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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-03-04

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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-03-04

A brilliant assemblage, representing
several hundred of the most distinguish
ed women of the Democratic party,
gathered for the annual Dolly Madison
breakfast given by the Women Ma
tional Democratic league.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-03-04
For the Stomach and Liver.

I. N. Stuart, West Webster, N. Y,
writes: 81 have used Chamberlain 8
Tablets for disorders of the stomach
and liver off and on for the past five
years, and it affords me pleasure to
state that l have found them to be Just
as represented. They are mild in their
action and the results have been salts
factory. I value them highly For sale
by all dealers.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-03-04

Because Of surplus of silver certi-
ficates, payments of salaries to the gov
eminent employees this month were
largely made on a silver basis. The
change in the methods of payment from
gold certificates was for the conven-
fence of the treasurer of the United
States. 1t happened that there We're
more silver certificates in the treasury
than any other form Of currency.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-03-04
JAMES II. BRADY.

In the press report sent out by Chair.
man Batchelder to over 1000 newspa.
pers and about 200 farm publications
throughout the United States is this
paragraph:
For those who would emerge from
Yellowstone at the western gate there
would be offered the Idaho route which
would include Shoshone falls, deserved.
ly known as the Niagara of the west,
and the successfully competing with tho
great catract in its picturesque grand.
eur.
PROFESSIONALLY the western country
lis going to make an irresistible appeal to
. large percentage of the million and
three-quarters Of motor car road trav.
.elers.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-03-04

they are shown in numerous styles. The
wide floating veil which comes almost,
II not quite, to the shoulders is very
,"com;ng and popular. These are in d:f
f;rent neshes, plain and dotte! and us,l.
ally have either bias fold on the edge
or narrow piece of ribbon stitched on
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1915-03-04
BURIED HERE

The three months old child of Mr.
and Mrs. M. A. Driscoll of Sterling,
Idaho, died Friday morning. The re.
mains will be brought to Pocatello and
buried tomorrow afternoon in Mountain
view cemetery. Crawford & Schumacher
having the details in charge.-Pocatello
Tribune.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
Does The Moon
Affect Crops?

A writer in an exchange says:
the moon has no more influence on
crops than it has on the tempera-
ture or the amount of rain or the
winds" In these days if one goes
against the dictums of science, so
called" as good old St. Paul denomi-
mates it, he is called supersitiious.
Well, hurrah for superstition, and
for all the good old things our faith
ers knew by moon sense" long be-
fore these latter day iconoclasts
we're born. Fortunately for the
world, the dictum of science does not
unmake a truth, nor is it always SO
because some scientific writer has SO
stated. Darwin's book. Descent of
Man." did not make it true that
mans ancestors were monkeys; that
is, not all of them. OF course there
may be some few exceptions-it
looks that way, at least.
But to get back to the moon. All
scientists come to the front and tes-
tify gladly that the moon is the
cause of that wonderful manifesto
ton, the tides of the sea. Admitting
that, who shall say then to what
minor length the influence of the
moon upon the earth may not be ex-
erted.
The actual observation and ex-
perience of generations of farmers is
to the effect that the moon does at
feet all growing crops, and this tes-
timony is worth far more than the
simple test made by a single scien-
fist The general rule in this mat
ter is, plant all root-bearing pants,
as potatoes, in the dark of the moon,
and all which fruit above the earth,
as tomatoes. in the light of the
moon. As farmers have grown care
less about those things in these later
days so have their crops failed them
in proportion.
That the neurological condition Of
the earth's atmosphere is affected by
the moon there can be no custom.
At all the government stations now
instruments are installed which rec
ord the minuetest detail of change,
but no account is taken as to what
causes the changes which are so re-
corded. In the old days the trapper
and hunter, and even the Indian,
knew just as much about the prob
abilities of the weather as we do
now with all our improved methods,
and they learned it from observing
the moon Gainesville Sun.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
ALWAYsDUTYF|RST
BY FRANK FiLSoh.
Copyright. 1875, by u. C. Chapman

