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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
Imperfect.

Here is a story OF famous Ameri-
can. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a
man Of rare integrity, and so particu-
lar about small things as to be pune
tilious. One day a new cooking stove
had been provided for his house, and,
although the stove came highly rec
commended, 1t proved thoroughly re-
fractory and aggravating. and did
everything but what 1t was expected
to do At length the family was in
despair, and someone suggested send
ing 1t to auction. What" exclaimed
Emerson. transfer our own perplex-
,ty to another pair OF shoulders? No.
never! unless the stove is labeled i'm
perfect" And imperfect 1t was Ia
heled. and sold at heavy discount
Exchange.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
TEACH MANNERS BY EXAMPLE
Only Effective Method, According 10
Writer, and Surely an Extremely
Simple Matter.

There is but one way that know OF
to teach good manners to children;
good manners, that is, that are worth
the practicing and are not mere polish
and sham and hypocrisy; but one way,
and that is-oh, simple formula!-to
practice good manners ourselves.
It Is a simple means; it does away
with worry, with anxiety. with tedi-
Gus training, with modification and
hundred other ills; and yet. II is the
means we most neglect. All over the
land. unthinking women are still say
ink to the casual guest: How good
of you to come! Oh. no, you are not
late. Well. 1t doesn't matter bit; "
but to the child the old formula;
What did tell you!" Don't let me
have to speak to you again.. Thorn
as, shut that door" and hundred
other inexcusable crudities.
In speaking Of good manners,
would not have you think | refer only
to that case and graciousness of man
ner which we are wont to call polite
ness. The crudities we display In
dealing with our children affect, unfor-
tunately, far more than their outward
department. They influence harmful
ly the mind and spirit as we'll as the
manner. Our contrasted manners to-
ward him and toward strangers cult
vate In the child an indifference to
truth; they teach him insincerity;
they give him standards of crudeness
and unkindness which are at variance
With the standards Of high minded and
roble people. These failures and in
constituencies Of ours rob him in hun
dred ways. They wear upon his
nerves as only illogical, irrational, I'M
harmonious and inconsistent things
can do. The child brought up in
home OF rude. crude manners goes
INTO the world gravely crippled,
harmed and handicapped. He has
been robbed before he begins his jour
ney.-Laura Spencer Porter. in Moth
ers Magazine.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30

Il Startled Her to Find Herself Alone
In the Box.
but they told me you were sailing
for Italy"
"Grace's maid told you, I reckon"
laughed Leslie, softly. with fieeting
upward glance at him. Were not
sailing until Saturday"
You are not sailing at ALL" he re-
torted, then in low pleading just over
her shoulder, as she started up the
steps from the box. Are you, Les
lie? Tell me, dear. you're not going
abroad, not now, are your"
Suddenly Leslie saw that the Car
rington box was vacant.
"Oh, I'm to go in the Darlington
car home, Grace said," she ex-
claimed. "Will you take me down
to 1t, please?'
Don't go with them" Carter
begged, holly. Its my one chance
of seeing you alone. Let me take
you home. What's the difference OF
trotting around New York under my
wing minus a chaperon now, and rid
ing 20 miles together through
The mountains in the Cumberland?
Leslie was silent. Her reason told
her not to go, that Grace would OBJ
icct. that her mother would object,
md vet every natural instinct urged
her forward.
At the foot of the broad staircase,
he whispered:
Leslie, won't you? It's my only
chance. Be generous, dear. Grace
fatty refused to let me call"
81 wonder why?"
BECAUSE I'm not wealthy. I'm just
Carter Fairfax. Since she married
and came up there to live. Grace
would do anything for position
why do you suppose they sent you
here?"
Toto give me a happy time,
thought" Leslie's eyes we're fun oil
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
TRADEMARKS
BY HELEN GoODE.

