Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 3, 1915, Page 2

B Limes Bring - $36 Per Barrel At Miami Miami, May 3—The gin-rickey season in the north has apparently started, for very high offers are be- ing made to local growers for the little yellow spheres. John W. Graham, Chrse & Co., at this p terday that $2 pe: pricc being offered two cents apiece. Lime growers who are lucky en- ough to have a crop mnear enough maturity to ship are lucky. The price of two cents each is very at- tractive, for it means $36 per bar- rel Several growers of limes on the keys are preparing to go to their groves in an endeavor to get enough mature limes to ship while the price is so high. manager for t, said yes- d is the now, 1t o Moving Picture Co. Prefers Fla. To California! ) Miami, May . Field, presi- | dent of the Prismatic Film Company, is back in Miami and company will be here by the middle of May to make thi ¥ permanent headquarters, providing a suitable location can be found on which to build large glass studio. Mr. Field arrived in the city Saturday night, and bright and early this morning started on a hunt for studio site. Tle company spent last December hut moved to Los Anzeles on account of the weather which was unusually inclement for this city at that time, and also becauvse there are not ough big buildings in the Magic City. The weather in Los Angeles was found to he much worse than here, and hence the return to sunny Florida. his entire a a and his in Miami, en- Miami have is growing and will soon enough big buildings to suit any moving picture producer, it is believed, and in the meantime parts of the company can be sent to New York to get a picture impossible to | put on here. New York is only a few hoirs from Miami while it is five days from Los Anzeles and Mr. Field says that this fact is greatly | in Miami's favor as and | “props’ can be secured in much less time by a company located in this| city. J. Pluvius vs: Movie Actors Mr. Field said he found Los Anga- les to be entirely too wet for a suc- cess at picture making, as well as being too far from New York. *‘the center of things theatrical.” Rainy weather was experienced for twn month this past winter in Los An- geles, and as pictures cannot be made when the weather is not clear the company was far from busy. | The official weather report shows in Miami the percentage of the pos- sible amount of sunshine is 61, i During the summer months Mr. | Field’s company will make pictures in Miami without a studio, but be-! fore September he hopes to have ' built a large glass studio which can | be used during rainy weather. This' will be a large and expensive struc- ture, but it will be built if the suit- able location can be had. ‘It all de- pends on what the real estate men do to me,” he said. actors Permanent headquarters have been established in, the United Charities Building, 289 Fourth Avenue, where all communications addressed to the secretary will meet with prompt re- sponse, The Union does not intend to usurp the place of any permanently organized patriotic organizations, and it has been made broad enough in principle to embrace not ;mly Americans of German, but Irish, Hungarian, Jewish, Swedish, Span- ish and other racial orign, and to form a grand clearing house for all loyal American citizens who are in- terested in American affairs and the conduct of our international poli- cies on honor, and not to the humili- ation of all true Americans. THE ALLIES VIEW By Albert W. Bryce Putting aside the question whether or not Dr. Dernburg meant his “neutrality of the seas” letter as a kind of Trojan horse for the over- coming of Britain, and putting aside the question of whether the surest way to world peace now may not be over the beaten and prostrate form of one of the European antagonists, we may say that the Dernburg letter presents the germ of a great idea, and that it arouses a noble hope in the minds of those who desire peace. To free the seas; to put an end to the horrible plumge of Bluechers and Aboukirs and Bulwarks to the bottom of the sea; to remove the repreach of Falaba-killings, and dark Aundacious mysteries, and all that ghastly record; to free the world-uniting trade of the nations from menace and destruction——that in fitself is a noble aim, and a pro- ject worthy of all praise. It is a light streaming through the dark- ness of the battle night—a promise | considered advisable to run a mow- ‘dny. ranking the cutting into wind- S v s Lk Demonstration Work | -(;uim‘s\illcu Fla., May 3-—Reports from the agents in the field indicate that the season is from two to three weeks later than usual. rainfall of the winter, with the pre- | The heavy vailing cold, has retarded farm work verywhere in the State. This makes the field agents’ work very ardous for the next few weeks to get the farmers lined up to adopt the best <0 as to get as larze yields as possi ble when harvest time comes around. | The rainfall in the State is suffi- cient to supply plenty of moisture to! all crops grown, but under ordinary farming methods the soils, generally speaking, are not in a condition to take care of this rainfall. Lands | well broken and subsoiled in