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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

However, when we speak of home
workers, we don't want to forget Will
Gary. He has been the nerve center
of the dry organization. He was the
chief of the general staff; he had the
name of every voter in Marion county
not only in his books, but almost in
his mind, and came very near know
ing how they were going to vote. He
said last week the drys were going to
win. Although sick a part of the
time, he did enough work for two well
men. Organization is the basis of
most victories, and VIII Gary was the
great little organizer of the prohi-
bitionists. When we pass on beyond
Will Gary, we find solid phalanx of
men and women, hundreds of personal
acquaintance, and some we do not
know, all of whom worked so faith
fully and efficiently that we don't
feel like naming one without mention
ing ALL
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A. c. {. SCHEDULE

Trains of the Atlantic Coast Line
will arrive and depart in Ocala at the
following times:
No. 81, Jacksonville to st. Peters
burg, 2:18-2:25 a. m.
No. 38, ST. Petersburg to Jackson
vile, 2:25 a. m.
No. 10, Leesburg to Jacksonville,
$40 a. m.
No. Isl, Ocala to Wilcox, Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, 6:1O a. m.
No. 35, Ocala to Lakeland Sunny
JIM, Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day, $40 a. m.
No. 141, Wilcox, Gainesville and
Palatka to Ocala, 11:15 a. m.
No. 40, st. Petersburg to Jackson
vile, 12:54-1:14 p. m.
No. 48, Homosassa to Ocala, LOS
|p. m.
No. 40, ocala to Homosassa, 2:25
p. m.
No. 80, Jacksonville to st. Peters
burg, 2:S6-2:40 p. m.
No. lao, Ocala to Palatka, Gaines
vile and Wilcox, 4:10 p. m.
No. $50, Wilcox to Ocala, Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, 5:45 p. m.
No. 9, Jacksonville to Leesburg,
9:05 p. m.
No. 80, Lakeland to Ocala Sunny
JIM, Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day, $50 p. m.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08
WE MOVED 1T
Wildwood, Dec. Z

Wildwood, Dec. z.
Ocala Star: Allow me to congrat-
ulate you on the stand that you have
taken in the election which is coming
off in Marion county today. / hope
that you will be able to remove the
worst blot upon the fair name of the
city of Ocala which it has ever bore.
Please wire me at my expense tonight
the results of the election today.
Yours very truly,
W. H. McRainey.
The Star last night wired Mr.. Nc
Rainey the news he desired to receive.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

smythe Called on Blair Stanley and
Vivian. He Smirked at Her.
holidaying at the circus, as was half the
town. He had seen the diamond blazing
on the breast of the fair and faithless
La Belle. lie had seen the lion strike
her down and drag the diamond to the
cage door sankey passed across the
bodies Of the dead men outside the
cage, snatched at the bloody bauble and
drew it from the claws of the lion.
The fight and the panic ,surged about
him. Others as greedy and grasping in
the face OF death as Sankey snatched.
too, at the cleaning great jewel.
In the maelstrom of the struggle
Sankey lighting for the diamond,
whirled just beneath the box where
stood the agitated party with Arthur.
Durand grabbed at the diamond as it
passed beneath him. Blair sprang out
of the box, but some one struck him
stunning blow from behind and the
fighting front of the throng, desperate
Il struggling for the diamond, swirled
and surged on-the accused heirloom
of the StailIeys passing close by Esther
and Quabba.
Lawyer Smythe, searching for Ar
thur, 10 whom. as John Powell" Blake
the Richmond detective. had sent him
when the lawyer first went west on
his quest for the heir to the Stanley
earldom. arrived at the circus just as
the triple tragedy had occurred
Earlier III the day Smythe, freshly
clothed and rested and revived after
his wandering in the wilderness, had
called AT the Office of the Good Hope
Oil company
Here he had met Blair. in charge, and
Vivian Marsfon. He snirked at the
young woman and Vivian returned the
smile. deeming it TO her interest to do
so But they gave him no cleW that
the man he sought as John Powell
for information regarding Arthur Stan
iey was Arthur Stanley himself.
SuIytae had never met Arthur STANLEY
except once briefly in the wilderness.
and here taciturnify on both sides in
a easuai meeting had prevented either
knowing the purpose Of the other
Briefly. al the Office. Smythe had dis
cassscd with Blair and Vivian the kim
dred subjects OF the Stanley earldom
aid the diamond from tie sky. Smythe
had no interest IN tie diamond If
vas igt an heirloom If doubtful value
ii his eyes. an lleiFl3om pertaining to
Tie American Stanlers only But the
ENGLISH T tie concerned him much. and
he had informed Blair that until il was
definitely proved that the fugitive Ar
thug STANLEY WAS dead the claim OF
Blair 10 both the diamond and the
Stanlex carbon IN EnaIand cnuId not
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

