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The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
SOUGHT JOYS OF THE cons
Little Parable in Recently Published Book Contains a Moral We'll
 Worth Heeding.

In R. F. Johnson's book, From Picking to Mandalay," the author tells the story of poor Chinese scholar noted for his piety, who heard the voice of an invisible being who spoke to him thus: "1our piety has found favor in the sight of heaven; ask now for what you most long to possess, for 1 am the mes senger of the gods, and they have sworn to grant your hearts desire. ; "T ask" said the poor scholar, ''for the coarsest clothes and food, just enough for my daily wants, and l beg that 1 may have freedom to wander at my will over mountain and fell and woodland stream, free from all worldly cares, till my life's end. That is all I ask" Hardly had he spoken than the sky seemed to be filled with the laughter of myriads of unearthly voices. "All you ask p cried the messenger of the gods. "Know you not that what you demanded is the highest happiness of the beings that dwell in heaven? :? Ask for wealth or rank or what earthly happiness you will, but not for you are the holiest joys of the oods"
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
RED TAPE IN TURKEY.

Confagrations are hard to fight in Constantinople because of the excess of red tape. As recently as ten years ago much time was wasted in getting the fire brigade to work because leave from Yildiz Kiosk had to be ob- tained before the signal could be fired. Further time was frequently wasted on the spot because the Turk ish fremen had way, before begin- ming operations, of making leisure ly oriental bargain with the people whose property was to be saved. In one case, when a village caught fire in the winter, the entire place was destroyed and many lives lost through cold and privation owing to this chaffering.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
THE EXPLANATION.

"No wonder graveyards are haunt ed," said the home grown philoso- pher.
 ''What's the explanation?' ?' que ried the party of the other part.
 "After a man has been kicked and cuffed all his life, it's only natural that his ghost would enjoy quiet sitdown in the moonlight occasion ally for the purpose of reading his epitaph," answered the philosophical person.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
To Daily Subscribers.

Many of our Daily subscribers will not want to continue to sub scribe for the weekly edition, as the matter published in both of them is of course the same. Those desiring to discontinue the weekly will please notify this office. Sub
 scribers paid in advance on the weekly edition will be given credit on the daily for the amount due them, and those in arrears should pay what is due on the weekly be- fore discontinuing it. If
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
THE REAL TROUBLE.

"Some mis-bul sinner took an runned off wid de collection hat las meetin' day." said Brother Dickey, "an' I well knows dat ef dar wuz no sich place as hell, de good Lawd would make one fer dat sinner :"
 "Was there much money in the hat ?'
 "No, suh; day warn't so much e2 a brass button in if.
 "T'hen why are you so mad about it?'
 Hit wuz my hat" he said.-At- lanta Constitution.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
CAME DOWN A RUSSIAN.

"Oh, mamman' exclaimed the pretty girl, all aglow with excite ment, "that handsome young man is coming to call on me again"
 "You should be careful and find out his station in life," cautioned the prudent mother. Has he any descent? 2"
 "Oh, yes, mamma-very rapid. He just fell out of an airship."
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
OLD LADY'S ERROR.

q tell you," went on the old lady at hotel, getting quite angry, q won't have this room. l ain't going to pay my money for pigsty, and, as far as sleeping in one of them folding beds, simply won't do it!"
 'Get on in, num-" said he, with a weary expression on his face. ''This ain't your room; it's the elevator.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
SENSE OF HUMOR.

"Should a public man have a sense of humor?'
 "Yes," answered Senator Sor- ghum.
 But the people want serious men,"
 "That's the point. You must have a sense of humor in order to recognize anything that might prove diverting and avoid saying it."
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
CIVIC SHAM E.

q observe" said Holmes of New York, "that you have recently taken up your residence in Brooklyn"
 "Who told you that 2" asked the other, visibly startled.
 Nobody, but l notice that you blush whenever anyone asks you where you're living."-Philadel- nhia Press.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
Conway vs. Little Rock.

The Conway High School foot ball team will play Little Rock College at the Hendrix College park tomorrow afternoon at 3:45 o'clock. The Conway team is in excellent condition and the game promises to be very interesting. A good crowd will encourage the boys.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
THE RETURN.

Magistrate-If l remember right ly this is not your first appearance in court.
 Prisoner-No, your honor; but l hope you don't judge by appear ances.--Harper's Weekly.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30

We hope that every subscriber of the Daily Edition will make a complaint direct to this office,
 phone No. 2I, when he fails to receive his paper. On account of the work being new to our carriers some mistakes have naturally been made, but we want to know of them so that they can be avoided
 In the future. If
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
Making a Hit.

