Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 16, 1912, Page 4

= TASRE ,,TQ!i | iR g i R B P 1 i l“ ) { i " i | e > FAGE FOUR THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., JULY 16, 1912, The Evening Telegram | Published every afternoon from the! Kentucky Buiidiag, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- «end, Florida, as mail mattes of the second class. M. VIIHTHERI.\'GTON, EDITOR. A, J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. | == SUBSCRIPTION RATES Six months Three months Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, el ik o SURTER AN ey From the same office i8 issued THE LAKELAND NEWS a weekly newspaper giving @& Te- sume of locul matters, crop condi- tlons, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. i 1 LOST——One Hown' dawg. Finder will please tie a pack of firecrackers to his tail and head him toward the recesses of the Ozarks. Let's see—it was this Cole Ble who was denouncing the newspapers a while back, wasn't it? Well, the newspapers have a comeback now that Cole finds himself in 2 hole. The Tampa Tribune remarks: "It is easy cnough to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning if you happen to sleep | with Ve on a porch.” Lambright must ha INCREASE IN POPULA- TION OF FLORIDA. 2 Hetin just issued by the de- partment of commerce and labor, hu- Dana burand gives the following valuuble information concerning Florida: The population of Florida win, Compared with a population of 12 in 1900, this represents an increase during the last decade of 12.4 per cent. During the same period the total population of continental United tSates increased 21 per cent. The growth of the State was somewhat more rapid than dur- ing the preceding decade, 1890-1900, when the rate was per cent. Florida was organized as a terri- tory in IS22 and appears in the fed- era] census reports for the first tin in 1830, A comparison of the rates of in- for the State with those for continental United States shows that the State has increased in population more rapidly than the country as a during every decade since For the last decade, 1900-1510, the rate of increase for the State was more than twice that for the country 5 whole, The population of the State in 1910 was more than twenty- one times than in 1830, while that of continental United States about seven times the corresponding figure for 1830, Florida has 34 cities. J ville, the largest, has a population of 7,699, and Tampa, the second city, rean of the census, B, director, MNTT, or crease whola INGO, was only son- a population of 37,782, Pensacola, 2 inhabitants, and Key West, with 19,945 inhabitants, are been recalling some of his Baltimore | the other cities in the State having experiences, The Tallahassee Democrat is ju- Lilant over the result of the wet and 1% having less than 2,500 inhubi- dry election in old Leon, 1t made & gallant fight against the saloon, and it is justified in feeling good over the victory to which it contributed. So far Lakeland city Laven't considered it necess for a bounty on rats, but it i< a time- hring that It seems to us they in this locality, 'y 10 of ly season for the citizens 1o whout the located, are singularly scarce demise of every rat can he but we can 2et along without any of the pe which, like the fly, are both undesirable ad unnecessary The first thing a stranger notes on coming to Lakeland is the ibilities of the place, the great ad vantages Lakeland , and then they decry the at pos- R Island here, They sep great throngs of people here to onjoy the many attra we have —if “only the taken better care of, if you had pleas ure boats on them and a pavillion on each corner; it there was a big tour- ist hote] he We respect- fully remind our rriends that we are yet only a little over a quarter of a century old, and that they will put their shoulder to the wheel and help, we would ask them te hike back where they came from and come and second Coney tions ete, ete” unless back in five we'll show them a city of 15,000 peo ple, all streets paved with brick, fine sewerage system, electric car lines in operation, ist hotels and a several fine tour- getup and git” can’t be surpassed by any other town in Florida THE GRAFTING GOVERNOR. ing or thert is a fool busines Weak men become calti fnvolved in dithi temprations o steal com they take th Vi W 1 way « a that | anthorities | apparent negligence on the | e art of her citizens for not having|$17.84. In lakes were |, | | | over 10,000 inhabitants, also 6 cities having from 10,000, 10 tfrom 2,700 to There are 2,000 to 5,000, and tants, Florida ranks