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The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

staunch, reliable agency, always
Johnny on the spot, so we called up
the fire department. We couldn't ex-
plain over the phone; we simply told
Hamp Chambers we were in devilofa
fix, and would he please send spry
member Of the department to help US
out. 1t was but a few minutes be-
fore the old, reliable Hamp appeared,
and with him that active and obliging
boy, Paul Sockwell, who went thru
those windows and opened the door in
one time and two motions. Hamp and
Paul were too polite to even laugh at
us. Our linotype operator, hearing of
the adventure, advised US to obtain
another key and leave it in the office,
but we think we had better keep our
other pants in there when we are not
wearing them.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

Leadership and pledges imposed
upon members of the legislature from
South Florida can accomplish little
against the solid front presented by
those counties. like Marion, which has
two representatives and is coupled
with Sumter in forming a senatorial
district, while Dade county, with more
population and greater wealth, has
only one representative and is coupled
with four other counties in a sena-
torial district, which stubbornly re-
fuse to follow out the law that was
designed to secure an equitable rep
resentation for all the state.-Miami
Herald.
The Herald doesn't know what it is
talking about. Marion county and the
twentieth district have never opposed
Ireapportionment; all our senators and
representatives that we can recall
have been in favor of it. 1t is now
the Herald that is stubbornly fighting
measure which would give it a SEN
ator and two representatives.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

The Madison Enterprise-R Record
seems to have something of "the peo-
pie be damned" spirit. Listen to this
relative to the proposed reapportion-
ment amendment: "South Florida
papers may fight the amendment if
they wish, they are only cutting off
their nose to spite their face The
amendment is offered. 1t is either to
take it or leave it as they wish. The
old system doesn't hurt West Flor
ida" South Florida people can af-
ford to let it alone and test out the
question as to whether the people of
Florida or a bunch of north and west
Florida politicians shall rule the state
in coming years. The constitution
provides for reapportionment that
means something if senators and rep
Iresentatives will live up to their oath
of office.-Winter Haven Chief.
We don't think it shows a "people
be damned" spirit; it rather shows the
spirit that some South Florida papers
have been trying to goad the people
of West Florida into for the last
three months.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

ond-hand when it was bought by Re
ceiver Cummings, and had not been
in operation very long before it began
to break down and give trouble. Then
it stood in the shop at Rodman until
Mr.. Christensen had it overhauled
and tried to run it again. We under
stand that arrangements are being
made to buy new and better motor
train, as with the present piece Of
junk it is not possible to maintain any
schedule
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

We have always considered the
Ocala Fire Department a good FRIEND
but the other night it was two good
friends. Our luxurious apartments
are right across the hall from our
editorial sanctum, and it is our GUS
tom every evening, before starting on
our regular stunt of writing coupla
columns. more or less, of bunk for
next days paper, to enter our said
apartments and refresh our large but
somewhat wearied mind with brief
nap. Arising from one of said maps,
the other evening. we thought we
heard some one knocking out in the
hall, and went to the door and peeped
out. No one was present, but as we
stuck our head out we heard, or
thought we heard, the phone bell in
the Office ring. Thinking possibly it
was some friend who had called us to
let Us know his bootlegger had come
by, we ga!loped across the hall and
grabbed the instrument, but no an
swer came to our wistful ''hello" and
we hung un quick to avoid making ex-
ira work for Central We started to
return to our apartments when there
was a slam. and the door, propelled
by a light gust Of wind, shut. Now,
this would not have bothered US any
| butt was a warm evening, and be-
fore lying down for a nap we had re-
moved our outer clothes, and our
pants and our keys in one of their
pockets, were on the other side of
that door. So there we were, dressed
every informally" as the society
writer's say, and the formal part OF
our clothing shut off from US by a
very efficient spring lock. We re-
turned to our sanctum, shut the door
turned off the lights and sat down to
think. There was only two keys tc
that door and the other was three
thousand miles away on the Pacific
coast. 1t is true that we could have
reentered the room by climbing out
of one window and climbing into an
other, but the front of the building
was well lighted and-well, maybe
you hadn't suspected it, but we are
modest. Just then we thought of a
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

