Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 19, 1913, Page 6

' A i ! | The Evening ”_igl‘q_uram Published every afternoon from the; Kentucky Building, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- 1and, Florida, as mail matter of the gecond class. e e et M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES! One year ......... Sidibaile : .SE.OOI Six months ........... veees 2505 Three months ......... s 1.25( Delivered anywhere within thej limits of the City of Lakeland for 10| cents a week. From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters crop eonditions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere| for $1.00 per year. s i | The Pensacola News is to have a, réligious page. Rev. Ben. Thomas' will probably give his special atten-' tion to that department. Bro. Thom-, as has a keen eye for religious values, i ——0 One good way to enjoy the ap- proaching holidays is not to get the Christmas spirit confounded with Christmas spirits. { 0. That South Florida Man who is to walk off' with the senatorial prize is still holding himself in coy reserve. Come out in the open, old man, and give us a chance to size you up. —o0 The indications are that General Villa will not be able to make his boast good that he will eat his . Christmas dinner in the City of Mex- ico. more weight than if it wasn't signed at all.- Willlam Randolph is not himself a thrilling writer, but he knows how to hire the boys who can turn the trick, and therein lies his special gift. Gl The South loses another big exec- utive character in the railroad world by the death of President Thomas of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railway. Finley, Emerson and Thomas were men we could i1l afford to spare, for strong and rare quali- ties go to the making of the execu- tive head of a modern railway sys- tem, as well as years of experience, and such men are not easy to find. A ST SRR Harry Floyd says that he is a can- didate for the United States Senate and will canvas the State afoot from fPensa(-ola to Jacksonville and from Jacksonville to Tampa. To this end he has already “hit the grit” and is reported to be plodding along the Seaboard track somewhere between RiverJunction and the Suwannee riv- er. Bob,_ Holly has been, at his old tricks and brings out a Christmas edition of his Sanford Herald which is all to the good. And this reminds us to say that if we fail to comply with the usual rule of courtesy among newspapers by not calling at-: tention to the Christmas edition of any particular paper, it is purely an inadvertence, for we are proud of our fine Florida press, both daily and weekly, and especially proud of the enterprise indicated by their splendid | Christmas editions. R A VSR Those newcomers to Florida who makes themselves a social nuisanceby losing no opportunity to tell those of but there is less enthusiasm in i |victim of much good natured rail- \lery during the past week as a resul nstance Tn the mnext Mr. Sayre, the happy bridegroom 20,000 patients. themselves. was coldly “put out” with Mr. Page. , s Mrs. . P. Ki Miss Page gave a luncheon for Mr An interesting gituation exists in % ot NNEDY. Sayre to which the elite of London e ween the Pan-German AlLEy were invited. Without form or G::sx:a::d T . R T Tie: SMITH_ ceremony Messrs, Page and S'fl)'l'e zu over the national fund being| . (“°'”mltul were told to “grub elsewhere™ 88| Too o ihe promotion of military| VPP the sign “men not allowed” has been posted for their special benefit. The American ambassador has been thi of his experiences. His friend ca it the “suffragetting of Page & Sayre.” o 9 The Christmas spirit is o{man p t | States, lleq | fraining fro na)fund as a resul in the air, |trate the P t Americans, us who live here how much better ev-! tnan for several years. There’ate so|® erything is “up home where we come many people out of work in Ldondon from,” ought never to lose sight of and the demands of the poor for as- the fact that the trains are runnlngfslsmnce are so great that the sight every day and the way ‘“‘back home” |of guffering has dampened the ardor is open all the way through unless qf many holiday merry-makeérs. The it happens to be blocked by snow gtores are suffering from a decrease nortl of the Potomac and the Ohio.'in business and thousands of people If you come to Florida to make your who could depend upon extra work home here be a Floridian right from quring the holidays‘are without Senate, but the best way in the world 2adoptcd State, joining with the oth- for Harry to tone up his system, re- org to better the things that need cover his nerves and look out upon bettering and helping in the general|tpere are nearly 2,000 Mohammedans life again with normal vision. HOW-|work of development as a cheerful | regident in London itself, the major- ever, we don’t believe that Harryioptimist, not as a whining pessimist |ity, of course, being natives of In- will hold out, and, being round andlanq a complaining critic never find- dia,. who are merchants or law stu- fat and rollypolly, he is probably al- ready “galded” and ready to call oft the session. 