Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 11, 1911, Page 4

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 second class. EDITOR. M. F. HETHERINGTON, HOLWORTHY Manager. A Business and Circulation SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year ...... AR $5.00 Six months ............ 2.50 Three months ......... 125 Delivered anywhere within the | jimits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, ¥rom the same oflice is issued LAKELAND NEWS giving a crop condi- Sent | TiiE a weekly sume ol tions, county newspaper re- mutters, aflairs, ete, local l Ruminations of lie be telling family JLhope Mis, H Uncle Henry Dear Editor.: wakin up to the fack that I've got litterrery ability all right. Murder will out, as the sayin is \When Marthy stops prasin me about uny-! This community is THE BVENING TBLEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA, DEC. 11, 1911 AR P A gy is good for the development of my caracter than | give her credit tor sometimes, HOW TO KNOW ACID SOILS. ‘-\ A. Persons, chemist of tiv Agricultural Experiment tells how to ascertain i are of an acid character, il { Station soils tning 1 cap tell that other folks has!gays: begun, somethin till 1 get reel sucksessful and then she turns around and talks the other way—airaide I'll get stuck up, | guess. . hearn tell one time lack where | come from of a feller that got to prasin his sweetheart so much that she got to thinkin that she was to nice to be goin with him. I guess Marthy has been thinkin ot that fellow. 1 guess | hadn’t ought troubles but dont do you the same Marihy does me, “Whut does all your writing way anywhere tor §1.00 per year, 'l‘]i‘ 1 Florida 1 1hon, L the Bix Six in 1920, nty-four cities in Lakeland in thirteea | Wit hut She will he one ot 0 Doctors now declare that paints and powders will preserve the tace. | have evidently | this discovery, anything in it, they from the rav-| Indivs we know the and if there is have ages ol time, sSeme beaten Dovs to nothing to fear 0 T — The «on when the toa Calitorns a an editor who i do unexpected things| Out in acquitted chancee, woman jury Had voted against wo- T he women also voted The women out from the! man suteace, agair-t prohip there nvist b Florida kind. tion, different o0 Thore i+ lots of room in Polk coun-| ty, althouzh uo portion of the State shows a lircers percentage of gain iui popuiaticn daring the last census pericd. Cevsus statistics show that! there e pot more than eighteen per sens to the mile in this county, square 0 Hudson Burr declares that he is in the race for Congress in the Second District and adds that he is in it to win. Mr. McKenzie makes a like de- claration; Mr. Toomer, ditto. When the smoke of battle rolls away, how- cver, Clark, the crafty, will have his name written somewhere up in the Abou Ben Adhem class if these dis- tinguished gentlemen arven’t mighty careful. 0 R, Yesterday's issue of the Tampa Tribune was a great paper, counsist- ing of 96 pages of interesting read- ing matter and attractive advertis- ing. One firm, we note, took four fall pages to tell its Christmas story to The Tribune readers. It is ad- vertising like that which makes great stores, great newspapers and great towns, o is looked on is rais- Tallahassee, which generally as a sleepy town, ing $2,000 for advertising purposes; the live town of Sanford is arranging to =pend § £5,000 each year for the nest What s Lakelaad going (o do? We have the e, but if people S.000 five vears best town in the St don’t know about it they will 2o to some other point they have heard about A\ certaip number of people will stumble over Lakeland and dis-{ cover ns i we sit still and do noth-| ine: o certain nnmber will be influ- enced 1o come by our cvervhody wonld help a little, like our share "l‘\\'.\"\:\]\!‘r\l but i we conld et something of the ST to Florida, rowds that are coming 0 The Holmes County Advertiser publishes an article from one of the school teachers of its connty, who Lolds a second-grade certifi were writ.” . ex- edi- “pro The tor says he prints it that way but it seems like actly as “she Leno publico.” cru- elty to the voung “Prof.” le dis- cusses the selection of a “Supt.,” de- «laring that the incumbent of that office “seams to think we ruel teach- ers does'ent have any hard-ships and no hard work to encounter with.” There is much more of the same tenor in this murderous assault on the English language, which averages at least two errors to the line. Edi- tors, in their charity. usually cor- rect the mistakes of contributors who in their blind conceit, think they know it all, but sometimes the worm turne, and they print the “piece” verbatim et literatim. But how on earth did it happen that such an