What the Star overlooks is that in
telligent leadership can hardly make
way against a solid and unlawful ma
jority of votes in the legislature or
anywhere else. North Florida, and
in that section may be included Mar
ion county, has majority of votes in
both houses of the legislature. That
vote is almost invariably cast against
South Florida when the interests of
the two sections of the state seem to
confict.-Miami Herald.
What the Herald overlooks is that
Marion has generally sympathized
with and worked with South Florida,
and the only difference it has with
South Florida now is with that small
proportion of South Florida citizens
who are trying to split the state. We
have known an active minority and
an intelligent leadership to do great
things in Congress, and South Flor
ida might try it, just for once, in the
legislature. If it did, it would prob
ably find the senator and representa-
tives from Marion and Sumter coun-
ties with it. The editor of the Herald
is wise boy when it comes to writing
about national and international af-
fairs, but when it comes to Florida
judging by his writings, he doesn't
seem to know anything about anything
ten miles from the Flagler railroad.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

Just about as was to be expected,
the Ocala Star, published in Marion
county, objects to state division. In
d recent number of that paper the
gifted editor gives his reasons for be-
'heving that the state will never be
divided, but in all fairness, it cannot
be said that his objections are based
on very sound logic.-Miami Herald.
Isn't it our lawful right to object
to state division; and isn't it good
logic that one big state is better fol
the people who live in it than two
little ones Of course, our logic is
not good to the Herald; it has a
measly little logic of its own.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06
LETTER FROM MR.. NEIGHBOUR
To All the Members and Friends of
Grace Church. Greatinp.

To All the Members and Friends of
| Grace Church, Greeting:
! My dear Friends: l am looking
forward with hope and pleasure to
next Sunday, Oct. 9th, when l expect
to again take up my duties as rector
| of the parish.
| 1t is more than three months since
l went away, and that is longer than
l ever expected to be away from you
while rector. I can assure you that
my vacation was prolonged by neces-
sity, not from my own choice; for it
was only short time after my return
from the north that I found myself a
patient in the hospital, where l stayed
three weeks. And here may l not re-
cord my sense of the great worth of
that institution. We may we'll be
proud of our hospital. With gratitude
l gladly wish BLESSINGS of Marion
County Hospital" Very long may she
continue her fine, noble work, and
prosper.
1t will be great joy for me to of
fciate again in our beautiful little
parish church. l invite you all to
meet me there next Sunday morning.
| especially request all who desire to
make their communion to attend the
7:30 a. m. celebration.
We will have morning prayer and
sermon at II o'clock, so that l can
have assistance at the later service.
l want to see all my boys and girls
and their teachers at Sunday school.
No evening service for the present.
o come, let US sing unto the Lord.
Very affectionately your rector,
John J. Neighbour.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

In addition to its other troubles,
the Oklawaha Valley railroad has had
to contend lately with sabotage. Sat
urday night, while its motor train
was standing on the siding in Palatka,
unknown parties removed several
parts from it, and damaged some of
the others. The motor was repaired
Sunday and sent out Monday, but it
nadnt proceeded far before the crew
4 found out that more damage had been
oone than had been known at first,
ana the train had to go back to the
snopi Receiver Christensen has been
sTying to run this train because a
number of critics of the road have
Deen hnding fault with him for not
uo'ng SO. The motor train was sec
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

They walked down Franklin street.
The skirt of one stopped at her knees.
The other wore a draped confection
that permitted only the glimpse of an
ankle. And the one in the short swirt
was bowlegged.-Tampa Tribune.
How do you know the other one
wasn't Orlando Sentinel.
A surgeon of our acquaintance says
that if women don't walk more and
ride less. it will only be a few CEN
turies before they won't have any
legs. When that time comes, we know
several Florida journalists who won't
have anything to write about.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06
NOTICE

