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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10
ROadWOrk
In Fla. And
States Many
Advantages
ARE DEPICTED IN INTERESTING
ARTICLE FROM THE PEN OF
MICHIGAN EDITOR WHO WIN.
TERS IN POLK COUNTY

Crooked Lake, Florida, April 10
exactly 1872, leaving nearly 80 pei
Florida for the five years named was
ed to the Massachusetts College OF
Writing from Crooked Lake to his
paper, the JaiksOn, Min, Patriot
Editor F w Barber has the fol-
lowing 10 say of Florida roads:
Florida is not backward
STATEN making road improvements.
The states that lead with the larg-
est MILEAGE of improved roads are.
in the order named, according to
statistics for 1913: Ohio, Indiana.
New York, Georgia. Wisconsin. Ken
lucky, Illinois and Massachusetts
Ohio has 2S,312 miles and Massa-
chusetts S,S4S miles.
At the close of that year the
length of all improved roads in the
United States was 229,219 miles
OF all the roads in this country, .
22S,042 miles. Considerably over
one-half of the improved roads were
in the eight states named.
The proportion Of improved roads
was a fraction over ten per cent
exactly 10. 2wleaving nearly 80 per
cent in an unimproved condition.
Of stone roads there were 59,237
miles; of gravel roads, I02,S79
miles of brick, bituminous-macad-
am and other material, 2S,372 miles.
These figures are for 1909
or the ten states that made the
greatestprogress in road building
from 1909 to 1913, Florida ranked
eighth. In theorder named these
were: New York, Georgia, Ohio,
South Carolina, Alabama, Indiana,
Washington, New Jersey, Florida
and Maryland. It will be observed
that exactly one-half are southern
states. The gain in Georgia is large
ly attributed to the work of $500
prisoners on its public roads.
The increase Of improved roads in
FLORIDA for the five years named was
from 1852 in 1909, to 2,175 miles
in 1913. Georgia shows an increase
OF 6,022 miles, an average of over
1900 miles a year.
The percentage of improved roads
in Florida was a fraction over IL
per cent. IS states leading it in this
respect, and 81 having a smaller
percentage.
Five states exhibit between and
10 per cent Of their roads improved
Alabama, Maine, Michigan, Tenn
essee and Washin gton. Twenty
seven states under per cent.
The average cost per mile Of i'm
proved roads in the United States
varied greatly, according to the ma
terial used. The cost of sand-clay
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10

forward to the allies trenches bear.
ing the name of Miss Mary Penfield
upon the cover
And now letter had come. Il was
marked with red sign: Opened I'm
der Martial Law" which alone sent
delightful thrill down the two ladies'
backs. They opened the envelope
with shaking fingers and read:
My Dear Miss Penfield I write tn
thank you very much for your delight
rul gift. You cannot imagine what
pleasure such thing gives US out
here, and greater than the gift is the
thought that there is someone who ia
thinking Of Us. have passed your
nox OF cigarettes all along the
trenches. and If you could see our fell
lows putting away under a hail Of
shrapnel you would find yourself am
ply repaid in the pleasure which you
have given them. We are all blessing
your name tonight, for we have not
had a good smoke for ages
What Is this signature, my dear?"
inquired Miss Lizzie. TT looks like
Cop. Richard Barton
The two ladies' examined the sigma
ture carefully why, it is his rank
corporal, OF course" said Miss Mary.
He must be quite respectable man.
TO nave been made a corporal. You
know they are very strict in the Eng
fish army. A drinking man could never
become a corporal"
But it Is sad to think OF them
abandoned to the habit OF tobacco"
answered Miss Lizzie. However
ought we to write back to him, nv
DEAR
Would-would it be proper. sister,"
asked the other.
We shall never see him, and Der.
haps letter would cheer him IN. And
then, the poor fellow may be shot"
oh, no." exclaimed Miss Mary IN
horror
After a long talk they decided 10
write Corp. Richard Barton a toint
letter. to preserve the proprieties. -
was letter that might have made ,se
irreverent laugh. II dealt With an
the small talk OF the village. for TO the
two maiden ladies' Bodminton vas The
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10
ANOTHER RURAL POST
MASTER IN TROUBLE

