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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21
THE KAISER AT HIS WATERLOO


For forty years the emperor Of Ger
many was constantly making prepare
tions to strike France fatal blow,
and one after another turn upon the
great powers until he became the die
tator of the world
The clock had struck the hour. His
armies had marched through Belgium
and into France and almost without
serious obstruction were encamped
only days march from Paris.
But we shall let Rev. Newell Dwight
Hills, d. d., continue relating the
fateful story.
upon that morning. on hilltop,
from which with his glass the kaiser
tried in vain to see the Eiffel Tower,
stood the German emperor, wearing a
silver helmet, dressed in white velvet,
ready with his sons and his staff to
ride triumphantly under Napoleon's
Arch down the Champs Elysees. New
er was there more bitter discontinue
than the moment when the kaiser wit
messed the breaking of his own lines
and found himself in flight for safety.
The decisive battle that broke the adj
yancing waves of the Persians that
threatened the civilization of Athens
as an army of grasshoppers threatens
a wheat field-that battle when
Charles Martel stopped the cruel
hordes of the Saracens-was not more
decisive than those early September
days that smashed the German army
drove it into trenches for safety. built
wall of steel, while the soul of
France and England exclaimed:
THUS far and no farther, Here stay
thy waves of fretted fire!' To this
day the Germans cannot explain their
defeat. More bitter than gall to the
kaiser is that hour when he turned on
Won Kluck and degraded him. The
kaiser played with those terrible
iron dice" which Bismarck once used.
IL he won, Paris and Petrograd, Brus-
sells, London and New York were to
be his provincial towns, and he would
be the twentieth century Caesar Au-
gustus. If he lost, he might become
an exile. degraded exile. II he won,
his Patsdam palace would be the cap
ital of the world. If he lost, he would
perhaps in some little village inn on
the outskirts OF. some Siberian town.
sit down with Nicholas, unpack from
a black oilcloth handbag the battered
crown of Germany If he won, thei
day might come when he would
ride in triumphal procession down.
Whitehall to Westminster Abbey. Butt
he did not think, apparently, that ifl
he lost he might come to the prison
ers' dock. For men with vision, al
ready scaffold begins to loom up
upon yonder German horizon"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21

The new government regulation
about enlisted married men is inter
esting. This went into effect Novem
Der /. A married man, on enlisting
must send one-half of his pay to his
family. and the government adds Sic
month if only wife, $25 for wife
and child, $3.50 for wife and two
children, $3.50 for wife and three
children, s42.50 for wife and four chill
dren, S47.50 for wife and five children
The government will not allow over
$50 month for dependents In case
of dependent father or mother of eth
er the man or his wife, the govern
ment will allow $40 month plus S.
from the pay.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21

The shortage Of German dyes in.
spired lie Blair Hampton of Picayune.
La, to devise the scheme of dyeing
cotton as it grew. 1t is said that he
saturated the seed with any dyes de-
sired and that his plantation present.
cd pretty appearance this fall, with
flaming red and blue fields, alternat-
ing with the pure white bolls. Cotton
thus dyed has withstood rain and win
not fade.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21

Halifax, the scene of one of the
greatest disasters the world has
known, was founded by the British in
1853. It's proudest possession is the
quay, which presents one of the most
remarkable engineering achievements
OF modern times. 1t is a solid concrete
structure twenty-eight feet wide and
flfty to sixty feet high, founded on the
rock bottom of Halifax harbor.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21

Just to think of it! We are engags
ed in a great war to win the world to
democracy, and yet we are told that
young French girls are detailed as or
derlies for young American. officers.
The duty of an orderly is to hold an
officers horse, polish his shoes and
do such other mental performances.
For very shame.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21

The editor of the Lakeland Star has
been found guilty of libel We are
sorry, but editors while Independent
and resolute, should not be too saw
grous."
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21

This paper said that Mrs. Ballard
was OF the sixth declension," but the
Tampa Tribune makes us say OF the
sixth dimension" which is all out OF
reason, for the lady is the very perfec.
ton of symmetry and grace.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21

Great honors were paid to General
David Lang. He commanded Perry's
brigade under Lee in Virginia and was
brave and splendid officer. His fu-
neral. took place in Tallahassee. He
was at one time adiutant general OF
the state.
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THE TAKING or JERUSALEM

