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! ficte 1Y I Fio o e .’/1 Lot |"J .» v ili \ I ¥ |4 | ,'; !wl ':1 | MR PAGE FOUR THE EVENING TELEGKAM Ay graxD, FLA., OCT. 24, 1912, " m‘ — e oo T E Ihe Evening Telegram i ublished every afternoon from the hentucky Buildiag, Lakeland, Fis.. " totered in the postofiice at Lake- 'end, Florida, as mail matter of the swcond class. be W F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. ¥ F. A. J. HOLWORTHY suwiness and Circulation Manager, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year . . +$6.00 l Six months ..... . 380 l Three monthg ...-..... 18R Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents & wesk, e, From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS « weekly newspaper giviag & fo= wme of local matters, crop condi- 'ions, county affaira, etc. Semt suywhere for $1.00 per year. "7 DEMOCRATIC TICKET. For President—Woodrow Wilsen. For Vice President—Thomas C. groes generally throughout th coun-| there will rarety if ever be any dif. try would follow Washington's ex-|ficulty in getting the voters in suf- unple it would have a good effect in | ficient numbers to the polls. cufining the race prejudice aroused i the episode to the brute who made the trouble. ator Duncan U. Fletcher at the dedi- R cation of the Olustee battlefield mon- The “roll of shame” is the not|ument Wednesday was a notable inappropriate designation by the|piece of oratory, altogether worthy Tampa Times for the list of States|of the man and the occasion. The ir the Union permitting the inter-|civil war has during the past forty marriage of whites and negroes. And | and more years inspired in the ag- this reminds us that, following the|gregate a stupendous mass of high- lead of the Times,'we recently ib-|pressure oratory both North and cluded Michigan in the roll of]|South, most of it now fortunately shame, which was a mistake, as a|consigned to everlasting oblivion, citizen of the State informs the|for it was awful slop, reeking with Times that such marriages are not|bad taste, bad rhetoric and bad tem- permitted there. To hybridize the|per; buy some of it survives as liter- leading race of the world would be|ature worth preserving, and Senats, an immeasurable crime, and any | Fletcher’s calm, truthful and elo- State in this Union which does not|quent address at Olustee, discussing prohibit by law the marriage of|the war from the Southern view- whites and negrees is an accessory | point, is of a kind which deserves to before the fact to that crime. last. 1 SO e Qe The other day in Cincinnati’twen- We are a total failure as a war v thousand men and boys united in | prophet-—a Mexican war profit we 2 mighty and impressive procession | mean--and we do by these presents S e ‘ihe speech of United States Sen- Representatives. He has already se- cured nearly enough votes for elec- tion and expects to add many others whey the caucus is “*We simply 't do without the pr: ry system,’ said Mr. Farris to a Metropolis reporter, ‘for that is the only method by which the Dem- ocratic people of Florida can regis- ter their wills in election matters. As it is, however, our primary sys- tem has many defects, and it is my hope that the Legislature will cure many of these diceases. I have copics of the primary laws of all States in which primaries are held, and hope to secure from these the most per- fect State primary law in existence. As g majority of both Houses of the Lagislature are Progressives, 1 ex- pect to experience little 'difficulty t0 enacting a better law. One of the principal defects of the primary sys- tém is the heavy expense falling upon candidates, and | hope to dv away With this to a great extent.” —_———— THE LOVE OF AFFINITY— i infinitely more important element in !-the making of our lives than natural abilities are.—Pensacola Journal. —————— HOW HARRY FLOYD SQUARED HIMSELF WITH MRS. HARRY. There is a lawyer over in Apala- chicola—brilliant, bug a little er- ratic—a member of the Florida Leg- islature and a voluminous contribu- tor to the press. In onme of his ef- fusions, not long since, he made a pretty bad break, stating in effect that one of the best things about married life was getting away froni one’s wife once in a while. W= i imagine thay Mrs. Harry called hirn down on this proposition, for a da; or two later he published an effusioi entitled “My Wife.” If the lady com- bines all the characteristics Harry's article invests her with, we do not wonder at his sense of relief in get- ting away from her occasionally. We | know that we would stand in awe lof such a lady as being much ‘*‘tod bright and good for human mortal': LIKE ATTRACTS LIKE. |daily food.”” But let the reader | through the streets as a mark of