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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
RUN YOUR OWN SALOON

To the married man who cannot
get along without his drinks the
following is being suggested as a
means of freedom from the bondage
OF the saloons:
Start a saloon in your own house.
Be the only customer. You VIII
have no license to pay. Go to your
wife and give her 81 to buy you
gallon of whiskey, and remember
there are so drinks in one gallon.
Buy your drinks from no one but
YOUR wife, and by the time the first
gallon is gone she will have $S TO
mt in the bank and 50 to start
business again.
Should you live ten years and con-
tinue to buy booze from her, and
then die with snakes in your boots,
she will have money enough to bury
Won decently, educate your children,
buv a house and lot, marry a decent
man and quit thinking about you.
Exchange.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
BEAUTIFYING COUNTRY HOMES.

President Charles Barrett, OF the
National Farmers Union is an adyo-
cate of more attractive farm homes.
In recent communication ito the
press he says:
Recently took an automoplle
trip through Paradise Valley, Cali
fornia. 1t is purely rural terri
tory, a country of farms. But 1t is
beautiful, one of the most beautiful
rural sections in the world. 1t is
beautiful because the people have
made it so with trees and shrubs and
flowers; because buildings are paint
ed, yards are clean, and all unsightly
things have been removed.
What is this land WORTH ask
ed. 1t averages $1,000 an acre.. my
conductor replied, "but there is sell
dom any for sale.' He informed me
that it just SO happened that there
was a small tract on the market then
to be sold for thepurpose of divid-
ing an estate. 1T was held at $1.OO0
After my return l received letter
informing ne that, as special con-
cession. this tract might be had at
$3.50 an acre.
Think of it-land which will pro-
duce no more than that right here IN
Florida, bringing around $1,000 an
acre, and difficult to get at that
price! Why? Their climate in many
respects does not compare with ours
and with scant rains they must
spend fortunes in bringing water TO
their crops. Why, then do their
lands command these prices? 1t is
because they have put both beauty
and fertility into them. They have
taken the dry and arid plains, and
brought water to them as they are
to do at vast expense, and
have converted them into perennial
gardens of fruits and flowers. They
have made of them something many
people want, and when you turn out
somebody wants and
wants badly, he is willing to pay the
price for it.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26

drouth the crop is not expected to be
as large as that of the past season,
but it is expected that this will be
counteracted by better prices.
The citrus exchange is preparing
to spend 100000 in advertising
alone, and expenditure of this sum
will propularize Florida frait with
many who have been partial to the
California product in former years
The advertising of the echange has
been very effectively placed and dis
played in thebest publications of the
country, and each year may be ex-
peeted to bring better results to the
grower.-Tampa Times.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
WATCH OUT FOR WORTHLESS
OIL STOCKS

The Democrat hopes that it will
be pardoned for inviting attention
to the advertisement of certain oil
company stocks which are appearing
in many of the daily papers of the
State. The stock may be good and
a splendid investment; we do not
know as to that, but we do know
that there is an abundance of money
in every oil country to finance all
drilling operations. Money flows in
to the oil countries in streams;
there is no necessity of going out
in the world to hunt it. Any man
who has a proposition that looks
half good" can secure cash for its
exploitation in the oil country. The
same may be said of town lots; the
tpapers do not carry many advertise
ments of them; the promoters of
town lot schemes hardly dare use
the mails for fear of prosecution by
the Federal Postal authorities; they
send agents out to sell on small cash
and monthly payments. The agent
gets never less than % per cent of
the selling price, and it is not ey-
pected that the purchasers will pay
for the lots, but rather they will
make several payments and drop
out, leaving the property to be sold
again and again. There is good in
vestment property in Florida where
money can be made to increase ard
grow; place your money at home
where you can give personal atten-
ton to your property.-Live Oak
Democrat.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
THE NEW BAD CHECK LAW

