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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

Texas voted on a constitutional
amendment last Tuesday, which we
hope was carried, allowing a portion
of the earnings OF the convicts in
state prison to 60 to the convicts
or their families, The amendment
had the support of the philanthro-
pists, the leading welfare associa'
lions and organizations and the best
thinking people Of the state who
made it the subject of study. 1t is
certainly benign and praiseworthy
for it is believed that it will add to
the morale and good behavior of the
unfortunates and when the term of
service expires they will be better
prepared to face the world and cope
with conditions. We wish that Flor.
ida had such . constitutional pro-
vision.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

The reason some stores in Miami
are so much more popular than other
stores is largely on account OF the
greater politeness of the clerks in
the popular stores. Moreover cour-
tesy on the part of customers seems
to show OF to better effect in the
stores that have courteous clerks.
The ocala Banner is right when It
says: "Poiteness is the cheapest
thing there is and yet there is no
limit to its purchasing power.-Miami
Metropolis.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14
WILSON CoNG7ATULATES COOL
IOGE

Since 1894 when Grover Cleveland,
withholding his signature from the
Gorman-Brice-Smith tariff bill, pass.
ed by a democratic congress false to
its pledges, publicity fixed upon its
authors the sigma of"party perfidy''
nc occupant of the white house has
so boldly rebuked his own political
organization as President Wilson
does in this telegram to Gov-elect
Coolidge of Massachusetts. a repub.
lican:
Il congratulate you upon your
election as a victory for law and or
der. When that is the issue, all Am
orleans stand together"
Law and order were not all that
was at stake in Massachusetts. Be
sides making themselves champions
of the striking policemen, the demo.
Gratis in their platform demanded the
amendment of the treaty of peace in
what they mistakenly regarded as
the interest of ireland. The republi
cans not only made the cause of law
and order their own, but paid their
respects to Senator Lodge and his
bushwhackers by demanding 1.-The
prompt ratification of the treaty OF
peace without amendment"
Probably no American was more
conversant with the situation in Mas
sachusetts and its meaning locally
and nationally than the chief magris
trate, belfast at Washington. 1t was
not for him to say it, but others will
hardly fail to remind Senator Lodge
that by this splendid Endorsement al
home Gov. Coolidge must take con
spicuous place as a presidential pos
sibility among republicans not given
to demagogy. obstruction and peace
edevilment-World.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14
LADY AsToR PROUD OF HER
VIRGINIA BLOOD

In a speech at Plymouth. England
Lady Astor is reported to have said:
do not think for one moment that
am ashamed of my Virginia blood
Lady Astor's eyes flashed and she
gestered for a m0ment. Resuming
her speech, she declared women
would be the ones TO bring about the
working of the league of nations"
1t goes without saying that all
good women favor the league of ma
tions.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

Alaska produced 10000 pounds Of
Tin valued at si1SOOO in 1916. Al
aska produced 100000 pounds valued
at 1928, 200 in 1917. Discovery of pia'
GER tin is announced on Sword pen
insula. where the graveis are said
20 contain two land a hale pounds OF
Tin and ten cents worth OF gold "a
the cubic yard Uncle Sam has min.
eral wealth he is a producer OF all
the raw materials. He is
rich I'm his possessions. What is not
found in one section can be found or
produced In some other section.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

What the Herald has said, howev.
er, and still believes, is that if the
United States consents to the robbery
ince of Shantung, this country will,
in measure, he particeps criminis
in the offense against international
good morals.-Miami Herald.
Which is tantamount to saying that
if the senate of the United States
ratifies the treaty it consents to the
robbery: that those who sat around
the peace table have already consent.
ted to it, thus becoming particeps
criminis in the affair, which sustains
the Banners contention as President
Wilson was the dominating figure at
the peace table.
Again the Herald says:
The Herald has claimed and still
claims that the United States ought
to have insisted on the return of that
province, not to Japan blu to its Or
iginal owner, China, our friend and
ally in the late war.
1t forgets that Japan was our
friend and ally and that Shantung
fell to it through the fortunes of
war.
To have wrested it from Japan
would have broken faith and made
the pledges of our allies mere scraps
of paper"
II would have been worse than an
ofense against International good
morals
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

Persia is rich in petroleum wealth.
The recent Anglo-Persion secret
treaty gives Great Britain strong
position in Persia. Before the war
Great Britain had only Il per cent of
the Persian trade but the share of
Great Britain is now 65 per cent. The
chief exports from Persia are fruits,
cotton carpets. rice. opium wool and
petroleum. IL would not hurt Uncle
Sam TO get a peep in" on Persia.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

