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The Washington times., 1915-11-21
Uncle Joe Cannon to
Be Given His Old Room

Although. technically n new Congress
man. Uncle joe Cannon Is to be ac-
corded an unusual privilege. when the
former Speaker comes back he will
have his old room. Just off the House
chamber. occupied for the last two
years by the late Serene T.. Payne.
private office and costly chandeliers.
The Washington times., 1915-11-21
Thanksgiving Fete.

A Thanksgiving luncheon and supper
will be given Tuesday and Wednesday
at the Old Masonic Temple. Ninth and
F. streets, by the Ladies'NAid Society Of
Gorsuch NJ. T.. Church. Mrs. Ellen
Rowe will be In charge. The luncheon
will be served from 30 a. m. to l:3O
y. M. and the supper from 4:30 to TO-
Fancy. articles for gifts win also be
on sale
The Washington times., 1915-11-21
OVERALLS THE THING
WITH GEORGIA WOMEN
Neat Housewives Find Them
Much Handler and Cleaner
for Work.

SAVANNAH. Nov. el-All the shops
in Georgia are buying now boys size
overalls for housewives. Georgia house
keepers have learned the discomfort
and danger Of sweeping and cleaning
windows with fappy skirts at their
ankles. Dresses gather dust and the
germs 'get In the way" Overalls are
the ideal Of comfort In housekeeping.
And. IL they ore soiled. what matter
They are easy to wash or replaced AT
small cost.
Many women are taking to the ip-
novation. which made its first appear
ance In Chicago. YOUNG women particu-
gowns and their lives by washing win
dows and hanging pictures In unwieldy
skirts
Do Own. Work.
And Georgia women have not out
grown the fashion OF doing their own
work. There are Young wives in Sa-
vannah and other Georgia cities who
even scrub their own floors. But many
OF them are now openly wearing over
alls instead of dresses for their house
work.
II have been keeping house for five
years" said Mrs. +. w. Davidson. $50
you sec ! am not at all a beginner. I'm
a practicable housewife. and 7 find that
Undoubtedly the proper dress for sweep
ing floors and cleaning windows and the
like are overalls. They can be neat and
white instead Of stiff blue. and thev
don't need to be 'unlovely.' Skirts hold
the dust and are much In the way. II
you wear a nice dress you soil II. and
II 1t isn't a nice dress you don't look
we'll in II.
Make Ideal Dress.
THE upshot OF the whole thing Is that
overals are the ideal dress for house.
wives. The unconventionality Of the
garb should not count. because womer
are not supposed to be on exhibition
when engaged In housecieaninR."
Even women who hesitate TO adopt the
new dress are inclined to agree with
Mrs. Davidson on general principles
Did you ever hang pictures. and
while balancing on the fourth runV oi
the ladder. look charming" she asked
Did you over scrub a floor. actual,
scrub It on your hands and knees. and
look the picture OF grace? Did YOU evel
set out hot foot after old Mr.. Dust
and. while you were chasing him. seen
adorab blc?"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
had told her something which filled
her with humiliation and shame. He

had told her something which filled
her with humiliation and shame. He
was married, lie said His wife and
he had been separated for years, but
he could not divorce her What did
that matter, as long as they loved
each other? He would not press her
for her decision, but would wait for
her outside the store on Wednesday
night. Then she could give him his
answer
Lisette had torn herself away and
fed from him. All that night she
wept, lying sleepless in her bed in the
little hall room of her boarding house.
But on Monday the eternal grind be-
gan again. Tuesday came; Wednes-
day This was Wednesday. And in
her heart was a wild tumult of emo
tons, and she could not foresee the
issue of the battle.
He met her outside the store that
night, and she greeted him icily. She
did not order him away, but walked
beside him, thinking. thinking hard.
He was the only person in the city
who had ever cared for her; the
thought of losing him seemed unbear.
able. Little by little something of an
affection for him had crept into her
heart. She turned toward him pres
emily. her eyes brimming with tears.
God forgive me. l am too weak to
say what l should say she said.
Have pity on me and leave me. Help
me against myself"
He drew her into the shelter OF q
doorway and pleaded with her. She
felt the last atom of her strength leav.
ing her She thought of the store,
with it's dreaded monotony, and then
of life with him. None need ever
know that the bond between them was
not legal one. Life would hold some
thing for her after all, not the endless
monotony of the years that she saw
stretching away before her.
"Wintergreen! Sweet wintergreen!
cried voice beside her.
She started violently. A peddler's
cart had stopped before the curb, Ia
den with flowers and greenery. And
in the hand that he thrust out toward
her she saw the plant that suddenly
awakened such poignant memories, la
den with its clustering berries. And
suddenly the past year was blotted
from her mind In st. Joachim woods
the wintergreen was bearing fruit
again And Andre was waiting, as he
had sworn to wait
"Good-by," she said. looking at him
steadily. 81 am going home. | shall
never see you again" And something
in her voice told him that her resolve
was memorable.
Clutching a spray of wiEtergreen
against her heart, Lisette slipped into
the crowds.
Copyright, 1912, by w G. Chapman.)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
Bermuda Grass Hobby

