Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, August 12, 1912, Page 4

taGE FOUR THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., AUG. 12, 1912. The Evening Telegram Published every afternoon from the| Kentucky Buildiag, Lakeland, Fla Entered in the postoffice at Lake- «and, Florida, as mail mattes of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. A. J. HOLWORTHY susiness and Circulation Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Jne year ....-. veesess-$5.00 six months ........ vee. 2,60 Three monthe ... ..... 1.26 Delivered anywhere within the Iimits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week, ¥rom the same office ia issued THE LAKELAND NEWS « weekly newspaper giving & re- sume of local matters, crop condi- uvons, county affairs, etc. Sent snywhere for $1.00 per year. DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President—\Woodrow Wilson. For Vice President-—Thomas C. Marshall. Presidential Electors—Jefierson B. Browne, J. Fred DeBerry, Charles E. Jones, W. Chipley Jones, Leland J. Henderson, H. C. Sparkman. Congressman, State at Large— Claude L'Engle. Congressman, First District—S. M. Sparkman. Congressman, Second District — Frank Clark. Congressman, Third District—Em- mett Wilson, Governor—Park Trammell. Attorney General—Thos. F. West. Secretary of State—H. C. Craw- ford. Commissioner of Agriculture—W. .\ McRae. Treasurer--J. C. Luning. Comptroller—W. V. Knott. Superintendent of Public Instruc- tion—W, N. She: ts, State Chemist—R. E. Rose. Adjutant Genceral—J. C. R. Foster. Up in Kentucky the first frost of the season has fallen--the earliest in the State's history., A few days before, the thermometer registered over 100 degrees and suffering was intense. Better move to Florida where the mercury don't skidoo from one end of the bulb to the oth- er, and where a continual breeze cools the summer air, and the chill- ing blasts of winter are unknown. The Tampa Times fills nearly a coiumn of good white space explain- .ng why the county printing should not have been awarded to the Plant City Courler. It's all in the point of view, Brother. If the Times were published in Plant City, the shoe would be on the other foot, and then, anyway, we doubt that you had the convenience of Tampa de- linquents at heart so much as would be inferred—the absence of the coin that would have made nice vest pocket change, will go into the wrong pocket, but into a very d:- serving one, however, and from tkis distance we think the Hillsborough commissioners made a very wise sc- lection. AR i “When is a lie not a lie,” Is a question which affords much discus- gien. We know that many hearts kave been made happier, many hoymes brighier by the fact that the truth, in all instances was not fol- lowed, but 1 its stead the privilege of assuming that conditions were different was exercised, and all par- ties concerned were better off. A homely girl much prefers to find she was classe¢ as “lovely™ in her wedding gorwn; the indifferent stu- dent is spurred to higher endeavor when he finds that he was described as “standing high in his classes” in short, there are many people in tie world who could well emulate the newspapers-—-by bestowing com- phiments on the deserving apd o't- times undeserving —it makes you fecl better and others happier. Where to draw the dead line in regard to Sunday closing is now agitating the De Funiak ministers After putting on the lid regarding the transaction of business by the news, cigar and cool drink dealers, the pastors were astonished to find that the electric light plant had found it a sin to work on Sunday and oil lamps had to be used in the churches; the postmaster became concerned about his soul and refused to go to the office from Saturday un- til Monday, and no mail was handled for thirty-six hours; the ice man re- fused to venture forth, and it was rumored that organists in the churches would soon go on a strike, 28 they considered the exercise of the pumps altogether too much work. Where the present Sunday reform will lead De Funiak we know not, but we expect to hear that the sun has ceased to shine, the birds to twitter, the loafers to loaf—in fact, from this distance, life in De Funiak on Sunday appears to be one grand TWO GOLDEN DAYS By Robert J. Burdette There are two days of the week up- on which and about which 1 never worry. Two care-free days, kept sa- credly free from fear and apprehen- sion. One of these days is yesterday. Yesterday, with all its cares and frets with all its pains and aches, all its faults, its mistakes and blunders, has passed forever beyond the reach of my recall. | cannot undo an act that I wrought; I cannot unsay a word that | said on yesterday. All that it holds of my life, of wrongs, regret and sorrow, is in the hands of the Mighty Love that can bring honey out of the rock, and sweet waters out fo the bitterest dessert—the love that can make the wrong things right, that can turn weeping into laughter, that can give beauty for ashes, the garment of praise for the spirit heaviness, joy of the morning for the woe of the night. Save for the beautiful memories, sweet and tender, that linger like the perfume of reses in the heart of the day that is gone, 1 have nothing to ¢o with yesterday. It was mine; it is God's, And the other day I do not worry about is tomorrow. Tomorrow, with all its possible adversities, its bur- dens, its perils, its large promise and poor performance, its failures and mistakes, is as far beyond the reach of my mastery as its dead sister, yes- terday. It is a day of God's. It's sun will rise in roseate splendor, or be- hind a mask of weeping clouds. But it wil] rise. Until then, the same love and patience that hold yesterday and hold tomorrow, shining with tender promise into the heart of today, I have no possession in that unborn dey of grace. All else is in the safe keeping of the Infinite