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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31

THEATER PARTIES ON TUESDAY
NIGHT

On Tuesday night, at the magnifi-
cent reading given at the Temple the
alter by Madame Labadie, Mrs Rich
ard S. Hall entertained several of her
friends at a tbeater party. Her guests
were Mrs. William A Knight, Mrs.
William D. Richey, Miss Pauline Sui
livan and Miss Corinne Williams. All
of them were perfectly delighted with
Madame Labadie's Interpretation of
"A Dolls House"
Another theater party who greatly
enjoyed "a Dolls House" were Mrs.
William Hooker and Mr.. and Mrs L.
w. Duval and their guests, Mrs. E. H.
Mote and Mrs. j. H. Randolph, of
Leesburg, and Misses Lille Goldman
er and Ann Eliza Robertson of Eliza
BEETHOVEN, KY. They occupied two of
the lower boxes, and, like all who
heard the distinguished artist of the
evening, they were charmed with her
magnetic and fascinating reading of
Isben's "a Dolls House"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
THE COLONEL AN ANNANIAs

The New York World makes the col
onel out somewhat of an Annanias
himself, and makes him member of
the Annanias Club.
Listen to the following:
Mr.. Roosevelt is beginning to tell
the truth about the Panama affair. In
his address at the University of Cal
ifornia he said:
| am interested in the Panama ca
nal because l started it, If | had fol-
lowed traditional, conservative meth
DDS | would have submitted a digni-
fed state paper of probably two hun
dred pages to congress, and the debate
on it would have been going on yet !;
but took the canal zone and let con-
gress debate, and while the debate
goes on, the canal does also.
Contrast this frank confession of
lawlessness with the message to con-
gress of December 18th, 1908, in which
Mr.. Roosevelt said:
The congress took the action it did
after the most minute and exhaustive
examination and discussion, and the
executive carried out the direction of
congress to the letter. Every act of
this government, every act for which
this government had the slightest re-
sponsibility, was in pursuance of the
act OF the congress here.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
A JUNIOR METROPOLITAN BAND

About a dozen coming musicians
met in the band room over the Com
mercial Bank on Tuesday evening and
organized for the purpose of practic-
ing during the coming summer. The
name of the new organization is the
Junior Metropolitan Band, and it's OBJ
ject is to act as an auxiliary to the
Metropolitan Band, 1t is proposed to
have regular meetings every Thurs
day evening, at which time several
of the musicians of the city have ten
dered their services as instructors. AS
the members qualify they are to be
admitted into the Metropolitan Band
organization, which is possibly the
best volunteer body of its kind in
Florida, and one whose services are
eagerly sought in all quarters where
there is demand for first class, up
to-date band. Those who have enlist
ed in this band are R. NJ Curtis, j. F.
Thompson. Neil B. Ferguson, T. D.
Lancaster, Jr., Usher Norwood,
Charles Cleveland, E. ]. and T. w.
Collier, Hugo Mcintosh and w. A.
TenEyck. The first four gentlemen
mentioned are the officers of the or
ganization.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
kAFFEE KLATCH AT THE WO-
MANS CLUB

The kaffee klatch and club house
shower at the Woman's Club Saturday
afternoon was splendid success, and
was also thoroughly enjoyed by the
club women present Mrs. Sidney
Halle, Mrs. H. c. Dozier, Mrs. H. c..
Groves and Mrs. B. T. Perdue acted
as hostesses and met the guests as
they arrived Tables with puzzles
were provided for those who cared to
solve them, and Miss Gertie Peyser
played several very beautiful selec-
tons.
Quite number of attractive and
useful articles were received for the
club house, and also a large silver Of
fering, which will be used in purchas-
ing several necessary things for the
club rooms.
During the Afternoon Mrs. L. w. Du-
val read most enjoyable story, The
Land of Tomorrow" which dealt most
entertainingly and interestingly with
the suffragette question. Mrs. Duval
is an excellent reader and the story
chosen by her was listened to with
much pleasure, and the lesson in it
was brought out in a pleasing way.
Coffee, tea, sandwiches and coffee
cake were served from a daintiIy an
pointed table. Mrs. Dozier and Mrs
Halle sat at the table and poured the
beverages. Little Misses Elizabeth
Davis and Annie Moorhead. dressed
as little Dutch maidens, served. The
four hostesses were also assisted nv
Mrs. j. D. Robertson and Miss Grace
Hatchell
The following is the club calendar
for April and May:
April Club Day. Round table
led by Mrs. Burford. Subject. "Mod-
ell Public Schools"
April S-Club reception for Junior
Civic League. Address, Mrs C. L. Bit
finger.
April 22-Medical Examination of
Public School Children. Address. DR.
}. E. Chace. Report of board of
health.
may Club Day. Address, "Wo-
man in Civic" Rev. L. B. Warren
May 2O-Annual meeting. Reports
oi onicers and chairmen, and plans
for the next club year.
May 27-Music and social.
There will be the usual observance
Oh annual health day, but the arrange
ments have not yet been completed
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WOULD-BE CAPITALS

