Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 28, 1914, Page 4

PAGE FOUR e The Evening Tfelegram Published every afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- iand, Florida, as mail matter of the pecond class. k., F. HETHERINGTON, LEDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES., NG JOBL iiieseesnesie .$5.00 8lx moatn=s . ... . 2,60 Three monuos ......coeu o 126 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 eents a week, From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, 4 weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop conditions, eounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. —————————————— Alabama has summarily ended the long discussion over teaching Latin in the public schools and has decid- ed against such teaching. Not only will Latin not be taught, but all modern languages except English will be eliminated. This ought to give the grand old English grammar a better showing, and it certainly needs it, not only in Alabama but in al] surrounding States. —0 Not many people in this country know the details of the new currency law, for literature of that character is not popular reading and we trust our statesmen to take care of such matters for us. But we all want to know the probable effect of this new law and here it is in a few plain, highly azrecable words from Wil- liam J. Bryan: “The new currency law has ended the domination of Wall street; it is no longer possible for a few finan- ciers to coerce the business world, to intimidate public officials. The finan- cier is an important factor in his community and an element to be considered in governmental matters but each financier is just one man, and his influence must be measured by the wisdom of his advice and not by his wealth.” FURNIRERR SRR Miami seems to be the storm cen- ter for Florida reforms these days. First she changes the time and sets up all her clocks and watches one hour, and now her preachers, bless them for wise, good men who study the needs of the flesh as well as the spirit, announce that while the hot weather lasts male members of their congregations can shed their coats during the services and take it as cool as they can while they listen to the sermon. If this new rule isn’t justified by the sublime genius of common sense our deep and ex- haustive thinking on the subject goes for nothing. Lakeland leads in most worthy enterprises, but Miami has ‘‘put one over on us'’ in this matter, but it is not too late for us to come in as a close second. It is worthy of note that in one of the Miami churches the ladies voted unanimous- ly for the coatless, privilege for men attending the services. o o TOUGH ON FLORIDA CONVICT CAMPS A special editorial writer for the Monday edition of the Tampa Tri- bune, who signs his initials S. S. M., thinks so little of the Florida con- viet system that he says: “We would not be surprised to sometime hear of the assassination of a president or other offical at the hands of someone who was made a fiend in the convict camps of Flor- ida.” This is putting it strongly and is based upon an estimate of our con- vict camps which makes them verit- able infernos; but we have a State prison inspector wh tells us other- wise, and it is his business to know the facts in the case. The immense increase of our prison population in recent years'makes the proper treat- ment of the prisoners themselves a difficult and problem. There is doubtless more than enougn cruelty and hardship in the system, but the disposition of so many peopl¢ to magnify and they telling and abnormal and horrifying thing they have seen, makes it probable that these awful stories from prison camps are not entirely rate and conditions as they are painted. But the isolation of conviets, shut off from the world, subject to the ar- perplexing exaggerate when are us of the unusual our aceu- are not so bad bitrary will of guards and keepers, some of whom are doubtless lacking in humanity and consideration for , makKes it necessary that its State should be ceaseless in from neec the vigilance to save cruelty unhappy wretches doing | ance sins, it enough for the press to keep the sub- d e exaggera- tions get into its stories. for their and is well ject stirre ven though A Kansas man comes to the front in his local paper with the state- ment that the Florida orange is un- surpassed for high quality. This is! strictly correct and yet Kansas con-‘ fines herself to California oranges | because California puts it all over Florida in her advertising methods. -0 In the Texas primary election Tuesday prohibition got a decided backset. That was almost the sole issue in the contest to nominate a governor and other State officers, and Ferguson, the anti-prohibition | candidate, defeated Ball, bitter en- emy of the liquor traffic, by nearly 30,000 majority. The proposition to, submit a constitutional amendment | prohibiting the liquor traffic was also defeated. The time is appar- ently far away when there will be state-wide prohibition in Texas, but by the local option method most of the counties are already dry and vear | by year the liquor traffic is being confined within smaller area. i