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THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Vaporings of Jenkins matter so alluring- that none would the best interests of Florida first, last forego the trip. It may also be so and au the time. Southern Argus, stop picking at each other life's too short. Tampa Much Needed Opinion The Tribune has ever maintained There lives In Wisconsin a man NEGRO VICTIM OF MOST BRUTAL ASSAULT SAVED DY TREPHINING arranged that our mid-winter fair wiU Tampa Tribune tce rngner Rls power to ciisorm-; fat fai We didn't begin it, and the other named Jenkins.

This man is a member of congress. He is, moreover, chairman of the jytdleiary committee Lnate accurately the greater must be our transported to Ww Msffi, a man's wisuoin. This is, we think, t-, A New magazine fellow keeps picking at us. Southern Argus, auu iia iiiuc tM3l Jllut liitt almost self-evident lur M'i shnwinp- a nv- erinn In lh. of the hooF of representative; may also add that he Is "an unmitigat Published by THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING I state." St.

Petersburg Independent. CO. to make nice distinctions between analog, jus rules or conditions necessa riir indicates a iue range of study. Should be a Unit f- ed ass of the first water. Just how a man of his calibre was ever chosen The Tribune received yesterday the i initial number of the Florida West Coast Magazine.

This publication, with its of-! fice at our sister city, St. Petersburg, will MPIBER3 OF ASSOCIATED PRESS. We haven't heard anything lately very close observation. and most care- I.n'r ThU Funnv the victim. The doctor had with him only his pocket case of instruments, and was unprepared to perform a major operation of no delicate a nature, but he realized that there was no time to to head an important committee, we do not know, unless L'ncle Joe Cannon about the fair appropriation injunc Y.

F. STOVALL. Editor and Manar ful analysis. And just at this time there One of the most delicate and difficult operations known to surgeons, the trephining of the skull, successfully performed by Dr. Oppenheimer, probably saved the life of a negro employe of the Seaboard, who had been foully struck The Tribune says Tampa will reach make its appearance each month and will has him in his vest pocket and thinks should be no delay in securing an ex- tion and naturally suppose the matter has been dropped.

Let us hope so. G. D. LEACK, Managing E.litor he may be a useful tool at some fu pert differentiated concerning the the one hundred thousand mark in be devoted, as is declared the prospec-nlation of interstate commerce bv the Population in 1911. If the annexation to th interests of the West Gulf ture time.

Associate Editor anyway. South Florida especially should be a unit for the fair. It ROBERT TYLER. be lost, so he proceeded to replace the fever continues and Key West and in- ff-deral government, right ceded by This congressman Jenkins the oth eoast of our spk-ndid state. Its publish- the states the i.ninr.

termediate territory is added to the means much to this particular section. City Editor J. J. CATHCART, er day emitted some hot air flavored Manatee Record. ed in the constitution an; the ivni- ciar cit'.

we see no reason why the er, Mr. Morris Evans, of Stroudsburg, whilst asleep by another negro, whose brain and cautiously remove the bone apprehension is momentarily expected. splinters. An operation which would At 3 o'clock while asleep in his bunk have been most difficult even in a well with antiquated chestnuts which he Cir. Mgr.

V. P. LAWRENCE, iation or control of the m.h'in rrir claim should be doubted. Gainesville Pa will make his future home in St must have inherited from some ancestral bloody shirt waver, for gore was engaged in such commerce. i Sun.

i Petersburg and so become personally and City Solicitor W. VL IIUBBARD. Publicity Arithmetic W. S. HAN30N, Traveling Solicitor There is as will be nifi -fter Tampa doesn have to run after w'i oe eo arter tr.

actively identified in tne development of moment's thought, a considerable dlf-1 peopl they come to her. An ference between the two increase of over 35 per cent In popula- this section of the state. "Publicity Arithmetic is not quite that of the schools. WEEKLY. SUNDAY.

