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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-14

81 know one lady, the mother of three
children, who suffered greatly in the
birth of each, who obtained bottle of
Mothers Friend of me before her
fourth confinement, and was relieved
quickly and easily. All agree that their
labor was shorter and less painful"
john G. PoLHILL, Macon, Ga.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-14
Tia Eaitor.

The following reply was made to the
toast Of .sThe Editor at meeting of
the New York state democratic editors
recently held In New York city:
.Fellow-toilers In the Journalistic
Vineyard: The life of the editor is not
one of unalloyed happiness. Ithas its
lights and shadows, its ups and downs,
with downs in a hopeless majority.
The present occasion is an oasis on the
journalistic Sahara.
Occasionally you hear OF a rich
country editor. An editor forty years
ago who started out without cent is
worth now Sl00, 900. His fortune is all
owing 10 his own energy, industry
and frugaIity, and the fact that a rich
uncle died and left him 800, 9e9.99. OF
course there Is a mint of money in
journalism. There must be, for so lit
tie has been gotten out of it. In Bur-
nah editors receive elephants in pay
menl for subscriptions. In this coun-
try the paper itself is about all the ele-
phant the editor cares to keep in stock.
l read the other day that man had
gone twenty-eight days without eat
ing. The name Of the paper he was
editor of was not stated.
I'VE are all democratic editors here
tonight, but looking at it one way il
does not make much difference wheth-
er congress is democratic or repubii-
can. Ia either event the editor gets
the usuai quantity OF public docu-
ments' with which to light the fire in
! the sauctum stove.
Eyes, editors have much to bother
them, but Mr.. Talmage is right when
he says all editors are not miserable.
/ Some of them are dead. Occasionally
there is good deal OF competition in
our business. have noticed several
times where a newspaper in small
town had a hard time making living
another is started to help it starve tC
death.
at has been charged that there are
. great many old jokes in the news
papers, but that can't be helped
/ Newspaper men are good and die
young, and the newcomers in the bus
mess don't know what has already
| been published"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-14
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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-14
MARBLE YARD.

aeay- Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-14
T. Z. HARRIS. Editor.

Transient advertisements must be paid Tor IN
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paper, unless otherwise stipulated BY eontraes'
Iocsl or reading notices other tha1 calling
Alteration to new advertisements and local name
bills. 70 cents per line for hrst insertion ana 5
cents per line for each subsequent.
bills for advertising are due after the hrst "a
sertion, or when presented, except when DINER
Wise contracted for.
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addressed to the editor.
Commuuications pertaining TO business or
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ager. as.. -
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Marion county. Communications tor puplics-
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ner ofhce not later than wednesday 10 insure
pubiication for the week intended
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-14

$1.oo PER BOTTLE at all Drue stores,
or sent by mail on receipt OF price.
HutkS Containing Invaluable information Of
EncE interest 30 au women, win be sent TO
'hhs any address upon application, BY
fHE HRApFiEL q aEcua arozeo a~..x. a..
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-14
THE OCALA BANNER

Morro:-THIs PAPER WILL NOT
PAWN AT THE FEET OF THE MAN WHO
HAS SUDDENLY AND WITHOUT MERIT
REACHED THE TOP OF THE HILL; NOR
WILL 1T KICK THE MAN WHO Is GOING
DOWN -.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-14
MOTHERS FRIEND

tsaO EsEAas y aasaEnzEU
allays Nervousness, and so assists
Nature that the change goes for
ward in an easy manner, without
such violent protest in the way of
Nausea, Headache. Etc. Gloomy
forebodings yield to cheerful and
hopeful anticipations-she passes
through the ordeal quickly and
without pains left strong and
vigorous and enabled to joyously
perform the high and holy duties
now devolved upon her. Safety
to lie OF both is assured by the
use of Mothers Friend" and
the time of recovery shortened.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-14
Tomhstones! Tomhstonesll

Mr.. A. j. Leavengood having re-
turned from the east coast has opened
up his marble yard on north Magno-
liza street, where those ia need of tomb b.
stones or monuments to mark the last
resting place of their dead can lind
suitable en- hlafns
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1897-05-14

Trains =, -. y and Is. between Jack
sonYiiie ard s.. Augustine daily.
Train 1Ha. between Miami and Fore
Pierce daily, excent SUNDAY.
irain -. between Fort Pierce and
diaml daily, except Monday.
Trains - and IS south of st. Angus
me daily, except Sunday.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27
SILVER WEDDING.
Nebraska Senator and Wife Entertain
Hundreds of Friends

