The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-05-26
The CLASS PROPHECY

CAoCo VI inc OSdid f1lSu OCuOOl, IL
day evening, May 10, 1911, at Tenn
pie Theater.)
Gee whizl"-the expression coming
from some one in the surging crowd
IN the union station startled me. 1
turned around quikly to see If there
was anyone near whom I knew. The
vanity OF the attempt! Such a bust
ling confusion as there was; there was
neither standing room nor breathing
space; everybody was pushing; every
body was being pushed; everybody was
talking, and everybody was trying his
best to reach the door. I was literally
pushed, damned, knocked along. 1
would never have discovered the way
and walked therein had 1t not been for
a tail figure just in front OF me, with
bright spot OF color on the top. He
might have been Teddy Roosevelt or
John ID. Rockefeller, the way people
cleared the track for him; maybe they
were afraid of the temper that red hair
signifed.
Well, when we reached an open space
and the tall figure right about and
faced us, whose red hair do you think
that was? None other than Paul d.
Weathers OF o. H S. fame. I greeted
him rapturously; he was bound for the
exposition, just as was, so we made
a contract right then and there to do
the sights together.
So much we had to talk about and
tell each other. Neither of US had seen
any OF our old classmates. did you see
Olaf Zewadski in the station?" asked
Paul in the course of the conversation.
mo-" answered, but that solves the
mystery; someone said gee whiz' so
distinctly IL gave me a start. OF course
it was Olaf; did you speak to him?"
"Only for a minute; he just had time
to say he was on his way to the ex-
position when he saw his grips disap-
pearing in the wrong direction"
'And uttered his favorite exclamation"
finished; 81 wonder where he is liv-
ing now?" Why, he is in Michigan,
believe; making quite a success as a
lawyer. You see, 1 try to keep up with
two or three lawyers in each state up
in that section; 1t is helpful to me in
my profession as lawyer for the Wis
consin Lumber Company.
The first day of the exposition was
the happiest of my life. An account of
it sounds like on of Anderson's fairy
tales and I would not blame any one for
not crediting my story. We thought
we would begin at the top and come
down, so we went first to see an aero
plane ascension. The aviator, as usual,
stepped forth to make a few remarks
Chat never can be heard) by way of
explanation. Paul and 1 upset three
benches in our JOY. The aviator was
Curry Campbell. / did not enjoy his
flight one bit, nor did help Paul cheer.
for / was terribly disappointed. 1 had
always thought of Curry Campbell as
United States senator from Florida,
winning the debates over all the sem
ators from other states. If he could
not have a seat in Congress though, l
suppose airships were the next best
thing. We never had chance to
speak to Curry. He stayed up in the
air most of the time, while we were of
the earth earthly, and sought the pure
food building.
AS we entered a soft musical voice
greeted us: "Come and taste; come and
see Heinz different varieties. All are
good, all are pure. Come and taste and
be convinced"
Jessie Wilson," I gasped. I scarce
garb. There was something that re-
sembled half a watermelon on her
head, her waist was a beautiful red |
with yellow dots all over it-a straw
berry, of course. / Rugged the straw
berry and almost ate the watermelon
We three. Jessie Paul and I, gave nine
'rahs" for the o. II. S. right there to
the CONSERVATION OF the bystanders.
Jessie told US that Leon Leitner had
charge OF place on the midway. which
he called ''The Mystery"
Fate seemed undoubtedly to have
had hand in this exposition. Of
course, we were always lucky, because
there were seven in our class. Paul
and l confidently expected to come up
on come old acquaintance on every
corner, and we received almost no
mental shock when we stopped at a
newsstand to buy a paper to have our
moneys worth handed us by Eric
Mills
We went to the furniture building.
Paul said he wanted to get some ideas
on furnishing houses. While he was
acquiring this knowledge 1 read my
paper. On the first page, in big type,
was the following:
WONDERFUL SUCCESS OF
AN AMERICAN DOCTOR"
EMPEROR WILL RECOVER"
Berlin, July lathe emperor has
at last passed the crises and will re-
cover. His recovery is due entirely to
young American physician-Dr. Izlar
who has been studying here for two
years. DR.. Izlar has been congratu-
lated ." And so on TO the third
column.
This was Laurie Izlar of the class
OF 1911.
As we were leaving the building we
ran into some one carrying a big
bucket OF liquid. The man went one
way the bucket another and the con-
tents in our direction. alas. for 1t was
very brown and sticky. 1 was much
relieved TO learn from Herbert Martin,
when he picked himself up. that it
was nothing worse than furniture
polish, which he had compounded and
was demonstrating. On being assured
that this was not the usual way in
which he demonstrated his remarkable
polish, we promised TO come back later
and told him goodbye.
BY this time Paul and had definite
w MANNED TO celebrate this axtraordi-