The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-12-13
THE soviHERMER: As An INDUS
TRIAL FORCE.

Perhaps the prevailing erroneous
ideas concerning the south cannot be
better illustrated than 10 quote an
extract: from the reported interview
with the sister of Herbert Marx, the
Young New York lawyer, who killed
two and MORALLY wounded another OF
his ASA ATLANTIS in Virginia last week.
The young man was acquitted by a
coroner's jury and his home in Brook
lyn, New York, was brilliantly illum-
mated to welcome his return.
But he did not return at the ap:
pointed hour and it was feared that
be had been waylaid and murdered.
In the meanwhile the members OF
his family had become very nervous.
His sister is reported to have said:
Blu, WHY does he not come. What do yoa
suppose is keeping him: Those DID, Virginia
trains are enough to drive one dfstrScted-
suppose a COW or tree has got on the track,
and perhaps Herbert will not get here until to-
morrow. It seems as if each hour were week
| long
So speaking of the condition OF
things that are supposed to exist in the
south, the late Colonel Ingersoll said
on one occasion that if the puritan
in stead of the Cavalier had settled in
South Carolina instead of Massachu-
sets his male descendants would have
been seen with q game cock under
each arm and their trousers held up
by one suspeDder."
So this young lady is pardonable,
perhaps, for believing that COW or q
| tree across q railroad track in the
south would delay a passenger train
for at least twenty-four hours.
Yet in truth and in fact the railway
schedules in the south are so fast that
the New York daily newspapers are
read as far south as Tampa and Miami
! the day after their publication.
The work of recuperation and re-
habilitation after the civil war was
something prodigeous and excited the
wonder as well as the admiration of
the civilized world.
Six months ago the metropolis OF
Florida was almost obliterated from
the map by one of the most disastrous
CONGREGATIONS known in modern his.
tory.
Scacrely six months have elapsed
and fifteen hundred completed. build
ings mark the spot of the burned
district.
Boston and Chicago gave no such
examples of activity.
"Phoenix-like," must now give
place TO "Jacksonville-like."
About year ago Galveston, Texas,
was almost swept out of existence by
a tidal wave.
Since then We are informed that
| nearly six. millions of dollars have
been expended in the work of reha-
bilitation and restoration. -:
One of our exchanges says:
Immense business blocks, big grain
elevators, huge storehOuses, fine
churches, palstial residences and cost
ly theaters and public buildings have
been erected, and today Galveston
stands much finer and more impos-
ing city than it was before the dread
full havoc. was wrought by the tidal
wave that swept over It."
Do these things indicate that the
southern people are lazy and shiftless?
Today South Carolina numbers al
most as many spindles as Massachu-
sets and is gaining on her every day
and the next census will put her in
the lead.
The south is rapidly. changing from
purely agricultural to an agricultu-
raj, mining and manufacturing Sec
ton and in a little while the tables
will be turned and the bottom rail
will find itslway to the top.
Mark the prediction.
Anent Some Unjust Charges.
In the interview recently published in this
| paper giving Captain Lynch's views regarding
| he of the Florida seminary