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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-03-15

The Seaboard Air Line has recently
borrowed S1O,0O0,000.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-03-15

There are still room for cotton mills
in the south. Buying most of its cot
ton from US Europe exported last year
cotton manufactured goods to the
amount of S4OO,OOO.OOO, while the
United States only exported cotton
manufactured goods in the sum of
S2l, 100000. This suggests great posi-.
bilities for the south.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-03-15

Fifty-eight lawyers have died in
Jacksonville since the civil war.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-03-15

The president bluffs with serene
composure.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-03-15
THE OCALA BANNER.

And even Ben Tillman was bum
c0pd
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1901-03-15


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Lii Hung Chang is appealing TO the
powers to prevent the encroachments
of Russia.
Hon Paris Gibson. democrat, takes
the place of Carter, of Montana, who
talked the river and harbor bill to
death.
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live s,ool, ON an oxtroma scala will he
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The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
INDOOR BUTTERFLIES.
How Little sturgfs, a ConvaIescent YOungster, Was Entertained
 Royalty by His Mother.

When Mamma Leavitt came hHme from a call at the high school teachers s she found Sturgis wishing that there was no such thing as measles.
 'If it hadn't been for measles don | believe should have taken any notice of some butterflies I saw this after noon," cried Mamma Leavitt, gayiy. And I shouldn't have found out all about them so we could have some our selves if it hadn't been for measles"
 "FIying butterflies" said Sturgis, doubtfully. "They don't fly in the win ter. Were they big ones?''
 ''No," said mamma, ''but they were as big as they ever would be-"
 "Were they alive?"
 ''No, but they were lively," answered nomma.
 What were they made of?" asked the little boy.
 Paper replied Mamma Leavitt. Let's have some" So she took some thin white paper and cut out two little butterflies like Fig. c, and through the dark spot in each head tied piece of sewing silk about six inches long.
 "You might get your water colors and have these two butterflies any color you choose" said mamma.
 That seemed good idea to Sturgis, and he colored them both light yellow ''They are not so pretty as when they are other colors, but they look more sunImerish when they are yellow" he said
 When Sturgis had colored the butter flies, mamma tied the loose ends, about half an inch apart, to long pencil and
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
MILES FAvoRs GOOD ROADS.
Commander of the United States Army Illustrates Their Great
 Importance.

If Gen. Nelson A. Miles had his way the roads of the United States would be equal to those of any country on the globe. He tells a story of an old teamster out west who was driving over very rough road in the Rocky mountains shortly after the Geronimo campaign. He had the general for a passenger. The wagon was an old prairie schooner, without springs or cushions, and the general was vainiv attempting to fall asleep, says the Chi cago Chronicle
 But there was no sleep for me on that trip" says Gen. Miles, flor the old rascal drove over every powder i'll the road; in fact, he seemed to be doing it purposely. Finally I became interested and began to count the number of rocks over which the wheels of the wagon passed or which they struck. Suddenly, to my consterna- tion, he missed one-a huge powder in the middle of the roadway.
 Whoa! Hey!' I cried. Back up! Back up!'
 "He quietly followed my instruc- tions, seemingto be not at all surprised by them. When he had his wagon in the proper position I said: Now, drive over that rock, confound you! It's the only one you've missed
 Without so much as a glance in my direction, he replied: Cert, pard. Never noticed it. Ain't got chew about yer?'
 "I got cut and walked the remaining igEt niles"
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
WOULD BECOME A SLAVE
I Young Man Who Was Willing to Sacrifice HIA Liberty in Osder
 W Preach.

Many men in this country have sac rifced property, happiness cad even life itself in the struggle to make them selves or others freemep; but we know of but one man who, from the highest motives, STer sought to become a slave.
 Abraham Bininger, Swiss boy from Zurich, came with bis parents to this country on the same brig that brought Jobn Wesley. The father and mother of the lad both died on the voyage and were buried at sea, and he stepped alone from the Gangway on ts strange con- tiuent, where there was not a single familiar face.
 The solitude of his childhood drove him closer to the friend in whom re- ligion had early taught him 10 trust.
 The orphaned condition of the gen. tie boy must have appealed strongly to the sympathy of Mr. Wesley, and it was probably the great preacher him. self who took him from the ship to the Methodist orphan school in Georgia, where he was educated.
 In his youth Bininger gave proof of devout and tender feeling, and this character was intensified with added years. When be had grown to manhood, he asked 10 be sent to tell 1
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
HIGH LIVING.
From This Account One Needs Dai- loon to Reach Prices In a
 Dawson Cafe.


