Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 24, 1913, Page 4

e e PAGE FOUR Ine Evening Telegrani e Fublished every afternoon from the Kentueky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Eutered in the postoflice at Lake- &roups our blessin land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class, M. F HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. " HENRY BACON, Manager. One year Six months ., .. . . 2,50 Three months . 1.25 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS A weekly newspaper giving a re- saume of local matters, crop condi, tions, county afiairs, ete. Sent any- where for $1.00 per year. TEACEING CIVIC DUTY FROII TiuE BENCH. Ouy ciremt judees in Florida have oppoitiiitios of exceptional excel- 1 the disch to combine with those duties the hizh and most useful funct'oy of teacher and mentor to a2 class of people, many of whom are e sde of any otlier educativnet 1a buence, and none of whom is toowell advanced in a sense of civie duty to find such teaching from the bench superfluons. We refer particularly tc the opportunity presented to the judge when he is charging the giand Jury and generally has a lerce audi- ence representing all pasis of the county and all classes of the people, to do some impressive preaching in the cause of law and orfer outside fence whil ¢ of their his formal charge, He, above all others, is or should be, tamiliur with the subject; his avdicnce is attentive, receptive and imj sed with the learning, author- ity and wise purpose of the teaches, and muany of those Who listen aever read a newspaper, know nothing of the history an tendeney of the times, and what they hear from the bench is about the only instruction they cet from one year's other along the line of their duty cidd to an- as citizens ard members of orderly Our judges are capable of much cood in this way, particularly when they go into fi concerning the tide of crime surging over the land, and quite a number of them use these frequently recurring op- portunitics to the best effect. Here, for instance, is an illustra- tion in Kentucky, and the general statements of the judge flit condi- tions here in Flovida quite as well as in that State. In banville, Ky., Judge €. A. Hardin, in charging the Erand ju 1 few d £0, weng out- eide the beaten track of such charges and dealt largely in statistics which he had gathered by wide research, He declared that oficial statistics show that the United States stands first in the civilized world in the number of homic.des committed ac- cording 1o 11 there has Leen an ivercase in the last de- cade. According 1o Judee Hardin this startline <tie of affairs in the Unit- ed States is due to a sort of school- fng wherehy criminals are cdueated as the v ek of punish- ment for smal £ The grand jury wus vinded that ev- ery offender, however smull the « fense, should be brousht (o justiee, and that the violator who tempts (h young should socicty Lation, and t more harshly dealt with than the leading astray the older. [le luid ot upon the vio- lations of t!c (ivarette jaw and the lecal option faw. “The statistics show,” declured Judee lardin,® that 45 per cent of all crimes committed men uvnder 21 yeurs of age. According to Judze Hardin one of the greatesy schools of vice and crime is the “blind tiger,” which flourishes in many jparts of Ken- tucky, and the jurors were instruct- ed to devote especiai attention to mist, but at the stern call of duty ' vays satisfactory. Now we purvey the news whether it e He commented npon a re- agreeable or disagreeable, cold, hot his patrons with a ready-to Weather Prophe; Devor bringing “blind tiger” operators to Justice. cent charge given to t 10 Fayette The St THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ND, FLA., JAN. 24, 1913. stricken with frost and flood, our u bonded State debt of only $600,000! own weather conditions have been Nor does this imply a niggardly pol @5 near the ideal as we can ever!j y in State affairs. It simply means hope to have in an imperfect world. wise management of our finanees and Petersbu lmlvnumh-nifno piling up of huge, extravagant id says: ]ind(-hx(*dnvss, as in the case of so “Florida sccms to be the most fav-"any other States. cred State in the Union this winter. S 200 In the northwesy they have had in- Where a man’s treasure is, there tense cold. The North and East jg his heart also, says the Scriptures. have suffered from storms of wind, ' Nr. Bryan has just bought more snow and sleei, doing great dam- Property over op the East Coasy and aze. California has had