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L aatifvl scrillttittaef its PrctiaR by aa xOliN-

orK The foUowing description of Ben7 Bur is rroBji setter written by Mrs stair So

Bernard of Fessacola to her mother MrsBeatrice Mareaa of this cityEp BAXXBJIJ

After a good deal of persuasion I

r1 finally resolved to leave Marean athome with his anntand accompany-

Mr Bernard fto Mobile to witnessthejgreatest prodnctionfiever stagednamely IBen HUTfLew Wallaces

ri story of Christ We left ome Sun¬

day night and arrived in Mobile at4 oclock on Monday morning wentto the Battle House which is themost elegant hotel in the city and as

f4 large as the Tampa Bay hotelat Tampa Blair had left orders that

aL we were not to be called early and

I when we came down to our daintlyprepared and tastetully served break-

fast

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the hour hand was nearing 10

oclockAlter breakfast we drove out to

take a look at thecity as it was myfirst yisit there I was much surprised-

at its immensity We had taken prider hi the thought that our Pensacola JJis

getting to be quite a large city butreally when compared to3Mobile itseems little more than a country vil-

lagec Eight oclock Monday nightlfound

us in our seats in the opera houseready for the play and most assured-

ly

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we found it all that is claimed-

for itThe company carries four hun-

dred

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and fifty people nine horsestwo Roman chariots and one camely

The chariot racelbetween Ben Hur I

and Massala was the most exciting

r and realistic thing I ever aw on thestage Each hadlfour horses in his j

chariot those of Ben Hurjbein eoalI

black and those of his rival milka f

white and all were beautiful be-

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J5 descriptionI

1 The scene where Christ passes I

through Jerusalem and heals theI

1 lepers is overpowering in its grandeurand solemnity One never seesChrist in person in the play but oneknows instinctively when He is sup-

posed

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to be on the Mount of Olives

and then the lepers flock to Him tob3 healed and a chorus of three

iiiS hundred voices male and female

ice with the characters dressed in thefl artistic Grecian costume and each

character carrying a beautifulsing Hail to Jesus of Nazareth andthe lepers kneel in the shadows until

c the anthem is finishedr Then light so radiant that for a

moment it is dazzling in its effect isthrown on the scene and the lepersare healed and rise to their feet re

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joicing and the applause from thevast audience sinks into a low deep

Z1 mnrmer while the music is so softsweet and impressive that for a fewmoments one imagines oneself any-

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except in a theater from thesacred emotions the indescribable-scene has inspired1National Bible Conference to be Held-

in Gainesville Feb 5th to 9th4

The city is making great prepara-tions

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for the coming bible conferenceThe conference of last year was agreat success many visitors attend-ing

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j from all parts of the countryS Among the many great preachers

on the program are D J WilburChapman Presbyterian Dr Len GBro glton Baptist Atlanta Ga

5 Dr D V Gwilym Episcopalian-New York Dr W D BlackstoneMethodist Chicago Prof J RC

I Brown Virginia Dr EI D PepperPhiladelphia Rev Geo R StuartMethodist Tennessee Dr A C

Dixoh Baptist Boston Dr Clarence-R Strouse and many others

The railroads have granted special5rates to the conference Tickets on

Tuesdays Thursdays and SaturdaysA very cheap rate for board is of-

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The conference offers a great op¬

portunity to the citizens of FloridaMany Florida pastors attended last

t year An invitation is extended toall clergymen the state by thepastors Gainesville

If yon desire further details as toentertainmdnt etc write Mr Fer

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cUD nd Bayer secretary Gaines-ville

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To the Editor the Ocala Banner

Time with his slow but ceaselessroll has counted twentyfive full cen-

turies since the heroic Spartans un-

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the brave Leonidas met the Per-sian

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hordes under Xeries and cov-

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the pass of Thermopylae witheternal celebrity

The heroic conduct of that littleSpartan band is repeated in everytongue and is known of every school-boy throughout the world d

