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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27
OPPOSITION TO TAFT
ACTIVE IN ONO

Youngstown, Ohio, Dec. 27-The
campaign Of the sO-called progress
sive wing Of the Republican party
against the denomination Of Presi-
dent Taft was gotten under head
way today with the coming Of Sem
ator Robert M. Lafollette to Ohio for
speeches here and at Cleveland
Senator Clapp opened the campaign
at Salem, Ohio, last night.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27
THIRD DEGREE" COMING.

The advance agent of the Third
Degree reached Lakeland today and
lis making final arrangements for this
splendid production which comes to
the Heron theater next Wednesday
night, January 3rd.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27
GAVESTON MAN
STEALS LARGE SUM
49, Assoclated Press. }

Sterling, Ills. Dec. 27.-It was
learned today that Duncan MacKay'
one Of the wealthiest men of Gar
weston indicted last October on
charges of misappropriating funds
left by his father as part Of an es-
tate valued at 100000, is accused
of stealing about 100000. His
whereabouts are unknown.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27
JAPAN WILLING EOR
CHINESE REPUBLIC

Toxic, Japan. Dec 27.-7Japan
viii not interfere in the organiza-
ton Of the Chinese republic accord
ing to two newspapers which ale
close TO ofacial affairs
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27
anon Snow. AZ srAR TONTGHT.

There will be a good show at the
Star theater tonight. The James
Boys in three reels VIII be the bill
and large crowd will no doubt be
present to see this splendid prOduc-
tion,
In addition to the fine pictures
good music will be heard. Prices
and 10 cents. Everybody Invited to
come out and witness fine show
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27
Yours for Lakeland,
JOHN F. cox, Mayor.

Mr. Wade s. Owens, Of Richmond
va, ID il Lakeland for a visit Of sew
eral days and while here Is a guest Of
his uncle. Mr.. r. e. Lufsey.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27
AMERICAN JEWS
BARRED FROM RUSSIA
fBy Associated Press. }

st. Petersburg, Dec. 27.-A bill
totally barring American citizens Of
Jewish faith from Russia, and prov
iding for a high tariff on American
importations was today introduced
in the Douma.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27

Bernard and Harold Moss of VII
mtnrton. N. c., are expected to arrive
ton,rht TO be the guests Of their un-
cle. Mr. r.. q. Lufsey and family
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27

Miss Ruth Parrish, Of Brooklet,
Ca, is spending the holidays with
her schoolmate, Miss Lessie Tram
NELL
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27

Mrs. H. D. Mcdonald Of Roanoke,
va, with her daughter, Miss Mertie
are the guests Of Mrs. E. R. Trammell
during the holidays.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27

Cecil PfIlians, one of Lakeland 5
well known gentlemen, was trayers-
ing Tampa thoroughfares yesterday
and was registered at the Marlhor-
ough.-Tampa Tribune.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27
EAGLE GUN CLUB.

The hoys wishing to- join the Eagle
Gun Club will call at 21O West Lime
street tomorrow at. two o'clock.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27
AOIlCE-ODD FELLOWS.

4 !. MEMBERS are urged to be- pres-
.m. 1iiaay night as the election
.s,b. }akes place Visiting
Y u'fS cordially invited.
y order Of Lodge.
/. p. ELLIS. secy.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-12-27

Continued On Pase Tour1
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17
The School and Home.

Much, perhaps too much, is being
said these days about the inefficiency
OF the schools in accomplishing with
the children all they should, but too
little about the inefficiency of the
homes in this same relation. Does
the parent who criticises the school
imagine that the child can be edu-
Gated without his or her help?
An eastern educator recently af-
firmed the need for closer contact be-
tween the school and the home. If the
appeal could be made so strong as to
reach every parents ear, 1t might have
the desired effect. The trouble with
many parents is that they have the
wrong conception of the schools func.
ton. They imagine that all they have
to do is to send their children to the
school. They could not make a graver
mistake. The school does we'll If it
teaches the child how to study. 1t Is
largely for the home to see that he
does study. When a child lags in his
his teacher and finally he misses his
grade, the parent generally blames it
on the teacher, or the school, when,
as a matter of fact, the fault may
have been rather with the home and
with the parent.
Children in the lower grades may
not be expected to do much school
work at home, but for those in the
higher grades II is not only important,
but absolutely essential. In the case
of the high school pupils, they go to
school only to recite. Their recitation
hour" is forty minutes, as a rule. In
that period 1t is not supposed that
they shall study. 1t is all required for
recitation. Therefore, II they have not
studied at home before they come to
school, where do they land when they
come to recite? In boarding school
or college, the instructor counts the
study hours the most valuable time
OF the day. 1t is folly, therefore, to
go to the class room the next day with
out preparation.
1t has been we'll said that "the great
est good to the greatest number" must
be the school teachers guiding rule.
The teacher cannot devote time to the
apt pupil or TO the inapt to the exclu-
sion OF the other. The laggard must do
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17
Selling Opportunities.

