Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 22, 1913, Page 4

' i ““judzment; PAGE FOUR 1HE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., FEB. 22, 1913. “THE AWFUL GUN.” ,\Ae Kuow of no better plan. ‘We cal: | toot producer, about three feet long Ihe Evening Ielwrfi Published every afternoon from the Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. " Entered in the postofiice at Lake- land, Florida, as mail matter of the second class. M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. HENRY BACON, Manager. SUBSCRIPTION. RATES: ODO YEAT .. covcerecesess$B.00 Sixmonths .. .. ... 3.50 Three months .......... 1.38 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents & week. From the same office is lssued THE LAKELAND NEWS A weekly newspaper giving a re- enme of local matters, crop eomdi, tions, county uffairs, etc. Sent amy- where for $1.00 per year. CORRECTING A CARELESS HABIT| Today is not Washimgton's birth- day as a good many people seem to think, to bear them talk. It is mere- Iv the anniversary of Washington's buthday, Washington himself hav- ing been born before any of us or our parents appeared on this planet. This is not intended for {stormation, but merely to correct a carcless habit of speaking of the an- miversary of Washington's birthday as the birthday itself. General Washington was a great and good man, who, having no chil-[ dren, was made the father of his country by some person with a fil~ ent for saying bright things, and i “caught on,” so 1o speak and has cume into general acceptance as 8 and appropriate figure of si'eech. The banks and postoffices all close today us a delicate tri- bate to the memory of \Washington, which they are compelled to render by act of Congress and the L-gisla- ture, but outside of this and the ready-print illustrated pages of neat some of the country weeklies 1t is’ hurd to detect any general or spon- taneous expression of popular enthu- siasm. This is not because we are lacking in patriotic reverence for the name and fame of our great first president (for you can get a quick fight out of any true Amer- icar if you seek to deride or dis- honor that name), but hecause this auniversary has been coming so ‘ong and with such monotonous reg- ulirity that it lacks the charm of novelty and the excitement of ad- venture so necessary to make things “ro” in this age of the world. But for all that, thank God Wash- ‘ington was born, for he did the big- #eet and best piece of work, every- thing considered, ever done by any waa [n the annals of our race, and w2 owe him everlasting gratitude, R N, FINE PICTURE OF OUR PRESIDENT ELECT.' In view of the fact thut Willlam | J Bryan Is the political “bete noir’ of the Ocala Banner, and the further ! fact that Mr. Bryan is the friend, political and personal, Woodrow Wilson. and will almost eertnlnly be the ‘choice of the latter a8 the leading member of his cab- " inet, we are pleased and a bit sur- priced to find in the Bannecr the fol- lowing fine pen portrait of the presi- dent-elect drawn by a friendly hand. Before thie end of the Wilson admin- fstration we expect to see Editor Harris the stalwart friend and ad- mirer of Secretary of State Bryan and, maybe, advocating him to suc- ceed Mr. Wilson in the White House. Stranger things have happened than to find Editor. Harrle and W. 4. Bryan snuggled up to each other in . the same political bed. Says the - Banner:: ' "Pmldm-elm Wilson ik’ de-, scribed as a fine specimen of man- hood, physically, morally and intel- lectually. He s six feet_ tall and| over; erect and commanding. eyes are blue; his hair gray and straight.‘Fiis face is long and al- most narrow. - His' .nose denotes speak firmpess, but not stubborn- Hie looks the fighter, but is the antipode of the bully or brag- gart. His voica is firm rather than persuasive. His presence is his la- bel, “I am a man!”. He is scholar- fy. His letter of acenptance is a| classic. 1t is Delleved that his in- sugural address will be a model. {s hoped that his admin'stration will | I national habit. .this great country. of | Dihcant events in the deu-lopmt‘nllmu.uon. his upper lip and chin It We take much pleasure in trans- ferring to our columns the follow- ing under the above caption from the Wauchula Advocate and we wlnh' that every boy and the parents of every boy in Florida would read it.! The growing passion for guns and Listols among the youth of the coun- f His entry will add some interest to, 'unerring aceuracy. try is a sinister tendency and we | { what has been a very one-sided cou- 8 LO® veed only note the news columns of the papers and read the awful mur- der roll to see what the result is. In the home of every man should ' Herald suggests, and he will be a eigbt points. le a serviceable