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MR.. SUNDAY AND DUE WEST.

Spartanburg Journal. !
Claus Spreckles, the great Sugar
King of Hawaii, started in, a little
corner grocery in Anson Street,
Charleston. He never forgot where
he began his very successful career
in this country and whenever he
found it convenient he visited the
scenes of his early struggles.
A good many years ago, as the
years go, but only yesterday as they
seem when they have gone, he ar
rived one day in Charleston, accom-
panied by his wife, and, after regis
tering at the Charleston Hotel, he
called a carriage and rode straight
way to the little shop in Anson
Street where he had begun to be an
American citizen. One night on this
visit he and Mrs. Spreckles were en-
tertained at the German Artillery
Hall by their old friend, Captain
Frederick W. Wagener, who, al
ways suggesting something ! worth
while that might be done for. { Char
lesion, said: "Claus, you must do
So" and Claus replied: .'Must? Fred
must? There's only one person in
this world who can say must to
Claus Spreckles, and there she sits"
That was doubtless so, at least
Claus t''looked the part" and "there
are others" Please, dear Mrs. Sun
day, may Mr.. Sunday 60 to Due
West? And please go with him,
else he will worry you to death talk
ing about it. Ever so many persons
of great distinction have been there.
Mr.. Sundays special friend, VII
liam Jennings Bryan, has been there
and chad the time of his life"
Chauncey Depew has been there and
told his oldest stories with the
freshness of all their ancient youth.
Everybody id all this neck of the
woods who is worth whoop" has
been there; and that's why we want
Mr.. Sunday, who is now. one of us,
to go there to see for himself the
only place Of it's kind in this New
World, and just across the street
from "the house not made with
hands eternal in the heavens"
1t is as much like Ian Maclaren's
Drumtochty as Drumtochty itself.
1t is the only place in this country
we know that was found by God
and has been held ever since in His
everlasting arms. There are two
colleges there, one for men and one
for women. The college for men
has admitted women; but the col
lege for women has drawn the line
against the so-called sterner, which
is the same as to say in this case the
most worthless, sex. There are only
a few Of the man-sort left who at
tended the college for women in
their earliest days and they think
now as they thought then that "you
can't make them out at all, at ALL"
There is also a Theological Semi
nary at Due West, and Mr.. Sunday,
who seemed to take such delight in
showing the people of Spartanburg
in his first sermon here how effec-
lively Jonathan Edwards dealt with
the incorrigible creature who was
not disposed to make the best of
the only chance he had, would be
delighted to meet his own sort of
people in this seat Of orthodoxy.
We would say, for Mr.. Sundays in
formation, that Due West is not a
large place and yet to those who
knew it when it was a good deal
smaller than it is now it is the big
gest place in thee world, because,
speaking frankly, it is not altogether
of this world.
The most of its people are direct
lineal descendants Of the Covenant
ers of Scotland. Men like Professor
John G. Clinkscales, of Wofford
College, could tell Mr.. Sunday about
old DR.. William Mcclure, who used
to practise in the glens and coyes
Of that region; of the Elspeth Nc
Fadyens, who could always tell