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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08
A ROAD ACROSS THE 'eLADEs

The Miami Metropolis publishes the
following interesting news story:
Another project wherein Miami is
destined to figure prominently has
come to light today. this time from
Philadelphia. A railroad across the
Everglades, from northwest to south
east, with Pensacola and Miami as
the beginning and ending of the road
is planned, according to a Philadel-
pnia paper.
''W. W. Prout of this city, who has
been in lie north for several weeks.
seems 70 be the newspapers inform
c:t. Nr. P-ou; has done a great deal
4oc Miami on this trip. according to
the reports received here. First, he
arranged TO have d committee of Jew
Crs visit Miami the last week in De
cember 10 select a site for the feder-
al building. That information came
from Washington by telegraph.
THE next item Of interest came
from the New York Times, telling of
eli automobile speedway in Dade coun-
ty, ana The latest, a railroad across
the Everglades. Mr.. Prout is now Ell
route home, according TO the newspa-
per, vested with authority to obtain a
franchise from the state and acquire
necessary right Of way for the road.
This news will be read with much in
terest.
"Of the project the Philadelphia pa
per says:
"A railroad across the Everglades
of Florida, which appeared to be a
possibility, but was sidetracked by
reason of the financial depression,
now appears likely to be an assured
fact. Philadelphia, Pittsburg and New
York capital t. said to be back Of q
project which has for it sobject the
building of a line through central Flor
ida from northwest to southeast. bav-
ing Miami as its southeastern termi-
nus and Pensacola as the northern
gateway into Alabama.
Three perspective surveys, all of
which are feasible, have been made
across the Everglades. What is known
as the direct central route is likely to
be selected, as the projectors will be
able to take advantage of short lines
Of railroad in the building of the sys-
TEN. w. W. PrOut of Miami, Fla, who
has been IT. the north in consultation
with the capitalists interested, left
Philadelphia few days ago for home.
and acquire necessary rights of way"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08
GOVERNMENT STUDIES NAVAL
STORES INDUSTRY

The United States has for the past
five months been making investiga-
tons of the timbe- supply as it is re-
lated 10 the rafa stor,s industry of
the southern S.c.es. A special ap-
preparation WIS made b. the last con-
gress TO carry on this work. For some
time those interested in the turpen-
tine industry have felt the need of
accurate data regarding the supply of
timber still available for the produc-
ton of turpentine. The degree of in
jury sustained by the longleaf pine
during the process of bleeding for res
in has always been a subject of con-
tention between the lumbermen on the
one hand and the turpentine opera
tors on the other, and a special effort
was made to ascertain reliable facts
bearing upon this phase of the inves-
tigation. Statistics of production are
also in process of compilation The
present methods of obtaining resin
from the tree and especially the ex-
tent Of use and the practicability of
the new cup system of collecting gum
have come under careful study In
order that the best possible results
might be obtained all parts of the ma
val stores producing region were Wis
tied; the best informed operators were
interviewed and observations were
made in regions of varying conditions.
The data collected in the turpentine
investigation are now being brought
together in report which will later
be published. Some of the points
brought out are as follows:
The new cup systems of gathering
the gum, whereby the injurious hole
or box" cut in the tree to catch the
gum has been replaced by a cup hung
on the tree. have generally proved
both practical and profitable. and are
everywhere gaining in favor.
AS compared with the old and ex-
ceedingly injurious box system
these. new methods unquestionably
lessen the injury done to the timber
and lengthen the average life of the
tree after bleeding. This decrease in !
efficiency is due 10 the fact that the |
cup systems render the tree less sus-
cepible TO damage by subsequent /
fires.
The United States forest service !
men who made the invest cation /
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08
THE PARCELS POST
AaxwePs TaIisman Says That 1t Would b Death Blow
to the Small Town

