Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 30, 1913, Page 2

THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK ELAND, FLA., MAY 30, 1913. =P | grssaremn [} OuUR BANK [~ Deposit your money in our naik; you feel secure because it is in asafe place. It will make you feel happy to know tliat some day, f A BUSINESS CHANCE arises you can go to the bank snd find your money where you left it. The possession of a bank account not only gives you prestige in yourcommunity but with YOURSEL Begin at once to put away just a portion of what you are now letting go in extravagance. Do YOUR banking with US. First National Bank OF LAK Long Life of Linen along with good lawndry werk is what you are lvoking fer amd that is jost what wa arg giviag, Try ms. Lakeland Steam Laundry Phone 130. West Main B3 The Accumulation of a Life Time SWEPT AWAY In One Short Hour FIRE is a Ruthless Destroyer! A Fire Insu- ,‘imr" Wil A4 rance Policy a Beneficent Restorer! HAVE YOU ONE? Y. Z. MANN SOP0e Raymondo Bldg. Room 7, Phone 80 CPUS & WHENWE FURNISH YOU @& THE BEST IS NONE T00 GOOD~ 2% HAROURT&AD 22 GRAVED BY CORRECT" MANUFACTIRING ENGRAVERS LOUISVILLE, KY,U.S.A. WE- ARE/ THEIR EXCLUSIVE: AGENTS FOR THEIR EXCLUSIVE LINE. Full line of Dennison’s Gift Dressings; also Gibson Art Co's Engraved Specialties, Holiday and Fancy Goods, 1oys, Bte, LAKELAND BOOK STORE R. L. MARSHALL CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Wl furaish plais and spesifications or will follow any plans and syesifioations furmished. SUNGLLOWS A SPECIALTY Lot me Show you Jeme Lakelond howes { have bailt LAKRLAND, Phone 267-Greea FLORIDA ¢ OLD U3 LEGATION “ F ALLAH pleases, tomor | candlelight the steaming samovar row,” says the average Per- slan as he considers the transaction of business or the taking of a journey. And before the westerner has been long in this country he drops his shib- boleth that “time is money,” and falls into the fatalistic philosophy of the east, where the language has no equi- valent meaning for our words, punc- tuality and promptitude, writes a Teheran correspondent of the Los Angeles Times, Truly, Persia is no place for the hustler, accustomed to “do” a country or a kingdom by express railroad routes and automobile transit, and who expects to get Ritz or Waldorf- Astoria wherever he stops. Only when the powers take hold of Persia and run the country will travel become easy and pleasant for the ordi- nary globetrotter. KFor the' present it is open only to the venturesome and leisurely, for there are scarcely any railroads in the length and breadth of the land, and transit over any distance is both perilous and arduous, though | full of interest to the strong and sea- soned traveler. In Persia it is no simple under- taking to prepare for a caravan jour- ney of 150 miles or so, as your arange- ments must allow for at least eight days on the road—in many places merely a rough, stony track through mountain gorges. A string of six or eight mules is required, and you have to be smart at a bargain when you haggle with the owner of the hearts, though as a matter of fact, the muleteer generally gets his price, The contract must then be written out, and the muleteer affixes his seal to it, for few of them can either read or write. But you are not through with the deal until you have paid over half or even three-quarters of the stipulated “ticket journey.” The next business is the engagement of a smart boy for the road and a cook to prepare the meals, and upon their character the entire comfort of your caravan journey depends. Expert Servants. Persian servants could give points to the most expert swell mobsman go- ing. They always make the very best use of opportunities for plunder when the provisions for the trip are bought. Gradually, however, the large saddle- bags begin to swell out with packets of tea, loaves of: sugar, tins of provi- sions rice, meat, bread, candles, coals and other necessaries. You have also to provide a new samovar, plates, knives, forks, spoons, together with a teapot and teacups. While the ser- vants are busy with the dealer the sahib chooses a saddle and some camp furniture not forgetting a traveling carpet, Fortunately, for eight months of the year in Persia the sun shines con- tinually out of a fine blue sky, so journeys are gemerally taken under ideal conditions. Rain adds the last note of desolation to the mostly barren land, making the miserable villages full of hungry, begging people, and the gloomy, fort-like caravansaries gray, nightmare visions of hopeless- ness. The chief outstanding feature of a long tour in Persia is the massive cara- vansaries, the poorest apologies for hotels the world contains. They are built by charitable people who desire to do a good turn to the travelers on the lonely roads and mule tracks, whick are infested by marauding bands of highwaymen, As a rule they are built square, with rooms around the sides, opening on to the interior courtyard. In bad weather the mules are put into roomy stables behind, though generally the animals are tethered in the spacious courtyard, with their loads disposed | around them and the bells on their harness tinki.ng continually. On first ai hting at one of these rest-houces oo the night, when the servant ind/cu.es your apartment you are apt to L. uadiy jarred by its ap- pearance. The vsening into the black, smoke-begrimed room is doorless. The mud floor is dirty and uneven, the corners filled with all kinds of rubbish, such as egg-shells, fruit skins and the like. But if the boy is a good one' he soon makes his master comfort- able. A fire is lighted, the room | swept and the meager equipment set out. A curtain nailed over the en- rance baffles the gaze of inquisitive onlookers, and when in the flickering sings, and the dinner of several | courses begina to appear, past troubles | are forgotten until a new day dawns. i The dinner, by the bye, is prepared . by the cook in a draughty corner on three cagelike crates ,one on each side