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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-10-14
SPARKMAN IS SATISFIED
With his Useful and HOn0rahle POSI-
ton In the House, and Will Not
Try for the senate
Jacksonville Metropolis. 13rh)

-detEOpoIlS- IotnD
No, L cannot see my way clear to
make the race for the United States
Senate at present. and will not be
among the candidates unless unfore-
seen conditions arise"
This statement was made last night
TO Metropolis reporter by Congress-
man Stephen NJ. Sparkman Of the first
district. who was en- route from Wash
ington TO Tampa. and eliminates him
from the interesting contest resulting
from the sad death of Senator-elect
Napoleon b. Rroward.
Bullock . Possibility
His announcement leaves three can
didates in the field-Nathan +. Bryan
and John y. c. Stockton of Jackson
Vile, and w. \. Blount. of Pensacola
1t is rumored, however, that Judge W.
5 Bullock. of Ocala. one Of the ablest
jurists of the state. is contemplating
making the race, and he would I'M
doubtedly prove an interesting factor.
However. Judge Bullock has made no
definite announcement on the subject.
Sparkman's Reasons
Mr.. Sparkman, who has been in
Washington on official business. was
in the city yesterday with United
States Engineer George r. Spaldins.
left for Tampa last night. "Of course.
should like very much to represent
my state in the Senate" he said, but
under present conditions 1 do not see
how I can afford to enter the con-
test.
I'm the first place, 1 have my hands
1uli in behalf OF Florida as senior
democratic member of the rivers and
ho rh -
l could not afford to give up that 20
sition. gained by long years Of work
unless l would be in a position to
work to as great or greater advant-
age for the state. The campaign. in
the second place. will be under way
while Congress is in session. and l
could not afford to remain away from
Washington at that time and look at
ter my campaign. as the session will
be most important one for Florida
in many ways"
Has Many Friends
Mr.. Sparkman has many friends
throughout the state who have for
years past urged him to make the race
for the Senate, but he has always re-
fused on the grounds mentioned; al
though he has stood an excellent
CHANCE OIL winning ana mas demon
strated that he would make an excel
lent senator. However. indications are
that the next House of Representa-
! tives will be democratic. in case OF
which Mr.. Sparkman would be given
the powerful position Of chairman OF
the rivers and harbors committee
which is sought after by every repre-
sentative who is Of sufficient import
ance. or thinks he is Of sufficient i'm.
| portance. to aspire to it.
Wants the Primary
II sincerely hope the senatorial
| fight will be settled by a primary
| concluded Mr.. Sparkman, although
do not know how the money is going
| to be raised, having been out of the
city much OF the time since Captain
Broward's lamented death l only wish
provision was made by the state fol
| standing the expense OF holding pri-
| maries. which would simplify matters
greatly"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1910-10-14

Thelnna.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02

And this brings me TO the Jewels of which
that calf was made If you will look up
the Bible records in Exodus you will see
that Moses advised the Israeltes that every
man should borrow of his Egyptian neigh
Dor and every woman Of her neighbOr
jewels of silver and jewels Of gold; and a
little farther on il is stated that they did
so, the paragraph concluding as follows:
And the Lord gave the people favor in
the sight of the Egyptians, so that they
lent unto them. And they spoiled the
Egyptians"
In these museums here in Cairo you may
see plnts and quarts of jewelry such as the
Israeites borrowed and took with them into
the wilderness to melt down TO make that
golden calf. There many such In the
Hall OF the Jewels. This place Is filled with
great cases containing ornaments of gold
and silver taken from the tombs Some
date back almost 10 the time OF the pyra-
mds and many were In use before the
Israelites left Egypt. Among them are
bracelets OF gold much the same as our
girls are now wearing, Some are golden
snakes with spring coils SO that they will
fit any arm and others are solid rings OF
massive gold ! saw armlets TO be worn
above the elbow, golden girdles for the
head at either end, Some Of the finest OF
these ornaments were owned by a queen
who lived 1900 b. c., and whose mummy
came from a tomb not far from Thebes
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
slipper Wins Husband.