Local business me nand bankers
are very much interested in a law
which has become effective, prohibit
ing the drawing and uttering of
checks or orders upon banks or 9TH
er persons when the makers thereof
have not sufficient funds on deposit
with the banks to meet such checks.
A copy of the new law is as follows:
Be it enacted by the legislature of
the State of Florida:
Section 1. That from and after tn ,
date upon which this act becomes a
, law, any person, acting in his or her
own behalf, or as agent for any per-
son. firm or corporation, who draws
and utters, or causes to be drawn
and uttered, any check, draft or Or
der in payment of any goods, wares
and merchandise, or other personal
property, or for a money considera-
tion, which shall be delivered upon
the faith thereof, upon any bank,
banking house, person, firm or cor
h ibration, when there shall not be at
the time Of either drawing and ut
tering or causing to be drawn and
uttered, such check. draft or order.
or at the time of presentment of
such check, draft or order to the
drawee thereof, for payment or ac-
ceptance, provided that the same be
presented in due course, sufficient
funds on deposit with such bank
ing house, person, firm or corpora
tion. in the name of or to the credit
of such drawer, to pay such check,
draft or order, and who shall not,
within ten days after the giving and
receipt of the notice of the dishonor
hereinafter provided for, pay or
cause to be paid the amount of such
check, draft or order, in current
funds to the lawful holder thereof,
shall be deemed guilty of felony.
and upon conviction shall be punish
ed by Imprisonment in the state
prison for period not greater than
one year, or by a fine not exceeding
$1,000, or by both such fine and i'm
prisonment. Provided, however.
that the provisions of this act shall
not apply to any person who, by rea-
pf tro ~ OF
dealing, had reason to believe that
such check, draft or order would he
paid on presentation.
Sec. 2. The notice of dishonor
mentioned in section l of this act
shall be in writing, and must state
that the check, draft or order has
been duly presented for payment or
acceptance and has, been dishonored
because of insufficient funds, and
that such check, draft or order must
be paid to the holder within ten
days from the date of the receipt OF
such notice.
A receipt from registry depart
ment of any United States postoffice
shall be deemed prima facie evil
dence of the actual delivery of such
notice.
Sec. 8. The introduction of such
unpaid check, draft or order, with
the suppletory oath Of the payee, or
the drawee, or his agent. that such
check, draft or order was entered
for collection in due course Of bust
ness, and that the same was return
ed unpaid, shall be deemed prims
facie evidence of insufficient funds
for thepayment thereof.
Sec. 4. All laws or parts Of laws
in conflict with this act are hereby
repealed.
! Approved June 4, 1915.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26

The Russians are fighting in front
of Warsaw as they never fough be-
fore and their desperate valor has
at least made the issue doubtful for
the time. But our own shrewd mil
itary opinion, based on what hap
pened at Vickburg in our civil war,
is that it would be better to give
up Warsaw than to coop the de-
Tending army inside it's works with
the practical certainty of ultimate
surrender.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
HuvInu ION Tick"

Buying ION tick" is not new slang.
but goes back to the seventeenth CEN
fury. It is stated in a letter dated
1861: THE Mermaid Tavern is late
ly broke, our ticks amounting to
$780," And in another document a
little later Il is said: Every one
runs upon tick :"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26

been condemned as unseaworthy and
prevented from receiving passengers
the disaster would not have &C.
Cured. God helps those who do not
slight and defy His laws, and
prayer as supplement to such de-
fiance is not likely to suspend their
operation.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
CITRUS EXCHANGE
FORGING AHEAD

With new sub-exchanges being or
ganized in all sections of the fruit
belt, the Florida Citrus exchange Is
increasing in strength and influence.
and indications are that the next
season will be one of the best Flor
ida growers have enjoyed for years.
Because of the long continued
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
pH11ADELPHIA's NEW SUBWAY

