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.THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JULY 28, 1914.
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The Evening Telegram
Published every afternoon from the
Telegram Building, Lakeland, Fla.
Entered in the postofflce at Lake
land, Florida, as mail matter of the
eecond class.
li. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
jne ear 15.00
tlx moum 2.50
Three monmn 1.25
Delivered anywhere within the
Units of the City of Lakeland for 10
tents a week.
From the same office is issued
THE LAKELAND NEWS,
A weekly newspaper giving a resume
of local matters crop conditions,
county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere
for $1.00 per year.
Alabama has summarily ended the
long discussion over teaching Latin
in the public schools and has decid
ed against such teaching. Not only
will Latin not be taught, but all
modern languages except English
will be eliminated. This ought to
give the grand old 'English grammar
a better showing, and it certainly
needs it, not only in Alabama but
In all surrounding States.
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Not many people in this country
know the details of the new currency
law, for literature of that character
is not popular reading and we trust
our statesmen to take care of such
matters for us. But we all want to
know the probable effect of this new
law and here it is in a few plain,
highly agreeable words from Wil
liam J. Bryan:
"The new currency law has ended
the domination of Wall street; it is
no longer possible for a few finan
ciers to coerce the business world, to
intimidate public officials. The finan
cier is an important factor in his
community and an element to be
considered in governmental matters
but each financier is just one man,
and his influence must be measured
by the wisdom of his advice and not
by his wealth."
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Miami seems to be the storm cen
ter for Florida reforms these days.
First she changes the time and sets
up all her clocks and watches one
hour, and now her preachers, bless
them for wise, good men who study
the needs of the flesh as well as the
spirit, announce that while the hot
weather lasts male members of their
congregations can shed their coats
during the services and take it as
cool as they can while they listen
to the sermon. If this new rule
isn't justified by the sublime genius
of common sense our deep and ex
haustive thinking on the subject goes
for nothing. Lakeland leads in most
worthy enterprises, but Miami has
"put one over on us" in this matter,
but it is not too late for us to come
in as a close second. It is worthy
of note that in one of the Miami
churches the ladies voted unanimous
ly for the coatless. privilege for men
attending the services.
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TOUGH ON FLORIDA
CONVICT CAMPS
A special editorial writer for the
Monday edition of the Tampa Tri
bune, who signs his initials S. S. M.,
thinks so little of the Florida con
vict system that he says:
"We would not be surprised to
sometime hear of the assassination
of a president or other offical at the
hands of someone who was made a
fiend in the convict camps of Flor
ida." This is putting it strongly and is
based upon an estimate of our con
vict camps which makes them verit
able infernos; but we have a State
prison inspector wh tells us other
wise, and it is his business to know
the facts in the case. The immense
increase of our prison population in
recent years' makes the proper treat
ment of the prisoners themselves a
difficult and perplexing problem.
There is doubtless more than enougn
cruelty and hardship in the system,
' but the disposition of so many people
to magnify and exaggerate when
they are telling us of the unusual
and abnormal and horrifying things
they have seen, makes it probable
that these awful stories from our
prison camps are not entirely accu
rate and conditions are not so bad
as they are painted.
But the isolation of convicts, shut
off from the world, subject to the ar
bitrary will of guards and keepers,
some of whom are doubtless lacking
in humanity and consideration for
the helpless, makes it necessary that
the State should be ceaseless in its
vigilance to save from needless
cruelty unhappy wretches doing pen
ance for their sins, and it is well
enough for the press to keep the sub
ject 6tirred even though exaggera
tions get into its stories.
A Kansas man comes to the front
in his local paper with the state
ment that the Florida orange is un
surpassed for high quality. This is
strictly correct and yet Kansas con
fines herself to California oranges
because California puts it all over
Florida in her advertising methods.
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In the Texas primary election
Tuesday prohibition got a decided
backset. That was almost the sole
issue in the contest to nominate a
governor and other State officers,
ALL IK
jHT
FROM NEW
ORLEANS
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GATED
STATE HEALTH OFFICER
ISSUED GENERAL
ORDER.
the disease is fast being exterm
inated. "The Florida board of health,"
he said, "is loathe, unnecessarily,
to interfere with the transporta
tion of freight commodities, and
passenger traffic from! that point
and therefore has taken no steps
to cut off either from Florida;
but with the first indication that
fit is probable any comnaunicable
means has escaped without tne
confines of the quarantied area
in Louisiana, then the Florida
health authorities will shut the
doors of the state fast and hard
against the great Mississippi
port."
