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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21
THE LURE OF FLORIDA

Florida's climate has been praised
SO much and for so long as the
States chief asset that many have
the impression that Florida is all
climate with not much else to recon-
mend it. This is a disadvantage to
be found in constantly pushing eli
mate to the fore. We are ready to
admit that the climate forms the
basic entablature for nearly if not
all of Florida's advantages and pro-
ducts. If it were not for the climate
we could not produce the world win
ming fruits and vegetables that are
matured out of season for other sec
tions. The health of the people
would not be the most delightful
State in which to live all the year IL
it were not for the equable char
acter of the climate-hence, indub-
itably the climate is Florida's main
asset But we would like to see the
advertising writer's get a new angle
on the subject and not make it APP
pear that climate is our sole COM
modify and attraction.
Let it be known that climate is
free to all who will come and share
lit. Our climate is natures blessing,
But we have also the most produc-
tive land in the world; the richest
mines, and principally whose do
main has hardly been explored. It's
territory of hidden wealth, afford
ing opportunities more varied than
any other territory in the world. The
climate is the background for all oul
claims and assertions, but let's keeI
it in the background to lend settins
and color to the more alluring bids
for investment which we are war
Iranted in making.
Fortunes lie buried in Florida sol
without the necessity of digging
deep to realize them. Men hav,
braved the danger and hardships o
the Arctic region for gold; they hay,
burrowed thousands of feet through
rock for paying ore; they have live,
hermits' lives and sacrificed the com
forts and delights of civilization TO
the chance to grasp the glitterini
edge of an envied competency. Ye
Florida has more to allure and as
. sure the earnest and ambitious than
the gold bearing hills of Klondike OF
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21

o-o than twenty-five feet deep. IL
- seeine destruction under difficui-
,ies We ate our lunch under tne
,raas beside a mountaneer's home IN
,rhicb the water reached a depth OF
torr feet His well filed barn was
entirely swept away. and out OF us
head of poultry only two we're saved
o. old hen came home sitter the
aood and another was found perched
on ton OF the door in the house.
1T was not unusual to see large
bouses with a portion Of the founoa'
ton gone, or the chimney gone; OF .
landslide against it; or the lawn
sliced off several feet deep-just leaV-
ing the house by hair. as 1t were.
"Tbe convicts and hired labor are
work,ng on the roads, and they ex'
meet to have them in good or passaoie
condition soon.
IAN over this section the farmers
have suffered in like manner, though
in a lesser degree than right In tne
above described location. A few days
ago | was told that donation OF SOU
had been raised for these people, ano
I am sure there are many who neeo
help badly"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21
Who Am I?

II am more powerful than the
combined armies of the world. | am
more deathly than the bullets, and l
have wrecked more homes than the
mightiest of siege guns. steal IN
the United States along over $780,
900 900 each year.
II spare no one and find my vic
tins among the RICH and poor alike;
the young and the old; the strong
and the weak; widows and orphans
know me. massacre thousands
upon thousands of wage earners in
a year. Turk in the unseen places
and do most of my work silently
You are warned against me, but you
heed me not.
81 am relentless. am every
wherein the home, on the street,
in the factory, at railroad crossings
and on the sea- I bring sickness
degradation and death, and yet few
seek to avoid me. | destroy, crush
and main; l give nothing, but take
all. am your worst enemy.
81 am Carelessn ess ,"-Exchange
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21
AMERICAN IDEALS

