Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 27, 1912, Page 4

PACE PAUD The Evening Telegram Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postofiice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. Ruminations of 1 Uncle Henry ! Dear Editer, a gocd manny peple has been asking what has become o(l - —|me and wantin to know have 1 zot| : - i i M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR.!(ired or what. ests were looked alter, it is probabi ——————————————— | humen beins. That is the way with Any boddy that starts A. J. HOLWORTHY out to do what he can for the pub- Business and Circulation Marager. |lick good has got to keep on ontil he | drops in the harniss as the sayin i SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year SRR | or peple will say he is falin to do his dooty. Peple seems to think that 8ix months ............ 2.50 |ine folks that has allers done tiings o Three months 1 Delivered anywhere within the | till the end of time. s the ones that had ought to do thew,: Aint that so? limits of the City of Lakeland |[Do you ever see a man that says to for 10 cents a week, hisself, **Now, 1 aint never done much ~ ———!for this town, and it is time that | From the same office is issued THE, LAKELAND NEWS a weekly newspaper giving a sume of local matters, crop condi- | this, "'l guess Mr. Black, and Mr. White, and Mr. Green (1 made them names up myself) will tions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. M’du that with out my help. have alreddy done a geod deal, and i would like to see them go ahead and put through that there plan, 1 be- RICHESON AND RELIGION. tev, . T. Richeson, a minister}, condemued to die for the murder of a youna woman, has boen expelled in the Baptist | ¢ from membersiip solation of v Religion' God help us all, iod save the mark! And} which withdraws iis support and SO Hor thonghy o it that way ave frem a tremibiing wicld hostanding i b payin out mony was the exersic o wainy i oi eternity, v repentance, on the verge Lis sin and prof True relizion is ke true charity i long suffering, not puffed up, ing not itself. But the kind in vogue ridge church seems very in this Car much like that of the smug Pharisee, | i and intolerance whose self-suffe in the Jong ago were condemned by the lips of Divinity. | The sin of Richeson was great. viewed in the light of all the condi- tions and circumstances surrounding it. a more heinous ofiense against God : and man is hardly conceivable. It isi meet that he should make statement; of the law should be administered. satisfied. the province of Omnipotence. | should not set up its judgments iR jg the ones that had ought to dojwhich will be announced later, somethin now, and give other peple a; the realm of spiritual things where One only is qualified and privileged to judge. Its vengeance should not seek to pursue a criminal beyond the (told Sam, says 1, 1 guess there not| life it takes from him. So certain as ,qin you betore was a goed enouf it does, then those respqusible for it! Lave become accessory to a crime greater than that of Richeson’s- the murder of a soul! ! There Is not a deacon, conceited, self-satisfied, smug and sanctimonious in the church that voted to withdraw the right hand of Christian fellow- | ship from Clarence Richeson, who is entitled to any spe: ¢oos not stand in Richeson’s shoes. “But for the grace of God, 1 were that man,” said John Wesley, on seo- ing a poor wretch on his woy to Ty- turn B to be hanzed, Crime is a maitter of temptation, of circumstance, of opportunity, equally as much as it of personal strength of is a matter was a-doin scmethin.” know re- does say to hisself is somethin likn-l i that is relislod e iy fnstid of hern she would no| vaunt-| | [ wards, that most condign punishment shoul ( was blamed queer for them to ast me o the Demoeratic Voters of - Polk be exacted; that the extreme penalty yor they never ast me for anything! No, sir, you you don’t. What that man Brown, and M. l i The 4, i ecove it would be a good thing." || Doolittle, his name | ousens, Samuel fwas, and we used to say that i eved church of Cambridge, Mass., and h",;n name it a man like his hide will go to his death without the CON=Fpyoaiigle's name did it him, Mart \ !;all»-rs sayed she thought Sam wani had beoen m ! ry strong, but it he and b ythie e | noand that oh, | vioaowhat 1owas intendin to tell ¥ that Sam haied the w He hated that like dont take much fizical energy. about Sam was that one time sem wimmen come to Sam and asted him | for a little zinghem and calicer Sam and his brother Josh was run-! ring a store and dresses tor the orphants