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THE PENS AC OLA JOURNAL, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 23, 1 92 1
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Noah ojght to have been in the oil
well business. Think of the stock he
floated! , . ,
The only watering place that hasn't
been advertised as.a vacation. resort 1a
Wall Street. , ' , . '-; " r-
Ot c jurse, it's too late in the day to
mention it. But wouldn't this have
made a pip of an ad for distelleries:
"Your, nose glows." Seattle Star.
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The Southern Lumberman suggests
that perhaps the reason tho British
"can't sco UeorRQ Harvey" la because
they never could see a joke. '
Srretary of Labor Davis may woik
18 hour a clay, but he needn't expect
time-and-a-half for it.
Tho best way to keep straight is to
apply tho Golden Rule. '
0 1 I.
Those who drift will sooner or later
find themselves at sea.
' Jim Van Pelt will get enough money
from the taxpayers to run for off I. 'e
agufn. "". v
Buildings are shaken when meycora
fall, says a headline. Same thing
happens when-home-brew explodes.'
It looks as if Catts did sometning
right after all. The present legisla
ture has confirmed his veto ot the
Riparian Rights bill.
Herbert Felket says the chaplain
looks atMho legislature and prays for
the people. ,
"Honey." says one cook to another,
"I'se gwine to get a divorce. I don't
want no husband. I'se got wander.n
In myJtH t.M
For your information the Mobile
port bill is not a new dry-law.
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He I say,, old dear., was It you 1
kissed in the conservatory, last night?
Whe Let mo . see about what time
was it? .
- We understand much of the liquor
now being used has a special brand
contraband.
The heat from a pound of coal, if
there is no waste, can raise 19, gallons
of water from freezing to the boiling
point. S
Blackberries two and one-half inches
long have been found in the wilds of
Colombia.
China's canal system has been in ex
istence -for more than 200 years.
An electric doll has been invented by
& resident of East Orange, N. J
Within an area of less than 12,000
square miles, Belgium has 1500 miles
of waterways. .
Erection of totem poles among the
Alaskan Indians has practically been
topped.
The United States received $40,000,
000 in foreign gold during March.
Beavers do no work for three months
or more during summer.
A WORLD OF BLOSSOM.
By Frank L. Stanton.
It's like a world of blossoms broad
, plains, and hills of light
A wilderness of color, and over all
the bright
The cloudless sunshine streaming, so
that each breathing clod,
Is"endinff in the violet's . breast
sweet message to God.
But what is missed from springtime,
with all Its joy and grace?
The sweeter music of your voice the
sunshine of your face;
That sunshine streaming 'round me
hath little that Is bright,
When I miss you from the blossoms -.
. tbea 1 miss xou from the light!
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THE U. D. C. CONVENTION.
It has been said that the city should
give to the poor rather than to the U.
D. C. to aid in entertaining the state
convention of that body.
The Kiwanls club haa heartily en
dorsed the convention of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. So
have the other civic organizations of
the city.
The city will not deprive the poor
in order to give to the U. D. C, but
rather It will add to its activities by
helping to maintain and 'perpetuate
the memories of those who fought for
the Last Cause.
. Whatever aid the city can give to
ertertaln the state convention of the
Daughters of the Confederacy will te
returned a hundred-fold in good-will
for Pensacola and for Pensacola's peo
ple. It Is a cause which cannot and
should not be refused.
$5,000 REWARD.
Capture a mail robber and win a re
ward as high as $5,000. That's the
amount offered by Postmaster Gen
eral Will H. Hay,s "to any postal em
ploye or other person who brings in a
mail robber."
All postofflce workers who handle
vnluable mail are to be"armed. It's a
return to "shotgun riding" of the old
Wells-Fargo days. Shoot straight,
boys!
Organized bands are plundering the
mails right and left. Their loot, in th3
dozen leading mail robberies during
the last 10 months, totaled over $7,
000,000. '
The biggest "job" .was the theft of
$3,500,000 from a train between Omaha
and Council Bluffs, Nov. 13, 1920.
Since robberies of registered malls
have to be made good, these lootlrgs
are a direct levy on every taxpayer.
It's a big sum that $3,500,000. Jesje
James was a piker. In the popular
imagination he looms "as the greatest
robber. Yet his lootings were small
enough that the Ford brothers, mem
bers of his own band, shot him In 1882
to get the $10,000 reward offered by
Governor Crittenden, of Missouri for
Jesse James capture "dead or alive."
Another piker, compared with mod
ern road agents, was the Dalton gang.
