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Nero: The BANNER, BELIEVING
THOSE AT THE TOP WELL ABLE TO
TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES, HAS
TAKEN ITS STAND IN THE BARRI-
cADEs WITH THE COMMON PEOPLE
AND IT'S FIGHT WILL BE MADE FOR
TEE RETIREMENT OF THOSE AT THE
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-06-24

Bars ought TO try term as coun-
Gilman out in some Oklahoma town.
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The motto of Florida democrats
should be: Let's forgive and forget.
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The southern mule is doing his full
duty i'm the war in the far east.
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Who will be state agent ofthe Flor.
ida dispensary?
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FRIDAY, JUNE "a 1874
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

United States senator
JAMES p. TALIAFERRo.
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" We noticed an
improvem ent at
once, and within .
fortnight the run
in g had ceased
and the scales were
nearly all dried of,
and In a month his
face was perfectly
clear, not a spot
left. / have en-
closed photograph
of him when he
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Bonds, is.the cry of all progressive
Ocalians.
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When Ocala gets her bonds she Win
improve her electric plant and b. ths
best lighted city in the state.
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Nero: The BANNER, BELIEvl
OsE AT THE TOP WELL ABLE
KK CARE OF THEMSELVES,
KEN ITS STAND IN THE BAR
DIS WITH THE COMMON PEOP
ID IT'S FIGHT WILL BE MADE
Il RETIREMENT OF THOSE AT !
FRIDAY, JUNE "a 1874
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
United states senator
JAMES p. TALIAFERRo.
Member Congress Ist District
STEPHEN NJ. SPAR EMAN.
Presidential Electors
HIP. BAILEY,
IA JENNINGS,
&c. B. KOONCE,
A. B. NEWTON,
F.B. SLOVENIAN.
Governor
NAPOLEON b. BROWARD.
Secretary Of state
H CLAY CRAWFORD.
Attorney-General
WILLIAM II. ELLIS
Comptroller
A.C. GROOM.
state Treasurer
WILLIAM Y. KNOTT
superintendent of Public instruction
W. NJ. HOLLOWAY.
Commissioner OF Agriculture
B. r. NLIN.
Railroad commissioner
JOHN L. MORGAN.
Justice supreme Count, six Years
K rENWICK TAYLOR.
Justices supreme Court
ROBERT :. COcKRELL,
THOMAS =. SHACKLEFORD.
J. 3. WHTTEIELB
ReI,res nttaIves
CARLOS L. SISTRUNK,
ED. L. HARTMANN.
County Judge
ROBERT BULLOCK.
sheriff
HENRY GORDON.
Clerk Circuit curt
SIMEON SISTRUNK.
Tax Assessor
ALFRED AVER
Tax Collector
Ell. CARNEY.
superintendent OF Public Instruction
". ID. CARN.
County Treasurer
THOMAS r. PASTEUR.
County Surveyor
ALEXANDER MOoRHEAO.
County Commissioners
H. w. LONG.
INO. L. EDWARDS,
NORMAN FORT,
SAMUEL K. PYLES.
{. W. TURNER.
Board OF Public Instruction
9. :. SCOTT,
b. X. BITCH.
r L. GRAN THAN.
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Ocqla's Fourth Of July program b.
well mapped out and every god co.,
izen should help 10 along
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Governor
NAPOLEON b. BROWARD.
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The millionair o. y. Plant. uha
tied up a large estate for ths hensff
of Hypothetical great grandson. uha
cannot possibly be- buru Tor e. uumhsr
of years Co come has had BIZ nurr-.s
defeated by the New York surrrms
court Springfield. MAJ RspubU-
can.
Experts say that the mango b. a.
great delicacy and can bs made fa
become a. popular a. the pineapple
orange or banana. Florida has nof
yet passed her ABC's iu ths numhsr
of delicious fruits that she uiI event
ually introduce into tbs markef. af
the world.
Now that the primarie. arr over
some of us will have to scratch oar
heads for something to hl up uith."
frankly confes-e- the Calhoun Demo
crat. We would suggest that Brafhsr
Wilson try water melons. They ar
plentiful just now.-Pen-acoia Views.
Yes, and they are 80 Julien too.
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Member Congress Ist District
STEPHEN NJ. SPAR RMAN.
Presidential Electors
HIP. BAILEY,
IA JENNINGS,
J.C. B. KOONCE,
A. B. NEWTON.
F.B. SLOVENIAN.
Governor
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was thirteen months old. He is now
two years and four months, and has
never had the slightest return of il.
am very grateful for the benefits de-
rived from your remedies, and shall
feel it a pleasure TO make their value
known. For confederation Of this
statement you may refer any one to
Mrs. Williams, IS MIchaels Road. Alder
shot, or Mr.. Gunstane, 40 Victoria
Road, Aldershot, to whom we recon-
mended the remedies for skin humour,
which they also cured. You are at
liberty to do what you like with this
statement, as l should like all to know
Of the value of Cuticura."
WILLIAM HERBERT QUIRK,
No. l West End Cottages, Ruywood
Road, N. Southampton.
Sold throughout the world. Cuteura Resolvent soc.
Tin of Chocolate Coated Piils. 25e per vial Of co.,
Ointment Soc, Soap 25c Depots; London, g Charter
house So Paris. Hue de Ia Pax Boston Isl Columbus
Ave Potter Drug Chem. Corp. Sole PropTietora.
n8-Send for " How 20 Cure Eczema"
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Justices supreme Court
ROBERT :. COCKRELL,
THOMAS :. SHACKLEFORD.
]. B. WHITFIELD
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Justice Supreme Count, six Years
K. rENWICK TAYLOR.
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superintendent of Public Instruction
W. NJ. HOLLOWAY.
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Secretary Of state
II. CLAY CRAWFORD
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state Treasurer
WILLIAM Y. KNOTT.
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ReIres nttaIves
CARLOS l.. SISTRUNK.
ED. l.. WARTMANN.
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Comptroller
&C GROOM.
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County Judge
ROBERT BULLOCK.
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sheriff
HENRY GORDON.
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The nomination of Mr.. Napoleon
Broward for governor of Florida car
ried with it the endorsement of the
incurable insanity divorce law" He
voted for it and made an hours
speech in its favor.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-16

