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THE LOGIC OF TRUE cHIvALRY

A woman in a recent issue of the
New York Tribune states the case
between men and women in a man
ner so sensible and true that it will
bear republication in this paper. This
correspondent says:
In a recent issue of The Times it
was stated that the suffragists object
ed to a proposed rule giving prece-
dence to women in seating passen-
gers in the Brooklyn Bridge cars on
the ground that women desired no
privileges. but complete equity with
men. AS a suffragist | wish to take
issue on the equality proposition.
Woman suffrage has nothing whatev 9r
to do with physical or mental equal
ity, and this fact does not affect the
vote
Women cannot claim physical
equality with men, except on general
grounds of health and endurance On
the ground of muscular strength they
are inferior, and the structure of the
womans form and her function of ma
ternity render her unfit for certain
forms of muscular endurance. Hence,
the practical and sensible rule, which
every gentleman respects, of giving
women precedence in seating. Wo-
men clerks kept standing all day al
most invariably suffer severely, while
men, unless weakened by illness, en-
dure this strain with ease. The suf-
frage contention is for the rights OF
citizenship, which are independent
of other forms of equality and are
founded upon the fundamental repub-
lican principle of 1.-The consent of the
governed"
The rules of courtesy are not super
fetal; they do not imply arbitrary
privilege. They are built upon funda-
mental truths
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WHAT A WOMAN DID
One Example of What can be Done
on Florida Soil

on Florida Soil
Several years ago a Vermont school
teacher married Florida planter
During his absence one winter she de-
cided to keep the farm going. She
harnessed the mule to a light plow
and started in to grow two acres of
beans. She narrowed, fortified and
planted, always following the best
suggestions of agricultural reports
and neighboring farmers land adapt
ing them to her own conditions.
The light sandy character of the
soil, which prohibits deep working
did away with the necessity for heavy
farm implements. and the use Of her
wits saved many hours of toll. By
making an apron-sack she was able to
drop beans with both hands, doing
two rows where her husband had
done one
When picking time came she hitch
ed the mule to a fish net tray and
dragged the loads in that in order to
avoid lifting. Crates were a difficulty,
but she learned to make them at the
rate of ten an hour. For packing, the
fruit was selected and sized with the
greatest care, and shipped as fancy
When the returns came in she
found her beans bringing from % to
so cents per crate more than her
husbands or neighbOrs had ever re-
ceived, and the buyers complimented
her on the perfection of her pack.
At the end of four yers this woman is
cultivating six acres entirely with
out assistance except in picking time.
There have been setbacks; worms and
diseases have attacked her plants at
times but even in the poorest sea-
sons she netted over one hunded dol
lars a month.-Collier's Weekly.
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THAT TENNESSEE MERGER

Colonel Rosevelt's testimony be-
lore the Stanley investigating com
mlttee amounts to futile attempt to
justify himself for an act impossible
OF Justification The evidence of
Colonel Roosevelt adds little or moth
ing to what was previously known of
the absorption of the Tennessee Coal
q Iron Company by the United States
Steel Corporation in 1907. The fact
oI the merger was, of course, indis-
putable. 1t was equally we'll under
stod that the taking over by the great
steel combine of the other company
could not have been done without the
conn1vance and active aid of the
Roosevelt administration. The for
mer president ayers that this trans
action was necessary to prevent a
panic. Looking at it from the practi-
cal standpoint on which Mr.. Roose-
Welt so insinuatingly remarked in his
letter to Mr.. Hartman, Mr.. Roose-
welt can hardly deny that the panic
wasn't prevented. Examining it from
the ethical viewpoint, Mr. Roosevelt
might profit by rejecting that doing
evil that good may come is contrary
to every law of morals in their ap-
plIcation to civics and nidustrlalism
However, judging by what he had
to say on the stand. Mr. Roosevelt is
serenely oblivious to either of these
aspects OF the case. When he abetted
the taking over of the Tennessee
concern by the steel trust, the Sher-
man law was on the statute books,
and had been there for many years.
The Northern Securities case had
been decided and it had ben the sub
ject of studious political capitaliza-
ton by Mr.. RoOsevelt's admirers.
Yet Mr.. Roosevelt went on, and not
only consented to the absorption of
the Tennessee company. but gave
active assistance to the transfer. He
now assumes the sponsibility, which
had long ago been so definitely fixed
on him that it is impossible for him
to shirk it in any event. And he
seems to think that the fact that he
aided and abetted the deal is justifca-
ton of the transaction. That is high
~ Rooseveltian. But it is a queer
kind of ethics with which to charac-
terize what is said to be, and prob
ably is, the first appearance of an ex-
president of the United States to give
evidence before an investigating cam
mittee. It's chief value is for the
insight it gives into the traits of
Roosevelt himself and as cumulative
proof of the INSCRIPTIONS oppOrtun
ism which was one of the chief
qualities of Roosevelt's two admins
trations.
Posing as the sworn foe of mOnOp-
olies, Mr.. Roosevelt rushed to the
assistance of the steel monopoly.
Under his guidance, the Stee Trust
made a very profitable speculation.
The law which Mr.. Roosevelt enabled
the Steel Trust to violate was a law
which he, as president of the United
States was sworn to enforce.-Nor-
man Mack's National Monthly
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-08

