The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1896-01-29
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Arp in Florida Paving a Good Time.
atlanta Constitution.

clear, CLASSY waters of the bay salute
US with their placid smile. The same
surf is lashing the shores of the dis
tant islands and the same sun drop
gently into its water bath at eventidt
aud lights up the sky with a halo ot
fast departing glory. The land may
fade, the evergreens lose something oi
their charms, but the eye never tires
of flowing streams or dancing water:
or the tides that come and go or th'
beautiful sunsets that illumine th'
dappled clouds which hover over thi'
western horizon. I have been more
or less troubled with a provoking
cough ever since the winter began.
have many times had to get up from
my broken slumbers and make frt
and sit by it and dose my old laryn1
and lungs and bronchial tubes with
expectorants and take a smoke of rab
bit tobacco. I have coughed unit
my eyes ran water, but | am better
now and the feeling Of depression has
left me. The relief that comes sc
soon st Clear Water reminds me Of
my dear old friend, Pitner, who was
languishing and pining away with
chronic indigestion. I stepped into
his store one evening to inquire after
his health and he frightened up and
said he was better, much better. 81
have quit tobacco said he, land be,
lieve that will get well. "Wheu
| did you quit?" asked. "Oh, I quit
this morning before breakfast he
replied. travelled down with DR..
Henry Battey, Of Rome, who comes to
Florida to get rid of rheumatism, and
he declared that his pains left him as
soon as he crossed the Florida line.
The doctors work on their patients al
home and prescribe all sorts Of things,
but when they get sick themselves
they run away to Florida. Every
doctor in this region moved here for
his health. If / was young again
would study medicine and come right
here and establish the biggest santa
rum in the South, for it is pitiful
fact that neither hotels nor boarding
houses give warm welcome to con-
sumptives or invalids who are far
gone with wasting disease. | lament
that all the afflicted cannot get here
for relief.
Sometimes we have bad day here
"a north wind that is never W, ONE,
but they are few and far between.
They only serve to mark the contrast
and to make us prize all the more the
blessed days that give us health and
comfort. We have fires night and
morning, just enough to paralyze the
evening chill and morning dews, but
all the day we live out of doors or
languish in the verandas that over
look the harbor, the lovely harbor
that is always focked with sails or
rowboats or launches and is adorned
with herons and seagulls and rumina'
ting pelicans. The same squirrels
and more are shelling nuts in our yard
or gamboling among the trees and the
quails are whistling their evening calls
in the chapparal near by with "no
rude alarms Of human foes" to disturb
their serenity.
All nature is lonely and neither the
rumors of war nor the issuance of
bonds excites our apprehension. Eng
land can't find us here nor get through
the passes if she did.
Our winter residents have all re-
turned and some new ones whose
houses we're built during the summer
have come to occupy them. The lit
tie village is looking up and the grace
full spire of new Presbyterian Church
is pointing mortals to the skies. Col.
onel George W. Scott, the philantro'
pist who built the Agnes Scott insti,
tuition, gave the lot-of course, he
did-and the community gave the
building money. 1t is little gem of
church with stained glass windows
and was occupied last Sabbath for the
first time. 1 don't know anything
that is a more grateful. :gn of civil,
cation and good morals than the spires
of the churches.
And now let me express my pleas,
ant surprise at finding an abundance
of oranges, beautiful oranges, in our
stores for sale. They grew in this
vicinity, and I have seen some trees
right in the town that we're loaded
with the golden fruit. When we left
last May it was not supposed there
would be any until another year, fol
many trees were killed above the
trunk and all were injured. What q
wonderful restorer is nature! How
diligently she takes care of her own
products. We have oranges and grape
fruit enough for the community, but
hardly any for shipment. Straw ber'
| ries are coming daily into market
but at present too high a price fol
| men and boys to eat. Only the wo'
| men and girl children are allowed tc
| feast upon this angel food. Let the
! old men chew their tobocco and the
boys smoke their cigarettes, if they
| will, and claim no right to ladies food
| or lassies' lips. Six hundred millions
| annually for whisky and beer and 180,
600, 1000 for tobacco, all with sign
over the door "for man only" is
enough for the lords of creation.
These women are an everlasting
wonder to me. There is no telling
what they can do when they get theil
heads set that way. They build most
all the churches and keep up the Sun
day schools and missionary meetings
They drain our pockets of small change
just as easy They get smarter ano
smarter every generation. | see thai
Miss Sonya Konalevsky is now re
garded as the greatest mathematician
in the world. Mrs. Mary Somcrville
not long since died, was in her day
| the greatest and at the same time wa:
an excellent wife and busy, loving
mother. This is what Mr.. Franklin
the learned professor of mathematic:
in the John Hopkins University, say:
about them Verify the new woman
is hard upon our track in science ant
literature. Why, they have recent!
formed woman's club in our tow1
and no man need apply, | venture'
to eavesdrop them when they organ
lied. For the first half hour the.
had to talk about their families ant
the babies that were cutting teeth
and how the children were getting OF
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