Gainesville, April 10 .-Edward
We'll, until recently postmaster at
Wade, this county, was before
United States Commissioner A VI
Cushman Wednesday morning for
preliminary hearing relative to a
charge that We'll has defrauded the
postoffice department out of amonnts
aggregating. it is alleged. s7.ae0
The accused entered plea Of NOT
guilty, but after hearing testimony
from H. Curran, a representative of
the postofiice service, and who. it is
said, conducted an Investigation "a
to the condition of the Wade of,ra
Just following Wells disappearance
short time ago. Commissioners
Cushman ordered that We'll be- held
Tor action by the grand jury in fed
eral court Bond was fixed at s1O-
uoo' but had not been furnished ar
a late hour in the afternoon.
Well left Wade without making
public his itinerary was traced 70
Jacksonville without trouble, but for
more than a week after he register
ed at Jacksonville hotel the officers
had some difficulty in learning Of his
whereabouts. Finally he was locat-
ed at Chelsea. Mass. upon informa-
ton furnished, it is understood. by
a local representative Of the govern
ment. \ party who accompanied
We'll TO Chelsea was also arrested,
but contested extraditiou.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10
Indiscreet
MissMary
~
BY H. NJ. ECBERT


The Misses Penfield we're quite well
to do, and quite alone in the world.
Miss Lizzie was forty, if she was .
day. Miss Mary confessed to thirty
two. but even the sweetest of women
may be pardoned for deducting year
or so after passing the thirtieth mile
stone. They were the only daughters.
the only children of Square" Penfield
Of Bodminton. New England. Once
the family had played a prominent
part in New England's public life; but
with the growth of the industrial sys-
tenn and the fading out of the old ways
of life they had become more and more
isolated. After their fathers death
they were more or less "hermits,' as
Miss Mary ruefully declared.
All the village respected the two
maiden ladies'. but somehow they
seemed an anachronism, a survival Of
other times in the hustling commercial
times Of the twentieth century.
Two months before Miss Mary, who
SeocSAioC W az uCWSpdpCi
good deal of literary mat
ter. had seen an advertisement.
1t stated that one shilling, or quar-
ter, would purchase pound of to-
bacco, box of matches and so ciga-
rettes for one soldier in the trenches
in Belgium. The sender's name was
TO be placed upon the package
I'D Ike to send shilling for one
Of the poor fellows" said Miss Mary.
But wouldn't it be little-forward
my DEAR" inquired prudent Miss Liz
lie.
Not in time Of war. dear" answered
Miss Mary.
With many searchings of heart the
aides embarked on their daring enter
prise. and in due course a box went
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10

roads. s723 a ,mile; of gravel, 81,
o47; of macadam, s4,S99; of blum
inous-macadam, s1O,34S.
The total cost, estimated, of al
improved roads in the United State:
is placed at 1851, 604,SO6.
The width of roads varies in, diff.
ferent states. In Michigan anG
some other states the standard
width is four rods, giving ample
space for noxious weeds. On the
basis of forty feet in width there
are 10,66S,276 acres of rights OF
way included in the roads of the
United States.
Based on the average value OF
farm lands in the various states, the
total value of these rights Of way
amounts to s35,662,215.
When country is new roads are
laid out in a hap-hazard way. often
to suit the whim of an individual
settler, the idea having been that
every man on forty acres of land
was entitled to a road, with no ref
erence to the waste of land or cost
OF road-baking.
The total expenditure for road i'm
provements in 1913 was S204,6S1,-
000, little more than two dollars
for each inhabitant.
Highway bonds issued, or author
lied by states, counties and town.
ships for Improvement of public
roads, up to January 1, 1914, were:
State bonds, s15S, 100000; county
and township bonds, s2S7,011,O1S.
This does not include city bonds for
streets.
States in which the largest i'm
have been made-In-
diana, Ohio, Kentucky, Georgia-are
on the route from the Great Lakes
TO Florida. In what directions they
mainly run is not known. The trend
of travel is increasingly north and
to the summer resorts
Of Michigan and Wisconsin--south
to the winter resorts of Florida.
Good roads will mean much Journey
ing in automobiles, especially to
this Southland
More and more, as the years pass,
because people with healthy minds
like to live as long as possible,
will seek the sunny
south to spend the winter months
Zero weather and boreal billiards.
exhaust human vitality. Warmth
and life, cold and death, are linked
together. To prolong life to post
pone death, are Unborn instincts.
One may have a cottage in this
highland lake region Of central
South Florida, on the border of
beautiful lake, with an acre or more
Of orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime,
fig and other subtropical fruits, re-
newing youth and health and
strength in this genial climate,
breathe untained air day and night,
go and come as one pleases in an
auto, and keep the vital spark burn
ing in the clay tenement longer by
years than where the cold must be
by furnace heat for
spven mon tina of the vaar
Florida itself, of quick and easy
access. is a miracle. Leaving the
north hard-bound whit frost, streets
icy so that IL one stands at all it
must be on slippery places, in "a
hours the gate to this sunland opens
Continued on page u
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10
OLDER BOYS. OLDER
GIRLS CONFERENCE

