Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 1, 1913, Page 4

RS S~ i B A [he Evening Ielcutdm i Eaw 22 THE EVENING mmm. LAKELAND, m. APRIL 1, 1913, PRESIDENT WOOPR5YW WILSON'S CABINET In the presence of a disaster o(' such vast proportions, whose very nature and extent made it practical- Published every afterncon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postofiice at Lake- iand, Flcrida, as mail matter of the aucond class. K. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. HENRY BACON, Manager. I duced to hundreds. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year ceees.$6.00 8ix months .. seeee 880 | Three months .......... 1.36 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakelaad for 10 cents a week. From the same office is lssued THE LAKELAND NEWS 4 weekly newspaper giving a re- sume of local matters, crop condi, tions, county ufiairs, etc. Sent any- where for $1.00 per year. | WHY A UNANIXOUS JURY VERDICT} For some years past there has been a steadily increasing tide of public sentiment all over the country in be- half of a reform in our jury system ' which would make it unnecessary that the entire twelve members of a ' Jury should concur There are varying degrees of intelli- gence on every jury, and it very fre- quently happens justice is entire- ly defeated or injuriously postponed because one ignorant and abstinate . Juror, impervious to plain facts and clear reasoning, sets his opinion against that of the other eleven and makes a verdict impossible. This ought not to be, and mere reverence for an ancient system, which has chielly a sentimental value, should not e permitted to obstruct the course of justice, Governor Trammell recommends that when ten men out of a jury of twelve,or five men out of a jury of six, coneur in a verdict, it should be a lezal verdict, And why not? The judgment of the ten upon a given in a verdiet.| 1v impossible to even approximate accuracy in the estimate of loss of life, the Associated Press has, as usual, done magnificent service in keeping the public informed o fthe details of the Ohio floods. But as the waters have receded we are all pro- foundly rejoiced to know that the deaths were not nearly so numerous as reported, and estimates which ran up into the thousands must be re- The aggrezate loss in both lives and property makes the disaster one of unexampled mag- nitude in that section but nothing to compare with what was feared a few days ago, —— Down in Hillsborough coHunty some of them want to divide the State, but !nll entirely new lines from those ad- | vocated by the divisionists of the Ilenderson schocl. They want a division which will make North Flerida and South Florida, with the line running throagh Ala- chua and adjoining counties. A res- olution to that effect was introduced at a recent meeting of the county Democratic committee, but it was voted down. The sentiment to divide the State is growing feebler, if we may judge by the press attitude on the subject, and about all the next Legislature will do to it will be to " choke it to death if it takes the form of a resolution calling for a con- lntltutlonal amendment to divide. g U e vt “Man goeth to his long home an: the mourners go about the streets.” But a few hours since and all the world of money waited upon the nod and cowered before the glare of its great king, J. Pierpont Morgan; to- day he lies a lump of insensate clay, with certain conventional ceremonij- Leland J. W als awaiting his sepulture, but all nis | power gone and none so poor as tn! da him reverence. Vanity of vani- tics, all is vanity, saith the Preacher, ! B, the dreary philcsophy of material- | Pierpont | Morgan has vanished as utterly and | ism the personality of J. forever as thoush it had never been; by the cheering faith of religion it' has just begun to live, v.ILD TURKEY AND QUAIL. I The Florida wiid turkey, some vaiian and to the tanier of the Southern States semi-wild It is sitid to be much superior to the tan- | protein. taro, composition, but are drier and con- "e tain from 35 to 75 per cent more The flavor of the cooked |Standing of testantsin pig, Contest iss Nellie Fidier Mrs. W. R. Graham Mrs. W. T, Mcliwaip 8 U. M Mi i | iss Kittie Funk . Mrs. J. A. Wood Will Williams 9 Miss Lillie May Melntire 'Hlu Margaret Marshay C H. Tedd 'vixie'and Methodist chure . T 8. Clifforq ' IJ. 8. C. Cifford . .. . Mies Nettle Brooks Leslie McCraney . .. ‘)lr-. J. W. Cord ..., Luela Knight . .. Thelma Mann R. Black D Asher Mrs. E. L. Cowdery . P. F. Lindsley ‘I‘encing Now On Hand We can supply your | American wire fencing ;s |12sts. You had better sy {1t will be gone, You {American wire is heay wrapped fence and no . - | America can heat the q 4N Yard Fencirs | We carry a larze | ucing, The fence nia below. We keep what smaller than those of the An elaborate measure to provide | Northern States, are, nevertheless, ne, toothsome birds assiduously set of facts is certainly nearer right| RS ST by every rule of reason than lhei judgment of the two, and no mere for compulsory education in Florida ier in quality and is as easily cooked | tubers is sald to be slightly sug- as the potato. It is one of the great | gestive of boiled chestnuts, Florida staple food plants of the tropics. Its|is destined to be the great winter theory on the subject, which s so will be introduced by a2 West Flor- often disastrous to justice, should be'ida member in the next Legislature, allowed to prevail against the com-'1f it has a local option feature, loav- mon sense of the rule recommended ing it to the electors of the various by Governor Trammell, | connties to say if school attendance The lawyer who has a bad case and shall be compulsory, it will probably wants a hung jury will naturally up-f pass, but without that feature it pose this innocation, but most other would be a waste of time to consider people will strongly endorse it. such a bill. ——o——-—. -0 Arcadia gets In the spotlight as u the first community in Florida to in- FLORIDA'S STRATEGIC LOCATION. voke the primary system to select al postmaster. On the Z2nd of April