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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22
UNLESS HE IS DULLER
THAN A PORCUPINE

The boys of the South in the now
famous corn clubs have put it all
over their fathers in the matter of
raising corn and have actually
achieved a general revival and bet
terment of Southern agriculture
which is one Of the industrial won
ders of modern times This has led
an excellent northern paper. the
Jackson (Michigan) Patriot. whose
editor has Travelled and observed
much in the South, to offer these
wise and timely suggestions:
Unless the farmer is duller than
pOrcupine. he will wake up when
he sees his boys in their teens beat
ing him three to one. and will be-
come receptive to new ideas. IL he
can double or treble his yield OF corn
he naturally will raise more; and
that is just what the South needs.
Heretofore it has been a handicap
for that section of the country to be
obi red to import its corn and meat;
and constant cropping of cotton, or
any other crop, for that matter. is
enough to sterilize any soil.
But the farms that are covered
with nocks and herds never wear.
That necessarily means diversified
ton. The farmer who turns his corn
and forage into meat and dairy pro-
duets grows rich in pocket. while his
land grows richer all the while. More
livestock, much NOR, of it, should
follow an expanding acreage of corn
in the South.
"The time is rapidly approaching
when the markets of the world will
look to the south for 90. ZOO, 900 bales
OF cotton each year. The way to pre-
pare for 1t is not by increased acre
age, but by more corn, and great
deal more livestock on every farm
This MEANS larger yields per acre.
II the boys corn clubs accomplish
this. they will insure an enormous
increase to the agricultural wealth
OF the country"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22

The fact that two white murder
ers, after a fair trial and conviction
II, court, were hanged in Dirming.
ham, Ma. Thursday. for the MUIR
der of a negro. will attract atten.
ton all over the country, and it will
bring praise for the brave and i'm.
partial administration of justice
which In that instance at last real
lied the long-sought ideal of know
ing no distinction of race or color In
furnishing the guilty. One way to
perpetuate the race problem and put
1t beyond all solution is to draw the
color line in the court house in the
trial of those charged with crime:
and one Of the sure ways to hasten
that solution and promote the para
mount cause of obedience to law
among whites and negroes alike, is
tc be color-blind In the Jury box and
punish guilty white men just as GER
tainly as guilty negroes. That Birm.
ingham verdict is the start In the
right direction.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22

st. Petersburg has wisely deter
mined to get in the near Lakeland
class In the matter Of modern hote
facilities and the plans have been
accepted for a sixty-rOOm, four-story
brick hotel in that city. to cost ap'
proximately 100000. Our own mae.
nificent hotel. now under construc-
ton, has something less than 100
rooms and will cost $125,000.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22

The Orlando Rcporter-Star very
strongly endorses the recommends
tion of Governor Trammell for q
State law to provide a plan for tire
guarantee of bank deposits. 1t will
he warm issue in the Legislature
and it will be interesting to note
what will be the attitude of the
banks in Florida toward it. They
opposed 1t in Western States where
such a law was adopted, but our in
formation Ia that there is now little
opposition to It among them.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22

To learn stenosraphy and type
writing before acquiring a necessary
knowledge of spelling. grammar, etc,
Is a part of our modern get-educa-
tion-quick system, and very ex-
asperating part it is. doing harm in
more ways than one. 1t Is a strong
aid to lifelong inefliciency In every
thing It's victims undertake, and the
miserable system cant be roasted
too severely nor too often. The edi-
tor Of the Punta Gorda Herald got
mad the other day while thinking of
bis wrongs in this regard and de-
livered himself accurately and elo-
quently in these words:
"A great injustice to employers Is
being done by the business colleges,
which give certificates OF competency
q stenographers and typewriters to
young men and women who are ig.
norant Of the simplest principles Of
grammar and rhetoric and do not
know even how to spell or punctuate
correctly. Nine out Of ten of those
graduates in stenography ought to
be in the public schools learning how
20 spell words and to write and
punctuate English correctly. As It
ia, they are great nuisances to peo-
pie who need the services Of compe.
tent letter-writers."
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22

