Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 4, 1913, Page 4

po— = . Whree months (he Evenlno Telegram Pudlished every afternoon from the| €entucky Building, Lakeland, Fla, «ntered in the postoffice at Lake- /%ad, Florida, as mail matter of the se°nd class. PR M, F'. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. BUBSCKIFTION RATHN: #x months ....... 1.26 Delivered anywhere within the Wmits of the City of Lakeland for 10 #ria a week. — - ®rom the same office 1s {ssued THE, LAKELAND NEWS, i A weekly newspaper giving a resume’ pi local matters, crop comditions, ! enuty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere Por 81.00 per year. The Pittsburg market glutted with Florida oranges at ninety cents a crate indicates an abnormal state of affairs that ought to be investigated and rectified. 0 George C. Keller has sold his in- terest in the Reporter-Star at Orlan- do to Col. Walton of Kentucky, broth- er of E. C. Walton, already owner of a half interest in the paper. Col. Walton is a well-knowp Kentucky newspaper man of long experience and will make Orlando his home and take an active part in the business and editorial management of the pa- per. " 0 With 750 marines making them- selves at home in ‘her abandoned navy yard and the prospect of as many more before a great while, onq ejther in Florida or anywhere| Pensacola is to be congratulated. In a a popularity voting contest in that city we believe that Secretary Dan- fels would win over his predecessor, | proximity to market, and the| Honorable Herr George Von Meyer, by a handsome majority. George left the navy yard for bats and owls to roost in and intimated that that was about all it had a right to ex- pect. —_— The Orlando Citizen commits it- gelf to 'this amazing proposition: “And as to the courts—there should be a ‘come-back’ for heavy damages from the State for arrests based on insufficient evidence.” Certainly an effective way to paralyze the powers of the courts to exercise their chief function, which is to determine .the guilt or innocence of the defendant by the sufficiency or insufficiency of the evidence. And what a boost it would be for the damage suit indus- try! The woods would be full of fel- lows running around seeking to get themselves arrested on insufficient evidence for the sake of the ‘‘heavy damages from the State” later on. Happily, the constitution would in- terrupt that program, as you can'’t sue the State without its owp con- sent. R W Here's another expression of good @ense on the attituae of President Wilson toward the warring factions over in Mexico. 1t comes from the Starkb, Telegraph and it is just about what nine-tenths of the American people whose feelings on the sub- ject have any of the force and dig- nity of thought, think about. the matter: “We believe that President Wil- gon and his cabinet are doing the right thing in not rushing into a long and costly war simply because a lot of thoughtless or interested peo- ple advise it. To the contrary, we believe the administration has the Mexican situation well in hand, that Huerta has swallowed the hook and that Mr. Wilson is simply playing the line until the usurper has tired himself out, and then he will be landed. Mr. Wilson has inside in- formation which is not public prop- erty and upon this Information he acts. The matter is in safe hands.” DID NOT SLANDER FLORIDA Recently the Florida press has been roasting a writer for the Sat- SAYS BABSON " |urday Evening Post who was charged with slandering the State through the columns of that widely circulat- ed periodical because of an instance of Florida land swindling which he exposed. It was alleged that the implication from his story was that land swindling was rather the rule down here than otherwise and that Florida had been given a black eye in consequence of this injurious pub- lication. Ip the last issue of the Saturday Evening Post the matter is referred to editorially and we repro- duce below what that magazine says, and, while we do not recall the Bab- son article complained of, if the Post is correct, there was some kicking done without enough spurring to jus- tify it. The plain moral to be! drawn from the episode is to see your land before you buy it. The Post says: “In an article by Mr. Roger W.