The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-09-01
FROM "GILDED LIONS LAIR" :"
Col. Bacon Writes Of The Age Of
Spelling from Hot Springs, where
Legions on Trains Bound for
Perdition are Side-tracked
for a Time.

place to get to. Coming TO 1t from
our part OF the world, we know Of
no alternative but to stop night in
Charlotte, n. c., or a day in Char
lottesville, Va. Our long journey
hither was marked by no salient
event, but by a common and most
grievous one-a night in Pullman
sleeper, when added ID other mani
fold trials and d;scomfcrts, if you
poke YOUR naked feet outside tae cur
tains to cool them, a chaste spinste1
in an adjoining upper berth remarks
severely thai 1t is well, under all
circumstances. 10 observe some decen-
cy.'
We know OF no more horrible, ia
tiguing, exhausting, degrading thing
than a night in a Pullman berth,
where burning heat and dire thirst
consume you, where Pullman oorters
fleece you, where chaste virgins in
suit you, and where, try as you will,
you can never get on your clothes.
We do really believe that many
people take Pullman berth because
they fear that the porters and other
officials will regard them as poor
people, and treat them with unmeas-
ured contempt AS for us, we have
paid our last two dollars to be snoth-
cred and cremated and fleeced and
vilified. Hereafter we shall cuddle
up on the seat OF vulgar day coach,
like an old stray cat, and thank God
that !, is as we'll with us as what it
is"
We spent twelve hours Sunday in
beautiful and classic old Charlottes-
vile, Albemarle. county, hallowed by
thousand memories Of Thomas JET
ferson. and other founders Of our re-
public. And during the day we vls-
tied many spots and buildings and
churches that we became familiar
with during the first two years OF the
war, when we came hither from Ma
nassas to help nurse Col. Thomas G..
Bacon, of the 9TH S. c. Volunteers,
and several OF his officer%notJbly
those valiant soldiers, Capt. Ebert
Bland, Capt. John Hard, Lieut.. Joe
Talbert. All OF them have been long
dead.
Christ Church, Charlottesville.
Christ church. Episcopal. Char
lottesville, is. as regards its organlza-
ton, one hundred years old, but its
present sacred edifice is new and
modern. Consequently only in May
last Christ church may not be called
a very handsome building, but it IS
certainly very large and very beauti-
full one-situated on lovely spot in
the old part OF the town. The an
cient and original church, built in the
early years OF the last century, was
designed by Thomas Jefferson. 1t
was burned. or demolished, some ten
wears back. An interesting picture
OF il hangs in The guild room. The
Episcopal service is celebrated in this
beautiful church, as in we'll nigh all
Episcopal churches in Virginia, in a
very severely low-church manner
50 severely low as to seem to one &C
customed to the richer, warmer, more
devotional. more generous manner, TO
be lacking in reverence.
Christ church. Charlottesville, has a
fine organ, and very accomplished
and tasteful lady organist, but the
chell, not a surpliced one, seems tc
be narrowed and crippled by low
churchism. The rector OF Christ
church is good and earnest preach
er-the Rev. Harry Lee, member o.
the great Virginia family OF which
came Gen. Robert T. Lee.
"And With the Morn Those Ange
Faces Smile
In a magnificent stained glass me
mcl;al window in this beautiful Vlr
gina church there is lovely anr
touching illustraI;on-an exquisite
idea--oi the last two lines OF Cardl