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The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-07-06
MINERS ARE ENToMsED.
From twenty-five to Thirty Believed
10 BE Dead. "a

Vivian, w. Va, July 5.--From TWEEN
ty-iye to thirty miners are believed
to be dead as the result OF an ex-
plosion in the Tidewater Coal Com
pany's mine this mornii 8. Ter have
been brought out, one dead, and the
Others 80 badly burned they cannot
live. Rescuers are searching for 9TH
er victims, nearly thirty Of whom are
still in the mine. and probably beyond
the reach OF assistance.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-07-06

dItlon Of staple crops: Winter wheat,
80; spring wheat, 94; corn, 90; oats,
So; rye, 90; barley, 9S; fax, 95; hay
crop, 1O1; pastures, 105; potatoes, 9S;
apples, s5; grapes, So; plums, sS per
cent. EH
Last year, July 1, spring wheat was
rated 81; corn, 90; oats, 81; barley,
SO; fax, 80; hay, 90; pastures, "a; po.
tatoes, 101; apples, So per cent.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-07-06
PACKERS GIVE BONDS.
Guarantee Their Appearance For Trial
at Fall Term OF Court.

Chicago July 5.--The packers In
dlcted by the federal grand jury ap-
peared in the United STATE circuit
court this afternoon, and gave bonds
OF Ave 1nousand dollars each for their
appearance at the rail term Of court.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-07-06
MISSISSIPPI RAGING.
Rains in Minnesota send Water Be
yond Danger Line.

Minneapolis, July 5.-Heayy rains
in northern Minnesota have caused
the water in the Mississippi 20 reach
a dangerous height. Two railroad
bridges here are undermined. and
closed to trafiic. Dwellerx In the low
lands have been warned to move.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-07-06
Casualties In Iowa.

For Iowa the record Ii, one dead
and eighty.nine injured. The only
fatality thus far reported Is that OF
Joseph Fuerst, aged Z, OF Dubuque.
II. g. Thompson, a banker OF Dayen-
port, is not expected to live as the
result OF a wound In the back from a
stray bullet. Des MONIES heads the
list OF Iowa casualties, being credited
with twentybeyen accidents. The
list by cities throughout the state Is
IA folInuru.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-07-06

These figures show O decrease from
the figures at the same hour OF 1904,
but the reports received later last
year doubled the early figures, and
when the final statistics were com
piind,a month later nearly 800 deaths
were recorded, mostly due to tetanus,
which developed after July 4. The
same increases may be expected this
year.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-07-06

DR.. Harry Carver, Of Rose Hill, had
a smash-up on First ayenuej near Pull
liam's Bashaw barn. A heavy vehicle
ran into his buggy and the rig was
badly damaged.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1905-07-06

oskalooOa sewers have not been
working overtime recently, but they
have been running up to capacity.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
The mere matter of holding slaves
was in itself not sinful The sin was

The mere matter of holding slaves
was in itself not sinful The sin was
in permitting the evil to exist.
1t was a governmental sin.
If the oil trust be sinful when it is
clearly established that it has lessen
ed the price of the product to the
consumer, how about the other
trusts, say for instance, the naval
stores trust, the lumber trust, the ice
trust, the phosphate trust, the water
melon and cantalOupe trust and hum
dreds of other trusts that are grow
ing up all around us which are raising
rather than lowering prices?
To us it appears that the trust itself
is an evil and not the men engaged
in them.
Like slavery it is not an individual
but a governmental sin.
How best to check it of course is
very hard and knotty proposition.
The application of Henry Georges
theory, perhaps, might remedy the
evil and utilize it into great public
benefit.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
noRA,,rv Ano DIVORCE.

