Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 12, 1915, Page 2

Plant Board Of Florida Makes Plans Jacksonville, May 12—Plans were made by the plant board of Florida Monday which will enable the ad- visory* committee to go ahead with the work of eradicating the citrus canker and otherwise protecting the growers and farmers of the state. The meeting was held in the Hotel Mason, beginning at the morning and adjourning at 4:30 o'clock in the afternoon. The whole situation was gone over and such steps were taken as the board thought necessary to carry on the work laid out by the plant law re- cently enacted. The advisory committee reported that it had suggested the title of plant commissioner for the execu- tive head which is to be employed at a later date, This was adopted by the board. The committee then given letters authorizing each member to act as plant commission- er until such time as the proper man may be selected. The com- mittee is composed of three mem- bers as follows: Dr. H. P. Rolfs, director of the experiment station at inesville; S. Tenney, of Or- lando, manager of the Growers' and Shippers’ League, and W. J. Krome, of Homestead, chief engineer of the Florida East Coast Railway sion was exten- Nature of Authority The following letter was drafted by the board and signed by Chair- man P. K. Yonge for the use of the members of the committee: Jacksonville, Fla., May The board of control acting as the state plant board under the provisions of the Florida plant act of 1915, hereby appoints......... of..cuud { N » as a member of the advisory committee appointed by this board to perform the duties of the plant commissioner. Said ..is authorized and instructed (a) To inspect places, plants and plant products, and things and sub- stances used or connected there- with; (b) To investigate, control, eradi- Good Times Are Rapidly Returning 12—R G ins in the 10, 1915 Jacksonville, May Rhodes, one of the capt retail furniture business of the South, has just been in the city looking over his local interests. He is confident that “good times” are now returning and states that all of the stores in which he is interested are making plans to take care of in- creased business expected. Besides being interested here Mr. Rhodes is stockholder in various big stores over the cotton belt. He says conditions in that section are growing better every day and that before long business there will be normal. He left last evening for his home in Atlanta. —_— NEW YORK DAY BY DAY New York, May 12—“Nor soul helps flesh more now than flesh helps soul.” 1t is one of the most perfect lines Robert Browning ever wrote which Miss Susanna Cberoft cites to show the close inter-relation, the inevit- able interdependence, of health, character and beauty. “Womn say they have no time to care for health and figure,” she re- peated to me with mingled amaze- ment and indignation. “No time? Oh, shame! 1f women would be gtrong, mentally and spiritually, they must keep the physical body strong that it may not trammel their growth. The body should be a fit- ting expression of a beautiful soul. “Women spends hours embroid- ering a dolily for her table or hos- jery for her husband. She spends much time putting together various condiments to form pastry and viands which ruin the digestive sys- tem of husband and children. Two intelligent looking women recently spent an hour in discussing whether the starched clothes should be wash- ed before sheets and pillow cases, yet these same women think them- selves too busy to attend regularly to exercises for health or figure, “But advanced thought today de- mands cultivation of our physical as well as our mental selves. Wom- an must be trim, vital, dynamie, to hold her position of leadership. She cannot disregard her appearance and hope to be educative, inspiring influence to others; she cannot neg- lect her physical self, her health, without suffering a loss of self-re- spect.” And then Miss Cocroft put for- ward a perfectly good alibi for the tired business man who may be ac- cused of letting his eyes stray after strange goddesses. Why a Man Turns Around to Look at a Woman “Men have more semnse of art in the human form than women,” she declared. “They have not the time to spend in art galaries brought in- to their homes, and while they toil, that wife, sister or mother may have leisure to study and to beautify the home, she should not forget to| express the beauty within herself. “A man likes to be proud of the Wwoman who means the most to him, be she wife, mother, sister or sweet- heart. He turns to look at a beauti- ful, gracefully carried figure, while 10 o'clock in | and revent the dissemination |of insect pests and diseases; (¢)To supervise or cause the