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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04
BELGIUM AND THE SOUTH

To the saphead who contrasts the
New South with the Old South to the
disparagement of the latter we have a
few words to say.
The white population of the seeding
states was about twothirds as great
as that of Belgium and they fought a
nation with a population one-third as
great as Germany. The preponder-
ance against the South was about
half as great as that against Belgium,
! but Belgium was helped by French
and English, while the South had no
| help. Still the South resisted more
years than it took the Germans weeks
| to go through Belgium.
The Old South was not a manufac-
turing country. 1t was without war
material and being shut off from the
world it couldn't buy 1t made it.
The Old South was more complete.
ly shut off from the world than any
civilized nation ever was. 1t couldn't
buy anything. 1t made everything
necessary and kept fighting.
After four years the end came. Per-
haps we may see in Belgium today
what the Old South looked like, but
going beneath the surface Belgium
does not show what the Old South
was like. We infer from descriptions
that Belgium about matches the Old
South in ruins, But Belgiums finan-
cial loss is measured by the value of
the houses destroyed or the extent to
which they were damaged, and the
partial loss of one crop. The Old
South lost practically everything.
The Belgians have probably not lost
one-fourth of their wealth. The
South lost at least nine-tenths of hers
Belgian money is as good as it ever
was. The money the South had at
the close of the war was no more than
waste paper. No relief ships brought
food to the Old South. Her people
had to sustain themselves or die.
At last the struggle ended and the
men of the Old South returned to
their homes to rebuild their country
when its very foundations had been
destroyed. Not all of them returned.
About one-third still lay on the battle,
fields where they had fought, or in
the cemeterys that grew so rapidly
around the hospitals. About one,
third of the remainder had to take;
up the struggle for existence with one
arm or one leg gone, but they didn't
sell shoestrings. They stumped along
after the pillow or taught one hand tol
do the work of two.
Could things have been worse?
Yes, they were. The picture is not
yet complete. By victorious enemy,
in violation of the agreements under
which they had given up their arms
the men of the Old South were placed
under a combination of ignorance and
criminality and in the depths OF their
poverty were plundered. Then the,
second war began-not war for sep
aration but for control of their own
land. In the midst of the hardest
struggle for a bare living that civiliz-,
ed man ever knew the men of the!
Old South found time to win back
control of their country and they won
it by violence.
Then by their brain and their mus
Gle they gave the South such a pow
erful impulse that its progress has,
been easy since Call these men OF
titanic force sleepy or ,indolent or UNI
progressive? You saphead, go and
do something worth doing before you
presume to compare yourself with
them in any Experimentation.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Mrs. J. H. Workman of Miami, for
merly Mrs. Mary Dodge Maddox of
this city, will arrive from Miami about
the 18th to remain until after Christ
mas with her pal ents, Rev. and Mrs.
W. ii. Dodge. Mr.. Workman will join
her for Christmas.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

President Poincaire has conferred
on General Joffre, the commander in
chief of the French armies, the me-
daille militaire, the highest honor that
can be conferred upon a French sol.
der, the bestowal of which is a mark
of the nations gratitude.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Henry NJ. Coudrey, an ex-congress-
man from Missouri, is being held in
the Tombs in New York, charged with
the larceny of $1,000. Perhaps he
caught the grating habit while in
congress. and thought that he coul
keep it as a plain citizen.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Resides the dlnerent rafieliea a
hay that we have already msuilonea
as having been on exhibition az aaF
fair. We failed 20 note the several
bales made from the soy bean. &c
Kudzu vine. and q number ~ laRan
csc varieties.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

1t is becoming more and more evil
dent that the war in Europe will be
fought to a finish on German soil.
The inevitable seems slowly approach
ing.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Quincy has recently sustained big
loss in the burning of her Fuller's
Earth Plant. The loss is put down at
100000. One hundred hands are
thrown out of employment.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Germany is experimenting with rub
Der foot pontoons to enable soldiers
to walk on water, carrying heavy
loads and using their rifles freely at
the same time.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

A century ago a workman with
tools of that time could make 5000
pins a day Now, with modern ma
chinery, workman can turn out 49,
100000.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

The Pennsylvania railroad has or
dered its conductors to make frequent
trips through sleeping cars at night
&c see that the Pullman employees are
ON guard in each car.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

The noise of those bigger and real
guns in Europe have silenced the per-
formances of Cole Blease and his
kind on this side of the water.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

1t is reported from Lima, Ohio that
an order will be placed there shortly
from one of the foreign nations, fol
lowing closely upon the order given
10 the Baldwin Locomotive Company
from Russia
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

There have been already ABA in
dictments under the "white slave act
II is going to be helpful in the inn
provement of morals.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

The British losses in warships up
TO date are 10; dead, 5,O77; injured,
473. If this keeps up much longer
England will lose her title as "mis-
tress of the seas.'
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

