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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-27

and French-a steel helmet and an
extra pair of shoes. 1t takes men 10
make forced marches like that with
all that weight to carry.
"Our regiment has lost several men
since we have been on the British
front, but the vacancies are filled
right away from the replacement
camps. Gee, wish | could sleep Ill
peace one night in real bed and SIT
down to a table and eat regular
home-cooked meal again, but that Is
lust a dream which I hope may come
true.
am in a dugout at present writing
this letter, but l can hear the bomb
ing planes and feel the ground shake
from the explosions caused by the
bombardment.
"One of my pals was shot down,
and l have to get two Germans in his
place for revenge. You can't imagine
what war is until one of your side
partners is shot down, and then you"
blood runs hot and we turn into wild
beasts and want to kill. Oh! it is
awful and l am sick and tired OF it,
but there is no end but death and |
am ready to meet mine, if the good
Lord wills 1t.
Il wish we could make one big
drive and slaughter and end it this
summer.
1.-THE country here is probably fine
in peace times, but it is an eye-sore
here on the front now.
We'll, l must close for this time.
Remember me to my friends and the
girls.
"As ever, Your Friend,
,lSigned) CARROLL H. CLAWSON,
go. E, 9Th U. S. Engineers,
"a. E. F., France"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-27
TRAVELLING MEMS ACTIVITIES

Cheering news comes from the ar
my of the road, that the saleemen
are awake, and solidly lined up in
the Great War Savings Campaign
Large numbers of travelling men have
have been brought together in The
Associated Commercial Travellers For
National Service, and by this means
came in direct touch with the Gov
eminent, thereby concentrating their
efforts into a comon channel. In the
recent Liberty Loan Campaign,
these patriotic travelling men did val
lent work. Now that the W. s. s.
Drive is on, the same spirit exists,
as the members are pledged to use
their best efforts to promote every
war masure of the Administration.
W. T. DuBose, director of travelling
mems activities of the Liberty Loan
Executive Committee, Sixth Federal
Reserve District, reports that his eff
| forts is in receipt of numerous let
tiers from every part of the territory
and from many distan states, and all
express the most enthusiastic senti-
ment for War Savings Stamps.
The travelling men are not only
promoting the distribution of the Ger.
tificates in their own forceful man.
ner, but hey are buying them largely,
themselves, and in many instances
are, of their own initiative, evolving
original schemes to make this drive
g grand success.
The present membership of the AS
ISOLATED Commercial Travellers Fol
National Service is around $4,000
and drive is on to increase this tC
a minimum of $4,000 with expecta
tons of reaching 10000 by July 4th
when a wire is to be sent President
Wilson on the Nations Birthday, thai
this number of Loyal Travelling Mer
! are pledged to actively promote ev
cry war measure of the Government
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-27

known to the ancients, and at one
time in Grecian and Roman countries
the keeping Of bees were large indus
tries. Syrup from sugar cane was
known in India many centuries ago,
and when first brought to Europe 1t
was called, honey made from reeds >
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-27
WAYSIDE MUSINGS

