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GLIMPSES OF FLORIDA.
\Vil<!s,San<I> l»ca< *Iio>
and Secluded Nooks.
Some of the Best and Most Popular
.Railroad Men in the
South.
(q fe ERY soon the land of gol*
p V den fruits will be in its
J* glory. Its many citizens
tgl Tn) who annually summer It
/^’rJ r-uj in higher latitudes, will
>4 ? r& soon begin to return and
rJvJ ■'j tne truck farmers will be*
,»* pin at an early day to li!l
the ground with seeds of
every variety for early
fall and winter vegeta
bles. The orange and
lemon will soon take oi»
their golden hue and the
1 bloom like a garden,
evelo
loridi none pre-
up.iur.il attractions. Jls
fertile soli, noiiucid
i -! , rou'.finuc nooks,
sd&rs, cluster
ing cypress and palmet-
ri-ita and exhaustless veg-
i make up a combination
ar y other portion of the
nerv, 1 .e ».ost picturesque of which
.no romantic Oeklawaha. The visitor
Florida wno lalls to visit the Silver
ring and ride on ihe boat which a 1 ices
ar its crystal waters into the Ockla*
ha and see the li-hes, a'igatora, green
d luxuriant plant-, and vecetaliuo in
i depths beneath, Las missed the
•st beautiful and remarkable sight
ich Nature anywnere presents to ihe
man eye.
•'or centuries these attractions—“mag*
icent d wi;d” v/.. re unappropriated
civiliZvd man, but the last quarter of a
itury has wrought .vondaiiul change s
d marvelous developments. Health
.kers from every clime nave appropri-
d its atmosphere, and capitalists have
proprlated tne soil, lakes ana liver-,
lendid cities, towns, villages and tie
nt rural homes have been established
ery where.
I ml roads intersect every section nnd
turi&nt palace cars and screaming
:omotives now rush through the once
jgltd wilderness where the red man
u wild biast held undisputed posses*
n.
»wns and cities like Jacksonville, St.
ca, Sa
ipa, Galne'-vili
Traffic Manage
fclcricksi.urg and
mac It. It.
A cent. 1
Railway.
taa, Sanford, Orlando, j
'j, Madison, Plant City, \
in the Sta
rpi
Ae of the older tonne, like enco
SSSsHSU
□ewer p.ac ”
ibty be at
ll this bo true It may |
d to geographical po]
d towns, where
..te into i
'rp H ‘ n,undid o d towns, wnert
srsjsvjw* i
^as»u»s.SSt !
“JaSsafST ■
rit of the times will bti
lU^arfes and infuse new
' aSl^Fiorida would prob-
Vrevir hsve bet n developed, ail 1
' * -i. -a to say that her rai road
‘V'L l „ ueiu the hands of ai clever,
- , u mi accommodating gentle
terpribiim anu_u uufciortho
'.‘t a ^w‘'or fc eUbt" myths' ai1 railru8 4
xt bix or ^ towards the ianu of
me '.viii con ^ During that time
nanuie jjuion will carry pas-
ir -- . „ r ,.und for Florida. >vt
11 f®* 9 ^, ' ,.. ill, - iaces of some of ti.v
vc ‘-ere > »•- - • ineLi in tLe Boull
ot t popu.ar u “ ^ oi peop ‘
, < i°Jn r ,ao to Florida. OoL if- G.Flem
down aianda at tbe hea<
. , w one of tbo bent rai.
f is-- con *“ u “ f .. Col. is. W
; t v... ■■ Ga., is rap
Lv coming W '“ s l ' uu ° f U ‘
ountry and 1
sec Li 1
.‘roans' and their manag<
:L.e, Lang:* the general wo
ole country.
>i»l TllERN REVIvLOl’MKN l
Means the Enrichment of the
Nation.