Louisville. Ky, April IO-over
700 delegates, made up of boys and
girls are in attendance at the Older
Boys and Older Girls Conferences
which opened here yesterday. Mrs
Phoebe Curtiss. of Columbus. Ohio.
and Ralph Difendorfer will be the
prominent speakers. Mrs. Curtiss
has been largely responsible for the
progress OF the Older Girls confer
enee in this state.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10
Stood up for His Civ

= snan Chicago boy. visiting ais
Uncle N a country town, was asked
u there were as many people there
ss mere we're IN Chicago. whereupon
ne said with all the pride OF his seven
years: Why. we have more nsonl.
n laii n Chicago than you have in
the whole town" -
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10
Stcker.

me great difference bet~een . rub.
nc servant and domestic servan, 1,
,aat the public servant would no, "a
slsa even under IRE, -LoulsviIIe Cour.
ier-JouruaL
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10

The man who Is below i've feet I,
height may well be reckoned as beins
among the -diminutives. The avenrs
height is around five feet SIX inches. A
man is tall" when be 4. six feet or
over Under i've feet five he is short
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10

a - estns prepared for dsessx
certainly an not. Any man w. =.
pered for defeat would b han
ae1eated before he commenced. Ihops
Iof success. shall do all in my power
70 secure IL. and trust to God for IA
rsst-Adniral Farragut
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10
Where He Drew :.

During the trisl OF )
persons Charles LAMP =
II that he should -As
to ask them 70 S--G
not sit with then
solennly. Yes, I Sols
thing but a hen or 4 t1iN
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-04-10

Aeooe dar'd be a heap mo- vvrs
cone said Uncle Enen. IF dew rut
cut new model Of wheelbarrow every
year an provided horn SOS 70 uak.
folks git out'n de way.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16
Well Of Hot Mineral Water.

In the Flathead Indian reservation
near Camas, Mont. is an artesian well
containing hot mineral water. said to
be the only one in the world. Around
II. within a mile. are other artesian
wells in which the water is clear and
cool. A few years ago the government
threw open the Flathead reservation.
and those who were successful in the
drawing now own fine ranches In
fertile valley. Artesian wells have
been struck there at depth ranging
from 80 to 365 feet. In the sum-
mer of 1913. on ranch within mile
of one of these cold wells, drillers
were at work when. at the depth of
244 feet, hot water gushed upward
with such force that the drillers were
forced to fee. In q few days the rush
of hot water had washed a large hole,
with the drill still in, though incapaci.
tated. The we'll was finally curbed so
that it could be used. The water il
100 Fahrenheit, flowing at the rate OF
sixty barrels . minute.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16
SYNOPSIS.
10

