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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-12
HALF-BROTHER AND SISTER
ELOPE AND WE'D
Told They Were Cousins-True Rela-
ton Not Revealed Until After
MARRIAGE

Marriage
Dallas, Tex, Jan. 2S.-M. Z. Bur
ton and Nora Henderson were married
in Dallas on April 10, 1908. Three
months later the learned that they
were half-brother and sister. Today
at Fort Worth the young woman filed
suit for divorce in order to have the
illegal marriage annulled.
The mother of the couple was twice
married. After the death of the first
husband, named Burton. the boy, an
infant, was sent to live with his
grandmother, and never left her. By
the second marriage the girl was born
named Henderson. AS they grew uu
to young manhood and young woman
hood their relatives taught them that
they were cousins. They fell in love
elOped and were married three months
before they made the fact known
Then they were told of their true re
lationship. They ceased to live as
man and wife.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-12
POLITICS MAKES NO DIFFER
ENCE TO US

But if you are loking for the best
section in which to locate, come to
Marion county, Florida, where lands
can be bought at from $3.50 to $25
per acre, according . location and
improvements. On these lands we
raise from two to four crops per year
and hence do not have 10 consume in
winter all that we can lay up in sum-
mer.
If you are skeptical, visit the Ma
rion County Fair, December 10, Il
and IS, 1908, and see for yourself.
For further particulars address,
F. w. DITTO Real Estate Dealer,
11-2O-tfw OCala, Fla.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-12
SHALL WE HAVE NEWSPAPERS?

As between a government without
newspapers and newspapers without
a government, Thomas jefferson said
he would choose the latter.
Thomas Jefferson was supposed to
know a thing or two.
The suit against the World is 10 de-
eide whether we are to have a gov
eminent without newspapers. =
1t might not be far out of the way
to suggest in this connection that per-
hfps if the government has been IL
belled, the World is not the first nor
the greatest offender.
The press has been very considerate
in President Roosevelt's case, howev-
er.
Where he has been wrong it has
charitably regarded the end sought
and overlooked the method.
President Roosevelt, with better
grace. it would seem, might have ex-
tended the same consideration to the
World. though its allegations were
untrue, while mindful of the fact that
it was Joseph Pulitzer with his New
York World who was the first Journal
list to take the initiative in the max
ing of the American newspaper the
great agent for reform that the news
paper is today.
We should have preferred to wit
ness this reform president working
hand in hand with this great reform
publisher and his newspaper in get
ting to the bottom of a widely circu-
lated story that the government, 1ath-
er than criminally libelled, has been
uncoed.-DetrOit Tines.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-12
THE APPEARANCE OF THE OLD
CEMETERY

The city, some months ago. had a
strong and substantial fence built
bround the old cemetery, which is To-
Gated just beyond the Seaboard de-
pot. The fences have been nicely
whitewashed and two rock roadways
have been built through the grounds
of this cemetery. which is really a
beautiful place. the trees in the
grounds being particularly beautiful,
thr many cedar trees especially love
The walks are EOw kept nicely
reeded, and every lot is we'll and
carefully kept. and the many hun
.dreds Of graves. a great many of them
being nameless. have been put into
excellent shape. and viii be kept 50
il possible.
This cemetery is the resting place
for many of the prominent residents
of this city in the Olden days, and up
until the last few years it was oul
only cemetery, and we are glad indeed
TO see il being so well attended to.
The Evergreen Cemetry AssOcia
ton was organized here last year and
its members are doing their share to
wards keeping the old cemetery look
ing neat and attractive.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-12
L. D. GEIGER ARRESTED

Deputy Sheriff T. ]. James will
leave this evening for Live Oak to
bring back L. D. Geiger, who has been
arrested by the sheriff of Suwannee
county at the request of the officers
here on a charge of obtaining goods
under false pretenses. The warrant
for Geiger's arrest was sworn out bv
W w. Woodward Geiger was for
merly merchant here.-Tampa
Times.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-12

Our stock of Fall Goods here and invite the
public inspect There line this
will compare with late styles high quality and
Of could begin pnumerate in detail STOCK
would your the following partial
goods and prices-Ohers in proportion.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-12
BEHIND THE TIMES