DAILY. the subject of his discourse gore from the hideous wounds made in internecine strife. For he figures as a prophet, does this fool, and tells tis that the dignified but firm stand of Governor Glenn in upholding the sovereign Because the government has tho risrht tion 1n one year, which gives the The magazine is well printed on a high For example: The Tampa merchant on one of the cars of the Seaboard railroad, a negro employed by that company was struck over the head with a grubbing axe by another negro. The blow fractured his skull in four places, and caused the brain to ooze out of its bone casing. Dr.

Oppenheimer, the physician for the railroad, was summoned, and upon his whose advertising in the Tribune is appointed operating room and with the proper surgical equipments. With tne few inadequate instruments at his disposal he performed the operation, and the patient was removed to a cottage near the railroad. The negro, thanks to his thick skull and the splendid work of the surgeon, is improving and will probably recover from a blow which would have crushed the average 75 per cent, adequate is twice as ef to regulate commerce, that Is to s- city 52-000 inhabitants, if repeated for gra(ie paper, contai ns many illus- tabiish -rules governing the introduc- onl' hr' Up t0 trations and articles of literary merit tion of merchant. fr0m siite Including 1910. would send our popula- into another-to -prohibit, for instance! tion far beyond the 100.000 mark; and between its neat covers, and should be one state from placing an embargo of is every indication that the per welcomed a3 a notable feature in the fective an advertiser as is the mer ADVERTISING RATES: Reading notices, Ik cents per Hn each Insertion.

First page. 25 cents per line each Insertion. Rates on display advertising. 60 cents an inch first Insertion, and 89 cents per inc'i each additional insertion. Special positions, X5 per cent, extra.

chant whose advertising is but 50 per cent, adequate. any character against the introduc- cnt. increase will be greater dur- progress of this section toward a higher The above proposition does not work arrival gave no hope for the recovery of tion of Uie products of any other state acn r. ln coming inree jears gtandar(J of phjsical development and it -i than It was in the nast vear So. lust out in mathematics but it does in actual business life.

So that a store that has but three secW of rebate c'nTro. Vt that 1 bn'arwood or Cay 'and education. We are well pleased with the or in any way interfere with oublic pufr on it; and don't let the green-j write-up of lampa, in which the Queen carriers chartered by the states, ex-j eyed rrlonster fasten his demoralizing City of the Gulf is accorded its justly DAILY SUBSCRIPTION RATES: On Copy On Tear- S5.00 One Copy Six Months 2.60 One Copy Three Months 1.25 quarters enough advertising if none of it is of the wrong sort still has NEW RAILROAD PLANNED WILL FURNISH ADDED EGRESS NORTH cept that it may require them to ful- our prominent and influential position as the double the chance of prosperity as the iui meir contractual obligations with r.nter of the neninsu- itf oi lent dlsnosltion caiet commercial center oi trie penmsu store that is but half-advertised. On Copy One Week .15 WEEKLY KATES: One Copy One "T-traf- One Copy Six 60 i v3 iii''iu in cae mfv re- i There are not manv stores that are rights of the state of North Carolina against the arrogant intermeddling of United States Circuit Judge Pritchard might lead to civil war. Is not this two-by-four congressman enough of a statesman to have observed that this whole country north, east, south and west is morally up in arms against the encroachments of the national government under the Root-Roosevelt combination upon the retained rights of the states? Is he not politcian enough to foresee that that encroachment will be a vital issue in the next presidential campaign? Jenkins speaks of agitation in North Carolina.

Why, there was none until Pritchard attempted to interfere with the administration of the police laws of the state, without any authority, constitutional or otherwise, and himself failing to "agitate" the Washington government to which he looked for sympathy and aid because la. advertised on the full 100 per Mr. Evans deserves all the encouragement the people of the West Coast can of-adequacy-plan. If you know one Fair Fairly Launched that is, you know a store that, by OFFICEi Tribune Building, Corner Tarn. and Twiggs gtreeta.

extend to him. This should be altogeth this same vagary arithmetic, Is twice as effectively advertised as the store that uses "5 per cent, of "enough" ad er unstinted when the good work he has undertaken is given due consideration, to say nothing of the intrinsic Florida Town to Connect With Augusta, Ga. A Big Enterprise, John Skelton Williams, banker and railway man of Richmond, is authority for the statement that within the next twelve months, Augusta, Dredge to S3 Feet, let the sand fill where it may. vertising. And of course, it is twice as fuseto carry out those obligations.

