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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20
MASTER WEBSTER MERRITT
SUSTAINED A BROKEN ARM

Master Webster Merritt, the yOun"
sou ol Mr. and Mrs. c. +. Merritt,
" be minus the use of his right
arm for some time, owing to an ac-
cidtnt on Friday afternoon.
The little fellow was astride n
30 ~', with companion, and in
s, ne manner became overbalanccd
The fall TO the ground resulted in
j 5rokcn arm. his right limb being
So cred just above the wrist. TIL"
one was set by Dr. DePass. and
Webster, while feeling considerable
inconvenience. takes the matter in Il
philosophical manner. lie will suf-
fer no permanent harm. Gaines
vile Sun The young man is a son
oc Mr. G. +. Merritt of the Central
construction Co of this city.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20

Nr \ \ Melton, Of Barley. Ga i,
go'., Of Mr. ]. +. Melton. has ar
'iui IN Lakeland. and has pur-
faa>'d the Union garage, which he
NJ. conduct in the future. MIR. Mel
,o' an energetic and capable
ne nan and will, no doubt. make
a pronounced success in his new ven
'gre
Ften the Tampa Tribune We note
RAJ marriage license was issued
o lanpa Tor Mr. W. +. Grifiis and
Miss Flrl tbbott. The former is a
lrin'.r who formerly had a position
il Fart W. but who is now employed
a. Arcadia The bride is a former
VIZ. Ai eifl Who has many friends
q as AND who wish for her much
taT toss
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20
HONOR ROLL LAKE
MORTON PRIVATE SCHOOL

GRADE. VIII.
Leo .Ierkins.
GRADE WI.
None.
CIR ABE VI
Kenneth Warren
Leonard Carter.
Helen Harvey.
GRADE v
Marion Patterson.
GRADE "
Marjorie lIethcringtOn.
GRADE III.
Edith O'Doniel
GRADE H..
Nan Elizabeth Melton.
GRADE |.
Everett Brown
Evelyn O'Doniel.
Lamar Cox.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20

- Z Il Mrs y. 4. Davis Haye ar
-Bei n Lakeland from Illinois.
VIE, Hey went last spring, and are
4, '-,r home in the HOllingswOrth
Mr.. Davis health
has crafty improved. which is very
;ra'if}Ws 70 his many friends
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20

~. Nina Patton expects TO leave
=, v..s for her old home in Ken
i, ,herr she will spend about
=. a.ks While away she will
...t.s her spring line of millin-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20

" henderson, of Dadc tlty,
4,.v eit;2en and business man OF
lsfry hallng purchased the White
Inv market. which he will conduct
\ n, future He has had expert
nce + th!s line and will no doubt
seef wiz good success.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20

~ oscar Wolfe and interesting
MI, tal. moved today TO their
~ lame in pixieland, Mr.. Wolfe
.r,n, purchased an attractive new
,,-.iow recently completed by Mr.
. r,,se Johnson in that popular
,M1rt
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20

J ICELAND. of Barlow. will
:" n 70 his home tonight after a
& Two or three days in Lake
F 2 no gnest of his daughter. Mrs.
'rlH.n Mr.. Oeland has been
"'@eI4s rom an attack of grippe
put week. and during his
rye q atsence from his Office a
n aF If jacksonville has been
y nv him rs operator at the
"','.r9 rnion office in Barlow.
Y n Mrs J. F. Schurman have
tic country place OF Mr.
Fischer. about six miles
own, and are already liv-
v ffeir new purchase. This
''1 i coated on Scott lake. and is
J noted for it's fine fruit,
~ eos being in bearing grove,
we sere Is an abundance OF fine
F'''l4S and other f-nits nourishing
q II property
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20

.y4ham, The travelling soilci-
j Tampa Morning Tribune
today in the city in the
!, Of that publication.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20

Nt- liarles Conner nave
rm,nts in the new nome
Nt.tl,r. where they are
-, :. lone 70 their friends.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20
n Case Of Fire
Phone 5000

; Ray. of coldwater. Mich''
,aat il, and Mrs. Ray are now
.s,n and will be in Lake
= 4 short time.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-01-20

The Woman Christian Temper
ance Union meets tomorrow after
noon at o'clock at the home of Mrs
=! W. Turner. and all members are
urged to attend.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-07-11

