The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-02-23
SARGE .PLUNKETT
Among the Scotch People on Anniversary
of Burns's Birthday.
Atlanta Constellation.

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very fine condition to visit Church
service, if he had ever thought Of
such thing.
Suddenly our old friend stops. He
is listening to the loud old preacher,
and it is the first time he was ever
known to do such a thing. Surely
the preacher has said something to
please him, for he draws a little nearer
to the Church and stands with his
hand up to his ear-he listens anxi-
ously; what does the preacher say?
"By prayer, my brethren and sis
ters, we can do oanything-even yonder
mountain, brethren and sisters, could
be moved by prayer and faith-faith,
brethren, faith and prayer, would
scatter yonder mountain like chaff be-
fore the wind =
Nothing on earth could have pleased
this old strange man more than to
scatter this mountain-scatter the
hotel and the tower and keep the
fashionable people away. He liked
the words, and he walked nearer to
the Church, even to the door, and then
inside. Such commotion was never
seen in a country Church before. His
good old wife ran down the aisle to
meet him, and throwing her arms
around his neck, she shouted for JOY.
Then the daughters and the sons got
around him, and there was wild con-
fusion which soon brought the whole
congregation to tears and shouting.
Such revival as grew out of this Incl
dent had never been seen before. The
meeting went on for weeks, and many
Joined the Church-the old man join
ed.
1t would be too much to give the
whole story in detail, but the old man
became a praying member, and the
burden Of all his prayers was to have
the Lord remove the mountain. It
was not great while, as many now
living can testify, until great storm
came and blew away the hotel and
shattered the tower. Aaron Cloud
went away and was never again seen
in this County, remaining in Griffin
for short while, he went to Florida,
where he died. In time this strange
old man moved away, but he still pays
the neighborhood occasional visits,
and old and feeble, he smiles as the
trains are loaded with the granite for
distant places. and shouts to the sound
IF the dynamite that tears and scat
sers the great rock like chaff before
The wind.
Returning to the region where the
Of Robbie Burns so like
70 dwell, we are lost in wonder at the
Of the granite supply Of
DeKalb County. Miles on miles of
solid granite can be viewed from any
ground about Lithonia. Gran
tic could be had here to build a Chi
nese wall around the world Greater
than the Klondike in the money value,
of acres lie uDscarred by
the hand of progress only waiting to
be turned into the channels of useful
ness and to the things of beauty.
Lying south Of Lithonia is region
known as Arabis,' and it is the only
region that we know in Georgia that,
can boast of king. Dir. W. l.. D.
Crossley is the man that wears the
grand title of ''King Of Arabia. He
is old now-along in the eighties, but
be is still hale and hearty and none
would dare dispute his rights or ques
ton his judgment on matters Of
weight.
As the sobriquet, ..'King Of Ara
bia," implies, Mr.. Crossley has been
> man of Importance in this district,
ard, Of course, there has been many
thrilling and interesting events in his
long life, but as the Typographical ap-
pearance Of che section is 80 different
to anything seen elsewhere in Geor-
gia have not space for biography.
Granite. granite, granite One
naturally exclaims at the great
stretches of granite that everywhere
attracts the eye. If it were proper to
call it seas, we would say great seas of
granite. At places an almost level
rock reaches out for mile before you,
gray aud grim, creating feeling that
is easier thought of than described.
To the right and to the left, in front
and behind, mountains Of this grim
granite look down upon you just as if
it has looked for centuries upon CEN
turies at the Aeeting things Of the
world. Many may come and man may
go, but these same gray and grim sen