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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15
MR.. REESE ON THE EVEAeLA0Es


Mr.. J. H. Reese, one of the editorial
writer's on the Miami Metropolis. con-
tributes more than a page article TO
the Manufacturers Record of Balti-
more, under date of October eth. on
the reclamation of the Everglades. Mr..
Reese tells of the cost and the pro-
gress of the work. The number OF the
dredges is to be increased. and the
work is moving steadily forward
without any cost to the state. owing
to the very excellent arrangements
made with those who have purchased
large tracts of lands in the section 70
be drained, who are taking their
chances on the success of the scheme.
The lands are being sold very rapid
ly, mostly to buyers from the north
west, and they have had their agents
on the spot to examine the lands and
inspect the drainage operations.
Mr.. Reese estimates that within the
next five years there will not be less
than one hundred thousand people
added to the population of that sec
ton and perhaps the number may
reach two hundred and fifty thousand.
Within that period he estimates that
Miami will have a population OF So
coo.
Besides the growing of all sorts OF
seml-tropical and tropical fruits and
flowers. Mr.. Reese thinks that the
greatest good to the whole country
will be in the production of the sugar
supply.
Under this head Mr.. Reese SAYS.
There are 100000 acres Of land
lree OF trees and shrubs, with a GOV.
erlng or grass only, which can be-
burned OH, costing nothing 10 clear
II and make it ready for cultivation
Inc muck depth varies from two faaf
at the rim to twenty feet i'm the mid.
dle' A small portion of this area
When reclaimed by Hamilton Disston
twenty years ago, produced 81 ions
vi cane TO the acre. yielding - GOO
pounds. If even 500 600 acres az
nose soils were planted i'm cane the
!Ieid would be more than 400 0Oo
s sons oI sugar that We now imDort
aIom abroad. Capitalists who have
dr,ipIe means TO finance the sugar in
, a,iy IN TINS country are now consid-
Sn,ns tnese facts, and it would be no
sul PRISE 10 those interested to see the
gu "a; supply for this country produc-
E r. II me course of a few years IN the
1851 lades OF Florida, which has been
loSG Ior many years as a worth
ton" IeclaLha-
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15
Mr.. CLAUDE pENeLE IN ocALA

Mr.. Claude L'Engle, who announced
his candidacy for the United States
senate some months ago, and who has
visited many sections of the state liz
advocacy of his election, was in Ocala
Thursday. He is not at all discourag-
ed, and will keep on the firing line
until the primaries are held and the
votes are counted.
His declaration of principles and
definition of democracy would take up
more than a whole side of the Ocala
Banner. He is making a house-to-
house canvass and is distributing his
literature in a very thorough and sys-
tematic manner, and he is determined
that it shall be placed in the hands of
every voter.
He says that his platform is all
right, because he is the author of it.
Summed up briefly, Mr. L'Engle
stands for:
The Peoples Right to Rule.
The Peoples Ability to Rule.
The Peoples Determination TO Rule. |
Mr.. L'Engle is a very caustic and
brilliant writer and if he should be
elected to the senate he would occupy /
4 place not unlike the late John ]. In
gals, TO whom he bears very strong
in his incisive writings
and in his personality.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15
THOSE GOOD OLD TINES BE-
FORE THE WAR;"

We hear a great deal about those
good old times before the war;" Let's
see about it. We have a copy OF the
Edgefield Is. c. Advertiser before
us which was printed in 1S51-ten
years before the civil war. In exam
lining it's pages we find that cotton
was selling for less than six cents
per pound, and the cotton seed was
allowed to go to waste. The farmers
are now getting more for their seed
than they were then getting for their
entire output. So how about those
good old times?" There was no truck
farming in this section at least IN
those times. Even oranges were not
grown for profit. People did not grow
rich on a single crop of cabbage or
cantaloupes. And see the luxurles
that we enjoy now that we did not
enjoy then. We had no water works
in any city in Florida in those days.
and only in a few cities in the south.
Who would now do without the lux
ury of his morning bath?. We had no
electric light plants nor telephone ser
vice, and the telegraph had not then
made it's way into the smaller towns
of the country. We did not enjoy the
luxury of artificial ice, and the phono-
graph and moving pictures were I'M
heard of, and the idea of moving along
over country roads at rate of thirty
miles an hour in hOrseless carriages
would have been regarded as the
of a dream. And we
are just in the infancy of the age OF
luxury. Distance will in time be so
completely annihilated that we shall
have the products of every cline de-
livered every day at our very doors
plucked fresh from the vines. We
shall utilize the suns rays for heat,
and transform the north pole into a
great refrigerating tube for the cool
ing of the temperature of whole
hemisphere Paved streets will ram
ify all sections, however remote, and
the automobile will become a greater
luxury than the golden chariots of
the Pharaohs. Then we shall have
wings and shall be seen skimming |
along through the air like a flock of
birds. This earth of ours will far
the stars in their glory. That, !
1t least, is our prediction. i
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15
IonN SHOWN AND SOCIALISM

