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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-03
CONCORDIi LODGE F. =. OF A..

Concordia Lodge, -Fraterual Union
IF America, meets ~ Yonge's Hall
on the second THURSDAY evening of
each month. Geo. L. Taylor, FM.
Chas. K. Sage, Secretary. Ad-
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-03
NlARION-DCNN MASONIC LODGE

Ma"iOn-Dunn Lodge No. 10, +. &
4. VI. meets on the first and third
Thursday evenings of each month at
80 o'clock. until further notice.
Baxter earn, w. VI.
Jake Brown, Secretary. Ad
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-03

THE ENSIGN FILM NEVER
FAILS. PRESS THE BUTTON. AND
YOU HAVE \ PICTURE. ASK THE
COURT PHARMACY ABCUT THESE
t'II;N s. 2-q-tf
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-03

he ships that pass in the night;
some are small ones. ana some are
.4rge ones ana can ship trenea1 1ous
~arsoas n their holds. The river
l.r.5e>l Tor the canal across Florida
ia the Okla Taha and WilhIacoo-
~Aee rivers, calls for a canal 90 Zee,
vie by six 1eet deep and the course
% be straigh,eaeI out ami locks 10
e placed. 1h:s Stream then VIII
support fal-bottom vessel Of
a cargo 10 several railway cars ca
pacity 4 ship is not railway car.
\ train OF cars can be shipped
aboard a vessel. And as for motor
truck, why, little dab of freight
will go into it compared 10 a cargo.
Usually local railway freight trains
lay over at home stations for the
night; and | know freight truck
WOULD run only in the daytime
A steam vessel is always on the
move. except when she is loading.
ohe runs night and day. and the
modern ones are not go slow, either.
Again, in improving the Okalawa
river, it is not just a local project;
it is statewide 1t is for the whole
Southern states, too. Want the
car line? Sure, the river folk want
the railway AMI the motor car line,
100, ana if the dense population CEN
ter does not stir its stumps and
plant the roads Of asphalt and rails,
the river valley farmers and ship
owners viii do SO with pleasure ana
then it will be, all roads radiate to
the river basin; come out with me
and sup-alligator steak ana cab
bage palmetto, Silver Springs Java,
and Oklawaha river pale face.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-03

From the City Of Ocala's log
3ook, Feb. 22-by First Mate Carl
Mason: Putnam House, Palatka.
We have just returned from Federal
Point. 10 which place we cruised to-
day instead OF Green Cove Springs
with 10 passengers. Monday, the
l6. We had on board 81 passengers,
and Tuesday 10 Wednesday p;
Thursday. IS; Friday. IS: Satur-
day. u cn the regular river route
trips. There are plenty of allTgators
on the river now. | went ashore at
Silver Springs Friday evening and
visited Ocala that night. Failed to
locate YOU Shall report to the ma
T.ne news station every Monday
from the log book. Ny data in the
book never tallies the City OF Ocala
over ten minutes late.
These extracts which young off,
Ger Mason sends me are written on
very classy paper Of Oklawaha ana
SLY e. river scenes.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-03

representative OF the Hart Line are
Mr. Frank ". Ditto. the we'll kncwn
real estate broker, and Mr. Bois-
seau, OF the Sea 5orad Air Line Day
ligh1 yacht City OF Ocala is repre-
scented in tAe Brick City by Mr.. B.
r. Condor.
The Hart Lines big passenger
lruek. operated from the Ford Sales
tonpany.s garage, meets both river
liners: ana i aiso came in very
many ia,eiy il transporting 70 the
~yr.ngs the Edison Motion Pic-lre
--.A. who are taking scenes on the
.4.er from he square aeek sharp
-n-U5er.
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CCoacluded on Page Fiver
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09

one of the kind that Is adapted 10
Observation-Disclosures" legis-
lation.
It tempts congressman to vote 10
please their rural constituents, and
sometimes they do so when their judg-
ment does not approve the measure.
As has been said. the purpose of the
bill is good. Any safe and constitu-
tional legislation which will aid the
good roads movement is to be COM
mended, because there is no question
now before the American people which
is of such vital and far-reaching i'm
portance to the farmers of the United
States-the most important part OF
American citizenship-as that of good
roads. The question which presents
itself is: Will such an amount Of aid
as suggested, spread out as it must
be spread, be of any real benefit? VIII
not the government lose $25,000,0O(
and the people not derive correspond
ing benefit? The Chronicle is not argL
ing against the bill, but is seeking
light, because it wants the none,
used to do good.
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09
VALE ~. S. EXPRESsIn

