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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-12-18
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sun, anu tney rreKKed to Cn1tambo
with go carriers, native teacher act
ing as interpreter
In the native villages as they passed
through they excited much interest,
says the London Times. In one their
hair aroused the curiosity of the ma
tive women, and when they let it down
to show them the women ran Shrieking
away, fearing it was snakes growing
on their heads. At another native vii
lage the chief brought all the sick ma
tives that Doctor Wilson might pre-
scribe for them, but he made some diff
ficulties by insisting on taking a dose
of every medicine which was ordered
for his people. The narrow canoes, the
unsafe native bridges of stocks, the
thwarts of which had been eaten by
white ants, and the fear of mudholes
and crocodiles when the travellers were
carried in hammocks across the riy-
ers made the journey adventurous.
At Old Chitambo an old chief called
Chitend, from another village, claimed
that it was in his mothers hut that
Doctor Livingstone died, and four
other old men, who refused to believe
that Mrs. Wilson was Doctor Living
stones daughter-"He had no child
with him; he always came alone" they
said-remembered him and told of him
through the interpreter The dfscrep-
ancies between their version and that
of the biographers were, Mrs. Wilson
said, of great interest. The old chiefs
claim that Doctor Livingstone died in
his mothers hut arose from the fact
that, while his followers had gone
ahead to build him grass hut, he be-
came SO ill that he had to rest under
the caves Of native hut, dying after
ward in the grass one that had been
built for him.
The old men declared that they re-
membered his followers building
stockade around the hut while they
embalmed the body in salt and brandy,
burying the heart under a great tree,
at the other side of which old Chitam-
DO, the chief of the village, who had
had great respect for the explorer,
was afterward buried. The explorers
body, as is well known, was borne q
thousand miles through the forest to
be sent to England by his faithful ma
tive followers, Jacob Wainwright, the
best-known of these, had asked the old
chief to keep the grass always burned
close around the tree at Chitambo, so
that it might escape the dangers of for
est fires.
Afterward the tree was struck by
lightning, and the present memorial,
in sloping brick. with a cross at the
summit-the slope being made to pre-
vent elephants brushing their trunks
against it-was erected in the bush
with an avenue cleared in front of it.
Here was placed book on which big
game hunters and explorers who pene-
trated thus far might note their names
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-12-18

Four hundred and twenty acres of
the best hammock land in the Ockla-
waha valley. Lands near this are pro-
dacing 100 bushels of corn to the
acre. / will sell this tract for SO per
acre cash for quick sale. s. S. Saw
age, Ocala, Fla 7-12t
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-12-18
PLUMBING AND
ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING

When you have plumbing or cleo
trical contracting let US furnish you
estimates. No job too .arge and none
too small. If II. w. Tucker.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-12-18

A full line of Waterman's Ideal
fountain pens, baskets, stationery and
novelties for Christmas. Gerig's. If
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-12-18

Insist on having Carter's Delicious
Cake five fiavors) 10 cents. Il
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-12-18

White ivory manicure sets, toilet
SETS, shaving sets, etc.; also single
pieces. The Court Pharmacy. If
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-12-18

Children's thimbles at The Book
Shop. 15-3t
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12

pup has to protect himself some way,
you know"
"Oh, Skip, did it hurt you? I'm SO
sorry"
after that you tied my legs to-
gether. Of course that hurt my pride
some, but l wouldn't have thought SO
much of it, if you hadn't tied them
SO tight. Why, you nearly killed me!
thought it would make me lame for
life. l wouldn't bite you for any
thing, but it's a good thing you
stopped just when you did,"
Marie looked frightened. ooh. oh,
don't bite, Skip, pleased"
''There is no telling what l might
have to do the next time," went on
Skip, shaking his head. "And to top
it all off, Marie, to top it all off, you
forgot my supper! 1t was awful"
"Skip, did really forget your sup
per? Are you sure?"
mot bite of supper did l have!
l hung around you all the evening,
and after dark l scratched nearly
all the paint off the kitchen door, try
ing to make you understand. Oh,
dear, how hungry l was! This morn
ing l heard your mother scolding
about the marks on the kitchen door.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12

