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PAGF FOR tv‘”""d ‘Ulcul d“’ Geng, not only of the law, but of lii- eruture; and be had applied Dimsel: . the intricacies of the Sculey con- wention for months. lijs tasi was "laboricus and his court wus out of sympathy with him, but he fought . i {with a determination and an effec- W F HETIERINGTON, EDITOR. tivepess that gave him a wide ac by T———— Y (claim, for he had the great bulk of é s m')LWOl?‘lH\ line people with kim and they ap- wwe s and flul_aimn Mnnnnr.‘pm"d,}d Sie dolkusiatiialty. CUsCRIPTION RATRS: “He came to the Senate with thiz Cite year ....-oe. cvese $5.00 l:anyiation as an able lawyer and an fix months ... cloquent orator. A comsiderable por- firee mouthf ... ..... 126 :2n of his service in the House of triivered anywhete within the iwepresentatives had been on th2 iimits of the City of Lakelan8 |:oreign affairs committee, and he de- for 10 cents & week. —_— . | eign relations in the Senate, espec- ¢rom the same office e tmsued |, .o () 1 Rusrian outrages on THE LAKELAND NEWS .he Jews. Except when defending + weckly newspaper GIVIDE 8 T [, .00 000n his addresses are not eime of local matters, crop cond numerous, but from time to time he “ons, county affaira, etc. BBt .. .. . ..on on some topic of soywhere for $1.00 per year. current interest, and he always ie tsure of good galleries and an atten- T | tive attendance on the floor. He has THE HASTY JUDGMENT |a good gift of irony and satire ani OF AN IRATE NEWCOMER. ', hignly developed method. Also, he | is an able lawyer and veell versed in the statutes. [ faclis el eyer) ALoTLOOL (o Lue comiuoky Buildog, Lakeland, Fla. | lle pustoilice at Lake as wail mattes of the ilied cod. vlr coud ciasa, a4 A man down in Fert Myers, evi- \uted his attention somewhat to for-, THE EVENInG TMLEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA, NOV. 27, 1912 §0.E FLORIDA CENSUS | I FACTS OF INTEREST | A LIiTLE NONSENSE | | 7ie thirieenth census gives the NOW AND THFEN foll wing Tacts and figures concern- ; ir: the population of Florida tlm!j are of rpccial interest: ! Woof! Of the total population of Florida, | The wen »io make the “girly” show | 447 724 or 58.9 per cent, are whites, | ! | Do not do things by halves; and 705,669, or 41 per cent negroes. l Union Men "WEAR Union Made Goods We want to announce that we carry a complete line of Carhart a2 Happ Grade OVERALLS hey star a milkmaid chorus so The corresponding percentages .hl 'I.L.Al it can show its calves. 1400 were 56.3 and 43.7 respective- Cincinnati Enquirer. 1y. In 28 of the 47 counties negroeu] constitute from 25 to 50 per cent of the population, and in 10 the popula- And when the calves come tripping tion is more than one-half negroes. ok, Native whites of native parentage | The bald-heads all opine. constitute almost one-balf (49.7 per No matter what the plot's about, cent) of the total population of th: The show is very fine. Srate and 84.3 per cent of the white : —Birmingham Age-Herald. | . .tion. Native whites of foreign o mixed parentage comstitute only Punctuation Marks. 4.8 per cent of the total population, Returning from school the other|,, ) toreign born whites 4.5 per cent afternoon, says Lippincott’s, a little (¢ ¢ne urban population, 37.1 per girl informed her mother that she cent are native whites of native par- bad learned how to “‘puncshate.” entage; of the rural, 54.8 per cent | “Well, dear,” said her mother, |y, worresponding proportions for \Tang how I8 1t done? native whites of foreign or mixed “Why, when you write ‘H"k!'lpnrontage are 11.1 and 2.1 per cent, you put a hat-pin after it; and when respectively. The percentage of for- you ask a question you put & button | o, porn whites is 11.2 in the urban dently a newcomer from tne Northi, [ “He is a most courteous states- book. 4 l'r'lmla:'on a"’dnl,'( in :h°4;“:allli ::: AR e - {man. His manners are exceptional, ! e percentage of