There is one man at least VINO
thinks highly OF the postoffice man.
agement of the past few years.
Tampa Times. From what we can
understand there are any number of
men living in Tampa who spreak we'll
of the postoffice management. They
say that Ed Lambright is making a
fine official. No complaint is made OF
the postoffice management in Ocala
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

Perhaps when Governor Cats
threatened To bring suit against tht
Manatee Banner he had been reading
some Of those Texas newspapers
Ex-Gov. Ferguson. the deposed gov
ernor Of that state. has br0cght suit
against a number OF Texas newspa-
pers and promises to game for
tune. He brought suit against the
San Antonio Express and that paper
compromised tue suit by the payment
Of $4,000 and a retraction OF the
charges. He obtained verdict
against the Houston Post for s10..
900. The Houston Chronicle com
promised the suit filed against 1t by
the payment Of $4,000 and a retrac-
tion. Suits are pending against 9th
er newspapers which II successful
viii bring In to the governors ex
chequer fully 100000. That is
enough to stimulate Fiorida's COVER.
nor to transcendent activity. =.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

The newspaper press Of Florida
and the people generally are sadden.
ed by the announcement of the death
of Claude L'Engle of Jacksonville. He
was a born journalist, pithy and
spirited controversalist, and a strong.
forceful. piquant and fascinating
writer. He was an ornament to the
press.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

While parading in celebration OF
Armistice Day at Centralia, Wash.
the I. w. WIS shot into the parade,
killed three and wounded six of the
paraders. They were all overseas
veterans. Sixteen arrests followed
and many more will follow. Later on
a mob surrounded the Jail and took
one OF the prisoners and lynched
him.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14
JUNGLE HENRY WATTERSON ON
THE GREAT MYSTERY

In closing his articles entitled:
Looking Backward which have
been charmingly written and intensely
interesting, Ex-Editor Watterson, the
brilliant Kentuckian, pays more than
a passing thought to the mystery OF
life and death.
He says that he was born in the
Presbyterian church, baptised in the
Roman Catholic church, educated in
the church OF England in America
and married into the church of Dis.
ciples.
He explains his baptism as fol-
lows:
at was my second summer; my
parents were sojourning in the house
hold OF a devout Catholic fairly
rsy nurse was eorn, affoctiorate
Irish Catholic; the little life was al
most despaired of, so one sunny Gay.
to rescue me from that form of theo-
logic controversy known as infant
damnatiOn, the baby carriage was
trundled round the corner to Saint
Mathews church Washington and
the baby's brow was touched with
holy water out of the. fount blessed
of the Virgin Mary"
The genial Kentuckian says that
he has never felt or has been the
worse for it.
Further along he touches upon de-
nominationalism and the supreme
mystery as follows:
81 fear not; I fear not; because
l am unable to rid myself of the i'm
preston that there are many roads
leading to heaven and have never
believed in what is called close COM
munion. have not hated and am
unable to hate any man because
either in political or in religious
opinion he differs from me and in
sists upon voting his party ticket and
worshiping his Creator according TO
his conscience.
81 suppose I must have been born
an insurrectO. Pursuing the story
of the Dark Ages when men were
burnt at the stake for heresy of re-
fusing to bow to the will of the ma
jority it is not the voice of the Pro.
testant or the Catholic that issues
from the flames and reaches my
heart, but the cry of the suffering
man, my brother. To me saint is
a saint whether he wears wooden
shoes or goes barefoot, whether he
gets his baptism silently out of a
fount of consecrated water or comes
dripping from the depth of the near.
est brook. shouting 'Hallelujah!'
From my boyhood the persecution of
man for opinions sake-and no mat
ter for what opinions scake-has
reused within me the only devil I
have ever personally known.
MY reading has embraced not
few works which seek or which af-
feet to deal with the mystery of life
and death. Each and every one of
them leaves a mystery still. For all
their learning and research--their
positively and ontradiction-none Of
the writer's know more than l think
l know myself, and all that I think
/ know myself may be abridged to
the simple rescript. know nothing.
The wisest of us reck not whence
we came or whittier we go; the HUI.
man mind, unable to conceive the
external in either direction; the soul
of man is inscrutable even to him.
self"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14
SHATTERED HOPES