These are days in which, fortu-
nately, we are hearing great deal
about American ideals. We all say
that we want to protect and perpetu-
ate them, but it is not at all certain
that we know precisely what they
are We have all been so busy with
material affairs that the things for
which this republic was established
and organized have become dim in
the minds of many. We have, there
fore, to thank DR.. Charles W. Eliot,
president emeritus of Harvard, for
stating them very clearly in a COM
munication to the Philadelphia Led
ger.
Our ideals he divides into three
classes, discussing each class as he
proceeds and from the whole draw
ing certain conclusions as to our at
titude in the great world war. They
are religious, political and social,
and are stated by him as follows:
Religious-tFirst, no connection
between church and state; second,
no religious organization exercising
domination over the political action
of individuals or groups; third. for
the individual, no disabilities and
no privileges on account of his re-
ligion; fourth, for the state, not only
liberation for all varieties of religion
but protection and fostering for all.
Political-First,. government rest
ing on the consent and cooperation
of the governed; second, manhood
suffrage; third, the elective execu-
tive; fourth, just and equal laws;
fifth. the general good; sixth. the
popular assembly, democratic or rep
resentative.
Social-First, a mobile social
state, in which the individual is free
to do his best and enjoy the fruits OF
his efforts; second, universal educa-
ton, not confined to childhood
third the habitual expectation OF
more truth, light and good for man
kind; fourth, publicity; fifth. eff
cheney through freedom and a dis
cipline in which free men cooperate;
sixth, widely diffused private prop.
erty protected by equal laws.
That these ideals are not yet all
achievements does not lessen theil
value. They are good and we should
not be diverted from them. Nor car
we see them assailed elsewhere in
the world without concern.--Macor
News.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21
TAKE YOUR CHOICE

without me no man has ever
achieved success. nor has any ma
ton ever become great.
l have been the bed rock of every
successful career, and the corner
stone of every fortune.
The poor may have me as well as
the rich.
the rich.
Ny power is limitless, my applica-
ton boundless.
am of greater value than pearls,
rubies and diamonds.
Once you have me, no man can
take me away.
lift my possessor to higher
planes of living, increase his earn
ling power, and bring to realization
the hope of his life.
make a man well dressed, wei
housed and well fed.
insure absolutely against tn
rainy day.
drive want and doubt and car
away.
/ am as free as air.
/ am yours if you will take me
| am Thrift.-Exchange.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21
WORK STARTED ON
ROAD FROM sEBRING TO
AVON PARK

Sebring. Aug. 21-For some time
there has been an apparent iuli III
the matter of good roads. There
have been many things to do ana
much preparation to make, but 1t ap-
nears now, from what Commissioner
d. L. Skipper, who was in Sebring
Tuesday. says the work of claying the
road from Avon Park to Sebring will
start next Monday, and the hard
surface will be put on just as rapidly
as possible.
1t is is possible the road will be
run on to Kuhlman and DeSoto City,
thus giving all the benefit possible
to those sections, and at the same
time giving Sebring the outlets that
she has been signing for these many
years. What we are saying is taken
in the abstract from a conversation
had with Mr. Skipper Thursday while
he was paying Sebring visit, and
from the way he is going at the work
we felt that the good roads are al
most in sight. :
The contractors claim that they will
be able, under ordinary circum-
stances, to clay something like mile
a week. That would mean in few
weeks the road will be clayed to Sc
bring. You know when we get the
roads clayed we will have good trav-
cling, but when the asphalt is placed
thereon we will have roads that will
do our heart good and Mr.. Skipper
says that he is going to give us the
best to be had for the money in hand.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21

The Jacksonville F1oridian says IL
will not take any stock in the contest
for Governor, because 1t has made
its full share of Governors Of Florida"
and has received no appreciation from
any of them. The Evening Telegram
is in exactly the same boat; but as
it wants nothing from any Governor
Of Florida, past, present or to come
and has no axe to grind, and no inter
est in politics except the welfare OF
the State, it will go ahead and ad
vocate the best man and the best
measures, regardless of criticism, and
neither asking nor expecting any
thing from anyone whom it might in
cidentally help to place or power.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21
MRS. c. a. HARPER WRITES
OF CONDITIONS IN n. G.