This was the last "great" gang of train
robbers of the old style that worked
in the open and, holding up a whole
train, gambled their lives. The Dalton
gang, trying to pull off a double-header
robbery two banks at the same
time, was surrounded by a posse of 300
citizens at Coffeyville, Kas. When the
smoke cleared away, Emmett Dalton,
was the only ganster left alive. After
hia prison days, in discussing his "bis
jobs,", he Said that the gang "once
got nearly $50,000."
There were, however, master crooks
in the old days. For instance, the
gang that stole $700000 from a New
Vork, New Haven & Hartford train in
1866. They were captured by Allan
Pinkerton, probably the greatest de
tective in American history.
To arm postal employes is sound
horse-sense. It nay lead to the big
mail looters, getting cold lead instead
of .what their perverted .brains con
sider fame. The country hopes so.- 4
4 TAKE FIVE A DAY.
rienty of men and women spell cat
with two "t's" and suffer embarrass
ment thereby.
Teachers tell us this deficiency is
due, frequently, to method of teaching,
rather than lack of school opportuni
ties Now comes Prof. Van H. Smith, of
the Burlington, N. J-, public schools
with a plan to revive the "lost art,"
of spelling as Webster does it. Four
Burlitigton grade school pupils, trained
so, outspelled every high school oppo
nent in a county contest.
"Five words a day is a spelling les
son," Smith says. Concentrate on a
few words at a time, instead of spread
in; all over the dictionary. One word
If difficult, is enorgh for one lesson."
The average coliege student has a
vocabulary of only 3600 words. Tue
average person ambles through life
with 1000 or less. Smith's five-a-day
plan will give a grade pupil command
of 5000 words In five years, he says.
. Spell it drally. write it and pto
nounce it. That fixes the . word In
your mind. Try it. ".
TONGUE-TIED BUSINESS.
South American papers are poking
a lot of Sun at American catalogs and
salesmen7 getting the Spanish and
Portuguese languages balled up. One
Jester In Buenos Aires calls us- "the
tongue-tied exporters."
The trouble with foreign -language
study in American schools has been
that languages have been regarded
primarily as "mental discipline" or as
"creditS" In the course of study, rather
than as useful commodities of trade.
Students In other countries leain to
think in foreign languages. In the
United States the, student of a foreign
tongue generally is a parrot, with the
primary object of getting a good mark
in his studies rather than mastering
the language so it will be of real u-e
to him.
American consular agencies repeat
edly point out our lingual handicaps.
We must have only one language at
home, but we must also learn and
learn, correctly the languages of our
possible customers abroad. Trade su
premacy in the world's markets may
go to the salesman who can best talk
his potential customers' language.
PRESS COMMENT
Petty Trifling Causes
Feeling of Opprobrium.
Tobacco has not injured one-hundredth
as many people as over-eatjng.
It has never wrecked a home, never
destroyed a business, never figured la
the criminal news. It may have bad
physical effects, but certainly not ary
more so than coffee or other stimu
lating beverages. True it never Im
proved health and it is an expensive
habit these things are generally ad
mitted yet the weed affords a bit of
pleasure and the Irtdulgers are wil
ling to bear with the minor injuries, if
such there be, to experience the
pleasure.
Despite the uplift agitation, the
movement to reform the world -overnight
and set it under the eaves of
Utopia, the American people are de
termined to enjoy themselves by a few
"reckless" practices, and all the forces
under high heaven cannot stop them.
It is characteristic of the race and
an admirable one. When reformation
begins tinkering with non-essentials,
the smaller details of enjoyment, pub
lic opinion is liable to become defiant
and more worthy causes will suffer in
consequence. People cannot be legis
lated into not doing what the great
majority wants to continue.
This has been illustrated in the state
of Iowa. For a number of years the
state had a law which prohibited the
-buying, selling or giving away of cig
arettes in that state. But as many
people smoked as ever; there was 110
let-up In the habit. The enforcers of
the law were helpless. There was no
course of action open to them. As far
as they know there was no buying,
selling or giving away going on but
the army of smokers puffed on.
Governor Kendall has signed a bill
repealing the law. "The disregard of.
a restrictive law because it is unpop
ular entails discredit upon all laws of
similar character," was his reason, and
It is a Justified one. Other states that
have ventured to flirt with anti-tobacco
laws have found enforcement tough
tobogganing.
Public opinion, considered in its va
rious aspects, Is pretty broad in its
views. It countenances and endorses
big things, and frowns on petty
trifling. Florida Metropolis.
