Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 8, 1911, Page 4

! . to every citizen. PAGE FOUR. The Evening Telegram Published every afternoon from the, Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the|g second class. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR.! A. J. HOLWORTHY M. F. Business and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One ycar Six mouths Three monihs Delivered anywhere within the liimits of the City of Lakeland | for 10 cents a week, | | From Lue sale olice 1s issued LAKELAND NEWS aewspaper giving a Tiii, a week; SUWC O v sndit aitairs, e, WU per year, Sent| i Hons, oty anywhere dor § of the connectici with the dy The aspect whor jradels pamite | cutrages does throwa ou the recess tion. 0 It tutee murdercd people, hul']\;ll_;\ MeNamara dynamice, citnee ol organ- o elernity by can awaken the co ized labor to a proper abhorrence oi s means to the ends will not have died in violence sought, vain, they There all pox in the (ounl,\l Jail. We puass this pleasing bit of information cu for the benefit ul" those who migihit be disposed to! break into our county Bastile, in the, Lope of conyvincing them that it is a gocd place to keep away from. We lope tie arthovities will keep il.‘ safely and not allow it to) escape. | Q— There ate candidates and rumom; of cuandidates, but thus far we haven't Leard of anyone sufficiently foolhuruy to tackle John Logan for| the Sheritfs job. was moie orderly or freer from crime, | and to the splendid work of our big gheriff much of this happy condition ! is due, is s iy juil, SR, SRR Our curiosity is Kkeen relative to that “surprise’ Cromwell Gibbons has about his person, and which he! threatens to throw into the political urena at the proper time. Let's have the surprise some time next month. It will be about time to start some- thing then to relieve the reactionary dullness after the holidays, SIS Citrus, Osceola and Hernando counties are furnishing free schoel books to the children of these coun- ties, They say the system works beautifully and that the expense to the taxpayer is a great deal less than by any other plan. *Free school books” sounds good to us, and un- til we are shown better, we are in- clined to favor the proposition. IR W— have the Some well-meaning people started a movement to ‘‘make - county poor farms the model farms of every county.” This is good, but what are we going to do in a county where there are not enough poor people to have a poor farm? That's the situation in this county, and, if we are not mistaken, in some other counties of Florida. Polk did have & poor farm several years ago, but it bad to go out of business for lack n, patronage. Over in Osceola they 3 run the poor farm as an investment. | If they can't zet enough inmates mi do the work they hire help and the fruit has been sold at a profit of severa! ihousand dollars a year. |If anybod; an beat us Florida folks poor turming when we go into the business we would like to hear from| them. i et cmiarasa The Lakeland News, issued from this office today, covers all matters; of county interest very completely.| 1t has the commissioners’ proceed- ings, the school board proceedings. the County Court business, and scores of items that are of interest For the people liv- irg in the surrounding country or neighboring towns, whom it is nol convenient to reach with The Daily Telegram, The News is a compen- dium of all the happenings of the county for the week. Incidentally, it has a splendid and ever-growing circulation, and is an ideal medium to reach the people living in the 4rading radius of Lakeland. Mer- chants in.other cities recognize this, and one merchant in a neighboring town takes a whole page of the cur- rent issue to put his bargains before | o its readers. Several weeke ago he had a page advertisement, and the| returns were so gratifying that he is this week repeating the operation. — by which my | ity | term of re=|. d LR gundi- ot nmprove as light is| s of the situa- jorder thet the Lamong conaamers at hotie ¢ | have {done betore the demands of our raj- | siven greater depth, (this time a The county never: ¢ Sparkman Makes . o £Formal Announcement 3 s For Re-Election 9101000 QIOTOIOTOIO IO FO M | To the Democratic Voters of the First Congressional DIstrict of Florida: Respondiug to the expressed wish- es ¢f a large number of the voters of the First Congressional District of Flerida I have again become a can- didate for the nomination to Congress from that district. With a record of siateen years of service in that body it would seem unnecessary that I :hould promulgate a platform of principles, tor thai record speaks for iteelf and chould furnish a criterion course in the luture be determined. During this I have neither repe resenicd nor worked for any special service Lit Lave en- red o regreselic adine ail Fe prople cery logitimate interest I have not k vote or pert act azainst the int ; had the | Ve ever Lin the distr m I have and sy favor. Such s the record 1 huve to present | wd | { Judged, | by that 1 n willing Lunowi st ample LELHSPOT Lt | ing Mon Tacilities shoula be furnished in products o, casily and surplis tiie coantry iight he and distributed d abroad | civen my while in Congress largely to river and harbo {tprovements, during which time coarly fourteen millions of <ioil;n~ appropriated or authovis- cd or the rivers and harbors in our ' Stute, dit much yet remains to be cieaply tiansported I hove atteation been commerce shall have All our rivers should b our harbors still further improved, and canils constructed. Occupying at position which 1 trust will the better enable me to accom- plish this work, I shall to the besi| f my ability endeavor to do so. [ idly been met, prowing | In addition to water and cther cransportation facilities, and sup- | plementary thereto, our public roads occupy an important place in all | trangportation problems. [t is over| these roads that the farmer and oth- er producers haul much of their pro- ducts to market or to points on rail- roads, harbors, rivers and canals for | carriage to other localities. Just Low there is a strong and healthy sentiment in favor of the improve- ment of these roadways in order that their usefulness may be increased, and I believe the time L1s come when the Federal Government should par- ticipate in this class of improve- ment, | shall therefore use my best cfforts towards insuring such partic- 1pation and to that end shall en- deavor to have Congress enact the | necessary legislation, | i I believe in the construction by the Government of public buildings in all towns and cities where the public business will justify. 1 have already been instrumental in pro- viding for such structures in severa! towns in the district, but there arve yet other places where Government buildings arve neceded and it will he wy pleasure to do what 1 can to- ward having them provided as early | and as expeditiously as possible, Instrumental in the first place in kaving the surviving soldiers ot tho| Florida-Indian war of 1856-7 and », and the widows of those ll«u.mul p.‘uwl upon the pension roll, I shall continue my efforts to have lh| pei-| sions inereased to an amount com- mensurate with the great service these old pioneers of Florida life! performed in the carly development ! our State. This is a progressive age and 1 shall assist as long as | have the Lonor of representing the people of | Florida in Congress to carry out ail| plans of reform looking to the bet- terment of conditions affecting the TIASSes, My duties in Congress, now more exacting than ever, will keep me away from Florida the greater part of the time between this and the primaries next year so that it may be impossible for me to visit all parts of the District, but | shall, with as many of my constituents with as many of my constitutents < possible during the time. The people, during the years | have been in Congress, have always given me a very generous support, and as | am not conscious of having reglected my duty or done any- thing to forfeit their good opinion, 1 shall hope to receive the same fair nd Kindly treatment in the present compaigm and at the primaries next year. Very respectfully, S. M. SPARKMAN. R e B Y ?best of their time. ‘lll a |in this latitude during the month of several | HARVESTING SEAWEED. The Crop Is Used In Northern Franes to Enrich the Soil. Among the important features of the agricultural industries along the northern coast of France is the , harvesting of seawced. As soon as the receding waters permit the seaweed gatherers fall diligently to work. Soon every rock and ledge is shaven of its brown, slimy fleece and left as bare ‘as the back of a shorn sheep, Then preparations are made for an attack on the reefs, so numer- ous along the southern coast of the English channel. Everything that will float is pressed into service. Huge rafts are constructed, and next morning, with the current of the ebbing tide in their favor, they are towed hy the people in the boats eight or ten miles out from the coast. r Low water leaves them stranded | on the reefs and all hands make the The worker kneels on the dripping weeds, grasps a handful in the left hand and with {he sickle in the right cuts | {it off cloge to the rock and places it bag. As soon as he has eut as muceh as he ean carry the gack is [ faken on the hack to the raft, upon fwhich it is reecived Ly men with pitehforks, etacked and seeurcly ol roped, Towing the heavily laden rafts to the shore is tedions work, and prog- ress 1s slow. The wet harvesters | are soon chilled to the hone by the | keen cast wind {hat always prevails March, the harvesting season for geawed -d i The morning ¢bb tide leaves the rafts and their spoils of scaweed ! high and dry on the smooth, white Iheact . ‘ They are instantly surrounded | [y a crowd of p(-op]o with all de- | ' scriptions of vehiiles, Al work to gether hauling the “(ml to the field already prepared to reccive the pre- | cious fertilizer. I'hat it may be most ffective the scaweed must be | got into the ground