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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24
THE FOLLY OF 8ANQUETS

When will some city have enough
Originality to banquet a public man
upon roast beef and fried potatoes,
/ followed by a rice pudding and black
coffee? These comestibles are of
course named merely as representa-
tives Of the simple life. and they
could be varied to meet individual
tastes. But the principle involved is a
hospitality TO torture a guest with
viands that revolt him, and that would
probably stretch him upon a bed of
pain if he should do more than look
at them. Why should We compel him
to resort to dUplicity in order to save
his health or his life? 1t seems to
be vulgar, stupid and rude.
These remarks are elected by the
reiterated entreaties of Mr.. Taft to
be spared the excuses of the modern
banquet He begged for moderation
when he was in the south. He asked
for the same consideration at various
points along his route, but so far as
we are aware no one took any partic-
ular notice. If Mr.. Taft were to go
into a restaurant unidentified he
would order for himself Just the same
kind Of simple meal that the rest of
US do, and he would do this because
be prefers a simple meal, and because
lit is essential to his health and happi-
no weight with the communities who
cOvet Mr.. Taft as a guest. The COM
fort and convenience of a guest, his
Expressed partialities and his express
ed antipathies seem to have no weight
whatever with them, and the result
in every case is a banquet that would
test the digestion of a boa constructor
During Mr.. Taft's tour be was prob
ably confronted with three or four
such banquets every week, and he
must either eat them or put himself
to the inconvenience of pretending to
eat them And all this in face of his
earnest request to be spared. 1t
seems a strange conception of cour-
tesy and one that most of us would be
incapable of toward the private guest
in our town homes.
What we need in these matters is
a touch of imagination and of course
to talk of imagination in the case Of
the average man is about as absurd as
to talk of a halo or angels wings. But
suppose some community had had the
good taste to offer to the president
just such a meal as he himself would
be likely to order at a restaurant, is
it not certain that Mr.. Taft would
gratefully remember that community
as long as he lived, and include it
carefully in every future itinerary as
a place where public hospitality was
in the hands of gentlemen? To COM
pei guest to eat food that is dis
tasteful to him and that he has said
is distasteful to him is about on a par
with insisting that he have a German
band in his bedroom.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24
HEMP AND BACKBONE
Judge Wall Makes Pertinent Remarks
to Jurors in Tampa

10 Jurors IN ampS
What We need in the judiciOus ad
minisration of hemp" said Judge J.
B. Wall in the midst of his address to
the grand jury yesterday on the car.
niyal Of crime which has been preva-
lent here. 1t was the opening of the
term.
4 regret" be said, that there has
been so many cases Of homicide here.
l do not know what is getting into the
people. While | was away fran here
a few days ago a man approached me
and asked me how many murders
there had been committed since l left
home. He said that he understood
that there are about six a week here.
Unless something is done TO stop it
and TO keep these impressions from
gOiEg abroad l do not know what we
are going 10 DO. What we need is the
jUdicious administration of hemp
Let the petit jurors stiffen theil
backbone. When a man deliberately
murders another they should not
bring in recommendations for mercy
to the man who ought to be hanged,
but it is no mercy to the man who is
going to be shot down from the bust
ness. Give your full investigation TO
these cases, and l hope that the petit
jurors will have beckbone enough to
do their duty. We have just as good
jurors here as any place, and l do not
want them to bring in recommends
lions as one jury did when a man de-
liberately murdered a man after de-
hberately planning the act-Tampa
Tribune
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24
A coLoRED TOWN
Novel Plan Proposed by Some Leading
CoIored Men

