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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-01-14
J. ID. McDUFFY's WOOD YARD

The place to get your wood is at j.
D. McDuffy's wood yard. phone 240.
corner South Second and Lime streets.
Oak and pine always on hand. Spe-
cial attention given to all orders, and
delivered
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-01-14
IF MARION COUNTY PEOPLE

Knew the merits of Halls Texas Won
der they would never suffer from kid
ney, bladder or rheumatic trouble. 81
bottle a 60 day treatment seldom fails
TO cure. Write for local testimonials.
DR.. f. w Hall. 1926 Olive street. st.
Louis. Mo. Sold by druggists.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-01-14
HARNESS

Remember that we have harness of
all kinds, when you think of buying
harness. Halters, robes and all extra
parts. The best grades and prices
right. Ocala Live Stock & Vehicle Co.
phone 39s
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FRESH OYSTERS AND FISH

I now have every day at my stall
in the city markets fresh fish and
oysters, received each day from the
cast. William Tucker. phone No
394 city market.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-01-14
AUTO FOR HIRE

By applying to day phone 2S4 or
night phone "a, you can secure first
class auto service. Wilbur Smith.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-01-14
BLOUNT AND BRYAN
Latter VIII Probably Receive the
support Of Stockton Men

Jacksonville. Fla, Jan. l4.-Returns
received yesterday at Blount's head
quarters give the Pensacolan a lead of
1885 over Bryan. the recapitulation of
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-01-14

You will find some good values in
books at the Ocala News Co.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-01-14
FLORIDA RAISED MULES FOR SALE

1 have one pair four-year old mules.
also two others not matched, one II
hands. will weight about 400 pounds.
Write or apply to ]. c. Johnson, San
tos Fla W. NJ Gist.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-01-14

1t will doubtless be OF interest TO the
many friends of Rev. Louis T. War
rem former beloved pastor Of the Bap-
tist church in this city to read the
following account OF his work done in
Owensboro. Ky. The clipping is from
the church bulletin and We take the
liberty without Rev. warren's permis-
sion of reproducing IL:
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
Capital T ales x

end of the Capitol day or two ago.
and Joined the customary throng of
people waiting to see their Representa-
tives. He worked his way through the
crowd. and politely asked the door
keeper If he could see Representative
Cooper of Pennsylvania.
What name?' demanded the door
keeper.
MIR. Elkins," was the reply.
Write your name on this card, and
I'll have a page take it in ordered
the doorkeeper, surveying the young,
well-dressed man.
ten
Don't block the doorway. please"
ordered the doorkeeper, as MIR. Elkins
continued to stand his ground, await
ing Mr.. Cooper
Shortly afterward Joe Gaines, one
or the lame ducks from West Viz
gfnia, found Elkins in the crowd.
What are you doing here, Davis?'
he asked.
Waiting for Mr. Cooper of Pennsyl-
vania," replied the Senator.
why don't you go in to his seat?'
I'm not a member of the House"
Come with me- said Gaines. Here
you are at the close of your term In
the Senate, without knowing that there
Is not door in this Capitol closed
against you"
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
THE ELECT AMONG BEAUTI.
FUL WORDS.

The New York institution which Of
fered a perfectly new dictionary to
the man who would skim off the twen-
ty-fve most beautiful words" in the
English language probably wishes now
that it had sold the word book and
established a soup kitchen. When the
criticisms are all in the man who
sprung this pleasant little divertisse-
ment will probably surrender to the
conviction that our noble Mother
Tongue is Il veritable triumph of
cacophamy-some dialect of the team
sters employed at the Tower of Babel.
The insurgents point out that this
little anthology of verbal posies didn't
include grace" Justice" and truth"
and they lay special stress OH the
last. Tie committee took the trouble
to explain that Justice was excluded
because of the harsh sound of the Il
and then the explanation got them in
bad for including Joy" Liberty" got
in-very emphatically, it appears, but
Tor the most part this proud garner
was not even striking enough for i'll
teresting analysis.
The truth of the matter is that the
beauty of words is so intimately bound
lid with the association of ideas that
any effort to classify them according
to the mellifiuous sound with which
they fall IRON the lips is like trying to
catch the wind in net. Who can
measure the sweet enchantment of the
rustic welcome with which foot
weary wayfarer is ushered into the
The Washington times., 1911-01-24