Th supreme court of the United States is the expert authority that should be required through rnc suit brought in an orderly manner to accurately define the me'inir. of "regulation of commerce." to lay down a precise rule by which and rational judicial and ofh -r officers may be gorerned in decidin ist ow far federal authority may extend There is a limit, of course. The of interstate regulation of commerce, most certainly could not be used prevent a state from pminert prosperous, too. worth of the publication from a literary The Florid- state fair to be held In February ws fairly launched at the meeting of the stockholders of the association Monday afternoon. The board of directors elected at the meeting is composed of some of the best business men in Tampa, and the people of the state may rest assured that under such capable and energetic management the February fair will be the greatest ever held on the peninsula.

The resignation of T. C. Taliaferro, There Is no "closed season for bargain hunters in Tampa. standpoint. 4, Deserves.

a Horse, Ha! Ha! and Madison, will be directly con- that government could not fail to rec The editor of the Manatee Record ognize that his position was both un- nected bv rail. Mr. Williams 'has Delinquent Tax List By tba eternal, those New York atrocities are growing too horrible. tenable and universally unpopular, he stated that a number of small lines setting himself up as a literary critic and general instructor of quill experts of Florida is the last bit of burlesque domain over a public carrier Mpcratir.g W. R.

Fuller and W. B. Henderson in Southern Georgia and Northern naa to aoanaon his elevated fegasus and take to the woods. 1 he list or delinquent taxpayers in Hillsborough county was published in since the crazy ebullitons of the big Railroad (Hazelhurst division), 30 miles; the Douglas, Augusta and. Guli Railway, 57 miles; the Nashville and Sparks Railroad, 12 miles, an dthe Val-dosta "Southern Railway, 28 miles, or a total of 23) miles of completed railroad at present.

The company has also option upon 45 per cent of the stock of the Savannah and Statesboro Railway, 33 miles long, running from Cuyler to Statesboro, Ga. This latter may oe absorbed by the system, but leaving it out, the building of the proposed links will give the Georgia and Florida a total of between 330 and 350 miles of railroad from Augusta, to Madison, the latter point being only about 40 miles frem the Gulf of Mexico, whither it is contemplated to build an extension to a suitable port. Other extensions are also contemplated to Savannah, and a line might be built from Augusta to Columbia, S. about 70 miles, making a valuable connection with the Seaboard Air Line. eyed Ike of the Tallahassee Sun.

This the Tampa Evening News of yesterday. The young ideas of the Pinellas metropolis are still to be taught to shoot. is what the Palmetto News has to say Such big mouthed asses as Jenkins 111 are far more a menace to the frater- and that with the necessary new track-nal spirit that exists between the peo- age, the continuous service will be put pie' of all the states of the union than into effect in the time gtated about Editor Walpole after quoting The list is a' long one, but the greatest care has been taken in its preparation what the Tribune published concern ing that gentleman's unwarranted so that its accuracy may be vouched for ilB area en nnn 'ne car- from tne directorate was received and ner be engaged in interstate com- accepted with profound regret for mere, any more than a dry could be thpse gentlemen have in the past forbidden to close a certain street served the association with consumer a county a particular ro.d mate zeal and have done very much the maus were habitually carried the fairs of tne past the ore or the other. Tt.c United reach their high standard of excel-States may establish pwv.Hs wh-re iPnCe. At the same time thev have it seems fit, but it cannot dictate to a done their full duty toward the state state to construct or maintain certain in this respect, and, as thev claim, it roads or streets for cf ls but rizht that others shm.ld fill We fear there will be a big crop of tiger lilies if good old Clay goes "dry." 4- In order that it may reach every home in the county and be given the widest with his own importance.

