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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-02-16
OXFORD

oxford, Feb. 13.-Mr. Benjamin F.
Borden, Ocala's assistant postmaster,
was in our midst Sunday, shaking
hands with his many old friends and
acquaintance here.
Mr.. and Mrs. \. r. O'De1 of Jack
sonvlle, came down Sunday, returning
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Finney. Mrs Cor
don Parham and three children drove
up from Coleman Sunday to spend the
day with Mr.. Eugene Parham and fam
lily.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Snowden motor
ed up from Wildwood Monday. Mr..
Snowdens mother, Mrs. Charity Snow
den, is quite feeble.
Mrs E. H Powell is going to give
her two brothers. George and Grant
I.aVeigne, a valentine party at their
home the 14th. All the young folks
are looking forward to same with
much enjoyment
! Mr.. Robert Fox of Starke is serving
as assistant agent for Oxford and
stopping with his uncle. Mr.. J. c. Golf
| Mrs. VIII Stokes came up from Cole
man Sunday. visiting Miss Luba O'Deu
while here. She returned home Mon
day.
! Rev c. r. Phillips filled the pulpit
at the Baptist church Saturday night
and Sunday.
| Mr.. J. T. LaVeigne. tax assessor for
| Sumter county, left Monday in his
auto for Center Hill and other points
in the southern part of the county to
| assess taxes for 1912
| Prof Giddeons and wife left last
week for his home in Trilby. They will
| be greatly missed.
Miss BERTHE Ramsey left for her
home at Webster last week, She was
one of our best teachers and it is hoped
she will return at the next term Of
school.
| Mr.. Leon Griggs and two children
went up to Ocala Tuesday to visit with
relatives and friends.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-02-16
HOME CURED ME AT

l have over a thousand pounds %
choice home cured meat. hams. sides
and shoulders. Quality and flavor as
fine as was ever produced in the coun-
~, Sides al IS cents and hams and
shoulders at Is cents per pound. D. y.
Waldron, Oxford, Fla
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-02-16
FINE CARLOAD OF
HORSES AND MULES

Our buyer, Mr.. Tompkins,
has just returned from the
market, where he bought a
drove of some of the finest
took we have ever handled.
Come in and look over the
lot. Horses and Mules for all
purposes; all are frst-class.
strictly guaranteed stock. We
have handled over 100 head
in the past few weeks in adj
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-02-16
T. ALEXANDER
PRACTICAL
CARPENTER AND BUILDER

Careful Estimates Made on All Con
tract Work Gives more and better
work for the money than any other
contractor in the city.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-23

the official class who have always re-
garded any extension of European in
fiuence as a menace to their privileges.
Every anti-missionary riot that has
since taken place has been i~nstigated
by these. Never has there been a
riot caused by popular spiritual enthu-
siasm or religious fanaticism. With
such powerful instigators as the liter
att and the mandarins, ruffians were
always to be found, as in other coun-
tries, among the dregs of, the popula-
ton ready to do their bidding. But a
student of Chinese history can truth
fully affirm that the great Chinese
people have never been guilty of re-
ligious intolerance.
at may, therefore, be confidently
hoped that, now that the Manchu pow
er has been overthrow and that the
Chinese people have again come into
their own, a period of complete relig-
ious federation is about to dawn, and
that the Christian Missions will soon
reap richer harvests to their labors
than have been theirs in the past.
The attitude of the most prominent
figures in the New China certainly
augurs we'll for the future. In an in
lSI f1C" "11Sh liz . dLAC1 1CA4SAo
Murphy, a missionary in the Hupeh
Province, had with the famous leader
of the revolutionary cause, General
Ii Y%uan-hung, the latter expressed the
deepest generation for his Holiness
the Pope, and asked that more Catho-
lie missionaries be sent to China.
cat present almost all Roman Cath
Ollie missionaries in China are French,
German, Spanish, Portuguese, or Ital-
ian. 1t has been felt that h%ighly-edu-
Gated English-speaking missionaries
are badly needed if the Catholic
Church is to take her rightful place in
higher education in China at this time
when the flood of infidel literature be-
ing poured into the country threatens
the very moral life OF the nation. 1t
is significant in this connection that
the new Apostolic Delegate for the
United States, the Most Rev. Giovanni
Bonzano, was for years a missionary
in China, and afterwards for three
years editor of the Magazine for Mis-
has been also very actively interested
in mission work as rector of the Pro-
paganda College in Rome.
cat the end of 1910 there were in
China, 1,363,697 Catholic Christians
and 800, 1886 catechumens under the
care of 1,426 European and 701 native
priests. In the Shanghai Diocese alone
there were 2O3,46S Chinese Catholics,
and in Picking 114,367: The Protestant
missions have about 5000 missionaries
in the country and count 278,628 ad-
herents."
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-23
HIGH LIVING.

