The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-12-17

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Mature has really done oil here In the way Of
perfect Drainage that the most hypescriticai
cohld suggesl Every shower washes the entire
coporate limits perfectly clean. leaving every
slceet and gutter free from 9th Of any kind A
stream Of clear running water passes quite
around the town, and all sewerage which 10 en-
tircly outhe surface. Is swept into this stream
and carried miles away into tho pine forest 70
the southwark, where Il 10 emptied into one OF
those curious ieaturAs Of the limestone country
of Wakulla, termed Lime Sink" and thence
under ground into the sea perhaps. The drink
ing water ffom wells is pure and son, decidedly
the best eyer met with out Of the mouniai0a
There are drug stores and physicians here ~
elsewhere. Very excellent ones they are too.
The gentlemen Of the medical profession seem
indeed to he specially intelligent and abreast
with the modern advancement Of that science,
but / am assured by those OF them with whom
have conversed, that the general heal,hfulness
The experience Of the elder members of the
profession, one Of whum has praciiced Tor more
than thirty years in Tallahassee, is that in very
many instances permanent cures nave been ell
fected here by persons suffering from bronchial
and pulmonary complaints.
The number Of invalid persons spending their
winters here increases annually. But the cnarac-
ter OF The winter travel is lar from being cnndned
10 these, for The recreation and enjoy ment TO be
derived from riding and driving, the superior
sport to b. obtained In the surrounding country
where quail and snpe are abundant, and guam
titles OF water fowl frequent the lakes, besides
the great attraction and accessibility Of tie Mex
lean Cult, makes the region an attractive one 10
almost ever class OF persons Tho see fit 70 seek
winter sojOurn South.
Great interest is manifested by the ladies Of
Tallahassee in The culture Of flowers
and the management OF their spacious gar
dens. Such wealth of luxuriance as The Fuses and
camelias attain to Is wonderful. There are per-
haps one hundred trees, for 50 they deserve 70 be
called, of the camelia Japonica growing in the
several yards about town, any one OF which, II
located 10 Boston or Chicago, would be visited
by thousands of curious people These magni6
cent plants produce superb flowers, varying in
color from the purest white. through all the deli
Cate shades of pink, to cardinal red.
A study of the character and condition Of The
freed negro can be pu sued in this part Of FiOri-
da 10 great advantage, aud would be OF great in-
tefest imagine to many minds. Raiber over
much sentimenialism and misdirecfed interest
has conferred already around the circumstance Of
this new element in our social and political in
stitution, and muc.i disarrangement and unfit
ness had in the doing OF it.
From what can gather he seems fairly well
calculated, if lett alone, TO gradually adapt him
self to the condition Of his changed environment
Natures great law OF evolution will, despite hu-
man impedments Of race and Class anti-sf3niies,
legislative and judicial inermedlings, secure
TO these people a transmission OF what OF theirs
may be potencies, and a survival oil that in them
that God sees to be fttest. But what Of the
cipyocities Of social evolution! How shall fass
the Arian brother and his posteriiies, 10 sha
struggle for existence? Is it that the mora kast
intellectual natures of these wards Of our szzssG
shall, by being fitted. become exalted into the
high places, or will the fitting of it be the bring
ing of the places TO the plane Of their dominant
natures! Is il in the structure Of societies that
The virtue Of the few shall formulate the life-loves
and odthoughts of the many, or rather that the
scattered seeds of virtue shall become yet more
scattered?