immediate presence of big, brown bis
cult and the appetizing ham and gravy
whose fragrance, borne upon the night
air, had come out to greet him in ad-
vance? Or what sound could be, un-
lovely when it falls from the lips we
love? Mr.. Poe figured out with great
deliberation that one of the most beau
tiiul and sonorous words in all our
parts of speech is "nevermore," and
vet it sounds cracked and harsh when
it comes as the antiphonal response
to ten-spot touch. There is said to
be circle of the pure in heart who
could never catch the melody of the
"clink of the ice in the pitcher" SO
famed in song and story. One can
imagine that such people might sit
rapt for hours listening to the mere
repetition of radiance" or sym
pathy," as if it were Beethoven's
sonata in B-fat major. They lend
variety to the world. but they furnish
further proof how impossible it is to
strip the wig of association from the
bald pate of soulless sylIaOles.
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
TIMELY LETTERS TO THE TIMES MAIL BAG
Still Another Glass.

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
"One Of the Mechanics struck a very
important section of the great wheel
called Government employees, but he left
out or failed to name quite a little army.
l refer to the watchmen who guard and
protect Uncle Sans business houses in
this city.
We are class that has the chief cause
to complain. We are required to do, ap-
p-oximately, sixty-fve days more serv-
ice during the year than any other class
of employees. We have no holidays, no
half holidays, nor Sundays; every day
we are required to be at our post of
duty. No other class of employees has
the responsibilities resting upon them
that We have: The care and protection
of the buildings We are in and their
contents.
l know one watchman who is alone i r.
one of the departments. This depart
ment is housed in four different buiio-
irgs from three to four stories high an
he is required to make a trip through
them all once every hour of the night
and there are stair steps enough to
climb during each night to put him faI
above the top of the Washington Monu-
ment: in addition he has to rJIn an etP-
vator two hours each morning, and L.
wait on sixteen or eighteen charwomeE.
taking down their waste paper ana
bringing each one a bucket of hot water
to her floor: besides this he has to at
tend to all phone calls, receipt for teIe-
grams, etc. While his duties are far
greater. his pay is just the same-S6}
a month.
We have no promotion each year.
| thereby increasing our salary from 500
to 500, as the clerks have; we are right
where your pay was fixed in 1855, when
We could buy our meat at cents a
pound. and everything else in proper
ton. If We can't get an increase in our
pay for heavens sake pay us for the
extra days we are required to work
more than any other class of Govern
ment employees.
We are not statues that never want
Sunday off nor a holiday to spend with
our families: we are human beings with
! like wants as other people. Let justice
be done though the heavens fall.
WATCHMAN.
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
INSURGENTS FIRM
AGAINST SHEEHAN
Declare They Will Never
Vote for Murphy's
Candidate.

ALBANY, n. Y, Jan. 24-The factionaI
feeling among the Democrats In becom-
ing more bitter daily as a result of the
continued deadlock over the election OF
successor to United States Senator
Chauncey NJ. Depew.
Demand that Governor Dix take an
open hand in the situation was revealed
today in an ultimatum from Murphv
that there will be no break In the dead
lock unless the insurgents seek his
forgiveness. Insurgent leaders answer
ed In turn that not one Of their number
would ever vote for Sheehan.
While Murphy was as strong as ever
in~hts declaration that Sheehan would
be elected if the Legislature had to stay
in session all summer.
Excitement was caused here today by
charges made by Senator Roosevelt, the
young insurgent leader Mr.. Roosevelt
openly accused Sheehan and some of his
advisers and followers of attending a
conference on Sunday at the residence of
Thomas Fortune Ryan in New York
city.
Although the Senatorial aspirant botly
denied the truth of the charge, Mr..
Roosevelt calmly reasserted il this
morning, declaring that he had received
his Information from the most credible
source.
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
Soldiers Pensions.

