Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 10, 1912, Page 4

I il FOUR B Ihe tvenmg Telegramfl lizhed every afternoon from the‘ X Building, Lakeland, Fla.‘ i A g ! in the postoffice at Lake-| ida, as mail mattec of the EDITOR. RINGTOHN, J. HOLWORTHY ess and Circulation Manager. 5L Jm. RIPTION RATES: One year 3ix months Three wonths Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, —— from the same office 18 issued THE LAKELAND NEWS s weekly newspaper giving e Te- sume of local matters, crop condi~ tions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.00 per year. — We know some men who did such 2 running high jump to get on the Woodrow Wilson band wagon at ths last moment that we conceive it to be a pity they didn’t have a chance . to show what they could-do at &he { Olympic games. We know it’s wrong, but we can’t help having a sneaking sympathy ‘ for the prisoner in the New York Tombs who kept twenty-five guards at bay and finally made his way to freedom. Never knew a man hunt, no matter how justified the hunters, but that we felt like cheering fof the hunted. The ex-editor of the Arcadia En- terprise will hardly enjoy the re- marks of Dixie over his retirement from the Arcadian journalistic fields. Says Dixie. “The people of Arcadia are to be congratulated over the change, which removes the editor who has time and again proven a disgrace to an honorable profession.” That's some hot one. Anyway, Teddy has brought into the linelight an injunction which in these latter days had been almost wholly lost sight of. Many persons doubtless think he is the author of the phrase, “Thou shalt not steal,” with which he is embellishing his campaign literature. There are none other injunctions which have growxi more or less musty from disuse, and if Teddy can get any of the ten in any measure restored to popular fa- vor he will be progressing some. . The Prohibitionists are assembled in convention at Atlantic City. Among the questions to be considered, a very important one is that of chang- * ing the name of the party from “Pro- hibitionist” to “Progressive.”” While the party that has been known as Prohibitionist is in a sense progres- sive, the latter term would not. indi- cate the particular aims and purposes with which its adherents are identi- fied. Moreover the term has been to a certain extent claimed by an- other political movement and con- fusion doubtless would result from its adoption by the temperance peo- ple. We believe the name Prohibi- tionist might be improved upon, but we do not think “Progressive” is _distinctive enough, or sufficiently in~ dicative of the party’s policies. Con- sidering the apparent numbers and ‘the enthusiasm of those opposed to »the liquor traffic, @ National Pro-: ;hlbmonlst party, it has always *seemed to us, has made a pretty poor | showing. There must be something wrong with the organization or its methods. > It i3 no use asking the man who loafs on the street corner to do any- thing to benefit the town. He does not have the disposition and he al- ways makes the excuse that he has no time. Ask the man who is active and industrious, he generally can find the time and just as surely he has the disposition.—Exch, Governor Wilson's speech of ac- ceptance of the Democratic nomina- tion, to be delivered Aug, 7, is expect- ol to be the keynote of the paru" fight. It is expected that he will dwell principally upon the tariff and the high cost of living, The only ob- Jjection to the latter is that as a key- rote it is almost out of tune.—Orlan- do Reporter-Star, Stand up for Florida with its 4,942 miles of railroad, 1,806,000 acres of THE MAKING OF TURPENTINE. | The editor ot the Highlands Hum- mer recently visited a-turpentine still 1d in the course ‘of an interesting | yo iption of his trip gives: the fol- lowing description of the processes of r:anufacturing turpentine: For the benefit of our many read- ers in the north we will try and de- | scribe the method employed in mak- ing turpentine, tho as our host had so many things to attend to, we did not bave the opportunity to get all tke pointers from him that we would kave liked to have received, we may not be exactly right as to the de- tails. First the trees are boxed, which is cquivalent to saying that they are tapped. This, as well as all of the work in the woods, is done by ne- groes. In making this box, a place is first cut near the ground in such a shape that it will hold about a guart of the sap, then a V shaped place is cut above that, and the sap as it flows, drops from the point of the box into the receptacle made for it, tho we have noticed that many of the trees have cans, the same as are used in sugar groves, to catch the sap. We noticed that the sap runs very slowly, so that we would judge that it often takes several weeks to fill one of the receptacles. It is nec- esgary to keep the tapped place open, so negroes who are very expert at the work make regular rounds of the trees and with a special tool remove a little more of the wood at the open- iug, and continue this unmtil they have it boxed for a distance of prob- &ebly five of six feet from the ground. The sap is gathered and put in bar- rels made for the purpose, and taken tc the tram road where it is hauled te the still. There it is put into the still where