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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-13
When the Canal Is Opened

In spite of the impetus recently
given to geographical study, it is
probable that ten out of twelve
well-reaG persons will estimate
the distance between Liverpool
and San Francisco, via Cape
Horn, to be at least one thousand
miles longer than from New York
to the same port of the Golden
Gate; but 1t is actually one hun
dred and fifty miles shorter-the
two routes being respectively a.
900 and IA, $40 miles long. The
greatest surprise, however, is to
find that New Orleans is further
away than either of the two other
cities, being 1902 miles from
San Francisco. When the Mica
ragua Canal is opened this South
ern city will be only 4O41 miles
from her Western sister; New
York will be distant 1916 miles:
and Liverpool 1894 miles. The
economy to the shipping interests
of England and America alone
would pay for the canal twice
over IN a short time, to say moth
ing of the advantage to commerce
of reaching markets hitherto in
accessible.-E. A. Fletcher, in
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly
for March.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-13
Tax Assessors Notice

+. will be at the following
named places for the purpose of
taking returns of persons and
property subject to taxation in
Marion county for state and
county taxes for 1899 and agri-
cultural reports for 1898:
Shady Grove, Tuesday, March
IA, am.
Pedro, Wednesday, March Is,
pm.
Summerfield, Thursday, March / 6.
Belleview, Friday, March Il, am.
Santos, Friday, March l., pm.
Ocala, Tuesday, March p to "a.
Kendrick, Saturday, March %,
am.
Lowell, Saturday, March %, pm.
Reddick, Monday, March e..
Pennington, Tuesday, March 90.
j. G.. MATHEWS,
Tax Assessor Marion County.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-13
A Life Worth Living

"A cynical acquaintance once re-
marked that nothing was more
perilous to the peace and happl-
ness of a person than to come
into close relations with another
person. "You never know what
you are involving yourself in"
he said: s'you are certain to get
entangled in his concerns, and
you will have no end Of bother
and trouble" Marriage was his
'sbete noir." In his opinion it
was literally giving a hostage to
fortune. To marry was to open
gate through which troop of
troubles would come upon you.
You might find happiness, but at
the constant peril of greater un-
happiness. This Is the quintes-
sence of Selfishness and diaboli-
cal philosophy. Its cOndemna-
ton is that it is against nature
and against GOD. Helpful and
sympathetic relations with our
fellow human beings are the very
wine of life. Suppose that one
does escape some trouble and an
noyance by living purely selfish
life, how much he misses, Get
ting entangled with the concerns
of others. Why, that is the
very charm of a full and rich ex-
perience. That is the way to be
happy; that is the way to do
good and get good; that is the
way to live like a man or woman.
He fought his battles; he had a
thousand relations with his fellow
men; he won and held the love of
q woman; he was helpful and
generous, and rock in a weary
land to those who were in per-
plexity and trouble; he loved to
make the care of others his own.
Is not that the ideal of a life
worth living? Waterman.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-13
When the Eyes are Sick

Something must be done and done
quickly. Little neglects bring
big diseases. When the eyes are
sore or inflamed use John r.
Dickey's Old Relia BILE Eye Water.
1t stops the Inflammation, cures
granulated lids, and brings ease
at once. 1t causes absolutely no
pain. The genuine is always en-
closed in a red folding box-don't
forget that. Get it at Anti
Monopoly Drug Store for % cts.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-13

For frost bites, burns, indolent
sores, eczema, skin disease, and
especially Piles. DeWitt's Witch
Hazel Salve stands first and best.
Look out for dishonest people
who try to initiate and counter
felt it. It's their endorsement Of
a good article. Worthless goods
are not initiated. Get DeWitt's
Witch Hazel Salve. Antl-Mo-
nopoly Drugstore, Ocala, Fla.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-13
No Place at Home