Philadelphia, July 26-Bids were
asked for the new subway from Cal
lowhill to Unity streets. They will
be received up to Aug. %. The spe-
cifications call for the section of the
steel work to be commenced Dec. J,
TO be completed within a year.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
SOME QUEER SOUTHERN
AND NORTHERN PHRASES
(Rebecca Hart in the Chautauquan. }

lReueccd ftdrt IN the Cnautauquan.)
1t seems the most natural thing
in the world for a Southerner in
calling another person to say, 20,
john" but it always seems to amuse
our friends across the way. 1t is the
oh" that cxcites their merriment,
and in attempting to give the pecul-
iarity they often represent us as say
ing, "Ho. John" which we never
do say.
Another Southern expression which
always sounds queer to northern
ears is the use of the word mighty"
as an adverb. But to those accus-
toned to it, Mighty pretty" con-
veys an idea of beauty that the over
burdened northern word lovely"
doesn't reach. Turning to Webster
to see IL 1t must be given up, we find
! that it is allowable when used COL
loquially. Good! We should never
: want to use it except colloquially.
In the North man fills his wa
gon box with corn and draws"
it to town; in the South he fills his
wagon bed" with corn and "hauls"
it to the same place.
In New England they say 1.-The
going" (meaning the condition of
roads, is bad; in the South they say
the travelling" is bad. Perhaps to
say the roads are bad would be more
Ineligible than either.
Southerners say like for "as if"
AS, "She looked like she wanted to
co. They laugh at it in the North,
and in the same breath say "as" for
that don't know as / ever
heard it here'-and then the
Southerner laughs, and both are
happy. So ingrained are both ex-
pressions, however, that the delin-
quents are seldom conscious of the
delinquency.
A large proportion of grammatical
mistakes are common to the unedu-
Gated wherever they are found, but
there are some which are so pc
culiar to certain sections that their
use settles at once the question of
whether the person using them is
from the North or South. The ex-
preston 81 seen" for 81 saw" is a
very common mistake in the South
and rare in the North, while II seen
him yesterday for II saw him yes
terday," SO common, even among
educated people, in the North, is
never heard in the South, ~"
This makes it difficult for writer's
who have never lived in a certain
section to initiate successfully the
dialect of that people. They are
apt to be betrayed into the mistake
of putting into the mouths of GER
tain class in another part of the
country such words as they would
hear from same class in their own
section. This, undoubtedly, is the
difficulty which many northern
writer's find in truthfully portraying
the negro dialect. They take as
models the negroes they have known
and judge incorrectly, that the talk
of southern negro would be the
same; consequently, a practiced ear
can always detect the difference be-
tween one who assumes familiarity
and one who is ito this manner
born" The incongruity of making
a southern negro say "Whar be you
goin.?" as we saw recently in some
story, is inexpressibly ludicrous to
one familiar with their dialect. He
might say "Whar is you goin'?" but
never "W'har be you going'?" The
honor of the OPPRESSION You be- be-
longs exclusively to the North. What
he would be most likely to say is
l"Whar you gvine?"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26

LOST-One new 1874 Federal tire
on rim, July 25th, on road be-
tween Lakeland and Barlow or on
road around Lake Hollingsworth
Raward. H. X. Olliphant, Bar
tow, Fla. 1855
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26

Such literature as the following
from Northern paper, inspired by
the purpose of VIRGINIA to erect
Statue of General Lee on the field
Of Gettysburg, is mighty pleasant
reading for Southern people who are
tired of the hoary old prejudices of
war fought and finished so long ago
that it has become ancient history.
Saws the New York Press;
, 1T was a happy thought on the
part of the Virginians and good will
result in the erection and dedication
next October of a statue of General
Lee on the field of Gettysburg. No
other day in all Lees life proved him
SO great man, in all the senses in
which the word may be used. That
morning of attack and that evening
of defeat on the soil of Pennsylvania
showed him a military genius. a
brave soldier and a superb American
type. On that day he lost, lost irrc-
trievably, but he won the respect and
admiration of the North whose ban.
ners we're triumphant. Today We all
north as we'll as south, think of Let
as one of our great Americans. Hi
memorial belongs on Gettysburg
along with our other great sons o
common country now firml!
united"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26