e N Ll General Villa is in bad with the | Tarpon Springs Leader, which sa}s' that he makes “no more bones of ! murdering a score of human beings than the average American would make of slapping a mosquito.” From our reading we have gathered a very different impression of the most brilliant and picturesque character the Mexican revolution has given us. He started in as an ignorant ex- bandit who knew only Mexican standards of humanity in war, but he has been growing away from ' them steadily and rapidly ever since ! and has shown wonderful capacity to absorb and adopt enlightened American ideas about war and many other things. The testimony of the correspondents close to him makes him anything but the mon- ster of cruelty painted by the Leader. | ¥, DS Miami has bravely and perhaps rashly led the way in substituting central for eastern time. thus shov- ing up her clocks about one hour, | but she may yet tire of the experi- ment and go back to the old way. No other community in Florida! shows any disposition to follow the Miami example and, worst of all for her, the railroads will continue to be operated on edstern time and this is sure to make confusion and in-| convenience for all concerned. a double standard of time in a com- munity would seem to be undesir- able just as would be a double stand. ard of money, a double standard of measurement or double standards of any kind that touch us nearly in our daily avocations. The sole ex- ception to this rule is the double standard of morals in the relation of the sexes, which civilization seems to accept as a necessary evil, but Liver Tone, a pleasant, vegetable liquid that starts the liver to act e e e heing waged PBEBETEIRERIPIIIIIBEFED DD PIPFPEPFPEPFFEIEPFPEFFFETHG ALL FREIGHT FROM NEW ORLEANG FUMIGATED STATE HEALTH OFFICER ISSUED GENERAL ORDER. Jacksonville, July 28—“The state board of health does not think it necessary at this time to quarantine against New Orleans, because of the existence of bu- bonic plague in that city, but it is watching every avenue caeful- ly and if the slightest doubt arises in mind of the board as to the least danger to Florida, then r ings | "of vessels, the bubonic rat might| a strict quarantine will be de- clared and enforced.” ’1‘!11'5 was the statement of Dr. I. Y. Porter, state health officer, | vesterday regarding the situation so far as it related to Florida. “Refumigation of all freight cargoes entering this state from New Orleans will begin at once,” said DY, Porter, “and this with the fact that all cargoes are now being fumigated before leaving the plague infested city, will practically eliminate_all pos- sibility of the plague getting in- to this state from that point.” Dr. Porter said further that the plague is not communicable from humans, that is the com- mon form of it, and that the pheumponic form is so rare in tropical and subtropical coun- tries that there is hardly a pos- sibility of its appearance in this state. Dr. Porter was in wire com- munication yesterday with the chair. Yederal and state health authori- ties in New Orleans, and all of| harmony them are working in with and cooperation with the municipal authorities, under the supervision of Surgeon General Blue, to control and eliminate THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JULY 28, 1914, the disease is fast being exterm- inated, “The Florida board of health,” he said, “is loathe, unnecessarily, to interfere with the transporta- tion of freight commodities, apd passenger traffic from that point and therefore has taken no steps to cut off either from Florida; ‘but with the first indication that lit is probable any communicable means has escaped without the confines of the quarantied area in Louisiana, then the Florida {Lealth authorities will shut the ¢loors of the state fast and hard against the great Mississippi port.” In addition to watching the gulf ports of Florida, through which, because of direct sailings enter, the state board of health has also to whatch Havanna, be-, cauge of direct sailings bbetween that citv and New Orleans. The! entrance of the plague through, [Tavanna would be as much to be dreaded as through New Or-| leans, and the same quarantine| if declared would doubtless ap-| ‘ply to both. Dr. Porter declared that he ‘and the state board of hcalt’h' have the most implicit confidence in the authorities in control in New Orleans. FOLLOWING THE CROWD Uncle Billy walked into the vil- lage store about the middle of the "afternoon, and the storekeeper, wak- the disease; and that the war on. the rats in the Crescent city is with such success ing from his nap, said, “Thought you'd gone to the State fair.” “T did,” was the brief reply, as Uncle Billy helped himself to a. “Didn’t you like it?" Uncle Billy looked 'round cau- tiously. The other village loafers were having a game of ‘‘horseshoe’ in front of the blacksmith shop; so lowering his voice, he said, confi- dently, “I'll tell you how it hap- pened. I hadn’t peen to the State fair for twenty year, so I wasn't on to it very well. I decided 1'd keep that the communicable means of an eye on the crowds, and foller SEEEBSHHOEET F PR RSOGO ERDDODEPPBMBIERIBHOHEHHEGSHE PG DB BATES IS Cutting the Price on Good Merchandise COME AND SEE SELLING OUT ALL MEN'S GOODS. Don'’t take my Word; Come and See vor Yoursels, T T ) against which the modern woman movement is beginning to train its Ladies’ Waists, 25¢ for... ... ..... 