Theodore p. Shonts, writing in the
magazine, Business, under the. caption
BE Alive to Your Opportunities, I"
says:
II 1 were to set down a rule of action,
the observance of which. more than any
other, aside from the Ten Commandments,
might lead to success in business, l would
say, Though shalt not be caught nap
ping" In the present trend of the times
when every moment is regulated by a pen
dulum of value there are thousands of
opportunities going to waste for want of
people to take them when they come. AS
a matter of fact the history of reverses
in business might be summed up in two
words, Lost Opportunity"
Mr.. Shonts, like most other people
now, evidently takes no stock in the
late John ]. Ingalls, poetic idea that
opportunity knocks only once at
every mans door, but rather believes
that opportunity has no limit to it's
knockings. 1t knocks every day and
a good many times every day. II may
not offer with each knock to admit
one to the embrace of some great
achievement. Opportunity does not
necessarily mean that. 1t may mean
the chance to do the smaller things,
but to do it we'll. Yet the smaller
thing must be done, as a rule, before
the larger task can be essayed. Most
men of renowned success did not leap
at once into their positions of ad-
vantage, but got there by dint of APP
plying themselves along a long way
and seizing each opportunity as it
arose.
These little detailed opportunities
that precede the larger one are not
to be neglected II the larger one is to
be achieved. 1t is the details of life
that compose its success, after all.
Heaping the measure to the full,
whether it be the measure of success
or the measure of meal, means put
ting in a little at a time. 1t is the
constancy hooked up with the alert
ness Of the effort that brings the re-
ward. Business is a good deal like
ball playing in this respect of being
caught mapping. The runner who
goes to sleep at first never scores at
the plate.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17
STATE wide Community of interest.

Statewide Community Of Interest.
Real efforts are being exerted by
business men of Chicago and out-state
cities to break down the artificial
barriers reared by the politician" be-
tween Chicago and the rest of the
state and build up substantial struc-
ture OF mutual interest for the entire
state. The level-headed people of ILL
nois, without regard to whether they
happen to reside in Chicago or Rodom,
have grown sick and tired of seeing
the business interests of the large and
small community suffer at the hands
OF self-seekers, ready to arraign one
part OF the state against another when
ever 1t will promote their personal
fortunes. The plans OF the state
wide harmony movement seem to be
sane and comprehensive, calculated to
open peoples eyes to the fact that to
foster such prejudices is simply to sac
rifice their interests to personal
avarice.
Illinois and Chicago are not alone in
this thing. Nebraska and Omaha have
felt the effects of such selfishness and
prejudice, more formerly than now, In
this state, the politician, aided by GER
tain corporations which he served, sue
ceeded in disseminating an anti-Omaha
prejudice calculated to harm, not only
Omaha, but every community in the
state. 1t acted, therefore, as a boom
erang, and not until its reflex action
began to be felt did most upstate
people awake to the evil OF the thing
and lend Omaha their aid toward de-
stroying 1t. No man can think twice
on the subject without admitting, at
least to himself, that the interests Of
Omaha and the state are so wrapped
up in each other as to have common
misfortunes as well as common for
tunes.
Our Commercial club trade excur-
sions and Ak-Sar-Ben have been in
struments for overcoming this barrier
in Nebraska. They have served as a
tie to bind the people of the metropolis
and rest OF the state together in that
mutual relation they should enjoy and
must maintain If their state is to adj
vance.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17
Dead Letters-