Some time this fall dainty slipper will
be thrown after Mildred Mermelstein of 2l5
East one Hundred and Thirteenth street,
New York, for double good luck. 1t won
her a rich husband, and Samuel Newman
got a wife in a way that makes the bride
to-be a real up-to-date Cinderella. Except
for the slipper Newman might have lived
for years a lonely bachelor in his home, in
$40 Wendover avenue, the Bronx
Three weeks ago Miss Mermelstein went
to a dance with several girl friends. The
strain of dancing broke the strap on one of
her little satin slippers and she was forced
to use a common, unromantic pin TO repair
the break Afterward the girls returned
home in a trolley car, which Miss Mermel-
stein was the last to leave. She had just
placed one foot on the pavement when she
felt the pin snap and the satin slipper gave
way again. She called to the conductor to
stop the car, but too late. He already had
given the signal to the motOrman, and the
car sped on, carrying the slipper and leay-
ing Miss Mermelstein standing in the road
blushing with dismay. With her friends
Shielding her from the gaze Of curious per-
sons she managed to get home deeply
grieved at the loss of the slipper and not
suspecting the incident would prove a turn
ing point in her life.
In the car was samuel Newman, "a years
old but already firing Of a Bronx bachelor
hood. He noticed the tiny slipper as he was
about TO leave the car and remembered the
young woman who got off the car few
seconds before. Putting the slipper in his
pocket he hurried to the block where Miss
Mermelstein alighted, only to find that she
and her companions had gone away. Their
he decided TO take the slipper home, and
the next day he put an advertisement II
several newspapers, offering TO return th'
slipper to its original wearer,
Miss Mermelstein read the advertisement
and answered with brief note to Newman
giving her address. The man did not ever
send an answer by mail but hurried TO thu
young woman's home. There, as the slip
per fitted Miss Mermelstein's foot, and sht
had the mate, he was assured he had foun,
the rightful owner. But that is only tn,
beginning of the story,
Newman felt that his acquaintance will
the young woman ought not TO end there
He followed the usual method In such case
OF finding an excuse TO call again, aR'
thereafter he found many more excuses 70
the same purpose. The Acquaintance
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
nridexroom Tried to Flee.

Pleading he was merely a substitute
for the real wooer, relates the Phila-
delphia Record, William Crawford OF
Amhurst, Neb. was arrested at Blooms
burg. Pa, charged with attempting to de-
sert his bride of night, Sadie Emery,
daughter of f. S. Emery,
Crawford argued that he had done his
duty, and tried to console the bride with
the assurance that the man who had
really wooed her, the genuine Crawford,
would be On in a few days, the romance
having been mail affair, during the
progress of which the correspondents had
never met
District Attorney Small, Justice ia
CODY aud Constable Betz were routed
from their beds, and before the town
clock had struck six Crawford was under
arrest In this predicament he declared
his former statement that he was not
Crawford was untrue, and that he really
was the man of the young girls dreams
The difficulties were adjusted and the
couple left for their western home, where
Crawford claims he is a man of prop
erty.
The romance had it's inception when
the bride read In the national newspaper
of the Seventh Day Adventists. reli'
gious sect with which she is identified
that William Crawford of Amhurst. Neb.
Sas not averse to taking unto himself q
second life. he being a widower OF Al
with 5-year-old son. Miss Emery an
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
INC Origin of the GoIden CnIf.

The Origin of the Golden Calf.
Egyptians as shown in the relces which
came from the tombs it is easy to see
where the Israelites got their idea of the
golden calf. Their oppressors from whom
they were fleeing, revered certain animals
They looked upon hawks as embems Of
the sun, moon and stars and at their death
often turned them to mummies. The cat
was sacred to one of their gods They
had also statues of cows, and the COW was
considered emblematic of Hathor the god
des of beauty. love and joy. You may see
her statues scattered up and down the
Nile valley. Sometimes she Is depicted as
cow and at others as a woman wearing
COW horns with the sun hung between
them. There is a carving of Queen Cleo
patra dressed up in that way.
In 1906 a remarkable cow goddess was
eXcavated from the tomb OF Deir-el- Bahrl,
not far from Thebes. / saw the place
whence IL came and talked TO the men who
dug IL out of the earth. The COW is of
white limestone about four feet in height
and perhaps six feet in length. 1t has a
red tail, black face, and its head is
crowned with lotus flowers and lotus
stalks hang down each side it's neck al
most to the ground. There is king knecl-
ing under the cow in the attitude of prayer.
That statue was probably worshiped at the
time the Israelitcs were working in the
valley Of the Nile and it may have been
from one like her that they nodded THEN
calf Of gold.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
MANY Of TIE -MUNINM .CASKETS ARE SPLENDID

