The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-06-11
Mcintosh Mention.

IN evidence IN our midst Just now,
"hustling''-if Farmer" will permit
us 10 use the word for our tomatoes,
good and fine. They are 50 numerous,
aud "rouchstone" Is SO busy shipping
his huhdred-acre crop of tomatoes,
that lac hasn't time to look up their
names.
Mrs. w. II. Smith, who has been
visiting relatives at Gainesville, is at
home again and can be found every
day working with her beautiful
flowers.
II Madam Runor is correct, and she
sometimes almost always is in such
eases, the wedding bells will ring
again soon. This time the bride will
remain with us. That's right, girls !;
don't slight your neighbors' children.
The voice of the turtle is no longer
heard in the land, but its omission is
supplied 10y the small sons of Ham,
who can bc heard on every side sing
ing:
Ham bone am sweet
BACON am good
fossun SOP an later hit am fine.
But gimme oh gimme,
really wish you would
Oh de waicrmilion smiin on dc vine
Let us have peace. The Smith
Nugent mntter has run ad nausram
usque. Gentlemen, for the sake If Il
suffering people, find an island in the
midst Of your beautiful Lake Weir,
and tongue the matter out, but in
mercy spare as any more of your epis-
tolaTy venom.
We knew Farmer" was a prime
hand at "blowing his own horn" but
last weeks paper shows him to be
second only 20 the angel Gabriel in
this accomplishment. He has sue
eeeded ia blowing loud enough to
rouse up "Trip Van Wrinkle" from his
long sleep. The belt is yours, Brother
Farmer
We thought when we began read
ing Homeland Notes that "Silveriten
meant 10 say he was "laying byn
corn, but when we had read about J.
II. Parker's mammoth corn stalks, we
concluded that "Silverite'' had spelled
the word correctly, but had used the
adverb "by" for the proposition
about" and that the paragraph
should read "lying about corn.u
Farmer" does not seem to have
Jared as well on his trips of as Touch
stone" does. "1ouchstone" always
gets yellow-Iegged spring chicken,
firied crisp and brown, while of on a
jaunt, but Farmer" complains that
he was fed SO continuously on bacon
that he can't see a razor-back now
without having sinister designs on
him.
The Smith-Nugent correspondence
has reached the lastly" finally
and "in conclusion, brethren; :" yet
still Il goes ON and on, reminding us of
Tennyson's ode Ia river:
For men may come and men may 60,
But go on forever.
Our spring poet has finally recov-
cred from the exhaustion incident TO
his eiihsion on "Spring, Beautiful
Spring" and now comes forward with
mournful plant "To Book"
Aud art thou gone from me my book.
Are all our wandefiugs DER
Aud IN the fields aud by the brook
Are We 10 meet no more2
Alas lent thee 10 a friend.
Thy page no more ri see
For my deiuded life will cud
Ere th9n'rt returned to me.
We have his head shaved and Bills.
tered and his feet In soak, and hope
10 pull him through.
II used TO be said that "public Office
was a public trust" to be administered
in the interest Of the people. OnI
county commissioners in effect say, a
did Vanderbilt, "The people be
damned! We are running our Office
In our own Interest," "Touchstone'
thinks this a good time 10 have q
searching investigation Of all oul
county affairs. Much money ma,
been collected from our suffering peo
pile during the four years last past, and
spent or lost. Let us now have {
showing aud hold our county ofliceri
60 rigid accountability. In no Othe
way can we secure economy and in
tegrity la the administration Of th,
peoples affairs. Let us seek the ole
paths that We may walk therein. Thu
fathers declared eternal vigilance 4
be- the price Of liberty, but our mOden
leaders have changed the maxim an,
make Il read, Eternal scheming i
the price Of political success"
What we need in our county Office
Is honesty, integrity and economy.
What say you, brother correspond
entse You are In touch with the PEG
Pile In your various sections. Let u
have an expression of your views OF
the county advertising matter.
TOUCHsToNE.
nEor fhrea Years we have move