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
1t was formerly supposed that the
meanest men on record were the farmer,
who was too stinEy to plow his own
corn ground for fear the crows would
steal some of the Grub-worms; and the
employer who never was generous but
cnce in his life, and that was when he
gave the itch to his apprentice boy.
But your correspondent who signs
himself "One Of Them lit is to be
hoped that there is only one of the
species) is ahead of either. He would
dismiss all pensioners from office, be-
cause they have pensions. Most OF
these pensioners draw 81 per month.
Any man who voluntarily went out to
sleep in snow and mud and ram, TO
wake and meet on the battlefield the
fierce fighters of the Confederacy-the
best fighters, as a whole, the world
ever saws worthy of a pension.
Statistics show that one soldier in
every nine lost his life, and one out of
every seven was wounded. Ninety
three thousand were killed in battle;
5000 died from other injuries; lS6,0oJ
We're killed by disease-a grtnd total of
some 100000. Out of some 100000 only
lOG0 600 pensioners are living. and they
are going to the grave at the rate of
90. 600 a year.
Even the Confederate States, ruined
as they were, have for years paid PEN
sions to their surviving soldiers, and
they deserve them. C'
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
Major Judson's Picture.

Major Judson. u. S. A., Engineer
Commissioner of>3he District Of Column
bia, has just added a photograph of
beautiful horse to the walls of his den.
He got the photograph as a result OF
bet made with Ren johnson, Representa-
tive in the House from Kentucky.
Mr.. Johnson is ranking Democratic
member on the House District Com
mittee, and because of this position
came into close touch with Major Jud-
son. "
Fine horses you raise in Kentucky,
remarked the major one day in the Dis
trict committee room.
BEST in the world" admitted john
son.
my grandfather owEed the finest
thoroughbred ever raised in the blue
grass country boasted the Engineer
Commissioner
That's a mighty ambitious state
ment." observed the Kentuckian. "Pll
make you a bet that if you can name
the finest thoroughbred raised in, Ken
lucky I can produce his photograph.
I'll go further; if YOU can name him III
present you with the photograph. What
was the name of your grandfather
Kentucky thoroughbred"
Lexington" said Major Judson.
You win," admitted Johnson. Lex
ington was the finest thoroughbred, and
lose the picture in my thoroughbred
collection I priced most highly"
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
Not Collector.

Accidental or premeditated humor at
the expense of Sidney Bieber, the we'll
known G. o. p. spirit in the District,
nearly upset the dignity of Criminal
Court No. !.
Bieber was on the stand as a character
witness, and was being examined by At
torney Joseph w. Nichols.
What is your business, Mr.. Bieber?"
Real estate business, SIR promptly
replied the witness.
The attorney then stroked his fore
head and assumed a reminiscent atti-
tude.
Let see. Mr.. Bieber, were you not
collector of customs at Georgetown for
a while?''
mo. sir! I was not" emphatically
responded the witness.
Even Justice Wright could not sup
press a smile as the outlaws went up
from the crowded courtroom, the at
torneys especially appTeciating the allu-
sion, as they remembered Mr.. Bieber' s
strenuous efforts to get the customs job
despite the Senate's wishes.
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
Cost of Pensions.

To the Editor OF THE TINES:
1t is hoped The Times will correct
the statement that the new age pen
sion bill will cost alone an increase of
s45, ,OOO, 900 the first year. 1t will not cost
one quarter of that. 1t cannot, for
most veterans draw a pension now for
some disability. Further, there is a lot
of talk about superannuated clerks
getting rid of them or reducing their
Salaries. There are hundreds of them
over seventy years, even eighty years,
doing as efficient work as when they
came into the service, and to set any
age for compulsory retirement is neither
necessary, polittic nor just.
When a clerk does not come up to
the average is a defensible excuse for
reduction of salary or discharge.
INTERESTED.
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
Right of Free Speech.
tor of THE TIMES