twenty-tifth in land arei and thirty-third in population among the tes and territor continental United tSates, Prac Iy all of the State lies below an alti tide of 250 feet, this clevation being attained only in the extreme north- Western portion, and more than two- thirvds of the State an altitude Crless than 100 feet above tide level, Between 19060 and 1910 the lies at popu- the State increased 42,1 per number of buring the increase of total farm cent in the g Lation of cont and the farms me per per cent, there was an cent in the of 1wl per in proved land, reage of For the State as a whole the aver value of farm land per acre is 20 counties in the north- «rn part of the State the average is ‘oming [ Jess than $10, while it is between $1¢ and $25 in 12 countics, % of which ¢ in the central and northeastern parts of the tSate, and 3 in the north- western part. In the counties in the castern and southern parts of the peninsula the average values per acre for the relatively small amount of Tand actually in farms are compara tively high. Thus in 5 countics in the northern part of the peninsula and in 1, De Soto, in the southern part, the average values are from §. to $50 per acres: in the 4 south- ernmost conntics and in - Hillshoro d Or from $30 to in 2 countics, Manatee and cvard, from $75 to $1o0; St Lnci $io0 counties while in county the average is ovey H. S. CHUBB DON'T TAKE THIRD PARTY SERIOUSLY. | Chiampions of tl Hent seem very nine over 1 pects, howevs at of United r Crane, of Massachuse i sthivd party move | | \ NOTHING IN THAT [ H“Bu"lc Pufi = that attention was first calle EAHE 1o the case in Havana by the unusual (Continued from Page 1.) <, all of which was faked. Onee i delirium it seems Mendez expressed queer get-up o these you ladies and yelled, ‘Tak. nie out of this asylum! 1 don't want to stay here with these crazy people, And again, noting the strong odor of the disinfectants around him (the flcer is wet with them) he cried out: ‘They are embalming me alive! Oh, tuke me out of here!’ His Diet. “According to the Prensa the sick n:an’s diet is laudanum, milk, cogna« soup, fruit juice and ive cream, “On Wednesday Dr. Guiteras pro- rounced him out of danger. “That he is going to get well has confounded those skeptics who have persisted that the man had glanders; for one doesn’t recover from the glan- ders. annoyunce at the No Second Case. “It was reported on Thursday that a second case of plague had appeared in the infected zone. This was noi Uticially confirmed. The Quarantine. “No sooner was the single case of piague Havana has had, admitted, than the scary among her citizens sot out of Havana as fast as they could. Some of them couldn't for the passenger stenmers could carry culy their full complement. Many Americans hurricd up their vacaticns, nrot entirely out of fear of catching the disease, as to avoid the annoy- arce of quarantine. “Up to Thursday night this had not been declared Passengers for Florida residing, or with offices, with it the infected zone, have to spend soven days in Cuba’s quarantine sta- tion, Trisconnia, or Florida won't lot “em Jand; in conzequence, nobods is leaving here for Florid iips are being fumigated. This | worked much havdship on the era liner Julia, which aets it go ing and coming, for she plies hetweon ’ T Juan, that the any have suspended lep s i and San com ‘ e Will Name Assistants. “hreo Van Ezdort will name thee tants - Cubans speak En t L.'I\II to help im in inspecting ana r who | fumigating vessels leaving heve for the United States, [ Alarm in Provinces. ‘A few patients in provincial hos- pitals who complaiued of that tired feeling given as the first symptoms ot plague, got a lot of attention from lacal medicos; but none were proven to have the woful malady. Dr, Guit- eras informed Washington that no cases existed in Santiago, forinstance, where alarm had been most serious Journalistic Zeal. “La Discusion published the other day what purported to be a photo- graph of the plague patient, Mender Cuerra. The sanitary authorities de- nied that any photograph of the man heid been taken: La Prensa s=aid it Was a picture of a man in another hospital who had been run over by o 1. The Lucha lay that @ reporter of its <aff Lad been thrown out of the patient's bodily by Dy ERTHIY Thurs remarked on room Guiteras r Caidteras looks capable of extonding that attention to any reporter with Lerve to penetrate so far From Biblica] Times “The bubonic pl W (pestis b med the Bible where San hendcad s mentiong Buys and Sells Real Estate. Oran; e Grove Proper el .