Deserved encouragement of Ameri
can inventors. as well as the neceSsi
ties OF military preparedness. justify
a reasonable appropriation for the
continuation of airship experiments
Boston Herald.
In view Of the pre-eminence of
Americans in the aeroplane field, con-
gress recent action is doubly strange.
Not to forward the cause of aerial
navigation is TO set ourselves down as
behind the eimes.-New York Herald.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-12

Eclusive Ocala agents for Alvin Go Carts, all CO.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-12
FROM DEcKHAND TO GOVERNOR

In EveTybOdy's Magazine for Febru-
airy erere appears al article by Ralph
D. Iaine, entitled, From Deckhand
to Governor" which, in six pages.
tells of Napoleon B. Broward, former
governor of Florida, and his great eff
fort to drain the Everglades.
The editors note, preceding the ar
ticle, says: The possibilities of ad-
vancement and adventure in Ameri-
can life are exhausted Are they, Mr..
Pessimist? What would you say 10 the
career of a penniless orphan boy sue
cessively cook, sailor before the mast,
wrecker and fllibuster, who was elect
ed governor of his state and started
the biggest reclamation project in the
country? The age of romance is dead!
Is it, Mr. Pessimist? You have forgot
ten the tugboat, Three Friends, and
her daredevil performances carrying
arms to the Cuban insurgents. This
is not a defense of fillibustering, nor
an endorsement of the feasibility of
converting the Everglades into farm
ing land, but the story of a pictures
que American whose successful ad
ventures in life illustrate that Oppor-
tunity's latch still yields easily to the
strong grasp"
The article is very interesting, es-
pecially to FlOridians, who have the
pleasure of Mr. Browards acquaint-
ance and friendship. The narrative
of Mr.. Broward's life commences at
the close of the war, when he was
small boy, and ends with his retire
ment from the Office of governor of
Florida One of the closing para
graphs says: Immensely picturesque
as the career Of Napoleon Bonaparte
Broward has been, his story is chiefly
worth telling because of his rugged,
courageous devotion to duty as he
saw it, and to the days work as he
found it. Without money, without ed
ucation, he battered his way to the
top, from deckhand to governor, be-
fore he was fifty years old In the
capitol at Tallahassee he was no
more, no less, than the bronzed, reso- |
lutte ship-master, tall, bull-necked and |
brOad-shouldered, who had taken the |
Three Friends to sea as a fillibuster,
or laid her alongside a wreck on the |
Florida reef when no other vessel dar-
ed leave port.
when the interests opposing his
Everglades project were bestirring
themselves with violent activity" says
the writer, "he made a reply which
pictures more wildly than
detailed description, the character of
the man: Shall the sovereign people
Of Florida supremely surrender to a
few land, pirates and purchased news
papers and confess that they cannot
knock a hole in a wall of coral and |
let a body of water obey a natural
law and seek the level of the sea? To
answer yes to such question is to
prove ourselves unworthy of freedom,
happiness or prosperity Miami
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-12
ALLIGATOR STEAK FOR TAFT
Louisiana Saurian to be Served at a
Banquet in New Orleans

New Orleans, Jan. 2S.-Alligato1
steak will be served at the banquet to
President-elect William H. Taft here
on February Is, on his arrival from
Panama, when the governors of nine
southern states will aid in dispoGing
of this new dish.
NJ R. Trezevant. secretary of the
Progressive Union, in charge of pre-
parations for the reception ana ban
quet, said today that those who have
tasted the succulent joints of the Lou
isiana saurian can vouch for its mer.
its as a Wand of unique excellence of
flavor.
Roosevelt was served bear steak
when he visited Louisiana" said NTr
Trezevant, but Taft will find a battar
dish in the alligator"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-02-12
CONFIDENCE

There is business profession in ex1tence where
absolute confidence Of the patron pace thor
Ouglv in The merchant than in the ewery business
there many imttufons Of the genuine be had for
considerably less than the real article We haer our
that have the confidence pa,rous and
stand ready at all times make good. When i'm need
of am thing in t4e JEW ELRY line call on
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-09-28

go it one better. I'm all through with
politics until l can see some light ahead
Just now there isn't even a CLEAN for
a progressive democrat. 1t is net
surprising that men who have works ed
faithfully for the public interest
should, at times, be discouraged. But
while Mr.. Williams is waiting for the
light ahead he should continue his
good efforts to keep the blaze burn
ing on the hill top" Men like George
Fred Williams should not undertake to
estimate the results of their labors by
the political victories won. In every
age they have had the opportunity of
deriving satisfaction from the fact
that they have protected the people
from such imposition and have forced
some reforms from majority parties.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-09-28
Keep the Blaze Burning.