No doubt the Southern Utilities
Co. would like to obtain possession
Of Gainesville's water and licht
plant. but the people would turn
down any proposition made for the
same just at this time. The light
plant will have to prove a failure
under municipal management before
the people Of Gainesville will con-
cent to its private ownership
Gainesville Sun.
Lakeland, too, is demonstrating the
success Of municipal ownership of
public utilities Of the kind men,
TONED above, and the Southern Util-
ities Co didn't include us in its re-
cent itinerary through Florida. Mu-
nicipal ownership is no fad; it has
come to stay.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22

All owners Of unimproved city
property are hereby notified that II
they intend to have city water on
their lots they should arrange for II
now, as after the paving Is laid the
tearing up and replacing Of same
will have to be paid for by the
owner. H. L. SWATTS, City Clerk.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22

Last week a Suwannee county
farmer butchered a pig-not a hog,
mind you, but a pig-that weighed
315 pounds. And yet we suspect that
there are other Suwannee county
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22

farmers who keep their smoke-houses
In the stores in Live Oak and raise
cotton to sell for money to buy
northern meat with.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22
Explalned.

Pop, why do they call q man q
pinhead?" Because when he Ct.
tempts to penetrate any iiea his head
won't let him so very far"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
From the same Office IL issued
THE LAKELAND NEWS

4. weekly newspaper giving re.
sumo Of local matters. crop condi.
lions. county affairs. etc. Sent any
"here for 500 per year.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-03-22

The Live Oak Democrat makes an
earnest appeal to the Legislature to
revise the game law during the APP
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
AEEW SUGGESTIONS.

The next constitutional conven-
tion in this state will be very inn
portant gathering. Likely some
provisions of our government will
be radically changed, as the ten
dency OF the times is for departure
from some of the radical features
that are now considered obsolete
everywhere. We believe that al
commission for executive controls
of the state would be far better
than the multitude OF department
heads ROW existing. A commission
OF seven or eleven men who were
well paid would in all probability
be far more efficient than the pres.
ent system Of having a man for
each department none of whom
have sufficient executive business
to demand their attention, who
therefore generally have consider
able of their time to private affairs.
would be far better than the indis-i
criminate election of men for one
particular purpose. 1t might be
even better to do away with the en-
tire outfit and elect governor who
should appoint superintendent for
various departments. Pierre Cap
ital-J Journal.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
THREE ACRES ENOUGH.

Sunday Il went out to see man
who had slammed the lid of the old
desk down forever and was tagging
weeds with hot hoe ON a three
acre patch OF dirt eighteen miles
from Fourth street. The thing
that impressed HE vas the enor-
nous amount of the planet that
three acres covers and my ideal
farm rapidly fell from ten acres to
three; and then, as walked around
the boundary lines in the hot sun,
it dropped to two acres and bank
account. | am convinced that the
successful desk farmer should di-
minish his acreage and increase his
bank account before Shaping lid to
desk and building an impossible
barrier between himself and the
Saturday night pay envelope.
Three acres when measured with
a hoe covers about hundred
square miles of surface and the sod
grown on it was meant by nature
to stay there. If you turn it over
the grass turns around and comes
up backwards. The weeds not
only do this. but they send up
three or four other weeds for good
measure.
In addition, each weed has
doubled on itself and its trunk isl
two ply. with fibers extendingI
across, and a growth that resem-
bles concrete construction connects
it together and attaches it to the
planet. This weed holds the re-
ligious idea that there is no death
and if you cut it off it comes up
shrieking.
The seeds also come up, but they
are not SO hot about it.-LOng
Bow Man,
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06

Red Frcdominatee, Though Almost Ev-
cry Other Hue Is TO Ee Seen In
the Various Emblems.

