Commission To Fight
Tuberculosis In Fla.
Jacksonville, Oct. 30 The mem
bership of tbe Red Cross Seal Com
mission of Florida, which will con
duct an anti-tuberculosis campaign
throughout the tate, was announced
yesterday by the national associa
tion for the study and iprevention of
tuberculosis. Dr. Carrol H. Frank,
of Jacksonville, will act as chair
man and will take charge of the sale
cf Red Cross Christ mass seals ia
Florida.
,ln speaking of plans for the seal
sate. Dr. Frink said:
"V are planning to put Red
Cross seals on sale in every city and
village in the State so that every
one will be i?iven an opportunity to
participate in this health campaign
by usin? the seals on letters and
packages.
"The need for a campaign against
tuberculosis is shown by the fact
that more than one out of every eight
deaths in Florida is caused by this
No Danger Of
Potash Famine
Ample Domestic Supply Discov
ered, and Price Will Fall.
(Auburndale New Era)
Surely this is the day of the
optimist, and those who in the
dark days of last year "sat steady
in the boat," as Mrs. Prange ad
vised, and insisted everything
would turn out all right, have
their chance to raise their voices
in the gladsome ululation of "I
told you so."
It did look serious to Florida
growers when the chief supply of
potash, in Germany, was cut off
by the war, for this is the one ele
ment of plant food that our soils
most lack. Prices wen Zeppel
ing upward, until the wags had
some excuse for suggesting that
gold and silver dust might be
used instead of potash in fertil
izer mixtures. But by using a
smaller percentage of potash and
bv aDDlvincr lime to helo make
nvnilnhlp flip reservp mmnlv ill
tl,- o;i 1,.. ;f
R .. . , ' J
. swuib .is .!.. i...a ja.,
at practically no extra expense, j
And now, before the reserve is
exhausted, comes the news that!
a domestic supply is available, as:
the following dispatch tells:
Washington. Oct. 17 Secre-
tary Lane today announced the
, . . i -
mineral potash in the United
States. .
This country is therefore no ;
longer dependent on Germany for
any quantity of potash so neces-(
sary in the manufacture of ex
plosives and used largely as agri
cultural fertilizers. A special
agent of the geological survey
located the potash in a vein of
mineral known as alunite in Piute
County, Utah. The vein is ten
feet wide and has been traced for
3,500 feet. Its depth is unknown.'
The discovery of this mineral
potash in commercial quantities 1 battleship, says the American Boy.
Secretary Lane regards as one of An tho rmles ' Europe have port-
the most important discoveries ble e"cihBht'. "e French having
made recentlv with reference to ?rought them to an eBPeClay n,s
maae recently wun rciercnce to degree of perfection. The field search
natural resources, as it assures a ilght i8 U8Uany carrled on one motop
domestic supply of potash for truck and the generator on another,
national need in manufacture of a quick connection being made by
explosives. means of wires. The searchlight may
Aluntic is known to exist in the be placed ,n a raost eP"ed spot and
states of Colorado, Utah, Nevada, ,peraltor an,d gen"atT. ,n
Cilifr.rni-i anrl Ari7n.11 a 8nel,fire(l Pltlon. The light may
lalilornij and Arizona. bo automatica,lv controlled from a
inc iiuiriiur iJi-p.truiieiu aiso
is drilling at various points in the
united States m search for depos
its of potash like those of Ger
many. Should alunite deposits of a
similar character be found in
large quantities in other states,
its significance to the agriculture
of this country can hardly be
overestimated, as it is an essen
tial soil food and will re-establish
from year to year the draught
made upon the potash in the soil
by the crops produced.
Statistics show that the im
ports of potassium salts from
Germany amounted to $i5.x.ooo
in 19 13, the last year in which
figures are available.
The importance of this discov
ery to the farmers of this country
can scarcely be overestimated.
There is hardly a section of the
entire United States where it has
not been found that a small ap
plication of proper chemical fer
tilizers will not increase the yield
many times its cost. Its use in
the form of chlorate of potash in
explosives, while valuable if we
ever get into war, really takes
second place far to the rear.
