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

I";—fvenlnu Telegram Published every afternoon from The Telegram Puilding, Lakeland, Fla. Entered in the postoffice at Lake- land, Flofida, as mail matter of the second class. —————— e e M. F. HETHERINGTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year ..$5.00 8ix months ..... 2.50 Three months .. sws .38 Delivered anywhere within the limits of the City of Lakeland for 10 cents a week. —————————————————— THE LAKELAND NEWS, A weekly newspaper giving a resume of local matters, crop conditions, county affairs, etc. Sent anywhere for $1.50 per year. o —————————————————— “Champagne goes ashore” reads a headline. Naturally—it is supposed to be “extra dry.” e N Leach is doing fine with his Lees- burg Commercial. Name sounds like he'll stick, too. —0 The right type of newspaper man will not give expression to some- thing that hurts another’s feelings, just for the sake of turning a . “smart” paragraph. I S, Editor Leach, of the Leesburg Commercial, does not think that a State half the size of Florida would be large enough for him, and he sets the seal of his emphatic disapproval upon State division. O Senator Johnson, of Suwannee, seems to be one of these fellows who think that minorities are always right. He held out manfully against the Davis bill, and also op- posed the compulsory education bill. Both were passed, however. —0 Anyway, this senatorial investiga- tion of the suspended sheriffs has re- sulted in some people knowing how to spell “exonerate” who didn’t know before, 'It's mighty hard to! get most people to drop an “h” when spelling that word. ™ “w~e ‘ o= e In considering the suspension by the governor of Sheriffs Baker and Spencer for permitting gambling to go unpunished in their counties, the senate sang that good old song, “Whiter Than the Snow.” But the people do not join in the chorus. —0 o doesn’t know has done any- The average man that the Legisature thing other than to pass the Davis bill. We'll have to wait until the smoke clears away to see what has been accomplished. —0 Frank Clark’s announcement that he will confine his political activi- ties to holding on to his present jo» as congressman from the Second dis- trict allays some keen pangs of ap- prehension in the breasts of some would-be governors and United States senators. None of 'em want to tackle Francis in a political campaign, if it can be avoided. M e The Confederate Reunion will take place at Richmond next week. A large percentage of the veterans will attend, but there are many who, for lack of means, will be de- prived of this pleasure. These gath- erings form the chief interest in life of these old men, and they ought to be sent to the few reunions that will yet be held at the public ex- pense. It is little enough to do for those who risked their lives and lost their property in defence of principle and for the sake of that which they believed to be right. o—— Judge Perkins, of DeLand, had been stung by the gubernatorial bee. Like all good husbands, however, he asked his wife before entering the political arena. That lady, having, like all wives, a great d2a: more sense than her husband, said: “No, Jim; let’s stay at home.” And Jim decided to stay at home and let the glittering evbernatrrial gewgaw g0 glimmering. What a pity more em- bryonic candidates do not have wives of the “No, Jim." type. Tt would save lots of disappointments and heart-burnings, and lots of trouble caused by men being elected to positions for which they were never intended. e That wise old chap who runs the Winter Haven Chief knows that all that glitters is not gold. Listen to him: “The new newspaper at Fort Meade has been absorbed by the Leader. This means that some one has lost some gzood old daddy dollars trying to trot two horses on a track wide enough for only one. The boys who have throwed up the sponge, were probably led into the new enterprise by some one who didn’t like the Leader and who promised them sub- stantial support that turned out to be hot air. They put out a well- printed and well edited paper, but it was probably a losing game from the start, simply because the field was top small. When you don't have to face the pay roll its easy to figure out how a newspaper trots in the John D. class but when you have to sign the checks its a blame sight different. Anyone can tell yor how you can spend money to make the paper better but mighty few venture advice as to how you can collect the dough that’s coming your way.” lday, by kindly words The Stranger & | From Sarasota Sun Here is a sketch we clipped from one of our exchanges some time ago which we consider a masterpiece— contributed to one of the St. Peters- burg newspapers, we believe, after the discovery of a suicide. It has so much human heart, divine in- ¢piration, and beauty of diction we cannot discard it although week after week we have failed to find room for it. We have read it many time. Try it once dear reader. At dawn they found him, with eager welcome, still clutching in his stiffened fingers the messenzer of death. The dew of the night was upon him as if in kindness, to bathe a fevered tortured brow. From the pulseless temple, now stained a crimson red, a tender hand, some time, brushed the baby curls and love had smoothed it with a moth- ter’s skill, and as it lay there under open sky and waving palms a aint smile lingered upon his cold dead lips. If that old mother lives, it would be sweet to think—and who can tell?