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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-12-01
The Town GOSSIP

/ WAS talking to -. =. ......
RAY WEEKS yesterday
AND HE says:
"FROM WHAT I've heard.
DURING THE last week or so.
THERE ARE lot of men.
IN LAKELAND.
WHO ARE in the same fix.
WITH REGARD to Christmas.
AND FOR THE past month.
MY WIFES been asking me.
WHAT | want.
FOR A Christmas present.
AND AS usual.
I'VE TRIED to put.
1T OFF and told her.
THAT ANYTHING would do.
BUT SOMEHOW or other.
THAT DON'T satisfy her.
AND SHE insists.
THAT I make out a list.
OF THINGS I want.
SO SHE can select.
FROM THE list.
WHAT TO give me.
AND ! start off.
WITH A box Of cigars.
AND THEN | get stuck.
AND CAN'T think.
TO SAVE my life.
| WHAT ELSE I want,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-12-01

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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-12-01

sire to make against these assessments
J. M KEEN,
=, Street Commissioner.
ATTEST:
H. L. sWATTS, City Clerk !
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-11-07
CRATE FIRE TEACHES LESSON
Pictures in the Flames Bound to I'm.
press Observer Of Any Keen
ness Of Mind. y

The wood fire in the open CRATE. The
quiet hour of wintry evening. Who
does not revel in the combination? The
pictures in the flames. The musings
as the fire crackles, the only sound in
the stiffness.
Ancients in Persia, in other lands
and times, wOrshiped fire. 1t was the
symbol Of purity. puriication. Poets
have found the fire on the hearth an
inspiration. Painters have seen pic
lures In the glowing Goals. We see
them, too, in the silence of the evening
time.
But The wood fire In the open CRATE
Is more than a symbol Of purity, more
than creature comfort, more than Il
sign of personal prosperity, more than
a setting for dream pictures. It's a
symbol of action. It's a picture Of
ambition. It's an Indictment to en-
deavor.
The flames are never still while
there's material to reach. Reaching,
reaching praSninQ keqnng never com
tent, never idle. Action! That's what
the wood fire in the open CRATE is say.
ing.
The flames leap higher and higher
so long as there Is fuel to feed them.
When the fuel is consumed the flames
wither and die.
Ambition must be fed. That's the
lesson Of the fire. You can't get the
fire of ambition to burn in the work
er's brain to energize his hand unless
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-11-07

puma / saw tnat young Midland
railway carter was the vocalist, and
that his horse which was harnessed
to a heavily-laden van, was following
him in a zig-zag fashion, across and
up the steep road which runs past my
windows. He was not using a whip
or touching the reins. and the horse
kept his nose near his shoulder, but
when the man stopped singing, the
horse stopped pulling. have heard
the land girls say they sing to the
horses and cows they look after, and
that the animals love it, and know
IN India some of the hardest labor
is done by oxen, driven-nOt with
whip or goad-but by the singing of
the native boys In charge of them.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-11-07
SH0FAR IN HEBREW RITUAL
Wood instrument Dates Back to the
Very Earliest Youth Of the
World.

Hebrew historians, with a special
very proud Of their shofar. They say
it is the oldest form of wood wind in
strument in the world, that 1t was
used in the original Mosaic ritual.
1t Is the one musical instrument, says
DR.. Cyrus Adler, which has been pre-
served unbrOkerly in that ritual.
There is even a theory, voiced by
Professor Steinthal, that the shofar
antedates the people of Israel. He
says 1t probably goes back to prehis.
toric times. And another investlga-
tor points out that 1t obviously came
first from folk solely dependent on
the growing of sheep.
This ancient rams horn instrument
was perhaps earliest used for the sig
nails of alarm which were so neces-
sarily common in primitive society.
The Israelites then adapted it to their
religious services, and with such fit
ting effect that 1t has persisted
uniquely since the beginning.
But the Talmud indicates that, even
among the Hebrews, the shofar was
also developed into horn for CIV
Ing alarms. Fundamentally these
alarms would be incidental to war.
Afterward, though, the instrument was
blown in other seasons Of danger or
distress. 1t warned of famine or of
plague of locusts or Of drought. And
1t was employed in the public serv-
ice of reorganization.
The children of Israel had other
horns which were used for musical
and ritualistic purposes, but this is
the only one which has survived.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-11-07
Soapy Pear.