Quoting a recent paragraph from
the Telegram concerning that Won
derful 700 acre corn field in Marion
county that will average 125 BUSH
els of corn per acre this season, the
Ocala Star makes this practical
suggestion v-hich is quite good
enough to come from a farmer who
uses his gray matter as well as his
muscle in tilling the soil;
IF the farmers of Florida would
make corn their staple crop, and let
truck take its place as side line,
they would soon be so much better
off that they wouldn't know them
selves. Corn doesn't ever have to
rot in the fields because the COM
mission men won't buy it or the
railroads won't haul it. What a
farmer can't eat or sell he can turn
into meat Many years ago, we lived
in a section of the country where
corn was plentiful and dollars were
few. Corn passed as currency, and
though the people had few Injuries,
they were self-supporting, and far
more Independent than the average
Florida farmer of today"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26

The Arkansas River.
The Arkansas river is 2,170 miles
long, but at various points in it,
course is very narrow.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26
THE LAKELAND NEWS,

A weekly newspaper giving . resume
Of local matters. crop conditions,
county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere
for $3.50 per year.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26

The Pensacola Journal does well
to congratulate Santa Rosa county
upon the prompt conviction of three
white murderers who recently shot
to death an old man and his wife
with the hope of getting money con-
cealed in the house. The day these
wretches are hanged for their crime
will be a red letter day in the his
tory of that county, for it will be a
practical sermon of the most elo-
quent and convincing character
against crime and in behalf of the
enforcement of law. Good people of
the worthwhile kind, seeking new
homes, won't locate in a county
where murder goes UNPUBLISHED and
such horrible wretches as the MUIR
derers in this case can escape the
tolls of the law and be permitted to
live. When their vile necks have
been broken on the gallows, others
of their ilk who can be reached by
no other kind of argument, will get
1t into their vestial brains that
murder doesn't pay and they might
do we'll to get some education and
become decent, law-abiding people.
John Stokes, who prosecuted this
case to successful finish is one of
the best lawyers in Florida and he
has rendered a service to the whole
State by his good work; also Sheriff
Harvell, of Santa Rosa county, who
followed up the clews and put the
murderers behind the bars, has
shown himself an efficient officer
deserving of high praise.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-07-26

When man finds himself in the
closing Jaws of disaster, he cries in
stinctively. God, help mel" And
when the disaster does it's work and
takes it's heavy toll, perhaps crush
ing the life out of thousands, the
old primal instinct still asserts it
self and he prays fervently for
mercy. In that instinct religion
has it's ineradicable root and its
everlasting stronghold against all
the forces of rationalism seeking to
destroy it; but the man who holds
that prayer alone will bring him
safety while his own energies are
paralyzed and his reason silent holds
to a faith that courts disaster and
would sink all the world in slothful
fatalism. God has ordained his nat.
ural laws for the government of His
universe and we must use our in.
telligence to discover those laws and
conform our conduct to them. There
is no reason to suppose that all the
prayers Chicago could have concen
trated into one petition would have
everted the disaster in that cit!
that sent a thousand people to dealt
last Saturday; but il there had beer
no prayer at all and the vessel ha'
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-06-28
GENERALS STORY
CLOSELY GUARDED
AUSTRIAN SECRET
STORY OF RISE AND FALL OF THE
AUSTRIAN COMMANDER, GENERAL
AUFFENBERG, IS TOLD.
WAS CHARGED WITH BEING CAUSE
OF CRUSHING AUSTRIAN De.
FEAT BY SERBlANS.

