The Lakeland evening telegram., February 06, 1918, Image 4

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THE EVENING TELEGRAM,' LAKELAND, ELA WEDNESDAY,, FEB. Utf
The Evening Telegram
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FLORIDA IN FEBRUARY
In the Florida woodlands today Na
ture is already busy with the world
old miracle of the resurrection. The
evergreens, type of the . Immortal,
show little change, but deciduous
.trees and shrubs are quickening un
der the pressure of the new wine of
life that shoots upward from the
warming earth. Strange little flow
ers, mostly snowy and star-shaped,
peep shyly from out the covering of
last year's decadent leaves. Every
where the violet paler and more
shrinking than its city cousin light
ens the earth's brown carpet with its
modest blue. There is a riot of yel
low jasmine, its trumpet-shaped blos
soms showering down at every breath
of wind from the festoons its vines
have formed as they leaped from shrub
to tree, until they crown the forest's
tallest king. The fragrance of jas
mine mingles with pungent odors, of
baffling origin but known to all lovers
of the woods clean, earthy smells,
aromatic scents of unknown shrubs
perfumes manufactured through pro
cesses of Nature's perfect alchemy.
Everywhere is life renewed or renew
ing. The feel of spring is vaguely in
th.e air; the skies are of cerulean blue,
their every vagary of shade or vapor
ous shadow reflected in the limpid
waters of, the lakes.
Decay and death are vanishing be
fore the onward march of life. The
sere and yellow leaf is hidden almost
In a day by the upspringing plant or
riotous vine. The somber tones of
brown are giving place to a universal
symphony in green. As we view the
fallen monarch of the woods, which
stood for centuries as one of the pil
lars of "God s first temples," now
yielding sustenance to flower, and
vine, and budding shrub, we are re
minded of the words:
"Lo, all grow old and die
But, see again, how on the faltering
footsteps of decay '
Youth hastens on, ever gay and
beautiful Youth
In all her beautiful forms."
Wavelets
Fro m
The Peep
C, Green
Those straw hats went back to the
shelf in quick order.
Out in California they say "Vive la
belle France-cisco!"
THE KAISER MET THE DEVIL
chaTrmanfl however, of the southern
commercial congress, he has done
very much toward brining to the at
tention of the investing 'world the al
most unparelleled natural wealth of
the sduth, much of it still inviting de-
He has shown a most in-
The Kaiser met the Devil in an agi
tated way and the Devil stopped his
prodding just to hear what Bill would
say. '
Rill nnnrnnr-herl him nnlfp mn. Veloptnent.
tritely, for he wanted something mat Personal knowledge of the
done he would make his endeavor to BOurces of tnis weaitn.
enlist him with the Hun.
So he said, "My dear good Satan,
I'm in trouble, I'm afraid; if we do
not work together, sure as hell, my
.grave is made. I have worried and
I've wondered, and the Huns stand
When you sit down to the table and in dismay, when they hear the prep
eat HUNGARIAN goulash, IRISH po- aratlons over in the U. S. A.
tatoes, FRENCH peas, SPANISH
mackerel, ENGLISH Plum pudding,
RUSSIAN caviar, ITALIAN spaghet
ti, drink a SCOTCH highball and
smoke an EGYPTIAN cigarette, you
feel like you had been around the
world some.
Farmer in Dover last week lost his
wife and all over his farm were the
imprints of where he had TRACTOR.
Does a man have to turn, off a fau
cet to stop a "flowing" beard?
Cold weather causes-'the atmos-fear
in some people.
"My face is my fortune",
Was her retort
But he didn't look at it
Her skirt was so short.
Telegram, Feb. 4.
She sure had a fortune
It's plain as can be
And evidently he was. interested
In the leg acy.
I. M. Innocent.
The grand old fighter, John L. Sul-
livanj lias dropped off the pugi-LIST.
TEN YEARS AGO IN LAKELAND
8d hit a freight car filled with
watches and was behind time.
" 'V! "
FIVE YEARS AGO IN LAKELAND
Man that was loaning everybody
wood during, a, shortage lived on the
trail of the foan-somepine.";?
A VERY BAD SITUATION
"The coal situation is getting very
accuse, isn't it?" asked ma, as she
looked over the morning paper.
"Yes," said Peggy. " was reading
has made
these known in a desirable way, and
by his practical suggestions has point
ed out the best means of development,
and very safely promised substantial
success and prosperity to those who
engagedin such endeavors.