of the best travel writer's of all time, de-
scribes how embalming was done and tells
all about the making of mummies. He says
the art was carried on by special guild
whose members were appointed by the gov
eminent and who had to work at fixed
prices The bodies were mummified in
three different ways. In the first and most
costly method, the brains were extracted
through the nose by means of an iron
probe, and the intestines were taken out
through an incsion made IN the side. The
intestines were then cleaned and washed IN
palm wine. They were covered with aro-
matte gum and set aside in Jars The cavity
of the body was now filled with spices, in
GLIDING myrrh and cassla and other fra
grant substances, and it was then sewn
up. After this the body was soaked in a
solution of natron, a kind of carbonate of
soda, being allowed to lie in it for a couple
of months or more. 1t was then taken out
and wrapped in fine linen so smeared over
with gum that IT stuck to the skin, when,
the mummy was ready for burial.
The second process was cheaper but II
took about the same time In this the
brains were left in and the body was so
treated in the solution that everything
except the skin and bones was dissolved
There was third process which consisted
of cleaning the corpse and laying 1t down
in salt for seventy days. The first process
cost about 1890, the second S1OO and the
third considerably less.
Other authorities relate different methods
of mummification. The most of the mum
mics discovered. however, have been pre-
served by means of gums of one kind or
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
Public LGVe-MAkInE.

The lovemaking of upper class Mexico
is perfOrCe done Tor all TO see. 1t is prac-
tically Impossible for lovers to have
speech quite alone, and less so If they
are engaged, than il their passion is un-
declared An aYowedly enamored couple
must be under constant supervision, re-
ports the Delineator. A girl may not
receive callers of the other sex save
in the presence of a suitable chaperOn,
and this does not tend TO make calling
a favOrite pastime with the men-hard
put to it though they are to fill their
days. Except for the chances &C.
casionally offered the eyes must tell
what the tongue may not,
And all this has given rise to customs
affording unmiXed delight to the stranger
who for the first time observes them.
Those which are known as hacienda del
oso (playing the bear), and pelando la
paya tpluclling the peacock, are respec-
lively talking through barred windows or
strolling up and down beneath an mac
cessible balcony But it is flechando
which awakens a yet greater sense of
amusement. Literally translated ii means
daring arrows'-Cupids darts, by in
ference. But it is nothing more or less
than staring ones lady love out Of
votion in inverse ratio to the number OF
times they wink. This form of court
ship is chiefly resorted to in the plaza
or in the theater
To the central plaza the Mexican girl
goes upon those evenings when the band
playsS Here she locks her arm in that OF
a friend or relative of her own sex and
begins to walk along the broad pave
ment which surrounds the bandstand. Be
fore long there is a steady, unbroken
stream of femininity moving in one di-
rection and one OF men, equally steady
and unbrokeu, moving in the other,
1t is extremely rare for man TO join
the wonsen for more than moment, and
even this moment is not habitually seized,
The whole satisfaction is derived from
passing the beloved time and again eN-
changing with her a meaning glance
While the band is not playing the
women seat themselves upon the benches
which line the promenade. Thereupon
an ardent sutton is expected to station
himself opposite, and at once set about
flechando.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
The Book of the Dead.

One Of the most important records of the
customs of the Pharaohs in regard to the
dead has been taken away from Egypt
This is papyrus manuscript which is now
in the British museum. 1t is known as the
Book of the Dead and contains 200 chapters
1t is written in hieroglyphics, but many of
the passages have been translated. Ac-
cording to it, every man was believed to
consist of seven different parts, of which
the actual body was only one. The others
related to the soul and its transmigration,
and it was believed that upon the preser-
walton of the body depended the bringing
together of these seven parts in the flu
ture 1t was on this account that corpses
were mummfied, and for the same reason
that they were hidden away in tombs under
the desert and in the great pyramids which
their owners believed would be inaccessible
to the men of the future.
This Book of the Dead contains also
some of the Egyptian ideals of right hv-
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
Mummies Of Children.

