Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 3, 1911, Page 6

S - 7, T PAGE SIX. ORGANIZED CHARITY WILL BE DISCUSSED AT GREAT CONFERENCE IN JACK- SONVILLE. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 1. —Every community in Florida, whether the smallest town or the largest city, has a peculiar interest in the work of the Conference on Charities and Correction to be held at Jackson- ville, November 16-18. Conditions have made it imperative that the cails that are made upon the charity | of the people of this state be an- swered in a manner wWhich protects the philanthropist from the un- worthy and at the same time best serves those who need help. Charity and sympathy are the most common impulses, and are therefore the most frequently abused by beg- gars who have grown rich on it Real charity to the recipient does not end with tossing pittances to the necdy—that is merely the be- ginning. To be effective and lasting in its benefits to the distressed and to w(:lut'y. charity must seek out and correct the causes of poverly and iend the helping hand of sympathy to those who are down on their lot and foel that the world within which they live is all sordid and unkindly. It is the real work of charity to plan such readjustment of each stricken family's affairs and to provide such intelligent guidance as will restore it to self-support. Merciful charity sees in poverty something more than backs to be clothed and stomachs to be filled. There are lives to be uplifted. Some- times the need is material relief, sometimes it is medical aid, con- solation, advice, encouragement, dis- cipline or a reorganization of condi- tions of living. It participates as a positive factor in related movements having for their object the improve- ment of physical, moral and soclal conditions in the environs of the poor. Organized charity is all this. While only the larger cities would require paid officers to administer ef- fectively their charities, the smal- lest towns might follow the plan of organization and the methods em- ployed in Tampa and Jacksonville with greater economy in all matters, and chief among them in the effi- ciency of the work done. There are in every town many who would be willing to administer the affairs of the organization without pay, just as there are hundreds who would be glad of an opportunity to contribute to the aid of their fellow man through an agency which carried with it public confidence and a guar- antee that permanent aid will be ex- tended to unfortunates. It is to the interest of society and the world that every man or woman forming one of its units be preserved to contribute to the happiness and wealth of the community. Each man or woman costored to a basis of self-support is transformed from a charge into a valuable unit of the community structure, The perfection of such organiza-| tions and the sure and effective methods of administration of charity and the proverbial helping hand is a matter that has been studied by many experts. The best of these | will explain the workings of the system at Jacksonville conference, Our city and county governments should have representatives there) for they will derive many benefits from a more efficient administration of the public charity. Our churches and charitable organizations should | be well represented. Private citizens| who feel an interest in charity should encourage it by their pres-| aace and support. There is nothing | to be lost, and everything to be gain-| From the first, The Florida Con- ference on Charities and Correction should assume an important place in the civic affairs of the state. Our people shiould see that it does, od Well Guessea. “Towmwy,” sald the teacher, “how aoi “lfnve it tommo :nd I will think up! me way get even with the vil-' they ascertain the measurement of a vessel?”” I guess they measure it with a navy yard,” was the unexpect- ed reply. The Main Attraction. Popular approval wouldn't be so much rought after if it didn't carry o salary.—Atchison Globe. e e~ | at a poor girl by her brother undli THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKFLAND, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, | pot the only pebble on the beach— | making him sing small, and so forth. A Legal Tangle By DONALD ALLEN For two years, every time he came home trom college, Fred Inman was enthusiastic over bis cbum, Frank Withrow, and he bardly ever wrote a letter to his sister Kate without wind- ing it up with: “Yours with love, and I only wish that he was my brother-in-law.” In brother Fred’s room &t home were 0o less than six different photos of bis chum. Miss Kate had looked them over very often. The subjeet did not appeal to her. She decided that be had a weak face; that he was vain; that he was pot sincere. She wouldn't have been set against bim, however, but for the eternal barping of Fred. He sald so much that she came to almost hate his chum. She hoped never