The following letter was written os
Mrs. c. A. Harper of Sefner' VINO Is
on an auto camping trip IN Norn
Carolina, with her parents. MI. anu
Mrs. w. E. Fannin. and Miss Rutn
Fannin of Lakeland. Mrs. Harper
formerly lived in Tampa:
1--WE went on a long hike Saturday
1.-THE 18th inst).- Left the CAMP
fnear Hendersonvillel about 1880 q.
m. and drove to Bat Cave, a resort
about fifteen miles from Henderson
vile. We left our car there anu
walked to Chimney Rock, resort
three miles on in the mountains, that
was inaccessible by auto before the
heavy rains. We could see that these
places had been beautiful and ricn IN
mountain scenery, but now are pic
lures of destructian.
"The road from Hendersonville, for
the most part, was good; however, the
latter half of it gets SO narrow and
so full of curves that one unaccus
toned to riding on the edge OF moth
ing gets an occasional thrill. the
road previous to the rains was splen
did, but unfortunately paralleled the
mountain stream that was the man
line of destruction. In many places
no trace of the highway was left
The waters barred the rocks from
twice to three times the former Width
of the stream, and in some places i
must be more than 200 feet wide. L
lis now an immense rock river witt
the water dancing from stone to stone
lin innumerable cascades. But we d.
not dwell on its beauty long; it ii
too sad for that. These bare rocks
some of them weighing tons, nov
iglistening in the sunshine, were dow
beneath a fertile soil. The farme
has not only lost a seasons corn, bu
his land too, is gone beyond reclaim
"All along the way, from the noun
tains on the one side and on tn
other, were terrific landslides NOV
ing everything in their path. Hug
boulders and trees were as nothing
In many places houses were swep
away, though the occupants had f1e'
in time to safety. The Bat Cave post
office was located about where tn
center of the river now is; nothing
was ever found of it but the sign
board. Here we had to cross tn
river on a swinging bridge, and max
our way over a narrow, uneven Vi
land down trail to Chimney Rock. Il
one place we had to sit down an
slide; in another, walk plank acros
a gorge about fifteen feet wide an
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21
AEROPLANE ONCE MORE
REPORTED NEAR TAMPA

Tampans are seeing things" This
mornings Tribune says:
Further reports of a very large,
bright light having been seen in the
heavens in this vicinity were current
last night, several persons having
seen the light and having ascribed
it to an aeroplane which, it has been
reported, has been cruising in this
vicinity. No one last night saw the
outline of the supposed aeroplane,
the light being the only feature
which could be observed. No one
heard the motor in operation.
Frank Graham, travelling repre-
sentative of The Tribune, was re-
turning in his automobile from Tar
pom Springs and Clearwater early
last evening when his attention was
attracted to very large light ahead
of him and at a considerable alti-
tude. The light would be thrown
first to one side and then to another
and occasionally up at the clouds.
Mr.. Graham speeded his machine,
hoping to overtake the object. but
it always remained about the same
distance ahead.
"Mr. Graham overlook Frank Tay-
lor in an automobile, and called the
latter's attention to the bright light.
Mr.. Taylor also saw it, and at the
railway crossing at Grand Central
avenue Mr.. Graham called the at
tention of the gatekeeper to the
light AS Mr.. Graham was reaching
his home the light seemed to be over
the city. but disappeared in the vi
cinity of the City Hall. A little
later Mr.. Graham telephoned that it
had reappeared over the Estuary.
"a member of the Tribune local
staff went on scouting expedition
on the roof of the Bay View Hotel
but could see nothing of great i'm
portance in the direction of the Els.
tuary other than the noon, which
was unusually bright, ana a bright
star
Policeman Cooper stated last
night that he had seen the bright
light mentioned one week ago las
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21

The National Hay Fever Associa-
ton, which recently met at Bethle-
hem, y. H., adopted resolutions
which will be presented to the vari-
Gus State Legislatures asking for a
law requiring that the golden rod
and certain other autumnal flowers
and weeds be cut down every year.
This would be quite some job in
Florida, where the golden rod covers
practically the whole country every
autumn and whoever hears of hay
fever in Florida, anyway? Let the
hay-feverites sneeze and shuttle, and
leave us the glory of the golden rod.
We resent the libel on this kingly
flower.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21
the oil gushing lands Of Mexico.

Come to Florida, the climate
fine, but we've something more
tempting to offer, something more
substantial to sustain, and some
thing more diverting to make life
interesting and smooth the wrinkles
out of age.-Orlando Reporter Star.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21


