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INTERESTING IfMSS
Enjoying New Home in Florida as
Well as Could Be Expected
Under Circumstances.
From Saturday J u 11 y .
Ktemper, Florida. Dee. J'J.
Mrs. Phehus, Secretary W. C.
t. i;.
Dear Friend I have delayed
writing fur two reasons; first, I
have been very busy trying lu got
comfortable enough Id write with
comfort, viz, pen and ink and
table, to write on, and second, op
portunity to look about sufficient
ly to write soinethiiiK about Flor
ida worthy of interest,, arid today
finds nie seated "in my little
cabin door," the gentle winds of
this tropiral climate fanning me
and bringing the tones of the
church bell calling the Sunday
school together and later to
preaching. I concluded it was
my most religious duty and
obligation to redeem my promise
and write to my dear friends of
tho W. C. T. U., and when you have
read it yourself and beforo the
Union, if you will pass it on to the
Journal ofllco for publication it
will save mo tho time to write
about fifty letters to those re
questing a letter telling all about
Florida.
Well, that is a big subject. Its
many acres, diversified scenery,
its many lakes, bordered with
cypress and pines, its live oaks,
whoso drooping noses dip almost
to the water. I canot liopo to tell
all about it in one letter. It
might overtax tho U. S. mail to
deliver it, so I am going to write
in turn to tho different inquirers,
and I shall, as they say in court,
"Tell the whole truth and nothing
but the truth, " and as there will
bo no lawyers present at each
writing lo boguilo nie info mis
statements, in lime my friends
will know as much about Florida
an T can myself. '
Florida has been said to bo a
land of sunshiuo and flowers, and
so it is (in places). When wo
traveled on tho Atlantic coast
railway from Jacksonville to Tam
pa, I said, "I am half way to
Paradise already." The vivid
green of the forest, the lotus
flowers and hyathenlhs peeping
up through the lily pads on tho
cloar pools of water (no green
malaria or musketeers), the gold
en fruit touching the ground from
their overladen branches, the red
poinsotla and other tropical
flowers, and long stems of pan
nanas, I was so elated that, I
pictured our future home and all
Florida a vast "Harden of Fden,"
and when we reached Tampa I
aid this must be the most beauti
ful city in all the world!
We stayed a night and a day
and took the morning train lo
Sleinper. A few steps brought us
to the sight of the laud of our pos
sessions, thirty-eight acres in all,
a level stretch of palmclo shrubs
and bunch grass, with now and
then a mound f white sand pro
truding through tho rank vegeta
tion; a grove of pine and cypress
trees bordering the lake, and in
my dominion n solitary pine away
up in the air, its branches at the
far top clothed in live oak moss
hanging half way to Hie ground.
I could think of nothing but a
monument of tears mourning for
its dead companions, laid low by
the greed of Ibe lumberman's ax.
I lie scene was most depressing lo
me, and as I looked at the chalk-
colored soil, Hie shade trees all
cut away, I said, I am sold again,
and Hie other fellow has the
money.
We made tracks up the railroad
Irack to I.ulz Junction, a milo to
Hie north, a rival town, which
sinco Mr. Moore bought our land
in August had made a raid on
Plumper and absconded with Iho
'poslollice, store, school house and
church, and our little town no
longer existed except tho depot
and a few negro huts. At Lutz
Junction wo found about a dozen
houses, including tho said post
office and store, and a largo shell
of lumber politely named hotel,
which was so crowded with new
people wo could not find any ac
commodations until some of them
IcTl for their newly-built homes,
made of rough pine boards. Wc
remained there two days and then
set up housekeeping. Mr. Moore's
family in a room over tho store,
and I, dreading the long flight of
stairs without any banisters,
found a room in the garden of the
"oldest inhabitant" ( aycar and
two months). The room, my
present abode, is 12x10 feet,
painted in Iho inside with white
wash and strips over tho cracks
on the outside; it is furnished with
s;ri:i.- en, a .na!i cook
,-.o. lie cjuil; s li r in e.it ami
ni:ll lirlt s for my rooking
I mv l.itMllaih of I lie
I kirl! loaned me a
on w lii li I a 1 1 1 w ni -
I iair. Hiil wilh all the gl ny pros
pects of the preM-l't, Hie outlook
! is good, as I can see from the emu
j dition of the more sell led places
J that the reirriil-rolored sand will .
j produce good things lo eat., mid
i in plenty, as soon as Hie wild soil
is cullhated.
