Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 10, 1915, Page 2

2 roads, $722 a mile; -of gravel, $2,- 047; of macadam, $4,899; of bitum- inous-macadam, $10,348. The total cost, estimated, of all | improved roads in the United States is placed at $561,604,806. The width of roads varies in, dif- ferent states. In Michigan and some other states the standard width is four rods, giving ample space for noxious weeds. On the basis of forty feet in width there jare 10,668,276 acres of rights of | way included in the roads of the | United States. Based on the average value of farm lands in the various states, the total value of these rights of way amounts to $35,662,215, When a country is new roads are laid out in a hap-hazard way, often to suit the whim of an individual settler, the idea having been that Writing from Crooked Lake to his every man on forty acres of land paper, the Jaikson, Miih.,, Patriot, | was entitled to a road, with no ref- Editor F. W. Barber has the fol- | erence to the waste of land or cost of Florida roads: of road-baking. | Florida is not a backw The total expenditure for road im- statemn making road improvements. | provements in 1913 was $204,681,- The states that lead with the larg- |90, a little more than two doilars est mileace of improved roads are. |for each inhabitant. | in order named, according to| statistics for 1913: Ohio, Imli:ma.} New York, Georgia, Wisconsin, Ken- | tucky, Ilinois and Massachusetts. | Ohio has 28,312 miles and Massa- | 5000 chusetts 3,848 miles, i;md At the close of that year the| length of all improved roads in the | United States was 219 miles— | of all the roads in this country, 2, 228,042 miles. Considerably over | i 8 1 ve ore | & one-half of the improved roads were on the route from the Great Lakes | in the sig a 4 o | e " A 4 In the eight states named. |to Florida. In what directions they The proportion of improved roads | mainly run is not known. The trend was a fraction over ten per r-unr..—.v" avel is inereasingly north and S Sing mesey ) sonth—north to the summer resorts eent in an unimproved condition | of Michigan and Wisconsin—south ' 4t 8todo roady; tiere Were the winter resorts of Florida. G gravol rohds; Good roads will mean much journey- e dololy ng in automobiles, especially to this Southland. Roadwork In Fla. And State’s Many Advantages ARE DEPICTED IN INTERESTING ARTICLE FROM THE PEN OF MICHIGAN EDITOR WHO WIN- TERS IN POLK COUNTY Crooked Lake, exactly 10.2, Florida, April 10, leaving nearly 90 per Florida for the five years named was ed to the Massachusetts College of lowing o0 say i o Highway bonds issued, or author- ized states, counties and town- ships for improvement of publie , up to January 1, 1914, were: bonds, $1538,900,000; county township bonds, $287,011,018. This does not inciude city bonds for improving streets, i States in which the largest im-' provements have been made—In- diana, Ohio, Kentueky, Georgia—are by per | to of of 102 bituminous-macad- | am and other material, 28,372 miles. | These figures ara for 1909, | Of the ten states that made the | greatestprogress in - road building from 1909 to 1913, Florida ranked eighth. 1In theorder named these were: New York, Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina, Alabama, Indiana, Washington, New Jersey, Florida and Maryland. It will be observed that exactly one-half are southern states. The gain in Georgia is large- A i ly attributed to the work of 3,500 _ One may have a cottage in this prisoners on its public roads. Joaand Sak i nenlon §08 icantre. i i 8 in South Florida, on the border of a SU|iochs ot tnpyad)onta i beautiful lake, with an acre or more of orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, fig and other subtropical fruits, re- newing youth and health and strength in this genial climate, breathe untained air day and night, g0 and come as one pleases in an auto, and keep the vital spark burn- ing in the clay tenement longer by | years than where the cold must be | » Five states exhibit between 5 and cOuRteracted by furnace heat for 10 per cent of their roads improved S¢Ven months of the year. { —Alabama, Maine, Michigan, Tenn-| Florida itself, of quick and easy essee and Washington. Twenty- access, i8 a miracle. Leaving the seven states under 5 per cent. {north hard-Bound wiht frost, streets The average cost per mile of im- icy So that if one stands at all it More and more, as the years pass, | becanse people with healthy minds | ) like to as long as pnssn)le,‘ northerners will seek the sunny south to spend the winter months. Zero weather and boreal blizzards exhaust human vitality. Warmth and life, cold and death, are linked together. To prolong life to post- pone death, are inborn instincts. | live Florda for the five years named was from 1,752 in 1909, to 2,175 miles in 1913. Georgia shows an increase