The New York newsboys got away
with four hundred and sixty pounds
of turkey in the space of a few min
utes, and barrels and barrels of other
things almost as good on Thanksgiv-
ing Day.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

A good motto to be hung conspicu-
onsly wherever oranges are sold
would be the following: three
oranges a day will keep the doctors
away" Oranges will be found a
splendid tonic. A grapefruit for
breakfast will add to the effectiveness
OF the tonic.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Miss Blanche \ izelle has returned
to her home at Orange Lake, after
weeks visit in Ocala with her sister,
Miss Elizabeth Mizelle.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Baby shows have made wonderful
development within the past decade.
The better babies, contest" now have
n wealth of meaning.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Congressman J. Charles Litchicum,
OF the fourth Maryland district, is
campaigning for the democratic nom
nnation for governor of that state
next year.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Four million Germans are now un.
der arms. That is an enormous army
TO be given as food for modern weap-
ons of warfare.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

From newspaper reports the Ma
rion county fair at Ocala was some
fair. None but the brave deserve it
Clearwater Sun.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

The Florida Vegetable Marketing
Bureau held an important and inter
esting meeting last night at the board
of trade rooms.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

In renewing his subscription, Mr.
Louis Kern of Chicago, ILL.,, wishes
the Banner great success.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

The Ohio liquor organizations have
recorded the amount spent by them
at the recent election as S535,938.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

1t now appears that the kind OF
famine that will end the war in Eu-
rope is the famine of men.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

DIR. James Withycombe, governor
elect of Oregon, is noted authority
on scientific agriculture.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

The war in Europe makes one thing
self-evident and that is that battle
ships are not worth their cost and
keep.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Los Angeles now claims popula-
ton of $4,000.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

The tango craze has reached an
other high notch, new community
in West Virginia being named Tango.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04
THE CARMICHAEL PROPOSITION

| If the merchants of Ocala had own.
! ed the boats on the Oklawaha river
forty years ago, and had owned them
continuously until now, we have ev,
cry reason to believe that they would
have made larger profits on their
bfreights than on their goods, and
Ocala would have been known today
far and near as a great commercial
center.
1t could not have been otherwise.
Commanding the key that unlocks
the freight problem there are no two
ways about it but that Ocala would
have been able to have built up pop
ulation of fifteen or twenty thousand.
Looking back over the situation this
does not appear to us as pipe dream
or fairy story-it seems so reason
able that it does not occur to us that
it could have been otherwise.
But we closed our eyes to our great
est asset.
Silver Spring continues to be the
key to the situation. If Silver Spring
and the Oklawaha river are wisely
used Ocala can still be made a city.
The talisman leading to commercial
success is in holding the key that
will lock or unlock the freight situa-
ton. We have that key. 1t only
needs to be operated.
This is the key that has been the
prime factor in the development of
Jacksonville, Tampa, Miami, and in
all growing cities.
Opportunity is now knocking at our
city gates as it has never knocked
before.
If we seize the opportunity and use
it properly we are as certain as we
are living that it will spell success in
very large, glowing and Illuminating
letters.
Mr.. Carmichael's proposition, the
details of which have already been
given in these columns, means so,
much and costs so little, we do not
see how it is possible for our bust
ness men to turn it down.
If we were certain that it would be
put into immediate operataion we
would feel very much richer by sew
eral thousand dollars, and we feel
sure that if it is at all considered that
everyone VINO owns property in the
city will be stimulated by the same
belief.
We repeat that we see in it a rift
in our clouds that if properly utilized
will rain down golden riches.
In knocking at our doors this time
Opportunity is using giants club
Let's not turn him away, disguised
and disheartened. He may never
knock at our doors again.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

In Baravria, Germany, a number of
towns have decided to introduce un-
employed insurance.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Making soup of them is "a good way
TO ruin peas.-Dallas News.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

About one third of the telegraphers
on Britain's railroads are women.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

In Illinois the average saiary % -
$500 men teachers n t512CT . ysar.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

England's great war loan is over
subscribed.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-12-04

Switzerland produces no coal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-16
WILL MANUFACTURE
 METAL bREECHING
Forming Company to Make Article Patented by Ben
 Williams of English.