htCIOT OF GIdCt NHUIC4I,
Ocala, Fla. Sept. 2nd., 1911
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-08
A MISTAKEN IDEA CORRECTED
To the Editor of teh ocala Banner:

To the Editor of teh Ocala Banner:
VIII you allow me the courtesy of
your columns to explain a rumor,
which you quoted in last Sundays
issue from the Palatka Times. The
quoted article said that it had been
cabled from England that The Church
of England proposed to revise the
Ten Commandments. This report
started some time ago and has long
since been satisfactorily answered.
Nothing is farther from the Church
of England than the revision even in
the slightest degree of the Ten Com
mandments or of in any way altering
the simplest word of their phraseol-
ogy. What has been proposed is this:
In the communion service the priest is
required to read the Ten Command
ments at the beginning of the service.
In the Church of England, he must
read them every time that he cele-
brates the holy communion. In the
American church, under certain con-
ditions, we are allowed to omit them,
provided we subtitute for them, our
summary of the law to be found
in St Mat 32:37-40, which reads as
follows: Thou shalt love the Lord,
thy God with all thy heart, and with
all thy soul and with all thy mind.
This is the first and great command
ment And the second is like unto
it; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as
myself On these two command
ments hang all the law and the
Prophets"
This substitution is allowed when
the holy communion is celebrated on
week days, and it is allowed on Sun
days, when there is more than one
celebration, provided the Ten Com
mandments be said once on each Sun
day.
The rubrfc Cor direction), in our
American prayer book reads as fol-
lows; THE decalogue may be omit
ed, provided it be said once on each
Sunday But note, that Whenever it
is omitted, the minister shall say the
summary of the law beginning, hear
what our Lord Jesus Christ saith"
1t is proposed in England to intro
duce similar rubric in the English
prayer book.
CAMPBELL GRAY,
Rector of Grace Church,
Ocala, Fla. Sept. 2nd., 1911
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-08
THE COURTS ARRAlGNED

Commenting on a recent verdict on
a Jury in Tampa-a verdict which
both the Tampa daily papers de-
nounced-the st Petersburg lnde-
pendent says
Political control of courts must De
abolished, prostitution OF legal powers
and proceedings to carrying out po,
litical plans and creating polll!cal
control must be stopped, packing Jul-
les with political hangers-on must ue
done away with the power OF the po,
litical machine must be DroKen' anu
public sentiment must be educateu ui
to the standard where it will not SUI
fer these things to exist rms Is Aos
said of Tampa alone, but is true VI
every community.
This is true of every community
so true and so universally Recognized
as true that we could not nave
thoueht the expression necessary
We are surprised that the lntlmatlon
that courts are controlled by polltlcs
and that juries are packed with poil'
ical hangers-on. If this is true some
official is guilty The guilty olnclai
is either subject to Impeachment
or to removal from office by the gov
ernor. If no definite proofs OF such
corrupt practices can be iouho' ~
such charge shuold have been made
If they can be produced, the matte,
should not be permitted to drop uh'li
every effort has been made 10 relno' :
the offender from office.
We have always supposed that our
courts were as nearly perfect as num-
an agencies could be MADE. 1u0ee
are men and all men are haole -
make mistakes. With counsel Tor oo.n
sides alert and with judges Wa'ol
full it would seem that the pacAins %
jury would be very difficult hia''ei
If after a case is ended it is learneO
that. in spite of vigilance "a jury mas
been improperly made up, the gum
man should be punished.-Ilmes-ol Il
ion
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-08
THE OLD 4BLAck NANNY,