treatment, cutting and destruction of plants and plant products in- If«‘sh’d of infected therewith. According to the provisions of the plant act, Board of Control State Plant Board. P. K. YONGE, Chairman. Will Notify Owners Forms of notices were also draft- ed which the various inspectors will serve upon owners of groves in which infected trees have been {found. At the same time a letter was adopted which is to be carried by the various inspectors to show their authority to ‘enter and in- spect groves and nurseries, The advisory committee decided to divide the work up into four de- partments, the heads of which will report to the plant commissioner, who in turn will report to the plant board as often as such reports are desired. These four divisions are 'nursery inspection, pathology, ento- mology and citrus canker eradica- tion. Dr. E. W, _ Berger was se- lected head of the department of entomology at the meeting last week. Yesterday F. M. O'Byrne was chosen chief of the department of nursery inspection. He will take up his duties June 1. Next Meeting in June The next meeting of the board will be held some time in June. Members will gather in Gainesville on June 7 for commencement week at the University of Florida, and at that time the date for the meetinz in Miami will be decided upon, Those who were present at the ses- sion Monday were: P, K. Yonge, Pensacola; E. L. Wartman, Citra; W. D). Finlayson, Old Town; F. E. Jennings, of this city; Dr. H_ P. Rolfs, of Gainesville; W. J. Krome, of Homestead; L. S. Tenny, of Or- lando, and F. A. Burch, of Talla- hassee, secretary of the board. Everglades R’y. Will Be Buil Palm Beach cate Acting as the A West says: “All doubt as to the construction of the Palm Beach and Everglades Railroad from West Palm Beach to dispatch been sold to a bank in New York. The officers announce that work will commence at once on this line ot railroad, which will open up one of the richest agricultural regions known. Terminal facilities and site have been aranged for, the citi- zens of West Palm Beach raising enough money to buy the land and donating it to the railway company. Already West Palm Beach is feeling an impetus towards the prosperity that must come with the building of this railroad that will make avail- able thousands of acres of rich lands and realty values are growing daily in anticipation. —_— he passes by without a glance hun- dreds of women who are out of pro- portion and who carry themselves carelessly and indifferent. “Do not impute to that man a wrong motive; his artistic sense is aroused; his very soul awakens; he sees the expression of his innate love for the beautiful in form and movement. just because years ago they were pronounced man and wife. No matter how truly he may love her, unless she gives care to her toilet, her health and her figure, he s sure at some time to draw disagree- able contrasts between hed and other women who know the pleas- ure, satisfaction and restfulness of wholesome attraction of beauty in women,"” SIX HUNDRED BILLS YET TO BE CONSIDERED At the beginning of the sixth week of the Florida legislature to- day, the calendar of the two houses contains a total of 754 Dbills of every description. The House cal- endar carried the largest of the bur- den with an even 400. Of journment was taken at noon until noon Monday, The House killed a | measure that limited the hours of labor for women to nine, passed an- other labor measure providing for the examination, licensing and reg- istering of persons engaged or en- gaging in the business or work of installing plumbing and for the su- pervision and inspection of plumb- |ing and drainage in cities of 5,000 population or Democrat. over—Tallahassee Good Advice About Oilcloth. After washing oficloth and linoleum, be sure to dry it properly. If left |damp it will speediiy rot and soon be- |come totally ruined. It is a great | mistake to use too much water for \washing it The cloth should be wrung out and passed lightly over the surface. Lake Okeechobee has been dispelled with the announcement that the bonds amounting to $1,500,000 have |day night and Monday mornin2, was “A wife does not expect to hold |terested in House Bill No. 349, the her husband’s love and limlon\.mpory Attendance Bill. Teach- this ] he can. large number there were only thir-|eat the feed he will raise, ity-nine bills on third reading in|this there is the home garden and | both houses and this bunch of bills|the cane patch, with other small was practically closed up before ad-|crops. This is true diversified farm- One of Victims Of Jax Drowning Not Yet Recovered Jacksonville, May 12—The dead bodies of Mr. A. H Johnson, of 1622 Park street, and her little son, Charlie, 3 1-2 years of age, victims