"a bright, black-eyed lad of per-
haps fourteen summers. l had
seen him there evening after
evening, and wondered if there
was no one who knew the tempta-
tions he encountered.
| made friends with him, and
won his confidence. Then | ques-
toned him kindly in regard to
his spending so much time in the
street.
81 know he said, looking up
at me. in such a frank, winning
way that l could not help think
ing what noble man he might
make, "the street is not the best
place for a boy, but you see there
is no place for me at home.'
| was surprised and panied at
the answer.
elbow is that?' l asked.
"Well, | have two grown-up
sisters, and they entertain COM
pany in the parlor every evening.
They give me to understand that
l am a third party, and not
wanted. Then papa is always
tired, and he dcses in the sitting
room, and does not like to be dis
turbed. It's pretty lonesome,
you see; so | come down here. 1t
was not always SO, he went on.
Before grandma died | always
went to her room, and mad n Jolly
time. Grandma liked boys"
There was d quaver in the voice
now that told of a sorrow time
had not yet healed.
"But your mother | sug-
gested.
"Oh, mamma: she's only a re-
former, and has no time to spend
with me. She is always visiting
the prisons and warehouses, try
ing to reform the men, or writing
articles on how to save the boys"
':And her own boy is In dan
ger"
eyes. [ am not half as good as
| was before grandma died. [ am
getting rough, l am afraid. There
does not seem to be anyone to
take an interest in me, so it does
not much matter"
1t was hard, bitter truth; and
yet | knew that this was not the
only boy who needed wise, gen.
tie hand to guide him through
the dangerous period.
0 mother. are you blind, that
you cannot see the danger Of your
own, but look for that of others:
Make home the brightest spot
on earth for your children. Take
an interest in their sports, make
yourselves young for their sakes,
and then you can feel that you
have done your whole duty
| think the So Oldest, most ..ore-
less thing [ ever heard from a
boys lips was that sentence:
F"There is no place for me at
home. " God forgive that mother
and open her eyes before 1t is too
late, and hep other mothers to
heed the warning.
How is it, mothers? Are your
boys in danger? Think of this,
ponder over it, pray over It,
Childrcn's Visitor.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-13
Fire Wood Cheap

A big load of stove wood, cut
any length and delivered to your
house for IS cents. 4 cord, cut
any length and delivered fol
$2..5. A two-horse load s feet
long, delivered for IS cents.
Give me your orders. l am well
equipped to fill them.
j. G. HAGOOD.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-13
McIver & Mackay
OCALA, FLA. ....-.'-
Low Prices and First Glass Goods
Visitors always welcome TDV lIo
whether they buy mi OOs
BUILDING MATERIALS

BUILDING MATERIALS
or all kinds. Fire Clay, House Paints
and Oils. A complete line of V arnishes,
Coach, House and Hard Oil finishes.
Carriage and Wagon Paints. Kalsomine
or Alabastine. Paint and Varnish
Brushes. Wall Paper of all kinds.
GLASS-Window Glass of all kinds
Also, Plate Glass.
HARNESS in every variety. Saddles
and Brides. Robes, Blankets and
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-13

For quick remedy and one
that is perfectly safe for children
let US recommend One Minute
Cough Cure. 1t is excellent for
Group, hoarseness, tickling IN the
throat and coughs. Anti Mo-
nopoIy Drugstore, Ocala, Fla.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1899-03-13
Beauty Is Blood Deep.

Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar-
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all I'M
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads.
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,-beauty for ten cents. All drug
Gists. satisfaction guaranteed, l0c, 25c, SOC.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-15
PILLSBURY'S GREAT FEAT.

London Mail: II. Nelson P%illsbury, the
American chess champion, last night
gave an extraordinary display at the
Metropolitan Chess club, of which the
lord chief justice is president.
He played blindfolded against six OPP
ponents at chess. against two at ~draughts
and at the same time took a hand at
whist. Seated at a table at one end of
the room he coolly manipulated the cards
while promptly calling his move in re-
ply to the teller" Mr.. Mitchell. who an
nounced the moves of his opponents at
chess, and to James Hill, who performed
a similar office for the draughts players.
Play proceeded rapidly, for the Ameri-
can is a quick thinker, and kept his OPP
pOnents very much alive
Once he paused at one of the draughts
games and said, Il guess I'll make a few
moves right along at this board and
then dictated six moves in rapid success
sion which sacrificed a piece, but left him
with a winning ending.
After eighty minutes play he scored
his first win at No. 5 chesSbOard, follow
ed, ten minutes later, by the resignation
of the draught player referred to.
One of his chess opponents next gave
up, and the applause had scarcely sub
sided when the second ~draughts player
had to own himself beaten. After this it
was a procession, and the result was that
Pillsbury won every game of chess and
draughts. Notwithstanding the fact that
all engaged in the contests were strong
players.
OF the whist. the first rubber went
against him, the score being 1 to 2; the
second rubber was not finished. each
winning a point. Play lasted three hours
and a quarter.
A hearty vote of thanks was returned
to Mr.. Pillsbury for the unique enter
tainment he had provided.
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KING OF STOWAWAYS.

