Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 31, 1915, Page 2

Great Work Being Done by Jacksonville| Children’s Home Jacksonville, May 31—The Flor- jda Children’s Home Society mnow stands second among the thirty-five in the United Stetes for the number of children taken care of during the last year and ranks third as to the amount of money collected to carry on, the work. Illinois and Kentucky are the only states in the Union who children’s home societies rank hizh- er than that of Florida, the gross | figures being used in the calucula- | had been tions. If the estimates made according to the relative popu- lation of the various states, it was pointed out. Florida woudl stand far in the lad of any state in the country. This heport was made by Marcus C. Fagg, superintendent of the 'Flor-‘ . Children's Home Society, who has just returned from the National | Conference of Charities at Baltimore and the National Children’s Home | Association conference at Richmond, which city he left just as the great inrush of visitors for the Confeder- ! ate veterans reunion was beginning. Mr. Fagg represented Jacksonville and the State at the Baltimore meet- | inz. Barry C. Smith, secretary of the Associated Charities, represent- ed that organization and the Jack- sonville Chamber of Commerce, and Mrs. Fagg and Mrs. J. W. Spratt were delegates from the Florida Federation of Woman's clubs. Mr. Fagg was elected chairman of the program committee for the 1916 National Conference of Charities and is also one of the directors of publicity. Both organizations will hold their 1916 meetings in Indian- apolis next year, the Children’s Home Association convening one day in advance of the general charities meeting in order that the delegates to the former may all have an op- portunity to gain the benefits of the Jatter. This has been the aim of members of the two bodies for sev- eral years it was explained. George L. Sehan, of Louisville, Ky., was elected president of the National Children's Home Associa- tion. Mr. Jacksonville and a holder in the State. He was one of the organizers of the Florida Children’s Home Society and is very enthusiastic over its great progress. The National Conference of Chari- | ties was attended Dby over 2,000 registered delegates aside from a large number of officers who attend- ed on thir own responsibility, re- ported Mr. Fagg this morning. class of organized charity in United States was reprezented and several foreign countrier had dele- gates. Reports of the conferenc National Children’s Home A tion showed that the largest num- ber of children in the history of this work had been taken care of during the past year in the thirty-five states in which these organizations are conducted. Mr. Fagg called atten- tion to the comparison of Florida’s rating now with five years azo, when he first became superintendent of the society here. At that time he said, Florida ranked 28th out of the 32 states that then had organizations. Another point brought out by Mr. Fagg was the fact that, while large amounts of money have been donat- ed for foreign charity during past year, the home societies have not been slighted to any appreciable extent. The spirit of giving seems large property of the [HHES to have been increased rather than | diminished by the war he said. 10,000 Men Needed To Move Great Wheat Crop Omaha, Neb., May 31—Fully 10,-} 000 men are wanted by the National Farmers' Exchange, which has head- quarters here, for the harvesting of the big wheat crop, which begins in a few weeks Beginning in southern Oklahoma early in June, the wheat harvest comes with a rush when it starts. It rapidly moved northward, pasging through Nebraska about the third week in July and ending in northern Minnesota just in time to escape the early frosts. The army of temporary workers is being organized intelli- gently this year, with a view to put- ting the men at the right spot where they are needed, and distributing them to meet all demands. The crop promises to exceed last year's bumper. The acreage in Ne- breska has increased some 600,000 acres in wheat, and in Nebraska alone not less than 75,000,000 bush- els are expected. The first call for labor has taken care of the Oklahoma demands. The men will begin work there next week. Oklahoma to the Platte in Nebraska, the country grea wheatfield with the plants in better condition than ever known before. All of the railroads have called in for the crop movement, and the sidings are now being filled with empties awaiting the arrival of the big farm wagons with their loads of golden grain The Farmers’ Exchange which is handling the problem of help, was | organized in Omaha last February. 1t is composed of a rs-prr-»enmtho from each of the big wheat-growing states, a representative of each of is one western their cars Sehan is well-known in the | From the Canadian river in’ waving ; lModem Highways ‘ Greatly Reduce Hauling Cost The Bureau of Crop Estimates of the Agricultural Department at Washington has been giving a care- ‘ful study to this question of hauls 'o\cr country roads to the markets. 