The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-23
STICK TO THE STATE.
prosperous Days Are Certain to
Come to Florida Again.

Come to Florida Again.
Orlando Fla, June 22.-The Jacksonville
Metropolis is quite right in advising peo-
pie not to be hasty in leaving Florida be-
cause of the late freeze, hoping to do bet
ter elsewhere. All sections of the country
have their setbacks and calamities, and
certainly there is no state in which per-
son can live cheaper or more comforta-
byl than in Florida. Our summer breezes
are almost unknown in other sections
not famed by ocean winds, and crops OF
all kinds are grown the year around, not
a month being unsuited to some kind Of
food crop.
Dizziness in some of our towns and cities
has sent away many persons in search
of employment Not few have come
back-several to Orlando-satisfied that
they can do better here, even in our FROST
ed condition, than elsewhere. Others have
put their groves into shape and gone
north or west to their old homes for a
year or two, when they will come back
and resume orange culture. Very few
have left in disgust" or abandoned
their dismantled groves. If we had cheap
rapid transportation, or nearby home mar
kets, this state could become abundant
ly prosperous in growing small fruits and
early vegetables and never raise another
orange or lemon. Already hundreds OF
acres of early vegetables and bushels CT
small fruit are rotting for want OF near
at hand or profitable market.
But there is one consolation, the fami-
lies are living better than ever before.
Necessity has developed gardens, truck
patches, poultry yards and fruit orch
ards to an extent never before known.
Our butchers report big falling off in
The sale of meat nearly every family
now having lot of chickens growing up
Tor the table. Our garden truck peddlers
also complain that their sales have fall
Ten off so per cent, the result of home
gardens and truck patches. People are
living lat home" here in stricken Flor
va this summer, and they are living Well
Never We're there so many cultivated
plums, blackberries, etc, as now and wa
lermelons and delicious cantaloupes are
ON every table. Thus has western fat
meat given way to a more hea1thful
vegetable and fruit diet.
AS to money, if anybody thinks we are
dead broke" in Florida, they ought to
come down here and look at our excurs-
ION trains, five, eight, fifteen cars at a
time, all packed full of happy faced men
summer excursion rates. There never
was more general thanksgiving of
the people, in the matter of visiting. And
why not visit during the dull period? Very
little has been actually destroyed. Our
grape fruit, lemon and orange trees are
coming up nicely from the roots and so
are the pineapples, guavas, and many
valuable Towering shrubs and plants. We
are simply setback" a year or two and
must grin and bear it" like wise men and
good Christians.
City Treasurer E. Kirby Smith. paying
teller of the Merchants Bank who is a
Inc business man and keen observer, has
Just come back from an extended tour of
the south, having crossed the line into Mex
leo, and he reports the condition of Flor
ida as comparing well with other sections
OF the country, all having suffered from
cheap cotton, drought, freshets, and an
over supply of unemployed people. Ger
tam localities were being made lively by
oooms," but he found no state very much
letter off than Florida. Some of the
states had empty treasures, with school
Ieachers clamoring for last years pay.
mere IN our state we have paid our teach
e's and other employees monthly and hope