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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
NAILS
By George Fitch

A nail is a short stick of steel
with a sharp end, used to pin boards
together to stimulate the automobile
tire business and to take the place OF
suspender buttons in an emergency.
| nail has a head like a man. IL
is as fiat head as that of the man
who always votes for the candidate
who will help his own interests
along. However, the nails lead is
harder than the voters and more
useful. You can hammer it without
getting into jail.
1t is so easy to operate nail that
a mere legislator could do it. All
you have to do is to stand it against
a hoard and hit it on the temple
with a hammer. The amateur US
ually uses his thumb, nail to protect
the nail head but the professional
fills his mouth so full of nais that ne
looks like hedgehog and drives
them in to the hilt with three
| whacks.
Nails were originally hammered
out of iron by a blacksmith. 1t took
a man a day to make hundred
nails. In those days people care
fully saved their old nails instead OF
throwing them out on the pavement
and yet in those days there
weren't any automobiles to henefit
from this care. This is a cruelty ad-
justed world.
In those days a man saved up
money enough to buy key of nails
and then went out and chopped his
lumber out of the forest with an ak.
We had so much lumber that we
burned millions of acres of it and so
few nails that a man could buy an
egg in January with four-inch
spike
Nowadays a foreigner in overalls
Teeds a carload of wire into a ma
the rate of keg a minute. But
when we desire lumber we go hat in
hand to a magnate who informs MS
THAT owing to the cruelty of the
government in not permitting him
to cut down the big trees of Cali
fornia he will have to hoist the price
on US another dollar per thousand
and we put off building another
year
Nails are so cheap nowadays that
they are used in place of lumber,
brick and plaster. 1t is easy to haste
up boarding house with a few
kegs of nails and the nails will be
there doing their duty long after the
fragile and wormy, holey stuff which
they hold together
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

farm where he was at the time the
records were taken &c per cent of the
total time when kinship existed and
SO per cent when there was no re-
lationship. The returns also indi-
Gated that where relationship ex-
listed 33 per cent had attended high
school, but where there was no re-
lationship only IS per cent had at
tended high school, in other words,
if through the schools the farmers
could be made to take an interest in
the agricultural training of the boy
and they could be established in a
partnership relation, the shifting
tenant problem would be partially
solved.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
ANOTHER SUFFERER
FROM MAYNARD COWS

Editor Telegram: | am very glad
that some action is about to be TAX
en- in our city in regards to the run
ming at large of cows as we'll as
horses in Lakeland. Lakeland can
never be any city of note unless this
nuisance is stopped. The fact is
the people up around Ozone Park
and East Orange street in particular
have lost many hours of sleep at
night running after cows and horses
to protect the trees planted and
quite often have had them de-
stroyed. 1t is not fair that a few
people owning cows should let them
run at large destroying little trees
and shrubbery Of those who are do
ing their level best to beautify the
city and l hope something may be
done to stop it by the city authori-
ties.
Yours very truly,
M. NJ. FADELEY,
903 E. Orange ST.
Lakeland, Fla.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
A SECRET WEDDING

yesterday al high noon the Bap
fist pastorium was the scene of Sc
cret wedding which is not unusual
in the north, but a rare occurance
here in the south.
A young man and his lassie who
are touring the state of Florida with
large party, deserted the party,
drove to Lakeland where Rev. Wal
lace Wear said the words which
made them man and wife. They re-
quested that their names be kept
out of print as the wedding would
remain a secret until their return to
their northern home.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
FURNISHED by the Security Abstract
and Title Co., Barlow, Fla.)

