The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1913-07-31
shows the faith the people there have

IN the lGluIe VI ludI ClIs.
From Columbia we went to Glenn
Springs to attend the meeting of the
postmasters of the State, this being
the first session we had met with
them. We knew very few of them,
but they are a fine body of men, and
while We went there stranger we
made some friends whom we feel it
a privilege to call friends.
A few hours in Spartanburg show
ed that it was keeping up in the mat
ter of growth and development. Spar
tanburg is really one of the very best
towns in South Carolina. It's growth
is steady all the time, and it is on a
solid basis. The only real skyscraper
above Columbia is now being erected
there.
From Spartanburg we went to Hen
dersonville to visit our children who
are spending the summer near that
city. 1t is a place of beautiful seen
cry naturally, made more so by the
work of man. There are a number
of pretty homes there, and the eli
mate is delightful, especially to us
who live so far down State. 1t ap-
peared to us that there were fewer
people there than usual, in fact this
seemed to be the condition elsewhere,
no doubt caused by the fact that
money is especially tight this sum-
mer. many people no doubt finding it
hard to stay at home much less get
away.
Frankly, if it were not for the
summer visitors, we do not see how
those people out in the mountains
would live. No cotton is planted, of
course. The farmers plant corn, oats,
Irish potatoes, and garden truck, and
raise apples, peaches, etc., while most
of them keep COWS and chickens, and
sell milk and butter. Most of the
farms we saw were small, caused in
large measure no doubt by the high
price of farming lands, though we
we're informed that in other sections
of the same county there were large
farmers, planting several hundred
acres, where the lands were more
productive and higher in price. Lands
lear Hendersonville sell for fifty to
one hundred dollars per acre, and it
is pretty poor farming land at that,
but this was only few miles from
town. Everybody takes summer
boarders, no matter how small and
cramped their house is. Out a few
miles from town the mountains are
dotted with houses and every house
takes boarders. The mountain peo-
pie out there call their lady boarders
"boarded ladies'" and the natives
certainly know the value of dollar.
While in Hendersonville we went
to see Senator John L. McLaurin, who
spends the summers there with his
family, he having summer home
in the city. There was no political
significance attached to our visit, in
fact he did not know anything about
our being up there. We have known
him all our life and we have been
friends for many years. We know
him we'll, and know him to be man
standing four-square to all the
world-a man of ability and cour-
age. We talked very little politics,
and whether he will enter the race
for governor next year we do not
know, although there has beer con-
siderable newspaper gossip about
him. We did not ask him if he was
going to run, but we do know that
pressure is being brought to bear on
him to do so. To be entirely frank
about the matter, we do not believe
that he is at all anxious to enter
politics again. He loves his nome
life, and he does not seem to care
for public life and politics any more.
Left to his own inclinations, we
should say he would much prefer to
remain a private citizen, doing what
he could as such to better the con-
dition of the men who clothe and
feed the people. But if he should
make the race for governor, you may
be certain that it will not be as
factional candidate. He will not be
the candidate of the Blease or the
anti-Blease people. He has never
been a partisan, and those who re-
member the beginning and growth
of what was called the Forty Move
ment' or the peace and unity
movement can easily believe this. A
man of deep sympathy for his people