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in point of luster, beauty, harndess,and above all WEAR? It is proclaim-ed the by those who have usedit for years.

For Sale by Marlon Hardware Cos.,Ocala, Fla.

ELECTRA

Special Cor. Ocala Banner:On last Wednesday the sad news

reached us of the death of Mrs. W.P. Pillans, who died in Orlando at thehome of her daughter, Mrs. Dixie Ev-ans. The remains were brought toElectra on Thursday, the 16th forburial, beside her husband, CaptainPillans, who was laid to rest in theElectra cemetery nineteen years ago.Captain Pillans was one of our mosthonored citizens, and Mrs. Pillanswas the best loved woman in all thiscommunity. None knew her but tolove her. After removing to Orlandoshe made frequent visits here to seeher son, Mr. J. C. Pillans, and hermany friends were always delightedto see her on these occasions, andthey sincerely mourn her death, andextend deepest sympathy to the be-reaved family. Mrs. Pillans was 82years of age.

Besides her many friends, Mrs. Pil-lans left two sons, Mr. J. C. Pillans ofElectra and Mr. W. P. Pillans of Lake-land, and two daughters, Mrs. DixieEvans of Orlando, and Mrs. HallieAnderson of Lakeland, and a numberof grandchildren and great grandchil-dren to mourn her departure.

Her children were all here to wit-ness the last sad rites of their belov-ed mother. Mr. Wm. Martin of MossBluff conducted the funeral services,and loving friends, who could do nomore, covered the graves of Capt.

and Mrs. Pillans with beautiful flow-ers.

Miss Pearl Forbes of Anthony and|Miss Edith Anderson of Lakeland arejvisiting Miss Dixie Pillans.

Miss Tincy Holly, Miss Clifton and jMr. Rob Fort of Ocala were out joy-;riding, and made a short visit to our!burg Saturday afternoon.

Mr. J. D. Young was over looking Iafter his muck land property lastjweek.

Mr. Bob Rogers and family ofLynne passed through Electra Thurs-day on their way to Lake Weir, toenjoy the balmy breezes and bathingin the beautiful lake for a few weeks.

Mr. John Rogers of Lynne was alsoin our burg last week, and the kindservice he performed witht his autowill not soon be forgotten.

We are pleased to note that Mr.Josh Martin and Mr. Robert McKim,who have recently been on the sick!list, are now able to eat all the food jthat is placed before them.

Mr. G. W. Brant, Sr., and wife areon a pleasure trip to Lake George.

Miss Maggie Sellers of Stuart isvisiting her grandmother, Mrs. Geor-gia Sellers.

Corn crops in this section are look-ing fine, and farmers are now prepar-ing to plant their fall crops.

CAPT. McKAY WILL PROBABLYGET TAMPA POSTMASTER-

•iHIP

It is believed here that there is avery strong probability that CaptainJames McKay will be appointed post-master at Tampa.

It is expected that the postmastergeneral will send his recommendationof Captain McKay to the presidentwithin the next four or five days. Thematter has not been definitely settled,but indications point to Captain Mc-Kay as the winner in the field of can-didates.

Congressman Sparkman was in con-ference with the postmaster generalabout it, and declined to be quoted.—Louis Ludlow, to Jacksonville Metrop-olis.

FOR SALE!—By Emil Duerka, on C.Y. Miller’s place, I>4 miles north of

Fla., one 4-year old mare, one9-year-old mare, one 12-year-old horse,one colt two months old, 16 barrels ofsyi*up, one two-horse wagon, one newcane mill, three rolls, two kettles, 25acres very good corn, 5 acres caneand SSOO worth of new furniture. Allat a bargain. Owner leaving thecountry.—7-23-4td 7-24-ltw

LOST—Panama hat, telescopeshape, either in Ocala or on road be-tween Ocala and Gainesville. Finderplease return to this office and re-ceive reward.

WHAT WE ESCAPED

Editor Frank Harris, of the OcalaBanner, has been thinking over thepolitical situation and apparentlycame to the conclusion that Floridahad fared badly in regard to govern-ment patronage. That the administra-tion had evidently overlooked Floridain making appointments was evident,and in concluding an editorial recent-ly published in the Banner he said:“So far as our memory serves us Flo-rida has had no recognition in anyway. If she were a bigger state oreven a doubtful state she w'ould pernaps fare better,” and while this isprobably true, there are other thingsin this connection for which perhaps,we should be extremely thankful.