Furnished by the Security Abstract
and Title Co., Barlow, Fla.)
June z, 1915
VIM. Jordan and wife to E. d.
Pearce.
B. F. Billiard ct al. to S. A. l..
Ry.
S. X. Carpenter to S. A. L. Ry.
A. C. Nydegger and wife to S.
A. L. Ry.
G. V. Tillman and wife to s. A.
l.. Ry.
Lake Wales Land Co to S A. L.
Ry..
W. J. Land Co. Howey to Elma
Adair.
Alberta Purvis to G. A. Brown.
B. H. Kierce and wife to Alder
ia Purvis.
Russell n. Stuck ct al. to G. D.
Benninger.
Fla. and Ga. Land Co. to w. R.
Givens.
J. T. Galley and wife to Sheldon
n Adams.
r. NJ. Marler and wife to H. A.
Knowles.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
CHRISTIAN ENDEAV0R
PROSPERITY

1t was a splendid write-up in last
weeks issue of the Lakeland News
about the Epworth League. Con-
gratulations.
We read of hard times" and
things going slowly. but in the
world of Christian Endeavor there
is activity everywhere, that is,
everywhere young people have a
mind to work for Christ and the
church, faithfully, under all kinds
I'of conditions and weather.
One of our too regular press cor
respondents uses postal cards. and
that right often. She does not wait
for several nice news times before
writing to Interlachen. We sincere
, ly wish more of the Endeavorers
were better supplied with postal
cards and would send us messages
on them From about 81 Young
Peoples, and several societies for
children and intermediates, We have
not more than two dozen standby
regular press reporters, and some Of
them write but seldom.
Three introductions in the past
several days makes it look as if this
important department was going to
do better:
|. Manly B. Robson, of Jackson
vile activity, introduced to the
Presbyterian and Congregationalists
in Miami. His address is care of
Armour Company.
2. Miss Ola Fraser, in Interlach-
en-, to St. Louke's Hospital, Jack
sonville. for training as a nurse In
troduced to three societies of the
metropolis.
3. Mrs. Ward R. Thomas, from
st. Petersburg, now in Lakeland.
Word goes to the Christian and
Presbyterian societies of that city.
Letters are sent also to those who
have gone to nwe homes, and to
those VIII sent us word OF their re-
moval. We mean business. Send
the State introduction worker, word
when Endeavorers leave you so she
can give news of their coming to
those who are to be future neigh
bors, SO they will have welcome
ready.
West Palm Beach a very rainy
evening recently had eighteen at
prayermeeting. 1t was said to be a
good one. Do you wonder?
Who's going to the great cnven-
tin at Chicaeo? Your friend in In
terlcchen has had to give it up for
financial reasons, but surely the
salary-earners, or those with in ,
comes, among our workers can some
of them go. The round trip fare is
1880 from Jacksonville. Sleeper,
and convention expenses probably
would bring the total up to sixty
dollars. But it is "a chance of a
lifetime" and worth sacrifice large
degree.
The st. Cloud correspondent in
the Kissimmee Valley Gazette tells
of blue bird shower given Miss
Harriet Bartlett Bartlett, pretty
Christian Endeavor girl of the
Presbyterian society. Showers usu-
ally come before weddings. Please
let us know what is going to happen
next.
lnterlachen, June Sth.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
TALKING SICKNESS
BY Walt MaSo

Your liver may be out of joint,
your spare ribs raw and sore, you
may be driven to annoint your
spavins more and more. but talk of
more uplifting things than aches
and fell disease: discuss the mock
ingbird that sings its ragtime in the
trees; discuss the virtues of your
cook, or quote Ed. Markham's
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
Counting The Cost
Of War


