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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28

Our military expert informs us
that he is quite unable to under
stand why the allies in France are
not doing something on big and
aggressive scale just now while the
Germans are so busy in front OF
Warsaw. 1t seems certain that the
latter have taken away a large num-
Der of men from the western front
to strengthen their forces in Poland
for the huge operations there by
which they hope to envelop the
whole Russian army, and to that
extent their lines are weakened in
France. Thus weakened, If the al
lies can't penetrate them now, what
will they do when they are
strengthened by the return of the
half million or more Germans from
the Polish campaign, assuming that
they will return? Petty assaults
and counter assaults along half
mile of front amount to nothing,
even when successful; but if the
British and French commanders
would start yelling line of troops
anywhere from fifty to hundred
miles long, at a given signal,
straight for the German trenches, 9
great decisive battle might be won
or lost, and with the German
strength diminished as it is now by
the operations in Poland the
chances would seem to be i'll favor
of the allies. If they don't do
something of this kind we are likely
to hear of another drive for Paris
when all those Germans get back
from Warsaw, with different results
from the first attempt.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28

lag behind; whether we remain a
progressive community and keep IN
the reputation We have already es-
tablished, keep working for the
common good, or let the grass grow
in the byways. Let us lay aside
all prejudice and politics and vote
for the good of the present and the
rising generation. Let us interest
and educate the young people in the
value of civic pride and take lit
tie of the lesson to ourselves.
What will be the answer to tha
coming election for bonds? It rests
with you and your neighbor.
Let us get together and vote the
bonds
j. D. PORTER.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28
Quite Familiar With Child Life.

The impassioned press agent this
week displays a remarkable intimacy
with child life. He describes a coming
big novelty as being "a gorgeous seen
ic production in costume" in which is
used real hot fanny fire which does
not seem to burn the lady and gentle
man on the stage. who play with it
as a child does its toys, even going
so far as to apparently eat it."-Kan-
sas City Star.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28

1t would be a big thing for Ocala
from commercial point of view If
she could get canal fully large
enough for small steamers dug from
Silver Springs, five miles away, to
her corporate limits, thus giving her
a navigable waterway by the Ock-
lawaha and the St. Johns to the
ocean. But if it is going to destroy
the beauty of Silver Springs, as 1t
must If the canal is dug, Ocala will
bid farewell to an incompatible at
traction and many will mourn and
refuse to be comforted. We suspect,
however, that it will be some time
before we are called on on shed any
tears for this reason, for such enter
prises move slowly and this one is
merely in the preliminary stages OF
discussion.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28
not be treated again, They are