When a man has thus devoted to a
large section of the country as many
years pf hard and intelligent labor as
has Senator Fletcher to the south,
he has the clear, right, in retiring
from office, to compare present con
ditions with those which existed
when his work began. With even his
genius for assembling statistics full
of meaning. Senator Fletcher would
be hard put to it even to mention all
of the things which he has fostered
and which- have gone to make the
south the greatest empire it now un
doubtedly is, marching steadily to a
wonderful progress. He will doubt
less leave this to others who have
benefited by his labors. He has, how
ever, the intense satisfaction of know
ing that his own beautiful state of
(Florida has been a beneficiary and a
participant in many of the good
things which his efforts have brought
i about. Railroads of an unusual na
ture and surface roads of excellent
quality built; chanals constructed,
vast areas of swamp lands drained
and put into cultivation. . producing
foodstuffs of all kinds for the support
of vast numbers, splendid provision
"I had thought that Gott was with
me, but of late He's hard as bone, so
I've come for your assistance and
we'll oust Him from His throne. Now
dear Satan, won't you help ' me?
We're a team that would work well,
and when "the awful war is over we'll
own Heaven, Earth and Hell.
"I surely am disgusted with the
Gott up in; the skies, instead of help
ing me He's helping the Allies. Just
say the word and I'll abide; you
come along, but I'll decide; and to
night at just eleven, I'll call out a
string of Zeppelins and we'll make a
raid on Heaven".
All .this while old Satan wondered.
Scratched his head and then he pon
dered. When he found his equilib
rium, after Bill had gotten through,
he addressed Bill Hohenzollern in
these words, sever and true:
"You're a dirty, low-brow ingrate;
you re the worst l ever knew; you
are dippy, talking flighty, and to win
your greatest blunder you would
wreck your God Almighty.
mnriA fnr rno annnmmnriatifin nf onf.
that you had a regular call, and some , . ....
, , . . , , r. . . fering. thousands who visit that state
. , . ,,lto recover their health and enjoy its
Bill, you'll gea a fall. And this fall !,,,,. .'
visability and possibility of which he
has advocated, carried, under another
administration, to successful comple
tion, to the upbuilding of that sec
tion of the country which he has seri-v
ed so well. Nashville Tennessean. '
BLEW TP THE STOVE
is not for distant; it is coming sure
as hell, for the Allies have your meas
ure and they'll fix you good well.
"You have stooped to the lowest
level; you have broken every rule;
all the world is now against you,
you're a great bjg jackass fool.
"I don't like your talk of methods;
I'm the Devil, that is true, but you've
wrecked and butchered millions and
I have no use for you.
"Look at Belgium, poor, bleeding
Belgium; look at France and England,
too; all because you had a notion that
the world you could subdue.
"For punishing, I've a reputation,
but I've watched you all the while;
and for downright, onery meanness
delightful climate and thousands of
other things of great moment accom
plished. What point in the old world
now rivals Florida as a place of de
lishlful winter resort! May the sena
tor himself live long enough to see
many other great enterprises, the ad-
The cold weather at Jackson, Miss,
among other difficulties caused stoves
to blow up and J. W. Tucker well
known here among the sufferers. The
following from the Jackson paper ex
plains it:
Sunday was a day to be hold in
memory, and not in happy memory
either, for it was one of the coldest
and most disagreeable days ever ex
perienced In Jackson. '
In several of the churches the ser
vices were cut short because of thu
intense cold weather, and inability
to get the places o worship comfort
able, and visiting was negligible, peo
ple both young and old finding the
chimney corners more comfortabla
than the streeas.
The drug stores had good business
for they had provided large coal
stoves, that cast a glowing welcome
which visitors were nothing loath to
take advantage of and while enjoying
Ihe warmth bought hot drinks, cigars,
cigarettes, etc., to heat up the inne:
n.an.
Most of the casualties consisted of
the blowing up of water backs in
kitchen stoves, in some instances do
ing considerable damage, but not of
a nature that could be collected from
insurance companies, as the compan
ies have no insurance against blow
ups on account of freezes.
J. W. Tucker had a range blow up
early Sunday morning, caused by an
e-xplosion of the water back, which
was frozen and exploded when heat
vas applied. Mr. Tucker, when asked
tho damage said: "Well, I hardly
known, but I do know that my range
was blown to smithereens just a few
minutes before the breakfast bell was
due to ring. The water back explod
ed and the range was shattered, soni'.;
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Talk about the "freedom of rvtt
the seas" the freedom of I " t
Russia, the freedom of the - j ta
Armenians, but do you real. t o
ize this war has made free, f" Wv,
dom for the feet?
