Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 20, 1912, Page 4

PAGE FOU pre—— Ti!E EVENING TELEGRAM LAR ELAND, FLA., FEBRUARY 20, 1912 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. e S AR e S SRR S M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year S eRreee ) Six months ...... et g 15 ) Three months ..... eess 1,86 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS a weekly newspaper giving a Tre- sume of local matters, crop condi- tions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. ———_______—____-—__———-: Are Powell's resignations as Sec- retary of the Board of Trade in the nature of Sarah Bernhardt's rm'uwulll tours? ! —— . Was this weather ordered cially for the Chautauqua? No—Flor- ida is merely herself again, and is dishing out her normal weather, to the delight of all. B | If that little bantam, Colombia, gets dancing around in its excited Latin fashion, Uncle Sam might tread on it and put it out of business with- out hardly being aware of the fact, PRIy VSRS R Senator Nat Bryan is out in interview in support of Woodrow Wilson for Senator, which that the people of Florida did not size him up incorrectly in judging bim to have enough sense to be espes | an shows senator. Y GRS Watson predicts a great tfuture for Tampa,” proudly proclaims a head- line in a Tampa newspaper. ot course he does. He or any other can- didate would predict a great future for Lonesome Flats or Solitude Bend. ' Optimism is the redeeming charac- teristic of the candidate. e After an absence of two years from the State John Beard is to return to Florida. They all come back, and in this instance we give hearty welcome to the prodigal. A little erratic, sometimes; With ogcasional outbursts of peevishness, which militate against ' the accomplishment of his best— John Beard is withal an unique and interesting personality, a man of edu- cation and endowed with something very closely akin to genius, if it be not the divine spark itself. Even the lure of his ancestral Virginia hills could not keep him away from Florida, so we have more respect for his judgment than ever before. Burglars make n great mistake in selecting an editor's home to break into, for more reasons than one. In the first place there is very little of value usually to be found therein; in the second place editors are a brave and gore-loving kind of gentry, and they'll fight just the same as if they had something to fight for. Don't believe it? Well over at St. Au- gustine the other night Lewis W. Zim, editor, statesman and labor lead- er, heard a racket in the house and ke and his wife—or maybe it was bis wife and he, it is not recorded which was in the lead—got up and went to* investigate. They found nothing and were returning to bed when Mrs. Zim, with a woman'’s love of investigation—some folks call it curiosity—took a look behind the ¢oor. Sure enough there was a bur- Iy burglar. Mr. Zim had an iron bar in his hand and he promptly brought it down on the burglar's head caus- ing that person's prompt and com- plete collapse. The police were call- ed and the burglar was carted away. This incident is printed as a horrible warning to burglars and we trust that all of the members of that profession will see it and govern themselves ac- cordingly. e S S A S S FORTUNATE FLORIDA. ! T0 WATERMELON GROWERS, A popular magazine writer and so- As the season of planting watei- cial reformer, who is now associate | melons is rapidly approaching, the editor of a monthly in St. Louis, in a | Banner reprints a rather curious ex- recent number of her paper describes | periment in the cultivation of the the condition of the idle workingmen | same, which may prove alike inter- in that city, many of whom, after a|esting and profitable to our growers. day spent in fruitless search for work | It is a method of producing large seek shelter in the Four Courts build- [ melons rapidly by feeding them with ing. These men have spent the{water. The method is described as summer in the harvest fields or ln.follows: railroad construction gangs. If the “Before the melon has attained its season has been good, and they have | full size, and while in a growing con- had no ill-fortune such as sickness, | dition, insert one end of fine cbtton they go to the city when they are|cloth, about half an inch wide and laid off in the fall and seek some [three or four inches long, into the cheap lodging house, where their lit- | stem of the melon, by splitting the tle hoard of money wiil carry them |stem with a sharp penknife, and through the winter. If the season|place the other end of the strip in has been bad, or if they have been’the neck of a wine bottle filled with harassed by sickness—God pity them | water, including the bottle so that —they must depend on the slim|the water may be absorbed by the chance of getting a job in the slack |string, which acts as a syphon. season or upon charity. “The end outside of the bottle Now, we in Florida are Yorunate [should be a little lower than that in that we have no bitter winter|which is within the bottle. In twen- which brings enforced idleness and | ty-four hours the bottle should be re- cessation of income at the time when | filled as the water will all have been the biggest outlay is necessary to|imbibed by the melon; and in a week keep comfortable. Here a man may | it will have attained to its full size. work twelve months in the year.|'l‘hv water should then be withheld, More might be written on this line, | to give it a chance to ripen, other- but a hint to the wise should be suf-'“‘isl‘ it will be quite insipid and un- ficient, | fit to eat.” ' The following recipe for keeping GRAPEFRUIT WILL cruxl.; !the melon patch free of thieves will THAT RHEUMATISM e of interest to all who are endeav- [y l'lll'l'l_lll A ;(,rlng- to cultivate the fruit, and to shh number of the Mo-| yyo00 especially who are so unfortu- dello Tropicul Topics the editor re-! v wo'o have thelr patch located iterates his assertion about grapefruit being a cure for rheumatism. The: . statement is made that num«rous! . 