Some leading colored men of Jack
sonville, headed by R. R. Robinson,
president Of the Woodman Banking
Company of this city, have decided to
locate and build a colored town in
Florida, to be managed and controlled
by colored men exclusively, from the
mayor down to the recorder, depot
agent, tegleraph agent, etc All are
TO be colOred. The railroad company
that will locate this enterprise upon
its lines will undoubtedly reap a har-
vest from the summer excursions
alone. 1t is proposed by the colored
people to purchase a large tract Of
land suitable for farming, truck grow
| ing and the like, centrally located on
some good road, where there is al
ready a station located dividing a
lpaTt into residence and building lots
and selling them to the people Of their
own race and dividing the larger
tracts into five-acre lots and letting
each settler have a farm for growing
vegetables on a large scale for their
own consumption and for the market
! generally.
They expect TO establish factories,
stores. a bank, hotel, bathing accom-
! modatiors, etc. They hope to bond
the project for a sufficient sum of
money with which to improve the en-
terprise There seems to be a grow
ling sentiment among certain men Of
the cOlored race that it is time for
them TO show TO the public what they
can do in the colonization line, as well
as being where they can govern them
selves.-Jacksonville Metropolis.
Robinson is an Ocala negro. He
made his start in the phosphate days
when he sold a piece of land to ad-
vantage. He saved what be made,
invested il to advantage and has pros
pered ever since.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24

The Pensacola Journals Christmas
number was a beauty. 1t contained
forty-eight pages of splendid matter
1t was one Of the finest Christmas
editions that we have yet seen, and
its editor and his assistants deserve
a great deal of praise for the energy
htey displayed in getting up the mann.
moth edition.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24

Notice b. hereby rfrn taaI 90
dersiEued commission. lllFI
% virtue of certain trrrrs rsaatl
December is Isug. .H fns .rraN 80
'of Marion county FiurIHa. ri
tain cause wherein n MI AnHi
complainant and "a W lfa
others, defendants. uiU un
Monday. the ~ Day 81 Fsefss'f'
tgfo
In front OF thc court Hnua4 aatl
the city of Ocah ufhin 30
hours OF sale. arl fo fhe aIair
der for cash the foliuaina aa-e
Wit. East hair 90 nurtheast -
less 4 acres in soufhraaf cefaei. -
southwest quarter of uoIiheaai
ter % section O. township 20
range -. east. and lois 49,
block e. lOts 3 and uf BIOS -
/, and Z % hlock q an els -
lots I and 3 90 bluCE q Ailfea =
ton % Ocaia
q "a DITTO
". a. IEFFokis
G. A. ANDERSON
i22a commiasleaelt
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24
Or. Cook Repudiated at copsahsgen

DR.. Cook Regulated at Copenhagen
The Associated Press is informed
by high authority that the committee
of the University of Copenhag~n n, in
the preliminary examination of the
records, failed to discover any proof
that DR.. Frederick A. Cook reached
the north pole.
However, the committee has not
yet finished examining DR.. Cooks rec
ords. but his claims of having discov-
cred the pole seem to be on the wane.
1t is said by his friends that DR. Cook
will make no appeal if the UniveI sity
Of Copenhagen goes back on him.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24
Step in the Rioht Direction

The county commissioners at their
last meeting decided to withdraw the
call asking for bids for the hire Of the
county convicts. Instead of leasing
them out as proposed the convicts
will be retained by the county and
continued on the public roads.-Day.
tona News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24
Why He Worried

She-Why do you look so worried?
You need not doubt me. My love is
as strong as a rock.
He-Yes, but how about this chair?
Pages Folles.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24
CHRISTMAS MONEY

The resources of the banks of the
United States are today $4,000, 0OO,-
.00O.-Bank Report.
Twenty-one billions. Great Scott!
What a lot
OF money we fortunate Yankees
Have got,
We're all Rockefellers and Morgans,
it seems;
Richer than ever we've dreamed in
our dreams.
Twenty-one billions! Let's roll it
around
Our tongues, as we gloat on the ele-
CANT sound
Twenty-one billions! o gee,
Why, we
Have money to burn, it is easy
To see
Money to feed to the filly-loo birds
Money too much to express in mere
words.
Twenty-one billions! The sweet
phrase We turn,
Money to scatter, to squander, to
burn.
Twenty-one billionsl Wow, wowl
But how
Can each get his share of the Doodle
Right now?
For if twas divided, tbs easy to see
Two hundred and forty each portion
would be-
Twenty-one billionsl o, jubiIant
sound!
But what is the use if it's not passed
around?
Paul West in the New York Wor. dl
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24
News Of Calvert Smith