 "You might suppose" said man who was in the Klondike last summer, that with the improved facilities Of travel and freight transpoI tation to the Klon- dike country prices of commodities there would become just litt1e more nearly normal, but l have in my posses sion bill of fare l got at Healy's ho- tel and cafe in Dawson in September last. and here are some of the prices that one must pay for eatables. The hctei is wooden structure, chiefly logs. ard the convs ni5nces are not al- t.ectter modern, and Q good many of them are lacking. but the rate per day is SIP If ore eats at the cafe q Ia carte here's what he pays: Sirloin steak and onions, S2.GG; porterhoUse- pialn. 5e51: with mushr OCms, $4.GJ; ten,.1i loiu--i.ain, S2.5G; with mush- rooms, ;;,.;j1: Chateau BTiart Spoiled that way. $I.N; with oil;cns, $3.5G; Hamburg .tcak. $l.5o; English mutton chcp toAtj. 4.@.5<j: two, S3.75; bread ed, $G.75; corn beef nash. $1.50; lamb, cho. $, p,a:n. $254; pork chops, sauce riqulat. g. .&5; liver and bacon, $1.?5; pla.n. $!.52; ham and eggs. S&.5G; ba- cen and es:,a. $2.5J; fried tripe, $1.5G; r.3s' feet. -|I.j3; fried in butter, $2.CG; k.tney, fT,-G, boiled, or saute, $1.52; with mushrooms, $1.75; fried eggs (t~C), $2.-G': sc:anbled, poached or on tcas.. %2.o1; with oysters, $2.53; plain Cn.>ieJ, $2.GG: ham, oyster, jelly oGlelet, or with onions, $2.50; Span ish CT run omeIet, $500; scufIe. S3.5C; Welsh rabbit, $2.53; golden buck. $3.l0 and so on. %ith pie at a dollar slice and pudding dcliar smell, and cigars 5 cents for the cheapest, and cham pagne $f5 pint, and beer dollar split, and all drinks 50 cents each. As l said, 1t does seem that at this late date living would become little cheap CT, but people who have anything te sell want tke earth fer it, and the hap less consumer must pay the price orgc without. The only consolation is that it will be as bad or worse at Cape Nome this summer, though that will prob ably tumble quicker because it is sc much more accessible than the Klon- dike."
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
AND EPIGRAMMATIC.

The best wheel of fortune is honest labor.-Chieago Daily News:
 The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is Gearer boug ght.-Hosea Dallou.
 The man who walks with his tele- scope. fixed on tomorrow stubs his toe on to-day.-Ram's Horn.
 They say nothing is certain but death and taxation. How about conse- quences and headaches ?-Indianapolis News.
 The aphorism ''Whatever is, is right, ]" would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome .conse- quence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.-Dickens.
 Everyone should put guard or him. self, or he will find that he enjoys those occasions most when he is encouraged to talk freely of his grievances.-Atch- ison Globe.
 Extremes are dangerous; a middle estate is safest; as a middle temper of the sea. between still calm and a vio- lent tempest, is most helpful to convey the mariner to his haven.-Swinnock.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
FACTS ABOUT THE SEA.

There is no depth in the ocean at which lump of solid iron will float. The nature of the ocean bottom varies from sand to the so-called ooze and mud.
 Water is slightly compressible. The density of ocean water depends on the pressure. temperature and salinity The increased pressure as you descend is due to the weight of the water above
 For all practical purposes, says Prof. O. H. Tittman, of the coast and geodetic survey, ship weighs exactly as much as the quantity of water it displaces. Ii, however, one is very particular, it should be taken into account that that portion of a ship which is in the air is buoved up by the air, and therefore the ship weighs a little more than the amount of water displaced by it.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
ELECTRIC CURRENTS

A -20,OOC-horse power electric plant is to be erected on the Catavba river, N. c.
 Cleveland will soon be :he center 0f the greatest electrical suburban rail way system in the world.
 A cable is being laid along the west coast of Africa and another from the Cape to Australia.
 A test made recently in BiDghamtOn. N. r., showed that the cost of heating street cars by electricity is double that of heating with coal.
 Eleven of the largest ard most pow erful electric generators ever built will be built for an aluminium works at Niagara Falls.
 London has only 25.OOO telephone sub scribers. If it had as many for its pop ulation as San Francisco has it wOuIG have 100000.
 An Englishnan has constructed ar experimental electric line on which miniature carriages travel at the rate of 24O miles an hour. The design is to construct such lines to convey postal matter only.
 Recent experiments with view to connecting Brussels and London by telephone have been very successful apd it is probable that in a short time , regular line will be established There is a telephone already wOrA1ng between Buda Pesth. Vienna ard Ber- lin, and in short time il is expected that Berlin will have tsiephOnic com munication with ConstantinOple.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13

