Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 3, 1913, Page 4

SAGE FOUR. s | Tished every afternoou from the wtucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. " Lusered In the postotiice at Lake- | % .d, Ficrida, as mail matter of the second class. EDITOR. | # F. HETHERINGTON, e Lo bl DO el HENRY BACON, Manager. T SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Ono year .... tieeeeeess$0.00 BiX DAODELS .\ oo o ovvooee 260 Threg months ......evee 1.26 Delivered anywhere witkin tbe Uinits of the City of Lakeland tor 10 cents a Week. P T From the same office is lssued THE LAKELAND NEWS & weekly newspaper giving & re- sume of local matters, crop condl, dons, county affairs, etc. Bent any- where for §1.00 per year. THE TOMILYROT OF TI0N, JOSLPH CUOATE. Mr. Jegeph 11, Choate of New York city, L techoned one ol > lead- ers « { L v i ol d m ( | \ d. 1 the « u « L ne H ‘ ¢ lews v ; Aud FEVERV) 128 ol “ Pk ¥ Ve inion, does o . L crowth of er. { Giug of infor- b4 1 j0 This 1 only aneic .ud ob- | bat it awyer vito the s cion of de- or at lecst Leonscious- (o put public ovinion ccent and divert atten- | the true cause of the ex- vitude of tie crime rec- g country. If Lawyer sirewd and discerning a2 o0 s ho s said to be he knows pessctly well that that cause is the ! pcterious and diggraceiul inefliciency of Awmor 1 courts in punishing' el o0 ineliicieney which makes Us &un u“!, unique among the na- tio s« arth and the just scorn an; o« L ol every civilized land | ir ¢ toulpariscn between mur,‘ m joval-d and ours. tl 1 r GULRTEY Wiy unne ( i ai 1 it Vi i Tt U 0 1 the benefit of lawyers al ¢ound CLa o ) Oy I not defeated, convie- diflicult and the ceances ial mnlh,md s wmere plutitudinous tommyrot dcecives no intelligent man, U eil the lawyer, to say that ug the news of crime and is responsible for the ex- ine in this country. Put nsibility right where it be-| pon courts so encrusted with | Ceesive ¢ the res) long the barnacles of precedent and t.ra-' dition and o clogged and hampered Wwith necdless technicalities that the most flagrant and notoriously gullty: erimincis in the land feel that they .flv@ more than even chance to es- eape if only they have the price of ® pood lawyer to work the technical- fties in the best stye of the art in their behalf, The newspapers have plenty of | sins to answer for, but the chief of | 0 tvemnu Ielenrd.n, cemes very near being a moral victory for the suffragettes, for it indicates a larse dearee of tolerance | for the {rece cauce full of promise for the futmc —O— cqual st ! Governor Trammell's plan for the ' abolition of the convict lease 8ys-! tem has caupht the faverable con- siceration of the Lezislature and the | prospects ave excellent that it will | | be enacted into law with pcrlmp% ~nn<- fcw minor changes, The ' achieving ted by the humane sentiment ‘n y State n.l £0 ongly opposed | by “cconomic” considerations, woula | : ba hardly legs than monumental anJ I\ rould of .mh be suflicient to give, ,hu.« mor Trammell’s administration »a honored .v' congpicuous page in lhr- history of Florida, i cema — le, Ala., Judge Ed- o recorder's court, Who 1 Over in M «rington, of tl ! tantl 'ig col ties in AT i of met with incredulivy, ri {Li J ical jokes, hisses and otuer iorms ol cuiges to bej disagproval., Tuat pro | .ete of Senator Bliteh's bill in the Legislature to put matrimony in thiz State bn a rational bagis with @, | vicw to the I»l‘(:\l"u\.iull of finprop. r| marriages and the improvemeit i And yet we fore-| the human race. sce a time when people will wonder i their ancestors were so stupid and unthinking s Lo oulit such pie- coutions. SR AR commigsion form of we've i counties already and it works o well | there that no one would willingly ' And the fact that coun- ut is €0 fully centralized cleard and enti- Speaking of | government, ion it. thre stokes’ uish bill for the venelit of the se suit industiy in Florida, but we don’t observe an u‘leri(y in its movement to adc or even consider the recommenda- tions of the commission to improve decent haste in mental ax datiii ' the administration of justice in our i courts by getting rid of the obstruc- tive and needless technicalities ana | otherwise patching up the venerable { and decrepit system. 0 The county division sentiment in i the Legislature seems to have ex hausted itself with the creation or Bay county in West Florida and Seminole county in {East Florida. | The indications are said to be highly | uufavorable for any more legisla- i tion of that kind. e s It may be masterly inactivity up | at Tallahassee or it may not be, but | of guch a reform so Iongi "h putting the got it in mx.