Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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FROM "GILDED LION'S LAIR."6 Col. Bacon Writes Of The Age Of Spieling from Hot Springs, where Legions on Trains Bound for Perdition are Side-tracked for a Time. Hot Springs, Va., August 23.-Hot Springs. Va.. it strikes us, is a hard C place to get to. Coming to it from our part of the world, we know of no alternative but to s'op a night in Charlotte, N. C., or a day in Char lottesville. Va. Our long journey hither was marked by n.> salient cvent. but by a common and m!)st gritvous one-a night in a Pullman sleeper, when added f other mani fold trials and di;conforts, if you poke your naked feet ourside the cur tains to cool them, a chaste spinster in an adjoining upper berth remarks severely tha: "it is well. unler all circumstances, :o observe some decen cv..c C We know of no more horrible, fa tiguing, exhausting, degrading thing than a night in a Pullman berth, where burning heat and dire Thirst consume you, where Pullman porters fleece you, where chaste virgins in sult you, and where, try as you will, 3 you can never get on your clothes. We do really believe that many people take a Pullman berth because r they fear that the porters and other ( officials will regard them as poor people, and treat them with unmeas ured contempt. As for us, we have paid our last two dollars to be smoth ered and cremated and fleeced and vilified. Hereafter we shall cuddle up on the seat of a vulgar day coach, like an old stray cat, and "thank God that i: is as well with us as what it is." We spent twelve hours Sunday in beautiful and classic old Charlottes ville, Albemarle, county, hallowed by r a thousand memories of Thomas Jef ferson, and other founders of our re public. And e.uring the day we vis ited many spots and buildings and churches that we became familiar r with during Thse first two years of the war, when we came hither from Ma nassas to help nurse Col. Thomas G. Bacon, of the 7th S. C. Volunteers, and several of his officers-notably those Valiant soldiers, Capt. Elbert Bland, Capt. John Hard, Lieut. Joe Talbert. All of them have been long -dead.] Christ Church, Charlottesville. ( Christ church, Episcopal. Char- t lottesville, is. as regards its organiza- 1 tion', one hundred years old, but its present sacred edifice is new and 1 modern. Consequently only in- May last Christ church may not be called a very handsome building, but it is< certainly a very large and very beauti ful one-situated on a lovely spot in - the old part of the town. The an-1 cient and original church, built in thei early years of the last century, wasi designed by Thomas jefferson. It wvat burned, or dlemolished, some ten year- back. An interesting picture of i: hangs in1 the guild room. The Episcopal service is celebrated in this beavtiful church, as in well nigh all Episcopal churches in Virginia, in a very~ severely low-church manner so' sevxerely low as to seem to one ac customed to the richer, warmer, more devotional, more generous manner, to be' lacking in reverence. Christ church. Charlottesville, has a fine organ, and a very accomplished and tasteful lady organist, but the chell, pot a surpliced one, seems to be narrowed and crippled by low churchism. The rector of Christ church is a good and earnest preach er-the Rev. Harry Lee. a member of the great Virginia family of which came~ Gen. Robert E. Lee. "An~d With the Morn Those Angel Faces Smile." Io a magnificent stained glass me meal window in this beautiful Vir gin:a church there is a lovely and touthing illustration-an exquisite idea-of the last two lines of Cardi nal Newman' s immortal hymn. "Lead. Kindly Light." A very lovely woman in g'eami ng robes of orange and crim son, whose noble face betokens not only devotion, but sorrow, sits at an orcan, with the fingers of her right hai&l upon the keys. wvhile her left hand is slightly lif:ed from the keys beer se of the failing upon them of rosand lilies from above. She lifts her race, turns her eyes upward and sees two smiling angel children who are still dropping The roses and lilies upan the organ keys. ;ummer Girls, Base Ball Boys, Mis- I cellaneous Spielers. It seems to us that the most prom nent and engrossing features of sum ner travel nowadays-advanced days -are summer girls, base ball boys C nd miscellaneous spielers. They fill \ 11 railroad coaches, all