Jenkins is The out ot the plan will evidently of the breed of foolish fa- necessitate the expenditure of about natics who love to stir up contention. $5,000,000, and Mr. Williams has an-but we do not think his vaporings will' nounceti that the funds have been Because hard feelings between the states; publicity, the Tribune made a special ar Seems to be a sort of game jf tag between iiabama and the Southern mud-slinging at Florida's capable editors: "Yes. it is gratifying to know that Manatee county has at least one paper whose editor can write "a real live original editorial;" but if he had not of told us we would not have known it. Te he!" 1 rangemcnt with the News Publishing any more than will the arrogance of company whereby it was enabled yes Pritchard.

So far as war goes, itjnich he has given out, ne says: looks now very much more as though "If not prevented by unlooked-for mails, but must use what it finds or. their places and take a just share of if they are impossible or obsru ted. 1 the burden. may abolish certain post-fflcs as a matter of reprisal. It is weil known.

Fro" the interest already being terday to send a copy of the News con railroad. $. This Burr boom 13 growing into a chestnut, isn't it? Or is it only a chinquapin? taining the list to each of our daily and the people of the whole country will hostile legislation, the line should be too. that in order to exercise natural unite to battle against politicians of a in nrratlnn in a hmit T-A-elva mm Tr? weekly subscribers. throughout the state and with the un the Jenkins-Pritchard class than that i 1 authority over land on whih .1 gov The information is valuable to every The Way to Talk they will ever aain fight one another.

1IOUX lue remitting labor of Col. T. J. L. Brown and his associates from now on.

it Is property-owner in the'eounty, and should So let these enemies of their country The Manufacturers' Record, of Balti- ernment building Is erected simple I purchase from the owner mu- be I companied by a cession from the state. I "None tut' the brave deserve the fair" and that's why Floridians are going to get it. sate to prophesy that the fair of Feb- be carefully preserved for future refer 1 look out for themselves. i repeat, that, especially at this ruary. win oe an event long to be ence bv wh onP who rwiv it.

Jh remembered 1 1 v- the nAnnio i Think of the deep draught ships 5unu-e when so much J'tl- j. tTribune would also ask its readers to Judge Pritchard makes a sound like gation is on hand and so much store sawing wood. take note of the Evening itself A "A striking feature about this railroad is that it will run through a wc-tion of Georgia much in need of north and south trunk line facilities, and it will cross at right angles all the principal railroads in that section of the State, namely the Southern Railway, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air Line, the Central of Georgia and the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway." that will soon have to enter Tan; pa's harbor and keep on digging. more, the leading industrial publ'cx-tion of the South, says in the current issue regarding the new road: The lines acquired and to be connected are the Augusta and Florida Railway, 30 miles; the Millen and Southwestern Railroad, 53 miles; the Atlantic and Gulf Short Line Railroad, America in Athens 1 which is now the leadings afternoon At the Olympic games held in Ath- daily in South Florida. With its brigh Remember the state fair Is to be held in February of next year, at Tampa, and Hernando county should be there in better shape than ever, and in a way that will give greater satisfaction to our people.

Southern Argus. That is the way we like to hear felldws talk. Yes, although Hernando county had a magnificent exhibit at the 1906 faiu, it should even surpass that exhibit in the February fair. And this is true, not only of Hernando, but of every county in the state. The exhibits should be complete and more attractive than ever before showing the grand achievements and possibili Go to France if you want to be killed by a "bubble." threatened, the very first to be done and it might save a wirid bother is to get a clear and definition from the supreme court of the sections of the constitution relating t.

government regulation nf interstate commerce. er.s in April. 1906. America's score Hterarv features, its local, countv and If the National Civic Federation really wishes to do any pood it hai belter keep out of politics. stood far in advance pf that of an tat full telpgraphic report other contestine conntrv he nu- 7-i 1-1 while England, that came next scored and well-considered editorial comment 20 miles; the Douglas and Valdoeta That was a tight squeeze in the Mississippi senatorial race only 41.

