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BtOL. XXV. KlNGSTKKfl, SOi Til (AKOLIW, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, ml NO. 42 r f f Greetings (J' ' 1 Coffins and Cask I Life in the land of the set. i BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY WHERE EVERY PROSPECT PLEASES AND ONLY MAN IS VILE, Idit<j? County Record:-^ We left Asheville, N C, at 10 'doclcS. m. and for more than one undred miles traveled along the ejatrffful and romantic banks of the rench Broad river until we reach1 Morristown, Tenn, which is quite 1 old town. There we took Cap's js, which conveyed us to Cap's otel, on the extreme end of the >wn; had a very nice dinner, a rest BHbf an hour and then were carried finback in time for our train, for the modest sum of twenty-five cents, ^fi That was several years ago. We ^fithen took the train for Bean's Station, where we arrived at about 5 o'clock in the afternoon. There ^ were about sixty boarders, among fl^Bwhom, much to my pleasure, were ^^keveral from Williamsburg county. HHiineral Springs was our destination, ^^Mhich is about a fourth of a mile ^^Hun the station and situated among Blue Ridge mountains, two miles the celebrated Tate Springs. HBBhighly educated scientist from ?Hvrnany bought and developed ^^^^fie^rHngs. It seems strange that !Stnall space of about an acre I there should be so many difkinds of waters. There are ,ck, blue and white sulphur teen or sixteen different kinds sral waters, said to be good I ! all kinds of diseases. i e were several persons taking , sulphur baths,and it actually to give them a new lease on ae young man from Paducah, Id out his little home with jo raise money to bring his ho had a very bad case of to get the benefit of the watook all he had to pay Iheir the springs, so he helped he hotel, milking cows and j in the kitchen, to pay their His wife got so much better ?could also help around the said that the way Mineral was discovered was that the Civil war a regiment of rate soldiers camped around ce and drank and bathed in ;rs gushing out of the side lountain. Many of the solre afflicted with scurvy, and re so much benefited that it ame known. l- ?.1J ? I. We were anown a Daiue-neiu uu the s*'V? of a mountain where a great tjattl^nad been fought.and it is said that the farmer* itii) plow up remnants of the battle, old swords, balls, >tc. The walks in the mountains are Taad, aad oa iae moraines we 3uld walk aoah a long distanaa ani j erer saem to tire. Wa ware aaafal ] ot to. Itaae the kaataa taaak, as T 4* iey sqf there are a great maaf rat 1-1 4i? wuk> MalrWtf pod hidlag-jlw for tooa. fiMlMM to too itoin to T?I, with O'(OBoil (trOggliDff Tffioee jtwooi. bwt oa tho oppocto ido toaotolno ftoo higher ond ttjgfcor jotll too/ f9rn oo mo of too ray . v * ** ' ' ?FRE uiner arucitii irum uic iuui onu branches of the rhododendron tree, which grows luxuriantly on the mountain. Everything around bore mark3 of idleness and squalor. Weeds were I growing up around the house, and ; inside I will eave to the imagination. The wife was seated on the rickety porch looking on while her husband worked, and the dirty but very healthy looking little children, ten in number, played around. The eldest, a boy of ten years, had gone to Tate Spring to carry his father's wares to sell, as there was always a ready market among the Northern visitors at that place. The manner in which the articles were conveyed to market was in a mountain sleigh, drawn by a horse, and which slid over the ground almost a3 easily as over ice. We continued our walk, passing little nooks ar. d crags which brought to mind Sir Walter Scott's description of the highlands of Scotland. At last we reached a neat-looking house, the home of an old lady, the widow of a Confederate soldier, and whose only support was the small pension she received and the gifts presented her by the boarders at the hotel, with whom she was a general favorite. Her neat appearance and intelligent conversation bore evidences of her having seen better days. She lived alone except when some poor family would come , in to be sheltered a short time, and ! she would share her mite with them [ ?but, like the widow who fed the I Prophet, there was always enough. Her life was spent in teaching the ignorant mountain children,in whose i homes some of them had never seen a Bible. It was my privilege to hear : them one Sabbath repeating some of the beautiful Psalms of David, which would have done credit to children raised in Christian homes. She has gone to her reward, and it can truly be said of her, "She hath done what she could." Back in her ; life was a great sorrow?her only daughter,allured by the glare of the city life, left her mother's lonely mountain home, this giddy young belle of the Blue Ridge, visiting a [ Special I f 1 T "11 . _ ii Will 80 PRICI till stock of go at all odd s. s. un 50c for Ten f i with each C; we redeem i ?B?saK i N G 3' ets. ! morning we set out on a tour of in! 1: ? i ? _i a. _i ,] ? vesication aionK me sieep miu jicj cipitous mountain road, after stopping at the springs and drinking all the water possible. The first house, or hut,rather, we came to was occupied by a Norwegian, who had rnari ried a mountain woman and had i brought his craft with him from the j Old Country. He was very ingenious J in making settees, fancy tables and OUIICU IIVI wvuv. w- , could not see it in that light and proceeded to make way with the distilling apparatus. It was by the merest chance they found out the ! place. They had