Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 8, 1911, Page 6

PAGE SIX. BETTER FARMING SPECIAL TRAIN i R | ] For the past six days the Alluutir} Coast Line railroad and the Exten-| sion Division of the University of| Florida have been planning to start the “Better Farming Special,” and final arrangements have been com- pleted, dates and places stated. The train leaves Gainesville November 15th and will pass over the A. C. L lines, running by way of llilllmd.1 Jacksonville and Palatka, stopping at many points between that and Lee | county, and returning on their west- | tern division, ending at Live Oak.; About forty stops have been arranged for which allowance is made for not less than two hours at cach place. The train consists, for the most part, of exhibits grown on the Experiment Station farm and material collected by the staff. A full carload of hogs consisting of Rerkshires l’olnud"‘“'d“"s on the north canal which Chinas, Duroc Jerseys. (Chester | @r¢ in sight of each other. In all i = there are five dredges and a rock Whites, Hampshire and Tamworths, have been secured. Two carloads of improved implements have been loan- ed by the different manufacturers represented in the State, The Citrus Car. The citrus car will be attached at Orlando. It is being preparved at Tampa, showing methods of |):u‘killb!.‘ grading and shipping of citrus prod- uets from Florida. Five or six thou- sand bulietins will be distributed on this tour, and a Farmers Library has been secured consisting of the best books on agricultural matters for Florida. A great deal of other mate- rial is on hand, just waiting for the cars to arrive that they may be equipped, Three or more speakers will accom- pany the train from start to finish. A stereopticon lantern, enlarged charts, photographs, views of the Uni- versity and Experiment Station work- ings and a great deal of illustrated matter that the public will be inter- ested in. Bach speaker will be a specialist in his own line and it is ex- pected that a very large number of people will take the opportunity to see what the University can offer in the way of instruction. The boards of trade, mayors, ministers, men of all professions, are interesting them- selves in this and are endeavoring to stimulate the people that no one will miss this educational train. It prom- ises to be one of the greatest agri- cultural movements that has taken place in the South. Arrangements are practically completed to cover the Seaboard, Louisville & Nashville, and Live Oak, Perry &Gulf railroads, and other railroads of the State have expressed their desire to co-operate in this movement. THIS APPLIES HERE. Malicious destruction of property is a serious offense and during the past year many complaints have been made and in cach instance the in- dication point to a party of half grown boys in town as the culprits. Apparently they have an organiza- tion a Ia Jesse James, and warry on this uefarious practice from sheer joy of viciousness. Evidence of their guilt will sooner or later face them and the law will take its course. Then the parents of these boys will realize their neglect in al- lowing them to run wild and become young desperadoes.—Fort Pierce News, BRAND THE KNOCKER. | After listening to a may standing on the corner damuing the town, a Kansas editor sat down to his old | typewriter and knocked off the fol- | lowing: “The town knocker the dis- | turber, the chronic knocker, the THE EVENIN EVERGLADES CANAL IS SOON TO BE COMPLETED Will Enable Passage Inland from Ft. Myers to Miami. Captain George Neclson, manager for the Furst-Clark dredging the canals in the Ever-; ! zlades, is authority lor the state- ment that the first of the canals to be constructed will be opened by the Ist of January. In a receit issue of the Miami Metropolis, (Captain Nelson was given credit for the fol- lowing statement: “By the 1st of January the trip from Miami to Fort Myers may be made through the canals, which will be completed by the time.” “The canals are nearing comple- tion, and, in fact, the dredges are son said, “Kight miles of canals were con- structed last month. boat at work in this canal,:which, as stated, we expect to have open about the first of the year. Construction | Company, which has the contract for in sight of each other,” Mr. Nel-| gnow ghe would explain. “They We have two. | on the beauty of the Flemish wood- G TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, | than any of the men In his family I'd like to know it! He {is per-fectly splendid, and you can just all apolo- gize'!"” “We apologize, all right,” gasped her brother, who was the first of the family to recover. “If falling in love with Rufus has reformed you we shall Reforming | Mildred NEW YORK SIXTY YEARS AGO. { Mildred was astonishingly proficient The buildings in New York con- i In the gentle art of self-depreciation. | ¢jn ;e 1o grow taller and taller. The She had a horror of permitting po:)ple [tower of Babel in all probability to think herself or her possessions; . e side them. better than they really were. sheif““"“l“lo"kl ‘;‘xf”t‘l?’ :J,:Zmonly o cculd not bear tiac any one should be-| The singer bullding el i lieve she was trying to appear smart-| creased the pace without fixing the er or nicer than she was in reality. |limitations. For instance, if a person casually| These tall buildings have called admired her bracelet, which was set o.¢) , (yadition that can obtain no with tiny French brilliants that de- fied the criticism of anyone but an ex- pert with a magnifying glass, Mildred always spoke up hurriedly. “They aren’t real diamonds, longer. An “old timer’ speaking of this old tradition in the New York you | Times, says: “The height of buildings in New But they|yok has dealt a blow to an old superstition that animated many a country youth wio came here to work In her home she would hasten to | make his fortune sixty years ago. say: “But you know it isn’t real oak | Heaven knows how they came by the —it's just pine stained. The effect i8| belief, but most of these up-state exactly as good and you couldn't tell | hoys came to the city thinking that the difference unless 1t was explained | j; 1}, could toss a coin over a house look real, don’t they? aren't.” When visitors chanced .to remark to you—but it isn't real oak at all'" One day she said to visitors: “No, father isn't rich emough to own an automobile.” Yet these same visitors . had been assured ten minutes before i by her father that he disliked cheap cars and was waiting untll American “We expect to construct ten miles | manufacturers did better work before ! this month. Everything is busy about ; he bought a machine. I the yvords, and a beat will be Lailt ] | 1 [ soon to drill the rock from the Miami| “A dredge was taken sixty miles from the south canal to the Hills- i boro below Deerfie'd, It completed fi‘teen miles along the coast, and | arrived at Deerfield last night. Sometimes Mlldred's despairing iy "B y ¥ ;.| family would take her aside after such pRual YO DNDOOCHL0 iarE Jn Mi=: Gutburst and remonstrate with her. ami lock about the middie of MUY Thelr words ranged from tearful sup- month. ‘The south canal lock is fin-| plication to roaring threats, but the ished, while a half of the rorth ca-| effect in all cases was precisely noth- inal lock is constructed already.” ing. Mildred would turn her rather i prominent, accusing eyes upon her T TRRTGR mentor and say: “Well, but it's true, REWARD OFFERED FOR Isn't it? What's wrong about telling . TAMPA EMBEZZLER | 'h¢ truth™ As time went on her family de- i s P spaired of ever finding a cure for this { Sherift R. A. Jackson, of Hills-| obliquity of Miidred’s mind. They borough county has offered a reward| would sacrifice much in order to jolt of $100 for the arrest of Frank Als-| her into a becomingly tactful state of dorf, the man who is wanted for al- "’:’.".'cl::::l" They finally concluded it red embe: 9 ess. '1‘_':‘;":'; "':’_?:::‘;:f”“(“o‘:p‘:fy' "A“:’:d:‘:j It irritated Mildred's mother to sail y & Y out in a brand-new gown made from disappeared from Tampa a little more| an old one sent her by a rich sunt than a week ago. He had been acting| and then to hear her daughter chirp: as cashier at the car barns in Ybor| “You'd never guess mother hadn't City, and the money he turned in| Sone downtown and bought that goods next is s0 much larger than mother that it 807 4 just $672 short of what the slips things cut down nicely for her!" showed it should have been. The as follows: shocked: “Age, 26 years; height, 6 feet 1 inch; weight 150 pounds; eyes, blue; hair black; complexion, dark; eyes sunken; consumptive in appearance; when it wasn't, would be decelving them!” any perfectly good mother. ing throat; prominent cheek bones and narrow chin; stands slightly | common sense. stooped; bites finger nails to the quick; scar on back of left wpist and palm of left hand, caused by gunshot wound; inveterate cigarette smoker.| put that he was expelled because he Occupation: Street railway motor-| got into so many scrapes. She also man or conductor, clerk or book-| pointed out that, even though he did keeper. Has served as soldier in| have a prominent jaw, his character Rural Guards, Havana, Cuba. Born | !acked decision and that he threw his in New York City and educated at things on the floor instead of hang- Oak Wood Seminary, Union Springs.