There are mummies of children in this
Egyptian museum There are some also
in London, but / know of none anywhere
else. The children were embalmed for the
same reason as the grown-ups, the parents
believing that they could have no union
with their little ones without they met
them again after the resurrection in their
original bodies. The faces of some of these
children are gilded, and the pictures upon
the bandages represent the child offering
sacrifices to the gods. Above the feet may
be the funeral boat showing the little child
lying upon it's bier, and upon the other
parts of the coffin are tiny little people
who seem to be engaged in propelling the
boat. This probably represents the ferry of
the dead to it's tombs in the mountains on
the banks of the Nile In other cases the
caskets of the little ones are beautifully
decorated and in some they are plated with
gold.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
A weary Celebrity.

When Mrs. Roger A Pryor was a young
woman living in Charlottesville, Va, visit
ing authors seldom reached the beautiful
university town. ''Thackeray, Dickens and
Miss Msrtineau passed us by" says Mrs.
Prior in her book entitled my Day-Remi-
niscences of a Long Life"
But Frederika Bremen condescended to
spend a night with her compatriot Baron
Schele de We're. OF the university faculty
on her way to the south
Schele de We're invited a choice company
TO spend the one evenings Miss Bremen
granted him. Her works were extremely
popular with the university circle, and
everyone was on uptoe Of pleased anticipa-
ton.
When the waiting company eagerly eN-
pected her the door opened-not for Miss
Bremen, but for her companion, who an
nounced:
Miss Bremen, she beg excuse. She YER
tired and must sleep. II she come she cape
In your noses"
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02

had their own ideas OF heaven and one OF
their pictures OF the future state repre-
sents it as follows:
In heaven the dead eat bread which
never grows stale and drink wine which
is never musty. They wear white apparel
and sit upon thrones among the gods, who
cluster around the tree of life near the
lake in the field Of peace They wear the
crowns which the gods give them, and no
evil being or thing has any power to harm
them in their new abode, where they will
live with God forever"
According to one opinion, the Egyptian
heaven was situated above the sky. 1t
was separated from the earth by a great
iron plate to which lamps were fastened
these lamps being the stars. According to
another theory the heaven was In the
delta, or in one of the GASES, and a third
idea was that the sky was in the form Of
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
some Female MummIes.

How would you American girls like to
wear one suit of clothes for 5000 years?
That has been the fate OF the well pre-
served ladies Of this Egyptian museum. The
most Of them are clad in fine gauze much
like linen or silk, and in some cases. this
looks as fresh as when 1t was made. 1t
was wrapped around their limbs after hav-
isg been properly treated with spices and
pitch, and it clings to them more tightly
than the hobble skirt of today. / noticed
one queen with necklace OF beads and an
other who has a shawl around her head, a
third lies at full length in her coffin with
the mummy of her baby at her feet.
Another princess stands upright against
the side of the wall. Her face is plated
with gold and her mummy clothes are EN-
broidered She is wrapped round and round
with cloths, and one might wrap up gill
of today and make similar bundle. An
other OF these mummy ladies has hair
which appears TO have been done up in curl
papers, and, strange TO me, the hair is as
red as my own
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
Gossip About Noted People