of Sunday night's distressing auto tragedy, were found apd removed from the St. Johns river early Tues- day morning, but although a search- ing party continued the work of dragging the bottom of the water throughout the night, the body of little Eva Johnson 18 months old, the last of the victims to remain in the river, had not been recovered up to an early hour yesterday morning. The tragedy casted a gloom over the entire city. All during the day crowds thronged the docks and watched the searchers drag the river. Diver Hartley Williams, in the service of the Merrill-Stevens Com- pany, located the body of Charlie Johnson at about 4 o'clock Monday morning. It was removed from the river at a point east of the South Jacksonville ferry docks, and prob- ably fifty feet or more from the place where the big seven-passenger automobile of Dr. Johnson plunged into the water from the ferry boat, and carried with it the doctor, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. J H. Bland, Miss Muirel Bland, Miss Gladys Bland, and Mary, Charlie and Eva John- son. Mother's Body Found Mrs. Johnson’s body was found at 6 o'clock floating between two pil- ings on a dock about fifty yards east of the ferry docks. Both bod- ies, together with that of little Mary Johnson, 5 years old, recover- ed Sunday night, have been pre- pared for burial by Marcus Conant, funeral director. No arrangements have so far been made for the fun- erals. Monday night it was that the condition of Dr. Johnson seemed somewhat improved. He is confined to his bed at his home in Riverside, and is attended by close personal friends. Dr_ J. Lindsay Patton, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, and Dr. J. B. French, of the First Presbyterian church, and several physicians have also been in almost constant attend- ance on the grief-stricken man. C. L. Johnson, of Waco, Tex,, father of Dr. Johnson, is now on his | way to Jacksonville, No funeral arrangements for the victims will be made until his arrival. Ferry Service Resumed reported Ferry service, discontinued Sun- resumed in the forenoon of Tuesday, after the bodies of Mrs. Johnson and Charlie Johnson were found, and after a thorough search on the part of an experienced diver revealed the fact that the body of the other baby was not in the ferry slip. The fer- ry boat Duval, however was placed while the South Jack- the in service,, sonville was docked on shore of the river. During the time that the South Jacksonville was prevented from moving on account of the accident, a launch took passengers back and forth across the water, but automo- biles and teams cross. south were unable to ARE SCHOOLS OF MORE BENEFIT THAN BUZZARDS? The school officers of the State are getting very despondent because their legislation seems to hang on the Calendar. They are very much afraid that the Legislature will ad- journ again without their measures 'becomlng law. They are deeply in- ers-Training in the High Schools Bill, the State Uniform Course of Study Bill, and several other bills of less importance. They think the children and the schools are of more importance than the buzzards, fish and many other matters occupying the time of the Legislature, They are praying the Committees on Education to busy.—Tallahassee Democrat. get Our old friend, Joseph Miller, who farms right at Wilmarth, did not make any money on watermelons last year, although he had quite a crop. He isn’t taking any chances this season, and has planted fifty- five acres to corn and peanuts, twenty to Sea Island cotton, and will put out all the sweet potatoes He has cattle and hops to besides ing. It is the kind.of farming on which a man can depend, because there 'is a demand for all that he will raise. Mr. Miller is an advo- cate of the culture of sweet pota- toes and cane. He says that he has never been able to raise as much of either as the home market would consume.—Live Oak Democrat. And They Are Never Popular. “Some men” said Uncle Eben, “has sech a superior way dat dey kin make you feel as if you didn’t have no right to kanow nuffin’ till dey took de trouble to come around an tell it to you." Paint of Great Value. A paint is made from the oil of beans which grow in great quantities in Manchuria which is said te be fire and waterproof. 