1t finds that the average haul to { market from the farm is 6.5 miles; that the average round trips per day is 2.1 or a little over one-half day for each trip to market. Using cotton as a basis the average cost per day for hauling is given at $8.80, and the quantity hauled is 2,000 pounds per day. \ Getting down to Florida we find | that our states does not come up to lthe averaze. The average distance of the haul is 7 miles; the number of round trips per day, 1.9; the average load is 1,150 pounds or 2,146 | pounds per day haul. This condition materially increases the expense of marketing Florida’s products. As the figures are based on 1915 data |inferences may be drawn on which /to base an estimate of the cost of marketing on our unimproved roads. | What that difference is may be | guessed at near enough to justify the demand for improved roads at al- { most any cost. Compare Massa- chusetts data where the roads are fine, hard surfaces with like data | here. The Masachusetss farmer hauls 31 bushels of corn to the load; the Florida farmer 17. Another thing to remember is that we are talking of averages for the whole state. Where we have improved roads this mileage cost is vastly lowered, but to make the average we are oblized to greatly increase the cost for haulage over the unimproved road. But use the actual figures we have. If we can haul 1,150 pounds of cotton or its equivalent in weight over our roads as they now exist in their unimproved state, we cocld certainly double the weight of the load on a hard road. 'If it only costs the average of $2.00 (and it is much more on the bad road) for a day's {haul of 2,146 pounds, doubling the load and thus reducing the cost one- half would mean a saving of $1.40 on every day's hauling to the mar- ket. It is just the same as if you actually paid some one $1.40 every day you hauled your produce to town on the bad roads, for such priv- ilege, and while it does not actually { come out of your pcket in good hard \mln directly each day’s trip it does {come out of you somewhere, since you have it to pay. There are none so blind as those ! who will not see. Our good neigh-! bor who poses as an economist in | the interest of those he represents says to you he cannot vote for a large bonded indebtedness on the county because of the tremendous burden on the people. Yet that bonding adds to the value of the abutting property twice the cost of the improvement at least as an in- crease in the capital invested in the land. This is a low estimate any- where. The saving to the abutting property owner in expense of haul- age alone will pay both principal and interest on his pro rata share of the cost of the improvement.0St. Lucie Tribune. RIPPLING RHYMES By Walt Mason The Agents The agents are a cheerful bunch, whose talk has optimistic pitch; they | have the nerve, they have the punch, vet few of them get beastly rich. 1 wonder why they try to sell such junk as no man wants to buy? They come and seek we where 1 dwell, and i talk until T wish to die, and always | what they have for sale is something |T would never use; why don’t they try to get the kale by selling over- alls or shoes? Why don’t they handle mops or brooms, or books a {normal man would read, or offer made-to-order tombs, or something you and T might need? But no, they bring a drivel-book, by feeble-mind- ed author penned, and try by every ‘hook and crook, to dump it on their humble friend. They try to sell a patent churn to one who never own- ed a cow, or bring a lamp that will not burn, and recommend it to the frau. They bring us health hestor- ing drugs when we are feeling fine as wheat, they offer costly Persian rugs to folks who haven't things to eat. They are as blithe and cheer- ful bunch, the smiles they wear are glad and sweet; they have the nerve, they have the punch, but can’t con- nect with Easy Street. | NEW CATHEDRAL DEDICATED | Buffalo, May 31.—The new St. Joseph's Cathedral, the second larg- est in the United States, was dedi- {cated here today with impressive ceremonies. The million dollar marble structure was solemnly . blessed by leading Catholic digni- taries from every sction of the coun- try. CORNELL CUTS BASEBALL Ithaca, N. Y., May 31.