The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-03-09

engine SO tnat we mignt reach lhOmaS-
vile i'm time for breakfast. Great credit
is due Supt. II. G. Fleming of Savan-
nah and Asst. Master of Transporta-
ton Hutchins for the prompt movement
on that day. On the way we made a
brief stop at Whigham, a small town
with much doomed sulphur spring
which is expected to develop into a ia
nous resort.
Arrived at brownsville, we were
taken to the Piney Woods hotel, one of
the best of the many fine public houses
we visited. Mrs. DR.. Bower, the cOur-
teous proprietress, won the hearts of
the ladies by allowing them to gather
their fill of the sweet English viOlets
blooming in her flower garden. Here
we partook of an excellent breakfast,
one of its accomplishments being those
great, luscious, golden spheres of nec-
tar known as Indian River oranges,
and upon attempting to settle the bill,
we found that Col. Elliott meant what
he said when he told us we could. prac-
tically put paddock on our purses
while in Florida.
Then we accepted ride rendered by
the generous citizens of this famous
health resort, which is so surrounded
by pine forests and turpentine farms
that the dry, resinous air is said to be
absolutely free from malaria. The day
was perfect one and for two hours we
drove through vistas of Over-arching
pines, or past numerous orchards of
thrifty, well-trimmed pear trees of the
famous LIE Conte variety. Thomas
county is the home of the LIE Conte pear
and the center of the watermelon belt,
and is the most fertile looking spot we
saw south of the Ohio.
We drove through Paradise Park,
often called yankee Paradise" on ac-
count of its popularity with Northern
guests, passed Cleveland Park" the
lovely country home of a wealthy New
Yorker, and saw the deer at "Glen Ar
ven," and when the time for leaving
came, we were so charmed with Thorn
asvile and it's surroundings that only
the oft talked-of Suwanee Springs had
power to console us for the necessity of
departure.
We reached the springs in time for
four o'clock dinner, which we ate in
the dining room of the picturesque re-
sort hotel built of pressed brick and
the white coquina stone quarried from
the river bank. During this repast,
string band entertained us with "Way
Down upon de Swanee Ribber, ""Dixie,"
and various other appropriate tunes,
and at its close we were rendered an
invitation to take supper with the en-
terprising citizens of Live Oak, seven
miles distant Owing to lack of time
we were compelled to decline this in
vitation with sincere regrets.
After dinner our entire party followed
the winding pathway amid the oaks,
leading past the cottages of resorters
and bath houses to the famous spring
walled in from the river by high stone
wall The water bubbles into this
stone bathtub at the rate of $4,000 gal
Ions per minute, emitting such sui
phureous odor as to be strongly sugges-
tive of Dante's "Inferno." AS its tenn
perature is about "a deg, we were in
vited to take plunge, with the assur-
ance that we would not feel at all cold.
However, only Messrs. Beal, Brearley,
and Fowle had the hardihOod to at
tempt an open air bath on the 25th of
January. When they emerged, we
noted considerable chattering of teeth,
and the big fire of pine boughs lighted
on the river banks, seemed TO possess a
wonderful charm for Mr.. Fowle.
In the cleaning, this same bonfire
threw its Pickering light over the moss
wreathed pines, casting weird shadows
and bringing out strange shapes, leav-
ing a beautiful picture in Memory's
gallery that can never>be effaced.
From the Spring we went to the
river and floated down its swift, coffee
colored current between the white CO.
quina bluffs, which are i'm some places
overhung by trees and draped with
vines and moss, some of the party GO
ing down stream in naphtha launch,
while others were content to ply the
oar.
Returning to the hotel, we gathered
in the roomy reception room with its
CHEEKY old-fashioned fireplace, and
some one proposed an impromptu
dance. Then it was that Game warden
Hampton developed unexpected ability
in calling off, and that President Mis-
bett and ST. Clair lady displayed such
agility as to bear off all the honors in
the Virginia reel, although the heaviest
weights in the party. Altogether it
was jolly evening" and a merrier party
was never seen than that which board
ed the nine o'clock train for Jackson