mo, sir, amt the sort Of man to
do things by halves" said Alpheus
T. Jumper. when ordered this here
mansion built told the architect,
None Of your one-man styles for me.
I'm going to have bit of everything.
Gothic and Renaissance, and a Colo
NAL porch and a Jacob bathroom, and
Elizabethan furnace. That's the
sort of q man I am
Now, / put it up to you. want
my mansion furnished proper. don't
care what it costs me, but I'm going
to have a bit Of everything. to show
I'm up to date. Now. I've got list
Of the styles l want. First, the
chairs. Them's going to be Louis
Quinze. The tables will be Louis Seize.
The rockers will be Sheraton. The
beds will be Adam. The bookshelves
will be mission. See?"
The furniture dealer saw. He saw
about twelve thousand dollars of solid
profit for him, and he resolved not to
be baked.
'All right, Mr.. Jumper" he an
swered. Il guess we won't have any
trouble in fixing you up"
Mind you don't" growled the mil
lionaire, who had recently built 9
house in the town. II warn you RICH,
now, everythings got to be genuine
See?"
The furniture dealer retired to so
liloquize over the situation. FINAL!
he arranged with Mr.. Jumper, at thu
latter's suggestion, that Jumper SHOULD
call at his store and inspect the goods
The assortment of gimcracks tina
the furniture man proposed to pain
off on Mr.. Jumper would beggar dc
scription. 1t would not have deceive
anybody with half an eye and quartz
of brain, but the dealer shrewdl
surmised that Mr.. Jumpers brusqu'
ness hid deep gullibility. Alpheu
T. Jumper had appeared from tn
West-somewhere in Michigan, it wa
believed-and he had plans Of spen'
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
mIoht Have Been Worse.

Romeo Johnson Of Indianapolis once
gave this explanation Of how he came
by his first name: My father was a
great admirer of classical acting.
said he, land was an especial admirer
Of Edwin Booth. Shortly before 1
was born he was In the East and
stayed over a day TO see Booth In
Romeo and Juliet The impression
was SO strong that he named me Ro-
meo. It's a good thing that he left
when be did, for the performance the
mex night was p s.laiion and Ca
Iatea.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
LLterau figures.

Robert Herrick, the author. was
talking at a luncheon in Chicago
about literary figures.
Figures" he said, ARE only good
when they illuminate. when they un-
derscore or ita!icize ones meaning.
"As l passed building operation
TIE otter day, heard foreman en-
rloy an excellent figure.
"what are ye dom up there.
Smith, he shouted from the pave
ment
"a head appeared above and an in
jured voice replied:
"Layin' brick, Of course.
well shouted back the foreman.
from yer silence ye might be layin'
eggs"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
Laughing
Leslie

Copyright, 1912. by Associated Literary
It was the last act Of Faust"
Grace leaned forward to whisper in
her sisters ear. Marguerite was
singing her last impassioned aria,
and Leslie's eyes filed with tears
as she turned her head in quick re-
Spouse.
Listen, dear. Jack and 1 are 60
ing on to a little dinner with the
Boyds. It's awfully important for
Jack to keep in touch with them just
now. You won't mind. will you?
You're to 60 home in the Caring
toms car. Don't forget. Mrs. Car
rington is that tall. dark woman four
boxes to the right"
Il don't mind Bit" Leslie said
softly.
Yet when 1t was over. and the cur
tain fell, it startled her to find her
self alone in the box. Grace had
said she was to 60 with the Caring
tons Leslie hesitated. Standing,
and drawing over her shoulders her
long white velvet cloak, she glanced
at the party in the Darlington box.
The two Layton girls were there, and
Dudley Paine. She didn't like the
crowd, and frowned. There was Mrs
Kinlake, too. Even Grace frowned
on Mrs. Kinlake. Then her gaze
strayed to the next box, and rested
there in pleased surprise. She bowed
and smiled, the color stealing righel
in her face.
It was so good to see familiar
face way up north here in New York
He was coming to her. Leslie BIZ
her under lip, and looked down a
+, her glove fastening
I've been hunting you for three
days, Carter greeted her He grippet
her hand until she could have criet
out with pain. why didn't you lie
me know they had sent you north
dearest?"
But why should II" she faltered
He was always so impulsive and i'm
prudent. She wondered what Grac
would say.
why? Because you knew it mean
everything to me, and they were onl
trying to take you away from mt
Dick told me So"
"Dick?" That was extremely lik
Dick, to upset all rules of the famil
game when he believed her happines
to be at stake, and Carter was rul
ming favorite in the race with Die
as a future brother-in-law.
Eyes. He rode over after you LEI
and told me. 1 caught the nigf
train from Washington and tel
phoned in the morning to the hote
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
Wanted TO Be HospitabIe.