For the Public's Protection.
The Florida State Realtors' Associa
tion will ask Ihis legislature to pass
a bill to be presented and recommend
ed by it defining a real estate broker,
and salesman, and regulating and li
censing all who attempt to engage in
the profession, and prescribing penal
ties for violation of the act.
The necessity for. this legislation
must become apparent to any nwn
who, Is at all familiar with the real
estate conditions in this state. Hun
dreds of persons literally "blow in" to
a community during the active months
of realty movements, and without
leave or license, with no more respon
sibility than " they can possibly shift
and with no more office or equipment
than the "snow bird" advertourist who
milks a gullible public for his "ad
vertising schemes," they set up as real
estate brokers or real estate salesmen
The" total equiment and qualifications
of most of these is a blue-print and
a green gall. The public has no pro
tection from them; the would-be pur
chaser has no assurance that they csn
deliver what they promise, or that
any payment he may have made to
"bind the trade" will ever apply to
anything but the personal obligation
of the gentry obtaining it. The prop
erty owner who puts land In their
hands for handling does not know how
much more than the price he fixes on
his property will be charged or ob
tained; and the usual plan is to col
lect commissions from both ends and
in addition, if possible, make a lltt.o
extra beside hy charging more than
instructed. Of course, there are excep
tional home men in the business every
where known for their "Sharp" tricks
and "smooth" dealings in the profes
sion. The bill to be introduced will
eliminate, or at least severely control,
toth of these classes.
President T. C. Hammond of the
Florida State Realtors' Association, is
in Tallahassee in the interests of the
bill, and will consult with the ablest
men to be found there relative to the
various things proposed in the bill. He
declared before leaving that the asso
ciation wants a bill that will be so
clear cut in purpose, so clean in mo
tive, and so plain in language and in
tent that it will meet the approval of
all men who believe that the stigma
cast on the nama of Florida in the
past by men from other states who
"sold land by the quart" and who sold
lands that never existed for sums that
were unheard cf, and who promised
things that even the federal govern
ment could not make good, will more
quickly be wiped out.
The Tribune offers its assistance to
the State Realtors' Association in its
efforts to get this needed legislation on
the statute books, and urges the legis
lature to heed the demand of the pec
pie through the state realtors for re
lief. Tampa Tribune. "
VIEWS OF
JOURNAL
R E A DERS
The Journal is glad to print
short communications from read
ers on any topic of Interest.
Letter should be typewritten If
possible, and double spaced.
Editor Journal:
An editorial in Wednesday morn
ing's paper gives a pathetic story of
want and suffering right here In this
happy, prosperous city; seven little
children and an invalid father being
supported by the labor of one poor
woman the devoted wife and mother.
On another page of the same paper,
is a statement to the effect that the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
have requested the city commissioners
to present to them, from the city
treasury, the sum of $500 for the en
tertainment of Relegates to the U. D.
C. convention which is to meet here
in May. Would not the taxpayers of
the city, to whom this money belongs,
prefer to use $500 in assisting the des
titute family and in paying a specialist
to remove the cataracts from the eyes
of the father, so that he may be able
to make a living for his family?
If the city commissioners give to
this convention, then they cannot re
fuse to give a like amount to medicil
conventions, dental conventions or
printers, merchant tailors., furniture
men, or any other organization that
chooses to hold meetings in Pensacola
Such a proceeding would prove a
bad precedent.
ALICE SHEAR.
Editor Pensacola Journal:
I see by The. Journal of several days
ago, that two of our county commis
sioners came near having a fight at
their meeting last Tuesday. One ac
cusing the other of using couity funds
for the purchase of gasoline used in
his own automobile, and demanding
an investigation.
In justice to both parties why not
have an investigation. A man shouid
not lay under such charges if not
guilty and if he is guilty the tax pay
ers should know it. Why not Inves
tigate? E. L. BEARCE.
ADVENTURES OF
THE TWINS
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON
Flippety-flap played a tune on his
mouth-organ called "Over the Hills
and Far Away," and all the time he
was playing Miss Hippo (not cross
Old Granny) watched him with her
great stick-out eyes, and listened with
her little stick-up ears, and swished
her tiny stick-down tail in the muddy
river where she was standing.
When the fairyman stopped she
sighed loudly and said, "Beautiful!"
Then Flippety-Flap played another
tune and Miss Hippo said "Exquisite!"
and by the time he had played five
she had run out of words altogether.