Since the news from the battle o.
the Marine treasured an imperiiied
civilization, no event OF the world war
has had such power to stir the minds
of men as the announcement that the
British have taken Jerusalem
On the military side alone 1t crowns
no mean achievement. Less than TWO
wears ago the Turks menaced the
Suez Canal, the great artery OF traffic
with the east Keeping pace with the
Bagdad campaign, they have Deen
driven back 800 miles, losing hen and
guns that may be sorely needed later
in Aleppo. Since Jerusalem was sur
rounded, the final catastrophe to the
Turk must have been almost Sedan,
surprising in effect upon the war
even the fall of Bagdad.
Memorable will be the instant po'
litical consequences of the victory
The Arab tribes will rejoice III their
deliyerance from the hated Turk. The
letter of Secretary Balfour to Lord
Rothschild in manifest provision OF
this great event, stating officially that
.sHis Maiesty's government view with
favor the establishment in Palestine
of a national home for the Jewish peo-
pie" has been for five weeks debated
in every Jewish family, and the TAX
ing of Zion will be to millions of them
electrifying news.
And to the innumerable hosts OF
Christendom no less. There is no ma
ton that has not by actual presence
upon the soil of Palestine of its pill
grims and its monasteries, or at the
very least by countless passages in
its rituals, it's literature, even its
homely proverbs, the closest associa-
tions with what to Mohammedan, Jew
and Christian alike is Holy Land and
the Holy City. In this, Germany and
Austria-Hungary are no exceptions.
This Holy Land, this Holy City,
have been for nearly 700 years in the
slovenly keeping of the Turk. For
more than 1900 years, with intervals
brief and few, they have been held
by Moslems OF one or another warning
sect; and their long chronicle has
been tale of bloodshed, turmoil, mis-
rule; of plundered pilgrimages, ven
Grated men and women tortured and
villages put to the sword.
At last the land so constantly in the
thoughts of all civilized nations is to-
have decent government. 1t is fam
tastic TO suppose that this feeling of
qualification may be, ii not outspok-
en-, at least in secret shared by de-
vout Germans, Austrians and Mag
vars.
For the entente allies-and in this
aspiration is it too much to hope that
all Russia may be included?-the
fall of Jerusalem, which is IN fact
its rise to freedom, will be an i'm
mense incentive to further effort. The
civil and religious rights" which Mr..
Balfour pledged to the Holy Land are
all that the entente desires for those
held in bondage elsewhere. to the
Turk, to the Magyar. to the German.
Why should not this boon even be as
PRED to by the lowly stationed in Ger
many itself?
For centuries the cry OF Jerusalem
N bondage for deliverance has given |
20 every enslaved race or submerged
class the very language of its suppli-
cations for help. The answered pray
or of ages should be an inspiration to
press onward for the deliverance also
Of democracy.--Wor
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21

Lloyd George is beginning to see
streak OF light in the eastern skies in
the early morn. which betokens that
victory for the. alliese is not a great
way Off.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21

are officers. although they had been
very intimate
It is burning shame, :
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21

The boil weevil is marching south
and conquering as he goes.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1917-12-21
THE PRIVATE SOLDIER MUST
NOT BE DEGRADED

Ocala, Fla, Dec. Ia, 1917.
Hon. Lee S. Overman, u. S. Senate,
Washington, d. c.:
Ny Dear Senator-In the name and
on behalf of the private soldier upon
whom falls the brunt of battle. and of
those who cherish the principles of
true democracy, I want to thank and
applaud you for the resolution that I
am told you introduced in the senate
last Wednesday
The officer in this war, which is a
war for the triumph of democracy
here and everywhere, who is deliber-
ately guilty of "snobbery,' who re-
fuses to patronize cafe unless he is
served before the private soldier, and
who refuses to attend social func-
tions to which the private soldier is
invited, in my judgment, and the
judgment of many, dishonors the uni
form he wears, is an enemy to our
system of government, and should be
reduced to ranks, and kept there I'M
til the close of the war; or, better still,
cashiered.
We are fighting against Prussian1
militarism, and should not tolerate
that system practiced in our own
army.
take the liberty of inciosing you
an article from the Arcadia Daily
News of this state, which republishes
with approving comments an article
that / wrote some weeks ago. and
which / think, perhaps, is in line with
the spirit of your resolution.
Very truly yours.
FRANK HARRIS.
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FRANK HARRIS.

