Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, June 9, 1915, Page 2

L A A s o o No Waste In Florida Land i Florida is singularly free from un- reclamable lJand. Every other state in the Union is burdened with land that cannot be made productive, at least not without spending more money for reclamation than the land is worth. Such places include mountains, swamps, river “‘bottoms,"” deserts, salt marches. We have no mountains here. Our rivers are of no great lengths and have so much fall that the areas overflowed when the water is high are only narrow strips along the rivers. The “bot- toms" are at present covered with valuable timber, and when it has been removed the land can be put to azricultural uses by simply straight- ening and cleaning out the rivers. Every swamp can be drained; some of the shallow lakes can be drained entirely and all of the lakes can be drained entirely and all of the lakes can have wide strips along the margin reclaimed by drainage. The tides along the Florida shores peing very low, most of the salt marshes can be reclaimed by drainage alone, and the rest by dyking and pump- ing. Tn almost every county of _the state are little spots of desert of white sand, bare in some places but overgrown with chaparral and pal- mettos in others, and called “serubs.” Such land is nearly sterile, yet cowpeas will grow there, and a few crops will put so much humus in the soil that it will hold moist- ure, when grapes, peaches and Irish potatoes may be grown. The desert spots in the West can only be re- claimed through costly irrigation proc s, but the copious rainfall of Florida helps to redeem such land. The heaches along the seashores have a vaue; in many places they already furnish the chief attrac- tion for pleasure resorts, and in course of time, when the lands be- Does The Moon Affect Crops? A writer in an exchange says: “'Scientists are now convinced that the moon has no more influence on crops than it has on the tempera- ture or the amount of rain or the winds.” In these days if one goes against the dictums of ‘‘science, so called,” as good o}d St. Paul denomi- nates it, he is called supersitiious. Well, hurrah for supersitition, and for all the good old things our fath- ers knew by ‘“moon sense,” long be- fore these latter day iconoclasts were born. Fortunately for world, the dictum of science does not unmake a truth, nor is it always so because some scientific writer has so stated. Darwin's book, “Descent of Man,” did not make it true that man’s ancestors were monkeys; that is, not all of them. Of course there may be some few exceptions—it looks that way, at least. But to get back to the moon. All scientists come to the front and tes. tify gladly that the moon is the cause of that wonderful manifesta- tion, the tides of the sea. Admitting that, who shall say then to what minor length the influence of the moon upon the earth may not be ex- erted. The actual observation and ex- perience of generations of farmers is to the effect that the moon does af- fect all growing crops, and this tes- timony is worth {ar more than the simple test made by a single scien- tist The general rule in this mat- ter is, plant all root-bearing pants, as potatoes, in the dark of the moon, and all which fruit above the earth, as tomatoes, in the light of the moon. As farmers have grown care- less about those things in these later days so have their crops failed them in proportion. That the meteological condition of the earth’s atmosphere is affected by the moon there can be no qustion. At all the government stations now instruments are installed which reec- ord the minuetest detail of change, but no account is taken as to what causes the changes which are so re- corded. In the old days the trapper and hunter, and even the Indian, knew just as much about the “prob- abilities” of the weather as we do now with all our improved methods, and they learned it from observing the moon.—Gainesville Sun. NEW JERSEY HORTICULTURE zeton, N. J., June 9.—At the ing of the N. J. Horticul- ety today an opportunity ziven to see berries and mar- crops grown at their best tion. The purpose is to cooperation . ost Office Cafe Now Open L Everything New, Fresh, Clean, Up-to Date —— A a e o o ": {hind them shall be brought under cultivation, they will be lined with happy homes. At present l2nd buyers are fastid- able—land requiring the least out {lay and wor to make productive. However, such is already becoming s0 scare in many neizhborhools, that poorer grades are coming into de- mand, and lands which a few years ago could not be given away are now being utilized. Drainage, dynamiting and fertilizing will make the poor- est land good. One class of land to be found in large bodies in almost every county in the state is ““hog