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ARA I1lzAsETH HARRIS. LEGAL Editse
HAPPENINGS ABOUT TOWN.
Mr.. william Benus, of Bronson, ID
an = visit to Ocala friends.
Mr.. G. B. Tankersley, OF Coleman,
vas In Ocala on Tuesday.
Mr.. Clifford L. Anderson is at Mr.
T. r. suyder's haberdashery-
Mr.. 8. r. Whaiey spent Sunday 1t
the lake with his family.
Mr.. Chas. III. Breedlove formerly
Southern Express Agent here, sPeat
Sunday in the city
Mr.. and Mrs. w. D. Graham lett
Monday for the mountains of North
Carolina.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. PAstenr and
baby came home Monday from Lake
Weir.
Miss Peace. of Micanopy. has ae-
cepted a position with c. Rheinaaer
& Company.
Mr.. A. T. Swartz and family are
now occupying Mr.. E. T. Helvenston
house on Lime street.
Mr.. Jack Camp has gone to Ashe-
Vile, N c. to visit his family, who
are summering there.
Mr.. Frank NJ. Simonton, very
prominent member of the Tampa bar,
spent Sunday in the city.
Mrs. D. W. Davis and children and
the Misses Piatt returned home Mon
day from Lake Weir.
Julien Robinson returned home
eMonday from visit of six weeks
with relatives in Savannah.
Mrs. J. B Cutler has gone to Hen
Jacksonville, N. c., to spend month
or so in the mountains,
Mrs. Annie Stroud and children, of
Anthony, are the guests of the for
mer's brother. Mr.. c. r. Tydings.
DR.. Guy D. Aver, of Atlanta. is IN
the city for short visit with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Aver.
Mr.. John B. Floyd returned to his
home at Irvine Monday after spend
ing a few days with his Ocala friends.
DR.. B. P. Richards, of Gainesville,
came down Sunday afternoon for
short visit. He returned home Mon
day..
Mrs. w. H. Hopkins, of Orange
Lake, after brief visit to Ocala, re-
turned to her home Tuesday after
noon.
Rev. William Crane Gray, of Or
lando, will hold the first service in
the new Episcopal church next Sum
day.
The. news of the marriage of Mr..
Warren has created quite a ripple of
excitement and discussion in our
city.
DR.. D. NJ. smith left Sunday for
New Yotx and other Western cities.
He win be absent for a month or SIX
weeks.
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& STORE. S E.
Miss Julia Barwick. of Wildwood,
who a number OF years ago resided
in Ocala. was visiting in the city
Tuesday.
Mr.. Sol BeoJaEin, of Atlanta,
president OF the Ocala Ice & Manu-
featuring Ooapany, is here on a bus
mess visit
Bear in aaind the baseball game
between the Use-to-Be's and the
Nevertheless Friday afternoon-pro-
vided the weather is good.
Capt. Hatten Howard, of Graham
Vile, is We regret tolearn. again very
i'll. He is at the residence Of Mrs.
Frances HoWse in this city.
Mr. b K Thrower, jr., of Gaines
rillee; A. J. Mclaughlin, of Fair
field, and Mr.. T. A. Mitchell, of
Bellexiew, were visitors to Ocala
Tuesday.
MIR. Abe Brown, who accompanied
his wife to Chattanooga, Tenn, sew
eral months ago is at home again.
Mrs Brown will not return until the
fall.
Capt John L. Inglis, of Port Inglis,
president of the Dunnellon Phosphate
Company and one of Florida's most
prominent citizens, was in OcaIa
Tuesday.
Mrs. Drew Mathews returned home
Sunday afternoon from a visit to her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Edwards
at Williston-
Miss Jessie Maughs left Sunday for
visit to Chicago and other western
cities after which she VIII spend a
few weeks at Blue Ridge Springs, Va.
Col. III. B. Masters, of New York
City, owner of the Masters store in
this city, is here on a business visit
and is a guest at the Savoy Hotel.
Mr.. Charles S. Cullen has purchas-
ed one of the Club House lots, just
next to the Central National Bank,
from Mr.. D. S. Woodrow.
