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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27

Mrs. J. r. McClane and daughter,
Mlss Edna McClane. after a short Wis
q IN ocala with DIR. and Mrs. F. e.
McClane. returned TO 81. Petersburg
Saturday.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27

Mr.. and Mrs. B. s. Quarterman OF
Fairfield are rejoicing in the birth OF
. ane boy. The little fellow came on
sunday and diffused as much happi-
ness IN the household as a sunbeam.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27

On March 11th it will be Ocala's
pleasure to entertain the Knights OF
Pythias from all parts Of Florida. It
VIII be great conclave.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27

Miss Erin Paschal. Miss Gates ant
Miss Hillman we're a charming bevJ
of young ladies' from Anthony visit
ing IN Ocala Saturday.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27

Mrs. r. J. Abbott went down to
Tampa Saturday to join Mr.. Abbott
and to attend the Gasparilla festivi-
ties. She will return home on We'd
nesday.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27

Miss Ethel Hobkirk of Citra spent
The past week visiting friends and
relatives az Plant City.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27

A few from 0cala went down to
the Lake Weir Yacht Club last night
20 attend the dance.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27

Mrs. Fred r. Weihe have returned
home from a visit TO relatives in
Tampa.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27

The Ocala Seed Store is doing a
large and prosperous business.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Laird w. Hendricks
spent Tuesday n the city.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27
THOMAS A. EDISON

Who is spending the winter in
Florida at his home at Fort Myers.
and living on sixteen ounces of food
per day.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-27
FLORIDA, FRIDAY
SUGGESTION FROM TAX COMMiS
SION

Tallahassee, Fla, Feb. %. 1914
To the Tax Assessors OF the Several
Counties of Florida:
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-20

A cat has nine lives. An advertise
ment is more fortunate as 1t has
several hundred or several thousand.
In fact it has so many that it never
really dies.
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-20

At Detroit 90 innings.)
Detroit ,.,. ..,...... 2 10 4
The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-20

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The Cairo bulletin., 1914-06-20
SCORE BY INNINGS:

A3 H. II Fl Is
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19

Poverty il no disgrace. observes the
Pratt Republican, but 1t is having q
hard time getting itself to be popular.
Sporting news in the Canton Pilot:
The horseshoe club IL putting in full
| time now since the weather is warmer.
There is no law to prevent q candi-
date from thinking up something new,
points out the Washington Republican,
Register.
As the unusual happens. McLouth
/ man lost a mare worth $3.50 via the
ensilage route, but the animal was in
sured for its full value.
Some people work harder looking for
an easy job. says the Eskridge Tribune
Star, than they would have to work In
holding down a good. steady job. -.
1t is awful hard to. be satisfactory
guest. says the Ness County News. and
1t urges that most people should culti-
vate the habit OF remaining at home
more.
| Japan may well swell with pride,
| thinks the Blue Mound Sun. Though
its territory Is no greater than that of
Kansas it has a public debt az large as
that of the whole United States.
This Notice. was inserted in last
weeks issue Of the Geneseo Journal by
Alex Ramsey, kind-hearted man that
out of the shed had better be careful az
this hog had cholera and We intended
to make soap out Of it and don't want
any innocent parties exposed
Lucky Dick. It doesn't matter to Dick
McAllister, four miles west Of Olathe.
reports the Olathe Mirror. IL gas is low
and coal is high. Dick has O pile of
wood just outside the kitchen door that
looks from a distance to be as large az
a haystack. 1t is all cut, sawed and
split, and just ready to be carried into
the house. There IL enough wood there
to last him easily three winters. But,
come to think of 1t. Dicks fine wood
pile is not due to luck. Rather il It the
result of lots Of hard work, and the
thoughtfulness that makes the neces-
sary preparations for any old kind OF
a rainy day.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19
Globe Sights
By THE ArcHIsoN oLoBH

Work done while you wait 10 often that
kind.
So many laughable incidents aren't
laughable.
If It weren't for expenses how great we
would all be.
A big man usually feels that his rights
are bigger.
If you can't compliment a production.
at least say 1t is unique.
A lot Of sentimental people have mis-
taken flapdoodle for soul dust.
Speaking about some professions. what
IL ethical 10 not necessarily right.
II you cater to the public's whims you
are not going to be very ethical.
A liar IL q man who walks up to You
and says you don't look a day older
Bravery 10 displayed in several ways;
We know q man who wears pink shirts
Is there very much difference between
. political boss and q political leader?
A good deed IL soon forgotten, but you
never will forget the bad man who aid
you q dirty trick.
However. buffoon IL q word seldom used
now, and this IL q pretty good era IL
which to live.
Spring fever has many disastrous re-
suits. and the man who doesn't write q
spring poem 10 apt to so fishing.
The average man IL 20 disagreeable al
home 1t il safe to say he was Intended "a
make the living away from home.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19