in due course of time it passes out, divided into turpentinme, resin, residue and water. The action of the fire under the kettle that com- prises the stil] separates the turpen- tine from the rest and it is forced up thru the peculiarly shaped cov- ering, and into a long copper pipe, culled a worm, coiled in a large tank o1 water, which purifies it, and it is then drawn into a vat from which it is transferred to the barrels ready for shipment. killers,” ra - riers to make the work as excl ng a fox hunt, but it is proksble that THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK ELA> KILL THE RATS, regard to bu- bonic ich is reported exist- ent in He Not he witk the 10 €3 casiness, plague t communication ¢ is, of course, ni to feel real un- enough fo: everv citizen in South Florida to join mpaign for (e extermination of rats, which are knowu to be car- riers of the flea that spreads the dis- ease, In Havana, the rat killing brigade has been re-inforced; but it is wel and disinfectted; shore leave has been withdrawn from crews of visiting ships and strict orders have been is- sued to American ports for the exer- tion of against the landing of rats. And in every county in Forida there should be an organized move- ment against the rodents for, setting aside the thought of bubonic plague; the rat family continually does an enormous amount of damage and is a disgusting and unnecessary evil. Suggestions as to the best way of exterminating the animals . ww welcomed, In southein lndiun., hqve organized wn;pgniga with hundreds of better results could be attained by the use of poison.—Miami Metropolis. GOING SOME (7). Possibly some of you have taken a trip on that railroad (?) that goes from Kissimmee to—well—some- where, and is called The Midland, I think; at least you may haye heard ot it. Well, we heard a little story the other day that very well illus- trates the rapidity of travel on thai line, A young man of Kissimmee has been calling with the usua) regular- ity of lovers at the home of one of the handsome young ladies for which Kissimmee is noted, and not long ago r:ustered up the courage necessary to ask her father not only for her hand The resinous deposit is drawn off |but all the rest of her, and was re- from another section of the kettle as the distillation takes place, into a long vat, where it is strained thru 2 cloth covered seive like arrange- ment, which removes all of the sedi- ment whic; remains in the cloth and with even 4 production of four or five barrels a day, there ought to be a pretty fair compensation for the man who has a turpentine still. THE MAN WHO’S ALWAYS ON THE JOB. No matter what line of business he may be engaged in, or what position he may hold, the succesful man of today and the man who is gradually forging ahead of his fellows, is The Man Who's Always on the Job. Not necessarily the plodder who neighbor as thyself.” us give too narrow a meaning to the fised for the sole reason that the, rarents thot that the daughter was too young. “I'll tell you, tho,” said her fa-, ther, “she is going to start in a day cr 80 to go on a visit at the end of the Midland Line, and if she only stays a day or so after she gets there. ehe will be old enough when she gets back.” “But by that time she may be an old maid,” protested the young man. HOW EVERYBODY IS YOUR NEIGHBOR. every vessel | leaving the port is strictly examined || ND, FLA., JOLY 10, 1912. for M Care the greatest precautions || mer dresser. ~ Fashionable Iougery en Who Q. 1 have all the little things that distin- guish the gentlemen as a good mid-sum- My gathering of the “little necessities of life,” all of which must be . proper to make the “finished man,” are ufaultless in every detdil. (. If you want a Tie, a Shirt or a pair of Socks in the handsome, stylish colors of Summer, you can get them here. though- fancy in looks, as they should be they are not fancy priced. Q@ I can supply you with the correct “fixings” that you will like and that she will like. E. F. BAILEY ONLY SGRATOHED THE SURFACE. Mr. H. H. Richardson, secretary of the Jacksonville Board of Trade, re- cently made an address and among cther things he said: “In my opinion we have only| scratched the surface of our State. Are you aware of the fact that only 116 per cent of the tillable land of The Book of Books says, “Love thy But many of works early and late or the man who'’s mind is constantly on his work, but rather the fellow who comes down in the morning after a good night's sleep, bright-eyed and with a clear mind, fit and right to tackle anything in sight. He gets things done; takes on more work and puts it through. He al- word ‘““‘neighbor.” It does not mean to love the man who lives next door more than anyone else in the world, although it is, of course, very nec- essary that good will exist between ‘people who are most apt to be inti- mately associated, because there is less chance for friction with the man who resides in Europe than with the person with whom you come in con- ways knows, doesn’t guess or pre- sume, He is not a growler or a knocker. He sets the pace and when he’s around everybody gets busy. He heads off trouble and keeps things roving. When the day fs done, he lays down his work, pigks up Wis “coat and stepd out’ into the“world tare-|" free and happy, a fellow you always like to meet and a man among men. Opportunities come to some who wait, but The Man Who's Always on the Job doesn’t wait; he devel- opes his own opportunities and neve- Icses out by failing to take advan- tage of them. Hats off to The Man Who's Al- ways on the Job.