Most of the fights you have had in
your life time you have found after
wards could have been prevented
without dishonor TO you or your an
tagonist.
Still We are inclined to rush into
trouble and think soberly after
wards. Just now he have a lot of
talk about war with Germany. Ger
many must be made to do this and
that. We must defend-must put a
stop-must put the world on notice,
etc., etc.
The Macon News is one of those
papers that are wisely discussing
the real meaning of war in advance
Of its coming 1t says
Figuring on the possibility of
war between the United States and
Germany, just bring it home to
yourself for an instant.
Are you a young, unmarried
man, member of one of the state
militia companies?
''Or is your son, your brother,
your nephew, or your employe, a
member Of one of the companies?
Heretofore his principal duties
have been to attend drills regularly.
go to encampment once a year, par
ticipate in the parades, like on Me-
mortal Day and Fourth of July, and
look like soldier.
How you have thrilled at the
sight of him, attired in khaki,
marching down the street with a
gun on his shoulder!
But how would you feel now, if
the government suddenly modified
the state militia and sent him off
to war?
"Can you imagine him-can you
imagine yourself-keeping step to
the beat of the drum and marching
off to only heaven knows where,
with the equipment of warrior
off to shoot some other mothers SIM,
possibly to be shot-maybe to find
an abrupt resting place on shot
swept field and left there to stare up
sightlessly at the open sky?
But if this country goes to war
the 10000 state troops will be
among the first to mobilize, as aux
iliaries to the regular army. Then
will come the enlistments. Finally,
if necessary-and it would hardly
be necessary-conscrip would be
in order. But, first of all, go the
state guard-the boys and men
whom you know so we'll. your kins-
men, perhaps even you, possibly.
"Georgia's quota would be about
3,100 men. There would be three
regiments, each of twelve companies,
sixty-fve men to a company; five
troops of calvary. three batteries of
field artillery, three hospital corps,
and then the staff officers-more
than three thousand in all. From
Macon alone there would be marsh
aled fully $50 militiamen, chosen
from the pick and flower of the city's
young men, who comprise the Volun-
teers, the Hussars, the Floyd Rifles,
the hospital corps and the command
ing generals aides.
THE News is not looking forward
to war. We dread to apprehend it.
But, still, it is possible, it is men,
ace which hangs over us, and in
| considering it all in all it is we'll to
bring it home, to make it personal,
for just a second Then we can bet
ter appreciate what it means"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
Habits,

Force of character Is cumulative -
says Emerson IAN the foregone days
OF virtue work heir health INTO this"
All the forego:e days Of doubt inertia
and unworthiness work ,hp,r weakness
into this also, and thai IS the great
lesson or al ~ t-f0rminE We Weight
our future WIKI our prastnr. and he
'hinss N i"Gty s'l2I, help or hinder
tomorrow.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
ARKANSAS TRAVELLERS
ASSOCIATION

Texarkana, Ark, June 9-The
Arkansas Travellers Association,
composed of travelling men in Texas.
Louisiana and Arkansas, met here
today for three days session. About
1000 are present. Business is re-
ported to be improving in nearly all
sections.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
Wales Heard From,

A subscriber who has been much In
terested in the long words that the
Companion has printed reminds us
that the full name of the little village
CT Llanfair in the north of Wales Is
nothing less than Observation-Disclosures
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Observation-Disclosures We
hope he is mistaken.-Youth's Com.
paniOn
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

Build brick roads and stop vast
ing money. Secure permanent in
vestment and stop the everlasting
expense of upkeep This is our adj
vice to the people of this county in
regard to road building. We do not
expect the advice to be needed. The
first cost Of brick roads scares the
taxpayer and he balks. Perhaps some
cay the people will learn from costly
experiment that it is cheaper to
puild permanently than to build
cheaply and continuously.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

We know a number of men who
are amply qualified to take the place
Mr.. Bryan has just vacated Having
heard them discuss international
policies on the street corner we can
entertain no doubt of their fitness.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

The echoes of the legislative ses-
sion will soon be reverberating from
a hundred stumps. We think the
Legislature turned out about that
many candidates.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

The Germans are enthusiastic
about taking Lemberg-sounds APP
petizing to them.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

That must be hot stuff Wilson is
putting in that second note to the
Kaiser.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
Real Helper Too Busy for Petty
Rivalry


The two women who would each
be offended if the other name were
mentioned first had committee-itis of
cours. If they had been on the
/ committee just to help the world
along, they would have been too
busy for petty rivalry about prece-
dence.
People like that clog the wheels
of progress. They make life narrow
and petty when it should be large
and sweet.
The germ of committee-itis is in
every one of us because it is just one
particular form of vanity and the
tendency to vanity is in every hu-
man being. Let's learn to hate and
despise this disease so much that we
shall treat the germ whenever it at
tacks us with the antiseptic pride
that is fatal to vaniy.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
Such Women Deserve the Highest
Honor If

The women who thus give their
time and their energy to the general
good deserve the highest honor if
and thereby hangs my tale-if they
don't tarnish and stain that honor
by pettiness, by childish rivalry, by
narrow vanities.
am sorry to say that committee
tits has come to be a rather common
disease among women.
What is committee-itis? It's the
mania to be on committee, and to
be here not for the sake of the good
work you can do. the help you can
render your fellow men and women,
but Just for the love of importance
and power, for the pride of seeing
your name in reports and in the
newspapers.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09

