Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 13, 1912, Page 4

1 P A0 R T Twr e e — | FAGE FOUR {HE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELAND, FLA., MAY 13, 1912. R. B. HUFFAKER, LEADING CAN | DIDATE FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY. The Evening Telegram Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Buildiag, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- (and, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY Business and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | $5.00 One year ....-.o.eceee 0 Six months ..... e ? Three months ... ..... 1.26 | 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 Te- sume of local matters, crop condi- WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE DONE. tions, county affairs, etc. Sent | anywhere for $1.00 per year. - —eeee——ee———— | i A Lakeland concern is manufactur- | of a politician. o b Harry Floyd has been elec ted to the | Legislature again, and the people of | Were nov so pitiful. the State will be treated to a few| hundred more chapters of reminis- cences. ¥ Reading of the terrors of the flood- stricken section, we are at a loss to make ceasing change, Let the big. empty |sky replace the cobwebbed ceiling of [¥0 {sunshine tdoors will come home with you and letters what they would have done, and what ing brushes from the palmetto, which juuam to have been done, if they hu“] will even scrub white the churvacter been passengers on the ill-fated Ti- itanic, tions to current would qualify them to judge what ought startling and hopeless conditions that WHEN EVERYTHING GOES WRONG worries—your dishes in the sink, yous {beds unmade, your marketing | locked— and go forth into the grea' feet toward peace and see a friend and talk it over; but it is better to go out under the land forzet it. Let the unburried 'world of nature preach to you steadfust peace and growth under un- of house-bound consciousness, flood the dark places with wholesome- When You go back to your s h them- es, for all the good fairies out-of- L they will almost w sely Jend &2 willing hand to your work. Northern papers are flooded with from cori spondents telling They would be ludicrous contribu- literature if they There are few people who | have been on a sinking vesse] and sscaped 1o tell the tale, Very few people haxe had the experience that just the very to be done under un- | |done, and, if need be, your doors un- outside world, is to run with eager It is good to go Ruminations Just to leave your work and your of Uncle Henry Dear Editer, 1 notised in your pa- per a little remark about the Board booil ich they aint yish you would keep on oi Trad got yet. i {makin them remarks. They have late- i1y showed some signs of life and | think you and me had ought to Keep after them and see that they don’t go to sleep agan. They are talkin abeut gettin a room some place and 1 think that is a good idee and one which will be of servise mot ouly to this {fare city, but to the homeseeker and scjourner here. A place like that where information was dispensed with free and where frute and vege- tables and flowers and other inter- estin things was displayed would be very attractin to the stranger and make a good place for our citezens to take there frends which is visitin them. Now, after that room begins to get reely started 1 will come out with some idees turther in regard to the same, If the dramatic club is refranin from action because they haint got no use for the monny, | will here sugest that they could have a play or a entertanement and give there proseeds to the Board of Trade to get that room started. The truble with the Board of Trade,is they haint got the confidence cnd sopport of the peple of this town, How dos peple think they can do anything without no help? Some of them which belongs hain’t got nervos understand why people will confronted the passengers of the Ti- their homes in guch a country when t anic on the night that she went prostration from workin too hard in the interrest of the organization over here in Florida there are no such dowa in collision with an iceberg. though I aint meenin Mr. Mendenhall 5 o8 ake them whic cleeve is strivin noble un- dang«rb to molest or m i Very few men know exactly what \'h.llt'l. It delle(;“mvs o L afraid. &2 | they would do if they were suddenly [€¢F grate Sl which is interrested in the prosperity of this town had ought to give gen- ———— awakened some night. to findaburglar “Uncle Steve” Sparkman didn’t run {4, the house, Very gew men Know so bad for a man who is no longer|, as young as he used to be. A ma- jority of in the district, when |, pitted against a young, vigorous and 1 popular opponent like Herbert Phil- lips, is a pretty good expression of endorsement of Mr. Sparkman's past work and of faith in his ability to do things in the tuture. « e G R o t The charges of a “deal,” a “barted 1t of offices,” ete., ete, made by Franki] Walpole to bolster up Cromwell Gib- 1y bons' absurd request to have his name !t placed on the ticket in the second primary. is too preposterous to be se- | is effectively Killing any chance for‘ he may ever have had, Col. Bennett H. Young, the newly- elected commander-in-chief of the Confederate Veterans, is a very re- markable man —in fact, it he makes certain claims with which he is ered- ited he is the most remarkable man in the country, I that though @ very modest man, he has four boasts he sometimes is said makes that he “never swore an oath, never told a lie, never drank whiskey and never touched a card.” We will pass bousts No. 1 and 4 without comment, but we have always been taught that George Washington was the only per- son Who ever passed a fibless life, and fconoclasts are throwing some doubts on his record. Then a man who has lived a long life in Kentucky and has never tasted the product that made it famous must have a superhuman abil- ity to resist temptation. We trusu that in his first General Orders, Mr Young will enter a denial of ever hav- ing made the boasts he is said to in- dulge in. were in a railway accident, yet man and to criticise officers and pas: gers of the lost Titanic, and experience of those who follow an opportunity for many obscure per- _viously considered, and will have 0 5ou5 10 get into print in the big pa- effect on the situation. Mr. Gibbons e und that is all they hoped to accomplish, political preferment in this State thailg)g and go down to the show. down a coin to the girl at the wicket and look for a seat as 1 hand up my UIhe apprentice is there gazing on {perfection, exactly what they would do if they men have presumed to advise the pub- ic what to do in case of a shipwr The fact of the matter is thut none ' us who have not had the training he sea, can tell what we would do in imes of danger, and we know abso- utely nothing of what ought to have ween done in order to save more lives hat were saved, However, the incident has afforded probably.