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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-13
FIRST NEW 1915 MOTOR
TAGS ARRIVE IN ABILENE

The first motor car owners to
make applications for licenses have
received the tags from ]. T. Bot
kin, secretary of state. The new
tags have white numerals and letl
ters on a black background and
the abbreviation "Kan" is arranged
in monogram.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-13
Biliousnes and stomach Trouble

Two years ago | suffered from
frequent attacks of stomach trouble
and biIiousness," writes Miss Emma
Verbryke, Lima Ohio. 81 could eat
very little food that agreed with
me and l became so dizzy and sick
at my stomach at times that / had
to take hold OF something to keep
from falling. Seiig Chamberlain
Tablets advertised | decided to try
them. / improved rapidly" OBJ
everywhere.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-13
ARTLENE sOCIKTIRa

ROYAL ARCH MAsoNs- Cyrus Chap
ter No. rs meets in Masonic Temple on
the second and fourth Fridays Of each
month. 7, L Humphrey. Il. p Joseph
z. Keel. Secretary.
A. +. a a. M--Bencvolent Lodge No.
IS meets first and third Monday even
ings IN each month Ia Masonic Temple,
corner Third and Spruce H. W.
Rohrer. ". n; J. L Worley. Secrs
tary. Visiting brethren welcome
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-13

Clean old papers for sale at the
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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1916-07-13
RAILWAY TIME TABLES
UNION PACIFIC
Eastbound

165 and 166 daily except Sunday.
Other trains daily.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02
Gi1S

science; and when we look deep I'M
der the surface of things we often
find that we need as much forgive
ness as we extend to others.
How much more beautiful the
world would be, how much nearer
the stars would seem and how much
less irritating the storm if, as each
day goes on its pilgrimage into the
past and the night, closes down upon
it, we could put from our souls the
soil OF resentment and revenge and
forgive those who have trespassed
against u.s." even as we would be
forgiven for our own faults and fail
ings.
Such forgiveness hour would
mean a mental clearness and spirit
ual uplift-that would work togeth-
er for the peace that passeth all
understanding
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02
TALKING OF FLORIDA
IN THE FROZEN WEST

In the Chicago Herald of Febru-
airy Il appears the following account
OF Fishing experience in Florida.
near Miami. showing that this sec
tion is receiving a degree of winter
publicity in the west
"Angling---especially in Florida
waters--is not the calm recreation
described by Isaak Walton. accord
ing to Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce D. Smith
who for two weeks have been cruis-
ing about Long Key and Cape Sable.
Fla, in their houseboat.
They went up Shark river, a
stream teeming with sharks, alliga-
tors, crocodiles and poisonous snakes.
and on the trip Mr.. Smith shot a
nine-foot alligator, while both he
and his wife caught tarpons weigh
ing fifty and sixty pounds. The fish
ing was done on an inky-black night
when they could not see their catches
until they were landed over the side
of the boat
After their Shark river adven-
ture the Smiths spent some time five
miles out at sea reef fishing, where
they caught amberjack. barracuda
and other deep-sea fish. The alli-
gator hide, which is said to be an
exceptionally fine one, is now on its
way to Chicago to be mounted"
The same paper also contains the
following editorial on southern tour
list travel:
The South's New Content"
This is the winter of the South's
full content with the north's appre-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02
Mr.. BRYAN AT HIS WORST.

Mr.. William j. Bryan repeats an
absolutely dishonest illustration in
the kilograms he is sending members
Of Congress urging them to support
resolution warning Americans of
passeng ger steamers.
Mr. Bryan says that, when a riot
breaks out in a city, the Mayor is
justified by public sentiment in warn
ing good citizens off the streets. He
declares that this fits precisely the
point he is now making.
Mr. Bryan has said this before,
and is evidently proud of it. But his
Illustration tells less than half the
truth. What Mr.. Bryan would have
the Mayor of a town where riot was
in progress say to good citizens is
this
"A riot is now in progress and
certain criminals are now burning
down your houses. / decline, how
ever, to use the police force to coerce
these men. | decline even to say
to them that / will at any time use
the police force. l believe that love
is the only weapon l should use to
convince these rioters of their mis-
conduct. I, therefore, warn all
good citizens off the streets. If any
of the rioters burn your property
down, submit to it. If the bullets
fired by the rioters kill your chill
dren. that is something that cannot
be helped The business of this city
must come to an end and our citizens
must hide like towards, as they are,
in their houses until the rioters de-
eide to change their ways"
This is the doctrine Mr. Bryan
would have his country apply to the
German submarines. Our citizens
have the same right to protection on
the nigh seas that the peaceful citi-
zen has against rioters in an Ameri-
can city, but Mr.. Bryan believes that
his countrymen should be denied pro-
lection from any one who may seek
to take their lives-Louisville (Ky.)
Post
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02
LET US HAVE A FORGIVING
s DAY, TOO
(Memphis Commercial Appeap

