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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
Cost of Living
Is Advancing
In England

London, April 21.-The cost Of
living continues to advance slowly
in London. Prices of meat during
the last week of March reached a
point higher than at any time in
twenty-five years. The wholesale
prices of all grades of beef, mutton,
pork, and veal showed on the quota
ton board range of one to fifteen
per cent above the high wter mark
of all records since 1890. Not a
butcher in London is making a profit
today" declares one of the trade
journals.
In other lines the increases have
generally been more moderate.
Glassware of all kinds has gone up
ten per cent. Window glass, which
was made almost exclusively in Bel
GUM, has advanced a hundred per
cent. Linen sheeting is ten per cent
dearer, and shoes are about fifteen
per cent more expensive. Butter and
cheese show a rise of four cents a
pound; bread twenty-five per cent;
poultry twenty per cent.
Gas and electricity have gone up
about ten per cent, and all the Lon
don laundries will add ten per cent
to the total amount Of each custom
er's bill after April 10. This is
necessary. they assert, because Of
increased prices of coal Goo per
cent?. soap Gao per cent? and labor
$50 per cent?.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
THE ALLIES VIEW.
By Albert w. Brye.

1t is not the movement, de-
spite all this. for hasty conclu-
sions. | have minated that
likelihood fRussian success in
the mountain region would acce-
lerate peace with Austria-Hun-
gary; it must not be supposed
that Russian possession of the
Beskid barrier is yet acquired or
even demonstrated as extremely
probable in the near future.
Since March FL, the day of the
fall of Peremcyl, the Russians
have undeniably made impress
sive progress. They have none
the less the hardest part Of
mountain campaign still before
them.
Their efforts have been direct
ed at six practical passes, lying
to the south. touthwest and
southeast OF Peremsyl, from the
Dukla Pass on the west to the
Wyszkow Pass on the extreme
east. At the outset of the pres
ent advance the Russians al
reayd held the upper hand in the
Dukla region. Here they have
extended their positions south Of
the divide, in the valleys Of the
Laborez and the Ondava, which
flow southwark and lead eventu
ally to the plains and Budapest.
Striking eastward from the
Territory they have taken thu
Lupkow Pass in the rear and GU
its railroad. the only line traver
sing the mountain range. Ad
vancing into the Lupkow from
1.-THE north by simultaneous
movement, other Russian force
had at last accounts penetrated
well into the its Businesses ant
had more than half won the clea
Irail route through the highlands
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
THE GERMAN VIEW.
By Hugo Won Klest.

Washington has been officially
notified that England was guilty
of fragrant breach of neutrality
in attacking the German cruiser
Dresden in Chilean waters. The
Chilean government reports that
it was about to inferno the Dres-
den for overstaying her time in
making repairs-she was in
Cumberland Bay and within
fifty yards OF the shore-and the
Governor of juan Fernandez
was in the act OF enforcing his
order when the British cruisers
Glasgow and Kent, and the aux
iliary cruiser Drama opened fire
on her" The report says that
the governor was Obliged tc
turn back on account of the
broadside she (the Glasgow
sent toward the shore"
OF course, Chile vigorously
protests against this violation o
her neutrality. but her protes
will slumber in the archives o
our State Department.
We further read in the Wash
ington dispatch, printed in al
obscure corner of the New Yorl
Times, at is understood tina
the British government alread
has shown a disposition to max
Preparation to Chile for the Incl
dent"
This is very indiscreet 70
England. She is committing tn
blunder which she charge
against the German chancello
when in a moment of ill-consit
cred sincerity he said somthin
about violating Belgian neutra
ity.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
Development
Now in Progress
In Florida
MANY TOWNS ARE GOING FOR
WARD, MAKING IMPROVE
MENTS AND GENERALLY DE.
VELOPING ALONG ALL LINES

