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PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY. WINNSBORO, S. C.,'riDAY, MAY o, igor. ETBIHDi~ THE TIN NOW when yO Summer We can supply your m full stock of Serge Coat:-, Sei Coats and Pants, Scicilian Coats, and Coats and Vests, , A few Crash goods at Cjillren's ad Boy!s5erge B6ys' and Children's Trouser Remember our prices D. V. Wa ADDRESS BY PROF. THOS. DELLA TORRE On the Occasion of the Unveiling o the Timrod ?iemorial Bust. .We. are assembled here to-day as arolinians and Charlestonians a tardy tribute of reverence thee ory of enry Tim od. By the strange irony of fate, he who lived in poverty and died in want rises again in our midst to day triumphant in bronze, in this the historic city of his birth, which he loved so well, within sound of those chimes whose music has ever since been sweeter for his words. This day-the long night past-amid sunshine and flowers, Henry Timrod comes into his lawful inheritance. This day, "with a chaplet on his fore head," he justifies his life before his own people; for this day .he is admitted,, with due solemnity, to our hail of fame and takes his Sseat, of his own right, in the au gust company of the fathers, whose very names the true son of . Carolina delights to recall. Ancso on this occasion so hon orable, Mr, President, to those who conceived and made it pos sible, it is fitting that I should set forth briefly the measure of South Carolina's debt to Henry Timrod and the reasons that jus tify this memorial, which has been erected to his memory by the people of his* native State, aided by contributions from many sections of the union. It is not my purpose, however, to shadow this occasion which should be so full of brightness by the recital, fatniliar to you all, of the poet's brief, pathetic, and seemingly uneventful career. I look his whole life through and I find it best resumed in the beau tiful words that stand out in bronze on a panel of the Timrod memorial to-dav: "T h r o u g h clouds and through sunshine, in peace and in war, amid the stress of poverty and the storms of civil strife, his soul never faltered and his purpose never failed. To his poetic mission he was faith ful to the end. In life and in death he was not disobedient unto the heavenly mission." This is the true story of his life. Yet one word of warning I feel I should add. Whenever the story of Timrod's life is told, it must be that the shadows come out in undue proportion. It is true that his life was a life of poverty, of much suffering and trial, and of promise somewhat blighted. It is possibly true that, as a wniter of exquisite verse and of many compositions w.hich are true poems, he did not fill with his own generation the place he holds ARIV .j will need Clothing ants in this line. We have a 'ge Coats and Vests, Flannel Coats and Vests, Drap d'Ete Mlpaca Coats and Vests. half price. Coats. -A full stock of Men's, ire always the lowest. Iker & Co. with us; but is not- true that Timrod lacke frieads or that his genius was wholf fUnrecognized. Gilmore Simms, Paul.Hayne, the brilliant John Diekinson Bruns, the late Judge Bryan and others perhaps not less gifted if le well remembered, and some .oo, hriew-nt us to-5 ay, were his sincere friends and generous ad mirers, and often gave the friendly counsel, often spoke the word of encouragement so needful to the poet in his hard career. Those of an earlier generation will re member the thrill that flashed from sea to mountain when the warlike note of "Carolina" was first sounded; many a gray-haired matron in Charleston to-day will tell you that "Spring" and "A Common Thought" have lam in her heart for near half a century; and when we recall that the poet's life was embittered by poverty, we should remember, too, that his people were in want.. The day of war and reconstruction is a grim day for all, and if grimmer for the poet, the fault lies, per haps, with his people than with his art. Silent inter arma artes. This is not-the time nor is this the occasion for a critical esti mate of the poetry of Henry Tim rod, and were it so I could wish that that task had been assigned to a worthier hand. Nor can I, in the brief space of half an' hour, consider *his poetic range, the limitations of his art, or his in dividual treatment of the various manifestations of nature and the heart which are the poet's quarry. We are here to-day to crown and not to criticise. Yet it is my wish not to allow the inspiration of this occasion to hurry me 'into exaggerated claims which do not exalt, but belittle, the object of misplaced eulogy. And so I shall not say that Henry Timrod is a 'great poet. No truly .great poet has yet been born on American soil, no do I think that our land -the greatest of all lands in ma material resources, the equal of any in commercial prosperity will give birth to a great poet for perhaps many generations to come, precisely because the heart and brain of the land are to deeply absorbed in that material and commercial greatness. But I do claim that Henry Timrod is no mere writer of charming verse; that there runs through his comn poitos the true and "vital, if fine, flame that separates by the Iessential line the work, however charming, of the versifier from th okof the poet. I read his compositions and I find an imagination rich and virid, a