tMemphis Commercial AppeaD
Says popular syndicate writer:
Let us have a Forgiving Day once
a year.
It is tender thought, but it is
wiser to narrow down the time to
forgiving hour once a day. The
Bible says: Let not the sun go
down upon your wrath" and never
was there given any better prescrip-
tion against restlessness and in
somnia. The man who carries his
grudge to bed lies awake tormented
by it far into the night. He who
puts aside the animosities of the
day lies down to pleasant dreams"
and refreshing slumbers.
Half of the worry that cumbers
the spirit, half of the burden that
weights down the heart come from
the wrongs-real or fancied that
fill US with bitterness and bring us
to the even-song with the taste of
the waters of Morah on our lips.
The little nagging stings of resent
ment set us a spiritual irritation that
is hurtful to our better natures.
How much better for us if at the
end of the day we could take back
ward glance at the events that have
made up the sum of the hours and
single out the things that have
wounded us-the sharp words, the
injustices, the Misrepresentation,
the WEAKNESSES that have taken the
joy out of our hearts and left in its
place a smart of resentment and a
! desire for retaliation-and say TO
them; You are too small and low
and mean to enter into my thoughts.
l would rather forgive you than
pamper and nurse you" And so dis
miss them with a gentle thought for
the offenders.
And it may come to pass that in
this hour of retrospection we may
come suddenly upon an unexpected
truth that we were the ones ORR
ginally at fault. That II was some
act of our own that brought on the
unhappy incident that resulted in
our wound. If this forgiveness hour
is to he of any real spirit value, then
we must be quite honest with our
selves and take our share OF the
blame for quarrels and hard words
and misunderstanding A salved-
over conscience is not a clear con-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02
ST. AUGUSTINE HAS THE
AGE ON PENSACOLA

The Pensacola News claims that
Pensacola is Americas Oldest city.
But we are indisposed to unlearn that
which we labored so hard to acquire
in the little red school house." There
we learned that Pensacola bay was
discovered by Narvaez in 1923 and
the site of the town was settled in
the close of the 18th century. In
1865 Menendez deAviles landed at
what is now st. Augustine, and short
ly afterward founded the city. So II
seems that while Pensacola bay was
discovered nearly 40 years before
kMenedez deAiles saw the coast Of
Florida, and ST. Augustine was found
ed some little time before Pensacola
was settled. We happened not to be
there at the time, but il proof is need.
ed We will call on Harry Brown to
help sustain the contention.-Clear-
water Sun.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02

am prepared to do all kinds Of
we'll work from four inches up. All
work guaranteed. Have had years OF
experience. and my work has always
given satisfaction.
W. H. STRAIN. Lakeland, Fla.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02
NOTICE

Sealed bids will be received by the
board of bond trustees, Lakeland,
Florida, until 10 a. m. Monday,
March 27th, for separate items as
we'll as for the entire work required
for the construction of building and
water reservoir for the new water
and electric power station in the
city of Lakeland. Florida; also for
steam, water and other piping and
valves for the said station.
Specifications will be issued by the
Scofield Engineering Co.. Philadel-
phia, on March LIST, and will be on
file at their Office in Philadelphia
and at the City Hall. Lakeland. Flor
ida.
Extra copies may be obtained from
the Scofeld Engineering Company.
Philadelphia, on deposit of $500
per copy, to be refunded on return
to them.
All bids are to be in duplicate. ad-
dressed to ]. r. Boulware. secretary
of board of bond trustees. Lakeland.
Fla. and must be accompanied by
certified check in the sum OF ten per
cent of amount Of bid as a guaran-
tee if bid is accepted
The right is reserved to reject any
or all bids.
BOARD OF BOND TRUSTEES,
]. R. Boulware, Secretary
sos
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02
Hudson Gives Views
On The Fee System

