The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1898-12-07
Swansea's Doings.

The rise IN cotton mas DrlghCeEeu
some faces but to many the tidings
comes too late.
The people of Swansea had the
pleasure last week of a visit from
Capt. Henry Counts of Irmo. The
Captain is a representative citizen
and an ornament to the agricultural
profession and we gladly extended
him a welcome.
Frederick Backman, a worthy
young farmer Of our section, has gone
in company with physician DR.. J. L.
Johnson to Columbia to have sur
gical operation performed on his
case because of an enlargement on
his left jaw. His friends are anxious
for his condition.
The farmers are still putting Ill
small grain and the attention paid
this crop and area given it this year
has never been equalled before. 1t
seems like 'sthe before war times"
Mrs. Lila Weathersbee and Mrs.
S. B. Sawyer Of Norway, Orangeburg
county, are visiting relatives in and
around Swansea.
It is said W. H. F. Rast grew
eleven inches in ten hours and
greatly added to his capacity in
pounds also after the appearance last
week of another little boarder whose
name "they say" shall not be John
but William Jennings Bryan Rsst.
D. j. Knots has purchased Of j.
Fl. Counts of Irmo, fine specimen
of an English Berkshire pig.
As I was passing a stranger yes
terday on the Orangeburg road the
thought crossed my mind, well surely
you are the ugliest white man l ever
saw, but accompanying was the con-
7iction that such an honest, sincere
face I seldom see. Just as he passed
he commenced singing in real sweet,
melodious tone, eve shall be like
Jesus there and his beauties we shall
share, in that home of many mansions
bright and fair" Then I thought,
has that poor man the power Of mind
reading and did he sing for his own
consolation or did he think in the
spirit that T was thinking, and was
singing for our mutual encourage
ment or was that sincere, honest face
really looking upward in holy adora-
tion to view those mansions bright
and fair, or was my department in
passing such as to make me appear
an impe1tinent, imprudent gazer,
were thoughts that passed in quick
succession through my mind.
I had only went a mile when 1
met another man whose appearance
showed very clearly that he was
laboring man and man of small
means. The torn out button holes
and the thresdbare appearance of his
coat intimated that many winters OF
service it had rendered to its owner.
He had some -four sacks and aparcel
of bacon in his wagon, and in his
hand little hat for probably some
little bright eyed urcbin at home.
As he passed he was humming a
tune and when passing by I could
hear in an earnest, submissive tone,
Sweet hour of prayer, may 1 thy
con ISOLATION share"
Only mile or so more and l
passed nicely dressed man Of neat
appearance and fine turnout, and
in a boisterous manner passed on
hastily singing, Yes my own dearly
loved chicken, I'll go with you to
every cotton picking"
Do men think as differently as
they appear and do the external ap,
pearances really reflect the internal
sentiment?
DR.. Rice, of the Columbia Female
College, lectured here on Friday
night, in the academy, on education.
The lecture was given in the interest
Of education and was an able eGort
and we'll worthy of the illustrioas
teacher and educator. This scholar
has given his life and energies to
this absorbing question.
Rev. McFarlane has gore to RICK
Hill to see his sick daughter, at
school there and will remain over
and go to the Methodist Annual Con-
ference at Greenwood next week.
Spectator.
Swansea, Dec. 3.