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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

Chicago bankers who are taking
part in the negotiations of some of the
belligerant nations of Europe for sup
plies in this country said that Chicago
alone has come in for $7,000,000 or
$S,000,000 of this business to date,
and more large orders are pending.
Great Britain is making payments
chiefly through the trade balance ex.
change plan. From Chicago bankers
it was learned that there is on deposit
in the United States not less than
$50.000,000 of private German CAPT.
tai much of which was sent here as a
precautionary measure in the early
days of the war, while additional
sums were forwarded later to cover
purchases of commodities.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13
Mr.. LEE MILLER MAKES BIG
PURCHASE

Mr.. Lee Miller consummated the
purchase of the brick kilns and other
property at Whitney, in Sumter coun-
ty, formerly belonging to the Roess
Lumber Company. He began the
manufacture of brick this week.
The clay on this property is said to
be very fine for brick-making, and the
equipments are the latest models in
brick manufacturing plants.
The capacity of the plant is $4,000
daily, and this will be increased to
$4,000.
Mr.. Miller bought the property from
Referee Mcclure in bankruptcy pro-
ceedings, the price paid being $4,000.
which Mr.. Miller regards as what
printers in the olden times would call
a pickup" He says that he has al
ready been offered $4,000 on his bar
gain.
We congratulate Mr. Miller on his
good fortune.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

When congress meets again there
will be many missing faces from the
house of representatives. Underwood
will have gone up higher and Hobson
and a number of others will have
stepped down and out. Among them
will be prominent figure from Flor
ida. This paper did not always line
up with him, indeed it rarely had that
distinction, yet if this congressman
were in good health and possessed as
sound legs as he does clever brain
we had rather that some seat of other
congressman were vacant for Claude
was no Thomas Wharton and led him.
self to believe that he was sincere in
all the measures that he advocated
as the champion of the rights of the
people, and we cannot say that of all
the others.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

Ocala is now filling out its met
aphorical shirt front because the
railroad commission has decided to
order the railroads to erect a union
passenger station there. We congrat-
ulate Ocala. She went after the union
station and she got it-or the prom
Use of it. Now it is Orlando's turn.
When will our business men get busy
on the proposition ?-Orlando Report
er-Star.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13
NOTHING GAINED BY WAR

The following article, from the
Asheville IN. CO. Citizen, voices our
sentiments, and we commend the
same to our readers:
What, after all, will be determined
by Europe's bloody war? Nothing
but the question whether or not kings
and emperors, princes and potentates
shall continue to weigh down the
progress of mankind and block the
advance of civilization. No matter
how diligently we might assign caus-
es. and reasons for the present strug-
gle, it is undeniably war for the
propagation of militarism, a war of
divine right" a war of conquest and
lust for power. The greed and might
of divine heir have caused the sac
rifice of thousands of innocent people,
and it is beyond human conception to
realize why such things should be. 1t
will be happy day for this world
when kings and emperors shall be de
posed, and democracy, the rightful in
heritance of mankind, shall know nc
longer the ermine and the purple.
Popular government can never come
from the thrones of royalty which sell
dom know justice and mercy.
"The war in Europe is a man-made
war; it was declared at the instance
of one royal mind behind the mailed
fist. 1t was inspired by long dreams
of boundless empires, by dreams of
conquest and visions of world suprem-
acy. The assassination of a scion OF
royalty by a crazy Servian was only
a means to the end, an opening wedge
of opportunity. And nobody pays but
the people. Even when thrones and
crowns have vanished the people will
still be paying tribute to the forms of
ages that have passed.
One wonders if some agency, di-
vine or human, cannot end this fear
full slaughter. Already there has been
ruin and devastation which half
century cannot repair. Everywhere
there is misery and death, squalor
and starvation. AS though the civil
ization of which the world once boast
ed had not been sufficiently trampled
upon, now comes the unspeakable
Turk with the savagery of centuries
behind him. Behold the alliance of
the German and the Turk, and ask
yourself if you can recall the day
when the kaiser asked the Christian
nations of the earth to drive the Mos
lem from Europe. A holy crusade
he called it then. Verify war, like
politics, makes strange bedfellows."
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13
THE POLICY OF THE ALLIES