Manufacturer h Record thorough
. v,s fn ll.e do" r,„e of the late Ho
6t i 0 t^D a gett tt unlon of V the l 8ectioi a w-
ercourae. While po d raV( . the busi-
ai P 1 *^; the country want to devel-
:p 9 tbeTosc“t business r/al.ons between
* > a6V 0 r r a! , y a e , a d rs t ago h a U pbi 1 ad e lpbiabank n
bevtra j heavily interested in
ng . ' Western Railroad. Asa di-
Lhe Nor oik t * > 8 d ot tho vigorous ef
SrsiS,
cry ix that
I'sES
jltiDA WITH PORTRAIT:
A STORY OF OLD GREEK AND EGYPEIAN LIFE
BY
II. RIDER HAGGARD AND ANDREW LANG.
CHAPTER IV. I of the underworld. For this light he
\ i;„u n steered, and soon he saw two tall pillars
A hard bght it had bern and a long, | of flam ; bUzln b68l(!e ea( . h other, with
and the Wanderer was weary. He took a narrow space of night between them,
the tiller of the ship in his hand, and i He helmed the ship towards these, and
steered Tor the south and for the noon- 1 caine , " tar ^V7*°r
, . . . ...... . ! mighty mountains of wood burning far
day sun which was now at its highest in ; into heaven, and each was as lofty as thu
the heavens. But suddenly the bright ! pyre that blazes over men plain in some
light of the sky was darkened and the air : r< r d war » a,lU eacb P i,e roared and darea
. ... .... . .. above a stei pciag of smooth black basalt.
wss tilled with the rush, and the mur- | and between the burning mounds of Lire
mur, and the v innowing of Innumerable I lay the still ilamc decked water of a ha
wings. Jt was as if all the birds that Vt3U »
have their homes and seek their food
the great salt marsh of Cayster had risen
from the south ai d down over sea in one
hour, for the heaven was darkened with
their llight, and loud with the call of
cranes anc the whistling cry of the wild
ducks, riodsrk was the thick mass of
dying fowl, that a dight of s-.vans shone
snowy again t the black cloud of fcneir
f lags. At the view of the a the Wan
dtrtr caught Ids bow eagerly in nia hand
i he string, and, Uk-
the white wedge of
v, he shot a wild swan through the I TT
stas it swept high over the ma.‘:t, uG,,.
i, with »li fch • speed of its rush, too t
white swan da-. » d down like iigt.t L ;
into the sea behind tne ship. The
derer watched its fall, when, io! tr.e
water where the deaa swan m ;! splashed
up as rod as b!ood and ail afoam! The
long silver wings ana snowy plumsge
iloa.id on the surface decked wlrn bio id-
red .stains, and the Wanderer mar-
voded as he bent over the bulwarks and
gazed steadily upon the sea. Then he
saw that th« wide sea round the ship was
covered, as far as the eye could reach, as
it were with a biood red scum. Hither
and thither the rid stain was tossed like
foam,yet beneath, where the deep wave
diviiltii, the Wanderer saw that the
streams of the sea were grey and green
below the crimson dye. As he watched
he saw, too, that the red froth was drifted
always onward from the 8°uth and from
tho mouth of the River of Egypt, for be
hind the wake of the ship it was most,
red of all, though he had not marked it
while tne battle raged. But in front the
color grew thin as if the stain mat the
rivtr washed down was ail but spent. In
his heart tho Wanderer thought, as any
men must have done, that on the banks
of the River of Egypt tiiere had been
some battle of great nations, and that the
war god had raged furiously, wherefore
the holy river as it ran forth stained all
the sacred sea. Where war was, there
was his home, no other homo had he now,
and all the more eagerly he steered rignt
on to see what the gods would send him.
