The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-12-12

It beats the old stage coach long
ways. I tried a buggy team from Zip
ley to Blue Mount, only a six-mile
drive, and like TO have got drowned.
! got fundamentally and distressingly
net. Ishall wait for the narrow guage
next time. Oh, that CYCLONE. i
haven't quit telling about it. yet. Next
morning q man who was in it and un-
der it and on top oft said he went
e:ss &c sAE1.. his mules UP in the stable,
and before he could say Jack Robin
son, il picked him up aud turned him
Q Thousand somersaults, aud while he
was turning he heard his mules bray
ing in the air above him. "Gentle-
men, said he, shat are a fact, if
ever told it; and the thing just let me
down in jimmy Jones's potato patch as
easy as a woman lays .her baby in the
CRADLE
That college at Blue Mountain is a
marvel to me. Itwas founded twenty
five years ago by General Lowrey, a
great big-hearted man, who, like Ben
Adhem, loved his fellow men. It was
at first high school for the benefit Of
the poor girls in the ncighborhood aud
expanded into college. When he
died his sons and sous-in-law took
charge and continued to expand, aud
now there are 800 girls there. over 200
Of them are boarders at slipper month.
The others live in cottages near by
and board themselves at cost OF about
SO q month, for they do their own
work. Large, handsome brick build
ings have been built and more are be-
ing built. Bountiful springs from the
mountain side furnish abundap pure
water for everything. There is.a dairy
farm near by and vegetable gar
dens and everything moves like clock
work.
Professor Lowrey is man of untir-
ing energy and says that work is his
best recreation. He took me on a.ro-
matic drive to the top Of the noun
tain and the village graveyard, and
when we returned he called his four
little children, including the baby,
and took them to ride. I liked that.
1t does not take me long to diagnose a
good husband and kind father. There
was ne barber in the village and he
brought 20 meshis fine lawn mower
razor that cost So, and when he go y
how awkward and nervous was, he
said: "Oh, let me do that" and he
moved the gray stubble of in 5 min
ute. Ever hear Of q ooilege president
doing that? Iwas specially interest
ed in young man, Ernest Guyton,
the only boy in college. He is totally
blind, but is getting frst-class edu-
cation through his ears. He listens
eagerly TO che Rotations, keeps up
with the foremost and is now studying
Latin. His nether or sister reads to
him every night and the family are all
proud Of aim, for he is not only bright
mentally, but cheerful and handsome.
He told me that being bl;nd.never dis
tressed him and HE was happy all the
time.. for everybody was. 40 good to
him. How kind Providence is to the
afflicted.
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Those mississippi woods are full of
Georgians. Scores of them songht
me and with o natural and earnest
pride told me where they came fromi in
the long ago, or where their fathers
ssams from, and who they were kin to.
| was amused at ene old man who said
he came here from Cass County before
the war, and he asked me where Bar
tow County was. He had never heard
that the name Of old Cass was changed
TO BartoN in honor Of our Gen
eral Bartow, who was killed at Ma.
nassab.
An unknown friend has sent ne o
poetic gem called .sThe Change in
Farmer Joe,' by Sieldon Stoddard.
] wish that it could be rend by every
husband in tho land, Cor il tells in
beautiful and path ctia verse how joe
had long pursned naz = fof moneys s.
sake and gave his loving, long suffer-
ing wife Jew comforts and none OF the
luxurieH or Ornamental TINT hr;ohtan
up q woman's home. For years she
had from time TO time hinted that she
would y like a q sneu carpet for her room,
for the old one had been turned and
patched and beaten unlilit was faded
and throadbare, aud the window shades
were worn out. But he said no, he
coIldn' : afford it, and he worked ear
fy and late and was accumulating
money, The poem tells how he :.aat
her one morning and noticed a tear.in