Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 6, 1913, Page 4

THE EVENIXNG td PAGE FOUR. the Ihe Evening Telegram otk Published every aflernmk”'o"gh to remember that that po- Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla, | /'"©™0 Urned over his juy cnvelope i Sl 115 Ris zo0d. theifty, econ Entered in the postoffice at Lake- | every time he got it. land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class, and j values is just as sure, rize in ical wife | ———— ERPIRI l The Pensacola Journal, endorsin: M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. !he suz: that i s ——____| Page. of Virginia, be made HENRY BACON, Manager. | 'stion Thomus Nelson an ador to England, says e — iz “prolably withont preju s SUBSCRIPTION RATES: i A : & the head of American letters 1 q"" xoar --$3.00 | Witliam Dean Howells and his co- Slxmonthe ;. < i5..00., 250 torie of wor hou'ld hear that Three months .......... 1.25 {lioy. wosld iviine) n Deiiverad anywhere within the f people of sach hish limits of the City of Lakeland ; ot ' T for 10 cents a week. cuilty of ¢ rade form of vocal- T = ism, .“,i.r Me Howells himself would From the same office is issued moved to throw o1t a THE LAKELAND NEWS fow nicre depressing hints aboat the A weekly newspaper giving a re- Lopeless provineia of the South, same of local matters, crop condi, heartily endorse th tions, county affairs, etc. Scnt any- o, the Virzinian by the Jonr ox- where for $1.00 per year. cept that we would not 1 him - =S IEET g the first place in American l»t-f William Rockefeller must be in ters. In critical, but not construc- | possession of information he is very anxious to keep to himself it we may Judge by the way he dodees the ser- vice of a subipocna to get a vitness hefore the Piujo committee in Washingion. Mr. Rockereller should recollect under onr henign sys- tem of laws no witness is compelled to incriminate himself, o tive literary ability thay honor proh-! 2bly belongs to Mr. Howells, but as | a novelist who writes books \\'hiv!»I really entertain those outside the in- | ner cirele of high culture to which the latter caters, Thomas Nelson is! | the better workman. ! him as hy that | S HIS JUDGE SENDS ‘ THEM TO THE PEN. | [ 7 i Mr. Bryan is iner ing his invest- rents in our State and is now an Lverglades land owner with the near prospect of being a substantial Flor- crops right along Florida the How to make the local option law in this State effective is a problem ainly because the judicial back- HONE i very many cases is not equal 0 sitnation and penalties tor cenvietion take the shape of small ite farmer r: and drrt making of money oni every vear. Whate aen- tieman from Nebraska does, he dors well, and, hils e have no hope Res which are promptly paid and fldr he will abandon his cltizens tiie blind tiger is at liberty to re- ti' $he t e rogisteped Stie iz dawless wraflic. But they voter in I have a judge over in Volusia cou | fe will 16 ou et Vo does husiness in a different way, ord 1t en B4 o hit The Delund Record rells about him the dudes will be made one of | as Tollows: the most i it and productiv “Jidze Bert Fish, of the l'riminu!i firms in the State qCoart of Record of this county, is AR jtiying to put a stop to the sale of | The St Porershure Independent, | Whisky in Volusia, one of the coun- reproducing the New Yeur's leading 1es of Florida where its sale has ! article in the Tolearam, says by way | Den prohibited by a vote of the 0 prefuce: people. A first offence is not a pen- “In starting out for the achieve- | itentiary one, hut the last Legisla- ments of 1915 it s well that we . ture passed an act making a second | strengthen onrselves with a sane re- | conviction for selling whisky in a veew of facts and conditions, find €r¥ county a penitentiary erime, and encourazement in the wood thines dUring the recent session of the all about us, and inspire our ,,wc_,:('l‘illlillill Court Judge Fish enforced nism with the bright promige Le- the provisions of this enabling act, fere us. The following excellent ar- | Sending a man to tre State pen l'"": ticle from the Lakeland Telegram is | ¢he year, it being a second convie- well worth reading and digestine: [ton. The good people of Volusia and will give new impetus to the en-, Will heartily commend Judge Fish's tousiasm and energy of the hoostes | Ctlermination to pur these SEVEro| —the man who sees the best in lite SChtences upon criminals convicted | end goes after it, who smiles and | Pefore him the second time for the cheers otlors while he labors, who ' Violation of the local option law of does things worth while.” this county. It will have a whole- some and beneficial effect. This sen- | tence to the State pen for selling whisky is among the first under the new act, and others will get a like sentence if they are convieted in Judge Fish's court.” Do R Joe Bailey didn't do Hearst the leust harm in the world the other day when in his