The captain promised breakfast in five min
utes That was an hour and twenty minutes ago.
The second cabin passengers are drinking gin
The captain says the breakfast only waits for
some cow to be MIXED near a lock.
The boat is still in a canal between high banks
which thrust the view the ankles of the viii
lage girls who stand along the edge and look
down phosophicaly. knitting: for their skirts
very bell-shaped. The village girls are sill
houettes against the sky. Then one-horse gig,
with yellow wheels and green box. fits by
mysteriously and disappears behind the ridge.
And there is nothing
All. yes, 1t rains
The steamer crawis through the canal, imDed-
ed by the locks and dams. Here is another
Dutch girl She is standing the bank above
heads descend, Dutch girl in a white
starched percale cap, cream-colored kerchief
crossed upon her breast, with black bodice. a
blue skirt wooden shoes and blue stockings.
The boat is in narrow river once again. with
scenery green and clean. with sweet effects OF
light in this peculiar air-a milky, velvety light
comic opera village. More village girls
the milk and blush rose blondes of ICELAND, with
their silky masses of pale golden hair, immacu-
lately clean They look solid. tight and tidy,
do these little Dutch girls in their stiff bodices
Out in the open ooester skelt. three miles
across. the yellow brownish water scarcely marks
itself against the banks of yellow green low
bikes, with long long lines of trees. whose roots
assist to hold the soil together.
We hug the edge. Along the bank there
coughs and snorts dinky little ancient auto
mobile. AS it it is conducted by
pretty girl In white She looks like a bride!
The villagers out, rejoicing. Who is she?
What is it? What is he? Mystery.
We steam onward Now, there are always
these long lines of trees that stand like grim
regiment to defeat the floods of the encroaching
II is the Verdronken Land, where thousands
Observation-Disclosures and towns and all the country
side-in 1892 when dixie burst.
There is short Canal de Keeten.
AT village where the captain stops to get
his hair cut fair bumboat girl sells us schnapps
Then the little steamer quits the subdivisions OF
the Schelde. meanders through the mazes of the
Mas. comes through the Krammer and the Vol
kerak to the wide Hollandsch dep. which has
rough water and looks almost like the sea. Once
this bay land, but long ago. in 1921, tidal
wave wiped out hundred market towns and vii
lagos. and upward of 100000 people perished
and the water stayed.
Then soon It is the little Dorsche XII, a very
narrow stream (where the Prince of Orange was
drowned in IND which takes to the broad
and lovely Merwede. a double river. where the
windmills of the landscape and the busy villages
proclaim the land of Holland has read Of
Now 1t Is raining bort Dordrecht is the
first fine town. II is the cleanest landi The very
! cows are scrubbed down with soap and rubbed
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-07-11
LOOK TO RUSSIAN OIL FIELDS
Arc Certain to Play an Important Part
In Furnishing Power for
Battieshlps.

In discussing the fact that the use
of oil instead of coal as fuel in the
English navy is under consideration
1t is time Russia should pay serious
attention to this question. II England
is replacing its own cheap coal by the
more expensive foreign product. there
must be important advantages on the
side of naphtha, and in the future
Russian feet the part to be played by
this fuel will be most important one,
the Novoe Vremya says. Many mills
and factories have gone over to
naphtha as fuel and the consumption
is increasing every year.
Russia owns immense oil fields and
It, could be the chief supplier of the
world. The need OF organization in
the business is recognized by the
government and number of special
meetings have been held for discuss
ing the subject. New conditions have
been laid down for the exploitation of
government territories, and the regu-
lations for Investigations have been
changed. Some territories known as
being rich in oil have been closed to
private enterprise, such as the APP
sheron peninsula, near Baku, and vari-
Gus islands of the Caspian sea, as we'll
as some territories in the Transcas-
plan Ural and Gerghana districts. and
others in the north of Russia and ST.
IBERIA. amounting to millions OF acres.
The reason for this action is the wish
to preserve these districts from ex-
haustion.
Another question concerns the mat
ter of investigation. 1t is quite neces-
sary that the right OF investigation be
granted on large scale. and not only
for comparatively small lots of ground.
where the investigation might not pay.
The government is aware of this fact,
and, according to the new regulations
the plots of ground allotted for inves-
tigation are to be increased tenfold.
The most advisable system is to
grant concessions that would induce
capitalists to place their money in
such undertakings. Under the new
regulations regarding the investigation
of naphtha districts. the government
proposes to publish geological de-
scriptions of the various districts.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-07-11