1t was John Wanamaker, when
postmaster general, who listed the
reasons why the United States could
not then have parcel post. The
reasons were three he said-"Amer-
ican Express, Adams Express and
United States Express" There are
also other express companies.
Time passed. Manners changed, in
Guiding manners senatorial in the
chamber where one Thomas C. Platt
controller of the United States Ex.
pr,ss company, was for long likewise
senator from the Empire state.
Parcel post family came to us,
many years after John Wananlaker
perpetrated his sardonic witticism.
And now we are told that the direc-
tors of the United States Express
press Company have voted unanimous.
ly to liquidate the institution and put
the blame for this. terrible outcome
upon the government parcel post
service.
There will be little mourning among
the people.
There are express companies,
enough and to spare, left over.
Stockholders in the company will
get from $50 to 800 per share on a
capital tremendously greater than any
original investment. and after many
years of handsome dividends.
The episode is another straw in the
wind that blows straight to the time
when the federal government will
take over and operate for the whole
people the ways and means of travel,
of transportation and of communica
tion.-New Orleans Item Farmer.
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09

lished at Springfield, Ohio, j. NJ. Tay-
lor writes a valuable and interesting
article telling farmers how to get to
the market with their goods. Mr.
Taylor goes on, as follows, to show
how farmers can use the newspapers:
"The cities are full of people who
want tC buy their goods direct, the
country is full of farmers who would
gladly sell direct for the sake of the
additional profits to be gained by that
mode of selling. All that remains is
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09
NeLOs From the Tripod

did it that contemplation of his words
Is unpleasant
The suggestion that the repeal Of an
act subsidizing a monopoly is equiva-
lent to giving control of the canal to
the British is contemplate. 1t is
hardly believabie- that an American in
high position would so lower himself
in debate Of such Importance.
This ranting appeal to prejudice and
passion strengthens the belief that
Providence had something to do with
the Baltimore convention of the Demo
cratic party The Hon. Champ Clark
might have been President of the Unit
ed States.
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09
A FITTING REJoINDER.

The statements of Life on medical
and public health questions are usually
SO distorted and radically misleading
that the average reader does not take
its utterances seriously. The Boston
Herald, however, recently replied to
one Of Life's characteristic insinua-
tions in words which are worth quot
ing. Life said:
"The assassin who shoots you in the
back does a cowardly thing. But he
does it frankly as an enemy, and he
takes chances Of punishment. He
knows there are legal penalties for
that kind of murder.
But when doctor in a hospital
tries his latest discovery surgi-
cal trick, or the injection Of fatal
disease into a confiding patient-he
does it, not only as an enemy, but
pretending to be friend Unlike the
assassin who shoots you In the back
he has no fear of punishment. He is
doubly safe, because he selects his
victims among the poor, the sick, the
helpless.
Such victims, always the weak and
friedless, whose only hope is in
health and strength, are indeed for
tunate if they escape with no more
diseases than when they entered.
mo law protects them.
There is no punishment for this
meanest of crimes"
To this the Boston Herald replied:
"Is there anything more cowardly
than lying insinuations against set
of men and women who devote their
lives, and often sacrifice them, to
alleviate suffering?
"Is there anything more contempt
ible than the back-handed thrust of
generality to conceal the falsity of
what admits of no proof?
rs there anything more contempt
ible than that lays claim to being a
force for good than to SOW the seeds
of malicious untruth?
mo law prevents this form of Sian.
der.
There is no punishment for this
meanest of journalistic crimes"
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09
SOLVING THE NEGRO QUESTION