crops IN georgia, tennessee anu
Kentucky all look good, but seem a
little late. There has apparently
been a good season in all these States.
There is a larger acreage of cotton
in Georgia this year than usual, it APP
pears. Women are noted in the fields,
and Maud Mullers are not infrequent
sights as the train moves along.
There isn't much change in the
character of the country as one trav-'
els northward via Atlanta and Knox
Vile, until the latter city is neared.
Then the country becomes more brok-
en-, with less land in cultivation,
though the river and creek bottoms
are very fertile. Leaving Knoxville,
one is soon among the Kentucky
mountains. Here agriculture is little
in evidence. There are some patches
of corn on the mountain sides, but the
wealth of the country is not on the
surface, but beneath it. These hills
are rich in minerals-coal, iron, zinc,
etc.-and some day will yield up their
treasures to the hand of development.
At present the blue hills sleep undis-
turbed, giving no sign of the wealth
they hide.
This is the land of the moonshiner,
so often pictured in song and story
o bad, bold man, who cannot under
stand why the government should dis
pute his right to convert the product
OF his patch of corn into ticker" The
writer was deputy collector of inter-
nal revenue for several years, and has
visited the caverns where these men
operated their stills, and has assisted
in destroying the crude outfits with
which they tried to compete with the
big booze factories licensed by Uncle
Sam.
Moonshine whisky is as clear as
spring water, and is so fiery that II
would seem that it would require 4
copper-lined gullet to swallow it. Il
is the milk on which feuds are fed
After tasting it one does not wonder
that it breeds battles. Yet the aver.
age fnoonshiner is kindly, simple
character, hospitable to the last de
gree, and plotting no evil to any ex
cept his feudal foes or the "revcnoo
ers." as the officers of Uncle Sam arr
called. If you belong to neither o
these two classes, and observe tn
first rule of health-whiCh is, to keel
your mouth shut and move on-yol
are safer in these mountains than o,
the streets of Chicago or any othe
large city
AS the train proceeds westward
the mountains are left behind and tn
cultivated areas become larger an
more frequent. We touch the famou
bluegrass egion-though why it |
called blue grass is a mystery,
being intensely green. Wherever
appears it is a harbinger of splendi
soil, and the fields in this section ar
a delight to the eye and an assuranc
Of future bounty The wheat is GU
and the shocks dot the landscap
thickly, giving promise Of plenty {
white bread for the boys lover there
Great fields, stretching in pensiv
luietness,' level as a floor, ar
marked by the serried rows of wavin
corn. In the pastures massive cal
tie stand almost knee-deep in the lus
grass, 1t is, indeed, land of mil
and honey-a land which gives niue
justification to the title its peopl
claim for it-"Gods country"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-27

LOST-A p0cketbOOk. somewhere BE-
tween East Palmetto, corner Park
Hill and the pOstOffice, or in the
business section, containing money
and valuable papers, belonging to
J. II. Stanley. Finder return to Tel
egram office. Liberal reward.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-23
HARD FOR RUSSIANS TO
UNDERSTAND RED CROSS

Vladivostok, Oct. 23.-Some Rus
SLAMS have a strange conception OF
the functions of the Red Cross. The
apparently intelligent matron OF a
Vladiyostok home for orphans re-
Gently proposed that the Red Cross
take over management of all orphans
homes throughout Russia. She
thought this could be started with an
expenditure of not more than 60,OOO,-
600 rubles
Another modest request from an
other source was that the Red Cross
undertake the rehabilitation and re-
pair of all towns throughout Rus
sia which have suffered from Rus
sia's civil war
The matron also asked the Red
Cross to make the nurses and in
structors in her institution behave
She complained that since the Boil
sbcyik reign in Vladivostok all sense
If discipline had vanished and the
Young men and women were carry
ing on high iinks to the detriment Of
the orphans welfare.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-23

carloads take delivery at car and pay
for it on delivery $3.50 per ton plus
demurrage, If any.
C. Where buyer purchases and takes
delivery at car and pays for 1t on
delivery in ton lots or more but less
than carloads, 50 per ton.
d. Where buyer purchases and
takes delivery at car and pays for 1t
on delivery in lots less than one tor
$3.50 per ton.
g. Sale exwarehouse in lots 0! ION
or more, 81 per ton,
f Sale exwafehouse in lots OF less
than / ton, SIS per ton.
q. One dollar may be added 10 the
foregoing margins when sale is MADE
on credit, or at dealers option the
legal rate of interest may be charged.
h One dollar shall be deducted
from the margins prescribed in e and
when the retailer buys on credit ahc
the iobber's margin is thereby in
creased 81 a ton,
This margin of profit shall apply 10
oil sales of feed mentioned IL fu!e
in amounts of twenty-five pounds
or more. Where feed is sold in brok-
en- packages of less than twenty-five
hounds, the retail dealer may charge
for measuring, weighing and pack.
ing NOT more than one-half cent per
round profit. ar,,,,
rodora, Food Administrators Florida
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-23
RUSSIANS CAN'T
UNDERSTAND uNSELFiSHNESS
OF THE Y. M. C. A.