cured.
IL find that change in soil quail
ties produces wonderful results in
the trees. This is a philosophic
principle which l believe true in
many other ways. So, in my treat
ment of a tree-say, one that has
not borne fruit in 20 years. re-
quire that in the main ROOTS many
iron nails be driven to attract mois-
ture. Then / insert, Just beside each
of the roots, an iron pipe that is
perforated. 1t reaches to about a
foot in the ground. Then, by
means of a sitter, l very carefully
distribute the bacilli evenly, throw
ing back with them the earth first
removed.
" then require the distribution of
! a lot of fragments of metal, which
are especially prepared. After re-
moving all dirt from the three pipes,
there is then poured into these pipes
once every week for three weeks, a
liquid in which ammonia plays an
important part. And that. in brief,
is my treatment. Strange as it
sounds, it is founded on scientific
facts and knowledge, and have
been complimented by many profess
sors and have been deluged with in
vitations to demonstrate before stud
ents at colleges.
Each treatment, when given the
tree, means that about 100000
germs are supplied. But in short
time, they have multiplied by the
millions.
Not only does this treatment
bring about wonderful growth in
short time, but it cures disease
Scales. pests, and other destructive
ills, are absolutely annihilated, and
the diseased bark may be pulled of
with the hand A fine, solid, healthy
new bark follows. Trees, almost
dead, ruined by cankers, have beer
brought to a state of amazing pro
ductiveness. | have demonstrated
this discovery to the satisfaction Of
eminent persons.
Mr.. Field showed lettuce--im
mense heads, grown without single
, vestige of other fertilizer. I'm fact
| no mature is ever used, and thus /;
great objection to farming Is elm
; mated He showed a tree, which
had borne nothing for 10 years, lit
orally breaking down under weigh
, of fruit. He showed two trees, chcrr.
) trees, both nine years old, on
treated, and the other not. Tn
: former was double the size of tn
: latter, and incomparably more Wig
5 orous. He showed mushrooms grow
ing in ordinary ground without tn
dampness and shadow usually neces
sary-cultivated mushrooms, usual
: ly ungrowable except in winter.
< He showed wonderful Tobacco,
plants-the first in Plymouth-,witl
| lcdNco cl6AJ lACACo Wy IT, lull
! double the size of the biggest leave
l of the untreate plants. He shove
$ winter radishes, ALREADY sproutin
r after six days planting in treate
. soil. He showed tree which ha
: not borne for Is years, bearing frui
: in vast quantities, appels IL ga in
e ches in circumference.
o Farmers are flocking to see tn
S invention. On the w. l.. French
s Thomas M. Perkins, Edward B. Al
s wood, and many other estates herr
Mr.. Field has performed many e,
periments which are being studio
and watched. Agriculturists sa
e that Massachusetts,, with this ir
vention, can beat the rest of til
1, country in any branch of cultiv;
tion she mad desire to excel in
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28

This elegant rainy season we are
now enjoying is another one OF the
advantages we have over California.
Out there they have to store up their
water and sell it by the inch to the
farmers. Here beneficent nature
distributes it so fairly during the
year that irrigation bitches are un-
known
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28
THE SOURCE OF
MEXIC0'S TROUBLES

That is queer name for a publ
cation, the Unpopular Review, but
a writer for the April-June number
tells how an opportunity to be of
great benefit to Mexico was offered
to Diaz, during his presidency, and
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28

The tireless energy and fine en-
terprise of Editor Clarence Woods
of the Eustis Lake Region have
found expression in special edition
of his paper of sixty-eight pages,
deliberately illustrated and full OF
excellent matter. We haven't seen a
copy of this edition, but hope to in
due season.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28

Up in Leon county the pulpit and
the judiciary have both yielded to
the lure of journalism and Rev. A.
l.. Woodward, of Tallahassee, who
was also justice of the peace, has
resigned both jobs and become city
editor and advertising solicitor for
the Tallahassee True Democrat. We
wish him the best of luck and bo-
nanza returns, but we have our
doubts about the latter. Journalism
is field of dazzling glory, as we all
know, but as a road to wealth 1t
needs all the constituents-and
then some-called for by the mod
ern good roads movement.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28
BUSINESS MEN IN THE SENATE

1t is urged in behalf of Perry
Wall as a candidate for the Senate
that he is a business man and bust
ness men are needed in the upper
house of Congress Run your mind
back over the history of the Sen
ate, as far as you choose and pick
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28

The wickedness of that war in
Europe will cease when the war
ends but the burden of it will last
for unnumbered generations to come
unless Europe shall resort to whole
sale reputation. Here is the way
it looks to a northern contemporary:
"The best economists agree that
the artificial boom created by the
spending of billions of dollars of
war loans-all an economic waste
will burst when the spending ceases
and the people of the warning ma
lions see and realize that they are
saddled with crushing burdens"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28
Holeproof Supe,
Quality
Means Money to

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with the excellent we1
qualities of Holeproof |
iery as we are-you vi
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cry member of the fan
YOU HOUSEWIVES
That know by experi
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They'll do their own ad
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a trial.
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buy them for the Sup,
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Come in and let us /
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LAKELAND'S BEST CLOTHe.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28

YOU TRIED H0el
cream and sherbets, mad
Sanitary Silver Palace. Phi
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28

THE LAKELAND NEWS,
A weekly newspaper giving resume
NJ local matters, crop conditions,
county affairs. etc. Sent anywhere
for $50 per year.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-28