Tom watson is disguised that
southern socialists should join in the
movement to Defy John Brown, place
him In the same category with Abra-
ham Lincoln and on far higher niche
than Washington, Jefferson and Lee.
Mr.. Watson says that John Brown
is one of the patron saints OF social
ism and he is not at all mealy-mouth-
Cd in the discussion of John Browns
biography.
Mr. Watson says that John Brown
was both bloody-minded and bloody
handed. That he robbed stores and
stole horses in Kansas. That he raid
ed the plantation of a peaceable old
Missouri farmer, murdered him In
cold blood, and then stripped the
nlantation of its mules, oxen and port
able property of every description.
That he tore husband from the bed
side of a sick wife and hacked him TO
death with a two-edged cleaver In her
very hearing. That his first victim at
Harper's Ferry was negro, whom
he slew as mercilessly as he had
butchered the peaceable and unofend-
ing Doyle and his two boys in Kan
sas.
Southern men. says Mr.. Watson.
are rushing into this European mess
called socialism, blindly following the
blind zeaIots who worship the mem
DRY of this raving monimaniac and
monster.
Mr.. Watson then quotes an extract
from one of the speeches Of ex-Presi-
dent Johnson while he was a member
of the United States senate from Ten
nessee. The following is the quota
ton:
innocent, unoffending men were Ia
ken out of their cabins, and in the
hour, and in the forest and
on the roadside fell victims TO the In
Suitable thirst of John Brown for
blood. Then it was that hell entered
into his heart-not the iron into his
SOul- linen II WdS lHdI HC ShA uhh
from the dimensions of a human be-
ing into those of a reptile. Then Il
was, if not before, that he changed
his character to a demon, who had
los tall the virtues Of man."
Because of the fact that the north
ern historians and the newspapers
have had the ear of the public so long
there are yet many people who still
believe that John Brown was a good.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15
WE ALL DO 1T

Some years ego in the progress of
an editorial we got somewhat mixed
in our historical data.
The types made US say Rockwell
Hoar instead of George Frisbie Hoar,
the then well known senator from
Massachusetts. Why we should have
made such a "slippance" we never
could understand, for next to our own
senators the name of George Frisbie
Hoar was the most familiar to u.s.
But, worse and worse, because the
brilliant George McDufie was born in
Georgia, We had him credited as a
senator from that state, and by reason
of making these blunders we were Sc
verely brought to task by a brilliant
member of the United States from
this state.
Historian Tom Watson calls atten-
ton to the fact that in his editorial
of September 10, in the New York
American John Temple Graves makes
the following startling statement:
There is nothing more vital than
investigation"
Then Mr.. Watson goes on to say:
After having paused to subject this
announcement to the mental process
of benevolent assimilation, We contin-
ne to read ]. T. G's. editorial. The
next line thereof is:
John c. Calhoun of South Carolina
once declared that eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty
Dear and familiar sentence! How
it reminds one of the Friday afternoon
at the old school house, when the girls
had swept the yard with brush-brooms
and the bOooE had been put in the
desk, and we were all primly seated
on the pine-plank benches, and little
Julius Caesar Smith came forward,
at the teachers word, TO commence
the regular Friday evening declama-
ton. Ducking his head, and perhaps
at his top-knot, the tiny chap
would elevate his voice to the stilted
sing-song, usual in such cases, and
begin
"They tell US, sir, that we are
weak" winding up with the glorious
climax, "GiVe me liberty. or give me
DEATH"
1t was Patrick Henry who said,
Eternal vigilance is the price of lib
erty, though not in that particular
speech. John c. Calhoun belonged to
a much later era, as Brother Graves
well knows. All of us make these lit
tie slips of memory. One day at an
spelling-bee, in which
was fool enough to take part, the
word "victuals" was suddenly shot at
me, and | brought down the house by
spelling it 'vittles." Have had an ut
ter loathpg for spelling-bees ever
since
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15
THE POOR BOYS CHANCES