Gordon Gregg. dining aboard with Horn
by, the yacht Lola's owner. accidentally
sees torn photograph of young girl.
That night the cOnsUlS safe is robbed.
The police find that Horribly is fraud
and the Lola's name a false one. In
London Gregg IL trapped nearly TO has
death by a former servant, OlintO. VISIT
Ing in Dumfries Gregg meets Murlel
LeithCOurt Horribly appears and MurIel
introduces him as Martin Woodroffe. her
fathers friend. Gregg sees a copy OF the
that the young girl is Muriels friend.
Woodroffe disappears. Gregg discovers
the body of murdered woman in Ran
noch wood The body disappears and IN
its place is found the body az Ohnto:
Muriel and Gregg search RaunOch wood
together, and find the body OF Armida.
OlintO's wife. When the police go u the
wood the body has disappeared In Lon
don Gregg meets Olinto. alive and We'll
Gregg traces the young girl of the torn
photograph. and finds that she is ElIna
taken her TO Abo. Finland. and that she
holds a secret affecting Woodrone. On
his return to Rannoch Gregg finds the
LeithcOurts fled from Hylton Chatter. VINO
had called there. He goes to ADO, ana
after a tilt with the police chief, Is con-
Quoted to Kajana. where he finds Elma IN
prison. A surgical operation has mace
her deaf and dumb. He escapes with her.
PursUers overtaklng them, Elma escapes
into the forest and Gregg is taken to ADO,
where he is released and finds that the
baron is using every effort to arrest
Elma. He calls on Baron Oberg and ac-
cuses him of silencing and imprisoning
Elma to prevent her from telling OF his
secret misdeeds.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16
CHAPTER xIlI-continued.

A long silence had fallen between
us, and 1t now occurred to me to take
advantage Of his hesitation. said
In a firm voice, in French:
81 think. baron, our interview is at
an end, is 1t not? Therefore | wish
you good-day."
He turned upon me suddenly with
an evil fash in his dark eyes. and a
snarling imprecation in Russian upon
his lips. His hand still held the order
committing me to the fortress.
But before l leave you will destroy
that document. II may fall into other
hands, you know" and walked
toward him with quick determination.
Il shall do nothing of the kind" he
snapped.
Without further word l snatched the
paper from his thin, white fingers and
tore It up before his face. His coun
tenance went livid. l do not think
have ever seen a mans face assume
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16
HOME HAS BIG ENDOWMENT
institution That Cares for Naval Vet.
Grams Not Worrying Over Keeping
Wolf From the Door.

One Of the richest and most honor
able Institutions in Philadelphia is
one Of the least well known. / speak
OF that acknowledgements veteran
the United States Naval home.
Ninety-nine persons out of one hun.
dred think this is charitable affair
On the contrary, not only does It sup
port itself. but as a self-supporter 1t
Is right up in the Stotesbury-Widener-
Morgan-Carnegie class.
The naval home has over $4,000.
600 invested in bonds. 1t has never
cost the government one cent OF its
income of $4,000 last year, only ST..
600 was expended for maintenance, SO
you can see that keeping the wolf
from the door is not strenuous occu-
patton at those somber-looking build
ings at Gray's Ferry.
The great $14,000.000 fund was COL
lected by the turning over of prize
money received by sailors and off,
cars during our various wars. More
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16
Dew Ponds,

The name dew pond Is given to
certain isolated ponds on the upper
levels of the chalk downs of the south
OF England and elsewhere. Their
name seems to imply that they depend
on dew and not entirely upon rain
for their maintenance as a source OF
water supply for cattle, Tor which they
are used. The question has been dis
cussed a good deal but not settled;
the balance of evidence seems to be
against the view that dew deposits
make any important contribution to
the supply of water. The construction
of dew ponds is, however, still prac-
ticed on traditional lines, but it is
said that a new dew pond has first to
be filed artifcially A dew pond does
not come into existence by the gradu-
al accumulation of water in an i'm
pervious basin, from the settlement
of evapOrated water from the atmOs-
phere.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16

girls. each dressed like a fashion
plate, and he putting cigarette. He
told the girls they should consider
every puff an insult. He referred, too,
to the immodest custom of girls call
ing up boys on the telephone and max.
ing dates" for the evening.
Yet We marvel at the lack Of re-
f1nement that pervades our social life
today. II this sort Of thing continues
among our high school students. in
the next generation there will be no
respect for social conventions. or pos
sibly no conventions to respect. What
can mothers be thinking about when
they dress their sixteen or seventeen
year old daughters like a fashion
plate?" Or what has become of the
feminine modesty when .'oung girls.
who ought to be spending their eve
nings at home with their books. take
the initiative and make dates" with
boys? Oh what about the home train
ing of the boy who parades the streets
with a girl on either side Of him. puff
fing cigarette smoke into their faces?
II IL about time we got back to some
old-fashioned standards for our boys
and girls. both In the high schools and
the homess-Leslie's.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16

