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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17
THURSDAY. AUGUST IT. 1918.
CITRUS cANKER.

The announcement by the State Plant
Board that citrus canker, though not
stamped out, is under control, will reas-
sure even the most hysterical.
When canker was discovered two years
ago, and did not yield to the ordinary scale
solutions, the cry went up far and wide
that the orange industry of the United
States was doomed.
The same wall was heard when purple
scale was first seen.
The same wall has greeted the d1scov-
Aery of every plant pest.
But remedies have always been found.
Citrus canker has so far been very stub
born in Welding to treatment. But in the
course Of time some spray will be found
to destroy it as easily as white fly, purple
scale, and San Jose scale.
In the meantime burning infected trees
is the best preventive. That, and abse-
lutte vigilance, will protect the groves of
!. Flo1da.
acre are now 800 men actively at work
Florida fighting the disease; every cit
Is growing section is being policed. In
hK s, 1872, 908 trees were inspected. From
May /, 1914, to July 81, 1916, 354, 356 trees
wire found infested with canker: of these
tie greater part have been burned, and the
nlst are under different forms of treat
dent
How the disease is diminishing is shown
IN the case of Walton county, the only
West Florida county infected with canker.
I'm January, 1916, there were twenty-seven
grove trees infected with canker; in July
there were only nine.
Plant diseases and pests are what keep
j the prices up. If there were no difficulties
the fruits of the earth would produce them
1 selves automatically. The lazy man would
have as good crops as the energetic man
The good farmer would do no better than
the bad farmer. But drought, weeds, dis
ease develops mans best endeavors and
give the reward only to the deserving.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17
CATTLE RAISING.

The cattle possibilities of Florida are apt
ly described in letter from the Jacksonville
Chamber of Commerce to a Dayton, o.,
inquirer:
We believe that there is no other state in the
union that has the natural facilities for produc-
ing live stock at low expense with the same east
that il be raised IN Florida Our state has
good natural grazing the year round, and very
little shelter is required for the stock-that sim
ply 10 protect them from rain-as it is never cold
enough here to injure them in the least. Our soil
is very productive and will produce forage crops
at small pense as in any other state IN the
unon ard in addition to the forage crop, at least
two other crop can be raised on the same ground
each year. In fact know of no reason why
Florida will not become the very largest stock
producing state in the union.
One of the principal drawbacks in the past has
been that there were packing plants to take
care Of the plus supply, and our local consum-
could handle only the light weight carcasses
The writer goes on to say that although
he has studied stock growing in practically
every state in the Union, he has nowhere
found such ideal conditions as in Florida.
What is true of the Jacksonville region
is equally true of West FLORIDA. With
cheap land, sufficient rain, and winter
that allows the production of green stuff
the entire year; with corn as cheap of pro-
duction, by actual test, as in the great
grain belt; with nearby market, splendid
railroad connections, and an unlimited de
mand with prices rising all the time, it is,
indeed wonder that this region has not
been developed to the fullest cattle posi-
bilities long before now. That it is not,
is our opportunity.
The campaign against the tick is enter
ing the last stage of victory: it is just a
question of time now when dipping will
be universal Results are overcoming the
prejudice against dipping every day; and
the new vat erected in the outskirts of Pen.
sacola, to which cattle will be shipped fol
treatment, may be the beginning of our
stock yards.
Jacksonville in the meantime is erecting
a packing plant. and will have represent
alive in this territory to buy up hogs ard
cattle. With Jacksonville bidding against
Louisville, high prices are assured and
with the development of the industry, Pen
sacola will have large packing plant.
! The fact that the county demonstratioV
work is abandoned by the county must no
discourage US. It is setback, true, a ter
rible setback; but, as certain pugilist once
said, "The bigger they are, the harder they
drop" so the greater Our obstacles, tn,
more glorious the final success. For Yves
Florida and Escambia county and Pensa
! cola are bound to succeed!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17
ARRESTING SOLDIERS.