palmetto” land. It is too flat for natural drainace, the thin topsoil is underlaid with ! quicksand and hardpan and the EFlorida Fruit . " Should Be Better | | Advertised (Florida Times-Union) ! ] | The Florida orange will never lose| |its popularity. In fact, 1t more like- | | |is taken to spread the knowledge of | |its superior merit. In that respect California, with citrus fruit inferior to that of this state, shames Florida with its persistent and widespread advertising of its fruits. A citrus | fruit that cannot be produced in the | former state but which grows to per- | fection in Florida, the pomelo or grapefruit, has been selling at ruin- ous prices the past season becaus comparatively few people in this country know that it is one of the | greatest conservators of health that | grows and that its pleasant acid flav- ALWAYS DUTY FIRST By FRANK FILSON. (Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman.) Lieutenant von Retzow had only glanced mechanically at the list of ships which his commanding officer ious about getting the best avail-|ly to increase it if the proper means | had given him when he took his sub- marine out of Cuxhaven. Now, read- | Ing it, he felt his body grow rigid with horror. He took a letter from his pocket— one which had arrived from America via Italy only two weeks before. It was from Miss Lucy Bainbridge of Cincinnati, 0. Miss Bainbridge was just an ordinary American girl, but the only one in life for Von Retzow. He had decided this when they met in New York, while he was attache to the flagship of the visiting German squadron; and Miss Lucy, after long deliberation, had written—well, that she wasn't sure, but she was coming to England, and possibly she would slip over to Holland with her aunt, Von Retzow . Then h‘% | heard his voice give the command to | 1 i flufhmm the periscope Von Retzow ‘ saw the white track of the torpedo | through the waves as the released air- ! bubbles came to the surface. Then, almost immediately, there came the | dull boom of the striking torpedo. ‘ Von Retzow shoute” the command to rise. The submarine came up, | first at the bow, then at the stern. And, an instant later, the water was | whipped white with plunging shell. The submarine, pierced through an through by some unseen assailant, ike a stone. “l\l':n‘ Retzow had been standing | alone upon the bridge. The waves | caused by the destruction of the little | craft swept him into the sea. As he; | struck out he saw before him the | broken timbers of the torpedoed craft ilnd a new British torpedo-boat de- | stroyer, with guns trained, making briskly toward him. He was seen; a boat was lowered, and, almost at the same time that the Iast of the wrecked ship sank be- nea . the waves, Von Retzow was hauled, struggling fitfully for breath, aboard the rescuing boat by the crew. Business Improyv;i - Financial reports are more optimistic ¢ tudents of busine the near future. The “BUY-A- depression which ss conditions see more pr BALE” movement checke( followed the opening of the «BUY IT NOW* is stimulating all line« 3 activities. “OPEN A .BANK ACCOUNT NOW’ titude of all who wish to benefit themselves iness conditions. “OPEN A BANK ACCOUNT ‘NOW’ " iy, FIRST NATIONALBA C. W. DEEN, President THIS BANK the | or is such that no one who accustoms himself to eating it for breakfast can many look upon it merely as a luxury break away from the habit. natura]l growth is stunted pines and closely set small palmettos. Such land needs deep draining, deep ! breaking up and subsoiling withl dynamite. This will dry the land. ' If California could raise the grape- Then after a couple of crops of pea- fruit it would be known today to vines have been plowed in and some |y ucands who have hardly heard | fertilizer added the land will pro. of it, or perhaps never have, and are |duce good Irish potatoes to begin unfamiliar with its flavor. We with, and later on any other erops. | gpou1q we large display advertise- Reclaimed swamps often make|po;iq i the Northern papers ex- rich fields, but if the soil is only |41 o)ing jts merits, its delicious ac- muck it is sterile. However, by idity and its healthfulness. Every proper mechanical and chemical | oang that professional ad writers treatment it can be made to Pro-|,re masters of would-be employed to duce heavy crops of cane, rice. cab- | i, gyce the readers of newspapers of bage, onions and tomatoes. every description to enlist among its When all of Florida’s more easily | steady consumers. And they would subdued Inds have been taken up, |not be complaining long of the lack there will be left thousands of |of a market and profitable prices. square miles of land for the settler, which will require more work and money to bring under cultivation than that hitherto -utilized, but There is no genius of fruit that { Which will be worth the trouble on | yialds such a great variety of pleas- .account of our climate, which even |an¢ ang refreshing flavors :now is worth more to a farm than |«gjtryg the land.