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The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-05-24
ROBINSON CRUsOE's BIRTHDAY


They made him a coat,
OF an old nannie-goat
don't see how they could do so!
1t was two hundred years ago, in
April of 17l9, that The Life and
Strange, Surprising Adventure of
Robinson Crusoe of York, Marine"
first appeared, and the name of DAN
iel DeFoe was immortalized for the
children of many ages.
He finds his place with the Pied
Piper, King Arthur, Columbus and
Rip Van Wrinkle. We feel that the
child who did not have a chance to
know this man has been cheated out
of a part of his birthright.
There was the goat, man Friday,
and Pol-how vividly they all flash
back, the details of an absorbing sto-
ry of how a weak and solitary man
struggles successfully with the pitt
less and seemingly unconquerable
forces of nature
The situation is so universal in its
appeal and is treated in such de-
lightful straightforward manner that
it holds the interest of both the old
and young.
Although Daniel DeFoe was a jour
nalist, a historian, a biographer, a
poet, an essayist, a political econo-
mist, a sociologist, a religious con-
troversialist, moralist, topograph
er, and a writer on occult subjects,
he is almost invariably identified as
the author of Robinson Crusoe."
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-05-24

Mrs. E. Sydney stephens will give a
farewell dinner Tuesday night in hon.
or OF Mrs. l. o. Hockaday.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-05-24

The Rev. T. W. Young returned to
Columbia yesterday after attending
the Southern Baptist Convention
which was held at Atlanta, Ca, this
week.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-05-24

Edwin Moss Williams entertained
fifteen couples at an informal dance
at his home on Glenwood avenue last
night
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-05-24

ernoon in honor of Mrs. l. o. Hocka-
day, who leaves next week for Chi
cago.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-05-24

Mrs. L. W. Berry entertained three
tables at bridge this afternoon at her
home on Bouchelle avenue.
Gleed Gaylord of Kansas City is
visiting his brother, Phil Gaylord, at
the Sigma Chi house.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-05-24

Miss Margaret Rollins will enter
tain four tables at bridge Tuesday aft
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-05-24

Mrs. Eugene Logan will give a tea
Wednesday afternoon in honor of Mrs.
Henry Grice.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02
SPEcULATlNG ON HEADLINES

Everybody knows that the negro
has been q terrific fighter in this
var, with an honorable record worthy
of his race. But there have been mo-
ments of fear for him, just as there
have been for the white man. for all
soldiers say that before they are to
- over the top their greatest fear is
of fear itself
I'VE Anglo-Saxons shuah am some
fightahs." said Nose to his friends
after the scrimmage was over. But
before he went over the top he was
not so certain about the heroics.
What do you all spec de newspa-
pah headlines am goin' to be, Mose?"
asked his friend. It was ten minutes
to zero hour: the negroes knew that
10000 white men were support them
in the rear.
What do All think dem headlines
am going to be-" answered Nose,
Ten t'ousand white men trampled to
dealt. Eek.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02
]. X. DAVIS LIKES FORT
MYERS COUNTRY BUT SAYS
NOTHING WILL BEAT POLK

j. r. Davis is up from Fort Myers
for a few days to help little in the
shipment of sweet potatoes from his
big farm near Barlow. He has 20
acres here now being dug Two car
loads have been shipped and several
more will follow. They are fine and
j, r. says in dollars and cents the
yield will be about $1,000 per acre.
Mr., Davis reports about 10000
crates of truck shipped from his Fort
Myers farm, the season being over
with him there except as to peppers.
He like the Fort Myers section but
says it is mighty hard to beat this
Barlow country when 1t comes to the
all-purpose proposition, and that he
expects to return in September and
make this end of the line his resident
home Barlow Record.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02
CHARITY FOR THE
BLUE AND THE GRAY

heard two callow youths discuss
The civil war one day;
With heated words and sneering
mouth
One charged the North and one the
South
With cowardice amid the fray.
And from their words unjust, untrue,
Impatiently turned away,
For they had never worn the blue,
Nor had they worn the gray. Il
l heard two aged men discuss
The civil war one day,
And their dim eyes betrayed some
tears
AS they rehearsed those long, sad
years
And many hardships of the fray.
With fervent heart, MAY God bless
you,"
To each | could not help but say;
For one of them had worn the blue
And one had worn the gray.
-Alva Turner in New York Herald.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02
MY PA WON'T PLAY WITH ME