farewell address in the Senate he denounced Lim as a pervert, a degenerate and a coward. | Such words were peas propeled from a popzun rattling on the hide ol a riinoceros. But wlat woeful havoe they inade of Dailey's speech 88 the impressive fual deliverance of A statesman the American | Senate. \What a pity that nature de- nied to the Texas senator that hairs- breadth of added development on his | character «ide that made him a zreat man! ity doesn’t muke great man it merely makes an able one The | touchstone of true greatness is self- | iy it THE NEW PACK HORSE MAKES A HOPEFUL START. | ' The parcels post system is now fuirly launched all over the country, and, while it is making many of the i postal employes sweat and in somvi | Lefore places is cumbersome and unmana able to an exasperating degree, reporis received indicate that iy working as well as could he expected and its time ge- the is would have i Great abil- success in is assured. | The system is here to stay; to grow mastery in periods of heavy lri'i]‘.l"”"r constantly as experience re- &nd temptation to “go all to picces." | 0 - veals its defects and those defects ! ate cured, and a few vears hence we Col. 1. D. Calhoun, formerly of the i will wonder how we got along so; Tampa Times, now visiting in Texas, | long without jt. The Cincinnati En-‘ writes to the Tampa Tribune the | quirer doubtless expresses the intel- earprising news that at the B:nl(i-||!u<‘lll opinion of the country more convention “Rryan could ha\‘(zli'(‘r"i“ll this vast enl kad the nomination at any time he | Bostal facilities when it says: winked for it. in the judgment of “Those who have spoken and writ- the oldest and wisest ohservers of | ten unfavorably of some features of the convention.” That is, of course, | this service may have opportunity | a mere matter of opinion and is now | o withdraw objections when it shali quite unprofitable as a subject of ' be Seen that intelligent orders from dispute, but for our part we don’t, Washington, following the experi- helieve that there was any time in | mental stage, may remove some of the proceedings of that convention the more cumbersome features. \ when the nomination was in reach certain elasticity in interpretation of of Mr. Bryan or anywhere near ip ! some sections is permitted, and there reach of him. The Denver conven-!is always opportunity for necessary tion exhausted the commoner's sup- ' amendment by Congress. None of piv of compelling psychologzie] mo- the forty-three countries that have rients as a presidential candidate, RS W— con- ’ argement of our preceded us have ever reeretted es- i tablishing the system, although in! The case of that Chicago police-| | many of them the service is of much man who retired the other day aft- greater extent than ours as to] er twenty-four years’ service, worth ' weights and much more liberal as to $50,000, is a good one to hear in charges. As to competition with the mind. He didn’t make that pile by express companies, no doubt the lat- merely saving his salary. He in- ter will “continue business at the vested it in real estate as fast as old stand Prohably the first two, he saved it, over and above his nee- weeks will have to deal more with ! essary expenses, buying of course or | plain local delive than with ex- the deferred pavment plan. ! tensive shipments all the way from there isn’t a man in Florlda today 5 cents for one pound for fifty miles earning fair wages who can’t repeat to $1.22 for cloven ponnds sent more | the experience of the Chicago police- tuan 1,800 miles, Put in muml man right hére in this land of pres- of time the svstem will work emooth- ' ‘ent and abundant opportunity. And 1v, to the profit and convenience of ke won’t have to wait near so long, the people, after the novelty and the for Florida dirt is much more ob- awkardness shall have been over- tainable by the man of small means come.” And and without cons PRUNES AND EX- i PRESS CCMPANIES is to be the ! 1 1 unible bonrding house prune irst article to show the comjpetition of the post- in the parecls post nent and the oxpress companies, Much has been said and sung alont the nrones bhut it is now about ‘ to reduce the hizh cost of living, s about in this way. The i prune has usually found | vhets in the east by way companies. Herstofor of the transperiation has mportant element in the Ccost o the consuimer, Under the parcels post net a pack- | 120 containing pounds of California cents, and a the succuleng fruit at San p eizht Jrunes may be sent from 1 York for creat producer of Poarding house N 0e two carloads of eight pound boxes of prunes to New York. That hit the express companies, and they at once announced a cut | in the rate to thirty five cents in order to retain the business. Prunes will now be transported by |same express companies at a rate | | only a little in excess of four cents a pound all the way across the conti- nent. The prune incident is interesting