balanced the pencil on tall glass vase Gig. b). There were two lifeiess but terhies swinging in the air.
 "You said they would fly," said Stur- gis.
 "They will" said mamma. We must wake them up. Run and get warm, dry lamp chimney and silk handker- chief and will get my fountain pen or stick of sealing wax, or rubber handled knife"
 Mamma looked and found some seal ing wax. She made sure that this also was warm and dry.
 ''I am glad I have this,'' she said, cit is really the best thing. Now you rub the glass with the silk and I will rub the sealing wax with my wooden dress skirt. Now hold your chimney about an inch from the butterflies. See them fly to it?" Then Mamma Leavitt held the sealing wax almost two inches from the butterflies, and to Sturgis' aston ishment they flew to the wax.
 They've gone to eat sealing wax" he cried in surprise. But almost before he hdS Sold IL luCy hCH DttCh lO llle BidSS. Then back to the wax they went. Three or four times they flew, then they seemed tired and settled down to rest, hanging under the pencil.
 Let us give them some more life," said mamma.
 So they rubbed the wax and the chimney and sure enough the butter flies were just as lively as ever.
 What makes them fly, mamma?"
 Tt is electricity answered mamma. we make it when we rub the wax and the glass;
 What is electricity?" asked Sturgis.
 "Now you have asked me something can't answer" said Mamma Leavitt. "I don't know, nobody knows. Perhaps some time wise men will find out, but until then the best thing for us is to find out what it will do" ."-Orange Judd
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
THEATRICAL SCENERY.
Stage Pictures Are Now Painted Upon Tough Brown Paper
 for Portability.

Except as regards the part that mechanism plays the scenic artists of Italy are the best ill the world. as ef- fective painters, and the fact is so wsI recognized in these days Cf almost all scenery being done ty coctraet-a resident scenic artist is getting 10 be raTity-that a great trade Of this sort has sprung up between the painters of Italy and the managers everywhere
 And this is particularly so as regards companies that come to America So heavy has been the cost of ftranS1ortinx tons of scenery, ard so ex5ccisg have the customs officials been Of late years. that the generality Of managers at one time found it cheaper to have reE scenes painted after they arrived But the Italian system has largely done away with all this, for it ine.udes tbs painting of the scenery on large sheets of a peculiarly tough sort of brown paper, these being numbered and joined together with unerring accuracy A recent grand opera production in this country depended sccnieally upon these 0AASStS VI P1F~A oAS4-C, anu i-Ot Csr- ---- oldest playgoer in the house could dis tinguish any Peculiarity.
 Of course, the sheets are spread upon canvas in the ordinary way and ''toucher-up' is required after they are spread, but the system IS immense ly useful when a new production is taken from one capital to another at great distance, and the Italian artists are sending their sheets to managers all over the world.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
FAMILY CHESTS.
Strange Symbols Adopted by Fan' lilies in This Country and Their
 Significance.

A Philadelphia family Of Huguenot descent preserve a curious story Of c9,e of their ancestors. During thC persecG- ton of the French Huguenots, l2 Of the leading citizens of disatTecred town were forced into a small brick house in the suburbs. the openings of which were securely walled up, and the PriS- oners were left 10 starve.
 After three weeks body Cf HuGue- not soldiers captured the town, and the walls of this prison were torn down. Inside they found II dead bodies ard one living man.
 When asked how he had survived, Ee showed a small hole in the foundation of the building, near which he lay. Every day a hen had creFt into this hole ana there laid an er~. The esss. and the air illus admitted. lad l.cYt him alive. His descendants have taken for crest a brooding hen.
 Another family in the same city have adopted for their symbol the i.rure of: cat holding a rabbit in its DC3th. C.. Of their ancestors, widow E7inm ir cave on the banks of the Dela,~a-e VI other early settlers of Philadelphia, wa reduced to starvation by a long, kar6 winter. SEe knelt and prayed for i3o5 for her children, and scon afier her C2t brought in rabbit which it kcd l.:-I~C.
 Another American family lave t1Fc, the india-rUtbcr tree as their crest they being t3e descendants cf 2io 7, d. who was eminent among tLc rcen ~ have made is sap ore of the most rs~GL servants Of mankind. Henry V. S.az ley Is said to have adopted a nap cf Al rica as his crest.
 There can be no objection to th2 use by any family Of a sign, or symbol. which recalls some striking irst1rcc cf Divine mercy to their Grccs;o-s, C. some great achievement by ere os;hei5 ancestors for the benefit Of their f l!c1y- men; but for an American family whose progenitors have been simply worthy traders or mechanics, to borrow CT steal the crests of old, noble Eurcpear houses is rot only an ethical ofsense- 1t Is an ineXcusable blurdCr.-Ycuth's Companion.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13