fancy at times as airy and deli teasnthe gossamer threads on which in his "Cotton Boll" he has suspended the splendid fabric of the vision of his country s great ness. I find a poetic diction that must haunt the dullest ear; fe licity in the choice of epithets that lifts common things to dis tinction. I find exquisite finish and a just sense of form; a sensi bility to the beauty of outward things that is born with the ar tistic temperament; a keen vision of the spiritual meaning that underlies the. visible universe. Lastly, I find the heart of the true poet, ever as responsive to noble emotion as the strings of the Aeolian harp to the voice of the breeze. Al these things I find and, in right of these things, I claim that "Spring," "A Com mon Thought," "Carolina," "Eth nogenesis," and many other com positions I might name are not a series of charming or spirited verse, but are true poems in the exacting modern sense. And now, ladies and gentlemeri if Henry Timrod's life is seem ingly so uneieutful, if it is not claimed that he is a great poet, will you then be tempted to ask: Why stands this monument here to-day; what is its justification? I might claim, Mr. President, that every true poet has a right to honor among his own people r fq.it is a great thing for a lad to have given birth to a poet. As r the Greeks in the olden-days when sett' out fo? now lad bore with th. ibme sparks of 1 'the sacred ff6i6f Hestia and kin- 1 ship with the ~great mother-stati was felt and acknowledged so long as that slender flame still burned; so, too, the land that has i fostered in gue son a spark of the 3 sacred fire of poetry belongs no longer among the undistinguished peoples, but has a claim to kin ship-remote if you will, but true-with the great motherlands.a of songs, with Greece and Italy ' and England. She who bef6te ' toniiies, and speaks in the un versal language understood of all i men-the Ianguage of nature and M the language of the heart. F But not only does the poet I glorify his native land, but for every man in that land has the poet a mission. For in every man there is an unconscious poet, but ti it is the true poet alone who gives el shape in universal symbols to the n eternal aspirations that vaguely r haunt the threshold of each heart V and find no expression. For is F not the poet he who interprets the mysteries and lessons of na ture and the mysteries and lessons of the heart?-through whose g dee p eye we have a clearer view e of the world without and the soul i within? He passes into the forest U and lo! his visions are~not as the g visions of other men; to his eye l the tiniest flower is clothed in an c unsoiled humanity and fromi its c~ humble life he draws lessons that h touch and uplift our common life t( -lessons of beauty and content o and harmony. Does not purity h live in the heart of the forest en- s folded in a lily, and humility in a violet? In the fall of the dew ti and rain that "do noiseless battle" iH for the land, in the growth and le unfolding of the delicate bud, in the voice of wind and tempest- fi in all these things the poet finds ** a lesson for his kind, and the del- II icate bands that unite inanimate s4 creation with man are caught up a1 and drawn together, and the har-- u mony of the universe is unfolded. c( For thousands of years before the t< word "evolution" was heard, 'twas B the poet whose eye seized the W universal thread that binds all creation into one whole, on whose B enraptured gaze the harmony of b nature and man first smote, from p whose lips, touched with the fire le of that vision, burst the revela- t< tion of the unchanging rhythmical order and unity that pervade all C creation.B And no one, Mr. President, who L studies Timrod's works can fail i to remark his deep feeling for o nature-his keen insight into her h secret ways. Nor was his love of c< nature merely the love of beauti- si ful things, as objects of sensation, 1I which is the source of descriptive si poetry; it sprang rather from the C deeper and more philosophical ti feeling that leads to reflective poetry-the recognition of the t] bond between nature and man- ti (ontinued on page two.) c W. W. BOYCE. Froee 3drington's History. John Boyce, grand-father of W. W. Bowee, catne from Ireland. In 1765 lie settled in Newberry County, S C. He had one brother, Alexandei Boyce, who command ed a company of artillery in the Revolutionary war, dying gal lantly in the service of his coun try during the siege of Savannah. He was a merchant of Charleston. The Boyces went to England at the time of the conquest; they afterwards settled in the north of Ereland ind were staunch Pres bytefians. William Waters Boyce was born in Charleston, S. C., October U4th, 1818; his parents were Rob )rt Boyce and Lydia Waters, both natives of Newberry. The Boyces kre of Norman descent and came :o America from Ireland. The firt Waters who-came over, came n-the "Mayflower." Both Boyces md Waters fought bravely in the ev}utionary war. The mother f Mrs'.ydia Waters Boyce was Ruth Llewellyn, who cTYaiM peent from Griff th ofd Llewellyn, he-Nst of the- elsh kings. William W. Boyce studied both t the S. C. College and Virginia Jiversity, - at both of whieh he anked with the talented young qen.. In October, 1838, he mar ied Mary E. Pearson, daughter >f Dr. George B. aid Mrs. Eliza oth Pearson. He began the