Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, April 13, 1915, Page 2

Business Of The Country Is Showing Improvement Banks in Fine Shape and Industries in General Siow Marked Improvement. Washington, D. C., April Treasury officials today were pre- dicting continued improvement of business conditions throughout the country. Their optimism was based on reports from eighty national bank examiners which the depart- ment has made public in a statement declared the recent past has been marked by a steady return to con- ditions existing before the Europ- ean wear upset American commer- cial relations, both domestic and foreien. Revival of business activity in virtually every line was found. There was pronounced hopefulness, the report said, in agricultural, commercial and manufacturing cir- cles. Business in the south is showing a pronounced improvement, the de- partment announced. Crop prospects in the south were declared to be ex- cellent. In the western and Pacific states a general improvement was noted. The lumber industry was said to be recovering and mining was resuming on a larger scale. ‘Some depression still is ‘elt in New England, the middle .tiantic states and portions of the central west, it was said. Although crop conditions were declared satisfac- tory, manufacturing except for for- eign trade is said to be lagginaz. Maine, however, was said to be the only state in which there was any real depression. There was an increased demand, it was said, for railroad cars and steel rails and for structural iron. 13— PICKLED LIME “Take as many limes as you care to use. Scrub them perfectly clean and carefully, remove the bloksom end and all imperfections. Rinse well and put in cold brine strong enough to just bear an egg. In two days drain, wash and let stand for 24 hours in the coldest water ob- tainable, measuring the amount of water required to cover them. While they are soaking in the cold water make up this pickles. For each part of vinegar (do not wuse acid vinegar) required, take one cup of sugar and one tablespoon each of whole cloves and broken mace; tie the spice loosly in thin muslin. Boil slowly for 15 minutes then set aside and allow it to stand over night. In the morning drain the limes and pack in a stone crock. Heat the vinegar pickle to boiling point, and pour over them and cover closely. For the following three weeks drain off the vinegar twice a week, heat to boiling and return to crock. At the end of that time remove the spice bags and drop in one table- spoon each of fresh cloves and stick cinnamon. Do not use for at least two months and if kept longer will be all the better. When you once begin to use them, they will not last long. USE GRAPEFRUIT INSTEAD OF SOUR MILK 7 A new and rather surprising use for the juice of grapefruit is as a substitute for sour milk in making waffles, griddle cakes, muffins, bis- cuits, cakes and other things. Of course this method is barred for reasons of economy in localities where grapefruit is expensive. But in the South, where they are cheap, it has much to recommend it, par- ticularly in emergencies when a cup of sour milk is lacking. The acid equivalent of a cup of sour milk is furnished by two-thirds of a cup of grapefruit juice. The re- maining one-third of a cup of liquid necessary is made up by adding water. Some housewives who have tried grapefruit juice believe it gives food a flavor far superior to that obtain- ed by the use of sour milk. Others think it is a trifle too acid and thereforeobjectionable. At any rate, it is an experiment well worth trying when the supply of sour milk runs short.—Chicago Examiner. ' . —— It all the money lost to the tax- payers of Florida during the past forty years through the carelesi- ness or dishonesty of staté @and county officials, could be recovered this month and turned into the state treasury, we think it would amount to enough to build a brick highway from Orlanto to Tampa.— Punta Gorda Herald. THE CONDITION Not a job he had, nor a dime, Since began the Free-Trade time, He lost his work and wages Because of Free-Trade sages. THE REMEDY But all depends upon the will To join the fight Free-Trade to kill. When this you do, wages will some— Not before to many a omne. —Southern Fancier-Farmer. [lowa Editor Writes Of Florida, Its Soils And Advantages Many of our northern friends who visit Florida love to write back to their home paper and tell about |their trip through “wonderland.” We like to have them do this so long as they tell it straight, and most of them do. . Of course, we have learn- ed to allow them considerable lati- tude in which to solve the negro problem for us, as they almost in- variably do. Having never solved a race problem in their public schools up north thegse well-mean- ing friends always want to solve