19¢ Aty e 8 ! e R A o Ladies” House Dresses, $1.00 and$1.35 for ......... .79¢ Ladies” Underwear, 25¢ and 33c f Ladies ar, 25¢ LB (o G I .. 19¢ TIMELY WARNING e i i Ladies’ Under Skirts, 50¢ and $1.00 for... ..39¢ 2 & 0 OALONEL USRS 18 Ladler’ Silk Drop Skirts, $a.80, for o, .o o veois. $189 S Childrin sfDresses; soe and G5e fab v L 38¢ & Any physician will tell vou that Chi an'e o s @ IO 2 \ ildren’s Dresses $1.00 to $1.35 ... 7 4 mercury, if it remains in the body, 0 7190 s e R ‘8¢ 2 will in time soften and rot the " —_ 9 bones. Doctorg call this necrosis of PIECE GOODS. :g: the bones. C(Calomel is a form of Silk Rati e 5 & f§: mercury, and to keep out of danger SRS DAUNG, = 30T W ide, Sr.00 VRINE i e Vs 69¢ ‘E’ it's a safe plan to take no calomel §’ Silk Ratine 27 in, wide, L I S 49¢ b at all, especially as there is a better . il . s e @ A § Cotton Ratine, 30 in, wide s0c value. ., .38¢ 3 Both children and grown people | & Many good Values Come and See Bates. & will find a perfect remedy to take |d e —————————————————————————————————— :: the place of calomel in Dodson's 3: @ & by and which never has any bad after- effects. Dodson's Liver Tone will do the good that calomel does without any of the dangers of calomel feel fine the' next all You day after taking Dodson's Liver Tone; you can eat anything you want and are ready for your daily work or pleasure with joyous good feeling. A large bottle is sold for only fifty cents by, Lake Pharmacy will cheerfully re- fund your money if you are not sat- isfied. who $1.50 and $2.00 Straw Hats for ... The Best Sox in Lakeland, 2 pr, for .. 50c¢ Four-in-Hand Ties, for ... 2 BBl o ) Wfll co T3, LTI T RESOURCES $150c,0c0.00 The Best 15¢ Coilars, per dozen ... Yours for Honest Merchandise, 2 ~ N ‘Plant one.small sum in the Bank me up rapidly— Grow into large fortune Good crop assured if altended to regularly Distance to plant deposits— not very far apart American State Bark BE AN AMERICAN—ONE OF US. ..89¢ L R R B RS R S R R R eSS ST S 2 s s 22 2 4 2 2 2 e e s 3 @ G . ; SOOI O OBOBIODE0 L0 : Tomorrow is the | LAST DAY ¢ You can getan extra pair : ¢ of trousers FREE with : each suit order : : § . Have your measure taken ° ¢ by a man who knows his ' ¢ business and avoid misfits, g 3' “FINE TAILORING” $ o © WILLIAMSON CLOTHING Co, | i “Fashion Shop For Men* b % BB OB OB O B OB B OFBOB B0 where they seemed the thickest. Well, it worked pretty well. I went around to a good many fine displays and shows and things. About noon, I saw a lot of fine-dressed folks goin’ all in one direction, so I took after | They al]l pushed and jammed to get through an archway, and [ pushed too, Well, what d’'you guess it was?”’ “Give it up,” the ctorekeeper said, eager for the climax. “Well, they were all city folks, ‘em. goin' home to dinner, and there I}. stood on the outside. I wasn’'t goin’ to pay no fifty cents to get back in, so I lit out for home. I thought I'd stop in here for a spell, to keep the fam'ly from askin’ questions about my gettin’ home so early.”—The Youth's Companion. Did you ever stop to 100k over the newspapers of Florida? Just gather them all together, and lay them in' a pile, and then go through them, and size them up and compare them with the newspapers of other States. Take all of them, the dailies and the country weeklies, You will find more news, more boosting matter, more well-written editorials, more of the clean product of bright, active minds, a better typographical ap- pearance, a cleaner, better general tone than the average of newspapers in any State in the Union. The Flor- ida press stands far above that of any State.—Jacksonville Metropolis. A message to prohibit the sale of cigarettes or cigarette papers in Georgia has been favorably reported to the Senate. ADVANTAGES OFFERED i FLORIDA INVESTOR (Continued from Page 2) ithe large chance for development of the whole country and the runique position the State holds as the winter play ground and the winter home of thousands of leading men of affairs of the whole country. These men of judgment, as well as money, are not slow to appreciate the vast possibilities in all the untilled acres and are buying up land in enormous tracts. The wary capatalist who would shy instantly at a bargain in ore-bearing land of the west, doesn’t hesitate long, {over a Florida proposition, par- i ticularly when he sees for him- self just what it presents— Lynn Haven Tribune. In its schemes of economy the postoffice department at Washington has decided to discontinue thirty West Virginia postoffices after the first of August. Two of these offices will be succeeded by rural delivery, but the patrons of the remaining twenty-eight offices will have to g0 to other stations for their mail after July 31. Since Jan. 1 of this year the Pennsylvania railroad has sold at least 100 pieces of real estate for ap. proximately $1,000,000. 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