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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14
Where Lions Roam.
Kansas City Star.


There is tradition that some day
prophecies are always bit vague
as to time princes would come out
of Ethiopia" who would rule the world.
Abyssinia is curious little country.
It's principal bid for fame in recent
wears is that in 1897 it conducted a
successful war against Italy, and dis
couraged Italians from the project OF
making Abyssinia an Italian colony.
The king of Abyssinia in those days
was a quaint old party named Meme
Xix. He was sort of primitive, but he
was cordial to travellers for he always
liked to get hold of new ideas and
Abyssinia is somewhat off the usual
mail routes.
Paul Buffet, French artist and
traveller, who had been invited once
to lunch with King Menelik, was much
perturbed when he saw three live lions
wandering loose around the courtyard
of the palace. He thought maybe he
had misunderstood the invitation and
that the reason for inviting him was
that there was shortage of lion meat
around the palace. The king reassur,
| ed him, however.
"But." queried Buffet, still nervous
"don't these lions ever kill anybody 2
ooh, yes" said the king, "once in {
while one kills somebody. It's way
lions have, you know. But we always
make it a point to kill that special lior
afterward."
Buffet doesn't say in his account
whether he had much appetite fol
lunch, but he certainly hoped the lions
| hadn't.
The lion, it is explained, is regarded
with religious awe in Abyssinia, ant
it is considered a frightful breach O
etiquette to kill one except in selfde
tense. Buffet tells story, which wa
told to him, of a native mail carrie
who suddenly met lion ambling on
from behind rock.
The mail carrier Frustrated himsel
upon the ground and then rising sal
to the lion, "See, your honor, Their
is nothing here that you want. / hav
no meat at all, nothing but paper"
! And he opened the mail bag to shoy
he was telling the truth. The lion, &C
cording to the story, shifted and walk
ed away, and the mail carried went hi
way unframed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14
"The People of the Pelup Peninsula"

"The People of the Peiup Peninsula"
We were floating down the beautiful
Plongdong when, deserving glorfoas-
whangdoop hid amongst the igfans-
along the swamgit (shore), l instantly.
ordered the mogpong to row the GOO
pang toward it. Obeying my conmanof
with an alacrity that proved his aevo'-
ton to me, the little fellow pulled fusH-
tily on the right tingwop (oar or pad
dle) until, by virtue Of his efforts, we
were headed in the direction whence
had come the vision Of the multi-cOl-
ored whangdoop My readers will
readily appreciate the tremendous eS-
element that seized me when / say
that the whangdoop was OF unusual
size and of a conformation that woufa
preclude the possibility of anyone for
a moment mistaking 1t for the ogpiupS.
which, as everyone knows, 1t so much
resembIes-(After the Manner Of Most
Travel Articles. )-From Life.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14
When Does a Boy
Get Too Old to
Go to Church

pence Barton in the American Boy.
~ have a friend of 10 who quit go
Inc To church last year; and when. l
asked him why he had quit, ne ans
that a church was doubtless
,rood thing in it's way-a nice place
sar women and children to meet on
s,ndav mornings, but no real place Tor
, I man. or a boy who was almost
man. - do,.;,, o.
about what he had SAID. is a cnurc {,
merely place for women and chll-
dren to go and sit and be preached TO-,
or at? What is the church anyway
J And at what age is a boy too ola TO
take any more interest in it /!
All of us have the very human habit
of indging the big things OF the world
eron, few small facts. We pick up
the Telephone receiver, and because
',a,tral does not answer in Jlffy, we
~. ssThe telephone system is all
70 RI nieces.' We ship parcel to
;capo by express, and if it happens
10 DELAYED twenty-four hours we
Il that the express companies are
r;hlu inefficient. We see a little
"a inted church, with preacher who
struggling to support his family
starvation wages, and we think
81 the church is losing out all along
lie line. "a
lf H.. :s If e wire, the great army OF train,
"a emnloyes, and the huge central
a4;nns that are the telephone system
{ Is would never make a telephone call
I s;tln,,t feeling sense of mystery
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

