Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 20, 1914, Page 6

PAGE SIX ——————————————————— FLORIDA AND THE PLAGUE ~ o E— veys, the most efficient means of ro— Florida's cities realized the [ducing the rodent population, and ue sitnation? [ becoming eflicient in every vay to the (meet a possible similar emergency in I'lorida. Isn’t 1t apout uume that the offi- cials of seriousness of the p The highest authorities on subject, men who have had wide ex- i ‘ perience in combatting the disease| The board also urges upon munici- | ind in its eradication, have heen [pal authorities the requirement that {all permits for erection of fightir arly two months, since ware- June y master the situation m;huusr.\, business blocks and resi- New Orleans. The iatest report [ddences shall include that they be from that city, Augz. 12, ;g:‘“[,:l““s‘!lllihit' rat-proof, particularly such the seventeenth human case and the | buildings as may be located near a dlsr.»\wyg\ of the fiftsfirdt rodent \\.‘1.1:« r front. : : case o make any city proof against Almost seven weeks of fighting, 4],,'1Iw plague and to keep it so, is m.)t‘ rected by these able men, us the |the work of a day or a month. It is | most {‘1;;“,,.1 methods that ence {the work of years, planned in ad-, has evolved, has not mastered the |vance and persistently carried out. epidemic and as many months, [The present oxpcrienc.e of N':}v Or- | probably more, will elapse before leans should be sufficient Al'\'ld(‘l)t‘c New Orleans will cease to be feared !'that no effort is too expensive to ac- as a source of infection., complish that result. Recent telegraphic dispatches tell |State Board of Health of Florida, ! of two deaths and two suspicious Jacksonville, Fla., cases in Liverpool, England, showing Aug. 7 1914, a new foothold gained by the en-]To the Municipal Authorities of emy. Dead Sirs—\While the plague situ- l-,\ it possible that any Florida sea- [ation in New Orleans is not alarm- port or inland town is willinz to be[ing, yet the conditions resulting involved in a strugele against this|[from a finding of human and rat horrible disease, or even to invite |cases widely distributed over the such a risk? But it is just as pos- | city, are sufficiently serious to war- rant the executive officer of the State Board of Health in taking all prac- ticable precautions to safeguard the citizens of Florida azainst the intro- duction of the plague infection. Ac- cerdingly, under authority conferred sible as was the original infection at New Orleans or Liverpool. The Florida Board of Health re- gards the situation as serious but not as alarming, and it has not re- laxed in the slightest degree its fight against this possible invasion from |by the statutes, the brinzing of | its first announcement in a neigh- | freight cars into the State from New boring state. It has sought the co- {Ofleans, either wholly or partially operation of the municipal authori-|loaded with freight which has not ties throughout the State. While | been inspected and passed and sealed this has been given willinglv, not by the United States Public Health every city has appeared to appre-|Service, now in charge of nlague ciate the rea] seriousness of the con- |eradication measures in New Or- is forbidden. The mayor of each municipality of ditions that confront Florida. leans, The disease is not communcated from one person to another, but'Florida is hereby requested and re- only by the flea that is carried by quired to take cognizance of such the infected rat. Therefore, the dan-|‘cars coming to his city or town and ger from New Orleans to other com- to carefully observe whether the munities is not from unrestricted government seals have been tam- passenger traflic, but through freight [pered with, and when without traffic, either by marine commerce or |seals, or with broken seals, to have through railroad freight carrage. freight examined for rats, before de- The United States Public IHealth [livery by the railroad company. Service authorities at New Orleans Very truly yours, are maintaining a thorough super- JOSEPH Y. PORTER, vision over marine commerce leav- State ITealth Officer. ing that port, as was described in a recent issue of this press service. It also inspects all railroad cars fl.