Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, July 26, 1912, Page 2

PAGE TWO. LR E-RE-R-R-R-K-E-X-B-B-R-3- -The Professions- 322 E-R-K-B-R-R-R-N-F-F-] DR. SAMUEL F. SMITH. SPECIALIST Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Glasses Scientifically Prescribed *Phone: Office 141, Residence 22. Bryant Bldg. Lakeland, Fla. IR. W. 5. RVIN DENTIST Established in July, 1900 and 16 Kentucky Building : Office 180; Residence 84 DB. N. L. BRYAN, DENTIST. Rooms 8 and 9, Deen & Bryant Build- ing. Phone. 339. Residence Phone 300 Red. LAKELAND, FLA. DR. W. R. GROOVER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Rooms 3 and 4 Kentucky Bldg. Lakeland, Florida. DR R R SULLIVAN, —PHYSICIAN— Bpecial attention given to Surgery and Gynecology Of all the attentions you can show or the presents you can buy nothing is more appreciated than a box of nice candy now and then, Our Candies Taste Good and Are in Good Taste This is about all the argument needed for the young fellow, but re member this.. After she is yours such things are appreciated even more than before. She knows that you think more of her, of course, but still she likes to be told and she likes to be shown even better. Naturally she can’t tell you this but try her just ouce with a box of our candy and see how much it means. Why not? Norris, Atlanta, Candies R B. HUFFAKER, —Attorney-at-Law— Roor 7 Stuart Bldg. Bartow, Kla. C. M. TRAMMELL, Attorney-at-Law. Offices, Bryant Bullding Lakeland, Fla. BLANTON & ROGERS. Lawyers. Bryant Block, 'Phone 8319 Lakeland, Fla. Quick Delivery TUCKER & TUCKER, —Lawyers— Raymondo Bldg, Lakeland, Florlda Cross Pharmacy PHONE 89 J¥%0. 8, EDWARDS Attorney-at-Law. Office In Munn Building. LAKELAND, FLORIDA, J. B. Streater C, F. Kennedy STREATER & KENNEDY Contractors and Builders, Estimates Cheerfully Furnished, Let ug talk with you about your building large or small Telephone 169, or 104 Blue. Ao WE HAMMER OUT 6. D. & H D. MENDENHALL Civil Engineers and Architects Rooms 212-215 Drane Bldg. LAKELAND, FLA. Phosphate land examination. veys, examlnation, reports. Blueprirting. VIOLIN INSTRUCTIONS By the Man \Who Makes the Violin Talk, Prof. Murphy, 610 East Orange St. Phone 11 Black. Sur- [ oM often done. here to be shod next time. You'll be amazed at the improvement in his gait and temper. The Fix-em Shop Pine Street, Opposite Freight Office. Phone 6 P, 0. Box 567 EVERYTIING IN REAL KSTATE PICKARD BROS, §_SELSEMEYER|Nevsoesers Magazines} SEE US BEFORE " Stationeryg BUYING Rooms 200-202 Drane Bldg. Post Cards LAKELAND, FLA. Smoke a Few of the MY LINE INCLUDES Cigars Come and see me before pur- chasing elsewhere. Your patronage appreciated. Miss Ruby Daniel News Stand Lobby of Edisonia Theater. NEW SATISFACTION with every set of horse shoes we put For we make the shoes fit the feet, not the feet fit the shoes as is To know how muca dif- ference this makes send your horses NEE Some : Interesting Facts About iUncle Sam’ The misforiunes and the negzlec: cof some persons yield large profits te the United States Government. In the last monthly statement of the public debt is an item, “Debt on which interest has ceased since ma- turity, $1,760,450.26.” This sum rep resents bonds which have become due but have not becn presented to the Treasury for payment. They have been destroyed or lost, or are held by careless or indifferent owners. The Government of course, is ready to re- decm these bonds any time they arc presented, but while they remain ou- the treasury is saving about $33,- 000 a year in interest. Some of these bonds date back before the war. The latest of matured Government bond: ccased to bear interest and became payable July 2, 1907, Of these over $800,000 are still outstanding. All currency that is lost or stroyed constitutes a gain for the Government, unless the owners are able, by satisfactory evidence, to prove the destruction of currency and thereby obtain ncw issues. A week rarely or never passes with out the Treasury Department receiv- ing for redemption a number ol packages containing money that has been partly destroyed by fire or other causes and in all cases where the bills can be satisfactorily identified new money is issued