Element, if the government would fur
nish everyone who would move into
the country with a donation of money
and free supply of garden tools. If
the huge treasury deficit which would
be caused by the parcels post sys-
TEN if inaugUrated were applied d.
rectly to such donations and gifts
from the government, it would I'M
doubtedly result in creating .usny
new country homes, but the reaction
from such a scheme would far over
balance the benefits from it.
The fact is incOntrOvcr5!bie that the
goods, wares and merchandise, house
hold goods. garden toDiz. dry goods
and clothing, groceries, and all food
products not produced on the farm
must be purchased from some source
by the dwellers in the country. Where
are these goods TO come from, and
where are the people who conduct the
trade of supplying them to live? If
the countless millions of dollars eX-
pended by the dwellers in the coun-
try for such things in the course of a
year are sent to the great cities, and
the goods ordered there from huge
mail order concerns, to be delivered
by parcels post, then the fact can not
be gainsaid that the people who trans
act that immense volume of annual
business will be concentrated in the
cities. The large population now
transacting the business in the small
cities, the country towns and the coun-
try villages, will be transferred to the
cities. The eventual working out of
such a system would result, in the
end, in dividing our population into
two classes-those living in the great
cities and those living on farms,
whether they be large or small, in the
country. The Intermediate Dopula-
ton. which now furnishes the social
center for the farmers life, in the
nearby town or village, or in a small
city where practically every social
advantage can be had that exists in
the larger cities, would struggle for
existence against a constantly in
creasing industrial force that would
tend, like a mighty maelstrom, to
sweep into the large cities year by
year a greater and greater proportion
of the population and trade Of the en-
tire country.
1t is this effect on the population
engaged in commercial pursuits and
in the trade of distributing to the
consumer countless millions Of dollars
worth of merchandise every year that
is entirely overlooked by the propon-
ents of the parcels post scheme when
they contend that the effect of that
system would be to move population
from the cities to the country.-Nax-
wells Chicago, Talisman.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

The Marion County Fair. held al
Ocala, was a great success. Bradford
should move in matters OF this kind
A county fair held at Starke would De-
a wonderful stimulus TO our farmers
to put forward their best efforts. From
the county fair the exhibits could Doe
transferred 70 the state fair and we
would get the benefit of advertising
our products to the thousands Of peo-
pie who visit the state fairs. arke
Telegraph.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08
STATE TEACHERS MEETING

The state teachers, who met in an
nual convention in Gainesville, ad-
journed Friday.
The following officers were elected:
President, F. A. Hathaway, Orlan-
do; vice president, Miss Ida Frank
lin, Gainesville; secretary, J. T. Dia-
mond, Santa Rosa; treasurer, Miss
Lillian McGeachy, Miami.
The next meeting of the association
will be at DeLand.
Mr.. W. D. Can of this city read a
paper on Needed Library Legisla-
ton in Florida" On motion of Prof
Corr the paper was referred to a
committee of three, with request to
report during the next meeting of the
county superintendent and high
school principals.
Committee: Messrs. Crimson of Ma
rion, Kelley of Alachua and Tucker Of
Putnam.
The following resolutions We're Of
fered:
Resolutions
Whereas, We, the members of the
Florida Educational Association, in
convention assembled. have been the
recipients of the unbounded hospital
ity of the good citizens of Gainesville,
be it
Resolved: First, That we express
our hearty appreciation for the cor
dial manner that we have been receiv-
ed and entertained.
Resolved: Second, That we especial
ly desire to thank the president and
faculty of the University, the county
superintendent and others, for many
courtesies extended.
Resolved: Third, That we express
our appreciation to Dr. Russell for the
able and impartial manner in which
he has presided over the convention.
Resolved: Fourth, That we thank
the executive committee, the honora-
bic state superintendent, and all 9TH
ers who have helped in any way to-
wards this, one of the most success
full of our associations.
Resolved: Fifth, That we extend
our hearty thanks to hotel proprietors
and railroad officials for the reduced
rates given us.
Resolved. Siv+b Tbo+ NO .i
approve the Introduction of "Agricul- |
ture" as one of the subjects to be
taught in the public schools. and that /
we tender our thanks to President |
Murphree of the Woman's College. |
for his able paper on that subject.
J. H. WORKMAN.
E. B. EPPES.
Committee on Resolutions.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