7 Little Difference In London In War Time New York, May 12—“The At- lantic Ocean is a pretty ‘safe old body of water, if you get well out into it and are headed for New York,” said Captain Charles Percy Lenton, skipper of the staunch British ship Strathblane, which ar- rived in this port recently from London under charter to the Com- mission for Relief in Belgium, 71 Broadway, New York. The Strath- blane berthed at the Erie eleva- tors in Jersey City, where she will take on a small quantity of wheat and a general cargo of about 7,250 tons of food for the destitute people of Belgium. “London \in wartime,” continued Captain Lenton, “is much the same as it ie in any other times. On the surface there is little evidence of any disturbance whatever. People come and go as usual, attend to their regular occupations, dine at the big restaurants and hotels, and attend theatres, all of which are in full blast, the crowds semingly un- diminished. At night there s some apparent difference. The lizhts burn lower on account of a general order that emanated when the first airship scare struck the metropolis. The real excitement in England is outside of London, along the coast, where the people are really alarmed at the threatened attacks of Zep- pelins and aeroplanes. Military ac- tivities are also entirely outside of London. Mobilization of troops, drilling and so on afford very tang- ible evidence of hostilities, ‘One of the saddest sights that one sees in England just now is the home-coming of the wounded men. Hundreds, yes thousands, of these poor fellows are brought back from the front, some of them maimed for life, and others less dangerously wounded. These are taken to the best hospitals, where they are given every care that can be devised to bring them back to health and stren2th again as soon as possible. I saw one Highlander, a splendid specimen of manhood, who had stood by a maxim gun, of which he was in charge, at the front, Fourteen bullets had pigrced his body, en- ough to have killed almost any sort of a man, but he seemed to bein a fair way to recovery from all of his wounds.” One of the trimmest freighters that has sailed into New York har- bor in many a day is the Hebburn, which arrived at this port May 2 and sailed for Rotterdam the latter part of the week with a full cargo of wheat, 5,500 tons. The Hebburn is one of the new ships chartered by the Commission for Relief in Belgium, 71 Broadway, New York. She is a brand new ship, and this was her maiden trip on the ocean. Sand Oil Road Tested By Machine Weighing 7,500 Ibs Mt. Dora has almost completed $12,000 worth or sand-asphalt streets, wide, smooth, clean, dur- able. To test the strength of the new road, which was laid on a clay foundation, the big 7,500-1b. well drilling machine of Dibble & Ern- est was driven upon the road 24 to 48 hours after the liquid sand-as- phalt had cooled. The result sa- tounded everybody, as the following personally writtcn statement of Mr. Dibble proves: The Mt. Dora Sand-Oil Road Test “Road was traveled with one of Dibble & Ernest’s largest water- well drilling machines, which weighed 7,500 pounds. “The large drive wheel has lugs on them which are only 3-4 of n inch wide. Therefore, the weight of 1-4 of this great machine was on that small surface of the road and did not damage the road one bit. “I think it is the best road for both light and heavy traffic SaW. ‘The road has a good clay bed— under the sand-oil and that is what makes it so a heavy load makes no impression on it. ever “There was one place in driving | the heavy machine upon this sand- oil road where there was but very little clay under the sand-oil where the road settled a little under the immense machine. “However, remember when this heavy rig got on to road where it was built with the good clay foun- dation it stood the test. My firm of Dibble & Ernest has driven over all kinds of roads with our heavy machines and we both, as well as our foreman, Mr. H. Knight, say it is the best road we have ever driven one of our large machines over. “After making this test at Mt. Dora we hope this will convince every one and that Lake county and all others will use this kind of a road.” (Signed) W. E. DIBBLE. “Landlady.” The distinction which the posses- slon of land used to give is still exem- plified in the titles of “landlord” and “Iandlady.” Persons are amused at colored washwoman, for instance, insists on the term “lady.” But same woman run a rooming whatever description, and & “landwoman,” but & “land- When Rodney Phail inherited the 1t- | tle Westbrook factory tbat had been | the quiet, unassuming property of his | deceased uncle for two decades, he posted up his one order in all of the | four working rooms of the plant. t was: “Sing.” EWhal does‘ he mean, anyhow?”) growled well-meaning but surly Jeft Dodson, the foreman. “Is there a bet- | ter system in any shop along the riv-| er? ‘Swear!" would suit me better when a machine breaks down.” “Maybe his advice would be good for you, then,” suggested his assistant. “It doesn't do the youngsters m\{ch good to hear you rip it off when youre riled, Jeft.” Before another day, however, _Bl’l hands in the plant understood the situ- ation