“ ING TELEGRAM, LAK 'the rope is abolished for the mu.re “eivilized” eleetric chair, we must ask our Jux.um if they have a prejudice asaiust ¢ [ jshment. W s z: ;di/‘uln"’ It mex "".c time is near whe al pusishment witl be aboliched @s an institution too barbarous for modern Amierica. § we gee that crime 1.,uris‘xcs in the world end we hanz un to th ! ¢l¢ idea that it must Le because owr ! punishments are not severe enough. We cry out that the world is grov- 'ing more and more wicked and vie 'think somebody ought to do scme- thing about it. llere and there an outimist declares the world is grow- ing better, Which view is right? ! Both. There are hizher idcals and finer feclings in the world today and more of them than ever were herc But the conditions of liv- ing are harder, ‘We present the epectacle of a nation lifting up its ! people with one hand and holding before. ; i them down to iZnorance, . poverty Cland crime with the other. Increacing the [ Ery fer crime 41 e iven more time and thought to ti watter than you and I have t and opportunicy to do; theretore i* deserves respect. Observation ‘cflection, Lowever, will prove it io § Do men knowingly pic D live \\nes and hot coals? Of ¢o ithe laws of nature aiways op and wisely and m iing him. The go We must do away tions that cres nals; we must incer fer detecting crinee; woe nus runishiuent |{ 1 is three-fold, with the coud e criiae feyer to foliy, will keep Jus- mere vindietive- At this present time we necd to remember that scciety has no | more right to punich for mere pun- ishment's sake—for spite—than has the individual, Tlll“ PHILOSOPHER. e from descendin cond the spirvit of merey ice from becoming keep mere Temporarilv Postnoned, “Why, Rast iid Smithers | *what are you doing i you were going to be morning?”" “Why, yass, married this | ah was, Mis {eeremony am temporarily postponed, sah. De bride, she done run off wiv |dat wuthless nigzah Tham Jonsing, sub.”—Harper's W o — Typewriter for Two, To enable two persons to use the | | same typewriter a table has been pat- all €ins, the ineflicicncy of the courts ' there is no doubt about the 11(l‘ented in which there is a turntable ! as the largest contributory cause of erime, lics with Mr, Choate and his professional brethren. et R The appointment of John W, Martin us collector of customs up n Jcc.\umnllo is only to till a vacancy ereated in that ome district by the! recent removal of Lucas. The Taft order combining all the Florida col- Jectorships in one, with headquar- ters at Jacksonville, doesn't 80 into #ftect until July 1 and then, unless that order is rescinded and the col- dectorships left as at present, there will be a collector to be nppolnt.ad for the new district, which is to in-| élude the whole State. That will be a plum worth picking and it l'e-I umlns to be seen if Secretary Bry- 80 has enough influence with the | Wilson administration to land his man Calhoun. The Martin appoint- ment has no significance. —— i The ladies fost out at Tallahasses ' fn their effort to have a constitu- tional amendment submitted provid-| fog for equal suffrage in Florida. But they made a splendid fight and the vote lv\ which they lost should ! bead ict encourarement to them, That 26 members of the 11 ouse, rep- resentin: than a grotesque absurdity, shou Bave voted to submit~ vht"\m- m- " RS '--.l 4 ?bnsmumc_\ to whom. uge is because the world is outerow- woman su fe seems hardiv'op g it t 0J gnidmald that it is voluble inactivity. Per-| haps they reason that an ounce of law calls for a thousand pounds of debate. — England is at last recovering from her shock at the criminal ex- . cesses of the militant suffragettes rand seems to have made up her mind to treat them like other crim- inals—as they deserve. e —— LEGAL PUNISHMENT. The . action of the House in voting i to make burglary a capital offense displays a lack of progressiveness for which we have not been pre- .. There was a time in the his- tory of the world when the common- est punishment was death. Ther: ; was a time when even the death was made as horrible and terrible as possible. All this was long ago. We think our day and age is far in ad- vance of the time when men were drawn and quartered for their re- hgious beliefs. The tendency or the world is toward wisdom ‘and mercy and any step away from these virtues is a step backward. There are many grave arsnmente acainst capital punishment. The main reason it is fa g into dis- We were fotiz“aco tog eivil- ed to ?‘Yd 1\fim\ to" death, We de not L‘(‘ 1’é rack, the stake, mr aw !xc pullou ie. In many Stat,eb W a9Mse01 diiw wword edd Lbia sedila edl b '.,.' ysib al wod :( hold the machine lven s. i The problem of what to do wiih | the criminal can be answered mouie! 14 erimi- | y rons were a D ‘l" £ the vardrobes of many old s § 1w 2l of all our Spring and Summe ; a"d in, swiss ‘.wl lace aprens 3 WEre W by many younger wc ,!