pro- | retire from that particular field vn'% [ e tivity. Some days ago when young | Jdix Diaz, the nephew of old Por.! 11! you ever think that the thing 4 i terio, suddenly came to the front!yon ure looking for is looking fov Aarshall. Ve * e Presidential Kiectors—Jefferson '_|h st aguinst the desecration of (o Browne, J. Fred DeBerry, Charles E. | hame, so widespread in this count tores, W. Chipley Jones, Leland J. by the use of profane language. In| tienderson, H. C. Sparkman. Congressman, State at Large— “laude L'Engle. | Congressman, First District—8. M. Sparkman. | Congressmau, Second District — Frank Clark. (‘ongressman, Third Dlstrict——ll-l r:ett Wilson. i Governor—Park Trammell, Attorney General—Thos. F. West. | Secretary of State—H. C. Craw-| ford. | Commissioner of Agriculture—W. | .A McRae. Treasurer—J. C. Luning. Comptroller—W. V. Knott. Superintendent of Public Instruc-: tion-—W, N. Shesta. Wo are improving in our presiden- | | among the people of our land, but addressing the multitude of a clergyman used these words which : by what seemed a veritable Na- will be generally endorse(d as true: i poleonic coup, our imagination took “There is not one excuse, not ons | firte und with dramatic literary acequate explanation or reason that ! pose and potentous brevity we uny man can give for the improper | wrote, “Enter Diaz!" Tollowing by use of the name of God. In this day | some inflammatory suggestions as to and generation not only do we find| what Felix was going to do to Ma- prafanity spreading like leprosy | derg right now. as you might say. But it didn't work that way. Madero we find it an evil growing up in the | did something to Felix right now, lives of little children. As language | ar:d our bhantling hero is a prisoner i the expression of the soul, so its|ol war, who struck his colors with- defilement and debasement is one of | out a decent fight. Kxit Diaz, whom the greatest evils of all time.” it were hase flattery to denominate - Qe —— |2 chump. Ilie result of the sewer bond cle. | tion in Orlando the gther day shoul in the race for speaker of the next Legislature, what he ple who are opposing the bondins, amendment proposed to the State has to say As Hon lon 1. Farris, of -lau-kmn»i shesuflicient answer to those peo- | ville, scems to have the inside track people | us u warrior and captured Vera Cruz{you that it is the very law of af- | finities to get together? i you are {coarse in your tastes and vicious in ! you! tendencies, you do not have to try very hard to get with coarse, vicious people; they are sekeing you by ihe very law of attraction. Ev- erywhere affinities ure seeking one another. Those who want to ge! with good people, those who aspire and are ambitious to get on and up in the world very quickly find those who are trying to do the same, and assoriation with them is natural. Those who are wild and want to dis- | sipate don’t have to look very long ito find those with the same tastes. We all make our own association: jand soul-environment. and these {form fully half of our success or failure in life. Notice country hoys tial campaigns in at least two nota-'censtitution for school purposes on jalout n remedy for the shortcomine: lwho come to the city 1o seck their ble respects: We don't get unduly | the ground that the suffrage in such { oi our primary system has tiore than | fortunes. Some turn to the Y. M, ¢, excited now and throw the whole ' &chool bond elections, heing limited [ ordinary interest. He had rome tals [ A for companionship, and some to country into a spasm of mean tem-| per, and business goes right along | without the ¢lump which had be-| come proverbial in presidential olec-' tion years, 0~ Booker J prblicly repudiaie kK Jolinson who has outraged the sibilities of all the decent white people of America, atd if representative bodies of ne- Washington does well to ' frechold- [ with o Jacksonville Metropoliz pro- prorter on this subject the other dav Thattand we take from that paver the following: to qualiticd voters who ar ers, it would never he possible to get a majority of such voters, same pestriction avplieg to the vot- ers in the Orlando clection and 179 SDetterment of the Site primar voted for the honds and only seven]law and thorouzl revisicn of tae inst it. No trouble to gzet a m:\-l ool acksonville will he the jority in that case, and if the school incipal hobbics at the next legi board lative session of Hon. lon L amendment carries, the issue { Far in elections called under it will ::«)i\\h.. bids Tnir 1o again be honored vitally affeet the frecholders that ) with the speakership of the House of ORANGE PARK The n Tha lling ' ‘ - About thirty days ago we put these---the City’s choic lots---on the market. Sub-division