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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-12
Clean Business.
BY Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

Better than big business is clean bust
ness.
To an honest man the most satisfac-
tory reflection after he has amassed his
dollars, is not that they are many but
that they are all clean.
What constitutes clean business?
The answer is obvious enough, but the
obvious is exactly what we are apt to
overlook, and needs restating every once
in while.
A clean profit is one that has also
made profit for the other fellow.
This is the most fundamental moral
axiom in business.
Any gain that arises from another's
loss is dirty.
Any business whose prosperity de-
ponds upon damage to any other bust
ness is a menace to the general wei
fare.
That is why gambling, direct or indi-
rect. is criminal, why lotteries are pro-
hibited by law, and why even gambling
slot-machine devices are not tolerated in
civilized countries.
When farmer sells a housekeeper a
barrel of apples, when a milkman sells
her quart of milk or the butcher a
pound of steak, or the dry-goods man a
yard of muslin the housekeeper is bene-
fitted quite as much as those who get
her money.
That is the type of honest, clean bust
ness, the kind that helps everybody and
hurts nobody.
OF course, as business becomes more
complicated it grows more difficult to tell
so clearly whether both sides are equally
prospered. No principle is automatic.
1t requires sense, judgment and con-
science to keep clean; but it can be
done, nevertheless, if one is determined
to maintain his self-respect.
A man that makes habit, every deal
he goes into, of asking himself, What
is there in it for the other fellow?" and
who refuses to enter into any transac-
ton where his own gain will mean dis
aster to some one else, cannot 60 far
wrong.
And no matter how many memorial
churches he builds, nor how much he
gives to charity, or how many monu-
ments he erects in his native town, any
man who has made his money by ruin
ing other people is not entitled to be
called decent.
A factory where many workmen are
given employment, paid living wages,
and where health and life are conserved,
is doing more real good in the world
than ten eeemosynary institutions.
The only really charitable dollar is the
clean dollar.
And the nasty dollar, wrung from
wronged workmen or gotten by unfair
methods from competitors, is never mas
tier than when it pretends to serve the
Lord by being given to the poor, to edu-
cation, or to religion. In the long run
all such donations tend to corrupt and
disrupt society.
OF all vile money, that which is the
most unspeakably vile is the money
spent for war; for war Is conceived by
the laundering ignorance and selfishness
of rulers. is famed to flame by the very
lowest passions of humanity, and prosti-
tutes the highest ideal of men-zeal for
the common good-to the business OF
mutilating and killing human beings and
DESTROYING the results Of their collective
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-12
Republicans Are Going
In To Win, Led By
Their Strongest Man


