The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-03-18

Building oasti5ss xesi gx imaginary,
Is one thing-to have thoss s'oastles',
fsll and crush ron IL anothes thing
so says Brown.
Brown has always been . .~'eastls"
huilder and I have never blamed him,
CIR I once in q while5sreot anaost mag
r;acent "casrls" myself Bus 70 show
,be weakness Of man and the power Of
God I am compelled to make my sid
friend the viotimio2 these remarks.
he this time built . real castle.
Dynamite, perhsps. 10 understood
.mong the common people better IN
our county than in any other county
Of the United States. We have the
oboice granite fields Of the world.
Stone mountain itself, towering hea-
yeuward. the admiration and wonder
Of all who come here. 10 but o small
portion Of the granite supply Of Del
Kalb. i,
But, to got ct the story, the "na-
tiyes'' have hsd 6 email ides OF the
Importance Of this granite, save that
III a most wonderful Foundation FOR
the erection Of houses, large OF email.
Afew months ago Brown and myself
Brown prinoipally--went upon 4
lecture tour and We raked in the shek-
els till Brown had money 70 burn
as the saying goes. The most. beauti-.
full Castles ever erected by man,
since Solomon built the temple, took
possession Of my old friends mind,
and he at once proceeded TO arrange
for the building OF o home for
himself. To accomplish this, moth
ing would do bnt what he must buy .
piece Of rock from Sam Ritoh, q noted
blacksmith and protector OF car coun-
ty, and upon this rock my. old friend.
proceeded to build. He did build.
Ill Lis family entered into the spirit
Of bis scheme to have o house ofltheir.
own and saved and denied themselves
accordingly. OF oourse, the Browns
could have had q 6ne time lon the
money made on our lecture tour, but
they preferred to let the old man erect
the house.
That the "5est laid plans Of mice
and men gang aft aglee'ss was never.
more clearly illustrated than in the
building Of this house. Nothing
would do Brown but he must buy an
acre off the south side or Sam Ritch's
rock for a.plare to erect his house.
1t would have been sall right 10 have
done this if Mr.. Ritch had been 4
common everyday blacksmith as as
seemed, but he WAS . projector-he.
was all the time experimenting. The
most Of Mr.. Ritch's projects iss the,
past had been on the line of black
smithing and BLOCKADE" inventions,
and, be it said 20 the credit OF. the
man, Brown was just.about 40 deep in.
the mud as Ritch was in the mire in
all these projects-espeoially the
blockade projects. (.
10 bring the story within my.
bounds, IwiI. remark that my old
friend erected & castle FULLY up 10
the capacity Of the lecture money
saved and moved and got settled ia
bis own home and he got arrogant and
snubbed me and my folks and many
others because We lived in such houses
as We did. But Sam RitoEs genius.
was cutting its capers, and there is
where the dynamite comes iii. Sam
lived about o quarter around tha roak
from Brown,,e and ON tho 1Ath OF Feb
ruary, instead Of devoting his time 20
writing valentines, he went Go work
projecting with dynamits and .intend-
cd to make what these granite men,
call q "raiae. a araiso. is thing.
but little knoEn outside of our gram
lite felds-it is q new discovery and
iMr. Ritch had no intention oe doing
what he did. Anyhoa, the Ritoh.
project was most successful in making
the raise and il raised Brown new
house also.
10 tell the thing just as It hepE'a-
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