shawl slips of the shoulders of Quaker girl
If there be any left who wear dovecolored
shaws. am thinking of Philadelphia and Penn's
Manor.
Here there villages that do not know the
railway and their daughters do not know the
modern fashions. village girl buys one fine
gown and It will last her fifteen years. Do you
thing she is not Just nice beneath it?
These girls spare expense on their best
gowns They have real linen and real lace and
fine silk stockings If they choose to wear them,
and each girl has a gold helmet. which is worth
from 800 to $780,
It begins to rain.
This helmet is thin and supple shell of gold
which snugly fits the head Sometimes it is
scoopshaped to let the back hair be coiled in
knot. sometimes they plat their back hair in two
long queues. which hang down before the ears
on each side of the face: but the gold helmet
must be always there. though 1t be only seen to
simmer In the sunlight through the meshes of
kind of night-cap. also fitting snugly which may
be of linen or of lace in which case it has rufies.
Each girl has her gold helmet, even those who
go to service up in Rotterdam, though when
they grow sophisticated, citifed and shamefaced
they first put city bonnets over their gold he'll
NETS and white nghtcaps and then later on lock
up their caps and helmets in their bureaus and
take to smart pink cotton prints for gowns and
wear coquettish rufles of gauZy tulle on their
heads. for all the world like London chamber
maids.
These helmets horned on each side OF the
forehead with long twisted prongs of gold and
dating back to when the Germanic tribes were
struggling with the Romans are. together with
the bomb-shaped skirts. soon bound to disappear
and figure only, like the peasant costume of the
north of France, in charity bazaars city girls
instead of country girls. who abandoning
them for fimsy trash three years behind the
rent mode.
The air is sultry like gentle steaming in the
aboring MONDAY Clouds rising above clouds
around the whole horizon meet at the zenith like
a dome There is end of peaceful hamlets
pretty. tidy. busy.
We stop for the captain to make afternoon
call. Small girls pass in procession bearing tu
lips. Where to? What for? Mystery, We
steam on. And there is nothing
The river widens and the windmills and the
sawmills give place to shipping. Then the squat
spires of city full of little unartistic churches
show themselves. and approach the seventh
commercial port of Europe
The captain says It looks like rain
From booty Belgian Antwerp to Dutch Rotter-
dam and its mild thoroughfares is all the dis
lance from the continental system to our Amer
lean responsibility The town is Puritan. The
girls look at you with straight eyes, as innocent
of coquetry lambs; they not like French
girls walking with their mammas. casting down
their eyes consciously. Would French girl play
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-07-11

confidence in choosing what we shah
do? War fitted US for action. and ac-
ton never ceases.
Our Laws the Orders Of the Day.
have been chosen the leader OF
the Nation. l cannot Justify the choice
by any qualities of my own. but SO It
has come about. and here stand.
Whom do l command? The ghostly
hosts who fought upon these battle
fields long ago and are gone? These
gallant gentlemen stricken in years
whose fighting days are over, their
glory WONT What are the orders for
them, who rallies them? I have in my
mind another host, whom these set
free of civil strife in order that they
might work out in days of peace and
settled order the life of great ma
ton. That host is the people them
selves. the great and the small. with
out class or difference of kind or.
race or origin; and undivided in inter
est, II we have but the vision to guide
and direct them and order their lives
Alright in what we do. Our constitu-
lions are their articles of enlistment.
The orders of the day are the laws
upon our statute books. What we
strive for is their freedom. their right
to lift themselves from day to day and
behold the things they have hoped
for, and 80 make way for still better
days for those whom they love who
are to come after them. The recruits
are the little children crowding in.
The quartermaster's stores are in the
mines and forests and fields. In the
shops and factories. Every day some
thing must be done to push the cam
paign forward; and 1t must be done
by plan and with an eye to some great
destiny.
How shall we hold such thoughts In
our hearts and not be moved?
would not have you live even today
wholly In the past, but would wish to
stand with you in the light that
streams upon us now out of that
great day gone by. Here is the ma
ton God has builded by our hands.
What shall we do with 1t? Who stands
ready to act again and always In the
spirit of this day of reunion and hope
and patriotic fervor? The day of our
country's life has but broadened into
morning. Do not put uniforms by.
Put the harness of the present on.
Lift your eyes to the great tracts OF
life yet to be conquered in the inter
est of righteous peace. OF that pros
perity which lies in a peoples hearts
and outlasts all wars and errors of
men. Come. let us be comrades and
soldiers yet to serve our fellow men
in quiet counsel, where the blare of
trumpets is neither heard nor needed
and where the things are done which
make blessed the nations OF the world
in peace and righteousness and love.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-07-11
Ready wit Saved Situation.

