel men rarely are. But,
no matter.
A Lake county man who farms as side
line, and who has made wonderful Sue
cess by following scientific methods, writes
as follows about the demonstration agent
in the Leesburg Commercial:
We are so apt to get into the same old rut that
farmers accustomed to get into, and we
only see our neighbors' fields and own, and if
should by chance field that looks better
than ours, we say, Oh he has better land than we
have, the rain came just IN the right time, but
by no means has he consulted the demonstration or
has he read up certain culture
Then others will say, and so has acre of
that planted and worked as he was told
stalks made better corn. Maybe the acre of
was planted and worked according to instructions,
but he put negro into the field to cultivate, and
we know that negro thinks that a pillow runs at
the proper depth without holding up on the han,
dies, and another thing that is not taken into
sideration is the fact that your cabbage crop has
not taken up all the fertilizer you put there and
that you had worked your land into a perfect state
of cultivation which would add to your crop.
Friends, if you will go through the state, you
will what the demonstrating agent has done,
even with people that would not take his advice
or talk about a crop.
And it's all true It doesn't matter very
much if the land is good or bad. The
scientific farmer will get results The
greatest successes of all have been obtained
on rundown, abandoned farms. The time
is not far distant and the credit will be en-
tirely due the farm demonstrators, when 10C
bushels will be All average yield in West
Florida
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10. 1916.
rALKING ABoUT PENSACOLA.

What is it that visitors to Pensacola are
most struck with?
Not to mention such physical wonders
as our delightful climate, our golden days
and our brilliant surf, it is Southern hospi-
tality, of course, that has the first call.
Everybody who comes here writes about
that, but Robert c. West, of Bellville, Ills,
who spent some time here this summer,
visiting his sister, has expressed better
than anybody else wherein Pensacola is diff
ferent from other places
We are a sober people in booze town.
The reason of this is that the treating evil
is eradicated.
After saying that there are twelve
churches and only ten saloons here, Mr..
West writes as follows in his home paper:
launching and treating considered an
obsolete system Of maintaining competition;
each person pays for his drink and eats at
home, the result of which is not uncertain
problematic b ut of incalculable worth and moral
efficiency in all public and domestic affairs.
Of course Mr. West mentions lot Of
other things; our court house, where ugly
grievances are more often than not adj
justed with friendly good will "that would
stagger a Northern lawyer who looks for
no such amity or depth of purpose outside
the pearly gates of heaven" our fishing
vessels and typical scenes; our hotels and
summer resort features.
1t is very nice advertisement of Pen
sacola-, something like two columns, with
fine scare head but the thing that is most
pleasing of all is that the LIQUOR evil of
other places is not felt here that with
booze on sale everywhere, public opinion
demands temperance; and j there is any
drinking to be done, the beverage is a cup
of coffee
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
owned, and the saving in production
therefore naturally going to the con-
sumer.-Lakeland Telegram.
One Paper CorreC

One Paper Correct
The Palatka Times-Herald is the
first and only paper in the state we
have noticed as referring correctly
to the supreme court decision in the
Knott-Catts case.
1t says, Supreme court gives de-
cision in favor recount of vote"
All others noted have said, Gin fav-
or of Knott"-or, Against Cats, Z"
etc. Of course it is neither. It is
as the Times-Herald says-"in favor
of recount" The recount will prove
"for" one or the other, and against"
one or the other-nobody knows
which until it is all over. The su-
preme court decided the requests for
a recount to be legal; but it did not
decide "for" or against" any candi-
date.-St. Petersburg Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
THE SCRATCH PAD
By THOMAS EWING DABNEY.

Inspector johnson hasn't any call
to get excited. Nobody has called
him a mammothrept.
If the newspapers do have to cut
down on size, because of the paper
famine, Hughes speeches will be the
first thing to be left out.
Pensacola had the thrill Of its life
when a French cruiser entered its
harbor, made few soundings, and
departed. 1t doesn't take much to
thrill these small towns" says the
Tampa Tribune. Oh, no, it didn't. It
was the rest of the United States
that thrilled-with sensational stories
appearing in the press of every city
in the United States except Pensa-
cola, regarding the capture and sink
ing of the German submersibles, de-
signs on this port, etc, etc. Tampa
thrilled, but Pensacola laughed.
Inasmuch as Germany makes inter
national law to suit herself, no justi-
fication need be attempted for tho
resumption of submarine warfare.
It is authoritatively learned that
the French Cruiser Amiral Aube con-
veyed important papers from the vice
consul of Pensacola to the French
minister in Cuba. We don't blame
his excellency in the least for wanting
to read The Journal.
What a relief it is to pick up a
paper from Oklahoma and be able to
read three hours on stretch with
out seeing any allusion to the Cats
disturbance
There are 25,OOo,O0O cats in the
United States, but only one Sidney J..
Now photographers, go to it,
The Manatee Record says that West
Florida is the barnacle that retards
the progress of South Florida. If
that editor man doesn't stop talking
like that, we will send the black hand
after him to put fly in his but
ter.
Say something nice about your
town, and do something nicer.
Hurrah for business. Why not ?
It's booming.
That loud cheering was elected
when the voters of Pensacola read in
the fashion paper that women's
dresses viii be shorter this season.
! Come on, Wilson, and avert that
railroad strickland then let's all get
grand stand seat to hear Hughes
pan you for not allowing national
tie-up.
There are a lot of farmers in this
country who will be mighty glad to
get hold of a man, during the har-
vest time, who is as anxious for a
place in the sun as Kaiser Bill.
The Austrians are learning to their
sorrow Beyond the Alps lies Italy
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
Low Priced Utilities


