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TWO GCALA EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1915 OCALA EVENING STAR PUBLISHED EVERY DAY EXCEPT SUNDAY BITTINGER & CARROLL, PROPRIETORS B, R, Carroll, General Moager Port V. Leaven good. Business Manager J. EL Benjamin, Editor Entered at Ocala, Fla., postomce as second class matter PHONE 51 SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Domestic) One' year, in advance $5.00 Six months, in advance ...... 2.50 Three months, in advance.... 1.25 . One month, in advance. ...... .50 Young boys should certainly be more careful in handling firearms. Sanford Herald. Old boys, also. We don't know how long it will last, but there is some mighty fine looking young corn growing in the courthouse border. Among the Star's pleasant Christ mas reminders was a , postcard from that jolly and clever bunch of Ocala boys at Fort Lauderdale. .. If, when you are as busy as the devil in a gale of wind, a man who has nothing to say comes in and takes half an hour to say it, can that be considered a gas attack? ' 4 Its true the navy is the country's first line of defense, but if it is brok en and no second line in the shape of an army behind it, what will become of the country? Henry Ford should have taken to heart that ancient, aphorism, "Let the shoemaker stick , to his last." Building an auto is a simple task compared with dealing with the com plex dispositions of humanity. Judge Alton B. Parker, who was the democratic candidate for presi dent in 1904, is spending the holidays at Miami. It was the first Christmas he ever passed away from ice and snow, and he is in love with Florida. Governor Trammell favors voting the nation for prohibition but first of all he favors voting Florida for Trammell. Tampa Tribune. . How stands our genial friend, Per ry Wall, on that question. If the Zeppelins would drop bombs on some of the munition plants that the British claim to be working twenty-four hours a day, instead of on the shops and homes of non-com batants, we would have some respect for them. Orlando is ninety miles from Ocala much neare than Lakeland but the Orlando Reporter-Star does not reach Ocala until the afternoon after it is printed, about 22 hours, while the Lakeland Telegram is generally here next morning. Why is this thus? The price of gasoline not only is soaring, but there threatens to be a gasoline famine. Gasoline costs 25 cents retail in Ocala and the Star, is informed that the agents of the. oil companies are instructed not to work for any new business, as the com panies have all they can do to supply their present customers. A Star reporter, the other day, was looking over the drygoods and cloth ing store of Hayes & Guynn. This comparatively young firm started at a time when there seemed little or no place for it in the business life of the city, but by excellent methods and fair dealing it has won its way until now it is in the first rank. The young men who own , and operate this store never overlook an opportunity to please their customers, and their steady work is bringing its just re ward. . In our sanctum we have a two bushel basket, the sort carried by cotton pickers, which we use for a - waste basket. Into it we throw dead copy, copy that never should have been live, those of our exchanges whose wrappers we never open, ap ple parings, orange skins, banana ( hides, circulars, plans, schemes and promotions for the benefit of the planners, schemes and promoters, damphool letters and anonymous let ters. The anonymous letters go into it. with less ceremony than any other species of its varied contents. Governor Trammell's announcement that if he becomes an United States senator he will vote to let the states pass upon a prohibition constitutional amendment, should not have been hard to make, for there is something radically wrong about any American citizen who is not willing to let the people express themselves upon any important public question. St. Pe tersburg Times. Straub doesn't seem to be very en thusiastic over "the governor's pro hibition principles. - Says the very conservative Spring field Republican: A veteran tells the Army and Navy Journal how women spies were treated in the civil war, and it helps to explain the intensity of feeling in this country over the ex ecution of Edith Cavell. Two women at New Madrid, Mo., were caught conspiring with homesick soldiers to pet them captured by a Confederate lieutenant, who at once paroled them, cutting; them off from further ser (Foreign) One year, in advance........ $8.00 Six months, in advance 455 Three months, in advance.... 255 One month, in advance .80 vice. This, if not precinsely espion age, was at least as serious an of fense as that of Edith Cavell. But what was done ? "The lieutenant was held as a prisoner of war, while the two ladies were merely talked to and told that any further work in that direction would be followed by send ins them to St. Louis for the re mainder of the war." In such matters America and Prussia . simply cannot understand each other; they have no common language." GOVERNOR IS A GOOD GUESSER The Star regrets to see the Miami Herald, in the following, trying to throw cold-water on Governor Tram mell's recent announcement of his stand for national prohibition. Governor Takes Charge of the Gale . "No surprise will be felt in this state that at just what he considers the psychological moment, Governor Trammell should announce his adher ence to the national prohibition prop osition, that is,, the plan o submit ting, through resolutions of Congress, a prohibition amendment to the leg islatures of the various states for adoption or rejection. The governor has a very great faculty for waiting until he is assured of which way the wind is. blowing and then taking charge jaf the gale. He probably figures that F lorida is ready lor a state wide prohibition movement for itself and that that wave, if it cul minates, will also carry himself to the goal of the United States sena torship, which he so earnestly de sires." About the only kick we have on our congressman, Frank Clark, is his at tempt to have the government waste $25,000 on a monument to Osceola The Seminole chief may have been al right as an Indian, but from a white man's ' standpoint he was a bloody savage who would have murdered an mutilated any of our grandfath ers if he had had the chance. If a monument is to be erected to any Floridian," what's the matter with Napoleon B. Broward? He was a much . better man than ; Osceola, and worth more, not only to Fldrida, bu to the world at large. The Star re commends Mr. Clark to let that $25, 000 go on the Oklawaha improve' ment, buying ammunition for the army or . some other thing really needed. Dr. J. Walter Hood of this city, in returning from Fort Pierce, the other day, made a record run for Florida roads. In his Studebaker roadster with two passengers beside himself and a trunk, he made the 241-mile trip, in fourteen hours, twelve of which was actual running time Twenty miles an hour for twelve con secutive Tiours is a mighty good re cord for Florida roads. It may be noted that the doctor and his party came thru from Fort Pierce by auto in much less time and at less cos than they could have made the trip by rai owing to the chamelion-like system of transportation lines in this state, which compel a traveler to go around one end or the other in order to reach the middle. Dr. Hood says lots of money is being spent improv ing the East Coast, some of the Yan kee millionaires seeming to have re solved to make a terrestial paradise of it. He saw at Fulford, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lapham, ex-Ocalans, wel and happy in their present home. And at Fort Lauderdale he and Mrs. Hood were given the glad hand by the bunch of Ocala boys who are making good , in that thriving little Eas Coast city. What promised to be a gloomy Christmas in Pittsburg, was turned into a joyful day by the announce ment that H. C. Frick, of that t:ity, would pay the deposits made by school children in the savings bank which closed its doors only a few days previous to the great holiday. The act was one that reflects credit on the charitable feelings of the great American millionaire. We may very well put aside any discussion of the subject whether lessons in thrift are thereby? inculcated, the rea things being that the kids are not to lose their one hundred and sixty thou sand dollars. Miami Herald. Is this the Frick whom the labor unions denounce as a man without heart?- JOHN THOMPSON CARPENTER Contractor in all kinds of Wood Work. Roof s repai ed or Re shingled. , All work at Rock Bottom Prices. Call Phone 457 Residence 806 S. Orange Street OCALA FLORIDA WE'RE ALL "JUST FOLKS" Through the efforts of Editor Ben jamin of the Ocala Star, Editor Har ris of the Ocala Banner, and others, Marion county recently swung into the prohibition column for the first time in thirty years, and the prohibi tionists are naturally joyful at the re sult of the election. Evidences of the bitterness of the campaign have pass ed, and everybody was harmonious and loving in the Brick City on Christmas day. The spirit that should prevail in struggles of all kinds is shown in the following paragraph .from the Ocala Star: . , "Ed Carmichael felt so sorry for the Star, when he read about its los ing $93.60 by turning down two whis ky ads. Tuesday, that he came over to sympathize with it. Ed. said pro hibition had cost him $800 this month, and he wanted to mingle his tears with some other suffering soul. We all wept together. However, if we don't starve to death this winter, us and Ed will give a green corn dance over the success of prohibition early next summer." That's the way to play the game of life! That's the way to accomplish good results in all causes! Bitterness produces nothing but bitterness; the spirit of kindliness and brotherly love produces tenderness, and tenderness produces lasting good. Most of us have never been in the saloon business, but we've all done things that were as bad or worse. If we've been strictly moral, it is more than likely that we've been hopeless ly hypocritical; if we've gambled and drunk whisky," we've doubtless tried to counter-balance these faults by showing mercy to other unfortunates. Like many other high-strung news paper workers, the writer has patron ized his share of saloonists and bar tenders, but he has never known one who did not have his full quota of the "milk of human kindness," nor one who wished to injure him or any one else who played the game fairly. The years bring, or should bring, a greater charity to us all, and a realization of the fact that we're all "just folks," we've got our problems to solve and our snarls to untangle, and the best way to solve those prob lems and untangle those snarls is