A visitors first impression upon
arrival in Florida is the marked abb
sence of bird life and bird songs
this is understood when the report of
guns is heard on every side, from
early dawn till late at night. Last
week the writer returning from the
country observed the back of hunt
er's buggy filled with red birds,
hooking birds, hnnets, meadow larks
and many other birds-the result,
presumably, of one days sport.
Daytona Journal.
It's against the law to kill these
birds, and the writer of the forego-
ing should have reported the occur
renee to the authorities.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

The editor of the Ocala Star takes
up nearly a column front page space
to tell he had never heard of Windle.
If Windle had read that before he
made his speech Saturday it is likely
the editor would have remembered
him the balance of his life.-Gaines-
vile Sun.
We think Windle will remember
the Star longer than the Star will
remember him. The hired lecturer of
the National Liquor Dealers Associa-
ton is not likely to make any deep
dents in this papers memory. If he
had come as Editor Windle of the
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Ocala and Marion county have a
large element of industrious and pro-
gressive colored people, who support
their schools and churches, try to
build themselves up in business and
maintain good homes for their fam
lilies. This class voted almost solidly
dry, and brought its influence to bear
on the irresponsible members of the
race to vote likewise. Ever since it
was paper, the Star has pursued
the policy of encouraging and prais-
ing these people in their efforts for
race and individual betterment. 1t
has always held that it was the white
rams duty and the white mans in
terest to help them. Tuesday, they
proved its confidence was not mis-
placed. They may well feel proud,
because they have shattered for all
time the claim that whisky controls
the colored voters of Marion county.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08
T. F. HARRISON

Mr.. T. F. Harrison, an old and
prominent citizen of Citra, died, after
long illness, Monday, and was burr
ed Tuesday in the family cemetery
at Eureka.
Mr.. Harrison was an Odd Fellow
of many years standing, being initial
ed into the order Jan 81, 1888. He
was a member of Tulua Lodge, this
city, and his Odd Fellow brethren,
with many other friends, sincerely
mourn his loss.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08


Although we are entirely glad of
the triumph over the liquor traffic,
and have nothing but contempt for
the wholesale liquor men, who de-
bauch our politics with their money,
as well as poison many of our people
with their booze, we have no dispo-
sition to crow over local saloon men.
After all, they are our neighbors,
and most Of them are good neigh
bors too. They are, however, all good
business men, will soon be in better
business, and in a year or two couldn't
be driven back into the saloon bust
ness with pitchforks. We nope they
will find places and remain among us
TO help in uplifting our home city.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

The Sun is an awfully uninterest-
ing political paper. The reason of
this is that none of the state candi-
dates are subscribing to it and they
are about the only ones interested in
what we could say about them
Clearwater Sun.
We guess most of them are inter
ested in the Star; about half of them
are on its regular subscription list.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