Taking it's cue from a casual re-
mark of the Jacksonville Metropolis to
the effect that the capital of Florida
ought to be removed at once, the ST.
Augustine Record launches a serious
campaign to secure the prize-if it
may be considered g. prize.
st. Augustine knows all the ropes"
of a capital removal campaign, be-
cause it has been through one. 1t has
filed away somewhere those unanswer-
able arguments urged upon the stump
and through the press by its cham
pions when both Jacksonville, repre-
scented by Frank Clark and Robert Nc
Nance, and ST. Augustine represented
by j. C. R. Foster and w. A. MacWil-
liams, toured the state and locked
horns with the champions of Tallahas-
see. These arguments may be easily
revampid and made to suit the present
situation. The Record prints eleven
reasons why the capital should be re-
moved to st. Augustine, but the all
compelling reason is that ST. Angus
tine wants it,
The Tribune is not prepared to go
into an exhaustive discussion of this
question now, because there is no oc-
casion for it. We do not believe that
the matter is going to be put before
the people at any early date. When
it is thus submitted the capital will
be removed, not to st. Augustine, on
the eastern extreme, not to Pensacola
on the western extreme, and it will
not be left at Tallahassee, on the
northern extreme. but it will be locat.
ed at the center of the state, as nearly
as possible, somewhere in the great
section of Florida that lies between
Tampa and Jacksonville, either at
Gainesville or Ocala-unless some
new .and greater city should rise full
panoplied in that section.-Tampa
Tribune.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
FISHING WITH NETS


Those of our readers who are Bible
students (and we presume that 1t Is
not a rash presumption to suppose
that all of them are) will find that
fishing with nets was one of the occu-
pations that was quite prevalent,
prominent and popular at the time of
Christ's' mission upon the earth. st.
Paul was net maker. The presump-
ton is that his forbears must have
been net-makers a long time before
his day. At any rate it is safe to say
that fishing with nets ante-dated the
time of Christ for thousands of years.
And yet at the time of Christ fishing
with nets was, in all probability,
profitable occupation, and the fish sto-
ries of the Bible are as delightful as
any that have been written since.
Because the trend of population has
been away from those localities, fish
ing with nets has long since been
abandoned on the lake of Tiberias,
Lake Genesareth and Lake Gallilee. If
one will go back to those places today
we are ready to believe that he will
find that fish are no more plentiful
and abundant there now than they
were when the apostles of Christ did
their historic fishing there. Why? Be-
cause the "big fish eat up the little
ones" The little fishes are not given
chance.
You may ask the oldest fisherman in
the business; you may consult Judge
Lester Warner, who is an authority
and an expert, and he will tell you
that he never caught a decrepit fish.
Fishes never grow old. They never
lose their nimbleness. They are never
afflicted with Indigestion. They never
lose their appetite and are always ay-
aricious. A big fish in the course of
years will eat enough little fish to
feed whole community without any
miraculous Intervention. Hence the
man who catches the big fish, wheth-
er with line or net or otherwise, is
protector of the little fish, and to
that degree is benefactor. The lit
tie fishes should be protected. The
meshes of the nets should be big
enough to let the little fishes escape
and only big enough to catch those
of a certain size. Then there will be
no harm done. But a prohibition
against netting in toto, while it will
not be a protection to the fish, will
work a hardship to many whose
livelihood depends upon fishing.
In making laws for the so-called pro-
lection of fish and game our law-mak-
ers should consider others besides the
tourists and the sportsmen.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
Unjust to Booker