It will probably be some little
time before new mines are pro
ducing in sufficient quantities to
lower the price, but the lowering
will come in time. And when the
war is over and Germany seeks
to regain her markets and dispose
of her accumulated surplus,
nriees will be slashed to the low-
Mt limits ' ever known. Of
.I,- ,;il war between
course there will be wat beteen
the domestic and foreign produc-
ers and probably some tantt
monkey business, but about that
"we should worry!" Either way
it ends we stand to win. Cheap
potash and plenty of it is now a
diseasce, according to the best esti
mates. If we had complete death
statistics gor the entire state, the
figures might be even more start
ling. "When we realize that tubercu
losis is a preventable and curable
disease, we know that the Florida
rate of one death out of ever?
eleven from all causes among white
wople and one out of every six
deaths amonii thecolored race is al
together too high.
"Over 230,000 Red Cross Christ
mas seab were sold last year in
Florida4 We expect that with im
proved financial conditions through
out the state the sale this year will
rench at least 500,000. Ninety per
rent of the proceeds of the sale re
mains in the state to beu sed in the
fight against tuberculosis. The
other ten per cent goes to the
American Red Cross."
certainty in the not far distant
future.
Of course potash is mainly a
hardening element, and goes
mostly to the formation of
branch, stalk, and seed. It is
chiefly the nitrogen and phos
phorus that grow the crop. But
we arc learning more and more
that ample nitrogen can be ob
tained by plowing under the veg
etable matter that our soil and
climate will give us free in such
overflowing abundance. And
Florida has the largest phosphate
deposits of entire world, which
we are just learning to utilize di
rect in the form of finely-ground
soft pebble phosphate an arti
cle which it seems from present
experiments will give all that the
most expensive acid phosphate
does, without the disadvantage of
souring the soil. So, altogether,
the pessimist (and generally a
loafer too) who used to howl
about the awful cost of fertilizer
seems to be permanently out of
a job.
Sophistication.
Major Riddle of Atlantic City re
"Ponded at a recent dinner to a toast
the summer girl
There s a lot of false synicism de
voted t0 the 8Umnier glr,.. he sofl
.Sne ,s ma(le out to be very wor(1Iy
and sophisticated, but, as a matter of
fact, the average sifthnier girl is as
Innocent as a little child,
"Bu niOBt PeIle wou have us be-
lleve that that was a p'"1 summer
?Zh 3.man 8ald 00 the
wrm ii in win miwilllljlll..
" You're not the first girl I've
kissed by any manner of means, you
know.'
"The summer girl's lip curled.
" 'And at that.' she answered, 'you've
still got a lot to learn.' "
An Advantage.
"To what do you attribute your re
markable health?"
"Well." replied the very old gentle
man, "I reclioc I got a good start on
most people by bein' born before
germs was discovered, thereby havln'
less to worry about."
Searchlight's Use In War.
The electric searchlight Is now
considered as essential to an army as
distance, and thus though the enemy
enter their fire on the light the op
rator is not endangered. These field
earchlights are fitted with 38-Inch re
lectors and throw a beam of 7,000
' andlepower. These B3arehlights will
lluminate objects at distances ot a
nile and over.
Avoiding Melancholy.
Melancholy is due to a congested
condition of ihe liver and other or
;ans, depriving the brain of the blood
accessary to keep up the normal bal
ance of activity. When one is tired
or feels the dejected feeling coming
on. telief enn lie obtained by lying on
the floor with a pillow under the
.niddle of the back and taking a few
long deep breaths.
if tho anus are thrown over the
:H'al and a dozen deep breaths are
, 'akrn. a now spirit will come into the
:ralu. Sometimes this is done au
tomatically as when we throw up the
arms ami straiRhen up after a crouch
ing position at a desk.
Anger.
Hiram Stanley rather absurdly de
scribed the dawn of human history
as an epoch when primitive man first
became angry and fought, overcom
ing the great quaternary carnlvora
iind made himself the lord of crea
tion. Plato said anger was the basis
of the state. Ribot made it the estab
lisher of justice in the world, and
Itergson thinks society rests on anger
at vice and crime, while Stekel thinks
that temper qualities should hence
forth be treated In every biography
and explored in every case that is
psychoanalyzed.