it's young men as quick as the light
ning's flash sprang to arms from
Maine to Texas and from Florida to
California, nerved to action but by
a single thought-that thought to
carry the Stars and Stripes to victory
and win the war for democracy" we
were inspired with the hope that
when the "boys came marching
home" they would find united
country.
But alas, alack. not so.
Our hopes are but as
Dead sea fruit that tempts the eye,
But turns to ashes on the lips"
We are reminded that New Eng
land and the South stood together in
the revolutionary war; they stood
together in the war of 1912; they
stood together in the war against
Mexico; they stood together in the
Spanish-American war, and they
stood together in the great world
war.
Standing together in war, why can
they not stand together in peace!
Looking over the proceedings OF
congress, one finds that sectionalism
seems to be as deeply seated today
as it was Immediately after the close
of the war between the states.
Indeed, when the boys were yet
enlisting the politicians, who seem
to dominate congress, were rearing
sectional barriers and the admins.
tration was compelled to undergo all
sorts of frivolous and unwarranted
criticisms.
Every cantonment, aviation field
or shipbuiIding plant located in the
South had to run the gauntlet of
criticism.
The South raised no objection to
the location of cantonments, or avia.
ton fields or shipyards, or munitions
plants in the north.
Search the records and one will
find this to be true.
Millions of dollars have been APP
propriated for deepening the harbors
and the erection of costly public
buildings in New York, Boston, Phil
adelphia and other cities, and no cry
against it is heard from this section;
we indeed rejoice to see it, but let
an appropriation for the deepening
of river, or the erection of public
building in any portion of the South,
and the cry of pork BARREL" pork
BARREL" is heard over the land, so
much so as to smell to high heaven.
Is this never to end?
Is this country never to be at
peace?
What more can the South do that
it has not already done for the paci-
fication and unifcation of the ser-
tons?
It early held out the olive branch.
Than Horace Greeley there was no
man more bitterly hostile to seces-
sion and slavery. yet the South cast
its solid vote for him for the presi-
dency.
In order to bring about a pacifica-
ton it has regularly gone to that
section for its presidential timber.
Why should the South forever be
ostracised and treated almost as an
alien?
1t is not the habitat of the l. w.
w; it is not the lodging place Of
anarchists; it is not the resort OF
bomb throwers, and it is a stranger
to the red flag of disorder.
Why should not the South be loved,
honOred ana admired?
Tell us. please. for we want to
know the manner of our SHINING.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

The esteemed Miami Herald con
tinues to quote from Harvey's Week
~ and the Kansas City Star. It Is
painful to us because we esteem II
so highly. The Kansas City Star and
Harvey's Weekly are the arch and
'implacable enemies of the admins.
tration.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

The young men of today. ambitious
of political honors( who is unable to
become member of the American
Legion because he did not don the
uniform, will find himself terribly en-
barrassed and handicapped.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

much missed. Now that the war
drums sound no longer" and peace
is spreading her wings over the
earth, it ought to give inspiration TO
those who possess the gift Of poetry
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

The Panama City Pilot says: "As
tea was prominent factor in the
downfall of the British empire In
America, so sugar may foretell the
downfall of the democratic admins
tration in this country. While the
administration was obsessed with the
league of nations controversy. tap
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

General Francisco Villa is on the
road again. General Angeles is his
chief of staff. Mexico needs another
Porfrio Diaz. He would shoot the
lights out of the bandits and mako
short work of the crooks and graft
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14
PHONES
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

Entered as second class matter a
the postoffice at Ocala, Fla, unde
Acts of Congress regulating secor
mail matter
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

More and more the politics of the
esteemed Miami Herald seems to set
on it most uncomfortabIy. There is
a misft somewhere in its makeup.
We are sorry.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

Father Connonally made a great
many friends in Ocala and no one
could have heard the address he
made at the Temple Sunday afternoon
without warming up to him for
the sentiments that he expressed
had the true American ring through
and through
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

The Lakeland Advertiser is brag-
ging about the illustrated edition that
it issued on November 9th and It
has right to brag. geographically
and in every other way it was a work
of art.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

Has the muse deserted our
good friend. Hon. c. H. B. Floyd? His
corner in the Tampa Tribune is very
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-11-14