The Tribune reader who re- upon the passing events of the day, es How kind the Alabama "boozV will grow having to. go home at 9 p. m. even in the largest cities. cently asked for Information rerd- penally with reference to occurrences i lne nrB various coniest Somh it is a newspaper to carry may secure the names bv calling at this office, where he win find that "normPnt instruction into every Stjp and Ttink Mary, yes.

very many, good men and true will often express tl-em- Guess the big Morocco leather will have to open pretty r. i le to satisfy Spain, France and Ita'y. Get your door-bell repaired before advertising for boarders or roomers. The French shells which burst prematurely may be picked up on the beach. ties in every section and emphasizing GREAT AUTO SHOW IS SEEN AT BIG RESORT I this country won eleven out of thu household and well deserves the most twenty-five events.

extended patronage. Xo one will make the fact that Florida is. par excellence, the most propitious state In the union in Great Barrington. impersonated a ghost on Monday night and frightened Mrs. Mitchell Cleary so badly that for a time it waa feared she would die.

Mrs. Cleary was acting as housekeeper in the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Weatherbee. Three of the servant girls fell to discussing ghosts, and one of them said that about a year after death depart- frequently led to do through good na- a mistake in subscribing for it.

ture a fear of offending But for homeseekers and commercial es lit is not right: because their dufr to Editor Bittinger, of the Ocala Star, talks about "fascinating female beauties' at a recent picnic. Now, isn't he a bad nan? Why Not "Brown" tablishments. Why is Brother Frank Mayes, of A QaJ Pllaht In an editorial of some length dis the pubiic comes before their d'j'y to the individual, and often in giving the latter a good character they deceiv and injure tlie former. There are mn. Atlantic City Had One Thousand Cars In Floral Parade Line.

The Irish cops who threatened to strike were itching to use their shil-lelahs. The Miami Metropolis says pros-perty has come to stay. Sincerely hope so old man. cussing the Florida ftate fair, the Fort Pierce News says very wisely and ed spirits occasionally returned. Then one of the girls went upstairs, saying she was going to retire.

Instead, she the Pensacola Journal, so worried about Jeff B. Browne's boom? He The following from the Gainesville Sun would do well to obey the old adage: be amusin? if it were told in a "Let sleeping dogs lie." Tampa Trlb-, less pathetic strain: Lots of ammunition exploded over at Bt. Augustine by Florida riflemen and the spirit of Ponce de Leon feels quite at home and peaceful. properly: "Just here we would add that St Lucie county should have an exhibit at 7. ATLANTIC CITY, ST.

Aug. Between municipal ownership of the It's funny how the Germans talk water works and private ownership of With nearly a thousand lavishly decorated automobiles in line, Atlantic City about "drei bier" they call it Twill be pleasant after September 1st, when the state pura food law goes Into effect and you eat sausage to know that you are eating sausage. hallway with arms extendid. When her two companions cams up they aw the figure in whit and ran screaming downstairs. Nrs.

Cleary, too, saw the supposed ghst and addressed it, but receiving no response, became frightened and feL in a awoon. Mrs. Weatherbee upon ha- return dis the gas works the good housewife is between the devil and the deep blue sea. today witnessed the most beautiful wet" in Florida. -4- American art is a heavy loser in Brother Hayes is not worried over Jeff' "boom" if that is what you call It.

The Key West man is a good fellow, anyway you take him, and he would be the last man in the world to intentionally worry anyone. Pensacola Journal. Why not call it "boom." Would you call it "Under which flag, Bezonian? Speak or die." this fair, for there will doubtless be' more homeseekers there than at any other fair ever held in the state. It goes without saying we want more people of the right class, and we believe this is one way to interest them in our section. We shall have more to say along this line later." Pshaw, Brother Law, couldn't you find any better argument to use In and spectacular floral parade ever given in any American city, the crowning If she desires to cook a meal she cannot get sufficient heat from the gas to boil the eggs, and when she desires to the death at Cornish, N.

of Augustus St. Gaudens. we wot of, who, for instance, will sign a letter of recommendation for any Tom. Dick or Harry who comes alonr. no matter what may be the real worth of either of them, simply because they hate to say "no." and hurt anyone's feelings.