Let us consider for a moment theidea that President Wilson mighthave forgotten the attitude of theFlorida delegation at Baltimore, andturned to this wonderful state toselect a secretary of state. Whatthen? Why, it would have been pos-sible, though not likely, that the Flo-rida man, in order to eke out an ex-istence and keep the wolves from theporte cochere, might have taken upstenography and done odd jobs aboutthe shops in Washington—and beenseverely criticised for thus spendinghis off time in such a manner.

Then again, supposing a Floridaman had been made secretary of thenavy—of course such a possibility isonly presented for the sake of argu-ment. Ever since Sir Joseph Porter,K. C. 8., went below to escape theheavy breeze on board the Pinafore,it has been the rule to avoid anythingthat smelled of salt water in navalappoinments. But to return to the sur-mise, if a man from this state, whichpractically lies between the Atlanticand the Gulf of Mexico, had beencarelessly assigned to the navy port-folio just as likely as not he w'ouldhave allowed terms, that have beenas fixed as a South Sea barnacle to aship, to stand, and possibly he wouldnever have thought it necessary tospecify a diet for the men in com-mand of ten-million dollar battleships.Of course such carelessness and inat-tention to the vital parts of runningthe navy of a great nation would havelaid the Florida man open to com-ment, and reflected upon his nativestate.

To go further into details and showwhat we have escaped, by the kindlyforethought of the professor, justimagine the predicament a Floridasecretary of the treasury would havebeen in, presuming that he wf as ofage before appointment, and had seenthe young women of Florida? Royalty

j has its way, and the invitation to the! White House amounts to a command—just as it does in England or Ger-

j many—and who knows but that after

j having secured a blushing bride from! the inner circle a Florida secretarymight have been so careless as toprefer a bridal tour by rail, and paid

J his own expenses?I There • are other appointmentswhich some other president mighthave offered to Florida men, and em-barassed them greatly; for instancethat now’ occupied by Minister Page;where a conservative man from Flori-da would likely have kept his privateopinion to himself and lost severalpleasing items for the AssociatedPress; and what a calamity it wouldhave been to have had a Florida manas envoy to Greece! This latter, to be

1 sure, because he might have shownj himself a real diplomat and never

! have given the president a secondshot in this appointment; maybe aFlorida man assigned to work in Ber-lin would have been so commonplaceas to find a comfortable house at areasonable rental, and disgraced theUnited States by endeavoring to livewithin the paltry salary of $17,500 ayear allow’ed by the government. AFlorida man sent to Mexico wouldperhaps have conciliated the warringfactions and just think for an instantof missing all that patriotic stuffabout saluting the flag!

There are a few other places w’hichhave been carefully assigned by thepresident w’hich would have appearedpossible for Florida men to have filled.But as Editor Harris has suggested,there are larger states than Florida,and some doubtful states, and all ofthem offer men for the supreme benchand the commerce commission, and soon. Florida, solidly democratic, hasmerely been told to sit still. And look-jing it over, as we have suggested, nodoubt the editor of the Banner willagree with us, that we have possiblyescaped a whole lot, through our posi-tion, out of range of the professor’sspectacles.—Times-Union.

STRAIGHT TALK

Editor Woods of the Eustis LakeRegion, who is always forceful andnearly always right, hits the proverb-ial nail on the head when he says:

“No business man in any towrnshould allow a newspaper publishedin his town to go without his namementioned somewhere in its columns.This applies to all kinds of business,general stores, groceries, furnituredealers, professional men and, in fact,all classes of business men. This does

not mean that you should have awhole or even a quarter page ad inevery issue of the paper, but yourname and business should be men-juoued if you do not use more than atwo-line space. A stranger pickingup a newspaper sohuld be able to telljust what business is represented hi atown by looking at the business men-tioned in the paper. This is the bestpossible town advertising. The manwho does not advertise his businessdoes an injustice to himself and histown. He is the man who expects thepaper to do most of the boosting forhis town. The life of any town depends upon the live, wide-aw'ake andliberal business men in it.”

BELLEVIEW

Special Cor. Ocala Banner:The town council met at the hall

Tuesday evening. This was the firstbusiness meeting held since the newboard was elected at the regular year-ly meeting the first of May. Theboard voted to reduce the price ofthe rent on the hall from $1.50 to $1for an evening’s entertainment. Theformer price of $1.50 w’as thought tobe exorbitant by some of our citizens

Mr. F. A. Abbott, who has been agreat sufferer from asthma for overa year, passed away at the home ofDr. B. N. Tanner Thursday afternoonat four o’clock. Mr. Abbott camehere in the spring with his wife* andyoung daughter, hoping the climatew’ould be of benefit to him. Although

he was more comfortable here thanhe had been elsewhere the dread dis-ease had made such inroads upon hisvitality that he succumbed to the in-evitable, after making a strong fightfor life and health. His remains weretaken to Ocala, where they were pre-pared for shipment to his home in thenorth. Dr. and Mrs. Tanner accom-panied Mrs. Abbott and daughter ontheir sad journey, and will remain attheir old home in Cleveland, Ohio, fora month oi*more, renewing old friend-ships and visiting relatives.

