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T *HE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK The Evening Imcurdzfi Publi:hed every aflternoon from the Ket tucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. wntered in the postoffice at Lake- fand. Fiorida, as mail matter of the POCOL ] Clase. —— A, F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. HENRY BACON, MANAGER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: @ix months ........ R X 1) ®hrec moNths .......... ve. 188 Delivered anywbere withia the ftmits of the City of Lakeland for 10 oents & Wask. From tije same ofies 18 lasued .THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of ‘local matters, crop conditions, sounty affairs, ote. Remt anywhere for $1.00 per yea:r Half a navy yard is better than | no navy yard and Pensacola Is to be | congratulated upon the proposed re-l habitilation of her abandoned yard by Secretary Daniel who intends to transfer the advance base outfit (whatever that is) from Philadel- phia to Pensacola. A large number | of marines will also use the Pensa- cola navy yard for training purposes. —0 | The Kustis Lake Region says that Henry Watterson is in his dotage. That recent speech of his at Put-in- ! Bay didn't read much like the effort of a dotard. It had the note of phil- osophic pcssimism almost insepara- ble from intellectual old age, but there was no senility in it. A man may fail to see the expediency of woman suffrage and yet retain a elear and vigorous mind. Jeceo Buriz, the okl reliable cen- sus taker, of Gainesville, has com- piled another directory for that city which shows a population of 10,180. A directory census is of course only approximately accurate, but Gaines- vitie is undoubtedly growing and is headed for the Lakeland class as one of the beauntiful ghow towns of l-‘l()r-; fda. We shall welcome her arrival ard rive her the glad hand when she comes up alongside the interior metropolis of South Florida. | Seeretary MeAdoo seems to he a "bigzer man with President Wilson than Seccretary Bryan if we may judge by the appointment of Cooper Grizes, McAdoo's choice, over Col- ! onel Calhoun, who was Bryan's choice, to the fine $6,000 job of col- | lector of customs for Florida. But. Mr. Bryan is firmly committed to a! program of universal peace and we _:lon't believe that he will start a<ductiveness of the State by it that wough house in the administration ! ~family because he was turneq down in {hie matter. McAdoo as secre- tary of the treasury properly had priority of cholce in this appoint- [ 00 adies ment, anyway. { R ’ e Governor Mann., of romptly and pro’ - Virkinia, o «verly YePudiates the ;t:r;"sent out from Gettysburg that | -4 Started a movement for a, ogrand reunion of the armies of the North and South in Richmond on the fiftieth anniversary of the evacuation " of that city. The burning of the eapital of the Confederacy while a ' hostile army was marching in tri-l . ciency of cultivation is the Pensacola Journal than he would SOL0Q Quone e Le as governor of Florida.—Ocala i S ‘ JULY 8 IN EISTORY. Sure, he ig, and the advice is goed, hut Mrank would make a bally gov- ernor all t e, 2nd some of us! mwust sacrifice ourselves when our | country calls. ——0 i ' OODDDD 1709—Russia feated Pultowa. f 1838—Treaty of peace betwecn Rus- sia and Turkey. | 1864—President Lincoln issued de- cree naming first Thursday The llonorabie Riley Dorman of Live Oak probably now realizes how sweet are the uses of adversity and how surfe are the compensations of providence to the deserving Dem- ocrat who stands in with the right congressman in these glad days of 5 Democratic postmasters. It was a 1898—Concord and Raleigh, of Dew- sad gray world for Riley when he ey's fleet. took possession of got the returns from the State pri- many last summer and realized that he was not to be commissioner of agricculture, but it's a good, gay old world now, full of sweetness and light, for Frapk Clark put one over on Claude L’Engle in Washington and Riley is to be the postmaster at Live Oak. preservation of Union. | 1896—Sir Charles Tupper resigned 1912—The Camorist trial at Viterbo, Italy, ended with the convic- tion of twenty-six men, with imprisonment from five to thirty years. HON0R0H0 CROTHOC CHORCHOHOOROHCBORORCHC: KH0RG —_— o ’ - The South has so long had a prac- | TODAY’S BIRTHDAY HONORS. | tical monopoly of cotton production | -} to supply the world's needs that LHORCE CROLROROCRIORHOH0 CROANRD CROKOO careless methods in culture, baling and marketing have become habitual. But, while our farmers have been publican, of New London; born in} living in fancied security, England, | oo London, Conn,, July 8, 1864; | our heaviest customer, has been do- |, ..y ated from Yale in 1885; admit. | ing things over in Egypt and now | .4, the bar in 1888; elected a rep- ! Wwe are about to wake up to the fact | yoqop4ative to the general assembly Frank Bosworth Brandegree, Re- | that our boasted monopoly is near in 1888; for ten years corporation ' ? its