came under my observation IN n1dor--.lne
raid occurred up IN the Kentucky noun
tains. The still we were after on the DC
casion to which | refer was located i'll n
cave in a wild part of the mountains, and
it was impossible to find it without guide.
Hoping to catch the mConshiner off his
guard, we stopped at his house, but he was
not to be found there. His wife, however, q
young woman whom he had just married in
some other part of the mountains, met us
with the customary Kentucky hospitality,
and volunteered herself to take us to the
cave. From the way she spoke she evil
IDENTIFY knew nothing of her husband 5
business nor that we were government Off
GERS. She knew the Whereabouts of the
cave, however, and guided us there with
out any difficulty. The place was in the
side of an immense precipice, and gave us
the steepest kind of climb. FROM the
smoke that we saw issuing from The caves
mouth in the moonlight we knew that the
man we were after was at work inside.
1T seemed little hard to be using his
wife bride of only few months, to run
him down; but he was an old offender, had
defed us openly more than once, and this
seemed too good chance to lose We
found out afterward that he was so in
love with this woman that he had not
told her about his moonshining for fear
she would have thought less of him on ac-
count of it. She came from a part of the
state where that kind of thing is not
practised and altogether appeared to be
refined sort of woman, innocent as she
was pretty, so that the old fellow was
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time of It. But the negroes never own the
stills that they operate. The whites who
do own them oftentimes form sort OF
shotgun brigade, and under shelter of an
ambush guard their property with peril
nacity that frequently gives us sharp
fight for it.
Some Sur rising Records.
According to Revenue Agent Gates, who
has charge of this department III the
states of Georgia, Alabama, Florida and
the northern part of Mississippi, and who
holds the record, with his deputies, of
having destroyed $500 moonshine stills in
the State of Georgia alone, the greatest
amount of danger to the raiding officer is
To be found in the mountains of Kentucky.
In that wild region. during his term as
United States agent for Kentucky, Colonel
Gates took part in eight fights with the
mountain moonshiners. In all of these
encounters according to this veteran
raider. the fighting was done on the part
of the moonshiners from ambush, whence
the officers were practically an open tar
oct to their assailants. Strange to say,
however, Notwithstanding the reputation
fine Kentucky mountaineer has for marks
ma nship, in no instance does Colonel Gates
ranort the serious wounding of one of his
men. although a number of the moon
| sinners themselves were shot and carried
off by their comrades. One of the Colonel,s
deputies gives the following romantic leaf
from his experiences as raider in Ken
lucky
lone of the saddest incidents that ever
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probably right In keeping her ignorant OF
his profession. But we did not stop to
think of this at the time, or realize the
Kind of trap we were running her into.
poor young thingi
SO without thought in the matter, as
soon as we reached the little platform
upon which the cave opened we drew our
guns and called to the man to come out.
Instead of obeying, he opened fire on US.
The first shot was followed by a scream
and the falling of a heavy body over the
precipice. Then the man himself rushed
out, dashing us aside as we attempted to
catch him, and leaped off the platform into
the darkness below. 1t was all the work
of an instant, as most of these wild en-
counters in the mountains are, and we
hardly realized what had taken place.
The next morning the moonshiner and
his wife, whom he had shot by mistake.
We're both found dead at the bottom of the
precipice."
This was rare instance IN the annals
of mountaineers moonshinirg, where the
wives of the moonshiners usually take a
most active part in their husbands busi-
ness, effectually checking the officers
oftentimes, by their cunning and in many
ways averting the dangers of detection and
capture. But in this contest between the
officers and whole communities of NOON
sinners to save many millions of revenue
lie government 1t is the rare and the
unusual that happens.
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PRINCE AND AUTOMOBILE.