In the opinion of the Tribune, our
Florida papers are manifesting an UNI
due unkindness in their comments on
the incident or the assault on Booker
T. Washington. and the causes which
are said to have led to it.
Looking at the matter in a fair and
unbiased light, there is nothing about
Washington save his color to inspire
these unkind remarks.
His life has been singularly free
from scandal, He has a good reputa-
ton as a moral and law-abiding citi-
zen. He has not been involved in any
disgraceful affairs, so far as known.
Barring the Roosevelt dinner incident,
which was showed upon him." so to
speak, he has not been Extensively OBJ
trusive in the direction of mingling
with white people.
The prejudice felt against Washing
ton is entirely a radical one-simply
because he is a negro The stories
tOAU Vi ILC 0ooluAt w AO
means lead a reasonable person to be
lseve, on due consideration. that Wash
ington was endeavoring to force his
company upon a white woman. He
states clearly and convincingly
enough the purpose of his presence
in that particular place. He was the
victim of hasty judgment pronounc-
ed upon him by an excited woman
and her even more excitable husband
The Tribune yields to no paper in
its resentment toward any attempt to
break down the barrier between the
races, and has never let an opportu
nifty pass to denounce those, white Oh
colored. whose acts or utterances
have tended in that direction. But
fairness is fairness. to white or black
and certainly negro who has given
such a good account of himself as has
Booker T. Washington, who has de
voted his life to uplifting his race, is
entitled to fair treatment and UMPIRE
JUDGED judgment in a case of this
sort.-Tampa Tribune.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31

Mr.. j. H. Workman. principal of the
Ocala High School, informed us sever
al days ago that he had just learned
that Mr.. George L. MacKay of this
city, who is attending the Georgia
Tech in Atlanta, is making magnifi-
cent record. In a class of about two
hundred and eighty, he stands among
the four leading students in the class.
MT. Mackay was graduated from
the Ocala High School last term, and
made a most enviable record there.
being one of the honor graduates. At
the close of the first term at the At
ianta Tech Mr.. MacKay stood so
high in his class that he was not re-
quired to stand the examination. but
was allowed to come home while the
examination was being held. The
ocala friends of this brilliant young
boy learn with pleasure of his crafty
ing college standing.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
BOX PARTY FOR VISITING GIRLS

Monday night Mrs. Chas. H. Lloyd
gave a box party at the Temple the
alter complimentary to Miss Ethel
Harrell of Roanoke, Va, and Misses
May and Ella Camp of Franklin, va.
The others in the party were Messrs
Frank Harris, Jr., Phil Robinson,
Heron Todd. Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Camp and Mrs. w. H. Powers. Mrs.
Lloyd and her guests occupied two
of the boxes, and witnessed the inter
esting play, Pierre of the Plains
presented by the Wolfe Stock Com
pany, which was one of the best
shows of the kind that has been in
Ocala this season.
After the play Mrs. Lloyd entertain
ed her guests for a short time at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Clark, where
light refreshments were served.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
FLORIDA NEWSPAPERS ON THE
BOOKER WASHINGTON
INCIDENT
Why Not Be Just?

1t is rather painful to see that few
of the daily papers of Florida are has
tening to impute to Booker T. Wash
ington wrong motives and wrong acts
in his unfortunate encounter with a
New York City janitor.
Washington is negro, but that is
no reason why we should deny him
Justice. No reasonable man can deny
his usefulness to humanity. and none
will deny that he has powerful
friends.
The facts are now coming out, and
those who have been hasty in criti-
cism ought for the honor of the Anglo
Saxon race, hasten to make amends.
The educator was assaulted by a
janitor, while attempting to find man
for whom he was searching. At the
time of the blows he was examining
the name plate on door in the lobby
of an apartment house.
This led to the accusation that he
was peeping through keyhole. A
woman claimed that he had addressed
her and called her sweetheart" while
she was passing through the same lob
by.
Investigation has shown that the
janitor, who was so incensed that his
wife should be addressed by negro,
that he committed an assault on the
negro, had deserted his wife, and the
woman whom he was protecting and
with whom he has been living, was
not his wife.
Both have disappeared, he in fear
of prosecution by his lawful wife, and
she-well, she just disappeared.
That's the ground work of the
charges made against Washington,
and over against that is the fact that
the greatest and best men of the coun-
try, from the president down, by the
thousands. have expressed their en-
tire confidence in Booker T. Washing
ton.
Just as a matter of justice and
right, would it not pay to be fair, even
to a negro?-Miami Herald.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31