as soon as pos- sible after it leaves its native ele- | i ment. ——]lur]mr 8 Weekly. A Story of a Grn! Palnt.r. Van Dyck, who was a pupil of | [ Rubens, had ranch pride in his own 1 work, as iz shown in the following tale: The canons of a certain church asked *him to paint a pic- ture for them, and when it was done and they saw it the canons called him a “dauber” and went away disgusted. Van Dyck was only a young man then and had no re- dress, but after awhile some critics |§ passed upon the picture and de- clared it to be wonderful. The canons were sorry for their mis- take and to make amends gave him a commission for two more pictures. But Van Dyck was on his dignity, and he sent them word that there were plenty of “daubers” in their own place withowt calling upon those of Antwerp. The Wages of 8in. Bert Somers, a lively four-yeu- old, is a great pet of the young lady next door and spends a good deal of his time with her. One morning he had not made his usual carly call, and Miss Sallie went, in by tha back way, just before noon, ta learn the renson. There was no one about., g0 she called: “Bert, Bert, where are you?” “lere!” anewered a shrill voice from upsiairs, and Mies Sallie, as- | cending, found her young friend, | nightie on, in bed. | “My, my!” she exclaimed. “What are vou doing in luul this | time o’ day? In for a n.sp' “Naw! In fer sassin’! en's Home (‘omp nion. | —Wom- Mis Muhlu “Once at u party,” said a Scotch | clergyman, “there was a crusty old i Scot seated at a whiet table playing l passionately, and his partner was a young woman, the daughter of a « neighboring laird. You are to im- agive this young woman’s surprise | in the heat of the game when the old fellow threw down his cards and | bawled at her: ““What kind of a game are ve plnm ve darned auld‘ “And then, recollecting himself, he bowed and said humbly to the | astonished girl: ““Yer pardon’s , madam. I took ye i in the excitement for my sin wife” ” wmmmw-m Bishop Goodman was one day ad- dnumguSudlvahulle said in a most “And now, children, a-ohllyu a very sad fact. In Africa there are 10,000,000 square miles of terri where little d their Snndnyt. Nov, w! should we all try to save up money and do?” And the class, as one voice, plied in ecstatic union, “Go to Af-| rica!”—Watchword. ‘ .S.Eisfi oy 8 7 ‘ ' . "fiem vanishing utterly, and that Xsi ley, abont ? — - MAKE THIS A —— “WATCHCHRISTMAS” omsororssososcsony TE, APPRECIATED GIFT govorovorowoso= FOR GENTS FOR_LADIES SQud: o g The m'esent for every day $ Sk WATGHIS 3 service for Ladies & Gents g $ )( )( CX CHAINS CHARMS PENDANTS ross 2 I have a very large stock g Loczers SCARF PINS ¢ and can please You in size, 3 < gr;;gl& L : style and quality. 3 B;;cmrs ) % o 'TTONS STUDS & N § CUFF PINS -3 . 3 o i oo owss o Call andbo convinced that ¢ s MILITARY SETS g my priges afe r !ght. i Erc I i {1 CLOTHES BRUSHES b . $ ENGRAVED FRIr 1 & ENGRAVED FREE : & CHAFING DISET< : d C?TVEII{é’SJiS 5 1have a jinc ENGRAVER, - C10CKS AXD ; e e ¢ and el my goeus gl ¢ e ;g H. C. STEVENS B e B S S i St S S0 S S w S O PR TR AL i D wBell T« R o Sl Jot e il QRO DOID D B N W never yot knew the possession ! i courthouse to build up a town. of the deadest places in Flor-; Sunday highbrows are denouncing lida are county ts. If a place lmsi rag time hymns the people sing; af- nothing besides a courthouse to back| ter getting such a trouncing they it up, so to speak, it cannot grow | will fade like everything! All our respectable siz«-.i:u.‘xhcms should be stately, o the is needed. But ayaugry highbrows shriek; but it seems prevent a hamlet : to me they're greatly off their lru!‘l £0 to speak. Underneath lhu} l'lln-;mm and steeple, where the hymn-| Notwithstanding the tu @ - ;'un:i musii s, there are di\‘(-rs:(l the main things whioy peopie, all varieties of | children learn about the Force Necessary. Some prefer a solemn mvm:-! that it “‘shall not rinz o It isn't enough to hit the nail on the , ure, graund, majestic, noble, strong;! old bell tinkles 265 tines . & head—there must he some force be: | others get a greater pleasure from | 3,000 American and Cunndio e hind the blow. slap-bang kind of song. Let |ho|~- Pensacola News, RAG TIME HYMNS. hymn be swift and swingi, lifting thought it starts; what's tge odds what hymn we're ciroioe o maves the people's heart-” | will go worship Milton o that flashes fire; the liltin® of ome let wh irto a town of aoyous Something else courthouse may all that it is good for. v Gorda Herald, L Kinds ot 1 | souls, i e —— lLast Week of OurGreatSale COME AND GET THE BENEFIT OF OUR PRICES, WHICH ARE BELOW COST et - A —— To———et *~ HERE ARE A FEW OF THEM: 36-inch Satin Muslin Silk. ... . 54-inch Broadcloth, Serges and Mohairs, $1.25 at . 42 and 36-inch Serges, 75¢ at. 4@-inch Percaleat. . ... ... $4.00, $4.50 and $5.00 Keith Konquerer Shoes at.... $2.98 Old Lady’s Comforts at............... : Everything in the Store will be reduced to the lowest prices. Only FOUR MORE DAYS of sale and now is the time to lay in your Winter Goods. J. W. CHILES