‘ n they sat down to sew i . . L o el b b e i Clothine iy & preat reduction of } i lfi._;\.,/ Lea i B o b 8 9 | on . ™Y y Qir e C o INGW ce Lvs 6 Llbid b LGlLuet. i ere? I thought | {tuh Smithers,” said Rastus, “but dat | ELAND, FI . MAY 3, 1v13. — STUNNING SPRING SUT | flffi?filfwb’r ) ADVICE, 'Ihe Pesul's Mace This Newburg Lady Clad She Followed Suggestion. Chitd's Pitiful Attempt to ), A remarkable attempt at waé made by a boy of elevey j; , | garden, recently near Sandwie » land. He had been chastiseq g slackness in picking hops, ang y, upon he went to a secluded Dot 4 attempted to hang himselt plece of varn used for tying Fortunately the 1ad was discoyey time, and was cut down, and rey, | Newburg, Ali—"Tor more ttan & year,” writes 1Irrtle Cothrum, of this place, “I suffercd with terrible pains in my back and kead. I had 8 sallow complexion, and my face was covered | with pimples. Our family doctor ouly | gave me temporary rellef. A friend of mine advised me to try Cardui, so I began tnhlrw it, at once, and with tho bost results, for I was cured after taking two bottles, My motker and my aunt have also used Cardul and were greatly benefited. 1 shall nlways pr.se Carcui to sick and suffering wo Cardul is a pu fectly harmless, t. men, and will ben Its fugredients inz a gentle, to manly constit Cardui has he back to heaith Have you tric do. It may Lo N7 noota M i tor Wasiea, Backwardin Schy caused by eofog is frequently eyesight makes the child and incapable of concentry mind. It's an injustice t the g tlat you do not have an expert ~an esamination and prescrite iy vegetable, per remedy for woe young and old. | e rild terbs, bave given to childrzn. ic cficet, on the woe [ ] ' v« | Optician 711 Franklin S‘:: ot trouble. Special and personal nnt please \»but you necd. Dept., Chattae J e 2k, - of ¢reen and gray i cutaway jacket aud and cclian c.%fx" s (OMMECING Saturday, May 31 at 9 a. m., we are going to dispos | ¢ 1 New Aprons, ‘ Thers seems to he a fad for weam ! bly the days when N \ NG & 00(s T ¢ paid for ir advarce, &s this sale is strict] some timo at muttered: *“Mur work no' to by i vhat a nl o{ masecn ' in any reat!” for cash. Come early ard get your pich e ety Baby a Real Midget. The month-old child of a gypsy, which was the subject of an inquest at Wandsworth, England, not long | since, was described by a doctor as | the smallest baby he had ever known It only weighed 3 pounds 14 ounces, | instead of the normal 7% pounds, aud | ! | 1 | i i its length was only 1 foot b inches I < | @8 compared with the averags 2 feet , T h e H u b The Hume of Hait Schaiiner & Marx Clothes D|dn‘t Concern Him, The tramp did away with a samd- wich handed to him by the latest far- mer wife he had favored with a eall, | She had wranped the sandwich in a | section of newspaper, which the tramp | | scanned with the eve of care! o==m>ss | characteristic of his kind. “My idea of nothin’ to git nutty about.” he re i marked to himself, after glancing all , & market report, “is the advance c! $2 a ton in the price of car wheels."— Judge. 8 inches. JOSEPH LeVAY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Builders Attention Calvanized Metal Shingles, Skylights and Ventilators wa Galvanized Stone and Brick Sid- to order. ing. Skylights, Glass. Galvanized Corragated Iron, 2% Enameled Iron Plumbing fixtu corrugated and 1% in. in 6, Soil Pipe and Soil Pipe Fittin 7, 8,9, 10, 11 und 12 lengths. Sewer Pipe. Galvanized Water Pipe. \ Fixtul Galvanized Conductor fpe and :,i:lkl: l;.l::.’: :oh“:loo = CEMENT SIDEWALKS, Woe enlarge on the fact that whe: you lay a walk of cement the job e fiaished—that means you're not con stantly repairing nor paylng ou money—when the job is finished you have one that will last. Improve your property—make &t up-to-date, g ir estimate on lay- Ing the walss - n need—the slight | added cost wi'l Llore than offset by the big impresement in the prop erty. Get our estimate. LAKELAND ARTIFICIAL - STONE. WORKS H’. B, anmetman. Droo B pra bon, eldsitoiniss—dng baqol Yo szad 00 awot Iu the cutting, how teautiful the {have it and more to match it. make it good for: prescnts of all | necessary pipes to complete job and pay nspection fees for $113, 1. €. Stevens MANN PLUMBING C( uaqud»-.mw.u._.x LRS! Eve Trough. Zinz, galvanized flat fron sheets. Sheet Tin by Box of Sheet. Colductor Ells and Miters. Sheet Lead. Lead Pipe. No. 2 pitcher and force pumps always it stock, galvanized watertankl in stock or made to order. I can sive you money. Write or call 08 K R AU e e T Plumkbing For a House Co plete Only $115.00 Consisting .of a complete bath r oom, containing one enameled 1 | ttb, one enameled lavatory complete, one closet complete with cak l"nd seat, onc 18x30 sink in kitchen and 130 gallon range boiler wi to the light and see it sparkle like a | thousand diamonds, pattern, Such a piece on your sideboarc would be a constant source of pleas- l Holda Piece of Cut Glass Note how deep fure and pride. You can afford to Our special prices for cut glass kinds, Call and talk it over, Hot and cold water to all fixtures. e% &‘I £ s ok 5 T s