By a sort OF paradox one of the
liVest subjects of postotfice admins
tration is the disposition of dead let
tiers. 1t is reasonable to assume that
when Ben Franklin as our first direc-
tor general of posts supervised the
handling and delivery of the mails,
the dead letters were not numerous
enough to cause him much bother. 1t
is the immense expansion of the coun-
try, and its business, and the corre-
spending increase OF the work devolv-
ing on the postOffice that has multi
piled the number OF unbelievable let
ters and packages posted in the mails,
until last year the. aggregate footed
the colossal total of 12,545,133.
Everyone knows the dire conse-
quences that often follow the loss or
misdirection OF a letter, and it Is the
purpose of the postal authorities to
spare no effort at prompt delivery to
the person for whom the letter or pack
age Is intended. To this end, the prac-
tice has prevailed, and still prevails
Oh transmitting unbelievable first
class mail matter, after the lapse of
prescribed period, to the dead letter
office at Washington, where It is
opened, and If possible forwarded TO
destination or returned to sender.
This process has been found to be not
only expensive, but also comparatively
ineffective, With the utmost expedi-
ton the time lost may nullify the pur-
pose OF the message Despite the
skill of long experienced clerks, large
part OF the dead letter mail remains
unclaimed and unclaimable.
To obviate some of these difficulties
1t is now proposed to abandon the
dead letter office at Washington and
have the work done in division offices
In different parts of the country or by
the postmaster in each separate post
office. The ordinary fourth class post
office may average one dead letter a
week, and the postmaster can open and
dispose of them and keep the necessary
records without much additional labor.
The postmaster is bonded and con-
stantly subject to inspection, and the
danger OF misappropriation would at
least be no greater than it now is. The
dead letter mail could be held. in the
local office a stipulated time awaiting
a claimant, and then destroyed IL not
called for, unless containing articles of
value which could be forwarded to the
division or central headquarters.
The strange thing is that to accom-
plish these obvious improvements In
the postal service will require con-
gressional legislation, which 1t is not
easy to get. The subject of disposing
of dead letters, however, as here out
lined, illustrates strikingly the OBJ
stacles met by the postmaster general
in his efforts to manage the depart
ment according to modern business
methodD.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17
POLITICAL SNAPSHOTS.

Pttsburg Dispatch, President Taft has
had the bad luck of being defended by
Cannon against the assault of Cummins.
but there is yet time to rescue him from
the irretrievabe calamity of being cham
pioned by Lorimer
Sioux City Journal: Mr.. Bryan was In
New York the other day and made a call
at the Roosevelt editorial offices. Fol-
lowing the visit, which was not hurried,
Colonel Roosevelt said: Mr.. Bryan and
have had quite a talk on interesting sub
jects. That was all" But one cannot tell
from this whether the matter OF Mr..
Bryan's stolen policies was considered.
Springfield Republican; Senator La
Follettes presidential candidacy has been
well under way since headquarters were
opened in Washington, under the immediate
direction Of a Wisconsin politician, and It
Is therefore somewhat surprising to read
that the senator has decided not to an
nounce his candidacy until next winter.
The delay in making a formal announo-
ment however. may signify merely a tao
teal purpose. By awaiting the develop
ment of the presidents policies the sena-
tor would be able to act with less uncer-
tainty as to the actual conditions to be
faced in the presidential year. Many things
may happen in the next six of eight
months to alter the political situation,
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17

education is that It includes too many
branches and fads, already.
But what cares Kansas for COM
mon criticism7 Beside. that sort OF
talk applies. possibly, to boys other
than those residing in Kansas. who
has a right to say what Kansas
youth shall not dor Or why suggest
that IL he must devote time 70 do
nestle service, he had better do It in
a practical way. helping mother in the
kitchen at home? The Kansas boy
can take care OF all such little extras
they see tit to load on him. lie can
get his regular studies, take his man
ual training, do his gym work, play
at his athletics, look out for his liter
airy society pursuits and find ample
time for his domestic science and that
too, with no danger whatever of fall
ing into the mollycoddle class. What's
the matter with Kansas, anyway?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17
|EOokinSBackward
IhisDSSy inOmaha
+ COMPILED FROM BEE FILES <
Thirty Years Ago