~ RINCE HENRY OF PRUSSIA, while
Jriding In an automobile near Kiel, re-
i Gently. suddenly found his way blocked
by large farm wagon, which was
going at snail's pace. The Prince
chauffeur blew his horn over and over
again, but it produced no effect on the
sturdy old farmer, who was guiding the
sluggish horses. and finally the Prince
told him to try and pass the wagon al
all hazards. This the chauffeur did. and
though the passage was very narrow. ne
skilfully managed to avoid an accident
The horses plunged, however, as the pun
ing machine passed by them, and the old
farmer, reused from his apathy. poured
forth storm of maledictions on the stall
wart gentleman IL the automobile
you're nothing but big blockhead,
he finally shouted, and at the words the
Prince whispered to the chauffeur, who
at once left the carriage and went up to
the old man.
What do you mean by calling His Royal
Highness q blockfead?" he asked him.
Heavens aboyei Is that His Royal
Highness?'' stammered the farmer. Good
Lord. / didn't know twas him.
All right" answered the chauffeur
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of corn to the moopshiner, the only eX-
pense upon which he has to figure, is. on
an average, fifty cents per bushel. A
bushel of corn makes three gallons OF
whiskey. This the moonshiner sells at
81 per gallon, thus making q profit of $3.50
on every bushel Of corn, a rate that is
impossible TO the licensed distiller, whose
government tax alone Is 81 10 per gallon
moro than the selling price of his Illicit
rival. But the possibilities Of moonshining
as business do not appear to be thor
oughly appreciated except among those
shrewd Southern mountaineers.
There is on record one case of neon
shining out West in Wyoming. This
case was discovered some three or four
years ago, TO the utter establishment OF the
revenue Department. Upon investigation,
however, 1t tranSpired that the man who
operated the still in this far away region
did not belong to Wyoming. but had just
arrived there from his native State of
Georgia.
Many and various are the methods used
by the moonshiners in the maAufacture
| of their illicit product From a steam
plant, hidden In the canebralses of Georgia,
or the elaborate layout OF some cave IN the
mountains of kentucky. 10 a milk can in
the cellar OF a Southern city. there is no
lack of-ingenuity among these distilters of
! firewater.
Here Is still, said Deputy Revenue
Agent Martin, exhibiting some OF the cap
tured treasures of the government in the
Revenue Departments Southern office,
Here IS a still that takes the prize fol-
ineatness and simplicity. Probably it didn't
lcost its inventor ten cents to make It. but
1 that little still gave us an awful lot OF
! trouble before we ram it down-ard to this
day we are looking for the man who used
1 to operate it. He was ono oe the daring
kind. For pure deviltry, rs Joke OF the
Revenue Office, he went by my name,
John Martin. ard actually made and sold
his liquor between Grant Park and the
Soldiers Home in the city limits OF At
lanta.
For while it caused great deal OF
confusion wnen, reports came In that John
Martin was running n sr;ll out there, and
whenever We went OUT to find him we
always failed to locate his plant This
plant was such a novelty in the history
of moonshining that it puzzled Us for a
long time We knew tnat John Martin
was making whiskey within easy reach OF
the central revenue office OF the State Of
Georgia. but how he did /. without any
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-16
FIXING THE BLAME.