That is S WHY? every ORANGE PARK is in the center of the most ra ORANGE PARK is sold only to those able to ORANGE PARK is being purchased b they know values and realize opportunities. don’t delay another day. Call at our office your service. lot. restriction on each lot. Orange Park lots are going fast. For a few weeks more we will sell these lots at from $600 to balance six, twelve, and eighteen months, with interest at 8 per cent The finest homes in Lakeland are bein ‘;thv sialoons. Those with musical | tastes very quickly gep into a mu !siuzl atmosphere. Whatever he I Be finds, and whatever he desi cols 1 Ibe he becomes. Iis life, like the {rose, unfolds from within, Our | (thonghts and motives, onr desires fang longzings are forces which Tind flows. They cause us all to irize steadily upward or to sink steadily down. Soul tendency is an \ i = | judge: | “She is more splendiq than ora ! tory or horrible battles dying awuy in the twilight of old chronicles; and the thought of her reduces all of the i little stars and nebulas and constel- i lations of frenzied suns, into a hand- ful of white violets. As the bed o. ! the oceun, the thoughts of her ac- ‘commodnte ten myriad cubic yvards of wonder and glory and love ani beauty and dignity and the inverted sky. As a gold chest holds all of the crown jewels of the English king, the thought of her holds all of the intellect and imagination. She is « mountain of wonder set in a vale of tears, superb ambassador from carti to heaven. She is a window in the granite wall of life through which | look and see God walking in Edcu in the cool of the afternoon. she i the answer to the riddle of the uni- verse. And all constellations coun- termarch to cateh glimpse of her. The earth is an aeroplane fiyin: nineteen miles each second that sh- might see this strange country w: call life. The silent music of her life. reaching heaven hushes the me! ody that veils the face of Cod o causes to vanish in the mist of noth ing all the cherubim and sepaphin., “She is the song of songs and st and death are the gecompaniment she issues from the lips of God an death and stars from Tnte e holds and plays. The world is o vine and she is the ultimate ros the EUGENICS IN SCHo. A schoolmistress in Hert: Al England, is teaching eugeni she calls it, the facts of 1.:,;. boys and girls of the ages roy, to 14 years. And she talks 1, the after this fashion: ““There iy ok ing wicked in nature. Yoy ., . golng to be fathers and 1, some day. If you don't groy with strong, healthy bodics yo - ot have strong, healthy cbjigr, To have such bodies you g, breath fresh air, take plenty of .., ercise and keep clean.” To 4 iig;,, she sald: “If you don't teach 1. dren the facts of nature in a g ble, open way they find thep ot for themselves in a vulgar, imn,., oF way. I beélieve in telling chij; those essential facts which must know soomer or later. Ty, ought to know. Their ignorav, . not a moral safeguard. It is th, ... verse. If you can make a child .. derstand the blessedness of 4 <, body and the awfulness of ur sound one, you are doing as m: more than all the rescue hom: together.—Indianapolis News or “The trouble is that my . favorites. You can't deny it *1 won’t deny it. But hav, . ticed that his favorites do . hard work about the place ville Courier-Journal. e —————————————————— You cannot obtain from any stock corset the classy lines, taste and absolutel o By fog Koo Srirella Corset , type for every figure Let me select the model your 1 figure requir-s ‘y and fitit to you. Spirg”a ws ulno tfree. dom of motion; gives supre satisfact on My your service, Arointe o0t > ple MISS MERTIE GRACY Phone 23 Black. Read the & Journal, b We had some $1250 lots, but they are all gone. Let us show you the prettiest property in Lakeland, FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS INQUIRE C 7 The FLORIDA & GEORGIA 1AND Co. | Phone 72. v Munn Building pe Fruit and Orange trees on pidly developing section of the city. build good homes, there is a $1500 building Y your own people, the people of Lakeland, because If you haven’t seen this choicest of Lakeland home sites, or telephone and let us take you out there. Our car is at g built on land adjoining Orange Park, and $850, on terms of one-fourth cash, «» S per cent. discount for cash. A elling est Residence oday one-third of them have been sold. BECAUSE: Orange Park is the closest in of any sub-division now on the market, only five blocks from Munn Park. Orange Park rises sharply from the shores of beautiful Lake Morton to the highest point with- in the city. Orange Park is the only subdivision with heavy bearing Gra et ———dia T e e ——————— R S S R RISt S 5 Lakeland, Florida. - T R T M .- | - R R e ST P P — o——— o \