The Friendship Wesley Bible class
will meet tomorrow evening at the
Methodist church at eight o'clock. All
old and new, are cordially
invited to attend, this being the first
meeting of the fall season.
sgt Mrs. Wilson, Teacher.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

Mrs. W. H. FELTON, of Georgia, the
nations first woman senator, says the
world, is not suffering from lack of
law today, but for the lack of en-
'forcement. If Mrs. FELTON, can act as
well as she seems to think, she will
be o winner.-Orlando Reporter-Star.
She might have borrowed the
thought. It has been expressed a
great many times by pulpit and press.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

Vicente Blasco Ibanez, author of
the "Four Horsemen of the Apoc-
alypse," says GAIL l can see is war"
After thinking up those four horse
men, we do not see how he can-unless
as a welcome relief he should take to
drinking moonshine and see snakes.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

The Tampa Tribune made a good
hit when it said: "The democrats of
Missouri having swapped the donkey
for the Goddess of Liberty as an en-
blem, it is now up to the republicans
to trade off the elephant for a sloth." "
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06
C. E. CONVENTION NOTICE

All those having provisions for con-
vention picnic kindly leave at church
between and 4 p. m. Saturday.
Mrs. E. G. Peek,
Chmn Entertainment Committee.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

A receiver having been appointed
for the Rodman Lumber Company, a
legal contest has commenced over the
property. In the meantime, the plant
has been shut down.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

Now which one of you guys went
and started this Fort Lauderdale
Herald.
Don't know. We finished it.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

The recent riot in Montgomery,
where number of peaceable negroes
were i'll treated because of the evil
deeds of two, was a disgrace to that
city.
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

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The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06

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lations" any more than a tired man
minds a loose feather in his bed
The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-06
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The New York herald., 1922-12-31

In the diary Schuyler also found por-
trait of little girl, about years of age,
on the back of which Renfrew had writ
ten, Leila Gilener, the daughter of the
regiment"
AT the close of the war, the diary dis
closed Renfrew, refusing to accept the new
order of things. took from it's staff the
flag carried by Morgan's cavalry concealed
it by wrapping it about his body, under his
garments, and then with a number of his
comrades departed for Mexico. He re-
mained only a little while in Mexico, it
appeared and his career for some time
thereafter was lost in a sequence of
blurred pages; then Schuyler again was
able to pick up the trail on the west coast
of South America, where Renfrew lived
for several years. In 1876 Renfrew had
journeyed to the far island in the South
Pacific carrying his banner with him, and
there had lived out the remainder of his
life.
For Henry Clay Renfrew there had been
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

no AppomattoX, no surrender. Every
morning after the erection of his staff on
the headland he had raised the flag to it's
peak, and every evening he had hauled it
down, not in submission but to raise it
again at daylight. A perfect patriot; a
perfect figure of romance.
When Capt. Schuyler visited the grave
it was his intention suitably to mark it;
but every care had been given the mound
by the old rebels native friend, and
Schuyler left it as it was. The burial
site was great headand looking on the
sea, and under the curving sod lay Henry
Clay Renfrew, the unsurrendered Renfrew
-"Renfrew the Silent'-his feet to the
east, with Gas Capt. Schuyler sentimentalIy
told his friend Col. Allen) "hs old Ken
lucky home so far away"
Schuyler tried to purchase the flag and
the diary. intending to present them to
Renfrew's friends in Kentucky, but the
fisherman resolutely declined to part with
them; that had been his promise to his
friend as Renfrew lay dying.
And the story swept the country
Allen, of course, was the author of the
whole tale. Renfrew never existed. al
though it would appear that Captain
Martin Schuyler really lived and allowed
Allen to use his name. Whether the Los
Angeles Times accepted the story as truth,
1 cannot say; probably it did; but the
The New York herald., 1922-12-31