Vladivostok, Oct, 23-The philan-
thropy and Recommendation of the
Young Mems Christian Association Is
beyond the grasp of the average new
Russian mentality. Free distribution
of foodstuffs and even luxuries like
chocolate and cigarette, to those not
actually dependent upon charity gives
rise to speculation as to where the
profit comes in. The Y, M. c. A
headquarters frequently has to dis
courage would be spectators who fig
ure that there must be some way tc
buy from them in quantities what is
freely given away by the carload.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-23
Capt Frank Vans
Agnew Writes
From Hun Prison
(kissimmee Gazette.)

The following letter was received
by Mrs. Corbett, of London, England,
IRON her brother, Capt. Frank Vans
Agnew, formerly postmaster of Kis-
simmee, and forwarded to Mr.. L. G.
Vans Agnew of this office.
Captain Vans Agnew was taken a
prisoner by the Germans seven
. months ago, since which time he has
been confined in prison camps in that
country:
June Is, 1918.
have had no letters since ! last
wrote and very few are coming to the
camp for any one. Parcels come,
though, as you may see by the return
post cards which l always send Will
you, please, send me enough good sole
leather to sole and heel pair o. boots
as it is impossible to get any here,
and again | will mention my unfor-
tInate Stacks" and the pair of boots
which went astray and have not
turned up.
Yesterday Swiss Commission
came here for the French, and, to my
establishment, I and three other Brit
ish officers were sent for to be exam
ined by them. They put me down for
"internment," as before; and this
commission, being for the French,
has no power to send us anywhere.
! All they can do is to send us before
another commission at Aachen, where
we may be refused again as | am
convinced that the commission there
/ is all guess work. Still it is another
chance and | shall leap at it If it
comes.
The prisoners of War Conference
at The Hague is most interesting for
US. Even if they agree on the same
terms as the German French agree
ment, we shall be much better off. In
+ this agreement officers and men of
! over As are informed after IL months
captivity have put in nearly seven
months here already.
In the meantime we are having de-
lightful weather and in this camp
we have quite a pleasant time;
! enough food, enough exercise, enough
to read, and plenty of fun, concerts,
cinemas, chess, bridge, tennis, so do
not think | am languishing in sor
row.
have walked to the hospital down
town three times week. | find It
most interesting and the treatment
quite beneficial on the whole.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-23
HEAVY DEMANDS ON
Y. M. C. A. SERVICE BY
ALLIES In LIBERIA

Vladivostok, Oct 23.-Demands up
on the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation secretaries who are accom-
panying the Entente nations in their
expedition against the Bolsheviki in
Siberia have been so great that they
have been compelled to enlist in Y
M. c. A. service the convalescing
C2echs and to utilize the volunteer
service of several of the Stevens
Railway corps from the United
States. Virtually all the Y. M. G. A.
secretaries have been working eigh-
teen hours a day.
Instead of an easy march through
out the country, the Allied expedition
developed into a fight mile by mile
First aid supplies were more press
ing needs than were monographs
games and athletic equipment. The
demands upon the Y. M. c. A. can
teen service were so great that sup
plies which ordinarily would have
lasted month were exhausted in a
week. Cars have been sent with
each contingent of troops to the
lfurthest possible limit and from them
have been distributed free in times
|of stress, hot tea, coffee, cigarettes,
tobacco, chocolate. biscuits, sausage,
and other useful supplies.
This service is becoming indjs-
pensable to the men in the field. The
Japanese soldiers appear to be as
fully appreciative as their western
brothers. A report by Secretary
Head says:
by a. m. Japanese soldiers come
knocking on the doors of the cars
and no refusal to open quiets them.
There is no chance for the secretary
in charge to sleep after they begin
until the days work is over and that
is rarely before one the next morn
ing. Secretaries find it impossible to
get more than three to four hours
sleep nightly. To undress is a novel
ty and food goes uneaten because
they cannot steal time to eat"
A refrigerator car service has been
added recently Thirty minutes af-
ter the doors were opened, in the
first instance, $500 bottles of cold
soft drinks had been sold to and con.
sumed by the thirty soldiers.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-23
OFFICIAL ORDER
OCT. IS, 1918, ADVOCATING
OFFICIAL ORDER OCT. Is, 1918

