The Ocala evening star. [volume], June 17, 1918, Image 4

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OCALA EVENING STAR, MONDAY, JUNE 17. 1918
Mr. Frank Ditto has returned from
a visit to his mother in Jacksonville.
; iue goveniineni neeus your uiuney,
you need the stamps. .
Some new rulings in loose
books at THE BOOK SHOP.
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. Arthur McKeown "of Brooksville
has takea a position with the Ocala
fire department.
Lieut. R. D. Ferguson, M. D., son of
R. W. Ferguson of Keddick, has ar
rived safely in France.
Watermelons on ice. The Main
Street Market. Phone 108. tf
Fire Chief Chambers will go down
witness against Beaumert tomorrow.
Careful prescription service, using
Squibb's chemicals, at Gerig's Drugr
Store. "War Savings and Thrift
Stamps sold. : ' , tf '
Buy war savings stamps to the ut
most of your financial capacity, and
then increase your capacity by saving
more.
Mr. A. P. Gilmore and son, James
and Mr. William Charles left Satur
day afternoon for a fishing trip down
the Withlacoochee river.
Phone 108 and have the Main Street
Market send you a nice cold water
melon off the ice, ' tf
All you are asked to do is to buy
only necessary things and then loan
not give your savings to your gov
ernment to help it fight your war.
Give our boys in the army and
navy every fighting chance. Pledge
yourself to save to the utmost cf your
ability and to buy war savings
stamps. ,
; Phone 108 and have the Main Street
Market send you a nice cold water
melon off the ice. v tf ;
Our men in the trenches and in the
submarine . chasers are doing their
part. Are you doing your part? Buy
war savings stamps to your utmost
capacity. ' ; '.v :y.-Kj';;v.; ;..''
Mr. J. H. Johnson, the photograph
er, will remove to Sanfori, ; and we
commend him to all those people pf
the Celery City who want first-class
pictures taken.
The Pony Express L.wn Mower
can not be equalled at the price. Com&
in and se it Clarkson Hardware Com
pany. 28-tf '
Mr. J. H. Smith, , who has taken a
position in the peat works at the
Meadows, says the company is stead
ily digging, ) drying and shipping
large quantities of peat.
The boys of Company A who were
here week before last are now at
Camp Merritt, N. J., and they are
likely to go to r ranee f.s soon as
room aboard a transport can be found
for them. ' - '
A very nice line of Wash Cloths on
display at Gerig's Drug Store. We
also sell War Savings and . Thrift
Stamps. tf
Your common sense will tell you
that you cannot buy now all the
things you bought before we had a
war to win. Your buying must be re
stricted and your savings invested in
war savings stamps.
Mr. J. Sanford Jewett, proprietor
of the Red Cross Pharmacy, was elect
ed first vice president cf the State
Pharmaceutical Associa tion at its
meeting in Tampa this week. Mr.
Jewett has held the office of third and
second vice president for the past two
years. Lakeland Telegram.
Now is the time to plant chuf as,
$5.50 per bushel; Spanish peanuts,
$2.25 per bushel. Ocala Seed tSorer
phone 435. tf
Mr. Alfred J. Beck, for merly of this
city, now of Fort Lat derdale, has
volunteered for the med cal corps of
the army. If accepted, as he prob
ably will be, Mrs. Bed will take
charge of his large an! flourishing
drug business. Alfred is exempt, but
he won't be contented uiless he gets
into the war.
Norris Candies fresh every week at
the Court Pharmacy.. Pione us and
let us send it up. 1 15-tf
Mr. 5. TV Sistrunk is levoting the
most of his big farm at Arden to rais
ing war supplies, and Mrs. Sistrunk,
to do her share, has sold her splendid
saddle horse, buying witlr the money
two big mules, which are now pulling
plows on the farm. Those of Mrs.
Sistrunk's friends who know how
much she cared for her h jrse can ap
preciate her self-denial a nd practical
patriotism.
The Tampa Times priats the fol
lowing regarding our ga Bant young
friend, Charlie Cleveland ; with a pic
ture of Charlie: "Charles W. Cleve
land, with the 359th Inftntry, Camp
Travis, Tex., is a brother. -of- U. S.
Deputy Marshal Wilbur I Cleveland.
Sergeant Clevela nd was ; connected
with the Bay View hotel here for sev
eral seasons, and is widely known
throughout the state. He is an Ocala
boy originally and his parents reside
there now. Cleveland is a genial young
man and is rapidly making a success
of his service. He has a large circle
of Tampa friends, and is said to be
one of the best hotel clerks ever at
the Bay View and this section of the
state."
J. H. Freeman of Alabama, who has
been with the fire department for
some months has resigned. He is one
of the witnesses against the anarchist
Beaumert, and will go to Jacksonville
tonight, to testify against him to
morrow; He will probably remain in
Jacksonville.
When you buy war savings stamps
you do not give your money, you loan
it at 4 per cent compounded quarter
ly. You help your government, but
you help yourself even more.
Judge Smith has issued marriage
licenses to Earl Marshall and Miss
Helen Maloney, J. D. Jones and Miss
Alma Fussell, F. Z. Sherouse and
Miss Donnie Bonnifield. The first cou
ple was from Candler and were join
ed in wedlock by the judge Saturday
afternoon.
Phone No. 451 is the American
Restaurant, Temple & Davis, proprie
tors, the best in the city, at the union
passenger station. 16-tf
The police last night, captured a
little negro, Roosevelt Adams, who
had broken into Nash's store. Adams
owned up and implicated a white boy
named Clyde Hampton. The police
found Hampton sound asleep at home
The boys will have a hearing before
Judge Smith this afternoon.
Robert, Tydings is home from Jack
sonville for a brief visit. Robert wants
to serve on one of Uncle Sam's de
stroyers, but on account of undergo
ing an operation some months ago
can't join the navy until next year.
Meanwhile he will help build ships.
A letter received from Nelson Dosh
brings the pleasing news that that
cheerful boy is helping to brighten
thinsrs up in France. What Nelson
wants most is to meet up with some
of the Ocala boys over there.
Make every day a thrift day and
help your government end the war
days. Cr"'' " . V- T'; t-.
J. A. Beaumert, the I. W. W. man,
who talked too much some months
ago, and has been in jail ever since,
will go to Jacksonville in custody to
night, to, have a hearing tomorrow.
Our magazines are carrying authen
tic news from the front. THE BOOK
SHOP. . 3t
A card dated May 30 was received
from Mr. W. T. Gary, in Paris, Sun-
i. day. v Mr. Gary was well, and expect
ing to leave for the front.
One 1917 Ford Touring Car in per
feet condition, for sale at the Max
well Agency. 15-3t
The beautiful new flag bought by
the city council has arrived and was
hoisted with great pride by the fire
boys on the staff on the public square
this morning. Be sure you look up at
it as you pass.
Nunnally's Candies fresh every
week at Gerig's Drug Store, where
you can also get Thrift Stamps. ) tf
Mr. Frank Mathews came up from
Jacksonville Saturday night, to view
his 65-acre field of castor beans ' at
Candler. Frank is helping the govern
ment to build ships.
Jules Cohn left today for Jackson
ville, where he expects to apply for
admission to the government service.
in any capacity in which he can be
useful.
Mrs. George Rentz today received
a card from her son Eddie, who after
four trips across in a transport is
again safe in "An Atlantic Port."
Dr. E. Van Hood has gone to Jack
sonville, to attend the meeting of the
state board of medical examiners, of
which he is a member.
Our prescription department offers
you the best in PURE DRUGS and
CHEMICALS. Your doctor will tell
you. Court Pharmacy. Phone 284. 15tf
War savings stamps, help provide
that "Force, force to the utmost,
force without stint or limit, the
righteous and triumphant force which
shall make right the law of the
world, which President Wilson says
must be used against our enemies.
DANCE AT SILVER SPRINGS
There will be a dance at Silver
Springs ' pavillion Tuesday night.
Music ? will be furnisher by string
orchestra. There will be plenty of
refreshments on the grounds. Every
body invited. 2t
California Weeping Trees.
California has but two species of na
tive trees that are normally of weeping
habit. One Is Quercus lobata, the val
ley oak, having Its most: southerly
range near Burbank. The other Is
Picea Brewerlana, the weeping spruce,
which Is found In a few Isolated moun
tainous sections In the northwestern
corner of the state. '
LASOCII AFFAIRS
(Continued from Third Page)
Miss Mary Burford arrived home
Saturday from a delightful visit with
her aunt in Troy, Ala.
