The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-02-21
MRS. CORA HARRIS AND HEX
WORK

Much interest will be felt in the
following clever interview In when
Mrs. Cora Harris has announced her
intention of giving up city lie 10 re-
turn TO the Georgia back country
to live.
The interview was published In one
of the leading New York papers ana
was reprinted in the Chattanooga
Lookout:
"Corra Harris. made famous by her
tales of Georgia and Tennessee folK'
The Circuit Riders Wife, Ewes Sec
ond Husband and The Recording
Angel is going to give up trying TO
make her chief home in the midst OF
CITY life. and soon she is to transfer
her Lares and Penates from Nash
vile to a little bit of primitive Eden
| in the Georgia back country Mrs.
Harris. when in New York the other
day, was persuaded to tell of her new
~ purchased farm.
"'There are hundred acres of for
est she said, and hundred acres OF
meadow. with a stream winding
through it. On either side of the
meadow there is a comb of hills COW
cred with trees. l shall build my
house upon one of these and look
across at the other. At night there
| is a lonely. very dim little star that
shines above the meadow as if it had
tear in its eye That is mine, too.
1t goes with the place. l think it is
an orphan star There are no others
near it. You cannont see it at all in
New York.
"'The people who live round about
are gentle. and kind and say their
prayers night and morning, because
they actually do believe in God. l do
not know if this is accounted for by
| the fact that the nearest railway is
sixteen miles distant or not, but it is
fact. They are like the people my
[ husband and | used to know when he
was in the itinerancy. l expect to find
quiet and rest for body and soul in
this place and the chance to do better
work.
"'The point is, you see, l love the
people in it-so much that when /
get out in it l waste my time and do
not get much done. | shall spend
part of every year in Tennessee, of
which I claim to be the stepchild, and
| | shall go to Atlanta or come up here
| to New York But / could not live
here. I'd as well try to live in a cock
! tail And always l shall have my val
| tey to return to and the little orphan
what you up here suggest to me be-
fore l try to say it.
land, of course, l shall invite my
| friends to see me, from Tennessee,
Georgia and up here, but not for any
| specified length of time. They can
stay as long as they can stand it. I
shall make no attempt to entertain
them. They will be bored | realize
that, and l will not try to prevent it,
for it will do them a world of good
start them to growing naturally in the
earth again. When they return to
their accustomed places and habits in
your cities they'll know that they
have been rested and refreshed"
AS the house has not yet been built,
however, and as the climate in Nash
vile at this season of the year is Gel
ebrated but not favorably, Mrs Har-
ris has gone down to Atlantic City
to finish serial she is working on
which she admits is dangerously diff
ferent from anything else she has
done, and which in due season, "the
Lord and the editors willing" is to
appear in a we'll known periodical. Be
fore she left New York she also ar
ranged with Harper's Magazine for a
shorter serial, the scenes of which are
laid in her we'll known field. When
she was asked what was to be the
theme if this story Mrs. Harris smil-
ed.
Its the story of one woman told
by another woman, the sort of bogra-
ply Martha might have written of
Mary when she was peeved at the way
her sister wasted valuable time at the
Masters feet"
This was all she would reveal about
the plot. But she did give assurance
that it would not be "blasphemous.
Thereby hangs a tale.
1t seems that a prominent woman
of the south has recently charged
Mrs. Harris with the crime. 1t hap
Dened that whom tho Fodoro+iop of