"Ah,"" she sighed. "What do you
call these pleasant sounds, may I ask?"
"Music!" answered Flippety-Flap.
"Do you,like it?"
"Like it?" exclaimed Miss Hippo,
"Who could help it"
. "Then," said Flipety-Flap quickly,
"How would you' like to go to a place
where there is a hundred times as
much music as this and live in a tent
in a magnificent red-and-gold wagon,
and. have all the food you wish to eat,
and"
"Stop!" cried Miss Hippo eagerly.
"Where is this wonderful place?"
Nancy and Nick explained that it
was a circus, and that they would
take her right away if she cared to go.
Miss Hippo agreed instantly, so the
four of them started off.
Just then Old Granny Hippo lifted
her head out of the muddy water and
saw what was happening.
"Humph!" she snorted. "Humph!
Humph! That young upstart of a
neighbor of mine thinks she is hand
somer than I am, and she's heading
for the circus, if I'm not mistaken. But
I'll see that she doesn't take my place.
I'm too old to be beautiful. And oft
started Granny at their very heels.
That's why the circus has two rhinos
this1 year instead of one, and if tne
calliope still misses its last note Gran
ny doesn't dare to say a word.
(To Be Continued.)
(Copyright, 1921, N. E. A.)
REVELATIONS
OF A WIFE
BY ADELE GARRISON.
How Robert Savarin Faced His Wife
.and Made Her See That She Had
Lost Her Power Over Him.
I do not think the woman who had
called herself Mrs. Allis realized for a
moment or two that the Nemesis -like
figure of the brown -bearded man con
fronting her was the man whose lifo
she had ruined, the man whom . she
had believed dead, her husband, Rob
ert" Savarin
For a fleeting second the artist, lost
to the world for so many years be
cause of hia clouded brain, gazed
steadily .at the woman whose conduct
had' loosened his grasp on sanity. His
sister, Mrs. Cosgrove, gave a little in
articulate cry and started toward him,
but 1 1 gripped her hand firmly and
held her back.
With one glance into the eyes of
Robert Savarin I had realized that
there was no need to be afraid of any
thing that he might do. For, if ever
sanity looked out of a man's eyes it
gazed from the clear depths of the ar
tist's sad brown orbs. "
"And so, Mildred," he said at last,
slowly, and there was that in his voice.
The womafn whom we had known as
which it seemed to me must scorch the
t , Wat
A SPUN DID
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ftlRIFIEB
very soul of the woman" before him, "I
find you here."
Mrs. Allis stared at him wildly for a
moment, then with an inarticulate cry
put her hands to her eyes as though
to -shut out the sight of him," and
swayed as if she were about to fain.t.
I rushed to her side and grasped her
arm, but at my touch she steadied
herself, took her hands from her eyt-s
and struck my hand away from her
with the fury of a wild cat.
"Don't dare touch me, you hypocriti
cal little beast!" she said, and I could
not help but smile at the word "littia"
for I am taller than she. 1 She misun
derstood my smile, and her "face dark
ened, while a look of such malignancy
came into it that I shrank away from
her.
What followed came so swiftly tfcit
I did not understand it clearly until it
was all over. I had a sudden terrified
glimpse of her springing at me with
hands outstretched to claw, of Dicky's
strong arms whirling me away from
her, and of another figure that shot
between me and the infuriated woman.
When I looked up from the shelter of
Dicky's embrace I saw that Robert Ua
varln had gripped the infuriated wem
an by both arms, and stood thus, hold
ing her off and watching her actions
as he would those of a maddened ani
mal, while she writhed in hi3 grasp
and hurled gasping sibilant impreca
tions against him.
"Still at your old tricks, I see, Mil
dred," he said pleasantly.
"That Cannot Concern Youl"
At the casual tone the woman in h's
grasp suddenly stood still and looked
at him through narrowed eyelids. In
tuitively I understood the change that
had come over her. I had a shrewd
guess that Robert Savarin of the old
days had not been wont to look in
such unmoved fashion unon his wife's
outbursts of rage.
"S-0-0-0-0-, Robert!" she drawled
at last and I could not but marvel
at her quick turn to poise "you are
really alive. Where have you hidden
"That cannot possibly concern you,
Mildred," he said quietly. Then draw
ing her forward to an easy chair he
pushed her gently into it, and, releas
ing her hands, stepped back and fold
ed his arms, regarding her steadily.
I think both of, them had forgotten
there was anyone else in the room.
nd no one else in the room moved or
spoke. It was like witnessing the cli
max of a gripping drama, and all our
attention was focused upon the two
principal actors. .