1t was unfortunate for the wife that
tho rough-neck w6s mot convicted OF
selling half pint Of booze; he would
not have been paroled % he could
butcher her up.
But; ~ his crime was merely wife
beating. he was told to 90 and sin NO
more ct cetera-
It begins to look like Old Doc crum-
epidemic germs In Topeka to make
good. He has let one outburst lead
MIN Into another. and now he II out
ON q limb where nothing but an in
crease In the death rate of Topeka
can furnish him with an alibi.
Jack Supp was an advocate Of J. ID.
N. Hamilton'o 'ssafety first" prOpa-
ganda until he tried 1t. Then he went
to the tonsorial parlors to have the
by the barber for, monkeying with
strange machinery.
We have with us q protest against
Sunday trains. The next to come il a
demand that cops spend their Sundays
changes OF courtesy could be arranged
with the Porchclimber's Union. the
cops could be spared, but q guspen-
sion OF train service might prevent
1Ome traveller from 0ett1u& 10 Ms
favorite church on time, and that
would be Simply Fierce.
Castillo. the murderous bandit.
should bibble, now that he Is in the
hands OF the watchful walters. The
Mollycods will not permit him to be
turned over to Hon. Villa, and II our
government holds him prisoner too
long, a storm Of protest will be raised.
His punishment will probably be q
sentence to vaudeville.
So far az this department L. con-
cerned, the failure of Piano Pader-
ewslki. the Polish Peanutovich to per-
form. 10 q matter Of little consequence,
30 we will say no more about 1t.
Penrhyn Stanslaws. the noted artist,
IL wise as we'll as artistic. In making
out q list of the eight most beautiful
women of New York, he closed with
the name Of Mrs. Penrhyn Stanslaws.
Government ownership Of railroads
may have its drawbacks, but the con-
gressman that rides will be sure OF
plenty Of attention at the hands OF
tho porter.
1t is true that the COOP who goes
out on an autocycle may come in on
q stretcher, and it is equally true, In
Kansas, that he who goes out with an
umbrella and a pair Of rubbers may
come in with icecicles In his whiskers
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19

creature. This WAS the insplrakton Of
many similar doedD-no1xheR VenGoanco
nor spoil. but the swift. beDtinl, wan
ton blood-lust. fndulged. celeneated.
laughed over for the time. ana forgot
ten; and therein Hes . sufnctent ex-
plauation OF the terrible character OF
the retaliation. Whatever the case. the
boy, having. thus narrowly survived.
made his way to Brisbane. where he re-
lated his story to the authorities. ana
to such good purpose, - 1t turned
out. that he was given q rtfle ana free
leave to return to his district and shoot
az many black fellows a. he could
manage, being heartily assured that
the law would not molest him. you
see," said our fellow traveller, he was
regularly licensed" by the department.
Of game and nsheriesf sconed.
"Ah, come now!" he replied. II am not
joking. do not mean to say" he went
ON, '-that the authorities gave this boy
an engraved license, suitable for franz
ing. but do assert that they commits
stoned him to kill black fellows, and
that his commission was not altogether
singular. but one Of good many. And
he did kill black fel1ows-hundreds OF
them, possibly. He killed them where
he could find them. running the bush
or employed on the stations. not even
hesitating in the presence of their
white masters. And by and by the
thing became q nuisance. 1t was awk-
ward for the station owners to have
their black boys disposed of in this
way. There were complaints. I recall
black servant shot from the saddle on
the road. He was very angry; but the
boy flourished his commission and the
station owner could do nothing about
it.'-Norman Duncan. in Harper's
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19