therefor; but frequently only a portion of the bill remains and in the event that three- filths of the note can be identified the full face value is returned to the owner, but if less than three-fifths can be identified only one-half of the value is returned, These lpsses by fire aggregate each year a very | sum; but what has become of the willions of dollars of which there i no an Treasury oflicial it § Lave de- trace is unsolve speak « 2104 t 1 0y other cities and estimat lions have heen losi srarions on July ' omore national K note i sty Law il mon ding * which means that the banks iss th have deposited money in the tor their and retirement. The Government Las the free use of all this money. Whenever any of the bank notes thus secured come into the and the is put in circulation in place of them. Many of these bank notes re- main in circulation for ycars after the bank which issued them has ceased to do husiness. Whenever such notes are lost or destroyed, the Government gets the benefit, SCnotes Treasury rasury they anceled ey Recently the National City Bank of New York published some interes ing information on the disappearnece ¢f Government bonds and currency Early in the Civil War the United ites issued over $400,000,000 of le- I tender notes which were used in payment of all Government oblig, ons, including the pay of the arm in the field. At this time there still outstanding over $3,000,000 of these notes in the denominations ot $1 and $2 alone, which are heard from except now and then a stray bill or two is presented for ro- demption. It is a fair assumption that a large percentage of the whol- £3,000,000 has been accidentally de- stroyed, and this is undoubtedly pro- nevey Great Work Done by Boys, Painting is not the only art ia which masterpieces have been pro- duced by mere boys. Although it was not published until a year later, it i probable that Keats wrote his famous Ode to Autumn In his sixteenth year, and, indeed, all his five great odes, among the greatest in any language, before he attained legal manhood. He dled at twenty-five, so that all the masterpieces which came from his pen may be regarded as the produc “Jon of a boy. Peculiar Scotch Mirage. The easterly wind is belleved to have been accountable for the curious mirage which was witnessed some days ago over the eastern area of the Firth of Forth in Scotland. The | tower and upper portion of the May Island lighthouse had the appearance redemption | “lawful mon- | ar» 5 of floating in mid-air, and the rocks ! fooked as if they were surrounded by 1 trees. The spectacle attracted a good | A. H. T. s Money Business portionately true of all the old issues. During the issue of the Spanish \War loan in June and July, 189€, about 235,000 Government checks' were sent to subscribers for small amounts of these bonds, which repre- sented the interest due from the date of its receipt until August 1, the date of the bonds, and over 10,000 of these checks have never been pre- sented for payment. It is assumed that as nearly all of the checks were for small amounts, somo of them for only a few cents, they also have been kept as souve- nirs. Many people who receive Govern- ment checks in payment of interes. on live bonds seem to be very careless or not in need of funds, as a large number of these checks never hav: been presented for payment, One party alone is known to have in his pessesion an aggregate of many thousands of dollars represented by these checks, and, although frequent- ly importuned to present them for payment he has so far neglected to do so0. An investigation recently made by the Secretary of the Treasury dis- closes the fact *hat many national Lanks are holders of these checks, and the Treasury now has the names of over 100 national banks who have thus far neglected to present them tor payment. This failure on the part of any such check holders to present them has caused the Secretary to issue an order to the effect that when such in- terest checks remain unpaid for more than three full fiscal years the hold- ¢ will be required to prove his t to them. In addition it is preb- hat new checks will have to cotering the amounts « nited mount to the ihiless =om n lost « stites to ceording Goy , bhut Ity years duri ve been in civenlaiio v old or mutilated bil VoReNL G Treasury ued i place of them and tho rerewal is constantl e s D oprovess of fgoing on, but there is no means o | knowing how many have been losi or destroyed. The Government makes a profit of riore than 100 per cent on all the fractional silver put in circulation The silver bullion costs less thau half the face value of the coins. About $170,000,000 in silver half- dollars, quarters and dimes are in ex- istence, acording to the books of the Treasury. An arbitrary reduction of $9,700,000 was made three years ago in the Government's account of sub- - | sidiary silver coins in circulation. No silver dollars have been coined sfnce 1904 About $72,000,000 sil- ver in circulation and about $467,000,000 are piled up in the and represented in circu- Treasury - | lation by silver certificates. \ltozether there is about y U000 of paper currency in cir- culation, including $1,040,000,000 of gold certificates, $346,000,000 United States notes, $798.000,000 of national bank notes and $2,000,000 ary of this vast sum of currency is lost or destroyed the Government is the gainer because there is that much less to be redeemed ultimately. Nature Thought. Alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear. . . . No way of thinking or doing, however anclent, can be trusted without proof. .o What is the nature of the luxury which enervates and destroys nations? Are we sure that there is none of it In our own lives>—Thoreau. Few American Negroes in London. “There are a few American negroes in London,” says a New York Sun cor~ | respondent, “but most of the race in ! England are young men from the Brit- | 1sh colonies who are studying law or | medicine or taking regular colleglate courses. In the library at Lincolns {nn, one of the noted inns of court or | law schools of London, every man en- a negro.” His Mind on Other Things. Ny, » ) Low round trip fap,, North and West ~— Ci‘./_l‘ A resorts and to many of the ities i North .-nd West. These fickhreg.«w?ll??eu;x returaing until October 31st, and bear libera] stop-over privileges, ; --$50.05 .- 47.40 ~ - 58.60 43.50 ) Mackinac Islaad - - Mammoth Cave --- These are but a few of the points, There area great many others and we will be pleased to giy, Let Us Arrange Your Vacation Tri ‘ H. C. BRETNEY, Fla, Pag;, Agt. t‘ 118 West Bay St. Jacksonyile " ).' N ) o oo () SRS YOUR DOLLARS Wil YoV AN ) t&’ Py ) ~, \ of | of treasury notes of 1890, Whenever | gaged in reading when a Sun corre | spondent was there the other day was | | PANETELAS Watch for our1 free cigar offer next Saturday in this paper. deal of attention. and an attempt | Judge (io )—Have you agreed was even made to photograph it H upon a verd the prisoner guilty S. L. A, CLONTS DEALER IN Real Estate | | | | Canny Mr. Man. [ the indictment? cause he wears an outrageous tie. It |4 missed m¥ pocket-book in the night, in which case he iz vers much the |Jjuror be searched. reverse of insane | B — Live Each Day. ! True Philosophy, Foresight is very wise, but foreson | If the weather doesn’t hapien to be uffice in Clonts’ Building. |or not guilty of theft, as charged in | 1 DO DOUBLE DUTY At our great SUIT SALF dollcr bill takes any suit in ) consisting of Priestlv Mohairs and Cassimers. Sale limited « new ones | 4§ GIVE YOUR MONEY A ChiAvt AT THE HUB JOS. LeVAY .Otis Hungerford Building Contractor me fizur \ amall attention Lock Box 115 L —and REALIZATION If you've had your troubles about t¢* ing your tie, com® in and pick oV your style in LIDEWE] -, s i the collars with the | and-time-and-terper shield thatlets your 1 You'll be amazed b they make it under th2 chin. Foreman—\We have | A man is not necessarily insane be- | ROt ¥et reached a verdict, your honor. | might be a present from a rich aunt— | and 1 would respectfully ask that each | All the best ¢ 15¢ 2for2 CARVERS row is very foolish; and castles are, |800d for my Wwork today, it's good for at any rate, better than dungeons in |S0me other man’s, and will come round the air.—Sir John Lublock. to me tomorrow.—Dickens. CITY AND COUNTRY PROPERTY— ROME FINE BARGAINS. S S 4 edi e R e DAYLIGHT STORE