| "o when she became en ed to Ru- New York. Supposed to be headed| tus Price her family, in -:t‘. of thi::lr for San Francisco or the Pacific disappointment, were relieved. They coast.” felt that henceforth Mildred would be kept busy polnting out all of Rufus' defects and faults and sins to him, so that they would get a much needed rest. It there was anything Rufus had in abundance it was faults. A live coon, snugly wrapped in a| gtood ten miles away and let you fire hammock on the front porch at the| a shot at him it would have been im- bome of 1. 8. Giddens, at Tampa,| possible to escape hitting a fault or caused considerable excitement and | %0. The more Mildred's tamily thought cqually as much fun a few minutes| out it the more Rutus appeared to just about dusk on Saturday. them like a great blessing. Mrs. Giddens and her youngest daughter had been away from home during the afternoon, and when they returned Miss Giddens went to the hammock, which was in its usual po- sition, intending to rest there a few regard to abstract things, too. She carefully explained that her.brother's eyes didn’t really fail him at college, COON SELECTS HAMMOCK AS RESTING PLACE ing when Mildred was supposed to be upstairs. “He is so homely,” said Mildred's n;mher. “and so awkward. and so slow—" for one night's receipts checked up by the yard, would you? Aunt Sarah (¢ description issued by Sheriff Jackson, 't::g T:::::Gr:;lm l:fotte‘:-"t';llw:: & along with the offer of a reward, is| ticular performance Mildred retorted, | & “Why, you actually weren't | trying to make them think it was new | & were you? That|$ Mildred was just as downright in 4 ing them up. i If he had| They were talking it over one even- | they took a fancy to at the first try the house woud be theirs some day. “It was one of my surest convic- tions and 1 put it to a test immed- fately after paying for my first meal in New York. The only money 1 had left was an old-fashioned three- cent piece. With that in my hand {1 walked around locking for a de- ;sh‘illrln picce of property. Pretty 8oon a corner lot on which stood a two-story and a half brick house took my eye. “l had practiced coin throwing in the country, so | let my three-cent piece go for all it was worth over the front of the house and ran around to the back to see where it landed. It went clean over. 1 knew thon that that house and lot would be mine in due time, and sure enough they were. People don't woo for- tune by flipping coins these days. The fellow whose success depended upon tossing a three-cent piece over the Singer building would be in a pretty bad fix."” Of course, this reply would floor |§ 8till, as |2 slight cough and continually clear-| Mildred's mother sald, it was Infuriat- [ £ ing to have a daughter so devold of |} | | | | Fitted for the Business. “My son John,” proudly remarked | Mrs. McAllister to some one who had ;lnqnlred about the family, “he's run- {nin’ the drug store now. He's been 'doiu it for a yeur er more. You {know he was to college an’ studied trouble maker, the small individual | minutes. She noticed the swing had who goes about scattering discord | been furled two or three times and, and contention in his community|as she touched it with her hand a should be branded what he is: anjow growl emitted. Mr. Giddens is enemy to his comunity and a wart!out of the city and so the ladies at on the face of the earth.” ! People do not scem to venerate freedom as much as they formerly did. Several States have prohibited the sale and manufacture of liquor, that weak men may not be free to make fools of themselves. And oc- casionally a bold man asks why some of the other habits of fools are not prohibited. once summoned help for investiga- tion. State's Attorney Herbert S. Phillips was one of the first to re- spond. He unfurled the cloth and out jumped a large-sized coon. It was but the work of a moment for Mr. Phillips to lay hands on the in- truder and the coon now occupies a temporary cage at the Giddens home as a souvenir of the little adven- ture. “And he’ll never make a dollar,” in-! palmistry so’s tc fit himselt for the terrupted Mildred's father. | business.” “And his temper!” suggested Mil-' dred’s brother. “Gee! - ed!” Gee! Cross grain | Necessary Change. Rev. Mr. Hollers—"Mistah Johnsing, who, apparently, bad ; what foh you call dat son of yoh's e i risen out of the [ Izaak Walton, when he was baptized She breathed hard. “I should think | OcOTS® Washington?™ Mr. Johnson— vou'd all be of yourselves!” | Boetnse.. sah, dat rascal's reputashun e stermed. m“l‘o ‘: align a for :encly made dat change imper- 1 man like Rufus’ '“'“"l’m! tive."--Christian Register. 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