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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-03-22
adjutant general.

Capt Driscoll win SCI ever vote
cast, II is said. an bis home county
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CONGRESSMAN SPARkMAN GETS
THE GOODS

Mr.. J. d. Young of Kyle & Young,
has received letter from Hon. S. NJ.
Sparkman, chairman of the rivers
and harbors committee, stating that
he had succeeded in getting into the
appropriation bill of the present con-
gress for the improvement of the Ok
lawaha river, $4,000, this amount to
be used in the construction of lock,
and Strengthening and deepening the
channel.
1t is also understood that Mr.. Spark
man has succeeded in getting into
the same bill $4,000 for improve
ments on the Withlacoochee river
This is also to be used in the con-
struction of lock and taking out
rocky shoals and Strengthening the
channel This is a beginning, and
will give sufficient means for work
that can be done for the present, and
if Mr.. Sparkman is kept in congress
1t ulCduS Tic
of the Mississippi to Atlantic water
way across Florida, along the Okla
waha and Withlacoochee rivers route,
and Marion, Lake, Sumter and Cit
rus counties, which this canal trav-
erses, will surely "be on the map"
Mr.. Sparkman occupies the posi-
ton of chairman of the rivers and
harbors committee of congress, and
will continue to occupy this position
so long as he is a member of con-
gress. To make a change in con-
gressmen for this district at this
time, or any future time before this
canal is completed wuold be great
misfortune to the people of Florida.
We need Mr.. Sparkman's services
great deal more than he needs the
position.
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MONUMENT TO JEFFERSON

II the memory of any AmeFiemm
needs 10 be perpetuatod In marble -
bronze II seems 10 IA that that mas
Is Thomas Jefferson. and % this go
We are glad that the late 1oseph -
litter left In bis VIII the num ~ fwen-
ty-ive thousand dollars a. a nacieua
of a fund OF AZ least afiy thousand
dollars 30 that the people should heip
erect this monument 90 the crest
champion OF republican Institutions.
We are glad that the call h bslns ~
sponded 20 by the people. and paFtie.
ularly are We glad 10 see that tie
donations Of ave cents each has been
sent on by two women from Floflda
II every citizen OF the unlted states
who reyeres the memory 81 this afeal
Virglnian viii contribuie the aam IS
five cents n viii total enough a. fenF
the monument. and the munnmun1
will be representative Of TIE peobie's
affections Let eyeryone who teneI.
ates the memory % TIE foandeF -
our republican Institutions - q go.
tributor 60 the fund.
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sUBDUING SORROW

/ had a cruel sorrow that 'festered
in my heart. l talked about it al
ways, in drawing room and mart, un-
til the people wearied, by all my
doleful yawps, requested me to van
ish and tell it to the cops. And then
tried to drown it in rich imported
ale; my sorrow still was husky when
woke up in JAIL / sung about my
sorrow some dirges sad and weird,
until the briny teardrops were drip
ping from my beard, and no one Of
fered solace, and none would sympa-
thize, and no one brought a wringer
to dry my weeping eyes. And then
one winter morning l ceased to sigh
and sob, and donned a denim. jumper
and went and got job. / worked
along with others who bent their
brawny backs; l delved and picked
and shoveled, and hewed things with
an axe; and 10, that sorrow vanished
and left my soul at rest, no teardrops
stained the hangdowns that fioated on
my chest! And folks who used to
dodge me would come and shake my
hand, and say l was the bone and the
sinew of the land. Most things I have
forgotten, but this much do know:
The man who makes a business of
leading round woe, with chain and
collar on it, will walk a lonely road,
and folks will shrink and Sudden
when passing his abode.
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GRAND LODGE KNIGHTS oil
PYTHlAS ELECT OFFICERS