lniEty 1ehFS ago
A steady cold rain fell during the greater
part OF the night, driving all the fair eN-
hibitors. who could get away, off the
grounds and seriously MISUNDERSTANDING the
rest. Many OF the tents and booths became
flooded with water. and the occupants were
obliged TO get out and seek drier quarter s,
The sun. however, came out about 10 O'Clock
and produced a more encouraging aspect.
IL did not get dry enough until o'clock to
admit OF the races. The program concluded
with the feature Of the day, the chariot
races Two chariots were driven, one by
man and the other by a woman land, by
the way, a very pretty woman), four
pranciug horses hitched TO each. They
started like a shot at the word and flew
around the track at breakneck speed. Tine
woman driver piled her whip dexterously
on the homestretoh and succeeded IN
forcing her horses ahead just neck. The
crowd was almost wild with excitement
Word comes from Denver that the Bur
lington & Missouri railroad has filed papers
Of Incorporation there for the extension Of
this line into Colorado, with a capital stock
of S5,ooo,Ooo. The lncorporators are @. b.
Harris, T. T. Calvert, A. E. Touzaln. T. NJ.
Marquette and James NJ. Barr. The object
OF the corporation is to construct a rail-
road from some point on the eastern boun-
dairy to Denver and II promises to COM
menoe work OF construction at once.
Hon. ]. L. Webster left on business trip
to Falls City.
Miss Clara Rosenfelt Is visiting friends
in Omaha, the guest OF Mrs. Matte Roths-
child.
Miss Dora Lehmer lie once more numbered
among her Omaha friends after a pro-
tracted visit in New Hampshire.
Miss Congdon of Chicago is in Omaha
visiting her cousin, Miss Carrie Congdon.
Mrs. Ida b. Lawrence and Mrs. Maggie
Shull left for Pennsylvania, their old home,
this being their first visit there for twenty
years,
Mrs. Frank Shears Of Grand Island ar
rived to visit her sister, Mrs. Nathan Shell
ton.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17
The Aerial Promontorr Point.

When the links OF the first great
transcontinental railway were started
In opposite directions across the coun-
try a spirit OF friendly rivalry ami
mated the builders TO see who could
lay the greatest length Of line before
the east and west ends met and when
the Union Pacific and the Central Pa
cifIc came together a golden spike was
driven in the mountain at Promontory
Point to mark their conjunction.
Now, less than half a century later,
another air line OF travel is being sur
veyed from east and west across the
entire continent. But II any one Of the
rival railroad builders in the SOS had
ventured to predict that within fifty
years men would be flying over the
route of these then marvellous bands
OF steel, he would probably have been
put where he could not harm any Of
his fellow beings.
Everybody hopes that Ward, flying
in his aeroplane west from New York
and Fowler east from San Francisco,
may succeed in completing their
strange journeys. The men did not
start out simultaneously, but nearly
so, nor yet with the specific purpose
or racing, though, undoubtedly, the
spirit of American sportsmanship is
alive enough in each to suggest RI
valry before the end is reached. But
whether either man succeeds in his
undertaking, the adventure cannot but
suggest a new and wonderful era Of
invention even though, as most people
believe, 1t still leaves us far, very far,
from practical aerial navigation. The
mere fact, il it be a fact, that men
can, by dint of great effort and perse-
verRnce, travel above the ground
from ocean to ocean, would be a mar
vel far too remote to the Imagination
of fifty years ago to have been toler-
ated. What stupendous strides for
ward this country and other countries
have made since the Union Pacific
and Central Pacific came together on
top OF that Utah mountain, May 10,
1859!
On May IL, 1859, General w. T..
Sherman in Washington, wrote to
General Granville M. Dodge:
In common with millions. l sat yester-
day and heard the mystic taps of the tele-
graph battery announce the mailing of the
last spike in the great Pacific road.
But what would General Sherman
say of the mystic flaps of the 1911
birdman's wings?
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17
Another View of Chinese Outbreaks.