In a cable dispatch to the Chicago
Inter-Ocean the Anglican Bishop of
Salisbury says:
"The real blame lies at the door of
most of us-certainly at the door of
modern society. The idolatry of
money and luxury for which it is con
spicuous; the reckless extravaganza;
the demand, not confined to one sec
ton of society, for a more and more
soft and self-indulgent life; the alb
surdly high standard of entertaining;
the impression given to the masses
from highly-colored descriptions of
fashionable society that this is the
normal life of prosperous people, and
inevitable comparison and contrast
with their own circumstances-all this
has done it's deadly work. 1t has
raised passions which cannot be easily
due1led. 1t has led the poor to despise
the rich, and yet, with curious incon-
sistency, to try to initiate them"
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eyes or her reWarding smile. He
stretched up his hand as high as he
could, SO as to keep it from being hid
den by the tall girls who sat in front
of him. He even waved it about to
attract attention. For a moment,
when the teachers glance came his
way, he thought he was to be
the child selected. But no, another
child just behind him was called upon,
and Bobby, as he settled back to lis
ten, could not help feeling just a lit
tie disappointed.
This story" said the teacher, after
it had been retold, reminds me of
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny We
have just time his morning for another
story. Is there any one here who
knows BENJAMIN Bunny?' Hands,"
Again Bobby's hand went up. He
knew benjamin Bunny" 1t had been
his bedtime story more than a hundred
times. He knew it almost by heart.
And, o goody! There we're only a
few hands up in all the room!
Bobby glanced swiftly about him,
while he waved his hand, and all at
once his eyes fell on the little girl
across the aisle. Her frightened look
was no longer on the waving arms
about her; her feet no longer swung
beneath her seat. Instead, she was
eagerly watching the face of the
teacher. One hand was raised, and
futtered timidly; it was held as high
as a pink spot in the cheek toward
Bobby.
Bobby Holmes may tell us!" called
the voice of the teacher, and Bobby
nearly jumped. Of course he had been
hoping to hear that. But you do not
often realize such hopes in a roomful
of pupils. Just for the moment Bob
by's mind was on the eager face and
the timidly f%1uttering hand of the new
pupil.
Slowly he rose to his feet. The
teachers expectant smile was upon
him. He knew the story of benjamin
Bunny" SO well-he felt almost as if
it were his story, and belonged to no
one else! And he loved to tell stories!
Il think" Bobby said, trying to swal-
low the queer lump that came into
his throat, that this little girl knows
it." He looked across at her and sat
down. And this time, when he settled
back to listen. Bobby did not feel
the least bit disappointed.
Stella C. Dpsar. in Youths Companion.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-23
WITH GOD.

One of the most searching chapters
in Mother Loyola's book Heaven
wards" is that on Crooked Ways"
In this she pleads eloquently for sin
cerity in our dealing with God. "Our
Lord cannot get on" writes Mother
Loyola, with a soul given to crooked
ness. He is not at home with it nor
it with Him. Perhaps some of us
know. the uncomfortable feeling of
talking to one whom we are trying to
trick or think we have tricked. Any
thing like free conversation is out of
the question, the sooner the interview
comes to an end the better. So is it
with us when we are not honest with
God, when we are conscious of some
thing being wrong between ourselves
and Him which we have no intention
of putting right, or of something He
is asking of us that we will not give
Him-a bad habit to be broken, a
dangerous pleasure to be sacrificed, a
growing intimacy to be checked. Any
thing else He may demand, but our
Agag must be spared. And He per-
sists, and gradually a wall comes be-
tween us and Him and joy goes put of
His service, for who hath resisted
Him and had peace?' Job 81 Our
confessions become troubled; at Mass
and Communion we are ill at ease,
glad after a few uncomfortable pray
ers to hurry out of church as if the
atmosphere there oppressed us"
This, like every other form of dis
ease, the gentle writer tells us, must
be taken to our Heavenly Physician.
The p~erversity of the heart is not an
enigma to Him. "Trust in our Heav-
emily Father deepens with the trust
fulness that, u~ndismayed by continued
lapses, takes to Him again and again
the most humiliating of the in
f1rmities by which our poor nature is
beset. This is what He loves-that
we should fearlessly come to Him and
tell Him all the truth about ourselves.
1t may be that there is nothing good
to tell, that the truth is something we
are very much ashamed of. No mat
ter, we may trust it all to Him who
is SO kind, so tender, so ready to ex-
cuse when He can, and to forgive al
ways. He will never upbraid us either
in this world or the next with what
we have told Him in confidence and
trusted to Him by our own free act.
What it is to have a friend to whom
we can tell all the truth and what
a joy that that Friend is our Judgei
More than half our difficulties in
prayer come from u not being quite
honest with our Lord. Not telling Him
all the truth about ourselves. If we
were to mend in this respect, and cul-
tivate the habit of owning to Him
quite simply any fault our conscience
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BoRBY's CHANCE.

