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et el e L2 T 2 2 2 2 T R Y BILLS PASSED BY THE LEGISLATURE R et a i e f L Ll TR S L T R R O Y Tallahassee, June 8—The follow- ing bills of a general nature were passed by the session of the 1915 Legislature prior to day of adjourn- ment and signed by the Governor: Act regulating finances of coun- ties and providing budget system. Act providing for abolition of coun- ty treasurer’s office and creating county depositories. Act providing method to secure correct history of United States, in- cluding true history of Southern Confederacy. Act regulating size and construc- tion of field boxes to be used by packers in packing oranges, lemons | and other citrus fruits. Joint resolution proposing amend- ment to constitution relating to | suffrage and eligibility (so-called Grandfather clause). “Act repealing anti-coupon law of 1913 and imposing certain licenses and other taxes, Act to prohibit drainage or lower- ing of level of any lake greater than two miles square. Act prescribing requirements and proceedings for admitting attorneys to practice law in Florida. Act providing for creation of State road department. | Act prohibiting selling of stock in @any insurance company in this state @t Jess than 10 per cent below par within two years after filing appli- cation for charter. Act to amend géneral statutes re- lating to organization, management and operation of life and fire insur- ance companies and their agents, Act relating to certain classes of indemnity contracts, empowering corporations to fix certain fees, and providing for penalties for violations of provisions of act. Act to define sick and funeral benefit insurance, limit amount of risks, ete Ast to define domestic and foreign investment companies, to provide for regulation and supervision of same. Act providing for teaching of evils of alcoholic beverages and nar- cotics to children in the primary . grades of public schools. Act relating to appointment and qualifications of pilot commissioners. Act forbidding foreign insurance companies to do business in this state without a license. Act requiring fire insurance com- panies to deposit certain amount of | cash or securities with State treas- | urer. Act to forbid payment of dividends by insurance companies organized in this State under certain conditions. Act amending general statutes re- lating to legal time. Act providing for organization and management of mutual fire in- surance companies. Act concerning insurance compan- ies and associations and their agents and other persons, firms and corpora- tions, prohibiting discrimination, re- | bating and twisting. Act requring all policies or con- tracts of indemnities against loss by explosion, burglary, liability, con- tract, steam boilers and other forms of casualty insurance business, and on surety bonds; to be issued and countersigned by a local agent, reg- ularly commissioned. Act prohibiting any person from making a false claim or statement to secure credit. Act providing punishment for wil- fully or wantonly setting afire or | attempting to burn any property for insurance. Act relating to the reduction of capital stock of any insurance com- Act to amend general statutes re- lative to regulation, management and conduct of banks and banking companies by comptroller. Act providing for appointment of receivers for banks and trust com- panies. Act authorizing school book com- missioners to extend tome limit of five years for renewal of contracts for purchase of text books to July 1, 1917. Act to amend general statutes re- lating to services of process upon a corporation. Act assenting to an accepting pro- visions of act of Congress, approved by the President May 8, 1914, re- lating to agricultural extension work. Act placing regulation of canal tolls under railroad commission. Act relating to the examination of bankc and trust companies. Act providing for examination of moving picture operators and as- sistants and moving picture ma- chines in all towns and cities within the State. Act providing for appointment of commission to investigate into need for an institution for epileptics and feeble-minded. Act amending general statutes de- fiping the term “beer.” Act to protect ald regulate the salt water fish industry, 4~ Act relating to subscription of stock of banks and trust companies. Act fixing the penalty of embez- zlement, abstration or wilful mis- appropriation of funds of banks or trust companies. House concurrent resolution mem- orializing Congres sto appropriate $10,000 to remove obstructions in the Ocklocknee river, House concurrent resolution mem- orializing Congress to establish a mail route over the canal connect- ing Apalachicola and St. Andrews bays. Act Telating to answers in chan- cery. Acts amending general statutes providing or creation, maintenance and regulation of summer schools for teachers and other pupils. Act to amend general statutes re- lating to the control and creation of special road and bridge districts. Act regulating the disposition and sale of habit-forming