were sacrificed to the heather gods;
in Egypt, for instance, the great IRON
istatue of Moloch was heated white hot,
and mothers threw their screaming
infants into its flaming arms. In
Greece babies were left out on the
| mountains to die; in China they were
drowned The world had very poor
opinion of babies until Jesus of Naza-
reth came.
He said: "Suffer the little children
to come unto me and forbid them not;
for of such is the kingdom of heaven
| 1t is to Him that we owe our reverence
| for babyhood. His gospel, wherever
it has been carried. has changed the
/ thought of men about children. The
church has been forever and forever
will be, the best friends that boys and
girls have.
/ You hope to go to college perhaps.
/ And who was it that started our col
leges? The state? No; the state uni
versities are all of them comparative
Ily young. The first colleges were
| started by ministers of the church.
/ Harvard was founded by John. Har-
ward, a Christian minister. William
and Mary, the second college, was
founded by Christian minister. Yale
was founded by group of Christian
ministers. Amherst, Williams, Dart
mouth and scores of others were start
ed by church people and supported for
many. many years by contributions
from the churches Today there are
said to be about 10000 students in
colleges, universities and academies in
this country. And more than half of
I 4Loao ora irct;f,yfinpc SI,nn0rtad
by the churches. So any boy who
expects to go to colleges ought to be
glad to go to church; for if it had
have had no colleges.
You may be sick some day, serious
ly sick; you may have to go to hos
pital and that hospital may perhaps
save your life. The chances are it
will be a hospital that was made pos
sible by the churches and still depends
upon them for most of its support
There are thousands of boys and girls
in the land whose parents died in their
youth. Things would have gone very
hard for them had it not been for the
children's homes that the churche:
built and maintain.
:, Indeed you can hardly mention sin
gle institution or society which exist:
i for the common good that does no
have its roots in the church. And you
know enough about trees to under
! stand how short time tree can liv'
after you have severed the roots.
Let us put away this idea that thu
I church is merely a place for womel
. and children to go. 1t is not place
it is an influence, greater and NOR
! powerful than any other in the world
. An influence that has made mother
. hood mean what it means to you an
= me; an influence that has given child
|. hood a place of reverence in tn
. thoughts of men; an influence that ha
created our colleges, and our socia
service institutions, and inspired tn
men whose names we honor most
. Washington did not outgrow it; Lin
coin never was too old to worship un
Z der its roof; Webster and McKinle
7 and Roosevelt, and all the men who's
names we remember on the nation
birthday, were glad to do honor to it
name and service.
4 Surely no boy of your age or min
need be ashamed to follow in the foot
= steps of men like these!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

described If as a species Of donkey
and called 1t "Atti." From their fur
Their description, ii seemed TO De &c
hoofed animal of considerable size
which lived upon leaves. In 1899 Sir
Harry Johnston himself saw the pig
mics, who fully confirmed what Stan
ley had already told him. but auded'
that the strange beast was striped like"
a zebra.
In 1901 a Swedish officer, NJ. karE
Eriksnn. obtained complete skin ana
two skulls, which he sent 10 Sir Harry
Johnston, who then believed the BEAST
to be of the giraffe tribe, previously
found in fossil state in Greece. Itz
was, however, proved concfusireiy haT
although of the giraffe family 10 was.
not the animal of ancient Greece, but
a new beast altogether. 1t was sub
sequently given the name Of "okapi.
No more than dozen specimens OF
|. this wonderful beast have been Sc
cured.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

me, as young Americans living in the
year 1920.
Who is the most important member
of your household? Who is the one
whom all the other members of the
family delight to honor? Who is the
one to whom your father pays great
est respect? Who has influenced your
life for most? Your mother, of
course. 1t is our pride, as Americans,
that we honor our mother above ev-
eryone else on earth. Perhaps it never
occurred to you that honor to moth
ers is a comparatively new thing in
the world. But that is the fact. When
Jesus of Nazareth started His preach
ing, women were hardly better than
slaves. 1t was an unheard of thing
which He did-He made them His
companions. Of the people closest tc
| Him, whose names we know more thar
half were women. He gave mothers 6
wholly new place in the world; anC
His church, in all the ages, has beer
| the champion of women and of mother.
1 hood.
Wherever the influence of Christi
anity spreads, the lives of mothers are
made brighter and happier. And any
boy who is not too old to feel love
for his own mother, is not too old tt
support an institution that is making
life more worth while for mothers al
over the world.
Some day you will fall in love with
a wonderful girl, and have home 0.
your own, and some boys and girl:
! that will call you dad When thai
/ time comes you would be willing tt
die rather than have any harm com,
to those babies of yours. But do yol
know what used to happen to babies il
the olden days? Men did not valu,
them highly; often they were regard
ed as nuisance. Sometimes the.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

