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| The Eveaing Telegram ®ublishel overy afternoon from the Wentueky Bullding, Lakeland, Fla wntered in the postofice at Lake- lnad, Florida, se mail matter of the sonond eloms. J % F FWEOTHREmINUTON, EDITOR HENRY BACON, MANAGER. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year it months 1.38 the Hraits of the City of Lakelaad fer 10 ronta a week. Delivered anywbere withia From thje same ofiee 19 lasued THE LAKELAND NEWS, & weskly newspaper giving & resume of losal matters, erep econditions, esunty affairs, ote. Sead anywhere o 91,00 per year. { -—\—-—————-——‘ NOT S0 BAD AS REPRESENTED Perhaps conditions at the State Reform School at Marianna are not as bad as they were made to appear by G. A. Ball in a recent press in- terview. Now comes Probation Of- ficer Henry Paulsen, of Pensacola, who says that Ball’s story is a tissue of misrepresentations and that Ball himself is a discharged employe of the institution. Answering some of the Ball charges, Paulsen says in an interview in the Pensacola News: “There are two separate buildings for black and white at Marianna, & fourth of a mile apart, and the races are never allowed to mingle. Ball insinuated that all slept to- gether. Again, the sanitary condi- tions are absolutely perfect and there is no bed in the school large enough to hold four people. In the white department there is a baker who teaches the boys how to cook, a tailor to teach them how to sew and a dairyman who gives instruc- tions. The boys are not kept locked up, as Ball says, but are worked on the farm part of each day. Only those who are apt to run away are kept under key. The boys work but three hours in the morning, then they are required to bathe. After the bath the day is theirs to play or do as they please. Most of the farming {8 done by the -colored boys.” visiting the school, said Paulsen, “I remember that Miss Mary Taylor, of Tampa, has visited the school in the past two years. I have been there eleven times in less than two years to see the boys. I had to pay my own expenses, too, as the law does not provide for visits of the various probation officers to the reform school.” —_ The Eustis Lake Reglon heartily endorses the recommendation of Mayor Swearingen of Jacksonville that the whippnigpost be established 0 as a punishment for hardened crim- inals upon whom a jail sentence has no good effect. Perhaps so, but if we bring back the whipping post, let us also re-establish the stocks where the offenders, with their legs and arms firmly imprisoned, can be pelt- ed by the town kids with mud, stale vegetables, etc., and thus endure a double punishment, fear of which might prove an ‘excellent deterrent. There are times when we are so ‘“het up” by the fires of our right- eous indignation against the crim- inal brutes who afflict the land that we not only favor the whipping post and the stocks, but we wantthe guil- lotine, also, to work 'em off quickly in large blocks, with fine, red spec- tacular effects to fully glut our ven. geance. But these are passing moods, and we are afraid to recom- mend legislation while in that sav- age state of mind. b = el i, A STRONG MAN GONE. — The South has probably given to the country since the civil war no finer specimen of a self-made man than Senator Joseph F. Johnston, of Alabama, who died the other day. He left his native North Carolina soon after the war, in which he was a fighting young soldier of the first class, settled among strangers in Selma, Ala., and with no capital but his own strong personality, won wealth, high repute and all the hon- ors his adopted State could give him. He was not brilliant, but he had rare good sense and he trained him- self to be one of the soundest think- ers in the South on public questions. And, above all, he had character, and when that big underjaw of his shot out and he planted himself on a given proposition he was there to stay beyond the reach of any force but his own clear judgment. In ad- dition he was a quiet, courteous, polished gentleman, always conside- rate of others and in his private life ‘“As for the probation officers mot the excmplar of every quality hat % LAKELAND BOARD OF Enthusiastically and Unqualifiedly endorse ANNA MARIA | Winter and Summer Sea Side Resort of Florida. This committee made a personal and official investigation: J. L. SKIPPER A. J. HOLWORTHY A Gilt Edge Investment That W Florida’s Famous Resort 1st; 1913 “Year-Round” made purchasers before Sept. becomes a man. Senator Johnston's character and career should be an inspiration to the young men of the eountry, for he admirably illustrated how unnec- | essary are brilliant and showy qual. ities to win success in this world if only the will that makes a real man is present. ————— Here is a significant little story from the Tampa Times which we re- produce with much pleasure asshow- ing the great publicity which Lake- land has achieved and how she stands out clear-cut in the lime- light, a thing of beauty and a joy forever: “There are three cities in Florida of what may be called the second rank between which there is a hard and strenuous race for leadership in their class. These are Orlando, Lakeland and Ocala. In writing up matter for this department we are frequently struck with the far great- er number of times we are forced to mention one or the other of these three—and sometimes all three— than any other cities in the State. We mention them oftenest because things happen in them most fre- quently; in fact, something occurs in one or the other of them every day.” The best piece of literature now going the rounds of the Florida press is that lengthy article by Har- ry Snowden Stabler in a recent num- ber of The Country Gentleman and republished in the Telegram Satur- day, which tells how T. K. Godbey up in Alachua county is making something over $8,000 clear per acre growing sweet potato slips. And it’s no fairy story either. are given in the article and Godbey himself will vouch for its truth. You see, he’s