My paw, he's the bestest man, he
brings me lots of toys,
And candy, too, and all SIGH things,
what's good for little boys:
He lets me go to circusses, and spend
my money free,
He buys me lots Of Sunday clothes,
but he won't play with me.
Most every morning after tea, ] gifts
my ball to play,
And ask my paw to catch it. but he's
allus sure to say:
Don't bother, son-I'm busy now;
go on to bed" says he.
Then ] go off wishin' that my paw
would play with me.
Sometimes when I kneel down at
night, just sorter so, to pray,
Old Nick slides in betwixt the lines,
and almost makes me say;
"Oh, Lord, send me paw that amt
got so much biz, SOS he
Can find a little weency, teency time
to play with me-"
I s'pects that great big mems don't
want to have some fun no way;
And maybe 'twouldn't look just right
to see them run and play;
But | jes' can't help thinkin', sir,
what great sport 'twould be
If paw'd been born a little boy, SOS
he could play with me.
Some day when | feel sorter tough,
with sand up in my craw,
And amt a-skeerd of gettin' licked,
III bet | tells my paw
Say, dad if you jes' wants to be
right, up to date you see,
You'd better come down off your
perch and learn to play with me.
tmft% fajE 'i4ga
| amt much on philosophy, but 90;
it on my slate,
Jes' chalked it down in black anG
white, and feel compelled K
state:
"Of course, loves my paw, and thet
he loves me, too, but we
Could love each other better Il he't
only play with me.
| w Hallack Mansfield
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02
THOSE SUMMER VACATIONS

The Railroad Administration has
shown that it wants people to have
vacations as part of the after-the-
war program, and is ready to help
them to enjoy trips by establishing
tourists rates to resorts all over the
country. The North Carolina and
Georgia resorts, the beautiful New
England resorts and others in the
North. and great National parks in
the West are included on the list of
places published by the Railroad Ad.
ministration, to which special rates
will be accorded Special excursion
rates also apply to the trips that may
be taken through the wonderful Ma
tional parks, and those who are plan
ming for journeys westward to these
great Fairgrounds of the nation, with
their natural beauties and wonders.
are fortunate indeed.
For the past two years or more PEG.
pie have, many of them, given up the
vacation, which was heretofore con-
sidered an annual event, and they
have missed the Joy which the rest,
the change, and freshness of vision
brings to them as they sojourn two
weeks. a month, or perhaps more, in
some wonder spot endowed by Nature
with the scenic beauties that refresh
the soul and gladen the eyes. We
have more heart fer vacations this
year than has been the case in many,
many months past, and now Is the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02
GUARDS ON JOB

Gov. Cats is fearful that there may
be trouble here at home that will re-
quire an armed force to handle and
therefore he urges that a new militia
be speedily organized to take the
place of the fast disappearing home
guard"
Conditions in this state today are
said to be serious and those In a 20.
sition to know think there is grave
danger especially in those communi
ties where the County guard has dis
banded or disintegrated In st. Pet.
ersburg the County guard still exists
as live and active organization and
the guard, having stuck through the
war. win continue TO stick until the
new militia Is organized and is ready
for an emergency that may arise. The
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02
SHOTS FROM A QUAKER GUN

You never can tell Even the ego
fist may have the wool pulled over
his Is.
Even the gilded youth can't buy his
experience and have it charged to
papa.
To get joke out of theprohibition
movement certainly requires dry
humor,
A man may be a diamond in the
rough, but lots of people will want to
cut him.
One way to make your troubles
grow is to keep eternally telling them
to other people.
Virtue is its own reward The man
who is too honest to steal kiss will
never get married.
Buying gloves and shoes demon.
strates that We have to foot the bills
that come to Philadelphia
Record.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02