Omaha, Neb.. Dec. Ex-senator and
Mrs. John NJ. Thurston celebrated their
silver wedding last night at their pa
latial residence in Omaha.
1t was pre- eminently the social event
of the season in Nebraska. From 8
until midnight the spacious rooms of
the residence were crowded with the
elite of Omaha and the state. Several
dozen guests from the east were pres
ent.
Three thousand invitations were sent
to friends of the couple in Nebraska
and other parts of the United States.
1t was estimated that 800 persons call
ed during the evening to pay their re-
spects.
Mrs. Thurston was attired in a beau
tiful silver gray gown of exquisite de-
sign. The ladies assisting were attired
in costumes of similar color, and all
carried flowers.
The couples assisting in receiving
We're: Mr.. and Mrs. Newman of Lin
coln Mr.. and Mrs. w. o. Thomas of
Lincoln; Mr.. and Mrs. Dow of North
Platte. Mrs. Henry T. Clarke of Oma-
ha presided at the punch bowl
Notwithstanding the large CROWD, the
event passed off with extreme smooth
ness. The rooms were decorated with
holly, evergreens and rare flowers. A
great bank of ferns and roses sur
rounded the bower where the senator
and his bride stood to again have per-
formed the ceremony that they went
through on Christmas evening, 1872.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27

pie were fed. The poor were well sup
piled this year.
The Santa Fe and Rock Island will
bring large number of special cars
filled with delegates to the State Teach
ers' association to the city tomorrow.
In beginning the services at the Meth
odist church last night DR.. Embree said,
after reading the text: This is a long
text. but it does not presage a long ser
mon"
The programme of athletic events is be-
ing arranged for the biennial funniest Of
the Kansas Turn Verein, which will as
semble in Topeka next April. Representa-
tive Germans from all parts of Kansas
viii attend the funniest.
Mr.. 5. 3. Ricaby has returned from
Chicago. where he went to arrange for
the necessary printing supplies for the
Del COute Italian Grand Opera company
He viii leave in few days to take up the
advance work for the company.
A shorthand student went to the Meth-
odist church last night and, occupying
the most conspicuous position in the gal
lery. made a great show of taking notes
by rafting the leaves of his notebook and
wetting the tip OF his pencil in his mouth
The Christmas celebration by the Turn
ers Saturday night crowded the large hall
to its utmost capacity The athletic ex-
hibitions by the little people were decided
" interesting. A large Christmas tree
contained presents for everyone of the lit
tie folks.
A Topeka man who presented a lady
friend with a handsome piece of furni-
ture was greatly surprised to learn that
While he had had the present at his house
he had put a laundry bundle in it and
had failed TO remove it when the pres
ent was sent.
DR.. n. NJ. Smith of Chase, Kan. has
gone home. He came to Topeka on
Thursday with Mrs. Fred Weiland, who
was operated upon at Christ hospital by
DR. Smith and DR.. J. c. AcClintock. His
patient is so much improved that he felt
safe in returning home.
A Topeka Justice of the peace says that
since County Attorney Jetmore made the
order refusing to allow criminal cases to
be brought without his sanction the busi-
ness of the justice courts has fallen OFF
one-half The people are thankful to
Mr. Jetmore but the justices are not.
Saturday night a thief jostled against
man named Downing at the Royal billiard
hall Downing soon discoverd that he had
been robbed of his watch The police
were notified. Some time afterward a
stranger handed Downing his watch anG
disappeared. The news of the robbery
spread rapidly and a crowd gathered al
the hall.
The Topeka district conference of the
Methodist church win be held at the Wal
nut Grove NJ E. church this week It
will open this evening at 1880 O'Clock with
a song service led by J. D. Hitchcock and
a sermon by Rev. c. W. Wilson. The
meetings will be continue Tuesday ant
Wednesday. ending in the evening service
Wednesday.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27
POWDER CAN BURST.
Forty Persons Injured by Gn Explo-
sion at a Christmas Celebration.

