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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-18
FACTS ABOUT FLORIDA

Florida has some of the largest and
most beautiful springs In the world.
Several Of them flow at the rate OF
100000 to 100000 gallons q minute
large enough to float steamboats, Sill
ser Springs, near Ocala, flows $4,000
gallons a minute. It Is believed TO be
the largest spring on earth.
The population Of Florida has In
creased 80 per cent within the last
five years.
Key West is nearly 300 miles nearer
the Panama canal than is any other
American seaport.
Florida ranks first among all the
states in the Union in the production
of turpentine.
There are seventy ice factories in
Florida. We have no ice unless We
make It. The discoverer Of the pro.
cess Of making artificial Ice was q
Florida man.
Ninety per cent of the original for
ests Of Florida still are wooded, tbs
many acres are being thinned an
nually.
Florida has spent more per capt.;
I in recent years for road improvement
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-18
PAGE THREE

Florida produces the finest Of pine
apples and has shipped as many 40
100000 crates Of them a year. The
most exclusive pineapple plantations
along the east coast and In sand 80
Florida can be made to produce
enough sugar to supply the needs OF
all America, and more. Sugar cane
grows in every county. Drained land
will yield twenty tons to an acre, the
potential equivalent OF 1900 pounds
OF granulated sugar.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-18
H0WMuch Will
Prices Fall +:
CONTINUED from page r.

below the high point for October
last year.
The reason for this tenacious grill
which high prices apparently hav.
taken on the world are obviously tt
be found in the immutable law O
supply and demand. The cost Of Ia
Dor is the most important factor II
the price of commodities, as 1t makes
UP rs per cent or more Of their price
1t starts with the cost of the food and
raw materials, which is largely rep
resented by labor, goes on to the
manufacture Of semi-inished and fin
ished products, which again is labor
heaped upon labor, and is frequently
punctuated between or after these va.
ious stages or processes with trans
portation and distribution, which,
when analysed, turn out to consist of
a high percentage of labor in its
broadcast sense.
The wastage of war, both in men
and materials, again is largely respon.
sible for shortage for labor, especially
past and prospective. For four years
the orderly production and mainte-
nance of peace-time activity has been
most violently interrupted through
out the civilized world, causing on the
one hand a heavy depreciation of
property and on the other hand an ap-
paling destruction Of all those things
which are vital to human happiness,
life and activity. The reconstruction
Is going to tax our efforts perhaps
even harder than did the war, the
latent demand for labor and commod-
tiles being tremendous.
There is cause for rejoicing in
these conditions, for intense activity,
even though accomplished by high
prices, is far to be preferred to the
blight of inactivity, stagnation, idle
ness, and suffering attendant upon
unsound, unbalanced production and
rapidly falling prices. After all, 1t is
not a question so much OF what price
each of us has to pay for what we
want, but as to that what relation
this price bears to our own income.
Those millions of men and women
whose incomes have grown apace
with or ahead of the general price ad-
vance have abundant cause for satls'
faction. Yet how often do we not
hear these same people unwlttingly
complain of high prices, their attitude
being that high prices is privilege
that belongs to themselves only, IN
the selling of their own labor or
wares, but has no place in their
scheme of buying.
Theodore N. Vail, of American Te'e-
graph 6 Telephone Co.
During the civil war prices rose
relatively more than during the re-
cent war. The prices unquestionapiy
wera inflated, being based on the
greenback currency. Even SO, now
ever. the drop in the prices OF W COM
modities in the decade from 1903 W
1874 was at the rate OF less tnan
per cent per year; in building mater.
ials it averaged less than a per cent
per year over the same PERIOD
The principal cause Of the graaual
return to pre-war price Levers mas
been ascribed to the rapid transiof
nation Of manufacturing, agriculture
mining, transportation, and business
in general, from hand methods 10
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
Historic PRINTING Press.