Gibeon Carl, the impersonater, who will appear at Central College next Monday evening, has been in the state for the past two weeks and is making a decided hit at every engagement.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
OFFICERS TO BE SWORN IN
County Officers will Take Oath of Office
 on Tomorrow.

On tomorrow the terms of the present county officers will expire and their successors will be sworu in. All of the officers will succeed themselves except in the office of county clerk and surveyor. J. H. Bailey will succeed J. H. Hartje as county clerk and Jesse Lincoln will succeed Frank Stermer as surveyor.
 It is understoon that Mir. Bailey will appoint his brother, John w. Bailey, as his deputy. All the other officers will retain their pres- ent deputies.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30
NOT NECESSARILY.

"Pop," said the smart little boy. q suppose they can never have for- est fires like ours in England, can they?''
 "Why not, my song'
 fsBecause they always hare reign going on there."
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30

Read Grummer's ad. on page three.
The log cabin Democrat., 1908-10-30

Dorothy-He proposed to me six times in two weeks.
 Helen--Whom do you suppose he is practicing up for?
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07
EVANSTON, BoARDMAN AND Nc
INTOSH

Special Cor. Ocala Bannec.
Mr.. Grace celebrated his fifty-third
birthday last Tuesday His six chill
dren were all at home for the occa-
sion, for the first time in six years.
Mrs. Eugene Miller, who has been
dangerously sick for three weeks. is
now slowly improving
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe WOlfenden are ex-
'pected home Friday. after two weeks
pleasantly spent on the east coast.
Mr.. and Mrs. John W0lfenden have
just returned from South Carolina.
where they have been visiting friends
and relatives. Mr.. Herbert WOlfrn,
den joined them in Jacksonville and
together they visited the family Of
Mr.. P. K. Richardson. at Eyinst0n.
Mrs. Frank Barron writes that arr
health is not improving in South
Carolina, so she has gone to Ashe-
vile, y. c.. and will remain there 2
month or six weeks.
Mrs. Eta came from Jacksonville
to-day. being summoned to the bed
side Of her niece. Mrs. Frank Hester
who has been very i'll for two months
"a the home of her father, MI N0rs-
worthy. at Mcintosh.
Mr.. VIII Christian came homa quite
sick from Georgia last week.
Mr.. J. X Christians new house is
going up rapidly. and when A.islcG
will be very convenient and pua5ll,
Mr.. J. S. Richardson has been ,,,ite
sick for a week of two, but is now i'm
proving and is able to be out again.
John McCarley has gone to Ashe-
vile for two weeks and his brothers,
Erwin and Charlie, have gone to South
Carolina to visit their sister, Mrs. Nc
Donald.
J. P. Richardson returned home to-
day from North Georgia. He has
been engaged in different parts Of the
state in the peach business, and has
had a profitable and pleasant vaca-
ton.
Received too late for last weeks
paper.-Ed)
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07
THERE WERE BRAVE MEN
LIVING BEFORE AGAMEMNON

To tLe readers OF the long and la
bored address of Mr.. Taft. especially
Ct n sarly part of it. there appears
inevitably the figure of the gentleman
at Oyster Bay, to whom it was sub
mitted and who must have approved
could he BY any possibility have
suggested?-the fattering allusi0n to
himself with which the opening p0r-
ton Of the address teens. The figure
5 vague. necessarily. for it has been
given TO fe~ CT rs to witness such a
scene n re1l lie, IT, indeed. it can
be conceived 20 have occurred before
in modern times and in the Western
hemisphere. The official head of
great and powerful nation, passing
judgment on praises Of the most ex-
.traOrdinary sort and degree, offered
by the candidate for the succession to
his high office. and offering them. not
at all as the tribute of his personal
affection and admiration, but as the
basis of the electoral campaign, on
which his party has entered. A Sc
rious and able and experienced states
man, submitting TO his late chief in
the administration the amazing prop
Osition that the success of the party,
nay. the very safety Of the nation
depends upon the fulfllment of the
work that chief had begun, and the
recipient of this unprecedented sug-
gestiCn giving it his assent, and per-
hitting it to go to the country as the
final word on the issues of the cleo
ton!
Imagine tor a moment Mr.. ROOse-
Welt in the place of Mr.. Taft. opening
the republican campaign. and making
mutatis mutandis. the statements he
consented that Mi TAFT should make.
Il led the movement for practical re-
form. I laid down the doctrine that
the rich viOlatOr Of the law should Be
as amenable 20 restraint and punish
menJ as the offender without wealth
and without influence. I demonstrated
to the people by what l said, by what
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07