—Miami Her- " IHE PICTURE SHOW. Sometimes, when I'm weary ot things that 1 know | put on my hat 1 thwow ticket, On the Screen there is tlas ivg the deeds of a hero, or the burn- ing of saints by the wicked old Nero. with rapt face, at a story of love, and an unknown girl’s grace. The chil- dren are crowded in all the fromt rows, and the factory gir re there with their beaux. The tired mother sits with a child on her lap, she en- Joys a short trip through the land of the Jap. Down the aisle is the girl with the borrowed complexion, her hair done in coils to the height ef On the sheet are propos- alds, girls lost and girls won, in doz- {ens of ways we can see how it's done. Ihe millionaire marries the little shop girl, while another chap losos {his head for a curl. The lovers look There are a good many things that puzzle us and to which we never ex- pect 1o find the answer; but thing that puzzles most of all is why ! it is that the preachers never miss an opportunity, and in fact create fre- quent opportunities, to knock the newspapers The newspapers, almost without exception, uphold the preach- | ers, and aid them in their work very | materially Ther be newspa- pers that are not on the right side of every moral question; there may be some that are too “worldly” from the | preacher’s standpoint; but taken as! a whole the influence of the press is! directed general ends as is the work of the ministry In many the newspaper | Teaches where the preacher's voice| could never have been heard; and| practically always it is the preacher's | most faithful ally in the work of re- form and the advancement of moral Scatiment. But. though this fact is! pretty generally recognized, and! whenever any movement for the pub-‘ lic good is inaugurated the newspa- | Per is the first to be asked to aid, from many pulpits there are con- stantiy heard expressions caleulated one | may towards the same instances 10 discredit the press and to bring its|tion of rigorous inspection by the work into disrepute Again, we won- der why® Some people have the im- {coat, and put on my lid; next time |on, holding hangds in a muff, and try not to laugh at their innocent blufi. Just then a grand dame sweeps in With her daughter; youw'd think by their airs they had paid a quarter, On their heads they are nursing a family of rats, and 1 can’t see a thing And they will =it with mever a care while my people all wonder where 1 learnt to swear. So 1 button my for their blooming big hats, there 1l go down to the front like a kid Exch. THIS DIDN'T WORK IN TRAMMELL'S CASE. The alphabet is an important fac- tor in a Florida primary. The namez on the ballots are placed alphabetical- I¥: and where several are running for the same office and they are not well known, the voter marks the firs: name he comes to. Thus, if your name begins with A and you are run- { this. erous to the Board of Trade. But, humen natur is such that 1 beleeve { the Board of Trade was to go ahed and do things in faith beleevin, so that peple can see that they are alive! and enterprizin, the peple would ge! waked up and come to there support and ade more willin. 1 would like to see that tryed, Nobody that is asleep hisself is apt to wake anybody else up on time. 1 would like to be- long to the Board of Trade. | am kepi out of a good manny things like that on account of my age, but maybe it is better so. Instead of having only one interrest in life and nursin it to deth like some peple dos, I am interrested in all, and am not meenin to be par- shal. Any organization in this town which is workin for the upbildin of tfe community can have my fatherly advise and patternel counsil free for nothin. 1 make it a business as well as a plasure to tell other peple what they ought to do. Have you notised how slow they are about gettin things slicked around the new bildin? 1 hope they are workin as fast as they can on Even the tracks of progress is tracks and had ought to be erased as soon as possible so that the work it- self can stand forth in all its buty Now, that the ot the town pretty well slicked up, I am hopin they will tarn there at The e ple which likes to get things down in sientific stile 1t Women's Club hia tension to the food we eat, I am some that way i says that there is four things which has got to be paved attension to, it we e strivin to perserve the generel helth of the publick. Tham four things is as follers: Good air pure water, getting rid of sewage, and good faod. The first two we hav. got in abundence. The third we are ubout to get. Now, the forth is one that is payed less attension to iy Florida than in most other Statos 1t is only in resent times that we e van live accordin to pure food reven if they didn’t have any all know in these that the trale of the fly is deth un? destrucsion. lws W We can by our vittles vwhere there is the leest flys; tiiat 80? Germs of diseese and d Turks in the dust of the street which quite frequent is blowed around ¢ it lites on the display in front of 4 grosery store. Therefore we will by our vittles where there is the lees (dust. The only meet we had oucht te eat is that which if it aint ry right here has been on ice al aint been doctered up on the rode with pisens which the law don: low meet rorth. Now, I want that the Wom. en’s Club should make a investyga. tion of these things and inform 1he good peple of our fare city what ig ning for a State office, that initial letter is worth at least 2,000 votes to you.—Punta Gorda Herald. Jacksonville is hm‘i‘ng the satisfac- Board of Health in regard to the cleanliness of eating houses. The there conclusions and what Corse we must persue to attain unto the forth requirement for good helth, so : i city can boast of havin all thes - quirements. Amen. No more at present ®rom UNCLE HENRY \ Pression that it is popular to “throw Meve they are mistaken. presence of a fly in a Jacksonville ho- Radlum Weuld Change Climate, enough raqd: l Were taken to the North Pole 1t wo::n Alter the climate il over the woria un| {rot a pure food law, but our citezens | enlitened times | il.Y‘ !‘.‘ o Blueprirting. way it was shipped here, and w! hl companys to use furth.r| Phllosophers or alche " on ¢ : | my Off" on the newspapers, but we be-|tel o restaurant means a black mark | MV® fured that ir w lwilh the Board of Health, e ey, FOR SALE City, Suburban and Country Properties Homes, Groves, Farms at Real Values | { Flood & Hendrix, Owners L. B. 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