and apparently it had been wet by sea
the writing was so blurred as to be in
decipherable. But Schuyler was able to
read enough to possess the outline of Rem
frew's story.
Early in the war Renfrew had enlisted
in the Second Kentucky Cavalry, a .regi-
ment then commanded by Col Basil w.
Duke of Gen. Morgan's cavalry division.
Capt. Castleman commanded the company
in which Renfrew served. Later Renfrew
was transferred to the Fourth Kentucky
Cavalry, that he might be near his boy
hood friends. Brainerd Bayliss and George
Dallas Mosgrave. and for a time he served
in Capt. Bast Jenkins's company The regi-
ment was commanded by Col. Henry Gilt
ner. who later commanded the brigade
when Col Duke was made division COM
mander after the death of Gen Morgan
Renfrew also served as aide-de-camp to
(adjutant of the Fourth Cavalry. and as
assistant to Capt. f. o. Guerrant, Adju-
tant-General of the brigade His friends.
Bayliss and Mosgrave. were with him, it
appeared. to the close of the war
All these names are genuine and are
part of the story, for it was the extraordi-
nary accuracy of the narratives detail that
lent to it its astonishing vraisemblance
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
The Legend of Renfrew the Silent

had espoused had been defeated. In fair
weather, added the fisherman, the soldier
from afar flew his flag from a tall staff
which he had erected in front of his native
home. on a cliff overlooking the sea.
Only a few years before the visit of
Capt. Schuyler the old soldier had died.
leaving all his possessions to the native,
who in this manner had become the own
er of the banner.
Capt. Schuyler asked the right question:
What else had the soldier left? And then
a fever of impatience seized him, for, said
the native. there was also book in which
there was much writing!"
The Captain tried to control his voice.
. Might he see it?
1t was a diary-the diary of Henry Clay
Renfrew, Confederate soldier; Henry
Clay Renfrew of Midway. KY, small
town in the Blue Grass region, between
Lexington and Louisville, not far from
Frankfort The volume was sadly defaced
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Story of Renfrew.

Capt. Schuyler of c Company. Seventh
Ohio Cavalry. Col. Aliens comrade in the
conflict between the States. had been sent
to the Philippines. it appeared, as an Of
ficer of the Thirty-ninth United States
Volunteers. At the close of the war he
was mustered out of the service. but
fingered for time at Manila. His pur-
pose was TO visit a number of the islands
of the South Pacific before returning to
America. Somewhere in that waste of
water, in which islands serve merely as
punctuation marks in the amazing COM
position of Nature, he came upon the mys
terry
He stood one day on the shore of
tropical isle (Gen Basil w. Duke locates
it somewhere off the Malay Arehipelago)
and with admiration watched the superb
seamanship of the native fishermen, who
rode the great waves in craft so small and
frail that it seemed they must go to pieces
in the surf 1t was a custom with the
fishing natives each to carry flag on his
boat and most of these banners were of
small interest after the first GLIMPSE; but
as he turned his glasses from one craft to
another, Capt Schuyler suddenly was
transfixed by astonishment, for brought
into close view by the binoculars was a
flag that he knew With high impatience
he awaited the return of the native who
flew so strange symbol and when the
man had come ashore nearer view of the
phenomenon confirmed the captains first
impression.
In every particular the banner was
reproduction of the flag of the Confederate
States of America. Highly excited. Capt.
Schuyler demanded permission to examine
it, and when this reluctantly had been
granted he made his second discovery.
The banner was an actual battle flag of
the Southern Confederacy-not a replica
but an authentic standard of the lost
cause"
This was nearly forty years after the
close of the civil war and on an island of
the Malayan group in the Pacific Ocean.
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
By VINCENT STARRETT.