ment. All the other departments,
such as dry goods, shoes, clothing,
notions, ETC., are consolidated in the
main building, and Mr.. Gale and Mrs
J. n. Shedd are working hard to get
their part of the building in good
shape
Owing to the D-og-assivenes O.
one of our merchants, Belieview nov
has post card views Of fifteen differ
ent local objects Of interest. II the
near future these Photographic views
will be reproduced IN regular cOlOred
post card form to meet the demand
for popular priced post cards.
Mr.. Chas. A Hilton and NJ, Ire
mere made a trip to Heather Island
Thursday 70 enjoy the hospitality 10!
tie Hightovers. catch q sew dsk, 2,
a I'll of good g~uL anu c3l.e loms r.
jOicing.
Mrs. 4. 7. Whittier is visiting heI
friends at Eustis.
The council transacted routine bus
mess at its meeting Tuesday night
and also confirmed the nomination Of
Mr.. Joseph L. Whisenant as marshal
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07

l recommended to congress, by what
| did, the sincerity of my efforts TO
secure equality for all before the law
and to save the country from the daa-
gers Of a plutocratic government, To-
ward which We were fast tending.
have set high the standard OF bust
ness and obedience to law. The chief
function of the next administration,
in my Judgment, is a progressive de
yelOpmenj OF that which has been per
formed by me-" Does that, in cold
type, look little ludicrous? Yet it was
in cold type that Mr.. Roosevelt read
probably he language Of Mr.. Taft, IN
which nothing is changed but tie
prOnOuns.
And one cannot help recalling thai,
the periOI in which the hydra was
born and nurtured which the presi-
dent appears to think that he has
put in the way of being stranagled.
was in large part the period during
which tn country was under the
presidency Of William Mckinley. Was
he blind 10 the evils Mr.. Roosevelt
saw and challenged? Was he ignOr-
ant of or Indifferent to the principle
OF equality before the law? Was he
indispOsed to recognize the standard
of business morality which Mr.. ROOs7-
welt has established? Had he been
spared, would the plutOcratic govern
ment toward which We were fast tend
ing" when Mr.. Roosevelt assumed the
functions Of the presidential office
have been fastened upon US? These
are questions which Mr.. Roosevelts
authorization Of the Taft eulOgism
necessarily suggests. Among the
class TO which the eulogism is espe-
ciaIly addressed. memory may be
weak and respect aud affection be
short-lived emotions But among
thoughtful Americans. who can retain
for more than seven years their
knowledge of the cOuntry's real bene-
factors. it is known that There were
brave men living before AgamemnOn. "
New York Times.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07
5ELIEVIEW BRIEFS

Special Cor. Ocala Banner:
Mr.. William MillsOm made a trip to
Lake Weir Sunday. and claims TO
have had an enjoyable time, while
Mr.. and Mrs. MillSOm, with Mr.. and
Mrs. Gross, had such a pleasant eX-
perience last week on their Lake Weir
drive that they had to do it again;
and the wonderful things they find,
the friends they make on these trips
makes them enthusiastic over the
beauties of nature in this section.
Word was sent here Sunday night
OF the demise of DR.. Slaughter's in
FAINT child. Expressions of regret and
sympathy were heard on all sides.
and DR.. and Mrs. Slaughter have the
sympathy of the whole town. Few
women are better thought of here
than Mrs. Slaughter.
Rev. A. c. Sirdefield read the burial
service at the cemtery in a very i'm
pressive manner.
Quite a number of our people have
signified their intention of taking in
the Tampa excursion on Monday. the
10th.
The hard road from Lake Lillian to
the intersection Of the Ocala hard
road is now a fact, and all that re-
mains to make a hard road from our
town center to Ocala is a short
space from the John Brown place to
where the town left OF at the four cor
ners by the Mrs. Northey place.
Changes are taking place in Niece
hee & Mayos store. They are NOV
ing the grocery department TO the
south side of the store in the addi-
tiOn. This department viii be under
the exclusive charge of Mr.. Nj. A.
Dudley, whose winning personality
guarantees success in thAs depart
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07
M, FisheI and Son

