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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10
COMMISSION MERcHANTST
BE BANQUETED IN
JACKSONVILLE

Jacksonville will lhave as her
guests January II, $50 members of
the National League of Commission
Merchants. who will meet on the two
preceding days at Savannah in six.
teenth annual session
The league viii be in session in
Savannah January 9 and 10, and the
entire membership in attendance will
come TO Jacksonville on a private
train TO be entertained here by the
local members and friends.
Messrs. Walter Hawkins and H NJ
O'Nein have been selected as a re
eeption committee and these gentle
men are now busy preparing plans
for the reception and entertainment
visitors.
The headquarters Of the league
while in Jacksonville will be at the
AragOn, where a banquet will be ten
dered the members in the evening.
The party viii leave Jacksonville
at night for ST. Augustine and other
points along the east coast, where
they will leisurely spend a week. en-
joying the pleasures offered by these
famous resorts.
The visit of the league to Jackson
vile is largely due 70 the efforts OF
Nr Hawkins. who has been endeav,
oring for the past two years 10 induce
the league 10 meet here. However,
Jacksonville has not as yet a branch
league, and therefore the city viii
have to be content with the honor of
a short Tisit-Times-Un
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10
A QUARTER MILLION LEFT

There are about 100000 boxes of
early bloom fruit left in the state that
are as fine as any fruit that was ever
shipped out Of Florida; $4,000 boxes
of grapefruit being included in this
estimate.
There are fully 100000 boxes of
the later bloom oranges and nearly
100000 boxes of June grapefruit
There will be a continual shipment of
citrus fruits from Florida until next
August, provided the well known saw
ing about misfortunes does not come
true in this instance and the whole
business is wound up by a disastrous
freeze.-E. B. Peters in New York
Packer.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10
NO MORE LIQUOR
THROUGH MAILS
POSTMASTER GENERAL MYERS
ISSUES ORDERS
Carriers In Many States, Including
Florida, Will be Prohibited From
Transporting Whiskey

Washington, Jan. 6.-Postmaster
General Myers has issued an order
which has a direct bearing upon the
prohibition movement. The order is
as follows:
1T is hereby ordered that it shall
be a condition of any contract here
after entered into for carrying the
mails upon star, screen wagon, mail
messenger or special service route,
that the contractor or carrier shall
not transport intoxicating liquor from
one point to another upon such
route while in the performance OF
mail service
The bids for star route service in
what is known as the second section,
comprising North Carolina, South
Carolina. Florida. Georgia. Alabama,
Mississippi Tennessee and Kentucky.
will be opened on Wednesday, Jauu-
airy s, and as a consequence. begin
ming July 1 next. every contractor i'll
the states mentioned viii be proEi9-
tied from carrying intoxicating uq-
uOrs in his route.
The order viii become effective at
once however, in many sections of
the country where it is necessary I'D
install new and supplementary ser
vice Ii is believed that this order
viii have a far-reaching effect and
viii meet the approval OF a large mum
Der of people, Judging by the enor-
nous number of complaints that have
been sent to the department.-T-U.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10
= IS worry. NOT WORK. THAT
KILLS

Tt isn't work that Kills men: it is
worry. Work is healthy. You can
hardly put more on a man than he
can bear. But worry IS rust upon the
blade. It is not motion that destroys
machinery; it is friction And all
tbs implies equally to women as
we'll as to man. Shut the door Of
worry; stand porter at the gate Of
your thoughts; open wide the shut
ters; let in sunshine, for it is all
about you Inhale the blessed ozone
Of life, breathe it all in and look up
ard be thankful that you Twelve
in srch a beautiful, glorious world
Tie birds and flowers are all singing
and rejoicing, why not you? Use all
your power to cast off your care
Make yourself think of something
cheerful Perhaps, after all. you
haven't much to worry about Some
one else has burdens heavier than
yours. Send him a helping hand, and
your own will be lighter The past
wrongs are over. Build yourself up
physically. Use all your will power
to overcome your respondent
thoughts. Keep step to the music Of
your soul, and it's melodies will be a
chorus. in which even the angels may
join. Difficulties, like flashes of fall
ing snow. will melt away under the
sunshine of your cheerful nature
while they pile up in great ice noun.
tains before the freezing countenance
Of a gloomy face-Anonymous
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10
THE MADE-oVER MAN-THE TIL.
UMPh or SCIENCE