negroes is 40. . vrites the Florida Grower and de- | man ' ki 1 old razor-back | kis voice is plezsant, and he depre-! He Caught It. urban and 41.2 in the rural. an WOf an s’ aS W e LOUNCES OUr Hruald it “YOU b, ates the use of any but pure En- 1. His speeches are liberazl!l; ol a disparaging character about th: supplied with classis sparasts 1 . reen that own them. |aliusions. He is quite proud of Wrong in both instances. While them, and sces to it that the corre- Florida was primitive and unsecled [spondents are adequately supplica and the greater part of her arca con- & Il.h advance copies. 'Umn »:.of a srtn- | slidve nature, he delights in praise 1 hogs as “damn di.kf.:r:u-v.ful things; | und he also makes a few remarks ¢ and swamps, no hos gisted of torn but the razor the Lill and he wel guunt and lost his K would have filled end naturally feels keenly any nee- pulchritude bo- | 1 . 'FOW THEY 0ZSTRUCT ‘ JUSTICE IN TEXAS. cauge it was “root hos or bon and be had neibor nity to bestow upon his poerson toat w 0t cursed with the fentin 1 ( i teehnieality whica HATORE in of lawers for the de- i 1 ‘ ne o ' i el obstruction in oot with his | i ation of criminal jus \ f wli I e 1 o 1 g wich de: it crotsh sometin | n ( cin e t it and have iis winded and i l mt it fs1 , a8 it did in only ¢ rteous and unkind for i eXtr timt Py at Fort Myers reported froin Toes to ol dute line: fui 1 and SAfter heving been tried for mur- geientifoelly unjus He holds his der even times, sentenced to doatl place in the order of nature by le- €iX times aud having spend nearly gl unte title, tnd procesg of evo- CEhit years in prison pending his lotion will dismiss him and super- tials, Burrell Oates, a negro, will be sode himoin due soason, just as it ig banged next week st the Waxahachlie doing with the long-horn steer and Irison to pay the penalty for the the mustang pony in ' the west, murder of Sol Aronoff in Dallas on Neither of these were considered dis the night of Nov. 29, 1904. This eraceful in their day, but on the Will bring an end to the most re- contrary they were peculiarly adapt- markable case in the criminal court ed to their environment and to what history of Texas and probably of the wag required of them, and precisely Whole United States. As an illus- the same is true of the untamed, rip- tration of the possibilitios offered by snorting razor-back of the Florida the criminal court practice in vogue swamps and hammocks. (ir this country, to delay the cours: He is a good hog in his way; he of justice by rccourse to legal quib- has served his purpose well as a pio- PMes over mere technicalities, the neer porker enduring the hardships ¢&se has probably no cqual in Amer- of the wilderness in which both he fcan court history.” and his master had to hustle for a! living, with scant reeard for ap- pearances and none whatever for the opinions of newcomers; and now vhen improved breeds are coming fa ty take hi titled to vosnect as an old timer whe 1 “done his durndest.” ¢ Is goinw, as the lony the ol R The history of Flovida, written by i competent person, would hardly be inferior in interest to that of anv State in the Union, and it wiil be ¢ lace he s at least en- |, task to write it as it deserves. hizh time that it were being »and in that connection we are id 1o see the following in the St. zustine Record: i dor hoen and |, ne milk cows and tid 1 going, he | LT e improved conditions eall for irmroved hoes and eattle and horses - Bauskett is said to be wrii- inw a history of Florida. No man in the State is better equipped to write stch a history as it should be writ- ten. There are incidents in Florida ' history that rival in thrilling inter- | ; y Cst any recorded in the history of As for his master he teo was 2 the nation, and yet the knowledze of i e 31 W 1 0 U0 - : ploncer, with few advantages of en [ them is passing away with the older vironment, who used a free range for | reneration