But in this promiscuous guaranteeing of character how Terribly they may deceive some innocent employer, who must suffer because of his faith in the man who did recommending. Our attention has recently been celled to this matter by two or three exchanges who speak of McBepth. of the Florida School Kxponent. ns "one of Florida's foremost educators." ns a "brouci-minded man," etc. Surely, if the editor of those exchanges had been fair and square, had stopped to think, they could nver have applied triumph of the week's motor car car charged the "ghost" ser'ant.

J. Sorry to see a Tennessee lawyer nival. Thousands of spectators from take an ablution she cannot get bo Philadelphia, New York and other cities INGENIOUS WAY TO The St. Petersburg Times has very properly landed in the hottest kind of water by telling of an old maids club in its city. Quite Imossible.

"Ood bess the girl who works!" cry several exchanges. All right, bless away, provided you don't mean her Jaws on a piece of chewing gum. much as sufficient water in which to wash her nanus. We can understand the mixed up in the Thaw abomination a Littleton, too. were attracted by the pageant, which I CATCH SUSPECTED WIFE passed over the seven miles of Faeific Fort Meade, Polk county, is said to economy on the part of the municipality in saving wood at the power house avenue pavement to the grand stand be growing with remarkable iipidity.

Husband Had Duplicate Telephone So He Could Overhear Unfaithful Spouse' Conversations. and not giving sufficient pressure to force even for a Florida town. and judges' stand in City Fark. Twtnty-two cups were awarded for the Gotham grows indeed in wickedness when it has to keep four police courts working overtime all night. Wipe It Out The Tampa Tribune says: "Editor Harris, of the Ocala Banner, does not approve the thought that 'revenge Is and he is right.

It is bitter as gall. And it is the fool foundation of the 'unwritten Yes, and like the unwritten law, it should be wiped from the face of the earth, for to be revengeful has not been handed down to this generation as a legacy as an excuse for action of that kind against any imagined wrong or evil done anyone of us. Tallahassee True Democrat. sucu flattering terms to a mn -vho has deliberately stated that since iwi. thirds, of the naturally intelligent and bright white children of Florida should best decorated touring cars and Toad-sters.

The automobile show to be held during the balance of the week on the new million-dollar pier is now complete in exhibits and decorations, and sur- It was 1 and only number 14 the Mulberry Times last week, but that youngster is robust, mark you, and Is going to reach a ripe old age. If your message Is for one person Only, eend a telegram or letter. If It concerns many people, tell It In the advertising columns tha Tribune. BRISTOL, Aug. 7.

James Slemp, a relative of Congressman C. Slemp, of the Ninth Virginia District, has brought suit for divorce from his wife, Jennie Slemp, la the law court here. The two wee married at Big Stone Gap, seeral years ago. The husband chages that his wife No prohibition in Alabama yet awhile another chance for the Georgia liquor brigade to emigrate. 1 your Courier-Informant than to criticize typographical errors in the Tribune? And we would like to see you point that circumflex accent over the any better than we have.

We have sent to England for the baptismal (not birth) register of Lucius Junius Brutus Booth, but it will probably take some little time to reach this country as the name is so long It will have to be transported in a freight steamer to save expense. James E. Brown modestly refuses to concur with the Femandina Record in the belief that he would make a "clean sweep" should he run for governor, and refuses to say whether he ill or won't. But all the straws he lets drop seem to point toward Tallahassee and they show which way his brainstorm is blowing. the water to a second story, but we fail to comprehend why the pressure of tiie gas company is so low, for the more gas burned the more money they make.

