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PAGE FOUR. The Evening Ielegrami Publisheu ciery atierncon from the: Fla.| | id Kentucky Ruilding, Lakeland, Entercd in the postoflice at Lake-| with headguarters at land, Florida, second class. as mail matter of the M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY Manager. Business and Circulation One year Six months Three months Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, ¥rom the same coffice is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS a wecekly newspaper giving a re- sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. Confessions being the order of the day, e. g., Beattie, the McNamaras, Richeson, etc,, we wouldn’t be sur- prised if some of our preachers and teachers didn’t confess to using to-| bacco occasionally. el Sk The Lakeland Telegram says the college yell of the Florida College for \Women is: *“Hoppity, Hoppity, Hippity Hoppity; were the class that never stoppity. Greenie, whitie, high and mighty; knock the others out of sightie.” If the Telegram is right, for love of lezrning move the college te Chattahoochee! —Jacksonville Me- tropolis. SPPR & The editor was congratulating him- self about being overlooked by the ladies of the \V. ' .T. U. in their cru- sade against tobacco users, but was greeted over the telephone this morn- ing by the query, in silvery tones, “Do you use tobacco?" He confessed that he sometimes did—put it on the rosebushes to kill the bugs, and in the hens' nests to make them more comfortable. He promised to reform. i ey Editor Carter must have staged that flashlight picture taken of the Associated Press editors in Jackson- ville the other night himself, as we note that he is posed most beauti- fully in the foreground, while Editor W. M. Ball, of the Times-Union, is almost out of sight. Carter hasn't anything on Ball in looks, and we are of the opinion the latter wasn't given a fair deal. 0 In an endurance contest, when they | take their pens in hand, it is hard to tell which would be the winner —Tom Appleyard or C. 1. B. Floyd. The former’s lamentations concerning the uniform school book law and the lat- ter's “Experiences in the Legislature™ would cach fill & volume beside whiciy Webster's Unabridged would look like a child's prayer-book. 0~ Wilson seems to be in the same boat as Harmon. A letter written by the former in 1905 has just been dug up in which Mr. Wilson asks: “Can not we devise some dignified way of getting Mr. Bryan out of the Demo- cratic party and getting rid of him for all time?” These letters will rise up and swat a politician amidships when he least expects it. Still, there are many persons besides Wilson who have asked the same question with ref- erence to Bryan, DR. DIXON'S WAR JOKE. Dr. B. F. Dixon, our state auditor, who is well known and loved all over North Carolina, and who probably makes more speeches in a year than any other North Carolinian, deliver- ed the address of welcome to the State guard which met in Raleigh a few days ago. In his address he said that a certain gentleman told " the following joke at the speaker's expense: “After the battle of Seven Pines in which he was engaged, some one went to his mother to tell her of the many <illed and wounded. and she asked, ‘Did you sa yit was at Seven Pines?’ and the answer being yes, she kept on quietly knitting. Her visitor inquired, ‘Are you .not worried?’ and she replied: ‘Oh, no. If there were seven pines there Ben got behind one of them.” When the officers ceased laughing, Dr. Dixon dryly s “That joke was, of course, a lie, and proceeded to tell another about a private who, on being asked why he did not get behind a tree when the fighting was fierce, an- swered, ‘There were not enough trees and then there was Raleigh Christiar tor the oflicers, more laughter.” Advocute, Five hundred and fifteen carloads of orangzes have heen shipped from Arcadia this scason, a total of over 180,000 boxes. TAMPA TO CONNECT ! VITE V EST FLORIDA. Tampa, Jan. 1i. - Mortoy, = al superintondent ot Riddle, the third b ot 113 H ! the Atlonti Line, Jacksonville, is o Gl Const wthority for the statement that the { Coast Line is about to give "Tampa that 16ng-desired and much-hoped-foy | «direct route to West Florida. all, theso improvements | may well be consummated within the ! Im.