Bobby had been in school so long he
had almost forgotten how it feels to be
such a stranger that you do not even
dare to raise your hand when you
know the answer to a question. He
was reminded of that uncomfortable
feeling on the morning that a new
pupil-a little girl-came into his room
and took the seat just across the aisle.
After reading the children a story, the
teacher asked all who could reten it
to raise their hands. The little girl
only swung her feet and looked about
in a scared way at the waving arms
of the children.
Bobby's hand was up. He loved to
tell stories. For that matter, Bobby
would have loved to do anything that
brought upon him the teachers bright
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-23
TO MAKE CHINA CATHOLIC.

Mr.. Fitz-Gibbon, who has long been
a FREQUENT writer on things Chinese
and was for seven years in the I'M
perial Chinese Customs Service, writ
ing in the Catholic Northwest Prog
ress, of Seattle, speaks with enthu-
siasm of the opportunities for Ameri-
can Catholic missionaries in China at
the present time. He says in part:
In marked contrast to the fierce re-
ligious intolerance and bloody perse-
cutions of Europe, the Chinese people
from the earliest centuries of u era
allowed Western religious teachers to
freely pursue their propaganda
throughout the empire. From Aryan
India in the West came Buddhism;
HISTORIAN Christianity came to China
in A. d. 636 and fourished in many
parts of China for centuries. In the
seventeenth century the Jesuit Fathers
discovered the existence of a Jewish
colony at K~ai-feng-fu, some $50 miles
southwest of Peking. The Jews are
supposed by many authorities to have
reached China Immediately after the
Captivity. The total Moslem popula-
ton of China is estimated at 100000 900.
''The Roman Catholic missionaries
first came to China in 1882, when the
famous Matthew .Ricci arrived. Their
success from the beginning was phen-
omenal. With their great learning
and scientific knowledge they imme-
diately appealed to the intellect OF
the country. The Jesuits allowed
their converts to continue their so
called ancestor worship-which many
authorities declare to be really no
more worship than the placing of a
wreath on the grave of a father or
the prayer of a Roman Catholic at the
tomb of a sanity mother to remember
her before the throne of God. Then
came the foreign traders and their
gunboats, and in the minds of the
Manchus, Christianity was soon re
garded as only the harbinger of Euro
pean aggression. Thenceforth the
policy of the Manchu government Ga
policy actuated by fear-the fear of
a small nomad population holding in
subsection a vast empire) was strong
ly and bitterly opposed to all mission
aries-Roman Catholic and Protestant,
In this policy the government was
zealously seconded by the old ~literati,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1912-11-23
THANKSGIVING
An IdyI of the Farm.