N1AYOR WEAVER, OF Philadelphia
Nirelates how a prominent business
II Imam Of that city who owns very oil
lapidated frame building in the He
brew quarter was recently summoned by
telephone by the tenant. small clothing
merchant, who stated that the place wa!
ION fire.
The business man was very Indignant
when on arriving at the scene of the fire
The found the damage was Insignificant, the
Ifremen having speedily extinguished the
flames. Annoyed that he should have beer
called away from some important bust
ness, he remarked rather sharply to hi:
tenant
les pity the whole thing didn't burnt
my dear sir, replied the tenant with q
deprecating gesture of his shoulders, 'syol
can't plane me; / didn't send in the
alarm
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-16

NJ the building of the old Rutland anu
w Washington Railroad. between Rut-
land, VT. and Eagle Bridge, n. Y,
in the late summer of 1852, 1t became nee
essary to cross large farm in the town
of Castleton belonging to Mrs. Ann Dineen.
so a strip of her property was obtained. a
fine patch of watermelons on the place was
too strong a temptation for the one nun
dred or more men in the construction gang,
and in a day or two the patch was melon
less.
Mrs. Dineen complained to Gould. but he
disclaimed any responsibility for the acts
of the workmen and refused to recon-
pense her for her loss.
A day or two later Mr. Gould and one
or two of his engineers were obtaining re-
lief from the effects of the hot weather by
taking swim in the Castleton River,
when suddenly Mrs. Dineen appeared on
the bank Gathering up all the clothes OF
the bathers, the woman made a motion as
though to throw them into the water and
edwin yez pay me fer thin
watermllions now, Mr. Gould?'
The promoters trousers contained
timepiece worth large sum and other val
uables which immersion would not have
benefited, so he agreed to settle for the
stolen fruit If she would go to his office
the next day. The promise was satisfac-
tory and Mrs. Dineen retreated in triumph
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-16
MoONJ'HI NERS Mill
IN TIE NOUN VAINS
OF KENT JC l[Y
BY Clifford Sn1yth

o~@-H HERE is a race of men, most of
them inhabiting the shadoWy
wilds of mountain and forest ly-
Ing south of Mason and Dixon
line about whom cluster tales OIL
romantic adventures, deeds OF oaI
ing and calm defiance or tederalI
and state regulations that renders them
unique among those who cross s"oIos W.
the authorities. Judged by their own codeI
az morals. these men are neither law
b;aAalzars nor opposed TO the government
OftAn they occupy a thoroughly respect
able nosition in their several communities,
ana they are usually accorded the assist
ance and protection of their ne!glporS
wherever the marshals and the revenue
officers declare war on them. AS 10 the IL
legality of their trade, what they DO TO-
day they say, their ancestors nave uohe
for more than a century before them, ana
II was not until some twenty-five years ago
that the government thought TO interfere
and rob them of what they consider their
rights But the government claimed II was
being defrauded of millions OF It's Just
revenue and from that day to this mas
never ceased in its war on these. moon
shiners. these brewers and distillers OF
Illicit spirits, in their strongholds along
frownilg mountain sides and out of the
way ravines in the South.
During the first four years of this war
fare FIVE thousand stills were seized in the
Southern States, eight thousand moon
sinners were captured, twenty mine gov
eminent officers were murdered and sixty
three seriously wounded. There is no tally
OF the number of moonshiners who fell in
these encounters. Although the average
number of stills seized to-day is about the
same as formerly, there were only six
thousand moonshiners arrested in the last
eight years, while in the same period there
were eight officers killed and TWENTY-FIVE
wounded The stills destroyed numbered
Il 99T OF the 1,2G9 moonshine stills de-
str9yelelast year Is were located outside
of Southern States-9 in New York, in
Massachusetts and in New Jersey. OF
the remainder, $685. nearly half the entire
number were found in Georgia, the State
that has always held the record in this
matter of moonshining.
.Just~at present the authorities are look
ing forward to a busy season. The corn
crop has been gathered, which means thai
the men who make whiskey and do moi
count in their expenses the purchase OF
governments stamps. as provided by law,
are beginning to get busy. The reason for
this is. that the corn crops are reported as
being unusually good this year. and that
always means plenty of moonshine.
A. Southern Problem.
NOW that the corn Is practically ali IN
ali through the mountains there will be
stills started, and after the still come the
revenue officers and the raid and seizure
Of the whiskey. and then the courtroom.
Just why the moonshiners of the coun-
try. should be confined to the Southern
States is a problem. Wherever there are
corn and running water there are the
two essentials of whislSey making. whose
profits are relatively enormous. The cost
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-16
VERDI AND. THE EDITOR.