the fall, and with winter cover crops planted, ' are able to utilize those heavy rain falls and have a certain amount of | moisture stored in the soil zlg;\ins!i the time when the spring crops call | for it. The agents are instructed to ' stress this early preparation, and ef- forts along this line have heen very | successful compared with work in| years previous, where nothing of this kind had been stressed or brought to the attention of the farm- ers. | We are right now in the eritical ! period of the oat crop. Reports are that this crop has been increased at least one hundred per cent over pre- vious years, but where early prep- aration and methods have been used the crops is a success. The dry weather of April and early May, however, is going to tend to reduce the crop unless some good cultivat- ing methods are adopted. The agents are stressing this cultivation of the oat crop in that the use of a | weeder or harrow for this pnr[msv" opens up the soil and helps warm it ! up, at the time ture proper straining the mois- S0 necessary to success. In the matter of saving seed for next year's crop, it is not considered ble where the crop is not ing of a large yield to do so, because the vitality of the seed on a poor stand is apt to be low and give a low germination, but where the crop promises well it is a good idea for every farmer with a crop to select a few acres of the best of the crop and let it mature and save his own seed. In case where the crop is not promising, the best way to do would be to cut it in the stage and make it into hay. Oat hay is considered one of the best live stock feeds we have, but to get the best value of the crop there should never be too large an area cut at any one time, prom dough In this demonstration work it is er in cutting this crop for four or five hours in the early part of the rows or smaN cocks in the after- noon. If too large an area is cut and left to the action of the sun the result will be that the quality has depreciated. This crop, when cut as recommended, has the full nutrition well distributed in the stem and in {feeling very proud of them. L, |State Agt. McQuarrie - |Secretary Noblitt | Makes Report On | Arranges For State Hdw. Convention Tarpon Springs, May 3—G. E. Nob- lit went to St. Petersburg Saturday | afternoon to make arrangements for the annual convention of the Florida State Hardware Dealers’ Associa- tion, of which he is secretary. The convention will be called in the Sun- and their families. Practically every hardware man in Tarpon Springs is planning to attend the convention. Big times are promised to all the delegates by the St. Petersburg boosters, so that the dealers are anxious to be pres- ent. Secretary Noblet will look out for adequate hotel accommodations and the convention hall. The Woman's Town Improvement Association wiil permit the of the second floor of their fine building for the conven- tion. us Sweet Peas Thrive at Ocala Kvery person who passes along ! thewest side of Mr. M. J. Roess’ resi- on Kast Oklawaha avenue, is ssed with the dences imp beauty of den, now in full bloom and probably at the heighth of their beauty. Mr. of sweet for the has ron Roess has planted the bed peas very carefully each y past five or six. Study and ¢ enabled him to improve each ye the of the on he not only itiful flowers but the stalk or vines are much larger and blooming more profusely A sentative of the Star went the beds with Mr. Roess a day or two and not blame him for Ther are half a dozen beds, each nearly fifty fect long, and it looked like there must have heen tens of thous- ands of the beautiful and fragrant result year are since does more budding out. The tallest the plants were eight and a half feet high by the yard stick and still shooting their tendrils skyward. Mr. Roess is glad to have anyone stop and admire the flowers. Located | they are, where most of the passing from one important street to an- other goes by, the beautiful flow are seen by many hundreds day The big bed of great erimson pop- pies is algo a pretty sight, These poppies have re-seeded themselves for the past five years, since Hu_~ original planting (no care having been any more seed planted.-—Ocala Star. KANSAS FLIRTS WITH CUPID Through the enchantment that distance lends Smith Center, out here in the heart of the Kansas wheat section, hopes to double her population. The plan mcludes the heads, which makes it valuable for feeding purposes. The matter of the best crops to follow the oat crop is one that the farmer should study well, and the farmer himself is the best judge of { which would be most suitable. There are two crops in the general run of farming operations that are well ad- apted to follow the oat crop. These are peanuts and sweet potatoes. The stubble of the oat crop, when plow- ed under shortly after the ecrop is harvested, puts a certain amount of humus in the soil that is necessary to retain soil moisture and make the land very desirable for sweet po- tatoes or peanuts. In soils where lime prevails the peanut crop per- haps will be the most profitable, but on some of the sandier soils where lime is not in evidence, the sweet potatoes will make a profitable