The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1914-03-25
Mr.. Case Comes South.

About two months ago Mr. Fl. M. Case,
Of Cleveland, determined to cave the fro
zen North for the warm and balmy South.
Chance directed his course to Abbeville;
and as he had been in politics for many
years in his native city, he gravitated nat
urally to the Court House here, and soon
made congenial acquintances among the
county officers.
He is Of an inquiring disposition and on
several occasions expressed desire to go
with the sheriff on some OF his little jaunts
in order to see the country and become
acquainted with the people. It happened
within about week after his arrival that
there was serious trouble in section Of
the county, and the sheriff got call first
from a citizen and then in few minutes
Case was in the sheriff's Office when the
calls came, hot-footed, one on top Of an
other. The sheriff very deliberately got
out his grip, filed his cartridge belt, stuck
his 1S-inch gun in his pocket, and was
ready to start. 1t just occurred to him
that this would be good opportunity to
give his visiting friend an outing. So he
told him he would be glad to have him
with him. Mr.. Case declined with thanks
He said he liked little excitement, but if
it was just the same with the sheriff, he
believed he would wait and come up the
next day with the Coroner. ...
Mr.. Case says that all his life he has had
day-dreams Of the balmy southland-the
land Of perpetual summar, fragrant with
the perfumes Of ever-blooming flowers and
cheered by the sweet notes Of myriads Of
song birds. When he left home he packed
his hammock, good assortment Of palm
leaf fans and the light attire that suited
his visions Of the land OF the magnolia
and the mockingbird. ... .>-t.
. The weather was behaving ideally at the
time Of his arrival. Buttercups and hya-
cinths were blooming everywhere, and the
warming rays Of the sun soon melted the
ice-bound memories Of the North from his
mind. Imagine his surprise when few
days later the heaviest snow that has COW
cred this section in fifteen years; in fact,
the first snow Of consequence that has fall
en- here in fifteen years, wrapped the city
in mantle Of white. To stand. knee-deep
in snow, and see delicate spring flowers in
the open air raising their tiny heads above
the frozen surface, was something new to
Mr.. Case. And when on the Goth Of March
the ground was again covered with snow,
the last vision Of "the Sunny South" van
ished from his mind. He was about ready
to agree with an old German resident Of
this place who said: Nobody could tell
anything about the weather any more
since the Good LoId had turned it over to
that darned Yankee weather man."
But Mr.. Case must know that the few
cold spells experienced during his stay
here are exceedingly unusual If the
weather has been bit freakish, and SHOWS
have been unusually frequent, perhaps
they have served to allay homesickness.
It is earnestly hoped that Mr.. Case will
see no inhospitable intent even on the part.
Of the weather man, for we have come to
like him so well that we want him to come
again, come often-n possible, come to
stay. r
An old Rebel vet who is waggishly in
clined, remarked the other day that 'if all
the darned Yankees were as clever as this
fellow 1t was pity we had killed so many
OF them" He said Eve could have used
just plenty Of his sort down here to good
advantage" And that's fact!
Mr.. Case Is In fact delighted with this
country. Here climate and soil and
abundant water-power offer advantages in
crop-raising and stock-raising that are not
surpassed anywhere in the world. Here
manufacturing has advanced until
South Carolina Is the second manufactur-
ing state in the Union. Here the
people are homogeneous and ''to the manor
born; intelligent, congenial, hospitable.
Here is the one section in all the United
States that needs but the influx of sturdy
northern and western farmers, who are
over-crowded in their own sections, to
build up the most beautiful, the most pros
porous country in the world. And just so
has this section impressed MIR. Case.
The South Atlantic States, sheltered on
the west by the Blue Bridge mountains
and watered by the hundreds Of streams
that rise in those mountains and GROSS this
section to the Atlantic, need but the magic
touch Of intensive farming, such as our
northwestern friends are masters of, to
make this the second Eden. Study the
varied products that may be raised here.
Study statistics Of the surprising yields
of all these crops, not only possible but
actually produced, and see if you can es-
cape the conclusion that Mr.. Case has al
ready reached: That this will one day be
the garden spot Of the world.
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