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The Press., 1921-09-29

twenty years ago by his first love was now an interior decorators studio and was called the Dragon. From the number of ears parked against the curb Billy imagined the Dragon to be most successful. but he couldn't help wondering to what part of the globe his little dove had flown.
 And because Billy was a bit TO- mantle and partly just to see if there would be an answer. he decided to put an advertisement in the papers,
 He inserted it in all the daiHes |: Whereabouts of Daisy Rogers, want ed, once living at g West Forty-ninth street"
 After that Billy went on with his landscape gardening both in his own property and that of others. Billy was rather we'll known in that chosen profession.
 Sundays he saved for his own garden. and on that day Billy, in old trousers and flannel shirt, enjoyed working out his schemes in that small hack patch of property. The tin box was lying on his library table-he kept 1t there tn amuSe special friends with Many a ynrn. of hOyhood days had been mParthpd from OtheF heads hy that buried treasure.
 EnIv was working n great lions head i'm plaster against his stone wall when be felt hang on the side of his head He glanced about for the atrarking party. SnSpecting a small hoy. Surh as himself had been. hut was unsuccessful.
 Good nnturedIr he again bent over the plaster. This time an apple hit him Suuarely Nn the top of the head.
 His movement was too swift for the miscrennt. for she was caught red, handed. or perhaps red-headed. for undoubtedly. the head in the upper window next door was. red-a fiery. tousled red.
 Billy guZrd. upward and the pert little face in the window smiled down at him.
 Hello RiIIym she called.
 Daisy! By all that's holy! Do you still live there? Come down. this minute! have something to show you" He still gnzed unhelievingly ut that head with its mop of red hair. For Billy had called 1t mop twenty wears ago and shamelessly he still called it q mop. albeit a furnished. COppery wonderful mop.
 You used to be red-headed, little freckIp-faced imp" shouted Billy. #
 And you still are long-legged. tow-haired-7yOuth :" flung Daisy. And don't diSgIuce the neighbOrhO0d-re- member, am a. dignified interior decOrutor-so stop shouting your hattering remarks. am coming down to see what yOn. are doing"
 "Spittire-samR as eyer" grunted Billy, and. dashed through to the front door, hardly realizing that twenty years had gone since he and Daisy had played together In those old gardens.
 Daisy .rJlSEed thrRugh the front. gates and into Bllly's studio. In much the same state of mind as Billy. Her batik smoek was of coppery silk that.
The Press., 1921-09-29
Hair a Nuisance. Anyway.

Badness is unnecessary. We have 1t on the authority of a sharp who can raise hair as easily as a farmer raises wheat Men become bald because they keep their hair cut short and the fOllicle system becomes lazy, and with not enough to do 1t loses interest in its work and the hair falls out. Women do not become baldheaded because they allow their hair to grow long. This gives the hair-prOducfng system plenty of exercise and keeps 1t strong and healthy. In order to escape bald ness man has only to allow his hair to grow long, either braiding it to hang down his back or cOiling it around his dome with hairpins and imposing the joint use of mothers dresser every morning.
 However, considering the alternative calmly, most men will prefer to be bald, writes Glenn NJ. Farley in the Seattle POst-Intelligencer. How could a man quarrel with his wife with his hair braided down his back?
The Press., 1921-09-29
FOUNTAIN PEN NOT MODERN
Abundant Proof. That contrivance Was Known as Far Back as the
 Year 1900.

In a review of Professor Weekdays
 Psychological Dictionary of Modern English surprise Is expressed that the
 professor should be able to quote a reference to fountain pens in an ad- vertiSement published so far hack as 17SS As a matter of fact. this form of writing implement must have been known nearly two centuries before this date, for E. s. Bate. in his Touring in 16OO." shows that travellers wrote with them at that time. By the mid dIe of the Eighteenth century they had come to be called by their present name. 4 Dictionary of Arts and Sciences published in 1754 defines fountain pen" as "a pen made of sil- yer brass, etc. cOntrived to contain quantity of ink and let, it flow out by gentle degrees. !, To use the pen, the cover must be taken off. and the pen a little shaken, to make the ink run more freely"
 British patents were obtained for fountain pens in 1909. Apparently 1t was not until the seventies of last cen tury that fountain pens came into approaching general use.
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matched her wonderful hair.