Tho flight of the birds was over and past;
it hours after noon, the light
hut as black” as night. Beyond, to the
southward, there was a bank of cloud
like a mountain wall, steep, and polished,
and black, tipyed alon K tne raffed crest
with lire, and opening ever and again witu
Hashes of Intolerable splendor, while the
bases were Bcrawled over with li£htninfr
like a written scroll. Never bad tne
Wanderer in ail lis voyaging on the sea
and on the great River Oceauu.s chat gir
dies tho ear’h, and severs the dead iroin
the living men ever had he beheld
such a darkness. Presently he came as
H were within the jaws of it, dark as a
wolf’s mouth, so dam that be might not
see the corpses on the deck, nor the
must, nor too dead man swinging from
tne yard, nor the captain of the Phu;ni-
ciaus who groaned aloud below, praying
to bis gods. But in the waite of the ship
there was one nreaS of clear blue sky on
’the hor.zoli, in widen the little isle where
he had slain tho Bldonians might t e d!s
cerne.d far off, as bright and whllo as
* Now though ho Knew it not. ths gates
of bis own world were closing behind tne
Wanderer for ever. To the North, whence
he came, lay the clear sky and the sunny
capes and isles, and the airy mountains
of the Arrive lands, white with the teta
nies of familiar Gods. Butin face of him,
to the South, whither he went, was a ont
cloud of darkness and a land of darkness
itself There were things to befall
more marvellous than are toid in any
tale; tnere was to be a war of the peoples,
and of the Gods, the True Gods and the
False and there ho should iiud the last
embraces of Love, tho False Love and the
Foreboding somewhat of the perns
that lay in front, the Wanderer was
tempteu to shift his course and sail back
to the sunlight. But he was one that had
never turned his hand from the plough,
nor bis foot from the path, and be
thought that now his path was foreor
dained. So he lashed the tiller with a
roue and groped his way with his hands
alum- the deck till he reached the altar
of the dwarf gods, where the embers of
the sacrifice still were glowing fa.utly.
Then with his swoid ho cut some spear-
shafts and broken arrows Into white
chips, and with them he filled a little
brazier, and taking the seed of firo front
the altar set light to it from beneath.
Presently the wood blazed up through
the noonday niffht, and tbo tire flickered
a a. i ~Cuooh nf hhfi (read men
veu.
Tbo ship neared the haven and the-
Wanderer' saw, moving like Andies
through the night, fchu lanterns in tho
prows of boats, and from one of the
boats, a sailor bailed him in the speech
of ihe people of Egypt, asking him if hi
desired a pilot.
“Yes,” he shouted. The boat drew
near, and the pilot came aboard, a torch
in his hand; nut when his eyes fell on the
dead men in the ship, and tho horror
d tbo captain
great bills o. blazing lire fcb
fed into r.rie smooth waters •>
Egypt, the flames glittering
d* ror s mail an be stood by »tie must) and
chanted the Hong of the Bow.
Then, by the c.unsel of the pilot,
the vessel wh3 steered up the rivec
t)wards the Temple of Heracles in Tanis ;
where there is a sanctuary lor strangers,
and wi ore no man may harm them. But
flrst, tne dead Sidoniaus were cast over
board in* o the great river, for the dead
bodies of men are an abomination to tne
Egyptians And as each body .‘•truck the
wattr the Wanderer saw a h.'.ielui signt,
for tho face of the river was las tit d into
foam by the sudden leaping and rushing
of huge four fooled iish, or so the Wan
derer deemed tnern. Tho sound of the
heavy piuugingof tho great water beasts,
as they darted iort/1 on the prey sinuirg
at each other wita their tally, and the
gnashing of their jaws whin taey bit too
ea&erly, and only harmed the air, and
the leap of a greedy sharp snout ironi
the ship had quite touched the water—
these things were norrible to see and
hear through the blackness and by the
drelight. A River of Death it seemed,
haunted by the borrows that are feigned
to prey upon the souls and bodies of the
Dead. For the first time tne heart of tne
Wanderer died within him, at the ter
ror of the darkDObS and of this dread riv
er and ef the water beasts that dwelt
board ana tne river w»» vj.i-.-w ~
tho Wanderer spoke, sick at heart, anil
inquired of the oiilot why the sea had
run so red, and whether war was in
tne land, and why there was night over
ail that country. Tne fellow answered
that thr-re was rio war, out peace, ytt
the lai d was strangely plagued with
frogs and locusts and lice in all tneir
coasts,the sacred River oinov ruriLingrea
for three whole days and now, at iaao
for this, the third cay, darkness a.; over
the V7< r»d. But as to the cause or these
courses the ptint knew nothing, being a
plain man. Only the story Weut umoi g
th;> people, that the Gods wore a; genet
with Khem.(as they called Egypt which,
indeed, was ea^y to see, t r those thii gS
could come omy from the Gohs. La.
