Middletown transcript., 1895-02-09

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e g Pullman cars and one day coach that woul,
b be considered second class on any decen
p railroad. If there are eighty or one hun
Sdred passengers those who do not tumbl
Eover their fellow beings at Washington
$and thus secure the seats. may stand up, 81
: Aon the arms of the seats or the stove o.
3 Awood-box, or go into the baggage car ant
&sit on the trunks. 1t is all matter of in
Indifference to Mr.. Plant and the managers O.
Ehis system, which ought to have razor
Eback hog instead of an alligator for its
#trade mark.
81 Mr. Plants system believes in taking
E every thing in sight. So does razor baek
Hhog.
3 If you are riding in day coach, coming
ESouth by Mr.. Plants system, and trying to
Easleep, you will have some experience.
can coil myself up like watchspring on a
gear seat in day coach, during an all-night
sSgride. and sleep the sleep of the just, but not
s ION Mr.. Plants system.
81 At every cross roads through Virginio
n sand North Carolina new conductor comes
saboard. lets his hand fall on YOUR shoulder.
with dull thud and demands your ticket
|aThen every now and then Son of Ham
sacomes in with broom and stirs up the mi
;Scrobes. So the only way a microbe can
Shave any rest at all is to crawl into some
Spassenger's lungs.
n The next thing to avoid after Mr., Plants
System, is most of the Jacksonville hotels.
!. .Everytime stop over there 1 go to new
Gone, and come away wishing had gone to|
ssanother. l haven't yet discovered the right
Zone, though no doubt it is there.
4 The morning left Jacksonville for South
4Florida 1 was told would have fully halft
Gan hour for breakfast before the hack left
Afor the train. The dining-room door
sopened on time. A traveller going on theE
IIsame train sat with me at table. We gaveE
Jour orders for breakfast, and the other fel-f
! low said very long blessing in half audi
Sble voice. 1t was long enough for both oiE
Jus, and besides the breakfast was yet tooE
: uncertain for me to risk blessing on it.
Ten, fifteen, twenty minutes went by.k
and no breakfast came: My friend beganE 4
10 show some uneasiness. So did l. WEI
called high "Muck.a-Muck," and asked
him to please hurry up that breakfast 3
Five minutes more sped away, then it came
HSoa int fbo inir nj fbn haadEa
5of proud and naughty Son of Hotten-
1tot, but the steak was tough and the coffeeE
was hot and before we had fairly planned the 4
campaign, the porter sang out; "Bus for E
7Waycross depot, all aboardp' e
We had to go. was out the price of my &
breakfast, but my companion had faredA
worse ; he was out the price of his break s.
fast and a good, long sincere blessing be- e
|sides.
There is entirely too much risk in asking &
Ia blessing at the table of a strange hotel, s.
anyway, and especially at Jacksonville
hotel. l never do it. The thing is not just 81
right at best. The man who gets seventy "a
five cents for poor meal is the man whoE
should throw in the blessing, and give IA
thanks besides. "a
I reached Florida just after the big freeze. E
You have all heard about it, no doubt. u
You who buy oranges haye heard about it
several times. You are probably paying
forty cents dozen for oranges which you
could have bought for twenty if the freeze@
hadn't come this way. q
This remarkable and altogether recklessE
cold-wave of the Christmas holidays came b
at least 500 miles further South than it had "a
any business to come. 1t fooled everybodyE
this Cold Wave, even ''OId Prob" at Wash 81
ngton, and sent the mercury in SouthE
Florida lower than anybody had ever be- 81
fore seen it. Just think of It'll Fifteen to-
eighteen above zero in country where oneE
can generally be comfortable in all alapaca#
duster and smilel q
Of course the orange crop OH the trees,
at 6. .5OO,O boxes was frozen, andE
many one and two year old trees were
killed down to the bud. Vegetables suffered
also, and the total loss to the State will notH
'all short of $2.OO6,OO0. @t,
But. fortunately, the bearing trees wereH
lot seriously injured. They are already in
/ new suit of the freshest of fresh green
md are putting out bloom buds in great
lyle. The crop next year will probably not n
all below 100000 boxes. 1t may be re- Il
nembered that the crop of 1886, following "
he last big freeze previous to this, was very ii
arge. "
Old, bearing orange trees will stand %
reat deal lower temperature than most SC
eople think. l have seen them in Califor- h
ia go through freeze that made an inch 10,
f ice under the trees. and never shed their
caves. But the oranges were frozen and kb,
lade worthless. I'm,
Lemon trees will not resist as low tenn HTt
erature as the orange, by several degrees, Lin,
nd I fear that the lemon orchards of Flor lev
la have Jared badly. lin
The vegetable growers lost their tomatoes |fr,
cans and other stuff, but replanted soon
J the freeze was over and now have fine ch
ops coming on for shipment. They are TO
My out the expense of replanting, and #Ps
ill probably have as good returns as il, ,stw
leir first crop had not been lost. ID,
There is no distress or even general dis Eth
among the Florida orange and xch
,getable growers on account of the freeze. @tie
hey are going on as if nothing had hap Jar
,ned. Few good groves are for sale andHth
'out the only failures have been among HI,
eeulators who had bought crops OH thesSch
ees. 1--we
No State in the Union can recover SC! lac
lickly from calamity as Florida. She! ch
rs so many things to depend on. She is :
wv sending provisions to the destitute and oy
arving people in Western Nebraska, just ed
if she had plenty of everything and TO
me to spare, and guess she has. No man VI
th ambition enough to come In out of al
over need ever want for the necessariesf 3 NO
life in Florida. Nature almost furnishes n
em without being tickled. so
One has to come to thrifty, progressives an