The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-08-10

houses to ransacking the country for
stray carlots and more to supplement
the Michigan shipments and those
from the southwest and southeast,
| Florida having been added to previous
discoveries In Georgia, where the
peach growing was once abandoned
because The trees We're attacked by a
root disease. Now the best peach
stock, grated on to the root of wild
plums, has been found to thrive in
Florida wonderfully With this stimuli
US, it Is expected that the peach crop
| in that State will run grapefruit and
oranges Il close race. Especially is
this true of grapefruit as the soil and
climatic conditions for their produc-
tion is limited even i'm Florida where
most of II is grown The grapefruit
par excellence, which is shipped from
Manatee County just below Tampa
and south of the freezing line is singu-
larly thinsIinned fine Favored, juicy
and, unlike that from California and
other localities free from pulpy mat
ter which South Water street calls
rag" So scarce even in .Manatee
county is good grapefruit land that the
efforts to increase The acreage In bear
/
=, pa companies IN grapefruit culture
the Florida Manatee company, being
now engaged in developing several
hundred acres Of land in grapefruit
groves for northcrners who invest
about as much cash as for raw land,
the fruit from the trees paving for
all improvements Fifteen years prac-
tically haze witnessed this invasion OF
gy,sg, t.nfpt Int hA III nf %
Uncle Sam, with the demand increas-
ing from few neager thousands to
the ten million boxes of 1909, enough
to make golden necklace that would
encircle the earth about four times
Since the grapefruit was discovered"
commercially, largely through the De-
partment Of Agriculture. its cultiva.
tion has grown in Florida, Jamaica
and the isle of Pines to enormous
source of wealth and has been taken
up in Ca fornia with some success.
The new discovery regarding peaches
Is expected to add another big special
~ to Florldas sources of wealth
Skirmishing against soft drinks con-
sumed in enormous quantities in
Chicago's poorer districts has resulted
in systematic war by the health de-
partment upon carbonated beverages
and ice cream. Bugs, floor sweepings
and hair in the chocolate flavoring,
coal tar in the phosphates, benzeate OF
soda in the syrups and chemical color
ings in the penny pop have been
among the reasons for the warfare
unearthed by the skirmish. The push
carts aud street stands among the
nd oh nr ha
slums are the more serious problems
of the inspectors. However, the
alcoholic beverage has come in for
public condemnation as summer
drink. Among the warnings issued for
the benefit OF the knights Templar
visitors We're these. Don't be afraid
to drink Lake Michigan water 1t is
pure and free from danger, provided
IL Is not mixed with whisky. Beware
of the mixture. Beer as hot weather
drink is a demsion and more particu-
larly snare. If you are from Ken
lucky, wait until you get home.
Nearly every case of sunstroke or
heat prostration is due to the mis-
take Of taking beer and other stimu-
lants. sunstroke is often a beer
stroke. The signs of the times have
H''ii N'9PlNhollb 10 the bIthtlSt us /
tillers ami pop manufacturers, but |
Lake Michigan's water has had a |
pedestal built for 1t, if that smile |
will stick.
The tax lien shark has turned up I'm |
Chicago 20 make summer adjourns |
abroad even more expensive than the
tips, Monte Carlo and milliners al |
ready nave made 1t, Judge Peter S. |
drosscup's $4,000 mansion being |
among these reported sold for taxes |
during their owners absence Judge |
Grosscup entering deniaD According |
10 County Clerk Handee the classic
pile built by Judge Grosscup on
drive facing Lake Michigan
was sold FOR H2iS2 unpaid taxes but
promptly redeemed The purchaser af-
hrlns he brought the lien and made 20
per cent inside of week Another
victim OF tax sales is said to be
oliyer l., Watson, real estate specu
lhlor' Even this terror added to those
devised by railway and hotel officials
does not serve to keep the well-to-do
Oh chicago at home. Never before has
there been such an exodus. to all parts
OF the world but particularly to
Europe Where the passion play at
pperammergau has been a star at
traction. rol-caIl of captains OF
industry and leaders of society would |
have few responses--th Armours.