The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1899-07-05
Dunedin.


risk Of becoming wearisOme. l prom
1Sed in my last article to tell a waiting
and impatient world what I knew
about Dunedin, but since then great
change has come over that once quiet
village. Dunedin has been incorpor-
ated. The legislature did it with it's
little act. We now have a mayor Il
haven't heard his name yeti with a
town, or city council, and probably
policeman. Before long there will be
tax collector, then some morning we
will wake up and find a newspaper to
do the city printing, and hurrah for the
town. There will also be high-wall-
ed pen to impOund my hogs and if
complain, the policeman will run me
in and the mayor will fine me eleven
dollars and cOsts-especially the costs.
The Dunedin which struck my wall
dering fancy was indeed an ideal viii
lage. There have 1 whiled away many
happy hour under the arch of it's will
low oaks, listening to the murmur of
old ocean and swapping ancient yarns
with Colonel Jones, but those happy
days are gone and now l will have to
keep off the grass" and refrain fl ON
squirting "ambeer" over the side
walks.
l am going to move again. will not
be imposed on by the One-hOrse cor
pOratiOn nor run over by bObtail car.
When l came to Dunedin two years
ago, it had population of 81 bodies.
Quite a number of the inhabitants
moved away when it became known
that l had really come to stay, aD6
there has been 10 addition to the pop
ulation by course Of nature, or other
wise, so now there are probably not
more than 30 people in the village.
The full force of incorporation has not
been felt at this date, but l am expect
ing the thing to break out now any
day. At present all is peace and the
tide Gibbs and flows regularly twice in
twenty-four hours, while the trains
pass and repass Whistling as impu-
IDENTIFY as if the whole town was asleep
but, just you wait and listen. Now
there is no one to modest or make us
afraid. No preacher disturbs the
heavenly peace of our Sabbaths no
doctor is here to pump calOmel under
the diaphragm in time of distress or
lance the festive boil when it becomes
red in the face no dentist with hOT-
rible pullekins to make us pray for
death, no lawyer thanks be to the
Lord for all his mercieSD to stir up
strife and administer upon our es-
tates, no land agent to lie like thunder
and make a man believe against his
own common sense, and no school
teacher to curb the wild freedom OF
our children and timber their little eX-
tremities. We have had two or three
pretty school teachers, but we married
them off and broke up the school. The
authorities have determined to send
us a man for the school. Can't afford
to lose all their lady teachers.
Yes, Dunedin is very quiet place,
and would likely become quieter and
more Quiet-if possible-but incOrpOr-
alton has come with progress in its
vest pOcket-and l must go. l don't
know why they did it.
don't see how they could have had
the heart to do it. [ have heard it
stated that it was all on account OF
that active little creature known In
bugology as the pulex irritans. just
how incorporation is going to circum>
vent the enemy is a mystery. 1t will
tax him to death, perhaps. The idea
is that the four-legged hog which
walks into town with an air OF owner
ship brings the puleX irritans along
with him and being liberal in his dis
position scatters his favOrs right ana
loft without roSnQct TO DorSOn or place.