Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, January 29, 1915, Page 4

The Evening Telegram! 3 iblished every afternoon from the Welegram Building, Lakeland, F4. Entered in the postoffice at Lase- J . as mail matter of the W, F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR. $- e —— e, but are conceited emough his tras to be fully certain that they could do it quite as well if not better than the man who is on the job and who hag put in years of toil to learn how to do it right. ‘The Emporia (Kansas) Gazette, whose famous editor, William Allan White, is perhaps the most expert “country editor” in the United States, at every form and phase of the work, has touched up this sub. ject in a recent issue of his paper SUBSCRIPTION RATES. and from it we take the foilowingz: men's brows. Along about!I know in ‘which to plant an"i Christmas eve of 1895, my good sort of chicken is in a big pot of ! wife and self had just returned rice and in one’s arms. I from Waukeshau and Bar Har-{ What is the matter with the bor and New York to Ocala. turkeys? Even now in almost Then we met John Samuels, of every hammock bay-head and, Chicago, who had been in other brake and scrub, there is a flock ! years handling our fruit. He of-!of wild turkeys, in truth they are’ dered me $18,000 cash for our'indigenous to Florida, and live fruit on the trees, I asked $20.-'the year round, on berries, bugs 000, for the reason that I felt I and nuts, in the Florida woods, could live like a white man on and they are the gamiest, juciest, $20,000 a year and never deny a fattest ever. .$6.00 . 2.60 Jue Jear #x moacn ‘aree mon.as .. 125 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 oents & week. —— From the same office is issued THE LAKELAND NEWS, & weekly newspaper giving a resume ™ local matters, crop conditions, «ounty sftairs, etc. Sent anywhere w $1.00 per year. — e _thought I'd just pass the time of Sunday. They came, anticipat- and doubtless the merchants, and Mysterious item from Kuyke's Kolumn—"“To a dot the plot went through. Fluttering Marah reached the wall, scaled the ladder, dropped into a fond, waiting clasp.—Lake- Jand Telegram.” That's all right about Marah and “the fond waiting clasp” she dropped into, but we want it under- stood that it wasn’t ours. Powell, of the Clearwater Sun, is still fighting the proposed State fair in’ Jacksonville and says that while he was secretary of the Board of Trade at Tampa he kept tab on Jacksonville for four years and in that time that city “did not make a generous move for the rest of the State.” Our observation has been that cities are rarely, if ever, phil- anthropic institutions and that sel- fishness is essentially their leading motive even when they are seeking to develop the interests and re- sources of their trade territory. We don’t think of one instance where a clty ever rose to a higher level. Florida needs a State fair, and as Jacksonville is the only community in the State that shows any disposi- | tion to give it to us, by all means fet her do so if che is able to. And it would be all the better if outside counties should hefp to finance the scheme, for it would be a tax which &hey voluntarily laid upon them. selves and it would give them a| scnse of part ownership in the fair {tself that would help to make it truly state-wide in spirit and inter- est as well as name. thing ig to get the fair; other con- slderations are of subordinate im- {big nurseries a few year sago, my own driving horses into Oca- | G via li ; every available| seorgia line and in Baker coun- man and picked and ‘packed that “One of the hardest jobs K every "efid)' man $5.00. My life long, editor does—though generally *he |friend and partner in phosphate pleasantest—is to read his ex-|lands, was standing by and heard changes. Eut it is hard work, and | Sanuel’s offer to me, calling me it must be done. For the editor! Off he said, “Duke, you take it, who gets a day or two “back” in his|I sold my big citrus grove yes- exchanges never catches up. And terday to Mr. Rockerfeller fori the thing that makes him muddest,1$278y000 in one check.” | though he will look up and greet! It was Saturday, I wanted to the stranger with a smile who does See Rosebank and our horses it, is for a man to come in saving: and hounds and game chickens.! ‘Well, I saw you were sitting there 1 said, “Samuels, you and Jim doing nothing but reading, so 1 Harris come home with us for day with you.' ling our return after seven “Remember this, you who'would‘m;un'ths absence the house-keep- bave busidess with the editor: It's er and attendants about Rose- all right to come in when he’s read. |bank had things all warm and ing or writing or editing copy, but ready for us. That was a glad don’t get it into your head that home coming. My dogs knew when he is reading