Pinellas county guard was one of the
first organized and ii will not go out
Of existence until the need for it
ceases. And that will not be until
there is a well organized military
body to take its place.
Gov. Cats thinks the prospects for
trouble at home are good. In a mes.
sage to the Legislature he said:
ORGANIZATION of world-war has
thrust upon southern states, and es.
pecially Florida, social conditions
which we have never known before
and which was almost undreamed Of.
1t may be absolutely necessary to
meet this condition with sufficient
force of national guard troops to hold
in allegiance and check any matter of
disorder which might arise between
races on account of this changed re-
lationship"
This with other conditions of un.
rest and discomfort may sweep away
civilization of hundred years, he
says, and he urges consideration OF
measures for equipment of national
guard to take the place Of the fast
disappearing home guards.
Nobody knows how much good the
County guard has done. It's Mere
existence has repressed the vicious
and criminal element. A policeman
on beat may not make an arrest In
months, but his presence deters the
criminal from open attempts at crime
So the County guard being ready for
any emergency. deferred the trouble.
makers from breaking out A pla.
toon of militia likely soon will be or.
ganized in st. Petersburg. When it
is organized, the County guard will
turn over to the new military body
the work that it has been doing.-St.
Petersburg Independent.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02
Much Activity In The
Transfer OF Real Estate

hC lplAOWlA6 lOdA
have been made the past week:
r. II. Bryson and wife to Henry
Tandy; Florida Fruitlands Co. to P
II Towner 10; Fla Fruitlands Co to
L L Blackford Fla Fruitlands com
pany to w A Health; Florida Fruit
lands company to G f Jester; Fla.
Fruitlands Co to M Fink, Fla Fruit
lands Co to L Woodman; Fla Fruit
lands Co to II A Vast; Fla Fruitlands
Co to A w Brien; Fla Fruitlands Co
to ] H DeCumbee; Fla Fruitlands Co
to Luke Coyne; Fla Fruitlands Co to
p g Tenneson; Fla Fruitlands Co TO
Robert FELTON,; Fla Frutlands Co to
Frederick Gennick; Fla and Ga Land
Co to Amanda Nellerville; Zelie p
Emerson to John Emerson; M Bate
man to w F Hutchinson; Louise ]
Bromley and husband to Lester G
Deming; Board Of Public Instruction
to R s Suarez; Jane Niblock to John
w Warner; o Bradford ct al to w
G, Edmiston; w Smith and wife to
&c Langford; Russell G Perrin to
G. W. Swan; Sara A McNeal and
husband to G W Swan; G W Swan to
Paul w Bailey; Daniel Brent to VIM
Crab; e G Linger ct al to r e Dahl
gren; w ] Howey Land Co to Gerald
Pierce; H Kelley to Gerald Pierce;
fl G PetteWay, Master, to G U Conant;
] L Fouts and wife to + l. Brigham
and wife; Pickard Brothers Co to
John G Thomas; Pickard Bros co to
Mrs Elizabeth Champion: Pickard
Brothers Company to M Fl Gullick-
son; Harris Raulerson to B S Stokes;
Mrs Carrie Waterworth and husband
to RI 0 Estes; W s Goodwin and wife
to ] B Altman; Polk County Nation
oil Bank to w r Yocum; j Fl Tatum
and wife to W T Yocum; Ernest T
Jaques and wife to Mallott Brown
Co; A l. Jaques to Mallet Brown
Co; J A Hancock ct al to G Han
cock; w r Hallam and Co to j ]
VIM and wife; ] w Bryant and
wife to l. e Amidon; G M H cycle
! sinner and wife to A NJ Tilden; w
Sheretz and wife to George High.
smith; D Porter and wife to G A
Mavis; G Whidden and wife to Mr.:
S 0 Doty; Fla Fruitlands Co to Mil.
ton Stewart; A T Mann and wife tc
Jennie Jordan; W ID Yonally anC
wife to W Ii Foote ct al; w H Foott
and wife to w d Yonally; d H Sloar
and wife to e Grimes; Clifford Kim
brough and wife to ] Dean: G
HollingsWorth and wife to w v
Gresham; w w Gresham and wife t,
J Ferguson; e L Mack, Specia
master, to Bank of Mulberry LAX,
Wales Land Co to B X Bullard w
Grower and wife to e l. Padgett @
al; First National Bank of Lakeland t,
q L Padgett; G w Harrington ant
wife to G w Swami; A Yarnell ant
wife to Esther s Regan; M e Lyl,
and husband to ] l. Clark; ] A John
son and wife to D Clark; J A Tim
berlake, special master, to e B Lang
ford; Mary A Roberts to e B Lang
ford; Lake Wales Land Co to G I
Stephens; W H English and wife tt
Lyle O Pierce; Wilson Trading Cs
to F R Douthitt; G q Cannons ant
wife to J B Peels and wife; Lake AL
fred Fruitlands Co to G e Cannons
Ida Fitzpatrick to Mrs NJ R Sellers
Gerty Whidden and husband to ] I
Mcpherson; ! A Yarnell and wife Il
w L Cook.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02
RUSSIANS HAVE
STRIKES ARE running
MINES in GERMANY
(By Associated Press.)