In an article in the April number
of the Outlook Mr.. James Bryce
makes a most wise observation, or at
least we so regard it.
This is what he says:
1.-The morality of a country Is not
to be measured by the number or ol-
vorces; its condition may be worse II
people cynically abstain from obtain
ing divorces when there are good
grounds for obtaining them"
If marriage always produced hap
piness; if the husband and the wife
were really one-fesh of each others
flesh and bone of each others bone
then, of course, divorce would be
horrible evil; but we know that the
matrimonial state is not always re-
fiected by a picture of smooth-run-
ming, uninterrupted felicity.
There are worse things to be en-
dured than divorce.
For a wife TO cOndone the prof1lg-
acy and brutality of husband, and
make it easy for him to crafty his
worst passions and yet maintain
respectable front and footing in So
ciety, as is frequently the case i'll
Europe and not infrequently the case
in this country, is UNNECESSARILY
worse for society, for the home. in
our Judgment, than divorce. -
Divorce, more than any other one
thing, has protected. el4Eated and
purified the sanctity of wifehood.
1t has been the handspring to the
higher level of the married life that
has obtained SO universally in the
United States.
1t will be an evil day for woman,
and lowering of the standard of the
home, when this protection and shield
is done away with.
Divorce says to beastiality, brutal
ity, drunkenness and profiigacy:
Stand aside, avaunt, begOne!
And in the going, marriage has
been purified and elevated, and the
wife is regarded as something more
than slave or legalized plaything.
Where divorces are Obtainable wife
hood has become more sanctified and
holy and the wife occupies plane as
high as the husband.
1t has made her not only mans
helpmeet and companion but his
equal.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
SOME FLORIDA INCIDENTS
THE LETTER. NOT THE SPIRIT, OF
THE LAW.
BY COLONEL O. T. GREEN.

A story is told of the late Judge
Samuel F. Marshal, of Ocala, which
illustrates the difference between the
spirit and the letter of the law.
The judge had been referee in a
suit and had decided in favor of a
has long since removed from the pre-
cincts of Marion county.
The judges bill as referee amount
ed to about fifty dellars. Months
passed and he was unable to collect
the same. One day he met the party
who owed this sum to him and re-
marked that be would take ten dol
lars in settlement of the account.
The reply was:
"Well, will accept it, although it
takes the last ten dollars / have in
the world"
Shortly afterwards the judge re-
lated these facts to a friend, and
said:
when [ went i'll 20 draw up the
receipt for my distinguished friend
he pulled little crumble ten dollar
bill out of his pocket and handed it
to me. At the same time Iperceived
that he had a roll of bills as large as
my wrist. remarked to him: You
don't mean to settle with me for ten
dollars when you have all this money
and when you stated that it would
take the last ten dollar bill you had?'
At this the friend replied:
THAT is correct; | agreed to set
tie with YOU for ten dollars, and that
is the last ten dollar bill 1 have. the
others are all tWellties.''
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14

and smell, that TO my friends, and
even to my wife, 1 became an object
of dread. At large expense consult
ed the most able doctors far and near.
Their treatment was of no avail, nor
was that of the hospital, during
six months efforts. 1 suffered on and
concluded there was no help for me
this side of the grave. Then heard
of some one who had been cured BY
Cuticura, and thought that trial
could do no harm. In surprisingly
short time l was completely cured"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
CUTICURA- THE SET,$l.
Complete Treatment for Every
HumOur from pimpleS
to ScrOfuia

Battle the affected parts with hot
water and Cuticura Soap, to cleanse
the surface of crusts and scales and
soften the thickened cuticle; dry,
without hard rubbing, and apply
Cuticura Ointment freely. to allay
itching, irritation, and Inflammation,
and soothe and heal; and. lastly, take
Cuticura Resolvent Pills to cool and
cleanse the blood. A single set is
often sufficient to cure the most tor
turing, disfguring skin, scalp, and
blood humours, with loss OF hair,
when all else fails.
Cucura Soap, Ointment, and Pills sod A-ougaout
the world. Potter Drug CGem. Ccrp Sole - ieto.s,
Boston. ES-Send for a. How 10 Cure livery f. 4
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
Anse White Under Arrest.

Lexington. KY, April 11.-After be
ing hunted a week, Anse White was
captured by one of the five special
bailiffs sent to Breathitt county. He
is an important witness for the com.
monwealth in the cases of the Har
gis brothers and Ed Callahan, who
are to be tried here on the charge OF
completely in the murder of James
Cockrill, at Jackson
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
Hebrews Celebrate Anniversary

New York, April 11-Under the
auspices of the congregation of Ishar.
18th Israel, the Jewish synagogue in
this city, meeting has been held tC
arrange for the celebration of the 25th
anniversary of the landing of the first
Hebrew coIonist in New York. Thir-
ty-f1ve congregations and societies
sent delegates. A committee of Is
headed by Jacob H. Schieh, was to
prepare for the celebration.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
THE SoUIH's DUTY TO The NEGRO