Hilton S. Hampton, we'll known
attorney of this city, and one of the
best known Pythians of Florida, was
elected grand chancellor of the do
main of Florida by the grand lodge
Knights of Pythias, at it's business
session yesterday. The grand lodge
also selected Kissimmee as its meet
ing place in 1913.
Other officers elected were:
Vice Grand Chancellor, w. J. Sears
of Kissimmee.
Grand Prelate, Robert E. Davis of
Gainesville.
Grand Keeper of Records and Seal,
w. H. Latimer, Eustis, reelected.
Grand Master of Exchequer, VIM.
c. West, Jacksonville, reelected.
Grand Master at Arms, Scott NJ.
Loftin, Pensacola
Grand Inner Gnard, Ernest P. Rob-
erts, Key West.
Grand Outer Guard, N. P. Yowell,
Orlando.
Eloquent addresses were delivered
by the new grand chancellor, H. s..
Hampton, and by the retiring grand
chancellor, S. J. Hilburn, and in the
afternoon the newly chosen officers
were installed with appropriate GER
emonies.-Friday' Tampa Tribune.
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found that a higher percentage of
sons of preachers were mentioned in
the book than the sons of men of any
other profession, trade or calling. The
investigator then turned to the
English who's Who" and found the
same sort of thing, and to the Canad-
ian records, where the preachers
sons again led all the rest. These
things may be taken as showing that
preachers sons actually profit by the
precepts of their fathers, since they
average high in making good" as
men.-Savannah News.
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Or. WILEY sTARTLEs WASHING
TON ~ HIS SUDDEN REs-
INcNATloa

A special from Washington uays
DIR. Harvey W. Wiley. chief of tie
bureau Of chemistry Of the depart
ment OF agriculture. sent hia reslwna.
tion to Secretary Wilson yesterday.
DIR. wiley's resignation came a. .
dramatic climax 10 the Ions confeF.
ence he had with Secretary wiisoa
In the latter's private oflcs today.
The secretary would make no state
ment OF the case other than Dr. VI
ley will hand In his resignation.
No reasons were siven. he said
nor did Dr. Wiley outline hls plans
for the future.
Rumors had been current Cor sex-
eral weeks after the governments
pure food expert was about % leave
the service. Nevertheless. tha actual
news OF his resignation came AZ q Do
surprise TO official washlngton. -
all resignation reports ~. wiley had
made emphatic denial.
The latest report has been thai ID.
Wiley would lay down the lnapoflant
work he had been doing Coz the a..
partment Of agriculture % become a.
sociate editor Of a housekeeplns mas.
azine. lie has received many natler.
ing offers from interesss IN other lire
Of business.
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a BUNCH OF DAISIES CULLED
FROM THE EDITORIAL FIELD

Colonel Roosevelt says he is in IA
vor of woman suffrage, but he is
keeping his stand on paper-bag cook
ing a profound secret.-Milwaukee
Sentinel.
Farmers in Kansas and Missouri
are so prosperous that many of them
can afford to eat their own butter
and eggs.-Kansas City Journal.
The Madero government faces a
crisis about as often as a woman
does a mirror And then wipes the
powder off.-Los Angeles Herald.
Our idea of a really rich man is
one who always has a good appetite
for breakfast and good breakfast
for it to work on.-Dallas Morning
News.
That Chinese newspapers that is
1000 years old ought to be pretty we'll
Observation-Disclosures Chronicle.
Eight governors have declared for
Roosevelt. This leaves just 40 scat
tering."- Birmingham News.
Taft stands on his record" it is
announced. That accounts for the
condition of the record. Philadelphia
North American.
Now that little Pi-Yi is no longer
an emperor he may go barefoot and
have stone bruises and the measles
and a lot of other fun like ordinary
boys.-San Antonio Express.
It's a good thing for Russia that
Persia didn't think TO hire an Ameri
can Observation-Disclosures
Plain Dealer.
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PREACHERS SONS

Some people, great many people,
indeed, seem to have the idea that
preachers sons are pretty tough
lot, and that they usually turn
out when they grow up to be mighty
poor sorts of sticks. In city, town
and country, when some boy has cut
up a bit of mischief, the expression
may me heard, "Oh, well, you can't
expect any better of him; he is
preachers son." The preachers sons
are supposed to lead in all of the dew
iltry about the neighborhood to en-
tice the other little boys-good and
innocent little boys, their mothers
are sure-inty playing hooky, steal
ing apples, throwing bricks at frogs
and cats, and climbing where they
will tear their clothes on nails or fall
and break arms or legs. Nor are the
good and innocent little boys slow to
catch on" to what may be put upon
the shoulders of the preachers sons
with impunity, and they take advant-
age of that knowledge whenever the
advisability of laying it on the
preachers son comes handy.
Now, there are some sons of
preachers who have lived up to and
who are living up to that reputation,
and the acts of these exceptions to
the general rule reflect upon all of
the boys who have preachers for
fathers. The fact is, the sons of
preachers are not different from the
sons of other men, but a great deal
more is expected of them. 1t is
thought that the father should trans
NIT some of his spirit of reverence,
meekness and Difference to the son
and then train into him more of those
attributes and accomplishments
which go to make the model of pro-
priety who does precisely the right
thing on all possible occasions. But
BOYS are very human creatures, no
matter from whence they spring. 1t
has been asserted by no less an
authority than Lombroso, the alienist,
that children are born savages and
have to be civilized as they grow up.
1t certainly seems to be so in the
case of boys, if they are healthy and
strong.
But how do preachers sons grow
up, as poor sorts of sticks? An in
vestigator has taken copy of the
most recent issue of who's Who in
America" and coned it carefully, tabu-
lating the professions and occupa-
lions of the fathers of those whose
names appear in the volume. 1t was
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-03-22
DOES 1T PAY?

