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The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

Encourage the boys and girls in the
schools in athletics. A keen, trained
mind can work better in connection
with a straight back and springy
muscles
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05
TO AUTO OWNERS

/ am again at my old place of bus
mess on the Anthony road, where l
shall be pleased to attend to your car
repair work by appointment. Call
phone 393. 29-tf NJ. A. Bowler.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

The Star kindly requests its cores
pondents to quit using the word
"mesdames." It's a French word and
not applicable in English copy. In
writing an item about two or more
married woman, prefix the name of
each with "Mrs."
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

Occasionally a citizen asks US what
Robert Anderson Jr. will do if he is
elected mayor. Why don't they ask
Nh. Anderson? He will answer them
IN courtesy and truth. No reason to
be afraid of him. He never was
known to bully anybody.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

How many of you have taken to
heart what we said about the Kings
Daughters the other day? And how
many of you have taken it to your
pockets?
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

1t has been reported-the report
having probably been started by IN
terested parties-that Robert Ander-
son Jr. is supporting Mr.. c. w. Hun
ter against Mr.. C. E. Simmons for
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

The men who are trying to defeat
Robert Anderson Jr. by slandering
him couldn't be hired to say to his
face what they say out of hearing of
him and his friends.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

Being that this is the Christmas
season, we hereby extend to Governor
Cats an amnesty lasting to Jan. 5,
1920.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

None of the salesgirls in the stores
have big feet. Do your shopping
early and don't keep them on their
Cinderellas until they wish Christ
mas wouldn't come again for ten
wars
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

The food administration has quit
trying to regulate the price of sugar.
Sugar is something that many could
do without but most people use to ex-
cess. Self-denial and economy would
beat all government aid in reducing
the cost
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

Again we give you good advice. In
selecting Christmas presents, buy
what you durn please. provided you
can pay for it.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

The Florida Baptists have exceed
ed their quota in the seventy-fve
million dollar drive by fifteen thou
sand dollars. with over a hundred
churches yet to hear from.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

The yellow peril will be the leprosy
that will destroy the white race, if it
doesn't unite against it.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

Say, would not it be grand to give
the primary school Victrola for a
Christmas present?
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

There will be a lot of misfits on
Christmas day. but don't make fun
of any of them. It's the spirit that
counts,
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

If you need a Hot Water Bottle, be
sure and get one of those bargains at
Gerig's Drug Store. $1.69 special
price. LIT
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

It's hard work to find man who
will say he is going to vote for John
ID. Robertson.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05

Stationery in holiday boxes at the
Anti Monopoly Drug Store. 2-tf
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-12-05
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRES.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

Luxury and laziness are the roots
of all evil.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-04
Rural Carriers Kick.

Sangamon county (nlinois) rural
mail carriers. locked n days pay for
celebrating the armistice last Novem-
Der. threaten to 90 before congress
and stag an extra net In the war
drama.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-04

Agapito Madrid Of Luz Canyon, N.
NJ. died recently at the age of one
hundred and fifteen years. His BON
clnimed he had never been Ill.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-04
Used inferior Leather In Army Shoes

Used inferior Leather In Army Shoes.
Secret indictments. charging bribery
OF federal shoe inspectors and con.
splracy to defraud the government In
connection with the manufacture Of
army shoes, have been returned by
the federal grand jury against officers
of two companies. II vas alleged
that inferior leather had been used
in the making Of the shoes at n Of
the plants.
White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-05-04
BLINDED HEROES
BEING MADE over
Notable Progress Made at Baiti-
more Institution.
DESPAIR TURNED TO HOPE

They Come to Evergreen Oo~nhearted
Weary Lads and IN Short Time Be-
come Cheerful and HopefuLPass
Through Period Of Mental ReadJust-
ment and Physical Adaptafion Be-
soro They Can Weigh Plans for
Fvfure-
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
FARMER SUPREME IN CHINA
Tiller OF the Soil Lives CIrcumscrjbed
Life, and Is Satisfied With a
Bare Existence.

