The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-15
VERNA VISITS FERNVALE.
And Sees Beautiful Country on the
Way.
She Finds That the Columbia Herald
Has Friends Wherever
She Goes.
Ep1roR HERALD-Ihave Just finished

EDITOR HERALD:-I have just finished
Victor HugO's chef a. OHVTe. Cosette
and NJ arms are married and comfortably
settled. Jean Val Jean has forgotten
his sorrows and suherlngs In dream,
less sleep under the old lichen stained
wall OF the cemetery of Pere La Chaise;
so L leave him to his rest, close the
book, and look through the telescope ot
Imagination, right into your sanGtutn.
| shall venture in, and If you look up
at me with corrugated brow, L Will
Immediately make my exit with
skip, something like Lord Dundreary
crossing the stage.
to imagine / had been away drinking
the water and rambling about over the
hills and daIes of EernvHl0 Springs! |
Well, that's where I've been mostly,
and if no instinct warned you OF the
tact, you are not as instructive as l
deemed you. Even I-busy as L was
thought of some of you more than once, |
now and then away In the middle OF the
night when was sound asleep.
Early on the morning OF June - we
started Fernvalewards, going through |
| in a buggy. We stopped in Columbia
long enough to visit Cauvln's and eat as
much ice cream as We could well take |
| in; then, before eleven o'clock, we
| reached our friends, Mrs. h. j. Davis, |
near Carriers Creek, where we partooK
of an excellent dinner. Mr.. Davis is one
| of Maury's successful, progressive farm,
ers, and the HERALD is an appreciated
visitor in his charming home. we tar
| ried there several hours and got as Tar
as HilIsborO that night, meeting the
| CoWleys, the Hulmes, the Sparklna1S
and Miss Mary Hulme, (sister OF our
"Elgin'O of Santa Fe, who was visiting
her grandparents. We were especlaliy
glad to meet Mr.. and Mrs. CONVEY, 1ath-
er and mother of your townslnaI!, MI
Joe Cowley) because of the great TREND
ship that existed between them and my
mothers family-the PEBBLES. They are
great takers, pleasant ana entertaining,
and Mrs. CowIey is somewhat RESPONSE
bic for this letter, as she eXacted ii prom
Use of me to "write to the HERALD so0n.
She, too, has taken the HERALD for many
wears. We were 10th to depart from
HiIlsboro, but the springs were only SIX
miles away, and we were anxious 10 HI
iSh the Journey. "
. we We're entranced with that six
miles ride. Winding around ON the
edges of rock, our road wanders with the
dainty little wild ViOletS, sheltered from
E the rude beams of the sun, blowing In
, little clusters along it's border, hlddeh
sometimes in inches OF rock Win 0hly
q enough earth to support them, and here
Z and there the truant "SWeet pea peeps
from the grassy carpet which nature mas
n provided. Up another little NIL ana
0 down, and before us in the vale anu on
n the hillside we spy the hotel, with It's
: cool, inviting Verandah, and the !lttIe
cottages, white in the morning light as
: | Whitewash ever makes them. All foumu
4
and from their summit, hundreds OF feet
= high tower oaks whose tops seem 10
q "llfss the sky" l felt tempted to climb
one "monarch" and see how everybody
# was at home but desire was greater than
a effort. In other words, postponed IT,
n As a charming place for summer re-
,r sorters l recommend you to FernVale
,s Springs 1t is lovely, romantic spot
Ir Nature gave here no stepoatne uo I9;, ~
a Drodigal hand. The bluest OF heavens
are bending over the greeneSt anu Iair
To est of earth, and the greenest anu fair-
af est of earth is smiling back at the
bluest of heavens, while the hotel banc
,e discOurses enhancing sounds. NOV
v in measureslsOft and low, then pursuing
Il into songs of JOY" 1t really seemed a.
