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WAL SING FOR YOUI the other world-famous sing- ave a VICTROLA., iclusive agents for the Victor ing Machines, $15.00 and up. y Payments. &3, "0 AND BOOK :STORE , Benford & Steitz [ 4 L E & HULL g agents for the celebrated f & Co’s line of Wedding In- ), Letter {Heads, Business ing Cards, We invite you Ad see our samples. LE & HULL Dptometrists Phone 173 oy /iy he Bank ) Laucland, Fa. gsure To Show Coods” t | pures you a welcome e J IND gocs o1t to the man who has MONEY IN foney in the bank enables you to carry out your others to joln you put in an enterprise. Try to fleal without some MONEY OF YOUR OWN; it with SOME MONEY that is ours; ADVISE YOU on business matters, an you time, | lanadry work is what you are loeking ter ané f§ wo are givine., Try nd Steam Laundry 138 Fire Insurance SE! ANN 7, Raymondo Blc_. | West Maiz h. & DE@\E NEW city is being built on the shores of Manila bay, where Admiral Dewey’s guns shattered centuries of calm on that memorable May day | in 1898. A city beautiful is steadily being shaped by the American exiles in that far away land with the same | fervor that animates the civic worker at home. They take no thought ol! the fact that what they are doing today will not even benefit their chil- dren when they have finished their tropical task and returned to live again among their own kind. Today Manila is the most modern city in| the far east. A generation hence it will be one of the most beautiful in the world, writes Frederic J. Haskin in the Chicago Daily News. When the Americans first went to Manila there were few evidences of that delightful Latin culture of which the story books delight to prate. Thou- sands washed their clothes in the streams and otherwise deflled the sources of public drinking water. Swamps dotted the city. Stink holes and cesspools in the densely populated districts of Tondo and San Nicholas offended the noses of the very angels on high. A vile moat, a turgll, putre- fying mass of slime from five to twen- ty feet deep and from twenty to one hundred yards wide, surrounded old Intramuros (walled city) and enjoyed the doubtful honor ot causing far more than its share of the thousands of deaths annually from plague, cholera, malaria and dysentery. Horse cars ambled wearily up and down the poor, old Escolta, the town's one main street. A telephone service at- tributed by legend to the great Don Quixote wheezed and groaned through the day's alleged work. An electric light system, which Thomas A. Edison would have sued for libel had he known the half of its shortcomings and outgoings, was permitted to floun- | der through a nightly attempt to keep the citizens from total darkness. | There were no docks, no sewers, no i sanitation, no pretty homes. The spirit of “manana” had the town drugged and the only active force was death dealing disease, Now All Is Changed. Now all is changed. Five steel | docks offer ample berth to the biggest | steamships that ply the Pacitic or | traverse the Suez canal. A reen- | forced steel and concrete million dol- lar hotel, five stories high, modern in every respect from the garage depot to the roof garden, takes care of the fastidious tourists who once shunned the place. The new Luneta lies along- side the famous old Luenta on the filled-in land which has replaced the waste water that used to wash against it and the Malecon drive. On this same filled-in land, one mile long ) and one-hall a mile wide, massive con- i erete warchouses, garages, the afore- mentioned new Manila hotel, the Elks’ club and the Army and Navy club greet the eye. The Bagumbayan bo- tanical gardens and other beauty spots feature broad, winding drives. | Modern telephones, electric light and street cars serve the city. The old moat fs a grass grown play- ground. A new water and sewer sys- tem capable of supplying a city twice it size serves the citizens. Plate glass windows in most of the shops make the old store fronts blush, Mod- ern office buildings here and there are elbowing the moldy old Span- sh buildings off the business streets, More than a thousand automobiles, motor trucks and motorcycles keep the people on the jump by day and a score of moving picture shows en- tertain them by night. Substantial bungalows and up-to-date churches testify to the presence of home lov- ing Americans. A death rate lower than many American cities tells the story of health's successful fight. A thriving trade, growing annually by leaps and bounds, hums where manana once sat and nodded. City Has Population of 30,000, Manila is now a city of 300,000 peo- ple which handled an export and im- port trade of over $100,000,000 last year. Its geographical location, backed tp by the new dock and warchouse rea, will make it the commercial distributing point of the United States in the far east, just as it is now our political base in that part of the world. Fifty hours across the China sea to the north is China and her 400,000,000 of people, who soon are going to demand shoes of modern w1 - 2 Ged VRS S B, - make, sewing machines, scales, clothes, farming {implements, more and more of Philippine sugar, con- struction supplic:, machinery for public works, factories, etc. To the south five days away lies the Fed- erated Malay states. At her back is India with 800,000,000 