Arcadia is trying to get a $25,
Carnegie library. Her citizens are
working hard and have confidence to
believe that they will be successful.
Preliminary work has been begun
on an immense drainage PROPOSE
tion in Sumter, Pasco, fernando and
Lake counties. 1t is proposed to
drain 10000 acres of land in these
counties.
The Everglades Drainage Board
has made contract with George F.
Miles of St. Augustine, under which
he is to place two and one-half Gu
bic yards dippers dredge on the CAL
oosahatchee Canal for the purpose
of doing the work necessary to deep
en- and enlarge it.
Secretary of the navy Daniels says
that 100000 will be spent for
aviation at the navy yards at Pen
sacola.
The first shipment of potatoes
from Hastings occurred last week.
1t is estimated that the yield will
be forty barrels to the acre. They
are bringing eight to ten dollars a
barrel,
A Jacksonville policeman has
challenged Jess Willard for fight 3
The champion says he will meet him
after he has had years rest,
The Sholl Hotel at St. Petersburg
was damaged by fire Sunday to the
extent of about $4,000. Ample in
surance was carried to cover the
loss.
Nine cars of celery were shipped
last week from Zephyrhills. 1t was
the product of the Colony Company
near the town.
Wauchula has a crate mill, which
when running at full capacity, EN-
ploys 500 people with payroll o
about $4,000 monthly.
An automatic telephone line TO
the East Coast, to run from Jack
sonville to Key West is anothe
stride forward for Florida.
The Florida Association of Coun
ty Surveyors met in Gainesville las
week.
The Florida Funeral Director
will hold their annual convention 1
Jacksonville next month.
Motor bus service was establishe
in Gainesville last week. The ca
used was constructed in local shop
j. Continued on page A.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
DEKAY TRIAL

Providence. R. L., April .,
case Of Henry DeKay Of w. The
who was convicted with Edw,. ION
Metcalf In connection with ,t :
ure of the Atlantic National -g n lal-
will come up today. James u, Da0t
borne. attorney for DeKar h., w. w.
pared an appeal and will ssh s ne
case or the way. The pen,,.s out tAe
years at Atlanta, Ca, prison ;, I've
thought that DeKay will 90, . .
Their extenton before sentence :. luz
der to test the legal points W.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
FIRST SOLDIER ENTERS
i- FRENCH SOLDIERS HOME
fBy Associated Press.)

Paris, april 21.-The hrst ih'a-
-, .,,d;or of the war of 1919 TO
on,er the French soldiers home, the
Invalides is private Jean-Marie-
Caujolle with both legs missing a.
the age of %. Caujolle enlisted IN
the army at 20 and after four years
service in the marine infantry at
Tonkin, returned to France free
from all military obligations Aug. l
last year.
Instead of returning home on d's-
o,hark;nr he went to the nearest
recruiting office and re-enlisted.
Cited in the orders of the DAY ior
his work in the field ne was again
cited for his bearing in the hospital
wards and he goes into the soldiers
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
MOVED BIG CONVICT CAMP

The big convict camp, which has
been in use on the road from Lake
land to Kathleen was moved from
hat district through Mulberry on
Wednesday TO Pierce. where il is 10
be combined with that portion NOV
ed to Pierce last week. With this
enlargement of crew and machinery
it will be but short time before
the road from Pierce to Mulberry
shall have been hard-surfaced-Mul
berry Herald.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
SEE AMERICA FIRST
I, THE GREAT TREES.
(By George Fitch

The great trees are located In
California about $3.50 from San
Francisco. They are the Oldest set
tiers in America. Even New Eng
land family with Mayfower furni-
ture n its house is an upstart bunch
beside these trees.
American tourists love to go to
Europe because Of its age. Coming
from . country which fights Indians
one decade and public service trusts
ON the same spot ten years after, the
venerable buildings Of Europe NIL
him with awe. He loves to lean up
AGAINST a crumbling church and
gaze with respect upon q weather.
beaten stone saint who lost his nose
from extreme debility $50 years ago.
His brain staggers as he counts the
birthdays of the Coliseum at Rome
and when he views the living rep
resentative Of an English family
whic hasn't worked for 10 genera
tions he takes of his hat with ven
GRAFTON.
But the big trees of California
were a thousand years old before
Europe was organized for business.
There were aged giants when Ho-
mer was peddling poetry and claw
ing for a new rhyme They are older
than anything in civilization except
the mummy of Rameses and the
mother-in-law joke.
The most impressive feature oil
the big trees is the fact that they
do not give up and retire from busi'
ness in their old age. They still KEEP
on growing. A thousand years
from now they will be larger thar
ever but this does not interest the
tourist except in the most casua
manner. We make this Statement
with confidence because no one Il
going to step around with tape
measure 1000 years from now ant
ell US liar.
The big trees are from 1000 Z
1000 years old and the tallest o
them is nearly 400 feet high. Who'll
houses could be built from the lars
est branches and when the govern
ment ran a road up to one OF ther
II did not take the trouble to 9
around. Tt tunnelled through an
stage coaches save 100 feet or NOR
thereby.
Nothing in America is more ms
iestic and awe-inspiring than tines
trees which have succeeded in iivln
from the early strata of history
But they do not inspire the lumot
man. Nothing pleases him so muc
as to turn a gang of men loose on
5000 year old forest monarch an
make shingles out of it. II is II
deed pleasing to know that the go'
eminent now owns what is left
the big trees and the next lumbe
man who tries to turn hoary a
into smelly dollars will languish
a dungeon amid general approval.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22