A Common Error-The liquor in
dustry is thought to enrich the gov
eminent through the revenue derived
from special taxes and the license
fees imposed upon the manufacture,
importation and sale of intoxicating
liquors. The belief is common that
these receipts are so great that the
government would be seriously i'm
poverished if the sale of liquor was
prohibited.
How the Revenue is Divided-The
United States receives little more
than three-fifths of the money. More
than one-fifth is paid to the cities
and towns as license fees, and the
remaining fraction of fifth is divld-
ed between the states and counties.
For the year 1904 the whole amount
OF the income from licensing the sale
OF intoxicating liquors was for the
United States, the states, counties
and municipalities, $2SO,S1O,124, and
this amount is used to help pay the
running expenses of the government
But we shall see whether this is the
clear gain to the nation which the
people commonly suppose it to be-
Direct and Indirect Cost-The IL
quor bill of the country is usually
presented under two heads, the d.
rect and the indirect cost. the items
including items of added expense
caused fby intemperance, such as
courts. jails and charity
Cost of Crime-All admit that one
OF the greatest causes of crime is
drink. Eighty million dollars is spent
each year for the con gicting and care
Of criminals. marn.s 'ance of peniteH-
tlaries and iails, AMI he support Oh
constables and police The most con-
seryative esCi nate charges one-naI
of this expcl,e to drink, while du-
thorities equally reliable say that
four-hfths of the expense OF crime Is
aue 70 drink This means that the
government spends from one-sixth 10
one.fourth of all the money II re-
oeiyes from drink in the effort TO pun
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ish crime committed by those who
drink.
Cost of Public Institutions-The
government also expends millions to
build asylums for the insane and fee
ble-minded, hospitals, almshouses,
homes and orphanages, supporting
and caring for the inmates at an an
nual expense of ifty-five million dol
lars. The use of intoxicating liquors
produces fifty-nine per cent. of the
insanity of the country and is one of
the chief causes of poverty. The
drunkard's children are often idiots
and must be cared for in asylums
built and maintained for this purpose.
One-tenth of what the government re-
ceives from drink must be expended
on those rendered unfortunate by
drink
Public Charity-Vast sums are
spent for the outdoor relief, or sup
port of the poor each year, especially
during the winter months. According
to the very lowest estimate, twelve
million collars are annually scent in
this wav to alleviate poverty caused
di.ect;v by drink.
Dealing only with the governments
share of the expenses of the crime,
insanity, idiocy, and poverty, caused
by intoxicating liquors, we find that
it costs the country from one-third
to one-half of all the revenue receiv-
ed from drink to meet the expense
caused by drink.
Cost of Private Charity-New York
City alone uses annually ten million
dollars in private charity. There is
pressing need, hunger and want in
every village, town and city. 1t is es-
timated that $2OO,O0O,0OO is annually
given away in charity by private in
dividuals, and according to the low
est estimate at least one-third of this
goes to diminish the sucer1ng caused
by drink.
Cost in Bad Debts-Neglect of bus
mess by men of drinking habits is
often cause of bankruptcy, while
it is we'll known that drinking men
spend cash in the saloons and go in
debt to the merchant. Many of
these debts are never paid, and all
prices would be lower if the mer-
chant were not obliged to add to the
selling cost of his produce an amount
sufficient to cover this loss. The So
Der man, who saves his money, is
thus made the drunkard's proxy, and
must pay not only his own bills, but
the drunkard's. The cost of these
losses to the community is estimated
at ninety million dollars every year.
Cost in cidents-Employer of
labor state that the drinker is more
liable to accident than the sober
workman. The danger to machinery,
horses and vehicles, agricultural i'm
plements, etc., through carelessness
of drinking employees is great, and the
cost of intemperance through acct
dent every year amounts to fifty mil
lion dollars.-Union Signal
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CAPTAIN DRIScoLL LOOKS LIKE
A WINNER!
j. Fred De6erry, Secretary Travelling
Mems DriscoII Club, Says DriscoII
Will Be Adjutant General


