The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-02-03
THE "OLD" AND THE NEW

Are we to understand that it would
| be Paradise Regained' if Ocala
could return TO the day when she had
| "a population of five hundred, no
| bank, two tanneries, four cotton gins
and Marion county had thousands Of
acres of state and government lands
open to entry " If SO, why demand
Modern Progress which involves a
Paradise Lost?-TimesUnio
| The above awakens to memory the
dim and distant past, and we behold a
vision.
Many things troop before us.
| We see as in a picture film a scene
| "a plantation" name then hateful
to many persons living across an i'm
aginary boundary line, but most sweet
and glorious to those who possessed
| one.
We see in this film picture of the
"big house" possessed of all the COM
| forts and luxuries that a virtuous and
discriminating taste could suggest or
a well-flled purse purchase.
|
mothe busy with the management of
the little kingdom, the male mem
bers of the family having some time
since deceased.
| In the little kingdom" there is
everything complete even to an apo
| thecary outfit including the blood
letting lances,' the pneumonia cups
"jollips and ipecac," and sheep sher-
UNI tea
| AS the reel continues We see saw
mill with a grist mill attached,
blacksmith shop, a wagon shop, a
| tannery and a shoe shop, dairy hid
away under the hill near the spring;
spinning wheel and loom; barns and
stables, horses and carriages, cattle,
hogs, sheep and goats.
We see some distance away, what
is termed the quarters" There are
at least fifty of them. They are built
so as to form a circle. Each cabin is
surrounded with a little yard. On the
sides and rear are patches Of cotton
and tobacco, in front are fruits and
flowers. In the center is the house
of worship, where the word of God is
taught. The slaves themselves con-
duct the services-preach and ex-
hort. AS a rule they are very re-
ligious.
The mill is run by water-power.
Everything is busy. The logs are
sawed into lumber and the corn is
ground into meal. The forge is giving
forth it's sparks and the workman are
busy building houses, making wagons
and plows, tanning leather and max
ing shoes and the work-women are
carding cotton, making thread and
the cloth but they make the rugs and
carpets.
There is no kingdom nor principal
ty in Europe more complete. There
of which betokens joy and content
ment.
There is no want nor the fear OF
!, want. The sick are ministered unto
and the aged and decrepit are cared
for as members of household.
The ''big house. is not a dream OF
happiness but is happiness itself
There are weekend parties and every
thing to make life delightful. There
are carriages and horses and man
iservants and maid-servants to meet
and crafty every beck and call and
want
We go to the courts and the spec
tacle is entirely different from those
of the present day. We see no cloud
of black faces in the criminal dock
Nowhere throughout the borders Of
; the state are there any chain-gangs
convicts camps, peniteniaries and thai
monster of evil, Judge Lynch, hal
, not yet had occasion to put in his ap
, pearance.
Sometime has elapsed and We see
another vision.
The conditions that made the
, picture of this little kingdom" ant
, many more just like it, possible al