Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-03-05

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Northern flavor. ] many times saw
accomplished and refined ladies on
the streets of Columbia when passing
a soldier on the sidewalk deliberately
draw their skirts and pass as far
from him as possible, to teach him
that the touch of the uniform would
be contamination, and this was done
when no provocation was offered by
the quietly passing soldier.
A prominent Columbia banker,
who had become profitably con-
nected with the business operations
in South Carolina which / repre-
sented, and who had twice dined
with Judge Orr and myself as my
guest, when invited third time
exhibited much embarrassment, and,
after some hesitation, said that he
could not accept further hospitality,
glad as he would be to do so, for the
reason that he could not return it at
his own home. His wife, an accom-
plished, refined and highly-esteemed
lady, had brooded over the misfor-
tunes of the Southern people until it
became an impossibility for her to
receive at her table Northern Wis
itor. / understood the situation and
insisted that our relations were
purely of business character and
not to be governed by social conven-
tionalities. He was greatly relieved,
and thereafter dined with us on
many occasions, all of which were
largely business conferences.
AN OLD LINE soUTHERNER.
A more pointed illustration of this
feeling among the old line Southern
ers was given me by Judge Orr him
self. Near his home, under the
shadows of the mountains, he had a
neighbor of the old Southern school,
advanced in years, unable to earn a
living after the sore exactions of war
had fallen upon him, but when all
else had gone his pride remained
with even increasing vigor. His
family was helpless, consisting
wholly of daughters, and during the
the last year of the war they were
known to be in actual want. To
have offered him a charity would
have been to invite the business end
of his shotgun, and Judge Orr would
occasionally send him a barrel of
flour from his mill and some bacon,
with a regular bill charging the arti-
cles at the full inflated price in Con-
federate money, that was not worth
ten cents on the dollar, thereby en-
abling the old gentleman to receive
the flour and bacon as a purchase,
although both he and the giver knew
that payment was never to be
thought of. This was done by Judge
Orr and others for long period.
Some four or five years after the war
Judge Orr issued invitations to the
old gentleman and to his other
neighbors to the wedding of his
daughter, who married son of Gen.
Patterson, of Philadelphia. This
marriage of Judge Orr's daughter to
a Northern man gave mortal offense
to the chivalrous old Southerner,
and thenceforth he and his family
never gave any social recognition to
Judge Orr or his household.
ANECDoTE OF MISS EVANS.
Judged in the light of the present,
with the sorrows of that period en-
tirely effaced, this feeling of the
Southern people is not viewed as
generously as it should be. The
women of the South were raised in
utter helplessness and were suddenly
plunged into the most abject pow
erty, without training to practical
industry and usefulness, and while
the men of the South were brought
into constant contact with Northern
ers in business affairs, the women
were left in their Impoverished
homes to mourn over the luxuries
which had 80 suddenly fled from
them. saw this illustrated in
even so intelligent woman as Miss
Evans, then the most celebrated OF
Southern authoresses. once had
the pleasure of lunching with her
and her husband, Mr.. Miller, at her
pretty Southern home near Mobile,
and while ] knew that the civil war
was forbidden subject in all social
circles in the South, ventured to
suggest to her that the great success
of her many volumes already pub
lished should inspire her to write
another embodying some of the more
romantic phases of the war. Her