firearm, and it would be good if the women as well us the men of the household were | taught to use it, but it should be kept right there for strictly defen- sive purposes, and beyond a very moderate indulgence in hunting, we | should find no other use for fire- arms. Says the Advocate “The deadly gun has been the cuuse of four deplorable accidents among children in this community within the past six weeks. First was the awful killing of little Al-’ hert Sileox, then the little son of Mr. Wm. Ault was shot through the hand with a pistol, and then came the heart-rending news of the death: ot little James Menefee, and bis little body had hardly been laid to rest when the six-year-old son of | Mr. and Mrs. 1. V. Moore is dan- gerously shot by the accidental dis- charge of a shot gun. Probably many have sald it was the careless- ness of the parents that these awful accidents have happened. In a cer- tain sense it may have been, but! were these parents more careless than the average parent? Would ill not be nearer the truth if we would suy that they were the vietims of a The gun has played ' an important part in the making of : It was use! to! gain our freedom; it was used to; subdne the Indians, and the pmmerrn1 needed it to protect themselves from the wild animals of a new country., It is no wonder our forefathers loved | the gun; from this love grew the custom of toy pistols and guns fnr_ the children, and the desire to shoot and kill by little tots before don their first pair of knee pants. “But we have passed the point where a gun is a necessary adjunct to promote civilization, peace or happiness. Ry precept and other- ! wise is it not time we were curbing toe inherited desire of the young to kil? The toy pistol hus no place | in today's civilization e, “If we would eurb this evil we will have to commence at the foun- dation. [Instead of taking the boy to the woods with a gun to shoot | at every innocent bird or animal thar gets in range, tuke him to the woods with a camera; teach him to hrnt with the camera; show him the beauties of nature and teach him that it is but the savage that! life. We Kknow this| “sportmanlike,” is there in killing in nocent birds and animals? s the “srort” worth the awful toll that is! { bemg paid? Does not the heart-ache ! ! of cne mother of a victim of the gun accident more than offset any pleas- lure a thousand sportemen may have ‘ v killing game?” desire to take may not be what “sport™ e { Une of the most notavie and sig- of Florida is scheduled for today up iu Baker county, where the tirst cat- tle dipping vats for the eradication o' the cattle tick in the State will be put in commission. They prom- is¢ to be the forerunner of man, others, and the work at Macclenny marke the intelligent beginning oi | an effort to improve our breed of cattle and rapidly supplant the mis- erable little scrubs feeding on_ our vast grazing areas with better, stock ' worth much more to the cattle man and that will add many millions to the productive output of Floridn The cattle tick must first by gotten rid of before there can be any meas- {urable improvement in the industry and there is no way vet discovered except by the dipping vats whose use {brgins today in Baker county. It means more cattle and better cat- His | tle and when the ticks have been ex- | ; terminated Florida can and will be- come one of the great cattle raising States of the country. S S — Following up his suggestion of a State bounty for the heads of ven- omous reptiles as a good way to re- | duce the snake population in Flor- ida, Major Butler, of the Inverness ICl‘ronche takes up a comment by xthe Telegram and says: “A representative elected several years ago on a plat- fcrm of pledging a bounty for every they | but | county to introduce such a bill at Hh« next session, and if any one op-; 0Dt I poses it he will never again disgrace | thus yroducing 8 large and well se- legislative halls.” i T R Hon. H. J. Drane, of Polk, has be- !come a candidate for president of ; ‘the Senate at, the coming session. ! test.-——Palatka Times-Herald. His entry will undoubtedly add. interest to the contest as the Times- fermidable candidate in the race. Mr. Drane is fitted in all respects to | worthily sustain the honors and dis- charge the duties of the office of president of the State Senate and his {friends in this senatorial district will give him their full support for the position. 1. .must ‘be admitted that the Times-Union ‘has found some pretty stif arguments against that $50,- 000,000 bond issue for good roads in Flirida. The T.