By request of d very valued sub
scriber we printed in our Sundays
issue a specially important article
from the Nashville Christian Advo-
cate, "A Call to Opportunity, or, The
South's Duty to the Negro"
The article was written by Mr.. G..
B. Minister, the editor of that great
UNCONVENTIONAL paper.
We endorse the article in toto and
think it a most opportune production.
To elevate the negro and place him
on as high plane as it is possible
for him to reach, is our duty-it is
the southern white mans burden.
The negro is here and is likely to
remain here forever. He is here
without any volition on his part. He
was taken from his home in Africa
by our forebears and transplan; ed on
our soil. As slave he was faithful
and loyal to his masters interests
He responded kindly to good treat
ment. From savage wOrshipping
an easy convert to the Christian
faith and throughout the weary years
of the war he became the mainstay
and protection of the home.
There was a gentle and kindly feel
ing existing between the two races
and no .estrangement occurred until
after his manumission, but now this
arrangement is growing appreciably
more noticeable and as we have re-
ceeded from the civil war period the
two races have grown wider and
wider apart.
1t is our duty to try to train these
people, as MIR. Winston says, in
ything that makes for righteous
ness and good citizenship. The more
moral they become, the more relig-
iOus they become, the more indus
triOus they will become and it will
be better for them and better for us.
If we feel it is our duty to send
missionaries into Africa to Christian
ize the negroes there, it is surely our
duty to lend them helping hand in
this direction here.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
UNIFIED.

When the sun sets today it viii
have been forty years since Lee, the
chieftain of the Confederate armies,
surrendered his sword to General
Grant at Appomattox.
Never in the history OF the world
did victorious general give more
liberal terms to vanquished foe.
All that Grant insisted upon YVES
that 1.-The men and officers surrender
ed shall be disqualified from taking
up arms again against the govern
ment of the United States until prop
erly discharged.''
The feeling for the unification of
he sections was so strong that the
New York Herald hoisted the name
of Grant for president and Lee for
vice president, and Horace Greeley
became the bondsman for Jefferson
Davis.
This feeling continued until the
politicians, for purely partisan pur-
poses, ''fired the northern heart" and
brought about a sectional enstrange-
ment greater than was known when
the war was raging fiercest.
This bitter feeling survived many
presidential campaigns, but is now
happily dead, and we trust will re-
main a long time buried.
We believe that there is a better
feeling existing between the sections
today than the country has witnessed
since the time the slavery question
was first made prominent.
The return of the battle flags to
those who fought under them, by a
unanimous vote of congress, illus
trates this fact.
Let us all thank God that the long
era of hate has ended and an era of
good feeling has been ushered in.
In this connection we take great
pleasure in calling attention to an
article from the Portland (Ore.) Eve
ming Telegram which should find
responsive echo in every patriots
heart
a thousand Dollars Worth of Good.
81 have been afflicted with kidney
bladder troubles for years, passing
CRAWL or stones with excruciating
pain,n says A. II. Thurnes, well
known'coal operator of Buffalo, o. 81
got no relief from medicine until /
began taking Foley's Kidney Cure,
then the result was surprising. A few
doses started the brick dust-like
substance and now l have no pain
across my kidney and / feel like
new man. PIT has done me $1,000 worth
of good.' Foley's Kidney Cure Will
cure every form of kidney or BLADDER
disease. Postoffice Drug Store. MI
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14

Bost o n, NJ ass,
says: i" Cuticura
did wonders for
me. For twenty
five years I sui.
fered agony from
a terrible humour,
completely cover
ing my head, neck
and shoulders,
discharging mat
ter OF such often.
SIVcncSS TO Sioht
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
Shah of Persia Starts on Pilgrimage

Teheran, Persia. April 10.-The shat
is going on a pilgrimage to Meshed
starting April 23. 1t is announced
that the heir apparent, Mohammed Az
Mira, will administer the government
during his fathers absence. An i'm
perial decree has been gazetted or
dering the reorganization of the Per
sian army which under the new
scheme will comprise IL divisions each
Of IL 900 men of all arms.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14