" HERE are still living veterans of the
Civil War who remember Henry
Clay Renfrew. and this despite the
circumstance that Renfrew never existed
The legend persists, as good legends should
and do persist, although of late years it
has been obscured by the more moving
receptions of the angels of Mons and the
ghost of Skobeleff; but it is a glorious
tale and should not be allowed to lapse
for want of appreciators. Certainly it is
as fine lesson in patriotism as DIR. Hales
celebrated Man Without Country"
The latest printed reference to Rem
frew, which / have seen, occurred some
years ago-at least a decade-in THE
Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come" an en-
gaging novel by the late John Fox, Jr.
Mr.. Fox was casually reminded of Rem
frew the Silent" but mentioned the hero
only in passing. The original narrative
is long buried in dusty newspaper files,
which is a pity. for it should be preserved
between covers more frequently opened
Some time after the close of the war
in the Philippines there appeared in the
Los Angeles Times an extraordinary story,
as related by Col Theodore F. Allen,
veteran of the civil wan 1t was the story
of Henry Clay Renfrew-Renfrew the ST.
lent-"as related to me (wrote Col. Allen)
by Captain Martin Schuyler. and repro
duced by me using Capt Schuyler's
language as nearly as possible
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Yet 1t Was a Hoax.

In short. great many people were
vastly excited by the tale, and were so
thoroughly persuaded of it's truth that
they refused to believe it fiction even after
Allen had confessed the hoax Aliens
friends, many of them would not listen
to his protestations 81 am myself sorry
to be compelled to tell you the real facts
of the case," wrote General Duke to me
few years before his death.
Some years ago l was enabled to get
into correspondence with Colonel Alien.
then an elderly gentleman living in Ohio.
and he furnished me with a summarization
of the story as he wrote it; and that is
what in my own way, I have set down
above. The Colonel did not attempt to re-
write the story in the words or manner of
its initial appearance.
In a cavalry battle during the civil war.
he wrote. he had the misfortune to be
captured by the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry.
He escaped the first night of his captivity
on one of the regiments own horses and
ever after was called a horse thief by the
Fourth Kentucky. But by this adventure,
and by conversation and study he came
TO know the Fourth Kentucky almost as
well as he knew his own regiment the Sew
enth Ohio Cavalry, in which he was a
captain. Thus, in writing the story of
Renfrew, he was able to mention names
and places with an accuracy that carried
conviction: and the old Confederates began
to remember"
''It was so easy wrote Col Allen. "and
so they deceived themselves. All except
D,,ly
to. that he could not quite remember Rem
frew, but that he felt sure the story was
true, as no person making up story of
this kind would ever think of putting Rem
frew in two regiments AS matter of
fact, / first wrote the sketch with Renfrew
in the Second Kentucky only; but in order
to heighten the deception transferred him
later to the Fourth Cavalry.
80 many old soldiers were determined
to send out to get that flag that had to 'fess
up that the thing was fiction. All the
characters were real, living human beings,
however. except Renfrew and the fisher
man. The flag was myth the grave on
the sea cliff was not. But with all have
said there are many who never have heard
of my correction and thousands who be-
lieve the story is true
Where the phrase "Renfrew the Silent"
originated l cannot say; possibly it oc-
CURED somewhere in the original narra-
tive, possibly it was added by newspaper
commentators; but it is easy to understand
its application. 1t is the epithet under
which Renfrew has come down the years.
under which John Fox heard of him and
mentioned him in 1.-The Little Shepherd"
A fine sounding titlei-and a fine, warm
hearted deception was the whole story,
written as it was by one who did not wear
the gray of Renfrew's lost cause. l hope
it may be long remembered and that by
recalling it again 1 am contributing to it's
longevity.
Rebecca West, whose novel THE Judge"
was published this fall by the George H.
Doran Company, has arranged a lecture
tour of the United States and Canada
which will begin In the fall of 1928
The New York herald., 1922-12-31
Stars and Bars OFF Malay.

The native owner of the flag was not
inclined to tell where he had got it, but
after a time he yielded to Schuyler's per-
suasion and gifts and invited the officer
to accompany him to another island, some
thirty miles distant, where he made his
home. Schuyler promptly accepted and
his reward was the story of the flag. 1t
had been given the native by white man
who had come to the island many years
efore and who for two years had lived with
the fisherman on his island home. They
had become friends and the alien had told
his host that he had been a soldier in a
great war but that the cause which he