The next neighbor lo our place,!
who has been here two years, lias j
strawberries marly ripe, planted,
last October, and the largest;
sweet polaloes I e er ate, a nd
on less I ban a iuarler of an acre,
he sold 1.10 bushels for 1 at
bushel. I had for my dinner some
of lliein, lettuce, celery, oranges,
laiigcnues and pecan nuts, all
raised within a few miles from
here by those who came here last
year.
This mushroom town of l.ulz
is the junction of two railroads,
one going to Jacksonville and one
destined to go from the gulf lo
the Atlantic ocean, and is destined
to bo a larger shipping point to
Chicago, New York and coast lino
northern cities, as soon as the new
arrivals have raised things to
ship. But when I looked at the
white sand (about the color of tho
stuff you make concrete pave
ment of), I said, surely this white
sand can never produce anything
good to eat, or support tho hun
dred or more people whose houses
are in sight of tho town, besides
the new arriving ones that each
morning train brings in from the
north, who have bought hero and
have come to "grow up with the
country," which is as new as the
people; nothing but a wilderness
of palmetoes and pines, little vil
lages along tho track, saw-mills,
where rough lumber is $10 a 1,
000. Nearer to Tampa the culti
vated spots look very promising
for future riches', but where we
are, at first look, is anything but
beautiful. Tho dozen or more
houses, including the shell
politely called hotel, gave us a
most cordial welcome and the
kindly landlady gave us the best
she had a cot upstairs, walled
in from other lodgers with quilts
brought from home (Michigan.;
We were exceedingly thankful for
even this and thought of the con
dition of our Lord and Master,
who had not whereon to lay his
head, and after several hours of
serious reflection upon conditions
and things, we at last slept Ibe
sleep of the just or unjust as
the case may be. We breakfasted
on razor-backed pork and beans,
hot biscuits, coffee and pie made
from canned fruit, also brought
from home. Supplies are hard to
obtain from Iho one lillle store,
which contains but few necessities
ami less business, but our ener
getic and kindly landlady served
us the best she could in her
crowded house, nnd maiiv incon
veniences; but the daughter has a
line piano and plays well.
The pcjiplu here are mostly
from northern states, and intel
ligent and enterprising, and I heir
program by Ibe children at Ibe
Christmas tree festivities was
good. The one church in the place
is made up of all of the different
Protestant denominations, who
work for Hie general good. There
is a very small-sized Commercial
club, a Wednesday visiting circle,
who lake their kensington in the
weekly mending line, and Iho men
of the village have offered us the
use of a room over I he new posl
ollice as soon, as it is completed,
for a ladies' club; so you see, al
I hough we are newly arrived, we
are a live people in the far-off
wilderness of Florida.
Our bouse on (he land is almost
done. We have had four men at
work on it. Have one acre clear
ed and plowed, the posts set for
fencing, and we shall move out to
il. as soon as our car of furniture
comes, which, though we shipped
it a week before we left Plalls
inouth, has not put in its appear
ance. It is after 12 o'clock, tho peo
ple aro returning from church,
and I am gelling hungry for my
dinner, which has been cooking
while I write. Shall I give you the
menu? llakor sweet potatoes,
celery soup, roast pork, hot bis
cuit, pumpkin pie (made out of
sweet potatoes), oranges, tan
pemies, raisins, candy and pecon
nuts loft from Christmas. Is it
not good enough for an old wom
an like mo to eat all alone? I
wish you could fly over here and
help me eat it. Moore's folks sent
for mo to eat wilh thorn, but I de
cided that I wan! od lo slay at
homo and wrile this letter. I will
say good-bye and clear my writ
ing table and set it for my dinner.
Please let me get a letter from
you all soon nnd often. Sincerely
and Fraternally Yours,
Mrs. J. !'. Yandercook.
USES
SE2E
There is no sensation to equal that of having
One Dollar Do the Work of Two
Our Clearance Sale does it. Don't spend your money till you investigate.