| Babson which appeared ip the Satur- day Evening Post a few weeks ago the author t8ld of the experience of a neighbor of his who, on the strength of a real-estate advertise- ment, bought without investigation a worthless tract of land in Florida and thereby lost the savings of years. Since the appearance of Mr. Bab- son’s article a number of Florida boards of trade have complained that it conveys to the average reader an unfair impression of the opportuni- ties and conditions that exist in their State. We do not believe that any| one who has read the wHole of Mr. Babson’s article can labor under any misapprehensiop as to the point that he intended to make. He certainly committed no injustice in warning his readers against buying advertised "else, without making the fullest in- ’vestigation of the property and as- certaining the character of its soil, lrhance that the average man would ,have to make good upon it. Florida, 'like every State of the Union which the hard-working man of experience, capital and agricultural knowledge, has had real-estate agents who have| been none too scrupulous about the claims made in their advertisements and who have victimized small pur- chasers living at a distance. This does not meap that Florida, which, like California, Texas and the West- ern apple country has had its un- scrupulous real estate men, does not hold splendid oppox"tunlues for the man of determination who sees and investigates land before he buys it, assures himself that there are good markets within easy access, and takes those precautionary measures that must be the first thought of ey- ery prudent investor in real estate the fine, generous spirit of Albert W. affords exceptional opportunities to, phrasing and Kkindly tone breathes Gilehrist in every line. Soadl i English lords of the hereditaryl class, lords by birth rather than de- sert, have not as a rule been cele- brated for wisdom, acumen or gen- eral information, but when one of them declared, in a speech the other day, that Woodrow Wilson was the first Southern man ever elected pres- ident he probably touched the limit of lordly ignorance about the U. S. A. The same noble boob also said in the same speech that at the recent Gettysburg meeting of the blue and the gray 1,000 coffins were hauled to the ground in view of the possible slaughter that might follow the tick- lish experiment of the reunion. No wonder the pecnle of England want the House of Lords abolished. pingdaysbefore CHRISTMAS Our store is crowded each day with busy women buying gifts for their fathers and brothers, and sometimes some one else’s brother. Our gift suggestions for tasteful men have an individuality that can’t be found elsewhere. ‘The list below should be help- ful to you. Read this timely list: Cuff Buttons and Scarf Pin to Match Full Dress Vest Bath Robes Mackinaw Coats Full Dress Sets who has a right to expect to make money."” 00— —— We are glad for his own sake that Former Governor Gilchrist has re- tired from the senatorial race. We think so highly of him that we didn’t want to see him defeated, and that he would have been defeated was very probable. Albert W. Gilchrist is a' mighty fine man, a clean, hon- orable, high-minded gentlethan who made the State an excellent governor and will rate high in any assemblage of people. But it is not his'time to be senator, and that he looks at it in that way does credit to both his sa- gacity and his sense of fair play. Senator Fletcher has richly earned a re-election by his devotion to the public service and the distinguished ability he has brought to the dis- in the race it might have resulted in the defeat of Fletcher without secur- ing his own election. He announces his retirement in a letter to the Tampa Tribune because of the pressure of private business, and the letter itself in its simple Srdrdnddrdn D Brlnddudr ddng L S e oot S aaa o] Gk B BBHDIYS P P SPLBPPHPHHD0 A GREAT REDUCTION ON COATS, COAT SUITS, WRAPS AND M GILCHRIST OUT OF THE RACE charge of his senatorial duties, and| if Governor Gilchrist had rcmalnefli Military Sets || Handkerchiefs, Ties and Hose to Match All Christmas good boxed individually. | May we serve you? | l, WILLIAMS ON- MOORE CO0. Fashion shop for men ELAND, FLA., DEC. 4, 1913. ! 