—that in the final moment and despair, there came a memory of that wrinkled mother and her love that fixed a smile in death. Who is he? Of those who have looked upon his cold dead face, no one knows; but he was a man of like loves and hates, of like frailities and virtues, of like joys and sorrows, ast others of his kind; and who can tell } or comprehend the agony of that night that rang down the curtain of the final tragedy of life? “Twas not the torment of hunger‘ for bread, nor the lack of a bed whereon to lay his weary frame; his purse was filled with plenty. What tempest swept no ton2ue can tell. Perhaps he had not learned the secret of the soul to vault above the torturous twistings of human frame bent under pain and earthly grief; perhaps it may have been the cank- ering memory o blighted love. Per- haps neglect of men, like you and me, to show the milk of human kind ness—a word, a nod, a friendly| nowdydo—not Muek, but Just ®M- ough to cause a burden such as his, today by day, grow heavier till he who would be kind was shunned | and earth became for him, a barren place. Perhaps neglect of men like you and me, who fill our pews and sing God's praises on holy days ‘and fail at other times to point men’s souls by deeds of kindly love to Him who heals a soul and lifts its thoughts above an ill shapen, aching frame, had made him doubt there was a God. And yet, perhaps—we cannot tell—he may have wrestled thére in prayer; blind, agonizing prayer, 'twix hope and fear, till reason broke and left the hand unguided by a mind. Perhaps—we cannot tell—the Eye that looks down deep in every soul and knows the hidden ways of life and death—perhaps that He in mercy and in love has sooth- 'i Life Goes (n i SEEHEISPSPPIOPSPPSEPPS P e |it is us who are dragzed out of our FEEEEREFEEPEEOTEETIREIIIG - We are surprised to find that the | world does not stop for us or with | us. We lay firm hands upon the spokes of the star-hitched wagon of progress, and pull back with all our weight, and are discomfited to find footing. Conscious of our own minds and nerves, it seems as though the eyes of the world were upon our self conscious doings; could we but | know it and feel it, we are the smallest thing that ever breathed, | and we count for less than a midge borne along with sticks and bubbles on a stream. All of any largeness or power we may have comes from a divine concession. Of ourselves we are mere minute quantities. Whether we stand or fall, life goes on—the crowd fills the streets and transacts its various business and seeks its! homes, and in each person is an er- rant, striving, irreducible spirit like our own. Some, for all the time they ar: on earth remained spoiled children. They cannot get rid of the notion that all creation is standing to them for its portrait to be painted. The truth is what they see in the way they see it. That is the danger of introspectation—that a pillared | mind in solitude bégins to think of itself as the center of the whole vie- ible creation, the fulerum of the leverage of important history. How can You educate a man who has all his fixed standards in his own tini- ness? Because he uses a microscope there are no telescopes. Because he speaks the tongue of a sweltering forest tribe of Amazonia there is no other speech. Because he never has climbed to the white crown of the snow mountains everything beyond is darkness and devil-people. The brutal fact must deal Wwith such conceit as the crushing, ulti- mate rebuke. There is no mere talk that will convince. Poor Chanti- cleer was quite convinced the sun depended on his own up-getting and clarion annunciation till the day came when he sang not and the sun climbed anyway. It broke his heart, but the sun could ot stop scalling the pathway to mid-heaven for his bewildered mind. As the world oldens, it favors less and less the plan of letting one man have things too much his own way. Another Alexander or ‘Napoleon is impossible, It is found that even “great kings return to clay, or em- perors in their pride.” Yet the chil- dren play in the streets and the sun shines and the ‘‘gay leaves revel to their fall as though nothing had happened. How impossible it seems, as we sit in grief at times, to think of anything that is not like the dismal purlieus of this present misery! A little while ago all was joined as a Maypole dance. Now, by a quarter of a tern of fortune’s wheel all the fun is vanished, not to come again. Detach ourselves from our surround- ings, we are advised. Hold the ed this weary soul and given rest. 