A printing press with remarkable
history is preserved by the University
Of Oregon. On IL was printed, % years
ago, the first number of the Oregon
Spectator at Oregon City. This was
the first press to be used west of the
Rocky mountains, and IL was trans
ported to Oregon City by George
Alternately. the first provisional gov
ernor of Oregon. The old Washington
hand press was in use in Oregon City
until the late sixties. when II was re-
moved to Eugene. While being trans
ported up the Willamette river the
press was shipwrecked. but after
time il was raised and continued its
Journey. For nearly half a century II
was in use at Eugene. where IL Wa
presented to the state university. The
University of Washington at Seattle
also has a famous old handpresS,
which was used In lS4T To print the
California Star. the first paper In San
Francisco. and later was used in
printing the first number of the Port
land Oregunian in 1870. and the first
paper In Seattle In 1859.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
Red IIoht Aids plants.

The attention of botanIsts has lately
been recnlled to experiments made at
Juvisy, near Paris, by NJ. Flammarion
on the effect OF exposing the seedlings
of sensitive plants to lights Of differ
ent colOrs. Having placed four pairs
OF mImosa seedlings In four separate
pots In a dollhouse. he covered one
pair with bell OF blue glass. another
with a bell OF green glass, a third with
a bell Of red glass. while the fourth
was exposed TO ordinary white light.
At the end Of two months the plants
subjected TO blue light were only one
inch high. having hardly grown at all.
Those exposed to white light were
four inches high. those that had grown
I'm green light were I've inches high.
while those whose light had been red
were no less than 10 inches high.
Experiments with other kinds Of
plants gave various results. but In ev-
cry instance blue light impeded growth
and development
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
MANY Glacial Periods.

One often hears of ''the glacial
p,eriod or "the ice age" of the earth.
but, strictly speaking. this expression
IS not correct. It Is now established
beyond all reasonable doubt that this
planet has experienced not one but a
great many glacial periods Evidence
has been found which proves that the
latest or PIeistOcene glacial epoch, has
several important subdivisions. and
that all Of the present continents have
experienced glacial epochs at different
ages. Great ice sheets were formed
at different periods back to the Pro
terozoic age; that Is, the age OF the
oldest known sedimentary rocks,
great many million years ago. One
of the most recent discoveries OF the
old glacial deposits was made by Pro
lessor W. W. Atwood, Of the United
States geological survey. near Ridg-
way. I'm southwestern Colorado. These
deposits were found beneath tertiary
layas of the San Juan mountains. and
resting upon upper cetaceous beds.
They have, II is believed. been formed
in early EOcene times.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
WALK MUCH AND LIVE LONG
Overwhelming Evidences That Pedes-
trisnism Is by Long Odds the
Best Form Of Exercise.

walk. walk, walk. every day, and
while walking give the arms full
play. BY so doing the bones. blood.
muscles, nerves and brain will be
kept in healthy activity. Moreover,
never mind the weather. Take your
exercise, be the day wet or fine. hot
or cold. Above all. avoid sitting over
a fire. Nothing is more conducive
TO senility." This is the prescription
Of Sir Herman Weber. the eminent
European physician, who died at the
age of ninety-flve years. Certainly
there could be no better recommended
ton Of the virtues Of walking than the
life Of Sir Herman.
Walking Is something that cannot
be oyerdOne, and at the same time
much out Of fashion at the present
time. In this day Of automobiles the
man who walks is the exception, and
while the man in the motorcar de-
rives a vast amount of benefit from
his trips into the country and
through getting his lungs pumped
full Of fresh air, he does not obtain
the great variety OF health-giving fea-
lures that come with walking.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
EueaIyptus-OiI Industry.

The pioneer of the Australian eu-
calyptus-Oil industry was John White,
Surgeon General to the Settlement"
who came TO Sydney with the first
fleet. says the Sydney Bulletin The
following passage occurs In his Jour
nal Of Voyage to New South Wales" "
published In London In 1870:
The name of peppermint tree has
been given to this plaat by Mr.. White
on account of the very great resem-
blance between the essential oil drawn
from its leaves and that obtained from
the peppermint (Mentha piperita)
which grows in England. This oil
was found by Mr.. White to be much
more efficaciOus In removing all
chOlicky complaints than that OF the
English peppermint. which he attrib-
utes TO its being less pungent and
more aromatic.
White not only used the oil In n. S.
Wales, but sent some to England He
got Il from tree which he called
Eucalyptus piperita, but which was
afterwards renamed E. capitellata-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
DISPUTE OVER HUMAN BONES
Discovery In Florida Gives Scientists
Opportunity to Indulge In
Lively Squabble.