A pretty home wedding was sol-emnized on Thursday evening at theresidence of Mr. J. A. Freeman, whenhis second son, Zebulon, or “Zebbie,”as he is better know’n, was joined inthe holy bonds of matrimony to MissVerdie Adams of Shady. Judge L. Le-Grand Hopkins performed the cere-mony in a most impressive manner.With the exception of Mrs. Hopkins,only the near relatives of the brideand groom were present. A bountifulsupper was served after the cere-mony. The newly married couplewill reside in Shady at the home ofthe bride’s father, Mr. James Adams,where their many relatives andfriends will always receive a cordialwelcome.

The social dance given by Mrs. H.M. Perry at the Marion Hotel lastThursday evening was pronounced by

those present to be the most enjoya-ble of any of the series. Ice cream

served and the party broke up ata late hour, hoping Mrs. Perry wouldsoon give them another invitation fora similar entertainment.

Mr. John D. Lyles of Dunnellon wrasagain a Sunday visitor in town. Johnahvays has had a w’arm spot in hisheart for his old home, but recentlythe attraction seems much greaterthan ever. Why?

Mrs. J. W. Fant, Jr., has been se-riously ill for the past two weeks. Herhusband took her to Ocala, where shecould have better medical treatment.We are pleased to report a decidedchange for the metter in her condi-tion and trust she may soon be wellagain.

Eugene Hardison, Jr., is spendinghis vacation with his uncle and aunt,Mr. and Mrs. V. D. P. Pratt. His old-time schoolmates are glad to havehim back.

Miss Ruby McClendon of Wildwoodis spending a happy week with hermother and other relatives. MissRuby is a Belleview girl, and her for-mer mates alw’ays rejoice when shecan get away to spend a few dayswith them.

Mr. W. N. Fielding went to Gaines-ville Wednesday to spend a couple ofweeks with her daughter, Mrs. J. E.Murray, and incidentally to get ac-quainted with her little granddaugh-ter.

Mr. A. L. Nott and family, MissMary Gale and Mr. William Fieldingare enjoying a vacation at SmithLake. They are occupying O. M.Gale’s cottage. Mr. Nott is combiningbusiness with pleasure and spendingthe greater part of the day in thestore, as usual.

The ball game Saturday betweenthe home boys and Pedro called outa good crowd, but was not very ex-citing, as the score wr as too uneven.A game is scheduled for this comingSaturday with Summerfield. No doubtthe “Tigers” will give the Belleviewclub something to work for.

Mr. Geo. E. Merrell has recentlybought two lots in the Oak Park ad-dition from Mr. Floyd Kilpatrick.They are on the Summerfield hardroad and Mr. Merrill proposes tobuild a cottage or two there in thenear future.

SEEMS EASY TO SELL LAND INSOUTH FLORIDA

The Orlando Reporter-Star saysthat one hundred thousand dollars issaid to be the price of a land dealthat has just been consummated, in-volving twenty thousand acres ofland located around Orlando andOveido.

The land in question is a part ofthe holdings of the South Florida Na-val Stores Company, and comprisessome of the most valuable realty inthis section.

The deal was engineered by R. SHall, the well known turpentine mag-nate of Ocala. Chicago capitalistswere the purchasers.

One of the most interesting fea-tures connected with the sale is thefact that Mr. Lee Miller, an Orlandoman, is to be one of the Florida managers.

This is probably the largest dealthat has been consummated in thispart of Florida for some time, andwill no doubt be of much benefit toOrlando, as much of the land lies atno great distance from the city, andits development is certain to carrywith it many advantages to this sec-tion.

THE BATTLE OF ATLANTA

On the morning of the 20th of July,18C3, the main body of the UnionArmy had crossed to the south sideof Peach Tree Creek, within threemiles of Atlanta. The Confederateswere w ithin the strong entrenchmentsw’ith which for more than a year,they had been surrounding that im-portant place. On the morning of the21st of July, finding themselves close-ly pressed, the Confederate soldiersabandoned their outer line of earth-works, and tok possession of the in-ner line of redoubts, strongly con-structed. The legions of Shermanswept into the defences abandonedand closed around the doomed city.A heavy battle wr as fought on themorning of the 21, and on the 22. Gen.McPherson was on both sides of therailroad from Decatur; Gen. Loganwr as an the right. The southernersemerged, heavily massed and plunged,into conflict with the union troops, jThe battle waged from early morning juntil late in the afternoon, when the;Southerners defeated and suffering!heavy losses, retreated. It was in this ibattle Gen. McPherson was killed.