asylem, 1g to do the sewing t ogive it to them, the ladys was g Sam wouldn't j bui he threw off a cent a yard mHl it. 1 thought that was reel good for Sam. But, he =ays to me alter- ays he, “Henry, | think it before.” rest long enout for them to get there breth and take a new start, fer as i reasen fer them astin' you now.” | says, “Do you want that they should keep goin' to the same peple tor there contribusions,” says I Notv, you know, Mr. H. that there here hand over fist, that wouldn't gfve up any of it to save ,the town fram deth and distrucksion, ial credit that he iy they didn't see two dollers right at | \Ih:unl for every one they was payin out, and semetimes they are se blind 'lhv-y don’t sce that whea it is reely the case. Well, 1 will hopin ihiat these few we an fmpreslion en the peple it is in- tended cor, and that the peple that this tine, is will muke close There may be St. Antho- fow character. pv's in these times, but they And, standing in our weal proncress to all at any time (donthe, it seems that we might ‘at Jeast strcteh forth a pitying hand 1o one who has sinned much but who is , our 1o the has never put Lwheel of progress in this here town :\\ill reciize that thoy "ones which had cught to somethin insted of taikin about what there yet remanes to be done by some are the avery doin Lody else. to zive his all in expiation, i S5 1o hore at present frem e 2 i UNCLE HENRY City authorities made a woman erorter kit the firsg traip out of lo\\n' the other day. Good! Now, apply the same remedy to the other fakirs and nuisances which are almost dally H to be scen on our streets, | Max Reif, of Pclk county, the great- ¢st politician that ever came down the pike, introduced the resolutio: that was adopted by the executive committee giving the people of Flor- ida the privilege of expressing their perference for President in the ap- proaching primaries. P We azree with the Starke Tele- graph that the law protecting the buzzard cught to be repealed. This filthy bird is entirely too familiar in Florida, and the impression made on tho visitor from the North by seeing them simn.g on the house-tops or for- aging in the yards is disagreeable and misleading, RS SR —— b €. HL. B. Floyd, whoese reminiscen- ces o° the last Legislature has con- tributed much to the gayety of thel lares that the Governor lives like a dime's worth of ice” i to 1 ¢ bachelor- in State, de r ! made hood. Floyd is usually happier metaphor than this. Under no cir- the and warm-hearted Gi ociated with the idca of ice—thouzh a dime’s werth, as delivered by the ice-man on e warm day, would Lardly convey the suggestion of coclness. cumoances could A Woman Makes or Mars a Eome. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox.) Charac ter-building is the first im- {portant daty in life. Next comes { home buildi And how 1. »ly do we find the wo- man who mac of serious thought or effort! Ask one hundred young girls from cighteen to twenty-five to describe an ideal home, and how difficult they |would find the task. Because the ideal formed in their minds. has not been as an artist; another wants to write; ! another lonzs to go abroad and study for the stage. | One has social ambitions, but a |iarge fortune and a rich husband comprise her ideals of happiness. 1t wculd be remarkable it one girl in the entire hundred should be able to | premptly define her ideal of a per.ect {home, a heme where husband and id.ihlr«n might find earth’s best hap- { piness, and the wife and mother ask ro larger or greater field of ust fui- ness, It is the woman who makes or mars the heme. The mest perfect type of man cculd not make an ideal home if the woman who shared his resi- dence were a virago, dissolute or im- | moral. "§ IMPORTANCE OF SELECTING to make up into aperns’accepted and juserted in this column fer one month or will Do you see a joke in that? ! But with that human justice should be | qiq, and the morel 1 am \\‘uuliu!‘llu- oflice of State Senator from this It should not trench UPOR (4 ping out ix, that the peple that district, subject to the action of the It aint never done nothing ‘or this towi | Democratic primaries, the | is peple In this town which has made ! imony there sholders to they 1is second object one | One has been thinking of a career. THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., JANUARY 27, 1912 'NOTICE OF INTENTION TOAP- | PLY FOR LETTERS PATENT.