In recognition of the Importance of
Chinese agriculture the emperor him.
self, in the days of the empire, fol-
lowed the wise custom of turning a
furrow of ground once q year In the
sacred precincts of the Temple of
Heaven at Picking. 1t is the farmer
still who is the truest representative
of Chinese society and the farmers
baby who carries on the tradition in
Its soundest aspects. His life as he
grows up may be narrowly circum-
scrfbed by the mud walls of his hum
Bile matched home, which he shares
Unfortunately with the pigs and live
stock; the rise and fall of dynasties or
republics trouble him not at all. If
the year passes with no devastating
floods, wrecking the results of many
months labor, food will be sufficient !;
no more can be asked. Now and
then strolling actors come through the
village and set up their grass-mat the
aters; a story-teller makes his ap-
pearance at the temple festival, re-
counting the strangely living deeds of
miraculous beings in centuries long
since harvested; itinerant traders,
their wares on their backs, pass down
the deep-sunken road, bringing the
gossip of the outer world If life is
lived according to the irreducible de-
nominator 1t is not wholly barren.
There is the vast accumulated thought
of the past, the Unreasonable world
of the countless dead, toward which
the present reaches out like a ring
ever widening toward eternity.-Asia
Magazine.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
BELOVED OF TOBACCO USERS
In Meerschaum, Smokers AcknoWledas
That One Good Thing Has Come
Out Of Turkey.

Eski Scheir, in Asiattc Turkey, has
one unique claim upon public In
terest, and if one is smoker that
claim is compelling one. 1t is the
home Of meerschaum. Meerschaum
in abundance is found only on the plain
of Eski Scheir, and this city produces
all the marketable meerschaum in the
world.
Meerschaum, as its name implies, is
supposed to be petrified seafoam, and
has been discovered floating on the
Black sea- Apart from the Eski Scheir
mines it occurs in Greece, Samoa,
Spain, Moravia, Utah, Pennsylvania,
and, in conjunction with. serpentine.
in Norway and South Carolina.
The ancients are said to have used
ii as a decorative stone In buildings,
and this seems to have been confirmed
by the recent excavations in Corfu. It
is soft and whitish, and becomes mall
leable like clay when soaked In water.
Meerschaum used to be considered a
mere curiosity by the Turks, who had
no other use for 1t than as a substi-
tute for fuller's soap. The story runs
that the Turkish ambassador at the
Austrian court, in the eighteenth CEN
fury, was a native Of Eski Scheir.
Wanting to help his city at time of
great poverty, he took sample Of this
queer stuff to Vienna, thinking that
the Franks as all foreigners were
then caIlad might have corno uSo Ror
it. The Germans were quick to see
its utility for pipe bowls, but declared
it was good for nothing else.
More than a century has confirmed
this judgment, for who has yet discov.
cred any other use for meerschaum
For pipe making 1t is an ideal raw
material. Here is a stone which Is
easily nodded when wet, and when
dry becomes hard and resists fire.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
WONDER AT FORESTS QUIET
Travellers Have Frequently Com
mented on Apparent Deficiency OF
Animal Life In the Woods.

European travellers frequently allude
TO the American forest as remarkable
for its solitude and deficiency Of ami
NAL life. A foreigner Is struck with
surprise, when rambling through the
bush, at the scarcity of birds, rabbits,
and hares, and astonished when in the
deepest recesses of the wild country
he sees no increase of their numbers.
When padding his canoe through lake
and river he will startle but few pairs
of exceedingly timid waterfowl, where
IN Europe they swan in multitudes.
This scarcity of animals, / would re-
mark, is not peculiar to the American
wilderness. The same fact has been
observed In extensive forests both In
Europe and Asia; and in proportion as
the traveller penetrates into their in
teriors he finds a smaller number of
animals of almost every species. Birds,
insects and Quadrupeds will multiply
In certain ratio with the progress Of
agriculture, so long as there remains a
sufficiency of wild wood to afford them
a refuge and home. They use the
forest chiefly for shelter, and the open
grounds for forage; the woods are
their house, the meadows their farm
Wilson Flagg. in woods and By-Ways
of New England"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
LARGE FAMILIES ON RECORD
Grand Total Of sIxty-Two, Borne by
One Wife, Would Seem to
Be the Limit.