From Paris comes the statement
that the allied troops in the western
fighting AGRA now outnumber the
Germans there by 475,O00 men, and
that the reason why the former do
not rush their forces back to the Ger,
man frontier is that it is cheaper and
likely to be much more worth while
in the long run to remain on the de-
fensive. There is no question that if
the allies took the offensive all along
the line their losses in killed and
wounded would be far greater than
they will be if they simply remain on
the defensive and permit the Germans
to wear themselves out in bloody at
lacks.
The allied generals think, no doubt
that the war is to be a wasting one
anyway and that it is good strategy to
save their men. Certainly it is east
er for the allies to face the German
armies along the line they now oc
cupy than II the latter were supported
by the strong forts in Germany. Be
sides at this time the allies are sim
ply trying to prevent the Germans
from getting to Paris.
Outnumbered as they are said to
be the Germans hope of breaking
through to Paris must now be slight
indeed. They relied on superior mum
bers in the early part of the war tc
superiority of numbers is on the 9th
er side their chances of victory in
France and Belgium cannot be near
ly so great as they were three months
ago.-Savannah News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

Asa g. Gambler, of Atlanta, the CO.
ca-cola man, says that he does not
believe that the southern farmer is
going to do the "demnition bow-wows"
because he cannot market his cotton
crop just as soon as it is made for
the re-the-war-in-Europ prices.
Cotton will keep and the southern far
mer ought to be able to live with one
cotton crop ahead. He ought to at
least to strive with that object in
view. Mr.. Gambler is president of a
bank and has expressed willingness
to advance as much as $30,000,000 for
cotton on a cent basis and hold it
for the farmers until times and prices
become more normal. Among other
things Mr.. Gambler says:
1--WE must also stop our outcries
against Wall Street. l have never in
my life gone into Wall Street with a
reasonable proposition that I did not
come out of Wall Street in a better,
stronger condition.
81 am utterly out of sympathy with
those who are bowling that the devil
has us. He has not taken hold of us,
and will not. Everything will work
out all right if we will get down to
work and quit talking war and hard
times, and put more vim in our work
than we do when prosperous times
are around US"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13
THE MAN WITH THE MICROSCOPE
WHAT he SEES

Mr.. Phillip Henry Gosse, F. X. s..
in his Evenings at the Miscrocope,"
a wonderfully instructive and enter
tanning work, tells us that not many
years ago an eminent miscroscOpist
received a communication inquiring
whether, if a minute portion of dried
skin were submitted to him, he could
determine it to be human skin or not.
He replied that he thought he could.
Accordingly a very minute fragmen;
was forwarded to him, somewhat re-
sembling what might be torn from
the surface of an old trunk, with all
| the hair rubbed off.
The professor brought his micro
scope to bear upon it. and presently
found some hairs scattered over the
surface; after carefully examining
which, he pronounced with confidence
that they were human hairs, and such
as grew on the naked parts of the
body; and still further, that the per
son who owned them was of a fair
complexion.
| This, the learned Professor Gosse
says in his charming discourse, was
very interesting decision, because
the fragment of skin was taken from
the door of an old English church in
Yorkshire; in the vicinity of which
tradition is preserved, that about a
thousand years ago, more than
thousand now, a Danish robber had
violated this church, and having been
taken, was condemned to be fayed.
and his skin nailed to the church
door, as a terror to evil doors and in
ligious intolerance that prevailed at
that time
The action of the weather and
other causes had long ago removed
all traces of the stretched and dried
skin of the poor wretch, except that,
from under the edges of the broad
headed nails with which the door
was studded, fragments still peeped
out. 1t was one of these atoms, OBJ
tanned by drawing one of the old nails,
that was subjected to microscopical
scrutiny; and it was interesting to
find that the wonder-showing tube
could confirm the tradition with the
utmost certainty; not only in the
general fact, that it was really the
skin of the man, but in the special
one of the race to which that man be-
longed viz: One with fair complex
ion and light hair, such as the Danes
are we'll known to possess.
This little incident, whether true or
mere fiction, illustrates the wonders
of the microscope and tells TO what |
lengths science has progressed, to
what heights it has climbed, to what
depths it has descended, and to what |
widths it has broadened.
The merest atom opens wide the !
door of a whole world to it so to /
speak.
These Evenings at the Miscro-
scope" reveal a world of wonders
and are wonderfully entertaining and
wonderfully instructive.
We live in a wonderful age.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

With Germany and Australian
gary cut off, American exports for the
last week in October were the great
est since March Compared with
last year, the total was up $4,000
900. Some startling items are shown
in review of a longer period. Wheat
exports for three months ending Sep.
80 were the largest on record. In
September we sent 100000 bushels
to Canada; and the exports of refined
sugar were thirteen times as great
as last year, of corn twice as great, of
oats thirty-four times, of rice seven
times. Cotton exports will soon be
almost normal, going even to Ger
many by way of Italy. In these cir
cumstances our debt to Great Britain
is for the most part, at least, like a
letter-leave it alone and it answers
itself.-World.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13
THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS
RESOLVE