Rev. G. @. Carroll preached a very
strong, fOrceful and eloquent ser
mon on the temperance question
at the Methodist church Sunday
night.
Miss Sallie Camp, who has been
visiting the Misses Scott at Canton,
Ga, for several weeks is now visiting
friends in Atlanta after which she
will go to Roanoke, Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Tillis and son re-
turned home Monday from Green
Springs, near Tampa, where they
have been recuperating for the past
few week.
Mr.. Rollin Pike and Miss Agnes
Pike, the former of ST. Augustine
and the latter of Miami, after a short
visit in Ocala with their father, Mr..
w. s. Pike, have returned to their
homes.
Mrs. K. V. Green has gone to
Clinton, KY, to visit her daughter.
In company with her son she will
visit New York City, Buffalo, Niagara
Falls and other points of interest be-
fore returning home.
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The Boston Store is still alive, and
making things stand aside.-Ocala
Mr. J. w. Dutton, of Mascotte, one
of Lake county's most successful
business men, was in the city Friday.
Miss Shelly Souter has gone to
Polk county, where she will teach
school. Miss Souter was graduated
in June from Wesleyan Female Col
lege.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. r. Lester and
children are in the city for a few days
and we areeglad to say will not give
up their residence in Florida.
Miss Ethel Robinson, one of Ocala's
most popular young ladies, has gone
to Jacksonville, where she will spend
several weeks with Mrs. Robert ALI
ston Rhodes.
Mr.. Jim Gates, of the Tea Pot
Grocery, returned home Monday
from q visit of several months at
Green Springs, Clearwater and Dune
din.
Dr.. Tompkins, a young physician
from Jasper is recent arrival in our
city He will remain here for several
months and may decide to locate in
Ocala.
MIR. and Mrs. Samuel r. Birdsey,
Jr., of Macon, Ga, formerly of this
city, announce the birth of a little
girl several days ago at their hor,e-
Mrs. Henderson and her y Dung son..
Irving. Of Jacksonville. who have
been the guests of Mr. and Nlrs. Par
ham Mabry for several weeks, return
ed home Monday afternoon.
Mr.. Cohen, of Miami, who has
beensspending several days IN Ocala
with MIR. NJ. Frank, left Monday for
Hot Springs, Ark, for a visit of
several weeks.
Mrs. j. w. Crosby and children
have gone to Saluda, n. c., toc two
months. Mr.. Crosby accompanied
his family and will remain with them
for few days
j. A. Pittman & Son are still on
hand, doing business at the same old
stand Selling furniture, new and
old, selling SO. cheap, you would
think they were stolen.-Ocala Ad-
vertiser.
Little Misses Annie and Marion
Snowden, who have spent the past
six weeks in Ocala with their uncle
and aunt, Mr. and Mrs B. A. Wealth
ers, left Friday for their home at
Lake City.
Mr.. ana Mrs. w. Ernest Oidtield
have returned from their visit to
Tampa and are with Mrs. Oldfield's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Sinclair.
Mr.. Oldfield, who is a travelling man
will make OcaIa his headquarters for
the present.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Carroll and lit
tie daughter returned home Monday
from ST. Petersburg. They were ac-
by their little niece,
Christine Hannah. Mrs. Carroll has
been visiting her sister there for the
past month and Mr.. Carroll went
down for Sunday.
Rheumatic
When pains or irritation exist on
any part of the body, the application
of Billiards. Snow Liniment gives
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neighbor Peckwater is the right man in
the right place. For instance, if YOU were
10 Keep fowls next door to some men and
couidnt train them to get all their crow
ing done in the daytime. those men might
eIthef persuade the rest of your neighbors
10 sign petition and indict you as a
nuisance, or they might maintain family
or healthy. underfed cats that would spend
their nights IN breaking into your hen
roost and their days in watching for your
chickens to be let out for run
But Peckwater wouldn't do that kind of
lh!ng. II you kept fowls next door to
Peckwater and they broke his sleep with
their crowings he would be so nervously
anxious not to worry you with complaints
or to seem unfrendly that If you ques-
TONED MIN he would assure you he never
even heard them: then he would transfer
II necessary, give UP sleeping with the win
dow open. and lay sandbag along the mid
die of the sashes.
we like Peckwater for this and because
We know that in arranging everything for
our comfort and convenience we need never
stint ourselves from any fear OF encroac CHI
ing on his convenience or comfort II we
DO encroach. Peckwater won't mind; or II
he does, he viii say he doesn't which Is
just as good-for US.