The local option bill will be voted
on finally in the Pennsylvania House
OF Representatives today. The Gov
ernor and his associates feel conf
dent that the bill win be passed by
a safe majority. The liquor men
claim that Governor Brumbaugh is
far short of enough votes to win.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
S0onaett rlmher

me yate' one Of Australis,s numer.
Gus hard woods, seems to be m.
aonses. Known timber. with an aver.
age tensile strength Of $4,000 pound,
70 ,he square inch and a maximum a.
nlsn as ss.ooo-about equal to cast
and wrought iron. " '&s'
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22
INSURANCE AGAINST
DAMAGE BY WAR

Berlin, April 21.-A company OF
fering insurance against damage
caused by the armies at war. in
Luxembourg. is the newest outcome
of the war Such an organization.
backed by Berlin capital, has estab-
lished headquarters in the city o:
Luxembourg. II insures against IRE
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22

Poverty has been assigned .s
rest cause Of tuberculosis The f,.,
= mat tuberculosis. like typhoid, can.
I'm -. sno other physical disabilities /.
really great cause of poverty
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22

and other destruction incident to the
war, an uprising or plundering. The
company will operate exclusively in
and will dissolve six
months after the war has ceased.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-22

home still nothing but
soldier, but wearing on HE '''s
a military medal coveted hr breast
general who has not yet won ny e every
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
I'm so mad I could bite nalls.-and l
don't suppose they'll take II back

Told her she was too chunk. for
checks.
The woman who stood ready 10 par
take of cold iron paused for sympathy
And that's where she made her mis-
take
of course they won't take it back
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
LIGHTER Is LAUNCHED.
Also Repairs Are Being Made to
Schooner Bertha NAV.

one Of the large steel hull lighters used
in the transportation of cars loaded with
material for the naval powder plant and
also to carry naval guns from the navy
yard to the proving grounds at Indian
| Head was Yesterday launched from the
marine railway at the navy yard after
having received a general overhaul
1t is stated that the lighter will at once
so into service and this week will be used
between the navy yard and the Indian
Head proving grounds.
The two-masted river schooner Bertha
May. belonging to Capt. keDdrick. which
was recently rebuilt at an Alexandria
shipyard. has been brought to an East
ern branch wharf. where Capt Kendrick
is setting up the rigging. New sails will
be put on the schooner before she goes
into service. The Bertha May will be
used for general freightinz work on the
river between lower Potomac points and
this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
TWILIGHT SLEEP" HIS THEME,
DR.. Kurt E. Schlossingk to Lecture
Before Audience of Women.

DR.. Kurt E. Schlossingk, exponent IN
the United States Of twilight sleep"
who was associated at Freiburg, Ger
many. with DR.. Carl J. Gauss. the dis
coverer of twilight sleep, is to come
TO arlington today and Will open a
lecture tour TUESDAY afternoon at the
Selasco Theater. lie is to Illustrate
his lecture with three moving picture
talms> depicting the ethics and tech
n1que of painless maternity The mat
inee is for women only.
DR.. schlossingk's mission III America
10 to teach women the practicability
OF the twilight. sleep method, which
was discovered more than eight years
ago by Drs. Rronig and Gauss at the
FraueI,klinik of Freiburg Germany.
Until year ago twilight Sleep was
virtually unknown In America, because
OF the general impression that il was
impossible to administer it anywhere
except at the Frefburs clinic.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21