The Square Meal.
Our language Is q riddle. A man
win eat pound Of round steak, a
pyramid Of mashed potatoes, half .
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
EASTLAND DISASTER
WILL BE- SUBJECTED
To THOROUGH PROBE
III Fated Ship Is Still Lying
oil It's Side in the Chicago
Riyer-Investigation
Begins

Chicago. July characterization TO de-
terlnine whether anyone was crlminally
IL blame for the eapsizing Of the steamer
Eastland in the Chicago river Saturday
with the loss of about 1000 lives was con-
fined TODAY to a federal grand Jury and
10 the steamboat inspection service under
Secretary of Commerce William c. Red
field
The ship. still lying on its side at its
wharf was taken over by a federal mar
shall on orders from Federal Judge Lam
dis. The county grand jury. Maclay
How're states attorney. decided prob
ably did not have sufficient iuris-
dictim 10 accomplish anything and for
the present ceased its inquiry.
Secretary Redfields examination of
steamboat inspectors developed nothing
now. Charges that the steamboat inspec-
ton service would not be stringent enough
with its own members elected from Sec
rotary Redfield today a repetition of his
statement that the inquiry was according
to law and that judgment should not be
passed until II was ended
Before Mr.. Redfield resumed his hear
ing labor leaders issued statements
inat Inc depart ment OF commerce In
quest would he whitewash for federal
inspectors. They telesraphed a pro-
test 10 President Wilson, but received
no reply, After Yesterdays testimony
before Secre tarY Redfield Mayor
Thompson and others said the exam
ination of witnesses seemed unsatis-
factory while Assistant States Attor-
ney Sullivan thought the questions put
hy Secretary Red1eld were too lead
ing.
The questioning today was turned
over to \. L. Thurman, solicitor of the
commercial department, although any
one in the room was allowed to put
Queries Secretary Redf1eld said the de-
termination of guilt. If any lay with
the federal grand jury and the federal
trial court. as his investigation simply
was to determine whether steamboat
inspectors had acted conscientfously
according to legal requirement.
Little apparent Roadway was made
with the righting of the Eastland Only
one body was recovered. making the
total known dead S36. The missing
list kept by the Western Electric COM
pany, whose employees arranged the ex-
cursion that was stopped by the up
setting of the steamer, reeeded to 161
tonight, indicating that the total num-
Der of dead would probably be under
900. the dead and missing now total
cnly 996.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
RALPH M'LEWIS is
KILLED BY TRAIN
Was Trying to Jump on Freight Can
at Brookside When he
Fell Under

Ralph McLewis, aged 20 years, was
instantly killed yesterday morning at
o'clock when he attempted to board
a freight train at Brookside. Accord
ing to witnesses McLewis attempted to
board the freight train, which was
moving at rapid rate, three different
times.
The third time he attempted to get
aboard he tripped and fell under the
wheels. The body was cut half in two
and was terribly mangled. Johns I'm
dertaking company was notified and
went to the scene of the accident to
get the remains and prepare them for
burial
Funeral services over the remains OF
The deceased will be conducted from
Johns private chapel this morning at
10 o'clock: Interment will follow in
Elmwood. The deceased is survived by
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r.. f. Nc
Lewis of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
TWO MORE SPIES ARE
TRIED AND EXECUTED
General Courtmartial on Charges of
Espionage Results in the
Death Penalty

London. July 3o.-ts:40 p. m.)--An
official statement issued tonight said
ut lis officially announced that two
prisoners charged with espionage were
tried by general court-martial on the
18th and 18th. They were found guilty
and sentenced to death and the SEN
fences having been fully confirmed
were carried out this morning.
The British government in an Off
cial statement Thursday dealing with
The question of espionage, said thai
in addition to five persons whose con.
viction already had been announced
10 others had been apprehended ane
would be tried for spying. One of these
was a German with an alleged forged
American passport.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
NAV Sutton Comes Back

