Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, November 27, 1912, Page 2

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e e — e Far B¢ it Frcm Him. ) pariscn. No Compar g R Viear—“The most wonderful organ I | qajior—*you ever saw was the property of a Dri- lof money; why dor't you settle my vate gentleman. It had nearly @ hub- {piper Quens—-My dear man, 1 dred stops.” Sexton—'U'm! The | wougnt have it said for anything most remarkable organ 1 ever ‘eard is that my newly acquircd wealth caused my old woman's torgue. It ain’t got ‘any departure from my simple hab- po stops at all."—London Tatler. { fts."—Boston Transcript. O#03 A Snap For Quick Sale, 80 Acres ; : As fine land as there is in Florida, one and a half mile from station; 60 acres under good wire fence; 30 acres cultivated; 125 large bearing orange trees, f 200 grape fruit trees, budded, 4 yearsold; 30 acres & | fine pine timber; 10 acres choice hammock land cov- g ered with oak: 10 acres good muck land. The first man with $2,500 cash gets this bargain, another $2,000'to be paid in one, two and three years. Act quick as this wili not last. Call or write 2 THE ALEX. HOLLY REALYY CO., Lakeland, Fla. author by rising an hour or two earl- | Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence riv- Diamodds-'l’earls-Rubies-fiarnets Sapphires-Amethysts and All the gems of lesser value will be found here set in the latest and most beautiful degigns in rings, bracelets, la vallieres, lockets 3 pendants, charms, pins, studs, Lot huekles, ard handreds of other 200000000 Y ornamental and useful articles, desired, and will make the sot'ing selected by the purchagor, A maenificent display of sterling silverware, clock TH¥N I HAVE unmounted jev elr of the first water, almost any size 8 o i watches, cines, umbrellas, casseroleg, ol fling dishes, eold ¢4 golves jowolry et articles, dosk eets and vicess, mateh boxes, stamp hoxes an ! ¢ tenrray of handsome noviltios egpe cinlly desiened for vif 614 Franklin St. TLCRIDA, NN RO 0 00 0 0 08 o oo eeenonzz Rosedale; Rosedale lots are the best lots now on the market, located so % % 2 : : F- AN £ near the center of the city. We will continue to offer them at the original price made one year ago un.lll Dec. 15, when the price will be advx;nced 20 per cent. If you are thinking of buring a lot near in any time {n the near future, you had better see us at once, or you will miss a gold- en opportunity and regret it. B r—————————— Smith & Steitz and G.C. Rogan HOFQEOFOTOHOFIFOBOFOFODOHFO L OTOTOTOHO FOFO OGO & SPECIALS for Thanksgiving F4- AP EAD O B SO BB TIPSO TSSO 1GOOI 5D . N. B. C. Fruit Cake, 5 1bs. . $1.50 ¢ N.B.C. Fruit Cake, 1 1b. . .30 & Fresh Pecans, Brazil Nuts, Walnuts. “Log Cabin” Maple Syrup, best ever, S Pure Food Store V. P. PILLANS & CO. WWWMW, D0 g2 Bt n ol n it o= Sl 20 | work hours and study hours, then | - Ny :*THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LA§ELAND, FLA, NOV. 27, 1912. PAGE TWO. & SEppe————_ - = . 3 QLGOS0 IOIOSOIOIDIIPAT O OIOSDSOIG IO IO TOOIOIOIT 1 Spare Moments--Little Things l tittle lives beneath the seas. Emer- | i.on says: “The creation of a thous- | i By Robert Jones i “Water falling day by day, 4 Weurs the hardest rock away.” |and forests is shut up in one acorn. l he author of “Many Things” A Scotch proverb says: “Tho moth- | larned the value of “spare moments™ | er of mischief is no bigger than vhen a child. 1f 1 should never write ' r-idge’s wing.” except when 1 find it right and prop- | “A pebble on the streamlet scant Has turned the course of many a river; read these “patch-| A dew drop on the baby plant Has warped the giant oak for- ever.” Two drops of water, falling sid2 by side, were separated a few in- ches by a gentle breeze. They strick the opposite sides of the roof of a courthouse in Wisconsin. On« drop rolled southward through th: Rock river and the Mississippi to the Culf of Mexico. The other drop rolled first to the Fox river, then l¢er 10 take plenty of time from my you would never tops—star at a time. And it is re- markable how much time one canget together, bit at a time, and use it like the efforts of an unbroken whole. One of our most charming writers tells us that much of his work was done