0 Cripples, beggars and persons de- pendent on alms for support are warned to keep away from St. Pet- ersburg. The frozen face, the iron heart and, if need be, the strong arm awaits them in that fastidious city, ing up so that the doughty general sights; no suggestion of poverty or may be “lighting out for the tall ,r;suflering in the world to offend the ! timber” along about Christmas day,delicate sensibilities of the citizens without time enough to stop for din- and tourists. Mendicants of a cer- ner anywhere. Such things have';tain kind are so nearly allied to happened in the meteoric careers of]crlminals and vagabonds that they some of these half-baked Napoleons. ishould be kept out of a respectable , —=o l John Temple Graves is back again on the Atlanta Georgian, now a Hearst property, and 1is writing gome real good pieces for that pub- lication over the signature of Wil- liam Randolph Hearst- Mr. Hearst's1 gignature to a bank check is said to be an influential piece of paper to | the extent designated by the figures,|the worthy and unworthy and not son that Mr. Page and his visitors|ily community; but a hard and fast rule on the subject would be a very cruel one and would impose great hardship ' gayre (Jessie Wilson) has Mr. Page per cent on an average are victims of upon some unfortunates whose only, heen compelled to gracefully “take a tuberculosis. crime is their helplessness and Who pack seat” and feel complimented. In saries would furnish to infested per- have no way to keep alive except by the first ca ing anybody or anything in Florida quite good enough for you. If you come as a winter tourist, don’t stul- tify yourself by disparaging the win- ter home you chose; be more or less adaptable to new conditions; have the good sense to have a good time to' the best of your ability and the good' breeding not to be too free with your raw comments and criticisms in the' In fact the federals are spunk- K where there must be no unpleasant[mesence of strangers. 00— EUROPEAN NEWS AND VIEWS London, Dec. 19.-—Ambassador It is a poor way to get to thelipe gtart and stand up for your|something to do. Although it seems incredible, dents, though some are Britons. A plan is afoot among these followers of Mohammed to erect a new and splendid mosque, modeled on that of Delhi, which will cost no less than 3500‘,000. Within a short time it is expected ,that anti-tuberculosis dispensaries will be established throughout France, as the government is consid- ‘ering such a move. The situation in regard to this disease has become worse and worse in the general mor- | tality, in France being higherthan Page has found himself in the pleas- .in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium ing position of being honored by re-iand England. The reasons are bad fusals of official requests. At least in, housing, alcoholism and an aversion two instances during the honeymoon 'to open windows. Of the persons be- trip of Mr. and Mrs. Francis B.|[tween 20 and 39 years who die, 42 The proposed dispen- he wanted to take the‘ sons advice, food and medicine. Ill soliciting charity. In such matters sayres as his guests to the luncheon, persons could pass days at the estab- the police should be given adequate|of the dondon Literary Club. The i lishment and nurses would visit them discretion to discriminate between|directors refused for the simple rea-|and instruct the members of the fam- Paris already has an establish- but we doubt if his name appended Put all altke under the ban of a pitl-| were to be especialy honored by the ment of this nature, presided over Between .Tanuar_v‘ to an editorial would give it any‘ WefeoSuagedngeds BSOS S T 6 3 $ : i 2 less law of exclusion. ofosfosfefegedosfggs ILL you be hard-up and worried because you cannot give the little remembrances you would so like ( to, or will you be able to make these gifts without embarrassment, and without Inconveniencing yourself by having to raise a considerable sum all at cnce? Let us help you solve the Christmas