over, every officer pays twenty cents
a month, and sailors also contribute
General Forney of the Marine corps
told me yesterday he had paid his
twenty cents every month for fifty
years.
mo difficulty" / suggested to Com.
mander F. r. Payne. executive officer
Of the home, ito support your one hun.
dred or SO occupants"
Scarcely" he replied. I'VE could
support all the sailors in all the naval
homes In the United States and still
not exhaust our yearly income"
Commander Payne was one of those
who received prize money during the
Spanish-American war for capturing
Spanish ships.
Got my check framed as a SOU
venir," said he, because our govern
ment has by law abolished prize
money" In future no sailor in this
country will profit financially by the
capture of an enemy's ships.
Next to Girard college the Naval
home is the most heavily endowed in
stitution in Pennsylvania. Were this
fund invested in high-class municipal
bonds it might increase its yearly in
come by $4,000. or nearly twice the
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16
] tore it open and read as follows:

Dear Friend-I am so surprised L
thought you We're still in Abo. Woodrone
has an appointment at eight O'Clock on
the other side of the city therefore come
to me at Sis. I must see you. and at
once. i am in peril ,,ru
My love was in peril. 1t was just
as had feared. thanked Providence
that | had been sent to help her and
extricate her from that awful fate
to which THE Stranger of Finland
had consigned her.
At the hour she named, after the
waiter had come to me and announced
the Englishman's departure, | de-
scended to her sitting room and en-
tered without rapping, for if | had
raped she could not. alas! have heard
The apartment was spacious and
comfortable, thickly carpeted, with
heavy furniture and gliding. From her
low lounge chair a slim, wan figure
sprang up quickly and came forward
to greet me, holding out both her
hands and smiling happily.
took her hands in mine, and held
them tightly in silence for some mo
ments, as looked earnestly into those
wonderfully brilliant eyes of hers. She
turned away laughing, slight flush
rising to her cheeks in her confusion.
Then she led me to chair, and mo-
toned me to be seated.
Ours was silent meeting, but her
gestures and the expression of her
eyes we're surely more eloquent than
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16

The observatory is in direct tele-
phonic communication with the Vati.
can. 1t was thought at first goo
idea to place an observation station
upon the cupola of st. Peters as was
done in 1870. but this idea was aban-
doned.
most scrupulous guard has been
placed about the palaces of the Dat
aria and the Cancelleria and the
Propaganda of the Faith beneath the
Quirinal.
1t is believed the treasure Of the
propaganda may have been transport
ed to the subterranean vaults of the
Vatican or elsewhere.
At night the apostolic palaces are
wrapped in darkness. as is wise In a
city within the war zone, for the
church has learned its lessons from
Reims and it's other despoiled relig-
iOus houses.
1t is clear how vigilant an eye the
government keeps on the Vatican and
how careful IS its protection.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1915-10-16

when he asked me in saw. from his
face, that he had news TO impart.
"Well?" | inquired And what OF
the lady? Has she been found?'
All. your excellency. 1t is a pity
you were not here yesterday" he said
with a sigh.
why? Tell me quickly. What has
happened"
Il have been assisting the police as
spy, eNcellency. as ! often do. and l
have seen her"
Seen her. Where?" l cried in
quick anxiety.
Here. in Abo. She arrived yester-
day morning from Tammerfors accom-
panied by an Englishman. She had
changed her dress, and was all In
black. They lunched together at the
Restaurant du Nord opposite the land
ing stage, and an hour later left by
steamer for Petersburg"
AN Englishman!" cried. did you
not inform the chief of police, Bo-
ranski?"
Yes, your excellency. But he said
that their passports being in order. 1t
was better to allow the lady to pro-
coed. To delay her might mean her
rearrest in Finland" he added.
Then their passports were viseed
here on embarking?" | exclaimed.
What was the name upon that of the
Englishman?"
81 have it here written down, excel
lency. l cannot pronounce your diff.
cult English Names" And he pro.
duced scrap of dirty paper wherein
was written in a Russian hand the
name
Martin Woodroffe."