Berlin May 81 The ever-recur-
ring strikes of miners are causing &
catastrophe condition in the Rhen-
lsh- Westphalian mining region One
company has declared itself insolvent
because of strikes. A cabinet minis
t9l recently stated at the Soviet Con
gress in Berlin that the demands of
the miners had ruined number of
mining companies.
The mining concerns which in No
vember last had reserve of 10000
600 marks, now have overdrafts at the
bank of 100000 marks and the
banks refuse to give them further
credit.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02

Florida has about 500 sawnills.
producing yearly 100000 feet Of
lumber, not counting crossties. poles.
slaves. veneers, tanbark, etc.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02
LAYING DOWN HIS ARMS

VERY unconventional, isn't he?a
Very / think he'd even sit with his
'lbows on the peace table,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-06-02

time to make summer plans. -
Augustine Record.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-01-18
TOM SAWYER A GOOD SCOUT.

WELCOME to the Sea Scouts of
America and good luck to you," is the
greeting from their brother scouts in
Great Britain, says General Baden
Powell in a letter.
"Over here the Sea Scout branch is
an immensely popular one with the
boys. For no boy who Is a boy can
resist the call of the sea.
"You fellows in the United States,
even in cases where you are living hun
dreds of miles inland from the coast,
are especially well off in having splen-
did rivers and lakes on which to prac-
tice. Mark Twain has shown us the
wonderful possibilities for sea scout
ing on your great waterways, and Tom
Sawyer was top-hole sea scout of the
inland.
flames A. Wilder's program Of sea
scouting is going to have big boom,
and you who become sea scouts under
it are going to have the time of your
lives, not only in the enjoyment of
picking up the work but also In the
valuable service you can give to your
country as soon as you are efficient.
"Over here in Britain the war has
given our scouts their opportunity in
many directions and they have not
been slow to seize it."
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-01-18
LAND INNOCENT OF BATHTUBS
In Turkey the Stationary Tub, SO IA.
miliar In Western Lands, 10 Alb
solutely Unknown.

The Turk in spite Of his constant
bathing (bathing being enjolned by
the Mohammedan religion) has no sta
tionary tubs nor wash bowls-indeed,
Turkish houses are quite innocent of
plumbing, says Edith Gilfallin, In an
article on the colorful ancient capital
OF the Ottoman empire. But as the
Turk never battles save In running
water the brick floors contain drains
that carry the water to the garden out
side. Always before eating, a servant
pours, from pitcher, water over an
orientals hands; which seems wise
provision, for they do not use knives
nor forks; spoons only are used to eat
soup or sherbets.
They do not sit around a table as
we do, but sit on cushions round foot
high table trays. All over the near
east they have but two meals. Break
fast is sort of movable feast up to
eleven o'clock. It consists of coffee,
fruit and various hot breads. The
Turk is enabled to sustain life until
tnnumerable cupfuls Of thick, hot,
heavily-sweetened coffee.
Dinner, which Is consumed in the
evening, Is the only meal the Turk
takes In the bosom Of his family. It
often Is an elaborate affair of twelve
courses: Tomatoes and squash and
eggplant and other vegetables stuffed
with rice or minced meat or cheese,
fish swimming In oil, mutton stews,
goat fricassees. roasted chickens, rich
pastries and candies, preserves Of
plum and ounce and fg and peach,
and always coffee and the narghile-
waterplpe.
AT some Of these dinners they drink
a sort of brandy called raki; but alco-
hollc drinks are anathema to the ortho-
dox Turk.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-01-18
FIRST SESSION OF
PEACE CONGRESS
BEGIN SERIES OF CONFERENCES
BEFORE REGULAR SESSIONS
ARE HELD.
New Terms for the Extension OF
German Armistice Have Been
Drawn up by Experts of the
Allies and. United States.