When I went to Paris, relates Gen.
Horace Porter. ! told my friends that
any OF them who got within a mile
Of the embassy must come to see me.
The latchstring, I told them. was out;
there was always a spare seat in my
pew at church. The latchstring was
often pulled; the seat in church re
NAMED vacant. One Of my friends who
listed me stopped his subscription
TO the Christian Observer. He said
he didnt T-rt any Observers while h
vas In Paris
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
Wsddlna RIna Arrays Used.

Wedding customs have varied with
changing periods but the wedding ring
has always been used. Its earliest
form was iron. then, In turn. copper,
brass. leather. sedge and adamant;
and, after this, the precious metals.
The first record Of its use is in Gen.
esis 4. The old Gimmal ring was
cunningly fitted in two sections. SO
that one went to the bride and the
other to the bridegroom; and It is
often copied for r1cEerr 'ss
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
l.. w. Yarnall
LIGHT AND HEAVY
HAULING
HOUSEHOLD MOVING A
SPECIALITY
;,
Oak and Pine Wood
.>ld,ts handled promptly,
Phones:
Office 100; Res. s7-Green
Diamond Re- ms luster.

Only the expert cl.i tell an imitation
diamond from a real stone when the
Imitation Ii new, but after the fake
stone has been worn for little time
II soon loses its luster. 1t is this
which makes real diamond valuable.
No matter how long it is worn 1t will
keep its sparkle almost rs well as
ever
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
Hubby Couldn't Lie.

Does your husband ever lie to
your" Never" How do you know"
He tells me that do not look a day
older than did when he married me.
and II he doesn't lie about that l
don't think he would about less i'm
portant matters :"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
Fresh Water Above Salt.

selawik Is a curious lake near the
seacoast Of Alaska. I'll es rise and fall
ia the lake by reason Of an under
ground connection with the sea. Al
the bottom the water is quite salt,
but at the top Ii layer OF perfectly
fresh water.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
Guard Aoalnst Infection.

The Argentine national health De
partment has posted signs along the
principal streets Of Buenos Aires tell
ing what animals and insects should
he avoided to lessen the dangers OF
infectious diseases.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
Secret Of Good Memory

The secret OF good memory is at
tention, and attention to subject
depends upon our interest In 1t. We
rarely forget that which has made
deep impression on our minds
r. 81 Edwards.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
irnn In Water Easily Detected.

Half a part in million of iron In
water is detachable by taste, and four
or five PARTS make water unpalatable-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30

Origin o. the Bicycle; n.v.
r. modern bicycle seems TO navs
"a a.. origin in 1854. p. II. F1scner'
uau a -, az schweinfurt, Germany
saass pedal cranks to the velocipeos
Quite Independently Ernest TN MEM pnh.
biz npon tn. SAFE idea IN ioSo. as,
~, tires seem to have been III .
"a !. Issk by VI. Thevanon OF Lyons
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
Peace.

Nothing can bring you peace pu.
yourself; nothing but the triumph %
acknowledgements.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
Industry the Best Capital.

| began life with sixpence. and be-
lieve that q mans best capital Is his
industry. Girard
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30
The Professions

CHIROPRACTOR
DIR. ). U. SCARBOROUGH.
Lady In Attendance
IN Dyches Building, Between Park
and Auditorium
OFFICE HOURS
. To 1890 q. m. 1880 to s p. m.
1890 to $3.50 p. N.
Insulation and Examination Free.
Residence Phone 240 Black
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30

4. D.&H. D. MENDENHAIL
CIVIL ENGINEERS
suite 2i2-2l5 Drane Building
LAKELAND, FLA.
.~osphate Land Examinations ana
plant Designs, Earthworh Special
lists. Surveys.
Residence Phone as Black.
once Phone ats Blue.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-11-30

ing his declining years in the home
as he said-of his boyhOod days.
The dealers anticipated profit had
already leaped up to fifteen thousand
on a MISREPRESENTATION deal when
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17
NEW APARTMENT HOUSE TO
BE FOR SMALL FAMILIES

