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64 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [January,
A TRYING SITUATION.
Adhering too closely to an isolated
fact, or condition, may result in misfortune,
if not (disaster.
Missouri Hines, a citizen of Wyoming,
commonly called M'Zoo Hines for
short, once recounted to friends an
experience which befell him while in
camp for the night on Western plains.
"I was due to lay out for sure,"
said he, "an' I didn't have no fuel of
any kind. So I makes my fire of grass
—just set my coffee pot and fry pan
on a bunch of it—and starts in to cook
supper comfortable. Fire sort of begun
to edge off along the grass, me
followin' with my fry pan. The wind
come up like, and the fire started to
travelin' right quick, me followin' all
the time and just holdin' my fry pan
over the edge of the blaze— ."
"Did you get the bacon cooked,
M'Zoo?" asked a friend. "Yes," said
Mr. Hines, "but by the time it was
done I found I was fifteen miles from
my coffee pot." \
A NORTHERN PAPER ON SOUTH-
ERN PROSPECTS.
(From the Berkshire (Mass.) Eagle.)
Active railroad construction is going
on in Virginia and a degree of mystery
attends it. That the best of material
is being used in the work, and
that there appears to be no lack of
financial backing, is apparently the extent
of public information.
Sections of the State not already
traversed by the extensive system of
the Norfolk and Western railroad, and
by other lines, will be brought into
ready communication with the rest of
the country. Hundreds of thousands
of acres of the finest grazing and
farming lands in the world are there
awaiting the skill and industry of cattle
men and farmers. There is already
a conspicuous movement in that direction.
These lands can be bought
for ten dollars an acre or less.
Quite a contrast with the two or
three hundred dollars an acre out in
the Western corn belt.
When we consider the known high
quality of the Virginia lands, that they
can be bought so cheaply, that there
is no more delightful all the yearround
climate on earth; that more
than 40 millions of the 80 millions
population of the United States live
within twenty hours' transportation by
rail; that at Norfolk the State has the
finest harbor on the Atlantic coast, we
are well nigh persuaded that history
is again about to repeat itself—that
the Old Dominion is to become the
"New D|ominio»n"—that the Star of
Empire wends its way, not westward
only, but southward as well.
Instead of beef, the choicest of vegetables,
California not excepted, 'are
brought from Texas, in the winter and
spring, to northern markets all along
the line from New England to Colorado.
Is it too much to expect that, in the
near future, we shall obtain our prime
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