and awe. Think of the miracle of it
to be able to sit in your own home and
without lifting your voice, have it car
ried across rivers and mountains tor
hundreds of miles.
In the same way we would get a
very different picture of the church
if we could see it's worldwide sweep.
1t is really branch office of the
greatest business in the world. That
business-which in the church-has
more paid employees than the greatest
corporation; it has headquarters IN
every country; its total budget am
cunts to hundreds of millions of dol
lars. 1t supports hospitals in every
great city; it cares for thousands OF
babies in orphans homes; it is curing
sick people in India and China with
its doctors; and teaching the boys ane
girls of Turkey and Hindustan in its
schools. Don't despise the little white
church, then, because it is having 9
hard time.
Remember, first of all, that it is just
one part of a great big whole-the
!, local headquarters of a business thai
/, is bigger and finer and more insplr
I ing than the business of the bigges'
, trust or corporation that America ha:
ever known.
To run a business of that size is {
| Job for men-big, red blooded men
women can help wonderfully, but the!
cannot do it alone.
| But suppose we go little farthel
i back. Every institution has a RICH
| to be judged not by what folks sa!
about it, but by what it really stand
/ for, by the things that it has done
Suppose we judge the church on tina
basis; and in making our judgmen
we'll omit every argument that is il
any way theoretical. Well limit our
selves to matters that affect you AM
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14
NEW IN THE ANIMAL WORLD
"Okapp Astonished Explorers, ana
Only a Few Specimens Have
Ever Been Obtained.

Some time before 1890. Stanley, the
explorer, had word from the pigmy
negroes of new beast in the impene-
trable depths of the virgin forest
which borders the Semliki river in the
Belgian Congo. The Wambatti natives
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14
To Be or Not to Be
her he a Conld Be

I'd rather be a Could Be
If could not be an Are;
For Could Be is a Maybe,
With a chance of touching par.
I'd rather be Has Been
Than Might Have Been by far;
For a Might Have Been has never beer
But a Has was once an Are.
Stanford Chaparra
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

A contemporary remarks that many
foreigners are seeking homes in Am
erica. Yes. So are many AmerI-
cans.-Kansas City Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

We have little sympathy with the.
Americans who complain that they
are being feeced by French profiteers-
Why aren't they satisfied with the way
the job is done at home ?-New York
World.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

The tremendous expense of lower
ing prices will have to be paid by
some one.-Boston Shoe and Leather
Reporter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

"Price of sugar goes" No use
wasting type; you know which way it
always goes.-New Orleans Times
Picayune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

When the engineers and designers
developed the SAMSON Model "M'
Tractor, two things were uppermost
i'm their minds: First, plenty of horse
power at the draw bar for the lowest
possible first cost and upkeep; second,
an abundance of reliable, steady belt
power that will do every heavy-duty
belt power job on the farm or ranch.
They have accomplished both these
things to perfection in the SAMSON
Model en-. Here is tractor that
will take the place and perform the
duty of barn full of horses, without
costing you a fortune or big part OF
YOUR crop to buy or maintain.
The even distribution of weight,
compact unit design, and low center
gravity, give to the SAMSON great
stability, making it hug the ground
Complete with Platform and
cts for Canopy Top and Regular
Prices subject to change without
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

81 believe that America be-
longs to American citizens,
native and naturalized, who
are willing to seek redress
for their grievances in order
~ and constitutional ways
/ believe that all others,
should be taught, peaceably
il we can, and forcibly if we
must, that Our Country IS
not an international boarding
house nor an anarchist cafe
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