That's why we like him, as we would like
any such good. goodnatured man whose
amiable weakness of character makes 1t
easy for us TO push him into the back
ground so. as to leave the front seats free
to more snowy and aggressive ac-
quaintance. We like him for the accommo-
dating patience and generosity with which
he forgives or is Indifferent to all the little
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vious generations, 1t is not going TO be
easy to break up the splitting nuisance, but
even severe measures are juStihable. since
so much good can be accomplished, and
physicians must be leaders in the move
ment. In New York city the death rate
from tuberculosis among the sweepers in
the STRENGTHENING. department Is so much
in excess of that of the rest of the popu-
lation as to make 1t very clear that the
splitting habit is an unfortunate source OF
serious evil and an important element in
spreading one Of the worst Of modern
diseases.
English sanitary statistics show that a
correspondingly high death rate exists
among the scrub women of the English
metropolis, and especially among those
who are employed in cleaning large Office
buildings. distinct lowering Of this
death rate has been brought about in re-
cent years by the distribution Of cuSpidors
throughout the corridors OF such build
ingS. AS can readily be realized, this
custom is only of comparatively recent
origin. but its effect serves to show how
much of suffering even a trivial ameliora-
ton in sanitary matters may accomplish.
In New York city the arrest of a number
OF violators of the city ordinances against
splitting on the streets has led to many
protests in the newspapers. and the aSser-
ton by not a few Intelligent people of the
necessity for expectoration. The answer
to this would seem to be that only one sex
finds it necessary to spit upon the street.
and that this is due rather to a bad habit
fostered in early years than to any special
liability of the male sex to catarrhal con-
ditions. requiring the election of oral dis
charges, Perhaps, however, for time at
least. or until there has been an education
of the next generation in this matter, the
provision by city authorities of receptacies
for expectoration on each block may be a
desirable addition to the sanitary precau-
tions necessary for city life.
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man suspicion our liking for him slowly
and miserably stranges, There are eXcep-
tons, but it is certain that we do not all
like the man to whom we are indebted, nor
the man who Is indebted to us. The per-
verseness of humanity is such that, as Pol
onius warns us, it Is wiser not to hope to
make friends by either borrowing or lend
ing. by either accepting favors or confer.
ring them.
Peckwater comes nearer to filling the
ideal He is a all like. but he is
not the only man, or the man we like best
We are not proud of him, and do not boast
of his friendship. He is neither rich. no
torious nor aristocratic: he has no social
qualities. being dull, nervous. unconvivial
We approve OF him neighbOr: we like
him in his place; but his place Is not be-
side us In society. The society man whom
we ought to like. but don't-the tactful
handsome, brilliant, elegantly polite man
OF the world. Is the man that all the ladies
like; that's why none of us like him
We like so many. with reservations. and
up to certain point that one Is forced to
admit, a last 1t Is practically impossible
to single out any particular type as the
type that is liked by all of us. Neverthe
less there Is indeed. and after ALL one man
thatswe all of us do like. l shall not pre-
sume to say whether he Is the best the
worst of men, the wisest most foolish.
the handsomest the ugliest but there is
no doubt that nearly everything We do is
done for his benefit, that we are sincerely
sorry when he Is ill., and rejoice as sincerely
in his welfare: that though all the world
be against him we never turn our backs
upon him. that however bad his reputation
We can always find excuses for him and
are fatuously convinced that he Is a very
likeable fellow: and that however plain or
unlovely his countenance may appear to
others, we are satisfied that 1t is at least
good-looking every morning as we gaze at
1t While We are doing his hair.
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From the other side of the house runs
a long vista of covered arbor with Its foun-
tain and over-arching trees. 1t Is a beauu-
Inside the big hall and reception room Is
fitted library and Longing pace. Book
shelves line the walls and flowers and easy
chairs make it an ideal summer time rest
Ing place. Outside the other entrance the
old-time lockwood and fir trees much
as they were when the place was new
hundred years ago. The w-growing box
Is not plant to be coaxed into activity and
growth by any expenditure of money, and
time alone is the only thing that can make
the thick. tall bordered walks that encircle
and ornament the soft sod of the cd gar
den.