Copyright. 1916. by ~ @. chapman
Lieutenant Won Retzow had only
glanced mechanically at the list OF
ships which his commanding offcer
had given him when he took his sub
marine out of Cuxhaven. Now, read
ing II, he felt his body grow rigid
with horror.
He took a letter from his pocket
one which had arrived from America
via Italy only two weeks before. IL
was from Miss Lucy cambridge OF
Cincinnati. o. Miss cambridge was
just an ordinary American girl, but
the only one in life for Won Retzow.
He had decided this when they met In
New York, while he was attache to
the flagship Of the visiting German
squadron: and Miss Lucy, after long
elaboration, had written-well, that
she wasn't sure, but she was coming
to England. and possibly she would
slip over to Holland with her aunt.
and, OF course, IL he had leave OF
absence during this dreadful war 4.
Lieutenant Won Butzow looked at
the list OF ships expected in British
waters during the week that he was
to be absent. He was to torpedo as
many OF these as possible. lying on
the bottom OF the sea between ex-
ploits. to gain time and remain in
safety. And at the head Of the list
was the Marianne. on which Miss
cambridge was to sail.
His instructions were explicit ones.
He was to torpedo every merchant
ship within sight Of his section Of the
British seacoast. He was to think
nothing of the lives Of those aboard
He was to dive as soon as he had
launched his missile upon its dead
ly path. and to withdraw, leaving
the luckless passengers and crew to
perish.
The Marianne was due to arrive
on the Scilly coast in q few hours
Lieutenant Won Retzow, standing al
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

Florida is singularly free from I'M
reclamable land Every other state
in the Union is burdened with land
that cannot be made productive, at
least not without spending more
money for reclamation than the
land is worth. Such places include
mountains, swamps, river bottoms,
deserts, salt marches. We have no
mountains here. Our rivers are or
no great lengths and have so much
fall that the areas overlooked when
the water is high are only narrow
strips along the rivers. The bot
toms" are at present covered with
valuable timber, and when it has
been removed the land can be put to
AGRICULTURAL uses by simply straight
ening and cleaning out the rivers.
Every swamp can be drained; some
of the shallow lakes can be drained
entirely and all of the lakes can
be drained entirely and all of the
lanes Cdu nave ST. Fps thS
margin reclaimed by drainage. The
tides along the Florida shores being
very low, most of the salt marshes
can be reclaimed by drainage alone.
and the rest by dyking and pump
ing.
Tn almost every county of the
state are little spots of desert OF
white sand, bare in some places but
overerown with chaparral and pal
mettos in others, and called
scrubs" Such land is nearly sterile,
yet cowpeas will grow there, and a
few crops will put so much humus
in the soil that it will hold moist
ure, when grapes. peaches and Irish
potatoes may be grown. The desert
spots in the West can only be re-
claimed through costly irrigation
processes, but the copious rainfall of
Florida helps to redeem such land.
The beaches along the seashores
have a vaue; in many places they
already furnish the chief attrac-
ton for pleasure resorts, and in
course of time, when the lands be-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09


View.
the wheel, felt the sweat pour down
his face. He stared out miserably
across the waters.
To send the woman he loved to
death among those waves seemed the
act Of devil. Yet that was his duty,
and he must carry it out or-return
with his task unaccomplished, to face
disgrace and ruin.
He lay In wait just out of view of
the Settles. dipping, rising again, or
hoating almost submerged, with peri.
scope above the waters, searching for
the doomed passenger vessel. She
was due to sight the Settles at about
four In the afternoon, and precisely
at four he saw the line of smoke upon
the horizon, and, through his glasses,
the two tunnels Of the Abercromby
line.
He shouted down the engine tube
and ran awash toward the ship. No
other craft was upon the sea; every
one had scurried into security, in fear
Of the raids.
The Marianne was now clearly
In view, listing little as she rolled
In the troughs. Evidently the pres
ence of the submarine was entirely un-
suspected by her as she made her
way slowly toward the Cornish coast.
1t was the bitterness of death for
Won Retzow. During the few minutes
In which the periscope crept up to-
ward the Marianne he lived over
again those days in America, when he
had begun to realize his love for Lucy,
her dawning love for him. Duty had
carried him away, but he had written
to her at last, unable to postpone
learning Of his fate. He believed she
cared for him; he had felt sure that
she was coming to Europe in the ex-
pectation Of meeting him.
He had written to her once: Il
would give my life for you. Your life
is ever sacred to me-will ever be-"
And now, Hike c cow2rdly murderer,
he was creeping up on the track of
the vessel that carried her, resolved
to sink her, murder his sweetheart
coldly, deliberately. There could be
no chance Of rescue out of the trough
Of the Atlantic pillows.
The torpedo is in the launching
tube, sir!" called up his aide from
below.
Won Retzow trembled; he could not
gather voice to answer. He was not
more than half a mile from the
Marianne now; she was almost
oroadside on, and the submarine had
Unanswered herself so that her nose
pointed due along the course that the
torpedo must take to strike.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
No Waste In Florida Land