—Cornell closed its baseball season today, re- jquiring the members of the nine to "study for the next eleven days for . the final examinations. ——————eee | the big western railroads, represen- , tatives of commercial bodies, and mhers interested in the distribution o( labor and harvesting of the crop. The president is Charles McCaffree, commissioner of immizration of South Dakota. THE MERRYANDREW By FLORENCE LILLIAN HENDER- SON. e & PR AR Y (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) “Who is he, anyway?” “Dalzell—comedian, clown, what you like, so that wit and humor and riot- ous fun play a part.” “Professional?” “Oh, yes—expert Merry-Andrew, you might put it. He came here a week ago, prospecting to give a show. He happened to be on the spot when Mayor Worden’s team ran away. The two fiancees of the mayor’s two sons were in the carriage. Dalzell halted the team just in time to prevent a bad smash-up. That made him solid with the Worden family, you may assume.” “And he still lingers in the village.” “For a very good reason. His popu- larity on account of the runaway epi- sode is nothing to the popularity he has won with his quips and jokes at the little hotel here. Why, he keeps the crowd on a broad grin all the time! The lightest-hearted fellow in the world! Don't believe he ever has a care on his mind. He's bottled up sunshine and mirth. I envy him his happy, contented disposition. “H’'m—thanks,” observed the speak- er, a young lawyer named Chester. “Sort of a queer fellow. I'm inter- ested in him.” He was, far more than he indicated. The fact was that Dick and Albert Worden had asked him to look up the actor-humorist. When they realized that the lively stranger had saved the lives of their future wives, they sought some way of rewarding Dalzell. They dared not offer him money. With all his jolly ways, there was a certain natural dignity about Bryce Dalzell that proclaimed him to be a gentle- man. There was something, too, sug- gestive of mystery. They wished to be friendly and helpful to Dalzell and deputized Chester to find out how this could be brought about. Already the young lawyer had set the ball rolling in a plan that was meant to assist the actor. The latter had come to the town to arrange to give entertainments where a comedy he had written was to be the feature. “A Mystery? Yes;” Reflected the Young Lawyer, He had at call some cheap actors in the city who would assist him When Dalzell first suggested the proposition, the owner of the one public hall in the town laughed at him. It was not a theater-going community, Dalzell was told, and every dramatic combina- tion that had come along had met with disaster. But now, after Dalzell's heroic act, his personal popularity as a fun mak- er, and the efforts of the agent of the two Wordens entirely changed the po- sition of affairs. The owner of the hall entered heart and soul with Dalzell in advertising and preparing for the pres- entation of the comedy. The young lawyer unobtrusively hung around the reading room of the hotel, to find Dalzell in apparent high spirits over his success. Chester was a studious, sedate young man, but he could not help but smile at some of the shrewd witticisms of the actor stranger who suggested an inexhaust- ible wave of jollity. There came a letter for Dalzell while he was in the midst of an up- roariously comical recital of the woes of a stranded Thespian. Dalzell's face grew instantly grave, but he finished his story, and then with a last gay remark excused himself and went to a secluded corner of the lobby. Chester was fairly astonished as he secretly but intently observed Dalzell. The latter opened the letter. Across his expressive face there came a sol- emn change. It seemed as if he had thrown off an irksome mask. Care, anxiety, griet traversed his features in rapid and poignant succession. Tears coursed down his cheeks. “A mystery? Yes;” reflected the young lawyer. “Why, he looks ten years older than he did five minutes since!” But inside of an hour Dalzell had rejoined the group which so admired him and enjoyed his ceaseless fund of merriment. Only, ever and anon the watchful Chester noted that Dalzell placed his hand against the pocket Perfectly Paired. “They seem to be so well suited for each other “Yes, neither of them bhas orains enough to reailze what a frost the other oune is" Contents Make a Difference. It there is only one bottle of castor oil in the house, father is willing mother should have it all because it will do her good. But if there is only one bottle of beer in the house, fa- “her drinks it himself because it might 0t agrea with mother—Cincinnati £nquirer. where he had deposited the letter, just as though underneath it there was a keen pain in his heart. The two performances took place. They were a grand success. The Wor- dens and all their friends worked like beavers to make it so. The entire county attended, and, after paying off his dramatic assistants and other ex- penses, Dalzell left the town the happy possessor of two hundred dol- lars. Crowds waved him a friendly adieu as the train departed. No one noticed the young lawyer, closely enfolded in a huge coat, quietly take a place in a rear seat of the coach in which Dal- zell was also a passenger. Faithfully following out instructions given by the Wordens, the attorney kept close track of Dalzell unsuspect- ed on the train, and in the city all that day and well into the next morning. He followed Dalzell wherever he went. About noon he