The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1878-04-25
Dots by the Wayside.
ToCCoA FALLS, Ga, April l

dressing you. I can't give you any
Central Items this time, but a few
"waysde dots," picked up in our
wanderings, might prove interesting
to some of your readers. We started
from the great city Of e. on last Mon
day. We reached Mrs. Taylor's
Monday night. Tuesday, we laid
over, as it was rather damp. We
Vent fishing in tho afternoon, and
caught fine mess of fish. "We'uns".
get left during the time, to find the
way back in the dark. Wednesday
morning we went to Walhalla. Il is
q beautiful little mountain town, and
has two dourishing schools-one malo
and one female. Late in tho after
noon we started for Westminster.-
Some distance from Walhalla, we had
the pleasure of witnessing one of the
most glorious mountain sunsets that
[ ever saw. AS the sun sank behind
the mountains, there was break in
the clouds, through which tho sun
flung out its glorious golden banners
OF Ij2ht, and turned tho clouds into
Ct sea of pure. golden >light.-
Hazod eagerly at it, it seemed
"> !; uld almost imagine that the
g'.os 0. Heaven were opond and
pouring corth streams of living light.
We c"nrcG that night on Conoross
Creek Next morning had hook
. ne creek, and the consequence was
tnNl We nad fish for breakfast. On
.nr way to estminster, wo passed
"r &. ". KS, formerly of Piclcns
>"o"lA We stopped and spent a couple
of "..* pleasantly chatting with the
i@".jy, peci"ily tho charming Miss
l.a,H We stopped in Wcslmin-
>,.~, ".inh is small, dull town, with
" h.1 ,vzen stores. Thursday night
u. """.ped in one mile OF Tugaloo.
r'';.y j. orning we crossed at Jenkins
r"u.}. he river was rather full and
o1r""G, hercf re VIC lad TO give the
""n'ri,H fcrryman n "!ilL," or we
H5@.sl We bad TO sing "Down the
rjyer. Friday afternoon we reached
lo"c"@ which is lively, business
It3.2, " h some 25 stores. We staid
jr y"ctua until last night, then we
ol~c "nt here last night, and We ere
2Hmped IT the foot Of the Falls. We
Lad 4 .plnndid view of the Falls Inst
night hy moonlight. After supper,
certain fellow flung himself do.7n
at the toot ofa large beech, and drank
, IN al ,Ho beauties >cf tho glorious
scene, VIII his material eyes, while
his MIND $ eyes were running over the
pages OF he book of memory, reading
Tire recol q of tho happy hours that he
spont hero last summer. Hc> looked
up far above him, to the right of the
bright, s!tvery stream, pouring from
the stupondous rock, and could see
dark rock, upon which he remembered
standing with two beautiful, winning
girls. lilo remembered reaching over
the brink of the precepico to gather
some berries for these ladies; but he
remembered better the words that
they spoke to him about falling. Just
before aim was seat upon which he
sat and spent an hour in pleasant con-
verso Tllh one Of these ladies. As'he
lay aL The foot of the old beech, he
thought of the time when ho had
Stood by that very self-same tree,
-''''~ h"side him stood q fair, beauti-
tuI winning maiden, watching his
awkward efforts to carve her name on
the rough bark OF he old beech. Her
little irct had passed the very earth
whero he was lying, her tender hands
had touched the very tree against
which his head was resting. He
thought of how sweotly the music of
her voice fell upon his ears, and it
made his heart ache to think that he
was so far removed from the sound of
that sweet tvoice. Long he lay and
ponderod of that day, and it made his
heort>inoxpressbIy sad to think that
he had but little hope of many days
of such perfect happiness coming into
his life. To-day. ns pzn uere ,uritino