Loafng on the job and pro-
hteering-Twin causes of UNI
rest. B
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14
Heavy Draft Horsepower!
The Final Achievement In Heauy-Duty
Tractor at a Remarkable Price.---$84O

and preventing all danger of rearing
up or tipping over.
The SAMSON Model ''M' is the last
word in modern, down-tO-the minute
tractor construction. 1t is not like
the average I-beam and channel steel
frame tractor that weighs so much
that it takes a large percentage of it's
own power for propulsion.
1t is close coupled power unit all
& by itself from radiator to rear wheels.
Every part is enclosed and protected
against dust, mud or rain.
For further details about the won
derful SAMSON Model ''M'', see your
dealer, jackson Bros, or write us for
FREE booklet which contains valua-
bic and surprising information about
maintenance cost of the SAMSON
compared with horse upkeep.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-07-14

Complete Governor Power Takeoff B
Regular Ceas GAINESVILLE so4o
Prices o without notice
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26

The city dads at Winterhaven have
passed an ordinance placing the
shade trees of that city under the di-
rect supervision of the street com
mittee of the council and requiring
all property owners to give proper
care to the growth, protection and
reservation of all shade trees; fail
lire to do this will cause the street
committee to have the work done and
the costs charged to the property.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26

FOR SALE-The best grove PROPOSE
ton in Polk county forthe money
IS acres in grove, Is bearing, bord-
ering beautiful lake; for short time
only at $4,000. W. Fiske Johnson
1880
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26
~

WANTED-To lease for one year or
more s., g. or 7.room home, mod
ern', unfinished on South side.
Three in family. Permanent bus
mess in city. Phone l42 Red. 1855
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26

FOR SALE-One No. vi new Silver
tone Photograph, with records
one large finely cut. cameo. pin;
bargains. Address "Silvertone,"
care Telegram. 49,
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26
NOTICE OF STOCK
HOLDERS MEETING

A special meeting of the stock
holders of the Pickard Brothers Com
rany, a corporation, will be held a.
the office of the said corporation in
Lakeland, Polk county, Florida, on
Thursday the 2Oth day of May, A. H.
1920, at ten o'clock a. M, for the
purpose of voting on an increase OF
the capital stock of the said corpora
ton to one hundred thousand dollars
A. F. PICKARD,
1875 President.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26

FOR RENT-The Lake Alfred Hotel
from May LIST to Nov. 1st. Prefer
personal application. Will make an
unusually attractive offer to the
right person. See US at once
FLORIDA FRUITLANDS COM
FANNY, Lake Alfred, Fla. llzE
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26
FOR RENT

FOR RENT--Furnished apartments
and rooms; modern; summer rates
No children. Phone 1913 Black. 3oO
East Oak street. io'-
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26

FOR SALE-1920 Oakland Six Tour
ing car; spot light; new spare tire,
good as new inside and out. Going
north. P. O.. Box 629, Barlow, Fla.
1851
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED AT ONCE-Houses and lot.
10 SELL Have several buyers who
want home at once. Send me your
listings' for houses. lots, farms or
groves without delay. W. Fiske
Johnson. ,1oo
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26

FOR RENT-Two rooms downstairs
for light housekeeping. 2O4 Norm
Florida avenue. Phone 395-BlacK'
1853
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26
WILLIAMS BARGAIN COUNTER

Groom modern bungalow, good loca.
ton on prominent street. Price
$4,000.
one and one-half acres good land
some bearing orange trees, balance
IN young trees, 4.roo mhouse. in.
side city limits, $4,000, with terms
GROOM HOUSE, two lots, rs bearing
orange trees, fine garden, near
Lake Wire school, for $500.
broom plastered house, shady yard,
close in, good locality, south side.
A bargain or $4,000.
7,R00M TWo-SToRY HOUSE, ga.
rage, extra large lot, Is bearing
grapefruit trees. A nice home,
close in $4,000
An especially good Iv.acre truck farm,
all cleared and part set to orange
trees, on asphalt road, about 4 miles
from Lakeland 4.room house and
barn, horse, wagon, farming uten.
sils and chickens. A splendid buy
for $4,000.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26
E XCLU Nv E
LISTINCS
FARMS AND GROVES