his exchanges me, as did our horses and my you have come in the idle hour, How | good wife with restored health— can an editor get any ideas if he E'wa;s.,,;,iptous with joy to be “at doesn’t read other's ideas? Do you home once more”. Samuels and think he sits down and thinks 'em:l got full. . Inside the house out of his head? Well, he doesn’t. !with its broad open fire places, He reads a score of papers every ;all was warm, and heart gladen- morning, and from one or two he ing—outside the blizzard was gets a suggestion or two. SOme-:raging‘ We sat up * over egga- times he finds an item that makes nog, etc., until 12 o'clock, mid-" him mad; then he writes well. |night. Jim Harris kept going to Sometimes a vagrant item, a vnr‘the verandale, reading the the- local, a telegraphic head, an adver-!mometer, at 11:30 p. m. he said tisement starts rich train of suggec-g“r)hke‘ listen to me; take Sam- tion. But the sure way to wreck yel’s offer.” the train and make your paper | To feel his pulse, I said, “Sam- stupid and inane is to come bustling my, old man, how much for the in when he ig reading the exchanges frui‘t on my 16 acres at Ocala?”’ ——he"ls doing the best work of his [e said $3_'500, 1 said, write me day. |your check. He did and we| {took a “night cap” and turned| WHY THE BIG, BRAINY, in. Next {;nurninl;; when we PRACTICAL PEOPLE, IN jawakened at 9 o'clock, I called| THE CITRUS NURSERY |my body servant, George, for BUSINESS, ARE IN |“Manhattans, all-round”., He POLK COUNTY. ibrought them to our beds, and l\\'ith them a tray of oranges as {hard as bricks, and said to me, “Old Master, deys solid ice”. 1 ’ . 'went into Samuel’s room and g about citrus fruits, handed him back his check, but their native heaths—the pe declined it. I sent him with By Albertus Vogt. Editor Telegram: Talking und I were up about the south-east |5 He hired ty, Fla,, and when I first knew 16 acres of fruit in 4 days. The on south Lake Weir, and in a and netted $200. I lost the en-! portance. niw(lest way grew nursery stock tire bylance of my crop. The thereon. It is said sane folks trees shed the leaves and fruit. The speclal edition of the Tampa |profit by their own experiences, T wired my friend Peter B. Brad- Times yesterday, embracing 104 pages of excellent matter, was a big achievement, something for the Times people to be proud of. And those who read it, especially in dis.! tant States where they have but | vague ideag of Florida and her de- velopment, will open their eyes with amazement and conclude very Justly that the State which pro. duces and supports such a big, splendid modern newspaper must be made up of live people of progres- sive methods and standards. The ‘Times is always a fine paper, one of | the best afternoon journals in the | South, and this huge special edition, which it calls “An Argument for fFlorida,” will prove a convincing | one wherever it is read. Must be some mistake about that item going the rounws of the press that one Josiah Millard, aged 8y, @& personal friend of Lincoln and the foreman of the jury that convicted | Jefferson Davis of treason, had mar-. ried a few days ago. It may be that the old gentleman is of the years he claims, that he was a friend of Lin. coln and that he has recently mar- ried, but he was not foreman of the Jury that convicted Jefferson Davis of treason for Davis never was tried on that charge, much less convicted. ~—Miami Herald. We had intended to call attention to this outrageous perversion of his- tory—in plain English, downright dying—but it escaped our mind and we are glad that the Herald had nailed the falsehood so promptly. And there are numberless other fic- tions related to the civil war fully accepted by millions of people as au. thentic truth. History “as she are and the failures of their neigh- ley, “Rush to me 48 tons of best l_)ors. Of course you know that fryit and vine”. Tt came quick. flow, and for years, everyone of T worked out and applied it, in the l).lg citrus fruit nurseries, are', month my grove was a mass of practically in the center of Polk|hite blossoms and delicate county. Go to Winter llaven, green leaves. February 8, came Eagle Lake, Luccrnu. Dundee, and with it DISASTER. Every | and Lake Annie and to € citrus tree north of Dade City Wailes, and Altievies, and see!\as killed. I quit and 1 knew tl_lc .]_cn _Samt’ ‘;\lnr_v's from the t,o that citrus fruit growing on Georgia line. The Gilletts from!; qane, safe business foundation, Marion county, the Griffing yorth of Township line 16, was Bros., from Baker county, and |ost out. Those rich hammocks the lesser lights from fl“' up with their porous substratas of 's!atc, they all know when it 18| carbonate of lime, was all right sane and safe, at all times to|, grow wild oran'fze trees, under grow such vigorously tender forest protection, but domes- stock as budded citrus varieties, | ticated, and denuded of the nat- | and you'll find them on the high|yral timber growths, they were' ridge lands, in the center of a4 any time liable to be the bliz- Polk county. And while you are},ards spots, and the big nurser-| t!