(\nl from that city and affixes its 0., in the form of a seal. Florida’s health authorities are co-operating with the United States officials by insisting on a thorough Railway (‘o., in mecting here today examination of all railroad freight |Will probably tuke action on the cars coming trom New Orleans into |dividend. The belief for some time this State, Wherever the original seal is found to be brok- |idend will be reduced, as has been en or shows evidence of having been indi.rzltml by the movement of the tampered with, the board requires |stock marketwise. According to one that the railroad company handling [who is thoroughly familiar with the ahe car at destination shall open C. & 0. MAY CUT DIVIDENDS Aug. 20,—The directors of the Chesapeake & Ohio Boston, Mass., situation, if the dividend is reduced, and inspect the car tor rats before | or passed at the meeting this even- delivery to consignee. It aiso re- ing, it will be done as a matter of quires the mayors of Florida cities policy, for the earnings to enforce this order, and in several of the larger cities it has its ovn su- pervisors to watch incoming from the Louisiana city. Five representatives of the State Yoard of Ilealth are or have been in New Orleans studying the have im- proved rapidly, —_— freight (hicago, Milwaukee & St. '[‘h(‘ Pau| has increased the working time of 2,000 men employed in waukee shops from eight to and one-half hours. its Mil- eight situation e —it answers every beverage re- quirement—vim, vigor, refreshment, wholesomeness. THE COCA-COLA COMPANY ATLANTA, GA. w think of Coca-Cola, and whaenever | has been quite general that the (li\'-I THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., AUG. 20, 1914 there and learning methods of treat- HHIKKIIIISIIIIISIIIIIIIK | came. N 3 love ment of the disease, of rodeat snr- e e | 01, T, ROlfe Daniels fell in WHEN WANT CAME By AUGUSTUS GOODRICH SHER: | WIN. Want came as an armed man upon the Rhodes family when its head died, leaving little besides debts, There was the old house belonging i to a brother of the lawyer, and given to them rent free, but that was little spoiled and indolent daughters. “It 1is dreadful!” mourned | Rhodes, after the funeral. nothing left to us but debts. have to dispense with the maid’—and !the selfish, pampered woman all but | covered with reproach the dead hus- band, who had given the best years of his life to sustain in luxury an un- grateful family. “And cousin Honor is coming to see Mrs. ! two daughters. able to work, but they never thought of that. ment Rolfe Daniels called one evening to see Mrs. Rhodes. great loss to distress you,” he said, seek this interview. Mr. Rhodes was my best friend. I owe everything to | him.” The widow looked as if she expected pay from this candid avowal. fice employ when I was homeless,” went on the young man. death, in a year more through his kindly tuition I would be eligible for admission to the bar. I was very close to him. He worried greatly at the condition of his finances. He implored me to see that his family did not suf- fer. Mrs. Rhodes, I am ready so far as I am able to contribute to the sup- port of this family until you can see your way to more permanent condi- tions.” “Daniels owes your father a lot of money and is honest enough to pay it | back,” was the coarse, untruthful way in which Mrs. Rhodes explained the circumstances to her daughters. “I presume you expect to continue my husband's business?”* Mrs, Rhodes intimated to Danlels the following day. “I cannot do that, madam,” replied TN bd‘v,flz\)' “And Cousin Honor Is Coming to See Us!" | ambition. Again, most of Mr. Rhodes’ ‘hu“mwa was from clients who were | his close friends and which I could scarcely hope to secure.” “Then “I shall seek work in the town, and it you will give me a room at the liouse Nere it will mimimize my own personal expenses, and I can help in 1Lhe work necessary about the place.” So this arrangement was made. It was a vast sacrifice for Rolfe to give up the hope of becoming a lawyer. i With gratitude, however, he remem- bered the kindness of Mr. Rhodes, With loyalty he resolved to be a friend and a support to the family left in | such distressed circumstances. It did not take Rolfe long to discern | that the mother and her daughters were poor samples of womanhood. They sat around in what was left of ! their old-time finery, were wasteful in | preparing the meals and bickered as to who should do the diches They ! were rather distant with Rolfe, as if he were an inferior, but they could | not help but realize his devotion and | self-sacrifice. Every Saturday night he handed over to Mrs. Rhodes the money to pay the household expenges. Within a month the family had ac- lcepted these unusual services from a comparative stranger, as though he were a son or brother. Rolfe kept the | lot neat and attractive looking, he sawed and split all the wood, he did | a dozen necessary errands evenings. Whenever the girls needed anything | particularly he tried to provide fit. Without her knowing it, he devoted three whole nights to doing some extra ing work to give Eva the | to procure some neckwear she fancied Then the cousin, Miss Honor Bright, Cop} money gewgaws j[ l to an extravagant mother and her two | “We have | We shall | jus!” grumbled Eva, the eldest of the | Any one of them was ' In the midst of their predica- | “I do not wish to allude to your “but my sense of duty impels me to | “Your husband took me into his of- [ “But for his | Daniels, “for I have not qualified for it. I fear I