Rule ALI dealers handling feed
stun at retail in the State of Florida
Will be required to make sales under
these rulings, which abrogate official
order lO-15-1S, and all other con
netting orders previously issued.
Rule MARGIN OF PROFIT OV-
Err COSTS FOR RETAIL DEALERS
HANDLING CORN, OATS, RYE, BAR
LEY OR OTHER FEEDS NOT MEN
TONED IN SUBSEQUENT RULINGS
NO retail dealer will be allowed, in
making sales of feed stuffs above
mentioned to charge on any individ-
eaI sale a price for goods deliveries
at warehouse door, which will give
more than 81 per ton profit; where
ueIlVery is made to the consumer
reasonable carriage charges may be
suoed, provided that such charges are
SHOWN on sale slip in addition to the
'uarge for feed. This margin OF pro-
NJ snail apply to all sales of feed
pFh'loned in this rule in amounts o.
twenty-five pounds or more Where
'eed Is sold in packages of less than
twenty-five pounds, the retail dealer
uay charge for measuring, weighing,
'Ha packing, not more than one-halt
cent per pound profit.
Hule MARGIN OF PROFIT oV
ER COSTS FOR RETAIL DEALERS
HANDLING WHEAT MILL FEEDS,
HICE POLISH, RICE BRAN. DRIED
EEET PULP, COTTON SEED MEAL.
9TT0N SEED PRODUCTS. BEAN
NEAL. OR OTHER MANUFAC'
iVRED OR MIXED FEEDS.-No re-
y" dealer in handling feeds described
=" me above heading. shall make
,''es which give a profit greater than
liked in the following schedules:
D. Where one or more persons pur
Ease in advance of delivery in full
,''Ioads. take delivery at car ard pay
SH When retail dealer is required
meet sight draft, 81 per ton plus
SsulOFrage, if any.
"hare one or more persons pur'
'uase il advance Of delivery IN full
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-23
AMERICAS LOAN OF
100000 TO LIBERIA

London, Oct. 23.-News that Amer
lea has granted a loan of $5,O0O,O0O
to Liberia has created great interest
in commercial and financial circles
connected with British West Africa.
Leslie Copper, general manager OF
the Bank of British West Africa,
states that the first step under the
new loan will probably be to repay
the 1911 International Loan of which
about 100000 pounds is outstanding.
There is every reason to believe he
says, that developments will reveal
great natural resources.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-23
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Il, rsllrt Of the County Judge Polk County
STATE Of Florida In re Estate oil Alne1 NJ
Terrence Decea ed. &C., 49,,
70 an Creditors. Lega,ees, Distributes ana
IN Persons having Claims or demands
against said Estate: - ...teo,
NM and each Of you, are hereby nqtiheu
and reouired to present any claims and DE-
Tands which you, or either Of sou, NAY nave
a ,i, tbe estate Of Albert N, Terrence, ae-
ceased late Of Jasks9ny' mIvG 5IHI ~
florida to the undersigned aanapistLli,sa -, "a
IA estate within twO scar ron 1a't he's-
q mated AUGUST %, 4. D. ISIS
- LA 'is Tsz4-Non
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-23
oee' IN GERMANY

Now York. Oct. 23-German enor's
70 obtain geese from Poland anu
Ukraine virtually have failed and ne
, MAJ. \, n,,,r market is practically bare
~ ~ t -f', fowl. says the Cologne Ga,
zette. An organization charged WIN e
t5a duty of arranging imports u
r .,, from Poland, and other occu Gu,
- tarritories in the east stated
l lpor between 100000 and 100000 ,.
geese had been ordered in tnoSs u.t.
t +5 hut the actual receipts amOln,,
ted to only $4,000. Ukraine hao
leu ,,, ~ to export 100000 geese
,nt owing to unexpected difficulties
not one was sent to Germany
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-23
SCARCITY OF TOBACCO IN GER.
MANY AFFECTING VINEYARDS
(By Associated Press !