of 6,022 miles, an average of over 1,200 miles a year. The percentage of improved roads in Florida was a fraction over 12 per cent, 16 states leading it in this respect, and 31 having a smaller percentage. | clothes | . In Russia Has | Come To Stay Because or ce’rtam claims sent out in publicity material of the Nation- al Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Asso- ciation of America to the effect that prohtbition in Russia is a very lim- ited and ineffectual policy, the IChriutXnn Science Monitor has just | published information secured from A. Scherbatskoy chamberlin to the | Emperor and counselor of the Rus- | sian embassy at Washington. It ap- !pears from what Mr. Scherbatskoy has said that prohibition prevails in Russia, legally and actually. | At the opening of the war the Tsar issued an edict or ukase pro. hibiting throughout the empire the sale of vodka, strong wines and other intoxicating liquors, during mobilization. The beneficial effects were so pronounced that the prohib- ition was later extended to the end of the war. The question of the sale of light wines and light beers was left to local option in the cities, but | not in rural communities, and prac-‘\ tically all the cities, Mr. Scherbot- | skoy says, soon passed laws prohib- | iting the sale of all aleoholic lig- uors, : Officials of the embassy were of | the opinion that prohibition has | come to Russia to stay, “becanse its | benefits have exceeded even the most | sanguine expectations.” Mr. Scher- batskoy declared that the benefits from the policy were great enough | to completely compensate for the loss of the revenue many times over. | “Prohibition is increasng the pro- ducing power of our people,” said Mr. Scherbatskoy. “They are spend- | ing their money for other rhings; than liquor now, wearing better | and taking better care of | their families. One interesting thing is thai Monday, wheh heretofore has been regarded as a holiday on which the men recuperated from their Sunday indulgences, will now be a productive working day. Monday has not heen regarded as a working day in Russia; it has just been counted out of the week for this reason. Savings Are Increased “Thepostal savings banks show encouraging indications as a result of prohibition. Tn war time people usually draw their savings out of the banks, and at the beginning of the present war our postal banks showed a light decrease;, but soon after the prohibition edict the sav- ings began to return to the banks and there has been a marked in- erease over previous years “One incident serves to llustrate the effect on other industres of pro- hibiting the sale of liquor. Early in the war when there was a scare that the Germans were about to ad- vance on Petrogad from the north through Finland there was a fren. zied haste to throw up fortifications | subscribed to an English newspaper ' back to the ranks again.” | ter, had seen an advertisement. | bacco, a box of matches and 50 cigar | does he will take proved roads in the United States varfed greatly, according to the ma- terial ut The cost of sand-clay by must be on slippery places, in 34 hours the gate to this sunland opens (Continued on e in the vieinity of the capital. Targe erews of men were employed 7n the | earthworks at good pay. One zrnupi :ot men, having accumnlated a lit- | - world in mlnhturs‘.n o passed to earnest inquiri corporal’s heaith. Then in restrained, | o the | but very fervent language, they ex- | pressed the hope that he was not given | lnd iscreet | to worldly ways, and above all, that he | shunned the use of intoxicants. The | letter closed with an earnest prayer | for his worldly and spiritual welfare. | It was seven weeks before this letter | | reached the recipient, then Lying in | ]dla base hospital recovering from 3 & wound. He had been slrucl( by 3 tragment of a shell while leading his | company to the attack, and he would never lead it again, because : t“eé);l:: ‘ i been severed an - | B' H. M. EGBERT il':h:::rl:g ;:.‘l’"ofl" must go limping | through life thenceforward. True, the limp was not a very pro- nounced one, hardly visible, in f;u:}. when the soidier walked, but it is one thing to walk across a drawing room flocr and quite another to charge | a line of trenches at full speed across barbed wire entanglements, laden with one’s accoute A second r e dies in due course romant e presence of her of delicious wicke however, was Mary had b E : creet. She intended to tell her that in her opinion the correspondence must be brought to a close. But as the ladies read it they looked (Gopyright, 1515, by W. G. Chapman) The Misses Penfleld were quite well | to do, and quite alone in the world. | Miss Lizzie was forty, if she was & day. Miss Mary confessed to th!l'w" two, but even the sweetest of women | may be pardoned for deducting a year | or so after