Look at the cattle and hogs in this
country during the months of Aug
ust and September; see their gaunt
and hollow sides-no, not hollow,
for they are grown together and il
you have no pity for them you are
hard hearted, indeed At any rate,
think how much feed it will take to
get them in condition to begin to
take on fat.
Then accuse the Democrat of hav-
ing a hobby. The Democrat has a
hobby It's hobby is glorious Bermuda
grass of the great stock State of
Florida-the state which will ship
untold thousands of cattle and hogs
to the markets of the world when it
shall be carpeted with Bermuda
grass-the state which will have
nothing but few scrubs until it has
pasture Right now feed is being
shipped into this county; dry feed
at this time of the year for work
animals, when they ought to be
turned out every night to feed on the
succulent, strengthening Bermuda
grass and get half of their living
from it. Yes, we have a hobby. We
are proud Of that hobby and we shall
ride it, and ride it hard We will
ride it until we see fewer pitiable,
hollow eyed cattle and mere shad-
ows of hogs during the long summer
months searching the barren woods
for mouthful to keep the little life
that is left in their bodies, in order
that their merciful owners may later
on feed them and fatten them and
eat their carcasses.
We have seen thousands of cattle
starve on the western plains; we
have seen their skeletons scattered
over the prairies and have wondered
at the inhumanity of man to dumb
animals, yet there was some sem
blance of excuse for that; the own
ers could not provide shelter and
feed for their cattle, but here, in
this land of the Sun, where all that
is needed is to touch the soil and
feed will grow of itself, there is no
excuse for the inhuman treatment of
cattle and hogs in the MIDDLE OF
THE SUMMER.
We will ride our hobby-Live
Oak Democrat.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
TRICKS OF DISEASED MINE
Psychic Epilepsy Has Most Pc
cuiiar Way Of Making Itself
Manifest.

Psychic epilepsy is sometimes one
of the very unusual manifestations of
a diseased mind in which the evi.
dences of disease are SO obscure that
frequently, for a number of years,
the fact that an individual Is suffering
from an abnormal condition may es-
cape notice.
The condition may manifest itself
in many peculiar ways. In some cases
the individual may be eating a meal
and suddenly, without warning, his
eyes take on far-away look; he drops
what he has in his hands, and within
few seconds he looks around in
establishment and surprise to see that
he has dropped something or that
people are observing him peculiarly,
and asks What has occurred?'
In other cases these attacks are
very much more complicated and last
longer. during which the patient may
appear normal and carry out activi-
ties that require judgment and skill.
The attacks may last several hours,
days, weeks or months.
The patient, when he RECEIVERS, abso-
lutely has no recollection of what
has occurred during the attack, and il
he comes to himself in surroundings
unfamiliar, he is at loss to explain
his situation. Always the last things
which the patient remembers are sur
roundings and circumstances which
Immediately precede the attack Tho
constant feature of all these attacks
is the fact that during them there is
either total loss or a peculiar perver-
sion of consciousness.
This is particularly important in
certain classes Of railroad employees,
those upon whose quick Interpretation
of signals the safety Of many lives de-
pends.-Irving J. Spear, M. D., in the
New York World.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
Health And Habit

