Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 18, 1913, Page 4

——aehe it b PAGE FOUR. W LRy T e T — o i D N{hi13 3 - Ilhings rosy, but now they'd rather lnb tvei““u IEIegrd“‘l»rumhlc than eat; and it's goul Publishicd every afternoon from th: ’mu.\,e 1P M. It they can’t’ plek ac- Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. " Entered in the boslolfl;eTt Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR HENRY BACON, Manager. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: | e Oneyear .......... veee.$5.00 | The Miami Mctropolis says tha! Sixmonths .. .. ........ 2,60 Viami must own Ler publie utilitic. 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 sume of local matters, tions, county afiairs, etc. where for §1.00 per year. Sent any- T0 S0..L FLORiLA TUTRISTS. We Lave deon very mueh want- g soncoody to say it out cocd and stron ., in cold tipe aud here it ..s:n::! told by Mlison heith in the gustine Kecord and with entire fidelity to truth: | At the ticket window: **Where'si the a-ent?” *“Nobody here to sell tichets?” “Train's nearly due and nothing doing?” “That's the way they do things in the South.” “Train late?” “They're always late in the South.” The crowd pushed and grumbled and sought to get ahead of each other in line. The weather was too hot today; it was too cold last week. There were no decent accom- modations to be had; prices were too high; trains were late; coaches were dirty, and all beeause it was in the South. It was always so—-every day and everywhere, The seribe lis- tened and pondered, Memory called to mind many times when travel in the North had been aceombenied by | the discomforts of cinders and smoke, dusty geats and littered aisles; and weiiy hours of waiting for belated trains stood out in clese connection with snow covered landscapes and waiting rooms either steam heat and poor ventilation or chill from icy blasts; yet we did not recall that any one ascribed all these re- | toy crop condi, ! ‘x-nlil-y. Says that paper: “It always gives us pleasure to | { call attent to other towns whern L innicipal ship has been founa f )y valuabl I'o stand th i n of Lakelund; the Lakelanc | it 1 ! lant is an! titnt il 1 e f it ds ¢ the most 1 s of o t Duri i of Jonuar th cetor for t donartm 1 vorts over 0,000 jn ¢ v eollect] {from the enstomers, nnd the Lasi is increasing all the whil | 1HE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAKFELAND, FLA., FEB. 18, 1913. 'nges and roses all the way from the 3L, Marys river to Key Wes not pay for them, cither.” The youn: man turned av -y and the seribe be- thought to ¢ “Is your honu around here?” “It's going to be. ! came from Pennsylvania, but Flor- ica’s good enough for me; no grum- ble coming from this way.” jand points to Lakcland as convine {ing proof of the soundness of thai i who Kkills his own Lrain by caging it ! dcubter is the man who twenty-tive | PROFLSSIONAL DOUBTERS, In calling the names of the great | we cannot leave out the | gheptics, the man who have thought ' Hor tl chves and have lhcrcl’oru: Ibeen found in the minority, Great | [+s the man with the honesty to be- wove what he believes, and the cour- I zee to procizim and defend his faith | For luck of a better title, we must {call them the skeptics, the heretics J'ut, they are different from the pro fessiona] doulter, the wary bird that i thinks that evervthing unusual con- ceals a trap for his brain, the man ci carili, all in his head. The professional or thirty years ago knew that men could not ride around on two wheels S few years later, e knew that au 0 iant is netting in the peizh! St -‘\“'[“, $750 per month, and the rate for | fitting gtill and doubting is merely | without - prejudice | \apor and fizht service is much low- | taking up valuable room. The hi-h- er than in Tampa where there is pri- § vate ownership.” it The Los Angeles papers are not printing such literature, but here is an extract from a private letter re- ceived a few days ago by . S. Blackburn, of St. Petersburg, from M. G. French, of Southern Cafifor- lia, where the freeze wrought such havoe some wecks ago: “l presume that the raflroads wils be taxed to their capacity when spring