Men's Wool Underwear . . 79c
Heavy Jersey Shirts 50c
Lamb Lined Mittens 50c
Heavy Sweaters 56c
Jersey Sweaters 39c
-OVERCOATS-
7.95
You can't beat it anywhere.
all wool, satin sleeve
lining, combination
collar a real $15
value
Boys' Overalls 29 and 39c
Leather Mitts.. 25c
" Winter Caps... 39c'
" Knickerbocker j
Suits $,89
Children's Overcoats . . $ Up'
New Norfolk
Caps $1.50
C. E. Wescott's Sons
--- Always the Home of Satisfaction
Manhattan Shirts
Now $1.15
worth put together, trying to pro
tect it and then not succeeding,
'for the people who live where the
game is will not obey the laws
for the assertion that if you only
wish very, very hard and to hedp
spin the fairy tale, everything
comes true. Only a few may be-
The Legislature Should Go Slow
In Appropriating Money to
Such Grafting.
Murdock, Neb., Jan. 1(1.
Tothe Kdilor of the Journal:
If you will permit me space 1
would like lo sound a timely warn
ing to the present legislature re
garding certain appropriations
being asked, having noticed a re
port in your paper some few days
ago of the chief game warden,
staling Hie number and kind ol
fish distributed, also his report of
licenses and lines and asking an
appropriation of $uT,0(io from the
present legislature.
Now, I wish lo say a word as to
how I feel and what I think of this
game and llsh commission grafl
in our state. Firt, he claim
there were over 18,000,000 wall
eyed pike distributed. I certainly
doubt the correctness of this
either by procuring a license or.lievc it, but a work like this has
as to open and closed season.
II. V. McDonald.
il
at least made belief easier." "A
Servant in the House" will bo at
the Parmi lo theater Friday night,
January 17.
Ill li HOUSE"
One of the Most Popular Plays in
Existence at the Parmele Next
Friday Night, January 17.
One of the chief reasons why
Charles Ilunri Kennedy's play,
"The Servant in the House," has
proved such a popular, as well as
artistic success,' is that the auth
or has not hesitated to employ
comedy in liberal quantities in the
development of his beautiful
story. Commenting on this fact,
Harper's Weekly says: "The
marvel, too. is that Mr. Kennedy's
is not solemn at all, except in' af
termath. Laughter leaps in it,
and the mind kindles (ft its de
light. The author seems to have
joined hands with humor, satire
and irony and to have caught the
count; I do not believe there ever I Hying glance of Iho comic spirit
was, is now or ever will bo that I which fieorge Meredith says is
number of pike in this stale. I
presume they dip up a paii of
small pike minnows and tally one,
live or ten thousand and charge
that number up to the taxpayers
of the slate and give their institu
tion credit for same. Twenty mil
lion pike of eatable size in Ne
braska waters I Shades of Ike
Wallon! and no real pike waters
in Iho slate, cither. It's enough
to cause that good old patron saint
of the rod to rise from his grave,
rod in hand, and exclaim, "Heaven
is no place for me while there are
so many game fish in Nebraska!"
and straightway hunt up Mr. Mil
ler and congratulate him on being
the guy thai put the lish into Hie
ocean.
.low, I have bunted and fished
in this stale for more than forty
jears and can remember the time
when one could calch more fish
in every old buffalo-wallow in
Johnson county with a pin-hook
and I wine line than can bo caught
in any waters of Hie slal" now;
but, alas, those wallows are all
gone now; I presume because they
were not protected by some idiotic
game and 11 sh laws like we hao
now. I do not believe that al the
money the taxpayers have been
grafted out of in Iho past twenty
odd years for fish and game pro
tection has ever done the slate or
anyone in it any good, except a
gang of political hangers-on, who
get fat salaries for doing nothing
but drawing their pay.
It is a certain fact that wild
gntno cannot thrive where civiliza
tion goes and that is why wo have
no quail or prairie chickens ex
cept in tho uninhabited parts of
tho state, such as tho sparcely set
tled sa'idhills, and tho cultivation
of Iho soil has so muddied up the
streams that all game fish have
forever disappeared from them,
except in a few localities where
there is not enough soil in the
sand to make mud.