Much of the place is still given over to
the native woods and raVines that cut up
all this section OF country. fine winding
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or larger Sights it may suit our pleasure
or our pride, from time to time. to put upon
him; we like him for all this. but more or
less consciously We deSpiSe him for II, too.
To win everybody's liking you have got to
like everybody; and when, with much loss
of self-respect you have managed to do
that. you will find that nobody values what
every body possesses. Peckwater Is one or
those wistful weaklings who want all OF US
to like him. and by his constant and ready
yielding to wishes, his tiattering con-
currence in all our opinions. and his equally
fattering acluieScence IN his natural in
feriority to ourselves he makes the task a
pretty easy one for most of us-he never
roCses our antagonism by attempting to
stand betwixt US and the sunlight. but is
always contented to walk modestly In our
shadow.
Poor old Peckwater"' we laugh about
him to the fiourishing and dangerous rivals
we do not like. though we are too prudent
to tell them so. He's a dear fellow, but
he'll never do any good for himself. Clever
oh. yes! but bit Of an ass. Hasn't got
enough go in him to get on at all. but such
a nice, obliging. harmless sort of chap that
you really can't help liking him."
For no one is such a general favorite in
his own set. I suppose. as the man whose
rivalry nobody fears. Those who tell you
that we only find out how much we love a
man after he has got on in the world and is
thoroughly successful may have some rea-
son for wishing you to believe that, but 1t
Is not true
There was a time when Barker was as
universally liked a s Peckwater is. But that
was before he became famous and went to
live in expensive house in fashionable
suburb. Since then we are bitterly agreed
that he has changed toward us: whereas,
the fact is. Ii Is we who have changed to-
ward him. While he was a struggling out
slider, less successful than ourselves,
really liked him, and his lowness served to
accentuare our height; but We resent his
excelling us as a something rather unkind,
IL not actually in bad taste, for we were
used to ranking ourselves indisputably
above him. and now his greater height
makes US look comparatively small. And
though We may possibly, with last breath,
DO magma nimaus enough to pardon the man
who kills us outright we can never quite
forgive him II he wounds our vanity.
We don't mind going to dine with Barker
even now. To certain extent VIC are
proud to have it known that we are or
were intimate with him, and, except when
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drive leads in at the south gate and out
at the north, sweeping around the house
at the upper end. On the east the land is
open, few clumbs OF trees and ornamen-
tai shrubbery serving to break the great
stretch OF grass land. But beyond the hon
eysuckle-covered guard rail on the west one
looks down into thickets of trees ard under
growth, opening out occasionally into little
clearings. but little interfered with by the
landscape gardener.
On the open land near the house are
the tennis courts and several hurdles
which suggest the exercising of hunters
On one side Is the stable, filled when the
family is at home with good horses. and
away on the northwest is the gardeners
cottage. a good-sized frame dwelling, big
ger than many city home of a wellto-
do family.
The semi-public road leading through
the grounds Is fanked near it's southern
end by a fountain surrounded by big
elephant-ear" plants and with a shady
seat under the trees, where those who
avail themselves of the privilege of the
grounds can rest. Farther on the road
crosses deep raVine, with its little
stream running through the park and
many of the children and grown folk of
the surrounding region have this for
favorite walk on summer evenings.
North of the house is the now famous
clock tower. There was d twelve-foot
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occupied by a DR.. French, a well-to-do
Washingtonfan, who made his home there.
1t was built, as many houses in this cOun-
try were at that time of bricks brought
from England. 1t was not large nor
pretentious dwelling. and then it was far
on the outskirts of Washington, or, rather.
Georgetown, for Washington had then
scarcely begun TO emerge from the swamp
on which 1t was founded, and the brick
fields that have since furnished building
material for so much OF the capital were
scattered, untouched, over the whole south
section, whore the city was to be.