telegraphed to the may- or's sons. They met him at a hotel three hours later. “I thought it best to have you come on,” explained Chester. *“This strange man, Dalzell, is indeed a true man, and you can help him in a signal way.” “We will certainly be glad to do that,” spoke the brothers in sincere unison. “When Dalzell came to the city I followed him to his home. It was piti- ful. He occupies a cheap, bare apart- ment and eats at the poorest restau- rants. Then he went to a bank and deposited a hundred dollars. Then to his wife.” “He is married, then?" inquired the elder of the brothers. “Yes. It is a sad story. A year ago Dalzell wedded a lovely, sprightly young girl who had acted with him on the stage. They went from the house of the officiating clergyman straight to their duties on the stage. Alas! in the second act of the play in which they took part a heavy stage platform fell upon the bride of an hour, crip- pling her for life and partly paralyz- ing her. She has since lain helpless.” “Not in the squalid home you de- scribe?” exclaimed the other of the brothers. “No, and there is demonstrated the true nobility of the man. He has placed her under the care of a trained nurse in comfortable, almost luxuri- ous quarters. He has made her be- lieve that he has tmportant dramatic engagements out of the city which em- ploy all his time and bring in large money retuns. She suffers for noth- ing, while he at times has barely enough to eat. I had a stolen glimpse of the pair—she fairly worshiping him, he devoting his life to her happiness.” A tear came into the eye of the prac- tical-minded lawyer. Then he resumed: “It seems that a noted specialist claims he can restore her to health, but only through an expensive opera- tion. He requires a thousand dollars in advance for the same. Dalzell has two hundred dollars of the amount at bank and is working to get the bal- ance.” “Take us to Mr. wife at once,” brothers. It was with sheer amazement that Bryce Dalzell greeted his unexpected visitors. “I have come to tell Mrs. Dalzell a story,” announced the lawyer, and then, despite the protestations of Dal- zell, he narrated the details of his Dalzell and his directed one of the heroic self-sacrifice. “And here is the money to at once urge on the effort to cure this dear, devoted woman,” spoke the elder of the brothers touchingly, and he placed a package of banknotes on the table. The wife was crying in the arms of the man whose self-sacrifice she knew for the first time. In her lovely face there was a mute adoration. And the Merry-Andrew—he broke down at last, but beyond his happy tears a grate- ful, gladsome smile illuminated his weary face. Wholesome Garlic. The odorous garlic usually frowned down upon by polite circles in this country i8 not such a bad sort after all. Indeed, it seems to possess the faculty common to other strong na- tures of making with itself friends of the stanchest “garlic gourmets,” who have been led by easy stages brace.” From the earliest times gar- lic has been used as a valuable article of diet. It formed mno inconsiderable part of the food of the Israelites in Egypt and during their wanderings in the wilderness they wept, saying: “We remember the fish which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic” The medical properties of the garlic were regarded by those old people of the East as especially valuable as a stimulant and for stomach troubles, while to this day it is used as a remedy. As a sea- soning herb, garlic is considered inval- uable, Nagged Him by Gaslight. Without uttering a single word dur- ing the entire proceedings, Carl F. Scheel and his wife, Minnie, told Judge Fritz today the story of their matrimonial infelicity. An interpreter in sign language transmitted the wom- an’s explanation that she desired a dissolution of the marriage bond be- cause her husband is jealous. Scheel declared his wife was con- stantly nagging him “Nagging?” exclaimed the court. “Yes,” the interpreter replied. “He says she gets up in the middle of the night and lights the gas so she can nag him. He says he has to put his hands to his eyes when she begins to nag, and this makes her angry.”—Mil- wankee Dispatch to Philadelphia Rec- ord. Best to Earn One’s Own. Persons industriously occupying themselves thrive better on a little of their own honest getting than lazy heirs on the large revenues left unto them.