When they drew near one anoth- CT there was a hreathless moment In which each heSitated before the hand clasp, a moment in which each devoured the other with hungry eyes that took in each detail of the others growth.
 You still have few freckles across the bridge of your nose" Billy found himself able to say, though his voice shook a trifie. Her eyes were wide and gray and intelligent.
 And you still have a grOwl fin your voice." laughed Daisy, but that her childhood pal had developed into a splendid faIr-haired, clear-eyed giant, was printing itself into the recess of her heart.
 Come here" Billy said swiftly and dragged her. in much the same way as twenty years ago he had dragged her. into the library to see his latest treasure. ''I found this in the gar den under the oak tree" he said and watched her closely.
 My dOll-that you stole from me-" she cried and touched the broken toys with fingers that shook. Next she saw the knife and then the slate. This she carried to the light that streamed in from the French windows leading into the back garden and Billy came and stood close beside her.
 "I love Daisy" she read. "I will al- ways love Daisy" she half turned to Billy then quickly away. "I-I- what silly things children think to do." she said and her voice trembled.
 Billy was silent a long. long mo- ment while he contemplated the fun of that glorious coppery mop and the white curve of neck, for Daisy's back was toward him.
 You know. Daisy" he said slowly, "I am not so sure it's-silly. l have never been in lOve--perhaps-
 Daisy flashed about. her eyes glow ing. "Bily NOrth-dOn't you dare tell me you love me-the very first time we meet !" The light In her eyes was not anger. "I am not given to falling in love, either" she added.
 "I have known you exactly twenty two years. Miss Red-Head." laughed Billy. since you were frecklefaced imp of five summers. I have that | slate as witness good test of isn't it?" He deliberately | turned Daisy so that she had to look at him. 'I will dare tell you I love | you whenever I want to. In fact I | will probably shout 1t over the back l fence"
 There was a trailing sweetness | about Daisy's laughter.
 "I think will rush right home and | listen" she said.
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Constant Search for rannin.

The oak Is one of the best known natural sources of tannin, although it Is found In many other trees. The spread of industry has increased the call for tannin to such degree that search has been made all over the world for some new tree capable of supplementing the oak, hemlock and other trees in furnishing this indis- pensable substance.
 A certain degree of success has at- tended the search in Argentina, where there is found a tree called the que bruchO from which excellent tannin can be obtained. The wood of this tree Is very hard and durable, and 1t grows in large forests. It has been known as tannin producer for about 30 years. but only in late years has the extraction of the tannin been con- ducted in Argentina. Formerly the wood was exported.
The Press., 1921-09-29
Historic Mountain.

Pisgah, a mountain of the Abarhn range. east of the Dead sea. from the top of which Moses viewed the prom ised land, has been identified also with the modern Naba, ridge which projects westward from the plateau of Moab. near the northeastern end of the Dead sea. It commands an extensive view of the whole of west ern Palestine. There are two sum- mits. the higher Ras Naba; the lower and Outermost. Ras Siyagah. The lat ter commands the whole of the JOr- dan valley. and is probably identical, says the Jewish Encyclopedia, with the "top of Pisgah Which lOoketh down upon JpShimOn."
The Press., 1921-09-29
The Treasure Under the Oak
By KATE EDMoNDS

