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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19
THE SCRATCH PAD
By THOMAS EWING DABNEY.


They say that a soft word turneth
away wrath; and this is the story
OF how handshake kept man out
OF Jail, with some reference to Off
Ger Burke, one of the finest in more
respects than one, and how win q
few sensible words he made that uail
understand certain law better than
1t could have been beaten into him
with a club.
i had the left hand end seat of an
open car the other day." said this man
The side closed to egress with a
rail. -Four very pretty girls occu-
pied the. rest of the seat-they were
really SO pretty had been saying
eeny, meeny, miney, moe for the
past dozen blocks, to find out which
one | might offer the peanut to if.
Paris-like, were called upon to make
the award to beauty. didn't have
an apple but did have a peanut.
when the car stopped at my cor
ner on Palafox, got up to get out.
Now those girls all had their feet on
the rail under the seat in front of
them. They didn't draw them back
me standing there like light house,
too. "Get move on" said the con-
ductor. II looked at the1r-rnelr-
their-well, the more / looked the
more certain / was that / never,
never, never could take those hurdles;
SO ducked under the rail and got out
on the left side of the car.
81 knew it was dangerous, and
against the law; but when | looked
at those-those-and besides, Off
Ger Burke was standing on the cor
ner with his back to me.
sBut just as | was hopping off the
step, he turned and caught me, so to
speak, in mid flight
81 started across the street in his
direction, and he came toward me
with hand eutstretched. I'm in for
it now,' / thought; but smiling the
CHASTITY smile man smiles when you
step on his corns, / went eagerly to-
wards Officer Burke, seized the out
stretched hand, and shook it violently.
You're looking fine said.
Here my boy he said, don't you
know that's safety last?
Don't you know that makes more
widows and orphans than anything
else p
1T couldn't make me widow. |
said.
No, but it could make your wife
one,' he said, driving clean over my
silly joke.
81 looked at him and he looked at
me, and we understood each other.
Il shook his hand again-for diff
ferent reason this time, and said.
II know it was wrong, officer, but
we'll, you see, those girls had their
feet across the passage and their
! well you know what these modern
skirts are and-and they wouldn't
take 'em away and
"a twinkle came into his eye.
| "Get along with We, he said in that
delicious Irish intonation of his, before
I run you in"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19

doing my farm work. / was not strone
man, and was in a rundown condition
Had tired, wornout feelings all the time
and my debility was so as to make my
daily duties very laborious. The only
rel-ei got was from DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, and | am pleased to
recommend it to others Ma JOHN
NICHOLS, 404 Long St. Orlando, Fla.
The best time to cure a cough is when it
starts. Ordinarily, few doses of DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will
cure cough at the beginning But even
when the cough is deep-seated and the
body is wasted by emaciation, DIR. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery will IN most
cases effect permanent cure.
Get DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery to-day from any medicine dealer;
it is q powerful blood purifier, so pene-
trating that it even gets at the impure
deposits in the joints and carries them out
Of the system.
Depend upon this grand remedy to
give you the kind of blood that makes
the skin clear, the mind alert, the vision
keener, and puts ambition and energy
into the entire body. You will not Be
disappointed For free advice or free
booklet on blood, write DR.. v. NJ. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19

names of the candidates themselves
be placed there, and the secretary Of
state be required to cast the states
electoral vote for the candidate re-
ceiving the greatest number of votes.
We know of nothing that can be said
against this change, and many things
for madison Enterprise Recor-
der.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19
Faith in Porkers-

Faith in POrkers-
]. A. Barnes to date has slaugr.
ed sixty head of hogs and including
the meat stored by others in his
large refrigerating plant has $4,000
pounds of hog meat on cold storage
at the present time. Mr.. Barnes is
one of the largest hog raisers in
Florida and has great faith in the
porker as producer of revenue on
the farm. He firmly believes that
there is no other state that offers
the opportunities for the raising of
hogs as Florida and particularly
Gadsden county and it looks as
though he is going to demonstrate
this fact to the satisfaction of ALL
Quincy Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19
Rival Pensacola

The Pensacola papers report the
arrival and the departure of many
boats and the daily increse of ship
ping business. This time next yer,
Miami should be getting some of the
water commerce, and five years from
now should be rivaling Pensacola in
her deep water records.-Miami Me-
tropolis.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19
NNR'Sxo.1sa : REMEnN
70. SI0MAC 49,!