COMMITTEE It's"
My neighbor was sitting at her
desk with an expression of great an
xiety on her face when / dropped in
upon her the other day.
| inquired the reason.
my dear" she said in a voice so
tragic that ] felt sure her husbands
business had gone to the wall and
she was making out a new budget,
my dear, l can't make up my mind
which of these two women to put
first"
You see,'' she went on, biting her
pencil in definance of all laws
phophylactic, I'm making out the
list of people who had charge of our
bazaar for the newspaper, and Mrs.
Marshall and Mrs. Richards had
charge of the refreshments together
Neither Of them was the chairman
and if put Mrs. Marshall first Mrs.
Richards won't like it and vice
versa
Isn't that typical quandry?
How many of us have had to steer
between the Scylla and Charbdis Of
this or that committee woman's dis
pleasure-and half the time have
managed to avoid neither!
The charitable and philanthropi-
cal work done by women's organiza-
tions is tremendous asset in the
life Of every community. 1t would
be hard to find a community Of any
size where at least half dozen Of
these organizations are not happily
and usefully busying themselves
about the great task of helping the
world along.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-09
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SIDE TALKS
By Ruth Cameron
COMMITTEE It's"

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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-09
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
BACKS UP ON POLICE LIST

The civil service commission has
backed up another block" Yesterday
it re-posted the captains eligible list
which it formerly held was irregular
and unlawful. Police heutenants
complained and threatened court
action. Other court actions against
the commission recently have result
ed unfavorably for the commission.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-09

You bet every little bit helps Don't
laugh at a 2-cent donation; it will
do good.
The Strike Fund Editor received a
shock today when he opened a let
ter enclosing a check for ten signed
by Jules Rosenwald; it looked so
much like julius Rosenwald that he
was getting ready to yell to the city
editor. that he had front page story
in his mitt But it was not the $13.-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-12-09

VERY LITTLE BIT WILL
N FAIR PLAY FIGHT
, 100000 stockholder of Sears-Roe-
buck & Co., only a man with a deal
more of real charity.
Il have never permitted myself to
be tagged" on any tag day Chicago
has ever had. l have never before
contributed to any worthy cause
that has been boosted by profession
al boosters wrote Jules Rosenwald.
Il never give to beggars nor to the
United Charities that spend 70 per
cent of donations for salaries. send
this $40 to The Day Book because 1
know every cent will go to help the
strikers"
Nick Ferrera, newsboy at Ran
dolph and Wabash, northeast corner,
who sells Mrs. Francis Crane Lille
her papers, sent so cents toward the
cause.
John Patterson, Public Forum
writer who sent in SIS From Seven
Good Fellows" sent a Forum letter
along with the five. The letter will
appear in The Public Forum.
Here is my eleventh dollar toward
the good cause since the garment
strike started" wrote ]. R. 81 just
can't bear the thought of the rough
and bloody work of the sluggers."
twenty-five cents accompanying
a slip simply signed "a Widow" tells
the story of mite.
81 think all Forum writer's should
give what they can spare" said Miss
Eva Doyle.
Send contributions to Strike Fund
Editor, Day Book, 500 S. Peoria, Chi
cago, III
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-08

we'll and fell plump, plump, plump
down to the bottom.
Then JAMS ran TO the fireplace and
pulled the stone out of the corner OF
the chimney Within was a pot, big
iron dinner pot full OF shining gold
pieces.
This belonged to the lords grand
father said Jams to himself. But as
the grandfather is dead ard the lord
is dead and left no any. l WI keep
it, for | worked hard for him for a
year and got no pay
So he carried the pot of gold home
to his mother and they lad merry
feast that night of all kinds of good
things Then Jams bought fine farm
and built his mother a handsome
house in which they lived happily ever
afterward
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-08
MUSTARD, OKRA, ONIONS
Continued from Page Nine.)

