The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1908-02-07
MAKINo PRQoRnsa ell

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view OF the progress Of the country
lsince his birth:
some people are disposed 20 rut
the fur Of q cats back the wrong way
and people Of this partioul7a gender
can discern nothing but fou ars and
thIstlts where Co eVerybe the
whole earth see odol the
beauty and fraF
Perhaps treo LOT " iay
| as e vas Y, or perha .ie
not e b Oils month az Il VI
monf nd they are at once BeIa8
20 idea that the State Is grow.
Backward instead Of forward, and
gloom succeeds gloom, soon the
whole universe becomes overcast with
q ieaden sky and nowhere does q ray
% light or a silver lining appear.
''But let as 90 back to a single life
and see how marvellous have been the
changes and the improvements with
in that period.
"The editor Of this paper was born
after Florida was admitted into the
Union, and the improvements that
have followed 80 rapidly upon the
heels Of each other seem almost in
credible.
when he was born there had not
yet been constructed a single mile Of
railroad ia any part Of Florida, unless
II was the one now obsolete TO the old
town Of st. Joseph.
Nov, glance your eye over the map
and see how the State Is cObwehbed
with these great arteries Of COM
merce!
Indeed, when the editor OF this pa
per was born the neigh of the iron
horse had only become familiar to a
few OF the principal cities in q few OF
the States Of the Union.
''The finder box was Just beginning
TO surrender its place TO the friction
match.
"The tallow dip and the huge sill
YER and pewter 'snuherB' we're q part
OF the paraphernalia OF every we'll reg
ulated household.
"1'he flint lock- yet held It's own and
such q thing as breech-loading ham
merless shotgun had not yet entered
into ones most ideRllstic dreams.
"Ocala and Marion County we're not
yet given a place on the map-Marion.
Sumter and Lake all formed q part Of
the territory of Alachua.
''The cities Of the State were ITALIA
hassee, Pensacola, st. Augustine, Tam
pa, Key West, New Port, St. Joseph,
and one or two more places about the
size Of Santos.
'The telegraph, whose wires now
girdle the earth and climb over noun
tains and under seas. and like so many
sensitive nerves, instantly conveying
anything happening at any one point
to the remOtest parts; indeed, now the
very currents of the air are harnessed
to our service, and through the same
we keep in touch with ships at sea.
"The great perfecting printing
presses, typewTiting and typesetting
and hundreds Of other in
ventions that we now find useful in
our everyday life, we're all unknown
~ ftet period.
Concord stage coach, with its
horses avery twelve miles,
rapid md most luxurious
vel and the weather was
then ID now, and the
lar m0f6 execrable.
fires ID the early morn
frying live Goals In the
night before, and the fault
fe much more rare in those
1 now.
tag progress! Well, we guess
ODen your eyes and behold the
lhlug1 that are 10 be seen.
~ leTI|la dOtted over With beautiful.
ItfIvio8 towns and cities, and where
5 Ilttic while ago were woods. morass
Ind swamp are now peaceful homes
va fruitful orchards.
Sec the magnificent Pullman Vesti- !
|d trains speeding as fast as steam
carry them, headed direct from
York through Florida almost b /
feg West, making the trip quicker and
b far greater comfort than the trip
was formerly made from Ocala 70 Jack.
5OnViIle.
I'VE behold Mergenthaler tyDoset-
.ing machines. cylinder presses alec
Eric motors IN nearly every Florida |
printing Office, and electric lights. tel !
aphones, hot and cold water bath1. and |
Injuries formerly denied 20 q king, in |
nearly every home, and on the farm !
md In the marts OF trade hundreds OK I
Industrial activities busily at work. tell !
B story Of the march Of progress so
&c 70 read almost like a
sseo the sly-scrapars that 30 quick. |
" followed on the heels Of the inven- |
Ion Of the steam and electric elevator.
What would our ancestors have |
thought OF the erection of q building !
.orty-nve stories high2
Why, We have gildingS now higher