Solution of, the negro problem
through the difference in natural in
crease of the white and black races in
the United States is foreseen by Pro-
fessor Walter F. Wilcox, special agent
of the u. s. census bureau and chief
statistician of the twelfth census. He
points out that the negroes are stead
lily losing ground throughout the
south both by immigration of whites
and by their own declining birth rate.
They are losing ground still more rap
idly in the North and there is thus
reason to believe that nature will
solve the race problem in her usual
way, by the survival of the fittest.
This is precisely the forecast of the
nations solution Of the negro problem
made by John Sharp Williams in a
series of speeches during the memora-
BILE campaign of 1907. 1t has taken
the government experts just seven
years to verify the prediction made by
Mississippi's ablest statesman.
THAT the white race is slowly dis
placing the negroes in the United
States is now well known" Professor
Wilcox writes today in the Journal Of
Heredity, organ of the American
Genetic Association "The more rapid
increase of the whites is due not only
to the influx of hundreds of thousands
of white immigrants, but also to the
fact that in the registration area of
191O-an area including three-fifths Of
the whites and more than one-fifth Of
the negroes, and so a fair index of
conditions in the country at large-the
negro death-rate exceeds the white by
about two-thirds."
furthermore, during the years since
1880 the excess in. the
proportion of negro children over
white children in the country has like
wise been falling. The present differ
ence in fecundity between the races
is little more than one-fourth of that
in 1880, and at the present ratess of
change it will have disappeared en-
tirely before the next census is taken. -
The decline is largely due to negro
immigration to the cities, the writer
thinks "The fecundit of city negroes
is only about two-thirds that of city
whites, but the fecundity of country
negroes is much above that of coun-
try whites" The negroes loss OF
ground is further FASTENED by their
tendency to migrate north, where the
fecundity of all races is lower than ii
is in the South.
The evidence, then" Professor
Wilcox concludes, points to differ
entail natural increase as an impor
tant factor, factor in my opinion al
least as important as immigration, in
determining the present and future
relative proportions of the two main
races of this country. jackson News
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09

cabbages, that he knows them to be
up to standard and that he personally
stands back OF them. People will
more readily buy of a man when he
stamps his name on his goods in a
manner which shows that he is not
afraid to be known as their sponsor
Furthermore, it is good business, for
If people buy Smiths cabbages this
year and find them good they will
clamor for Smiths cabbages next year
and be satisfied with no others"
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09
for them to get together.

There is no need of an extensive
advertising campaign. All that is nee
essary is a small display advertise
ment in the newspapers of the nearest
city. And in writing the ad the farm
er should not be bashful about having
his name easily seen. Let him adver-
tise Smiths potatoes, or Smiths cab
bage, or whatever Smith has to sell.
Do it in a manner that will leave the
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09
cLARk's SPEECH ON TOLLS.
Chicago Tribune.)


Chicago Tribune.)
Speaker Clarke gave an unworthy
exhibition of himself in his speech on
the toll exemption repeal bill, and that
Notwithstanding the fact that he con-
fessed his appreciation of the nesd for
q reasoning treatment Of the issue.
In spite of this, Mr.. Clark presented
himself as the passionate hill billie,
and it may astonish a good. many
Americans to learn that man Of this
character is in high position.
Mr.. Clark melodramatically consider
ed the possibility that his political fu-
ture was being sacrificed for the policy
his conscience forced him to adopt He
might more reasonably have been con-
cerned for his reputation, which with
difficulty will survive this exhibition
and cannot possibly survive many 9th
ers like it.
Mr.. Clark had an argument to make
for toll exemption, and showed that
he knew how to make it. Had he con-
fined himself to this he would have
preserved the respect of the men who
oppose him in his present course.
His arguments we're answerable, but
they might have been made by a man
sincerely convinced of the justice and
equity Of his position and at no sacri-
nee Of political future.
Mr.. Clark essayed to interpret the
treaty. as nearly all the toll exemption
lists do. without regard to the history
of the canal negotiations between the
United States and Great Britain. When
it's provisions are thus viewed there
may be a question of Interpretation,
but when years of controversy leading
to the determination of the question
are considered, along with the instru-
ments which preceded the treaty now
governing. the intent becomes appar-
ent and what direction American honor
points is clearly indicated.
Mr.. Clark. however, might honestly
have advanced his arguments. He
might have urged that the benefit to
shipping. even If that shipping were
monopolistic, was sufficient reason for
discrimination in favor of some states
and against others. He might have
defended subsidy.
He would not have been convincing,
but that would have been because of
the fault inherent in his position. He
would have commanded respect. But
the speaker Of the house of representa-
tives cannot act the ranter and be re-
spected.
1t is doubtful If any speaker of the
house ever made a statement 50 un-
worthy as the following by Mr.. Clark:
Il would rather see the canal blown
up than give the British any control
Of it."
This utterance is illustrative of the
nature and trend of a considerable
part of Mr.. Clark's speech. 1t is diff
ficult to characterize it by other than
the word contemplate. The ordinary
member of congress is permitted to
reveal his own stupidity or malevo-
lence pretty much as he wishes. He
suggests merely the misfortune of the
district he represents, and there al
ways will be unfortunate districts. The
speaker of the house stands in diff
ferent position. He is likely to shame
the natien. and Mr.. Clark so nearly
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09
NATIONAL AID TO PUBLIC ROADS
(From the Houston Chronicle.)