written for The Catholic Bulletin by
Rev. II. 3. Tierney, Trenton, MOI
You may boast about your swell cafes
menu la bill of fare
Of the great hotels of Paris and the
service catered there;
You may talk of fancy dinners a la
mode with music grand
Which you've tasted in your travels
through the cities of the land;
Perhaps you are a nabob or a multi
millionaire,
A gentleman of quality, a prince or
favored heir;
Mayhap you are a connoisseur and
love your viands pure,
Perhaps you're happy only when you
play the epicure.
I don't care what your station is or
what you really are,
I "a not where your appetite has led
you ear or far,
You could not in a thousand years,
wherever you might roam,
Duplicate Thanksgiving at the old
Missouri home.
What did we have? You we'll may
ask; the story briefly told,
For CHEEKY appetizer that which can't
be bought with gold,
True gratitude to God for all His
gifts, to men good cheer,
And every heart was thankful for the
blessings of the year.
This moral appetizer filled the house
with love and cheer,
And each one said deep in his heart,
I'm happy to be here,
And everything seemed brighter than
it was the day before
Thanksgiving day at Mothers, well.
now, who could wish for more?
I could not name the things we had,
although I try so hard,
Especially in rhyme, because I really
am no bard,
But since you'd have me mention, as
you say, at least a few,
Just for sweet recollection-well, I
don't care if l do.
A turkey in the middle and a turkey
on the side,
How they were baked so t~emptingly l
really can't decide;
The dressings? They were excellent,
the salads were superb,
I dotted on the celery, the condiment
de herb.
And apples red and cranberries
adorned the festive board,
The best of curly lettuce that the
autumn could afford;
I ate the mashed potatoes with a sort
of pious ease,
And prepared to taste the sweet pota-
toes, followed by the cheese.
l near forgot to mention bout the
gravy rich and brown
Which made Sis Amy famous with the
ladies of the town;
There was buttermilk and coffee, mint
an'-julep (call it milk,
After you had drunk a glass you felt
as fine as silk.
The bread was mothers, graham,
brown, or wheat or wholesome
rye;
To he in season, Nora said, she must
have pumpkin pie;
Father. like a Morse of old enthroned
in honored place,
Intoned the hymn of praise to Goo and
offered up the grace.
[ think you will agree with me, you
long would have to roam,
To find THANKSGIVING dinner better
, served than at our home.
The old farm is the haven of content
ment, love and rest,
And Mother is the angel there by
whom that home is blest.
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THE cATHoLIc BULLETIN, NOV. rs, 1912.

has against u.s., we should find the
barrier that parts Him from us break
ing down. The c%onstraint and aWk-
Wardness would go and we should be
at our ease with Him. For so He has
promised: You shall know the truth
and the truth shall make you free"
PRAYER FOR THE HOLY SOULS.
0 turn to Jesus, Mother! turn,
And call Him by His tenderest
names;
Pray for the holy souls that burn
This hour amid the cleansing flames.
All! they have fought a gallant fight;
In deaths cold arms they perse-
vered;
And after life's uncheery night
The harbor of their rest is neared.
In pains beyond all earthly pains,
Favorites of Jesus! there they lie,
Letting the fire wear out their stains
And worshipping Gods purity.
They are the children of thy tears;
Then hasten, Mother! to their aid:
In pity think each hour appears
An age, while glory is delayed.
0 Mary! let thy Son no more
His lingering Spouses thus expect;
Gods children to their God restore.
And to the Spirit His elect.
Pray, then, as thou hast ever prayed,
Angels and souls all look to thee;
waits thy prayers, for He hath
made
Those prayers His law of charity.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-03
UNDERWOOD DID NOT KNOW
NAME WAS WITHDRAWN

Washington, D. c.. July 3.-Represent-
ative Underwood did not know of the
withdrawal of his name as candidate
for president before the Democratic
national convention until informed by
the Associated Press. He said:
Senator Bankhead has been in
charge of my campaign and has made
a splendid fight. He has been in en-
tire charge of my candidacy and acts
for me.
The loyalty of the senator and his
friends has been a source of gratitude
to me and I thank them for it We
have succeeded in one thing, at least
and have impressed the country and
our party that southern man can be
a candidate for the presidency.
I will support the nominee of the
convention and will spend my time
working for the ticket chosen at the
convention"
Mr.. Underwood heard later by long
distance telephone of the withdrawal OF
his name.
My friends wish me to say that the
action of Alabama was without my
knowledge or approval and I make that
statement" he said.
How about the vice presidency" he
was asked.
4 am not a candidate. do not want
it and would not accept it." he
answered.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-03
NEEDOF NEW PARTY
IS STILL URGENT
This Is the Opinion of Roose-
yelt-Call VIII Be Is
sued Tomorrow.