—Starke Telegraph. Great Variety of Citrus Fruit as the The orange pleases three senses with its color, aroma and fla- vor when ripe The grapefruit soon becomes a “habit.” The lime is dis- Nobody knows why the summer |Placing the lemon as a favorite rose among those who desire acid drinks Droops and dies at the summer’s |during the heats of summer. It has close, been lately discovered to be more And the vagrant beneficial in its action upon the SEwn kidneys than any other fruit that Scatters at will through the busy |8T0Ws and its use has been recom- town— mended to sufferers from rheuma- Ah. nobody knows! tism by physicians, When Gail Ham- ilton , a writer of popular essays Nobody knows why the summer goes during the war between the states, And the weary winter brings the |Wrote one on the disoluation of life snows; in some country places she could not {And the bouchs are bare and the |enfrce the idea of the utter lack of birds are gone, all that makes it pleasant to live ! snd the dreary days drag dully on— than in her title, “Forty Miles from Ah, nobody knows! a Lemon.” What would life be with- out lemons if we did not have a more Nobody knows why the days disclose than adequate substitute in the lime? Fears and follies and wants and Nature has even attempted to meet Woes— the objection of those who are averse And death and duty and pain and |t taking off thir gloves when they care eat fruit, by producing the tangerine Scatter their shadows everywhere— | —that natural bottle of juice, or Ah, nobody knows! cluster of bottles. NOBODY KNOWS wind its petals Nobody knows why the spirit goes [Florida cannot produce too many And the lips grow dumb and the of such citrus fruits as it is profit- eyelids close; able to grow in this state. The diffi- And the world’s desire the culty is not in the potentiality of world’s unrest selling all she can produce but in Wake no more in the icy breast— the undeveloped state of her mark- Ah, nobody knows! ets. California’s markets are far more ‘widespread, but that state did Nobody knows why the day departs not find ready markets for her fruits And night brings shadows to skies |Until she began to prosecute adver- and hearts tising campaigns and she did not do And finds the dreamer at set of sun | that successfully until she organized With a broken heart o'er the task |[ruit selling organizations mostly co- undone— operative, Ah, nobody knows! and Now, like a successful merchant, she has gre t faith in printer’s ink. Nothing is left undone that will guess, serve to get people to talking about But He is clearer of sight than we her citrus fruits—no stone is left un- And He knows why that it comes to |turned that might posibly hide be- be— neath it a secret of success. Yes, somebody knows. —Arthur Goodenough, in Springfield Republican. 4 Nobody knows? Ah, yes! Oh, yes' And that One—God! We grieve and The Florida Citrus Exchange and some of our largest growers and shippers outside of the exchange |have done some wide-spread adver- tising, and some of it most effective, too. We believe the exchange would have done more and have begun {earller if the managers had had the earnest support for their advertis- Ing campaigns of the mass of the members, We understand that one of our great independent shippers is about to pegin an extensive advertis- ing campaign in the larger papers of the consuming sections of the coun- try, not overlooking the greater market papers. The Florida grow- ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT By Roy K. Moulton Hints to June Brides It is well to send out the invita- tions early ,thus preparing your friend When they receive invita- tions late, say only a week before the wedding, they are often out of funds and the gifts may not be as numerous and costly as they would be otherwise. ers “have the goods.’ There is sub- Engraved invitations are expen-|stantial backing in the quality of sive, we know, but it always DAy |their products for almost any state- to send out enough. Order about {ment they mizht make about them. 300 more than you really need and | gyt there needs to be aroused in the send all of them. Everybody won't |maes of the growers and shippers a come. spirit that will inspire them to ap- The proper way to have them read | 5laud and second these efforts to ad- is as follows: Mr. and Mrs, Jones | yertise the Florida and request your presents at the wedding | graperruit, of the daughter Eumpemis, ete.” : The policy of our citrus growers |u it bas been reminds the writer of |2 boy he knew of. This boy’s uncle, who had taken him in to raise, wanted to start the lad on a mer- cantile career. It was at that time a frontier town, many miles from the nearest city and before the days of .nllmad;. 