a; Flovida is in the front yard of the primary to that end will be held, and United States. [t has the longest salt the sccond one, if necessary, will be water coast of any of the States. It held May 6. Each candidate is as-|is neavest the West Indies, South sessed §10 for the expense of the America and Panama_ Ships can sa primary and it is provided that no i ports to.all coutinents and one can hecome s of the carth, he is a D¢ Florida is a peninstla which juts in the el 1o t cnin the shape of & postolli o » finzer, as if to beckon all the adhe and geu a candidate unle \3} iali ‘ulln‘li h the|down ('Il‘l'“‘l' r m district in w ated and declares his b ce to the princinfes and or-{world to its balny shores ion of the Demoeratie party, | tc skies, 1t is tealy the winter play- national, State, county and city, Al und of Anu , lor, white resistered voters residing in' Northern covered with the clection district in - which the svow and people up there are burn- pestcflice is lecated, who are patrors ins un their summer savings to keep of the oflice, are eligible to vote in|the fives going, the people of Flor- the primaries. We don't know when ide are in the heyday of out-door lite the term of the present postmaster | and cating ripe strawberries and at Arcadia expires, but it is practi- fies arden veeetables. cally sure that his official exit will | Trips for rest and recreation are not be hastened by the holding of , now no loneger considered as Iuxu- this primary. Its chief and nnlyf J 800g Will be the decisive hint it will| ' classes convey to Congressman Sparkman as | stand a good deal, but when badly while th State are but have beeome necessities to The human being can | the tropics, related to the ornamenta courted by Northern sportsmen and native Floridians alike. They fre- ‘hm«l(-rs of swamps, iug the day, lodging in the tall tim- i ber at night. Although wild turkeys strut and gobble like their tame cousins in the barnyard, they are an ~tremely shy bird and have good 'rmmus for being. Perhaps the most popular game bird in all Florida is the quail, found jin great abundance throughout the | southern portion of the State, where 'lln-ir clear whistle, ‘‘bob-white,’ "‘l-oh-lmb-whilo,” resounds through | the pine woeds and over the prairies a. all scasons of the year. One can gearcely through the wood- lands of the central and southoern scetions of the State withont cuntering larze coveys of ‘ sndsome birds hiding midst the un- | derbrush, feeding upon insects geeds Often they will rur | : drive on- | ras i the road for a considerable di e, ;n!mnsr under the horses' feet, before taking flizht DASHEEN VS. POTATO. The United States department of agriculture announces that - it has suecessfully cultivated, at the Brooksville (Fla.) introductory gar- Iden, the dasheen, a vegetable from caladium or elephant ear, the Ia- to the wishes of the people of Ar-|treated the abused nature demands eadia cn the subject of the postoffice | its dues. and when suffering it looks succession when the vacancy occurs. | for a haven for rehabilitation. The It will not necessarily settle the|haven for winter rebuilding of the matter, but it will be powerfully per- | jeded American who does nct wish t suasive. leave his own country is Flori+ ——————— Fortunate indeed is America to/ President Wilson made a thorouth- oughly good selection when he chose Walter Paze as American Ambassa- dor to England, Mr. Page is a South- erner of the highest type, a native of North Carolina, who went North after the war with no assets but his brains and character and in due sea- son achieved the prodigious success of being made editor of that sacred ' | possess within its boundaries a re- | gion where one can in a day's jour ney be able to turn winter into sum- mer. THE APPLE. It is very commonly asserted thul' MRS, LARAMORE TELLS TROUBLES| Lady in Goodwater Describes ey Distressing Experience and Tells How' She Was Finally Relieved, Goodwater, Mo.—*Ever since 1 was | 8 little girl,” says Mrs, Riley Laramore, | %I was a grea: sufferer from dyspepsia, | 1 suffercd misery after eating, and had | vessel of New England culture, the | apples will not grow in Florida. The ! terrible heartburn, Atlantic Monthly Magazine; and it was never a better masgazine than | when he was its editor. But he was! too biz for Pecton in the breadth of ! his nationalism which insisted on in-| cluding the South as a part of the | naticn, and he was called to the broader ficld of New York and the! editorship of the World's Work, | which he has made one of the great ! periodicals of the world. Mr. Pace! has 21l the qualities to worthily ren- | resent this nation at the English | court—a gentleman without snob- | same thing was once said by farmers in owa and Minnesota, but now both | States are noted for apples. Enter- prising men succeeded in adapting | right varietics, Enterprising men are doing the same thing in Florida. There are now ten or more kind: that do well, including the Red As- trachan, Jeffries, Red June, Rome Beauty, and Ben Davis. E. P. Pow- ell, the well known New York hor- ticulturist and author, who has a home in Oransce county, says there is no doubt bery, a scholar without pedantry, A future profitable fruit in Florida, patriot without cant and an Ameri- The Transcendent Crab is very pro- can without brag, swagger, or dol-| ductive, and trees begin bearing in lar marks on his vest. the second year. 1 thought 1 had to suffer this a" long as | lived, but when | bezan‘t':’uko Thedford's Black-Draught, in smal) s l:vuyleni;ht. the heartburn was all e in a few days, and | could 'ilflum distress, - took two small packages in al, and lthough that was some time ag0, the ‘ylspepsia has not returned, ' speak a good word for Thedford's Black-Draught whenever | have the op- | portunity.” | I eating causes distress, we urpe you | Ib try Thedford’s Black-Drauzhit, It about making apples a [dunsz t:;:,yslm' helps the stomach to digest regulates the bo and stimulates the liver, iy It acts gently and is without bad aftee eliects. 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