To-
Writing to the Boston Journal,
George Fred Williams says:
"For years we have had certain
Democrats bowling for tariff reform.
When they at last have chance. what
do we find them doing? The whole
Democratic crowd in Congress are
ready to reform everybody else, but
when their own states are reached
they jump in and take their part of
the loot. They are perfectly willing
to trim off duties which affect the
other fellow, but for themselves they'll
hold to what they have or rerLa IS
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-09-28
Surplus Crops.

The United States, like Argentina,
is largely an agricultural country, al
though upward of five million people
are employed in manufacture. 1t is
estimated that thirty million people
are employed in husbandry in the sew
eraI commonwealth, and the combin-
ed output of the farms aggregates
products valued annually at S8,00O,-
600. No other nation compares with
the United States in the volume of
agricultural production and the bound
less wealth of natural resources. The
farms not only produce vast surplus
over domestic consumption, but the
manufacturers turn out finished mer-
chandise more than ample to supply
the necessities of 9O,OOO,000 people.
The estimated production of cereals In
1909 is placed at 725.OOO.0O bushels
of wheat, 2, 945, 900, 600 bushels of corn,
997, 900, 600 bushels of oats. 3O,OOO,OOO
bushels of rye and 1872. 900, 900 bushels
of barley.
This immense quantity OF grain is
far in excess of home consumption,
says the Farmers and Drovers' Jour-
nal. In 1906 the export of cereals and
flour aggregated Sl86. 468, 90l, live
stock $40, l39, 568. The largest single
item of export of farm products in
1906 was cotton, valued at s401, 005, 921.
The export of meat products in 1906
aggregated Sl74,617,794 The total
exports for the fiscal year 1906 of ag-
ricultural products and merchandise
amounted to 81, 847. 3O7. 154, the exports
leaving balance of foreign trade in
our favor OF $500, O79.O41
While agricultural 'aborers rush to
cities to engage in manufacture and
other lines of endeavor, the conven-
fence and efficiency of modern machin-
rey and the increased use of horse
power on the farm have enabled the
husbandmen to maintain average agri-
cultural production. The excess of
agricultural crops would be burden
to farmers without foreign demand
to take the surplus. 1t is the price
paid by foreign consumers that sus-
tains domestic values of farm prod
ucts. Notwithstanding the Ameri-
can farmer pays much higher scale
of wages than his foreign competitor,
the greater fertility of American soil
and the more economical cultivation of
the land enable ii American farmer to
market his surplus crops in Europe at
a profit in competition with foreign
producers.
The American farmer is protected
by conservative tariff tax that meas
ures the difference in the cost of labor
mere and in Europe so that the domes-
tic market cannot be glutted with
cheap foreign Merchandise or agricuitu-
raj products. The condition of Ameri-
can agriculture is eminently prosper
Gus, while in England it is Frustrated
for lack of adequate protection. Mil
lions of acres of English lands are
abandoned or devoted to fancy stock
bi eeding which if cultivated by a
system of intensive farming would
produce enough to support the English
people.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-09-28
Thursday, October IA, 1909,

my herd of 100 choice Jersey milk.
cows and heifers.
125 Cows.
35 HeiferS.
This stock is of my owr raising. Cul-
ling my herd annually IS | have for
the past twenty-one years have kept
only those that were m " makers.
many giving as much as gallons per
day.
TERMS Ninety da S. negotiable
note bearing 6 per cent crest from
day of sale.
/ II I'd M. (. DWELL.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-09-28
Public Sale
OF
loo Jersey Milk Cows
and HeiferS.

| will offer for sale without reserve
at my place on Maysville turnpike one
mile from court house on
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-09-28

Jnsure with W. o. Hinton
Prompt paying non-union com.
GAMES.
The Newark journal., 1909-04-23
Words To Freeze The Soul

Your son has consumption. His case is hopeless. These appalling words were spoken to Geo. F. Blevens, a leading merchant of Springfield, N. C., by two expert doctors-one lung specialist. Then was shown the won derful power of Dr. Kings New Dis covery After three weeks use, !" writes Mr, Blevens, "he was as we'll as ever. l would not take all the money in the world for what it did for my boy. Infallible for coughs and colds, it's the safest, surest cure oi desperate lung disease on earth soc. and SE.00. J. |. Sturdivant. Guran- tee satisfaction. Trial bottle free.
The Newark journal., 1909-04-23
DEALS IN DUTCH PRODUCTS.
Store Where Only Wooden Shoes and
 Long Pipes Are Sold.