—T. Fullera Would Give His Courage. Pat saw a barbed wire fence for the first time and eyed it with a great deal of interest. “Begorra, in the old country 1 set wid Mollie on a fence | a whole hour before I dared pop the question, but if I'd be sittin’ wid her on @ tence like thus I'G pop in a minute.” first to “endure, then pity, then em- | AS IN THE OLD DAYS By MARY MARSHALL. (Copyright, |915 by the McClure Newspa- er Syndicate.) “It's such a bore not to have cof- fee.” Tom Blake drew a long puff from his cigarette 2nd then Wwearily watched the smoke as it circled over Julia’s head. It had come to be a matter of fact for Tom and Julia Dawson to come off like this at the Blair parties and pass an hour in quiet in the broad sweeping veranda overlooking the sca. Julia sat up erect and looked at Tom with the frankness of old ac- quaintance, the result of a friendship that had lasted through the days when Julia and Tom both left college sev- eral years before. “You are getting to be a miserable, grumpy old bach- elor, Tom Blake.” “When a man is as old as I am he doesn’t delude himself easily. I wish the Blairs would serve coffee. ‘Who wants an ice without coffee even in July?” “And you are miserable just be- cause they didn't happen to have it? Why don’t you go down to the hotel and get some if that is the way you feel? If anyone were at our cottage I'd like you to come home now. Cof- fee is very stmply concocted.” *I dare you, Julia” Tom tossed his cigarette off the veranda and stood beside her. “Don’t refuse & dare, ¢o you? 1 double dare you to let me go home with you now and make it. Remember how I used to dare you—dared you to kiss me once at our junior prom, and you were too good a sport to refuse. But kissing’s gone out of fashion now, Julla. I triple dare you to make the coffee.” A minute later Julia, her light ovening cape thrown around her shoulders, ©‘oln d~wn the veranda steps with Tom. Just as they turned into the pathway that led into the cot- tage two neighbors passed. “Its Julia,” one gaid, “and that Mr. Blake. No one's in the cottage, either. Funny of Julia to be there alone, and that Blake they say used td be in love with her cnce” Julia was fumbling with the keys and did not hear this, but Tom caught it Once in the house Julia dropped her wrap and started toward the din- ing room. “Oh, forget the coffee!” Tom called after her. “That walk down here was all the bracer I nceded. I didn't really mean that I was going to let you go to all that trouble.” It was perhaps because Julia turned and smiled over her shoulder as she hurried on to the dining room, and partly because the remark of the neighbor had brought back a flood of old recollections, that Tom rushed forward and caught Julia in his arms. But it wes a very different Julia from the Julia he had kissed in his college days. She had been frightened and happy then. Now she was apparently unmoved. She drew away almost in anger. “Tom!” there was deep reproof in her tone, “how could you?” “But you used to let me. You know how you protested that night when we left college and didn’t think we'd see each other for a whole long month afterward. But you yielded and then you cried in my arms at the thought of the separation. And now 1 am away from you a whole winter at a time and you don’t give me a thought.” He caught her again and kissed her as if none of the four in- tervening years had cooled his ardor. Julia struggled agaiust his arms. “It is unfair,” she told him. “I ac- cepted your dare thinking that you gave it in good faith, and now I find that it was just a ruse. Please go away at once. I don't mind being left here alone, but I refuse to stay alone with you.” “What it they did see? They could only think that I wanted to take you oif by yourself where 1 could kiss you and tell you that 1 love you.” “But how unfair of you to suggest it just because 1 thought you wanted coffee and all the time you were planning—" Tom drew the girl's slender figure toward him. “Julia, 1 didn't plan anything. 1 didn't dream I'd kiss you. I was a crusty old bachelor when I was at the Blairs. Coffee was the most important thing in life at that time. 1'd forgotten the joy of touching your lips to mine. But it all came back in a flood of recollec- tion. Julia, I think that the neigh- bors will talk about us. I think it will be all over the place, the scan- dal of the summer. In fact, I heard someone etarting the gossip as we came in. Julla, you are dreadfully compromised—that is what they say, isn't it? You have been very indis- creet to let me come in this empty house with you, Julia” Tom was standing with his hands on Julia's shoulders holding her at arm's length from him. “Julia, the only square thing for me to do now is to insist on marrying you. That is the sort of talk that the part requires, isn't 1t? ‘You are iaughing at me?” It was the old Julla and her cheeks were warm and her eyes had their old ex- pectancy as Tom drew her to him again. > ‘I am in earnest, too,” sald Tom. The old days have come back, and we're going to start out where we left 0l and forget about the coffee and the grompy old bachelor down at Yiair's Keep Up Belief. Belleve in yourself, believe in hu- manity—believe in the success of your undertakings. Fear nothing and no one. Love your work. Work, hope, trust. Keep in touch with today. Teach yourself to be practical, up-to- date and sensible. You cannot fail— Selected. Military Tities. 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