Plans for organizing company with a capital of $25,O00 to manu- facture in Pine Bluff patented met al harness breeching invented by Ben R. Williams, a planter of English, have reached such point that 8 meeting will be held next Wednesday to perfect organization. Secretary D. B. Bloom of the Chamber of Com merce and J. P. Oracle of Rob Roy are two of the leading spirits in the movement to establish an another and entirely new industrial enter prise in Pine Bluff. The plant will employ between twenty-five and thirty mCn.
 The breeching it is proposed to manufacture here, and which was re- gently patented by MT. Williams. is made of No. 2 galvanized iron. It is made in two parts, curved to fit the rump of the animal, and Is pivoted or hinged together in such manner as to be flexible. The breeching is four inches wide, twenty-two inches long and equipped with a perfectly flat chain, which can be shortened or heightened similarly to the old-fash- toned leather breeching. The advan- tage claimed for the new breeching Is that it is practically everlasting, and can be manufactured at cost that will permit it's sale at a figure that will make the new metal breeching the most economical for the trade.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-16
NEW HAVEN MEN
 ALTER ATTITUDE Railroad Officials Defiant Last Week Now Beg
 Clemency.
INDICTMENTS TODAY
Joe Folk, Attorney for I. (. S., Says Unless Offenders Appear Today Charges Will
 Follow.

Washington, April 15-Officials of the New Haven railroad system, who refused last week to testify before the interstate commerce commiss.o .on, today begged for clemency. They vii be given no quarter Unless the men voluntarily come to Washington before tomorrow and open the books of the Billiard company a subsidiary of the New Haven, indictments will be returned against them.
 Former Governor Folk of Missouri, who is now chief counsel for the commission, today received long telegram from Homer s. Cummings, attorney for the four men against whom indictments will be returned tomorrow. MT. Cummings asked that the case against his clients be not pressed at this time and that they be given time to consider.
 When the telegram reached Wash ington, MT. Folk had just concluded a consultation with District Attorney Wilson and made arrangements for a hearing before the grand jury of the District of Columbia tomorrow morn ing.
 Subpocnaes were issued to compel witnesses to- appear and testify before the grand jury that on last Friday the New Haven men refused to answer specific questions propound- ed by counsel of the interstate com merce commission.
 The witnesses who were summoaed to appear tomorrow are COmmis sioner McChord, before whom the New Haven case was being tried when the men refused to answer questions; A. H. May, treasurer of the New Haven railroad, and ste nographer who recorded the proceed ings.
 The four men who refused to answer the commissions questions are Samuel Hemingway, president of the Second National bank of New Haven; H. V. Whipple, president of the M erchants' National bank of New Haven and connected with the Billiard company; E. E. Field, a New Haven business man and also said to be a director in the Billiard company, and Samuel Morehouse, lawyer of New Haven.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-16
Contestants Bandy Words.

Little Rock, April 16.-All day "Wednesday was spent by the state
 Democratic central committee in lis
 tening to oraotry and in skirmishing
 for openings in the Clarke-Kirby con-
 test for the United States senatorial
 nomination.
 The Clarke forces were triumphant
 at every point, the committee lining
 up strongly in his favor. No decision i was reached, however, and just pre- ceding adjournment a resolution pro- posed by G. P. Wilmington of Gar land and seconded by Senator Clyde Going, was adopted by a vote of twenty-two to five. It was stated that, as required by this resolution, Secretary H. B. Thorne of the Poin- sett county committee, would proceed on the first train to Harrisburg, se- cure the poll-books, tally sheets and ballot boxes of the recent primary, and returning, deliver them into the hands of the state committee for such disposition as they might deem proper. The features of the day were speeches at the afternoon session by Judge w. F. Kirby and Senator Clarke, each of whom was given a most respectful hearing and frequent ly interrupted with applause.
 This was especially strong on the Kirby side of the hall when, in the course of his address. he challenged Senator Clarke to run the race over again in thirty days, in the whole state, and not make speech, or to run it over again in Poinsett county and abide by the result.
 While the addresses of the two can didates were eloquent and often i'm passioned, they were free from per sonalities, and there were few person. al clashes.
 Senator Clarke said if the people of the St. Francis levee district had known Judge Kirby's record on levee matters better, he would not have gotten as many votes as he did. sen ator Clarke would have been beaten by 10000 majority if it had not been for his control of federal patronage, declared Judge Kirby, and Senator Clarke retorted, If it had not been for the federal patronage I would have won by 50,0O0." 3
 The greater part of the day was spent in a discussion of resolution refining the purpose and policy of the committee. The Kirby forces insisted upon the fullest investigation of all allegations of fraud in Poinsett coun- ty, but the resolution as finally adopt-
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-16
LITTLE ROCK D. A. R..
 OFF TO WASHINGTON
Propose to Elect Mrs. Helen Norton Vice President General of
 National Society .

