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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Fire Loss in United States.

II one could imagine all the build
ings destroyed by fire in the United
States in a year arranged along one
highway, each building occupying a
lot 90 feet wide, the highway would
extend from New York to Chicago,
and the buildings would line it on
each side. Such is the calculation of
the department of interior. Further.
more, a person travelling this scene OF
desolation would pass in every thou
sand feet a ruin from which an in.
jured person has been taken. At every
three-quarters of a mile he would en-
counter the remains of a human be
ing who had been burned to death.
For years, it is estimated, the
value of actual property annually
consumed by fire in this country
reaches $25O,O00,OOO, and another sum
of about like proportions is spent for
the maintenance of fire departments
waterwOrks, insurance premiums, ETC.,
to prevent still greater losses.-Cleve.
land Plain Dealer.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
A. c. L. SCHEDULE

Trains of the Atlantic Coast Line
will arrive and depart in Ocala at the
following times:
No. 10, Leesburg to Jacksonville,
$40 a. m.
No. Isl, Ocala to Wilcox, Monday,
Wednesday and Friday, 6:10 a. m.
No. 35, Ocala TO Lakeland (Sunny-
Jim), Tuesday, Thursday and Satur-
day, $40 q. 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, 1:0t
p. m.
No. 40, Ocala to Homosassa, 2:2E
p. m.
No. 80, Jacksonville to St. Peters
burg, 2:36-2:40 p. m.
No. lao, Ocala to Falatka, Gaines
vile and Wilcox, 4:10 p. m.
No. 9, Jacksonville to Isesburg
9:05 p. m.
No. 80, Lakeland to Ocala Sunny
1im), Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day, $50 p. m.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
NATURE HOLDS BALANCE EVEN
Creatures That Prey, and Those That
Are Preyed Upon, Have Natural
Increase Limited

However smart and awake to the
time assail them, the creatures that
are preyed upon are often caught; the
preying ones get them from time to
time. and if this were not so they
would increase beyond all bounds. 1t
is true also that those that prey often
go hungry, and they, too, have enemies
or diseases, which later amount to the
same thing in the struggle for exist
ence and the limiting of numbers. So
nicely is nature balanced as a gen.
eral thing between the killers and the
killed that if but an unusual influence
enters in, as an additional number of
carnivorOus creatures in any neighbOr-
hood, or the growing up of an addi-
tional amount OF cover, there will be
falling off, on the one hand, or a con-
siderable increase, on the other, Of
those animals that are preyed upon.
Thus is seen the influence, both
ways, of mans part in natures COM
plicated contest. The gunners and
trappers weigh heavily in overbalanc-
ing the otherwise normal balance
against both flesh and vegetable eat
ers, and where, in the unusual good
ness of his heart, man has endeavored
over considerable areas to protect
nearly all wild life, the result is
shown by a rapid increase among the
protected animals.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
TOKYO STREETS A PUZZLE
Even Old Residents Are Said to Find
1t Hard to Make Their Way
About Them.

Tokyo is made up of group of small
towns which expanded until, like the
old lady's two teeth, they hit. 1t is the
most conservative city in Japan, and is
the one most lacking in unity of spirit.
Each district has its own market and
it's own shops. Homes and stores are
mixed together in bewildering confu-
sion, and even old residents find it
hard to find their way about the
crooked streets.
On my motorcycle, the only way
have mastered the problem is by mem
Orizing the numbers of the tram lines
and then riding till see a car. Then
I know where / am. The city is
grouped around the imperial palace,
and segments, like dehorned pieces of
pie, radiate from the center of the cob
web. AS one cannot start from the
center of this mixup, due to the fact
that that is where the sacred person of
the emperor holds court, he must play
ring around the rosy" at some dis.
tance from the center. If he is near
the outer circumference, two miles on
his speedometer mean one thing. If he
circles the inner mOat, they mean an
other.-Christian Herald.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28