one for us, just for the novelty of the thing. But we must make allowances for this, for you know we go north sometimes and when we do we very often try to solve this very same problem for our northern neighbors —especially when a big black buck comes in the car and wallops himself down in the seat beside our women- folk. The injustice of the thing is that we don’s charge our northern friends, but generally we have to pay for several pounds of negro hide that enters into our solution of the question. With these preliminary remarks we wish to introduce some extracts from a letter written by Editor G. A. Nobles, for his paper, the Esther- ville, Jowa, Vindicator-Republican, relating to the visit to Florida, omitting his reference to the race quenlo_n: ““About the first idea a person gets when he reaches Florida in the win- ter time is that it is not winter but the gladsome spring time and that he should at once return north and get busy in the garden. Take our advice and don’t 'be in a hurry. ““The idea that all people in Flor- ida are lazy is erroneous. There is once in a while a person afflicted with hook worm and these are the lazy or apparently lazy sort. They are not really lazy but diseased and lack ambition. A very large ma- jority. of the inhabitants, both na- tive and foreign, are as wide-awake and up-to-date as you will find any- where. They are healthy, know how to enjoy life and do enjoy it. They seem ready at all times to ex- tend the ‘glad hand’ to the worthy newcomers and wayfaring folks. “The price of South Florida land has kept pace with the advance in the price of farm lands in the north. Fancy prices are being asked for undeveloped tracts in favored sec- tions undergoing development. The price seems to depend more upon the location than upon the quality of the soil. That holds good as far ag orange and grapefruit land fis concerned, “The more the soil is studied the more the people are inclined the be- lief that there is very little waste land in [Florida. Considerable of the best land in the state is reclaim- ed land and was at one time under water part of the year. The same \ Yowa. In the level sections, both prairie and timber, drainage ditches are making these tracts the most valuable in the state. It is what is known as combination soil and adapted to the growth of citrus fruit as well as to the growth of vegeta- bles, corn and hay. This kind of land requires very little if any ir- rigation except for celery and straw- berries and in some seasons there is sufficient rainfall at all times for these. Some of this land, at one time considered worthless, is now the highest priced land in Florida. It was men from the north who llound this out and many of them have made comfortable fortunes cul- ]tivaung small tracts of this ‘muck’ soil. “The purely muck land is not adapted to the successful growth of oranges or grapefruit but to vege- tables or corn only. The high sandy land, with proper subsoil, will grow citrus fruit successfully but not vegetables. The combination with proper drainagle will both. Pineapples do well on what we consider very poor soil. All of ithe land should be fertilized. Some of it requires more than others. “Some people go to Florida lwith no capital and prosper, many 'are not so fortunate. Very few, if any, make a failure, if they have a little to start with and are indus- trious. The more energy and brains you have the better. It does not matter so much about the money. It seems to be a desirable place for peorle of moderate means as well 25 for men of wealth, “The writer does nof wish to be understodd A® Advising people to ‘sell olit’ and go South. We like all of Florida; we like South Florida better. We believe it has a great future and that it offers great op- portunities to men of energy and to men of capital. Tt has a delightful climate and is healthful. And yet there are some who might not like it. For that reason we would not advise. Before any one from the !north goes there to live he should {70 first and stay for awhile and then he would know whether he was pleased or not Ten chances to one he would be delighted but we wouldn't like to be the tenth ome who wasn't pleased. As for a land investment propo- i and if we had the money to spare we would not hesitate to get some acreage in South Florida and as {much as we would take 6n without conditions exist there as existed in soil, | grow | on it looks michty good to us! over-loaring. We belleve the ntunll would be highly gratifying. ““There is no logical reason why! the people of lowa who go west and | to California in particular should | not go to Florida instead. The climate of Florida is unsurpassed, the opportunities for safe lnvelt-l ment better than in the west and the expense of going and coming ln‘ about half as expensive and about | fragrant. The last long rays of the he started out throu half the time is required in making the journey. “The time is not far distant whenl the people of this section will rel.l-‘ cozily together. In ome sat a gIrl o..i;0 through ize that fact as they have in many| qther places and when they do the ‘Golden State’ will have no charms when compared with the land of flowers and sunshine and where the opportunity is offered to drink of the fountain of youth and where men of seventy and eighty are the proud fathers of new-born babes.”