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
The propaganda by our progressive
Washington paper. The Times, for
the right of free speech for all Amer
lean citizens is hailed with joy by
every self-respecting Government
employe
What more fundamentally un-Amer-
lean could be conceived than the at
tempt to deprive a large body of
citizens within the National Capital
cf what has always been regarded
as :he first principle OF liberty.
The result has been to foster con-
ditions which are a disgrace to the
service by protecting a certain type
of minor officials in their abuse of
the power vested in them. This
state of affairs has been detrimental
to the officials themselves for but
few ordinary men can withstand the
severe test of autocratic power over
helpless subordinates. who are not al
lowed to make protest or even to speak
in their own defense for fear of being
accused OF "insubordination."
In fact. some of the petty officials,
and even q few of the higher ones.
are becoming 'paranoiacs" under the
strain. and are guilty of acts which,
garded by outsiders as exaggerated
tales.
With all the cant about progress,
they are in reality going hack in
principle to the customs of medieval
times and arrogating to themselves
the divine right of kings" Some OF
them are even laboring under the de-
luston that they own the respective
Offices placed in their charge, an.
that the subordinates under them
are their goods and chattels."
Because denied the right of free
speech. these subordinates-some of
them of high grade of intelligence
are supposed to fall in line and be
loyal" which means uncomplaininS
and abject submission to whatever
outrageous absurdities may chance
to be inflicted upon them.
Such a state of affairs might be
necessary in the military service in
time Of war. but it is most unbecom-
ing to the civil service. 1t is not dis
cipline," but persecution. or. if dig
nified by the name of discipline, 1t is
of sort more suitable to a reform
school than to Government offices.
Whatever may be said in favor OF
the Government service. what may be
called it's atmosphere" is. under the
present regime. an anachroniSm en-
tirefy out of line with modern ideals.
CIVIL LIBERTY.
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
Greek Army Officers
Placed Under Arrest

ATHENS, Greece, Jan 4.-Five non
commissioned officers of the Greek
army were arrested today following the
securing of evidence which points to
a military plot against the government.
Twelve members of the army, including
Colonel Lapathiotis, who was war min
lister under the revolutionary regime.
are now under arrest, although Premier
Venizelos, in an official document re-
assured the representatives Of the for
eign powers today that the government
did not expect an open outbreak.
The alleged conspiracy was discov-
cred through secret meetings at the
home of Colonel Lapathiotis.
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
A TRAGEDY OF THE ARTISTIC
TEMPERAMENT.

Not since Paul Leicester Ford was
shct down by his brother, who after
ward turned the weapon upon himself
in the spring of 1902, has the literary
world and the larger circle of general
readers been so stirred as by yester-
days tragedy in quiet old Gramercy
lark. Late reports indicate that David
Graham Phillips splendid vitality may
pull him through.
1t is earnestly to be hoped that il
will, for his work takes high rank
and it will be long before he or any
one else gives the world a novel of such
strength as "Old Wives For New" The
belief that the novelist had depicted
him as character i'll one of his more
recent books evidently stirred in his
SLAYER that madness which is to genius
near allied" for it is recognized that
young Goldsborough was himself Il
man of gifts. In him the "tempera'
ment" of the poet and musician fol
moment overleaped the dominion oi
the will. The egoism which is but toe
large ID part of men of his type mag
nitied a real or fancied grievance and
awakened the blind instinct to kill. II
was the wol king out of a psychological,
phase through which great literature
and great tragedies are born. The pity
of it lies in the heartache it leaves be
hind.
The Washington times., 1911-01-24

Every one of them is known the world
over as an example of highly efficient
OF ganization and management. They
have solved the problem of labor trou-
blcs. They have no superannuaticn
Light, forever growing more menaeing.
Tfty are able to slow, year after
year, an increasing r1sio of efficiency,
: of units of production. If they did
not, they could not Feep their places
in iris intense race OF modern indus
trialism.
How about the Government?
1t is the one striking exception. It's
efficiency showing goes downward, its
cost of operation goes upward, regu-
Iarly and inevitably.
There can be only one answer.
Blindly refusing to adopt, even to con-
slider, the methods which have made
constantly increasing efficiency posi-
bic in corporate business, the Govern
ment suffers.
1t has object lessons on every hand,
but it will not study them. 1t allows
its policy to be made for it by men
who are ready always to reach into the
pork barrel grab-bags and yank out
all they can reach, but who fatty re-
fuse to consider the most enlightened
methods of saving money and promot-
ing humanity.
Suppose-just suppose for a moment
that it were possible to get one Con-
gress to give half as much attention
to the decaying civil service establish
ment as it gives TO the struggle for
public building appropriations!
Or suppose that one tenth of the
money that has been wasted in ill-con-
sidered distributions of river and har-
Dor graft, had been devoted, intelli-
gently and sanely, to putting the civil
service on its feet!
What would have been the result?
For one thing, there would be no
COlupldlHlS OOudN VI lhobiil'g W 5S'
efficient people into the departments
to do the Governments work.
For another, there would be no
charge that the Government is the
least human, the most soulless, OF en-
Ployers.
There would be no excuse for the
everlasting accusation that no business
is so i'll managed as that of the Gov
ernment, none gives such small returns
in proportion to money invested.
How would liberal policy, i'll sal
aries and pensions, improve con-
ditions in the Government service?
Just as it has done that for private
corporations. Mr.. Perkins knows more
about it than any other witness we
have been able thus far to put on the
stand. Read what he says, out OF
long and intimate experience.
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
Cabinet Converted.