Biologists and anthrOpOlOgists are
having a lively controversy among
themselves over certain human re-
mains which have been unearthed at
VerO. Fla. Human bones were found
In geological formations of the pleis-
tocene or glacial period; man existed
In America during that early age. But.
directors interpOse. the skeletal re-
mains are those of a modern sort OF
man, a regular Indian type. So recent
type at that period is incredible. The In
dividual must have been buried in the
ancient strata.
The other side answers that burial
is out of question. The formation OF
the earth above the bones indicated
gradual natural accumulation, and not
the heaping of earth into a grave.
That the bones were scattered some
twenty feet from the others. which In
dIcates that they drifted while on the
surface chow could buried bones move
twenty feet through the soiD; and.
further, that the fact Of the remains
being Of a modern type Of man merely
shows that this modern type Of man
lived m the pleistocene age.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
Iinht From the Moon.

The light Of the moon Is due entire
" to- reflection Of the light of the sun.
and the different phases Of the moon
to its position in relation to the po-
sition of the earth and the sun. When
there is a new moon. half Of the sur
face of the moon is illuminated, but
the greater portion is turned from the
earth and only a delicate crescent ap-
pears TO us. AT the first quarter, half
OF the illuminated surface Is turned
toward us. and at the fifteenth day
the moon reaches a point In the heav-
ems directly opposite to that which the
sun occupies. She Is then In opposi-
ton, and the whole of the Illuminated
surface Is turned toward US, and we
have q full moon. From opposition
the moon passes on In her orbit. grad
ually decreasing In size. or rather less
and less OF the illuminated part being
turned toward the earth.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
eRENcHMAN'S WORK OF ART
eeauvaIs Cathedral Clock q Remark
able Example Of Ingenuity In
Its Construction.

The clock of Beauvais (France) ca
hedral is said TO he composed Of 92,OOO
separate pieces. One sees on the o.
lial plates the hour. the day, the week
md the month; the rising and setting
Of the sun. phases Of the moon, the
tides, the time In the principal cap
ltals of the world. together with
series of terrestrial and astronomical
avolutions. The framework Is carved
oak. eight meters by five meters. or
% feet by 1914 feet. When the clock
strikes all the edifice seems In move
ment. The designer wished to depict
the Last Judgment. This wonderful
work recalls the clock of StraSsburg.
and is of modern construction. 1t IL
the work of NJ. Verite, who was In the
engineering department Of the Nord
railway, and who died In 1887. The
cock crows. angels sound trumpet at
the four cardinal points. imitation or
flames appears from the openings or
little steepIes right and left. A soul,
that of the impenitent thief. appears
before the supreme Judge. IL Is con-
demned. IN I enfer." and a demon
armed with a pitchfork selzes II and
casts II into the abyss. Next comes the
soul of the Just. The angels advance
and conduct II to the realms Of day,
sacred strains being heard.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
CRADLES OF GREAT EDITORS
Many Editorial Giants Got Their Early
Training on Village Newspapers
Of New England.

The old New England village news
papers nOurished a race Of journalistic
giants. II was from a little Connect
cut Office, that of the Connecticut
Mirror, that a keen Yankee. named
George ID. Prentice, went forth to pre-
pare the way for that great light OF
Southern Journalism, Henry Waiter
son.
The dingy little printing shops or
Vermont trained in the service of the
types many men who afterward be-
came eminent in metropolitan and
western journalism. But the case OF
Greeley was an epic in itself. No more
uncOuth and miserable little wretch
ever sought employment. But he
frightened up the Northern Spectator
with his youthful writings, which were
then. as ever after. his very own. and
not mere imitation AddiSOnianiSms.
From the shop in East Poultney ne
went forth to an illustrious career
and, whether IL liked him or not, the
country had TO listen 10 him. HIS
brain not infrequently-sO his country
men would now express it-slipped a
cog. There were strange lapses in his
intellectual and moral achievement,
bur none I'm his honesty or his good
will>tOward his fellow cOuntrymen-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
Fortune Telling In Germany.

