Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-05-29


which many new-rich Yankees would
now give large sums of money. It
is, however, occupied only by white
tenant of Miss Cherry's, who takes
care of the property and keeps up a
large modern dairy farm.
A MAMMOTH cuURN OF LEMONADE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stribling received us
with ease and cordiality, saying to
the proud young officer that he is
"late," and then Mrs. Stribling
waves us to a mammoth modern
swinging churn, sitting at one end of
the long and ancient piazza. We
puch the proud young officer and
whisper to him scornfully, "Butter-
milk" But not SO. The modern
churn holds million gallons, and it
is full of royal ice lemonade. Five
million lemons, five million pounds
of sugar and five million pounds of
ice have been churned up in it. It
is a heavenly vision-and, unlike
most of earth's joys, proves not to
be fleeting. And then after we have
swallowed gallon of lemonade, and
thanked God, Mrs. Stribling kindly
introduces us to the heads of the
tribes. The idea of old Andrew
Pickens treating with the Indians is
strong in our minds, and tinctures all
our ideas. So much so that we look
upon all the elderly men and women
as heads of the tribes. We even
look for wampum and feathers and
beads and tomakawks. The heads
of tribes are kind and cordial, and
we swim.
LOVELY GIRLS, CLEMSON BOYS AND
HONG KONG GEESE.
Lovely girls. Seneca boys. Glenn
son boys. Heavenly little children.
Hong Kong geese. Iridescent pea
cocks. Mild-eycd Jersey COWS.
Green grass. Big trees. Lovers
hooks 1t is lovely. Suprcmcly
arcadian. The Clemson boys. We
venerate the Clemson boys--arc not
in uniform. On the contrary, they
all wear new summer sacks suits
Lavender and sage green. Their
trousers are very narrow in the legs
and sternly creased down the middle.
Indeed the only way one differenti-
ates the Clemson boy from the Sc
neca boy is that the Clemson crease
is sterner and more inexorable than
the Seneca crease. And the Glenn
son trousers are more lavender
lavenderer THAN the Seneca trous-
ers. The lovely young girls wear
muslins and lawns and percales of
all the shades of the azalea, the mig
noncttc and the lilac. Indeed these
Seneca girls arc really living azaleas,
mignonettes, lilacs, roses and lilies.
The Clemson boys arye woodland
violets ! These Seneca azaleas and
lilies, however, subject themselves
like all other azaleas and lilies of this
day to the torture and deformity of
the stock collar. Out upon the stock
collar We love many follies Of
fashion, and we adore Babylonish
garments, but out upon the giraffe
looking stock collar.
RAG TIME ON Il COLONIAL spINET.
And now the Clemson boys dis
cover that there is a colonial spinct
in one of the large front rooms of
the old mansion, and they come to
your humble correspondent and be-
seech him to come and whack rag
time on the spinet for the waltz and
the two-step. Did this spinet be-
long to the Pickenses or the Chcrrys Z?
We whack, and as we do SO, fair
ghosts of former Pickcnses and
Cherrys rise up before us. But the
Seneca roses and the lavender boys
see no ghosts. They are young and
they see only each other. They
dance and whirl and glide and twist
and swim. They waltz cquisitcly,
and soon the stock collar willis
and the creases become less stern.
And the spinet and the player alike
pine for surcease from labor. And
the great ico lemorade churn gives
up its dead in incalculable numbers.
CLEMSON CAPoN AND SENECA CAKE,
Now, ancient slaves, under the
direction of heads of tribes, bring
down ancient tables from the second
story of the ancient mansion. They
are arranged along the entire length
of the ancient piazza, and soon they
rise up into Andes and Adirondacks
of ham and fried chicken and baked
Clemson capon, and mayonnaises
and pickles and jcllics and buns and
beaten biscuits The capon comes
only from Clemson, where Prof. Os.