| | If the voters of a county were each! The undersigned hereby give notice suddenly presented with a large mpr~|that on the 27th dav of Fobears - | cantile business handling everything D., 1912, or as soon thereafter as they, from a steam engine to a nutmeg'can be heard, they Will appiy o cue| grater and were told to select man-|Honorable Albert W. Gilchrist, Gov- | agers who would see that their inter-|rnor of the State o’ Florida, at his ' office in the Capitol Building in the! that the attention gives to the sclec-!City of Tallahassee, Florida, for Let- tion of trustworthy and efficient men | ters-Patent, incorporatinz them, their ! would be decidedly ardent. associates, and successcrs into a bud\'! Doubtless you have made the anal-| politic and corporate under the namwi ogy vourself but we wish to empha-| ot the Central Construction Company, size it. The county's busiméss is under the following charter and ar-| equivalent to that of a big corpora-| ticles of incorporation, the original ! tion in which the citizens—even! ot which is now on file in the office those who are not property owners-- | of the Secretary of State of Florida, are shareholders and as the county's|zt the City of Tallahassee. affairs are administered, there will be | J. W, HICKS. dividends or deficits to meet at the| A. LOGAN. ond of each year, says the Miami .\l(-~; (. F. MERRITT. tropolis, ' Proposed Charter of the Central Ccn- The financial matters of the cour-| struction Company. ' The undersigned hereby agree to try are under the direct manageme:t l of a board o’ commissioners, corre- become associated together and dof spending to the directorate in any in- hereby associate themselves together corperated business and upon the efficiency, intezrity and fidelity must depend the prosperity of the county'ol to a large deg This facl being understeod, sheuld be the determination of every tnte and becone its charter, upon th GOOD COUNTY COMMISSIONERS politic and corporate under the law the State of Florida, the prov tor the purpose o. becoming a body! ) ions of which are hereby accepted | it Tite following articles shail rmn;'fi-; mind that one time one of Marthy's 5 0 Vg YEICCter to see that the board of commis-, issunnee of letters-patent, according Sioners is always composed of men Lo law, wialificd Ly business experience and 1. The pame of this <-(;|'p‘:1'::'i(vx“ wranestionable honesty to guide awd < vall be Central Construction Com- manys its principal office and place o lepsiness shall be at Lakeland, Floi- Other offices may be established protect the financial ivterests of the public and, in the approaching pri may elections, there will be no ofi- ect, whose personal quali- @1 such ctior places s the corporia- tion may desire and its business may ' 15 1o sel ticati should be more theroughly tigated than those of the wito are trusted with the expenditin 2. The general natage of the busi- of the county’s mouey. pees to he transacted by this corpor tion shall be general contracting o i all its branchoes, buying, selling, de: " OOCOOOONOOY 1L i, materinl and supplios ne POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ? vy for 1 P .:n;..;.f,«:u;..;.,of_,o.:.o';.or,.d:'. huying, selling, holding and dealing | Political announcements will be in real estate and mortgages; buying men require, conduct of such bhusitess: 8% for $5.00, or |0 i t i 8o wining or borrowing money be cariied daily until daie o) i 5 g fon for $10.00. ‘This fee MUST taking or giving security for same. paid in advance.] B The amount of capital stock o this corporation shall be Ten Thous- I and ($10,000), Dollars, divided into | FOR STATE SENATOR. ane hundred shaves of the par valu: i ¢ of One Hundred ¢$100.00), Dollais cach, 4. This corporation shall exist for ninety-nine years, unless dissolvei sooner according to law, S, The business of this A County: I beg to announce my candidacy for corpora- date of tion shall be couducted by a presi- dent, a vice-president, a secretary, i Respectfully, treasurer, and a board of directors; ] I, J. DRANE, one person may fill the combined o’- | llim' of secretary and treasurer. The { board ot directors shall consist of no: FOR STATE SENATOR. less than three persons, and may be i - | fuereased by the by-laws. The boar To the Voters of Polk County: Vs itiiaias ke L ] ! ot directors may appoint such officers I hereby announce myselt a rancl:-'(,j ) ok L s | will : The arnual mooting "}" pu)'p' "" bost """”"”‘. “l ) ‘ too the stockholders shall be held on ’bnvh ability as 1 possess in the et-y o 00 o {fort to do 8o, should they entrust mel 0 . iwith this commission. | iturday in Jaau ' voat which time they shail 1 respectfully |Gy the aboyve-re solicit the support of all the vOIers | yqing the b { JOHN F. COX. incerporaters shall meet ot Lakelasid, -+ Florida, on the ninth day of