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Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Kilgore are en-
joying a visit irons Mr. juigore s
cousin, Mr. L. C. Kilgore, and wife,
of Savannah.
Miss Mary Connor left Sunday for
Knoxville,' Term., where she will take
an art course at the University of
Tennessee.
Mrs. Bennett has ornamented the
Temple vestibule with full length
pictures of Mary Pickford, almost as
good to look at as Mary herself.
Mrs. Mary Proctor left yesterday
for her home in St. 'Paul, but her
friends here hope she will return to
them when the snow begins to fly.
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Mrs. T. H. Wallis and little daugh
ter, Nell returned Saturday from a
delightful, visit to Fernandina , and
Jacksonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Camp and
daughters returned home today from
a week-end visit to their summer
camp at Lake Weir.
Miss Oma Dilday, superintendent of
the Marion County Hospital, and
Miss Minnie Mitford of Gainesville, a
graduate of our hospital, have gone
to Jacksonville to stand examination
before the medical board.
Mr. Ralph Robinson left yesterday
for Youngstown, Ohio, where he will
be in business with his brother-in-law,
Mr. Donald Schreiber. Mr.
Robinson's many friends part with
him reluctantly, but wish him every
success in his new line of work.
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The many friends of Miss Marie
Zoellner, who spent the winter in
Ocala with her sister, Mrs. Steinhaus,
will sympathize with her in the loss
of her father, who died at Spring
field, 111., June 3rd, only a few days
after her return from Florida.
Homer Limbaugh, a student of , the
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, has returned
to his' home in Starke to - spend the
holidays with his parents, Mr. t and
Mrs. T. N. Limbaugh. Mr. Limbaugh
has frequently visited in , Ocala with
his mother, who is a niece of Mrs. M
A. Home.
Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain's classic
in boyish humor, is being shown at
the Temple - this evening. Jacks Pick
ford has the part of Tom, which is
sufficient to say it is great. It won't
do for anybody to miss it. Mary Pick
ford, the movie queen, will appear to
morrow in "Amarilly of Clothesline
Alley." ,, :, r
UNCLASSIFIED
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ILAR LOCAL NEEDS
RATES: Six line maximum, one
time 25c; three times 50c; six times
75c; on month $3. Payable in advance.
FOR SALE 500 bu. mixed and Whip,
peas, $2.50 ;r 200 bu. orange cane seed,
$2; 500 bu. Abruzzi seed, $2.75. Prices
cash f. 6. b. Hickory. Hickory Seed
Co., Hickory, N. C. It
LOST- Stick pin, attached to neck
tie; pin made of English pound gold
piece. Lost between hospital and Fort
King avenue. Suitable reward for re-
tum to C- F- Lawrence, 20 Fort King
avenue.
16-3t
WANTED 60 Hp. boiler, 40 Hp. en
gine, 15 to 25 Hp. kerosene-burning
engine., Must be in good condition.
Nathan Mayo, Summerfield, Fla. 13-tf
C. O. Dt This is the name of a wood
yard which is at your service at all
times. Stove wood, pine or oak. North
Magnolia street, phone 339. 29-tf
FOR SALE Ten acres with house
and barn, with well and running wa
ter; on Orange avenue, one mile out.
Cleared. Will exchange for city resi
dence. Jay Stanhope Heisler, Orange
avenue, Ocala, Fla. 10-6t
W. K. Lane, M. D Physician and
Surgeon, specialist Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat. Law Library Buildixtg, Ocala,
Florida. tf
Watermelons on ice. The Main
Street Market. Phone 108. tf
The Shawm.
A shawm was a wind Instrument of
the oboe class but with a wider bell.
It is a very old type of musical instru
ment, as it Is spoken of by the Psalm
ist. The Romans used it freely. There
were treble shawms and bass shawms,
and the name gradually gave way
about the sixteenth century to "mo-
boy" or "howboy," eventually ,evolv
Ing to "oboe
' Use for Starfish.
Starflsh are known to contain nearly
5 per cent of nitrogen and a small
quantity of phosphoric acid. In Japan
they are used as a manure.
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Marcel Gets His
Barn Mended
Red Cross Helps This 15 Year
Old French Boy and His
Family.