crop This year in cotton sections a de- crease in the acreage of cotton plant. ed is at least 25 per cent, and con- siderably more than this in the short staple sections. Those two crops al- ready mentioned are good ones to {ake the place of cotton. There is aiways a good demand for peanuts and there is no difficulty in getting a good price for them. However, the main crop of them should not be planted before early June because the crop does best on soil well warm- ed. The main sweet potato crop should be planted the 20th of May and the first of July, and where the oat stubble is used for this pur- pose the preparation of the land should be as thorough as possible previous to planting the crop. The farm demonstration work stresses the advisability of every farmer growing all the maintenance crops necessarv. not only to run his 1d hut to feed his live stock. soils can produce the var- ins crops that enter into the con- sumption of the household, work- stock and all the live steck of the farm, and the matter of stressing this particular side of farming should be urged to the limit. C. K. McQUARRIE, rida spreading broadcast through the na- tion a list of names of persons of marriable age. In the list will be men and women, widows, maids, bachelors and widowers, every per- son with a legal right to marry. Smith Center is a Cupidless town. The men folks and women folks do not seem to care for one another in any but a friendly way For years the young men have been going to neighboring towns to call on girls, and find wives among these girls. Once married they leave the old home town. Many of the girls, too, marry out- n|'-|()\\'x| fellows, and move away. S0 there are many people here haven't married because they didn't care for company from other thriv- ing little Kansas cities. that these persons outside the here. The list of unmarried persons is being prepared by the mayor and the editors of the two newspapers. The who marry city and bring persons them city council to have thousands of copies of it printed and sent to them to all parts of the courtry. At matrimonial desires of the munic pality. The list will include farm- ers, mechanics, business and profes- sional men, some wealthy, some strugeling along in an effort to make their first $1,000, and even the itown’s ne'er-do-wells.—Smith Cen- 'ter (Kan)., dispatch to St. Louis Star. INDIAN LANDS OPEN FOR ENTRY Bismarck, N. D, May 3—The Government land in the Standing Rock Indian reservation was opened to insnection today, preliminary to being homesteal two works This blv the t opening lands thit will ever take place There thrown entry is proba hig of public in this part of the are approximately the reservation, but the share corntry. Te- ments to the Indians have reduced the great beds of sweet peas in the gar-' before, and | has more of | repre- | through | The idea is| city clerk has been instructed by the | 1] | Unrequited Love Suggested as ; Cause of Suicide { Tarpon Springs, May 3—The bods lof D. E. Loftin, the young man who | ended his life at Sutherland re- |cently was shipped to the family home in Salisbury, N. C,, on the inurthbound Atlantic Coast l,in.p Pal- metto Limited. Owing to circum- |stances prohibitive of any member 1shinv City Tuesday week, May ”'fof his sister’s family accompanying (to continue in session three days. |, . yopains home, the body will be |During that time, St. Petersburg is'_ methods of helping the crops along |planning to entertain the majority | ent by express. The sister, Mrs. W. } Estridge, of lof the hardware men of the state|y,yqanq, arrived in Tarpon Springs | Wednesday by auto to see her dead I brother and arrange details for ship- ment of the body. She was accom- panied by her husband, her son-in- law, I. M. Champan, of Tampa; and T. J. Fraley, of Lakeland. Unrequited Love Cause Opinion of the friends and rela- tives of the young man is that the deed was prompted through over- whelming erief of disappointed love. That the yvoung man expected to have wedded soon is attested hy sev- eral friends to whom he had men- tioned his engagement. On the occasion of a visit to his | ister in Lakeland some two montnus when him alive tor time, the young man told Mr. dze that he was to be mar- jed soon. Other friends since tne death have said unhesitatinzly that unrequited love was the cause of the deed. since, she saw the la; Letter to Sweetheart The young man is said to have written letter on the evening his suicide to the young woman whom he had expected to by date ? o: a marry The de- carrier. has not This was posted young woman to vulged the message to the public. .. D. Vinson, the undertaker Verdict o’ Suicide The coroner's jury returned a ver- dict of suicide. By what more than having taken ternally, is not specified by the jury. M Estridge S neere {appreciation and gratitude towards ‘Hn- people of rpon Springs and Sutherland for the and court- {esy they have shown her dead bro- in means, poison in- expres: car ther and cxtended to her in the sad case | blossoms in full bloom, and as many | of BADNESS IN LIDA D By PAUL STRONG. | (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) | “There are many kinds of women,” said