citation of its attractions as a play
ground for the prospectus as well as
a haven for the health seeker and an
opportunity for those who would fee
from cities back to the soil.
As a result Of the European war
thousands Of Americans who had the
going-to-Europe habit went last win
ter to California, whose expositions
were then a special attraction. Many
of them have gone back to California
this winter. and especially to the
summer lands south of the Techach-
api Pass.
But more of these winter tour
lists than ever before have gone to
the south. There are, for example,
twice as many visitors from the
north in the State of Florida this
winter as in any previous winter.
The Herald happens to have accur-
ate railroad statistics for that State.
Doubtless about the same condition
prevails in the North Carolina hills,
in central Georgia and along the gulf
coast of Alabama, Mississippi and
Louisiana.
The South is glad to see these
fellow citizens. 1t has much to give
in rest, recreation and health and
no matter how much the south pros
pers its visitors get value received"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02
WILLIAMS BARGAIN COUNTER

. ACRES with boat house, improved
and fenced on Lake Parker, keel
lent trucking land, desirable
place to build; borders city limits
VIII sacrifice for $500.
90 ACRES improved, about IA acres
in grove; nice 2-story house, good
barn, pump house, large tank, six
inch well, 500 feet deep, one 1-2
in we'll, best water. Land suitable
for trucking. fruit, poultry rails
ing, etc A splendid place on Lake
Parker. Price $500.
10 ACRES improved, fair 2-story
house and barn, an assortment of
citrus and other fruits, partly ir-
rigated, good citrus and truck
land, on Lake Parker, adjoining
city limits Will sell part or all
Prce $4,000.
WANT TO EXCHANGE modern six
room bungalow and large lot,
well located, il St. Petersburg,
for improved farm near Lakeland.
MODERN 5-ROOM BUNGALOW and
garage, lot 106x140, set to trees,
in excellent residence section,
cost s2,100 Will sell much
cheaper for quick move.
90 ACRES 10 milan aouth NJ Iake-
land, some good citrus land. and
some Of the best truck and straw
berry land in the State, comfort
able house and out houses. II sold
soon will take $1,000 with terms.
IL ACRES near town. lake view, all
fenced. s acres in cultivation,
splendid land. one 5-room and g.
room house and barn, excellent
water. About Is young orange
trees; one Of the best propositions
in this section. Price $4,000.
Terms II wanted.
20 ACRES fine truck land all cleared
and In cultivation. under fence;
good farm house; only 3 miles
from Lakeland. This is a rare bar
ain at $1,000; half cash, balance
in two years.
G. J. WILLIAMS,
TELEGRAM Bldg. Phone Sc Black
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02

PEELED to submit to the ann
of his foot, insisted on having
cred without the aid of AM
thetic.
The old man gritted his te:
watched the doctors as Ii
through flesh and bone, as III
to in the old days before the
cry CT ether.
The operation was entire
cessful, and Mr.. Murray re-
but a few days afterward b
have excruciating pains
seemed to be localized beyO
end Of the severed limb, just
the foot used to be. The EN-
foot was dug up, earthly 81
ened cut, wrapped in cotton
buried. with the result tina
Murray is now resting in
comfort. w. H. Walton ant
inent citizens of Athens yOl
the truth of the above facts
Inside information.
Mans Eden without Eve "
. dirty place, full of tobacco 81
Exchange.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02

WANTED-Ticket to Middle West
Anyone having outgoing transporta-
tion address Ticket, 800 North Ken
lucky avenue, city. 521s
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02