Few people, however," use the amount of water allowed them, for the simple reason that they cannot get it. In the latter instance we have to pay for something we do not get, which is not the case wita the gas. Is This Another We' fear the editor of the Orlando Democrat is not open to reason. What pasres all mid-summer shows ever held net be given a chance for an eVic.nion beyond the first rudiments but rather should have their minds stultified and be condemned to manual i3bor nlone all their lives. This is a iob' d-c-trlne for "one of Florida'3 foremost ducatots" and a is it not? To hold an auction sale without advertising it in the Tribune is not to hold much of an auction sale.

in the United States. An entirely origi- has been unfaithful. He resorted to an nal display for the interior and exterior 'nsenious plan to determine whether there were Just gtmnds for his con of the pier has been designed by S. R. Whst I $1,500 compared with the tenefit Tampa's tobacco Int-res's will derive from an adequate exhihit ht the Tobacco Trades Exposition in Ner Tork? Clearwater is to have a veneer factory, and it will add strength to the Browne a Candidate Suppose such a pernicious prejudice village even if it is only skin deep.

clusions. Consultitg a telephone man, he had a second ecelver attached to his telephone, whih was connected by wires extending iito the basement, and which he would Mach and put in his pocket when -he eft the basement. shou'd rule the state's educational The Key West Citizen yesterday miui. Ball, official decorator of the Madison Square Garden show. The scheme of the interior decorations is to give individualism to each exhibit, while at the same time preserving the har- motive, hat a rank injustice would formal announcement that Jefferson B.

be done to posterity and to the stale Browne has entered the race for gov- Itself whose affairs mu be The Miami rifles is the crack military organization of the east coast and gains new recruits constantly. In this way heclaims to have heard on earth has "assuming a virtue if you have it not" got to do with "doing evil that good may come?" The Trib- It is said 12 and 14-year-old boys are allowed to play pool till 11 o'clock By a vote of 543 to 113, Great ei Tampa became a fact. The way Tampa is acquiring territory it is well that we have twenty-two miles of water tetween us. St. Petersburg Independent.

by that posterity. nci which one cf ernor- This favorite Son of Monroe these thoughtless endorsees of Mc- stands high in the esteem of the people monious effect "of the whole. Large conversations beween Mrs. Slemp and une frankly confesses it can't catch on. The holy war of the Morocan at night.

Why is such a thing al lowed? Sanford Chronicle. columns ten feet apart to support the other men whifi fully substantiated the conclusion bat she was unworthy exhibitors' signs, illuminated by thous- ef The guit Arabs consists in making as many bu Beath. we would much lik- to know, cf Florida. His past record is an en-would like to have this "'orrmost -d-. 'viable one as a professional man and ucator system appl'-d to his off- 1 spring.

Let us have done with siuhlas one time chairman of the Railroad let holes as possible in the Chrisians. Suppose they must have the price and the men running the pool parlors ands of electric lights, form a distinct Florida's cattle industry is undoubt We are not quite ready to be a'led "a child of God" so we will not butt In as peacemaker between thos two are not loath to pocket the nickels. be tried at the ext term of the court. HEN REGULR PASSENGER ON NOFTH ADAMS TROLLEY edly on the jump but you can't speak folly, and remember our so'emi obli-i Commission, and his various occupations, gation as editors of a pres.i which is both in a private and public capacity, In these decidedly free-and-easv Tampa Tribune. We only publish thi3 as proof.

We have always said you were as thick headed as a mule. Orlando Democrat. Brother, we feel alarmed. Is there a screw loose in your cranium? We have the big-eyed Ike of Tallahassee and "professor" McBeath already on the list of mentally unbalanced Florida editors, and would hate to be compelled to add another. iruiy one oi ine loremoai tau-cators of Florida." ive part ef the show.

At the further end of the pier is a large oil painting on silk giving an original conception of the automobile, while each of the upper boxes is covered with silk draperies, hand-painted, and bordered with handsome gilt fringe and tassels. The arch ceiling will be illuminated at night by over 12,000 vari colored lights. All of the floor space of 150x250 feet ias been taken by the leading manufacturers of car? and accessories. The great show will be formally opened to the general public tomorrow. splendid nws papers the Florida Times-Union and Pensacoli Journal.

The thought of the succulent Bermuda onion, which the St. Augustine Record says should be grown In Florida brings tears to our eye, but a ripple of laughter to our turn-turn. Has it ever struck those pension wranglers that veterans who are Independent in fortune are not compelled to accept their share? In fact, the iignl.led thing for them to do would ba to reject lit as did Mrs. Stonewall Jackson. A Keen Blade Good Logic It is proposed to hold th state Inir at Tanipa from February 3 Vt This time, conflicts with the mid -winter fair and Chautauqua ut fhi.s place.