Very curious forms of dlvination are
practiced In Germany. The. methods
of forecasting the future vary. OF
course, in different localities In many
parts Of Germany for instance. girl
who Is DESTROYS Of knowing the voca-
ton of her future lover is told to
listen to the singing Of large kettle.
With more or less accuracy the trade
or occupation is determined according
to the various tones.
A popular German amusement Is the
telling of fortunes by means Of wal
nut shells. Good or ill-luek Is fore
told according to their movements In
a bowl of water. Casting lead is an
other amusement to which the Ger
man devotes himself. The molten mat
ter is poured into a basin OF cold
water after being placed over a spirit
lamp. In tracing the various shapes
assumed by the lead great amusement
Is afforded. For they are all presumed.
by the way, to be symbolic as regards
the future.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
SUNLIGHT IS FOE OF DEATH
The More a Man or Woman Can Get
Of u, the Healthier and Hap
pier Will They Be.

One time we were tramping the for
ests of North Carolina In search OF
game. When none came and We wished
to return to camp We discovered we
were ost-completely turned around.
Then we recalled reading one time.
Light Is life. moss always grows on
the north side of the tree trunk-far-
thest removed from the rays Of the
SUM-" We set about looking for moss,
and sure enough II was on the same
side OF each tree. With this as a guide
II didn't take us long to find our way
hack TO the place whence we came.
But the point We wish to make Is that
the moss would not have been on the
north side of the tree II II hadn't been
impossible for the suns rays-to reach
II. Moss thrives on death. And death
is always found In the wake OF the
sunless path. The more sunlight there
Is in your life the more you live. The
freer you are from moss and the
things that thrive without light, the
better man or woman you are. Get all
the sunlight you can into your sleep
ing and waking hOurs.-Milwaukee
Journal.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
Steady, Not Erratic.

IT Is a good thing TO have work
done well and quickly by one person
In an organization. But II is a far
better thing to have that whole orgaD-
hatiOn work together effectively. each
one doing a part carefully and con-
sdOuSly, than to have an expert here
and there setting the pace.
Ii Is safe to say that any business
that succeeds does so because the
head Of that business never fOrgets
that he is working with human be
hgs and not with machines. He does
not expect them to do the impossible
any more than he expects impossible
Ties Of himself, but he does require
Of himself a certain amount of con-
eentrated effort done at the right time
every day, and he does require from
all his Office force the same effort and
Concentration.
The best way to conserve energy is
not by speeding up every once In SO
olten' but by keeping engines fired at
all time, ready to do the work at the
night time and in the right place
New York Evening Telegram.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
Time and Watch on shlpboard.

The bell on shipboard is struck eV-
cry half-hour. In the morning one
bell sounds at 1890 a. m. and ev-
cry half-hour increases until eight
bells at 4 p. m; then one bell again
at 4 80 a. m. to eight bells at 8 a m I;
one bell again at $50 a. m; and
eight bells at noon. In the afternoon
one ben sounds at II 80 p. m and
eight bells at p. m, after which Is
the first dog watch Zone bell 4 80. two
bells s. three bells $50. four bells %,
and the second dog watch Zone bell
g 40. two bells z, three bells 1:3O,
eight bells 81. and then one bell ut
20 to eight bells at midnight.
The day is divided into seven
watches. as follows: Afternoon watch
noon TO 4 D. m; first dog watch, p. m.
70 g p. m; second dog watch, 8 p m.
TO o. m; first watch 8 p. m to mid
night: middle watch. midnight to .
a m: morning watch, 4 a. m TO 8 a.
M: forenoon watch. 8 a. m. to noon
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
HAS SQUIRREL WELL tanned
I,..IIioent Little Animal 5eguiles
1edium Of Voyage for Naval
Officer on Active Duty.