| The nation which could scheme out
the intensive cultivation Of man
power" would win all the wars Of the
future and dominate the globe, but
though this sort of thing can be done
with vegetables and, to some extent,
with poultry, it seems far cry for
the human race, and perhaps 1t is all
for the best, for if six at a birth be-
came common marriage might become
uncommon.
The papers contained the informa-
ton lately that a woman Of Palermo
had presented her husband with five
boys, all well formed, and according
to the doctor, seating well and crying
we'll" hut this case is neither unique
nor a record.
The largest grand total Of children
borne by one wife seems to be G2-
as many as most wives could want,
certainly! Strangely enough, this num-
Der has been twice recorded. One is
set to the credit of the wife of poor
weaver in Scotland who bore her
chubby" 46 boys and four girls who
grew to manhood and womanhood, and
n dozen others who died ere reaching
their prime.
Sir John Bowers of Newcastle, we
are told, adopted ten of the sOns-rath-
er large order; three other landed
gentry took ten each, and the remain.
der were brought up by their parents.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
AYE WAS'WAY OFF
How HumoriStS Were "Stunu" ID
Business Venture.
Anecdote James Whitcomb Riley Used
to Tell, Dealing With the WIles
of the Publisher-AIl They
Got Was a Feed.
By Al cartse

Among the many comical stories
told of James Whitcomb Rileys exper
rlences with Nye was the history of
book called "Nye and Riley's Railway
Guide" which gave them broad per-
sonal and legal experience with pub
fishers. From their first tour In 1885
their fancy ran riot with the idea Of
comic railway guide for just such
poor, Inflated travellers as they them
selves proved to be, for the man, as
they wrote in the Introduction, "who
enormously gets into a car which is
sidetracked and swept out and
scrubbed by people who take in cars
to scrub and laundry"
"Nye and l." Riley used to say.
thought a little book made from our
readings might perhaps stanch long
felt public want. In fact, we grew en-
thusiastic as our eyes swept the pros
pect. Nye, indeed, thought there was
money In 1t. l remember that, in his
optimism, he wrote: Let us make
some money, be gosh, and put 1t in our
inside pocket. 1t feels bully Riley
always chuckled reminiscently at this
point in the story
well, we went to Chicago to look
for a publisher, and there we found
one Ketchem & Skinnem who had a
sign on the door, Drop MSS. Here
We dropped ours and went away feel
ing pretty good"
fhnn n n 5.x..
ing which they wondered whether the
manuscript would be accepted; then
how glad they were to find the book
ON sale at the news stands, and finally
how they paid visit to the publishers
to inquire timidly into the matter of
royalties. The door was locked. Some
months later, in response to their let
tiers, came an invitation to a banquet
given by the publishers in their honor
Hopefully they presented themselves
AS we filed In to dinner Nye whis-
pered to me, Think they'll hand us
checks with the cigarsT Well, when
the cigars were passed at length the
publisher at the head of the table
pushed back his chair put his finger
tips on the cloth, beamed on us, and
said:
Gentlemen and publishers, we
have met to do honor to our two Illus
trious humorists tonight in an un.
usual way. We appreciate their hui
NOR, especially that which has made
our book so successful. And in token
of our appreciation we now present to
them one hundred shares apiece in
our great company. Ahem-I believe
that is ALL
1T was all. Nye and 1 hoped at
first for the best, but neither of us
secretly could find any market for our
shares and the company never paid
any dividends before it went out Of
business. "-Harper's Magazine
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
KIsses and 1eards.