-U. says that in pro- portion to assessed valuation it snuld be equivalent to a bond issue 0! :$17,700,000,000 by the Uniteéd States. ' \We are waiting to hnr from the: other side. . P SRS A Little Nonsense Now and Then He Didn't Need Them. While a traevling man was wait- ling for an opportunity to show lhis sumples to a werchant in a little buck-woods town in Missouri a cus- i tomer came in and bought a couple ‘ot night shirts. Afterward a long, !lenk lumberman, with his trousers | stutfed in his hoots, said to the mer C¢oant: "\\'Iml wius them thot?’ *Night shirts, o two?” { “Naup, | that teller ere reckon not,” said the | Missouriun. “l dont set around much o' nights.” Lippiacott's. | What Ailed Her. When u locomotive is in need of | {repairs the engineer must report at | his division and enter a list of the i destred improvements in a book ket "at the railroad repair shops for that i purpose. llere is a literal reproduc- ! tion of a report written in the work book by a Horton, last week: “Engine No.—Boar out her fiuse leekin in firebox and frunt and ex- amin her pettacot pipe she don't "burn her fire only in sentef G box she orter have a bigger brige in her (noze. Pack rite piston and valv |8iem they are blowen had {her left frunt mane wege. Rod brass iis poundin bad and wash out plug 1 ! | [lt washes all the oil off her eksen- j trix. Raze her up all round she rides { too ruff put a gloah valv in her dreen |pive. Fix her revers leever. Fix ]k(‘llh on fire doar she blll‘l’ll fireboy's ' Ishine and makes him cuss.” Making It Even. “l hope you are following my in- carefully, |p|'ls three times a day, and a drop or whiskey at bedtime.” “Well, sir,” 1 may be a wee bit behind wi' the pills, but I'm about six weeks in front wi' the whiskey.' The Tattler The Trombone, By George Fitch The trombone is the most dashing and impressive of all horns. Bande can exist without trombones just as ftatesmen can efist without plug | hats and frock coats, but the effort isn’t worth while. The trombone is a slender, refined At The Second - Hand - Store Double beds .nd jeprings $1.00 and up. Commodes; single bede; Dressers and Kltcheu Clbllot and Sidedboard, Sit- in Ohlo va“g.. Rofflnnton. Sewing luehllq' ’l’oreh Swing, Table, (‘Iockhn.r- e such that it will redound to good | &roundhog killed, and they are not|jy nymn Goods bought and -nld government, and make our republic venomous In any cense of the word.| ‘ewe 2 a beacon light for all nations. Rep-' resentative government is the dream of the ages, and this paper sincerely ' hopes that Woodrow Wilson's ad- | ministration will popularise repre- emtative m nl make 1t ! He never Introduced\.ther bill, but got that one passed, and no man has been able to beat him in the past twenty years, and we believe he never will be Deaten. It is an abeo- lute necessity that vemomous rep- .| ties Do exterminsted ia Flerida, aad The Second-Haad Mas BAE o AWEES: § Can | sell you one! Kan., engineer ' Redus {in belly of bailer is leekin so bml' Sandy—-the l Rockers and Diners, | “ ARCHER fuli cry. It is made in two parts, of which slides over the other, Jected stock of tomes. To play the ‘trombone the performer must grasp ' the slide end of the thing betweeu !the thumb and forefinger and locate uol»- up and down its thorax with Should he mis: by even an eighth of an inch, the instrument will resent it with 1 weird, uncanny shriek, and stock in ithat particular band will gé dowu A dozen trombonists lmarcblllg at the head of a 200-lung- power band, each man picking a tal note out of the zenith at the same instant as easily as Ty Cobb picks fiy balls out of the bleachers, forms on¢ of nature's most impressive spec- tacles. note like an Indian orator, a whenever it elbows its way into pro- ceedings and takes up the thread of discourse, the fact cannot pass un- noticed. A bad trombonist can make more trouble than Joseph W. Bailey used to make in the Senate, and can get as much attention. Bu! when the trombone is well played it makes inspiring mausic, and people often pay small sums’for the privi- lege of watching an expert trom- tonist come out on the stage and try to stab the proscenium arch with his versatile and alarming horn. One can learn to play the trom- bone in a few months, but not well enough to be safe, The best trom- bonists are born and afterwards ag- gravated by a long course of train- ing, at the end of which time they are so expert that they can travel 115 lineal feet per minute up and down the scale and can transfix a fy in full flight with the switt fl:- ing slide without missing a beat. To 1plm this peculiar horn the perform-; | v must feed his face into the mouth.- ‘plww- in sueh a way that he even- mam acquires an upper lip like a "gladiolus bulb. (the craft and no grip or password ix' NECesSsury REMEDY ENDS S " GATARH WISERES Gives Instant Relief, Cures and Pre- i Vents Catarrh and Cold | in the Head. 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