In this weeks copy Of Life appea-.
a clever and most amusing series n,
group pictures in which the veil
known authors and artists whose com.
trloutions make this sparkling weekly
the most successful publication Of a..
Kind in the country. are shown An
some Characterization suggestive O,
their special line of work.
The interest to Jacksonville neo,,.
In the pictures lies in the fact tn,
IN one OF them appears Calvert Smith
VINO was until recently a cartoonis, In
thds city. and who numbers mapv =,
the Jacksonville people among his
friends.
A Few weeks ago Mr.. Smith wen,
70 New York City. where he has "a
Ken a studio. and where he viii -.
lis. ~
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24

The japanese colony near Eau Gal
lie is raising fine egg plants, peppers,
tomatoes, cucumbers, turnips, radish-
es, etc, and the members are all well
pleased with prices received for their
shipments so far. This colony, which
was established last July, owns about
$500 acres Of land, and will engage
extensively in trucking.
Says the Washington Herald: The
Hon. William Charles Adamson Of
Georgia says that no man who dimes
habitually on "cornbread, pot Ticker
and greens" need fear the pestiferous
hookworm. There seems to be a limit
to the hookworm's courage after all.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-12-24
HAIR Woak

All kinds OF hair work done. S.t,s.
faction guaranteed. Harriet If,ii a.
North Magnolia St, Ocala i0.9s5tw
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23
bALL|NGER
BEGINS TOUR
LOOKING AFTER REclAMA-
TON oJECTS-SHAkE UP
IN INDIAN AGENCIES is AN
TiClPATEO.
(To Be Continued.)

PORTLAND, July 23.-Secretary
of the Interior Ballinger is today
touring Oregon to make general
Inspection of government reclama-
ton projects throughout the state.
The trip bears the utmost signifi-
canoe to the people of Oregon. as
It will result. according to Balm
ger, in determining the govern
ment's attitude toward reclamation
in deciding what projects are to be
pushed to speedy completion and
in naming places where the largest
apportionment of irrigation funds
are to be made.
/. Settlement of troubles long eX-
listing between the Indians and
their superintendent is assured,
and a rigid investigation of the
conditions on the reservations is
one of the secretary's special du-
ties during the trip. Numerous In
dian agents may be summarily dis
charged as a result by Ballinger, it
Is intimated.
Approximately 100000 con-
stitute the appropriations made for
1910. Over $4,000 employees are do
ing the work Fifty-five million has
been already spent by the govern
ment for irrigation.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23
SISTER CALLS; HAZEL
IS MADE HAPPY

After several hours of anxious
waiting about the police headquar-
tiers, Hazel Holland, aged 10 years,
was found by her little sister, Mil
dred Holland. age IL. Hazel came
all the way from Ontario Canada,
alone and when she got to Spokane
found that her mother had moved
from their home in which they
. lived when she went away. No one
seemed to know where to find
, them and she remained all night
and the greater part of yesterday
at the police station
Her mother had gone to Occur
dAlene, not expecting her to ar
rive till last night. The meeting
between the two little sisters was
touching. They wept and laughed
alternatively in each others en-
brace.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23
DELAYED in Transmission

LARAMIE, Wyo., Dec. 2-Passen-
gers on train bound for their win
ter vacations on the Pacific coast
pulled into Laramie today after be-
ing snowbound for a week in the
Rockies near here. AS the train
was going slowly it ran into a large
bank of snow and ice that had slid
down the side of mountain. The
ice was packed so hard and piled so
high that the train crew was UNI
able to chop way through it with
their axes for a week.
The conductor and brakeman
trudged through the icy drifts three
miles to the nearest town after pro-
visions, and the whole party lived
well at the expense of the railroad.
While the cars were kept warm
by steam from the locomotive, the
air outside was bitter cold. The
air was filled with flying drifts of
snow and the slope was as clear as
crystal with heavy banks of ice
that had been frozen after rains.
Everybody had a fine time, they
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23
NO PINK TEAS
FOR WR|GHTS