weapon, had no protec ton whatever
against it. The horror of those days
when men engulfed by the lethal
waves died agonizing deaths will
never be forgotten. But the manner
in which the Canadian troops rallied
and prevented the Germans breaking
through in what they hoped would be
victorious march to Calais and
Boulogne, will ever be one of the most
thrilling stories of the war. Now
adays the British fairly battle the
Germans in every form of gas when
ever the slightest opportunity offers
and prisoners all say their losses in
these attacks have been alarmingly
heavy. Gas is sent over in creeping
banks of fog, is shot over in bombs
that suddenly explode in trenches
and at entrances to dugouts, while no
billets or sleeping quarters for troops
in rest miles back of the fighting
line are safe from the gas shells
which are ever knocking at their
doors.
The bitterness of it all to the Ger
mans, however, is the fact that daily
they find they have less and less rub
Der with which to construct their gas
masks, many of which are very in
ferior and offer but poor protection
to the fighting men against gases
that constantly are becoming more
powerful.
Boiling and blazing oil drums which
they find exploding about them in
scalding and incendiary fury, heavy
shells which break over them squirt
ing streams of melted lead, are other
species of the dread chickens of
frightfulness that are| daily flying
home to the German roost.
1t is small wonder that half-fnish-
ed letters found on Germans in the
front lines, dwell upon the terror of
the war, or that some go so far as to
speak desperate envy of the dead.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
How "Rubbers" Were Produced.

"Rubbers," as Americans have
named them, were the invention of
Charles Goodyear, father of the man
who helped produce the Goodyear welt
machine. In 1888 it was found that
India rubber, dissolved in turpentine
and mixed with lampblack, would give
waterproof surface to leather. But
the leather so treated was subject to
atmosphere changes, heat causing it to
melt and cold to crack. Mr.. Goodyear
mixed sulphur with the other COM
bination and produced rubber.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Trees Used for Cisterns.

Among the most curious of trees is
the gigantic baObab. which fiourishes
il central Africa. the trunk of which
Sometimes attains a diameter of 40
feet. according to the Los Angeles
Times. This trunk serves as a natural
cistern, retaining rain water in large
quantities in a cavity formed at the
top. The Arabs artificially hollow
out the trunks of large baobabs and
I'LL them with water during the pre-
ya!ence of rain as a provision against
the dry season. These cisterns are in
many cases 20 feet in height and eight
or ten feet in diameter.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28

hear a big Bertha" for those ia
NOUS old 42-centimeter howitzers are
seldom used nowadays. 1t is believed
that the Germans planned to lombard
Arras with them, using prussic acid
shells, but the British advance on
Easter Monday last put stop to that
particularly nefarious scheme against
the already sadly battered little Ar
tots cathedral city.
There is also awaiting the new
American army a bounteous baptism
Of bombs and hand grenades and the
still more dismaying introduction to
the CHASTITY rattle of the machine
gun and its sinister swish of spray
ing bullets-sounds. we'll calculated to
stab with a moment of fear the heart
of the bravest man.
But above all the American soldiers
must equip themselves to endure the
lethal gas that will be sent over
against them in poisonous, vaporish
clouds, or showered upon them in a
deluge of heavily charged cylinders
and shells. They must prepare to
| deal also with the treacherous lachry-
matory gas which while not danger
| Gus to life irritates the tearducts
until one cries with blinded, smarting
eyes for hours. The surprise of both
these gases is their altogether pleas
ant smell, the lethal variety suggest
| ing the clean odor of a sanitary hos
pital ward, while the so-called tear
gas has the appetizing scent of crush
ed ripe apples, or cider.
There is also the demonstrating
terror of the ''famerwerfer, with it's
roaring stream of fire faring with
the velocity of a high pressure fire
nozzle and with an offpouring of
smoke rising like a black cyclone
cloud to the heavens.
The first day of their stay in bat
tie trenches the Americans will make
the acquaintance of a very old, but
scarcely cherished, friend of the Tom
mics and Poilus-another member of
the Werfer family known as "Min-
ME-" This is the German mine
thrower or minenwerfer, which filings
over at short range great heavy pro-
jectiles known as "fying pigs" be-
cause of their wabbly, ungainly flight
They go off with a deafening roar,
expending more energy on noise,
however, than on material damage.
A notable development of the war
has been the dread with which the
Germans have seen weapons of their
own invention turned against them
and turned with steadily increasing
intensity. Their prisoners speak OF
the terror these weapons have caused
and declare the German higher com.
mand is realizing all too late the
Frankensteins it brought into being
j While the Entente Allies are multi
plying these terrors on the lines laiC
down by Emperor William himself
the Germans, isolated so long from
the world, find their resources anc
materials constantly failing both a:
, tol means of carrying on this style OF
warfare and, what is more important
to them, combating the retributive
measures undertaken by the British
: and French.
, Asphyxiating gas may be taken a:
striking example. The whole worlt
was shocked when Germany first re
leased those poison clouds during
their second attack on Ypres wher
, the Allies, little suspecting such {
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28