Little Jeanne was tremendously in
terested in the patriotic songs she
heard at the community singing to
which her mother had taken her.
A few evenings later she was play
Ing close by as her mother practiced
at the piano. Mother" she asked
"can you play that piece about the
'soapy pear? l like that one best of
ALL"
Her mother, knowing the child had
confused some words, played various
melodies she remembered hearing at
the community singing and finally dis
covered, through this method that 1t
was the song over There" Jeanne
referred to. The refrain, $50 prepare,
so prepare" was the one which to
her ears, had sounded like "soapy
pear"
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-11-07
HOW HAILsTONES ARE FORMED
According to Theory, Electrical Action
Is Responsible for Storms That
Frequently Do Damage.

The formation of hail through cleo
trical action, according to one theory,
is an interesting and even wonderful
process. The wind draws out d cloud
into a long, narrow strip. In that
form, owing to the great amount of
surface exposed to the air, the cloud
evapOrates rapidly, producing intense
cold.
Dry particles of snow are then form
ed, and these, by friction with the wa
ter drops, quickly become charged with
negative electricity. But the water
drops carry positive electricity, and
since negative attracts positive q film
Of water is formed upon each snow
particle and Is instantly frozen into
a layer of thin Ice.
At this thickness its outer surface
remains moist, the water not freezing
so rapidly there whereupon the cleo
trical charge changes from negative to
positive and the particle is repealed by
the water drops and driven to the
outer parts of the cloud. Here the in.
creased cold covers it with snow, and
friction charges it anew with negative
electricity.
Repulsion is now once more changed
for attraction. and the particle PUSHES
back into the cloud, receiving upon it's
surface another film of water, which
is turned into a second ice layer.
Thus the growing hailstone darts
zig-zag through the cloud, piling up its
alternate layers Of snow and ice, until
gravitation gains control and sends it
with a jingling crowd of its fellows
spinning to the ground.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-11-07
DISHWASHER
SAVED FORTUNE
ON S12 A WEEK
Never Earned More than Two
Dollars a Day, But
Saved $12,5OO

A dishwaSher who died recently at
Albany, New York, left an estate val
ued at $l2,500. He never earned more
$12 a week, if saved in its entirety
would mean about $4,000 in twenty
years. Out of $l2 week the dish.
washer had to live. But out of that
sum he succeeded in saving. He saved
steadily. something out OF every nay
envelope. And the first savings, laid
aside in the hard early days when his
pay was frequently less than $12 a
week, were we'll invested. Soon they
began to earn something of themselves,
In interest, for the patient, hard-work-
ing plodder.
The diShwasher was no fiuancier.
He undoubtedly missed opportunities
for investment that would have in
creased his savings vastly. But he was
steady and sure, and he accumulated
enough to insure himself against ad-
versity. He had something solid and
substantial to show for his years OF
patient effort. And he was forced to
study the investment of his savings
carefully to insure their safety.
Today the government has provided
the means for enabling every small
saver to invest his savings, however
small, and to put them at work earn
ing money, at an attractive rate of in.
terest. From the dishwasher up. in
the scale of financial ratings, every In
dtyidual can now place his savings in
War Savings Stamps, guaranteed by
the government, and earning interest
at the rate Of per cent compounded
quarterly. II the dishwasher had had
this opportunity his $4,000 would un.
doubleday have grown to a great deal
more. Buy War Savings Stamps every
pay day.
w. S. S.
You can get even with Uncle Sam on
the penny war taxes by purchasing War
Savings Stamps. For the old boy will
have to pay YOU something then
see?-Tgler County Messenger.
Grieving Cows.
An Essex correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail writes: This morning
l witnessed q strange sight in which a
herd of cows, an old bull and a few
calves took part in a meadow near my
house.
A COW that had recently calved died
In the night and yesterday morning
lay out stiff on the frosted grass be-
meath tree. During the day cows
roamed near the place and stopped to
smell and lick the side and face of
the dead animal. Not till this morn
ing did the hackers cart arrive to
carry the body away.
When the vehicle was drawn to the
spot the whole herd came slowly up
and stood round watching intently,
with heads down, and an indescrib-
able expression, which seemed half
questioning and half sympathetic, In
their eyes. Seven of them and the
old bull came up and licked the dead
cows face, in one instance as 1t was
being hoiSted into the cart. When 1t
was taken away they stood watching
1t to the far side of the meadow and
through the gate till they could see it
no longer. Then they smelled all over
the spot where 1t had lain.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-11-07
Truly Times Have Changed.