Has it ever struck you which color
is most often seen in the flags OF the
world? Probably it hasn't, because
there are not many people who can
recognize more than dozen flags at
the outside. Well, the most popular
color is red, which is found in the
standards of no fewer than nine
teen countries out of twenty-five.
Practically every one Of the Euro
pean states. together with Mexico,
Venezuela, Chile and Cuba, boast the
color red in their national flags.
Blue is found in the emblems of
the United States. Russia, France,
Great Britain, Holland, Ecuador,
Sweden. Chile, Portugal, Venezuela
and Cuba. Black is not at all pop
ulor, being found only in the cases
of Germany, Belgium and China,
while Germany is noticeable for hav-
ing black and white together. Nine
countries boast Of a flag partly vel
low. viz: Austria. Spain, Belgium,
Brazil. Persia. Sweden, Egypt, China
and Venezuela. To Ecuador belongs
the distinction of having standard
nearer white than any other country.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
of Noncompeent and Inherited indian Lands Of Cheyenne
River Reservation and Stanley County, South Dakoa.

sealed
ock the Day the land
al considered
solvent
for ten per cent of the purchase price as guar
bidder the OF his BID
Should fail make
advertising
No
pe sold a. a
In will be
price is more
washington for
PATENT IN FEE SIMPLE
contain the following
t is to
be submitted for
by land
tIIera
Indian
by the
$ time
c.
eJuneo le3
No Naneo
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
POINT FOR BUDDING GENIUS
Inspiration to Be Attained From FIRE.
quent Doses Of EPSON Salts.
Says Physician.

A writer in the British Medical
Journal makes this rather astonish-
ing statement that poets may gain
much inspiration, and stimulate
their capacities generally, by taking,
occasional doses of Epson salts.
As will be gathered from this
writer's argument, poets are typical
Of a certain temperament which re-.
acts, at times, unfortunately upon
physical conditions-which many
such persons try to offset with cof-
fee, alcohol or drugs. In advising
this substitution of Epson salts. ne
says:
"There can be no doubt that the
liver, which was regarded by the an
clients as the seat of the passions, is
readily disturbed by mental emo
tions. Anxiety as to the fate Of a
book, an article, or paper, or as to
the result of an experiment, may not
only disturb the function Of the liver
worry may even indirectly cause
organic disease.
byron is cited as an instance OF
the value of Epson salts, which he
says acted on him like champagne.
dryden prepared himself for the
visitation OF the divine afilatus by
salts"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
PERFECT ANAGRAM.

It will be recalled that when
Christ was brought before PLATE, the
Roman governor according to St.
Johns version of the story asked
him, "What is truth %
In the Latin text of the Vulgate
the question runs. Gould est veri-
tas?" Now, the answer is found in
the question itself, without adding
or subtracting single letter. Est
viz qui adest," the Encouragement
gives up: at is the man who stands
before you. Youths Companion.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
GREAT RESPONSIBILITY.

According to mythology, Atlas
was the Titan who held the world OH
his shoulders"
eyes"
"Hc must have felt rather impor-
tant at the time"
"No doubt. Still, l dare say he
didn't feel half as important as the
major league baseball scout when he
goes out to size up bush league
phenomenon"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
LATER CELEBRITY.

"Pa, who was Benjamin Frank
lin ?"
Gle was one Of the great men Of
this country, son. You've been in
school long enough to know all about
Ben Franklin"
Spa"
"Well ?"
"Was he as great a man as Steam-
boat Bill ?"
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
DEPENDS ON NEICHBORHOoD.

Griggs-It is said that coal left
exposed to the elements loses ten pcr
cent. of its weight.
Briggs-I left some exposed once
and there was much greater loss
than that.
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
ONE ON TEACHER.

Teacher-Why, Jimmy, Jimmy !!
Have you forgot your pencils again !?
What would you think of soldier
going to war without gun?
Jimmy-I'd think he was an off,
Ger,
Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-06-06
HUMOR OF THE SENATE.