A rise of temperature in the sur
rounding air diminishes the amount Of
oxygen consumed and the amount Of
dioxide discharged. A fall of temper
allure has the opposite effect. In adj
ditiOn, the overheated air forms hot
jacket around the body which prevents
the radiation of heat necessary to keep
the body in healthy condition. With
a sedentary occupation a temperature
of from "a to 20 should be maintained
for comfort and health.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Snuff Upsets RuraIars Plans.

When Miss Jennie McAlpin of
Doyle, La, was confronted by bur-
glar in her home the other night she
Outwitted the intruder, who demanded
money, by leading him into her
grandmother's room, catching up the
elderly woman's snuff box and quick
ly dashing the contents in the aston
ished miscreants eyes.
She then grappled with him and
wrested the revolver from his grasp,
but when she marched him toward the
front door, calling for help, the rob-
Der leaped blindly down the steps and
escaped.-New Orleans Times-Picay.
une.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Care in tuberculosis.

Living with a case of tuberculosis
is not particularly dangerous if the
patient and those around him viii ex-
ercise proper care. Sputum cups or
paper napkins should be used for all
discharges of the nose and throat,
as well as for matter coughed up from
the lungs. Handkerchiefs should not
be used, since it is an expensive mat
ter TO destroy them, and washing them
chief is boiled Immediately after use.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
DefininQ the Heart.

The human heart, always mystery,
has become the subject Of further spec
ulatiOn, since Supreme court justice
decided that nobody can plumb its
depths" 1t has been described as
broad and hollow, and the jurist says
in effect, that 1t is bottomless. One is
almost driven to the conclusion that
as was the world before the first heart
began to beat, it is without form and
void"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Soldiers Had Gone On.

AS the British transports poured
forth their freight of Australian-New
Zealand troops at GallipoIi, young
officer on one Of the battleships no.
ticed that the men went only a little
way, then stopped. "Why don't they
advanceT' he cried. An older officer
by his side looked through his glasses,
and remarked quietly, ''They have adj
vanced." Nothing more pathetically
beautiful has come out of the war.
Surely the Anzac troops could ask no
finer epitaph.-Youth's Companion.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Our ADVANTAGE.

1t is not so much the being exempt
from faults as the having overcome
them that is an advantage to us, it
being with the foIlies of the mind as
with the weeds of a field, which, If
destroyed and consumed upon the
place where they grow, enrich and i'm
prove it more than if none had ever
sprung there.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
PAGE SEVEN
An Arab Custom

The Arabian head-dress is really .
Manchester table cover folded dag
onalIy. The Arabs do not take their
headclOth off when they enter house
They uncover their feet instead. The
Arabs do a number of other things
their heads but not their faces. When
they beckOn to a person to come to
them, they do not turn their fingers
upwards as we do. No, they turn them
down, and then the Arab knows that
he is wanted.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
FireNeed's Good Work.

Fireweed, otherwise known as the
''great willow-herb," seems to have
been created as an antidote for one
of the ugliest sights landscape may
offer-burnt-over ground. The fire.
weed is a genuine cosmopolite, for it
sends its cOnsoling shaft above the
ashes of burnt forests not only
throughout America but in Europe
and Asia.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Left AIaernon Ponderina.

