The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-10
WORDS or CHEER.
They Are Addressed to Frost hit
ten Friend in Florida.

They Are Addressed to Frost Bit-
ten Friend in Florida.
Nashville, Tenn. March s.-The follow
ing is letter written by a Nashville |
Tenn man to a friend ia Florida: Re
member, no part of earth is exempt from
misfortunes of some sort; yet take it all
in all, 1 doubt if any portion Of the globe
can show greater immunity from calam-
tiles than the state of Florida
Consider the fearful disasters by flood !
drought, cyclones and famine that yearly !
aflict other states and exempts yours
If the Frost King killed your growing !
crops, he did not kill you. Thank God you
are living. Whole families now are not
but might be had they moved to Florida.
The Johnstown flood, the Chicago fire
and the Charleston earthquake brought
death, desolation and ruin TO thousands |
yet the survivors of these afflicted cities
did not abandon hope, but set manfully
al work 10 rebuild their homes and for
tunes. The Chicago fire was an object
lesson for Americans. In a single night i
bleak, dark and drear with the Their
mometer at zero, a majestic city was
destroyed and within twelve months a
grander one was placed on its site.
Remember the trials toll and indomi
table Perseverance or the Pilgrim fHathers
i'm New England, and the Scotch-Irish,
who founded the states of Kentucky,
Tennessee and North Carolina Driven
from their ancestral homes by Protestant
persecution. not Catholic, their men and
women battled with wild men and beasts,
cleared the wilderness, built homes and
cities and laid the foundations for the
government that you and l are privileged
to live under
Take courage. my friend when you
think of what Americans have done. can,
and will do, when necessity demands ac-
ton. Don't lose your grip. There is wis
dom in the words of DeFuniak Springs
sage, who says NO busy man has time
to think of his misfortmes. therefore, don't
get the blues. They are sure sign that
you are idling"
You have but touched the rim of Flor
ida's productive possibilities. when you
get down to business you will utilize waste
places for products that will command
ready markets.
Last year the United States paid 100000
900 in gold for imported raw silk. Florida
is well adapted for silk culture. Two
years ago a Florida lady presented to the
city of Chicago a magnificent American
flag made of silk grown in your state.
Why not Florida secure all, or a part OF
the millions paid to foreigners for this
product?
Last year I sent a box of lSiln-dried
Florida sweet potatoes to friend in
London. He writes: Send me more"
We cannot buy them here. Kiln-dried
Florida sweet potatoes shipped by the
cargo will command paying prices in Eng
land, Ireland, Scotland, France. Germany
and the British North American PROV
iHces and the northwestern states.
With your extended coast line, you
should become prominent in maritime af-
fairs. Have your representatives. in Wash
in iea4a1rro oh
train your boys to sail Florida-built ships
to carry Florida products where markets
await them.
The British North American provinces
furnish the most able seamen and skilled
navigators to the British navy. Why not
Florida become famed for seamen equal
TO any on the globe | believe Florida is
in many respects the most favored state
in the union-.n none other are the condi-
tons of easy living so readily secured.
The western and eastern states are now
glutted with men, many of whom have
weary struggle for the bare necessaries
of life With your climate, easily worked
soil. and 1000 new industries awaiting de-
Nelopment, peace. content and plenty
should aboUnd-poverty never-if you vii.
avail yourselves of the bounties that sim
ply waits for you to grasp. Don't worry
over the freeze. 1t may never again visit
you. But be prepared. Do not rely alone
on products that a frost will destroy. De-
velop new industries that are frost proof
Do this, and Florida becomes, if not the
most wealthy, certainly the most desira-
Bile state in the union for the honest, in
dustrious home-seeker.
Conditions have changed within the
past ten years The day of larse profits
and large salaries has past. We must come
TO appreciate small things, circulate and
receive the penny. 100 OF them make a
dollar Peabody was enabled to bless the
south with his millions by saving his
pennies
May prosperity and happiness attend
you and the electric spur of enlightened
progress touch your good people and urge
them to advance
Stand by your Atlanta Worlds Fair
commissioners aid them and they will
make a Florida exhibit to do honor to
your state and also prove a great finan-
cial benefit to 1t. Thomas T. Wright.
Wigs (meditatively): Fri wonder if
az army cannon ever obtains an honorable
discharge.
Waggs: Mop; just gets hred-BunaIo
What makes YOU think she has such
good taste IN artistic matters" said one
She has given up trying to draw" SAID