in d.ills IA to 1e inches apart Thir
the plants to stand inches apart in
rows. The cultivation of parsnips
SHOULD he about the same as for beels
and carrots. A crop :f&y be pilnted
in late summer fer winter use, and
the roots may Se .eft in the ground
through tn winter or until needed, as
freezing is believed to improve the
flavor of parsnips. If it is desired to
pillow the garden before the parsnips
are disposed of, they may be Dug and
stored in a cool place or buried in
banks or pits.
Parsnips NAV be boiled and eaten
with butter, o. narbciled and baked
with meats the same as potatoes.
Varieties recommended: Hollow
Crown and Sugar.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-08
IDENTITY RESTORED
AFTER TWO YEARS

Milwaukee, Wis, May 1.-Two years
ago today, Frank Van Vie fell from
the roof of building in Milwaukee.
Since that time he wandered, his iden-
tity entirely lost to him, until ten
days ago, when a doctor snapped back
into place two small vertebrae in the
back of his neck. Van Vie is now
seeking the girl he was to have mar
ried on May "a, 1913, and this is the
first reparation he is making since he
recovered his normal mind in Keno
sha on April 81 All of his past his.
tory is clear to him except the events
Of the past two years. He remembers
the fall. and that the doctors had said
he broke a rib or two
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-08

on the quiet in his home feels that he
has shown great brilliancy if he de-
tects an error in grammar or capital
ization. 1t is one thing to find mis-
takes at your leisure in another mans
work, quite another to turn out a high
degree of accuracy and precision in
the haste of newspaper composition.
The banker makes blunders in his
figures, the lawyer draws up incorrect
papers and the business man submits
erroneous bills Such plumbers are
known only to the few persons whom
they concern. The newspaper is like
the actor on the stage, whose slightest
slip is manifest to all and seem ride
ulous.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-08
CASE AFTER CASE

Plenty Mere Like This in Hattiesburg.
Scores of Hsttiesburg people can
tell you about Doan's Kidney Pills.
Many a happy citizen makes a public
statement of his experience. Here IS
case of it. What better proof OF
merit can be had than such endorset
ment?
c. NJ. Burleson, 314 Forrest St. Hat
tiesburg. says: Il am constantly on my
feet while at work and this brOugf
on weakness of the kidneys. ha
heard of Doan's Kidney Pills from
fellow workman and the results re
ceived in his case induced me to Civ
the remedy a trial. / got supply a
the Corner Drug Store and | found
Doan's Kidney Pills to be just as ad
vertised"
Price soc at all dealers. Don't sim
ply ask for kidney remedy-ge
Doans Kidney Pills-the same tina
Mr.. Burleson had. Foster-Milbur
Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
ADV.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-08
PIG COTTON SALE.

Coldwater, Miss, May S.-The lar
gest cotton sale ia several months
has Just been made here. Mr.. Aiken
a country merchant of the eastern
rart of this county, sold f1fty-one
bales to ]. T. Cooper, buyer for a
Memphis firm The purchase price
was 9.61. which was about the highest
price paid on this market for similar
grade of cotton in nearly year. The
total amount of the sale was more
than $4,000.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-05-08
of gold under the kitchen chin

pot of gold under the kitchen chin
ney."
Jams went back to his flock, shook
the fern seed out of his shoes, and
drove the goats home. 1t happened
that this was the last day of the year
he was serving, so as his time was up
he went to the lord and asked for his
pay.
What, pay you, you lazy rascal, y
laughed the lord, who was full of
wine and meant to cheat the boy.
Get out of here and be off or l will set
the dogs on you," and as he finished
he grabbed at the first thing his hand
could reach to throw at the boy.
It happened that the first thing his
hand touched was the old, duty flute
hanging on the wall at the back of his
chair. He threw it after Jams as the
boy ran out of the door Jams eyes
sparkled with delight when he saw it
rolling on the around. He seized it
and put it to his lips; then, remember
ing about the cotton, he stuffed his
ears full of bits OF rag from his old
clothing, for it hung about him in
shreds. Then he stole back to the
door and blew.
The lord sprang to his feet and
commenced to dance. Up and down
he jumped in a regular turkey-trot.
knocking over the chairs and upset
ting the table. His face grew red and
his, limbs ached, but he could not stop.
Hoping to get free of the music, he
danced out of doors. but as he went
across the yard be slipped on an old