simply beeause no eapa- Lis hors be ;mw‘ it was Iu:ro for that | chronicler has preserved them on prrpose, and, like all pioneers, ho | 0 printed pace.” ylelds slowly to the encroachments ! of progress and resents what seems the curtailment of his ancient rights, He will chanze wity ckanzing en- vironment and see with clearer vislon Jater on, as all men 16, 04t f' the United States Senate for th- f1: his essential nature he is S ' mtvr¥m of three months before Hon. less as £ood a man and has as many | Morris Sheppard, successor to Sen- o' the cardinal virtuos as his eritie |ator Dailey, takes his scat. Mr. John. ac Fort Myors, who under like cond. "‘f“ has made the Houston Post ong tons would insist that his razer. of the great papers of the South, and backs ghould run at lapee, though his neizhbors had to their crops and the hoos () were “damn diszra and it fs as senseless to denounce him as to revile the others, becanse he is not up to the standards of a new day. e R C—— Uongratulations o Hon. R. M. lohngon, editor of the Houston !"l‘vx:xs) Post upon his appointmont tolities. He is a shrowd, able and tinassiming man, perhaps not an or- ator or a debater, hut mighty wiso it counsel. 1t has not ber you his new Tex Ype at the < of hand comnc l things ™ RS THE LATE SENATOR RAYNER, SO0 munv senator Now that Senator Ravner the satirical but kindiy Eim whch anpeared on the Who™ pare of the Saturday Bvenin Post a fow days Lefore his deaty M. The roll of American nota- wkes on additional interest. From . Who zot their start at the print- that sketch we take the followiny;, T8 case is a long one for the most part bio~raphical: | “Wern he was in the House, S:\n.’ That $200 fine which Judze Be'y ator Rayner gained a renutation 88 | rave a pistol-toter up ip Ocala will an eloquent orator and a forceful de- d oubtless hav i eetivy » bater, but his first country-wide sl Rkl fame came during the Admlral;m that particular case, and if such Schley court of inquiry. He was the |1es Were made general, going chief lawyer for Schley and conduct. | armed for murder would soon cease ¢d the admiral’s case in a most bril- to be a popular babit. 1ee” in N and rise to fame and forture ig an the more creditable to him for tha. ——— e ciia quotations and | he has been for yeass one of thoe Lood have told me that she wag Loou sirons individual forces in Texas '© them i *I have been chasing a hat." R4 your hay biow, offi ' We Favor Stricter State Boards. “It was not my hat; it happenedi We operate on general principles, t) be somebody else’s, and it had a 'anq discharge the patients in about pretty girl under it."” ft\w. weeks. Some are better than “Did you catch it?"” when they entered; mf».st of them are “Yes. My wife saw me chasing!VWorse. And yet few die. They have as a complete line of union made shoes. you erying about? y Mrs. Youngbride--Well, you know, ' - John is away on a business trip— Mrs. N.——Yes Mrs. Youngbride -le writes and kve, bar, Nose aud Throat suys that o ture out ! | Lises Suieaniivaily Preseribed | 0 ¥ day. AT Odice i4), RestGenve 2. 5 i i ios g o e Lakeland, i 'l. R R T A N B A D SR AT AL s wonderful powers of resistance.— i } ¢ th }I"mm a Young Docter in Honolulu. : .’T iid and grow leet of it 1 ST fi 3 b l:l. o o " i John Is Caught. | i : ! ! & e e s Mrs. Nayberleish— Why, what are | I iigh i’ . I ¢ \ } L die” vl i TROICSSIONS =4 ~d { UR. SAMUEL F. 8MITH SPECIALIST { | | my end Kisses it ¢ Mre, No- Well, sureiy that's nvlh-j ing to ery about. Mrs. Younzhride Yes, it is. Just pBryant Bidg Ma. WL e\ i to pluy o joke on him, 1 took my [HORY N PSR G0 T PO 0 R N TN R e WIS ) B oot ) - ORI \ H 1 ‘ Wi * gl - picture out of his srip on the day he bartabiisued b guly, tuy started, aud put one of m-m-moth- | &ooas 14 aud 3o Benincky buhidi Puoves: Utttce 120, Ke X s oin its place. '_ ________ e BTSRRI g Vo ROLTRAMMELL, v The \‘l|l;1"f' (.x‘umjv— What nr--; Attorney-at-Law. ! sonsInnE 1ok '\OT“.'