80 that the country peo- ple had to wait months to replace any tool r implement that became broken or worn out, orange Regular Meals 25¢ Special Sunday Dinner 35¢ This man brough his nephew a horse and wagon and a full supply of such household implements as he kuew the farmers’ wives were likely to need, laid out rout for him and sent him out. In the course of a day or two the boy came back with (he‘ Give us a trial, and we know you will be pleased and, of course, if he had leave of A few minutes later he stood before C. M. CLAYTOY, IS A MEMBER OF THE FEDg; RESERVE SYSTEM. ' absence during this dreadful war . . . Lieutenant von Butzow looked at the list of ships expected in British waters during the we-k that he was to be absent. He was to torpedo as many of these as possible, lying on the bottom of the sea between ex- ploits, to gain time and remain in safety. And at the head of the list was the Mariamne, on which Miss Bainbridge was to sall. His instructions were explicit ones. He was to torpedo every merchant ship within sight of his section of the British seacoast. He was to think nothing of the lives of those aboard. He was to dive as soon as he had launched his missile upon its dead- ly path, and to withdraw, leaving the luckless passengers and crew to perish, The Mariamne was due to arrive off the Scilly coast in a few hours. Lieutenant von Retzow, standing at The Mariamne Was Now Cle; View. the wheel, felt the sweat pour down his face. Fe stared out miserably across the waters. To send the woman he loved to death among those waves seemed the act of a devil. Yet that was his duty, and he must carry it out or—return with his task unaccomplished, to face disgrace and ruin. He lay in wait just out of view of the Scillies, dipping, rising again, or floating almost submerged, with peri- scope above the waters, searching for the doomed passenger vessel. She was due to sight the Scillies at about four in the afternoon, and precisely At four he saw the line of smoke upon the horizon, and, through his glasses, the two funnels of the Abercromby line. He shouted down the engine tube and ran awash toward the ship. No other craft was upon the sea; every one had scurried into security, in fear of the raids. The Marlamne was now clearly In view, listing a little as she rolled in the troughs. Evidently the pres- ence of the submarine was entirely un- suspected by her as she made her way slowly toward the Cornish coast. It was the bitterness of death for Von Retzow. During the few minutes in which the periscope crept up to- ward the Mariamne he lived over again those days in America, when he had begun to realizé his love for Lucy, her dawning love for him. Duty had carried him away, but he had written to her at last, unable to postpone learning of his fate. He believed she cared for him; he had felt sure that she was coming to Europe in the ex- pectation of meeting him. He had written to her once: “I would give my life for you. Your life i8 ever sacred to me—will ever be.” And now, litc & cowardly murderer, he was creeping up on the track of the vessel that carried her, resolved to sink her, murder his sweetheart coldly, deliberately. There could be no chance of rescue out of the trough of the Atlantic billows, “The torpedo is in the launching tube, sir!” called up his aide from below. Von Retzow trembled; he could not gather voice to answer. He was not more than half a mile from the Mariamne now; she was almost broadside on, and the submarine had maneuvered herself so that her nose pointed due along the course that the torpedo must take to strike. ———————————————————— same load he had left with. His uncle’s inquiries brought out the facts that the young man had not stopped at a single house on his route or called out his wares as he passed them He said none of the farm wagons seemed to need any- thing he had for none of them came out to see what he could offer. He knew he had goods of value to these women but he waited for them to find out what he could sell them. In other words, he had no idea of ad- vertising his wares. We see schemes advocater for the the commander of the little torpedo ! boat. “I am sorry, sir. The fortune of ! war, you kmow,” said the young of- ficer, rather sheepishly, stretching out ! his hand to Von Retzow. “Will you come into my cabin?” he added, leading the way. “You are, of course, paroled during the short voyage to England. I believe we can make you comfortable—dry, at any rate,” he sald. In the cabin Von Retzow still looked fixedly at the other. “Are you not going to hang me?” he