The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-04-22
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bator of tolerance for the opinion of
others. He binds the people of the
North and South, the East and West,
together with the golden chain of
commerce. He carries into the coun-
try the polish of the city and into the
city the vigor of the country. In fact,
my honest belief is that the world
could better spare the ministers for q
thousand years than the drummers
for one day. Faith does not work
work without deeds. He is an unbound
volume of Moses and Solomon-both
doer and builder"
Character is moulded at the moth
er's knee and in the light of her low
ing eyes is born that ambition which
buoys man up when he is in a sea OF
troubles. 1t is that which drives him
on through dangers and difficulties,
straight to the shining goal.
There are persons, preachers and
teachers, who have failed to keep
pace with the procession of this old
world. They seem not to realize that
even religion, like all else called into
being by the Creator, must be pro-
gressive. Poor pretorists with their
faces to the past, they would repace
every step in the path of human pro-
gress and across the sunlight of the
noon cast the shadows of the night.
Simplicity and purity are two
wings by which men are lifted above
all earthly things" writes an old
maid. eff man is ever lifted above
anything, it's when he is jerked up by
the bootstraps," said the Irish reader.
49,
Love-" says Uncle Billy, "is the
shadow of the morning which de-
creases as the day advances, and
friendship is the shadow of the eve
ming which increases with the setting
of the sum-" Uunt Billy sure has got
wheels in his head or spring fever.
Aunt Mary better come home.
Piety communicates a divine luster
to the feminine mind. Wit and beau
ty, like the flowers Of the field, ray
flourish and charm for a season, but
like the fragrant blossoms that bloom
In the air, these gifts are fading. Age
soon nips the bloom of beauty, sick
ness and sorrow will stop the current
of wit and humor, but in that gloomy
time appointed for all, piety will sup
port the dropping soul like the re-
freshing dews upon the parched earth.
(Shucks, we want coca-cola.)
Love languishes in the soft twilight
and breathes the sweet beauty of a
moonlight vision. yet it is always sub
ject to the operation of time or the
operation of opportunity, and suffers
change and diminution. Generosity
sorrows as much for the overmatched
as piety herself does.
There's something in names. We
have the address Of Mr.. June Flowers,
Clarksburg, West Va.
1t certainly is funny how in the
spring of the year it is so easy for a
fellow to choke on a fish bone and at
the same time swallow q big fish
story.
$50
A little bride tells us that she loves
her husband as the heroine in the
novel loves the hero. Than which
there is no greater love.
A certain young man who proposes
in vain to nearly every new girl that
comes to the city, says there is not
much difference in them, but lot of
Indifference.
Over the foaming breakers of an ice
cream soda, little Dan Cupid was al
most lost in the thaw when the young
man murmured, Heres to we two
and love, thank God"
For two months this department
has endeavored to entertain. 1t has
printed within its columns (you will
pardon seeming egotism) short squib
truths that we bet a gingercake have
been skipped in the reading even BY
the professedly pious, to dwell upol1
the fragrant fabrications, original
and otherwise, that have been handled
by its editor. OF course, no depart
ment of a newspaper is established
for the express purpose of reforming
community or world, but rather to
print what large number of people
in a particular community want to-
read and are willing to pay for. A
newspaper is simply mirror in which
community sees itself, not as it
should be. but actually is. II is not
the mother but the daughter of pub
lie opinion. Editors know the mental
pabulum their people crave and they
are no more in the business for their
health than is the merchant. We have
endeavored to please and in every way
make our department of interest to
everyone, just after the manner
meant, pure and simple sunshine. But
the column must close, as all other
oood THINGS In their time have IN do