depots, all :1 la:forms, all hotels, all watering d laces and all public and secret places F f the earth. And they are charming. Ve love them. The summer girl is 3 arger of hat and higher of heel, and 1) roader and lower of girdle and thin- a er of blouse and more hanging down f pouch and peroxider of hair, and k langier of vernacular, and trebbler of oice. than ever before. :But she is c lxas beautiful and winsome and h ind-hearted and lunch-sharing. ti Meanwhile the base ball boy is na- t] :eder, and dirtier, and lamer, and ti linder. and slangier and more cover- f< d with bleeding and festering ounds, than ever before. But, like d he summer girl, he is winning and a i. rous ar'd generous. And the c nore naked and more bleeding he 5, the more charming he is. And almost every one "spiels." s verybody spiels his or her insti- f ution, his or her wares, his or her V oaps or liniments, his or her shows. I Ve have actually heard a distinguish- a d and dignified college president u spiel" his institution aloud on a rail- P oad platform. We are almost tempt- 0 d to enter the arena and "spiel" the C harleston News and Courier. The Lair Of The Gilded Lion. i This famous summer resort, Hot a prings, in the mountains of North I 'irginia. within a few miles of the I Vest Virginia line, is emphatically a air of the gilded lion, and home and d efuge of high, fashionable and culti -ated society. It is 2o or 25 miles rom Covington, a pretty little town, I >n the great trunk line of the Chesa- c eake and Ohio railroad. A branch s oad, under the control of the Ches- S peake and Ohio company, brings r ou to this enchanted spot, and here e tops, although old Warm Springs, r till extremely popular, lies only five niles eastward. The majority of peo de and a great majority i: is, reach t Iot Springs at ii o'clock at night. 'he railroad run-or pull--from i .ovington hither, is up the mountain .l the way, and consequently slow. t (ou are worn to the bone before you . each Covington-nightfall overtakes t rou at Staunton, and before you reach dot Springs you begin to pray to ;od t:o come and take you "' a bet er world, where there are no moun an resorts and no midnight pilgrim ges. But when you do finally reach his Promised Land you are fully re aid for all the toils of the way. It nay seem exaggerated, almost irrev rent, but Hot Springs bursts sudden y on your vision like a Celestial city -literally the most beautiful place in :he world-the unbounded wvealth of ature crowned and glorified by the mbounded power of money and art. Fashionable Southerners. Fashionable southern people-in the mass-go to Greenbriar White Sul WANTED--A JOB~ Of dressing lumber anywhere in the :outy. Will go to anybody's place of business for 20,000 feet to dress, and will go anywhere in the state For oo,ooo feet to dress. Will dress for 5 cents if party will furnish en gine and labor; or for 25 cents andI furnis-h everything. Will do 'good ' -k if not cut price. Apply to P. R. HALLMEAN, Newberry, S. C. WANTED! Your Watches, Clocks and Jewelry to be re paired. Satisfaction Guaranteed, J. W. W HIT E. 00r Wouers of mrpin PAINL ESS Ir&Pf;f c: large book of p:r rio ticudars On homieor sanatorium tre:-~ AD ment. Address.D)r. AD B. M. WOOLLEY, Whise Cumeuiti"nts hur springs, 40 miles from here, cross the mountains in Vest Vir inia. and Warn Springs, five miles rom this. but eastern, northelirn and csrern millionaires come here. ireenbriar White Sulphur springs and Varm springs are very old places irect epitomes of the period imme iately preceeding and following the tevolutionarv war. Geor ash igton. Thomas Jefferson and James ladison used to go to them. They ride themselves upon their historical ntiquity, and strive not to alter ,lings any more than is necessary to cep tip with modern luxury. Hot prings, however-although very an ient too. and with a high colonial istorv-is a magnificent manifesta on of the spirit, the progress, the art, ie science, the luxury of the twen eth century. Hence it is a good place >r a wrretched South Carolina pauper > cone to-to see sights, and won ers that he has never seen before nd will possibly never see again. ertain v not in old Edgefield, neither i old Charleston. The great new hotel, "The Home tead," is quite as large, and quite as ine, and quite as splendidly kept ;e mean exactly what we say-as he Waldorf-Astoria in New York nd far more breezy, original and