The steamship Lackawanna brought
into Philadelphia last week a boy who is
probably the most famous stowaway on
the Atlantic. The fact that the captain
of Lackawanna has involutarily carried
him thrice across the sea is a fair test of
his ability to secrete himself. as on each
occasion the vessel has been thoroughly
searched before leaving Liverpool. Ed
ward Murphy is only Is years old. He
halls from Birkenilead. England, and has
never had a home other than the cutters
the worlds largest cites can afford. He
began the stowaway business some years
ago, when less than 10, and has made a
great success of it. He has visited most
of the shipping ports of the Atlantic. and
many South American and African VI
tries besides. During the past year he
has Travelled from Liverpool to New
York, to Santos. to Rosario. to Argentine
Republic, to the Barbados, to South
ampton, to Liverpool, to Philadelphia.
He is known to every skipper who sails
from London, and as IA rule is a faVOrite
with officers and men. Captain WylIe,
of the Lackawanna links 50 much of
HIM that he has offered to adopt him, but
Murphy cannot give up his rowing life. If
he can escape from the Lackawanna-on
board of which ship, in accordance with
the law which requires every sea captain
to pay a fine for foreigners brought to
America without money, he is closely
confined-he will probably beat his way
across America and ship ON some Pa
cific collier, as he has always expressed
a desire to go to the Klondike.
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it might bounce off and become side
tracked, but never-it came back fair
and true upon the rail every time it left
it. and that it was gaining on us | could
plainly see. Something had to be lone
Immediately if not sooner. We We're pull
ing INTO New Hurley, and l began to
slacken up.
"'Great Scot! man. what are you do
ing" says Morton. Don't YOU see it al
most on top of us"
I'm going to slack this train at the
top of New Hurley here says !, and
when she slows up ! want you to drop
off and throw to- switch there and Well
switch the lightning off,
Excuse me, Dave. you better let
August CO. says he. pointing to my fire
man.. He's a nOnconductor. you know,
and the lightning wouldn't touch him if
it caught him at the switch
1T wds the first joke | ever heard Nor
ton crack, and it made me laugh right
out, although i knew that certain death
was redhot on our trail 300 yards behind.
well, when we reached the place
August got off all right, he lost his feet
and hit the gravel pretty hard, but was
up in a minute and had thrown the
switch. The lightning whizzed by at the
same instant. 1t didn't even scorch him,
however, but travelled the length of the
switch and tore loose a humping block.
1t bounded across a field and, took to a
barbed-wire fence, which it followed for
half a mile before running against a hog
pen built in the corner of a lot.
Every last hog in the pen. and there
We're seven choice ones there, was killed
by the bolt. and. strange to say. while
it left no mark on their hides, it seemed
to have melted every zone in their bodies,
n the seven of them lay there all in a
heap, without form or shape, like a pile
of mush.
Il tell you, it was the closest call I ever
had in all the years we been railroading.
Morton is sick abed with nervous pros
tration. and | haven't got over the shock
vet myself"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-15