“ year, as but approximately sev- erty-fiye miles of road needs to be| built. The route will be from Tam- pa to Trilby, via Lakeland, Trilby to Dunnellon, Dunnellun to Oldtown, Oldtown to Perry, Perry to Monticel- o, Monticello to Thomasville, Thom- asville to Albauy. From the two lai- ter points in Georgia there will be | |8ccess by various routes to the west | The connecting links of railways 1o be built are: Dunnellon to Old- {town on the Suwarnee river, forty- | two miles, Perry to Monticello, thir- try-three miles, These two connect- iig links will give & route running in an almost dircer line northwest- wardly from Lakeland, the only crook iy the road being the line rui- ning eastward from Tampa to Lake- land. “MISTER" OR “ESQUIRE." Best of The words “esquire” and “mister” are among those in daily use, says Harper's Weekly, and yet most of us would be rather puzzled to say in precise language what we meant by them. In a recent county court in ingland a schoolmaster was ruled out of the “gentleman” or “‘esquire” I:st. British legal distinctions on this point have been anomalous, how- ever. The following are not *‘gentle- men:" A buyer of silks, a solicitor's clerk out of regular work, a com- mission agent and ap audit office clerk. On the other hand, the fol- lowing have been held “gentlemen,” viz.: One following country pur- suits and a silent partner in some business, a medical student, a dis- missed coal agent out of work, and a person living on a parent's allow- ance. Aside from legal authority, it may be said that Matthew Arnold ex- plained the difference in the English custom by ap assertion that signified that a gentleman, or any one who is engaged In a “‘gentlemanly” occupa- tion is denominated ‘“‘esquire,” but that the tradesman is entitled to nothing better than “‘mister.” The English themselves are not al- ways sure in making the distinction. Not long ago it was found by one who took the trouble to investigate tha the railway companies vouchsafe the honor of “esquire” only to those pas- e ngers who care sufliciently about their social standing to L holders of first class season tickets, The rveal derivation ol the word is, as most people will re- member, from “escuyer’' —old French for “shield bearer™ -and so it came to be applied o the chiel vetainers of knights. When the teudal days passed the word remained. PRESIDENT LIKENED T0 MULE. “esquire” 1t is not often, says the Washing- ton Post, that one can compare the president of the United States to a mule and receive the President’s ap- proval for doing it. But such was the | case yesterday when the President read a letter from Jacob M. Dickin- son, of Tennessce, formerly tary of war in the Taft cabinet, a geod Democrat and a warm personal friend of the President. Mr. Dickinson has found a mulvl story applicable to the efforts of the Democrats to put the President “in a hole” as to the Sherwood pension bill. Here is the story, which Mr. Dickinson attributes to another Tn-n-[ nessean: “A well was left open, and an old mule by the name of Pete fell into it They tried to get him out with a block and tackle, but his head would | strike on one side and his rear on the cther, and they had to abandon this| plan. They then concluded that they would shoot him, but the well was so dark they could not aim. Inasmuch as he was a good and faithful animal, they determined to entomb him, and all hands gathered to shovel dirt to bury Pete. “They shoveled with hearty good will, and whepn they thought the hole was about filled up, out came Pete, walking on top of the dirt, and land-! ed on terra firma, with a most reas- suring smile.” secre- Notwithstanding the very inclem- ent weather the Royal Marionettes were greeted by another large crowd last pight. They will be here again toniglt with some tions ix; the program, which will fures and songs a i children and they! shonld all e We vill open at 1:30 Saturday afternoon for the benefit of the little ones who can not get out at night. [ the especially leavor 1o see it , ¢! business men, who are untiring ii ity THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA., JANUARY 12, 1912, U. C. V. REUNION TO BE HELD IN MACON, MAY, Macon, Ga., dan, 11 Greay arations are being made for the con- ing Confederate Veterans re-uni to be held in May 7, N, A, colonel of the Georgia Militia, .l and 9, 1912 Colonel Walter Harris, who Las been selected as general chair- man and is assisted by an able corps | their efforts to make this