A friend Of Senator Sorghum en-
countered the solon on the steps of the
capitol and after passing the time Of
day remarked playfully:
Senator. how comes it you aren't
making any of your famous speeches
these days?"
But the senator was ready for him.
"Times have changed" he replied
without hesitation. Now 1t isn't at all
easy for man with silk hat and frock
coat to assert he is saving the coun-
try all by himself. and say it at an
audience that's all khaki uniforms and
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-11-07

It is fed, and fed again. Take away
incentive, make labor ineffective, and
the laborer's ambition dies. And what
is a man without ambition? An ak
without an edge.-Milwaukee Journal.
Cottonwood chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1917-current, 1919-11-07
Do Animals Love Muslc2

was awakened the other morning
by the clatter Of a horses hoofs and
a mans voice singing Killarney"
says a writer in the London Daily Ex-
press. Peeping through the venetian
Smyrna times., 1919-09-10
LAUGHED AT TIMES PASSAGE
Blue Delft Saucer, Long Sunk in
Ocean, Benefited by Century
Immersion in Ocean.

The act of a fishing smack off Eye
mouth, Berwickshire, England brought
to the top of the sea recently a long
dead memory. A blue Delft saucer,
deeply incrusted with barnacles, lay
among the Topping fish in the net, and
it bore a picture of one of the old
British cOasting and sailing vessels,
with the words Eclipse, Ldn. and
Edinboro, Shipping Coy"
Now, the Eclipse was lost at sea
106 years ago. No one survived, no
bodies were thrown up, no wreckage
definitely identified with the lost
schooner was ever washed against
known shores.
Yet, over a century later, a china
saucer is recovered! It's blue, accord
ing to reports, had taken on a won
derfully deep shade, tinged with
green, and was very beautiful.
The London and Edinburgh Ship
ping company bought the relic for
about $50 of our money and gave that
sum to the British Red Cross. The
saucer was sent to the British
museum.
Smyrna times., 1919-09-10
"Inka."

"Imka" is the name by which the
Y. NJ. G. A. is known in CZechO-SlO-
vakia, for "Imka" is the reasonable
pronunciation of those four letters in
the language of the mid-EurOpean
land. The Imka is very popular. When
the republic of CZechO-SlOvakia was
established, it's citizens who had re-
turned from fighting with the allies
urged that the Imka, with it's canteens,
hut service, athletics and recreation, be
invited to come with them. The invi-
tatiOn was given and now the Imka
has beer developed on an army basis
with centers in ten towns and is con-
templating establishing a center in the
famous coal mine region of Teschen,
which is the bone Of contention be-
tween the new republic and the Poles.
AS this new republic is said to hold
the worlds record for literacy, only
1 per cent being unable to read or
write, the American "Y" secretaries
find splendid cooperation in their ac-
tivities.
Smyrna times., 1919-09-10
Shark Meat Is TASTY.

Shark meat is delicate in flavor and
texture, and sharks are plentiful in
certain parts of Florida, but the fish
ermen do not catch them because they
are not salable.
The home demonstration agent Of
Monroe county, Florida, decided last
winter on an effort to establish in
favor this fish now under the ban. At
her request a fisherman caught one
but warned her that no one would eat
it. Undismayed, she invited a large
company of women to a home ecOnom-
les luncheon, at which was served a
fish salad.
When all had tasted the salad she
asked for vote as to how many liked
and wanted the recipe. Without ex-
ception the women voted their hearty
approval, and thus proved to them
selves that the prejudice was without
foundation.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Smyrna times., 1919-09-10
Plea for Dogs.

The first week that Representative
Venable of Mississippi was in congress
a couple of years ago he made q hun
acknowledgement speech about a dog
he used to own, and he still is getting
letters telling him what a fine speech
it was. The speech was plea for pre-
paredness, in which he pointed out that
little dogs always are in hot water, but
that mastiffs have only a minimum Of
difficulties and can enjoy afternoon
sIestas and such.
Smyrna times., 1919-09-10
HERE BIRDS FIND SANCTUARY
A=ea in Delta of Yukon River, Value.
81. kess for other Purposes, Is Now
NJ Profitably Employed.

