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ocALA LoDGR NO. sse, B. P. 0. E.

OcaIs Lodge No. 2S6, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. meets
the second and fourth 1uesday even
ings in each month. Visiting breth-
rem always welcome. Club house
opposite postoffice, east side.
David s. Will lms, e. F.
/. w. Harley, Secretary. Ad
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KNIGHTS OFF PYTHIAs

ocala Lodge No. 19. Conventions
held every Monday at 7:30 p. M, at
Castle Hall, over the James Carlisle
drugstore. A cordial welcome to Wis
iting brothers.
Charles Goddard, c. G.
Chas. K. Sage, K. of r. s. Ad
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NEW SPRING SEED

Our new seeds for spring planting
for both field and garden, are now in.
We can furnish them in any quantity
on short notice.
13-tf Biting & Mathews,
410 N. Magnolia ST., Ocala, Fla.
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ORDER OF EASTERN STAR

Ocala Chapter, No. %, o. E. s.,
meets at Yonge's hal! The second and
fourth Thursday evenings of each
month at 72G O'Clock
Mrs. Emily Webb, w. M.
Mrs. Lillian Simmons, Sec'y.
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TOO Long to Be Entirely Valid.

90 EOH8 10 DC EnttFeiy Nallus
Oliver Knox read some published
letters in a breach-of-promise SUIT, and
laughed. This idiot wrote to the
girl that he would love her always"
he commented. Now / contend that
always is the longest word IN the
dictionary, and no wise man ever uses
1t. No" retorted his discerning wife,
"and no wise woman would believe
him If he did
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OAK AND PINE WOOD

First class wood, any length, quick
delivery. Call phone 3M, four rings.
j. NJ. Potter. 18-6t
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AUTOS DAY AND NIGHT

By calling phone 251 or 516 you
can get auto service at all hours; re-
sponsible chaufeurs and charges rea-
sonable. Van Boney, Owner. 1-5-tf
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An army appropriation bill, carry
ing s1O1, 100000, has passed the
House.
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ODD FELLOWS
coNcoRDIA LODGE F. U. OF A

Concordia Lodge, FraternaI Union
of America, meets in Yonge's Hall
en- the second Thursday evening Of
each month. Geo. l.. Taylor F. NJ
Chas. K. Sage, Secretary Ad
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cHAPTER NO. Is, R. A. N.

Regular convocations of the Ocala
Chapter No. 13, r. A. NJ. on the
fourth Friday in every month al
7:30 p. m. H. S. Wesson, H. p.
Jake Brown, Secretary.
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BILIOUSNESS AND
CONSTIPATION CURED

If you are ever troubles with bill
iousness or constipation you will be
interested in the statement of r. F.
Erwin, Peru, Ind. "a year ago last
winter l had an attack Of Indigestion
followed by biliousness and constipa-
ton. Seeing Chamberlain's Tablets so
highly recommended, bought bot
tie of them and they helped nae right
away" For sale by all dealers. adv
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You will never fully appreciate a
gin fiz till you have tried one of those
at Johnny's Place. 22-h
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Turks as that of the Armenians or the
Syrians.
These people. relatively speaking
have been loyal Ottoman subjects, the
authority of the Government they ac-
cepted and respected without reserve.
and the Porte has often found among
them able and devoted funct!onaries.
In a word, the ruling Turks favored
10y the sequestered condition of the
country and the people, have accom-
plished here what they have failed To
accomplish anywhere else in the EN-
pire. They have in a measure as
simulated, almost Northumberland "A
Christian community.
But was the work a complete sue
cess? Have they crushed forever the
racial instinct and the national spirit
of an alien race? The indisputabe
fact is that in the general decline of
things this singular success of the
Turks in central Anatol.a has in re-
cent years been going the way Of
everything osmanli. The Greek prop
uganda s.nCc the revolution of 1908
has been undermining this work Of
assimilation and reviving in these Hell
lenes the long dormant national con-
seriousness.
Moreover the wealth of the Greeks
and their entcrprising spirit are ac-
Complishing here the miracle they
have accomplished elsewhere; and
under the Jealous effort of their clergy
institutions of national character
Eymnasiums, schools, orphan asylums
are continually being established,
Greek be, ks and newspapers now
H., al,
Of children whose parents can speak
only Turkish resort to-day to these
new schools where beside their own
language they are instructed in the
primary and the higher courses ac-
cordlng To the programme of tho
Board Of Education in Athens.
Here then is n rcCrudcsCencc Of
Ilellenism of which the Turks never
dreamed. For these Greeks. lorg
detached from their mother country
almost lost To her, are acquiring again
tlcir mother speech ana recovering
their national spirit; So that gradually
as the work progresses they will find
themselves nearer to Athens than I,
Konich. Nor is it unlikely that they
Will flourish again as in the days ri
st, Basil, and the Chasm between them
and the Turks will deepen.
This movement of re-IIellenizatior
is spreading beyond Cappldocia ant
Cilicia in other parts of East Anatolia
1t is a social and political phenomenon
of great importance; II is for the TURF
another active element of disintcgra
ton. And the Bagdad railway and it.
branch lines, which will put thes'
people, formerly sequestered, in drec
communication with the more activ,
centres of progress, must hasten tn
transformation, so that in due TIM
they will find themselves as free iron
Turkish influence and as distant a
the more advanced of their people il
Constlntinople and smyrna
Indeed the Young Turks have evel
made them revolutionary. The Youni
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Dark Future Seen for the "Sick Man"
if He Is Driven Out of Europe
No Welcome i'm Asia Minor