a yERDI achieved his first musical sue
" cess with .'Na5ucodonosor," and at
' Ter it's performance in the theatre at
Milan he went home TO the poorly fur
nished room in which his young wife had
died scme months previously from sheer
lack Of the recessaries of life Throwing
himself on the bed he slept until five
O'clock in the morning, when he was
aroused by some one knocking at the door.
Come in he said and Merelii, the ia
nous Milanese editor. entered. He felt
confident that ''Na bucodonosor would
be an enduring success and lie thought
that he could purchase il from the com
poser al a low figure.
How much do you want for the 1pera?"
he asked.
Thirty thousand francs, replied Verdi
MerelIi was dunfounded, for he had sup.
posed that the composer would have been
quite Wiling to sell the work for four or
five Thousand francs.
what is that you said?' he asked.
81 have said replied Verdi coldly,
that [ will sell you the opera for thirty
thousand francs because you have taken
the tlouble to call on me before five o'clock
in :he morning. TIE price this evening
will be fifty thousand francs y
The editor paid the sum required, ou.
was SO much chagrined at not getting a
bargain that &c took 10 his bed and re-
NAMED there two months.
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visible apparatus was a mystery. Al last
we found the little thing that you see there,
and. the case became plain one llgh1
away.
A Modest Moo sinner
THAT is the smallest still, as we'll as the
simplest, that has ever been captured ny
a government officer. 1t consists merely vi
a quart milk can. with an ORDINARY LIN
funnel for a cap The arm and copper
worm. running from the still to the flake
stand or condenser is less than half al
Inch in diameter. while the condenser is
nothing more nor less than an old gallon
paint pot with the stains of the paint
sticking TO it even now.
This little outfit, as we discovered af-
terward John Martin used to carry
about with him in a carpet bag, making
his LIQUOR at any convenient place ano
changing the locality whenever it seemed
hest for his safety. OF course he couldn't
make much liquor at a time. 1t takes
| twenty gallons of beer or mash to
make one gallon-of whiskey, and as Johns
| still could not hold more than quart OF
! .beer' the capacity of his run was limited
to a few drinks. But he kept his little
pocket distillery going all the time and
must have made fairly good living from
lit Although we ran across his apparatus
in the bushes, he was too smart for us
himself. leading US a chase over the hills
that none but a"greyhound or noun
taineer could keep up. s,,-s .s-re..
THAT was moonshining on small scale
the smallest of which we have any record
But here is the biggest haul that was ever
made in the State of Georgia. still run
| by steam plant down in the cotton fields
of Morgan county. 1t has a capacity OF
one thousand gallons and, when we cap
tured 1t, was turning out seventy-five gal
Ions of waiskey a day. 1t was operated
by big steam boiler and literally coined
money for its owners. These consisted OF
wealthy company, probably men of good
standing In the community. but as yet we
| have not gathered sufficient proof to bring
any OF them to Justice.
"a noonshine plant OF this kind is usual
lily operated as one Of the legitimate in
dustries OF the place. the negro hands. on
the farm ever since the old slavery days,
doing most of the work at the distilIery.
The negroes in these plantation raids are
the most helpless. scared class with which
we ever have to deal. They never do any
fighting. white moonshiner will taks
chances and run. whether you have your
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-16

The rival bill posters must have been
in great haste each to Guido the other.
for it would seem that they were not
always careful where they put their pic
lures.
While passing through Haverhill' one
day the candidates were greatly discon-
certed to observe their portraits pasted on
one billboard over lithograph announcing
a theatrical attraction. Under the counter
felt presentments Of the candidates were
the words:-'Vote for Bates and Guild"
The portion Of the theatrical lithograph
not covered by the political portraits bore
the legend:-"The Greatest Vaudeville
Team on Earth"