To the Editor of THE TIMES:
The best tribute to the effectiveness of
the splendid work The Times has. done
and still is doing in behalf of the Gov
ernment clerks, is the fact that it has
converted Secretaries Dickinson, Meyer.
MacVeagh, NageI. ani Hitchcock from
their positions of regarding clerks as
mere machines to be worked a half
hour longer each day to a more hui
name standpoint of treating the clerk
as a felIow-being and a financial victim
of Congressional neglect, entitled to
dong overdue) increased pay and Some
sort of pension.
The Times has aroused those gentle
men to the cruel truth of the situation.
and l am hopeful that it's continued
efforts will shame Congress into doinE
its duty.
Instead of this executive and Iegis-
lative cry of Have the clerks get to-
gether and unite on a compromise pen
sion scheme" 7 think it would be much
more to the point to have the President
their views upon Congress.
The Times has proven that the clerks
are together-practically a unit-on the
subject of a deserved and much-needed
increase of salary, without which il IS
largely an impoSsiblity for the clerks
to contribute to a self-supportinG pen
sion scheme.
Let Congress get together, increase
the clerks salaries . per cent, and as
nucleus for pension fund appropri-
ate fund equal to a % per cent IN
crease of clerks salaries, dating from
the time congressman increased tl1eir
own salaries so per cent and running
until the proposed clerks ipcrease takFs
effect. FAIR PLAY.
The Washington times., 1911-01-24
Met Champ Clark.

John Kronmiller, a Republican mem
Der OF the House from Maryland, is
serving his first and last term in Con-
gress. Although he has been in daily
attendance for nearly two years he had
never met Champ Clark. A few days
ago he went over to a Maryland Demo-
crat and said he would regret to retire
from Congress without becoming ac-
quainted with Champ Clark. the next
Speaker of the House.
Mr.. Clark" said Representative Cow
lngton, let me introduce you to Repre-
sentative Kronmiller, a Republican
member from Maryland"
Glad to know you, Mr.. kronmtller,
said the next Speaker, 'and may your
sojourn among us be short"
Kronmiller works harder than any
member of Congress. His home is in
Baltimore and he is the proprietor of a
small umbrella shop there.
Being a member of Congress doesn
give me any special privileges in my
shop" remarked Kronmiller to a group
of members. Il have to go down TO
the shop early in the morning and get
busy helping the boys make umbrellas,
and catch the 10 o'clock train for
Washington.
This morning when l was about to
leave the foreman toldIme l would have
to get back to work tonight. l pro-
tested that had lot of business which
would keep me I'm Washington.
Can't help it, declared the foreman,
we've got a lot of orders on hand and
they must be taken care of, and you've
got to come back and do your share.
You can take care of your Washington
affairs when you haven't anything else
to do "
Kronmiller says he never ceases to be
amused at the astonishment of his con-
stituents who look him up at his place
of business. Every one of them, he
saws, expects to find him attired in A
frock coat and silk hat. debating to d
stenographer, instead of which any Bal
timorean who calls on kronmiller finds
him with his sleeves rolled up. with
leather apron tied under his arms. anC
with an old pipe in his mouth, mendtnG
and making umbrellas.
The Washington times., 1911-01-24

The announcement that bubonic
plague is now raging in China to such
an extent that the legation quarter IN
Peking has been isolated, and that the
same restrictions will be placed upon
the European quarter, causes some
concern in this country, where the anx-
ious hours of suspense during the Boxer
uprising in 1900 are still remembered.
Washington people have many trlends
in the diplomatic, commercial, and
newspaper circles Of the Chinese capt.
tai. The government of the Middle
Kingdom is doing all 1t can to suppress
the plague, and has invited the assist
ance of the medical experts OF the
world. The efficiency of sanitary regu-
lations, which Americans and Euro
peans would instinctively observe is
an encouraging factor in the situation.