Gall stones, Cancer and Ulcers of the
Stomach and Intestines, Auto Intoxica-
ton, Yellow Jaundice Appendicitis and
other fatal ailments result from Stomach
Trouble Thousands Of Stomach Suffer-
ers owe their complete recovery a Mayr's
Wonderful Remedy. Unlike any other
for Stomach Ailments. Fer sale by Crys-
tai Pharmacy and al other >eliable drug
gtsts.-Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19

Handsome Oak Chiffo-
robes, 6 drawers, hat box and
wardrobe, regular price S25,
Pryor's special cut price,
$3.50.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19
State Press Comment
Get Down to Business

Now for constructive anu urVsl-
opment work in Quincy Gadsden
county and West Florida. The peo-
pie have been fed on politics for many
months past, and it is neither a
strengthening nor a fattening diet,
but with the candidates and their
claims out the way, we can all get
down to the proper business of life
once more, which is to make our part
of the world better place to live In.
Quincy Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19

the DeSJ OF service
to me in the case OF
a severe cold, with
cough and tight.
ness of the chest.
Any one so afflicted
knows the many
unpleasant features
connected with it.
l had exposed my.
self to very incle
ment weather while
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19

Oak Chifforobes, full length
mirror in wardrobe door,
regular price $50, special cut
price $40. at Pryor's.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19

a CREASED spot out of his trousers
with nitric and sulphuric acid. When
he entered a warm dance hall they
exploded He had made guncotton>
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19
The Electoral Vote

The Electoral Vote
Along with other election talk, it
has been suggested that instead of
placing the names of presidential
electors on the election ticket, the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19

In sickness and health-send for the
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser.
A book of 1908 pages. Send dimes To
DR.. Pierce, InvaidS Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19
Tins Pants Go Bangl

Bellefourche, S. D., Nov. 18.-Tim
Zorbas. sectionhand Adonis, soaked
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-11-19
A PROMINENT ORLANDO
MANS ADVICE

For Severe Cold with Cough.
Orlando, Fla.-"Dr. Pierce's Colder
Medical Discovery has certainly proved Of
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-12-01

without having the team spirit de-
.veloped. and when the team spirit
gets going many things are possible
which. without it, are impossible of
realization.
The agent for community work
visits the sick and gives instruction.
in home nursing. She is the friend
and neishbor of every one in the viii
lage; she works with the village
folks. not for them. She helps them
to utilize their leisure for improve
ment. Show me how man or wo-
man. boy or girl, invests their leisure,
and l will tell you what sort of man
or woman, boy or girl. they are.
If there is no night school in the
community. the local agent cooper.
ates with the school authorities to
open one and teaches in it two nights
a week for six months in the year.
During the time she teaches she is
amenable to the constituted school
authorities. If there is night
school she does her part in increasinc
its enrolment. The community agent
can tell you just how many children
there are in her village who should
be in the day school, but are not.
She knows. too. the number eligi-
BILE for night school She knows
who is sick and ministers unto them.
Above all things the community
agent in mill village is a promo.
ter"-a promoter of activities which
are worth while and an inducer OF
the "get-together" spirit"
Some OF the mill presidents are
good social workers themselves.
Many Of them are ready TO invest
in community work: they consider
l. good business as we'll as philan.
thropy. for the work outlined helps
to make the mill village a good place,
to live in. and therefore helps the
nill management to secure and re,
tain efficient. high-class operatives.
In every community the people
themselves man their communities 70,
the various activities They grow to
be more self-reiiant as time goes on
The people are availing themselves
OF the doors OF opportunity. whic.
are opened to them. The result viii
be an increase in the health, intellf-
gence. efficiency and spirituality O,
one-fifth of the white people of South
Carolina.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-12-01
Agricultural appropriations.