FARMS AND GROVES
A,5OO-l5 acres 2h miles south; 5-acre
young grove; part in bearing; 4-room
cottage. small barn, . acres best truck
land balance timber A bargain.
S5.0OO--42 acres 8 miles; 2-story 10-room
house $4,000 insurance.; small barn;
20 acres fenced and under cultivation
small young grove; balance timber. The
ideal poultry and dairy farm. Terms.
sl2 0O0-19 acre hog and poultry farm miles
south on asphalt road; modern 6-r0om
bungalow electric light and water sys-
tenn Also room cottage; lawn. flowers,
trees, hog and poultry houses, all tools
and implements. Additional leased land
Rare opportunity to secure SIG 200 prop
erty for $500
$l2 000-40 acre farm miles north on hard
road, acres in bearing grove. IN
acres Valencia and Pineapple oranges
planted this winter. Good 2-story
house, barn, double garage and hen
house 10 acres planted to corn, po-
tatoes and water melons. balance tim
Der. Land borders on Lake Parker One
Of best combination income farms near
Lakeland. Terms.
s12 ,500--lU acre year old bearing grove
at Lucerne Park. u grapefruit, y Va
lencla oranges. Near asphalt road Big
producer and splendid investment
SIS 000--60-acre farm Smiles north, l2-acre
year old grove, Y oranges Y grapefruit,
fine condition some fruit this year;
acre bunch grapes which produced over
$500 worth Of grapes last year; IL
acres in corn, potatoes and other
crops balance pasture and timber; all
fenced. New Groom bungalow, new
barn, etc. Rich soil, one Of the most
promising combination farms in county.
Easy terms.
CRY PROPERTY
81 200-2-story 7-room house, 2 lots in GIL
pin Park. south Of Lake Hunter. Terms.
s2,600-5room bungalow with bath, fine con-
dition, shade trees on yestabula street
New pavement
$5.0O0-Modern 5-room bungalow, large
sleeping porch, garage, garden, 8. Fla
Ave. Close in. Terms.
sl2, 000-Lot 42xl22 on Main st., adjoining
City Hall Splendid location for store
or Office building, 50 900 cash, balance
years per cent interest. Your oppor-
tunity
s7,OO0-Will buy IA lots located in East and
West Dxieland. including modern
room bungalow, Cannon street This
property is worth $1,000 today Easy
terms
$40 ,000-Two-apa houses close in. East
Orange street; 10 rooms 2 baths, double
garage Fine income property.
90 good building lots in Adams addition to
Lakeland $500 to $3.50 each, Near
railroad shops. Build and have your
own home and stop hunting houses for
rent
| We are sales managers for FLORIDA NATAL
HAY ASSOCIATION, NATAL TOWNSHIP, also
DRANE PARK ADDITION to Lakeland List
your property with us.
kAIIEMANN=HAI DEMAN co.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1920-04-26

FOR SALE-Newly furnished house
fruit trees. Mrs. George H. Low
ell, e06 North Vermont Ave. ITO
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-02-29
~ oH-IRUNk-SuppLAilTS HORSE on EAPN1

Motor trucks alone used 2,40o, 900
barrels of oil in 1919
There arc less than 9O,OOO motor
trucks on Americas 6.00o.O 600 farms.
Every motor truck displaccs five
horses, Every horse require five
acres nt land 20 produce enough food
10 feed him for ono year.
The cost'of operating and main
tanning n wagon and term of horses
is 81 cents per ton mile The cost per
motor truck ton is H. cents
Thcre are 10000 trallers in uso in
The United States II Is estimated
that AT least t2 times that many
az ncedeti TO meet the demands In
1920. Trailers on pneumatics are
used extensively in southern fruit
groves
Mlik is being produced by nearly
1000 600 cows In Wisconsin, on
n1ire than 10000 farms A Years
produstion is estimated at S,72I. 900
uuh pounds with "A money value ot
S2l5'fOo'0Oo' a good deal Of it goes
TO "a cOudenseries, S6S crcameries
and $3.50 cheese factories Consid-
erahlo of this raw milk is hauled by
lo,5OO motor trucks now registered
In the state
An innovation in the efforts to re-.
duco the high cost OF living has
beon started by a community center
AZ Washington, u. c., where a farm
of 800 s'aes located seven miles