‘crc, on your tours of inspec-|jes and groves makers got equal- | tion, observe, carefully the sails, |y wise and after a careful inves-| and the adjacent—natural timber (igationl of every condition and, |growth—up to the fences on ev- prospect, they located in the cen-| ter of Polk county, and on these “Jack” and small Live Oak grapevine and sumac and per- simmon and hooppole hickory lands. Lots of people “planting hens;” the best | ery side of these prosperous and iprospering nurseries, and walk ,in and see and heft and eat of the ifruits in any of the nearby groves, and I tell you here and now, up at the north end of Lake Parker—in plain sight of the city f Lakeland—on the Deeson Is- jland, and on the east side of the jnarrows, are hundreds of acres of the very best citrus nursery lands on this carth. And south ;(‘:‘l\( of Pauway, and on Millseat ibranch, on the old wagon road {from Lakeland to Bartow, there jare other thousands of acres—all inow wild lands that is the. very cream of nursery and citrus fruit lands. When T came out of Wheeler's talk about place | Lo ama canal is a monument to We have Everything That is Kept in a First- Every housewife could raise a flock annually and I know farm- ers in Polk county, one of whom, raises to sell, and eat, 400 turk- ies a year, but you go see Fort- ners and Manlys and John Ben- nett’s turkeys, and yet one phosphate company with whom | I've worked, ship in through Lakeland, 200 to 500 turkeys at Christmas time, to give to de- serving employees, and they buy them in Vermont and Tennessee, cold storage folks of Polk coun-l ty ship in from outside the state 5,000 turkeys for holiday feasts,. annually, ‘What’s the use? I know a small boy, “Dulch” Bry-' ant, a hopelessly incurable crip- ple, living on a homestead four, miles from civilization, who rears in his own yard and ships to Lakeland to such connoiseurs ; as the Telegram's family $60, worth and Buchanan’s Restaur-; ant $180 worth of fat yaller-leg- | ged broilers in a single season,! besides growing a truck ‘garden’ and cooking and washing for 3 and catching fish, and killing squirrels, and feeding the horse and pigs, and trapping precad- ious “Bob cats,” and coons, pos- sums and skunks and often shooting in his garden a big wild gobbler for the family larder.. Get busy, you knockers and; weepers, If you are afraid of} citrus fruits, plant a garden, and | sweet potatoes, raise some turk- | eys and chickens and pigs. You' can on any high land in Florida, grow 30 to 60 bushels of Kaffer corn the acre, its ideal poultry and pig feed, and those animals fetch money and “if you haven’t got any money you needn’t come around,” unless, you get ready to use brains and muscle. THE BEST THAT IS IN US No man ever has fallen so low but that there is a spark of goodness in him, if only it can be reached—the The main E‘M‘yn;“ Gillet and John Wel- freeze held on. He iced the cars discovery of that spark often leads ber they occupied a homestead heavily, and rushed it to market, to the building of a MAN. Many a fond father has p{ctured his son a minister of the Gospel and has awakened to see him a merchant prince, while many a wizard of fi. nance, expecting his son to follow in his own footsteps has seen him sailing to the foreign field. It is not the “survival of the fittest” that brings about these con . ditions but “The Best That Is in Us"” cropping out for personal bene- fit and the good of mankind. it is a sense of fitness—a case o the round peg in the round' hole and not the ruination of the same by driving therein a square peg. {The heads of big corporations, the managers of enterprises and large undertakings must understand men. They must be able not only to pick out men adapted to specific jobs but they must be able to pick out men who will work in harmony. More than this, they must be able to com- mand the respect and loyalty of their organizations so that *“The Best That Is in Us” will produce the maximum efficiency. Such a man is Col. G. W. Goeth. als, an executive of the highest type. His greatest achievements are probably yet to be written, but if he were to die tomorrow the Pan . his memory which any en might envy. The History, Development and Completion of the Panama Canal in | class missloary " ‘itg detall writ” is a good deal of a solemnE"-"""l'." to Marion county—then joke. Think of the immeasurable ‘€ven in every hammock—about fleld for lying that seretches before Orange lake, and Paine’s Prairie the historian who shall rush with and the Silver Springs and