arrives and next winter it will be up to Florida to take care of the winter tourists en masse. | was talking to several partics whom | gave your literature but they say it (is a case of the preacher and the bear, they can’t let loose for holding ;on. No sales whatever, Everybody has their building plastered with sale announcement, * % ¢ | pave heard dozens express a desire to he o) ida O q 2 P Il close from | i® Florida if they could sell out at a sacrifice, but no buyers apparent.” O The Atlantic Coast Line drinking vahie to the world. | leetual lure among the astounding array of | tumobiles would ne still, later, he | ould aever fly, liec man who i nan who i rwoving the vor est type of the professional doubte: i was reached in the old farmer who, upon seeing a giraffe for the first time, said: “There ain’t no sich au | animal.” The professional doubter is always Ignorant. He doubts, not because he | knows so much, but because he knows so little. Facts that the learned world has accepted years a-: things that he does not believe. ‘ Dr. Krebs has established an en- ‘\‘Iuble place for himself in the world {and won more ardent admirers in ‘Lnkvlnud than the writer of this ar- ticle possesses. e does not need , these words, and they are not writ- ten for the henefit they can be to him but for the benefit of the doubi- ers themselves, who, probably, wili not believe a word. 1 have hear! Dr. Krebs make astonishing state. | ments and T have not said, I do not | belleve it Psychology {8 the| ,8clence of which we are most igno- | 'rant. There is much that psycho!- 'ogy itself does not know and there is none of us that knows all that psy- S DEPESEENELS N 2 ' be of practical | : 7 P H [} on’ A H : ) A Litin Bowyer’s Sub-Rivision 3 Is a step in the right direction. The hemo - ) Lome, wiil scon follow. ;*; =t =Y unpleasant inconveniences to latl-|cup is one of the medieval lnxlilu-fchology has discovered. When :., tude. They seemed to be taken as|tions which will go out of commis- 'man comes to us who has given his a matter of course, unavoidable hap- | sion on the trains and in the dep whole life to the study of psychol-; penings to be philosorhically borne !ot that system in Florida on the last | 0gy, there i8 an amount of reverence | But once across the Potomac, and all [ day of this month and there ought : which we should show to the years | e e—— — Follow That Impulse You want your own home. The land is no one man's “A heritage or isit willed to any particular class of people t by divine right. “ Procrastination the Thief of Time morrow habit,” then he has earned his job. { 3 oy ) If the devil is responsible for the “putting off ‘i ... —_ > A -Jp‘ WHY BUY NOW? Because this beautiful addition in North-West | ak.. ol land contains a limited number of large full lots. o - cause these lots will increase in value with the i T SN growth. Because the price of these lots is remark:}': 7, low. ane the payments easy. Because if adveriy — overtakes you before your lot is paid for you wiil o SQUARE DEAL. Think It Over Then Act Today For Tomorrow Never (1 BOWYER BROS, v . J. CARPER, Sales Agent, 7 New P. 0. i 7~y 7~ ™ ARERERRRRELE hoab ot 0 ad T m | N y A 7 At s cf them scemed attributable to the _flmxlh. As we mused, the ticket agent ap- peared; a civil young man, who cheerfully dispensed tickets and tha irformation that the train just com- ing in stopped twenty minutes foe dinner. Clutching their tickets tha crowd climbed aboard, and in five minutes were growling because the train did not move. Again the South was held responsible, and it v’as an- nounced that such things could not possibly happen anywhere else. The train moved off finally and a its rumble died away we walked slowly alonz the station platform and meditated on the inconsistency of human nature, Mecting the cheer- ful youn; ent. we asked: “Do they always grumble?” ““lwaye.” be re- plied, promptly. “if the sun shine: it is too hot; if it doesn’t it's ton eold; if it fs dry it's too dusty; and it it raine it's unforsivabls 17 th trafin is late an waited all dayv: and if they have o ari 1 roxd i castiyy of worll v omor hour, who! oat or two o Jey it 1t doesn’t hurt and! “Why do