n suit, the Republican convention carried
ont the enlightened will of the party S
4 leadership, which picked Justice Hughes
&months ago as the one best hope of the
cuts.
Roosevelt was too extreme in his pre-
& raredness views and too recently a
hotter; Root was too reactionary and too
octively linked with the rejection of
oosevelt in Chicago in 1912; no other
xnyorite son was of presidential size. In
1.-The opinion of the men who plan Re-
|publican victories between campaigns
nembers of the national committee for
ne most part-this left only Hughes as
kotfering shadow of hope.
The delicate part of it was to put
kAlughes across without appearing to OPP
pose any other candidacy-not even the
%Eocreant OF four years ago, Roosevelt.
All the entrants were trotted out at
HE Coliseum; all got into the earlier bal
1cting; conferences were held with the
ERrogressives and messages received from
The Prodigal who went into far country
Spolitically four years ago.
There was no steam-rolling and no out
rolling of denunciations.
Then on the third ballot the nomina.
ticn went to the unreplying Hughes and
lsmmoned him from his position on the
fupreme bench.
II was splendid party sagacity all
4 through. The ever-present danger was
THE detection of Roosevelt who had de-
clared the justice unfit if he remained
dumb before the nomination.
But the menace from that quarter is
\ Seasoning with the declination of the
Progressive nomination by Roosevelt,
efor the present"
The longer he halts between Hughes
u and Wilson, the surer he is to renounce
the Independent candidacy that would
mean the reelection of Wilson and the
h closing of the door of the Republican
4 party against his return forever.
ls AS this campaign is to be more or less
y of a sham battle, as far as clear-cut is.
sues are commemorative Republican con
tention to be that the Democrats have
forfeited their claim upon continuation
/ OF public confidence through incapacity-
a # is fortunate that the opposition party
has named a man of unmistakabe at
tainments and an administrative recorC
II Of courage and independence. He vii
s not be easy To boss
S Judged by his decisions and vetoes h,
y far from being the type of progress
Dive which the country was demanding il
E}19l2, but his supporters are figuring, M
doubt, upon this element of weakness il
the Hughes candidacy being overlooke,
IA the lively consideration of the newe
issues growing out of the European ant
Mexican wars
Neither in the Republican platform mol
q IN the candidates telegram of acceptanc,
B IS there any definite suggestion of for
*eign or fiscal policy to be offered the
|telectorate in substitution for Democratic
\ Numbers and ineptitude; so it would ap-
pear that it is not so much the popular
\ strength of Hughes as the weakness OF
Il Wilson that encourages Republican hopes
That they are hopeful, as result Of
the well-planned outcome at Chicago. /.
very evident; and this is Psychologist
benefit to begin with. The start is much
more promising than it was in 1912.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-12
Physicians Are Right In
the Front Rank In the
Back to Nature" Movement

The science of medicine and ito prac-
;tice have undergone radical changes
within the last generation. and the old
emily doctor who came to set Johnny's
r6ken leg, cure Mary's earache, give a
1rvenating tonic to grandma and pre-
~ food for che baby, is replaced by
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-12

The New York Harvard club. the
largest college club In the United
States, now has a membership OF
4,165.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-12
On Bargain Day.

The Shopper-Are these genuine
goldfish
The Sales Person-No'm, not al
that Price These are Only rolled
plate
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-12
The Keep Well Column
BAD TEETH

Constant irritation OF any part ~
the body "a now recognized as an
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-12

DO you know that the ny has
small feet. but can carry a million
typhoid germsi
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-12
A Poem a Day
BELGIUM AND SWITZERLAND

This argument in verse may strike
some minds more forcibly than prose.
and may help some members % tho
national conventions To contribute
sane planks about preparedness u
their party platforms.)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
Serial Bonds.

The serial bond method" of dis.
charging the principal OF a debt by
partial payments. may be made clear
by reference to Benjamin Franklin's
famous recognition of it in his will.
whereby he left to the cities of Bos-
ton and Philadelphia $4,000 each. con-
templating the investment thereof for
two centuries, the income in part to
be loaned to young married artificers.
who were to repay. with yearly in.
terest, ene-tenth part of the princi.
pal" The sinking fund method of
long-term bonds ordinarily provides
only for the principal-not for the in.
terest; a comparison between the sink.
ing fund and serial bond methods as
applied to 5o-year loan of 81. 600. OCO
at y per cent, refunded or exchanged
at the same rate, shows difference in
favor of the serial method of s425..
oOO for each million dollars, the in
terest, for which the sinking fund
method does not provide, is the larger
Of the two items.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
That Careless
Throw
By
T. r. BENNETT
Copyright. 1916. by W. G. Chapman.)


Its love that makes the world go
round" proclaimed the wife of the viii
lage minister.
In the case of those two" replied
the minister himself indulgently,
that is certainly the case"
Those two were manifestly a
happy and well-harmonized pair. They
little resembled conventional lovers.
however. John Burnham was thirty
five and his studious face little sug-
gested the ardent youth and sweet
heart. Ad-ia Newton was five years
his junior. gentle-faced and with a
sort of spiritual beauty that kept her
eyes girlish through which the true
soul of pure, loyal woman showed
clearly.
AS they presented this lovely spring
afternoon, so they had been in the
public eye for over two years. Late
in life love had come to glorify the
ambitions of John Durham. Adria
had received his confession, proud and
happy. There had been in his life the
simple wholesoneness Of a real man
and she honored and respected him.
When Burnham had proposed to
Adria 1t had been in the presence of
her three spinster sisters. At that
time it looked as though the question
Of getting along was solved for John.
His uncle had died leaving all he pos.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
LITTLE KNOWN OF THE RACE
History Of the Let's and Lithuanians
Cannot Be Traced to Satisfac-
tory Conclusion.