Mr.. J. w. JOhnsOn's sister Of Waldo
is visiting her brother and family here
this week.
Miss Fannie Clark of Ocala visited
her sister Mrs. Souter, here Satur-
day and Sunday.
Mr. Marion Grantham of Holder,
who came here with his family few
weeks ago on ACCOUNT of ill health,
and to rest and recuperate, died Mon
day evening at o'clock at the home
of his brother, B. A. Grantham, and
was buried in the Fort Mccoy Gene
terry Tuesday. He leaves a wife, two
children, three sisters and three
brothers and a host of relatives and
friends to mourn his death. Mr..
Grantham was a member of the
Methodist church, a good citizen and
a devoted husband.
Civil & Civil, in spite of the unfa-
vOrable seasons and low prices, con-
tinue to ship tomatoes. This firm
also does a splendid mercantile bust
ness.
A certain young manor boy
while counting out in the Rutland
neighborhoOd, We are told, forgot the
lateness of the hour, and on being no
tilted by the girls father. was so
frightened that he ran up against the
gate post and knocked down the post
and a panel of fence, and then left
by ankle express, while the stock
roamed the good mans yard and field.
Come again, my darling beau, but
don't stay after ten. D G.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07
SPARR NEWS

Special Cor Ocala Banner:
John w. Huffman and J. w. Colbert
attended the barbecue at Oxford Sat
urday and report a good time. Mr..
Luffman says that from the appear
ance of the farms and the excellent
turnouts that these people have, the
farmers are doing well
Mrs. A. J. Stephens and children
have returned from DemOrest and TIA
lula Falls, Ca. and other points in
that state where they have been Wis
iting friends and relatives.
Mr.. Geo. D. Boyles, after the death
of his wife at orange Lake, has sold
out his place there and moved to his
mothers at Rutland, west of Sparr,
for the present.
Mrs. Geo. F. Young and daughter,
Ruth. of Corintb Miss, arrived here
last night. Mr.. Young has been here
for some time.
Miss Alice E. Owens, who has been
on the east coast and at Jacksonville
for some time, returned home Mon
day, much improved in health.
Miss Jessie Owens is in Jackson
vile this week.
Mr.. W. Q. LAffman, We learn, will
leave for the mountains of Tennes-
see in a few days to take a much
needed rest.
Mr.. E. w. Luffman will take charge
OF the express Office and the railroad
depot in his brothers absence.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED

by local applications. as they cannot
reach the diseased portions of the
ear. There is only one way to cure
deafness, and that is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
intiamed condition of the mucous lin
ing Of the EuStachian Tube. When
this tube is in1amed you have a rum
bling sound or imperfect hearing. and
when il is entirely closed deafness is
the result. and unless the iDAamma-
ton can be taken out and this tube
restored to its normal condition. hear
ing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Ca
tarrh, which is nothing but an inham-
ed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (cauSed by
Catarrh) that cannot be cured BY
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circu-
lars, free.
F. J. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, 0.
Sold by druggists. 75C.
Take Halls Family Pills for con
StipatiOn. ID
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07
PITTs5URG DOCTORS FIND LOCK
JAW CURE

A Pittsburg special to the New
York World says:
The Nagee Annex, also known as
the Pasteur Institute. attached 10 the
Mercy hospital of Pirrsburg. tonight
comes to the fore with what il claims
IS the first real cure for t4tanus. or
lOckjaw. Magnesium sulphate inject
ed into the spinal column is said TO
have effected the cure
This evening Harry Gilbert, four
teen years OF age. was discharged
from the PasteUr Annex as we'll His
was one of the most severe cases to
come under the notice Of local ply.
sicians. and the new cure was watch
ed with great interest.
The boy was hurt with a toy pistol
on July I. and on July 13 was carried
TO the hospital in commissions. Inlec-
tiOns Of a ) per cent solution Of mag
nesium sulphate was started AMI
gradually increased to Is per cent
BY degrees the body OF the boy.
which had become rigid. resting only
on the back OF his head AMI his heels.
began 70 relax Anti-tOxin. too. vas
used in good quantities to assist il
the work Of relaxing the muscles. All
the hospital physicians assert that
there vas no hope OF anti-tOxin saw
ing the BOYS life. so far had the dis
ease progressed before he was treat
ed. The treatment lasted twelve DAYS
before the muscles Of the body b.
came once more plant. and the last
nine days have been spent by physi-
clans in examining the boy TO see
that his condition is what DO vas
claimed by tn Mercy hospital physt
clans
Bellevue hospital. New YORK. has
been greatly interested in the cas-
of young Gilbert. u is said b. the
Mercy hospital people tonight that
for some days there has been one Of
the Bellevue stan here watching rhe
case. Bellevue. il is said. has lost
three cases of tetanus similar -0 that ,
OF young Gilbert since July q
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07
YOUNG MAN DROWNED NEAR
GAINESVILLE

