The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-09-04

Having returned from an automo
bile tour of 1000 miles to and through
cur neighboring State Of South Car
Dina. in which I passed through more
than half the counties of that State
and from the sea coast to it's northern
border, it may be of some interest t
the readers OF your paper to give
some ideas of what was seen.
To start with, it may pe recalled
that the two States were originall.
one Province under the name O.
Carolina" and was divided into -Nortf.
and South Carolina in 1929. Souti
Carolina is much more compact thai
our State and is only three-fifths o
our size, being 10000 square miles IL
area or just about the size Of Scotland
or Ireland, while North Carolina ha
81, coo square miles, sor just about tn:
size of England, and Of nearly the
same contour. North Carolina has
about two million and a half of peo
pie and South Carolina a million an.
three-fourths, allowing for the in
crease in both since the census
1870 In North Carolina, two-third
eef the population are white, while i!
ESouth Carolina, go per cent are color
fed. The only other State in the Cn
ZION in which the negroes exceed tn.
whites is Mississippi. South Carolina
Unlike this State, has no mountain
egion as her northern border stop:
e. the foot of the mountains, but i
5 possessed Of more numerou;
treams and more southern climate
ne sea coast indeed being sub-tropi
al.
Leaving Raleigh in an automobile
Y sc passed through upper Wake, Chat
lam, Lee, Moore and Richmond coun
les. Around Jonesboro in Lee coun
" are some Of the finest cotton
ands in this State and the grade
he cotton there grown is very super
Or. At Southern Pines and Pinehurs
here is great development, due large
y to Northern capital, which ha'
made those great winter resorts ia
1eaous At Eiferbee Springs, in Rich
l.nond county, we find one Of the fines
arming sections in this State. AT tn
,ounty seat-Rockinghan de
xIClOpi1SIl lldS ECSl 1AOoS SAifASAcA>
nd one who has not been ther'
.1nce the writer held the Superio
i,ourt in that town would be withou'
:. landmark There we found tina,
Using young North Carolinian, Isaac
). London, formerly OF Siier City, VIII
how conducts the leading paper
nat section, to its great advantage
IN the road from Rockingham, be
core crossing the line, we passet
Through the Everett farm, which ships
annually 1000 bales Of cotton.
At Cheraw we struck the Nationa
which we followed almos
parallel with the railroad to Camden
Near .Cheraw were the only cottol
fields we saw which were injured by
the red spider.
s At Camden there are many matter
WORTH OF pete The owl Is IS now & Z
|Esssiafed resort ana noted for its largt
hotels and handsome buildings. It j;
laid out with a liberal idea as to space
EThe.. streets are 100 feet or more il
width and the blocks are four time:
the usual size in cities. It is also
smuch historic interest. Six mile:
north of the. city is the battlefield o
Camden, where Gates who received
surrender Of Burgoyne at Saratoga
saw his Northern laurels turned t,
Southern willows and sustained on.
,of the most disastrous defeats of the
patriot cause of the Revolution, 18th
august. 1850.
Though Gates had only $3.50 mel
here were 13 generals in his army
IN unlucky number. Some of then.
lad been better carrying muskets.
Baron DeKalb, who gallantly fell
/ here and to whom q monument has
.Jeen erected, was entirely loyal to oul
.ause but he was q soldier Of for
une and documents which have since
:eme to light show that he was sent
o this country by Frederick the
Ireat of Prussia (who was friendly
to us) and made regular reports tc
lim. The German methods Of today
,tre not new.
i It is not generally known that Ho-
. alto Gates was a near relative Of Ho-
alto Nelson, the great English ad-
niral. Gates was a nephew of Slf
robert Walpole, the great prime min
ster, and Lord Nelson was his great
! lephew. The latter was legitimate
Sates was not.
Just on the edge of the town in the
April following was fought the battle
3of Hobkirk's Hill, where now stand
1.-THE magnificent hotels for Northern
}yisitors. There General Greene, one
/ If the best soldiers in the army, ex-
\ experienced his usual luck, which. ir.
/ lis own language, was: I'VE fight, VIC
ire beaten, we fight again" AT that
joattle there was present q barefooted
h ed-headed, freckled faced boy of II
| ~ the name Of Andrew jackson. who
j iyed to see-34 years latar-the Brit
/; sh army at New Orleans melt into
/ hin air beneath the plunging fire OF
Wis Kentucky and Tennessee rihemen.
n Which saved to us the magnitcen.
\ country beyond the Mississippi. and
when president, the same steel gray
teyes and strong chin baffled the mon
aey power of his day and opened the
fight for the people against monopo-
lies which is still in progress.