Modern War Munitions.
It takes three months to make a
! shrapnel shell. Such a projectile has
tne toTm of cylinder, which, by the
nelp of a time bIows ,ts head off
at th ngUnt desire(I ,cattering 250
or more lead j,unets. Tne smallest
EZe used by the United states for the
three-lrrn gun such guns, as well
- toiw-.s ar -.v;:oy,-d rr r?ir.g
sr ra.u- . ;j.
BEYOND RUBIES
By ELIZABETH 8CH0EN COBB.
"The girl don't fit," waa tbe im-
. placable announcement of the man
who decidedwhat and what not books
should go forth from the great At
lantic Press.
j "H'm!" uttered Cyril Dane, popular
author and dilettante "make her fit,
then.''
I "It can't be done," voiced the cen
j sor, critic and ruler of the destinies
! ot current authorship. "You'll have
to find a new one. See here, Dane,
don't get stale and cynical because
you are rich in paying copyright royal
ties. You've strucK quite a new lead
in your last manuscript. Tbe charac
ters are natural and charming. All
but the girl. She spoils It."
"She's the fair average ot the so
cial ton," adhered Dane.
The great editor viewed Dane critic
ally and speculatively.
"Dane," he spoke bluntly, "what's
the matter with you? Been crossed in
love at some time or other in your ex
perience?" "I?" laughed the author. "I should
say not! Love there's no such thing
In the world."
"Mistake," observed the other sen
tentiously. "Go out and hunt up the
real thing, revise your manuscript on
a basis of later information and you'll
be giving the world a real literary
genu"
Dane swung out of the office In his
usual self-willed. Indifferent way, but
when he got home in the quiet and
calm of his library he began to think
over what the editor had said to bim.
Ho bad not thought much of the story
Shouted at the Despoiler.
he had Just submitted. In fact it was
the result of a four weeks' stay in a
far northern rest resort, where he had
boarded with a quaint, old-fashioned
family, every member of which was
unique as to mannerisms and char
acter. More "to get this new experi
ence out of his system," than anything
else, Dane had strung together a sim
ple, but pretty story. There was no
visible heroine in the family he had
lived with. She was away at school,
but he constructed a heroine. He de
picted the absent daughter as "the
home product," going out in a world
wise way. He made her ambitious,
unnatural, selfish and harmless. That
was the kind of women Cyril Dane
had met in the social circle in which
he had moved. The first beauty of the
story was marred, as might be a love
ly melody by a false and discordant
note.
"It's so, what Rossiter said," ac
knowledged Dane, after re-reading the
manuscript. "Pshaw! let it go through.
It's only a pot boiler and out of my
line."
He found it not so easy to adhere to
this indifferent position, however. The J
criticisms of the editor, while disturb- :
Ing his self-esteem, also conveyed a .
compliment as to his ability in a new
vein of literary effort. He was thirty, 5
blase, be regarded life as, after all, a i
hollow shell. He had trained with a
group possessed of shallow moral
ideas and his sentiments and humani
tarian analyses had been tinctured
with that Influence.
"I will take another Jaunt among
the unvarnished and see if I can dis
cover something new," he resolved.
Two days later Dane arrived at a lit
tle town in the same district where he
had gained the character material for
his latest novel. His idea was to ar
range for a stay in some obBcure set
tlement along the shore of the lake.
Noon found him hot and tired, outside
of the range of a human habitation.
"I'll take a swim and rest and then
plod on," soliloquized Dane.
He was in the full enjoyment of a
refreshing swim when, chancing to
glance shorewards, he saw a big husky
trampish looking fellow going through
his clothes. He shouted at the despoil
er. but the latter did not desist Dane
ran up on the shore. He grappled
with the thief.
It proved to be an unequal contest.
The tramp was double his match In
buik and strength. There was a strenu
ous tussle. Then, springing free from
Dane's grasp, his assailant grabbed
up a beavy club and dealt him a dozen
cruel blows.
It was hours later when Dane
aroused from a deathlike lethargy. His
face was dabbled with blood, he was
1 More Sensible.
I The reason tbe motion picture sun
J rise Is so much more popular than the
real arucie is mat it has the good
sense to come at a more reasonable
hour.
