The Ocala evening star., 1915-10-01
HILLS OF HERNANDO
Record of a Days Visit to One of
FlOrida's Most Picturesque and
Fertile Regions

The editor of the Star had one of
his seldom days off yesterday, and
went on a pilgrimage to a region he
has long desired to visit, namely, the
pretty and fertile country around
Brooksville.
At the time going on pilgrimage
was invented, it could have had little
charm outside of relieving the monoto-
ny of regular life. There couldn't
have been anything monotonous about
wayfaring on ones own feet, and
they blistered, without the slightest
idea of where the next meal would
come from or where one would sleep
that night. A pilgrimage in a swift
auto with competent man at the
wheel, thru a land of peace and
plenty, however, is an experience to
be welcomed, and when a charming
young lady comes and sits down by
one it becomes elysian.
The bunch that went to Brooks
vile yesterday consisted of Secre-
tary Rooney, DR.. Weaver and the Star
man. The latter, in order to be up
and ready at 5 a. M, lost his beauty
sleep, and had crouch until he found
that Rooney had had no sleep at all
and DIR. Weaver very little. Rooney
had just come in from Jacksonville,
where he had put Ocala on the first
i page of the Dixie Highway meeting.
He and Messrs. McIver, Clark and
Reynolds, in Ocala's bell-cow car,
which attracted more attention than
any one of the 999 others in the par
ade, reached the city about daylight.
The other delegates hiked to their
homes for ten winks, bath and
breakfast, but as soon as Rooney
could change his shirt, he was ready
for another long trip.
The car, a powerful Hudson six
was contributed for the trip by the
Florida Phos-Lime Co., which is going
to give our farmers the material they
most need right at home. With that
skilled driver, Frank Morrison, at the
wheel, it rolled swiftly southwark and
reached Dunnellon about the time the
phosphate cityites were eating their
breakfast.
The party, however, expected tt
eat at Inverness, so no stop wa:
made. The Star mans felicity in ad
miring the scenery was slightly MARI
l ed by his having to afford his shoulder
1 as a pillow for Rooney. Having haC
= about three hours sleep since Sunda!
{ morning, Rooney tried to make up {
little for lost time, and like mos
other dead-tired people was som'
careless how he distributed himself
5 So with his head on the editor
: shoulder and his feet firmly bracet
a against the neck of the chauffeur il
front, he slept the sleep of the just
Frank would have objected to Room
ey's feet in his neck, but the latter
snores saved him the trouble o
blowing the horn when there was
COW or a pig in the road, so he did no
: protest.
Dr. Weaver was tired, too, havin,
: nursed an ailing car all the way fror
Jacksonville the night before. Blu
"Doc" is tolerably young yet, an
doesn't mind such things.
The pretty and well situated tow
of Inverness was reached at O'Clock
and after a substantial breakfast tn
e Star man went to pay the Citru
County Chronicle a frateranl cal
The writer helped to pick out tn
n original outfit for the Chronicle whe
r it was started twenty odd years ag'
Is but this was hist first visit to the OF
% fee. Editor Butler was absent on
1t business visit to the north, but Mr..
ID E. Hay was attending to business an
" getting the paper out in good shap
-e At Inverness All addition was mad
to the party in the shape, or shape