She bends beneath the weight of
years
With feeble step and slow.
Yet in her heart there throbs and
shines
The light of long ago:
OF days when on her dear old face
There played an angel smile
AS in her blessed arms she held
And crooned to sleep her "Chile. +"
The color of a lowly race
Shone with its ebon glow.
And yet the old Black Mammy's soul
Was white as driven snow.
Her toilworn hands were kind and
true
Through all her bonded years.
To "Mistiss" and the little ones.
In gladness and in tears.
And through wars wearing agony.
Her heart was free from guile
And loyal to the bitter end,
To "Mistiss" and her Chile"
Her ranks are waning year by year,
On Southern hill and plain.
And when the last BLACK Mammy's
gone
She never come again.
Yet, somewhere on the distant hills.
Beyond earth's woe and vile.
Her dear old arms will fold again.
"Old Mistiss" and her Chile"
God bless her-till her weary feet
Shall touch the shining shore;
God keep her-'mid the cherubim.
At hest forevermore
Nv. A. CLARK. Augusta, GA.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-08
WILL TEST THE TAX ON AUTO
MOBILES

The Ocala Gas Engine WORKS IN
conjunction with several owners of
automobiles intend to test the con-
stitutionality of the special tax OF
automobiles passed at the last ses'
sion of the legislature.
When not kept for hire these gentl-
men saw that they do not See the JUS
tice of placing a special tax upon
them any more than on carriages
wagons or other vehicles
Said gentlemen have procured the
opinion of an attorney upon the va
,;ditv of this law who is OF the opln-
ion that the courts will ldeelare II IN
constitutional and void.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-08

Mr.. Brantley Weathers, who with
a party of college mates has had a
glorious summer touring Europe, is
now on the way home, and will land
in Boston in few days. He will
then go to New Hampshire to visit
one of his friends and the last of Sep
TENDER will go to his alma mater,
Amherst, to be there at the opening
of college and to be with his brother.
Mr.. Paul Weathers, when he arrives
at Amherst for his first year at col
lege.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-08

When you find a boy who won't loi-
low brass band and mlnstrei VI
circus parade. you had better examine
him for the hookworm or name him
Lizzie.-Pensacola Journal.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-08

The Hiawatha OF the Hart line
which plies the mystic Ocklawaha
an dthe magic Silver Springs is being
oyerhauled at the Hart shipyards at
Palatka.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-09-08

Miss Gabrielle Girard, Of Staten
Island is the fourth woman to ascend
and descend Mount Blanche, peak
nearly $4,000 feet high in Switzerland.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-13
fret ELECTION
IN ARIZONA
democrats Have Swept the State and
Hunt Will Be Governor.

Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 12-Early re-
ports received at O'Clock tonight
from Arizona's first state election in
cicate thai the Democrats have swept
the state. If these figures are sup
ported by later returns. George w. p
HUNT will have ben elected governor:
Mark II. Smith, of Tucson, and Henry
+. Ashhurst, of Prescott, recommend
ed to the legislature for the United
States Senate, and Carl Hayden, o.
Phoenix, elected congressman. The
democrats are believed to have car
ried Maricopa, Yuma, Yadapai and
Cochise, the largest of the thirteen
counties. by a heavy majority Phoe-
nix, however, is believed to have gone
Republican by small majority. Few
ballots We're scratched.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-13
700 sign FOR
THE FREE1BR|DCF
JEFFERSON COUNTY BRIDGE COM.
MISSION MEETS W.T. ~
ENtOt RAGEMENT.
WILL PUBLISH FACTS
Statement Being Prepared to Show
What Bridge Will Net in Revenue
and Cost to Taxpayers.