Now I think if this legislature
does Iho wise thing they will do
away with this game and fish com
mission rnft, and put a slop to
spending Iho taxpayers' hard
earned cash for Iho benefit of
these grafters. I Ihink it would
be boiler for tho people lo lei them
have all they can get out of what
little game there is yet, (and il i
not much), than to spend more
money every year than it is all
abiding overhead and looking up
on us with a contemplation
humanely malgin. It is easy to
picture Ibe author of 'The Serv
ant of the House' looking upon an
audience at his own play seeing
it smile, or weep, or laugh in the
wrong place, or pretend canity to
understand, in bis own vision
meanwhile, what Meredith calls
the 'sunny malice of a fawn.' All
this is different from the recent
pessimistic reading of life, which
Isben, for example, has made
familiar. The master-builder
dreamed of building homes with
high lowers on them, and the end
was human fragments; Mary
dreamed of finding a father who
could be bravo and beautiful and
good, and the end was a human
being in the likeness of his Cod.
Perhaps we are beginning lo have
done wilh destruction. Nobody,
least of all the author, pulled
down the vicer's house lo repair
that drain. 'The Servant in tho
House' assumes Iho responsibility
Musical Thursday, January 16.
The musical to be given by St.
Mary's Guild will be held at tho
homo of Mrs. J. II. Donnelly on
Thursday afternoon, January 16,
instead of at the home of Mrs.
Reese, as first' announced. This
event will bo one of the best
musical treats given in the city
and should be attended by all
lovers of good music.
FOR PLAITS-
MOUTH PEOPLE
Platlsmouth Citizen's Experiences
Furnish Topic for Platts
mouth Discussion.
The following oxperienco oc
curred, in Platlsmouth. A Platts,
mouth citizen relates it.
Similar experiences are occur
ing daily.
Platlsmouth people aro being
relieved.
Gelling rid of distressing kid
ney ills.
Try Doan's Kidney Pills, tho
tested Quaker remedy.
Platlsmouth people testify,
Plattsniouth people profit.
The evidence is homo evidence
the proof convincing.
Platlsmouth testimony is
gratefully given.
Plallsmouth sufferers should
heed it.
J. L. McKinney, Lincoln Ave.,
Piatt smooth, Neb., says: "Doan's
Kidney Pills are the best remedy
I ever used for disordered kid
neys. Whenever I have bad oc
casion to tako them they. have
given the best results. In 1900 I
publicly endorsed this prepara
tion and I gladly confirm what I
said then."
For sale by all dealers, price
r0 cents. Foster-Milburn Co.,
lUiffalo, New York, solo agents for
Iho United Slates.
Remember tho name Doan's
nnd take no other.
GEORGE A. KAFFENBERGER
BUYS ABBOTT RESIDENCE
A deal has just been closed
whereby George A. Kaffenberger,
the wealthy stockman, who resides
on a farm west of this city, be
comes the owner of the residence
of N. C. Abbott on High School
Hill. This is one of the most de
sirable residence properties in
this city and Mr. Kaffenberger is
very fortunate in securing it. He
will not move to the city for some
time yet, but wo can take great
pleasure in welcoming him and
his charming family to our city,
and are delighted that they have
decided to make their residence in
the best home town in the stale,
ir not in the United Slates, and be
lieve here they will find the social
and educational facilities belter
than any town of its size. Mr. Kaf
fenberger has been one of the
leading farmers of this section
and will make a fine citizen for
our city.
MRS. CARRIE WILSON SE
CURES POSITION IN SENDEE
According to dispatches from
Lincoln, Mrs. Carrie L. Wilson has
been selected as one of the
stenographers in the senate at the
present session of tho legislature.
Mrs. Wilson was a former resi
dent of this city, where her par
ents, Captain and Mrs. L. D. Mcn
nett, resided for so many years,
and her friends bore will be pleas
ed to learn of her securing tho
position for which she is so
eminently fitted, having served for
several years as stenographer for
Commissioner -Vines and Judge
Root of the supreme court.
Petition to Quiet Title.
This morning in tho office of
the clerk of the district court a
petition to quiet title was filed, en
titled John R. Peckham vs. C. A.
Mullany, and the unknown heirs
and devisees of deceased, C. A.
Mullany and Mrs. A. C. Mullany.
Plaintiff is the owner of a lot in
the village of Avoca nnd desires to
have (ho title to tho properly
cleared up.
A Want Ad In the Journal will
bring what you want
Wo
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SUCCESSOR TO JOHN BAUER