0cala claims the lowest light rate
and the lowest water rate IN the state.
This is big thing for any city, and
we would be little envious Of Ocala
were it not for the fact that when
our new plant gets in operation the
Lakeland rate will be equally as low,
if not lower. The Ocala rate is six
cents per K. w. for lighting and from
six cents down to two and one-half
cents for power, dependent upon the
amount of current used. The new
Lakeland plant upon which work is
progressina Enthusiastically, and which
it is expected will be ready for OPP
Grafton in about sixty days, will be Of
ample capacity and its up-to-the-min-
ute machinery will be able to produce
current at an extremely low rate. 1t
is hoped and expected that radical
reduction in rates can be effected,
the Lakeland plant being municipality
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19

A stout woman with q considerable
nature had cultivated the habit of
buying two seats when she intended
to visit the theatre. In this manner
she always hoped to remain in COM
fort without anyone by overlapping.
On one occasion she handed an at
tendant her two tickets, as usual.
The attendant scrutinized them,
then looked at her.
''Who is going to occupy the other
seat, madam ?"
81 am going to occupy them both,
sir!i retorted the lady indignantly.
VERY good, ma'am; but the seats
are on opposite sides Of the aislesl"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
HE CouLD HARDLY Walk.

Kidney trouble manifests itself in
many ways. Rheumatism, aches and
pains, soreness and stiffness are COM
mon symptoms. Ambrose Gary, Sui
phur, Okla, writes: Il was both
cred with kidney trouble ten years
and at times could hardly walk. Three
months ago began taking Foley
Kidney Pills. I got relief from the
first bottle but continued to take
them till I had taken three bottles.
I feel like a new man. It is a won
derful medicine" No harmful drugs.
For sale by D'Alemberte Pharmacy.
ADV.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
PENSACOLA IS THE OLDEST CITY

Vero, Florida, challenges St. Augustine's
right to the title of oldest city in the
United States, and the Vero Bulletin claims
two skeletons unearthed there that are
beyond doubt those of Adam and Eve.
Ever jealous of St. Augustines title as the
Ancient City, the Record retorts that in
that city they are carefully preserving the
residence wherein Adams grandfather re-
sided.-Daytona Journal.
Both wrong. Pensacola is the oldest
city-also the best
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19

like the public business is carried on,
he would soon be bankrupt. However,
the people can never learn to attend
to their own business without prac-
tice. The worst thing they can do is
to entrust their affairs to favored
few and keep them entrusted until
they think both the people and the af-
fairs belong to them-Ocala Star.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
DYsenterv in Alabama.

'My little four year old boy had a
severe attack of dysentery. We gave
him Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy and believe it
saved his life" says VIM. H. Stribling,
Carbon Hill, Ala, Obtainable every
where.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
History Not Repeated-

In a letter from Chicago the editor
of this paper said that the managers
of the republican party had taken Mr..
Raymond Robins up on high noun
tain and had shown him great Wis
ions. We regret that history did not
repeat itself. Late dispatches say
that he has fallen into Hughes arms.
-Ocala Banner.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
HIS ROOF Is A RUG.

Pennington, N. H., Aug. 1s-James
Noble has had a special Najavo rug
woven by Indians in the Ship Rock
neighborhood. It is 80 by As feet in
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
Much Pleased

IF Pensacola finds an extraordinary
number of things to kick about she
seems also to have a compensating
process of making a whole lot out of
what pleases her. The other day a
solitary French cruiser. called at her
port and saluted pleasantly and sail
ed away-and The Journal has a big
lead editorial describing it as COM
pliment to Pensacola by the French
navy. st. Petersburg Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19

If Florida would avoid repetition of the
German-American Alliance" asks Louis
Brownlow, Commissioner of the District of
Columbia, why has he side-stepped all the
war issues and concentrated on alleged
abuses OF the presidential appointing
power?"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19

Half of the world doesn't stop to
consider that it is none of its bust
ness how the other half lives.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19
O|3o !
QX26rIIEA

dimensions. he has placed it over the
roof of the house, saying it keeps out
the sun and is cheaper than reshin-
Cling.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-19

Bankrupt Business
If any man carried on his business
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-14
GLIMPSE OF PARADISE.