1--WE travelling men are working like
beavers to land one of our most pop.
ular commercial travellers In the ad.
jutant generals Office" said ]. Fred
DeBerry, secretary Travelling Mems
Driscoll Club to a representative of
this paper Tuesday, and our best in
formation is that he will be high
man in the first primary, and IL the
captain continues to gain between
now and April 3Oth as he has i'm the
lpast ten days, the first primary will
settle it.
capt. w. j. Driscoll is a man who
does things" said Mr.. DeBerry, "and
has a record that makes him the log
ical man for the office. After four
years at the renowned River View
Military Academy, Pougnkeepsie. ".
Y, he was honored with a position
on the staff of General Wesley Mer.
rift, at West Point. On his return to
Charleston, s. c., his home, Capt.
Driscoll was made second lieutenant
in the famous Palmetto Guards, sue
ceeding Captain Henry BUST, IT.,
promoted, and went through riots of
1881 and 1888, as lieutenant CON-
handing company. His record was
so brilliant he was offered the cap
taincy, but on account of removal TO
Florida declined the honor. After
settling in Jacksonville his love for
things military caused Capt. Driscoll
to enlist as private in the LIST Field
Battery (Wilson's), but had only at
tended one drill as a member OF that
organization when, without his knowl-
edge, he was unanimously elected
captain of Company A, LIST Battalion
Florida State Troops, known as the
famous Jacksonville Light Infantry
q. l.. -. I was a member of Capt.
Driscoll's company at the time, and
the company, to man. would have
followed him anywhere, for the word
fear was never in Capt Driscoll's vo-
cabulary.
After highly honorable and bril-
liant service as captain of the j. I.
rs, he resigned and retired TO private
life, until called to the captalncy OF
the Wilson Battery, Jacksonville.
which was about to disband. Thirty
days afterwards Capt. Driscoll had re-
cruited the company to almost It's full
strength. The building up of this
company so quickly was pronounced
phenomenal by military experts,
Capt. Driscoll taking GA men strong
into camp, and Driscoll was selected
by the commanding officer 10 pro-
coed with his company to Baxter. Fla.
and quell the riots. with which every
Floridian is familiar, and which trou-
BILE was settled without loss of life.
and not a shot fired.
"a recent press dispatch from
Washington contained a singing
criticism of the National Guards
present workings, and 1t is time that
men like Capt. Driscoll are placed in
charge of the troops.
"The travelling men feel like II Is
Driscoll South Carolina gave him
to us an experienced military officer.
and We Florida crackers are going to
show our esteem by elevating him 20
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SCIENTIFIC ADDRESS UPON Al
coHoL MOST INTERESTING