The Florida legislature, now in
session at the state capital, is re-
Geved of the usual stubbornly con-
tested and long drawn out contest
incident to the choice of a United
States senator, the voters of the state
having expressed their preference in
that respect at the primary last sum-
mer. But they have another sena-
torship affair which they must de-
eide for themselves.
Senator c. NJ. Brown of the 10Th
senatorial district, comprising Marion
and Sumter counties, is one of the
hOld-Over senators. He has moved
from his former home in Ocala, Ma
riOn county, to Miami in Dade coun-
ty. The executive committee Of
Marion county declared Senator
Browns seat vacant and called
special election, and the chairman of
the committee, DIR. Baskin, was elect
ed senator to succeed Senator Brown.
But Hon. q. NJ. Brown had not re-
signed as senator and a few days be-
fore the legislature assembled he
showed up in OcaIa, going from there
on to Tallahassee where he placidly
took his seat in the senate and he is
still there.
DIR. Baskin is in Tallahassee and
has filed his petition claiming to be
the properly accredited senator from
the Goth district. If MIR. Brown had
remained away there is scarcely
doubt that Dr. Baskin would have
been allowed to take his seat. But
with Brown in the seat what is to be
done?
The question for the senate to de-
eide is whether Senator Brown, by
moving out of the Goth district there
by ended his tenure of office as sena-
tor. 1t is fine and interesting point
and the senate's decision will be
watched with interest.
United States senators move with
their families from the state from
which they are chosen and have new
er been unseaJed for that reason. 1t
Is claimed for Mr.. Brown that he was
resident of his district when elected,
that he was legally elected for four
years and that he can hold the Office
to the end of his term no matter
what county he may be living in now.
1t is an interesting case.-Pensacola
News. o.
r.
Not 0ueh to Read.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
Prominent kentuckian Killed.

Louisville. KY, April 1.-THE Even
ing Post has received a dispatch from
its correspondent in London, KY. say
ing that State Representative Howard
was killed today in Clay county by q
prominent man
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
FRIDAY, APRIL IA, 1905.
IT MEANS MUCH FOR FLORIDA.

Our attention is called by prOmi-
nent stock raiser in this county to
the verdict of the jury in Brevard
county in the case against Henry
Savage, Samson Savage, Edward
Stevenson and Louis Parker for cut
ting, manning and mutilating num-
Der of fine Hereford bulls belonging
to George W. Hopkins, of Brevard
county. All the prominent raisers of
fine cattle have taken great interest
in this case and have assisted as far
as they were able in its prosecution
and they are very much gratified
that the jury returned a verdict
of guilty.
These gentlemen, who are doing so
much to foster and promote this new
industry, feel that this verdict will
secure for them protection and they
very justly claim that mans pas
ture and fence around the same is
as sacred as his yard CIR garden fence
or his kitchen door or any other
property he may own.
''This decision" said one of these
stock raisers to us yesterday, lis
worth more to Florida than any
number of circulars describing the
beauties and attractions of the state
and is the best immigration docu-
ment that can possibly be put for
ward as it tells the wOulo-be settler
that property rights are secure in
Florida."'
The same gentleman says that he
knows several parties, who own
large bodies of grazing lands who
would fence the same and stock the
pastures with fine cows if they felt
that the fences would not be cut and
animals mutilated and he thinks that
this verdict will mean much in the
promotion of stock farms in our
state.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14

The development of the south
reads like romance, and in this de-
velopment Florida is by no means
bringing up the rear. Her progress is
marvellous.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
25 YEARS OF
AGONY ENDED
Boston Business Man Cured ByCuti-
cura of Awful Humor Covering
Head, Neck, and Shoulders After
Hospital and Doctors Failed.

Under date of September Q, 1oox.
Mr.. S. P. Keyes, wel1-known busi.
ness man of No. I4o Congress Street
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
TIE STANDARD OIL KING.

