The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-08-13
Mcintosh Mention.
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fDShtS. why IL FARMER" the
spread hustler of Lowell like the
prophel Elijah? A leather medal for
the hrst correct answer. All answers
must be in next issue of the Banner.
III. ID. Wood, one of our enterpris-
ing merchants, paid a flying visit to
quincy last week. He reports that
the tobacco industry in old GadsCien is
on boom; the farmers all making
money and lands sky high in price.
He says Gadsden county is now a reg.
ulaT KlOndyke.
Mrs. XIX. Bolles and her interesting
Children, left this week for their fu-
ture home in Newark, n. !.
Mr.. Cooper is taking an outing at
TarpOn Springs.
IN former communication | told
OF our bathing pool and the comfort
ana pleasure it affords our people Il
may not have been ching Of beau
ty' but ii was Joy forever" to the
small boy who haunted its banks and
disported in its pellucid depths from
early morn ill dewey eve. And no
less was it a source of pleasure 10 our
faIr ladies' who made commendabIe
progress i'll the art of swimming. Ii
was worth pilgrimage to see our
heavy weight county commissioner
and his sixteen stone neighbor, Baby
smith" teaching the young Kids how
To leap aud dive. When one Of these
heavy weights would walk out on the
| spring board and turn summersault.
as they used TO do in their b0yhOod
days, and land on their backs in
SIX feet Iwater, it would raise such
mighty wave as to threaten to wreck
the small fry and they soon learned to
scud for the shore whenever they
heard 1.-THE cry, "Mr. Alien is going to
dive" But our dam went and did
like the grand old democratic party in
the last election-it busted, and great
was the bust thereof. The water
about million gallons-went out
with rush and roar that was irresIst-
abll. One lOf the cOlOred troops de-
elared ''it like to wash the railroad
trestle away it went through SO brief
ly." But Mcintosh never owns de-
feat; the break is repaired; the entire |
levee strengthened and the pool now
Is better by far than before. We ex-
tend an invitation tO seekers for
health To come and enjoy our health
giving sulphur baths.
TOuchstone hopes our editor will |
make room for the articles of Bailey |
Brown, ct. al. The people should
know the facts, and they look to the |
Banner To furnish them. Keep the |
people in ignorance and you keep
them in slavery, but let in the light of |
truth and truth shall make them
free"
Thanks to Dick No. / for his kindly |
assistance on the good roads question.
Will the Marion county commission
ers now tell us through the columns OF
the Banner why they do not employ
convict labor on the county roads? If
we cannot get the facts from the cOun-
ty commissions, will not the corps of
Banner correspondents give all the
facts in their knowledge hearing on
this matter.
TOuchstOne thinks ye editor fails to
'catch on" to the true animus of
l.ic in
fight On the Banner. The Banner is
regarded as the ablest free silver pa
per in the state, and it's destruction is
a part of the gold bug programme,
other silver papers all over the cOun-
try having been bought, but the ac-
c0mplished editor of the Banner is
not purchasable, and must therefore,
be destroyed. Bro. Porter is the agent
of the gold bug cOrpOration-republico-
democrats in this fight on the Banner,
and the dear old paper must sooner or
later go down before the combination
unless the reform element amongst
the country people rally to its support.
Whoop up the Banner, brother cores
p0ndents, and your sisters, too, for you
WELD blade "tO lead Il trusty' that
should he kept briglk in the interest
of our paper.
Dick, of Blitchton, Is too wonder
| fully fresh and coniiding for this
world. What pity we hav'nt old
Elijahs hack line running now, So
that we could load such simple, trust
ing specimens on board, and send
them by direct through route to 81
better land. Do you not know brother
that the chief cause of ali our troubles
is TRUST, and that this Is the reason
the country is RUST. We trust our po-
litical leaders, i. e., the illegal lights"
ut the county seat, and few cross
road two by four politicians, to name
the candidate for office and we vote
for and elect them, and then trust
them to do all they cam for the dear
peopIe( p while we go oabout our sever
al vocations and never say "Render
an account of your stewardship" No,
brother, Old Watch is worth whole
cow-pen full of trusts.
old trust is the poorest dog ia the pack.
uel never bark ON the hottest track
ae,s not worth the salt that goes IN his bread,
Aud the people would be better if he was killed
stone dead 80
The editor of the Banner declares in
the first column of his paper thai
"Baskin's political downfall was due
to riding q bike" and in the third
column says "the editor of this paper
has mounted bike and has learned
that the way to go is to go.' Iouch
+ stone bows to the superior wisdom o
We editor, and in the language OF
: distinguished congressman from my
.. native state exclaims: "lf I've SAT-