—Exch. It is not' unusual to serenade and honor men who have rendered sig- nal service for their community or country, but it was left to the citi- zens of Bath, 'Me., to honor a par- doned criminal. In that they set a by no means enviable precedent. Charles W, Morse, who Was Welcomed with a brass band, a parade, cheer- ing and speeches, had as a banker, tried to embezzle large sums of money and to bring misery to many homes, and his penitentiary experi- ence was generally regarded as but a slight punishment for his misdeeds. On the ground that he was so i1l that land under cultivation bringing the grower $50,000,000 a year; $117,.- 623,000 value in farm lands; ship- ping a billion feet of lumber fn 1910; with assessed valuation of real es- tate $198,000,00Q; estimated total wealth $600,000,000; the greatest increase in population of any State east of the Mississippi and whose bank deposits in 1911 were $24,180,- 049. -—Cocog—RockIedxe News.: - prison life would shorten his days he was pardoned. But, like most of his class who' are freed to go home t) die, he spéedily regained his health. No one begrudged him that, and all hope his remaining years may be honestly spent, but the citizens of Bath can hardly have had a sense of the fitness of things to welcome him as a returning hero.—Gainesville un, > 4 tact each day. The European’s chick- cns are not going to stray into your garden and scratch up the vegetables, but, nevertheless, the Huropean is your neighbor. A Pensacola minister explained it this way: If you own, @ piece of pwperly you own from the surfnce on down to _the center of the earth. The property of the man next door also extends to the center of the earth. Your property tapers down to a point in the earth’s center. in the world is an inverted pyra- mid, the base of which is an acre in extent and the apex of which is at the center of the earth. Every one of these inverted pyramids touches all the others in the center of the earth. Therefore, your property is adjacent to thé property of every other person; so we are neighbors all.—Pensacola News. Editors of newspapers are often ac- cused of leaving out certain items of rnews purposely, because of a dislike of the person to be mentioned, or fiom prejudice or other causes, This is all bosh, The editor has some- thing like a hundred different things to think about in connection with thé issue of one paper and it is not surprising if he misses an item oc- casionally or sometimes forgets one which. has been called to his atten- tion. Nine out of ten people you ask for news items will tell you thev can't think of any. But in most cases they expect the editor to think of them al] and eriticlze him if he fails in a single item. The best way is to give the editor credit for what he dees find and mention and for some ::)lnn that he finds and doesn’t men- . Florida is under cultivation, and yet that small area is producing over fifty million dollars’ worth of pfod- ucts annually. We can’ and will be- come the market garden of the Unit- od States east of the Mississippi, with an absolute monopoly for several months of the year. We have more growing hours in this State than in any other. Agriculture is the basis rof all wealth, and with the presen. rapid development of Florida as an agricultural State, every other branch ol business will relatively increase.” The postoffice receipts in Tampa for the fiscal year ending July 30, staled $177,208.43, a splendid gain over the previous twelve months pe- riod. 4 SUH A Reminder of Home. A street fight is apt to remind some married men that there are other places like home. fotel Orange North Kentucky Ave. and Oak 8. Every acre of land owned | " T. I. McINTOSH, rxorxmronf < Modern improvements, hot and cold bath and running water in every rgom $2 per day. Specia] rstea by week. WE HAMMER OUT SATISFACTION 'with every set of horse shoes we put on. For we make the shoes fit the feet, not the feet fit the shoes as is often done. To know how much dif- ference this makes send your horses Al- IPACKING HOUSE MARKET Phone 279 R. P, BROOKS Fla. Ave & Main'$ DAILY 7 bone steak Round steak Loin roast ... Prime rib roast . Plain roast .. Roll roast .. Stew ..... Stew, choice Beef Cutts—Kansas City. Loin steak 7 bone steak Round steak Rib roast Loin roast Ham onwpoqnpnranioay wu-l“" m‘ w e -q‘.m,flm MENU Pork Cuts, Kansas City. Mautton Cuts. Chops, French Saoulder Stew .... Ham, boiled, sliced .. Ham, smoked, sliced . Bacon, sliced Bacon, whole strip All pork sausage Beef and pork sausage Extras. Georgia peaches Daily. Fox River butter Brookfield butter Pimentto cheese Small cream cheese...... Dixie cheese 2 for 25¢ 2 for 25¢ where to go and let us help you. The resorts in the North and here to be shod next time. You'll bé || amazed at the improvement in hig gait and temper. The Fix-em S p MMM West are i."mfi. will do much o el daity s rip ticket atlow to give you full infor- g:n Ja:‘kmnvnlle to some H. C. BRETNEY, Fla. Pass. Agent 118 W. Bay St. Jacksonville