The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-07-04
some MORE IMPRESSIONS
OF OUR Low COUNTRY,
MISS GRACE HEMPHILL WRITES AN0TH-
Err INTERESTING LETTER TELLING
Her DELIGHTFUL MEMORIES.

Perhaps it will be pleasant jrvre-
after to remember these things, is
A liberal translation Of sentiment.
of Horace. Ii is indeed so with NE
when l think of what happened dur,
ing my pleasant stay Of eight
months in the low country. Every
thing differs from what We have in
the mp country. 1t was new life
and a new world to ME and will al
WAYS be bright memory for me.
At home | live within hundred
and fifty yards of railroad with
six trains passing day, but at Ven
ters L was twenty-three miles dis
tant from a railroad station. | was
indeed ''out of sight"
II will not always be so. for 4
railroad Is projected and in time
will run through the community IN
which I lived. 1t will run within
a quarter of mile from where l
was domiciled, going from Florence
to Georgetowu and opening mp a
splendid country. 1t will make ma
ny changes. The people now live
at home, raising their own supplies,
bu. when The railroad comes they
will be paying ont their money for
even the neces saries of life which
they can produce at low cost.
Cotton is raised there and tobac-
co in abont equal proportion. Ii
one crop fails, the othe. succeeds
and the farmers "never mind the
weather 50 the wind don't blow. "
Last ysar great storm like "a cy-
clone swept over the country and
| laid low all that was in the heIds'
Immense trees were torn up by th'
roots and the devastation was gener
! AL The farmers did not lose hop'
entirely AMI with a good crop TINS
year they will recover.
There is nothing more attractlv'
than large tobacco field. PLANTED
at regular intervals with great greer
leaves it is picture of regulsrit..
and comes up to my idea Of "a tlei'
of "living green" The crop de
pends upon getting good season
AMI steaIy work, but it Irays.
Grain and food crops can be rais
I'd and the soil is adapted to truck
ing. At Lake City, when | va
there, strawberries were selling tw
boxes for five cents and people wer
getting rich AT the business. a
Abbeville have seen two bose
sell for fifty cents.
In the community where | wa
the people are very much mtereste
in educating their child:en and viii
ing to spend all the money required
They are great people to atteat
church. The Methoiists and Bap
fists predominate. The preachin:
is very good and the ministers ar
Iiiberally supported. There were
some of the Holiness persuasion il
the community but l was the onl
Seceder ever seen in that section
| had my Psalm book with me az
the people at my boarding hous
became fond of the twenty-thlrt
Psalm sung with the chorus, "H
Leadeth Me.
The yonng men all have nice bug
gles and splendid horses. There i
nothing more pleasant than to ac
company one of these young gentle.
men on drive. The roads are lev
el as floor and there are no rocks at
all. When You are comfortably
eated the young man draws the
reins, the high stopper with head
rect springs to his work and throws
the miles behind him in fine fashion.
He doesn't stop for the bridges even
he jumps them.
Once l was passing through
swamp at twilight. In the west the
sun had gone down and darkness