TIE most important, and by far the
HFgest in extent, of our national
"rtfuges" FOR the preservation of wild
tfrds is a vast area in the delta of
the Yukon river, proclaimed as such
by an edict from the White House
just ten years ago.
II is an area approximately equal
TO Massachusetts, and the most valu-
able feather species concerned are
wild geese and wild ducks, which breed
there in countless numbers.
There is found the proper home of
the emperor" goose, the "white-
frOnted" goose, and many species of
ducks which are sought as game in
other ATTITUDES.
The region is known as tundra
cOuntry"-devOid of trees, swampy,
with many lakes, and of no possible
usefulness for agriculture or any 9th
er purpose. If, however the wildfOwl
are there Safeguarded on their breed
ing grounds, it will be a permanent
source of game ard food supply for
Alaska and the entire Pacific coast.
In order that this may come to pass,
it is necessary that the, birds shall be
protected during the mating season
against the wholesale slaughter which
formerly was conducted by pOt-hunt-
ers and alleged spOrtsmen from year
to year-a method commonly adopted
being to drive the helpless creatures
into pens built for the purpose, where
they were ruthlessly murdered.
Smyrna times., 1919-09-10
Unmedaled Heroes.

Among the heroes of the war is the
man who uncomplainingly goes with
out the things to which he has been
accustomed in order that he may quiet
~ do his bit. Only a comparatively few
Of them ever get into the limelight, but
in the scheme of patriotism they share
honors with those who wear the uni
forms and shoulder the. muskets.--
Berkshire Eagle.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-15
SEEKS RIGHT TO PARK CAR
WHERE ORDINANCE FORBIDS
f. T.. Uunn Asks State Court for In
Junction Restraining City
Authorities.

Judge Robert r.. Prcnt!s. OF tho
State supreme Court OF Appeals, will
this morning hear the application of
+. Il. Bum for an injunction restrain
Ing the city authorities from prevent
ing hin, standing his FOR hire" auto
mobiles in front of his place of bust
ness at Sill East BROAD Street In
doing so Mr.. Bum attacks the city or
dinancc which authorizes the Director
Of Public Safety TO designate stands
for such automobiles.
Judge William 4. Moncure. OF the
Chancery Court. refused 10 issue an
injunction on the facts presented last
Friday, and Mr., Bum gave notice that
the matter would he laid before the
Supreme Court &C. Appeals. Mr.. Bum
with strangers ana nomtaXpaycrs from
other States.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-15
SENATOR SWANSON TO AID
IN MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY
Letter to Colonel Biiisoly Expresses
Willingness to Assist In
Consummu ton.

a letter Just received by State COM
missioner OF Game and Fisheries. Colo
mel F. y. Bilisoly. from United States
Senator Claude a. Swanson relative to
the proposed treaty with the Latin
American republics for the protection
of migratory birds. assures the de-
partment that Senator Swanson will
be glad to do what he can TO consum-
mate such a treaty"
Governor Davis has been requested
by j. Quincy Ward, president of the
International Association of Game and
Fisheries comm missions. TO appoint a
number OF leading citizens of Virginia
who are interested In the preservation
OF the native game and fish as dele
gates. together with officers of the
State Departm lent of Game and Inland
Fisheries and Commissioner Bilisoly.
TO the joint meeting of the Interna-
tional Association of Game and Fish
cries Commissions and the American
Fisheries Society, which will be held
at Louisville, Ky. October $40.
The appointment Of a new game
warden for Charles City County will
he made within the next few days by
Commissioned Bilisoly. the present
warden. w. i. Orange, having resign.
ed when he removed to Henrico
County.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-15
ORGANIZE FOR SAVING
TWO \. w. G. A. Societies Formed IN
promote National Thrift
Ideu,

y "iHE business women living at the
~ w. y. boarding home and also
th"Sc at the annex. both houses being
on west cary street, have formed war
savings societies, and are now work
inS IN cooperation with the United
states Treasury Department in the
nation vide thrift and savings move
ment. The officers of the War Saw
insS society organized at the Y. W.
I. ~ boarding house are Miss Mamie
Glover president: Miss Pearl Lee, vice
president: and Miss Helen Yates. sec
rotary. The officers Of the society at
the annex are Miss Irma Drissner,
president: Miss Myrtle Long. vice
president. and Miss Myrtle TrcXler,
secretary.
These two societies were organized
by Mrs. Eudora Ramsay Richardson
director for Virginia of the woman's
division of the war loan organization
Of the Fifth Federal Reserve District
She made short talk to the girls at
each OF the homes. explaining the
meaning of the thrift movement and
tho value of regular and systematic
saving. Mrs. Richardson expects to
organize Il number of other savings
societies among business women here
this week
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-15
RICHMOND WOMEN ATTEND
CONFERENCE IN ST. LOUIS
Many In PrOfcssIons and Dusincss at
Sessions of National
Federation.