It cost Florida orange, growersabout $4,000,000, in transportationcharges, to market the past crop of7,000,000 boxes of fruit, and the In-terstate Commerce Commission doesnot appear to make any attempt tocome to the relief of the growers, fix-ing a rate for citrus fruit that is justand responsible. California gets arate of $1 for a 3,000 mile haul, asagainst at rate of 70 to 80 cents for a1,000 mile haul for Florida.—DeLandRecord.

Louisiana, which is threatening tobreak away from the democratic fold,has not had one of its citizens in thecabinet since the war. The progres-sive in that state, in their campaignfor control are urging the democratsto “break awr ay” and help them carry

Louisiana and they will see howsoon democratic patronage will cometheir way.

The question of state and nationalprohibition w’ill be one of the princip-al matters of consideration at the con-

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vention of the International Union ofBrewery workmen, w’hich is to meetin Baltimore in September. Promi-nent speakers are announced to makeaddresses.

Hon. P. P. Slaton, United StatesCommissioner of Education, is beingflooded with letters from all partsof the country protesting against hisreported determination to eliminatewomen as school teachers. If Prof.Clayton’s plans materialize he pre-dicts that by 1930 women will be en-tirely replaced by men in the schoolsof the United States.

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For Sale by Marion Hardware Cos.,Ocala, Fla.

TRICE’S TRUMPETEER(Articles Published under this Heading fur-

nished by M. P. A. Bureau, Jacksonville)

THE ABOLISHING HABIT

(By J. C. Trice)Because a few slave owners in the

south were cruel to those underbondage, abolititionists of the northmade common warfare upon all slave-holders and reduced this section to astate of pauperism, then stood look-ing on indifferently wr hile the vam-pires and vultures of their own sec-tion prayed upon the broken and di-sappointed southerners. Since thenour increasing regard for the immort-al principles of humanity has taughtus to look upon slavery as a mons-trous thing, but from the same sourcewe learn two w’rongs do not make aright, hence we still regard the civilwar as the crowning folly of all theages—the collosal infamy of Arneri-govemment. Whether thundred fromthe pulpit of religo-enthusiam or pro-claimed from the ballustrades of thetranscending glory of national govern-ment, he w’ho accuseds God of direct-ing such a war, on the one side orthe other, is as ignorant of the attri-butes of the architects of the supern-al splendors of earth and heaven aswere those who went shriekingthrough the forests and fed upon raw*flesh of wild animals during the darkages. It is so inconsistent with Infi-nite Love and Unbound Charity, thesuperlative characteristics of greatgoodness, that is becomes sacriligiousto associate the two together.

Yet the fire that directed the penof the Harriett Beecher Stow’e, togrip the hearts of the nation and dullthe sensibilities of men into the moststupendous wrong of Christian civili-zation is not dead. It smoulders oftenand the country for a brief periodseems to be well rid of its baneful in-fluence. But just as we begin tobreathe a silent prayer of thankful-ness some misguided enthusiast fansthe sentiment into flame once more,and as its radiance fell athwartthe canopy of the universe the rest-less citizenship mistakes it for theStar of Hope and looks upon it with 1the same reverence as the Sun-wor-shippers did the orb of day. The anti-saloon league proposes to usher inthe millenium by States and NationalProhibition. Another crow'd wouldhasten it with an anti-cigarette law’.The Presbuterian council recently insession decided only those W’hoeschew tobacco in all forms cantravel with its members to the newJerusalem. The very latest is a sug-gestion from a West Florida paperthat a place of amusement should beabolished because a murder was com-mitted there. These are only a few ofthe thousand or more agencies beingdaily pushed for the hastening of thedawr n of the millenium. Yet we dis-appointedly scan the eastern horizonfor the first rays of its effulgent light,and only find a darkening gloom.There must be something radicallywrong with the modern reformsystem.

Slavery cannot be justified on anygrounds. A custom which hushes thelaughter of the young folks and con-tinually keeps them under the espion-age of a frowning old she-cat or agrow’ling old he-bear is the last edi-tion of an earthly purgatory sentence.Some people cannot dance, thereforethey oppose dancing in all its forms.Others have no ears for music, andthey straightway see a deamon lur-ing in every place of amusement iw’here music makes the listeners for-get the fleeting hours. Dyspepticswho have to forget chewing and smok-ing envy the pleasure others get outof it, and on a pretext of piety wouldforbid it. Still others who found itimpossible to convert to personal usethe entire output of the brewrers anddistillers before destroying the mem-brane of their stomaches, for onecause or another would like to en-force prohibition.