been suspecting something of the kind for some time, and walking along about 2 o'clock in the morning, they thought they smelt something out of the ordinary, and, after a good deal of searching, came across the place. It was cerFor After Oh U CTerytkiig ii my li I January 10, 1913, t< eds for stock-taking i s and ends at sacrifice , - - - m . SsKKS rj )o!lars in Cash Rej ash purchase at 01 hem when they a; FREE HARI WHOLESALE AND relative in the eitv of Knoxville, and ' + rv?AAfmrf o vnnnrr mon U'VlA I LUCIC O ^ wuii^ iiiun, tfnv, , pretending to marry her, an<i de, serting her, broke her heart. Now; ; she is sleeping beneath the sod near } where the Tennessee river flows. "Aunt Jane" treasures up her pic- i ture among some heirlooms handed ! down from her foreparents, and j which some of her visitors have tried to buy for the sake of their great; beauty and age, especially some j models in clay. The poverty of some of the people is caused by their own idleness and sloth, and it seems strange and sad when I remember that they are the ! descendants of such good, sturdy; ancestors from Europe. 11 Almost every day strong.able-bod- ; ied young men would come to the hotel with a small bag of apples or i grapes slung across their shoulders i to sell, and would sit around on the < j piazza for hours and never seem in a 1 hurry to leave. Often we have met 1 old women and girls clad in a few i : nerra and qpvptr! times wp have 11 I stopped and talked with them, and s ; it seemed sad that such intelligent- i : talking people could not have the i i advantages of schools and chhrches. j I think, though, that since the time < j of which I write a devoted, large- \ hearted Christian has been laboring I ] i among them, and no doubt there j has been vast improvement. That s part of the mountains was well fitted ] by nature for the secret places in 1, I which whisky is made. Not very 1, long before the time of which I j, write, an old woman?so very stout ] I am almost afraid to say how many | { . pounds?had been distilling whisky , from the corn supplied to her by , some of her neighbors from their ? - J 1 1 little patcnes pianveu nerc nnu uicic i among the mountains. This old ] woman had been making whisky a very, very long time, until it had become second nature with her, and if there had ever been any stings of conscience they had been drowned long since. She told the Revenue ' officers she could not see why the Government should interfere with her; that she had a right to make ! her corn up into whatever manner it ' Host Of course, thev I FF rister Checks. As! ir store. Save the ggregate $10.00 or )WARE COi RETAIL DEALERS tainly a well-chosen spot, on tne i edge of a precipitous crag, thickly s overgrown with bushes and trees, i twined about with vines; there was only one way of access to the little 15 low-roofed hut, and that no one ( traveled. She got all of her supplies and necessaries by means of a rope ' pulley which some one at the foot of 1 the crag attached to it. The officers were puzzled to know in what manner she was to be gotten down from her lofty perch; she would not walk. < and finally they fixed a way that she r could be slid, in some way, down the i least precipitous incline. After her 1 anger had subsided, she told them a ? pitiable tale of her only support, her son, having been shot down some years previously in a feud, that ter- 1 rible state of affairs once so common j in some parts of the United States, g neighbor against neighbor, holding g| enmity from generations back, be- ^ lieving the insult can only be satisfied by blood and hatred, but the advance of Christianity and civiliza- f tion which is making such rapid jtrides, will soon do away with such nhuman deeds unworthy of glorious, free America. Well, I must hasten toward the ?nd, but I cannot stop until I men-! :ion the beautiful grass that i3 so uxuriant that I don't wonder at the ine cows and the delightful butter and milk that those fortunate people hare, and the fine horses and mules ive saw grazing in among the hills and dales, and, oh, the fields of corn, svith the ears hanging in such numbers, and the acres and acres of golden yellow pumpkins lying glistening in the sunshine between the rows. i Mr Editor, perhaps you may be able to wade through this, so good bye for this time. A Friend. The Holidays at Benson. _ _ . Benson, December 26:?Chri9t- J mas, the great event of feast and merriment, has come and gone, leaving faithful old Santa Claus a | twelve months' rest before he comes , again to repeat the same stunts, i causing joy and gladness to come | into the hearts of little girls and . boys. The day was gloomy as one ' would casually observe the weather, I but not so with the young people here; they were on the move all day ' with bright and cheery faces. Noth- | ing happened in the neighborhood to make the occasion less enjoyable.and ' upon the whole the day was well I spent. Misses Eleanor Epps and Hortense Pealc, members of Cedar Swamp | ristmas. j i q? at COST 11 ) redaee my 11 tmi to ctoae 11 pri cm. (| 3 ni H11IB, I Ij $ E E j?. c for a check checks and more. :: :: I H PAN Y**== We Lead? _ - school faculty, are visiting their re- T spective homes, enjoying the festiv- \ ities of the yule-tidp. X Cadet Jack McCullough of Clem- ^ son College is at home with his par?nts, spending the holidays. Messrs L H McCullough and Frank Snowden from Fayetteville, N C,, jj ire at home for a few days. WES- G: Hymeneal. 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