Young Hale Session of Alachua was
drowned Sunday morning while in
bathing with a party of friends at Gal
lus' Pond, just a few miles north OF
Alachua station.
The young men Of that section use
this place as a bathing pool and large
numbers of them usually congregate
there every Sunday for the purpose
of taking a swim, and it was early in
the day when the life of this young
man was lost. The boat in which he
had gone out to where the water was
deep was capsized, and he was unable
to reach the shore.
One of the party succeeded in swim
ming quite a distance with him. but
gave out before land was reached,
and had TO let go of the unfortunate
man in order to save his own life, it
being with the greatest effort that he
managed to reach the banks.
The pond in question is one of a
chain of many sinks in that part Of the
county, and anyone not being able TO
swim is always compelled to remain
close in and can only venture out
with a boat or something suitable TO
hold them up. Ii was while young
Sessions was far out that the boat
was overturned and he was thrown in
the water.-Gainesville Sun.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07
THINGS THE WORLD SHOULD
KNOW

Mr.. ]. ". Bars. one of Jackson
ville's leading attorneys. iu writing %
the Metropolis on the subject OF The
extreme warm weather of last sun
day, says.
The recent very unusual h0r spell
of weather illustrates the exceeding
advantage of our climate Ilne
weather recently has been so very
unusual that i'm the past tweury-siE'
years our recent high temperature
has been equalIed on only three
days. one of those days thirteen years
ago, another twelve years ago. AMI
another two years ago. That 81 90
say that We have a day as bot as
last Sunday only once In six ami oae-
half years on an average And y-t
there was not I'm all Florida. sd "a.
as We can learn. last sunday. ewes
one prOstratiOn. not % mention dsaih
from the heat and We experience
here none Of those oppressive. srfihs
sensations which are SO COMMON in
the north when the thermometer u
high. This fact should De- made
known to the world. and We sh0-- -
greatly benefited thereby
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07

We take pleasure in directing our
readers attention 10 the advertise
ment appearing elsewhere in our col
umns of the Southern School of Tel
egraphy, located at Newman. Georgia.
mere Is great and constantly grow
ing demand for Telegraph operators.
and we are glad TO see this worthy
and we'll organized institution doing
such creditable work in helping sup
ply that demand. Any young man
wishing 10 learn a good profession
should investigate the opportunities
offered in the telegraph field by writ
ing at once for the schools free, de-
scriptive literature.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-08-07
NEXT WAR WILL 5s BIG oaGY
or BLOOD

General Blume. a high military AZ.
pert. recently presented a remarka-
BILE report 70 the German g-neral
staT on the probable cost Of A mod
err European war. which is nov pub
lished in an official bulletin issued
by the general stan.
General Blume points out the great
changes that have taken Place sine.
he Franco-Prussian war. thir-y-e.gl-
years ago. when the total German
forces were 1.2O0.0U0 men.
Germany will be able To- put ff-5-
900 OF troops in the field IN the next
war. other powers have armies OF
corresponding dimensions
\ war fought against another Euro
Dean power would cost Germany 10
lard cash at least s1.5g0.ooo.01o Der
annum as long as IL lasted The In
direct loss through fnanc.a, deD--s-
sion. financial stagnaJion and the par
alysis Of industry would be far great
er.
The power opposed 70 Germany
would be subjected TO the same anar-
ciaI drain.
II three of four or more European
powers were involved I'm The war.
which.is probable in view Of existing
alliances. the evident drain on the
resources Of Europe would De appau-
ing. .
incidentally. General BIume ok
presses the oopinion that the loss Of
life will be- heavier than in the r.
cent RussO-Japanese war. when %
per cent. Of the Japanese armies iu
the field We're killed and wounded.
Reckoning in the same proportion.
IA great European power would lose
approximately 100000 bllied AMI
wounded during thu same length OF
time. and General Blume believes
that the proportion would be- much
higher. He declares. in tact. thar IT,
would be- "a veritable orgy OF blood
New York World. Paris Dispatch.