The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1915-07-29
REED CREEK SPRINGS.
Klnastree Citizens Glowing De-
Scription Thereof.

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scription Thereof.
Editor County Record
Two weeks have died since | be-
gan the story of my visit to Reed
Creek Springs, and as l am two
weeks nearer my end, shall re-
sumo that story lest it become stale
in the minds of those who have
never been there, but would like
to 60.
IT'S a great pity that these wa
ters, so rich in natures curative
remedies and so burdehed with heal
ing properties. have never been ad-
vertised, that those who are every
summer seeking health might know
that their opportunity lies at their
very door. From my own home
town all one has to do, is to buy a
ticket for Sl.8O and you will be
landed at this resort where you can
begin life again. The hotel is spa
cious for the patronage it receives,
there being only about thirty rooms,
including baths-but it is not spa.
cious enough for the patronage it
ought to receive.
Among the many comers and
goers while l was there, | made
many new friends and among this
number are those annual visitors
who 90 there for the great benefit
they receive, and after listening to
their story, and from the experience
and benefit my wife and l received,
| can not do otherwise than lift my
voice at an angle calculated for dis
tance and loudness in it's praise. We
came away with our mouths full OF
harmony and our souls gushing out
with gratitude. feeling much as as
tronomers who have discovered a
new planet, with the advantage with
us, not the astronomers, making US
feel full of citifed airs, that ate into
our very vitals.
Here, at these charming springs,
there is song in every heart. even
in the heart of him who doesn't
sing, and there's cheer in every face
and a spring in every step.
Life to one before coming mere
seems hollow and monotonous and
existence but burden. On going
away one feels like singing Tom
Sawyer's Buffalo Gals. If you go
there with sore toe and apply the
yellow cream ofthat water to that
sore, it's we'll in a day. If you go
there with sorrows put down in long
division and multiplied by nine
figures, when you come away you IL
feel like you have paid passage to
the Panama exposition with new IN
spirations continually bursting upon
YOU with a skip, hop and a jump
and considering yourself a steam
boat drawing fifteen feet of water.
Yes, you'll think yourself a steam
boat and captain with engine and bells
thrown in. Go there and you'll
find 100 per cent of these statements
trGe. Il you feel like a dismantled
hero, stript of all honors, go there
and you'll be reinstated. If you
feel like dead cat, or dried per-
simmon, 90 up there and you will
feel like you can turn lake into a
mountain and q mountain into riv-
ers and rivers into a continent and
war into peace. These waters re-
store your bad feelings into normal
and soothe the soul like the spell
that is in the murmur of the signing
pines. These springs have been the
mecca for alters for over one hun
dred years. I would utter this in
cantation-who hasn't been here
before, come, and whoever is here,
stay here if you can and enjoy health,
but leave behind your heavy woes,
long complaints and your dogged
meanness, and when you're there a
little while you'll be no longer in
fatusted with patent nostrums and
all new and old methods of produc-
ing health or mending it. Go there
once and you'll be an easy victim
to 60 again.
That spring, speaking metaphor
ically, is an angel of healing and
the balm of Gilead to suffering hu-
manity. Mr. Editor, these waters
are not cure all, nor raiser of
the dead, but dyspepsia. malaria,
lassitude, eczema and many other
ill will be snubbed out of you as
with a coarse file, though you be as
dismal as hearse. But these con-
ditions must be complied with: Leave