Los Angeles, Cal, July 30.-Mrs. Thomas
c. Bundy, who as May Sutton was Amer
lean and British woman's tennis cham
pion, came back today after three years
of retirement from the courts and de-
feated in the Southern California cham
pionship tournament Mrs. r. L. Williams
of Chicago. who, with her sister. Miss
Mary X. Brown, of this CITY, holds the
women's national doubles title. The score
was 81, 60. Tomorrow Mrs. Bundy will
play Miss Browne now national singles
champion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
RUSSIANS FACE THE
PROBLEM CALMLY OF
RETREAT WITHOUT
LOSING HUGE ARMIES
Continued from Page One)

large part of the Russian army. II
expected that the Germans will tur
to the west a movement which, how
ever. will take a couple of months
least.
1t therefore will be a race betwee
the Teutonic forces and the British an
French as to which side will take til
offensive in France, where the situatio
remains it has been for weeks, ex
cept in Alsace, where the French con
tinue attacks on the positions protect
ing Muenster. There has been shar
fighting here, the French advance con
verging on Muenster from the nortl
and from Metzeral to the southeast o
Muenster valley, in which the tow
stands on the open road to Conan.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31

Cornish, y. H.. July 3o.-President
Wilson today received protest against
having persons connected with the
steamboat inspection service investi-
gate the Eastland disaster
The President was told that 1t would
be fairor to have men not in the fed
oral service and who could in no way
be blamed for the affair conduct tho
inquiry. Several of the protests were
from Organizations to which victims OF
The disaster belonged.
The President has entrusted the fed
eral investigation into the disaster to
Secretary Red6eld and has urged that
il be made as thorough as possible
The protests probably will be referred
to Mr.. Redneld
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
Comment on Speech

Chicago, July 30.-Harry Moir, a ho-
tel proprietor and member of the cor
oner's jury that blamed six men for
the sinking of the Eastland, said to-
night that when Secretary of Com
nterce Redfeld appeared before the
jury during it's elaboration he made
a two-hour speech, saying that steam
boat building was still in an expert
mental stage. The secretary, according
to Mr.. NOR, argued for the steam boa {
inspectors, who had passed on the
Iastland, and defending the ship as
seaworthy because it had been in serv-
ice a dozen years without accident of
moment -. rs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
To Maintain Order

Port au Prince. Haiti July SO.T-(s p. M
The Haitien Chamber and Senate con-
vened today and We're declared to be in
continuous session. The two houses called
on all the military chiefs to maintain or
der
The Senate offered the candidacy for
the presidency made vacant by the assas-
sination of President Vilbrun Guillaume
10 M. Guilbaud. former minister of JUS
tice. NJ Guilbaud declined G. Darti-
euenaye. president Of the Senate proba-
bly, VIII accept. it is stated
Most people express disapproval OF
the landing of American marines sent
ashore from the cruiser Washington, after
the revolutionary outbreak. However,
the city remains calm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31

euered the line Piaski- Biskupice and
the railway east from il
Near Kowala and Belzyce and
northeast of Krasnostav aud wojslaw-s'
Ice the allied armies penetrated hostile
lines.
early this morning the Russians
began to retreat along the entire line,
devastating all farms, even grain
fields Our. pursuit is proceeding.
Northwest of Ivangorod on both
siaes of the mouth of the Radomka
river early Wednesday our troops UNI
der heavy fighting forced crossing
OF the Nistula at several places. Tho
| German and Hungarian pio-
neers. despite most difficult conditions.
found opportunity to give proofs of
| splendid ability and a devoted sense
of duty
"On the upper Bug the defenders
of the bridgehead at Sokal withdrew
their south front several hundred me-
tres before an attack of superior
forces and repulsed further enemy at
tacks. Otherwise the east Galician sit
uation is unchanged.
italian theatre: Italian attacks are
| still proceeding on the border plateau
CT Gorilla. They are Isolated and un-
! successful. They are being directed
against the vantage points of our po-
! sjtions. East of Sagrado near Redi-
ruglia the Italian troops again tried
to gain ground but everywhere were
repulsed, especially around Monte Sell
bust, which is firmly in our hands.
/ =, Of, ir,fc nf Ho
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
George Church Wins

