The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-02-26

legislature
The committee Is working hard to
pat things in proper shape to enter
tain the delegates. and all our people
who have not already been asked to
help, should hold themselves I'm readi-
the delegates to return home with q
good opinion OF Ocala-
sUNNYyIHs FIRST SUNDAY TRIP
The editor of the Star doesn't believe
In working on Sunday-or any other
day. IL ne can help 1t. So he regarded
the idea Of cunning Sunnyjfm on Sun
day as an aggravated instance OF
breaking the Sabbath. and tried to dis
courage it by threatening to accom-
psny Conductor w. T. McI1wafn on his
very first Sunday run. Mac said that
he never did anything yet except IN the
face Of some great disbursement,
and announced that he would take his
train out Sunday. Feb. Is. Just like it
was any other day, and as the editor
never takes dare unless he has to, he
made Mac take him out too.
When Mac sized up his bunch Of
passengers Sunday morning. there
agent Of the Coast Line, John r.
Thompson. freight agent of the same
oppressive corporation, Coast Line
conductor. W. r. Blesch, proprietor Of
the Montexuma barbershop. and the
writer Mac looked Disguised. and said
II Ocala could not turn out a bigger
Sunday crowd. he would stop every
saturday night at Dunne11on. The
uewspaper man said that people
couldn't be blamed for staying In
Oca1a unless they had to leave; but
Mac, who lives In Lakeland now, only
looked at him in lofty scorn. or as
lofty as hfa height would allow
The three railroad men were dead
heads Of course. The editor used to be.
but meddlesome legislators and con-
crosses have passed laws compelling
newspaper men to pay their fares. and
that Is the chief reason why the tryan-
nous corporations now receive SO many
wallops from the free and untrammel-
ed press.
AS the train proceeded southwark,
the passengers Increased After cross
ing the Wfthlacoochee, the writer
found himself in a, to him, new coun-
try, and one he had for years possess
ed q wish to see. It would take Q
highly imaginative man or a natural
born liar to say that the landscape be-
tween York and Inverness is attract
i've. The turpentine and sawmill men
have scalped 1t, and the phosphate men
have eviscerated 1t. Sand. stumps and
sinks. 1t looks truly godforsaken. NAL
colin Williams said that one of It's best
uses was to hold the better parts OF
Florida together. which remark
stamped him as an oppertune optimist
However. an occasional phosphate
plant, an useful but ungainly object
looming up in the distance, reminded
the traveller that the desolate ridges
around him were furnishing the life
blood that put the bloom in many q
fair landscapes cheeks-if it ISM
cheeky to make such q metaphor. and
some of these days the ridges will
bloom themselves with something use
4uI and beautiful-they are all there
and have the climate. and the other
things will come along with the time
It's getting 50 man can't walk TAI
In Marion county without falling ovel
. railroad. Sunnyjim halted at three
from Ocala to Dunnellon-the Ocals
and Southwestern. log road and thu
Seaboard's line to Inverness.
Dunnellon Is a good town, live
town, does lots Of business and ha.
many good people, but the reporter
wishes something would happen to thu
unsightly row Of shanties that border
the railroad near the depot. He saw
some Of those same shanties Their,
eighteen years ago. and doesn't be
1ieve they have been painted outsid,
or scrubbed inside in all that time.
Holder Is also a good place, but Hol
der. like many good men. isn't hand
some. fernando Is an Improvement
with Its pretty lake and good-lookins
schoolhouse.
Inverness Is named after bleal
and ugly Scotch town. and the write
always had an idea that Inverness wa
ugly. He was surprised to see hov
well the town showed up. the queen o
its county with girdle of lakes
Floral City does very well, and 1
may be both floral and city In tn
near future. Istachatta fs the plac
where John Martin once had turpen
tine location. The people there grew
fond OF John, and now every time the.
hear q train coming from the north
they look to see II John Is returning
to them.
The last time the writer rode, dow
the Florida Southern. Fitzgerald sin tn
pines was q rather picturesque place
but the pines and the Norman nam
have gone and Groom Is strictly bust
ness.
Malcolm Williams and John Thomp
son called the editors attention to tn
union depot at Trilby That bunc
seemed to have union depot on tn
brain. and every time Sunnyjim cross
ID Z log road. they called the editor
attention to what fine site 1t aftorde
for such . great commercial necessity
Mahon1et wouldn't enter Daz.asc.i
because he said 1t looked so prett
from the outside that he feared |
would spoil his appetite for paradis.
Tho editor thought OF Mahomet whe
he looked at Dade City, nesting anon
Its groves and gardens. Some fin
farming country In Pasco county. Jus
south Of Dade City. the writer notice
some queer-looking fnc1osures-hig
fences with overhead screens He ask
ed Baggagemaster Barney Turner wha
they were. and that gentleman reptile
that Dade City chickens were unusual
" ambitious, and they had to kee
them In that sort Of poultry yards t
prsvsnt their roosting ON the court
Aouse roof at night. lust as the write
had Implicitly believed this plausibl
statement. there came along . Dad
City man and said the Enclosures wer
tobacco patches.
Meantime people had been boarding