the grea'- est reunion ever held in Dixie, The sons of the Confederacy wil!! Lhave a very prominent part in tie! coming reunion, for which Command- | er ). Marion Dunwody, of the Thomas ! Hardiman Camp No. 18, is doins some great stunts for the Sons in the coming reunion. Mrs. Walter D Lamar, head of the U D, C.'s of (:enr-' gia, as chairmay of the Woman's Auxiliary,is untiring in her efforts for the entertainment of the Daughters, and those who know Mrs. Lamar s « | guarantee that Macon will do her| share in showing honors to the Daughters. The Confederate rennion of 191 will be the greatest ever held in any | in the South. | thousands of dollars are pouring in- | to the treasury of the general reunion committee and every citizen of Macon i doing his share to make the event } a success. \When the veterans come | to this——"The Magnetic Center” of| Dixie--they will be extended a wel- come of the kind that they will re- member until they answer the lasi sound of taps. Miacon will be their's. Do with it what they will. Macon's ¢ people will exfend the right hand o fellowship to the men who battled for Dixie. Everything that she pos- sesses will be turned over to them while they are guests, ! A committee of representative business men, headed by Jno. J. Mc- Kay, is in charge of the campaign }or funds. Unlimited money is at th: command of the committee, and every dollar will be spent to give the Ve:- erans the time of their lives. It is estimated by E. H. Hyman, secretary ‘ of the executive committee, that one hundred thousand dollars will b used by Macon in entertaining her guests, Macon will not go out in the State of Georgia for a single dollar, but on the other hand will raise the entire amount from her own citi-| zens, which shows the spirit that builds up cities, and is carrying oui to the letter the promises made by Secretary Hyman at the Little Rock reunion. PDBIDODH IO DI PHOD P! 299 mfi;«é»ocnzn':'.;-@':-;% 133 5 When You Think Think of LF.1.Go. Lakeland Furniture & Hardware Co.‘ O RIS Thousands and|g HOOOIGNIOIVDOGOGOOCOROUCOV OGO COGOOTOTFIOOIVANAVLSTOTLODO IS COUOOVVUOCOVVVVVVVVOVVITVUVVVVVDLOOOODCN PRE-INVENTORY DAL E have had a warm Fall and Winter, and I have a large stock of meyel that I want to sell before I take stock the last week in this month. is easier counted than Dry Goods, and I will start a sale tomorrow (W, day) and continue sale until Saturday evening, January 27th, 1912, .. « will be conducted on a strictly honest basis, and all goods guaranteed to be tirs I will reduce prices on every article, and give you first-class merchandise at a by My stock is new and up-to date, and | invite you to see what [ have to offer before v I guarantee my shoes as to workmanship and quality. and should you huy and the goods do not come up tothis guarantee, I will replace them or refund your LADIES’ SHOES Ladies’ Shoes worth $1.75 will be sold for 2.50 will be sold for 3.50 will be sold for 4,00 will be sold for BOYS® SUITS 5.00 to go at —— MEN’S SHOES $2.50 shoes will go for 3.50 shoes will go for 4.00 shoes will go for 5.00 shoes will go for MEN'S PANTS §1.00 to go for- - - 1.50 to go 2.50 to go 3.50 to go 4.00 to go 5.00 to go 6.00 to go 50c value at 78¢c value at $1.25 value at 1.50 value at Sale Starts Jan. 10th, Sale Ends Jan. 27th. I have one lot of Ladies’ and Children’s Shoes that will be sold for less than cos Also one lot of Men’s and Boys’ Suits. My suits for men are guaranteed to hold their coloir and shape, and will be ~ at Bargain Prices. | will make very low prices on Men's and Boys’ Hats. I haven’t space to give prices on all goods, but depend on it, that you will honest deal. Call to see me at 105 Adams Block, Kentucky Avenue, Yours vory traly, J. C. OWENS 105 ADAMS BLOCK, KENTUCKY AVENUE | SOOO0OO0ODO00UOOVO0DOOOVLIDOOVOOIVVIVOOOVO0OCOLOTDOH OVOOOVOOOOT LOOOOVOOCTOOOOOOOOOLONOUIOOOOOCOOLHOOOOOOHOOOOIOOOOCOOCDVDOOOOC L COMING! A Special Representative Direct from Chicago, Sent AT OUR REQUEST by TRAUSS BROTHER S .,;""x Master Tallors, Chicago £35S Will Be At Our Store On FRIDAY AND SATURDAY JANUARY 19th and 20th He will have with him their entire line in Full 11-3 Yard Pieces ===five hundred newest woolens. “Let him skillfully meas- ure you.” ....We Guarantee Your Entire Satisfaction.... Come and look over the SEASON’S LATEST IDEAS Woolens whether ready to buy or not. a— HUB CLOTHING CO. Lakeland JOS. LEVAY Florid: