Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-10-13
Bud Writes the Advertiser
{. Breezy Letter From Spartan
burg and Wofford's Classic
Shades.

DEAR ADVERTISER: The Wofford
boys are again at their posts and
ready for work. Owing TO- the
stringency of the times IN money
matters the attendance will fall
short of last year by possibly. u
per cent. One hundred and thirty
have been enrolled in the college
proper and something less than
at-the fitting school.
I. Of course there are many new
faces upon the campus and q cor
responding disappearance of as
many familiar ones. .gaisas
Woford can boast of one re.
formation long needed in college
communities-we mean the prac-
tice of the inhuman habit OF
"hazing" the new comers. None
hut a poor home-sick Freshman
can understand what it is to be
pulled out of bed at the dismal
hour of midnight-the season for
ghosts, apparitions and hobgoblina
by a bowling ruAian crowd and
subjected to all the tricks and
pranks and extempore inventions
that may chance to pass through
the mirds of his hilarious tor
mentors; such a being dumped"
until he sees the "seven stars" or
is sent on imaginary urgent er-
rands, or i'll all his Freshman
innocence enticed to 60 on a
"snipe hunt" and being led into a
dismal swamp it becomes his duty
to secrete;himself with bag in hand
and await developements; and lol
to his utter CONSERVATION it soon
develops that he is "all alone" with
nothing to keep him company but
the towering trees and clambering
vines. and no sound to break the
death-like stiffness save. the hoot
of owls and the croak of frogsl
This very pleasant feature of
college life, we are happy to 81 by,
has been eliminated, aud the new
boys are made to feel at home
Immediately upon arrival.
.Edgefeld's representation is un-
usually small, there being only
two here from our County; both
these are in the junior class. Does
this mean that Edgefeld is retro
grading, and that her sons are
Indifferent and unambitious and
no longer Jealous county's for theil
history past and present?
The second double execution
for this County within the past six
weeks took place in the jail yard
at II o'clock the past Friday. Both
were negroes, one man and the
other a 17-year-old girl. The for.
mer was hanged for killing Mayo,
Henneman sometime ago, and the
latter for forcing carbolic acid
down the throat of a one-year-old
infant to spite her mistress.
AS we write the cool October
breezes come sweeping down from
the slopes of the Blue Ridge
mountains bearing the purest
aromatics, while the sun of; a
cloudless day is flooding the earth
with his warm and welcome rays.
But Spartanburg's to,
and fascinating view of, the noun.
tains, her cotton factories of the
most gigantic structure, her mon
uments of industry, push, and
energy, her iron foundries, and
literary institutions, her sky
piercing steeple churches, her
dummy line," electric lights, and
telephones, yea, all she is, has, OF
ever expects to be can't shut out
from our minds eye the "Rural
Village" of Dennys, with its
simple, frugal, unostentatious IN.
habitsnts,. and the thousand and
one incidents Of our youthful
career which have transpired in
and around the sacred precincts Of
our own and our companions
homes. !.
With love for all Edgefeld and
best wishes for the fearless ADvER.
TIsER, we are again
Yours &C., BUD.
Spartanburg, S. G.
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