drugs. Act amending general statutes re- lating to the pay of witnesses, Act providing for the punishment of any person contributing to the de- linquency of children. Act amending general statutes relating to the fees for feeding pris- oners, Passage of bill over Governor's veto creating twelfth judicial cir- cuit. Act making it a misdemeanor to keep or maintain surface closets not in keeping with the plans and speci- lcations furnished by the State Board of Health. Act authorizing watchers at all elections. Act prescribing how bonds and certificates of indebtedness of coun- [ties and municipalities tax districts and other political districts shall be validated. Act setting aside day to be known as Farmers’ Day. Act with reference to assignment of circuit judges. Act to amend sections 16-19 and 133, chapter 6060, of acts of Legisla- ture of 1909. Act to constitute plant board a corporate body, and further defining powers and duties. pany organized in this state. Act to provide for creation of : Bloxham county. | Act relating to county finances, providing for separation and filing | reports by commissioners and clerks of the circuit courts. \ Act creating State board of archi- tecture. Act providing for increases in sal- ary for judiciary. | Act providing for prompt payment of monies into treasury by both tax collectors and sheriffs. i Act relating to and preseribing | fees to be paid to county treasurers. Act requirng the free passage of | dredges through railroad bridges in the Everglades. Act authorizing school boards or trustees of special tax districts to establish home. economics depart- | ments in public schools. Act relating to police powers of railway conductors. I Act creating bureau of vital sta- ' tistics. Act to amend general statutes re- lating to right to the writ of gar- nishment . Act to amend general statutes re- lative to observingf rtf otfd fta mf lating to obstructing public roads or highways. Act to authorize Board of Health to collect and disseminate informa- tion concerning communncable dis- eases. Act relating to punishment to punishment for making or using false statements to secure property or credit. Act requiring the proper screen- ing of hotels and restaurants. Act relating to the number of di- rectors in corporations not for profit. Act authorizing persons, firms or corporations to make photographic records of all public documents. Act providing for insurance of county buildings. Act making appropriation for maintenance of institutions of high- er learning. Act regulating sale or furnishing of intoricating liquors, wines or beers (Davis package bill). Act creatng iState plant board, providing appropriation to fight citrus canker pest. _—_—m—————Y§YF ¥ IN AND OUT —— “I work,” related a friend to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, ““ in a sash, door and blind factory. Owing to the unprecedented building boom this spring, we have been unable to keep up with our orders. People coming into the office and ordering articles for immediate delivery are likely to be disappointed—they have to wait their turn. And all this T tel) you as an introduction to a curious example of the peculiarities of the English language which T overheard the other day. ‘A man entered the front office in a great hurry. “Is the boss in?” he asked. “Is there anything I could do for you?"” countered one of our polite . young clerks. “I wanted to see him about buy- ing some doors at once. Is he here?” s “Well,” explained the clerk, “he’s in his private office—but he’s out of doors.” Daily Thought. If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.—Tho- reau. Do Postmen Get Letters? Do you suppose the post office clerks care to recelve letters? I have my doubts. They get into a dreadful habit of indifference. A postman, I imagine, Is quite callous. Conceive his deliver- ing one to himself without being startled by a preliminary double knock!—Charles Dickens. . are wrought up and dangerous. FACING A CRISIS How Bank Was Saved in Face of Frantic Mob of De- positors. J By GEORGE ELMER COBB. Randal Webster, the young and handsome president of the Bank of Greenville, opened the door of his private office. He glanced into the counting room, and beyond it at the Jostling crowds in the street outside. Then with a groan he sank to a chair, the picture of despairing misery. “It has come,” he told himself in a harsh, racking whisper—“the worst, the end!” There came a tap at the door. The young financier sprang to his feet. A brief, vague hope gave him momen- tary energy. Then his soul seemed to die within him, as his cashier enter- ed the room with a face blanched and fear-crossed as his own. “Any word?” projected Webster, hoarsely. “None. Mr. Webster, we must face the crisis, the worst of rumors as to the solvency of the institution have got abroad. A mob of depositors from the mills is in front of the bank. They They threaten to smash every window and blow up the bank with dynamite, if their money is not paid them prompt- ly at ten o'clock.” “Impossible!” gasped Webster. “No one knows that better