The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-09-30

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the sooner Liberty bonds reach par,
the better for ma and the kids, and
we think so too.
Prices must fall to match our sal
airy before we can buy a new fall hat
If you don't believe everything you
hear, don't repeat any of it.
Every once and so often something
happens that teaches again the lesson
that it isn't wise to start anything you
can't finish.
Ocala's hover gardens will soon be
brilliant mass of color, judging
from the hundreds of poinsettias
luxuriantly GROWN gnow.
There is no use disputing the adage
that "sucker is born every minute. -
If you don't believe it just watch the
number of people pulling away at
straws at our soda fountains every
day.
People sometimes leave Ocala, but
most generally they come back.
An exchange editor says: eff
have dollar and you have a dollar
and we exchange, you have a dollar
and | have dollar. But if / have an
idea and you have an idea, and we ex-
change, you have two ideas and ]
have two ideas"
The success of a play depends
largely on the costumes chosen, saws
a leading producer, who spends lavish
sums upon the dressing of his char
acters. So it is in daily life. 1t is the
dress of the person that makes or
mars his or her success, socially.
Strangers are beginning to come
"swift and rapid" into our little city
and our citizens should make it a
point to meet them with a smile and
glad handshake. Even if you can't
tell them where there is a house for
rent, you can treat them kindly and in
the end this policy will pay. help much
TO get them established and perhaps
to become permanent citizens.
Why not the graduates of the Ocala
high school start a movement to put
into the new high school building a
memorial tablet on which would be
inscribed the names of all the soldiers
and sailors in the war with Germany,
who attended the high school? A tab
let containing the names of all the
men who served against Germany
with the names of those who lost
their lives in gold letters would be
most LETTING. Money for this could
be raised by pupils and former pupils
by giving entertainments throughout
the season and contributions by for
mer students who reside elsewhere.
Neglected friendships are less for
slvable than almost anything else.
Many people make friends and
straightway forget them. Every hu-
man being likes to know that he oc-
cupies some part in the mind and the
heart of others. Friendship is as a
flower that springs up in an every
day garden of life and must be tended
and nurtured and cherished to give
perfume to life.
Our progressive little city has one
terrible affliction. 1t is a cow men
ace. Not, however, the kind that
sticks close to her business in giving
support to a devoted human family,
but the sort that turns night into day,
and spends hours trying to learn to
whistle like a catbird. all the while
fitting from yard to yard, like unto
butterflies in the gladstone summer
time-only her time is night; and do
ing human-like handspring stunts
over garden fences and feeding on
sweet potato vines and other garden
track meant for human consumption.
There's only one remedy for such an
evil disposed cow-a dose of shot is
a sure cure and as we write we think
rictuttsquely, too, of how beautiful
she would be dead and turned into
corned beef and her rusty old fifty
cent hide converted into a twenty dol
lar pair of fancy shoes for some
fairy to shimmie in.
%&&
Mother earth is just calling and
calling to the town people who are
dissatisfied with prices and wages,
says the Houston Post And mind
you, boys. the time is coming when
millions will have to return to the
shovel and the hoe, or the quotations
for hog and hominy will be found up
in the moon.
When the cemetery of a town gets
so overgrown with weeds that people
forget the proper respect for the dead,
then look out; the town is going back
ward. Public spirit is gone, selfish
ness is arising and energy is going to
sleep. These conditions which have
Keen threatening Evergreen cemetery
all summer have now developd in full
measure, packed down and running
over. Beggarweeds, fennels and sand
spurs vie with each other in their race
to the goal which is over almost every
grave into the fences and unto the
railroad tracks. The cemetery is SO
overgrown that few days since when
committee of ladies visited it for
the purpose of placing iron markers