Having triumphed over the Vermi-
form appendix, which serves no use
full function, the surgeons now prom
Use that they will soon be able to make
all necessary repairs on mans vital
organs
Dr. Simon FIe1ner talks as calmly
Of replacing a patients stomach or
heart or kidneys with new ones as an
architect would of the reconstruction
Of the interior Of al old house. Ar
teries have been transplanted from
dog to a cat and even from a man
to a dog, and with patience science
hopes to accomplish the transfer Of
the organs of life from sound animals
TO unsound human beings.
1t is an enhancing subject for ex-
periment-On other people, of course.
What Burbank has achieved in pro-
ducing new varieties of plants does
not compare with it. In a few years
the surgeons may be producing a new
variety Of man and natures process
IS of evolution be made to look as
slow and Anticipated as travelling by
stage coach.
= o man with bad heart can be
ouuiJte6 with a sound sleeps heart.
IT a man with a refractory stomach
can borrow his dogs physical perfec-
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10
EPIDEMIC OF GRIP AT THE CAP
lTAL

A Washington special says that
10000 cases of grip are under treat
ment in Washington, local physicians
declare. The present epidemic, they
say, is the most dangerous since the
disease made its appearance here six
teen years ago. Cases are to be found
in nearly every home in the city, and
the disease has invaded all the hOspit-
ais and public institutions. where pa
tients and inmates alike are suffering
from the complaint. Stores and fac
tories. government and municipal de-
partments, Offices, schools, police and
fire departments all show the effect
of the epidemic. In many places bus
mess is seriously hampered by the
large number of sick among the en-
ployes.
"The most remarkable feature of
this seasons epidemic of grip" says
DR.. NJ. NJ. Mofitt, 'is the character of
its after effects. The patient is left
weak and exhausted, his nervous sys
tenn impaired to a great extent. and
with mental symptoms which some
times develop a serious aspect, have
found symptoms Of mental affection
in many cases I have treated this
year"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10
THE SPECIAL TENT SERVICES

On account Of the tent being blown
down during the wind and rain storm
Monday night the special services
were held at the Methodist church
Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock The
eminent evangelist, Mr. CuIpepper.
had as his subject: Woman. and Her
Influence" and gave a beautiful talk
on this theme, eulogizing woman. and
especially he work along temperance
lines.
sTling the day the tent was re-
erected, and hereafter the services
Will be held twice daily in the tent.
conducted by Mr.. Culpepper and his
sou Rev. Burke CuIpepper. The lat
ter leads in the singing, as we have
already stated, and this is a very in
teresting and enjoyable feature Of the
services.
This meeting is already causing a
great deal Of interest all over Ocala
and before the end Of the week it is
thought that the tent will be crowded
at every service.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10
SOME NATURE FAKES

After a careful and impartial con
sideration of all the evidence bearing
on the subject. the investigating com
mittee reports that Notwithstanding
their long life and apparent respeCta-
bility the following are undoubtedly
nature fakes:
The bull in the china shop
The Wolf at the door.
The fly in the ointment
The dog in the manger.
The bee in the bonnet
The flea in the ear.
The rat that was smelled
The chOrus-girrs lobster.
Pigs in clover.
Horse and horse.
Time flies.
The Welsh rabbit
The man on a lark.-Indianapolis
News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10

were killed on the new scheme would
go through congress with a whoop.
Just at the present time the parcels
post has reached the same stage
which prevented the early enactment
Of the law providing for rural free
delivery. That great reform In the
postal service was first tried expert
mentally during the last administra-
ton of President Cleveland. 1t was
condemned by the postofice depart
ment on the ground that it would be
expensive and Impractical.
The real r.z-On why it was laid on
the shelf by the democratic managers
lay in the fact that it was opposed
most vigorously by country storekeep-
ers and postmasters.
They declared that the adoption Of
rural free delivery meant the wiping
out of thousands of fourth class post
Offices.
This in turn, it was said. would re-
suit in a large decrease Of the trade
% t2o country stores. because far
mers would not come in for their mail
as usual, and therefore could not be
induced to make purchases
Everybody knows now that this az
gument was a foolish one. Lots Of
insignificant little fourth class post
Offices were abolished. but their places
were taken by many times their num-
Der Of rural free delivery routes. The
carrier on each of which makes more
money Jhan the little postmaster ever
thought of doing.
Instead OF the country stores being
ruined By rural free delivery they
We're all benefited. The farmer found
that by dropping a postal card TO the
nearest store he could have sent TO
him all sorts OF small articles which
it would not pay to send a team for
Now the retail country merchants
are again up in arms. and this time
against the parcels post. They be-
lieve that if it is put into operation
it would build up mail order houses
in the large cities and ruin the coun-
try stOrekeeper. Protests by the
thousand have come into congress
from these country merchants, and
they have confused the situation to
such an extent that no one, on either
side, dares to assume the RESPONSE
bility Of establishing the parcels post.
There is every reason to believe the
express companies themselves are be
hind the attitude Of the country store
keepers, who are being used to pull
from the fire the Chestnuts of one Of
the greatest corporate trusts in the
country.
In spite OF the new rate law, the
tariffs of the express companies are
generally extraordinarily high. In
the nature of things, it is not feasible
for a railroad to permit rival express
companies to do business over its line
at the same time.
The carriage Of small parcels must
necessarily be a monopoly, except to
competing points. The country store
keeper has been the greatest victim
of this extortiOn. Yet it is known to
be true that the different express com
panies have sent letters and circulars
TO their agents everywhere through
out the country, directing them to
urge upon local storekeepers the con
sideration of the fact that in case. of
the passage of the parcels post plan
the big mail order houses would be
able to reach consumers along rural
free delivery routes where express
companies now do not go.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10
IN THE ELECTRICAL WORLD

The smallest electrical motor in the
world can be carried in the vest peck
ct OF worn as a watch charm.
The largest electrical motor in the
world was recently installed by the
General Electric Company for the III
diana Steel Corporation. 1t is a GoO0
horse power induction motor.
The new tantelum and tungsten
lamps, placed on the market within
the past few months, have reduced
the cost of incandescent lighting one,
third for the same amount of light.
About seventy different kinds Of
electric heating and cooking devices
are manufactured today for ordinary
household use.
The latest and most important step
in electrical manufacture is the cleo
trifcation of steam roads. This prom
ises to be one of the largest branches
of the industry.
Menlo Park, announces that he will
cease all hard work for time and
devote his spare moments to play
ing" with electricity. The public can
look forward to something new, new
ertheless.
The new luminous arc greatly i'm
proves the quality and efficiency of
the arc lamps. Lamps are made Civ
ing as much as 1000 candle power or
nearly five times as much as the or
binary arc lamp.
The very latest in heating devices
are the baby milk warmer. combina-
ton shaving mug and water heater
and the corn pepper.
The new type Of electrical autOmO-
bile does not depend upon a storage
battery for power. A small gasOlene
engine drives a generator, which in
turn supplies the electricity for the
motors. The new device simplifies
the control and improves the service
Frozen water pipes are now thaw-
ed by electricity.
Another late invention is the YER
teal frequency changer designed to
change the frequency Of alternating
current used for power purposes so
| it can be. used advantageously for
lighting. The moving element on
/ these new machines floats on film
of oil in a step bearing the same as
in the Curtis vertical steam turbine.
The steam turbine is revolutioniz-
ing steam power and cheapening the
cost Of electricity.
An electrical apparatus for milking
cows has been invented.
Shoes can now be shined by cleo
trical power; the carpet can be clean
/ ed by the same force. An electrical
| device for winding large town clocks
has also been placed on the market.
! The largest transformers in the
world were made for the Great North
ern Power Company at Duluth. by the
General Electric Company. Three
units Of 10000 horse power each have
been installed and FIVE others are to
| be constructed.
| Many thousand dollars worth Of
diamonds and sapphires are used ev-
cry year for bearings in electric house
meters.
Nikola Tesla, the well known in
ventor, makes the astounding state
ments that wireless telephoning will
soon be possible, and that electric
lights will be made to burn at anv
distance by special currents passed
through the air.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10
A BARGAIN FOR You

