. Book of the Royal blue . th inthe height of the winter season may belikened unto the latter. It is generally ofthe ultra type and everybody looks at every-body else and knows that the world is hav-ing a few weeks holiday. The first rays of morning revealed an en-tirely different scene than the day train was speeding through pine wastes,dotted here and there with one-story houses,unpainted and grim, characteristic of theCarolinas. Cotton fields with the dead A little lurther on were two colored menpulling a plow, while a third guided it. At Columbia, S. C, the first climaticchange
. Book of the Royal blue . th inthe height of the winter season may belikened unto the latter. It is generally ofthe ultra type and everybody looks at every-body else and knows that the world is hav-ing a few weeks holiday. The first rays of morning revealed an en-tirely different scene than the day train was speeding through pine wastes,dotted here and there with one-story houses,unpainted and grim, characteristic of theCarolinas. Cotton fields with the dead A little lurther on were two colored menpulling a plow, while a third guided it. At Columbia, S. C, the first climaticchange was experienced, indicating grass was green and the air for the unusual, attention wascalled to the uniforms of the policemen,who carried their espantoons attached tothe left side of their belts and their im-mense revolvers in holsters on the right side,which tended to give the impression thatthe people were of a sanguinary tempera-ment. For miles after leaving Columbia, the THROUGH FLORIDA TO CUBA. PLAZA DE ARMAS-PRESIDENTS PALACE. HAVANA residents of the scattered houses along therailway seemed imbued with the one ideaof airing the entire family bedding in thewindows, verandas and yards of their dwell-ings. There were sandy wastes everywhereand the majestic oaks, beeches and maplesof the North gave way to the scraggy pinesand scrub oaks, which were fantasticallyfestooned with Spanish moss. The cab-bage palm was profuse in swampy places,and turpentine camps were in scarred pine trees with their arrowhead gashes, from which the sap drippedinto tins or crockery, were remindful of themaple sugar camps of New England. Savannah was reached about oclockin the afternoon, the train switching backinto the station. The steam heat in the carshad been shut off, as the afternoon wasbalmy like the early fall, and whenJacksonville was reached at summer weather was ex-perienced. The first real impres-sions of the sub-tropics are obtainedat
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