From the National Geographic Society.
Alden is the unhappy gateway into happy
Araby. and. moreover. it is one of the
foremost strategic points on Eigland's
trade route through the Red sea to India
and the far east. One Arabian author
says of the country behind Alden; that
habitants are all hale and strong, sickness
is unknown, nor are there poisonous
plants or animals: nor fools nor blind peo-
pie. and the women are ever young; the
climate is like paradise and one wears the
same garments summer and winter" Adj
en-, however, where the British and Turk
Joys none of these advantages catalogued
as Inherent in Arabia Felix.
Spread over its ragged hills OF sunmade
ash and cinder, sweltering, gloomy and
little attention i'm peace times. "Aden is
a valley surrounded by the sea: its climate
in the space of 10 days complained one
disappointed Arab traveller OF the middle
ages. And in the centuries since his visit
gathers over Aden's valley and clings to
its low hills and its lack of "A good water
supply. the place maintains IL reputation
as Il healthy one.
The town is built on desola.e volcanic
rocks that constitute a peninsula near the
entrance to the Red sea. The Strait of
Alden is the British Gibraltar toward the
Indian ocean that keeps an external vigil
lance ever the safety of the rich English
that goes this way. The British
| capturtl and annexed the place on Janu-
| AIRY 16. 1929, since which time they have
made the place a most emphatic fortress.
one of the strongest anywhere In southern
Asia. Honey and labor without stint have
been expended there to make the city abb
solutely i~mpregnable from land and sea.
Massive lines of defense. strengthened by
a broad moat, guard the neck of the 18TH
mus. and these defenseS conceal powerful
batteries. Turrets, hidden forts, mined
approaches. bastions, towers, batteries,
magazines. mole batteries toward the sea.
mined harbors. great naval guns, obstruc-
ton piers. barracks. redoubts In solid
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-14

rock. all are elements in the British plan
to guard this southern end of their i'm
p.ortant trade route beyond all possible
chance OF failure against superior and
sustained attack. Alden may be last in
matters of climate, but 1t is among the
first In matters of fertilization.
The narrow peninsula on which this
queen OF southern fortresses rears itself
Is only about 10 miles In circumference.
1T is the bow of an extinct volcano. The
lofty hills around are the remains of the
crater sides, and of these, Shem Shem has
has an altitude Of nearly 1900 feet. All
food and water for use on the peninsula
has to be brought In from the outside.
Much of the water is supplied from the
government ~condensers. which We're de-
signed to make the fortress Independent In
case OF wars necessities. The population
OF $4,000 is a mixture of all the elements of
the orient with an intersprinkling Of west
ern drummers and British administrators
and military men. Arabs. Chinese. Per-
slams, Turks. Hindus. Parasees. Egyp-
tians, soudanese and Jews compose the
stolid. stable population that endures the
climate year in and out, and carries on the
labors OF the great fortress camp.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-06-14
Remarkable Interview
With Henry Ford
BY Henry Wise Wood.

Henry A. Wise Wood. chairman of the
conference committee on national pre-
speak on preparedness and to interview
Henry Ford. He wrote the following let
tes 10 the editor OF the New York Times
To the Editor of the New York Times:
On May s. while in Detroit for the pur-
pose of peaking on preparedness. | spent
several hours with Henry Ford. l found
Mr.. Ford eager to talk about national de-
Tense. but unwilling to discuss it. While
Nolleying his assertions with great rapid
ity, he refused to pause long enough to
permit amy one OF them to be examined
and dealt with. To facts which | sub
mttted he responded with Il brief word of
dismissal or With a sweeping denial that
they We're facts; sometimes with the re-
mark that he could not consider them be
cause he himself did not know them TO
be facts,
In dealing With naval and military sub
jects his position seemed to be that they
We're TO be tossed aside, because Il civilian
in presenting them WAS not TO be credited,
nor n professional to be trusted. There
fore they were not open to discussion. by
this simple mental operation Mr.. Ford
shut out of the conversation all naval and
military affairs.
Ford Does Not Believe In History.
The suggestion that, because of the re-
SUITS OF inns WIZ " llt SitustllOu III
Mexico. we might eventually find our
selves In International difficulties from
which owing to our weakness, we might
be unable easily to extricate ourselves.
MIR. Ford pooh-poohed, saying | was full
OF eastern scare gas"
When in our 'discu ssioni' OF a nation $
need for defensive strength history was
appealed to, MIR. Ford replied that he did
not believe In history, that history was of
the past and had no bearing upon the
present, and that, there being nothing to
be learned from 1t, history need not be
studied nor considered. The American
| revolution he refused to have touched
upon. saying that the revolution was
"tradition." that he did not believe in ira
dition.
Coming to Mr.. I'ord's beliefs, which
were given in fragments, with always his
| refusal to support them with evidence OF
to permit their analytical examination.
these seemed to gather about n single
thought. Mr.. Ford's theory of wars-he