The charge of the Light Brigade-at Balaklava under the leadership ofthe Earl of Cardigan has been made I

immortal by Lord Tennysons heroicpoem

Theirs not to reason whyTheirs to do or dif

will be read around the hearthstone-and declaimed in the schoolroom aslong as the English languageis spo ¬

kenLordMacaulay has drawn such a

vivid picture of the Black Holeinto which one hundred and fortysix English prisoners were thrust bySnrajah Dowlah the Nabob of Indiaand all but twentythree suffocatedia a manner so heartrending that thevery mention of the name even nowcauses one to shiver as he reads thesickening details

Nothing in history or fictionsays Macaulay not even the storywhich Ugolino told in the sea of ever-lasting

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ice after he had wiped hisbloody lips on the scalp of his mur¬

derer approaches the horrors whichwere recounted by the few survivorsof that night

After suffering untold agonies theprisoners went mad with despair-

So likewise has every school boyheard of the Alamo where one hundredand forty Texans met an attack offour thousand Mexicans under SantaAnna and after days o hardship andsuffering sacrificed their lives almost-to a man preferring to share withtheir dauntless leader the braveColonel Travis death to surrender

For the Black Hole and the AlamoFlorida has her blockhouse andfor her Thermopylae and Balaklavashe has her massacre of Major Dadeand his whole command save one whoalone was left to tell the heroic story I

Yet how unknown are these two in-cidents

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even to the average Florida I

reader-In the progress of the Seminole In ¬

dian war Captain Halllnian with asmall detachment of volunteer sol ¬

diers was left on the banks of theWithlacoochee river and in the non ¬

delivery or confusion of o ders for¬

gotten and left to the mercy of thesavages

I Quickly perceiving their perilousfate these soldiers hastily erected a

I blockhouse and determined to selltheir livesas dearly possible

For more than two months this lit-tle band was kept awake by the al-most

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I constant war whoop of theirsavage assailants and day and nightj bravely repelled their attacks

j Once the Indians succeeded in set-tingj the building on fire and the roof-

i was partly burned off before the hejroic little baud couH stay the pro-gress

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of the flames 1 hHe somewere furiously fighting tire thr othershad their unerring rifles leveled attheir yelling assailants

During all this long and periloussiege this little band subsisted almost

Isolely on parched corn and when I

finally rescued by Colonel Leigh I

Read whose bravery deserves aseparate chapter they were reduced to the last extremity andwere now without even watr toquench their thirst

No severer suffering no braver de¬ Ifense is anywhere recorded in his-tory

And how little known too is thealmost total annihilation of MajorDade and his entire command con-sisting

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of one hundred and thirtynine men

Unexpectedly attacked by a horde-of yelling half naked savages whoemerge from their hiding places likeso many davils arising from the bow ¬

I els of the lower regions in an unpro-tected

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open plain undtr these con¬

ditions what is the behavior of thislittle patriot band

The average man under similarcircumstances would become panicstricken and paralized with fear butthese men do not blanch neitherstampede nor flee Those who do notfall at the first fire stand firm andunflinching quickly get together-form a compact body load their mus ¬kets unlimber their one six poundcannon and fight until every man isslain but one and he sorely woundedand feigning death

Thousands have been fascinated byMaeauleys charming description ofChives and Hastings wonderful ex-ploits in India likewise thousandshave been thrilled by Victor Hugosgraphic description of the battle ofWaterloo and Gordons vivid picture-of Pickettr charge at Gettysburgbut for cool deliberate bravery for¬titude and courage the two incidentshere narrated may have beenJJianytimes equalled buthavenevcrbeensurpassed in any of the crimson stor¬ies of war Ou > TntEB

A very peculiar story is told in arecent issue of the New York WorldA young boy was accused b hisuncle of stealing a diamond ringvalued at a hundred dollars and wassent to the state juvenile reforma-tory

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for three years The baby itsaems put the ring on the cats tailwhen a kitten It has just been dis-

covered¬

that the curious malforma-tion

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of the cats tail was caused bythe diamond ring The whole tenorof the boys life has been changed-and perhaps ruined