%~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~% {. t9. lssI. by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
 Billy North wondered if all chill dren had. at one time In their play days, hurled a tin box containing the heart'S most treasured possessions.
 Billy had been about the world a good deal since those days in his own life and now he had returned to the old homestead. The brownstone dwelling where. as a little boy, he had spent his childhood was the place where his travels ended.
 He hoped now to stay forever in that place called home. Billy had rnamed so long and so excitedly that nothing in the world seemed any better than an anchor in the way of the old house with its many fond memories. He loved the large. old rooms, with great yawning fireplaces In each. He loved the bit of Jagged garden in the rear and he intended turning 1t into 8 veritabIe fairy gar den. The ideas he had picked up in various parts of the globe were etched in his brain and ready to re- produce themselves Tn that square of garden with its high stone walls and its single spreading oak tree.
 It was while he was spading up around the roots of that same oak preparatory to carrying out a circu- lar seat he had seen in a garden in London that Billy found his buried treasure.
 That old tin box flung Billy straight hack through the years until he was a lanky hoy of twelve summers. The box was rusty and earthly and the contents muSty, but Billy was as excited as if the old broken knife were a famous diamond and the miIdewed note a queens love misSive Also there were broken, doll and five marbles. The note however brought a swift laugh to Buly'S lips. Scratched on a hit of slate. as if with hearts blood. were the words 'I love Daisy. I will al- ways love Daisy"
 Billy sat long and amuSedly gag Ing at the treasure
 "Daisy! Daisy! Oh, Daisy Rogers a freckIed-faced little imp who lived next door," laughed Billy.
 He remembered now having no ticed that the great house occupied
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crave of John Howard Payne.

In Georgetown. the oldest part of Washington. is bur,ei the author of Home, Sweet Home. the song which has been translated into almOS' every language in the world. John Howard Payne was the American consul in Tunis, where he died about seventy years ago. Many years later W. W. Corcoran, noted philan1hr0piSt. thinking 1t a shame that a man who loved home so much should lie buried thousands of miles away from it. paid the expenses for the bringing If Payne's body home. He was then buried at Oak Hill cemetery George
 town, in the plot in front of the chapel. The spot is marked hy a ped- estal on which is bust of the poet.
The Press., 1921-09-29
A Diplomat.

''It was a very shrewd and dipIN matte culprit," says a Denver lawyer, "whO was brought before a judge i,l our town not so long ago. The judge fixed him with stern eye and said : "tYOu are charged with having reg istered Illegally =
 "'Your honOr,' said the man. may be I did. but they were trying so hard to beat your honor that I became des, perate' '"-Harper's Magazine.
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erandmother Was Safe.

Bobby. getting ready for his first long stay away from home, was de claring his love for each member of rhe family.
 Grandmother said: Bobby, will you remember mel"
 Bobby replied: "Oh, grandmother, can't unthink yOu"
The Press., 1921-09-29
Very Bad Indeed.

"You are not eating very much, Mir. Shyful," said the girl coyly to the bashful suitor, who had been invitetl to the family Christmas dinner.
 'Yes," he replied, and at last, for the first time during the evening he got his chance, so seizing all his. conr- age, he gasped:
 '"To sit next to you, Miss Betty, is to lose one's appetite"
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sneakinn of Softness-

"How beautifully soft it isr' he murmured as he sat on a low stool at her feet laying his hand on her glorious white arm.
 "HOw less beautiful, but oh. how much softerH' she tenderly replied laying her jeweled hand on the top Of his head.
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In LoneIYVille,

"Why hang around the station like this? No train for four hours"
 "T want to see if can't intercept cook starting back for tOwn."-Louis- vile Cu1lrier-IOurnal
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Where He Got It.

Hea-Whence the black eye, old thing? night and was struck by the beauty of the place.-CorneIl Widow.
The Press., 1921-09-29
TakIna Your Measure.

The things that people say about you when you are not with them. make up what the community thinks of you. Ever stop to consider how you are sized up?
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-05-20