than my- self,” responded the cashier in a hol- low tone. “There is no promise what- ever that your messenger to the city will arrive before night. Then it is too late. The train is just in, and neither man nor money has ap- | “How much is there in the bank in ready cash?” "Ry “Less than $10,000." “Pay it out to the last dollar as slowly as you can. If we can tide over for a few hours the expected help may come.” “And if it does not—and when the money gives out?” questioned the cashier, fearsomely. “Put up a sign and close the bank.” Left to himself, the young banker reviewed the situation. Energetic, im. i i With a Groan He Sank to a Chair. petuous, ambitious, he had gone be- yond his depth in an investment sure to turn out profitable in the end. A temporary complication, however, had tied it up. He could not realize in ready cash under a week. A heavy draft came upon the surplus funds, de- pleting the bank reserve to a danger- ously low figure. Somehow a public rumor of all this got out. The report was current that the bank was going to fail. Result: The frantic, desperate mod of frightened depositors now clamoring at the great locked doors. ‘Webster had sent a trusted employe of the bank to a rich relative in the city. He carried an urgent appeal for succor. The messenger had not re- ported. A graver shade of feeling covered the features of the young financier as he thought of the one dearest to him in all the world—Bthel Morris. They were to have been wedded in a month, but if the bank broke—then Webster well knew her proud, exclusive fam- lily would scarcely favor a discredited bankrupt. It was a forlorn fight for business preservation and love. ° Webster hurried into the counting room as a great outcry arose. He hoped it was his messenger arrived; he feared it was new riot. It lacked just five minutes of ten. A remarkable scene greeted his sight. A whiskered, farmerlooking man was talking to the excited crowd. He was waving a great bundle of bank notes in one hand. Th.re was a cheer. In his other hand the stranger carried an old battered satchel. With it he now pounded 6n the door. “Let me in. I must get in!” the as- tonished Webster heard him shout out, and then to the people: “Don’t get scared. Randal Webster is an honest man, and the Bank of Greenville is solid as a rock!” Something in the determined man- ner of the visitor caused the watch- man to open the door for him. The stranger helped him reclose it against the eager, crushing crowd. “Where is Mr. Webster?” he de- manded. “Ah, there he is,” and he approached the counter and nodded to the wondering banker. “Remember me. Mr. Webster?” — Side Products. Of'course, if they force the condition on us, we can return to liver, corn dodgers and parched corn coffee. But if the packers are willing to be con- slderate we hope they will find a way to commercialize the grunt of the hog and the moo of the steers.—Houston Post. ———— Measure of Happiness. A woman is happy when she thinks she is better looking than the lady cashier at the downtown cafe where her husband gets his lunches.—Port- land Telegram. “Why, I can’t say that I do,” was the hesitating reply. “Never mind. I've changed. Had to, wanted to,” rattled on the stranger. “See here,” and he began to bring from his pockets bundle after bundie of bank notes. “There's $20,000. Use it.” “But, my dear sir—" began the be- wildered cashier. “Use it, I said, didn’t 1?” interrupt- ed the stranger, unceremoniously. “But we have no right; the condi- tion the bank is in—to receive depos- its,” stammered the cashier. “Call it a loan, then,” said the stran- ger. “I know all about your worry here. It won't last. Keep the crowd goodnatured. Pay them off smiling. I'll guarantee the run will soon stop.” Then he lifted the satchel. As it opened, the startled cashier, used as he was to the sight of money, uttered a great cry. The man piled up bundle after bundle of crisp green bank notes. “Shove them up against the glass where they will show,” ordered the stranger. “Only, don’t pay out any of this heap. You won't need to. That pile, the real cash paid out right along, will soon tame that unruly mob.” “Ten o'clock,” announced the dumb- founded cashier. “Open up.” The stranger drew to one side, as if enjoying the scene. The astounded Webster was soon too busy to notice him. The eager crowd filed in; everybody was paid promptly. The sight of the great bundles of bills be- gan to have an effect. Some, shamed, redeposited their money. Others, catching the infection of restored con- fidence, did not ask for their money at all. Within an hour the news went all over town that the bank was safe. With a great sigh of relief Randal Webster beckoned the stranger into his private room. “Now, then,” he said, “what does this all mean?” The stranger laughed. Then he seized the banker's hand in a friendly grip. “You don’t know me, eh?” he said. “Well, I'm bringing you back some of the bread you cast upon the waters five years ago.” “I don’t understand you,” murmured the puzzied banker. “You was a lawyer then, and you de. fended in the city a member of a gang of counterfeiters. Now do you re- member?” “Why, slowly. “My name was Dallas—not now; I've changed it. You got me free, you gave me a great lecture. It was my life chance, and I improved it. I went to my folks fifty miles from here. A relative left me a fortune. 