Claus Gadson an aged negro whowas born at Fairfield South Carolina-in September 17SS died a few days-

oa near Anthony He was theoldest man in the state and probablyas old as any one in the country

Violation of the revised statutesagainst selling liquor without alicense in the dry counties is engag-ing

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a large part of the time of theUnited States court

Quincy has had two sensations inone week A prominent young busi-ness

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man skipped the town and theprincipal of the high school mysteri-ously

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disappeared

A gentleman in Wyoming thinks-he ought to be made the Americanpoet laureate He has discoveredthat gloaming rhymes with Wy-oming

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The good roads convention beganits session in Jacksonville on the 10thand will continue until tomorrow

And so Judge Don Pardee at S-

late date attempts to hoist thebloody shut Fy fy judge

Our new embroidery will ar-rive

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this week Watch ourcounter for bargains TheOcala Bazaar Gad oll

FALL RIVER STRIKE ENDED

Mill Operatives Go Back to Work atReduced Wages

Boston Jan 19The strike of th eJcotton mill operatives at tall River jwas settled at a conference here today

The conference was held at the j

state house representatives of themanufacturers and operatives haYingmet under an arrangement nade byGovernor Douglas i

The strike Began July 25 1904 whenthe manufacturers posted notices of a12V > per cent reduction of wages i

At a conference held here last Wed-nesday

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was without effect but thaconfc 3nce today was authorized tomake a settlement-

By the settlement agreement theoperatives will return to work at onceunder the reduction The question-of the margin between raw materialand manufactured goods which shallbe required by the manufacturers isleft to be adjusted by Governor Doug¬

las

Fall River Mass Jan 19The cot-ton mills strike which began here onJuly 25 1904 was the greatest disturbance the textile industry of America has ever known When the millsinvolved were obliged to close theirgates about 25000 operatives were j

thrown out of work Seventjone millscontrolled by 33 corporations stopped j

the machinery and it remained idle until the middle of November since

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which time most of the factories havebeen running generally with less thanone half the usual force The strikewas directly due to a reduction of 12per cent in wages The mills had re-duced

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wages 10 per cent eight monthspreviously

Under the second reduction thestandard price for weaving was 17C2cents per cut The last cut was notmet by the six mills of the Fall RiverIron works an independent concernThe yarn and thread mills the Barnaby gingham and Stevens quilt millswere also out of the wage reductionagreement

The mills affected by the strike havea combined capital of 25000000 andhare 2300000 spindles During themonth the mills were shu down theoperatives lost nearly 150000 weeklyand the corporations about 25000The aggregate direct losses to all in¬

terests up to today is estimated atfully 5000000 The indirect losseswere also consderable

Postmistress in JailNew Haven Jan JMargaret

Toomey formerly postmaster at LeetsIsland was bound over to the UnitedStates court on a charge of embezzle-ment after a hearing before UnitedStates Commissioner William AWright She went to jail in default-of bonds of 1000 It Is alleged thatMrs Toomeys office accounts werefound to be short to the extent of 350

ICaptain and Crew Drowned IMiami Fla Jan 19The Spanishhark El Victoria with a crew of 16mea from Tampico Mexico to Fernaadina Fla went ashore near PalmBeach yesterday afternoon The captain and 10 men of the crew werdrowned while attempting to reach UiJshore

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BY SPECIAL REQUEST

Dr Gcltfstcin Returns Here Jan 29and Wit Remain a Few

Days Lender r4

JOffice in the Ocaa Heise Where

They Will Be For a Few DaysMany persons do not see as well as

they should Some see well but theireyes become tired Others sufferwith headache constantly or period-ically

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which medicine does not re-lieve

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because the headache comesfrom the eye strain and the onlyremedy is a pair of glasses properlyfitted by one who understands theeyes their defects and their relationsto human ills

Go you value your eyesightThen dont put off wearing glasses

unless you know they fit and are do-ing

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you good No two personshave eyes JUST alikeIWE EXAMINE YOUR EYES FREE

OF CHARGE-And when we say examine them

we mean a thorough examinationas complete as can be had anywhere atany price We exp ain to you whatyour trouble is You get the benefitof our experience and knowledge

