The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-21
THE SUNNY SOUTH,
An Interesting Letter from a
Former Fulton County Boy
MR.. BURTON -TROKEL,
Who Has Seen Much Of the World,
Makes Pertinent Observations.


home and friends in Old Fulton
County, l shall long remember;
as also, the hospitality with which
| was received, and the delight
full experience / had riding a
wheel across mountains, hills and
valleys, some of which l trod
when bare-footed boy, or rode
over on load of hoop poles on the
way to Hancock-at that time the
largest city l had ever seen, or
knew anything about
How the recollections of my
boyhood life on the farm return
ed. and how wildly did recall
the times when / used to try to
steer the plow along the steep
side of the old stony hill-feld-
when the plow would strike Il
stone and the handles seemed to
to try to break my "slats, or
throw me farther down the hill in
a second than | would feel like
walking back in an hour All,
those were happy days!
There are some of us who be-
come discontented with farm life,
and the country in which we live,
and we start out seeking other
employment in other quarters
where we imagine there lies all
the wealth, pleasure, comforts
and conveniences of life; but go
wheresoever we may over this
broad land, we never find that
ideal spot of earth, and we often
find during our peregrinations,
that it is not all gold that glitters.
We are offered different induce
ments in the different parts of
the country. For instance the
gold fields of Alaska offer us
wealth, freedom and free ice, but
in order to obtain all these, one
has to undergo many sllardships
and privations, and, so tis, where
ever we find one advantage We
find it counterbalanced by many
little disadvantages.
Away down here in the social
ed Sunny South, we have beau
tiful country and aldelightful eli
mate-almost a continual sum-
mer-with flowers blooming out
doors the year round-the very
air we breathe fragrant with the
scent of flowers. The birds sing
their sweet songs from early
morn till dewy eve; the chickens
crow and the dogs bark all night
long, and the mosquitoes never go
to rOost.
But Notwithstanding all this,
there are some great diSadvant-
ages. Just at a period when
commerce is thriving, and there
is peace, prosperity and happi-
ness in our homes. Yellow Jack
} suddenly makes his appearance
in our midst and causes panic
stampede among the natives,
such as would be produced by
: wolves in herd of cattle. The
panic stricken natives flee-sOme
) to the country, others, to the
frosty north, leaving their homes
and their all behind; and in a few
hours, the senseless, shotgun
quarantine so much in vogue
throughout the state of Mississ-
ippi and some of the parishes OF
Louisiana, during the yellow fe-
yer epidemics, is put on, which
paralyzes the wheels of commerce
and travel, and even stops the U.
S. mails, and no travel is per
mitted between towns, until the
last case of yellow fever has died
out and the quarantine raised.
The next great menace to our
: peace and happiness is the south
!, ern negroes, which differ in Ma
ture from the northern colored
people They should not be class
. ed as human. Space here will
, not permit me to discuss the ne
gro question, but will say in con
clusion that the negroes of the
south do not deserve the kind
consideration and treatment that
they receive from the white man.
We're itnot for the yellow fe-
yer, the negroes and the mosqui-
tos the south would be that ideal