Municipal authorities, writes Eugene S.
Bibb in the August Case and Comment,
shave the right to arrest and imprison a sol
Edier off the military reservation for
breaches of the peace if such arrest and
imprisonment do not deprive his COM
Smanding officer of his services If such be
Ethe case, then the civil authority must re-
Iease the soldier to the commanding off
Scer, for he is entitled to the unqualified
bservices of all the men in his command In
kthe noted case of Elk parte Schlafer, 154
FED 921 soldier was arrested and con-
fined by the city police in the course of A
raid upon the soldiers, planned by the po-
lice. An excessive fine was imposed by
the city court, upon default in payment of
which an alternative of long term of i'm
prisonment was given. The federal court
trying the appeal said;
while an enlisted man in time of pea~e
may be subjected to arrest and imprison-
ment for violation of a municipal ordi-
nance the same as a civilian, yet where any
punishment is sought to be inflicted which
will interfere with the duties which he
-oWes to the United States, the utmost
ggood faith is required from civil authori-
ties, and any unfair or unjust discrimina-
Ftlon against the offender because he is a
lSoldier, or departure from the strict re-
quirements of the law, or any cruel or I'M
usual punishment, may be inquired into
by his commanding officer in proceedings
in the federal courts"
In that case the commanding officer was
Sgranted a writ Of habeas corpus.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17

understood, even in the great cities
of the north, where it has been tax
ing its toll of children by the hum
dreds. Now that it has reached
point but few miles distant from
US it is high time that we take every
precaution to prevent its entrance
into our community. The only means
of prevention known is cleanliness
and the keeping of close watch upon
possible victims in order that they
may be properly guaranteed should
they develop symptoms of the dis
ease.-Milton Gazette.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17
THE SCRATCH PAD
By THOMAS EWING DABNEY.

The dog that has been taught to
beg for bone, has nothing on John
sons automobile, which asked the city
government for $27 a month.
The outbreak of cholera in Nagas-
aki at any rate has proved that place
to be town and not drink, as we
always supposed.
Tit policeman who tried to run
booze shop in off hours found that
you can't always play both ends
against the middle and get away with
it.
Johnnie Jones, Of the Isis, Is get
ting us so excited that we will soon
be shouting, "Give me Liberty, or
Give me Death"
S s s
While # Is true that a rolling
stone gathers no moss, it is equally
certain that dollar in the bank to-
day won't win any of the bargains
advertised in The Journal.
$ s =
Hughes accuses Mr.. Wilson Of ex-
travagance, but will Hughes explain
why his two administrations in New
York were the highest priced, by ten
million dollars, in the history of the
state?
Some newspaper correspondent Is
asleep at the swith. The Bremen has
asleep at the switch. The Bremen has
| Ahai At last the colonel's silence
is explained. He has been so busy
swallowing those words about never
abandoning the progressive party
that he couldn't speak.
S s $
"What's become of the eugenists p
inquiries the Montgomery Advertiser
They are doubtless so tired walking
the baby at night that they havenf
got energy enough to write those
pleasing essays and give those inter
esting talks.
Hughes having viewed with alarm
Wilson's clear shave, is now touring
the county to point with pride to his
own whiskers.
s $ s
After listening to the clack o.
some women, we are profoundly
grateful that the short skirt was sub
stituted for conversation to hold oul
attention.
IS $ =
If the prohibition movement keep
up, it viii be impossible to begin tn,
day with smile anywhere in tn,
United States.
Is = S
If Pancho Villa is aboard tn
Deutschland, its easy escape is ex
planned.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17

chair, the Rev. Sidney is going ahead
with his campaign, and threatens to
shoot the first man who lays violent
hands on him. AS Mr.. Beard has
opened a broadside, calculated to
SILVER some of Rev. Sidney's timbers,
and Rivers Buford has also fired one
or two Mausers, calculated to have
distressing effect upon occasion, it
seems to US that the Rev. Sidney
ought to unlock his grip and bring
forth his trusty forty-four and at any
rate shoot up the woods. He might
hit something perchance.-Apalachi-
cola Times.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17

compiled list of the papers of the
state and divided them into four
classes as regards the political ten
dencies-that is, as to how they stood
with respect to Knott or Cats. Now
some of those papers are getting
back at the Telegram with complaints
that they have been wrongly sized
up. Well, If the whole matter re-
suits in having the newspaper boys
line up so that it may be clearly seen
whether their uniforms are made of
furs or whether they are armed with
pine knots, some good may have been
accomplished Clearwater Sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17
BEATING THE LAW.