why they v.ra anger*! the pilot ki»«
Uiv IJiviuo Htichur, thi; goddess of Ljte,
was wrath because of cite worship giv ■«
in Tsnist.o one tiiey faded Strange U ifi-
or, a liOddes.i or a woman of wonderful
D-au’y.-.vnose temple was in ranis, Ltn«
corning her tlio piio. said that tusty
years ago, some thirty years, 3ne h„d
appeared in the country, coming _nui.o
knew wiietice, and ha<; been wor.aipcea
in l’anis,and had again departed at mys
teriously h3 she came. But now s ‘6 had
FUTURE OF
iff± SSS2
to injure the South.^
Tlic l’oisonous Oleander.
Tlie oleander with its beautiful rose-
that und fiald of the oleander, that
it°was /SlSadriSTTfew
ins by south of Italy and Spain,
leaves, in the^southm ^ a
the d t0 <j r ivu away noxious in-
rat poison the localities
sects. H prow is generally mala-
llt r° Oloandc mg
ri00 , S ’ Leeial charm to the scenery along-
lend a spccUJcn sufiered
the banks cf ' habitations, and in
to grow near bubian ^bitatio^ ^ ^
iSSJSSSfthrt even bees avoid the ole-
?hite population ia found in tho ad i
> mirabie qualities of their ancestor. 1 nere
" oro . a>Ry at i he ptesent time no equa.- |
ly xiu*tierou8 pfirt of the Eoglish race so .
uuafleeted by foreign blood.”
Hits Piedmont lit glow.
He slates that this region occupies I
about 2U0 OilO square jr.i'ea. »>f which one-
bait will average over 2 000 feet in ele ■
t.ion. -The result ci this elevation |
is that almost one half of ths ^ oa '' u [ la
! etates east of .he Ml.«« PP»
a much colder climate tnan its latit
indicates. Mcisnrcd by thetemperatu
conditions of the seashore j* ne » ?
. triel mav hu said to have climatical reia
ance of the statement °r facts unioP'^ j tion8 analogous to those of the coaat n be-
The Southerner as a Laborer-
The Piedmont Region—Coal
Iron, etc.
civiition depends, lically.
r no Him iron. When tho
itly
. m together. Euo -
stance betwet n them
mi expense of from D»
In the cost of ! cal
la the South-
owitity and the assooia
? or industry are
ii aether country except,
work oi ou
uii the use of co Him “ u ' 1 *
ore and coal area - apart R
business to brii
hundr-d milts <
commonly meai *tf
one to two dolitp^ *ot
making tho met? irou.
era States th
tion oi the
better th
icr'u-p! Chinaio peculiar advauttge
j App.t.laclu district (Piedmont
Lioni is found! tee fact that the ore
‘ 4 .i#hi..xi nf PTi’r. ont coal
Sometimes it happens that the import
ance of the statement of facts and opm
ions is greatly increased bv the iOsiUoti
of the indtvidua f.orn whence they came.
This is eminently the case with the
views of Professor N. S. Shaler, profes-
nf aeolocy in the l ulversity of liar-
e ,rd f We quote his own lauguaee from
Particle 6 in The Arena on -TheEco
nomic Future of the boutb.
of
Ues'in ihe nelglihood of excellent coal
beds. The avert dlsianco of the iron
ore from the coiiceded to rtduce it to
° talic staldoea not exceed one
1 ores of the Lake
tha t
hundred miles.|
lions anamuuus w tuu.>v --- -
tween Washington and Boston Us <ion bunorcu =; r ^^0'transported
gffisjSs f rt “- this dUw “°°-
euT o*f M«T““aexempt from | “ Ue point of sm L' cuat8 ,rom nl “ u l °
L U sLu°Aiv“ drought. This well adjusted twelve doliars. -
riversa MLV<SStaW U ^
thi Bt. them for water powers. The
lte.selujteel Gray Iron.
