The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, December 28, 1911, Image 1
BtOL. XXV. KlNGSTKKfl, SOi Til (AKOLIW, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, ml NO. 42
r f f Greetings
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' 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.
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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
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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
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stock of go
at all odd
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50c for Ten f
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with each C;
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ets.
! morning we set out on a tour of in!
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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
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)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
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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
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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
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rister Checks. As!
ir store. Save the
ggregate $10.00 or
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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.
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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
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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.
Married?Sunday evening, De- j &
member 17, at 4 o'clock p. m., by Sj
r Russell, Jr, Notary Public, at the
esidence of Mr S P Hughes, Miss
Ruth Hughes and Mr Ernest Rus- ^
sell, RusselVille, S C.
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Married?On Wednesday afterioon,
December 20, 1911, at 4 D,
>'clock p m, at the home of the
jride's parents,Mr and Mrs J L Nexen,
Kingstree, S C, Miss Viola Nexen
and Mr Willie Hodges of Swan's e(^
Corner, N C, Rev W A Fairy offi- 1)0
iating.
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