Marcel is a man. He is just fifteen
years old, but yet he Is a man. I say
he is a man because In the last four
years' time has burned into his child
heart marks that should wait for stern
er maturity. lie is a man because he
has the responsibility cf a woman. He
has no father. The Germans saw to
that Marcel has had to stand by and
see his small brothers and baby sister
ask in vain for food while he fought
off the pressing call from Ms growing
boy's stomach. He has had to sea
tears from his mother's eyes drop on
the plowed ground as she worked the
soil Ills father would have tilled had
he not gone away out of the peaceful
ness of the Marne valley into the Iron
hail of ithe Aisne .and on into the here
after y . , ; ' s
, The boy, who was now & man, work
ed hard, yes, too hard. With .his hair
less hands and his boy's strength h
fought almost alone the unequal fight
against want with what little help hit
frail mother could give.
Mother Can Keep Children.
One of the 70 or 80 local societies
In ; Frar ce, handicapped by lack of
funds because deluged by calls for
help, tried to releive the family by tak
ing away the children. But to the tor
ture twisted brain of the woman thU
seemed like losing all she had.
. . And tlien when everything seemed
lost and despair came they heard the
news: "No, It could not be true.
They would help them with food and
clothing? They would till the soil?
Mend the barns and stay near by to
see that things went well?" Yes. and
the, children could stay, said the Red
Cross, a they had said to hundreds
of others. v
That was two years ago.v Today this
family Is self supporting and has some
to spare for the more needy ones, who
still are being helped. Little Jean Is
taller, He looks well fed and he is
well fed. The baby 4s so roily poly
that the dimples have come again.
They are .In good spirits on their feet
once more.
And Marcel. He has finished the
course that the Red Cross gave him
In an agricultural school. It Is he who
has been running the farm so well. He
did It alL At least they let him think
so, for heaven knows he has seen the
bottom of the bitter cup. And I know
that the Red Cross will want me to
say he did It, for that Is the way they
work quietly. earnestly, efficiently,
without stint,' without waste, without
boast.
ONLY SECURITY FOR A WIFE
Bfrth of Children Guaranteed Inde
pendence to the Woman Under the
- Code of Hammurabi.
In Babylon, under the code of Ham
murabi, 2270 B. O, the birth of chil
dren furnished the only financial se
curity for a wife. A man might sepa
rate from a wife at will and marry
another but if she had borne him chil
dren he must "give back to that wom
an herdowry, the usufruct of the field,
garden and property, during the minor
ity of her children and thereafter she
was entitled to a share equal to that
of a son of all that has been given to
her children. She may marry the man
of her choice." ,
Under the primitive laws of the Ka
firs of South Africa a similar provision
13 made, according to a writer. A con
siderable payment Is made by the hus
band to the male relatives of the wom
an at the time of marriage. In legal
theory this amount is the property of
the woman and her children, the rela
tives receiving it as trustees for her
benefit Here, too, a man may divorce
his wife at will and may demand back
his dowry If there have been no chil
dren born of the marriage, but his
claim upon it passes upon the birth of
children. Obviously, where the status
of the wife is entirely subject to the
will of the husband and where the
woman has an enforclble claim against
this property while it remains in the
hands, of her relatives, the birth of
children furnishes the only assurance
of security and Independence for the
wife. ''
Old Rates of Interest.
Five per cent interest on a loan
would have been scoffed at by the men
who had money to lend In medieval
times. In the thirteenth and fourteenth
centuries the usual rate seems to have
teen 20 per cent, and in the preceding
centuries it was probably higher, says
the London Chronicle. The . rate of In
terest decreased with the increase of
specie, with an occasieoal limitation
by the state. Elizabeth reduced the
iate by law to. 10 per cent, James I to
It and Charles II to 6. In ancient
Rome, according to NIebuhr, the rate
Was 8 1-3 for a ten-month year the
quivalent of 10 per cent per annum.
HAIR WORTH MORE THAN GOLD
Lock From Head of the Immortal
George Washington Brought Sum
of Five Hundred Dollars.
It Is a wise barber who knows his
famous customers, notes a writer. A
single hair from the head of Shake
speare would be priceless today. Yet
he must frequently, methinks, have
had his hair cut. Most poets wear
their hair long, but there comes a time,
even to a poet, when he must have it
trimmed at least. That is the barber's
chance.