In addition to watching the
trulf Dorts of Florida, through
Jacksonville, July 28 "The
state board of health does not
think it necessary at this time to
and Ferguson, the anti-prohibition quarantine aeainst New Orleans.
candidate, defeated Ball, bitter en-; because of the existence of bu-
eray of the liquor traffic, by nearly jbonic plague in that city, but it
ov.uuu majority, me proposition to ( is watching every avenue caeful-
subniit a constitutional amendment j h, and if the (slightest doubt
prohibiting the liquor traffic was arises in mind of the board as to
also defeated. The time is appar- the least danger tn Florida thfm which, herause of direct sailings!
ently far away when there will be a strict quarantine will be de-'of vessels, the bubonic rat might q
state-wide prohibition in Texas, but j clared and enforced." enter, the state board of health g
Dy tne local option method most of
the counties are already dry and year
by year the liquor traffic is being i vrivl.n,, u ' tlmt V Orlns The
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entrance of the plague through ,
TTn-ntinn tt-Mi1r1 Via murll n YiP.
dreaded as through New Or
leans, and the same quarantine
This was the statement of Dr.' has also to whatch Ilavanna, be- g
J. Y. Porter, state health officer', cause of direct sailings bbetween
confined with'n smaller area
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General Villa is in bad with the
Tarpon Springs Lader, which says
that he makes "no more bones of
murdering a score of human beings
than the average American would
make of slapping a mosquito." From
our reading we have gathered a very
different impression of the most
brilliant and picturesque character
the Mexican revolution has given us.
He started in as an ignorant ex
bandit who knew only Mexican
standards of humanity in war, but
he has been growing away from
them steadily and rapidly ever since
and has shown wonderful capacity
to absorb and adopt enlightened
American ideas about war and
many other things. The testimony
of the correspondents close to him
makes him anything but the mon
ster of cruelty painted by the Leader.
I Tomorrow is the
I LAST DAY
I You can get an extra pair
I of trousers FREE with
I each suit order
Have your measure taken
by a man who knows his
business and avoid misfits.
so far as it related to Florida.
"Refumigation of all freight
cargoes entering this state from
New Orleans will beerin at
Miami has bravely and perhaps
rashly led the way in substituting
central for eastern time, thus shov
ing up her clocks about one hour,
but she may yet tire of the experi
ment and go back to the old way.
No other community in Florida
shows any disposition to follow the
Miami example and, worst of all for
her, the railroads will continue to
be operated on eastern time and this
is sure to make confusion and in
convenience for all concerned, a
double standard of time in a com
munity would seem to be undesir
able just as would be a double stand,
ard of money, a double standard of
measurement or double standards of
any kind that touch us nearly in
our daily avocations. The sole ex
ception to this rule is the double
standard of morals in the relation
of the sexes, which civilization seems
to accept as a necessary evil, hut
against which the modern woman
movement is beginning to train its
artillery.
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TIMELY WARNING
TO CALOMEL USERS
if declared would doubtless ap
plv to both.
Dr. Porter declared that he
and the state board of health
have the most implicit confidence
in the authorities in control in
New Orleans.
once, ' said Dir. Porter, "and this
with the fact that all cargoes are
now being fumigated before
leaving the plague infested city,
will practically eliminatell pos
sibility of the plague getting in
to this state from that point."
Dr. Porter said further that
the plague is not communicable
from; humans, that is the com
mon form- of it, and that the
pheumjonic form is so rare in
tropical and subtropical coun
tries that there is hardly a pos
sibility of its appearance in this
state.
Dr. Porter was in wire com
munication yesterday with the
federal and state health authori
ties in New Orleans, and all of
them are working in harmony
vith and cooperation with the
municipal authorities, under the
supervision of Surgeon General
Blue, to control and eliminate dently,
the disease; and that the war on. Pened. I hadn't Deen to the State
the rats in the Crescent city is far tor twenty year, so I wasn't on
being waged with such success to jt verv wel1- 1 decided I'd keep
that the communicable rrteans of an eye on the crowds, and foller
FOLLOWING THE CROWD
Uncle Billy walked into the vil
lage store about the middle of the
afternoon, and the storekeeper, wak
ing from his nap, said, "Thought
you'd gone to the State fair.''
"I did," was the brief reply, as
Uncle Billy helped himself to a
chair.
"Didn't you like it?"
Uncle Billy looked 'round cau
tiously. The other village loafers
were having a game of "horseshoe"
in front of the blacksmith shop; so
lowering his voice, he said, confi-
"I'll tell you how it hap-
BATES
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Any physician will tell you that
mercury, if it remains in the body,
will in time soften and rot the
bones. Doctors call this necrosis of
the bones. Calomel is a form of
mercury, and to keep out of danger
it's a safe plan to take no calomel
at all, especially as there is a better
remedy .