The Senate Finance Committee
propounded twenty-nine questions
on the tariff to manufacturers. and
then announced that it would act
on the Underwood bill without
waiting for the answers. The SEN
ate reminds one somewhat OF the
country justice who said he would
take a case under very careful adj =
visenent and find for the plaintiff
on the following Thursday.
Coupled with this action Of the
Senate Finance Committee, we
have the presidents warning
against the insidious lobby. Evi-
IDENTITY the lobby will have to be
extra clever to catch up with the
Senate.-Minneapolis Journal.
An exchange points out that
hall the graduates of the Universe
ty OF Wisconsin who took lessons
an cooking are wearing engage
ment rings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01

The ways and means committee of
the senate has sjourneyed to Lawrence
today for the purpose of measuring Mt.
Dread for new suit. Mt Dread must
have a new suit She candidiy admits
that she has nothing fit to wear. And,
as the tailorse now on the job are in
clined toward conservation of goods.
the chance that Mt. breads new suit
will be cut along the tube skirt lines
is about seven to one High-kickfng
will be inconvenient for Mt Dread.
BY well directed lfilibuster con-
Quoted by Senator Lambertson, Gov.
Hodges request for prompt action on
the consolidation bill was defeated. The
action of the Brown county senator
was the result of a petition he received
from Horton shop men, who wanted
the labor commission left undisturbed.
Senator Lambertson had the rules on
his side of the fence, and no one
was thoughtful enough to use chloro-
form or a sand bag, he got away with
it, and it looks like the poor working
man will be permitted to foregather in
the state capitol next Monday and do
what ever he wants to do.
The gas company's dog is not a
houn' dawg-it is too fat and takes
things too easy, so it must be a poodle.
But there may come tides in the af-
fairs of a poodle when all is not pate
de fwa gwaw and silk sofa pillows.
Such a time has arrived for the Kan
sas Natural poodle. One Gordon, rep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01

insanity as a defense of persons charged
with crime, and fixing the duty of the
court in determining whether defendants
in criminal actions are sane. at the time
of trial.
House bill No ATS, by Stone of. Shawnee
An act relating to bills-of-lading ard
ject
House bill No. 479, by Gordon-An act to
amend section 1859 of the general stat
utes of Kansas of 1902 relating to and
providing for the registration of voters.
House bill No. 4S0, by Gordon-An ac:
NJ. Hicks.
House bill No 4S1. by Gordon-An act
to amend section 49, chapter 1S2 of tire
graph COLA of the general statutes of 1853,
relating to the code of civil procedure
and to repeal said original section.
relating to crimes and punishments.
House bill No. 4S3, by Gordon-An act
amendatory to section 5, chapter 54, laws
OF lSOS, the same being paragraph 1898 OF
the general statutes of 1909 and amenda-
tory to section Is, chapter 81 of the laws
o. fbe 1903 the same being pa 7aoa 1905 or
primary elections, and to repeal sand
original sections.
House bill No. 4S4, by Bunger-An act
creating a state, school commission, pre-
scr1bing its duties, making appropria ton
therefor, prescribing penalties for viola
tons of this act, and repeating article 20,
chapter log, being section 1910 to 1888 In
elusive, general statutes of Kansas OF
1909, and all acts and parts of acts in con-
flict with the provisions of this act.
House bill No. ass, by Perryman-An act
relating to the operation and extension
of public utilities owned by cities of the
second class.
House bill No. 4s6, by Nichols by re-
quest)-An act to amend an act berg
section So of chapter 1872 of the session
laws of 1902 entitled, AN act concern
ing the code of civil procedure
House bill No. 49, by Nicl1ols-An act
authorizing the transfer of certain funds
belonging to Fargo township. Seward
county, Kansas.
House bill No. ASS, by Bay-An act. con-
corning state publications.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
TOO MUCH "HOB0ITIS"
Man Suffering From "Shovel-Stiff-
Labor Kind Dies.