Then square-rigged ships came to George
town and discharged their cargoes at the
wharves along the upper Potomac. Water
street was lively with the songs of slaves
and the streets piled high with hogsheads
of tobacco. which the ships carried back
to England. Many of them came practi-
cally in ballast to get their loads of to-
the original Mclean house was built.
DR.. French died. and the house was occu-
pied for some time by his widow and a
Miss Wiems. but 1t sold out of the
family and passed TO Gen. Jessup then
quartermaster general of the army. He
improved the place somewhat but never
occupied it, and when the slaves were freed
in Barbados and many OF the Island plant
ers moved TO this country the tract and
its brick house were bought by Col. Piye
sugar planter from the island who
moved to Washington. Col. Plye rebuilt
the main section OF the house much as 1t
Is today. He occupied it till his death
when II was sold to Georgetown College.
The college then was a theological rather
than a lay school. and the old house at
Friendship became a retreat" for the
monks during the summer season.
Thereafter it passed into the hands Of
spectators, and it finally was secured by
Mr.. Mclean. who traded the old Holnead
burylng ground, of which he was then the
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we are speaking privately in profoundest
confidence, always careful to say
that we like him still. We say it loudly
and frequently, but we don't mean it. The
truth is we grudge him the rewards of his
labor because they are larger than ours,
and 1t is impossible to believe that any one
competing with US can justly deserve more
than ourselves.
Love is blind. but envy sees double.
Barker is probably the same man as ever,
but we behold in him now, with a painful
clearness, all those blots and blemishes of
character that We're invisible to us when
chief fault fs-but we do not detect this one
that he has risen to height where we
cannot follow him; we call him a snob be-
cause he has disquieted our self-compla-
cency by progressing, instead of remaining
stationary alongside of US, and we blame
him for soaring beyond as If he were
responsible for the weakness Of our wings.
In word. we dislike his prosperity, and
this chilling our regard for him, We as
sumo 1t is he that has grown cold to US.
No: we don't like the man who outstrips
US: and only like him who lags behind
because he is not in front of US We some
times like the man have been able to
oblige, but rarely the one who has greatly
obliged us; we chafe against the mean feel
ing that We are under an endless obligation
to him. that he has an unquestionable title
to our gratitude as the tax-gatherer has
to our cash. and we go on paying up but
we do not like the collector.
X X
II the comforting of an incalculabe obli-
cation could create an affection for the
man by whom 1t was conferred, then Dod-
son would like George Wilkins better than
any other man he ever knew. But he
doesn't. On the contrary, I have often
heard him wish that George Wilkins were
dead or had never been born: l have heard
him refer to George In terms that I. would
rather not repeat; and yet he cannot deny
that IL 1t had not been for George Wilkins
he would probably have gone to an I'M
timely grave several years ago.
.'Of course l don't deny 1t. 1 can't"
says Dodson. IF / had lost my life. 1
should have lost everything else that be-
longs to me, as you say, and therefore, in
manner, owe all have to George. Yes
and he seems to think that that entities
him to a commission on it all. l reckon
that l paid him well for all he did, at the
time. and yet
Look here! When 1 fell out of that punt
didn't know the water was 80 shallow
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square well sunk there when Mr.. Mclean
the water for the dwelling. The octagon
tower was built over the well, with wind
ing stairs outside and Towering plants in
the numerous windows; but for some rea-
son or other the water was not used, tho
water tower was never built and now
the tower has been fitted with clock.
which is a great convenience to the whole
neighborhood, and whose bell can be
heard of a still evening clear down to
the upper edge of Georgetown.
No mention of Friendship would be
complete, however without mention OF
q small but Infinitely appreciated feature
that the thoughtful owner added when
the wall was built along the Tenalytown
road 1t is simply an artistic little drink
ing trough for the horses But probably
nothing on the whole of the big place
has furnished so much comfort to the
dumb toilers along the road as that foun-
tain. Hardly a wagon horse ever passes
up that toilsome Hill without stopping for
short breathing spell and drink at
the trough, and whatever thanks MIR. Nc
Lean may get from the public for the
freedom of his artistic grounds. 1t Is safe
to say that it is small compared with the
unspoken gratitude that is felt by the
thousands of horses that annually avail
themselves of the little drinking place
outside his gates.