in that it shows up in most glaring characters the inordinate extortion practiced by the express companies Lefore the parcels post was inau- curated. The government will [ rot, of course, be able to meet this cut, and it is not at all advisable that it should. The parcels post rete will, however be a constant (reenlator on the price of transpor- tation of small packaces, and will preveng in a large re the high peh prices heretotore charzed by the exnress companies that have bat- ‘l-nml off the public without limit ience, It ix the opinion of experienced mien that the express companies will pavadually meet the rates imposed by Cthe parcels post act all over the that the parcels post will eventually be confined to loeal and suburban business for which a very low rute is provided.-—Miami Herald, country, and A'LITTLE NONSENSE NXO V AND THFN et e——r——————————— When Father Was a Boy. This world was certainly a frost When father was a boy, Just think of all the fun they lost They had no use for joy. They were a very gentle lot And never did what they should not To make their honored parents hot, When father was a boy. I'rey had no air guns fer to shoot When father was a boy. They had no bugles fer to toot, Or any other. toy. And shortly after they were born They had to hike out in the morn And hoe the taters and the corn When father was a hoy. They never slunk away from schoo! When father was a hoy. Off to the zood old swimmin’ poo! Or words of slang employ. Then when up a tree they'd climb To carve their initials "twas a crime TlLey must have a hot old time When father was a boy. They never got a single cent When father was a hoy; They didn’t know what money mean: And it didn’t e'er annoy The youth that flourished in that dav If they could never get away And go a-fishin’ 8o they say, When father was a boy. They never had an earthly chance When father was a hoy, To own more than one pair of pants, When father was a boy. They shined thelr shoes with axle| grease, TLeir trouser§ never knew a creace, | They had one hick'ry shirt apiece, When father was a boy. All they cared to do was work, When father was a hoy i They were mever known to shirk, When father was a hoy. They drilled from morn eve— That is, of course, if you holipve | The tales of what they dig achieve When father was a boy. —Roy K. Moulton till dewy KOTICE. OF APPLICATION. Fog | LEAVE 70 SELL MINOR'S | LAND ! Notice is hereby given that on the, 13th day of January, A. D. 1913, T will apply to Hon. C. M. Trammel, county judee in and for Polk county, ! State of Florida, at his office in Bar- TELEGRAM, LAKELAND, FLA., JAN. 6, 1913, Diezo | "has just announced that he will ship ! i these { — -~ UNBLRWODD & UNDLRWOOD Pvot0 “__‘ This photograph from the seat ot war in the Balkans shows a Bulgarian wsusport Wiy o rest near the outskirts of Mustapha Pasha lealis & | | ‘\"mw "tow, in said county, for an order | $#0H0E0POEOLOHOLOLOFOROPOIQ LOPOFOFOBPOIOHG 0 : authorizing me, as guardian or 2 h Cdessa Inman and Alvin Inman, the & ’ ! }? : niinor heirs of the estate of J. M. In- 8 appy New efr 2 man, deceased, to sell at private sale ::; 4 ! the following property belonzing to & M seid estate, towit: legin at the 3.8 v W. corner of the S. W. 1, of the @ TO YOU ALL N. E. 1§ of sec. 29, twp, 28 south, | & 3 rance 24 oeast, thence ran nporth on & vest line of deseribed forty & : . te o stake; thence east 2 i Aga]n (hank'ng vou for vour : tooa stake; thence sonth 3 - . H a stake on south line of said forty; = eatlv increace . oe ‘h:. < thence west along said south lino % glbfilly ln"lea"Ld p"“rona“k 200 120 vds. to the place of ! o P : ; ning, containing 8 ucres, all 1y lflg the pflst '\ear, l beg to re- beins and situate in Polk cou and State of Florida. Suid land belonging to the estur: . [ main, Yours truly, of the said J. M. Inman, deceased, te be sold for the best interest of 2 ;: suid minor heirs. & ) i i This 6th day of December, 1912 § ; : | SARAH M. INMAN, 2 L 9 ' | Guardian. 2 Jeweler : ———— 4 Wiping Out Grease Stains. 5 For grease stains on fast colors, AKELAND & POIQRIQEOBODOPODOBO T benzine can be used. For dry paint ' § stains, rub with equal parts of turpen- | tine and alcohol FLORIDA- DB FO02OH0 Ten Good Reasons Why You Should Own a Lot in Park Hill First. Because it is in the Best Town in South Florida. Second. Because it is as HIGH if not HIGHER than any point in Lakeland. Third. Because it has One Mile of Granolithic Side Walks. Fourth. Because it has High Class Building Restrictions. Fifth. Because 4 Beautiful Lakes canbe seen from its Summit. Sixth. Because Shade Trees will be planted on all streets this Fall. Seventh. Because all Streets will be Graded. Eighth. Because it is the most attractive Residential Section in Lakeland. Ninth. Because Lotscan be sold on REASONABLE Terms. Tenth. Be-ause if you don’t, you will wish you had, if vou do, will always be glad. Deen- Bryant Building or §. M. STEPHENS