vile. KY, concerning negro officer
who demanded that he be saluted by
two white officers of lower rank. We
published the letter and at the same
time made some very warm comment.
There was written at that time what
we believed to be our duty and yet
have never felt that all had been said
that should be said, and neither in
the effective manner that the subject
demanded. We felt hopeful that some
other Florida editor would do it bet
ter, and have not hoped and waited In
vain.
The Ocala Banner this week con
tains three articles on the subject
one the same Louisville letter that we
published some time ago, one written
by General John B. Castleman of Lou
isville, KY, and the other by the Hon
Frank Harris, ST., the editor of the
Banner.
General Castleman takes the ground
that to salute the negro officer by of
ficers of less rank is all right. and
makes about as good argument in ia.
vor of his case as could well be done
but Editor Harris. as he always does,
writes THE article, laying down prin.
ciples that we have ever felt and have
discussed privately but hadn't as yet
expressed these views in an editorial.
We are now glad that this was not
done, for the matter is treated by Mr..
Harris in a far better way than we
could have hoped to do. His words
are so democratic. so sensible. and
yet so kindly considerate that they
are deserving that the war depart.
ment should take cognizance of them
and by a judicious use of these sug-
gestions could easily settle this vexed
question in a way that all will be sat.
isfied. We most sincerity hope that
the attention of Secretary Baker may
be directed to these words. Here they
are:
Our own idea of saluting is that II
is a relic Of menarchiai government
and does not fit well In a democracy
where all subjects are supposed to be
on an equality.
1.-THE salute, we think. should only
be given and required when a soldier
is on actual duty and on no other oc.
ccsion, except as SITUATIONS are given
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two officials step aside and leave him
alone. After a few minutes had passed
by, one of them, out of curiosity, looked
to see what had taken place, and there
sat Lincoln, with his head bowed on
Jefferson Davis desk, his face in his
hands and his tears falling. And i
say that the angels of God never
looked down from the battlements of
heaven on a holier scene than that.
His great, sympathetic heart saved the
republic. That was the greatest VIC
tory in the Civil war: that settled the
struggle; that bound the North and
South together, and Abraham Lincoln,
like his great Master, died Of broken
heart. 1t burst with sympathy. The
greatest victory in those days of strug-
gle was that Christlike sympathy. The
greatest victory that is ever won on
any battlefield of human life, In the
hour when the struggle goes on. is won
through the wonderful element that
comes down from the heart OF Jesus
Christ-his own divine sympathy for
struggling humanity.-Cortland Myers.
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charged
fined the confused
which himself without
deciding that there evidence sufficient justify him sending
1t higher
On the day policeman before the magistrate
dsodery
traffic Fifth
humby apoogzed said didn't
magistrate when he refused traffic he navey
that crossing traffic policeman He said that he
do by individual who be private citizen
his permitted
go a
New York $1,000
uisdtc
really smaller
Yet these themselves
held
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-02-09
Lincoln Patriotic League.

A Lincoln Patriotic league will be
organized throughout the United
States following the celebration of the
twentieth anniversary Of the founding
of Lincoln Memorial university at
Cumberland Gap, Md, February 10,
II and II. John Wesley Hill of New
York, who has just resigned as gen
eral secretary Of the World Court
league to become chancellor of the
university, made this announcement.
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entry into Rich
mond. There shall
be no demonstra-
ton just now" He
made his way to
r | C h m on d and
walked through the
city alone. There
never was such q
triumphant e n t ry
as that in all the
annals of history.
He walked with
his head dow n,
with heavy step
and sad heart, and
when he reached
the southern capi-
tcl and went to
Jefferson Davi 8
room ba ho5a biS
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Things Lincoln Said.

