The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-06-30
Trip to the South.
THE CLARENDON Inn,
SEA BREEZE, FLORIDA.

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Editor OF the Intelligeneer:
On the train in Illineis | got ~acquaint-
ed with two pretty girls, one OF whom
was a Kentucky girl who had been
teaching in Kansas. They were going
to Henderson and | asked the other II
she knew my cousins 8 B. family in
Henderson. She was young, plump
aud pretty and I saw her helping a
stranger, an old, intirm woman with
her bundles and 1t was an agreeable
surprise when she SAID al am Eleanor
b. and who are .you?" Losing their
agreeable company at the Ohio begun
one OF the pieasantest summer trips |
ever made. 1t was cooler than any
summer trip | ever made out Of the
Kansas City district IN any direction.
In Kentucky and Tennessee there we're
inelwheat crops. l never saw shocks
thicker on the ground. | saw Nash
allie by night and Atlanta in day light.
but not much Of it. The south is an
exceedingly interesting section and
after seeing 1t | wondered less at the
white people not moving out Of it
an masse than before | had seen Il.
To the eye conditions look much as
they must have done before the war.
The larger family mansion and the
smaller quarters where the negroes
live are nearly as before.
In Georgia the whole country seems
TO be a red soil, but 1t brings good
cotton, aud they pillow carefully around
the hills never making burrows up and
down hill for water to run in and start
q wash. The low country Of Georgia
Is less interesting. being fat with
almost endless fine forests in which the
trees are much more scattering than |
have been used to in the Rocky Noun.
tains. was not prepared to see such
extensive gathering Of resin from the
trees or so many turpertine stills. The
hands who do this work are the rough.
est element and commonly known as
''turpentine ~Biggers.' The burning
question IN the south, or this part Of IT.,
is not white against black. It is
whether the sleek, well-dressed town
negroes who go on excursions TO the
country from time to time--"dem
'scursion niggers"--shall ~unprovoked
and with immunity "sass'' The "tur.
pentlne niggers,n make fun Of their
ragged clothes and uncouth ways.
Con fights are common between them
and many are killed and wounded.
Florida was a revelation TO me.
Jacksonville is fne, thriving business
place and the democratic state coDyen.
ton was In session. The delegates
looked much like Missouri farmers and
i was surprised to see such rugged men
with red, healthy complications aud no
salloW ones among them. The people
move around 10 Jacksonville with
rather more energy than our people do
IN hot weather aud | have felt the heal
less and felt moro energetic than on
hot days and nights in Lexington.
Here you are always cool 10 the shade.
The air from the sea Is like the breath
Of life. 10 n day my voice, usually
husky at home, had cleared up aud |
had the pleasure Of walking on the
beach and singing for half an hour at
q time all to myself Just for the
pleasure Of hearing my voice clear and
sonorous once ore. raltie was bora
In the West Indieas not far from there
coasts. st. Augustine, that disputes
Santa fe's claim TO b. The Oldest city,
has still much Of the old spanish air