— Arcadia Enterprise. | WM&F. ; Florida’s Invitation § A great deal is said and written about the desirability of living in great cities, but as a matter of fact| there are no such thlngs‘simplyi because men will not live in them. Even a great city is but a union of | communities like this. London, the | largest city in the world, grew out of a collection of villages that still retain mfch of their old identities. Investigate Chicago on New York or any toher great city and you will find that, while men will huddle within a small area for purposes of business, they insist on getting out into the suburbs or into independ- ent residential sections for the pur- pose of living. Now, living is the most impor- tant business that a man has to do. He picks out a place for it with the same care that he picks out a loca- tion for a factory, a store or an of- fice; and, whenever t is possible for him to pick out the place that he Hkes the best, he picks out a small town, unless he is one of those fool- ish persons who thinks that joy is to be found in a cabaret and pleas- ure in a crowd. If the normal man cannot take up his residence in a small community, that is his dream of the future. Certainly those of us whose lines are cast in smaller towns therefore ought to congratulate ourselves. We have here one of the best towns in the world, at least in the making. We don’t have to move to a metro- polis to be happy, if our tastes and our desires are normal. We can make ourselves happy and the whole Ilown happy by trying to make this not a big town so much as a good! one.—Ex. PP PPTEEL PP PPPOPILPEPP The better one becomes acquaint- ed with Florida the stronger he be- comes impressed with the fact of its great future, when the outside world has learned what a wonderful coun- try Florida really is. Only of late years has the state been sending out attractive invitations to ‘out- siders to come and learn. They are responding to these invitations by the thousands every day, and the army of prospectors marching on to Florida incldes the capitalist and the laborer, the homeseeker and the seeks of health, pleasure and profit. The invitation has appealed to them and as they come to know more-and more of Florida the stronger will become the call to the land of sunshine and flowers. The Industrial Index, published at Columbus, Ga., had a lengthy ar- ticle last week on Florida, from which the following is taken: “The invitation of Florida ap- peals like the murmur of a loiter- ing breeez bearing the perfume of flowers; like the glint of a flowing sail off a friendly shore; like the beckoning smile of a dancing sun- beam; like an airy voyage on a fleecy, dreamy cloud throughout a long summer day; like romance when the youthful heart is thrilled by the wine of adventure; like a password to peaceful scenes of plenty. “A new note has come to domi- nate Florida's invitation. Achieve- ment and success beckon to the de- velopment of great opportunities. In the last census decade, twice the percentage of people accepted Flor- ida’s invitation as went to other states of the union on an average. And only a beginning has been made in Florida. Development is but at the threshold of its wonder- ful resources.”’—Arcadia Enterprll\e. MEN PREFER SMALL TOWNS | ~ c B i vses, > o) “That mait dogsii’t ags to do much | but stand afoult dnd look important,” sald the manager. “Yes,” replied the | proprietor. “He’s naturally gifted that way. All the rest of us are hustling in such a hurly-burly fashion that I think it well to keep him around | to give a touch of ease and dignity to the scene."