ignoramus was turned among tihe defenscless school dren of this State, and with ond-grade certificate? looso chil- a sec- [ duty 1 “my tdone a thas a blame sight She will ezg me on to do| It amount l tain whether or not a soil possessi- acid properties. Soils that much carbonate of lime are of ! alkaline character (i. e., directly on- posite to acid). Such soils, of cours need no limingz. But when a scil i- distinctly acid, as is oiten the case. particularly with muck soils, addi- tions of lime are always desirabl In order to determine acidity, a }\«ry simple test will saflice, Ewm ploy a uarrow strip of blue litmy I paper, an inch and a half in lengtli had for a trifle at any apoth (to be 10?2 she says. “Nobody iz paying any iry shop) in conducting the t aitention to you. You'd better bei A jew ounces of soil in questio sornbbing off the porch or somethin may Le placed iy a glass and mad eful.” Ve, osays L I riz right up then, and 1 Marthy, Mr, Hetherinz- [ten is oo man that s irying to do tis duty wnd more by this com- munity,” and, says I, 1 am going to irelp him. Duty calls we,” says || [ard 1 am awake to the call. Whea hunen Marthy. shecks to the con- seience,” says 1, but | secn ivstid of feelin passerfied was get- tin madder all the time -“but,” says duty to Lakeland in general aint perventin me from scrubbin that poreh,’t She come out when § had it done and said Id good job and she could see | was ment for manuel laber. Well what | was writin to say was, why don’t the Bord of Trade put up a sign on the vacant lot across from the new depot tellin all about the town like they towns which! most she do in less to tell. o you either one could teil what to put on it. | guess some of them collony companys that is 50 seared there peple will Took out the at- them car wondows and see somethin tractiv in this town would be sendin down there fattest men with in- strucksions to stand in frout of that sign, but thank hevins cheep and we could make a big one, and then anybody with fare sight passing through our Iu-.umlull oye- city would carry with them in “"'“‘,un.nml,\ of heat that would be required | ind an alter-dark glimpse of mind a few striking facks like The lome of the Big, Red Berry The Town of Better Things, and more about munisipel ownership of the water and light plants, the raleroad facilities, and the beautiful| senery, ete, Marthy looks like she had some- suy | hope the time is comin when the Bord of trade will sease to be a bord and get to be a real substan shal piece of timber such as will be a reel prop and support to this town So no more at present from UNCLE HENRY. bon't pay so much atten- to what 1 say about Marthy, P8 shion in no other room tric lighting. Me! One of Many Conveniences into with water by stirriy Allow the past hour, paste "with a rod or stick. to stand Tor a haly and (h Kitifre paste and insert the with a blade zeparate strip of liumn paper and press the moist s with tiie blade, and allo in this positio Remove tin end placed i the soil has changed from the oris inal blue to red. It oceurred, it | 3 L acid, [ will usuaily The 3«1111 of the paper to he inserted in the against it the paper to remdin aboutr five mntes paper and oo 00 the ulor proves that prove heneficial, {steip shoutd not be handled because ;nl[-'n such fred coloraiion of the litmas, and un- less is exercised, proper precaution ‘I.n\ change will be goil, Moo that the end of the paper applied 1o the =oil is distinetly blu. whep inserted, Blue limuas will in- variably be chanecd 1o red by acid sofl=, avd red litmus blue by dis- tinetly alkaline =oils Faintly alk: line soils will be neatral to test paper. Light of the Firefly. The statement that the light of tire- .flh s and other phosphorescent animals | )ls produced without any sensible de- ree of heat has often been repeated iwithout any information as to the ‘ln produce a similur amount ot light | by artificial methods. This information | 'is supplied by Protessor Mclntosh. He says that a temperature approaching 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit would be nee- lessary to make a light equivalent to that emitted by an ordinary firefly. The enormous waste in all industrial lme'hml‘\ of produci- g light is a mat. thing on her mind to say, But | \\1!]""" of common knowledge, and the example of the firefly remains uniwita. ted by man. The very simplicity of the mechanism employed by nature in phosphorescent animals is baffling. -~ Harper's Weekly Where Honor Is Due. “It 18 indeed a desirable thing to be well descended, but t glory belongs to our .unmhm " Plutarch is the convenlence of electric light more apparent than in the bedroom. In the sick room or sursery it is ailmost a necessity. By using the