4 The New Jewelry Store Next door to Postoffice Select your Christmas presen We have them to fit all tastes and every complete. purse. The dispatches state that Porfirio Diaz has been taken from the re- tired to the active list of the Mex- that he was to be called back to help stem the tide of rebel invasion now [STATE OF FLORIDA making its way to the capital. Too late, too late! There’s nothing much left of old Porfirio but his prestige, and he is sure to lose that if he takes an active part for Huerta at this stage of the game. CAN YOU DOUBT IT? ! When the Proof Oan Be So Easily In-i vestigated. When so many grateful citizens of this locality testify to benefit derived from Doan's Kidney Pills, can you doubt the evidence? The proof is not far away-—it is almost at your| door. Read what a resident of | Tampa says about Doan’s Kidney Pills., Can you demand more con- vincing testimony? Mrs. M. E. Andrews, 2908 Cen- tral Ave., Tampa, Fla., says: “For a number of years I had attacks of kidney complaint. My back was weak and I suffered greatly from other kidney ailments. Doan’s Kid- ney. Pills were finally brought to my attention and upon using them I was relieved. Since then I have taken them on several occamons and a few doses have always removed any sign of the old trouble.” : For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents, Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name-—Doan’s—and take no other. (N THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR POLK COUNTY, FLORIDA.—Marie Palmer and Gus L. Palmer, vs. Manilla Investment Co. and ! J. H. Hill—BIll to Quiet Titre. , It appearing from sworn bill and aMdavit appended thereto, filed in the awove entitled cause, that the Manilla Investment Co., a for- elgn corporation, and J. H. Hill, are non-resi- dent defendants, and their exact addresses are unknown to the complainant; that’ the said J. H. Hill iy above the age of twenty-one years, and that there are no persons m the State of Florida, known to complainants, service upon whom would be binding upon the sawa defend- ants: and it further appearing mat there are persons, unknown to the complainants, be- lieved by them to have or claim an interest in the land described in the said bill, to-wit: That tract of land in Polk county, Florida, | described as follows: Commencing at the northeast corner of the northwest quarter (N. W. 1-4) of the southeast quarter (S. E. 1-4) of section nineteen (19) of townsnip twenty- eight (28), south of range twenty-rour (2i)| east and running west five (5) chains, thence | south 20.96 chains to Lake Hollingsworth, thence east along margin of said lake to W. A. and F. B, Poteet’s line formerly owned by W, | D. Holt, thence north to starting point; other- wise described as ten es on east side of | lot two (2) of said section | It is therefore ordered that said nmpreq!-{ dent defendants, Manilla Investment Company and 1. H. Hill be and appear to the bill of | complaint filed in said cause, on the first| Monday in February, A. D. 1914, same being a | rule day of this court. It is further ordered that all persons un- known to complainants and not named as de- fendants to this cause, who may have or claim y interest in the land above described, be ' nd appear to the bill of complaint filed in d cause on the first Monday of March, 1914. sawe being a rule day of this court. | It is further ordered that this order be pub- | ‘]lshed In the Lakeland Evening Telegram, a | Farx LA MODE MRS. H, LOGAN, PROPRIETOR Conner, 0’Steen & King newspaper published in Polk county, Florida, for twelve (12) consecutive weeks. \itness the Honorable J. A. Johnson, clerk of the Circuit Court and the seat of said court at Bartow, Florida, this 19th day of Novem ican army. This would seem to mean ber, A. D. 1913, 3 D » ' I [] S L o A N PEIDIIBIIDIOIINED SEIPPIOPIIIIIDIEREES ILLINERY <} Visit - \ ¢ while the stock is Yours to please, COUNTY OF POLK T hereby certify that the foregoing is a 1, and correct copy of the order of publicatin sued in said cause and on flle in my offiee. Witness my hand and seal of sald oh this 19th day of November, A. D. 1813, J. A. JOHNSO! J. A. JOHNSON, ’ Clerk of the Circult Cou’ lerk of the Circuit Court. SioA 1522 Pre-Holiday Suggestions IN GEMS AND JEWELRY The Holiday spirit isin the ascendency, and wisdom suggests the choosing of gifts while the selections are to be had in unbroken varieties This establishment is now a fairyland of exquisite merchandise, chosen with infinite care from the art centers of the world. Never before in the history of Tampa has a store been 80 re- plete with the fashion’s latest thoughts in Gems and Jewelry. We have the largest stock and leather bags and suit cases in South Florida at prices lower than you can purchase elsewhere Southern Loan Jewelry Company 717 Franklin St. Tampa, Fla. If not, better:not wait another dav, as you might always ‘regret it. ¥ erepresent good strong, liberal: companies, and will appre-| ciate your business. . A . We make a specialty of Automobile ' Fire, accident, and liability insurance, covering, damage to your tcar, or damage to other® persons, or, their property, anywhere if the Untted States'or Canada. e T—— £