Professor Shi states that the Lake
Superior regtojsuperior to the South
in this ore. i‘so states, however,
that by the bairocess excellent steel
is made out ofj brown hematite ores
tiio federal soldiers wno came i Creator Variety of broad *® aV ®“-““other so abundant W southern mines, and
rudely disabused oTtlulTprejudTce. They I subtropfclffore^ts o? G»e wor.d and the t^t upon th| ja^on • "PJ 1
^Mrtartafis ass I ss»ss ssK&St i ~ 5r “ n-“ - -
this regloa lio the eflc^tiv^ h rrtA . Uhn «nnthem
The Southern Soldier as a Lahore
5 ta!5u«-js»»Sv!tt sffitrss.ua Ss-swss
Si«S!“b.=,..r=S%.
ofTheir own Und, laborious, alacrlous
f rf.nrinring after tho American man
a, ‘? *w« is a crucial test of those hu-
nuoaiitieK judged by this fire assay
we know tho southerner to he of sterling
material, in no way below the lofty stau-
? a ,,f hi, race In the new dispensa
tlon the poor white works well, surpris-
i ‘“Nntmeieastgood promise of the south-
tne giant , —v,, r .n H timber ru- i „
this region lie the edecuve ^ rt)a . tbe Southern »s.
sources of the coutlnen , t beir swift 'gho editof The Manufacturers
growth a fiord a permanent supply for ai1 B ®?£Le tioutUff °on be able to furnish
J ! '“"' , ‘ UOn - 1 Bessemer orefch as those-of Lake
the needs of its poulation
futurWb 1 “most f su r bst.nttaf eo— ' na^^o’wn
no greater than ordi
iw command.”
I In con lir ms Hon oi this statement our
readers will find sampUs of the gray
steel ore of a Georgia mine and of the
1 i i«Ko Bcpeiior n ints side by side at the
i ofiiee of Ool. A. J. McBride, in tills city.
I T.. in amateur they seem almost identi-
ii col«>r and t.i-0 character of their
constituents. A mining txpeit pro
Bounces toe Georgia snacimons as of tbe
-reatest excellence. This samp e was
recently brought from tho mine f-m-
brac.d in the track known as Lmerson,
in Bartow couuty, which is now being
developed by a syndicate which controls
all the capital required.
Professor Shaler says: “The peculiar
ease with which tho douthern irons aic
mined is in good part duo to their geo
logical conditions,'’ which he describes.
“In part also their advantageous condi
tions are due to the fact that the South
ern climate permitB work to bo carried
on in open pits throughout the year.
“The vast agricultural and mineral re
sources of South America will soon be
demanded as sources or supply of the
world s markets. The developments of
this continent will demand a great
amount of machinery and tools. The
geographic and geological conditions
point to the South as the place whence
these shall be supplied. So, too, the de
mands of Africa, as its population be
comes modernized, will naturally bo met
in the earth resources of the Southern
States.”
The high scientific source from which
these statements come, the independent
views of a scientist removed above the
suspicion of bias or of persoaal interest,
make them of peculiar value and of com
manding authority.
We commend them to the close atten
tlou of our readers. They are calculated
to make a profound impression in the
I North, tn England and on the continent
and should have the widest publicity and
I circulation.
LUO uuuuuny ui„uti * — .
and fiared on the faces of tne uead men
that lay about the deck, rolling to lar-
b- aid and to starboard, as tho vessel
lurched, and the fia.ue shone red cn the
golden armour of the Wanderer.