The Let's and Lithuanians are two
kindred peoples of IndoEuropean orr
gin. which inhabit several western
provinces Of Russia and the northeast
ern parts of Poland and Prussia. The
Let's are chiefly concentrated in
Vitebsk. Courland and Livonia. The
two races number about 100000, of
whom 100000 are Let's. Little Ia
known about their origin, and nothing
about the time Of their appearance in
the land they now inhabit. Living in
a forested, marshy country, they have
been able to maintain their national
character. Their ancient priests al.
ways worshiped in the forests, and
even now the generation of great oaks
Is a widespread custom in the viii
lagos. The Lithuanian, Lettic or Let.
fish, and Borussian languages together
constitutes distinct linguistic group.
Lettic is divided into high (the eastern
dialects), low (spoken in northwest.
ern Courland), and middle 1.-THE liter.
airy language. In the eighteenth cen.
fury a great educational movement
was started, and the society of the
Young Let's has been prominent in
an endeavor to free their language and
thought from German influence. This
movement has grown very much in in.
tensity during the last thirty years.
Large colonies of Lettic emigrants
have been established in the United
States.-Montreal Herald.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
PAY-UP WEEK

Yesterday the Merchants Associa-
ton of Clearwater, Dunedin and Lar
90 met at Clearwater and resolved TO
enter into the spirit Of Pay-up week
some time next month, when spec
ial and concerted effort will be made
to have every one pay up their ac-
counts, no matter how small.
The idea is national in character.
Its object is to put more money into
circulation and relieve people of debt.
The greatest evil in America today
is the credit evil Most everybody
owes some one else.
You hear one say, Il cannot pay
this bill because those who owe me
have not paid
That's the trouble.
Start $1,000 in circulation, and keep
it in circulation and every unsecured
debt in Clearwater would be wiped
out.
II has been tried. The trouble has
been that some one got what was
coming to him, banked the money and
refused to pay his debts.
Pay-up week is to educate the peo-
pie to a sense of duty for the general
good of the community. That if they
do not pay bills, others suffer, and by
an immutable law they too will suffer
in the end.
Let US all enter into the spirit OF
the occasion and make better times,
and make everybody feel better.
The editor of this paper has been in
Clearwater over two years and in all
that time has paid every bill with
''thank-you" the moment presented
has never and does not now owe one
penny past due. We believe in PAY.
up Week" today. next week, and all
acknowledgements Sun.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05

sessed to this favorite nephew. When
the lawyers finished settling up the
estate, however, all that was left was
the ramshackly old house with twenty
acres Of rocks and hills behind it.
Old Daniel Burnham had been a sur
veyor and John had been his assistant
ever since boyhood. 1t was a dull life
in a way, but John loved nature and
he took great enjoyment in his varied
outdoor duties. When he learned that
a much mooted store Of boarded gold
Of his departed uncle had evaporated
in moonshine and that all he had that
was practical was leaky roof over
his head, he set at work to make the
best of the situation.
MY prospects have turned out
pretty bad, Adria," he had told his
fiancee. THE surveying business is
not what it used to be. 1t may be
years before l can get on a settled
basis. l want to release you from
your promise"
mo, John" Adria had replied, the
true lovelight shining in her eyes, I'VE
will simply wait for the settled
basis
There had been years waiting and
business did not better with John
Durham. Like the current of an un-
RULED stream. However, their love
went on, nothing Qharred it's beauty or
peacefulness. Twice a week evenings
John called at the Newton home and
spent pleasant hour with the four
sisters. Twice a week he and Adria
attended some village entertainment,
or took quiet stroll.
And now, John was gravely detail.
ing a new trouble to his sympathetic
companion.
TITS about the dynamite, Adria," he
was saying. Its a reminder Of my
old foolishness. You know a year
ago | got it into my head that there
was something tangible to the theory
of that scientist, whose lecture we at.
tended and who favored bombarding
the clouds to bring on rain and break
the drought"
Il remember, john" replied Adria
and there was rather a plying express
sion on her gentle face.
All the town remembered, too, and
smiled when they thought of it. Burn
ham had a mortar made and bought a
prodigious lot of dynamite. He went
at his experiment carefully and scien
tifically. All the countryside invaded
his little farm the day he shot the
clouds. Lo. and behold! a drenchins
shower followed the bombarding o.
the clouds and John was triumphant.
When. however. the signal servic,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
Phllade;nhis Solomon.