The Star is indebted to Mrs. Lewis
Yonce, who put in shape for the prin-
ter the long list of premiums in the
household department of the fair,
which appeared in yesterdays Star.
1t was a big job and one that could
be attended to only by some one en-
tirely familiar with the exhibits.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Secretary Rooney, of the Board of
Trade, will leave this afternoon for
Washington, to work with Congress
for the Oklawaha improvement. There
ie only $4,000 for this work in the
river and harbor estimate, and it is
of the greatest Importance that the
enterprise be not allowed to lapse at
this particular time.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08
THE
FROM
THE SKY
Continued from Last Week.
CHAPTER XIII.
"a Am N ot CraBH


~ YITH the pandemonium that
s followed the swift death
melted TO the Lady of Lions
struck down in her sins. it
would seem every evil passion broke
loose in the panic at Sankey's circus.
SantIey. struck down in his sin also,
and Splinters. the clown. dead by his
own hand after the vengeance of his
frenzied brain. were trod upon and
further disfigured as the crowd fought
and struggled. Showmen at the per.
formers entrance. hearing the pistol
shot and the hoarse cries of the crowd
as it rose to its feet and surged for
the exits. imagined nurderous alter
cation between town roughs and the
circus men had broken loose.
The circus mems rallyfng cry. Hey.
Rubev' was raised. The canyasmen.
the vicious swindlers. the agile aero
bats, all those who knew a tragedy
had happened but had not sensed what
1t was. seized tent pegs and stakes.
drew forth brass knuckies and sIung,
shots and struck sickenfng blows right
t1I4u lSAL e4l GA q L1GtAI III S4e7A AAOdzLiS
cut the ropes and tore down the half
vacated seats and added to the general
frenzy of fright. destruction and panic
But from the first tragic happening.
the death Of la Belle under the lions
paw. a greedy eye had been upon the
blazing diamond from the sky. As the
paw of Lancelot, the lion. drew away
from the scared. dead breast of his
faithful mistress. the chain TO the dia-
mond locket cluIig to his cruel claws.
As the lion, roaring in las maddeDed
rage, faced the fTenzie1 throng at his
cage bars, the diamond dangled out
over the dead faces of Santley and
Splinters, the clown.
Foremost in the throng, seeking
escape from the scene of horror, was
Sankey, keeper of the stable in which
Quabba kept his outfit, Sankey was
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08
PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING

There will be union prayer and
service held at the
Methodist church Wednesday even
ing, 7:30 o'clock. Everybody cordial
ly invited to attend.
J. M. Gross,
Pastor Methodist Church.
J. R. Herndon,
Pastor Presbyterian Church.
Bunyan Stephens,
Pastor Baptist Church.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08
NOTICE

To all concerned, I will not be re-
sponsible for bills incurred or con-
tracted by Mrs. Hardeman Claude
Gates, or anyone representing her, on
and after this date.
12-5-6t Hardeman Claude Gates.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Among the veteran editors of the
state is c. o. Codrington, who has
owned and edited the DeLand News
for twenty-three years, and kept it
financially independent all that time.
Quite a good record.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Fine idea it would be if the people
who believe in honest elections were
to get together and give the mister
mobleys a coat apiece of tar and
feathers.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

was the Florida Messenger, edited by
A. L. James, pastor of Mount Moriah
Baptist church in this city. AS a
preacher and a writer, he worked hard
in the good cause, and his labor had
it's influence on the general result.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

DIR. ]. M. Gross will preach his
farewell sermon next Sunday, and
will leave for annual conference the
following day. Ocala will DE great
ly obliged to the conference if it will
return DIR. Gross for another year.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

DR.. w. X. Lane, by way of en-
couraging, the Star for its prohibi-
ton stand, gave it permission to in
crease its rate on his advertising, an
example which he thinks all bust
ness men should follow.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

J. Fred de Berry announces that he
will be a candidate for governor. This
isn't such joke as it looks like. j.
Fred is the Stars preference over
Cats.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Considerable of the coin sent here
by the National Liquor Dealers As
ISOLATION to corrupt our voters will
remain in Marion county.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

