The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-24

And, Listen, He Owns = Whole
Township Of Land!

Like q breeze from the balmy Gulf
OF Mexico he waited into the State
Journal office. exuding condolences. as
surance and Christmas cheer. Its
Muskogee Red" said Brown. the tel
egraph editor. No one took a sec
ond look. Every mothers son
reached into his trousers pocket and
fished up some change
1T is Christmas time and we just
as well come across gracefully and
present Muskogee with q collection OF
coin instead Of waiting for him to
touch u.s." remarked one of Reds ac-
gu lntances. A reporter was appoint
ed to make the presentation speech.
With coin in hand he advanced to-
ward the visitor. who had deposited a
suitcase and was opening it.
Il o. whole square township
down in Florida" the visitor re-
marked.
Have a care" one of the reporters
cautioned the spokesman. who was
juggling the ''chicken-feed'' in his
hand. II do not believe this man is
MuskoEee. He is too prosperous and
MY name is Lewis H. Selling Of
Paxico. Kan. have been down in
Florida spending the winter at Myers.
with Mrs. Potter Palmer, Andrew
Carnegie and other good people. Got
interested in land-bought a whole
township-23.080 acres. to be exact
No. SIR. there is no land company be-
hind this, 1 own it all myself and I
have not a foot of land for SALE
But I have land to give away. All
that country needs is the right kind
Of people. 1 will give away one-half
Of this land. How can 1 afford to do
1T? Get the people there and the half
Of the land keep will be worth more
than twice what 1t is now. That's
where I come in. It pays to be gem
erous. The more I:gRe away the
more I will make. -E
Yes. sir. l am giving land away:
To any young cOupl0 who viii get
married and come down there and
Twelve, you understand-on the
land I will make them a present of
ten acres. They can have it for theirs
just as long as they viii live ON it,
BY this time Mr. Selling had quite
an audience. Sidney zinn. the office
boy. edged little cldser In and ex-
changed cards with the Florida man
from Paxico. -
Il will talk it over with her to-
night" said the office boy in an ire
proachably business manner
Sanford FARRELL, the young drama
tic critic, with the scented atmosphere
of q banquet with forty chorus girls
the night before still lingering about
him, also perked up.
Ten acres per couple" he rumin-
ated. But there is only one of me.
Say. If I took forty girls down there,
wouldn't they be quite. an incentive
for immigration? That should entitle
me to 40 acres"
You bring the girls and they remain
on the land. 40 acres of the best land
in the state Of Florida is yours de-
clared the dispenser OF real estate.
BY this time he had opened his suit
case and was exhibiting the products
of the land He alS0 drew map from
his pocket ana exhibited a name which
would make a European war CORE
spondent green with envy.
This land 4s located on the Caloosa-
hatchee,"--said 1t without stutter-
river, and these are what grow wild
on the land
|. Pineapples, grape fruit, sweet lines,
sugar cane guavas, stangerines. kum-
| quats. ounces. holly. nistletoe, Eng
lish walnuts. pecans and half dozen
other products were displayed in mag
nificent types.
They all grow wild there and there
are ten acres of that land for any cou-
pie who will live on it. 1 want you to
let people know l am giving it away
because feel sorry for the suckers who
are paying from 800 to $50 per acre
for land like this. I do not want any
one to spend all the money they have
for land and then starve to death try
ing to live on it, I will give them the
land and let them keep their money to
develop it with and thus become per-