The Telegram has all along in
sisted that Mr. Cats and his fol-
lowers have been laying undue
stress upon the alleged certificate of
nomination which Mr.. Cats is show
ing over the State, as indubitable
proof he is the Democratic nominee.
The Telegram stated that it was a
conditional certificate, merely show
ing that on the face of the returns,
Mr.. Cats had received plurality
of the votes. To say that such a
certificate is not subject to revision
is absurd The Zolfo Truth took is
sue with us, whereupon the ITALIA
hassee Record throws light on the
matter as follows
Edward Fitzgerald, who recent
ly became editor of the Zolfo Springs
Truth. Has leading editorial en-
titled Cats Certificate Good" Mr..
Fitzgerald knows that the letter Mr..
Cats has from Mr.. Crawford does
not say this is to certify but says
this is to NOTIFY and it is not
signed by H. Clay Crawford as
member of the State Canvassing
Board, but by II. Clay Crawford as
secretary of State On the day that
the official canvass of the vote for
the office of Governor was made and
completed, friends of Mr.. Cats asked
Mr.. Crawford for some kind of let
ter to show their friends, and Mr.
Crawford dictated the three or -four
lines to Mr. Cats to the effect that
the returns as canvassed showed Nh.
Cats to be the nominee.
1T will be remembered that eight
years ago Mr.. Kehoe for severa
weeks had a certificate, signed ant
sealed and adorned with "ribbins,
but it was recalled, and new certi
ficate of nomination given to Dan
Mite H.. Mays, who was elected il
the general election in Novembe
following.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21

night, the aeroplane, if it was such.
apparently being ngaeged in ma
neuvering over the city"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-08-21

That Industrial Foundation" of
Tampa's is great thing no doubt,
but it might have been little more
solid as foundation If 1t had little
cash under it. AS we understand 1t,
1t is simply an agreement among the
business men that II a desirable in
dustry seeks location there they will
help raise the money to finance 1t by
assisting in placing the stock. Lake
land has had such an Industrial
Foundation" for quite a while though
we did not call it by that name. Her
Chamber of Commerce at this time
has two such propositions which 1t is
fostering exacting along the lines in.
dicated by the Tampa movement
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-26
SOLICITORS FEES
/. TO Be ABOLISHED
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
BEFORE PEOPLE EXPECTED
TO BE PASSED.

ATLANTA, Aug. 25.-With the
signing by Governor Harris OF the bill
to submit to the voters of the state a
constitutional amendment authorizing
the general assembly to abolish the
fees of solicitors-g general the people
have their first opportunity of voting
ON this big question which has been
agitated in the legislative halls for ten
years or more.
Sentiment appears to have crystal
lized on the proposition hat the pay
ment of fees to solicitor3-genera is a
vicious Vnd demoraliZing system
which tends to make the prosecuting
officers vigilent in prosecuting offend.
ers who can pay their fines and les
sens their interest in the prosecution
of more serious crimes where the
prospect of fines is not so certain.
In every legislature for the last ten
years or more there has been intro,
duced a bill to amend thu constitution
SO as to abolish the fees Of solicitors
salaries, but it was not until the last
legislature passed the bill just signed
| by Governor Harris that the advo-
Gates of the much-agitatal reform
| succeeded in putting the legislation
through The bill provides that the
constitution be amended 81 as to au-
thorize the general assembly to abol.
ish the fee of a solicitor-general in
any judicial court This leaves the
fee question optional with che coun-
ties composing a circuit and thereby
works hardship on no particular To-
cality.
Attention was recently directed to
the vicious tendency of the fee syg
tenn in a very sensational present
ment returned to the grand jury OF
Fulton county. They declared they
had found from investigation Of cases
handled by Solicitor Hugh M. Dor
sey and his assistants that Gin many
cases it is impossible to secure suf
ficient evidence to convict offenders
because there was not sufficient pros
pect of return from the assessment OF
fees. On the other hand indictments
WGIc 1OIuI against ioi
violations less fragrant for the reason
that the prosecuting officers were will
ing to risk the necessary expense in
securing testimony with the lure OF
certain financial return
This was peculiarly opposite in the
Times case because Fulton county pal
to bring witnesses from the Pacific
coast Some of these witnesses were
brought only for the purpose of prov
ing that the helms girls were murder
ed, which evidence Judge Hill ruled
out as being irrelevant to an indict
ment for larceny. The county, how
ever. bore the expenses just the same
Some of the enemies of Dorsey in
quired whether these witnesses would
have ben brought from the Pacific
coast if Mr. Dorsey himself had not
received fee of one thousand dol
lars in connection with the case.
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Weekend Saturday supper-Mon-
day breakfast $3.50 at Bellevue Hotel.
AN OLD PRovERB.