of the pack-saddle. Big Caravans. Often during the long hours of the daily march are heard the low-sound- ing bells, telling of an approaching caravan. Surrounded by huge bales of cotton, cases of opium and bundles of carpets come a troop of Persians on pilgrimage to Mecca or Kubella, who tor safety’s sake generally travel lw]th a large, well-guarded caravan. Their wellfilled saddle-bags contain everything necessary for their six to ! eight-months journey. So accustomed i do the Persians become to the pace | of their mules, they can doze cominrt: | ably on their backs through the hot ! hours of the afternoon without run- I'ning the slightest risk of misadventure, but the westerner has to keep wide i awake to preserve his equilibrium. The wmost useful vehicles for long journeys in Persia are the palakis and kajavahs, the quaintest coutrivances for travel to be seen anywhere. These “Persian cabs” are fixed upon mules. Some skill, too, 18 required in load- fng up the mule with its human freight, care being taken that the two people who travel side by side are about the same weight. If a tiny hus- band and a fat wife have to go togeth- i er, his box must be filled up with bal- last 8o as to equalize the weight. Similar care has to be exercised in dismounting, for if one passenger jumps out without giving warning of his intention, his neighbor is shot to the ground with unseemly haste. The only difference between the kajavah and the palaki is that the latter is open, while the former is covered with a light ,water-proof roof and is cur tained against bad weather. The most comfortable means of travel, sacred to the use of the weanhiest class, is the takhtiravan, a kind of palanquin, consisting of a box about seven feet long and five feet high, fitted with doors and win- dows and furnished inside with a goft mattress and luxurious cushions. The vehicle is built on the Sedan-chair principle, the poles resting on a sort of saddle on the backs of the mules, which are harnessed tandem. By the Mile. A young married woman athletically inclined was very anxious to learn to swim. So she bought a bathing suit, joined the swimming class at a near- by Turkish bath, and plunged in. Ev- ery Monday, Wednesday and Friday for an hour in the afternoon she toiled laboriously from one end to the other |o( the ninety-foot pool. On returning home after each lesson she carefully computed the distance she traveled and jotted it down in her housekeep- er's memorandum book. One night, with the help of her husband, she started in to balance her housekeep- ing accounts. “Shall I put swimming under pleas ures or necessities?” she asked, unde- cidedly. The husband glanced at the figures {ndicating the number of nautical miles his wife had covered. “Why not put it down under trav- eling expenses?” he suggested. Successive Generations. Miss Anne Morgan, daughter of the great financier, gives most of her time to soclal work. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., 18 one of the leaders in the move- ment against “white slavery.” The daughter of Senator Mark Hanna, Mrs. Medill McCormick, is an active | advocate of working women's organi- zation. Such interests of many of “the second generation of wealth” are a better dependence for the future than the earlier hope that the second and succeeding generations would squander what the fathers and grand- fathers accumulated. Spendthrifts ! do not materially affect the general welfare. Persons with social instincts and a sense of responsibility do. Between Doctors. !call in a consulting physician?* i “My worthy colleague, why should we?" “He's a very rich man.” “Exactly. Then why share the es- | tate?* “Doctor, do you think we had better |”‘ | PHARMACY The Store We Have Tampa Ice We Take Orders From Anywhere in the City TAILOR MADE CLOTHING AT CUSTOM PRICES. We have just received our samples for .this season. Can ufrnish you tallor made clothing at your own price. Cap to match suit with al) orders thrown {n. DE REE PRESSING CLUB Bowyer Building. 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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON: Office in new Skipper: building ovesr postofiice. Telephvne, ofice and real- dence on same line 350, KELSEY BLANTON LAWYER 0. Blig. Phone 819, Lakeland, Ms. JR GARAH 3 WHRELER OBFROPATH FEYSBICIAN Rosms 6, 6 and 7, Bryant Bulltiag Lakeland, Fla Ofice Phone 1278 Blwe. House Phone 378 Blaek G. H. & H. D. MENDENHALL Civil Engineers. Rooms 212-215 Drane Bldg LAKELAND, FLA. Pnosphata land examination. veys, examination, reports, Blueprinting. A 7. MACDONOUGH, Woous # Deen & Bryani Elis. Architett, Nowest ldens in Bungalow Desigrin; Lakeleac, Fiorids, BONFOEY, ELLIOIT & MENDENHALL Associated Architects. Room 212 Drane Building. Lakeland, Fla. 2 0. ROGERS, Lawyer, Reom 7, Bryant Bufiting Phone 269. Lakeland, Florida. 2. 3. NUFTAKRR, —Attorasy-at-Law— %eer 1 Btuart Bldg. Bartew, Pm TR W. 5. RVIR OENTIS? RKetabdlished in July, 100¢ tooms 14 ard 17 Kentuoky Putlitne Phones: Ofos 180; Residence 0 TUAKER & TUCKER ~lawyers— Raymeads Bldg whelnns, [ e ‘83. & EDWARDS Attoraey-at-law. Offiee in Musa Bubding LAKELAND, FLORIBDA. W. 8. TRESTON, LAWTED (OSes Upstairs Besy of oust How., BARTOW, FLOAIDA. Examination of Tities and Mok Eswate Law o Gpeaiaizp. JIREMIAH B. SMITH NOTARY PUBLIC. Loans, Investments in Real p Have some interesting snaps in ol& and suburban property, farms, Batter see me at once. Will sell for cash or on easy terms. Room 14, Futch & Geatry Bids. Lakeland, Fia. In compliance witn constitutio and dby-laws of B. M. & P. I. U. N 12, Florida, all contractors i th :bulldlng line will pease take notic that on and after the first day O August, 1913, the working hours of this union: will be eight, and @ cents the price per hour. This union appreciates the €0 operations of contractors who havi peid the scale of prices in the p sad expects no dificulty in that re spect in the future. JOHN MURPHY, President. C. R. FIELDEN, Financial Secretary. 64