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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-05

Irwin Cobb, the best of American
writer's with first -hand knowledge
of the war in Europe, achieved the
triumph of a personal interview
with Lord Kitchener. commander
of the British army, the other day.
At the conclusion of the interview,
Cobb discovered that Kitchener HAD
pumped him dry of all he knew
about the Germans in Belgium and
France and had given up very lit
tie in exchange. The only really
important thing the famous general
said was to express the opinion
that the war would probably last
for three years. Cobb's pen picture
of the greatest of the British SOL
diers is a masterpiece, and all the
more effective because there is no
straining for high lights and rich
colors.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-05

The philosophy of finance is the
dryest OF themes. the tariff possibly
excepted, and because it Is not non
ular reading the people of this
country do not realize what a
stupendous and beneficent reyolu-
ton in our financial system was
accomplished by the late Demo-
cratic congress in the enactment of
the federal reserve banking law.
We are done with panics now, so far
as distrust Of banks can create a
panic. Thing what that means.
In speech Thursday before the
New York Chamber of Commerce.
c. s. Hamlin. Governor of the fed
eral reserve board. said:
THE federal reserve system will
relegate to it's proper place. the
museum of antiquities, the panic
generated by distrust In our bank
Ing system leading to struggle OF
self-preservation between bank and
bank and individual and individual
and ultimate boarding by the peo-
pie. Such boarding usually follows
boarding by the banks and does not
precede it. If boarding by banks
should cease. boarding by individ-
uals would never occur, and both,
] believe, will be relegated to OBJ
scurity under the federal reserve
system.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-05
1906
ORDINANCE NO. 1850

An Ordinance repeating Ordinance numbered
l79 of the City Of Lakeland. sane being an
Ordinance liking the details Of bonds and
coupons Of bond issues Of the City Of Lake.
land In the State Of Florida. and for which
said City might levy a tax sutFlcient to
meet interest to accrue thereon and to
provide a sinking fund for the payment Of
principal when due.
BE 1T ORDAINED by the Board Of Com
missiOners of the City Of Lakeland, that Or
dinance numbered l79 Of the City OF Lakeland
be and the same is hereby repealed in toto.
]. o. NJ. Eaton, hereby certify that the fore
going Ordinance, numbered 1870, 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.
o. NJ. EATON
Attest
II. l.. swATTs. Clerk. $500
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-05

Court House door in Barlow, Florida, at
public cutlery, to the highest and best 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 Barlow, Florida, the 4th day of
December, A. D., 1914.
JOHN LOGAN
Sheriff Polk County
Il. TUCKER, Sr.
Plaintiff attorney
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-05
BY THLlPA,

federal government. These AZ.
best seed that will come i'm.
state. They are shipped in
bags. WHY TAKE A Gu,
with your seed when for this
money you can get seed ohso,
safe from POWDERY sCAp
other disease.
See ]. F. Crutchfield phons
black or leave orders with Y
Grocery Co.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-05

Short Talks of the Times-Un-
ion will please bear IN mind that
there is no such paper as the Lake
land Telegraph. He is getting the
habit of making that mistake.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-05
THE ONLY MAINE GROWN SEED
POTATOES
GROWN UNDER THE PERSONAL
SUPERVISION OF OUR OWN
PLANT PATH0L0GIST

Who has specialized under the
Horticultural Board at Washington.
He has treated the seed and has
SPRAYED them regularly since ac-
cording to the instructions of the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-05

The Cobb family Of the South has
always been prolific of notabilities.
but Tyrus and Irwin rather nut It
over the statemen and warriors who
have adorned the family tnnals in
days gone, by. And great as Ty-
rus Is, it now seems that Irwin, big.
rat and clumsy as he is, Is the
sWifter steed on. the course iusr
now and is passing the other in the
race for worldwide publicity. He
mas not only achieved the unpre-
cedented feat of interviewing the
mighty Lord Kitchener, of the
British army, but he has now can
PED the glory of that performance
oy having Kitchener deny the ac-
curacy of the interview and tele-
graph the denial all over the
world. To our mind Irwin Cobb
has reached the superlative in Jour-
nallsm and sits IN unchalIenged
supremacy on high Olympus.
-O
About the silliest invention on
this side of the water thus far in.
spired by the big war is the state.
ment that of $1,000 citizens Of the
United States seeking to enlist in
the Canadian contigent to fight the
Germans, a majority are Southern
ers' who are thus trying to repay
England for her kind offices to the
south during our civil war and at
the same time to get even with
Germany because hundreds of
thousands of Germans served in the
Union army during that conflict.
That story is the limit of pure fancy
and too stupid to stick even with
the most credulous. The Southern
er who would leave his three
squares, his comfortable bed. and
his peaceful land to go over and
freeze and rot and die in the
trenches of France for any such
idiotic reason is the kind ~
Southerner we don't grow these
days.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-05
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