Special Corrsspondence to The Press
WASHINGTON. July 23.-If
some neurotic young lady should
attempt OF Hobsonize Orville or
Wilbur Wright, the shock would
probably kill him on the spot. The
Dayton boys don't like to be fused
over; they are the worst bored in
dividuals in the world when the
German ambassador or Secretary
of the Navy Meyer or Mrs. Nicho-
las Longworth or some other high
light of society tells them what
wonderful men they are.
A few days ago Mrs. Longworth,
with Secretary Meyer, wandered
over to where the aeroplane stood
on the monOrail awaiting flight.
She talked with Orville a few mo-
ments, and then Joe Letter of Chi
cago came out, joined the group,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23

and, in passing, turned to Mrs.
Longworth and Secretary Meyer
just moment to exchange q few
words of greeting. Orville saw his
opportunity, edged away few
feet, and, when the three turned
around again to talk with him, he
was seated on the monorail with
Lieutenant FOulois, Is feet away.
No pink teas or lawn fetes for
the Wrights.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23
TWO OLD MAIDS
DIE SAME DEATH

EAST LIVERPOOL, O., w. %.
Miss Jennie Wilson, maiden
woman of SO years, drowned her
self here in less than two feet of
water, exactly as her neighbor,
Miss Sarah Hepburn, age 60, did
nine days ago.
Both women often said they
were sorry because they had no
husband nor children.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23
MONEY IN sPUDs.

Raising spuds is not such bad
bbusiness. Over at Spokane Bridge
G. E. Browne raised % acres of
early potatoes. He sold them for
better than $50 per acre. II the
late market holds as well, he will
be pretty well fixed this year, as
he has so acres more.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23

park and they then and there de-
cided that they would not only lift
out the first shovelful of dirt for
the excavation but would dig up
about 10 feet of it if their muscle
proves as strong as their intentions.
The new church planned will cost
$4,000. 1t will replace the present
building on jefferson street.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23
WOMEN WILL HELP DIG
THE BASEMENT

Anyone needing pointers on how
to make the dirt fly can get them
September 3 at the new st. Paul's
M. E. church site, Augusta and
Monroe. The ladies of the church
had a picnic yesterday at Liberty
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23

Mann on charge of obtaining
money inde- false pretenses. He IL
alleged to haye secured three valu-
able watches from Girson on the
check and the paper was after
wards returned to the pawnbroker.
dishonoed.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23
81 TELL YOU, BILL,

these people are really selling
pianos for less than they cost
them" That is what fellow said
to his friend when he met him on
the corner today. And it is so.
Spokane Piano House, across from
Review building. Quits Saturday
night at 10 o'clock. **+
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23
CHECK WORKER HELD

J. M. Glover. alleged to have
passed a worthless check on d.
Girson, q pawnbroker at All Main
avenue, was bound over to the SUI
perior court yesterday by Judge
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23

"How's collection at your church,
Brudder Shinn?"
We'll, we amt nebber had to
stop in de middle OBJ collection
to go an empty de box
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23
SPECIAL

DR.. Graves Tooth Pow
der, regular price %; SAM
tary Tooth Brush, regular
price 25c-the two for 25c,
the price of one.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-07-23

said, though they were leaving the
unpleasant cold weather for the
cheering hot climate of California
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-21
TWENTY HURT IN WRECK;
COACHES ROLL DOWN HILL

CHICAGO. Dec. 1S.-More than % per-
sons were injured. but none was killed,
when the Oriental Limited, on the Chi
esgo' Burlington and Quincy railroad
was wrecked by a snake rail near
Western Springs, ILL.,, at 4:S0 a m. to-
day.
1t is supposed that a rail. split by the
intense cold, threw the heavy limited off
the track and part Of 1t plunged down
an embankment about Is feet high. All
the cars were overturned and it is con-
sidered miraculous that none was killed
the train was going at a rate of more
than so miles an hour when. the crash
came.
The whole train leaped the track and
ploughed madly along the ties for more
than 100 yards Most of those injured
were riding in the seepers. The injured
were speedily brought to this city by
relief train.
Most of those injured were from points
in the northwest
The train was oue here at p. m. last
night.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-21
QUERIES ANSWERED