restless in- habitants. A bay thirty miles wide will cradle America's immense oriental mercan- tile marine some day. Where ten German, British, Japanese and other foreign ships enter her gates now a hundred will pass Corregidor in the future Manila has the only harbor of the name in the far east. Only Yokohama offers dock space and that is limited to the French mail line and a handful of other ships. At every other port, even mighty Hong- kong, passengers and freight are transported ashore in launches'and lighters. A purely Philippine trade of im- mense volume {s already beginning to pour through Manila, without the least retarding the growth of Cebu, Tloilo, Albay and Zamboanga. Tropl- eal products equal in volume to the total population of the Hawaiian is- lands, Cuba and Porto Rico will in the reader's litetime be shipped out of Manila to the United States and other countries. Last year the Uni- ted States took tropical products worth $660,000,000, so that Philippine goods are assured of a ready market and the result will be thc develop- ment of Manila into one of the world's great seaports, FINEST OF ALL WILD BULLS Gaur, Native of Indo-China, Acknowl- edged Chief of His Kind for Many Reasons. The gaur Is often wrongly termed “bison.” The name Is not correct; the I bison is the bos bonassus of Lithuania and the Caucasus. The gaur, found in Indo-China, is certainly the finest of all the wild bulls; he overawes all oppon- | ents by his courage, audacity and great ‘ strength. He is a huge beast, and sometlmes! measures six feet to the root of the ! tail. He is distinguished from all oth- er wild cattle by the prominent hump | between the two horns. The latter are | massive, flat at the base, ana ringed, | and they describe a very wide curve | from the root upward. The coat is of an olive brown tint, | nhading in black, with very short, f'ne hair, The gaur is found both in the for- est and on the mountains, for, in spite | of his great size, he is extremely ag- | fle, so that he can run up the moun- | taip slopes and climb the rocks with | ease Like the elephant, he feeds on grass and plants, and when he cannot get these he falls back on bamboo shoots and the buds and branches of trees. The gaurs feed until about nine oclock in the morning; then they return to the bamboo lorests and clear- ings to sleep. Later in the alternoon they come out to graze and drink. They are not timid, and several shots can be fired among a herd before they become alarined.—Duke of Montpelier, in Wide World Magazine. Mountains’ Death Toll. Now that the mountain climbing geason I8 approaching, a German pa- per announces the dcath list of 1912, when 95 persons lost their lives in Central Europe. The total in the last 12 years was 1,117. Of the 95 fatall- ties, 36 were in Germany, 26 around | Vienna, 29 in Tyrol and only four in Switzerland and France. Three of the latter were in one party that per- : fshed on Mt. Planc. Most of the ac-! cidents were due to gross inexperi- | ence and poor equipment of German amateurs who eccnomized on guidaes. | Most Likely, ! The ostrica dance is the name of | the latest cociety wriggle. Prob- ably so called because it makes lhe' dancers feel like hiding thelir faces. | —Baitimore Star. Speculator the Worse Off, The man who buys a pig in a poke at least gets some sort of a pig; where- as the speculator often gets nothiag. Make Allowances. Even {f you think you have ml to complain, make allowances. We have installed a large Double Glass Sanitary D:licatessen Re- frigerator. It frezzes butter and keeps vegetables cool and fresh. Absolutely FLY-PROOF. We invite inspestion by the ladies of our city. Cleanliness, high=grade goods and courteous treatment we assure you Pure Food Store W.P,Plllans & Co. PHONE 93 e s o e i A S UONION . GARAGE.. __ . P.D. LOGAN, Prop. , Al Mdiégflujfl!!lgbiles_a_lfl_s__e_l_f_ Starters v and_Lighting_Systems Correctly Repaired, Tires. Inner Tubes and Full Line of Supplies on Hand. Your Patronage Solicited, .. fione 65 W. Man St. Lakeland J. P. McCCORQUODALE The Florida Avenue Grocer ‘PHONE RED Respectfully asks his friends and the publ generally to}give him a call when needing Fresh Meats, Groceries, Vegetables, Etc. HE WILL TREAT YOU RIGHT AND WILL GUARANTEE SAT1SFACTION 290 290 ANOTHER DROP IN MAZDA LAMPS 25 watt Mazda 40 ol . 60 60 100 unskiried skirted 60c 3 80c¢ 150 . 5 $1.30 250 4 $2.00 We carry a stock of lamps at the following places and as 6ur shop: | NENLEY & HENLEY JACKSON & WILSON LAKE PHARMACY Cardwell ano Feigley Electrical and Sheet Metal Workers » PHONE 233 IF YOI ARE THINKING OF |BUILDING, SEE MARSHALL & SANDERS The Old Reliable Contractors Who have been building houses in Lakeland for years, and who never “"FELL DOWN?’ or failed to give satisfaction. All classes of buildings contracted for, The many fine residences built by this firm are evidgnces'of their ability to ¥ make good. MARSHALL & SANDERS Phone 228 Blue C. A MANN =~ PROPERTY OWNERS ATTENTION Cal'ed to & remedy ‘or leaky roofs. Vs are agents fGr the Carer Celebrated System zf roofs that do mot leak and that stay tight-— guaranteed ! years. We also repalrleaky roofs. It you are im the market for Erick, Lime or Cement, give us a call and save mosery. Estimates furnished for comcrete eozstruction of any kind. MANN PLUMBING & CONSTRUCTION CO.