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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-07
n {. I. j. DEPARTMENT
Mrs. Maud Il. Little. Editor
This South il Going Dry

Tbs South IL GOing Dry
Lay the jest about the julep in the
camphor balls at last,
For the miracle has happened and
the olden days are past;
That which makes Milwaukee his
tory doesn't foam in Tennessee,
And the lid in old Missouri is as
tight locked as can be
o. the comic paper colonel and his
cronies we'll might sigh,
For the mint is waving gaily and the
South is going dry.
By the still side on the hillside in
Kentucky all is still,
For the only damp refreshment
must be dipped up from the rill;
Moth Ca'lina's stately ruler gives
his soda glass shove,
And discusses local option with the
South Ca'lina Gov.
1t is useless at the fountain to be
winkful Of the eye,
For the cocktail glass is dusty and
the South is going dry
1t is water, water everywhere, and
not drop to drink,
We no longer hear the music of the
mellow crystal clink,
When the colonel and the major and
the general and the jedge,
Meet to have a little nip to give
their appetites an edge,
For the eggnog now is nogless and
| the rye has gone awry.
And the punch bowl holds carnations
| and the South is going dry.
! All the night caps now have tassels
and are worn upon the head
Not the night caps that were taken
before nobody went to bed,
And the breeze above the blue grass
is as solemn as is death,
For it bears no pungent Glove tang
on its odorific breath,
And each man can walk a chalk line
when the stars are in the sky
For the fizz glass now is fizzless and
the South is going dry,
Lay the jest about the julep meath
the chestnut tree at last.
For there's but one kind Of moon.
shine and the olden days are
past,
Now the water wagon rumbles thru
the Southland on its trip,
And it helps no one to drop off Il
pick up the drivers whip,
For the mint beds make a pasture
and the corkscrew hangetl
high,
All is still along the still side ant
the South is going dry.
Orlando Star-Reporter.
1t is as bad to license wrong as Il
do it.-Prov. 23: 1892
The wages of sin are always pal;
in full.-Ram S Horn.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-07

The wages of sin are always paid
in full.-Ram S Horn.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-07

ing for information as TO what
the patience Of the county executive
was exhausted and with the aid Of
his deputy he pitched the stuff out
Of the window Every bottle broke
but one, and the search for law COW
ering the question ceased.
4 have my Office full of the stuff,
and one OF the cells in the Jail full
Of it, and | don't want any more Of
it around said the sheriff-Miami
Metropolis
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-07
GRAND MUSICAL CONCERT
For Benefit of the Lake Weir Yacht
Club Building Fund

A musical concert for the benefit
of the building fund of the Lake
Weir Yacht Club will be held at the
club house March 18th, 1914, 7:2O
p. M: admission % cents, reserved
seats. Tickets on sale at Gerig' S
Drug Store.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-07
Winning Out

The diamond furnishes the fin
est kind of opportunity for training
in self-mastery without which there
can be no real success in life
Presence of mind, the futility of
useless argument, self-control and
the courage to lose gracefully are
all qualities required of the baseball
player and only he who is total alb
stainer from alcohol and tobacco can
hope to win out in either the
game of ball or the game of life, for
in a way it is a game.-Crusader
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-07

Call at Gerig's Drug Store on Sat
urday afternoon and meet Mrs. Spen-
GER. the candy demonstration. 3-4-4t
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-03-07