love that holds for me the treasure of yester- day. The Jove that is higher than the stars, wider than the skies, deep- er than the seas. Tomorrow - it is God's day. It will be mine. There is left for myself, then, but one day of the week- today. Any man can fight the battles of today. Any woman can carry the burdens of just one d.y. Any man can re- gist the temptations of today. O, friends, it is only when to the bur- dens and today carefully measured out to us by the Infinite Wisdom and Might that gives with them the promise, “As thy day, so shal] thy strength be,” we wilfully add the burdens of those two awful eternities - yesterday and tomorrow such burdens as only the mighty God can sustain- that we break down. It 't the experience of to- duy that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, the dread of what tomor- row may disclose. These are God's days. Leave them with Him. Therefore, 1 think, and 1 do, and | jcurney but one day at a time. That Is the easy day. That is the man’s day. Nay, rather, that is our day— God's and mine. And while faith- fully and dutifully I run my course, and work my appointed task on that day of ours, God the Almighty and the All-loving takes care of yesterday and tomorrow. cares of THE WISE MAN. (By \Walt Mason.) There is a man in our town who thinks he's wondrous wise; though he has lots of jurk to sell, he does not advertise. He often says: “The people must know 1I'm in the game; and if they want my doodads, they'll come and buy the same. To adver- tise my jim-cracks won't bring me trade or scads, for folks who take the papers refuse to read the ads. They read the sporting pages, they read tie household dope, they read what Lillian Russel says of her beauty s0an, they read the wedding stories of joyous girls and lads, they read the “liats to Hoboes.” but do not cead the ads.” The large and clam- my spiders build cobwebs in his store, and no one will disturb them by entering the door. The clerks are growing whiskers all filed with fungus blue, and comb them with their fingers-—they've nothing clse to do Sometimes a sad-eyed pilgrim, insomnia-accursed, goes there in peace and quiet to sleep a little Anon a man who wishes to drop from public view, drops in to see that merchant and stays a week or tko. But no one takes a bundle to buy things at that store, where broods the drowsy merchant, and all the clerklings snore. verst SUMMER NORTH AND IN FLORIDA Greater contrasts could hardly be afforded than those between Florida and the North in the matter of the weather during the past six weeks or so. June 8 heavy frosts destroyed the gardens and fruit crops so far Scuth as Pittrburg. People North at that time and up to a week or so ago 8till wore light overcoats and other wraps every evening. Snow fell in Maine, At that time we were ex- periencing very though none suffered by it to a dan- gerous exten, i Cool weather continued up North and the last two nights of June quite heavy frosts imperiled the Massa- chusetts cranberry bogs, besides do- ing other damage. By this time cool- er weather was making Florida a Par- adise again. While all down here were congratulating each o*her on the agreeable weather in Florida, it suddenly turned warm up North and those who were shivering with cold there less than a week before were prestrated with heat and some of them died. Every day added to the number slain by the sun's fierce heat up there, while here the people here were showing all the sprightliness of o Florida winter under the influence of entirely temperate weather. Of course there is a reason for all this. In fact, there are several rea- sons that is for the fatal heat at least. The cold weather of early summer which made so many up North long to be in Florida again might have been due to the immensity of the ice fields out in the North Atlantic, reaching down nearly or quite to the latitude of Boston. The sudden ac- cess of heat has another explanation. Two years ago the Times-Union showed by figures taken from the Almanac that the days in summer are longer and, conversely, the nights shorter in the North than they are in the South. Boston has one hour, seventeen minutes more of sunlight, the same amount less of absence of sunlight - not counting the longer twilighe there—than Jucksonville on Midsummer's day & total of more than two and a half hours. No won- der it is hotter in the North in the summer than in Florida. The sun shines no more hotly in the South than in the North. It shines for more than an honr and a quarter longer up North. Another cause for the intense heat of summer in regions where much coal is burned al] the year is alleged by some scientists. Coal in burning throws off not only smoke but a great volume of carbon dioxide, commonly called carbonic acid. This carbon dioxide which is naturally heavier than air, rises, it is claimed under the influences of heat just as water vapor does and forms a perfectly tgansparent layer in the upper at- mosphere through which the rays of heat and light pass freely, but, like glass, is is opaque to reflected heat and confines it much as the sashes of a cold frame or greenhouse confine the heat of the sun's rays passing through them. Vapor of water has the same effect. The South burns comparatively lit- tle coal. Factories are fewer and there are not so many days when our homes need fires. If the hypothesic mentioned above were correct it it would, with the difference in the amount of sunlight received by th warm weatler, two sections, explain why Northern | simmers are warmer than Southern It might also help to explain the queer circumstance that the man who does not feel a ture of say S5 degrees at all unbear- able in the South will yet die of thy degree of heat in a Northerny iy The Fla. Times-Union. same tempera WHAT A NEWSPAPER EARNS A news paper is in no sense a child of charity, It earns twice over ev- ery dollar it