The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1896-04-16
bought n beautiful bay-frOnt, with an

DOnght u Deautl1ul Day-lFollV, mlou "p
orange grove attached, and asked me
grape fruit tree. He did it very care
fully, and found it was titty-two inches
| around four feot from the ground. lie
| said he had measured it before, but
| wanted u witness. So, for fear he may
| be suspected of cXaggeration, l had
, just as we'll give tho certificate. That
! tree Is seventeen inches III diameter
four feet up from it's base. The groves
around hero have pretty much re-
covered with blooms. Some groves
suffered but little, ard never lost {;
crop. Mr.. Bailcy's grove, near Clear
water, gave him an average crop, and
So did Mr.. Mnrklcy's. Oar home mar
kct has not boon without q supply Of
fine, iirst-class fruit, us far superior to
the California oranges as an apple is
to pcrsimmon. If | had money, !
would invest in grove or two on
speculation, for here is the safety line,
and Florida oranges and grape fruit
will command high prices for some
years to como.
Yesterday morning our young people
made up groupcr party and sailed out
to the coral reefs in the grc.n blue
gulf. | was respectfully invited TO
girl and they promised to DO back by
i O'Clock. | reau and wrote aud ri.
minated AMI played with tho child
aud helped her make sand pies, until
the sun was nearing the horizon. but
still there was no sail in sight. Every
f"" minutes | scanned the distant
waters and tho two passes between tue
islands. The twtliSh.s are brief down
here, and when the dark had spread
its lonely curtain began to be troubled
and walked the vcranda with anxiety
| and impaticncc. Then | walked dow
| to the dock, and was cOmfortcd with
the information that on" boat could
not possibly get in until the tide rose
aud brought them. for there was not I.
breath or air to move Is sail. Slowly
and sadly came home, and our little
household had supper and checrcd the
lingering hours with prose and poetry
anu conversation. Ever and anon
! camo ont and listened for song tc
float its melody over the waters, for
! they always come back singing bu,
there was no sound save the ominou>
notes Of Il sCrcech owl and tho piaintivt
song OF the whip -pour."ill in the grove
near by. AT D o'clock we put the little
girl to bed, but she, too, had become
excited, and couldn't sleep. sat b,
her and stroIkcd her hair and her hands
| for an hour, when at last with a sigh
she dropped asleep. Eleven O'Clock
! came and II and l2:30 O'Clock, and
reasoned that the boat was on Il sand
bar and could not get OF till morning
; A boat party from Dunedcn was strand
cd on ~ bar last week and had to stay
there all night. aad thei' families and
friends were greatly alarmed aud sen
: N ,,.f fi,,s f,r 4 II
not gold that gi:ttors even at Clear
waters. at halt-pas, | o'clock, while
noddin% in my chair, ! was suddenl,
awakened by the sound OF voices, ant
my heart bounded with gratitude ant
Joy. The long suspense was over, fuI
had Imagined many distrc >sin:
things. Twice the little girl had ak
ed in her slocp, and sighed and said
"Oh mercy"
My daughter threw herself into
chair and exclaimed, "Oh, | am =,
tired and thankful - aud anothc
daughter said: Now, don't scold II
one bit, but listen to our tale OF woe.
, We started back at i o'clock, but 500,
found our boat bccalmed away ont /,
the gulf, and we could not move half
mile an hour. When night came W,
were i've milos from homo, and after W,
got INTO the north pass VIC iOIIeu on
, Sand bar and had to wait for the It'd
} TO rise and float Us off, and the fOl
gentlemen then got into the little boa
anG pu:.GI at the Oars with all thri
might for three hours and towcd tb
big boat after them. On, it was awful
and some OF the girls got awfully Sc;
sick ard fed the fishes and lost thci
. dinner, and we had new pilot and los
oar way and it was just awful, #
live thousan! years, will never 9,
out so far ca tho guilt again"
We'll, OF course, did not scold them
but will bet 81 they 60 again mex
week ii they arc invited. Alread,
, tAis morning they arc DOasting Of wh;.
; II good time they had at the groupc
banks, and how they caught thirty
seven, and ono that Miss ItnglisI
, caught was three feet long, and woul,
/ weigh thirty pounds. There is such ;
|, charm about these waters, that the
' cannot keep away from them.
l But am going home to my bette
| and bigger half tomorrow and work il
ny garden, and in hers, too, OF course
Tor the winter is over and gone. Tn
timc for the singing OF birds has come
and tho voice OF tho turtle dove i
heard in the land" BlI. ARP.