(From the Houston Chronicle)
The average citizen who does not
keep up with congressional proceed
! ings, will be surprised to learn that
what is known as the Shackelford bill,
appropriating $25,000,O00 in aid of
good roads in the several states-or
rather to aid in making bad roads
goods causing some very warm
and pointed discussion in congress.
Mr.. Shackelford is an experienced
M mber of congress from Missouri,
and his bill is ably championed by
many members. 1t has passed the
house, and the delay it is meeting in
the senate is being very tartly criti-
cised in the other branch of congress.
That the purpose of the bill is good
there is no doubt, nor is there any
doubt that whatever legislative en-
couragement can be given to the good
roads movement is commendable.
There is, however, much ground for
cfltlclSm Oh tne pli. IN TIE III o' PioSo'
the amount that is to be granted to
each road, according to the class and
character of the road, is very small,
being only from SIS to $50 a mile. that
grant being conditioned on the local
people investing a like sum- Such an
amount might help in the sand-clay
road sections, but would not be asdrop
in the bucket in Harris county. The
whole state of Oklahoma would get
s577 7,ooo-less than half that WHICH
Harris county has put into good roads
Then, as has been truly said, the
first appropriation will only be the
opening wedge. Every year there will
be new appropriations, for the bill Is
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09
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The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09

Let The News Job Department print
your stationery.
The Hattiesburg news., 1914-04-09
WHY FARMERS SHOULD AD-
vERTISE IN NEWSPAPERS.

In the current issue OF Farm and
Fireside, the national farm paper pub
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05

Fork and never pulled at the Leash
when taken to a Musicale.
In front of each ear he carried q neat
Area Of Human Ivy, so that he could
speak up at Meeting Of Directors
Until the year 1895 the restricted Side
whisker was an accepted Trademark
OF Commercial Probity.
This Facial Landscaping, the Frock
Coat and a steadfast devotion to Toilet
Soap made hirn suitable for Exhibition
Purposes.
Frances became almost fond Of him,
after the Honeymoon evaporated ana
their Romance ripened into Acquaint-
anceship.
1t was a gladstone day for both when
she traced tho Dope back through
Swiggett County. Pennsylvania, and dis
covered that she was an honest to-good-
ness Daughter of the American Revolu-
ton.
Willoughby could not ASK q repre-
sentative of good old Colonial Stock
to ride around In stingy Coupe with
II Coon planted out on the Weather
Seat.
He changed the Terms in several
btaoto anu was tlllDltu 10 slip ntT n
hot Surprise on the Birthday.
When she came down the Steps for
the usual bowl along the Avenue, so as
to get some Fresh Smoke. she beheld
a rubber tired Victoria, drawn by two
expensive Bang Tails in Jingle Harness
and surmounted by important Turks in
overwhelming Livery.
She was so trancified with Delight
that she went right over to Willoughby
and gave him a Sweet Kiss, after look
ing about rather carefully for the ex-
posed portion OF the Frontispiece.
Frances did lot OF Calling within
the next two weeks and to all those
who remarked upon the smartness OF
the Equipage she declared that the
Man she had to put up with carried a
Throbbing Heart even II he was an
Intellectual Nudge.
In the year 1918 n slender Young
Thing, all OF whose Habiliments seemed
melting and dripping downward. came
YEARLY from Stateroom y as the Train
pulled into Reno, New.
She seemed quite alone except for a
couple of Maids.
After she had given Directions con-
corning the nine Wardrobe Trunks and
the Live Stock she was motored to a
specially reserved Cottage at the corner
OF Liberty Street and Hope Avenue.
Next day she sat at the other side OF
a Table from n Lawyer, removing the
poisoned Javelins from her fragile Per-
son and holding them up before the
shuddering Shyster.
She had a Tale of Woe calculated to
pulp a Heart of Stone. In blocking out
the Anldavit her sympathetic Attorney
made Pencil Notes as follows:
Her name was Ethel Louise, favorite
Daughter OF Wiloughby and Frances,
the well known Blue Bloods of the
Western Metropolis.
She had finished of at Miss Snffie's
exclusive school, which overlooked the
Hudson and the Common School
Branches
After she learned how to enter a
Ball-Room and while on her way TO
attack Europe for the third time the
Viper crossed her Pathway.
She accepted him because his name
was Hubert. he looked like an English
man and one of his Ancestors turned
the water into Chesapeake Bay.
While some OF the Wedding Guests
were still in the Hospital, he began to
practise the most diabolical Cruelties.
He induced her 10 get on his Yacht
and go cruising through the Mediter-
ranean when she wanted TO take an
Apartment IN Paris.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05
ne Newest Fable of Susan and the Daughter and the
Granddaughter and Then Something Really Grand