the first ' he pow has so much valuable real fiveze in years. The Ohio valley is ' estate in Florida and scems bent on now endaring the worst flood in sev-1acquiring so much more that he may eral years and the Mississippi val- ' yer conclude to be one of us and be- Iey is almost certain to have a sim-:mmo a registered voter in this re- itar flood now or later. Florida h:ls‘uam‘. Demaocratic commonwealth, A¢ Leen protected from winds and coid any rate, on Scriptural auchority, ind Mood: and the sun shone on the ' we are sure of the possession of no Lizzest frait crop the State has’'small share of Mr. Bryan' known jor a leng time. It i 100 411 geasons of the year. wonder that thousands of [n-rsnns‘: -2 CLE PR . SO B T EIET SRR rts of the country are d Florida, not alone as ory by wl=o as a place 1o [ A ;' d - : \{ Little Nonsense In the last issue of the l~‘lor1d|]§ Now and Tien L . “,h“.' ard alery editor of !r, T —— Wt paper says: “It can be shown conclusivety that | Your friends will shove you in a Crower, tl the removal of the present tariff on | fight e citrus fruits would wreck a siruz- i When your poor pride is pricked; clinz industry without any compen- But they will always 'ill‘:" to flight ing licked. sating benefit to consumers or thn-’ When vou ar government.” T Hasten right on to Washington Luke McLuke Says ! city, Bro. Wright, and offer your con-| Another reason for the high cost | clusive proof to Chairmap l'nd(-r-t:(" living is that a man who can’t tell | wood. That zentleman means to do | W0l from cotton will bet that he | rizht, but he has desizns upon the AN tell rye from bourbon. o citrus fruig taviff and nothing said | You can ;.’W used to “fl)’lhl".‘i-l to him the other day by the witnesses | They have discovered a woman in | in behalf of Florida and California seemed to have any influence on him ays that the present tariff is pro- i 5, ereates @ menopoly for the home product at ihe expense of the and the government gets no revenue out of foreign fruits in That's his idea, and if Editor Wrizht can make good on the congumer, conscquence proposition quoted above he oughy to 1aton ap once and hang g0 to Wash on to the var of Mr. Underwood un- ar 2entleman sees our citrus in- its needs in a clearer 0 Fhie Florida Grower says that it Lits noticed a tendeney in some of our Stale papers o exuly over th disas that has overtaken Cali- fornia in the destruction of her or- ange ves, and condemns such o 5 We got pretty Upivayunish o spirit, nearly all the Florida papers and w. Live not noticed this alleged exul- tation. On the contrary, we were deeply impressed with the absene of it under such strong temptation 1o retaliate on a State whose press and people have been brutal, selfish and conscienceless beyond any re- straint of truth and decency in their ! habitual reference to Florida. We' TYPEWRITERS. tave shed no crocodile tears over California’s disaster, nor have we experienced satisfaction at it, speak- ing on the contrary in terms of de- cent sympathy - and than Calitornia would have done for us hud positions been reversed, o Aceording to the last issue of the New York Packer the iorida efrait was jmproving ol Florida vere larger this week, Fancey desir able sizes met with a strong demane d sold hi from to $3.50 with some extra fine hizher and a the same issti that's more market for i Cieveland who has | children, | The old-fashioned man who used | ; to g0 to bed with the chickens on the farm now has a sop who stays up al! night chasing them in the city. | You dont have to go on an o¢ " voyage to get seasick. Just s around and listen to a 16-year-ol vrincess talking to her fellow over @ telephone. Every time mother reads anythin: in the paper abouy a man abusin his wife, she sniffs at father, and says: “I'd like to see a man rais his hand to me.” Marriage is like the oriental show at the county fair. It costs you : dime to get in and your whole to zet out. i Spenking of buttons, the biz laun- ! drics make a big mistake when the} darn hose and sew on buttons for bachelor customers and let father's junk go home the way g ceived. Bachelors cap buy shivi:! i ind socks when they wear out, l»m} when father has paid for the pound work and the fint work and the fancy work, he does lots of darning without the aid of a needle. twenty-seven | | | Underwood No. 4, slightly used $35 Monarch No. 3 Oliver No. 3 / Smith Premier Visible No. 10.. Fox Visible No. 23 L. €. Smith Visible No. 2, | tory rebuilt | Underwood No. Sihea N | ‘ny of these machines can bousht on easy terms. Address Ty | Change Department, L C. Smi Typewriter Agency, Box 701, Tamn Fla, 198 srapefruit OLDTINE Rety o ¥ BOWYER’S ¥ SUB-DIVISION t b cipts of Flor- | Gives Color, Listre to Faded liberal anc their condition we senerally better The market was stronz and higher ot fancy sound fruit w wween $2.75 and § Some extry fine stock brought ¢ this price. fruit sold $2.50." Common and lower, from decayod $LA0 1 o I We are no prophet of evil, no (- Xind w. lamity howler, no croaker, no pessi or tepid. mosg sales be- 0 to $1 with value of such a combination oy in tke United States are by young a few lines even slishtly in excess of ing the hair a good cven 1 Gray Hair—Dandruff i Removed. 