Another view OF ChlneSe outbreaks
In all the periodical anti-foreigner
outbreaks in China, one seldom, II
ever, reads of an enlightened native,
one who has been converted to west
ern civilization, lending material or
moral influence to the hostilities.
Rather, these Chinese, where they
take any active hand, are found try
ing to protect the unoffending Ameri-
can or European and repress the rage
of the native mob.
In this fact justification is sought
for the presence in the orient Of the
men and women who have gone there
to show the people our way of living.
AS a rule, once the natives have
learned of this new way, they do not
want to, and will not if they can
avoid it, go back to their old methods
of life. 1t is perfectly natural that
a race born, bred and STEPPED for
centuries in worshiping idols believed
to be inspired and pursuing all the
vague customs which superstition can
contrive, should resent the intrusion
OF anyone daring to offer an improved
system OF existence, But the veil Of
oriental density has not been found
which the rays OF occidental enlighten-
ment could not penetrate. And when
they yield, as many do in time, they
have no wish to revert to old stand
ards.
1t is going to take years and decades
thus to awaken the hordes of the east,
for there are so many hundred mil
lions of them, but real progress is
being made and every step forward
lessons the difficulty of the next. 1t
is putting precisely the opposite con-
struction on the uprisings, such as Is
now going on in China, to say that
because they seem in part to be aimed
at the foreign invasion of church and
commerce and education, they indicate
a measure OF defeat for these forces.
These outbreaks usually pTecede. as
we'll as follow, great advances of civ
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17
People Talked About

O. H. He'll, a prospective New York busi-
ness man, has asked a court to change his
name lest It might attract attention as an
exclamation or a resort of summer.
The claim of Arkansas for the record
peach weighing twenty-five ounces is dis
allowed. Omaha can show crop OF
peaches, each weighing 100 pounds and up.
No superiors In design and flavor.
Fears Of a famine of officeseekers in
Pittsburgh, Pa. prove to be groundless. A
newspaper canvass shows 10000 aspirants
for half a hundred offices, insuring a rea-
sonable amount OF competition in the race.
Sam Harris Of Farmersville, Tex, who
for six years held the record Of being the
largest town marshal in the United States,
has retired from that office. He is IS years
old and weighs 40 pounds His weight was
no handicap in performing the duties OF
police officer, but he got tired OF the Job
and is now ready to take other employ
ment
Two opposing forces in Ohio are pulling
r. j. Diegle to and fro. One wants to
tighten his muzzle, the other struggles to
remove 1t. Mr.. Diegle is sergeant-at-arms
of the state senate, and is believed to know
more about the grating operations of the
senators than the photograph. A three
years sentance, suspended on appeal. has
not loosened his tongue at last accounts.
A CLEAN OF humOr filters through the
fierce battle of factions for the spells OF
office in Philadelphia. Every citizen must
go TO the designated places and be regis
tered personally. Formerly any individual
properly identified by registration officer
could put down many names as he
chose, a custom which made large drafts
on the city directory and gravestones.
The oldest woman Alpinist in Switzerland.
still on the active list, is Nine, Louise
Favre, a widow aged ST. who lives in
hamlet near Bex, Canton OF .Vatals. The
other day she climbed up the Chamosssire,
a mountain $40 feet high with one Of her
grandsons. in order 10 light bonfire on
the summit In honor Of a local festival
which was attended by q number Of
Alpinists. who chsered the veteran climber.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17

his ''making-up" out OF the class room.
And the parent should see to it that he
is not on the street when he should
be perched up az a table in a quiet
room at home. digging out his lessons.
1t is a gross mistake for any parent not
to know the standing of the child in
school. II is another gross mistake
for the parent to let the child feel that
the blame for poor progress is laid on
the teacher. That is one good way to
prevent the child from getting ahead.
The school can guide and present in
formation to the child. but 1t cannot
fully succeed without the faithful CO.
operation Of the home.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-17
OVER THE HILLS.
Eugene Field.

Eugene Field.
over the hills and far away,
A little boy steals from his morning play,
And under the poisoning apple tree
He lies and dreams of the things to be;
OF battles fought and of victories won,
OF wrongs o'erthrown and OF great deeds
done
OF the valor that he shall prove some day,
over the hills and far away
Over the hills and far away!
over the hills and far away,
It's o for the toll of the livelong dayl
But 1t mattered not to the soul aflame
With love for riches and power and famel
On, o man! while the sun Is high
on TO the yonder joys that lie
Yonder where blazeth the noon OF dayl
over the hills and far away
Over the hills and far away!
Over the hills and far away,
An old man fingers at close of day;
Now that his journey is almost done,
His battles fought and his victories won
The old time honesty and truth,
The trustfuness and the friends of youth,
Home and mother-where are they?
over the hills and far away?
over the hills and far away!