The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-07-14

A MAJ iron Vermont tells NE that
before The freeze the whole country
hsre uas . mass Of orange trees, 700
could hardly e anything else IN Any
direction. When in bloom The sir vas
filed With The delicious perfume OF
orange blossoms, a. With 10 when
iocusss bloom. When in fruit be says
the sight Of the golden fruit, some
times beading the limbs to the ground,
vas beautiful beyond description.
You could sit on the bo,el plAzlas in
town and pick ripe oranges IRON the
trees Nov The whole country looks
open, the pines run up an average Of
IS fee, without . limb. The wind
sings sveesly through the pine leaves
~ it comes from the Atlantic and
again IS ], comes from the Gull Of
Mexico. The onnge trees that were
eui OF St The roots are again ~ tall
a. . man and will bear ne1i year.
Some have gwen up the idea Of raising
oranges here and others are sticking
TO il.
The soil here Is sand, or rather
there is DO soil. Bot BY using fertilizer
one can raise As fne corn IS you ever
saw. In shori this is . southern New
England; you have 70 make the soil.
The ''CIackers" have their cattle and
Craze them in the woods and fields
aud carefully ave their ~barD-ysrd
compost and raise fair crops. Their
hogs and chickens range vide and
furnish themselves food and make life
much easier than for the homesteader
Of the far northwest with its billiards,
| have never spent q comfortable 9
fourth Of jay outside Of the Rocky
Mountains as this one in De Land. It
Is 9 clean, sW~eet-smelling orderly town.
There Vas o officer occasionally in
sight; no drinking, no wagering,
staggering, whOOPing, yelling white
men and black a. I have seen else
where. The best ladies and youngest
children we're on the streets, Standing
In the sun, watching the games and
races plenty Of fire crackers and one
plate glass EindoE broken BY = gisn,
cracker. ] recalled some Fogrths in
Lexington. where the white men we're
fairly driven OF the streels BY halt
drunken giant negroes, roaring like
bulls Of BashaE, from Broadsay TO
court house square as I have seen
them, While the OneiAls sbo wanted
their votes sf The nexi election we're
DO where in sight. The striking thing
about The negroes here e the scarcity
Of nulsiios, the great siEe and deep
black color Of the rect, and The qoiei
good behavior Of all. II any sOeb
Carvings 90 - We permit we're a.
tenPsd BY negroes here, in this Yankee
toEn. ~ il Is called, or Ia A1y dber
tosb 10 the so0ih the white people
"SOuld 10, do . thing to them" The
Ehiis PsoPls trsai the negroes rencrk-
ably vel in the sOOih ~ long a. they
are quiet, orderly and v~sl-behaTsd.
No where in the world d ~ large .
uanbtf Of negroes - well oH. Bot
tbsy DO govern them uhh q frn
haHd and DO not PeEnR any sgEres-
6ons from them ssOrdeE d Heavens
Grz lAE,- and L "a e1forced here.
C~OngressrAa Davis, the orator Of
The Day, made . good sPeeen, and =
male q~Osrtesis sang some vsFy pretty
old tine '+coon songs" The negroes
Iiaesed TO the lsiisr from their part Of
the gToasd, showing long rows Of ivory
tessh contrasting VITA their very dsTk
taees Aad sPplISdlng By lOOd elAPPIpg
81 the ead. lP.Sssd By hall where
they ser having . cake walk, asd
thsr nusie vas IOu Aad pleasant,
their nOyeDsbn uoOderially graceful
and The tine Uas perfect, Bus al The
HegrOes in Florida do sos make a.
n0eh boiss ~ tkoss 10 obe or tEo
saloons % The Main street oi Lzring.
ioa 81 nighu Cot d sTsTJ Esek.
What possible good can eOss 10 this
race 81 encouraging il TO 70 bach into
barbarisn ~ We DO instead Of iOreisg
Il 10 keep order - the soaik dossi
The eHs have PsrnAasni eiTisIOss for
negroes and lbsy have separate waiting
rooms, all i1sa a. good a. The white
PeoPhaf. The AOase Of The 0egroes in
The sO0iA IN remarkably beat, and
easAaly cared ioE. II one uil but re.
tea shat A. Important item or
cOttoh d AID What an inporian, rels.
too segro AbOr has 10 Il be mas
aefDOulsdge thai this county and The
ssOls World ous great debt TO the
vsis nas Of the south fOr The Esru
dsaninstiOo uHh Which they hsy,
tAksn hold Of The rAes PrOelen.
Florida d sitnGisd nsariy - Greece,
sd e IL poufh AL q tie Ifaliar