AshevilIe, n. G.. Dec. ga crowd of
100 or more men and boys We're firing a
Christmas salute from an old cannon
on the outskirts of town when a can of
thirty pounds of powder exploded in
the thick Of the crowd. Thirty or for
ty persons were injured, but none. it
fired several times and then Joseph
Finch, an employe OF the Southern
Railway company, picked up the pow
der can and began to reload the piece.
The gun had not been swabbed, and the
moment the tiny stream of powder
struck the heated metal there was a
flash and the powder exploded with a
report that made the earth tremble-
Immediately there was scene that
made sick the hearts of those watching
from a nearby hill. In the smoke that
arose from the explosion they saw hu-
man beings run blindly here and there
over the hill, falling and rising only to
fall again as they franticaIly rushed
about, blinded and powder burned, mad
ly trying to extinguiSh their flaming
clothes.
Those who were unhurt ran to the
aid of the suffering ones smothering
the flaming clothes or cutting the gar
ments from their bodies One man was
blown or rolled completely down the
bluff 200 feet, nearly to the river The
people of the neighborhoOd ran to the
scene and the work of giving assistance
to the injured began. The hill was
dotted with blackened, groaning fig
ures, some of whom lay almost per
IEGA4A nQQS- "A nuIIlDGG OF Ine injured
We're able to walk from the scene,
while cots were provided and gentle
hands placed the more seriously wound
ed on them and conveyed them to an
old residence near by, which was i'm
proVised into a hospital
Those injured worst are: Joseph
Finch, Edward Miller, John Ingle Bar
ton Means, Clarence Ledford, Vernon
Sentell, Charles Erwood, Ray Eaton.
Eugene Wynne, d. Bennett Dexter
Henry Mcintyre, Buck Trivett. Dell
Bishop, George Eaton, J. L. Hamilton,
James Warren and Frank Pratter
Joseph Finch is among the most Sc
riously hurt, his nose and mouth being
torn out Of shape and he is probably
blinded. Clarence Ledford, who stood
near the cannon when the powder ig-
nited, was thrown more than so feet.
His clothing was torn or burned en-
tirely off, and a part of the skin on the
forehead burned loose Charles Ear
wood and John Ingle also are seriously
hurt, and several others probably will
lose their sight or be dishgured for
life.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27
A new SECRETARY.
A Scheme to Gust Secretary
Gill Of State Board of
Health.

a scheme has been quietly worked
among local physicians and politicians
to Oust Secretary Gill of the state
board of health and at the next meet
ing of the board charges will be pre-
ferred and the board will be asked to
appoint another secretary.
DR.. ]. L. Gilbert, Col. Fred Close, c.
K. Holiday, DR.. c. A. Mcclure and 9th
ers have signed the charges which will
be presented to the board at the meet
ing next week.
The grounds upon which the charges
are based are that DR.. Gill negiects the
duties of the office and entrusts them
to an assistant and his stenographer.
It is claimed that this assistant is Dr.
Kirkpatrick who served as secretary of
the board under the last Republican
administration.
The board viii be asked to give the
place to some one VINO will devote his
entire time to the work and who will
stay in Topeka. This has been done
by others who have held the position
for Dr. Gill. 1t is said that the reas-
on DR. Gill does not give his personal
attention to the work is because he does
not want to let go of his practice at
home.
The secretary is paid a salary Of
$1,000 and has an allowance of $500 per
annum for special sanitary work
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27
PAINE'S FARM A CEMETERY
Famous Inf1dePs Home Bought by a
Rich New York Syndicate.
New York. Dec. -27.-Tom Pa

New York, Dec. 27.-Tom Paine's old
farm, on which the famous infidel
slived, died and was buried is to be
turned into a cemetery, which viii ri
val in beauty and Importance New
York's celebrated metropolis Green
wood.
The property is near New Rochelle,
and has just been sold to a syndicate
of New York millionaires who propose
to so enhance its beauty as to make it
one of the most romantic graveyards
in the world 1t was sold to the syn
dicate by John H. Trenor a rich citi-
zen of New Rochelle. It's 800 acres
brought the sum of 5000 600.
In the bosom of this land reposes the
mortal remains of the author of The
Age of Reason and of THE Rights of
Man" Above his dust stands a monu-
ment much more humble than many
that have been erected to men of far
less renown.
This land was the spot on which the
Huguenots settled when they landed in
America.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27
BURTON ON FUSION.
The Abilene Statesman Points
Out Some of the Evils
That Accompany Attempts to
Weld Several Parties
Into One Organization Says Tt In
evitabIy Must Result in the
Sacrifice Of Principle.