The Charlotte. y. c., Observer.
grows very enthusiastic about DR..
Houston, secretary OF agriculture,
and says
NO man ever held that chair un-
der whose administration the agri-
cultural interests of the country re-
.ceived so great an impetus. Houston
is an ideal secretary. When he went
into Office he found that the govern
ment appropriations for the benefit
.of the agricultural interests amount
ed to $24, 100000. Houston has
brought up the appropriations to the
comfortable sum of more than $780,
100000, and he has been making
every dollar of it give good re-
turn"
We think the Observer has full op-
portunity to inform itself of the facts
and is merely carried away by it's en-
thusiasm for North CarolTnian who
came to South Carolina to be pre-
pared to be great man in the
world. The facts are that the agri-
cultural appropriation bill for the
greater part was the individual work
jof Congressman Lever of South
Carolina, chairman of the house COM
mittee on agriculture. and the credit
ishould not be taken from him.
If it were a mere political honor,
The Record would not waste time to
bring this to the attention of the OBJ
server, but so many congressman are
merely ornamental that when we get
one who works and who puts his life
energy into proposition as Mr..
Lever has done, we think he should
have the credit for trying,
Indeed. so powerful was the in
Ifluence OF Mr.. Lever in behalf of agri-
IcuItural legislation. that it has been
rumored that in case DR.. Houston is
given some other cabinet position or
should desire to leave public life
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-12-01
TO ASK AMENDMENT
OF LAW ON LIENS
Address to Legislature Is Prepared
by Summerville Man, j. j.
Cuntey.

Columbia, Nov 29.-Passaae of
bills which would give every land
lord leasing land for agricultural
purposes a prior and preferred lien
to the extent of all crops raised on
the land by the tenant or other per-
son, and also lien to the landlord
on all such crops for advances made
by the landlord or his assigns to such
persons, neither of which liens need
be in writing, is advocated in and ad-
dress prepared by J. J. Cantey OF
Summerville on behalf of farmers of
that community. Mr.. Cantey directs
his address to the members of the
South Carolina general assembly
During the 1916 session these pro-
posed bills were introduced at MI
Cantey's request by Senator Charlton
DuRant of Clarendon.
Mr.. Cantey cites concrete exam
pies with the idea OF showing that
the act OF March 4, 1909, which re-
pealed the socalled agricultural lien
law, put the white farmers of South
Carolina more at the mercy of the
negro farm hand than ever before
in the history of the State. Mr..
Cantey believes that protection
should be given the white farmer
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-12-01

Mr.. Lever is the man who might be
rendered the portfolio. 1t would by
no means give him any more of "a
position of usefulness, but some peo-
pie seem to think that cabinet posi-
tions are more to be desired than
places in congress. We endorse the
remainder of the Observers compll-
ment to Secretary Houston.-Colum-
bia Record.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-12-01
THE BOIL WEEVIi SCARE.

The newspapers, daily and weekly
of The State, have certainly got folks
scared off on the subject of the boil
weevil. So effective has the scare he
come that some land owners are will
ing to sell farm lands for less than
they could have received two wears
ago and some few folks who have
money loaned on farms are talking
about wanting to call in their loans
on account of the boil weevil. basinr
their action on the ground that the
value of the land will fall below the
face of the loan when the pest comes
All OF which is some ways is very
good. We like to see our farmers
stirred up. Anything in the world
that makes them realize that there is
something more to farming than
planting cotton is worth while. The
boil weevil may not he an unmixed
evil
But, our good friends must not
lose their heads. When YOU go to
giving away your land. il shows YOU
are not worthy of your land
over one thousand years ago this
old proverb came into being: Keep
your land and your land will keen
you" 1t is as true now as il was
then. as ii had been a thousand years
before that and as it will be thou,
sand years from now and then some.
man OF sense, energy and deter
mination simply cannot be starved to
death on a piece of land which he
owns. He may have to live a preca-
rious sort of life, may lack fine
clothes, an automobile and several
other things. but he can live and he
CO" dc better if he only will.
Remember this: There are mil
lions of acres of farming land in
these United States. the owners OF
which never saw a cotton stalk in
their lives and yet these farm lands
sell for from one hundred to two
hundred dollars the acre
The boil weevil is bad. And cotton
IL our money crop, no mistake aDOOt
that. We can do better with cotton
than with anything else in this sec
ton as well as the South as a whole,
but ii is not all. People have to be
fed before they are clothed They
have been ever since Adam and they
will be till Gabriel blows his horn
Get ready for the boil weevil. He
IL coming. He is coming to Green
wood county as sure as fate He will
appear here possibly the last Of next
year, though a full crop will prob
ably be made. He will be worse the
year after. 1918. and the crop will
be hurt badly and by 1919 he will be
as bad here as he will ever be.
So you have ample time. You know
what is coming and you know how
to prepare against it. Do 1t now.
But for heavens sake do not give
away your land!-Greenwood In
dex.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-12-01