(shln8 q h1So na1e D61zk6 cun -
rather than to turn ana leave her T.
ner own musings.
Out 81 her musinen came tl,s startling
1ennat1on OF Warinth In her ArznDe
ttn91fng emotion such ~ Johns 9rox-
iapity hads ueyer cfIered her.
do MT love John. she told her
Colina. turned and held out the spool
Il am iinished Win this.. shs sAad
quietly. 1T was very good Of you to
notice my pred1cAment and help me. /"
Your predtcament - not an that I
ness % asnotmdtng - TO make coline
blush. II have noticed Just enough Of
you TO Wank 70 know more, I have been
aitttng here 1nScomplete contentment
because you. perfectly strange girl.
happen 70 Be beside me-. Are you
angry? Blair looked straight into her
eyes.
Coline shook her head. shs was
breathless and knew not whether hex
head went up and down or from side
to side. Evidently It had shaken
negative.
Thank you.s said Blair. well: !
have n0ticed that your ticket h to 0len
nearly every one in the village. r
write . List Of the persons whom
think you are going to visit, Wtu you
check on the right ono. % that may
call there this even1ngf It would an
be most conventional ana according tc
Mrs Grundy."
help smiling. Her head nodded an af.
hrmative. and Blair put the spool In his
pocket and then drew out pencil and
lpapef.-(Copyright, 1914, by the Nc
Clure Newspaper Synd1cate)
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19
On the Spur
of the Moment
Ewes Gowns.
By ROY K. MOULTON.

Ewes Gowns.
whene'er Adams wife had to have . new
Their system beat ours . mile: 49,,
cold feet,
And no dressmakers fec froxe their
smile.
They 1ust took q stroll 'monsst the vines
Or the fig trees that grew in the thicket:
And when Eve found the garment that
Her hubby would shin up and pick It.
A Boon to Mankind.
All through this tiresome and tedious
winter We have been at work upon q
handy little invention which will be a
boon to mankind. It il nothing more nor
Less than a patent fly swatter. Last year
We conducted fly swatting campaign,
which did not pan out as many flies az
it might have done, for the reason that
the swatters at hand did not come up to
new swatter has all Of the requirements
Of first-class invention. Among other
things.
wall and the vest OF the man who swats
when he attempts to swat fly which
has settled in the soup or gravy bowl.
It viii not strike with sufficient force
to break 80 plate glass mirror, but
deals gently though surely.
1t is an absolutely cussless swatter. for
It always does the work the first time
and does not cause any householder to
lose his temper.
1t is humane and strikes the fly in a
vulnerable spot, causing instant death to
the fly instead Of prolonging agony.
1t will kill 667 flies at one time II the
flies will only hold still and be killed.
1t will not knock any fancy brfc-a-brac
or the mantel.
We are organizing Z stock company to
manufacture this handy little article and
further particulars will be announced
later.
| Down in Mexico the rebel glee club is
| tuning mp with this:
''While yet the alcohol holds out,
Huerta will be lit. no doubt
| Governor Cole Blease will soon put him.
| self out OF tho pardoning business. There
| are only three or four more convicts left
In the prison.
| Mexico Is shipping tainted meat into the
United States, but we could stand that II
she would only keep her refugees at home
Signs Of the Times.
st. Louis has cleaned up its billboards.
but there are doubtless many board bills
twenty persons shot in Haiti for treason.
A traitor In Haiti Is q man who is not In
onlce.
President Wilson seems to BE- making
good in spite of the fact that he fs ht'ry
Teller.
Well, 1t certainly has smelt for some time
Scarcely q day goes by but some good
Republican postmaster bites the dust.
/ The income tax collectors should nail
every man who has egg ON his chin.
1 Electric cars In Jerusalem? Jerusalem!
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19

Movable tables and chairs instead
Of the conventional fixed desks are
used in the Washington Irving high
school. New York City. according to
information received ut the United
States bureau of education. 1t has
been found that the plan makes for
cleaner schoolrooms and more eff
cient school work. Another advantage
II that with this type Of school fur
niture. the schoolrooms can readily be
adapted to social and community pur-
poseA
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19
CLEAN SPEECH.
From, Other Pens
DECAY OF CHIMNEY SWEEP:

DECAY OF CHIMNEY SWEEP.
Chimney sweeps. like lightning
rods, have gone out. Perhaps Chin
neys will follow them, and in SO
years we may be looking back in lit
erafy "Reminiscences. pleasantly tinged
with regret, to the days when the
Galsworthian patrician warmed his
back at the great fireplace OF After
house, while one of MT. Wells heroes
impaled his monoplane ON q towering
chimney pot. BY the day when ro-
nance no longer glows in the firelight
we shall doubtless be cooking our
meals and warming our toes in some
fantastic, mechanical way, which only
Mr.. Edison foresees. Even today the
gas companies are fast Turing US to
the abandonment Of our chimneys by
those advertisements which tho cleo
trio corporations 30 Obligingly en-
blazon upon the sky. A congressional
investigation committee might un-
earth the startling fact that already
the old familiar fue is abandoned.
Perhaps the chimney tops which belle
this are, like buttresses and Greek pill
lars and brick arches above steel
beams, only the innocent pretence of
the tradition-ridden architects. One
er chimneys merely exist for decora-
tion or we have simply forgotten to
clean them in our distraction over So
cial justice and such modern substi-
tutes for the safe disposal of gaseous
| matter, the chimney sweep is no
more. That priceless ragamufiln, un-
derstudy for countless literary heroes
in the days Of the goodly Victoria. is
q thing OF the literary past. 1t was
| with rare discriminating foresight
that Kingsley and his Water Babies
selected the Victorian years for their
era Where would Dickens be in SO
sweepless an age as the prosaic mo-
ment? It cannot be the child labor
laws that did 1t. For the dear, dirty,
emaciated little boy. who turned up in
fashionable drawing rooms at the eEd
Of a robe, was not customarily low
cred down chimneys even in the days
Of the nineties when the industry OF
cleaning hues still appealed to the
i frighted Imagination of nervous
housewives. Even without the varie-
ty OF human always described az an
| "urchin,' there were chimneys. SCOT.
desires for cleanliness and willing
hands to get black. Literature had
moved on, but the chimney sweep re-
mained. Speaking quite literally, the
boy was father to the man. But now
visible offspring. But where are the
sweeps Of yesteryear? Their cos
tunes are moth-eaten on some cos
tuners shelf. their grease paint mil
dewed and mushy, their wit and their
trumpets tarnished. They have
but their immortality il not 20 secure.
And why? Il this . lisillusi0ned are
$50 far AZ the illusions Of ten Year,
ago are concerned-liking to make n
own fresh each day? Even the man
ifest advantages. I'm these days Of the
sic and mining along with the
cleansing of hues has not been
enough to save the artists Of the
housetcps.-Boston Transcript.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19
Journal Entries

Just because man looks wise that's
no sure sign he II.
e
Most Of the bad boys are not to
blame because they're that way.
All Of tho folk who don't have to
would be glad Of chance to pay an
income tax.
II every man got all that was COM
ing to him. not q few would be the
recipients OF many more bricks.
In this day Of grace and revised
spelling the first syllable Of patriot
might most properly be changed to
pay.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19
Epening Chat
By RUTH CAMERON.

One Reason for Incompot1hlltey.
Ordinary inconveniences are never
light. they are continual and in-
separable- especially when they spring
from the members Of q family. continue
al and inseparable. ."-Montaigne.
Everything I do seems to irritate
and annoy my husband" writes q read
er friend. 'I seem to be losing my
hold upon him. love him and think
that under all his unkindnesses. he
loves me. What can do?'
wonder how many other women are
striving to answer the same question.
wonder how they expect any outsider
can answer 1t. IL they themselves can
not.
I myself know Of won-an-a good
mother and loving wife-whose hus-
band has slipped away from her. quite
unaccountably. during the last few
years. Yet during the first years OF
their married life, nothing was too good
for her. nothing he could do too much
He literally w0rshipped her.
There are no money troubles, nor
any other women. To his friends he is
still the same. lovable. Interesting man
they always knew. Only to his wife is
he changed. He looks at me az IL he
hated me-" she says. ''I cannot see how
Even my little faults he used to
laugh at and seem to love me all the
more for. but now they only increase
his irritation ard his hate"
1.-THE little faults he used to laugh
atl" I wonder II they arc not the key.
Isn't it true that the little peculiari-
ties that q man may laugh over and
days of his courtship. may az a. daily
diet during hiR married 1ifA first nall
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19

age tribe had murdered a family of
settlers In the night. save one lad, who
escaped death by opportunely tumbling
to the floor between the bed and the
wall himself wounded. unconscious.
and left for dead. What the provoca-
ton was nobody knows. It II probable
that there was no specific provocation.
1t had doubtless been. want0n thing
savage impulse and accomplished for
nothing more than the momentary
pleasure OF dealing death to some living
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19
THE COMMUNITY AND HOUSING.