there are q white and colored public
schools with 1889 children attending.
In this community we have Is white
churches within ten miles of Reddick
Iand there are nine precincts in these
five townships
We have one bank, one cold storage
plant, large lime manufacturing
plant, two crate mills, thirty general
mercantile stores and plenty of doc
tors, preachers, etc.
The Dixie highway runs through the
center of this district and we have
other hard surfaced roads and COM
mon roads leading to every home in
the district.
We have plenty of room for one
or two thousand more families in this
community and each home can face
"a hard road.
L. S. LIGHT.
lNote-In a former article we told
of the Summerfeld section but we
are glad to present its claims from
still another pen.
The author of this contribution is
the editor of the Chronicle and the
Chronicle is one of Summerfeld's
most valued assets.
Mr.. p w Collens, its editor, is
native of New Orleans but for a num-
Der of years was a member of the
staff OF the Chicago Chronicle and
since coming to our county has be-
come one of its most active and en-
tnusiastic promoters.
It will be seen that Mr.. Collens'
statements are most conservative.
nence reliable.-Ed. Banner.)
SummerfieId
The Ocala Banner is running q cam
paign to advertise Marion county. and
being fair in all things, it wants to
hear from every section of this coun-
ty
Slnlmerfeld, is at the extreme
south end Of Marion county and is the
center Of one of the greatest farm
ing communities in the state. Sum-
merfield itself is an contemporaries
town with a population of seven hun
dred: it has four general stores. a
large modern crate mill, a vegetable
packing house and weekly news
paper, THE Chronicle. The Sea-
board Air Line railway passes through
the center of town and both the Pos
tai and Western Union Telegraph
Companies have offices here. sum
n1erfield is also located on the pro-
posed Air Line hard or short route
road between OcalaI and Tampa and
when this road is completed and CON
nected up with the Sumter county
hard surfaced road the distance to
Tampa will be but 110 miles.
The farm lands within six miles Of
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-05-20
Big
Publicity
Campaign

MITE The author Of the following
.oatrihution is the only surviving
member 81, Of the immediate family of
General william A. Owens, for many
ssars the most extensive and success
ful planter in this county.
Possessing excellent judgment in
land matters, and having wide scope
oi country from which to make his
selections, it goes without saying that
he made choice of an extremely fer
tie section.
Since her fathers death the author
of this article has managed her large
holdings with consummate skill and
judgment, and the pretty things she
says Of Sparr and its environments
may Be relied upon implicitly.Ed.
Banner)
4 Marvellous Section and a contented
People
sparr is situated twelve miles
north Of 0cala, Florida's next
beautiful capital city, and her
famous Silver Springs, contain
ing in its waters mountains. val
leys plains and in fact every imagin.
able wonder as well as fish bv the
millions to attract the capital with all
is attendants and also tourists hv
The thousands. 1t is the central civ
OF the central county of the best state
q the greatest country in the world
We all love 0eala but the subject that
me writer is requested to write about
k-Sparr Well, read, then see. then
believe Sparr is situated on the main
1Hlnk line Of the Seaboard Air Line
fallfoad, surrounded by. flourisbing
towns and three other railroads. Citra
win her immense orange groves is
ieuf miles to the north and in that di.
iection Is also the Meadows, the prop
cry Of Sparr's millionaire, Mr.. Chris
uan Az who resides in Ocala where
his charming daughter welded the
handsome young mayor Of the city
There i no antiquity about the next
capital L is SO irresistible that it
Keeps one wrongfully appropriating
one Of the three themes chosen by
Editor Harris Florida, Marion coun-
II, 0cala.
Back to Sparr. Northeast of it is
eeated the property Of her other
millionaire, Mr. John Kendig, Of or
anse grove renown. Lots OF his fame
= Due 70 the efficient manager, Mr..
1sofge Carlton This marvellous
s'0Ee y 21k miles nom Spar Both
8 these places, that Of Mr.. AK and
Y kendig, are wonderful sites for
Rsnles The Meadows IS where the
ss's'e iFon around about have fish
s. q the Meadows canal supplies
ean'lial feasts Of fish.
ss'sy is. to the east on the ockla.
IS Valley railroad Anthony. long
@@ea ior her beautiful girls. IS to the
.
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Marvellous Sections Of Spar,
Reddick and SumnlerfeId ExtOlLed

