Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1899-09-21
AS OTHERS SEE US.
phLAALIh,,. !" THE HAVEN OF REST
GRAPHICALLY PICTURED.
SOMETHING OF ITS PAST,
A Visit to tho Cemetery-The Courier Gets
Place In the Picture

Mrs. J. j. Pluss, writing to '"Tho
Homo Cornor' of the Clinton Is. C.)
Nows, from Walhalla, under date of Sop
tember 1, says:
How tho wonderful Iron Horse ami
hilates space 1t speeds along tho ovon
tonor of its way ovor the glittoring stool
rails of tho smooth tracks,
With lero and thero bonnid curve,
Anon n lengthy stretch.
1t quito takes one's breath away |!
Thon, too, we scarcely know which is
most grand, the forest and folds of ma
turo or tho inventive genius of man,
which dovisos means to utilize thoso
many gifts.
At two o'clock wo loft our homes, not
far from where tho Nows sonds forth it's
welcome and breezy notes of news from
every nook and corner to it's many pa
irons. Before tho afternoon was far
spont we wero looking across tho hills
buildings Of Clemson College, which in
the days of our first visit here was Fort
Hill, tho pleasant homo where Col. Glenn
son dispensed to us most elegant hospi-
tality and pointed out many objects
about tho home and splendid mountain
viows that had claimed tho attention of
his father-in-law, our grand John c.
Calhoun, whose dust now reposcs in
Trinity Churchyard, Charleston. l will
not grow reminiscent and toll you moro
of that pleasant visit to Fort Hill, but
will como back to that happy day last
week when tho delicious breezes from
tho mountains so refreshed us bohind
were tho heat and dust of weary weeks
whilst rapidly we wore nearing "Tho
over hills of Ottaray." Sometime be-
fore tho sun had gono down behind tho
purple mountains we reached this place,
tho Mecca of our pilgrimage. With
sweet words of welcome in tho pleasant
homo of dear friends, tho purost of cool
fresh air, n big basket of apples and
grapes, with prospects of beans, squashos,
tomatoes and corn for dinnor tomorrow,
You do not wonder that like Ponce Do
immortal youth and tho beauties of st.
Augustine, appeared before him, we OK
claim in rapture, Eureka 1t was a fit
ting name, too, that tho wanderers from
tho blue Rhino, with it's castles and
crags, and from the Wosser, in tho fara-
way Fatherland, gavo to this, their first
homo in tho now world, Walhalla, the
"hayen of rest"
After drifting hithor and thither, like
Noah's dove, and no suitable resting
place was found on this sido of tho At
lantic, q number Of families who had
come from tho Northern part of Germany
to Charleston, S. c., formed German
emigration society, olecting for their
first President G on. John 4. Wagenor.
In tho year 1S40 they decided to hunt
homo among tho mountains Of uppor
South Carolina with q climate something
like thoy had loft so far behind. About
twonty families camo with tho first party,
undor tho leadership of their president
At Anderson, tho terminus of tho rail
road, thoy took wagons and came through
to this place whore their society con-
cluded to purchase land and sottlc. From
Col. Gresham they bought 10000 acres,
most OF ii still in heavy timber, with tho
industry, onorgy and sturdy endurance
characteristic of tho Teutonic race, they
founded homes from which havo do
seconded many of tho finest citizons of
our State,
Years ago most of tho houses in Wal
halla wore built along ono main street,
with tho quaint Dutch gables pointing
toward che street. The scone was pic
turesque and full of interest, but time,
tho inoxorable, and fire with its ravagos,
have mado many changes, which for
practical purposes arc better, perhaps;
but to tho tourist, in search of something
now, tho @sthotic beauty Of long ago is
lacking. The largo brick buildings that
have succeeded tho first homes and
places of business of these sturdy burgh-
ors arc iiko tho rost of tho world, so we
pass along in search of the antique.
1t was orr pleasant privilege this
morning to visit tho Office of THE KEo.
WEE COURIER and to meet with tho
sonior editor and ono of tho publishers.
elegant and delightfully."- comfortable
brick building that Is all thoir own, for
tho usos of their paper, you would not
wonder that thoy send out such y splon.
did weekly; with such equipments 1t
would DO quito impossible to do poor
work. On tho first floor, in room that
seomod to mo quito G0x40 foot, finished
with polished native woods, tho mo-
chanical work Is done with appliances of
tho latest and best; up stairs ia the
EDITORS "sanotum" and othof Offices,
large, beautifully lighted and furnished
in oak, ash and pino. 1t Is an ideal homo
for tho editor. They exchange with tho
Nows and had kind words to say of you,
Mr., Editcr. ..
We called to see Col. Robert A. Thomp-
son, whose Office is near by. For forty
fonr years how was editor of THE KEowEE
CouRIER. Although moro thao threo
score and ton, liko tho patriarch. ui Did,
"his eye is not dim nor his i,Stural foroo