Prominent business and professional
women OF Richmond. and of the state
generally. including The recently
elected president OF the Virginia Fed
Grafton OF Business and Professional
Women. Miss Ella q. AEn,w. assistant
director Of the extension division of
the state Agricultural College and
orie Lee Hatcher. OF Richmond. are
attending the meeting Of the National
Federation OF business and professional
Women now in session at ST. Louis.
Today the National Business Women's
Committee and the Moments .ASSocia-
ton OF Commerce of the United States
of America will meet in separate con-
NentionS for the necessary transaction
Of business. The time will he taken
up with the usual reports Of commit
tees, organizers and chairmcn. tog ethc r
with the discussion Of the constitution
and bylaws.
Tomorrow's session will he a general
one. the various topics to he diScussed
being Paramount Needs of the EuSi-
ness Woman" business Ethics The
Business Woman's Responsibility in
Citizenship" and Housing for Business
Women The Thursday session will
include the election of officers. the
gathering in Of unfinished business.
the selection OF the place for the next
convention and the report OF Spccil |
committees. On Thursday night the
delegates Will be the guests Of the st.
Louis business women AT the Municipal
opera at Forest Park.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-15
CARRY MAN TO HOSPITAL
IN UNCONSCIOUS CONDITION
Hcnrfco Farmer suffers Concussion OF
Brain Received In Fall when
Horse Ran Away.

An unidentified man. about fifty years
of age. was taken 10 tho Virginia Hos
pital yesterday morning about 10
o'clock in AN unconscious condition.
suffering from conclusion of tho brain.
received in a fail when his horse ran
away.
The unconscious man was found at
500 Denny Street. where he was said
TO have been brought from Henrico
County by some men who found him
OH the road. The unconscious man is
believed TO nc Solomon Conway. but no
mark of identification was found on his
body. except scrap of paper bearing
the name: j. NJ. Seay.
Late last night il was reported by
Sheriff Webb Sydnor, OF Henrico
County, that the man at the Virginia
Hospital was Solomon Conway, who
resided about three miles from Rich
mond. Officials at the hospital stated
that his injuries were probably fatal.
and At o'clock this morning he was
still unconscious.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-15
POLICE COURT LIST FULL
AFTER SUNDAY ARRESTS
Alleged Gamblers md DisorderIy
Dancers Cause Full House for
Judge Maurice.

Alleged gamblers and people charged
with djsordcrlY conduct ahounded in
Police court yesterday. Nine coloreh
were fined 81 and costs. and Carter
Perkins. colored. Of 1l2 Brook Avenue.
was fined 500 and costs a charge
of running dIsordcrly house. He
noted an appeal
Thirty-two colorcd men and women.
ar drg, on Gnn ~ @, ncihE diS
There were forty-thr.c names on the
docket in this particular case. but
several OF the culprits dld not appear.
and attachments We're issued
Nine white men. charged with gam
bling, Were fined s. and costs. and
four Cinnamon. arraiGned on a charge
of being disOrdcrly, were assessed the
same amount.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-15
ELECTRIC SHOCK AND FALL
KILL w. FREDERICK LOWERY
Comes In Contact With Hish-Tcnslon
Wire and Is Hurled to
Sidewalk.
Special % The Times Disratch. ]

Special TO The Times Dispatch.J
Frederick Lowcry. thirty-eight years
old. local lineman Of the Chesapeake
and Potomac Telephone Company was
almost instantly killed this afternoon
when he fell from pole in front Of
the City Hall after coming in contact
with high tension electric wire OF
the Northern Virginia Power Company,
attached TO the same pole.
Lowery was holding telephone line
leading TO the Evening Star Office
when metal buckle of his belt
touched the electric wire He fell
headlong to the sidewalk and WAS
dead when picked up. His skull was
a!So fractured
lie leaves widow, four children
his father. James I.owcry, and two sis
ters. a son. Lee l.owery. was fatally
mangled in machinery at the Old Do
minion Paper Companys plant several
months ago.