would form evening parties among
his friends and they would play al
most every evening, he looking on,
never joining. At heart he was a
gambler good, but of the really dang
erous kind because he influenced
others who might form the ugly
habit entirely through his persistent
efforts to get others to play the game.
When gambling becomes so inbred
that one must indulge the instinct in
one form or another, it has become a
menace. If we must play for stakes,
let them be light, and only semi
occasionally at that. While there are
no known ways of stopping the
gambling spirit in some people, it is
just as we'll for all who have this
tendency to take a look at others who
have already formed the habit they
cannot shake off. Then it is that
gambling is liable to trip even the
man up.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12
GAMBLING

There are many forms of gamD-
ling that are really not much danger
in themselves. A great hue and cry
is made at times by certain parties
about raffies, drawings and the like.
The world loves to "take a chance"
It seems to be sort of instinct with
mankind in general to take risks o.
all kinds. This is human frailty.
By many it is regarded as species
of sport. Some of the best of our
citizens engage in card playing for
small prize, or ante, and never hest
tate to stake a hand" in any social
game of poker.
The main danger to gambling is
making it habit. 1t then saps
ones time, resources and energies.
There was once prominent lawyer
who so dearly loved to gamble that
he would sacrifice his honor and man.
hood for the sake of trying for
stake at poker. He finally disgraced
himself because he could not hold
himself in restraint.
Another man had such a mania for
gaming that he was never satisfied
unless he was looking on at game.
He never cared himself to play, but
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12
Little Marie and Her Pup

"Why, where can Skip be?" said
Marie, as she sat under the grape
arbor in the garden. "Im ready for
a play with him. Skip! Skip! Come,
Skip! Good doggie, come, let's play"
But no Skip came, and Marie was
little bit out of patience. "Skip is
just hiding, | know. He wants me to
come and find him, but I'm too tired"
she said to herself, as she rolled over
on the grass and looked up through
the mass of leaves about her. I'm
going to lie here and wait for Skip to
find me-"
In minute there was Skip, poking
his nose through the arbor opening.
Here am, ,Marie!" he said, in such
squeaky voice. "Here l am! I've
come to talk to you. There are some
things that must be settled right
away"
Marie gasped in surprise. Then
she laughed. To think OF Skip talk
ing, really talking! Why, whoever
heard of dog talking!
"Well, all right, Skip, go ahead
What do you want to tell me?"
Skip came inside the arbor and sat
down beside Marie. "Well," he said
in that same funny voice. 81 know
you think a great deal of me, Marie,
and l don't see why you treat me
$3.50"
"Wh-at!" Why, Skip, what do you
mean? You know l think lots of you
| wouldn't do anything you didn't
like, not for the world! Didn't l
make that naughty Tommy run home
yesterday because he leased your"
eyes, you did! That's a fact" re-
piled Skip, with little grunt, and
l thank you very much indeed. In
fact, Marie, wish you would put a
hook on the gate, to keep that boy
out. But say, grille, in 4 half hour
after he went pouting hop3e, you fixed
a rope around my neck and tried to
play some kind of a game with me
forget what you called it. Why
Marie, I thought you would surely
pull my head off. Pm nothing but
pup, and how could l tell which way
you wanted to go? If l went one
way, you pulled the other way. My
neck is sore yet. See where the skin
is rubbed off,"
"Why, Skip, you poor little pup, !
didn't mean to hurt you! l never
thought pups"
"Of course not; I know that, but
that didn't help my neck!" broke in
Skip. "Then you tried to carry me
by the tail, and that didn't feel good,
either. You were all out of patience,
because I yowled and snapped, but
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12
Indifferent To Nelu
High School, Citizen
Says, Mildly Critical
Editor of the Palisadian,
Dear Sir:

