Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1906-08-01
deal of humorous chat on the subject.
Finally Maryland man declared

FINALLY maryland man declared
that he could solve the problem. 81
bave heard," he said, s"that in the
coloneps State, the Old Dominion,
the mint for julep, to be perfect,
must be taken from the grave of a
Virginia Governor, one of the olden
time. This mint evidently grew
from the grave of North Carolina
cracker of the most disreputable char
acter. Our friend, the colonel, has
saved his face"
Within short distance of Battery
Park Hotel is the famous Vanderbilt
estate, Biltmore, upon which, pre-
sumably, millions of dollars have
been lavished. It is one of the show
places of the world.
THE SAPPHIRE REGION.
In more recent years the Southern
Railway magnates, inspired by
Samuel Spencer, of Georgia, have
opened up what is known as "the
Sapphire Country" 1t is beautiful,
sublime, picturesque and fascinating,
beyond adequate description. In the
hollow of the mountains are limpid,
clear, crystalline lakes, refecting, as
if in mirror, the azure of the heav-
ems and the wonders of the fleecy
clouds. 1t is needless to say that the
climate is finer than that of Califor-
MIA, the drinking water equal to that
of our st. Tammany Parish, and the
days and nights are deliciously cool
and invigorating. There are no culex
or stegomyia mosquitoes. You can
fearlessly, with a wrap, sit on the
balcony of the hotel, without fans and
free from the bite of any insect. The
men and women who have the privi-
lege of spending their winters in
New Orleans and their summers in
the sky-land of Western Carolina are
privileged beyond most of the people
of this world.
THE SKYLAND OF GEORGIA.
In Northeast Georgia there is a
skyland equal to that of Western
North Carolina, also reached by the
Southern Railway and Atlantic Coast
Line; but it has not as yet been so
gorgeously developed. The once cele-
brated Ben Peley Poore, who had
been globe-trotter, told me that he
had seen the grandest and most en-
trancing places in the world, but to
his mind the region around Clarkes-
vile, Nacoochee Valley and Tallulah
Falls, in Northeast Georgia, surpassed
them all, and fingered longest
and most lovingly in his mem
ory. AT Clarkesville, a most re-
markable phenomenon presents itself.
From the porch of a residence there
the mountain ridge, in the distance,
frames the gigantic figure of an In
dian chief apparently on his bier.
The feathers of the head ornament,
the profile of face and all of the
lineaments of heroic red man are
weirdly before the eye. This Titanic
image is known as Skiajagustah, a
once renowned Cherokee chief. No
vale on earth, / think, can be more
beautiful than that of Nacoochee,
with its noble Yonah mountain over
looking the Chattahoochee River. In
this valley, too, are Indian mounds
of singular attractiveness. One morn
ing, in summer, wandered along
the road and the blue sky seemed de-
scending until it became entangled
in the trees along the way. 1t was
30 palpable that | put forth my hand
to grasp it, and then 1 knew why
this region is called "The Land of the
Sky" From Clarkesville the South
ern Railroad has pushed to Rabun
Gap. The wilderness and sublimity
of the panorama there defy descrip-
tion, or at least can give but hint of
what it really is. Some day, no doubt,
Mr.. Spencer will induce New York
millionaires to make of Gainesville,
Nacoochee and Tallulah Falls what
has been so transcendently done at
Asheville and the Sapphire country.