in If the upper and lower worlds were ii
IN love with each other. In the mid t o
such enchanting surroundings coult
M almost understand row the imaSlna
H. tive Greeks invested material oDJect
,e with the attrb and charms OF per
a sonality. Even in this prOsaic age, an'
even to my dull eyes there are IHle
ne when trees, rivers, mountains mlst'
Ia and clouds and the serene stars nave
ne kindly human look boutthem. 10 you
" who are sitting in q close and narrov
ia room on the banks OF the DUCK, ali Inl
ar sounds like silly talk, but to one VIII
saw and enjoyed this beauty 1t Is per
fectly natural.
and eating took up our time, anu
or night approached the sun sank earl,
oa behind the hills, tinting the sky wit
" Injured soft lullabies to the ripping
- waters; we forgot all cares, and tire
ad natures sweet restorer, bAlmy sleep,
70 folded US in her gentle arms, ana VISION
a. of joyous tomorrow come 10 US
ne Forcomfort and good fare the McEwe
Hotel is unexcelled. The cottages ar
II. most all occupied, and the hotea
81 d, 1fu fFnn q.
III Vile, Lebanon, Franklin and othe
~ | parts of the state.
~, There are many springs freeston'
he white and black sulphur, alum' an
no another containing iron, sulphur, mas
w nesia and potash in large quantities.
IN liked the white sulphur water, but tn
&c black-ugh! Imagine the taste in you
mouth after having eaten rotIen eg
10 and YOU have the taste of this waite
u Anything but pleasant, yet contalnln
10 medicinal qualities that cannot be e.
,ss ceIled by any water south OF the On
'ss river. FernVale Springs are not know
q as they should be, and L advise all
d" need of a good tonic and Alternative wat'
h to go there.
NV drawn sigh that pleasure seeking, liz
~ all other mortal delights, is but trans
Ct tory, turned my beaming face, elast
1ar step, and new five pounds along IL
20 back track again. 1t was with feel1I
;,h actuating the soul of anybody cOmll
;iu towards this beloved Maury County
'S ours, where the blue grass waves, u
Io,o sassafras grows, my ancestors live
ge and drew my first breath--and goo
,b- many breaths since then.
81 While at the springs, we were called
'n0 New Hope, near Kington Springs TO
.,;o tend the funeral and burial services
Iio nv husbands half brother, hiram ~
rs, teen, aged nineteen years, who had 1u
q" died of typhoid fever
. Another day we were invited out 70
little place seven or eight miles on q
CentrevilIe road, where the people we
anxious to hear "my preacher Preac
We found little old rusty village,
one house been built there "since 4
or wah," and it little Ii Is temple 10 Z
OF worship of Almighty God according
the dictates of Methodist cOnscienC
~ ~ But the people were tony ana hlgh
oil aristocratic, living in the past-the US
nat tO-waS,
on our way home, we stopped
We Frank lin, spending day and night WI
/ Prof. Wall and family, ana were Shop
1an over the beautiful campus Oh baI'
IL Ground Academy. Just IN the roar
'nu tho handsome school buildings sh'
10 is being erected To mark the spot VINE
My the old cotton gin stood, wnlcn W
of riddled with bullets and shells duri
Md the fight at Franklin. Every one
nod met UP with was elated over the actl
all of the Democratic convention al Ohit
- 90, and WAS eager TO get hold ol the ne
zen book, "Cleveland and Stevenson"
bill General Heusel, of PennsylTan
ase Prof Wall says our ticket could D
you have been made stronger. All say Ia
ing are coming out to Columbia this we
ouT to take in our great jOllitict alton.
VS. one, presume, in reach Of Us, who
able to get there, would miss Del
present on such grand occaslt
FRANKLIN, herself, wants To have |
ged "to do" before the summer wanes.
on, citizens wish to erect monument,
en- honor OF the Confederate ueao' III
GayOck lot near town, and will have
. reunion of "the old rebs' at the sal
time. One gentleman there has been
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