From the same office is issued
THE LAKELAND NEWS,
4 weekly newspaper giving a resume
VI local matters, crop conditions.
county affairs. etc. Sent anywhere
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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1914-12-05

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The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

There are colored farmers of Ac-
comack county, Virginia, who clear
from 81 600 to $4,000 a year on
their crops, whose stock is well
cared for, whose families ride out
on Sunday in comfortable carriages.
Some of the colored farmers of Ac-
comack and Northampton counties
are members of the interesting as
sociation which for nearly twenty
years past has acted as buying
and selling agency for the farmers
of the region. This association
buys annually more than 100000
worth of seed for its members, and
spends $4,000 year in telegraph
tolls to keep in touch daily with
the markets over large part of
the United States.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28
Africa theCom-
ing Contine ent
Hon. JOS Parker Camp Writes on African immigration
The American Negro Fully Equipped for
work of Regeneration.

never expect to hold any other. II
he does not lead he will be com
PEELED to follow.
He sees the white man plung-
ing into the vast storehouse of un-
told and unimagined wealth and
taking what is his without protest
and with not even a thought, and
yet claims equality in leadership.
1t is high time that the Amer.
ican Negro reassumes his
birthright, or forever holds his
peace. l know that his way will
be opened. God is only waiting
to see his face turned toward Afri-
ca before making for him a path
across the sea. In the meantime
| shall not be idle.
Yours in earnest,
(signed) Jos. Parker Camp.
To Geo. W. Summers, ESQ,
Asst, Secretary to the Board
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28
THE NEGRO AS
A SOLDIER

The question, can the Negro
make a good soldier has been so
often answered that it appears like
folly in any one to refer to it, the
proof of their valor on many hard
fought field is SO abundant that it
cannot be refuted.
The Negro as a soldier is SO
closely interviewer with the history
of the country that to speak of the
one is simply to associate the one
with the other. There are some
facts in this connection that are as
imperishable as the country it.
self and can never be forgotten,
nor does one tire in referring to
them; viz, the death of Crispus
Attucks, the part the Negro took
in the defense of the city of New
Orleans, where the death of the
British Commander in Chief was
at the hands of a Negro Rifeman;
the part they had under Perry and
others in the war of 1872, and later
still, the valor of the Negro soldier
as shown on many hard fought
and bloody fields for the main.
taineuce of the Union in the six
ties, in the last few years the cour-
age displayed. In our last war
with Spain on the heights of San
Juan, all proved his efficiency, his
courage and not only is this the
case in this country. We find that
he displays the same valor as a
soldier in the armies of Europe.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28
ADA OVERTON WALKER
/ CHARMS SOCIETY

Society which dosen't enthuse
oveT Salome dances any more
found a new sensation last week in
Ada Overton Walkers "Wildhre"
dalice at the Grand Opera House
Mrs. Jack Gardner discovered
"WfIdhre." She sent an order for
a bpx, and Tuesday night her au
toniobile stopped at the carriage
enterance of the theater. A hand
some young man assisted Mrs.
Gardner and several women friends
to aliglt. 1t was George Proctor,
the pianist. The party occupied a
lower right hand box, and their ar
rival in evening attire caused "a
sensation upon the stage.
The applause of the box party
was perfunctory unit ont dashed
Ada Overton Walker, in her new
dance, "Wildfire." The way she
leaped and writhed and twisted
and sprang was revelation of the
possibilities of the human frame
and when she paused painting and
breathless Mrs. Gardner rose to
her feet and threw boquet upon
the stage.
"Rrava." she cried, just as she
would TO grand opera artist.
Bravo" echoed George Proctor.
AT the opera Wednesday night
Mrs. Gardner told her friends all
about if, and as result half doz-
en- box parties were formed for the
following night. Manager Magee
was informed that all his boxes
would be required Thursday night,
and sure enough they were,-Bos-
ton Guardian.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28