Understand, now, we don't blame Build
ing Inspector Johnson at all for getting
that SGT.
After all, it's just the peoples money.
Maybe he can use SGT a month to better
advantage than the people
Maybe the city commissioners, at any
rate, think So
But the unfortunate thing is that the
commissioners should break their own laws
to accomplish the hand-out
Read what Section "a of the charter
adopted June 9, 1913, SAYS:
No commissioner, officer, or employee Of the
city shall directly or INDIRECTLY receive from
the city ANY COMPENSATION, emolument,
thing of value for ANY SERVICE rendered or to
be rendered by him, other than the REGULAR
COMPENSATION to be paid to him as fixed by
terms of his employment fixed by law.
Inspector Johnson's salary was fixed at
S98. This was to get around the consan-
gulnity law, for there is wise provision
against nepotism in the Pensacola charter.
If, says the law, city employee gets as
much as 500, no other member of his fam
lily shall be put on the municipal pay roll
Now Mr.. Johnson has a relative in the Fire
Department. If Mr. Johnson was put on
the pay roll at a really respectable figure
e. e., over the hundred mark friend
nephew would lose his place at the public
trough-a thing devoutly to be avoided.
So Mr.. Johnson said, Let me serve the peo-
pie and give me what you want-on1y put
me on the pay roll, and we will see what
we will see. So he was signed up for S98
Then one day Inspector Johnson came
down in a beautiful automobile and said to
the commissioners, Feed this baby, too. So
the commissioners handed out S27 to the
Joy wagon.
Now the mathematics of the Catts-Knott
votes are open to wild and fearful dispute;
but there is nobody on earth who will dis
pute that ninety-eight dollars plus twenty
seven dollars ARE S125.
So Inspector Johnson gets his, friend
nephew gets his, and all would be as nice
as nice could be if the city commissioners
weren't getting theirs in the neck Gas the
vulgate hath it) for violating the lava
very wise law to head off fraud and graft.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17
WHY ENDURE SUMMER COLDs7

It isn't necessary to have a stuffed
head, running nose. To cough your
head off as it were. All you need do
is to use DIR. Bells Pine Tar-Honey.
The soothing and healing balsams
open the clogged air passages and in
a short time you get relief and start
on the road to recovery. Your nose
stops running, you cough less and you
know you are getting better. Get
bottle, use as directed. Keep what is
left as a cough and cold Insurance.
Adv.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17
Water Monsters

Water MOnsLers-
The fickleness of the vision is again
shown by the fact that everybody
along the coast is now seeing either
the Deutschland going out or the
Bremen coming in. Only two weeks
ago it was sharks.-St. Petersburg
Independent.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17
Three to One

AAtEGC VI OIG-
Notwithstanding the assertions Of
a couple of newspapers to the con-
trary, an actual poll Of the state press
shows that the papers Of the state
stand nearly three to one for w. v.
Knott. Some that were non-commit-
tai have come over to Knott since
Mr.. Cats anarchistic utterances in
regard to heading an army to move
on Tallahassee, and his expressed de-
termintion to become a candidate re-
CARELESS Of the decision Of the courts,
Lakeland Telegram.
The Lne-Up-
Recently the Lakeland Telegram
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17
FLORIDA PRESS.

Take a Shot
Although John S. Beard Of Pensa-
cola, who by many is regarded as an
authority on such matters, claims that
Mr.. Cats is forbidden by the consti-
tuition to occupy the governors
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-08-17
Prevention Measures

A case Of infantile paralysis is re-
ported from Brewton, Alabama. This
is getting too close to our own state,
county and city to be lightly consid-
cred. The source or means of pre-
venting this dreaded scourge is not
, 1916-04-01

probation therefore are the fruits his life
work earned here. but his greater reward lies
beyond this passing show.
During his long ministry among us great
have been the changes, social and otherwise;
the dwindling away, for instance, OF the
large English colony, the departure to
other shores OF the better class families,
the falling off of British war and mercantile
vessels visiting the port, and SO on, all of
which of course reacted upon the Church.
But Notwithstanding the adverse circum-
stances he continued ever earnest in his
duties, faithful to his flock, and loyal TO the
Government, which recognized his SER
vices by comforting upon him the knight
hood of Dannebrog. Mementos of his work
here are, among others, the erection of the
Parish Hall and the procuring of the Home
for poor r4embere.
He leaves on Thursday by the Guiana in
the company of the Bishop and DR.. John
HutsoU, his eldest eop. May he have a
pleasant passage to Antigua, whittier he is
bound.-&. Thomas Bulletin, March 28h.
, 1916-04-01
~"ESTABLISHED IN 1896"