A very laughable incident once oc-
Cured in the house of commons. An
Irish member having risen was as
sailed by loud cries of Spoke,
Spokel" meaning that having spoken
once already he had no right to do
SO a second time. He had evidently
a second speech struggling in his
breast for ap introduction into the
world, when seeing after remaining
for some time on his legs, that there
was not the slightest chance OF being
suffered to deliver a sentence OF It.
he observed with imperturbable grav-
ity and in rich Tipperary brogue: IF
the honorable gintlemin suppose that
l was going to spake again they are
quite mistaken. l merely rose for the
purpose Of saying that I had nothing
more to say on the subject" The
house was convulsed with laughter
for a few seconds afterward at the
ready wit of the Hibernian NJ P.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-07-11

you the sun across fiat and fertile land big
red which you may look at without blinking
There is mighty river flowing full and broad be-
tween low banks with scattered trees. You glide
into canals lined to the waters edge with grass and
buttercups, enlivened with groups fishers in
sers of the strangest cuts. who stand chatting with
the keepers Of the locks and drinking healths in
schnapps.
The trousers are boomers not unlike the knick-
ers of the fair when full built (speakng of the
knckers) and they wear round knit caps of vivid
green. Others. more sober. bomb-shaped cas-
quettes of orange velvet embroidered with black
silk.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-07-11
CANALS

ROM Antwerp to Rotterdam is less
than three hours by the rails. but on
the little steamer which crawls
through the creeks, canals and lakes
of iceland 1t is full day.
Come, steep yourself in sober lux
ury in an atmosphere Of self-respect
and much peace and dampness.
The steamer starts in the cold half
dawn with all the Antwerp stretch of
river lights burning an orange yellow.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-07-11

dry with bath towel
ing till they shine.
The sloping stone
bikes are mopped ev-
cry morning between
z and 8 o'clock. Tiled
roofs of a soft red
rise like flowers amid
the foliage of the
trees: matched roofs
of a dove tint go slop-
ing down close to the
ground as II they
would slip off the
cosy houses just as
the dOye-c red
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-05-23
The Midland Journal
MORAL lNFLuENcE OF CLOTHES

MORAL INFLUENCE or CLOTHES.
Let not the fiippant speak lightly
Of the suggestion that the way to re-
form women in prisons Is to give them
corsets and pretty clothes. The femi-
nine philosopher who propounded this
road to redemption was entirely sound
In saying that there Is NO reform
without self-respect, and the relation
between self-respect and being well
dressed Ii intimate. says the Philadel-
phia Record. 1t was another feminine
philosopher, one from Boston, who said
that the consciousness of being we'll
dressed impaired peace Of mind
which not even the consultations Of re-
Mgion could give. The warden who
thinks q woman is no worse when q
corset is taken on her and no better
when one ID put on, perhaps forgets
that In his own prison the convicts do
not wear striped clothes, and the
wardens Of some other penal institu-
tions are putting on the conyicts plain
clothes under which It is possible for
sense Of self-respect TO grow. The
cropping Of the hair end the lockstep
have been abolished from several pris-
ons to avert the psychological effect Of
personal appearance that 10 incom-
patible with self-respect. There II
more in this idea Of giving women
prisoners corsets and pretty clothes
than some Of the penologists, social
reformers and physicians interviewed
thereon recognize.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-05-23
DROP ROCKS
ON STREET CAR
Lead, Stone, Cement Thrown
from Skyscraper.
STRIkEBREAkERS ARE HURT
Rioting Whenever the Company At
tempts TO Operate rs Cars.
Mayor Claims Police Are
Poweriess To Stop It.
tcop!yrieht.A

