Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 31, 1914, Page 4

— The Evening Telegram| 'nhum e\er) afternoon from the Telegram Building, Lakeland, F.a. Entered in the postoffice at Laxe- land, Florida, as mail matter of the wecond class. H. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Joe gear ....... .$5.00 4ix moucn® ..... 2.50 Jhree momuas . ............. 126 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 ats a week. From the same office is 1ssued THE LAKELAND NEWS, a weekly newspaper giving a resume i local matters crop conditions, sounty affairs, etc. Sent anywhere r $1.00 per year. A PARTHIAN SHOT AS HE RUNS AWAY a jack-knife. Talk about the pork 1 Is of rivers and harbors and public buildings and grounds. hTey are lean as Lazarus compared with the pork barr of armor plate that are as fat as Esquire Sancho Panza, or Sir John Falstaff. “But the stupidity of the clamor at thi- time! \Was there ever any- thing like it? Who threatens us? Nchody. There is not a nation on the globe whose rulers do not re- gard the enmity of our people as the greatest misfortune conceivable. This war now raging will leave the United States as the one solvent na_ tion in a financial way and all the world will be seeking to borrow our money on our own terms by 1920. Fight? 1t is idiotic, the idea of it!" sl There is one point especially which this and every succeeding ses- sion of the Florida Educational As- sociation should drive home into the consciousness of every teacher. That peint is that the chief purpose of our public school system is to awaken the intellectual life of the pupil, to We have heretofore given Straublstimulate intellectual ambition and of St. Petersburg Times credit for at least the purpose to state the po- sitions of his opponents in contro- versy fairly, but a recent deliver- ance from that source makes us -waver in that opinion. Speaking of the Telegram and the Ocala Star and the attitude of those papers in the great constitutional argument mow on concerning the possession of deadly weapons by the citizen, Straub says: “They appear to be defending the carrying and use—the necessity even—of guns upon the grounds of personal safety.” The irresistible inference from that lan_ guage is that the two papers in question are advocating a social state in which every citizen shall go about habitually armed with a pis. tol to insure his personal safety. A 'more outrageous misstatement of the facts in the case could hardly have been made if the writer of those words had deliberately intonded to misrepresent. It is not for want of perspicac= ity that Straub has thus sought to shift the argument and pervert the facts, for he has abundance of gray matter and knows well how to use ft. It is because he has been beaten, overwhelmed, routed and driven from a field of his own choos- ing, and being a bad loser, he hurled a Parthian shaft as he Skedaddled from his trench and shouted victory as he ran away. Tie knows perfect- 1y well that neither the Telegram mor the Star has advocated any such lawless and uncivilized state of af_ fairs as he has claimed and that both papers have solely insisted on the constitutional privilege of the citizen to possess and use weapons in such circumstances as the natural and indefeasible rights of a human Jbeing regulated by law demanded and permitted. One of our old-fashioned, homely virtues is to recognize a capable ally when we gee him and to put him on the job right away. In the last issue of the O¢ala Star to hand, Edi_ tor Straub is skinned and his quiv- ering tissues laid bare with such fine art and efficiency that we could pity him but for his contumacy, ob- duracy and incurable perversity on this pistol-toting issue. We have no room to reproduce the full article, but we take the following from it as a clear statement of the essential truth of the subject, which both the Telegram and the Star have persist- ently adhered to: “As we have not advocated and do not intend to advocate the habitual carrying of arms at normal times in peaceable communities, we don't see why Straub should have injected such a proposition into the argu- ment. We think that if Straub will observe the dispatches in his own paper, he will see that whenever an armed criminal attacks an unarmed person, the latter has the worst of it. The proposition that we made in the first place was that citizens of the United States should retain their right to keep arms, as their best guarantee against foreign ageression and domestic oppression; that the citizen had a right to keep a weapon in his home, and that he should teach the members of his family, for their own safety, how to use—not misuse it. Sraub has excurted on a whole lot of side llnes, created by his dncapacity to understand any \'io“'_i; but