A Philadelphia police magistrate
was called on 10 decide the owner
ship OF dollar bill which was found
in the street b. negro and claimed
to have been lost b. a white man.
After hearing the story OF each claim
ant the court said: Il believe the dol
lar. belonged to the white man, but
since the negro found it he is entitled
10 a reward. | therefore decree that
each take fifty cents and call it a
laws work"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
In the Circuit Court of the Tenth
Florida, in and for Polk County.
Judicial Circuit Of the State Of

AASAA1oY IL ollu Ava 4OAh SVuAty.
Judicial Circuit of the State Of
In Chancery: State Bank of Au-
burndale, a Corporation Under
the Laws of the State of Florida
VS. Belle Hamilton and William T.
Hamilton, Her Husband.-Mort-
gage foreclosure.
1t appearing by the affidavit of the
solicitor Of record for complainant in
the above styled cause, that the res
idence of the said defendants, Belle
Hamilton and William T. Hamilton.
her husband, is unknown, and that
there is no person in the State of
Florida, service of subpoena upon
whom would bind said defendants;
and shat the age of the said defend
ants i9 unknown, but believed to be
above the age of twenty-one years;
1t is therefore ordered that said
defendants appear in the circuit
court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit
OF the State of Florida in and for
Polk county, at the office of the clerk
of the said court at Barlow, Florida,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
on the sixth day of March, A. D.

on the sixth day of March, A. D.
1916;
1t Is ordered further that this or
der be published IN the Lakeland
Evening Telegram eight consecutive
weeks, and that copy of same be
posted within twenty days after the
making of this order. at the door Of
the court house in Barlow. and that
copy thereof be mailed to the de-
PENDANTS at Lake Alfred, Florida.
their address as stated by the bill
herein filed
Done and ordered this 18th day of
December, A D. 1915.
(SeaD
J. A. JOHNSON,
Clerk of the Circuit Court.
A. x. ERICKSON,
Solicitor for Complainant.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
At a Stands4ifl

Mr.. Henry Clay Pinckney, an Afro
American Of deepest ebon hue, lay
very ILL The mistress of the planta.
ton called to ascertain his condition.
how is your husband this morning.
Aarinda?" she asked. Mis- Jane. dey
Aaint no improvement one way or de
Tudder."
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
Declares c,ro,us Central Sun.

Campus. the largest star known.
with a luminosity 1900 times that
of the sun Is Invisible from the north
ern hemicr here. 0. i Waikley, an
English astronomer. adduces testi-
mcay at great Length TO prove it the
central sun Of the universe, about
which all othec CRIBS rerolye.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
Chime ia Chimes.

It is not positively incorrect" to
use the word chimes. I'VE have heard
the chimes at midnight, Master Shall
low, exclaimed Falstar; and the
Chimes OF Bruges" is an expression
that has been used correctly" enough.
too. thousand times.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
BIG Diamond Only for Women.