Turks. who have no other idea-and
that a stupid ono-than of keeping
themselves in power, have not only
.nilamed the resentment and hatred of
all the different races Of the empire
but have also allowed the good work
Of their predecessors to go 10 ruin.
For they themselves have contributed
materially toward the estrangcmcnt ~
these once loyal Greek co,onics Of
Cappadooia and CiliCia.
1t must also be admitted that the
Armen!ans, dispersed a they are and
with little hope # ever realizing their
nitiona! dream. would have sincerely
supported the Young Turk party were
ii not for the Adana massacroS. ISut
now they can no more hc placitrd
than the Greeks. wso are fairly or
ganIzed and whose dream of a new
Greece is strangely coming true.
Here then is the old homo Of the
Turk already occupied 10y three
million Greeks and more than
million Armenans, to say nothing II
the kurds, the CirCassians and other
trihesmcn Tn Turks themselves are
not so numerous as j. generally sup
posed. Considering the recent wars
and the present, in which they are
paying in men at least for their past
misd eds. | do not think they could
boast of population of more than six
millions.
And what chance have they de-
ieatcd and dcmuralizcd and poverty
STRICKEN, as against the new blood tnd
the new hopes of the rising races
around tn m? More than ever they
Will realize tomorrow that they Ore
the real foreign element in Turkey
they, whose brave ancestors Cihe
westward IN tn Middle Ages out of
the wilds of Turkcstlu and uNvrrlli
country where persIdns, Arabs tr-
mcn.ans and Greeks had already U.s.
tahlished an advanced Civ.ii2lt .ut -
they indeed are the aliens of Asia
Minor.
Considering, therefore, the prohl ms
have here outlined and the crowded,
confused condition Of their old home,
Their new start in LIE would not seem
too suspicious. They have, to sum up,
the Arabs az the peninsula now
openly turbulent and more insuhurd.-
nate than yer; the people of syria,
Palestine and Mcsuputamla, ind.ffcr-
ent, proud, of questionable loyalty.
looking with some hope to the new
Sultan of Egypt or with more hope
perhaps toward France or England;
the Armonians, with undyng griev-
ances making the best of their oppor-
tunity when the cnemy's seat of power
is nearer to them, and the Greeks,
wealthy, enterprising, aggressive, and
exalted, moreover, with national
dream.
Add to these many other menac nS
elements Kurds, Circassians. rowing
l'cdouins, Sc, and you have II state
Of things in which tn returning Turks
will find it difficult, indeed, not only ~
maintain a scmblance of authority
and prestige in what is called their
old home but even to preserve their
own existence as q race.
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TURK TO BE THE REAL. MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY?