Killing Insects In Seeds.
Injurious insects found in seeds
may be killed without affecting the
germinating qualities of the seed by
treatment with hydrocyanic acid gas
In a vacuus chamb.-.
weak and discy-headed. In a mechan
ical sort of way ha proceeded to dress
himself, u was In the cast-off gar
ments of the tramp, although ha did
not notice this. The enemy had made
. I . r . . .
uia uespoumeni complete.
In a brain dace that comprehended
little of environment or the extent
of his injuries. Dane staggered down
the beach. He had a dim realization
of the fact that he was badly hurt and
must find succor. At last his blurred
sense of vision made out a fence, a
habitation beyond it. Dane reeled
along a gravel path, gave a lurch and
landed face downward amid a redo
lent bed of flowers.
"Don't move, mister. Just tell what
you want and IH get it for you," were
tbe words that recalled him to life
again, three days later. Dane started.
A little urchin who spoke was seated
beside the bed In which he lay in a
low-ceilinged but immaculately clean
apartment
"What place is this?" began Dane
wonderingly.
"Why, it's home," explained the lad.
"Whose home?"
"Mine sister's. She's made it
yours, too, for she felt so sorry
me nx you were In. She's left me
to nurse you while she takes the but
ter and eggs to town."
All through the rest of that day
Dane in fragments gathered up the
sequel to his battle on the shore of
the lake. He had been discovered at
their very doorstep by the Mertons,
sister and brother. His wretchedness
had appealed to a sympathetic heart
Poor as they were, the best they had
had been at once awarded this in
voluntary guest.
Ned Merton was chatty and artless.
As the hours passed, Dane grew
stronger. He took a certain pleasure
In delving into the details ot the lives
of these two children of the heart,
struggling to secure a mere livelihood,
ana manKlui ror it. '
Then came Ruth Merton a bright, I
bronzed, true-eyed girl, so graceful 1
and beautiful that Cvrii no n
knowledged mentally to a new regard
for the sex.
She Insisted on his remaining an
invalid until he grew strong. She
brought him a book to read. It was
one of his own. It was a novel ex
perience to hear this artless critic
glory over Its beautiful descriptive
parts, and deprecate the vanity and
hollowness of its cynicism and false
standards of actual life.
His manner and ' conversation
proved to the young girl that he was
a gentleman and of more than average
culture 1 intelligence. Dane sent a
wire to Rossiter that brought back
clothes and money. There were two
convalescent weeks when he strolled
with his new, charming acquaintance
and marveled at the clear, soulful way
in which she showed him and trans
lated the beauties of nature about
them.
"I am coming back," he told Ruth
Morton, as he took her hand and
looked Into her honest eyes with a
thrill "I am coming back in two
days."
"I am going back into the country
to remodel my new story," he told
Rossiter in the city, the day following.
"Discovered something new?" Inti
mated Rossiter.
"Yes, a woman whose soul is be
yond rubles, who has taught me what
true love really means, my wife if
she will have me."
(Copyright. 1915. by W. Q. Chapman.)
Portrait Painter of Note.
The first portrait painter of the
United States to win general fame
was Thomas Sully, who was born 132
years ago. One of the first celebrated
American historical paintings, "Wash
Ington Crossing the Delaware," was
the product vjf his genius. Sully es
tablished himself in Richmond as a
portrait painter in 1803, but soon
moved to New York, and In 1810 to
Philadelphia, which city was after
ward his home. In addition to "Wash
ington Crossing the Delaware," his
famous historical paintings Include
"The Capture of Major Andre" and
"Miranda." As a portrait painter his
most notable subjects were Thomas
JelferBon, Lafayette, James Madison.
John Marshall, Fanny Kemble and
Queen Victoria. He visited England
to paint the girl queen in her corona
tion robes. Sully lived to an advanced
age, dying in Philadelphia in 1872.
Putting Trouble to Use.
All trouble can be put to good use
In refining and strengthening our
characters if we go about it the right
way. By looking for the sunshine
which is back ot every dark cloud we I
help to ennoble and uplift not only !
ourselves but those about us.
