The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-02-14
BILL Arp LETTER.
Booming Florida and Talking for tho
State Like . Real Estate Agent
atlanta Constitution.

What a pity that man can t be
built like the one-horse shay and wear
out all over at once. What pity
that his brain and liver and lungs and
heart and kidneys and bones and mus
cles and sight and hearing and taste
and smell couldn't all be sound until
the time came for a general collapse
and then fall to pieces like the one
horse shay. What an amount of pain
and suffering it would prevent. Here
T have been almost dead with that
same old kidney that ever and anon
gets on rampage and jerks me around
without warning or mercy. [ got ex-
posed in travelling around and liked to
have died before I got back to Clear
Water, where good doctor and good
nursing saved me. Oh, the misery Of
that attack I tried my old remedies,
nitre and paregoric, then belladona
plaster and another ''terra del fugo,"
I think, and some chloral and some
morphine internally and some more
externally and some pills and some
Lithia and some 2727 and 2728 and
other portions of drug store too te-
dious to mention. I got some tempo
rary relief and hurried away to my
daughters, so as to have some tears
shed over my remains if I died. But
as Daniel Webster said on his last
bed, ri still live, and am truly CRATE
full to kind Providence for his
mercy. That kidney has surrendered
to science and gone on duty again.
The belligerent thing tried to get out
but it couldn't. DR.. Schneider, of
New York, who was General Grants
physician, was death on these refrac-
tory kidneys. Rev. Mr.. Burchard,
who preached that famous sermon on
"Rum, Romanism and Rebellion :
was at the point of death from kidney
disease and sent for Schneider. He
cut him open in the back and took out
his kidney and cleaned it and put it
back and sewed him up and he got
well and preached that sermon, and
made the Roman Catholics mad, and
they voted for Cleveland and elected
him. DR.. Schneider was Democrat
and always claimed the credit of
Cleveland's first election. "For,
said he, 81 saved old Burchard's life.
No other doctor upon earth would
have dared to cut him open and he
would have died and that fool sermon
would never have been preached and
Blaine would have been elected :; don't
you see r.
But I am still delighted with Flor
ida. I have been to Plant City and
Dade City and Leesburg and found
the good people in every place content
with their homes. I did not find time
to drive out and see the famous orange
tree near Plant City-a tree that is
three feet in diameter and sixty feet
high ands sixty feet in breadth Of
branches, and that bears 10000
oranges. This is the region famous
for quails. Two small boys broughtin
seventy-fve to the hotel and sold them
for FIVE cents piece. They caught
them in traps. Two hunters brought
in 115 the same day that they had
killed on the wing. Quails are album
dant all over this side for the hunters
have but recently begun to shoot them
on the gulf coast.
Nature has done much for Leesburg.
It's surroundings are exquisitely beau
tiful. There is hardly room between
Lakes Griffin and Harris for the town.
1t has only one long, beautiful street.
Fine hotels and elegant stores adorn
this street, and it is paved with solid,
durable clay. This clay abounds in
many convenient places along the pub
lie highways, and many miles have
already been graded with it at a cost
Of about 800 mile. Just think of
that It has cost Orlando 81, 900 a
mile, for it has to be hauled there on
cars for fifty miles. No more beauti-
full lakes are found in Switzerland
than Lakes Harris and Griffin. They
are from fifteen to twenty miles long
and half that in diameter. Small
steamboats, traverse their waters, and
pure fresh water fish abound in them.
Leesburg is gem, and 1 would be
content to have home there, if l had
not seen Clear Water. There may be
more attractive places in Florida than
this. but I have not found them, and
everybody I meet elsewhere gives
Clear Water all praise for its health
and beauty of location. One Of my
daughters asked lady who has lived
here eight years, where was the ceme-
terry, and she looked confused and
said: "Well, really, I had not thought
about cemetery, but I suppose there
is one somewhere, though I do not re-
member that anybody has ever died
here" It must be one-horse shay
business down here. This is not spe-
cially winter home, for very many of
the wealthiest people stay here all the
year round. 1t is never sultry on this
bluff, and the island that is only a
mile away has most beautiful beach
on the western shore where the surf IS
ever rolling and the sea is ever moan
ing it's sad, sweet requiem. There IS