The Washington Star in it's Talks
with Hotel Guests" contains the fol-
lowing:
John r. Burton, of Abilene, Kans.,
who came so near to being elected
United States senator in 1895. was seen
at the Normandie last evening.
Speaking fguratively," said Mr..
Burton, kansas is wearing it's Sun
day clothes every day in the year. Our
people have been paying off debts with
a rapidity that has no parallel. This
year, after discharging a heavy total
OF obligations, they have been able to
save $3.50, 600, 900, and have lived well
besides. There has been Improvement
all along the line, agricultural, COM
merclal and political. The Republican
party after battling hard since 1890,
and with a constantly increasing vote
since then, at last can see supremacy in
sight. 1t has been a hard fight
against the combined opposition forces,
but regard it IS certain that the party
viii triumph at the polls next year and
in 1900
The fusion regime has had its day
in kansas. In all the corrupt and vic
ious phases in modern politics fusion
brings about the most degraded COndi-
tons- 1t is low, sOrdid, and demOral-
alizing. Its sole tendency is to prOsti-
tuition of principle and betrayal of all
ideas worth fighting for. 1t taints all
who engage in it, for it involves always
a sacrifice OF truth and right. Com
pared with fusion the open sale and
purchase of votes is less heinOus. The
revulsion of public sentiment against it
is shown in the increasing number Of
states that are enacting legislation to
prevent its accomplishment.
AS fusion will soon be a thing of the
past, so will POpulism. That had a
bigger run in Kansas than anywhere
else, but it is dying out everywhere. The
theories preached by the 16 to l fanat-
les in 1896 have had their falsity ex-
n
never more be employed to delude the
people
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27
IN THE SEVENTH DISTRICT
Why Long Should Not Be Pitted
Against Simpson.

A. c. Jordan of Lyons, sergeant-at-
arms of the house of 1895 one of the
men who has much to do with the "or,
ganization" of Seventh district politics,
says:
I fine the same expression of opin-
ion everywhere 1 go in the Seventh dis
trict. Long made a mistake in the
first place in not washing his hands of
this whole pOstOffice business, That
is one reason, but, of course, there are
others why Mr.. Long Will not get the
nomination.
There is one way of killing man
that never fails. and that is to say,
that he cannot be elected. This talk
that Long cannot beat Simpson is be
coming general, and the people believe
it People talk that if the two Barber
county men are nominated, there viii
be no new issues, and the same who
voted for Simpson before will do it
again, and the same is true Of those
who voted for Long. That, of course.
would result in the reelection Of Jerry
Our people feel that they ought to
have new candidate
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27
SAY BRYAN THE MAN.
Senators Tillman, of South Carolina,
and Harris, of Kansas, of
One Mind


Washington. Dec, 27--In commenting on
the future of William ]. Bryan, Senator
Benjamin R. TiIlman of South Carolina
said today: I think Mr.. Bryan has lost
nothing since the election. He has made
no mistake that I know of.
There might be some criticism of his
apparent constant obtrusion of himself
upon the public, but it is very hard for
so prominent a man to hide his light un-
der bushel or retire to anything like
private life.
Unless some unforeseen bIunder Of a
very serious nature should be made, I
cannot see now any possibility of any
other man than Mr. Bryan being nonI>
mated in 1900. I think he will retain all
the elements that voted for him last year.
and will get a million or two million more
votes from disgusted Republicans and re-
pentant Democrats. In fact all the power
of plutOcracy and hi cannot beat him
Senator William Harris of Kansas said:
''I do not consider that Mr.. Bryan is re-
peating an echoIess appeal I believe
that most of the people today are think
ing of the silver question There is not
so much of the brass band campaign, but
in my judgment if a vote were taken to-
day it would show a tremendous increase
for free silver over that of 1896.
Mr.. Bryan has. perhaps, done some
things that may provoke a little hippant
criticism but his earnestness, sincerity,
good faith and ability have become more
and more marked and he is closer to the
heart of the great masses of the people
today than any man living. Admitting
the situation to be substantially as it is
now, his nomination in 1900 will be in re-
sponse to the universal wish Of all the
elements opposed to Republicanism.'
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27
GEO. w. DUDLEY,
a Prominent St. Louis Business Man
Cured of Asthma, 4 Case of Ten
Years Standing, by DIR. Char
cots KOla Ncrvine Tablets.

