The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-02-10
MRS. PARTINGTON'S
LATEST APPEARANCE

When Mrs. Darlington visited the
west coast not long ago, Jupiter de- t
cided to practice calisthenics, so ne i
loosened the toggling pin that holds /
back winds and waves, and grabbing /
an arrnfulI Of the thunderbolts of
Joye, dashed the broad sea into ele- !
mental fury. Wooed by the silver
moon and goaded by ten thousand
devils in the rear, old ocean heaved
its thunderous waves upon the shores
Of fair Florida, whose peninsular
form points like the index finger Of
Fate toward that Elysium where law
vers cease from troubling and poll
Cicians are no more.
Mrs. Darlington was knitting at
The time and peered curiously at the
unwonted tide as it invaded her door
sill, her floor, her shoetops and only
paused in dismay when it reached the
point where her neither garments
would appear in the modest regime of
yester years.
The records in the county court
house seem to show that the excellent
dame seized her mop and literally
drove the Gulf of Mexico out of doors
| See Rec Hillsborough Co., Book n,
page XyptD.
| hopping back the tides very well IL
Illustrates the tactics employed by one
William Silvertongue Bryan, who,
armed only with his trusty mouth
seeks to wreck the foundations of
modern philosophy in his struggle
with the dragon of Darwinism whose
lair is in the universities and centers
of culture of the world.
The forlorn intrepidity exhibited by
this modern Quixote is truly marvel
Gus. Since DR.. Talmage is gone, Bill
enjoys the unique distinction of being
| the only scholar in the whole world
who holds yet to the cosmogony of
the thirteenth century, whose uni
verse is governed by the Vaccinations
! of ghosts, COLLINS and devils and who
| believes in hell of genuine sulphur
and a heaven for all mediocrity ope-
rated like a Punch and Judy show.
To those who prefer astrology to
astronomy, alchemy to chemistry
myth for biology or nescience for
science, the doughty orator must be d
plumed knight.
There are only two main philoso-
phies of the universe: special creation
and evolution. Special creation ad
herents claim that the universe was
created from nothing at definite
time, that the time scale was a ridi
culous six thousand years or there
abouts, that species were created in
tact, that man was made perfect anC
fell from grace, and that this pun!
planet is the principal object of ON
nipotent sOlicitude. This conception
is no longer taught in any advanced
school.
No text books are now published
for adult pupils giving specific anC
definite adherence to it, but because
of theological misrepresentation, i
still persists in outlying districts, ant
forms the dark superstitious back
: ground of the cosmos scheme in tn
mind of the average man.
1t fits no facts in nature, is intoler
ant of investigation, and absolutel.
obsolete.
The development philosophy or Oar
; winism as it is called in its narrow
est sense, takes material as it find
it, lowered with certain qualities, a
:, weight, attraction, repulsion, chemi
cal affinities, etc, etc. 1t knows of n
beginning in time, and no limitation
2 in space, no creation, no real dissolu
ton, but endless change, new atomi
2 arrangements, with plants and ami
mails, including man assuming thei
special characteristics through tn
influence of environment and heredity
1t is the fundamental postulate @
), all modern philosophy and the hand
h maiden of all scientific progress.
5. welcomes investigation, and is neve
d better pleased than by honest and II
:. telligent criticism.
d The world is sick, it is lousy wit
:. pseudo statesmen, bootleg lawyer:
o politicians and greedy Office holders
e who have sucked their host, the pro
: ducing class, about dry.
Read this from the Detroit Ere
: Press relative to my former state an
+ county:
:. "a considerable part of the farm
: ing population of the country is g
this moment in a condition borderin
: on desperation. The selling price c
s their produce is reduced so that
large areas it is cheaper to allo
l. crops to rot than it is to market then
n This situation is aggravated by a co:
i Of transportation that is PRACTICAL
= prohibitive. Thousands of farmer
d who worked all last summer find no
|. that they have nothing to show fc
: their toll. On top of this taxes al
e oppressive. One need not go outsid
/ Michigan to learn that. In Barr
e county alone, the farmers were oblis
I COM nAa !