hind them shall be brought under
cultivation, they will be lined with
happy homes.
At present land buyers are fastid-
ious about getting the best avail :
able-land requiring the least out
lay and wor to make productive.
However, such is already becoming
SO scare in many neighborhools, that
poorer grades are coming into de-
mand, and lands which few years
ago could not be given away are now
being utilized. Drainage. dynamiting
and fertilizing will make the poor
est land good.
One class of land to be found in
large bodies in almost every county
in the state is hog palmetto" land.
1t is too fiat for natural drainage,
the thin topsoil is underlaid with
quicksand and hardpan and the
natural growth is stunted pines and
closely set small palmettos. Such
land needs deep draining, deep
breaking up and subsoiling with
dynamite. This will dry the land.
Then after a couple of crops of pea
vines have been plowed in and some
fertilizer added the land will pro .
duce good Irish potatoes to begin
with, and later on any other crops.
Reclaimed swamps often make
rich fields, but if the soil is only
muck it Is sterile. However, by
proper mechanical and chemical
treatment it can be made to pro-
duce heavy crops of cane, rice. cab
bage, onions and tomatoes.
When all of Floridas more easily
subdued Inds have been taken up,
there will be left thousands of
square miles of land for the settler
which will require more work and
money to bring under cultivation
than that hitherto utilized, but
which will be worth the trouble on
account of our climate, which even
now is worth more to a farm than
the land.-Starke Telegraph.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

Won Retzow hesitated. Then he
heard his voice give the command 10
fire.
Through the periscope Won Retzow
saw the white track of the torpedo
through the waves as the released ar
bubbles came to the surface. Then'
almost Immediately, there came tne
dull boom of the striking torpedo
Won Retzow shoute' the command
IN rise The submarine came up,
first at .he bow, then at the stern.
And. an instant later. the water was
whipped white with plunging shell.
The submarine, pierced through ana
through by some unseen assailant'
sank like stone.
Won Retzow had been standing
alone upon the bridge. The waves
caused by the destruction of the little
craft swept him into the sea. AS ne
struck out he saw before him the
broken timbers of the torpedoed craft
and a new British torpedo-boat de-
stroyer, with guns trained, making
briskly toward him.
He was seen; a boat was lowered,
and. almost at the same time that
the last of the wrecked ship sank be-
nea i the waves, Won Retzow was
hauled, struggling fitfully for BREATH
aboard the rescuing boat by the crew.
A few minutes later he stood before
the commander of the little torpedo
boat
Il am sorry, sir. The fortune OF
war, you know" said the young Of
fcer, rather sheepishly, stretching out
his hand to Won Retzow.
Twill you come into my cabin!'
he added, leading the way. You are,
OF course, paroled during the short
voyage to England. believe we can
make you comfortable-dry, at any
rate" he said.
In the cabin Won Retzow still looked
fixedly at the other.
Are you not going to hang meT
he asked.
The British officer protested feebly.
Listen" said Won Retzow. Il will
tell you something to show you what
duty means to us German officers. The
woman | love and expect to marry
was aboard the Marianne. l was
ordered to sink her-and l sank her,
according to my instructions. But !
tell you that it will haunt me for the
rest of my days"
To his amazement the young Eng
lish officer, who had been regarding
him with an expression decidedly
quizzical, interposed laughingly:
Il may as well relieve your mind,
sir" he said The Marianne was
aware Of your amiable intentions and
slipped in by another route yesterday.
The old tramp that you torpedoed
was a decoy Marianne. She hadn't
a soul aboard, and-well, We were
lying in wait for you upon her leeward
side. So. I'm glad to say that your
fears were groundless, and if anything
can be done to make you comfort.
| able"
Won Retzow wrung his hands and
danced like crazy man, up and down
in the cabin.
YES" he shouted. Take me to
England as quick as you can. 1--we
got to find out whether the Mari
anne has let off her passengers yet.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
YEARNING FOR THE HILLS
Influence Of Early Environment 10 for
Each Of Us the Iron Ring Of
Destiny.