Philadelphia, Feb. declaring in
a letter addressed to his boarding
house proprietor, that he had been
suffering from an acute attack OF
ssshovel stiff-labor hoboitis," James
Smith, So years old, yesterday willed
his body to 1.-THE first medical institu-
ton that applied for it, and then
committed suicide by turning on both
gas Jets in his room. Deputy Coroner
John Mehring found the following let
ter lying near the mans body:
ITO the Landlady: The pulmotor
is useless, as both burners have been
on since IL O'Clock last night. / here
by will my body to the first medical
college that wants it; also two dollars
to you, providing you turn over the
other s25 to the local Philadelphia
Socialist party. I am sorry to have
trouble you this way. did this to cure
an acute attack of labor
hoboitis.-Jim Smith,
Smiths body was taken to the
mOrgue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01

act to regulate elections and repeating
paragraphs numbered 3137 1888. $40. 31+1.
3195, 1885, 3197, 319S, 300. 3201, 1902, 1908 and
1904 of the general statutes of Kansas
for 1909.
Senate bill No. AIS, by Waggener-An
act relating to escape shafts in coal
mines and extending the time in which
the same may be completed
Senate bill No. 419, by Wolf (by requesD
An act to amend section 9413 of the gen.
eral statutes of the state of Kansas of
1869.
Senate bill No 420, by Howe-An act
relating to the management and control
of the state penitentiary, the Kansas
State Industrial Reformatory, the State
Industrial School for Boys, and the State
Industrial School for Girls, and to amend
sections 1, 2, 8, 4 and of chapter 29S Of
the session laws of 1911, and all acts anu
parts of acts in conflict Herewith.
Senate bill No. 421, by Logan-An act
for the protection of domestic animals,
and repeating chapter 495, of the session
laws of 1905, and chapter 312 of the ses-
sion laws of 1911
Senate bill 422. by Milton-An act to
amend section TAP, of the session laws O;
1906. entitled IAN act to promote the at
tendance of deaf and dumb children to
education, to provide penalties for the
violation of this act, and to repeal all
acts in conflict herewith approved
March 9, 1905, and repeating said original
section.
Senate bill No. 423, by Milton-An ACT
relating to the care, use and keeping of
school buildings and other school prop
eTty m cities of the first and second class.
requesD-An act relating to cities of the
second class and amending section 15US
of the general statutes of 1909 and repeat
ing said original section sos
relating to motions for new trial in dis q.
trict courts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-02-01
WRITING TELEGRAPH.
New Machine Has Capacity of 10000
Words an Hour.

New York, Feb. IA point of light
reflected from small mirror vibrated
by two telephone diaphragms in such
a way as to write legible words on
strip of Photographic paper at the re-
markable speed of $1,000 words an hour
is the wonderful feature of the Pollak-
Virag telegraph instrument that re-
ceived it's first pdblic demonstration in
this country today in the Vanderbilt
hotel.
The value of the instrument lies in
it's capacity to save both time and
adopted by the French government and
is at present in operation between
Paris, Nice and Boulogne in the ser
vice of a French newspaper. The APP
paratus is the joint invention of two
Hungarians, Antoine Pollak and Joseph
Virag, the latter dying on the day af-
ter the instrument was perfected.
The tranSmitter is composed of a
small electric motor which drives a
drum around which are six circles of
metal. Pressing on this is another
drum and a steel brush. The drums
revolve at a rapid speed which can be
regulated and between them a strip
of perforated paper is drawn. Wher-
ever the brushes pass over a perfora-
ton contact is made with one of the
metal rings and electric current is sent
along the line.
The paner is perforated by means of
a separate instrument operated by a
keyboard similar to a typewriter, a diff
ferent set of combinations representing
every letter. 1t takes about 20 opera
tors to turn out sufficient perforated
paper to keep the instrument running
full speed.
The receiver is composed of two tele-
phones which have wire soldered onto
their diaphra GINS connected to three
springs A small mirror mounted on
a thin steel back is held on the springs
by means of magnets a shielded cleo
trio lamp projects a point of light
through lens upon the mirror. The
different strengths of current sent out
from the six rings on the transmitter
cause the diaphragms to vibrate the
mirror in such a. manner that perfect
letters like ordinary handwriting are
produced.
The light falls on a strip of senSitized
paper which is running forward with
the machine. The paper then passes
through developing and fixing tanks
and is Immediately ready for delivery.
The advantage of the machine over all
other high speed Geographic instru-
rnents is that the receiver need not be
in synchronism with the transmitter.
Mr. PoIlak and his assistants will
give demonstrations here for two
months, after which they will leave for
England to demonstrate before the
British government.