Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-10-22

HIS FAREWELL.
From ga Recent California Paper. J

HIS FAREWELL.
Probably the last-may not be;
but, anyway, here am once more.
You people of the mountains,
plains and everywhere, who read
this, may God bless you. have
always loved my readers, else
should not have written.
am over at the Busch hospi-
tai in Calousa and never received
better treatment in my life, or
more warm-hearted friends.
Oh, how my heart homes and my
sense8of hearing would like to
hear the sun-kissed wild waters
Of old Stony as she sings sweet
lullabys for all who pass near her.
People Of Stonyford, love you
all. Goodbye-for time.
Cash Martin.
Casb q. Martin is dead, passing
| away at 10 o'clock this morning at
the Busch Hospital in the presence
of his wife, children and friends.
He is the last Of the four mon to
die Of the drinking of homemade
intoxicant at Stonyford about the
middle Of September. This Is a de-
scription OF the making and view
then taken of the matter-written
presumably, by Martin hi,y self, and
regarded, 1t is noted, at that time
as just joke made out of a frolic
of the several men who imbibed
Two Stonyford men the other
day decided there was no law against
placing some canned preserves
aprlcots, peaches and the like-in a
bari, and no law against filling said
barl with genuine old Stony creek
water. Furthermore, Uncle Sam
could have no objections to the COM
bination sitting few days. Look
ing through the Declaration Of In
dependence, the constitution of the
realm, the book Of statutes and the
National Prohibition Weekly, they
found no law against drinking from
a bar'l.
$50 far, so good.
"They drank. AS they did so the
gloom Of life vanished. The man
zanita turned to porphery, the chem
isal to onyx, the liveoak bush to
frankincense. Roses bloomed
afresh, fountains sprayed perfume,
and untold wealth was theirs. That
stuff about bolsheviks, reaction
aries, influenza and wars and hor-
rors SUNK away, and they lived once
more in the glorius days of 1889.
Rat- finally the bar'l went dry.
Soldering up set in. It set in like
third battle Of the Marine. The
world came back to reality. A Ca
LOUISA doctor was called. Their
throats were paralyzed; their brows
were fevered. They were, in brief,
strictly SICK 1t Is believed they
will recover, but for time it was
not altogether certain"
But the drink carried with 1t a
deadly poison. The two men taken
to the county hospital, Frank Carney
and Jack Triplett, died Of the drink.
Then Martin and Andrew O'Leary
were brought to the hospital here
and fingered between life and death
until Thursday, when O'Leary passed
over.
There was hope for Martin still,
ment enough in his condition to give
his physician little hope, but he
was too weak to rally, and the end
came.
A few days after his being taken
to the hospital the deceased no
doubt had 1t in mind that he could
not live, for it was then that he
penned the farewell to the world and
his dear Stonyford which heads this
article.
Martin was somewhat Of a liter
ary genius and did considerable
writing for several Of the papers in.
his section. He was a lover of ma
ture, a dreamer, and man of con-
siderable originality in thought; and
from his mountain home at Stony
ford, where he was hill farmer, he
sent out his thoughts to the people
In the valleys, and what he wrote
was ever worth perusal.
Being a lover Of nature, he was
kindly man and had many friends
among his associates.
Dacaaaod loouoc q ,,;d.