fBy Rev. Robert H. Harris, d. D. Co
lumbus, Ca, Chaplian-General
Georgia Division U. C. W
The old plantations gone to rack, the
fences broken down,
My childhood's home defaced in
= every day,
The negro houses empty (eyery freed
man moved to town.
And mother and the girls are all
that stay.
A hostile army battered here, in line
of battle formed,
Deep trenches dug from hill to hill
around
With pick and spade on every side
the blue-clad soldiers swarmed
And with unsighty bitches Scared
the ground.
The mules and horses, cows and
swine, yard poultry, ducks and
geese,
Even to the last domestic beast and
bird,
Had quickly confiscated been Ito
hasten on the peace,
Longings for which each vandal
bosom stirred.)
A tangled scrub now fills the road
that twined around the hill
Among the messy rocks all black
and gray;
The creek beds dry as ashes far
above the idle mill
Some ditch has turned the stream
another way;
The broom sedge whistles in the wind
that blows across the hill
Where once spread out the fields of
waving grain;
The sassafras is growing thick along
the old fence rows,
Between which used to run the
dusty lane.
Mid desolation such as this l must
the future face,
Unschooled, unframed, from youth
to manhood grown,
With poverty to handicap me in the
strenuous race
OF life l must henceforth contest
alone.
But though 'twould seem I'm down
and out" with nothing bright
to cheer,
The battle spirits strong within me
still,
And now in civic fields of strife I'll
enter without fear
That l shall fail to triumph, by
Gods will. An,
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

Women now vote equally with men
in eleven states, viz: Wyoming, Colo
RADIO. Utah, Idaho, Washington, Cali
fornia, Arizona, Kansas, Oregon, Ne
vada and Montana. All western
states. One would have naturally
thought that the first states would
have been those of New England.
Which of the southern states will be
first to grant this courtesy to the
mothers, daughters and sweethearts?
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

The automatic mail exchange sys.
tenn which will facilitate handling OF
mail by the railroads is being tried
out by the Chicago and Alton between
Chicago and st. Louis. Through this
device it will be possible to enlarge
the postal service and secure greater
efficiency in the collection and trans
portation of the mails.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

Only few years ago Colonel Roose.
welt was one of the most popular men
in the United States. He has lived to
see his popularity take wings and fly
away. So, too, Congressman L'Engle
was extremely popular in Florida
but he finds himself in the sama class
with the colonel, only more so Alas!
for human greatness.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

Down at FIT. Myers they clear the
sewers of sand and other Instructions
with monster pet alligator which is
sent through the sewer pipes with a
cord attached to its back and having
drag fastened to the other end and
it is doing good service. Not only
domestic felicity, but a useful an
imal is the aligator.-DeLand Rec
ord.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

Won Kluck has surrendered his ar
meis adm died, according to the dis
patches. But he seems to be sti1i on
deck, and is winning laurels as a re-
treator In that line he is said to be
the worlds greatest strategist.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

The state auditor says that the
county commissioners of Duval coun-
ty have violated the statutes and the
State says that the citizens of Duval
county want them removed.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

On November 18th the interstate
commerce commission will hold hear
ings in Chicago on the tunnel and
lighterage increases filed by the rail
roads. During the summer the roads
filed new rates with the commerce
body repudiating the existing agree
ments which have been in effect since
1911
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

The crown prince has been wound
ed twice and killed once. and now the
kaiser is wounded. But all these re-
ports come by the grapevine" SER
vice.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

King Albert of brave little Belgian,
is asking the philanthropists of the
United States to rescue his brave sub
Jects from starvation. We hope that
this appeal will meet with hearty and
generous response.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

The democratic party ought 10
grow al the stronger for the "set
back" it got in the recent elections.
Having its mistakes pointed out to II
it should correct them, regird its
loins and start forth conquering and
to conquer.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

"The worlds peacemaker!" What
could be a richer eneomium? Yet these
are the flowers that are being placed
on the brow of Uncle Sam" under
the pacific policy of her president and
lawmakers.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

Whether good prices are obtained
or not Florida may well be proud of
her citrus crop. The crop is large and
the fruit is delicious.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

The Turks, though entirely unpre-
pared for war, are certain of victory.
The sultan is believed by his subjects
to be another Napoleon.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

The socialists have one lone con-
gresham. His name is Meyer Lon
don. and was elected from the twelfth
district of New York.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-11-13

The people of Lake county contin-
ne to brag on the virtues of Natal
grass.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-10-28
%ONLY'HOPE IN BOND ISSUE.