1| For generations Sace and Sulphy {have been used for hair and L groubles. Almost everyone ko ily color, for | | curing dandrufi, itchine calp and | y falling hair, and for promoting tl irowth of the hair. Years azo ti oy way to get a Hair Tonic of this to make it in the home, | As troublesome and not g wlich al- ¥, almost | any up-to-date drug can supoly 5e prod- | uct, skillfully prepared in perfectly County grand jury by jud-c ligls says thay “Winter will really begin equipped laboratorics. Kerr, wherein the latter referreg 1o the action of a Boyle county jury in fining a woman £300 for Lilling her husband. The judge said that sta- tistics indicate that the jurors of Fayette county have, in the past, been extremely lenient in the han- dling of murder cases, thereby estal)- lishing Lexinston upon th map a city with an astounding homicidal record. The courthonse was crowded with gpectotors, and the sensational charge was the talk of the town O FAVORED BEYOND ALL OTHERS. 1t does really seem that Florida is the most fortunate State toeu hed us and while other parts of the country have been heavily urer shows this to be true. now and prevail right through int \pril with the worst storm of the year due from Feb. 7 to 10.” We ourself, think that able trom now on, with winds, rising barometer, thermometer, ete., bhut we would lardly ©o to the extent of our broth- (T scientist and fix the exact date for any of these happenings o s One of the facts worth ecalling the attention of the investor and immi- erant and the world in general to is that no State in this Union carries a lishter honded debt, pays its bille move promptly or has a sounder, in the healthier condition in the treasury | treatn Union this winter. No calamity has department than Florida. The recen: annual statement of the State treas-i Think of shifting | hair that is losing ite e, falling ing out o 3y An ideal preparation of i v Wyeth's Save ang ¢ L eCy,in which e and meteorological ' ¢ mbined with other s conditions will be more or less vari- | dies for scalp troubl s and thin, weak ! T or co After s remedy "a few days, you will not | gradually coming hack will feel better, the o soon be zone, and in © the color vour scalp | drufft win than a month’s time there will e - { ful difference in vour hair | wonder- Don’t nezlect your hair it it is fupn | of dandrufl, losing itg color or com- | fim: ot Get a {ifty cent t | Wyeth's Saze and Sulpl dr! and see what a few ny will do for yon. All dr gists sel] it, under gnarantee that the money will be refunded if the rem. | edy is not exactly as represented, 1 North-West Lakeland This beautiful sub-division was offered for sale Januvary l4th for the first time. number of fine lots have been sold. T! purchasers have annouced The Erection of Eight Nice flrg)_mes in the Near Futur This is the coming sub-division of Lake- land and now isthe time for you to buy your lot. Remember that the restrictions insure that this will be a first-class sub-d;- vision in every respzct. The prices are oy and the Terms Are Easy. OWYER DR S By A $350 Piang Fre We are going The Votes January 15, 1912 to give a spe- WE CARR‘:’ General erdwa: DoorsandWindo: Screen Doors crockeryware Glassware Garden Hose ¥ash Machines Siag Paint 0ils Varnishes Alabastine Stoves Ranges We Do Your Plumbiug We Do Your Tin Work cial price of 5 per cent dis=~ { count on Co= | vire 11w, Odom { lumbia Phon- i Ographs., We | v w. R Granam are, beginning Monday, EGth | v s £ waten to sell them on | e w. w. trvereon the instalment planand getthe discount. Pay $5.00 down and $2 each week until paid for. At the same time will give you piano MNre John Edwards . coupons to the entire amount of purchase. LAKELAND HARDWAR & PLUMBING (0. Vrs Nellio Fidler CN Mrs. W. T, Mcllwain. Miss Georgia Strain . .. CONTEST NOW GOING Uixie Land Methodist church 9, T 8. Clifford o - [ I Tl it s o i it ] i e AT A S N A TS