that he might have complete control
OF his negro labor in order to stop
forever, he says, the negro farm
band from giving innumerable chat
tel mortgages which at the end of
the year the white farmer must pay
OFF in order to get farm hand for
the next year"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-12-01
SOLDIER BOYS FAT
TURKEY THURSDAY

Columbia, Nov. 28.-Col. iE. NJ.
Blythe, commanding the First regi-
ment, wired the quartermaster at
Camp Moore today to purchase
1000 pounds of turkey for the
Thanksgiving dinner.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-12-01
SENATOR'S DAUGHTER WEEDS
Miss Sallie May Tillman Bride of
John ". Shuler.

Trenton. Nov. 29.-Miss Sallie
May Tillman, daughter of United
States Senator and Mrs. B. r. Till
man, was married to John w. Shule,
OF Batesburg, in the Church of Our
Saviour here tonight.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-12-01
PRICE DOUBLED,
NO FREE COPIES

Pittsburg. Pa, Nov. 2s.-All af-
ternoon papers in this citv an.
nounce that, effective Decembe.> ].
the price of their editions willbe
doubled and free copies will be dis.
continued
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-12-01
When Group Comes
Treat Externally

The old method of dosing delicate littls
stomachs with nauseous drugs is wrong
andsharmful, Try the external treatment
Weeks "Vaz-O-Rub" Selve. Just rub q
little over the throat and chest. The va
pors, released by the body heat, loosen tho
choking phiegm and ease the difficult
breathing. A bedtime application insures
sound sleep. Csc, soc, or $1.00.
WCkS" "MT0sugSAEXE,
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-12-01
To Cure q Cold In One Dav

Take LAXATIVE BRoMo ouinine, II stoos IN.
SouRh ana Headache and works off the Cold
druggists refund money if II fails to cure
u. W. SkoVES signature each box. 2Sc.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-15
RAp NoT TIE SAFE RESuL7
Soldiers Saw Great Difference IN ~
wards Offered by the Two
Hospital Nurses

There is on the Breton coast little
seaside resort nestled in an admirable
setting of rocks ard groves 80
equipped with q Grand Hotel Ct tlle
Beach. which has been transformed =
these sadly changed days into : tos
Dital for wounded soldiers of France
Fer all that there are other people
on the sands besides the coaTalescs-t
heroes. and especially any number
of pretty women, always ready TO lend
their help to the doctors IN charge
Among these a charming dancer from
the Theater of Varieties in Paris was
particularly lavish with her a-ten-
lions to the soldiers. One day When
she was present a big. dark fellow
from the South manifested al irwin
chile repugnance to a bitter dose
which, by the doctors orders, he was
to drink
If you are a good boy ard 40 what
the doctor tells you" Sid the dancer.
you may kiss me"
Instantly and with one sulp, the big
fellow swallowed the stuff. wiped his
great mustache, and claimed his re
ward. 1t was all done so prettily thai
even the head surgeon permitted him
self to smile.
But the real comedy began when the
head nurse, 2 matron turning fifty a.
peared next morning and announced:
Every one Of you who takes MS
medicine viii be allowed TO kiss me =
The effect was immediate. Each
and every patient made a face and put
down on the table beside him the dose
which he had been about to swallow
Now the head nurse is goodness
itself, and her goodness is well spiced
with wit She was the first to laugh
at the result of her invitation Then
she pretended to be angry
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-15
MADE SMOKING A HARDSHIP
Foolish Competitions That Should
Have Disguised Genuine Lovers
Of the Seductive Weed.