Fresh bread, cakes and pies every
lay; delivered to any part of the
'ity. Heintz' Bakery. 1913 1-tf
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TT has occurred to the writer that in N the confusion and doubt that are
 characteristic of our day the eminent reasonableness of the Christian faith can not be too often reaffirmed. A multitude of minds. not only of the young, are running off into unbelief and perplexity because it seems to them that all the old creeds have become discredited. On every page of newspapers and magazines you may read allusions to the change. How few have yet come to see that instead of losing it's strength, the Christian faith is today mighty as ever. able still to save to the uttermost nations and men,
 The writer will be glad to receive questions that may be provoked by his assertions. to be corrected when he errs and to broaden his field where necessary. His purpose is to help men to believe and obey the truth.
 A beginning may be made in any of hundred places. As good a place as any is the consideration that this world is not made. but being made.
 Ours is an unfinished world This is the modern conception of the universe:
 L What does that mean?
 ?. What does it imply?
 l. When it is said that the world is un- Finished, there is no thought of contra dieting the old Genesis story of Creation
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sion at the idea of taking life or tell ing lie. This is evolution. We, in Jef- ferson county, are eonfessedly revis- ion to the ancestral type, plus depen- dent and more nearly aboriginal type. with less ancestral restraint The latter has become part of "usn
 But our local barbarism must not blind us to the fact of evolution in the physical life or in the social life of the modern city, of the industrial arts of wealth and comfort and eonven- fences. In one day in our local district we make more steel than all the an cient world in a generation. We have more zeal for philanthropy than our ancestors had for war.
 But when all this survey is compre- hended in a glance, and we contem- plate the divine ideal to which all evil and goodness and loving servieesof man by man. when we contemplate Ameri- can warships that carry succor to starving Sicilian peasants, the rescue of Russian dead by their Japanese foes. and their honorable burial at great na- tional expense: when we estimate the volume of service done in this land or any civilized land by the rich for the poor, by hospitals schools play grounds. health protection and what rot, there is no room left to doubt that here is evolution, social. industrial. eco homie change that goes to the heart of things.
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In sense the world is created finished. The heavens and the earth are a fact. Beast and bird and man, stars and day light. creeping things and the law of gravitation are old facts. And this is what Genesis affirms But the student of the Bible and of history and science knows that the story of the past is the story of an evolution. which Jesus Him. self recognized when he said. My Father worketh until now, and I work" The process of creation ends in powers Of creation, or evolution.
 There are two processes of evolution, the one physical, the other moral or social Within certain limits. physical evolution is demonstrably a fact of history Here is the American nation. compounded of all sorts of races grafted on the original Anglo-Saxon stock. and inspired by all sorts of ideals grafted on those of its original PuritanCatho lie ancestry No one can mistake the American civilization or genius for that of any European nation. Even the physical type is distinct. and growing more distinct in those regions where the admixture of stock is most rapid Here Is a nation being created, being moulded.
 Under the hand of man, all sorts of physical forms in the vegetable and ani- nal kingdoms are being revolutionized The long-horned Texas steer no longer
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parently chaos. Socially and conner cially We have chaos Those who make the most wealth have the least re- ward. and those who are social para sites get the choicest of the feast
 All sorts of cunning devices exist to en- able men to beat their hrethern, and these dc not get rusty by disuse. If We con- sicer the present world us Gods world. the satisfactory social creation of His will we deny the whole promise of His king dom, when these tears will be wiped away. Already it is very good but for what? Not as an end but as a meansl Not as palace but as a scaffolding.
 Therefore, there is no use in getting angry and disputations, and athestical and blasphemops. The world Is not fin ished and the old saying holds that ehil- dren and fools should not see things till they are done. But the adage provides no way Of preventing the immature from knocking their heads against the loose blanks.
 Clearly the question Is whether this uni- verse in it's various stages has proved proper field to grow men and women, whether in all it's stages il is not sweep ing on toward the far-off divine event of which the poets and the seers have spoken, whether one pang could have been spared which fed a Plato Moses. a Shakespeare, a modern engineer, a mod ern physician, a modern philanthropst. The evolution or form vas preliminary to tht evolution of perfect love.
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work they stretch over the human race effectually presses down every throb that would otherwise send all undulation over the mass. No head can lift itself except in the legitimate way, while very small heads that happen to hit the aperture aristocracy has kindly left open may reach a high elevation. Revolution rends this framework as if it were a cobweb and lets the struggling. panting mass suodenly erect themselves to their full he.ght and fling abroad their arms in their full strength i. Then man is known by tho force within him and not by the pomp about him.
 Thus Augureau was the son of a grocer and spent many years in the French army as a private. The whirl- wind of revolution burst and he be- came Duke of Castinglions and mar shal of the empire. Bernadotte, Bes- sieres. St. cyr. Jourdan, Junot. McDon- aid. Lefevre, Massena, Lannes. Victor, Suchet. Oudinot. Murat. Ney-all were the sons of humble parents. They be- came marahals dukes, princes and kings.
 Gabriel Honore Riquetti de Mirabeau "roughest lions whelp ever filtered of that rough breed" might have saved Louis and Marie Antoinette had he lived. And who was he? "Our luck less Gabriel" says Carlyle, "sinned against and shining. has been in the Isle of Rhe and heard the Atlantic from his tower: in the cast of If and heard the Mediterranean at Marseilles. He has been in the fortress of Joux and 42 months with hardly clothing to his back, in the dungeon of Vincennes; all by letters-d e-cachet from his lion father He has been in Pontarlier jails (self-constituted prisoners, was noticed fording the estuaries of the sea Cat low water), in flight from the face of men. He has pleaded before Air parlements (to get back his wife) 1; the public gathering on roofs, to see since they could not hear; the "clat-
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THE TRUMP OF FAME-By Harry J. Burney

