Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 7, 1911, Page 7

fe Sam Prepar- ing To Weigh All Mail Matter th a view to determining junl amount it shall pay foi the; ortation of -nails, the Federal ment i8 preparing to expend| ximately $100,000 and to em- in the neighborhood of 500 men states of Tennessee, Alabama, ia, Florida and South Carolina, ghing mail matter carried by arious rail and water lines. t is a part of the quadrennial jation customary with the ment. only in the southeastern but in the remainder of the States as well, a three ’ weighing of the mails will from this procedure, department will pe enabled to mimate the amount of mail mat- uled over any particular line properly be paid for such , says the Times-Union. Details Being Planned. gin before the first of the year, to facilitate the work which sult from the three months’ Additional office space must be d and details of getting the pder way must be worked out, to the actual launching of theI as been charged, on previous pns, that when the time for ing the mails approuched, a r of publishing houses have ted large quantities of cat- and that the mail pouches been annually crowded with copies of magazines and peri- rnment postoffice inspectors n view of these charges, exer- treme caution this year in an to determine whether or not icharges are true and if so, to t such deception. During the onths’ weighing period these ors will make frequent inves- ps over the lines of various gs and will examine the mail , in order to see that thel| re not padded. Exact Date Unknown. gh it is generally known that will be undertaken by the pent, no definite announce- to the exact time has as yet nnounced. On the contrary, toffice department seems to be ng the strictest secrecy in nnection, desiring, it is be- to withhold this information larly from the transportation Mlected. e meanwhile, though, definite tions for the work are under d even at this time, a large of unofficial applications for itions of weigher and clerk, n made. the government makes eneral investigation once ur years, it is not infrequent imilar investigations, on a scale, are made at various w of the fact that charges Jansportation companies were verpaid for carrying mails, peatedly been made, it is ex- that the investigation this Il be unusually rigid. Something to Exerclise On. OW or other the women who it they were born to command get married.-—Exchange. Tod Mannow's Strategy “Shucks!” said Tod Mannows, dis | tinctly. Then he sat down on the low- est step and glumly surveyed the back yard. Never before had he noted how | extremely large is & buln.rduby' 30 feet. Thrusting his hands into his poek- ots be leaned back stifly and contin- Mu.lovuuthovmom The reason for this sudden and ex- treme dislike for the rear part of the Mannows premises was the ultlnl(llll| issued that morning at breakfast by the elder Mannows. “I'm tired of your fooling around the conclusion of an episode relat- ng to two broken windows, a careless- ly thrown baseball and an irate nelgh- bor. “You are big and strong enough something useful. I have long wish- od to bave a garden. Now, you may spade up the entire back yard so that next spring it will be in condition to like for its accomplishment, but you've Tod was well acquainted with his father. Nothing short of a convul- sion of nature and the complete wiping out of the Mannows premises would suffice to alter that decree. Therefore, he remarked again with desperate em- phasis, “Shucks!" and then got to his feet slowly, | At an ear plercing whistle from the next yard he looked even more glum than before. The summons emanated from Fatty Dyckman and meant that the boys were gathering in the base- ball lot. “Can't!” Tod yelled to Fatty, spade a garden!" Fatty's head rose above the high board fence. “Aw, cumalong!” he sald, unbelievingly. He looked serious, how- ever, when Tod appeared at the base- ment door with a spade in his hand. “Gee!" he breathed. “That's fierce! Mebbe I'll help you,” Fatty sald nobly. “If 1 get time, that is,” he added, more cautiously, Tod did not cheer up at the hand- some offier. He was a peesimist on this subject. Fatty's head disappeared, and Tod with great effort spaded up at least a teaspoonful of the soll. Manual labor was his acute idea of nothing at all to do. Suddenly something in the dirt glit- tered and he pounced upon it breath- lessly. It was nothing but a bit of glass. As he turned it over in fill’ fingers an idea crept into his brain, A grin slowly transfigured his features. Then he dropped the plece of glass and the spade, ran to the rear door and slid into the house. When he emerged he had his moth- er's embroldery scissors and a large back comb that belonged to his sister. It had been laid away in her top bu- reau drawer to await the return of the style demanding large back combs in one's hair. Thickly strewn over it were big, sparkly brilliants which giit- tered in the sunlight like the best product of the South African mines. It did not take the boy long to pry them all ioose. They made a bhand- ful. Tod planted three of them very near the spot where he had spaded up the teaspoonful of soll. Then he distrid uted the others over the yard with the skill of a veteran saiter of gold mines. Next he strolled to the fence. Fatty was just starting out with his catch- ers’ glove. . “Yow-w-w!" Tod yelled. “I must 'a sprained by wrist!”