passing the thirtieth mile- | stone. They were the only daughters, | the only children of “Square” Penfield | of Bodminton, New England. Once the family had played a prominent part in New England’s publiie life; but with the growth of the industrial sys- tem and the fading out of the old ways of life they had become more and more | isolated. After their father’'s death they were more or less “hermits,” as Miss Mary ruefully declared. | g All the village respected the two at each other in dismav. A maiden ladies, but somehow tlmyI “He has been w ded uaxclalme seemed an anachronism, a survival ot‘ Miss Mary, trewmulously The poor other times in the hustling commercial | man! I hope it is not a serious times of the twentieth century. | wound.” ! ; Two months before Miss Mary, who | “He says it will prevent his going Misa Mary containing a good deal of literary mat- | announced, as she read further qn, ‘ “And—Oh, Lizzie, what do you think? It stated that one shilling, or a qun.r-i He says that some day he may uuc}e ter, would purchase a pound of to-|to America for a visit, and that if he 2 opportunity to rettes for one soldier in the trenches | pay a call upon those who were so in Belgium. The sender's name wll; kind to him!” to be placed upon the package. | The letter flu d out of her hands “I'd ltke to send a shilling for one | and she sat down in a chair breathless. of the poor fellows,” said Miss Mary. | “Mary!” said her sister severely, | “But wouldn't it be a little—forward, | “this is what comes of carrving on a my dear?” inquired prudent Miss Liz- | firvation with a strange man!” zle. ‘Sister!” gasped Miss Mary. “How can you say such a dreadful thing? Did you ever know me even to think | | of a man?" “A common soldier—j poral!” continued her s ingly. “Yon know, my dear, | on, relenting, “the lower classes in England are not like they are here.} The man may be anything. Perhaps | he is a drinker!” | Miss Mary rose to the occasion as she had never done before. | | “Well, sister, if he is a drinking | man,” she said, “{ shall—! skall send | Willis out to buy a bottle of beer for | him! There!” and she walked out of the room indignantly. | But as the weeks went by and noth- ing more 3 heard about the cor- poral ) ie's fears gradually sub. | sided. And so the weeks siipped into | months, and then— “Miss Mary, there is a gentleman in ! the parlor waiting to see you," ex- plained the maid. “He says he hasn't a card, and he thinks you will remem- ber his name, Mr. Richard Barton.” Miss Lizzie looked at Miss Mary as the two sat together in the, sewing | room, “Sister,” she said, “perhaps it would be better for me to see this Corporal | Barton!" And that time ¥ Mary did not re- | oly, because she was already in her | the two y, who “Not in time of war, dear,” answered Miss Mary. 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Tomato Soup, roc size, 4 for ——————————————————————————— [CKSON tor I7 D¢ L T N A T A Y i | they could not get a drop of liquor, | get no liquor, and the next day they | love or money, tle money, thought they wonld :mf down to Petrograd for a week-end | celebration. They were told r.h;uj but they said they would try went to eity and tried but They | could | returned to their work, every man | of them wearing a new suit o(l clothes. “A friend of mine recently came here from Russia. He is a man whe drank wine, but he told me one could not get a drink of liquor in the Petrograd or Moscow cafes ‘for s he expressed it.” ANOTHER RURAL POST- MASTER IN TROUBLE Gia Weil until this States April b 10 recently Edward postmaster at Wade county. was before United Commissioner A, M Cushman Wednesday morning for a preliminary hearing relative T charge that Weil has defrauded the postotfice dep aggrezating, The ac rtment out of amounts i3 alleged, $7 220 entered a plea of not guilty, but after hearing testimony from H. Curran, a representati | the postoffice serv and wh tis said, conducted an investigation as to the condition of the Wade office [Just tollowing Weil's disappearance a short time ago, Com ioner | Cushman ordered that Weil he held for action by the grand jury in fed- eral court. Bomd was fixed at $10.