Having purchased and subdiyided
the Jesse Keen estate of $50 acres
ne-half mile west Of city limits, we
are now selling in 10 and 20-acre
tracts some of the finest truck and
farm lands in this section at the
right p-ice and terms. For paricu-
lars see G. c. Rogan. Rooms ! and
2. Deem & Bryant Bldg. Phone LAG.
1886
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02

store, cottage, Office or anything
else for rent, list them with US and
watch the result.
THE KEY RENTAL AGENCY
We are the key to the situation
Room s, Elliston Bldg.
P. o. Box COS, Lakeland, Fla.
5OO6
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02
Classified Advertising

FOR SALE-Pig Ftyes and cattle
pens used at Polk County Fair
Apply to Edwin Schurman. 5225.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-03-02
OLD JOHN MURRAY

SURE WAS GRITTY
Atlanta, March John Murray
OF Bakersville, an aged and we'll
known Georgian, when recently COM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05

actually gets at the soul of the jungle
folk.
81 have shared the life of the people
of all ranks and classes" he writes, lin
their towns and villages, in their rice
fields, on their rivers and in the mag
rifcent forests that cover the face OF
their country. have fought with them
and against them. have camped with
the downtrodden aboriginal tribes OF
iungle-dwelling Sakai and Semang ard
have heard from their own lips the tale
Of their miseries."
There is no doubt that Sir Hugh did
all these things, not merely from
natural interest in good copy, but from
a feeling of genuine human sympathy
Mr.. Stephens's little book deals with
the insurrection against English rule
that began in Dublin last Easter Mon
day and lasted seven days. 1t is de-
signed primarily for English readers,
but it will interest Americans, especi-
ally those of British blood. There is no
bitterness in it, but it is the sort OF
story that puts lump in your throat
Mr.. Stephens lives in Dublin. The
first part of his book gives his day-Dy-
day experiences during that sanguinary
week. AS a reporter Mr.. Stephens is
deficient in the news sense. Had ne
been the Dublin correspondent OF an
American newspaper he would have
been fired. The revolt was blazing
there for half day before he suspected
ANYTHING unusual. He never got the
real story. All he knows is that Dublin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05
FROM INKPOT ALLEY

PLANTATION would be uneconomic, but
from him it was so logical that a child
could comprehend it. These masters
did not always leave him. They re-
manned, marvelling, perhaps
One of his boys said there was no fun
in telling lies to Dir. Pearse, for how
ever outrageous the lie, he always be-
lieved it."
One of the most interesting figures in
the revolt was James Connolly, the
laborl leader. He was severely wounded
in the fighting, and was carefully
nursed back to health so that he could
stand up properly and be shot. The doc.
tor who had attended him brought back
word that he was to be executed the
next morning.
when you stand up to be shot, will
you say a prayer for the men who are
shooting you?" he asked.
Il will" said Connolly, land | will say
a prayer for every good man in the
world who is doing his duty"
In final chapter on the Irish ques-
ton, Mr. Stephens says: Our eyes
must be withdrawn from the ends of
the earth and fixed on that which is
around u.s." There is a moral in that
for the British government and for all
governments and peoples. Britain
sends out her best men to give years OF
patient effort and study to understand
the needs and habits and desires of
black men and brown and yellow whom
she rules in distant parts of the earth.
Some day, perhaps, she will send her
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05

Sir Hugh entered the British colonial
service and went to the Malay PENN
sula before he was eighteen. Three
years later he was sent on special
mission to Pahang, in a remote corner
of the peninsula, and in Pahang he lived
for several years, rarely seeing awhile
face or speaking word of his own
tongue. In all he spent twenty years
among the Malays. The material for
the stories and sketches in his book was
gathered principally in Pahang. Sir
Hugh is no Kipling, but he knows his
native as never Kipling knew his.
Unfortunately Sir Hugh felt that IN
his book he must become sort OF press
agent for British Imperialism. The re-
suit of his visit to Pahang was anneXa-
ton and a little war and the addition OF
an area larger than Massachusetts,
Connecticut and Rhode Island to the
British Empire. Sir Hugh intlmates
that his government went in inspired
solely with a passion for bringing law
and Justice and prosperity and freedom
to downtrodden people. More proba-
bly the government saw some valuable
territory and went after it and grabbed
it. But he makes out a good case none
the less.
This is because Sir Hugh Clifford Is
himself an excellent argument 'or
British Imperialism. A man OF mag
nation and vision and broad human
sympathy, he went to extraordinary
lengths to understand these primitive
Ieople. And the reader feels that ne
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05
By TANSY M'NAB