1t is so easy to understand what the
Americans say, because they talk sc
loud-it is not the same loudness al
Of the French and one day / have
laughed to hear in a bus how girls
of the Y. M. G. A. have talked. There
was one who was not at all pretty, ex
cept to be young, who has regarded 0
French gentleman who wore his beard
long. Look" she said, what hor'
rible beard Imagine to be kissed by
any one like that. Then they have
both laughed.
The other one has said then: Il sup
pose his grandfather wore his beard
long, so he does the same" and the
first one has replied: Yes. II Is al
ways like that What was good enough
for your grandfather In France Is good
enough for you"
was not angry to hear them speak
so, because, you know, they were very
ignorant. For me, do not think that
they have known very much the emo
ton of to be kissed. or they would
have understood that 1t is not whether
or not one has beard that makes the
difference.-London Bystander's Paris
Letter.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
WORDS HAVE MANY MEANINGS
Imagination Cuts Big Figure When
Terms Of More or Less Plctur-
esqueness Are Employed.

An amusing and plausible analysis
has been made Of the way many peo-
pie In the United States use and I'M
derstand the words ranch" ''planta-
ton" and farm" In the imagina-
ton Of fasteners, says the analyst
in effect plantation or a ranch sug-
gests wide acres and a gentleman on
horseback riding about to oversee their
cultivation by picturesque hirelings,
whereas a farm suggests a compare
lively small field of growing vegeta-
bles personally conducted to harvest
by plain man In overalls. Yet many
ranch or plantation is no bigger
than small farm, and many a large
farm is as big as a corresponding
plantation or ranch; and the word
gentleman" fits as many farmers as
ranchers or planters. The farm, how
ever, says this observer, may easily
get into society by being spoken Of
In the plural; and all the farmer needs
to do to attain this distinction is to
build fence across his land and then
call it the Something-or-other Farms.
Christian Science Monitor.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
SLIGHTLY BewiIderJno-

Dad, what is roOst7" asked Char.
lie. IA roost, my son. Is pole upon
which chickens sit at night" replied
his father. "And what's perch, dadp'
"A perch is what chickens perch on. "
Then ] suppose, dad, a chicken could
roost on perch?' came the further
inquiry. "Of coursel p was the smiling
reply. "And they could perch on a
roostT' why, yves !" answered dad.
"But If chickens perched on a roost
that would make the roost a perch,
wouldn't 1t? But If just after some
chickens had perched on roost and
made 1t a perch some more chickens
came along and roasted on the perch
and made 1t roost.. then the roost
would be perch and the perch would
be roost, and some OF the chickens
would be perehers and the others
would be roosters, and-well, there !"
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
SiIverIna Mirrors.

There are several processes for sill
vering mirrors, the simplest of which,
perhaps, Is to provide large fiat
stone table and spread upon 1t evenly
a sheet of tinfoil without crease or
blemish This is covered uniformly
to a depth Of one-eighth inch with
mercury. The plate of glass, perfect
ly cleansed of all grease and impuri-
ties, is ffoated in the mercury care
fully so as to exclude air bubbles. 1t
is then pressed down by loading with
weights in order to press out the
mercury which remains fluid. After
about "a hours it may be raised on
its edge to harden, and should be
finished in a few weeks. Another
method involves the use of a solu-
ton made as follows: Mix one ounce
nitrate of silver, three ounces water,
one ounce liquid ammonia and three
ounces spirits of wine. Filter after
solution has stood three or four hours.
To every ounce of the solution add
one-fourth ounce sugar dissolved in
equal quantities Of water and alcO-
hOl The surface to be silvered Is
covered with this liquid at tempera-
ture of 100 degrees, maintained till
the deposition Of silver is complete.
When dry, coated surface is covered
with mastic varnish.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
sI1rs PRIDE WELL FOUNDED
,,i.xandrfs, Va, haa Right to Boast of
Her Present as Nell as Her
Past cIories.