\' | Otlices, Bryant budidiap The Boy-—I'm tryin' to keep two J ol fcllers from fightin’, _Pdl\el‘i““_ 8 TSI The Village Grocer KELSEY BLANTON Lavyers. fcllows? The Boy- Bill Perkius and me Bryant Block, ‘Phone &% Lakelaud, Kla. Puck. TUCKER & TUCKER, —Lawyers— Who are the | ! Nothing Extraordinary. “l saw a woman at the circus show the other night carry a man Raymondo Bidg, around on her head." iakeland “That’'s nothing. It is nothing i - urusual for the average woman to|JNO. 8, EDWARDS have a man opn her mind.” Attnmey-n-hw. 7o Office in Munn Bulidiuy i One That Is Visible. LAKELAND, FLORIDA. “Has his family got a skeleton in TN a its closet?” “I don't know abour DR. N. L. BRYAN, At e DENTIST. w A.n' they've got in the closet, l.m( Rooms 8 and 9, Deen & Bryant Bullo they've got one in a hobble skirt.' ing. Fhone. 339. i 2R ; Resldence Phone 300 Red A Bad Spill, LAKELAND, FLA. “Here's a yonng woman that was - e left halt a million doilars merely for DR R R ZULLIVAKX spilling a little sunshine into an old —PHYSICIAN— rah's dife” “lier experience s Special attention given to Surge: more fortunate than mine, end Gynecology R B. HUFFAKEX ~-Attorney-at-Luw — %oor T Stuert Yldg Rurtow ™ DR. W. R. GROOVER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Rooms 3 and 4 Kentucky Bldg Lakeland, Florida, G. D. & H D. XENDEKLALL Civil Engineers and Architects Rooms 212-215 Drane Bldg LAKELAND, FLA. Phosphate land examination Sur veys, examinatinn,’ reports It pays to buy good goods. Why not come round and see our line of suits and overcoats, which have just Foride arrived from New York. All the lat- est styles and fashions at very low ! prices. Also Cluett Peabody Shirts and Williams Kneeland Shoes. We also have a full line of youths' and boys’ clothing of the best material, and * prices never before heard of in Lakes land. We don't mind showing the customers our goods and appreciate any favors. . s ) The Hub JOSEPH LeVAY I once spilled a cup of coftee into an old wan’s lap and ke eat me out of his will altogether,” | ! Going “Some." I “Well, what has my little girl been doing today?" asked a Kansas City mother of her daughter of six years who had just returned from piay. “Why," was the reply, “we had a ccuple get married, and then they went away for a wedding trip and then they had a baby and then tae | baby died of spinal meningitis, Oh, . We had the most fun!” | Blueprirting. CLAUD LENGLE'S TRIBUTE A. J. MACDONOUGH, 118 Kentucky Avenue Lakeland TO HIS DEAD MOTHER Architect. “My mother lived in this world a Newest. Ideas in B“ngflow D"ig“ing little more than eighty-two years, Room 6 Deen & Bryant Blig. and those who knew her from chilg- Lakeland, Florida, b . I had known her g little 1 :;Mmso%io‘;’o‘ws’o3’0‘3’0@0@0 e s s S UROISTERING 6 oo ioment o shone detinns rie. All my life | have known of - rrl & H nat she never gave or received lln,'I : “;’ \y/ tocdness of God ang man; she had Lope for the fulfillment of the CSU aspirations of the soul; clarity broad and deep and always awake to the needs p h of men, The order. candies don't forget them. Sc Sack. same virtues that made her a joy ang CARPETS and RUGS cleaned anq 36 ecemfort to those who knew her in 1aid; also matting, et ' ll O L] D E N N I he material world will open to her In regards to workmanehip, see | PHONE 226 ORIPPOPOIOPOLOHO: & limitless sphere of usefulness in th, s E 1°|Mr. W. P. Plllins, of Lakeland, wy. L] ) » WBo | SOFOPO 13 epiritual world. To me she was } a w me for friend who had faith when others o il . lando, Fla. Drcp me a —\_ ‘_ — | doubted, who had patience when my or ul'l at shop No. 411 spfl;:‘ na.rd Mo | faults made others leave me, who had |_. Phone 272 q ] i sympathy when others were un- — 2 g sz =irthor A, ougas SUDSCribe for The Telegram high- FURNITURE uphoistereq. OLD MATTRESSLS made over CUSHIONS of all kinds made 1, | she had 2, BOBOBODRBO §0Mt‘ BOGOBOECIG C 81 O3 ) ol € ¥