while waiting at depots, riding on trains, etc. The greatest book, so far as | .k'now. written in the twentl- | Creen bay, Lake Michigan, the eth century, was largely produced in | Straits of Mackinaw, Lake Huror, the same way. Another claims that ! St. Clair river, Lake St. Clair, De- he did most of his best work as an ! troit river, Lake Erie, Niagara river, ier than the rest of the folks. Wel!, ler, and finally reached the Gulf of the individual who knows how to use St. Lawrence. one of the early hours of each day ul A postage stamp is a small thing, “spare time" gaing over the individ- | and the cost of it is not much. How- ual who does not utilize this hour | c'er, if you had all the money thnt; forty-five working days of eigh. tle citizens of the United States hours each day in one year! In eight sbent for stamps last year you would years he gains an entire year ot !¢ worth no less than $229,000,000. 265 working days of eight hours last year, in this country, we ad-| each. If I can find an average of Ministered 30,000,000 lickings ev- but fifteen minutes of “spare time™ ¢ry day-—lickings to nothing more ! every day, in one year the whole Lellicose than the humble postaga +mounts to more than ten days o stamp. The stamps used in a single | it working hours each. Our duy, laid end by end, would reach, spare moments' are like the bricks 475 miles or half way from I\'ew: tht go into a great building—one Yo'k to Chicago, while the number| foes not amount to much, but the tsed in a year, would stretch about whole building is that one repeated, !77,000 miles, or seven times aroun?! “spare minutes” makes a the earth. hour''; twenty-four “spare Siznley tells us that when he was ' o bassing through darkest Africa, the + formidable foes he enconntered, liose that eame nearcst defeat 4 SNty | ‘‘spare mres” reul thi o \ Vou see how omoments cimulate? i i exned , were the Wam- he 0 moements’” tie dwarf I'hese little men had AR TR Y olesome in little bows and arrows for wea- tlon in n I helievs small that | 3 Id on what we ! l! ] ) W ut v bow to util- Hl p h it I'hey tel we that the best was i drop of poison go deadly deof i ! made from thar fthat it would Kill an elep o rt of the I, until recent- n as nuick!y a8 a rifle bal ¢ Yo considered useloss, Inoa cot. little men would steal thropsh the meoil mill 1osaw muny bales of Uise forest, and we in ambugh | otten made from 1‘4--".|>nnins: the Would let y their deadly arrows he- | cod. And then when I‘ru\\' lu‘n\' ev- lore they could be discovered., They ery product of the green seed was | onld alo diz ditehes, then care- | hu'ing utilized, 1 didn’t wonder any , U1y cover them over with leaves. | more that the seed from a bale of | they would fix spikes in the ground | cotton is worth more than $25. |1 ‘an(l tip them w/ith poison. Into theg. remember, so do other young men, | ditches and on these spikes man and | when cotton seed were hardly worth beast would fdll or step to their vauling from the gin! The Legisla- death. And one of the strangest! ture of Georgia once passed a law | facts about it all was that this poi prohibiting the throwing of seed in- | #0n Was made of honey. to the streams of that State, the| It I8 true, the little things of life, furmers seeking this method of dis- | 8fler all, are the great things. Thos: posing of what was considered | WhO say they know, tell me that ir worthless. Ninety-five per cent of | €Very Chinaman would add one inck the heat generated in our grates| !0 the length of his shirt-tail it s008 up the chimney; 75 per cent of would exhaust the cotton supply of the power generated by our engines | the World and run that staple to fifty 2 lost in overcrowding friction, We cents a pound. are great spendthrifts, but we do Mites well invested, not know it yet, Pring notes unprotested, Little bits of saving that you daily | spare, Nount up into dollars ere vou arc aware, All of which arzues the truth of the saying we received from our mothers: “Take care of the nickles and dimes and the dollars will take care of themselves,” Lake Buffum, Florida. I have a compost heap. (Some oi son farmers' sons don’t know wha Leat s, Ask your pa if he knows.) 