the story of the Cross to the negroes of the island of St. Thomas, haviEg heard of their great misery and deg radiation.
 When he arrived at the island he learned that it was against the law for any person but slave to preach to the slaves. It was the policy of the planters to keep the blacks in ig- nerance and superstition
 Shortly after this the governor Of St. Thomas received a letter signed Abraham Bininger, in which the writer begged urgently to become a slave for the rest of his life. promising 70 serve as slave faithfully, provided he could give his leisure time to preaching 10 his feI!ow-slaves. The governor sent the letter to the king of Denmark. who was so touched by it that he sent an edict empowering Abraham BiuinEsr to tel the story of the Messiah when and where he chOs-to black or white, bond or free.
 It is an easy, comfortable thing now to profess Christianity. There was time when it brought perseeu-iO1 and contempt. The Christian then had a reward for his self-saerifce which we have lost in our easy religious lives Following the Divine Master ia foWery paths is not final proof of ChriS5ian worth. Thomas a Eempis feIi this and prayed that he might be counted wOr- thy to suffer something for TIiEl-ar6 sacrifices may be made upon home d. tars as truly as under persecution and in the flames and agOnies of the stake Youths Companion.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
THE FLAG OF HOPE.

There's flag in the sky, there's banner
 that waves Ger the passionate march down to pas
 sionless graves; And it lives for the deeds that are done
 in the right; And 1t leads by the love that gives wisdom
 it's might; It flies OCT the living, 1t floats OCT the
 dead. Forever advancing, far-gleaming ahead And the millions who set 1t afiame in the
 sky, By lozty ideals set deathless and high, Know the stars of It's glory, the bars of its
 fame, Make the bright Flag of Hope an all-con-
 quering name! It rides OCT the crescent, it mounts OCT
 the cross, The flags of all nations would droop at It's
 loss, And there never was soldier who died
 on the field, And there never was savior who lived for
 to shield, And there never was harvester glad Of his
 yield, Nor even a man who had power to wfeld, But saw it's folds flashing by night and by
 day, Inspiring, compelling, and showing the symbol of Heaven. till the last moan
 shall cease, Mans bright Flag of Hope and sign of
 sweet peace! Look aIoft! there it floats through the sum-
 shine and stOrmi And its message is kindly. Its promise Is
 warm. Truth. honor right, Justice, fair play and
 fine love, These are watchwords 1t lifts all thy toll
 ing above. In it's light has humanity victory won It is thine, in its name let thy good work
 be donel Let 1t wave OCT thee trusting, and wave . OCT thee true, Though humble the helping thy hands find
 to do; And that flag on thy sight shall not ever
 be furled While there's hope in one heart, and
 God rules OCT the world.
 mid the stars! With thy life write the thoughts that
 should blaZon it's bars, Point 1t out to thy comrade when sorrow
 is near, For it's beauty shines best through the lens
 of a tear Make 1t thine for the valor that fears to do Make it thine for the mercy that flows like
 a song! Thine for pleasure, right-living. well-wish-
 iIg, far faith, Not a symbol of battle a blood-covered
 wrath. Ger Hfe's high endeavor. long may it
 wave! Mans bright Flag Of Hope which the h. finite gave, Charles W. Stevenson. in N. Y. Observer.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
A TEST OF OPPORTUNITY.
One Standard by Which We May Measure the OpDOrtEnItiss God
 Places Before Us.

The opportunities of life are not to Ss measured simply by the facilities they offer for making money, or attaining knowledge, or reaching position They are also 10 be estimated by the avenues they open for self-expresSiOn- Each of us has his own ehdowments, ideas and personal force. We do not realize the best ideal of life unless there is OppOr- tunity for us to exert these powers aEG to create our impression upon ths world, and do our own work iu the world through them. We know a col lege professor who made a fortune il five years. He deliberately turUed his back on his opportunity of aGting largely to it, and gave up his business career to take college position on a small salary. The reason was that he did not believe that his mOEey-maSing faculty WIS his highest endowment He felt that he had a capacity for iR- vestigation and for teaching that should have expression. Already his name is quoted as one of the principal authorities in his department That IS an extre4e case, but it illustrates the truth that the opportunity that gives you a chance for doing the particular work that you are best fitted 10 dO. and to exert your personal force upon the world through il, may be a ehOiesr opening than one that seems 10 carry with it the prizes of money and pOsitiO2 that men so greatly prize A man is FrrF rk when he is fulfilling his distinctive mis- sion through the exercise of his dis tinctive powers.-BOstOn Watehma1-
The St. Johns herald., 1901-04-13
statIstIcs of Methodism.

A return which has just been pub lished gives the general statistics of Methodism all over the world, .includ- ing Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists, the Methodist New Con- nection, Bible Christian Methodists. the United Methodist Free churches. the Wesleyan Reform union. the Meth odist Episcopal and many other bodies. The grand totals are as follows: Min isters. 44,569; lay preachers. 133.434; church members. 7,362,146; Sunday schools, 79,192; officers and teachers. 790.S5G; Sunday school scholars, 6,271,- 74S; churches, SO.G31.