his own. \We now leave him to wander about on them and will go on to other things.” Old “Savoyard,” the veteran Washington correspondent, hits ‘em such sledge hammer blows and ex- poses hypocrisy and pretense with such blunt effectiveness that it is a delight to turn from the cant of pa- triotism in which so many are in_ dulging nowadays, with their jingo talk about our unpreparedness for war and the need for a bigger army and more battleships, to the plain /speech of this sagacious old man, Here, for instance: “Whenever you disconnect the ‘pork barrel’ from the ‘national de- fenses’ your jingo will shut up like that learning how to read and write and figure—the simplest tools of primary education—is merely reach- ing the threshold of Knowledge, and to stop there is hardly better than i‘not to have begun. Not all pupils ‘are of equal mental capacity, but there is enough mind in the dullest of them to be aroused to something better and higher than recognition of the obvious relations of the mere material things around them; and that teacher is a failure who *‘grad- uates” his or her pupils as a mere herd that can read a Iittle and write a little and “cipher” a little, but has neither purpose nor desire to use these acquisitions as instruments to higher life and knowledge. e e -— OF LOCAL INTEREST Some People We Know, and We Wil Profit by Hearing About Them This is a purely local event. It took place in Lakeland. Not in somefar away place. You are asked to investigate it. Asked to believe a citizen’s word; To confirm a citizen’s statement. Any article that is endorsed at home Is more worthy of confidence Than one you know nothing about, Endorsed by unknown people. Mrs. P. Ottinger, 507 E. Bay St., Lakeland, says: “We have used Doan’s Kidnéy Pills in our home and wouldn’t be without them When_ ever | feel that my kidneys are not acting right or I have suffered from slight inflammation of the bladder, I take a few doses of this remedy and am benefited. 1 advise my neigh- bors to use Doan's Kidney Pills, as they live up to the claims made for them.” Prive 30c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Ottinger had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. SHERIFF'S SALE. Under and by virtue of an execution issued out of and from the County Court of the State of Florida In and for Polk County, in favor of The State Bank of Lakeland, a <~ur|mr.n|nn under the laws of Florida, and against T. T. Hayes and P. J.Langford, dated the 2nd day of December, 1914, I have levied on the following real estate, as the property of sald P. J. Langford, the same being pointed out by the attorney for the plaintiff, towit :— Lot 15 in Block 6 of W. C. Black’s Sub- division of part of G. T. Hill’s Additlon to Fort Meade, Florida, belng in section 27, Township 31 South, Range 25 5 We find no mortgage made by said Langford covering the above described land. Lot 3 of Block 6 of Hooker and Robeson’s Addition to Fort Meade, Florida, being in section 27, Township 31South, Range 23 East. -The above described lot is incumbered by Mortgage recorded In Book 36, page 15 and by Mortgage recorded in Book 38, page 634, Beginning 363 feet West of NE corner of Lot 3 of section 30, in Township 31 South, Range 28 East, thence West along the North boundary of said lot 448.5 feet, thence South 1230 feet to rth shore of Lake Clinch, thence with lake meandering North 81 de- grees 30 minutes t 217 feet, thence North 11 degrees mrmutes East to point of beginning. Said tract is inc ered by Mortgage recorded in Book 44, p: o Beginning at NE corner of Lot of sec- tion 30, in Township 31 South, Range 28 East, running thence South along the East line of said lot 3 70 rods, more or les, to margin of Lake Clinch, thence West along margin of Lake Clinch 36 2-3 rods, thence North to a point on North line of said lot 3, 22 rods west of NE corner. thence east along North of said lot 3, 22 rods to point of beginning. Said land being incumbered by mortzages recorded in Book 44, pages 75 and 77, the mortgage recorded in Book 44 on page 77 bein a second mortgage. And will sell the same In front of the court House door in Bartow, Florida, at public outery, to the highest and hest bidder for cash, on Monday the 4th day of Jan- uary, A. D., 1915, between the hours of eleven o'clock, a. m. and two o'clock p. m. to satisfy said execution, with costs, charges and expenses Purchaser to pay for the deed. Dated at Bartow, Florida, the 4th day of December, A. D, 1914, JOHN LOGAN ORDINANCE NO. 180 An Ordinance repealing Ordinance numbered 179 of the City of Lakeland, same being Ordinance fixing the details of bonds coupons of bond issues of the City of Lake- land in the State of Florida, and for which said City might levy a tax sufficient to meet interest to accrue thereon and to provide a sinking fund for the payment of principal when due. _ BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Com- missioners of the City of Lakeland, that Or- dinance numbered 179 of the City of Lakeland be and the same is hereby repealed in toto. I, 0. M. Eaton, hereby certify that the fore- g Ordinance. numbered 180, was regularly passed by the Board of Commissioners at a regular meeting of the Board of Commission- ers of the City of Lakeland on the second day of December A. D, 1914. 