And everywhere. with only one eX-
ception. upon which l shall dwell. they
have jealousy pr served their nation
ality and their customs, their language
and their religion. And everywhere,
with not a single exception. they stand
ia the first rank as m rchants, ship
pers, bankers and financiers. They
have also attained some emin"nce in
the liberal professions.
But whatever IN Greek may be- he
is first and foremost a patriot: and
he has become more so since the
Balkan War. That he is intelligent,
active, enterpr.sing and thrifty is well
known, that the national sentiment
and the spirit of Hellenic solidarity are
thoroughly alive in his breast and are
seldom subservcd to any commercial
or political interest no one who has
travelled in the Levant will deny. But
what is little known. even among those
who are following the progressive
career Of neo- Hellensm, is that in the
int rior of Anatolia, in the vast coun-
tries Of ancient Cappadocia and
Cilicia. the Greek communities, which
have been more or less assimilated by
the Turks, are recovering again their
national consciousness. Here we have
an example Of Turkish assimilation
which turn 4 out after all To he only
external.
Favored by the geographical and So
questcrod condition of the country the
Turks in this part Of Anatulia have
succeeded in imposing their way Of
LIE and even their language upon
a fore gn community. The Greeks Of
Cappadocia and Cilicia--and this is
the exception ! mentioned We're in
deed lost to the mother country; they
forgot their own language; they
adopted the customs and traditions of
the ruling class and at most they
chung only to their religious faith.
In to this centre plateau of Ana
tolia the Hellenism that nourished
N the days # 81. Basil, Bishop of
Casarea, to all appearances became
extinct. The Hellenic propaganda, il
il amounted t. much in the past, did
not get beyond the coast commune
ties, so that these Greeks in the in
terror, deprived of their own schools,
spoke only the Turkish language.
Even in their churches the sermons
the religious Instructions, the allo-
cutions. the service itself We're in a
bastard tongue and many of the
priests could not read their Greek
breviaries.
The Turkish conquest extended even
to Their cemeteries, where the coming
generations viii stand baiilcd before
the epitaphs Of their grandslres. Tc
some extent their customs as We'll a
their dress are still those of the Mo-
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them as functionary. and as n func-
tionary he must go. Not in Syria,
therefore. nor in any part south Of
Mesopotamia is his home. Where then
is it?
Where can II be said that he is in
the majority. ascendent, indisputably
established? on the shores of the
Back Sea or the Aegean? on the
Persian frontier? in the vast central
p.ateaus of Asia Minor? anywh re
north of Mesopotamia? But in the
very heart OF this land and along tn
eastern borders. as in the Anatolian
coast towns. he st.ll has the Arme-
mans to deal with.
And this second Asiatic problem
the Armenian is not confined to the
vilayets Of Erzerum, Diarbekr Van
Karput and Mamuret ul-Aziz, but has
manifested itself in Adlna, Ci.icia and
other parts Of Anatolia, where there
are important Armenian colonies long
established. Indeed the Armenian has
penetrated through the Taurus and
planted himself on the Gulf If Adalia
and he has maintained his ascendenCy
in Van and Mamuret ul-AZiz and
Karput. where in rude force and politl-
cal craft he is equal to both his neigh
bors, the Kurd and the Turk. There
he is at home.
And from there he thrust out his
tentacles in every direction - into
Diarbekr, Erzerum, Sivps, Trebizond,
Samsoun, Angora. Kastamuni, Adana,
where the Turk really ru,es, where he
predominates. But the Armenian none
the less persists. plods and plots and
undermines; as a source of danger
to Turkish authority he continues Ia
grow. And where he Is in the minority.
as in the last named vilayets for in
stance, he looks about for Chris
tian alliance Of some sort. In Adana
the Greeks and the Armenians to-
gethcr are equal, II not superior. in
number and strength to the Moham-
medan population. They are decidedly
so from the viewpoint of wealth. and
social prestige.
Whatever becomes Of Armenia.
therefore, whether she is dsmembered
as nation by the allied Powers or
agglomerated into an Independent
State. the Armenian problem will re-
main with the Turk. 1t has been in
timately involved in all his failures
and It will continue with him to the
end as a potent and active cement Of
disintegratlon. For although thes,
people have been more favored IN
Government appointments than Were
the Arabs they also have been the
victims Of the worst atrocities Of mod
ern times.
Even the Young Turks drove then
to revolt and exposed them to th'
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longer having TO dissemble IL as in
the part, it has become more intense,
more active, more uncompromisng.
Indeed, Of all the hatreds the Turks
have sown among their subject peu-
pies that Of the Armenians is the
most deep rooted. II has been wttered
with blood. 1t is also the most dy-
mamie.
Moreover. these people are the more
capable of spreading the seeds Of re-
belion because they are scattered in
different parts Of Asia Minor Thus
il might be said that the Arabs in
mass formations and the Armenians
deployed are working in different di-
rectlons for the same end. But while
the Arab content with severing his
connections, may go his way in peace,
the Armenian. with the past ever in
his memory, Will not rect until he is
avenged.
1t Is believed that the new party
which will doubtless come into power
after the fall Of Constantinople Will
establish the Government in Asia
Minor on a new basis. II will carry
out its long cherished, long promised
programme of radical reforms, the es-
sential feature Of which is decentrali-
Zation. OF course decentralization in
q country like Turkey means dirln-
tegration. 1t is evident. therefore.
that, whether in the vi,ayets where
the Armenian element prdom mates,
as in the Diarbekr, Van, Karput and
Mamuret ul-Aziz. or in the others
where it has penetrated and contin-
nod tn M, rlrl r,lllN
feel at home. For this part of east
Anatolia, at present only nominally
held by him, has in 1t the most disin-
tegratinG element Of his Asiatic en-
pre-. And even with his capital at
Brusa or Konieh he is less capable
OF coping with the situation than
formerly when he was supreme on the
shores of the Bosporus.
What part OF this country then, can
be properly called his home? Is il
that vast stretch Of land, plateau and
hill and plain which is bounded east
by line running from TrehiZond to
Adana and north and west by the
Mediterranean, the .Egean and the
Black Sea? VIII this country, hedged
in by the Taurus and the Pontine
Mountains, with Konieh as its centre,
become again his fortified and impreg-
nable home, as II was that Of the
Seljuks Of old?
Those who think so have overlooked
another growing element of compiled
ton, of disintcgration, hitherto little
known. | mean Hellenism, which
though of recent growth in Asia
Minor. Is as menacing to Turkish SOW
erelgnty as young Arabia or pro-
Armenia.
1t might be said that there Is n new
and ever growing Greece outside OF
Greece itself. To say nothing of those
of Egypt and the .4:gean islands there
are over 100000 Greek Ottoman'
and Hellenes in the Turkish Empir,
who are prosperously established moi
only in all the Syrian and Anatoliar
coast towns but also in the interior
provinces beyond the Taurus and thu
Tuz Gul Lake. In the vilayet %
Smyrna alone, which Is the riches
and most prosperous Of the empire
there is a Greek population Of owe
100000.
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by AMEN RIHANI.