Algernon (after being accepted
Have you ever loved befOre?" An
gela-"NO! L have often admired men
for their strength, courage, beauty,
intelligence, or something like that,
you know; but with you, Algernon, it's
all love-nothing else!"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
We Have.

ever met the people who never go to
bed, but retire; who never sleep, but
slumber; who never get up, but rise !;
who never eat, but dine; who never
drink, but indulge; who never talk, but
converse; who never read, but peruse (;
who never buy, but purchase, and who
never get sick, but become il?-Cin-
cinnai Enquirer.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
PUTTING 1t Formally,

The four-year-old had just been re-
proved at the table. He continued to
talk cheerfully, though unanswered, to
father. After some minutes of solilo-
guy he turned to mother and re-
marked: "YOur husband doesn't talk
very much this noon, does he, mOther?'
-Harper's Magazine.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Medicine propper for Tonic.

When using an expensive hair tonic
or hair-dressing the most economical
and satisfactory way is to use bent
glass medicine dropper. This permits
the exact quantity of fluid to be de-
posted where needed at the roots OF
the hair.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
snaiIs as Rarometers.

Keeping a snail to tell you If it is
going to rain. Snails are excellent
barometers. If there is rain in the air
snails will seek shelter under leaves, in
the bark of tree or any other handy
place.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
.p.rk Blind substItute-

Cut a large sheet of brown paper
the length and width of the blind;
tack along the top and bottom Of
blind so that it goes up and down
with the blind. No light can be seen
outside, and your window blind will
look the same from outside as before.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Japanese Claim Credit for Fan

Japan takes credit for the folding
fan. The original kind was of the
palm-leaf variety-an oval or round
shape which could not be folded. But
Japan conceived the idea, just when
or how nobody knows, of fastening
half a circle of paper on a frame
made of sticks fastened together at
one end-and the collapsible fan re-
suited.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Friendship.

Friendship is a relation that defles
all the known laws of the chart of pO-
lite society, because it is grounded in
analysis, defies explanation and defies
something far deeper and more abid-
Ing. 1t is, when found, something to
be held sacredly as the inestimable
treasure of life, as its profoundest and
most potent source of inspiration.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
EXPERIENCES THAT
AWAIT AMERICANS
Upon Their Entry on the Battlefields
of Europe

of Europe
British Headquarters in France,
July 4.-(Staf Correspondence of the
Associated Press) THE arrival of
the first contingents Of the American
army in France serve to recall the
fact that the United States is enter
ing war already old and wise-wise
with the dearly bought wisdom of
three long adventurous years-and
stepped in all the diabolical wicked
ness that incessant delving into the
1syiltries of destruction can bring to
Having escaped the first terrors of
weapons which German science has
evolved through toiling years Of mil
itary preparation, the American divis-
ions will nevertheless plunge even
tually into a seething cauldron which
has grown from the unavoidable pol
icy of fighting the devil with fire."
They will have quickly to learn not
only to take the awful German fright
fulness with calm endurance, but to
return it with an ever increasing
measure. In doing this many nerve
testing and soul-searching exper-
fences undoubtedly lie before them,
but there are already thousands of
young Americans in the Canadian and
British ranks who have proved them
selves additionally worthy in the
searching flames of modern war.
The American forces are fortunate
indeed to be able to base their educa-
ton upon the bitter lessons learned
by the French and British soldiers in
all the eventful days that have fol-
naCgsed that first rush of battle in
1gA Marvelously complete books of
instruction have been builded upon
those experiences and out of these
the American soldiers will CLEAN the
last-word knowledge that will fit them
for the foremost trenches.
First of all, when they take their
place, will come the baptism of fire
from the noisy black high-explosive
German shells that scream in from
afar and burst with terrifying re-
ports-sometimes in most unexpected
places. The Geramns are great be-
4ievers both in noise and high ex-
plosive. They even mix their adored
She" with their shrapnel shells
which break high in the air and send
their bullets showering down with
the whine of an angry winter wind
The Americans soon will learn to dis
tinguish the individual songs of the
various shells for there is not the
slightest doubt that the moment he
discovers they are in the Slime" the
German will turn every available
calibre of weapon against them In a
flourish of Introductory "hate." They
will come over in order-these shrek,
ing, grumbling. missiles-ranging in
ksize and noise all the way from the
nasty little pip-squeaks or whiz-
bangs, up through the four-point-
twos, the -point-nines and then or
to what the British Tommies lacon-
ically call 'the big stuff the eight
and eleven-inch hoiwtzer shells and
the projectiles from heavy calibred
long range naval guns, known with
out affection as "Whistling Percys."
There will be little opportunity t.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
To Keen Plants Fresh.