the prejudiced soul into the work of re- | Panasoffkee, and ce Wier, cording the facts of the present Eu-,and the Withlacoochee river— ropean conflict! {millions of big wild sour orange jand “bitter-sweet” trees. In the HARD WORK THAT LOOKS EASY |big Ocala hammock my own {family cut down and grubbed out Amateurs at the newspaper game acres of them in the clearing of fmagine that Mr. Editor is having | hammock lands to grow corn and & mighty easy time when he is sit. ting in apparently elegant leisure yeading his exchanges, whereas he is probably doing the hardest work in the shop and, driven for copy, strains every faculty of his mind and brings up all the experience bf his newspaper life in measuring comparative pews vaipes to selegt m‘&“'&h a° matter o right article to clip or the right fdea to enlarge upon. . He Is not chopping wood, nor plank, mor seiting ‘vre. sugar cone. Later with Adam Eichelberger and Jim Harris as pioneers, hundreds of acres of these wild native orange trees were cut off and budded to sweet oranges and grapefruit. I know for T had at Ocala the banner orave of the ctate. that T naid as, A. Marris $21,500 fogdnone !R)M,"J A W34 Bt 2 Rosebank. hame nlace and at the Bridees and Bertine places—all on +he Withlacnoche river. an aggrecate of 174 acres of bear- work seems merely KHling jng orance groves, that I had time to those who know nothing of made with the sweat of other Jewelry Store g Se us before purchasing elsewhere We make a Specialty of All Repair Woik All Work Guarantee.. Conner & O’Steen ¢ Jewelers: NEXT DOOR TO POSTOFFICE 1 I3 '-I Your Chance "Of a Lifetime " Wanted at Once Several Hundred New Customers To get these we are willing to make the greatest conceSslon ever mide in Lakeland. This offer commences MONDAY, Jaouary 18th, and positively closes on Monday, February 1st. OCUR OFFER Bring us this Ad. with the following blank spaces filled with the names of five of your lady friends who are house- keepers and buy Furniture and we will give you an extra 10 per cent. discount for cash or on tim: all our g.ods are marked in plain figures. on anything you purchase from us, either This is an absolutely bona fide offer, as We will be glad to welcome ycu i: our New Store, so that you may see what a grest offer this is. If you are not ready for your goods yet you may take advantage of this great offer by placing a small « eposit ¢n them and our Auto Truck will deliver E AND ADDRESS whenever you wish. NAME AND' ADDRESS Everything to furnish your home OnePrice Cashor Credit All our goods Markedinplain figures - Phone | i of money, health and brains soon will be distributed in our community gratis by one of our banking institutions. We all will want to read it. 3633 Are you going to set citrus fruit trees this season? If so write the Rockdale Nursery Co., Titusville, Florida, for prices at once. It will pay you to do this before placing your orderg elsewhere. ‘We have more than 125,000 trees available for the market in varieties as follows: . Pineapple Orange, Indian River Sweets, Valencia and Hart's Late, 3 to 7 feet only; few Parson Brown, Jaffa, King and Homosassa. Duncan and Excelsior Grapefruit, 3 to 7 feet. 3 Sicily and Everbearing Lemon, Ta - hiti and Mexican limes 3 to 7 feet. Our nursery inspected Nov. 21, 1914, and found to be absolutely free from White Fly, other pest and dis - sease. We guarantee our trees to be well grown and true to name. A ten acre grove (properly planted in Rockdale nur:sery trees and intelli. gently cared for) should in full bearing make an ordinary family ab - solutely independent. 3686 KIMBROUGH SUPPLY CO, Has the largest snd most complete Undertaking De- partment in the County, and are the most rea-onable in prices. Licensed Embalmer in attendance at all times DAY PHONE 386 NIGHT PHOME 224 Calls answered at all hours Ovsers e at; p. L3 Try our Home-made Peanut Brittle and 3 Chod §12i™F udge H. O. DENNY Elliston Building. PRONE 226. Frompt Del. McKay Furniture Co. The Happy Home Furnishers 3 @ Bestfiv;alucs for the Least Money. Cash Easy Terms of Lakeland, Fla. 414 218 South Kentucky Ave. If You are Gaing .. or Fence, See Us PRICES FOR CASH. '’ 20D Wire Nails Per Keg .... 12D Wire Nails Per Keg .. 8D Wire Nails Per Keg 3D Wire Nails Per Keg ..... ...... 24 in. 6 in. Stay Hog Fence, per rod ......... 30 in. 6 in. Stay Hog Fence, per rod . 36 in. 6 in. Stay Hog Fence, per rod 42 in. 6 in. Stay Hog Fence, per rod ... 48 in. 6 in. Stay Hog Fence, per rod . No. 2 Shingles, per thousand WE HANDLE EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE AND % BUILDING MATERIAL | ¢ Lakeland Furniture & H *dware Co ELECTRIC MOVED TO THE KIBLERHOTELBLOCK FULL LINE AUTOMOBILE SUPPLIES ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES . 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