foolish ? rcauest-and kept hold Of his
SPADE The man insisted,
Say hand over the shovel. son.
haven't had a uhach at this sort of thing
for eleven years. f;ccu living on the
desert where there ISM :, blade of grass
in d days ride
No good-natured laborer could possibly
resist an appeal like that: So the spade
was handed over.
The stranger-man ramnled i in the sod
with an experiences that proved his skill
digging maybe in sand-and turned
over spade full of wire grass and loam
Then he returned the spade. gave the Ia
bo-er fat. brown cigar. and walked off
with his face pink shine of satisfaction
The laborer watched him until he
'urned Che corner. Then he tucked his
cigar in the pocket Of coat hanging on
4 tree limb. and voiced one runinative
word.
'Gee-rusaiem
Which was quite as appropriate as any
,ther word he might have mentioned
A man and woman We're walking TO-
sether around the White House ellipse-
4 colored man followed. some distance
behind, w5th q rolling chair. The woTn-
was SO feeble that the man almost
carried her. She had a green shade
over her eyes. And as they moved
slowly in the sunshiny. quiet place the
man described the things along the
way:
There are some sappy green shoots
<prouting close to the rails inside the
grounds. and under bush with long.
switchy branches that droop all around
like q tent
Tulips said the woman.
In some of the beds there are clunpS
If green spears with fat buds on the
stems Some of the buds are SO fat
that they are bursting out OF their
green coats. and every slit shows q
Yellow gown beneath
Jonquils.'
That's what they are. And over in
4, sunny spot. sheltered from the wind,
there is a tuft of reddish-brown foil
age frizzled like celery tops
That's peonies. Tell me some more
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21

after Won have cut into il. You ought
to have had better sense. anyhow. than
to have bought it, seeing you are too
chunky for checks-'.
I'm no such thing, I'm lust the
same build as the Venus de Milo, ex-
cept in height. or course, stripes make
me look taller. but 1t was such a lovely
blue crossbar that l couldn't help my
self-and now I've got to wear It
You might give it away. The un-
sympathiZer who suggested the idea
was just the right figure for checks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21
Then another woman, who had beer

alEins behind -purted ahead. be-
cause
Well. because she felt she had no
right to be there.
fTeres spring sign that puts one over
the robin:
An atom Of boy was SolHs along
Market space with his mother. He vas
SO Young that he wore froch under
his REFER. but his memoir! must have
stretched back 20 at least one past sea
son of blossoms. birds ana spring
openings. for he walled out-and kept
on waiting. small beings will who
receive no attention
! .'Mommer. when's circus comm
'.Momner. whens circus
Perhaps mommer didn't know when
the circus is coming seeing the date
| is way off about May time, but it SEEM
ed to woman who was walking be
hind the two that the child was worth
an answer of some sort-Stil--
You can't expect mere splnster to
know how to manage children-never
mind how many she has to help to sup
port-so that the one value Of this in
cident lies in the fact that:
AS a spring sign the circus puts a
big one over the robin.
: !: !;
I'm so mad I could bite nalls.-and l
don't suppose they'll take II back
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21

laborer was digging up wire grass
patches in reservation TO be ready for
new sod later. While nc pessed away
well dressed man came by. pa used to
watch a bit and then remarked:
Let me have turn al that. will you ="
The tahorer sized UP the we'll dressed
man sTinned good tured surprise at 80
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21

DO YOU think. asked the widower
you could learn TO love MY children |
as you would If they were your own?' /
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21

cause / shouldn't have 20 worry so |
much about them if they got hurt or |
were sick"-t 'hicago Record-H Herald. !
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-03-21

"Ob. yes. replied the anxious maiden.
II think I should care more for them,
really. than if they were my own, be-
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-12-16
CHRISTMAS VISION

On Christmas eve mid all the joyous glee
That in my righteousness surrounded me,
I happened by some chance to turn mine
eye
Out through a window-wreath that hung
near by.
And as I glanced through it into the
night
I seemed to see, lit by some holy light
A childish face with wistful smiling lips
That thrilled me to my very hnger-tips.
Two eager hands stretched forth called,
as in stress,
To me to carry help to Helplessness,
And in the sad eyes Of that child saw
In all it's loveliness the Christmas Law
Not a command, no everlasting Must
Upon Reluctance for it's teaching thrust,
But just a pleading hint to him who runs
That all who suffer are Gods Little Ones!
And then the picture in the wreath was
gone,
And in its place the Eastern star-beams
shone-
The same that nineteen centuries ago
Led on the Wise Men with their heavenly
glow:
And cen as they 1 wandered through the
drifts
And into lowly places carried gifts
To cheer and give release. and pay my
due
Un.o my Lord through them that suffer
John KecArick E.czs. in scribner's.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-12-16
WHAT NEW ENGLAND MISSED
Not Until Late In the COS Was Op
servance of Christmas Fes-
tivai General.