Armistice Day-with thousands in
the city-passed on without a dis.
turbaace of any kind.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-03-16
Faordinary Career Of Jacques Lebaud5
by His Wife, Reveal a most Incre

with card engraved with his fictitious title Lebaudy
printed imperial bank notes. engraved special postage stamps
and issued proclamations under his imperial seal
While Monte Cristo content with little imaginary
principality small island Lebaudys imperial plans
contemplated great empire of thousands of miles with
bilious schemes of industrial development
Monte Cristo's schemes involved him with the French
Government; Lebauds schemes set both the French and
Spanish governments by the ears.
The Count of Monte Cto delighted in wearing the gay
picturesque costume of the Moors So Also Lebaudy for
months at time discarded the clothing of his native France
and arrayed himself in red cap with long blue ass black
vest embroidered with gold panaloons and CATERS of deep
red richly embroidered bright yellow slippers for his feet
around his waist gorgeous sash of cashmere while in his
belt he carried long crooked ethe exact native garb
of the Moors
Monte Crsto cuised about the Mediterranean in mod
est sailing vessel with Of half dozen; Jacques Le
baudy cruised about the Mediterranean in great steam
yacht in royal luxury with Of hundred officers and
men.
the Count of Monte Cristo suffered in his prison dun
from starvation.
If the Count of Monte Cristo pursued his enemies re-
enessy also did Lebaudy With resourceul ingenuity
he failed to punish his enemies and seek the ruin of
anybody who tried to interfere with him.
The Count accomplished the ruin of great Partisan
banking house that had inerred with his plans Lebaudy
undertook to destroy the business Of his leading competitor
and succeeded well that the suicide of his rivals general
manager and disastrous financial loss the Princess de-
Broge and other and Of high social position
resulted
Monte Cristo accustomed to excite the cupidty Of
his enemies and cement the devotion Of his friends by
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-03-16
Fac-Simile
of the
EmPeror'S
PPinfad &

was to the various departments Of state Of al The
important European nations in the hope that & mRht
undo the damage which he surmsed had been done By the
humorous treatment he had received at the hands Of the
newspapers.
And so it was day and night with the busy Lebgudy
He carried volumnous correspondence with various
conspicuous statesmen of Europe on his imposing letter
heads and signed by his imperial ministers and sealed with
his great seal of the Empire of the Sahara But his doe
nents attracted serious attention. He was making
no progress toward official recognition especially did all
this pomp and insignia fail have any effect whatever
on the French Government.
Meanwhile Lebaudy continued to recruit his expedi-
tonary force with view returning the desert and
establishing his imperial claims by force of arms Lebaudy
held court functions his apartments in the Hotel Savoy
dressed in full imperial regala surrounded by his secre
tafes and ministers of state and appointed ladies and
gentlemen of the court with BETTING rank and title and
dispatched emsSareS the various crowned heads Of
Europe.
More and more recruits and officers were gathered
about him for the great expedition which Lebaudy never
failed to picture about to embark-but which never
ready to start More officers applied and were &C:
cpted and the hrong about the Hotel Savoy grew larger
and larger
But the months rolled and these gallant soldiers OBJ.
tanned pay Nor there any army to command and
employment Week after week they sat about in the
anerooms of His Majesty Imperial suite and received an
occasional kind word from Colonel Gouraud but rarely
were able to catch glimpse of His Imperial Majesty
The warriors began to grow angry at this treatment
They stood about the hotel office and made all kinds of
threats against the Emperor One day exasperaed ad
venturer who had lost his patience forced his way into
the EmperOrs apartment of state and nearly choked
to death His Imperial Majesty before Colonel Gouraud
and Gerard, his chief valet could interfere.
Lebaudy had it appears, appointed this man general
four months before and had promised him the command
of tV o,,Ia 6,
LIAR! "lmposor!' yelled the enraged general
"YOu have prevented me from keeping most valuable
engagement in Central Africa
The motley thrOng which had begun to increase in size
in the corridors and Obbies of the hotel were great
annoyance to the hotel managers. The loud grumblnRs
and disturbances which now a daily occurrence
finally exhausted the patience of the hotel proprieors The
British Government also began take notice of Lebaudvs
activities and he was warned to leave England Sud.
denly one morning Lebaudy and few members Of his
suite departed In the early dawn and went to Brussels
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-03-16
Exploits Of This
Real Parsonage
Which Entirely
Eclipse the
Imagination OF
the Great
Novelist

display Of valuable gem. Lebaudy did precisely the same,
but instead Of jewel Lebaudy would draw from his satchel
100000 in gold pieces and stack them on the table.
The Count had ward beautiful Greek girl upon whom
he lavished fathery affection Lebaudy had wonderfully
beautiful Turkish girl whom he rescued from harem and
educated with parental soIcitude.
And thus the parallel on and on-the real life Of
Jacques Lebaudy outmachng at every point Dumas fam
tasc creation Of fiction The intimate and hitherto unpub
ished and unknown details Of the career of this exaordn
airy have been collected here and abroad by who
shared his secrets and will be told this page from week
to week