The opportunities for the son of
poor parents to make a success in
life seem, in retrospect, to have been
exceedingly more numerous a gener-
alton ago than they are today. To
have been born in a log cabin and to
have been a pupil in a Little Red
School House, were actual advantages
once to the candidate for political pre-
ferment. A boy from the country
gained employment where the city
youngster was refused But though
there is a smaller tendency among
self-made men to boast of their vic
tories than there used to- be-, the
numbers of those living who have
climbed to SUBMITS from the lower
most levels are still sufficient to prove
an inspiration to every poor and am
bilious boy
A writer in the Juvenile Court Rec
ord tells of a list he has made of
1000 successful men in America. They
aAC uOl ,DuI luOSG
who have given us new conceptions
of steam, electricity. construction
work. education and art" The orr
gins of these men were:
Three hundred started as farmers
sons.
Two hundred started as messenger
boys.
Two hundred were newsboys.
One hundred were printers appren-
tees.
One hundred were apprenticed in
manufactures.
Fifty began at the bottom of rail-
way work.
Fifty-only ffty-had wealthy pa
rents to give them a start.
Opportunity, in the first phrase of |
Senator John J. ingalls,, knocking /
once at every mans door,
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15
WHAT EDITOR zIM SAYS GOES

Editor Zim Of the ST Augustine Me-
teor resents the statement that he has
made a deal with anyone in his race
for congress against Frank Clark.
and we believe what Editor Zim saws.
We have confidence enough in his
statements to take his word without
going any further for proof. Editor
Zim has always been true to the peo-
pie, and has never hesitated to take
them into his Observation-Disclosures
Record.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

49,. NJ a. Mote OF Leesburg and
- aiafes thas- while on a recrea-
a. 49, IN TIE Tar north recently, he
- 3 uhale 90 the mammoth species
~. aas one thousand and eighty feet
- Thafs q whaling big story, but,
- ar vel acquainted with Mr..
- ~ believe anything he says.
o. runla Gorda fsh do not grow
- - arEe. bar they can beat Mr..
- uhale IN high vsulting.-Pun-
!. Inf1a Herald
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

We are not naming candidates. II
is too early yet. Our space as a
weekly paper is needed for news shat
our readers want. Without expecting
discussion with some daily broth
er with plenty of space and time to
waste, we venture a word abour BRO.
Zim. If he breaks into congress wirh
Frank Clark's political scalp dangling
IN his belt, his victory will be even
more remarkable than that of n p
Broward, when he retired Bob Davis
TO private life. The election of Editor
Tim to congress would show chat
poor man could go to Washington
And his stay there would demonstrate
that he could still remain poor and
honest. No man has a cleaner record
for honesty in Office than Senator
Tim. No matter how you MAJ differ
with the gentleman from St. Johns i,
no man living would ever charge him
with being a CRATER. He aIwavs
votes right-as he sees it.-Arcsdia
News
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

After twenty-five years service in
the newspaper vineyard of Kew West
Mr.. Walter w. Thompson retires from
the editorial control of the Key West
Citizen. He is succeeded by Mr.
Marcy Darnall. Newspaper proper-
ties in Key West promise soon to be
very valuable, as it is destined to he
come a great city.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

EIrhfy ave old pioneers and settlers
M - pincIlas peninsula held a hap
81 rafhrrinE ~ SL Petersburg recent
n ~ nhich q good dinner and many
4nlIrs 81 the early days OF that sec
~ urrs cnloyed
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

IIaInIs assessed valuations agggre-
- 3 totai ct siSS7s.7sS. according
- - rupors Of the assessor. This
- sisii M state and county com
- retenue of s4tS675.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