they come like thir lown bere?” Vot co that to make them accustor Lome- - rone of them thin? rest just real ther have an idea that they o only peonle 1 fze cither he many know the North hetter than they do | and lanch in their growling and fanlt-finding comnari | €&cns of the tonrist erowd 1 1! » bt t 1 to every ¢m | | sramble from hahir & how it chows them up 1 who travel Sontt sleeve at the It is ver- fiost: and when t! swa~“oer the toast of what we i down Sonth, sir;” 7 " |LAKELAND HARDW S e sZc;nu-::a;a“Manf & PLUMBING {’ to be no regrets over {ts departure. | he has spent in behalf of his sclence, | Many of the great systems of thuf'l‘lnn is not a plea to the reader to country abolished the public drlnk-lnccept Dr. Krebs' conclusions, It is - ing cup long ago, and in the Inlor-]only a plea for us to put away the . est of health and cleanliness the rule i narrow-mindednees that prides it- ought to be universal. To take it self in unbelief. It is a plea for us time about in swilling soup from to recognize the fact that we have | A $350 l lano l I the same spoon with your unknown now an opportunity to hear an ex- ) e e neighbor at the lunch counter is | pert, a master in his line. The facts hardly less repulsive to nice instincts and the theorles alike which he pro- than to use the same water cup with | sents deserve respect and considera- | Tom, Dick and Harry on a railway | tion. The mind that stays at home train. Slowly but surely the world | for fear of being tricked I8 the most Is getting civilized. deluded mind that the world pro- 0 ; {duces. Let us give our minds plen- ty of room to run around in; minds We have in stock a line of tncubators Our Large Shipments ¢! We note by the dispatches that Vermont has enacted the famous |*F® not lost by having too much | ConSIS(lng OE Yoo “blue sky” law of Kansas whose pur- ' WOrking room. I No. A at 58 fehruary |5, '9|3 Screcn !f(;{‘i 3 pose is to exclude swindlers and ad THE PHILOSOPHER i 60 ecggs venturers, cloaked as investment | R | Mrs 1. W. Odom . 13,680 - . ' i coipanies, from tay State and asive | OPTIMISTIC 0TT0 ON ANCESTORS B > | 2 No. 1 at $16] " and Windews | out those already operating, The . - o 110 eggs Airs. Nellie Fidler .. 8,190 ! 0 wonder is that such an obviously | VeIl vatisa ancestor? A ancestor Mrs. W, R. Gratam 2,025 peray el 0 zeod law hasn't been on the statute|' ® relation vieh vas dead before 1 No. 2 at $20 7 "ave A‘ i :‘ ) book of every State in the Unioo | YO0 vas born and the lonser he vae 1 Mre, W T. Mellwain .. ... 16,2490 s . long azo. Florida needs itz d6ad the better ancestor he , but (ZD lls cags s ok et i the people vich has sot . < l NO. 4 C-t Sa E. Walson. .. . s 6o whic t Wt avind {in't no bottes off 1} 1 - \ " v - I e £ e 1t W oo (ML gt thew, Anpdy conid o R IR Y - SO CERS. F N W I |i rand tas it with ¢ ' e . ¥ [« ¥ olagss Lot i Le vag eot ] 0 A dine of Bicoders G Vii 5 , 't s i “ 2 E ) s en : (].‘1' . : ; b 50 clicks I A dat. Ja i { { - Do i 1MN0.289C0O | N oer Judoed by Writion War: U0 cliicks Wi A “You don't \ \ = to .m( f g i yon have o . '— Adn SWITANC S s Li Ihis is a mere s¢ i ‘\]m withicocl Cull atic imeet the razin and for th — - et see a Duchove f the people. Primur o . B llJ o postmasters for the of v At i hc ! }- v 3 S Lk iy RE X \ Wel weanew broom noluments are really worlh Z R rs. John the second class offices, for instanc:., ! nade of gt im . re the kind referred to by the post- O ported broom straw | Mixieland ) tlice primary advocates t sweens all the . “ primars . ewmj_ fiam!, O lusweemaltie |1 s cuog ............ wlaal o 8 0 i We observe from a Pensacola ex- | ! The 1. 8. C.Clfford ... ... ..... 5 e that one hundred ¢ : ) . N 4 1 Is made of |ig Miss Netti B8 i b A1) * cs have just been placed in the Store r i 1ol ; W 5 i St thc bec[ {: of that ecity. A fire invest- i '.”‘ il \yl‘ L e NCUNBEY <o 36,485 v : t for the city, and it will evoke! glveevery purchaser proval b% of - bvory ‘I Double beds and single beds: 85 00 worth of viano | Mrs 3. W. Cord ...ouunn.. 1,059 fore a!i Af ; !leprings $1.00 and up. Dressers an 1] coupons whoe buy 7| SRS, e O 6 filines one ol tin Get one whil 210 West Main Street, Lakeland,Fla ! R