1t used to be proverbial that every
man (and 1t is certainly no less true
OF woman) Is either fool or ~ ply
stefan at forty. This means that
every intelligent person must learn
30 much about caring for his own
health that by the time he is forty
years of age he can almost be reck.
oned as physician.
Why, then, is there 80 much talk by
doctors against decentralization? A
woman can recognize all ordinary all
ments without calling on doctor. IL
they are ailments distinctive to her
sex she generally knows enough to
use that greatest OF all remedies for
such ailments Lydia Il. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. and likewise
she is familiar with the standard
remedies for other diseases.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-26

Bud, come here to your uncae a
spell
And I'll tell you something you mustn't
tell
For its secret and shore huff true
And maybe / oughtn't to tell it to
youi
But out in the garden, under the
shade
OF the apple-tree where we romped
and played
Till the moon was up, and you thought
i'd gone
Fast asleep-that was all put on!
For / was watching something queer
Coin on there in the grass my deart
Way down deep in it, there l see
A, little dude-Fairy who winked at
And snapt his fingers and laughed, as
low
And fine as the whine Of a mus-kee-to!
I kept still-watching him closer-and
l noticed a little guitar in his hand
Which he leant 'ginst little dead bee
and laid
His cigaret down on a clean grass
blade
And then climbed up on the shell Of
a snail
Carefully busting his swallow-tail
And pulling up by waxon, web
- thread
The little guitar, you remember, said
And there he trinkled and trilled
tune,
My Love, so Fair, Tans in the Moon!
Till, presently out of the clover top
He seemed to be singing to came
sk'pop!
The purtiest, daintiest Fairy face
In all; this world, or any place!
Then the little ser-nader waved his
AS much as to say, Wen excuse you!
:, and
l heard as I squinted by eyelid to
A kiss like the drip of drop OF dew!
james Whitcomb Riley.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-26
o 900 o o o o q 90 Q
o ANNOUNCEMENTS o
5000 , 0 o o 900 90

To The People of the Brunswick
Judicial Circuit:
| announce my candidacy for nomina-
ton to the office of Solicitor General
of the Brunswick Circuit in the ap-
preaching Democratic State Primary,
AMI would appreciate your friendly con-
sideration.
If you deem me worthy of the trust,
| shall be grateful for your support,
and promise to hold before ME always
the Hottest conception, of truth and
Justice that / know, striving at all
times to attain it, and to secure fair
and impartial administration of the
laws without unjust discrimination.
Respectfully,
ALVIN V. SELLERS.
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ANNOUNCEMENT FOR CONGRESS

ANNOUNCEMENT FOR CONGRESS
AS a candidate for congress from
he Eleventh congressional district
subject to the Democratic primary !
pledge myself to run clean, fair race
seeking my election by the purast
means and highest methods.
: shall appreciate every assistance
given. whether by vote, kind word or
helpful act, and If elected / shall put
all thaC am and ali my time into
earnest service of all the people of my
district, valcing at all times, infinitely
nore than the mere name of congress
man or the salary, ths privilege and
honor OF serving humanity and Of Ia
oring for the people among whom |
I've anE whom love.
Respectfully.
tt w. G. LANKEORD.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-26
FOR REPRESENTATIVE

Subject TO the coming Democratic
primary, l beg to announce my can
didacy for representative in the Geor-
gia legislature from GlJnn county. /
Will appreciate the support of my
lends and the public generall Re-
pectfully, L.. r. AKIN.
The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-08-26
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.

I hereby announce myself a candi-
late for reelection as representative
Of Glynn county in the legislature,
subject to the Democratic primary. II
again honorsd by being elected to this
position, promise the same attention
to duties as heretofore. / solicit the
IF the county generally. Respectfully.
J. II. DART.
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Dysentery niAIabama.

my little four year old boy had a
severe attack Of dysontery. We gave
him Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy and believe it say
ed his life" says VIM. II. stribling,
Carbon Hill, Ala. Obtainable every
where.
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Fob SOLICITOR GENERAL.

announce as candidate for the
office OF solicitor general of the
Brunswick ju"icial circuit subject to
the approaching Democratic primary.
ii t'aJ event of my election l pledge
nyseif TO tao faithful discharge of the
duties at the office. l ask for, and
will he'T'ily appreciate the vote and
support nf the people of the circuit.
Vsry respectfully,
ROBERT l.. BENNETT,
i, Jesup, Ga.