a reading farmer, a thinking farmer, an experimenting farmer and he doesn’t allow any antiquated prejudice in favor of old ways to shut up his mind against new facts and new truths, and con- sequently he’s always learning. That man Godbey is a monumental Floridian and we salute him. He was frozen out of oranges in the great frecze of 1895 and he went to work as a day laborer on the rafl- | road. But he had brains and ambi- tion and he mixed both with Florida soll and now he’s a bigger factor in her prosperity and development than a carload lot of her politicians, — e, Senator Thornton, of Louisiana, who voted against his party on the o ) C. A. MANN BUY a lot, bulld a cottage, have a seaside home of your owa which you can readily rent when you are not using it, and wheh will pay you 20 per cent on your investment. WE WILL BUILD the cottage for ou after your plans, and will attend to the rental it you 80 desire. Liberal terms without inter- est and discount for cash payment plans. Write for Souvenir Booklet and Post Cards. RAM, LAKELAND, FLA, AUG. 13, 1913. gmmm Full details |® 10RO CAROICROIOIOROICNCRON CIIORID EIOKICIO | ppogngty OISO KAOKIOIIICIOION £ ) 1812—British forces under General tsugar schedule in he new tariff bill, ought to get from Senator Hollis, of New Hampshire, his recipe for sure- enough Democracy and take a few doses of it to give him a backbone. Senator Hollis lives among the cot- ton manufacturers and, voting to re-: duce their excessive tariff protection, ‘ he says: “The cotton manufacturers have taken 'the highest protection ank! paid pauper wages. They seek to control the government, to prevent labor legislation and escape their Just taxes.” _—o—— If “Peter’ Stanley” of Leesburg, successfully pulls off that big adver- tising scheme of his for all Florida which involves sending a Florida . special train hrough the North spreading the gospel of our incom- parable resources, he will be the greatest man in the State—greater than T. J. Laud Brown and Wlllls} The latter is: Powell combined. now temporarily in Georgia at the head of an exploring party on the banks of the Chattahoochee digging for the original text of the Helecan limerick. PRSI, S We have been 80 long in the habit of thinking of. the Hon. Dannette Mays of Monticello as a part of the Third congressional district that we forgot the work of the last Legisla- ture which put his county, Jeffer- son, in the Second district and re- | ferred to him as a probable candi- date against Emmet Wilson of the' If Mr. Mays runs it must | Third. be against Frank Clark. —_—— © AUGUST 12 IN HISTORY Brock arrived at Amherst- burg to oppose the American invasion under General Hull. 1854-—Balize, Honduras, destroyed by fire. 1870—Franco-German War. 1874—England, many formally recognized the Spanish Republic. | 1885—Helen Hunt Jackson, noted | cotton between the markets and | author, died in San Fran- cisco, born in Amherst, Mass., Oct. 18, 1831, 1891—James Russell Lowell, the poet, died in Cambridge, Mass, Born Feb. 22, 1819, 1898—President McKinley pro. claimed the cessation of hos- tilitles with Spain. 1904—A son was born to the czar. A. SCHAEFFER JRSE—— k.4 ANNA MARIA BEACH has fine water sys- tew, two stores, dairy, telephone system, ice D ostoffice, and the best transportation house, facilities. The best surf bathing and fishing in the State. M iles of fine sandb each, no undertow, Perfectly safe for women and_ children,. yn- Fishing cannot be equalled apy- The waters surrounding the island are the feeding and play grounds of the “Sil- ver King” (Tarpon) and the smaller fish attended. where. abound 1in great variety. .Upon req uest a representative of the company will call on ou with maps and descriptive \\—— I Fourth Advance in Price of $100.00 a ANNA MARIA BEACH CO. & Lot Will Be Made September 1st, 1913 ANNA MARIA BEACH Local Agents: WARING & EDWARDS, Lakelan France and Ger- | Bowdon, Ga., Aug. 12, 1844; spent ill Pay You 20 Per Centz A Cottage By the Sea at Anna Mari Address Anna Maria Beach Co,, Strikingly Handsome Autumn, Clothes Select any one of the beautiful new woolens just received from our famous Chicago tailors Ed. V. Price & Co. and let us send them your correct meas- |Mo: ure for your new suit or overcoat, Among our 500 exclusive patterns you’ll sure- ly find the one which appeals to your tasteand the price will easily come within your means, iay Williamson-Moore Co:a ‘FASHION SHOP FOR MEN. Phone 298 Drane Bulldflng' til elected to the Congre:,;l abandoned the practice ani; himself exclusively to hisof tles, was judge of the cour g rollton from 1885 to 1889, ; attorney for the cityof Carx a number of years; was pre elector in 1892; was electery Fifty-fifth, Fifty-sixth, F: enth, Fifty-eighth, Fify-nin tieth, Sxty.first and Congress and was nomin ut i re-elected without oppositic g Sixty-third Congress. % TODAY’S BIRTHDAY HONORS % » —— Congressman William Charles Adamson, Democrat, was born at his youth alternately in working on the farm and in hauling goods and N Bowden; graduated at Bodwon Col- lege with the degree A. B. in | 1874, the degree of A. M. belngi : 2 |’ o conferred a few years later by the | M I ch I & same institution; read law in he! aa"a M Ils office of the Hon. Simpson W. Har- ' Prescription No. 688 is preparede* ris; was admitted to the bar Octo-' ';_' MAL,ATA or ,cqullls [ ber, 1876, and has lived at Carroll- '\ O B8 Conen o :;':F'e"v’e ton, Ga., ever since, practicing 1aW ' peturn. It acts on the liver be in the circuit and supreme courts of | Calomel and does not gripe o (1 TRADE | BEACH as the Ided o, . EDWARDS, ASK THEN: The growth of ANNA MARIA BEACH as & =’ Seaside resort has been Phenominal, an in 3 i w Very few years it will be the largest and fin- est_resort place in the South; it HAS ALL '?‘9,“""-‘1' "ad¥ARtages, and the developers are sparing ‘no expense to add all the com- forts and luxuries that make lite worth liv. g™ i i literatur e, and explain to you our no-inter est easy- Anna Maria, Fla. = Incorporated _—— |[FLORIDA d, Fla,