problem of 1914. Giving next Christmas will be an unalloyed pleasure instead of a worry if you Class 2 ASCENDING London Literary Club members’ We have Four Class 2A DECENDING Class 2A requires the payment of by M. Bourgeois. B BBt DB D DSt i osdngnctodrguguid o . Join Our Xmas Savings Clu By following our Plan you can have a nice sum for Christmas spending money without any appreciable effort or without missing the little you pay in each week. Moreover, the lesson in saving and thrift which will t: taught by following the plans of this Club will be of great and lasting value to you. . L Classes or Clubs Class § ASCENDING : ily, a copy be publisn, - ed over; G ed | 1911, and June, 1913, it treated ““q 2 Nows, aid a copy ben ;:o * l minutes of this camp, “ and naval aviations. The Pan-Ger- 4 ress bitterly assails the stingl- ness of the Germans in the United who, it is believe are re- m subscribing to the i t of the German BOV- 4 ernment’s decision npt to participate | 4 in the Panama Exposition. To illus- enuriousnesg of German- who have sent only $1,- 00, it is declared that the Germans of Brazil, although comparatively only a handfu subscribed $14,000, @ while Germans throughout South | America among them gave $33,000. | % L MESSAGE TO WOM gy Inland navigation on the water highways of France is much more q important than one Might SUDPDOSE | i se——— from the situation of the streams. Those OfVOUWho 37 A census taken in 1912 brough.t to & COfltemDIatingafim light the fact that there were 15,141 2igeiges ¢ for father vrothe: . ¢ a rer, ble ' % o ror boats of'three tons and over, capa Ae { fflend- ShOuid pmfit {of carrying over 4,000,000 tons. As 2 by t h # f " 0 Irpgard capacity, 78 per cenr., can car-‘:gz timel 0 O'um vy more than 300 tons; 13 per cent, & y sugges:iops, 1200 to 300 tons; 5 per cent, 100 to & 200 tons, and 4 per cent, 3 to 100,:?:; Ba'h l‘obes, Smek. tons. Of the boats in use 1,700 were = ing ,aCke'&. Cr?.v,ms of iron. These were encountered ‘ 3 chiefly on the Seing, the canals of # ties and hOSC 0 Paris and the Marne, and in the 4 S0 'neighborhood of the Rhine. | g matCh’ mlhtary Sets, : i : collar bags, giow IN MEM e g e s cases, silk band: Whereas, It has pleased our heav-,% erchiefs. tie 3 ,enly Father, Supreme Ruler of thej k hi f" tie rauks, universe, to call to her reward our fu“ drcSS Ee.s, um sister, Mrs. G. F. Gilbert|, wife of our sovereign brother, G. F. Gilbert, bre"as, Canes, afid i many other taste We realize that the y ta (Cm Woodman's Circle has lost one of its truest and most devoted members, and that Bro. Gilbert has lost a true; Whereas, articles that wil gladden the hear: of Y T X s and devoted wife and companion, any man. Lfil us and the children a loving and affec- h”l 4 tionate mother. :§' - p )Ou n }'UUI' Resolved, That Camp No. 78, :E selectio Woodman of the World, extend our % n sincere and heartfelt sympathy to # WILLIAMSON M. ORe our bereaved brother and family and friends in this their hour of sadness COMPANY and sorrow, and be it further Resolved, That a copy of these res- & Fashlonshopfor men olutions be sent to the bereaved fam- ddsfuiufuioduipdil SeeGefesgrecect - S eessreeeseesseet et et oo TS e - - - - 35 Class 5A DECENDING s L L S # ¢ SO Class 2 requires the payment of 2 cents the first week, and each week thereafter the weekly payment is in- creased by adding to the preceding ‘'Wwéék’s payment the amount of 2c. $1.00 the first week, and each week thereafter the weekly payment is de- creased by subtracting from the pre- ceding week's payment the amount of 2 cents. ¢ Class 5 requires the payment of §5 cents the first week, and each week thereafter the weekly payment is in- creased by adding to the preceding week’s payment the amount of 5. g gn(:I(a,cs 5A requires the Payment of 92,00 the first week and week, each week thereafter the weekly payment is de- creased by subtracting from the pre- ceding week’s pay paymen of § cents, Y t the amount " At the end of 50 weeks the total amount saved in either Class 2 or 2A is $25.60, and in Class 5 5.A or is '$63.75, increased by interest earned thereon.: A mighty nice sum for your Christmas shopping, or ; nice nest-egg for a Savings Account—a start to buy that liitle home, to secure that college edl;Cat'a mighty lon, or to e O " do any of the things worth while—which can be done only with money. LAKELAND, FLORIDA - Call and let us explain the Plan fully. We want tofl;:help you. ACT NOW' The American State Bank g e e e————— A S AL E S S F P P P P P PP P P P P P P PP T TS S T Yoy T ww v " X e ¥ XN Ny o ww v