Berlin. Feb. II, 1914 Two of
the most conspicuous if not the
most distinguished of the Ameri-
cans who atten ed Ambassador
and Mrs. Gerard S reception i'll
honor of Liucoln's birthday were
a couple of colored men. One of
them lowered head and shouldt rs
above the 5000 other guests who
thronged the handsome new en-
bassy drawing rooms. He turned
out 10 be colored man from Flor
ida, who until his recent discharge,
took care OF the furnace at the en-
bassy. He thought Lincoln day a
peculiarly suitable occasion on
which TO fore3ather with his coun-
tryman and turned up for the pur-
pose with a friend. There was
nothing in the character of the re-
ception by the Gerards TO indicate
that relations between the Am
bassador aud his former furnace
mau were ever strain, d.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28

Washington, Feb. 2O.-Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson's real reas.
on for not naming any Afro-Amer-
lean for office has at last become
known. w. w. Price, writing in
an afternoon newspaper this week
says:
The president has refrained
from nominating a single Afro
American TO office because the
deep-seated prejudice OF at least
one Southern senator has caused
warming to be given that trouble
will start in the senate as soon as
one nomination goes in. On this
or any other question that might
inject bitterness into the ranks of
his common council (congress) the
president has gone slowly. He
prefers, and is apparently certain
of keeping, harmony. 1t means
definite legislation on paramount
national subjects. While tempo
rary injustice may follow, the
masses of the people will be bene
fitted. Just how far prejudice
akin to that connected with the
Negro question wonld enter into
the immigration problem in the
senate the president will ascertain.
His position will soon pe anuounc-
ed to senators, and then conjec.
lures will be ended - Mr.. Price is
known as the white house cores
pondent," and his utterances are
supposed to correctly reflect the at
tltude of the pres dent.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28

Notably is this the case in Eng
land. where some of the best troops
of the line are her regiments of
Negro soldiers. The same can be
said of France, and more recently
of Germany. In each case it
proves that the Negro is not "a cow
ard. 1t can be further said of
these troops in all the wars they
have tsken a part has it ever been
said by their worse enemy that they
have ever shown their backs to the
foe. and when on the field of battle
either wounded or dead their
breasts were found pierced and not
their backs with the bullets. Not
wilhstandlng the honorable record
they have made, there are but few
of the States that are willing to
enroll them as part of their State
troops, as it has been with the
States it is even more so in regard
to the Federal service. Attempts
after attempts have been made to
muster cut the colored regiments
now part of this service, though
impartial military critics have de-
clared again and again in point Of
military discipline and all that
goes TO make up the soldier, The
Negro soldier stands unequalled.
For all this what has the Negro re-
ceived in return? Absolutely
nothing. Many will remember
the refrain used at the time when
tie first colored men were enlisted
as soldiers in the early days of the
Civil War, I'VE ars coming, Faith
er Abraham, a 100000 strong"
and with what cheer the nation at
large received the cheering news
from class that had little incen-
tive to enter this stuggle, that was
waged by white men against white
men and in which the Negro was
to have no part therein, In SER
vice in any capacity to the govern
ment, and siuce then the same has
been tie case.
The moral of this subject that
we wish to convey that the past
treatment the Negro has received
in return for the services he has
rendered to this county should act
as guide to him in profferlng his
services in the future and not to
rush forward to proffer aid and i'm
perial his life TO preserve Nation,
that in time of peace liquors him
as citizen and refuses to bestow
upon him those rights of citizen
ship that are inalienably his by
the services he has rendered to the
country in need of the past. Be;
fore he rushes into the next con-
test let him know what he is to
received for the sacrifice he makes
for it = Philadelphia Tribune.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28