- destroyed the CID home Of Mr.
AZ N1uanda. near sawdust, in Gads-
- oannlY. a. vel a. a new one just
1880 The cause OF the blaze is
I.6nouaL
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

- retircment Of Mr.. Lamar and
~ n1ard from the arena Of politics
- 30 meet With cheerful acquies-
- ~ the state press.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

- b reEHrded as the most an
- cuin in she world is one that
~ aIsroscrcd a few years ago by a
- archaeologisi during his ex-
NaIIuns In North syria. Il is a
49, ~ pufc silver. bearing a perfect
|Mnnlan Inscription Of Panummu
~ leruh King OF SchamOl. who
- 49, years before Christ.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

NncausF h. couldn't issue the Ii
- io himself. County Judge Gard
~ n Ramsey of fernando took his
&INaprrlise bride. Miss Annie McIn-
80 of nrooksxille. 60 Tampa, and
- = license there The marriage
49, performed IN Tampa. Judge
49, b the oldest practitioner at
~ nrookErille bar.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

~ elmms. q negro. waylaid and
IaE1ra NJ q Reed. ne foreman of
~ Folhle PhuET-lsfe Company s
- ri Muihcrry. While h was on
~. uay home.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

AL 80 SAINT 20 become a special
- under the census bureau. you
- 49, a stest- examination.
49, can b. done en- this state No
IInIsf ard. at any of the following
- Gainesville. Jacksonville.
~ we.f. Miami Pensacola. Tampa
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

y pays 90 discover the north pole,
49, you discover e or not. For
- haurs salk In 81. Louis DIR. Cook
~ b o. t,olooo.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

The Manatee section will produce
over five hundred carloads of celery
this season, according to the Manatee
Record.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

Seventeen hundred Cuban cigar
makers have moved from the island
to Tampa during the past three
says the Tribune.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

Alaenua growers have gathered
nearly all of their cotton. and are nov
turning the fields into pastures for
the fall months.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

Narnauia will soon spend $4,000,
||NNTed on q recent bond issue. on
80 inaprgVement and other public
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

AE9roea are becoming more and
- lmliative-they are beginning to
- 80 another the same as white
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

10 eouthern Railway is laying a
II4E1l track from Chattanooga to
E.Iaaah
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

Tha pr white corn crop is the
49, IN years. The cane crop is
.Ia1nally good.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

Hiarni claims. with justihable pride,
~ Gneut theater in the state. bar
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

- 80 ent ny naE. and how Il flies
N0IMTt
= - .na and my land and half the
WnIi1 away.
- - ant blood red its stripes for
eENT Hloam.
- unIla and soul white, the rood
fNrnlnfhorf dream:
- 49, and true blue. with stars that
HI0am arIFht:
- $500 guloon of the day, a shell
~ hrough tie night
80 naH ana my fag, and oh. how
Murh a holds
- $50 and my land secure within
- folds.
- neart and my heart beat quicker
a. ne slnht:
||N-MnMa1 nnd wind-tossed. the red
nnl blue and white:
- 60 ne. ne great nag. the Gag ror
~ and y0u;
$3.50 an else beside. the red and
unIta and blue.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

Inmpa shlpped out s.IsI.s feet of
- during the month Of Septem-
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

Fuinam county Is advertising its
80 lnrm for sale.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

rRiDAS. ocrosER IS. 1909
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

FRANK HARRIS. Editor
- ~ Lsassneood. Business Manager
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-10-15

Now. what we want to do is to have
the 12-fOOt canal going around the
state of Florida from Boston TO
Brownsville, and a ship canal through
this section of the state. utilizing the
waters of the ST. Johns. Oklawaha
and Withlacoochee rivers and Silver
and Blue Springs.
A great many articles have been
written on this subject by very emf
nent men and the scheme is said to
be not at all chimerical. but perfect
" feasible one.
A ship canal across the state would
The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-27
TARIFF PERFORMERS ARGUE.
Say Their Policy Will Do Away With
 unemployment.