shall have to give up that' get eyes | with | her. To all of them, however, the vis- | itor was apparently cold and out of place. She did not tell them, but her | heart had been chilled over a wretch | who broke their engagement and went mn' and married another. Honor was | disillusioned, but it would take time | for the deep wound to he al | Her distant manner. her superb grace and dignity stilled the udding lover in her silent admirer. Rolfe felt that she was far fro n as were n‘m stars. Night after 1it. however, in | a little memorandum book he wroteé | down his inner thoughts. They l-‘X' | pressed not the languishing love-sick suitor, or the desperate raviugs of one seeking the unattainable. Rather, it was the tender adoration of a true man who was glad that he had known |a perfect woman. | Honor remained permanently with the family. She pitied their condition, turned into the family fund the few | hundred dollars she possessed and did 'most of the work about the house. She was striving to forget her old heart misery. She resented the indif- ference of the family towards Rolfe, | whose sterling worth she appreciated ; | She strove to be kind to him, but ll; | was not yet in her nature to show her | real sympathy amid the sting to prxde The first moment he of her first disappointment. One day at the factory an emery wheel exploded and some of the frag- ments went into Rolfe’s eyes. His sight was not gone, but the surgeon | told Rolfe he must do no clerical work | | for at least a year. Rolfe sought a position as manager of a store where his strength and not | keen eyesight was the essential. At the end of a month his arm was broken in the fall of a tier of heavy boxes. It seemed as if the last sacrifice he could make was reached when he was | obliged to work as a night watchman, 'and the family thanklessly took the| last cent he earned. | Then came great news. The uncle ! had died suddenly without a will. The | estate went to Mrs. Rhodes and Honor, equally, as the nearest heirs. The family were at once in great fettle, They prepared to leave the old home wlth extravagant ideas of their grand ! tuture. “You have been very helpful to us," sald Mrs. Rhodes to Rolfe, “and we mll allow you to occupy the old house here free of charge until the estate is settled up.” It was Honor that Rolfe would miss. Humbly he accepted the fate awarded him. The morning of the day when the departure was due found him | seated in the garden he had so care- fully tended. His head was bowed, :§, not dejectedly, but in sober thought of | & the sacrifices of ambition, sight, limb, love—and all this thanklessly. @ He looked up as Honor approached :g: him. Her breath came quick. Her|® face bore a strange, new expression. | “Is this yours?” she asked, extend- “: Ing a little memcrandum book, and | i Rolfe blushed as he recognized it as |2 " his secret diary which he had lost a ¢ That he loved her—his embarrassed | | face showed that. Her hand rested on his shoulder tremulously, Ah! here, in- deed, was a man! She almost cried | as she thought of all the noble sacri- fices he had made. “If what you wrote is true,” she said, "I shall not go away from here, il have a dream of a noble man, ! cheered and beloved by a woman who | would lay her fortune and devotion at | ‘hls feet, and have him arise from the | dregs he sought out of loyalty and | Shall I | | resume his place among men stay?" “Oh, forever! forever!" cried Rolfe, | as he clasped to his breast the only | woman he had ever loved. | | » W. G. Chapman,) | How Far Does She Walk? | “I've been thinking about the wom- an who wore a pedometer while at-' tending to her household duties , in or- der to see how many miles ~).n walked each day. At the end of the month the pedometer showed that she had covered something like 400 miles in '3 the exercise of her ordinary household duties. Thirteen miles a day seems a lot of walking, when it's all in and about a house, Yet l‘w» women with small children th I be “run after,” who ur idoubtedly do daily marathon of 25 miles or especially are at must ] more. Most women haven't any idea of the number of steps they the day's work, they are t take doin g All they know is that “dead tired" when eve ning comes, and that when somebody ip- vites them out for a walk or an eve- | ning entertainment they're not so very ambitious to go. Po'mblhtles of Plague, It has been estimated that over 25, 000,000 persons were wiped out by the black death in Europe, with particular reference to the fourteenth century, Europe has not forgotten the epidemic which broke out in Russia in 1878 The center of infection Was on the banks of the Volga. It spread and lasted for a year Altoget Nr there were less than 500 cases, but Europe was badly frightened, ar an mtrrr:z\- tional medical ¢ sion went to the affected distri C 0 investj gate and report. 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