Members of the jefferson County
Fridge Commission have been circul.
ating petitions since Monday after
noon among property owners Of this
thusiastic encoura cement that every
member of the Board is iubilant over
the prospects OF success in their eff
fort to get a majority of the taXpay
frs in number or in value to sign for
the Free Bridge
More than seven hundred property
owners have already attached their
signature to the petitions and only
four have refused to do so. These
four have asked for time to consider
the matter and will no doubt add
their signatures later.
The Commission is composed of Sc
ven of Pine Bluffs busiest men-W
D. Hearn, P. P. Byrd A. w. Num-, E
r. Bloom. r. B. Tomlinson, F. G.
Smart and E. A. HOMELAND they
are devoting great deal of time and
hard work to the proposition and al
great personal sacrifice. Havina
found so much to encourage them il
their first two days they are deter
mined to continue their efforts unit
every property owner in Jefferson
county has had an opportunity to sign
the petitions.
The Commission promises in a few
days, as soon as definite figures are
obtained on the revenues to be derived
from railroad tolls, to publish a de-
tailed statement of the cost Of the
bridge; it's revenues and the tax nec-
essary to pay for It.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-13
GIRL MURDERED
AT LITTLE ROCK
Parents OF Little Myrtle Alma Vance
are Held Pending an Investigation
Into the Aiiair-Sku!I Frac-
tured and Throat Cut.

Little Rock, Ark, Dec. 12=Little
Myrtle Alma Vance, four-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Vance, who live in the Forest Park
neighborhood was brutally murdered
his morning in their home and to-
night Mr.. Esd Mrs. Vance, parents of
the girl, are in he County jail await
ing an investigation into the mysteri-
Gus tragedy.
Little Myrtle was found ~ II &c
O'Clock in the Vance home S, s.er mo-
Their, according to the woman's state
ment, with fractured skull and a
knife wound in her throat. She was
dead when found and the mother says
she had Just returned from spring
100 yards away. The skull was frac-
tured with smoothing iron.
The arrest of the mother followed
a short time after Sheriff Roberts and
Constable Jones began their investi-
CATION. The father was arrested to-
night, although ii is admitted that he
was at work throughout the day as
rock crusher. An inquest will be
held tomorrow.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-13
SUSPECTS HELD
AT WALNUT LAKE
Men Believed to Have Robbed Local
Stores, Arrested By City Marshal
Of Dumas Yesterday.

Joe Campbell, IS years old and C.
E. Whitney, 40. who say they repair
scales for living and who claim
Kansas City as their home, were ar
rested at Walnut Lake yesterday at
ternoon by City Marshal Zach Collins,
of Dumas, on suspicion of being the
yeggmen who burglarized the stores
of B. T. Scallion and the White Front
Grocery Company In this city on last
Sunday morning, when the safes in
both stores were blown open with
nitroglycerine and 500 in money
and various articles taken. The men
deny the charge. but will be returned
to this city hits morning by Con-
stable Frank Stewart and Chief Of
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-13
PENSION BILL
PASSES HOUSE
DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS
JOIN IN VOTING SAVE, ON
THE MEASURE.
HAD Som OPPOSITION
Senator Percy, Of Mississippi, Attacks
Magazine Writer and yardaman
in Speech in Senathe.

