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THE TRUTH IN PRIVATE HOMES.


be done to secure good results can not be accomplished


without some hardship and


much


self-denial.


How


severely either of these may press upon the new settler
will depend largely on the strength, energy, and natu-


ral capacity
labor.


those


who


undertake


initiative


Florida is most truly a


" new State," because, after


incredible rebuffs


disasters,


is once


again


struggling to rise above the many obstacles that have


so often well-nigh destroyed her.


She has been tossed


about from one nation to another like a foot-ball


her history we will speak presently.


desire


to make it plain


here, as


 Just now we
elsewhere, first


steps are always surrounded with hardships, and often
-like a little child learning to walk-one rises for a
moment, but to fall again, and so on, till the way be-


comes familiar and


easy.


"The hardy pioneer,


who forces his way into


wilds of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and


other parts of


our Western States, will tell you that when one decides


to locate


in new or wild lands and


begins to reclaim


them, he must make up his mind that for two or three
years a rough life, with many inconveniences and hard-
ships, chill or ague, and other ailments, are before him;
that it is a close fight, a sturdy determination to grap-


pie with


subdue the wilderness


bear in mind and


take courage from


" but he must
the knowledge


that, having conquered, the reward


is close at hand.


It is strange that so many people who are really sensi-
ble in most things, making the attempt to settle here


or elsewhere, are entirely ignorant of this.


They come