A silver shell-shaped reliquard con
taining a lock of hair of Milton, to
gether with a lock of hair of Eliza
beth Barrett Browning, sold in Lon
don at an auction recently for $400.
A lock of Thackeray's hair, cut from
his head after his death by his dangh
ter, Anne, Lady Ritchie, fetched $100
at auction. Milton did not get quite
that much for "Paradise Lost." The
sale of a lock of Napoleon's hair for 16
shillings denotes a serious slump in
hair shares. Perhaps there Was doubt
whether it ever grew on Napoleon's
cranium at alL for In 1000 a similar
relic, much the same color and texture,
realized $100, and a year earlier two
locks were sold for $125 and $25 re
spectively. .
But probably the record was broken
In America, where most records are
doomed to be broken sooner or later,
for at an auction sale in New York a
lock of hair from the head cf the im
mortal George Washington fetched the
sum of $500.
ARTICHOKE IS EASY TO GROW
Favorite Vegetable, Declared to Be
Valuable Article of Food for Both
Man and Beast.
The Jerusalem artichoke deserves to
be much better known in this country,
which is Its native land, for it Is one
of the favorite vegetables In all parts
of Europe, It Is easy to grow, ?and a
most valuable article of food for man
and beast.; Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell of
the University of Colorado extols its
merits in the Scientific Monthly and
tells some most Interesting facts about
It
Its name is a curiosity to etymology.
The word "artichoke" is derived from
the Moorish "alkharshof," which was
applied to the true, or globe artichoke,,
of which we eat the flower-head with
Its thickened bracts and the delicate
"bottom." This plant, which is of the
thistle family, is a native of the old
world. The Jerusalem artichoke, Hell
anthus tuberosus. Is a tuber which
grows on the roots of a sunflower. It
was well-known and much used by the
natives of America before the coming
of Columbus. It was introduced Into
France early in the seventeenth cen
tury and was grown in the Farnese
gardens in Rome, whence it was dis
tributed throughout Europe under the
name of Glrasole Articloeco, or sun
flower artichoke. "The name arti
choke," writes Professor Cockerell,
"appears to have been given to the
Hellanthus solely on account of the
more or less similar flavor, while Jeru
salem is an English corruption of the
Italian GIrasoIe, or sunflower."
First American Legislature.
The first colonial assembly to en
Joy the right of Initiating legislation
was the Maryland assembly, which
convened in 1635 and was composed of
representatives of the whole people
a purely democratic legislature. In the
beginning every adult male dtixen was
permitted to sit in the assembly, but
with the increase in population it was
found necessary to limit the number,
although there was still no legal re
striction on the number of delegates
the people might send.
Under the charter Lord Baltimore
had the power of enacting all neces
sary laws for the colony, with the
advice, consent and approbation of the
freemen of the province." The assem
bly demanded the right of initiating
legislation, however, and this was
granted by "Lord Baltimore In 16158,
and the following year the assemt ly
met and enacted the first statutes of
Maryland. In their law-making the
pioneer Marylanders were entirely In
dependent of the British parliament
and enjoyed a greater degree of au
tonomy than any other English colony.
Trap for Liars.
In front of the old basilica of Santa
Maria in Cosmedln, at Rome, there Is
an enormous block of marble, resem
bling a huge face with a widely gaping
mouth. It Is called the "Vocca della
Verita" or "Mouth of Truth." In the
days of ancient Rome the legend ran
that If anyone who had told a lie
placed his or her hand within that
yawning cavity, the jaw would de
scend and cut it off. The stone has
given Its name to a street close by,
but It Is no longer made use of by the
Italians as a proof of their Integrity,
which, In the event of Its retainlnj; its
former power, shows prudence on their
part.
The Vocca della Verita Is a large
round stone of white marble, abost
five yards In circumference. It Is
pierced with two holes representing
eyes, an opening for a mouth, a slight
ly raised nose, and two locks of hair
are carved on each side of the fore
head. The stone is of great antiquity,
and. according to some. It was laid on
the altar of Jove, and those suspected
of perjury were led to It and obliged
to confess by much the same threats
a are used to children now.
Oh, Dear.
"Did Reggie bag any gamer
"Oh, dear me no Reggie didn't
have his regular hunting tos along
and so bassed nothing but fci,'i tr outers.
H. B. WHITTINGTON
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cala Steam
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