stomach of its blood, and transfers
it to the brain.
The moral is obvious: Don't
worry.
This horse is all right unless he
gets scared" said a horseback rider
to me the other day.
And | answered, so am ~"
Those rare times when 4 make a
big impression upon my auditors are
when | go upon the stage with a
certain amount of Indifference, sim
ply taking care not to have overeat-
en-. Then l start in slowly, and soon
the thoughts are coming along just
as fast as l can use them. The air
is full of reasons, and all | have to
do is to reach hup and pick the ones
! want.
In this matter of good health just
few plain rules suffice. The whole
matter then becomes automatic and
self-lubricating.
Health is habit.
We are ruled by habit.
! There are three habits which with
but one condition added, will give
| you everything in tn world worth
having, and beyond which the mag
ination of man can not conjure forth
a Single addition Tor Improvement.
(, These habits are:
The work habit
| The health habit
| The study habit.
| If you are man and have these
habits, and also have the love of a
woman who has these same habits,
you are in Paradise here and now,
and SO is she.
| Health, books and work, with love
added, are a solace against all the
sings and arrows of outrageous for
tune-a defense from all the storms
that blow For through their use
you transmute sadness into mirth
trouble into ballast, pain into joy.
Work means safety for yourself
and service to mankind.
Health means much happiness and
potential power.
Study means knowledge, equanim
lily and the evolving mind
And love means all the rest.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
TUMuLT OF EMOTIONS
The Sight of Wintergreen Saved
Country Girl From a City
Temptation.
BY HAROLD CARTER,

Tee. I'm tired-ain't you, Lisette p
asked Miss Sturgeon, leaning back
against the shelves, piled with bur-
lap and monks cloth-which. as all
salesgirls know, make heavy rolls.
Say. Lisette. I'm sick of this job.
what's the use? You toll and slave
all day and wear yourself to pieces
FOR your eight bones week, and when
Sunday comes you're so used up all
you can do is to sleep"
Yes, som l." answered Lisette
Blanchard disconsolately
There was lull in business at How.
ards Emporium; it was two in the
afternoon, and the morning rush was
over, while the afternoon shoppers
had not yet put in their appearance.
Miss Spurgeon surveyed the little
French Canadian girl who had Joined
the sales force some three months
previously. All the girls liked her;
they recognized, too, that she was
the right Sort" as they phrased it.
Nobody ever took liberties with little
Lisette.
Say, Lisette," continued Miss
Spurgeon confidently, Il got a dandy
fellow. Works in wholesale hard
ware store and gets eighteen steady
the year round. He's asked me to
hitch up with him every Sunday night
this past year, and l don't know but
what will"
"Yes?" queried Miss Lisette.
HCnrn hot NIB,
Miss Spurgeon. He's the kind Of a
fellow any girl would be proud of, not
like these cheap pikers that comes
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
Was Glad to Get That.

George Kingsbury staked a theat-
rical man repeatedly in the hard times
of a couple of summers. The amounts
ranged from 81 to IS and came to
represent loan of SIS or more.
The borrower let payment slide for
several seasons, never referring to it
until a short time ago, when he burst
into the Chicago opera house mana
gers office and began to blurt:
Somebody told me that you have
been talking about me-" he said
abruptly, because l happen to owe
you some money. I know | owe you
money, but l have forgotten exactly
how much. Is 1t So or $4?"
-Four" answered Kingsbury in q
hurry.-Chicago Evening Post.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26

The Democrat has been accused of
having a hobby. Very good, a hobby
is a fine thing to ride The hobby re-
ferred to is Bermuda grass, and the
Democrat deems it a compliment to
be accused of making it hobby. We
believe that if every farmer in the
country had one-fourth of his land
well set to Bermuda grass that Suw-
aimee would be far in the lead of
Florida and South Georgia counties
in wealth.
If any farmer wants to get some
thing for almost nothing let him Sc
lect a part of his farm for a perman-
ent pasture and set it to Bermuda
grass. He will have a perpetual
pasture wherein his hogs, cattle and
poultry will thrive at no expense, or
practically no expense. He will get
more feed from that tract than from
any other like size tract on his farm,
anu Withoue any pio"IhS VI ocCuih .
or harvesting. and with no expense
for storage buildings. All he will
have to do will be to keep the tract
we'll fenced 1t will have to be well
fenced to keep his neighbors' hungry
stock out of it. 1t will be well to cut
it up with disc occasionally to keep
it in good order. and that is all. No
other attention will be needed
1t is useless to talk about the
trouble of getting rid of it. It is
just as reasonable to talk of the diff
Guilty of starving the best mule on
the place to death Bermuda is bad
in field, but it is not bad to scatter
over farm. A mule is bad when
loose in corn field, but no one
would dispense with a mule because
he might do damage if he got loose
There is hardly a farm in Suwannee
county without lot of uncultivated
land on it. Land, which if in Ber-
muda grass. would keep at the stock
belonging to the farm in good con-
dition during the summer, ready to
take on fat when the bean patch and
the peanuts are ready for them.
Stock that have been kept well fed
from birth grow larger than those
that have been badly nourished;
they take much less feed to fatten
and consequently more profitable
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26