Little Rock, April 15.-A delegation of Little Rock members of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion,. headed by their state regent, Mrs. s. s. Wassell, left here Tuesday nigh. for St. Louis. In that city theyewil join the Missouri delegation going to the Continental congress ia Washington, D. c. There Mrs. Was Sell will assume the management of the campaign for the election of Mrs. Helen M. Norton of Little Rock, as one of the ten vice presidents gen. eral of the national organization. The nominations will be made April 23, and the Little Rock delegates, who have secured pledges of support from several states. are hopeful of being able to secure the election of Mrs. Norton. She has been unanimously endorsed by Little Rock chapter and the annual state conference.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-16
TULSA RACE TRACK UNDER MARTIAL LAW Gov. Cruce Uses Militia to Stop Gambling on
 Races.
FIRE UPON JOCKEYS
VOlley Over Heads of Riders Followed by Announcement That Horses Would Be Shot
 Next,

Tulsa, Okla, April 15.-State mili- tia, acting under orders from Gov Lee Cruce to prevent gambling at the Tulsa race track, late today fired a volley over the heads of riders as they came down the stretch in the first race.
 No one was injured, but the card was called off. Adjutant General Canton stated that if another race were attempted he would order the soldiers to kill the horses in their tracks.
 Just before the first race was scheduled to start the adjutant gen. eral addressed the crowd in the grandstand. He told of his orders to stop racing and said that the track was under martial law. All specta- tors were ordered from the grounds. Few of them obeyed, however, and three arrests followed.
 The racing officials decided to pro- ceed with the card and as the horses paraded past the grandstand they were welcomed with a rousing cheer The horses were sent away to a good start and the field was about sixteenth of a mile from the finishing point when Major Scott and two mi litiamen rushed upon the track and fired olley of, fie shots.
 The management then decided to discontinue today's program.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-16
EAST SIDE BURIES
 GANGS7ER AS HERO
Men and Women of Under world Brave Cold Rain to
 Attend Franks Funeral.

New York, April 15.-Men and women of the underworld, neighbor- hood shopers and sco11es of morbid, curious stood in cold, drizzling rain this afternoon on the steep, winding hill oposite the home of Mrs. Mary Cirofici. while funeral services were being conducted for ...Dago Frank Cirofici, the last of the gunmen to be buried.
 Nearly 100 persons tramped be- hind the white hearse and the six carriages to St. Raymond's cemetery ia Westchester, where the gangs.er was buried
 There could not have been a more elaborate display in last tribute to soldier who had died with honor in leading his men in battle.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-16
NOMINATE HOOPER
 FOR THIRD TERM
Tennessee Reps. for Nation Wide Prohibition and
 Uniform Divorce Law.

Nashville, Tenn, April 15.-The Republican state convention this af- ternoon nominated Gov. Ben w. Hoop CT for the third term. The meeting was so thoroughly a local affair that the main platform contained no ref erence to the national party. The convention declared for a federal amendment on nationwide prohibit .tion.
 A uniform divorce law was endors- ed and lynching condemned. Every thing else was purely local, for the evident purpose of holding for Gov ernor Hooper independent Democrats who meet in state convention a week hence, and will endorse him for gov ernor.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-16
ADMITS HE LIED
 TO SAVE GUNMEN
Dresner's Confession Shat ters Last Defense of
 Gangsters.

New York, April 15.-The last de- fense made for the four Rosenthal gunmen who were executed at Sing Sing last Monday morning was shat tered today when Carl Dresner con- fessed to District Attorney Whitman he had committed perjury in an ef- fort to establish an eleventh hour alibi for the murderers.
 The confession is the outcome of a investigation made by the district attorneys office on the suspicion that evidence" was manu- factured to aid the gunmen by inter- ests friendly to Charles Becker with the ultimate aim of strengthening Becker's defense.
 Dresner was committed to the Tombs after waiving examination be- fore Justice O'Keefe. He asserted that he had not been paid to swear falsely but had offered the testimony with the hope of saving the gunmen from the electric chair. He admitted going first to John Becker who told him to communicate with Joseph Shay, Charles Becker's attorney at that time. A telephone message from Dresner failed to reach Shay and he then went to the law offices of Wahle & Kringle, attorneys for the gunmen where his affidavit was taken.
 The statements contained in the affidavit obtained by Wahle & Kringle furnished the basis for a final plea made for the lives of the gunmen before Justice Golf last Sat- urday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-16
EIARKE FORCES 1 ARE TRIUMPHANT eommittee Will Not Go Be- 1ind the Poinsett County
 Returns.
kIRBY's DEFI IGNORED
rhallepges Clarke to Go Before Voters of State in Thirty Days or Let
 POinsett Voters Determine Contest.

Little Rock, Ark, April 15.-United
 States senatorial aspirations of Judge
 Wv. F. Kirby were dealt blow by the |state Democratic central committee To-day.
 Senator Clarke's contentious were upheld on every vote. A proposition of the Kirby forces to |go back of the Poinsett county vote, Ion which county the contest princi- |pally rests, and throw out votes where |pol taxes had not been paid previous Ito the primary of March 25, was lost |The committee, however, voted to have the returns canvassed by the |committee itself but refused a propos- |al to open the ballot boxes. The official vote in the senatorial |race as announced by the Democratic state central committee today gives Senator Clarke 6S,OO9 and Judge Kir- by 67,797.