CURING SORE LEGS IN MULES.
1. ]. s.. Pavo. Ca, writes: have a
fine young Jack which has sore legs.
They seem to itch him. I would like to
have a remedy for the trouble.
You should first wash the sores very
carefully with creolin, one part to 100
parts of water. If the solution is warm
during the process of bathing so much
the better. The first thing is to remove
all foreign bodies or material from the
sores and then keep them clean. After
bathing thoroughly with the creolin So
luton. use the following lotion three
times daily: Six drains of zinc sulphate,
one ounce of lead acetate and one pint
of water. This solution should be well
shaken before using. The sores may be
due to bad blood. We would suggest
that you give salts in four-ounce doses
once daily for several days. Then mix
together four ounces of nitrate of pot
ash, four ounces of common salt and two
ounces Of sulphur and give a heaping
teaspoonful in the food twice daily.
INDIGESTION AND ITS TREATMENT:
NJ. F. g., HARRISON, Ca. writes: I
have just bought a mule which is 5 years
old. He looks like he had been I'm rough
hands and half fed. There is a continual
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-21
CREEL TALKS OF ZELAYA
AND MEXICO'S POSITION

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1S.-Mexico's pol
icy of peace and her harmonious rela-
tons with the United States concerning
the Nicaraguan and all other interna-
tional subjects was the subject today of
statement by Enrique Creel, confiden-
tial agent of the Mexican government.
Mr.. Creel made the following statement
to the Associated Press:
Mexico has no intention of having war
with Guatemala or with any other coun-
try. Our policy is one OF peace and our
relations with every country are most
cordial, harmonious and agreeable
Mexico has not made any representa-
tons to the state department to uphold
the Zelaya administration. Not a word
has been said to me by the state depart
ment concerning the life of General Ze-
laya or a safe conduct of him out of Mic
araCua.
so far there has been expression by
the state department of differences OF
opinion from the Mexican views
THE relations OF Mexico and the INIT
ed States have never been at a higher
cordial standard, and this issue of Mica
ragua is too small an affair to change
either the policy or the feelings of the
governments and the people of the two
great republics
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-21
LEGISLATURE OF "a
TO RECONVENE SOON

Georgia's legislators of Is years ago,
the surviving members of the state legis-
lature of 1SS4-5, will reconvene in extra
ordinary session next Wednesday, De-
cember o. taking possession of the state
house and both halls of the general as
sembly at 10 o'clock in the morning for
a business session, and ajourning We'd
nesday night after a reunion banquet.
There will be many-probably a majority
who will not answer here" when the
clerk calls their names on the roll.
= A program for the days meeting and
banquet was tentatively outlined FRI
day at a meeting in the Office Of Judge
Richard B. Russell, of the court of ap-
legislature. Col. John w. Lindsey, PEN
sion commissioner of Georgia. and an
other member of the former body, is per-
fecting the programs details, which viii
be approved at a later meeting.
Though there has been no call of the
governor to summon them to session
again upon the affairs of state, the Geor-
gia legislators of quarter of a century
ago will meet with plenty of matters to
occupy their time for a day. Full and
free discussion under the rules of the
house will probably be allowed in both
branches at the morning session, and at
the reunion banquet there will be several
arranged speeches \-
Many Of the members of that legisla-
ture are still prominent in official life
of the state. Some of them hold high
position of Georgia's gift. All of them
hold places in the chieftains' councils
of their respective communities.
Governor Mcdaniel will return to the
capitol for the session, and will probably
have "a communication in writing, to
submit. Governor Northen. a member
of the S4-5 legislature. will be in his
seat. Henry H. Cabaniss, the assistant
secretary of the senate, will call that
body to order. and Mark Hardin, one
time clerk of the house, will convene the
minor branch of the session w. A.
Little, now of Columbus, was speaker Of
the 'S-5 house, and Lucius Lamar, now
dead, speaker pro tenn. Dr. II. H. CharI-
ton, of Athens, was president of the SEN
ate, and John Davidson, of Augusta, was
president pro tenn.
Interest is felt in the approaching re-
union by members of the old organization
all over the state, and it is very probable
that almost the whole roster of survivors
will answer to the roll.