Business is the FUNNIEST,
And politics the bummest
In Florida.
Poinsettias are the reddest,
Small towns are deadest
In Florida.
Soldiers are the boldest,
Oranges are the goldest
And people live the oldest
In Florida.
Sea-baths are less shocking
And few are fond of mocking
The girl without a stocking
In Florida.
Sand-roads are the softest
And are cussed the oftest
In Florida.
Evergreens are greenest,
Beach-sand is cleanest
And Yankees are the leanest
|, In Florida.
Loan sharks have a habit
To chase a dime and grab it,
And wouldn't buy a rabbit
In Florida.
The tourist feels the proudest
And praises us the loudest
In Florida.
Often joyful, seldom sad;
Taking all good with the bad
| can say that am glad
To live in Florida.-Tamp
Tribune.
William Lee Popham.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26

in to scrape acquaintance and take
you out to dinner somewhere, and
meaning nothing good. Jim's honest
all through. Say, Lisette, who was
that fellow l seen you talking to
yes'day morning? l seen him round
here two or three times. l thought you
might ha' made hit with him."
Miss Spurgeon!" cried the floor
walker severely, and Miss Sturgeon
hurried away, leaving Lisette Blanch-
ard to her meditations.
II the loquacious salesgirl could have
known the thoughts that she had set
coursing through the others mind she
would have been genuinely Mortified.
Lisette Blanchard had come south
from her home in Canada elev-
en- months before, leaving her par
ents, her friends and her lover be-
hind. In vain Andre had asked her
to stay.
"By Christmas we can be married,
Lisette," he had pleaded. What wilt
thou accomplish in New York? Sup
pose thou dost earn some money to
bring back home--what Is that to q
happy life in the village where we
were both born? Thou wilt never
come back. Stay, Lisette!"
But she craved life and excitement;
the stories which she had heard of
the metropolis Of America had fas-
cinated her; the deadly monotony of
life In St. Joachim had become impos-
sible to her. On the morning of their
parting they had strolled in the woods
together, and Andre, STOPPING, had
picked stem of wintergreen, with
its clustering berries, and handed it
to her. She smelled the faint. acrid
odor of the leaves even then.
when the wintergreen bears fruit
again. and thou art not here. then I
shall know that thou wilt never re-
turn" said Andre.
That was eleven months before.
Lisette lad spent nearly whole year
away. She had had time to become
dischanted, to realize what life in a
large city meant to a girl living alone.
And then the stranger had come in.
to her life.
She had first seen him upon the
street as she left the store one eve
ming, and had flushed under his stare.
On the next morning she found him
waiting outside the store. He follow
ed her in, made purchase, addressed
few conventional remarks to her.
He came again and again. He always
treated her with respect, and. though
her fear of him was instructive, grad
ually he scraped an acquaintance with
her 1t is hard for salesgirl to re-
fuse the polite offer Of little atten-
tions-theater tickets, suppers, Sun
day outings. Little by little they
irifted into intimacy. She knew he
loved her. He was well-to-do, and.
though she did not love him. she felt
hat here, at least, was the chance of
| Aviation from her laborious lot.
Then. on the preceding Sunday. he
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
(By Ebert Hubbard)

