The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-07-02

fourth.
HITTING THE NAILS
ON THE HEADS
The colonel dead-icated the new
party.-Times- Union.
The latest thing is an electric farm.
We presume they raise currents there.
Tampa Tribune.
The man who will knock his own
town shaves himself with a piece of
celery dish.-Tampa Tribune.
How would | / do for a name for
Rooseyelts new party? But perhaps
that's one too many Ts.-DeLand News.
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We believe that every college in the
country has its own peculiar yell"
Can anybody tell us what is the yell
of the electoral college.-Tampa Times.
Negro delegates didn't figure much
in the Baltimore convention. Howev-
er, it's more than likely that there
were some in the woodpile.-St. Angus
tine Meteor.
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! Col. Frank Mayes is being referred
to as the man who voted singly against
Parker. His friends will say he voted
wisely, all of which is undoubtedly
correct.-Jacksonville Metropolis
Keep the toy pistol out of the small
boys hand. likewise the giant cannon
cracker, and already you will have
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Union.
| lady in Fairfield, Fla, says she
thinks the Star is the only genuine
democratic paper published in the
state. Evidently she has never saw
the South Jacksonville Journal
Journal.
Young men are so blind to their in
terests that they never admire the
! girl at a picnic who stays and helps
the old folks clean up the dishes and
repack the baskets, as much as they
admire the snippy girl who walks off
as soon she has had all she can eat.
Barlow Record.
Mayor PHELPS latest scheme is a
municipal newspaper" No doubt he
would assess the subscription price
against the property and pass an or
dinance compelling the people to read
| it. If it is required to print all the
mayors poetry" the subscribers won't
need any gas plant.-St. Petersburg
Independent.
Chris. Codrington of the DeLand
News has started out to bust" the in
surance trust in Florida and he will do
it. AS a warning to him the other day
his rates were raised again, but Chris
goes right on sticking pins in the
"trust."-Sanford Herald.
Immense power against goodness is
welded by society organized by
evil. The gates of hell are golden
gates, and the high seats within and
all the crowns are reserved for the re-
spectacle. The virtues there are not
offensive and the vices are gentleman
ly and 1adylike. A man may not steal
a loaf Of bread, however near starva-
ton, but he can defraud others of
million and not only hold his social
position but win admira
cola Journal
The medical takers in Florida must
go. Pale-faced women whose cheslrG|
are furrowed with sufferip2s
whom disease has fash ms
must be protected. - and in
struggle with Eened its fangs
must BE- DMen who toll and
flusM the high cost of living
saved from the damnable in
noes of a daily press which cooper
1ates with medical takers in the rob-
berry by being the instruments which
lead to the slaughter. The medical
profession is an honorable one, and
the invasion of these charlatans must
Istop.-Dixie.
The man who gets drunk and paints
the town red" is generally severely
ldealt with. but really is he as great ar
Offender as the citizen who refuses &c
keep his premises in sensible condi-
ttion. One shocks the moral fiber OF
the citizen. the other jeopardizes the
health and life of the citizens. Should
! wauchula be visited by an epidemic OF
1 typhoid fever would not the blame rest
!: on all our shoulders for not keeping
the town as clean as we could? Let US
have a cleaning up before it is too
Ilate.-wauchula Advocate.