asked. The British officer protested feebly. | “Listen,” said Von Retzow. “I will tell you something, to show you what duty means to us German officers. The woman I love and expect to marry was aboard the Mariamne. I was ordered to sink her—and I sank her, according to my instructions. But I tell you that it will haunt me for the rest of my days.” To his amazement the young Eng- lish officer, who had been regarding him with an expression decidedly quizzical, interposed laughingly: “I may as well relieve your mind, sir,” he said. “The Mariamne was aware of your amiable intentions and slipped in by another route yesterday. The old tramp that you torpedoed was a decoy Mariamne. She hadn't a soul aboard, and—well, we were lying in wait for you upon her leeward side. So, I'm glad to say that your fears were groundless, and if anything can be done to make you comfort- able—" Von Retzow wrung his hands and danced like a crazy man, up and down in the cabin. “Yes,” he shouted. “Take me to England as quick as you can. I—I've got to find out whether the Mari- amne has let off her passengers yet.” YEARNING FOR THE HILLS Influence of Early Environment Is for Each of Us the Iron Ring of Destiny. How much of the influence of early environment, of the habituated reac- tions which comprise for each of us the iron ring of his destiny, there is in even our deeper attitude toward the external worli—toward what we call Nature! Not long ago I spent many weeks in the prairie country of the West, a sense of oppression con- stantly increasing in weight upon my spirit. Those endless, level plains! Those roads that stretched without a break to infinity! A house, a group of barns, a fruit orchard, and then a || clump of hardwoods, alone broke the endless, flat monotony of smow-cove ered flelds—no, not fields, but infini- tudes where a single furrow could put & girdle about an entire township in my home land! My soul hungered for a hill; my heart craved, with a dull longing, the sight of a naked birch tree flung aloft against the winter sky. Back through the endless plains of Illinois the train crawled, away from ; the setting sun. But the next daylight disclosed the gentle, rolling slopes of the Mohawk valley, and before many hours had passed the Berkshire hills were all about us, like familiar things recovered. The camel-hump of Grey- lock to the morth was sapphire-blue and beckoning. The nearer moun- tains wore their reddish mantles, pricked with green, above the snowy intervals, and laid their up-reared outlines stark against the sky. Shed- owy ravines let into their flanks, sug- gestive of roaring brooks and the mys- tery of the wilderness. The clouds trailed purple shadow-anchors; the sun flashed from the ice on their scarred ledges. And a weight seemed suddenly lifted from my spirit. The Words of the ancient psalmist comes to my lips unconsciously: *I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills. From whence cometh my help? My help cometh from God.”—Walter Prichard Eaton in Harper's Magazine. — % Harking Back. “You say you have been Miss Flibbs a long tlmct‘?flu - "g.'vvher since the year 5 B. T. C” i at does that ‘B. T. C. e B. T. C’ stand “Before the Tango Craze.” Financial Stringency. Dixmyth—I lost $50,000 in less than half a minute last night Hojax—What's the explanation? Dixmyth—I proposed to Miss Got- rox and she said “No.” e — better exploiting of th markets our citrus growers have already open to them but little thought seems to be displayed in the direction of open- ing new ones. In the matter of marketing vegetables the Florida Marketing Bureau seems to have struck the right idea in that it is looking for fresh markets in the small towns of the South as well as of other sections; for territory to ex- ploit outside of the great cities. — Rugby school was founded and endowed in 1567. Commencing Thursdaf‘? June 10th, we will sell re gardless of make all o Palm Beach: Suits atr $6.5( Silk Mohairs That were $12.00 Now $8.50 Straw Hats cut down also This is for CASH ONLY L O oo JOS, LeVAY The Home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothi O The Financial Crisis O We'are now in shape to give you the benetit of our Low Fxpenses. House and save you money, Let us wire your Lower Insur- ance, Cleanliness and Convenience are the results. T. L. CARDWELL Phone With Lakeland Sreet Metal Wor SHPPPPLPLNN 0000000000 (R R R 1. ECT RIC I Flashlights Batteries Lamps Auto Accessories - We sell Quality goods FLORIDAELECTRIC & MACHINERY THE ELECTRIC STORE Kibler Hotel B ELECTRIC Sursrarraras Immune From Many Diseases. Men attending the pans in salt works are generally supposed to be exempt from cholera. smallpox, scar let fever and influenza. — Yes, Why? ¥ is 1t that the last w0 uttered while in good het change.