Washington, ID. c., Feb. 20
Mrs. Julia Mason Layton has been
reelected president of the Peoples
Investment Company, which ex-
poets shortly 10 launch a depart
ment store at a convenient point
on Seventh street Northwest.
The capital stock is $4,000.
When $1,000 is raised among the
colored people capitalist is ready
to advance the rest aud provide for
the opening of the store. Mrs.
Layton is laboring to get 5000 Ne
groes to subscribe 81 each-and
the thing is done. James l.. NeiIl
is secreta taIy of the company and
Shelby j. Davidson is chairman of
the board of directors. The Office
is in the Dietz building, Seventh
and f. streets.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28

There seems to be no little
amount of interest manifested
throughout the country in behalf
of immigration to Liberia. Africa,
which is the only place on the Afrl-
can continent open to Negro i'm
migration.
Argument, which cannot be sue
cessfully refuted has been made by
many who favor such movement,
and among them We are pleased to
mention the Hon. Joseph Parker
Camp, who as an exponent OF the
cause presents some logical reas-
ons in the following letter to Mr..
George w. Summers, Assistant
Secretary of the white Advisory
Board of the Colorado African
Colonization Company. The board
is composed of over one hundred
of some of the best and most in
huential citizens of the state.
The letter reads:-
Washington, ID. G.
November 16, 1913.
Dear Mr.. Summers
Yours of the 18th, and the
copy of 'THE COLORADO STATES
MAN" containing my letter to you
of Oct 18TH, both came last night.
| was surprised to see myself in
print but not displeased. Any
thing that I can do to guide our
colored friends into the sublime
idea that Africa is the coming con-
tinent; and that is their con-
tinent: and that the American Ne
gro has been qualified by his So
journ here to go back and lead in
it's civilization; will be done. l
will Join any movement that is de-
signed to assist him to do this,
and | cannot believe that he will
reject his opportunity, for then the
vast treasures of sympathy and
love and tears and blood and gold
that have been poured out in his
behalf since 1S40, have been poured
out in vain
The American Negro of today is
equipped to return to the land of
his fathers and carry to this sue
cessful conclusion this mighty work
of uplift and regeneration. If he
cannot do this, or if he refuses to
do it, he will prove TO the world
what his enemies have always said
of him-that he is unfit to lead
and is created to follow.
This must not be. He cannot
allow it to be said of him that he
is unable or unwilling to bear his
own banner in his own country,
for if he yields this right, he need
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28

st. Joseph, Mo.-The theatre
recently erected by Mr.. Chas.
Phelps was opened last Monday
night 1t is fireproof and has all
the modern conveniences. At
present they will exhibit moving
pictures only. Mr.. Louis Smith is
manager This being the only one
in this city owned by a colored
man, we wonder if our race will
give it enough patronage to make
ii a success.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28

Attorney General McReynolds
has endorsed Judge K. H. Terrell,
(colored) for reappointment as pre-
siding officer of one of the munici,
pal courts of the District of Colum-
bia. 1t is announce d that Presi
dent Wilson has no recourse but
to send his name to the United
States Senate. where Senator
James X. Vardaman has openly
announced that he will do all III
his power to prevent his conhrma-
ton. This color question has be-
come acute and ii is an outrageous
condition when race and color are
made the sole basis of opposition
in the United States Senate
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28
Strawberry From Chile.

great many, people are under the
impression that the strawberry is of
European origin. AS a matter of fact,
1t is derived from the Chilean berry,
which is native to the Pacific coast.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28
We Have Met Them.

Some men use sentiment and SYM
pathy in a way that suggests grinding
an ak on a tombstone.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28

Washington, February 20.-The
last issue of the New York Medi-
cal Journal publishes "a story of
the awarding of first prize, S25,
for the best essay on Treatment
of Frostbites," to DR.. Ulysses S.
Houston, a young ply sician of
this city. The Medical journal
publishes DR.. Houston's article in
full. DR.. Houston graduated from
the Loyola Medical University of
Chicago in 1913, and later located
in this city, his home He is a
Younger brother of William l..
Houston. former grand mas .er of
the Odd Fellows.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28
Listing IL.