How much Of the influence Of early
environment, of the habituated reac-
tions which comprise for each of US
the iron ring of his destiny, there is
In even our deeper attitude toward
the external world-toward what we
call Nature! Not long ago spent
many weeks in the prairie country OF
the West, sense of oppression con.
stantly increasing in weight upon my
spirit. Those endless, level plains!
Those roads that stretched without q
break to infinity! A house, a group
of barns, a fruit orchard, and then a
clump Of hardwoods. alone broke the
endless, fat monotony of snow-cov.
cred felds-no, not fields, but infini.
tudes where single furrow could put
q girdle about an entire township in
my home land! My soul hungered for
a hill; my heart craved, with q dull
longing, the sight of naked birch
tree flung aloft against the winter sky.
Back through the endless plains of
Illinois the train crawled. away from
the setting sun. But the next daylight
disclosed the gentle, rolling slopes of
the Mohawk valley, and before many
hours had passed the Berkshire hills
were all about us, like familiar things
recovered. The camel-hump Of Grey
lock to the north was sapphire.blue
and reckoning. The nearer noun.
ta1ns wore their reddish nantes.
pricked with green. above the snowy
intervals, and laid their up-reared
outlines stark against the sky. Shad.
owy ravines let into their TANKS. sue.
gestive Of roaring brooks and the mys.
terry of the wilderness. The clouds
trailed purple shadow-anchors: the
sun flashed from the ice on their
SCARED Lodges. And a weight seemed
suddenly lifted from my spirit. The
words of the ancient psalmist comes
to my lips unconsciously: 81 win
lift up mine eyes unto the hills. From
whence cometh my help? MY helm
cometh from God."-Walter Prichard
Eaton in Harper's Magazine.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
NOBODY KNOWS


Nobody knows why the summer
Droops and dies at the summers
close,
And the vagrant wind it's petals
brown
Scatters at will through the busy
town
All. nobody knows!
Nobody knows why the summer goes
And the weary winter brings the
SHOWS;
And the boughs are bare and the
birds are gone,
And the dreary days drag DULY OH
All, nobody knows!
Nobody knows why the days disclose
Fears and follies and wants and
woes
And death and duty and pain and
care
Scatter their shadows everywhere
All, nobody knows!
Nobody knows why the spirit goes
And the lips grow dumb and the
eyelids close;
And the worlds desire and the
worlds unrest
Wake no more in the icy breast
All, nobody knows!
Nobody knows why the day departs
And night brings shadows to skies
and hearts
And finds the dreamer at set of sun
With a broken heart DER the task
undone-
All, nobody knows!
Nobody knows? All, yes. Oh, yes,
And that One-God, We grieve and
guess,
But He is clearer of sight than we
And He knows why that II comes to
Yes, somebody knows.
Arthur Goodenough, in Springfield
Republican.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

same load he had left with. His
uncle's inquiries brought out the
facts that the young man had not
stopped at a single house on his
route or called out his wares as he
passed them He said none of the
farm wagons seemed to need any
thing he had for none of them came
out to see what he could offer. He
knew he had goods Of value to these
women but he waited for them to
find out what he could sell them. In
other words, he had no idea of ad-
vertising his wares.
We see schemes advocater for the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
Florida Fruit
Should Be Better
Advertised
tflorida Times-Unionl