to meet him, but made up ber mind it she ever did she would give him the cold cut. Brother Fred came home at last, & graduate civil engineer, with a place offered bim in the west, and bis chum bad got his sheepskin as a lawyer and was looking for a place to bang out his shingle. He would make the keenest, brightest lawyer in the state. He would be a power in politics. He was sure to go to congress sooner or later. If only Frank could have come on a visit of two weeks! It Kate only realized how smart he really was! If she only knew beans from broomsticks hore was her chance. And then of course the sister re- plied that she didn't belleve Mr. With- row would ever create a ripple in a mud puddle, and that if he had come on a visit she'd have snubbed his vanity ten times a day, and the mother had to interfere to keep Fred from breaking chairs. He was off for the west next day, and two days after that Nelly Ames arrived from town for a long stay, and for a while Mr. Withrow was forgotten. What brought him to the front again was a trifiing incident that occurred in the village, four miles away. One day when the two girls were driving through the place they saw a carpenter putting up “He Asked Me to Be His Wife.” a sign reading: “Frank Withrow, At. torney at Law,” and on the sidewalk ;t):od & young man superintending the “My soul!l” gasped Miss Kate. “What?" “There’'s Fred's college chum!” “Well?” “I'll te! you all about it when we get home. He must know that we | live near here, and I shouldn’t won- | der if he had the cheek to call.” The story was told and the photo graphs exhibited that evening. Miss | Nelly was obliged to say that she! rather admired the subject of the ple- tures, but she was loyal to her friends. 1 It Mr. Withrow had been ding-donged | the above sald poor girl had come to hate him, why she would hate him, too. She stood ready to do her share of the snubbing any time he appeared. | Yes, come to think of it, he must be | vain and conceited or he wouldn't have hung out such a big sign, and he wouldn’t have been standing wlm! his hands in his pockets bossing the lhb. And she ended up with: “Don’t you feel bad, poor girl. laln.” Then plots and plans were Iomod‘ Both girls were just as much in earn- est as if Mr Withrow had met them and proved himself a cad of the first water. [t was Miss Nelly who was to play the leading part, she being a stranger to all. The attorney-at-law and future mem- ber of congress had no law business on hand as the two young ladies en- tered hi~ office. Had be ever bandled a breach-of-promise case? No; not exactly, but he was ready to. It was Miss Nelly who was doing the talk- ing, while Miss Kate took & seat by the window and gazed out into the street. What were the particulars of the case? The victim dabbed her eyes with her bandkerchief, and was asked please to coutrol her emotions. “He—he courted me!” she sald. “l see. iooks like a sure case for you at the start.” “Then | learned to love—love bim.” “Of course. That makes the case still stronger.” “Then he said be loved me.” ‘“They always do, and the jury takes that into consideration. Very strong case—very." “And he asked me to be his wife.” “Did, eh? The colls are closing around him. He wrote you letters, didn’t he?” “Three every day, and all full ot fond names and protestations.” “How many in all?” “Three thousand, | guess.” “Why, ten would hang him as high as Haman! These letters refer to marriage, do they?” “Every one.” “But about his growing cold?" “The time came when—when—ob, bow can | tell you!” “Please be calm. The time came when he po longer loved you?” “Yes, he went to & circus and fell in love witn the girl llon-tamer. He wrote me that he bad mistaken bhis heart; that it did not beat for me.” “The infernal scoundrel! Well, be shall suffer for it if | take the case. You want damages, of course?” “At least ity thousand dollars. My lite has been wrecked, you know?” “Certainly, but if it hasn’t we'll tell the jury it bas. And the name of this human hyena?” “Frits Baumgarten.” “German, eh? That makes it twice as bad for him. When a German comes over here and proves false to bis vows to an American girl the jury always returns a swinging verdict. Think it over for a day or two, and then if you decide to go ahead bring in the three thousand letters. There isn’t the slightest doubt that you bave a sure case. Good afternoon, ladies.” The girls were in the pony cart and headed for home before either spoke. Then Miss Nelly asked: “Kate, was it a great success?” “l—[ don’t know."” “Nor I, either. Say, I think you ought to like that young man.” “Why?" “Because he isn’t anything like you said he was. [ guess we haven't done such a smart thing after all.” The next day as the two were on the side veranda chatting, Mr. With- row drove up. Both tried to get into the parlor by the open window at once, and both fell back on the veranda and were assisted to rise by the