She had assisted a Quartette to do
things to "Juanita," and sometimes
tossed out little Hints about wishing she
could practise at Home. Jennie was a
Nice Woman but she did need Practice.
Although Hiram was tighter than the
Bark on Sycamore, he liked to have
other Women envy the Mother of his
Children.
When he spread himself from Shin
Plaster, he expected a Fanfare OF Trum-
pets.
1t took him a long time to unwind the
string from the Wallet, but he would
Dig IL he thought he was boosting his
own Game.
By stealthily short-welghting OF the
Country Trade and holding out on the
Assessor, he succeeded in sailing away
numerous Kcpecks In one corner of the
Safe.
While In Chicago to buy his Winter
Stock, he bargained for two days and
finally bought n Cottage Melodeon, with
the Stool thrown in.
Jennie would sit up and pump for
Hours at a time, happy in the knowl-
edge that she had drawn the Capital
Prize in the Lottery OF Hymen.
In the year 1856 there was some
Church Wedding Mt the County-Seat.
Frances. daughter OF Hiram and Jen-
ME, had knocked the Town a Twister
when she came homo from Female
College wearing Bangs and toting a
Tennis Racket.
All the local Gallants. with Cocoa on
in their hair and Rings on their Cra-
watts. backed into the Shrubbery.
Hiram had bought her about $500
worth of Hdutcur at the select Institu-
ton of Learning. All she had TO do was
look AZ Villager through her Nose
Specs and he would curl up like an
Autumn Leaf.
A Cuss from Chicago came 20 see her
every few weeks
His Trousers seemed 10 be choking
him. The Pompadour was protected by
a Derby of the Fried Egg species. II
was the kind that Joe Weber helped
TO keep in Public Remembrance But in
1886 1t was de Ri0ueur du Fdit and IN
Node.
Frances would load tho accursed city
Chap into the high Cart and exhibit him
up and down Ill the Residence Thor
| oughfares.
ON nearly every Front Porch some
| Girl whose Father was not Interested
| in the First National Bank would peer
out through the Morning Glories at the
Pageant and then writhe like an Angle
Worm.
The Wedding was the biggest thing
that had struck the town since Fore
paugh stopped over on his way from
| Peoria to Decatur.
Frances was not q popular Girl, on
account of being so Uppish, so those
who could not fight their way into the
! Church climbed UP and looked through
/ the Windows.
The Groom wore n SwallowTnil.
Most OF those present had seen Pic
lures of the Dress Suit. In the Fire
| side Com pdnion. tho Gentleman wearing
one always had Curls. and the Wood
Engraving caught him in the act Of
striking a Lady in the Face and saying
Curse You'll"
The Feeling at the CountySeat was
that Frances had taken a Desperate
Chance.
The Caterer with Colored Help In
White Gloves. the ruby Punch sus-
pected OF containing Liquor, the Japan
csc Lanterns attached TO the Naples,