II you intend to go to work there
is no better place than right where
you are.
I have changed my mind. I don't
think much of man who is not wiser
today than he was yesterday.
By course of reasoning Euclid
proves that all the angles in n triangle
are equal to two right angles. Now,
II you undertook to disprove that
proposition would you prove 1t false
by calling Euclid llar?-Circle Maya
zine.
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the niche which Doctor Flint had his favoe
opened the lock
Then thought the that had
a
q
o
woof
quick
that Doctor Fns
visits the
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Her
Helpful
Valentine
B1ee 5hippey
y ELDON had found the one girl
4 Nellie Hastings. Nellie had
great, lustrous eyes. When Eel

EADON u4O 1Ou0U Tue Que 8lIi-
- Nellie Hastings. Nellie had
great, lustrous eyes. When Eel
don recited his own poetry she
would gaze intently into his face
with rapt expression. as II
thinking Of new hat she would like
to buy. And probably she was.
When he finished reciting she would
be silent moment and then murmur:
"How exquisite!' She didn't say what
was exquisite, but Feldon thought he
knew. But l would wager little on
the hat.
Feldon's family and looked on his
romance with extreme disfavor. But
he would brook no criticism from his
relatives. That was why he happened
to be lodging with me in the studio,
temporarily. Being only friend 1
knew Feldon much better than his
family did and was wise enough not
to show my disfavor for his suit.
knew Nellie, too, and felt sure her
union with Feldon would not be best
for all concerned. Feldon was really a
nne chap. He was original. He did
not even initiate other men in their
vices, US most otherwise original men
do. He had fine scorn for philander-
ing and excesses. He did not love to
eat and drink or indulge in any other
common appetite. His appetites were
spiritual. felt sure the girl for him
would have to be modern Pallas.
But that il just what he thought
Nellie was.
"She has a wonderful soul!" he
would cry. ut looks out Of her eyes.
Every glance is lyric, every steadfast
gaze a perfect poem!"
When a man who tells you his love
is too deep for words gushes forth like
that about thirty times a day 1t usual
" ends in life sentence. There's no
saving him.
Still we tried hard, the family and I,
The family pleaded, stormed and
threatened. tried sundry strategic
moves. But all proved futile. Feldon
and Nellie decided to marry in May.
They wouldn't be married in June be.
cause SO many people get married
then. It was early in February when
they definitely decided on the date, and
then the family and lost hope.
But a few days later he came IL
looking 30 agitated felt hopeful Of
calamitous news. His hair was d.
sheveled, his collar awry, his tie hump
| backed. He paid no attention to me
but began at once to pace the floor
feverishly, muttering unintelligibly as
he walked and stopping frequently te
claw his hair frenziedly. waited pa
tiently for the floodgates to burst, but
nothing happened. Occasionally he
would stare at me, but did not seen
to see me. Finally he sat and begar
to write. I could not restrain an ex
clamation Of profound disgust.
$50 it's a mere poem you're working
onY' sneered. II tho1ght something
had happened"
He looked up dazedly a moment
Then he seemed to recall where he wa,
and hat was human being. The1
his excitement flooded back.
"A mere poem!" he cried. 'aThi!
poem should be an echo and a igh
unto eternity It should symbolic tn,
most perfect love which ever existet
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"cupld's Morpue."