There is a certain very companion
,hle little squirrel which belongs to an
nicer on a warship, somewhere IN
South African waters. She Is a great
nlker-in her way-but she is always
rsry careful not TO talk when any one
else Is talking. Her master viii call
her down from her bedroom, and she
appears with CHEEKY little squeaks and
urcleS. Then she waits.
EWill you have. toast this morning
or milk" is the question with which
he greets her. and her answer Is a
decided chatter for a moment. When
de stops. he goes on with the con-
RrSation. and she listens to him, with
her little eyes full of interest, for
what he is telling her. Then comes her
turn. and she talks a bit. She is very
playful little squirrel. and she has
never been known to lose her temper
with her master, though sometimes In
q rOmp, when she gets rather fiurried,
she bites a bit too hard. And, II her
master gently raps her. she pretends
20 feel grieved about II, goes into a
corner and sulks and all that he can
do is TO leave her alone until she
wants to play again.-Montreal Herald.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
MARGINS TWO BIRTHST0NEs
Persons Born In That Month Nav
Rave Choice Of the Bloodstone
o. the Aquamar;ne.

The month OF March has two birth
stones. The one sanctioned by ancient
tradition is the bloodstone. As an al
terhate the aquamarine Is given In the
list OF birthstones adopted by the Ma
ttonai jewelers. association. The blood
stone Is variety of chalcedony. dull
green with blood-red spots. 1t is some
times called heliotrope. The principal
mines are In India, though 1t is found
In Scotland, Brazil. Uruguay and Aus
traiia. II was supposed In old times
to have therapeutic virtues and was
used especially to cure hemorrhages
and infammatOry diseases. Because
OF this fancied curative value Il was
widely worn cut in the form of a heart
In Mexico In the days succeeding the
conquest by Spaniards and Indians.
The stone is still believed by the su-
persutious to be an amulet bringing
good luck. An ancient Egyptian parch-
ment says: IF anyone have this stone
with him he win be given whatever he
asks for and whatever the wearer says
VIII be believed"
The aquamarine Is a transparent va
riety OF seryl, characteristically Of a
blush green color. Its name, trans
lated, means "sea water" and 1t looks
like the green-blue water of the ocean
frozen into a flashing crystal. Large
aquamarines are especially beautiful
as brooches or necklace pendants.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
spr.,d Love Of Good Music.

The greatest factors that exist at
the present time In the spreading oil
music and the inducement OF love
for II, are the music-reprOducing ma
chimes OF all kinds. What these have
done to promote general musical
knowledge cannot be overestimated.
Why. you meet people who. a few
years ago, would not have known the
name of one great musical compost
ton, who now are familiar not only
with the composers. but with their
foremost interpreters and the ways In
which these interpretations have been
conceived. These people know every
note of works they hadn't even heard q
few years ago.
1t is not enough for composition
to be great to help the world. appar
entity; II must he known 10 he great.
With a man II Is a different matter.
Do your work well. and you Will he
Judged by II. There are always those
who can judge II ones work Is good
let them judge.-Exchange. =
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1919-04-12
NOT HURT BY WARM CLIMATE
Writer Denies That Life In the Trop-
les 10 EneVatino to Whites
Dwelling There.

The opinion Is widespread In north
ern ciimes that a continuously warm
climate. unbrOken by sharp periodic
changes. Is enervating and detrimental
to the white man. This opinion Is sub
stantiated by a considerable variety
OF evidence. Exception, however. Is
taken by Vaughan MacCaughey, writ
Ing In Science.
Hawaii Is sub-troplcal. The signlfi-
cant fact Is that the white" pOpula-
don lives American style"
The hours OF labor for business men,
professional men and laborers are just
as long as I'm northern regions. The
holidays and vacation periods are no
more numerous. The lunch period Is
one hour at noon, and there Is no
siesta.
A white laboring class does not ex-
list In Hawaii. This Is due, however,
not TO climatic conditions, hut TO the
economic competition of cheap orr
entail labor.
It must be acknowledged that the
change from n northern to sub-trop-
lcal climate does not always agree with
the white women. Some suffer from
poor health and more or less profound
functional arrangement. However, the
problem Is an open one as to whether
this Is directly due to climatic NAL
adaptation.