In India the superstition obtains
that If the Koh-i-noor is worn by a
man, dire disaster will befan him,
while il the wearer be a woman for
tune viii shine upon her for the rest
Of her DAYS.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
Under the OIIetofh

Oheioth when used to cover tables
VIII last much longer IL the tables
nrst be covered with paper, well
rubbed with machine oil to keep the
under side of the oilcloth moist.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
Pines Purify Air

According to Finnish scientist. the
air around pine trees is purer than
that around others because their
needles disseminate electricity into
The atmosphere.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05
Daily ThnIInht

Mankind Is always happier for hav.
ing been happy. So that IL you make
men happy now you make them happy
20 years hence by the memory Of it
Sydney Smith.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-02-05

Judge Simon W. King Of Chicago.
who is eighty-four years Of age. has
never smoked, chewed or drunk liquor
in his life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-04-15
STOP EATING MEAT IF
KIDNEYS OR BACK HURT
Take Glass of Salts to Clean Kid
neys II Bladder Bothers You
Meat Forms Uric Acid.

Eating meat regularly eventually
produces kidney trouble In some form
or other, says a well-known authority,
because the uric acid In meat excites
the kidneys. they become oyerworked;
get sluggish; clog up and cause all
sorts OF distress, particularly backache
and misery in the kidney region; rheu-
matte twinges, severe headaches, acid
stomach. constipation, torpid liver,
sleeplessness, bladder and urinary ir-
rftation-
The moment your back hurts or kid
neys aren't acting right, or II bladder
bothers you, get about four ounces of
Jad Salts from any good pharmacy;
take a tablespoonful in a glass of
water before breakfast for q few days
and your kidneys viii then act fine
This famous salts is made from the
acid OF grapes and lemon juice, COM
bined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to flush ciogged kid
neys and stimulate them to normal
activity; also to neutralize the acids in
the urine so it no longer irritates, thus
ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts cannot injure anyone;
makes a delightful effervescent lithia-
water drink which millions of men and
women take now and then to keep the
kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus
avoiding serious kidney disease--Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-04-15
WISE HOSTESS
Won Her Guests to Postum.

Three great coffee drinkers were
my old school friend and her two
daughters
They were always complaining and
taking medicine. determined to give
them Postum instead OF coffee when
they visited me. SO without saying
anything to them about it, 1 made q
big pot of Postum the first morning.
Before the meal was half over,
each one passed up her cup to be re-
filled, remarking how fine the coffee
was. The mother asked for a third
cup and inquired as to the brand of
coffee / used. I didn't answer her
a while before that she didn't like Pos
tum unless it was more than half
coffee.
After breakfast 1 told her that the
coffee she liked 50 well at breakfast
was pure Postum. and the reason she
liked it was because it was properly
made
Il have been brought up from q
nervous, wretched invalid, to q fine
condition of physical health by leav-
ing on coffee and using Postum
Il am doing all I can to help the
world from coffee slavery to Postum
freedom, and have earned the graft
tude of many, many friends" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich
Postum comes in two forms-
Postum Cereal-the original form
must be well boiled. 15c and Csc
pigs
Instant Postum soluble powder
dissolves quickly in a cup of hot wa
ter, and. with cream and sugar. makes
. delicious beverage Instantly. soc
and Soc tins
Both forms are equally delicious and
cost about the same per cup
There's q Reason" for Postum
sold by Grocer
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-04-15
The Theater a war Tonic.

Can you imagine the state the
nerves of the country would be in
but for the necessary mind recreation
provided by the theaters?" the Lon
don Chronicle asks in calling atten-
ton to the fact that the war has been
prolonged for more than eighteen
months and that the end is not yet
In sight.
"A weekly evening at one of the
theaters," it goes on, lis a safeguard
against nervous breakdown 1t is
tonic more effective than doctors
medicine All the senses are quick
ened. and instead of depression we
have alertness; optimism instead of
pessimism. Gladstone went to the the
alter for mind relief in a time of ma
tional strain; so did Abraham Lincoln,
and the late Lord Roberts advocated
showing a cheerful countenance to the
world"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-04-15

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Mrs. PIERRE CouRNoYER, Box 239,
Blackstone, Mass.
Such warning symptoms as sense OF
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aches, dread of impending evil, timidity,
sounds IN the ears, pafpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu-
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