ractice of law in Winnsboro, 1. C., in 1841. He served in the . C. Logislature one term, 1846 ad 1847. In 1850 he was-promi ent- as a co-operationist in the Lmous secession contest of that ear. H6 was electeg to the U. . House of Representatiues in 853 and served until Dec., 1860 ithdrawing with the delegation hen South Carolina seceded. While in Congress he delivered ble speeches ..on all the promi topics of - the timernd its tion by both sides. He was most conservative Southern n in Congress. His report on Fee Trade, he being chairman of e special committee to which it as referred, created a world ide eensation. Ricbard Cobden, te great English Free Trader, ins wrote of it: "I can consci itiously say that I have never -fore enjoyed the pleasure of iding so condensed and yet so )mplete an argument in favor of ree-Trade and Direct taxation." Mr. Boyce always regretted se ssion, but went heartily with is State. He was never san iine of the success of the South ~-n cause, though as a member of ie Confederate Congress he al ays urged active measures. He deved over the sad spectacle of is sorrowing country, the pre otis lives lost and general finan al rin. In the autumn of 1864 e wrote -and published his letter SPresident Davis on the subject peace. A storm followed, but awas sustained by an inner con iousness of duty performed and ~e sympathy of men from all sec ons of the Southern land. With the past year a very decided tter from Gen. Lee, on the same ibject, was made public for the cst time. This letter was writ n-in June and that of Mr. Boyce Sept., 1864. Mr. Boyce pos ssed more moral courage than iypublic man at the South dur g that troublous time. He had rvictions and courage enough express and maintain them. ad he lived in a wiser age, he odld have been more appreciated. The ending of the war left Mr. oyce impoverished,-most of his ,st years were devoted to the iblic, and his own affairs neg cted, consequently he was forced >begin life anew. In Dec., 1866, he left South arolina, accompanied by Mrs. oyce, and settled in Washington, .C., for~ the purpose of practic g law; but owing to the "test th" it was several years before a was allowed to a ppear in the urts, during which time he as sted in editing the National telligencer, corresponded with ~veral other papars and assisted en. Caleb Cashing in his prac ce. Theiie was something quite pa ietic in his struggles at this me, Jrtthroughout he was ierq and industrious. At last AS THE TIME F1 NE I wish to announce that I hai MULES AND HORSES, r mated Horses and Mules, for: THE HIGH GRADE always in stock. Rock Hill C Saddles, Bridles, Harness of a Thanking.my friends and liberal patronage to me, I ver) ance of the same, City Phone 59 Residreme Phone 6s. Petosiee B~z 184. a bri hter day dawned, the re s ric ions we Boyce began his practice Tore the commissions and U S. courts, and although he has not amassed wealth, he has a comptence and is forced to work no = r. -He leads a quiet, uneventful life at his country homne in Fairfax County, Virginia. His household consists of Mrs. Boyce, her sister Mrs. Herbert, his son-in-law, Richard W. Gaillard, and *only daughter, Frances B. Gaillard. Thamusead8t Into Eile Every year a large number of poor mferere 'who . -nga are sore and racked with cmgwnair surged to go to notiher -olImI: But hibis I cosly end not always sure. D m' be. aa exile wben Dr. K'ng's Ne D:scvety for Conaumption will cure you at beome. 16v the' mo)st infa~able ..wedl ig Colds, and *l Thraat 1iease4 on earth. Tho Lest knius relief. Avtoundig cores r 'idr~from per-istent no. Trialt t and $109. E ery b iM guarn e d. Good, Pretty, New le. 3c. 5c. Roll 'a a Satisfaction guaranteed. Samples for stamp. 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Court outT Common eAR LI As abv* stared rr, I a1.l 1W ode betoftihe Coart D os dMa. boworSo., on the P a FIIIST MONDAY LNJUX.E next P within the 1Mbd-b et C.s* at publicnu'rsA of -sige der, ie folommng desc1hid propert', t wit a , Al that ce Hotam piece, pte or I of land lyinnv, b Ing and ski'ut.s we town of W hneboro, In tbs Cousty of Fae x t, aid State of Sodth Caoina, e fvilong dsrbi'poett OAX& AL F ACIIE, more or li, and bounded othe north by 'ot formerly owned by rs. . M.. H aey, de ;o h ragg"g t es.1F .- E.' Aiken. deceaed; on the anath br Waslington stseer of said toen; ad Dn the west by Vandetborst stree of isid town. TEBMS OF SALE. - All the pnrchase nauey to bet paid in casb on the day of We, thel pr :baser to psa for all neoeary papers and revenue stamps. JOlN W. LYLE$, Msy 6,1901. 0. C. P. F. C. 5-71d wumrture. % E still have a giod stekn 'had -Ite latest desigue, best *brkunan hip. 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W. Phillips. lole-- -Tm fTar ia . ('oUNCxL..HAXBER. Winbor-,, $.~('., April nI 1!01. ' At a meeting ref 'he Towrn Counci', eld April 11th. 1901, it waordered hat 'the t le k i.r baktb pub~h a sotice lin the Winia'boro News and . Ierald to all persons owing taxes to ne town f r ih -fl-cal iear deding a oril 1, 1901l, or-any precedig sa, o pay saidl taxes (on or before tbei5th l.y o.tay,l1901. And that ombSad. iter mhat date t.e Cierk s~1Jm e 'x cas'i ,nla against poer p gs of all deng-ent'. - This will be done. .'- - . By or d r of Connltf &priitU1901. Glerk of Couiscl. Er fide,N -. 4Law ite~gP. rvOutice hoors, 9 A. l. o 2P. 31