The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-02-29
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: SUNNY JIM'S" FIRST SUN. :
DAY TRIP.
; From The Ocala STAR
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| y III Oil ouuuds d. an dSSidNueCu Ia
stance OF breaking the sabbath, and
tried to discourage it by threatening
ito accompany Conductor W. 7. Nc.
| Twain on his very first Sunday run
| Mac said that he never did anythin.
set except in the face of some great
| encouragement, and announced that
he would take his train out Sunday
February 10Th, just like it was any
other day, and as the editor never
takes dare unless he has to, he
made Mae take him out too.
When Mac sized up his bunch OF
passengers Sunday morning, there
were Malcolm r. Williams, ticket
agent OF the Coast Line, John f.
Thompson. freight agent of the sam.
oppressive corporation, Coast Line
conductor, W. f. Blesch, proprietor
OF the MOntezuma barberShOp, and
the writer. Mac looked disguised,
and said ii Ocala could not turn out
Il bigger Sunday crowd, he would
stop every Saturday night at Dun
mellon. The newspaper man said
that people couldn't be blamed for
staying in Ocala unless they had to
leave; but Mac, who lives in Lake
land now, only looked at him in lofty
81 Orn, or as lofty as his height would
allow.
The three railroad men were dead
heads of course. The editor used to
be, but meddlesome legislators and
congresses have passed laws cOmpell-
inS newspaper men to pay their fares,
and that is the chief reason why the
tyranOus corporations now receive 50
many wallops from the free and I'M
t.ammcled press.
AS the train proceeded southwark,
the passengers increased. After
crossing the WithlacOOchee, the
writer found himself in a, to him,
new country. and one he had for
years possessed IA wish to see. 1t
would take highly imaginative man
or a natural born liar to say that the
landscape between York and lnver-
ness Is attractive. The turpentine
ard sawmill men have scalped it, and
the phosphate men have eviscerated
1t Sand, stumps and sinks, it looks
truly God-for-saken. Malcolm Will
lisms said that one of its best uses
was to hold the better parts of Flor
lea together. which remark stamped
him as an opportune optimist.
However, an occasional phosphate
plant, useful but ungainly ODject,
looming up in the distance. remind
ed the traveller that the desOlate
ridges around him were furnishing
the lifeblood that put the bloom in
many fair landscapes checklist 1t
isn't cheeky to make such a meta
phOr, and some day the ridges
will bloom themselves with some
thing useful and beautiful--thcy are
all there and have the climate. and
the uiines things will come along with
the time.
Its getting so IA man can't walk far
in aMrion county WITHOUT falling
over railroad. Sunny lin halted
at three from Ocala to Dunnellon-
the Ocala and Southwestern. a log
road and the Seaboard's line to In
rerness.
Dunnellon is a good town. live
town. does lots of business and has
many good people. but the reporte,
wishes something you'd happen to
the unsightly row Of shanties that
ttrder the railroad near the depot.
He saw some of those same shanties
there eighteen years ago, and doesn'.
believe they have been painted out
side or scrubbed inside in all that
time.
Holder is also a good place. but
Holder. like many good men. isn't
handsome. fernando is an improve
rent, with its pretty lake and good
looking schoolhouse.
Inverness is named after a bleak
and ugly Scotch town, and the writer
always had an idea that Inverness
was ugly. He was surprised to see
how we'll the town showed up. the
queen of its county with a girdle of
lakes.
Floral City does very we'll, and it
may be both floral and a city in the