. Book of the Royal blue . m. It may seem prosaicto mention names and schedules in thismanner, but they are certainly very im-portant items to be remembered in the itin-erary of anv iourre\. Pullman trains THROUGH FLORIDA TO CUBA ?, with observation cars and dining cars areabout the acme of high-class American rail-way service, and this particular journey af-forded the limit. The study of mankind is man, not tomention woman, and travel furnishes thebest illustrated variety. Each individual isa volume; some in paper covers, othersbound in cloth, some in leather and stillothers are editions de l
. Book of the Royal blue . m. It may seem prosaicto mention names and schedules in thismanner, but they are certainly very im-portant items to be remembered in the itin-erary of anv iourre\. Pullman trains THROUGH FLORIDA TO CUBA ?, with observation cars and dining cars areabout the acme of high-class American rail-way service, and this particular journey af-forded the limit. The study of mankind is man, not tomention woman, and travel furnishes thebest illustrated variety. Each individual isa volume; some in paper covers, othersbound in cloth, some in leather and stillothers are editions de luxe on deckle-edge stalks of the summers picking were passed;log houses without windows, but havingwooden shutters, which either let in or shutout the light and air at the same time,marking the abodes of thousands of shift-less negroes, were proof positive that wewere somewhere in the Southland. Thechimneys of their curious houses were madeof sticks and plastered with mud, and ap-parently couldnt stand much fire or paper with morocco covers and an abun-dance of gold leaf. The class of travel toand from Florida, Cuba and the South 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 te
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