the old frontiersman. *“Some of them are good, some very good, and ' a few—only a few—are bad. A wom- | an who's bad seems to me somehow a perversion of what nature intended. | And that's not sentiment, but observa: | tion.” He was one of the men of the last frontier—the great expanse of terri- tory that stretches northward be- tween Edmonton and Alaska. There, over thousands of square miles, roam | the Indian and the caribou. It will never be settled, that virgin land that nature has marked for her own. Its vastness, as much as its cold, defles the puny efforts of man. “Her name was Lida, my bad wom- an,” resumed the frontiersman. “I make mention of her, because, as I was saying, or meant to say, there's the same cure for badness in women that there is for badness in men. And that's love. Again, observation, not sentiment. “Lida was a half-breed—half Indian, half French. She came from some | settlement along the Slave. She was nineteen, no more, when I made her acquaintance in Edmonton jail, of Which I was warden. That was in the old days. Edmonton was a fron- tier camp then, and that’s not so long ago, neither. The jail was a log one. Lida had been rounded up by | one of the police. She was serving a year for stabbing a man. “Nineteen, I said, but she had had years of a wild life behind her. Now put a pin in those words. In one sense, in the customary sense, Lida was good. Every man knew that to | his cost—you couldn't try amything | wrong with the girl. The man she | stabbed had tried to kiss her. “Yet she was a natural-born devil, it seemed. Her father had been an outlaw, her brothers were outlaws. | She was the wildest, most ruffianly— [ if I can use such a word—piece of a girl in the Northwest. And at last she £ | every chance he is to advertise the | | 1,000,000 acres in | with a thin face, blue ey | could recover. North and was believed to have died | there. ! succeeded the old ones. | got & year. It would do her good, the ! judge thought. He wanted her taught | | while she was in jail. Taught? She | flung the spelling book at the lady | missionary’s head and called her a| few names that sent her running out of the place with her hands before‘l " her eyes. “After that there was no doiag any- | thing with Lida. The matron had | handled some tough characters in her day, but she admitted that Lida ter- | rorized the jail, and, as you can'l‘ flog a woman, sie had the run of | the place. She did what she wanted | to, and we all looked forward to | the time when she would be set free. And we hoped that she wouldn’t serve her next time in Edmonton. “We learned afterward that Lida | and the lady missionary had got along ‘ very well together until the lady mis- sionary asked a question that she shouldn’t have. She didn’t understand | Lida, which wasn't to be wondered; at. | “Then Rev. Johann Haufer came: upon the scene. He was a German, as you might guess by the name, one of those Moravian missionaries whoI travel up and down the land and are | only equaled in devotion by the trav- cling cures. He was a tall, ‘delicate- looking man of about thirty-five years. | s, a lot of | silky flaxen beard. He had heard of | Lida, and wherever there was a soul in torment he liked to be there to] help. l " “I shall never forget the meeting be- | tween that mad girl and the gentle y’ | looking padre. “‘Who are you?' she says, springing to her feet and staring at him. And, { when he told her, I never heard such abuse from a woman's lips. I thought it would have knocked Rev. Haufer down, like it had the lady mis- | sionary. But it didn’t budge him an inch. “‘Yon are in trouble, my dear girl, he says. ‘There is something in } mind that is troubling you. Ye it won't give you any pcace, neither, until you out with it. “He got just go far when she sprang at him like a wildcat. You see, she had been badgered to death by people who wanted to reform her; and then she hated men anyway, not having met any but the worst specimens ol‘ them. We had to pull the padre away. | His face was all scratched and bleed- | ing. | “But he came egain the next day, and a week later, and at last he bad sort of awed the girl. Didn’t preach to her or anything, but just asked her to tell him what it was that troubled her. We couldn’t make it out at all. We thought he had overcome her, tha cowed way she acted. “Then he had to go away. He nev- or came back to Edmonton, at least not that year. We heard afterward that he had been clawed by a bear, miles north, from one of the police, who said he'd secn the padre after the | accident, and that he didn't think he That was after Lida had served ten months. “We let her out after ten months— | glad to. First thing she did was to %o looking for the padre, breathing | vengeance on the way he'd treated her, asking questions he knew wor- ! ried her, about her soul, and all that. Said she'd kill him if she got hold of him. Then she found out he'd gone i | i Anyway, there wouldn’t be any news of him for the winter, not | until the police came down in the spring with their report. “Lida disappeared from town. No- body guessed she was going north to kill what remained of Reverend Hauf- er. She disappeared completely from the minds of all. Edmonton was changing all the time and new faces | “It must have been two years later | when who should turn up in town but | Reverend Haufer himself. He looked | sort of changed. He'd grown stouter, | filled out physically and spiritually, too, I should say; but he was as fine a man as ever. “‘So you wasn't killed? him, “‘Not much, he answered. ‘I've got that bearskin at home. What is Edmondton like?” he continued. I'm to have charge of the Moravian church ! here.’ . “He'd given up the roving life. Ap- parently his superiors wanted him to take a hand in the care of the grow- ing frontier town. He'd put up at Shamus’ hotel, and was starting out to build a house on what was then Main street. There it is. Prettiest little place along the road, isn't it? And he did it all himself—laid every stone and the carpentering was the work of his hands besides.” Down the street came a burly, mid- dle-aged man, accompanied by a charming woman in middle life. She looked half-Indian, but there was high refinement in the sweet face and on the noble forehead. “That was—her,” said the old fron- tiersman in a low tone. “There ain't many know it now, and we old-timers don’t do much talking.” “That was—Lida?" I demanded in- | credulously. | “Fact, sir. She'd gone up north on | snowshoes, 290 miles or more; and ' she found him and pulled him through his illness and—and a brother mis- sionary married them there. That was what was wrong in her, you see. She thought all men were like the Kind she'd known. And when a wom- an thinks that of men, or a man of women—well, it's against nature. She learned differently in those nights and fiayl when she sat at his bedside tend- ing him. And that was what broke up the baduess in her. But we don't speak of that, because she's president of cur La b, and her eldest's in the Canadian bank—doing well, 00, the: tell wme" 3 I asked Unbusinessiike Transaction. Probably the smallest money order ! miles to Lewiston, ldaho, Pacific States : Join in Big (elebration Portland, Ore., May Z‘—All of the States of the Pacific Northwest are to join hands this week in a big celebration in honor of the comple- tion of the Dalles-Celilo canal, which is regarded as the most im- portant waterway project ever un- dertaken in this section of the c¢4mn- try. The canal provides a cnmuw- ous free waterway from the Pamtu- Ocean inland a distance of 479 on the Snake river, and to Priest Rnpids,. on the Columbia river, a distance of 450 The completion of the waterway has been deemed of such great importance that a series of celebrations has been arranged by the citizens of the vast area affect- ed. These celebrations are to con- miles. —— . G. BATES inue through the entire week, an will include special programs , Lewiston, Walla Walla, The Dy, Pandleton, Vancouver, Astoria a a number of other places. HOSIERY MAKERS IN SESSIoy Philadelphia, Pa,, May 3. port Possibilities” is the leagy,. subject slated for discussion a annual convention of the Natigy, Association of Hosiery and Upgg) wear Manufacturers, which opep, in this city today with leading ,.? resentatives of the industry in , tendance from all parts of the coy) try. Today was devoted to the g nual exhibition of machinery g products in the First Regimg, At the first of the pyg on tomorrow morning g, members will be welcomed by ) or Blackenburg and Congressma { Hampton Moore. The conven, will continue until Thursda; ¢ Saturday and Monday Opportunity Yours! Building OO OO DO o Plaster, Sash Paints, Stains P S s S S S S S J.B. ST CONTRACTOR ‘The Wilson Hardware Co. Place of Business Is where you SHOULD GO at all times for HARDWARE Material Such as Lime,fCement, Brick, Wal , Doors, Oil & Varnishes __Stoves, Ranges, Oil and Gasoline Boss Ovens Fafining Implements, Plows, Cultivato ' Garden Tools, Hoes, Rakes, Hand Plov Our highest Ideals are Quality and Service Come to see us and let us supply your needs WILSON HARDWRE CcoO REATE AND BUILDER ever sen‘ ‘rom Eatonton, sent recently. A man wnllndol.;to'l.:: post office, asking for a moroy order m-mmmu.wuennoomunu soclety, and he said he would nave to send a money order, as it didn’t take stamps. The monmey order cost unmmeenu.ndum-tn oeat stamp to send the order. Having had twenty-one N 5 . il % years’ experience in bui and contracting in Lakeland and vicinelte;: I feel comp® ;t‘: i;‘;;!der ‘::le l:nstlservice; in this line. If comtempls ding, e pleased to furni i all i ool o rgpinduilin ish estimates and Phone 169. CLlaa s Ll T 2T TR VP of a glorious dawn when the nations shall realize what they are doing, | and shall turn from senseless blood and the thunder of battle the slaughter to friendly understand- |peoples of the world are beginning ings. | to think of a better thing than mu- Dr. Dernburg’s suggestion is a re- | tual murder. minder that in the midst of State Agent.|thé unclaimed territory to about| $6,000 acres. Thirty-nine thous-| and acres are located in North Da- kota, and 47,000 acres in South Da~| kota. In South Dakota the fillings The messaze of the |are to be made at Timberlake, and “Who Are Your" the million dead is the question “Why?" |in North Dakota in this city. J. B. STREA