Alexandra, Va, is thriving little
southern city with a historic back
ground. The city can never decide
Of which IL should be proudest-its
prosperous present or historic past.
As a rule 1t divides its pride equally
between them. Several times it has
been given an opportunity to become
part of the District of Columbia and
proudly refused.
AleXandrians will show you with
equal pride their busy shipyards and
harbor and then escort you to one of
their ancient landmarks, such as
Christ church or the Carlyle house.
Christ church is sacred to the memory
Of the south's two greatest heroes,
Washington and Lee. The Washington
and Lee pews in the church are side
by side, their names marked by silver
plates. Twin mural tablets on the
ehurch's wall are inscribed to their
memory. The chancel rail is the one
before which they knelt, the tablets of
he Lords prayer and Apostles Creed
we're there In Washington's time. In
he vestry room relics of the heroes
ire preserved-the record of their pur-
base Of their pews, the Bible and the
ong handled purse used In Washing
on's time for the offerings.
The congress of Alexandria met In
he old Carlyle house, over twenty
years before the battle of Lexington
was fought. 1t was the first protest
against taxation without representa-
ton" held In Virginia. 1t was in this
same old mansion that the Braddock
expedition was decided upon. Wash
ngton was frequent visitor to the
house. His diary has often the words
.sr -
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
WITH CONVOY OF DOLPHIhS
Sailors on Troplc Seas Appreciate In.
oldent Which Varies the Monotony
Of the Voyage.

Whoever has sailed a tropic sea will
appreciate Mr.. William Beebe's de
scription in the American Museum
Jotrnal of school of playful dolphins
that appeared suddenly from the
depths and adopted for their playfel
low the ship upon which he was sail
ing.
1t was a lazy, tropical morning
writes Mr.. Beebe, and the engines
seemed to throb in a half-somnolen
manner. 1 folded up in a desk chaiI
and idly watched the beautiful profile
of the island astern.
Suddenly the sea became alive with
virile beings-curving steel-gray bodies
that shot forth like torpedoes from
some mighty battery. I thrilled in
every fiber, and the sloth Of the tropics
fell from me as by q galvanic shock
The dolphins had come! Usually they
appear In their hawnts between Do
minica and Martinique, but here they
were in dozens, leaping for breath with
the regularity of machinery. Now and
then, in spirit of play. one Of them
vaulted high in the air, ten feet above
the surface, twisted and fell broad
side with a slap that Gould be heard
half mile away. A school came close
alongside, slackened speed to that of
the vessel, and now and then dived be-
meath and appeared OFF the opposite
quarter. Another trick was for one
or two to station themselves just ahead
OF the bow and to remain there mo-
tionless, urged on by the pressure of
the water from behind. 1t was unex-
pected and splendid to have this bat
TALON OF magnificent cetaceans, burst
ing with vital energy and fullness of
life. injected without warning into the
calm quiet of this tropic sea.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-29
NEAR PUNCTUAL, AS 1T WERE
Two Neat Explanations Of Train
Schedules That Are About the
Best of Their Kind.

Railways have had their trouble
during these amazing years, of worlt
war and continental congestion; so
consequently, have passengers. On ,
rickety-rackety, half-forgotten littli
branch line to nowhere In particular
not long ago, a long, lank, lazy Yam
kee station master, with an Uncle
Sam goatee, mentioned those mighty
and historic obstacles In excuse fol-
the lateness of certain two-car train
for which an impatient salesman OF
agricultural implements was waiting
But although he offered an excuse
he did not enjoy doing so, and con
cluded his remarks by announcing re
sentfully:
She'll be in before long, and be
fore long oughter be soon enough for
reasonable folks. Eff she's In at now.
adays she'd oughter be cheered, and
no Teller with a grain of common
sense nor patience has any call to
growl eff she's whereabouts
In the amiable South a world war
Is not necessary to evoke an even
greater superiority to petty uncertain
ties Of time. The colored man In
charge of a southern waiting room,
In place by no means village. was
heard explaining the local electric car
connections with the nearest city.
Cars run on de hour gentlemen, /"
he told two inquirers. with a BEAM
ing smile; and added confidentially,
Goose dey's times faint on de hour
Jes' perzackly to de minute. Some
times dey starts n1' bit after, and
sometimes. wen dey's hot box, dey's
so much after dey's de same as a
h'P bit befo'; but mos ginerally,
gentlemen, dsy gifts away jes' about"
Youths Companion.