Housing reform applies not only to
tenements but to the single-family
dwelling also, according to John
Ihlder. field secretary of the National
Housing association. Writing in the
Survey. he says:
1--WE have learned that bad housing
may be found not only in the single
family shacks, but even in what is
styled a single-family residence. Just
as it was found impossible to draw a
valid distinction between an apart
ment house and tenement house.
SO is it impossible to draw one be-
tween shack and residence.
.-The new conception Of what a city
dwelling should be required to pro-
vide for its inhabitants runs counter to
some established customs.
sWhen public health authorities
anti-tuberculosis associations, morals
efficiency commissions, fire depart
ments, life and fire insurance COM
panies, and q score Of other agencies
public, semi-public and private, find
that their efforts to secure any sub
stantial improvement lead inevitably
!, to the dwellings Of the people. ther
the providing Of those dwellings ceases
| to be a purely private affair and be.
comes in larger degree q community
affair.
| $50 our cities are coming to under.
stand that upon them rests the re-
sponsibility Of seeing that ever,
dwelling provides at least q minimum
of sanitation, light. air. privacy and
j. safety from the fire.
| I'm New York city, in New Jersey
in Columbus, in Duluth-wherever al
advance In housing legislation ha,
been made, there has been this oppo
siticn based ON the fear that It woult
check building. And in every cas-
1 experience has shown that instead i
1 stimulated building.
''And the new buildings OF highel
type reduced those other and expen
sive social problems which have thei
root In unwholesome dwellings,"
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19
Toll of Aviation.

As was to be expected, the year 1918
showed q considerable increase in the
number Of deaths due to aeroplane ac-
cidents. Many moro airmen than
ever before made flights during the
year; many thousands more miles
were covered. AS against 40 avia-
tion fatalities In 1912, there were 1872
In 1913. In all the years before 1912.
since the Wrights made the first pub
lie flights in a heavier -than-air ma
chine, there had been but ia deaths
one In 1908. four in 1909. 80 in 1910,
Twenty-six Of the deaths Of 1918
occurred In the United States, 1S in
Great Britain, 81 in Germany, 81 in
France, and SO in various other coun-
tries. Twelve airmen fell into the
killed by the impact Of falling to
earth. nine were burned to death, and
II met death In various other ways,
nine of these being spectators who
were killed while watching tho air.
men. One hundred and forty-six Of
those killed were plotting their ma
chimes at the time. Is were mechani-
clans. and % were passengers.
September produced the longest list
Of casualties. % fatal accidents oc-
curing in that month. There were
q in April and an equal number In
July, while December was the safest
month, with but six deaths.
Undoubtedly the best known airman
who was killed In 1913 was Col. 8. F.
Cody, an American naturalixed in
England. who had done perhaps more
than any other one.man to further the
interests Of aviation in Great Britain
and had won international fame
through his inventions. He was killed
on August Z, by the failure Of q BIZ
plane Of his own construction. A pas
senger with him was also killed. Al
most equally famous in Europe was
NJ. vlaicu, = ROumanian pioneer in
aviation. who was killed ON Septem-
Der 13 at Bucharest. Charles Nieu-
port, q French airman, famous the
world around a. . designer and build
or Of monoplanee, was killed Janu-
ary -.
Besides the 1s2 fatalities due to
AeropIane accidents, 50 persons lost
their lives In 1913 through accidents
to airships or dirigfble balloons. TWEEN
ty-eight were killed ON October II,
when fhe Zeppelin Ii exploded over
Johannistha1; Is died when Il was
wrecked in the North Sea September
8; five French aeronauts were killed
by the wrecking OF balloon ON April
II, and two German soldiers were
dropped from . Zeppelin that broke
away from its moOrings ON September
1O.-Popular Mechanics.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19

There being a division Of the ma
jority members Of the house and the
senate over important details of the
prospective trust legislation. it is evi-
dent that President Wilson has failed
to make known clearly his position in
the premises.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19

They do a few things better in
England. For instance. a member of
parliament was relieved Of his seat
and assessed a penalty Of $4,000 be-
cause he cast a vote in the house OF
commons while the frm of which he
is a member had a contract with the
British government.
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-19

Castillo. the bandit Of Cumbre tun-
mel infamy. who was summarily exc
cuted by Villa a few days ago, was
taken into custody Tuesday by United
States troops while he was sneakins
across the border. All of which in
dicates that there II likely to be a
considerable divergence between what
villa says he does and what he actual
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