'We must not judge; we do not know. We only know a human heart has hushed its beat; and, it *tis right to pray for this poor lone- ly, unknown weary man when he is dead, Father, hear our prayer; and, if a mother, wife, or child is left to mourn his end, where'er they be, show kindness and compassion. To us who live give courage, strength and purpose that form to- and loving deeds, it may be ours to lift the sor- did, hungry soul from out its shad- ows, paint and grief, to lizht and love and peace. beauty and brains have filmd delglll in— Ti the fundamentall trouble off at arm's length, as though it were a kitten or a puppy, and look it severely in the face and behold how trivial is its deflance. That is an easy preachment, hard to carry out. None of us is indispensable. Yet there is work to do, and what we shirk must be super-added to a bur- den that perhaps already over taxes another’s strength. The size of the sea of life all around us does not realize us from ‘the need of swim- ming; drowning is readily accom- plished in an ocean or a pond; and because there is an “intolerable vastness” round about us and the 1886 imes change end styles change, but ly things of this world change neither in emselves nor in popular esteem. For 29 rs Coca-Cola Mfi:m;gy,arh is fundamentally delicious, holesome. wl hes held end at's because 't refreshing and Demand the genuine by full name— o nicknames encourage substitution. THE COCA-COLA CO. ‘Adanta, Ga. (tor’s sermon at 11 a. HPEPPEIPLEITOESEEIEIPETIPE At The Churches Tomorrow EPFIEIPISIPEOPIIPEEBIIIEE CFTIIIEIPSSIOIPBLTTEELT Iirst Methodist — J. E. Wray, pastor. Sunday school 9:30 a. m. “The Wit, Wisdom and Pathos of Sam Jones,” the subject of the pas- m. Junior Epworth League at 4 p. m. Senior Epworth Leazue at 6:30. “How God Calls Men,” subject of pastor’s sermon at 7:30 p. m. Special musie, big electric fans. You are most cordially invited. Dixieland Methodist— W. H. Steinmeyer, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m. Preaching,11 a. m. Epworth League, 6:30 p. m. Prayer service every Wednesday night, 7:30 o'clock. Myrtle St. Methodist— W. H. Steinmeyer, pastor. Sabbath school, 10 a. m. Preaching, 7:30 p. m. Prayer services Tuesday nights at 7:30 o’clock. First Presbyterian— Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching at 11-a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday even- ing at 7:30. Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m. Grace Evangelical Lutheran— Tennessee Ave. and Orange St. Rev. W. E. Pugh, pastor. Trinity Sunday. Epistle, Romans 11:33-36; pel, St. John 3:1-15. Morning and evening worship at 11 and 7:30 o'clock. Bible school at 10 a. m. The publi¢*is cordially invited to all services. 3 Gos- Christian Church— Bible school 10 a. m. Preachinz and communion at 11 a. m. Subject, morning discourse, “The Perfect Character.” C. E. prayver meeting 6:30 p. m. Preaching 7:30 p. m. Subject, “The Second Recorded Gospel Ser- mon, and the Conversions That Fol- ilowedfl' Song practice Wednesday evening {at 7 o’clock. . Prayer meeting Wednesday even- |ing at 7:30 o'clock. A cordial invitation is extended to all to worship with us. H. L. VEACH, Pastor. Cumberland Presbyterian— Rev. F. H. Callahan, pastor. . Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Preaching by pastor 11 a. m. Subject, “Faith and Its Power.” Preaching by pastor, 7:30 p. m. Subject, “The Slave and His Burden and Jesus and His Freedom.” Prayer meeting Wednesday even- ing at 7:30 o'clock. All Saints Episcopal— Trinity Sunday. Holy Eucharist, 7:30 a. m. Toly Eucharist, 11 a. m. Sundayschool, 10 a. m. Eveningprayer, 7:30 p. m. Visitors cordially welcome. During the summer months church services will not be more than an hour in duration. Rev. R. Bolton, rector, phone 304 . Blue. ’Cutholic— Sunday school at 9 a. m. I “ass at 10 a. m. ————————————— ——————————————————— earth is crowded with many persons and their various concerns we can- not escape a manly part in it. ‘Even though human activity does not end when we do, we count and are worth while as long as we live, and long- er.