(By Ebert Hubbard)
If you have health you will prob
ably be happy. And if you have
health and happiness you will have
the wealth you need, even if not all
you want
Health is the most natural thing
in the world.
1t y natural to health because we
are part of nature-we are nature.
Nature is trying hard to keep us
well because she peedG us in her
business.
Nature needs man so he will be
useful to other men,
The reward of life are for service.
And the penalties of life are for
selfishness.
Human Service is the highest
form of self-interest for the person
who serves.
We preserve our sanity only as we
forget self in service.
To center on self and forget our
relationship to society is to summon
misery, and misery means disease
Unhappiness is an irritant. 1t af-
fects the heart beats or circulation
first, then the digestion, and the
person is ripe for two hundred and
nineteen diseaees and six hundred
and forty-two complications.
Nothing that you can take out of
a bottle or that you can rub on will
remove the cause of the misery
Medicine is only palliative"
says DR. Weir Mitchell, "for back of
disease lies the cause, and this cause
no drug can reach"
1--WE got cold in my head" said
the man to the wise doctor
And the doctor replied, Doubt
less. for that is the place where the
microbe hides
People who dread disease and
fear disease have disease.
What we call disease are merely
symptoms of mental conditions
Our bodies are automatic, and
thinking about your digestion does
not aid you. Rather it binders
since the process of thinking. espe'
cially anxious thinking, robs the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
Immense Sum for Harhor

Brazil is preparing to spend $39.
100000 in improvements upon the har.
Dor of Para, the commercial metropo-
lis of the Amazon valley and the great
est rubber exporting center of the
world Formerly large vessels. owing
to the shallowness of the water. were
obliged to lie some miles from the
Quays. A considerable part of the
new quay wall will have a depth along
side of from thirty to thirty-two and
half feet
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
IN FLORIDA

The sky is ever bluest
And friendship is the truest
And enemies the fewest
In Florida.
The mosquitoes bill the keenest,
And land sharks are the meanest
In Florida.
Maidens are the sweetest,
Sailboats are the fieetest
And bungalows the neatest
In Florida.
Old maids are the tamest,
Bachelors the lamest
And tarpons the gamest
In Florida
Red-bugs have a relish
And a bite that's hellish
In Florida
Sand flies are despiteful,
Their appetite is frightful,
But bites are not delightful
In Florida.
Blue lakes are the clearest,
Home-hearts are the dearest
And Heaven is the nearest
In Florida.
Wildcats are the widest
And winters the mildest
In Florida.
Sunshine is the brightest,
Merry hearts are lightest,
And moonbeams are whitest,
I'm Florida.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26

Rock Island, Ill. These rifles were
placed in the discard about six or
seven years ago in favor of the new
Springfield rifle because the latter
had an improved loading device and
a longer range. The Krags, how
ever, are excellent rifles and as good
or better than anything Europe has
today.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
Couldn't See the wI.aou

Lutte Jack was found in the pantrv
covered with jam. His father said q,
MINK, my boy, you would better .o
and show yourself to mother" with
= roeuish look Jack replied, No daa.
dy. l think I deterrent UAo'
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
vuluarIty.

Vulgarity has positive imperish-
able charm. 1t is sham nobility that Ia
revolving. And sham nobility Is the
disease Of our heroes and heroinss IN
serious drama or fiction.-John Oliver
Hobbies.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26

Snakes In South Africa fear the SEQ
rotary bird, and will even crawl away
from his shadow. This bird devours
snakes and can easily kill reptile
twice its size
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26

First English Field Marshal.
The first English field marshal was
created 90 long ago as 17s6.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26

Good Word for the Mule.

Good Word for the Mule.
Some men," said Uncle Eben, pun
N DER lives kickin' at nothin'. Dar y
ois much to be said fob de mule. "
hes interested enough to kick, ne }
wiiiin' to 80 to de trouble OF fsK'a
aim"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-06-26
Big Sum Offered

Specific sums are being mention
ed in this connection. One pur-
chasing agent of war supplies is un-
derstood to have handed $4,000 to
one man who might reasonably be
supposed to have influence in Wash
ington, and is now moving heaven
and earth in an effort to get it back.
1.-The mere fact that money, and
such great sums, have been available
for the purchase of these rifles has
simply served as an invitation to
many to join in the effort to pocket
some of it. The Sun learned that a
New York banking institution certi-
fed to two men who had been moved
by this dream of gold that it Stood
ready to honor the check of one pur-
chasing agent who was seeking these
rifles up to s17,000,O0O. 1t is un-
derstood that several New York
banks already had refused to handle
large sums of money which they be-
lieved was intended for the purchase
of these CASTOR guns. In fact, one
man has complained that he believed
! there was freemasonry among the
banks in. this matter.
THE $4,000 Krag rifles which
this government has discarded are
stored in various arsenals about the
country, but the most of them are at