by helping each other. True indeed it is that "There is so much that is bad in the best of us, and so much that is good in the worst of us, and it be hooves none of us to speak ill of the rest of us." " The Times wishes a happy and prosperous New Year to Benjamin, the editor, and Carmichael, the sa loonist. We hope well have the priv ilege of attending that "green corn dance" and trading upward boosts with" both of them. Tampa Times. Well have a t specially large ear boiled for Huff, and we can assure him that when it comes to -hospitality, no one understands how to ex tend it better than Ed. Carmichael, saloonist no longer, but good busi ness man generally, farmer and staunch promoter of the interests of his home city. Call and see the new electric globes .t the Marion Hardware Co. 11-16 TESTIMONY OF ARCADIA WOMAN SPEARS VOLUMES. Arcadia, Flo. "I am thoroughly satis fied that Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis covery, .favorite Prescription and Compound Extract of Smart-Weed are the best of medi cines, and when M needed in my fam wk. ily 1 do not be- pay for them. " 1 ne cares of my household and looking after my children reduced my neaitm to a Very low point and my nerves were quite deranged. JMy nervous state made me irritable and cross and 1 slept very poorly The 'Favorite Prescription' and 'Golden Medical Discovery' were what corrected. mv reduced health. "Dr. Pierce's 'Smart-Weed' is what cured my baby of cholera infantum of the worst form. JNo other medicine was given Other children in our neighborhood, under medical attention, died of the same trouble while he was sick. A second child of mine was also cured of the disease." Mhs. 1L Holton, 237 S. Hillsborough Ave An imitation of nature's method of replacing waste of tissue, enriching impov erished blood and increasing nerve force is when you take an alterative extract of herha and roots made with Dure elvcerine. without the use of alcd hoi, like Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. This vegetable medicine coaxes the digestive functions and helps in the assimilation of food, or rather takes from the food just the nutriment the blood requires. Pure blood is essential to good health. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery not only cleanses the blood of impurities, but it increases the activity of the blood- making glands, and enriches the body with an abundant supply t pure, rich blood, SOME OF THE THINGS WE HAKE Jaxon Metal Shingles. Jmxon Metal Ceiiinff. Bve Trough and Gutters. Conductor Pipe Fitting. Corrugated Sheets. Corrugated Awnings. Sheet Metal Roofing. Metal "Brick" Siding. Metal "Stone Sldln. Acme Xmtable Cnlrerta. Imperial Rireted CnlTerts. - ' Turpentine Stills and Cups. Sheet Metal Cornices. Sheet Metal Skylights. ' Dredge FJpe -nd Fittings. Coppersmith. General Sheet Metal Workers. Ask yoor dealer or write as for cata lognes. Ttc RORIDA METAL PRODUCTS CO. 8850 Evergreen Are., JACKSONVILLE, FLA, o i THE v DIAMOND FROM THE SKY (Continued from Last Week) CHAPTER XLiX. Plot and Counterplot. HE miracle of dawn crimsoned all the east. The last boister ous revelers were departing from the fete of the mad mil lionaire. Only the butler, as major domo, had speeded the parting guests, but the guests had reveled and gorged and swilled and cared nothing at heart for host or mansion that had entertained them with a Belshazzarlan feast. And it was a Belshazzarlan feast, and the handwriting of destruction was on the wall. In the small reception room upstairs the unhappy wretch once called the golden man sobbed on his arms like the drug weakling he was. Vivian, her hair in disorder and vixen-like in her anger and grief, shook Arthur by the shoulder and cried, "Where Is the diamond?" Blair, noting the open window, left Durand and Vivian by Arthur and crossed over to it- There, down below, was Angelo, the Italian gardener, up at dawn to his work, plucking the diamond from the sky from the rosebush. Just where it had been cast through the wirlow by the indignant Esther when Arthur had proffered it to her. "HI. there, you!" called Blair. Don't take that! I am coming down for it." The gardener,, who, like the rest of the servants, bore a sullen dislike to the whilom friends who surrounded their master, growled an unintelligible reply. Durand, who sensed that the dia mond had been found, sprang from the room and made for the stairway, with Blair beside him. They ran from the front of the house and to the back. But the gardener picked up a heavy stake lying by the rosebush and stood them off. - "I take to the boss!" he said. Nor would he be shaken from his resolve. 