WHAT HAS BEEN DONE.


create a home in newer lands,
stanch integrity, and the uns


where intelligent labor,
elfish desire to do good


to all around them will make their presence a blessing,


sure


themselves


honorable


position


influence.


acting


under


such


incentives,


their


good influence may remain to comfort and strengthen


others


long after these pioneers have gone to receive


the joyful "Well


done, good


and faithful


servant.


For all who are ready thus to


life, and


begin an independent


establish their future from the foundations,


there


can


is no place
e so easily,


within I
rapidly,


knowledge


successfully


where this


accom-


polished as in this State.


I prontsed


been


some


done here, and


examples of what
can be done again.


know
I have


what


improvements a sick and


feeble old


man had wrought in a few years on an old and miser-
ably dilapidated plantation, and will now attempt to ex-
plain what younger and more robust men can do in new


lands,


when undaunted by such hardships as must in-


evitably be met by pioneers in every new undertaking.


About seven


years since


three brothers


eft their


Northern home on a prospecting tour through Florida,


intending, if suited, to


' enter a homestead and pre-


pare a comfortable home for their, parents and sister


as rapidly as possible.


they selected


After visiting many localities,


a quarter section of Government land


near Little Lake George, through which the St. John's


River runs.


These


young men had not


been accus-


tomed


to farming or the use of carpenter's tools, nor


were they familiar with any of those kinds of labor