—Philadelphia Ledger. ALBERT YOGT HAS MORE T0 SAY ON WAR STUATION (By Albertus Vogt.) Editor Telegram: And now since Italy is in, what if Greece, Bulgaria and Rcmania may come into the Eu- ropean war? 1f we may not be temporarily, or ever again, able to land our exports, as heretofore, in foreign or our own to-be-constructed merchant ships to sell to any or all foreign countries, for their rapidly depreciating and being depleted monies, are we Amer- icans and our America not sufficient each unto the other? If we have al- ready successfully built and perfect- ed toy factories to fill the almost unnecessary wants of our beloved children and have thus made toys cheaper and less breakable, what is to hinder or to stop us from making each and every essential article of individual, domestic and public con- sumption and training many addi- tional units of our country's youth into safe, lucrative lines of endeavor and almost at once making a home market for every and all products of known human effort, and creating new lines of prosspective profit for intelligently directed genius in in- ventions, in purposes of peace and comfort-making industries? Do you know 1 suspect if the for- eign countries of Europe may not be brought to their senses by the rationalism, ol the advices, and the humanitarianism and mercies of the Sisters of Charity and of the Red Cross and their all mothering minis- trations, if they could be convinced now once, and for all, that they would definitely lost the vast profits of all of their commerce and ex- changes with our western world un- less they quit their fighting and tooling. 1 believe an European truce would be inevitably declared within a month and 1 believe that a sixty-days’ armistice would be am- ple to determine a full and final set- tlement of all differences and griev ances if they, any of them, be of merit or imagined, and if the hu- mane rights of the proetariat be fairly considered and reasonably ad- justed that now almost infallible and inevitable commune would be averted and a lasting peace accom- plished. For you and I know if that war might be settled in this hour or in a single year by the arbitraments of arms, unattended by a most awful but righteous commune, the un- avoidable result must be the repudi- ation of almost every foreign na- tional debt. The British have repeatedly re- funded their national debt since the Napoleonic wars. They shame- facedly prostituted to the Jews Eng- land’s highest office by making Dids- raeli premier to curry money favor withthe Rothchilds, because of lack of available pydget funds, and then came the fearsome and costly in life and cash Boer war and the even-in- creasing cost of building and equip ing and maintaining of their falla cious navy that is mow, or justly ought to be, the joke of the nations. For children in the sixth grade know from actual every day marine occur- ances “Brittania rules the waves” boastings are sounding brass. Else the king’s summer yacht races might be now laid through the Darde- nelles and one sinzle squadron of the British navy would be able to go into the Baltic and chase the kaiser’s “antiquated” (from previ-| ously expressed British view points) ‘ navy clear up to the North Pole. Once upon a time lots of folks feared lions and dubbed them the | “king of beasts,” and this opinion obtained until two years ago when | some western cow boys and cotton planters from the Mississippi cane- brakes, took a pack of Kentucky- bred “Varmint” hounds over to! Mombassa and into British East Africa and began to dog drive the jungles for the skulking Kking of beasts just like lots of us hunters right here in Florida drive our scrubs and bay-heads for bear and bob cats, and the lordly lion, hearing the approaching cry of the Kentucky hound dog on his royal spoor, got up and hot-footedly“high-balled” and as he disconsolately filed out of the copse those U. S. cowboys pumped buckshot out of American shot guns into his madly fleeing royal ribs and he laid suddenly down as tamed and as dead as a defunct rabbit and thus by practical Amer. jcan methods the romance of the fearless and unfrightenable British and African lion was dissipated, and, alas and alack, for many monarchi- !cal fables now in a class of litera- Ktude more lonely than Aesops and of other possible, but most palpably improbable fictions when tested by ' American methods they relegate themselves into dead past lamenta- ble mythology . | And we can and we will most as- suredly find out own matchless coun- /try sufficient unto the wants, the luxuries, dining, soul-cheering essentials of |all sanely patriotic Americans, for wecan live far more independantly of the products and inventions of all of the balance of the nations than can they of us. And it is no jingoism to say we can have every comfort of dependable peace and resultant hap- piness, for by nature we are a nation amply sufficient unto ourselves, fear- less of any foreign invasion, but still gladly willing and amply able with only twenty of our hundred million popuation farming to feed the world and to grow,, sarner and send the food and clothes and