At a smoking competition held re-
Gently at Brighton, England, the win
ner kept an eighth Of an ounce of to-
bacco alight for lob minutes. There
was a severer test at Oxford in 1928
On a scafnold over against the theater.
Thomas Hearne described the scene:
THE conditions were that anyone
imam or woman) that could smoak
put three ounces Of tobacco first with
put drinking or going on the stage
should have twelve shi1lings. Many
tried, and it was thought that jour
neyman taylour would have been vic
tor, he smoaking faster than, and be-
ing many pipes before the rest; but at
last he was so sick that twas thought
be would have died, and an old man,
that had been soldier, and smoaked
gently, came on a conqueror, smoak-
ing the three ounces quite out"
In Derbyshire there was a club
where the qualification for member
ship was the ability to smoke up a
pound Of shag tobacco at one sitting.
A china pot served as pipe, and the
candidate smoked through the spout.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-15
Trinity Lutheran Church.


1000 a. m. Sunday School.
HOO a. m. Public worship.
$50 p. m. Young Peoples Society.
7:3O p. m. Public worship.
7:30 p. M, Wednesday. Prayer meet
ing.
4:15 p. M, Friday, Catechetical Class
All the regular services will be held
on Sunday, except that there will be no
service in the evening. The morning
service will be conducted by laymen.
Rev. West has been called to Kansas
City, Mo-, to dedicate the new First
Lutheran Church of which Rev. Andreas
Bard, Phi. D., is pastor.
The Holy Communion will be cele-
brated on January %, at II a. m.
There was large attendance at the
catechetical class last Sunday after
noon. It will be necessary to organize
two classes in order to accommodate al
who would like to take the instruction
One class will meet on Friday at Ala
p. m. in the pastors study; the Other
on Sunday afternoon at o'clock. There
will be no class this Sunday on account
of the pastors absence. All children
and young people are invited to attenC
the classes.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-15
Armenian History.

The history of the later years Of TIE
Armenian kingdom is bound up II The
history of Am The stronghold city
became the capital Of the BaSTati5
kings of Armenia IN ISL Tie Byzan-
tiuIn emperor captured it in 164S, and
it was then a hive Of many scores OF
thousands, a wealthy city and an invit-
ing one. The Seljuk Turks carried
fire and sword throughout its confines
IL years later; the warIike Georgians
took it five times between 1925 and
1909; the AIongcls overran it in 1888
and an earthquake in 1919 completed
the work OF ruin The great cathedral,
the most perfect survival, was found
ed in 1910, just at the beginning Of the
city's long chain of misfortunes.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-01-15
WAS FIRST BASEBALL GLOVE
Writer in All Outdoors Believes II AP-
peared in 1867, When He
Saw Ii.

About 1S67-6S a baseball team came
to Rockford, Ill, to play our nine.
They called themselves the "Uncon-
quered Clippers of Illinois," and plas-
tered our town with big posters. We
made up our minds to give them q
drubbing, and at the end Of the game
the score was Rockford rs, Clippers 0.
There was little chap playing third
base who grabbed everything that
came near him, and held it, too. /
noticed that he wore kind OF glove.
When the game was over 1 went to
him and asked what 1t was that he
wore on his hand. He told me that
he was a machinist, and had got his
hand badly hurt the week before, and
he showed me the wound in his palm
He said the boys did not want him to
play in that game, but he got a piece
Of thin sheet steel and made it slightly
concaYe, but so that 1t did not quite
touch the sore place. He then made a
short glove to cover all the hand ex-
cepting the first joints OF the fingers,
and doubled the leather in the palm so
that he could slip the plate between.
asked him if it hurt, and he said it
did not, and that he could take a hot
one and hold it better with the glove
than without it. That is the whole
story. don't think that Spalding ever
talked to the little chap with the iron
fist, as the boys dubbed the third base
man, but everybody in Rockford knew
about the itt, and he may have got
the idea from him. Anyway, that was
the first glove that any ballplayer
ever WOre.-Au Outdoors.