I freeYOUR CHILDS EYESIGHT-

You are responsible for the sight ojyour child Watch out for frownsfor squints When he reads or stud-ies does he suffer with headacheparticularly after studying The eyeis perfectly developed at the age of j

ten and should there be any defect 1

it should be corrected at that time i

We cordially invite you to bring the j

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children in You may save them a i

lifetime of s rain and weak sight It i

is a duty which you owe to yourchild and we DONT CHARGE FOR

I ADVISING YOreThe Eyes

The eyes are at once delicate andI

tough Delicate because of the i

functions they perform tough as tothe endurance they exhibit under themaltreatment they receive from both itheir possessors and many of thoseclaiming to be competent to give t

them proper attention I

Eye Strain i

i More headache and nervousness iscaused by eye strain than all othercauses combined Good vision isabsolutely no proof that the eyes aregood Many readers of this articlecan see perfectly but they suffer

I from nervous ills of one kind orI another and never think their eyesare the cause of it allI have taken medicine without getting

mayrelief or may have sufferd thinkingthere was no

I aO RELIEVE THE EFFECT WEMUST REMOVE THE CAUSE

j Glasses which make unnecessarythe strain on the nerve the onlyrelief and must be worn constantlyNatures

In almost every instance whenthere is some derangement of any ofour organs nature gives us warningand if we neglect the signalwe must suffer the consequencesWhen the eye is de ectiye nature hasmany ways of letting us know Theeyes become tired more or less easilythe lids become inflamed when theeyes are used or when exposed tothe air the eyes ache and water jeasily and it becomes to Irest them often Sometimes the eyesadhere in the morning and in other I

cases reading is followed by violentheadache TO RELIEVE THE EF¬FECT WE MUST REMOVE THECAUSE and the cause is EYESTRAIN Glasses which make strain I

unnecessary will remove the causebut must be fitted by one who-understands the eyes and their de ¬

fectsI

Proper Glasses and Proper FramelIt is of great importance that glass-

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should be properly ground andcentered and of the best quality Theframes must be so fitted that theywill hold the lenses in place so therewill be no damage to the eves from alack of harmony between the centerof the lenses and those of the eyes r

Many otherwise rood pieces of workhave been a failure from this causealone

Office hours from 930 to 300

The tax books rarely reveal a mil-lionaire

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In New York the tax booksif

show only eight and in Ocala not oneAnd yet one with his eyes openwould think that we at least had halfdozen-

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severe ship wreck occurred offPalm Beach January 18 The cap-tain

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and ten men were drowned whileattempting to reach the shore

And now Judge Don Pirdee issorry that he butted in The

warming up Bourke Cockran gavehim was great J

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of bread baking where Banque ftFlour is employed is of tjiprize winning health bringingi

j order Housewives who havttpused the Banquet brand oigest4

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r I speak in highest terms of itsiI f1Jt 1 41 merits as a bread baker and PieaLJuR i and cake maker They know

1 it never fasil them Iojj THE FAIR BLHaII PropkOc ala Fla

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OCALA MINING LABORATORYF T SCHREIBER

Consulting and Analytical Chemist Member-of

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I OCALA FLA Oct xx Ji04Messrs Strauss Co Wholesale Whisky

Merchants Ocala VIa r I

Gentlemen In accordance with yourI

nstructions I visited your warehouse onI

the Unh instant and personally selectedI

i from your stock a sample of-i

j Strauss Roy l Reservewhisky the analysis of which shows it tocontain

RAUAlcohol by weight per cent JGCAlcohol by volume per cent 4UilDegree proof per cent 87 J 0Residue on evaporation p cent 0 t> GOAsh per cent 1011Reducing sugar per cent O25Volatile acids per oent 0027Amyl alcohol fusel oil per cent 0073 1e vj

The above results show the whisky to bea carefully blended brand of high gradeand that it hsls been disstilled from a clean pur grain mashThe amount of fusel oil and of volatile acids is very hw

Respectfullylr T SCHREIBER Chemist

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