Amsterdam, Oct. 23.-The scarcity
OF tobacco in Germany has affected
the vineyards, as there is no more
nicotine extract with which to spray
the vines to kill vermin, and sub
stitute has not yet made its appear.
opon
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-10-23

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'aase ii advance of delivery in full
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Palmer Jones Company
Standard Bakery
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New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Marguerite of the Films

! for it is not often that an artist hav-
ing won international renown in a
character which depends principally
upon vocalism for effect, repeats that
success in the same character after
having totally eliminated the principal
contributing element.
+ And yet that is exactly what has
been accomplished by Nine. Sylvia, who
brought to successful termination
the season of the Chicago Opera AS
sociation at the Lexington Theatre a
fortnight since by repetition OF her
performance of Carmen-the Car
men declared by critics in the United
States; in Paris, where she has sung
for five years; in Berlin, where she
was aided and abetted in the creation
by Caruso; in Belgium, the Belgium
which gave birth to the colorful prima
donna herself, to be the most repre-
sentative and the most satisfying
Carmen since Emma Calve presented
the role.
The Sylvia film was done in Spain
with the true atmosphere and in most
! artistic and lavish manner, introducing
incidents connected with the story and
indicated in the book which have never
before been visualzcd.
"The film was taken by the Cines
company in Spain," Nine. Sylvia de-
clared, "and it is the last word in Car
men, Here, the story is developed from
the period in Don Jose's life which led
to his enlistment, and the. chapters
which are but briefly referred to in
the opera are elaborated perfectly and
in strict accordance with the history
of the play and the personalities of the
characters. And so perfect has this
work been done that the high lights,
the points touched upon in opera, are
synchronized to the music, and
musicians familiar with the opera have
commented upon the fact that the dra-
matte action is in the same measure
as the music"
Nine. Sylvia is now, for the second
time, native of the United States.
Oscar Hammerstein brought her over
here when he established his opera
house on West Thirty-fourth Street,
and it was here that New York saw
her first performance of Carmen.
Nine. Sylvia was accepted immedi-
ately as the representative creator of
the part Singing it later in Boston,
at the Metropolitan Opera House, and
at the opera houses of Philadelphia and
Chicago, she tarred only long enough
to succumb to the offer Of A. II, Woods
to star in "Gipsy Love" at what was
then and is still the highest salary
ever paid q light opera prima donna.
Thence back to Europe, and there she
has remained for seven years. winning
laurcls in all Continental cities, and
being accepted everywhere ns the ilcal
Carmen, which, however, is but one o'
the fifteen leading prima donna roles
in her repertoire. II. u.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
The Ladies of ION, Lady!!'

OFT the stage as she is on. She is
filled with nthusiasm-pep, if you
like-and she loves doing musical
comedy, although she appears in it
only sporadically.
"You see," said Miss McComas, "I
didn't feel strange doing it when we
began to rehcarsc, because so many
of the people in the company never
have been in musical show before.
have, once OR twice, but not for long
time, and SO it is just like vacation"
All along we had intended to ask
Miss McComas for the orange gown
she wore in the first act, or at least
to ask her where she got it, but no
propitious opening occurred, and while
we were trying to make one she asked
us If we didn't think the girls in the
show were beautiful. "Whenever l
look at them with their wonderfully
groomed hair, | think of what one of
the critics said about me. He said
that my hair looked as though it had
received hours of inattention; and so
the management sent back word for me
to fix it up slick and trim, and I did.
Well, when they saw me so they let
out wall and said Put it back Do
you know that I look exactly like a
highbrow onion with my hair arranged
sneatly?"
Here was our chance. 1t was but a
short step from an onion to an orange
gown, so we said: "May we have the
first act gown when You don't want it
any more?" And, without an instant's
hesitation, Miss McComas answered:
eyes, you may have it when the show
Closes And we knew what she meant.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

If you contemplate talking to Mar
guerite Sylvia and you wish to talk
about grand opera or motion pictures,
do not stage the interview in her
home on Riverside Drive, for in that
case you won't talk about any of the
things you have planned to talk about
You simply couldn't ask her about
her Interpretation Of Carmen when you
can look at pictures Of her handsome
husband, Captain Bernard L. Smith,
and play with Marguerite, jr., and hear
her talk French to her nurse, and dis
cuss clothes and housekeeping and
love and marriage Gas some cynical
librettist says, "the two are not synon-
ymous"),7 and Belgium and Paris and
theswar and flying.
Nine. Sylvia knows all about the last
three, at any rate, for she was born in
Belgium and educated in Paris and her
husband is flying.
The day after our first meeting with
Sylvia she gave q private showing of
her picture, Carmen" to which we
were bidden. 1t is quite marvellous,