- 000, but had not been furnished at a late hour in the afternoon Weil left Wade without making public his itinerary was traced to | Jacksonville without trouble, but for 'moy» than a week after he register- .nd at a Jacksonville hotel the officers | had some difficulty in learning of his lvherenbcuu Finally he was locat- ed at Chelsea, Mass. upon informa- | tion furnished, it is understood, by’ a local representative of the govern- A who accompanied to Chelsea was also arrested, contested extradition | | | | ment Weil but party OLDER BOYS, OLDER GIRLS CONFERENCE Ky., April 10—Over | 700 delegates, made up of boys and girls are in attendance at the Older Boys and Older Girls Conference | which opened here yesterday Mre | | Phoebe Curtiss, of Columbus, Ohia.i and Ralph Diffendorfer will be the| prominent speakers. Mrs. Curtiss has been largely responsible for the | progress of the Older Girls confer-| ence in this state. | Louisville, wnfans “How Can You Say Such a Dreadful | Thing?” forward to the allies’ trenches bem‘-{ Ing the name of Miss Mary Penfleid upon the cover | And now a letter had come. It was | marked with a red sign: “Opened Un- | der Martial Law,” which alone sent a | delightful thrill down the two ladies’ backs. They opened the nfl,nveloxmI with shaking fingers and read | “My Dear Miss Penfleld: —I write to | thank you very much for your delight- ful gift. You cannot imagine what . pleasure such a thing gives us out| here, and greater than the gift is the | thought that there is someone who is thinking of us. I have passed your box of cigarettes all along the trenches, and if you could see our fel- | lows puffing away under a hail of | shrapnel you would find yourseif am- | 'y repaid in the pleasure which you | have given them. We gre all blessing your name tonight, for we have not | had a good smoke for ages.” | “What is this signature, my dear? | inquired Miss Lizzie. “It looks like | Cop. Richard Barton.” The two ladies examined the signa- ture carefully. “Why, it is his rank— | corperal, of course,” said Miss Mary. | ‘He must be quite a respectabie man, to bave been made a corporal. You | know they are very strict in the Eng- lish army. A drinking man could never become a corporal” | “But it {3 sad to think of them | abandoned to the habit of tobacco,” | answered Miss Lizzie “Howevu‘—i ought we to write back to him, my dear” “Would—would it be proper, sister?™ asked the other. “We shall never see him, and per- haps a letter would cheer him up. And then, the poor fellow may be shot.” “Oh, D0!" exclaimed Miss Mary in | Borror. After a long talk they decided to | write Corp. Richard Barton a joimt ' letter, to preserve the proprieties. was a letter that might have made the irreversat laugh. It dealt with all the small talk of the village, for to the | two maiden ladies Bodminton was the —————————— Stickery. The great Jifference betwsen a pud- e servant and a1 domestte servant s b ~ould not re. sig: 4 Uiaville Cour ferJournal. - Stood Up for His City. | A small Chicago boy, visiting his uncle & CouRtry town, was asked it there were as many people there As there were in Chicago. Whereupon Be said with all the pride of his seven : “Why, we have more people Chicago than you have in town.” In jail in the whole | bedroom brushing her hair! | the trip to Euro How desperately she brushed and how quickly she « ged her frocl, | hearing a bass vo talking in the | living room below, and dreading every | minute that her sister would succeed in dismissing the visitor before she could get down she did get d tall, neatly about thirty. she felt her face suffused with foolt blushes. “My dear, let me Barton,” said “Captain gasped. The captain pulled his mustache and | stammered f “Well, Miss Penfleld, fact is, that | when you deciphered my illegible hand- writing as corporal the joke seemed | too goed to lose. And so [ made my- self a corporal in m ond letter. I | now it w. r it's better make one's self corperal when one's a captain than vice versa, isn't it? And, Miss Penfield, I assure you that T am rot a drinking man. “And Captaiw Barton is going to stay to lunch,” During the Miss Mary | ch Miss Mary pluckad up courage to look at the captain. And the more she lcoked at him the more he eame to resemb! a little secret her heart. What was Miss Lizzie discover tain had made a very sis with regard to her sis And for once Miss Lizzie indulged in ¢ mantic speculation that she discouraged in ber sister The captain was visiting America ot business connected with a certain rich oid property which he owned not many miles away. Thig left ample opportunity for subsequent visits, and before the time for his return arrived led Miss Mary to make Pe In his com b der his name. cpmis Aad Miss Lizzie must accom| 9s omn cur honeymoon,” you know.” Aad a8 mu \ The maa who is “delow five foet ta Reight” may well be reckoned as being Among the “diminutives.” The average t is around five feet six inches. A man is “tall” when he ie six feet or over. Under five feet five he is “short.” Uncle Eben. “Mebbe dar'd be a heap me’ done” sald Uncle Eben, “if out a new model of wheelbarrow Year an’ provided a horn so's to folks git out'n de way.” 1 | P & PRI .4 b BB SR PRRBOPOPEPEEE i eI bd bbb 262002 EFPOPPPEPEPD Bt s oo o o e o B %f | l I WHO GETS THE MONEY YOU EARN? DO DOES.SOMEBODY ELSE WHO DOES NOT EAR U Gy NITY ~ YOUR “EARNING POWER” CANNOT LAST ALyay: WHILE YOU ARE MAKING MONEY BANK IT Axp BE FOR OLD AGE. 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