newspapers adequately saffron. a mur- derer may be looked upon rather as a hero than as villain. The idea that cause he has shed the blood of a fel- low mortal is rapidly becoming osso- lete. This is a time of progress and development We must get away from those old fogy notions that hamper mans advancement.
 Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"
 Thus the immortal William classi- fies them. There is George V, for in- stance Could anyone imagine his achieving greatness? But for the ac- cident of birth he probably would have spent a humdrum life selling things at corner grocery during the hours of business an cultivating carrots and sweet peas as a way of relaxation in his times of leisure. A good man and true if the world is not a liar, but of a goodness pale and anemic As a private citizen of the mighty empire ruled by Asquith and Lloyd-George, George V would never have set the Thames afire and he will not do so as King and Emperor.
 King George is harnessed to mate of different metal As Irving Cobb puts it: George V and Mary the other four-fifths. Mary would like to be King sure enough. But the English constitution and the Eng fish people stand in the way of her do- ing much of the King business as it was practiced in the days of old. So she spends her surplus time issuing edicts regulating the number of square inches of throat, chest and back the ladies of her court may expose upon occasions of social festivity, and if there are any other minutes to spare, she re-revises the receiving list, or cuts down King George s allowance of coffee and cigars, or fires a good looking girl in the domestic estab- lishment of the Prince of Wales.
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The First Country Theatre