Editor of the Palisadian,
Dear Sir:
There was once little town that
had given it an ornament in brick
and stone of great loneliness and
worth by it's public servants chosen
by itself and without salary. True
the little town was bound by these
representatives to pay for the gift
throughout course of years; but it
was for it's own good and the good of
its citizens and children. Day after
day and night after night its elected
ones strove and struggled for the
perfection of the monument which
was for the good of all, and for the
uplift of the people for generations
to come. The necessary monies were
procured, the experts engaged, struc-
tural material brought to the site,
and artisans employed to weld them
bit by bit into triumph of archi-
tectural beauty and use. Handsome
stone and brick surfaces arose to
adorn the scene which before had
been but a lonely wood through
which people sometimes passed
but where they never tarIed.
Rooms came into being and
spacious corridors, great audience
chambers and play places-and yet
never. was the footstep of a dweller,
young =. old, heard within it's walls:
those 1or whom it was being slowly
and painfully wrought, whose land
scape it was to decorate, and whose
lives it was to brighten, seemed to be
unaware of it's arrival. Paid for
with the earnings of thousand work
ers, embodying in itself the best
product of the building trades and
mechanic and fine arts, for the very
teaching of which it was supposedly
created, none came to see it, none
scarcely knew it was.
Dwellers of Cliffside Park, temple
of learning, the new High School
has been wrought within your borders,
with your own pocket money, for the
higher education of your youth; it
has been prepared with much labor
by handful of your own neighbors;
will you not look at it, inspect it,
make yourself at home with it and
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12
Some ostscripts

An Illinois jeweler has built a
clock that plays one or more selec-
tons on a photograph attachment at
designated times.
Traces of radium have been dis
covered in the interior of Madagas-
car and company has been formed
to exploit the deposits.
Motion picture films showing the
entire process of honey making by
bees have been made by United
States government expert.
A large British railroad has adopt
ed for general use a system of auto
matte train control that produces
audible signals in locomotive cabs.
The worlds greatest hydroelectric
plant, planned for India, will deliver
water to the turbines at a pressure
of $50 pounds to the square inch.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12
49,
IEN POST-EDITORIAL. E|H
POST-EDITORIAL.
Into Its Third Year

Into its third year, the great Euro
pean war now enters. Its present
stage is holder and more desperate,
than any since its beginning.
The Battle of the Somme, now "
progress, has more men engaged on
a short front, than has fought in the
war. The orgy of blood letting at
Verdun continues. The Russians are
attacking the Teutons in the most
far-flung offensive made since the be-
ginning. In Turkey, the Russians
are steadily sweeping the Turks be-
fore them. On the Italian frontier
two great armies are battling among
the mountain tops. In Greece, the
opening artillery of huge offensive
movement from Salonika is heard.
Lord Kitchener said, when most of
the world expected a short and des-
perate war, ut will be at least three
years. 1t will take three years to
put Germany on her back" The OBJ
server of events in Europe can only
be certain that the war must go over
another winter, and perhaps through
another summer. The one significant
development Of the close Of the Sec
ond year is that the allies have as
sumed the offensive, and that for the
first time, the Central Powers are at
tackled on all sides. The world knows
against what desperate odds Ger
many-for Germany is the heart and
strength of the Teutonic powers-is
fighting. But the outer world does
not know what resources Germany
has to stave off her encircling enemies
In the two years of war the killed
and missing reaches the horrible
total of 15,355,OO0. In money the war
has cost $49,35O, 100000. The daily
cost Of the war is $1O0,0O0,00O.
And, yet, the huge horror goes on
and on.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12
A Badly Managed Borough
communication publishe'