Inc best immediate offer will bnv
o o OF the finest farms in Marion
county consisting OF A acres choice
- ucKlng land; all under cuItivstio-,.
5000 house barns, cisterns veIi
roSt pears, plums. etc. ONLY So
aQus from depot at Spar. Fla Ioolt
a1 II and make offer. Submit n-oT-o-
9i'iOh 10 ). Lovel, next door, who has
~ AOuSe- 12-13-1mw.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10
WILL KNOCK
THE PARCELS POST
Express Trust Leads Revolt Among Country Storekeepers
and Congress Is Deluged With Protests.

Unless conditions change 10 an ex-
traOrdinary degree congress will not
make any serious attempt to estaD-
hsh a parcels post or postal savings
bank system at this session. Both
these reforms have behind them the
authority Of the postmaster general
and OF the president Of the United
States, but sufficient opposition has
developed in each case to cause the
leaders Of congress. both republicans
and democrats, to fight shy of all such
legislation" says Raymond in the
Chicago Tribune.
Before he prepared his annual re-
port. Postmaster General Meyer was
assured by a great many members of
the congress that both the postal saw
ings banks and the parcels post would
be immensely popular, and the pre-
dicJion was made that if he and The
president would unite in recommend
ing these reforms congress would be
ou-y too happy 10 provide the neces-
sly machinery.
IL was declared. in fact, by some Of
the enthusiasts that one or both OF
these reforms would furnish a desired
monument 10 the practical value Of
the Roosevelt administration. The
rural free delivery was inauguratei
und-r Mckinley, and it was hoped
thai q similar advance in the postal
service might mark the succeeding
administration.
an entire change of sentiment has
cone over congress as TO the adyisa-
bility of passing either of these pro
pos d laws. Il is possible a majority
of the house might be in favor Of
them both. but it is more and more
evident that nothing like unanimous
approval can be expected from the
country at large.
A presidential election is looming
Up, and party leaders, on both sides
ale entirely unwilling to take any
chances. The failure OF the republi-
CaDs 10 unite on two such desirable
REFORMS Will be commented upon by
ths democrats. but they, themselves,
Mil be unwilling to accept the re
spOnsibility either of passing or of de-
feating the parcels post and postal
savings bank.
The republicans are in a similar di-
lemma. Extraordinary opposition has
been developed on both Of these
schemes, and the leaders in the house
and senate have about come to the
conclusion that public opinion has not
yet sufficiently crystalliZed to make it
wise TO undertake such radical chang
es in the financial and transportation
systems at the present time.
There will be debate over both the
bank and government expense bust
ness, but action will be deferred from
time TO time and both bills will be
hanging high and dry when congress
reaches the time for its midsummer
recess.
Senator Platt OF New York, Tor
many years president of the United
States Express company, has made
no secret of the fact that he proposed
to Xii the parcels post measure when
''n.. il reached the senate.
Representatives of other express
companies were equally vehement in
their declarations that it was unwise
for the government to go into the
transportation business to such an
extent.
II was assumed, as a matter Of
course, that the people themselves
would be for the parcels post. and il
was thought after express companies
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1908-01-10

Dr. S. H Bitch was in town Wed
nesday, and in conversation with a
reporter Of this paper stated that he
was feeling better than be had in
years, but that his brother, Mr.. 3. R.
Bitch, continues seriously i'll.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-11-16

