The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-04-18
EX-COV. CILCHRISTI
WRITES Of OUR
PREPAREDNESS

'vaycross. Ga, April l6.-ln spite
of the war it might be interestinS
to some, especially of the masculine
gender, to read little incident from
real everyday life, as illustratins
how at least one marriage was or
was not made in Heaven" This
relates to one of my tenants. He was
"a widower He met a man here for
the first time in store. He hap
pened to tell the man that he was
widower The man told him there
was a likely woman living near
him, about twenty miles away, and
that he thought she 'mought MARI!
him. The prospective groom was in
his shirt seeves. He said by grab
/ will go with you there today. The
next day he returned with his bride.
They have lived happily ever
since '' This illustrates that pre-
paredness' is not absolutely neces-
sary in that kind of war" repre-
sented in "all is fair in love and
war They have never broken off
diplomatic intercourse. Several
children bless their union
The owner of a little kingdom has
more perplexing incidents than Mos
es had He is practically justice OF
the peace, mayor, member Of the
legislature, speaker of the house
governor everything except L. 5.
senator. Recently quite an issue
arose between two of my tenants
The wife of one claimed that tn,
wife of the other was "ruthlessly
lsubmarining her eggs, by makins
nests under her house for her chick
eHo W lay III nat DIOuSHt lhcii
to the verge Of war" as Secretar,
Lansing once wrote. Finally tn
billy goat of one invaded the terri
tory of the other. treating the fenc
of one as scrap of paper | wa
called in as the sole representativ
Of The Hague conference. | though
| mad Automatically settled all issue
e by getting one of the parties to SUI
: render their territory and to anothe
! street. On the following day, o
the skirmimsh line, in the stree
. their children engaged in fighr
q One father. Captain B, was on tn
l. Gring line. The other, Captain 4
II was absent. about 100 yards. Neithe
one had a chance to announce tina
"a state of war exists between tn
imperial government of one and tn
government and people" of the othe
, Captain A saw the hand grenade
a a-nying He charged. Captain A
a. about 60. Weighing about 120. Cal
tain b is about 21, weighing abor
$50 They lived sided by sided. sa
' on Smith street Captain b had pr,
!; viously proposed that a certain pal
of Smith street be the 'restricte
,e Icne." and that none of the arme
Is forces pass the fence line. the Bol
"a "a der-the Rio Grande The scene Z
" battle was in this zone" In chars
e. ing. Captain A struck out, receivin
i'd in return the coffest of hand gr'
made on his nose He slipped an
At fell, attributing his fall. not to II
~ eject of the hand grenade. but
70 his slippery shoes. Rising. he hran'
n n, ished his open knife. circling il
the air like an aeroplane. Captain
It's always fiahts fair He had no idt
II, OF torpedoing Captain b. Captain
says to r. Il did not take time
unite my shoes. CI reckon not
q. Just cut my shoe strings and kick
In my shoes off. "In the mean tim
g. Captain A had executed strategic
v. retreat to "strategical line Of
fence" in his yard. taking with hi
n all his heavy artillery. Not wi