paris.-The first actual session of
the peace congress was held on JAN
uary Ii, although it is officially deslg"
mated as one of the series of converse
tons for laying the groundwork for the
structure which will later be presented
TO the formal assembly of the dele
gates of all the nations.
These conversations will take I'D de-
tails of the program to be carried out
what subjects will be considered at the
meetings, the roles of expert advisers
and the order in which various mat
tiers will be considered.
Nothing has developed to alter the
statement that the American delegates
are primarily concerned with the ere
alton of league of nations and tn
making of just peace. Territorial
ambitions, local quarrels and rivalry
for economic advantages among the
European delegates are secondary in
the minds of the Americans.
Reports that the American delega-
uon has agreed on a working plan for
league of nations and that it will be
one of the first things to be laid be-
fore the congress have been current
in Paris. All outward evidences in
official quarters point in the other di-
rectiou. 1t is known that as late as
President Wilson's return from Italy
he was not prepared to lay down a
working plan, and that he preferred
to have other plans originating among
the entente delegates offered first.
The first business before the supreme
council was the new terms for the ex-
tension of the German armistice. The
terms had been formally drawn up at
meeting Monday morning OF military,
naval, economical and financial ex-
perts Of the allies and the United
States. The morning meeting, which
was presided over by Marshal Foch,
reached a complete agreement on the
new armistice terms.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-01-18
BOSCHEE'S SYRUP

Why use ordinary cough remedies
when Boschee's Syrup has been used
so successfully for fifty-one years in
all parts Of the United States for
coughs, bronchitis, colds settled In the
throat, especially lung troubles? 1t
gives the patient good nights rest.
free from coughing, with easy expec-
toration in the morning, gives nature
a chance to soothe the inflamed parts,
throw off the disease, helping the pa
tient to regain his health. Made in
America and sold for more than half
a century.-Adv.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-01-18
BOY.
SOU s
II n
Conducted by National Council OF the
Boy Scouts of America)
RULES ON SCOUT UNIFORMS

The Boy Scouts of America uniform
may be worn by any boy scout twelve
years of age or over who is regularly
enrolled with the national council, all
associate scouts, pioneer scouts, veter-
an scouts, and all boy scouts who have
been granted u certificate of service,
provided they are in good standing
with the local scout authorities in their
respective communities, and all adult
officials and members In good standing
of the Boy Scouts of America.
1t may be worn at troop meetings
and socials, hikes, camps, educational
trips, rallies, demonstrations and sim.
liar events, church or chapel services;
when taking formal tests; when APP
pearing before court of honor for ex-
animation or awards; when ordered up
on official duties, In such capacities as
civic guides or messengers, flag rails
ing exercises, scout headquarters or
derlies, first aid workers, etc.
During the period of the war, all
scout and scout officials should wear
their uniforms, whenever practicable,
in order that they may be easily called
for any service for which the scout
movement gives training.
1t should not be worn when solicit
ing funds or engaged in any selling
campaign; when engaged in any dis
tinctive political endeavor; when ap-
pearing upon the stage professionally
when. taking part in parades other than
for the purpose of rendering services
as scout.
When a boy ceases to be scout
through failure to register or through
suspension or expulsion from the
troop, he has no right to wear the
uniform.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1919-01-18
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE PASSES
World Soon to Have Little Use for
Picturesque Character Whose For
tune Was His Sword.

If It shall now come to pass, as It
well may, that there shall be an end
put to wars, the old-time soldier Of
fortune will become an extinct spe-
cies.
The world, of course, can get along
very well without him. and yet he will
be missed. For he is very ancient
institution, indeed. He was with Alex
ander and Caesar, Napoleon, the cap
tains and the kings of every nation I'M
der the sun wherever there was a
knife to stick or a bullet to shoot.
Slowly but surely, however, the
ground has been cut from under the
feet of the soldier of fortune. and now
1t seems that, at last. he Is to dis
appear completely.
He had good time, though while
1t lasted. and II did last long time. at
that. For there was always, some
where. job waiting for him. II things
went stale on the Spanish Main, he
could cross over to the other side Of
the world and find another banner I'M
der which to fight.
II was all the same to him, which
side he fought with or against. He
had no enmities, no hatreds; he had
no grudge to satisfy. His business was
fighting. Tho doubloon of Spain
looked just as good to him as the SOW
ereign Of England or the yen of ia
pan.