In China there is a manufacturing bust
ness that has been running over five centur-
les, aud still has SO much life that it is de-
veloplng in new directions.
The business is the Imperial Porcelain Fac
tory at Ching Teh Ching, which vas esta6-
lished as far back as 1896, nineteen years be-
fore Agincourt. 1t is this factory which has
always supplied the palaces OF China with the
famous blue and white porcelain.
The factory is now being recognised and
extended, and is in future to make not only
the highest quality of porcelain fol use as
royal presents, but ordinary domestic arti-
cles for the home.-I6id.
, 1916-04-01
SOME CURIOUS A
BY The REV. THEODORE WooD, F. E. S.,

I once spent an odd ten minutes in inter
viewing a Shore Crab. l found him in hid
ing behind IN overhanging mass of sea-weed
among the rocks i'll which | was hunting
about at low water, and [ caught him by
feinting with my left hand, and seizing him
with my right one as his claws went clushing
together. Then | put him on the open
beach aud began to walk slowly round mud
round him aud as | did 50 the pugnacious
creature, not in the least dnunted by his
capture, revolved ut exactly the same rate on
his own axis, with his claws held aloft in
readiness to strike again on the first attempt
on my part to seize HIM.
They are wonderfully active, these shore
crabs, and when the tide is coming in you
may see them running to and fro a foot or
so in front OF the advancing waves, and lit
orally leaping upon the s"ndhoppers which
are skipping about, and capturing them one
after the other. They will even catch flies
aud bees in The same way, imprisoning them
in q kind of cage formed by their legs, and
then deftly Selling them with one of the
great claws and devouring them.
The most critical period through which q
crab has to pass is that of its periodical
growth; for crabs do not grow, rs other
animals do, by a slow, ceaseless increase in
size until their full dimensions are attained.
They grow by fits aud starts, at intervals Of
from three to twelve months, and on every
such occasion the shell hus to be entirely
discarded, and a new one TO be formed in its
place. The consequence is that for several
days growing crabs are absolutely helpless,
possessing neither offensive weapons nor de-
fensive armour; at The mercy even of enc
mics far smaller and weaker than themselves.
So IA few days before the shell is thrown off
they go into hiding. You may fud a crab.
which is about to grow lurking behind a
mass of seaweed in a crevice among the
rocks; and it is sure to be in q state of the
most abiect aud pitiable terror. For some
forty weight hours before the shell is actually
thrown off, the attachments which fasten it
to the body az luptured, so that during that
time the creature is practically a prisoner
within its own shell, over which it no longer
possesses any real control. Then suddenly
the she'll splits open, and The crab, with q
mighty effort. leaps out through the aperture
and instantly begins to grow. increasingfn
, 1916-04-01

quite excited, and, barking loudly, rushed
across towards the Custom House, lodging
tho trans, to where a big policeman was
standing. The dog rushed ut the sergeant,
and jumped up on him, standing on bis hind
legs and placing his paws on the officers
chest. It then turned round, and raced
back to where the dog was in trouble. saying,
IN everything except language, that the as
s~istance of the police was needed.
Two police officers followed sthe excited
sheep-dog, ana saw the imprisoned terrier,
and, with the aid of an iron crowbar, the
grating was pulled up and the prisoner 1e-
leased. to the evident y of the sheep.dog.
Tile Little Paper.
, 1916-04-01

The United States expects to import large
quantities of sngar-beet seed from Rotter-
dam to be used on farms in their country.
England has promised that she will not mo-
lest the ships that will be used to BRING the
product across. The seed was produced in
Australia. 1t is hoped that the American
sugar-beet industry may soon be made i'll
dependent of Europe by producing large
quantities of seed at home.-IdiG.
, 1916-04-01

A whale shark which was caught off the
coast of Florida last year is said to be the
largest fish ever caught. The monster
weighed over 10000 pounds, was As feet
long and its mouth was over three feet wide,
As inches deep and contained several thou
sand teeth. A full grown man could stand
upright in its stomach. The skin was three
inches thick and was without scales. 1t was
exhibited at the SaD Francisco exposition.
-Light6oMrR'S M0I Notes.
, 1916-04-01
REPORT
of Children Bound to be Taught.