Some of our people arj cf the opinion that Tamp had desigr.s upon the 10.0O0 tourists who are in St. Petersburg in February- Probably the fair management did. and on tens of thousands of other tourists throughout the state. The Independent believes that the February date is advantageous to St. Petersburg.

While our thousands of tourists will travel over to Ta-. to see the fair, thousands from otrcr of her "cattle upon a thousand hills." The failure to hang an Austrian who killed his daughter because was so ugly adds a new section to tle "unwritten law." -j-- The Milton Index is Justly indignant because of the unwarranted effort of some of its "knockers" to give the town a bad name. Glad Editor W. B. Harris, of the Kls-simmee Valley Gazette had such a pleasant visit to hie old South Carolina home.

Now Judge McCall of Tennessee, will be the next to probe John extracting from his golden store Just thirty million "plunklets" more. Dear dear; but Judge Landis, of Chicago, did rub it in pretty hard when he declared "our eon John" no have left him with an unsullied name for probity and a splendid reputation for business acumen and energetic performance. The entrance of Mr. Browne in the lists will add spice and vim to the gubernatorial cam pa urn. The other candidates, howsoever good knights they may be, will recognize in him a foeman worthy of their steel and will be compelled to arouse themselves to a vigilous activity or else abandon all hope of winning the prize.

The Tribune has ever recognized in Jeff, Browne a true friend of Florida and il at he will make a straightforward, vigorous and honorable fight for the coveted office, and, should he win it, will make the state a chief exee- days it is a pleasure to note the moral tone that pervades Editor Collins' Tallahassee True Democrat. A little more of that sort of thing would well become every newspaper in the land; and there is surely nothing to be ashamed of about it so long as it is not hypocritical. President Roosevelt did not hesitate to bring Russia and Japan to terms, but he wisely shied at tackling that North Carolina situation. Miami News. It would be easier to stem the downfall of Niagara than to curb racial antipathy in America, and the Japs ought to be clever enough to know it.

1 Harriman epeaks of having some Southern Pacific passenger coaches built with side doors. Must expect to NORTH AIAMS, Aug. 7- Motorman Brtchey, employed on the trolley line rnnlng between here and Cheshire, hasa number of fancy chickens, and on of them has taken a great liking -o riding on the front ol the electric car which Mr. Bratchey drives from lis home, about four milef south of thecity and through the principal street; of the city, and then back on the sam car. Mr.

Brathey never stops his car tc accommodie his feathered passenger, but clcken prepares for aWwoop down upotthe fender as the car shoots pastc and rom. that position, after recovering self, files at the first opportunity, tothe vestibule, where Its owner is staoned. On theway back the chicken makes the tripn the frout of the car, and, when M. Bratchey's place Is reached, leaves ie car in exactly the same mannerthat it boarded it. The keenest and most amusing analysis we have seen of the late kidnaping sensation of the Tallahassee Sun comes from the pen of the brilliant editor of the Starke Telegraph E.

S. Matthews. His service as presiding officer of the house of representatives during the recent term of the legislature enabled him to make some telling points which does with his acustomed gentle sarcasm. Times-Union. GIRL PLAYING GHOST SCARES 5 "WOMAN NEARLY TO DEATH If we are going to have a 1Er.gle for governor, why not have Claude he ia hot stuff and the genuine article.

Ocala Banner. Tush man, don't you know he couldnt ie spared from tila tremendous responsibilities as state printer to attend to the trivial duties at points who attend the state fair will take occasion to enjoy the trip across the bay and visit St. At least the opportunity is there for St. After Telling Spook Yarns She Wrapped Sheet About Her to Frighten Companions. WINSTED, Aug.

7. A servant girl employed at Arrowcliff, the summer home of Charles Weatherbee, Let Him Alone, Sir Brothers of the Brooksville Star and Petersburg to make the advertising u'Te WBO be concerned only with run. them through prohibition states, better than a forger or a thief..