the standard oil king.
Mr.. Rockefeller occupies great
deal of space in the secular and the
religious press ard in the magazines
of the country. In all these publica-
tions he occupies the place of the
''under dog in the fight
No newspaper is so bold as TO do
him reverence or lift a voice in his
behalf. Even the pulpits are now in
voking anathemas upon him and claim
that the church has been compro-
mixed by accepting gifts from his
hands to help Christianize the
heather.
take the part of the under dog" it
seems opporuune just now to raise
lance in this much abused mans
defense.
After so many things have been
said against Mr.. Rockefeller can any
thing possibly be said in his praise?
Well, let's scrutinize the record.
We have before US an old ledger
belonging to Spake, Terrell & Wilson,
a mercantile firm doing business in
Ocala during the year 1867.
From this volume of an almost for
gotten firm we quote one of uhe
entries, viz:
"Nay p, 1867, Mrs. Nancy S. Wal
lace, to one gallon kerosene oil, 81
Thus it will be seen that when Mr.
Rockefeller was young man,
kerosene oil retailed at an almost
fabulous price. 1t continued to COM
mand high price for long term of
years and MIR. Rockefeller set about
with the one ambition to corner the
output not for the purpose of IN
creasing but for lowering the price.
Now, the question is, was that a
worthy or an unworthy ambition and
has Mr.. Rockefeller done what he
proposed doing?
As the price of oil is now less than
twenty cents per gallon, it must of
course be admitted that he has done
what he set out to do
He did this by working out an idea
OF laying pipe lines and thereby solv-
ing the problem of exorbitant freight
ates.
He invested millions of dollars in
this scheme and became independent
of transportation lines, which put
him in control of the oil product.
What did he now do? He did what
the ordinary man would not have
done. He raised the price of oil at
the wells for the benefit of the pro-
ducers and lowered the prices at the
retail markets for the benefit of the
consumers.
Was that good or bad thing to
do? And is the man who did it
worthy of praise or censure?
Mrs. Nancy S. Wallace, who paid
81 per gallon for oil in 1867, is still
living in Ocala. She now pays for it
less than twenty cents per gallon.
Has she been injured or benefited by
the lowering of the price? Would
she want Mr.. Rockefeller to DESTROY
his pipe lines, again put his oil in
handmade barrels, pay exorbitant
freight charges and fix the retail
price at 81 instead of less that twenty
cents per gallon?
In the lowering of the price of Oil,
Mr.. Rockefeller has enabled many in
the land to keep their lamps '.trimm-
ed and burning" and in the doing of
which has he done that which de-
serves that his gifts even to convert
the heathen," be spurned by the
churches and returned to him as
tainted money?
1t seems to us that most men in
MIR. ROckefeller's place would have
done worse than he has done.
The record shows that he is de-
vOutly religious man and has reared
his family In the fear of the Lord.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14

The people of Russia who are doing
the fighting, putting up the lives and
money. too, are getting very tired of
the war. Royalty, of course, which
is the chief interest concerned, wants
to fight to the bitter end.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
Not Much to Read.

She says she can read her husband
like book"
why, that tiny, little man is her
husband, isn't he?n
s'Yes.n
well, l should think she'd be able ]
o read him like a paragraph
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14

Messrs. Hirzel Brothers, of Paris,
announce that Mr.. Charles d. HirZel,
will be in charge of their business at
Mt. Pleasant, Tenn, and Mr.. Paul
Hirzel will act as European agent for
the firm, and his address hereafter
will be at Munich, Bavaria. The last
named gentleman, it will be remem-
bered, formerly had charge of the
Central Phosphate cOmpany's bust
ness here and resided in Ocala for
some time. We are pleased to note
the fact that the HirZel Brothers are
succeeding so well in business
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14

If Judge Swayne is wise, he will
cheerfully pay the expenses of his
impeachment acquittal and be thank
full that he escaped with his job.-At-
lanta Constitution.
Yes, and he will ask to be trans
ferred to some other circuit.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14

Speaking of the general advance
ment of the south, Charles n Harvey
in Leslie's Weekly, says: Even the
negroes, who are slower than the
whites to rise. to the level of oppor-
tunity, have accumulated $500, OOO, 900
in property since the civil war, ac-
cOrding TO figures given at a Tuske-
kee conference few weeks ago. In
twelve southern states thew have
17S,OO0 farms, and support Is, 900
churches.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1905-04-14
The OCALA BANNER
FRANK HARRIS, Editor.
P. Y. Lsavengood, Business Manager.

MoTTO: The BANNER, BELIEVING
TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES, HAS
TAKEN ITS STAND IN THE BARRI-
CADES WITH THE COMMON PEOPLE
AND IT'S FIGHT WILL BE MADE FOR
BOTTOM