Up to the present time the tunnel
schemes of New York ave been chiefly
conspicuous for the ease with which they
have consumed the capital of those who
have consumed the capital of those who
have interested themselves in them. The
old Hudson River tunnel is without doubt
the c~Cstl!est hole in the ground in the
world. At the present time it is a long,
deep excavation, filled almost to the top
! with water. To the eye of t he casual OBJ
server who was not up in tunnel lore it
does not look as if it was worth the
trouble Of pumping it out and yet this is
all that is left to show for more thar ST.
600, coo, and the loss of twenty-one lives.
1t was early in the seventies that Col.
Dewitt Clinton Haskins conceived the
scheme of constructing a tunnel under
the Hudson River. He had made mon
ey in the Union Pacific Railroad and his
reputation as an engineer enabled him to
interest such men as Senator Jones of
Nevada and Millionaire Parke in his pro-
ject. Together they subscribed s.. 000, 600
to carry out the plans and when the mon
ey had been spent they stopped work
. During this period, however,. the tunnel
!, sprung a leak and twenty-one men We're
drowned like rats in a trap. At the time
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If New York city is not tunnel mad her
Citizens have certainly developed some-
thing hat is closely allied to a mania for
underground transit. Years ago the first
tunnel scheme was projected-so many
years ago that the oldest inhabitants
would have difficulty in remem bering the
date-and since that tine there ave
been dozens Of such projects launched
upon the financial world. Some of these
have existed only upon paper while 9TH
ers have progressed to a most uninter-
esting condition of incompletion, but in
each case the interest that has been
aroused in the proposed Improvement has
been permitted to %languish and die and
for a score or more of Years the citizens
of New York have thought less of the
tunnel schemes than Of the possibility Of
some time being able to reach Europe by
means of aerial navigation.
Suddenly, however. there has come a
change in the public pulse and now
nothing but tunnels and underground
transit is being talked of.
During the weeks that nave elapsed
since the revival of these long buried pro-
jects nearly a score of plans have been
drawn and all have tended to the same
End. If these are all carried out the cit
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he would be a rash prophet who would
dare to predict the failure of the pro-
ject. For some time past these men whose
names are almost synonymous for money
have been accommodating street railway
interests in all parts of the country. Just
what they have succeeded in accomplish
ing in and around New York is still some
what OF a mystery but there is no dOubt
that the tine will soon come when the
railway interests of Manhattan and
Brooklyn will unite in one great street
railroad trust. TO better accomplish the
aims Of these maSnates the tunnels are
to be built-not one. but several, for the
traffic plans that they have outlined
constitute one of the most gigantic trans.
~portat.on schemes ever conceived in the
brain Of man. SubWays are to be laid
from one end Of New York city to the
other. tunnels are to cross the rivers in
almost every direction. connecting with
practically every available point. In fact
the now distinct and separate sections Of
the Greater New York are to be united
in every sense of the word.
The citiZenso f New York will profit by
the carrying out of these schemeS ven if
they do place many additional millions
in the pockets of those whose unlimited
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-15

izen Of New York who rides above ground
will be regarded somewhat N thelight of
a relic of old conditions who is too slow to
keep up with the times. The completion
of all the plans will mean that we are to
have at least two tunnels to Jersey City,
two or more to Brooklyn, one to Staten
Island to say nothing Of those that are
to extend to less important points and
the great system CT underground sub
ways through which the street car traf-
tc of the city is to pass if the dreams
of the transportation magnates are to
be realized.
OF course the most important tunnel
project IS that which is proposed as a
means of obtaining rapid transit for the
city. Years and years ago a similar
plan was conceived and a tunnel was
started under Broadway. This big
subway was carried for a considerable
distance and the work was then stopped.
Last winter the burning Of one Of the
business blocks opened up one of the
old entrances and then only some of the
old citizens remembered that such a tun-
mel had once been projected and they
were able to recall the fact hat vast
sums of money had been dumped into
this hole in the ground.
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when the work on the unnel was brought
to a s%tandstill the hole was not half COM
pleted.
AS there seemed to be no more money
in this country available for such a
scheme an effort was made to interest
English capital and it succeeded admir-
ably. ST. Benjamin Baker. Sir John
Fowler and other of the nobility of the old
world thought they saw an excellent cp-
%portunity to take advantage Of the money
that had already been expended and they
sent 81 ,000, coo more. That too, went into
the hole. Again the funds gave out ant
IN 1892 the tunnel was walled up and left
to itself. Now it has been sold once more
and this tine. it is said. the work will be
completed. AS less han one-third re-
mains to be constructed there are chances
that these promises will be kept. At the
recent sale. however, the English bond
holders could obtain but $500. 900 in re-
urn for mortgages that represented the
expenditure of nearly $4,000, 900.
The prospects for the completion of the
other tunnel schemes are almost equally
as bright for when such men as Roths-
child. 81 Rockefeller. Whitney. Widener,
Elkins. Flower and Brady figure in a
syndicate formed for a specific purpose
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ONE REQUEST.