The Florida orange Will never lose
its popularity. In fact, 1t more like
ly to increase it if the proper means
is taken to spread the knowledge of
its superior merit. In that respect
California, with citrus fruit inferior
to that of this state. shames Florida
with its persistent and widespread
advertising of its fruits. A citrus
fruit that cannot be produced in the
former state but which grows to per-
lection in Florida, the pomelo or
grapefruit, has been selling at ruin
Gus prices the past season becaus
comparatively few people in this
country know that ii is one Of the
greatest eonservators OF health that
grows and that its pleasant acid flaw
or is such that no one who accustoms
himself to eating IT for breakfast can
many look upon 1t merely as luxury
break away from the habit.
II California could raise the grape
fruit 1t would be known today to
thousands who have hardly heard
of it. or perhaps never have. and are
unfamiliar with its flavor. We
should gee large display advertise
ments in the Northern papers ex-
trolling its merits, its delicious ac-
idity and its healthfulness. Every
means that professional ad writers
are masters of would-be employed to
induce the readers of newspapers of
every description to enlist among its
steady consumers. And they would
not be complaining long of the lack
of market and profitable prices.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
ON THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT
BY Roy X. Moulton
Hints to June Brides

It is we'll to send out the invita-
tions early thus preparing your
friends. When they receive invita-
tions late, say only a week before
the wedding, they are often out OF
funds and the gifts may not be as
numerous and costly as they would
be otherwise.
Engraved Invitations are expen-
sive, we know, but II always pays
to send out enough. Order about
800 more than you really need and
send all of them. Everybody won't
come.
The proper way to have them read
is as follows: Mr.. and Mrs. Jones
request your presents at the wedding
OF the daughter Eumpemia, etc"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

better exploiting of tn markets our
citrus growers have already open to
them but little thought seems TO be
displayed in the direction Of open
ing new ones. In the matter Of
marketing vegetables the Florida
Marketing Bureau seems to have
struck the right idea in that II is
looking for fresh markets in the
small towns of the South as well as
OF other sections; for territory to ex-
plot outside of the great cities.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
NEW JERSEY HORTICULTURE

Bridgeton, n. j., June AT the
state meeting Of the N. j. Horticul-
lure Society today an opportunity
VIII be given to see berries and mar
ket garden crops grown at their best
uhder irrigation. The purpose is to
stimulate cooperation.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
harkins Back.

You say you have been going with
Miss Flibbs a long timer"
Ever since the year B. T. c."
what does that B. T. c. stand
for?"
Before the Tango Craze"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
Financial Striuoencv.

Financial strineeney.
Dixmyth-I lost $780, in less than
half minute last night
Hojax-What's the explanationr
Dixmyth-I proposed to Miss Got.
rox and she said NO"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
immune From Many Disease.

Men attending the pans in salt
works are generally supposed to BE-
exempt from cholera. smallpox. scar.
let fever and influenza.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

Rugby school was founded and
endowed In 1867.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
Yea NhN7

Yes, Why7
Why Is II that the last Wort
treat are so much wiser than
uttered while in good heal
change.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1915-09-08

necessary to oil the country roads. He
was driving us between San Bernardino
and Riverside and nearly every foot Of
the way was oiled macadam. He said
that the piece Of road we were then on
had not been oiled for about four years.
If that was generally true then the ex-
pense of oiling must be very small when
one takes into consideration how long
it lasts. In San Francisco we found it
almost impossible to acquire any dust
or dirt accumulations. In the first place
the city is new and there are but few
manufacturing plants to fill the air with
smoke. While there also, we found the
weather so cool that collars would stand
the strain of several days wear and not
look nearly so detected as they do here
after one afternoons dissipation. But
the cool weather and the newness of the
city would not prevent the dust from
flying if it were allowed to accumulate
or to remain dust. Neither of these con-
ditions is allowed to exist. When dirt or
dust of any sort is deposited upon the
street the oil promptly gets busy and
plasters it to the pavement until the day
crowds have all gone home when the
street washing begins and when morning
dawns again the citizens come down to
their work on streets that glisten in the
sun and housewives have nothing at all
to grumble about. Wouldn't it be a
blessing to New Ulm people if such con-
ditions might be brought about here?
No wonder the people of California never
die but only pass away!