—Washington Star. ' Toads. | There is Wothing very attractive Yooking about toads. If you should #na one of the homely little fellows hopping about among your flowers and plants do not allow anyone to disturd bhim, #s they are invaluable to farm- and gardeners. They destroy many insects and bugs that would oth- erwise ruin plants. . | First Folding Pocket Knives. | Pocket kmives with blades to fold (Into the handle by a spring, were first made in the middle of the . eighteenth century. | just at that moment, too! Now he'll ' walled. sinking down into the chair Because of | Bennett LT ' (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press), The June evening was balmy and | setting sun slanted over the grass and up on the wide, vine-hung porch, sgain. “At least I couldn’t ponib!" tll after we were married—and he never ask me again till after I've ex- lained, and so—and 80— £ The fluffy head sank down to the arm of the chair and she sobbed. i Weeks passed and the {]outh an the girl passed each other nvcrtgeld looks or frankly belligerent stares. Once, notably on an evenins‘ of the fragrant, glamour-filled vzrle;);i. the youth softened a s rinerigrg b gh the moon]lt: orch and | toward the p | enchantment to o acarsd ‘ the wicker chairs. But as b with | y | | | i | where two wicker chairs were drawn! . . 4. ijiar environment there came | flufty as to gown and hair, dimpled of cheek. In the other sat a youth, impressive of manner, dark of eyes, of a type of physical attractiveness that corresponded with a satisfying completeness to the girl, the night, and the general atmosphere of June and roses. i “I brought you those flowers,” he was saying, an accusing finger di- rected toward the table where they lay, “not to be put over there and forgotten about, but to wear, or hold in your lap.” She looked around with a little air of penitence. “Why, 1 did forget them, didn’t 17 Poor things!” Rising, she went over to the table and picked them up tenderly, smooth- ing out the crumpled petals where | they had lain. “I bet if Bennett had brought them ' over you wouldn’t have forgotten,” be sald. | She paused in her advance toward ' him and an odd, arrested look stole over her face. Presently she moved somewhat stifly over, dropped pre- ! cipitately into the chair again, while a burning blush spread slowly up to her very hair and as slowly died away. The youth stared at her suspicious- ly. “What are you blushing about?” he demanded, a dawning resentment in his voice. She retorted indignantly. “T’ll blush it I want to. And, besides, I'm not, anyway,” she added incoherently. “You're always imagining something.” “Imagining!” he scoffed, growing more resentful as his suspicions took firmer root. “Why, it was a regular sunset! I make a silly remark just to hear you laugh at it, and instead of that you give a color exhibition that would fade a bunch of firecrackers to a sickly pink. I'd like to know what you mean by it.” “Would you really?” inquired the i To it an & lone rock curse fate. maiden with suspiclous sweetness. “By what right, may 1 ask, do you—" “Right!” he interrupted hotly. “What right? Haven't I asked you to marry me every other night for the last three months? You know very well you're going to say ‘yes' some- time. 1 was going to do it again to- night if you'd given me half a chance. 1 was only waiting till the moon came up.” “Then I certalnly wouldn't have said ‘ves’ tonight,” returned Miss Dimples indignantly. “You look sillier in the moonlight than at any other time.” The youth rose majestically from his chair. “Very well,” he announced calmly, “that ends it! You've given me every reason to believe you're in love with that Bennett. 1 mention his name and you blush. Not only that, but you refuse to explain. And not only that, but—" “Go away!” a manded. “Oh, I'm going! stifled voice com- You needn’t be in such a hurry. It's the last you'll see of me” the youth threatened in sepulchral tones. He turned on the third step. “You might walk down to the gate with me,” he conceded gloomily. “It's the last time.” “I will not!"” explained a furious lit- tle voice. “I won't stir from t chair—not if you stand there till crack of doom!"” She watched him as he strode to the gate, listened intently to the vindictive scrunch of his boots on the gravel outside till the sounds grew faint in| the distance. Then she rose, walked forward three steps, gave an angry little shake to her ruffied skirts and carefully stepped out of a filmy mesh of lace and linen that was caught aboyt her feet. * She picked it up, crunched it into a little ball and shook it viciously in tront of her face. “What did you have to start com- ing down for?" she demanded, “and s never Whderstand. He'll always think | t bleshed because. And I| ‘can nmnever explain—never!” Subject for Congratulatien. Marbe a man is lucky if his wite takes an interest in politics instead o1 reading best sellers and feeling Durt because he cau't act like one of the heroes. Insect Pest Causes Heavy Loss. It is reported that the blowfly ceauses an annual loss of more than 1,000,000 sheep in Australia. Victoria - has not yet seriously suffered from this pest, owing, no doubt, to the compulsory dipping of all sheep, and to the starlings, which are here found in jarge numbers. lon a wide, vine-hung porch, where 'l-ned by her husband t him the memory of | his innocent remark and the strange | look and vivid blush that had greeted | it. His