Oyster Bay, N Y, July ST shall,
Of course. continue to stand for the
progressive nomination" said Col
Roosevelt last night. after he heard of
the nomination of woodrow Wilson.
The former president stated his be-
lief that events in the Democratic as
well as the Republican convention
demonstrated the need of a new party.
This is Col Roosevelts statement: L
have stated before that the third party
movement and my candidacy would not
be in any way affected by the outcome
at Baltimore 1 never go into a fight
on contingent basis. 1 shall, of
course, continue to stand for the pro-
greSSlYe nomination. nave Just been
going over with senator Dixon, the call
which is about to be issued by the pro-
visiOnal committee for the progressive
national convention. To my mind what
has gone on in Baltimore for the past
10 days has shown the utterly irrecon-
cilable nature of the elements within
the Democratic party, elements so ire
concilable as to make it hopeless to ex-
pecU from them any prominent reform
movement along constructive lines 1t
has also shown that any nomination
obtained at Baltimore could after all
be obtained only by the support of men
ike Mr.. Taggart in Indiana, and Mr..
Sullivan. in Illinois, and the success of
the candidate at the polls, without re-
gard to his personality, would be con-
ditiOned not only upon the hearty sup
port of Mr.. Taggart and Mr.. Sullivan
and their colleagues and representatives
in every other state, from New York to
Colorado. but would also be condi-
toned upon these men succeeding in
carrying their several state tickets and
in perpetuating themselves in control of
the Democratic party.
Under these conditions I feel that
the events at Baltimore like the events
at Chicago, prove the absolute need of
a new nationwide. nOn-SectiOnal party
which shall in good faith stand for the
interests of the people as a whole"
While the Democratic convention
Roosevelt and his lieutenants were hard
at work making plans for the new
party.
The call is virtually ready and will
July
Col Roosevelt would not discuss the
victory of Mr.. Wilson.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-03
The BEST PROOF

FL PasO Citizens Cannot Doubt It.
Doan's Kidney Pills were used-they
sured.
The story was told to FL Paso resi-
dents.
Time has strengthened the evidence.
Has proven the cure permanent
The testimony is home testimony
The proof convincing
1t can be investigated by FL Paso
residents.
Mrs. E. L Nichols. 1903 Z. Missouri
St, FL Paso, Texas, says I have had
no occasion to use DOan's Kidney Pills
or any other kidney remedy since I was
cured by this remedy some time ago.
You are at liberty to use my statement
as heretofore. For long time I was
troubled with baclZache and I attribute
II 10 diSOrdered kidneys. was rarely
Tree from the annoyance but 1 felt
Il more when was on my feet. Now
and then sharp twinges darted through
me and / was bothered by headaches
Learning Of DOan's Kidney Pills I de-
cided TO try them and they proved to
be Just what I required This remedy
can be procured at Kelly G. Pollards
drug store"
For sale by all dealers. Prize SO
cents Foster-Milburn Co. Buff9Io
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name-Doaa.s-ard
take no other.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-03

his policy has been one Of safe and
sane progression with neither the
flamboyant aggressiveness that marked
the actions of some of his predecessors,
NOR the extreme cOnservativeneSs that
graced the terms of others. He has
advocated that no further corporation
laws be enacted until the present ones
are tested, that the revision of the tar
if await the report of his tariff COM
mission; that the army and navy be
reorganized with i view to affecting
greater efficiency and shat economy be
practiced in the administration OF the
government. He has endorsed the AID
rich monetary plan with some form OF
government supervision and ultimate
control; he has urged a rural parcels
post; he has urged cut in the wool
duty and he has always sought to fur
Their the interests OF this country
through his administrative acts
The Presidents Workshop.
Mr. TaitS offices in the white house
have been a physical counterpart Of his
acts during his administration. Instead
Of the war clubs and trophies of the
chase that graced the presidential Of
flee during president RocSevelts re
gime, the walls are lined with books
OF reference and the presidents work
shop presents the view of modern, up
TO date. office with every convenience
at hand for the administration of the
great affairs of the government
Mr.. Taft's home life is as ideal as
is an excellent example of the best
type of the American family. Mrs.
Taft, conceded to be one of the most
accomplished and brilliant women in
Washington. has proved herself TO be
eminently fitted to take up the duties
of the wife to a president She reads
necessarily and is not only abreast of
the time but is well versed in the
world OF literature The atmosphere
of the Taft home, whether in Washing
ton during the heat of the adminiStra-
ton or in Beverly, Mass in the sum-
mer. is one of quiet gracious hospf-
tally.
The Tafts have three children, all of
them displaying the marked abilities
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Taft
Robert Alphonso, the eldest, is a stu
dent and is eventually to become a
lawyer. Miss Helen Heron Taft is
at Bryn Mawr and Charles
Taft, tie youngest of the family, is
attending school He will also go to
Yale when he finishes his preparatory |
course.