A new $4,000 apartment is to be built
at Twenty-eighth and Dewey avenue by
j. H. Elmwood. Work has already begun
on the structure. II. d. Frankfurt is the
architect who designed It, This apart
ment house Is 20 be suitable for small
families That is the general plan to be
carried out throughout the construction
II Is within walking distance OF the bust
ness part Of the city. 1t is a desirable
location. and the plan is to arrange nice
apartments that can be rented at a rea-
sonable price, Each apartment is to be
supplied with a living room, a dining
room. which is 10 serve also as a bed
room, since it is to be furnished with q
Murphy "In-a-Door" wall bed. Each
apartment is supplied also with a kitch-
enette. which is to be equipped with a
gas range, refrigerator. china case, work
table, sink and all that goes with an
up-to-date kitchen. a main corridor is
provided in the center Of the building.
The building is TO be steam-heated.
Hastings & Heyden are to have charge
OF the building.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17
Second Unit of the
Old Post Dairy is
To Be Plated Soon

Another 10 acres OF the old Post dairy
farm Is 20 be plated into acre farms
and placed ON the market in the early
spring.
Hastings & Heyden are getting ready
to plat tho second unit of this tract, which
adjoins Benson on the west. The first
unit of eighty acres was plated last
fall. also roadways completed and partly
sold AS the outlook is good for the
spring demand for suburban acreage, the
firm decided TO lay out another 100 acres
into acre farms. This will be half Of the
farm which will be plated, excepting
forty-acre tract where the big dairy
buildings and the Post home ers located,
which will be kept together until some
future time. The remaining $40 acres will
not be subdivided until some time In the
future. Many trees win be planted early
IN the spring along the driveways. Thou
sands of yards of dirt will be moved 10
make the tract attractive The tract will
be known as Benson Gardens and will be
sold in tracts OF one OF more acres on
the easy payment plan.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17
GEN. HARRlES TO SPEAK
BEFORE REAL ESTATE MEN

President Harries, new head of tho
Omaha Electric Light and Power COM
pany, is to be invited 10 speak before the
Omaha Real Estate exchange as soon o.
It is convenient for him to do so. He Is
20 be asked to speak Wednesday of this
week II he chooses The New Years lit
erature he sent out touching on the spirit
of cooperation that is to prevail between
the lighting company and the people has
attracted the attention OF the real estate
men, and they have decided TO give him
a chance to come before them and go into
some detail on his proposition OF CO.
operation,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17
Chicago Proposes
to Start Municipal
Jitney Bus Line

CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-Three million dol
lars for the purchase Of municipal motor
buses was ordered included in the an
nual appropriation bill by the finance
committee of tho city council last night.
The appropriation, IL approved by the
council. will be used for the purchase
and operation OF single decked buses as
q means of relieving traffic congestion
on the surface and elevated lines. II is
planned to charge scent fares on the
motor buses.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. jan ia. NJ.
Mortensen, traffic manager for the
Panama-Pacific international exposition.
announced today that whatever remained
unsolved in the problem of transporting
visitors TO and from the grounds would
be settled by "Jitney buses.
After conference with the "Jitney
bureau" organization, he said that 1000
buses would be put on the exposition
run and that these easily could handle
2O,OO0 passengers an hour,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17
BIG BOOM FOR FARM LANDS
Good Prices for Products and Enor-
nous Demand Expected to Start
Real Estate Moving,
TIME RIPE FOR ADVERTISING