resolution turned to gall with- | in him. He drifted aimlessly down side avenue, whence he wandered 10 | the outskirts to sit on a lone rock and | curse fate. | Gradually he began to meet the | maiden and Bennett going about lo-_ gether. Presently he met her at a dance. Though she kept far from his vicinity, and her silvery mirth seemed oftenest mingled with Bennett's bray- ing laughter, he { thrill of rising hope that her vivacity | was not quite so genuine, her eyes not quite so sparkling bright nor hf-r beauty so radiantly undimmed as in the days of his uninterrupted devo- tion. Nevertheless rumors began to reach him that the girl and Bennett were en- gaged. There came an October evening ichill and gray. The blood-red rays | of the setting sun struggled through | banks of stormy cloud, across wind- swept reaches of dead leaves and up two wicker chairs were drawn stlfl!y 3 apart. In one sat a girl, slimly plain | as to long ulster and jaunty cap, dis- | concertingly distant of mien. In the other sat a youth, mournful, shadowed | of eye, of an ensemble which accorded cheerlessly with the girl, the night, and the general atmosphere of ruin and decay. “I brought you that autumn foli- age,” he was saying bleakly, “not be- cause I thought you would care for it, or value it as from a onetime friend, but merely as a symbol of the death of our—er—" “Thank you,” she -murmured ab- sently. He leaned back heavily, and the wind moaned in dirge-like cadence through the deepening gloom. “It was good of you to let me see you, for the last goodby.” “I had nothing else to do," mitted with faint regret. “Mr. nett is out of town.” | The youth’s eyes burned with a dull fury. The flery rim of the crim- son sun shot an angry gleam at their feet. Suddenly he leaned forward, | cheerless decision in his alr. “You needn’t pay any attention to it, of course,” he chanted wearlly. | “I don’t expect you to. But I'm going to do it again—just to round the thing out and—er—because I'm accustomed to doing it, and I miss it. Here it is. I love you. I have always loved you. I am going to love you to the bitter end. Will you marry me?” “Yes,” sald the maid. The sun shot down precipitately, wrathfully. The youth sat petrified, immobile, his mouth still partly open, The girl looked back at him with level eyes. “I said you looked silliest doing it In the moonlight,” she taunted. “You don't.” “Why did you blush?” he asked tenderly. Annoyance spread over the face of the maiden. “I refuse to discuss it,” she sald. Again the mystery, unsolved! For one fateful moment the heart of the youth grew cold with doubt things threatened to go wrong again for evermore. Then an illumining thought leaped in. She was going to marry him. What mattered it? “I have it!” he announced exult- antly. “You were blushing over the thought of being silly enough to blush over Bennett.” “Exactly!” she murmured with joy- | tul pride. “How clever, dear!” Then peace and darkness fell, —— Not Familiar to Him, The political game was wholly new to Willlam O. L. Ziehn when Har- | rison, Sears and Harlan fought it out for the mayoralty. He was a paw‘ tern-maker and lived in the old l-‘our-“ teenth ward, now the Fifteenth, | Mr. Ziehn was persuaded to nm‘ for alderman and he succeeded in d&‘ feating George Mugler. This was after he got going. the outset campaigning w full ot surprises to him, and he natural- ly a bit suspicious of that which he did not understand, It was arranged to give him g ste oft with a meeting e was hired and fi the far end of table was stretc with an American table w | At A vacant store 80 that he should house, and as he p the aisle Mr, Strauss « come: “What's the matter with Ziehy Mr. Ziehn paused, glared at § and shouted back: “What the ~~— is the | you?"—Chicago E ening :T(‘" e < . To Bring Back Erring Husband. | Mrs. Alice Edwarde, Fast Columbus, | Ohio, firmly believes her husband vrlll‘ return, as she confided to a neighbor who inquired why his picture hung on' the wall upside down. “It a wite de- | urned his pic- ture upside down, he is certain to re- turn” she declared ——— Uncle Eben, “Dey say dat opportunii omce. 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TWEEDELL PHONE 59 3 O S e aes We Know Not What’s Before Us But you'll know that you have A Load of Good Sound Lumber behird you, when perched cn your wagon, homeward bound, after having been Loaded in our Yards WE SELU THE BEST NSRRI s o Lakeland Manufacturing Company LAKELAND, FLA. L rHoNE e i —— During the trial of 0P persons Charles Lamb re® ly that he “should like ' —to ask them to 2i7° v Dot sit with them? solemnly. “Yes, I: thing but a ben or a Prepared for defeat defeated bators he commenced. 1 for success, shall do all In my power to secure it, ang trust to God rest—Admiral Farragut. asked for the .