"How did you list the money that
fortune-teller got from you?" Il put
1t under the head of prophet and lost"
baltimore American
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28

Memphis, Tenn, Feb. 20
Race leaders of this city have or
ganized what is known as the Ma.
tional Sentiment Moulding Bu-
reau, which seeks to shape the
thought of the Afro-American to.
ward each other and a higher re-
gard for them by the white race,
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28

Tulsa, Okla, Feb. 20,-One of
the largest garages in Tulsa, Okla
is the East End Garage, owned
and conducted by j. w. Williams.
Mr.. Williams wife conducts a
large and successful delicatessen
and fruit stand, and from the profits
she has made out of the business
she has erected a ,hree-story brick
business block, which is yielding
her /. fine revenue. Mrs. Will
lisms is regarded as one of the
most progressive business women
in the Southwest.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28

Daily Thought.
The man that loves and laughs mast
cure do well.-Pope.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-10-14

appeared If he had been mentally
holding to Nthe enduring, the good,
and the true" To correct il he ex-
amines his thoughts to discover Just
wherein he has been remiss in scien-
tific, steadfast thinking. He recalls
that he was greatly aggravated over
the action of one seemingly determ-
ined to take advantage of him and
that he himself was planning to re-
taliate in kind and give back
just what he got, blow for blow, an
eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth. Such thoughts he knows are
neither enduring, nor good, nor
true, SO he starts to do a
little mental house-cleaning
He sweeps out OF his men
tally everything he finds that is re-
vengeful, malicious or obstructive.
Then turns his thought towards the
things of God and before long he
forgets about his headache for it
has vanished with the harmful
thoughts that introduced it.
Or instead of a headache let US
suppose that our friend becomes
loaded down as the day wears on
with a sense of encouragement. 1t
may be truly said that nine people
out of ten submit to Encouragement
without resistance because they do
not know any better. They do not
know that it is not only bad but dan
gerous. They do not know that it is
a mental intruder, a moral nuisance
that should never be tolerated but
always Stunned as one would infec-
tious disease.
1t is bad because it is full or de-
ooff L fes ~ r. TIL
a man into believing he is a failure,
when success may be waiting for
him just around the corner. 1t de-
ludes him until he sees things crook
ed and believes things about himself
and others that he knows are not
true. 1t robs him of his courage,
strips him of his ability and numb
les into his ears the awful lie that
God has forgotten him.
Encouragement is dangerous be-
cause it is the entering wedge for the
evil thoughts that produce evil
deeds. 1t is the DEVILS faVorite tool
unrecogniZed as such by so many,
and resisted by so few. It is a note
worthy fact that outside of Christian
Science there are very few who shun
Encouragement as they would sick
ness, adversely or failure, yet it OPP
ems the way for all of these and
worse.
Now the man who is holding his
thought steadfastly to the things
that are enduring and good and true
is discovering that Christian Science
is offering to every one an antidote
for the poison of Encouragement
that is swift in its operation, and
positive in it's effects. 1t is something
that cannot be bought with money
yet is as free as the sunshine and as
blessed as the summers rain. 1t is
called gratitude.
Do you know, my friends, that
gratitude quenches the smoking fires
of encouragement as the ocean does
a spark? And here let me say to you
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-10-14
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CONTINUED from page II. }


applicable, and necessary to man
while here on earth as they ever will
be anywhere. What a monstrous
mistake it is to put off forming a
sacred companionship with God until
after we are through with this earth.
Jesus said (Matthew 22:32), "God
is not the God of the dead, but of the
living"
If the thought of God as Love, ev-
er blessing, never condemning; ever
healing, never affecting, including
all mankind in His fatherly protec-
ton and infinite affection; if this
thought of God comes to you with
tender appeal, hold fast to it and
cherish it. 1t will unfold and en-
large and develop. and gradually
lead you to a yet broader, fuller
knowledge of Him as Love, divine.
Or is it the thought of God as Life.
1.-THE Life that knows no death, The
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1914-10-14

that there Is not man on this green
earth today but who can find some
thing for which TO be grateful to
God, for If he will hunt for it hon
estly and earnestly, and when found
give it a place in his heart, he Will
see Encouragement vanish like bat
into the night.
The man who is learning to know
God has gratitude with him always,
hence discouragement makes no long
visits to his mental household.