Why must the State of South Car
olina ask the S~ec5eta,y y of the United
States Treasury Or anybody else, to
approve her bond issue? The State
has the sovereign right to issue
bonds for any purpose whatever or
for no purpose at all. 1t has the
right to base those bonds on any Of
her property, personal or real, or on
no property at all, pledging her cred
it simply. But in the Contemplated
bond issue, the State will have cot
ton as collateral, at a price not less
than the cost of production, and
hence, alta price that it must ultl-
mately recover, and none of the pro-
ceeds of the bond issue will be put
out exc ept on this collateral.
If n M of the bonds can be sold
outside the State many will be
bought in the State, for they can be
used .sby the banks as collateral, to
borrow money under the Aldrich-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-10-28
MAIN BENEFICIARY, THE
BURDEN BEARER. =

1T is surprising that the editor Of
the Columbia State, who is usually
so logical and so unbiased in discuss
ing public issues, should display so
much vigor and such shallow argu-
ment in opposition to the Cotton
Bond Issue. His argument is based
on the assumption that cotton must
always remain at present or lower
prices, and the State will be forced
to make up a deficit on the bond is
lsue of which. its citizens have gotten
the benefit. Spinners admit that
they could pay two to three cents
more for cotton than they are now
paying and make a good profit at
present prices for cloth. There is at
present no foreign market for cotton,
a condition that prominent English
officials tell us can not last long.
Distress cotton is being thrown on
the market. There is every prospect
that the burden assumed by the
Estate will grow much less, if indeed
it is not entirely wiped out, even be-
fore the close of the war. 1t makes
little difference what the several
Southern legislatures do as to next
years crop, for the people are them
selves reducing the cotton acreage by
planting oats.
But says The State: "Of the white
population of 725 1000 in South Caro-
lima at least 400 900 have little or
nothing to gain from the bond
scheme"
This 100000 must be made up Of
merchants, lawyers, railroad en-
ployees, carpenters, mill operatives,
public officials, business men Of va
rious kinds, and day laborers. If
the bond issue can not improve the
condition Of these, it can certainly
make it no worse. Surely the editor
of The State has not heard of the
trains that have been taken Off the
roads. He hasnot noticed that the
sound OF the hammer has ceased.
He has not observed the long faces
of professional men. He has not
asked his merchants of their c0llec-
tons this year as compared with last.
If it can be shown that ina cotton
country all industries are not affected
by the price of cotton falling to little
more than half the cost of produc-
ton, the readers of The State would
like to see the process by which the
conclusion is reached. 1t is a recog-
nized principle that when the farmer
prospers all industries prosper and
the converse is equally true.
Again, says The State: sin the
last analysis, the load Of public debt
is in great measure carried on the
shoulders of labor This sounds
like campaign thunder. Inspection
of the tax books of Richland county
will serve to convince the editor OF
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-10-28

The State that the men to whom the
benefits would accrue mainly. the
farmers and merchants: would bear
eighty-fve per cent Of the burden in
rcfunding the debt, if it is not re-
funded by advance ~ the price OF
cotton. These men I willing 10
meet The burden when they haze
had opportunity t" prepare for it,
but If is not unreasonable that they
ask the aid of the state to meet Il ca
lamity that they could not have fore
seen and for which they + in no
sense responsible.
1t Is Il fact that citizens of 4 State
may do collectively what they can
not do individually. The individ-
ual'S note, in times Of financial stress,
may not pay debts, but the States
bond will. y bond bearing 6 per
cent interest, payable in three years,
backed blythe credit of a State whose
public debt is comparatively moth
ing, is not going to be hawked about,
either at home, or abroad.
If the statement of the Reserve
Board OF the regional banks to the
effect that the "South Carolina bonds,
slightly modified as now proposed,
will be acceptable to the board as
security, means anything, it means
that these bonds will be accepted at
their face by regional banks, as Sc
curity for loans. 1t means that they
may not. only furnish a basis of
credit to borrow all surplus funds in
the regional banks of this locality,
but they will be accepted as well by
Western banks, where money is plen-
tiful and demand is light. But if
not one dollar Of these bonds could
be sold, they would be accepted in
payment Of debts by South Carolina
merchants who will gladly wipe
their accounts off their books in cN-
change for the States bonds bearing
six per cent.
The editor Of The State is in ITO
again in assuming that the tenant
farmer would not get the benefit Of
a bond issue such as is contemplated.
As an act of mercy toward the ten
ant as well as for selt-preservation,
the landowner in the vast majority
of instances is helping the tenant to
hold his cotton, until conditions are
more settled. viii the editor of TIE
State say that the end does not JUS
tify the means if these tenants may
settle their debts with bonds in eX-
change for cotton? And we assert
positively hat we have heard mer-
chants who are financially able to
perform what they undertake, sry
that they would gladly settle all Of
their lien accounts By accepting State
bonds in settlement.