attorney-at-law. He was cool and calm and pleasant and there was something real kind in his voice as he sald: “Both of you had been pointed out to me three days before, and so I knew you. Miss Ames, [ don't think I'll take your breach-of-promise case. | find there’s a legal tangle in it Those three thousand love letters must have been written in German, and they couldn’t be read to the jury. Miss Inman, as a friend of your brother—" And then they all went to talking and laughing and the mother came out to help on, and Fred’s chum was asked to stay to dinner, and that night when the girl's went to thelr room Miss Nelly put up her lip and sald: “I've lost my breach-of-promise case, !and I seo your finish!” WAS GOOD FOR HIS BUSINESS Ice Dealer Tells of the Mild Winter We Had Last Year—Bumble Bees in February. “Well, winter seems to be over,” he sald to the solemn looking man in the car beside him. “Yes, | guess It 1s,” was the reply. “It was a very mild winter.” “What!” “Very mild winter, sir—the mildest for many years.” “You mean the coldest. Why, man alive, it was a very, very hard winter. &:_u almost zero weather in Novem- “Beg pardon, sir, but November was and discarded almost dally, but at the end of a fortnight the bright idea came. It was not to assassinate the young man waiting for his first client, but to humilic’s> him. Miss Nelly called it taking bim down a peg— giving him to understand that bhe was like summer.” “Humph! And December, sir—it | was like Greenland.” | “1 saw dandelions out in December, and few men wore overcoats in Jan- i ;uary. You must be thinking of that winter tea years ago.” B s PSRN T R BRI NOVE “No, I'm not. | burned more coal 1o February than for years berore. [13 was Dbitter cold for 13 successive days.” “| don’t like to dispute you, but bumble bees were bumming around at the time you speak of.” “Why, man,” said the solemn look- ing man, “are you trying to make out that | am a fool” *No, sir.” “Then why do you talk in the way that you do? Why do you talk of bumble bees in February?” “Because | am in the ice business and we want to raise prices 30 per cent. this summer, and we must an- pounce that owing to the exceedingly mild winter we could cut but balf & crop!” —————— Origin of “Hurrah.” The word “burrah” is pure Sclavon- fan, and is commonly heard from the coast of Dalmatia to Behring Straits, when any of the population living within these limits are called on to give proof of courage and valor. The origin of the word belongs to the primitive idea that every man that dies heroically for bis country goes straight to Heaven (Hu-raj to Pars dise), and it is so that in the shock and ardor of battle, the combatants utter that cry, as the Turks do that of Allah, each animating uimself by the certitude of immediate recompense, to forget earth and contemn death. Spanish Hen Holds Record. The eggs of the Spanish hen, weigh- Ing seven to the pound, are the largest produced. ” 00Q00000000000000Q o -] . CHURCH CALENDAR. g =] 00000000000000000 Presbyterian Church. Rev. U. P. Chalmers, Pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Morning sermon 11:00 a. m, Evening sermon-at 7:30 p. m, Y. P. 8. C. E. meets in co-opera- tion with other societies at the Cum- berland Presbyterian, Prayermeeting, Wednesday, 7:30. Christian Church. Geo. W. Reimer, Pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Communion 10:45 a, m. Preaching, 11:00 a. m. Y. P. 8. C. E. co-operates with other socleties at Cumberland Pres- byterian church, Evening sermon, 7:30 a. m. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. Corner Florida avenue and Bay St. The Rev. Willlam Dudley Nowlin, D., pastor. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Stevens, superintendent. Preaching Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m, Weekly prayermeeting \Wednesday evening at 7:30. D. H. C. Woman's Missionary and Aid So-|¢ ciety Monday 3:30 p. m. Baptist Young People's at 6:30 p. m. 2 Regular monthly business meeting first Wédnesday at 7:30 p. m. East Lakeland Mission. Milton, superintendent. Prayer- meeting Thursday at 7 p. m. Meeting Episcopal Church. Rev. J. H. Weddell, rector. Each Sunday excepting only the third Sunday of each month and the fifth Sunday when it occurs: Sunday school every Sunday at 10 a, m. Service 11:00 a. m. Evening Prayer 5:00 p. m. M. E. Church, South. W. K. Piner, Pastor. Sunday scheol 9:45 a. m. Morning sermon 11:00 a, m. Epworth League 6:00 p. m. Evening service, 7:00 p. m. Prayermeeting Wednesday m. 8:00 p. Lutheran Church. Rev. H. J. Mathias, Pastor. Sunday school 10:00 a. m. Preaching service 11:00 a. m. Evening service will be resumed at an early date. Catholic Church, Rt. Rev. A. B. Fox, Pastor. Services are held on second and fourth Sundays at 9:00 a. m. Cumberland Presbyterian. Without pastor. Sunday school at the regular hour. Y.P.8. C.E at 6:30 p. m.* MBER, 3, 1911. 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