This year ought 10 turn out a record
breaker for railroads corporations and
all others who have farm lands for sale
Not only will they be In a position to
dispose OF all available land they wish 20
sell. but they will also be able to secure
good prices" says the Mail order jour
nal.
Conditions have made the outlook for
farm lands sales exceptionally bright. II
Is weli-known fact hat big crops,
which enricn the farmer ere always fol-
lowed by a substantial demand for farms,
II will be more so this year on account
of the nigh prices of all cereals and gar-
den products and the disturbed industrial
conditions, which have existed In most
manufacturing districts of the country.
ITO the toiling masses in tho large and
over-crow6ed citieA the farmer looks
as the embodiment Of plenty and con-
tentment-and as a living appeal 10 all
in the larger cities. where thN' are
struggling hard 10 exc out living TO
! seek peace and plenty In agricultural
pursuits. This year our farmers will
not be lured into Canada, which feels the
effect Of tho war as heavily as II II were
an European country.
Immigrants from Europe and especi-
ally from the German speaking
countries will in face OF the cruel treat
ment accorded to Germans in the oomln-
ion for years shun the lure Of Canada
and turn to the United States. where they
have always met with the best neigh
borly treatment and announcement. The
enormous increase I'm this country's win
ter wheat acreage indicated what our
farmers expect Of this year.
'If IL has ever paid 20 advertise farm
land for sale, 1t will pay big this year,
provided this advertising is done In
telllgently and persistenlS- The best
medium TO advertise farm lands are the
classified columns OF the newspapers
They have always been the best sellers
of land, for IL is from the cities, from
which people can BIO indusod to SO e
the country and TO take up farming.
'The railroads, which have farm lands
TO sell Will by extensive advertising II
newspapers be doubly benefited. They
will not only draw toilers to their land
but also help TO increase the population
of the small cities along their lines, as IL
times like these It IL the small cities, which
form the centers of agricultural districts
that offer unusual business opportunities
for small traders and mechanics"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17

For the serious person, the real
estate columns of today's Bee Of
fer plenty of food for choice.
When you have studied the sit
uation, your own Judgment will
tell you that we state the case
very conservatively
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17

Real estate men and others
will be a strong demand for
lots this spring and that pr
be highly satisfactory to, the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17
ScHESHAY CHARGED WITH
VIOLATING TRAFFIC RULES

City Abstractor Wood Hartley has filed
three complaints against Lewis Scheshay,
Carter lake icehouse owner. who is
charged to have not paid attention 70 Of
ficiaI notice 10 stop his heavy wagons
from crossing boulevards.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17
SHERMAN APARTMENTS
HANDLED BY PETERS TRUST

The Peters Trust company has Just Sc
cured the agency for the Sherman apart
ment house. located on Sherman avenue
and Madison avenue. This is one of the
best and most desirable apartment houses
in the city. II has five and six-room
apartments. with large, light rooms.
Fifty per cent of the tenants have been
there over three years, two tenants have
been there six years and one eighteen
years.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17
''The Flora" Completed.

Tho new apartment house built by
Louis Rubin at 25sl Jones street, is now
completed. It is known as the Flora. The
owner has placed 1t in the hands of A.
+. Turkey & Son to be handled by this
firm. 1t has twelve apartments Of from
three to six rooms. The building Is a
three-story brick, all modern and equipped
with the most up-to-date equipment OF
modern apartment houses.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17
Penderga.t Farm sold.

A strip OF 80 acres of the 4OO-acre
farm of Mrs. Bridget Pendergast, has
recently been sold for s21,6Oo, through
the Grin S. Merrill company of South
Omaha, to John Armburst. 4, The farm
is in the western part of SaFpy county
three and one-half miles north and west
of Gretna. The sale is for March de-
livery. although it 10 already rented
for 1916
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17
Henry Fedde Buys
The Richards Farm

Henry Fedde, who recently sold his
forty-acre farm, has Just purchased the
Jesse S. Richards eighty acres, situated
IN tile western part OF Douglas county.
The consideration named IL something
Ieas than 5000 Mr.. Fedde expects TO
get possession Of the farm. March l. and
farm Il for the year 1915 The Grin S.
hEsrriii company OF South Omaha. handed
khs deal
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-01-17
Acreage
and
Vacant Lots
are considered the best
investment right now

Real estate men and others believe that there
will be strong demand for acreage and vacant
lots this spring and that prices will accordingly
be highly satisfactory to, the vendors.
One reason for such demand is the
small amount of money required and
the chances of realizing an early
profit. The profit may be conserva-
tive, andyet severaltimes that which
could be taken on the same money
invested elsewhere.
Another advantage which appeals strongly to the
average man and woman at present is the tact
that these forms of property may be purchased
on easy monthly payments. Money is not so
easily missed
While all kinds of Omaha real estate
are splendid investments now be-
cause of the certain rise in value
when conditions become more set
tied, the preference seems to be for
acreage and vacant lots.
These properties will be safe and profitable in
vestments next spring. but why shouldn't one
take the extra profit and buy nOw? Money is not
problem, for ten dollar bill will make the first
payment on a good lot
For the serious person, the real