Mr.. c. NJ. Dickerson. district agent
OF the Seaboard at Tampa, was a bus.
mess visitor to Ocala yesterday. Mr..
Dickerson reports a very satisfactory
winters business for his line, and
says that the running of the Florida
special through from New York to
Tampa instead of stopping it at Jack
sonville as heretofore, was especially
satisfactory, and that it will be put on
again in the fall This train will make
its last trip on Sunday, April 2.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
ON THE SAME LEVEL

One hundred thousand dollars paid
for dinner service in New York!
The user of L. C M. Paint is on
the same level as the purchaser-he
can't get better paint, because none
better can be made; and its cost is
the least, because gallons of L. &
M. and three gallons of oil added
thereto by the user at a cost of about
S1.60 per gallon, will paint cottage.
Thirty-fiye years use in N. A. & S.
A.
Our agents are McIver & MacKay
Ocala, Fla. (51
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
soPHoMoREs VS.. JUNIORS

The two baseball clubs of the Ocals
High School. the Sophomores and Ju
niors. played game of ball on the
South Magnolia street diamond yes
terday afternoon, resulting in vic
tory for the former by score of 8 to
A. Mr.. Nick Flickenstein and DR.. A. l.
IzIar umpired the game to the great
satisfaction OF all the players, which
is very unusual thing for umpires to
do.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
ANOTHER SPLENDID FAIR PRE-.
MUM OFFER
The American Agricultural Chemical
Company Offers Ton of Its Elk
ceIIent Fertilizer for Corn
Exhibit


Exhibit
The American Agricultural Chem
ical Company of Jacksonville, through
its Marion county representative, Mr.
I. E. Pritchett, of Gambler, has made
the Marion County Fair officials a
proposition to give as an extra pre-
MUM at the coming fair a ton of
their best grade of fertilizer.
This company, like everyone in
Florida who has the farming interests
at heart, is DESTROYS of encouraging
the growing of more and better corn
The prize to be awarded by this
company is to be given away on the
same terms and conditions as those
governing the DR.. Boozer prizes.
One ton of fertilizer will be award
ed to the. farmer making the largest
yield from one acre of ground, upon
which their fertilizers have been
used.
1t is well worth the effort, and will
still further encourage the farmers to
grow large crops on a small acreage,
rather than plant a whole section of
land and raise a few bushels to the
acre.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
MARION COUNTY FAIR AssocIA
TON

Annual Stockholders MEETING for
Election OF Officers and Board
Of Directors
The annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Marion County Fair AS.
ISOLATION. as fixed by the constitution,
is called for Tuesday. April IL, 1911, at
1880 p. m, Office of the president
Ocala House block. Ocala, Fla. Elec.
ton of officers and a board of direct
ors for the ensuing year is the special
business before the meeting. Other
matters of importance will be present.
ed. Stockholders not present should
be represented by proxies. Two
thirds of all stock issued represents a
quorum.
GEO. X. ROBINSON, Pres.
Attest: n. s. WILLIAMS
suns Wky4t Secretary.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31

representative A. ]. Angle of Bar
.o"' a candidate for speaker of the
mouse OF representatives, win intro
auce bill at the coming session of
.nat body for the bonding of the state
lor ten million dollars for system OF
state highways, and there is q strong
PROBABILITY that the bill viii become
a law. i'''
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
Clerk
County solicitor. ... -. ...S 81

The principal reason why this pa
per is opposed to the fee system is
the temptation it holds out to officers
to commit "extortion," malfeasance, -
or by whatever name wrong-doing in
office may be classified.
We take it that it is not necessary
to enter into particulars, some recent
revelations are so fresh in the minds
of the people, and we fear that others
may follow.
Let us put temptation as far away
from those in public office as possible.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
Bio in Defeat

Inc Ocala Banner asks if John
stockton will run for governor? He
probably will not, but no better man
could run. John Stockton is just
ABOUT as big man in defeat as some
men are in victory. Jacksonville Me-
tropolis.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
Gard of Thanks

