The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1901-11-13
On The Wing.

started on our last pursuit OF the
e7ssive dollar. On our annual
visits to our country cousins We must
admit to feeling akin to pleasant
desire and we look forward to the
time to come for US to take this tour
through the county.
Early on Monday of last week we
arose from happy dreams in which
We saw vast number Of delinquent
subscribers struggling among them
selves in their effort to be the first
TO arrive at the desk of the publisher
and lay down his s'cart wheel" as an
earnest of his appreciation Of the
labors of the Dispatch force to make
this paper welcome visitor to the
6reside of its patrons. 1t is needless
to add, however, that it was but a
dream and vanished as the mist
before the rising sun on awakening.
Just as the sun began peeping from
behind the eastern horizon We start
ed for our first appointment at
big hearted Josh Shealy' 10 the Fork.
The drive was most delightful one:
the air was bracy and refreshing and
was ladened with the sweet perfume
of the harvest time; the scenery was
grand and sublime in it's lovely
picturesqueness and the varigated
colors of the drapery of nature; the
mournful and d;rse like sighs OF the
stately pines as the gentle zephars
kissed their locks of evergreen; the
babbling brooks, vending their SER
pentine way through the bills and
valleys in cadence soft and low MUIR
muring their lullaby of gleefulness
to the sombre forest around as the
dark limpid waters rolled and rippled
along their pebbly beds flowing
on towards the river and thence on
to mingle the freshness of the bills
with the salt Of the great deep; the
sweet notes of the festhered song
sters of the woods as they poured
forth their morning medley of praises
and thanksgiving unto him who
clothes the lilies with splendor
that even Solomon in all his glory
could not approach and who notices
the fall of even a sparrow. All these
voices of nature combined to make q
panorama of beauty that was inspir-
ng.
In the due course of time we arriv-
ed at our appointment, and found
that goodly number of taxpayers
had come out tosettle with the Treas
urer That night We slept the sleep
of the just beneath the hospitable
roof of Mr.. J. E. G. Shealy and our
treatment was kind and thoughtful.
Tuesday we took dinner with Mrs.
Derrick, mine hostess, at the Chapin
hotel. The bill of fare was most ex-
cellent one and was served in tempt
ing style. There has been some
improvements made since last we
were ther, ; The merchants report
trade quiet but are looking forward
to revival of business activity. The
lumber and crosstie interest of the
town is firm and steady. Mr.. Robin
son has a fine plant of the latest i'm
proved machinery for the manufact-
ure of every class of lumber and has
as much as he can do to fill his
orders.
We spent Tuesday night pleasant
ly in the home of Mr.. Fulmer, where
the requirements of the inner man
were abundantly supplied and our
tired body received refreshing and
reiuvenating rest. After short So
iourn at the Cross Roads with the
Treasurer our party hied away to
Peak at spanking pace and we were
soon comfortably domiciled at the
famous hostlery-Peak Hotel-which is
so ably presided over by the accommo-