" HAT a liberal Constitution, Dor
rowed from Europe, should
i threaten to precipitate the
downfall not only Of an en-
lire but Of whole race Is one of the
most curious political phenomena in
he recent history of Turkey. 1t shat
crs the fallacy cherished by the ultra
,uropanized Orientals that the au-
ocraces II the East, which are also
1ore or less theocratic, can be re-
.ormed and democratized by political
:'volut.ons Of European origin and de-
.gn
And why cannot this be done? Why
hOu,d the Turks, for instance, be
doomed 10 utter failure and ruin In
heir struggle for freedom? 1t does
.eem contrary to our ideas of progress.
Aouch not perhaps To the laws Of evo-
alton.
The Turks tried to free themselves
politically before they attained the
higher freedom of the mind and the
ouI. For the first revolution in Eu-
opc We must remember, was neither
french nor English; it was German
dists was 1t Matched but in the cell Of
a monastery; the human conscience
shook o'f its fetters long before the
ohlca' Consciousness of the people
vas awake Indeed. it was Luther,
nj H., Nultaire or Rousseau, who
FS' -Hn'rd the torch of revolt; the
reformation preceded the Revolution.
The Turks, therefore, whose Govern
mem j o'~,ntially theocracy, should
'a'" sought Inspiration in Wittsn-
'i- not IN Paris but tn = deep truth
cape" thor comprehension, and they
'N.' ".t sec the corroding acids in
.h" cup - ,cepticism with which they
,'' . I.'.Ve their sick man" a
'',.." ouslavcd has no right to
'N.. .1r political freedom, has no
-.' - on the other hand in
p matters Of religion. which
Turks mistake for .ntellec-
3d. notion, is worse than blind
''' '.r while the latter may con-
S.'o the former can only des-
"} g.
h."..' point which cannot be too
'' '". ~l2ed Is that Islam, the
''..t' ana sanction Of the Osmanl
las in it more Of the truth
''.''N and fraternity--to its own
10y cpursc-than the sO-called
"'s'i'utIon. II is a legacy oi
- s'lacc and love free alike tC
''' " 1mmcdan, while that Dor.
institution, whatever in /,
HH..t p, Of good. was exclu.
.'' the Turks, and only the
.t.Er at that.
j was mainly by virtue
'H".r sultan being the Caliph
1'cgrity Of the empire wa.
served But now Potsdam
"'niurics, - unwittingl,
''"nh"rg; the instrumen
DO" hand Of the Turk II o
'fo-S order; his own Ores
'''t wan ng away. and evel
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Founded Upon Theocracy,th Osmanli
Empire Faces Extinction Through
Fight for Liberty