Washington, d. c.. Dec. 1.-THE
Sherwood "dollar-a- day pension bill.
which it is estimated adds $4,000 900
to $45,oo0,o00 to the pension rolls
passed the House late today The
vote was along non-par. san lines,
the great majority of Democrats and
Republicans favoring it. A day of in
terestine debate preceded the passage
ct the bill which has been under dis
cussion for four days.
Representative Fitzgerald. chair
man of the Appropriations Commit
ZEE, was the most violent opponent of
the bill arc he delivered a speech to-
day accusing the House of eytrava-
sanee, He warned his Democratic
colleagues that they could not make
an economy record If they passed the
Sherwood bill with this large aDnro-
priation. The original measure was
amended in several particulars Rep
resentatiVe Mann obtained amend
ments making the bill apply to vet
Grams of the Mexican War and to old
soldier confined in soldiers homes.
both of which classes were EXEMPT In
the original bill
The Foreign Affairs Committee f
the Houje unanimously reported the
Sulzer solution to abrogate the
treaty with Russian and the Russian
bill has been set as special order of
business in the House tomorrow
The Stanley Committee continued
its investigation OF the transportation
question showing the relations be-
tween the railroads and the Steel
Trust.
In the Senate, Senator Percy, OF
Mississippi, made an attack upon
George Creel and former Governor
James X. Vardaman, who has been
chosen to succeed Percy in the Sem
ate. The basis of the attack was an
article in the Cosmopolitan, by Ereel
charging corruption in the Mississip
nj legislature and duplicating Senator
~ as beneficiary.
Johnson Lawrence, the Republican
member OF the Illinois legislature, ex-
planned before the Lorimer investiga-
ton committee the reason Why he
had deserted Senator Hopkins and
voted for Lorimer. He said he want
ed to break the deadlock and select a
Republican senator.
Senator Culberson introduced bill
to regulate interstate traffic in lio-
uor. The resolution was offered fix
ing the date for the adjournment for
the holidays on December II. until
January 3.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-13
J. |. HAWKINS ISSUES
CARDII01ThE PUBLIC
Says He Was Led to Believe Nv !. A.
Clement That He Was to Go Out
Of Wagon Yard Business.

! am not in politics nor have | any
intention at this time of entering the
political game, but | feel that in JUS
tice to myself and to set aside re-
ports that have been circulated as a
result of the recent campaign in
which J. A. Clement and r. G. john
son We're candidates for alderman
from the Fourth ward, ought to re-
ply to a statement made by Mr..
Clement in both of the Pine Bluff pa-
ners last Saturday and Sunday morn
ing
MIR. Clement, in an effort to justify
his action in engaging in the wagon
yard business in this city again, af-
ter disposing of his stable and good
will" to me for $4,000, says that he
did not assure me when the purchase
was made Of him that he would rot
again engage in business in opposi-
ton to me in this city. While Mr.
Clement did not make the direct
statement to that effect tefme. he led
me to believe that b. going out
of the business II Al that he.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-13
BURGLARS AT THE
RUTHERFORD HOME

Burglars entered the home of R. l.
Rutherford, on West Second avenue,
last night about $3.50 o'clock but af
ter going through the first floor of
the home were scared away by the
approach of the police Entrance was
effected through the rear door of the
house. Mrs. Rutherford and her daugh-
ter were upstairs when they heard
noises below and Immediately tele-
phoned the police. After the police
arrived thorough search was insti-
tuted but the intruder was not found.
Nothing was missing in the house
and 1t is thought the honsebreaker
was scared away when he heard Mrs.
Rutherford call for the police.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-13
LABOR CONVENTION
AT fort SMITH
Arkansas Union Represented By Two
Hundred Delegates-To Take IN
Mcnamara Case and Dynamit-
ing Investigation.

Fort Smith, Ark, Dec. 12.-The
convention of the Arkansas State
Federation of Labor opened in Labor
Temple at 10 O'Clock this morning
with President C. C. Calvert presi'
ing and nearly two hundred delegat> y
present, representing the various
unions OF the state. The Mcnamara
trial and dynamiting investigation are
among the important matters in the
hands of the resolutions committee.
The convention will last all week
Today was devoted to organization of
the convention.
1t is expected that matters of inn
portance to organized labor in the
state will be taken up on Wednesday
and the election of officers come Fri
day.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-13
WHITE HEAVYWEIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP BOUT

Chicago, Dec. 12.-Jim Flynn and
AL Kaufman are to fight for the
white heavyw championship OF
the world at San Francisco on jan
uary 26. The Pueblo foreman, through
Manager Jack Curley, today accepted
terms for the match and Harry Foley
Will promote the affair. Flynn is guar
anteed $4,000 with liberal percent
age of the gross fate receipts if it
exceeds the guarantee. Jack Welch
has been agreed upon for refere.