1 have kept track of you. I heard of your trouble.” “And you have saved the bank!™ cried the grateful Webster. “The gang believed a large amount of thelr counterfeits destroyed. I saved the satchel containing them,” went on the man. “I buried it. That show money I took from the satchel is counterfeit. The real money I drew from my bank early today to loan to you. We will burn the counterfeits, now they have served their purpose.” An hour later the bank messenger came rushing up in an automobile, with plenty of money to safely tide the bank over. Webster paid back his grateful friend in need. He did not tell even Ethel the story. Down deep in his heart, however, he fervently cherish- ed the gratitude of the reformed crim- inal who had saved the bank at a criticas juncture. (Copyright, 1913, by W. G. Chapman.) WOMAN'S PLACE IN NATURE Man With the Grouch Draws His Con- clusions From Observation of Pet Pair of Geese. “I don’t believe in suffragettes nor in the socalled new woman,” said the man with the grouch. “They're against the law of nature! “I'll tell you why it fsn't natural,” he went on. “T've been observing life in the barynard, and I've learned by analogy the real place of woman in the economy of life. “My wite has started in to raise 8 ocouple of geese, and they are the most human things you ever set eyes on. She calls ’em Darby and Joan. “We have no goose pond, 80 we've yes,” answered Webster, sunk a tub in the backyard for the : recreation of the two geese. “Well, Darby simply owns that tub! He waddles up to it very solemnly the first thing in the morning and takes an eye-opener. “Joan comes waddling behind him, meek and wife-like, and tries to follow her lord’s example. He scolds her and drives her back. She obeys with be- coming feminine gentleness. “Then, with the utmost care and de- liberation, Darby proceeds to take his morning bath and make himself beau- titul. He sputters in the tub, preens himself and has a beautitul time in his lordly, masculine way. “When he has entirely finished he cackles with glee, comes out of the sunken tub and waddles off to graze on the new shoots of grass. “Now that he is through with the tub Joan may have her turn. She may have what is left, now that her lord and master is quite finished. “Its a lesson in wifely subfection to see Joan make her toflet and then waddle around contentedly in the ‘wake of her proud, domineering mate. “It goes to show what woman's place in the world really should be, ac- cording to the law of nature.”—New York Telegram. — New York Verdict. The North Dakota man who spent his last dollar for a taxi to take him to the poorhouse is the champion game sport of the western world.— New York Press. —_——— Thimbles Were Thumb-Bells, Thimbles' were first known as “thumb-bells,” from their shape and the place where they were worn. The finger was soon found to be a more convenient place, and with the loss of their position the name was modified to “thimble.” — The Last Resort. A Chicago judge has just «uled that “the man is still head of the house.” Further details, however, might dis- close that when he went home his wite applied the recall of judicial de- cisions.—Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, "in error. ALL THAT A MAN BATH i .ODY ght, 1915, bx, W. G. Chapman.) Dot—Dorothy, his only child, his spoiled pet. Selfish, unruly Dot, whom he idolized, motherless now, and that made him the more tender and pliable. ! She had married a year previously. | Her husband was well up in society and her whole being was centered on fashion and extravagance. Her fa- ther had almost impoverished himselt to give her a royal wedding gift. Since ! then Dot had drawn on his resources] constantly. “Old Dobbin, the little house on leased ground I live in and my acci- dent and life insurance—all I have left,” he ruminated, “but the money means happiness and pleasure to Dot and—I can get along some way." But In this the devoted father was One morning about six months later Dorothy came to him in Business Improving E——————— —«_ Financial reports are more optimistic each weck ( students of business conditions see more prosperous I”“' the near future. ¢ The “BUY-A-BALE” movement checked the i depression which followed the opening of the war. “BUY IT NOW* is stimulating all lines activities. “OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT NOW?", should . titude of all who wish to benefit themselves and imr.,, iness conditions. “OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT ‘NOW’ ” with v« of b | FIRST NATIONALBANj C. W. DEEN, President C. M. CLAYTON, Caghiy THIS BANK IS A MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. tears. “Father,” she sobbed, “I am in deep, deep water!” “My darling child!’ “tell me your troubles.” “Those horrid card parties!” wailed the spoiled beauty. “I've been led into betting until I owe nearly eight hundred dollars. Father,” she plead- ed, “please help me out this time. If I don't pay. all the women of our set will cut me, and if Vernon finds out about it he will raise a dreadful fuss.” “I will see what T can do,” prom- {sed Mr. Ross, and his heart sank like lead, but he concealedl his bitter despair from Dorothy, to get time to think and act. It took him only a day to realize that the sale of everything he had in the world would not bring more than a few hundred dollars. He had never borrowed in his life, but as he strolled about restlessly that evening he tried to think of old-time friends who might be willing to help him out. Alas; they were few and far between. “I must find some way to help the dear child,” he reflected with new ani- mation as he paused opposite the stylish apartment house where the Dales lived. It cheered him to consid- er that Dorothy was comfortably | housed amid warmth, light and lux- ury. The artless old man did not re- sent the fact that he was never in- vited to the house, that his son-n- law when he met him on the street gave him simply a cool, careless nod. For all this Ross walked on, his heart warmer than ever toward the mercen- ary daughter, whose whim and extrav- agance had brought him directly to the verge of poverty. Crash! The old man made a brisk jump. He was barely in time to escape being struck by an automobile, which had collided with another machine, fore- | ing it halt way across the sidewalk, demolishing its front tires and reduc- ing the glass wind shield to atoms. Mr. Ross felt one of the fragments strike his face. He put his hand up to his eye, for its visual power seemed suddenly blotted out. His fingers be- came daubed with blood. He experi- enced a sudden faintness. A police- man caught his arm and supported him, while another ran to the corner patrol box and telephoned for an am- bulance. “Totally blinded in one eye” was the report of the hospital surgeon the following morning, and he wondered . at the sudden glow of excitement that came into the face of his patient. Through the mind of the self-sacrific- ing sufferer ran a speedy remembrance of the wording of the accident policy he carried: “For the loss of one eye, one thou- sand dollars; total blindness, twenty- five hundred dollars.” The thousand dollars went the way of all his previous donations, quickly used up by the reckless Dorothy. Then came new demands, The resources of old Ross were now exhausted. He had not even a home. One night, wandering the streets, he was attracted with an excited crowd to a burning hotel. He was among the first to reach it. An officer whom he ; knew allowed him to pass the fire line a8 Ross showed him a little child at a third-story window shut fn by the flames and ineisted on attempting her rescue. Ross had groped his way to the room. He took the little one in his arms. Just in time to evade a belch- ing gust of flames from a lower win- | dow he dropped the child into the out- | & spread safety net. < “Jump, yourself. Why, it’s Mr. Ross! Jump, you brave old man!” Ross essayed to climb up on the window sill. Too late! and he was not sorry. As he sank back overcome by the smoke, his wan face was wreathed with a gladsome smile, “Dear little Dot!” he uttered lov- ingly. The year brought bankruptey to Vernon Dale and the life of a house hold drudge to his soured, chagrined wife. Rarely she thought of her dead father. Only once in awhile did she regret that the insurance money had been wasted. She strove to shut out 8 memory of the ‘father who had given his lite for her. But every year the little child, the one Adam Ross had saved, and her parents, visited the lonely grave of the brave hero of the hotel fire. At least with them there will be tender remembrance while life lasts of the being they always reter to as “God's 8ood man!” he exclaimed, i Too Many Highballs, Speaking of tennis, when a man £0es on a racket he is apt to into the court. Then there's the d‘e:tce to Pay, the net result sometimes being that he has to serve a term for his tault.—Boston Transcript. s Booked Ahead. “Now that your son is through col lege, what are you going to make of “Can’t tell for a couple of Q [ [ Q R o 2] THE Summer Season is comingon andyou neeg a COOL SUIT to wear, Why notcome round ang pick out a Palm Beach | Prices $7.90 to $9.00 Everything to Match LRI We have a FINE LINE of Manhattan Shirts Also Arrow Shirts A Full Line of Hart Schaffner & Marx Suits 20 Fit Eberybody LI The .Financial Crisis Over We'are now in shape to give you the be nefit of our Low Expenses. Let us wire your House and save you money, Lower Insur- ance, Cleanliness and Convenience are the results. T. L. CARDWELL Phone 39] With Lakeland Sheet Metal (Works IT WILL PAY YO TO CONSULT US ON THE ELECTRIC WIRING IN YOUR HOUSE OR STQRE We Are Electrical Exgerts FLORIDA ELECTRIC&MACHINERY C: THE ELECTRIC STORE Phone 46 Kibler Hotel Bldg ELECTRIC 2% B ——

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