St. Louis, No. April 13, 1897.
To whom it may concern.-I am pleased
to add my testimonial to the worth of DR..
Charcot's Kola Ne-vine Tablets, 1 having
been afflicted with asthma for about ten
years. have found great relief from the
use of these Tablets, for after having used
one OF the large boxes the symptoms were
nearly effaced.
Hoping that others thus afflicted win
Ienefit from my eAss erieEce, 1 am,
Truly yours Geo. w. Dudley.
N. R.-Mr. George W. Dudley. writer OF
the above letter, is president of The Dud-
ley Machinery Co. St.LOuis. Mo. and one
of the best known civil and construct ting
engineers in the West ard South West
He has recently gained national pronli-
nence a one OF the inventors and owners
of the celebrat ted dynamite gun now being
used with such deadly effect by tho Cuban
Insurgents in their struggle for liberty.
DR.. Charcot's Kcia Ne-Yine Tablets never
fail in nervous diseases of any kind Fifty
cents and s. co at all druggists. See DR..
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The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27
DEAL FOR GAMBLING.
Omaha Sports Preparing to Open
Games on Elaborate Scale.

Omaha. Dec. PA local paper today
says that as a result of a conference
between the chief of police and a mum
Der OF representative gamblers in Ona-
ma, gambling houses on an elaborate
scale will shortly be opened. Recently
this gambling syndicate offered to con
tribute $4,000 to the trans Mississippi
exposition, provided the city offered no
objection to gambling houses. but the
proposition was not accepted
The conclusion is that the police com
mission and the gamblers have reached
an understanding that they think will
enable them to open up at once.
The majority of the citizens are op-
posed to the business though the su
Preme court last week declared the
Felony penalty connected with syamb-
ling to be unconstitutional and this now
gives the gamblers what they have
been contending for for years.
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27
DOG BURNS COLISEUM.
ChicagO's Last Big Fire Was
Started By a Pet Dog.

Chicago Dec. 27-The Coliseum which
burned Christmas eve, was set on fire
by a pet dog. An explosion of gasO-
line set the dog on fire. Lolita, dane
er in the Cuban village, says Frank
Murphy, an emplOye in the X-ray
booth, confessed to her that he caused
the explosion. She says he told this
to her and her mother when he called
on them about the benefit to be given
the exhibitors Lolita said: Murphy
told me today how the fire started. II
was caused by an explosion OF gasoline
in the X-ray exhibit. A big lamp was
used to light the booth, but it was not
considered sufficient, and the manager
of the show sent Tor a gasoline torch.
Murphy said a man named Bowen gave
the gasoline torch to the manager,
and about twenty minutes past five
o'clock Murphy carried in q fve-gallon
can of gasoline. The lamp was burn
ing close by and when Murphy went
to fill his gasoline torch he was quite
near the burning lamp. Morley, the
manager of the exhibit, was on lad
der almost over the lamp arranging
the dra perry about the booth. Murphy
started to pour the gasoline into the
tank of the torch. which had not been
lighted but the fluid caught from the
burning lamp near by and went up in
a puff
There was a little pet dog in the
place, connected with the exhibit. ana
When the gasoline exploded the dog
was covered with the burning OIL. The
poor beast rushed around in terror and
set fire to the drapery of the booth
which hung to the floor. Quicker that
a flash the whole trimming of the booth
was on fire and the blaze was rising to
the balcony, where our show was 10
Gated. The men about the booths near
by ran and got the extinguishers, but
they would not work. a hose was
turned on, but they could get no water.
j. Morales, Mexican dancer,
warned me to get out and we were just
getting to the doors when the gas tank
that supplied the calcium lights for the
tight rope walkers exploded and the
place was a mass of fiames.''
Lolitas story about the origin of the
fire was corrObOrated by Frank Hat
field, the dOOr-keeper.
Murphy was seen and denied that the
explosion of a can of gasoline was the
cause of the fire. He thought the dra-
perry caught from q cigarette or cigar
stump
The Topeka state journal., 1897-12-27
LOCAL RATE WAR.
Insuranc Agents Enter an Unlimited
Go-as- you-please.

There is an insurance rate war on in
Topeka among the fire insurance
agents
1t is the result of the destruction of
the CIarkson rate bureau by Webb Nc
NAH, and promises to become interest
ing, at least to holders of insurance
pohcles which are TO be renewed at the
beginning of the new year.
For the first time in the history of
fire insurance writing in Topeka some
of the local agents have started out as
a free lance in the business and are
making cuts which are astonishing in
view of the rates which have been
maintained here for many years.
The cutting of rates has been going
on for some weeks and the strategic
movements of the local union have
failed to prevent its continuation