burst into a kind of spontaneous war
which lasted seven days and then
stopped as suddenly as it began. Many
good men were killed and the finest
part of the city blown into smithereens.
That is all. But somehow in series of
little pictures Mr.. Stephens makes US
feel the humor and the piteousness OF
this mad uprising.
He knew several Of the leaders of the
revolt, for the most part young poets
and scholars, unquestionably the mild
est-mannered men that ever started a
fight. He makes it plain that they dld
not expect an army from Germany.
They expected only to be shot, and they
were shot. They thought the hour had
come to make a row and give up their
lives for the cause of freedom in Ire
land.
They were not magnetic men, and &C.
cording to Mr.. Stephens, Peter Pearse,
the schoolmaster, who was chosen
president of the ephemeral Irish Re-
public" was the least magnetic Of all
81 think Pearse became the leader
says Mr.. Stephens, because his tenn
permanent was more profoundly emo
tional than any of the others
He had a power; men who came into
intimate contact with him began to act
differently to their own desires and in
terests. His schoolmasters did not al
WAYS receive their salaries with resu'
laritv. The reason that he did not pay
them was the simple one that he had no
money. Given by another man this ex-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05

Often it saves bother to be far
sighted. One misses so many annoying
aud pulling things in the immediate
neighborhood.
FARSIGHT know a pious old
AND lady who regularly cor
NEARSIGHT tributed considerable
sums of money to save
ne souls of yellow men on the other
Sde Of the globe. Within a few blocks
her house were whole families of lost
Ehite souls living in a deplorable state,
but she never noticed them. | recall
bow proud we used to be, during the
American occupation Of Cuba, that
COLONEL Waring had cleaned up Havana
mo was keeping it as neat as a pin; yet
N the same time the streets of New
FORK were deplorably dirty. How eX-
cited we get over the state Of democracy
Mexico, and how Indifferent we are
as TO the state of democracy in, let us
Sy Colorado or Bayonne. How noDly
We responded with our millions to feed
NE starving Belgians. A few months
oeiore that a man in New York went
INTO church with some others and eX-
PANIED that they were hungry and out
job; so we put him in jail for
i.ar.
| have been reading two books that
'ecall this odd human habit of looking
sith interest and sympathy at things
nat happen in our neighbours house or
'ar neighbours continent, while we
sake no effort to understand what Is
gong on under our nose. They are
90ln strangely interesting books. one
: The Further Side Of Silence by Slr
"ugh Clifford, and the other James
S*phens'S "The Insurrection IN
Dublin"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05

Sir Hugh Cliffords across the Irish
Channel to share the life of the people
Of all classes" in Ireland, to apply as
much imagination and sympathy to Ire
land as they have to the Malay PENN
sula. On that day the age-long puzzle
of the Irish question will be advanced
toward solution.
sor William Lyon Phelpss Advance of
the English Novel" at page 25S and
read: 81 attempted
IN to read 'Septimus' on
DARKEST the train, and came
NEW HAVEN. near being elected.
The sudden surprises
of the humor were so great that |
vented prodigious examinations, which
shocked me as much as they did the
passengers"
From this | wondered if all members
of the Yale faculty travelled as freight.
Such an arrangement doesn't seem fair
to Professor Taft. Ponderlng deeply
about the possible freight rates on Yale
professors in carload lots, turned the
pages until piece about Samuel But
ler's THE Way of All Flesh" caught
my eye 1t ran: Although . G-...s'
believe this is a diabolical novel, ! think
it will prove to be of service TO Chris
tianity. | know it has done me good
Poor Butler is dead. It's. pity, for
he enjoyed good laugh Tor a'prodig-
ious cachinnation) as well as any one.
AS soon as read about Butler | turned
to the beginning and went through. the
whole book. wanted to see what Pro-
fessor Phelps had to say about Welii's
Continued on Page Eight.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05

In receptive state opened Profess
sor William Lyon Phelps's Advance of
the English Novel" at page 25S and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05

read: 81 attempted
to read 'Septimus' on
the train, and came
near being elected.
The sudden surprises