The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1900-12-13

phone them. They are very 4ccommo
dating, especially going South, fol
they have nc connections to make.
boarded that train at Blue Mountain
! at 1 p. IN. for POntOtOc, where | was tC
lecture that night at 7:30 O'Clock. II
was only thirty miles, bat we didn',
get th crc until 8. Is o'clock, and my audi
cncc didn't tgivcup the ship. They said
it was their road--their only road-and
thoy knew its peculiar ways.
We stopped when within three miles
OF town, and after half an hour or so
asked what was the matter, and was
Told that the steam had given out.
Before that the train stopped in the
woods somewhere and then began to
hack. | ventured to ask what was the
matter and was told that the brake
man had dropped his cob pipe and
they had gone back to look for it. But
it was a railroad and | had no right to
complain, for | remember when thcra
was not q railroad in the United States.
When I was seven years old ! came
from Boston to Georgia overland in a
carriage with my father and mother,
! 200 miles, and we never crossed Is
railroad, for there was not one to cross
and now there are 1876, 900 miles n
these United States.
No, am happy on the way on any
railroad, even if it is thirty miles short
and four hours long. II beats the old
stage coach a long ways. ! tried q
buggy team from Ripley to Blue Mount,
Only a six mile drive and like to have
got drowned. | got fundamentally and
dstrcssinglv wet. | shall wait for the
narrow guage next time. Oh, that
cyclone. | haven't quit telling about
it yet. Next morning q man who was
in it and under it and on top OF it said
he went out to shut his mules up in
the stable, and before he could say
Jack Robinson, it picked him up and
turned him thousand somcrsaults,
and while he was turning he heard his
mules braying IN the air above him.
Gentlemen" said he, "that arc a
fact, il ! ever told it: and the thing
just let me down in Jimmy Joncs's pota-
TO patch as easy "a q woman laws her
baby In the cradle"
That college at Blue Mountain is q
marvel to me. 1t was founded TWENTY
five years: ago by General Lowrey, a
great big hearted man, who, like Ben
Adhcm, loved his fellow men. 1t was
at first high school for the benefit Of
the poor girls in the neighborhood and
expanded into q college. When he
died his sons and sons in law took
charge and continued to expand, ana
now there are 800 girls there over POO
Of them are hOardors at $l2 per month
The others live in cottages near by and
board themselves at q cost OF about SIS
q month, for they do their own work
Large handsome brick buildings have
been built and moro are being built
Bountiful springs from the mountain
side furpish abundant pure water for
everything. There is q dairy farm
near by and vegetable gardens, and
everything moves like clochwork.
Professor Lowrey is man OF untir-
Ing energy and says that work is his
best recreation. He took me on q 70.
| mantle drive to the top Of the noun.
| tain and the village graveyard, and
| when we returned he called for his
Tour little children, including the baby,
| ano TOOK them to ride. | liked that. 1t
does not take me long to diagnose 6
good husband and kind father. There
was no barber in the village and ne
brought to me his fine lawn mower
razor that cost $5, and when he saw
how awkward and nervous I was. he
| said, ION, let mo do that" and he
| moved the gray stubble off IN q minnie.
Ever hear o! college president doing
| that? p
was specially interested in o voung
man, Ernest Gnyton, the only bow In
college. He is totally blind, but is
getting q frstclass education through
his ears. He listens eagerly to the
| recltatlons, keeps up with the foremost