mew Edison Mazda Lamps every home can af- ford the unequaled conveniences of elec- The new Edison Mazda Lamps give twice as much Igikt as ordinary incandescent lamps ia addition to Sun’s Only Rival. Phone being strong eneugh for all ordinary usage. Come in and see the new lamp that is the L. W. FULGHUM Electrician 153 is a very ecasy matter to ascer- contain | | such ha 5 | the soil i and that an application of lime ! landling will produce aseribed to o the for she may know more about what | MAKE THIS A ——— “WATCH CHRISTMAS” "’f‘:);c“g[:;’;""" THE APPRECIATED GIFT o i _ : FOR lADI[S == 3 The present for everyday ¢ _,_ WATCHES service for Ladies & Gents WATCHES CHAINS £ £ PINS CHARMS | have a very large stock D OB G 0 O% 0 SO LOIOLOGD IO IALO " AN T m B gt w T AT QOO LOQCOPO DO DO DODOTOL g £ B R NI N N NP NP S NECK CHAINS FOBS and can please you in Size, 2 o CUFF BUTTONS TOILET SETS “ILITARY SETS My prices are right. CHAFING DISuI SILVERWARE graved FREE. PENDANTS EMBLEMS style and quality. BRACELETS STUDS MANICURE 17 LOTHES BRUSHES 3‘ Y, CLOCKS AND CHINA LOCKETS SCARF PINS & BUTTONS £ 5 - STAMP BOXES ETC. ENGRAVED FREE i : I have a fine ENGRAVER, WATERMAN' ] BRACELETS TIE CLIPS : CUFF PINS i o - Cali and b convinced that ENGRAVED 2 CUT GLASS and all my goods are en- ; Fi | TRAIN 89 ENCOUNTERED WRECA Last right about 8 o'clock the | whistle was sounded calling a crew! wrecker, and some time ! HOLIDAY CICARS {ior the jthereatter the train left for Tampa, 150 BOXES OF I wiere o number of treight cars had [Lore the track. An account of thei ‘INMAN'S BLUNTS” The wreeking of an Atlantic | 25 cigars in a box, bearing the compliments of the = [ Coust Line phosphate train at .”l labels, wonld be something nice for hubby's Chiist Leasct emd of the Polk street bridge | These cigars ap 1 ] : WO cigars are on sale ar most all cigar s 83 ulso i arly last night, prevented trains, i 4 Al s coident in this morning’s Tribune Hows: from crossing the bridge during the | Manufuctured by night hours and caused passengeis Phunc tto get a bhus ride through Hyde I‘:lri\J 2 P I“ma" Cl ar ractor il 33 wed | Tampa Bay hotel as an extra. Train No, 89, from Jacksonville, arriving at T p. m., could and turned around by wias . ( switch engines to 7 G & &&@ form the train due to leave at c¢'clock for points north, Shortly after 11 o'clock last night o wrecking train acrived from Lake- lind with o heavy hoisting crane under full steam, and the crew 1t once went to work, continuing their not cross > AT AV ErAYS efforts through the night hours, It was stated last wight that it would be some time today before the tracks would be cleared, and in the mean- time freight as well as passenger trains were arrviving and filling up the yards. The cause of the wreck was not known to railroad mep last night. “Although tour heavy |‘»l|0>]l||:lh cars left the rails, tearving up several hundred feet of track near the east- ern end of the bridee, the heavy en- gine remained on the rails, The slow speed at which the train was going at the time accounted for the fact that noue of the cars turned oy- er. Some of them were, however leaning at a danzercns anzle,” FREIGHT WRECK AT HASKELL. ' A phosphate extra and | rreizht tail end” colli ' tiaskell 8 MAKE ME PROVE IT What? That 1 am selling Men's Suit- $15, actually worth $22.50 to $30.00. Luw around, then come to my shop and Lot You'll be the judge. You'll wontler how | Lakeland’s Leading Clothing Store THE HUB JOS. LeVAY Proprietor. PR R ER R U DR R RN 7 night with the re- treight cars were ditched - 16 IWO {rains were going in o the same siding when the aceident | It is =aid that the air re-) tused to work, which accounted foi | the accident it went over, oeenrred In the caboose, when | | were Gus Nelson and | Just Receiv ed A Complete Line of LADIES’ 16-BUTTON KID GLOVES " Also 24 Pairs Ladies’ HIGH BUTTON VELVET SHOES These and many othcr Novelties the Store of Conductor . . Hardin. but they | escaped with only minor bruises. | The wrecker left at once for the scene. in the meantime the passen- | ger trains were sent around by Chubb. ! KILLED BY FALLING SCANTLING l Ocala, Dec. 10.—Ed. Moore, agcd!' forty-eight years, who was struck by a scantling at the mine at Levon in} this county on last Thursday and/ taken to Jacksonville to the hospital died in that city vyesterday. Hisl deafh is particularly a sad one as| he had made all plans to retire from | business at Christmas time and was to have been married at an early dste to a charming young woman of ! this county. Mr. Moore had been married once and is survived by two married daughters, one in Jackson- ville and one in Michigan. Mr. S Moore's body was sent to his former a ™ home at Port Huron, Mich., for burial.