London, Nov 27.-The question whether unemployment exists in New York Is the latest matter to occupy rival London newspapers ill their dis cussion in connection with the bud get. One free trade organ quotes a writer to the effect that at the pres ent moment there are 200.O00 unem- ployed in that city. A tariff reform paper, however in denying this con ss4tlon. printed statement from Pat rick r. Mcuowai president of the board of aldermen of New York, that said;
 Practically speaking. there is no unemployment al present time in New York.
 The tatiif refoimers here contend that the adoption of their policy will serve 10 dispel the unemployment sit lsation here,
The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-27
THREE FAvoRITEs WIN.
Slow Card at Second Days Meet at
 Tampa.

Tampa, Fla, Nov 26-Three favor ites and one heavily played second choice won today. The disappoint- ment of the day was in the second race when Maximum, favored in tne betting and heavily played, was left at the post. The card was not an es. pecially attractive one, the fields ue. ing small.
 First Race-Five furIongs; Eva | Tanguay won; Flashing. second; Ln- spection. third. Time, 1:04 215. Second Race-Sellng, six furlongs; Bertha E., won; Anna Smith, second {; Belarius, third Time, 1:20. Third Race-Five furlongs, selling; Escutcheon won; Serenade, second; Julietta M., third. Time, 1:04 3-5.
 Fourth Race-lFive furlongs; La Sale won; Uncle Jim, second; Belle of the Ball. third. Time, 1:e5 1-5. Fifth Race-Mile, selling: Hans won; Osorine, second; Occidental, third. Time, 1:4S.
 Sixth Race-One and sixteenth miles; Grenade won; Dredger, sec ond; Oronooka, third. Time, 1:56
The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-27
LITTLE CASE
 GOES TO JURY DAMAGING TESTIMONY IS HEARD IN THE LAST OF THE
 CASE.
Bullets Found in the Bodies of the Slain were the Same Size as
 His Revolver.

Tazewell, Va, Nov. 26.-Eyidence of the most sensational and damaging character was introduced today at Grundy in the trial of Howard Little for the murder of Mrs. Betty Justis, her sonin-law, George Meadows; his wife their three children. The case was given to the jury tonight.
 Mary Lee, who made her home in the family of Little, stated that on the night of the murder Little was absent all night, About 6 o'clock in the morning she arose and found Lit tie asleep. His coat was hanging near him wet, as if 1t had been wash ed. A lantern, not his own, was ona table near it. Little took the lantern out after breakfast and began to file on It. and would not tell her why he did SO
 She said he came into the room two hours after breakfast and called for bandages to tie up his leg. stating that he had cut it while cutting brush that morning, but she declared the wound was dry.
 Little appeared very restless after this. He hid the lantern between two logs. She said Little had .32 caliber revolver the morning after the mnr- der.
 A score or more of witnesses testi- fled that the lantern was In the pos session of George Meadows shortly before the murder. The lantern which Little had hid was introduced and proved to be the one which Meadows had
 A physician, who removed the bullet from the body of George Meadows, testified that the bullets taken from the revolver of Little and the bullets taken from the body of Meadows are of the same weight and make.
 One of the witnesses testified that Little had sent word to him wife not to testify against him. that if she did again she would give everything away and get him into trouble"
The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-27
RuRLEIeH QUIT.
Led Most of Course and Gave Place
 to Grace ..

Oakland Cal. Nov 26.-Fine weath- CT brought out good crowd at Elm. eryville today. Track heavy, but was drying out rapidly Favorites ana well played horses were successful.
 Burleigh, the odds-on choice in the second race, quit after leading most of the way, Grace D. winning from Inclement
 Binocular was regarded as good thing in the third, but the well sup. ported Balconiai beat him easily.
 First Race-Five furlongs, selling; Belle Kinney won; Thistle Belle, sec. ond velma C., third. Time, 1:O2 25,
 seconu Race-six furlongs. selling; Grace D. won; Indictment, second. Bil. ly Myer, third. Time, 1:16 2-5.
 Third Race--Five and a half fur. longs, selling; Balconia won; Binocu lar second; Goodship, third. Time, 1:0S 3-5
 Fourth Race-Mile and twenty yards selling; Rosevaie won; Ed Ball, sec ond; lMerlingo. third Time, 1:43 4-5
 Fifth Race-Mile and twenty yards selling; Legatee won; Copperfeld second; Sea Lad, third. Time, 1;45
 Sixth Race-Six' furlongs, purse; Dorothy Leggett won; Hamper. sec ond Bishop w, third. Time, 1;16.