Albany, N "A man here has store which is the only one of it's kind in the country In it he sells just two things-wooden shoes and long Dutch pipes He has kept the store for years and has never enlarged his stock be- yond these two items.
 The proprietor is a Hollander him. self, as his name-Van Wart-would indicate. He imports his pipes and his wooden shoes direct from the old country.
 It must not be thought that there are enough wooden shoes worn in this country to maintain Mynheer Van Wart in affluence Most of his sales are of small shoes which can be used for ornamental purposes, or at least alleged ornamental purposes.
 He ships boxes and boxes of tiny wooden shoes to women who gid them and make them into dinner fla vors Others are made up as candy boxes. Others are filled with flowers for luncheons or dinners.
 A limited number really find their way 10 the feet of some imported cit izens who know the advantage of hay ing an inch of dry, warm wood be- tween their soles and the wet ground Wooden shoes are especially suited for gardeners. although they might be worn to advantage by anybody work ing in cold. damp or sloppy places.
 While the pipe end of the business is also largely patronized by people who are looking for odd trinkets and by collectors who want a few long clays on their pipe racks, there are a good many smokers scattered over the country who really put such pipes to the use for which they were intended.
The Newark journal., 1909-04-23

If we tsl;e up the com 1licated questions that come before us, it must be with a will and determination that means success. for, after we have talk en a stand and failed we are worse off than before we began if that failure was for lack of effort.
 s'To succeed we must take very broad view of the sul5eet. whatever it be, for other interests are necessa- rily affected by it.
 Whatever we undertake must have very careful and intelligent inyesti- gation; then after knowledge of the situation, push the matter to a success with all the cooperative force of the union.
 If we wish to build for the union it must be done on plans that are common sense. practical. safe. They may be opposed for a while. but the light will succeed"
The Newark journal., 1909-04-23
Submarines for Sponge Fishing.

Illustrations, together with a full description, are given in Parisian journal of a novel type of submarine intended for the sponge-fshing indus try on the coast of Tunis. The vessel Is built wholly of iron and is 16.4 feet in length by 5.24 feet in diameter, the general form being cylindrical, with hemispherical ends. It is intended to carry two men, and is fixed so as to enable the vessel to move along the sea bottom. An electric lamp with refectors fixed in front will serve to Illuminate the bed of the sea, and a glazed spy-hole in the bow of the yes sel enables the crew to seek out and gather the sponges
The Newark journal., 1909-04-23
Work With a Will.

A Farmers Union member in giv- ing his ideas of unionism as applied to the farmer, says:
 We want to organize till we have a large majority of the farmers of the State enrolled as members, then we will know where our forces are and who to depend upon in time of action.
 Our business department should be so complete and cooperative that We would have a channel through which every member could secure equal priv ileges and benefits. Some of the coun- ties are succeeding along this line while some are doing nothing We can so combine and cooperate as will benefit every one. That would mean brotherhood, cooperative union.
The Newark journal., 1909-04-23
FIND BONES SOUGHT 172 YEARS.
Skeletons of Indian Victims Discovered
 on Island in Canada Lake.

Winnipeg, Man.-The skeletons of Jean Baptiste de La Verandyre and Father Aulneau, a Jesuit missionary and the skulls of 19 French-Canadian voyagers, all killed by Sioux Indians in 1736. have been found.
 The discovery was made on an is land in the northwest angle of Lake of the Woods by party of priests of St Boniface college of Winnipeg, ac- companied by Judge Prudhomme. The party also found the site of Fort St. Charles, built in 1732 by the explorer, Sieur De La Verandyre.
 Jean Baptiste de La Verandyre was 20 years old at the time of the massa- ere He was the son of La Varandyre, the explorer. The memory of the vic tins has been solemnly preserved by the Roman Catholic church, and many attempts have been made to identify the scene of the massacre and recover the bones of the victims.
 St Boniface college is located on the Red river, opposite Winnipeg. John Greenleaf Whittier immortalized the place in a poem in which he referred to the bells of St. Boniface at the Holy Roman mission"
The Newark journal., 1909-04-23
STEALS TO HUNT TREASURE.
Youthful Dime Novel Reader Caught
 Before He Locates Wealth.