We live in an era Of progress. We
are moving forward so rapidly that
there is danger that some proposed
s0-called modern improvements may
be accepted as beneficial which in
their actual working out, when prac-
tically tried, would prove to be evils
IN the guise of benefits. An illustra-
ton of this is the proposition to turn
the postoffice department into q car
rier of all kinds of miscellaneous
merchandise by the adoption of a par
GELS post system. From a national
point Of view one of the most serious
dangers from this system is the inevi-
table effect that il would have, to
throw into mail order channels and
transfer to the great cities of the
country a vast volume of trade now
done in the small cities, country
towns and villages. That this would
be an evil no one with a mind capable
OF thought can deny. StupendOus
changes in the method of transacting
the business of distributing merchan-
disc 20 the consumers would result
and the result OF every change would
be to transfer trade and population to
the great cities. II would practically
wipe out the jobbing trade and the
country merchant would inevitably be-
come, as the pOstmaster-general says,
in effect, he has become in Germany,
a sales agent without any stock in
trade. Offering specific goods as they
are sold, just as a manufacturer
agent does in this country, requiring
no more Of the machinery of trade
than is necessary to transmit his or
ders TO the central factory or ware
house. Retail merchants now engaged
in trade in thousands of the smaller
trade centers in all parts of the cOun-
try would be forced out of business,
tneir stores would be closed, and
some great mail order concern in
big city would do the business. The
people employed to transact it would
necessarily live i'm the cities where
the trade was done. In every Euro
pean country, where the parcels post
exists, il has had this effect. The
cities Of those countries in Europe
have grown in population and trade
with stupendous strides. at the ex-
pense of the country, since the parcels
post system has been in vogue. That
system has undoubtedly been one of
the great promoting influences toward
this Capitalization of trade and popu-
lation in the cities.
To break the effect of this funda-
mental objection to the parcels post,
the proponents of the scheme urge
that il will stimulate the settlement
of the rural regions, because it will
increase the coHveniences of rural
life. So il would stimulate rural set
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

Editor Harris says that thereafter
our hurrahs will be reserved for our
own homemade fairs" If that is his
decision, we will have to abide by it:
but isn't it a rather selfish. narrow
unprogressive way of looking at
things Tribune.
1t does look little that way. but
the Banner didn't inaugurate it: it
has grown tired of forever playing the
part of the fly to the spiders call.
Turn about" is said to be a fair
thing, and this paper would be glad to
see Jacksonville and Tampa practic-
ing it once in a very great while.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08
Committee on Resolutions

Vincent Pisarro, chief investigator
for the society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children. says that the real
danger lurking in the moving picture
shows Is not that they are immoral.
but because of their intense fascina-
uon-that children will resort to pet
y thieving and like crimes to procura
admission tickets.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08
HAS caught ON"

An examination of the Christmas
numbers of the Florida newspapers
will convince anyone that they are a
live lot and up to the measure of the
press of any other state. Their high
tone, clean appearance and wide
awake enterprise is striking. and
promises much for the future of the
state. The new editor of the hide
pendent rejoices that it is his privi-
lege TO fall in such good company.
Gentlemen of the Florida press. our
hat is of to yOu-St. Petersburg hide
pendent.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08
ITALY ALWAYS A PREY ~
QUAKES