General as are today both the re-
ligious and secular observance of the
Christmas festival, it is barely half a
century since Christmas was tabooed
In large sections of the United States
as we'll as in other countries where
the old Puritan element predominated,
says an exchange. Even as late as
the SOS all. through New England
Christmas as holiday was ousted
by New Years, except in Catholic or
Episcopal families.
The old hatreds growing out Of the
wars Of the Reformation, both on the
continent and in Great Britain, for
centuries practically abrogated this
annual festival wherever the Puritan
element or it's posterity was the dom
mating factor in the community. The
following from Edward Eggleston's
'"Transit Of Civilization will give
something of an idea Of the eclipse
which darkened the joyous holiday
history Of the United States: =
.In 1870 the Massachusetts legisla.
ture ordained that the mere abstain.
Ing from labor on December rs should
be a penal ofense. The observance
of christmas was held Objectionable
not only because it afforded opportun-
ity for the playing of games and pro-
family but because Christmas observ-
ance was iniquitous on it's own ac-
count, for all honcring Of days, times
or, seasons other than the Sabbath
seemed to the fine spun Puritan mind
a masked idolatry. The strict Puritan
Sabbath, first rigidly enforced in Eng
land and Scotland, was early trans
planted in New England, where its
observance was, under similar penal
ties, made as strictly compulsory as
was the nonobservance of Christmas. !"
One of the old as we'll as the mod
ern features of the Christmas service
was it's magnificent music. But dur
ing the Puritan eclipse not only
Christmas music, but practically all
church music worthy the name, dis
appeared.
AS the religious prejudices and
hatreds, born in prosecutions, softened
with time, the Christmas festival grew
in favor even throughout the hostile
communities of both Great Britain and
America.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-12-16
CHINESE SHOE WoRKBox
sPeffaps This May Provide Work for
! Some Small chiid's Nimble
Fingers.


The small girl who would like to
make mother or elder sister q gift,
Int whose pocket money is limited,
should try her hand at the little Chi
s1ese shoe workbox shown here. She
Rill surely succeed II she can sew at
nm and II she will be very careful
Eab0ut the cutting and sewing. The
lbeauty OF It is the piece bag will
spscbab1y supply the materials for max
ms while 25 cents will buy the fur
ishings
)ne must cut two pieces Of card
SbQard, each seven inches long, then
8 ape It into q sole and take OF one
sGafteri inch fromithe toe Of one piece.
sThe larger piece ID covered on one
ille with white muslin and the small
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1915-12-16
THE CHRISTMAS GOODNESS
BY Rev, George Hodges, Dean OF the
Episcopal Theological School,
Cambridge, Mass.

And on earth peace, good will toward
men,
For a few weeks at least of every
year we take the Christmas lesson Of
fraternity into our lives. Men and
women and little children have been
going about thinking what they could
do for others. The streets and shops
have been full a. people whose arms
have been full of bundles. There have
been sweet domestic conspiracies in
every household. The idea has pos
sessed the community that the right
thing to do is to make other people
happy For a little while, as the year
draws near it's close, and we look
across into a new time, it seems as II
the old manner of living were being
put away, with all it's narrQwness and
pettiness and jealousy, with it's self.
seeking and it's vicious self-content,
and as if the dawn of the blessed
millennium were already shining upon
the SUBMITS of the mountains.
For a few weeks the Christmas
spirit animates the churches. The
kingdom of heaven comes. What we
want is to have this fraternal time
continued. What we need is Christ
mas every day. If that blessed king.
dom is ever to be established here; II
the will of God is ever to be done by
the employer and the workman, by
the landlord and the tenant; If the
present discomfort is ever to met and
ministered to, it must be by the cul'
tivation in us of the Christmas good.
ness. We must learn the lessons OF
simplicity and fraternity. We must
follow more closely the blessed foot
steps Of his life who on this day for
our salvation was born at Bethlehem,
and Graded in manger.