"Cupid's morgue" in the city post Of
fee is not the gruesome place Of
blasted hopes and affections that one
might imagine 1t to be, but Is In reality
the most interesting and cheerful de-
partment in the mailservice; the great
est amount Of trouble is taken in dis
eliminating where the different mat
ter shall be sent, and no books or
printed valentines are distributed with
out orst being carefully looked over.
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the
neck6 81
feared
in his
mau,fo owin
In to suggestions
to Of physical perfection
is
Go O and rise early
bag. handban.
Swimming season. develops called
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you. Everyone began wondering
whether he wouldn't try to get back to
town to hide, and there was all sorts
OF rumors atioat. They were talking
about it In fathers office one evening,
all the men who used to play cards
with Booth. 1 hope he won't come
here and ask me to hide him. said ia
ther, for of course, I'd have to hand
him over to Justice Just then there
was the sound of voices far off down
the street, and a sharp rattle at the
door. He has come back cried my
father. They're after him, too Hide
him behind the door said one man.
No. said father, in the safe Then
he opened tLa door. The voices had
died away, the threshold was empty.
The wind and not hunted criminal
had ratified the latch. Those men
weren't thinking of Booth, the GRIM
inal, but the quiet, pleasant young
man they had grown SO fond Of"
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between human beings. st. Valentines
day Is coming, you dolt. That day I
am to pour out my heart in poem to
Nellie and she hers in a poem to me-"
1.-THE deuce you sayw I exclaimed.
II didn't know she wrote such stuff.'
'Her every thought is a poem," he
declared.
For a week, Feldon labored inces-
sanity over that poem. He would hop
out Of bed in the middle Of the night
to change word or put in a comma.
He revised 1t dozen times every day.
It was a truly beautiful thing when
he sent 1t away by messenger tho
morning of st. Valentines day. The
same messenger brought back NeAle's
valentine.
What sounded like the gasps Of .
dying man called me to Feldon's side
five minutes later. He had fallen back
pale and limp, on a couch. propped
up his head and ran for a stimulant,
but he waved me away.
Don't save me-" he pleaded. Life
Is all too taunting a mockery.
thought had found a soul perfectly
1eSpouSi'e " noA iaonS anu iAeiooy onu
beauty and symmetry. But just look
what she wrote!"
He held up Nellie's valentine, and I
read:
This valentine
To you doth say
I'm yours all the time
For ever and for aye;
30 when this you see
Do not forget
To remember me
Your own
Nel-lee
I read the valentine through twice.
believing saw possibilities in it. Fel-
don groaned steadily the while.
Feldon shamelessly deserted Nellie,
leaving for an extended trip through
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stormy days Of the Civil war. Abra-
ham Lincoln left Washington Inn
mediately to go to the front, and when
news finally had reached him that
Lee had surrendered and the officials
began to make preparation for the en-
try into Richmond, just as immedi-
ately Lincoln put his foot down and
said, "Ttrere shall be no triumphant
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-02-09
Lincoln the World Over.

A statue of Abraham Lincoln was
unveiled recently in Christiania, Nor
way. There is Lincoln street in
Palermo. Hardly great South Ameri-
can capital is without some reminder
of the uberator president. His MEM
ory is cherished around the world
New York World.
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GETTYSBURG and Lincoln.

As long as this republic endures or
its history is known, so long shall the
memory of the battle Of Gettysburg
likewise endure and be known; and
as long as the English tongue is un-
derstood so long shall Abraham Lin
coins wonderful address be remem-
bered.
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Alfred r. Liedtke, twenty years
old, $50 Keefe avenue, Is the possess
sor of the physique perfect. His claims
to physical perfection are not made by
himself. for he is rather backward
about things Of so personal = nature.
But c. S. Minter, physical director
for the Y. NJ. G. A., is authority for
the declaration that the masculine
perfect thirty-six" is persopified by
the Keefe avenue youth.
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expected that there will be 300 on the
rolls. DR.. william Osler. by the way,
has been made an honorary member.
There is really no foolishness
about the new club. Although 1t is
the baby In the big family of Portland
clubs, it shows wonderful vigor and
promises to outdo many of its bigger
brothers when 1t gets Its growth, for
1t is to be filed with young blood, and
youth, as everybody knows. recognizes
no obstacles that can't be overcome.
The underlying object of the club
Is to create a sentiment that will give
I'VE with men younger. 1t has often
young man. Members Of the club ha
ruling, that age is really not marked b
vigorous in health, with purpose stron
capable and even more SO than many
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would make billiard rooms II all
ghosts of lovers Of the sport should
return to them, the facts are these:
The Century associations negro
servitors (termed servants in less
Doctor Flint's disembodied spirit
visits the billiard room there that they
are afraid to set 1t to rights in the
late evening or early morning hour
unless q clerk goes with them.
Two of these negro s0rYifnrs went
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magistrate abruptly stopped the near
ing of case and ordered the COM
planning witness brought before him
on the following day on 4 contempt
charge because he was chewing gum
In court.
When, on the following day, the
witness appeared to answer to the
contempt charge. his lawyer, asserting
his right to make an explanation for
his client, was ordered removed from
the courtroom by a bailin. A second
lawyer, who volunteered to speak for