~ at 106 Massachusetts' ftoat the | ment, The respondent, W. Fiske Johuson REAL ESTATE CHINESF LAUNDRY ; Will open next Monday'! Avenue, near corner of Rose street. ~|SAM WING, Proprietor nd many of them dylug in the open, | ton precede epidemics——and it is first called pumber of rodents which crawled out i their holes waggled their legs sadly and died all avound the vicinity Mendez was employed. It is ague is propagat- ¢l by mild cases among rats, and is tri ‘mi!(u[ by vermin which crawl Gver the open =ores the disease leaves on these creatures and then over hu- mans into whose blood the bacillus is transmitted through abrasions no tter how microscopic, where Lelieved that the m ‘General symptoms are high fever, to Dr. Calvert, the author- tion often reaching a ¢ within forty-eight according iy, prostr tvphoid severe vomiting, often bloody hours; Peadaches and intense pain about the nervous symptoms such as sleeplessness, delirium, epileptiform seizures, and coma fol- lewed by death within two to four c¢uvs. The prostration is out of all proportion to the degree of fever and coration of the disease; there is a riost peculiar facial expression, with s bright and 1 distant obje ave inj buboes; restlessness, o1 other vermin accidentally encoun- tered may have deposited upon a per- son’s skin, and thorough cleansing of clothing and habitations tcurage their propagation. Havana Perfumed. since last Friday Havana kos smelt to heaven of chloro-nap- tholenm--a will dis- “Ever pungent clean smell, hty grateful to captious nostrils Iu the street cars neat printed signs liung up in front have announced cars have been cleaned with chloro-naptholenm jn With orde accordance sanitary depart- Lindner & Hart- men, have done a land-office husiness down on s of the agents, Cuba street, orders for supplyine wholesaly this disinfoct 1 panto It is endorsed by the Lealth marine hospital ser Urited States in that Drs, public ice of the tablespoonfuls to the pail. It is the same stuff the farmer finds kills mange on his dog, keeps the chick- ens healthy when used in their coop; deodorizes sinks and drains; helps cure wounds on his hands; and, as the principal ingregient in a certain dip, Kills ticks on his stock and pre- vents fatal fevers, Its smell is whole some - not at all offensive; it is the mode in Havana just soup forgotten, season is: perfume How ala Pears the salu- Good morn- chloro-naptho tation of t i have vou used Teum? Few American Negroes in London. “There in London, a few American negroes | s a New York Sun cor- | “but most of the race in and are young men from the Brit. | ies who studying law or me 41 cine or taki Johu I Anderson and Thomas B, Mt lintis, a little while ago, determined its phen- ol coeflicient to be between five and [ iX times that of pure car bolic acid crystals, the highest eflic iency found in any practicable commercial disin- fectant, It s manufactured by the West Disinfecting Co. in Long Island City, It is being used in Havana to- day for the cleansing of floors, es- pecially, mixed with the scrubbing water, in about the proportion of two | aring as if looking ; the conjunctives ted and nostrils dilated; the tice expr 5 pain, fear and anxiety, t e respiration is hurried and la- bored, the body is fixed. The picture when once seen cannot be forgotten, Cleanliness the Prevention. “Cleanliness is the effective pre- 1 ventive. Frequent bathing will re- || move whatever plague microbes fleas We Won’t Sacrifice Quah“, but we are always studying hoy 1, Increase The Quantiry We give the “most now but we are anx: more. Phone us and prove i1, ‘Best Butter, per pound . Sugar, 16 pounds . . Cottolene, 10 pound pull Cottolene, 4-pound pail Snowdrift, 10-pounl pails 4 cans family size Cream 7 cans baby size Cream. . 1-2 barrel best Flour. .. 12 pounds best Flour....... .. Picnic Hams, per pound ..... Cudahy's Uncanvassed Hams. . i Octagoi: Soap, B for..................0uuus Ground Coffee, per pound. .. ... 5 gallons Kerosene E. G. Tweedell Job Printing WING to the newspaper and publishing i1 enlargement o it has been necessary to move The News Job Office up-stairs where it will be found 11 and 12, Kentucky Building, i petent charge of Mr, G. J. W anything that can be printed, i the best work at the right pricc Mr. Williams, The News Job Offic Roomis 11 and 12 (upstairs) Ken Loars Negotiated ty a Specialty L0 7. RAYMONDO BUILDING S X NS AL T Boes SRAS 7 e, P R Stafolife, per Sack. Hay. best. per 100 Ibs Chicken Feed. per Sack Oats, per Sack Shorts, per Sack L. B. WEEKS Staple and Fancy Groceri: . il Grain and Feedst: PHONE i19 Couwd VITH W00D'S MEAT Boy Coutn alter