end. Senator Fletcher, of this| ., nc01 of the city of New London; | of the American | | S { a delegate to the Republican national commission now traveling in Europe ! ./ ooheions e 1888, 1892, 1900, and and Egypt to investigate agricul-| g04. gnoaker of the Connecticut' tural conditions, I.ms. just received a House of Representatives in 1899; copy of the commission's report, and ' 100009 g representative to the sec- the dispatch .tollim-*. of it conveys this 4 cession of the fifty-seventh con- surprising mfornmtiotl : given by ' gress in 1902; re-elected to the fifty- Messrs. Ousley and Williams, mem- | ,iop4p and fifty-ninth congresses; bers of the commission: | elected United States senator May 9, “Messrs. Ousley and Willlams l"'; 1905, and re-elected Jan. 20, 1809. vestigated every phase of the E?)’!"‘ His term of service will expire on tian - cotton business at Alexandria March 3, 1915, and elsewhere throughout the Nile | it b L e S classify their lands and set them- methods of selling and transporta- i I ‘ i tion, especially baling, are suverior selves to the use of the resources to American mothods, though effi-|We have f'"d could now obtain about. the cheaply before it is too late and they same. Ousley and Williams say that 86t 0o poor to do 805 ) Eeyptian cotton will soon be a for-| The farmers of Germany and of midable competitor of southern cot- °ther old countries are not consum- ing all the phosphates they are get- ton in Knelish markets in a short 3 b 4 time, and it behooves Texas and oth- “""‘_" from us tefore they put it on their lands. They are putting it er southern planters to improve their | methods of cultivation, distribution there to have some in reserve for the future, which we ought to do, A LIRHORO oD if we only knew what lands were PERITANENT $0IL FERTILITY. H!«'!‘vivnl .()r only r:'ndm';.tvly sup- e plied. Hence, I repeat, onr Le i lature ought to act to prevent onp b od S nadyeds 0F mogt valuable resources from bom ' by Dr. A, A, shipped out and part of our soils Peason (the last extant) and h‘umi‘,‘l worthless for the want of it. aid in my previovs ar- Knowledge of what we have is th It should be apparent to the dull- est from tl k] what | have g ticles that our State Legislature pest preventative, W ousht to keep up with the ize and (To Be Continued.) make provisions for a mo:y com- | plete work in this line. I About fifteen ycars ago the Leglx-; ROOSEVELT T0 REDUCE FAT lature of Illinoig appropriated $1v,. v ! 000 for an analysis of some of the ! Strenuous Colonel Will Ride Horse sofls of the State. | back and Hunt Last Indians in The fund was spent judiclously Arizona, —Ze and so much was added to the pro- New Yor' il Lao-Thse and ag %ofce chalr 0 aqt0o thuich bugar on bis cereal have the Legislature has sinco pronued[% nd the tiick for (%logel Rooseveit. for a sof} survey and on .““’;sls of | He's getting fAl~4ugajn. There's only every forty acre tracl 42 1\ o giate. | One toursé Lossibie to the vigorous The expenditum, o "iyo frst $10,- | COlonel When this bulbous condition mn.llona of buatiala: o of ’hb (.umator develops. He at once graip * 3 Sines th”,dflermh\es to get out where he can : to each year’s crops ride & horse and holler and work that time. It Is nmot expected that far-) g, erfujty down to a hollow. So that ther expenditure will add to the | this summer, according to the gossip crops in the same proportion, but it | that has fizzed up from Oyster Bay, he is expected to add to the intelligent | will go out to Arizona and hunt for treatment of the soil by a much | & lost tribe of Indians. Incidentally, larger number of its farmers than he will rediscover the last hole in has been done in the past. h': Delt. 5 Germany in the past twenty-five Lost Indians in Arizona?" sald Doc- tor Goddard of the department of an- Yo ‘“‘? doubled her‘crope by pur- thropology of the Museum of Natural suing this course. ! History. “Not precisely. But it is About twenty-five years ago there | trye that there are some out there Sweden at in August as day of prayer tor | premiership of Canada. | Isle of Grance. i | part of Arizona. i twenty-five years old who have never ELAND, FLA., JULY &, 1913, Tof o Them a7l the Navajoes. A od many of them earn an honest liv- : ohoriginally modified benefit of summer keep sheep and | e touches sched- | peddle Massachu- hit eclors o per: nd others live far from the meddening v man, just about usz their ancestors (id atout the time that | Cortez discovered the toehold as a | ng rich quickly. said Doctor God- | They are | ing by givin | 1 how tourists. Others [ 1ule K. | scns from Iosten cut in the mo nieuns of g | “The wildest lot.’ !dard, “are the Navajces. Theodore Roosevelt. perfectly peaceful, but we have had no repert on the tribes in the western There are men scen a white man. No doubt a visit | to them would be entertaining and in- stiuctive.” { It will be if the cclonel is the vis- | itor. New Efiects in Waists. Plain and fancy crepe waoists have the body of the waist and the sleeves | made of the plain material, while the trimmings are of the faney | weave. Another cowbination is white . crepe and colored voile, the voile sup- plying the trimming effects of the ! waist, Organdies and marquisettes in new open patterns are used with plain voile. An excliai an ciitor out in Kansas has ne « the merchants of the town that he will soon be in bids on these items, as that is t! need of a pair of shoes a new t and a sack of flour and will call for | custom of the merchants when they want four dollars worh of The Naticnal Steel Reinfore Cement Vault, : \Best in the World As a Buria Receptzg.j Nothing Heretofore Manufactured Can Compete lix umph through its streets and the was a German firm gathering the | that have never been found.” eltizens were bowed in sorrow and buffalo bones off of our western despair is hardly an event to arouse | Dlaitis’ of Kansas and Nebraska. enthusinsm among Confederate vet- | grinding them and shipping them to | erans and the people of Richmond ; Germany. Ope of the foremen of the | ¢o the extent needed to make such a work at that time told a friend of : celebration a success. ! mine that if the people realized what 0 he was doing for their lands they The menacing shadow of prohibi- would hang him! | tion hangs over Tampa as a result | Some of the farmers of that sec- of the dry victory in Pinelias. Elated tion now begin to realize what he by their triumph in that county the ' was doing, since their lands are pros are now threatening to carry ! growing deficient in phesphorus con- the war into Hillsboroucsh. The St. | tent and is the limiting element of Petersburg ladependent sends this their crops, while the German lands It appears that there are Indians seattered anl over arizona—the wati Fhe NATIONAL W ATER-PROOF CEMENT VA,::. pais and the Hopis and the Pinas and ' the Papagoes and the Apaches, and ¢ . % % - e ::t is all éhe nal;ne implies: 'ha | irst: i i i Ctccrem | i teel Reinforced rhroughout with expanded Shecsy His Majesty, “The Ameri-| Makes it strong and ghoul-proof. s can Gentleman”. Monito ?csor.d:h It is water=preofed by a Specal Process, ard (He is scaled to the body of vault, after the casket is placed thereir o VISIBLE SEAL that shows the sealing is atsolutely perfcct - chillint messare to Tampa via the Times of that city: “But the Times should sit up and take notice that the result over here has given encouragement ‘o the “dry"* forces and that they are al- ready planning a campaign in Hill borough. We imagine that (".¢ ¢ paizn over there will be ev>n more gtrenuous than the one wa.:1 ‘n Pinellas. Wouldn't ampa seem queer without any barrooms!" 0 Frank Mayes is being boome? =s a prospective candidate for governor. Shucks! He's just an editor.—Lake- land Telegram. That's one reason we want him for governor. It's about time the edi- {orial fraternity was represented in Jgome of the larrer offices of this Btate.—Tampa Tribune. Mr. Mayes had better stay where he is. He is better off, happler and more useful as editor of a paper like are growing richer in this element by the use of what should have been returned to our own. | It wil be the same some day with the soils of Florida, if we do not wake up to the situation. | From the analysis made and pub-' "lished by Dr. Peason it is not pos- gitle for any one to classify their coils g0 as to make an approximate guess as to what they havse Thore {is such a diversity as T have pre- | viously pointed out. No one knows whother he has a sufficient amount of phosphorus or lime or not. The indivilual expense would be enormous if each owner had it done that it prevents, whereas if it was undertaken and done in a manner ! to classify the different kinds of lands that is apparent and ma.le vse of by real estate men to describe their lands, such as oak hammock, high pine, flat woods, ete., the farm- ers of Florida could approximately Silk Hose For Men 50c. | s 3 Pair | Williamson Moore Co. “Fashion Shop For Men” Drane Bulldln}; ~ The old method of burials in a W is 4 superseded by the more B o r ‘Sanitary, Everlasting, Vermin-Proof, Gt Proof, Waterproof, Natural Vault \ This will last in perfect condition for ages and keep_in 1® 3 condition the remains of the dear departed. j The price is within the reach of everyone. All undertakers can supply it at the Factory Price. THE UNIVERSAL USE f TUE ICE BOX Has done more to prevent summer jjjp, than all drugs or systems of dieting eye; . vented. The highest med:cal authority says 0, | Woods Hutchison. Hot weather is p meetits discomfor ts. put them to royt liberal use of. OUR ICE. -\ 1 Withyour refrigerator working morningyg and you need fear no;gwl from hot weyy If you will use our Coupon Books als, ; will get even better results from the Moy you spend for ice. “Drivers se | them, 1 Lakeland Ice Compan' Phone 26 E : it ‘4 il | f?z Every Body E'se Is Doing It- i { SO WHY NOT YOU? ¥ g% Smoke ? |“TOWN BOOST': ; That Good ;:fi'll' | Ec Cigar b ar W F ~~MADE BY— E LAKELAND ARTIFICIAL STONE WOR H. B. ZIMMERMAN, Proprictsr-