alteration with a Celectial restaur-
ant-keeper, known as Quong Sick.
with the result that Quong suffered a
badly lacerated Uranium, from the eff
fects of which he may die. DR.. c. N.
Suttner was summoned and left imme-
diately for Wallula. 1t is probable.
however, that the Chinaman will be
brought to one of the local hospitals.
as it is thought he suffered a fracture
of the skull.
Just how the trouble started has not
not been earned at the sherffs office,
though Deputy Cummings telephoned
that he had the CelestiaIs assailant in
Jail, and would hold him there In case
the injuries to the man from the flow
cry kingdom do not prove fatal, the
white man will doubtless be given a
trial before Justice Lewis, but, on the
other hand, should the Chink succumb
to his injuries, the caucasian will be
brought to the county Jail, to await
trial for murder.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-11-16
Burns Prepares to Stir Up
HOrnefS Nest Among Police

tering the room was searched.
Assistant District Attorney O'Gara
was in Heney's chair, assisted by At
torneys Matthew Sullivan, Hiram
Johnson and Joseph DWyer, who VOL
unteered to assist the state.
Ach, Ruefs chief counsel moved
for a change of venuet He read an at
fidavit recounting the mass meeting
Saturday night and the shooting of
Heney He read an affidavit signed by
Ruef in which the latter said his life
is in danger. that he may be killed any
minute If the motion is denied they
will ask for a continuance for thirty
days. and ask for a examination OF
all the jurors.
Attorney ]. B. Cook, taking notes in
the court room as to the feelings of
the spectators, was elected. The
prosecutors are comforting this after
noon to decide how to combat tha lat
est move of the defense.
Ruef and his attorneys are at the
jail
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-11-16
Now Know Actual Value
of the NdfiOn'S Resources

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16-The much
sources is now practically completed.
To consider the material it has
brought together the National Con-
servation commission has just an
nounced its first full meeting for
Tuesday, December 1, in Washington.
At that meeting the first steps will be
taken toward putting into tangible
shape the results of the six months
hard work on taking stock of the coun
try's waters. forests, lands, and min
erals.
One week later, after the commits
will hold joint meeting in Washing
ton with the governors of the states
and territories, or their representa-
tives. At this meeting the inventory
will be further discussed and the re-
port which the president has request
ed the commission to make to him by
January 1. will be formulated.
With less than six months in which
to make the inventory, the four
branches into which the commission is
divided aided by the cooperation of the
government departm ants, have brought
together what is probably the most
useful collection of facts about the
material things on which national in
dusary and progress are based that has
ever been assembled at one time. Re-
ports presenting these facts and
pointing out their significance have
been prepared. These reports, sum
married. and indexed, will be submit
ted to the commission at it's coming
meeting.
All through the summer general in
terest in the work and object of the
conservation commissioner has been
growing. The public is now we'll
posted on a subject of which only a
few SPECIALISTS had knowledge at the
time of the conference of governors
and experts at the White House, in
May.
The governors carried the spirit of
the conference home with them to
their own people, and have kept things
moving ever since by appointing state
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-11-16

commissions to study local problems,
by writing and speaking upon the
subject of conservation, and by keep
ing in close and helpful touch with the
national commission. They are ready
to take part in the approaching joint
meeting. The bare announce
ment that it had been set
for December s resulted in number
of acceptances before the formal in
vitation of the commission had even
got into the mails.
When the conservation movement
was started, specific information about
the actual state of our resources was
partly wanting, partly inaccessible.
Certain facts were broadly known. 1t
was at least unuuestionable that our
resources had been Wastefully used,
and that some of them, notably the
mines, were sure in time to be COM
pletely exhausted, while others, for
example the forests, could still be kept
perpetually useful by right manage
ment The first work was to get the
facts, to show exactly what the stu
alton was and how it could be i'm
proved by measures that would work.
Without an inventory of the resources
and the way to develop them to the
best advantage, conservation was in
danger of staying up in the air.
But the work is now practically done.
The facts are there, in dollars and
cents, tons of coal. board feet of tim
Der, acre~feet and horsepower OF
water. acres of land. And the posi-
BILE reform measures have been
weighed. The final report to the presi-
dent will be the necessary supplement
to the addresses at the White House
conference. The note of these ad-
| dresses was a note of warning. The
report is expected to show that the
, warning must be needed if the ex-
haustion of natural resources is not
one day to impoverish the nation, and
| it will also undoubtedly bring out how
the country's resources can be de
veloped so as to last the longest pos
sible time and serve the greatest good
of the people.