A communication puDllSneu re-
Gently in this paper from one
of the best known and most
prominent citizens and taxpayers Of
the Borough of Fort Lee is one of the
best expressions in behalf of the
People VS.. the Borough that has yet
been made. The best feature of the
case is that it does not emanate in
Fort Lee, but gets it's beginning at
Hackensack from those in authority
who know.
The communication places the mat
ter of gathering tax assessments in
the Borough of Fort Lee as among
the poorest and most inefficient of all
the forty-odd in Bergen county. The
utter and amazing lack of anything
approaching system, is all the more
to be wondered at in the face of the
many boasts by the present admin
istration that the borough was never
better managed, and that EVERY
THING is working to the Queens
taste, and in far better shape than
ever before.
Well, the letter looks like it!
Think Of a tax assessor sending
into the county tax board lots in
Palisade that adjoin each other, one
married. at $1,000, the other at ST.
500! A baby or boo8y would beat
that. And there are so many in
equalities in the system generally
that has burdened the borough for
many years that it is remarkable the
matter has been allowed to drag SO
long unattached. Shame on a Dor
ough that cannot take care of its
own better than this. The mac
tiyity of those running the machine
might be excused in measure, were
they not so blatant in boasting Of
extreme efficiency. Why, they don't
know the meaning of the word
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12
PALLSAUlAN

in it? A welcome will be extended
to you at any time on the ground and
building; will you not see and enjoy
this new gift?
Respectfully,
Citizen.
Grantwood, N. j., July "a.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12

Send us $1.OO and we will mail tn.
Nation weekly until December LIST, 1916.
Clip the coupon.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-08
THAT GASOLINE SUBSTITUTE

TT having been reported that the
i Maxim Munitions Company has pur-
chased the Enright two-cent-a-gal-
Ion gasoline substitute formula for a
million dollars, it's good-by two-cent
gasoline. Munition factories are look
ing for profits and are not accustomed
to small dividends. But IL it is really
true that few cents worth of drugs
can be added to a gallon of water,
dumped into an automobile tank and
made to do duty for a gallon of "gas,"
it will not be long before the secret
will leak out. million-dollar manufac-
turing franchises Notwithstanding. The
the process for which so much has
been claimed is that the chemicals in
the water break up the molecules and
liberate the hydrogen gas, which be-
comes the motive power for the engine.
More interesting even than the news
of this. alleged discovery is the an
nouncement by Henry Ford that chem
lists in his extensive laboratories at
Detroit have been at work for some
years seeking gasoline substitute.
Working Systematically and scien-
tifcally. unhurried and amply sup
ported in a financial way, these chem
lists will one day attain their end, and
then Mr.. Ford will have a cheap auto
mobile fuel as we'll as cheap automo-
biles. Most of Mr.. Edisons inventions
were worked out by the system now
employed by Mr.. Ford.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-08
DON'T DEsPIsE THE JUNK

TUNK of some kinds is bringing
higher prices in Harrisburg these
days than the finished product
despise the junk. There are dollars
hidden away in it. The "ragman"
used to be q bugaboo with which to
frighten naughty children. To-day he
is one of the most prosperous business
men in the community. His clothing
may not indicate as much, but his
pockets are lined with dollar bills and
his little warehouse is the mecca for
every munition and paper house agent
in the community. Rags are regal in
the aristoeracy of trade just now, and
beside them are old iron and homes.
The despised waste of yesterday has
become the sought for commodities
of to-day.
Tere is a junk story from the Far
East: A Japanese ragman of excellent
speech and manner has b> en- making a
canvass. offering to buy all the old
junk offered. Instead of paying cash
he gives a coupon good at a certain
bank, where it must be left untouched
for a certain number of years.
Upon investigation the ragman
turned out to be a former superintend-
ent of Yokohama police and manager
Of a large dock corporation, interested
in teaching his people the proper use
OF junk.
Junk money is apt to be regarded as
"easy money" and spent foolishly.
While it is easy money. it should be
conserved to usefulness and not
wasted. The careful housewife uses
one method, the Japanese junk man
another, but both tending in the right
direction. We can teach our children
no better lesson than to avoid waste,
but avoiding all possible waste to so
use the junk that it will prove last
ing benefit. Save your junk and save
| thA manAx Xnnr Junk turns In
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-08
DEMOCRATS INCREASED TAXES