9 ““‘y“m‘ b bty bk { tested with thieves, he can give them cures have vesulted from the contin- . G000 of tartar emetic, by putting wous and proper use of grap«-l'rulv,‘umm or ten grains of it into the :fnd certainly it would be worth while water, and dissolving it by heating for a sufferer to try this pleasant } it before puttins it in the bottle, but treatment preseribed. Topies' editor o e water cool down until it is declares that the juice of the grape- milk warm before inserting the fruit cured him permanently of rheu- | 1) = Qeala Banner. matism, and he wants others who ' have suffered to try it. The juice| should be taken preferably in the' morning and without sugar. “Many who come to spend the winter in Florida with rheumatism can go | per for every loaf of bread delivered. back north free from the disease,” he! The old partner demurred. “No says, “but they rarely ever want to|B20d," he sald. “People won't stand go permanently, ‘This recipe is nolfmr It. We tried that once and the copyrighted.” paper got 8o dirty before the bread adjacent to a =chool house: Unpopular Myglene. Harlng received a hygienic educas tion, the new partner in the bakery strongly recommended a paper wrap- - Below we publish a communication. from the Fort Myers Press in regard to the finding of the gold supposed Probably the poorest ecomomy im to have been burried by the noted | ¢ng world is to buy things you dont pirate, Gasparilla, who it will be re-| want in order to make acquaintances membered in history, traversed the| you don't need.—Galveston News. coast of Florida, his place of abode being that time at Boca Brade Pass | The gold is sald to have been found in fifteen feet for water, encased iu a concrete vault, which was entered while a party were drilling. ‘The article is as follows: Through C. F. Kuster,its corres- pondent at Boca Grande the Press has been informed a report is current there that a chest of gold, supposed te have been hidden by Gasparllla.; the famous Spanish pirate, has been will be carried daily until date of located on the coast near that point. |glection for $10.00. This fee MUST A party of six or eight searchers are | be paid in advance.) said to have been guided to the spot by means of a chart wiich they claim FOR STATE SENATOR. was made by one of Gasparilla’s men and they declare they found a chest|To the Democratic Voters of Polk containing gold bars in water 15 feet County: deep near the shore. Here is the re- 1 beg to announce my candidacy for port Mr. Kuster gives of the affair: |the oflice of State Senator from this Gasparilla’s long lost treasure is|district, subject to the action of the claimed to be located at last after|Democratic primaries, the date of years of search and many disappoint- | which will be announced later. ments. A party of six or eight men Respectfully, are now guarding it, according to re- H. J. DRANE, ports brought to town. After a long hunt, guided by a| chart said to have been made by one of Gasparilla’s men, they found the|To the Voters of Polk County: chest in water about 15 feet deep,| I hereby announce myself a candi- near the shore. They claim to have!date for State Senator from Polk hit it by boring with improved|county. Having the will to serve augurs. They went throughsand and | the people’s best interests, I will use struck concrete mnearly a foot!such ability as I poesess in the ef- through; then bored through plank|fort to do so, should they entrust me and struck gold bars. They are now | with this commission. I respectfully guarding it, waiting for help to raise | solicit the support of all the voters. the treasure. JOHN F. COX. Such is the report made by the FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY, party of treasure hunters, They ex- pect to have quite a task in raising the reclaimed gold out of the water I am a candidate for the office of Prosecuting Attorney for Polk WORLD'S TALLEST BUILDING. |county, and respectfully solicit the vote and support of the reader and The Broadway Park Place Com-|every democratic voter at the pri- pany will construct in New York a|mary election, April 30. I promise building that will be 55 stories, or|that if elected, I will devote my time 750 feet, high. It will be about 200 |and energy to the duties of the of- feet higher than the Washington|fice in prosecutions for the State. Monument. It will be the talleet Respecttully, structure in America. EPPES TUCKER, JR. body canceled their orders.” i Poor Economy. What Every Woman Knews, A woman always knows when & man is In love with her. A man often knows a woman is in love with him when she isn't.—Life. 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I {talked measures which would keep the nation from the garbage heap. || pointed out the fatal flaws in most| of our existing laws, and spoke of remedies which would contribute to Tell Your Neighbors That “THE GIRL OF MY DREAMS” Starts in This Paper Next Satur- who lives next door, to whom I have referred before, who doesn’t care 2 cent about the couatry’'s government, who has no high thought in his block, cleaned all the snowdrifts from his iwalk, and on the ice some ashes threw, and people raised a howdy- do about his public spirit, and said he was the best of men. And I, who have for ages stood a-whooping for the Larger Good, have got no credit at the store, and folks insist that I'm a bore. It simply shows how low and base and trifling is the human race. 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