The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1911-07-20
|GREAT BEAUTY
| AND RICHNESS
Of SOUTHLAND
Is TOLD BY A PLYMOUTH MAN
WHO HAS FALLEN IN LOVE
WITH THE WONDERS OF
NATURE THERE.
SUNSET AND STORM
1.-The First Shall Be Last, and the
Last First" Applies to the
South Nearly All the
Way Through.
SUNSET AND STORM
Brother Boys:

Brother Boys:
That Biblical admenition "The
first shall be last and the last first
is portrayed In vivid outline In tax.
ing retrospective view of thisf' The
Southland
She was first in settlement, vet
last In development; first in war,
yet last in peace; she was first in
point of education and still holds
that position, for, dotting hill and
valley we find institutions of learn
ing which are second TO none.
First in settlement, yet, here we
find slow development in agricult-
ure and manufacture, although even
city and hamlet has from one to ten
cotton mills; we also find two hun
dred million acres of fertile soil ~.
ing idle. The natural resources are
a fertile soil, timber, mineral and an
unexcelled climate. coupled with IN
unlimited water cupply, which is
rapidly being harnessed to transport
power even at a distance of so miles
for the city, home and factory, as
well as electric railways.
She was first in war, for it was at
Charlotte, N. c., on May 1920, 1775
that the "Mecklenburg Declaration
of Independence" was made and of
which no event of the American Rev
olution has been more thoroughly
written upon, for upwards of four
score articles are in print concern
ing it.
These resolutions we're a declara>
ton to "dissolve the political bonds
that made the Colonies subject to
the British Crown" and afterwards
adopted by the Colonial Congress
which resulted In bloodshed and de-
feat of Britain. An strange to re-
late, the very wording of the Meek
lenburg Resolutions was used by
Thomas Jefferson, yet we dare not
say he was plagarist.
The South has a diversity of ele.
vation from sea level to four thous-
and feet In the Blue Ridge noun
tains Of whose scenic grandeur lit
tie is known and I would tell Of one
particular beauty spot in the north
western corner of South Carolina,
known as Caesars Head" strange
mountain formation more than 5000
feet above sea level. It was so NAM
ed because of its resemblance to the
head of Caesar. At the highest point
on this artistic formation one is con-
fronted with startling awe inspir-
ing panorama, lying prone at his
feet, stretching away far into the
distance AMI finally fading away as
the rainbow.
Looking over into the "Big Bend'
state-Tennessee-we drink in the
beauty of landscape unsurpassed.
Here we find tiny silver cord
that develops into the Saluda river,
winding its way through forest and
rich valleys dotted with orchards,
vineyards, pretty mountain homes
and furnishes on its merry way to
the Atlantic the propelling power for
the great wheels Of commerce that
give employment to thousands of
honest toilers.
To the left we see miles Of wood
hand of walnut, hickory, oak and
poplar encircling and shading a sec
ton known as the Ozark Corner"
having history of bloody deeds,
moonshining and all crimes.
What a contrast as we turn to
the sun-kissed fields of golden grain,
with sweet scented flowers, the sill
YER rivulet teeming with mountain
bass and perch, whose cool, spark
ling water ripping over rocks,
splashes and foams on its way to
augment the larger water courses OF
commerce..
Turning again "Table Rock" con-
fronts US with its perpendicular rise
of 1000 feet above the river; to The
left of which we see in the distance
the tall mountain peaks Of Georgia
a locality made famous as The hunt
| ing grounds of the Cherokee Indians,
Nestled far below in these valleys
Of grandeur we sse cities and towns
with their tall church towers. col
leges. beautiful homes. factories and
workshops while peering ont from
the deep blue clouds we see Some Of
the tslles1 Of the Blue Ridge group
sentineQs ever on guard and eva1