The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1892-08-03
Lebanon Items.

We are glad to say Mrs. Dr.. Duckworth.
who has been quite sick, is convalescent.
Children's Day, of which she was the
prime mover, was postponed on account
of her illness.
We are gratifisd to know Mrs. J. Fl.
Hutchinson, who has been at home sick
for some time, was at our Mission meet
ing third Sunday afternoon.
There we're two or three County Com
missioners in this section the ether day
land it wasn't very good day for Com
missioners either.) They were attending
to business. We believe they are men
who prefer business to pleasure.
Mr.. Barrett, candidate for Treasurer,
was at Lebanon Sunday.
Daniel Greer, colored, dug three Irish
potatoes from one vine weighing four
pounds.
Four or five of we Lebanonites went on
that grand excursion to Tallulah Falls,
which was managed so nicely by your
clever townsnlen, Messrs. Smith and
Glenn. Three or four hundred Of your
readers know it's no secret, and if it was
we are like the fellow who was engaged,
it's just too good to keep. As our train
glided in to the little village Of Tallulah,
one of those pictures forever ineffaceble is
presented to view. Yes, all the conditions
of beautiful picture are realized. The
air is 40 pure and the breezes 30 refresh.
ing, that the change comes gratefully to
relieve the lassitude We were beginning to
feel. Don't think we are enthusiastic
when We say that for natural beauty and
general attractiveness, We believe nothing
in foreign lands can rival this lovely spot.
Here are no perpetual SHOWS, no scorching
Sun, no ravenous beasts, no unpleasant
folks, nor nothing to disturb that quiet
rest and peaceful solitude which we some
times seek. IT'S here we find that rare
and exquisite combination of all the
most salient and picturesque types OF
mountain scenery. It is true there are
higher mountains, deeper valleys, loftier
fails and more stupendous raY1nes. But
We think the travelled and the untravelled
alike would award to Tallulah Falls an d
surroundings an incontestable superior
ity. Following woodland path we take
in the falls with their different names, 80
called from their various shapes and
curves. But so absorbed was L IN the
SURPRISING extent of this glorious land.
scape that I have forgotten some Of them.
As We advance along the stream new and
rare vistas succeed each other, and as we
stop at the towers built along the path at
convenient distances, and view fall after
fall and listen to the rushing and the MUIR
muring through the rocks and mountain
sides, whose bald summit down to the
beautiful and changeful water is clothed
In most vivid green. 1t is indeed mag
nifcent, and the eye roves hither and
thither in vain seeking some foil for this
peerless beauty. Everywhere the same
unriyaled picture leads its captive over
the long leagues Of cleaning water up
the graceful curves Of the mountains to
rest at last among the clouds floating in
vapor over their notched SUBMITS, and as
we quench our thirst from the little
springs scattered here and there, and ad-
mire the fountains playing as If the.
knew it was gala day occasion, We are
vanquished by the incompatible scene,
and our minds turn away from earth and
runs over the most sublime or touching
incidents of Scripture-the temptation,
the sermon OH the mount, the trans6gu-
ration, and memory brings to our aid
these words, so simple. so tender and yet
80 expressive: "And he went up into the
mountain apart to pray"
MINNEHAHA.