The National tribune., 1910-08-11
THE VETERANS AT ST. CLOUD.

THE VETERANS At ST. CLOUD.
Is there anything more natural. more
to be expected, than that men and wo-
men who have spent their youth and
prime in arduous struggle with the biz
ter Winters and biting storms of the
North and West should long for more
genial climate as age advances?
When younger they had the appetite
and joy of conflict in fighting the biz
yards. the cold that bit four feet into
the earth and lasted from october till
they weayicd of this struggle and sought
escape from it.
This was particularly true of the vet
Grams, who had borne so much more
than others of the storms and stress Of
life. A very large proportion of the
veterans had. after bearing the heat
and burden of the greatest war on rec
ord, gone into the new country to en-
counter the hardships and privatioHs of
pioneer life and encounter the rigorous
climatic conditions.
They have been asking The National
Tribune for years to find them some
thing which seemed entirely possible in
this wide country-a location where
they could escape from this hard strug-
gle and have their lives prolonged by
relief from the heavy drafts - made
upon their waning vitality. An ideal
location was found in central Florida in
the midst of the orange belt, where
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world. and where every man and wo-
man can get more out of life with less
effort than anywher> else, not merely
in this country, but in any other.
The selection by The National Trib-
une of the location at ST Cloud, tract
of land surrounded by beautiful lakes
and where the sky smiles with nearly
perpetual Spring, has been highly ap-
proved by several thousand who have
made their homes there and practically
tested the advantages of the location.
No better evidence can be had of their
high approval than the beautiful little
town which they have created there in
less than one year. The homes they
have established, the houses they have
built, are equal to the best to be found
anywhere, and in one short year the
town has reached position in comfort,
attractiveness and municipal progress
that most towns do not reach in quar-
ter of century. The pretty little town
of Kissimmee, distant only eight miles,
has been in existence for more than 20
years. and Is only now approaching the
development that st. Cloud has reached
in few months. ST Cloud has a water
works. electric lights, ice plant, a beau
paper and all the other institutions of a
live town, with fine, commodious
churches, school house and other build
ings under way and rapidly approaching
completion.
AS shown by their works. the people
who have settled there are of the very
best class in the Grand Army of the Re-
public. They are men who have always
done the best work wherever they have
been, and they are now doing maryels
in the new town where they will make
their homes for the rest of their lives.
They realize the limitless possibilities of
the soil, climate and location. They
know that they are far freer from all
bodily ills than in their former homes,
many broken-down men and women
have taken a new lease on life, and all
are convinced that their lives will be
prolonged for years by residence in a
climate which preserves and increases
instead of sapping their vitality.
All these are facts against the rank
est assaults of blackmailers, muck-rak-
ers and rivals, and rebound as hurtless
as from the Rock of Gibraltar. The
men who are attacking st. Cloud are
only showing their own spleeny malig-
nancy and their callous, even cruel, lack
of sympathy with the very best of their
comrades who are striving to get the
most out of life that life has to offer
them.