Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-08-28

NO. III.
Our train leaves Savannah at night 20 we q
/" turn i'm and look out over the country
from our berths, and God-forsaken looking : !,
country 1t ID, 70 be sure We zee an occar
sional cotton field and rice-patch, but whether
they be good or bad, lies beyond my agricul- !
tural knowledge. Most OF the way, how
ever, as we can see It in the kindly moon q
light seems to be either stretches OF half /
worn-out pine forests or rank-growing {
miasmatic swamps, from whore the lizards
and frogs, with a kind Of strong metallic
ring In their voices, croak forevermore
As the snores Of the night one by me, give
away to the yawns and ''oh hums' OF morn
ing, and tho sun comes up smiling through
the pines, we find here and there sign OF
railroad station, waiting lonely for the
middle Of a corn-patch, waiting for..-I won
| der whatY Or daddy nigger with his three
or four steP.graduated sons, walking goose
| woodward, waiting for 'de good time COIN
| ing" Hope deforred maketh the heart
sick" Then, OF course we sometimes run
into and stir up the dust Of = Promising.
shop or two. It is very dirty work riding ON
these Southern trains. We miss the cinders
from our home engines, but have instead the |
which they fre Ire their engines. We stop at |
wood-piles to take this wood onto "wood |
up''--and Il In always dead wood, I presume |
mostly trees that have boon tapped, for tur- |
pentine
SOUTHERN PHENOMENON.
There is one Southern phenomenon that is
at once an unfailing source Of amusement
and wonder to me, aud that is their hog. In
: color 1t il q cross between black, red and
mud-puddle. In shape and general getup
| II il entirely original-diametrically unlike
anything In the earth beneath or the waters s
! / can't tell unless II Ii more feed. They seem
: to be industrious kind of creature too, and
, keep moving on, thoroughly in earnest at
Q with hogged, taciturnity the inevitable
root or de-" They must find it
!, mighty poor roofing, for they do not
their minds whether 1t Is better TO root or
quietly accept the alternative. II were
+ they, would too. 1 would give anything
n show shown my sisters, who were among these Who
o. spoke OF people being FOOLS who went South
d in midsummer, when went away. But
Of don't see how could manage to carry one OF
9, these swine back to the old home, so must
10 give up the idea and allow my friends to
I'd come and see for themselves. know shall
utterly fail when i attempt TO describe them.
N We reach Jacksonville In the morning, and
:, spend enough time there only to take q
70 steamer up the St Johns river.
ne RIDING UP THE ST. JOHNS RIVER.
BS To one who has crossed tho Susquehanns
e. at Peach Bottom as often as i have In light
no and dark cloud and shine, and has seen the
at beauties there, l hold 1t Is impossible t.
Id show him prettier river or at prettie
place, but this ride up the St Johns Il
he magnificent There are no hills 1t is true
to give II picturesqueness but 1t winds 81
beautifully and broadens and narrows be
yn tween its green shores as If 1t came iron
some tropical dreanland, where, should on
go on to the source would be found bird
| al fOwer9
'ay and odors that never lose their sweetness
es, All ono might dream there to his heart
md content / tell you 1t Is no commonplac
er- thing to be riding on q river that comes fror
the birthplace and flows through the land {
flowers. Along either side we discover tn
prettiest sleepy houses In the prettiest shad
'ng places, powered by fine old trees with tn;
sh- wonderful moss ornamenting them. / wis
ing | VIC had this moss at home 1 would rathe
,es. have their moss in our forests than the
,nn oranges in our orchards. Then these prett
s sequestered places we see, all have oranp
car groves around them-aDd just imagine III
hen solid comfort of living in a house where
lew never gets too cold nor too warm, wit
ads | oranges right at home In the yard An
,aw | you must know that an orange at its home
A.. not at all the orange of our Northern hom
Strange to say, contrary to all the progno
'ed- tications OF our wiseacre friends at home, "
find the weather quite pleasant not go he
aOstai.,iy Ms II was when we left home. Trl
he the sun Is hot, but not more so think tha
led the one we left behind us; and there Is
INTO the shade to be very comfortable-mo
Who | L.onaa 4; Te.a -, ~ a. Ps,D.o i. ~ hoi.0
han or whence n cane Ia 100 ,nuch iii % ras son /,
/, 10. stss s 4, trH tessy. 1t is TIA. srffices
be me. In many respects there is only oi
Who | Florida in the world, principally no don
the on account OF its geographical location.
onr ON THE WAY HOME.
we'd AS nave saiu, my Trip Is business Oh
ime anu requires put ittie tihe. MY business
He finished and am on my way home-n
, an North star, my Mecca forever. My IL
OK. pleasant experience is a ride across the 5
a an Johns at Greene Cove Springs, a distance
ia five miles, In a row boat with nigger pr
'uiu peller. This propeller has so much TO I,
not us of the advantages of Florida that we fl
eve quently interrupt him to tell him to ro
ton faster or we will surely miss the train, al
all the answer we got is "you'll be dare
We just make ii.
dav / have said but little about Florida becau
COR saw scarcely enough to speak intelligent
- Poetcally 1t Is q poem. Practically belle
h- it Is great country with wonderful resourc
8 OF almost entirely undeveloped, but makil
snts miraculous progress Out OF the many We
q of lures have no doubt Florida will see mar
cial failures in the next five or ten years, on
count OF inexperience, injudiciousness, IN
patience and "rolling stones" and vario
=, other reasons, but have practical details
=" But this 1 know God never made
the country that the curse didn't reaclL al
hay FloriGa cannot be an exception where m;
,ain can eat his bread save by the sweat of b
, of brow-l know some places where il takes d
,u,, sweat OF the heart as well.
~. But "lf were young man" I'd go
part Florida.
that l hope my readers have experienced
, of measure OF the pleasure in my account of n
ing trip that did in the trip-South In mi
her summer. DRUMoRE.