FOR A HUNDRED DOLLARS. 75 



is best for transportation, and a coarse bag, denom 

 inated &quot;gunny-bag,&quot; the best receptacle for it. 



Flour, some persons may need to be told, is some 

 times called the staff of life. That depends wholly 

 where it is. In some places it is made of secondary 

 importance to whiskey, and the true Floridian regards 

 the fluid that cheers, likewise inebriates, as the real staff 

 and mainstay of his existence. When the whiskey is 

 gone he is gone. When the popularly known &quot;staff&quot; is 

 gone, he can repair to the nearest hammock and cut a 

 &quot;palmeeter cabbage; &quot;but no satisfactory substitute 

 exists indigenous to Florida for the much-loved whiskey. 

 Flour for one person, two months, sixty pounds. Bet 

 ter take the self-raising flour, either Hecker s or Jewell 

 Brothers ; being in convenient packages, and ready for 

 use by the addition of a little water, and a stick (not 

 the metaphorical &quot;stick&quot;), it is much prized, and saves 

 a great deal of labor. With the flour costing about $3, 

 and a box of good crackers (better than flour, because 

 always ready cooked), costing as much more, one will be 

 prepared with all the farinaceous food he needs during 

 his stay. A few pounds of meal, costing nothing worth 

 calculating, should be added. A bushel or a barrel of 

 good potatoes is necessary, and if those give out, sweet 

 potatoes can be purchased at a dollar per bushel or less. 

 Out upon the man who would exclude the potato as a 

 luxury dispensable. We can afford it in the quantity 

 desired, even with so small a balance remaining of our 

 hundred dollars. Who does not remember the delicious, 

 delicate, fragile conceptions of potatoes sliced and pre 

 pared at the highest class restaurants ? At least, who 

 does not remember reading of them ? Two dollars fifty 

 for potatoes, and as much more for coffee. Nothing so 