0. M. EATON Attest H. L. SWATTS, Clerk. 3500 THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAK EI AND, FLA., DEC. 31, 1914. | SOMETHING THE PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF Grocery Co. grind daily a whole wheat wheat they buy in Tennessee is a pure red milling wheat. duces the purest and most whole- some flour made, thereby making the healthiest bread to eat. that they grind it fresh, sweet, wholesome flour. They will deliver to any part of [the property of Unknown and em- the city (not less than 25c worth) and Fridays. insures on Tuesdays They | subdivision of block also grind a pure white Florida corn |add., Sec. 13, Tp, f Seats on NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TAX DEED UNDER SECTION 8 OF CHAPTER 4888, LAWS OF FLORIDA. Notice is_hereby given that JOHN S. EDWARDS, urchaser of tax certificates numbers 24, 39 2;2 4, 175, 191, 1 19 gu and 425, dated the 5th day of -|August, A. D. 1912, has filed said certificates in my office, and has made application for tax deed to is- sue in accordance with law. Said certificates embrace the following described property situated in Polk county, Florida, to-wit: SWi 1-4 of SE 1-4 of NW 1-4 Sec. 12, Tp. 28 8., R. 23 east. assessed as braced in certificate No. 24. Lot 1, block 4, Sloan & McRae 4, Lake Beulah S., range 23 east, assessed as the vroverty of Un- every day giving the people of the knovn and embraced in certificate city pure fresh corn meal as well as fresh wholesome flour. and try this flour, you will like it. 3610 and embraced in certificate No. 72. A. ofl S. side of SW_1-4 of SW 1-4 Sec. 24, Tp. 28 S.. R. 23 east, assessed as the nropt‘rtv of Unknown 1-2 of NW 1-4 of SW 1-4 of Sale SCENE FROM ALMA, WHERE DO YOU LIVE, AUDITORIUM, SATURDAY, MATINEE AND NIGHT. Fifteen Big Song Hits; Special Scen ery; Matinee, Priceg 23¢, 50c, 75¢c; Night, 25¢ 50¢, 75¢, $1.00. NW 1-4 Sec. 24, Tp. 28 S, R. 23 east, assessed as the property of Un- known and embraced in certificate No. 74. G n at N. W. corner o - BeMW 1-4, run S. 5 chains, E 4 chains, N. 5 chains, W. 4 chains and Nl-2ol\ll"otNW14oxNW14 Sec.dzs Tg & R. 2t3 tfal';t' as- essed as the nroper y O nknown :nd embraced in certificate No. 75. NE 1-4 of NE 1-4 Sec, 1 'l‘p. 28 S., R. 24 east, assessea as the pror erty of Unknown. and embraced n certificate No. 191, N 1-2 of NE 1-4 Sec. 4, Tp. 28 8., R. 24 east, assessed as tiln property of Unknown, and embraced in cer- tificate No. 192. U. S. lot 3 (or E 1-2 of NW 1-4), Sec. 5, Tp 28 8., R. 24 east, assessed ng tha property of UnkLown and em- braced in certificate No. 193. Lot 3, block C, revised map of Dixieland, Sec. 19, Tp. 28 S.. R. 24 east, assessed as the property of Un- known and embraced in certificate No. 239. Let 23, block C. revised map of Dixjeland. Sec. 19. Tn 28 S, R. 24 east, assessed as the proverty of Un- knowzx} 1and embr 0. . SE 1-4 of NW' S.. R. rzsve'i'{“' S erty o nknown certificate No. 425 .UNLESS said ¢ redeemed accordin will issue thereon December, A. D. WITNESS my and seal this the 1 ber, A. D. 1914, Clerk Circuit Coy Florida. NO The stockholde: Bank of Lakeland will hold their reg ing on Tuesday, 10 o’clock, in d First National holderg are earnes! present or send D 8229 C N. C Why Pay Cash? We Trust You One Price to All and All Goods Marked in PLAIN Figures We are now open for business with a new and com line" off Furniture, Floor Coverings, Etc., and are position: tot furnish your Home COMPLETE, either for CASH or ON To thosei’who do not have all the money to spare to pay: for their goods, arranged a very liberal system of CREDIT at only 10 per cent. advance of th Pnce.’“ Ncne of our customers who buy on time will feel that we are working ship on them. Ccme in ard look at our prices ycurself We invite compar 9x12 Axminster Rugs $27.50 Terms of $1.00 Week Brass Beds #18-$30-835 and;$38.50 Terms of $1.00 Week Turned Oak |)|n|||g Room St |, Mawwanee Dute Kiteh Boone Kitchen Ca BUFFET OO .CHINA CABINET | Terms, $1.00 Up SERVING TABLE Rocker Terms, $3.00 Week DINING TABLE, 6 foot 1 1 ARM CHAIR Upholstered in Genuine Spanish Removable Seat, with 9 Coil Spr | 3 SIDE* CHAIRS i UPHOLSTERED IN GEN- | i $l 1.00 Terms, 50c. UINE SPANISH LEATHER ) McKay Furniture C The Happy Home Furnishers Phone 414 Kibler Annex