Correspondence of the Associated Press
Venice. June 25-The story Of the fall
of General Baron Auffenburg from his
position as commander of one of the most
powerful of the Austro Hungarian ar
mics to an incommunicado cell in an I'M
named prison il one of the most closely
guarded secrets in Vienna. Austrian
newspapers are not allowed To- even men
ton his name and inquirers even in the
Hungarian House Of Deputies have been
advised to let the matter drop.
From information which has just
reached Venice. il appears that the Gen
Ieral was summarily arrested as he was
about ii leave for Switzerland and has
not since been allowed To communicate
even with his family or lawyers. His
object in going To Switzerland was the
publication of a volume Of memoirs, i'm
which he hoped To establish his limo
.cence Of m~ismanaging the Austrian
campaign against Serbia by putting the
blame upon the shoulders If the Austri-
an Commander in-Chief, the Archduke
Frederic.
The following explanation of General
Auffenberg'S rise and fall comes from
personal friends Of the General Ii H.
in general agreement with such facts Of
the ease as have been previously cstab-
'lished:
General Autfrnberg. as former Minis
ter of Wan and one of the great sol
Idicrs of the empire. was placed In com
mand Of the armies which undertook the
invasion of Serbia al the beginning Of
the war. This invasion ended disastro-
Iusly; the Austrians were defeated with
tremendous losses and retired back
across he frontier in disorder. There
was held a haStv investigation in vi
emma. and the investigators reported
that General .Auflcnburg was mainly re-
SponSible. owing To his gross mistake in
planning and carving out his offense.
They recommended that he be- suspended
from his command.
But il seemed unwise to the military
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-06-28

This remark, together with others
OF similar nature, reached the ears II
the Archduke. .ah dthe ~latter's influence
was exercised to bring about the down.
fall If the General. The climax came
when Auffenberg asserted that. having
failed To secure a hearing in official cir.
cles. he would prove his " Innocence
and the Archduke's blameworthiness by
writing q book on the war and having
IL published in Switzerland.
ITO prevent his flight into Switzer-
land and the publication Of the threaten
ed book. Emperor Francis Joseph him
self stepped in and ordered him arrested
and placed in solitary confinement un-
til the end of the war. lie was commit
led to prison by Imperial order without
The semblance If trial or investigation.
and was not allowed 10 communicate
with the outside world. Questions adj
dressed 10 the government in the Hun
garian House Of Deputies were answered
with tn statement that the government
could not az this time deal with a purely
military matter in Parliament"
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-06-28

overs Ia thus draw public attention To
the extent of the disaster in Serbia, 80
il was decided that Auffenberg's retire
mcnt should le attributed 20 i'll health
brought on by the strenuous exertions
of the campaign and that the title Of
Baron should be- conferred ON him IL
support the impression that after all
nothing really serious happened To the
Austrian forces ia Serbia. The new Bar.
on was ordered home. and placed IN the
retired list among Officers at the disp0-
sition Of the Emperor for further mill
tary service.
The General came home reluctant and
mystified. and began some quiet inyes
LEGATIONS Of the situation. As soon rs he
found out that he was blamed for the
failure If the campaign must be
mandcd that his side Of the story should
be heard. lie got no encouragement in
official circles. but il became generally
known among military men that h.
planned to recstablish his " rcputa-
ton by showing thai the blame for the
failure of the Of the campaign must be
attributed to the Archduke Frederic.
In one ease. for example. the General
declared "a q group Of military men.
Il will nJt be made the scapc- goat for
an Archduke who ought never To have
been entrusted with the supreme com
mand of the Imperial forces. but who
ought rather To have been locked up in
his palace in Vienna To prevent his
meddling in the conduct Of the war
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-06-28
A Mistake Made by Many.

When you suffer pains and aches by
day and sleep disturbing bladder weak
ness by night, feel tired. nervous and
run down. the kidneys and bladder
should be restored 70 healthy, strong
and regular action. IL il a mistake 10
postpone treatment. Foley Kidney Pills
put the kidneys in sound, healthy on
dition and keeps them active, strong.
MARTINEZ Drug Store, north corner
Market square.-adv.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-06-28
Man With Flour Arrested.

Special Officer Emil .Nunez and Mariana
Gonzales making a round al . o'clock last
night after the close of the dance at the
IIongo where they had been on duty. spied
a man laboriously pushing a truck along
the rails near the freight depot. Overtaking
him they found two sacks of our in the
truck. The truck pusher explained elabor-
ately that he had found the lou IN the
truck. Nunez and Gonzales lodged the find
er in the county Jail. where h. gave hi
name a Ambrosio Aurajo.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-06-28
Hail Damages the Crops.

Stamford. Texas, June ga heavy
rain fell here Saturday night. Heavy dam
age from hail j. reported from the coun-
try, many crops being ruined and windows
Knocked out.