CHILDREN that before the 1st of April
~ a. c. are 6 or more years of age and al
ready have not been entered in the School
Register of the District in which they are
living, are now to be entered in this register.
and that also. if they are to be taught in
their home or in a private school. Trans
gressions OF this rule, laid down in the School
Ordinance s 3, are punished with fines of
from Francs $50 to Francs $500.
TO receive reports about these children
the First Teacher at the Communal School
of the District will besides the usual school,
hours be present in the School THURSDAY
the 30th inst. from 2 toe pm. and SATUR-
DAY 4the LIST April from s to II q. N. and
"a IN.
st. Croix School Board, March 26th 1916.
O. RUBNER- PETERSEN
, 1916-04-01
A JUDGE TELLS A STORY.
AND A BAROMETER That Would Nor TELL
The Truth.
The Brave Policeman Who Thought He
Saw A Bomb.

-
1t was Napoleon who said that there is
but q step between the sublime and the
ridiculous, and the Liverpool police are real
Using the truth of it. How the act of one
of the force, which might have been a sub
lime example of heroism, proved quite some
thing else has recently been explained by
Mr.. Justice Low, while holding an assize in
the Meisey city.
At the judges official lodgings was an
automatic barometer, and, in order to bring
this in closer contact with the weather,
someone placed it outside his lordship's
sitting-room window. There, in the night,
a policeman espied the snspicious-lookihg
object, thought it was @ bomb, and risking
his own life, as he believed, rushed away
with it and placed the harmless barometer
in q bucket of wntell
The Judges barometer was not the first
of it's kind 10 experience treatment of this
sort. A sheep-farmer in the Cbeviot Hills
was told that if he got one of these iustrr-
ments he would be able to ~foretell the wealth
er, and so know when it was safe to senI
his fiocks into far pastures. So the farmer
put a barometer in his lobby, where all went
well so long as the weather held fair. Bnt
when a change came, and rain fell in torrents
the barometer, which was really out Of order,
remained pointing to "set fair". The farmer
bore with the %untruthful guide for q day or
two, and then, as the rain continued to fall.
while the glass still said ''sst fair, he took
the Instrumentation it's nail, marched angrily
into his fields, and thrust it into a swollen,
flooded stream.
CHOW then" he cried angrily, "now wiU
ye 6eljeOe y0ur 0Wn eyeS?"-Ljd.
, 1916-04-01
THE DOG THAT SAVED ANOTHER.
A TALE OF SYDNEY HARBOUR.

A TALE OF SYDNEY HARBOUR.
How The Sheep Dog Summoned The Folice.
The harbour of Sydney is claimed to be
the most beautiful in the world. One Satur-
day morning not long ago, when the bust
ness of the city was at it's height, a little
Scotch terrier fell into the harbour at Cir
cular Quay, and was unable to reach the
land. He managed, however, to Chamber in-
to a storm-water pipe. aud made his way
through it to the grating in the footpath at
P%arramatta Ferry. Here he was blocked by
the grating, however, and being unable to
reach the street, he began to howl disma!ly.
Passers-by paid little heed to the dogs cry,
but at last a sheep-dog came bN and. gaziug
through the bars. saw the difficulty of his
little Scotch friend. The sheep-dog became
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1916-12-22

N. to ~ SUNG W 500. IL the building 10
rssdy.
Miss Amir shelton. v. q. L.. Glass of
10. has b~en substituting for Mics Brown
Tor several dsys.
SCHOOL CHILDREN DONATE
To ORPHANS.
AZ the .usse~tion 81 the Principal. hoxs
sni pirl. 4 Blnetisid will donate toy.
and little rifts To our orphans 80 dscent-
~ PROVIDED for by the STATE and pror~t-
81 hy Mr.. las l.. Hill and his s-stimahIe
wife.
>uICE OF pspDp~
To whs m il may concern:
Notice 10 hereby given that John Ran
isser. ROW confined nm the state t-.nit.u-
iary. serving . live year sentence Tor
conviction OF murder in sssrond .i.-yr.e.
from Mcdowell county. will. on or alter
January !. 1917. apply L. tin. governor
OF West Virginia for "a pardon.
John Bani-ter
De- -, isl" By Oounrii.