From the Chicago Record Herald
 "The Agricultural college of Fargo. N. D.. has opened what Is said to be the first little country theatre in the United States. The performances arc to be given by students former students and neighbors. Interesting. significant, short plays, American and European. are to be produced in this little theatre and the successful pieces are to be taken "on the road" and given in other towns and Villages in the state.
 That this will promote neighborli- ness, true community life. social inter- course and wholesome recreation hardly needs emphasizing. Fargo may be proud of it's idea. it's example. There are few rural communities in. which a little enterprise and cooperation, with perhaps a little aid from the extension department of the state university could not make life pleasanter and give it zest. variety and new meaning.
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ter teeth" (elaque dents), snarls sin sular old Mirabeau tthe father), dis corning in such admired forensic e1o- quenoe nothing but two clattering jawbones and head vacant, sonorous, of the drum species.'
 'fn fiery rough figures. with black Samson locks under the slouch hat he steps along there. A fiery, fuliginous mass. which could not be cholSed ana smothered. but would fill all France with smoke. And now it has got the air 1t will burn it's whole substance, its whole smoke atmosphere too, and fill all france with flame. Strange lot! Forty years of all that smoldering, with foul firedamp and vapor enough; then victory over that; and like blazing mountain he blazes heaven high; and. for 2s resplendent months, torrents, al that Is in him, the Pharos and wonder sign of an amazed Europe; and then lies hollow. cold forever Pass on, thou questionable Gabriel Honore, the greatest of them all; in the whole national deputies, in the whole nation, there Is none like and none second to thee.'
 And further: But now if Mirabeau is the greatest. who of these 600 may be the meanest. Shall we say that anxious, slight. ineffectual-loolking man. under 30. in spectacles his eyes (were the glasses off) troubled, careful: with upturned face, snuffirg dimly the uncertain future time. complexion of a multiplex atribliar color, the final shade of which may be the pale sea green. That greenish colored indi- vidual is an advocate of Arras; his name is Maximilien Robesperre."
 So Carlyle describes them as in imagi- nation he sits to review the procession from the church of St Louis to Notre Dame Now which Is the more famous, the greatest or the meanest?
 It Is a fair question. Famous and in- famous are not confused The advocate of Arras thought as deeply and strived
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?. And so we come to see certain implications of this changing and evolv- ing scene
 CD The ultimate goal of the world is. to faith. moral beauty and social perfection. Let anyone try to sketch perfect human society. and he may claim for this world that it has that vision for it's goal. All this long pro- cess of physical and moral evolution tends thither But eye hath not seen nor ear heard. neither have entered the imagination of man. the things that actually will spell moral beauty and mocracy and our socalistic theory and so on But we are like children run hing for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The real gold is much nearer. A day is coming when love will be the only thing that will pay and when civilization will have in- verted the old law of rapine and self seeking and the necessity of iails. un- til that day dawns there is no moral perfection nd no social beauty, but only a det I hand reaching reacn- Ing and Jed across the knuckles And thg IS Q necessary step. That is part of the game.
 t2) But if this is so. we must not judge the world as though God had finished His job. His work Is going on, and in the meantime there is ap-
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Certainly there Is puzzle, there is sor rcw snd misery unspeakable in the world, cruelty and tyranny and greed. The evil is often in power, the clock of progress is set back the clouds return after ths tam. But wait till the send and then SD, ak. Don't scoff at God till you have grown your eve teeth. Don't despair of the future till you have lived it. Judge V Len you know. Meantime there is need or a sunny confidence and a very eager ca. operation. that tomorrow may not be as today, and that the moral beauty and social perfection pro nised may not be postponed.
 This Is a reasonable faith.
 But the higher eVolu ion IS not blind. 1t VIC rks through the moral cooperation Of men So that IT you say the world is a bad world, we must all come back at you with the question: What arc you do- ing to make il hetter2 The kingdom of the future comes through the cross of to- day. Did it never occur to you that Gods design includes vour service in bringing to pass the moral beauty and the social perfection of which His prophets have spoken in word and in nn-
 !" on to the bound of the waste. utterabe, instnctive longings2 For il is how to answer by our deeds the prayers
 '---on the bound of the waste. On to the City of God"
 the essence of His training that we learn of the ages. Therefore let us
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exists. but in his place are the fat beasts that have been wrought oeit of his an cestral blood Even wild things change their habitat and their appearance with changing circumstances. The wild rab- bit of English glens imperils the agricul- ture of the Australasian peoples. A useless pine tree of the western slope becomes the miracle of the lumber trade when planted in New Zealand. The blackberry grows white and the cactus and brier lose their thorns at a touch from Bur bank.
 Does this look like a fixed and stable world? By no means. It is all flux and change, even in form.
 In nothing Is the evolutionary element so manifest as in the history of social life. At one time lying was virtue when it's purpose was to deceive a stranger; at one time killing was a virtue when the victim was a member of a hostile tribe Not the Indians alone prae- ticed these morals. but our own fore fathers on Scottish or Irish borderlands along the Jordan lords. and in European forests. Lying and murder are every where condemned, at least in form, even in Jefferson county, Alabama, though there be many liars and many murderers abroad. If we do not hang the mur- derers at least, like Pilate, we wash our hands of them. But there are communi- ties which are mortified beyond express
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It became an interesting study on the part of the engineers to note the remark able skill of these original pathfinders in these rocky wilds. Not infrequently the path of the buffalo would lead directly up to a lofty ledge of natural stone ma sorry that would rise abruptly more than 1000 feet. when it would suddenly defect, and follow the rim of precipice beetling a brow that was as highly raised from the base of the deep gorge below, as the mountain from which the path had been diverted rose above. For ages this wild bull of the plains had known the best and easiest way of sealing the heights of the Rockies and of reaching the opposite side
 5 When at last man came with his civilizing process. his chain and com pass. he found that to the dumb buff falo of the plains he was indebted for
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his herds But now his grassy king dom is tracked by iron and instead Of his lowing among the rocks the snriil whistle of modern progress Is heard.
 The herds that once grazed the green plains have forever vanished. and in- stead the towns and cities of civilized man dot them over. The rocky path Of the mountain has become one of iron, and where once ambled the wild bison. trains with their immense eargoes how roll
 While it may appear bit sentl- mental to say so, the buffalo of tho western wilds Is worthy of a monu ment as the first engineer and the original pathfinder through the diffi- cult Instructions raised by nature across the body of our western contt- nent.
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of Monmouth illegitimate son of Charles II and Lucy Walters; Grafton. descended from Henry Fitzroy. illegitimate son of Charles II and Barbara Villier: Rich mond. Gordon and Lennox. descended from Charles Lennox, illegtimate son of Charles II and Renee de Queronailes. and St. Albans. descended from Charles Beauclerk, illegitmate son of Charles IL and Nell Gwynne. The first Duke of Marlborough owed his earliest court favor to the fact that his sister was the mistress of James II But there Is no use of going further into the list. It's fine bunch to steady to. to say the least.
 Six hundred charged at Balaklava. Then they fell back, but not the six hun dred." Six hundred dead and living he roes were created by somebody mis- take. That's making them wholesale but every one of them was the genuine art icle.
 Orville Wright climbed to fame; Lieu tenant Selfridge fell to it. The names of both arc-firmly fixed in history. one achieved distinction by years Of work and study. The other got all his in a second through an accident.
 Epictetus is fairly well known to Amer jeans because the late w. J. Gaynor was so fond of quoting his wise sayings. Epictetus was the slave of a Roman noble. Probably not one person in a mil- lion knows the name of the master, though a large percentage may remember the slave.
 "A revolution, by it's upturnings," says Headley, brings to the surface materials the existence of which no man ever dreamed before. Circumstances make men, who then usually return the com rliment and make circumstances. In or oinsry times as a general rule. the souls of men exhibit what force and fire they may contain in those channels where birth has placed them. This is more especially true in all monarchal and aris- tocratica governments. The iron frame
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N T is not generally known to what ex-
 tent we are Indebted to the buffalo A for our connection with that part of the continent which lies west of the Rocky mountains. vet it is a fact that in laying the tracks of railways that link to- gether the two great sections east and west of the great range, the buffalo had to be relied on to a considerable ex- tent to point the way
 The range of the Rockies. the back bone of the continent. presented itself as a formidable barrier to the original en- gineers of railroads reaching westward and their ingenuity and skill were tested In devisfng means for sealing these flinty heights with railway trains. Strange as the suggestion might seem. it was made that no inconsiderable aid would be de-