DIR. z. o. Taylor of Boston deliver
ed two of the most telling addresses
against the use of alcoho, recently
that were ever heard in st. Angus
tine. He confined himself strictly to
the scientific side of the case, and no
one could listen to the arguments adj
vanced without being convinced that
the time would soon come when alco-
hol will be classed as it should be-
with the deadly poisons, and it's sale
prohibited as such.
In speaking of alcohol as poison,
DR. Taylor said in part:
There are three general classes of
poisons: The narcotics, which affect
the nerves; the irritants, which affect
the membranes and tissues, and the
narcotic-irritants, which do both.
alcohol belongs to the latter class
narcotics and the irritants. Concrete
~ considered as a narcotic, it is in
the same list with cocaine, ehloral,
morphine and opium. The logic of
this classification compels us to treat
alcohol socially and legislatively the
same as we treat the drug narcotics
with which it is classed. These be-
ing thrown out of the category of
proper luxuries, and the sale of the
same legislatively prohibited for So
cial purposes, alcohol should be dis
posed of in the same way. The fol-
lowing propositions are, therefore, inn
pregnaole:
First, there is no more reason in
modern science for the beverage use
OF alcoholic liquor than there is for
the same us of opium. morphine or
cocaine.
Second, the appetite for liquor is
as abnormal, unscientific and mex
cusable as is the appetite of the NOR
phine fiend, and the user of liquor
should be as much ashamed of his
habit as the user of morphine.
Third, there is no more reason in
modern science for the legalization Of
the sale of liquor for beverage pur-
poses than for the legalizatiOn for the
same purposes of morphine or CO.
caine.
mo one questions the accuracy of
prohibition by legislation invariably
applied TO the sale of cocaine and
other drugs mentioned. 1t betrays
dense ignorance to apply any other
principle of legislation to alcoholic
beverages.
Fourth, a saloon, therefore, is as
much out of place in modern civiliza-
ton as would be an opium joint or
a cocaine den.
Fifth, alcohol being narcotic-irri-
tant becomes doubly effective. While
cocaine being exclusively a narcotic
will lower the mental, moral and
physical tone of the user, he seldom
becomes criminal beyond minor mis-
demeanors of the law; whereas, alco-
hol, combining in itself both mar
cotic and irritant quality, is apt to
make its user vicious and when he
goes home under its influence likely
TO shed innocent blood. So that for
every argument for the prohibition of
the sale and use of cocaine and other
like drugs, there are two arguments
for the prohibition of the sale and
use of alcohol as a double poison. =
St. Augustine Record.
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Micanopy has been mats = postal
depository. In these ofIlees angona
ten years Of age OF over can make e.
posits Of any amount The amouais
are computed separately. and infeF.
est AZ the rate Of per csut 80 -
mum Is added. The deposits aFe sbso.
lutely safe.
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The baftIeship New ilnmpahlFa. a.
she was being taken out % or 49,
In New York on March ga apfuns =
leak. and came near slnkinn befefe
she could be placed ln dfg fee4
again. Our ships 81 vaf are easiiF
playthings.
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The General Desire

1t is now quite evident that the
ticket to be voted in the coming dem
ocratic primary will be the longest
ever" A national victory being in
sight an unusual number desire to get
in line for the pie counter by run
ming for the honorary positions. Oh,
you patriots (?).-Gainesville SUM-
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The Virginia outlaws are in "Dev-
IFS Den," and defy the officers of the
law.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-25

ELIZABETH ,IccRAckES.

text books are well known TO our ria-
ing young barristers. The fact that he
along with Or. Henshall and Miss Me
Gracken. arc all clergyinen's children
doubtless will set students OF hsredity
to work in search of a new law bearing
upon tn. Relationship of rectores and
Leap Year day babies
That the planets governing the des-
TIMES of these rare youngsters arc as
favorah bic TO political careers as to
more profound callinss is proved by a
number OF Instances. There Is DR.. 7.
\. Jameson. naval officer of the port
OF Chicago who was Republican ma
tional committeeman from Illinois at
the Bryan Mckinley campaign days
Having come into the world February
p. ls4s. he Will cershrnte his fifteenth
natal day in the western metropolis
Thursday. And in the same city and
at the same time George Buchanan
Armstrong, former government official.
journalist music and art critic. will
reach another milestonA On mis- last
birthday. that of 1908, his FIVE broth
ers presented him with a loving cup
which Will he again passed around
Thursday ncHt Former Represent ative
George Douglas Perkins. who sat for
eight years in the Federal Congress,
and who has edited the Sioux city
journal since the sixties. Will on the
''sAAAit- iu w NC tilNltlt-'l 10 ms seventeenth
birthday party. He has been an 'adi-
tor since his NTH birthday. When !
asked him the other day whether he
regarded the fact that he was q Leap
Year day baby as lucky or unlucky
circumstance. he replied:
Yes I was born on the 2eth of Feb
ruary. II was in the log cabin year.
remembered by all students OF the his
tory of their country.
In the early years OF my life the
popularity of my birthday was not i'm
pressed on my mind ] believe am
making more OF it now than ever be-
fore. Under the common reckoning |
have had too many birthdays. and /
am willing TO divide.
On the whole. I think have henA.
hted. ] have had something coming 10
me every twelvemonth. and about
every fourth wear little extra has
been provided out OF the goodn ass Of
family and friends.
Copyright 1912. by Tohn Elfreth Wat
kins)