1t £omy rule to put on my heap 7 pounds of valuable fertilizer-product cach day. In 300 working days it cne vear, 1 have saved one and a uuarter tons of high-grade fertilizer. Is it worth while? Only a few s mements” every day and the wasto matter about the premises. That does it : Herculaneum and Pompeil. l You smcke. (I am sorry). Now, it] The twin cities of mournful destiny | You use but one cigar a day, at iive| were both enzulfed at the same time | cents each, your cigar bill is §18.25 | —August, 79 A. D. The reason why by the year. It takes you fifteen | }€rculaneum has not been excavated liinutes to smoke your cigar, then £u e v wnent se Towpeid & ow. while you ure fimul;:u‘:, you coud ln.g‘ s Mot bbb i i S ) **%1 with a much harder material than was read several good books; or write Pompeii; the dust predominating in several books, provided you .know | Pompeil, while the lava prevailed over how. A man of ordinary ability can | flercuianeum. There is not much fuemorize the entire Bible more thay, | doubt about the eventual opening up once, while you are smoking. If you of both cities. Human curiosity, to sinoke but one cigar a day for fifty BRLUSE WL th.e S of ol years, you will have burned up sl:-‘ ::g:::f:c;;'-,s“.l|l,lp.£l,:)tmrost utntil ik LU0! But every $1 at compound in-‘ secrets. It lls lmlikolyahz\\'t?vet:"t}:t: terest at four per cent more than | there will be mu-h r;ow know'leda;‘ doubles itseif in eighteen vyears; and | gained from its excavation, but "tfgk‘ AU eisht per cent it more thap | more than has already come to us doubies in ten years, from Pompeii, ——— s Not Wholly Satisfactory, | “Hasn’t anybody been able to invent a smoke consumer that will work?” | asked Slathers, as the train passed" * through Pittsburg, | “Not that I know of,” said Bilkins. : “I've got a boy who eats cigarettes, but T haven't been abla to malke him | work yet."—Ilarper's Weekly, That is ono | wothe ways we burn up a l moiiey, “a little at a i OL! the power of little t g sum ! " | sald that the greatest [ o7 tweatieth century life is senied by four m's mites, The dread mosg of all are not thos: tat fill our g, and miecrobes. g o streets with ban jand chargi cannon, e LN | that the great t ertoek lolland a little y I ey < olian { ue more a - V' it ¢ than a| “Your opponent says he can win In azo is not explained by a ' & walk,” said the campaigner. “Wel),” v ¢ that pierced the dikes, 'replied Senator Sorghum, “let us e;i- The disaster came through the cray. | courage that idea. 1If we can per- fishes that opened their tiny holes, . S e L himit dova o ard thus weakening the bulwark; | i il o) & W b let in the on-rushing sea. Yes, Iife‘»;, s little things are mighty big. The! coral islands have their being pe. | cause the reef-building polpys, in-' finitessimally small, { t'dal wa Virtue Has Few Martyrs, Among men virtue has many preachers but few martyrs. Piled up their Adrien Helvetius. N J Gig Listen! Big Cut in Maz- da Lamp Prices o 15, 20.aud 25 Watt were 50c now 40c 40 Watt were 53¢ now...... ... 45¢ €0 Watt were 78¢, now...... ... 60c 100 Watt were $1.10, now. . . ... 90c 150 Watt were $1.60, now. .. .$1.35 250 Watt were $2.60, now. .. .$225 Buy Mazda lamps and reduce your light bill. For gale by Florida Electric & Machinery (o, PHONE 4. DRANE BUILDIy; CHAPUQIOLQINIUP RIOPOUP0POL CHQPQPOPOIUIUIOT040: 31 04, CIOHIFIINFOHIICH SETAS TP FOPSOLEAF SO FOPPOTS QT OPOFATODOIOS D BSOS DSDEO SO GO 4 DPOGOGIIG D GO SIS D GO BB BID S 5 Gt G B B> B> 64D & F e® “The- Home For Savings” e e e Through the Door of a Bank ! Many a yourg man bas won his way upward in the business world. ¢ ; The habit of siving in a representative ¢ 2 instituticn---os wel! as the helpfur a { . sistance which this bark renders it- 4 g pitrons---demands consideration, ”:;. The doors of tivis bank are open to .- b sivtevary worthyv onterprise of indg vidual or corporition. ! BT OARFEDES AR CTRATE L AT ¢ OF LAKELAND We Pay 4 Per Cent Interest J AAAAAAAAAAAAWWAA. - . | ? Where Can You Get Them Here at this drug store. If the doctor siyvs you need a certain instrument or appliance come right to this store—we have it. o oo Red Cross Pharmacy Quick”.Delivery Phone 89 ¥ A e o CIGARS I. CIGAR CO. Lakeland, Florida

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