Islam is alienated from him. But
having lost his home in Europe, Will he
find a welcome home in Asia Minor?
1t is we'll known that the Arabs Of
the peninsula have never been con-
quered by the Turks. Swayed by two
opposing sentiments, religious and
racial. they paid homage to the
throne Of the Osmanli occupied by the
Primate of Islam, the Caliph. while
mainta ming themselves at the same
time in a state Of neutrality-suspicious.
checkered at intervals by the futile eff
forts OF the Porte TO bring them into
absolute submission. But where the
sword Of Osman failed the Surrah
of Yildiz succeeded; for many Of the
tribes, especially the rowing Bedouins,
have often been br.bed into obedience.
They bowed before the religious au-
thorlty Of the Dowla (empire), took
its money with n sneer and always
rejected its political yoke.
Even in Nejed and Riadh and Mus
cat, which are ruled by princes abb
solutely independent Of the Porte and
Of each other. they continue, like their
brothers OF Yemen and Hedjaz to
look upon the Dowla as the bulwark
of Islam That is why, outside OF the
Independent States mentioned, there
has never been a revolt that was car
ried out TO its logical conclusion. to
the bitter end. For unlike the Alba
mans, who We're the cause Of the
Turks downfall in Europe. the Arabs
always accepted the gold and the
makeshifts II the Porte solely because
the Porte TO them represented the
authority OF the Prophet Their racial
pride has paid the tax to their relig-
ion: their allegiance is virtually to
the Caliph, not to the Sultan.
And with the exception of the city
Arabs along the littoral and on the
Hcdjaz railway line the mass OF the
population, especially in the interior
do not recognize the imperial repre-
sentatlves or submit to the civil au-
thorities. The Turks. however, under
standing the nature Of this allegiance
accepted IL for what it is worth and
never concerned themselves with the
consequences. Hence the Governors
OF the Porte in Yemen and Hedjas
have never had the prestige and the
influence Of the Sheriff of Mecca. who
Is virtually the military chief as wei
as the religious primate, and whose
authority alone the sheiks and emir'
respect and obey.
And now that the religious suprem
acy as an Islamic state Is slipping from
the hands of the Turks, that the Dowli
Is passing away. the aspirations of thu
Sheriff Of Mecca to the Caliphate vii
probably be realized and the last ant
only bond Of Arab allegiance to thu
throne Of Osman will he severed. 1t 4
evident then that the Turk did no
feel at home in Arabia even at tn
height of his power. Is 1t possibl
that he will feel at home there II
its decline?
Aside from other considerations,
should he remembered that in all thcs
countries there Is not single Turkis
colony. The Turk could only live &