There is simple way to water ferns
and flowers which will be of interest to
one who must leave them for a time
without care. Take a washing tub and
place three or four bricks in it and
put about two inches of water in the
tub. Place the flowers on these bricks
and place the tub where they can get
the morning sunshine.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
ODD FELLOWS

Tulula Lodge No. %, l. o. o. F.,
meets every Tuesday evening in the
Odd Fellows hall on the third floor of
the Star office building at o'clock
promptly. A warm. welcome always
extended to visiting brothers.
Orcar Andrews, N. G.
w. l.. Colbert, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
The EIeur-de-Lis.

The iris is supposed to be the fluer-
de-lis, or fiower-de-luce of the French
coat of arms, but really has nothing
to do with the design, this being Of
quite recent application. The origin
of the design is not known but it is
quite generally believed to represent
the head of a spear; by others the
flower of a lily, the floral emblem Of
France.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
oCALA LODGE NO. 2ss. B. P. o. E.

Ocala Lodge No. 2s6, Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks, meets
the second and fourth Tuesday even
ings in each month. Visiting breth-
rem always welcome Club house oppo-
site postoffice, east side.
C. w. Hunter, E. R.
E. J. Crook, Secretary.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
BRINGS SUCCESS.

Courage and faith beget energy and
power; energy and power rightly d.
rected bring success. Such, as a rule.
are the successful people-successful
simply by way of natural law.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28

81 am going to call up that pretty
telephone girl and ask her to marry
me-"
''Then you won't get the usual an
swer"
"What do you mean?'
"She'u hurry to reply. Ring on"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28

We have always felt authorized to
love almost any mother since the day
we learned that there never was kid
so ugly but that it looked beautiful
to its mothers heart. You know a
mother looks with her heart, don't
you?
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Distance Lends Enehantment.

She-"Do you think 1t will be all
right for as after we are married TO
settle a couple of squares away from
my familyT' He-"T was going to say
a couple of states"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS

Ocala Lodge No. IS. Conventions
held every Monday night at 1880
at the Castle Hall, over the James
Carlisle drugstore. A cordial welcome
to visiting brothers.
E. L. Stapp, c. c.
ChAs. z. Sage, z. of z. S.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
ORDER OF EASTERN STAR

Ocala Chapter, No. 20, o. E. S.,
meets at Yonge's hall the second ano
Hourth Thursday evenings OF each
Month at $50 O'Clock.
Mrs. Resale Condor, Secretary.
Mrs. Susan Cook, W. II.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Can't Do Without Them.

ave are here today anG gone to-
morrow" said the philosopher.
True enough" replied the cynic.
Maybe that's why so many self-impOr-
tant people think the world is going to
the demnition bow-wows tomorrow"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
Waste by Coke Ovens.

Government officials have estimated
that 100000 horse power in the form
of gas alone is wasted every day by
the old fashioned coke ovens of the
United States.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD

Fort King Camp No. IA meets at
the K. of P. hall at 7:30 p. m. every
second and fourth Friday. Visiting
sovereigns are always welcome.
T. D. Lancaster, G. c.
Chas. z. Sage, Clerk.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-07-28
OCALA FRATERNAL ORDERS
MARIoN-DUNN MASONIC LODGE

Marion-Dunn Lodge No. 10, F. &
A. NJ, meets on the first and third
Thursday evening" OF each month a
400 o'clock. until further notice.
II. M. Weathers, W. M.