clearly. The new proprietor ar- rived—a rather serious-faced young man, but with a kindly light in his eyes and a gentle, sympathetic voice that attracted the eighty odd employes. The first thing Rodney Phail did was to call all hands fnto the main rest room and make them a speech. He told them that he felt something more than mere enrichment in being the favored owner of the business—a | gsense of great responsibility. The | | same conservative business methods | would be followed. Old and deserving employes would be retained. His| great wish, however, was to make of | them a hapy family. He intended to build a club house for them, where mu- sic, lectures and entertainments could be held to break the monotony of their | lives. There would be a good library and a gymnasium. These faithful workmen had borne ‘dravely the brunt of the industrial battle. They should share in the prosperity of the business. Each year twenty-five per cent of the profits of the concern should be dis tributed equally among the employes. Of course there was rare apprecla~ tion evinced at the mention of this lib- | eral donation. Then Mr. Phall said: “I have put up a sign reading, ‘Sing.’ I want to explain about that. For ten | years my life has been spent on a lone- | 1y ranch, taking care as custodian of a plece of property in litigation belong- ing to my uncle. The solitude, the eve- ning weariness after an uneventful day, the uneventful existence fast made of me an unsociable hermit. There was no sweetness in my life. Then, one day, » wonderful bird took up its home jusi above my cabin door. It sang from morning until night. It Alled the air with rare, beautiful mu- slc, and my soul witu delight. When it flew away to sunnier climes with the approach of winter I missed it great- ly. Then a new idea came to me: 1 would sing myself. My friends, you do not know how his companionship of music cheered and refined me.” This was the text, and further upon the subject “the new boss” briefly descanted. He showed them how, es- pecially in the work rooms where the assembling of the plant was done at long tables, the hours could be enliv- ened by music, the vocal organs exer- cised and rhythm, poetry and good cheer eugendered. There was so much promise to the plan, the girls especially so eagerly re- sponded to the music suggestion, that Rodney decided to go a step further. He advertised in a near city newspa per for a cultured lady to undertake an orderly educational superintendency of & group of sixty young factory girls. One especially neat, terse and com prehensive reply from a Miss Mabel Durant pleased him. A week later the young lady in question arrived upon the scene with her aged mother. Rod- ney had a neatly furnished cottage near the works all ready for them. For the first time in his life a woman's face attracted him in anew way. With in a week he was ardent in his appro- bation of the system pursued by the quiet, refined young lady, who entered with zest into taking charge of the girl { workers. Rodney left all the details of man- agement and training to Miss Durant. He heard great reports of her suc- ' cess, he did not wonder when he met her dally that she had wound herself around the hearts of the girls. Then one day his whole being thrilled as he paused in his work to listen to a touch- ing ballad she was singing in the work room. It was in the rear work room on the fourth floor of the plant, but every note was borne to his wistful hearing strong and clear. Suddenly a jarring crash shut out Wm. He turned to view a great up- | heaval of an isolated stone building where explosive varnishes were stored. | There was a blast of flame. The maln | building had caught. In an instant dense clouds of smoXe rolled upwards. “Fire!” The direful shout, echoed and re- ! peated, rent the eir. There was a | rush from the bullding. A chill struck the heart of the anxious Rodney as he thought of the girls on the fourth floor. “Those narrow stairs!” he gasped, and then, thirty voloes strong, there u.motohlluntheltudy,mln‘ notes of a song accompanying the :loohtapl. as clearly timed as though A company of trained soldiers was on the march. | And so, in splendid order, the last one of the girls got sately out of the building. The structure was destroyed, but soon to be rebuilt. But not until Rodney Phail had won 18 loving bride who had sung her gen \le way into his heart of hearts. (Copyright, 184, by W. G. Chapman) — By ? A well-known :l':tzpolltm choral conductor was once holding voice trials preliminary to the organization of a colored choral club of Jjubilee singers. One of the soprano appli- cants was extremely reticent when asked to sing a scale. 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