Herald. He knew how to manage the
mines, but couldn't run the paper, and
asked me to send him a likely newspaper
man. l sent him a young reporter on the
Milwaukee Wisconsin. 1t wasn't long be-
fore he owned the paper and was the most
popular man in Florence. He edited his
paper, the local and political pages, was
his own solicitor did job work and when
the apprentice was on a vacation swept the
office, few years of good management
put $1,000 In his pocket. Then he bought
the Sault Ste. Marie News and some city
lots and an interest in an iron mine. Then
the young newspaper man stepped across
the line into g, state reputation as an ora
tor Of unusual power, a writer of much
force and business man of exceptionally
good judgment.
His party narrowly escaped nominating
him for congress and then made him state
game and fish warden. In 1900 he was a
leading candidate of the republican party
for governor, For several years he was
railroad commissioner lie has retained
an interest in two or three papers, has
been president Of the state Press assoca-
ton and has made hundreds of campaign
speeches, and all of the time has added
to his wealth by fortunate investments
Some years ago he bought, for a small
price. mining property on Moose noun
tain, Michigan His friends told him he
was throwing away money in that pur-
chase, but he hung on to the mine. Not
many months ago he sold an interest in II
for $4,000. He still owns enough of il
and other property to make him. IL not a
millionaire, very welI-to-do
But that is not so much TO rejoice over
as the fact that he is a manly man, whose
example and good work have been OF value
to all about him.
The more I see Of that young reporter
of 1883 the better pleased | am with my
choice Of man 10 take charge OF Ii. d.
Fishers paper. His name? Chase s. Os-
born, the republican candidate for gov
ernor and doubtless the next governor OF
Michigan. AS boy and young man Mr..
Osborn did not have half as good a chance
to succeed I'm life as have thousands of
boys and young men who will read this
orief sketch OF man who has succeeded
because he earned success on his merits
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
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most OF all to see friend of his boyhood
days who was living here, reports the New
ark Star. Here is Mr. Murdocks descrip-
ton of the friend:
"A husky, freckle-faced little devil as
remember him. in short pants. We used to
rob birds nests and pilfer apples together
out in kansas-glorious state, Kansas-and
get into all sorts Of deviltry, Fred-that's
his name-was the terror of the country
side. / suppose he's the town bully now.
Why, L remember'-and then followed a
long list of daredevil boylsh episodes in
which Murdoch and friend Fred played
stellar parts.
Fred-to be exact, Frederick w. Lewis
of GOO Ridge street-heard that Murdoch
was in town and went down to renew &C
quaintance with him. They fell on one an
others necks and snapped yarns for ten
minutes Then Murdoch told, all over
again, to an attentive group the tales OF
Fred's escapades, When he had finished
he asked:
by the way, Fred, what are you doing
now?'
why, l am pastor of the Forest Hill
Presbyterian church here" was the answer.
Murdoch collapsed.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
Strong on Length.

Richard earle lately engaged as cook a
Swedish giantess. who proved unsatisfac-
tory. on departure she asked for written
with the following:
To whom IL may concern: 1 have lately
had in my employ Hulda Swanson, who
was engaged to cook for family Of three
and do such other things as would be pos
sible when not cooking Under this head
might come little busting and dishwash-
ing and answering the door bell Taking
all these things into account / wish TO say
that Hulda Is absolutely the tallest cook /
ever saw."-Success Magazine.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02

another, and by pitch and carbonate Oh
soda, The mummies with gums are usually
green in color and their skins look as
though they were tanned. They break
when they are unrolled. The mummies
picked with pitch are black and hard, but
the features are preserved intact, and 1t is
said that such mummies will last forever.
In those preserved by soda the skin is hard
and rather loose. and the hair falls off
when it is touched. The pitch mummy us
ually keeps its hair and teeth.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
Gnrrennr Cnfflnn.

Many of the mummy Baskets are SPLEEN
did. They are made ID. fine woods, painted
inside and out with pictures describing the
life OF the owner, Some are covered with
carvings and some with heads Which may
have been Hkenesses OF those who lay
within. II costs much TO die now. II must
have cost more 20 die then. The expense
OF making a mummy was 300, and money
was then worth ten times what II is now.
The caskets were more expensive than any
OF the collins we have today, and they were
inoased in great saroophagi Of stone or
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02

COW, and another in that of a woman,
the legs of the COW and the head and feet
OF the woman being the cardinal points.
AS to creation, that began with the ris-
ing Of the sun, which was brought about
by god and men and women came from
the tears which dropped from the eyes of
that god This is somewhat better than
the old Chinese tradition of the worlds
making According to the latter, the god
Pwanku chiseled out the universe and was
1900 years on the job. At the end of that
time he died, and his head turned into
mountains, his breath became wind and
his voice the thunder. From his flesh
came the fields from his beard the stars
and from his skin and hair the trees. All
minerals originated from his teeth and
bones. The rain is his sweat and. lastly.
man was created from the insects which
stuck to his body.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-10-02
Pointed ParaEraphs.

A cheerful man is pessimlsts idea of a
fool
Life is a grind, but the world is fun Of
cTanks.
We once heard OF a man who loved to
pay his debts. but we have forgotten his
address.
Considering what most people are willing
10 do for money it's a wonder there are not
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