The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-08-19
NOTES FROM BEAUFORT.
Rev. c. &. Brown Writes Interesting.
ly of His Summer Home.

The spirit of the scribe does not Of
ten violently possess one at Beaufort.
Mr.. Editor. This is the haven of
the lazy man, the fellow who is
content to lie restfu,ly in a hammo oCk,
while the breezes seduce him to take
one nap after another. Whatever one
does here requires effort, and a man
feels like wearing spurs in order to
keep himself going. The very air is
full of some subtle narcotic, and moth
ing fully awakes one to consciousness
unless it be the sound of the dinner
bell. The ozone from the sea air gen.
crates quite a healthy appetite ard
even the dyspetic visitor to these
parts is able to partake largely and
frequently Of nourishment. But much
depends upon likes and dislikes. The
market here for meats is not the best
in the world, and if one cannot par
take Of such food as the waters sup
ply, he may suffer hardship. How
ever, all who visit the salt water sec
tions should be able to eat sea fruit,
for fishes, shrimps and crabs of neces-
sity enter largely into every bill Of
fare. To those who like these things,
there is nothing better; but the con-
verse of this proposition is equally
true to one who does not like them.
We pass the time here variously
The ladies fro n our home, young
and old, have just come in from a dip
in the water. At the coming Of every
high tide, the river banks are lined
with bathers. We don our bathing
suits in the house, and slip across the
street. and into the tide. While there
is only river bathing, and no surf, we
get all the benefits of the salt water
a tingling skin and a monumental ap-
petite.
On Tuesday last four of Us made a
trip to Old Island down the river, and
next to the open sea. The open sea-
son begins here on August 1st., and
and our quest as after deer The
island is small, and the aroused game
seeks to escape from one end or the
otner to the other islands adjacent.
Two or three ISLANDERS at each end
are al that are needed to make the
capture almost certain. Within a
half hour after being posted in our
places, the eight dogs mad the game
afoot. Two fine bucks were up. One
came to me, and fell a prey to my
buckshot, the other, hearing the report
Of the gun, turned southwark and ran
within fifteen PAGES Of my friend Mr..
Higgins, the Baptist pastor at Beau
fort. He says he fired two barrels in
to the beast without any perceptible
effect 1t is possible ne merely smote
the earth or the trees with his bull
ran away, seemed to stimulate his ac-
tions, and away he went over the open
sands, with Higgins in hot pursuit.
At the fourth shot the buck showed
signs of falling strength, but Higgins
kept up the chase with all possible
speed and vigor. until finally, amid
the bushes and weeds Of the marsh,
fifth shot ended the tragedy. An
other Baptist clergyman who is here.
says Huggins was really having a foot
race with the deer, and had to shoot
him now and then in order not to
ovcr-run him. The ground in that
locality was considerably torn up, and
1t is manifest that the deer was not
bagged without some muscular effort.
This being the first deer killed by Mr..
Higgins, Mr. w. F. Saunders per-
formed the rite OF bloodying the
clergyman on both cheeks, and so
making him a member of the great