ITALY ALWAYS A PREY ~
QUAKES
Southern Italy has ever been a par
ticular prey to earthquakes. 1t is one
OF the region where the crust OF the
earth trembles almost continually, and
where light shocks are frequent
Other such regious are the coast or
Alaska, the coast of California, Chile
the West Indies, the Japanese Islands
and the Caucasus mountains. in south
ern Europe. The most destructive
earthquakes of history are:
A. D. 157.-Pontius and Macedonia,
Asia. $50 cities and thousands OF lives
destroyed.
742-Syrfa. Palestine and Asia, 500
towns destroyed; loss Of life inealcu-
liable.
926-Constantinople overturned. all
Greece shaken.
1137-Catania, Sicily, destroyed. 10
600 killed.
l26S-Cilicia. Asia Minor GO
killed.
1856. Dec. 5.-Naples. 10000 killed.
1881. Feb. 2G.-Lisbon. 10000 killed.
1926. Feb. 30-Naples, 10000 killed.
Schamaki. 10000 killed.
1892. June Port Royal, Jamaica,
5000 killed.
1898. sept-sicily, 100000 killed.
hob. Feb. 2-To,,io, Japan, 100000
Killed.
1906. Nov. 3.-Abruzzi, Italy, 5000
killed
171C-Algiers. 10000 killed.
1925, Sept. Palermo, Italy, 5000
killed
600 killed.
1871. Nov. 3O.-Peling, China. 1907
1916. Oct. 2S.-Lima and Calao, Pc
III. $4,000 killed.
1754-Craad Cairo. Egypt, 10000
killed.
1855. Nov. Lisbon. $4,000 killed.
1853. Oct. 3O-Syria, 10000 killed.
1873. June 7.-Santiago, Guatemala.
completely engulfed.
1893, Feb. 5.-Nessina and other
large Italian towns, thousands killed
1897. Feb. Country between San
ia Fe and Panama, 10000 killed.
1912, March 2G-Caracas, Venezue-
la, 10000 killed.
1922, Aug. 1O.-Aleppo, Spain, 90
600 killed.
1851, Aug. 14.-MeIf, Italy, 1900
killed.
1852, Sept. 16.-Manila, Philippines,
partly destroyed.
1S55-Tokio nearly destroyed.
1857, Dec. 1S.-Calabria, Italy, TO-
900 killed.
1859, March 22.-Quito, Ecuador,
5000 killed.
1860, March 2O-Mendoza, S. A,
1000 killed.
1868, July 2.-Manila, 1000 killed.
1868, Aug. 15-Peru and Ecuador,
$4,000 killed.
1875, May 1S.-Colombia, S. A, A.
900 killed.
1881, April 8.-scio, Italy. 1000 kill
ed.
1888. Oct. 1G.-Anatolio. Asia Minor.
and other towns destroyed.
1885, July S.-Cashmere, 10000
homes demolished.
1886, Aug. 31.-Charleston, S. c., 9S
killed
1887, Feb. 24-Coast from Corsica
10 Lyons and Geneva, Switzerland.
Italy and France, more than 2OOO kill
ed.
1887. May 5.-Fawaii, 167 killed
1888. MarcA.-Yunnan, China, 1000
killed.
1S91-MuItitudes killed in Japan.
19O2-Martinique, $4,000 killed.
1905-Southern Italy, 500 killed.
1906-San Francisco earthquake
and fire, nearly 400 dead.
1907-Kingston, 500 killed.
190S-Earthquake and tidal wave in
Italy.
1t is estimated that earthquakes
have killed 100000 people, at least.
since records have been kept of their
ravages.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

1t is formally announced that Hon.
W. ]. Bryan will leave Tampa for Ha-
vana on the steamer Olivette the
night of January &c. He will return
in time to attend the Florida state
fair and make an address at the lay
ing of the corner stone of the Y. NJ.
c. A. building. He will be in the city
on that occasion two or three days.
probably not leaving until Monday.
the Sth.-Tampa Times.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

-Four million Christmas trees wera
sold IN the markets this year. but
THIS does not include the millions that
the people went into the woods and
sot themselves. And the joy and
gIadness that the trees carried into
the homes connot be estimated. He
took up little children and blessed
them, and little children bless the
world
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

Arthur S. Cheney. American consul
at Messina, and his wife. are suppos.
ed 70 have been killed by the earth
quake, according to advices received
Dy the state department from Vice
Consul Stuart Lupton.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

The RI. Rev. David Sessums. Pro
testant Episcopal bishop of Louisiana.
who was believed by members of his
diocese 10 have been at Messina. I-alv
at the time of the earthquake. has
been heard from at RomeN
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

State fairs are good things and
should be encouraged. But a county
fair is still better, and every county
should hold one every year. It slim
ulates q spirit Of rivalry which leads
TO thrift.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