1 K Z 3 ri v , 4 1 w Vivian Shook Arthur by the Shoulder. And Durand and Blair, cursing his stubbornness, escorted him backJnto the house and to Arthur. Vivian, realizing the diamond was recovered, had ceased her vixenish de mands and was again resorting to wiles and cajolement. But Arthur, shaken with shame and wholly unnerved that they had de ceived him as regards Esther's pres ence in the city, his shame augmented by the realization that Esther knew now how he had fallen in his drug addiction, took the diamond and staff-, We Want YOU to become better acquaint ed with TTL Every day we will give a lady or gentleman an op portunity to treat a friend to a BOTTLE of Coca-Cola at our expense. Watch the columns of the Star for your name. Ocala Coca-Cola Bottling Works First Class Seasoned WOOD Oak or Pine Any Length PROMPT SERVICE J. M. POTTER Phone 3 M -4 Rings ? ' A" A: u gered from the room, witn a rew mut tered thanks to the gardener. Reaching his suit, he locked, the diamond in an ornate cabinet by the great rear window of his bedroom and then, pacing up and down, fought the devil of drug desire for Esther's sake and lost again. The English lawyer Smythe, a knight In armor in all sooth, escorted the shaken Esther to her hotel, having picked up the watching and waiting Quabba In front of the Powell man sion and taken him with them in the taxicab. The next 'day she consulted him about her affairs. "I will see you safely back to Rich mond," said Smythe gently. "Your mother, you say, has recovered and you wish to return to her. I am going back to England resolved to let the American heir or heirs to the Stanley earldom claim the title when he or they may choose." "But what shall I do about Luke Lovell?" asked Esther. "All his life. except for tne brier revolt ne now Degs forgiveness for. he served my, mother faithfully." "I would suggest, said Smythe. "that our friend Quabba here stay be hind us and see what he can do. He may secure Lovell's release by, ap pealing to Arthur Stanley, or, as he calls himself now, John PowelL" "I have no faith In Arthur now, said Esther wearily. "He has fallen Into evil ways through evil associa tions.' But In her steadfast heart Esther Jesolved to say nothing to Smythe now jor Hagar later regarding Arthur's irug addiction. " "Welt" suggested the English law yer, "our friend Quabba here can keep us posted, and we may be able to take up the matter of endeavoring to secure Lovell's release from this unjust in carceration after , we return to Rich mond. No doubt he chafes fearfully in his prison cell.' The next day Esther, accompanied by Smythe, left Los Angeles for Rich mond. Quabba. placed in funds by Smythe, stayed behind. Quabba was an Italian gypsy, and his new friend and compatriot, the gardener at the Powell mansion, was at the train with him when he bade bis respectful sidieus to his young mis tress and to Smythe. On the way back from the depot the gardener, deeming Quabba needed cheering, led him to the garden res-, taurant La Bella NapolL It was a humble place, nu arbored resort fre quented by Italian working people, Signora Soiari made them welcome. "She has no good looks," whispered Quabba's friend, "but you should see, her daughter Rosa:-' Ah, Rosa is a charmer, and how she will smile at you if you pay for the better wine! You should see her !" It was fated that Quabba was to see the ravishing Rosa. De Vaux; a lady killer, to his way of thinking, had also seen the ravishing Roea- . She had smiled at De Vaux in pass ing, and be had followed her to the garden La Bella Napbti. - A-citizen of the world, the dapper count, who spoke Italian charmingly, knew welrhow to ingratiate himself Into the favor of the landlady's daughter and the land lady. De Vaux ordered the high priced chiantl On which there was the good profit From their distant table in the gar den Quabba and tbe Powell gardener noted all this, but kept their distance unseen and unnoticed by the languish ing De Vaux. Fate was playing into the hands of Quabba and his friend at their table in the corner. He had a grievance, had Cesare. the contractor. He proclaimed it. "Look you," he said, "I get a con tract a good contract-to fix a roof, and 1 can't get any of these lazzarohl to go on the work!" Questioned why by Quabba, Cesare shrugged his shoulders and said: "There are two reasons the loafers give me. One Is that It is a nonunion job. and the other is it is work at the pris onand that they do not like. They fear the prison, maybe for good rea sons." Quabba sat erect The prison? Luke Lovell was in the prison! : "Me, observe me! Roofing that was my trade!" cried Quabba. "Angelo here will tell you!" Angelo. who knew nothing at all of the matter, roundly swore that Quabba was the best roofer that had ever left Italy. ' ... '. At the Powell mansion suspicion, plot and counterplot were the aftermath of the grand fete. Arthur announced that he would return to his business affairs and had hinted that he was prepared to pay Durand handsomely for his services as a physician and would be re lieved if he and his familiar, De Vaux, would go about their affairs. He drew a check for a large sum and gars it to Durand. But Durand had no intention of departing without the grep.t diamond, word of which had drawn him to this place. Durand had held threats over Vivian of disclosing their former swindling association to both Blair and Arthur did she not aid him and keep silent On her part Vivian promised, but In her heart she was resolved that she alone would have the diamond.' Arthur's return to his office was made a happy affair by his employees. His desk bore a large horseshoe of flowers, and his secretary welcomed him back to health and his business in an earnest little speech. Arthur, shaking as John Powell. their employer, thanked them feeling ly and alluded to the loyalty and serv ice of his kinsman from Virginia, Blair Stanley, who had so ably managed af fairs In his absence. The little audi ence applauded and the business of the day was resumed. (To be Continued) Why You Should Use Chamberlain's Cough Remedy Because it has an established repu tation won by its good works. 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