Of they are working for the benefitof humanity. But the trouble is, they!are more violent in their good worksthan the occasion justifies. They in-sist on making people think as theydo by whatever means suggest them-selves as easiest and quickest of re-sults. They have misiterperted thecommand to teach and preach into ajustification of force, forgettting thatgentleness leadeth far, while forceusually makes a big noise and endsin a Vow. They imagine themselvespersonal agents of a merciful God,

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and in His name commit barbaritiesthat would shame the King of perdi-

tion-forgetting that intelligent peopleknow if God desired to resort toforce He could make us all good bythe exercise of His will.

If he should forcefully stop every-thing which at some time leads to %

crime, or even to murder where wouldit end? The first fight I ever saw iamy life was at a church, because ofsome plain talk from the pulpit by myfather. An erring brother objected tohaving his errors pointed out eventhough no names were called, and de-cided to settle his grievance in trulybarbarian style. Perhaps he thoughtthe Lord was directing him. But whenhe went up against that preacher hesoon found he had read his direc-tions wrong and had no time to getanew edition. He and his friendswanted to tear down the church forthe alleged reason a heretic had

i preached in it, but perhaps the real{ reason wr as that he had been licked,j Js just as much reason in thatman’s attitude as there is in wantingto destroy every place of amusementat w’hich murder is at some time com-mitted. Returning to the questionasked at the beginning of this para-graph w’here would the destructionend? Murder is committed at timesin church. Shall w'e for that reasondestroy the churches? Frequently thehome circle is the scene of a murder.Shall we for that reason destroy thehomes? Flying machines, automo-biles,, railway trains, steamboats, andevery other agency of the humanfamily at times becomes the direetinstrumentality of most horribledeath. Shall we abolish them all? ifnot, then why should any one bedestroyed for that reason?

Real regulation is the shrine atw’hich all can confidently worship.

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FORPERMIT TO SELL LIQUORS,

WINES AND BEER

Whereas, The Carmichael & SonCompany, a corporation, has filedw’ith the board of county commis-sioners for Marion County, Florida,its application for permit to sellliquors, wines and beer in electiondistrict one of said county and state;any citizen of such election districtmay show cause, if any there be, at

l the meeting of the board to be heldon Wednesday, the 9th day of Sep-tember, 1914 next, why such permitshould not be granted.

P. H. NUGENT,Clerk of the Board of County CommU*

sioners, Marion County, Florida.By M. E. GODDARD,

7-24-st—ad. D. C.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Department of the Interior,U. S. Land Office at Gainesville, Fla.

July 18, 1914.Notice is hereby given that Sophia i

M. Pinkney, of Ocala Florida, who, onJuly 26, 1909, made homestead entry,Serial, No. 05719, for s% of sw 14, ,section 35, township 14 south, range |22 east, Tallahassee meridian, has ;field notice of intention to make jthree-year proof, to establish clai® I

S to the land above described, before |the county judge, at Ocala Florida, 1on the

Ist Day of September, 1914.Claimant names as witnesses;Henry Clemons of Oak Florida.

William J. Robins of Silver Springs, 1Florida.

Robert Parish of Silver Spring*. |Florida.

Jim Smith of Sparr, Florida.HENRY S. CHUBB,

7-24-st—ad. Register. |

NOTICE

In County Judge’s Court, in and ft* 1Marion County, Florida.

Carn-Thomas Company,a Florida corporation.

Plantiff. jvs ATTACHMENT- |

Will Caruthers,Defendant. v I

To Will Caruthers, Defendant; *■* ■all Other Persons Interested.You are hereby notified that *

writ of attachment has been issue*against you, and your property attach jed to satisfy the demand of thetiff in above case, amounting to forty* |nine dollars and .54 dollars ll

Now, unless you shall appear befot® Ithe county judge in and for said cot®* |ty, at his office in Ocala, Florida, o® I

the 7th day of September, A. i1914, judgment will be render**against you, and* your property so* afor the debt. n f

| Dated this 20th, day of July, A. i1914.

CARN-THOMAS COMUANTV IFiaiflti®- S

WILLIAM GOBER,Attorney for plaintiff. 7-24-51.*0- 1

We know’ that the readers ofBanner will be gratified to learn tW*|Mr. E. P. Rentz and family have d* jnitely determined to return to Oc* 1 1on August Ist, and will make Oca**their permanent home. We are cfif |tainly delighted.