The press dispat cnes state that iu
making up his cabinet President-elect
IaIt Is about TO break with President
Roosevelt. Suppose that ne should
DO so and that President Roosevelt
should make him a member OF his
Ananias club-wOuldn't it be awful
Yet a number of good men. and wo-
men, too, are members Of this club.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

The American battleship feet. under
Rear Admiral Sperry. has passed Pc
rlm' at the entrance to the Red Sea.
All on board the fleet are we'll. The
vessels are due at Suez the morning
of January 3.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

The Marion County Fair held last
week at Ocala was a success. and
should do much toward advertising
the resources of that county. County
fairs and state fairs should receive
the encouragement of every citizen OF
Florida--St. Petersburg Independent.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

Atlanta seems 10 nave gone 10 the
pad on Christmas day. Her court re-
cord the merit day was marred by the
docketing Of 233 cases. Only "a Of
them' however, were for DRINKS.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

A petition was sent by the repre-
sentatives of 10000 union workmen
IN "llkes-Barre. Pa, and vicinity. TO
PRESIDENT Roosevelt, asking him 10
pardon Gompers. Mitchell and Morri-
son.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

General Albert w. Gilchrist, govern
or-elect, has appointed as his private
secretary, Mr.. G. Talbot Whitfield. of
Tallahassee.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-01-08

Brooklyn is erecting a new Masonic
temple. 1t is going to be the hand.
soonest in the world.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
TO CLIMB MOUNTAIN WITH GAS.
Colonel Shirley May GO After Cooks
Mckinley Records in Balloon.

The long standing argument concerning
the assertion Of DR.. +. A Cook that he
ascended Mount Mckinley has prompted
Colonel Alfred r. A Shirley, OF Nashville.
Tenn. a member of the Governors staff.
to offer his services in settlement OF the
controversy. Colonel Shirley. who is an
associate OF A. Leo Stevens, and is said
u be an experienced asronaut. declares
that he is wiling 10 undertake. the ascent
of Mount Mckinley by means OF bal
loon.
The plan is 20 use two weights attached
TO the car. and alternately cast them
forward on spots carefully selected as the
balloon proceeds. AS soon as the car is
relieved of the weight Of one Of the an
chOrs thrown forward and higher on the
incline il will ascend until the upper rope
is tight when the second anchor may be
thrown forward in the same manner
Colonel Shirley announced 90 number
OF his friends at the Morris Park aviation
grounds the other day that he would un-
dertake the climb for s2e.0oo, and that. In
event of his falling 20 reach the summit
OF the mountain where Dr.. Cooks records
are alleged 10 be. he would demand no
payment. lie is at present in Pittsburg
and Is engaged In the steel business. He
has made balloon ascensions az Chicago.
Shreveport. Memphis. Nashville and sew
eral cities OF the Middle West
a. Leo Stevens has agreed 70 lend a bal
loon for the project
New-York tribune., 1909-12-05
ILLUSTRATED LECTURES.

Sicily Is the subject OF thu fourth Ieef-
ure IN the ElmendOrf course, % be present.
ed at Carnegie Hall tonight and tomorrow
afternoon. For the fifth time Mr.. Elmer
dOrr spent month IN this island oe en-
chanting beauty. where Orisntals. Greeks.
Romans. Arabs NoFnans. French and
Spaniards have conquered or been van
guished- This picture journey will afford .
glimpse OF Messina as Il was before the
great catastrophe and al Il ~ to-day. Ths
subject OF Mr.. ElmendoFf's next and last
lecture OF the course will be "Dalmatia-
r. G. Knowles viii present Living Lon
don and Rural England as the subject OF
his -travelaush" at Weber's Theatre to-
night Mr.. Knowles spent several months
IN England gathering the anecdotes and
motion pictures for this lecture. Among
the views will be Quaint Scenes OF Bird
Life The Gypsies." Ascot sunday en-
the River The Great London Horse
show" and "rhe Eueharistic Procession"
with seven cardinals. which Is unique be-
cause Il IS the first Catholic procession seen
IN the streets OF London in over three hun
dred years. "A Sunrasette Demonstration
Will show Miss ChristabeI Pansxhurst ad-
dressing the largest gathering IN the world
over half million people.