Minneapolis, Mimi, July 3o.-George NJ
Church of Princeton today won the right
to meet j. j. Armstrong of st. Paul for
the northwestern tennis title tomorrow.
He defeated Dean Mathey today o.,
70. 6-3. Church and Mathey won the
doubles when they defeated Armstrong
and John Adams of Minneapolis in the
final round. GA. ga, o.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
Harden in Bad

London, July 31.-t5:15 a. MA
Reuter- dispatch from Copenhagen says:
Macmillan Harden, editor of Die LUX
unfit passed through Copenhagen
Thursday incognito on an enforced
holiday of indefinite duration in north
ern Scandinavia His recent article vir-
tually commencing Italys attack of
her arch enemy-Austria-is reported
to have aroused the wrath of official
GERMANY"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
Is Bearing Up Well
Governor Is Tired

Albany. n. Y. July S0.-Still showing the
effects of the strain under which he has
been passing through the past week, Gov
ernor Whitman arrived at the executive
chamber about IL o'clock this morning.
He did not retire until o'o elk.
The governor had no comment to make
or any phase of the Becker case.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31

the public. This man succeeded State
Electrician Davis and he said he would
not take the job unless his name was
kept secret. He lives in a little town up
state and went about his work briskly
Becker's executioner said that in his
opinion the man had died instantly at
the first contact
An autopsy was performed, according
to law Immediately after the execution
After Beekers body had been removed
from the chair Samuel Haynes, negro
murderer was brought into the execution
loom, and eleetrocuted.
Wanted to Die First
One of Beeker's last requests to Warden
Osborne was that he be put to death be-
fore the negro.
Mrs Becker's last effort to save her
husband was made yesterday when she
appealed personally to Governor Whitman
for a reprieve so that an appeal might
be taken to the state court of appeals.
Missing the governor at Albany, Mrs.
Becker met him at Poughkeepsie The
plea was fruitless, and the untring wife
hurried to Sing Sing to bid her husband
farewell. She was with him for an hour,
leaving. the lighthouse at 12:So o'clock this
morning She left soon afterward for
New York, outwardly displaying no ef-
fects of the severe mental strain.
Jchn Becker, her brother-in-laW, and
John Lynch, her brother, accompanied
hei.
Dir. W. O, Stilman of Auburn, who as
sisted in the autopsy, said that Becker
showed unusual resistance to the electric
fluid. After the autopsy DIR. Stillman said:
Il noticed no unusual effects upon Beck
er's vital organs The way he resisted the
strong current was remarkable showing
him to be an unusually powerful man.
1t was expected that Becker's body
would be removed sometime today to New
York, where funeral services probably win
be held on Sunday:
Is Bearing Up Well
Mrs. Helen Becker, according to her
brother, John Lynch, was bearing up well
today after the strain she underwent yes
terday and last night. Mrs. Becker is rest
ms at her home today, and is not expect
ed to see anyone except members of her
family.
An undertaken was dispatched today to
Ossining to get the body of Charles Beck
er. The funeral, it was announced, will
take place Monday. ~. 49,,
A solemn high requiem mass will be
held at the Church of ST. Nicholas of Toll
entine by the Rev. Nicholas j. Murray.
Inte1ment will be at Woodlawn ceme-
terry.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
Body Arrives

New York. July 3o.-Becker,s body was
brought to Mrs. Becker's home in the
Bronx late today. 1t was in a plain black
casket small crowd of neghbors as
sembled as the hearse drew up before
the building
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1915-07-31
To Present Note Today

Berlin, July 30.-(Via London, July 81.
u rs a. Misrepresentation regarding the
sinking of the American steamer Lee
lanaw by a German submarine off the
Orkney Islands last Sunday. probably will
be presented by Ambassador Gerard Sat
urday morning, 1t Is stated.