roads and one branch road of six miles
in these five townships. There are
thirty-one side tracks and switches
connected with these roads to trans
port your shipments conveniently and
easily and there is no place in this
territory that is more than three miles
from a shipping point.
If you want to engage in general
farming, trucking, citrus fruit grow
ing, live stock industry, general mer-
chandising or want just to take life
easy we have here iuss what you are
looking for Because our high rolling
hammocks, our pine, oak and hickory
lands are the very best found in this
state.
When the United States government
granted certain Spaniards land privi-
leges in this state these Spaniards
selected three whole grants and part
of the fourth in this neighborhood and
these lands were bought, cleared and
planted before the civil war in-cotton,
sugar cane, ETC., and are still in cul-
tivation
The chief. industry in this neigh
borhood is diversified farming. There
are larger number of acres Of land
in cultivation around here than in
any other part of the county and the
advantages for diversified farming are
not excelled in any part of the state.
Our heavy soil permits us to begin
planting vegetables in September and
we continue to plant until the follow
ing March, giving US usually a nine
months shipping season. The lands
usually planted in vegetables are fol
lowed with planting Of either live
stock feed or pasturage.
believe there is no part Of the
state as independent of outside sup
plies as this community for we raise
our own horse, cow and hog feed,
oats, corn, hay, peanuts, sirup, sweet
potatoes. etc.
The Reddick cold storage plant this
season has cured 125,o00 pounds of
mostly hams and shoulders grown Of
this immediate neighborhood. fully
100000 pounds of pork products cured
in the county besides hogs by the car
load have been shipped from last Sep
tefnher up to April the first.
We challenge any part Of the state
to show more first premiums wen at
national, state and county fairs for
live stock than that raised and owned
by the people in this district.
The 1916 census shows that there
are s057 people living in these five
towships, nearly so per cent Of the
whole county population and the state
school report for the same year shows
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1921-05-20

MACK TAYLOR, Ocala.
MARION co. ARsT. CO., ocala.
CHRISTIAN Ak, ocala.
LAKE WEIR WASHED SAND CO
w. S. BULLOCK, ocaIa.
c. ard ]. CAMP, ocaIa.
FLORIDA POWER co, ocala.
ocALA NATL. BANK, ocala.
FRANKS, INC, ocala.
cHERo-coLA BOT. CO., Ocala.
Fl. A. WATERMAN, ocala.
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south. The only objection we have
to Anthony is her exclusive claim to
the Anthony Farms. Every one knows
that three-fourths of this magnificent
holding is in the Sparr precinct. To
the south east is Martin. the old home
plantation Of Col John M. Martin. of
Ocala- Being mostly hammock lands.
the corn raised there is unexcelled
To the west is Lowell, to be the tonic
on which Farmer will surprise the
natives with hotels surprising those
situated at Palm Beach, and those sit
uated on Broadway and Fifth avenue.
Having given the boundaries of Sparr
precinct, in the center of which Is
Sparr, with as good, kind hearted in
habitants as the world affords. The
Seaboard Air Line Railway runs
through the center and one good road
runs north and south and another
east and west. Also the, cable, tele-
graph and telephone connects us with
the rest of the world. All around
Sparr it is well settled with prosper
GUS white and colored farmers. The
Summerfeld writer says they are so
healthful no doctors prosper there.
just so, since prohibition, a justice of
the peace could not exist here except
through some other business.
Sparr has a Baptist also a Metho-
dist church. a Woodmen's lodge, four
stores, two markets, a post office, a
grist mill and saw mill, public school.
Then there is also colored Baptist
adm Methodist church, Pythian lodge,
and a well kept restaurant and color
ed school.
The handsomest home is Rutland,
the former home of the writer's father.
General W. A. Owens, who was said
to be the largest planter in Florida.
The writer has never planted Except
flowers and garden) but rented to
farmers. all having five years to buy
their places. She preferred country
life until last year, then sold the home
place to Mr.. T. McQuaig. who is keep
ing it up splendidly.
The value of real estate is mount
ing higher al the time. Twelve places
here changed owners last winter.
Some Of the citizens here still own
two places, one Of which is for sale.
Why not put your wants in the Ban
ner? The writer will refer buyers to
owners. She has for sale a beautiful
home and business property close to
the railroad, right in the center Of
Spar
We need a canning and preserving
factory badly as the following proves
We give the following LIST of what has
been successfully grown in the Spar
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Progressive Marion County Firms and LndUduIas
Helping to Make Possible This Publicity Campaign

TEMPLE THEATER, ocala.
MURPHY MOTOR CO., ocala.
kuM5Ak SERVICE STATION.
NATHAN MAYO, summerfield.
r. /. MARTIN, Real Estate, ocaIa.
ARLo BOX CO., Oak.
8. C. WEBB, kerdrick.
ROGERS-WfLSoN REALTY co.
T. w. DITTO, Real Estate and IN
surance, ocala.
BANK OF DuNNELLoN.