nique. It has five hundred rooms, erhaps seven hundred, and instead f being called "The Homestead," tight to have been given some beau iful fitting Greek or Roman name, nasmuch as. in design, architecture nd arrangement. it is a most entranc Ig combinatioii of Greek temple., toman amphitheatre and Italian per ola. And hith2r came the four hun red of New York and Philadelphia id Cincinnati and Cleveland and icago and St Louis and New Or ans, to rest a while and keep from Poing entirey to hell. The human oul that has a spark of the "vital park of heavenly flame" in it, can ot go to hell amid 'these glorious, nnobling and purifying scenes of ature. We go now to be boiled in hot min ral water-boi:ed until quite done, hrough and through-with all the ep dermis securely rubhed off and all the nternal germs and bacteria and bacil ae forever destroyed. This is "the reatmen:E." Half the men and women tere are medicinally boiled and scien ifically sterilized. James T. Bacon. L)W AM EF What makes a made with the high fence put into its i as they put into thei wire cloth? Neiti years' experience hi The American Stel is used, beginning steel arid wire mills to use for a fence. e __ We also have on hand of Hardware in the city Newbei TEACHER WANTED. T'e trustees of Smvrna school will meet September 8th for the purpose of electing a teacher for the coming year. The school will run from six to seven months. All applicants must send their applications to any one of the undersigned trustees. Rev. R. C. Ligon, J. S. Boozer, Geo. P. Boozer. Trustees. LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION State of South Carolina, County of Newberry. By John C. Wilson, Esquire, Probate Judge. Whereas, John L. Thomas hath made suit to me, to grant him letters of administration of The estate of and effects of David Thomas. These are therefore to cite and ad monish all and singular the kindred and creditors of the said David Thom as, deceased, that they be and appear before me, in the court of probate, to be held at Newberry on Wednesday, August 23rd, next after publicacion, thereof, at ii o'clock in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said administration should not be granted. Given under my hand, this 7tht day of August, Anno Domini, 1905. J. C. Wilson, J. P. N. C. /TEED BY A BANK DEPOS1 $590 O RairoadFare Paid. 500 Fit E Couses Offered. Board at Cost. Write O!ick GEORGIA-ALABAMA BUSINESS COLLEGE.Macon.C# +e+oee+e+ PIANO * Removal Sale. e b We move about September 15th,4 Sto No. 1432 Main St. almost op- g Wposite Masenic Temple. 0 WEWANT to close out every Piano and Organ Sin stock, and have marked down *prices as an inducement. WRITE OR CALL Squickly if you desire a big bar-U gam either m a Piano or Organ.4 For catalogue and terms address MALONE MUSIC HOUSE, * Columbia, S. C. +0+0+0+0+0+4 FOF PRICI II CAN rood fence? Should it est carbon the same as >iano wire ? Or shou r weaving wire that is: er-it should be a r as shown to be exacti el & Wire Co. makes ith its own mines, throi and they know what Trust their judgment. Should a g -we believe in . flexible, yieldinj - and snapping ba - is its life. A ~is more dura reason. Ameri ...___thoroughly galv at all times the largest at the lowest price for rry Hardw CORN FIELDS ARE GOLD FIELDS to the farmer who under stands how to feed his crops. Fertilizers for Corn must contain at least 7 per cent. actual Potash Send for our books-they tell why Potash is as necessary to plant life as sun and rain; sent free, if you ask. Write to-day. GERMAN KALI WORKS New York-93 Nassau Sreet or B ctlana,Ga.41SOUL road St. BriBckr BrickH! For Sale by C. H. CANNON. P7K SUPERFINE SILVERWARE. Tn t-a and coffee sets, both ster ling silver and plated ware. Te de and desirable with each passing year and our grandmothers' eyes would twinkle with amazement at the dis play to be seen here. Daniels&Willianiso ITERS ESON FENCE' have wire hard as flint he makers of American d it be a soft wire such old to manufacturers of edium wire that many y right for the purpose. every kind of wire that gh its own furnaces and s the right kind of steel >d fence have a rigid stay? No the hinged joint that is strong, to pressure like a spring bed k again to its place. Flexibility pneumatic tire on a bicycle byIe than a solid tire for this can fence is made of large wires nized and proof against weather. and best assorted stock eliable goods. are Co.