™ He dangled it in the air. “Pa’ll jump on me for mot spadin’, too!” Fatty looked irresolute. “I s'pose I kin do a little before the boys git there,” he sald, herofcally. He climb- ed the fence and took the spade. “Right_here I started,” Tod direct- “Gotta l Only exclusive shoe All the latest lough Shoe Co. ..NOTHING BUT SHOES... We sell at regular prices and give a discount of S per cent. YOUR GAIN OUR LOSS. and see for yourself W store in Lakelaad. styles---Call | from the back steps. {J. B. Streater Estimates L. M. Futch. Geatry Undertaking Co. THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, NOV EMBER, ed, nursing his wrist. “Oh, gee!" Fatty bad shoveled two swadefuls of earth when he suddenly went down on his knees. “What's the matter?” asked Tod “Nothin',” Fatty replied, bending over something he held in his hand. He made another wild grab into the excited face. “Say,” he called. “You'd better go into the house and lie down. You can’t tell about a sprain. Mebbe it's broke. You wanta be careful! Any- how, 1 like to spade!” “All right,” sald Tod reluctantly. “Don’t work too hard,” he cautioned Fatty as be disappeared through the back door. Frequently during the morning he abandoned his hammock and wild west book and plate of frdge, which his sister thought she bad hidden bebind the top row of books, to look out upon Fuatty Dyckman. That energetic young person was toiling furiously. Dirt streaked his perspiring face, and fre- ducted. On the statistics se-| S9tting into mischief all through va-|quently he paused and rubbed his ach- the post- cation,” bis father had announced at | ing back. Now and then he made a triumphant grab into the spaded earth. That evening the senior Mannows looked with surprise at the large Il determine just what amount | to devote your surplus energy to|amount of work accomplished in the garden. Nearly all of it was spaded. “You must bave worked llke a naller!” he said to his son. “I didn't mean that you should kill yourself by fle the actual weighing will| plant. You can take as long as you | spading it all in one day!" “Aw,” sald Tod indistinctly, as he athorities are making prepara-| 80t to work at it for awhile every day.” | 8lid out to join the boys. “That was dead easy!” The Professions DR R R SULLIVAN, —PHYSICIAN— Special attention given to Surgery and Gynecology Kentucky Building LAKELAND, 'Pone 132 FLA. DR. SAMUEL F. SMITH SPECIALIST Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Glasses Scientifically Prescribed 'Phone: Office 141, Residence 22. Bryant Bldg, Lakeland, Fla. DR. W. 8. IRVIN DENTIST Established in July, 1900 Rooms 14 and 15 Kentucky Bullding Phones: Office 180; Residence 84 f DR. W. R, GROOVER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGRON, Rooms 3 and 4 Kentucky Buil¢ing LARRLAND, FrLORIDA, DR. SARAH E. WHEELER Osteopath Physician Rooms 5, 6, and 17 Bryant Bldg. Lakeland, Fla. TUCKER & TUCKER, —Lawyers— Raymondo Bldg. Lakeland, R. B. HUFFAKER, —Attorney-at-Law— Bartow, Fla. Florida Roor 7 Stuart Bldg. C. M. TRAMMELL, Attorney-at-Law. Offices, Bryant Buildiug Lakeland, Fla. ROGERS & BLANTON La Bryant Block, 'Phone 319 Lakeland, Fla. TUCKER & TUCKER Lawyers Raymondo Bldg. Lakeland, Fla. C. F. Kennedy STREATER & KENNEDY Contractors and Builders, Cheerfully Furnished. Let ug talk with you about your building large or small Telephone 169, or 104 Blue. J. H. Gentry. Successors to Angle Undertaking Co. :: EMBALMERS AND FUNERAL DIRECTORS. 'Phones: day or night, 245. Day 'phone 241. AN INVESTHEN;' li skiang lnghlands dirt. Then he turned around with an | Will Prove Profitable. We have sub-divided our prop- erty in Lakeland Highlands, centering around Banana, Scott and Seward lakes into Bungalow lots and ten-acre tracts. We are developing this prop- erty as a high class resort: we rally drained. The climate is pure and invigorating and there are no mosquitoes nor malaria at Lakeland Highlands. The improvements now under construction, consist of a mag- nificent Country Club House, Spanish Mission style of archi- tecture, school and chapel, boat houses, stables and garage. A golf course is now being planned in addition to many oth- er out door and indoor amuse. l;n:nti. The approximate cost to With the above improvements and developments it is obvious that property values in this sec- tion will increase very rapidly during the next few years. An investment made now, at the present iow pries and easy terms, should yield very hand. some commercial returns. It would not be