Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-03-24

fowl share them with herds wild cattle and goats
which are hunted the rife On Bull island one Of
these wild herds long led by bull which was
afraid of nothing. When the island converted
into a shooting preserve a party of hunters
charged by bovine lord of the island, and every
them take to the trees The bull was
then killed by a who had managed to take his
gun up the tree him. The head of this famous
animal may still be seen at Charleston.
The favorite game of all the Carolina hunters
the deer which abound the coastal plain This
swamps and deep pine forests bedded with broom
sedge undergrown with fragrant hckets of myrtle
and veoak, make ideal for the deer, and 800
years of settlement them still abundant. They
hunted 'ta hounds and shot from stands along the
well-kno~ runways Christmas and Thanksgiving
hunts che plantations in special favor and upon
these occasions packs of hounds gathered and
large parties, including many ride after them
There have been many famous in the woods
about Charleston which successfully euded the hunters
for years though they often and well known
The Benz Bow buck, which killed last fab,
known TO hunter in about Charleston by his
splendid anters and his bold and cunning tactics when
hunted. He would always leave the swamps and
straight across the plantation fields. fun view.
but out of range of every At time he
almost a darkey gathering sweet potatoes,
and is said to have frightened the badly that
he became deacon in the church. His end igno-
minious. In of mis- bold he blundered upon
boy hunting birds with single-barrel shotgun. who
killed him at short range
One of the picturesque plantations in the
vicinity of Charleston is a country club by
corporation of Charleston folk. number of others
st held by the families that lived upon them for
generations, and used country seats. In many
instances the younger generations bought back
the stored homesteads that the older lost.
One of the most typical of these homes is Midway
plantation, some twenty-five miles from Charleston,
owned by Captain Samuel G. Stoney. Upon this estate
of the colonial landgrave, who founded it
who died there in 164s. There probably an
older in America, every generation has left
its mark about the place Part of built
in colonial days and after the revolution.
There is still traceabe old race track where the
planters used to train their blooded
Charleston
The house a grassy knoll shaded by broad
armed festooned with Spanish moss. heavily
shading the lawn and meeting in solid arch above
the long driveway. Beds of Cherokee roses fra
grant japonica itself,
which is a weathered brick with Dutch gables, great
chmneys and wide verandas. All about the
tangled swamps and pine forests, opening here and
snow a silver CLINT OF creek bayou.
Within you shown the halls and rooms still fur
nished with the spndelegged and ornate mahoganies
that came across the water centuries There is a
secret cellar, where provisions and hidden
during Civil and overhead haunted bed
room. L have been the bridal chamber of
daughter of house in colonial times. Her hance
was killed while hunting his wedding day. and
may twilight sitting before her window,
looking wistfuy for his return.
These old homes and the legends and stories that
cling them give vivid impression of what
the south have been in those never-to
beforgotten days before the war-a patriarchal life
of abundance and leisure moving pleasantly in we'll
known ways, rich in tradition and culture all its
own Family you glimpse what the souherners fought
for what, they today when they say, THE Old
South" 1855