IOI SeNcFal Weeks
after the birth of
my baby. This
course ] followed
with each OF my
three babies and
am glad to testify
that | was comfort
able and free from
theannoyancesth that
go with such a con-
dition, My chill
dren were born with
the greatest ease.
In a very short
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Iconoclast, or lecturer for a good
cause, he would have had different
reception.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Pinellas county is about to have
another election, to vote on $4,000
worth of bonds to build new court
house.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

We hope somebody wired the news
to Windle.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

We are afraid one linotype can't
set the names of all the local work
ers.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

And we are entirely sure some
body wired it to Upshaw.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Other people like to assail evil with
a penknife, but the Star prefers to
use an axe.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

But then there were several other
live wires,in the bunch.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Because it can't go right straight
back to Chicago, Cincinnati and Mil
waukee for booze.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Save auto troubles-buy Diamond
tires and tubes from the Marion
Hardware Company. 11-16
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Blushingly we admit the Star did
its best.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

And a good w. C. 7. U. worker re-
minds US to say that the children
were helpers, also.
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1t does our heart good to hear SO
many people say, "The Star did it.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Election may prove financial ben
eft after all.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Oil stoves, wood stoves, coal stoves
at the Marion Hardware Co. 11-16
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SMART AND TRUE SAYINGS
columbia STATED

columbia State)
American women have backbone, -
declares an editor. They have. And
the ladies' evening gowns show it
pretty plainly, too.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Marion county is no longer the
black spot on the map.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Fresh seeds of all kinds 81 tina
ocsla Seed Store. 20-tt
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Mister Mobley of Martel will not
receive his extra money.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

One of the effective agencies for
prohibition among the colored people
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

Henry Ford says there is English,
Scotch and Dutch in him, and we
wouldn't be bit surprised to learn
that there was also quite a sprinkling
of Armenian
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

One French shop makes $50 ma
chine guns a day. The whole United
States army has only 1872 machine
guns. And yet there are people who
oppose adequate preparedness.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08
MANY WOMEN OF OUR
HOME STATE WOULD
TESTIFY.

st. Petersburg, Flat used DIR.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription before and
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-12-08

That crippled little man, VIII d.
Upshaw, was one of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-12

seat so that he might read when he was
not shoveling coal or driving the loco
motive. To-day Daniel Willard is the
most widely read and quoted of all the
railroad men of America.
J. H. Hustis, president of the Boston
& Maine, and A. H. Smith, president of
the New York Central, began their rail-
road service as office-boys. c. H. Mark
ham, president of the Illinois Central,
like Daniel Willard, began as track
laborer. Marvin Hughitt, for many years
head of the Northwestern, and w. A.
Gardner now its president, A. j. Earling
of the Milwaukee, and Milton H. Smith
of the Louisville & Nashville, were like
Sir William Van Horne in beginning their
careers by pounding telegraph key.
Probably three quarters of all the men
who head American railroads to-day be-
gan as track laborers or telegraph oper-
ators-the greater part as operators.
How can boy become railroad presi-
dent? If the boy-who-would-b be- presi-
dent takes too much stock in the forego-
ing, he will reply: "By getting job as
track laborer or telegraph operator"
The New Type of Railroad President
NOT bit of it, The track laborers on the
greater part of the railroad mileage
of the United States to-day are Mexicans
or Japanese or negroes; and as for the
telegraph operator-he is no longer the
all-powerful factor in railroad operation
that he was twenty-five or even ten years
ago, owing to the use of the long-distance
telephone in despatching trains and in
transacting other business
No; the road to the presidency of the
railroad of tomorrow is not by way
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-12
Do You Want to Be Railroad President?