What-Robert Savarin Knew.
"Concern me!" the woman laughed
unpleasantly; "I should say it does
concern me. You happen to be n"'y
husband, don't forget that, Robert
Savarin, and for 15 years I have
thought you dead. You will find that
you cannot so easily throw a wif
aside like an olc( shoe."
"You are quite right," the man le
sponded, "and I should not attempt it,
Mildred," there was a deadly, signifi
cant pause "if you were my wife."
Over the woman's face a deadly pal
lor, crept and clung, but her voice was
brave.
"You are raving!" shefiaid contemp
tuously. "Fifteen years' absence and
pretended death does not release one
from a marriage bond, however, irk
som it be."
"No," the man ' returned steadliv.
"but the discovery of his supposed
wife's marriage to another previous to
the ceremon yshe went through 'with
him is considered an' effectual release,
I believe."
The woman's bravado shrivelled be
fore his words. I saw her bite nor
lips until a tiny spot of blood came.
"You mean" she said faintly, at
last.
"1 mean that the proofs of your firot
marriage were placed in my hands
shortly after you left me so cruelly,
he replied steadily.
"To what extremity they drove me,
or what has been my fate during the
years since' matters nothing to you.
But the charge of bigamy, which still
hangs over your head ought to mean
a great deal to you."
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Louisiana Mississippi River Passes
Head of South Pass Head of Pass
es East Jetty Light, rebuilt April 19,
1921, 38 feet above water, at former lo
cation at upper end of triangular bulk
head. No other change.
C. & G. S. Chart 2$. 194.
Light List, Atlantic Coast, 1921, p.
366. No. 20S3."
Buoy List, 8th District, 1920, p. 36.
Coast Pilot, Section E, 1916, pp. 103,
107. '
By order of the Commissioner of
Ligrhthouses.
. E. S. LANPHIER,
Superintendent of Lighthouse. 4
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Nature's Medicine
Two teaspoonsful in water three times a day
makes you feel better!
makes you eat better!
makes you sleep better!
makes you work better!
It is called Nature's Medicine because it is pure
ly vegetable and is composed of the most bene
ficial roots, herus and barks known to science.
Over 20,000,000 bottles sold in six years
Stead Ellis Prices
Pet Cream, large size, 3 cans 40c
' Magnolia Milk, can ., 1. . .18c
Mason's Fruit Jars, pint size, dozen 80c
Mason's Fruit Jars, quart size, dozen 95c
Mason's Fruit Jars, half gal. size, doz.. .$1.25
White Granulated Sugar, 10 lbs. . . ..... .85c
Domino Sugar in box, 10 lbs. ........... .,.95c
Golden Rio Coffee, package .20c
Irish Potatoes, 15 lbs; , , .35c
Obelisk Flour, 24 lb. sack .1.40.
Obelisk Flour, 12 lb. sack :, . .75c
Blue Bird Self-Rising Flour, 24-lb. sack $1.20
Blue Bird Self -Rising Flour, 12-lb.sack. .70c
Large Prunes, 2 lbs. : .,.35c
Loose Raisins, lb. . ., .f.30c
American Cheese, 2 lbs. . .r 65c
Karo SyruR, gallon ... .,.75c
Pure Lard, 2 lbs f. , . .,. . .35c
Export Soap, 21 lbs. . .,.51.00
Hens, lb. . .35c
FEED STUFFS
Sucrene Daisy Feed, sack .$2.35
Butter Cake Dairy Feed, sack . .t. . . .$2.65
Oats, sack , ..... .,.$2.65
Corno Hen Feed, sack . .,. $2.60
Cotton Seed Hulls, sack ....... . .t. ....95c
Corn Chops, sack . .,. . . : . . ., $1.65
Plant Shorts, sack .$1.85
Sunrise Hen Feed, sack . ........ J. .$2.05
Corn, bushel, 56 lbs. .,$1.10
Beef Scraps, 10 lbs. ............ ....... .75c
MEAT MARKET
Round Steak, lb .35c
Beef Roast, lb. . ... . . . . ... . ., ., . ... . . .30c
huck Roast, lb. . . .25c
Country Pork Chops, lb 30c
Ground Meat, lb. . .25c
Stew Meat, lb , . 20c
Cor. Lloyd and Davis St.
Phone 1889 Phone 1890
Free deliveries to all parts of the city.
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the objects and the letters, and see if
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Rock Island. Kewanee. Streets
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