surprising to see this property double in value during the next two years. The social and health advan- tages at Lakeland Highlands will be worth the amount of your in- vestment. An investment in a lot or ten acre tract entitles you to & membership in the Lakeland Highlands Club, with all its privileges. If interested please call or write us for further information. W. F. HALLAM & CO. Lakeland, Fla. Use of Checks In France. The governor of the Banque (¢ France has just sent to the director ot the departmental branch offices a «ir cular instructing them about the use of crossed checks. The Temps in pub lishing these Instructions points out the advantage of the English metlon of employing checks and then sho: - how the French system of making pay ments immoblilizes capital unpgodue tively in purse, drawer or bank, where as these sums converted into check would be profitable not only to tlen owner but also for the bank which e ploys them. While the Bank of France ha: 1o face a bank note circulation of .y o 000,000 francs and the monetary toci is 211 francs 75 centimes per head o* the conmtributions, England with greater amount of business has a b note circulation of 698,000,060 [y and a monetary stock of 84 francs centimes. o8 Keep Plants Free From Dust. Dust is an enemy to plant Plants breathe through their leaves; therefore it is necessary to keep them free from dust. At least once a week, and oftener if the room is very warm or dusty, the plants should be put in the bathtub on their side and gently sprinkled with a hath spray. S. L. A. CLONTS DEALER IN lite. | | ! Real [state CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— SOME FINE BARGAINS. Office in Clonts’ Building. , 1911, PAGE SEVEN Destruction of Rats. An East Africa publication contains I & description of a method of destroy- ing rats, followed In Java, in which carbon Dbisulphate in employed In carrying out the method a small quan. tity, usuelly about half a teaspoonful of the carbon bisulphide is poured in- to the rat hole and after waiting a few moments to let the liquid evap- orate, the mixture of air and vapor is lighted, a small explosion resulting and filling the hole with poisonous gas, killing the rats instantly. Such a pro cess practiced openly might be objec- tionable under some circumstances be- cause of danger from fire resulting from the explosion and a field for In- vention appears to offer itselfl to pro- vido some form of fire-proof gun or explosion chamber suitably formed to be inserted in the mouth of the rat hole and adapted to enclose the ex- plosion and discharge the resulting noxious gas into the hole.—Scientifio American. Exquisite Elegy Tribute to Friend. The early death of Keats robbed Shelley of a dear friend, but led to the writing of the exquisite elegy #Adonais,” and it is rather touching to recall that when She'ley was drowned, & year and a half later, a copy of Keats' poems was found open in his coat pocket when his body was washed ashore. Her View of It. The childish daughter of the house had been sent into the parlor to en- tertain the unexpected guest. The woman finquired, by way of making conversation, where was the child's brother. “He's gone to the school of ministers to be pastorized,” she was respectfully informed. Nove!s and Serious Bcoks. Do the public Moraries cater { clusively to the novel-reader? Statis- ! ties prepared under the supervision of | the Budget Exhibit commiftee prove | otherwise. Out of a collcction of { 1,656,852 volumes, the public libraries | contain only 380,927 novels, ns against 1,023,854 books for the student and serious rcader.—New York World. ex. ‘oujzeBeIy #8200NE—, AINIA ‘APMOH., ‘adj0A yuvam ‘miy) © uj papdas wdegd «9llIA 0 yvads nos jued, ‘pjes ogs ,'ugor, ‘pueqsny Jagy 0} pauiny o4s uojsedd0 oy) o) [enbd Jujjeey 100 Inq ‘U0)1091100 papaau oy IyInoy) doqiom sjy qojgm Joj Sujgiomos auop Peq oI ‘uwed0 Oy Su|ss0Id GI0M OlilM uos pue smmem puv wded ‘ONIM Buj3oessod London the Greatest Market. London is the world's greatest man ket for tea and ivory, sald Mr. J. @. Broodbank of the Port Authority at the Soclety of Arts, a few days ago. Each year 120,000 tons of tea and the product of 20,000 elephants reached London. Forty million sheep's fleeces pass through the dock annually. In one waiehouse 100,000,000 cigars are stored, and in another 2600,000 gal- lons of rum. S — Only Need Completion. If you have bullt castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that Is where they shculd be! now put foundations under them - Thorean. Bronze Replacing Brass. Lronze 1= taking the place ol brass in the finings of raflroad passenger conches St IrmIe M use them. We S R 'Pho G e The Lakeland Ste S onc of the best equipped plants in the State having all modern machinery and what is more, we @ © have operators who know how to laundry. Do you send yours? not, why not give atrial next week? ' R.W. 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