Of all his voyages this was the strangest
sea'anug, he cruising alone, witu a com
pany of tho dead, deep into a darkness
without measure or bond, to a laud that
might not be descried. Strange gusts
of sudden wind blow him hither and
UiitSer. The breeze wouid rise in a mo
ment from any quarter, and die as sud
denly as it rose, and anotlmr wind would
chase it over the chopping seas. He
knew not if lie sailed bouth or North, he
knew not how time passed, for fh^re was
no sight of tho sun. It was night witm
out a dawn. Vet ills heart was gay, as if
he had been a boy again, for the old
sorrows were forgotten, so potent was
the draught of the chalice of the Goddess,
and so glad was the delight of battle.
“Endure, my heart,” he cried, a* he
had often cried before, “a worse thing
than this thou hast endured, and he
caught up a lyre of the dead bldonians,
and sang:
Though tlic light oi the sun be hidden.
Though his race be run,
Though we sail in a sea forbidden
Though*wtf wander alone, unknowing,—
Oh, heart oi mine —
The path of the strange sea going,
Yetendure? 1 We shall not he shaken
By things worse than these.
We have scaped, when our friends wei
taken,
WofsiMUiatiishaye'we''faced and lied from,
wVien UiVih or of his cave ran red from
The blood of men.
Worse griefs have we known undaunted,
Worse fates have lied ;
When the Isle that our lung love liauuted
Lay waste aud dead!
So he was chanting when he descried,
faint and far oft', a red glow cast up
along the darkness like sunset on the sky
men strangely* and to «
pie; and tne men wno beheld her could
do nothing but wo: ship her lor her beau
ty. Whether she was a mortal woman
or a goddess the pilot did net know.ouly
bethought that she who dwel.s in Alar*
been is, iiathor of Kiiom.thti >ue- no! Lu.o
was angry with t,lie Strange Hatuor, un.t
Lad seut the darkness and tbo p.agues
to punish them who worshipped ktr. Tie
people of tho seaboard also murmured
that it would be well to drive r..o btrange
Hathor from their coasts, if she were a
goddess; and if sue were a woman to
stone Utr with stones. But the people
ot Tanis vowed tuat they would rather
die, one and all, than do au-ht but
adore the incomparable beauty o thetr
strange goddess. Others ag: in, neld
at two " wizzards, leaders oi certain
slaves of a strange race, wanderers from
the desert, settled in Tanis, wnoin they
called the Apura, caused all these sor
rows by art magic. As if, forsooth, said
the pilot, those barbarian slaves were
more powerful man all the priests of
Fgypt. But for his part, the pilot knew
nothing, ouly that if the Divine Hathor
were angry with the people of Tanis, it
was hard that she must plague all the
land of Khem.
So the pilot murmured, a3 his tale was
noue of the shortest: but even as he spoke
the darkness grew less dark and the
clouds lifted a'little so that the shores of
the river might be seen in a green light
like the lights of Hades, and presently
tha night wis rolled up like a vei,, and
it was living noonday in the land o.
Khern. Then all tho uoise of iife broke
forth in one moment, Ihe kino lowing,
the wind blowing the feathery palms,the
fish splashing in the streams, men cry
ing to each other from tho river banks,
aud the voice of multitudes of people
in every red temple praising Ra, their
great God,whose dwelling is the sun. The
Wanderer, too, praised his own Gods,and
gave thanks to Apollo and to Helios liy~
perion and to Aphrodite. And in the
end the pilot brought the ship to the
quay of a great white-walled city and
tnere a crew of oarsmen was hired and
they Bped rejoicing in the sunlight to
Tanis and the Sanctuary of Heracles,the
Safety of Strangers. There the snip was
moored, there the Wanderer rested,kind
ly received by the shaven priests of the
temple.
CHAPTER V.
Strange news llies fast. It was not
long before the Pharaoh, who then was
with his Court in Tanis, the newly re-
builded city, heard how there had come
to Khem a man like a god, wearing
golden armor, and cruising alone in a
ship of the dead. At that time the white
barbarians of the sea and of the isles
were wont to land in Egypt, to ravage
the fields* carry women captive, and y
ihAif shiDs* But not one or
them had dared to sail in the armor of
ander.