Cincinnati. The refusal of Governor
Cox to send troops to this city in an
effort to control the strike Of the EN-
ployes of the Cincinnati Traction Com
pany, after spectacular riots had in.
fuenced Mayor Henry T. Hunt to ask
for the militia, was followed by the
filing Of petition by the City of Gin
cinnati for receiver for the company.
Rioting was almost continuous dur;
ing the time the company attempted to
operate cars out of the Brighton barns
until they withdrew all cars from the
streets.
Small steel beams, barrels of plaster
and bags of cement were hurled upon
passing car from the upper floors OF
the 34-story building of the Union Cen
trail Life Insurance Company. The car
was wrecked, but luckily the list Of
injured comprising mostly men hurt to
the extent of bruises and small cuts.
Al bunch of rags and newspapers
soaked with oil were set afire and
thrown from the building to the car.
In the next few moments scores Of
these torches were thrown, fiery
climax to an extraordinary spectacle
probably unparalleled In strike history.
The crew, as well as the employees
of the company, riding on the first car
out of the Brighton barns were as
saulted and beaten almost into in
sensibility and three of them are now
at the hospital in a precarious condi-
ton. Various other small riots, in
which the crews of the cars were
beaten or forced to fee for their lives.
we're common.
Governor Cox, in refusing to send
the militia here. had stated that he
had information that the police had
not exhausted their resources to pre-
vent rioting, and in answer Mayor
Hunt told the Governor that, notWith-
standing any information that he may
have received. the police were power
less to cope with the situation In case
anything like regular schedule Of
RUNNING cars was attempted by the
traction company.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-05-23
JOHNSON SIGNS
ANT|-JAP Bill
California Executive Makes
AIien-land Law Operative.
LITTLE SERIOUS ANXIETY.
While the Governor Was Signing the
sIll, TWO Members OF the Japan
ese Parliament Were Arriving
TO study the Situation.

Sacramento, Cal. California's Alien
Land Bill became a law of the State
Monday. Against the protests. OF
Japan and the Representations Of Presi-
dent Wilson and his personal envoy,
Secretary Of State Bryan, Governor
Johnson signed the bill and 80 days
after the adjournment Of the legisla-
ture, or on August 10, the act becomes
operative.
While the Governor was signing the
bill the steamship Korea was passing
through the Golden Gate bearing two
distinguished Japanese, one former
pupil of President Wilson, upon mis-
sion of investigation. Meanwhile, COM
plications, national and sectional, beset
the bill. Oyershadowing all is the
outcome Of the negotiations now in
progress between this country and
Japan, which has interpreted the act
as discriminatory and offensive.
Within California itself the act has
encountered triple hostility, which may
delay its activity until November i,
1914.
AS an expression of this opposition
Theodore Bell, late Democratic candi-
date for governor and former chairman
Of the Democratic State Central Com
mittee, has issued an invitation to his
party to submit the issue to the peo-
pie by invoking the referendum against
the bill. He bases his opposition on
two eontentions-one that the bill is
insult GENTLY drastic because it per-
mits leases running three years, and,
second, because at the present 1t en-
harnesses the national administration.
The Asiatic Exclusion League, an
organization of which the president is
Olaf A. .Tveitmoe, recently convicted Of
completely in the dynamite plot
originating in Indianapolis, announced
that it would invoke the referendum
purely because 1T opposes the bill as
faint-hearted.
Thirdly, the powerful Panama-Pa-
cific International Exposition Com
pany, backed by many chambers OK
commerce, has placed itself on record
in opposition to the bill on the ground
that it is violation of faith.
Amy action Of the legislature" said
the directors OF the company. "of-
fensive to any foreign country, to their
pride as a people or their honor as a.
nation, must challenge the good faith
Of the commonwealth"
In reply to this threatened hostility,
Governor Johnson said, in signing the
bill:
California for the first time in its
history has an anti-alien law. Any
man who wishes another kind Of law
may consistently invoke the initiative.
No man who really wishes an anti
alien law will sign the referendum as
to this law.
IF another law is sought 1t may be
presented by means Of the initiative
and in the meantime the present law
will be in operation"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-05-23

A clergyman who preached to con-
sregation Of young people recently
selected as the subject Of his dis
course, After Marriage What?" and
gave several excellent practical sug-
gestions. One was that every mar
Red couple should recognize az >
paramount duty their duty toward
each other. Another was that they
should keep up honeymoon courtesy.
and still another that they should es-
tablish home Of their own. BE It
ever 30 humble" he insisted. "a
homo Of their own should be the fixed
purpose Of every young couple after
marriage" It Is . safe assertion
that no connubial venture conducted
on these principles will come to wreck
upon the rock of divorce.