Work is the panacea for all ills, and j
by setting the mind resolutely at work j
we can make all our burdens much '
lighter. Mere physical work will not j
always accomplish this, for often the
mind has time to dwell on its mis
fortunes while the body is busiest.
Dut keeping the mind constantly filled
with other thoughts will leave no '
room for the troublous, grievous
things.
Unfavorable Estimate.
"Does your congressman discuss
public questions intelligently?"
"No," replied the political boss: "he
comes right out and says exactly
what he believes to be true, without
regard to the effect on his chances.
1 never saw a man act so unintelli
gent" Neutral Envy.
"What is the cause of social un-1
rest?'
"The desire,'' replied Mr. Dustln
Stax, "ot the workingman for leisure
and of the leisurely man for some
thing to keep him busy."
Optimistic Thought.
The whele of life is but a moment
of time.
Tbe Elder's Inspiration.
At the close of the forenoon session
of a ministerial conference in Phila
delphia, In announcing the opening
subject for tbe afternoon, the presid
ing officer said: "Elder Jones will pre
sent a paper on The Devil." Then
he added. "Please be prompt la attend
ance, fcr Brother .Ton?s has a carefully
prepared paper, and ia full ot his sub
ject. "
I THE FEACEIMKER
! it
: By ELLIS BROWNE. ft
t
.Wv.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.v.".v.v.v.v.v
"I'm sent to you by the typewriter
people," she said, as she handed Walk
er a card of introduction from the
agency.
"All right. Miss Rankin," said Walk
er, referring to the card. "Here's a
book with our form of letters in it, and
each one is numbered; so when I say
a certain number, you'll know bow to
proceed. Be ready for work in five
minutes."
"I'm ready now," was the surpris
ing reply.
The work progressed uneventfully
until, just before closing time that
afternoon. Walker bad difficulty in
getting a telephone number he want
ed and as he slammed the telephone
receiver on to its hook be almost
swore at the stupidity of the opera
tor and ot women in general.
"Ouch!" said Alberta, holding both
hands to one cheek as if she had been
slapped. "You must have got stung
good and proper by some woman to
acquire such an ingrowing grouch
agalnBt all ot us."
"Look here, young woman! Who do
you think you are, and whom do
you think you're talking to, I'd like
to know?" thundered Walker.
"Well, as for me, I'm a human be
ing, and I suggest that you remember
it when you speak to me. As for you,
why you're human, too, I suppose,
under that bearlike disguise you
put on when women come on the
scene."
Alberta concluded this astounding
remark with an audacious laugh, but
she looked so frankly into the frown
ing eyes of Walker that before he
knew it he was beginning to smile
himself. Then she added: "Nursing
a grievance always makes it grow,
you know; besides, maybe that woman
who stung you had a .grievance,
too. You know a difference between
two people has got to have two
sides to it or the difference just isn't
there."
"By George," said Walker, pushing
his papers away from him and turn
ing in his chair until he sat square
ly facing Alberta, "I believe I'll just
tell you a thing or two about that dif
ference." Then he told her of having been en
gaged to a stenographer a few years
before, and of how they quarreled
because the girl became active in
a club of office women who epent most
of their Sundays on long cross-coun-'
try walks, taking their dinners and
suppers at roadside hotels or farm
houses. "That might have been smoothed
out all right if I hadn't happened
to be on an interurban car the next
Sunday and passed that gang of wom
en, and what were they doing but
walking along in a row, each one with
her hands on the shoulders of the
one in front of her, and the one at the
very rear called out to my to Alice,
who was at the head ot the line: "Get
a move on you, Alice. If you expect
to make that Walker of yours go all
the gaits you'll have to learn to go
some yourself!" Then they all cackled
like the lot of hens they were, and I
never went near Alice again, and don't
know what has become of her."
Toward the latter part of his narra
tive Walker had been fumbling with
a paperweight on his desk, and when
he looked up at Alberta he was sur
prised and embarrassed to see her
shaking with suppressed laughter.
"And to think," she said, "that I
was the innocent cause of this grouch
striking so deep! I was the very girl
who made that fool remark to Alice,
but I'll vow I hadn't thought of it'
since and I don't suppose she has
either. I feel crushed to think I didn't
make enough of an impression on you
to make you remember me as well as
my silly talk."