Mured, | FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. [ A Dotz fer the purpese of ac- |upting hy-laws and tra mod clicers, in- I oof divectors Polk | the meeting, Until the cfficers, elected a: the fivst annual meoting shall } qualitied, the busin he Corp i Proscenting Attorney for connty, and respectfully solicit the, vote and support of the reader and | s of every democratic voter at the pri-; v shall be conducted by the foll mary election, April 20, 1 promis| ing offiverc: ), W, that if clected, 1 will devote my time o1 Vice-Presid jard ererzy to the dutics of the of- Seoretary and Hice in prosecutions for the State P Hicks, AL Logan ard ¢ Dirccters | 6. The highest ¢ ress to which { Respecttuliy, | EIPES TUCKER, JR. nount of indet 5 any time The Duty of Art. fxeoed Bavo ! Tivery gay, every brizht word, or pige | HT | ture, lihe every pleasant air of n‘.u-; 5. The ramos and resid s CEie, I8 a0 picce of pleasure set afloat; the subser iacorpora ! the rveader catches it, and if he be Bealthy, goes on Lis way rejoicing, and it is the Dusiness of art so to send | i !bim as often as possible—R. L. Ste- | A | veuson, i or with the amounts o ¢ subscrided by ok, are as £ Wi ida, Twenty-tive, Shares, A, L ida, Twenty-five. Shares, (', F. and, Flo- i Their Likeness. Merritt, Florida. Twenty-tive Jo W, HICKS, A. LOGAN, C. W, MERRITT ‘ While Pat worked, Mike and Mur- Lakelan! phy painted a picture of a donkey's l head on the back of his coat, thinking | that they would have some fun out of | { him when he put on his coat to go home. Pat, as he rcachied for his 'S:iare of Flovida, ! coat, saw the painting and asked: | . > “Which one of vou fellows wiped rour : “:mhl:r.:;:‘.l(,u::- i face on the back of my coat?" > : ify that on this, 26tn day of January, A. D, 1912, befor- me, an officer duly authorized take acknowled zments, personally ap- peared J. W. Hicks, A. Lozan, ani C. F. Merritt, well-known by me t) be the persors whose namos are sub- iscribed to the following s incerperation, and each facknewledged to and hef Ecteem That Is Lasting. “There is no occasion to regard with continual dislike cne who had former- { Iy a mean opinion of your merits; for ! you are mever so sure of permanent esteem as from the man who once es- teemed you li and Las corrected | his mistake—it it be a mistake."-Sir l.\nhur Helns, es of severally ' Fabulous Price fer Tulips. Troueh orchids frequentiv hring prices that make the poor mun stag therein expressed. s my hand gt the highest price for a « le ith day of Jan {flower was en fer a tulip in Am sterdam by an enthusiast who paid $250,000 tor it Might Be Worth Knowing. The wechanism ot the bana is sucn that a cigar held btetwecn the W and third fingers Will not drop trom Jehnny (very tired) —Auntle the band should the smoke: fail asigep |eyelids weu'l stay up auny longer.” That Tired Feeling. my solling, and dealing ip merchandise; | ELR H : 5 azeuts to transact business for the [ date tor fate Senator from Polk' o AT A x ¢ i i i CCocampany as they may iy their dis- jcounty. Having the will to serve 00 oo gy | 1, ) preciated. | ©0000 g g % WING to the 1t has Leen necessary 11 and 12, Kentucky aaything that can be the hest work at the Mr. Wiliiams, S, , B = <o Showing the Goods. A novel mode of advertising for a wife has been adopted by an inhabi- tent of a provincial town in England. A photograph of the gentleman is placed in the window of a shopkecper, and underneath is the following ao- tice: “Wanted the above. Fin Art of Giving. > € to find rerf Uplifting Thoughts. ¢ A man ca v coaauer, and achieve by is tho He cc 1 and ab and mi refusing to lilt up ‘his thoughts."—James Allen. and see the new goods. DICOVOPNODOVOVOOIONC Women in the latest fads. vl € Our windows will soon be full ¢ line ever shown in this vicinity, GG Murrell & Shar Your calls NOTICE! (. We will open on Monday, January 20th, the largest and mo:t exclusive line of Fancy Dry Goods perhaps ever shown in this county. Will show all the new dress Goods Imported and Domestics oo £ enlargement of ¢ to move Buildirg, in t petent charga of Mr. G J Williane, printed, if right prices, < | Mrs. Blunde ! Mrs. Blunderb: poor Jane, sl She's becn in for two davs. M "eup of tea, will 3 it you have it.—: ! A Frighth Mre. Wa'ls acey—John, 1 that if this bout it nonld be l tcn n to make the Luii | it comes.” ki lit The News Job Offi up-stairs where it will be found in IS newspaper and publ'shing busie i»<‘ t Aw 1 o i «ul (. Will also open on this date a com- plete line of Low Shoes for Men ard 1 i the swellest things in the wearingappar.! The News Job Office Rooms 11 and 12 (upstairs) Kentucky Bu.