receives and it is <oo- ond to no enterprise in contributing to the upbuilding of a com Its patrons reap far more from its pages than its publishers and in calling for the suppor: . community in which it is it asks for no more than in all ness belongs to it, though o Patronize veur paper as vou would a enterprise because it helps von not as an act of charity muriny iv receives less Here's Hoping. Editor Hetheringion has siaried for the great, big city of Now York “While it is conceded that Florida is assuredly solid for the Democratic nominees, this State should raise a fund for the campaign much larger than any other Southern State. We should be in the front ranks at the start, and the best plan to pursue is that of quick and determined ac- tion. 1 believe every Democrat in the tSate will be ready to assist, and hope none will refuse when called upon.” and alone! He gave o Ty man some good advice w ter started for Baltimor: sire to be equally kind Steer clear of the cabarets, don't et mixed up with the “system™ or the “murder- bund,” take an able-bodied escort when you go to Comey and avold Wall street, lest it join you to the “interests.” Observe these warnings, Brother, and you may get back une broken in body and in purse —Tam- pa Tribune. ibune the Jat- we de- do iy FLORIDA. A Facetious Essay by the Humorist, George Fitch. Florida is a vast expanse of water, sand and climate, which sticks out about 400 miles into the ocean at the southeast cormer of the nation, and is as hard to dodge as a sore thumb. For many years it was the vermiform appendix of the United States. No particular use for it was known, and the Seminole Indian. kept it in a constant state of inflam- mation. It is now being extensive- ly cultivated, however, and is grow- ing faster than any other southern State, though goodness knows it needs to ,having only 750,000 souls and a few thousand hotel kegpers. Florida was discovered by Ponce de Leon almost 400 years ago, and in.mediately became famous for its wonderful climate. Ever since then people have been going to Florida to enjoy the climate and coming back This shows Flor- In California the to enjoy society. ida’s simplicity. who arrives to enjoy the cli- man raate is treated so hospitably that he never saves money enouzh to come buck However, in the past few years a few great hotels have been built in Florida, and it is now possible to go down there swelled al] out of shape with money and be successfully treated for the affliction in a very few weeks. Florida is divided equally into timber, swamps and orange greves It contains the Everglades, the greatest swamp in America. It is so large that the agriculture depart- ment almost got mired in it recently. It also contains the only sea rail- road in the world, running to Key West over 100 miles of water and keys. The Florida key is a peculiar one, made out of coral, and is almost a¥ big as an old fashioned New Eng- land house key. Florida ships oranges, grapefruit, alligators and cigars to the world. If it were not for Florida mankind would be able to swear off smok- ing. In fact this would be almos: necessary, Florida contains the oldest city in the United States—St, Au- gustine- -which is one of the cele- brated sleeping beauties. The me- tropolis of the State is Jacksonville, which nas grown out of genoral stores into skyscrapers in the last ten years. The capital is Tallahas- see, of which no more is known. Florida is now very prosperous. Buying Florida land is a national diversion, and selling Florida land is one of the surest roads to wealth. also CONCERTED THOUGHT AND ACTION WILL BRING RESULTS When some newly patented con- trivance of value is being shown we often hear the expression, “Why, | could have made that if 1 had thought of it.” Sure you could. Sure you could. You probably could have invented the telephene, the moving picture machine, wireless telegraphy and a thousand other things had you thought of them. But you didn’t think of them and consequently some one else is reap- ing the honor and reward of discov- +ry and invention. Or probably you have thought of [\uun-(hlng valuable but have never {expressed the thought or attempted to put it into practical use, in which | case your thought is as valueless as if i had never been thought Now it thinking a zreat deal on u certain subject and hun- dreds of others are thinking on the same subject, but it we all keep our thoughts to ourselves they will never e e e e e it bt s We o are do us or any one else a particle of but it on the other hand we make our thouzhts known they will | put other people to thinking and in the end we will have the entire com- munity thinking about and working toward one desirable object—the bet- | terment of our town, from a stand- point of «¢ivic beauty, commercial progress and prosperity, from :1‘ standpoint of morality and along all | lines that wil 1 to make it a bet- | ter town in Which to live and will | fend to contr to the happiness. health and prosperity of those who « here— Marianni Leader. oo, NOTICE. Notice to the stockholders, all and | singular, of the First Nationa] bank of Lakeland, Florida [ Notice is hereby given that a meet- ! ing of the stockholders of this bank will be held In the directors' room | of the bank on Saturday, Aug. 24,] 1912, at the hour of 10 o'clock, a. i m., for the purpose of voting for or | against an increase of the capital stock of said dank to $75000.00, thereby raising the capitalizatiop from $50.000 00 to $75,000.00. You are requested to be present at this meeting. (Signed) © M. CLAYTON, Cashier. Lakeland. Florida, July 23, 1912, AUT | Tire Troubles Ended Have Your Tires Filled With RUBBERINE Rubberine guarantees you against punctures. blow.oy: rim cuts and leaky valves. The method of fillingis mechanically correct. The ... tube is filled while on the rim. 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