We wish to thank the friends woh
so kindly assisted us in the illness
and death of our baby, Glen Elmer.
Mr.. AND MRS. T. V. NEWBERN.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31

Now the statewide" contest is
over, and | am doing business at the
same Old stand. If you MUST DRINK
get good whiskey, and buy it from Ho-
gan, the Whiskey Man. <
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31

Mr.. and Mrs. Bradford Webb of
Kendriek were Wednesday shoppers.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-03-31
THE FEE SYSTEM

The fee system is now under dis
cussion. The Times Union is in favor
of its retention. 1t tells why it favors
the fee system The following are
the reasons it sets forth:
We do not think that the legisla-
ture, which will soon meet, should
tenn by which county officials are paid
automatically. in proportion to the
work they do. 1t is rather desirable
that some such automatic adjustment
could be made to fix the pay of other
workers than that it should be abol-
ished in this case. Men ought to be
paid in proportion to the work they
do, and the fee system pays them in
that proportion.
1t relieves the people of the neces-
sity of paying certain county officers.
II requires those for whom they work
to pay them. We do not think sala-
ries should be substituted for fees in
counties where fees are not sufficient
to pay good salaries. Candidates for
county offices know what they are do
ing when they run for office, and If
they are not willing to work for fees
they need not run for office.
To show how this system works au-
tomatically. and how it does not cost
the tax payers anything the Pensacola
Journal is transcribing to its columns
specimen cases taken at random from
the dockets of that county. Here is
a sample:
Case-State VS.. Ed Little, in Escam-
bia county.
Charge-Vagrancy.
Examinataion-July 81, 1910.
Tried-July 81 1910.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1911-09-14
II. p. LOUGH
General Steanehip Agent.
3-4 Laing Eldg, Fargo.

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WOW WOW, Japanese ape; xerasia- a
scalp disease; mensicus, a crescent;
isothermal, having the same mean
summer temperature; parenchymous,
pertaining to spongy seleium, a metal
lie substance resembling lead; transub-
sanitation, religious doctrine, ex-
planned briefly in the dictionary.
Seek and you shall find more inter-
esting strangers In the pages Of this
big little book.
A man living at Goodrich. N. D., who
secured one Of these dictionaries was
SO pleased with IL that he wrote in as
follows:
II received the s4 dictionary and
found it far better than expected, SC
/ started to clip additional coupons and
would like to know how / could get one
more Of them for one Of my friends.
He was informed that he could secure
additional dictionaries by sending ad-
ditional coupons together with the ex-
pense bonus.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1911-09-14
Sporting Editors Corner

Watkins will nave a good man in
Keye for the pivot position in the
eleven line this year. He is fortunate
in having such a man to fill Horners
shoes.
1t is about time for Coach Rueber to
show up. The silent one has been
missed during his absence and his re-
turn will be welcomed by the aggie
followers.
America will be represented in the
play for the Davis cup. Larned. the
American tennis champion will be the
chief factor In the contest against the
Australians.
The football prospects at Fargo col
iege are not as bright as they might
be. However Watkins is reputed to
being the ablest coach in the north
west and he will do his 'durnest' to
turn out winning team.
One OF Fargo's new legal lights is
somewhat OF a handball player. Good
man a graduate of Minnesota law
school and local law clerk has been
added to the list Of legal men to have
taken to the indoor game.
The members of the leaders corps
OF the Y NJ. G. A. gymnasium classes
are going to get feed. Do you not
wish you were a member OF the lead
ers crops? Any man can be who will
put forth the proper effort.
Will the Kossick- cCarthy fight
ever come off? So far there has been
nothing but postponement and post
ponement Abercrombie would like a
boxing match and Nels Moe Of Chris
tine will promote one there Hop to
1t managers, If you really want go.
Does it not seem strange? "A city
alderman will one time 90 to q boxing
match one month and sit at the ring
side in the front row. He may even
take position as tilnekeeper or round
tabulator. Yet at another time he will
raise in hands in horror at the sug-
gestion Of there being boxing match
Catlin said short time ago that he
was not in the best condition and that
1t would be hard for him TO get into
shape for the football season. II
seems that he should not delay en-.
tering school under the circumstance
as the longer he stays away the softer
he will be when the first game Is play.
ed.