Walker was too much surprised to
do anything more than stare for a few
moments, and Alberta presently be
came more serious than he had
thought possible for her. "Why, Mr.
Walker, you've done that girl a seri
ous Injustice. She went into the walk
ing club because the doctors had told
her that outdoor exercise was all that
would prevent a nervous collapse, and
rather than burden you with a nervous
wife she went in for everything she
could afford. Now, you see," she con
cluded, "there are two sides to a dif
ference. Don't you feel pretty much
ashamed of yourself?"
"Yes," he said slowly, "I'm enough
ashamed to tell Alice so if 1 thought
she'd listen to me. Do you suppose
she would?"
"Oh, no telling what a girl will do,"
laughed Alberta. "1 wouldn't forgive
you to save your neck, but Alice
I'll telephone Alice right now and fix
up some scheme to bring you two to
gether. Shall 1?"
"If you can manage it; but bow on
earth can you?"
"Oh, pshaw! Leave that to me."
Alberta reached tor the telephone and
called for a number. "May I speak to
Miss Mills? . . . Hello, Alice, this
it Bert. 1 just happened to stumble
on to something today that you lost
and forgot about ages ago. I'm going
to bring it by to-night and let you give
it the 'once over.' . . . Never mind
now; no questions asked. . . . No,
you could guess from now till
doomsday without coming anywhere
near it. . . . Once upon a time fa
have said, 'It's a bear, but that ex
pression is out ot aate now. i n bring
it over at eight o'clock tonight. Good
by." Copyright. 1915. by the McClure Newspa
per Syndicate.)
Work By the Hands.
There must be work done by
the
Bands or none of us would liv
and
work done by the brains or the life
would not be worth having, and th
same men cannot do both Ruskin.
An Essential.
rood, strong, able-bodied ladder la
quite essential to a successful elope
ment This is now well appreciated
by the young lady in the East end who
tell out of a window and landed in a
hospital Instead of the arms of a hus
band. Pittsburgh Dispatch.
Thos. S: Perconi
Maker of High Grade
& Portraits &
By Photography. y& Cot. Main
& Kentucky. Phone 183 Red
It Needed an Explanation.
A Kansas Cityan relates that recen'
ly while on a trip about the environf
of San Diego and Coronado beach in a
sight-seeing motor car the driver
pointed out various land holdings,
buildings, hotels, etc.. as the property
of J. D. Spreckels. Jr., tbe sugar mag
nate. Even he road over which they
bowled was privately owned b
Spreckels As the car. following the
winding road, drew near the bay. a lit
tie girl asked. "Mamma, who owns
the bay?" Mamma smi'.oi and said
"Whv. dearie. God owns the bay. "
"Well." said the pui-.zled child "how
did he get it away from Mr.
Spreckelr?"
Machine Gun Perfected.
German machine guns show a great
improvement on those that were used
at the beginning of the war They
can be carried by one man, ammuni
tion, spare parts, and all. and they are
provided with an extra tube It is not
that the German gun Is light, but it
is so contrived that it can be hoisted
on to a man's back, certain parts tt
ing pndded and providing au easy
grip
Optimistic Thought.
Not'' ' 'lot- trc!r- than n tear.
i nnoTorcte kfOi&iS H 111
1 A3
We Here Show Pages 284 and'685 of
Webster's Universal Dictionary
Giving a Definition of Lumber Yard
We don't like the definition. It no doubt
describes some yards accurately, but there
isn't enought life about it to suit us. This
sounds better. LUMBER YARD
A busy place, where everybody who builds
anything from a church to a chicken coop "
goes to buy the
Best Lumber and Building Material
Lakeland Manufacturing Company
PHONE 76 LAKELAND PLA
Good Sound Stock
Per Bushel - $1.25
Per Peck - - 35c
Get your supply at
once as they wont last
long at this price
E. G. TWttDELL
Phones
Hungry?
Come to the
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3 Doors East of P. O.
REGULAR MEALS
and SHORT ORDERS
The best the market af
fords, prepared in a
cleanly and appetizing
way.
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We Serve Western
Meats Only.
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