Both children and grown people
will find a perfect remedy to take
the place of calomel in Dodson's
Liver Tone, a pleasant, vegetable
liquid that starts the liver to act
and which never has any bad after
effects. Dodson's Liver Tone will do all
the good that calomel does without
any of the dangers of calomel. You
feel tine the' next day after taking
Dodson's Liver Tone; you can eat
anything you want and are ready for
your daily work or pleasure with
joyous good feeling. A large bottle
is sold for only fifty cents by. Lake
Pharmacy who will cheerfully re
fund your money if you are not satisfied.
Cutting the Rrice on Good
Merchandise
COME AND SEE
Ladies' Waists, 25c for 19
Ladies' llouse Dresses, $1.00 and$i-35 for 79
Ladies' Underwear, 25c and 35c for 19
Ladies' Under Skirts, 50c and $1.00 for 39
Ladies' Silk Drop Skirts, $2.50, for $1.89
Children's Dresses, 50c and 65c for 3S
Children's Dresses $1.00 to $1.35 78
PIECE GOODS.
Silk Ratine, 36 in wide, $1.00 value 69
bilk Katine 27 in. wide, 85c value
Cotton Ratine, 36 in. wide 50c value
Many good Values Come and See Bates.
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SELLING OUT ALL MEN'S GOODS.
Don't take my Word; Come and See ;V Yourself.
$1.50 and $2.00 Straw Hats for S9
The Best Sox in Lakeland, 2 pr. for 35
50c Four-in-Hand Ties, for 35
The Best 15c Collars, per dozen $1.00
Yours for Honest Merchandise.
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fn1j Good crop assured if attended to regularly
Distance to plant deposits- not very far apart
Deposits of one dollar accepted at our Bank. k&
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WILLIAMSON CL0THIN6 CO.
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where they seemed the thickest.
Well, it worked pretty well. I weru
around to a good many fine displays
and shows and things. About noon,
'I saw a lot of fine-dressed folks goin'
all in one direction, so I took after
'em. They all pushed and jammed
to get through an archway, and I
pushed too. Well, what d'you guess
it was?"
"Give it up," the storekeeper said,
eager for the climax.
"Well, they were all city folks,
goin' home to dinner, and there I
stood on the outside. I wasn't goin'
to pay no fifty cents to get back in,
so I lit out for home. I thought I'd
stop in here for a spell, to keep the
fam'ly from askin' questions about
my gettin' home so early." The
Youth's Companion.
Did you ever stop to look over the
newspapers of Florida? Just gather
them all together, and lay them in
a pile, and then go through them,
and size them up and compare them
with the newspapers of other States.
Take all of them, the dailies and the
country weeklies. You will find more
news, more boosting matter, more
well-written editorials, more of the
clean product of bright, active
minds, a better typographical ap
pearance, a cleaner, better general
tone than the average of newspapers
in any State in the Union. The Flor
ida press stands far above that of
any State. Jacksonville Metropolis.
ADVANTAGES OFFERED
FLORIDA INVESTOR
(Continued from Page 2)
the large chance for development
of the whole country and the
unique position the State holds
as the winter play ground and
the winter home of thousands of
leading men of affairs of the
whole country.
These men of judgment, as
well as mpney, are not slow to
appreciate the vast possibilities
in all the untilled acres and are
buying up land in enormous
tracts. The wary capatalist
who would shy instantly at a
bargain in ore-bearing land of
the west, doesn't hesitate long,
over a Florida proposition, par
ticularly when he sees for him
self just what it presents.
Lvnn Haven Tribune.
A message to prohibit the sale of
cigarettes or cigarette papers in
Georgia has been favorably reported
to the Senate.
In its schemes of economy the
postofflce department at Washington
has decided to discontinue thirty
West Virginia postoffices after the
first of August. Two of these offices
will be succeeded by rural delivery,
but the patrons of the remaining
twenty-eight offices will have to go
to other stations for their mail after
July 31.
Since Jan. 1 of this year the
Pennsylvania railroad has sold at
least 100 pieces of real estate for ap.
proximately $1,000,000. The com
pany has decided to sell all parcels
not used for railroad purposes.
I RENTING PAINT I
If you have a house to rent
Decorate the walls and paint
the outside.
Then notice how soon it will be
occupied.
Use flat-Tone for interior
finish. It is washable and
sanitary.
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