Philadelphia.-A prolonged literary diet of dime novels has caused all of little Bernard Katz' thoughts to be colored with pirates and buried treas ure, and it was no wonder, after a careful perusal of Captain Kidd's Re venge, or the Secret of the Buried Box" that Bernard should have de- cided to institute treasure hunt of his own.
 Young MT. Katz started an expe- dition against the pirates, and to prop erly finance such a trip he took $25 from his fathers cash box. The fa- ther discovered the loss of his money and the disappearance of his son al most simultaneously and started in search of both. Bernard was found before he could ship on a vessel bound for the Spanish main, but the money was missing and he told his parents that he had hidden it under a tree in Franklin square. The exact location of the tree he could not tell.
 Accordingly, the Katz family began excavations in the square, and for more than an hour they dug, while Bernard stood by and pointed out like ly trees to be undermined. The police were attracted by the commotion and took Bernard to the station house be- fore all the trees were removed. The roll of money was found on him and he was held in $500 bail for the juve- nile court by Magistrate German.
The Newark journal., 1909-04-23
Improved Matrimonial Conditions.

Dr. L. c. Halliburton, the noted Eng. fish statistician, was discussing in New York the statistics of marriage marriage statistics are his speciality "The last statistics" he said show us one pleasant change, one grand i'm provement. Aged men of wealth are no longer marrying beautiful, mer- cenary young women as frequently as they used. In fact these marriages are becoming in this country so rare that the newspapers don't hesitate tc comment very forcibly upon them approve of these cruel comments They keep such mockeries of mar riage down." Halliburton smiled grim. ly. Tn a little town in Herts last month" he said, "a millionaire of 7s married young and pretty milliner of 22. The local paper printed the next day this editorial paragraph on the matter: "Six months ago. when Mir Blanks venerable wife died, his children and grandchildren feared that he would go crazy over the sad bereavement Their fears have now come true"
The Newark journal., 1909-04-23
Real Estate For Sale.
Some Bargains in Desirable Farm and City Propert
 Offered by the Henderson Real Estate Co.

132. Good three room house and two lots, only two blocks from busi- ness portion of town; will be sold cheap and on easy terms.
 Il. Al acres fine cane and timber land on Black river 8 miles north of Paroquet; on river front.
 Nc. 40. Fne upland farm of 320 acres three miles north or Newark; three good houses with barns and plenty of geod water; two good family orchards; 150 acres of land in cultiva- tion, balance in timber and contains best body of white oak in this section; located convenient to school and church and on K. r. D. mail route.
 103. 120 acres fine Oil Trough bot tom land, all in timber except twenty acres which has been cut off; miles from poStotfice; miles from Newark; land lays well and when put in culti- vation will be worth $40 per acre; land adjoining grows bale of cotton ol 30 to 75 bushels corn per acre, and will also grow alfalfa; land is inside of fencing district and has good timber on it.
 125. Fine White river farm of 220 acres; l75 acres in cultivation; only 2 miles from Newark; will grow bale of cotton per acre, and is extra fine for clover and timothy.
 118. Farm of no acres fine White river land, four miles from Newark :; good four room house, barn and other outbuilding; good orchard, garden and good water; 85 acres in cultiya- tion. This is fne White river cane land, only B acres subject to overflow. A bargain.
 12O. 250 acres fine cut-over timber land in Black river bottom. Fine for stock pasturage.
 130. 82 acres creek bottom farm 1 miles from Newark; 25 acres in eulti- vation; good Broom log house; good creek bottom land and bargain at $S per acre.
 126. Good 80 acre creek bottom farm miles from Newark; 25 acres in cultivation; good log house and small barn; extra fine creek bottom land.
 102. Good upland farm of 125 acres six miles north of Newark, 75 acres in cultivation, two houses, two wells, spring and running creek on place; some good creek bottom land on this farm; located only one mile from post office and school.
 137. 160 acres cut-over timber land four miles northeast of Newark; all level bottom land, with considerable marketable oak. hickory and elm tim Der; would make good farm. Price BIO per acre.