comforts to the balance of civilized man and barba- rians and we will cheerfully d it in the lines of peace. And as a nation we've got too {much self-respect, patriotism and de- votion to the lives of our youth and the happiness of their parents, of their sisters, their wives and their i the scenic, the heart-glad |' sweethearts to subject our young men to the sausage meat making ma- chine guns of any over-sea country, for sufficient wunto Americans is America. And not for many moons will any world power now in the gripping arms of Mars hunger suffi- ciently with suicidal mania to in- vade the U. S. A. and the people controlling the destinies of this im- mortal and one hundred and forty years young republic. Deep down in our hearts we know it just as does the balance of the world, and all of our policies and purposes are predi- cated on peace and prosperous pres- ervation. RACING PURSES REDUCED London, May 28.—The stake for the Manchester cup race which will be run today, has beem cut from $15,000 to $10,000 because of the war. Other stakes have been corre- spondingly reduced. Many Diseases of Humanity. 3 STANDING MAISTI " CONTESTANTS The following is the standing of contestants in the Majestic contest as announced at the theater last night: Mrs, B, K. Young Mrs. Chas. Connor ... Mrs. Kate Booth Miss Georgia Lanier.... Miss Vera Buchanan Mrs. W. B. Moon .. Miss Laura Southard Miss Clara Tomlinson . 12,626,900 Miss Carolyn Bruissie .. 3,173,300 e ————— ANNOUNCEMENT 42,144,600 .41,140,350 39,587,800 37,008,750 19,725,650 19,366,900 1 hereby announce myself as 2 candidate for commissioner in the Fourth ward, to fill the unexpired term of Mr. H. D. Mendenhall, re- signed, election to be held June 8l 1915. 1f elected, 1 will serve to the best of my knowledge and ability the in- terests of the entire city. Respectfully, 4191 GEO. W. MERSHON. CONSULTING AN EXPERT Mr. Manhattan, who belongs to several clubs, walked into the po- lice station. “1 hear,” said he to the sergeant at the desk, “that you have caught the burglar who broke into my home a few nights ago.” “Yes,” said the sergeant, ‘‘do you want to see him?” “Well, I'd like to ask him how he got in without waking my wife; I've been trying to do that for the last twenty years.”’—Houston Post. WANTED—Ticket to other northern points. “Ticket,” care Telegram. Chicago or Address 5000 '—Post Office Cafe Now Open ] Everything New, Fresh, Clean, Up-to Date In Large and 23,000 ACRES—In Polk County at $6.00 worth more than half the p’x,'icc. s 40 AhCP.E FARM—35 in bearing Orange Grove, 8-room Iogse, packing house and barn, large lake front. ., lrrigation plant, good heavy soil and good road miles from Lakeland. Price $30,000.00. . FOR NON-RESIDENTS—Good Fruit Lands, well located In ten, twenty and forty acre tracts; Co-operative Devel- opment Plan. BA N— insi ity limi RGAI -4 acres, inside city limits, with 6-room house, 2 acres in bearing trees and two garden. 20 ACRE FARM—Close in all cleared and fenced; about 100 bearing orange trees. payment required. 9-ROOM HOUSE and three vacant Lots. Close to Lake Morton $4,200.00. $1,200 TWO GOOD SUBDIVISION Propositions. Both close in and desirably located. 34 ACRES OF RICH HIGH ter Hill. Close to school acres clear. Price plaec. Price $5000.00 24 ACRE FARM- One o Combination fruit house and b 3 iy arn Cheap if .HAMMOCK land near Cen- AGR $550.00 2 All ];:enlzfill_ul_‘N“' Griffin, Fla,, close to hard road. beasin e ,I;h?bo}lt half cleared and some citrus trees in 8. is is a fine combination farm; both fruit and truck land par excellen ! ce. H % and equipment and half ini o el LITTLE STYLE SHOP —_— LAKELANOD'S BEST CLOTHES SHop DAILY NEWS Shirts To-Measure $2 to $7.50 this department you'll find an assortment of shirt- that of In ings equal to large city store. any 1i your shirt sleeves are too long, or too short, or if you are experiencing any of the trou- bles that are often embodied in a ready made shirt—Come in let us take your measure and make your shirts accord- ing to your requirements. MOORE'S Little Style Shop PHONE 243 DRANE BLDG. EXPERT PIANO TUNING—Price $3.00. Work guaranteed. No charge for examination. Phone 396 Red. 4201 FOR RENT—Hotel Orange, from July 1. Has all modern conveni- ences and running water in every room. Apply to S. Raymondo. 4202 Regular Meals 25¢ Special Sunday Dinner 35¢ W Give us a trial, and we know you will be pleased Florida Lands Small Tracts SUITABLE FOR Fruit, Truck and Unimproved and Improved Timber New Six in highly cultivated Price $3000.00, Large cash : : down and- terms. post office and store. Five terest in crops goes with the UNFINISHED HOUSE—In Dixieland. $900.00 For Further Information See J. Nielsen-Lange Lakeland, quarter mile south of city limits and truck, partly cleared; small sold soon; will give good Florida