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Do you realize the army shoe L-
has revoluntionized the whole
idea of shoe construction? t
Now the comfort of your feet l... ,
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IS me Tim essential,
style and ' looks
been tampered
are. still here in
from $6 up.'
have not
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our shoes
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Lakeland's Best Clothes Shop
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Drane Building ct 1
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of it going through the walls, a:ie fcrr
flass windows were smashed
tue breakfast was blown so ha-welJ ;
nuainst the ceiling that we have ty are
j et gotten it down. Our cook m of tla
standing by the range at the tirtome f
but escaped unhurt physicall;' fend ill
was badly shaken up mentally. I sc'J tie
tbc remains of the $65 range (;la. LI
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FOB KENT Housekeeping roou'l. ;
modern. 610 North Florida. G :
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Thursday
' Picked up t "Booster Edition" of a
Florida paper' the other day, expect
lrg to And some boost for the' com
munity in which It was published. It
was there a column and a liitlf of
tcost, the other 46 1-2 columns be
lng paid write-ups. That edition
may he very valuable to the townjn
which it was published, but we doubt
It. In fact, we don't think it will be
of any great' value to anybodv ex
cept the "specialists" who use the
paper as a means of getting the mer chants
to stand and deliver. We be
l'eve any newspaper makes a mis
take when it ties up with the adver
tising schemer who comes to Florida
to work the people for a little easy
jnaney.
where Mr. Stomorrow. the fuel dom-
onstrator, is trying to get coal from you liave the DevU sklnnea a mlle-
the minds."
"But the paper says there is a short
age of anthrax coal," interrupted ma,
and that we should use voluminous
coal."
"Not 'voluminous.' ma," corrected
Peggy, "buytoomany' coal!"
"I don't care what they call It," said
ma, ." you can't get any, anyhow. It's
Just too aggregating for words. A
pound of sugar or a hod of coal today
is worth more than all the wealth of
the ancient inkstands." , .
"Who wer,e them?" asked Peggy.
"Them was Indians as used to live
down in Texaco," ma told her. "It
does look as if this would never ter-
iminal."
"It will be terrible if the Russians
continue their armature with the Ger
mans, wouldn't it, ma?"
"Oh, he's a terrible, terrible man,"
sighed ma.
"Whom is?" asked Peggy. V
"Why," said ma, as she went to get
dinner, "who but the geyser?" Joe
Toye in the Bost Post.
"All the fire and the brinmstone, all
the groans and shrieks of hell, you
hae equalled and surpassed them and
you know it mighty well.
"Now, Kaiser Wilhelm, listen:
you'll not finish fwhat you've started;
the Hohenzollern family and throne
will soon have parted.
"You heard from President Wilson,
he told you what he'd do, but you
thought he was only bluffing, now you
know he's coming through. Qver
there they're training soldiers, and
oh, my God, how they can fight!
They'll get your dirty carcass be
cause they're fighting for the right.
"when the bugle call is sounded,
you will have no time to pray, for
they're coming on in millions
they hall from U. S. A." Ex.
That line A. H. T. cigar flavor
makes one forget these wheatless,
meatless days. Try one today.
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Church notices state that a ser
mon will be preached next Sunday on
"Hell." As we just sat down where
someone had turned over our paste
pot and got a ton of dough ground
into the equator of our best and only
pair of breeches, we know all about
it without hearing that sermon.
Tallahassee Record.
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SENATOR FLETCHER
Senator Fletcher of Florida, who
has served so long and so efficiently
as chairman of the southern commer
cial congress, finds his senatorial du
ties, in this time of war so exacting
that he has felt compelled, greatly
against the wish of his associates, to
give up the chairmanship of the con
gress. That he has very faithfully
served the entire southern section of
the United States in that really great
office, alUw,ho have been Interested
in the resnlts attained and who have
kept themselves informed of the
work Senator Fletcher has been per
forming will freely admit that it has
been great, and accord to him their
jBincere gratitude.
As a senator, he has represented
his state in a very broad way. As
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Can You Save $5. 00?
Then Lend it to UNCLE SAM
The United States Government has made it possible for tnose of the smart
est means to lend money In an effective way namely by means of War
Loan Savings Certificates.
These Stamps and Certificates are now en sale lit Lakeland and Irrespec
tive of how it may affect savings bank' deposits, the facilities of this bank
'are at the disposal of the Government and publio In the furthering of their
sale. a
Thrift 8tamps may be purchased as fow as 2So each, and $4.12 tjepesftetf
now will buy a $94)9 U. 8. Government War Loan Certificate.
CAPITAL $100,000.00
SURPLUS $50,000.00
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RESOURCES OVER ONE MILLION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY
. THOUSAND DOLLARS
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAKELAND
C. M. CLAYTON,
President
J. W. BRYANT,
Vice President
MORRIS G. MUNN,
Vice President
J. R. WEEKS,
Cashier
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Assistant Cashier Assistant Cashier
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