"George Ferguson you have gone a lit
tie too far" Pale with Indignation and
outraged pride the young woman looked
him sternly in the face.
why. Laura" he stammered in a help
less confusion. "I-I-ah-er didn't think
you would care
Didn't think should care"' she
echoed, with freezing mockery. Did you
think. sir, that an acquaintance of 10 or
II months entitled O to a privilege UNI
asked, that my most friends of
man years standing would not have
dared to claim? Have you n conception
of the meaning of the word presump-
ton
What had this young man done? In
toxicated by her beauty, III fancying he
half coy, half saucy, he had rapturously
Kissed her. Dumb with establishment,
George Ferguson now quailed before the
li~ghtning-like Indignation of the high
spirited girl. He saw he had made a ia
tai mistake.
"This must end our acquaintance, Mr..
Ferguson" she said. .In many respects
it has been a pleasant one. | had come
to esteem you highly-to regard you as a
young man of high and noble impulses.
free from trivialties and weaknesses, the
inordinate se~lf-conceit and assurances
that the spirit of the age seems to infuse
into the mental constitutions of the
young men of modern society. You have
thrown yourself dow from the pedestal
upon which l had mistakenly laced you.
Mr.. Ferguson" she continued. sadly,
thereafter we meet as strangers"
BE it so, Laura JONES' replied he, with
recovered self-possession. II shall not
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-15

presume to question your right to dismiss
me thus summarily, however strongly I
might feel inclined to protest against the
injustice of your act in so doing. i bow
to your mandate. Henceforth we are
strangers. Blu before | take my last
farewell of you. as l am now about to do,
and go out into the world to struggle
with it as only a Borrowing, lonely man,
deprived of his last earthly hope, must
struggle to keep bitter despair from
gnawing his heartstrings asunder-be-
fore | leave forever the presence of one
with whom l have passed SO many pleas
ant hours, whose memory will cling to
me through all the cheerless years that
may yet drag their weary length over my
head, l have one last request to make Of
you"
What is it, sir?'
please get off my lap
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wealth will make such improvements pos
sible. Brooklyn and New York will be
connected as never before. Future traf-
fic between the two boroughs will be un-
disturbed by the elements. Long Island
City will be brought so near to Manhat-
tan that the distance between the two
places will be practically inc~once.vable.
Staten Island, whose residents are now
compelled to depend upon the uncertain
ferry boats vii! be flashed through tun-
nels to their homes before they have
had time to read the weather predictions
in the daily paper. In fact if all these
plans are carried out distance will be OBJ
liberated so far as the New Yorker is con-
cerned and with the wealth of two worlds
behind the scheme success is possible.
With the millions of the Rockefellers and
the Whitneys, the Flowers and the Wide
ners many things are possible but when
to that IS added the millions of the Roths-
childs, to say nothing of the many men
of millions in Europe who would gladly
contribute to any enterprise in which they
are interested, absolutely nothing in t he
construction Inc is impossible.
Is it any wonder that, under these cir
substances, New York has gone tunnel
mad?
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-15

even to a Fall Rive Liner. The modern
sailor does not believe all the yarns he
hears, and is not nearly as superstitious
as his old-time shlpmates. Unlucky ships
at the start are no longer feared, and if
anything make the most fortunate YES
sells in the end,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-15
BONFIRE OF A N NOTES.

The Bank of England destroys about
$50. 900 of its notes every week to replace
them with freshly printed ones. One
evening in each week is set apart for the
making of this expensive bonfire.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-15
HIGH HEELS.

High heels. it is said. owe their origin
to Persia, where they We're introduced to
raise the feet from the burning sands of
that country.