AgNLAnOCRRIS II EA1NEIo
MYTH an incredible disregard for
wv facts, a Texas Congressman has
placed in the Congressional
Record what purports to be an
enumeration of Democratic achieve
ments, in which he declares that the
Underwood Tariff law greatly re-
duced taxes on the necessaries of life,
and, indeed, placed many articles of
necessity on the free list"
The fact is, as shown by the record
of this administration, that the cost
of living was not reduced by the
passage of the Underwood tariff act.
If the necessities of life are taxed at
all, the consumer pays the tax when
he buys the article. If the removal
OF the tariff did not give the consumer
his food and clothing at a lower price,
then he has not, in fact, been relieved
of any tax.
On the other hand, there can be no
question whatever that the Demo-
cratic administration imposed numer-
Gus stamp taxes which the people of
this country are paying directly or in
directly. Most of them are paid di-
rectly, as when man puts a stamp
on a telegram, an express receipt or
a telephone message.
If the individual does not pay the
stamp tax directly, it becomes one of
the costs of conducting a business,
and the businessman takes it into con-
sideration in fixing the price of
articles he has to sell. 1t is clear,
therefore, that the Democratic ad-
ministration has untaxed nobody.
Formerly, under the import duty
law, we made the foreigner pay a
considerable portion of our taxes. We
relieved him of that burden and sub
stituted income and stamp taxes
which the Democratic administration
has required the American people to
pay.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-08
UNCLE SAM, TRAPPER
BY Frederic J. Haskin

TN order to help the far western
States rid themselves of the preda-
- tory animals that are destroying
their livestock, Uncle Sam has re-
Gently increased his activity as a trap
per until he now has one of the most
efficient organizations in the world for
catching wild animals. The trapping
of all sorts of creatures from sparrows
and mice to grizzly bears and timber
wolves has been carefully studied by
the naturalists of the Biological Sur
vey, and if there is anything you want
to know about the subject, they are
prepared to inform you.
BY a recent act of Congress, a sum
of money was appropriated for eXter-
minating the predatory animals of the
Western States, where millions of dol
lars worth of livestock are destroyed
by wolves, panthers, coyotes, bobcats
and bears every year. In Wyoming
alone over million dollars worth of
sheep are destroyed annually by wild
animals, chiefly coyotes. There are
many sections of the West where these
little wolves regularly kill about ten
per cent of the Spring lambs. In
some of the mountain districts of New
Mexico, panthers, or mountain lions
as they are locally called, kill nearly
all of the colts born on the range.
For a long time. heavy bounties
have been offered by most of the West
ern States for the killing of these
animals, and the professional wolf
hunter" has become a well-known fig
ure in the West. The work, however,
is not sufficiently well organized to
bring the best results, and a great
deal of fraud has been\ practiced, too,
as 1t Is quite possible to- make artificial
wolf 'scalps."
The needed element of organization
has been introduced by the Biological
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-05-08
EDITORIAL COMMENT

Germany is now in a position to sym
pathize with that fellow who wanted
somebody to help him let go of a bear.
Boston Transcript.
OF course there's nothing in 1t. but
it Just happens that the troopers who
got in that trouble in Parral belong to
the Thirteenth Cavalry.-Chicago Her
aid.
The War Department seems to have
It fixed this way-every time Carranza
orders our soldiers out of Mexico we
get alarmed and send some more in
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Just because Washington said "In
time of peace prepare for war" is no
reason why we should wait till the war
is over before beginning on prepared
ness.-Philadelphia North American.
The freight on a $3.50 order of shoes
sent to South America from Boston the
other day was $3.50. Heads of fami-
lies in Patagonia must be pretty nearly
ready for the way to end. - Boston
Transcript.
The German societies that are send
ing protests to Congress against a
rupture with Germany might pro-
mote peace equally well by sending
protests to Berlin against a rupture
with America.-Springfiel Republican.