Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-09-25

table and asleep. His entry awokc her.
She told him what she had done, and show
ed him her nights work-ffty writs and
processes. This bowed the Strong man,
she fell on his knees, implored her pardon,
and then and there. faithfully promised her
never 10 drink another drop while he lived"
This promise" says my friend Col Will
liams, "hc faithfully kept" and said the
Judge to him 'from that day, everything
which touched turned to gold" His en-
tire success in life, says Col. W;llian,s "bo
sat down to his faithful observance of this
noble promise"
No better culoey could be pronounced or
Mrs. Smith than has Just been given in the
words of her distinguished husband. The
reformation of such man us William
Smith is chaplct of glory which few wo-
men have been permitted to wear TO tho
people of South Carolina, and especially of
York District, certainly no stronger argu-
mcnt IN favor of temperance, total absti-
nerce, need be given
Judge Smith was an able, but rather
tyrannical Judge. All stood in awe of him
lie committed the captain of Il volunteer
company in Charleston for disturbing the
court by persisting to cause his drum to be
beat after he hpd been ordered to dcsist.--
lie quashed, spring of 1914, cv,ry ycnire
around the Southern Circuit because new
jury lists had not been made out within
three years, and from them the jurors drawn
and summoned This was great lcg,l
blundcr, and worked great delay in the ad-
ministration ofiusticc. Still no one doubt
ed the purity Of the Judge, although bench
and bar condemned the act us high handed
and uncalod for.
Judge Smith possessed wonderful mem
ory and have often heard il said that he
reported to the Constitutional Court the
case of the State VS.. Flcy aud Rochelle,
without reference to his notes lie never
forgot the faces of men or their peculiar
traits of character" If he knew man
once, hc knew him ever after, and neither
the lapse of time, nor the place where he
might meet him, however little expected,
msled or deceived him. Asan illustration
the following incident may be noted. He
had been employed, many years before. to
defend man at pinckncy or Spartanburg,
for killing horse in the night time, Which
by our statute is a clcrgyable felony. His
client did not meet his tral-hc fled the
State. If the case occurred during the
existence ofthc Court at Pinckncy at least
twenty years must have come and gone ;
and if at Spartanburg, at least ten years
must have elapsed before Judge Smith en-
tered Congress as Senator from South
Caro!iua. Walking into the Hall of the
House of Representatives soon after ne had
taken his seat as Senator he discovered his
client in the person of John Alexander
commonly called the Buffalo of the West, ."
sitting as Il member from Ohio. in Spar
tanburg the name was usually called Elch-
inor, and SO the Judge addressed him.
The member profcsscd not to know him.
The Judge, with one of his oatls, sworc
he should know, telling him he had his
note at home for 500, and that he should
pay it. He wrotc-to his wife to send the
note and by tho return mail it came, and
Mr. Alexander admitted the acquaintance
by paying the note.
The speeches of his political opponents
lie never forgot, and often to their dsmav
the Judge from the bottom of his old trunk
lished up some speech, or speeches, entire
y at war with their present views What
a terrible bastinadoing he gave to Mr. De
Wolf, the Senator from Rhode Island, when
he arrycd before him the evidences of his
participation in the slave trade before 1908
Will be rccolIcctcd by some, even at this
late day.
WONDERS OF Tur CREATED UNIVERSE
~ hat micro assertion Will make any one
/ believe that in one second OF time. in one
beat OF the pendulum OF clock, Il ray OF
! li0It travels ovpr ono l.,,,,lroI md =, ,,,.