are not actually in the
colleges are getting the
college sort of training
in the innumerable ways
that open to the young
man who has the will.
Only a little while
ago a big and popular
fellow-division super
intendent of a big and
popular railroad in the
Middle West-was miss
ing from his usual
haunts. One night one
of his friends espied him
on a trolley-car bound
downtown, with some
battered textbooks
under his arms.
"1'm going to school
again, he said.
"To SCHOOL,
"To law school.
That's the thing the
railroad man of to-day
needs. He needs it at
every turn. | haven't
time, or our legal de-
partment hasn't time,
to take up the multi
tude of things that arise
on this division alone
that need Il smart law
yer's brain. 1t may
only be a COW that, be-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-12

TUE other day a
man died in
Montreal who
= had acquired dis
tinction in that Cana
dian city. He had been
knighted, he was a di-
rector in the Bank of
Montreal; higher hon
ors hardly exist in the
Imagination of any Ca
madam. His art collec-
ton was the finest in
the Dominion: it was
valued at more than
two millions of dollars.
This man-his name
was Sir William Van
Horne, and he was the
head and front of the
Canadian Pacific Rail-
way-had many more
millions of dollars, in
land, in buildings, in
securities of every sort.
Men deferred to his
judgment. He sat in
high places. Yet he was
fond of telling of the
days when he was
a telegraph operator
back in Chicago, the
old Chicago whose
streets were shaded by
maDles and catalpas
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dent? How have boys
become railroad presi-
dents? How are the
boys of to-day prepar-
ing to become railroad
presidents?
Lest you think the
great head of the Ca
madam Pacific an iso-
lated case, take the
group of able men who
are to-day at the top of
great railroad organiza-
tons all the way across
the United States. Take
Daniel Willard, presi-
dent of the Baltimore &
Ohio. Willard was a
track laborer on the old
Central Vermont before
he had reached the age
of eighteen. Before he
attained the dignity of
a trainmaster's job, he
was fireman, engineer,
brakeman, conductor,
and roundhouse fore
man. When he sat in
the engine-cab, he car
ried books under the
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To the boy "doin' Grants" around the
little yellow depot at the crossroads, or
blackening his face and hands in the CRIME
of roundhouse or locomotive shop, there
must seem to be vast and unbridge-
able chasm between him and the man who
comes in his own railroad car and receives
the reports and homage of the biggest
bosses that the boy has ever known. Yet
the chasm can be bridged. Sir William
Van Horne bridged it; better still, nearly
every successful railroad president in the
United States to-day has succeeded in
bridging it.
Men Who Began at the Bottom
VAN HORNE, a mere boy of ten, was
running errands in crude railroad sta
ton at Joliet, Illinois, Three years later he
was full-hedged telegraph operator in
the barn-like wooden terminal of the
Illinois Central Railroad on the lake
front of Chicago. At twenty he was
train dispatcher. At twenty-nine he was
general manager of what is to-day the
Wabash and nine years later he became
president of the Milwaukee road. Yet he
was big enough man to leave the presi-
dency to become general manager-a
builder if you please. And the road that
called him was then a struggling company
the Canadian Pacific, engaged in the
seemingly impossible task of placing
across the wilds of Canada, from Lake
Superior to the Pacific, the last link of an
all-Canadian transcontnental route.
Van Horne shouldered this task. He built
the road. Engineers had said that it could
not be done. But he did tin five years
less than the time given it by its charter
How can a boy become a railroad presi-
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Why the Railroads Need Lawyers

THERE must be good men in every road
to-day and tomorrow to build the lines
and to maintain them, to operate under
all the new phases and conditions that
call for constantly increasing trainoad
and decreasing expense to go out and get
the competitive business. For these big
jobs-the managerships that are pre-
fixed by general and the vice-presi-
denotes the boys in the shops and in
the engine-cabs and in the little depots
are training to-day. But for the biggest
jobs-the post that even generals" and
vice. presidents defer to as the Chiefs >
men are in preparation in the colleges and
the technical schools of the country. And
those energetic and ambitious fellows who